June 1, 2005

Miscellaneous Subjects #213: The Shape of Things to Come


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The Shape of Things to Come — that is, Depending on Our Choices!...

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator

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"There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war."

- Buckminster Fuller


"We paint the world into being with the vibration of the words we choose to think to feel and to believe. The choosing is ours. What we perceive today, is the result of our past collective choice. We have no control over what others choose to think, feel and believe. We have infinite control over what WE choose to think, feel and believe."

- Kalama Hawkrider kalama52@yahoo.com>


"During the energies of June 1-2, 2005 on the Gregorian Calendar, which corresponds to the Mayan Sacred Calendar energies of 13 Ahau and 1 Imix, we will experience the energy that all of creation is striving towards, when no filters are blocking the passage of light between Humanity and Divinity. According to the Mayan calendar, we are approaching a major peak experience of the incoming energies serving to transform the human consciousness. 13 Ahau is the last day of the Sacred Calendar count and is believed to be the very expression of Enlightenment. June 1 (13 Ahau) is a time to celebrate an energy of completion. There are many Mayan prophecies surrounding the return of the energy of 13 Ahau. Use this day to express your dreams for the future of humanity and the planet. Indeed, it is the planet that is mediating the energy of 13 Ahau to us Humans and the planet itself will be ruled by the Sacred Calendar energy of 13 Ahau on this day. June 2 (1 Imix) is the beginning of a new cycle and an opportunity for those that want to enter more fully into the Divine flow of time and creation. The cosmos will at that point be offering a consciousness where our perception of reality will no longer be blocked by any darkening filters. The full Enlightenment of humanity will then be possible and because of the disappearance of all inner filters of darkness there will be no experience of separation from our fellow beings or from the Divine (or from our own Divine nature for that matter). All will be One and at the same time unique expressions of Divine creation."

- Carl Johan Calleman. To read the complete article visit http://www.calleman.com


"Prem Rawat speaks of the possibility for every person to find within themselves a peace and happiness that is not dependent on circumstances. Peace, he says, is within, and it can be felt; we just have forgotten how to get in touch with it. I see his message as pointing out to us that everyone must find peace first before helping to bring peace in the world."

- Emilio Colombo, Former Prime Minister of Italy and Former President of the European Parliament - taken from http://www.mdc.edu/peace_is_possible/ where there is more details on Prem Rawat - Recommended by Jan Buchalter@aol.com>


Worthy of Your Attention

George Galloway on Charlie Rose
http://aligningwithpurpose.com/images/GeorgeGalloway(5-18-05).ram
Note from Jean: It is really worth listening as Galloway goes much deeper than during the Senate hearing and substantiate very well his searing claims.

1000+ News links published and archived in May
http://Lovearth.net/News.php
A COLOSSAL service provided by our beloved friend "Mark R. Elsis" mark@lovearth.net>

VERY strange new celestial glyph design (this is a genuine "crop circle")
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2005/milhill2005a/milkhill2005a.html

Summoning UFOs -cool newscast (May 28)
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/05/27.html#s
First hour guest, Prophet Yahweh discussed his ability to summon UFOs on demand. The key to summoning UFOs, he explained, is living an upright life. Recently, KTNV-TV in Las Vegas sent an investigative reporter to check out his claims. Their video appears to show Prophet Yahweh calling down a UFO, much to the surprise of the reporter and several onlookers. Prophet Yahweh also announced he will begin calling down UFOs for 45 days starting on June 1, 2005. He said one of the UFOs will come close enough for all of Las Vegas to see, and may linger in the skies for a couple of days. -- Check the newscast for yourself at mms://wm-ondemand.abacast.com/prophet_yahweh/ABCnews1.wmv
Recommended by "Mark Graffis" mgraffis@gmail.com> who also sent this sent on May 30 by "Prophet Yahweh" prophet@prophetyahweh.com> "I Will Be Summoning Live Over ABC TV-13! Dear Lists, I got a call from ABC TV-13 this morning. They said that they wanted me to summon, over live television, for all their viewers to see on Wednesday morning, June 1, 2005! Their station reaches all of Southern Nevada and the border cities, of which Las Vegas is one of them. This is the moment I have been working so hard for! Now, shall YAHWEH, the Creator King of the universe, permanent intervene in the affairs of this world! It will be done and nothing shall hinder it! Prepare to be stunned as the first of many sightings will be documented on the first day of my first Media-Only Summoning Event starting June 1 - July 15, 2005. Yours In YAHWEH's Love And Mercy,
Prophet Yahweh Seer of Yahweh.
NOTE FROM JEAN: I smell something fishy here. Could this be a black op scam and the prelude to a summer of "smokescreen distractions" to take people's attention away from the Iraq quagmire and an assortment of other neocon malfeasance? Just a thought...

Stunning Whirpool Galaxy picture taken by the Hubble telescope
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2001/10/big.html


CONTENTS

1. The light at the Farmer's Market
2. Feedback
3. Regarding the illusion
4. How can the spiritual dimensions of science and consciousness help the UN
5. Give Peace a Chance
6. Depleted Uranium Bill Introduced into Congress
7. The Nature of the Iraqi Resistance
8. Nuclear Talks End in Discord
9. Holocaust Survivor Leaving US--Sees what's Coming
10. Day 141 of Bush's Silence
11. Experts: Petroleum May Be Nearing Peak
12. "Monsanto Laws" Sweeping the Nation Take Away Community/County Rights to Ban GMOs
13. Make Poverty History - complementary information
14. Beautiful animal stories...


See also:

Letter to Pres Bush Concerning "Downing Street Memo" - Please Sign to Impeach Bush
%3C%3Ehttp://www.johnconyers.campaignoffice.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC={0F1B03E0-080B-4100-B143-36A5985EF1E3}
(...) These are the same questions 89 Members of Congress, led by Rep. John Conyers, Jr., submitted to you on May 5, 2005. As citizens and taxpayers, we believe it is imperative that our people be able to trust our government and our commander in chief when you make representations and statements regarding our nation engaging in war. As a result, we would ask that you publicly respond to these questions as promptly as possible. CLIP Several people recommended this! including "Kathleen Roberts" weerkhr@pacbell.net> who wrote: "Senator John Conyers now has a smoking gun, the Downing Street Memo, which may enable him to call for a formal investigation of Bush's activities. He has asked for 100,000 signatures to the letter posted on his site. I think it's the first real step towards challenging this administration's lies, and really could lead to impeachment hearings. Please sign the letter by going to the link below and forward the link to others who are likely to want to do the same."

FEMA - The Secret Government http://www.freedomsite.net/FEMA%20-%20The%20Secret%20Government.htm
Some people have referred to it as the "secret government" of the United States. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. This government organization has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies, transportation systems, and can suspend the Constitution. (...) The crux of the problem is that FEMA has the power to turn the United States into a police state in time of a real crisis or a manufactured crisis. Lt. Col. North virtually established the apparatus for dictatorship. (...) The scenarios established to trigger FEMA into action are generally found in the society today, economic collapse, civil unrest, drug problems, terrorist attacks, and protests against American intervention in a foreign country. All these premises exist, it could only be a matter of time in which one of these triggers the entire emergency necessary to bring FEMA into action, and then it may be too late, because under the FEMA plan, there is no contingency by which Constitutional power is restored. -- Recommended by Phyllis Montague phyllism5@juno.com> who wrote: "I feel it is so important for people to get an understanding of what is happening here at home with out their awareness. Lots more information can be found at http://www.freedomsite.net/articles.htm

Galloway Wary Of Staged Terror Attack As Pretext For Iran Invasion (June 1 2005)
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.html
George Galloway made worldwide headlines on May 17th when he appeared in front of a Senate committee on investigations, after its members accused him of profiteering from Saddam Hussein's regime by receiving vouchers for oil, despite the fact that such allegations against Galloway had already been proven to be based on forged documents.Galloway did what no American on Capitol Hill could, he told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Galloway turned the tables and put the entire US establishment on trial for arming Saddam, imposing genocidal sanctions which killed a million Iraqis, and then the two illegal wars which killed and maimed hundreds of thousands more. Galloway appeared as a guest on The Alex Jones Show to discuss his Senate appearance and the subsequent fallout it generated. At the end of the show Alex Jones asked Galloway if he thought an invasion of Iran was on the horizon. Galloway was confident that massively opposed public opinion would stop an attack from taking place, unless a staged terror attack carried out by the military industrial complex and blamed on Iran was carried out. JONES: "What do we do if the military-industrial complex carries out a terror attack to blame it on them?" GALLOWAY: "Well that's another very real danger. There's no way we can legislate for that but we we must be on guard. We need a vigilant citizenry." JONES: "Unbelievable." GALLOWAY: "We need a vigilant citizenry that are wise to all the tricks that these monkeys are up to." Hear the clip at <http://prisonplanet.com/audio/galloway_clip.mp3

