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Giving Thanks
To all my loved ones; my friends and relations, May the deep peace of winter give way to riotous spring and bring you joy. It gives me great joy to share this with all of you.
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Thanksgiving: A Native American View
by Jacqueline Keeler

I celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving.

This may surprise those people who wonder what Native Americans think of this official U.S. celebration of the survival of early arrivals in a European invasion that culminated in the death of 10 to 30 million native people.

Thanksgiving to me has never been about Pilgrims. When I was six, my mother, a woman of the Dineh nation, told my sister and me not to sing "Land of the Pilgrim's pride" in "America the Beautiful." Our people, she said, had been here much longer and taken much better care of the land. We were to sing "Land of the Indian's pride" instead.

I was proud to sing the new lyrics in school, but I sang softly. It was enough for me to know the difference. At six, I felt I had learned something very important. As a child of a Native American family, you are part of a very select group of survivors, and I learned that my family possessed some "inside" knowledge of what really happened when those poor, tired masses came to our homes.

When the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock, they were poor and hungry -- half of them died within a few months from disease and hunger. When Squanto, a Wampanoag man, found them, they were in a pitiful state. He spoke English, having traveled to Europe, and took pity on them. Their English crops had failed. The native people fed them through the winter and taught them how to grow their food.

These were not merely "friendly Indians." They had already experienced European slave traders raiding their villages for a hundred years or so, and they were wary -- but it was their way to give freely to those who had nothing. Among many of our peoples, showing that you can give without holding back is the way to earn respect. Among the Dakota, my father's people, they say, when asked to give, "Are we not Dakota and alive?" It was believed that by giving there would be enough for all -- the exact opposite of the system we live in now, which is based on selling, not giving.

To the Pilgrims, and most English and European peoples, the Wampanoags were heathens, and of the Devil. They saw Squanto not as an equal but as an instrument of their God to help his chosen people, themselves.

Since that initial sharing, Native American food has spread around the world. Nearly 70 percent of all crops grown today were originally cultivated by Native American peoples. I sometimes wonder what they ate in Europe before they met us. Spaghetti without tomatoes? Meat and potatoes without potatoes? And at the "first Thanksgiving" the Wampanoags provided most of the food -- and signed a treaty granting Pilgrims the right to the land at Plymouth, the real reason for the first Thanksgiving.

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What did the Europeans give in return? Within 20 years European disease and treachery had decimated the Wampanoags. Most diseases then came from animals that Europeans had domesticated. Cowpox from cows led to smallpox, one of the great killers of our people, spread through gifts of blankets used by infected Europeans. Some estimate that diseases accounted for a death toll reaching 90 percent in some Native American communities. By 1623, Mather the elder, a Pilgrim leader, was giving thanks to his God for destroying the heathen savages to make way "for a better growth," meaning his people.

In stories told by the Dakota people, an evil person always keeps his or her heart in a secret place separate from the body. The hero must find that secret place and destroy the heart in order to stop the evil.

I see, in the "First Thanksgiving" story, a hidden Pilgrim heart. The story of that heart is the real tale than needs to be told. What did it hold? Bigotry, hatred, greed, self-righteousness? We have seen the evil that it caused in the 350 years since. Genocide, environmental devastation, poverty, world wars, racism.

Where is the hero who will destroy that heart of evil? I believe it must be each of us. Indeed, when I give thanks this Thursday and I cook my native food, I will be thinking of this hidden heart and how my ancestors survived the evil it caused.

Because if we can survive, with our ability to share and to give intact, then the evil and the good will that met that Thanksgiving day in the land of the Wampanoag will have come full circle.

And the healing can begin.

Jacqueline Keeler, a member of the Dineh Nation and the Yankton Dakota Sioux works with the American Indian Child Resource Center in Oakland, California. Her work has appeared in Winds of Change, an American Indian journal.
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Greetings from Home

Dear ones, this day is special in many ways of which you are unaware. You are now at a point where you can pretend to be something other than what you are. That allows you to see contrast in ways you have not before. We wish to tell you a story that may help you put into perspective some of the things you are experiencing as this evolution of humanity continues. We understand that you are at the leading edge of the vibrational change. Many of you feel much of the heat that results from this shift, for you are the ones who are the precursors to the light. Yes, you are the ones who dare to go ahead and hold the door open for the others. So, let us speak of the overview of spirit in this perspective.

The Actualization of Energy

There came a point in creation of All That Is where energy was actualized. It was actualized for the first time in a timeline. The moment that matter became energized, you had something in your realm happen that is called the Big Bang. Although you know very little about what really happened, it was basically a series of chain reactions that started very small. With the Big Bang began the illusion of a timeline that you were able to work with. Let us share with you the illustration of an explosion, because that is how you all perceived it.

