From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Thu Jul 1 02:31:30 2010 From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:31:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [GJM] Fw: The Pradical Premier Edition - July 2010 Message-ID: <480337.1363.qm@web27406.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> --- On Wed, 30/6/10, The Pradical Premier Edition - July 2010 wrote: From: The Pradical Premier Edition - July 2010 Subject: The Pradical Premier Edition - July 2010 To: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Date: Wednesday, 30 June, 2010, 23:01 If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online. Share This: ? Dear Friends, ? Welcome to the first edition of the Pradical, my e-publication focused on our rapidly urbanizing world and the search for practical solutions from a sometimes radical perspective. It is my belief that we need to go to not the cutting but the bleeding edge of innovation to truly address the changes needed to bring about ecological and social sustainability. ? In looking for solutions to the urban challenges we face, we must take the radical step of looking to those most marginalized by urbanization. In the case of slums, the longterm and viable solutions will come from the people that live there. You will see many stories here that reflect my belief that the meaningful engagement of communities is the first step to effective and sustainable change. ? Youth will as well be a focus. For much of the 20th century it was radical to think that women would have any role in development; it is now rote that for any development to succeed women must be engaged. The 21st century corollary to the struggle of women is the struggle of youth to be heard. We can no longer ignore the massive demographic divide that exists both within developing countries between those governed and those governing; nor can we ignore the global demographic divide between the developed and the developing world. Youth are key to the innovation that we need to solve the many challenges we face, yet we are ignoring this resource, bringing about frustration and violence. ? This e-newsletter will highlight the best of my pradical.org blog, and touch on a range of urban issues that I see as important to our future. I hope that you enjoy it, I strongly encourage you to comment. I believe that conflict is the grist of a good debate, so bring it on! ? Sincerely, ? ? Doug Ragan ? ? ps. If you would like to continue to receive the newsletter please click Sign Up. If you would like to stop it, please click Opt Out . --- ? ? ? As a consultant with the United Nations I spend a lot of time working out of Nairobi, Kenya. I love it there. Amazing people, beautiful environment, and, in Nairobi, urban like you have never seen urban before. All the problems that you can think of in regards to urban issues exist in Nairobi and its surronding slums - water, sanitation, poverty, violence, etc. Yet, it is as well one of the most dynamic places I have been to in my life. I am amazed at the innovation and ingenuity of the youth I have worked with there. As well, being the headquarters of the UN in the developing world, it is a meeting place for people from around the world. So, this section of my blog is dedicated to the wonderful people I have met in Nairobi. ? The focus of my first two Nairobi Notebooks have been on this amazing agency that I have had the fortune to connect with - Map Kibera. I passionately believe in "community mapping" as a development tool. Here is an excerpt from my Nairobi Reflections series. If you want to read the other ones go to NR1, NR2, NR3. ? Nairobi Reflections 3: High Touch/Low Tech Community Mapping has always been quite an amazing tool - it localizes knowledge, draws on the "mappers" personal and community experiences, identifies interconnectedness - all this coming together and increasing social capital (if you are interested in the concepts of social capital read Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone; to better understand how it relates to mapping, read up on John Mcknight's Asset Based Community Development). You can check out some of the work that the International Centre for Sustainable Cities and UN-HABITAT has done on community mapping by checking out their draft asset mapping manual. ? As I have written about before, the Kibera Mapper's project take this to the next level by combining the "soft" components of mapping - working with community, getting them to identify their "assets" or "social capital" - with the "hard" components of mapping - turning out maps which can be used in community organizing and advocacy. These organizing and advocacy outputs can be used to influence decision makers such as planners - I like to thing of it as the "pointy stick" of mapping, where you can drive your message home with great success. ? Click here for full??Nairobi Reflections 3 article ... ? ? --- I have been working in the youth field for 25 years - it is clearly one of my passions. About 10 years ago I seriously began to look at the demographics of the developing world, both internally and as they are compared to the developed world. I couldn't believe that this was on no ones development agenda. Things have changed, but the point still needs to be made. Here is a blog I did on it. ? ? The Demographic Divide: Are Youth the Angels or the Demons of the New Millenium ? In the 20th century it took decades for the international community to realize the value of women to the community - even though they were 50% of the population. We are in danger of this same thing happening with youth in the 21st century. Are youth angels, our hope for a new world, or are they demons who will rise up and bring our world crashing down? Throughout history youth have been the leaders of revolutions and the fodder for generals. They are the victims of poverty and the engines of economy. ? Africa is the youngest continent demographically. 70-80% of most African countries are under the age of 30. In developing regions as a whole, least developed countries are younger that the rest of the world and in 2005, the global median age was 28 years. In the 10 least-developed African countries it was 16 or younger. Yet we need to look at the issues of Africa within the context of the larger demographic divide which exists globally. ? In the North or developed world we have what can be characterized as the old geezers. The developed world population is rapidly aging, their productive (and reproductive!) capacity is slowing down, their needs are increasing. No longer can they depend on the entrepreneurialism of the boomer generations and its drive to conquer all, damn the consequences. ? The South or developing world is youthful and in economic terms, in the prime of its life. Yet, they are living under deplorable, inhumane conditions and find the deck stacked against them, unable to fight their way out and up. ? In the map below we can graphically see how the developing world, especially the African continent, is youthful. If we look behind the numbers we can also see an increasingly urban world, where it has been estimated that half of the world?s population will live in cities by 2030, with almost all of this growth occurring in developing world cities and slums, and over 60% of those being under the age of 18. ? So what does this all mean for the developed and developing world? ? Please click here to read the full article The Demographic Divide: Are Youth the Angels or the Demons of the New Millenium. ? --- ? Practical stuff the makes me Radical ? I have written and co-written some publications which might be of interest to you. Dr. Nola Kate Seymoar and I co-edited, in partnership with UN-HABITAT, the World Urban Forum Dialogue Series: Youth and Cities. You can download the articles here: ? Youth Led Development in Sustainable Cities - From Idea, to Policy to Practice The Place Of Children - Poverty + Promise Youth In Urban Development - Bringing Ideas into Action One Stop Youth Resource Centres - Local Governments Response to Improving Youth Livelihood Space for Change ? --- Pradical 9018 Lyra Place Burnaby, British Columbia Canada V3J 1B1 ? Phone: +16044217331 Email: ddragan at istar.ca Website: www.pradical.org 2120 8th Avenue South | Nashville, TN 37204 This email was sent to dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk. To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list. manage your preferences | opt out using TrueRemove?. Got this as a forward? 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Thu Jul 1 09:26:08 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:26:08 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] NetNews June 30 2010 Message-ID: <001701cb1931$ee835f30$cb8a1d90$@net> -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:40 AM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] NetNews June 30 2010 (To change your settings or unsubscribe please go to http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/globalnetnews-summary) (Entries are excerpts from website links. See links for full articles) Ancient Fossils Show Arctic Now Near Climate Tipping Point http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2010/2010-06-29-01.html Published on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Environment News Service (ENS) BOULDER, Colorado - Current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about "irreversible" shifts in Arctic ecosystems, according to new research published today by scientists from the United States, Canada and The Netherlands. The Arctic climate system is more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously known said the researchers, who gathered evidence on what is now Ellesmere Island in Canada's High Arctic from a time period 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago. This period, known as the Pliocene Epoch, occurred shortly before Earth was plunged into an ice age. "Our findings indicate that CO2 levels of approximately 400 parts per million are sufficient to produce mean annual temperatures in the High Arctic of approximately zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees F)," said lead author Ashley Ballantyne of the University of Colorado at Boulder. "As temperatures approach zero degrees Celsius, it becomes exceedingly difficult to maintain permanent sea and glacial ice in the Arctic. Thus current levels of CO2 in the atmosphere of approximately 390 parts per million may be approaching a tipping point for irreversible ice-free conditions in the Arctic," Dr. Ballantyne warned. The research team points out that the overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree Earth is warming due to increased atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping gases generated by human activities like fossil fuel burning and deforestation. Arctic temperatures have risen by about 1.8 degrees F (1 degree C) in the past two decades in response to human-caused greenhouse warming, a trend expected to continue in the coming decades and centuries, said Ballantyne. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have risen from about 280 parts per million during the pre-industrial era on Earth to about 390 parts per million today. Environmental advocates are calling on governments negotiating the next climate treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions to 350 parts per million, the level many scientists say will help to avert the worst consequences of climate change. The research paper is being published in the July issue of the journal "Geology." The study was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council in Canada, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the European Research Council. 10 Easy Steps for Becoming a Radical Homemaker Go on and live dangerously -- hang out the wash. June 30, 2010 | http://www.alternet.org/environment/147367/10_easy_steps_for_becoming_a_rad ical_homemaker/ When I first released Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, I was advised to make a list of "easy steps for becoming a radical homemaker" as part of my publicity outreach materials. My shoulders slumped at the very thought: Three years of research about the social, economic, and ecological significance of homemaking, and I had to reduce it to 10 easy tips? I didn't see a to-do list as a viable route to a dramatic shift in thinking, beliefs, and behaviors. But since the objective of such a list was smoother discussion and communication of Radical Homemaking ideas with the public, I did it. I came up with the simplest things I could imagine-like committing to hanging laundry out to dry, dedicating a portion of the lawn to a vegetable garden, making an effort to get to know neighbors to enable greater cooperation and reduce resource consumption. I would perfunctorily refer back to them when radio dialogues flagged, when interviews seemed to be getting off track, or to distract myself when an occasional wave of personal sarcasm (I do have them on occasion) threatened to jeopardize an otherwise polite discourse about the book. After about 40 media interviews, I was pretty good at rattling them off, and I began to see their power and significance beyond helping me to be polite. Every time a person sticks a clothespin on a pair of undies, he or she is saying, "I want a better world. And I'm willing to do what it takes." Take hanging out the laundry as an example. At the outset, it is deceptively simple: It saves money and resources, and it's easy. As I spoke about line-drying laundry more, however, the suggestion took on more meaning. Of course everyone would like to hang out the laundry. But many people don't do it. They're too busy. Thus, the commitment to hanging out the laundry represents a commitment to slowing down-it means starting to align one's daily household activity with the rhythms of nature. In my mind, hanging out the laundry moved from being a simple chore to being an act of meditation and reflection on a deeper, more profound commitment that a person wanted to make. Thus, draping shirts and socks on a clothesline wasn't just about getting a chore done; it represented the new, sane world so many of us are working to create. Every time a person sticks a clothespin on a pair of undies, he or she is saying, "I want a better world. And I'm willing to do what it takes." Laundry may be a simple first step, but it ultimately leads to something bigger. Laundry became the central theme of a talk I gave recently in an affluent community, where golf course-quality lawns are ready at a moment's notice as the backdrop for the season's latest fad: large screen outdoor television sets. Deficits, Social Security, and the American Public June 29, 2010 11:00 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-jacobs/deficits-social-security_b_630 215.html By Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs Memo to Pete Peterson: Americans don't want cuts Social Security - and here's the proof. Deficit-hawk and investment banker Pete Peterson has devoted a substantial part of his $2.8 billion fortune to pushing for cuts in entitlements like Social Security, in the name of deficit reduction. His Foundation lavishly funded the AmericaSpeaks "town hall" forums held on Saturday, the results of which will be presented to the national Deficit Commission this week -- purporting to tell what the American public thinks about various deficit-reduction options. The AmericaSpeaks forums suffered from serious defects as measures of public opinion. Yet the results, perhaps to Peterson's surprise, correctly indicated that Americans are strongly committed to Social Security. Large majorities oppose cutting Social Security benefits, even for the sake of deficit reduction. The AmericaSpeaks town halls failed to convene a representative sample of Americans: they opened their doors to self-selected political activists with extreme views, possibly hoping to draw Tea Party backers. Their intense emphasis on reducing budget deficits "primed" participants to focus on deficits rather than on the needs of retirees when evaluating Social Security policy. The information provided to participants was one-sided, speculative, and in some cases quite misleading: it overstated the "crisis" in Social Security funding, understated the current burden of payroll taxes on ordinary workers, and failed to convey the extent to which millions of retirees count on stable, dependable Social Security benefits. The policy options that were discussed tilted rightwards. These town halls -- like deliberative forums in general -- should not be taken as accurate measures of "true" or "deliberative" public opinion. Carefully designed and carefully interpreted opinion surveys, based on representative samples from the whole country and carried out in natural settings rather than the artificial and manipulable "fish bowl" of town hall meetings, can do a much better job of revealing what the American public thinks. Remarkably, however, AmericaSpeaks got lucky (or perhaps, from Peterson's point of view, unlucky.) Despite all the biases, on several issues town hall participants came up with opinions not very different from those that have been expressed by majorities of Americans in dozens of well-designed national surveys. Participants opposed cuts in Social Security benefits, insisting that benefits must be preserved when balancing the budget. They wanted to strengthen the economy, favoring the current stimulus bill (stalled in the Senate) by a margin of 51% to 38%. In order to reduce budget deficits, most favored cutting defense spending and enacting progressive tax measures: raising the payroll tax "cap" so that incomes over $106,800 are subject to the tax (85% in favor); raising high-end corporate and personal income taxes; and imposing new taxes on carbon and on securities transactions. Only on the Social Security retirement age did the results conspicuously stray from actual public opinion. Demand is King - Why Afghanistan's Poppies Aren't the Problem http://www.counterpunch.org/mercile06302010.html By JULIEN MERCILLE June 30, 2010 For years, there has been much discussion about the best strategy to rid Afghanistan of its poppies. Eradication, says Bush. Interdiction and alternative livelihoods, retorts Obama. Licensing and production for medicinal purposes, suggested the Senlis Council. The issues have been fiercely debated: Would there be enough demand for Afghanistan's legal morphine? Is the government too corrupt to implement this or that scheme? To what extent will eradication alienate farmers? Which crops should we substitute for poppies? These questions are not unimportant, but fundamentally, they do not address the primary source of Afghan drug production: the West's (and Russia's) insatiable demand for drugs. Afghanistan accounts for about 90% of global illicit opium production. Western Europe and Russia are its two largest markets in terms of quantities consumed and market value (the United States is not an important market for Afghan opiates, importing the drugs from Latin America instead). Western Europe (26%) and Russia (21%) together consume almost half (47%) the heroin produced in the world, with four countries accounting for 60% of the European market: the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany. In economic terms, the world's opiates market is valued at $65 billion, of which heroin accounts for $55 billion. Nearly half of the overall opiate market value is accounted for by Europe (some $20 billion) and Russia ($13 billion). (Iran is also a large consumer of opium, with smaller amounts of heroin). The situation is similar for cocaine, for which the US and Europe are the two dominant markets (virtually all coca cultivation takes place in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia). [1] In short, it is the West that has a drug problem, not producer countries like Afghanistan (or Colombia): demand is king and drives the global industry. How should we reduce opiate consumption and its negative consequences in the West and Russia? Drug policy research has typically offered four methods. There is a wide consensus among researchers that such methods should be ranked as follows, from most to least effective: Angle Calls Unemployed Americans 'Spoiled,' Claims There Are Plenty Of Jobs Out There http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/30/angle-job/ Yesterday, after weeks of ducking interviews with the mainstream press, Senate candidate Sharron Angle - who is running on the Republican ticket in Nevada - appeared on Face to Face with Nevada journalist Jon Ralston to clarify some of her positions, including her view that unemployment benefits should be cut because "spoiled" workers are living off of them instead of getting a job. Ralston asked Angle what she meant by that statement, and Angle replied that there are plenty of jobs out there for the unemployed, but extended benefits are discouraging workers from reentering the workforce because they pay more than entry-level work does: "They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does. . What has happened is the system of entitlement has caused us to have a spoilage with our ability to go out and get a job. . There are some jobs out there that are available. Because they have to enter at a lower grade and they cannot keep their unemployment, they have to make a choice now." From maryrose333 at att.net Thu Jul 1 09:48:55 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:48:55 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Choosing Healthy Foods Now Called a Mental Disorder?! Message-ID: <008801cb1935$2c903340$85b099c0$@net> Moving into: TOTAL WELLNESS This article beats anything I have ever seen and shows how far the food industry has moved into radical thinking with regard to influencing people to keep on eating the crap they are manufacturing and peddling to us. Thanks to Helene Idels, hostess of the San Diego Grapevine for this one. Choosing Healthy Foods Now Called a Mental Disorder?! Posted by: "Helene Idels" hdthoreau62 at hotmail.com h_idels Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:40 am (PDT) sigh....... Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:24:57 -0700 Subject: Fwd: Choosing Healthy Foods Now Called a Mental Disorder Subj: Choosing Healthy Foods Now Called a Mental Disorder In its never-ending attempt to fabricate "mental disorders" out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they've invented yet: "Healthy eating disorder." This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you're "mentally diseased" and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs. The Guardian newspaper reports, "Fixation with healthy eating can be sign of serious psychological disorder" and goes on to claim this "disease" is called orthorexia nervosa -- which is basically just Latin for "nervous about correct eating." But they can't just called it "nervous healthy eating disorder" because that doesn't sound like they know what they're talking about. So they translate it into Latin where it sounds smart (even though it isn't). That's where most disease names come from: Doctors just describe the symptoms they see with a name like osteoporosis (which means "bones with holes in them"). Getting back to this fabricated "orthorexia" disease, the Guardian goes on to report: "Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out." http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/16/orthorexia-mental-health-eatin g-disorder Wait a second. So attempting to avoid chemicals, dairy, soy and sugar now makes you a mental health patient? Yep. According to these experts. If you actually take special care to avoid pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified ingredients like soy and sugar, there's something wrong with you. Read full article now: http://bit.ly/bRd7hn Peas & Love, Jeff and Sabrina http://www.vegsource.com/ P.S. Please share VegSource e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. http://www.vegsource.com/ ================================== VegSource Interactive, Inc. 19360 Rinaldi Street Suite 438 Porter Ranch, CA 91326 Tel. 818-349-5600 http://www.vegsource.com/ Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Thu Jul 1 10:00:50 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:00:50 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: The Smart Grid: The Future is Now Message-ID: <009e01cb1936$d7462d20$85d28760$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Thanks to Trading Post Paul for this one. While the Smart Grid may aid us with assurance of smooth operations re: electrical needs, I cannot but help wonder what the effects of the wireless system will have on the human energy system. Already warnings have been made with regard to affects from wireless phone systems and damage to the human brain in the form of cancer. With so many toxic substances released into the air, coupled with the subtle energy vibrations produced by cell phones, wireless phones, computers and now the Smart Grid what will happen with the human body as the subtle energy vibrations within it are affected by these outside influences? Any comments on this? -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 8:14 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] The Smart Grid: The Future is Now The Smart Grid: The Future is Now Greg Brown Co-CEO, Motorola Posted: June 30, 2010 05:25 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-brown/the-smart-grid-the-future_b_631445. html?ir=Green This year's hurricane and tornado seasons threaten to bring power outages and remind us once again of the challenges facing our current electric grid system. Thousands of people could be without power and will look for solutions to prevent similar disruptions in the future. While the short-term remedy may require firing up a home generator, the long-term solution is a smart grid. At Motorola, we are currently partnering with U.S. electric utilities to provide the wireless communications infrastructure to create a smarter grid. Smart grid communication infrastructure is basically the Internet for electricity transmission and distribution systems, with information technologies embedded throughout the system such as digital meters, remote sensors and data communications devices. Smart grid technologies provide energy producers and consumers with real-time information and better control of the electric grid, improving energy reliability, reducing energy costs and minimizing greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. We can improve energy delivery and reliability. Power outages cost Americans more than $150 billion a year. That's about $500 per person. Currently, most power companies do not have communications systems that reach their entire grid infrastructure and often don't know there has been a power outage until a customer calls to report it. Advanced smart grid communication technologies will give power companies greatly enhanced capabilities to remotely monitor and control energy distribution systems to determine where the outage has occurred, which customers have been affected and how to re-route energy around problems. More importantly, with more frequent monitoring and diagnostics to enable effective preventative maintenance, the utility will be able to prevent an outage from occurring in the first place. We can reduce consumer energy costs. In-home smart metering devices - a component of a smarter grid - can help consumers save energy and money. Smart meters and in-home displays provide energy data to consumers, allowing them to monitor their consumption patterns and better manage their electricity use. Studies show that simply giving people access to and control of this information can result in energy savings of 5-15 percent. With better information, consumers can visibly see the economic benefit of turning down their air conditioning on hot summer days or switching off the lights when they leave a room. We can help fight climate change. It's clear that human activity is warming our planet, and we must act to reduce our contribution to the problem. A smart grid will not only save energy costs and reduce our carbon footprints by reducing energy consumption but also it will make it easier to integrate energy from renewable sources onto the grid, two critical elements to reducing climate change-causing emissions. According to a report released by the Boston Consulting Group and GeSi, a smart grid in the U.S. could reduce emissions by as much as 7.5 percent by 2020 - nearly half of the reductions proposed by the U.S. Congress. To achieve these benefits, we need the right policies to incent the transition to a smarter grid. In February 2009, the U.S. Congress earmarked $4.5 billion for smart grid development in the stimulus bill and more incentives are included in the comprehensive energy and climate bill introduced last month in the Senate. In the meantime, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can begin revising regulations created for a century old electric system to make way for a 21st century smart grid. In addition to the right policies, a secure wireless data system to transmit energy information will be essential to protect the electrical grid. At Motorola, we have a proven history of providing secure and dependable voice radio systems for the military, police and fire departments and utilities. We will continue to partner with utility companies to bring the same level of quality and reliability they've experienced with our voice radio systems to their wireless data systems for a smarter grid. We can create a more reliable, less costly and environmentally responsible electricity system. The technology is available, the benefits are clear, and it's time to take action. From maryrose333 at att.net Thu Jul 1 17:47:54 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:47:54 -0700 Subject: [GJM] US studies see heart risk with diabetes drug Message-ID: <000601cb1978$1234ef20$369ecd60$@net> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two studies released on Monday reported serious heart risks with diabetes pill Avandia as U.S. regulators decide whether the drug should stay on the market. An analysis of 56 clinical trials found Avandia increased the chances of a heart attack by 28 percent to 39 percent, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio reported in an update to a 2007 study that sparked intense debate about the drug. Dr. Steven Nissen, the lead author and an outspoken Avandia critic, said the results from more than 35,000 patients gave a more complete picture that reinforced his earlier concerns. "A drug that increases the risk of heart attack by a third or more in diabetics represents a huge public health burden," Nissen, the Cleveland Clinic's head of cardiology, said in an interview. He said the drug should go off the market. In another study released on Monday, government researchers said an analysis of more than 227,000 U.S. Medicare patients found Avandia (from GlaxoSmithKline Plc) was more dangerous to the heart than another drug called Actos (from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co). Those findings, reported earlier this month by Reuters and others, were published online by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study's lead researcher is Food and Drug Administration reviewer David Graham, a whistleblower who has argued for years that Avandia is too risky. Top FDA officials have disagreed, and Glaxo has vigorously defended the drug. In February, the FDA said it was again reviewing Avandia's risks and called an advisory panel meeting for next month. The new studies are "important contributions to the discussion of Avandia's safety," FDA Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein said in an interview. The agency and the panel will consider those findings plus others, including FDA analyses not yet made public, he said. The panel could urge keeping the drug on the market with a warning, or it could suggest a ban on future sales. The FDA usually follows panel recommendations. The FDA, which approved Avandia 11 years ago, will "review all the available evidence and make the best possible decision," Sharfstein said. In the meantime, the agency has advised doctors and patients to continue using Avandia as directed. The current FDA-approved warning on Avandia says heart attack data are "inconclusive." Glaxo now is facing lawsuits from patients claiming harm from the drug, known generically as rosiglitazone. The company said six randomized clinical trials, the gold standard for medical studies, showed Avandia did not increase the overall risk of heart attack, stroke or death. The studies released on Monday are among the largest of Avandia, but they rely on a combination of multiple trials or past Medicare claims. Such studies are considered less reliable than randomized clinical trials. In an editorial discussing Graham's findings, Dr. David Juurlink of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto argued for erring on the side of public safety in the face of uncertainty about risks. "Accumulating concerns about (Avandia) make it difficult to advance a cogent argument why, exactly, a patient might want to receive the drug," Juurlink wrote. Many of the 23 million U.S. diabetics take medicines to lower blood sugar. The goal is to prevent disease complications such as blindness, amputations and heart disease, the leading killer of people with diabetes. But critics say Avandia seems to contribute to heart damage. Nissen's study, published by the Archives of Internal Medicine, estimated one more heart attack would occur for every 37 to 52 people who took the drug for five years. Graham's analysis, done with researchers at the FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, found a 27 percent higher stroke risk for Avandia over Actos, a 25 percent greater risk of heart failure and a 14 percent higher chance of dying. "In older Americans with diabetes, taking Avandia is detrimental to your health" and patients "are far better off taking (Actos)," Graham said in an interview. Both Graham and Nissen have been asked to speak to the FDA panel, Sharfstein said. Diabetics have many alternatives as 12 classes of drugs are approved to lower blood sugar, Nissen said. They include older generic drugs such as metformin and newer medicines such as Merck's Januvia andAstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's Onglyza. SOURCES: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/2010.207 Archives of Internal Medicine, online June 28, 2010 http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/jama.2010.920 http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/jama.2010.954 Journal of the American Medical Association, online June 28, 2010. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Thu Jul 1 19:53:22 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:53:22 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Recommended Reading: Resolving Human Bipolarity Message-ID: <002301cb1989$9a7f5080$cf7df180$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS As you all know, I've been studying Bipolar Disorder for quite awhile now, and have always considered it to be a "social disease." In fact, I wrote awhile back on Facebook that I thought one facet of this conundrum is that so many of us are opposed to war, yet we have a government that loves war, which encases us in a Catch 22 that we can't maneuver out of. And this, and other things like it is what causes the 'pain' we find ourselves in as we go looking for anything to self-medicate with. So, I am eternally greatful to Eileen Workman for posting this to Facebook and sharing it with many others. And I wanted to share it with list members here since she is a newer member of the Co-learner's List. One of the things that has been discovered with regard to people who suffer from BPD is that many of them are extremely bright. And this certainly applies to Eileen. With love and in gratitude for all that you do, Eileen. And I hope we hear more from you. http://eileen-workman.blogspot.com/2010/07/resolving-human-bipolarity.html THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010 Resolving Human Bipolarity As a woman who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder for a while now, I've had the opportunity to observe how this so-called "disease" manifests inside me, as well as to notice when and why it manifests. I've also learned what to do to help myself move beyond it, to the point where it no longer feels like a medical disorder but has actually become a helpful tool for navigating reality. The good news is, bipolar disorder isn't "personal." It's actually happening to a whole lot of people these days, which means it's probably something humanity has to move through as part of a collective evolutionary shift in our consciousness. The best way to explain what I see as the cause of bipolar disorder is to use a computer metaphor most people can understand. Anyone who's ever owned a computer knows that they rely on a basic operating system to make them work. Programmers write applications specific to the operating system using languages the system understands. Things may run smoothly for a while, but inevitably we learn that the operating system we've been using has some serious limitations, so we upgrade to a new operating system. Unfortunately though, after we upgrade we often discover that our old applications will no longer run on the new operating system. That means we need to buy brand new applications (or application upgrades) to get our new system to work. The modern human brain - like many computers nowadays - is concurrently running dual operating systems: let's call them Humanity 1.0 and Humanity 2.0. Humanity 1.0 has been mankind's default operating system for many thousands of years now. It's a system that basically tells us we're each separate from everything else and that life is a win/lose game. Humanity 1.0's programs are filled with usses and thems, victims and persecutors, the victors and the vanquished. In Humanity 1.0, mankind is the ruler of all that he sees and the entire natural world is his to exploit for strategic advantage. Virtually all our present social applications - our traditional religions, judicial systems, educational systems, economic infrastructures and political systems - were designed to operate effectively using Humanity 1.0. Sometime in the recent past a new operating system birthed itself into being, one with fewer limitations and a lot of exciting possibilities for the future. It's a pretty cool system too, in that it removes the fear of loss from the game of life and replaces it with things like trust, love and social harmony. Humanity 2.0 informs us we live in a unified, interconnected and fully alive world in which our differentiation doesn't separate us from everything else so much as makes us more valuable to the whole, which in turn nourishes and supports us as individuals and as a collective. Humanity 2.0 proposes that, because everything in life is inextricably interconnected, the only way any of us can truly win is if we all play a win/win game. In Humanity 2.0, mankind's role is to carefully steward the world's natural resources for the long term benefit of all the life forms with whom we share our space. While Humanity 2.0 is a wonderful operating system, to date mankind hasn't written many applications that run on it. That makes it really hard for our brains to function well in 2.0, because our existing programs only run on 1.0. What, you're probably asking by now, does any of this have to do with human bipolar disorder? My proposition, based on my own internal experience, is that what we presently call bipolar disorder is actually a clinical observation of what happens to people under one of four problematic operating conditions: 1) Their minds are running on Humanity 1.0 and they perceive themselves as big losers in the game of life (depression.) 2) Their minds are running on Humanity 1.0 and they momentarily perceive themselves as huge winners in the game of life (mania.) 3) Their minds are running on Humanity 2.0, but they keep bucking up against those who are running on 1.0 and don't understand how to play a win/win game (depression.) 4) Their minds are running on Humanity 2.0, but they haven't yet found enough useful applications to help them manage the system's immense capacities and bring some working structure to the game of life (mania). The trouble is, none of the programs we've written for Humanity 1.0 will run on Humanity 2.0, because win/lose games are fundamentally incompatible with a win/win operating system. If we try running a 1.0 program on the 2.0 system we wind up with a total system crash, which I can tell you REALLY hurts the head! A hard reboot will eventually restart the system, but it isn't a pleasant experience from inside. For an example of the kind of system incompatibility I'm talking about, let's consider the environmental folks known as "ELF," which stands for "Environmental Liberation Front." As 2.0 operators, they fervently want all of us to do whatever we can to nurture and support the environment that sustains us. So far, so good. The trouble begins though, when they then go out and blow up automobile dealerships that sell gas guzzling trucks and SUV's to make their point. That's clearly a 1.0 solution for a 2.0 operation. It's also bound to get the attention of the 1.0 police, who perceive the new system as some kind of worm, virus or other no-good intruder and try to kill it, or at least box it up for a good long time so it can't create any more conflict with the 1.0 system. An example of 2.0 software that some people tried - and failed miserably - to run on the 1.0 system would be (don't bite my head off!) communism. As an economic philosophy communism was a win/win application, written to illustrate what our world could look like if everyone supported everyone else in maximizing their talents, passions and skills, then we each gifted of our abilities freely to everyone else. It predicted a world of peaceful abundance, and would have been just fine running on Humanity 2.0. The trouble with applying communism to society at the time it was first implemented was that the 2.0 operating system wasn't up and running in nearly enough human beings, so the proponents of communism tried to jam it onto Humanity 1.0 using the power and fear of fascism to make it work. Win/win games can't succeed at the point of a gun, so the 2.0 program crashed and burned and everyone assumed the program itself was very badly written. Unfortunate, but predictable with the benefit of 2.0 hindsight. The key to successfully navigating this complex systems/programming mess seems to be twofold. First, we must remember there is always an operator - our own internal sense of awareness - who can choose, at any moment, which operating system he or she wants to run. If we don't choose consciously, our unconscious mind will choose a system for us, which means by default we'll mainly be running the very limited Humanity 1.0, since it's the system most compatible with our existing applications. If we choose instead to consciously run Humanity 2.0, which is kind of like an iPhone on super steroids, we then have to take some responsibility for designing new software for everyone else so they can see what a really cool system we're able to run. The early software we write probably won't shake up the world, but if we can design a couple of really neat applications and begin using them consistently we're going to demonstrate swiftly how much more we can collectively accomplish - and how much faster - using 2.0. One amazing 2.0 application already in operation is the Internet itself, which offers a dizzying array of information and fresh new ideas to anyone with access to a computer...and does so for free, out of the deep desire to give and share of ourselves. My recommendation is that everyone check out the new Humanity 2.0 operating system for themselves and play around with the possibilities. Let's then put our heads together and see what software we can come up with to make it work for us all. The sooner we do so, the quicker we can retire Humanity 1.0 with honors, and the sooner "bipolar disorder" will become a disease of the past. POSTED BY EILEEN AT 3:22 PM http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 164 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And the only answer to this is to design a new economy that fits the needs of the time, for instance a "resource-based" economy. But the question in this regard is, again IMHO, "how many people are going to starve?" before this happens. From: Laura Lynn [mailto:laura.lynn33 at yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:12 AM To: mary rose Subject: Re: The Smart Grid: The Future is Now http://www.google.com/search?hl=en &client=firefox-a&hs=CrO&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&&sa=X&ei=09ksTMjMNs_ 8nAeHkuz0Ag&ved=0CCIQBSgA&q=nanoantennas&spell=1 I think the nanoantenna system could work. If I could plug my phone into my shirt (embedded with nanoantennas) that was collecting my residual body heat..... THAT would cut down on some greenhouse gases, lol! And it's not just for phones, folks. All is aware and awake with Love'n'Light for ALL!!!!!! (((((((((((PEACE))))))))))) http://www.triplepundit.com/2008/02/nanoantennas-solar-arrays-that-absorb-en ergy-even-in-the-dark/ Nanoantennas: Solar arrays that absorb energy even in the dark!! http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=18 By Lexington Blood | February 11th, 2008 array%20nano.jpg A collaboration of physicists, scientists and businesses have teamed up to create cheap and highly effective solar cells on a nanoscopic scale. Spearheaded by the Idaho National Laboratory, this team is onto a fresh way of producing solar panels that can continue to absorb energy even after the sun has set. The technology, not only efficient at nearly 80%, will also be cheap to manufacture, at estimated pennies a yard. A specialized manufacturing process will stamp tiny square spirals of a conducting metal onto a think sheet of plastic that have been coined "nanoantennas." At the slight width on the order of 1/25 the diameter of a human hair, these nanoantennas can absorb energy produced through the infrared spectrum. Infrared energy is produced in massive quantities by the sun, a portion of which is absorbed by the earth only to be released as radiation after the sun has set. These nanoantennas can absorb energy from both the rays of the daylight sun and the heat radiated from the earth at a higher efficiency than modern solar cells. Steven Novak, a physicist at the Idaho National Laboratory spoke on this technology he is working on at the National Nano Engineering Conference in Boston. He said, "I think these antennas really have the potential to replace traditional solar panels." The technology simply mimics that of your cell phone or television antenna, absorbing energy by resonance. The theory that has born the research to produce these nanoantennas was based upon this platform; just make an antenna small enough to absorb the miniscule wavelengths produced by electromagnetic radiation. The technology behind these atomic sized power modules is nothing new, but it has taken many years to discover an efficient way to print these miniscule spiraled antennas. It wasn't until the inception of booming advancements in nanotechnology that this fine concept was taken from the theory to the tooling with production of these nanoantennas. The team at the INL forecast seeing the antennas produced akin to that of foil or plastic wrap in rolls of highly efficient solar cells. The team has been able to demonstrate an imprinting process with six-inch circular stamps, with each stamp containing more than 10 million antennas. Instead of pairing this technology up with conventional solar cells to give them a boost in efficiency, the developers decided instead to make the nanoantennas independent energy harvesters. The team has estimated that individual nanoantennas are capable of absorbing nearly 80 percent of the available energy bombarded onto us daily by the sun. That is a staggering number compared to the conventional panels producing at around 20 percent. Nanoantennas are not limited to silicon mediums, the circuits can actually be made from a variety of conducting metals and the antennas can be printed onto very thin and flexible materials such as polyethylene. The team has also estimated that the nanoantenna arrays can be available for as much as an inexpensive roll of carpet. Although the physics of one resonating nanoantenna is certainly achievable, the trick to making this work lies in the matrix of complex vast arrays. The trouble will be in predicting the properties and perfecting the design before tackling the manufacturing obstacles that lie ahead. Multiple antennas create complex and sometimes unpredictable interactions. To jump this hurdle the researchers are developing a computer model of the resonance in these invisible structures, seeking out ways to fine-tune the efficiency of an entire array through tinkering with the materials and shapes of the antennas for example. "The ability to model these antennas is what's going to make is successful, because we can't see these things," says Novack. "They are hard to manipulate, and small tweaks are going to make big differences." Read more: http://www.triplepundit.com/2008/02/nanoantennas-solar-arrays-that-absorb-en ergy-even-in-the-dark/#ixzz0sWKc4AGS _____ From: mary rose To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" ; discussion at globaljusticemovement.net Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 11:00:50 AM Subject: FW: The Smart Grid: The Future is Now Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Thanks to Trading Post Paul for this one. While the Smart Grid may aid us with assurance of smooth operations re: electrical needs, I cannot but help wonder what the effects of the wireless system will have on the human energy system. Already warnings have been made with regard to affects from wireless phone systems and damage to the human brain in the form of cancer. With so many toxic substances released into the air, coupled with the subtle energy vibrations produced by cell phones, wireless phones, computers and now the Smart Grid what will happen with the human body as the subtle energy vibrations within it are affected by these outside influences? Any comments on this? -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 8:14 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] The Smart Grid: The Future is Now The Smart Grid: The Future is Now Greg Brown Co-CEO, Motorola Posted: June 30, 2010 05:25 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-brown/the-smart-grid-the-future_b_631445. html?ir=Green This year's hurricane and tornado seasons threaten to bring power outages and remind us once again of the challenges facing our current electric grid system. Thousands of people could be without power and will look for solutions to prevent similar disruptions in the future. While the short-term remedy may require firing up a home generator, the long-term solution is a smart grid. At Motorola, we are currently partnering with U.S. electric utilities to provide the wireless communications infrastructure to create a smarter grid. Smart grid communication infrastructure is basically the Internet for electricity transmission and distribution systems, with information technologies embedded throughout the system such as digital meters, remote sensors and data communications devices. Smart grid technologies provide energy producers and consumers with real-time information and better control of the electric grid, improving energy reliability, reducing energy costs and minimizing greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. We can improve energy delivery and reliability. Power outages cost Americans more than $150 billion a year. That's about $500 per person. Currently, most power companies do not have communications systems that reach their entire grid infrastructure and often don't know there has been a power outage until a customer calls to report it. Advanced smart grid communication technologies will give power companies greatly enhanced capabilities to remotely monitor and control energy distribution systems to determine where the outage has occurred, which customers have been affected and how to re-route energy around problems. More importantly, with more frequent monitoring and diagnostics to enable effective preventative maintenance, the utility will be able to prevent an outage from occurring in the first place. We can reduce consumer energy costs. In-home smart metering devices - a component of a smarter grid - can help consumers save energy and money. Smart meters and in-home displays provide energy data to consumers, allowing them to monitor their consumption patterns and better manage their electricity use. Studies show that simply giving people access to and control of this information can result in energy savings of 5-15 percent. With better information, consumers can visibly see the economic benefit of turning down their air conditioning on hot summer days or switching off the lights when they leave a room. We can help fight climate change. It's clear that human activity is warming our planet, and we must act to reduce our contribution to the problem. A smart grid will not only save energy costs and reduce our carbon footprints by reducing energy consumption but also it will make it easier to integrate energy from renewable sources onto the grid, two critical elements to reducing climate change-causing emissions. According to a report released by the Boston Consulting Group and GeSi, a smart grid in the U.S. could reduce emissions by as much as 7.5 percent by 2020 - nearly half of the reductions proposed by the U.S. Congress. To achieve these benefits, we need the right policies to incent the transition to a smarter grid. In February 2009, the U.S. Congress earmarked $4.5 billion for smart grid development in the stimulus bill and more incentives are included in the comprehensive energy and climate bill introduced last month in the Senate. In the meantime, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can begin revising regulations created for a century old electric system to make way for a 21st century smart grid. In addition to the right policies, a secure wireless data system to transmit energy information will be essential to protect the electrical grid. At Motorola, we have a proven history of providing secure and dependable voice radio systems for the military, police and fire departments and utilities. We will continue to partner with utility companies to bring the same level of quality and reliability they've experienced with our voice radio systems to their wireless data systems for a smarter grid. We can create a more reliable, less costly and environmentally responsible electricity system. 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But certain MEPs from countries with large timber industries, are threatening to water-down the proposal. Sign the petition to ban imports of illegal timber and save our forests: Within days, the European Parliament could ban illegal timber from entering the EU market -- but powerful companies stand in the way. Forests are the habitat and life source of many peoples and are essential in preventing climate change, but while there is high demand for timber, illegal logging thrives, killing species, and fuelling corruption and organized crime. The European Council has just voted for harsh penalties and criminal sanctions for importers of timber harvested illegally in other countries. But now the Parliament has its say, and some MEPs from member states with large timber industries, are threatening to water down the crucial controls. Let?s build a massive citizens? outcry to get the European Parliament to end illegal timber imports and save our forests. The petition will be delivered to MEPS as they go into vote on the legislation on July 7th. We only have a few days! Sign the petition below and send it on to everyone: http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_stop_illegal_timber/?vl 20-40% of the global timber market is estimated to be illegal. That?s roughly 10-15 Billion Euros a year which is stolen and funnelled to criminal syndicates. The US has already approved strong laws against illegal timber -- but the EU is one of the world?s leading timber importers and as long as it does not ban the trade, it is directly responsible for around a 3 billion Euros share in this black market. The social and environmental impacts of this industry are truly devastating and it is inciting money laundering, corruption and violence. Mismanaged deforestation drives global climate change and robs both indigenous peoples and animals, who rely on the forests, of crucial natural resources. 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 2 18:30:54 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:30:54 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Recommended Reading: Resolving Human Bipolarity - Comment - Vern Woolf Message-ID: <002601cb1a47$4221e970$c665bc50$@net> From: Vernon Woolf [mailto:VernonWoolf at HoloDynamics.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 7:11 AM To: mary rose Subject: Re: Recommended Reading: Resolving Human Bipolarity Well done. Vern Woolf Thanks for taking the time to comment, Vern. With love and in gratitude for all that you do. m r _____ From: "mary rose" To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" , discussion at globaljusticemovement.net Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:53:22 PM Subject: Recommended Reading: Resolving Human Bipolarity Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS As you all know, I?ve been studying Bipolar Disorder for quite awhile now, and have always considered it to be a ?social disease.? In fact, I wrote awhile back on Facebook that I thought one facet of this conundrum is that so many of us are opposed to war, yet we have a government that loves war, which encases us in a Catch 22 that we can?t maneuver out of. And this, and other things like it is what causes the ?pain? we find ourselves in as we go looking for anything to self-medicate with. So, I am eternally greatful to Eileen Workman for posting this to Facebook and sharing it with many others. And I wanted to share it with list members here since she is a newer member of the Co-learner?s List. One of the things that has been discovered with regard to people who suffer from BPD is that many of them are extremely bright. And this certainly applies to Eileen. With love and in gratitude for all that you do, Eileen. And I hope we hear more from you. http://eileen-workman.blogspot.com/2010/07/resolving-human-bipolarity.html THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010 Resolving Human Bipolarity As a woman who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder for a while now, I've had the opportunity to observe how this so-called "disease" manifests inside me, as well as to notice when and why it manifests. I've also learned what to do to help myself move beyond it, to the point where it no longer feels like a medical disorder but has actually become a helpful tool for navigating reality. The good news is, bipolar disorder isn't "personal." It's actually happening to a whole lot of people these days, which means it's probably something humanity has to move through as part of a collective evolutionary shift in our consciousness. The best way to explain what I see as the cause of bipolar disorder is to use a computer metaphor most people can understand. Anyone who's ever owned a computer knows that they rely on a basic operating system to make them work. Programmers write applications specific to the operating system using languages the system understands. Things may run smoothly for a while, but inevitably we learn that the operating system we've been using has some serious limitations, so we upgrade to a new operating system. Unfortunately though, after we upgrade we often discover that our old applications will no longer run on the new operating system. That means we need to buy brand new applications (or application upgrades) to get our new system to work. The modern human brain - like many computers nowadays - is concurrently running dual operating systems: let's call them Humanity 1.0 and Humanity 2.0. Humanity 1.0 has been mankind's default operating system for many thousands of years now. It's a system that basically tells us we're each separate from everything else and that life is a win/lose game. Humanity 1.0's programs are filled with usses and thems, victims and persecutors, the victors and the vanquished. In Humanity 1.0, mankind is the ruler of all that he sees and the entire natural world is his to exploit for strategic advantage. Virtually all our present social applications - our traditional religions, judicial systems, educational systems, economic infrastructures and political systems - were designed to operate effectively using Humanity 1.0. Sometime in the recent past a new operating system birthed itself into being, one with fewer limitations and a lot of exciting possibilities for the future. It's a pretty cool system too, in that it removes the fear of loss from the game of life and replaces it with things like trust, love and social harmony. Humanity 2.0 informs us we live in a unified, interconnected and fully alive world in which our differentiation doesn't separate us from everything else so much as makes us more valuable to the whole, which in turn nourishes and supports us as individuals and as a collective. Humanity 2.0 proposes that, because everything in life is inextricably interconnected, the only way any of us can truly win is if we all play a win/win game. In Humanity 2.0, mankind's role is to carefully steward the world's natural resources for the long term benefit of all the life forms with whom we share our space. While Humanity 2.0 is a wonderful operating system, to date mankind hasn't written many applications that run on it. That makes it really hard for our brains to function well in 2.0, because our existing programs only run on 1.0. What, you're probably asking by now, does any of this have to do with human bipolar disorder? My proposition, based on my own internal experience, is that what we presently call bipolar disorder is actually a clinical observation of what happens to people under one of four problematic operating conditions: 1) Their minds are running on Humanity 1.0 and they perceive themselves as big losers in the game of life (depression.) 2) Their minds are running on Humanity 1.0 and they momentarily perceive themselves as huge winners in the game of life (mania.) 3) Their minds are running on Humanity 2.0, but they keep bucking up against those who are running on 1.0 and don't understand how to play a win/win game (depression.) 4) Their minds are running on Humanity 2.0, but they haven't yet found enough useful applications to help them manage the system's immense capacities and bring some working structure to the game of life (mania). The trouble is, none of the programs we've written for Humanity 1.0 will run on Humanity 2.0, because win/lose games are fundamentally incompatible with a win/win operating system. If we try running a 1.0 program on the 2.0 system we wind up with a total system crash, which I can tell you REALLY hurts the head! A hard reboot will eventually restart the system, but it isn't a pleasant experience from inside. For an example of the kind of system incompatibility I'm talking about, let's consider the environmental folks known as "ELF," which stands for "Environmental Liberation Front." As 2.0 operators, they fervently want all of us to do whatever we can to nurture and support the environment that sustains us. So far, so good. The trouble begins though, when they then go out and blow up automobile dealerships that sell gas guzzling trucks and SUV's to make their point. That's clearly a 1.0 solution for a 2.0 operation. It's also bound to get the attention of the 1.0 police, who perceive the new system as some kind of worm, virus or other no-good intruder and try to kill it, or at least box it up for a good long time so it can't create any more conflict with the 1.0 system. An example of 2.0 software that some people tried - and failed miserably - to run on the 1.0 system would be (don't bite my head off!) communism. As an economic philosophy communism was a win/win application, written to illustrate what our world could look like if everyone supported everyone else in maximizing their talents, passions and skills, then we each gifted of our abilities freely to everyone else. It predicted a world of peaceful abundance, and would have been just fine running on Humanity 2.0. The trouble with applying communism to society at the time it was first implemented was that the 2.0 operating system wasn't up and running in nearly enough human beings, so the proponents of communism tried to jam it onto Humanity 1.0 using the power and fear of fascism to make it work. Win/win games can't succeed at the point of a gun, so the 2.0 program crashed and burned and everyone assumed the program itself was very badly written. Unfortunate, but predictable with the benefit of 2.0 hindsight. The key to successfully navigating this complex systems/programming mess seems to be twofold. First, we must remember there is always an operator - our own internal sense of awareness - who can choose, at any moment, which operating system he or she wants to run. If we don't choose consciously, our unconscious mind will choose a system for us, which means by default we'll mainly be running the very limited Humanity 1.0, since it's the system most compatible with our existing applications. If we choose instead to consciously run Humanity 2.0, which is kind of like an iPhone on super steroids, we then have to take some responsibility for designing new software for everyone else so they can see what a really cool system we're able to run. The early software we write probably won't shake up the world, but if we can design a couple of really neat applications and begin using them consistently we're going to demonstrate swiftly how much more we can collectively accomplish - and how much faster - using 2.0. One amazing 2.0 application already in operation is the Internet itself, which offers a dizzying array of information and fresh new ideas to anyone with access to a computer...and does so for free, out of the deep desire to give and share of ourselves. My recommendation is that everyone check out the new Humanity 2.0 operating system for themselves and play around with the possibilities. Let's then put our heads together and see what software we can come up with to make it work for us all. The sooner we do so, the quicker we can retire Humanity 1.0 with honors, and the sooner "bipolar disorder" will become a disease of the past. POSTED BY EILEEN AT 3:22 PM http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 164 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 2 21:56:47 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:56:47 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Maude Barlow: 'The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History' Message-ID: <004501cb1a64$027ba320$0772e960$@net> Published on Friday, July 2, 2010 by Democracy Now! Maude Barlow: 'The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History' As world leaders gathered in Toronto for the G20 summit last week, leading activists from around the world joined thousands in Toronto's Massey Hall to oppose the G20 agenda. Maude Barlow was one of the key speakers at the event. She heads the Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacy organization, and is a founder of the Blue Planet Project. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/02-6 Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It is that simple. on Wednesday ? Report Harry Veeder In other words there would be two methods for creating money but once the money is in circulation the point of origin won't matter to the business. on Wednesday ? Report Robert Searle With respect, the problems of the world are now becoming too BIG, and a growing number require BIG investments especially if they have little, or no obvious commercial viability! The idea of some made up parallel currency, or currencies which does not have legal tender is fine as far as it goes if there are an increasing number of takers. But for it to be taken more seriously would take probably many decades. This is the problem, and we, as a species may not have long to go on this planet. >From the way you have said your piece in the above I assume ofcourse that you not talking about forging legal tender!!! on Thursday ? Delete Post Harry Veeder "From the way you have said your piece in the above I assume of course that you not talking about forging legal tender!!!" Of course not. It would require legislating an new authority with the power to issue and distribute legal tender without having to first borrow the money. I think the power should be given to judicial branch of government since the issuing of the tender should serve as instrument of justice rather than as an instrument for building war machines or to garner votes for politicians. on Thursday ? Report Harry Veeder For example, the tender could be issued to give people a basic income. on Thursday ? Report Robert Searle Now, I understand! Yes, this idea is to be found Transfinancial Economics. I will make the following points. i) Banks ofcourse can create, and only lend money as something repayable (ie. as electronic money). Governments can create it as something which is non-repayable (ie. cash). ii) The problem ofcourse of creating new money (as electronic data inthis instance) as something non-repayable is that this could be "too inflationary" if too much is created. But it is perfectly feasible. iii) I like the idea of using the judicial branch of government to create new non-repayable money electronically.... iv) The private banks though might well block such a notion because ofcourse they could loose out on alot of interest. This is why in TFE it is suggested that special closely regulated banks (or Facilitator Banks...a term which has yet to appear in my p2pfoundation entry) could be used. They would have powers to partly, or fully fund various social, and economic projects which would otherwise have little, or no obvious commercial viability. They would have the high aims of transforming the capitalist system to something more sustainable, and environmentally friendly. In other words, high humanitarian aims. However, this would all ofcourse be in the context of a radical business model in which the electronic creation, and transmission of new money would like a loan by paid for by grant interest. This could be undertaken by the central bank, or even by the IMF which would electronically monitor all transactions, and have powers to prevent fraud instantly by electronic interception along with instant swingeing fines. Ofcourse, investors using earned money could be involved in all this too v) As for inflation in connection with any progressive social,economic, and environmental project done sustainably the answer is quite simple. Objective checks would have to be undertaken to see whether there are enough resources to ensure success, and that there can be no serious market price rises. If some vital resource is lacking finance would be forthcoming to increase the capacity of a supplier, or suppliers.They would probably be paid to do it via the electronic creation, and transmission of new money.The above notion is similiar to the Advanced Market Commitment, or AMCs but with little, or no government intervention..... vi) Monetary reformers will understandably in the main not like the idea of using FBs, or special banking companies to undertake social, economic, and environmental projects of high humanitarian importance. But the legal framework should be such that any wrongdoing would be largely impossible. They would be transparent in every way, and yes, they would still earn profit through their business activities. My link to TFE should explain more..but it needs to be updated. 23 hours ago ? Delete Post Reply (post is 1 characters too long) Create an Advert Give a Gift The Goldy gift is now available in the Gift Shop.More Ads -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Sat Jul 3 02:40:28 2010 From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 08:40:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [GJM] Light on the Greek Crisis on Facebook Message-ID: <273429.96731.qm@web27407.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Reply to topic Displaying all 9 posts. Robert Searle It is becoming clear that the EU,and the IMF may have to authorize the massive creation of "enough" new non-repayable money to help the present situation. In others words, a form of Quantitative Easing. The "insurance" against defaulting repayable loans will probably not be enough to cure the situation. At present, the financial markets seem to indicate this... QE will not lead to serious inflation if enough is created. Furthermore, loans would still be necessary, and ofcourse they would help overtime reduce the amount of money in the economy via repayment with interest ofcourse. http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Transfinancial_Economics about 2 months ago Soto Katsaros Money is not enough to cure the situation at hand here. There has to be legislation which deprives the politicians of their right to "political immunity" which they have now. The political immunity that Greek politicians have managed for themselves is what we want abolished here. This is what makes them corrupt. After the out-going of the King, the politicians in Greece managed to make themselves "kings" by introducing certain unacceptable "laws" for their benefit. on Wednesday ? Report Robert Searle You are correct. I admit I do not know the modern history of Greece.I have also said in the intro to TFE that itdoes NOT have the all the answers to all social economic problems. Yet, it may be the answer to many of them with the "right" planning from governments, ngos, and businesses working separately, or in parternship etc. One way of getting rid of corruption apart from changing the law ideally is to have it monitored electronically making it difficult for those in power to misuse, or steal it as instant fines, and freezes on it could be undertaken. Obviously. this would require a legal agreement for this to happen as a temporary measure ofcourse. This may well be happening to a limited extent with the present "bailout" plan. But a better, and more improved electronic system is required which would help to reduce corruption to near zero. on Thursday ? Delete Post Soto Katsaros Yes, you are very correct about the electronic monitoring dear Robert. However computers were not installed around here in the public sector. They dont even know how many employees the state has !! It is really a disgusting situation Bribes are asked everywhere, from health to license issues. During the 30 year democratic (metapolitical) era in Greece, after the King was ousted, the politicians did a horrible job for the country allthough they did a great gob for themselves and their parties.....but with a lot of loans ! There was no technology growth. There are a lot of educated people in Greece that don't have the appropriate employment. I am one of them. Political immunity in Greece now means that not even the attorney general has the legal right to check any ministry's finances ! Theft is found everywhere and waste of funds. Management is terrible and it is done in a peasant way. The whole thing is a nightmare. They have to be forced to extinguish corruption in the public sector immediately because its costing billions and if it continues we see no visible future. on Thursday ? Report Robert Searle I see....I had not realized how bad the corruption was in Greece. I thought Italy was bad, and possibly the worst offender in the EU!! It looks now that I will have to revise my opinions.. However, computers must exist in the Greek private banking sector, and may be some kind of legal arrangement from the European Central Bank, and /or the IMF may be possible for temporary legal monitoring, and tracking of money (plus instant freezing of accounts) used by the Greek government. This may well have been part of the "bailout" arrangement as already indicated. If you are an activist it may be a good idea to try find any confirmation of the above. The Greek people have the right to know! on Thursday ? Delete Post Soto Katsaros Greece has been found to be the second most corrupt country in Europe (after Poland) Greece's problem is that the state employee enjoys a "permanency" for his/her job. He/she cannot be fired !! This is an extension of political immunity and it is manifested on to the government employees. As it is therefore easy to understand, any employee in a powerful position can actually "sell" his/her signature. And thats what is happening ! Bribes and more bribes. Siemens said they paid Greek politicians 100 million euros in bribes but nobody went to jail ! This is the form of corruptrion that exists here covered by the system. It is a Law problem. We have to change the system to resemble more other systems, where the judiciary sector has power over the politicians, like in US for example. This has to be done immediately but who is going to do it ? I don't know. Dear Robrt Searle it seems you are in banking, what is your interest in this? Are you an investor ? on Thursday ? Report Robert Searle My interest in this is to introduce people to a new way of thinking about the nature, and purpose of capital, and how it could be compatable with global justice. I am not an investor but rather a thinker. Yes, I can see that the situation is not purely a monetary one. The corruption must somehow go. I suppose the only way to do that is via movements ofcourse, and possibly even a "bloodless" revolution. Obviously, there have been a number of protests against the Austerity Measures, and the present Greek government. But if a peaceful "bloodless" change occurs at the top there would obviously have to be credible reforms in connection with the transparency of public finance. Here, good structural planning , and internal/external electronic checks of funds could be introduced to help reduce corruption as far as possible. 23 hours ago ? Delete Post Soto Katsaros Protests are natural under these sircumstances. But the working class here did enjoy many privileges up to now. The corruption certainly has to be contained, and the abolishment of this "political immunity" is necessary for this purpose. Maybe its not the only thing but its certainly essential in our opinion. I think now you have a clearer understanding about the situation in Greece. The politicians just have too much power around here, to the point of oligarchy. They are an elite, but they are completely worthless and just "out for themselves" only A bloodless revolution to change this would be the best senario of course. If they do nothing about it....... which they probably won't. 21 hours ago ? Report Robert Searle A sad situation! I hope somehow the Greek people will get this sorted out ideally without any bloodshed at all. Good Luck! 16 hours ago ? Delete Post Reply (post is 1 characters too long) Create an Advert ? Amazing HD, no fee Over 160 channels including Sky and HD favourites with Virgin TV at no extra monthly cost. Just ?23 a month with a Virgin phone line Like ? Learn how to make money Step by step guide. See results in 15 minutes, guaranteed. Find out more on TimSmithGuide.com Like ? 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Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: Connie Fogal To: mindquest at ozemail.com.au Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 2:07 PM Subject: Encouragement Information from Connie Fogal ENCOURAGEMENT July 1, 2010 I know the Gulf of Mexico oil eruption is devastating. I know the June 2010 G20 event in Canada oppressed citizens via police brutality outside the fence and a crippling financial agenda inside the fence . I know there was a stand down order to prevent police from stopping the destructive "black bloc" who, in fact, were undercover police provocateurs as were those exposed in Montebello in 2007. I know the leadership of the world is running amok in greed and exploitation. I know the world financial system is manipulated and controlled for power and greed. I know the post 9/11extreme security measures worldwide are there to protect the world's greedy powerful elite from the rebellion of the people, not to protect the people. I know the environment is close to a breaking point. I know there exists a world population reduction agenda of the cabal. I know many people are fearful, discouraged, angry, confused, depressed. But I also know there are countless brave souls striking back in defence and growing in their strength and impact. And I also know that there exists here on earth right now the technology to change our world profoundly into a healthy physical and social one. Its effects will renew the environment, prevent the permanent war state, and free humanity from the enslavement of debt. The problem is that this technology is either destroyed or suppressed or sequestered by the powerful cabal of powerful earthlings. Inventors are either killed or threatened into silence. Scientists working on top secret technology are compelled into agreements of silence. The technology of renewable energy sources is used by powerful corporations to create killing machines and to penetrate space for war instead of peaceful purpose like heating homes, and transporting people. In the face of the horrendous geological events in progress (and there are more than just the Gulf of Mexico-volcanoes, sink holes, tsunamis), now more than ever, it is crucial to our survival that people access the knowledge that exists. There is no more time for dismissal or rejection of information, for cowardice or arrogance. Confidence, determination, steadfastness are our bones. Nature's gift of microbes is technology right now that cleans up oil spill disasters. It has a history of success right in the control of certain levels of Texas government. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfypUzx1tI &feature=youtube_gdata (Thanks to Ron Haarsma) Highly informed determined people can organize and act to cause the release and/or use of this technology right now. No need to ask why this previous Texas experience of successful microbe clean up technology is being rejected in the current Gulf oil disaster. We know there are those with unhealthy agendas in control, but we do not have to accept that. Consider this brave young woman from Louisiana who is speaking out against BP, taking and urging action. http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/877.html (Thanks to Purple Crow) Consider the professional reporters and others who put themselves in harm's way to observe and record the police provocation and police brutality in Toronto's June 2010 G20 event so that we can be informed and therefore powerful. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va &aid=19928 (Thanks to Terry Burrows and Don Nordin) and this http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/06/30/14564416 .html#/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/06/30/pf-14564416.html (Thanks to Inge Hanle) and this http://www.youtube.com/user/whitebuffalofilms (Thanks to Jakub Krotochwil) For those individuals who feel they have no power or means of control, who feel alienated, lost or alone, please just know that you can join others all over the globe who are recognizing the power we all have inside us: the power of our innate consciousness, our oneness with each other and the universe, our will for good, our sense of right and wrong. Such people are acting in their own communities or elsewhere, in small or large ways, alone or with others guided by their own inner strength. We can all do this. Right now I am writing to you, sending you some links. That is my little contribution today. In our individual ways we are peace warriors. We are joined by countless others globally. It is our knowledge of the power of humanity joined en masse that is the driving force confronting and defeating the strangle hold of evil that controls the world. Remember Brzezinski's lament that for the first time in history most of the people know what is going on and that is slowing down the NWO process. This ''global political awakening'', Brzezinski writes, while unique in its global scope today, originates in the ideas and actions of the French Revolution, which was central in ""transforming modern politics through the emergence of a socially powerful national consciousness."" Brzezinski explains the evolution of the ''awakening''..." < http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va &aid=19873 > (Thanks to Lee vanderHeiden) and this http://www.infowars.com/brzezinski-decries-global-political-awakening-during -cfr-speech/ (Thanks to Richard Moore) Yes, in the Gulf of Mexico the dispersants, and gases, and the oil itself are harming and killing. Yes FEMA appears to be on the verge of massive evacuations probably to FEMA camps. But we can do more than wring our hands, or be bitter, or depressed, or full of hate and desire for revenge. These are all negative energies we should try to dispel. Instead we can activate positive energy which vitalizes. We can get informed fast. We can spread the word (and the information is really spreading). We can dare to challenge the boundaries of our thinking. We can dare to go outside the box. We can dare to be brave and bold. We can join others who are moving to command the release and use of solutions that exist. I urge you to look at the Orion Project, a non profit organization to inform the public and to do research and development on new energy technologies. See: www.orionproject.org I urge you to study the Disclosure Project to inform yourself about the advanced energy and propulsion technologies that are here on earth but sequestered from our benefit and use. See: www.disclosureproject.org (Thanks to Jerome Dauphin) Also, I urge you to get and read Dr. Steven Greer's book Hidden Truth- Forbidden Knowledge ISBN 0-9673238-2-7 (If you cannot order it at your local bookstore, address enquiries to Crossing Point Inc 27702 Crown Valley Pkwy. #148, Suite D-4 Ladera Ranch CA 92694) Rather than submitting to mind control of us by the cabal, we can control our own minds and thereby control ourselves and our world. Connie Fogal You are on this list because you previously subscribed to my information lists. To "unsubscribe" click below. Connie Fogal 3570 Hull St. Vancouver,BC V5N 4R9 Canada You are subscribed to this mailing list as mindquest at ozemail.com.au. Please click here to modify your message preferences or to unsubscribe from any future mailings. We will respect all unsubscribe requests. _____ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 3 18:09:02 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 17:09:02 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Encouragement - Comment from Marilyn Nyborg Message-ID: <003e01cb1b0d$5a68bf10$0f3a3d30$@net> From: Marilyn Nyborg [mailto:mnyborg at me.com] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:39 AM To: mary rose Subject: Re: Encouragement EXCELLENT! On Jul 3, 2010, at 9:22 AM, mary rose wrote: Thanks to my dear friend, Michael Ellis, M.D. in Australia for forwarding this message of encouragement. With love and in gratitude for all that you do. m r From: Michael [mailto:mindquest at ozemail.com.au] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 1:59 AM To: mary rose Subject: Fw: Encouragement Dear Mary Brilliant summary Do you want to peomulgate? Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: Connie Fogal To: mindquest at ozemail.com.au Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 2:07 PM Subject: Encouragement Information from Connie Fogal ENCOURAGEMENT July 1, 2010 I know the Gulf of Mexico oil eruption is devastating. I know the June 2010 G20 event in Canada oppressed citizens via police brutality outside the fence and a crippling financial agenda inside the fence . I know there was a stand down order to prevent police from stopping the destructive "black bloc" who, in fact, were undercover police provocateurs as were those exposed in Montebello in 2007. I know the leadership of the world is running amok in greed and exploitation. I know the world financial system is manipulated and controlled for power and greed. I know the post 9/11extreme security measures worldwide are there to protect the world's greedy powerful elite from the rebellion of the people, not to protect the people. I know the environment is close to a breaking point. I know there exists a world population reduction agenda of the cabal. I know many people are fearful, discouraged, angry, confused, depressed. But I also know there are countless brave souls striking back in defence and growing in their strength and impact. And I also know that there exists here on earth right now the technology to change our world profoundly into a healthy physical and social one. Its effects will renew the environment, prevent the permanent war state, and free humanity from the enslavement of debt. The problem is that this technology is either destroyed or suppressed or sequestered by the powerful cabal of powerful earthlings. Inventors are either killed or threatened into silence. Scientists working on top secret technology are compelled into agreements of silence. The technology of renewable energy sources is used by powerful corporations to create killing machines and to penetrate space for war instead of peaceful purpose like heating homes, and transporting people. In the face of the horrendous geological events in progress (and there are more than just the Gulf of Mexico-volcanoes, sink holes, tsunamis), now more than ever, it is crucial to our survival that people access the knowledge that exists. There is no more time for dismissal or rejection of information, for cowardice or arrogance. Confidence, determination, steadfastness are our bones. Nature's gift of microbes is technology right now that cleans up oil spill disasters. It has a history of success right in the control of certain levels of Texas government. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfypUzx1tI &feature=youtube_gdata (Thanks to Ron Haarsma) Highly informed determined people can organize and act to cause the release and/or use of this technology right now. No need to ask why this previous Texas experience of successful microbe clean up technology is being rejected in the current Gulf oil disaster. We know there are those with unhealthy agendas in control, but we do not have to accept that. Consider this brave young woman from Louisiana who is speaking out against BP, taking and urging action. http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/877.html (Thanks to Purple Crow) Consider the professional reporters and others who put themselves in harm's way to observe and record the police provocation and police brutality in Toronto's June 2010 G20 event so that we can be informed and therefore powerful. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va &aid=19928 (Thanks to Terry Burrows and Don Nordin) and this http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/06/30/14564416 .html#/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/06/30/pf-14564416.html (Thanks to Inge Hanle) and this http://www.youtube.com/user/whitebuffalofilms (Thanks to Jakub Krotochwil) For those individuals who feel they have no power or means of control, who feel alienated, lost or alone, please just know that you can join others all over the globe who are recognizing the power we all have inside us: the power of our innate consciousness, our oneness with each other and the universe, our will for good, our sense of right and wrong. Such people are acting in their own communities or elsewhere, in small or large ways, alone or with others guided by their own inner strength. We can all do this. Right now I am writing to you, sending you some links. That is my little contribution today. In our individual ways we are peace warriors. We are joined by countless others globally. It is our knowledge of the power of humanity joined en masse that is the driving force confronting and defeating the strangle hold of evil that controls the world. Remember Brzezinski's lament that for the first time in history most of the people know what is going on and that is slowing down the NWO process. This ''global political awakening'', Brzezinski writes, while unique in its global scope today, originates in the ideas and actions of the French Revolution, which was central in ""transforming modern politics through the emergence of a socially powerful national consciousness."" Brzezinski explains the evolution of the ''awakening''..." < http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va &aid=19873 > (Thanks to Lee vanderHeiden) and this http://www.infowars.com/brzezinski-decries-global-political-awakening-during -cfr-speech/ (Thanks to Richard Moore) Yes, in the Gulf of Mexico the dispersants, and gases, and the oil itself are harming and killing. Yes FEMA appears to be on the verge of massive evacuations probably to FEMA camps. But we can do more than wring our hands, or be bitter, or depressed, or full of hate and desire for revenge. These are all negative energies we should try to dispel. Instead we can activate positive energy which vitalizes. We can get informed fast. We can spread the word (and the information is really spreading). We can dare to challenge the boundaries of our thinking. We can dare to go outside the box. We can dare to be brave and bold. We can join others who are moving to command the release and use of solutions that exist. I urge you to look at the Orion Project, a non profit organization to inform the public and to do research and development on new energy technologies. See: www.orionproject.org I urge you to study the Disclosure Project to inform yourself about the advanced energy and propulsion technologies that are here on earth but sequestered from our benefit and use. See: www.disclosureproject.org (Thanks to Jerome Dauphin) Also, I urge you to get and read Dr. Steven Greer's book Hidden Truth- Forbidden Knowledge ISBN 0-9673238-2-7 (If you cannot order it at your local bookstore, address enquiries to Crossing Point Inc 27702 Crown Valley Pkwy. #148, Suite D-4 Ladera Ranch CA 92694) Rather than submitting to mind control of us by the cabal, we can control our own minds and thereby control ourselves and our world. Connie Fogal You are on this list because you previously subscribed to my information lists. To "unsubscribe" click below. Connie Fogal 3570 Hull St. Vancouver,BC V5N 4R9 Canada You are subscribed to this mailing list as mindquest at ozemail.com.au. Please click here to modify your message preferences or to unsubscribe from any future mailings. We will respect all unsubscribe requests. _____ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sun Jul 4 20:58:19 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 19:58:19 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Recommended Viewing: window farms Message-ID: <006a01cb1bee$2ee58030$8cb08090$@net> From: Lorin Kiely [mailto:topdownyoga at gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:58 PM Subject: window farms http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=177375 www. windowfarms.org/ Thanks to Lorin Kiely for this one. At some point in time almost everyone is going to need to grow their own food. We simply cannot continue to get our food supply from an average distance of 1500 miles from point-of-production to point-of- sale. As the price of oil continues to escalate, so will the price of food and at some point in the not-too-distant future, the price will simply become unaffordable for most people. As we saw recently, the unemployment benefits of 1.2 million people were cut off due to the Republican agenda of wanting to pay to wage war rather than to help people. How to ensure that everyone is fed is the question of the day. So, even if you are not in need of food today, someone else may be. So, it would be beneficial for everyone to grow food to donate to homeless shelters and those who have no way of obtaining food. Think about it. With love and in gratitude for all that you do Lorin. m r -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sun Jul 4 21:02:15 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 20:02:15 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] NetNews July 5 2010 Message-ID: <006f01cb1bee$ba6ea190$2f4be4b0$@net> -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:38 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] NetNews July 3 2010 (Entries are excerpts from website links. See links for full articles) Unemployed Working Hard To Find Jobs, Despite Depiction As Spoiled Brats Updated: 07- 3-10 10:58 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/02/unemployment-rate-jobless_n_633805. html Would-be Nevada Senator Sharron Angle has recently taken to depicting America's unemployed as a group of people so spoiled by the extension of unemployment benefits that they have basically stopped looking for work, preferring to live on the dole than accept one of the many magical jobs she claims are available. Angle's position is one that's been gaining steam recently among 2010 candidates -- Rand Paul, for example, recently characterized the unemployed as a group that needs to accept "a wage that's less than we had at our previous job in order to get back to work," adding, "Nobody likes that, but it may be one of the tough love things that has to happen." It's not just candidates, however. Representative John Linder (R-Ga.) -- the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee -- citing a "Detroit News story about landscaping businesses complaining that potential employees rejected job offers in favor of collecting unemployment benefits," decreed that "nearly two years of unemployment benefits are too much of an allure for some." But Linder's example happens to be an exception. The basic reality for America's job seekers is that currently there are five people looking for work for every job opening. The average unemployment benefit is a scant $290 per week. And, as Arthur Delaney reported on these pages in early June, there are other difficult-to-ignore facts that harpoon the notion that the unemployed are content to live off benefits: Larry Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute pointed out that only 67 percent of the 15 million unemployed receive benefits. Even if all those people are enjoying the dole, shouldn't businesses still be able to hire some of the other five million receiving no benefits at all? Exactly. If unemployment benefits truly tamp down the motivation of job seekers, there would still be about five million people going after the jobs that Sharron Angle believes exist with a rabid intensity. But enough of the view from 30,000 feet. What is actually going on with job seekers in America? Well, as it turns out, they are desperately seeking jobs, wherever they may be: Oil falls to 3-week low as recovery fears mount http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65D3YT20100702 By Robert Gibbons NEW YORK | Fri Jul 2, 2010 4:20pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil prices fell a fifth straight day to a three-week low on Friday as bearish U.S. job data fanned fears of a double dip recession. U.S. crude oil futures slipped 81 cents, or 1.11 percent, to settle at $72.14 a barrel, the weakest close since June 8. The $71.62 intraday low was the weakest since prices fell to $70.75 on June 8. U.S. crude prices fell $6.72, or 8.52 percent, for the week the steepest decline since the week ending May 7, when prices sank more than $11, or nearly 13 percent as Europe's debt crisis put markets in a swoon. ICE Brent crude oil futures fell 69 cents, or 0.95 percent, to settle at $71.65, the weakest close since May 25. Oil prices initially seesawed after the Labor Department reported U.S. nonfarm payrolls fell 125,000 in June, more than expected and the first 2010 decline. But the report also showed the unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent, from 9.7 percent in May. Jobs were expected to have fallen 110,000, according to a Reuters survey. Adding to the anxiety about the economy, the government later reported U.S. factory products orders fell more than expected in May, the first decline in nine months and the steepest drop since March 2009. The jobs report did show private sector jobs rose 83,000, less than forecast but more than May's 33,000 tepid rise. "With all the gloom and doom before the report you could say it wasn't as bad as it could have been, but it's probably not a positive for the economy and that's the way the crude market is looking at it right now," said Robert Yawger, senior vice president, energy futures at MF Global in New York. California State Workers Brace For Minimum Wage CATHY BUSSEWITZ | 07/ 3/10 12:49 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/03/california-state-workers_n_634695.h tml SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the technology of the future, feared by humans. As governor, he's being foiled by the technology of the past. For the second time in two years, Schwarzenegger has ordered most state workers' pay cut to the federal minimum wage because lawmakers missed their deadline to fix the state's $19 billion budget deficit. The Legislature's failure to act has left the state without a spending plan as the new fiscal year begins. A state appellate court ruled in Schwarzenegger's favor Friday, but the state controller, who issues state paychecks, says he can't comply. One reason given by Controller John Chiang, a Democrat elected in 2006: The state's computer system can't handle the technological challenge of restating paychecks to the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. Chiang cited Friday's ruling by the 3rd District Court of Appeals, which said "unfeasibility" would excuse him from complying with Schwarzenegger's minimum wage order. He said a fix to the state's computerized payroll system won't be ready until October 2012. Meanwhile, more than 200,000 state workers remain in limbo about the size of their July paychecks while Chiang asks the court for guidance on how to proceed. If wages are indeed cut to $7.25 an hour, employees will be reimbursed once a budget is signed. At least one expert said the outdated nature of the payroll system should not be an excuse for failing to comply with the governor's directive. John Harrigan, who served as a division chief for the state's payroll services from 1980 to 2006, said upgrading the system would be complicated, time-consuming and expensive, but it could be done. Move the Money, Starve the Empire http://www.fpif.org/articles/move_the_money_starve_the_empire by Christine Ahn on Friday, July 2, 2010 by Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) June 26 may have been the last day of the U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit, but it might very well be the emergence of a more powerful antiwar movement in this country. The U.S. Social Forum is a meeting place for progressive social justice organizations to discuss issues, strategies, and ideas for building a social movement in this country. The sessions on the antiwar and anti-militarism track made several linkages: between the domestic economic crisis and the bloated military budget, the expansion of U.S. bases and the displacement of farmers and indigenous peoples from their land and livelihoods, and the rise of militarism and violence against women. We can't address the economic crisis blighting neighborhoods throughout the United States without moving money away from war. That's the only part of the national budget not being cut. Organizers at the USSF united two disparate sectors. One is comprised of grassroots base-building organizations with multicultural constituencies working to secure jobs, education, and services. The other includes national peace organizations with mostly white, middle-class membership. These two groups largely organize separately. But they came together at the USSF because working poor people clearly can't get the jobs and services they need without challenging military spending. Likewise, peace groups can't end wars without a broad movement challenging the military-industrial complex. 