Cheney offended by Amnesty criticism (May 30, 2005)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.amnestyintl/index.html
Rights group accuses U.S. of violations at Guantanamo Bay WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he was offended by Amnesty International's condemnation of the United States for what it called "serious human rights violations" at Guantanamo Bay. "For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously," he said in an interview that was to air Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live." Amnesty International was scathing last week in its criticism of the way the United States has run the detention center at its naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "We have documented that the U.S. government is a leading purveyor and practitioner of the odious human rights violation," William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said Wednesday. On its Web site, the London, England-based human rights group says: "As evidence of torture and widespread cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment mounts, it is more urgent than ever that the U.S. government bring the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and any other facilities it is operating outside the USA into full compliance with international law and standards. The only alternative is to close them down." The vice president said the United States has freed millions of people from oppression. ................ !!! ..............

"Things Are Getting Worse by the Day" By Dahr Jamail (May 30, 2005)
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000250.php
The mayhem continues in Iraq, with today at least 40 people dead, including five US soldiers in Diyala province as the meltdown of the failed US-led occupation continues.Two suicide bombers detonated themselves after walking into a crowd of police officers in Hilla, south of Baghdad. The policemen were demonstrating outside the mayor’s office to protest a government decision to disband their Special Forces unit.In yet another horrible PR move (or attempt to raise sectarian tensions?) by the US military the head of Iraq’s largest Sunni political party, Mohsen Abdul Hamid was detained from his home early this morning in western Baghdad. Of course his head was promptly bagged and his hands tied before he was taken away to be interrogated. His three sons were also detained with him. Stun bombs and bullets were said to be used during the raid, according to his wife. It just so happens that his party, the Islamic Party, opposes the new US-backed security operation now engulfing Baghdad because they believe the security forces will disregard the rights of innocent Iraqis. Later today he was released and the military admitted it made a mistake. (...) At least 740 Iraqis have been killed since the new “government” took power in late April, and with the ongoing operations sparking more attacks each day, it doesn’t look like there is an end in sight. Keep in mind, the vast majority of the Iraqi security forces are either Shia or Kurdish battling against a primarily Sunni resistance (for now). It can easily be argued that we are witnessing a US-backed Iraqi government who is deliberating using its power to wage a civil war. CLIP

Media Disinformation and the Nature of the Iraqi Resistance (26 May 2005)
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HAS505C.html
The flurry of news, hypotheses, and disinformation about the nature of the Iraqi Resistance against the Occupation continues unabated. How much of this is managed propaganda against the Iraqi Resistance? According to both the Western mainstream media and the alternative media, the U.S. is "building democracy" and fighting "terrorism" in Iraq. The distortions of reality and lack of oppositional media leave people in the West, Americans in particular, ill informed. The Western media diligently diverts public attention from the illegal Occupation of Iraq and the responsibility of the U.S./Western governments for the horrendous crimes committed against the people of Iraq. Western journalists and pundits are the main agents of this distorted propaganda. The aims are to portray the Iraqi Resistance as violent "religious fanatics" isolated from the rest of the population and to advocate for ongoing occupation. Time and again, the public have shown to be less tolerant to the old cliché of "religious fanatics". By contrast, people around the world have a record of supporting national resistance movements.In other word, portraying the Iraqi national Resistance movement as a collection of "religious fanatics" and "foreign" fighters "with nothing to lose" is the Occupation's way of discrediting the Iraqi Resistance and denying the Iraqi people their legitimate right to fight for freedom and national sovereignty. CLIP

Irony Overflowing (May 2)
http://alternet.org/story/22102/
I often complain about the excess of irony in our national life, but this week, if you're not begoshed by the irony surplus, you haven't been paying attention. If we could just figure out a way to get energy out of the stuff, we'd be set for life.Liberals for the filibuster; conservatives against it -- hilarious. Pentagon loses track of more than $1 trillion, and the Army can't find 56 airplanes, 32 tanks and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units. Not to mention Osama bin Laden. And more:Right-wing Republicans fight to make the world safe from "judicial activists" by appointing Priscilla Owen -- the biggest, baddest, worstest judicial activist Texas ever produced -- to the federal bench. (...) Galloway, a member of the British Parliament, simply danced rings around the clumsy Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, and the others. The hearing bore an uncanny resemblance to the scene in Leonardo DiCaprio's popular bio-pic about Howard Hughes, The Aviator, in which the deteriorating Hughes triumphs over a low-rent, witch-hunt committee. In case you missed the flap, Galloway is a way-left Brit M.P. who actually did defend Saddam Hussein before the war, which may or may not have been based on his position that the pre-war boycott of Iraq did nothing to topple Hussein, but was a humanitarian nightmare for Iraqis. In fact, the boycott, as has long been documented, did kill tens of thousands of Iraqis, in particular babies and small children. An insane policy. CLIP