Although you have witnessed the result of the explosion, you have no evidence of the actual explosion. In the explosion, everything scattered from that center point forward, moving outward. However, as the energy moved it forcefully collided with matter so that energy was forced into every crevice and part of the matter. In effect, the matter became energized.

Because of the extreme force with which this occurred, both became somewhat contorted. The energized matter twisted and started to transform, as if it had been stretched to a new dimension. Because the energy was stretched in this way, much that exists at Home and on Earth are different; things that work here do not necessarily work there. Home has a pure expression. Planet Earth is the perfect imperfection of god, so it was necessary to have your reflection be imperfect in every way.

Well, that put a twist on everything when the little gods began to feel separate, or different. It was almost as if god had exploded. When the energy was forced into matter, both changed forms and consequently the illusion of time was created. The resulting explosion reached so far out into the universe that little pieces of god began to form, creating an illusion of being finite. The pieces of god began to play on a timeline. That has stretched and changed things to such an extent that now it looks like the little gods are wearing eyeglasses in order to play their game. Everything they see has to be translated through these glasses. Even if they see the perfection of Home they cannot relate to it, nor can they fully understand it because they are in another dimension. Part of becoming used to this became one of the biggest challenges to the little gods. The gods also had to wear the glasses to make them forget who they were. They also had to forget the connection they felt with others around them; they forgot that the others were little gods as well. So, their biggest challenge was that every thought they had manifested. Every single time they would hold a thought in their mind, it would happen. That became quite problematic, because it allowed no leeway of thought since every thought had a responsibility connected to it. That is why they placed a time lag on their creations, so the little gods could play the game of pretending to be human.

The Eleven-Sided Coin

Now we would like to explain something that will become clear to most of you in the very near future. You are multidimensional. Each little god would be like an eleven-sided coin (hendecagon). You call them Loonies in Canada and have different names for them elsewhere. There are four or five coins on Earth that have eleven sides. Although there are different sides on each coin, it is still the same coin. If you move in one direction, this facet comes up. If you move in another direction, another aspect shows up. We use this to show you another way to view the eleven dimensions of self; each one of you has eleven different facets. The eyeglasses that the gods are wearing are keeping them from seeing the other facets of themselves, or even the evidence of their own facets. So, that keeps you separated into different dimensions where you cannot always see your reaction or connection to others. This provided the little gods an opportunity to have eleven experiences on planet Earth at the same time with the same soul, with the same coin.

Because the little gods were in the illusion of a timeline, they were able to see their footprints as they traveled through time. That had never happened before, because the little gods had always lived in circular time. Suddenly they were in linear time, which allowed them to see themselves in a new way. The little gods began their journeys and they began watching their creations. They started to doubt themselves, because they could not see that they were creating every thought. They began thinking that it was not possible to see without the glasses, believing that they were not even creators. Instead, they thought that circumstances actually ruled their lives. Because they held that thought, they created the reality that made that true. We did not even think of that. Ah, you humans are so creative.

Let us explain a few other things that might help you understand. Although we are speaking about the beginning of humanity, you are now on the opposite end of that spectrum. You are pushing the boundaries of what would have been the end of humanity and in the process changing everything. At the very last moments of the game, the little gods began to take off their glasses and re-member their power. It has been difficult for the little gods to understand their own magic, after spending so much energy hiding it from themselves.
You learned how to walk in the timeline. However, the original force that exploded and in doing so pushed all of that energy into areas of the universe where it had never existed before, is no longer pushing.

The Out Breath of God Has Begun.

That force which created everything you see in front of you is no longer pushing in the same way it was. Even though it is moving in the same direction, it is now retreating. The universe is no longer expanding; it has crossed the boundary point at which it is actually beginning to shrink. The “out breath” of god has begun.* So, what does that mean for the little gods who no longer feel that push to be separate? Well, that is rather interesting. In the illusion of living in the timeline, you learn to see everything as either up/down, right/wrong, good/bad, or black/white. You see contrasts rather than similarities. Every time that you learned something, it would be because you had pushed one of those boundaries. You learned to push in this direction and in that direction, which is really how humanity expanded and became what it is today. Now that energy is no longer forcing and pushing from the Big Bang, things are starting to change. You are having difficulty with much of the change.

