MAY LOVE PREVAIL ON EARTH
March 28, 2008
Turning Tide of History #25: Big Changes Afoot!
Hello everysoul!
Once again there is just soooo much being featured in this 106 page compilation that requires attention - and it's only the proverbial tip of the infoglut iceberg! - that it is easy to feel you are drowning into a bottomless sea. One thing though that appears to me to be the common theme of it all, it is that the pace of change is really picking up and that we ain't seen nothing yet...
So tighten your spiritual safety belt and hop along for another wild ride into the juggernaut of our careening civilization plunging headlong into the deep end of a future we are definitely co-creating all together now.
And keep your cool near your heart ;-)
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com
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THE QUOTES
"We are blessed to have two great American leaders and great Democrats running for President. My affection and admiration for Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton will never waver. It is time, however, for Democrats to stop fighting amongst ourselves and to prepare for the tough fight we will face against John McCain in the fall. The 1990's were a decade of peace and prosperity because of the competent and enlightened leadership of the Clinton administration, but it is now time for a new generation of leadership to lead America forward. Barack Obama will be a historic and a great President, who can bring us the change we so desperately need by bringing us together as a nation here at home and with our allies abroad."
- Bill Richardson -- Taken from http://ipol-2008.blogspot.com/2008/03/richardson-endorses-obama.html More on this endorsement through http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032108J.shtml
"Beloved ones you are standing in the midst of yet another level of extraordinary change. The energies that you are magnetically drawing towards you are creating shifts on not only a grander scale but within the minutest fibres of your being. Everything within the microcosm and macrocosm are undergoing change. This is a critical time as we lead all of you into the light of your own power and in so doing assisting you in recognising who you truly are, the you that exists beyond the programming of belief systems that have been fueled by insecure lower egos. I cannot even begin to explain to you how extraordinary these changes are, everything that comes your way now is pushing the boundary, it is forcing you to step outside of the mould, to shatter every single belief system that has created a system which feeds inhibition, everything that sustains limitation and fear."
- Lord Kuthumi -- 21:3 Equinox Channelling Channelled through Michelle Eloff
Recommended by Sunny Ariel (sunnyariel@gmail.com)
CONTENTS
1. What the hell’s going on down here?
2. Documentary Film Project on the New Indigo Kids
3. March 23, 2008 Message from Matthew
4. A Buddhist struggles to keep grounded about Tibet and China
5. Feedback to A Buddhist struggles to keep grounded about Tibet and China
6. Brasscheck TV: Why Eliot Spitzer was assassinated politically
7. American Refugees are flooding into Canada: Tens of thousands of Americans are now economic refugees 8. So? ... A Note from Michael Moore - Cheney On Two-Thirds Of The American Public Opposing The Iraq War 9. Iraq implodes as Shia fights Shia: Another tragedy as the Shia majority turn on each other
10. The Peak Oil Crisis: Stirrings in Ottawa
11. 'The Long Emergency' predicts dire future
12. The road to hyper-inflation
13. Daunting Stats on China
14. The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance
15. Scientists Confirm Unexpected Gulf Stream Slowing
16. Melting glaciers will shrink grain harvests in China and India
WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION
Voices for Peace
http://www.grainofwheat.net/voices.html
A Collection of Statements on Peace - Words on peace from many voices past and present. Their message is timeless, and especially urgent today. Compiled by (long-time ERN subscriber) Stan Penner, who in addition to peace advocacy, works with Winnipeg Harvest and other community service organizations in Manitoba, Canada.
Earth Hour 2007 was a Sydney event. Earth Hour 2008 is a global movement - WILL YOU JOIN IN?
http://www.earthhour.org/
Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming. This simple act has captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world. As a result, at 8pm March 29, 2008 millions of people in some of the world’s major capital cities, including Copenhagen, Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tel Aviv will unite and switch off for Earth Hour. See the difference you can make! And sign up! There some info in French on this HERE. Recommended by Sunny Ariel (sunnyariel@gmail.com) http://www.genindigo.com/ - http://www.sapphirehouse.com/ -- See her letter below on her Documentary Film Project on the New Indigo Kids.
Personacratia
http://www.personocratia.com/en/index.php
A unique website created by Ghis, aka Ghislaine Lanctôt, an anti-medical establishment maverick from Quebec against whom a warrant arrest was recently issued for failure to produce income tax reports for Revenue Canada Agency. Check why at http://www.jemesouviensdequijesuis.com/english/Ghis.htm
German challenge to Holocaust-Shoah Narrative
http://youtube.com/watch?v=72dHps9pYSc
Dirk Zimmermann is a 36-year-old happily married family man who challenges Section 130 of the Criminal Code that prohibits doubting the legally-sanctioned Holocaust-Shoah narrative. He sent Germar Rudolf's 'Lectures on the Holocaust' to German public figures, then turned himself in to the police for having violated Section 130. It is a conscious act because Zimmermann demands he has a right to doubt.
ROCKING RUSSKIES - Times are a-changin'!
http://www.tothepointnews.com:80/content/view/3114/85/
How the Financial Markets Really Work
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/187.html
Another example of humor that is deadly accurate.
BBC Report: Tent cities spring up in LA (March 14, 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8
Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis.
Southern California Shanty Town / Tent City (More on this in item #7 below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeHiFZUWtE
More and more people living in Third World conditions in the wake of the sub-prime debacle.
BBC Mini-Documentary: PLASTIC PLANET - Eye-popping planetary orgy of plastic trash. MUST WATCH!
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/index.php?p=838
'The Reflecting Pool' A New 9/11 Investigative Drama That Challenges The Official Version Of 9/11 Events
http://www.emediawire.com:80/releases/911/movie/prweb781294.htm
A new 9/11 investigative drama that challenges the official version of 9/11 events, 'The Reflecting Pool', is now available on DVD from reflectingpoolfilm.com. 'The Reflecting Pool' follows a journalist who teams up with the father of a 9/11 victim to investigate the official version of the events. Their findings pose a disturbing question that has no easy answer: To what extent was the U.S. Government at fault for the attacks?
The Devil's Swimming Pool
http://www.jibjab.com/view/234429
In Zimbabwe, Africa, you will find the magnificent Victoria Falls at a height of 128m. The location is known as "The Devil's Swimming Pool".During the months of September and December, people can swim as close as possible to the edge of the falls without falling over! These falls are becoming well known amongst the "radical tourist" industry as more and more people search for the ultimate experience. Would you dare?
Swimming In Victoria Falls Devils Pool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN9KnWy-H8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCxKYWhMU18&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26O5miWH0Cg&NR=1
Keeping Secrets Secret: Mass Media Propaganda Supports Major Cover-ups
http://www.WantToKnow.info/008/080323massmediapropaganda
Revealing News: Eliot Spitzer Resignation, Iraq War Coverage, Disparities in US Life Expectancy, More!
http://www.WantToKnow.info/008/080327spitzerresignationiraqwarcoverageuslifeexpectancy
Democracy Arrives in Bhutan (Video: 3 min 35 sec) A rare look inside this closed-off eco-paradise
http://www.time.com/time/video/?bcpid=1214055407&bctid=1463243842
After more than a century of monarchy in Bhutan, voters will soon go to the polls to elect their first democratic parliament.
Stand with Tibet
http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/7002/petition?petition_KEY=48
The Chinese government isn't used to listening to the international community. But, the summer Olympics will provide a once in a lifetime opportunity to shine the spotlight on abuses committed by the Chinese government. Sign this petition today to stand with the people of Tibet
March 27 UPDATE from AVAAZ
We reached our target! In just 7 days over 1 million of us have signed the petition calling for human rights and dialogue in Tibet--the fastest growing internet petition in history. As the crisis continues, it's time to deliver our petition and make sure Chinese President Hu Jintao hears our voices. An International Day of Action has been declared for Monday, March 31st. On Monday, thousands of people in cities across the world will march to Chinese embassies and consulates, and stack hundreds of boxes containing our petition outside them. 1 million signatures makes a mountain of boxes--it will send a powerful global message. We have just 4 days left until the petition delivery. Could we get to 2 million signatures in 4 days? We can do it--if every one of us recruits at least one more friend to sign the petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/70.php
Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain (March 25, 2008)
http://www.news.wisc.edu/14944
Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples' mental states, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Published March 25 in the Public Library of Science One, the study was the first to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to indicate that positive emotions such as loving-kindness and compassion can be learned in the same way as playing a musical instrument or being proficient in a sport. The scans revealed that brain circuits used to detect emotions and feelings were dramatically changed in subjects who had extensive experience practicing compassion meditation.The research suggests that individuals — from children who may engage in bullying to people prone to recurring depression — and society in general could benefit from such meditative practices (...) The study was part of the researchers' ongoing investigations with a group of Tibetan monks and lay practitioners who have practiced meditation for a minimum of 10,000 hours. In this case, Lutz and Davidson worked with 16 monks who have cultivated compassion meditation practices. Sixteen age-matched controls with no previous training were taught the fundamentals of compassion meditation two weeks before the brain scanning took place."Many contemplative traditions speak of loving-kindness as the wish for happiness for others and of compassion as the wish to relieve others' suffering. Loving-kindness and compassion are central to the Dalai Lama's philosophy and mission," says Davidson, who has worked extensively with the Tibetan Buddhist leader. "We wanted to see how this voluntary generation of compassion affects the brain systems involved in empathy." CLIP
The 2012 Enigma by David Wilcock Pt. 01 of 9 parts that can be viewed through the links provided there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5b-kLvppdg
Recommended by Carol Lynn Smith (carol88@shaw.ca) who wrote: "I was excited to hear this presentation by David Wilcock from the recent Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles."
Smile! Some Pictures to Brighten Your Day
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/3/20/smile-some-pictures-to-brighten-your-day.aspx
2012 Pyramids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PvZFnDNw7E
Messages for the coming changes of 2012 - Pyramids are found all over the world and often align with celestial bodies here are some great images and facts for you to ponder.
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US moves towards engaging Iran (Mar 27, 2008) GOOD MOVE GEORGE!
