|  |  |  | | | | | Truth Is Scary | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D), often criticized by medical marijuana activists for not standing up for her state's residents' right to legal medi-pot, released a statement Thursday urging federal prosecutors to confine their recently announced crackdown on medicinal cannabis to those using Prop 215 to engage in high-level pot trafficking (presumably primarily to illegal, recreational users). Harris expressed concern that "an overly broad federal enforcement campaign will make it more difficult for legitimate patients to access physician-recommended medicine in California." Despite the fact that the feds said they want to shut down dispensaries near schools and other areas involving children, on October 13, federal agents with weapons brandished raided Northstone Organics a Mendocino collective that was in full compliance with all laws and is described as California's most successful legally regulated medical cannabis cultivation program. Furthermore, Harris opined that the inconsistencies in Prop 215, which legalized medical marijuana in California in 1996, must be amended either by the state legislature or the court system, not via federal prosecution. Harris is serving her first year as Attorney General and was previously the District Attorney for San Francisco for seven years, one of the leading medical marijuana centers in the Golden State, with over two-dozen dispensaries. Harris's official statement was in response to media requests following the October 7 press conference by the four U.S. Attorneys for California that announced plans for an escalated federal crackdown on medical marijuana. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 
Julie Hoyle/TinyBuddha "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." ~Unknown A wonderful story from the yogic tradition highlighting the true meaning of wealth goes something like this: There was once a beggar who spent his days sitting under an old banyan tree on the side of a dusty road that led to a bustling town. The man had been begging in that spot for years, rattling an old tin can hoping that passers-by would feel compassion and offer alms. Yet, at the end of each day he would only have collected one or two rupees, barely enough to buy a dry chapati and a cup of sweet chai. One day a wise man approached. Witnessing the beggar's plight he called out, "My man, why are you wasting your days begging in this way? If you dig right where you are, you will discover great treasure!" Desperate about his impoverished situation and intrigued by this idea, the beggar decided to take the wise man's advice. Using his bare hands he began digging the earth under where he had been sitting. To his utter amazement the beggar discovered a huge bag of rare, gold coins. Dancing with joy he declared, "Had I realized I was sitting on top of great wealth I could have eased my suffering years ago!" I was once like the beggar, always seeking ways to fill the empty bowl of my perceived lack, believing that if I worked and saved hard enough I would ensure financial security. However, on October 6th 2008, the bubble of that illusion burst when my husband and I discovered our bank had dramatically collapsed. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Self Realization Fellowship (SRF) What is meditation? Becoming one with the soul…. When man communes with his soul within, the forgotten times and powers of the deathless Self will come back into his consciousness. Meditation means to remember that one is not a mortal body but an immortal soul, one with God. The proximity of happiness is as close as one’s own Self; it isn’t even a matter of attaining, but only of lifting the soul-shrouding veil of ignorance. The very word “attaining” implies something one wants but does not have − a metaphysical error. Bliss is the irrevocable divine birthright of every soul. Meditate. As soon as you take away the ripples of sensations from the lake of the mind, God’s heavenly bliss bursts forth from the soul. His bliss is already there, but it is hidden within you. The more you meditate the more you will feel the endless joy of God…. Form the habit of meditation. It is the only way to find everlasting happiness of the soul; and when you have that, nothing else matters. Even though you may be able to do everything else but meditate, you will never find joy to equal that which comes when the thoughts are silent and your mind is tuned to the peace of God. If you ask, “How do I know there is such joy as you describe?” this is my testimony: if you practice meditation every day, deeply and consistently, you will find that ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy, ever increasingly manifest within you. And with practice it will stay with you in activity and in silence alike − even in sleep. It is a joy that will constantly guide you to right action in everything and will respond to your prayers. You have to demonstrate that for yourself. And this is my further testimony: that, once God’s joy has been found, all desires for other gain will dwindle in comparison. Your consciousness will expand. You will be able to stand unshaken amidst jarring trials. The whole world will not be able to lure you to forsake the bliss that you will find in meditation. You will enjoy all other things in that divine joy. Watch an introductory meditation video Learn about the benefits of Kriya Yoga Learn More About SRF