Outer Edges of Truth

You see many examples of extreme polarity on your planet right now. When we say extreme, we mean that one person is going to push the boundaries all the way in one direction and call that outside edge their truth. Another person is going to push all the way to the other side, and call the outer edge their truth. We do not care which outer edges you think are right or wrong, for none of that makes any difference. These are only the outer edges; that is all you have called your truth up to this point in your history. You are now about to spend more time in this area than you ever have before, because that energetic force pushing you out into the universe is no longer there. As a result, you are now free-floating with that eleven-sided coin. You are capable of moving around and doing things in ways that you have never done them before. This is the magical time on planet Earth, when the little gods have begun to awaken from the dream. They started to understand that they could create anything, even with the glasses on. They began to understand that everything they see in front of them was a result of their own thoughts. It was what they held in the creative aspects of their minds and their hearts, which was then pushed out into the universe to create a reality that would exactly match their expectations. Now what you are experiencing is that you are still pushing the edges of those boundaries. So, that means that when one person calls something right, someone else is going to call the same thing wrong. Now is the time to start looking for ways you are alike, instead of ways in which you are different or separate. This is the time for humanity to come back together, recognizing that you are all little gods. It does not matter where they are, were born and raised, or even what kind of belief systems or experiences they have had. Your critical mass is reaching the point of no return and you will not go back to doing things the way you have always done them. We can guarantee you that.

Learning the Overview of Triality

Now it will be critical to stop pushing the outer edges. The more you push these outer edges to find the extremes on the outside, you will no longer find truth in those extremes. Now we ask you to first look in the middle for your definitions, and then look to the outside. Watch the way that each one works, rather than judging. Consider the possibility that you are faced with the same challenges, and that perhaps you simply approached them from different angles. Something can be learned from each angle. Now is the time for unity on this planet, and in a very big way. For all of humanity, 2009 was the beginning of the end of separation on planet Earth. The veil is beginning to be lifted so that you can see each other clearly. You will see each other’s hearts first, and so the magic continues. The eleven-sided coin will gain new dimensions; it will not be a flat coin any longer, but it still has eleven aspects. You will have 11 aspects of yourself, too. Because of this movement and the next evolutionary process, there is much more that we wish to explain to you about what is currently happening.

Multidimensional Bleed-Through

Even though we have spoken many times about the opportunities for all of humanity to become multidimensional, the progress has been so very slow. So far, we have only been able to plant esoterical thoughts in your mind. You have not been able to prove any of this to yourselves, nor have you seen its practical uses. We wish to share with you that one thing happening now that has been labeled bleed-through. You are starting to feel things through other dimensions of yourself. The other sides of the coin may be experiencing a big adventure, or a growth period, where they are having great difficulties. Suddenly you may find yourself quite sad, in pain, or having difficulty for no apparent reason. The bleed-through is becoming stronger because your veil is disappearing. That which has kept you separate from yourself in many ways, is now starting to diminish. As a result, a lot of ways that you have typically dealt with energy before will be reducing and going away. Being the teachers and the healers that you are, you will find new techniques. You will work with them so you can share them with others in the room and around the world, who can then take these energies and help grow to the next level. This is a time to watch what happens on television and put yourself in that person’s shoes. Consider how you would react if you were in that situation yourself. This is a time to start thinking on a personal level what that would look like if it was happening to you, because it is happening to you. You are not disconnected from each other, and between 2010 and 2012 humanity will learn that. We are so overjoyed to be even a small part of helping you re-member your true nature and what you really came to do.

The Perfect Imperfection

You will begin seeing things the way they really are, for you understand that in order to play this game, planet Earth had to be imperfect. For instance, music is not a human invention; it came directly from Home. When you brought it to planet Earth, you had to shift it slightly to make it fit into an imperfect world. That is the why your chromatic scale is not in equal increments. In order to sound perfect to you, it has to be imperfect. If you are counting using numbers, you use a base ten system which does not actually exist throughout the universe. The rest of the universe and Home is on a base twelve system. However, it had to be altered slightly for you to use it and be practical with it. You think of base ten as very simple and not at all complex, whereas base twelve is quite complex. But we tell you that it is exactly the opposite of that. Through the eyes of humans, you must see things a little differently. Even your expression of mathematics is filled with these same inconsistencies. We will not call them universal laws. We do not believe in any type of law, because everything can be altered and that is exactly what you have done. You have taken universal constants and you have twisted them, you have altered them slightly to play this game. Now you are starting to see things the way they really are. Now you are going to start to see things on a new level. You have not been able before to see such clarity; it will be seen through all eyes on planet Earth.

The challenges you will have are the habits you have built around seeing things in a certain way. So, the first thing we ask you to do is to keep your eyes open. Look around, seeking the possibilities. When you do not understand something, know that it is a potential for you to uncover another part of yourself so you can see more than one of these eleven sides. The aspects of yourself are coming back together so that you will be able to see the whole being. It will take time. It is not happening overnight. For you it will seem like it is taking forever. “When is something finally going to happen?” A hundred years from now when you look back at this time, it will seem as if it happened in a heartbeat. Just enjoy this magical moment, and know that you have a new vision if you become aware and search for it. Look for the opportunities to see yourself everywhere. Simply look and you will find Home very quickly. You will create all eleven aspects of Home right where you are today.