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JC27Ak04.html
The coming few weeks are going to be critical in the standoff between the United States and Iran as the upheaval in the Middle East reaches a turning point. And all options do remain on the table, as the George W Bush administration likes to say, from military conflict to a de facto acceptance of Iran's standing as the region's dominant power. One thing is clear. The time for oratorical exercises is ending. A phase of subtle, reciprocal, conceptual diplomatic actions may be beginning. An indication of this is available in the two radio interviews given by Bush last weekend and beamed into Iran, exclusively aimed at reaching out to the Iranian public on the Persian New Year Nauroz. Significantly, ahead of Bush's interviews, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger spoke. Kissinger, incidentally, is a foreign policy advisor to the Republican Party's presidential nominee, Senator John McCain. For the first time, Kissinger called for unconditional talks with Iran. That is a remarkable shift in his position. Kissinger used to maintain that the legacy of the hostage crisis during the Iranian revolution in 1979 and "the messianic aspect of the Iranian regime" represented huge obstacles to diplomacy, and combining with "Persian imperial tradition" and "contemporary Islamic fervor", a collision with the US became almost unavoidable. Interestingly, Kissinger's call was also echoed by Dennis Ross, who used to be a key negotiator in the Middle East, and carries much respect in Israel. Bush's interviews with the government-supported Voice of America and Radio Farda, especially the latter, were a masterly piece in political overture. He held out none of the customary threats against Iran. This time, there was not even the trademark insistence that "all options are on the table". There were no barbs aimed at President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Least of all, there were no calls for a regime change in Tehran. Bush simply said something that he might as well have said about Saudi Arabia or Egypt. As he put it, "So this is a regime and a society that's got a long way to go [in reform]." Bush spoke of the evolution of the Iranian regime's character rather than its overthrow. The criticism, if any, of Iranian government policies approached nowhere near the diatribes of the past. There was none of the boastful claims that the US would work toward isolating Iran in its region and beyond. In fact, Bush acknowledged, "There's a chance that the US and Iran can reconcile their differences, but the [Iranian] government is going to have to make different choices. And one [such choice] is to verifiably suspend the enrichment of uranium, at which time there is a way forward." CLIP THIS SUDDEN SHIFT COULD BE EXPLAINED WITH THE NEXT 2 ARTICLES BELOW... AND IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE CHENEY/BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS SAYING A COUPLE DAYS EARLIER - (See other articles below)
Military tells Bush of troop strains (March 26, 2008)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080326/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq;_ylt=AkcCUcO7Lw4UxR73CGjjO4qs0NUE
WASHINGTON - Behind the Pentagon's closed doors, U.S. military leaders told President Bush Wednesday they are worried about the Iraq war's mounting strain on troops and their families. But they indicated they'd go along with a brief halt in pulling out troops this summer. The Joint Chiefs of Staff did say senior commanders in Iraq should make more frequent assessments of security conditions, an idea that appeared aimed at increasing pressure for more rapid troop reductions. The chiefs' concern is that U.S. forces are being worn thin, compromising the Pentagon's ability to handle crises elsewhere in the world. CLIP
The secret American-Iranian security deal in Iraq, and how this connected to McCain’s visit to Israel (March 26, 2008)
http://tinyurl.com/yvoqdx
Arab online says that there are secret Iranian – American negotiations at Ahmadinejad’s visit to Iraq. The report contains details and names of people who attended the meeting from both sides which we don’t need here, so this is what the newspaper said in short: Ahmadinejad offered to calm the situation in Iraq, using the three days attacks-free visit to Iraq as a demonstration of what can Iran do, the second offer is to accept the long term Iraqi – American agreement To remove Iraq from the 1546 U.N. resolution, which gives the permission for the “Coalition Forces” to use force any Iraq’s neighboring country, if intelligence reports give evidence that the country exporting terrorism to Iraq, there is also a chapter allowing American forces to use Iraqi territory to attack another countries. - To end all American – European political and logistic support for the Iranian opposition, especially Iran’s Resistance Council Organization, Pijac Kurdish organization, and other small opposition groups [Arabs, Turkmen, Azari…etc]. - Stop the secret and public American administration incitement of toppling the Iranian regime. - End the U.S. and Europe campaign to push for the Iranian Jews immigration to Israel. - To put an end to the campaign of the need to for pre-emptive strikes against selective and sensitive intelligence, military and nuclear Iranian sites. The most important part of these negotiations is; What Iran can do for the U.S. in Iraq: Ahmadinejad mentioned that he is negotiating with a previous blessing from Ayatollah Khamenei, and that’s reassured the Americans about the seriousness of the negotiations. So, Ahmadinejad commitments are: - Intelligence cooperation in Iraq and the region, while Washington gives Iran a space to maneuver internationally, easing the international pressure and the embargo, as a result, Tehran to postpone uranium enrichment operations for a period of two years, with the approval of Iran’s nuclear programme by the inspection teams of the International Atomic Energy Agency.- Full cooperation between Tehran and Washington in all areas CLIP
Cheney: Iran might be next US target (19 Mar 2008)
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=71055&start=680
A senior aide to the US Vice President has reportedly said a military option against Iran over its nuclear program is on the table again. Vice President Dick Cheney is again talking about possible US military action to shut down Iran's nuclear program, the Israeli website DEBKA quoted the aide as saying. The official added Cheney had told US troops in a military base in Iraq that "Iran has got to be very high on that list (of the countries that might be attacked)". The remarks came ahead of the talks Cheney was to hold during his 10-day tour of the Middle East, which began Monday, March 17 in Iraq. The report added that Cheney is again talking about possible US military action to shut down Iran's nuclear program, citing military and political sources in the region. Cheney stopped over in Oman Wednesday, after two days in Iraq. He will travel to Saudi Arabia and will be in al-Quds next Saturday. He is also scheduled to visit Ramallah and Turkey. According to the report, Cheney would emphasize the Bush administration's decision to distance itself from the National Intelligence Estimate indicating that "Iran has halted its nuclear arms program in 2003." The report has undermined the position of hawkish politicians who were beating the drums of war with Iran. Cheney will also underlines that "the administration now buys British, German, French and Israeli intelligence estimates that Iran is indeed pressing forward with programs for building nuclear weapons, warheads and ballistic missiles for their delivery." The report added the Americans will need the cooperation of Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey to mount a military attacks on Iran. Israel was notified by the White House that the Iranian issue had been added to Cheney's regional agenda at the last minute, DEBKA quoted informed sources as saying.
Bush Makes False Claims on Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032108K.shtml
Robin Wright reports for The Washington Post, "President Bush said Thursday that Iran has declared that it wants to be a nuclear power with a weapon to 'destroy people,' including others in the Middle East, contradicting the judgments of a recent US intelligence estimate."
Annan Warns Against Conflict With Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032108L.shtml
The Associated Press reports, "Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Thursday that military action against Iran would be 'a real disaster' and said the Middle East could explode if the international community doesn't handle the many conflicts in the region very carefully."
Breaking Point By Ted Lang (3-21-8)
http://www.rense.com/general81/break.htm
What will it take to really enrage the American people to the breaking point? Is it the comments made by that sneering, nasty old geezer with the pacemaker's reply "So?" to ABC's Martha Raddatz after telling him that only two thirds of the American people oppose the illegal invasion and war in Iraq? The truth is that it is more like 75 percent of the American people who want the war ended and believe, along with truly professional high-level military strategists and personnel, that the war is a horrific mistake and America's most incompetent military misadventure. It has lasted longer than World War II! Not sure the sneering, nasty old geezer heard her correctly, she repeated, "You don't care what the American people think?" "No," Cheney replied. Now consider this response and his monarchial attitude when applied against the history of governments, monarchies, revolutions and war. Consider the response to that usually ascribed to Marie Antoinette before she was guillotined: "Let them eat cake!" Or how about multi-zillionaire William Vanderbilt's outrage directed at a reporter: "The public be damned!" Or French King Louis XIV and Charles de Gaulle's, "I am the state!" Cheney's response, at a time when it is now known that it was his sole initiative to invade Iraq, which is now destroying our economy, has killed almost 1.2 million innocent, defenseless, Iraqi civilians in order to bring them "democracy" by bombing the shit out of them, and has probably killed somewhere between 15,000 to 20,000 in our American military, is typical of the mindlessness, heartlessness, and downright treason of one of humanity's cruelest tyrants. This monster has killed more human beings than Abraham Lincoln! CLIP
Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) Bush's SuperSecret Space Based Interceptor (26 Mar 2008)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sbi.htm
Initially the Bush Administration articulated missile defense plans that included a significant commitement to a Space Based Interceptor [SBI] program. These plans provoked technical criticism and political controversy. The Administration apparently dropped these plans for space weapons, and the controversy faded. Critics of space based weapons were left with nothing to criticize. In reality, the Administration continued the Space-Based Interceptor program under a classified program, PE 0603891C Special Programs MDA, that first appeared in the 2005 budget request, around the time that overt funding for space based weapons was fading away. The program continues, without the political contoversy that had attended the overtly funded program of previous years. CLIP
MEDIA WATCH: "Bush's War" in the Cross hairs
http://www.heartcom.org/BushWar.htm
The "front line" on the War on Terror has become everyone's TV where perception management attempts to fit the intelligence of the public to the agenda of war profiteers behind government policy. Political correctness was never so morally wrong since neocons hijacked public intelligence with emotional tyranny on 9/11. The PBS TV two-part Frontline documentary, Bush's War provides a good account, in a superficial dumbed-down way, of the power struggles behind the endless terror war quagmire. The price of all this becomes self-evident as encroaching tyranny promises law and order, but at the expense of freedom, right up to the current economic terror and saber-rattling with Iran. Will WWIII be averted by the same power elite who created this mess? Will the public wake up, wise up, and stand up for Constitutional checks on the abuse of power? CLIP
FRONTLINE | "Bush's War" | Preview of Night 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maOZwxVA3X4
Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late (27/03/08)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19619.htm
Frontline’s “Bush’s War” on PBS Monday and Tuesday evening was a nicely put-together rehash of the top players’ trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing, and limitless incompetence of the occupation. CLIP
Heavy Fighting Rocks Iraq's Basra City
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708J.shtml
Agence France-Presse reports: "Heavy fighting erupted in a bastion of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia in Basra on Thursday, witnesses said, as military operations against gunmen in the southern city entered a third day." CLIP - MUCH MORE on this below in "Iraq implodes as Shia fights Shia"
In Basra, Elections, Oil Drive Conflict
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032608R.shtml
Truthout's Maya Schenwar and Christopher Kuttruff report: "As conflicts swell in Basra and Baghdad, the Maliki government, supported by the Bush administration, claims it is subduing terrorism and cracking down on militia violence. However, the attacks on the Sadr forces may be primarily motivated by electoral politics and oil control, according to policy experts following Iraq's civil conflict closely."
Maliki: We'll fight militia to the end
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1320238/1665883
Mehdi Army fighters loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr remained in control of much of Basra, Iraq's second biggest city and main oil hub, defying a three-day government offensive that has led to violence spreading across the south and Baghdad.
Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons (March 24, 2008) HORRIBLE CRUELTY!!!
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/80440
In supermax prisons, 23 hours a day of solitary confinement is the norm. How did our prison system become so cruel? Imagine living in an 8-by-12 prison cell, in solitary confinement, for eight years straight. Your entire world consists of a dank, cinder block room with a narrow window only three inches high, opening up to an outdoor cement cage, cynically dubbed, "the yard." If you're lucky, you spend one hour five days a week in that outdoor cage, where you gaze up through a wire mesh roof and hope for a glimpse of the sun. If you talk back to the guards or act out in any way, you might only venture outside one precious hour per week. You go eight years without shaking a hand or experiencing any physical human contact. The prison guards bark orders and touch you only while wearing leather gloves, and then it's only to put you in full cuffs and shackles before escorting you to the cold showers, where they watch your every move.You cannot make phone calls to your friends or family and must "earn" two visits per month, which inevitably take place through a Plexiglass wall. You are kept in full shackles the entire time you visit with your wife and children, and have to strain to hear their voices through speakers that record your every word. With no religious or educational programs to break up the time or elevate your thoughts, it's a daily struggle to keep your mind from unraveling.
