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Study Group Session #1 with VERONICA and Jon

In terms of background, this session was held in August 2009 in a suite at the Marriot Hotel across the street from the airport in Burbank, California USA. The interviewer (Jon) has known VERONICA for about a year and has talked with her many times during regular in-person and telephone sessions. He knew that this session would be recorded and shared. We gave him no guidelines on what could or should be asked, other than mentioning that many of those who viewed the video (we did not know if we would have transcripts at that time) may not be familiar with the subjects discussed... or even with VERONICA for that matter. We thank Jon for allowing us to record and share part of his otherwise private in-person consultation with VERONICA.

JON: Okay. So, Veronica, I have some discussion topics for us to walk through...

VERONICA: All right.

JON: ...and so there's a little bit of preframing that I want to get... kind of do to set the tone.

VERONICA: All right.

JON: And I'm going to ask you... or talk about a topic... but then ask you to take us first to another topic to pre-frame so that we can deliver...

VERONICA: All right.

JON: ...some education, if you will, to myself and the viewing audience.

VERONICA: All right, dear.

JON: All right? So there's a... you know, there's... I'd like you to teach us and the viewing audience some aspects of the metaphysical world that sometimes doesn't get a lot of attention...

VERONICA: All right.

JON: ... but it's something that's fascinating to me that I thought maybe we would, you know, learn more about and share it today. And it seems like we focus a great deal on, as humans, death, or our passing, or the "croaking moment," as it's referred to in some circles. But we were so worried about the loss of self and loved ones and what happens to us and, as you put it, you know, you're just donning a costume and it's from dust, and when it wears out...

VERONICA: You get another one.

JON: ... you can get another one if you so choose, right?

VERONICA: Yes, indeed.

JON: So we spend a lot of time worrying about ourselves dying when there's in this whole energetic cycle a much more magnificent or just as magnificent portion, which is, you know, what goes on, you know, after you're all done passing and getting ready to come back, pre-life discussions and how do you get ready for the next life, so...

VERONICA: Yes.

JON: ... today from a high‑level basis, I'd like you to teach us about the other parts of this energetic cycle and that... you know, that aspect that I'd like to talk about today is pre-life agreements...

VERONICA: All right.

JON: ... what happens in pre-life agreements, and we want to know what that means, and, more specifically, we're interested in this from, you know, a baby soul perspective and a more advanced soul perspective. And so before we get started on, you know, telling or... and teaching us about that and getting a discussion, I'd like you to start from, first, giving us a very high‑level pre-frame on, you know, the soul itself or the origins of the soul; in other words, we're talking about souls that go through various... I mentioned baby souls and then advanced souls, but can we talk about first about where the souls come from, why they go through these experiences and pass and do all the things they do so that we can get some more enlightenment on that before we talk about pre-life agreements. So a little bit of frame‑up of the ‑ the nature of things, the order of things and how they evolve, if that...

VERONICA: All right.

JON: ... makes sense.

VERONICA: Well, there are entities that are energies... some are source, some are products of source... that decide that they want to have an experience that is condensed, which is what the physical offers; it offers a very condensed, touchy‑feely type of participation that is not as available in the nonlinear.

JON: The denseness that you refer to sometimes.

VERONICA: The denseness of it, yes. And we'd say that when you have a young soul... now, it varies from soul age. When you have a soul who is first cast and they are considered a baby soul, they are having their first experience in the linear, they may completely forget where they came from because they are so immersed in this dense experience that they find it difficult to just walk through that experience, let alone remember anything else they've decided upon become coming in.

We'd say that as the soul has experience in the linear, it helps it advance its soul age wise, but it also gives them a perspective; after they've had one life, so to speak, then they, when they come back into the second one, they have an experience where they can say well, you know, I liked that part, I didn't like that part, oh, I felt like I really got something out of that, but I didn't get anything out of that.

So then the lives start to become a little bit more picture‑perfect; you start to be a little bit more careful what you create because you want to have an experience where you say I really got a lot out of it instead of I don't want to have this. It takes maybe several hundred lives sometimes to get out of the...

JON: Several hundred?

VERONICA: It can. It can take several hundred lives to get out of a baby soul stage. All depends upon the energy and about how clear they are with their experience.

JON: So every time a soul has an experience and then passes and goes back to nonphysical...

VERONICA: Yes.

JON: ... there's a review...

VERONICA: There is a moment...

JON: ... of some sort.

VERONICA: There's a contemplative moment where you meet with the guides, you review the life, you decide what worked, what didn't work, what experiences that you will not create ever again, and what experiences you say you know, that brought me a lot of growth, I will do that again. And then...

JON: Okay.

VERONICA: ... you move on to deciding what the next life will be about, what aspects of it you wish to look at further. It gets much more precise as you move through it. When you first start out, it's sort of a grand "Okay, I'm just getting in, I'm trying it".

JON: Well, this puts a very grand twist on the normality's of the educations that we have at this point in time... that it's a one‑life pass.

VERONICA: No, it isn't. How unfortunate that would be.

JON: So thousands of lives maybe just to advance out of the baby soul stage.

VERONICA: We'd say hundreds. We didn't say thousands...

JON: Ah.

VERONICA: ... we say hundreds.

JON: Hundreds, okay.

VERONICA: It could take that long for some because they might find themselves in a circular moment where they keep creating the same thing over and over and find it difficult to maneuver or advance out of it.

JON: So is that when a soul doesn't listen to its guides and moves back...

VERONICA: That's when a soul...

JON: ... into physical quickly?

VERONICA: ... doesn't listen to itself or the pre plans that it has made.

JON: Okay.

VERONICA: Doesn't follow the path and sort of says well, "I'm going to go do this instead".

JON: Interesting. So after a baby soul experiences hundreds of lives and...

VERONICA: Then they move into a younger soul status.

JON: So a level, from my understanding, another...

VERONICA: Another notch up, yes.

JON: ... notch... a notch up the chain...

VERONICA: Yes.

JON: ... so to speak.

VERONICA: Yes.

JON: And so when I moved... or when an energy is evolved up out of the baby soul status and they get ready to come back into physical again, what sort of things happen in terms of... what sort of things can happen in terms of pre-life arrangements or agreements? What... what one might do?

VERONICA: As one becomes more familiar with the process and more comfortable with the process, then you can start saying well, you know, I've had these experiences and this part of it didn't seem to go well, and I had these experiences and I feel like I learned a lot from that. So when you start to evolve and advance as a soul, you start thinking about what you're going to do, not just jumping into it like you would as a baby soul and say oh, I'm going to incarnate, where now as a young soul, you're saying well, if I'm going to incarnate, exactly what am I going to do? What... is there... you know, I might decide to think about it first or have a plan of action moving into it. When you move into a more mature level, you start to minutially plan what you're going to do. And when you're at an old soul level, it's like you're going over all the past experiences and your plan is... you're living the plan, you're vibrating at the plan.

JON: And vibration's probably the key... one of the key words or terms here.

VERONICA: Yes.

JON: Because a baby soul is vibrating...

VERONICA: ... at a certain level.

JON: Yes. And then as they evolve or go to the next notch up, as you have so eloquently put it, that vibration rate changes?

VERONICA: Yes.

JON: And what happens that the vibration rate changes? What... what... what does the energy do or the soul do, us, because we're... for the... for us in this conversation, I kind of put it to myself in personal terms, so each time I come back, it's not the same individual but different. Same energy, different costume, right?

VERONICA: Different costume or different perception of thought.

JON: Ah.

VERONICA: You're thinking more advanced; you're not thinking at the kindergarten level anymore.

JON: All right.

VERONICA: Perhaps you're thinking at the 8th grade level, which is you still have a fondness and understanding for that kindergarten level, but the questions you would ask in the 8th grade are way different than the questions you would ask in kindergarten.

JON: Or when I'm in a Master's program...

VERONICA: Or also when you're...

JON: ... as an old soul.

VERONICA: ... going for your Ph.D...

JON: Right.

VERONICA: ... you still appreciate, you still remember being in kindergarten, you still remember all those experiences, and if you sit and reflect, you say ah, that happened, that happened, that was that teacher, those are the kids that I...

JON: 'Won't do that again.

VERONICA: Yes. I learned really quickly that mom didn't like that.

JON: Right.

VERONICA: You still have an appreciation, you don't lose it, but you're now working on your Ph.D. And those are... all those experiences stay with you. Every grade you go through... and we're just making this very linear... you have memories, experiences, and thoughts that were generated from those experiences so that it puts you in the Ph.D program. And if you had not had those experiences in the way you had them, you might not be where you're at right now in the linear.

Thanksgiving Card

I had stayed at home this weekend. I had an invitation to celebrate Thanksgiving and am sure there would have been fine opportunities to be unwise and indulgent in my diet. But visiting family last weekend had left me with an unwelcome house guest of my own : cough and cold that I didn't feel like sharing.
I appreciate kindnesses and quips online : even though most don't seem to make it to the blog itself. Email seems too private sometimes - which is why I repost some of them.
I wouldn't have any idea how to go about duplicating a Care2 card on Opera - complete with soundtrack - but thought I'd leave some reflection of the latest. I also have some cards on my account at Care2.

It's been a long time since I realized that my online identity had been hopelessly compromised by TypeKey registration peeking out from a 'Vanity Search.' Nor had FaceBook been something I was going to tangle with. So here I am today with FaceBook and Care 2 accounts linked and considering whether to go further.
I find my name gets some raised eyebrows...especially from Australians. It was one reason I thought any blogging I did would get hopelessly lost and ignored in Search. That's o.k. I know a Glenn Miller.
John Farnham isn't as instantly recognizable as that. So I have accounts at Care 2 and Open Salon ( new and having trouble fixing the Profile ) under my own name in addition to be being variously opit or oldephartte as registration parameters permit.

So Opera friends have other places to check if curious about the news dude with all the funny choices for reading.
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Happy Thanksgivin'

Hello my Friend

As you may or may not know it is Thanksgivin' in Canada this weekend, Wishing you all the best on this, Our "Special Day!"

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The Thanksgivings
by Harriet Maxwell Converse
Translated from a traditional Iroquois prayer


We who are here present thank the Great Spirit that we are here to praise Him. We thank Him that He has created men and women, and ordered that these beings shall always be living to multiply the earth. We thank Him for making the earth and giving these beings its products to live on. We thank Him for the water that comes out of the earth and runs for our lands. We thank Him for all the animals on the earth. We thank Him for certain timbers that grow and have fluids coming from them for us all. We thank Him for the branches of the trees that grow shadows for our shelter. We thank Him for the beings that come from the west, the thunder and lightning that water the earth. We thank Him for the light which we call our oldest brother, the sun that works for our good. We thank Him for all the fruits that grow on the trees and vines. We thank Him for his goodness in making the forests, and thank all its trees. We thank Him for the darkness that gives us rest, and for the kind Being of the darkness that gives us light, the moon. We thank Him for the bright spots in the skies that give us signs, the stars. We give Him thanks for our supporters, who had charge of our harvests. We give thanks that the voice of the Great Spirit can still be heard through the words of Ga-ne-o-di-o. We thank the Great Spirit that we have the privilege of this pleasant occasion. We give thanks for the persons who can sing the Great Spirit's music, and hope they will be privileged to continue in his faith. We thank the Great Spirit for all the persons who perform the ceremonies on this occasion.

11 Oct - More Flu / Vaccination Warnings

Solutions for Forced Vaccinations and Flu Pandemics
Oct 6, 2009

Solutions for Forced Vaccinations and Flu Pandemics
by Paul Fassa, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) In response to several readers concern over the issues presented by the article Watch Out for Flying Syringes, GMO Food Vaccines, and Forced Vaccinations, here are some solutions. Most of the solutions suggested are for vaccination induced disease syndrome,VID, or post vaccination syndrome, PVS. Some are for the flu itself.

Especially among the very young whose immune systems are not fully developed, there have been many almost immediate, terrible consequences of VIDS or PVS. Understand that though you may have had vaccinations and walked away on your own two feet, there are residual, latent dangers that can cause auto immune problems later in life. There are several thousand Gulf War I veterans who can attest to that!

Vaccination by inoculation is not immunization. Immunization occurs when you are stricken with a disease and survive, or if you`re exposed to pathogens and your immune system beats them. Even without the hazardous materials usually present in vaccines, bypassing the normal path of the immune system by injection into the bloodstream with pathogens from unusual sources causes more long term chronic stress on the immune system. This chronic immune system stress manifests in illness or disease later in life.

This Article`s Format

There will be a brief descriptive summary of vaccination legal or medical assistance preceded by a number in bold that corresponds to the source in the sources section below. If you wish to pursue any topics further, those numbered source links can help you. If a link doesn`t work for you, then simply try copying the URL and pasting it into the blank browser address window and pressing the go button. There is an abundance of remedies to be explored beyond the scope of one article.

Many of the antidotes to VIDS or PVS are homeopathic. They usually require a personal approach to determine the exact homeopathic agents, their strengths, and protocol. So details are important. Homeopathy is effective and safe. It was around before the allopathic AMA started shoving it out of public view in America. During the 1918 so called Spanish Flu pandemic, most of those who survived used homeopathy or nothing at all. Many of those who were vaccinated died!

Over the last two decades, homeopathy has been applied successfully to VIDS or PVS victims of all ages. If there is no homeopath or other holistic practitioner available in your area who specializes in handling VIDS or PVS, then it`s recommended that you take some of the information from whatever source you investigate to your local holistic practitioner or contact someone in that source directly.

(1) Homeopathy for Everyone offers a comprehensive overview of homeopathy. From there you may find a list of homeopaths, perhaps one close to you. Only the homeopaths who signed up to this directory are listed, however. But the information you get from any of the sources below can be taken to a holistic practitioner in your area

What About a Pandemic Flu Episode?

(2) First, understand that flu victims who die usually do as a result of complications from the flu, especially pneumonia or other lung inflammation. During the last swine flu hysteria (2009) that occurred in Mexico City, a few homeopathic doctors banded together and came up with a protocol for curing that specific episode with a very high success rate. Their report was translated into English and posted.

(3) Then there are inexpensive black elderberry tinctures, which have been tested successfully on several different flu virus types. The swine flu was not available for those tests. Those can be ordered on line or made in large quantities at home. If you make your own tincture, don`t forget to let it season for at least a month avoiding sunlight, and shaking the mixture daily while seasoning. There is more information on that in the Natural News article Elderberry Trumps Tamiflu for Flu Remedy.

Avoiding Forced Vaccinations

(4) More and more states in the USA are forcing vaccinations through the school system or workplaces. Attorney Alan Phillips, author of Dispelling Vaccination Myths, specializes in VIDS or PVS cases nationwide. He got interested in the subject when he noticed the warning on a vaccination that was about to be administered to his infant child. The warning clearly stated that the odds of death from the vaccination were considerably higher than death from the diseases it was supposed to immunize. He challenged the perplexed doctor, refused the vaccination, and after more investigation dedicated his legal practice to claiming monetary damages for VIDS victims.

(5) The Vaccination Liberation Movement has lots of free detailed information on state vaccination exemptions and sample letters. These are effective for locally enforced vaccinations required by school systems, or workplaces and even the military. There is no guarantee that all the information is up to date. But if not, this could be a starting point to check on current local state laws.

(5A) Natural News writer Barbara Minton's informative, recent feature article, Sign the Universal Declaration of Resistance to Mandatory Vaccination is where you can sign a petition to halt forced vaccinations. It is hoped to have an impact on the right people if enough sign up and submit it. Barbara also has more information on what the nature and motives are behind what is going on with the current pandemic scares and forced vaccinations.

(6) According to Dr. Rima E. Laibow, the Nuremberg Trails condemnation of dangerous medical experimentation on humans sets an international legal precedent. Since a rush by the pharmaceutical companies precludes proper testing, and since by law the vaccine producers are now exempt from vaccine damage liability, forced vaccinations due to pandemic alerts is dangerous human medical experimentation! Dr. Laibow also has a free white form to request a legal self imposed quarantine during an epidemic and resist a forced vaccination.

So far, home schooling, private schools, and utilizing legal exemptions have enabled some parents to protect their children from vaccinations forced by the public school systems. The legal exemptions also have helped others avoid enforced vaccinations in the workplace or even the military. But the white form may be the only legal out eventually.

(7) How long the legal loopholes will remain, and what will happen after the powers that be (sinister as they are) will declare a pandemic emergency to unleash a huge forced vaccination campaign in North America and perhaps elsewhere, is unknown. Natural News article Watch Out for Flying Syringes . . . contains some evidence of those North American forced vaccination plans and even control from the U.N. health czar can occur.

Then there is also the possibility of leaving the country and settling in areas such as South or Central America (except Columbia) if possible, where forced vaccinations do not exist or would be too difficult to enforce. In case none of the above options may be available to you, it would be wise to brace yourself for the worst and investigate remedies for VIDS (vaccination induced disease syndrome) or PVS (post vaccination syndrome) to ameliorate the potential vaccination damage.

VIDS or PVS Remedies

According to Sheri Nakken, a homeopath who specializes in VIDS or PVS remedy and recovery, Vaccine Safety Manual for Concerned Families and Health Practitioners: Guide to Immunization Risks and Protection, by Neil Z. Miller and The Vaccine Guide, by Randall Neustaedter are the best available books on the subjects of vaccination injury and remedy.

(8) Fulvic Acid is inexpensive and immediately accessible on line. Besides being a safe and effective chelation agent that removes much of the heavy metals present in vaccines, it provides a body with all the minerals, trace elements, and micro-nutrients needed. It has been clinically tested successfully in China for difficult lung disorders. And the lungs are where the flu and pneumonia reside!

Considering the catastrophic possibilities, it may be well worth your time to investigate the listed sources until satisfied with enough to remedy potential vaccination damage, PVS or VIDS. Some of these sources have made themselves available to the public at large via email or phone. These sources are passionate on the subject of protecting their fellow humans from VIDS or PVS.

(9) There are actually courses available that enable one to protect themselves or their children from vaccination damage. They are not expensive, and they use the two books mentioned above. Some courses also provide a list of other sources concerned about vaccination damage.

(10) The Vaccination and Liberation movement has an impressive list of products from various sources that are available to help recover from VIDS or PVS. And there is even a source for a homeopathic nosode, which is a safe form of immunization, to safeguard against pneumonia, which is the complication that often becomes a killer from any form of flu.

(11) Dr. Tinus Smit, a Dutch MD and homeopath and author of a free booklet entitled Post Vaccination Syndrome, is living proof of the efficacy of homeopathy for PVS or VIDS. He has an almost perfect track record of curing PVS clients throughout Europe and parts of Asia. He has even cured autistic children completely from mercury infested early childhood vaccinations. His free booklet is available on line in English.

(12) Some state enforcement agencies can and will play hardball with parents who won't allow their children to be vaccinated. Dr. Rebecca Carley had her only child taken into custody from her during her divorce proceeding in New York because she refused to have him vaccinated. She has since regained custody of her boy, and has become a court expert witness on vaccination damage in the Bronx Court System of New York City. She devotes her medical practice to VIDS or PVS.

(13) The Think Twice Global Institute is an excellent resource that includes a list of practitioners who specialize in VIDS or PVS. Some are listed with addresses and phone numbers and others have their websites linked. Many will not be in your local area, but may serve as a reference for practitioners in your locale or as a referral source for someone near you.

(14) A Homeopathy Ezine is available free off the Homeopathy for Everyone website with a direct link.

Don`t let all the bad news around us stress you. Safeguard your immune system in all the ways you know or discover. Be vigilant with equanimity. By accessing information from the sources listed below, you will have the tools to resist vaccinations or be cured from the aftermath of having been the victim of a forced vaccination campaign. You might want to bookmark these now and take time to decide which best serves your needs later. Just don`t wait too long. Things are beginning to happen.

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"Jack's Magic" Holistic Remedies Newsletter

October 10, 2009

ATTENTION ALL WOMEN

Introduction Body

Articles appearing in this newsletter: HPV Vaccination: Good or Bad?
HPV VACCINATION: GOOD OR BAD?

In general, my position is negative (for lots of good reasons). I do believe, however, that each of us has the right to make that decision without being told it's mandatory. I'm not going to comment on the Swine Flu vaccine fiasco, I'll save that for another blog. The reason for this blog is to pass on some valuable information for women. I think this is very important for you to read so yo can make an informed decision if you're contemplating being vaccinated against HPV.


Top researcher who worked on cervical cancer vaccine warns about its dangers
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness. This highly unusual warning against these vaccines by one of Big Pharma's own researchers surfaced in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express in the UK over the last few days. There, Dr. Diane Harper openly admitted the vaccine doesn't even prevent cervical cancer, stating, "[The vaccine] will not decrease cervical cancer rates at all."

This is astonishing news. The whole push behind the cervical cancer vaccines is based on the belief that they prevent cervical cancer. That belief, it turns out, is a myth.

Dr. Harper also warned that the cervical cancer vaccine was being "over-marketed" and that parents should be warned about the possible risk of severe side effects from the vaccine. She even concluded that the vaccine itself is more dangerous than the cervical cancer it claims to prevent!

Hysteria over genital warts?
In a New York Times article published last year, Dr. Harper spoke about the fear-based marketing of Gardasil by Merck:

"'Merck lobbied every opinion leader, women's group, medical society, politicians, and went directly to the people -- it created a sense of panic that says you have to have this vaccine now..."

This behavior by drug companies -- using fear tactics to promote a particular disease in order to sell the "treatment" -- is called disease mongering. Most of the pharmaceutical profits generated today are based on precisely this tactic: Spread the fear, then sell the treatment. Read more about disease mongering here: http://www.naturalnews.com/disease_...

You can also toy around with the NaturalNews disease mongering engine, where you can invent your own diseases at the click of a button: http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-...

Why is disease mongering so important to the profits of the drug companies? They figured out many years ago that selling drugs only to those people who are sick was a very limited income opportunity. To rake in the real profits, they needed to devise a way to sell drugs to healthy people (i.e. people who don't need them). That's what cervical cancer vaccines really are: A scheme to sell vaccines to people who aren't suffering from any disease at all.

That one of the industry's own researchers is willing to speak out against this is not just highly unusual; it's also highly courageous. It makes you wonder: Who, exactly, is this Dr. Harper?

Dr. Diane Harper
Dr. Harper is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied additional courses at Stanford and received her medical degree from the University of Kansas. She was a key researcher in both Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines, and she's one of the most experienced researchers in the world on HPV-related diseases. She's done work for both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.

Dr. Harper's warnings about cervical cancer vaccines are especially relevant considering her expertise in the cost/benefit analysis of vaccines. Her conclusion is that cervical cancer vaccines aren't worth the risks, nor are they worth all the effort being put into hyping them to the public. "This may not be the best use of our resources at this time," she said in a Washington Post article.

So why do cervical cancer vaccines continue to be pushed by doctors and health authorities across the US, UK and other first-world nations? Because Big Pharma is the great corporate puppeteer that's pulling the strings of legislators. With enough money and lobbyists, you can always overcome scientific thinking with fear-based marketing and under-the-table deal-making. Science-based medicine has no place in a world where disease is big business.

There's a ridiculous amount of money to be made by pushing vaccines onto people who don't need them. If I had ten bucks for every teenage girl that's been injected with a cervical cancer vaccine, I'd be... well... GlaxoSmithKline

Read this article in my blog

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11 Oct - Good Cheer

Dharma Quote of the Week
The story is told that when Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of compassion, was looking at the lives of human beings upon this planet, he saw how much pain and suffering we inflict upon each other, and for a moment his compassion faltered. He almost abandoned his vow to liberate us from suffering. At that instant, his body exploded into a thousand pieces, represented in the image of the thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara. If this can happen to the figure who, in Buddhism, most exemplifies compassion, then perhaps we can be forgiven for not always finding it easy to sustain a compassionate heart in the face of so much suffering in the world.

We may live in times when material, economic, and scientific progress is moving at a rate never before seen, yet our capacity to live peacefully alongside each other seems to remain elusive. When confronted with the constant evidence of so much brutality and corruption present in the world, whether this is seen on the news or experienced closer to home, it is common to feel a sense of anger and outrage, and to feel powerless to do anything to change the ignorance, greed, and hatred that motivate most of the atrocities our fellow humans inflict upon each other. Are we, individually or collectively, able to go beyond the dominance of our instinctual selfishness that reaps so much harm?

...Whatever spiritual tradition we may be part of, if we wish to live our lives with greater openness to others, and with the courage and heart to cope with adverse conditions, we have much to learn from the path of the bodhisattva. The bodhisattva, sometimes translated as "the awakening warrior," dedicates his or her life to the welfare of others and is willing to face the challenges of life to do so. The bodhisattva's way of life does not lead to a spiritual escape from the reality of the world. Rather, the bodhisattva cultivates the capacity to live within the raw reality of suffering on the ground and transform life's adverse circumstances into a path of awakening. A bodhisattva makes a clear decision to remain embodied and in relationship to life even while reaching states of awareness that go far beyond our normal reality. Such a person is said to renounce the peace of nirvana and overcome the fear of samsara. What gives this attitude to life a particular significance is that it recognizes that only through fully awakening our innate wholeness can we achieve the greatest benefit to others.