25 Percent Cut Mike Prokosch is among the organizers of the 25% Solution campaign in Massachusetts, which aims to cut a quarter, or about $250 billion, from the Pentagon and other military agencies and institutions. The campaign wants to redirect this money to social services, education, and job creation, all of which have been slashed in this era of joblessness and foreclosures. "The military industrial complex is shaping peoples' choices and lives," Prokosch says, referring to the cycle of dependency that military bases and institutions generate in towns in which it dominates the local economy. He points to how Dorchester's high unemployment (which doubled in the last year), cuts in job training for youth job training programs, and surging dropout rates have fueled the military enlistment rates for the city's youth. And the only sector of the economy that hasn't been slashed is the military. "The more the military base grows the more the cycle of dependency grows," says Prokosch, who has spent his entire life in the cause of peace. He remains clear-eyed about the odds. After all, he reminds us, the U.S. Empire has been growing for over a century and the defense budget for over 60 years. But he remains hopeful of the potential of a broad base of diverse communities across the country working together to take on the military-industrial complex: "If we want to do this, we we're going to have to build something larger and more powerful than the military industrial complex that can scare Congress more." Barbara Lott-Holland, an organizer with the Bus Riders Union of the Labor Community Strategy Center, describes the tremendous militarization of low-income neighborhoods in Los Angeles. "Our neighborhoods are militarized zones in this country," Lott-Holland says, "terrorized in the name of the war on drugs, the war on gangs, the war on poverty." She describes how the United States has the largest prison population in the world, with over 2.2 million in prison, of which one million are black men. "There are more black men in prison than there were during slavery." Many inner cities today require students to go through metal detectors as they enter the school and have police patrolling the hallways and grounds. "More high schools now look like prisons," says Lott-Holland, and many classrooms in elementary schools in Los Angeles don't even have windows. Lott-Holland believes that "this country systematically treats youth as criminals," monitoring every move of brown and black youth from their schools to their neighborhoods. U.S. Military Abroad Just as money for jobs, health care, education, and housing is going from taxpayer pockets to feed the military-industrial complex, so is the money for foreign military operations being used to displace farmers and indigenous people in every region of the world. Members of the No U.S. Bases movement described how the over 700 U.S. bases around the world have become sites of conflict between American soldiers and the local population. Meanwhile, the United States continues to expropriate land from farmers and indigenous people to expand or build new bases. Why Eating a Low-Fat Diet Doesn't Lead to Weight Loss Mark Hyman, MD Practicing physician and pioneer in functional medicine Posted: July 3, 2010 09:58 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/why-eating-a-low-fat-diet_b_6340 11.html Despite the common observation that obesity runs in families, genetic research shows that the habits you inherit from your family are more important than the genes you inherit. Obesity genes account for only five percent of all weight problems. Then, we have to wonder, what causes the other 95 percent of weight problems? We are seeing an epidemic of obesity in America today. It is the single most important public health issue facing us. If genes do not account for obesity, perhaps it is our high-fat diet that is to blame. That has been the common belief in our society since nutritional low fat guidelines were pushed upon us in the 1970's. It seems logical that eating fat makes you fat. Fat contains nine calories per gram, so it would seem that eating more fat (and more calories) would make you gain weight. But that's not what the science reveals. Pioneering research by Harvard Medical School's David Ludwig reveals the reason that low-fat diets do not work -- and identifies the true cause of obesity for most Americans. Dr. Ludwig's research explains the real reasons 70 percent of Americans are overweight. In the 1980's not one state had an obesity rate over 20 percent. In 2010, ONLY one state has an obesity rate UNDER 20 percent. This is not a genetic problem. What the Research Tells Us about Dietary Fat In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (i) Dr. Ludwig correctly points out that careful review of all the studies on dietary fat and body fat -- such as those done by Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health -- have shown that dietary fat is not a major determinant of body fat. It's BP's Toxic World, We Just Live In It. Huge Toxic Release In Texas Occurred Just Before Gulf Explosion. By Susie Madrak Saturday Jul 03, 2010 12:00pm http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/its-bps-toxic-world-we-just-live-it-h Astounding. Really, I knew it would take a while to get actual regulators back in the regulatory agencies after BushCo, but isn't this something someone should have known about -- and notified the public? TEXAS CITY, TEXAS -- Two weeks before the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the huge, trouble-plagued BP refinery in this coastal town spewed tens of thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into the skies. The release from the BP facility here began April 6 and lasted 40 days. It stemmed from the company's decision to keep producing and selling gasoline while it attempted repairs on a key piece of equipment, according to BP officials and Texas regulators. BP says it failed to detect the extent of the emissions for several weeks. It discovered the scope of the problem only after analyzing data from a monitor that measures emissions from a flare 300 feet above the ground that was supposed to incinerate the toxic chemicals. The company now estimates that 538,000 pounds of chemicals escaped from the refinery while it was replacing the equipment. These included 17,000 pounds of benzene, a known carcinogen; 36,000 pounds of nitrogen oxides, which contribute to respiratory problems; and 189,000 pounds of carbon monoxide. It is unclear whether the pollutants harmed the health of Texas City residents, but the amount of chemicals far exceeds the limits set by Texas and other states. Think about that. It exceeded the limits set by Texas, which translates to a public health emergency. Allegations emerge BP is dumping sand to cover oil By Heather Saturday Jul 03, 2010 10:00am http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/allegations-emerge-bp-dumping-sa nd-cover-o This needs to be investigated to find out if the allegations are true. Allegations emerge BP is dumping sand to cover oil: C.S.'s original goal was to gain access to some of the areas being guarded by BP contractors and deemed "off limits" to reporters, but yesterday he, along with Save Our Shores's Judson Parker, made an unexpected discovery. They believe that BP has been dumping sand on the beaches in order to cover up oil. You can view some video Judson shot of the beach over here. Read on... The above video apparently got the attention of Fox News who featured it in the segment below, and naturally they asked if there was any proof BP was doing the dumping, which there's not. When they're already trucking in sand for those berms and keeping everyone away from the areas covered in oil, I would not expect there to be any evidence unless some employee came forward and said this is what they are doing. lean it up and the efforts just aren't doing a bit of good with the tides full of oil coming in and out? No matter what they're doing it doesn't appear to be making any difference. The beaches still have oil on them underneath the sand as the above video clips show. It would be nice if the media would get out there and demand some access to these sites and find out. If they are just dumping sand over the oil it needs to stop immediately. From maryrose333 at att.net Sun Jul 4 23:11:43 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:11:43 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: 195 Californias or 74 Texases to Replace Offshore Oil Message-ID: <007e01cb1c00$ceb42000$6c1c6000$@net> Thanks to Trading Post Paul for forwarding this. An article well worth reading and considering; however, I do believe that the author misses out on potential new inventions that may impact our ability to create renewable energy sources sufficient to meet our needs. -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:12 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] 195 Californias or 74 Texases to Replace Offshore Oil 195 Californias or 74 Texases to Replace Offshore Oil http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6649 Posted by Gail the Actuary on July 3, 2010 - 10:30am This is a guest post by Chris Nelder. It was originally published by ASPO-USA. As the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster continues to unfold, the peak oil community has a "teachable moment" in which it can illuminate the reality of our energy plight. The public has had a crash course in the challenges of offshore oil, and learned a whole new vocabulary. They are more aware than ever that the days of cheap and easy oil are gone. What they do not yet grasp are the challenges in transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables. The Greens (anti-fossil fuel agitators) want to end offshore drilling, but don't realize that their alternatives are in the wrong scale or the wrong time frame to make a difference. The Browns (the fossil fuel industry) are in full damage-control mode while rapidly losing the public trust. Meanwhile, the politicians are focused on who's to blame and who will pay, while skirting the fundamental problem of our addiction to oil. We need to get this conversation back on track. Let's begin with some simple facts. Can Renewables Replace Offshore Oil? Source: Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Navigator. Source data. Federal offshore Gulf of Mexico has been our last great hope for domestic oil production against a four-decade declining trend. Offshore oil now accounts for 1.7 million barrels per day (mbpd), or over 30%, of our domestic production of 5.5 mbpd.What would it take to substitute wind for offshore oil? At 5.8 MBtu heat value in a barrel of oil and 3412 BTU in a kWh, 1.7 mbpd is equivalent to 2.9 billion kWh per day, or 1,059 billion kWh a year. By comparison, total 2008 wind generation was 14.23 billion kWh in Texas, and 5.42 billion kWh in California. Therefore, to replace our offshore oil with wind, you'd need 195 Californias, or 74 Texases of wind, and probably 20 years to build it. The Real Challenges of Energy Transition Then there are some not-so-simple facts. You can't simply substitute electricity for the heat value of displaced oil. You must also build an entirely new infrastructure of wires and electric engines and storage devices. Building that new infrastructure will take decades of concerted effort and cost trillions of dollars.and require lots of petroleum, natural gas, and coal. We simply don't know how to build solar panels and wind turbines and wires and generators without them. The U.S. dependency on oil imports has grown steadily for nearly four decades. At the same time, a global oil export crisis has been developing as oil producers consume more of their own output and Asia outbids the West for declining exports. The U.S. already spends around $300 billion a year to import two-thirds of oil supply. Without offshore production, imports would rise to over three-quarters of supply. Our challenge is far more difficult than most people imagine. We will have to execute energy transition even as our domestic production continues to shrink, new prospects become more risky, competition for global exports increases, our demand remains firm, and the price of oil goes above our economic pain threshold. Our only defense against the crushing weight of these forces will be to aggressively improve efficiency. Ten Ways to Do Absolutely Nothing about Your Offshore Oil Habit Scale and time-to-market issues bedevil most of the typical Green alternatives. Hybrid cars currently hold about a 3% market share in the U.S., with a lousy 295,528 units sold in 2009. Sales are growing at an anemic 6% per year. The top selling hybrid maker, Toyota, has just lost the trust of its consumers. Moreover, the sales outlook for new vehicles in general is poor in a country still in the grips of recession. No one has shown how hybrids can scale to offset millions of barrels of crude per day in under 20 years. As far as I am aware, the only Wall Street model that attempted it was Paul Sankey's Oct 2009 Deutsche Bank report, which I found wanting. More credible is the model from Bank of America's Tom Petrie, but it showed PHEVs taking from 15 to 40 years to get meaningful traction against oil demand. Cash for Clunkers replaced 690,000 vehicles, or about 0.3% of the total U.S. fleet, with an average 9 mpg better fuel economy. About 300,000 barrels of gasoline per day will be saved as a result-roughly the same amount that our oil demand would increase every year under a normal 1.5% annual growth rate. A real strategy for reducing oil demand would be far more radical. It would aim to replace car and truck transport with rail, shifting at least 25% of the load in 25 years and 50% of the load in 50 years. It would cost on the order of $100 billion per year over a 20 year period to build. But the Obama administration has only committed about $8 billion to rail under the stimulus program, while spending far more money on the dead end of road-building. Transit-oriented development and walkable communities are excellent strategies, but they take two or three decades to execute, or at least they did in the bygone era of cheap and easy oil and credit. At the moment, most mass transit agencies are having their budgets severely slashed, and nobody is rebuilding subdivisions. Soft solutions, like getting drivers to slow down and telecommute more often, will accomplish little beyond the margins of demand. Biofuels have severe and poorly-understood scaling issues of their own. Oil consumption will only be marginally reduced under the American Power Act (around 0.8 mbpd by 2030, according to a recent analysis by the Petersen Institute), with its limp support for alternatives to liquid fuels and its misguided focus on carbon emissions. Carbon pricing would have been a useful approach 30 years ago. Today it's a blunt tool, incapable of the surgical skill required to navigate energy transition through 20 years of rough water. A Junkie's Reality Those who would shut down offshore oil drilling might want to consider this: Over the next 20 years, the only real alternatives to offshore drilling are to become even more dependent on oil imports at the worst possible time, or trade it for the environmental horror of tar sands and coal-to-liquids production. I don't want to be cavalier about the environmental damage of the oil spill. The Deepwater Horizon spill is a disaster in the same way that liver failure is a disaster for a junkie. And that is our reality: scrounging around back alleys and taking unsavory risks to get our daily fix. Instead of knee-jerk political reactions to the oil spill, the Greens need to understand the deep, intractable problems of energy transition. Likewise, the Browns need to drop the strategies of denial and secrecy, submit to transparency, reach out to the Greens, and begin building some common ground around our mutual challenges. This moment of truth must not be squandered. The task of the peak oil community now should be to educate the public about the real problems and realistic solutions. To focus our efforts on what goes into the engine, not what comes out of the tailpipe. And to guide the public debate in a way that unifies, not polarizes. For as Ben Franklin famously said, "We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Chris Nelder is an energy expert who has spent a decade studying and writing about energy and related issues. He has written two books (Profit from the Peak and Investing in Renewable Energy) and over 750 articles on energy and investing, is a frequent media guest, and he lectures and consults with business and government on the future of energy. He blogs at GetREALList.com From maryrose333 at att.net Sun Jul 4 23:14:02 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:14:02 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Video - Ellen Dunham Jones - Retrofitting Suburbia Message-ID: <007f01cb1c01$144ae9f0$3ce0bdd0$@net> http://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_suburbia.html Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Robert Searle. --- On Thu, 1/7/10, Institute for New Economic Thinking wrote: From: Institute for New Economic Thinking Subject: Call for Applications to INET's Inaugural Grants Program To: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Date: Thursday, 1 July, 2010, 20:27 Dear Robert, The Institute for New Economic Thinking announces today that it will begin accepting proposals to fund innovative and path-breaking research in economics.? Today?s announcement begins the first round of a biannual process of granting financial support for research.? INET will look seriously at proposals across all subject matters.? At this time the Institute will particularly emphasize the following thematic areas: Political Economy: The State, Economy and their Interaction Theories of Finance, Radical Uncertainty, Asset Price Swings and the Interaction between Financial and Real Economic Systems New Approaches to Empirical Macroeconomics Network and Systems Theory Economic History History of Economic Thought Human Capital and Growth Development and Economic Inequality The application and procedural guidelines can be found online and will be a two-stage process.? The first stage is to submit a proposal not longer than 6 pages by July 31st. A research jury will review first-stage applications in August and then invitations will be issued for those original proposals deemed to be promising to make a more intensive and thorough second stage application by September 20, 2010. The first set of grants will be awarded by October 15, 2010. Please forward this announcement to your colleagues. 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The Zeitgeist people, under the direction of Peter Josephs, are now doing a major tour to introduce The Venus Project as a model for a resource-based economy. Future Dawning is loosely linked with this movement. While we feel it may not be the place in which we will end up, we do believe it is a good place from which to start. And, since it is getting such a major promo, everyone needs to be aware of it. http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/The%20Zeitgeist%20Movement.pdf Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Each excerpt is taken verbatim from the major media website listed at the link provided. If any link fails to function, click here. The most important sentences are highlighted. By choosing to educate ourselves and to spread the word , we can and will build a brighter future. With best wishes, Tod Fletcher and Fred Burks for PEERS and the WantToKnow.info Team Special note: For powerful evidence that the violence at the recent G20 meeting was largely instigated by undercover police, click here . For an excellent article raising serious questions on government destruction of evidence showing that key investors greatly profited from 9/11, click here . Col. Fletcher Prouty is one of the great heroes of our day. If you don't know about him, click here and explore his website here . For his excellent discussion on the real origins of oil, click here . And for a wild trip into the future of mobility, see what may come within a few years in the intriguing three-minute video available here. We are $1,700 in the red for the first six months of the year. Please help us to pull into the black and make a donation at this link . _____ Pope slams cardinal who exposed abuse cover-up June 29, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/28/MNRF1E68UI.DTL The Vatican on [June 28] issued an unprecedented rebuke of a top cardinal who had accused the retired Vatican No. 2 of blocking clerical sex abuse investigations, publicly dressing down a man who had been praised for his criticism of church abuse cover-ups. The silencing of Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna and long considered a papal contender, drew heated criticism from clerical abuse victims. They said the Vatican should be honoring Schoenborn, not publicly humiliating him, for his calls for greater transparency and demands for a crackdown on priests who rape and sodomize children. Schoenborn has also called for an open discussion of priestly celibacy, views that the Vatican said he "clarified" on Monday during an audience with the pope. Schoenborn had accused the former Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, in April of blocking a church investigation into the late Austrian Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, who was accused by victims in 1995 of abusing boys at a seminary. "With his words, Benedict professes concern for victims. But by his actions, Benedict shows concern for his colleagues," said David Clohessy, executive director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests . Note: For more on sex crimes and the Vatican, click here. _____ The Catholic Church faces another scandal June 28, 2010, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/faith/made-in-his-own-image... It emerged in April that Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a Colombian who for 10 years was in charge of the Vatican department that supervises the clergy, wrote in 2001 with gushing approval to the Bishop of Bayeux, who went to jail rather than give French authorities information about a priest who had raped a minor. "I congratulate you for not turning in a priest to the civil administration," he wrote. "I am delighted to have a colleague ... who ... has preferred prison to turning in his son-priest." The Vatican confirmed the authenticity of the letter, which had been posted on a French website. But then Castrillon Hoyos himself added a crucial detail. In a radio interview he said the letter was the outcome of a high-level meeting of cardinals at which [Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict] had been present. If the Pope wants to purge paedophilia from the church he must confront the compromised figures within the Curia and dismiss them. Pope Benedict XVI would like the Catholic Church to be very different from the one that ballooned out of all proportion under John Paul, purer, more beautiful, more austere. But far from moulding the church in his own image, he now risks having his own heritage fatally compromised. Note: For more on sex crimes and the Vatican, click here. _____ Top Catholic Priest Accused of Sexually Abusing His Own Sons June 21, 2010, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/top-vatican-priest-accused-sexually-abusing-sons/story?id=10968647 A prominent Catholic priest, praised by Pope John Paul II as "an efficacious guide to youth," Father Marcial Maciel, sexually abused not only young seminarians under his control but also abused his own children, according to a lawsuit filed today in Connecticut by a man who claims to be Maciel's son. The priest's son, Raul Gonzalez, 30, says he thought his father worked for the CIA or an international oil company, until he saw the priest's picture in a 1997 magazine article detailing allegations of sexual abuse. Under Father Maciel, the Legion of Christ became one of the Roman Catholic Church's most prominent, conservative and financially successful orders. Among its many supporters is Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. [The] Vatican ignored reports of sexual abuse by Maciel since the 1950s, until he was forced out of the Legion by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. Citing his age, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declined to put Maciel on trial but he was ordered to a "life of prayer and penitence." [A] lawsuit filed by Maciel's alleged son claims the Vatican and the presiding Pope from the 1950's until 2002 "engaged in a conspiracy to conceal their knowledge of Maciel's serial delicts, including the repeated sexual abuse of children." The lawsuit claims Maciel "gained influence and protection from the Vatican through giving substantial monies to Vatican officials" and providing other benefits and gifts. Note: For more on sex crimes and the Vatican, click here. _____ Sticking the public with the bill for the bankers? crisis June 27, 2010, Globe and Mail (One of Toronto's leading newspapers) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/opinion/sticking-the-public... My city feels like a crime scene and the criminals are all melting into the night, fleeing the scene. No, I?m not talking about the kids in black who smashed windows and burned cop cars on Saturday. I?m talking about the heads of state who, on Sunday night, smashed social safety nets and burned good jobs in the middle of a recession. Faced with the effects of a crisis created by the world?s wealthiest and most privileged strata, they decided to stick the poorest and most vulnerable people in their countries with the bill. How else can we interpret the G20?s final communiqu?, which includes not even a measly tax on banks or financial transactions, yet instructs governments to slash their deficits in half by 2013. This is a huge and shocking cut, and we should be very clear who will pay the price: students who will see their public educations further deteriorate as their fees go up; pensioners who will lose hard-earned benefits; public-sector workers whose jobs will be eliminated. And the list goes on. These types of cuts have already begun in many G20 countries including Canada, and they are about to get a lot worse. But there is nothing to say that citizens of G20 countries need to take orders from this hand-picked club. Already, workers, pensioners and students have taken to the streets against austerity measures in Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Greece, often marching under the slogan: ?We won?t pay for your crisis.? And they have plenty of suggestions for how to raise revenues to meet their respective budget shortfalls. Many are calling for a financial transaction tax that would slow down hot money and raise new money for social programs. Note: This report from Toronto is by Naomi Klein, the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. For powerful evidence that the violence at the recent G20 meeting was largely instigated by undercover police, click here . _____ Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil spill June 23, 2010, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062205391.html The base-line measures of the [Gulf of Mexico] crisis have steadily worsened. The estimated flow rate keeps rising. The well is like something deranged, stronger than anyone anticipated. Week by week, the truth of this disaster has drifted toward the stamping ground of the alarmists. The most disturbing of the worst-case scenarios ... is that the Deepwater Horizon well has been so badly damaged that it has spawned multiple leaks from the seafloor, making containment impossible and a long-term solution much more complicated. Much of the worst-case-scenario talk has centered on the flow rate of the well. Rep. Edward J. Markey [said on NBC's "Meet the Press], "I ... have a document that shows that BP actually believes it could go upwards of 100,000 barrels per day. So, again, right from the beginning, BP was either lying or grossly incompetent." Today the official government estimate of the flow, based on multiple techniques that include subsea video and satellite surveys of the oil sick on the surface, is 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day. In effect, what BP considered the worst-case scenario in early May is in late June the bitter reality -- call it the new normal -- of the gulf blowout. Note: A NASA photo of the extent of the gulf oil spill speaks a thousand words at this link . _____ Oil Spill Outrage June 7, 2010, CNN http://www.cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/07/ec.01.html CAMPBELL BROWN: [There is] growing outrage over the millions of gallons of chemical dispersants BP is dumping into the gulf. Some local residents insist the chemicals along with the oil are making them violently ill. Kerry Kennedy from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has been touring the coast and talking to folks who complain that they are being exposed to a lot of unknown toxins right now. Kerry, people who have come in contact with the oil and the dispersants are complaining of nausea, headaches, burning eyes. Talk to me a little bit about your experience when you were touring these gulf communities. KERRY KENNEDY: People are getting sick. And the patients, the health care providers cannot properly diagnose what the problems are because BP will not give them the names of the chemicals that are in the dispersants. However, we know that they're the same types of illnesses that people reported in Alaska. Now, the average lifespan of a person who did cleanup on the Exxon Valdez is 51 years old. Almost all those people who did work on the Exxon Valdez are now dead. And BP still here, once again, is big oil not giving the information to the doctors and health care officials. A county nurse was not given permission to go on to the BP property. When she finally did that, the people who work at BP who were coming to see her were only allowed to get band aids and aspirin from her. And they were told that they only could go to the BP doctors if they wanted to get treated. Note: For a powerful, one-minute CNN News video of this segment, click here . _____ U.S. banks' role in Mexican drug trade June 30, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle/Bloomberg News http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/29/BU2L1E6LV2.DTL Wachovia [Bank] ... made a habit of helping move money for Mexican drug smugglers. San Francisco's Wells Fargo & Co., which bought Wachovia in 2008, has admitted in court that its unit failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers - including the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine. The admission ... sheds light on the largely undocumented role of U.S. banks in contributing to the violent drug trade that has convulsed Mexico for the past four years. Wachovia admitted it didn't do enough to spot illicit funds in handling $378.4 billion for Mexican currency exchange houses from 2004 to 2007. That's the largest violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money-laundering law, in U.S. history - a sum equal to one-third of Mexico's current gross domestic product. "Wachovia's blatant disregard for our banking laws gave international cocaine cartels a virtual carte blanche to finance their operations," said Jeffrey Sloman, the federal prosecutor who handled the case. "It's the banks laundering money for the cartels that finances the tragedy," said Martin Woods, director of Wachovia's anti-money-laundering unit in London from 2006 to 2009. Woods says he quit the bank in disgust after executives ignored his documentation that drug dealers were funneling money through Wachovia's branch network. "If you don't see the correlation between the money laundering by banks and the 22,000 people killed in Mexico, you're missing the point," he said. Note: For abundant reports from reliable sources on the many dubious ways in which major financial firms make their profits, click here. _____ High Court Sides With Ex-Enron CEO Skilling June 24, 2010, NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128088331 &ft=1&f=1001 The U.S Supreme Court has severely restricted the ability of federal prosecutors to bring corruption cases against public officials and corporate executives. The court unanimously imposed stark limits on the so-called honest services law that for decades has been a key tool in prosecuting corruption cases. The court's ruling came in the case of former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling, convicted of engaging in a scheme to enrich himself by deceiving shareholders about his company's true financial condition. He was convicted of a variety of charges, including depriving the Enron investors of his honest services. The Supreme Court ruled that the definition of honest services in federal law was so broad that, if viewed literally, it would be unconstitutionally vague, providing inadequate notice to citizens about what conduct is legal and what is not. Instead, a six-justice majority led by Ruth Bader Ginsburg declined to invalidate the law outright, but read it narrowly to cover only bribery and kickbacks. Three other justices ? Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas ? would have, for all practical purposes, invalided the statute in its entirety. Note: For lots more from major media sources on corporate and government (including the judicial branch) corruption, click here and here . _____ Study links bee decline to cell phones June 30, 2010, CNN http://us.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/06/30/bee.decline.mobile.phones/index.html A new study has suggested that cell phone radiation may be contributing to declines in bee populations in some areas of the world. Bee populations dropped 17 percent in the UK last year, according to the British Bee Association, and nearly 30 percent in the United States says the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Parasitic mites called varroa, agricultural pesticides and the effects of climate change have all been implicated in what has been dubbed "colony collapse disorder" (CCD). But researchers in India believe cell phones could also be to blame for some of the losses. In a study at Panjab University in Chandigarh, northern India, researchers fitted cell phones to a hive and powered them up for two fifteen-minute periods each day. After three months, they found the bees stopped producing honey, egg production by the queen bee halved, and the size of the hive dramatically reduced. It's not just the honey that will be lost if populations plummet further. Bees are estimated to pollinate 90 commercial crops worldwide. Their economic value in the UK is estimated to be $290 million per year and around $12 billion in the U.S.. _____ Genetically Altered Salmon Get Closer to the Table June 26, 2010, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/business/26salmon.html The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat ? salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate. The salmon?s approval would help open a path for companies and academic scientists developing other genetically engineered animals. The salmon was developed by a company called AquaBounty Technologies and would be raised in fish farms. It is an Atlantic salmon that contains a growth hormone gene from a Chinook salmon as well as a genetic on-switch from the ocean pout, a distant relative of the salmon. Under a policy announced in 2008, the F.D.A. is regulating genetically engineered animals as if they were veterinary drugs and using the rules for those drugs. And applications for approval of new drugs must be kept confidential by the agency. Critics say the drug evaluation process does not allow full assessment of the possible environmental impacts of genetically altered animals and also blocks public input. ?There is no opportunity for anyone from the outside to see the data or criticize it,? said Margaret Mellon, director of the food and [agriculture] program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. When consumer groups were invited to discuss biotechnology policy with top F.D.A. officials last month, Ms. Mellon said she warned the officials that approval of the salmon would generate ?a firestorm of negative response.? Note: For a valuable summary of the dangers of genetically engineered foods, click here . _____ FDA is sued for failing to regulate bisphenol A June 30, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/30/BABQ1E6TF8.DTL A top environmental group has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its failure to regulate bisphenol A, a ubiquitous chemical linked to reproductive harm, cancer and obesity in studies. The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit [on June 29] in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit arguing that millions of Americans have been unnecessarily exposed to the substance - found in everything from soda bottles and tuna cans to children's sippy cups - in the two years since it first petitioned the agency to outlaw bisphenol A. Under the FDA's own rules, it was required to approve, deny or otherwise respond to the October 2008 petition within 180 days, the lawsuit said. After maintaining for decades that bisphenol A was safe, the FDA reversed position in January, saying exposure to the chemical was of "some concern" for infants and children. The FDA also said it would further study bisphenol A over the next two years. "More research is always welcome and interesting, but at some point you have to say, 'We know enough,' and take action. We've reached that point," said Sarah Janssen, senior scientist at the NRDC's Environment and Public Health program in San Francisco. Note: For lots more from major media sources on corporate and government corruption, click here and here . _____ UK firm Octel bribed Iraqis to keep buying toxic fuel additive June 30, 2010, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/30/octel-petrol-iraq-lead The former chief executive of a British chemical company faces the prospect of extradition to the US after the firm admitted million-dollar bribes to officials to sell toxic fuel additives to Iraq. Paul Jennings, until last year chief executive of the Octel chemical works ... and his predecessor, Dennis Kerrison, exported tonnes of tetra ethyl lead (TEL), to Iraq. TEL is banned from cars in western countries because of links with brain damage to children. Iraq is believed to be the only country that still adds lead to petrol. The company recently admitted that, in a deliberate policy to maximise profits, executives from Octel ? which since changed its name to Innospec ? bribed officials in Iraq and Indonesia with millions of dollars to carry on using TEL, despite its health hazards. Senior Iraqi oil ministry officials are accused of taking British bribes throughout the UK-US occupation, up until 2008. US prosecutors say multi-million dollar bribes to Iraq were agreed in 2001-3, when Kerrison was chief executive. A decade ago, Octel decided to remain the world's only manufacturer of TEL for cars, after it was banned in the US and Europe. They used high profits from non-western countries to diversify into other products and to pay back investors, mainly US hedge funds run by Connecticut billionaire Jeffrey Gendell. According to prosecutors, the strategy included the corrupt blocking of health campaigns. Note: For lots more from major media sources on corporate corruption, click here . _____ Mafia plot to smear Kennedys using Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe June 14, 2010, The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7827593/Mafia-plot... Mafia bosses planned to "compromise" Bobby and Edward Kennedy at a New York party in a plot involving Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe, according to FBI documents. The intention was to work through "associates" of the two stars to lure the Kennedys, as well as Peter Lawford, their British actor brother-in-law and fellow member of Sinatra's "rat pack", into actions they would regret. The plot is thought to have fizzled out, but it is consistent with other accounts of the extraordinary links between [the Kennedys], the country's biggest stars and organised crime. Monroe, who died in 1962, allegedly had affairs with both Bobby Kennedy and John F Kennedy. It has previously been claimed that she passed on pillow talk from Bobby Kennedy to Sinatra who in turn passed them on to his mafia friends. As attorney general Robert Kennedy launched several investigations into the mob which it may have felt warranted a measure of retribution. From early on in his four-decade career in the senate, Edward Kennedy, the youngest of the three brothers, was known for his affairs with women and extravagant drinking habits. Papers released earlier this year the library of former president Richard Nixon showed that in the early 1970s he discussed with the aides the possibility of discrediting Kennedy by leaking news of his infidelities. Agents in Milwaukee took the information from an unidentified source "who had furnished reliable information in the past," according to the memo. However, the informant could not verify the truth of any of the rumor's details. _____ Blind To Failure June 18, 2001, Time magazine (Cover story) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000120.html Scaling Everest requires the enthusiasm and boosterism of a physical-education teacher combined with the survival instinct of a Green Beret. You have to want that summit. Erik Weihenmayer, 33, wasn't just another yuppie trekker. Blind since he was 13 ... he began attacking mountains in his early 20s. For Erik ... excelling as an athlete was the result of accepting his disability rather than denying it."Climbing with Erik isn't that different from climbing with a sighted mountaineer. You wear a bell on your pack, and he follows the sound ... using his custom-made climbing poles to feel his way along the trail. His climbing partners shout out helpful descriptions: "Death fall 2 ft. to your right!" Almost 90% of Everest climbers fail to reach the summit. Many--at least 165 since 1953--never come home at all. When Erik and the team began the final ascent from Camp 4 ... they had been on the mountain for two months ... getting used to the altitude and socking away enough equipment [before they made the final, successful] summit push. "He was the heart and soul of our team," says Eric Alexander. "The guy's spirit won't let you quit." Note: Don't miss the entire inspiring story at the link above. For an inspiring video of Erik in Peru, click here . _____ Key Articles From Years Past _____ Why governments are selling Vitamin D short October 23, 2009, Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/11180df8-beaa-11de-b4ab-00144feab49a.html Reinhold Vieth, [a] professor at the University of Toronto?s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Patho-biology, ... is among the most knowledgeable people in the world on the subject of vitamin D. In the US and Canada, official vitamin D policy is set by the Institute of Medicine. And in the opinion of Vieth, the current recommendations ? 200 International Units per day for people under 50, 400 for people aged 51-70, and 600 for those 71 and older ? are outrageously low. Vieth and other vitamin D advocates have good reason to think there will be minimal changes made to dietary guidelines. Last December, the World Health Organisation?s International Agency for Research on Cancer issued a 465-page report that concluded there was no need to raise vitamin D recommendations. ?The evidence favouring vitamin D is probably as good as the evidence that shows smoking is bad for you,? Vieth says, explaining that just as smoking is correlated with certain cancers, so are low vitamin D levels. ?But when these government officials see the same kind of evidence that deals with vitamin D as they see with smoking they go, ?Oh wait a minute. We can?t really trust this.?? Vieth pauses, as though he can barely stand to talk about such a miserable state of affairs. ?It?s easy to say ?don?t do something ? don?t smoke?. It?s very hard to say ?take this. Take vitamin D.?? Note: For many key reports from reliable sources on important health issues, click here . _____ Bookmark and Share Final Note: WantToKnow.info believes it is important to balance disturbing cover-up information with inspirational writings which call us to be all that we can be and to work together for positive change. Please visit our Inspiration Center at http://www.WantToKnow.info/inspirational for an abundance of uplifting material. See our archive of revealing news articles at www.WantToKnow.info/indexnewsarticles Your tax-deductible donations, however large or small, help greatly to support this important work. 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Excerpt: I see everywhere eruptions of Long Emergency education, but it is rarely found in corporatized institutions dependent on state funding and debt-dream dazed student consumers who subserviently think, live, and breathe inside the parameters dictated by industrial civilization. I am humbled and awed by the increasing numbers of college-age women and men I meet who are "graduating" from graduating from four years of college and a lifetime of unemployment and debt. The ivory tower is crumbling, but increasing numbers of innovative youth are constructing a new paradigm and new ways of utilizing their gifts. In the process they are redefining education and employment and revolutionizing our increasingly obsolete notions of what it means to become a "productive" citizen and an educated human being. I hope you will want to post. Thank you. Carolyn Carolyn, thank you for sharing. mr What really brought home to me how desperate things are getting was the line about 2010 students graduating while 2009 graduates are waiting tables. I keep reading these advertisements saying: "Can't find a job, go back to school." And it makes me realize more than ever how needed are the Community Learning/Wellness and Information Centers Future Dawning is proposing along with what TransitionUS is doing. Our whole future hinges on how well we do our job of creating sustainable living communities where everyone in the community is cared for - there are no "left behinds." But this can only happen if we are raising our own food and doing so in such a way that our very degraded life support system is restored at the same time. And skills acquired during the Industrial Revolution certainly don't address this. 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Kindly visit the official website of the conference at www.worldribaconference.org and please forward the mail to your circle of friends. We request your kind assistance to link our conference website to your personal website. Thank you. Wasslam Shirazdeen Adam Shah Principal Consultant Thinkers Trends Resources From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 6 11:50:28 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:50:28 -0700 Subject: [GJM] How the Bacteria in Your Gut is Linked to the Size of Your Waistline... Message-ID: <006501cb1d33$fbc23ee0$f346bca0$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS We haven't discussed health issues recently, and this is an important one. How the Bacteria in Your Gut is Linked to the Size of Your Waistline... http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/06/probiotics-bac teria-gut-digestive-health-immune-system.aspx?aid=CD945 Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 6 15:56:06 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:56:06 -0700 Subject: [GJM] What is Your Real Age? Message-ID: <009901cb1d56$484e38f0$d8eaaad0$@net> Hi Everyone - Paying more attention to one's personal health again, I just took the "What Is Your Real Age" test and found that I am 6.7 years younger than my chronological age. Here is a website where you can check in yourself, take the test and find out where you stand. Then once you get the results, you can access a personal plan to help you further reduce your real age. At a time like this when economic and environmental concerns are placing us under even further stress doing things that keep you feeling good are more important than ever if this is possible. My heart goes out to those who are living on the streets and do not have the opportunity to get out from under the stress at all. Let us also keep these people in mind and do whatever we can to aid them. So, check this out and then follow up. The life you save may be your own. With love and in appreciation of who we all are and all we do together. I've been trying to do more and more inexpensive things that create a relaxing spa like environment for myself here in my cabin in the wilderness. One of those things is listening to healing music while I'm working or relaxing. I also take a couple walks each day and in addition, work in my yard. And, as well, choose the most nutritious foods I can find to eat. Eating healthy includes as many organically-grown foods as I can find locally. While I have in the past grown a lot of my own food, circumstances beyond my control prohibited my doing so this year. However, I am glad to say that I have been able to partake of good organic food by purchasing from the local Produce Stand of which Barbara, a new member of the Co-learner's list, is part owner with her son Jeff. I also feed the birds and have created an inviting place for them to visit. Several years ago I also was able to start a collection of roses in pots. They were especially lovely this year and I have been able to keep cut roses inside along with a collection of green plants, including orchids, scattered throughout in strategic places. http://www.realage.com/ralong/entry4.aspx?cbr=ADISN89 Your Logo, Inc. 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From: Joe Solmonese, Human Rights Campaign [mailto:hrc at hrc.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:21 AM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: FW: Mormon Church and Prop 8: The shocking truth Dear Mary, Wow, people really want to see this movie! The response to the DVD offer we told you about last week was so overwhelming that the film's distributor is extending the deadline. You now have two more days to make a donation to HRC and get your own copy of this remarkable film. Everyone I've talked to who's seen it has left changed. And since these DVDs are being donated, 100 percent of your gift goes to the fight for equality. I can't thank you enough for supporting HRC. Below is an email with more details. - Joe Human Rights Campaign Dear Mary, A shocking new film. A call to action. Get a DVD of 8: The Mormon Proposition when you donate this week. Once in a while, you walk out of a movie theater knowing you'll never be the same. You've probably heard about the Mormon Church's involvement in California's 2008 marriage ban. But I think you'll still be shocked watching the new documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition. The film uses former church members and leaked documents to make a case for exactly how the Mormon Church evaded the law and orchestrated Prop. 8. It's a movie you absolutely must see. And this week ONLY - to bring more resources to the fight for equality - the film's distributors are offering a DVD of the film as a thank-you gift for any donation to HRC of $75 or more. No matter how much you give today, you'll receive a membership to HRC, including one year of our magazine Equality, and 100 percent of your gift will go to supporting HRC's work to promote equal rights across the country. Any amount will help, but I hope you don't miss this chance to see the film. The film notes that while just two percent of Californians are Mormon, 71 percent of the money behind Prop. 8 came from Mormons. What happened? This clip shows how church leaders told members how much to donate, based on their income records - and threatened them if they didn't give: In the film, secret documents from a Mormon whistleblower show how the Mormon Church helped create a front group before Prop. 8 (the National Organization for Marriage) and stayed out of the spotlight in California. They show how the Church concealed its involvement in Prop. 8 so egregiously that last month it was still drawing fines for campaign finance violations. Get your copy now > Those documents also detail an anti-marriage campaign in Hawaii a decade earlier - a blueprint for Prop. 8. There, Church leaders funneled money to a coalition that masked their activities. They hid their faces, opened their wallets, and honed their strategy. Every single day the Human Rights Campaign is out there with people like you, going up against NOM, the Mormon Church, and other groups with vast resources and hateful agendas. But we're also building up - making millions of people's lives better, from hospitals to workplaces, from schools to houses of worship. It's what we do. And it's on behalf of those millions of people, and their simple desire to be treated equally, that we have a message for the Mormon Church: your lies, your half-truths and your bigotry will be exposed. Help us drive that message home by making a donation for equality - and own a film you'll never forget. Thanks for supporting this fight. Sincerely, Joe Solmonese Joe Solmonese President P.S. Bruce Bastian, an HRC board member who was raised Mormon and helped work on this film, had this to say: "Although the Mormon Church may be small in numbers where you live, their influence is being felt in very big ways all over this country. I believe every LGBT American should see this film to better understand the war we are in and at least one of our main enemies." Get your copy now > Donate This link is specific to you, so please make your own gift before you forward to your friends. Having trouble clicking on the links above? Simply copy and paste this URL into your browser's address bar to reach the donation form: https://secure3.convio.net/hrc/site/Donation2?df_id=5290&5290.donation=form1 C 2010 The Human Rights Campaign. All rights reserved. Human Rights Campaign | http://www.hrc.org/ 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-3278 Phone: 202/628-4160 TTY: 202/216-1572 Fax: 202/347-5323 Do not reply to this email. This inbox is not monitored on a regular basis. Replies to this email will not be read or responded to. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific Human Rights Campaign list, or update your account settings, you can visit your Subscription Management Page. Powered By Convio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The response to the DVD offer we told you about last week was so overwhelming that the film's distributor is extending the deadline. You now have two more days to make a donation to HRC and get your own copy of this remarkable film. Everyone I've talked to who's seen it has left changed. And since these DVDs are being donated, 100 percent of your gift goes to the fight for equality. I can't thank you enough for supporting HRC. Below is an email with more details. - Joe Human Rights Campaign Dear Mary, A shocking new film. A call to action. Get a DVD of 8: The Mormon Proposition when you donate this week. Once in a while, you walk out of a movie theater knowing you'll never be the same. You've probably heard about the Mormon Church's involvement in California's 2008 marriage ban. But I think you'll still be shocked watching the new documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition. The film uses former church members and leaked documents to make a case for exactly how the Mormon Church evaded the law and orchestrated Prop. 8. It's a movie you absolutely must see. And this week ONLY - to bring more resources to the fight for equality - the film's distributors are offering a DVD of the film as a thank-you gift for any donation to HRC of $75 or more. No matter how much you give today, you'll receive a membership to HRC, including one year of our magazineEquality, and 100 percent of your gift will go to supporting HRC's work to promote equal rights across the country. Any amount will help, but I hope you don't miss this chance to see the film. The film notes that while just two percent of Californians are Mormon, 71 percent of the money behind Prop. 8 came from Mormons. What happened? This clip shows how church leaders told members how much to donate, based on their income records - and threatened them if they didn't give: In the film, secret documents from a Mormon whistleblower show how the Mormon Church helped create a front group before Prop. 8 (the National Organization for Marriage) and stayed out of the spotlight in California. They show how the Church concealed its involvement in Prop. 8 so egregiously that last month it was still drawing fines for campaign finance violations. Get your copy now > Those documents also detail an anti-marriage campaign in Hawaii a decade earlier - a blueprint for Prop. 8. There, Church leaders funneled money to a coalition that masked their activities. They hid their faces, opened their wallets, and honed their strategy. Every single day the Human Rights Campaign is out there with people like you, going up against NOM, the Mormon Church, and other groups with vast resources and hateful agendas.But we're also building up - making millions of people's lives better, from hospitals to workplaces, from schools to houses of worship. It's what we do. And it's on behalf of those millions of people, and their simple desire to be treated equally, that we have a message for the Mormon Church: your lies, your half-truths and your bigotry will be exposed. Help us drive that message home by making a donation for equality - and own a film you'll never forget. Thanks for supporting this fight. Sincerely, Joe Solmonese Joe Solmonese President P.S. Bruce Bastian, an HRC board member who was raised Mormon and helped work on this film, had this to say: "Although the Mormon Church may be small in numbers where you live, their influence is being felt in very big ways all over this country. I believe every LGBT American should see this film to better understand the war we are in and at least one of our main enemies." Get your copy now > Donate This link is specific to you, so please make your own gift before you forward to your friends. Having trouble clicking on the links above? Simply copy and paste this URL into your browser's address bar to reach the donation form: https://secure3.convio.net/hrc/site/Donation2?df_id=5290&5290.donation=form1 C 2010 The Human Rights Campaign. All rights reserved. Human Rights Campaign | http://www.hrc.org/ 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-3278 Phone: 202/628-4160 TTY: 202/216-1572 Fax: 202/347-5323 Do not reply to this email. This inbox is not monitored on a regular basis. Replies to this email will not be read or responded to. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific Human Rights Campaign list, or update your account settings, you can visit yourSubscription Management Page. 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From: PEERS: WantToKnow.info Email List [mailto:emaillist at peerservice.org] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 7:09 AM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Help Save Lives: Free Video on Hidden Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners To subscribe to or unsubscribe from this list (one email every few days) or to reply to this message, see end of email This message is available online at http://www.WantToKnow.info/aspartamemsgcoverup Bookmark and Share The incredibly revealing video documentary Sweet Misery has saved many lives. It takes us on a journey across the U.S. interviewing highly respected doctors, neurosurgeons, federal health officials, and concerned individuals who lay out clearly the high risks and dangers of ingesting excitotoxins like aspartame (contained in sugar substitutes NutraSweet, Equal) and MSG. These professionals describe in detail a major cover-up by elements of government and industry to keep these serious risks out of the public eye. If you care about your health and the health of your family and friends, Sweet Misery is a must-watch video which can empower you to make a difference on this vital topic. Even if you have only a few minutes, don't miss at least watching the first part of this empowering video which will show you the hidden dangers of aspartame and MSG. A 10-minute Fox News clip listed below further drives the point home. And the "What You Can Do" box underneath these links gives great ideas on how to further educate yourself and spread the word. You can help to save lives with this critical information. Sweet Misery (90 minutes) is available for free viewing at: http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/aspartame_dangers To purchase Sweet Misery: http://www.sweetremedyradio.com/pages/sweetmisery.html For a revealing 10-minute Fox News clip presenting the serious dangers of aspartame: http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/aspartame_risks_dangers_fox_news For another excellent documentary showing the proven risks and dangers of GM food in our food supply: http://www.WantToKnow.info/healthvideodocumentaryfutureoffood For three excellent educational websites with treasure troves of quality information on the risks and dangers of aspartame, click here , here and here . For a program developed by a respected M.D. to speed detoxification from the effects of aspartame, click here. For a list of over 50 scientific studies showing the dangers of aspartame to human health, see the bottom of the highly informative webpage on aspartame available here . 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 9 04:22:14 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 03:22:14 -0700 Subject: [GJM] A Must Read: Where Agriculture Meets Empire Message-ID: <002501cb1f50$db8d5af0$92a810d0$@net> Thanks to Trading Post Paul for this one. Has it ever occurred to you that in erecting the artificial "built" environment that we have literally destroyed the natural environment -- the environment that serves as our life support system? And maybe instead of doing so much "spiritual" work we ought to be paying a little more attention to feeding the body/mind field -- meaning both the brain and the heart along with all of our other organs so they are functioning at their very best? -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:12 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Where Agriculture Meets Empire Where Agriculture Meets Empire Land Institute president Wes Jackson explores the intersection of science and society, agronomy and ecology, culture and politics. By Robert Jensen July 1, 2003 | Wes Jackson and his colleagues at the Land Institute are working on a 10,000 year-old problem -- agriculture. Not simply problems in agriculture, but the problem of agriculture. That fundamental problem is that no one has come up with a sustainable system for perpetuating agricultural productivity. High yields mask what Jackson has called "the failure of success": Production remains high while the health of the soil continues to decline dramatically -- primarily because of erosion and chemical contamination of land and water. That kind of success guarantees the inevitable collapse of the system. Agriculture isn't the only system we live with that is unsustainable -- empire and capitalism also come to mind quickly. How are these systems connected to each other? How long can such systems continue before they give way to something new? Can they be replaced before they take the planet down with them? Who and what will suffer in the meantime? And, what can movements do to change all this? Jackson has some provocative ideas about -- though he'd be the first to admit, no definitive answers to -- these questions. Twenty-seven years ago, Jackson -- then a professor of environmental studies at California State University-Sacramento with degrees in botany and genetics -- co-founded the Land Institute to pursue a long-term solution to the problem of agriculture, delving into both the scientific and cultural aspects. The goal, articulated in the Land Institute's mission statement, is agriculture that will allow people, communities, and the land to prosper in sustainable fashion. The research into what they call "natural systems agriculture" (NSA) investigates ways that monoculture annual grains (such as corn and wheat) can be replaced by polyculture (grown in combinations) perennial grains. NSA attempts to mimic nature instead of subduing it. Jackson points out that when left alone, a natural ecosystem such as a prairie recycles materials, sponsors its own fertility, runs on contemporary sunlight, and increases biodiversity. The question NSA poses is whether agriculture can be designed to increase ecological wealth in such fashion rather than degrade it. Jackson, who currently serves as the president of the Land Institute, is the author of several books, including "New Roots for Agriculture," "Altars of Unhewn Stone" and "Becoming Native to This Place." In his writing and frequent lectures, Jackson explores the intersection of science and society, agronomy and ecology, culture and politics. His talks are a lively mix of styles -- country preacher, old-time storyteller, hard-nosed scientist, and political organizer. Jackson is blunt about the problems of the culture and agriculture but hopeful about the possibilities of change, and his folksy style allows him to launch fairly radical ideas in ways that don't seem threatening. I began my interview with him by asking him to expand on several slogans he had tossed out at Prairie Festival, the annual celebration of the Land Institute, in 2001. Robert Jensen: At the 25th anniversary celebration you offered three aphorisms that seem to turn conventional political wisdom on its head -- "If we walk our talk, we won't get there," "We need to spend more time preaching to the choir," and "We've got to quit meeting people where they are." Explain what you meant. Wes Jackson: "If we walk our talk, we won't get there" is the easy one. Look, I ride jet planes. I drive. My household is tied into the grid. We're all dependent on the extractive economy. If we were to "walk the talk" -- if we were to really live within the limits of a renewal life-support system with no subsidies from coal or portable liquid fuels or the poison of nuclear power -- we would have trouble making our voices heard in the culture. Another way to put it is that there's no life outside the system. So, I think we should ask two questions about endeavors that involve us in the extractive economy. One is, "How can I use this nonrenewable resource in a strategic way?" Two, "Is it so much fun that you can't say no to it?" That second one is just a way of not taking ourselves too seriously. What about the people who say that it's important to create alternatives that are, to the degree possible, outside the system? Should people sacrifice involvement in a political movement to create a model of something else? We do need those good examples, and people have to work in the area of their passion. When I look at people I start with the question, "Have they joined the fight?" If they have, then you have to be careful in critique, because we don't know enough about what's going to be most effective in the long run. If someone wants to be the good example, then fine. But I think they should be doing it out of intrinsic interest, not out of sense of nobility. What about, "We need to spend more time preaching to the choir"? That's meant to suggest we need to deepen the discussion. The modern environmental movement really began in 1962 with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." Before that, environmentalism was mostly about wilderness advocacy, with some focus on soil erosion and water conservation. With those roots in saving wilderness, this new environmental movement lacked the intellectual basis necessary to understand the kinds of problems we face as a consequence of consumerism. Today we have to fight the idea that nature is to be subdued or ignored. In that older view, wilderness was seen as the sacred, and we could afford to allow other parts of the world that served human needs and desires to be profane. Now we realize the planet is seamless and that wilderness is really an artifact of civilization. So, we haven't had a long enough time to deepen the discussion, and that deepening is best done with members of the choir, rather than with people who are just catching on that the planet is in trouble. What about the argument that we have to broaden the movement so that we have the political power to make the changes that are so crucial? Yes, but by making a movement's ideas too readily accessible, you can make them meaningless. Ultimately, you have to have depth to your argument or people will find themselves being self-satisfied by hauling their cans to be recycled in their SUV. To even be talking about recycling when the parking lots are full is kind of absurd. There's a lot of work for the choir to do, too. For example, we have to learn to be better numbersmiths, to understand science and statistics. I'm going to be 67 this month, and in my lifetime people have burned 97.5 percent of all the oil that has ever been burned. That's an important statistic. We have to face the fact that we are not going to find a technological substitute for the high-density energy that comes out of a gas or oil well. It is thermodynamically implausible. We have not attended to these numbers and realities. So, we have people running around rather glibly saying that, "We have alternatives. We just need to get solar and wind and thermal insulation and this, that and the other." What do you say to those who contend that there are energy alternatives that will allow Americans to continue to consume at the current level? I say that's nuts. That's where the discussion needs to deepen. Take the example of a photovoltaic array and look at the energy that the array will produce in its lifetime and the energy it takes to make it. It's a ratio that ranges from 4:1 to 8:1. Or a wind machine, which is about the same. Thermal insulation is pretty good, close to 100:1. But all that still isn't enough. It's assumed, because scarcity is always said to be the mother of invention, that when things get scarce we will find the alternative. Well, I'm saying there simply is no alternative to the density of high-energy carbon coming out of an oil well. Do you think there is a need to preach to the choir in other movements, such as the antiwar or anti-corporate globalization movements? I think so. It's clear that war and racism, poverty, sexism, the growing gap between the rich and the poor, are all connected. And when we hit a brick wall, it turns out that brick wall is capitalism. We're going to have to face that. But people want to believe it is possible to design around capitalism, through regulation and progressive legislation. But that won't work, and we need some consciousness-raising on that. What about the argument that the reactionary right and the Bush administration are so dangerous, such a threat to the planet, that all our efforts should be directed to defeating Bush in 2004? I think that's pretty na?ve. The Bush folks are going to go to the fat cats who made out so well on the tax cuts and say, "OK boys, give us 10 percent." And they'll get it, and that will put billons in their coffers, and they'll use that to buy media and control the discussion. It's whistling in the dark to presume those guys don't have a plan to keep this thing alive. What if the Democrats had a realistic chance to beat Bush? Would that change anything for you? Given the behavior of the Democrats, who have tried to become more like the Republicans, what evidence do we have that they would have a spirited about-face? I'm pretty sure they would be better in some ways, that fewer of our civil liberties would be violated. But the Democrats are not trying to change our dependence on an extractive economy. What did Clinton do for us? The Democrats turn the dial a little to the left, and the Republicans turn it to the right, but they're both on the wrong channel. I don't see any fine-tuning that is going to make a big difference. What about the third slogan, "We've got to quit meeting people where they are"? If you meet people where they are, you're going to meet them in Wal-Mart, where things are cheap and things don't last. We keep trying to meet people on the grounds of economics: Are they going to be able to keep their 401Ks intact? Are they going to have more money so they can eat out more often and buy more breakables? In that framework, the ecology message is reduced to hoping that the EPA does a better job of enforcing the Clean Water Act and the Clear Air Act. But the planet could still go down the tubes with clean water and clean water, and with wind generators in place. We've not talked about a society that, at the rate it's going, is going to require four planets to keep up with consumption. Here's where we have to be thinking deeply. Agriculture had its beginning 10,000 years ago. What were the ecosystems like 10,000 years ago, after the retreat of the ice? Those ecosystems featured material recycling and they ran on contemporary sunlight. Humans have yet to build societies like that. Is it possible that embedded in nature's economy are suggestions for a human economy in which conservation is a consequence of production? Let's open that up. The day after 9/11, I wrote a piece suggesting that what George Bush should say is, "My fellow Americans, from this day forward we will evaluate our progress by how independent of the extractive economy we have become." I think that kind of speech would resonate with a lot of people. But if it resonates, then they have to roll up their sleeves and say, "What does that mean for me, for us?" That would not be meeting people where they are. George Bush is meeting people where they are. One possible conclusion from all this is that, given where the culture and most people are, a mass movement around sustainability isn't possible today. Is that your view? Let me be more positive. A mass intellectual engagement on these issues is possible and is necessary. I don't know if is possible right now. My hope is that when the resource base declines and we are caught -- and it will appear to be unawares -- there will have been going on in smaller circles an adequate deepening of the conversation that has the potential to spread among the larger population. Any thoughts on how to go forward with that? One thing to avoid is getting too overloaded with abstractions, without any of the particulars. This struggle that we're involved in is not going to be won with the bumper sticker. It's going to be won across the ecological mosaic of the country; it's going to be the particularities. I'm worried about our willingness to so readily embrace the abstractions without the particularities. Here's an example, which will sound like whining, but it's not. Here at the Land Institute people are out there breeding crops, doing the experiments, evaluating germ plasm, because we think that in the 25 to 50 year time frame it's possible to build an agriculture based on the way natural ecosystems work. Those are particularities. Now, some of the people in the environmental movement, some who are my friends, think that they are change agents and are out there networking, going off to another conference. I don't object to people doing those kinds of things -- I do some of that myself -- but what I do object to is the marginalization of an organization like ours because we say it will take 25 to 50 years before we have something to offer the farmer. My question for almost any group is, "What does this translate into in a material way?" Even though we are marginal, one reason that we are still alive as a viable organization is not only that we have an alternative paradigm, in the Kuhnian sense, but there is pollen being transferred on behalf of that paradigm. In other words, I think values dictate genotype. I think we're here because our project resonates at a deep level with the Friends of the Land and the foundation world. What effect on public policy have you had? We've been to Washington, and we've hit the brick walls. So, we're avoiding the brick walls. Instead, we are supporting 19 graduate students from around the country. They will go back to their universities, and we hope the institute's intellectual "virus" will infect these major universities and eventually overcome their institutional "immune systems." It's change from the bottom up. In that sense, we're looking at public policy for the long term. We are trying to develop the compelling alternative for the future. What is your assessment of the anti-corporate globalization movement, especially the tactic of street protests? We need to confront, but we also need these particularities. The good thing about this movement is the realization that we're all caught within a kind of structural immorality. But, the bad thing is that we tend to stop with that, as if there's nothing I can do except protest about it, and hope that the overall structure changes so that my behavior will be more environmentally benign. Street protests -- in combination with other tactics -- have worked in the past, in other movements. But I think that the environmental movement is, in many ways, more complicated than the anti-Vietnam war or civil rights movement. We have to deal with the aspect of human nature that wants stuff, wants comfort and security. For some time I think we were na?ve and thought these problems could be solved easily. This is one area where I think we need to sit back and do some more thinking. What has worked? Take a look at CSAs, community-supported agriculture. I'm all for those, but they don't really speak to the vast majority of 350 million acres of farmland, most of which is eroding and being chemically contaminated. CSA farms are donuts around the cities. I don't object to doing that, but we shouldn't presume that's a movement. We need to be saying, "Listen folks, capitalism is inherently destructive." How do we get from where we are to where we need to be, keeping in mind that we can't just try to tame that son of a bitch. We have got to get rid of capitalism. What are the most effective vehicles for that, if it's not just protests in the streets, not faith in the Democrats? That isn't easy. We need to be drawing attention to the brick wall of capitalism every time we hit it, acknowledging that we don't just need to find a way over it but how to knock it down. But what about while we are blocked by the brick wall? Well, it is worthwhile when we are making a pollination or designing our experiments that we design it for some future farmer, rather than for something that can be readily adopted today by a corporate bookkeeper. In our breeding work here we could try to come up with perennial monocultures, and that would make the seed companies happy. Our work on perennial polycultures doesn't knock the wall of capitalism down, but at least while you are behind the wall you can imagine life on the other side of the wall. That may sound like a poor and hollow substitute for something that will get at knocking down the wall. But at least we can plan for the other side. Do you have any thoughts on what an alternative to capitalism would look like? Just to get discussion going, I've been putting forward the hypothesis that since the Stone Age there has not been a single technological product or process, including the domestication of crops and livestock, that hasn't come at the cost of drawing down the capital stock of the planet. I call that the "utterly dismal hypothesis." I'm advancing it not because it's necessarily right, but to suggest that life forms have got it as good as it gets. Whether you are talking about the cell, the tissue, the organ, the organ system or the organism, up that hierarchy to the ecosystem and the ecosphere -- at all levels in that hierarchy of structure, life has had to work it out, given the constraints of the second law of thermodynamics. To presume that we can have a technological array that beats that is somewhat arrogant. Life would have done that long ago. Why should we constantly be looking for technological solutions? I don't think we have spent enough time looking at the rules of nature's economy, which are systems that have featured material recycling and run on contemporary sunlight. That's the kind of alternative economics I'm interested in. And I think that if we don't get sustainability in agriculture first, it's not going to happen. We have some disciplines standing behind and, potentially, helping agriculture -- ecology, evolutionary biology. So that is where it seems to me where the discussion has to start. Robert Jensen is a founding member of the Nowar Collective, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of "Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream." He can be reached at rjensen at uts.cc.utexas.edu. From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Fri Jul 9 04:28:10 2010 From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:28:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [GJM] Fw: New Climate Economics Blog - Real Climate Economics Message-ID: <182810.52646.qm@web27403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> --- On Fri, 9/7/10, Kristen Sheeran wrote: From: Kristen Sheeran Subject: New Climate Economics Blog - Real Climate Economics To: "e3network" Date: Friday, 9 July, 2010, 0:39 Greetings, ? Last year E3 Network launched Real Climate Economics ? an online guide to the economics literature that supports immediate and aggressive measures to mitigate the risks of climate change. Its launch was widely applauded as an effective counter-weight to claims that economics does not support climate stabilization efforts. ? This week E3 Network has launched the Real Climate Economics blog to provide timely commentary by economists on the challenges and opportunities wrought by climate change. We?ll feature regular contributions by E3 climate taskforce economists, including Frank Ackerman , Eban Goodstein, James Boyce, Elizabeth Stanton, James Barrett , Stephen DeCanio and others. ? We invite you to join our economists in this important dialogue and encourage you to add the Real Climate Economics blog to your websites and blog rolls. ? If you have any questions about the real climate economics blog, please feel free to contact me at the address below. ? ? Kristen Sheeran?Ph.D. Executive Director Economics for Equity and the Environment Network an Ecotrust affiliate? ?? 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Portland , OR 97209 T (503) 467.0811| F (503) 222.1517 | www.e3network.org ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 9 04:37:51 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 03:37:51 -0700 Subject: [GJM] =?iso-8859-1?q?Very_Important=3A___A_Conversation_with_Anna?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_Lapp=E9_on_Climate_Change=2C_Industrial_Agricultur?= =?iso-8859-1?q?e=2C_and_Conversion_to_a_Climate_Friendly_Food_Syst?= =?iso-8859-1?q?em_=28video=29?= Message-ID: <002601cb1f53$097f10a0$1c7d31e0$@net> Thanks to Trading Post Paul for this one. A Conversation with Anna Lapp? on Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, and Conversion to a Climate Friendly Food System (video) http://cookingupastory.com/a-conversation-with-anna-lappe-on-climate-change- industrial-agriculture-and-conversion-to-a-climate-friendly-food-system-vide o The first thing one notices about Anna Lapp?, author of the new book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It, she knows how to focus abstract, interrelated concepts, such as industrial agriculture, and food system, into concrete terms as they relate to climate change concerns. Not only will agriculture be effected by rapid changes in weather conditions brought on by climate change, the food system itself (the entire process by which food reaches the end of our fork) is the largest single emitter of atmospheric greenhouse gases that drive climate change effects. Culling through the scientific literature, Lapp? reports that about 31% of all carbon dioxide emissions are directly or indirectly related to the agriculture sector. Two very potent atmospheric gases, nitrous oxide and methane, are released in agriculture production, and are almost 300 times, and 25 times more active in the atmosphere, respectively (ton for ton), than carbon dioxide. In the opening introduction to her book, Bill McKibben writes: ?Climate change is the biggest thing human beings have ever done; nothing else even comes close. We?ve already managed to substantially melt the Arctic, to force epic drought, to thaw the high-altitude glaciers that water Asia and South America, all with a single degree of temperature rise?. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 9 04:59:13 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 03:59:13 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: NetNews July 9 2010 Message-ID: <003601cb1f56$04875e60$0d961b20$@net> As things heat up at election time, one of the things standing out in big red letters is the Republican Agenda that rounds up ever more money from the corporate sector which favors creating an ever more wealthy class. A maneuver designed to widen the gap further between the "haves" and the "have nots." This is a campaign where it becomes more obvious every day that the result desired by the corporate-oriented Republicans is one designed to preserve the Great American Lifestyle that George W. Bush said was "non-negotiable." A lifestyle designed for a few while the many are starved, made jobless and forced out of their homes so that these few may continue to live the life of luxury and at the expense of the environment as well as people. All while climate change rapidly closes in on all of us. What is it that you intend to do about this? Are you going to just sit back and let it happen? Thanks again to Trading Post Paul. -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:46 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] NetNews July 9 2010 (Entries are excerpts from website links. See links for full articles) $200 Million GOP Campaign Avalanche Planned, Democrats Stunned Updated: 07- 8-10 12:54 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/democrats-fear-they-cant_n_639202.h tml Over the past few weeks, top Democratic Party strategists have been passed a chart by a concerned, well-respected operative underscoring the daunting task they face in the 2010 elections. On the left hand side of the chart is a list of ten Republican aligned institutions, ranging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the Family Research Council. Next to it is a column listing the amount of money each group has pledged to spend by Election Day. A third column on the right details what those groups actually spent in 2008 on federal elections. The number at the bottom delivers the key message. If their pledges are fulfilled, these ten groups will unleash more than $200 million in election-focused spending -- roughly $37 million more than every single independent group spent on the 2008 presidential campaign combined. This time around, almost every single penny will be going to Republican candidates or causes. Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore calls for raising taxes on the poor in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/08/moore-taxes/ The Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire in January. President Obama has expressed a desire to preserve the cuts for the middle class while letting tax rates for the wealthy reset to where they were during the Clinton administration. Conservative lawmakers and pundits have been fearmongering that allowing the tax cuts for the wealthy to expire will kill job creation and small businesses (despite the fact that fewer than 2 percent of small business owners will be affected). Last night on CNBC, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore went so far as to say that he can?t ?see the sense? of allowing cuts for the rich to expire, and then advocated that taxes be raised on the poorest Americans in order to finance more tax cuts for the rich: "I just don?t see the sense of this. In fact, if I could have my ?druthers, I?d raise the ten percent tax rate to fifteen percent and lower the [top] rates." Watch it: Adopting such a plan would only exacerbate income inequality that is already the worst it has been since the 1920?s. According to the latest data, ?the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest fifths of the country more than tripled between 1979 and 2007.? The top 1 percent of families now receive nearly 25 percent of the country?s income, after earning less than 10 percent in the 1970s. This year the Bush tax cuts will give millionaires more in tax breaks than 90 percent of Americans will make in total income. Weighing Safety Of Weed Killer In Drinking Water, EPA Relies Heavily On Industry-Backed Studies Updated: 07- 8-10 08:58 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/weighing-safety-of-weed-k_n_639120. html Companies with a financial interest in a weed-killer sometimes found in drinking water paid for thousands of studies federal regulators are using to assess the herbicide's health risks, records of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show. Many of these industry-funded studies, which largely support atrazine's safety, have never been published or subjected to an independent scientific peer review. Meanwhile, some independent studies documenting potentially harmful effects on animals and humans are not included in the body of research the EPA deems relevant to its safety review, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund has found. These studies include many that have been published in respected scientific journals. Even so, the EPA says that it would be "very difficult for someone to put a thumb on the scale" to slant the outcome. Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides in the U.S. An estimated 76 million pounds of the chemical are sprayed on corn and other fields in the U.S. each year, sometimes ending up in rivers, streams, and drinking water supplies. It has been the focus of intense scientific debate over its potential to cause cancer, birth defects, and hormonal and reproductive problems. As the Huffington Post Investigative Fund reported in a series of articles last fall, the EPA failed to warn the public that the weed-killer had been found at levels above federal safety limits in drinking water in at least four states. Some water utilities are suing Syngenta to have it pay their costs of filtering the chemical. When You Visit Israel (Formerly Palestine) ... A Presidential Tour Guide to Israel http://www.counterpunch.org/bloom07082010.html By ROBERT BLOOM July 8, 2010 ?The reports about the demise of the special relationship aren?t just premature, they?re just flat wrong,? the [Israeli] prime minister said. He publicly invited Mr. Obama to visit Israel, and the president said, ?I?m ready.? From the NY Times, July 6, 2010 Dear Mr. Obama, When you travel to Israel (formerly known as Palestine), be sure to visit some of the great tourist sites in Israel (formerly Palestine): *The countless checkpoints, where Palestinians are humiliated and mistreated every hour of every day (and don't forget to ask to see the several locations where Palestinian women have lost their children and/or died in childbirth at these places because the Israelis wouldn't process them through); *The handsome and loving wall that keeps families apart and prevents Palestinians from getting to work. As an added benefit, this could be the model for the ever-expanding wall that many americans would like to see at the Mexican border; *The illegal settlements --- illegal under international law, and in clear violation of those sacred U.N. sanctions that american presidents always cite when it comes to Iran, Cuba, etc, but ignore when the resolutions relate to Israel; *The secret facilities where the Israelis have created nuclear weapons (and where they are stored this very day). Just ask. They'll show you. I think one of the sites is in a town called Vanunu. Don't miss it; *The interrogation centers where Palestinians are tortured every day, all day, all night. In fact, the Israelis taught the americans quite a bit about these endeavors, and there's still lots to learn from Israel; * The wonderful prisons to which the Israelis send Palestinians, including children who, gasp, threw rocks at soldiers; *The place where the Israelis murdered Rachel Corrie (and don't fail to speak to the colonels and other Israeli officials who whitewashed the murder); *The storage area for the (illegal) white phosphorus weaponry the Israeli's used on civilians in their unspeakable genocide (known in some circles as a holocaust(tm) on Gaza: *The site where the Isrealis entered into a chillingly evil deal with the chillingly corrupt government of Egypt to enforce the disgraceful blockade of food and medical supplies and building materials on 1.5 million human beings in Gaza; *The site of the decision to escalate the assault on Palestinians by desecrating Temple Mount; *Be sure to go to one of the trials that are conducted in military tribunals, where Palestinians are NEVER acquitted, NEVER. (You can learn how to conduct trials in the secret courts at Bagram, in the secret prison [torture center] at Bagram, (the new and improved Guantanimo). I may have omitted some of the special sites you should see in Israel when you visit. Be sure to consult some Palestinian victims of Israeli Apartheid before you go --- just in case I missed something. Angle Calls BP?s $20 Billion Account To Pay Oil Spill Claims ?A Slush Fund? http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/08/angle-bp-slush-fund/ Many conservatives have been criticizing the Obama administration for what they regard as a harsh treatment of BP in the wake of its Gulf oil spill. Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul called the White House pressure on BP ?un-American.? Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) apologized to BP (and later apologized and then unapologized for the apology) for what he called a White House ?shakedown? of the oil giant after BP agreed to create a $20 billion escrow account to compensate claims resulting from the spill. Greg Sargent reports that yesterday on a local Nevada radio show, the state?s GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle joined in, calling the BP escrow account a ?slush-fund?: CALLER I wanted to know what she thought of the $20 billion slush fund and whether or not government should be able to do that to a private company. ANGLE: Well, the short answer is no, government shouldn?t be doing that to a private company. And, I think you named it clearly, it?s a slush fund. But everyone in the petroleum industry shouldn?t be penalized for one bad person?s actions. It would be like throwing us all in prison because one person committed murder. And that?s exactly what?s going on here is it?s an overreaction by government for not the right reasons. Angle contends that the White House is following ?Saul Alinky?s rule for radicals. They are using this crisis now to get in cap-and-trade and every fine and penalty and slush fund.? Listen here: As Sargent noted, Angle?s comments are particularly egregious ?since such funds imply corruption and are often illegal.? Of course, the escrow is not a ?slush fund? considering there is no bribery involved, and BP?s money is allotted for a specific purpose: helping victims of the disastrous oil spill which resulted from BP?s negligence. Moreover, BP agreed to set it up and in comments after BP made the deal to set up the account, CEO Tony Hayward took full responsibility and called the escrow account ?the right thing?: ?From the outset we have said that we fully accepted our obligations as a responsible party. This agreement reaffirms our commitment to do the right thing. The President made it clear and we agree that our top priority is to contain the spill, clean up the oil and mitigate the damage to the Gulf coast community. We will not rest until the job is done.? Majority Of Judges Hearing Drilling Moratorium Appeal Attended Oil-Funded Junkets ? http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/08/junkets-for-judges/ Last month, Judge Martin Feldman, a federal trial judge in Louisiana, handed down a poorly-reasoned opinion lifting the Obama Administration?s temportary moratorium on new oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Judge Feldman?s most recent financial disclosure form indicates that he is heavily invested in oil companies. Today in New Orleans, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will consider whether to stay Feldman?s decision. According to a new report by the Alliance for Justice, however, it is unlikely that these Fifth Circuit judges will approach the case without the perception of bias. Judges Jerry Smith and Eugene Davis, both of whom are assigned to today?s panel, attended expense-paid ?junkets for judges? sponsored by an oil-industry front group: [Judge Smith] attended a seminar hosted by the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE) in Big Sky, Montana, for which he was reimbursed transportation, lodging, and meal expenses. FREE is a think-tank that promotes free-market environmentalism rather than environmental regulation and is funded largely by corporations like ExxonMobil and conservative foundations. FREE hosts industry-funded seminars for judges, often including leisure activities such as golf and horseback riding, to ?explain why ecological values are not the only important ones.? The year that Judge Smith attended the seminar, FREE received $70,000 from ExxonMobil, of which $20,000 was for ?Federal Judicial Seminars,? $30,000 was for ?General Operating Support,? and $20,000 was for a ?Climate Seminar.? . . . Additionally, in 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008, Judge Davis attended the same seminar as Judge Smith run by the FREE Foundation, the free market environmentalism group described above, and sought corresponding reimbursement for transportation, food, and housing. Judge Davis has attended another of other judicial seminars, and in fact, was ranked tenth in the country on a list of judges who accept free trips. Both men also worked as oil-industry litigators before their appointments to the federal bench, and Judge Davis owns as much as $30,000 in oil investments. The third judge on the panel, Judge James Dennis, has not received any free trips from the oil industry, but he is heavily invested in oil stocks with investments that may total as much as $305,000. Should this oil-soaked panel nonetheless decide to reinstate the drilling moratorium, the industry may appeal that decision to the full Fifth Circuit. Of the sixteen active judges eligible to hear such an appeal, ten of them have oil investments, including the court?s Chief Judge. In addition to owning as much as $330,000 in oil investments, Chief Judge Edith Jones ranked fourth of a list of judges who have attended junkets. A full list of the Fifth Circuit?s judges and the extent of their financial holdings in oil companies is copied below: More ? Joblessness, housing add risks to U.S. recovery: IMF http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6672TB20100708 Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni By David Lawder WASHINGTON | Thu Jul 8, 2010 1:34pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - High unemployment and a moribund housing market have increased risks to the U.S. economic recovery, while the public debt looms large and needs to be cut, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday. In a statement after annual consultations with U.S. authorities, the IMF raised its U.S. growth forecasts slightly to 3.3 percent for 2010 and 2.9 percent for 2011, but said unemployment would remain above 9 percent for both years. The lofty jobless rate, coupled with a large backlog of home foreclosures and high levels of negative home equity, posed risks of a "double dip" in the housing market, it said. But the IMF said it did not think a renewed recession was likely. "The outlook has improved in tandem with recovery, but remaining household and financial balance sheet weaknesses -- along with elevated unemployment -- are likely to continue to restrain private spending," the Fund said. The IMF also said commercial real estate continued to deteriorate, posing risks for smaller banks. Further tipping the balance of risks to the downside, it said Europe's sovereign debt crisis could worsen financial market conditions and hurt trade. David Robinson, the IMF's Western Hemisphere deputy director, conceded in a news briefing that recent data had come in on the weak side since the report was completed on June 21. If the weakness continued, the Fund may have to revise its forecasts downward, he said. In a separate report on the world economy, the IMF raised its 2010 global growth forecast to 4.6 percent from the 4.2 percent it had projected in April. Boehner Invites Lobbyists To Help Form GOP Agenda In Intimate Meeting At His Office http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/08/boehner-lobbyists-meeting/ A few months ago, House Republicans launched an effort called Americans Speaking Out, which purports to give average Americans the ability to offer their input on what Congress should do. It became quickly apparent that the enterprise was little more than a taxpayer-funded PR gimmick to help Republicans market their agenda for this fall?s elections, even as they ignored any ideas they didn?t already support. Now, under the banner of Americans Speaking Out, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has summoned advice from those who he truly seems interested in listening to: lobbyists. Roll Call reports that Boehner has invited ?senior Republican lobbyists and top officials from several large trade groups? to a meeting at Boehner?s office to discuss ?their suggestions for a new GOP agenda?: The meeting is part of the House leaders? initiative called America Speaking Out, which is intended to draw broad input to create a new policy agenda for the party to launch in the fall. An e-mail invitation sent to more than 20 trade representatives and obtained by Roll Call summoned guests to Boehner?s second-floor office on July 16 ?to discuss House Republican efforts to produce a new policy agenda with a small group of trade association leaders.? Invitees included Dan Danner, head of the National Federation of Independent Business; Bruce Josten, top lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Jay Timmons of the National Association of Manufacturers; and Joe Stanton of the National Association of Home Builders. A spokesperson for Americans Speaking Out defended the meeting, saying it was important to meet with large employers. But this is hardly the first time Boehner and his colleagues have run to lobbyists for help coming up with ideas. As the Wonk Room?s Pat Garofalo has documented, congressional Republicans have ?organized a pow-wow with lobbyists in order to devise a strategy? for nearly every piece of major legislation over the past year, from health care reform, to Wall Street reform, to climate change, to a jobs bill. A Conversation with Anna Lapp? on Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, and Conversion to a Climate Friendly Food System (video) http://cookingupastory.com/a-conversation-with-anna-lappe-on-climate-change- industrial-agriculture-and-conversion-to-a-climate-friendly-food-system-vide o The first thing one notices about Anna Lapp?, author of the new book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It, she knows how to focus abstract, interrelated concepts, such as industrial agriculture, and food system, into concrete terms as they relate to climate change concerns. Not only will agriculture be effected by rapid changes in weather conditions brought on by climate change, the food system itself (the entire process by which food reaches the end of our fork) is the largest single emitter of atmospheric greenhouse gases that drive climate change effects. Culling through the scientific literature, Lapp? reports that about 31% of all carbon dioxide emissions are directly or indirectly related to the agriculture sector. Two very potent atmospheric gases, nitrous oxide and methane, are released in agriculture production, and are almost 300 times, and 25 times more active in the atmosphere, respectively (ton for ton), than carbon dioxide. In the opening introduction to her book, Bill McKibben writes: ?Climate change is the biggest thing human beings have ever done; nothing else even comes close. We?ve already managed to substantially melt the Arctic, to force epic drought, to thaw the high-altitude glaciers that water Asia and South America, all with a single degree of temperature rise?. From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 9 05:33:43 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 04:33:43 -0700 Subject: [GJM] An Absolutely MUST READ - Struggling to be 'fully alive': Reports on coping with anguish Message-ID: <003e01cb1f5a$d7b2fb60$8718f220$@net> Thanks again to Trading Post Paul. As we struggle to handle our emotions as COLLAPSE happens, how do we handle hopelessness and anguish. For me personally, it means getting off of my ass and doing what needs to be done with the house that is falling down as we learn that we can't take the building blocks out from underneath it and erect a second story. Like any other this is, or should be, a learning experience. And, the only thing to do is pick up the blocks and begin over again. And, in the process INHO we need to let go of things that aren't working, e.g., government, monetary system, religious beliefs, present modes of transportation, educational system, etc., and design new systems that are life-enhancing and work for us, not against us. We simply cannot continue to develop a built environment that sacrifices the natural environment that provides for our life support system. And, most of all, IMHO, we need to recognize that empire-building is not the way to go. The motto for Future Dawning is: Living simply so that others may simply live. Let's get off of our ego trips and just DO IT. By the way, I attended a women's club meeting today in which after the majority had left, a few of us were able to agree that the world's problems are centered right here in the U.S. and we need to focus on turning this mega disaster around right here. It is not about going to Haiti and helping out there, or fighting a war in Afghanistan, or? It is about doing what needs to be done right here at home, right now. And, folks unless we all agree that this is the end of the world, it isn't. We need to change the way we think. -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 1:39 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Struggling to be 'fully alive': Reports on coping with anguish "We must also learn to not trust power and create small, subsistence communities. Instead of trying to mend the empire we should be teaching ourselves skills of our rural grandparents." Struggling to be 'fully alive': Reports on coping with anguish by Robert Jensen Published Jul 8 2010 http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53374 "I don't have anything to say that hasn't been said many times over the centuries." That may have been the most insightful response to my essay asking people to report on how they cope with the anguish of living in a world in collapse. That simple statement is a reminder that (1) the social and ecological crises we face have been building for a long time and (2) the best of our traditions have, for a long time, offered wisdom useful in facing those crises. The unjust social systems and unsustainable ecological practices of contemporary society started with the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago, when humans began dominating each other and the planet in evermore destructive fashion, and intensified dramatically over the 250 years of the industrial revolution. (For a historical perspective, see "The delusional revolution.") And for nearly that long, some people have resisted the power of elites and tried to protect the land. (For a contemporary example, see "Where agriculture meets empire.") So, we struggle in the moment with complex problems that defy simple solutions -- problems that may be beyond our capacity to solve in any meaningful way. But describing the basics needed for a better world is not difficult if we draw on that wisdom. Here's my condensed version: We need to transcend systems rooted in human arrogance and greed that lead us to believe that any individual is more valuable than another, that any group of people should dominate another group, or that people have a right to exploit the living world without regard for the consequences for the ecosystem. Because each of us has within us the capacity for constructive and destructive actions -- for good and evil -- our collective task is to shape a society that helps us act with caution and compassion. This radical message of humility and solidarity comes from a deep conception of respect: Respect for oneself, for other people, for other living things, and for the earth as a living system. That message animates the best of our philosophy, theology, poetry, and politics, and it was at the heart of nearly all the 300 responses to my essay. This notion of respect wasn't defined as "being nice" or "not being judgmental." Respect takes work -- to understand the other, make judgments, and engage constructively when there are disagreements or conflicting needs. Along with those calls for love, there was a lot of anger in the responses, much of it directed at elites -- the politicians, business executives, and media propagandists who so often not only promote arrogant and greedy behavior over humility and solidarity, but also rationalize and prop up the political/economic/social systems in which the destructive behavior is fostered. And many wrote that the while the anger we may feel toward elites is justified, we have to start with self-critique and examine our own place in these systems. For example, the anger toward BP officials over the "hole in the world" at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico co-exists with the recognition that we all live somewhere in the system that demands that oil: "I speak of the oil spill going on and I acknowledge how implicated I am in it. My lifestyle -- despite efforts to eat wild foods, look at waste streams as resources, and live frugally -- depends heavily on oil. It's like there are these [oil] stains on my hands, all over my hands, my body and the ground around me." In such a world, it is easy for those of us who live in affluent societies to be drained by an awareness of all this: "My personal ambition seems to decrease in proportion to the increase in world suffering. I think that's part of my emotional reaction to crisis. I don't think I am fully alive. I'm not depressed, just weirdly diminished." Why would someone feel diminished today? For almost all of the people who responded, the heart of their struggle was in the realization that the human species, locked into industrial societies dependent on high-energy/high-technology systems to produce food and fuel, is on a path leading to the edge of a cliff. No one offered predictions for an end time, but: "[W]hat I see as the reality of our situation -- ecologically, politically, economically, and culturally -- is that we are in the last days of our species, and I just don't know what to do with that. The emotions are much too powerful, the grief, the sense of doom -- how does one deal with the real possibility of the extinction of not just millions of species, but of one's own species?" Feeling isolated but resolved to act Where does that reality leave us emotionally? My essay inquired specifically about the feelings that accompany the intellectual understanding that we live in a world in collapse. That question led not only to descriptions of those emotions, but strategies for dealing with them. No single comment could sum up so many different people's responses, but this one comes close: "So I feel hopeless. I feel sad. I feel amused at the absurdity of it all. I feel depressed. I feel enraged. I feel guilty and I feel trapped. Basically the only reason why I'm still alive is because there are enough amazing people and things in my life to keep me going, to keep me fighting for what matters. I'm not even sure how to fight yet, but I know that I want to." One common response was gratitude for having a place to communicate these thoughts without worrying about being ridiculed. Many wrote about how isolated they felt, even from friends and family who don't want to talk about these matters and either deny there are reasons to be concerned or ignore the evidence: "I'm a drug addict with over 20 years clean, and I know all about using up my future and farting out lame excuses. I promised myself an honest life to stay clean, and the double-edged sword is that I started seeing just how much our culture swims in denial." Pressing these importance questions about systemic failure and collapse leads to resistance from others, who then assert that the real problem is anyone who wants to talk about collapse: "I have been writing for a year and a half on a lot of things as it pertains to humanity's lack of awareness and the potential to reconnect before we destroy the earth and each other. People get angry at me for it and call me 'dark' and 'negative' and 'sinful' telling me to instead move to the 'light,' 'positive' and 'love.' Whatever." Some see a general "desensitization to the destruction of our planet [that] is nothing short of heart breaking" and worry about what the loss of the capacity for empathy means: "It is considered feminine and naive to care about trees or animals. ... In addition, it is also considered weak and feminine to empathize or display a proper emotion. We are becoming a nihilistic culture which is creating citizens who are numb to their emotions. This is doing us all a disservice. We are missing out on our bodily wisdom and becoming less and less in tune with our earth." Though people have different views on the role of high-technology responses to ecological collapse, everyone who wrote recognized that more gadgets aren't going to save us: "I have thought for a long time that the human species, notwithstanding its endless self-flattery, really is not very intelligent. One of the signs of its stupidity is, in fact, the very way that it equates intelligence with technological prowess." One of the most compelling comments on advanced technology came from a doctoral student in engineering at a prestigious university: "I have come to this firm conclusion that any more technological development is purely unnecessary and technological progress is hyper-glorified by the developed countries just as a tool to continue their agenda of robbing the resources of our planet from the third world (and perhaps soon from neighboring astronomical bodies, too). And what is glorified as the rational, intellectual research that folks like me are doing over here is just a means towards facilitating this robbing activity; this implicit imperialism; this invisible killing of our planet earth." People also recognize the inadequacy of technological solutions to the end of cheap, plentiful energy. While endorsing more research on alternatives to coal, oil, and natural gas, those who wrote to me were wary of claims that alternatives can magically replace the concentrated energy of fossil fuels and allow us to motor on in our affluence: "[T]he only way that the terrible catastrophes on the way could have been softened would have been for everyone on the planet to have dropped business as usual 10 or 20 years ago, and to have started retooling all of society while there was still a reasonable surplus of high EROEI (energy return on energy investment) fossil fuel left to power the *energetically* costly conversion process of re-engineering energy production, housing, cities, suburbs, farming, fishing, and transport. That didn't happen. And having lived through the period, it would have been completely impossible to motivate in the first or third world. But just as important, it is *even more* unlikely that this will begin to happen now. This is because growing energy scarcity will cut into our flexibility as people scramble to prop up floundering systems." In addition to these critiques of life in the affluent world, many wrote of the grotesque disparities in wealth in the world today. As we struggle with fears of the future, billions of people cope with severe limitations in the present: "[W]e in the U.S. are essentially living behind a military barricade. I heard a quote recently that 'collapse means having the same lifestyle as the people who grow your coffee.' I really, really liked that." And in many of the critiques of the affluent First World, there was an understanding that the heart of the problem is the United States: "Americans today are living with a profound and apparently irreconcilable disparity between what we say we are, and what we actually are. Between the promise of democracy and the reality of a crumbling empire. The result of this schism, I believe, is the national equivalent of a disassociated personality. And it's not just our shared history of betrayal and abuse that has caused it. It's the myth of freedom as well. In the mythology of freedom, democracy was supposed to empower us all to make a change for the better." Although some wrote with certainty about their conclusions, more people expressed confusion and weariness over the effort needed to understand such a complex world: "I spend a lot of time in my own head going back and forth over theories, philosophies, etc. Pretty much going through a process once a month of discarding everything I thought I knew and re-learning it. While this may be a good thing in the future, it does not feel good now. Sometimes it makes me feel like I am alone and lost and that I can't find any truth in anything because I have so many different voices telling me what is right and wrong. Yet, I can never stop going back and looking at what's happening to this real, physical, lovely and loving planet and feel outrage, sorrow, and confusion and why this culture is so insane." Even with all this talk of their own struggles, the people who wrote were not asking others to feel sorry for them. Instead, the focus was outward, on how this affects others. That was clear in the comments not only of parents and grandparents, but also of people who chose not to have children -- what is the fate of future generations? "Being the parent of a young child right now is a mixed blessing: He's my reason for waking up every morning and doing whatever it takes to keep up some semblance of normalcy, but it also frightens and worries me deeply when I think about his future." In the face of challenges that feel overwhelming -- in the face of problems that may have no solutions -- what should we do? Very few of the people who wrote suggested we should give up; most are committed to action: "I guess the best thing we can do ... point out problems, suggest solutions, work for radical system changes and not just reforms that too often are more cosmetic than substantial, and above all: keep the faith ... and we need to project to others that we have the faith, or get the hell out of the work and retire or just wait for Armageddon." Many responses focused on the need not only to act collectively but also to reduce our consumption individually: "I read a statement in the book Hard Times by Studs Terkel that I really liked: 'Security is knowing what I can do without.' Every day, I find something new that I can do without. My fiance and I now grow much of the food we eat, we purchase necessities only, we shop at the Goodwill." and learn skills that have atrophied all too quickly in an affluent, high-energy culture: "I'm not an old hippie that wants to return to sex, drugs and rock and roll on the commune. ... I believe in hierarchy, rules and skills, but we must start something new, difficult and dangerous. We must also learn to not trust power and create small, subsistence communities. Instead of trying to mend the empire we should be teaching ourselves skills of our rural grandparents." Tipping points and panic But still the question haunts us: What if the unsustainable systems in which we live are beyond the point of no return? There certainly are rational reasons to assume that we are past a tipping point. For example, the March 2005 report of the United Nations' Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, based on the work of 1,300 researchers from 95 countries who spent four years examining 24 ecosystems worldwide, offered this "stark warning": "Human activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted. ... Nearly two thirds of the services provided by nature to humankind are found to be in decline worldwide. In effect, the benefits reaped from our engineering of the planet have been achieved by running down natural capital assets." This kind of knowledge can be so overwhelming that people feel it's not safe to open up emotionally: "I would like to mourn but have not been able to let my guard down. I could understand 9/11, but now I am witnessing the destruction of the planet and I don't understand the magnitude of what that means. I feel on edge. I feel like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop." How to live in that world and remain fully engaged, intellectually and emotionally? This comment sums up the task and a path: "Recently several of our visionary thinkers have moved from the illusion that 'we have 10 years to turn this around.' They now say clearly that 'we cannot stop this momentum.' It takes courage and faith to speak so plainly. What can we do in the face of this truth? We can sit face to face and find the ways, often beyond words, to explore the reality that we are all refugees, swimming into a future that looks so different from the present. We can find pockets of community where we can whisper our deepest fears about the world. We can remain committed to describing the present with exceptional truth. We can cultivate a practice that enables us to witness suffering with hearts and minds open and with our faces turned toward one another." It would be easy to close on that note, blunt but positive. But for many, that kind of approach is difficult. I sent my essay to a political activist who is one of the most well-informed people I know in matters concerning politics and ecology. His response: "I guess my emotional reaction is actually to suppress the emotional reaction. ... [P]anic, which would probably be the emotional reaction, is something to be deferred until the situation is relatively safe. So I try to think about what is to be done and can be done, and promise myself that if we do get past these crises, I will enjoy the moment to panic about how dangerous a situation we were in." My response: "I understand what you say, but it seems to me that an appreciation of the nature of the crises is necessary for sensible strategy, and I don't know how to engage that intellectually without having emotional reactions. ... My fear is that if we don't discuss it, those of us struggling with these emotions will fade away from collective action. So, instead of this kind of discussion necessarily leading to political paralysis, I think it can prevent paralysis in some people." My friend didn't contest my analysis: "I don't advocate for my emotional response, but it is what it is." Though he didn't argue with me, I didn't feel as if I had won an argument. Emotions are what they are, and we don't "win" by telling people what they should feel. It's enough of a struggle to understand what I feel and why I feel it; I don't think I'm qualified to dictate to others what they should feel. In dealing with multiple crises on all fronts -- economic, political, cultural, and ecological failures that pose a significant threat to human life as we understand it -- it's folly for any one of us to imagine we figured out the right approach, or that there is a single right approach, or that there is any right approach at all. The only thing I'm sure of is that, to quote singer/songwriter John Gorka, "the old future's gone." The future of endless bounty for all, which some once imagined would be the product of the application of human reason to problems of the world, is not the future we face. How can we open a conversation about what's coming when so much is unknown and so many resist? Rather than pontificate, I will end with the reflections of an elder: "I'm about to celebrate my 70th birthday. I live in a rural intentional community, close to land that feeds us and supports us. I've lived long enough now to be very aware of how different the world has become, how the cycles of nature are off kilter, how the seasons and the climate have shifted. My garden tells me that food doesn't grow in quite the same patterns, and we either get weeks of rain or weeks of heat and drought. This is the second year in a row that our apple trees do not have apples on them. But most people get their food in grocery stores where the apples still appear, and food still arrives, in season and out, from all over the world. This will soon end, and people won't understand why. They don't see the trouble in the land as I and my friends do. I grieve daily as I look on this altered world. My grandchildren are young adults who think their lives will continue as they have been. Who will tell them? They can't hear me. They, and many others, will have to see the changes for themselves, as I have. I can't imagine that anything else will convince them. My grief for the world, and for them, is compounded by this feeling of helplessness because there is no way we can have the collective action you speak of when the 'collective' is still in denial. Thank you for listening." _______ About author Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. His latest book is Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007). Jensen is also the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism, and White Privilege and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (both from City Lights Books); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang). He can be reached at rjensen at uts.cc.utexas.edu and his articles can be found online at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html. To join an email list to receive articles by Jensen, go to http://www.thirdcoastactivist.org/jensenupdates-info.html. From ecotort at gn.apc.org Fri Jul 9 08:16:00 2010 From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:16:00 +0100 Subject: [GJM] Fw: New Climate Economics Blog - Real Climate Economics In-Reply-To: <182810.52646.qm@web27403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <182810.52646.qm@web27403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4C372F20.50903@gn.apc.org> a new theory on global warming, well worth watching :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=n1qGOUIRac0 robert searle wrote: > > > --- On *Fri, 9/7/10, Kristen Sheeran //* wrote: > > > From: Kristen Sheeran > Subject: New Climate Economics Blog - Real Climate Economics > To: "e3network" > Date: Friday, 9 July, 2010, 0:39 > > Greetings, > > > > Last year E3 Network launched Real Climate Economics > ? an online guide to the > economics literature that supports immediate and aggressive > measures to mitigate the risks of climate change. 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 9 10:54:17 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:54:17 -0700 Subject: [GJM] An Absolutely MUST READ - Struggling to be 'fully alive': Reports on coping with anguish Message-ID: <001d01cb1f87$935a3640$ba0ea2c0$@net> Thanks again to Trading Post Paul. As we struggle to handle our emotions as COLLAPSE happens, how do we handle hopelessness and anguish. For me personally, it means getting off of my ass and doing what needs to be done with the house that is falling down as we learn that we can't take the building blocks out from underneath it and erect a second story. Like any other this is, or should be, a learning experience. And, the only thing to do is pick up the blocks and begin over again. And, in the process INHO we need to let go of things that aren't working, e.g., government, monetary system, religious beliefs, present modes of transportation, educational system, etc., and design new systems that are life-enhancing and work for us, not against us. We simply cannot continue to develop a built environment that sacrifices the natural environment that provides for our life support system. And, most of all, IMHO, we need to recognize that empire-building is not the way to go. The motto for Future Dawning is: Living simply so that others may simply live. Let's get off of our ego trips and just DO IT. By the way, I attended a women's club meeting today in which after the majority had left, a few of us were able to agree that the world's problems are centered right here in the U.S. and we need to focus on turning this mega disaster around right here. It is not about going to Haiti and helping out there, or fighting a war in Afghanistan, or? It is about doing what needs to be done right here at home, right now. And, folks unless we all agree that this is the end of the world, it isn't. We need to change the way we think. -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 1:39 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Struggling to be 'fully alive': Reports on coping with anguish "We must also learn to not trust power and create small, subsistence communities. Instead of trying to mend the empire we should be teaching ourselves skills of our rural grandparents." Struggling to be 'fully alive': Reports on coping with anguish by Robert Jensen Published Jul 8 2010 http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53374 "I don't have anything to say that hasn't been said many times over the centuries." That may have been the most insightful response to my essay asking people to report on how they cope with the anguish of living in a world in collapse. That simple statement is a reminder that (1) the social and ecological crises we face have been building for a long time and (2) the best of our traditions have, for a long time, offered wisdom useful in facing those crises. The unjust social systems and unsustainable ecological practices of contemporary society started with the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago, when humans began dominating each other and the planet in evermore destructive fashion, and intensified dramatically over the 250 years of the industrial revolution. (For a historical perspective, see "The delusional revolution.") And for nearly that long, some people have resisted the power of elites and tried to protect the land. (For a contemporary example, see "Where agriculture meets empire.") So, we struggle in the moment with complex problems that defy simple solutions -- problems that may be beyond our capacity to solve in any meaningful way. But describing the basics needed for a better world is not difficult if we draw on that wisdom. Here's my condensed version: We need to transcend systems rooted in human arrogance and greed that lead us to believe that any individual is more valuable than another, that any group of people should dominate another group, or that people have a right to exploit the living world without regard for the consequences for the ecosystem. Because each of us has within us the capacity for constructive and destructive actions -- for good and evil -- our collective task is to shape a society that helps us act with caution and compassion. This radical message of humility and solidarity comes from a deep conception of respect: Respect for oneself, for other people, for other living things, and for the earth as a living system. That message animates the best of our philosophy, theology, poetry, and politics, and it was at the heart of nearly all the 300 responses to my essay. This notion of respect wasn't defined as "being nice" or "not being judgmental." Respect takes work -- to understand the other, make judgments, and engage constructively when there are disagreements or conflicting needs. Along with those calls for love, there was a lot of anger in the responses, much of it directed at elites -- the politicians, business executives, and media propagandists who so often not only promote arrogant and greedy behavior over humility and solidarity, but also rationalize and prop up the political/economic/social systems in which the destructive behavior is fostered. And many wrote that the while the anger we may feel toward elites is justified, we have to start with self-critique and examine our own place in these systems. For example, the anger toward BP officials over the "hole in the world" at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico co-exists with the recognition that we all live somewhere in the system that demands that oil: "I speak of the oil spill going on and I acknowledge how implicated I am in it. My lifestyle -- despite efforts to eat wild foods, look at waste streams as resources, and live frugally -- depends heavily on oil. It's like there are these [oil] stains on my hands, all over my hands, my body and the ground around me." In such a world, it is easy for those of us who live in affluent societies to be drained by an awareness of all this: "My personal ambition seems to decrease in proportion to the increase in world suffering. I think that's part of my emotional reaction to crisis. I don't think I am fully alive. I'm not depressed, just weirdly diminished." Why would someone feel diminished today? For almost all of the people who responded, the heart of their struggle was in the realization that the human species, locked into industrial societies dependent on high-energy/high-technology systems to produce food and fuel, is on a path leading to the edge of a cliff. No one offered predictions for an end time, but: "[W]hat I see as the reality of our situation -- ecologically, politically, economically, and culturally -- is that we are in the last days of our species, and I just don't know what to do with that. The emotions are much too powerful, the grief, the sense of doom -- how does one deal with the real possibility of the extinction of not just millions of species, but of one's own species?" Feeling isolated but resolved to act Where does that reality leave us emotionally? My essay inquired specifically about the feelings that accompany the intellectual understanding that we live in a world in collapse. That question led not only to descriptions of those emotions, but strategies for dealing with them. No single comment could sum up so many different people's responses, but this one comes close: "So I feel hopeless. I feel sad. I feel amused at the absurdity of it all. I feel depressed. I feel enraged. I feel guilty and I feel trapped. Basically the only reason why I'm still alive is because there are enough amazing people and things in my life to keep me going, to keep me fighting for what matters. I'm not even sure how to fight yet, but I know that I want to." One common response was gratitude for having a place to communicate these thoughts without worrying about being ridiculed. Many wrote about how isolated they felt, even from friends and family who don't want to talk about these matters and either deny there are reasons to be concerned or ignore the evidence: "I'm a drug addict with over 20 years clean, and I know all about using up my future and farting out lame excuses. I promised myself an honest life to stay clean, and the double-edged sword is that I started seeing just how much our culture swims in denial." Pressing these importance questions about systemic failure and collapse leads to resistance from others, who then assert that the real problem is anyone who wants to talk about collapse: "I have been writing for a year and a half on a lot of things as it pertains to humanity's lack of awareness and the potential to reconnect before we destroy the earth and each other. People get angry at me for it and call me 'dark' and 'negative' and 'sinful' telling me to instead move to the 'light,' 'positive' and 'love.' Whatever." Some see a general "desensitization to the destruction of our planet [that] is nothing short of heart breaking" and worry about what the loss of the capacity for empathy means: "It is considered feminine and naive to care about trees or animals. ... In addition, it is also considered weak and feminine to empathize or display a proper emotion. We are becoming a nihilistic culture which is creating citizens who are numb to their emotions. This is doing us all a disservice. We are missing out on our bodily wisdom and becoming less and less in tune with our earth." Though people have different views on the role of high-technology responses to ecological collapse, everyone who wrote recognized that more gadgets aren't going to save us: "I have thought for a long time that the human species, notwithstanding its endless self-flattery, really is not very intelligent. One of the signs of its stupidity is, in fact, the very way that it equates intelligence with technological prowess." One of the most compelling comments on advanced technology came from a doctoral student in engineering at a prestigious university: "I have come to this firm conclusion that any more technological development is purely unnecessary and technological progress is hyper-glorified by the developed countries just as a tool to continue their agenda of robbing the resources of our planet from the third world (and perhaps soon from neighboring astronomical bodies, too). And what is glorified as the rational, intellectual research that folks like me are doing over here is just a means towards facilitating this robbing activity; this implicit imperialism; this invisible killing of our planet earth." People also recognize the inadequacy of technological solutions to the end of cheap, plentiful energy. While endorsing more research on alternatives to coal, oil, and natural gas, those who wrote to me were wary of claims that alternatives can magically replace the concentrated energy of fossil fuels and allow us to motor on in our affluence: "[T]he only way that the terrible catastrophes on the way could have been softened would have been for everyone on the planet to have dropped business as usual 10 or 20 years ago, and to have started retooling all of society while there was still a reasonable surplus of high EROEI (energy return on energy investment) fossil fuel left to power the *energetically* costly conversion process of re-engineering energy production, housing, cities, suburbs, farming, fishing, and transport. That didn't happen. And having lived through the period, it would have been completely impossible to motivate in the first or third world. But just as important, it is *even more* unlikely that this will begin to happen now. This is because growing energy scarcity will cut into our flexibility as people scramble to prop up floundering systems." In addition to these critiques of life in the affluent world, many wrote of the grotesque disparities in wealth in the world today. As we struggle with fears of the future, billions of people cope with severe limitations in the present: "[W]e in the U.S. are essentially living behind a military barricade. I heard a quote recently that 'collapse means having the same lifestyle as the people who grow your coffee.' I really, really liked that." And in many of the critiques of the affluent First World, there was an understanding that the heart of the problem is the United States: "Americans today are living with a profound and apparently irreconcilable disparity between what we say we are, and what we actually are. Between the promise of democracy and the reality of a crumbling empire. The result of this schism, I believe, is the national equivalent of a disassociated personality. And it's not just our shared history of betrayal and abuse that has caused it. It's the myth of freedom as well. In the mythology of freedom, democracy was supposed to empower us all to make a change for the better." Although some wrote with certainty about their conclusions, more people expressed confusion and weariness over the effort needed to understand such a complex world: "I spend a lot of time in my own head going back and forth over theories, philosophies, etc. Pretty much going through a process once a month of discarding everything I thought I knew and re-learning it. While this may be a good thing in the future, it does not feel good now. Sometimes it makes me feel like I am alone and lost and that I can't find any truth in anything because I have so many different voices telling me what is right and wrong. Yet, I can never stop going back and looking at what's happening to this real, physical, lovely and loving planet and feel outrage, sorrow, and confusion and why this culture is so insane." Even with all this talk of their own struggles, the people who wrote were not asking others to feel sorry for them. Instead, the focus was outward, on how this affects others. That was clear in the comments not only of parents and grandparents, but also of people who chose not to have children -- what is the fate of future generations? "Being the parent of a young child right now is a mixed blessing: He's my reason for waking up every morning and doing whatever it takes to keep up some semblance of normalcy, but it also frightens and worries me deeply when I think about his future." In the face of challenges that feel overwhelming -- in the face of problems that may have no solutions -- what should we do? Very few of the people who wrote suggested we should give up; most are committed to action: "I guess the best thing we can do ... point out problems, suggest solutions, work for radical system changes and not just reforms that too often are more cosmetic than substantial, and above all: keep the faith ... and we need to project to others that we have the faith, or get the hell out of the work and retire or just wait for Armageddon." Many responses focused on the need not only to act collectively but also to reduce our consumption individually: "I read a statement in the book Hard Times by Studs Terkel that I really liked: 'Security is knowing what I can do without.' Every day, I find something new that I can do without. My fiance and I now grow much of the food we eat, we purchase necessities only, we shop at the Goodwill." and learn skills that have atrophied all too quickly in an affluent, high-energy culture: "I'm not an old hippie that wants to return to sex, drugs and rock and roll on the commune. ... I believe in hierarchy, rules and skills, but we must start something new, difficult and dangerous. We must also learn to not trust power and create small, subsistence communities. Instead of trying to mend the empire we should be teaching ourselves skills of our rural grandparents." Tipping points and panic But still the question haunts us: What if the unsustainable systems in which we live are beyond the point of no return? There certainly are rational reasons to assume that we are past a tipping point. For example, the March 2005 report of the United Nations' Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, based on the work of 1,300 researchers from 95 countries who spent four years examining 24 ecosystems worldwide, offered this "stark warning": "Human activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted. ... Nearly two thirds of the services provided by nature to humankind are found to be in decline worldwide. In effect, the benefits reaped from our engineering of the planet have been achieved by running down natural capital assets." This kind of knowledge can be so overwhelming that people feel it's not safe to open up emotionally: "I would like to mourn but have not been able to let my guard down. I could understand 9/11, but now I am witnessing the destruction of the planet and I don't understand the magnitude of what that means. I feel on edge. I feel like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop." How to live in that world and remain fully engaged, intellectually and emotionally? This comment sums up the task and a path: "Recently several of our visionary thinkers have moved from the illusion that 'we have 10 years to turn this around.' They now say clearly that 'we cannot stop this momentum.' It takes courage and faith to speak so plainly. What can we do in the face of this truth? We can sit face to face and find the ways, often beyond words, to explore the reality that we are all refugees, swimming into a future that looks so different from the present. We can find pockets of community where we can whisper our deepest fears about the world. We can remain committed to describing the present with exceptional truth. We can cultivate a practice that enables us to witness suffering with hearts and minds open and with our faces turned toward one another." It would be easy to close on that note, blunt but positive. But for many, that kind of approach is difficult. I sent my essay to a political activist who is one of the most well-informed people I know in matters concerning politics and ecology. His response: "I guess my emotional reaction is actually to suppress the emotional reaction. ... [P]anic, which would probably be the emotional reaction, is something to be deferred until the situation is relatively safe. So I try to think about what is to be done and can be done, and promise myself that if we do get past these crises, I will enjoy the moment to panic about how dangerous a situation we were in." My response: "I understand what you say, but it seems to me that an appreciation of the nature of the crises is necessary for sensible strategy, and I don't know how to engage that intellectually without having emotional reactions. ... My fear is that if we don't discuss it, those of us struggling with these emotions will fade away from collective action. So, instead of this kind of discussion necessarily leading to political paralysis, I think it can prevent paralysis in some people." My friend didn't contest my analysis: "I don't advocate for my emotional response, but it is what it is." Though he didn't argue with me, I didn't feel as if I had won an argument. Emotions are what they are, and we don't "win" by telling people what they should feel. It's enough of a struggle to understand what I feel and why I feel it; I don't think I'm qualified to dictate to others what they should feel. In dealing with multiple crises on all fronts -- economic, political, cultural, and ecological failures that pose a significant threat to human life as we understand it -- it's folly for any one of us to imagine we figured out the right approach, or that there is a single right approach, or that there is any right approach at all. The only thing I'm sure of is that, to quote singer/songwriter John Gorka, "the old future's gone." The future of endless bounty for all, which some once imagined would be the product of the application of human reason to problems of the world, is not the future we face. How can we open a conversation about what's coming when so much is unknown and so many resist? Rather than pontificate, I will end with the reflections of an elder: "I'm about to celebrate my 70th birthday. I live in a rural intentional community, close to land that feeds us and supports us. I've lived long enough now to be very aware of how different the world has become, how the cycles of nature are off kilter, how the seasons and the climate have shifted. My garden tells me that food doesn't grow in quite the same patterns, and we either get weeks of rain or weeks of heat and drought. This is the second year in a row that our apple trees do not have apples on them. But most people get their food in grocery stores where the apples still appear, and food still arrives, in season and out, from all over the world. This will soon end, and people won't understand why. They don't see the trouble in the land as I and my friends do. I grieve daily as I look on this altered world. My grandchildren are young adults who think their lives will continue as they have been. Who will tell them? They can't hear me. They, and many others, will have to see the changes for themselves, as I have. I can't imagine that anything else will convince them. My grief for the world, and for them, is compounded by this feeling of helplessness because there is no way we can have the collective action you speak of when the 'collective' is still in denial. Thank you for listening." _______ About author Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. His latest book is Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007). Jensen is also the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism, and White Privilege and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (both from City Lights Books); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang). He can be reached at rjensen at uts.cc.utexas.edu and his articles can be found online at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html. To join an email list to receive articles by Jensen, go to http://www.thirdcoastactivist.org/jensenupdates-info.html. From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 9 18:35:47 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:35:47 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Message from the Hopi elders Message-ID: <006001cb1fc8$157524b0$405f6e10$@net> From: Robert Ocegueda [mailto:bocegueda at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 4:55 AM To: Bob Ocegueda Subject: Message from the Hopi elders Dear friends and family, Here's a video made from a message the Hopi elders made a while ago. I think it's a good message for our time. I like the lines: "Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary, All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration." Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrPDQeNo52M &feature=player_embedded#! Bob Bob, thank you for your beautiful contribution here. With much love and in gratitude. I am adding another video to this: For the Next 7 Generations: The Grandmothers Speak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGXpK8LXR4 &NR=1 Over the next couple months, I want to spend more time putting together the Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS program. Yesterday, I went to a community Women's Meeting here in my area in a place called Sacred Rocks. A very lovely RV park and campgrounds just east of where I live here in the wilderness. This group will be suspending their meetings for the summer and reconvening in the fall. And I will be addressing this group at the first meeting in September on the first Thursday after Labor Day and am looking forward to this event. This marks a new beginning for me as I have not done any public speaking for quite some time. However, I have also been contacted by someone from the Transformative Media & Entertainment Group on the Architects of a New Dawn social network hosted by Carlos Santana. And I have been asked to do a regular radio show due to the amount of knowledge/information I have accumulated over the past decade or so that some feel is vital to what is taking place today. And this person has volunteered to put the show together. Because our minds run so much in the same direction and she holds such a vast amount of knowledge and information as well, I have invited Eileen Workman to join me in this endeavor. And she has accepted the invitation. So, we will be working together and while we still have lots of details to work out, this is a new beginning as well. What I would like to do is to invite all of you on this list to aid in putting together the Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS program by contributing videos like Bob has done here as well as articles. When I saw it, I immediately knew that I wanted to use the Hopi vision as an opening to the presentation I will be making at Sacred Rocks in September. But as I was watching this, I also saw the Grandmother's video and want to include it as well as introductory pieces. For my initial presentation at Sacred Rocks, I want to do a slide presentation that will give an overview of all the things I consider to be extremely important to evolving our consciousness as a collective. The other stuff, believe it or not, is all "small stuff" because once enough of us begin to think differently, then is when things will really begin to change. 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"Two months ago, the Arizona Republic published an exhaustive report that found that, according to statistics from the FBI and Arizona police agencies, crime in Arizona border towns has been "essentially flat for the past decade." For example, "In 2000, there were 23 rapes, robberies and murders in Nogales, Ariz. Last year, despite nearly a decade of population growth, there were 19 such crimes." The Pima County sheriff reported that "the border has never been more secure." "FBI statistics show violent crime rates in all of the border states are lower than they were a decade ago -- yet Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) reports that the violence is "the worst I have ever seen." President Obama justifiably asserted last week that "the southern border is more secure today than any time in the past 20 years," yet Rush Limbaugh judged the president to be "fit for the psycho ward" on the basis of that remark. "Without question, illegal immigration and Mexican drug cartels are huge problems. And there is a real danger that the alarming and growing violence in Mexico could spread north. But beyond anecdotes -- the slaying of a rancher and the shooting of a sheriff's deputy -- there is no evidence that it has." Milbank touches on something we've touched on before: John McCain's contention that Phoenix, Arizona is the number two capital for kidnapping in the world. This is utterly incorrect. But McCain's assertions have nevertheless evolved. Let's recall that when he was on Meet The Press, McCain put it like this: DAVID GREGORY: Is immigration reform in a comprehensive way possible this year or in this term? SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: Not until we get the border secure. By the way, on that issue, why is it that Phoenix, Arizona is the number two kidnapping capital of the world? Does that mean our border is safe? Of course not. In his appearance last week on This Week, he added a qualifier: MCCAIN: Because, as I said before, the level of violence on the border, the human smuggling, the fact that Phoenix, Arizona, is the number-two kidnapping capital of the world, according to media reports, the fact that a recent -- a ring recently was broken up that brought people across our border to Phoenix, Arizona, where people were -- drugs were distributed all over the country, as well as people, means that the situation has changed dramatically. See what happened there? McCain is on safe ground when he says "according to media reports," because that's true. What goes unsaid, of course, is that these media reports are dead wrong, which is something that Politifact very deftly demonstrates with the help of Sgt. Tommy Thompson of the Phoenix police department: "It was the media that said 'second in the world only to Mexico City,' and it was basically because we were open enough to say that we have an issue with kidnappings and not try to hide it," Thompson said. In actuality, kidnappings in Phoenix are declining. But the police department's interest in the matter simply spurred the worst, most sensational instincts in the media, who have essentially played a round of The Telephone Game until they came up with this alarming, yet incorrect sound bite that McCain now cites. Milbank: "Last year gave us death panels and granny killings, but compared with the nonsense justifying the immigration crackdown, the health-care debate was an evening at the Oxford Union Society." Hey, and the "death panels" are back for a return engagement this summer! But I'm sure everyone will know better this time. RECOMMENDED: Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona [Washington Post] From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 9 23:00:27 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:00:27 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: It's Time for an NIH Institute for Nutrition Message-ID: <008401cb1fed$0e5e91a0$2b1bb4e0$@net> Now this is a big step in Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Thanks to Trading Post Paul. -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 2:56 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] It's Time for an NIH Institute for Nutrition "Nutrition should not be defined by the effects of isolated nutrients. That's pharmacology, a strategy now known not to work, in spite of the $25 billion or so that we annually spend on nutrient supplements. Unequivocal evidence now exists to show that nutrition, when provided by the use of whole, plant-based foods, can control the expression of our mischievous genes that otherwise would lead to serious ailments such as heart disease, diabetes, certain autoimmune diseases and many lesser ailments." It's Time for an NIH Institute for Nutrition July 9, 2010 08:00 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/t-colin-campbell/its-time-for-an-nih-insti_b_6 37080.html By T. Colin Campbell, Professor emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University and co-author with his son Thomas Campbell, MD, of "The China Study." Finally, a long overdue scientific correction is happening. The human genome project is failing to advance the cause of human health, as promised. There is a fundamental but frustratingly and long overlooked reason why this is happening. Working out the details of the human genome was worth doing, on several accounts: monitoring environmental pollutants, evaluating evolutionary lineages, identifying criminal suspects. But initially promising great advances in human health was not and should not have been one of these promises. Hypothesizing that knowledge of the associations of specific genes with serious diseases like cancer, heart disease and related diseases would lead to great health advances (through drug development) was a superficial and costly oversimplification of disease causation. Although genes and/or their mutated forms are fundamental to the initiation of all disease events, it is not their mere presence or absence that determines disease outcomes. Genes may start the job but they do not finish it. The far more important question we should ask is: what controls the expression of genes (to produce products, mostly enzymes) that lead to health and disease events? Experimental and extensively published research from my laboratory over several decades has long convinced me that nutrition primarily provides this control. We have failed to acknowledge this question or sought its answer for far too long because we have failed to understand the scientific fundamentals of nutrition. Not one medical school in the nation adequately teaches this science, although a few give it lip service. Still worse is the failure of federal funding agencies to recognize nutrition as a legitimate medical science. The National Institutes of Health, the most prominent biomedical research institution in the world, since its founding has kept nutrition well hidden. Not one of its 27 institutes and related centers is dedicated to nutrition! Some NIH administrators say nutrition is embedded in other programs but do not be fooled. First, dedicated nutrition funding is meager (less than five percent of the heart and cancer institutes--the two largest). Second, this small amount has been used primarily to study single nutrient effects in randomized clinical trials, a seriously flawed hypothesis. Nutrition should not to be defined by the effects of isolated nutrients. That's pharmacology, a strategy now known not to work, in spite of the $25 billion or so that we annually spend on nutrient supplements. Unequivocal evidence now exists to show that nutrition, when provided by the use of whole, plant-based foods, can control the expression of our mischievous genes that otherwise would lead to serious ailments such as heart disease, diabetes, certain autoimmune diseases and many lesser ailments. For many years, experimental findings from my laboratory have shown that genetic initiation of cancer (by a powerful chemical carcinogen) can be stalled even reversed by a modest nutritional modification that is consistent with this same whole, plant-based food effect. (This research was funded by NIH because of my interest in cancer but, eventually, we learned that it was the tail, nutrition, that wagged the dog -- cancer.) Physician colleagues of mine, including Drs. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., Dean Ornish, Roy Swank and Neal Barnard have now published peer-reviewed findings showing this kind of nutrition not only to prevent serious diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and related ailments but to treat them into remission. There is no other strategy in contemporary health science or medical practice that comes close to the breadth and depth of health benefits achievable by nutrition. We must begin to understand, communicate and apply this knowledge if we ever hope to reduce health care costs by reducing the burden of disease. We will never do this by depending on outmoded notions of what single (or even a few) genes, single nutrients or single chemicals (i.e., drugs) will do to create health. That thinking generates wealth for a few at the expense of health for the many. It is time to recognize the natural and harmonious biological complexity of health processes, and choose the lifestyle strategy that best maintains and restores that harmony. Nature has had eons of time to work this out. It's also time to develop a professional science of nutrition that serves the biological health of the population, not the economic health of commerce. As for health professionals who claim they cannot convince patients to change their dietary practices, this is not surprising when the professionals themselves are not educated in this field and are vested in a strategy that is the antithesis of good nutrition. It is time we recognize what nutrition can do and a good place to start is to establish an NIH Institute of Nutrition dedicated for this purpose. From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Tue Jul 6 03:03:29 2010 From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:03:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [GJM] Fw: July 4th 2010 MESSAGE from the AMI Message-ID: <752852.42888.qm@web27405.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> --- On Tue, 6/7/10, AMI wrote: From: AMI Subject: July 4th 2010 MESSAGE from the AMI To: "AMI" Date: Tuesday, 6 July, 2010, 5:24 Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute, (Please pardon multiple postings) Hopefully you've celebrated this July 4th Independence Day in good style. AMI people went to Chicago's Oak Street Beach. We kept an upbeat attitude, despite the serious problems our nation faces. We remembered the importance to peoples around the earth, of our forefathers declaring independence from old world tyranny. We inspired a revolution in France. Later, thanks to France's gift, our Statue of Liberty served as a beacon inviting peoples to our shores; including my parents and grand parents from Italy. They achieved the American Dream - owning a home and educating their kids. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights provided some safeguards and checks and balances that held anti-democratic and anti-human forces at bay, and separated government from religion, the misuse of which had caused so much pain in the old world. But unfortunately, because the founders as a group did not understand the nature of money, they allowed corrupt monetary beliefs and practices of the old world to gain a foothold on our shores, starting with the establishment of the privately owned 1st Bank of the U.S. in 1791 (detailed in Ch. 15 of The Lost Science of Money book). As with all major banking legislation here, fraud was involved. This privatization of the money power is an "original sin" of our system, from which most of our social problems arise. Though the Constitution expressly forbade the establishment of an Aristocracy here, my neighbor President Martin Van Buren would write ?The MONEY POWER (he always capitalized it)... when firmly established, was destined to become the only kind of an Aristocracy that could exist in our political system.? That aristocracy, through concentration of wealth and power and various financial tricks, is in the process of destroying the checks and balances which had offered protection. Witness the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to finance and thereby control elections. Economists willingly embraced the pernicious errors allowing the financial establishment to control our nation, by confusing credit for money. WHY? Salaries and position, and tenure: ?What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, proved false again? Two hundred more.? - Samuel Butler?s Hudibras on Economics said it all. Clearly, "economics" is a failed profession, with rare and sometimes great individual exceptions. Indeed, Jamie Galbraith in testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, recently wrote: "I write you as a member of a disgraced profession" and he suggested they put the fear of Congress into the financial operators who brought down the world economy. But in general, economists focusing on theoretical, mathematically dominated thinking, ignoring factual results, are unable to make course corrections to public policy. And too many Congressmen, including the financial committees leadership, were too close to the economic wreckers to propose real reform. The financial "reforms" they are arguing over now do not fundamentally address the main problem - a privatized money system based on using private credit instead of government money. This special privilege always leads to an obscene concentration of wealth, which then can overcome the regulations. Thus at the recent meeting of G20 countries, they proposed a double-whammy to kick the World's economies while they're down, calling for "fiscal consolidation" and 're-capitalization' of banks. Both would have the effect of putting less money into the economy while taking more money out of the economy - and they're so deluded, they claim to be expecting 'growth' to come from these conditions of monetary drought and deflation. Along with that recurring delusion, we see the ongoing illusion that the 'remedy' for debt-ridden citizens, businesses and governments is to load them up with more debt(!) We say "deluded" as the only other explanation would be that they're deliberately trying to collapse the economies. NEW ITEMS AT THE AMI WEBSITE The American Monetary Act (attached) is legislation which fundamentally reforms the private CREDIT system now wrecking our nation, replacing it with a government MONEY system. The act is in the final stages of development. We suggest you especially read through the "Findings" and "Purposes" section again at the beginning of the Act. Summarizing how the Act achieves its purposes: The Federal Reserve becomes incorporated into the U.S. Treasury. Banks no longer have the accounting privilege of creating our money supply. All their previously issued credit is converted into U.S. Money through an elegant and gentle accounting change, which has been described as brilliant by a former officer of the NY Fed. The banks are held accountable for this conversion. New money is then introduced by the government spending it into circulation for infrastructure, starting with the $2.2 trillion the engineers tell us is needed to properly maintain our infrastructure over the next 5 years. Infrastructure will include the necessary human infrastructure of health care and education. Banks are encouraged to continue lending as profit making companies, but are no longer allowed to create our money supply through their loan making activity. Thus, The American Monetary Act nationalizes the money system, not the banking system.? Banking is absolutely not a proper function of government, but providing the nation?s money supply is a key function of government. No one else can do it properly. Talk of nationalizing the banking business may really act like a poison pill or diversion to block real reform.MORE BLOG ARTICLES AND REVIEWS OF CURRENT WORKS AND IDEAS ON MONEY Our new webmaster urges us to blog more, and so we start today with Dick Distelhorst's new article entitled "The Blueprint for Prosperity for All."? Read it from our home page and post your comments (http://www.monetary.org).? New articles will follow regularly. We'll be adding more reviews of monetary books and ideas on the homepage now. Three more are in the works with AMI Chapter leaders. 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Today's Topics: ? 1. FW: Recommended Reading: Resolving Human Bipolarity - Comment ? ? ? - Vern Woolf (mary rose) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:30:54 -0700 From: "mary rose" To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" , ??? Subject: [GJM] FW: Recommended Reading: Resolving Human Bipolarity - ??? Comment??? - Vern Woolf Message-ID: <002601cb1a47$4221e970$c665bc50$@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Vernon Woolf [mailto:VernonWoolf at HoloDynamics.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 7:11 AM To: mary rose Subject: Re: Recommended Reading: Resolving Human Bipolarity Well done. Vern Woolf Thanks for taking the time to comment, Vern.? With love and in gratitude for all that you do.? m r ? _____? From: "mary rose" To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" , discussion at globaljusticemovement.net Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:53:22 PM Subject: Recommended Reading:? Resolving Human Bipolarity Moving Into:? TOTAL? WELLNESS As you all know, I?ve been studying Bipolar Disorder for quite awhile now, and have always considered it to be a ?social disease.? In fact, I wrote awhile back on Facebook that I thought one facet of this conundrum is that so many of us are opposed to war, yet we have a government that loves war,? which encases us in a Catch 22 that we can?t maneuver out of.? And this, and other things like it is what causes the ?pain? we find ourselves in as we go looking for anything to self-medicate with. So, I am eternally greatful to Eileen Workman for posting this to Facebook and sharing it with many others.? And I wanted to share it with list members here since she is a newer member of the Co-learner?s List.? One of the things that has been discovered with regard to people who suffer from BPD is that many of them are extremely bright.? And this certainly applies to Eileen.? With love and in gratitude for all that you do, Eileen.? And I hope we hear more from you.? http://eileen-workman.blogspot.com/2010/07/resolving-human-bipolarity.html THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010 Resolving Human Bipolarity As a woman who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder for a while now, I've had the opportunity to observe how this so-called "disease" manifests inside me, as well as to notice when and why it manifests. I've also learned what to do to help myself move beyond it, to the point where it no longer feels like a medical disorder but has actually become a helpful tool for navigating reality. The good news is, bipolar disorder isn't "personal." It's actually happening to a whole lot of people these days, which means it's probably something humanity has to move through as part of a collective evolutionary shift in our consciousness. The best way to explain what I see as the cause of bipolar disorder is to use a computer metaphor most people can understand. Anyone who's ever owned a computer knows that they rely on a basic operating system to make them work. Programmers write applications specific to the operating system using languages the system understands. Things may run smoothly for a while, but inevitably we learn that the operating system we've been using has some serious limitations, so we upgrade to a new operating system. Unfortunately though, after we upgrade we often discover that our old applications will no longer run on the new operating system. That means we need to buy brand new applications (or application upgrades) to get our new system to work. The modern human brain - like many computers nowadays - is concurrently running dual operating systems: let's call them Humanity 1.0 and Humanity 2.0. Humanity 1.0 has been mankind's default operating system for many thousands of years now. It's a system that basically tells us we're each separate from everything else and that life is a win/lose game. Humanity 1.0's programs are filled with usses and thems, victims and persecutors, the victors and the vanquished. In Humanity 1.0, mankind is the ruler of all that he sees and the entire natural world is his to exploit for strategic advantage. Virtually all our present social applications - our traditional religions, judicial systems, educational systems, economic infrastructures and political systems - were designed to operate effectively using Humanity 1.0. Sometime in the recent past a new operating system birthed itself into being, one with fewer limitations and a lot of exciting possibilities for the future. It's a pretty cool system too, in that it removes the fear of loss from the game of life and replaces it with things like trust, love and social harmony. Humanity 2.0 informs us we live in a unified, interconnected and fully alive world in which our differentiation doesn't separate us from everything else so much as makes us more valuable to the whole, which in turn nourishes and supports us as individuals and as a collective. Humanity 2.0 proposes that, because everything in life is inextricably interconnected, the only way any of us can truly win is if we all play a win/win game. In Humanity 2.0, mankind's role is to carefully steward the world's natural resources for the long term benefit of all the life forms with whom we share our space. While Humanity 2.0 is a wonderful operating system, to date mankind hasn't written many applications that run on it. That makes it really hard for our brains to function well in 2.0, because our existing programs only run on 1.0. What, you're probably asking by now, does any of this have to do with human bipolar disorder? My proposition, based on my own internal experience, is that what we presently call bipolar disorder is actually a clinical observation of what happens to people under one of four problematic operating conditions: 1) Their minds are running on Humanity 1.0 and they perceive themselves as big losers in the game of life (depression.) 2) Their minds are running on Humanity 1.0 and they momentarily perceive themselves as huge winners in the game of life (mania.) 3) Their minds are running on Humanity 2.0, but they keep bucking up against those who are running on 1.0 and don't understand how to play a win/win game (depression.) 4) Their minds are running on Humanity 2.0, but they haven't yet found enough useful applications to help them manage the system's immense capacities and bring some working structure to the game of life (mania). The trouble is, none of the programs we've written for Humanity 1.0 will run on Humanity 2.0, because win/lose games are fundamentally incompatible with a win/win operating system. If we try running a 1.0 program on the 2.0 system we wind up with a total system crash, which I can tell you REALLY hurts the head! A hard reboot will eventually restart the system, but it isn't a pleasant experience from inside. For an example of the kind of system incompatibility I'm talking about, let's consider the environmental folks known as "ELF," which stands for "Environmental Liberation Front." As 2.0 operators, they fervently want all of us to do whatever we can to nurture and support the environment that sustains us. So far, so good. The trouble begins though, when they then go out and blow up automobile dealerships that sell gas guzzling trucks and SUV's to make their point. That's clearly a 1.0 solution for a 2.0 operation. It's also bound to get the attention of the 1.0 police, who perceive the new system as some kind of worm, virus or other no-good intruder and try to kill it, or at least box it up for a good long time so it can't create any more conflict with the 1.0 system. An example of 2.0 software that some people tried - and failed miserably - to run on the 1.0 system would be (don't bite my head off!) communism. As an economic philosophy communism was a win/win application, written to illustrate what our world could look like if everyone supported everyone else in maximizing their talents, passions and skills, then we each gifted of our abilities freely to everyone else. It predicted a world of peaceful abundance, and would have been just fine running on Humanity 2.0. The trouble with applying communism to society at the time it was first implemented was that the 2.0 operating system wasn't up and running in nearly enough human beings, so the proponents of communism tried to jam it onto Humanity 1.0 using the power and fear of fascism to make it work. Win/win games can't succeed at the point of a gun, so the 2.0 program crashed and burned and everyone assumed the program itself was very badly written. Unfortunate, but predictable with the benefit of 2.0 hindsight. The key to successfully navigating this complex systems/programming mess seems to be twofold. First, we must remember there is always an operator - our own internal sense of awareness - who can choose, at any moment, which operating system he or she wants to run. If we don't choose consciously, our unconscious mind will choose a system for us, which means by default we'll mainly be running the very limited Humanity 1.0, since it's the system most compatible with our existing applications. If we choose instead to consciously run Humanity 2.0, which is kind of like an iPhone on super steroids, we then have to take some responsibility for designing new software for everyone else so they can see what a really cool system we're able to run. The early software we write probably won't shake up the world, but if we can design a couple of really neat applications and begin using them consistently we're going to demonstrate swiftly how much more we can collectively accomplish - and how much faster - using 2.0. One amazing 2.0 application already in operation is the Internet itself, which offers a dizzying array of information and fresh new ideas to anyone with access to a computer...and does so for free, out of the deep desire to give and share of ourselves. My recommendation is that everyone check out the new Humanity 2.0 operating system for themselves and play around with the possibilities. Let's then put our heads together and see what software we can come up with to make it work for us all. The sooner we do so, the quicker we can retire Humanity 1.0 with honors, and the sooner "bipolar disorder" will become a disease of the past. POSTED BY EILEEN AT? 3:22 PM? http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org ??? Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com ??? ??? ??? Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 164 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We also have to be concerned with energy costs in terms of transporting coffee from the point of origin to the point of sale. Also, when we are talking about coffee use, in many instances we must consider the amount of sugar and cream used in addition to the coffee. This is an interesting article by Dr. Mercola on Killer Sugar/Suicide with a Spoon. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/01/09/killer-sugar-s uicide-with-a-spoon-sugar-dangers.aspx And, here is one on the use of dairy products. Overall, if a stimulus is needed, raw chocolate is a much better choice due to the amount of vitamins and minerals contained in it. What we are talking about here is the cacao bean which is made into chocolate bars, but without the added milk and sugar. It is also unroasted and may be combined with agave or sea salt. Cocao is the seed of a fruit of an Amazonian tree that was brought to Central America during or before the time of the Olmecs. Cocao "nibs" as they are called, are the "new coffee" since they can be ground and made into a lovely hot chocolate drink. Coca nibs are the best on the market as they are totally untreated, are raw, and 100% organic and certified. According to David Woolf, author of "Naked Chocolate: "The Astounding Truth About the World's Greatest Food," chocolate in its natural state is the best form of magnesium, chromium and iron, which are the three top nutritional deficiencies in the U.S. It is also extraordinarily high in Vitamin C. As well it contains Omega - 6 fatty acids and is a wonderful source of natural fiber. Again, according to Woolf, raw chocolate also contains neurotransmitter modulating agents, which are chemicals that act as natural antidepressants. "They allow neurotransmitters like serotonin to remain in our blood stream longer than usual - and help the body stay younger. A Harvard study of 7,841 healthy men found that those who ate chocolate did indeed live longer than those who never ate chocolate. Raw chocolate is also very high in antioxidants and ranks No. 1 in the world being 30 times higher than red wine and 20 times higher than raw tea. Raw chocolate also contains PEAs (phenylethylamines), the chemicals contained in chocolate that make us feel like we are in love. This is an all around food that is good for you makes you feel good at the same time. Feel free to indulge yourself. http://www.everydayhealth.com/addiction/hooked-on-caffeine.aspx?xid=nl_Every dayHealthEmotionalHealth_20100710 Addiction . Hooked on Caffeine? If you can't get by without that morning jolt or afternoon pick-me-up, you could have a caffeine addiction. Here's how you can know for sure. By Regina B. Wheeler Medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH Do you rely on your morning coffee to get you out the door - and reach for another cup as soon as you get to work? You could be feeding a caffeine addiction. And once you're hooked, kicking the habit can be tough. You might not realize it, but caffeine is the most common mood-altering drug in the world. It is a mild stimulant that works on the central nervous system. Just ask any java junkie - caffeine can make you more alert, give you an energy boost, and keep you from snoozing when you need to stay awake. Caffeine can be found in many products like tea, soft drinks, energy drinks, and some over-the-counter medications, but coffee is the leading dietary source of caffeine among American adults. Generally, three 8-ounce cups of coffee per day is considered moderate consumption and won't hurt you, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). However, excessive caffeine use - more than 10 8-ounce cups of coffee per day - can produce physical side effects including tremors, anxiety, insomnia, and a "crash" of extreme fatigue once the caffeine starts to wear off. Symptoms of Caffeine Withdrawal The brain fog and headache that some people get if they don't have their typical amount of coffee or other caffeinated beverage might actually be a sign of caffeine withdrawal syndrome, according to a recent study. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore and American University in Washington, D.C., reviewed 66 experimental and survey studies on caffeine withdrawal. They identified these common symptoms: . Headache . Fatigue or drowsiness . Depression and irritability . Difficulty concentrating . Flu-like symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, and muscle aches Typically, symptoms began 12 to 24 hours after stopping caffeine and peaked within one to two days. Some subjects reported symptoms that were so severe they couldn't work. Generally, the heaviest consumers of caffeine reported the most bothersome symptoms, but even people who missed 100 milligrams, or one regular cup of coffee, experienced withdrawal symptoms. Study participants agreed that avoiding withdrawal helped motivate them to continue using caffeine. Caffeine Tolerance Is on the Rise Daniel Evatt, PhD, research fellow in the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, says people can stop feeling the effects of caffeine, or become tolerant, leading to the need for more and more to feel alert. But Dr. Evatt also points out that most people find a comfortable level and stick with that. "It usually doesn't keep going up forever, and not all caffeine users develop tolerance." However, high doses of caffeine (more than 750 milligrams over the course of every day) can produce complete tolerance. That means the drug no longer has a discernible effect. The Warning Signs of Caffeine Addiction Experiencing withdrawal symptoms and tolerance are signs that you are becoming physically dependent on caffeine, Evatt says. He also notes that if you are experiencing the following signs and symptoms, you may have developed an unhealthy caffeine addiction: . You experience insomnia, frequent headaches, or difficulty concentrating . You continue to use caffeine despite being told to stop by a health professional . You have difficulties cutting down or quitting even if you want to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) doesn't recognize caffeine addiction as a mental disorder, but it may be included in the updated DSM-V. The World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems(ICD-10) does recognize caffeine addiction as a disorder. Kicking the Caffeine Habit Evatt is part of a Johns Hopkins team working on a caffeine dependence treatment program. If you want to quit, "I would first recommend becoming aware of how much caffeine you are consuming daily," Evatt says, adding that many people underestimate their use. He advises people against trying to quit caffeine cold turkey. "Withdrawal headaches can last days in some individuals," he says. Instead, cut down slowly to lessen withdrawal symptoms. The American Dietetic Association gives these tips for cutting down on caffeine: . Mix decaffeinated coffee in with regular coffee . Drink a latte with more low-fat milk than coffee . Brew tea for less time . Pick soft drinks without caffeine If these measures don't work and you think your caffeine consumption is turning into a troublesome caffeine addiction, it might be time to find an addiction specialist for treatment. Last Updated: 05/19/2010 This section created and produced exclusively by the editorial staff of EverydayHealth.com. C 2010 EverydayHealth.com; all rights reserved. Your Logo, Inc. 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However, the Nephilim, as they are referred to in the Bible, wrote in the tablets that they would return at this time to aid the people of the Earth in dealing with this crises of this time. http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1278874083/ref=a9_sc_1?ie=UTF8 &search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=zecharia%20sitchin In these videos, Paul Hellyer, tells us it is time for the "great awakening." Vice-Premier Paul Hellyer, Canada - Alien Contact http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuEUmnEVJQk Paul Hellyer May 7th, 2010 Part 1.mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d454mhv1mkg &feature=channel Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ngZuL1iS0 &feature=channel Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sElcda2gtdo &NR=1 Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1SeXqKdLvk &NR=1 Part 4 The Man with the Plan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qwHE5ORNOc &feature=related Part 5 This may also be of interest: http://www.fundacionbrandt.com/publications/american-chronicle-ed-komarek?se t_language=en I would like to know how others feel about this. Any feedback? Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Report Bob Wilkinson Although this may be a better system because of no taxation and that the government spends the non-repayable money into circulation when necessary, it still has all the complexities that any money based system has, which means that the rules will always be changing with each generation, banks, governments, etc. But how to get the ball rolling and get a real moneyless economy started? First, the idea needs to be become more visible, and not considered a kook idea, then at some point people will have to just do their jobs and not expect money for compensation, and in return not have to use money to get their material needs. Sounds simplistic, but I don't see any other way. Until there is a mass epiphany, and society has a renaissance moment and comes to their senses and realizes that money just mucks up the works and makes life more difficult, we are going to continue to waste our precious time performing mental calculations, endlessly tallying up interest, wages, and whatnot and worrying about our retirement. Anyway, that's all for now.on Wednesday ? Report Robert Searle I think the following points should be considered. i) TFE is a transitional system towards the ultimate aim of a moneyless world. ii) Phase I TFE could be undertaken very quickly by special banks concerned with sustainability, and green products/services. These banks are called Facilitator Banks, or FBs (term not yet used in the entry on this subject at the p2pfoundation).With so-called grant interest as an incentive they would be able to electronically create new non-repayable money (like governments but be tracked, and monitored by the Central Bank, or some other body to prevent fraud) for some project which could in part also include investors using earned money ofcourse. It is similiar to the concept of Advanced Market Commitment, or AMC. FBs would have powers to create subsidies, and other ways to ease finance in some project (especially those with little, or no obvious commercial incentive but have high humanitarian, environmental, and sustainable value so to speak). Objective checks on the capacity of the relevant suppliers of products, and services would be undertaken to ensure that there is no disallocation of resources which could lead to serious rises in the free market price as well as shortages. If necessary investment by FBs could be made to increase capacity where, and when necessary. iii) Phase II TFE involves the gradual introduction of new, or upgraded computers, and new computer programming into the banking system. FBs (and the normal banking sector) would start to in part to monitor the volume, and sales of products,and services directly from the real economy. If there is any serious problems of inflation these could be subject to an instant electronic price controls. Moreover, if this leads to a serious loss in profit to a business this would be instantly compensated by new non-repayable money created electronically to the relevant bank account(s). However, every attempt would be made to avoid serious price distortions. Taxes, and interest would also be gradually phased out altogether. Interest would be paid for by an independent public body. iv) Phase III TFE is the full global introduction of electronic monitoring of goods, and services. The key aim of this is not only to keep inflation in check if necessary but also to have highly accurate data of how much in the way of real resources are being used up on our "small" planet. Such knowledge will become increasingly important as this will give growing green businesses (subsidised mainly by FBs rather than by governments) to make the best use of limited resources. Furthermore, we would unlike now have a far more adbvanced understanding of the mechanics of the economy itself. At this stage, taxes, and interest would no longer exist. v) During Phase II, and Phase III TFE there would be a huge increase in automation. This would ultimately end the need for wage slavery. With the help of carefully targeted subsidies virtually all businesses would have become responsible as far as the environment, and sustainability is concerned. At the same time, there would be unemployment on a huge scale. But people would be able to indulge in "leisure-like" pursuits, and receive a form of financial benefit created by new non-repayable money. NGOs would become far more poweful, and influential in society, and would spearhead changes on a mass scale to create a new, saner world no longer based on greed, and money. They would be able to challenge centralized power structures as never before, and will find getting grants alot easier to come by. The upshot of all this is a moneyless world but one in which open democracy, and respect for universal human rights acts as the basis of an evolved technocratic world.. Anyway, food for thought..on Thursday ? Delete Post Robert Howes Hi Robert, If I understood it I might agree with it. So far I haven't been able to get my head around it at all. If you could really simplify it then I and others might be able to get it. *** I understand the money system we have now in which money circulates. I spend some money. The people I exchange with give me goods and services and they get my money. Then they do the same. The tax people get their cut at some of these exchanges and that pays for public services. *** The rich people get their cut and spend some of it and sit on the rest. They call it investments but they are effectively sitting on it and getting paid for doing so. That is one of the problems with money. The solution is something along the lines of the circle city. *** How would your system fit into this scenario? Please explain it like ten or a hundred people marrooned on an island for years and years. Cheers, Bob ***on Thursday ? Report Robert Searle With respect, I am coming to the opinion that TFE is best left to people who really understand economics. Why I post my "adverts" on the subject is really a way of getting it better known. I do not always have time to give answers to every query. Moreover, it is not just another "cranky" theory because in April of this year there was an important reputable scientific conference held in Florida on engineering, and meta-engineering (ICEME). One subject which was presented was on TFE. I was amazed by this because I was not informed, and only discovered it by chance. Ofcourse. something like community currencies are very easy to understand but if you want to get into full-blooded economics things can get complex....even for economists! 15 hours ago ? Report Reply (post is 1 characters too long) Create an Advert ? 1 minute response With a Capital One credit card get up to ?5,000 credit limit and a choice of card design. Apply now and get a response in 1 minute. Like ? Better broadband Online exclusive: up to 10Mb fibre optic broadband for only ?5 a month for the first 3 months, when you take a Virgin phone line. Like ? London Bucket List Things to do in London before you die. One huge coupon emailed daily. LikeMore Ads Facebook ? 2010 ? English (UK) About ? Advertising ? Developers ? Privacy ? Terms ? Help -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 13 00:08:18 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:08:18 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Obama's Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick Message-ID: <005001cb2252$07eb39b0$17c1ad10$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Thanks to Trading Post Paul for this one. I've commented on this previously, but am coming back to it since I feel it is a very high priority item. The Health Care Bill will not and never was designed to take care of what ails us. What it is designed for is to make more money for the health care industry with an emphasis on the insurance companies involved. The answer lays in using well researched modalities of alternative healing to bring relief to those now suffering from dis-ease, coupled with preventive measures which boost the immune system and stop disease prior to its entry into the soft tissue of the body. For greater understanding of this, i am recommending two books: "Infinite Mind - The Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness" by Dr. Valerie V. Hunt, Ph.D., Ph.D. & a new book: "The Healing Code - 6 Minutes to Heal the Source of Any Health, Success, or Relationship Issues" by Alex Loyd, Ph.D.,ND and Ben Johnson, MD, DO, NMD. While we have discussed Infinite Mind quite a bit, i have not written anything about The Healing Code because it was published just this year, and i received a copy of it only about three weeks ago. I have been using it since then with what i feel to be remarkable results regarding some emotional issues i have been dealing with recently, although the real tests would be with regard to a major disease in the body. However, the testimonials included with the book reveal astounding results. As well, the co-author, Dr. Ben Johnson, joined Dr. Loyd in his research and practice after healing himself from Lou Gehrig disease, something that had previously never been done. So, this is a healing modality, generally referred to as "energy healing" that needs to be considered very seriously. And, as the authors write: no one has ever been injured by using the modality recommended which is designed to heal by removing stress from the body/mind field, and, in particular from the immune system. As we explore in greater depth, Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS, I will be bringing more information on this to light as we learn just how powerful the human mind is and how we may more effectively manage this power. Obama's Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick Published on Monday, July 12, 2010 by TruthDig.com by Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/obamas_health_care_bill_is_enough_to_mak e_you_sick_20100712/ A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage to unchecked corporate greed and abuse. The simple truth, that single-payer nonprofit health care for all Americans would dramatically reduce costs and save lives, that the for-profit health care system is the problem and must be destroyed, is censored out of the public debate by a media that relies on these corporations as major advertisers and sponsors, as well as a morally bankrupt Democratic Party that is as bought off by corporations as the Republicans. The 2,000-page piece of legislation, according to figures compiled by Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP), will leave at least 23 million people without insurance, a figure that translates into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths a year among people who cannot afford care. It will permit prices to climb so that many of us will soon be paying close to 10 percent of our annual income to buy commercial health insurance, although this coverage will only pay for about 70 percent of our medical expenses. Those who become seriously ill, lose their incomes and cannot pay skyrocketing premiums will be denied coverage. And at least $447 billion in taxpayer subsidies will now be handed to insurance firms. We will be forced by law to buy their defective products. There is no check in the new legislation to halt rising health care costs. The elderly can be charged three times the rates provided to the young. Companies with predominantly female work forces can be charged higher gender-based rates. The dizzying array of technical loopholes in the bill-written in by armies of insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists-means that these companies, which profit off human sickness, suffering and death, can continue their grim game of trading away human life for money. "They named this legislation the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and as the tradition of this nation goes, any words they put into the name of a piece of legislation means the opposite," said single-payer activist Dr. Margaret Flowers when I heard her and Helen Redmond dissect the legislation in Chicago at the Socialism 2010 Conference last month. "It neither protects patients nor leads to affordable care." ~~~~~~ Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 13 00:21:20 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:21:20 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: What Christians Don't Know About Israel Message-ID: <005f01cb2253$df37ff10$9da7fd30$@net> For your information and consideration. Thanks to Trading Post Paul -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 8:36 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] What Christians Don't Know About Israel What Christians Don't Know About Israel http://www.countercurrents.org/halsell120710.htm By Grace Halsell 12 July, 2010 If Americans Knew American Jews sympathetic to Israel dominate key positions in all areas of our government where decisions are made regarding the Middle East. This being the case, is there any hope of ever changing U.S. policy? American Presidents as well as most members of Congress support Israel - and they know why. U.S. Jews sympathetic to Israel donate lavishly to their campaign coffers. The answer to achieving an even-handed Middle East policy might lie elsewhere - among those who support Israel but don't really know why. This group is the vast majority of Americans. They are well-meaning, fair-minded Christians who feel bonded to Israel - and Zionism - often from atavistic feelings, in some cases dating from childhood. I am one of those. I grew up listening to stories of a mystical, allegorical, spiritual Israel. This was before a modern political entity with the same name appeared on our maps. I attended Sunday School and watched an instructor draw down window- type shades to show maps of the Holy Land. I imbibed stories of a Good and Chosen people who fought against their Bad "unChosen" enemies. In my early 20s, I began traveling the world, earning my living as a writer. I came to the subject of the Middle East rather late in my career. I was sadly lacking in knowledge regarding the area. About all I knew was what I had learned in Sunday School. And typical of many U.S. Christians, I somehow considered a modern state created in 1948 as a homeland for Jews persecuted under the Nazis as a replica of the spiritual, mystical Israel I heard about as a child. When in 1979 I initially went to Jerusalem, I planned to write about the three great monotheistic religions and leave out politics. "Not write about politics?" scoffed one Palestinian, smoking a waterpipe in the Old Walled City. "We eat politics, morning, noon and night!" As I would learn, the politics is about land, and the co-claimants to that land: the indigenous Palestinians who have lived there for 2,000 years and the Jews who started arriving in large numbers after the Second World War. By living among Israeli Jews as well as Palestinian Christians and Muslims, I saw, heard, smelled, experienced the police state tactics Israelis use against Palestinians. My research led to a book entitled Journey to Jerusalem. My journey not only was enlightening to me as regards Israel, but also I came to a deeper, and sadder, understanding of my own country. I say sadder understanding because I began to see that, in Middle East politics, we the people are not making the decisions, but rather that supporters of Israel are doing so. And typical of most Americans, I tended to think the U.S. media was "free" to print news impartially. `It shouldn't be published. It's anti-Israel.' In the late 1970s, when I first went to Jerusalem, I was unaware that editors could and would classify "news" depending on who was doing what to whom. On my initial visit to Israel-Palestine, I had interviewed dozens of young Palestinian men. About one in four related stories of torture. Israeli police had come in the night, dragged them from their beds and placed hoods over their heads. Then in jails the Israelis had kept them in isolation, besieged them with loud, incessant noises, hung them upside down and had sadistically mutilated their genitals. I had not read such stories in the U.S. media. Wasn't it news? Obviously, I naively thought, U.S. editors simply didn't know it was happening. On a trip to Washington, DC, I hand-delivered a letter to Frank Mankiewicz, then head of the public radio station WETA. I explained I had taped interviews with Palestinians who had been brutally tortured. And I'd make them available to him. I got no reply. I made several phone calls. Eventually I was put through to a public relations person, a Ms. Cohen, who said my letter had been lost. I wrote again. In time I began to realize what I hadn't known: had it been Jews who were strung up and tortured, it would be news. But interviews with tortured Arabs were "lost" at WETA. The process of getting my book Journey to Jerusalem published also was a learning experience. Bill Griffin, who signed a contract with me on behalf of MacMillan Publishing Company, was a former Roman Catholic priest. He assured me that no one other than himself would edit the book. As I researched the book, making several trips to Israel and Palestine, I met frequently with Griffin, showing him sample chapters. "Terrific," he said of my material. The day the book was scheduled to be published, I went to visit MacMillan's. Checking in at a reception desk, I spotted Griffin across a room, cleaning out his desk. His secretary Margie came to greet me. In tears, she whispered for me to meet her in the ladies room. When we were alone, she confided, "He's been fired." She indicated it was because he had signed a contract for a book that was sympathetic to Palestinians. Griffin, she said, had no time to see me. Later, I met with another MacMillan official, William Curry. "I was told to take your manuscript to the Israeli Embassy, to let them read it for mistakes," he told me. "They were not pleased. They asked me, "You are not going to publish this book, are you?" I asked, "Were there mistakes?" "Not mistakes as such. But it shouldn't be published. It's anti-Israel." Somehow, despite obstacles to prevent it, the presses had started rolling. After its publication in 1980, I was invited to speak in a number of churches. Christians generally reacted with disbelief. Back then, there was little or no coverage of Israeli land confiscation, demolition of Palestinian homes, wan ton arrests and torture of Palestinian civilians. The Same Question Speaking of these injustices, I invariably heard the same question, "How come I didn't know this?" Or someone might ask, "But I haven't read about that in my newspaper." To these church audiences, I related my own learning experience, that of seeing hordes of U.S. correspondents covering a relatively tiny state. I pointed out that I had not seen so many reporters in world capitals such as Beijing, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Paris. Why, I asked, did a small state with a 1980 population of only four million warrant more reporters than China, with a billion people? I also linked this query with my findings that The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post - and most of our nation's print media - are owned and/or controlled by Jews supportive of Israel. It was for this reason, I deduced, that they sent so many reporters to cover Israel - and to do so largely from the Israeli point of view. My learning experiences also included coming to realize how easily I could lose a Jewish friend if I criticized the Jewish state. I could with impunity criticize France, England, Russia, even the United States. And any aspect of life in America. But not the Jewish state. I lost more Jewish friends than one after the publication of Journey to Jerusalem - all sad losses for me and one, perhaps, saddest of all. In the 1960s and 1970s, before going to the Middle East, I had written about the plight of blacks in a book entitled Soul Sister, and the plight of American Indians in a book entitled Bessie Yellowhair, and the problems endured by undocumented workers crossing from Mexico in The Illegals. These books had come to the attention of the "mother" of The New York Times, Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Her father had started the newspaper, then her husband ran it, and in the years that I knew her, her son was the publisher. She invited me to her fashionable apartment on Fifth Avenue for lunches and dinner parties. And, on many occasions, I was a weekend guest at her Greenwich, Conn., home. She was liberal-minded and praised my efforts to speak for the underdog, even going so far in one letter to say, "You are the most remarkable woman I ever knew." I had little concept that from being buoyed so high I could be dropped so suddenly when I discovered - from her point of view - the "wrong" underdog. As it happened, I was a weekend guest in her spacious Connecticut home when she read bound galleys of Journey to Jerusalem. As I was leaving, she handed the galleys back with a saddened look: "My dear, have you forgotten the Holocaust?" She felt that what happened in Nazi Germany to Jews several decades earlier should silence any criticism of the Jewish state. She could focus on a holocaust of Jews while negating a modern day holocaust of Palestinians. I realized, quite painfully, that our friendship was ending. Iphigene Sulzberger had not only invited me to her home to meet her famous friends but, also at her suggestion, The Times had requested articles. I wrote op-ed articles on various subjects including American blacks, American Indians as well as undocumented workers. Since Mrs. Sulzberger and other Jewish officials at the Times highly praised my efforts to help these groups of oppressed peoples, the dichotomy became apparent: most "liberal" U.S. Jews stand on the side of all poor and oppressed peoples save one - the Palestinians. How handily these liberal Jewish opinion-molders tend to diminish the Palestinians, to make them invisible, or to categorize them all as "terrorists." Interestingly, Iphigene Sulzberger had talked to me a great deal about her father, Adolph S. Ochs. She told me that he was not one of the early Zionists. He had not favored the creation of a Jewish state. Yet, increasingly, American Jews have fallen victim to Zionism, a nationalistic movement that passes for many as a religion. While the ethical instructions of all great religions - including the teachings of Moses, Muhammad and Christ - stress that all human beings are equal, militant Zionists take the position that the killing of a non-Jew does not count. Over five decades now, Zionists have killed Palestinians with impunity. And in the 1996 shelling of a U.N. base in Qana, Lebanon, the Israelis killed more than 100 civilians sheltered there. As an Israeli journalist, Arieh Shavit, explains of the massacre, "We believe with absolute certitude that right now, with the White House in our hands, the Senate in our hands and The New York Times in our hands, the lives of others do not count the same way as our own." Israelis today, explains the anti-Zionist Jew Israel Shahak, "are not basing their religion on the ethics of justice. They do not accept the Old Testament as it is written. Rather, religious Jews turn to the Talmud. For them, the Talmudic Jewish laws become "the Bible." And the Talmud teaches that a Jew can kill a non-Jew with impunity. In the teachings of Christ, there was a break from such Talmudic teachings. He sought to heal the wounded, to comfort the downtrodden. The danger, of course, for U.S. Christians is that having made an icon of Israel, we fall into a trap of condoning whatever Israel does - even wanton murder - as orchestrated by God. Yet, I am not alone in suggesting that the churches in the United States represent the last major organized support for Palestinian rights. This imperative is due in part to our historic links to the Land of Christ and in part to the moral issues involved with having our tax dollars fund Israeli-government-approved violations of human rights. While Israel and its dedicated U.S. Jewish supporters know they have the president and most of Congress in their hands, they worry about grassroots America - the well-meaning Christians who care for justice. Thus far, most Christians were unaware of what it was they didn't know about Israel. They were indoctrinated by U.S. supporters of Israel in their own country and when they traveled to the Land of Christ most all did so under Israeli sponsorship. That being the case, it was unlikely a Christian ever met a Palestinian or learned what caused the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is gradually changing, however. And this change disturbs the Israelis. As an example, delegates attending a Christian Sabeel conference in Bethlehem earlier this year said they were harassed by Israeli security at the Tel Aviv airport. "They asked us," said one delegate, "Why did you use a Palestinian travel agency? Why didn't you use an Israeli agency?" The interrogation was so extensive and hostile that Sabeel leaders called a special session to brief the delegates on how to handle the harassment. Obviously, said one delegate, "The Israelis have a policy to discourage us from visiting the Holy Land except under their sponsorship. They don't want Christians to start learning all they have never known about Israel." Grace Halsell (1923-2000) was a distinguished American journalist, war correspondent, author and columnist. She was the author of 13 books, including Journey to Jerusalem and Prophecy and Politics. This article was originally written for Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 1998 From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 13 10:09:37 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:09:37 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Dramatically Safer CT Scan Message-ID: <005701cb22a6$0e87d6d0$2b978470$@net> For your information and consideration. From: Daily Health News [mailto:dailyhealthnews at edhn.bottomlinesecrets.com] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 11:27 PM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Dramatically Safer CT Scan Don't miss any of Bottom Line's Daily Health News. Add our address, dailyhealthnews at edhn.bottomlinesecrets.com, to your Address Book or Safe List. Learn how here. 