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In5d Click here to view the embedded video. Hidden deep within our past, lies a secret that has been long forgotten. There have been various organizations throughout history that have protected its secret, The Masons for example have done just that. What are we talking about? It’s the ancient secret of the Flower of Life. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | elephantjournal.com  Photo: Lucassen Emmanuel Meditation. Its one of those words that has many images attached to it: of a person smiling, sitting cross-legged with their middle finger touching their thumb. Perhaps wearing gypsy pants, half naked in a cave in India, turning into a rainbow of their chakras as they float through their own psychic realm to instantly transcend all their problems, fear and pain into pure love, bliss and eternal consciousness. And If you met me three years ago. I was on my way to that crazy train. Okay, maybe not that extreme. But either way – I saw meditation as a my quick-fix solution. I viewed it as a way to find complete peace, stillness, awakening and extreme opening. I found meditation my first year of college. Like many people I turned to spirituality because I didn't know what else to do. I was fresh out of a serious relationship of several years. That same year I had five friends die from various forms of accidents or suicide. My mother was hit with the big-C: breast cancer. And I was "diagnosed" with depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. Which let me tell you – was not the case. Yes, I had nightmares. Yes, I felt broken and lost without my ex. Yes, I woke up and called people that were dead. Yes, I was in a new place and was experiencing ongoing episodes of extreme anxiety. Yes, I wasn't sleeping. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Disinfo 
Via Eric Allen Bell: Once upon a time a very, very angry man named "god" created the world, got pissed off at everybody and killed them all with a flood, except for his buddy Noah and his 2 live crew. Later God decided everyone is so lame that he chose his "chosen people" to give a plot of real estate to while telling everyone else to fuck off, ordered some ethnic cleansings to clear out the area and so forth. Still finding nearly all people to be unbearable (and who can blame him, really?) this god person decided, out of the kindness of his heart, to send his only son to be brutally tortured and savagely murdered so that he won't have to send us all into a lake of hell fire for all eternity … Read More HERE
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | EckhartTeachings Click here to view the embedded video. http://enter.eckharttolletv.com Jim Carrey as you have never seen him before. His honest, candid, humble self discussing openly his life-long pursuit for meaning and purpose, his encounters with Awakening and his optimistic view of the emerging “New Earth.” Recorded at the 2009 Inaugural GATE Event (Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) Video was Shot and Produced by Eckhart Tolle TV | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Newser Texas prisons are taking some heat over a decision to keep cooks out of their kitchens. Since April the state has been serving prisoners just two meals a day on weekends in some prisons, in an effort to cut food service costs, the New York Times reports. (Amusingly, the meal that is served between 5am and 7am is called brunch.) That puts the state out-of-step with American Correctional Association guidelines, which recommend three meals per day, with some variations allowed. But "I've never read the standard to mean you can do it every weekend," the head of the Association says. Texas law requires county inmates to be fed "three times in any 24-hour period," but has no such protection for state prisoners. Prison officials say there are no legal issues with the program, and that they consulted health officials and dieticians before making the change. Besides, one state senator says, "If they don't like the menu, don't come here in the first place." Most American prisons serve three meals a day, but Texas isn’t entirely alone. The state also recently did away with the practice of granting last meals to death row inmates. Read More HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark Karlin – Buzz Flash A recent article in the New York Observerhighlights the ongoing challenge Occupy Wall Street faces in preventing the New York Police Department (NYPD) and perhaps FBI infiltrators from creating acts of violence that will turn the nation against the movement. Mayor Bloomberg and the FBI know that nothing will change the mood of support for Occupy Wall Street faster than having them portrayed as a “violent mob.” So, there have been ongoing incidents of what appear to be provocations by the police or infiltrators to create an image of an unruly group of lawbreakers. (Just remember the Brooklyn Bridge incident for one.) BuzzFlash at Truthout warned of this likely ongoing effort in a commentary on October 4, “The NYPD and FBI Are Trying to Infiltrate Wall Street Protest to Discredit It: Of This You Can Be Sure.” Among the recurring reports of police infiltration and provocateurs is an account today of the incident that led to the NYPD arrest of more than 20 protesters trying to close their Citibank accounts over the weekend. One of the persons arrested at the Citibank branch, Marshall Garrett, told the Village Voice: But what was unknown to us and to a lot of people that day, including those in Times Square, was that there were undercover cops already there, paid to be disruptive and to be loud. One undercover cop present [at Citi] was louder than the entire group. He arrested one of the protestors outside, and slammed her into the wall, and pushed her back into the bank. We all saw him at the precinct with us. He was laughing with the fellow white shirt cops, telling them about what we’d been saying, basically. It was a bit startling how inside their information was – how they were being paid to go to these protests and put us in situations where we’d be arrested and not be able to leave.
In fact, you can see one of the undercover police officer provocateurs in this alarming video. Watch through to the point where this plainclothes NYPD cop arrests a young woman, who is a Citibank customer, for merely being outside the bank branch because she was involved in the protest, but not inside the branch building. It is quite chilling indeed. Four or five NYPD officers just make the woman disappear. The biggest challenge for Occupy Wall Street will be to uproot covert efforts to discredit the movement by law enforcement agencies that are supposed to protect the Constitution instead of subverting it. Read More HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TheAtlantic Libya’s rebels, the U.S., and NATO may all hold responsibility for the death — perhaps by execution — of a man they’d pledged to bring to trial The body of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is displayed at a house in Misrata / Reuters A few hours after the first photos emerged showing former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s lifeless body, a YouTube user named “freemisrata” posted a video appearing to show one of Qaddafi’s last living minutes. The New York Times noted of the video, which was quickly broadcast on CNN and Al Jazeera English, “The man’s injuries and clothing match those of the man said to be Colonel Qaddafi who appeared to be dead in video that emerged online earlier on Thursday.” The man, who bears an incredible resemblance to Qaddafi, appears bloody and terrified but still well enough to walk. He is surrounded by a tight crowd of screaming, angry, armed young men. Immediately after the camera cuts away, a burst of gunfire can be heard off-screen, although as the Times notes it may have been celebratory. The video, which is graphic and disturbing, is below. Click here to view the embedded video. At first, members of the new Libyan government had said that Qaddafi had been seized after a firefight, but they changed their story after this video’s emergence. “They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed him,” a senior member of Libya’s transitional government told Reuters. The rebel fighters who captured Qaddafi found him hiding in a large concrete drainage pipe beneath a highway in the town of Sirte, photos of which are here. Read More HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anthony Gucciardi/Activist Post Organ printing, or the process of engineering tissue via 3D printing, possesses revolutionary potential for organ transplants. But do sociological consequences follow? Organ printing offers help to those in need of immediate organ transplants and other emergency situations, but it also pushes the medical establishment towards utilizing artificial biology as an immediate means of treatment over sound nutrition and preventative treatment. The hasty technological advancement towards organ printing is offering surgery-happy medical establishments even more ways to use invasive medical practices. The creation process of artificial tissue is a complex and expensive process. In order to build 3D structures such as a kidney or lung, a printer is used to assemble cells into whichever shape is wanted. For this to happen, the printer creates a sheet of bio-paper which is cell-friendly. Afterwards, it prints out the living cell clusters onto the paper. After the clusters are placed close to one another, the cells naturally self-organize and morph into more complex tissue structures. The whole process is then repeated to add multiple layers with each layer separated by a thin piece of bio-paper. Eventually, the bio-paper dissolves and all of the layers become one. To get a further understanding of the methodology, it is important to understand the current challenges that go along with 'printing' artificial organs to be used in human bodies. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VigilantCitizen 
The Order of the Illuminati is often at the center of debates about the impact of secret societies on human history. Is the Illuminati a myth or does it truly secretly rule the world? As the number of people asking that question has grown, facts about the Order have become diluted with misconceptions and disinformation, making objective research on the subject difficult. This article attempts to shed some factual light on the Order of the Illuminati by reviewing some of the most important documents on the subject. Read Full Article HERE
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mail Online Internet pornography is creating a generation of young men who are hopeless in the bedroom, according to research. Exposure to lurid images and films in the new media is de-sensitising so many young people that they are increasingly unable to become excited by ordinary sexual encounters, a report said. The result is that impotence is no longer a problem associated with middle-aged men of poor health but is afflicting men in the prime of their lives. According to a report in Psychology Today, a respected U.S. journal, the problem is now so common that men in their 20s consider their inability to perform to be 'normal'. Read Full Article HERE
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Marijuana.com WASHINGTON — Fifty percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana, according to a recently released Gallup poll. That number, up from just 36 percent in 2006, marks a record high and could have significant implications for candidates on the campaign trail, advocates say. Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson has already come out in favor of legalizing marijuana, announcing on Wednesday that he would even consider issuing a full presidential pardon for anyone serving a prison sentence for a nonviolent marijuana crime. Such pardons are part of what he envisions as a broader “rational drug policy.” “Pot smokers may be the largest untapped voting bloc in the country,” he said in an interview with Outside Magazine. “A hundred million Americans have smoked marijuana. You think they want to be considered criminals?” Though Johnson has been excluded from recent GOP debates and polls show he garners less than 1 percent of the national vote, recent surveys suggest that, if current trends persist, legalization of marijuana could indeed become a hot-button topic by election 2016. Support for legalization is as high as 62 percent among Americans under the age of 30, and Gallup has found that Americans are especially likely to favor legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes. According to a Gallup survey last year, 70 percent favored making it legal for doctors to prescribe marijuana to reduce pain and suffering. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Raw Story About 130 protesters were arrested at an Occupy Chicago demonstration early on Sunday after they set up tents and refused to leave a public park after closing time, police said. The protests, which have spread across the United States and to other countries since starting in New York last month, focus on anger over inequality of wealth, government bailouts of big banks and persistently high unemployment. The breakup of the protest in Grant Park was the second mass arrest of Occupy Chicago demonstrators in the past week. A week ago, about 175 protesters were arrested. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PreventDisease Grateful people aren't just kinder people, according to UK College of Arts & Sciences psychology Professor Nathan DeWall. They are also less aggressive. Until now, most psychologists have viewed anger as a way to signal your displeasure when another person does you harm. Similarly, gratitude has been seen as a signal of pleasure when someone does you a favour. In both cases, emotions are seen as short-term reactions to an immediate benefit or cost. DeWall proves his point with five studies on gratitude as a trait and as a fleeting mood, discovering that giving thanks lowers daily aggression, hurt feelings and overall sensitivity. But it’s more cunning than that, says John Tooby, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Anger, he says, has as much to do with cooperation as with conflict, and emotions are used to coerce others into cooperating in the long term. "If you count your blessings, you're more likely to empathize with other people," said the researcher who is more well-known for studying factors that increased aggression. "More empathic people are less aggressive." Gratitude motivates people to express sensitivity and concern for others and stimulates pro-social behavior, according to DeWall. Although gratitude increases mental well-being, it was unknown whether gratitude reduced aggression. DeWall and his colleagues conducted cross-sectional, longitudinal, experience sampling, and experimental studies with more than 900 undergraduate students to show that gratitude is linked to lower aggression. "We tried to triangulate on this phenomenon in as many different ways as we could," said DeWall, who tested the effects of gratitude both inside and outside of the lab. The study, found in Social Psychological and Personality Science, links gratitude to "a nonviolent heart," with those less inclined to aggression. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Business Insider Muammar Qaddafi was three times as rich as Carlos Slim and ten times richer than King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia — easily the richest man in the world. Qaddafi was supposedly worth over $200 billion with assets in bank accounts, real estate and corporate investments around the world.
This staggering new estimate comes from senior Libyan officials and seems to be legitimate, according to the LA Times. How did he get so rich? "King of Kings" Qaddafi had uncontested personal control over the largest oil reserves in Africa for the past 41 years. Unlike Abdullah and other oil-rich leaders, Qaddafi invested little money in national infrastructure like schools and hospitals or any kind of economic diversification. What money Qaddafi did spend went largely to buy support from African leaders. While much of this money was held by government institutions like the Central Bank of Libya and the Libyan Investment Authority, Qaddafi was able to withdraw money at will. Read More HERE
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Raw Story The Occupy Wall Street movement has recently expanded beyond merely occupying parks and other physical territory and is staking out a new realm of metaphorical occupations that includes both OccupyMARINES and Occupy Police. The inspiration for OccupyMARINES came when Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas confronted police officers who were threatening to arrest OWS protesters in Times Square on October 15, yelling, "Stop hurting these people, man! … How do you sleep at night? There is no honor in this!" According to Business Insider, members of the new movement began by reaching out to other former marines but "have now called on veterans of other branches of the military to lend their support to help 'talk sense' to police and recruit them into supporting the Occupy movement." It remains to be seen how successful the group will be and how many veterans it will attract, but it appears to be growing rapidly and gaining support from other progressive organizations. Its webpage, which is credited as "proudly donated by The Pirate Party of New York," announced on Sunday that the umbrella group Velvet Revolution will be acting as its fiscal sponsor to accept donations. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BlacklistedNews 9th day of the 11th month. Via: The Blaze: If you have ever wondered about the government's ability to control the civilian airwaves, you will have your answer on November 9th. On that day, federal authorities are going to shut off all television and radio communications simultaneously at 2:00PM EST to complete the first ever test of the national Emergency Alert System (EAS). This isn't a wild conspiracy theory. The upcoming test is posted on the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau website. Only the President has the authority to activate EAS at the national level, and he has delegated that authority to the Director of FEMA. The test will be conducted jointly by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through FEMA, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS). Read Entire Article HERE