(...) A concept that spread like wildfire in the 1990s, today an estimated 20,000 prisoners in 44 states live in these modern-day dungeons, judged to be "unmanageable" by prison officials and moved from other penitentiaries to the nearest supermax. Life in supermax institutions is grueling. Inmates stay in their cells for at least 23 hours per day, and never so much as lay eyes on another prisoner. While many live under these conditions for five years, others continue, uncertain of how to earn their way out, for 10, 15 or even 20 years. SThe effects of such extended periods of isolation on prisoners' physical and mental health, their chances of meaningful rehabilitation, and, ultimately, on the communities to which they will eventually return are coming under increasing fire, from lawyers, human rights advocates and the medical professionals who have treated them. Bolstered by growing concern over the United States' sanctioning of torture, and the effect it's had on the country's international standing, their calls to action are gaining ground.
(...) "Many of these inmates," he said. "have become psychotic, and many have engaged in self-injurious and self-mutilatory behavior." Annibal Santiago, who has been incarcerated at Tamms since 1998, describes how it feels from the inside: "The mentally ill prisoners drive the normal prisoners crazy by screaming, crying, yelling into the pod at all hours of the day and night for days nonstop, by banging on toilets, doors, walls, and/or by shaking or kicking the doors so hard that it sounds like rumbling thunder, flooding the wing with toilet water, and by throwing feces at other prisoners or inserting feces into the air vents so that the whole wing receives a dose of the smell for months." "The constant bombardment of unrelenting stress takes its toll like a flurry of well-placed punches on a tired boxer's head," he wrote in a survey compiled by Tamms Year Ten Campaign, an activist group working to shut down the facility.
(...) As Paul Beachamp, a Tamms prisoner since 2002, puts it, "What happens when you lock up a dog in a cage for years at a time and constantly harass the dog and treat it bad while it's in the cage? Do you actually think that dog will act right once you let it out?" Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Corrections and Rehabilitation, issued a similar warning before a Senate hearing in 2006. "The experiences inmates have in prison -- whether violent or redemptive -- do not stay within prison walls, but spill over into the rest of society," he said.
(...) Berry's work is one of the reasons he counts himself among the lucky ones. After spending eight years in a facility where he was told he would have to "relinquish everything, even your personality," Berry has done more than survive; he has thrived, and he is fighting back. Within the current debate over state-sanctioned torture abroad, his voice is an important reminder of the cruel, unusual, and too-often ignored contradictions of our own criminal justice system.
Soldier Asks Himself: "Am I a Torturer?"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708N.shtml
Justine Sharrock reports for Mother Jones: "When I first set off to interview the rank-and-file guards and interrogators tasked with implementing the administration's torture guidelines, I thought they'd never talk openly. They would be embarrassed, wracked by guilt, living in silent shame in communities that would ostracize them if they knew of their histories. What I found instead were young men hiding their regrets from neighbors who wanted to celebrate them as war heroes."
Chertoff: ID must comply to fly (March 21, 2008)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080322/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/secure_driver_s_licenses_4
WASHINGTON - Homeland security officials on Friday hinted at a possible face-saving deal to end their standoff with a handful of states over new driver's license rules — a dispute that, left unresolved, could cause big air travel headaches. (...) Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had warned that if holdout states do not send a letter by the end of March seeking an extension, come May, residents of such states will no longer be able to use their driver's licenses as valid ID to board airplanes or enter federal buildings. Such travelers would instead have to present a passport or be subjected to secondary screening.Five senators — Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Jon Tester and Max Baucus of Montana, and John Sununu of New Hampshire — appealed to Chertoff last week to exempt all 50 states from the looming deadline. (...) Chertoff has offered a plan to gradually implement Real ID requirements over a period of 10 years, so that eventually all driver's licenses would have several layers of security features to prevent forgery. They would also be issued only after a number of identity checks, including immigration status and verification of birth certificates. Critics of the plan say it is too expensive, is an invasion of privacy and won't actually make the country safer.
Clinton, Obama Are Wall Street Darlings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032108P.shtml
Janet Hook and Dan Morain report for the Los Angeles Times, "Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, who are running for president as economic populists, are benefiting handsomely from Wall Street donations, easily surpassing Republican John McCain in campaign contributions from the troubled financial services sector."
"The Clinton Myth"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032208A.shtml
The Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write: "One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning."
The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and the Audacity of Truth
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032208F.shtml
Over the past week or so, mainstream media have turned much of their attention to the fiery sermons of the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright. Dr. Wright is pastor to Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) and his family. He was also, until recently, pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago. Most of the discussion and commentary about Dr. Wright's sermons have come from a predominantly white media. The points of discussion have centered on what they consider to be the "vile, racist and un-American things" said by Dr. Wright. Very few, if any, of the discussions have focused on the historical basis and accuracy of what Dr. Wright actually said.
Bhutto's Party Picks a Consensus-Builder to Be Pakistan's Next Premier
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032308G.shtml
Saeed Shah reports for McClatchy Newspapers, "Pakistan's dominant opposition party on Saturday announced that Yousuf Raza Gilani, a soft-spoken consensus-builder, will be the next prime minister." And, William Dalrymple writes for The New York Review of Books from Lahore, Pakistan, "A new coalition government now looks likely to come to power peacefully, bringing together Zadari's People's Party and Sharif's Muslim League, and will do so unopposed by the army. These developments should now lead commentators to reassess the country that many have long written off and caricatured as a terror-breeding swamp of Islamist iniquity."
Pakistan's New Leaders Tell US: We Are No Longer Your Killing Field
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708L.shtml
Declan Walsh reports for The Guardian UK: "The Bush administration is scrambling to engage with Pakistan's new rulers as power flows from its strong ally, President Pervez Musharraf, to a powerful civilian government buoyed by anti-American sentiment.... On Tuesday, senior coalition partner Nawaz Sharif gave the visiting Americans a public scolding for using Pakistan as a 'killing field' and relying too much on Musharraf."
U.S. Government Concedes That Mercury Causes Autism (March 22 2008)
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/3/22/u-s-government-concedes-that-mercury-causes-autism.aspx
The U.S. government has concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of autism in 9-year-old Hannah Poling. The unprecedented concession was in response to one of three test cases that allege the mercury-containing vaccine preservative thimerosal caused autism in children.According to the case, the child was healthy and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, where she received vaccinations for nine diseases, two of which contained thimerosal. Within 48 hours of the shots, Hannah become ill, refused to walk and could not sleep through the night. Within three months, she began showing signs of autism.According to U.S. Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder."Although federal officials continue to say there is no link between autism and vaccines, this concession says otherwise. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that Hannah’s family is entitled to compensation from a federal vaccine injury fund in an amount that is still being determined. There are currently 4,900 autism cases pending in Federal "Vaccine Court." More on this through http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html AND How to avoid autism? (March 7, 2008) REALLY EXCELLENT!! http://mwebworldhealth.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-avoid-autism.html
German Scientist Exposes Chemtrails As Military Operations (3-16-8)
http://www.rense.com/general81/crimeag.htm
Chemtrails are Covert Weather Warfare Against Unsuspecting Populations -- A TV news report from Germany has confirmed that the German Military is manipulating the climate in Germany. As a result scientists have filed a lawsuit against the government for climate manipulation. The video concludes, "We can state with a 97% certainty that we have on our hands chemical trails (chemtrails) comprised by fine dust containing polymers and metals... The purpose of chemtrails, which are well documented over the United State and other parts of the world, according to researchers, is to manipulate the weather. Karsten Brandt, German meteorologist states, "The Federal Army is Manipulating the Meteorological maps." ... Mr. Brandt in the interview, "I was surprised that this artificial cloud was so wide-spread. The radar images are stunning considering the needed tons of dispersed elements - although, the federal army claims that only small amounts of material were propagated. The military heads claim that the substances used are not harmful." ...The forefront of these operations in the United States appears to be the US Navy, as detailed in "Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism & Toxic Warfare," by Dr. Len Horowitz. An alternative theory to direct toxification of the atmosphere to explain Chemtrails, is that a new weapon related to controlling weather events is being deployed. By creating droughts and thus famines, large populations could be easily controlled or eliminated. Other countries could be easily controlled and brought to their knees by a global power if the weather could be controlled or altered. Johannes Remmel, German Green party representative states, "The government must provide explanations to the unsuspecting population." While radar is tracking suspicious aircraft, the Germany Military then uses counterfeit satellite imagery to hide their operations.... In Germany, weather manipulation is prohibited, and I would likewise believe that it is prohibited in the U.S. as well.Since Chemtrails are so widespread, I would rule out the idea that this is just military performing operations to disrupt radar signals as part of some sort of drill. Many government watchdogs claim global depopulation, the targeted reduction of the world's population by two-thirds, is secretly the reason behind chemtrail spraying. (...) Bottom line: Chemtrails -- although less conspicuous than in the late 90's (perhaps because some of us are on to them) it is still being done and still a major crime (or should be a crime), mass-murder and a crime against humanity if there ever was one.
For Clarke, Issues of Faith, but Tackled Scientifically (March 20, 2008)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/books/20clar.html
“Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral” were the instructions left by Arthur C. Clarke, who died on Wednesday at the age of 90. This may not have surprised anyone who knew that this science-fiction writer, fabulist, fantasist and deep-sea diver had long seen religion as a symptom of humanity’s “infancy,” something to be outgrown and overcome. But his fervor is still jarring because when it comes to the scriptural texts of modern science fiction, and the astonishing generation of prophetic innovators who were his contemporaries — Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury — Mr. Clarke’s writings were the most biblical, the most prepared to amplify reason with mystical conviction, the most religious in the largest sense of religion: speculating about beginnings and endings, and how we get from one to the other. Stanley Kubrick’s film of Mr. Clarke’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” for example — a project developed with the author — is haunting not for its sci-fi imaginings of artificial intelligence and space-station engineering but for its evocation of humanity’s origins and its vision of a transcendent future embodied in a human fetus poised in space. (...) It is Mr. Clarke who first conceived of the communication satellites that orbit directly over a single spot on Earth and allow the planet to be blanketed in a network of signals. There are many other examples as well.But acts of reason and scientific speculation are just the beginning of his imaginings. Reason alone is insufficient. Something else is required. For anyone who read Mr. Clarke in the 1960s and ’70s, when space exploration and scientific research had an extraordinary sheen, his science fiction made that enterprise even more thrilling by taking the longest and broadest view, in which the achievements of a few decades fit into a vision of epic proportions reaching millenniums into the future. It is no wonder that two generations of scientists were affected by his work. CLIP Check also Arthur C. Clarke: A Techno-Optimist With Climate Concerns and this 9 min video Sir Arthur C Clarke: 90th Birthday Reflections released on YouTube to mark Mr. Clarke’s 90th birthday, December 16th, he spoke about his “90 orbits” and his view of things to come.
Monsanto Wins: The Genetically Modified Food Gamble
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032008EC.shtml
Robert Weissman of Common Dreams writes, "There have been few experiments as reckless, overhyped and with as little potential upside as the rapid rollout of genetically modified crops. Last month, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a pro-biotech nonprofit, released a report highlighting the proliferation of genetically modified crops. According to ISAAA, the biotech crop area grew 12 percent, or 12.3 million hectares, to reach 114.3 million hectares in 2007, the second-highest area increase in the past five years."