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I called Troy LaBounty, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and lead author of a new study that demonstrates how to combine a number of different radiation-reduction techniques to achieve this dramatically safer result. My goal was to learn how patients can be sure that they are getting the best cardiac CT with the least possible radiation dose. New Techniques to Reduce Radiation For the study, Dr. LaBounty and his team at Weill Cornell wanted to see the effect of using four different radiation-reduction methodologies at the same time. The researchers administered beta-blocker medications (as needed) to slow the heart rate to less than 65 beats per minute so that images could be acquired with fewer "snapshots"... minimized the area being scanned... individualized radiation dosing for each patient's heart rate and body mass index (BMI)... and took the minimum number of images that would be needed (as opposed to "padding" the total in case some images weren't usable). Researchers were trying to ascertain whether using these radiation-reduction methods would result in any loss of accuracy. The 81 patients in the study agreed to have both catheter angiography (in which a thin plastic tube is inserted into an artery through an incision, followed by injection of a radioactive contrast dye and x-ray visualization) and a cardiac CT. They were then divided into two groups -- for one group, doctors used their usual standards for CT scanner settings, while for the other group they used all of the radiation-reducing techniques mentioned above. Researchers found that the dialed-back settings produced highly accurate CT scans, comparable to catheter angiogram (the gold standard) -- even though they used almost 90% less radiation in the test group! If you need a CT scan Dr. LaBounty told me that doctors are increasingly aware of both the need to reduce radiation and that it can be done with these techniques -- though using all of them together remains a somewhat novel approach. If you need a CT scan, don't hesitate to ask your doctor whether these protective measures will be taken and to ask the technician performing the scan what he/she is doing to minimize radiation. 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Adler, MD, PhD, research leader and professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, who affirmed that one root cause for the yips does indeed seem to be neurological. His study compared yippers and non-yippers in order to identify which ones specifically have golfer's cramp or in medical speak, a "focal dystonia" -- localized involuntary muscle-tightening similar to writer's or musician's cramp. Are Yips Par for the Course? The study included 50 golfers, 25 afflicted with the yips and 25 yip-free, all matched for age, gender and ability. On an outdoor practice green, each golfer shot 70 putts while Dr. Adler and his colleagues videotaped them and also measured the electrical activity in the muscles of their forearms and the joint positions of their hands and wrists. The videos demonstrated that 17 participants made visible involuntary movements during their putts -- 15 of whom were in the yippers' group and two who had had no previous problems with yips. When they later reviewed muscle activity reports, Dr. Adler and his colleagues also found differences in the hand rotation (pronation and supination) of yippers compared with non-yippers. Dr. Adler presented these findings at the April 2010 annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. Yip, Yip, Hooray -- Some Fixes! As far as treatment goes, Dr. Adler told me that his team is now planning further research to explore what might help. Specifically, they will study oral medications and/or the use of botulinum toxin injections. Doctors aren't treating golf yips this way -- yet -- but Botox injections are currently being used off-label to suppress similar problems, including muscle dystonia, spasms and contractions. As for those yips, there are numerous Web sites that address the psychological root of the problem -- such as Competitive-Golfer.com ( www.competitive-golfer.com/golfyips.html). Or you can watch a video demonstration on GolfersMD.com (enter "yips" into the search box). It may also be a good idea to work with either a sports psychologist or a golf pro who can help determine whether changing your grip or using a different putter (both of which may bring subtle shifts in how you use your muscles) might make a difference. Meanwhile, there isn't anyone among us, golf yippers included, who wouldn't benefit from relaxation techniques... so that, too, is worth a try. Source(s): Charles H. Adler, MD, PhD, professor of neurology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona. Email this to a friend Be well, Carole Jackson Bottom Line's Daily Health News _____ Special Offer Drug-Free Treatment Reverses Even Bone-on-Bone Arthritis... "Bone-on-bone" is the term doctors use for the last agonizing stage of arthritis. Your cartilage is totally ground away. Steroids and supplements are pointless. Alice was told her only hope was total knee replacement. Yet thanks to a brilliant physician, she skipped the surgery and feels like new. That's right. 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 13 13:50:47 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:50:47 -0700 Subject: [GJM] "From Despair To Impassioned Inspiration" Message-ID: <007601cb22c4$f00b2df0$d02189d0$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Carolyn - thanks for sharing this article with the Co-learner's group. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carolyn Baker Date: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:27 PM Subject: Submission To: dustysummerrose at gmail.com Hi Mary Rose, I've just posted "From Despair To Impassioned Inspiration", my latest article at: http://carolynbaker.net/content/view/1704/1/. The message is that honoring our despair and meeting it with solitude in nature and service in the world are powerful tools for transforming it into inspiration for doing the work we came here to do. I hope you will want to post. Thanks! 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IMHO, the fate of the world will not be decided via politics as known today, but will be, perhaps "unintentionally" planned, by those who voice their positions, and make their presence visibly known on these huge and ever-expanding avenues to the millions of others who choose to play in these arenas. Recall that Facebook alone now has over 460 million members and is still growing by the hundreds every day. From: BLINK.design Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 1:23 AM To: mary rose Subject: Re: Obama's Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick (RESPONSE: John Gil) I am near total disagreement with the points made in this post. My name is John and I am a building and interior designer. To set the stage for my response, it is critical always to acknowledge ones personal bias. Though certainly more complex than a simple duality, the easiest approach is to recognize those whose sense of responsibility is measured by discernible action, versus those that acknowledge co-Creativity including both sameness and silence. These are not opposites and they persist in different places along any path of manifestation. It may be easier to think of these as two layers of a complex matrix, the difference being the principle of attraction at the scale of source energy versus a reaction to symptoms near the surface of the expressed geometry and form. Confused? Don't be, it's an important twist on standard empirical logic. In one sense these are the same thing, simultaneously situated while from an empirical bias, they are and must remain separate. Co-Creation acknowledges that, without exception, we create the hologram that we call life and recognize that it's subjective. Those seeking discernible results prefer to remain entirely within the senses, separate from the object in question, and consider control to be the visual sense and are therefore are literally looking for differences to compare, contrast and impose linear if-then logic. Though this intellectual epidemic stands firm as the method behind great achievements in the West, by definition, it must fragment and destroy by objectifying and thereby taking the object out of it's context to know it, control it and 'understand' it.... I call co-Creativity 'matching'! It's a relationship rather than an agreed association. It's the difference between trusting that intention is heard by one's genetic antennae versus the need to consume a pharmaceutical or swing a hammer to feel confident that something has been done about a problem. Using 'matching' as the measure of President Obama's actions, he is using the age old method of gradualism to dismantle the foundations of nearly all corrupt financial institutions in the Western World including the Federal Reserve, Fascist Corporations, the Insurance Industry, Wall Street and the SEC and the Banking Industry at large. Empiricists would agree that in the event that some level of secrecy or conspiracy is true, that President Barack Obama could not stand before the world and announce that certain trusted and beloved world leaders are misusing their power and influence to undermine the U.S. government and economy. He must though do two things to assure subtle movement towards his promise that his time in office will focus upon the "Redistribution of Wealth'. Number one, his language must carry multiple meanings as he addresses at once the U.S. of A's citizens, the U.S. Government, the World at large and elite financial groups in single statements. That's profoundly difficult. Number two, he must decide how long to keep the Citizens of the U.S. in the dark about his proceedings in order to be most effective. He cannot afterall announce his plans or his methods given that he has to sustain this posture for five and a half years. In essence he is tricking the tricksters, using their own methods, by working the source energies while at once maintaining convincing images that all remains status quo despite appearing as if little or nothing is going on. This is why he is being judged! We cannot SEE what's happening and our egos are going crazy seeking to reestablish the only control most people allow. There is much evidence for this that I will share elsewhere for those whom may be interested. Specifically regarding health, as with his grand scheme, he must gradually modify the motivational structure of entire industries as well marginalize the impact of ranking members within those industries who will forcefully sustain a tug of war and call in the troops if required. This begins, quite surprisingly, with the government's use of tax money (67% funds shadow projects - See Walter Burian and the CAFR reports - the U.S. has been secretly Fascist since 1946 where Fascist refers to collusion between a government and corporate big business - estimated value over $13T around the turn of the Century). This also points to the illegal laws established in the 1930's whereby each citizen was made into a corporation (See you SS Card and birth certificate and utility bills where your NAME is spelled in Capital letters) and whose collateral has been used to fund all sorts of exciting projects like secret technology and war efforts. There are many people who do not want this perpetually flowing fountain of fundage to change and they sold their souls for access and therefore will not and cannot turn back. To agree is to die thereby establishing a very strong motivation to resist. These motivations, despite the vast majority of humans having little idea or acceptance that it even exists, is the thing that wars are made of and depopulation agendas. Nevermind health, who here among you are reading labels and know your human rights? President Barack Obama has begun the process by which selfish insurance companies will recognize that there only way to profit is to insure preventative healthcare. He cannot do this all at once, obviously I hope! He cannot suddenly introduce an alternative medical industry that will make redundant the pharmaceutical industry. Further, alternative medicine requires an emotional paradigm shift from a generation of people who wants their pills! Imagine the outcry if he claimed that there has been a cure for cancer since the early 1930's using inaudible frequencies (Royal Raymond Rife accomplished this) and that this technology will be replacing pharmaceuticals! Civil war would result. He has though modified the terms through which the prevailing mechanical paradigm can be slowly phased out. I consider myself highly informed about alternative medicine. I have investigated Dr. Hunt's allegations and briefly spoken with her only to discover that she is on a close minded mission. That is not to say that her work has no value. Far from it. Along with the incredible Dr. Rosalyn Bruyere, these two were the first to verify the human energy field in a laboratory setting at UCLA in the 1970's. Their paths since that time are remarkable different. Dr. Hunt's Aurameter though will sadly not succeed! My confidence about this statement is derived from the fact that any technology that seeks to quantify integrated data must, as stated above, destroy the host sample in order to prove to the senses that it is correct. Another way we refer to alternative medicine is mind / body medicine or holistic medicine. These words appeal to the co-Creative paradigm, the first acknowledging that mind and body are one, and the latter acknowledging that effective healing must sustain the host intact and whole and in context to be effective. This is also true of the way we are thinking, approaching and judging solutions, and the subtleties as well the paradox of language that does not always allow for what our mind intuitively understands. Association seeks a symmetrical or an asymmetrical relationship between thought and artifact, word and object, letter and sound etc., while matching allows different scales of being to consciously co-exist at once. Lastly, any effort aspiring to change is difficult. Think of painting the wall in your home. What color? Do we need primer? How many coats? What is the best paint to choose? Do we need an interior designer? Does the color go with both the furniture and the curtains? Does the color relate to the activities that will occur in this room? Is the vibrational frequency of the color tone in harmony with the inhabitants of this house? On and on. Let's extend that to your neighborhood council, or the City of Los Angeles or Planet Earth. That wall would likely never get painted unless a system was put in place enabling change and a hierarchical structure in direct opposition to holistic anythingness! Yet..........President Barack Obama is accomplishing this boys and girls and not just the wall, but a wholesale paradigm shift that yet still requires a individual choices, but nonetheless is emerging faster than the speed of light. He certainly has assistance though he certainly would benefit from our support too! It is of critical importance that we change the scale of our attentiveness, reset priorities and acknowledge that fast and forceful is no longer relevant on this planet despite the many who will carry on that way for a bit longer. The wall he is painting relies on a well timed demolition and generally the old house does not look too good when the shingles are removed and the interior walls are knocked down. The wall is not there as yet to paint yet we scream and insult and judge and defame and miss the point that we are referring to ourselves when doing so. Moreover, there are some people still inside the house who will literally be caught with their pants down. That's how you expose the bad guys...not by announcing it on the network news. It's a reality show you are not gonna want to miss. I figure it will air around October of 2012. Have a look at this short video if you will. If your worldview doesn't change in the next five minutes, it is likely true that you are the problem that you are looking for. http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm Stay positive no matter what. We are writing our own story. The details don't matter if the paradigm is irrelevant. John Gil On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:08 PM, mary rose wrote: Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Thanks to Trading Post Paul for this one. I've commented on this previously, but am coming back to it since I feel it is a very high priority item. The Health Care Bill will not and never was designed to take care of what ails us. What it is designed for is to make more money for the health care industry with an emphasis on the insurance companies involved. The answer lays in using well researched modalities of alternative healing to bring relief to those now suffering from dis-ease, coupled with preventive measures which boost the immune system and stop disease prior to its entry into the soft tissue of the body. For greater understanding of this, i am recommending two books: "Infinite Mind - The Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness" by Dr. Valerie V. Hunt, Ph.D., Ph.D. & a new book: "The Healing Code - 6 Minutes to Heal the Source of Any Health, Success, or Relationship Issues" by Alex Loyd, Ph.D.,ND and Ben Johnson, MD, DO, NMD. While we have discussed Infinite Mind quite a bit, i have not written anything about The Healing Code because it was published just this year, and i received a copy of it only about three weeks ago. I have been using it since then with what i feel to be remarkable results regarding some emotional issues i have been dealing with recently, although the real tests would be with regard to a major disease in the body. However, the testimonials included with the book reveal astounding results. As well, the co-author, Dr. Ben Johnson, joined Dr. Loyd in his research and practice after healing himself from Lou Gehrig disease, something that had previously never been done. So, this is a healing modality, generally referred to as "energy healing" that needs to be considered very seriously. And, as the authors write: no one has ever been injured by using the modality recommended which is designed to heal by removing stress from the body/mind field, and, in particular from the immune system. As we explore in greater depth, Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS, I will be bringing more information on this to light as we learn just how powerful the human mind is and how we may more effectively manage this power. Obama's Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick Published on Monday, July 12, 2010 by TruthDig.com by Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/obamas_health_care_bill_is_enough_to_mak e_you_sick_20100712/ A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage to unchecked corporate greed and abuse. The simple truth, that single-payer nonprofit health care for all Americans would dramatically reduce costs and save lives, that the for-profit health care system is the problem and must be destroyed, is censored out of the public debate by a media that relies on these corporations as major advertisers and sponsors, as well as a morally bankrupt Democratic Party that is as bought off by corporations as the Republicans. The 2,000-page piece of legislation, according to figures compiled by Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP), will leave at least 23 million people without insurance, a figure that translates into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths a year among people who cannot afford care. It will permit prices to climb so that many of us will soon be paying close to 10 percent of our annual income to buy commercial health insurance, although this coverage will only pay for about 70 percent of our medical expenses. Those who become seriously ill, lose their incomes and cannot pay skyrocketing premiums will be denied coverage. And at least $447 billion in taxpayer subsidies will now be handed to insurance firms. We will be forced by law to buy their defective products. There is no check in the new legislation to halt rising health care costs. The elderly can be charged three times the rates provided to the young. Companies with predominantly female work forces can be charged higher gender-based rates. The dizzying array of technical loopholes in the bill-written in by armies of insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists-means that these companies, which profit off human sickness, suffering and death, can continue their grim game of trading away human life for money. "They named this legislation the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and as the tradition of this nation goes, any words they put into the name of a piece of legislation means the opposite," said single-payer activist Dr. Margaret Flowers when I heard her and Helen Redmond dissect the legislation in Chicago at the Socialism 2010 Conference last month. "It neither protects patients nor leads to affordable care." ~~~~~~ Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. Your Logo, Inc. 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Bipolar disorder over time. Bipolar Disorder: Treatment Over Time "Having bipolar disorder is very different than having a blood pressure problem or diabetes," says Gary Sachs, MD, founder and director of the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Sachs says that unlike other illnesses, in which patients accept the fact that they need to take medicine to control their disease, people with bipolar disorder often refuse to take their medications - an issue called treatment compliance. These patients often have trouble perceiving that they have a problem, even during a bipolar episode (a condition known as anosognosia, and therefore don't believe they need treatment. Avoiding treatment, however, is the worst thing you can do with bipolar disorder. Why? Because bipolar disorder tends to get worse if it's not treated. So to improve your prognosis - your future with this condition - you need to follow your doctor's prescribed treatments. Bipolar Disorder: The Timeline Bipolar symptoms usually appear during the late adolescent years, but they can emerge at any time from early childhood to your 50s. For a very few people diagnosed with bipolar disorder, symptoms will improve with medication to the point that medications will no longer be necessary. But most people won't be that lucky, since it is typical for manic and depressive episodes to recur later on. "If you have a single episode of mania, the chances that you are going to have another one over your lifetime is virtually 100 percent," says Sachs. And there is a good chance that your manic and depressive episodes will become more frequent and severe over time. According to Sachs, most people can also expect more depressive episodes and fewer manic ones. "You will have fewer highs and more depression," he says. Your illness may even progress to what is called rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, which is when you have four or more episodes a year. And, Sach adds, "If you've had several [bipolar] episodes, there is probably a 60 to 80 percent chance that you will have one episode every year if untreated." But with treatment, you can probably cut your risk of having an episode by half. Bipolar Disorder: Remission Most people who have bipolar disorder will have normal moods in between their manic and depressive episodes. However, in almost every case, bipolar disorder is a lifelong illness requiring treatment. While there is no cure for bipolar disorder, there is every reason to believe that with proper treatment, you will get better. Proper treatment means taking all your medications and attending therapy sessions as recommended by your doctor. It is important to take the bipolar medications even between episodes of depression or mania. Consistency in taking the medications can stabilize your mood swings. By learning to recognize the early signs of a manic or depressive episode, you will be empowered to take control of your bipolar disorder and deal with your symptoms before they become a full-blown episode. Last Updated: 03/05/2009 This section created and produced exclusively by the editorial staff of EverydayHealth.com. C 2010 EverydayHealth.com; all rights reserved. Articles in Bipolar Disorder Basics . Bipolar Disorder: What Is It? . Bipolar Disorder: Symptoms . Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis . Managing Bipolar Disorder Symptoms . Bipolar Treatment With Mood Stabilizers . Medications for Bipolar Disorder . Bipolar Disorder: Psychotherapy . The Course of Bipolar Disorder Over Time . Top 10 Signs of Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression) . Bipolar I and Bipolar II: How Can You Tell the Difference? . Can a Person Be Diagnosed with Simultaneous Depression and Bipolar Disorder? . Causes of Bipolar Disorder . 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In fact, right now the U.S. economy is being pounded by an unprecedented number of economic problems. Tens of millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed, 40 million Americans are on food stamps, the U.S. real estate crash continues to get worse, and the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatens to drag that entire region, and perhaps all of the United States, into a devastating economic depression. So these days it is fairly easy to convince Americans that really hard economic times are coming. But now an increasingly large number of people have a new question. They want to know what to do about all of this. In fact, probably the biggest group of questions I receive from readers is regarding what to do in order to prepare for the economic collapse that is coming. People are tired of just talking about all of these problems and they want an action plan. So what is the answer? What should people do about this coming economic collapse? Well, when I attended law school I was taught that there is a two word answer to almost any question that someone can ask about the law.... It depends. And while there are some fundamental principles which we should all follow in getting prepared for the coming economic crisis (which I will share below), the truth is that each and every person has very different circumstances that they are facing, so when someone asks what they should do I give them that same answer.... It depends. If you have a family you are going to prepare much differently than if you are single. If you live along the coast you are going to prepare much differently than if you live in the mountains or in the city. If you are wealthy you are going to prepare much differently from someone who only possesses limited resources. If you are dependent on a job you are going to prepare much differently from someone who is self-employed. If you live on a farm you are going to prepare much differently from someone who lives in an apartment building and has never even grown a garden. The truth is that there are a ton of variables and there just is not a "one size fits all" answer. However, there are some fundamental principles that we should all be following as we prepare for the coming economic collapse.... Get Out Of Debt It is always, always, always a good idea to get out of debt, but this is particularly true during a time of economic crisis. During an economic collapse, it will be very difficult to get work, money will be tight, and the last thing you will want to be doing is to be making monthly payments on some debt that you accumulated five years ago. The reality is that when we borrow money we become a servant, and debt is a very cruel master. You especially want to get rid of debt that is at high interest rates (such as credit card debt). There are very few things that are as good at bleeding your finances as credit card debt is. For example, according to the credit card repayment calculator, if you have a $6000 balance on a credit card with a 20 percent interest rate and only pay the minimum payment each time, it will take you 54 years to pay off that credit card. During those 54 years you will pay $26,168 in interest rate charges on that credit card balance in addition to the $6000 in principal that you are required to pay back. That is before any fees or penalties are even calculated. Can you see how financially debilitating that can be? The truth is that if you haven't already started, now is the time to develop a plan for how to get out of debt. Paying off debt can be very painful, but it will put you in a much, much better position to weather the financial storms that are ahead. Reduce Your Expenses Along the same lines, it is a very good idea to start reducing your expenses right now. The truth is that you cannot be sure that you will always have the same job or the same level of income. Times are going to be very tight in the future. Now is the time to start the belt tightening. Yes, the truth is that the cost of everything seems to be going up these days, and most American families are already finding it increasingly difficult to get by each month. But if your household is spending $5000 a month right now, are there ways that you could get that down to $4000 or maybe even $3000? If we all start learning to live with less right now, it will be much easier to do when times really get hard. Increase Your Income Yes, this is much easier said than done. Especially considering the fact that it seems like there are hardly any jobs out there right now. But the truth is that we are all going to have to work a lot harder and become a lot less dependent on employers. It is going to become increasingly difficult to get good jobs in the months and years ahead. The big global corporations are figuring out that they really don't need us after all. In many ways, it is much easier for them to hire a workforce from the other side of the world. So where does that leave us? Well, fortunately there are still a lot of ways to make money in America. How long that will last is uncertain, but for now we should work while the working is good. We are all going to have to start becoming a lot more entrepreneurial. Nobody is going to hand you anything in this life. If you just settle for your job ("just over broke") you aren't going to get too far in today's world. Many people start developing an extra income during their spare time in the evenings after work. Yes, that would mean that you would have less time to sit on the couch and watch people talk about who LeBron James is going to play basketball for, but did you think that we were going to be able to get through this without making sacrifices? Now is the time to rise up off the sofa and figure out how to make some more money. There is still a little more time to get prepared. If you keep putting off what you know needs to be done, eventually it will be too late. In addition, learning to do things like growing a garden is another way of "increasing" your income. All of the fruit and vegetables that you grow will mean that you won't have to spend as much at the grocery store. Stock Up On Essentials There are tons of supplies still in the stores, and prices are still relatively low right now (especially compared to what they will be in the future). So it is time to stock up on essentials while the getting is good. In a previous article entitled "20 Things You Will Need To Survive When The Economy Collapses And The Next Great Depression Begins", we listed 20 of the things that you will need in the event of a major disaster, an emergency or an economic collapse. These are the things that you are going to want to make sure that you have ready right now, because after the crisis begins it may be too late to prepare.... #1) Storable Food #2) Clean Water #3) Shelter #4) Warm Clothing #5) An Axe #6) Lighters Or Matches #7) Hiking Boots Or Comfortable Shoes #8) A Flashlight And/Or Lantern #9) A Radio #10) Communication Equipment #11) A Swiss Army Knife #12) Personal Hygiene Items #13) A First Aid Kit And Other Medical Supplies #14) Extra Gasoline (But Be Very Careful How You Store It) #15) A Sewing Kit #16) Self-Defense Equipment #17) A Compass #18) A Hiking Backpack #19) A Community #20) A Backup Plan In the comments to that article, our readers suggested the following additional items.... A K-Bar Fighting Knife Salt Extra Batteries Medicine A Camp Stove Propane Pet Food Heirloom Seeds Tools An LED Headlamp Candles Clorox Calcium Hypochlorite Ziplock Bags Maps Of Your Area Binoculars Sleeping Bags Rifle For Hunting Extra Socks Gloves Gold And Silver Coins For Bartering Of course there are probably many more items you could put on the list. The point is to get educated, get informed and start getting prepared. When things get really hard, that brand new pool table isn't going to do you much good, but having a good supply of food and clean water will make all the difference. Not that things are going to totally fall apart overnight. It is going to be a process. But you don't start preparing when the storm is already on top of you. Most of us know what is coming. Now we need to start taking action. This is how Americans got through the Great Depression of the 1930s - they tightened their belts, they were resourceful, and they did whatever they needed to do to provide for their families. Now it is our turn. Sure some people will laugh as many of us adjust our lifestyles in preparation for hard economic times, but it is those same people who will come knocking on your door when the rain does start pouring. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 37289 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 16 11:13:15 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:13:15 -0700 Subject: [GJM] The Small Business Dodge Message-ID: <007901cb250a$72625a20$57270e60$@net> The Small Business Dodge http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/07/small-business-dodge - By Kevin Drum | Fri Jul. 16, 2010 3:00 AM PDT Back in the day, one of the key Republican arguments against the estate tax was that it forced hardworking, salt-of-the-earth children of small farmers to sell the family plot in order to pay their taxes after dad died. It was a sad story, but with one problem: no one could find even a single small farmer who had been forced to liquidate in order to satisfy Uncle Sam's voracious law. Even the American Farm Bureau Federation was eventually forced to admit that it couldn't come up with a single example, and a few years later the Congressional Budget Office estimated that under the now-current exemption level, only a tiny handful of small farms were likely to owe any estate tax to begin with - and of those, only about a dozen lacked the assets to pay their taxes. And even those dozen had 14 years to pay the bill as long the kids kept running the farm. In other words, the story was a fraud from beginning to end. Good times. Today, though, we're getting a rerun. The subject at hand is the Bush tax cuts, and the question is who exactly will get hurt if we go ahead and keep the cuts intact for middle income earners but let them expire for the rich. The obvious answer is, "the rich," but it turns out that, just as there are small farmers begging for our sympathy, there are small rich too: namely an alleged army of hardworking, salt-of-the-earth http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/Blog_Small_Business_Tax_Cuts.jpgsmal l business owners who would also end up paying higher tax rates. "To those who are pushing the higher marginal rates," thundered Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) earlier this week, "I say the burden is on you to show that you are not harming our primary job creators, small business." OK then. Let's show it. Step 1: The Brookings Tax Policy Center estimates that only 1.9% of small businesses are in the two top brackets that would be affected. That's a little better than the dozen small farms affected by the estate tax, but not by much. Step 2: About half of that 1.9% aren't really small business owners at all. They're high-income investors who get part of their income from investments in small businesses. So we're down to about 1% of small businesses that would be affected. Step 3: The top brackets are just that: brackets. When the top rate goes up, it doesn't affect your entire income, just the portion in the top bracket. So if the top rate goes back up from 35% to 39.6%, it only affects the portion of income above approximately $400,000. A small business owner making $500,000 would see an increase of about $5,000. This is a fairly modest amount for someone making a half million dollars, and anything higher than that is hardly a "small" business to begin with. And the marginal effect is even smaller for the second highest bracket. Step 4: The Office of Management and Budget estimates that the 10-year cost of these upper-income tax cuts is $678 billion, the vast majority of which hits wealthy individuals, not small businesses no matter how you define them. That's a fair chunk of change for anyone concerned about the deficit. So that's the case. Letting Bush's tax cuts for the rich expire affects only a tiny number of small businesses; it doesn't affect them very much; and it generates revenues of $678 billion. If the only thing you care about is keeping taxes low for rich people, you won't be convinced. For the rest of us, it's a no-brainer. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 54946 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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John Nichols July 15, 2010 http://www.thenation.com/blog/37541/financial-reform-passes-what-does-mean The Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 promises: "to promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end "too big to fail", to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes." But will it do that? The 60 senators who backed the bill say it will -- with varying degrees of certainty and enthusiasm. Here's Oregon's Jeff Merkley, one of the best players in the chamber on regulatory issues: "Today the Senate sent a clear message that the financial security of families and businesses on Main Street must always come before the short-term profits of Wall Street. For decades, we let rampant deregulation and deceptive lending practices undermine families' well-being, poison our financial system and ultimately bring the economy to its knees. This bill will help restore safety and soundness to our financial system and ensure that working families get a fair deal in their everyday financial transactions. "I am pleased that the final bill includes the Merkley-Levin amendment that will ban high-risk trading inside the banks and put an end to conflicts of interest, where giants like Goldman Sachs bet against the very securities they were selling to their customers. This provision will encourage banks to return to the days where their main focus was lending. I can't thank Senator Carl Levin enough for his tireless work to ensure that our banks won't engage in high-risk trading and put our entire financial system at risk. "In addition, I'm pleased that the bill includes provisions I championed to end some of the most egregious mortgage practices that led to the housing crisis and cost millions of families their homes. The bill will ban steering payments, liar loans, and prepayment penalties and give Americans the transparency they deserve when purchasing their own home. It will also create a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dedicated to protecting consumers from financial tricks and traps, such as unfair overdraft fees and exploding interest rates. "Now, this bill will not solve every problem in our financial system, and from my perspective, could be stronger in significant ways. Regulators have been given an enormous amount of responsibility to implement the bill as intended. In order to ensure that they hold up their end of the bargain, Congress needs to conduct vigorous oversight of government regulators and our financial markets. "Overall, this bill sets our nation on the right path. There is more work to do to fix the failures of the past, but this bill lays the groundwork for a stronger and more stable economy and levels the playing field for our working families and small businesses on Main Street. I commend Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd for his dedication to getting this bill passed and restoring fairness for middle class families across America." Merkley joined 55 Democrats, two independents (Vermont's Bernie Sanders and Connecticut's Joe Lieberman) and three Republicans (Massachusetts' Scott Brown and Mainers Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe) in voting "yes." Sanders offered a nuanced take on the measure, when went through the legislative wringer before emerging in final compromise -- and compromised -- form. The Vermonter called the overall legislation a "positive step forward" but said that much more must be done -- in the words of a statement released by his office -- "to end the greed and recklessness by the Wall Street financiers responsible for the worst economic collapse since the 1930s." Sanders complained that: * The bill does not breaking up banks deemed "too big to fail." Incredibly, three of the four biggest banks in the country are larger today than they were before taxpayers bailed them out. * The bill also fails to impose a cap on runaway credit card interest rates. Senators rejected an even more modest proposal to let states enforce their own usury laws. On the plus said, says Sanders' statement, "the bill lifts the veil of secrecy at the clandestine Federal Reserve." In particular, the senator's statement says: "The legislation directs the Government Accountability Office to review all emergency actions by the central bank since the start of the financial crisis in 2007. The non-partisan research arm of Congress also will investigate apparent conflicts of interest involving the Fed and CEOs of the largest financial institutions in the country. The measure also makes the central bank divulge the identities of banks and other financial institutions that took more than $2 trillion in nearly zero-interest loans or loan guarantees." Voting "no" were 38 Republicans and one Democrat in voting "no." The Democrat, Wisconsin's Russ Feingold, may well be the Senate's steadiest critic of Wall Street and the big banks. So why was he a "no"? "At the outset of the debate over the financial regulatory reform bill, I made clear that my test for this bill would be whether it prevents another economic crisis," explained Feingold. "Unfortunately, this bill falls short. The reckless practices of Wall Street sent our economy reeling, triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression, and left millions of Americans to foot the bill. Despite these cataclysmic events, Washington once again caved to Wall Street on key issues and produced a bill that fails to protect the American people from the pain of another economic disaster. I will not support a bill that fails to adequately protect the people of Wisconsin from the recklessness of Wall Street." So who is right? There is truth to be found in all of what Merkley, Sanders, Feingold and other honest players are saying. Ultimately, Feingold is right that the measure does not adequately protect against the recklessness of Wall Street. It provides some tools for beginning to address the worst abuses, however. So let's give agree with Sanders, who is spot on when he says "much more" must be done. And who will do it? Bet on Merkley, Sanders, Feingold -- and a few other honest players, such as Ohio's Sherrod Brown -- do be in the forefront of the fight. And it will be a fight. The Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 cannot be the last word when it comes to addressing the sins of Wall Street and the big banks. Because if it is then Feingold will surely be right when he warns that the American people from will not be spared "the pain of another economic disaster." From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 16 12:13:48 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:13:48 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Absolutely Must Read: The Most Dangerous Bill in the History of the U.S.? Message-ID: <00a301cb2512$e58419f0$b08c4dd0$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS - Thanks to the San Diego Grapevine from which I took this message. We need to send this message far and wide. Please distribute to as many people as possible - it must not become law. I have removed Paula's email address to protect her privacy since she is not a member of this list. FW: The Most Dangerous Bill in the History of the U.S.? Posted by: "Paula Colby" Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:16 pm (PDT) Gabriel Cousens, owner of Tree of Life, is the author of the brilliant, Consious Eating, and other books you may know. He qualifies as both a medical doctor, as well as an accomplished, respected holistic health practicioner. That's why I am taking notice and acting on this. Please take the time to check out the link and read the bill's description. Responding to our elected officials takes but a few minutes. Thanks for your interest. Paula Paula Colby In this issue Congress Bill S 510 What's Coming (snip) The Most Dangerous Bill in the History of the U.S.? A most dire bill is up before the U.S. Senate currently. We are calling you to respond to this with the force of your intentions and actions. S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. According to Dr. Shiv Chopra, "If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public's right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one's choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God." It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food." Please write your State Senators today by clicking here. Click here for more information on Bill S 510. Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center Patagonia, Arizona www.treeoflife.nu Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 17 08:51:12 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:51:12 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Alert for homeowners who are facing eviction Message-ID: <003c01cb25bf$c0819490$4184bdb0$@net> Thanks to the San Diego Grapevine for this one. Alert for homeowners who are facing eviction Posted by: "catherine of carlsbad" koldesigns at yahoo.com koldesigns Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:44 pm (PDT) Alert for Homeowners Facing U.D. Eviction Are you a victim of mortgage lending fraud or creditor debt collection abuse? FORENSIC FORECLOSURE INVESTIGATIONS* have revealed that in many cases. A predatory creditor illegally transfers the homeowners property for sale while they are disputing their debt, are waiting for a loan modification, or for an approval of a qualified short sale or other verified purchase offer, or sometimes even during the homeowner's bankruptcy, and then often the creditor inappropriately purports to purchase its own sale at sale at auction on a credit bid, or sells the house without notification or warning at a price substantially below market value, and then the unsuspecting homeowner is suddenly slammed by a wrongful eviction, before they can even figure out what has happened. In all the above cases the sale is not qualified under State of California law and the sale may be considered voidable under 1695.14 (a) (b) (c) and may be rescinded and therefore eligible for a judicial a voiding of the sale, if the rescission process is completed before the end of December 2010. If you are a victim of predatory lending whose home has been at auction, and you are being wrongfully evicted you can still ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS, by recording a Qualified Rescission of the Trustee's Deed Upon Sale, at the County Recorders Office. Then you should send a copy of the recorded document successors in interest, (if any) including a demand for reconveyance of your title in 20 days by return receipt mail, to the "equity Purchaser" claiming right of possession to your home. This act may provide a basis for a judicial recovery of your title. *Charles J. Koppa, Expert Witness, and Financial Autopsy Service Consultant, can be reached at 760-787-9966, Catherine Ibarra Director of Community Workshop Foreclosure Relief Project Can be reached AT TELEPHONE # 760 637 9328 YOU SHOULD URGENTLY REVIEW THE TEMPORARY RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER STATE OF CALIFORNIA LAW BELOW! THIS DOCUMENT IS CURRENT THROUGH 2009-2010 EXTRAORDINARY SESSIONS 1-5, *** *** AND 7, AND URGENCY LEGISLATION THROUGH CH 8 OF THE 2010 REGULAR SESSION *** *** AND CH 8 OF THE 2009-2010 8TH EXTRAORDINARY SESSION *** CIVIL CODE Division 3. Obligations Part 2. Contracts Title 5. Extinction of Contracts Chapter 2.5. Home Equity Sales Contracts GO TO CALIFORNIA CODES ARCHIVE DIRECTORY Cal Civ Code ? 1695 (2009) ? 1695. Legislative findings and declarations; Intent and purposes of chapter (a) The Legislature finds and declares that homeowners whose residences are in foreclosure have been subjected to fraud, deception, and unfair dealing by home equity purchasers. The recent rapid escalation of home values, particularly in the urban areas, has resulted in a significant increase in home equities which are usually the greatest financial asset held by the homeowners of this state. During the time period between the commencement of foreclosure proceedings and the scheduled foreclosure sale date, homeowners in financial distress, especially the poor, elderly, and financially unsophisticated, are vulnerable to the importunities of equity purchasers who induce homeowners to sell their homes for a small fraction of their fair market values through the use of schemes which often involve oral and written misrepresentations, deceit, intimidation, and other unreasonable commercial practices. (b) The Legislature declares that it is the express policy of the state to preserve and guard the precious asset of home equity, and the social as well as the economic value of homeownership. (c) The Legislature further finds that equity purchasers have a significant impact upon the economy and well-being of this state and its local communities, and therefore the provisions of this chapter are necessary to promote the public welfare. (d) The intent and purposes of this chapter are the following: (1) To provide each homeowner with information necessary to make an informed and intelligent decision regarding the sale of his or her home to an equity purchaser; to require that the sales agreement be expressed in writing; to safeguard the public against deceit and financial hardship; to insure, foster, and encourage fair dealing in the sale and purchase of homes in foreclosure; to prohibit representations that tend to mislead; to prohibit or restrict unfair contract terms; to afford homeowners a reasonable and meaningful opportunity to rescind sales to equity purchasers; and to preserve and protect home equities for the homeowners of this state. (2) This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate this intent and to achieve these purposes. History: Added Stats 1979 ch 1029 ? 1. Collateral References: Cal. Points & Authorities (Matthew Bender(R)) ch 121 "Interest" ? 121.33. 4 Witkin Summary (10th ed) Security Transactions in Real Property ?? 222, 223, 224, 225. Cal. Legal Forms, (Matthew Bender) ?? 23.11[3], 23.115, 23.137, 23.151, 23.211[1], 23.307[1], 23.308[1], 25D.28, 30D.10[1]. Hierarchy Notes: Div. 3, Pt. 2, Tit. 5, Ch. 2.5 Note LexisNexis 50 State Surveys, Legislation & Regulations Subprime & Predatory Lending How to Demand a Jury Trial in Eviction In the State of California we have the right to a jury trial in U.D. Evictions. Both the landlord (bank) and the tenant (homeowners facing forclosure eviction) have a right to a jury trial. The side that wants the jury trial must file and serve to all parties a Notice of Jury Fee deposit, and proof the document was served to all parties and pay the court $150 for jury fees when the Notice of Jury Fee Deposit is filed. If the tenant wants to have a jury trial and the landlord didn't ask for one, the tenant has to file and serve the landlord with a Counter-Request. (form UD-150) or file a pleading entitled Demand for a Jury Trial.(form available in NOLO tenant's rights book in the law library) The procedures vary in different counties, and other States, so if you want a jury trial make certain you know what the next step is in your county. ( ask in the law library)In some counties, there is mandatory settlement meeting before a jury trial. Also, with a jury trial, you will need to timely file other forms like jury instructions, and jury questions and verdict forms. Ask legal aid, self help center, or your local law library for samples of these documents. Try following this link for legal help; http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/lowcost/ Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 17 10:23:03 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:23:03 -0700 Subject: [GJM] GCI CELEBRATES ITS 2ND ANNIVERSARY! Message-ID: <006301cb25cc$97aeea10$c70cbe30$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS As we all know, the human body and everything else in the Universe is a subtly vibrating energy field. This is the focus of research at the Institute of HeartMath. And the Global Coherence Initiative is a project of the Institute. What the Institute is doing is bringing people together to direct focused meditation as a means of bringing about coherent energy field patterns around the world. The Institute is then able to monitor changes in the earth's energetic fields to determine changes brought about by these focused meditations and as well to monitor behavioral changes in the areas of focus. For instance crime rates in certain cities have been reduced using focused meditation as a methodology. So, what I want to do at this time is to bring the work of the Institute of HeartMath into awareness on the TransitionUS network as well as to the Co-learner's group here. And, I hope that all of you will take note of this and join the Global Coherence Initiative in bringing about coherence patterns around the world so we truly become a "world at peace." What we are doing in this way is far more powerful than is the use of guns and other weapons. Now here is the message I just received from my dear friend, Bruce Cryer. May we all be the change we wish to see in our lives. mr Bruce Cryer July 16, 2010 at 12:38pm Subject: GCI CELEBRATES ITS 2ND ANNIVERSARY! Greetings GCI member, It's the Global Coherence Initiative's 2nd birthday! That's right, two years ago we launched GCI and many, many wonderful things have taken place since. Today we have over 25,000 members from all over the world-84 countries to date have members. The more committed members we have, practicing coherence and joining together in a co-creative process, the more we can do to facilitate the obvious Shift taking place throughout the planet. Here is something we invite you to do to celebrate this anniversary and help bring more people into GCI. Go to the Tell a Friend button on the GCI Website ( http://www.facebook.com/l/ba893-HS33RN94FAwGrFMOaodXw;glcoherence.org) which can be found on the right-hand side of most any page. Just click on it and you will then find a simple format for sending messages to others about GCI. We invite you to send a message to one or more people simply asking them to check out the GCI Website and join with you and over 25,000 others, if they would like. If every GCI member does this (it only takes a minute) we can increase our membership and therefore increase our effectiveness significantly. Now on to some new exciting news. The data transfer system that we've been working on for a long time is finally ready to connect multiple GCI Monitoring System Sites. Many thanks to the engineering team who worked so hard on this. We will be deploying two new sites at locations in other parts of the world this fall (we will let you know the locations once they are installed), giving us a total of three functional sites all connected to GCI's server at the Institute of HeartMath research center. This is an important and exciting step toward being able to observe changes in the earth's energetic fields. We are developing a new version of the Global Care Room. We will be using a Google Earth globe as well as making other changes that will make it easier for people to log in and for many thousands of people to be in the Global Care Room simultaneously! Many of you participated in the "Inner-Connectedness Study" and we sincerely thank you for that. A significant amount of valuable data was collected and GCI scientists are in the process of completing a detailed analysis of the information collected. A report on their findings will be released soon. Your donations have been critically helpful to us. They enabled us to complete the data transfer system, prepare for launching two new sites, conduct the "Inner-Connectedness Study", and more. We encourage you to continue to facilitate this ongoing initiative. If you could commit to donating just $1 a month it would be much appreciated and would help accelerate the GCI mission. http://www.facebook.com/l/ba893-HS33RN94FAwGrFMOaodXw;glcoherence.org To commemorate GCI's anniversary, we have an important event that we invite you to participate in if you can. On July 28th we will be doing a thirty minute Anniversary Care Focus Webinar to join together as a community to appreciate our collective efforts and to send heart-focused care to humanity and to our planet. You will receive a message about this event soon which will include more about the purpose/theme, exact times and the presenters. So, from our hearts to you - thank you. We've had two great years with many more to come. Your participation is so much appreciated. With Care, Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 17 13:15:09 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:15:09 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Effects of the Environment on Bipolar Disorder Message-ID: <007a01cb25e4$a01b3560$e051a020$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS It seems to me that the best question to ask here is: Can the environment we live in cause Bipolar Disorder? And when I am talking about environment, I am talking about our social systems which make up a large part of our environment and BPD being a "social disorder" brought about by the dissociation from our natural systems which were inherent at the beginning of our social evolution. However, as I have written many times before, the emergent qualities, many of which serve to give us more power in the world against the forces of nature, have tended to suppress the natural qualities which provided us with soul. This suppression of the feminine has cost us dearly in terms of health and well-being. Perhaps it is time to do away with the all male God and consider both Father Sun and Mother Earth as our parents. And, from that point of view, integrate both sides of the brain into the whole and entrain it with the heart brain so as to produce the "body/mind" connection or what is often referred to as the "holographic" brain which is all-knowing and all-seeing. Effects of the Environment on Bipolar Disorder By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. http://www.everydayhealth.com/blogs/livingintodayssocietywithbopolardisorder /effects-fo-the-enviroment-on-bipolar-disorder I had an interesting conversation today about what causes a mental disorder or where does it come from, specifically bipolar disorder. My view is that all of us are born with a brain that mechanically works differently than others, being bipolar or having other conditions like ADD may be natural, God given gifts and it's our society that creates this atmosphere where it becomes the disorder. I spent some time in Uganda, Africa and society is a lot different there. There isn't the pressure to fit into a mould and success isn't measured by the same standards as we have in our society. I saw people flourish in this environment and not have to struggle through life trying to figure out who they are. What I learnt is to find my own talents and improve on them, not fight against them. I often heard as a kid, 'You can do anything you want to'. No I can't and I really shouldn't try unless I have the burning passion and/or talent needed. Coming back to my conversation with my friend. He felt that all of us are born with this difference in our brain, normally called a chemical unbalance, and if we were placed in any environment from A-Z we would still feel and act the same way as we do now. The evidence in studies show that nutrition and the home, work or other environments affect a person with bipolar disorder greatly and suggests that one's genes play a part. It is recommended that someone with a mental disorder should have a stable, low stress and scheduled environment. There is a lot of data that refers to the fact that people have triggers when being bipolar. Symptoms you never had can be triggered by a major event leading you to your diagnosis or you can be triggered into having an episode. If this is true then there is a possibility that when someone with bipolar disorder is in an environment without stress and is eating healthy food, like where I was in Africa, they may not suffer as many or no side effects in which their bipolar disorder wouldn't interfere in their life. The following are some of the web pages I received my facts from. http://www.foodforthebrain.org/content.asp?id_Content=1713 http://www.healthyplace.com/bipolar-disorder/bipolar-treatment/how-triggers- affect-bipolar-disorder-gsd/menu-id-67/ http://www.phobias-help.com/bipolar_disorder/Causes_of_Bipolar_Disorder.html Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 17 20:08:03 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:08:03 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] The Economic Crunch We're in Message-ID: <009501cb261e$52fda4e0$f8f8eea0$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS While I have not said this in the exact same way, as you all know I have been writing about the lessening of need for human labor for a couple years now. Finally someone in the mainstream media is saying the same thing. -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:15 AM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] The Economic Crunch We're in The Economic Crunch We're in: Corporations Want Fewer Workers, But They Still Need Everyone to Be Consumers The recession has been a way for employers to cull payrolls -- and to discover that many jobs don't have to be filled again. July 15, 2010 | http://www.alternet.org/economy/147573/the_economic_crunch_we%27re_in%3A_co rporations_want_fewer_workers%2C_but_they_still_need_everyone_to_be_consumer s/?page=entire A hard truth about the U.S. economy is that corporations don't need as many of us as workers but still need us as consumers. That dilemma helps explain why unemployment is stuck near 10 percent and why the economic recovery is stumbling toward a double dip. The Washington Post reported Thursday that nonfinancial companies are sitting on $1.8 trillion - about one-fourth more than at the start of the recession - but won't add personnel in part because they're waiting for consumer demand to pick up, which isn't happening because many Americans don't have jobs or are afraid of losing theirs. Yet, even if that vicious cycle could be broken, there's another reason for the lack of hiring: companies have found they can make do with a lot fewer American workers. The recession has been a way to cull payrolls - and to discover that many jobs don't have to be filled again, either because of new technologies or because the jobs have been shifted overseas. Both these trends predated the recession but the rapid shedding of jobs since the Wall Street financial crash in 2008 - some eight million jobs lost - has spotlighted this structural change. Further, corporate determination to remain "lean" has turned the worker-surplus issue from a personal crisis for many American families into a systemic one for the country's economy. Predictably, the free-marketers at CNBC and the Wall Street Journal have echoed the political message of the Chamber of Commerce and other right-wingers who blame the sluggish rehiring on the Obama administration's health-care reform and the likelihood that President George W. Bush's tax cuts for the rich will lapse. That view fits with Ronald Reagan's economic orthodoxy which has dominated the United States for the past three decades. It holds that the answer to the nation's economic woes is always to cut taxes especially for the rich, to trust in corporate self-regulation, and to crack down on unions. Yet, the realistic answer to America's sorry economic state would seem to be the opposite: to raise taxes on the rich so investments can be made in the national infrastructure of education, transportation and technology; to impose reasonable regulations on corporations to prevent dangerous excesses and risks; and to ensure that workers (and consumers) get a fair shake. Through the federal taxing power, Washington could put Americans to work preparing the nation for the future, building high-speed rail, developing clean energy, improving education for all, advancing medical technologies, repairing the environment, and addressing a host of other national priorities. The Media Imbalance But a second hard truth about today's America is that the political/media structure is such that these steps are almost unimaginable. In the power centers of New York and Washington, in particular, Corporate America and its right-wing allies have built a propaganda apparatus that makes any serious discussion of these options political suicide. This propaganda machinery, which reaches across the United States through right-wing talk radio, Fox News and a variety of other outlets, guarantees that any politician (or media personality) who pushes too hard or too effectively for questioning the Reagan orthodoxy will be demonized. President Barack Obama is only the latest politician to learn this lesson. Though many on the American Left denounce Obama as a weak-kneed centrist too eager to compromise, he is portrayed to the rest of America as a radical socialist, sometimes even likened to Hitler and Stalin. It doesn't matter that these comparisons are as absurd as they are offensive. The point about propaganda is that if ugly attacks are repeated enough about some individual, many in the public will be influenced, consciously or subconsciously, to think of the person in a negative light. And as that trend gains momentum - as the politician's polls sink - the mainstream media will go with the flow, endlessly reprising stories about the person's slipping popularity and thus hastening the political decline. This pattern is almost inevitable unless there is a counterforce within the media that challenges the lies and distortions. But today's America has almost no Left media to speak of, at least nothing that compares with what the Right has built, and what Left media does exist tends to resent the political compromises that Obama and other Democrats have made. Thus, the media asymmetry causes Democratic politicians to make more compromises, hoping to limit the Right's ability to demonize them but further alienating and demoralizing the Democratic base. So, the outcome of Election 2010 seems likely to follow the same course as Election 1994, the last time a new Democratic president was in office and tried to enact some watered-down reforms. Again, Republicans are expected to win - and win big - which would then put them in position to block whatever is left of Obama's agenda and thus turn him into an actual (or virtual) lame duck. Though Bill Clinton did win reelection in 1996 against a weak Republican opponent (Bob Dole) with the help of a third-party candidate (Ross Perot), Clinton had to confine his second-term ambitions to "micro-programs" and to changes favored by the Republicans, such as the removal of Great Depression-era regulations of the banking system (a "modernization" that set the stage for the 2008 financial collapse). Investigating Obama If Republicans gain control of at least one house of Congress, they would surely launch a wave of investigations against Obama, much as the GOP did against Clinton. Unlike the Democrats who shy away from investigative controversies - turning their backs even on historic scandals such as Iran-Contra, Iraq-gate and contra-cocaine trafficking in the 1980s as well as George W. Bush's torture abuses and illegal wars last decade - the Republicans have no such qualms. They pounced all over trivial Clinton "scandals" like Whitewater and Travel-gate and impeached Clinton for lying about sex (though they could not muster a super-majority in the Senate for conviction). And Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, has vowed to be similarly aggressive now if he gains control of the House oversight committee next year. [Washington Post, July 4, 2010] So, with Obama embattled and the Democratic congressional majorities likely to shrink or disappear, the chances for the United States to confront its structural problems will only worsen. With unemployment staying high, many middle-class Americans will sink into a growing under-class. The rich will fight to keep as much of their oversized salaries and bonuses as possible, with the Republicans ensuring that the one political sure-thing will be that legislated tax increases won't happen. Indeed, the simplest way to address the nation's myriad of problems - by restoring the marginal tax rates for the rich back to the historical levels of, say, the Kennedy era (around 60 percent on their top income) - is the one thing that is almost impossible to contemplate. Since Reagan's presidency, the Republicans have been determined to "starve" the government of resources so it can't address problems like climate change, renewable energy, education, transportation, health care, housing, etc. The only big expenditure that the GOP won't cut is military spending, especially for overseas wars. Though the Republican vision of the future appears to guarantee a continued decline in the quality of American life, the Right's propaganda machinery makes any suggestion about the need to tax the rich more heavily akin to socialism. The Revolutionary War slogan, "no taxation without representation," has been transformed to something close to "no taxation, period." Remember the famous encounter between candidate Obama and "Joe the Plumber," who decried Obama's idea about the need to redistribute wealth from the upper-income levels to middle- and working-class Americans so the economy would work better. That debate remains at the center of America's economic struggles, as it has been since the Great Depression when income inequality and financial speculation were two key factors in the mass unemployment that followed the Crash of 1929. Two lessons learned were that a strong middle class and reasonable government regulations were necessary for a healthy economy. New Consensus That New Deal consensus held until 1980 when a new Reagan-era consensus took hold, claiming that tax cuts tilted toward the wealthy and reduced regulation of corporations were the route to prosperity. A corollary was that the wealthy deserved the lion's share because of their intelligence and hard work. Reagan and the Right sold many Americans, including large numbers of people from the lower economic strata, on the idea that it was unfair for the government to use the tax system to reverse the consolidation of wealth and the political power that went with it. However, the counter-argument is that virtually every rich person in the United States has benefited from the investment of taxpayers' money in creating the conditions for business success, from public education of workers, to the transportation infrastructure for shipping goods, to the research and development that opened opportunities in computer technology, medicines and the Internet. Indeed, to ensure that the benefits from these government investments are shared with some equity would require that the excess income at the top be recycled into other improvements of the nation's infrastructure and the quality of life for all Americans. In other words, by raising taxes on the rich, Washington could help create the jobs needed for addressing national problems and simultaneously break the vicious cycle that has left nearly 10 percent of Americans unemployed, the key fact that has depressed consumer demand. However, to change the dominant Reagan-era ideology - and thus to change America - would require smart investments from progressives in the information battles for the hearts and minds of the American voters. Only with the Right's orthodoxy challenged and the American people understanding their real choices might politicians gain the confidence and courage to do what's needed to get the United States back on the path of a healthy economy - and toward a revived democracy. Robert Parry's new book is Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq." From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 17 20:27:13 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:27:13 -0700 Subject: [GJM] The Cancer-Preventing Vitamin Your Doctor Is Likely Completely Clueless About Message-ID: <009601cb2621$014cae90$03e60bb0$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Recall that just a short time ago I wrote about being deficient in vitamins D3 and B1 and having anxiety attacks coupled with numbness and tingling in my feet and legs, so it is obvious that nutrients play a tremendous role in achieving wellness and something we need to pay more attention to. As well, researchers are just beginning to find out how important some of these vitamins and minerals are in preventing disease. And one of these is vitamin K. So, here is a heads up on this from Dr. Mercola. In this interview, Dr. Cees Vermeer, one of the world's top vitamin K researchers discusses the importance of this largely ignored and oft-forgotten vitamin. Vitamin K, just like vitamin D, is crucial for preventing cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease, and nearly everyone is deficient. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/17/cees-vermeer-i nterview.aspx Something that I want to mention here is that in recommending certain foods that contain vitamins and minerals necessary for our health, these respected physicians completely ignore the negative effect some of these foods have on the environment. And, I am talking mainly about the effect cattle-raising has, whether for beef or for milk and other dairy products, on the environment. Although let me say that the modern method of raising animals commercially for food is neither a healthy or sustainable practice. And I will do something more in depth on this later. But we must begin to look at things "holodynamically" - that is, we must consider all of the dimensions involved in any given situation. We cannot simply say that vitamin K is necessary for good health and that cheese is a good source while ignoring that cattle-grazing is one of the main factors in the cause of topsoil loss worldwide. Let me repeat again that civilization was built on topsoil and worldwide we are now losing topsoil at 17% faster than it can be replaced. Another critical factor here is that it takes an average of 100 years to replace one inch of topsoil, but this is dependent upon location specifics and can vary. And, just as we looked at raw coaco, whether in the form of bars or as a drink being a better replacement for coffee, when we look at all of the dynamics involved, we need to consider the relationship between topsoil loss and cattle-raising, and determine what the most sensible and cost effective thing to do is when all factors are taken into consideration. We simply cannot continue to "live to eat" and kill our life support system at the same time. We MUST come to grips that the manner in which we eat effects both the environment and our health in major ways. And, we must choose wisely what we do in this regard. So, I'm giving both Dr. Mercola and Dr. Cree an "F" on this. Doctors must begin to consider the health of our life support system first and then carefully recommend what is the best choice in the best interests of all concerned. I also want to note again that nutrition plays a key role in both mental and physical health according to Dr. Linus Pauling, although it has only been recently that much attention was paid to the role of nutrition in mental health. But let's visit again the TrueHope organization and the results achieved with their EMPowerPlus supplement in the treatment of Bipolar Disorder. http://www.truehope.com/ When we find treatment with this supplement providing an 80% heal rate as opposed to about 70% with treatment using lithium, which has been shown to damage the liver and kidneys over long term use - 10 years or more, then we must consider that supplements are benign in this respect and thus the better form of treatment in most cases. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 17 21:33:17 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:33:17 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Urgent Read: Fwd: Filibustering Recovery Message-ID: <00af01cb262a$37069010$a513b030$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS For quite some time I felt there was little difference between the Republicans and Democrats. However, over the last few months it has become increasingly apparent that being Republican stands for supporting the elite, read "those who control the Global Monetocracy System" and ensuring we-the-people are kept as wage slaves for their benefit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the refusal of the Republicans in Congress to pass the expanded unemployment insurance and tax cuts now up before them. But, of course, if these Republicans vote in the interests of we-the-people it ensures that they will not be re-elected next time around since the "old boy's network" will no longer support them. But, of course, this is the way politics have been set up for years and, are played to ensure that the money interests always win over social justice and with no regard for the costs to the natural environment over the long run. What this situation calls for, as we note that "jobs for pay" are fast disappearing and why, is a new monetary system that is "life-enhancing" and is not based on "work for pay" but rather on providing a meaningful way of life for everyone. The age and time for capitalism is simply over -- we have now moved out of the Industrial Age and into the Age of Knowledge. And this new age requires a different way of thinking and acting. Does anyone on this list comprehend what it means if there are 3.2 million people in the U.S. who have no way of obtaining food or shelter, along with the millions of others now out on the streets and already homeless and jobless, because they now have no income. And what about the 40,000 prison inmates just here in the State of California alone who are being released into the general population with little or no chance for work. Do you feel these people are going to take this sitting down and without protest? Again, while food sovereignty is the cornerstone of freedom, in an economy that is based solely on job creation with a paid wage, when that job disappears and there is no place for these people to turn for sustenance as the land once available for subsistence farming no longer exists because it has been bought up and turned into suburbs by developers. And our food supply is now shipped in from places like China, Israel, Peru, and Mexico, what do you feel is going to happen? Was this why George W. Bush set it up so that martial law could be instituted by the President, whomever that may be, without having to be approved by Congress? And, of course, wouldn't the Republicans love to the ones who are in control when this happens? The question of the day is: How do we-the-people reverse this situation and take back our power? -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 3:38 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Fwd: Filibustering Recovery *********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** On 7/17/2010 at 2:48 PM David Axelrod, The White House wrote: >Good afternoon, > > >Right now many Americans are still feeling the effects of the recession. >Small business owners are having a hard time getting the credit they need >to hire and grow, and millions of our friends and neighbors are still >looking for work. > > >In his Weekly Address, President Obama calls on Congress to stop their >procedural maneuvers and allow for a simple up or down vote on expanded >unemployment insurance and additional tax cuts and lending for small >businesses. These are? two much-needed measures that will provide a boost to our economy and relief to our friends and neighbors who can't find jobs. > > >Take a moment to hear what he has to say: > > > >[http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/17/weekly-address-filibustering-rec overy-obstructing-progress?utm_source=email&utm_medium=66&utm_content =graphic&utm_campaign=economy] > > >For the past 18 months, President Obama has been fighting to help small >business owners because he understands that small businesses are key to >getting the American people back to work. He has been fighting for expanded unemployment insurance because he understands that putting money in the pockets of the people who are most likely to spend it is a cost-effective way of boosting local economies and creating jobs. > > >Unemployment insurance is a vital lifeline for many families struggling to >find work in these tough times. Over the past few weeks, that lifeline has >disappeared for more than? 2 million Americans, and if Congress Doesn't act, that number will grow to 3.2 million people by the end of this month. > > >Getting our economy back on track hasn't been easy, but passing >important legislation to support small businesses and Americans looking >for work has proved nearly impossible. Repeatedly, Republicans have used >procedural maneuvers to deny this legislation an up or down vote. > > >There may be a lot of controversial topics out there, but support for >small businesses and unemployment insurance shouldn't be among them. > > >It's time for an up or down vote on these important measures. It's time for Congress to act. > > >Sincerely, > > >David Axelrod >Senior Advisor to the President > > >[http://www.whitehouse.gov/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=66&utm_content =footer&utm_campaign=economy] >Please do not reply to this email. Contact the White House >[http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/?ec=19] > >The White House ??? 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW ??? Washington, DC 20500 ??? >202-456-1111 > *********** END FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 17 21:45:02 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:45:02 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] NetNews July 18 2010 news that matters Message-ID: <00b701cb262b$dc40baf0$94c230d0$@net> -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:04 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] NetNews July 18 2010 news that matters (Entries are excerpts from website links. See links for full articles) Richard Haass In Newsweek: Rethink Afghanistan Because Nation Building Is Not Working And We're Not Winning Nicholas Graham Updated: 07-17-10 02:07 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/17/richard-haass-in-newsweek_n_650091. html Politico's Mike Allen reports in his Playbook today that the new issue of Newsweek will feature a major cover story by Richard Haass called "Rethinking Afghanistan: We're not winning. It's not worth it. Here's how to draw down in Afghanistan." The article is set to be published on Sunday. Haass, a well-respected voice on foreign affairs who presides over the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that the Afghan war as it's being prosecuted today is indeed a war of President Obama's choosing, playing off the past remarks of RNC chairman Michael Steele that caused a storm of controversy. In an excerpt obtained by Allen, Haas writes, "GOP chairman Michael ... Steele's critics are the ones who are wrong: the RNC chair was more correct than not on the substance of his statement, if not the politics. The war being waged by the United States in Afghanistan today is fundamentally different and more ambitious than anything carried out by the Bush administration. Afghanistan is very much Barack Obama's war of choice, a point that the president underscored recently by picking Gen. David Petraeus to lead an intensified counterinsurgency effort there. After nearly nine years of war, however, continued or increased U.S. involvement in Afghanistan isn't likely to yield lasting improvements that would be commensurate in any way with the investment of American blood and treasure. It is time to scale down our ambitions there and both reduce and redirect what we do. ... The war the United States is now fighting in Afghanistan is not succeeding and is not worth waging in this way. The time has come to scale back U.S. objectives and sharply reduce U.S. involvement on the ground. Afghanistan is claiming too many American lives, requiring too much attention, and absorbing too many resources. The sooner we accept that Afghanistan is less a problem to be fixed than a situation to be managed, the better." How Giant Food Corporations Are Giving Kickbacks to Schools to Get Their Products on Kids' Trays The reason why kids are served sugary cereals, Pop-Tarts, Otis Spunkmeyer muffins, and flavored milk that has nearly as much sugar as Coke or Mountain Dew. July 17, 2010 | http://www.alternet.org/food/147557/how_giant_food_corporations_are_giving_k ickbacks_to_schools_to_get_their_products_on_kids%27_trays_/ D.C. Public Schools in the last two years have taken in more than $1 million in corporate rebates -- referred to by some as "kickbacks" -- paid by giant food manufacturers as an inducement to place their brands on kids' cafeteria trays at school. Documents I obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that Chartwells, the company hired by D.C. Schools to provide food services at 122 schools across the city, through February of this year had declared $1,076,738 in rebates it received since its contract began in the fall of 2008. That represents 5 percent of the $18.7 million in purchases Chartwells billed the school system during that period. Under federal law, Chartwells is required to credit D.C. schools for any rebates it receives. Food manufacturers use the rebates as an incentive to entice purchasing agents to buy certain products over others for school meals. Rebates sometimes are referred to as "kickbacks" because powerful food service companies such as Chartwells expect to receive them, much the way grocers expect manufacturers to pay to have their goods displayed prominently on supermarket shelves. Critics charge that the rebates -- also referred to as "volume discounts" or "buy backs" -- act as a tool in the campaign to imprint processed and often sugary food brands in the minds of young children. Rebates help explain why kids in D.C. schools routinely are served sugary cereals such as Kellogg's Apple Jacks and snacks like Kellogg's Pop-Tarts, Otis Spunkmeyer muffins, Pepperidge Farm Giant Goldfish Grahams, and flavored milk from Cloverland Dairy that has nearly as much sugar as Coke or Mountain Dew. Arizona Immigrant Deaths In Desert Soaring 07/16/10 08:59 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/16/arizona-immigrant-deaths-desert_n_6 49902.html PHOENIX - The number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the medical examiner's office that handles the bodies is using a refrigerated truck to store some of them, the chief examiner said Friday. The bodies of 40 illegal immigrants have been brought to the office of Pima County Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Parks since July 1. At that rate, Parks said the deaths could top the single-month record of 68 in July 2005 since his office began tracking them in 2000. "Right now, at the halfway point of the month, to have so many is just a very bad sign," he said. "It's definitely on course to perhaps be the deadliest month of all time." From Jan. 1 to July 15, the office has handled the bodies of 134 illegal immigrants, up from 93 at the same time last year and 102 in 2008. In 2007, when the office recorded the highest annual deaths of illegal immigrants, 140 bodies had been taken there through July 15. Parks said his office, which handles immigrant bodies from three counties, is currently storing roughly 250 bodies and had to start using a refrigerated truck because of the increase in immigrant deaths this month. He said many of the bodies seem to be coming from the desert southwest of Tucson, where it tends to be hotter than eastern parts of the border or the Tucson metro area. Authorities believe the high number of deaths are likely due to above-average and unrelenting heat in southern Arizona this month and ongoing tighter border security that pushes immigrants to more remote, rugged and dangerous terrain. Erik Pytlak, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Tucson's average nighttime lows in the first 15 days of July are the hottest for that period in recorded history. Supporters of Sarah Palin's Senate Candidate Carry Assault Rifles in Parade [whose politics are well to the right of Atilla the Hun] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/supporters-of-sarah-palin_b_6486 50.html July 16, 2010 04:45 AM Supporters of Joe Miller--the U.S. Senate candidate supported by Sarah Palin in Alaska--carried assault rifles and wore open side arms during a festive community parade this week, while young children marched alongside them. Miller is running in the GOP primary against incumbent Republican US Senator Lisa Murkowski, a far more popular figure in Alaska these days than Palin, who quit her position as governor a year ago amidst a series of ethics scandals and an impending override of her federal stimulus veto. Footage of the event, located on Youtube and at the website of noted Alaska blogger Andrew Halcro, shows a handful of potbellied Miller supporters behind a black Humvee openly brandishing weapons at the Bear Paw Festival, a popular community celebration held annually in Eagle River and Chugiak (located north of Anchorage along the Old Glenn Highway on the way to the Palins' home town of Wasilla). The five-day festival includes a "Teddy Bear Picnic," barbecues, music and a historical fair. Miller, who received the Alaska Tea Party endorsement and whose politics are well to the right of Atilla the Hun, served as an assistant attorney for the Fairbanks North Star Borough from 2002-2009. He left amidst controversy last year and failed to include this position anywhere in his official campaign bio or web site. Palin's political action committee SarahPAC recently dished out a $5,000 contribution to Miller's campaign. Republicans divided on the importance of an agenda for midterm elections By Karen Tumulty and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 17, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071606 245.html?hpid=topnews Sometime after Labor Day, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner plans to unveil a blueprint of what Republicans will do if they take back control of the chamber. He promises it will be a full plate of policy proposals that will give voters a clear sense of how they would govern. But will Republicans actually want to run on those ideas -- or any ideas? Behind the scenes, many are being urged to ignore the leaders and do just the opposite: avoid issues at all costs. Some of the party's most influential political consultants are quietly counseling their clients to stay on the offensive for the November midterm elections and steer clear of taking stands on substance that might give Democratic opponents material for a counterattack. "The smart political approach would be to make the election about the Democrats," said Neil Newhouse of the powerhouse Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, which is advising more than 50 House and Senate candidates. "In terms of our individual campaigns, I don't think it does a great deal of good" to engage in a debate over the Republicans' own agenda. Others are skeptical that any Republican policy proposals will have much of an impact. "They really still have to have a sharp contrast with the Democrats," said John McLaughlin, another leading Republican pollster whose firm counts both the House and Senate campaign committees among its clients. "They really need to drive that home before people will be willing to listen to what Republicans stand for." It's not that Boehner (Ohio) is arguing for a cease-fire. The debate among Republicans comes down to this: The speaker-in-waiting, for all his love of political combat, thinks that voters will not trust GOP candidates if their attacks don't also provide at least some substance. The consultants argue that public anger, if properly stoked, alone can carry the party over the finish line. In their view, getting bogged down in the issues is a distraction and even a potential liability. Ethanol gets skewered by recent CBO assessment Posted 16 Jul 2010 2:41 PM By Tom Philpott http://www.grist.org/article/2010-07-16-ethanol-gets-skewered-by-recent-cbo- assessment/ Corn-based ethanol: environmental panacea or agricultural boondoggle? The Congressional Budget Office had been charged by Congress to calculate just what the public is getting for its investment in ethanol production. Here's their blistering report. Racism In The Tea Parties July 16, 2010 http://pr.thinkprogress.org/ In passing a resolution condemning the racist elements within the Tea Party this week, the NAACP set off a media firestorm over the merits of its charge against the right-wing movement. As the Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates notes, critics bemoaned the resolution as a silly stunt that "heightened division" and implied that racist extremists define the membership of the Tea Party. Such a wholesale charge would certainly be exaggerated and inaccurate, but that was not the charge the NAACP made. "The resolution was amended during the debate to specifically ask the Tea Party itself to repudiate the racist elements and activities of the Tea Party." As NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous said, "We're simply asking them to repudiate racist acts and bigotry in their ranks or accept responsibility." But instead of acknowledging and disassociating themselves from the more radical actions of their membership, Tea Party leaders have said that racist elements are non existent. In hurling accusations of racism back at the NAACP, Tea Party leaders have wielded a professed desire for colorblindness as a whitewashing tool. But Tea Party members are employing a defense that only perpetuates the racism they are desperately trying to refute. Wall St and peak oil July 15, 2010 11:00am by Kate Mackenzie http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/07/15/wall-st-and-peak-oil/ One of the enduring lines about peak oil is that authorities keep it a secret because there would be some kind of financial havoc if it were revealed. A recent example is a claim that Steven Chu, US energy secretary: ". knows all about peak oil, but he can't talk about it. If the government announced that peak oil was threatening our economy, Wall Street would crash." Is it really possible that oil traders, investors and analysts haven't heard of peak oil? Or that they have decided to ignore it altogether? First, peak oil is hardly shunned by the financial world; just Google 'peak oil funds' to see how many investment managers are basing their strategy around this. Oil market traders can't ignore the question of peaking oil production either, because the supply/demand balance is intrinsically bound up with oil prices. So they follow it as though their livelihoods depend on it. If the supply of other liquid fuels such as bioethanol proves inadequate to make up the shortfall of demand, then the price of oil will inevitably go up. In fact that's what some believe happened in 2008 when crude prices did reach $147 per barrel: Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest source of oil and its only significant "swing" producer, ran out of spare capacity. Morgan Downey, author of 'Oil 101?, made that very argument. Though in his personal capacity, he was at the time a senior commodities trader at Standard Chartered. He was hardly alone in being concerned about capacity. True, some financial analysts have faith in the potential of technology to overcome the problem of increasingly scarce supplies of easy oil. But they know this is an unknown. On the whole, market traders and analysts do talk about the risk of demand outpacing supply. Quite a lot, in fact - as John Kemp of Reuters wrote last month, many oil market analysts spent much of last year focusing on an imminent tightening of supply. They may couch it in terms of "supply crunch" rather than "peak oil", but the basic concern is the same. Goldman Sachs famously predicted during 2008 that oil would hit $200 a barrel. Despite being a little wide of the mark (prices peaked at $147) commodities analysts at Goldman were talking in 2009 about a looming energy crisis and a shortfall as early as the second half of 2010. Although they attributed this to lack of investment and geopolitical constraints, the message was still that oil supply was at risk. Bernstein Research is another one we wrote about last year, warning about flow rates, particularly on newer oil plays. Of course there are others who argue that supply-side risks in general are overblown, pointing to Iraq or slowing world demand. Deutsche Bank analysts, for example, wrote last year about 'the end of the age of oil', arguing that oil demand looked increasingly like peaking before supply did. Sceptics of this argument will point out that information about global reserves is opaque, particularly from Saudi Arabia and other Opec nations. That is a very good point. But market participants know this. Their jobs involve poring over reports such as the IEA's 2008 oil field survey, which made clear that its decline rates were estimates based on a sample of fields. Markets price that uncertainty in. Look at prices: crude oil has remained well above $70 for much of the past 12 months, a price point that baffled many commentators. Why should oil prices reach what are historically high prices at a time when emergence from global recession was far from assured? Report: 'It's Clear That Some With Racist Agendas Are Trying To Make Inroads Into' The Tea Party http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/16/racist-tea-party/ This week, the NAACP approved a resolution condemning what it called "racist elements" within the Tea Party movement. "You must expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take full responsibility for all of their actions," NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said. Conservatives and tea partiers immediately took offense. Rush Limbaugh called the resolution "not true," while Sarah Palin said it is "false" and "appalling." Sean Hannity claimed he "can't find any" racist Tea Party signs, while Tea Party Express founder Mark Williams attacked the NAACP, claiming it makes "more money off race than any slave trader ever." But as ThinkProgress has documented, there is racism in the Tea Party movement. Moreover, a new report from the Kansas City Star digs deeper into the racist elements of the Tea Party and citing various instances of racism linked to the movement, concludes that "it's clear that some with racist agendas are trying to make inroads into the party," noting that "in several instances, tea party members with racist backgrounds": Still Looking Out For Wall Street, Leading Republicans Are Already Calling To Repeal Financial Reform http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/16/immediately-congress-financial-reform/ Earlier this week, the Senate voted 60-39 to pass Congress's financial regulatory reform bill, setting the stage for President Obama to sign it into law next week. The bill installs new safeguards and protections for consumers in their interactions with financial institutions and is a response to the economic crisis started in 2008 largely due to bad behavior by the world's most powerful financial institutions. Yet, just as they did for the health care bill earlier in the year, leading Republicans have already started calling for a repeal of the bill, this time before it has even been signed into law: - Even before the bill passed the Senate, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters on the day of the vote, "I think it ought to be repealed." [7/15/10] - "If we were in a position to do something, maybe [Boehner] is right," said GOP Policy Chairman Sen. John Thune (ND), endorsing Boehner's call for repeal. [7/15/10] - Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-AL) said he'd "love for it to be repealed." [7/16/10] - Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, told Good Morning America that he and other Republicans would "like to repeal it." [7/16/10] Greenspan Calls For Full Expiration Of The Bush Tax Cuts That He Helped Enact http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/16/greenspan-bush-expire/ With the legislative calendar starting to dwindle, lawmakers are paying more and more attention to the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts at the end of the year. Republicans across the board are advocating for the extension of all the cuts, and have explicitly said that extending the cuts for the richest 2 percent of Americans (which would cost $678 billion) does not have to be paid for. President Obama has called for letting the cuts for the very richest expire, allowing the rates to reset to where they were under the Clinton administration. In an interview with Bloomberg News' Judy Woodruff, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan went a step further, calling for all of the tax cuts to expire, essentially sending the tax code back to 2001: WOODRUFF: On those tax cuts, they are due to expire at the end of this year. Should they be extended? What should Congress do? GREENSPAN: I should say they should follow the law and let them lapse. WOODRUFF: Meaning what happens? GREENSPAN: Taxes go up. The problem is, unless we start to come to grips with this long-term outlook, we are going to have major problems. I think we misunderstand the momentum of this deficit going forward. Greenspan's right that addressing the long-term structural deficit is going to require raising some taxes, as getting the budget anywhere near balance entirely on the spending side would mean draconian cuts to popular programs that Americans support and rely on. But Greenspan was able to call for allowing the cuts while conveniently leaving out his role in getting them enacted in the first place. One Million Americans To Lose Their Homes. Where Will They Go And How Will They Live? By Susie Madrak Saturday Jul 17, 2010 6:30am http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/one-million-americans-lose-their-home A new report predicts more than 1 million American households will lose their homes due to foreclosure: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynewspoint/20100715/ts_ynewspoint/ynewspoint_ts3125 Nearly 528,000 homes were foreclosed in the first six months of 2010. As lenders work through a huge backlog of borrowers behind on their mortgages, even more home repossessions could occur before the end of the year. According to RealtyTrac, Inc., a foreclosure listing service, the number of households facing foreclosure in the first half of the year climbed 8 percent when compared to the same time frame last year. In June, 1 in every 411 households received a foreclosure filing. The fastest growing group of foreclosures involved homeowners with good credit who took out conventional fixed-rate loans. Many of these borrowers have fallen behind in their mortgages due to unemployment or reduced income. It takes about 15 months for a home loan to go from being 30 days late to the property being seized and sold. Between January and June of this year, about 1.7 million homeowners received a foreclosure-related warning. At the time of this writing, more than 7.3 million home loans are in some stage of delinquency. The states experiencing the highest foreclosure rates are California, Florida, Michigan, Illinois, Arizona and Nevada. Hannity: 'I can't find any' racist Tea Party signs By David Saturday Jul 17, 2010 3:30pm http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/38413 Fox News' Sean Hannity is having trouble finding racist signs at Tea Party events but maybe that's because he's just not looking very hard. Radio host Steven A. Smith joined Hannity Thursday night to discuss a resolution passed by the NAACP condemning racism in the Tea Party. "The NAACP, they have the resolution -- explicitly racist behavior," said Hannity. "Do you have any specific examples?" "Is there any example [of] any Tea Party members said anything racist, held any racist signs? Because we can't find any," Hannity asked Smith. "[The NAACP] was saying that folks held racist signs in various cities," answered Smith. "I don't know." But racially tinged signs from Tea Party events are widespread on the Internet. A sign from a Madison, Wisconsin Tea Party reads "Obama's Plan -- White Slavery." A sign from another event says "Obama -- What you talkin about Willis! Spend my money?" "Obamanomics -- Monkey see, Monkey spend!" reads a sign from a Denver Tea Party. Analysis of Latest Obama Administration Small Business Contracting Data Released By: Lloyd Chapman Saturday July 17, 2010 12:00 pm http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/60275 The American Small Business League (ASBL) has released the first analysis of the government's fiscal year (FY) 2009 small business contracting data (PDF). The ASBL conducted a review of the top 100 recipients of federal small business contracts for FY 2009. Within its sample, the ASBL identified 61 large firms, which received 64.5 percent of the total dollars the government claimed to have awarded to small businesses. The ASBL also identified a series of Fortune 500 corporations and other large firms in the government's 2009 contracting data. Recipients of small business contracts included: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, L-3 Communications, British Aerospace (BAE), Northrop Grumman, General Electric, Booz Allen Hamilton, Thales Communications, General Dynamics, and Dell Computer. In addition to large corporations in the government's 2009 small business contracting numbers, the ASBL also uncovered gross discrepancies in the volume of contracts awarded to some companies. In a sampling of the data, the ASBL uncovered several examples in which the volume of contracts awarded to legitimate small businesses was dramatically inflated. This appears to be an intentional attempt by the government to misrepresent the actual volume of contracts awarded to small businesses. Another technique the ASBL has uncovered is the exclusion of billions of dollars in large prime contracts from the government's small business calculations, which further inflates the percentage of federal contracts the government claims to have awarded to legitimate small businesses. The ASBL has recommended that the Obama Administration take the following steps to increase the volume of federal contracts awarded to small businesses: . Issue an executive order to stop the government from reporting awards to publicly traded companies as small business awards. . Abolish the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program, which currently allows prime contractors to avoid any reporting or penalties for non-compliance of small business subcontracting goals. . Implement the 5 percent set-aside goal for women-owned firms for all industries. FY 2009 marks the tenth consecutive year that the government has diverted federal small business contracts to corporate giants. The SBA has gone from telling us that the diversion of federal small business contracts was a 'myth' to telling us that it's the result of 'simple human error.' It is time for President Obama to honor his campaign promise, when he said, "It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants." From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 17 22:17:10 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:17:10 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: For the Economy, Help Is Not on the Way Message-ID: <00cf01cb2630$57b8b6c0$072a2440$@net> Thanks to Trading Post Paul for this one. When one runs out of the stuff that bubbles are made of, then it becomes obvious that no more bubbles can be blown. Such is the case with the economy, and collapse is an inevitable result of corruption in structures to weak to stand any longer. And, at this point no president could have staved off what has been wrong since the Constitution was first instituted. Thomas Jefferson knew then what we are just now learning the hard way. -----Original Message----- From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of TradingPostPaul Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:08 PM To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] For the Economy, Help Is Not on the Way For the Economy, Help Is Not on the Way http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/15-12 by Ted Rall Thursday, July 15, 2010 TORONTO--Twenty years ago, in 1990, the American economy was in the third year of a deep recession. It was impossible to find a job. The 1980s housing bubble had popped; high-end housing prices in New York City dropped by 80 percent. Then, as now, the president seemed oblivious, aloof and clueless. Two years later, with no recovery in sight, angry voters turned him out of office. But help was on the way. Something called the World Wide Web appeared in 1991. Two years later, Mosaic--the first graphic web browser, which would evolve into Netscape--was introduced. The Internet boom began. It flamed out seven years later, but in the meantime tens of millions of Americans collected new, higher paychecks. They spent their windfall. Consumer spending exploded. So did government tax revenues. When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, the Office of Management and Budget was projecting a $5 trillion surplus over the next ten years--enough to pay off the national debt and fund Social Security for decades. Unemployment had fallen to four percent. United States GDP accounted for a quarter of the global economy. It's different this time. We are in a deep depression: calculated the same way as it was in the 1930s, the unemployment rate is the same as it was in 1934. Global credit markets have stalled. Investment has ceased. And help isn't coming. Despair oozes between the lines of media interviews of economists. Asked where the recovery will come from, they run down the list of theoretical possibilities, dismissing them one by one. The question remains unanswered. Which is, of course, the answer. No one knows where the recovery will come from for a simple reason: It isn't coming. Not any time soon. "A robust rebound in retail sales earlier in the spring had fueled hopes that consumer spending--which makes up about 70% of U.S. economic activity--would give a strong lift to the recovery. But now that is looking increasingly unlikely," reported The Los Angeles Times. "Households are not going to be the engine of growth for some time," Paul Dales of Capital Economics told the newspaper. "In past recoveries, booming construction activity led the way, fueling spending and other economic activity. That's not happening this time," said the Times. If there's some new technological innovation--like the Internet in the early 1990s--waiting in the wings, no one has heard or seen it. Forget about Congress. The feds wasted hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out banks, insurance companies and big automakers who used our taxpayer money to give raises to their top executives and remodel their offices. Meanwhile, the stimulus that needed to happen--bailing out distressed homeowners, small businesses and individuals who lost their jobs--never happened. Now Congress is worried about the deficit. So read my lips: no new bailouts, not even one that might actually work. Some think the U.S. could export its way out of the depression. But a radical restructuring of trade agreements and manufacturing infrastructure would have to come first, followed by years of expansion. U.S. policymakers haven't even begun to think about the first move. Moreover, the rest of the world isn't in a position to buy our stuff. The rate of expansion of the economies of China and Japan is slowing down. Germany and other EU nations are imposing austerity measures. Globalization is key. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, John H. Makin argues that the actions of individual G20 nations threaten to bring the whole system crashing down in a Keynesian "paradox of thrift." Makin says: "Because all governments are simultaneously tightening fiscal policy, growth is cut so much that revenues collapse and budget deficits actually rise. The underlying hope or expectation that easier money, a weaker currency, and higher exports can somehow compensate for the negative impact on growth from rapid, global fiscal consolidation cannot be realized everywhere at once. The combination of tighter fiscal policy, easy money, and a weaker currency, which can work for a small open economy, cannot work for the global economy." Adds Mike Whitney of Eurasia Review: "Obama intends to double exports within the next decade. Every other nation has the exact same plan. They'd rather weaken their own currencies and starve workers than raise salaries and fund government work programs. Class warfare takes precedent over productivity, a healthy economy or even national solvency. Contempt for workers is the religion of elites." One can hardly blame workers for fighting back. Two weeks after hundreds of protesters rioted at the G20 summit meeting, Toronto police are pouring through thousands of photos and are using facial recognition software to track down offenders. They have even released a Top 10 "Most Wanted" list and related pictures of activists. Whether or not the anti-globalization protesters are motivated by the struggle for liberation and economic equality, they symbolize the industrialized world's best chance to prevent the economy from continuing its current process of slow-motion collapse. If the system cannot be saved by consumers, business or government, the system itself must be revamped and replaced. Late-period global capitalism's constant cycle of booms and busts is unsustainable and intolerable. States must regulate and equalize incomes, and control production. If the cops were smart, they would track down and arrest those people who really are ruining the economy. They could start by listing and releasing the photos of the attendees of the G20. C 2010 Ted Rall Ted Rall is the author of the new book "Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?," and "The Anti-American Manifesto," to be published in September by Seven Stories Press. His website is tedrall.com. From rodney.shakespeare1 at btopenworld.com Sun Jul 18 15:57:50 2010 From: rodney.shakespeare1 at btopenworld.com (Rodney Shakespeare) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:57:50 +0100 Subject: [GJM] obama deception censored -- an extraordinary piece of prophecy Message-ID: <005b01cb26c4$462311a0$d26934e0$@shakespeare1@btopenworld.com> Dear All, The internet video "The Obama Deception" video is being censored by Google. The video, produced a month or so after Obama took office, basically says that Obama and Bush serve the same interests and forecasts virtually everything that has happened during Obama's Presidency. It was, and is, an extraordinary piece of prophecy, If you have not seen "The Obama Deception" on the internet you should do so now because copies can still be found if you search. But, very soon, be warned, the censors will have succeeded in destroying every copy on the internet The USA is rapidly moving towards fascism and this censorship is the latest evidence. Rodney Shakespeare. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rodney.shakespeare1 at btopenworld.com Sun Jul 18 16:16:38 2010 From: rodney.shakespeare1 at btopenworld.com (Rodney Shakespeare) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:16:38 +0100 Subject: [GJM] infowars.com In-Reply-To: <005b01cb26c4$462311a0$d26934e0$@shakespeare1@btopenworld.com> References: <005b01cb26c4$462311a0$d26934e0$@shakespeare1@btopenworld.com> Message-ID: <008401cb26c6$e4727ec0$ad577c40$@shakespeare1@btopenworld.com> Dear All, Another aspect of the censorship is the attempt to hide the growing internet success of www.infowars.com (which is now beating all the other comparable channels). The infowears.com website is by far the best internet website for continually updated, highly relevant, news presented in the form of short articles. I highly commend it. Also at the website you can click on the "Alex Jones Show Listen Now" banner and hear the radio programme. It is libertarian, gold and gun-supporting and so it may not be to the taste of GJM members, BUT you really do learn the latest information and analysis and there is nothing else like it on the internet. On censorship, apparently 73,000 (seventy three thousand) blogs have been censored in the last week on purely political grounds. Almost all of the blogs are those critical of the USA government. So, now you know ...large-scale fascist censorship could soon be here. Rodney Shakespeare. From: discussion-bounces at globaljusticemovement.net [mailto:discussion-bounces at globaljusticemovement.net] On Behalf Of Rodney Shakespeare Sent: 18 July 2010 22:58 To: Discussion Forum for Global Justice Subject: [GJM] obama deception censored -- an extraordinary piece of prophecy Dear All, The internet video "The Obama Deception" video is being censored by Google. The video, produced a month or so after Obama took office, basically says that Obama and Bush serve the same interests and forecasts virtually everything that has happened during Obama's Presidency. It was, and is, an extraordinary piece of prophecy, If you have not seen "The Obama Deception" on the internet you should do so now because copies can still be found if you search. But, very soon, be warned, the censors will have succeeded in destroying every copy on the internet The USA is rapidly moving towards fascism and this censorship is the latest evidence. Rodney Shakespeare. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rodney.shakespeare1 at btopenworld.com Sun Jul 18 16:36:57 2010 From: rodney.shakespeare1 at btopenworld.com (Rodney Shakespeare) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:36:57 +0100 Subject: [GJM] Censorship -- unemployment In-Reply-To: <008401cb26c6$e4727ec0$ad577c40$@shakespeare1@btopenworld.com> References: <005b01cb26c4$462311a0$d26934e0$@shakespeare1@btopenworld.com> <008401cb26c6$e4727ec0$ad577c40$@shakespeare1@btopenworld.com> Message-ID: <009501cb26c9$bab3ab10$301b0130$@shakespeare1@btopenworld.com> Dear All, And the basic reason for the censorship is that while the official figure for USA unemployment is just under 10%, the alternative analyses of the situation (which include people on just a few hours work and those who are discouraged) are around 20 - 22%. Worse, I have just seen that a survey of families (the sample was 1000) is showing around 28% unemployed, very similar to the previous month's figure. And. NB, war on Iran is building - the reason is to hide the deteriorating economic situation (and it should be remembered that the 2007/8 view of 16 (sixteen) USA intelligence agencies was that Iran is not building a bomb) and they have issued nothing to contradict that. There's just a continual drip, drip, drip of propaganda alleging weapons of mass destruction, exactly as there was before the attack on Iraq. Rodney Shakespeare. From: discussion-bounces at globaljusticemovement.net [mailto:discussion-bounces at globaljusticemovement.net] On Behalf Of Rodney Shakespeare Sent: 18 July 2010 23:17 To: 'Discussion Forum for Global Justice' Subject: [GJM] infowars.com Dear All, Another aspect of the censorship is the attempt to hide the growing internet success of www.infowars.com (which is now beating all the other comparable channels). The infowears.com website is by far the best internet website for continually updated, highly relevant, news presented in the form of short articles. I highly commend it. Also at the website you can click on the "Alex Jones Show Listen Now" banner and hear the radio programme. It is libertarian, gold and gun-supporting and so it may not be to the taste of GJM members, BUT you really do learn the latest information and analysis and there is nothing else like it on the internet. On censorship, apparently 73,000 (seventy three thousand) blogs have been censored in the last week on purely political grounds. Almost all of the blogs are those critical of the USA government. So, now you know ...large-scale fascist censorship could soon be here. Rodney Shakespeare. From: discussion-bounces at globaljusticemovement.net [mailto:discussion-bounces at globaljusticemovement.net] On Behalf Of Rodney Shakespeare Sent: 18 July 2010 22:58 To: Discussion Forum for Global Justice Subject: [GJM] obama deception censored -- an extraordinary piece of prophecy Dear All, The internet video "The Obama Deception" video is being censored by Google. The video, produced a month or so after Obama took office, basically says that Obama and Bush serve the same interests and forecasts virtually everything that has happened during Obama's Presidency. It was, and is, an extraordinary piece of prophecy, If you have not seen "The Obama Deception" on the internet you should do so now because copies can still be found if you search. But, very soon, be warned, the censors will have succeeded in destroying every copy on the internet The USA is rapidly moving towards fascism and this censorship is the latest evidence. Rodney Shakespeare. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sun Jul 18 21:12:16 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:12:16 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Must watch. FW: Safe, effective solutions ignored Message-ID: <003101cb26f0$72e555f0$58b001d0$@net> Thanks Lorin. Very interesting. 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URL: From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Mon Jul 19 03:18:24 2010 From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (Robert Searle) Date: 19 Jul 2010 02:18:24 -0700 Subject: [GJM] China warns tourists on " forced shopping" in Hong Kong  - Yahoo! News UK Message-ID: Robert Searle (dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk) has sent you a news article X-Originating-IP: 77.238.190.51 -------------------- Personal message text: -------------------- China warns tourists on "forced shopping" in Hong Kong?? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100719/tod-oukoe-uk-china-hongkong-tourism-b7afd8f.html ============================================================ From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Mon Jul 19 03:22:24 2010 From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (Robert Searle) Date: 19 Jul 2010 09:22:24 +0000 Subject: [GJM] Government urged to invest more in low-carbon technologies  - Yahoo! 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News UK Message-ID: Robert Searle (dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk) has sent you a news article X-Originating-IP: 217.12.6.88 -------------------- Personal message text: -------------------- Hungary rules out austerity to IMF/EU?? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100719/tts-uk-hungary-imf-ca02f96.html ============================================================ From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 19 05:20:11 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:20:11 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Oh so true Message-ID: <001f01cb2734$9a7850b0$cf68f210$@net> If there is such a thing as "evil," then this IMHO has become the face of evil. Whether its spreading wrong information about what's happening in the Gulf of Mexico, or putting out false information about the real rate of unemployment and its cause, these people are fast at work spreading lies. They are also the face of the military-industrial complex that has taken control of the U.S. in collusion with the bankers. And, while President Eisenhower warned us about this, we sat by and let it happen. But what is so very dangerous about this group is the insidious way in which they manage to twist things so that black looks white and people just eat it up. Thank you Marilyn. With love and in gratitude for all that you do. From: Marilyn Nyborg [mailto:mnyborg at me.com] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:58 PM To: mary rose Subject: Oh so true -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/png Size: 105948 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 19 05:35:19 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:35:19 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Comment from Mary Rose Message-ID: <002a01cb2736$badec530$309c4f90$@net> After I sent this message, it dawned on me that this is false information. The reason I know? Because I just happen to have contact with a person who owns technology similar to that mentioned in this video. And, I was told that it is being used in the Gulf at this time to help separate the oil. Maybe it's also time we woke up to the fact that Brasscheck is one of the faces of the military-industrial complex and a propaganda source. From: Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:35 PM Subject: [SPAM]Safe, effective solutions ignored Some serious mysteries and unanswered questions are arising from the BP oil spill. The strange thing is that not only are they not being addressed in the mainstream news, they're also not being raised by the so-called conspiracy press. Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/896.html - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. ================================ Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115 To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?zAxs7OwctMwcrOwMzExstEa07MzsjAxsbA== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 19 06:22:40 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:22:40 -0700 Subject: [GJM] OIL CONTAINED WITH CAP, BUT MAY BE LEAKING ELSEWHERE Message-ID: <003201cb273d$53be7470$fb3b5d50$@net> While all may not be "good news" here, I find hope in that the same amount of oil as has been flooding into the Gulf has now been slowed , and it appears that some headway may be in the making in this horrendous event that cannot help but affect all life on the planet in some way or other. May we all join up with the Global Coherence Initiative and direct some healing energy into this situation through directed meditation. Right now, this is the most effective thing we can do. While I didn't forward it due to so much other important news in the offing, I did get a very nice message from Bruce Cryer of the Institute of HeartMath thanking me for sharing GCI with my networks. OIL MAY BE LEAKING ELSEWHERE http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail180710.htm Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 19 14:23:31 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:23:31 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: thick slick Message-ID: <006a01cb2780$7d87a590$7896f0b0$@net> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephanie Sutton Date: Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:42 PM Subject: thick slick To: Stephanie Sutton Thank You Holly for this mind blasting truth telling hard to digest register of what's happening to us and to the earth and to the very foundation of all that we've ever felt dear to. Steph From: Holly Keifer Date: July 18, 2010 6:37:03 PM MST To: Stephanie Sutton Subject: FW: thick slick a variety of details worth researching/clarifying: Subject: A humanitarian environmentalist, medical doctor. . .speaks on oil spill. Treachery In The Gulf By Robbi Skye Campbell 6-29-10 What has happened in the Gulf of Mexico was not by accident. It was most likely a design to support an agenda. What that agenda is we do not know exactly but I will try to connect the dots. We may soon know the true extent of its nature by the "solutions" our government imposes on the people in the Gulf area. There are some major problems: The Obama administration allowed BP to drill at an unstable site (highly over pressured) in 5,000 feet of water; BP CEO Tony Hayward dumped his BP stock 2 months before the spill; The well was kicking since they drilled into the production zone, so the drilling fluid or mud was underbalanced (mud weight not quite heavy enough for the upward pressure of the gas); Goldman Sachs dumped 44% of BP stock and went short on Transocean stock the day before the spill; The drilling crew knew that the annular blowout preventer was damaged and BP company man Kazula did not order it repaired; BP company man Kazula was a greenhorn on the Deepwater Horizon (he was inexperienced); The well was cased, cemented and had two cement abandonment plugs in place, so how could the well be kicking (trying to blow out)?; BP company man Kazula sent away the Schlumberger team (supposed to do the cement bond log to check Halliburton's cement job on the casing); Despite this the BP company man made the decision to change the mud over to seawater (seawater is 40% lighter than the drilling mud). This is not logical; Shouting match between the rig superintendent and the company man. Superintendent felt that the order to change over to seawater was irrational and suicidal; During the changeover of the mud to seawater is when the blowout naturally occurred; President Obama stood by but did not take action for at least three weeks after the spill; BP and the White House allowed the spill to continue; The White House allowed BP to spray the highly toxic chemical, Corexit 9500, which is considered to be four to ten times more toxic than the oil itself. EPA told BP not to use Corexit 9500 and BP ignored the federal agency. Corexit is being sprayed at nighttime on coastal residences by the CIA-front, Evergreen Air (which reportedly also sprays chemtrails); Negligible cleanup measures on the shores and at sea; Barack Obama sent SWAT teams to production platforms and drilling rigs; Obama sent the Army and National Guard into the Gulf States for what reason? Suppression of investigative reporting of the spill; BP arrested people taking pictures of the area; BP is allowed to reap the benefit of gathering oil rather than stopping the spill; Interests and livelihood of the residents suppressed and not considered in decisions; President Obama is using the spill to get the "Cap and Trade" bill passed; Twenty-two countries have offered their experience in spill control and cleanup but neither our government nor BP has accepted their offers; BP and Obama have declined to use non-toxic microbes as a clean-up measure; BP company man Kazula invoked the Fifth Amendment under congressional questioning of his orders. Where are the environmental groups? The Santa Barbara spill in 1969 was from an offshore drilling rig in the Santa Barbara Channel. It was a blowout on Union Oil's platform A; over ten days it was estimated that 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the channel and onto the beaches from Goleta to Rincon and all four Channel Islands. The oil spill prompted a congressional moratorium in 1981 on new offshore oil leasing with exceptions of the Gulf of Mexico and parts of offshore Alaska that remained in effect until 2008 when Congress did not renew it. This was the coming out of environmental groups. At the same time Friends of the Earth was heavily supported by BP, ARCO, and EXXON in its litigation against those companies to prevent the completion of the Alaska Pipeline until the price of oil was raised by the Ayatollah in 1978. Friends of the Earth then withdrew is lawsuit and the pipeline was allowed to begin transporting much more valuable oil. In 1989 we saw the Exxon Valdez spill which was the largest oil spill at 10.8 million gallons (250,000 barrels) when it hit the Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef. Others estimated a far greater amount, closer to 30 million gallons. It was considered to be one of the most devastating environmental disasters. The tanker's Rayas sonar was not turned on. It was broken and disabled for longer than one year and was considered too expensive to repair or replace. The environmental groups were all over them, and the media piled on. The Exxon Valdez crew was criticized for its slow response. The environmental groups were powerful and their voices were heard. In response to this spill the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) was passed by Congress. It prohibited after 22 MAR 1989 any vessel that has caused a spill of greater than one million US gallons in any marine area from operating in the Prince William Sound. Even though the tanker involved in the spill was double-hulled, this spill resulted in all tankers ordered to be double-hulled. To this day, the spill affects the lives of the people living in the Prince William Sound area. The cleanup has not been successful; more than 26,000 gals of oil remain on the shoreline and the marine life has not recovered. Only 10% of the oil was recovered. Even though the environmental groups may have had some effect on the spill it was the community that took the full brunt of the accident. The Chugach Alaska Corporation had to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Losses included recreational sports, fisheries, reduced tourism and of something economists call "existence value," which is the value to the public of a pristine Prince William Sound. The economy of Cordova, Alaska was adversely affected with damage to the herring and salmon stock. Several residents and the mayor committed suicide. Let's take a look at what happened to the cleanup crew of the Exxon Valdez. Workers stood in oil foam for 18 hours per day. The boats steered through a hydrocarbon haze. The workers came from the area fisherman and sportsmen suddenly jobless. They were hired by Exxon. They were treated for headaches, nausea, chemical burns, breathing problems. Many or all of them were never the same after working the summer for Exxon. Most of the workers died young due to lung disease (asthma, emphysema), liver, pancreatic and spleen problems. Workers went in 100% healthy and came out sick. Well and vibrant, they all became sick after a summer of hard work in Prince William Sound. There were thousands of workers affected by headaches, cancer, rashes, kidney and liver disease all the result of massive chemical exposure to the dispersants, solvents and crude oil mix. We may never know how many people were affected by the Exxon Valdez spill because Exxon and their cleanup company, Velco Inc., denied government investigators the medical records. * * * Russia is another country that has had uncontrollable blowouts. They have had five cratered blowouts. They found that drilling a relief well that intersects the wild well and then placing and detonating a nuclear device (which slid the formation across the wild well bore, choking it off) were successful solutions. In 1963 the Russians had a horrible blowout that lasted three years spewing twelve million cubic meters of flaming gas each day. Albert Vasiliev (nuclear physicist and gas well firefighter) said, "We were acting like surgeons in last resort cases, but it worked." The blowout sounded like 100 jet planes all at once. A nuclear blast choked it off. This method was found to be effective and they used it on similar cases. Vyacheslav Klishin (nuclear physicist, gas well firefighter) said, "One needs to tie up the well where the leak is. There are only two ways: 1. [A relief well to intersect the wild well, injecting mud and cement into the bore]; 2. A nuclear explosion." The Russians and other countries are obviously alarmed by the Gulf catastrophe and have offered their experience and expertise in wild well control, but Barack Obama and BP have ignored their offers. We can only infer from this that our government and BP are not going to control the well. There is an agenda, but what is it? What will happen if the well continues to release 125,000 barrels of oil and at least 9,000 PSI hydrogen sulfide, benzene and methylene chloride gases each day? Benzene is the aromatic hydrocarbon component of crude oil, which is highly toxic and carcinogenic to boot. Acceptable levels are 0 to 4 parts per billion. In Florida, Alabama and Louisiana they have measured 3,000 ppb on shore! Hydrogen sulfide is allowable at 5 to 10 parts per billion. In the above states, H2S has been measured at up to 1,200 ppb. The allowable limit of methylene chloride is 61 parts per billion. The same states have found levels as high as 3,000 to 3,400 ppd! The oil flow in the Gulf is equivalent to the Exxon Valdez every two days. It will follow the currents of the Gulf of Mexico to the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Bahamas and the Caribbean. Russian scientists have said that, once in the Gulf Stream, it will drastically affect the fishing industry globally. There are millions of families that have made their livelihoods on fishing, shrimping and crabbing. The restaurant, hotel and sports businesses based on tourism will be affected. The chemicals have evaporated into the atmosphere and have condensed, falling on the plant life, farms and the entire environment surrounding the Gulf of Mexico causing corrosive lesions on plants and killing the birds. It is now raining chemicals in Louisiana. There may be more that it has affected so far but this is what we have seen on the Internet and YouTube. The currents move around the peninsula of Florida and along the East Coast. This will directly affect more coastal regions in a similar fashion as what we are seeing in the Gulf. We are nearing the hurricane season which will drive the toxic mixture inland. The toxic combination of oil, methane and Corexit will continue to have detrimental effects on our environment and humanity. It is a carcinogen. The hydrocarbon fumes and Corexit are causing symptoms which will manifest in diseases that will afflict plants, animals and humans. People along the coastal regions will become sick and die prematurely. * * * It is ironic that the moral and ethical guidelines for the United Nations' Wildlands Project are based on the philosophy of "Deep Ecology." Our government and BP are creating a famine by letting the blowout continue in its present state. As mentioned above, the EPA objected to the use of Corexit 9500 but Barack Obama did not step in to stop its use. Greenpeace has a boat in the Gulf of Mexico performing research. Research is not the first step that is needed in this life-changing disaster. This is the only NGO environmental group that I have seen in the mainstream media. They have not spoken out on the marine life that is being killed daily, nor have they made any statements on the use of the cancerous chemical Corexit. There is a report from the Sea Turtle Restoration Project that BP has stopped the rescue of Kemp's Ridleys that were trapped in the oil. These sea turtles are being burned with the oil. Burning the oil releases toxic fumes into the atmosphere. We seem to be witnessing the collapse of the environmental organizations, none of which has an expected strident position regarding the worst ecological disaster that the modern world has ever known. Hasn't it been their self-appointed responsibility to speak out? Are the environmental organizations taking money from the big polluters? Every step during this disaster appears to be controlled by an unprecedented amount of greed. Even greed does not figure because so much natural wealth is being destroyed. What is really going on here? Barack Obama spoke to the nation for the first time last week with confident assurances that the Gulf coast would be restored to its original condition eventually. There was no method mentioned. He has made four photo ops trips to the Gulf region, conferring mainly with BP and local leaders. He did not speak to the people who reside in the area. The last one I saw was a silent video showing Obama with a BP cleanup crew relaxing at a picnic table. A local resident commented, "The cleanup crew was there for appearances only; their garbage bags were empty. When Obama left, they got on a bus and left, too." Why do we have a media blackout on a catastrophe that will affect the whole world? BP has hired the CIA-front company, Wackenhut, to patrol the shoreline and prevent reporters, residents and visitors from witnessing, describing and recording the damage. Private thugs are forcing the public off public beaches. In 1966, The Report from Iron Mountain asked the question: How do you duplicate the total control over the population in peacetime that you have during wartime? Written by Leonard Lewin and immediately branded a satire by government spokesmen, it nevertheless had the ring of truth. We have since seen all of its extreme programs brought to life by the US government. The most notable example is the 1992 Agenda for the 21st Century. Agenda 21 is a United Nations program but it was spearheaded and directly sponsored by President George H.W. Bush at the Rio Conference. President Bush promised the attendees that Americans would one day pledge their allegiance to the United Nations as he made Agenda 21 de facto US policy. Once in office, one of the first things President Clinton did by executive order was establish the Presidents Council for Sustainable Development. All aspects of life were covered, though no one in Congress complained or demanded hearings or any sort of debate. Seventeen years later we see Agenda 21 being quietly enforced in federal, state and local laws and regulations. Agenda 21 is the framework for world government, imposed on us by our own town and city councils, our own county supervisors. But it's not called "Agenda 21" by the planners. It's called "Sustainable Development." "Sustainable Development" is a code word for world government. The term "world government" is a euphemism for merciless dictatorship. The excuses are the issues of environmental protection, preservation of water and anti-pollution. For example, most of America will be designated as "wildlands" and will be off-limits to Americans. After a severe reduction of the population, survivors will be highly concentrated into "Smart Growth" cities, stacked and packed into high-rise housing projects. By reducing the population to the numbers found around the Dark Ages (five hundred million), government control is thought by the planners to be manageable. To get down to five hundred million people from our present population of six billion people will require a ninety-two percent reduction. The reliable methods of population reduction we saw in the last century Capitalist world wars and Communism only achieved reductions in the hundreds of millions. Famine and genocide in Africa were not sufficiently destructive. Agenda 21 calls for the slaughter of five and a half billion people. AIDS has affected its target populations here and in Africa but the Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Ebola, Lyme disease, BSE (mad cow disease) have not taken the numbers wanted. These are all, in my opinion, government-created weapons. Government vaccine programs have not been successful in creating disease and mortality in the numbers needed. The right combination, however, of disease and famine could accomplish the goal. The oil flow, blown inland by storms, will create water shortages by poisoning fresh water sources. People who have been subsistence-living will no longer have ways to live as they had been doing for generations. Farmers will lose production due to chemical rain, thus creating food shortages and famine across America and possibly Mexico and South America. People living on seafood will have the most difficulty and may die off quickly. Oil residue has already been seen in seafood in restaurants and grocery stores. More economic alternative food sources will be sought as the price of seafood skyrockets. Genetically-altered food sources created by Monsanto will cause disease and early death. Already the use of Monsanto "suicide seeds" in America has adversely affected the honey bees. Our honey bee population has been drastically reduced. Scientists have found that the genetically-altered DNA has affected bee nervous systems, causing a die off, which is now called "colony collapse disorder." Without honey bees, pollination ceases and this will be the end of a natural way of life. There will be migrations to urban areas as the coastal people lose everything that made their lives worth living. The "Smart Growth" collectivization of stacking and packing will begin. A single family home with a yard will be something of the past and longed for. Actually the packing of people into small areas will increase the spread of diseases and violence. Two of the tenets of Deep Ecology philosophy in the Wildlands Project are: The human population must be reduced; western civilization must radically change its present economic, technological and ideological structures. Independent entrepreneurs will be things of the past. To support the Wildlands Project we find the American Lands Alliance group and, at the state level, the creation of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL), which has turned into a land-grab with the support of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority (CRPA). Here is how it works (from "The Louisiana Land-Grab" by Zack Walley): "The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has moved to usurp traditional private property protections in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin. In a highly questionable action the USACE has forced conservation easements on the properties of an untold number of homeowners, farmers, timber producers and sportsmen in a 338,000 acre area (equaling an area 10 miles wide and 53 miles long). In an attempt to avoid the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against land takings, the USACE attorney did not refer to these as conservation easements but called them 'Flowage Development Control and Environmental Protection Easements' (FLOWAGE) and used some really 'new math' to adjust the 'fair-market value' of the property down from $1,000 per acre to $125." Every day that BP and our government allow the oil to flow and the use of Corexit, more of the earth will be poisoned. The land won't be worth a dollar and a quarter, never mind a hundred and a quarter. The marine life that does survive will be contaminated. Recovery of the areas affected is highly unlikely especially when looking at our past record in the Exxon Valdez spill. The use of cancer-causing Corexit has made this disaster many times more toxic than just oil alone. News reporter Kerry Kennedy says the people in the Gulf are experiencing symptoms of nausea, headaches and burning eyes. Didn't BP learn anything from Exxon, or did they learn too much? No one is encouraged to wear respirators and rubber gloves because BP is worried about causing a state of hysteria, i.e., a state of awareness. The doctors do not know exactly how to treat the patients coming in since they don't know what chemicals BP is using. Only band aids and aspirin are provided to the workers in the Gulf by BP's company doctors. All I can say is that a majority of the Valdez workers were dead ten years later. The White House has not responded appropriately so BP as a corporation has taken control of the area without the consent of the people. Looking at the big picture does put a new light on who is expendable. White House chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel has said, "Never let a crisis go to waste." And Obama says we are addicted to oil. (This from a man whose largest campaign contributor was BP) We would not have to be using so much oil if so many inventors of alternative energy and free energy had not been frightened off or killed. Obama's first televised address to the nation was right out of the UN's Sustainable Development handbook, the comprehensive plan to regulate our behavior via the federal, state and local levels of government, primarily the local level. This scheme has been enhanced until recently by the term "global warming," which was necessarily modified to "global climate change," since we now appear to be in a cooling period. Fortunately, the last climate change conference in Copenhagen failed to produce a new climate change treaty. At Copenhagen, some of the American conservation groups demanded a course of action that will lead to environmental disaster faster. BP is heavily tied to eco-groups like Conservation International and Nature Conservancy. Real science often is thrown out the window to accommodate the programs of Big Oil and Big Coal. This will only be tackled when the green lobbyists in the US stop taking cash from Big Oil and Big Coal. City Paper pointed out that BP spent "hundreds of millions of dollars" to "transform its image from that of a dirty old oil company into 'Beyond Petroleum' a company so environmentally friendly it had transcended oil drilling (and spilling) for happy, sunny and clean technologies such as wind and solar." They also noted that the environmental groups "trumpeted their ties to corporations, arguing that these partnerships lead to better corporate environmental policies and less damage to the planet." That's exactly how the relationship between BP and Conservation International was framed by ABC's "Nightline" back in 2002". The main objectives are to end national sovereignty, abolition of private property, the "restructuring" of the family unit, increasing restrictions on mobility and individual opportunity. Barack Obama's way to do this is with something he calls "Cap and Trade." I must admit, for the longest time I did not know what "Cap and Trade" meant. Nothing in those three words suggests anything to do with ecology but "Cap and Trade" is an environmentally-based scam, an artificial marketplace designed to reduce pollution by paying people who reduce pollution with money from polluters. "Cap" refers to limits, or caps, on emissions. So, we would have an emissions trading system in which total emissions are limited, or capped. Permits would be allocated or auctioned up to the set cap on emissions and a market would allow polluting members who are emitting less than their quotas to sell their excess permits to polluters who need to buy "credits" to meet their caps. Which is all as totally phony as it sounds, and as totally phony as "man-made global warming." The globe is warmed by the sun, or not, if it puts out less heat. Paying money or being paid has nothing to do with pollution or "greenhouse gasses." What "Cap and Trade" does is to create more restrictions and controls on people. Some are asking, is there a hidden agenda behind all the foot dragging to the clean-up and to stopping the spill? At my local library, which covers Santa Barbara County, I asked the reference librarian to help me find anything on the Agenda for the 21st Century. What I found was surprising. There were no books, magazines or videos on this subject. The librarian found two brief articles and one review article not on the subject of Agenda 21 but on one aspect of it, the Wildlands Project. The buzz words "Sustainable Development" were used. Nowhere in the public library could one try to inform himself on the scope of Agenda 21. I suspect that this is the way it is throughout America. Agenda 21 is literally a hidden agenda. The policymakers have created innocent-sounding catch phrases to capture the hearts and minds of our educators and their students. It will be the students who are the spring board to making Agenda 21 possible through grassroots groups that will carry over to our city councils, town councils and county boards where the policies are made. All these "Sustainable Development" policies and regulations have stolen our soul for life for the communal good. These policies are destroying the soul of life. This is what we are giving up every time we accept these policies. The first point in the moral and ethical guidelines for the Wildlands Project is: All life (human and non-human) has equal value (a minnow is as valuable as man). What we are giving away is what sets man apart from all other animals, our souls. This is the most devastating disaster that we have known. It will affect millions of people in the Gulf States, the Eastern Coast and everywhere the Gulf Stream goes. Agenda 21 is not only for America it is international as a United Nations policy for the New World Order. But while we still have some tattered shreds of our Bill of Rights left, each of us who has an ounce of soul left needs to find out for himself and herself the full extent of Agenda 21 and how it will impact on your family's life. Agenda 21 has been creeping through each town and city council for 17 years. The first thing to do is to take a good look at what is happening to the people who are living in the Gulf States and etch into our brains what will happen to your family in the near future. Our response to this must be to seize control of our local institutions, our town and city councils and county boards of supervisors and force the rejection of any and all programs, regulations and policies that conform to the United Nations' Agenda for the 21st Century. Gulf Coast residents must demand non-toxic forms of clean-up such as bioremediation, i.e., oil-eating microbes. Robbi Skye Campbell, humanitarian environmentalist, medical doctor, medicine woman & artist askdrfeather at yahoo.com Comment from Mary Rose: While this does expose a lot of things, one of the things I have been thinking about lately is becoming more solution-oriented using the discussion process. And since I have become more involved with the Transition Movement by moving all of the Future Dawning websites, except for the Admin Center which also serves as an "intake" center for subscribers, I have discovered that some of the people on the TransitionUs Social Network site are very good at facilitating the discussions in very meaningful and solution-oriented ways. So, I want to guide more people over to that organization and bring them into the discussions there. What the Transitioners lack is the awareness of the role human consciousness plays in achieving social/cultural transformation while they are excellent in seeing and implementing very rudimentary issues related to achieving sustainable living. Which brings me to the above message and what I see in it, and, in particular as related to Agenda 21. First of all, if anyone has noticed, I never write: sustainable development. This is an oxymoron - it is impossible to achieve sustainability and have development that is on-going. One might have redevelopment which means using the same land and doing things more appropriately on it, but not in capitalizing it with the intent of making money from it. The other thing with regard to Agenda 21 is the idea for world trade to be the end all and be all of economics. As we have been finding out, it simply doesn't work. But if one reads through Agenda 21 there is some good stuff in there and when we were going to do the Hands Across the Border: Operation Lifesave proposal and restore both the ecology and the economy of Mexico, we were going to apply use Agenda 21 as the vehicle to get there. So what I am feeling needs to be done here is for a group to take the Agenda and rewrite it so that it works in the best interests of all concerned. And I do not have time to get involved in this right now as I just started to write in earnest yesterday the program for prison reform which includes the related issues of rehabilitation, substance abuse and addiction, mental illness, gardening, transformation, reducing violence in our society, homelessness, nutrition, awareness, healing, ethnicity, sexual-orientation, and many other issues that will not reveal themselves until we are more involved with the program and being to see all of the dynamics. But what is happening as we move our bases of knowledge closer together, as has happened between TransitionUS and Future Dawning, is that "self-organization" is taking place between the two groups and drawing in more people. And we are now beginning to think in terms of: seeing the whole dynamic, pattern recognition, creating leverage, finding intervention points, etc. , and we are working together at another level of "co-learning" than we are doing here. And, it's fun. Everyone gets to play if they choose to do so. We are fast becoming "co-creators" instead of sitting and pointing fingers at one another or at someone outside of the group. And the best part of this is, there is no one up in the front of the room "teaching" - it is all about becoming learning communities and engaging both sides of the brain and learning how to entrain it with the heart brain in order to create the all-knowing, all-seeing holographic mind. And when there are all of these holographic minds concentrating their power in one group and looking for solutions, wow - look out everybody - here we come. I don't have the link handy right now so you can click and go if you so choose, but will put it up ASAP. _____ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. -- >From the desk of mary rose dustysummerrose at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 19 15:13:01 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:13:01 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Comment from Vic Desotelle Message-ID: <008601cb2787$6b029270$4107b750$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Welcome Vic Desotelle, a new comer to the Co-learner's list. While I wanted to put this comment below yours Vic, I also did not want to cut off your signature or put it below that. So, while it might make more sense and have more continuity to it, I have chosen to respond in this manner. So, everyone please check out Vic's comment below mine. It seems to me that we all are just different shades of grey. . . which fits into the findings of biologist Carla Hannaford author of "Smart Moves - Why Learning is Not All In Your Head" and "Brain Dominance - How Knowing Your Dominant Eye, Ear, Brain, Hand, and Foot Can Improve Your Learning." Not only does dominance effect learning but what information is allowed into the human operating system. What Carla tells us is that there are 32 different dominance patterns that individuals can select from at birth. And each of these patterns control how and what information is allowed into our system by the filters attached to our sensory system. So each of us perceives information differently - for instance, 32 people could each view a car accident and none of them would see it exactly the same. And, when putting all of these different versions together, one would have a highly convoluted perception of the accident. So, how to weed out truth from fiction sometimes becomes difficult. But understanding how our operating system works also makes it easier for us to learn how to configure it for optimum performance. And, since we are in control with our mind, the manner in which we are configured can also be changed. We may, in fact, choose to have "multiple personalities" and each of these personalities could choose to appear with a different eye color. In her book, "Molecules of Emotion," Dr. Candace Pert writes of her feelings, based on her research of the human body/mind field, that it is normal to have more than one personality. And, please pardon me if I seem to have wandered off topic here -- this just falls into my belief that there are no beginnings or endings - that everything is just one big continiuum. From: Vic Desotelle [mailto:vicdesotelle at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 9:01 AM To: Mary Rose; FixGov at yahoogroups. com; discussion at globaljusticemovement.net Subject: Re: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Comment from Mary Rose Yes. I do believe that, as a cultural creative, there is a shady side to our own behavior. And we have to keep it in check. Our unconscious manipulation of the truth into a conspiratory nature is just as 'evil' in my view, as the actual conspiracies that are actually happening. We must awaken to the whole picture and find better ways to build relationships across the chasm of old and emerging new worlds. This is much more difficult than making evil evident. Vic ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- VicDesotelle at gmail.com 831-515-8141 hm/off/cell About Me VicDesotelle.com Sustainability in Innovation DiscoveryFuel.com Alternative Leadership Coaching UnCoachMe.com Business Online Integration VirtualHelpSquad.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- _____ From: Mary Rose Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:35:19 -0700 To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" , Subject: FW: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Comment from Mary Rose After I sent this message, it dawned on me that this is false information. The reason I know? Because I just happen to have contact with a person who owns technology similar to that mentioned in this video. And, I was told that it is being used in the Gulf at this time to help separate the oil. Maybe it's also time we woke up to the fact that Brasscheck is one of the faces of the military-industrial complex and a propaganda source. From: Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:35 PM Subject: [SPAM]Safe, effective solutions ignored Some serious mysteries and unanswered questions are arising from the BP oil spill. The strange thing is that not only are they not being addressed in the mainstream news, they're also not being raised by the so-called conspiracy press. Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/896.html - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. ================================ Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115 To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?zAxs7OwctMwcrOwMzExstEa07MzsjAxsbA== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Each excerpt is taken verbatim from the major media website listed at the link provided. If any link fails to function, click here . The most important sentences are highlighted for those with limited time. By choosing to educate ourselves and to spread the word , we can and will build a brighter future. With best wishes, Tod Fletcher and Fred Burks for PEERS and the WantToKnow.info Team Special note: For info on a most unusual company developing radical new energy technology with former head of the CIA WillIam Webster involved, click here . And to read the remarkable admission of a top NASA director that questions what plane crashed into the WTC on 9/11, click here . For Business Insider's "15 Appalling Facts About Wealth and Inequality in America", click here . _____ Vatican Revises Abuse Process, but Causes Stir July 16, 2010, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/world/europe/16vatican.html The Vatican issued revisions to its internal laws on [July 15] making it easier to discipline sex-abuser priests, but caused confusion by also stating that ordaining women as priests was as grave an offense as pedophilia. The decision to link the issues appears to reflect the determination of embattled Vatican leaders to resist any suggestion that pedophilia within the priesthood can be addressed by ending the celibacy requirement or by allowing women to become priests. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the changes showed the church?s commitment to tackling child sexual abuse with ?rigor and transparency.? Those measures fell short of the hopes of many advocates for victims of priestly abuse, who dismissed them as ?tweaking? rather than a bold overhaul. The new rules do not, for example, hold bishops accountable for abuse by priests on their watch, nor do they require them to report sexual abuse to civil authorities. But what astonished many Catholics was the inclusion of the attempt to ordain women in a list of the ?more grave delicts,? or offenses, which included pedophilia, as well as heresy, apostasy and schism. The issue, some critics said, was less the ordination of women, which is not discussed seriously inside the church hierarchy, but the Vatican?s suggestion that pedophilia is a comparable crime in a document billed a response to the sexual abuse crisis. Note: For lots more from reliable sources on the secrecy of powerful institutions, click here. _____ BofA Admits Hiding Debt July 10, 2010, Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704799604575357421366347624.html Bank of America Corp. admitted to making six transactions that incorrectly hid from view billions of dollars of debt. The disclosure, made in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, comes as the agency prepares to unveil the results of an inquiry into banks' accounting for borrowing deals known as repurchase agreements, or "repos." BofA's letter was sent in April in response to the inquiry, but this is the first time the details of the six trades in question have been disclosed. The bank had acknowledged in its last quarterly report that its accounting for the transactions, made at the ends of quarters from 2007 to 2009, was incorrect. The bank's disclosure also suggests the trades may be an example of end-of-quarter "window dressing" on Wall Street, in which banks temporarily shed debt just before reporting their finances to the public. The practice ... suggests the banks are carrying more risk most of the time than their investors or customers can easily see, and then juggling it during quarter-end reporting of financials. Note: For key reports on many deceptive strategies used by banks and other Wall Street corporations, click here. _____ Diabetes Drug Maker Hid Test Data, Files Indicate July 13, 2010, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/health/policy/13avandia.html In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda. Avandia?s success was crucial to SmithKline, whose labs were otherwise all but barren of new products. But the study?s results, completed that same year, were disastrous. Not only was Avandia no better than Actos, but the study also provided clear signs that it was riskier to the heart. But instead of publishing the results, the company spent the next 11 years trying to cover them up, according to documents recently obtained by The New York Times. The company did not post the results on its Web site or submit them to federal drug regulators, as is required in most cases by law. The heart risks from Avandia first became public in May 2007, with a study from a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who used data the company was forced by a lawsuit to post on its own Web site. In the ensuing months, GlaxoSmithKline officials conceded that they had known of the drug?s potential heart attack risks since at least 2005. But the latest documents demonstrate that the company had data hinting at Avandia?s extensive heart problems almost as soon as the drug was introduced in 1999, and sought intensively to keep those risks from becoming public. Note: For lots more on corporate corruption from major media sources, click here . _____ UFO in China's Skies Prompts Investigation July 14, 2010, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/International/ufo-china-closes-airport-prompts-investigation/story?id=11159531 An unidentified flying object forced Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China to cease operations on July 7. A flight crew preparing for descent first detected the object around 8:40 p.m. and notified the air traffic control department. Aviation authorities responded within minutes, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones. Eighteen flights were affected. Though normal operations resumed an hour later, the incident captured the attention of the Chinese media and sparked a firestorm of speculation on the UFO's identity. Fueling speculations further, Hangzhou residents released photos, taken in the afternoon before the delays, of a hovering object bathed in golden light and exhibiting a comet-like tail. Less than an hour before the Xiaoshan airport shut down, residents said they also saw a flying object emitting red and white rays of light. The Hangzhou incident comes after a string of recent UFO sightings in China. On June 30, residents in Xinjiang province saw a flying object bathed in a fan of white light. Sightings have also been reported in Hunan, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. Note: For lots more on the reality of UFOs see our UFO Information Center. _____ Katrina Cover-Up: Cops May Face Death Penalty July 14, 2010, ABC News/Associated Press http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/orleans-police-face-death-penalty-hurricane-katrina-bridge/story?id=11160077 Four police officers, charged with shooting and killing two unarmed civilians on a bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina, could face the death penalty. Those four officers and two others are accused of gunning down citizens and trying to cover it up. Five other former police officers have already pleaded guilty to helping cover up the killings , bringing the total to 11 charged so far. The entire New Orleans police department is under investigation, stemming from allegations of misconduct. Initially, police said they fired in self-defense. [On July 13] the Justice Department said that statement was based on a lie, and that the officers shot civilians without cause and planted a gun at the scene as part of an elaborate cover-up, which included creating fictional witnesses and falsifying police reports. Tuesday's charges come one month after five current or former New Orleans police officers were accused of fatally shooting 31-year-old resident Henry Glover, and then burning his body in a car to cover up the crime. Note: For key reports on Hurricane Katrina and its amazing aftermath, click here. _____ State Supreme Court allows price-fixing suit July 13, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/12/BUR31ED6VO.DTL California retailers who accuse manufacturers of scheming to inflate prices scored a significant legal victory [on July 12] when the state Supreme Court allowed them to sue for triple damages despite their ability to pass higher charges along to customers. The court unanimously reinstated a price-fixing suit by a group of pharmacies that accused major drug companies of conspiring to overcharge purchasers by as much as 400 percent from 2000 to 2004. While denying the allegations, the companies also argued that pharmacists could avoid any damages by raising their own prices. Overturning lower-court rulings that dismissed the suit, the court said a "pass-on" defense - allowing manufacturers to avoid damages for illegal overcharges that could be passed on to consumers - is unavailable in California. Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar ... said enforcement of the law is promoted by allowing a retailer or wholesaler who buys directly from the manufacturer to seek damages - tripled under antitrust law - for overcharges caused by price-fixing. If such suits were prohibited, Werdegar said, overcharged retailers would have to choose between absorbing the losses or raising their prices and potentially losing sales. Such a ban might allow manufacturers to fix prices with impunity, Werdegar said, because individual consumers' losses might be too small to make a suit worthwhile. Note: The ruling in Clayworth vs. Pfizer, S166435, can be viewed at www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S166435.PDF. _____ Swiss Reject U.S. Request to Extradite Polanski July 13, 2010, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/movies/13polanski.html Switzerland announced [on July 12] that it would not extradite [Roman] Polanski, a famous film director, to the United States in part because of fresh doubts over the conduct of the judge in his original trial. ?He?s a free man,? the Swiss justice minister, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, said at a news conference on Monday. The French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said he was ?delighted? and deeply relieved by the ruling. Samantha Geimer, who at 13 was Mr. Polanski?s victim in the original sex case, has long disclosed her identity and called to end the prosecution. The decision to free Mr. Polanski was a sharp defeat for prosecutors in Los Angeles. Steve Cooley, the Los Angeles County district attorney, is the Republican candidate for state attorney general. The turning point in the case occurred in mid-March, when Mr. Polanski?s lawyers disclosed in an appeals brief that Roger Gunson, a now-retired lawyer who originally prosecuted the case, had given sealed testimony describing a plan by Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, the original judge, to limit Mr. Polanski?s sentence to a 90-day psychiatric evaluation, a portion of which Mr. Polanski had served during his 42 days in Chino State Prison. Mr. Gunson, who gave the testimony in January, also described his own reservations about the handling of the case by Judge Rittenband, who is now deceased. Note: For an analysis of this decision by the Swiss government, click here . _____ After recession, middle and working classes lose ground July 13, 2010, Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/Robert-Reich-s-Blog/2010/0713/After-recession-middle-and-work... Missing from almost all discussion of America?s dizzying rate of unemployment is the brute fact that hourly wages of people with jobs have been dropping, adjusted for inflation. Average weekly earnings rose a bit this spring only because the typical worker put in more hours, but June?s decline in average hours pushed weekly paychecks down at an annualized rate of 4.5 percent. In other words, Americans are keeping their jobs or finding new ones only by accepting lower wages. Meanwhile, a much smaller group of Americans? earnings are back in the stratosphere: Wall Street traders and executives, hedge-fund and private-equity fund managers, and top corporate executives. As hiring has picked up on the Street, fat salaries are reappearing. We?re back to the same ominous trend as before the Great Recession: a larger and larger share of total income going to the very top while the vast middle class continues to lose ground. And as long as this trend continues, we can?t get out of the shadow of the Great Recession. When most of the gains from economic growth go to a small sliver of Americans at the top, the rest don?t have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing. Note: The author of this analysis, Robert Reich, is a former Secretary of Labor. For highly informative graphs showing the details of rising wealth inequality in the United States, click here . _____ General who said it was 'fun to shoot people' takes over US Central Command July 8, 2010, The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7880617/General-who-said-it-was-fun... A senior US general once criticised for saying it was "fun to shoot some people" has been picked to take over US Central Command, leading the military command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. General James Mattis, the current head of the US Joint Forces Command ... previously led troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Centcom ... covers 20 countries and stretches from Egypt across the Middle East and into south and central Asia. Gen Mattis was reprimanded [in 2005] by the Marine Corps for telling a conference in San Diego, California: "It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling." During a discussion panel he said: "You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." Note: For reports from reliable sources which reveal the realities of the US wars of aggression in the Middle East and Central Asia, click here . _____ For this club, life begins at 50 (%) July 29, 2007, Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/07/29/for_this_club_life_begins_at_50_/ When David Ludlow's wife died in a climbing accident 11 years ago, her death transformed him into a multimillionaire: He inherited Vanda Sendzimir's share of her family fortune, a $5 million trust that generates an annual interest of about $300,000. Then a freelance photographer with a passion for social justice issues, the Jamaica Plain man was plunged into a swirl of shock, guilt, and confusion. "I've always been very left-wing politically and all of a sudden I was living incredible inequality," said Ludlow, 64. "Suddenly I was in the upper 1 percent of the population in terms of wealth, and I felt terrible about that for a long time." So he did something radical, and something that many people might consider insane: He decided to give away half his annual income. In doing so, Ludlow joined a small, unusual, and growing community: The 50% League, an Arlington-based group of people who contribute at least half their income, business profits, or net worth to charity. Members from across the country have been welcomed into an elite circle of givers and asked to share their stories publicly, even if anonymously, to inspire other givers. "I feel incredibly privileged, and I still feel guilty about that," said Ludlow, who has used much of the money he inherited from his late wife ... to fund grass-roots groups led by low-income people of color. "But it's given me tremendous meaning in my life to give as much as I can away." Note: The wonderful man featured in this article, David Ludlow, has been a major supporter of our work at PEERS. He is a powerful example of how one inspired individual can make a big difference in the world. Let us all do our best to use our money in support of personal and global transformation to the best of our ability. We also invite you to make a difference by donating to support our empowering work at http://www.peerservice.org/donations. For an inspiring media clip about David and this great organization, click here . _____ Key Articles From Years Past _____ World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers December 6, 2006, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2006/dec/06/business.internationalnews The richest 1% of adults in the world own 40% of the planet's wealth, according to the largest study yet of wealth distribution. The report also finds that those in financial services and the internet sectors predominate among the super rich. Europe, the US and some Asia Pacific nations account for most of the extremely wealthy. More than a third live in the US. Japan accounts for 27% of the total, the UK for 6% and France for 5%. The global study - from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations - is the first to chart wealth distribution in every country as opposed to just income, for which more comprehensive date is available. It included all the most significant components of household wealth, including financial assets and debts, land, buildings and other tangible property. Together these total $125 trillion globally. The report found the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total of global assets. Half the world's adult population, however, owned barely 1% of global wealth. "These levels of inequality are grotesque," said Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam. "It is impossible to justify such vast wealth when 800 million people go to bed hungry every night." Note: For highly informative graphs showing the details of rising wealth inequality in the United States, click here . _____ Tesla: The Missing Papers April, 2004, PBS http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he claimed that he had perfected his so-called "death beam." So it was natural that the FBI and other U.S. Government agencies would be interested in any scientific ideas involving weaponry. The morning after the inventor's death, his nephew Sava Kosanovic? hurried to his uncle's room at the Hotel New Yorker. By the time he arrived, Tesla's body had already been removed, and Kosanovic? suspected that someone had already gone through his uncle's effects. Technical papers were missing as well as a black notebook he knew Tesla kept -? a notebook with several hundred pages, some of which were marked "Government." Just after World War II, there was a renewed interest in beam weapons. Copies of Tesla's papers on particle beam weaponry were sent to Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. An operation code-named "Project Nick" was heavily funded and placed under the command of Brigadier General L. C. Craigie to test the feasibility of Tesla's concept. Details of the experiments were never published, and the project was apparently discontinued. But something peculiar happened. The copies of Tesla's papers disappeared and nobody knows what happened to them. Note: For more on this amazing man, click here and here . _____ Bookmark and Share Final Note: WantToKnow.info believes it is important to balance disturbing cover-up information with inspirational writings which call us to be all that we can be and to work together for positive change. 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 19 19:40:08 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:40:08 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Another Comment from Vic Desotelle Message-ID: <001501cb27ac$bd93f680$38bbe380$@net> Thanks, Vic. What you are saying here then is that we really do create our own reality. And, if we don't like what we have created we can choose again. But as a collective, we have to all agree. It's like with the money system -- we agreed upon capitalism for awhile, but have discovered it isn't working for us, so we are now moving into a new consensus but have not, as yet, arrived at what the actual system will look like. In his book, "The Dance of Life," Vern Woolf says the same thing - that this is all make believe and we come here out of boredom in order to "play the game" (my words) so as to learn from it. From: Vic Desotelle [mailto:vicdesotelle at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 3:02 PM To: Mary Rose Subject: Re: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Comment from Vic Desotelle Yes. And one other point that comes up when reading yours below Mary Rose: I see 'truth' as a collective agreement that changes over time and under altered conditions. Something is only true once a portion of the population believes it. Until then, it is false - at least in the hand of a society's authority. A change in truths and beliefs, and thereby values, is how new cultural myths emerge. Myth is not good or bad; it is neutral (Note this view is a misperception in the collective norm ;) Myth is the underlying (usually unconscious) force that drives most, if not all, decisions of a society. The reason that 'truth' is such a touchy subject these days (i.e. we trust no one, especially those in authority), is because of the global collective upheaval of perceptions. Most understand this state of being as 'chaos', which lives within the chasm between present and future enculturation - a paradigm shift. We are in a time between the shift from old to new myths. Only this time, I pray we collectively become conscious of the act of myth change, rather than our past where myth was an outcome of change, and not a driver of it. Vic D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- VicDesotelle at gmail.com 831-515-8141 hm/off/cell About Me VicDesotelle.com Sustainability in Innovation DiscoveryFuel.com Alternative Leadership Coaching UnCoachMe.com Business Online Integration VirtualHelpSquad.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- _____ From: Mary Rose Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:13:01 -0700 To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" , Subject: FW: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Comment from Vic Desotelle Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Welcome Vic Desotelle, a new comer to the Co-learner's list. While I wanted to put this comment below yours Vic, I also did not want to cut off your signature or put it below that. So, while it might make more sense and have more continuity to it, I have chosen to respond in this manner. So, everyone please check out Vic's comment below mine. It seems to me that we all are just different shades of grey. . . which fits into the findings of biologist Carla Hannaford author of "Smart Moves - Why Learning is Not All In Your Head" and "Brain Dominance - How Knowing Your Dominant Eye, Ear, Brain, Hand, and Foot Can Improve Your Learning." Not only does dominance effect learning but what information is allowed into the human operating system. What Carla tells us is that there are 32 different dominance patterns that individuals can select from at birth. And each of these patterns control how and what information is allowed into our system by the filters attached to our sensory system. So each of us perceives information differently - for instance, 32 people could each view a car accident and none of them would see it exactly the same. And, when putting all of these different versions together, one would have a highly convoluted perception of the accident. So, how to weed out truth from fiction sometimes becomes difficult. But understanding how our operating system works also makes it easier for us to learn how to configure it for optimum performance. And, since we are in control with our mind, the manner in which we are configured can also be changed. We may, in fact, choose to have "multiple personalities" and each of these personalities could choose to appear with a different eye color. In her book, "Molecules of Emotion," Dr. Candace Pert writes of her feelings, based on her research of the human body/mind field, that it is normal to have more than one personality. And, please pardon me if I seem to have wandered off topic here -- this just falls into my belief that there are no beginnings or endings - that everything is just one big continiuum. From: Vic Desotelle [mailto:vicdesotelle at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 9:01 AM To: Mary Rose; FixGov at yahoogroups. com; discussion at globaljusticemovement.net Subject: Re: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Comment from Mary Rose Yes. I do believe that, as a cultural creative, there is a shady side to our own behavior. And we have to keep it in check. Our unconscious manipulation of the truth into a conspiratory nature is just as 'evil' in my view, as the actual conspiracies that are actually happening. We must awaken to the whole picture and find better ways to build relationships across the chasm of old and emerging new worlds. This is much more difficult than making evil evident. Vic ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- VicDesotelle at gmail.com 831-515-8141 hm/off/cell About Me VicDesotelle.com Sustainability in Innovation DiscoveryFuel.com Alternative Leadership Coaching UnCoachMe.com Business Online Integration VirtualHelpSquad.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- _____ From: Mary Rose Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:35:19 -0700 To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" , Subject: FW: Safe, effective solutions ignored - Comment from Mary Rose After I sent this message, it dawned on me that this is false information. The reason I know? Because I just happen to have contact with a person who owns technology similar to that mentioned in this video. And, I was told that it is being used in the Gulf at this time to help separate the oil. Maybe it's also time we woke up to the fact that Brasscheck is one of the faces of the military-industrial complex and a propaganda source. From: Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:35 PM Subject: [SPAM]Safe, effective solutions ignored Some serious mysteries and unanswered questions are arising from the BP oil spill. The strange thing is that not only are they not being addressed in the mainstream news, they're also not being raised by the so-called conspiracy press. Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/896.html - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. ================================ Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115 To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?zAxs7OwctMwcrOwMzExstEa07MzsjAxsbA== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 20 00:09:35 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:09:35 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: thick slick ...thick headed comment from Tim Jones Message-ID: <004601cb27d2$60eea8a0$22cbf9e0$@net> From: Tim Jones [mailto:deforest at austin.rr.com] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:00 PM To: mary rose Subject: [SPAM]Re: FW: thick slick ...thick headed. Quote "President Obama stood by but did not take action for at least three weeks after the spill;" What nonsense. The Coast Guard was on the scene within a short number of hours. It's part of the military. Obama is the commander in chief. This is just libertarian poling up bs and cherry picking the facts to construct another conspiracy theory. Tim M.R. Tim, thanks for your comment. Someone else who prefers to remain anonymous wrote in regard to this message: "the piece by Robbi Skye Campbell, if you parse her paragraphs carefully, you'll find many statements that are unsupportable. The sad thing is that they are interspersed with important, supportable statements." Of course, this is the manner in which the propagandist works - and as someone else wrote: things become so convoluted that we don't know what is truth and what is lies. And, as long as we remain confused, which is the idea, they remain in control. I have known for years that Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy were front groups for the elite designed to get a hold of prime property via the cover of the NGO status and then move it into a position where it could be turned into a luxury resorts, etc.. And it is things like this that have allowed 1% of the population to gain control 40% of the country's wealth. But this is also why the elite want to ensure that private property rights are maintained - so they can continue to gain control of the best of the best and exploit it. And, this is also why it was so important for the corporations to have the rights of personhood. While I feel Tim is right with regard to President Obama, and that either the libertarians or the repubs, or both, are doing this, I do not believe it is all "conspiracy theory." We do know that President Wilson, by his own admission, made a terrible error when he allowed the Federal Reserve system to come into being and that there is a "they" who are in control and what is happening here in the U.S. today is much like what took place in Nazi Germany. And we also know that George W. Bush's grandparents on both sides of the family were involved and censored by the U.S. Senate for the roles they played in Germany in World War II and in the concentration camps, and how they made money from these endeavors. Bush, Sr. was also buddy buddy with Noriega as well. And, while Clinton was made to look very bad in office, he certainly left the presidency with a lot of money in the pot - a huge surplus - but how long did it take for "the little Bush" to use it all up and look where we are now. At 1:23 PM -0700 7/19/10, mary rose wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Thank You Holly for this mind blasting truth telling hard to digest register of what's happening to us and to the earth and to the very foundation of all that we've ever felt dear to. From: Holly Keifer Date: July 18, 2010 6:37:03 PM MST To: Subject: FW: thick slick a variety of details worth researching/clarifying: Subject: A humanitarian environmentalist, medical doctor. . .speaks on oil spill. Treachery In The Gulf By Robbi Skye Campbell 6-29-10 What has happened in the Gulf of Mexico was not by accident. It was most likely a design to support an agenda. What that agenda is we do not know exactly but I will try to connect the dots. We may soon know the true extent of its nature by the "solutions" our government imposes on the people in the Gulf area. There are some major problems: The Obama administration allowed BP to drill at an unstable site (highly over pressured) in 5,000 feet of water; BP CEO Tony Hayward dumped his BP stock 2 months before the spill; The well was kicking since they drilled into the production zone, so the drilling fluid or mud was underbalanced (mud weight not quite heavy enough for the upward pressure of the gas); Goldman Sachs dumped 44% of BP stock and went short on Transocean stock the day before the spill; The drilling crew knew that the annular blowout preventer was damaged and BP company man Kazula did not order it repaired; BP company man Kazula was a greenhorn on the Deepwater Horizon (he was inexperienced); The well was cased, cemented and had two cement abandonment plugs in place, so how could the well be kicking (trying to blow out)?; BP company man Kazula sent away the Schlumberger team (supposed to do the cement bond log to check Halliburton's cement job on the casing); Despite this the BP company man made the decision to change the mud over to seawater (seawater is 40% lighter than the drilling mud). This is not logical; Shouting match between the rig superintendent and the company man. Superintendent felt that the order to change over to seawater was irrational and suicidal; During the changeover of the mud to seawater is when the blowout naturally occurred; President Obama stood by but did not take action for at least three weeks after the spill; BP and the White House allowed the spill to continue; The White House allowed BP to spray the highly toxic chemical, Corexit 9500, which is considered to be four to ten times more toxic than the oil itself. EPA told BP not to use Corexit 9500 and BP ignored the federal agency. Corexit is being sprayed at nighttime on coastal residences by the CIA-front, Evergreen Air (which reportedly also sprays chemtrails); Negligible cleanup measures on the shores and at sea; Barack Obama sent SWAT teams to production platforms and drilling rigs; Obama sent the Army and National Guard into the Gulf States for what reason? Suppression of investigative reporting of the spill; BP arrested people taking pictures of the area; BP is allowed to reap the benefit of gathering oil rather than stopping the spill; Interests and livelihood of the residents suppressed and not considered in decisions; President Obama is using the spill to get the "Cap and Trade" bill passed; Twenty-two countries have offered their experience in spill control and cleanup but neither our government nor BP has accepted their offers; BP and Obama have declined to use non-toxic microbes as a clean-up measure; BP company man Kazula invoked the Fifth Amendment under congressional questioning of his orders. Where are the environmental groups? The Santa Barbara spill in 1969 was from an offshore drilling rig in the Santa Barbara Channel. It was a blowout on Union Oil's platform A; over ten days it was estimated that 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the channel and onto the beaches from Goleta to Rincon and all four Channel Islands. The oil spill prompted a congressional moratorium in 1981 on new offshore oil leasing with exceptions of the Gulf of Mexico and parts of offshore Alaska that remained in effect until 2008 when Congress did not renew it. This was the coming out of environmental groups. At the same time Friends of the Earth was heavily supported by BP, ARCO, and EXXON in its litigation against those companies to prevent the completion of the Alaska Pipeline until the price of oil was raised by the Ayatollah in 1978. Friends of the Earth then withdrew is lawsuit and the pipeline was allowed to begin transporting much more valuable oil. In 1989 we saw the Exxon Valdez spill which was the largest oil spill at 10.8 million gallons (250,000 barrels) when it hit the Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef. Others estimated a far greater amount, closer to 30 million gallons. It was considered to be one of the most devastating environmental disasters. The tanker's Rayas sonar was not turned on. It was broken and disabled for longer than one year and was considered too expensive to repair or replace. The environmental groups were all over them, and the media piled on. The Exxon Valdez crew was criticized for its slow response. The environmental groups were powerful and their voices were heard. In response to this spill the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) was passed by Congress. It prohibited after 22 MAR 1989 any vessel that has caused a spill of greater than one million US gallons in any marine area from operating in the Prince William Sound. Even though the tanker involved in the spill was double-hulled, this spill resulted in all tankers ordered to be double-hulled. To this day, the spill affects the lives of the people living in the Prince William Sound area. The cleanup has not been successful; more than 26,000 gals of oil remain on the shoreline and the marine life has not recovered. Only 10% of the oil was recovered. Even though the environmental groups may have had some effect on the spill it was the community that took the full brunt of the accident. The Chugach Alaska Corporation had to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Losses included recreational sports, fisheries, reduced tourism and of something economists call "existence value," which is the value to the public of a pristine Prince William Sound. The economy of Cordova, Alaska was adversely affected with damage to the herring and salmon stock. Several residents and the mayor committed suicide. Let's take a look at what happened to the cleanup crew of the Exxon Valdez. Workers stood in oil foam for 18 hours per day. The boats steered through a hydrocarbon haze. The workers came from the area fisherman and sportsmen suddenly jobless. They were hired by Exxon. They were treated for headaches, nausea, chemical burns, breathing problems. Many or all of them were never the same after working the summer for Exxon. Most of the workers died young due to lung disease (asthma, emphysema), liver, pancreatic and spleen problems. Workers went in 100% healthy and came out sick. Well and vibrant, they all became sick after a summer of hard work in Prince William Sound. There were thousands of workers affected by headaches, cancer, rashes, kidney and liver disease all the result of massive chemical exposure to the dispersants, solvents and crude oil mix. We may never know how many people were affected by the Exxon Valdez spill because Exxon and their cleanup company, Velco Inc., denied government investigators the medical records. * * * Russia is another country that has had uncontrollable blowouts. They have had five cratered blowouts. They found that drilling a relief well that intersects the wild well and then placing and detonating a nuclear device (which slid the formation across the wild well bore, choking it off) were successful solutions. In 1963 the Russians had a horrible blowout that lasted three years spewing twelve million cubic meters of flaming gas each day. Albert Vasiliev (nuclear physicist and gas well firefighter) said, "We were acting like surgeons in last resort cases, but it worked." The blowout sounded like 100 jet planes all at once. A nuclear blast choked it off. This method was found to be effective and they used it on similar cases. Vyacheslav Klishin (nuclear physicist, gas well firefighter) said, "One needs to tie up the well where the leak is. There are only two ways: 1. [A relief well to intersect the wild well, injecting mud and cement into the bore]; 2. A nuclear explosion." The Russians and other countries are obviously alarmed by the Gulf catastrophe and have offered their experience and expertise in wild well control, but Barack Obama and BP have ignored their offers. We can only infer from this that our government and BP are not going to control the well. There is an agenda, but what is it? What will happen if the well continues to release 125,000 barrels of oil and at least 9,000 PSI hydrogen sulfide, benzene and methylene chloride gases each day? Benzene is the aromatic hydrocarbon component of crude oil, which is highly toxic and carcinogenic to boot. Acceptable levels are 0 to 4 parts per billion. In Florida, Alabama and Louisiana they have measured 3,000 ppb on shore! Hydrogen sulfide is allowable at 5 to 10 parts per billion. In the above states, H2S has been measured at up to 1,200 ppb. The allowable limit of methylene chloride is 61 parts per billion. The same states have found levels as high as 3,000 to 3,400 ppd! The oil flow in the Gulf is equivalent to the Exxon Valdez every two days. It will follow the currents of the Gulf of Mexico to the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Bahamas and the Caribbean. Russian scientists have said that, once in the Gulf Stream, it will drastically affect the fishing industry globally. There are millions of families that have made their livelihoods on fishing, shrimping and crabbing. The restaurant, hotel and sports businesses based on tourism will be affected. The chemicals have evaporated into the atmosphere and have condensed, falling on the plant life, farms and the entire environment surrounding the Gulf of Mexico causing corrosive lesions on plants and killing the birds. It is now raining chemicals in Louisiana. There may be more that it has affected so far but this is what we have seen on the Internet and YouTube. The currents move around the peninsula of Florida and along the East Coast. This will directly affect more coastal regions in a similar fashion as what we are seeing in the Gulf. We are nearing the hurricane season which will drive the toxic mixture inland. The toxic combination of oil, methane and Corexit will continue to have detrimental effects on our environment and humanity. It is a carcinogen. The hydrocarbon fumes and Corexit are causing symptoms which will manifest in diseases that will afflict plants, animals and humans. People along the coastal regions will become sick and die prematurely. * * * It is ironic that the moral and ethical guidelines for the United Nations' Wildlands Project are based on the philosophy of "Deep Ecology." Our government and BP are creating a famine by letting the blowout continue in its present state. As mentioned above, the EPA objected to the use of Corexit 9500 but Barack Obama did not step in to stop its use. Greenpeace has a boat in the Gulf of Mexico performing research. Research is not the first step that is needed in this life-changing disaster. This is the only NGO environmental group that I have seen in the mainstream media. They have not spoken out on the marine life that is being killed daily, nor have they made any statements on the use of the cancerous chemical Corexit. There is a report from the Sea Turtle Restoration Project that BP has stopped the rescue of Kemp's Ridleys that were trapped in the oil. These sea turtles are being burned with the oil. Burning the oil releases toxic fumes into the atmosphere. We seem to be witnessing the collapse of the environmental organizations, none of which has an expected strident position regarding the worst ecological disaster that the modern world has ever known. Hasn't it been their self-appointed responsibility to speak out? Are the environmental organizations taking money from the big polluters? Every step during this disaster appears to be controlled by an unprecedented amount of greed. Even greed does not figure because so much natural wealth is being destroyed. What is really going on here? Barack Obama spoke to the nation for the first time last week with confident assurances that the Gulf coast would be restored to its original condition eventually. There was no method mentioned. He has made four photo ops trips to the Gulf region, conferring mainly with BP and local leaders. He did not speak to the people who reside in the area. The last one I saw was a silent video showing Obama with a BP cleanup crew relaxing at a picnic table. A local resident commented, "The cleanup crew was there for appearances only; their garbage bags were empty. When Obama left, they got on a bus and left, too." Why do we have a media blackout on a catastrophe that will affect the whole world? BP has hired the CIA-front company, Wackenhut, to patrol the shoreline and prevent reporters, residents and visitors from witnessing, describing and recording the damage. Private thugs are forcing the public off public beaches. In 1966, The Report from Iron Mountain asked the question: How do you duplicate the total control over the population in peacetime that you have during wartime? Written by Leonard Lewin and immediately branded a satire by government spokesmen, it nevertheless had the ring of truth. We have since seen all of its extreme programs brought to life by the US government. The most notable example is the 1992 Agenda for the 21st Century. Agenda 21 is a United Nations program but it was spearheaded and directly sponsored by President George H.W. Bush at the Rio Conference. President Bush promised the attendees that Americans would one day pledge their allegiance to the United Nations as he made Agenda 21 de facto US policy. Once in office, one of the first things President Clinton did by executive order was establish the Presidents Council for Sustainable Development. All aspects of life were covered, though no one in Congress complained or demanded hearings or any sort of debate. Seventeen years later we see Agenda 21 being quietly enforced in federal, state and local laws and regulations. Agenda 21 is the framework for world government, imposed on us by our own town and city councils, our own county supervisors. But it's not called "Agenda 21" by the planners. It's called "Sustainable Development." "Sustainable Development" is a code word for world government. The term "world government" is a euphemism for merciless dictatorship. The excuses are the issues of environmental protection, preservation of water and anti-pollution. For example, most of America will be designated as "wildlands" and will be off-limits to Americans. After a severe reduction of the population, survivors will be highly concentrated into "Smart Growth" cities, stacked and packed into high-rise housing projects. By reducing the population to the numbers found around the Dark Ages (five hundred million), government control is thought by the planners to be manageable. To get down to five hundred million people from our present population of six billion people will require a ninety-two percent reduction. The reliable methods of population reduction we saw in the last century Capitalist world wars and Communism only achieved reductions in the hundreds of millions. Famine and genocide in Africa were not sufficiently destructive. Agenda 21 calls for the slaughter of five and a half billion people. AIDS has affected its target populations here and in Africa but the Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Ebola, Lyme disease, BSE (mad cow disease) have not taken the numbers wanted. These are all, in my opinion, government-created weapons. Government vaccine programs have not been successful in creating disease and mortality in the numbers needed. The right combination, however, of disease and famine could accomplish the goal. The oil flow, blown inland by storms, will create water shortages by poisoning fresh water sources. People who have been subsistence-living will no longer have ways to live as they had been doing for generations. Farmers will lose production due to chemical rain, thus creating food shortages and famine across America and possibly Mexico and South America. People living on seafood will have the most difficulty and may die off quickly. Oil residue has already been seen in seafood in restaurants and grocery stores. More economic alternative food sources will be sought as the price of seafood skyrockets. Genetically-altered food sources created by Monsanto will cause disease and early death. Already the use of Monsanto "suicide seeds" in America has adversely affected the honey bees. Our honey bee population has been drastically reduced. Scientists have found that the genetically-altered DNA has affected bee nervous systems, causing a die off, which is now called "colony collapse disorder." Without honey bees, pollination ceases and this will be the end of a natural way of life. There will be migrations to urban areas as the coastal people lose everything that made their lives worth living. The "Smart Growth" collectivization of stacking and packing will begin. A single family home with a yard will be something of the past and longed for. Actually the packing of people into small areas will increase the spread of diseases and violence. Two of the tenets of Deep Ecology philosophy in the Wildlands Project are: The human population must be reduced; western civilization must radically change its present economic, technological and ideological structures. Independent entrepreneurs will be things of the past. To support the Wildlands Project we find the American Lands Alliance group and, at the state level, the creation of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL), which has turned into a land-grab with the support of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority (CRPA). Here is how it works (from "The Louisiana Land-Grab" by Zack Walley): "The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has moved to usurp traditional private property protections in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin. In a highly questionable action the USACE has forced conservation easements on the properties of an untold number of homeowners, farmers, timber producers and sportsmen in a 338,000 acre area (equaling an area 10 miles wide and 53 miles long). In an attempt to avoid the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against land takings, the USACE attorney did not refer to these as conservation easements but called them 'Flowage Development Control and Environmental Protection Easements' (FLOWAGE) and used some really 'new math' to adjust the 'fair-market value' of the property down from $1,000 per acre to $125." Every day that BP and our government allow the oil to flow and the use of Corexit, more of the earth will be poisoned. The land won't be worth a dollar and a quarter, never mind a hundred and a quarter. The marine life that does survive will be contaminated. Recovery of the areas affected is highly unlikely especially when looking at our past record in the Exxon Valdez spill. The use of cancer-causing Corexit has made this disaster many times more toxic than just oil alone. News reporter Kerry Kennedy says the people in the Gulf are experiencing symptoms of nausea, headaches and burning eyes. Didn't BP learn anything from Exxon, or did they learn too much? No one is encouraged to wear respirators and rubber gloves because BP is worried about causing a state of hysteria, i.e., a state of awareness. The doctors do not know exactly how to treat the patients coming in since they don't know what chemicals BP is using. Only band aids and aspirin are provided to the workers in the Gulf by BP's company doctors. All I can say is that a majority of the Valdez workers were dead ten years later. The White House has not responded appropriately so BP as a corporation has taken control of the area without the consent of the people. Looking at the big picture does put a new light on who is expendable. White House chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel has said, "Never let a crisis go to waste." And Obama says we are addicted to oil. (This from a man whose largest campaign contributor was BP) We would not have to be using so much oil if so many inventors of alternative energy and free energy had not been frightened off or killed. Obama's first televised address to the nation was right out of the UN's Sustainable Development handbook, the comprehensive plan to regulate our behavior via the federal, state and local levels of government, primarily the local level. This scheme has been enhanced until recently by the term "global warming," which was necessarily modified to "global climate change," since we now appear to be in a cooling period. Fortunately, the last climate change conference in Copenhagen failed to produce a new climate change treaty. At Copenhagen, some of the American conservation groups demanded a course of action that will lead to environmental disaster faster. BP is heavily tied to eco-groups like Conservation International and Nature Conservancy. Real science often is thrown out the window to accommodate the programs of Big Oil and Big Coal. This will only be tackled when the green lobbyists in the US stop taking cash from Big Oil and Big Coal. City Paper pointed out that BP spent "hundreds of millions of dollars" to "transform its image from that of a dirty old oil company into 'Beyond Petroleum' a company so environmentally friendly it had transcended oil drilling (and spilling) for happy, sunny and clean technologies such as wind and solar." They also noted that the environmental groups "trumpeted their ties to corporations, arguing that these partnerships lead to better corporate environmental policies and less damage to the planet." That's exactly how the relationship between BP and Conservation International was framed by ABC's "Nightline" back in 2002". The main objectives are to end national sovereignty, abolition of private property, the "restructuring" of the family unit, increasing restrictions on mobility and individual opportunity. Barack Obama's way to do this is with something he calls "Cap and Trade." I must admit, for the longest time I did not know what "Cap and Trade" meant. Nothing in those three words suggests anything to do with ecology but "Cap and Trade" is an environmentally-based scam, an artificial marketplace designed to reduce pollution by paying people who reduce pollution with money from polluters. "Cap" refers to limits, or caps, on emissions. So, we would have an emissions trading system in which total emissions are limited, or capped. Permits would be allocated or auctioned up to the set cap on emissions and a market would allow polluting members who are emitting less than their quotas to sell their excess permits to polluters who need to buy "credits" to meet their caps. Which is all as totally phony as it sounds, and as totally phony as "man-made global warming." The globe is warmed by the sun, or not, if it puts out less heat. Paying money or being paid has nothing to do with pollution or "greenhouse gasses." What "Cap and Trade" does is to create more restrictions and controls on people. Some are asking, is there a hidden agenda behind all the foot dragging to the clean-up and to stopping the spill? At my local library, which covers Santa Barbara County, I asked the reference librarian to help me find anything on the Agenda for the 21st Century. What I found was surprising. There were no books, magazines or videos on this subject. The librarian found two brief articles and one review article not on the subject of Agenda 21 but on one aspect of it, the Wildlands Project. The buzz words "Sustainable Development" were used. Nowhere in the public library could one try to inform himself on the scope of Agenda 21. I suspect that this is the way it is throughout America. Agenda 21 is literally a hidden agenda. The policymakers have created innocent-sounding catch phrases to capture the hearts and minds of our educators and their students. It will be the students who are the spring board to making Agenda 21 possible through grassroots groups that will carry over to our city councils, town councils and county boards where the policies are made. All these "Sustainable Development" policies and regulations have stolen our soul for life for the communal good. These policies are destroying the soul of life. This is what we are giving up every time we accept these policies. The first point in the moral and ethical guidelines for the Wildlands Project is: All life (human and non-human) has equal value (a minnow is as valuable as man). What we are giving away is what sets man apart from all other animals, our souls. This is the most devastating disaster that we have known. It will affect millions of people in the Gulf States, the Eastern Coast and everywhere the Gulf Stream goes. Agenda 21 is not only for America it is international as a United Nations policy for the New World Order. But while we still have some tattered shreds of our Bill of Rights left, each of us who has an ounce of soul left needs to find out for himself and herself the full extent of Agenda 21 and how it will impact on your family's life. Agenda 21 has been creeping through each town and city council for 17 years. The first thing to do is to take a good look at what is happening to the people who are living in the Gulf States and etch into our brains what will happen to your family in the near future. Our response to this must be to seize control of our local institutions, our town and city councils and county boards of supervisors and force the rejection of any and all programs, regulations and policies that conform to the United Nations' Agenda for the 21st Century. Gulf Coast residents must demand non-toxic forms of clean-up such as bioremediation, i.e., oil-eating microbes. Robbi Skye Campbell, humanitarian environmentalist, medical doctor, medicine woman & artist askdrfeather at yahoo.com Comment from Mary Rose: While this does expose a lot of things, one of the things I have been thinking about lately is becoming more solution-oriented using the discussion process. And since I have become more involved with the Transition Movement by moving all of the Future Dawning websites, except for the Admin Center which also serves as an "intake" center for subscribers, I have discovered that some of the people on the TransitionUs Social Network site are very good at facilitating the discussions in very meaningful and solution-oriented ways. So, I want to guide more people over to that organization and bring them into the discussions there. What the Transitioners lack is the awareness of the role human consciousness plays in achieving social/cultural transformation while they are excellent in seeing and implementing very rudimentary issues related to achieving sustainable living. Which brings me to the above message and what I see in it, and, in particular as related to Agenda 21. First of all, if anyone has noticed, I never write: sustainable development. This is an oxymoron - it is impossible to achieve sustainability and have development that is on-going. One might have redevelopment which means using the same land and doing things more appropriately on it, but not in capitalizing it with the intent of making money from it. The other thing with regard to Agenda 21 is the idea for world trade to be the end all and be all of economics. As we have been finding out, it simply doesn't work. But if one reads through Agenda 21 there is some good stuff in there and when we were going to do the Hands Across the Border: Operation Lifesave proposal and restore both the ecology and the economy of Mexico, we were going to apply use Agenda 21 as the vehicle to get there. So what I am feeling needs to be done here is for a group to take the Agenda and rewrite it so that it works in the best interests of all concerned. And I do not have time to get involved in this right now as I just started to write in earnest yesterday the program for prison reform which includes the related issues of rehabilitation, substance abuse and addiction, mental illness, gardening, transformation, reducing violence in our society, homelessness, nutrition, awareness, healing, ethnicity, sexual-orientation, and many other issues that will not reveal themselves until we are more involved with the program and being to see all of the dynamics. But what is happening as we move our bases of knowledge closer together, as has happened between TransitionUS and Future Dawning, is that "self-organization" is taking place between the two groups and drawing in more people. And we are now beginning to think in terms of: seeing the whole dynamic, pattern recognition, creating leverage, finding intervention points, etc. , and we are working together at another level of "co-learning" than we are doing here. And, it's fun. Everyone gets to play if they choose to do so. We are fast becoming "co-creators" instead of sitting and pointing fingers at one another or at someone outside of the group. And the best part of this is, there is no one up in the front of the room "teaching" - it is all about becoming learning communities and engaging both sides of the brain and learning how to entrain it with the heart brain in order to create the all-knowing, all-seeing holographic mind. And when there are all of these holographic minds concentrating their power in one group and looking for solutions, wow - look out everybody - here we come. I don't have the link handy right now so you can click and go if you so choose, but will put it up ASAP. _____ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. -- >From the desk of mary rose dustysummerrose at gmail.com -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 20 12:27:20 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:27:20 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Mixed messages Message-ID: <001501cb2839$6fc305d0$4f491170$@net> . From: Mary Nelson [mailto:m_nelson at aperdat.