Central to this approach to life is a quality of intention called bodhichitta, often translated as "the awakening mind." The awakening mind is most often described as the clear, compassionate intention to attain the state of buddhahood for the welfare of all sentient beings. While "the awakening mind" may seem like a relatively simple phrase, its actual psychological, emotional, and social implications are huge. It is a reorientation of the whole of an individual's direction and meaning in life, rooted in a deep sense of compassion and responsibility towards the welfare of the world.

--from The Courage to Feel: Buddhist Practices for Opening to the world.

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AND FROM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA
YES, THIS ONE TOO:


Dalai Lama Quote of the Week
This is something we should all read at least once a week. Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio



"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:



1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone...
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret,you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

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Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.


Submitted by Lisa Somerville

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Real compassion extends to each and every sentient being, not just to friends or family or those in terrible situations. To develop the practice of compassion to its fullest extent, one must practice patience. Shantideva tells us that if the practice of patience really moves your mind and brings about a change, you will begin to see your enemies as the best of friends, even as spiritual guides.

Enemies provide us some of the best opportunities to practice patience, tolerance, and compassion. Shantideva [in "A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life"] gives us many marvelous examples of this in the form of dialogues between positive and negative aspects of one's own mind. His reflections on compassion and patience have been very useful in my own practice. Read them and your whole soul can be transformed. Here is an example:

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy.
When you face your enemy who is going to hurt you, that is the real time to practice tolerance. Therefore, an enemy is the cause of the practice of tolerance; tolerance is the effect or result of an enemy. So those are cause and effect. As is said, "Once something has the relationship of arising from that thing, one cannot consider that thing from which it arises as a harmer; rather it assists the production of the effect."
--from How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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'Flu' Emails

Posted to my inbox :


The horror of H1N1 continues
Sep 28, 2009

Focus: Health
Action Request: Read
Location: United States
The article below details the horrific reality that I wish were not true. The Natural Solutions Foundation has been saying for quite some time that we see clear evidence of a genocidal intention in the overblown, clearly intentional Swine Flu “Pandemic”. When WHO moved the “Pandemic” from Level 4 to Level 5 the disease was so mild and inconsequential that they literally had to change the definition of a Pandemic at Level 5, leaving out the words “with the ability to cause serious illness and death” from the definition because it did not and could not. We believe that this must have been a great disappointment to the folks at the WHO who have been both predicting and involved with genetically engineering one failed pandemic after another. But WHO, you will remember, believes in a “sustainable planet” and that sustainability (favor them, not us, of course) means that they believe, too, that 90% of the world’s population needs to die.

Die

They do not much care how we die as long as we do it on demand and they manage to squeeze out a good dollop of profit as we do so. Some of us, however, will die because we are never born. That, too, is part of the genocidal plan. You may recall that we reported some time back that we had seen official WHO documents from 1985 stating that the real purpose of the current vaccination program taking place in Africa at that time was not disease control (they know perfectly well that vaccines are hokum, without a shred of valid scientific evidence behind them) or prevention, but the dissemination of materials which cause infertility in the women into whom it is injected. At that time, they were using vaccines with strong response patterns laced with Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG), a reproductive hormone (a glycoprotein, by the way – that figures into this true horror story a little later on). When you train the immune system through injecting it with adjuvants to “break tolerance” or attack the molecules as “not me” that it normally recognizes as “me”, if you prime it properly, you can create an immune intolerance to the hormones or other molecules of your own body.

In this case, and the same system has been used against untold millions (billions?) of women in many third world countries all over the world, the body attacks every molecule of HCG it encounters after that. The problem is that without HCG, the uterus cannot retain the embryo, or the fetus and it will expel the future baby if she were pregnant at the time of the injection. If she were not pregnant, she will never again become a mother. Her body now destroys the very hormone without which she cannot sustain a pregnancy. This damage is irreversible.

But not universal. Apparently, that is the problem: there are still a few people whose immune response is not sufficient to destroy all of their fertility. So now we move, in the march of mad science, propelled by forces of such deep inhumanity that it is difficulty to confront them with clear, calm eyes, to another infertility system.

In 1998 a Patent Application was made for a system which uses a person’s own immune system to render them permanently infertile, sterile, unable to have children. The system is irreversible, once injected.

Knowing that:
- Both Novartis and GSK vaccines “against” the trivial Swine Flu both contain 1 million times more squalene than the devastatingly dangerous Vaccine A which crippled and killed so many Gulf War I military personnel (See Squalene: Be Very Afraid Part I, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3592)
- Even a few molecules of squalene injected into the body causes it to “break tolerance” and attack the body’s own molecules to which it is now trained for attack, including the body’s own squalene, a vital component of the Central Nervous System (which accounts for the profound and cataclysmic neurological symptoms of squalene injection
- The WHO, UN and US governments agree on the “need” to reduce population to only 10% of its current levels
- When the WHO declared a Level 6 Pandemic on June 11, offical control of the political and health functions of all 194 countries in the WHO passed to that body, per an agreement signed in 2005 which took effect in 2007
- The haste with which this Level 6 Pandemic was declared makes it clear that the agenda was agreed to whether or not the genetically engineered virus did its job
- FDA/CDC has said that the $1/2 billion stock pile of injectable squalene adjuvant which the US Government admitted it was stock piling will be used to add the squalene to the bodies of people receiving the vaccines which do NOT have adjuvants in them at the time of injection
- The patents for a glycoprotein-containing, squalene adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine were filed in 2007 and 2008 by Novartis, Baxter International and GSK despite the fact that the virus did not yet officially exist, there had never been approval of a squalene adjuvanted vaccine and use of squalene in mass vaccines was illegal through the permanent restraining order of Judge Emmett Sullivan and through the fact that squalene was forbidden to even be tested in the US. The investment of billions of dollars into the development of these vaccines for a virus that did not yet exist, using substances which had never been approved for use in vaccines by 3 separate companies, allegedly competitors in the vaccine industry, is worthy of note all by itself
- The most vulnerable members of society, children and pregnant women, will be vaccinated first.

Now you know what the game is. Since the goal is infertility, what better target population could you choose? With one fell swoop of a needle, a whole generation of “useless eaters” is wiped off the map – the next one while this one is too sick to make much trouble and you clean up like the bandit that you are, if, of course, you are Big Pharma and the global genocidalists!

So now we have mandates for “Influenza vaccines” which are designed to roll the “Swine Flu” up under them. Understand clearly that although your State may offer you exemptions for philosophical, religious or medical reasons, there is every liklihood that there will be NO pandemic vaccination exemptions. The way the federal and state regulations are reading right now, that is the situation. The confusers really do want you to feel
- All vaccinations will be voluntary for the pandemic flu. This is true if by voluntary you really mean “under duress and pain of incarceration, fine and imprisonment.”
- Conventional exemptions will hold for the pandemic flu. This is not true. The pandemic vaccine is governed by separate regulations and laws which do not allow for exemptions.
- Parents will be given the choice of whether to vaccinate their children and themselves or not. This is utterly false unless we take back our freedom to make these decisions for ourselves and our children. Experimental medical procedures are never carried out on the most vulnerable and defenseless first, not until now, that is.

As an aside, do you suppose that President Obama’s children will get the same vaccine that yours and mine will? How would we know? How about the President himself, who bravely agreed to wait until near the bottom of the list. How courageous and public spirited. I will be happy to join him below the bottom of the list and, if all of us have any sense at all, we will all do so by making it abundantly clear to our legislators that this WILL not happen. That is the purpose of the action item, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275. So far more than 2,222,940 of your emails have reached the legislative and decision making desks of this country. These people need to hear that the deception is broken, like immune tolerance when adjuvants are injected. We want the right to determine what happens to our bodies. We will not be sickened and die for the depopulationists. We will not be made infertile for the neo-aristocrats. We will not be brought into slavery through a diabolical brew in a syringe of illness, infertility and death.
LYNN

I have been a registered nurse for over 34 years. I have never received a flu shot. This article from American Association for Health Freedom clearly states why.

Mainstream Media Miss the Point on Swine Flu Vaccine

The Associated Press is reporting on a study that indicates about half of all health workers, including doctors, would reject the swine flu vaccine due to concerns about its effectiveness, side effects and safety. The AP emphasizes the risk of doctors and nurses spreading swine flu if they don’t get vaccinated. We’d like to suggest a different thrust for this particular story, that doctors and nurses don’t think the swine flu vaccine is either safe or effective!

Health workers are not like everyone else. They have knowledge about health and illness that the general public lacks. They are trained to diagnose and treat disease. So when they reject a course of action, everyone should pay attention. Doctors and nurses do more good by acting according to their consciences and their training than by blindly parroting the will of government or BigPharma. Why should health workers — or anyone, really — be obliged to do something they believe is both harmful and useless?

Health workers aren’t just rejecting the swine flu vaccine. Almost two thirds of health care workers in the United States also reject the seasonal flu vaccine. The percentage is even higher in the United Kingdom. What do most of these professionals do to prepare for flu? Nothing. That’s right, nothing. Why? Could it be because the best way to deal with a virus is to let your immune system fight it off? Could it be because flu vaccines and pharmaceuticals do nothing to strengthen the immune system so it can do its job? Perhaps the rest of us could learn something from health professionals’ approach

An older note :


We the People vs the Gov YEAH HURRAY!!!
YEAH HURAY THIS IS JUST GREAT: FROM LYNN T. ,VIA ME ,

We the People vs the Gov
US judge rules against compulsory vaccinations

30 years after compulsory vaccination became US Law:

US Court issues an injunction to stop it and to hold the the government and drug companies responsible for reactions.

A Preliminary Injunction to stop mandatory vaccinations has been
issued in the United States District Court of New Jersey. This comes after a
federal lawsuit opposing forced vaccines was filed in that court by Tim
Vawter, pro se attorney, on July 31st with the federal government as
defendant. When the judge signs the Preliminary Injunction, it will stop the
federal government from forcing anyone in any state to take flu vaccine
against their will. It will also prevent a state or local government from
forcibly vaccinating anyone, and forbid any person who is not vaccinated
from being denied any services or constitutional rights. Vawter's filings
included a Complaint, and several pages of evidentiary Exhibits.

Vawter's legal papers have been written not only for filing in federal
court, but additionally so they can be looked at by activists around the
world for ideas on filing lawsuits in their own countries to help stop
forced vaccinations. Vawter believes that as the truth of the dangers of flu
vaccines continues to become known, banning the forced use of them will
eventually succeed on a worldwide basis. He cautions people to avoid fear
and keep themselves focused on the task of blocking forced vaccination.

Preliminary Injunction will immediately halt mandatory vaccinations in
the U.S.

The Court, having heard the Motion for Preliminary Injunction and read
the papers in its support, states in the Preliminary Injunction that it
appears the federal government has engaged in some amount of negligence with
regards to failure to properly investigate the safety of the flu vaccines
scheduled for use in late 2009-2010, and the evidence submitted does warrant
a more thorough investigation into the safety of the flu vaccines.

The Court ordered that the government shall be forbidden from forcing
any person to be required to take any influenza vaccination against that
person's free will and free choice. The government will not allow any state
or local government, or any party, to force any person to be required to
take any influenza vaccination against that person's free will and free
choice.

U.S. government sued for gross negligence and violation of the
Constitution
In his Cause of Action, Vawter charged that the federal government has
engaged in gross negligence by funding and promoting flu vaccines that are
proven to be dangerous and manufactured with little oversight. The vaccines
scheduled for use in late 2009 and 2010 contain heavy metals including
thimerosal mercury, which have been proven to cause autism in children with
lowered immune systems, and other dangerous and toxic ingredients. The
federal government has stated it will force these flu vaccines onto the
American public against their will, under a document signed by Health and
Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

He further charged that the vaccine makers stand to earn billions of
dollars selling vaccines, and are already spending tens of millions
advertising a "Phase 6 Pandemic" that the evidence shows does not really
exist. The federal government has not required the World Health Organization
(WHO) to show evidence of such a pandemic. There has been no collection of
facts, sworn testimony, witnesses being questioned, hearings being held, or
lie detector tests being given when preposterous statements have been made.
The WHO declared a massive "Phase 6 Influenza Pandemic", even though only a
few hundred people worldwide had so far died of this swine flu virus, and
when far more people die each year of regular flu.