The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see (24 Mar 2008) http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=172&a=5653
The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. The endless list of genetically modified seeds sold and controlled by Monsanto are putting at enormous risk age-old agricultural patterns under the presumptuous slogan of aiming at solving the huge problem of hunger in the world. On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, entitled 'The World According to Monsanto' (Le Monde selon Monsanto). CLIP
Death of the Bees : GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America (March 25, 2008)
http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article16762
'Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of [North/America's crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, you could kiss those crops goodbye, to say nothing of the honey bees produce or the flowers they also fertilize'. This essay will discuss the arguments and seriousness pertaining to the massive deaths and the decline of Bee colonies in North America. As well, it will shed light on a worldwide hunger issue that will have an economical and ecological impact in the very near future. There are many reasons given to the decline in Bees, but one argument that matters most is the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and "Terminator Seeds" that are presently being endorsed by governments and forcefully utilized as our primary agricultural needs of survival. I will argue what is publicized and covered by the media is in actuality masking the real forces at work, namely the impact of genetically modified seeds on the reproduction of bee colonies across North America. Genetically modified seeds are produced and distributed by powerful biotech conglomerates. The latter manipulate government agricultural policy with a view to supporting their agenda of dominance in the agricultural industry. American conglomerates such as Monsanto, Pioneer HiBred and others, have created seeds that reproduce only under certain conditions, often linked to the use of their own brands of fertilizer and/or insecticide.The genetic modification of the plant leads to the concurrent genetic modification of the flower pollen. When the flower pollen becomes genetically modified or sterile, the bees will potentially go malnourished and die of illness due to the lack of nutrients and the interruption of the digestive capacity of what they feed on through the summer and over the winter hibernation process. CLIP
Oil Deal for Alaska Wildlife Refuge on Fast Track
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032008EA.shtml
Public Employees for Environmental Ethics reports, "A massive land-for-oil swap in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge aims to open much of eastern Alaska up to petroleum development, according to comments filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The land exchange is moving quickly despite the absence of any land appraisals for the more than half a million acres involved."
Oil From Anything
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization
Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a process using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often known as biomass and plastic) into light crude oil.
Glaciers melt 'at fastest rate in past 5,000 years' (March 16 2008) ¨
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/16/glaciers.climatechange1
The world's glaciers are melting faster than at any time since records began, threatening catastrophe for hundreds of millions of people and their eco-systems.The details are revealed in the latest report from the World Glacier Monitoring Service and will add to growing alarm about the rise in sea levels and increased instances of flooding, avalanches and drought.Based on historical records and other evidence, the rate at which the glaciers are melting is also thought to be faster that at any time in the past 5,000 years, said Professor Wilfried Haeberli, director of the monitoring service. 'There's no absolute proof, but nevertheless the evidence is strong: this is really extraordinary.' Experts have been monitoring 30 glaciers around the world for nearly three decades and the most recent figures, for 2006, show the biggest ever 'net loss' of ice. Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told The Observer that melting glaciers were now the 'loudest and clearest' warning signal of global warming. The problem could lead to failing infrastructure, mass migration and even conflict. 'We're talking about something that happens in your and my lifespan. We're not talking about something hypothetical, we're talking about something dramatic in its consequences,' he said. Lester Brown, of the influential US-based Earth Policy Institute, said the problem would have global ramifications, as farmers in China and India struggled to irrigate their crops.'This is the biggest predictable effect on food security in history as far as I know,' said Brown. Based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's mid-range prediction that global temperatures will rise 2C above their long-term average, UNEP last year warned of further dramatic declines in glaciers by the end of the century. The revelation that the world's glaciers are in retreat came as Tony Blair began a series of high-level environmental meetings in Japan, China and India as the leader of a new international team charged with securing a global deal on climate change. In a speech yesterday in Chiba, Japan, Blair said that the world now faced catastrophe. 'We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change,' he said. 'Failure to act now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible. The scale of what is needed is so great that the purpose of any global action is not to ameliorate or to make better our carbon dependence; it is to transform the nature of economies and societies in terms of carbon consumption and emissions. 'If the average person in the US is, say, to emit per capita, one-tenth of what they do today and those in the UK or Japan one-fifth, we're not talking of adjustment, we're talking about a revolution.' The key to that revolution was a vastly increased use of nuclear power across the world, (!!!) he added. Blair is also scheduled to meet Yasuo Fukuda, Japan's Prime Minister, and members of the Indian and Chinese governments.
Western Antarctic causes scientists most concern (March 27, 2008)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3628471.ece
The dramatic destruction of an ice shelf is a mere side show compared to the potential of catastrophic melting elsewhere in Antarctica. The Wilkins ice shelf covers more than 5,000 square miles, is up to 650 feet thick, took more than 1,000 years to form and is on the verge of melting in less than a decade. Almost 200 square miles of the ice shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula shattered into thousands of ice bergs over the last month, mostly on February 28. The rest of the shelf is expected to disappear rapidly in response to rising global temperatures. But while regarded as an impressive effect of global warming its impact on sea level rises is insignificant compared to those that scientists fear will be caused in the Western Antarctic. Climate researchers consider the southern continent to have three distinct regions - the Antarctic Peninsula, the Western Antarctic and the Eastern Antarctic. They are most worried about the Western Antarctic where the greatest volume of ice has been lost and where there is the potential for sudden, unpredictable and extensive melting leading to rapid sea rises.Loss of ice shelves in the Peninsula is calculated to have little effect on sea levels because they already float in the water. In the Western Antarctic, however, much of the ice shelf rests on rock so when it melts the water runs into the sea and can cause a rise in ocean levels.Warmer ocean temperatures have taken a huge toll on the ice shelves in the Western Antarctic where ice is thinning at a rate of about 6-7 feet a year. “The problem is the Western Antarctic is extremely unpredictable,” said Professor David Vaughan, of the British Antarctic Survey. “At current rates it’s contributing a fraction of a millimetre to sea level rises per year but the potential is there for an acceleration.” CLIP
Climate Change Deepening World Water Crisis (March 20, 2008)
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/20/7794/
UNITED NATIONS - When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last January, his primary focus was not on the impending global economic recession but on the world’s growing water crisis. “A shortage of water resources could spell increased conflicts in the future,” he told the annual gathering of business tycoons, academics and leaders from governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations.“Population growth will make the problem worse. So will climate change. As the global economy grows, so will its thirst. Many more conflicts lie just over the horizon,” he warned. Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute, says the lack of safe drinking water for over 1.0 billion people worldwide, and the lack of safe sanitation for over 2.5 billion, “is an acute and devastating humanitarian crisis.” (...) “We must find better ways to manage water resources, in so far as water pollution is concerned, and to meet the food requirements of a human population which will expand by over 3.0 billion people in 2050.”“We also must meet the water-climate challenge. Everything could become much more desperate and severe in the future if the proper steps are not taken,” he added. So, it is important, Berntell argued, to make a distinction between the water resource crisis — which is primarily caused by an overexploitation of water resources for agricultural and industrial use, as well as pollution — and the water service and sanitation crisis. In a statement released Wednesday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said many rivers in developing countries and emerging economies are now polluted to the brink of their collapse. “The Yangtze, China’s longest river, is cancerous with pollution due to untreated agriculture and industrial waste,” IUCN warnedMeanwhile, arguing that water shortages will drive future conflicts, the U.N. secretary-general says the slaughter in Darfur — described as “genocide” by the United States — was triggered by global climate change.“It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought,” Ban said. When Darfur’s land was rich, black farmers welcomed Arab herders and shared their water.With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent overgrazing. “For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water for all. Fighting broke out,” he said.“Water is a classic common property resource. No one really owns the problem. Therefore, no one really owns the solution,” he declared. CLIP
Million Acres of Guyanese Rainforest to Be Saved in Groundbreaking Deal
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032708EB.shtml
Daniel Howden, The Independent UK: "A deal has been agreed that will place a financial value on rainforests - paying, for the first time, for their upkeep as 'utilities' that provide vital services such as rainfall generation, carbon storage and climate regulation."
Who Is Responsible for the World Food Shortage (March 17, 2008)
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5914
This week’s cover photo, showing corn piled on the ground, out in the open, near Minnesota grain elevators, is representative of the disintegration of the food supply system the world over. While the U.S. Midwest corn and soybean harvests were coming in this fall, the U.S. rail freight system broke down. After years of financial mergers, asset stripping, and rail track removal, such companies as Union Pacific, which are considered to be financial "successes," failed miserably on the economic front, and could not even supply engines to move the grain cars. Millions of bushels of grain are sitting, rotting on the ground.This grain transport breakdown is but one recent example of breakdown in the food supply in what is considered the most food-secure nation in the world, and illustrates the fact that "natural disasters"—bad weather, floods, droughts—are not the cause of the world’s food crises. These examples, and equivalent situations all around the world, are "unnatural" disasters, caused by years of takedown of agriculture infrastructure under wrong policies and assumptions, in particular, serving the interests of private financial and commodities control circles, centered mostly in London.The worldwide food crisis is measurable in the decline of grains, of all types, produced per capita yearly. To provide every person with a daily diet of their preference, with sufficient calories and nutrients, would require well over 3 billion tons of grain produced annually. But as of around 1990, less than 1.9 billion tons were being produced yearly, and since then, world annual production has declined.An estimated 800 million people are suffering from some degree of malnutrition. Besides the nearly continentwide food supply crisis in Africa, there are other locations, such as Russia and former Soviet bloc nations, plunged into crisis. Even under the Soviet command economy, Russia’s annual grain production averaged 100 million tons. But output has fallen each year since 1991, to only around 65 million tons this year.No paradoxWhat does the international community say? Officially, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and sister U.N. agencies—the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the World Trade Organization (WTO)—blame hunger on "poverty." The FAO gala conference in Quebec City in October, for the FAO’s 50th anniversary, celebrated the fact that world tonnages of food have increased over five decades, but lamented that 800 million people don’t have enough to eat—a "paradox," according to the conference speakers. But most of the 100 or more agriculture ministers present knew better. The last 25-30 years have seen a consistent decline of agriculture output potential in almost all countries. Necessary ratios of infrastructure (water, transport, electricity) and inputs (chemicals, mechanization, quality seeds and stock) have fallen, to the point where output per capita is sharply declining CLIP
Do this at home: Test your microwave
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20041013.htm
If you have ever wondered whether or not microwaved food is safe, here’s an experiment you can do at home: Plant seeds in two pots. Water one pot with water that has been microwaved, the other with regular tap water.The seeds that received microwaved water won’t sprout. If microwaved water can stop plants from growing, think of what microwaved food can do to your health!In 1989, Swiss biologist and food scientist Dr. Hans Hertel studied the effects of microwaved food. Eight people participated in the study. For eight weeks, they lived in a controlled environment and intermittently ate raw foods, conventionally cooked foods and microwaved foods. Blood samples were tested after each meal. They discovered that eating microwaved food, over time, causes significant changes in blood chemistry:1. A decrease in hemoglobin and cholesterol values, in the HDL (good cholesterol) versus LDL (bad cholesterol) ratio and in white blood cells, weakening the immune system, and an increase in leukocyte levels, which tends to indicate poisoning and cell damage—conditions ripening the body for degenerative diseases and/or cancer.2. "The measurable effects on man through the ingestion of microwaved food, unlike untreated food, are blood alterations, that can also be found at the beginning of a pathological condition, also indicative of a beginning cancerous process," wrote Dr. Bernard Blanc, who assisted in the study.3. Microwave ovens "cook" food by forcing the atoms, molecules and cells within the food to reverse polarity billions of times per second, causing friction—the more the friction, the more the heat. This oscillation tears and deforms the molecular structure of food. New compounds, called radiolytic compounds, which are not found in nature, are formed. Interestingly, microwaves are actually used in gene-altering technology to deliberately break cells and neutralize their "life-force" so they can be manipulated. Microwaves destroy the life force that gives food its vitality and nourishment. When this life force dissipates, microorganisms start breaking food down and it begins to rot. CLIP
Microwave dangers a hot topic (March 17, 2008)
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080317/news/news5.html
When it comes to convenience, few devices can compare to the microwave. Over 90 per cent of homes in North America have them and their popularity in Jamaica is rising rapidly. There is evidence to suggest that millions of people may be exchanging their health for the convenience of microwave ovens. Before you use your microwave one more time, you might want to consider some facts.Microwaves are electromagnetic waves with a wavelength shorter than that of a normal radio wave. Microwaves are used in radar, in communications, and for heating in microwave ovens. The Germans used the first microwave units during the Second World War. The Russians researched their biological effects after the war, and because of what they learned, banned microwave ovens over 30 years ago. In 1991, a United States lawsuit involved a woman who had hip surgery and died because the blood used in her blood transfusion was warmed in a microwave. The microwave altered the blood and it killed the woman. Microwaves heat your food by causing it to resonate at very high frequencies. This may effectively heat your food, but also causes changes in the chemical structure of the food. Ordinary heating of food can cause problems by itself, but when you heat it with microwaves, you have additional damage from the negative energy frequencies. CLIP
Freshen Up Your Drink (Mar. 13, 2008)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1722266,00.html
Drinking water should be a gloriously guilt-free activity. H2O won't make you fat, give you cancer or stain your teeth a revolting shade of yellow. It's second only to soda as the American beverage of choice, ever since marketers thought to package it for us in handy plastic bottles. But now the green lobby informs us we may as well be clubbing baby seals with our Evian bottles, so great is the environmental havoc wreaked by their manufacture and disposal. Some resourceful consumers have taken to reusing the containers multiple times; others have switched to reusable water bottles. While we fuss over the impact of water containers on the environment, however, most of us have overlooked their potential impact on our health. Many water bottles on the market, like many soda containers, are made of a hard plastic called polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. While the material is perfectly safe for single use, it's not designed for repeated reuse, says Kellogg Schwab, an environmental microbiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: "Your mouth leaves a film that harbors bacteria, and the bottle's narrow mouth makes it hard to clean." Reusable water bottles merit scrutiny as well. Like many rock climbers, Scott Belcher used to carry a Nalgene water bottle made of polycarbonate, a sturdy, clear plastic. As an associate pharmacology professor at the University of Cincinnati, he knew that polycarbonates contain bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic hormone that mimics estrogen. What he didn't know was if or how much BPA wound up in his water. In experiments, he learned that trace amounts of BPA do seep into room-temperature water. But he was startled to find that when the containers were filled with boiling water--a common practice for climbers in cold climates--the BPA released 55 times as fast. His research, published in January in the journal Toxicology Letters, spurred alarm among not just water drinkers but also parents: 95% of baby bottles, which are routinely filled with hot water to make formula, are made of polycarbonates. CLIP
EMF-Omega-News 22. March 2008
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4804893/
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From: MICHAEL DEAN (michael8dean@mac.com)
Subject: What the hell’s going on down here?
Date: 21 Mar 2008
Jean!
Last night at 3 a.m. I awoke, tottered to my PC and tried to put into some sort of order a number of leading questions that have been exercising my closest friends and myself for the last few years. And although these questions are addressed rhetorically to our friends and advisers in Spirit, do by all means invite your readers to contact you if they have any answers, comments or observations that they think might be helpful. Thank you!
With love and thoughts and thanks, as ever, from London and
Michael. :-D
Q & A 2008
“Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and you shall find; knock, and
it shall be opened unto you.”
Matthew, vii. 7
Between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s, my friends and associates and I were privileged to enjoy the inspiration, advice, encouragement and instruction of a number of trusted allies ‘on the other side’ - or ‘HQ’, as we usually refer to you collectively. In recent years, however, as the world crisis continued to intensify, we became more and more uncomfortably aware of ‘radio silence’ from your end.
We assume that as our apprenticeship drew to a close, you decided that it was time that we emerged from the comfort zone and began to stand on our own two feet. We also realise that this is all part of the process of growing up, so we have increasingly relied on our own intuition, judgement and experience, and not expected all the answers to be dropped in our laps by your good selves.
But as the present chapter in the human adventure hurtles to a conclusion, and another, more enlightened one rapidly approaches, we ask you to give us definitive explanations and/or answers to the following:
It says in the Bible that God created Man in his own image.
Q1: If that is the case, who precisely was or is this Creator, whose image in some way resembles that of a human being? [we had always assumed that ‘God’ was formless, present in all things, etc., etc.]
It has been said that the Creator decreed that all physical beings should enjoy free will, so that they could enjoy their lives uninhibited by some ever-watchful ‘higher power’ that would not hesitate to make its disapproval, disappointment, exasperation or even anger felt whenever they ‘got out of line’.
Although this might appear to have been a wise and compassionate decision, it has given primitive, cruel, violent, barbaric, criminal, vengeful, greedy, power-hungry, possessive, ruthless, warlike and unscrupulous men carte blanche to ride roughshod over their more harmless and gentle fellow creatures.
The result has been the violent deaths of hundreds of millions of human beings during invasions, hostilities, terrorism, wars, Empires, and campaigns of deliberate genocide - quite apart from the countless millions of victims of famine, drought and disease.
Q2: How can this apparently insoluble conundrum be solved? [“If we deny them free will, they’ll be little more than robots; but if we do give them free will, they’ll most likely quarrel, fight and even kill each other. . .”]
Q3: Why wasn’t this persistent problem solved long ago - or better still, at the very beginning - in order to avoid all the human sacrifice that has inevitably ensued?
Q4: Why were no steps taken to prevent the elders of the Church from using the ‘Christian religion’ to control, brainwash, persecute and murder so many innocent people during the Inquisition, the ‘Crusades’ and countless ‘religious’ wars?
Q5: Why has ‘Allah’ not reprimanded all those who have tampered with and deliberately misused the Qur’an in order to brainwash and control the faithful, and to incite innocent men, women and even children to go to war for Islam?
Q6: Would anyone respect parents who allowed their children absolute autonomy - including the free will to harm or even kill themselves and other human beings?
Please excuse our presumption, ignorance or whatever - but couldn’t a system have been introduced long, long ago, whereby any human being whose behaviour threatened seriously to harm himself and/or others would, during his sleep state, find himself attending a meeting during which he would be told not only that he was about to do great harm to others, but to himself?
The law of inevitable consequence would be explained to him, and he would be advised that by using his thoughts and emotions and energies less destructively, he would be saving himself a lot of pain in the future. Perhaps he might also have been told that the meeting was strictly confidential, and that no-one in his family or circle ever need know about it. His pride would therefore have remained intact.
Come to think of it, could not all human beings, during the sleep state, occasionally attend meetings with their guides and advisers in the Spirit worlds, who would encourage them and increase their resolve to ‘keep on keeping on’? Many people already enjoy this privilege, but most are denied it because they haven’t been told about the higher worlds, nor have they ever been reminded - as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin so eloquently reminded your readers recently, that "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but rather spiritual beings having a human experience."
Civilisation appears always to have been controlled by groups of sinister, faceless men who have deliberately misled, misinformed and manipulated us, and who have made sure that we all remain in ignorance. They have also gone to great lengths - as William Bramley reminded us in his eye-opening book The Gods Of Eden - to make sure that the nations remain suspicious of, and hostile to, each other, and all too often at war with each other.
The puppets who carry out their plans - despots, Presidents, Prime Ministers, warlords, bankers, industrialists, munitions makers, drugs barons, media moguls, film makers, television networks, etc. - are invariably rewarded with great wealth and power, while those who dare to stand up and suggest that there must be some other, gentler and more compassionate way of conducting human affairs [Mahatma Gandhi, JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, John Lennon and Princess Diana, among others] are almost always silenced or assassinated.
Who could be blamed for thinking that this lovely world - a cosmic University and potential paradise - has been converted into a prison planet, a detention centre in which pain, injustice, cruelty, malevolence and mass murder prevail, and any serious attempts by concerned or enlightened human beings to transmute these appalling conditions are usually rewarded with a bullet, a car crash, poison, or an aviation ‘accident’. In other words, although many of us are fortunate enough to live out our lives in comparative comfort and safety, for billions of others, life might justifiably be described as a ‘hell on Earth’. . .
Q7: Why has so little been done by the authorities in Spirit to rectify, alleviate or reverse this grim state of affairs?
We are also dismayed by the fact that most species on Earth - including bacteria, insects, fish, birds, reptiles, animals and humans - spend much of their time hunting, killing and consuming each other.
Q8: Is this considered to be the proper way to conduct and perpetuate life in a physical world? Survival of the fittest, fastest, most predatory and most cunning? Decimation or extinction for the defenceless?
Q9: Was it ever thus - or was there once an Arcadian epoch on Earth, during which most life forms co-existed peacefully?
Finally, we would humbly and respectfully ask the Creator:
Q10: What are your current thoughts about the ongoing experiment called ‘Life in a physical Universe’ - with particular reference to human life on Earth’?
Lest we seem ungrateful, I hasten to add that my friends and I are not only in awe of the beauty, generosity and seemingly inexhaustible patience of the Earth - and of the ingenuity, creativity, resilience and courage of so many human beings - but we are also dismayed and appalled by the violence, cruelty and injustice that increasingly threaten our very tenancy of this planet.
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AND MY REPLY WAS:
Dear Michael
I finally had a bit of time to review your attached document with its many fundamental heavily loaded questions. I'm happy to include it in my next compilation but a fairly important part is missing in what you sent me. It is entitled ‘Questions & Answers 2008’ isn't it? You provided the questions but seem to think someone else should provide the answers. I believe you have set up there for yourself a most excellent exercise to practice discernment and enable your Higher Self to come forward and write down through you the answers as seen from its eternal vantage point. As a fragment of God your soul knows the answer to any question. . .
Learning to trust OneSelf is an absolutely vital key for our next evolutionary step, individually and globally, and I urge you to avail yourself of this unique opportunity you have set up for yourself by providing me with the answers within the next 5 days - my next compilation dispatch is probably in about a week from now - and I'll be even more happy to include them. I'd prefer to keep your Questions part separate so people have a chance to prod their own Higher Self into offering possible answers - something which I'll encourage everyone to do BEFORE they read the Answers part.
How about that?...
Much Love and inspiration!