The Real Star Wars: Bush Revives Missile Defense Plan (30 May 2005)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/053105I.shtml
The saga of America's ambition to put weapons in space has been as protracted as George Lucas's film franchise. Now George Bush has a new plan - at a stellar cost of $58bn. Within the next few weeks, however, George Bush, a champion of missile defence from the start of his presidency, is expected to sign a national security directive moving the US a big step closer to putting weapons in space. Not so, insists the Air Force Space Command, the prime mover behind the initiative. The goal, a spokeswoman insists, is "free access in space, not weapons in space". But the evidence suggests otherwise. CLIP

The Financial Endgame Slowly Plays Out - and then... (May 27, 2005)
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/053105_world_stories.shtml
... the Sudden Systemic Implosion which will usher in the Brave New World. Just recommended by Phyllis Montague who wrote: "It really shows the plan and how the masses have been dumbed down and controlled and where we are headed. It is so important to get out of debt and be as free possible. It is long but worthwhile information and may help some understand what they can do to help themselves. For many that may mean changing their life style."

Bilderberg 2005: The world in the palm of their hands (May 24, 2005)
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_17936.shtml
The annual secret meeting of the Bilderberg group determines many of the headlines and news developments you will read about in the coming months. But the Establishment media completely black it out. With the exception of half-a-dozen high-ranking members of the press who are sworn to secrecy, few have ever heard of the exclusive and secretive group called The Bilderbergers. Mainstream news organizations boastful about their no-holds barred investigative exploits, have been strangely reluctant to lift the blackout curtain hiding a major event: the Bilderberg group's secret annual meeting for the world's most powerful financiers, industrialists, and political figures. Two thousand-five was a bad year for Bilderberg and its future looks gloomy. Herculean efforts to keep their meetings secret in Rottach-Egern failed miserably. Bilderberg's grief is the free world's glory—and hope for further restraining the power grabbers in the dawn of a new millennium. One certainty is that although the Bilderberg Group has lost some of its past luster, it is meeting under its usual secrecy that makes freemasonry look like a playgroup. Staff at the hotel are photographed and put through special clearance. From porters to senior managers, the employees are warned (under the threat of never working in the country again) about the consequences of revealing any details of the guests to the press. International and national media are said to be welcome only when an oath of silence has been taken, news editors are held responsible if any of their journalists 'inadvertently' report on what takes place.While Clinton, Blair, Chirac, Berlusconi and Company attended the G8 summits of the world's foremost democratically elected leaders, they were accompanied by the massed ranks of the world media. In stark contrast, the comings and goings at Bilderberg take place under cover of a virtual publicity blackout. The discussions they will engage in this year, from deciding how the world should deal with European-American relations, the Middle East powder keg, the Iraq war, the global economy and how to stave off war in Iran, and the consensus they reach, will influence the course of Western civilization and the future of the entire planet. This meeting takes place behind closed doors in total secrecy, protected by a phalanx of armed guards. CLIP

Intelligence Sources Say Bilderberg Targeting Patriots (May 28) http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/may2005/280505targetingpatriots.htm
Daniel Estulin is award-winning investigative journalist who has been researching the Bilderbergers for over 13 years. Estulin was one of only two journalists in the world who witnessed and reported (from beyond the heavily guarded perimeter) the super secret meeting at the Dorint Sofitel Seehotel in Rottach-Egern, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on May 5–8, 2005. Estulin appeared on the Alex Jones Show to discuss Bilderberg's agenda for the coming year and their discussions on Iran and population control. The attack on Iran seems to have been delayed but the goal of population reduction is back on the table for the Globalists, according to insiders who leaked information to Estulin. Estulin (pictured) has built up a reliable network of CIA, MI5 and Mossad insiders who are just as horrified as the rest of us about what the elite have in store for us. Each year they are able to leak him information discussed both in the Bilderberg conference rooms and more informal chats during coffee and cocktail breaks. This year Estulin dropped a bombshell that shocked even us. According to Estulin's sources, Bilderberg are very angry at the alternative truth movement and its opposition and exposure of Bilderberg's agenda. More specifically, the Christian Patriot movement in America was highlighted as a nuisance that will have to be dealt with. Bilderberg members postulated the necessity of wiping out American patriots who oppose the New World Order. CLIP

Stripping Rumsfeld and Bush of Impunity
http://www.progressive.org/july05/roth0705.php
When Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee last year, he was asked whether he "ordered or approved the use of sleep deprivation, intimidation by guard dogs, excessive noise, and inducing fear as an interrogation method for a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison." Sanchez, who was head of the Pentagon’s Combined Joint Task Force-7 in Iraq, swore the answer was no. Under oath, he told the Senators he "never approved any of those measures to be used." But a document the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained from the Pentagon flat out contradicts Sanchez’s testimony. It’s a memorandum entitled "CJTF-7 Interrogation and Counter-Resistance Policy," dated September 14, 2003. In it, Sanchez approved several methods designed for "significantly increasing the fear level in a detainee." These included "sleep management"; "yelling, loud music, and light control: used to create fear, disorient detainee, and prolong capture shock"; and "presence of military working dogs: exploits Arab fear of dogs." On March 30, the ACLU wrote a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, urging him "to open an investigation into whether General Ricardo A. Sanchez committed perjury in his sworn testimony." (...) The Bush Administration’s legal troubles don’t end with Sanchez or Gonzales. They go right to the top: to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush himself. Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International USA say there is "prima facie" evidence against Rumsfeld for war crimes and torture. And Amnesty International USA says there is also "prima facie" evidence against Bush for war crimes and torture. (According to Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, "prima facie evidence" is "evidence sufficient to establish a fact or to raise a presumption of fact unless rebutted.") Amnesty International USA has even taken the extraordinary step of calling on officials in other countries to apprehend Bush and Rumsfeld and other high-ranking members of the Administration who have played a part in the torture scandal. Foreign governments should "uphold their obligations under international law by investigating U.S. officials implicated in the development or implementation of interrogation techniques that constitute torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment," the group said in a May 25 statement. William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, added, "If the United States permits the architects of torture policy to get off scot-free, then other nations will be compelled" to take action. The Geneva Conventions and the torture treaty "place a legally binding obligation on states that have ratified them to exercise universal jurisdiction over persons accused of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions," Amnesty International USA said. "If anyone suspected of involvement in the U.S. torture scandal visits or transits through foreign territories, governments could take legal steps to ensure that such individuals are investigated and charged with applicable crimes." these two leading human rights organizations make such bold claims about the President and the Secretary of Defense, we need to take the question of executive criminality seriously. CLIP

The Voice of the White House (May 27, 2005)
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1616.htm#001
(...) From two sources, neither of whom know each other and both of whom are well-placed in the system, I have been receiving information that indicates that a coup d'etat against the Bush administration is apparently being seriously contemplated in certain circles.The first of these is the higher commands of the U.S. military which is disgusted with Bush and his ruination, as they see it, of the discipline and legitimate tasks of the military and the other is a loose confederation of very high level American businessmen who see Bush as a complete and fatal disaster to American business, most especially in the areas of foreign trade. CLIP

Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction in the USA? Questions We Must Ask http://www.mayanprophecy.net
Imagine a weapon that utilizes ball lightening (a scientific phenomenon similar to lightening because it moves just as quickly, but it's ethereal, meaning it passes through solids and liquids effortlessly, such as jet fuselage, bedrock or the molten core of the earth), and this ball lightening moves faster than light because it is powered by pre-existing etheric and magnetic lines of energy around and inside the earth.This type of lightening is man-made, and it defies all elements because it is created by an electromagnetic magnifying energy transmitter. A transmitter that builds up resonance without any wires or energy loss because it uses sound waves, vibrational frequency or charged particles (standing waves known as Tesla Waves) that incinerate and obliterate its victim. This wireless weapon of destruction is capable of aiming at specific coordinates from long distances even on the other side of the globe. Not only is this weapon capable of creating earthquakes, it is also powerful enough to pulverize cement and steel. Think of this weapon as a type of lightening that increases while coursing through the earth because it is powered by the etheric fields, electromagnetic currents and even the molten core in the center of the earth. Since this weapon is electric and magnetic, it gridlocks all communications as it surfaces and enters the atmosphere to destroy its target.Although it sounds like science fiction, the man who invented light as we know it today, Nicola Tesla, designed a weapon such as this, and he warned what would happen if his designs were built to course through the entire globe. Even with a small budget, Tesla's transmitters rocked the "buildings down the street" because many people witnessed and documented his "man-made" earthquakes in the late 1800s.Now fast forward to today, knowing that Tesla's discovery was made decades ago. CLIP