Vawter noted there is a preponderance of evidence to show that the
federal government so poorly trained its employees that they eagerly agreed
with the unsubstantiated claims of the WHO in the face of evidence to the
contrary.

Forced vaccination would violate the Fourth Amendment of the
Constitution by allowing the government to enter homes and force people to
be vaccinated, or to forcibly remove people to another location for
vaccination. It would also violate Fifth Amendment Constitutional rights by
depriving people of liberty without due process of law.

Vawter charged that the federal government has engaged in gross
negligence by failing to properly investigate factual evidence submitted by
esteemed medical professions over many years which proves flu vaccines have
caused serious damage to people. The CDC has stated that thimerosal mercury
is being used in the new flu vaccines being prepared.

The government has failed to investigate profiteering.. Billions of
dollars in vaccine sales can cause organizations to falsify threats so as to
cause unwarranted public hysteria leading to forced vaccinations.

The government is guilty of gross negligence because its employees
failed to properly investigate the release of a case of live swine flu
virus. One of the main companies the government deals with, Baxter Vaccines,
was apparently involved in the transporting of live bird flu virus that was
released on a public train earlier this year. A lab technician with the
Swiss National Center for Influenza in Geneva had traveled to Zurich to
collect eight ampoules, five of which were filled with the H1N1 swine flu
virus. However, failure of the dry ice in their container allowed pressure
to build up, and the ampoules exploded as the train was pulling into a
station.

The highly reputable UK newspaper "the Telegraph" reported on July 2nd
that flu vaccines tested on homeless people caused twenty-one of them to
die.
Vawter charged there is a preponderance of evidence to show that
government will not provide people being vaccinated with a list of the
vaccine ingredients and possible negative side effects before they are
vaccinated. Most of the public will not know this flu vaccine contains
thimerosal mercury.

Vawter submitted an Order to force the government to publish vaccine
ingredients and side effects, and to give this information to everyone who
takes a flu vaccine, and do so at least 3 days prior to their vaccination. A
denial of this order would violate Plaintiff's rights to demand the
government obey the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by requiring it
to engage in freedom of speech. The First Amendment not only allows a
citizen to have freedom of speech himself, but it allows a citizen to demand
his government engage in freedom of speech when it is promoting the use of
such as these vaccinations to the public.

The government proclamation stating a person cannot sue for any
damages he receives from the flu vaccine, completely bypasses the congress
and the court system in violation of the Seventh Amendment of the
Constitution which grants the right to sue to recover for damages. Vawter
submitted an Order to deem unconstitutional any proclamation, rule or
similar law that forbids people from suing for damages resulting from the
vaccines of 2009 and 2010.

Robert O. Young, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Founder of 'THE NEW BIOLOGY'
Creator of the 'SCIENCE OF ALKALINE

Older yet ( clearing out times expired files! )

BE AWARE: TOO SCARY! MORE ON SWINE FLUE
WATCH OUT!!!
More news on mandatory vaccination
Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant
By Chelsea Schilling


A “pandemic response bill” currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance. If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
Massachusetts’ pandemic response bill
“Pandemic Response Bill” 2028 was passed by the Massachusetts state Senate on April 28 and is now awaiting approval in the House. As stated in the bill, upon declaration by the governor that an emergency exists that is considered detrimental to public health or upon declaration of a state of emergency, a local public health authority, with approval of the commissioner, may exercise the following authorities (emphasis added):
*to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;
*to close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated any building or facility, and to allow the reopening of the building or facility when the danger has ended;
*to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated, or to destroy any material;
*to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons;
*to require a health care facility to provide services or the use of its facility, or to transfer the management and supervision of the health care facility to the department or to a local public health authority;
*to control ingress to and egress from any stricken or threatened public area, and the movement of persons and materials within the area;
*to adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of infectious waste and human remains, provided that religious, cultural, family, and individual beliefs of the deceased person shall be followed to the extent possible when disposing of human remains, whenever that may be done without endangering the public health;
*to procure, take immediate possession from any source, store, or distribute any anti-toxins, serums, vaccines, immunizing agents, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical agents or medical supplies located within the commonwealth as may be necessary to respond to the emergency;
*to require in-state health care providers to assist in the performance of vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of any individual as a condition of licensure, authorization, or the ability to continue to function as a health care provider in the commonwealth;
*to waive the commonwealth’s licensing requirements for health care professionals with a valid license from another state in the United States or whose professional training would otherwise qualify them for an appropriate professional license in the commonwealth;
*to allow for the dispensing of controlled substance by appropriate personnel consistent with federal statutes as necessary for the prevention or treatment of illness;
*to authorize the chief medical examiner to appoint and prescribe the duties of such emergency assistant medical examiners as may be required for the proper performance of the duties of office;
*to collect specimens and perform tests on any animal, living or deceased;
*to exercise authority under sections 95 and 96 of chapter 111;
*to care for any emerging mental health or crisis counseling needs that individuals may exhibit, with the consent of the individuals
State and local agencies responding to the public health emergency would be required to exercise their powers over transportation routes, communication devices, carriers, public utilities, fuels, food, clothing and shelter, according to the legislation. Local public health authorities will be required to keep records of reports containing the name and location of all people who have been reported, their disease, injury, or health condition and the name of the person reporting the case. In addition, citizens may be subject to “involuntary transportation.”
Line 341 of the bill states, “Law enforcement authorities, upon order of the commissioner or his agent or at the request of a local public health authority pursuant to such order, shall assist emergency medical technicians or other appropriate medical personnel in the involuntary transportation of such person to the tuberculosis treatment center. No law enforcement authority or medical personnel shall be held criminally or civilly liable as a result of an act or omission carried out in good faith in reliance on said order.”
Vaccinate or isolate
Whenever the commissioner or a public-health authority decides it is necessary to prevent a serious danger to the public health, they are authorized:
*to vaccinate or provide precautionary prophylaxis (preventative procedure) to individuals as protection against communicable disease and to prevent the spread of communicable or possible communicable disease, provided that any vaccine to be administered must not be such as is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm to the affected individual; and
*to treat individuals exposed to or infected with disease, provided that treatment must not be such as is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm to the affected individual. An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined … if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health, as determined by the commissioner, or a local public health authority operating within its jurisdiction. (emphasis added)
Under such circumstances, authorities are also allowed to decontaminate individuals and perform physical examinations, tests and specimen collection to determine whether “an individual presents a risk to public health.” If a citizen refuses, he or she may be isolated, quarantined and/or detained “for as long as may be reasonably necessary,” the bill states.
Law enforcement authorities are authorized to “arrest without warrant any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated an order for isolation or quarantine and shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such order. Any person who knowingly violates an order for isolation or quarantine shall be punished by imprisonment of not more than 30 days and may be subject to a civil fine of not more than $1,000 per day that the violation continues.” (emphasis added)
Other state quarantine orders
Iowa’s Facility Quarantine Order
As WND reported, a blank document from the Iowa Department of Public Health has been discovered online, designed to be filled in with the name of an H1N1 virus victim who is required to relocate from his or her home to a quarantine facility.
The form, which began appearing Aug 31 in e-mails and on the Internet, has concerned a confused public already swimming in conflicting reports about the severity of the swine flu and intrusive government measures that many fear may be taken if the disease becomes a pandemic.
The Iowa document, which WND confirmed with state officials is authentic, has done little to calm the public’s fears.
“The Iowa Department of Public Health has determined that you have had contact with a person with Novel Influenza A H1N1,” the form reads. “The Department has determined that it is necessary to quarantine your movement to a specific facility to prevent further spread of this disease.
“The Department has determined that quarantine in your home and other less restrictive alternatives are not acceptable,” the document continues, before listing mandatory provisions of compliance with relocation to a quarantine facility.
According to the CDC, the following states have implemented legal actions in response to the H1N1 virus:
*Florida – the Florida surgeon general suspended distribution permit requirements Florida statutes to allow wholesale distribution of Tamiflu and Relenza. The state has also distributed a series of blank quarantine order forms, including a voluntary home quarantine agreement, a quarantine to residence order, a quarantine to residence order (non-compliance), a quarantine to facility order, quarantine detention order, quarantine of facility order, building quarantine closure order and area quarantine closure order.
*Iowa – In addition to the facility quarantine order listed above, Iowa has also made available forms for voluntary home confinement, home quarantine and home isolation.
*Massachusetts – Massachusetts lists its own procedures for isolation and quarantine.
*North Carolina – The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released a draft isolation order that would provide for imprisonment for up to two years and pretrial detention without bail for any citizen who fails to comply with an isolation order.
*Washington – Washington grants authority to local health officers to issue emergency detention orders causing citizens to be immediately and involuntarily isolated or quarantined for up to 10 days.
In addition, governors and health commissioners in the following states have declared a state of emergency since April following concerns about the H1N1 virus: California, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Next step: Mandatory swine flu vaccines?
According to the White House, “Since the novel 2009-H1N1 flu virus emerged in the United States during the third week of April, the president has received regular briefings and asked his Cabinet to spare no effort in addressing this national security challenge.”
The White House also lists as a priority, “Preparing for a voluntary, but strongly recommended, H1N1 flu shot program to be available to all Americans that wish to participate over a period of time.”
Barbara Loe Fischer, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, referenced the controversial Massachusetts bill in her commentary, “Swine flu vaccine: Will we have a choice?”
Fischer said, “Public health doctors have persuaded legislators to pass pandemic influenza legislation that will allow state officials to enter homes and businesses without the consent of occupants, to investigate and quarantine individuals without their consent, to require licensed health-care providers to give citizens vaccines and to ban the free assembly of citizens in the state.”
She said World Health Organization doctors “immediately went into high gear” within days of identifying the new swine flu virus emerging out of Mexico and declared a public-health emergency. Now, Fischer says, the CDC is taking the opportunity to exercise unprecedented power.
“Whenever the CDC now declares a public-health emergency, that declaration allows the Food and Drug Administration to permit emergency-use authorization for drug companies to fast-track creation of experimental drugs and vaccines that do not have to be tested as thoroughly as vaccines that go through the normal FDA-licensing process.
“In this case, Congress responded to the public health emergency declaration by giving a group of drug companies $1 billion to fast-track experimental swine flu vaccines that may include whole, live or killed, or genetically engineered human and animal viruses, chemicals and potentially reactive oil-based adjuvants that manipulate the immune system to boost the vaccine’s potency. People who already have sensitive immune systems, such as those with allergy and autoimmune disorders, may be at special risk.”
Furthermore, Fischer said 80 percent of all flu-like illness in a normal flu season is not caused by type A and B strains of influenza contained in annual flu shots.
While Fischer argues that citizens should be given the opportunity to voluntarily submit to flu vaccinations, she said, “Vaccine-acquired immunity is temporary while immunity gained after recovering from influenza is longer lasting.”
She said people born before 1957 may be naturally protected and at lower risk of being infected because they have long-lasting antibodies working against the virus and helping them resist infection.
“Will health officials allow our children and grandchildren to get the same kind of natural, longer-lasting protective antibodies to type A and B influenza, including the new swine flu?” she asked. “It looks like few choices will be allowed.”
Cure more deadly than disease?
Although White House science advisers have warned that up to 90,000 Americans might die from H1N1 during the coming flu season, the head of the CDC responded by telling the public to ignore such a high mortality estimate, saying the current H1N1 couldn’t kill that many people without mutating.
Use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 resulted in 25 people suffering from severe paralysis and dying from respiratory failure after being injected with the vaccine – more than the number of lives claimed from the virus itself.
Additionally, the vaccine is said to contain thimerosal, a preservative ingredient composed of mercury.
The FDA states, “Thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine.”
Thimerosal has been linked to Guillain-Barre syndrome, or GBS – a serious disorder that occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the nervous system and may result in death.
In 1976, health officials found nearly 500 cases of GBS, and the vaccine was withdrawn 10 weeks after the link with GBS was suspected. Following the 1976 vaccination against swine flu in the U.S., a retrospective study found a likely eight-fold increase in the incidence of GBS.
Now that the nation is preparing for another round of H1N1 flu shots, the Oregonian reported that the federal government is urging neurologists to keep a close watch for new cases of GBS.
In a study conducted at the University of Hong Kong, the British Medical Journal reported that less than half of 8,500 doctors and nurses in public hospitals will accept vaccination against the swine flu – even following increases in the World Health Organization’s pandemic alert level.
The study revealed, “The major barriers identified were fear of side effects and doubts about efficacy.”
According to a report by Russia Today, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen revealed that even scientists who helped develop a vaccine for small pox are saying they will not take the vaccine and urging friends and family to refrain from taking the injection as well.
Nonetheless, federal authorities are preparing to launch a nationwide campaign to convince Americans to get the swine flu vaccine, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Government officials have expressed concern that public demand for immunization will not be high enough.
“Many parents (in focus groups) expressed a lot of concerns about 2009 H1N1 vaccine. Those concerns were centered around the fact that it was new and it was being developed quickly,” said Kris Sheedy, a communications director with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “There were comments such as ‘this is new and I don’t want my child to be a guinea pig.’”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the government will spend “about $16 million on outreach to convince people of the need to get the swine flu vaccine.”
As WND reported, alarmist language over possible outbreaks of swine flu as well as a series of moves by the federal government are fueling fears federal agents will soon be forcing citizens to be vaccinated – prompting the Constitution Party to launch a pre-emptive defense against any such effort.
Fischer warned that Americans must become educated about vaccination, influenza, vaccine risks and public health laws in their states.
“Every pharmaceutical drug, including vaccines, carries a risk. And those risks are greater for some than others,” she said. “In this time of fear, we can’t let that fear take away our freedom to make voluntary health decisions. The human right to informed consent to medical risk taking gives citizens the power to make sure that the cure is not more dangerous than the disease.