Dear ones, you sit in these rooms and watch us. You come together to be filled with spirit, and to re-member part of the true nature of who you are. What you do not understand is that the respect and honor for each of you who play the game of pretending to be a human is so great on this side of the veil. You are the revered ones. You are the ones who have dared to take off your wings and play a game of pretending to be a human. We honor you more than you could possibly ever know. When you arrive Home, there will be one hell of a party!.
Treat each other with the greatest of respect every chance you get. Nurture one another every time you can and play well together.
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A Message From VERONICA

Inner Flame

"At the inception of the soul to the physical body a plan of action is instilled in the psyche of the individual. This plan evolves slowly within until it becomes a flame of power within the individual.

This flame is representative of the intent of the individual's soul. If it is not addressed or implemented it will smolder in the consciousness of the individual as something incomplete in their hearts.

The experience in physical can offer much distraction from this flame. Physical survival leads the progression followed closely by dramas and issues. Linear while being an intense focus often leaves the soul a sense of incompleteness if the inner flame is not addressed. The distractions of the linear may offer some respite from the flame but ultimately the intensity will come to the forefront as "I am missing something".

This sense of lack can derail the intent of the soul as it searches for linear solutions when the real issue is the satisfaction of the soul."

--VERONICA

Dear VERONICA
Your wisdom is so helpful. I need some clarification however, regarding being loving, caring and helpful. What about when you start feeling like you're being a "doormat" or used? I have nicely said "no" occasionally, but then I feel guilty that I am not being there for someone when they need me, but I also need time for me. Can you clarify? Thank You

Joanne

Dear Joanne,

Your energy is one of service. The support you give others has truly made a difference to many. However, to continually give takes an enormous amount of concentration in the linear. When we "feel" your energy it has a depleted texture. It appears to have been quite a long time since you have replenished it.

The idea of giving is splendid and you are good at it, but the lesson of self nurturing needs to be explored. Assign yourself one personal moment per day where you can replenish your energy.

The moment will come where you will not be able to serve and that will be unfortunate for those who blossom with your attention.

View it as a refilling so that you will be able to give more.... An automobile cannot function without fuel. Fill yourself.

--VERONICA



Dear VERONICA,

I agree with what Tupac Says, "We're all born hungry." not blind. That's the truth.

When I was younger, my teachers knew me as the kid who asks a million questions.

The first question I remember asking was when I was in Thailand . Before me and my biological family came to America .

My biological mom had just gotten back from the market. She had bought some ice and a few other things.

I asked her if I could see the ice. She didn't hesitate to show it to me. It was a block.

I'm not sitting here, trying to find a reason for why I have Congenital glaucoma. I don't bring that topic up in all of my writings, but it has been a wonderful experience.

Honestly, I don't think I'll ever be there. I mean blind.

This a perfect ingredient for an integrated soul. Don't you think?

I guess the universal law, "like attracts like" can put its two cents in.

After all, I am that man.

It's hard for people to find a definition for the word "blind."

I'm doing fine. I get to pursue my career with animals and everything else I want and need.

I guess the animals that appeared in my dreams hae been taking care of me, besides myself.

Smokie

Dear Smokie,

The entity from which you evolved is not blind. The sense of knowing has no idea what color is.

Your life is enriched beyond the images of the ego. Your inner universe is far more complex including the images of your mind's ego.

Enjoy the experience, it will be useful in future lives where the "image of life" will have a great profound moment for you.

--VERONICA

Dear VERONICA ~

I have been thinking about the greatest mystery in the world " Death"

and I've been wondering why God would want to reveal this great secret and the

fact that there is no death and that there is an afterlife.

I'm not sure how to express myself, but what would the world be like if everyone

knew for sure and without a doubt that there is no death.

How would that effect our lives and the world.

There would no longer be that divine mystery, Then What !!!

~ Judy ~

Dear Judy,

Then...

The dogmas and fears placed upon those in physical would no longer be relevant. The infinite perspective may alter forever the negativity of your existence and place the focus divinely upon evolving.

--VERONICA

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Just as a side note worth only that it runs some what in the same vein : in a dream I was told by a 'spirit' that it existed in many places 'simultaneously, ( a statement without real sense, actually ) and I had Regressions years ago : in which you experience consciousness as if you were another being...and that tended to transcend current time, sex and species !