Cell Phone Dangers Are Real (May 1, 2005) http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/30/121604.shtml
You do risk cancer from gabbing away on your cell phone despite media reports and reassuring government statements that say there is no demonstrated danger in using the omnipresent devices. So says Dr. George Carlo, an epidemiologist who headed a research program funded by the cellular phone industry, and co-author with journalist Martin Schram of "Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age." (...) Overall, the studies failed to refute the alarming findings of lab experiments that appear to link cell phones to cancer by showing that human blood cells exposed to cell phone radiation suffered genetic damage, damage cancer experts consider to be a diagnostic marker of ''high risk'' for developing tumors. "Will people who begin using cell phones as children or teens be high risks for developing brain cancer in their 40s or 50s?" Carlo asks, saying that no studies have answered that question and it will take as long as 20 years before long-term epidemiological studies can either give us truly comforting assurance or flag real danger.Schram and Carlo recommend that until the final results are in, cell phone users should take such simple precautions as using a headset in such a way as to keep the radiation-emitting antenna away from their heads.

Some Fear Catastrophe From Amazon Highway (May 28)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050529/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_jungle_highway
(...) In a controversial plan, Brazil's government is preparing to let private companies embark on a $417 million paving project to turn BR163 into a modern two-lane toll highway stretching 1,100 miles, nearly the distance between Philadelphia and Miami. That would link Brazil's most important soy-growing region with a deep-water Amazon River port.Truck traffic will skyrocket as the country opens up a new export corridor for soybeans, Brazil's most important crop. Trips that now take weeks during the half-year rainy season will be cut to hours. (...) Environmentalists and Indian tribal leaders warn the pavement will eliminate even more rain forest, and pollute the region with crime, drugs and prostitution.Unless growth is under strict federal control, they say, the road could also bring violent land conflicts. In Para, the Brazilian state where most of the paving will take place, those are often solved by gunslinging "pistoleiros." Critics point to the February slaying of American nun Dorothy Stang, who spent 23 years protecting the rain forest and peasants. The killing was blamed on a rancher coveting land Stang was trying to protect. The government responded with an environmental crackdown, freezing development in 32,000 square miles along BR163. But environmentalists believe the ban will be lifted within a year. "Economics are determining the fate of the Amazon," said Paulo Adario, who heads Greenpeace's Amazon project. "The paving is inevitable, and at the end of the day, the discussion is centering on what we are willing to lose." CLIP

Scratched Cat Fever (Grist summary - http://lists.grist.org/lists/arc/weekly-grist)
Tigers in dangerous decline in India - The accelerating disappearance of endangered Bengal tigers from India's 28 tiger reserves has Indian officials and charismatic-megafauna enthusiasts the world over in a tizzy. Poaching of the country's national animal has increased in recent years, as body parts ranging from pelts to, um, members have become valuable commodities in the Chinese medicinal trade. Though India's resources for combating the problem are somewhat slim -- park guards' low wages encourage bribes, and they are armed only with long, wooden sticks (!) -- the country, a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, could face punitive measures if the situation does not improve. In response to what has been called an "international scandal," government officials are beefing up security at the parks, conducting a census of remaining tigers, drawing up a new conservation policy, and establishing an old-age home for tigers no longer able to hunt. - Details at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4573387.stm

Bird flu death toll five times what had been reported, China (28 May 2005)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=25264
An official from China's agricultural department said the death toll from bird flu in the West of China is five times greater than official reports had stated. The number of migratory birds killed was much larger than people had thought, he said. He added that the reports refer only to the death of birds and that no humans have died. Rumours are rife among experts and throughout the internet that there has been a massive cover-up. People are saying nobody really knows how bad the situation really is/was. Rumours abound that many humans have perished. Officials now say more than 1,000 migratory birds have died after being infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu. The H5N1 is the most lethal one. Official reports had talked about just 178 birds, all of them geese, perishing in Qinghai Lake - now, they say the real number is over 500. China has not reported one human death from bird flu - even though nearby countries such as Vietnam have had 38 deaths. In total, the number of human deaths from bird flu in South East Asia has totalled 54. Health experts say that in order to tackle a possible pandemic which could spread to humans and become a human-to-human transmissible disease, we need accurate, reliable information. If authorities are not able to provide reliable figures it is virtually impossible to know what to do and when and where to do it. A pandemic could kill millions and millions of people throughout the globe.