Another source :

Hey guys. I'm sure that everyone of you is here to try to change something, but naturally we begin to wonder with all the hours we spend on this site signing petitions and talking - there could be so much more we could achieve if we were given the oppertunity.



What stops us is often money. We don't have the financial means to accomodate for all the things that make us happy in life - the right education, in the right place, whilst maintaining your personal relationships and interests. In an economic downturn these things become far harder - and people seem to begin instead of helping, screwing you over more and more. I certainly am experiencing it right now. The government cannot bare to accept the outright failiure of globalization and neo-liberalism.


So here we are, surrounded by war, and poverty, tent cities, expenses scandals and it's all getting worse. Frightening information is surfacing all over the world in relation to the corruption that has manifested itself in EVERY aspect of our lives.



The monetary system and freemarket capitalism with it's profit based incentives have cost far more lives then we can ever count, not only lives lost but lives also ruined: the human potential stunted in mass media stupification, and material desire.


This year I watched an amazing film - 'Zeitgeist Addendum' and it has given my activism a newer, positive direction.


I appeal to you with great ardour to read on and investigate and watch these films for yourself. That's the idea. No coercian, no harrassment - you judge for yourself and criticism and questions are welcomed and the community thus far has been fantastic. I have learnt more in one year then I have in my entire life.


You can see the movie here:


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912&ei=Ng1ySpSlE4Om-Aa_lZXiBg&q=ZEITGEIST+ADDENDUM&emb=1



Follow that up with 'The activist orientation guide' for a really fascinating and inspiring experience.


I recently attended Peter Joseph's London lecture where over 250 eager activist gathered to show support and have a Q&A. It was a truely inspiring experience.

Updated 9 October


Evidence shows WHO turned vaccines into a means of killing

Threats and Ignoring Them




The Great, International, Demonic, Truly Frightening Iranian Threat

By William Blum

June 07, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- --"The United States is "facing a nuclear threat in Iran" — article in Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, May 26

"the growing missile threat from North Korea and Iran" — article in the Washington Post and other major newspapers, May 26

"Iran's threat transcends religion. Regardless of sectarian bent, Muslim communities need to oppose the attempts by Iran ... to extend Shia extremism and influence throughout the world." — op-ed article in Boston Globe, May 27

"A Festering Evil. Doing nothing is not an option in handling the threat from Iran" — headline in Investor's Business Daily, May 27, 2009

This is a very small sample from American newspapers covering but two days.

"Fifty-one percent of Israelis support an immediate Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites" — BBC, May 24

After taking office, on Holocaust Memorial Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "We will not allow Holocaust-deniers [Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] to carry out another holocaust." — Haaretz (Israel), May 14, 2009

Like clinical paranoia, "the threat from Iran" is impervious to correction by rational argument.

Two new novels have just appeared, from major American publishers, thrillers based on Iran having a nuclear weapon and the dangers one can imagine that that portends — "Banquo's Ghosts" by Rich Lowry & Keith Korman, and "The Increment" by David Ignatius. "Bomb, bomb, bomb. Let's bomb Iran," declares a CIA official in the latter book. The other book derides the very idea of "dialogue" with Iran while implicitly viewing torture as acceptable.1

On May 12, in New York City, a debate was held on the proposition that "Diplomacy With Iran Is Going Nowhere" (English translation: "Should we bomb Iran?"). Arguing in the affirmative, were Liz Cheney, former State Department official (and daughter of a certain unindicted war criminal) and Dan Senor, formerly the top spokesman for Washington's Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Their "opponents" were R. Nicholas Burns, former undersecretary of state, and Kenneth Pollack, former National Security Council official and CIA analyst and author of "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq", a book that, unsurprisingly, did not have too long a shelf life.2

This is what "debate" on US foreign policy looks like in America in the first decade of the 21st century AD — four quintessential establishment figures. If such a "debate" had been held in the Soviet Union during the Cold War ("Detente With The United States Is Going Nowhere"), the American mainstream media would unanimously have had a jolly time making fun of it. The sponsor of the New York debate was the conservative Rosenkranz Foundation, but if a liberal (as opposed to a progressive or radical leftist) organization had been the sponsor, while there probably would have been a bit more of an ideological gap between the chosen pairs of speakers, it's unlikely that any of the present-day myths concerning Iran would have been seriously challenged by either side. These myths include the following, all of which I've dealt with before in this report but inasmuch as they are repeated on a regular basis in the media and by administration representatives, I think that readers need to be reminded of the counter arguments.
Iran has no right to nuclear weapons: Yet, there is no international law that says that the US, the UK, Russia, China, Israel, France, Pakistan, and India are entitled to nuclear weapons, but Iran is not. Iran has every reason to feel threatened. In any event, the US intelligence community's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of December 2007, "Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities", makes a point of saying in bold type and italics: “This NIE does not assume that Iran intends to acquire nuclear weapons.” The report goes on to state: "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program ."
Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier: I have yet to read of Ahmadinejad saying simply, clearly, unambiguously, and unequivocally that he thinks that what we know as the Holocaust never happened. He has instead commented about the peculiarity and injustice of a Holocaust which took place in Europe resulting in a state for the Jews in the Middle East instead of in Europe. Why are the Palestinians paying a price for a German crime? he asks. And he has questioned the figure of six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany, as have many other people of all political stripes.
Ahmadinejad has called for violence against Israel: His 2005 remark re "wiping Israel off the map", besides being a very questionable translation, has been seriously misinterpreted, as evidenced by the fact that the following year he declared: “The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon, the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom.”3 Obviously, he was not calling for any kind of violent attack upon Israel, for the dissolution of the Soviet Union took place peacefully.
Iran has no right to provide arms to Hamas and Hezbollah: However, the United States, we are assured, has every right to do the same for Israel and Egypt.
The fact that Obama says he's willing to "talk" to some of the "enemies" like Iran more than the Bush administration did sounds good: But one doesn't have to be too cynical to believe that it will not amount to more than a public relations gimmick. It's only change of policy that counts. Why doesn't Obama just state that he would not attack Iran unless Iran first attacked the US or Israel or anyone else? Besides, the Bush administration met with Iran on several occasions.

The following should also be kept in mind: The Washington Post, March 5, 2009, reported: "A senior Israeli official in Washington" has asserted that "Iran would be unlikely to use its missiles in an attack [against Israel] because of the certainty of retaliation." This was the very last sentence in the article and, according to an extensive Nexis search, did not appear in any other English-language media in the world.

In 2007, in a closed discussion, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that in her opinion "Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel." She "also criticized the exaggerated use that [Israeli] Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears." This appeared in Haaretz.com, October 25, 2007 (print edition October 26), but not in any US media or in any other English-language world media except the BBC citing the Iranian Mehr English-language news agency, October 27.

Notes
Washington Post, May 26, 2009 book review
Washington Post, May 15, 2009
Associated Press, December 12, 2006

Livni behind closed doors: Iranian nuclear arms pose little threat to Israel

By Gidi Weitz and Na'ama Lanski

10/25/07 "h a a r e t z" -- -- Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a few months ago in a series of closed discussions that in her opinion that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel, Haaretz magazine reveals in an article on Livni to be published tomorrow.

Livni also criticized the exaggerated use that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears. Last week, former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy said similar things about Iran.

The article also reveals for the first time a document Livni prepared and sent to Olmert a few months after the Second Lebanon War proposing a new division of labor between the two. "Enclosed is a proposal for work procedures between us, with the aim of providing an answer to Israel's strategic needs and facilitating early planning and the formulation of coordinated Israeli positions ... within the framework of cooperative relations, full transparency and continuous mutual updates," wrote Livni.

She described in the document a number of required arrangements: "The prime minister and the foreign minister will hold regular work meetings at least once a week." In an allusion to her absence from critical discussions during the war in Lebanon, she wrote: "The foreign minister will be invited to meetings with the prime minister on security matters and other meetings with serious implications."

The most important part of the document relates to the talks with the Palestinians. Livni wrote: "The foreign minister shall represent the prime minister and the government of Israel, and will act on their behalf as the director of the dialogue with the relevant Palestinian representatives, and in accordance with the policy and methods to be coordinated in advance with the prime minster, while keeping him informed."

It is reasonable to assume that Olmert's decision to appoint Livni as head of the negotiating team with the Palestinians at the Annapolis summit is connected to the document.

The Haaretz article also reveals for the first time a draft of a document prepared for Livni by her advisor, Dr. Tal Becker of the Foreign Ministry, who is slated to serve as a senior member of the negotiating team with the Palestinians. The draft, named the Diplomatic Horizon, is pessimistic about the chances of reaching a permanent solution in the near future.

© Copyright 2007 Haaretz. All rights reserved

From Care2 Comments : including sourcing for previous article

June 07, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- --"The United States is "facing a nuclear threat in Iran" — article in Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, May 26

"the growing missile threat from North Korea and Iran" — article in the Washington Post and other major newspapers, May 26

"Iran's threat transcends religion. Regardless of sectarian bent, Muslim communities need to oppose the attempts by Iran ... to extend Shia extremism and influence throughout the world." — op-ed article in Boston Globe, May 27

"A Festering Evil. Doing nothing is not an option in handling the threat from Iran" — headline in Investor's Business Daily, May 27, 2009

This is a very small sample from American newspapers covering but two days.

"Fifty-one percent of Israelis support an immediate Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites" — BBC, May 24

After taking office, on Holocaust Memorial Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "We will not allow Holocaust-deniers [Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] to carry out another holocaust." — Haaretz (Israel), May 14, 2009

Like clinical paranoia, "the threat from Iran" is impervious to correction by rational argument.

Two new novels have just appeared, from major American publishers, thrillers based on Iran having a nuclear weapon and the dangers one can imagine that that portends — "Banquo's Ghosts" by Rich Lowry & Keith Korman, and "The Increment" by David Ignatius. "Bomb, bomb, bomb. Let's bomb Iran," declares a CIA official in the latter book. The other book derides the very idea of "dialogue" with Iran while implicitly viewing torture as acceptable.

On May 12, in New York City, a debate was held on the proposition that "Diplomacy With Iran Is Going Nowhere" (English translation: "Should we bomb Iran?"). Arguing in the affirmative, were Liz Cheney, former State Department official (and daughter of a certain unindicted war criminal) and Dan Senor, formerly the top spokesman for Washington's Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Their "opponents" were R. Nicholas Burns, former undersecretary of state, and Kenneth Pollack, former National Security Council official and CIA analyst and author of "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq", a book that, unsurprisingly, did not have too long a shelf life.

This is what "debate" on US foreign policy looks like in America in the first decade of the 21st century AD — four quintessential establishment figures. If such a "debate" had been held in the Soviet Union during the Cold War ("Detente With The United States Is Going Nowhere"), the American mainstream media would unanimously have had a jolly time making fun of it. The sponsor of the New York debate was the conservative Rosenkranz Foundation, but if a liberal (as opposed to a progressive or radical leftist) organization had been the sponsor, while there probably would have been a bit more of an ideological gap between the chosen pairs of speakers, it's unlikely that any of the present-day myths concerning Iran would have been seriously challenged by either side. These myths include the following, all of which I've dealt with before in this report but inasmuch as they are repeated on a regular basis in the media and by administration representatives, I think that readers need to be reminded of the counter arguments.

Iran has no right to nuclear weapons: Yet, there is no international law that says that the US, the UK, Russia, China, Israel, France, Pakistan, and India are entitled to nuclear weapons, but Iran is not. Iran has every reason to feel threatened. In any event, the US intelligence community's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of December 2007, "Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities", makes a point of saying in bold type and italics: “This NIE does not assume that Iran intends to acquire nuclear weapons.” The report goes on to state: "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program ."

Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier: I have yet to read of Ahmadinejad saying simply, clearly, unambiguously, and unequivocally that he thinks that what we know as the Holocaust never happened. He has instead commented about the peculiarity and injustice of a Holocaust which took place in Europe resulting in a state for the Jews in the Middle East instead of in Europe. Why are the Palestinians paying a price for a German crime? he asks. And he has questioned the figure of six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany, as have many other people of all political stripes.

Ahmadinejad has called for violence against Israel: His 2005 remark re "wiping Israel off the map", besides being a very questionable translation, has been seriously misinterpreted, as evidenced by the fact that the following year he declared: “The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon, the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom.”3 Obviously, he was not calling for any kind of violent attack upon Israel, for the dissolution of the Soviet Union took place peacefully.
Iran has no right to provide arms to Hamas and Hezbollah: However, the United States, we are assured, has every right to do the same for Israel and Egypt.

The fact that Obama says he's willing to "talk" to some of the "enemies" like Iran more than the Bush administration did sounds good: But one doesn't have to be too cynical to believe that it will not amount to more than a public relations gimmick. It's only change of policy that counts. Why doesn't Obama just state that he would not attack Iran unless Iran first attacked the US or Israel or anyone else? Besides, the Bush administration met with Iran on several occasions.

The following should also be kept in mind: The Washington Post, March 5, 2009, reported: "A senior Israeli official in Washington" has asserted that "Iran would be unlikely to use its missiles in an attack [against Israel] because of the certainty of retaliation." This was the very last sentence in the article and, according to an extensive Nexis search, did not appear in any other English-language media in the world.

In 2007, in a closed discussion, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that in her opinion "Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel." She "also criticized the exaggerated use that [Israeli] Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears." This appeared in Haaretz.com, October 25, 2007 (print edition October 26), but not in any US media or in any other English-language world media except the BBC citing the Iranian Mehr English-language news agency, October 27.

Why is the news being screwed?...IF there is to be a US - Iran war it will be based on a perceived, rather than actual threat, as talked up in the news clips above...Much the same as the public were sucked in with the WMD lies...Hopefully this is not another well manipulated media beat up to arouse public support for a war with Iran?


( Further notes would include showing that Ahmadinejad was quoting well-known Iranian sources - which targeted Zionism for elimination. Today's news includes talk of Ahmadinejad's Jewish roots. That wouldn't be remarkable in Iran - with a thriving Jewish community.
Seldom if ever do I note - except for reports on the sentiments of Iran's neighbours - thoughts that Iran may not be unreasonable.
Why did it sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ?
The Third Pillar of that treaty includes a proviso that signatory states shall be entitled to peaceful use of nuclear power without censure.
That would be news to the United States, evidently, which has harassed Iran for years and consistantly employed sanctions and other measures of harassment.
Question. Is there any way that would be seen in the world community - including 40 signatory nations to the NPT - as helping the cause of world peace and promoting adherence to the treaty ?

What's with Ahmadinejad bashing? He isn't really in charge in Iran.
Speculation : watch the Holocaust video on YouTube...where he plainly is referring to the ignored Holocaust Israel is inflicting on Palestine. That's why the 'negative press'. 'Poisoning the Well' perversion of rational analysis. )


Neo-Nazis are in the Army now

Once white supremacists are in the military, it is easy to stay there. An Army Command Policy manual devotes more than 100 pages to rooting them out. But no officer appears to be reading it.

Hunter Glass was a paratrooper in the 1980s and became a gang cop in 1999 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, near Fort Bragg. "In the early 1990s, the military was hard on them. They could pick and choose," he recalls. "They were looking for swastikas. They were looking for anything." But the regulations on racist extremists got jettisoned with the war on terror.

Glass says white supremacists now enjoy an open culture of impunity in the armed forces. "We're seeing guys with tattoos all the time," he says. "As far as hunting them down, I don't see it. I'm seeing the opposite, where if a white supremacist has committed a crime, the military stance will be, 'He didn't commit a race-related crime.'"

In fact, a 2006 report by the Army's Criminal Investigation Command shows that military brass consistently ignored evidence of extremism. One case, at Fort Hood, reveals that a soldier was making Internet postings on the white supremacist site Stormfront.org. But the investigator was unable to locate the soldier in question. In a brief summary of the case, an investigator writes that due to "poor documentation," "attempts to locate with minimal information met with negative results." "I'm not doing my job here," the investigator notes. "Needs to get fixed."


In another case, investigators found that a Fort Hood soldier belonged to the neo-Nazi group Hammerskins and was "closely associated with" the Celtic Knights of Austin, Texas, another extremist organization, a situation bad enough to merit a joint investigation by the FBI and the Army's Criminal Investigation Command. The Army summary states that there was "probable cause" to believe the soldier had participated in at least one white extremist meeting and had "provided a military technical manual … to the leader of a white extremist group in order to assist in the planning and execution of future attacks on various targets."

Our of four preliminary probes into white supremacists, the Criminal Investigation Command carried through on only this one. The probe revealed that "a larger single attack was planned for the San Antonio, TX after a considerable amount of media attention was given to illegal immigrants. The attack was not completed due to the inability of the organization to obtain explosives." Despite these threats, the subject was interviewed only once, in 2006, and the investigation was terminated the following year.

White supremacists may be doing more than avoiding expulsion. They may be using their military status to help build the white right. The FBI found that two Army privates in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg had attempted in 2007 to sell stolen property from the military — including ballistic vests, a combat helmet and pain medications such as morphine — to an undercover FBI agent they believed was involved with the white supremacist movement. (They were convicted and sentenced to six years.) It found multiple examples of white supremacist recruitment among active military, including a period in 2003 when six active duty soldiers at Fort Riley, members of the Aryan Nation, were recruiting their Army colleagues and even serving as the Aryan Nation's point of contact for the state of Kansas. ( more )

Welcome to Pottersville : Residue of Reality

From time to time I think of some of the crazier exposés I've seen. The most effective was a collection of screenshots of FoxNews introductions of their 'news items'. The law was used to suppress evidence of blatant bullshit.
Here's all that a quick Search turned up.

Blog Revolution What's cooking on progressive blogs
FOX NEWS, Crazy Right Wing Propaganda
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/03/fox_news_crazy_.html
by Larry C Johnson UPDATE: Thanks to DMAC we now know that Jurassicpork over at Pottersville (http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/03/fox-news-at-its-finest.html) created the following masterpiece. If you had any lingering doubt about the propaganda and disinformation that spews forth regularly from the demon child...
(close)More info:

* Dates appearing:
* 03/12/2007
* 03/13/2007

(close)Sources linking to this item (11):

* Eschaton: ... to have links open new windows Sunday, March 11, 2007 Fox News in Pictures It should all be clear now. -Atrios 4:38 ...
* Fables of the reconstruction: ... Propaganda Channel My favorite of this set : Moussaoui looks ...
* Rising Hegemon: ... later, it's the hosts who are nuts. It's the guests who are nuts. And it's the people those radio (and TV) hosts and guests (and their networks ) helped to install in the White House who are nuts. The nuts who call Barry Champlain seemed quaint by comparison. There are a couple of great ...
* Constructive Anarchy: The Blog: Freedom of Speech: Use it or lose it. Bear witness. Tell somebody. And have some *!#? fun.: ... LEFT: Published to Cartoons on February 15, 2007 : Comments off Updated each week… From NO QUARTER on a tip from TOMM Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell ...
* Bring it On!: ... O @ 6:18 am If you had any lingering doubt about the propaganda and disinformation that spews forth regularly from the demon child fathered by Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, just take a look. These are not isolated, out of context, screen shots. These are reflective of a mindset and standard of practice that is truly evil. I couldn’t have said it better myself but follow the link and view for yourself. My favorite is the NYC skyline after the blackout that still includes ...
* This Modern World: ... 12, 2007 Tom Tomorrow: Fair and balanced A walk down memory lane with Fox. (Definitely worth looking at, even for those of you who usually don’t bother to click through.) posted ...
* The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely: ... People Who . . . . . . run Fox News have to be either a.) seriously incompetent or are b.) malignant, malicious and nothing more than a propaganda outlet for the GOP. I'm going with choice B. ...
* Heathbar’s Crunch: ... read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: These little icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers ...
* The Truffle: ... a brave, brave man Who else but a former CIA analyst who's gone to bat for Valerie Plame would collect a bunch of Fox News screen captures? "Sadly, the author regrets that not a single one of these have been Photoshopped," Johnson adds. The second-to-last one, about NASA delaying a shuttle launch because of a UFO, is particularly, uh, interesting. Murdoch should just cut his losses and rename Fox the Supermarket Tabloid ...
* Norwegianity: ... the ties that bind 300 million people into one nation, no matter how hard that pygmy and his tribe tries. * Via Atrios, No Quarter has a cavalcade of screenshots from Fox to remind you that Bush has a lot of help when it comes to trying to divide our nation. Can't let go of faggotgate? Media Matters reviews al-Qaeda Annie's ...
* Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid: ... News: A Republican Propaganda Network Don't believe your lying eyes , they're liberally ...

Generated Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:04:25 EDT

Also a later article from Techdirt


Fox Demands Site Give Up Fair Use Rights, Run Special Fox Ads, To Do Any Commentary
from the fair-use-doesn't-work-that-way dept

Here's a follow up to our story last Friday about Progress Illinois having its YouTube account restored. The YouTube account had been taken down following multiple DMCA takedown notices from Fox, leading YouTube to institute its usual policy of shutting such accounts down. Progress Illinois sent a counternotice, and after Fox failed to sue the activist group, the account was turned back on. Paul Alan Levy points us to some more troubling details about the discussions between Progress Illinois and Fox. Apparently, Fox sought to have Progress Illinois waive its fair use rights on all future Fox material and demanded that it be allowed to run ads on the Progress Illinois site in exchange for allowing the content to be placed on YouTube. On top of this, Levy notes that Fox is apparently preparing a deal with another video site (that will include its desired ads), which Fox will apparently demand sites use in reporting on Fox News reports. As Levy suggests, Fox may then use this to suggest that any "unauthorized" clip of a Fox broadcast fails the "impact on the market" prong of the fair use test. If true, that could create quite an interesting test case the first time Fox employs that argument on a site doing commentary. Its lawyers do know that failing one prong of the test doesn't automatically disqualify a fair use defense, right?

Email

There is an almost incessant flow of information after one bears the deprivations of online solitude for a while. Here is an example.

Greetings from Home

Is Heaven Up?

We visit you this day with an overview from what you call Home. We think it interesting that humans think heaven is up. That concept comes from when humans were very young, when your parents nurtured and cared for you. You remember your parents leaning in from above you, as they were picking you up from your crib. Even as you began to crawl and walk your parents towered above you. That shared memory in the collective of humanity is what makes you think heaven is above you in the sky. We tell you this story so that you can understand how humanity has evolved over time, through reaching different points of critical mass. It is happening again now.

We are not here to tell you which way to turn, nor to tell you whether anything you do is right or wrong because there are only personal choices for each and every one of you. Instead, it is about your empowerment. It is re-membering who you are as a spirit.

Ceiling of Evolution

One point we wish to share is that there is a part of you that exists at Home, no matter what you do here on Earth. You come in and take one of these physical bubbles of biology to play the game of pretending to be human. In order to do that, you have to also pretend to be separate from each other. It is such a wonderful game and you humans have become so good at playing it. You actually think you are separate from each other, when in fact you are not. That is fascinating to us. You walk around pretending to be separate, but you are actually connected to others with all these attachment cords. When you feel something someone else feels it, too. Of course, you share thoughts and feelings because your energetic structures are part of one another. Yet you place yourself in a little cocoon, pretending to be separate for the duration of your stay here on planet Earth. You do it so well, but that separation is beginning to go away. That separation is what has been keeping much of your own evolution at a certain level, at almost a ceiling of evolution on planet Earth. Now the separation is dissolving and that is creating much change on your planet. Some of these changes may appear in what you currently consider to be a negative way, but fear not for all change leads to advancement.