Jean
NOTE to everyone reading this: As indicated above, may I suggest that before you review Michael's replies which he kindly provided, you give this a try yourself and see what you'll come up with. You need not necessarily write it down in great details. Just a couple key words resulting from what your soul's gut feeling tells you (for each question) and then you can continue reading this. I know you are curious to see what Michael's soul offered as a perspective, but the key to this exercise in soul searching is to allow your own Divine Self to manifest Its presence to you — yes It can! — so you may learn to rely ever more so upon It - and trust your own soul feelings! - as we gradually enter a higher realm of soul experiencing in our ever ascending - if we so choose! - evolutionary spiral of Joyful reUnion with Source. And should you feel compelled to go a step further and wish to write down in greater details your answers to Michael's questions, or write a general soul-perspective comment on the whole exercise, and then email this to me (and Michael as I'm sure he will be thrilled to see what his own soul-promptings have led to) for possible inclusion in my next compilation, then by all means, feel free to do so.
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AND MICHAEL REPLIED:
Jean!
I should have seen that one coming! Trust you to see what was missing in the Q&A. . . :-) I did as you suggested, asked my ‘Overself’ - and the so-and-so did exactly the same as you! He bopped the ball straight back into my court with a wicked overhead, backhand smash: “Go for it, kiddo. You can do it. It won’t be perfect - but what is?!”
So here goes. I can’t wait to see what your readers send in. . .
Michael. :-D
A1: Creator is the name sometimes given to the Being who decided to see what would occur if perpetual Light and perfection were to cast shadows. The result of this thought or impulse was ‘the Creation’. Creator is not All That Is, but part of All That Is - as are we all. We are all Light and shadow. . .
A2: The ‘Creation’ is not perfect. It is still learning, finding its way. The discomfort, disharmony and pain that exercise you so are what will propel you back to the Light from which you came. Only you can decide whether your physical life is a dream or a nightmare. It may appear to be all-too-real while you are dreaming it - but dream is all that it really is - as you’ll discover. . .
A3: see A2 [above]
A4: Man created the concept of ‘God’ - ‘God’ did not create ‘Man’. . .
A5: With all due respect, ‘Allah’ is also a concept created by men, for reasons of their own. . .
A6: One would not respect parents who allowed their children to walk into danger. But ultimately, you must be your own guide - you are uniquely qualified for the job. Besides, children can learn as much from their parents’ mistakes as from their parents’ goodness and kindness. . .
A7: Invigilators do not peer over students’ shoulders and say, ‘No, no no! Not that way - this!” If they did, it would no longer be an examination, but a tutorial. . .
A8: If you find yourself in a lawless world, introduce law - or in a world without honour, introduce honour. And so on and so forth. . .
A9: There was indeed an Arcadian epoch. And as Matthew, Diane, Jean and other pathfinders have said, there will be again - and soon!
A10: THE CREATOR SPEAKS:
“SEE THE LIGHT. FEEL THE LIGHT. BE THE LIGHT."
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Date: 23 Mar 2008
From: "Sunny Ariel" (info@sapphirehouse.com)
Subject: Documentary Film Project on the New Indigo Kids
Jean,
How lovely to hear from you - I'm so glad I sent you the Earth Hour information. I was certain you knew about it and that I was preaching to the choir.... it's always good when I listen to my heart. Oh, and you are so right about David Wilcock. Those photos are just unbelievable. I heard him on Coast to Coast about a year ago and knew that he was the real deal.
I so respect the work you do to raise planetary consciousness, dear Jean and I want to share with you the letter I am sending regarding a documentary film I'm producing about the new kids, aka Indigos. If you know anyone who might be interested in becoming a part of this project you are welcome to share the attached query letter with them.
Again, thank you for all you do for the light.
May the force continue to nurture you!
Only love,
Sunny
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Hi!
We have formed New Kid Films in order to give a voice and stage to the young people among us who carry keys to humanity's future. Some of these "new kids" are in families and schools which recognize and nurture their unique intelligence and abilities. Many others are being drugged and coerced into behaving "normally." These children, those appreciated and those lost and medicated, have much to offer the rest of us. I invite you to go to our website and see Candace's story at http://www.NewKids.us
Our lead off film documents the true, inspiring and compelling story of the children born since around 1982. Although USA Today, CNN, Good Morning America, A & E and The New York Times have all reported on the growing phenomenon of our newest citizens, and there have been some feature films on the subject including Indigo, The Last Mimzi and most recently, August Rush, this is the first in a series of documentary dramas about our newest generation to compare scientific findings and esoteric and mystery traditions about these young people. It is also the first film to focus on their place in our rapidly changing world.
What is unique about New Kid Films is that it will bring forth both the outstanding voices of the professionals whose cutting-edge research on the new kids suggests new ways of raising, educating and seeing them, as well as the vision, wisdom, purpose and passion of the kids themselves. New Kid Films is a project of Sapphire House Productions, LLC.
We are inviting people in the New Kid field to co-create a platform and a medium for these young people to serve and be served. You have written about, parented, mentored or treated these amazing children. You know their challenges and have concerned yourself with helping them heal their fears and find their way. I believe that your information and your experience beg for more public exposure. I have been listening to and filming these new kids since 2001. Their insights into how to make the world a better place and their deep connection to nature and the planet humbles me. These kids are true activists who will not be distracted from their message.
It's as if they have digital wiring in an analog world.
From your point of view, what do we need to include in order to make this film the vehicle for opportunity it can be and at what level would you be interested in becoming a part of this documentary production?
I look forward to speaking with you and hearing your ideas. With your participation to give these children the voice and the recognition they deserve we may be co-creating one of the most transformational films of our times because to tell the story of our newest citizens and to hear their voices is literally to recognize evolution in our time.
Thank you for all you do for the children.
Peace and joy,
Sunny
SUNNY ARIEL
Chief Visionary
Sapphire House Productions
LLC info@sapphirehouse.com
505 404 0924
Author of Shalom My Love (The story of a true love that bridges heaven and earth)
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From: Suzanne Ward (suzy@matthewbooks.com)
Subject: Message from Matthew
Date: 23 Mar 2008
From: http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=86&z=2
Golden Age view of Earth; dark plans won't reach fruition; effects of frequencies/pollution, ways to relieve symptoms; global economy, national leadership reforms; energy field of potential; soul, cumulative soul
March 23, 2008
This is Matthew with loving greetings and joyous Easter tidings to all.
Some zones of Earth are welcoming the first signs of spring, the season of rebirth and rejuvenation, and I feel it is an especially appropriate time to describe our beloved Earth as we see her from this station—how we wish that everyone on the planet could witness this magnificence! Please imagine a brilliantly blue sphere with myriad sparkling pinpoints of light as it recedes into an ever lightening space and joins other celestial bodies. All of these vibrant, glittering orbs are rotating among evanescent pastel ribbons wafting through space in rhythm with the angelic music of the spheres. This is your world in balance and harmony with its neighbors.
Bringing your view of Earth back from her universal placement, you see countless sparkling lights blinking upwards toward the filaments of a golden grid above vast verdant areas and expanses of pristine azure waters. Now narrow your view—feel the serenity of the rolling countryside; hover above towns and cities and feel the exhilaration of the residents that permeates the atmosphere. Closing in further still, see imaginatively designed buildings of many sizes and shapes, flower gardens brightly dotting the landscape among the trees, animals of all species roaming freely in parks as adults watch children gleefully playing with them. Feel the energy of joy and peacefulness emanating from Earth herself.
This is your Golden Age world that already exists in the reality of the continuum, the world that you are co-creating in this moment of illusory linear time.
Hold firm these blissful visions and sensations in your minds and hearts as you deal with the situations confronting you. In stark contrast to the idyllic scenes and emotions of the Golden Age on your horizon, Earth's energy field of potential is teeming with combative activity. It is conclusive that the light is victorious, but the tenacious energy streamers of darkness still are struggling to survive. As the power of the ones influenced by the darkness keeps waning, their desperate foundering grows and so does their perniciousness. For a while longer you will see this in a number of ways, including an assortment of grave pronouncements and "leaked" plans, all intended to fill you with fear. Oh yes, dark plans do indeed exist, but they will not reach fruition! So recognize them for what they are—the flailing of souls intensely fear-filled themselves because they know their long era of keeping Earth's people locked in violence, deception and ignorance is over. The dark ones are panicking as they see their numbers dwindling, the futility of their attempts to keep hidden their history of manipulating all life on the planet, and their efforts to retain control thwarted again and again by the ever-increasing light of the higher frequencies Earth has reached in her steady ascension course.
The frequencies now prevailing are raising consciousness on a global scale. The rebelling against oppressive forces and the rallying for peace are mounting. So are efforts to end starvation and genocide, impoverishment and inhumane laws; actions are intensifying to stop environmental destruction and to protect the animal and plant kingdoms. In short, you are following your pre-birth chosen missions to help Earth's peoples rise above third density mentality, activities and consequences, and by your steadfastness within the light forces, you are succeeding!
Those same frequencies also are presenting physical anomalies and emotional peaks and valleys. Understanding this can lessen anxious moments about unusual symptoms, and there are helpful steps to relieve stress, frustrations and restlessness. Take time from your busy days to reach the sacred space within—whether you think of it as meditation, soul searching, prayer or even escape from the world, the resulting tranquility is balm for mind, body and spirit. To uplift yourselves on a more active basis, spend time with kindred spirits—if you are not already including animals and trees among these, start now. Turn your thoughts of anxiety about adversity to gratitude for blessings; breathe deeply and let go of uncomfortable feelings you have held in check; listen to melodic music; write to the distant friend or family member you have been meaning to; watch a comical film; read or write poetry; take long walks; volunteer time to worthy community efforts; support charitable organizations; paint a room or a picture, whichever you feel more inclined to do. Smile! Those may sound trivial in the face of world events, but each moment spent in meaningful ways soothes the mind and leads to balance within.
This is especially important in your adjustment physically and emotionally to the higher frequencies because you also are encountering the effects of the low frequency emissions from HAARP and other surveillance systems, the radioactive fallout of weaponry, the cell phones and electric power stations, in addition to the proliferation of pollutants in your air, soil and water. If we can say "that's the bad news," we hasten to give you the "good news": Your benevolent space family is using their technology to ameliorate to the greatest possible extent the damaging effects of those toxic ingredients.
But be aware that even though health disorders are exacerbated by bodies adjusting to the higher frequencies and by those many sources of contaminants, the root cause may be different, and it is wise to consult a trusted health care provider. Chemicals in pharmaceutical drugs and those you call "illegal" diminish or destroy your body's self-healing mechanisms, thus they are counterproductive to healing and well-being. While I do not endorse any products, I do recommend that you explore combinations of natural ingredients that may be very effective in reinforcing immune systems and strengthening energy levels. It is helpful to search the Internet and discuss the various natural remedies with a health care provider and friends; however, each body is unique, so trust your intuition about which products will best serve you. It is important that you drink a great deal of pure water to help balance the body's electromagnetic system and flush out toxins, and I repeat what I mentioned in prior messages about the great benefits of monatomic gold for enhancing brain functioning and spiritual clarity.