New findings about "junk DNA" may bring some surprises (QUITE AMAZING!)
http://www.gewo.applet.cz/health/DNA_1e.htm
A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project will be announcing soon that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called non-coding sequences (97%) in human DNA is no less than genetic code of an unknown extraterrestrial life form. The non-coding sequences are common to all living organisms on Earth, from molds to fish to humans. In human DNA, they constitute larger part of the total genome, says Prof. Sam Chang, the group leader. Non-coding sequences, also known as "junk DNA", were discovered years ago, and their function remains mystery. Unlike normal genes, which carry the information that intracellular machinery uses to synthesize proteins, enzymes and other chemicals produced by our bodies, non-coding sequences are never used for any purpose. They are never expressed, meaning that the information they carry is never read, no substance is synthesized and they have no function at all. We exist on only 3% of our DNA. The junk genes merely enjoy the ride with hard working active genes, passed from generation to generation. What are they? How come these idle genes are in our genome? Those were the question many scientists posed and failed to answer - until the breakthrough discovery by Prof. Sam Chang and his group.Trying to understand the origins and meaning of junk DNA Prof. Chang realized that he first needs a definition of "junk". Is junk DNA really junk, (useless and meaningless) or it contains some information not claimed by the rest of DNA for whatever reason? He once mentioned the question to an acquaintance, Dr. Lipshutz, a young theoretical physicist turned Wall Street derivative securities specialist. "Easy," replied Lipshutz. "We'll run your sequence through the software I use to analyze market data, and it will show if your sequences are total garbage, "white noise", or there is a message in there." This new breed of analysts with strong background in math, physics and statistics are getting more and more popular with Wall Street firms. They sift through gigabytes of market statistics, trying to uncover useful correlation between the various market indexes, and individual stocks. (...) "However, from the programmer's point of view, there is also positive outlook in it. What we see in our DNA is a program consisting of two versions, a big code and basic code. First fact is, the complete program was positively not written on Earth; that is now a verified fact. The second fact is, that genes by themselves are not enough to explain evolution; there must be something more in the game. What it is or where it is, we don't kow. The third fact is, no creator of a new work, be it a composer, engineer or programmer, from Mars or Microsoft, will ever leave his work without the option for improvement or upgrade. Ingenious here is, that the upgrade is already enclosed - the "junk DNA" is nothing more than hidden and dormant upgrade of our basic code! We know for some time that certain cosmic rays have power to modify DNA. With this in mind, plausible solution is available. The extraterrestrial programmers may use just one flash of the right energy from somewhere in the Universe to instruct the basic code to remove all the /*…*/ symbols, fuse itself with the big code ("junk DNA") and jumpstart working of our whole DNA. That would change us forever, some of us within months, some of us within generations. The change would be not too much physical, (except no more cancers, diseases and short life), but it will catapult us intellectually. Suddenly, we will be in time comparable to coexistence of Neanderthals with Cromagnons. The old will be replaced giving birth to a new cycle. The complete program is elegant, very clever self-organizing, auto-executing, auto-developing and auto-correcting software for a highly advanced biological computer with build-in connection to the ageless energy and wisdom of the Universe. Software wise, within us is either short and diseased life, or potential for a super-intelligent super-being with a long and healthy life. This triggers puzzling questions - was the reduction to the basic code done by sloppy programmers in a rush (as it appears to us), or was the disabling of the big code purposeful act which can be cancelled by a "remote control" whenever desired?"Soon or later, we have to come to grips with the unbelievable notion that every life on Earth carries genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is not what we think it is. This discovery may well shake the very roots of humanity - our beliefs in our concept of God and in our own power over our destiny. With the right paradigm, we may discover one day that all forms of life and the whole Universe is just one huge intellectual exercise in thoughts expressed mathematically, by Design, by Creator. - Recommended by Kalama Hawkrider kalama52@yahoo.com>

Omega-News Collection 28. May 2005
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