It is no longer possible to hold secrets on planet Earth. How beautiful is that? It is a direct result of all of humanity having better communication with their higher selves, and that is what you have started to emulate from Home right away. So far, there has only been a little inkling in your heart that determined whether something did not quite resonate with you. Now that humans are starting to listen without all the filters, you will learn how to fine-tune this new guidance system. The Pineal Crystals are already starting to activate. You are beginning to activate the crystals now. This process is moving very, very rapidly now throughout the Earth. In a relatively short period of time you will be able to feel as if you are inside one another’s heads, almost as if you can look through their eyes and see from their perspective. Can you imagine holding a secret at that point? Not possible, dear ones, and that is what humans are becoming accustomed to right now.

The CORE Personality

There is another point we wish to share to help you understand what is ahead. Each one of you has what we call a core personality. Your sciences in the area of psychology explain that the personality of a person is an accumulation of all experiences they have had in their lifetime. That is exactly correct, but it is not limited to just one lifetime; it includes all 12 simultaneous dimensions within each of your past lifetimes. After you complete an incarnation on planet Earth, you go Home and review each experience that you had. You examine each one, sorting through your original intentions and releasing those you completed. You set aside those experiences that you received a gift from and those you have not, placing them back into your energy matrix to ensure that you will bring them in the next time you enter a physical body. When you incorporate and release experiences, you incorporate them into something we call the core personality, the personality of the soul. That is actually the true personality without any hampering of your human thought patterns or belief systems. That is very magical and it is what is taking place now as humanity is evolving, particularly over the next two years. You are all going to start returning to your true core personality and that is very beautiful. What you will find is a confidence in who you truly are.

Ah, dear ones, this is such a difficult life for you to lead. You have basically taken off your wings and pretended to be human. You cannot even re-member who you were or why you came here. Yet you struggle, bump into one another, search to find people who are going in the same direction, and try to find your way in the dark. You have done very, very well. In the moment that you find a place, a door, or a path that works, you turn around and show it to other people. You open the door and hold it open so others can find their way, for you are truly beings of light. You are the predecessors of light on planet Earth. You have been here to plant this energy and open these doors so that when people start to awaken from the dream, there is one part they will not have to deal with. That is the final piece we wish to address today.

Love - Fear Quotient

There are times when light on this planet will be in many different forms. We have a slightly different definition of light than do most humans. Our definition certainly differs from how your scientists describe light, as a ray of light with various rays and focuses. They put electromagnetic waves over here, radio waves there, television waves here, and the visible light spectrum is a tiny little part of all those waves. We include all of that and more in our definition of light. Our definition of the purest form of light is love. Love is how you feel it in your bodies, hearts and souls. What is happening is that you now have an opportunity to spread more light on this planet than you have ever had before. Please be aware that with light come shadows, and with shadows come fear. Fear is the opposite of love. Many of you believe that hate is the opposite of love, but hate is an emotion. Hate is a reaction. Hate is a fear-based belief system which we call BS. The balance of fear and love is now shifting on planet Earth, thanks to the work that many of you have been doing.

You carry love, and when you express your light, it not only flows through you to fill you up, but it also flows around you to help others. Spreading light gives you a confidence within your soul, helping to re-mind you of who you truly are. The absence of light creates darkness, which is how we define fear. Humans feel darkness in their souls through fear. We have spoken of fear many times, for it is actually a lack of information; it is only possible to be afraid of the unknown. Once you fill in that information, even if it is incorrect, you lose the grip of fear and get to deal with what really is. We illustrate this concept by sharing a story with you. A woman wakes up one day and feels a lump in her breast. She is very concerned, for she quietly wonders if it is cancer like her mother had. She thinks, “No, I am stronger than that. I will not worry about it.” That woman could be in great danger, because that fear of cancer can easily create that dis-ease where there was none before. Fill the vacuum with knowledge and relieve your mind. Even though she goes to the doctor and finds out she does have cancer, the fear is gone so now she can deal with it. She could also decide that she does not agree with the doctors, but at least she would have the benefit of that knowledge and it is enough to fill the vacuum. Now she can start to heal, find the gift and start to release. This is often the hardest part for people to understand.

Fear is an Opportunity for Light

Then we come to rooms like this. There are thousands of you who are watching this broadcast—the Lightworkers on planet Earth. For you, dear ones, fear is an opportunity for light. Fear is calling you into work. Fear is an opportunity for you to be of service on this planet now, and that is what you do so beautifully. You bring love. You bring light. You bring information where there is none, so you can release this entire process of fear. We ask you to carefully watch the words you speak. If they can be construed as fear-based in any way, re-word them to more accurately communicate. Many will also become very sensitive to fear-based messages, motivations and actions in your own world. Fear can not control you when you are aware of it. Become aware of fear-based movements, as this is the typical manner in which humanity has been controlled for eons of time.

As you move out of the field of duality you will experience less of the light/dark, love/fear, good/bad, right/wrong, and up/down thinking. These opposites are now being balanced by a new connection to your own higher self. This is partly being facilitated by the crystals that are forming inside your own physical body, for they are going to help you. That which could have been very negative is now being adapted by the most adaptable beings throughout the universe…human beings. You are changing it all in the blink of an eye.

Help from the Other Side

All eyes of the universe are upon Earth, for this was the one game that was never expected to make it. This was the one game that had no predisposition—that had no guidance system built in. It was the game of total free choice and here you are leading the universe, about to evolve into a spot where you have never evolved before. We tell you it is so incredibly beautiful. You have come to visit us. You have come to see yourself through our eyes so we may reflect your beauty and help you to re-member Home, to re-member that part of you. What you are not aware of are the huge gatherings on this side of the veil to watch you, and honor you. For all those beings who stepped aside for you come in and play this game are on your side are working behind you.

There are sports on your planet that you love to play. You play football with teams all over the world. At the end of the season your teams go to the playoffs, all competing for the number one spot. A team that loses now becomes the other team’s champion. They want the team that was good enough to beat them to go all the way, just the same way that all those same beings on the other side are trying to help you do what you came to do. They are part of you and you have access to that help.

Manipulation

Humans have been manipulated over and over, and over again on this planet. It has happened in almost every government, religion, and corporation. The way you can most easily be manipulated is through your own fear. Start finding ways to break through even the smallest pieces of your own fear, and you can no longer be manipulated on planet Earth. That is starting to happen in a big way, but is going to take every one of you working together. A single soul cannot stop the manipulation. However, that is no problem because you are all part of each other and you are starting to let down those boundaries, honoring that within each other. Can you imagine a planet with beings that have evolved beyond the need for fear? That is true empowerment, for when you empower anyone else outside of yourself you are also empowering yourself. You are empowering and creating a space for that to happen. When you overcome this place of fear and start looking at the opportunities for spreading light, you become a magnet. As if magically, others will come to you with their fears and you will be making a difference on this planet. That is what you have come to do and we are here to help re-mind you of that.

We are so honored you are here, for we have been talking for a very long time and now you are listening. We are so honored to be here and see the most beautiful angels on the gameboard of planet Earth. Enjoy the ride, dear ones. Do not worry about the destination for there is none; it is all about the journey, so enjoy wherever you are in that journey right now. Embrace it, love it, laugh with it, cry with it, feel it and ride it out, because when you get Home you will tell all the beautiful stories of your journey on planet Earth. We will all sit around the fire with you and laugh…and make smores.

Dear ones, your whole world is changing. You have known this and have written about it for eons of time. You have known there was a big shift coming. Everyone postulated as to what exactly that looked like, and tried to find how you could speed it up. It is here, happening today, and it is continuing. All the dreams and aspirations you had once hoped for in the year 2012 are here today. We cannot wait to see what you create in 2012 because you are so excited about it, but first you must find which day you are going to play that game.

Connect in any way that you can, dear ones, and touch one another often for that is something that is only done on planet Earth. It is a way to help you re-member who you are, and for others to re-member who they are. It is a way to give your gifts freely and with a tremendous amount of love. Know that we are with you every step of the way, for we have never left you. Know that we love you, as we spread our wings just to reflect your magnificence and to help you re-member who you are. You are the greatest angels that have ever lived.

We leave you with three little reminders. Treat each other with the greatest respect. Nurture one another and play well together.

Money and MisDirection

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Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Accused of Promoting Israeli Propaganda

Nomi Morris I GlobalPost

TORONTO, Canada - A protest over a Toronto International Film Festival spotlight on Tel Aviv cinema has galvanized the globe's creative community.

From Cairo to Calgary, artists can often be divided on their Middle East views but most agree on the need to draw the line between cultural expression and political advocacy.

As a glamorous parade of celebrities walk the red carpet here, increasing numbers of Hollywood stars are speaking out for or against the festival's critics, who say the Tel Aviv program boosts Israel's tarnished image eight months after its devastating bombing raids in the Gaza Strip.

"We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine," said the Toronto Declaration, signed earlier this month by 65 artists, including actresses Jane Fonda and Julie Christie, musicians David Byrne and Harry Belafonte and writers such as Alice Walker and Wallace Shawn.

Since then, 1,500 have added their names to the document, including 60 Israelis. The letter denounces the TIFF focus on Tel Aviv as being subverted by "the Israeli propaganda machine."

The letter itself does not however call for a boycott of the festival, which is on through Sept. 19, nor of the 10 films featured in the program. But Palestinians have demonstrated at the Canadian consular office in Ramallah, and Egyptian filmmakers have pulled their three films from what is arguably the most important international film forum after Cannes.
The controversy has generated a great deal of heated debate. Jane Fonda modified her position after signing the letter saying she had not considered how some "unnecessarily inflammatory" wording in the declaration could "exacerbate the situation." Dozens of American and Canadian actors, directors and producers signed a full page ad in a Toronto newspaper to "applaud" the festival and its 10-film Tel Aviv program.

"Anyone who has actually seen recent Israeli cinema, movies that are political and personal, comic and tragic, often critical, knows they are in no way a propaganda arm for any government policy," said the ad co-sponsored by the Toronto and Los Angeles Jewish communities.

That statement is signed by actors Natalie Portman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa Kudrow, Lenny Kravitz and dozens of entertainment industry executives.

For many who are angry about the protest, it is less about the Middle East than about the politicization of an event that has in recent decades put Toronto on the world's cultural map.
"A film festival should be like the Olympics. You should put politics aside for the sake of the films," said American director Jason Reitman.

Visiting celebrities and local filmgoers appeared to do just that, as the festival carried on with as much excitement and glitz as ever, despite the ongoing scandal.

Among dozens of A-list stars in Canada this week are George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Matt Damon, Jennifer Connelly, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Megan Fox, Julianne Moore and Michael Douglas. More than 3,100 film industry representatives are here. And tens of thousands of film lovers are lining up across the city to view even the most obscure of the 336 films featured in the festival. Directors from Spain's Pedro Almodovar to Germany's Werner Herzog, to America's Coen Brothers and Ireland's Neil Jordan are screening their newest films.

The opening film Creation, a well-received close-up of Charles Darwin's private life, is a prime example of how increasing numbers of filmmakers are choosing to debut their films in Toronto rather than Venice or Berlin.

"Toronto is the bridge between Europe and North America," said Anke Sterneborg, a critic for the Munich-based Suddeutsche Zeitung who has been attending the festival for the past 12 years. "You get the European art house films, and the Asians. And it's close enough to Hollywood for celebrities to come and give it the shine."

This year, the film that has generated the greatest buzz is "Up in the Air," the latest by Reitman, director of the hits "Juno" and "Thank You for Smoking," and son of Hollywood director Ivan Reitman ("Ghost Busters"). "Up in the Air" stars Clooney as a "termination engineer," who has no home life outside of his job, jetting around the country helping American companies fire people. Both funny and sad, the film examines a society where frequent flier points become a substitute for family attachments. Reitman used documentary footage of 25 real people who had lost their jobs in Detroit and St. Louis, which lends the film a timely edge.

At the same time, critics have singled out many smaller films from smaller countries such as Denmark's "An Education," and "Women Without Men," a German-French-Austrian co-production set in 1950's Iran. Canadian films are attracting higher profile American investment and star power, such as Atom Egoyan's "Chloe," featuring Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson. Canada is still strong in its usual categories of shorts and documentaries, with this year's main documentary entry a gem called "Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould."

Among the many Israeli films present at this festival -- some in the special program and some not -- are "Google Baby," a documentary about artificial insemination going global and "Phobidilia," in which a man never leaves his apartment, doing everything by telephone and internet. Particularly well received were "The Time That Remains," by Palestinian-Israeli filmmaker Elia Suleiman and "Lebanon," a soul-searching drama set inside an Israeli tank during the 1982 war, which took top honors at the recent Venice Film Festival.