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:02 AM To: 'mary rose' Subject: Mixed messages Here's another example of mixed valid information and propaganda, I believe. http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/browse_thread/thread/b6996eca6e340ecc MaryN "Mystery is part of the necessary function to make money systems work, because money is trust, and trust requires being fed with symbols, with reassurance, and you need a gown of mystery to make it stick." --Bernard Lietaer Mary, thanks - I am glad to see that Richard Moore is also at work attempting to unentangle this web of lies being woven by the Republicans as they try to get back into office using any means possible. I notice that the article you post here is also very long and obviously was not written by one person, but is a compilation of cut and paste excerpts from what appear to be many different sources as was done in the article originally sent by Robbi Skye Campbell and forwarded by Holly. In order to get back in office, the Republicans are going to have to make Obama look as bad as possible. So, any amount of slander and lies and convoluted messages they need to send in order to accomplish this will be done. This is a no holds barred, anything goes, two pitt bulls in the arena -- both going for the juglar vein of the other, type of brawl that serves no one well. It is both degrading to the participants and to the country at large. We deserve better than this, and we need to change the system. Having said this however, I do believe that some of what is contained in these messages is truth and the truth today is very frightening. Those who took over when the Federal Reserve was brought into being in 1913, had no consideration for either the well-being of the country or the people within the system either then or now. We-the-people/sheeple, have simply become numbers in a game - there is no consideration for our well-being. It is all about the few of THEM who control the world by controlling the majority of its wealth. I do believe that the U.S. has become "the nut house" with all of us being equally insane. People who are sane do not destroy their life support system such as we have been doing and continue to do. Although as I write this, I also realize that this is part of the evolutionary process - part of the growth pattern as Gregg Braden describes in his book "Fractal Time." And, if you haven't read Fractal Time, then you need to - you need to understand the whole dynamic of things and how the Universe works. Looking back through history, civilization has continually gone through the good times and the bad times on a regular cycle. However, what I choose to believe now is that we have now completed an entire cycle and are at the beginning of a new era - so this is the time for us to choose anew who we want to be and how we want to live. We can continue to create other instances such as that now happening in the Gulf of Mexico. And, this IS an event that all of us must take responsibility for - for without the demand for oil that we-the-people have created as we have bought our gas-guzzling vehicles and demanded to live the lives of luxury in spite of continual warnings that oil production would someday peak, BP would not have been driven to drill a well in this location. We have demanded ever, and ever more luxurious dwellings to live in along with more and more technologies that make life easier and more pleasant for us. However as we have done these things, we have literally destroyed the natural environment in order to create the built environment. In reality, we are all in this together. As long as there is demand there will be a supplier who will provide whatever the demand calls for. It is written in the stars - but it is also written in the stars that we can create change if we truly desire to do so. It is all up to us, and each of us must make a conscious choice to create a new reality and when we have reached consensus on how to do this, the pain will end and we can move on into a new era - the era called the Age of Knowledge. When we have acquired the knowledge we need and have learned how to apply it appropriately we will then have arrived at the Age of Wisdom. May this time arrive soon. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Over the course of eight short years -- between 2000 and 2008 -- the Republicans methodically executed their plan to transform American society. They systematically transferred wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest two percent of Americans -- slashing taxes for the wealthy. They eviscerated the rules that held Wall Street, Big Oil and private insurance companies accountable to the public. They allowed and encouraged the recklessness of the big Wall Street banks that ultimately collapsed the economy and cost eight million Americans their jobs. They ignored exploding health care costs, tried to privatize Social Security, gave the drug companies open season to gouge American consumers and presided over a decline in real incomes averaging $2,000 per family. They entangled America in an enormously costly, unnecessary war in Iraq, pursued a directionless policy that left Afghanistan to fester, and sullied America's good name throughout the world. Their economic policy of cutting taxes for the wealthy and deregulating big Corporations failed to create jobs. In fact, over his eight year term, George Bush's administration created exactly zero net private sector jobs. They inherited a Federal budget with surpluses as far as the eye could see and rolled up more debt than all of the previous Presidents in the over 200 years of American history. And in the end they left the economy in collapse. This was not a disaster that could be remedied overnight. By taking bold action at the beginning of his administration, President Obama and the Democrats in Congress prevented the financial crisis from morphing into a Great Depression -- but the Republicans, some Democrats, and the powerful special interests have done everything they can to throw sand into the gears of change. Most importantly, they have stood in the way of providing enough economic stimulus to launch a robust, widespread economic recovery. But notwithstanding Republican opposition, Obama, the Democrats and their progressive allies have -- after a century of trying -- finally passed health care reform allowing America to end its status as the only industrialized nation that did not provide health care as a right. They are on the brink of reining in the recklessness of the big Wall Street banks. And they have set the stage for massive long-term investments in economic growth and clean energy. But it has been hard to pull the car out of the deep economic ditch and Americans are angry at the slow pace of economic recovery -- and also at the special interests that profited from their economic pain. So the Republicans now have the audacity to argue that President Obama and the Democrats are somehow responsible for the hardships that they themselves created. In effect they want the election to be a referendum on whether the Democrats have mopped and swept fast enough cleaning up the mess that they created. They will do everything they can to prevent America from focusing on the real choice before them in the fall elections -- a choice between going backward to the failed policies of the past that caused this catastrophe and a new direction that will create sustainable, long-term, bottom-up, widely shared economic growth. The real question before the country is whether it is willing to hand over the keys to the economy once again to the same gang that just caused the most serious economic pile up in 60 years. That's where the dirty little secrets come in. It turns out that the leaders of the Republican Party have learned nothing from the reckless escapade that caused so much economic pain, and came perilously close to inflicting mortal wounds on the American economy. They still actually believe -- despite what we have all just experienced -- that by "freeing" big oil, the insurance companies and Wall Street banks of the "burdens" of government accountability, that the plutocrats and the "invisible hand" of the market will lead American into the promised land of economic prosperity. Some of the things they believe are not only dangerous to the economy, luckily they are also politically radioactive. And quite remarkably, many key Republicans are actually willing to say them out loud. Here are a few: . Meet Congressman Paul Ryan. Ryan is the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee. If the Republicans once again take control of the House, he will be the Chair of the Budget Committee. Ryan believes -- and says out loud -- that Medicare, one of the most popular Federal programs in history, should be abolished and replaced with vouchers for private insurance. Let's recall that one of the ways Republicans stirred up opposition to health insurance reform was by falsely accusing Democrats of wanting to cut Medicare. They convinced some unwitting seniors that "Government" should keep its hands off Medicare -- which is, of course, a "Government" program. Democrats need to make it crystal clear in this campaign that Republicans -- who opposed Medicare from its inception -- actually want to abolish the program and hand over control of health care for America's seniors to the same private insurance companies responsible for driving up rates three times faster than wages while their profits have exploded. . Congressman John Boehner, the House Minority Leader, has endorsed another Ryan proposal to raise the retirement age of Social Security to 70 years old -- a proposal that might go over fine with a guy like Boehner who makes speeches for a living. But it won't be very popular at all with someone who has laid bricks, or run an earth mover, or waited tables for forty-five years. . The whole Republican crew wants to resurrect the failed Bush proposal to "privatize" Social Security. The defeat of Bush's privatization plan was the turning point in the Bush Presidency. It was all downhill from there. Yet -- whether it's to pad the investment accounts of their friends on Wall Street or because they are "private markets uber alles true believers" -- the Republicans want to try it again. Only this time retirees won't have to work very hard to imagine what it would have been like if their Social Security checks had plummeted in value the way their 401K's did when the market collapsed just two years ago. . The Republicans want to weaken and repeal the new law to rein in the recklessness of the big Wall Street banks. Most Republicans and Democrats voted to bail out the big banks to prevent a 1930's style market collapse. The difference is that Democrats supported legislation to rein in their recklessness -- that had cost 8 million Americans their jobs -- and assure that a bailout was never allowed to happen again. But with very few exceptions, the Republicans voted to a person against holding Wall Street accountable. Given a chance, they plan to team up with their pals on Wall Street to free them to return to their reckless ways at will. In fact, they told the titans of Wall Street as much in fundraising meetings, where those "masters of the Universe" were asked to ante up. Republicans claim to oppose more Wall Street bailouts, but they refuse to support legislation that would prevent one in the future and hold Wall Street accountable. That -- coupled with those big contributions from Wall Street -- is a position that is very difficult for average voters to swallow. In fact, the polling says it's down right toxic. . Republicans have consistently voted against extending unemployment benefits to workers who have been laid off because of Bush-era policies and the recklessness of Wall Street. Remember, people who get unemployment benefits -- by definition -- are looking for jobs that the economy doesn't provide. In addition, many Republicans actually believe that the best way to spur employment is to lower the minimum wage. . Finally, meet Congressman Joe Barton. If the Republicans win back control of Congress, he would once again most likely serve as the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee -- the Committee that oversees the oil industry. Congressman Barton has never met an oil company he doesn't like. In fact, he's the guy who actually apologized to BP when they were forced by the Obama Administration to take economic responsibility for the disastrous Gulf oil spill. As a political matter, that's like apologizing to Jack the Ripper. These are politically radioactive positions that do, in fact, define the core of Republican policy if they were once again to control the gavel in either House of Congress. We hear a lot about how Democrats have to "localize" the elections to have a chance of victory in November. And it is true that people vote for people in elections -- and the quality of Democratic candidates will give them a major edge in many races. So while it is a good idea to "personalize" the races for Congress, the last thing Democrats should do is to "localize" them, because the party that nationalizes a midterm -- and dominates the national dialogue -- almost always comes out ahead. Instead, Democrats need to take the offensive and dominate the national conversation by talking about what the Republicans actually believe and what they would do if they win in November. Voters must be offered a stark choice between Democratic and Republican policies in the fall. If they are, "Conventional Wisdom" that keeps predicting a Democratic disaster will be proven wrong, the same way it was when it predicted that America would never elect a tall, skinny African American guy named Barack Obama. Robert Creamer is a long-time political organizer and strategist, and author of the recent book: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, available on Amazon.com. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We are excited to announce that we are getting ready to pilot the INET Google Wave conversations.? As you have expressed an interest in participating, we are sending you this note to let you know how you can now get actively involved with some of the other early adopters of the INET community.?Our intention is to launch three pilot Waves at the same time in the next week or so.?? Each Wave will be focused on a different topic, and will be related to some of the themes that INET will be focusing on in our conferences and our newly initiated grants program. If you are available and still interested in participating as an early adopter in one of these Waves, or more of them to come in the summer and early fall, please sign up to get your INET Wave account at this link. Each Wave will begin with a short video and a written summary of the content of the video and a key question it raises.? 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Wed Jul 21 12:40:21 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:40:21 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Low-income Houses from Recycled goods and gardening In-Reply-To: References: <003301cb2845$b8124290$2836c7b0$@net> Message-ID: <007201cb2904$3972bd60$ac583820$@net> Mary, if Halliburton is leading the way in this aspect with the best video I can find, then this is what I am going to use. ALL of us need to transform - and if this is Halliburton's contribution, then so be it. I don't believe any of us are perfect, but let's begin by looking at whatever good we can find wherever we find it. There is not a hell of a lot of positive in this world today, but what most of us are doing is looking for the worst and beating people over the head with it. And, this is especially true in the Gulf with BP. If we are going to change, we need to begin looking for the good and emphasizing that. And also looking at what role our actions play in creating the situation. The law of physics tells us we create whatever we focus on. So let' focus on finding good wherever we can and send more healing energy in that direction whether it is with Obama, BP, Halliburton, the Democrats, or ourselves. As I have said before, the most powerful thing we can do is to join the Global Coherence Initiative and begin to direct positive healing energy toward President Obama, toward the whole coastal area and those involved in it in the Gulf of Mexico, etc., etc., etc., and then follow our meditations up with small but positive actions that each of can begin taking in growing our own food, in driving our vehicles less and less, in implementing new energy methods, in ending the wars, etc., etc., etc. And, let us begin expressing love and positive energy toward anything positive no matter how small it is. We must be the change we wish to see in our lives. M. Gandhi From: Mary Nelson [mailto:m_nelson at aperdat.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:01 PM To: 'mary rose' Subject: RE: Low-income Houses from Recycled goods and gardening Halliburton? _____ From: mary rose [mailto:maryrose333 at att.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:55 PM To: FixGov at yahoogroups. com; discussion at globaljusticemovement.net Subject: Low-income Houses from Recycled goods and gardening Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS >From where I sit, we are committing too much time devoted to developing our "spiritual side" and yakking about "symptoms" when it may be more important to start looking at the more practical aspects of living by learning how to meet basic needs. We can do much by gardening to meet our food needs and putting roofs over our heads by building our own. It is surprising how involving oneself in these kinds of activities can aid in not only creating personal but social transformation as well. Let's begin here and I'll be posting more videos on these topics as we move along. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Std5taGTP6I &feature=related Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 177 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Wed Jul 21 22:16:38 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:16:38 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Integral Life: Weekly Update: The Dignities and Disasters of Men and Women Message-ID: <00d601cb2954$eb13b4c0$c13b1e40$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS In order to offer a broader-based perspective on how people think today, I just joined (with a month free to sample it), Ken Wilber's INTEGRAL LIFE. And, since there is an invitation to forward this to others included, I am taking the liberty of forwarding the information to the Co-learner's list so we can explore together the views of one of the world's great philosophers. Your comments on this are welcome. With love and in gratitude to everyone. Mary Rose From: Integral Life [mailto:angie at integrallife.ccsend.com] On Behalf Of Integral Life Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:59 PM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Weekly Update: The Dignities and Disasters of Men and Women Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Evolving our Approach to Sexual Harassment Understanding the Feminine Shadow Diane Musho Hamilton and Ken Wilber Diane Musho Hamilton talks to Ken about an essay she recently wrote with Vanessa Fisher, "Evolving our Approach to Sexual Harassment: A New Role for Women." Together they offer a sober and sophisticated look at issues of identity, sexuality, culture, and legislation. Diane and Ken examine the many ways that our laws presuppose women as victim, often reinforcing and obfuscating the real-life oppression men and women alike experience every day, while also highlighting some of the common hazards of the feminine shadow and how it can sometimes contribute to the problems of power and oppression.... 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News UK Message-ID: Robert Searle (dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk) has sent you a news article X-Originating-IP: 77.238.191.92 -------------------- Personal message text: -------------------- Bernanke says Fed to act if U.S. recovery stalls?? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100721/tts-uk-usa-fed-bernanke-ca02f96.html ============================================================ From maryrose333 at att.net Thu Jul 22 10:44:19 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:44:19 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: 10 Tips to Cope With Depression Message-ID: <006901cb29bd$60eeeda0$22ccc8e0$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS As we move through uncharted waters today and the path ahead is largely unknown, it is also frequently filled with propaganda designed to induce fear which, in turn, brings about depression. In order to handle this, we need ways of coping and here are 10 ways to aid in doing this. However, what I also want to note here is that both coping and the depression itself are forms of stress. And, stress directly impacts how our immune system is functioning. So, where we really want to be is in a position to rid ourselves completely of the stress associated with the many different fear and depression-creating issues we are faced with each day. And, I am going to discuss this with you in another post in the near future. But the tips included in this article are important because they are also "management" techniques that can be used every day to help make your life flow a little more smoothly and aid in avoiding the triggers that create depression and fear. While the article below suggests that you consult a therapist, and I agree, I also realize that in the present economic situation many of us find ourselves in, it is not possible to do this. So, I will be sending information gathered from the best sources I can find that are written by professionals you can trust. From: Everyday Health Special Report [mailto:staff at everydayhealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:14 AM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: 10 Tips to Cope With Depression Everyday Health Special Report An Everyday Health Special Report: 10 Ways to Cope With Depression image When you have depression, you can find ways to take control of your life and manage your treatment beyond medications. Making some important lifestyle changes can boost your mood and help alleviate many of your symptoms. Here are a few strategies to get you started. Talk to a Therapist Working with a therapist is often an important part of successfully managing depression. Psychotherapy focuses on helping people adjust their lifestyle in ways that they can control, minimize their stress, and cope with stressors. Among the issues that you can address with a therapist are how to improve your self-esteem, switching from negative to positive thinking, and practicing stress management. Express Yourself in Writing Writing in a journal can be very therapeutic. You can relieve stress by being open about your thoughts, feelings, and concerns in your writing. Be totally honest in your private journal in order to release pent-up emotions. You'll be amazed at how much better you feel after putting pen to paper for just a few minutes each day. Get more ways to cope with depression, including sticking to a regular schedule and reaching out to others. See the photo gallery on EverydayHealth.com Everyday Health Network Copyright C 2010 Everyday Health, Inc. All rights reserved. We sent you this offer because you're a valued subscriber to one of our newsletters. If you no longer wish to have these exclusive offers e-mailed to you, unsubscribe from Special Offers. To add to, remove, or change the newsletters you receive from us, click here . Use of Everyday Health sites is subject to our terms of service and privacy policy . 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However, do hope that everyone clicks through to the video that Vic includes on "Right & Wrong" from TED TALKS from his website DISCOVERY FUEL: http://discoveryfuel.com/category/collaborative-design/ after having first viewed the URL from his website Food for thought in a related realm. http://discoveryfuel.com/leadership-ecology/myth-and-metaphor-as-a-way-for-c reating-intelligent-businesses/ Some very, very interesting "food for thought" indeed and I do hope this brings about comments and discussion. With love and appreciation. m r From: Vic Desotelle [mailto:vicdesotelle at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:26 PM To: Mary Rose Subject: [SPAM]Re: Integral Life: Weekly Update: The Dignities and Disasters of Men and Women Food for thought in a related realm. http://discoveryfuel.com/leadership-ecology/myth-and-metaphor-as-a-way-for-c reating-intelligent-businesses/ Vic _____ From: Mary Rose Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:16:38 -0700 To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" , Subject: FW: Integral Life: Weekly Update: The Dignities and Disasters of Men and Women Message truncated. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Thu Jul 22 11:58:06 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:58:06 -0700 Subject: [GJM] DRUGS PLUS SUPPLEMENTS: PROCEED WITH CAUTION Message-ID: <008b01cb29c7$b481b060$1d851120$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Drugs Plus Supplements: Proceed with Caution bECAUSE OF ITS IMPORTANCE, i HAVE EXCERPTED THIS ARTICLE FROM THE Daily Health News [dailyhealthnews at edhn.bottomlinesecrets.com] FOR TODAY. It's not often that I get a call from one of our expert doctors urging me to cover a topic because of a strong concern about public safety -- but it happened recently and so here we go: Are you aware of how dangerous it can be to combine certain supplements with medications? The call came from Leo Galland, MD, an internist and founder of Pill Advised ( http://PillAdvised.com), an online resource for information about medications and supplements. Having extensively reviewed the research into interactions between drugs and supplements, Dr. Galland told me that he is becoming increasingly worried about this particular problem. "People need to take these interactions seriously and be aware that negative outcomes can occur," he warns. "The results can be catastrophic." About 40% of Americans now take dietary supplements in the form of a vitamin, mineral, herb or other substance -- and those 50 and older are more likely than younger folks to use supplements and, as a group, to take more medications. Dr. Galland emphasized that "the sicker and more fragile you are, the greater the impact of an interaction," but added that in truth, anyone combining drugs and supplements is at risk for interactions -- and the more drugs and supplements that you take, the greater the danger. When interactions cause harm Dr. Galland explained that there are certain common pathways for negative interactions. Specifically, interactions often occur because the supplement interferes with the way the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream, metabolized by the liver or excreted by the kidneys -- in this way, the remedy you turn to for help with one problem may bring about others that are far worse. Sometimes drugs and supplements have a similar action in the body, so that taking both magnifies the effect of the drug -- while other supplements can block the effect of a drug so that the drug doesn't work. In either case, the effect can be lethal. According to Dr. Galland, the supplement that causes the greatest number of interactions is St. John's wort. "It can have a profound effect on the enzymes that metabolize drugs, decreasing their activity and drastically changing the level of a drug in the body," he said. The commonly prescribed drug that causes the greatest number of dangerous interactions is the blood thinner warfarin, which is often prescribed to prevent blood clots. "Warfarin has a very narrow safety margin," Dr. Galland explained -- meaning that the dose you take must be precisely right or the effect could be dangerous. Next most dangerous: Statin drugs, used to control cholesterol, also affect liver enzymes and muscle function in ways that can be magnified when taken with certain supplements. Surprisingly Common Interactions Dr. Galland and I went through some of the more common medications people take and what supplements might cause dangerous interactions... Blood-thinning drugs: If you take warfarin or another blood-thinning drug (including aspirin), don't take ginkgo biloba, and ask your doctor about the advisability of taking vitamin E, since even the amount in a multivitamin can increase your risk for hemorrhage. Two others to beware of: Ginseng and St. John's wort also can be dangerous for those on blood-thinning drugs, as they may prevent warfarin from working properly and increase risk for blood clots. Statins: If you take a statin drug, don't take vitamin E or St. John's wort because they may reduce the drug's effectiveness and leave you vulnerable to heart attack. It's well-known that grapefruit can increase blood levels of some statin drugs to dangerously high levels, increasing the risk for liver or muscle damage, but you may not know that pomegranate and pomegranate extract can have the same effect. Diuretics: Anyone who takes a thiazide drug (such as hydrochlorthiazide) on its own or in combination with another blood pressure medication (such as an ACE inhibitor) should avoid the supplements white willow bark and ginkgo biloba -- these can prevent the drugs from working properly, so patients may end up with elevated blood pressure. Horsetail, senna, cascara, licorice and uva ursi (all typically taken for bloating and water retention) boost the diuretic effect of thiazide drugs and can lead to dehydration and potassium depletion. Antihypertensives: People on ACE inhibitors for blood pressure, a category that includes captopril (Capoten) and lisinopril (Zestril and Prinivil), should avoid taking iron supplements within two hours of taking the medication because iron can interfere with absorption of the drug. Iron naturally present in food does not have the same effect. Also problematic is the supplement cayenne (sometimes referred to as capsicum or capsaicin), used as a digestive aid or for control of inflammation, which increases the side effects of ACE inhibitors, especially cough. Oral diabetes medications: If you are taking diabetes medicines such as metformin (Glucophage) or glyburide (Glynase), avoid ginkgo biloba because it can interfere with the effects of insulin and raise your blood sugar. Also use caution with the supplements vanadium, gymnema, chromium, ginseng and bitter melon, as these can dangerously depress blood sugar levels in sensitive individuals. Antiarrhythmia drugs: Patients who take the antiarrhythmia drug digoxin (Digitalis) should never take supplemental forms of licorice (often used for cough or sore throat) because it can bring on severe -- even fatal -- arrhythmia. Others to avoid include pectin, a stool-bulking agent, because it reduces absorption of the digoxin, and ginseng, which binds with the digoxin, making it unavailable. Also avoid horsetail, senna and cascara, which can bring about dangerous reductions of potassium levels, which increase the risk for digoxin toxicity. Antibiotics: If you are on tetracycline or the antibiotic class known as quinolone antibiotics, which includes Cipro and levofloxacin (Levaquin), do not take minerals or eat mineral-rich foods within two hours of taking the drug -- minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc bind to these drugs and prevent their absorption. Dairy products and calcium-fortified juices should also be avoided within two hours of antibiotics because the calcium can block drug absorption. Thyroid medications: If you take a thyroid medication such as levothyroxine (Synthroid), do not take any iron, calcium or aluminum (found in antacids) within four hours because they interfere with absorption of the drug. Ask An Expert Dr. Galland notes that supplements should be used with the same care as drugs. It's best to take them under the supervision of a doctor (such as a naturopath) who is specially trained in their use or to ask your pharmacist for advice. Source(s): Leo Galland, MD, internist and director, Foundation for Integrated Medicine, New York City, www.mdheal.org . Dr. Galland publishes a free newsletter, which includes more information about supplements and drugs, and free access to Dr. Galland's interaction database at www.PillAdvised.com . Your Logo, Inc. 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See http://SuperFoodsWellness.com Vic : ) Vic, in developing the Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS program I include nutrition as a major factor so we are on the same pathway in this respect. And, while we are talking here about ways to cope with depression, I consider nutrition to be a "healing" rather than a "coping" modality. First of all let me say since you are new to the list, my feelings are we do not need health insurance - this only makes the insurance industry wealthy and leaves we-the-people getting sicker and sicker as we depend upon the doctor to cure us instead of practicing prevention by "eating to live" instead of "living to eat." And, I have been saying this for a very long time. However, with regard to supplements, it has been shown in scientifically conducted trials that they cannot compare to eating foods that are organically grown as it has been shown that it is the interaction of the vitamins and minerals within these foods is what is most important and this cannot be duplicated in supplements. But as you bring out in your article today we suffer from lack of vitamins and minerals as soil depletion takes its toll. So, supplements may have some benefits but just how much is not as yet known - a scientifically-conducted trial of a large number of women revealed that those taking supplements showed no difference in health than those taking no supplements, and if I recall correctly this study was made over a ten-year period. (I do not have this information handy and will have to look it up again in order to supply the URL.) Another factor that appears not to be known is just which minerals and supplements are the ones which allow for complete absorption into the body of the other vitamins and minerals - a very important consideration. Now having written this, let me say that about a year ago, i began to suffer from anxiety attacks along with numbness and tingling in my feet. Since anxiety attacks mimic heart attacks I was in and out of the hospital several times with none of the numerous tests conducted revealing anything but that I was in good health. Consequently, my primary care physician referred me to a neurologist who ordered blood tests. But, he also did tests showing that some of the minor cells in my feet and legs were dead. What the blood tests revealed was a deficiency in vitamins D3 and B1. The acupuncturist i see suggested a liquid supplement containing all of the B vitamins along with D3 and other known minerals and vitamins considered vital to one's health. And she suggested I also take Omega - 3 by Nordic along with a tablespoon of virgin olive oil daily to lessen the chances of suffering from arthritis and joint pain, and in addition suggested I eat a large serving of walnuts and almonds every day. (Walnuts contain vitamin B-3 and Almonds - calcium.) I also use both Dr. Flanagan's Crystal Energy and Mega H which provides as extremely high protection from free radicals. Dr, Flanagan's formulas are among the most potent anti-oxidant known. (See www.phisciences.com for more on these products.) and I take a bone enhancer product containing calcium + other significant vitamins and minerals that enhance the known absorption and action of the calcium. While I no longer suffer from the anxiety attacks, upon occasion since then, I do suffer from the numbness and tingling in my feet even though my blood tests now show my Vitamin D3 and B1 levels to be normal. Vitamin D is something we normally acquire from being out in the sun, but lately it has been discovered that 70% of the people in the U.S. lack sufficient Vitamin D - the possible cause being that we spend more time indoors as we have progressed from an agriculture society to an industrial society, and are now into the Age of Knowledge. It has only been recently that researchers have also discovered Vitamin D is also one of the most important Vitamins required for good health and that it plays a role in many more ways than normally known. Lack of Vitamin D is also a known contributor to SAD (Seasonal Adjustment Disorder) which emerges as depression, particularly in the northern regions of the world where there is little sunshine. Vitamin K2, which until recently researchers knew little about, is now revealing itself to be another major factor in the cause of disease when found lacking. But to take these vitamins in isolation may have little or no benefit. More research needs to be done on this. Where I feel the greatest impact is with regard to vitamins and minerals, is for mental illness since little is known about how to treat this disability effectively. Most treatment modalities resort to the use of drugs produced by the pharmaceutical industry which in rigorous scientific trials have been proven to have little more effect than a placebo. Or to put a patient into a psychotic condition in many instances. Back in 1968, two-time Nobel Laureate, Dr. Linus Pauling wrote that lack of nutrition was the main cause of both physical and mental illness. Other studies indicate that it may also be the cause of substance abuse as well. Statistics from the National Association of Health (substantiated by a follow up study at Harvard U.) indicate that 26.2% of the population of the U.S. can be defined as legally mentally ill. However, this may not be the true figure since many of those who are mentally ill never seek treatment due to the stigma associated with mental illness today -- so the figure may be much higher. Statistics taken from both prison and homeless populations indicate that anywhere from 30% - 50% of these populations may be defined also as legally mentally ill. Another statistic that must be considered here is that we in the United States with only 0.05% of the world's population use approximately 40% of all the world's illegal drug production and goodness only knows how much of the world's legally-prescribed drugs. When one looks at these statistics and at the damage we do to our own nest, and our lack of consideration for others with regard to both human and earth rights, we cannot doubt that insanity runs rampant in our society today, and may even be said to rule since our leaders insist on taking us into continual war. What is a terrible miscarriage of justice is for the mentally ill to be incarcerated in prisons as this is a violation of their human rights. It has now been mandated that individuals incarcerated in prisons be provided good medical care for physical ailments, and to not do so is a violation of human rights that is punishable by law. However the same right has not been extended to inmates who are mentally ill. As a consequence, prison personnel are not trained in how to handle those inmates who are mentally ill and a recent report describes the abuse inmates undergo as a result. A further consequence is that many who are mentally ill, having served out their sentence are released from prison without under-going any treatment that will allow them to assimilate back into society and lead meaningful lives. It must be noted that the same is true of veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, many of whom also end up in jail or prison or are homeless on the streets as a result of their inability to assimilate back into society. About nine months ago, due to having encountered someone who has been diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder, and who was also entangled in the jail/prison/justice/court system, I began to study bipolar disorder and its possible cause and treatment. Due to the high number of symptoms associated with bipolar disorder, I have come to the conclusion that BD is not just one disorder, but is several disorders that may be inter-related. Substantiating this is the fact that medical professionals themselves have divided BD into two different phases with differing symptoms. As a consequence of the numerous symptoms associated with the disorder, it is extremely difficult to diagnose and many of those who incur the disorder, mostly in their teen years, are not diagnosed and brought into treatment until 10 years or more later according to the latest literature found. While I could go into lengthy detail on BD here, the main purpose for including this is in this article is related to the treatment of BD by means of nutritional supplementation. The organization of note distributing the EMPowerPlus formula that has been rigorously tested in scientific studies, is the True Hope organization in Canada. www.truehope.com Their tests have revealed that EMPowerplus is 80% effective in healing BD. And, what is important with regard to this finding is that just taking supplements that have not been specifically formulated to do the job, or just eating healthfully of fresh organically-raised foods do not work. And the reason being is that the essential ingredient that causes other important vitamins and minerals to be absorbed into the body may be lacking in this hit or miss way of eating, while the specially prepared supplement distributed by True Hope (and some other companies) guarantees that everything is there in a large majority of cases. Energy Healing. However, let me insert here that there is another way of inducing the healing of many dis-eases, including BD - that of energy healing. And what we are talking about here is healing induced by the power of the mind and applied at the cellular level. This type of healing has the ability to transform the DNA of an individual by reprogramming the genes using the sub-conscious mind to do so. And the two effective methods that I know of and have used myself to accomplish this are: Holodynamics as founded by Dr. V. Vernon Woolf, and the new "Healing Code" founded by Dr. Alex Loyd. But, I have used these two modalities only at the emotional level, which, by the way is where all dis-ease begins. I also, unknowing at the time how it was accomplished, used my hands to heal my youngest son, who was suffering from spinal meningitis and whom the doctors had given up on, many years ago. One of the people known for her extraordinary ability to heal in this manner is Barbara Brennan http://www.barbarabrennan.com/ Let me also insert here that The Healing Code is based on research conducted in part by cell biologist, Dr. Bruce H. Lipton, who is quoted extensively in the book. The Healing Code has also undergone extensive research by the Institute of HeartMath. From the time of inception by Alex Loyd to the point where it is today has been 18 years. During this time, thousands of individuals have used it with thousands of testimonials being submitted to those involved. In about 2004, Dr. Ben Johnson, M.D. , D.O., N.D., joined Dr. Loyd as a partner. Dr. Johnson, using The Healing Code over three months time was able to heal himself from Lou Gehrig's Disease - a feat which no one had ever accomplished before as it was considered to be "incurable." While I am now using The Healing Code to clear up some emotional issues recently, I have changed the wording suggested in the book. I do not believe in "myth" and the point of my research today is to uncover what science and the study of the human body has to say that can be conveyed authentically. So, I have replaced the word "God" with the words: "the full power of the universe that expresses itself through my heart." And, this power being the electromagnetic energy field which underlies all of life combined with the other forces. I.e., gravity and the weak and strong forces which some say were left over after the Big Bang, but then science today is also revealing that there may not have been a Big Bang, but the emerging of our new Universe as one of the many Universes that exist. In his research recorded in his book: "The Biology of Transcendence - A Blueprint for the Human Spirit," Joseph Chilton Pearce provides an excellent overview of how the Triune Brain connected to the Triune Heart is connected to the rest of the Universe via "toric energy fields." I very much suggest getting and reading this book, for nowhere else have I found this connection from the heart to the Universe set out so beautifully in a way that is easily understood. As I write this, it occurs to me that I must reread this book for it reveals so much information not found elsewhere in simple terms that the novice like myself can understand. The marvelous thing about energy healing is that it can frequently be accomplished in a matter of a few minutes dependent upon where the healing needs to take place. Emotional healing - that is, healing before the dis-ease has reached into the soft tissue of the body - can take place very quickly - even in a matter of minutes. Healing a disease such as cancer or diabetes, which has become embedded in the soft tissue of the body, or the body/mind field at a deep level, may take longer. However, the healing accomplished by Barbara Brennan and others like her have proven to be remarkable. Another example of energy healing was demonstrated somewhere in Asia and recorded by Gregg Braden in one of his books. As he and his wife watched on a sonogram, three priests chanted at the beside of a woman who had a large malignant tumor on her bladder. As they chanted (sending healing vibrations into her body) the tumor collapsed and disappeared. Much information on the healing power of music is recorded in Dr. Leonard Horowitz book: "Walk on Water" in which we learn much about the Solfeggio Scale and its role in the creation of life and coherence patterns in the body. Another book which conveys a lot of authentic information on energy healing and coherence patterns is: "Infinite Mind - The Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness." Energy healing by light therapy has also proven to be most effective. Another source that I need to look up the reference for is conducted by a doctor who shines different colored lights into a patients eyes which aids them in remembering destructive cellular patterns that have been forgotten including those from a past lifetime, so that the patient can effectively deal with them. This ties in with Holodynamics in that the therapist asks the question of the patient in this modality: "What color is the problem?" What appears here is that all problems like everything else are vibrating energy fields with each one having their own frequency, thus revealing themselves in different colors. These colors and the hertz in which they are vibrating are recorded by Valerie V. Hunt in her book, Infinite Mind on page 318, Exhibit 4, entitled: Spectogram. The health or illness of an individual is also revealed in the energy aura which appears outside of the body and may extend as much as 12 - 15 ft from the body. Coherence patterns, ranging from 174 up to 1100 and above with 174 being a chaos pattern and 1100 revealing a coherence pattern which reflects as the pure white light, tell the state of health or disease of an individual. The organs within the body also reveal themselves in frequencies different from those of the body as a whole. These energy patterns emanate from the heart's beat and may be controlled by the thoughts of an individual. In essence what this says is that one is in charge of one's own health by the thoughts they think and how much stress they are under do to what Alex Loyd, et al refers to in The Healing Code as: "known and unknown negative images, unhealthy beliefs, destructive cellular images, and physical issues" that affect the immune system in such a way as to inhibit its functioning properly. What practice of The Healing Code does is to release the above from the body/mind memory field and thus open the path to the immune system so that healing may take place. This practice does not heal the disease. But what it does is to replace the "coping" mechanisms most of us use throughout our lives, so that true healing may take place. More information may be found on energy healing through Cyndi Dale's latest book: "New Chakra Healing - Activate Your 32 Energy Centers." The body's energy field, called "chi" in Eastern thought may also be effectively managed through the use of healing modalities such as Tai Chi and Qi Gong which have been studied and refined by ancient Chinese masters for thousands of years. The Falun Gong modality of this art now being banned in China as it is so powerful a means of controlling the body's chi. Westerner's would do well to stop the competitive sports they engage in, and instead study and practice one of these healing arts including Yoga. Aromatherapy While I have not as yet used it, the acupuncturist I frequently see, Linda Anderson, has begun to use Aromatherapy with women incarcerated at a prison facility here in San Diego. And, although she is just beginning to use it, she feels it is quite successful. More later, but I do hope this begins to dispel the idea so prevalent today that science cannot accurately portray everything in a way that can be understood as to how the human energy field is constructed and works. And since we now know that as is the atom, is the cell, is the human, is the earth, is the universe, there is little that can be left to the imagination. Myth, IMHO is a thing of the past. Mary Rose Future Dawning Enterprises 22 July 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- VicDesotelle at gmail.com 831-515-8141 hm/off/cell About Me VicDesotelle.com Business Web Design & Traffic VirtualHelpSquad.com Authentic Leadership Online Coaching UnCoachMe.com Sustainability in Innovation Advisor DiscoveryFuel.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- _____ From: Mary Rose Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:44:19 -0700 To: "FixGov at yahoogroups. com" , Subject: FW: 10 Tips to Cope With Depression Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS As we move through uncharted waters today and the path ahead is largely unknown, it is also frequently filled with propaganda designed to induce fear which, in turn, brings about depression. In order to handle this, we need ways of coping and here are 10 ways to aid in doing this. However, what I also want to note here is that both coping and the depression itself are forms of stress. And, stress directly impacts how our immune system is functioning. So, where we really want to be is in a position to rid ourselves completely of the stress associated with the many different fear and depression-creating issues we are faced with each day. And, I am going to discuss this with you in another post in the near future. But the tips included in this article are important because they are also "management" techniques that can be used every day to help make your life flow a little more smoothly and aid in avoiding the triggers that create depression and fear. While the article below suggests that you consult a therapist, and I agree, I also realize that in the present economic situation many of us find ourselves in, it is not possible to do this. So, I will be sending information gathered from the best sources I can find that are written by professionals you can trust. From: Everyday Health Special Report [mailto:staff at everydayhealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:14 AM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: 10 Tips to Cope With Depression An Everyday Health Special Report: 10 Ways to Cope With Depression When you have depression, you can find ways to take control of your life and manage your treatment beyond medications. Making some important lifestyle changes can boost your mood and help alleviate many of your symptoms. Here are a few strategies to get you started. Talk to a Therapist Working with a therapist is often an important part of successfully managing depression . Psychotherapy focuses on helping people adjust their lifestyle in ways that they can control, minimize their stress, and cope with stressors. Among the issues that you can address with a therapist are how to improve your self-esteem, switching from negative to positive thinking, and practicing stress management. Express Yourself in Writing Writing in a journal can be very therapeutic. You can relieve stress by being open about your thoughts, feelings, and concerns in your writing. Be totally honest in your private journal in order to release pent-up emotions. You'll be amazed at how much better you feel after putting pen to paper for just a few minutes each day. Get more ways to cope with depression, including sticking to a regular schedule and reaching out to others. See the photo gallery on EverydayHealth.com Copyright C 2010 Everyday Health, Inc. All rights reserved. We sent you this offer because you're a valued subscriber to one of our newsletters. If you no longer wish to have these exclusive offers e-mailed to you, unsubscribe from Special Offers. 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It is my opinion that the best way to deal with the ?muddied waters? of the Gulf event is to send healing energy into this area. It has been proven that we can make a difference in this way. While I feel joining the Global Coherence Initiative is the best way to go about this, you may want to take time to meditate on your own or invite a few friends to do this with you. One of the things that concerns me is that articles that do not fully present the truth, and we may never have these, create fear in the minds of many which can only make matters worse ?especially when there are so many involved in the Gulf of Mexico region. When we create fear and confusion, we play right into the devil?s hands. So, let us please while attempting to get to the truth, also attempt to create a coherence pattern that enables and empowers healing. From: PEERS: WantToKnow.info Email List [mailto:emaillist at peerservice.org] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:27 AM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Who Are the Real Terrorists? Major Media Articles Raise Intriguing Questions To subscribe to or unsubscribe from this list (one email every few days) or to reply to this message, see end of email This message is available online at http://www.WantToKnow.info/war/the_real_terrorists Bookmark and Share Dear friends, Who are the real terrorists in our world? Below are many highly revealing excerpts of important terrorism articles from the mainstream media which raise serious questions on this key topic. The key sentence or two in each summary is highlighted for those with limited time. Links are provided to the full articles on their major media websites for those who want to investigate further. If any link should fail to function, click here . And don't miss the "What you can do" box beneath all of these informative summaries. By choosing to educate ourselves on these important issues and to spread the word , we can and will build a brighter future. With best wishes, Fred Burks for PEERS and the WantToKnow.info Team Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton _____ Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman? 2005-01-11, Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/11/opinion/oe-scheer11 Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda ... as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist? To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria is heretical. Yet a brilliant new BBC film produced by one of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers systematically challenges this. "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear" ... argues coherently that much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism "is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned ... around the world." Why have we heard so much frightening talk about "dirty bombs" when experts say it is panic rather than radioactivity that would kill people? Why did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claim on "Meet the Press" in 2001 that Al Qaeda controlled massive high-tech cave complexes in Afghanistan, when British and U.S. military forces later found no such thing? The film ... directly challenges the conventional wisdom by making a powerful case that the Bush administration, led by a tight-knit cabal of Machiavellian neoconservatives, has seized upon the false image of a unified international terrorist threat to replace the expired Soviet empire in order to push a political agenda. "The nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this Al Qaeda organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the 'sleeper cells' in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy." Note: If above link fails, click here . This highly revealing film by one of Britain's most respected documentary makers is available for free viewing on the Internet. For the link and lots more on this amazingly revealing documentary, click here. For an excellent review of the film in one of the U.K.'s leading newspapers, click here. _____ U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba 2001-05-01, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662 In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban ?migr?s, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof ? that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after. Note: Many military and political leaders tend to look at the world as a chess board . Sacrificing pawns (innocent civilians) is sometimes necessary to capture the queen. Is it beyond comprehension that this might have been the case with 9/11 ? And why was ABC the only major news source to report this highly revealing story? To read the shocking declassified documents, click here . _____ Why I Resigned From the CIA 2004-12-05, Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-scheuer5dec05,1,471321... Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA, wrote "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror." Between January 1996 and June 1999 I was in charge of running operations against Al Qaeda from Washington. When it comes to this small slice of the large U.S. national security pie, I speak with firsthand experience (and for several score of CIA officers) when I state categorically that during this time senior White House officials repeatedly refused to act on sound intelligence that provided multiple chances to eliminate Osama bin Laden ? either by capture or by U.S. military attack. I witnessed and documented, along with dozens of other CIA officers, instances where life-risking intelligence-gathering work of the agency's men and women in the field was wasted. I was never charged with deciding whether to act against Bin Laden. That decision properly belongs solely to senior White House officials. However, as a now-private American citizen, it is my right to question their judgment; I am entitled to know why the protection of Americans ? most selfishly, my own children and grandchildren ? was not the top priority of the senior officials who refused to act on the opportunities to attack Bin Laden provided by the clandestine service. Each of these officials have publicly argued that the intelligence was not "good enough" to act, but they almost always neglect to say that they were repeatedly advised that the intelligence was not going to get better and that Bin Laden was going to kill thousands of Americans if he was not stopped. Note: If the above link fails, click here . For many other serious questions around the 9/11 attacks, click here . _____ Brainwash victims win cash claims 2004-10-17, London Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1313808,00.html Hundreds of mentally ill patients who were subjected to barbaric CIA-funded brainwashing experiments ... could be entitled to compensation following a landmark court ruling. Doctor Ewan Cameron, who became one of the world?s leading psychiatrists, developed techniques used by Nazi scientists to wipe out the existing personalities of people in his care. Cameron ... was recruited by the CIA during the cold war while working at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He carried out mind-control experiments using drugs such as LSD on hundreds of patients, but only 77 of them were awarded compensation. Now a landmark ruling by a Federal Court judge in Montreal will allow more than 250 former patients, whose claims were rejected, to seek compensation. Last week, Alan Stein, of Montreal law firm Stein and Stein ... confirmed he was in the process of contacting former clients who could now renew their appeal. ?There are about 200 people still due compensation,? he said. Using techniques similar to those portrayed in the celebrated novel the Manchurian Candidate, it was believed that people could be brainwashed and reprogrammed to carry out specific acts. Cameron developed a range of depatterning ?treatments?. Patients were woken from drug-induced stupors two or three times a day for multiple electric shocks. In a specially designed ?sleep room? made famous by Anne Collins?s book of the same name, Cameron placed a speaker under the patient?s pillow and relayed negative messages for 16 hours a day. Cameron ... rose to become the first president of the World Psychiatric Association. Note: If the above link does not work, click here . This article clearly shows that the Manchurian candidate (programmed assassin) is not just fiction. For a powerful two-page summary of 18,000 pages of declassified CIA documents on this disturbing mind control program, click here . Links to view the original top secret documents are included. _____ US plans to fight the net revealed 2006-01-27, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4655196.stm A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations". The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it. The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks. The military's psychological operations, or Psyops , is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans. "Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public. Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads. The document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum". US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum". The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon. _____ Connections And Then Some 2003-03-14, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article &node=&contentId=A25... The Carlyle Group [is] an investment house famous as one of the most well-connected companies anywhere. Former president George H.W. Bush is a Carlyle adviser. Former British prime minister John Major heads its European arm. Former secretary of state James Baker is senior counselor, former White House budget chief Richard Darman is a partner, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt is senior adviser -- the list goes on. Those associations have brought Carlyle enormous success. The Washington-based merchant bank controls nearly $14 billion in investments, making it the largest private equity manager in the world. It buys and sells whole companies the way some firms trade shares of stock. But the connections also have cost Carlyle. It has developed a reputation as the CIA of the business world -- omnipresent, powerful, a little sinister. Media outlets from the Village Voice to BusinessWeek have depicted Carlyle as manipulating the levers of government from shadowy back rooms. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) even suggested that Carlyle's and Bush's ties to the Middle East made them somehow complicitous in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It didn't help that as the World Trade Center burned on Sept. 11, 2001, the news interrupted a Carlyle business conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here attended by a brother of Osama bin Laden. Former president Bush, a fellow investor, had been with him at the conference the previous day. Bush['s] primary function is to give speeches for Carlyle that attract wealthy foreigners in places where the former president is especially revered, such as Asia. The company has rewarded its faithful with a 36 percent average annual rate of return. Note: If the above link fails, click here . To understand the amazingly powerful role of this low-profile, yet extremely wealthy and influential group, click here to view free a 48-minute documentary shown on Dutch national TV which clearly depicts the depths of corruption and deceit at the highest levels of government. You will be thankful that you watched this highly educational film. _____ 9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply 2006-09-08, MSNBC/Washington Post http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14723997 A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act." The loose agglomeration known as the "9/11 Truth Movement" has stopped looking for truth from the government. The academic wing is led by [Prof. David Ray] Griffin, who founded the Center for a Postmodern World at Claremont University; James Fetzer, a tenured philosopher at the University of Minnesota; and Daniel Orr, the retired chairman of the economics department at the University of Illinois. The movement's de facto minister of engineering is Steven Jones , a tenured physics professor at Brigham Young University, who's...concluded that the collapse of the twin towers is best explained as controlled demolition. Catherine Austin Fitts served as assistant secretary of housing in the first President Bush's administration. [Robert] Bowman was chief of advanced space programs under presidents Ford and Carter. Fitts and Bowman agree that the "most unbelievable conspiracy" theory is the one retailed by the government. It was a year before David Ray Griffin , an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why...military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded. Griffin's book, "The New Pearl Harbor"...never reviewed in a major U.S. newspaper, sold more than 100,000 copies and became a movement founding stone. Note: If the above link fails, click here . _____ When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing 1999-02-01, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm "Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to overthrow the United States government." So begins a statement being delivered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner. At least the voice sounds amazingly like him. But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice "morphing" technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Psychological operations ... PSYOPS, as the military calls it, seek to exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments, militaries and populations to pursue national and battlefield objectives. Covert operators kicked around the idea of creating a computer-faked videotape of Saddam Hussein crying or showing other such manly weaknesses, or in some sexually compromising situation. The nascent plan was for the tapes to be flooded into Iraq and the Arab world. The tape war never proceeded...but the "strategic" PSYOPS scheming didn't die. What if the U.S. projected a holographic image of Allah floating over Baghdad urging the Iraqi people and Army to rise up against Saddam? According to a military physicist given the task of looking into the hologram idea, the feasibility had been established of projecting large, three-dimensional objects that appeared to float in the air. A super secret program was established in 1994 to pursue the very technology for PSYOPS application. The "Holographic Projector" is described in a classified Air Force document as a system to "project information power from space ... for special operations deception missions." Note: If the above link fails, click here . If you want to understand some of the many hidden capabilities of the U.S. military, this article is a must read. For more on the use of these "nonlethal" weapons, click here. _____ Leaked U.S. video shows deaths of Reuters' Iraqi staffers 2010-04-05, Washington Post/Reuters http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/05/AR20100405038... Classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, was released on [April 5] by a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption. The group, WikiLeaks, told a news conference in Washington that it acquired encrypted video of the July 12, 2007, attack from military whistleblowers and had been able to view and investigate it after breaking the encryption code. A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the video and audio were authentic. David Schlesinger, Reuters' editor-in-chief, said the video released by WikiLeaks showed the deaths of [Namir] Noor-Eldeen and [Saeed] Chmagh were "tragic and emblematic of the extreme dangers that exist in covering war zones." "The video released today via WikiLeaks is graphic evidence of the dangers involved in war journalism and the tragedies that can result," he said. Reuters has pressed the U.S. military to conduct a full and objective investigation into the killing of the two staff. WikiLeaks posted the video at http://www.collateralmurder.com. Note: If the above link fails, click here. Should the above video disappear, click here to view it on one of our websites. The only reason this event made news is because the two cameramen killed were Reuters reporters. US forces then fired on an unarmed van with children in it, which was attempting to bring the dead and wounded out of the combat zone. How many innocent civilians are killed like this and never make the news? Spread this important video and help others to wake up and work together to stop the creulty of some of the US forces. The Pentagon is working hard to shut down Wikileaks , the organization which secured this powerful video. _____ Write More About Skull And Bones 2004-10-27, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper) http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/10/27/notes102704.DTL I get this a lot: Hey Mark ... why don't you quit toeing the typical blas? journalism line ... and instead write about the real truths? Like for example how both Kerry and Bush are members of mega-yuppie Yale secret society/boys' club Skull & Bones. And why, furthermore, don't you talk about the real truths of 9/11? Haven't you seen that amazing [9/11] video on that Web site ? And what about Building 7 ? Why did that 47-story tower adjacent to the WTC collapse when it had no fire and no plane crash? Why isn't the media reporting any of this? Does this make you laugh? Scoff? It is, after all, incredibly easy to dismiss conspiracy theories. But you know what? It's not that easy. These people ... have a point. They are indeed onto something quite large and ominous and it very much has to do with the media toeing the line of "safe" information. There is indeed ample evidence that the U.S. government, long before 9/11, had already discussed the quite plausible possibilities and strategic benefits of unleashing a "Pearl Harbor"-type event on America. There are plenty of strangely unanswered questions about 9/11, about the stunning inaction of NORAD and Bush's stupefying nonreaction upon hearing of the attack, not to mention his administration's incredible attempts to halt any independent 9/11 investigations. Of course, no one in any major media will touch this stuff. It is professional suicide to dare suggest an alternate truth to the one supplied by the Pentagon and regurgitated by the media. And the truth is, we don't really want such unstable questions answered. We simply cannot tolerate to have our world, our leaders, our foundations so questioned. We prefer stasis to growth, security to true knowledge. _____ The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket 2004-10-19, Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/19/opinion/oe-scheer19 It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. "It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me. [The] release of the report, which represents an exhaustive 17-month investigation by an 11-member team within the agency, has been "stalled." First by acting CIA Director John McLaughlin and now by Porter J. Goss, the former Republican House member (and chairman of the Intelligence Committee) who recently was appointed CIA chief. The official stressed that the report was more blunt and more specific than the earlier bipartisan reports produced by the Bush-appointed Sept. 11 commission and Congress. "The report found very senior-level officials responsible." By law, the only legitimate reason the CIA director has for holding back such a report is national security. None of this should surprise us given the Bush administration's great determination since 9/11 to resist any serious investigation. The president fought against the creation of the Sept. 11 commission, for example, agreeing only after enormous political pressure was applied by a grass-roots movement led by the families of those slain. And then Bush refused to testify to the commission under oath. Instead he deigned only to chat with the commission members, with Vice President Dick Cheney present, in a White House meeting in which commission members were not allowed to take notes. Note: If the above link fails, click here . For more reliable, verifiable information on the 9/11 cover-up, click here . _____ Transcript: Rice's Testimony on 9/11 (for 9/11 Commissioner Lehman) 2004-04-08, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61252-2004Apr8_4.html LEHMAN. Were you told that there were numerous young Arab males in flight training? RICE. I was not. LEHMAN. Were you told that the red team in F.A.A. for 10 years had reported ... that the U.S. airport security system never got higher than 20 percent effective. RICE. To the best of my recollection I was not told that. LEHMAN. Were you aware that I.N.S. had quietly internally halved its internal security enforcement budget? RICE. I was not made aware of that. LEHMAN. Were you aware that it was the U.S. government established policy not to question or oppose the sanctuary policies [which] prohibited the local police from cooperating at all with federal immigration authorities? RICE. I do not believe I was aware of that. LEHMAN. Were you aware of a program that was well established that allowed Saudi citizens to get visas without interviews? RICE. I learned of that after 9/11. LEHMAN. Were you aware of the extensive activities [of] the Saudi government in supporting over 300 radical teaching schools and mosques around the country, including right here in the United States? Were you aware at the time of the fact that Saudi Arabia ... had in their custody the C.F.O. [Chief Financial Officer] and the closest confidante of Al Qaeda, of Osama bin Laden, and that they refused direct access to the United States? RICE. I don't remember anything of that kind. LEHMAN. Were you aware that they would not cooperate and give us access to the perpetrators of the Cobar Towers attack? RICE. I was very involved in issues concerning Cobar Towers. LEHMAN. Were you aware that it was the policy of the Justice Department ... to fine airlines if they have more than two young Arab males in secondary questioning? RICE. No. Note: Don't miss the full revealing transcript at the link above. Most of the quotes above are towards the bottom of the webpage. Why didn't we hear lots more about these astounding facts put forward by one of the 9/11 commissioners, yet hardly mentioned in the final report? For lots more, click here . _____ [9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well 2001-09-23, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But, he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt. Note: Yet these four are all later listed in the 9/11 Commission report as the hijackers. Click here and scroll down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more on this, click here . For an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up, click here . _____ Obama gives order to kill American imam 2010-04-08, The Times (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7089899.ece The Obama Administration has taken the unprecedented step of authorising the killing of a US citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The decision is extraordinary not only because Mr al-Awlaki is believed to be the first American whose killing has been approved by a US President, but also because the Obama Administration chose to make the move public. The Los Angeles Times reported in January that Mr al-Awlaki?s name had been placed on a top-secret list of targeted killings. In the past 24 hours, however, a handful of intelligence and counter-terrorism officials have briefed Reuters and The New York Times on the decision. The authorisation ... and the decision to make it public is a high-risk strategy. Tina Foster, of the US-based International Justice Network , told The Times: ?It is shocking that our Government would go to these extremes, even depriving someone of their life without a legal process.? The policy of targeted killings is controversial. President Ford issued an order in 1976 banning political assassinations. Yet Congress approved the use of force against al-Qaeda after the September 11 attacks. Note: Obama is the first president to publicly order the assassination an American citizen. Neither George W. Bush nor Dick Cheney asserted such a power on the part of the president. _____ David Kelly death evidence 'to be kept secret for 70 years' 2010-01-25, Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7066383/David-Kelly-death-evidence-to-... A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who chaired the inquiry into Dr Kelly's death, means medical records including the post-mortem report will remain classified until after all those with a direct interest in the case are dead. And a 30-year secrecy order has been placed on written records provided to Lord Hutton's inquiry which were not produced in evidence. Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who has conducted his own investigations into Dr Kelly's death, described the order as "astonishing". Dr Kelly's body was found in woods close to his Oxfordshire home in 2003, shortly after it was revealed that he was the source of a BBC report casting doubt on the Government's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction capable of being fired within 45 minutes. An inquest was suspended by then Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, who ruled that Lord Hutton's inquiry could take its place. But ... the inquiry focused more on the question of how the BBC report came to be broadcast than on the medical explanation for Dr Kelly's death. Lord Hutton's report in 2004 concluded that Dr Kelly killed himself by cutting an artery in his wrist. But the finding has been challenged by doctors who claim that the weapons inspector's stated injuries were not serious enough. Note: For a cache of illuminating reports on government secrecy, click here . _____ Meet Mikey, 8: U.S. Has Him on Watch List 2010-01-14, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14watchlist.html The Transportation Security Administration ... has on its web site a ?mythbuster? that tries to reassure the public. Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy. Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list. ?Meet Mikey Hicks,? said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. ?It?s not a myth.? Hicks?s mother initially sensed trouble when he was a baby and she could not get a seat for him on their flight to Florida at an airport kiosk; airline officials explained that his name ?was on the list,? she recalled. The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2. He cried. After years of long delays and waits for supervisors at every airport ticket counter, this year?s vacation to the Bahamas badly shook up the family. Mikey was frisked on the way there, then more aggressively on the way home. ?Up your arms, down your arms, up your crotch ? someone is patting your 8-year-old down like he?s a criminal,? Mrs. Hicks recounted. It is true that Mikey is not on the federal government?s ?no-fly? list, which includes about 2,500 people, less than 10 percent of them from the United States. But his name appears to be among some 13,500 on the larger ?selectee? list, which sets off a high level of security screening. Note: For many reports from major media sources on the extreme loss of liberties brought about by the highly touted "war on terrorism," click here . _____ What you can do: * Inform your media and political representatives of your desire to expose the war machine and the real terrorists. To contact those close to you, click here . 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May this information be assimilated and applied relative to the Global Coherence Initiative or any other meditation. Thanks to the "Spirit of Maat" for the original publication of this. http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/mar2/tiller.htm Dr. William Tiller on Free Energy As described in Celeste Adams's interview (see The Conscious Creation of a New Paradigm), Dr. William A. Tiller's studies and experiments have proven that human consciousness "changes space." And he explains how this works in a way that's easy for us to follow and understand. But further - and of importance to the subject matter of our current issue - he demonstrates not only that Zero Point Energy is, for all practical purposes, absolutely limitless, but that in it lies our future potential. It's not a hoax, and it's not "science fiction." It's science fact. It's real, and it's coming soon. Proving Scientifically that Mind Affects Matter Dr. Tiller's experiments to demonstrate the effect of mind over matter began by imprinting electrical devices with a specific intention. The imprinting was done by four experienced meditators, people who Tiller says were "highly inner-self-managed people." Then this device - imprinted with the intent - was wrapped in aluminum and sent by overnight shipping to a laboratory 2000 miles away, where it was placed beside the "target experiment" and turned on. So, for example, the electrical device might be imprinted with the idea of raising or lowering the pH of water. And if the device was turned on in the vicinity of a jar of water, the expectation was that the pH of the water would be raised or lowered, depending upon the original intent. In the case of that particular experiment, they were looking for at least a full pH unit of difference, something large enough that the results could not be attributed to faulty measurement (it's possible to measure 1/100th or even 1/1000th of a degree of change in pH, so one full unit is a lot). So the first result was that they were in fact able to achieve an unambiguous change in the water's pH state simply through its being in the vicinity of an electrical device that had been imprinted with that intent. And they were able to raise pH (or lower it, depending upon the intent) in this way by as much as 1-1/2 full units, a very large amount. The Effect of Repeated Experiments It was when the same experiment was repeated over and over, however, that the really significant effects began to show. For Tiller has found and proved that when intent is repeated in the same space, eventually it becomes permanent. And when that happens, the laws of physics in that space no longer operate as they did before! (For a homely but meaningful analogy, can you remember when it was "impossible" for man to run a four-minute mile?) When they kept running the same experiment over and over again, Tiller says, the laboratory began to become "conditioned," so that the same result would happen more strongly or more quickly. And eventually, it would happen even after the device was no longer in the room. "In one of the spaces that we have used," Tiller says, "the alteration in the space of the room has remained stable for well over a year, and it's still going strong." (Today, if you can't run a four-minute mile they won't let you on the track team.) In physical terms, what does this mean? What has actually happened to the "space" of the laboratory room? Tiller explains, "The experimental data we gather seems to indicate that it raises what is called the 'physics gauge symmetry' of the room." For example, in one experiment they would put a disk-like DC magnet under the jar of water for three days with the north pole up, and measure the pH. Then they would do the same with the south pole up. They wanted to know whether there would be a difference in pH change in the water depending upon which pole was up. "In a 'normal space,' which is called a U{1}-Gauge space," Tiller says, . . .the magnetic force is proportional to the gradient of the square of the magnetic field. This simply means that if you do that experiment in a "normal space," there will be no difference, no matter which way the magnet is turned. In this "conditioned space," though, we have been able to get differences of 1-1/2 pH units depending upon which way the magnet was turned. Very big effects. What this basically means is that the law of physics which says that the magnetic force is proportional to the gradient of the square of the magnetic field has been changed in this space! Tiller says: The only way that can happen is if you've raised the gauge symmetry from the U{1} Gauge to something approximating what is called the SU{2} Gauge. With SU{2}-Gauge symmetry, you have electric monopole and magnetic monopole substances functioning, not magnetic dipoles as you have in a U{1} space. So somehow, by our procedures, we have created mixed-gauge symmetry. We've produced some elements of SU{2}-Gauge symmetry, because that's the only way you can get a polarity effect. That says that we are producing domains of order in the vacuum! The Vacuum Contains Non-Physical "Stuff" But isn't the vacuum a - well, a vacuum? Like, nothing? No, Tiller points out, actually a vacuum contains dense energy potential. But in U{1}-Gauge symmetry, that potential is chaotic and amorphous. It has no basic effect on the physical universe. But with SU{2}-Gauge symmetry, he says, there is an ordered alteration, a change that takes place. SU{2}-Gauge symmetry actually changes the state of the particles that make up physical reality. And since Tiller has shown that the order thus created in the vacuum is based upon human intent, this shows that we can actually harness the power of the vacuum through our consciousness. How Much Power Are We Talking About Assuming that we can use experiments like this to learn how to tap the energy of the vacuum, how much potential is there within this "vacuum stuff"? Again, the answer to this begins with the understanding that the vacuum is not empty or void. It's empty only of physical matter. However, the vacuum contains "energy density." This is actually the central concept of "free energy." As Tiller says: Quantum mechanics and relativity theory are the two prime theoretical constructs of modern physics, and for quantum mechanics and relativity theory to be internally self-consistent, their calculations require that the vacuum must contain an energy density 1094 grams per cubic centimeter. How much energy is that? To find out, Tiller says, you simply use Einstein's equation: e=MC2. Here's how this comes out in practical terms. You could take the volume of, say, a single hydrogen atom (which is incredibly small, an infinitesimally small fraction of a cubic centimeter), and multiply that by the average mass density of the cosmos, a number which is known to astronomers. And what you find out, Tiller says, is that within the amount of vacuum contained in this hydrogen atom there is, according to this calculation, "almost a trillion times as much energy as in all of the stars and all of the planets out to a radius of 20 billion light years!" If human consciousness can interact with that even a little bit, it can change things in matter. Because the ground state energies of all particles have that energy level due to their interaction with this stuff of the vacuum. So if you can shift that stuff of the vacuum, change its degree of order or coherence even a little bit, you can change the ground state energies of particles, atoms, molecules, and chemical equations. In conclusion, despite our attachment to it and our feeling of its solidity and persistence, what we think of as the physical universe is an almost incomprehensibly miniscule part of the immensity of All That Is. Our future, Dr. Tiller is telling us, lies in harnessing the energies that lie hidden in the spaces between the particles, atoms, molecules, planets, stars, and galaxies of the physical universe. . . "Matter as we know it," Tiller concludes poetically, "is hardly a fragrance of a whisper." Dr. Tiller's website is at tiller.org . You may email Dr. Tiller at bill at tiller.org, but he asks that you include a snail mail address if you wish to receive a reply. The quotes in this article were culled from a recent interview with Dr. Tiller by Jeff Rense. To hear the interview in its entirety, go to the Yahoo archives and select the November 14 broadcast, or click here. to load the broadcast directly. Pasted from Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser. ABC Widgets Issue 2 We've been busy this week researching insights on the benefits of some really nutritious berries. You may be surprised about what we have to say about one of them! Our new featured expert writer (and nutritionist), Robert Rister, delivers some amazing information. It's all about benefits in this newsletter! Enjoy! The Benefits of Blueberries Are More Than Just Antioxidants Blueberries are packed with antioxidant power, but the benefits of blueberries are far more than just the plant chemicals you hear about so often. Blueberries fight disease on multiple levels, and are an underused tool of naturally good health. [click here to continue reading about blueberries] The Benefits of Amla: The Ayurvedic Super-Herb You Probably Don't Know For nearly six thousand years, Ayurvedic medicine has utilized the benefits of amla, a round, yellow, bitter fruit also known as the Indian gooseberry. 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Manage your subscription -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 24 16:19:02 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:19:02 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Well After All It Was You & Me by Lynn McTaggart Message-ID: <001f01cb2b7f$17635d60$462a1820$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Thanks to Marilyn Nyborg for forwarding this article from Kathie Murtey, written by Lynn McTaggart, and for her observations as she provides an introduction. Marilyn, I very much agree with you regarding the role that women must play today as we take our rightful place beside and as partner's with men. A place from which we were disenfranchised in ancient times, as the aristocrats of that time along with the male priests decided they wanted control. Prior to that time, as told by Riane Eisler in her book: "The Chalice and the Blade," much of which is based on the findings of the female archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas, that there existed in the Neolithic Age a peaceful "partnership society" in which men and women were considered equals, however, with land and other valuable holdings being passed down on the female or Goddess side of the partnership. This was a time of worship of the Great Mother - with the Great Mother being Ninharsag - the creator of the woman Eve as she took the bone marrow from the rib of The Adam and cloned her. Ninharsag was the wife of the God Enki who brought 600 males from the Planet Nibiru some 432,000 years ago as is told both in the Bible and in the Sumerian Tablets. The 600 men would later be called "Fallen Angels" as they mated with the daughters of Eve, although forbidden to do so. This is a vital part of both history and herstory that has been omitted and must be inserted back into the picture so that we may see and embrace the whole. While I am skipping a great deal here in the interests of time and brevity, the Goddesses, as the women of this time came to be known, lived in the Temples that were erected to honor The Great Mother. And, it was customary for these women to service all of the men in their area even though they might be married to one of them. It was part of the rites of the Temple at that time that they do so. However, what happened was as the women passed down the land and other valuable rights to their children, some were left out as no one knew whose child was whose as far as the men were concerned. And this made some very unhappy as they wanted to know whose child belonged to whom and what their rights were. Again, skipping a great deal, this is how Christianity as we know it today came into being as the Levites, as they were known, demanded an end to this practice of the Goddesses servicing all of the men, and brought what is known as the "sanctity of marriage" into being with the Church being the institution that granted sanctity to the marriage, and which also baptized the child assuring that it would belong to the Church. And, it is also why the rights of women were suppressed and an all male rule came into being. An all male rule that worshipped the God (Enki) who had brought life to planet Earth in the form of homo sapiens as we know ourselves today. It is also why in some cultures, women are considered to be little more than prostitutes and servants of men, forbidden to go out of the home uncovered, and are stoned and beaten even today when they are raped. More of this story is told in Merlin Stone's book, "When God Was a Woman." I have spent much time researching this, but still do not have all the links in place, as did neither Eisler or Stone, and certainly this all ties into Zechariah Sitchen's work in the Earth Chronicles, and all is to be incorporated into my book: "The Sacred Quest For The Who Of I Am" when it Is finally written. But this is also something that due to the enormous amount of material that must be reviewed and accurately recorded, one person cannot do alone. Or, if I do it alone, it will take a very long time to accomplish. However, this very much needs to be recorded in order to supplement the parts that were intentionally left out of the Bible in order that the truth BE known and women can take their rightful place in society with no questions asked. This is part of what I believe to be our ascending consciousness as we approach 2012. And as Marilyn writes below, we owe it to ourselves to do this so that herstory is accurately brought into the light, but at the same time, we need to consider what the truth of history is and to aid our male companions in honoring their feminine side once again so that we may together embrace our wholeness. And, while this may all seem to be unrelated to the story of the Gulf as Lynn McTaggart views it, one of the things to remember is that men have been the main decision makers for centuries and their influence has largely shaped our world as it is today. And, I don't see that there were many women involved in the Gulf incident except that we along with men are guilty as hell of creating demand for oil. But, if we can understand this, it had to be this way - we had to create this in order to learn that this is not where we want to be. It is the way we evolve - everything really is the way it should be. This is not the end, even though it may appear to be Apocalypse Now - it really is the beginning of a new age the way it has always been. You can see it written in the stars. From: Marilyn Nyborg [mailto:marilyn at nydow.