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(Lolita Baldor) The computer networks that control power plants and financial systems will never be secure enough, so government and corporate leaders should consider developing a new, highly secure alternative internet, a top FBI official says. Shawn Henry, the FBI's executive assistant director, said critical systems are under increasing threat from terrorist groups looking to buy or lease the computer skills and malware needed to launch a cyber attack. In an interview, Henry said jihadist militants looking to harm the US can tap organised crime groups who are willing to sell their services and abilities to attack computer systems. He would not say which terrorist group or whether any insurgent networks have actually been able to acquire the high-tech capabilities. But he said one way to protect critical utility and financial systems would be to set up a separate, highly secure internet. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signs of the Times  © unknown Do vitamins kill people? How many people have died from taking vitamins? Should you stop your vitamins? It depends. To be exact, it depends on the quality of the science, and the very nature of scientific research. It is very hard to know things exactly through science. The waste bin of science is full of fallen heroes like Premarin, Vioxx and Avandia (which alone was responsible for 47,000 excess cardiac deaths since it was introduced in 1999). That brings us to the latest apparent casualty, vitamins. The recent media hype around vitamins is a classic case of drawing the wrong conclusions from good science. Remember how doctors thought that hormone replacement therapy was the best thing since sliced bread and recommended it to every single post-menopausal woman? These recommendations were predicated on studies that found a correlation between using hormones and reduced risk of heart attacks. But correlation does not prove cause and effect. It wasn’t until we had controlled experiments like the Women’s Health Initiative that we learned Premarin (hormone replacement therapy) was killing women, not saving them. A new study “proving” that vitamins kill people is hitting front pages and news broadcasts across the country. This study does not prove anything. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SpiegelOnline They are difficult to detect, deadly and cheap to build. Despite the dubious legality of assassinating suspected terrorists and Taliban without a trial, the market for drones is heating up around the world. With Israel and China moving into the market, are we about to see a new arms race? Plastic tanks and miniature models of fighter jets are on display in Steven Zaloga’s home office, and his bookshelves are overflowing with volumes about the history of war. War is Zaloga’s area of expertise, but even more than that, it’s his business. For 36 years, the historian has analyzed global trends in weapons. He currently works for the Teal Group, a renowned defense consulting firm in Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington. Zaloga knows exactly how and where war can be profitable at any given point. And when he discusses which weapons have the best business prospects, he doesn’t spare a glance for his models of tanks and fighter jets. Those weapons belong in history books. The future belongs to drones, remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with sensitive reconnaissance electronics and powerful precision weapons. Drones provide the kind of weapons system strategists have always wished for: They allow a military force to exert power while minimizing its own risks, and to carry out precise, deadly strikes, without sending its own soldiers into danger. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NaturalNews Nearly a million and a half American homes are currently in foreclosure, which means many residences in various neighborhoods are now sitting empty and abandoned. And according to a recent report by The New York Times (NYT), criminals of all stripes, from prostitutes and drug addicts to gang members and thieves, are taking over these properties and “squatting” them indefinitely. Unable to make their mortgage payments due to job losses and other economic factors, many families, particularly in areas where housing prices spiraled most out of control, have been forced out of their homes in recent years. And taking their place are the dregs of society, who really have nothing to lose by invading formerly-occupied properties and doing whatever they please in them. “They’re becoming a magnet for criminal activity,” said Deputy Inspector Miltiadis Marmara, the commanding police officer of the 133rd Precinct in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, to the NYT concerning the excess of foreclosed properties. “[The criminals] hang out in these abandoned homes that may be foreclosed, or the owners walked away. Every day we respond to something to that effect.” Criminals looking for places to sell drugs, throw parties, steal copper piping and other valuables, and even host residential “strip clubs” are finding refuge, if you will, in these abandoned properties. And although police continue to arrest these squatters, others often just take their place shortly thereafter. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Axisoflogic.com Hyped like subprime mortgages, school loans now run to hundreds of billions with no relief in sight USA Today says that at some point this year, student loan debt will exceed $1 trillion, surpassing even credit card debt. Felix Salmon says the number is closer to $550 billion. way total student loan debt is rising as other debts have tailed off. Delinquency has increased, too, since the height of the financial crisis. It's a huge mess. Some people have noticed that "student loan debt" comes up a lot among the Wall Street Occupiers and the members of the 99 percent movement. Often, older people, who either attended school when tuition was reasonable, or who didn't attend college at all in an era when a high school diploma was enough of a qualification for a stable, middle-class career, tend to think this is all the entitled whining of spoiled kids. They don't understand that these kids accepted a home mortgage worth of debt before they ever even had a regular income, based on phony promises, and that the debt is inescapable, regardless of life circumstances or ability to pay. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LiveScience Psychopaths are known to be wily and manipulative, but even so, they unconsciously betray themselves, according to scientists who have looked for patterns in convicted murderers’ speech as they described their crimes. The researchers interviewed 52 convicted murderers, 14 of them ranked as psychopaths according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, a 20-item assessment, and asked them to describe their crimes in detail. Using computer programs to analyze what the men said, the researchers found that those with psychopathic scores showed a lack of emotion, spoke in terms of cause-and-effect when describing their crimes, and focused their attention on basic needs, such as food, drink and money. [10 Contested Death Penalty Cases] While we all have conscious control over some words we use, particularly nouns and verbs, this is not the case for the majority of the words we use, including little, functional words like “to” and “the” or the tense we use for our verbs, according to Jeffrey Hancock, the lead researcher and an associate professor in communications at Cornell University, who discussed the work on Monday (Oct. 17) in Midtown Manhattan at Cornell’s ILR Conference Center. “The beautiful thing about them is they are unconsciously produced,” Hancock said. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | YouTube Click here to view the embedded video. For the full documentary visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHZkUiRP30 All around the planet hundreds of millions of people are waiting for events to unfold in the year 2012, that they… believe will bring either the birth of a harmonious new reality… or ‘the end of the world. But what if those events were actually to take place THIS YEAR, in 2011? In Awakening As One’s new film “The Quickening” we will explain why so many people have been experiencing the sensation that “Time is Speeding Up”; particularly since the Earthquake in Japan. And we will also show how research indicates that this accelerated experience of reality could peak sometime around October 28th, 2011; culminating in a global experience of Unity Consciousness, which would then lead to the experience of a harmonious new way of being. “The Quickening” will also take a look at the unfolding of current events and how they directly relate to Hopi and Mayan Prophecies, indicating that we are on the Cusp of Great Changes, which signify the shifting of the Age… and the Birth of a New World. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Discovery X-ray vision is possible for Superman, but in the real world, it's a lot harder to do. However, a couple of guys at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to duplicate –- sort of -– Superman's amazing feats. Two researchers at MIT's Lincoln Lab, John Peabody and Gregory Charvat, think they have a way around that, and it involves a system of signal amplifiers and radio wavelengths. The results could lead to a new kind of radar that offers real X-ray vision to soldiers in urban combat zones. To see through walls, you have to deal with the fact that solid objects absorb, scatter or reflect light and radio waves. This is why X-ray machines and radar work the way they do. When a doctor takes an X-ray image, the solid bone (and any metal you are carrying) shows up as bright white because other body parts, which are mostly water, allow X rays to pass through them, whereas bones and metal don't. Radar works by picking up reflected radio waves from (mostly) metal objects. A radar operator can "see" a plane from miles away because of the radio waves bouncing off it. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Physorg File photo shows commuters in a congested street in Kolkata, India, on World Population Day on July 11, 2011. Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say. Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say. As early as 1798, Thomas Malthus gloomily forecast that our ability to reproduce would quickly outstrip our ability to produce food, leading to mass starvation and a culling of the species. But an industrial revolution and its impact on agriculture proved Malthus and later doomsayers wrong, even as our numbers doubled and redoubled with accelerating frequency. “Despite alarmist predictions, historical increases in population have not been economically catastrophic,” notes David Bloom, a professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard. Today, though, it seems reasonable to ask if Malthus wasn’t simply a couple of centuries ahead of the curve. On October 31, the world’s population is officially scheduled to hit seven billion — a rise of two billion in less than a quarter century. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Activist Post
This week’s news that support for the legalization of marijuana has reached a record high of 50% ought to bother Obama’s re-election team a little bit. No, not because pot’s more popular than the president, although that really says a lot. The problem, rather, is that Obama’s heavily publicized and widely praised promise to respect state medical marijuana laws has recently been shattered into more pieces than the campaign can count. In only a few short months, the Obama administration has presided over a vicious series of political assaults on medical marijuana patients and providers across the nation, carried out by numerous federal agencies. The situation just continues to get more ugly and insane from one week to the next: - Federal prosecutors have threatened to arrest state employees for administering state laws, resulting in stalled programs and reduced patient access.
- U.S. Attorneys in California recently revived the Bush era tactic of threatening to seize property from landlords who rent to medical marijuana facilities.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Youtube Click here to view the embedded video. "On Friday, violence erupted during the Occupy Melbourne protests when about 400 police evicted demonstrators who had been camping in the city square for nearly a week," reports ABC in Sydney. "Victoria's Police Minister was forced to defend the behavior of officers after demonstrators called for the state's ombudsman to investigate 43 alleged cases of police violence on Friday, including eye-gouging, punching and the use of pepper spray on children." In the early morning hours of October 22, 2011, 14 Orlando Police patrol cars and an arrest van pulled up to Senator Beth Johnson Park in Downtown Orlando. They did not come to keep the peace or to serve and protect. They came to suppress the free speech and peaceable assembly rights of the Occupy Orlando movement by illegally arresting over 20 people who were peacefully demonstrating by sitting together in a circle and holding hands. This was done in direct, blatant violation of their First Amendment Rights. Shame and condemnation upon the Orlando PD, the City of Orlando, and on Mayor Buddy Dyer. You’ve all forgotten who you work for.
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At midnight my door opened and I saw the shadow of someone about 4 feet tall walk into my room and stand by my side of the bed. "I can't sleep," she said and she was smart enough to also say, "my mind is racing". Over the nine years of her life so far she has probably heard me say that many times. Like when I was losing a home and I threw a chair and the police were called. The third time police had to be called on me in life (out of five). So I took her hand and we walked downstairs and she gave me a lecture on what was going on in each one of her classes and she concluded with a discussion of the various Greek gods ("Athena is my favorite," she said. "Who is yours. Hermes?") And then I saw her yawn and I said maybe now she can try to go back to sleep, which she did. I'm scared for her. My mind races also. How many times has my mind woken me up at midnight to remind me of how little money was in my bank account, or how many bills I had to pay, or how much I hated my job, or even hated being an entrepreneur with customers, clients, people screwing me, people hating me. I don't want her mind to wake her like that when she's older. It's the worst pain. And I might not be there then for her to talk to. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GlobalResearch.ca DAMASCUS — The owner of al-Rai TV channel, which had been used by former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as the sole platform to declare his stances, Saturday expressed concerns that Libya may plunge into chaos, and criticized the brutal way Gaddafi was killed. Mishan al-Jbouri, a Sunni Iraqi lawmaker who has been residing in Syria since 1996 and a close friend of Gaddafi’s family, told Xinhua in an interview that the family of Gaddafi could instigate resistance against the NATO and the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC). He said the family of Gaddafi is demanding an inquiry into his death, as well as the quick burial of his body in his Mediterranean coastal hometown of Sirte, the last bastion of resistance against the NATO-backed NTC fighters. “Although I’m a close friend of Gaddifi’s family, I wasn’t a fan of Gaddafi himself,” Jbouri said, “However, the way he was killed was gruesome.” On Friday, the United Nations human rights body called for an investigation into how Gaddafi was killed Thursday, after satellite TV channels broadcast a footage of Gaddafi being captured wounded but alive with blood stains on the face and then pushed by fighters onto a truck, and another video later emerged showing Gaddafi’s body on the lap of a fighter with a bullet hole in his forehead. Gaddafi, who had ruled Libya for 42 years, had governed the country with an outdated mentality, Jbouri said, suggesting that his tyranny and over self-confidence led himself to this end. “Unfortunately, Gaddafi made Libya at some point related to his character and desires,” Jbouri said. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Raw Story Click here to view the embedded video. In a video statement carried recently by several official channels maintained by members of the hacker activist group "Anonymous," a digitally generated voice explains that the online collective has decided to take down the Fox News website on Nov. 5th of this year. The date, Nov. 5, is significant for its dramatic placement in the film and comic book "V for Vendetta," about a freedom-loving terrorist who destroys an authoritarian government that's come to power in the U.K. "Remember, remember the 5th of November," is his saying, hearkening back to the "Gunpowder plot" of 1604, in which the terrorist Guy Fawkes was captured and executed for his attempt to blow up Parliament. The mask used by the Guy Fawkes character in "V for Vendetta" has also become a ubiquitous symbol for "Anonymous." Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Poorichardsblog National Journal‘s latest survey shows broad support for the protest movement and Democrats’ plan to make the rich pay more At a time when protests have erupted across the country over a growing inequality of wealth and Congress is considering measures to impose a surtax on those earning more than $1 million annually, the public seems to be in a populist mood–one that’s tempered by skepticism about Washington’s ability to do anything about the grim economy. A new survey shows that Americans overwhelmingly support the self-styled Occupy Wall Street protests that not only have disrupted life in Lower Manhattan but also in Washington and cities and towns across the U.S. and in other nations. Some 59 percent of adults either completely agree or mostly agree with the protesters, while 31 percent mostly disagree or completely disagree; 10 percent of those surveyed didn’t know or refused to answer. What’s more, many people are paying attention to the rallies. Almost two-thirds of respondents–65 percent–said they’ve heard “a lot” or “some” about the rallies, while 35 percent have said they’ve heard or seen “not too much” or “nothing at all” about the demonstrations. The results appear in the latest edition of the United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll. Read Entire Article HERE