The TIFF 'tiff' over Tel Aviv, started on Aug. 27 when Canadian director and activist John Greyson pulled his short "Covered," from the festival program arguing that the inaugural City-to-City spotlight on Tel Aviv was inappropriate. Greyson said the Toronto festival had let itself become a tool of the 'Brand Israel' arts and culture campaign that Israel's foreign ministry devised to broaden the country's image beyond its conflict with the Palestinians. He also pointed a finger at two Canadian media companies involved with 'Brand Israel' whose owners are also contributors to the Toronto film festival.

Cameron Bailey, co-director of TIFF, countered that the decision was an independent artistic choice and was in no way influenced by the Israeli government. Festival organizers could be forgiven for believing the spotlight on Tel Aviv would not provoke controversy since Tel Aviv is inside Israel's internationally recognized boundaries, unlike contested Jerusalem and the West Bank. And yet Cameron added fuel to the flame by acknowledging that Tel Aviv is "contested ground" in his released response to the protest.

The issue picked up steam a week before the festival opened, when Canadian writer Naomi Klein ("The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"), publicized the Toronto Declaration which criticized the Tel Aviv spotlight while stopping short of urging a boycott of the films. Writer and academic Noam Chomsky, actor Danny Glover and many Canadian and Israeli artists and filmmakers were among the 65 who signed. Actors Julie Christie and Viggo Mortensen fell into a category of those who signed the petition and still attended the festival.

The declaration spearheaded by Klein said that celebrating Tel Aviv was like celebrating Johannesburg during the height of apartheid and that Tel Aviv was "built on destroyed Arab villages." Dueling opinion pieces continued for days in local newspapers and Facebook discussions went practically viral.

Canadian producer Robert Lantos called Greyson "hypocritical" since his short film deals with the cancellation of a gay pride event in Sarajevo, whereas Tel Aviv boasts one of the most vibrant gay communities in the world. Actor Jon Voight, who starred with Fonda years ago in "Coming Home," and has ties to the Orthodox Jewish Chabad network, issued a statement condemning Fonda.

Prominent American Rabbi Marvin Hier, who founded the Los Angeles Simon Wiesenthal Center, compared the protesters to Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and those who seek to destroy Israel, since claiming that Tel Aviv is on Palestinian land implies a non-recognition of Israel.

Such criticism stung many creative artists -- among them many Jews -- who believe activism and an economic boycott is the way to influence Israeli policies, as was done against South Africa during apartheid.

Toronto's mainstream Jewish community, meanwhile, rallied for Israel, buying up tickets to the Israeli films and demonstrating on streets in front of theaters.

"Based on various misdeeds of past and present, shouldn't TIFF stop screening movies from China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia and the United Kingdom?" wrote Toronto Star columnist Martin Knelman, satirically. "The greatest outrage of all is that during the six years since George W. Bush sent troops to Iraq, TIFF has meekly continued to promote movies from Hollywood, which we all know is a pathetic pawn of Washington's propaganda machine."

Ironically, many of the festival films set in Tel Aviv are highly critical and could hardly be accused of putting a positive gloss on the city. The demographically complex Jaffa area is examined in three films and the underbelly of Israeli society is laid bare in several which probe racism against Arabs, spousal abuse, trafficking in women for sex. "Lebanon" exposes wartime excesses against civilians.

In Toronto theater line-ups, some ticket-holders hadn't even heard about the controversy. "No. I know nothing about it at all," said Hilary Neal, 23, excited about seeing "She, A Chinese."
Others had heard about the Tel Aviv issue on the news but it failed to dim their enthusiasm for the festival.

"To me it's a side issue," said Milena Nikolic, who came in from her hometown an hour outside Toronto to see three films. "Movies do provide a lot of political debate. TIFF shouldn't be used for it. It's just too bad, what's going on."

Around the city's downtown a festive atmosphere prevailed with free daily outdoor concerts and films, and a complementary event called TUFF, the Toronto Urban Film Festival, which screened one-minute silent films on subway platforms across the city. The folk icon Joan Baez was scheduled to perform. And people were on the streets around the clock with Midnight Madness screenings and dozens of late night parties.

Nomi Morris is a journalist based in California, former Middle East correspondent for Knight Ridder newspapers and a former Berlin correspondent for Time magazine.

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Random Observations on Health Care Reform and the Dysfunctionality of Government
On Tuesday, Montana Senator Max Baucus released his proposed Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill. Of course, it's an atrocity, a bill that exploits the health care crisis as yet another opportunity to transfer wealth from workers to finance capitalists. People will be forced to purchase policies that are useless in the event of a serious health problem, despite inadequate subsidies and non-existent cost containment. Furthermore, there is the additional prospect that individuals fortunate enough to have good policies through, say, collective bargaining agreements, will find themselves forced to pay a 35% surcharge in 2013 to help fund the program.

In other words, we face a looming social and political catastrophe, one in which the middle and lower classes are even more impoverished as a result of conscious government policy than they are today. Progressives are also prognosticating a wipe out for the Democrats in the mid-term elections of 2010, and, possibly, a defeat for President Obama in 2012. But this underestimates the peril. It goes beyond political partisanship and economic hardship to the legitimacy of the political system itself.

California is a bellwether for what is likely to come. As a consequence of a distressed economy, a legislature riven by partisan conflict, an unwillingness by legislators to make any decisions that would place their salaries, per diem and car allowances at risk and a governor who substitutes vapid public relations gestures for policy, the public holds the political system in complete contempt. Both the governor and the legislature are extremely unpopular. It is impossible to generate public support for any measures that would resolve the fiscal crisis and preserve essential public sector programs.

Everyone, and every public institution, is quite literally, on their own. If the Congress puts through health care reform on terms dictated by health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and health care providers, and Obama signs it, this is what we can expect nationally. A collapse in progressive support for the political process, resulting in, at best, gridlock, and, at worst, the passage and implementation of more and more regressive social measures. Combine the passage of such a miserable health care reform bill with possibly as many as 40,000 additional troops for Afghanistan, and we will see the ascendency of an irrational, emotionally driven right wing populism that will escape the boundaries set by Rahm Emanuel and other conservative Democrats, and go beyond preventing the passage of any progressive measures during an Obama administration, to destroying his presidency, and perhaps, the existing social fabric of the country.

Monday, September 14, 2009

The Honduran Coup Never Happened (Part 4)
Forgotten all about this, haven't you? The Obama administration, unwilling to challenge an oligarchy that has been closely connected to the US for decades, has taken the silent approach, and just let the Honduran coup fade from public view. Over two and a half months of the last six months of Zelaya's term have already passed. Maybe, by early December, the coup government will let him reenter the presidential palace just long enough to gather up whatever clothes and credit cards he left behind when he was forcibly removed by the military.

One need only look to the International Monetary Fund to recognize the true contours of US policy, as recently reported by Mark Weisbrot:

No country in the world recognizes the coup government of Honduras. From the Western Hemisphere and the European Union, only the United States retains an ambassador there. The World Bank paused lending to Honduras two days after the coup, and the Inter-American Development Bank did the same the next day. More recently the Central American Bank of Economic Integration suspended credit to Honduras. The European Union has suspended over $90 million in aid as well, and is considering further sanctions.

But the IMF has gone ahead and dumped a large amount of money on Honduras – the equivalent would be more than $160 billion in the United States – as though everything is ok there.

This is in keeping with U.S. policy, which is not surprising since the United States has been – since the IMF’s creation in 1944 – the Fund’s principal overseer. Washington has so far made only a symbolic gesture in cutting off about $18.5 million to Honduras, while continuing to pour in tens of millions more.

In fact, more than two months after the Honduran military overthrew the elected president of Honduras, the United States government has yet to determine that a military coup has actually occurred. This is because such a determination would require, under the U.S. Foreign Appropriations Act, a cut off of aid.

One of the largest sources of U.S. aid is the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a government entity whose board is chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Interestingly, there were two military coups in the last year in countries that were receiving MCC money: Madagascar and Mauritania. In both of those cases, MCC aid was suspended within three days of the coup.

The IMF’s decision to give money to the Honduran government is reminiscent of its reaction to the 2002 coup that temporarily overthrew President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Just a few hours after that coup, the IMF’s spokesperson announced that “we stand ready to assist the new administration in whatever manner they find suitable.” This immediate pledge of support by the IMF to a military-installed government was at the time unprecedented. Given the resources and power of the IMF, it was an important source of international legitimacy for the coup government. Members of the U.S. Congress later wrote to the IMF to inquire how this happened. How did the IMF decide so quickly to support this illegitimate government? The Fund responded that no decision was made, that this was just an off-the-cuff remark by its spokesperson. But this seems very unlikely, and in the video on the IMF’s web site, the spokesperson appears to be reading from a prepared statement when talking about money for the coup government.

In the Honduran case, the IMF would likely say that the current funds are part of a $250 billion package in which all member countries are receiving a share proportional to their IMF quota, regardless of governance. This is true, but it doesn’t resolve the question as to whom the funds should be disbursed to, in the case of a non-recognized, illegitimate government that has seized power by force. The Fund could very easily postpone disbursing this money until some kind of determination could be made, rather than simply acting as though there were no question about the legitimacy of the coup government.

Interestingly, the IMF had no problem cutting off funds under its standby arrangement with the democratically-elected government of President Zelaya in November of last year, when the Fund did not agree with his economic policies.

4 Sept - News Notes

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Do High-fat Diets Make Us Stupid And Lazy? Physical And Memory Abilities Of Rats Affected After 9 Days
"We found that rats, when switched to a high-fat diet from their standard low-fat feed, showed a surprisingly quick reduction in their physical performance," says Dr Andrew Murray, who led the work at Oxford University and has now moved to the University of Cambridge. "After just nine days, they were only able to run 50 per cent as far on a treadmill as those that remained on the low-fat feed."

Ashcroft subject to lawsuit by man who cites Justice policies
Abdullah al-Kidd's lawyers said Ashcroft developed a policy under which the FBI and Justice Department would use the federal material witness law as a pretext "to arrest and detain terrorism suspects about whom they did not have sufficient evidence to arrest on criminal charges but wished to hold preventively or to investigate further."

His arrest warrant was based on an FBI affidavit that said he was needed to testify at the trial of a Saudi man who had been indicted on visa fraud. Al-Kidd was never called as a witness in that case, in which the defendant was acquitted, court documents said.
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The decision said that "al-Kidd's arrest functioned as an investigatory arrest or national security-related pre-emptive detention, rather than as one to secure a witness's testimony for trial.
The agents failed to tell the magistrate who issued the warrant that al-Kidd was an American citizen with family in the United States, or that he had previously cooperated with the FBI, his lawyers said. They also told the judge he had a one-way ticket, when he actually held a round-trip ticket, they said.

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The Autopsy Surgeon Aftonbladet Forgot
What is striking about this episode is that the families making the claims were not given a hearing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the first intifada, when most of the reports occurred, and are still being denied the right to voice their concerns today.

Israel’s sensitivity to the allegation of organ theft -- or “harvesting”, as many observers coyly refer to the practice -- appears to trump the genuine concerns of the families about possible abuse of their loved ones.
The Swedish reporter should instead have concentrated on the valid question raised by the families about why the Israeli army, by its own admission, took away the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed by its soldiers, allowed autopsies to be performed on them without the families’ permission and then returned the bodies for burial in ceremonies held under tight security.
the doctor behind the plunder of body parts, Prof Yehuda Hiss, appointed director of the Abu Kabir institute in the late 1980s, has never been jailed despite admitting to the organ theft and he continues to be the state’s chief pathologist at the institute.

Hiss was in charge of the autopsies of Palestinians when Bostrom was listening to the families’ claims in 1992. Hiss was subsequently investigated twice, in 2002 and 2005, over the theft of body parts on a large scale.

Allegations of Hiss’ illegal trade in organs was first revealed in 2000 by investigative reporters at the Yediot Aharonot newspaper, which reported that he had “price listings” for body parts and that he sold mainly to Israeli universities and medical schools. [6]

WWF warns that arctic ice melt rate doubling
The Arctic is heating up at twice the rate of the rest of the Earth, the new Arctic Climate Feedbacks report shows. As a result, the level of oceans can be expected to rise by one metre by the end of the 21st century, twice as fast as current predictions suggest.

Dozens dead in Nato airstrike on tankers in Afghanistan