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:09 PM To: Marilyn Fowler; Steve Bhaerman; Claire Zammit Subject: From my friend Kathie Murtey. I'm including an article. It points to more of the changes that need to be made. There is no mention of gender yet as women we have much to do. It seems to me at this point in history we women of the western world especially, have much to do. We need to become aware of our herstory, awaken to the impact of this mostly unwritten herstory, and break through the constraints this herstory offers us. We are awakening now. We are learning how to cooperate, collaborate and celebrate our radiance as women. We need to model what is possible for women everywhere. We need to step into our individual and collective power. We are doing this for all humanity. Yet we must awaken as women first so we can more ably partner with men. Research has shown women carry with them an awareness of relationships, we have a concern for 'the whole', when women's lives improve the lives of families and communities improve. We are a direct descendant of the Divine, we do not need to go through a man, men or a masculine God to experience our connection. Awakening to who we are, who we have been and who we can be for the world is a step not to be missed. If we do miss this step, we will unconsciously step in to the patriarchy and unconsciously perpetuate it. Kathie Murtie Well, after all, it was you and me by Lynn McTaggert June 25th, 2010 Last week I watched the spectacle of US Senators behaving very righteously, as they scrambled over each other to shoot BP chief executive Tony Hayward, with Hayward clumsily dodging their bullets. The culpability for the Gulf Oil spill is being laid at Haywards door, as an example of individual corporate irresponsibility in the drive for ever increasing profits. There is some truth to that, of course. Cutting corners oN safety for profit is essentially the daily bread of corporate life. The banking industry and ongoing world financial crisis immediately come to mind. Nevertheless, to believe that the entire problem stems from a single corporations negligence is to miss the entire lesson of this experience and its important role in our evolution. Nevertheless, to believe that the entire problem stems from a single corporations negligence is to miss the entire lesson of this experience and its important role in our evolution. AN OILY WORLD BP is being demonized at the sole villain of the piece here, but the fact is that BP, like every other petroleum company, is simply doing what any corporation does, which is responding to demand. The modern industrial world is created from oil. Oil doesnt just power our automobiles and heat our houses. Most everything manufactured these days, in some way, derives from oil. Virtually all plastics are made from petroleum. Most prescription and over-the-counter drugs have some form of petroleum at their base, as do most cosmetics. As I write this, the lipstick and mascara Im wearing contain petroleum. The Apple computer Im writing on is made of petroleum-based plastic. Even if I were to leave my car at home and bike to my office, Id Ill be driving over petroleum-based asphalt. I could try to save oil by eating by candlelight tonight, but Id still be using a petroleum product. If I need to call my husband or children later Ill be speaking to them via an instrument made of petroleum. We eat organic food and use eco-products in this house, but we, like everyone else, are drowning in petroleum. Detergents, soaps, rubber bands, almost all cosmetics, perfumes, most of what we clean our houses with, flooring, sports equipment, contact lenses, disposable diapers, paints and paint thinners, garden hoses, many components of automobiles like batteries, most modern boats, virtually every toilet seat, balloons, shower curtains, crayons, golf balls, dental floss and toothbrushes, sunglasses, condoms all this and much more are made of oil. Every aspect of our modern-day food production and consumption requires petroleum, from the fertilizer used to grow it, to the mechanized processing used to produce it, the trucks used to distribute it, the refrigerators and plastic packaging required to keep it fresh, and the ovens used to cook it. Given the fact that oil has been so interwoven with modern mod-con life, it is not surprising that the earth is running out of it. All Western petroleum companies know this. Big Oil only owns some 10 per cent of global oil and gas reserves. All the rest is in the hands of the state-owned oil companies of Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Iran. That is why they are having to look deeper and deeper into the earth to find whatever stores are left. All the petroleum companies are moving out further into the sea and drilling deeper to get oil. There are 12 deepwater oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico deeper than 40m, and 15 off the coast of Brazil. Besides BPs Deepwater Horizon, 31 other rigs drill in deep water in the Gulf, seven of them just set up in 2008. About a third of our oil is now being obtained offshore, with a marginal amount from shallow waters. RISKY BUSINESS Deep water drilling is inherently risky. The difference in temperature between the water (at 41 degrees Fahrenheit) and the boiling oil puts enormous stress on all equipment used. The platform itself is unstable. But the biggest problem of all is the extraordinary pressure in the underground reservoirs, in which every square centimeter contains the weight of an ordinary-sized car. Every time you drill into the rock layers of the seabed you risk a Deepwater Horizon type explosion, in which the fuel shoots out of the ground and cannot be contained. Deepwater drilling is an accident waiting to happen. No matter how careful an individual company, there is no plan B if something goes wrong. Containment of an explosion requires cutting-edge measures that essentially havent been invented yet. EVOLUTIONARY EVENT The point here is that as tragic as this explosion was, for the animals, for the Gulf residents whose livelihood is destroyed, and for all of us watching helplessly as the oil slick grows the size of a small country, it was necessary and important to our evolution. Giant ecological disaster seems to be the only way to wake up human beings to the need to do things differently. In a sense, it was also necessary that it happen in America and I say this as an American myself. The world consumes 85 million barrels of oil per day, and America consumes nearly one-quarter of that. America is the sole country in the world that refused to sign the Kyoto Agreement. It is one of the few developed countries to spend almost none of its public money on alternatives to the automobile, such as high rail travel. Unlike Europe, the US continues to eschew high taxes on gasoline as a disincentive to drive. Many of the Senators who were so highhanded about Tony Hayward have consistently opposed a Clean Energy Bill and attempted to pass a bill preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing pollution standards against greenhouse emissions. In fact, the petroleum industry oils a fair portion of their campaigns. BIGGER THAN SUVS Lately, we Americans have cut back on their reliance on big SUVs and cars in general, but the problem is far greater than driving a little less. We must all realize that this is no one companys or countrys problem. We dont just have to drive differently. The Gulf disaster signals the end of a petroleum-based world. What this requires is that we come to terms with the fact that that we have to live differently, produce things differently, consume things differently. Its time for us all to take responsibility for Deepwater Horizons by doing whatever we can, individually and collectively, to evolve a society that does not depend on oil at every turn. Since the Gulf of Mexico explosion, words from an old Rolling Stone song keep rattling around in my head. The song is Sympathy for the Devil, and the line goes like this: I shouted out, Who killed the Kennedys? Well, after all, it was you and me . I have an intention that we heal the area, but mostly that we heal ourselves and our division from the natural world. It is important to view the Gulf disaster, however painful, as something positive natures early warning signal to make changes in our lives now before it is too late. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 24 18:08:44 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:08:44 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Straight Talk from Dr. Rima: Sunday Internet Radio You Must Hear... Message-ID: <000501cb2b8d$ce9a1a60$6bce4f20$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS I recommend you look into these issues with Dr. Rima. We?re talking serious stuff here. From: Natural Solutions Foundation [mailto:noreply at noreply.com] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 4:03 PM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Straight Talk from Dr. Rima: Sunday Internet Radio You Must Hear... Natural Solutions Foundation The Voice of Global Health Freedom? www.HealthFreedomUSA.org www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org Saturday, July 24, 2010 Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6063 Do You Find Yourself In "Overload" These Days? Here at Natural Solutions Foundation we understand that there are more issues impacting your life than anyone can hope to keep track of. That is part of the Plan, THEIR plan. Like a bull in a bull ring, with a dozen people racing in front of him, sticking him with spears, waving flags in front of him, who does not know which way to turn to protect himself first, we are all being attacked and distracted by new crises and issues at every turn. To be frank, every time the government agencies (like the FDA), or their international counterparts (like WHO and Codex) pull another shenanigan, we at the Natural Solutions Foundation groan because we have more to research, another issue to find the vulnerable fulcrum for, another Action item and more articles to write, interviews to give and results to track. (Please see the important links right below this urgent message so you can take each of those Action Items.) It is, after all, freedom's price. After all, that's what we do for you... And we know you value us for it! The All-Front Burner Stove Big Stove: New World Order Domination, Depopulation and Control Heat-Up System The Plan includes keeping so many pots at the boil on the front burners of their REALLY big stove that instead of being able to keep up with them, you fatigue, your get burned out and suddenly you stop caring what's in the next pot - leaving the crisis makers and managers free reign to do whatever they like. That's their REALLY Big Stovbe. Our REALLY Big Stove - not the one at the BeyondOrganic BioDynamic? Internet Caf? that will be opening at the Natural Solutions Center... but our metaphoric Really Big Stove where we keep the issues simmering and sometimes boiling is what I want to talk to you about today... Here are the vital Health Freedom issues on the front burner right now - and, as you can see, it's a REALLY big stove. In fact, their stove has a brand name: "NWODDCHUS" or "New World Order Domination, Depopulation and Control Heat-Up System". Burner 1: Vaccines for illness marketing and depopulation (Oh, by the way, did you see the new study that shows that women and girls who get the Gardasil shot series have MORE cervical cancer than those that don't? http://www.examiner.com/x-40801-Vaccines-Examiner~y2010m6d30-Warning-Gardasil-may-cause-increased-risk-of-cervical-cancer And are they less fertile? No one knows yet, but I strongly suspect so.) Burner 2: Compulsory drugging and forced vaccination -- CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, (ACIP) now "recommends," (so the States can then "mandate") a flu shot every year for everyone 6 months and over. That flu shot will include the untested and dangerous H1N1 vaccine despite the lack of any medical justification and the evidence of hundreds of miscarriages associated with receiving H1N1 vaccines. And then there's compulsory drugging for pregnant mothers and a host of other faux-prevention strategies which all equal more drugs, more deaths, more damage, for us, but more dollars for Big Pharma and the Uber-Cartel.) Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4376 Support our law suite against the FDA to "Stop the Shot!": http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 Burner 3: Complete the industrialization and degradation of the food supply via passage of S.510 through deceptive "unanimous consent" end of session Congressional action (which assumes that Americans are so beach-besotted that we will not notice until the damage is done). Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252 Burner 4: Destroy the lives and capacities of generations of Americans by ignoring the neuro-tragedy which is caused by drugs and vaccines -- stonewall and lie, allowing the totally corrupt FDA to "determine" that vaccines are "safe", that psychoactive drugs are "safe", that there is no toxicity to mercury and other horrors, and make no attempt to find, or fix, these atrocities since they results in tragedies beneficial to the NWODDCHUS - a. lower protest capacity from damaged individuals and distracted, distraught families; b. higher profits since medication and "health" "care" costs are enormous for these families; c. shorter lifespans for the afflicted and their stress-ridden family members; d. lower reproductive rate for a significant segment of the now-damaged population. Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3688 Burner 5: Forced medical decisions leading to - a. Early "termination" by withholding medication, food and water based on actuarial, not personal, decisions of bureaucrats and carried out by specially empowered doctors WITHOUT CONSULTATION OR APPROVAL OF THE PATIENT OR FAMILY MEMBERS. (Parenthetically, this is what killed my 97 year old father earlier this year - an unapproved, unnecessary "medical" decision to "turn off" an old, but alert, man.)! b. Submission to mandatory vaccination and other faux-"preventive" strategies before injured or ill individuals are allowed to get any "treatment" under the Obamacare system, including emergency access to ER services! c. Forced participation in a politicized triage program designed to ration your health care and tax you beyond the reality limits of your income! d. Degraded care and quality of life for all but the elite, including present, future and former members of Congress, for whom the rules are strikingly different. Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4078 Burner 6. Forced, secret degradation of food through the application of Codex approved "standards" and "guidelines" which include, but are absolutely not limited to: a. Unlabeled GMO food as a global standard despite the ecological and medical insanity of this death technology and the violation of the Precautionary Principle embodied in the policy of not requiring independent third-party testing before any release into the environment; b. Unlabeled, unlimited amounts of dangerous pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other toxins etc., in food; c. Unlabeled, unsafe and insane upper limits of heavy metals, antibiotic residues and other food contamination so high that no food can be considered safe unless you grow it yourself - but wait! You won't be able to if S. 510 sneaks through in the US. If you're outside the US, your country will follow the US lead because of Codex and the WTO - unless, of course, you take control of the process, help get the US out of Codex and help your government take the Codex Two Step Process to protect you! d. Endlessly irradiated foods; e. Nutrient reference values (for foods and supplements) so low that they absolutely guarantee real pandemics of cancer and the other diseases of under nutrition; f. Unlabeled additions of industry-friendly poisons like ractopamine to food and food animals for the benefit of the Uber-Cartel, which includes Big Finance, Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Biotech, Big Chema and Big Medicine -- and, of course, the Big Govt that makes them possible. Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4279 Burner 7: Taking away our First Amendment rights to associate together and talk about, and learn what food and food components - and toxins, will do for us, in the first case, and to us, in the second case. FDA, FTC and EPA are bound and determined to make sure that we have no legal right to know how they are allowing us to be harmed and, indeed, killed, by their actions and protected products - and, similarly, no legal redress in the courts where our petitions of grievances are met by govt lawyer claims that citizens don't have "standing to sue." Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3729 Burner 8: Stopping the FDA's stealth mis-labeling of natural devices, supplements, herbs and healthful foods as "drugs" or "devices" which (they claim) have not been tested or approved and so are illegal for sale in the US (FDA tried this in 2008 and we beat them back when 688,000 people said, "Don't you DARE!". Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521 Support our lawsuit against the FDA: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 We told you they would be back and, like termites, they are! This time, they started with the little known, low income item called "ear candles" that are used in the traditional, natural relaxation and comfort activity known as Holistic Candling. That's why Natural Solutions Foundation is suing the FDA over their attack on this non-medical comfort device. But they have also raided and closed down an ozone device manufacturer recently, menaced a detox pad maker, told cherry producers, cereal makers and walnut producers that sharing the science about their foods is illegal.... and they keep on going. We're here to stop them from menacing our food, our health and our freedom, because YOU are there, taking action and making donations to keep our work alive.) We agree with US Supreme Court in the 2002 Thomson v Western case, which said the government has no legitimate interest in stopping people from making even what the govt considers to be "bad" decisions based on truthful information. Apparently the FDA doesn't. Should I go on? It's probably not necessary. All you have to do is check out the Action Items on our websites, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org to see what the issues are. Those stove burners are all at full blaze now! We could decide for you what the "Bigs" are, but we think that you can handle the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth -- plus ways to stop the globalists who profit from your illness and your lack of knowledge. We sort the issues out for you and then give you the best, most effective Action Items to take and to disseminate. We put up videos to expand on the issues and we send out email blasts about twice a week. We run the Dr. Rima Reports weekly internet radio program at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/freedomizerradio (Sunday nights, 9 PM to Midnight, Eastern Time) with vitally important news, guests and a full hour of health talk time with Dr. Rima where you can ask your health questions and have an answer from world-recognized experts in Advanced Health Care. How to Listen: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4850 We trust you to make your own choices and decisions about your health, your bodies, your freedom and your level of support for the Natural Solutions Foundation. 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In this book, Martin wrote about "The Christ Cult" and the similarities between what has been written about Jesus in the gospels of Matthew, John and Luke, and what had previously been written in the mythology of Greek, Jewish and Mythraic myths and taken from their ceremonies. But the similarities are many writes Knutsen: The bread and wine of mass was a ritual already in place with Dionysus, son of Zeus, whose blood was drunk as a transubstantiated wine. The Mythriac cult drank the blood of the bulls. December 25th was their Holy Day. The Christian Church chose the bull, the idol of their competition, to symbolize the devil. The concept of the son of God being heir to his father's kingdom is ever present in Greek mythology, as is the tradition of dying a noble death. Easter was originally a springtime pagan fertility celebration. Eggs which represent fertility and the prolifically fertile bunnies are obvious ties to the ancient tradition, as is even the very name of the celebration: Easter is named for the Teutonic goddess Eostre, the Goddess of Spring. Sunday was the day of the week the Romans set aside to worship their Sun god. There was much debate in the early Christine theological circles as to whether or not Jesus was connected to Judaism as well. They debated whether or not it was Yaweh who was the Father of Jesus, or a higher power. There was a great effort to tie the old and the New Testament together so that the prophecies in the Old could be seen as being fulfilled in the New. As to Islam, In the year 610 (CE) an Arab merchant in the city of Mecca named Muhammad ibn Abdallah became convinced he was receiving revelations from the God of Moses. And, the simplicity of his concepts spread throughout the Middle East and from Spain to India. His revelations were written by scribes and collected together some years after his death. Such was the birth of Islam. As he proceeds in the book, Knutsen tells as to how the myths associated with an "Agri-cultural" society such as took place with regard to Jesus and his Father in Heaven were formed. Basically, the deities these people worshipped at this time were patterned after what was familiar to them. Most of them were "herders" acting as shephards to the animals they cared for: sheep, goats and cattle. And they patterned the Gods they worshipped as "good shephards of their people". Such was the way that religions came into being. And, here we are thousands of years later, tied to the same mythologies as these people believed in then. One only has to think of some of the wording used to recognize this. For instance: "The Lord is my shepherd." "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures" etc., etc. But in addition to this, as I have written previously -drug use was prevalent at that time, and much of what we go by today was written in drug-induced states. Yet, here today, we lock people up and imprison them for life for using these same drugs or ones like them. Please review this video - I have also posted a review of it for your convenience. http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com/main/ This video came to me by way of Facebook. Thanks to Naomi Mullen. Review by Martin W. Ball, Ph.D., author and host of the Entheogenic Evolution Podcast The Pharmacratic Inquisition is a provocative film from Gnostic Media that makes the argument that virtually all of the mythology, symbolism, and story of Jesus and related Christian traditions relate to two basic subjects: astrology and shamanism. For those unfamiliar with the evidence in support of this claim, this film can be truly eye opening and revolutionary. Much of the material for this film rests upon the work of John Allegro. Allegro was one of the original scholars chosen to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Christian texts that were discovered in Qumram near the Dead Sea in the middle of the 20th century. Unlike his colleagues, Allegro was not beholden to the Catholic Church and therefore was able to develop his theories and interpretations free from Catholic dogma. The result was the radical claim that Jesus was a psychoactive mushroom. In particular, Allegro argued that the mythology and symbolism surrounding the Christ figure all point to Amanita muscaria mushrooms, the iconic red and white mushroom so common in Christmas symbolism and imagery. The amanita mushroom plays a central role in this film and is presented as the basis for the shamanic elements in Christianity. Amanitas have a long history of use among northern European and Siberian shamans - the very cultures from which the term "shaman" originates. Within these cultures, "shamanism" was synonymous with amanita use and knowledge of its psychoactive properties were well known throughout that region of the world. That the shamanic use of the amanita might influence Christianity should therefore not necessarily be a surprise, but the argument that Jesus actually is an amanita, and not a historical figure, is probably a surprise to most. The film makes a compelling argument for this connection between Jesus and the amanita, and even psilocybin mushrooms, through the presentation of Christian symbolism, iconography, and imagery. When one looks closely at the Catholic Church, amanita symbolism appears to abound from the clothing of popes and cardinals to frescos, arch ways, and church architecture. Even the myths themselves, such as that of the Holy Grail, seem to fall within the category of amanita symbolism. Indeed, when the images are presented in this manner, the comparison to amanita becomes immediately obvious and difficult to argue against. Even Santa Claus gets the amanita treatment in this film. Here the jolly old elf is presented in the context of northern European shamanism where, according to tradition, the shaman would dry his amanitas from a conifer tree and then visit the yurts of his community, entering through the smoke hole to bring gifts of sacred mushrooms to the people. It is not much of a stretch to see that these reindeer herding shamans were the iconic model for the fat red and white clothed Santa, who himself looks very much like an amanita mushroom. In addition to the influence of shamanism and psychoactive mushrooms on Christianity, the film also investigates the relationship between astrology and astronomy to the Christ myth. Here the filmmakers provide compelling arguments for the correlation between the Christ myth and the Winter Solstice sky and the zodiacal ages, graphically demonstrating how such tales of the shining star, the three kings, and the death and resurrection of Jesus all fit within previously known facts about the night sky and the change of seasons. Ultimately, the Pharmacratic Inquisition challenges many of the assumptions and beliefs we may have about Christianity and its central figures, providing provocative evidence that things are not as they seem within this tradition. If true, the question then becomes: does the Catholic Church still use amanita mushrooms secretly within the confines of the Vatican? Have they really been withholding this fundamental truth for two millennia, or have even they come to believe the myths that were created to both communicate and conceal the true identity of Jesus Christ? Watch this film and make up your own mind. Your Logo, Inc. 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See links for full articles) LIVE from Las Vegas: Closing curtains for Netroots Nation 2010 at the Rio http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2010/07/live-from-las-vegas-closing-curt ains.html Saturday, July 24, 2010 We've reached the end of the third day of Netroots Nation 2010, which means that the fifth annual gathering of America's progressive online community is drawing to a close. It's been a truly wonderful convention, with informative panels, energizing keynotes, and fun-filled parties packed back to back for eighteen hours each day. But all good things have to end at some point, and Netroots Nation is no exception. Our master of ceremonies tonight is Laura Flanders, an acclaimed author and journalist who previously hosted her own talk show on Air America Radio. In her opening remarks, Laura cracked some jokes at the expense of RightOnline, the right wing confab that follows Netroots Nation around every year (and has since the third Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas). Laura was at RightOnline earlier today to observe firsthand what they're up to; she wasn't impressed with what she saw. http://www.netrootsnation.org/ Chefs and parents plot a lunch revolution at one D.C. public school by Ed Bruske 21 Jul 2010 4:00 AM http://www.grist.org/article/food-chefs-and-parents-plot-lunch-revolution-at -D.C.-public-school/ A group of prominent Washington, D.C.-area restaurant chefs has volunteered to introduce a novel concept in school-food service to one Capitol Hill elementary school: collaborating with parents to take over kitchen operations on a nonprofit basis, replacing the prepackaged, reheated factory meals that Tyler Elementary kids currently eat with food cooked from scratch, served on real plates with real cutlery. Led by Cathal Armstrong, chef and owner of Restaurant Eve in Alexandria, Va., the group would undo the historically knotty issue of school food finances by putting parents to work in the cafeteria as voluteers, and using the savings in labor to buy better food, much of it from local growers. The proposal has been approved by D.C. Public Schools' food services division but is still being reviewed by the procurement division -- meaning much paperwork, red tape, and potential snags remain between now and August 23, when classes resume. Cathal Armstrong on a visit to TylerChef Cathal Armstrong on a recent visit to TylerArmstrong, who was a 2009 James Beard nominee for "Best Mid-Atlantic Chef," is an outspoken advocate of fresh, local foods. He sits on the board of Fresh Farm Markets, which operates several farmers markets in the city. His involvement with Tyler Elementary stems from a meeting last year with White House assistant chef and food advisory Sam Kass, whose title was recently upgrade to senior policy adviser For Healthy Food Initiatives. This appears to be the first time that First Lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign has extended its reach into a school food service operation. Gulf Oil Spill: BP Tries To Block Release Of Oil Spill Research Updated: 07-24-10 08:19 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/24/gulf-oil-spill-bp-tries-t_0_n_65830 0.html HOUSTON -- Faced with hundreds of lawsuits and a deep need for experts, BP has been offering some Gulf Coast scientists lucrative consulting contracts that bar them from releasing their findings on the company's massive oil spill for three years. Some scientists say the contracts constrain academic freedom. A few signed the agreements, then changed their minds. And others argue BP's contract is standard, and with little federal funding available to study the spill's impact, Gulf Coast researchers have few other options. "I personally wouldn't care to have my research limited, but if I wanted to do work on the spill and this was the only way I could get out there and get working on it, I don't think there's a lot of alternatives," said Chris D'Elia, dean of the Louisiana State University School of the Coast and Environment. BP confirms hiring more than a dozen scientists who have Gulf Coast expertise to assist with hundreds of lawsuits and assess the environmental damage caused by the spill. BP fails to put money in promised escrow account. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/24/bp-fails-to-put-money-in-promised-escrow -account/ In a deal negotiated last month, President Obama and BP officials agreed the company would pay $5 billion annually over the next four years into an escrow account for damage its oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused. Ken Feinberg, who was appointed to administer oil spill claims out of the escrow fund, has said he "hasn't been able to start writing claims checks" because BP PLC has failed to deposit any money into the $20 billion fund it promised to create: Feinberg, who was appointed to administer oil spill claims out of the fund, said he doesn't have the authority to force BP to deposit the money, but his hands are tied until it does. "I don't want the checks to bounce," he said. The day after the escrow account's establishment in June, BP CEO Tony Hayward told Congress that BP is "unwavering in our commitment to fulfill all our responsibilities" and the company "won't stop spending until the job is done." Rove's RNC 'grassroots' rival, American Crossroads, raised 97 percent of its money from four billionaires. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/23/american-crossroads-donors/ Compensating for damage the Republican National Committee's unsteadiness may cause Republican candidates this fall, several high-profile GOP operatives - including Karl Rove and two former RNC chairmen - recently founded American Crossroads as a "grassroots," "shadow RNC." Salon's Justin Elliott now reports that the group raised 97 percent of its funding from just four billionaires: The IRS filing of American Crossroads, an outside 527 group that was conceived by Rove and ex-RNC chair Ed Gillespie, gives a good taste of who is funding the GOP effort to make big gains in the House and Senate come the fall. . Chaired by another ex-RNC chair, Mike Duncan, American Crossroads has pledged to raise $50 million to beat Democrats in the midterms and has been seen by some as a competitor to the Republican National Committee itself. And despite the group's description of itself as "grassroots," Salon's review of its IRS filings show that four billionaires have contributed 97 percent of the $4.7 million it has raised to date. There are no limits on how much corporations, unions, and individuals can donate to 527 groups. Elliott notes that two of the billionaire donors "made their fortune in the oil and gas industry." One, Harold Simmons, "was the sole funder" of "a group that ran ads attempting to tie Obama to Bill Ayers in 2008." Rove acknowledged earlier this month that his group raises money successfully largely because the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United opened the door to unlimited corporate donations in politics. Timothy Geithner: Allow Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy To Expire (VIDEO) Updated: 07-25-10 10:31 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/25/timothy-geithner-bush-tax-cuts-expi ration_n_658495.html WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that allowing tax cuts for the wealthy to expire would be "the responsible thing to do." This is the last year for the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush. Republicans have generally favored extending all of them. While Democrats are divided on the issue, President Barack Obama has favored allowing the expiration of cuts he says have applied to the wealthiest people. "It's responsible to let the tax cuts expire that just go to 2 percent to 3 percent of Americans, the highest earning Americans," Geithner told ABC's "This Week" in an interview broadcast Sunday. Doing so would show the world that the U.S. is "willing as a country now to start to make some progress" reducing long-term budget deficits, he said. Geithner said he does not believe that higher taxes for those high earners will hurt economic growth. He also said he "absolutely" believes Congress will act on taxes before the election. That's a touchy issue for Democrats, some of whom may not be eager to address a hot-button issue like taxes so close to Election Day. Speaking on NBC News' "Meet the Press," Geithner says he supports allowing the top capital gains tax rate to revert to 20 percent. It's 15 percent now. Rep. Wamp Suggests Secession If Voters Reject Right Wing Views On Constitution http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/23/wamp-secession/ In an interview with Hotline OnCall, Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) suggested forming a new Confederacy if voters reject the "tenther" view that laws that conservatives disapprove of violate the Constitution: "I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government," said Wamp during an interview with Hotline OnCall. He lauded Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), who first floated the idea of secession in April '09, for leading the push-back against health care reform, adding that he hopes the American people "will send people to Washington that will, in 2010 and 2012, strictly adhere" to the constitution's defined role for the federal government. "Patriots like Rick Perry have talked about these issues because the federal government is putting us in an untenable position at the state level," said Wamp[.] Like Wamp and Perry, many right-wing lawmakers embrace lunatic legal theories - and their numbers grew significantly once President Obama took office. Right-wing Governors Bob McDonnell (R-VA) and Bobby Jindal (R-LA) both signed wildly unconstitutional bills attempting to nullify health reform. Tenther Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas thinks that the ban on whites-only lunch counters is unconstitutional, and other tenther officials claim that everything from Social Security to Medicare to the federal highway system is unconstitutional. Moreover, while Wamp and Perry's secessionary agenda puts them at odds with the Constitution and the American people, it does have one famous precedent supporting it. In 1860, American voters elected an obscure former congressman named "Abraham Lincoln" to the presidency. Eleven southern states - all of whom disagreed with the new president on the issue of slavery - soon decided that they didn't want to be bound by the results of that election. Before Wamp starts campaigning to become the next Jefferson Davis, however, he might want to give some thought to what happened the last time right-wing state governments engaged in an act of mass treason. From maryrose333 at att.net Sun Jul 25 13:15:40 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:15:40 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Must Read: Comment from John Gil on: Straight Talk from Dr. Rima: Sunday Internet Radio You Must Hear... Message-ID: <008601cb2c2e$01db2d10$05918730$@net> It is difficult to know that acts like Bill S 510 are even being contemplated let alone proposed in Congress. We must stop the insanity!!!! Send this to everyone you know. And as well, don?t forget how powerful your mind is ? meditate and send healing energy into this situation along with others. Meditating BTW helps to alleviate the fear generated by news like this and from the Gulf story, etc. It is evident that those who are doing things like this are operating in a ?chaos ? pattern. What we need to do in order to defeat this action and turn things around is to remain in a ?coherence? pattern ? that is we need to be ?at peace? ? ?calm, cool and collected? ? sure of ourselves. He who blinks first loses. So, no name-calling, no accusations, no spreading of fear, etc. And, most of all let?s ensure that what we are sending out is accurate. That means me too ? none of us are perfect, so let?s not be afraid to call one another on something if it appears not to look just right ? just as ?friends don?t let friends drive drunk? let?s watch out for one another. With love and in gratitude for all that we do both separately and together, and especially to John for this one as well as Dr. Rima. From: BLINK.design at roadrunner.com [mailto:BLINK.design at roadrunner.com] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 5:56 PM To: mary rose Subject: Re: Straight Talk from Dr. Rima: Sunday Internet Radio You Must Hear... I've been listening to Dr. Rima for a couple of years now about her Codex information. She is single-handedly making this public despite that fact that so few are willing to listen. I posted the following info on the S 510 bill on YouTube the other day. The recent Bill is an attempt to sneak Codex in through the back door. I assume Dr. Rima has already made the same connection. John GIl Bill S 510 before Congress is Co. Ali. in disguise. For those whom are unfamiliar, I urge all to learn about Co. Ali. Dr, Rima Laibow describes it in detail in this video. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634#. I am posting this a second time as it was apparently deleted the first time within ten minutes. I changed several keywords to see if that makes a difference... Though this may be a U.S. Bill, Co. Ali. is proposed as an international policy where many nations have been forced to oblige with threats of lost funding for non compliance. I generally do not promote political issues but this one is a doozie. Dr. Laibow estimates that as many as 3 BILLION (with a B) people could lose their lives if Co. Ali. is implemented begging the questions whom are the authors and what is their intent. FYI, Co. Ali. was drafted in 1962 by Henry Kissinger and has been in the works since that time. The best advice as always is pay attention. Co. Ali. is much more far reaching than this bill which represents the gradualism so often deployed as a deceitful methods. Co. Ali. makes Vitamin C as illegal as Cocaine! S 510 is one scale of this hideous fish! A most dire bill is up before the U.S. Senate currently. S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, and may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. According to Dr. Shiv Chopra, ?If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public?s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one?s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.? It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the U.S.A., violating the fundamental human right to food." On Jul 24, 2010, at 5:08 PM, mary rose wrote: Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS I recommend you look into these issues with Dr. Rima. We?re talking serious stuff here. From: Natural Solutions Foundation [mailto:noreply at noreply.com] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 4:03 PM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Straight Talk from Dr. Rima: Sunday Internet Radio You Must Hear... Natural Solutions Foundation The Voice of Global Health Freedom? www.HealthFreedomUSA.org www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org Saturday, July 24, 2010 Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6063 Do You Find Yourself In "Overload" These Days? Here at Natural Solutions Foundation we understand that there are more issues impacting your life than anyone can hope to keep track of. That is part of the Plan, THEIR plan. Like a bull in a bull ring, with a dozen people racing in front of him, sticking him with spears, waving flags in front of him, who does not know which way to turn to protect himself first, we are all being attacked and distracted by new crises and issues at every turn. To be frank, every time the government agencies (like the FDA), or their international counterparts (like WHO and Codex) pull another shenanigan, we at the Natural Solutions Foundation groan because we have more to research, another issue to find the vulnerable fulcrum for, another Action item and more articles to write, interviews to give and results to track. (Please see the important links right below this urgent message so you can take each of those Action Items.) It is, after all, freedom's price. After all, that's what we do for you... And we know you value us for it! The All-Front Burner Stove Big Stove: New World Order Domination, Depopulation and Control Heat-Up System The Plan includes keeping so many pots at the boil on the front burners of their REALLY big stove that instead of being able to keep up with them, you fatigue, your get burned out and suddenly you stop caring what's in the next pot - leaving the crisis makers and managers free reign to do whatever they like. That's their REALLY Big Stovbe. Our REALLY Big Stove - not the one at the BeyondOrganic BioDynamic? Internet Caf? that will be opening at the Natural Solutions Center... but our metaphoric Really Big Stove where we keep the issues simmering and sometimes boiling is what I want to talk to you about today... Here are the vital Health Freedom issues on the front burner right now - and, as you can see, it's a REALLY big stove. In fact, their stove has a brand name: "NWODDCHUS" or "New World Order Domination, Depopulation and Control Heat-Up System". Burner 1: Vaccines for illness marketing and depopulation (Oh, by the way, did you see the new study that shows that women and girls who get the Gardasil shot series have MORE cervical cancer than those that don't? http://www.examiner.com/x-40801-Vaccines-Examiner~y2010m6d30-Warning-Gardasi l-may-cause-increased-risk-of-cervical-cancer And are they less fertile? No one knows yet, but I strongly suspect so.) Burner 2: Compulsory drugging and forced vaccination -- CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, (ACIP) now "recommends," (so the States can then "mandate") a flu shot every year for everyone 6 months and over. That flu shot will include the untested and dangerous H1N1 vaccine despite the lack of any medical justification and the evidence of hundreds of miscarriages associated with receiving H1N1 vaccines. And then there's compulsory drugging for pregnant mothers and a host of other faux-prevention strategies which all equal more drugs, more deaths, more damage, for us, but more dollars for Big Pharma and the Uber-Cartel.) Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=437 6 Support our law suite against the FDA to "Stop the Shot!": http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 Burner 3: Complete the industrialization and degradation of the food supply via passage of S.510 through deceptive "unanimous consent" end of session Congressional action (which assumes that Americans are so beach-besotted that we will not notice until the damage is done). Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=425 2 Burner 4: Destroy the lives and capacities of generations of Americans by ignoring the neuro-tragedy which is caused by drugs and vaccines -- stonewall and lie, allowing the totally corrupt FDA to "determine" that vaccines are "safe", that psychoactive drugs are "safe", that there is no toxicity to mercury and other horrors, and make no attempt to find, or fix, these atrocities since they results in tragedies beneficial to the NWODDCHUS - a. lower protest capacity from damaged individuals and distracted, distraught families; b. higher profits since medication and "health" "care" costs are enormous for these families; c. shorter lifespans for the afflicted and their stress-ridden family members; d. lower reproductive rate for a significant segment of the now-damaged population. Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=368 8 Burner 5: Forced medical decisions leading to - a. Early "termination" by withholding medication, food and water based on actuarial, not personal, decisions of bureaucrats and carried out by specially empowered doctors WITHOUT CONSULTATION OR APPROVAL OF THE PATIENT OR FAMILY MEMBERS. (Parenthetically, this is what killed my 97 year old father earlier this year - an unapproved, unnecessary "medical" decision to "turn off" an old, but alert, man.)! b. Submission to mandatory vaccination and other faux-"preventive" strategies before injured or ill individuals are allowed to get any "treatment" under the Obamacare system, including emergency access to ER services! c. Forced participation in a politicized triage program designed to ration your health care and tax you beyond the reality limits of your income! d. Degraded care and quality of life for all but the elite, including present, future and former members of Congress, for whom the rules are strikingly different. Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=407 8 Burner 6. Forced, secret degradation of food through the application of Codex approved "standards" and "guidelines" which include, but are absolutely not limited to: a. Unlabeled GMO food as a global standard despite the ecological and medical insanity of this death technology and the violation of the Precautionary Principle embodied in the policy of not requiring independent third-party testing before any release into the environment; b. Unlabeled, unlimited amounts of dangerous pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other toxins etc., in food; c. Unlabeled, unsafe and insane upper limits of heavy metals, antibiotic residues and other food contamination so high that no food can be considered safe unless you grow it yourself - but wait! You won't be able to if S. 510 sneaks through in the US. If you're outside the US, your country will follow the US lead because of Codex and the WTO - unless, of course, you take control of the process, help get the US out of Codex and help your government take the Codex Two Step Process to protect you! d. Endlessly irradiated foods; e. Nutrient reference values (for foods and supplements) so low that they absolutely guarantee real pandemics of cancer and the other diseases of under nutrition; f. Unlabeled additions of industry-friendly poisons like ractopamine to food and food animals for the benefit of the Uber-Cartel, which includes Big Finance, Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Biotech, Big Chema and Big Medicine -- and, of course, the Big Govt that makes them possible. Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=427 9 Burner 7: Taking away our First Amendment rights to associate together and talk about, and learn what food and food components - and toxins, will do for us, in the first case, and to us, in the second case. FDA, FTC and EPA are bound and determined to make sure that we have no legal right to know how they are allowing us to be harmed and, indeed, killed, by their actions and protected products - and, similarly, no legal redress in the courts where our petitions of grievances are met by govt lawyer claims that citizens don't have "standing to sue." Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=372 9 Burner 8: Stopping the FDA's stealth mis-labeling of natural devices, supplements, herbs and healthful foods as "drugs" or "devices" which (they claim) have not been tested or approved and so are illegal for sale in the US (FDA tried this in 2008 and we beat them back when 688,000 people said, "Don't you DARE!". Take Action! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=252 1 Support our lawsuit against the FDA: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 We told you they would be back and, like termites, they are! This time, they started with the little known, low income item called "ear candles" that are used in the traditional, natural relaxation and comfort activity known as Holistic Candling. That's why Natural Solutions Foundation is suing the FDA over their attack on this non-medical comfort device. But they have also raided and closed down an ozone device manufacturer recently, menaced a detox pad maker, told cherry producers, cereal makers and walnut producers that sharing the science about their foods is illegal.... and they keep on going. We're here to stop them from menacing our food, our health and our freedom, because YOU are there, taking action and making donations to keep our work alive.) We agree with US Supreme Court in the 2002 Thomson v Western case, which said the government has no legitimate interest in stopping people from making even what the govt considers to be "bad" decisions based on truthful information. Apparently the FDA doesn't. Should I go on? It's probably not necessary. All you have to do is check out the Action Items on our websites, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org to see what the issues are. Those stove burners are all at full blaze now! We could decide for you what the "Bigs" are, but we think that you can handle the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth -- plus ways to stop the globalists who profit from your illness and your lack of knowledge. We sort the issues out for you and then give you the best, most effective Action Items to take and to disseminate. We put up videos to expand on the issues and we send out email blasts about twice a week. We run the Dr. Rima Reports weekly internet radio program at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/freedomizerradio (Sunday nights, 9 PM to Midnight, Eastern Time) with vitally important news, guests and a full hour of health talk time with Dr. Rima where you can ask your health questions and have an answer from world-recognized experts in Advanced Health Care.How to Listen: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4850 We trust you to make your own choices and decisions about your health, your bodies, your freedom and your level of support for the Natural Solutions Foundation. We trust you to shoulder your fair share of the burden, based on what you really can afford, since you understand just how important these battles are and that Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom. The most powerful way you can express your support for Health Freedom is to sign-up for a regular monthly donation; every regular monthly donation adds to our ability to plan in advance and to be ready to take action at once, when one of the issues on the burner reaches full boil! You can do that here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 Thank you for your support, your advocacy and your trust in our analysis and action. Important links are right below this message. Yours in health and freedom, The Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation, General Bert, Dr. Rima and Counsel Ralph Mag. Gen. Albert N. Stubbleine III (US Army, Ret.) President Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director Ralph Fucetola, JD. Counsel and Trustee PS -- There is also so much good news going on... where Push Back is working... opening the Natural Solutions Center... getting its extraordinary WebX Natural Solutions Seminar System going -- YES! the Grand Opening Ceremony will be LIVE on the internet! We'll discuss all of these further on the most exciting Internet program of the week, Dr. Rima Reports, 9 PM to 12 PM- Midnight Eastern Time, every Sunday night: Dr. Rima Reports: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4850 Natural Solutions Center Grand Opening Invitation: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5838 Reopened Marketplace: www.NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org Food Freedom eJournal: www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org The Top 4 Action Items: * URGENT! Codex Commission Action Item: educate decision makers - demand that our voices be heard! * NO FLU VAX! Educate Decision Makers: WE SAY "NO!" * Senator: Put a "Hold" on Fake "Food Safety" Bill S.510! 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Message-ID: <009401cb2c32$a6c49880$f44dc980$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Here again we see the Right wing holding up something that should have been passed long ago. Are we "integral women" or are we mice? This is the same group holding up legislation giving women equal rights that held up a bill leaving 3 million people without the means to obtain food and medical care if they need it and which pushed many out onto the streets without shelter as well. Many of these 3 million people are women and children. I'm talking about the Unemployment Benefits extension bill they failed to pass last month. Now they are also going after Social Security. I've said this previously, but it is time to get out our brooms ladies and clean house. We simply have no choice but to "get tough" and let these old boys have it by ensuring that the Republicans do not get into office again. But, at the same time as I write this I also have to acknowledge that those whose faces appear in office are only puppets whose strings are pulled by what is referred to as the "shadow government" - of whom most appear to be Republicans while also being members of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Bilderberger and The Skull and Bones. Many are now also the CIA and serve in Black Ops. They sit on the boards of directors of the largest corporations in interlocking directorates and control the majority of the wealth of the world. But we have no choice - if our children and grandchildren are to have a future we must unite and act now. From: Marilyn Nyborg [mailto:mnyborg at me.com] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:21 PM To: mary rose Subject: Women's Rights....... WASHINGTON OUTLOOK/CONGRESS/WHITE HOUSE . >HOME . >POLITICS & INFLUENCE . > WASHINGTON OUTLOOK/CONGRESS/WHITE HOUSE Women's Rights Treaty Going Nowhere Fast in Senate By Regina Varolli WeNews correspondent Friday, July 16, 2010 Women's rights activists are trying to push CEDAW, the major U.N. women's rights treaty, out of a Senate committee where it's been stuck for decades and up for a vote on ratification. "Call Senator John Kerry," urges U.S. lawmaker Carolyn Maloney.u Carolyn MaloneyNEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--U.S. ratification of an international treaty to protect women's rights has been held up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for three decades, a situation women's activists would like to change during the Obama administration. Those who have battled for or resisted the treaty know it as CEDAW, shorthand for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. "Contact the office of Senator John Kerry," U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York, urged a recent gathering here of ant-violence activists. "As the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he needs to hear from you. Write to Senator Kerry, tell him that we want the U.S. in CEDAW now." Maloney, addressing a recent event organized by UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the National Council for Research on Women, noted that under the Carter administration the United States signed onto the treaty in July 1980, a few months after it was first opened for signatures at U.N. headquarters. Bookmark and Share "With powerful women in the current administration, namely Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice, the U.S. is at an optimal time for ratification of CEDAW," Maloney told the crowd. The only centralized pro-ratification effort in the United States is the CEDAW Task Force of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a Washington-based group that came together in the past year. It is a politically diverse coalition of over 140 organizations, including the American Bar Association, The United Methodist Church-General Board of Church and Society, Presbyterian Church USA and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The Obama administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have expressed what June Zeitlin, director of the CEDAW Education Project, called "strong support" for the ratification of the treaty. However, Zeitlin's group is heightening its call for Obama to "send a strong and urgent signal to the Senate that ratification of CEDAW is vital." "It was important to formerly organize ourselves into the Task Force to take advantage of the opportunity of support from the new administration," Zeitlin told Women's eNews. "We're working to gain enough support for a vote this year." Laying the Groundwork for Support "We look to advocacy groups to take the lead on laying the groundwork for when the political conditions are right," a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who asked not to be quoted by name, told Women's eNews. "It was clear the advocacy element hadn't really gotten underway yet. There hadn't been good grassroots campaigning for a while. But the CEDAW Task Force of The Leadership Conference has taken over more strongly in recent times." The staffer said that for a "big controversial, multilateral treaty to move through the Senate, there needs to be an enormous amount of White House support. While there have been statements from the administration--especially early on from Secretary Clinton and Susan Rice--the White House certainly has not pushed this in the same way, for example, as they're currently pushing the START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia), where they've been very aggressive in saying they really want Senate movement during this Congress. They haven't approached CEDAW in the same way, and that also sends a signal to the Senate." U.S. ratification requires 67 votes in the Senate, posing a formidable political challenge, said Ellen Chesler, director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Policy at New York's Hunter College. "The right wing is holding the U.S. back from ratifying CEDAW," Chesler said. "It has become one of the whipping boys of conservatives because it talks about reproductive rights and it holds countries accountable for the quality of their reproductive health services." 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Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 556 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sun Jul 25 15:35:34 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:35:34 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Article by List Member: Dave Ewoldt as he prepares to run for a Senate Seat: To Vote or Not to Vote: Strategies for Change Message-ID: <000701cb2c41$97c2e620$c748b260$@net> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Ewoldt [mailto:dave at reststop.net] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:27 AM To: Daves Posts Subject: To Vote or Not to Vote: Strategies for Change To Vote or Not to Vote: Strategies for Change by Dave Ewoldt July, 2010 http://daveforarizona.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-vote-or-not-to-vote-strategies -for.html There is a significant percentage of people today who tend to equate voting (although often stated in more subtle ways) with an act of violence, and who counsel against participation in voting. The rationalization used for this is a form of the too-common mistake of confusing symptoms with root causes. The assertion is that politicians are engaged in murder, theft, and counterfeiting, and thus voting is an act of complicity. The next steps in this line of "reasoning" are often that 1) anti-social acts are the true and only goal of government, and 2) this evil government requires your vote to maintain its legitimacy, be ensured of success, and maintain the illusion of freedom of choice. Unfortunately, there is a particle of truth to all of these, especially the latter. I don't agree with this line of reasoning. I'll start my thoughts on this subject by first saying that there's a difference between a politician, who is mainly interested in the next election, and a statesman, who is mainly interested in future generations. I also believe that the only true mandate of a democratic government is to protect the commons, which includes the physical and the social. Now, admittedly we're currently a _long_ way from that. We neither nurture statesmen nor protect the commons. Quite the opposite, in fact. So, let's look a bit below the surface to see why we're in our current sorry state. Let's connect some dots and see where we're headed and why we're in this handbasket. The majority of politicians on the national level, regardless of party, are little more than tools of the status quo--which can be best summarized as the Industrial Growth Society and its practice of economic cannibalism. While local politicians are generally better at retaining some of their core humanity, they still believe in the inherent correctness of the status quo and seek to either protect it at any cost (the Right), or they believe there's nothing to be done about it other than maybe trying to minimize the damage, at least here and there, once in a while (the Left). We the People unquestioningly accept this mythology and tend to buy into one end of the ideology or the other. We continue to proudly elect maniacs belonging to the monopoly of the duopoly (the two wings of the Corporate War Party) who promise either to control whichever minority group is being used today for scapegoating on every problem imaginable (the Right), or to throw slightly larger scraps over the wall to the peasants (the Left). As long as they can keep us fighting each other, their power remains assured. And, as long as we continue asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about their answers. A growing segment of the population has shaken off this aspect of the consensus trance, but still allow themselves to be controlled by thinking that government built on dominator hierarchies that rule through force and fear is inherent to the very concept of government. (Cultural anthropology, for one, provides evidence to the contrary.) There is also widespread acceptance of the belief that anyone putting forth an alternative vision (or even a major reform of the status quo) is unelectable. (I mean, Fox News and CNN both say so, which must mean its true.) But, because non-mainstream voices (those not vetted by the status quo) are allowed to be heard during the primaries, with the more radical voices safely relegated to third(non-serious)-parties, we are assured that democracy is being served, and we can safely go back to our Cheetos and "reality" TV and just forget about the oil running out and the planet warming up and our parents overdosing on prescription drugs. Oh yeah, and that damn border. So, we withdraw from the democratic process itself. We don't vote because we're told if voting could change anything they'd make it illegal. (Jim Hightower, I think, or Emma Goldman, G.B. Shaw, Eugene Debs... ) We join the 50% of the eligible electorate who don't vote by believing the only ethical choice left is to withdraw our complicity from the electoral aspect of the culture of death--as long as it isn't killing _us_, anyway. Or at least only indirectly through processed food substitutes and contaminated water, polluted air and toxic soil. We believe that if we don't vote, we're somehow not responsible--and besides, it won't make any difference anyway. We don't want to believe what has been said since the days of Plato--that silence _is_ complicity--so we just don't think about it. Paul Ray, co-author of "Cultural Creatives," re-analyzed the thirteen years worth of data the book was based on from a political perspective and came to the conclusion that out of that potential 50% voter segment, only about 10% can actually be classified as alienated, ignorant, and/or apathetic. This 10% is actually the mushy middle the Clinton "strategists" went after, and were all excited when they got 1% of them to the polls. This means the other 40% are the largest potential voting bloc in the country, because the other half--the current bloc of active voters--are pretty evenly split(12-15% each) among Democrats, Republicans, and Big Business conservatives who have either liberal or conservative social values (and this is actually a false dichotomy, but that's another discussion). So, the point I want to make is the *importance of your vote*, especially considering the rather small percentages of voters who provide the "mandate" for policies--about 20% in any given election--and much of that is not a vote for, but rather a vote against the other side. But let me add a caveat: For your vote to be _meaningful_ we must work together to encourage and support candidates who are worth voting for; who are not only willing but determined to take on the status quo, and even more importantly, who will present pragmatic alternatives that work for people and planet instead of only for the profits of narrow special interests. We can turn the sorry state of electoral politics on its head by becoming active in the democratic process--because democracy is not a spectator sport. Instead of remaining complicit with our silence, we can become actively engaged in helping remove the legitimacy of the status quo. We can encourage and support statesmen who will actively work towards real change instead of minor reforms. We can become advocates for electoral changes that can better reflect peoples values instead of their fears. We can champion Instant Runoff Voting, make elections day a national holiday, abolish the electoral college, require paper ballots or a paper trail on election machines that use non-proprietary verifiable software, and perform random ballot audits large enough to be meaningful. As long as we remain satisfied that voting for the lessor of two weevils is the best we can hope for--or even more cynical, that this is the best that an inherently flawed humanity is capable of--we will remain complicit with a system that is about to push life over the edge of a cliff. Incremental changes in this system will _not_ work; you cannot cross a 20 foot chasm with two ten foot leaps. The way we practice politics and government today is _nothing_ but a story. This means, as inquisitive, innovative and intelligent creatures, we can consciously _choose_ to script a new story. But that's not going to happen if we withdraw from the system; if we shirk our responsibility and our innate ability to create a system that works for us and the planet we depend upon. It is possible to vote and not simply have the government get re-elected. The more people who find the courage to do this, the sooner we'll start the transition into a sustainable--that is, life supportive--future. I, and many others, believe a political platform built on a foundation of relocalization--a practical, affordable _process_ to build a sustainable future--where production of food, energy and appropriate technologies occurs much closer to the point of consumption is a rational first step. By weaving in a steady-state local living economy, and getting back within ecological and economic carrying capacity limits we can set off on a different path from the broken status quo that is destroying the biosphere and fueling the 6th Great Extinction. Something I think the "potential 40%" of additional voters have in common is that they can see through the veil and they're tired of being lied to with false promises and crass fear manipulation. They're being joined by growing numbers of traditionally partisan voters fleeing the major parties and registering independent--the people I refer to in my campaign for AZ State Senate as those who are sick and tired of being sick and tired. What all these voters need is someone to vote for who will do things differently-- someone not beholden to--or enchanted by--the status quo and who's presenting a platform that both resonates with shared values and provides a systemic alternative that doesn't require empire and its exploitive accoutrements in order to improve quality of life. A relocalization platform provides this without requiring the destruction of our one and only life support system. We can't continue ignoring the inconvenient truth that there will be no justice, equity or an economy (free-market or otherwise) on a dead planet. And this is _exactly_ what the status quo of Industrialism is delivering for no other reason than to increase profit and consolidate power in the hands of a self-proclaimed elite. If you'd like more details of how these concepts fit into the political arena, and how they can be applied to grave issues of concern to a majority of people, please browse through my campaign website , especially the issues pages as well as for an expanded definition of relocalization. This platform is freely available to anyone else who is willing to embrace it. Consider it "open source." We have the opportunity to get this ball rolling; to provide leadership with a positive example the rest of the world is hungering for and can begin implementing themselves. For the Earth... _dave_(this entire message is composed of recycled electrons) Natural Systems Solutions http://www.attractionretreat.org http://naturalsystems.blogspot.com Sustainable lifestyles, organizations, and communities From maryrose333 at att.net Sun Jul 25 16:25:42 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:25:42 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Our New Media Channel at AOAND Message-ID: <001d01cb2c48$98eda650$cac8f2f0$@net> Do you have videos you would like to share with friends, the groups you belong to, business associates, or? Architects of a New Dawn just put up this new media channel where you can do just that along with blogs, music, and other media. May I suggest you join AOAND ? As I have written previously, this is the new medium ? this is where politics will be decided, where new trends will develop, new businesses be revealed. Don?t get left out ? especially if you are running for office! This is where INFORMATION is happening. 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URL: From doctorforu123 at yahoo.com Mon Jul 19 00:33:51 2010 From: doctorforu123 at yahoo.com (javed jamil) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:33:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GJM] Westernism: 18 Decimation for inhabiting Message-ID: <299618.38699.qm@web51005.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Westernism: the Ideology of Hegemony ? By Dr Javed Jamil ? Part 18 ? To recap the basic theme of the work: When I speak against Westernism, it does not imply that I am against Western nations or people; for people are similar all over the world having both strengths and weaknesses and their behaviour is the product of their inherent tendencies and social and legal system they live in. It is unfortunate that the great work done by Western scientists has been misused by the economic and political powers to damage the lives of their own people and to dominate the whole world. It is the ideology of these economic and political forces that I call Westernism. ? As I have repeatedly used the word ?Westernism?, I have often been asked what exactly Westernism means. I think it is now the right time to throw some light on the subject. I define Westernism as the ideology that primarily revolves around (1) the dominance of economics in the affairs of life and the world in general and that of market economics in particular and (2) the dominance of the world by Western powers through both use and misuse of the great scientific and technological progress their scientists achieved. Now Decimation for inhabiting ? The rise of West is full of bloody massacres and decimation of the native populations.. Western countries occupied Indiafor about two centuries, where majority and killed hundreds of thousands of Indian freedom fighters including Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. British, French, Portuguese, and other Western countries have long history of invading African and Asian countries and keeping them occupied with full use of force and deceit without caring for the loss of lives and property. Besides invading other countries at will and leaving them when compelled, they made permanent homes in Americaand Australiakilling the native population with impunity. Britishers entered Australia, killed hundreds of thousands of aborigines there and occupied their country forever. ?Report details crimes against Aborigines? by Brett Stone, 7 September 1999, describes gory details of the extermination of aborigines. It says: ?The genocidal practices perpetrated against Australian Aborigines were the outcome of policies adopted and implemented by all Australian governments from British settlement in 1788 until the present?..Aborigines were forced out of their traditional homes, hunted like wild animals, poisoned or shot, and confined to the harshest and most desolate climes. The effect of British settlement upon these people led to near extinction within 120 years?.Even though no official figures exist, estimates of the Aboriginal population in 1788 range between 250,000 and 750,000. By 1911 the number was 31,000?..?.Aboriginal children were abducted for use in forced labour, women were raped and tortured and given poisoned flour, and the men were shot?Between 1829 and 1834, an appointed conciliator, George Robinson, collected the surviving remnants: 123 people whom were then settled on Flinders Island. By 1835, between 3,000 and 4,000 Aborigines were dead?.Between 1824 and 1908 approximately 10,000 Aborigines were murdered in the Colony of Queensland. ?Considered ?wild animals', ?vermin', ?scarcely human', ?hideous to humanity', ?loathsome' and a ?nuisance', they were fair game for white ?sportsmen'?.?Aboriginal people met him (Archibald Meston)? ?like hunted wild beasts, having lived for years in a state of absolute terror?. His prescription for their salvation lay in ?strict and absolute isolation from all whites,from predators who, in no particular order, wanted to kill them, take their women, sell them grog or opium?. Needless to say, none of the perpetrators of the slaughter were made to answer for their actions.? Even today aborigines are kept in good humour through free supply of intoxicants. ? Similarly brutal atrocities were reserved for native Americans who were killed in thousands by Europeans and their country permanently occupied. A website, Ken Hope's Home Page says, ? ??De Sotois described by a contemporary as "fond of the sport of killing Indians." Natives are captured in the hundreds and forced to march in chains, carrying stores. He kidnaps a native chief known as Queen Cofitachequi, and plunders a case of worthless mussel pearls from her. ?By now, epidemics brought by Europeans have killed almost half of the native population of Mexico.? According to historians (See From Revolution to Reconstruction on Net), in 1600 AD, there were about 40 million people living in the Western Hemisphere that now forms North America. In the region that forms the USnow, estimates say that up to 18 million native Indians lived. Majority of them was killed either in numerous wars and skirmishes with Europeans or through Chicken Pox and other epidemics brought by them.? ? ?For centuries, they have been engaged in massacres of Jews. American forces invaded Vietnam, where hundreds of thousands of Buddhists were killed. They killed half a million people of Japan. In the modern history of the world, hardly any Muslim country has occupied any non-Muslim country while Christian countries have colonised a large number of countries. Wherever Christians are in some numbers, for example Indonesia, Kenyaand Lebanon, Western powers have supported them in violent struggles with Muslims. Second, it is argued that currently it is the armies of Western countries, not private terrorist organisations that are fighting. What a ludicrous argument! Where is the need for the people to fight when their powerful countries are engaged in the worst forms of terrorism? Bush put rewards ?for capturing live or dead? the heads of states and the leaders of ?terrorist? organisations.? The truth remains that Americahas proved to be the Dajjal of the modern world. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On another subject, it occurs to me that as we pull money out of our schools and invest further in war and a war based economy, we will take our dumbed down youth into their only alternative.....the Military. Marilyn, thanks for your comment and book recommendation. With regard to your comment re the Military and no alternative - we MUST provide for one. I believe it is our sacred duty as women to end the tyranny of patriarchical rule and take back our power, but not as rulers - as partners in an equal world. It is time to end the war of the sexes and replace it with respect. With love and in gratitude. On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:33 AM, mary rose wrote: Moving into: TOTAL WELLNESS What if everything you thought you knew about life here on Earth suddenly changed and everything was revealed as a lie? This film, which I urge everyone to watch may be the event that changes what you believe, or, at least makes you begin your own investigation. Which is what happened to me, not with this video but with a book entitled "Cultural Vision - A Memeplex for the Cultural Evolution" written by J. Martin Knutsen and published in 2003 by iUniverse, Inc. In this book, Martin wrote about "The Christ Cult" and the similarities between what has been written about Jesus in the gospels of Matthew, John and Luke, and what had previously been written in the mythology of Greek, Jewish and Mythraic myths and taken from their ceremonies. But the similarities are many writes Knutsen: The bread and wine of mass was a ritual already in place with Dionysus, son of Zeus, whose blood was drunk as a transubstantiated wine. The Mythriac cult drank the blood of the bulls. December 25th was their Holy Day. The Christian Church chose the bull, the idol of their competition, to symbolize the devil. The concept of the son of God being heir to his father's kingdom is ever present in Greek mythology, as is the tradition of dying a noble death. Easter was originally a springtime pagan fertility celebration. Eggs which represent fertility and the prolifically fertile bunnies are obvious ties to the ancient tradition, as is even the very name of the celebration: Easter is named for the Teutonic goddess Eostre, the Goddess of Spring. Sunday was the day of the week the Romans set aside to worship their Sun god. There was much debate in the early Christine theological circles as to whether or not Jesus was connected to Judaism as well. They debated whether or not it was Yaweh who was the Father of Jesus, or a higher power. There was a great effort to tie the old and the New Testament together so that the prophecies in the Old could be seen as being fulfilled in the New. As to Islam, In the year 610 (CE) an Arab merchant in the city of Mecca named Muhammad ibn Abdallah became convinced he was receiving revelations from the God of Moses. And, the simplicity of his concepts spread throughout the Middle East and from Spain to India. His revelations were written by scribes and collected together some years after his death. Such was the birth of Islam. As he proceeds in the book, Knutsen tells as to how the myths associated with an "Agri-cultural" society such as took place with regard to Jesus and his Father in Heaven were formed. Basically, the deities these people worshipped at this time were patterned after what was familiar to them. Most of them were "herders" acting as shephards to the animals they cared for: sheep, goats and cattle. And they patterned the Gods they worshipped as "good shephards of their people". Such was the way that religions came into being. And, here we are thousands of years later, tied to the same mythologies as these people believed in then. One only has to think of some of the wording used to recognize this. For instance: "The Lord is my shepherd." "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures" etc., etc. But in addition to this, as I have written previously -drug use was prevalent at that time, and much of what we go by today was written in drug-induced states. Yet, here today, we lock people up and imprison them for life for using these same drugs or ones like them. Please review this video - I have also posted a review of it for your convenience. http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com/main/ This video came to me by way of Facebook. Thanks to Naomi Mullen. Review by Martin W. Ball, Ph.D., author and host of the Entheogenic Evolution Podcast The Pharmacratic Inquisition is a provocative film from Gnostic Media that makes the argument that virtually all of the mythology, symbolism, and story of Jesus and related Christian traditions relate to two basic subjects: astrology and shamanism. For those unfamiliar with the evidence in support of this claim, this film can be truly eye opening and revolutionary. Much of the material for this film rests upon the work of John Allegro. Allegro was one of the original scholars chosen to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Christian texts that were discovered in Qumram near the Dead Sea in the middle of the 20th century. Unlike his colleagues, Allegro was not beholden to the Catholic Church and therefore was able to develop his theories and interpretations free from Catholic dogma. The result was the radical claim that Jesus was a psychoactive mushroom. In particular, Allegro argued that the mythology and symbolism surrounding the Christ figure all point to Amanita muscaria mushrooms, the iconic red and white mushroom so common in Christmas symbolism and imagery. The amanita mushroom plays a central role in this film and is presented as the basis for the shamanic elements in Christianity. Amanitas have a long history of use among northern European and Siberian shamans - the very cultures from which the term "shaman" originates. Within these cultures, "shamanism" was synonymous with amanita use and knowledge of its psychoactive properties were well known throughout that region of the world. That the shamanic use of the amanita might influence Christianity should therefore not necessarily be a surprise, but the argument that Jesus actually is an amanita, and not a historical figure, is probably a surprise to most. The film makes a compelling argument for this connection between Jesus and the amanita, and even psilocybin mushrooms, through the presentation of Christian symbolism, iconography, and imagery. When one looks closely at the Catholic Church, amanita symbolism appears to abound from the clothing of popes and cardinals to frescos, arch ways, and church architecture. Even the myths themselves, such as that of the Holy Grail, seem to fall within the category of amanita symbolism. Indeed, when the images are presented in this manner, the comparison to amanita becomes immediately obvious and difficult to argue against. Even Santa Claus gets the amanita treatment in this film. Here the jolly old elf is presented in the context of northern European shamanism where, according to tradition, the shaman would dry his amanitas from a conifer tree and then visit the yurts of his community, entering through the smoke hole to bring gifts of sacred mushrooms to the people. It is not much of a stretch to see that these reindeer herding shamans were the iconic model for the fat red and white clothed Santa, who himself looks very much like an amanita mushroom. In addition to the influence of shamanism and psychoactive mushrooms on Christianity, the film also investigates the relationship between astrology and astronomy to the Christ myth. Here the filmmakers provide compelling arguments for the correlation between the Christ myth and the Winter Solstice sky and the zodiacal ages, graphically demonstrating how such tales of the shining star, the three kings, and the death and resurrection of Jesus all fit within previously known facts about the night sky and the change of seasons. Ultimately, the Pharmacratic Inquisition challenges many of the assumptions and beliefs we may have about Christianity and its central figures, providing provocative evidence that things are not as they seem within this tradition. If true, the question then becomes: does the Catholic Church still use amanita mushrooms secretly within the confines of the Vatican? Have they really been withholding this fundamental truth for two millennia, or have even they come to believe the myths that were created to both communicate and conceal the true identity of Jesus Christ? Watch this film and make up your own mind. Your Logo, Inc. 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The legislation contains the strongest package of consumer protections ever adopted at one time in the United States. It restricts predatory mortgage lending, eliminates hidden credit card fees, and establishes a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Most importantly, it contains strong measures to prevent financial institutions from engaging in the high-risk practices which deeply damaged our economy and caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs and their homes. And, remarkably, the Republicans opposed it. That's why I need your help today -- Republicans are seeing record fundraising from special interests after their opposition, and we need to fight back and show our strength. We will not go back to the Bush agenda. Contribute before the July 31st FEC deadline and a group of committed Democrats will match your gift today 2-to-1. Last summer, Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers almost killed health care reform with the preposterous accusation that the bill contained "death panels." Ironically, the new Wall Street reform law actually does contain "death panels" -- for large banks and investment houses. It creates a mechanism by which they, when faced with collapse because of their own risky behavior, can be put quietly to death without causing catastrophic harm to the rest of the economy. As the President said during the signing ceremony for the new law, "there will be no more taxpayer-funded bailouts. Period." Already, House Minority Leader John Boehner has said that if Republicans regain control of Congress he would repeal the law. We will not go back to the Bush agenda. Contribute before the July 31st FEC deadline and a group of committed Democrats will match your gift today 2-to-1. The recent 5-4 decision by the energetically activist conservative majority on the Supreme Court has given people who tried to kill Wall Street reform a new channel for pouring money into campaigns against the overwhelming majority of Democrats who fought for it. Given the Supreme Court's relentless war against campaign finance regulation, our only protection against a flood of corporate and other money from wealthy right-wing opponents of sensible public policy is for those who support decent healthcare, reasonable financial regulation, thoughtful climate control policy and measures both to combat the effects of this recession and to get us out of it is to contribute to the DCCC to help Democratic candidates. If big money has the field to itself, it will win elections and control our future. But if people like you who care passionately about our country continue to work hard and if average voters get involved, we can beat big money. 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 26 12:14:49 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:14:49 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Key News: Intelligence Agency Secrecy, Videotaping Police Criminalized, Iranian Paid $5 Million by CIA, More Message-ID: <006101cb2cee$ab0fa940$012efbc0$@net> From: PEERS: WantToKnow.info Email List [mailto:emaillist at peerservice.org] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:21 AM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Key News: Intelligence Agency Secrecy, Videotaping Police Criminalized, Iranian Paid $5 Million by CIA, More To subscribe to or unsubscribe from this list (one email every few days) or to reply to this message, see end of email This message is available online at http://www.WantToKnow.info/10/07_intelligence_secrecy_videotaping_criminalized_cia_iranian Bookmark and Share Dear friends, Below are key excerpts of important news articles which include revealing information on growing secrecy within the hidden world of US intelligence agencies, the criminalizing of the act of videotaping police as they carry out arrests, the admission by the CIA that it paid an Iranian $5 million for information, and more. Each excerpt is taken verbatim from the major media website listed at the link provided. If any link fails to function, click here . The most important sentences are highlighted for those with limited time. By choosing to educate ourselves and to spread the word , we can and will build a brighter future. With best wishes, Tod Fletcher and Fred Burks for PEERS and the WantToKnow.info Team Special note: For those of you who don't know about Challenge Day, a powerfully transformative program for teens, watch the incredible 15-minute video available here. The great news is that Challenge Day is being featured in an eight-week series by MTV. For more on this, click here . For a full preview of one of these amazing shows, click here . For a fascinating explanation of several key crop circles in a six-minute video, click here. For a very fun and inspiring 3-minute video on how to start a successful movement, click here . _____ A hidden world, growing beyond control July 19, 2010, Washington Post http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/tsa/static/articles/hidden-world.html In the Department of Defense, where more than two-thirds of the intelligence programs reside, only a handful of senior officials - called Super Users - have the ability to even know about all the department's activities. Most [sources for this story] requested anonymity either because they are prohibited from speaking publicly or because, they said, they feared retaliation at work for describing their concerns. Beyond redundancy, secrecy within the intelligence world hampers effectiveness in other ways. For the Defense Department, [the] problem goes back to an ultra-secret group of programs for which access is extremely limited and monitored by specially trained security officers. These are called Special Access Programs - or SAPs - and the Pentagon's list of code names for them runs 300 pages. The intelligence community has hundreds more of its own, and those hundreds have thousands of sub-programs with their own limits on the number of people authorized to know anything about them. All this means that very few people have a complete sense of what's going on. Such secrecy can undermine the normal chain of command when senior officials use it to cut out rivals or when subordinates are ordered to keep secrets from their commanders. One military officer involved in one such program said he was ordered to sign a document prohibiting him from disclosing it to his four-star commander, with whom he worked closely every day, because the commander was not authorized to know about it Note: To read the full text of this important article, please make sure to press the "Continue Reading" button at the end of the first webpage to access all of the fascinating information provided. For lots more on government secrecy, click here. _____ Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police July 19, 2010, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/videotaping-cops-arrest/story?id=11179076 It wasn't his daredevil stunt [on his motorcycle] that has [Anthony Graber] facing the possibility of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket. It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later -- taken with his helmet camera -- of a plainclothes state trooper cutting him off and drawing a gun during the traffic stop near Baltimore. In early April, state police officers raided Graber's parents' home in Abingdon, Md. They confiscated his camera, computers and external hard drives. Graber was indicted for allegedly violating state wiretap laws by recording the trooper without his consent. Arrests such as Graber's are becoming more common along with the proliferation of portable video cameras and cell-phone recorders. Videos of alleged police misconduct have become hot items on the Internet. YouTube still features Graber's encounter along with numerous other witness videos. "The message is clearly, 'Don't criticize the police,'" said David Rocah, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland who is part of Graber's defense team. "With these charges, anyone who would even think to record the police is now justifiably in fear that they will also be criminally charged." Carlos Miller, a Miami journalist who runs the blog "Photography Is Not a Crime ," said he has documented about 10 arrests since he started keeping track in 2007. Miller himself has been arrested twice for photographing the police. Note: To our knowledge, no one has ever been prosecuted for videotaping police doing good things, which they often do, yet many have been arrested for catching police doing bad things. Where's the justice here? _____ Iran scientist: CIA offered me $50m to lie about nuclear secrets July 16, 2010, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-scientist-cia-offered-me-50m... An Iranian scientist who says he was abducted and taken to the United States by the CIA returned to Tehran yesterday to a hero's welcome and claimed that he had been pressured into lying about his country's nuclear programme. Shahram Amiri said that he was on the hajj pilgrimage when he was seized at gunpoint in the city of Medina, drugged and taken to the US, where he says Israel was involved in his interrogation. In the US, officials were reported to have admitted that Mr Amiri was paid more than $5m (?3.2m) by the CIA for information about Iran's nuclear ambitions. The offer of a large bribe is reportedly part of a special US programme to get Iranian nuclear scientists to defect. "Americans wanted me to say that I defected to America of my own will, to use me for revealing some false information about Iran's nuclear work," Mr Amiri said at Tehran airport. "I was under intensive psychological pressure by [the] CIA... the main aim of this abduction was to stage a new political and psychological game against Iran." At his press conference at Tehran airport, Mr Amiri stressed that he had acted under compulsion. "Israeli agents were present at some of my interrogation sessions and I was threatened to be handed over to Israel if I refused to cooperate with Americans," he said. He says he was offered $50m to stay in the US. Note: For key reports on CIA kidnappings and other methods employed in the bogus "global war on terror", click here . _____ America locks up too many people, some for acts that should not even be criminal July 22, 2010, The Economist magazine http://economist.com/node/16640389 America is different from the rest of the world in lots of ways, many of them good. One of the bad ones is its willingness to lock up its citizens. One American adult in 100 festers behind bars (with the rate rising to one in nine for young black men). Its imprisoned population, at 2.3m, exceeds that of 15 of its states. No other rich country is nearly as punitive as the Land of the Free. The rate of incarceration is a fifth of America?s level in Britain, a ninth in Germany and a twelfth in Japan. America?s incarceration rate has quadrupled since 1970. Similar things have happened elsewhere. The incarceration rate in Britain has more than doubled, and that in Japan increased by half, over the period. But the trend has been sharper in America than in most of the rich world, and the disparity has grown. It is explained neither by a difference in criminality (the English are slightly more criminal than Americans, though less murderous), nor by the success of the policy: America?s violent-crime rate is higher than it was 40 years ago. Many states have mandatory minimum sentences, which remove judges? discretion to show mercy, even when the circumstances of a case cry out for it. ?Three strikes? laws, which were at first used to put away persistently violent criminals for life, have in several states been applied to lesser offenders. Note: For a recent report on the size of the US prison population in comparison with other countries, click here . _____ 2 UFO sightings have China, blogs abuzz July 16, 2010, CNN http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/16/china.ufo.reports/ One of two recent UFO sightings in China occurred almost on the 63rd anniversary of news that a "flying disc" had been found in Roswell, New Mexico. The first sighting occurred at Hangzhou's Xiaoshan Airport, in the eastern part of the country. Eighteen flights were delayed or rerouted and operations shut down after twinkling lights were spotted above the terminal around 9 p.m. July 7. "No conclusion has yet been drawn," said Wang Jian, head of air traffic control with Zhejiang branch of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Purported photos of the unworldly object have appeared online and on YouTube. Meanwhile, The Shanghai Daily reported a UFO appeared above the city of Chongqing on [July 15]. Witnesses said four "lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape" hovered for an hour above a park. "I stared at it and it did not move," one resident told the newspaper. "After hovering for an hour, the thing started to fly higher and finally out of people's sight." UFO sightings around the world are common, but a little rarer in China. Note: For a massive amount of reliable information on sightings of UFOs, click here . _____ BP oil spill Corexit dispersants suspected in widespread crop damage June 28, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail??blogid=150 &entry_id=65552 Just when you thought the damage BP could cause was limited to beaches, marshes, oceans, people's livelihoods, birds and marine life, there's more. BP's favorite dispersant Corexit 9500 is being sprayed at the oil gusher on the ocean floor. Corexit is also being air sprayed across hundreds of miles of oil slicks all across the gulf. There have been widespread reports of oil cleanup crews reporting various injuries including respiratory distress, dizziness and headaches. Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon. Corexit is is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled "Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview," Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. According to the Clark and George-Ares report, Corexit mixed with the higher gulf coast water temperatures becomes even more toxic. The UK's Marine Management Organization ... banned Corexit ... from a list of approved treatments for oil spills in the U.K. more than a decade ago. The simple question I ask is: If the UK bans Corexit ... why the hell are we using it on American waters? _____ Report: 97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real June 22, 2010, USA Today http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/scientists-overwhelmingly-believe... A new survey out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... found that 97 percent of scientific experts agree that climate change is "very likely" caused mainly by human activity. The report is based on questions posed to 1,372 scientists. Nearly all the experts agreed that it is "very likely that anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for most of the unequivocal warming of the Earth's average global temperature in the second half of the twentieth century." As for the 3 percent of scientists who remain unconvinced, the study found their average expertise is far below that of their colleagues, as measured by publication and citation rates. In the study, the authors wrote: "This extensive analysis of the mainstream versus skeptical/contrarian researchers suggests a strong role for considering expert credibility in the relative weight of and attention to these groups of researchers in future discussions in media, policy, and public forums regarding anthropogenic climate change." The report comes as the Earth continues to sizzle in 2010. So far, through May, 2010 is the warmest year ever recorded, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Note: For key reports on global warming, click here. _____ Inquiry into Ian Tomlinson's death at a G20 protest in London prompts more questions than answers July 22, 2010, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/22/ian-tomlinson-story-justice-denied When Ian Tomlinson's widow watched video footage of his last moments alive for the first time on a laptop 16 months ago, she was speechless. Julia Tomlinson had been told by police her husband had died of natural causes as he tried to get home through the G20 protest in London, and there was nothing suspicious about the death. But as she watched [video] footage ...a different story unfolded. Tomlinson, hands in pockets, was walking away from police. An officer who was not displaying his badge number, and whose face was concealed behind a balaclava, lunged at her husband from behind and, without provocation, struck him on the leg and pushed him to the ground. The police disregard for Tomlinson was [evident] on footage of the aftermath of the attack, which left him lying on the ground in front of a line of riot police shortly after 7.25pm on 1 April. None of the officers went to the aid of the 47-year-old, who was clearly in distress. Looking disoriented, Tomlinson then stumbled 100 yards down the road before collapsing and dying. The initial police response was to accuse protesters of wrongdoing. Within four hours, Scotland Yard had released a statement saying officers had gone to the victim's aid and called an ambulance, and were attempting to save his life with cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In the following days, City of London police, which was investigating the death, would receive information from witnesses that suggested Tomlinson might have been assaulted by an officer. His family were not told about this, and were advised instead that he had died after being caught up in a fracas prompted by anarchist demonstrators attacking police. Note: This excellent article shows all too clearly how police departments will lie and severely manipulate evidence to defend their own, even when they know they are in the wrong. _____ Most countries fail to deliver on Haiti aid pledges July 15, 2010, CNN http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/07/14/haiti.donations/index.html Six months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, most governments that promised money to help rebuild the country have not delivered any funds at all. Donors promised $5.3 billion at an aid conference in March, about two months after the earthquake -- but less than 2 percent of that money has been handed over so far to the United Nations-backed body set up to handle it. Only four countries have paid anything at all: Brazil, Norway, Estonia and Australia. The United States pledged $1.15 billion. It has paid nothing, with the money tied up in the congressional appropriations process. Venezuela promised even more -- $1.32 billion. It has also paid nothing, although it has written off some of Haiti's debt. Altogether, about $506 million has been disbursed to Haiti since the donors' conference in March, said Jehane Sedky of the U.N. Development Program. That's about 9 percent of the money that was pledged. But about $200 million was money that had been in the pipeline for aid work before the earthquake, and about another $200 million went directly to the government of Haiti to help it get back on its feet, Sedky explained. That has left the commission with about $90 million in donations since the conference, Sedky said. _____ The Genocide Behind Your Smart Phone July 16, 2010, Newsweek magazine http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/16/the-genocide-behind-your-smart-phone.html Our biggest gadget makers ?- including HP and Apple -? may inadvertently get their raw ingredients from murderous Congolese militias. A new movement wants them to trace rare metals from ?conflict mines.? [It] stands on the cusp of going mainstream. It?s the push to make major electronics companies (manufacturers of cell phones, laptops, portable music players, and cameras) disclose whether they use ?conflict minerals??the rare metals that finance civil wars and militia atrocities, most notably in Congo. Congo raises especially disturbing issues for famous tech brand names that fancy themselves responsible corporate citizens. Congo is a classic victim of the resource curse. Its bountiful deposits?in everything from copper to diamonds?are brazenly plundered by corrupt governments and regional warlords while the population goes without basic services. Today, most violence?including mass rape, slavery, mutilation, and possibly even forced cannibalism?is concentrated in the war-ravaged eastern Kivu provinces, where the Congolese Army and ethnic militias bludgeon each other over the right to trade in mineral ore. _____ Gold Coin Sellers Angered by New Tax Law July 21, 2010, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Business/gold-coin-dealers-decry-tax-law/story?id=11211611 Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services by small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a calendar year. Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this category and coin dealers have been among those most rankled by the change. This provision, intended to mine what the IRS deems a vast reservoir of uncollected income tax, was included in the health care legislation ostensibly as a way to pay for it. Taking an early and vociferous role in opposing the measure is the precious metal and coin industry, according to Diane Piret, industry affairs director for the ... trade association representing an estimated 5,000 coin and bullion dealers in the United States. "Coin dealers not only buy for their inventory from other dealers, but also with great frequency from the public," Piret said. "Most other types of businesses will have a limited number of suppliers from which they buy their goods and products for resale." So every time a member of the public sells more than $600 worth of gold to a dealer, Piret said, the transaction will have to be reported to the government by the buyer. Pat Heller, who owns Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Mich., deals with around 1,000 customers every week. Heller estimates that he'll be filling out between 10,000 and 20,000 tax forms per year after the new law takes effect. "I'll have to hire two full-time people just to track all this stuff, which cuts into my profitability," he said. Note: For lots more on government corruption from reliable sources, click here . _____ German Journalist Seeks Release of Eichmann Files March 18, 2010, ABC News/Associated Press http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10135007 The basics of Adolf Eichmann's story are well documented: Commonly known as the "architect of the Holocaust" for his role in coordinating the Nazi genocide policy, he fled Germany, was captured in Argentina by Israel's Mossad, and hanged after trial in Jerusalem. But Germany's intelligence service, the BND, is sitting on 4,500 pages of files on Eichmann a reporter thinks could fill in gaps about his postwar life: Who helped him escape? How much did Germany know about where he was? Is there more to the story of his capture? The files could also help shed light on claims that the Vatican helped war criminals hide or escape after World War II ? allegations church officials have always strenuously denied. The BND claims that the files need to remain secret, so freelance reporter Gabriele Weber sued to have them released. They are now being reviewed in secret by three judges at the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig. Weber said she anticipates a ruling in the next month or two, and expects to obtain at least some degree of access. "I think it's impossible that in Germany we are hiding documents about a convicted Nazi mass murderer today," she said in a telephone interview. "I can't imagine they will be able to maintain secrecy 100 percent." The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants group has weighed in, urging the release of the files. Note: The German government is not the only one hiding information about the Nazis. To read about the CIA's cover-up of its own relationship with Nazis, click here . _____ Phys Ed: Your Brain on Exercise July 7, 2010, New York Times http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/your-brain-on-exercise/ What goes on inside your brain when you exercise? That question has preoccupied a growing number of scientists in recent years, as well as many of us who exercise. Some of the most reverberant recent studies were performed at Northwestern University?s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. There, scientists have been manipulating the levels of bone-morphogenetic protein or BMP in the brains of laboratory mice. In the brain, BMP has been found to contribute to the control of stem cell divisions. Your brain, you will be pleased to learn, is packed with adult stem cells, which, given the right impetus, divide and differentiate into either additional stem cells or baby neurons. As we age, these stem cells tend to become less responsive. They don?t divide as readily and can slump into a kind of cellular sleep. It?s BMP that acts as the soporific, says Dr. Jack Kessler, the chairman of neurology at Northwestern and senior author of many of the recent studies. But exercise countermands some of the numbing effects of BMP, Dr. Kessler says. In work at his lab, mice given access to running wheels had about 50 percent less BMP-related brain activity within a week. They also showed a notable increase in Noggin, a beautifully named brain protein that acts as a BMP antagonist. ?If ever exercise enthusiasts wanted a rationale for what they?re doing, this should be it,? Dr. Kessler says. Exercise, he says, through a complex interplay with Noggin and BMP, helps to ensure that neuronal stem cells stay lively and new brain cells are born. Note: For many excellent reports from reliable sources on important health issues, click here . _____ Cholesterol-Busting Statins: Study Raises New Concerns June 29, 2010, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealth/cholesterol-busting-statins-study... Nearly two years ago, a study known as the JUPITER [Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention] trial hinted at a new era in the use of statins -- one in which the cholesterol-busting drugs could be used to stave off heart-related death in many more people than just those with high cholesterol. Now, however, researchers behind a new review that takes a second look at the findings of the landmark study say that these results are flawed -- and that they do not support the benefits initially reported. Not only did this second look turn up no evidence of the "striking decrease in coronary heart disease complications" reported by investigators behind JUPITER, but it has also called into question drug companies' involvement in such trials, according to an article in the June 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Moreover, Dr. Michel de Lorgeril of Joseph Fourier University and the National Center of Scientific Research in Grenoble, France, and coauthors argue that major discrepancies exists between the significant reductions in nonfatal stroke and heart attacks reported in the JUPITER trial and what has been found in other research. "The JUPITER data set appears biased," Lorgeril and coauthors wrote in conclusion. De Lorgeril and coauthors point out that nine of 14 authors of the JUPITER article have financial relationships with AstraZeneca, which sponsored the trial. Note: There is intriguing evidence that much of the fear around cholesterol was fabricated to sell drugs. For more on this, see the article by one of the most respected doctors on the Internet at this link . _____ Magnets can improve Alzheimer's symptoms June 24, 2010, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/magnets-can-improve... Applying magnets to the brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers helps them understand what is said to them. The finding by Italian scientsts, who conducted a randomised controlled trial of the treatment, suggests that magnets may alter "cortical activity" in the brain, readjusting unhealthy patterns caused by disease or damage. The study was small, involving just 10 patients, and the results are preliminary. But the scientists from Brescia and Milan say [the results] "hold considerable promise, not only for advancing our understanding of brain plasticity mechanisms, but also for designing new rehabilitation strategies in patients with neurodegenerative disease." Although many may scoff, the capacity of magnets to affect the working of the brain is already well established. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), the technique investigated by the Italian scientists, has already been shown in separate experiments by British researchers to temporarily stun the part of the brain which controls speech, rendering volunteers unable to utter familiar words. In a similar way, a magnetic wand waved over the left side of the head, can make the right arm jump involuntarily. The excitation of the neuronal pathways that this demonstrates suggests, according to researchers, that the technique might be useful in the rehabilitation of stroke victims. Note: For many excellent reports from reliable sources on important health issues, click here . _____ Argentina legalizes gay marriage in historic vote July 15, 2010, MSNBC/Associated Press http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38251758/ns/world_news-americas Argentina legalized same-sex marriage [on July 15], becoming the first country in Latin America to declare that gays and lesbians have all the legal rights, responsibilities and protections that marriage brings to heterosexual couples. The law is sure to bring a wave of marriages by gays and lesbians who have found Buenos Aires to be a welcoming place to live. But same-sex couples from other countries shouldn't rush their Argentine wedding plans, since only citizens and residents can wed in the country, and the necessary documents can take months to obtain. While it makes some amendments to the civil code, many other aspects of family law will have to be changed. Nine gay couples had already married in Argentina after persuading judges that the constitutional mandate of equality supports their marriage rights, although their validity was later challenged by other judges. Congressional passage now removes that doubt. When the final vote came, cheers and hugs broke out among the bill's supporters. Sen. Norma Morandini ... compared the discrimination closeted gays face to the oppression imposed by Argentina's dictators decades ago. "What defines us is our humanity, and what runs against humanity is intolerance," she said. _____ Bookmark and Share Final Note: WantToKnow.info believes it is important to balance disturbing cover-up information with inspirational writings which call us to be all that we can be and to work together for positive change. Please visit our Inspiration Center at http://www.WantToKnow.info/inspirational for an abundance of uplifting material. 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 26 16:41:48 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:41:48 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Mary, You Can Help Stop Plastic Bag Pollution Message-ID: <000001cb2d13$fde51b30$f9af5190$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS This is not just about oil gushing out in the Gulf of Mexico from carelessness by BP with BP driven to drill deep wells by the pressure from we consumers who want to keep on driving. It is about other things that we-the-people do as well. One of these is the plastic bag problem - let's clean it up. The solution is to purchase cloth bags that you carry with you to the market. I have them and use them. Let's all do this. From: Bill Magavern, Sierra Club California [mailto:sierraclub.california at sierraclub.org] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:33 PM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Mary, You Can Help Stop Plastic Bag Pollution Having trouble reading our email? View a web version. Check out the Sierra Club California Dear Mary, Take Action Now To Stop Plastic Bag Pollution! Plastic Bags Take Action Today Californians use approximately 19 billion single use plastic bags each year. However, less than 5% of all single use plastic bags are recycled. Instead, many of these plastic bags become litter in our oceans and our communities. We need your help to stop plastic bag pollution in our state. The California legislature is poised to pass AB 1998, banning single-use plastic bags. Governor Schwarzenegger has said he'll sign it, however, there is stiff opposition from the American Chemistry Council and other industry groups. Join Sierra Club California, grocers, local government, environmental groups, marine protection groups and the Governor in calling for the passage of AB 1998 by sending your senator a letter of support. Let's do something tangible to address ocean pollution and litter in our communities. To learn more, visit http://www.healthebay.org/assets/pdfdocs/issues/plasticbags/Plastic_Bags_Fac tSheet_AB1998.pdf Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Bill Magavern Director P.S. Please share this alert with your friends and family. You can also post this alert to your Facebook and Twitter page. Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Share this page with other services Sierra Club California | 801 K Street, Suite 2700 Sacramento, CA 95814 | P: (916) 557-1100 | Tell a friend about us Update My Profile | Manage My Email Preferences | Update My Interests | Unsubscribe from SCC Updates -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 26 17:06:03 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:06:03 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Narco Aggression: Russia Accuses the U.S. Military of Involvement in Drug Traffic Message-ID: <000501cb2d17$5bcc1430$13643c90$@net> Copied from Naomi Mullen's post on Facebook. Comment from M.R. Naomi Mullen http://cryptogon.com/?p=2120 Could it be that the American military in Afghanistan is involved in drug trafficking? Yes, it is quite possible, according to Russia's Ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov. cryptogon.com > Narco Aggression: Russia Accuses the U.S. Military of Involvement in Drug Traffic cryptogon.com The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or more popularly "MI6?) was going to run a covert operation that would have been tasked with providing combat training to the Taliban/enemy/terrorists/etc. as well as, "vocational training, including farming and irrigation techniques." Naomi Mullen When Russia backed the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan to crush the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the post-9/11 scenario, the last thing it expected to happen was that drug trafficking from Afghanistan would assume gargantuan proportions under the U.S. military. Since 2001, poppy fields, once banned by the Taliban, have mushroomed again. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan produced 8,200 tonnes of opium last year, enough to make 93 per cent of the world's heroin supply. The U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] forces in the country have not only failed to eliminate the terrorist threat from the Taliban, but also presided over a spectacular rise in opium production. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Afghanistan was on the brink of becoming a "narco state". Narco business has emerged as virtually the only economy of Afghanistan and is valued at some $10 billion a year. Opium trade is estimated by the U.N. to be equivalent to 53 per cent of the country's official economy and is helping to finance the Taliban. Comment from M.R. It is used not only to finance the Taliban, but the CIA as well. I did not post it, but I just ran across an article in the last couple days asking why President Obama did no disband the CIA as it is a run-a-way organization, the business of which even the President knows little. There have been many articles come across my desktop indicating that the CIA is heavily involved in what are known as "Black Ops" and it becomes quite obvious that the president is not the person who is in charge of the country or even has the faintest idea of what is going on. He is only a figurehead - a puppet whose strings are pulled by those who are "unelected" but rule by the sheer power of the money they control. And U.S. elections serve only to distract and keep distracted we-the-people so we don't ever wake up to wht is really going on. Let us please not kid ourselves. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Comment from M.R. Naomi Mullen http://cryptogon.com/?p=2120 Could it be that the American military in Afghanistan is involved in drug trafficking? Yes, it is quite possible, according to Russia's Ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov. cryptogon.com > Narco Aggression: Russia Accuses the U.S. Military of Involvement in Drug Traffic cryptogon.com The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or more popularly "MI6?) was going to run a covert operation that would have been tasked with providing combat training to the Taliban/enemy/terrorists/etc. as well as, "vocational training, including farming and irrigation techniques." Naomi Mullen When Russia backed the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan to crush the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the post-9/11 scenario, the last thing it expected to happen was that drug trafficking from Afghanistan would assume gargantuan proportions under the U.S. military. Since 2001, poppy fields, once banned by the Taliban, have mushroomed again. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan produced 8,200 tonnes of opium last year, enough to make 93 per cent of the world's heroin supply. The U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] forces in the country have not only failed to eliminate the terrorist threat from the Taliban, but also presided over a spectacular rise in opium production. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Afghanistan was on the brink of becoming a "narco state". Narco business has emerged as virtually the only economy of Afghanistan and is valued at some $10 billion a year. Opium trade is estimated by the U.N. to be equivalent to 53 per cent of the country's official economy and is helping to finance the Taliban. Comment from M.R. It is used not only to finance the Taliban, but the CIA as well. I did not post it, but I just ran across an article in the last couple days asking why President Obama did no disband the CIA as it is a run-a-way organization, the business of which even the President knows little. There have been many articles come across my desktop indicating that the CIA is heavily involved in what are known as "Black Ops" and it becomes quite obvious that the president is not the person who is in charge of the country or even has the faintest idea of what is going on. He is only a figurehead - a puppet whose strings are pulled by those who are "unelected" but rule by the sheer power of the money they control. And U.S. elections serve only to distract and keep distracted we-the-people so we don't ever wake up to wht is really going on. Let us please not kid ourselves. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose,www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Mon Jul 26 19:03:44 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:03:44 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Mary, You Can Help Stop Plastic Bag Pollution - Roshanna Evans Message-ID: <001501cb2d28$155058c0$3ff10a40$@net> From: Roshanna Evans [mailto:songbird20 at mac.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 3:47 PM To: mary rose Subject: Re: Mary, You Can Help Stop Plastic Bag Pollution Hooray for that idea.... would that people aren't so lazy when they leave the house... best, Rosh Roshanna S. Evans SongBird Group Email: songbirdgroup at gmail.com Email: songbird20 at mac.om Skype: raven2rose Mob: +39 329 5825124 Tel: +39 041 0991443 US Cell: 310 869 1628 Magic Jack: 818 4334671 On Jul 26, 2010, at 3:41 PM, mary rose wrote: Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS This is not just about oil gushing out in the Gulf of Mexico from carelessness by BP with BP driven to drill deep wells by the pressure from we consumers who want to keep on driving. It is about other things that we-the-people do as well. One of these is the plastic bag problem - let's clean it up. The solution is to purchase cloth bags that you carry with you to the market. I have them and use them. Let's all do this. From: Bill Magavern, Sierra Club California [mailto:sierraclub.california at sierraclub.org] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:33 PM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Mary, You Can Help Stop Plastic Bag Pollution Having trouble reading our email? View a web version. Check out the Sierra Club California Dear Mary, Take Action Now To Stop Plastic Bag Pollution! Plastic Bags Take Action Today Californians use approximately 19 billion single use plastic bags each year. However, less than 5% of all single use plastic bags are recycled. Instead, many of these plastic bags become litter in our oceans and our communities. We need your help to stop plastic bag pollution in our state. The California legislature is poised to pass AB 1998, banning single-use plastic bags. Governor Schwarzenegger has said he'll sign it, however, there is stiff opposition from the American Chemistry Council and other industry groups. Join Sierra Club California, grocers, local government, environmental groups, marine protection groups and the Governor in calling for the passage of AB 1998 by sending your senator a letter of support. Let's do something tangible to address ocean pollution and litter in our communities. To learn more, visit http://www.healthebay.org/assets/pdfdocs/issues/plasticbags/Plastic_Bags_Fac tSheet_AB1998.pdf Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Bill Magavern Director P.S. Please share this alert with your friends and family. You can also post this alert to yourFacebook and Twitter page. Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Share this page with other services Sierra Club California | 801 K Street, Suite 2700 Sacramento, CA 95814 | P: (916) 557-1100 | Tell a friend about us Update My Profile | Manage My Email Preferences | Update My Interests | Unsubscribe from SCC Updates -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 27 09:04:10 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:04:10 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: A MUST SEE PICTURE Message-ID: <001801cb2d9d$36a43e40$a3ecbac0$@net> So, what does everyone else think? My feelings are that it isn't just the people. We have a system that God himself if there was one couldn't handle. Time for change. From: Rob McWayne [mailto:wrmcwayne at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:33 PM Subject: FW: A MUST SEE PICTURE Wow, maybe we should print it out and paste it in our car windows! Sort of makes you "Mad as Hell"! Question is. . . are we just going to take it forever? Or don't we really care . . . ? _____ From: sharon100 at me.com Subject: A MUST SEE PICTURE Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:42:57 -0700 To: jmstorms at yahoo.com; photon7 at mac.com; vdeyl at suddenlink.net; wrmcwayne at hotmail.com These REPRESENTIVES are exactly why we are not represented. OUR CONGRESS AT WORK. Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently? Nothing else need to be said. This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc. House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, Milford ,and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP) The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores. These are the folks that can't get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously!!! So, weve got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news reporters as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yos will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!! I'm all for voting ALL of them out and starting with a clean slate! Limit terms and no life time benefits!!! And how about pop-quizzes on the bills and issues! KEEP THIS GOING, DON'T LET IT STOP WITH YOU!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 36162 bytes Desc: not available URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 27 11:04:51 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:04:51 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Sheena Iyengar on the ART OF CHOOSING on TED This Week. Message-ID: <00c301cb2dae$18d65450$4a82fcf0$@net> From: THIS WEEK on TED.com [mailto:newsletter=ted.com at mcsv33.net] On Behalf Of THIS WEEK on TED.com Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:33 AM To: Mary Subject: Sheena Iyengar on the ART OF CHOOSING Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser TED July 27, 2010 This week, Sheena Iyengar investigates the art of making choices, Tan Le demos a headset that reads your brainwaves, and Dimitar Sasselov hunts for Earth-like planets. Watch Video Susan Shaw shows evidence that a dispersant used to break up the Gulf oil slick protects some beaches only at devastating cost to the deep sea. Watch now >> Watch Video Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices. Her groundbreaking research has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions. Watch now >> Watch Video Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy -- real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a new, high-tech treatment. Watch now >> Watch Video Tan Le demos a new computer interface that reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects with mere thoughts. Watch now >> Watch Video Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov hunts for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer questions about the origin of biological life. Watch now >> NEWS FROM TED TEDWomen A conference about women. Find out more ? Join The Conversation Sarah Hie on Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves ? I think this technology is amazing! I am thinking of the medical applications of this technology specifically. It would be amazing to develop ways of better understanding the minds of people suffering from autism, schizophrenia, alzheimers, etc. We could map the progress or regression of skills this way or to better understand emotional states. Yes, there are many "fun" applications of this as well. Some of these even feel very "Harry Potter"! I imagine that, with any new technology, there will be those afraid of it, but I was especially impressed with the idea that you teach the computer to do tasks or to respond to your emotional state. Perhaps visualization and meditation techniques could be practiced to help those suffering from anxiety. It is very exciting!" Alex Lekander Alex Lekander on Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing ? Though we may be overwhelmed by many choices, many times, dealing with those choices takes another set of skills that aren't so obvious. For one, if you are faced with a wall of choices that you understand fairly well, just think about which choice sounds most appealing at the spur of a moment and run with it. Or, if you have a wall to paint and a spectrum of colors to choose from, be creative and imagine something you want to make and go with the choice that is closest. We are often overwhelmed with meaningless choices too, however. For instance, the multiple flavors of gum, ice cream, soda, etc., aren't always different enough from one another to justify having a totally new option. A lot of choices are made for different reasons than we think. 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And, if by chance you do get elected, your own party will keep you from doing anything positive, because they too have been bought. As to the Border problem, I am faced with the same thing here in my community as people too small to know what love is continue to practice their hate agenda, not realizing that it is eating them alive along with the rest of us. With much love and in gratitude for who you are and all that you do. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Ewoldt [mailto:dave at reststop.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:56 PM To: Daves Posts Subject: Is the border Arizona's primary problem? I've submitted the following to Tucson's daily paper as an op-ed piece. We'll see if they decide to publish. It's definitely a hot-button issue in these parts with SB1070 (show me your papers) set to go into effect in a few days. Is the border Arizona's primary problem? by Dave Ewoldt July, 2010 http://daveforarizona.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-border-arizonas-primary-proble m.html Is the border "problem" really the most pressing issue we have to deal with today? Well, let's see. The planet is heating up, we've run out of the cheap, polluting energy necessary to continue economic growth, our elders are overdosing on prescription drugs at a rate three times higher than all illegal drugs combined, biodiversity is disappearing at a rate high enough to be called the Sixth Great Extinction, our local economies are being sucked dry by the corporate and financial elite who have stolen our democracy, and the activist Supreme Court has made it easier for them to continue doing so--as well as greasing the skids to ensure all these other problems continue unabated. For the past 100 years we've depended on Mexicans to pick our food, make our beds, build our homes, and now we want to build an apartheid wall and militarize the border in order for us to continue denying our responsibility to fix the mess we've created by scapegoating the oppressed. Can someone please explain to me the thinking, and I use that term very loosely, behind all this? The "we" I'm referring to is the Western industrial civilization on steroids that is known as the American way of life. We feel so entitled to this way of life that our political leaders insist that it is "non-negotiable" when trying to formulate even weak and vapid responses to the environmental and social collapse rapidly heading our way due to ecocide, injustice, and inequity. There is indeed a whole lot of room for improvement. Which is what makes it all so frustrating for me. There is a readily available alternative in relocalization--a rational, practical, affordable process to develop a sustainable future--that could actually serve to improve quality of life for all life. But here in Arizona people have allowed themselves to be distracted over the border issue as if it's the only thing that matters. I mean, we can't blame the Mexicans for the Colorado River going dry, as it doesn't even make it to Mexico any longer. The idea that as rational creatures we could use our highly vaunted intelligence to reverse direction as we discover we're going the wrong way is a concept I've been using in my research, writing and community work challenging the growth lobby for about a decade now. I've also found myself recently paraphrasing, on a rather regular basis, a line from Swami Beyondananda (Steve Bhaerman): Maybe it's past time for nature's children to start acting like nature's adults. Hmm, do ya think? We (Americans in the generic sense) aren't doing enough to turn the ship of state around--squiggly lightbulbs and hybrid cars not withstanding. The American way of consumer life is still being sold to the developing world as the highest good they could possibly aspire to. This is done for no other good reason but to support and continue economic growth that actually only benefits a very small sector of the global population--to the ultimate detriment of the majority as well as to the planet that supports our lives and economies. What I'm discovering in my campaign for political office is that quite a few people don't want to think about the actual issues and what could be done about them. They just want to slap a band-aid on a few symptoms (what I call the wounds of empire) and get on with their life. They want things to return to normal and don't want to think about the fact that normal is what got us to this point. For instance, the current status quo fantasy is that we're not really running out of water in the Southwest desert. It is taken as a given that some technology will come along to allow us to "invent" new water supplies (this used to be referred to as alchemy). The only thing we need to do is secure the border and everything will be just fine. Then we can go back to paving over the desert so the tourists who come to enjoy the desert will be able to quickly and more easily get from one place where the desert used to be to another place where the desert used to be. The tourists just better hope their cars don't overheat. And that enough Americans-- 75% of whom, according to the Pentagon, are too overweight and/or out of shape to qualify for military service--will be available and willing to do all that paving for a minimum wage with no benefits for an out-of-state contractor enticed here with tax exemptions and waivers of development impact fees. For the Earth... _dave_(this entire message is composed of recycled electrons) Natural Systems Solutions http://www.attractionretreat.org http://naturalsystems.blogspot.com Sustainable lifestyles, organizations, and communities From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 27 16:04:30 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:04:30 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Absolutely Must Read: FW: A MUST SEE PICTURE from Jim Bell. Message-ID: <014601cb2dd7$f6f0dcf0$e4d296d0$@net> With love and in gratitude for all that you do, Jim. From: Jim Bell [mailto:jimbellelsi at cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:58 PM To: 'mary rose' Cc: jimbellelsi at cox.net Subject: RE: A MUST SEE PICTURE This article lays out what we should do. TELLING IT LIKE IT IS! A Jim Bell & Common Sense Commentary www.jimbell.com , 619-758-9020 We humans are something special and rare. In spite of there being an estimated 5 to 100 million species of life on our planet, our species is the only one sufficiently conscious to become conscious of existence and our place in it on all levels. On the most foundational level, this means that if enough of us become conscious enough, soon enough, we will be able to pass the birthright of a peaceful and life-supporting world to our children and future generations. Additionally, increasing consciousness will open us to new potential and possibilities on this planet and beyond. Unfortunately, our pursuit of consciousness will be cut short if we continue to live and make livings in ways that hurt others and cause life-support system damage. The Gulf oil gusher is just the latest example of how economic gambling can hurt people and our planet?s life-support system far beyond what the gamblers risk. Clearly, whatever threats loom before us, if the world?s population continues to grow and we continue and even increase the average amount of life-support damage we cause per capita, sooner or later our planet?s life-support system will fail in some fundamental way. This will result in a general human and life-form die-back. If such a failure is serious enough, human extinction and even the extinction of life in general becomes a possibility. Some people believe that such a failure is underway. They offer as evidence that 15% or 1/6 of the world?s population is malnourished or starving. That 70% of us are under-employed, have zero or next to zero health care and are poorly clothed and housed. Additionally, there is an estimated 27,000 species of life that are going extinct each year, 270 to 2,700 times our planet?s average extinction rate. Additionally, human activities have released 80,000 or more chemicals into our common environment (mostly over the past 70 years) and are now adding 1,000 new chemicals to the mix each year; chemicals and concoctions that our planet?s life-support system has had zero experience processing or neutralizing and zero experience in protecting itself from them. WHAT WE MUST DO? To avoid the utter failure of past civilizations, each individual and the human family as a whole, have to become conscious enough to resolve human differences without violence or its threat; and develop economies and ways of life that benefit everyone and that are completely life-support sustaining. We are becoming more conscious but we are not yet conscious enough to stop killing and hurting each other and causing damage to our planet?s life-support system. If we really want to leave our children and future generations the best chance to enjoy a happy, healthy, prosperous and completely life-support sustaining future, we have to become conscious enough and knowledgeable enough to know what to do to bring the human family into life-support system harmony. If we don?t achieve this level of consciousness soon, we will follow the path worn by previous civilizations, all of which utterly failed at the height of their most advanced knowledge and sophistication. But, if we become conscious and knowledgeable enough, soon enough -- we can skip the decline and die off phase of past civilizations. Instead, we can propel ourselves to the next level of consciousness and the new potential it will open to us and to the human family?s future. Obviously, our task is to meet this challenge, but what should we do? The answer is simple. On the most fundamental and foundational level we need to develop economies and ways of life that are cooperative, mutually beneficial and life-support sustaining and we need to do this wherever we live and ultimately, planet wide. To achieve this goal, the following steps should be followed. Step One - Become renewable energy self-sufficient. When a home, community, city, county, region, state or country controls its energy supply and price, it controls its economy, its ways of life, and most everything else -- no matter what happens to the price and supply of energy on national and global markets. Because solar energy in its various forms is free and even delivered free, the only cost to benefit from it are the labor and materials for increasing electricity use efficiency and manufacturing and installing renewable energy collection devices on our roofs and over our parking lots. And given that our inventors/developers are still getting better at saving energy and converting various forms of solar energy into electricity and other uses, the cost of efficiency improvements and renewably generated electricity and other work will continue to fall. Every level of becoming renewable energy self-sufficient creates opportunities. In San Diego County, where I live, there is an abundance of direct sunlight. Additionally, the county has substantial wind, biomass, ocean current, wave and tidal energy from which electricity can be produced. But, even if direct sunlight was its only resource, and assuming 40 kWh of electricity, natural gas and transportation fuels are consumed directly or indirectly per capita per day, San Diego County could become renewable energy self-sufficient by increasing energy use efficiency by 40% and covering 43% of its roofs and parking lots with 15% efficient PV panels. Economically, becoming renewable energy self-sufficient will increase countywide economic activity by over $175 billion over a forty year implementation period and create over 1 million job-years of employment in the process. What about cost? Actually, becoming renewable energy self-sufficient will cost less than continuing our dependences on imported energy -- especially if we make the transformation with a little intelligence and grace. Assuming an average cost of 10 cents per kWh over 40 years, making San Diego County renewable electricity self-sufficient alone would save the county $24 billion.* Since electricity makes up around 40% of the energy the average person uses per day, it follows that a renewably energy self-sufficient San Diego County would save around $60 billion over a 40-year transition period. Additionally, the higher the cost that electricity rises above 10 cent per kWh on the open market, the greater the County?s positive cash-flow and resulting economic multiplier benefit will be. Step Two - Become renewable water self-sufficient. Water is essential to life. It is essential to the water-rich lifestyle most people in the developed world already have and that people in the developing world would like to have. Using San Diego County as an example, increasing the coverage of its roofs and parking lots by another 5% with 15% efficient PV panels will allow it to become renewable energy and water self-sufficient. The addition electricity will power reverse osmosis (RO) pumps to force saltwater against membranes that let freshwater through, but block salt, other minerals and most pollutants. Assuming the worst case scenario of zero rainfall and zero imported water, five percent coverage of San Diego County?s roofs and parking lots with 15% efficient PV panels would make enough electricity to produce 776,000 acre ft. of water each year. San Diego County now uses around 600,000 acre ft. of water each year. By installing PV panels over 8% of its roofs and parking lots, San Diego County could become a substantial water exporter to inland communities. Sea life will be protected from RO pumps by extracting the saltwater to be processed through sand filtration (extracting saltwater through coastal wells and through sea bottom sand filtration). Wastewater or brine left over from the RO process will be evaporated in shallow open ponds so salt and other minerals left behind can be mined. When any RO wastewater is returned to the sea, it would be diluted by sand-filtered salt water to no more than 20% saltier than natural seawater, then released diffusely into the ocean. Step Three ? Become renewable food self-sufficient. With renewable energy and water self-sufficiency, comes the ability to be renewable food self-sufficient. It also allows for the growth of a great deal of the fiber and lumber. To make this real, it is essential that we protect our agricultural soils from further development and other misuse. Research indicates that we still have enough agricultural soil on our planet to feed everyone a nutritious diet of tasty, sustainably-grown food with lots of variety. With renewable energy powered RO, this is true for San Diego County. Unfortunately, this will not be true for San Diego County or our world for long if we do not protect and preserve our best agricultural soils for life-supporting agriculture. Step Four ? Population Each person should make a personal choice to be the birth parent of no more than two children unless a child or children die before reproducing themselves. If this was practiced worldwide, the world?s population would decline by ?% 1% to per year. A 1% decline per year would reduce the world?s population to 2.5 billion people in 100 years. This was the world?s population in the mid 1950s. With a population drop of ?% per year, this would happen in 200 years. Step Five ? Develop a Space Debris Detection and Defense System We already have the technology to locate all earth-orbit-crossing space objects. We also have the technology, to deflect earth bound objects large enough to cause serious life-support harm if they collide with us, if we discover them soon enough. We could an even capture such objects into earth or the moon orbits for scientific study and mining. Final Thoughts: Bottom line, if we want to leave the birthright of a happy, healthy, prosperous, life-supporting sustainable future to our young and future generations, these 5 steps are the minimum we must do, and the sooner the better. We?ve come so far, why blow it now? We know what can be done. All we have to do is do it. If those living over the next 60 years or so develop life-support sustaining economies and ways of life planet wide, there is little to stop us from colonizing space in our own galaxy and beyond. * For details on this investment strategy, go to www.jimbell.com , click on ?Green Papers?. Although this paper focuses on renewable electricity self-sufficiency in San Diego County, the investment strategies it develops can be used to become renewable energy self-sufficient for gaseous and liquid fuels as well. Additionally, this strategy can work almost anywhere on our planet, modified for climate, renewable energy sources available and other local conditions. With modifications, it will also work for becoming renewable water and food self-sufficient as well. For more depth, www.jimbell.com _____ From: mary rose [mailto:maryrose333 at att.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:04 AM To: FixGov at yahoogroups. com; discussion at globaljusticemovement.net Subject: FW: A MUST SEE PICTURE So, what does everyone else think? My feelings are that it isn?t just the people. We have a system that God himself if there was one couldn?t handle. Time for change. From: Rob McWayne [mailto:wrmcwayne at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:33 PM Subject: FW: A MUST SEE PICTURE Wow, maybe we should print it out and paste it in our car windows! Sort of makes you "Mad as Hell"! Question is. . . are we just going to take it forever? Or don't we really care . . . ? _____ From: sharon100 at me.com Subject: A MUST SEE PICTURE Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:42:57 -0700 To: jmstorms at yahoo.com; photon7 at mac.com; vdeyl at suddenlink.net; wrmcwayne at hotmail.com These REPRESENTIVES are exactly why we are not represented. OUR CONGRESS AT WORK. Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently? Nothing else need to be said. This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc. House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, Milford ,and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP) The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores. These are the folks that can't get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously!!! So, weve got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news reporters as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yos will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!! I'm all for voting ALL of them out and starting with a clean slate! Limit terms and no life time benefits!!! And how about pop-quizzes on the bills and issues! KEEP THIS GOING, DON'T LET IT STOP WITH YOU!!! ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.15510) http://www.pctools.com ======= ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.15520) http://www.pctools.com ======= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm also on the Advisory Board for the Hearts of Fire project, an NGO founded and directed by Bob Ballard. www.heartsoffireproject.ning.com. Bob, along with me, has the philosophy that people who are homeless are going to be the first ones through the door into the future. They have nothing to lose by going through the door into the new world while those who still have property and bank accounts along with businesses rooted in the Industrial Society will be the last to go because they feel they may have everything to lose and nothing to gain. They won't have acquired the skills necessary to make it since they are rooted in the Industrial Age, and don't have any desire to learn the skills required in the Age of Knowledge. On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:06 AM, mary rose wrote: What occurred to me this morning as I was out taking my walk is that getting people to pay a lot of money and transport themselves long distances to come to a seminar telling them how and what they need to think in order to save their lives today, is like telling someone caught in an undertow and drowning in the ocean that for a certain sum of money you will throw them a device they can watch in order to learn how to swim. We need to change the way we think about these things. Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose,www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation FutureDawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 27 21:06:29 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:06:29 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Is the border Arizona's primary problem? 2nd comment by Dave Ewoldt Message-ID: <001e01cb2e02$63a01940$2ae04bc0$@net> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Ewoldt [mailto:dave at reststop.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:55 PM To: mary rose Subject: Re: A Must Read FW: Is the border Arizona's primary problem? by Dave Ewoldt On 27 Jul 2010 at 14:57, mary rose wrote: > collapse around us. And, if by chance you do get elected, your own party will > keep you from doing anything positive, because they too have been bought. Well, I don't have a party. I'm running as an Independent for exactly that reason. It also means I don't have party resources to help out with the campaign, but under Arizona's clean election laws, we'll have some financing to be able to get the word out enough to cover the district I'm running in. My core campaign committee is about 3/4 registered Green, a couple of Democrats and a couple of Republicans, so it's an interesting mix. m.r. Well good luck. With regard to the Border issue, drugs do play a major role as they are a lucrative trade. Especially with the U.S. using 40% of all of the world's illegal drug production with only 0.5% of the world's population. In order to stop the trafficking that goes on, we must stop the demand. With the amount of money we are talking about here, it's like sticking one's finger in a 10 mile wide hole and trying to stop the water coming through the dike. Here again, the U.S.' voracious appetite is the source of the problem. For the Earth... _dave_(this entire message is composed of recycled electrons) Natural Systems Solutions http://www.attractionretreat.org http://naturalsystems.blogspot.com Sustainable lifestyles, organizations, and communities From maryrose333 at att.net Tue Jul 27 23:02:55 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:02:55 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Absolutely MUST READ: US Map to startle even the most pessimistic! Message-ID: <003401cb2e12$68342d10$389c8730$@net> Robyn, thanks for this very graphic demonstration that really grabs both sides of the brain and makes one sit up and pay attention. I have to get this on Facebook and to the Transformative Media Group on AOAND as well as sending it out to the TransitionUS group. And when this map shows over 10% I do know that in many areas, e.g. California, and Michigan where the rates are over 20 - 50% in some counties. I want to comment again on why I am putting together a team to do prison reform. Many states are now in bankruptcy and are having to release prison inmates because the prisons are now so overcrowded that many of them are holding double the number of prisoners the facility was designed for. For instance Donovan State Prison here in San Diego is housing 4700 inmates in a facility built to house 2200. So, over the next year 40,000 prisoners - supposedly non-violent-are going to be released into the California general population. And, what is known is that at least 5 states in California have an unemployment rate of 20% or more. And, as we look at the map that Robyn has provided for us, we see how many areas of California are black. So, the question arises as to how many former inmates are going to be able to get jobs when they are released and how many are going to be living out on the streets and hungry and ready to do whatever it takes to obtain food, water and medical care when needed. Most of them are going to go into drug-dealing as the only avenue open to them and, when they do, they are going to line up many of those others who are among the millions who do not have jobs and who may also be homeless and show them how to deal drugs in order to obtain the necessities of life. And, the figure of 40% of the world's illegal drug production being used by the U.S., is going to increase dramatically. So, we need a way to engage both inmates and those about to be released in ways that create a healthy way of living for them, and we also need to evolve their consciousness so they are no longer interested in dealing and using drugs. And, Robyn is right as she writes below that it is time for people to take the initiative and create work for themselves. And due to the food shortage that is going to hit us very soon as an inevitable facet of this economic downturn, everyone needs to get involved in raising their own food. It is very unlikely that the banks are going to be able to repossess the number of homes that are going to go into foreclosure over the next couple years as commercial real estate as well begins to hit the foreclosure proceedings timeline and more and more businesses are forced into closing. So people need to not fall over when the foreclosure notice arrives, but fight it by asking for the mortgage papers. And what I understand is that when you ask to see the mortgage documents they cannot be found because the mortgage has been sold so many times that no one knows where the papers are. So, do not stop raising your own food in your yard, no matter how small, prior to the time your home is actually foreclosed on and you must move out. It generally takes a year at most for the foreclosure proceeding to take place. And, in many instances, the timeline for foreclosure is 3 - 4 years due to so many of them taking place. We need to talk as a group at another time about what everyone needs to do to best position themselves to survive this collapse. And how communities may best prepare themselves for what is to come. The main thing people need to do is to set up a local currency system so that there is a means of doing barter and exchange for goods and services. And, the businesses that are set up need to be ones that are based in products and services that are vital for our well- being - not on non-necessities. And, we will be covering more on this as we move along. From: Rob McWayne [mailto:wrmcwayne at hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:04 PM Subject: US Map to startle even the most pessimistic! It's really time for people to take initiative and create their own jobs - start a business, or offer a service! We all have to get creative, here! All the people I know who are happily working right now, are working for themselves! _____ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:36:30 -0700 From: ehcnald at yahoo.com Subject: Fw: Re: A MUST SEE PICTURE To: tha8thbalance at hotmail.com; chrisxlll at yahoo.com; mccurryclan at aol.com; langsyne5345 at yahoo.com; wrmcwayne at hotmail.com --- On Tue, 7/27/10, esmarties wrote: From: esmarties Subject: Re: A MUST SEE PICTURE To: "Blanche McLanahan" Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 5:28 PM Take a look at this map. It shows how the unemployment rate has changed over the past several months. When you get to the map, click the arrow in the middle and watch how things changed. Incredible what "The Great Recession" has done. The old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words" is never more true than looking at this map. Viewing it only takes a few seconds. The darker the color, the higher the unemployment. 2009 has been BRUTAL. 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News UK Message-ID: Robert Searle (dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk) has sent you a news article X-Originating-IP: 217.12.6.86 -------------------- Personal message text: -------------------- Bank's King says monetary stimulus should remain?? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100728/tuk-uk-britain-cbank-fa6b408.html ============================================================ From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Wed Jul 28 07:52:28 2010 From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:52:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [GJM] Fw: The New RBEF Message-ID: <737732.35606.qm@web27405.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> --- On Wed, 28/7/10, RBEF Newsletter wrote: From: RBEF Newsletter Subject: The New RBEF To: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Date: Wednesday, 28 July, 2010, 8:08 Dear All, After some time, we have finally close to the end of changing of our structure. Thank you for your patience! What's new? Quite a lot. 1. Changes in the organization First of all, we are going to decentralize and focus on the project-oriented structure. Please check the introduction section of our forum, or you can easily download short pdf presentation through the file below: New Introduction to the RBEF 2. New Projects Secondly, we have 1st tier projects running already and its coordinators ready to accept new members as well as co-coordinators. Please refer to the introduction and our presentation above. As always we are open to accept new projects at any time. The current 1st tier projects are: 1. Global legal NPOs network (Cosar) 2. Transition Plan research (_dm) 3. Business Involvement (Animus) 4. Promotion (apply!) 5. Software Development (Venux) 6. Political presence (lucidmind) Please contact coordinators directly or write in the appropriate forum section to join the team or coordinate 2nd tier projects (eg. opening the branch in your country, developing specific software, improving the website etc.). 3. 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URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Wed Jul 28 12:29:54 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:29:54 -0700 Subject: [GJM] FW: Where 3 or more are gathered..Transition Happens! Message-ID: <00a401cb2e83$22908080$67b18180$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS Anyone living in the California area ? here is an opportunity to get connected with Transition California. I am a member and will be linking some more of the Future Dawning websites up to TC the same as I have done with Transition US, although Transition California does not as yet anyway have a Social Network site connected with NING. The Mary Nelson noted here in Penn Valley is our own Mary Nelson who contributes so much knowledge to the Co-learner?s list. So, let?s everyone join in and GET CONNECTED. Let?s create change people! Let?s do it now! From: Transition California [mailto:mail at transitioncalifornia.ning.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:36 AM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Where 3 or more are gathered..Transition Happens! Transition California ? Local Self-Reliance for a Post-Petroleum World ? A message to all members of Transition California Good morning Transition Community! We are so excited that in less than 12 hours since we sent our first message to all of you about LocalGrow.org 3 of our community members, Mary Nelson of Penn Valley, Wayne Thompson of Ojai, and Jane Bledsoe from Napa, have joined together and moved LocalGrow.org closer to manifestation! This is an excellent beginning and sign of success - "Where 3 or More are Gathered Transition Happens"....should we make a T-shirt of that saying? Would it be a cool slogan? 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And, until we institute a system where we have everyone on the same side and operating in the best interests of all concerned, including the planet ? our life support system?then we are going to have this winner take all stand continuing on. But cleaning the corruption out of the system would go a long way in getting things straightened out. So what do you say? Should we, can we begin something like this? Since the Global Justice Movement is a list to which we contribute articles and comments, it is my feeling that ?The Global Justice Movement in Support of AVAAZ? would be a good name, but am open to other suggestions. Then AVAAZ could do the work of keeping track of the amounts donated to the cause, but it would get our name and efforts involved in a very good cause. How does everyone feel about this? Something I began just today is contacting the women on my Facebook, Plaxo, and LinkedIn lists (which number over 5,000) to see if they will support prison reform, first in the state of California and then across the U.S., so I can?t head this up ? too little time, not enough of me ? but maybe Marilyn N. or Stephanie S., or one of you guys could head this up. I would put up a Future Dawning website on TransitionUS and start a group on Facebook in my name if someone else could administrate it and add their name. And, I would invite all of my contacts to join. With the Prison Reform program I am concentrating on getting women?s support because the prison system is such a patriarchial-oriented system based on terrorism, punishment, and violence it will take women-power in large numbers to clean this mess up. But as the Dalai Lama said: ?The Western woman will do this.? So, let us begin ? ladies grab your brooms and let?s sweep and welcome all heart-centered men to be at our sides. May we remember the Inquisition and how many thousands of our sisters gave their lives at that time when patriarchial rule was much more deadly than today. With love and in gratitude to all for all that we do as individuals and all we do together. Mary Rose From: Ricken Patel - Avaaz.org [mailto:avaaz at avaaz.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:39 AM To: maryrose333 at att.net Subject: Huge win in Brazil - let's take it global Dear friends, A massive online campaign by the Avaaz community in Brazil has just won a stunning victory against corruption. The "clean record" law was a bold proposal that banned any politician convicted of crimes like corruption and money laundering from running for office. With nearly 25% of the Congress under investigation for corruption, most said it would never pass. But after Avaaz launched the largest online campaign in Brazilian history, helping to build a petition of over 2 million signatures, 500,000 online actions, and tens of thousands of phone calls, we won! Avaaz members fought corrupt congressmen daily as they tried every trick in the book to kill, delay, amend, and weaken the bill, and won the day every time. The bill passed Congress, and already over 330 candidates for office face disqualification! One Brazilian member wrote to us when the law was passed, saying: I have never been as proud of the Brazilian people as I am today! Congratulations to all that have signed. Today I feel like an actual citizen with political power. -- Silvia Our strategy in Brazil was simple: make a solution so popular and visible that it can?t be opposed, and be so vigilant that we can?t be ignored. This victory shows what our community can do - at a national level, in developing nations, and on the awful problem of corruption. Anywhere in the world, we can build legislative proposals to clean up corruption in government, back them up with massive citizen support, and fight legislators who try to block them. France's Le Monde called our "impressive and unprecedented petition" campaign a "spectacular political and moral victory for civil society." And while this victory may be a first, we can make it the precedent for global citizen action. Amazingly, our entire Brazil campaign was made possible by just a couple of Avaaz team members, serving over 600,000 Avaaz members in Brazil. The power of the Avaaz model is that technology can enable a tiny team to help millions of people work together on the most pressing issues. It's one of the most powerful ways a small donation can make a difference in the world. 5.6 million of us are reading this email -- if a small fraction of us donate just $3 or $5 per week, or 50 cents per day, the entire Avaaz team will be funded and we can even expand our work on corruption and a range of issues. Click below to become a Sustainer of Avaaz and help take our anti-corruption campaigning global: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/ficha_limpa_reportback/?vl We've seen the heart-wrenching movies about street kids and desperate urban poverty in Brazil, and we know that across the world political corruption preys on our communities and saps human potential. In Brazil, our community has helped turn the tide and usher in a new era of transparent, accountable politics. Let's seize the opportunity and begin to fight corruption everywhere it's needed today. With hope, Ricken, Luis, Graziela, David, Ben, Maria Paz, Benjamin and the entire Avaaz Team SOURCES: The Economist, "Cleaning up. A campaign against corruption": http://www.avaaz.org/economist_ficha_limpa The Rio Times, "Anti-Corruption Law in Effect This Year": http://www.avaaz.org/rio_times_ficha_limpa The story of Brazil's Clean Record law has yet to be told widely in English language media. Here are a few stories in other languages that capture the campaign: Le Monde, "Operation "clean sheet" in Brazil": (French) http://www.avaaz.org/le_monde_ficha_limpa Correio Braziliense, "The arrival of 2.0 activists": (Portuguese) http://www.avaaz.org/correio_braziliense_2_0 _____ Avaaz.org is a 5.5-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 13 countries on 4 continents and operates in 14 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here , or follow us on Facebook or Twitter . 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This is critical.................... Stephanie Thanks Steph, with love and in gratitude for this important update. Let?s get this disseminated ASAP to all our friends and family members. From: Phiometry at aol.com Date: July 27, 2010 4:38:56 PM MST To: ssutton23 at gmail.com Subject: Fwd: Dennis Kucinich: US out of Pakistan + defund Afghanistan VOTES THIS WEEK PLEASE CALL YOUR US CONGRESSMAN AND ASK THAT THEY SUPPORT THESE MEASURES. END THE WARS NOW! Dennis Kucinich Announces Two Important House Votes Click here to view video. Cleveland, Ohio (July 26, 2010) - Congressman Dennis Kucinich announces that he and Congressman Ron Paul are joining in a cause focused at compelling the removal of U.S. military forces from Pakistan. Later this week, Congressman Kucinich will also support ending the War in Afghanistan by cutting off funding for the war. (Transcript follows below): _____ Hi everyone, Dennis here This week we have two very important votes for the future of this country and the future of the world. The first deals with Pakistan - House Concurrent Resolution 301, and the second deals with supplemental funding which will provide another 33-billion dollars to keep the War in Afghanistan going. I would like to speak to you briefly about both of those votes. The first vote is likely to occur this Tuesday on House Concurrent Resolution 301, sponsored by myself and Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. This resolution aims to cause the United States to withdraw from Pakistan. Now, it's not generally known that we have at least 124 Special Forces troops on the ground inside Pakistan. It is absolutely urgent that we take a stand to stop spreading war in Pakistan. To nip in the bud the U.S. ground presence. We already know the U.S. has had missile strikes inside Pakistan since March of 2005 with a lot of innocent villagers killed. All that we can do is to expand the war into Pakistan, destabilize that government and have the United States fighting on still another front. We have to get out of Pakistan and that's why Ron Paul and I have come together, for the first time, to force a vote on this question. Later in the week we'll be faced once again with the question whether to continue to fund the War in Afghanistan. The New York Times and other news agencies have taken WikiLeaks reports and have released this news globally. And what we've learned in the last 24 hours is that there is another secret war going on in Afghanistan. A war of failure. A war of our troops getting undermined by people that we think are working with us. This is occurring in Pakistan, it's also happening in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan government is a cesspool of corruption. There is no plausible way that anything even remotely resembling a democracy can be established there. Our presence there is an occupation fueling an insurgency. We have to get out of Afghanistan. We owe it to our troops. We owe it to our national security. We owe it to our budget. We owe it to the American people who hope for a better life here at home. So, again, this week, two important votes: one tomorrow to get out of Pakistan and, later this week, end the War in Afghanistan by cutting off funding. I'll be in touch with you as matters progress. I appreciate your on-going support. I need your help to continue to serve in the United States Congress. Thank you, very much. _____ Facebook Twitter MySpace Digg PO Box 110475 | Cleveland | OH | 44111 | 216-252-9000 Forward email #avg_ls_inline_popup { position:absolute; z-index:9999; padding: 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 13px;} -- 'The important thing is to begin to build a conscious, "thought" network... to link the warriors together. 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Another thought about Coke is the amount of water used to make this drink that is really only sugar and carmel- flavored water and contains no nutritional value. I will also have to post again the story of how the aluminum cans are made as taken from Paul Hawken et al, "Natural Capitalism." The cost to the environment in getting this product to market is incredible. With love and in gratitude, Marilyn From: Marilyn Nyborg [mailto:marilyn at nydow.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:16 PM To: Erik Nyborg; KeriLynn; Joan Goddard Subject: Have a drink! I know we can't believe everything we read on the computer, but, if just half of this is right some of us are in big trouble. I am not a "COKE" person . Subject: Water vs. Coke I could not believe this..... Very interesting WATER #1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population) #2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger. #3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as 3%. #4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study. #5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue. #6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers. #7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page. #8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%., and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink every day? COKE #1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. #2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days. #3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the 'real thing' sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. #4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola. #5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. #6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. #7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy. #8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield. FOR YOUR INFORMATION: #1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis. #2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use a hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials. #3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years! Now the question is, would you like a glass of water? or Coke? Quick! send this helpful info on to your friends health conscious or not!!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And someone from that movement is now aiding me in getting the Future Dawning movement noticed on TransitionUS. So, I'm watching this play out in real life and it is very exciting. Thank you, With love and appreciation, Marilyn From: Marilyn Nyborg [mailto:marilyn at nydow.com] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:22 AM To: Barbara Belknap; Undisclosed-recipients: Subject: 3min training on how to start a movement Subject: Re: 3min training on how to start a movement THIS YOU TUBE EMAIL IS BRILLIANT LAUGHABLE DELICIOUS AND SPOT ON!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBngiABc73Q&feature=related -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Fri Jul 30 21:05:57 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:05:57 -0700 Subject: [GJM] The Healing Codes - Epigenetics by Bruce H. Lipton, Message-ID: <000c01cb305d$8b89d970$a29d8c50$@net> The Healing Code by Dr. Alex Loyd, et al. is a very powerful way of healing yourself. And the research underlying it is based in part on the work of cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton. Here is a video that may help you to understand part of what is going on as quantum physics are used in the form of "energy healing." http://www.thehealingcodes.com/thoughts.htm The process of Holodynamics as used by Dr. V. Vernon Woolf, is based in the same science as is used here. www.holodynamics.com Getting the Healing Code book, I feel is very worthwhile - I have been using it for several weeks now with good results in dealing with stress and really like it because it is so easy. However, I have also changed the wording because as an atheist I do not believe in God. So instead of using the word God in the code when I am saying it, I use the words: "the full power of the Universe as it expresses itself through my heart," as I feel this is a truer rendition of what is actually happening than attributing the action to a "God" or a divine power. The "power" as I know it from my research is composed of the "electromagnetic energy field" combined with the field of gravity and the strong and the weak forces which interact with one another. And, I am able to control this power with the power of my own mind which can create subtle energy waves that serve to counteract other subtle energy waves that are expressed as "emotions." I am the "Body Electric" and am configured much like a quantum computer. I am both a sending and a receiving station which can be "fine tuned" to pick up certain wavelengths much as can a radio or a TV set. Your Logo, Inc. 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It has ofcourse since disappeared as I expected. ? ii) The Engage page on the official INET website which had a whole series of interesting posts including mine suggesting heterodox economic links (eg.BE), and monetary reform links has also disappeared. ? What is going on here? I assume there is a reasonable explanation for the above..rather than some conspiratorial one!! ? ? Robert Searle. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk Sat Jul 31 08:26:23 2010 From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:26:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [GJM] Money Theory Message-ID: <911255.45781.qm@web27403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> ? Might be of interest if the link works below. ? ? http://group.aomonline.org/cms/Meetings/Los_Angeles/Workshop08/stookey.pdf ? R.Searle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From: discussion-bounces at globaljusticemovement.net [mailto:discussion-bounces at globaljusticemovement.net] On Behalf Of robert searle Sent: 31 July 2010 15:22 To: discussion at globaljusticemovement.net Subject: [GJM] Two Questionable Changes with INET. Dear All, I have noticed two interesting changes with the so-called Institute of New Economic Thinking. i) The Facebook INET site along with my posts was online for sometime. It has ofcourse since disappeared as I expected. ii) The Engage page on the official INET website which had a whole series of interesting posts including mine suggesting heterodox economic links (eg.BE), and monetary reform links has also disappeared. What is going on here? I assume there is a reasonable explanation for the above..rather than some conspiratorial one!! Robert Searle. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It has ofcourse since disappeared as I expected. ? ii) The Engage page on the official INET website which had a whole series of interesting posts including mine suggesting heterodox economic links (eg.BE), and monetary reform links has also disappeared. ? What is going on here? I assume there is a reasonable explanation for the above..rather than some conspiratorial one!! ? ? Robert Searle. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryrose333 at att.net Sat Jul 31 11:27:41 2010 From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:27:41 -0700 Subject: [GJM] Absolutely Must Read: The Dangers of Aspartame - Dr. Mercola Message-ID: <007a01cb30d5$f33141d0$d993c570$@net> Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/31/aspartame-upda te.aspx While we go beserk over the behavior of BP in the Gulf of Mexico, we ignore the actions of companies like Ajinamoto which produce deadly products like aspartame that we consume every day. And we suck up products, especially diet soft drinks, that have no nutritional value in them as if they were precious nutrients that would not be available much longer, while addicting our children as well. Isn't it time we began looking at our own behavior rather than pointing the finger at companies that supply our toxins, even though they must bear the guilt also. While mega disasters like oil gushers will damage the earth for many years to come, insidious toxins like aspartame remain in our bodies and threaten our well-being as well. But the difference is that while we had little control over what BP was doing in the Gulf, except that we are driving the quest for oil by our own daily demand for it, we do have control over what we put in our bodies as they are much closer to home. Isn't it time we began to so "NO" to all things that are unhealthy for us, our children and the planet. Isn't it time we began moving into "TOTAL WELLNESS?" Your Logo, Inc. FutureDawning.org Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation Future Dawning.org dustysummerrose at gmail.com Always have my latest info Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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But most of all, as Bruce points out - for a very long time it has been thought that genes controlled life and that was the end of it. But now the new field epigenetics is revealing that we have two minds - one is the conscious mind and the other is the sub-conscious mind and the sub-conscious can be reprogrammed in such a way as to allow behavioral change. It is all about the way we think and being open and willing to change our lives. It is very important I feel that we erase the "myths" of yesterday with the science of today so that we may move beyond "faith-based" and into assurance of who we are and just how very powerful we are. Our religious belief systems have been directed for thousands of years at dumbing us down and rendering us numb to who we truly are and the power that lies within us. One of the most valuable parts of this is where Dr. Lipton talks about "protectionism" and how this mode of operation stifles growth and creativity. It is high time that we "moved on" into self-realization and the strength that comes from "self-knowing." I advise watching a couple of these videos a day over a period of time and taking the time to assimilate all of the information in them. Doing so has the potential to change the way you think and consequently change your life. You may also want a partner to discuss the videos with you as you view them and some segments require two people to do the exercises included in Rob Williams segment. Each of the following segments is about 10 minutes long. May I wish everyone well on their journey. I am holding the field for the fullest potential to unfold now in the best interests of all concerned. I will be posting more information on different ways of accomplishing transformation over the next week or so. The Biology of Perception http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZ7GqWpEqM &feature=related Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJdVdArDgc &feature=related Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0iU_QcU4o4 &NR=1 Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy3arcY0KlQ &NR=1 Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-jh9UCy1Fk &NR=1 Part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFO741MrkIU &NR=1 Part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ApMxcTw40 Part 7 The Psychology of Change http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhXaA4FXa48 &feature=related Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-besG1J4i4 &NR=1 Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkFeObYX3bU &feature=related Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-sFaUkRlAo &feature=related Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3Bjcbscyw &feature=related Part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxgzhg_jViI &feature=related Part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrgYI6UZMaY &NR=1 Part 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTYu65HD9dk &feature=related Part 8 Your Logo, Inc. 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I want to clarify again that ?West? in any of my discussions including this write up means Western power groups particularly the political and economic powers. ?West? does not include common people who are the victim of West and Westernism themselves; in fact they are the first victims of the rise of Westernism, the ideology that the Western powers have been promoting.? Westernism is primarily an ideology that is based on economic fundamentalism, meaning supremacy of economics in all affairs, scientific and technological development and its use for global supremacy and the dominance of West through military and non-military means. The list of West?s crimes against humanity is too long to describe. Here I will just enumerate the major crimes. There are three types of major crimes: 1. Ideological Crimes; 2. Socioeconomic crimes; 3. Political crimes ? Ideological Crimes 1. Promotion of economic fundamentalism as the pivot of all developments. Economic fundamentalism is an ideology that gives supremacy to economics in all the affairs of the world, Capitalism being one of its most dangerous kinds in which the economics are in the hands of a few who become the ultimate rulers of the world. 2. Development of an ideological system based on negation of God, because God is the biggest problem for economic fundamentalism and monopolization of economic and political power. Till God is there in the minds and hearts of the people, society as a whole cannot be made addict or pervert; addiction and perversions are the beigest money spinners. 3. Marginalization or privatization of religion. Religion relates to God, it puts restrictions on certain activities that are extremely useful from commercial angles 4. Development of natural, social and practical sciences in a way that people do not even see the possibility of a New Worldafter the Destruction of the Current world; 5. Conscious nurturing of a feeling that life is to be enjoyed without fearing for ?unknown? consequences if any in the ?hereafter? and not giving up temporary enjoyment for future threats to life and society, as damage control can be achieved through ?moderation? in activities, use of ?safety devices? to prevent unwanted consequences and to go for treatment if the problems emerge even despite ?moderation? and ?safety devices?. ? Socioeconomic crimes ? 1. Development of all social, political, scientific, economic and administrative institutions in a way that they all support the cause of economic fundamentalists; 2. Conscious and planned disintegration of family system through legalization, popularization and glorification of relations outside family system; and creation of hurdles in the way of a proper marriage system between males and females. 3. Commercialisation of all human weaknesses: drinking, gambling, sex. 4. Promoting dangerous choices in the name of ?freedom of choices? so that these choices can be commercialized to the hilt. 5. Promotion of individualism 6. Development of economic institutions in a way that the Economic Disparity continues to rise, with more and more wealth accumulating in the Western countries and there too in the hands of few people; 7. Fanning desires in a way that people are always ready to spend or invest in Industrial products or industries; and are not able to create their own private assets. ? Political crimes ? 1. Popularization of Western model of democracy as the only ?perfect? model of governance; those who do not adopt it are retrogressive; 2. Turning Democracy into Corporatocracy where corporate rule through proxy; 3. Creating conditions that make it impossible for the politicians to do anything substantially damaging to the interests of economic fundamentalists; 4. Invading, bullying and threatening other countries in the name of democracy, ?threat to international community?, international community invariably meaning Western powers and their supporters. 5. Killing tens of millions in wars and civil wars in the 19th century onwards for the establishment of their political and economic hegemony; 6. Creating and sustaining Israelfor destabilizing Middle East; 7. Using War against Terror as a ploy to threaten Muslim World and other anti-West nations into submission. ? Let us concentrate our attention here on how Western powers colonized the globe for the economic monopolization of the earth: ? Colonizing the globe ? ??????????????????????? Economic fundamentalism, as an ideology, has not only been embraced by the big business, it has also worked its way up?wards. The governments of certain countries, predominantly the same Western countries which were the cradles of economic fundamentalism, have specialized in the art of furthering their economic interests through whatever means possible. Since the ancient times, mili?tary power has been the chief, and perhaps, the only factor in the claim to supremacy in the world. This continued till the Second World War But the human and material cost of the Second World War assumed horrible proportions. The Western countries and their allies were the major participants in the War. It was also they who had to bear most of the suffering. With the end of the War, the world saw the emergence of new powers and new equations. Americaand Russiasoon donned the mantle of Super Powers. The Western lobby, led by the US, and supported among others by Britain, France, West Germanyand Japan, had realised that they could not afford major military confrontations any longer. They understood that the military capabilities of the two major contenders, and their allies, real and potential, had reached a stage where it was impossible, in case another military confrontation ensued, to foresee a clear winner. Their military ammunition was so huge and so destructive that any full-fledged war would herald doom for the whole of mankind. The realisation had dawned on the Western block that, in order to reign supreme, what was required was not the military but the economic supremacy. It does not mean that they were no longer interested in building their military strength. But they now conspired to use their supremacy as a military power for supporting their expansionist strategies in the field of economics. ??????????????????????? The West dreamt of becoming the lion of the world-the undisputed king, but without having any responsibility. To rule over the world without having to actually administer it, necessitated manoeuvring of international policies, popularisation of certain values and masterminding of the scientific and medical researches with certain specific aims. The big powers, though there was no love lost between them, had no alternative but to unite, at least for the time being, and for specific purposes, to dictate terms to rest of the world. This was to be done at various levels. ? UN: the Baby of the West ? ??????????????????????? At the political level, it was decided to set up an organization of countries, that was promptly named the United Nations Organization, now? known as the United Nations. Every country of the world would be brought under its umbrella. The declared aim was to ensure that the catastrophe of the two World Wars would not be allowed to recur; whenever a dispute arose between any of the member countries, the UN would intervene in order to prevent them from using force against each other; it would leave no stone unturned in diluting the hostilities, and bring them at the negotiating table. The ostensible purpose was, of course, admirable; and it, undoubtedly, played a significant role in the later years in bringing peace in certain regions of the world. But the big powers would not allow the United Nations to be totally independent, for, if it dispensed Solomon?s justice, it would be creating tedious problems for them. How could they tolerate the smaller nations, on account of their combined numerical strength, insulting them? It was, there?fore, resolved that the nations with big military strength be bestowed upon with the power of Veto. They would also become permanent members of the most important wing of the UN, the security Council. The countries originally endued with the Veto power were the United Stated, Britain, France, and Soviet Union. After several years, China, which had earlier not joined the UN, was also persuaded to be its member, in return of the acceptance of its demand to be given the status of a big power. Thus only 5 of about 180 nations became more equal among equals.The matters continue to be raised at the UN platforms. But a resolution can be adopted only if it is acceptable to the big five. The same people who boast themselves to be the champions of democracy, have found ways to flaunt democratic norms themselves. With the right to Veto having been usurped by 'the big five', nothing can happen in the UN, unless it has their sanction. By creating the UN, they have succeeded in distributing the world among themselves-- not through military interventions, but courtesy the extraordinary powers showered upon them by the assembly of nations. Yet, whenever the situation warrants, each of 'the big five' does not fail in exercising the ?military option?. If the issue is, at all, raised in the UN, any resolution against the interests of that country is promptly vetoed. Little wonder then that the veto power has been used umpteen times; every time it has been used, it has invariably given to a small nation a crushing blow. What a travesty of justice that it is the will of the big powers and not the truth that prevails.Yet each of 'the big five' claims itself to be the only champion of justice and peace. The lions are periodically hungry that makes them go on the hunting spree; as soon as their stomachs are full, they become peace-loving ani?mals. ??????????????????????? Till the 1980s, the intense rivalry, remembered by history as 'cold war' between the USand the USSR, had both positive and negative impact. The positive contribution of the cold war was that it estab?lished a sort of equilibrium in the world. The American and Soviet allies were beware of one another, and were often reluctant to make expansionist moves. The world had become divided into two blocks. If a country belonging to one block invaded a country belonging to the other block, or tried to unduly influence it, the other side would immediately spring into action. Resolutions of condemnation, breaking of diplomatic relations and threats, overt and covert, of different kinds would follow. The matter would be repeatedly raised on the various fora of the United Nations, though, more often than not, it would end in a veto. Yet by raising the issue at different platforms, and also by intensive propagan?da through the media, each block would try to paint the other in the darkest possible colours. This would, some times, help as it happened in Afghanistan, from where Russiahad to withdraw its troops ultimately. The negative impact of 'the cold war? ' was that the world virtually got divided into two blocks. On paper, there were many nonaligned nations, but in practice, each one of them too supported, and was supported by, the USor the USSR. The two superpowers had made rest of the world a playground for their games; all other countries were being used as mere pawns. They would often back the two nations engaged in hostilities only to increase their own influence or to increase sales of their arms. ? From two to lone Superpower ? ??????????????????????? The economic crisis in the Soviet Union, which made communism unpopu?lar among the masses, compelled Gorbachev to give up hostility towards the US; he had no option left for him except to extend a hand of friendship towards its biggest foe. The people in the USSRhad started feeling asphyxiated under the communist umbrella that provided little freedom to them. There were no incentives for working. The revolutionary fervour had faded long ago. The lead?ership was no more in a position to enthuse them into action .Gor?bachev had realised that the controlled economy was no longer expected to deliver the goods. He knew that the US, and its allies, fully understood his predicaments, and would not hesitate to fish in troubled waters. He therefore gave a call to end the cold war. His call was promptly heeded. The US, and its allies, behaved as if they had forgotten all the past acrimonies, and were now interested only in restructuring the USSReconomy. Little however did Gorbachev realise that, even in friendship, the US, and its allies, would not mind using every possible opportunity for their own ulterior motives. For the Western block it was a moment of jubilation; for the time had come when the enemy number one of their economic ideology, communism, could be buried, if possible, forever. Initially, they heaped encomia on Gorbachev for having initiated glasnot and perestroica. But soon they realized that his policy was not to abandon communism, but to bring certain reforms, and once the Soviet economy stabi?lised, he or those who follow him, could rejuvenate their cam?paign against capitalism and against the Western expansionist designs with renewed vigour. The West therefore soon became disinterested in the continuation of Gorbachev as leader of the Soviet Union. They were in quest of a better alternative; and in Yeltsin, they found an ideal replacement. Boris Yeltsin?s faith in the Western economic system was quite well established. The USand its allies knew that with the arrival of Yeltsin on the scene communism would easily be sentenced to death.And as soon as Yeltsin assumed power, he was quick to strike at every re?maining sign of the communist past. ??????????????????????? The UShad thus achieved the most crucial victory. The erstwhile Soviet Unionwas no more a single country; it had disintegrated into several, small, autonomous states. Russiathat had, for about half a century, been the biggest custodian of socialism, had taken a U turn towards capitalism. There was little opposition left for the expansion of Western economic fundamentalism. China, despite preserving its socialistic credentials, had already started ?opening? its market. The rise of ?Islamic fundamental?ist? forces in the West Asia was a cause of concern;? but still it was within manageable proportions; they were not in strong enough position to challenge the hegemony of US. The combined assault by the USand its thirty allies, on Iraqhad sounded a clear warning that the USwould tolerate no ?nonsense? activities. ? Americanization in the garb of Globalization ? Thus the time was now ripe for the globalization of the world. The USand its allies had now their eyes on the markets in all the countries of the world. The ?fruits? of globalization--read Americanization--were now the talking-point at all the international forums, even before they were visible anywhere. Free market economy became the order of the day. The technological advancement had now brought the satellite TV into every home, even in the underdeveloped coun?tries. And through those TV channels commenced the most devastat?ing attack on the socioeconomic system and culture of the coun?tries that had, till now, been making conscious efforts to pre?serve their own roots. But anything that is not consistent with the demands of market would not be permitted to persist. The invasion of the ?obscurantist? cultures and forces still continues; it is facing hardly any resistance worth mentioning, and one territory after the other is being ransacked by the invaders. ??????????????????????? The UN is not the only organisation at the international level that has been used as an instrument by the West, led by the US, for colonizing the whole world. An international body was set up in almost every field; and invariably these bodies understood and propagated only those ideologies that suited the Western economic interests. International Monetary Fund and World Bank have always been ?guiding? the ?underdeveloped? nations to achieve high rate of ?development?. And, in the guise of guidance and by providing monetary assistance, that is always for those projects which are expected, in the long term, to help the economic fundamentalists, these organizations have been blackmailing those countries to toe their policies. The third world countries have been success?fully lured into a debt trap; once a country falls in the trap, it has no option but to follow their dictate. GATT and other such agreements and treaties have ensured that whatever little the West transfers to the developing nations, would have to return huge profits for it. The globalization has guaranteed that all the business activities occurring anywhere in the world, would garner a substantial share for the Western industrialists. By continuously popularising the new technologies as indispensable for modernization and development, they have made sure that the goods continue to flow from the developed to the developing nations, and the money keeps transferring from the developing nations to the developed. The scientific organisations like the WHO are being misused to make the world believe that whatever is designed by the Western experts is the best possible option. The Amnesty and other human rights organisations are busy in convincing the world that only the West cares for the genuine rights of men, women and children. The World Population Fund, the UNESCO and the WHO--all are hell bent on de?stroying the social and family values.The N.G.Os are being funded to speak the language they want them to speak. Thus every possible effort is being made to present the West, particularly Ameri?ca, as the role model for the rest of the world. Almost all the world organisations are dominated by the Western countries and these are being used by them to adopt such policies, programmes and plans as give them the biggest possible share in the booty. ? 9/11 comes ??????????????????????? The colonisation, or neo-colonisation of the globe was com?plete. And for this neo-colonisation, the West did not have to use any military equipment nor had to sacrifice the lives of its citi?zens. At the turn of the century, Americahad started believing that it was indeed the Tiger that could roar wherever it wanted to. But the turn of the Century had in store an event that would wound the tiger; the tiger would then jump here and there and everywhere to pounce anyone who it suspected of having wounded it. ? ? To be continued: ? Note: The Series is being suspended for the month of Ramadhan in which Insha Allah, one article will be posted everyday completing my work, ?A Systematic Study of the Quran?. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From magius at magius.info Wed Jul 28 12:47:41 2010 From: magius at magius.info (magius) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:47:41 +0200 Subject: [GJM] FW: Where 3 or more are gathered..Transition Happens! In-Reply-To: <00a401cb2e83$22908080$67b18180$@net> References: <00a401cb2e83$22908080$67b18180$@net> Message-ID: Hi there, I'm a lurker, a long-time subscriber to this mailing list, and I wish just to inform you that also in my country, Italy, we have a transition towns network. We translated to italian lots of stuff from english, you can find here: http://www.transitionitalia.it If you wish suggest us something of common interest to publish, you're welcome. magius 2010/7/28 mary rose > Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS > > Anyone living in the California area ? here is an opportunity to get > connected with Transition California. I am a member and will be linking > some more of the Future Dawning websites up to TC the same as I have done > with Transition US, although Transition California does not as yet anyway > have a Social Network site connected with NING. > > The Mary Nelson noted here in Penn Valley is our own Mary Nelson who > contributes so much knowledge to the Co-learner?s list. > > So, let?s everyone join in and GET CONNECTED. Let?s create change people! > Let?s do it now! > > > > *From:* Transition California [mailto:mail at transitioncalifornia.ning.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:36 AM > *To:* maryrose333 at att.net > *Subject:* Where 3 or more are gathered..Transition Happens! > > > > *Transition California* > > ? Local Self-Reliance for a Post-Petroleum World ? > A message to all members of Transition California > > Good morning Transition Community! > > We are so excited that in less than 12 hours since we sent our first > message to all of you about LocalGrow.org3 of our community members, Mary > Nelsonof Penn Valley, Wayne > Thompsonof Ojai, and Jane > Bledsoefrom Napa, have joined together and moved LocalGrow.org closer to > manifestation! > > This is an excellent beginning and sign of success - "*Where 3 or More are > Gathered Transition Happens".*...should we make a T-shirt of that saying? > Would it be a cool slogan? Let us know with a thumbs up or down here > > *In Sustainable Solidarity > Dandarius* > > Visit Transition California at: > http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network > > > > To control which emails you receive on Transition California, click here > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > Discussion at globaljusticemovement.net > > http://globaljusticemovement.net/mailman/listinfo/discussion_globaljusticemovement.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: