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Madonna has shown no sign of slowing down - despite turning 50 later this year.

The popstar accused society of being "ageist and sexist" in an interview with Hello magazine, insisting she has never been one to conform and will continue to juggle motherhood with her career.

Madonna said: "Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism, it also suffers from ageism.

"Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual."

"I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die? I've never been a conformist."

The Material Girl also admitted to being a control freak prone to explosive tantrums but claimed her temper has improved over recent years as she has given way to her emotional side, revealing she often likes a good cry.

"What artist isn't a control freak?

"I used to go to the recording studio and explode. I don't explode in that way now but I have a dynamic personality.

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I mean, here we have weapons being used for peaceful purposes. These are Chinese soldiers and one must admire their resourcefulness and readiness to take such a risk as firing missiles at the landslide to create a pathway for the water, so that it flows at just the right rate.

The Chinese General who was in charge needs to honoured in the lines Patton!

This culminates a news item that I've been following very closely.

"Torrents of muddy water gushed out of the lake throughout the day, sweeping through towns and villages in Sichuan province that were flattened by last month's devastating earthquake, which left over 86,000 people dead or missing."

"After a nervous few hours, the water in the lake fell below the top-alert level without causing any major flooding problems downstream. "

"Those efforts included firing small missiles and using dynamite to clear boulders from the planned spillways -- dramatic measures implemented in recent days that finally cleared the channels enough for Tuesday's massive draining."

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Medical Zionism: The Scourge of Nations

Published by cyrano2 at 7:44 pm under "For Profit" Health Care, Big Pharma, Corporatism, Healthcare Piracy

By Ivor Hughes

6/9/08

A radical monopoly feeds upon itself. Iatrogenic Medicine reinforces a morbid society in which the social control of the population by the medical system turns into a principle economic activity; it serves to legitimise social arrangements into which many people do not fit.

Ivan Illich
‘Medical Nemesis’.
Pantheon 1976

Some years ago whilst queuing for the mandated medical inspection at a home for homeless men I had cause to reflect upon the nature of a system of control, to which the poor and downtrodden of every nation are subject. To be poor means to be stripped of any vestige of human dignity and used as a pawn in whatever game the dispensers of charity are playing. Some do it in the name of God and some in the name of Beelzebub or Mammon and Government. I wonder how many of those people reflect, that without those unfortunates, from off whose back they eat their daily bread… that without the poor they must also join the breadline queue.

I have used the term Zionism because Western Orthodox Medicine closely mirrors the political system of Zionist control of the media and the ruthless control of whole nations. Like the political Zionists, the Mandarins of Medicine mercilessly flog, smear, denigrate then strip the dissenters of their livelihood and with alarming regularity engage in book burning. They control the medical press and ensure conformity.

Weighed, measured and with trousers around my ankles, I stood before her as she bent forward and gingerly lifted my penis with a spatula and examined it for lesions, ulcers, scabs and discharge. And with the same spatula stirred my pubic hair for signs of pediculosis, satisfied, she straightened up and attached me to the manometer and pumped the cuff on my upper arm full of air… Hmm, she said, “your blood pressure is considerably over what we allow, you will need to be put on medication … oh, and you can pull up your trousers now”.

What sort of medication do you have in mind, I asked sarcastically… “Oh your blood pressure is too high, we will soon have that under control”… to which… I used the term ‘blood pressure’ as an expletive… Why are you so angry she asked…? I told her why I was so angry… shortly afterwards I was called to the Superintendents office and told to leave.

As I trudged those cold early morning city streets I had much cause for thought… the medical rituals such as the taking of blood pressure or checking sugar levels and the figures obtained are not a constant forever etched on the sky. Blood pressure rises and falls throughout a 24 hour period and for a myriad different causes… the approach of a loved one, or anger… perhaps I should have just rode the system and tossed the legal killer pills into a fire… at least I would have had a warm bed and a breakfast .. Being smart… is what we working class call it… but for the life of me I could not embrace that line of thinking… Throughout that long night I was the attention of passing patrol cars… the first time the police stopped, it was a bully boy grilling with the demand for papers… Thereafter the police just slowed to a crawl and followed me up the street… in the military, and when subduing the irate peasantry… we used that type of tactic, we called it ‘putting the frighteners on’.

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Modern orthodox medicine is a mirror image of the political system from which it feeds Capitalist or Socialist e.g. the USA and Britain. Both systems tap the same political artery… it is the people who are subjects of either system who must pay, either directly or indirectly to support the medical system. It does not escape ones attention that the servants of Asklepios in both economic medical systems, agree in principle as to the rules of the game. They live very well from the proceeds once the student loan is paid off. But it is our backs that these people sup from.

Neither system appears to have much of a problem leveraging money from the people via insurance companies or the taxman on the basis of an annual cost of living rise, whilst in the meantime the junior staff from janitor to intern have to strike either for better pay or for a reduction in the relentless hours that are forced upon them by the glass bead abacus that lies at the apex of these little pyramids of power, who also have links to larger pyramids.. Even to the kings chambers… where the abacus beads are of semi precious stones which in their clacking spit out numbers… numbers that rule us all… and in the process the orthodox medical consumers are economically recycled via the assembly line medicine.

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A system of medicine that has abandoned its ethics .. Its very core, any compassion has long since evaporated… so often the difference between life and death is an economic medical decision… the grotesque organ transplantation technology has grown into a fully fledged black market for human organs, and I cannot help wondering how many lives are terminated ahead of time so that steaming fresh organs can be harvested either for the trade or as medical trophies in glass jars to be paraded before new intakes of medical students. Just pieces of meat that once were human.

The suicide pills euphemistically called anti-depressants… the cancer causing birth control pills, the mountains of female cancerous breasts… the mountains of discarded wombs… which have long since outstripped the obligatory appendectomies in numbers of excisions performed… I wonder how do the medical authorities recycle these pieces of meat?

The scourge of meta amphetamine (‘P’), the crack, the cocaine the heroin and all the other drugs of addiction are all medical constructs from this grotesque system, which probes the very fabric of life. We are daily fed a diet of the dubious success stories but nothing is said about the line of hearses at the back door of the hospitals in the small hours of the morning.

Carefully spaced press releases that appear to give a glimmer of hope for the terminally afflicted, are a regular feature in both America and Britain. Daily we are fed juicy tidbits.

The fight against cancer is yielding results; we are now able to offer a 5 year survival rate, a spokesperson said. Heart and Lung transplant patient passed away, a hospital spokesperson said ‘it was a natural death’.

Young mum from Camberwell gives birth to 5 kids. A hospital spokesperson said that Daisy was sleeping off the effects of the drugs she was given.

Deadly super bug ravaging our hospitals. A Home Office spokesperson said, but added that the public have no cause for alarm. We have the situation under control, the spokesperson said. The whole seeming normal impression is just a mask that hides another kind of agenda.

The current western orthodox medical system is an assembly line where standard patients are given standard and economically directed treatments which in themselves are a great hazard for the many who have had to cope with the side effects.

Reality is… that the Cancer Quacks sometimes called Oncologists have the right to take your child off you… they take you to court and have the court make your child a ward of court .. The Justice system turns the child over to the medical monsters who cut and burn and smash beyond repair the child’s immune system with the toxic chemicals and then send them home to die… To assault a child’s already compromised immune system with the lethal treatment is a callous insanity, the authorities try hard to suppress such reports, but are always quick to report the survivors as some kind of success story… many of the monsters who perform these medieval torture routines have stated categorically that they themselves would be unwilling to undergo the treatment.. Perhaps they know something that the rest of us are not privy to.

How many people who have tried to pursue a medical malpractice matter, have found that their medical documents have mysteriously disappeared or that there was a fire which destroyed them… or even hopefully pursued the matter via Government appointed watchdogs like the Ombudsman system… to find out too late that these organizations are the interior decorators for this murderous cabal and whose major funding comes from some very doubtful quarters. Conflicts of Interest -R- Us.

At regular intervals another scientifically created disease is released in the slums and ghettos of the world… via dripping needles and poison pills as they experiment on a destitute and hapless peoples… more money to fight this disease, and more money to fight that disease. Cancer societies and the ever burgeoning affliction societies… people really should examine where much of the funding is coming from… it does not all come from the relatives of an afflicted person… the bulk of such funds received go to support the societies and the Pharmageddon propaganda. Not to compensating the victims.

Any shortfall in funds after the public begging day ritual has been performed, is provided by a benevolent pharmaceutical company… not with altruistic motives… after all, the malady funded, was probably caused by the drugs prescribed or at the very least, by a nice little line of experimental drugs of very doubtful provenance .. The well documented rigged clinical trials and withheld information and horrific side effects and long drawn out legal battles, or out of court settlements only serves to highlight this Criminal activity. In terms of our usury economics system this kind of behavior makes perfect business sense, a captive medical market is very good for the shareholders who have no conscience above their bank balance.

If you happen to be one of the milch humans that frequent the Temples (Pharmacies) of Pharmageddon then I feel truly distraught for your predicament as captives of this monstrous system… because I know that they rule you by fear and dissonance… some of the elderly are on 10 different medications in a 12 hour period. What an imposition on a frail body.

The public are expected to believe that the Pharmacist sits down with the drugs and balance half lives and interactions and dose. Only research and hospital pharmacists do that for experimental purposes in the inner sanctum… those who front the Temple Gate, usually follows the Doctors Rx unless it is so obviously skewed they do not question. They always have the Doctors standard dosage in stock because they are drug pushers of Pharmageddon, they have a one size fits all system to which the medical establishment is subservient.

We all know who the pharmaceutical companies are, and also their links to the earth poisons and atmosphere poisons… even into the king’s chamber. I think Karen Silkwood died in vain in spite of the screaming questions that emanated from her death. The people chose employment over lethal contamination… this is understandable for they are probably in debt to the system, with no way out except in. This is not a choice… it is a heads I win and tails you lose situation… coercion that purposely uses cognitive dissonance as a tool. A mind rape! These are also the tools of Political Zionism.

The medical establishment, the pharmacists, doctors, specialists, surgeons and psychiatrists along with medical academia are subservient to the Pharmaceutical Junta. The Merc Manual. Text books on pharmacognosy are crammed full of the weird shaped chemical heads. Strange tails, and misshapen arms of molecules unknown in nature… a gigantic experiment upon the peoples… welcome to the world of ‘Synthesis’ … medical science still has to borrow from nature for the template and in the taking have learnt nothing since Paracelsus and Culpeper.

The death toll of this control system may never be accurately known, however an excellent coverage of the available documents with a good analysis was published…

DEATH BY MEDICINE
October 2003
Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND,
Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD,
Dorothy Smith PhD.

If you Google Death by Medicine that will pull up the study for you. Their dedicated work in this area is valuable evidence that all is not as it appears. And the figures revealed are sure to be just the tip of that proverbial iceberg. Because it takes a brave person to jeopardize a career that was so hard won… “Sir I did not mean to kill them … it was human error”. The system is always on the prowl for sacrificial lambs… someone that the mob can stone to relieve the angst… whilst at the same time the system appears white and clean in their feigned moral outrage at this rank betrayal of a sacred trust… this is coercion… by its methods it seeks to conceal the facts by a defacto blackmail. Blackmail is a criminal offence.

Then we have this pernicious practice of vaccination whereby filth is pumped into a baby’s body based on Pasteur’s Germ Theory… A theory which has long since been discredited. The statistics that they publish as their proof of efficacy are nothing more than massaged frauds that may be added to the rest of the fraudulent clinical trials which are being uncovered almost daily and certainly by the week.

The methods of analyzing the data obtained are woefully inadequate, the confidence that is placed in mathematical formulae that at the best can only handle a mere handful of variables against the complexity of each individual human frame is sadly misplaced .. Once again we are being ruled by numbers that have not the slightest relevance, except as tools for the propaganda with which they dazzle blinded eyes. The calls for justice by the parents of vaccine damaged children are ignored as they routinely follow the prevailing dogma and invariably produce the ultimate whitewash by the use of the sacred mantra… ‘There is no scientific evidence’… Do these people really believe that they sit on the right hand of God?

The evidence is in the afflicted… the unheard millions who they ignore as though they did not exist, and daily they consign hundreds of thousands of children to a life of ill health by the use of this sacrificial ritual… I have never understood how one unvaccinated child could jeopardize the lives of hundreds of vaccinated children… because if this particular piece of junk dissonance is correct then the whole explanation for this nasty practice is collapsed and exposed for what it is.

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality”.

–Albert Einstein

I thoroughly sympathize with those parents who grapple with the cognitive dissonance and fear for their Childs life… of what might happen if they don’t… I have looked at innumerable photographs of children screaming blue murder at this overwhelming assault on an unformed immune system… and to this unmistakable display of outraged betrayal; I bow my head to the wisdom of a child. The medical on costs for the vaccinated must be substantial because it is the medically compromised children that are shoveled into the synthetics system broiler house… rear them like young chicks surround them with the system… saddle them with health problems or saddle them with debt at the start of their productive lives in order to support a student loan .. People are badly abused even as they support the system that is sucking off them.

There are many who toil as part of this system… some of whom have blown a whistle and were quickly ruined and disposed of… they are the example dead bodies thrown onto the floors of academia and medicine .. The horses head of the Mafia and the mark of Zionism.

The survivors of this system need a strong instinct of self preservation to override the initial moral outrage felt, because a large mortgage and perhaps a family are powerful incentives, but some of them planned a withdrawal route out of the system into a more public spirited endeavor with larger horizons. Welcome to the ranks of Health Freedom.

I would also say that there are many orthodox physicians who obey authority and not their patients needs, as they feed the numbers into the system, they are the ones that succumbed to the intense indoctrination process that is given the name of higher education… whereas the reality is… that the cramming of the brain and the nervous exhaustion leaves no room for penetrating questions, just obedience in the breathless scramble to catch the hare. Such crude techniques of indoctrination have been practiced for centuries by every society in the west. That is not education; it is mental rape for the purpose of conformity to a brand of dogma. The cry of Scientific and Academic freedom never speaks of the responsibility such freedom entails… and hardly ever is that responsibility acknowledged… and it is far from freedom for the exploited as they are coerced by laws that were enacted for precisely that exploitive purpose.

The square peg of youthful idealism… find a cure for cancer… save an African village… or take the handle off a water pump and bring to the end a scourge of cholera .. Well let me tell you, the system soon knocks that type of nonsense out of those youthful heads, because from day one, a relentless stump grinder is set in motion, whilst the lecturers hammer home steel wedges of dogma… if Daddy is not rich, first comes the borrowing to find the impost. Oh and one must eat and care for oneself… and of course pay for all of those extra books required, that one was not informed about.

So one hides off to hamburger flipping/serving job or washing dishes… Work is the answer to the economic squeeze… whilst others relax, you work in time that should have been devoted to study whilst you still had a freshness… back to the campus at 10.30 or even later and wearily drag out ones assignment work and finally the grateful blessed sleep taken in the small hours .. And it all happens again and again and again.

This is usually the students first brush with economic matters of such gravity as wondering where was the next meal coming from… I warrant that necessity will always override a stated curriculum… The economics of being a doctor 101. For many of these medical students, economics 101 is a plague for them throughout the degree course which they are following, this is hardly conducive to becoming a top flight candidate for the ladder complete with a centuries worth of old boy networks .. because if one does not have a foot on that ladder, then one must be an exceptional person to escape from the mediocrity to which one has been assigned .. When the candidates are streamed.

As any student knows it does not pay to ask smart questions… like those questions that point out that there is a brick missing from this carefully constructed academic wall of knowledge… it is instant suicide to question a lecturer whose name is widely known… beware of the Academic Expert.

The students are under potential lockdown conditions at the hatcheries… which are swiftly imposed in the event of any protest, which gives lie to what is that these imposters claim, and their methods of enforcement by the use of thuggish mercenaries with short fuses is the evidence… and neither have we forgotten the massacre at Kent State which was flashed around the world, just another rusty nail in the coffin of freedom and justice.

The graduate Medical Cowards that call themselves Doctors have abandoned any pretence of the Hippocratic Oath… one of the provisions is the pledge to ‘First Do No Harm’.

It has surely not escaped the attention of these brilliant minds that their Materia Medica is totally flawed, extremely dangerous and compromised with lies and whitewash… the medical journals are the coffee shops and smart eating places of academic snobbery, which is usually of the ‘We know best genre’ as the moral morons discuss in arcane language the merits of this or that killer pill and whether the risks outweigh the benefits.. How dare they decide for those whose risk or benefit it is.

They know what they are doing, that is why they have come up with the concept of
’Informed Consent’… this throws the onus of medical harm onto the long suffering patients and thus escape the consequences of their wrong doing. It should not be necessary for me to point out that these Doctors spent many years learning the chemical and medical language and yet expect a patient to be an instant expert, as in ‘informed consent’… What despicable people they are… there is no hypocrite like the Hippocratic hypocrite.

Neither system will give a nod or a wink to dissenters and the underlings always look discretely away as the Junta stones another dissenter… ruining the victims reputation which effectively leaves them without a livelihood in their chosen field .. This nasty and vicious behavior should be denounced for what it is… Academic Zionism at work, and it is occurring with increasing regularity whilst the monsters continue to tighten the grip around our collective throats. Zionism in whatever form it appears is a medieval negation of justice and the right… we do not have to sacrifice more children or shed anymore blood and tears… all we need to do is to stop giving them our patronage… there are far superior systems of health care available and at a fraction of the cost.

The Queen of England makes use of Homeopathy. She has no use for the medical smear and propaganda… she gets the best medical advice that money and privilege can buy.

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On the one hand, Reuters says that the danger has INCREASED due to the fast draining of the lake.

On the other hand AFP reports that the fast draining of the lake has allowed the water levels to fall and has eased the risk.

I think this is a catch 22 situation!


MIANYANG, China (Reuters) - Muddy lake water from a dangerously unstable "quake lake" rushed into the devastated Chinese town of Beichuan on Tuesday, covering about a third of the ruins, after soldiers used explosives to widen a sluice.

Brown water, clumps of trees and occasional vehicles were moving quickly into low-lying areas of the town, washing away remains of corpses, family mementoes and valuables left under the rubble.

The water level at the Tangjiashan quake lake, formed by China's most devastating earthquake in decades, dropped by nearly eight meters (26 ft) in three hours on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency said.

Helicopters were evacuating remaining soldiers and experts from the top of the dam, which was no longer safe with cracks appearing as the flow of water accelerated by more than tenfold, Xinhua said, adding some mountains near the lake had started crumbling.


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MIANYANG, China (AFP) — Water is finally gushing out of a dangerous quake lake, China said on Tuesday, after firing missiles and using dynamite and bulldozers to clear more diversion channels.

Shortly before noon, water was draining out nearly 60 times faster than it was flowing in, after boulders were destroyed and other huge debris removed, the state Xinhua news agency said.