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Dropping Al-Alam meant to 'silence resistance'
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:52:04 GMT
After two Arab satellite operators took Al-Alam off air, growing number of intellectuals and politicians are lending their voice to the chorus of criticism against the move.

Egyptian parliamentarian Mustapha al-Bakri said the decision to drop Al-Alam was an effort to choke the voice of resistance in the Arab world.

Saudi-based Arabsat and Cairo-based Nilesat stopped Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam in a move widely seen as its stance on regional issues, especially when it comes to the Saudi-backing of the Yemeni forces in a crackdown on Shiite Houthi fighters in north of the country.

Meanwhile, Egyptian scholar Rafiq al-Habib also told of the heavy toll of the regional disputes on the news network.

Hafiz Abu Saeeda, head of the Egyptian Human Rights Organization, described the Arab companies move as "unjustifiable".

Citing Egyptian and Arab Legal System, he said the operators were not entitled to move without providing convincing reasons.

Al-Alam officials say the decision to take the network off air breached the contract with the Arab satellite providers which stipulated that any disputes should be settled at a competent court of law.

Political motive behind Al-Alam ban
Some regional and international media and political foundations condemned the Saudi-based Arabsat as well as Cairo-based Nilesat's moves to ban Iran's al-Alam from broadcasting on the air, saying that this initiative will serve Zionist regime.

The Arab media described Al Alalm as one of most outstanding network in exposing the crimes committed by Zionist against Palestinians particularly in recent Gaza war, stressing that some political motives are behind this initiative supported by some Arab leaders.

After a few days of silence, Arabsat and Nilesat authorities claimed that the main reason behind dropping Al-Alam, was the network's continuous criticizing of some figures in the Arab world.

They also claimed that Iran's Arabic-language news channel abused rules of broadcasting by violating some religious and political issues.

However Al-Alam has called on the operators to mention the exact time and date of the programs which they have found offensive.

According to al-Alam authorities, the Iran-based television network was taken off the air by both Arabsat and Nilesat on Tuesday without prior notice.

The channel authorities say the move is in violation of initial rights of media freedom as well as previous contracts with the two satellite companies.

They also noted that lack of explanations in official remarks of theses two Arab satellites reaffirms a political motive behind the case.

Reactions against this act are still coming in by human rights organizations as well as Arab and international media in several countries including Lebanon, Britain, Turkey and Sudan.

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The slow-moving American plane, filled with secret eavesdropping equipment, collided on Sunday with one of two Chinese fighters that shadowed it 65 miles off Chinese territorial waters. With a wing and an engine damaged, the plane made an emergency landing at a military base on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, where the crew was taken into custody.

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An anonymous reader passes along news that an Australian senator, Nick Xenophon, has denounced the Church of Scientology as "a criminal organization" from the floor of Parliament. "Senator Xenophon used a speech in Parliament last night to raise allegations of widespread criminal conduct within the church, saying he had received letters from former followers detailing claims of abuse, false imprisonment, and forced abortion. He says he has passed on the letters to the police and is calling for a Senate inquiry into the religion and its tax-exempt status." It wasn't that long ago that the CoS was calling for Net censorship in Australia; a month later the organization was convicted of fraud in France.
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An anonymous reader passes along news that an Australian senator, Nick Xenophon, has denounced the Church of Scientology as "a criminal organization" from the floor of Parliament. "Senator Xenophon used a speech in Parliament last night to raise allegations of widespread criminal conduct within the church, saying he had received letters from former followers detailing claims of abuse, false imprisonment, and forced abortion. He says he has passed on the letters to the police and is calling for a Senate inquiry into the religion and its tax-exempt status." It wasn't that long ago that the CoS was calling for Net censorship in Australia; a month later the organization was convicted of fraud in France.
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Comments: 3 +- Your Rights Online: Founder of Tibet's "Butter-Lamp" Site Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison on Tuesday November 17, @10:43AM
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The Installer writes with this snippet from the AP, as carried by Seattle's KOMO News: "The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday. Kunchok Tsephel, 39, was convicted and sentenced Nov. 12 after a closed-door trial at the Intermediate People's Court of Gannan prefecture in southwestern Gansu province, according to reports from Tibet received by Tibetan exiles, said the International Campaign for Tibet, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group. Some of the charges are believed to be related to content posted on his influential Web site, Chodme, or Butter-Lamp, which promotes Tibetan culture, and also for passing on information about last year's anti-government protests."
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eldavojohn writes "In a town-hall-style Q&A with (hand-picked) Chinese students in Shanghai, President Obama made several statements knocking China's firewall and censorship. Quoting: 'I am a big believer in technology and I'm a big believer in openness when it comes to the flow of information. I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves. That generates new ideas. It encourages creativity. And so I've always been a strong supporter of open Internet use. I'm a big supporter of non-censorship. This is part of the tradition of the United States that I discussed before, and I recognize that different countries have different traditions. I can tell you that in the United States, the fact that we have free Internet — or unrestricted Internet access — is a source of strength, and I think should be encouraged.' The Washington Post notes that the event was broadcast only on the local level, and in fact Chinese authorities removed from view what little coverage it had gotten, after about an hour. But at least American news media are gobbling it up."
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Comments: 544 +- Your Rights Online: Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 on Monday November 16, @01:12PM
Posted by timothy on Monday November 16, @01:12PM
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eldavojohn writes "You may recall much ado over some questionable footage in the latest Call of Duty game. Well, that footage has led to a recall of Modern Warfare 2 in Russia. Seems the Russian government was none too happy about the portrayal of Russia in the game and decided to yank it from stores. Infinity Ward has responded with a patch that removes the 'No Russian' mission (the content in question) from the storyline. Before you overly criticize the Russian government, there may be some truth to the claim that the game's story line overly demonizes Russians as just terrorists as the Russian site GotPS3.ru alleges. Is cultural sensitivity becoming an overly played card in the gaming world? Not too long ago, Wolfenstein was recalled in Germany for containing Nazi symbols."
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Comments: 407 +- Your Rights Online: UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall on Sunday November 15, @06:04PM
Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 15, @06:04PM
from the can-you-spell-hypocricy dept.
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At a UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Egypt, anti-censorship group Open Net Initiative was startled by a demand from UN officials to remove a poster mentioning Chinese Net censorship. When ONI refused the request, security personnel arrived and took away the poster. The group was promoting a new book, Access Controlled, a survey of Internet censorship, filtering, and online surveillance. A witness said, "The poster was thrown on the floor and we were told to remove it because of the reference to China and Tibet. We refused, and security guards came and removed it. The incident was witnessed by many." Here is a video of the removal.
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Comments: 275 +- Your Rights Online: Microsoft Tries To Censor Bing Vulnerability on Tuesday November 10, @02:30AM
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 10, @02:30AM
from the don't-shout-and-wave-it-about dept.
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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Bing search engine has a vulnerability with its cash-back promotion, which impacts both merchants and customers. In traditional Microsoft fashion, the company has responded to the author of the breaking Bing cash-back exploit with a cease & desist letter, rather than by fixing the underlying security problem. It is possible for a malicious user to create fake Bing cash-back requests, resulting in not only fake cash-back costs for the merchant, but also blocking legitimate customers from receiving their cash-back from Bing. The original post is currently available in Bing's cache, although perhaps not for long. But no worries, the author makes it clear that the exploit should be painfully obvious to anyone who reads the Bing cash-back SDK."
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Comments: 180 +- News: Congress May Require ISPs To Block Certain Fraud Sites on Thursday November 05, @08:39AM
Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 05, @08:39AM
from the just-getting-warmed-up dept.
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FutureDomain writes "A bill which just passed the House Financial Services Committee would require Internet Service Providers to block access to sites hosting financial scams that pose as members of the government-backed Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). The bill, called the Investor Protection Act and sponsored by Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), is broad enough to block not only websites, but email and any other 'electronic material.' 'Internet providers are also worried that Kanjorski's requirement — and the accompanying civil penalties and injunctions — would apply even if the blocking is not technically feasible.'"
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Comments: 775 +- Your Rights Online: Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. on Wednesday November 04, @09:31AM
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 04, @09:31AM
from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.
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Jamie found a Boing Boing story that will probably get your blood to at least a simmer. It says "The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to 'national security' concerns, has leaked. It's bad." You can read the original leaked document or the summary. If passed, the internet will never be the same. Thank goodness it's hidden from public scrutiny for National Security.
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Comments: 163 +- Your Rights Online: EFF Launches "Takedown Hall of Shame" on Tuesday October 27, @05:03PM
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 27, @05:03PM
from the more-chilling dept.
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netbuzz writes "Recognizing that public shame is a potent weapon, the Electronic Frontier Foundation today launched a new Web site — its Takedown Hall of Shame — that will shine an unflattering spotlight on those corporations and individuals who abuse copyright claims to stifle free speech. Among the early inductees are NPR, NBC, CBS, and Diebold."
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Comments: 622 +- Your Rights Online: French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud on Tuesday October 27, @01:44PM
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 27, @01:44PM
from the still-getting-away-with-it dept.
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The trial we discussed this spring has come to a verdict, and reader lugannerd was one of several to note a milestone in the fight against the Church of Scientology. "The French branch of the Church of Scientology was convicted of fraud and fined nearly $900,000 on Tuesday by a Paris court. But the judges did not ban the church entirely, as the prosecution had demanded, saying that a change in the law prevented such an action for fraud. The church said it would appeal. The verdict was among the most important in several years to involve the controversial group, which is registered as a religion in the United States but has no similar legal protection in France. It is considered a sect here, and says it has some 45,000 adherents, out of some 12 million worldwide. It was the first time here that the church itself had been tried and convicted, as opposed to individual members."