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PreventDisease.com Health prevention strategies to help people achieve their optimal health potential could add a decade or more of healthy years to the average lifespan and save the economy billions of dollars as a result of reduced cardiovascular disease. Professor of medicine and chief cardiologist at the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Clyde Yancy stated that “achieving…simple lifestyle factors gives people a 90 per cent chance of living to the age of 90 or 100, free of not only heart disease and stroke but from a number of other chronic illnesses including cancer.” “We can compress life-threatening disease into the final stages of life and maintain quality of life for the longest possible time.” He predicts that, if we act now, we can reverse the tide by 2020,” said Yancy. According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, every year in Canada about 250,000 potential years of life are lost due to heart disease and stroke, which are two of the three leading causes of death in Canada. Following simple steps can prevent disease and lead you to optimal health. 1. GET ACTIVE: Inactivity can shave almost four years off a person’s expected lifespan. People who are physically inactive are twice as likely to be at risk for heart disease or stroke. Fitness is a key ingredient in advancing your health. 2. GET RID OF PROCESSED AND GMO FOODS: Healthy eating is one of the most important things you can do to improve your health and that starts with omitting all processed foods which contain high sources of genetically modified ingredients. 3. FILTER YOUR WATER: Getting rid of toxic fluoride in your drinking water and obtaining a clean and pure source of water is imperative for optimal health. Educating yourself on how to drink tap water safely will go a long way in keeping you disease free. Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Raw Story Two trusted loyalists of Libya's interim government were handed Muammar Gaddafi's body to bury secretly deep in the Sahara desert on Tuesday after a cleric prayed over his decomposing corpse, an official said. The National Transitional Council (NTC) had disquieted many outsiders by putting the bodies of Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim on show in a meat locker in the coastal city of Misrata until their decay forced them on Monday to close the doors. Under pressure from Western allies, the NTC promised on Monday to investigate how Gaddafi and his son were killed — graphic mobile phone footage shows both alive after their capture. The former Libyan leader was seen being mocked and beaten before he was shot, in what NTC officials say was crossfire. The process leading to his burial is taking place now," NTC official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters by telephone from Libya. "Only two trusted people were assigned to this secret mission. These are not guards, but very trusted NTC people." Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ActivistPost The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises. A major document from the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department should be music to the ears of the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn. The 18-page document, “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems ain the Context of a Global Public Authority,” was at times very specific, calling, for example, for taxation measures on financial transactions. “The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence,” it said. Read Full Article | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Disinfo 
Via CTV: Thousands of dead birds will be collected from an Ontario shoreline on Monday as the province's Ministry of Natural Resources tries to determine what killed the waterfowl. Officials estimate as many as 6,000 dead birds have washed up on the Georgian Bay's shoreline. The carcasses are scattered along a nearly three-kilometre stretch near Wasaga Beach. "You just want to cry," resident Faye Ego told CTV Toronto on Saturday. Authorities speculate that the birds may have been killed by a form of botulism after eating dead fish. Locals said they noticed some dead fish on the beach a few weeks ago and a few dead birds earlier in September. During Monday's cleanup, crews will be trying to tally up the total number of dead birds on the shoreline … Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NaturalSociety Men who are chronically stressed due to life events or other factors could have a 50% higher mortality rate than those who are not stressed, according to a new study. The study was the first of its kind to document the effects of major stressors over a long period of time, such as the death of a spouse or placing a parent into a retirement home. While the study did find that stress has a considerable negative impact on longevity, there were protective factors that helped to negate the effects. Participants who reported to be healthy tended to live longer, as well as married men. Researchers found these characteristics to be protective against stress-induced mortality, highlighting the power of optimum health and emotional stability. Of course while the study found many factors that can protect you, they also found many factors that further increased the risk of death: "Being a teetotaler and a smoker were risk factors for mortality," said Carolyn Aldwin, lead author of the study and a professor of human development and family sciences at Oregon State University. "So perhaps trying to keep your major stress events to a minimum, being married and having a glass of wine every night is the secret to a long life." Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New Scientist As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable. The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere (see photo). But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world's transnational corporations (TNCs). "Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it's conspiracy theories or free-market," says James Glattfelder. "Our analysis is reality-based."… Read Entire Article HERE | | | | | | | | | |  | |  | |  |
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