Now then, to speak about the most profound reforms underway. The disastrous state of the United States‚ economy and its consequences that are rebounding around the world is in the public domain. Although still largely in the grip of Illuminati censorship, mainstream media are truthfully reporting the tip of this fast-melting iceberg. To establish a new system of banking and commerce based in integrity, it is essential that Illuminati control be eliminated, and they are doing this themselves—their centuries of greed, deceit and monetary manipulation on an international scale have resulted in a system that is collapsing under its own weight. For a bit longer there will be scurrying about to apply band aids to a dying economic entity, but its inevitable death is essential to transforming today's world into the world you are there to help create.
Of equal importance in the transformation process, the changes in government officials will continue at its accelerated pace as hidden agendas and corruption become public knowledge and the angered citizenry demands full disclosure. Continuance in all leadership positions is dependent upon those individuals‚ acceptance or rejection of the light that is being generated by lightworkers and your space family and being beamed with full intensity to all persons holding influential positions. Those who reject the light will either be voted out of office, overthrown by the people they have betrayed and oppressed, or their bodies will die as Earth moves into still higher frequencies, where physical survival is impossible without the cellular changes that light enables. Eventually the fact will come forth that some publicly seen leaders are clones.
The US military troops in Iraq will be withdrawn in increments after the US presidential election, and within a very few years, all occupation troops worldwide will be back in their native countries. The cessation of wars will not happen overnight, but worldwide peace is on its way. Nations that have been devastated by civil or international wars will be given reconstruction assistance, and so will communities that have been severely damaged by the negativity-ridding earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and violent storms, whether of natural or manmade origin. These facets of the transition into the Golden Age will be aided by new sources of energy that are known but have been suppressed to keep oil as king and the oil company executives living like kings.
We know that you would like to have names and dates and other specifics related to all the changes underway, and we cannot provide those. We can see the tapestry, if you will, but not the individual threads that produce its elaborate design. All we messengers who speak through our receivers can do is report the activity we observe in Earth's energy field of potential, where possibilities may become probabilities and those may or may not develop into actualities. It is the same on a global scale as it is with each person's life—the big picture can be viewed, more clearly if there is a steady rather than an erratic pathway, but not each step along that pathway. It depends on the person's use of free will and the amount of energy put forth to achieve his or her goal. With God's permission, I am giving you an example. Recently my mother asked God if my sister would take a specific step in a relationship. "I don't know because she doesn't know. When she knows, so will I."
My objective from the very beginning has been to offer spiritual enlightenment and guidance during this unprecedented time not only on Earth, but in the universe, and as a microcosm of the universe, every soul is part of this. My mother and I have been complying with a foreign publisher's request that we add updated material wherever appropriate to the information I transmitted to her 1994 to 1997. Readers of Revelations for a New Era may recognize that in the following explanation that I believe will enhance your understanding of the god and goddess souls you are.
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S: I know the soul is our eternal connection with God and Creator, but I don't know exactly what the soul is, or does.
MATTHEW: The soul is the very essence of life as it first sprang from Creator. It is an indestructible living entity of light energy that may have a physical body, etheric body or astral body, or it may exist in free spirit only. Our souls, manifested by God through His co-creating powers with Creator, are expressions of the love-light of God and contain in microcosm every essence of God. In any of its forms, the soul is an inviolate independent being at the same time it exists inseparably with God and Creator and all other souls.
The body is only a very fleeting vehicle for use by the soul, which is far stronger and more tenacious than any third density body such as those of Earth humankind. And, the body does not hold the soul, the soul creates the body from its image that will fit the specific experiencing it chooses in each incarnate lifetime. When the soul is released from the physical body, its etheric body is released at that same instant, and in that etheric body, the soul makes its lightning-fast transition from Earth to Nirvana.
The soul is the power behind everything that exists on Earth. It is the life force of all its parts that it creates for ever-greater experiencing. At every level of evolvement, each soul part is an independent self with intelligence, characteristics, choices, goals and all the other life elements that make each person a unique being.
Each individual lifetime of a soul is its personage. The sum of a soul's personages is the cumulative soul, and all knowledge gained by each is available to all. Thus, as each one melds into the cumulative soul, bringing the wisdom of that lifetime's experiences, every personage evolves just as the cumulative soul does.
S: Matthew, excuse me please—where does ego fit into the individual soul that you call the personage?
MATTHEW: Ego is the part of the personage that is self-identity and self-worth in accordance with efforts and achievements. But just as honoring those is not the same as vanity, honoring ego as a reflection of one's self-identity is not the same as being egotistical. The sense of self is essential to the personage, yet often "ego" in that context is overshadowed by its derivations "egotistical," "egocentric" and "egotism" that define an individual as being focused solely on himself, relating everything to his needs or desires, and having a "puffed-up" impression of his characteristics and achievements. That kind of person is considered pompous and conceited, without a shred of humility, and unpleasant to be around.
However, much more serious than having an unpleasing personality is that without any sense of the humility that is a natural and automatic aspect of spiritual growth, that person is stagnating in soul evolution. Spiritual growth is the molding of one's ego in ways that are aligned with the soul contract. This is a time for ending third density experiencing, a time when soul contract choices are designed to overcome traits that are counterproductive to spiritual growth and to strengthen qualities that foster that growth.
S: How can we know if we're "honoring" our accomplishments or being vane about them?
MATTHEW: You know by the fulfilling feelings like self-confidence that you are making your best effort in whatever you are undertaking and the self-respect that comes with knowing that; self-determination to live in godly ways; self-assurance that you are being or becoming the "who" your soul signed up to be; self-awareness that you are a part of God and inseparable from the Oneness of Creation.
S: But what if the ego "tells" people they're right in what they believe about themselves, but actually they're being negatively influenced by the darkness?
MATTHEW: Attaching itself to the ego is precisely how the darkness operates, and the ramifications go far beyond "Is it vanity or humility?" The darkness shrouds self-identity with the delusion that the person's convictions are absolutely correct about what is true and what is false, and it firmly resists thoughts that threaten those assertions or could lessen the ego's stubbornness in holding fast to them. This produces the closed mind, or, in your common expression, "the box." Just as it applies to all other forms of dark influence, love is the key to opening that boxed-up mind and letting the light come in.
S: Thank you, dear. Am I right in thinking that the soul's consciousness is infinitely greater than the ego's consciousness?
MATTHEW: You are indeed, Mother! The consciousness of the soul has the capability to reach all knowledge that exists throughout creation. The universal mind—the entire spectrum of human and godly powers and all experiencing throughout this universe's existence—is within each soul. When the soul taps into this, it reports what it "sees" to the brain, which is a personal computer that processes data for the mind to assimilate and contemplate. The key to achieving this is to quiet your thoughts so you can receive the messages from your soul that may come as images or words or strong sensations or a combination.
S: Matthew, I can't even begin to imagine what all is in the universal mind!
MATTHEW: Mother dear, no third density brain has that kind of comprehension. It is at soul level that this kind of communication occurs, your soul tapping into everything your cumulative soul knows.
S: Where do cumulative souls reside?
MATTHEW: There is no specific place of residence because a cumulative soul is not an individual entity, but rather the indivisible sum of all its personages wherever they are living, and it grows as each one adds its experiencing to the ever-changing composite. Possibly the best description of a cumulative soul is a force field that derives its essence from all its personages wherever they are throughout the universe.
S: Do you personally know the other personages in your cumulative soul or do you only have access to their knowledge?
MATTHEW: I know those who are in this realm and some of us have become friends. Some are spending a lifetime on Earth, and I know very well who they are! Some have moved so far toward the light that our energy densities are incompatible, so a meeting isn't possible, and others have regressed far from the light into lower densities, and I'm surely not interested in going there! Some have chosen lifetimes out of this galaxy, where I don't travel often, so I'm barely acquainted with them.
Each has its own soul growth to accomplish, Mother. Wherever the other personages are experiencing for their individual growth, we're always within the familial bonding of our cumulative soul. But it isn't necessary that we meet or share lifetime interests or know all the details of each other's lives. What we do share is the essential knowledge of our collective awareness, otherwise all the individual souls‚ learning would be wasted.
The cumulative soul can advance from its station toward the light only by the advancement of its personages. Therefore, each one not only has the benefit of the cumulative soul's composite knowledge, but it is continuously given encouragement at soul level to master its chosen lessons so the cumulative soul can evolve. However, that is not self-serving—with that soul's advancement, all of its personages also have the opportunity to evolve. But, depending upon the free will choices of each, the personage can either grow toward the light or regress so far as to become trapped in base energy.
S: If a personage becomes trapped, how does that affect the cumulative soul's full energy?
MATTHEW: The lifetime energy that consigns a personage to the base energy placement does not affect its cumulative soul because that personage's unique energy stream made its own way entirely by its free will choices. The cumulative soul may encourage its personages, but it can't ever interfere with their free will. However, out of its love for all its personages, the cumulative soul may request divine grace to assist any that become trapped in base energy.
S: Are the individual souls always aware of everything their cumulative soul knows?
MATTHEW: Let me compare this with your memory, Mother. Nothing you have ever learned or experienced is ever lost in your memory system, but you can't remember everything simultaneously—it would be overwhelming! Furthermore, many of your experiences were so insignificant that they were irrelevant to subsequent experiencing and never returned to your conscious mind, yet all are in your memory bank. It's the same with the personages of the cumulative soul and their lifetime learning.
S: That makes sense. Matthew, with all these parts of your cumulative soul, I just want to be absolutely sure that you are ONLY my Matthew and nobody else.
MATTHEW: Oh, Mother, absolutely I am Matthew and no one else! Every personage is its own soul and no one else! The cumulative soul is the synthesis of all its personages.
S: But it sounds as if every soul that divides itself becomes a cumulative soul, so you could do the same and become one, too.
MATTHEW: Mother, I realize that in my eagerness to answer your questions, sometimes my efforts result in confusion rather than clarification. The terms I've given you for the various aspects of soul expression—cumulative soul, personages, soul fragments or sparks and such—are meant only to show the soul's long journey striving through multiple lifetimes to return to its beginning in the perfect love and light of Creator.
In this realm we don't need differentiation of terms, as the soul's energy registration in the universe is evidence of its evolutionary station. Since each soul is its own inviolate self regardless of its station or the number of its progeny, we think of each simply as "soul." And that is how we speak of each one to you unless we are trying to explain the soul growth stages through its independently functioning aspects, or the inseparable and eternal connection of each soul with God and all other souls in the universe.
A most relevant point here is that all experiencing of all souls is within the continuum. There is no linear time basis for the dividing and subdividing into independent entities. What you may call "past lives" are in process simultaneously with the "present" and "future" lives of the cumulative soul. All are merely in different life forms in different stages of development in different placements in the universe. However, since you can't comprehend the continuum, we can only explain in accordance with your past, present and future time structure, call the various lifetimes "reincarnation," and place it all within a spiritual hierarchical structure that can fit into your capacity to comprehend.
I still may not have clarified this enough, Mother, but the good news is that you will understand this seemingly unfathomable mystery when your soul returns to Nirvana.
S: I'll count on that for later, but I'd like to know now if you and I have the same cumulative soul.
MATTHEW: We certainly do, Mother! I was hoping you would ask, but if you hadn't, I would have told you. We go back together almost to our cumulative soul's beginning, probably half a million or so years ago in your counting of time. That's why you and I have such similar energy and special bonding. Some of our family and dearest other people came into it later on, but many were introduced down the line from other cumulative souls when we needed them or vice versa.