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Comments: 74 +- Your Rights Online: Ultrasurf Easily Blocked, But So What? on Monday October 26, @11:01AM
Posted by kdawson on Monday October 26, @11:01AM
from the counter-counter-workarounds dept.
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Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A simple experiment shows that it's easy to find the IP addresses used by the UltraSurf anti-censorship program, and block traffic to all of those IP addresses, effectively stopping UltraSurf from working. But this is not a fault of UltraSurf; rather, it demonstrates that an anti-censorship software program can be successful even if it's relatively trivial to block it." Read on for Bennett's analysis.
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Comments: 129 +- Your Rights Online: AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps on Thursday October 22, @04:13AM
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 22, @04:13AM
from the we-got-a-ban-for-that dept.
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bennyboy64 writes "The Australian Classification Board is seeking to censor mobile phone applications under its National Classification Scheme. 'I recently wrote to the minister [Minister McDonald] regarding my concern that some so-called mobile phone applications, which can be purchased online or either downloaded to mobile phones or played online via mobile phone access, are not being submitted to the board for classification,' Australia's Classification Board director Donald McDonald told a Senate Estimates committee. I wonder if they know that there are over 80,000 applications on the iPhone platform alone?"
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Comments: 297 +- Your Rights Online: China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day on Thursday October 15, @02:41PM
Posted by timothy on Thursday October 15, @02:41PM
from the not-so-much-into-liberty-y'see dept.
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TechReviewAl writes "Technology Review reports that the Chinese government has for the first time targeted the Tor anonymity network. In the run-up to China's National Day celebrations, the government started targeting the sites used to distribute Tor addresses and the number of users inside China dropped from tens of thousands to near zero. The move is part of a broader trend that involves governments launching censorship crackdowns around key dates. The good news is that many Tor users quickly found a way around the attack, distributing 'bridge' addresses via IM and Twitter."
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Comments: 216 +- Your Rights Online: In the UK, a Few Tweets Restore Freedom of Speech on Wednesday October 14, @04:28AM
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 14, @04:28AM
from the inconvenient-truths dept.
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Several readers wrote to us about the situation in the UK that saw the Guardian newspaper forbidden by a judge from reporting a question in UK parliament. The press's freedom to do so has been fought for since at least 1688 and fully acknowledged since the 19th century. At issue was a matter of public record — but the country's libel laws meant that the newspaper could not inform the public of what parliament was up to. The question concerned the oil trading company Trafigura, the toxic waste scandal they are involved in, and their generous use of libel lawyers to silence those who would report on the whole thing. After tweeters and bloggers shouted about Trafigura all over the Internet, the company's lawyers agreed to drop the gag request.
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Comments: 136 +- Games: Modern Games and Technology Challenging ESRB's Effectiveness on Wednesday October 14, @03:02AM
Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 14, @03:02AM
from the rated-t-for-terrible dept.
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The Entertainment Software Rating Board has been around for 15 years now, overcoming an ineffective start and a host of controversial events to become a fairly well-respected ratings agency. However, as this article at The Escapist points out, the world of video games is changing, and the ESRB does not seem to be adapting along with it. "The most pressing problem is the ESRB's reluctance to address online interactions. Seeing as we're moving more and more toward online and internet-enabled games, this inevitably limits the ESRB's authority as a ratings board. Although the ESRB rates the submitted developer content within online games, these ratings are always qualified by an important disclaimer: 'Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB.' To date, this has meant that the rating given to the designed game content doesn't cover chat and other forms of player-to-player communication. That's unfortunate, because the ESRB's intimate relationship with the game industry could provide it with a unique vantage point from which to evaluate aspects of online games that are beyond the purview of other would-be raters, including the quality of the game's moderation system, programmed restrictions on chat and known player demographics."
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Comments: 94 +- Your Rights Online: Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier on Friday October 09, @10:39AM
Posted by kdawson on Friday October 09, @10:39AM
from the assuming-the-risk dept.
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itwbennett writes "At the Hack In The Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Wikileaks.org announced a plan to enable newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators, and others to embed an 'upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks' form onto their Web sites that would give potential whistleblowers the ability to leak sensitive documents to an organization or journalist they trust over a secure connection. The news or NGO site would then get an embargo period in which to analyze the material and write the story, after which Wikileaks would make the leaked material public. At the same time, the receiver would have greater legal protection, says Julien Assange, an advisory board member at Wikileaks 'We will take the burden of protecting the source and the legal risks associated with publishing the document,' said Assange. 'We want to get as much substantive information as possible into the historical record, keep it accessible, and provide incentives for people to turn it into something that will achieve political reform.'"
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Comments: 134 +- Games: Left 4 Dead 2 Approved In Australia After Edits on Friday October 09, @02:24AM
Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 09, @02:24AM
from the going-out-on-a-limb dept.
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Last month we discussed news that Valve's upcoming shooter Left 4 Dead 2 had been denied classification in Australia, which meant the game could not be legally sold there. Now, after a series of edits which removed "considerable amounts of gore from gameplay," Australia's classification board has given the game an MA15+ rating. Their new report (PDF) says, "No wound detail is shown and the implicitly dead bodies and blood splatter disappear as they touch the ground. ... The board notes that the game no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment." The unmodified version of the game may still be approved, pending a review that concludes on October 22nd.
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Comments: 125 +- Your Rights Online: Details On Worldwide Surveillance and Filtering on Wednesday October 07, @06:57PM
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 07, @06:57PM
from the eyes-eyes-eveywhere dept.
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An anonymous reader writes "Help Net Security is running an interview with Rafal Rohozinski, a founder and principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative, which investigates, exposes and analyzes Internet filtering and surveillance practices all over the world. Rafal provides insight on the process of assessing the state of surveillance and filtering in a particular country and discusses differences related to these issues in several regions, touching especially the United States and Europe. In the US, censorship is more difficult to implement if for no other reason than the court systems offer greater protections for freedom of speech. However, in both places surveillance is on the rise particularly as law-enforcement agencies become more adept at working in the cyber domain."
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Comments: 40 +- Your Rights Online: Dam Burst Tool Disables China's Green Dam Censorware on Wednesday September 30, @12:48PM
Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 30, @12:48PM
from the dam-you-anti-social-coders dept.
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An anonymous reader writes "The infamous Green Dam censorship software has suffered yet another blow. As ZDNet explains, Dam Burst, a tool released by security researcher Jon Oberheide, allows unprivileged users to disable the censorware by removing the hooks that enable it to monitor and block user activity, effectively restoring running applications to their original uncensored state. While the Dam Burst software is currently available at Oberheide's website, community mirrors will undoubtedly be necessary to avoid blocking by the Great Firewall."
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Comments: 625 +- Games: Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany

Scientology a 'criminal organisation'
Senator Xenophon used a speech in Parliament last night to raise allegations of widespread criminal conduct within the church, saying he had received letters from former followers detailing claims of abuse, false imprisonment and forced abortion.

He says he has passed on the letters to the police and is calling for a Senate inquiry into the religion and its tax-exempt status.

"I am deeply concerned about this organisation and the devastating impact it can have on its followers," he told the Senate.

A spokeswoman for the church, Virginia Stewart, says she is shocked to hear Senator Xenophon's claims, as no-one within the church seems disgruntled.

"If these people had key issues, then how come they haven't contacted the church officially?" she said.

"We actually have an entire section that responds to people. So if someone has a complaint about the church, we really are so happy to meet with them."

Ms Stewart says the church tried to contact Senator Xenophon earlier this year after he spoke about Scientology on television.

"We offered to meet with him, to be completely open, answer any of his questions," she said.

"He didn't even bother to reply so I think it's a bit disingenuous that someone stands up in Parliament, where they can say whatever they want.

"He hasn't even spoken with us before, and we have attempted to speak with him."

Parliamentary speech

Senator Xenophon told Parliament the Church of Scientology was a criminal organisation that hides behind its "so-called religious beliefs".

"Do you want Australian tax exemptions to be supporting an organisation that coerces its followers into having abortions? Do you want to be supporting an organisation that defrauds, that blackmails, that falsely imprisons?" he asked.

"Because on the balance of evidence provided by victims of Scientology you probably are.

"The letters received by me which were written by former followers in Australia contain extensive allegations of crimes and abuses that are truly shocking.

"These victims of Scientology claim it is an abusive, manipulative and violent organisation."

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Veronica

"Inner Whispers".

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!"

cowboss



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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Del.icio.us is a way to post Twitter finds these days. For those not following Twitter feeds or Del.icio.us tags, here are a couple of related stories

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Swine Flu Vaccine will Sterilize you

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You might notice links didn't come through on the last. That's because I have to add them after composition : but on Blogger I can simply Copy wholesale in Firefox with a pass of the mouse. That's not always foolproof...I've lost posts over it.



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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I'm in the 7%
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

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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

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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.


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

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* 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 ...

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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?