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Thank you, Mother. In my next message we will include the other information about the soul. Now I take my leave by sending the power of love to all and assuring you once again that your soul family in spirit and in physical realms are with you every moment.
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Suzanne Ward
http://www.matthewbooks.com/
[Note from Suzy: After a trial-and-error learning curve, the moderator of the new Yahoo group happily reported that it is up and running strong. If you received this message as a forward and would like to receive future messages directly, click on MessagesfromMatthew@Yahoogroups.com, or go at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MessagesfromMatthew/
Please use the message/books index and the search feature before sending emails. Thank you! Because of numerous projects, traveling and visitors, unread emails go back to last April. As time permits, I am replying to questions that haven't been answered in Matthew's messages.
Iftikhar Ahmed, MD, will join me April 16 on "Matthew and Friends" to talk about new approaches to health care. This is the link to tune in at 4:00 p.m. Pacific time http://www.bbsradio.com/bbc/matthew_and_friends.php
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And then God said, then I said, then He said, a book of extraordinary messages transmitted to Celestial Bluestar, David of Arcturus and me, is in the printing stage. A description of content is at http://www.awakenedhearts.com/books2.htm and you can preorder a copy at creation@godumentary.com.]
NOTE from Jean to the French readers: The excerpt from Revelations for a New Era featured above is part of the book I'm currently translating and which should be available by next September in bookstores.
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THIS WILL COME AS A SHOCK TO MANY!... BUT AS YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO SIDES TO ANY COIN. SO PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ ALSO MONICA WILSON'S REBUTTAL TO SOME OF THE MISLEADING INFORMATION FEATURED IN THIS ARTICLE BELOW AND THEN USE YOUR OWN DISCERNMENT TO ASSERT WHAT IS BELIEVABLE AND WHAT IS NOT. And talking about discernment, if you missed it, may I recommend to your attention Building The Foundation for Our Spiritual Beliefs
From: Richard & Sandra (srkeber@msn.com)
Subject: A Buddhist struggles to keep grounded about Tibet and China
Date: 26 Mar 2008
Hello dear Jean!
Thank you again (continuously) for your constancy and clear intent toward Peace, Love and the Light – it is such a joy to open my email and immediately notice a new Earth Rainbow Network message, any of which command my priority attention, and this morning’s regarding the situation in Zimbabwe (Special Peace and Democracy Vigil for Zimbabwe) was no exception – of course, included was your note about the current Chinese oppression in Tibet that has much of the world so riveted, and promise to include more information in your next compilation.
More than 35 years ago, while following Tibet’s Karmapa around on his tour of the Northern California, I , by “accident” (or perhaps Divine purpose) took refuge in Tibetan Buddhism and, though I don’t practice the religion regularly, have followed their political plight fairly closely, and, like many, empathized strongly with their situation – so it was with some chagrin that I encountered the following rather disturbing information and point of view, and was tempted many times to stop reading and avoid the conflicting emotions it arouses – however, the article, though perhaps a bit too harsh, contains the powerful ring of truth and historical accuracy, and in the interest of dedication to Truth, Balance and Objectivity in a world too easily ignited and swayed by propaganda programs and disinformation systems, I hope you will find the time and motivation to peruse and consider it as well –
Wishing you Peace and continual Blessings
Richard
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From: http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_keith_mo_080324_a_buddhist_struggles.htm
A Buddhist struggles to keep grounded about Tibet and China
by Keith Mothersson (keith-mothersson.co.uk) -- March 25, 2008
Every day I get two or three e-mails urging me to do something about the current unrest and repression in Tibet. Perhaps signing some of these petitions is helpful, but perhaps not. Feeling powerless is not a nice feeling for any of us, but sometimes the truth is that there is almost nothing we can do to influence events the other side of the world. Least of all if we are seen to be intervening in a hypocritical way, as part of a Western propaganda offensive. No matter our 'opposition' to the misdeeds of our own governments, 'Why don't we take the beam out of 'our' own eye first?', many in Tehran or Moscow or Beijing might be tempted to ask us - for our 'opposition' stance - however important to the construction of our own right-on identities, seems to them barely observable.
The following thoughts are shared at a time when Western Buddhists and other would-be consistent supporters of peace and human rights find ourselves joined by many mainstream Western media in 'championing the cause of the Tibetal people': Hmmm.
These same Western media which haven't reported the 'avoidable death of 1.3 billion people since 1950 on Spaceship Earth with the First World in control of the flight deck' to quote the veteran biologist and public health statistician Dr Gideon Polya of http://globalbodycount.blogspotcom/ ? Hmmm...
These same Western media who also downplay the scale of the West-attributable excess avoidable mortality figure in the the Middle East/West Asia wars since 1990, which Dr Polya puts around around 8 million: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17139/42 Hmmm...
These same Western media which have averted their eyes and ours from the ongoing Holocaust of 5-10 million dead in the new scramble for Africa taking place in the Congo: see Keith Harmon Snow's The War that did not make the headlines: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7957 Hmmm...
I should add that I write as a Buddhist who believes that we should try to put truth/reality before all comforting myths. Let all ideological camps and political 'sides' wash our own dirty linen, and not necessarily only in private either! For a good example of such public truth-telling, see Zen at War by fellow Zen Buddhist, Brian Victoria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_at_War
Let us start with the following report from a China Daily reporter which shows - surprise, surprise! - that Western media have been manipulating the news about Lhasa demonstrations.
http://english.cri.cn/2946/2008/03/22/65@336718.htm
Whatever the truth about the scale and the brutal and/or relatively measured response by the Chinese, it is far from clear that the original protests which broke out recently in Lahsa were peaceful, or remained so for long.
Even those who are usually suspicious when the neocons start to champion the human rights of people living in or near Yugoslavia/Serbia, Iraq, Iran, Russia or China, seem all too ready to ignore the Dalai Lama's long term strategic alliance with - or use by - the CIA and the West.
This strategic alliance was most embarrassingly displayed when the Dalai Lama consented to receive the Congressional Medal of Honour from that same US Congress that has loyally voted credits for the illegal wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcXmB0U_DCQ
At a time when the 'freedom-loving' West keep amping up the propaganda against Iran, Russia and Beijing, and the US surrounds all these countries with missiles and battleships, it seems to me most unlikely that US-led 'external pressure' on Beijing will lead China's rulers to look on Tibetan autonomy with favour.
Such pressures will be particularly counter-productive if the Dalai Lama is either happy to be praised as a 'man of peace' by 'President' (non-elect) Bush or so compromised that he can't avoid being required to do so as an integral part of the West's surging propaganda offensive. Instead Political Sociology 101 tells me that China will redouble its authoritarian vigilance, and refuse to believe that the Dalai Lama is sincere in his protestations of only wanting self-rule within China. What some hail as a great day for Buddhism, I feared was a tremendously unskillful move which will just make life harder for all the people of Tibet.
For supporters of popular freedom and social progress in Tibet to avoid being swept away in a media-concocted hysteria against China and all things Chinese in the coming months leading up to the Olympics, it will be helpful to read an article such as Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth, by Dr Michael Parenti.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7355
'For the rich lamas and secular lords, the Communist intervention was an unmitigated calamity. Most of them fled abroad, as did the Dalai Lama himself, who was assisted in his flight by the CIA. Some discovered to their horror that they would have to work for a living. Many, however, escaped that fate. Throughout the 1960s, the Tibetan exile community was secretly pocketing $1.7 million a year from the CIA, according to documents released by the State Department in 1998. Once this fact was publicized, the Dalai Lama's organization itself issued a statement admitting that it had received millions of dollars from the CIA during the 1960s to send armed squads of exiles into Tibet to undermine the Maoist revolution. The Dalai Lama's annual payment from the CIA was $186,000. Indian intelligence also financed both him and other Tibetan exiles. He has refused to say whether he or his brothers worked for the CIA. The agency has also declined to comment.
'In 1995, the News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, carried a front page color photograph of the Dalai Lama being embraced by the reactionary Republican senator Jesse Helms, under the headline "Buddhist Captivates Hero of Religious Right." ....
'Into the twenty-first century, via the National Endowment for Democracy and other conduits that are more respectable sounding than the CIA, the U.S. Congress continued to allocate an annual $2 million to Tibetans in India, with additional millions for "democracy activities" within the Tibetan exile community. In addition to these funds, the Dalai Lama received money from financier George Soros. (Heather Cottin, "George Soros, Imperial Wizard," Covert Action Quarterly no. 74 (Fall 2002).'
In November 2005 at Stanford University Nobel Peace Laureate, the Dalai Lama declined to condemn all use of force e.g. to defend and protect people. (Fair enough, for few of us are absolute pacifists. The devil lies in the detail of which applications of force people then identify as just or skilful, i.e. more life-protective than life-negating.) However as Michael Parenti continues:
"What of the four years of carnage and mass destruction in Iraq, a war condemned by most of the world -- even by a conservative pope -- as a blatant violation of international law and a crime against humanity? The Dalai Lama was undecided: "The Iraq war -- it's too early to say, right or wrong." (San Francisco Chronicle, 5 November 2005) Earlier the Dalai Lama had voiced support for the U.S. military intervention against Yugoslavia and, later on, the U.S. military intervention into Afghanistan. (Times of India 13 October 2000; Samantha Conti's report, Reuter, 17 June 1994; Amitabh Pal, "The Dalai Lama Interview," Progressive, January 2006.)"
Parenti concludes:
"To welcome the end of the old feudal theocracy in Tibet is not to applaud everything about Chinese rule in that country. This point is seldom understood by today's Shangri-La believers in the West. The converse is also true: To denounce the Chinese occupation does not mean we have to romanticize the former feudal régime. ...."
"Tibetan feudalism was cloaked in Buddhism, but the two are not to be equated. In reality, old Tibet was not a Paradise Lost. It was a retrograde repressive theocracy of extreme privilege and poverty, a long way from Shangri-La."
Yet the Dalai Lama has often portrayed an idealised image of Tibet and exaggerated the degree of popular opposition which the Chinese-imposed and Chinese-backed reforms engendered in Tibet in the fifties - and which actually left both the common people and the monasteries free to practice their religion to a much greater extent than subsequently obtained - i.e. in the context of the Tibetan struggle being taken up the the USA, with two brothers of the Dalai Lama actively involved with armed CIA-trained Tibetan liberation forces.
Parenti does mention the Dalai Lama's repeated praise of non-violence, and support for e.g. somewhat greater equality for Buddhist nuns compared with the monks. However, it is possible that he takes more care than is warranted not to risk offending Tibetan and other Buddhists by asking, as we now need to, whether there are deep-structural correspondences between Vajrayana Buddhism at the level of religion and a patriarchal-feudal social order which was admired by Hitler's SS and in some circumstances mutates into aggressive militarism, viz the religious zeal of Mongolian Genghis Khan or the Fifth Dalai Lama whose calls for a holy war of extermination mirror what we can read in Jewish/Christian holy books - or what some exponents of Imperial Zen advocated and practiced in Korea, Manchuria and China in WW2.
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