China's military had resorted to the dramatic measure of firing 10 small missiles to blast away huge boulders that were blocking the path of one of the channels.

The falling water levels have eased the immediate dangers posed by the Tangjiashan lake, created when landslides blocked a river in southwest China's mountainous Sichuan province during the devastating May 12 earthquake.

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Reportedly, Gmail Product Manager, Keith Coleman, said the idea was to make Gmail more flexible, get users' feedback, and include popular features in it. Coleman said they would open-up integration of third-party codes with Gmail and enhance its interface for better performance. Currently, only Google engineers can code features to be listed under Labs.

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The most healthful meal is the one you cook at home. But for those of us skilled at the art of takeout, the idea of cooking in our kitchens is daunting. Who has time after a busy day to shop, chop, prepare and cook?

The Times’s food writer Mark Bittman always makes cooking look easy as author of the weekly Minimalist column and his new blog Bitten. He’s also the author of several cookbooks, including “How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food.'’ I recently spoke with Mark about the how-to’s of home cooking, his favorite ingredients and a lot about beans.

Why do you think so many people find it tough to cook regularly at home?

I think there are a couple of lost generations. In the years after the war it became less and less popular to cook and more and more common to do things conveniently. Especially people born after 1960 or after, when reentering the workforce and using canned and frozen microwave stuff — they just didn’t see their mothers cooking.

For those of us who want to cook more, what’s your advice for getting started?

I would say start with a decent cookbook. Pick something you really like, and make the effort to be successful; you want positive reinforcement. Read the recipe carefully, set aside the time and make sure you’ve got the ingredients and the equipment and really walk yourself through it. What takes you two hours the first time may only take 15 minutes the third time.

What supplies should I always have in my kitchen? Are there any special pots or pans I need?

In “How To Cook Everything,” there are lists of what you need for your pantry and a list of the equipment. You can start with three or four pans, a couple different utensils. And you can start with 10 or 15 ingredients. The list includes pasta and rice, canned beans and tomatoes, spices, olive oil, eggs and butter, long-keeping vegetables like onions, potatoes and garlic and canned stock. You have to start with the right ingredients, and you have to invest a little money and a fair amount of time.

But that is usually the problem for most people. They say they don’t have time to cook. I know I often don’t.

Well, whatever it takes to get food on the table, you have to do something. I’m not saying calling the Chinese takeout guy is harder than cooking. But all things considered, it’s not that much different. Yesterday morning I woke up and cooked beans while getting ready to come to work. I got home really late, like at 7:45 p.m. I reheated the beans, washed some lettuce and broiled a piece of fish. I had stuff on the table in 15 minutes. People say, “I have no time.” It’s like exercise: you have to want to do it.

For me the worst part of cooking is shopping for groceries and figuring what ingredients I need for a meal.

These days I cook a lot of things that are already in the house. I eat a lot of eggs, vegetables, beans and pasta. A lot of people think cooking is complicated. But this is the thing. Once you learn what you’re doing you realize it’s not. As I said, I woke up yesterday and made beans. Even if you take a can of beans and throw it in a pot with cherry tomatoes (you don’t even have to cut them up), some garlic and olive oil — there’s nothing wrong with that. Broil a piece of fish, wash some lettuce, and you have a fine meal. If your kids don’t like fish, then use shrimp or a piece of meat. I’ve gotten so used to cooking simply I almost never do anything else. Even when people come over for dinner — they get the same things I cook for myself. If I made what I just described to you and you were coming over for dinner, you’d probably think, “He cooked. How nice.'’ People worry about this too much.

How many different types of meals should we know how to make? Is variety important?

Whatever makes you happy. If you know how to broil a piece of fish or meat, if you know how to make a stir-fry and a couple pasta dishes and maybe a rice dish, and if you know how to deal with beans and make a salad, at that point you are well on your way.

When you are cooking, do you ask yourself whether it’s healthy, or do you just want it to taste good?

I always thought if you were aware of what you were putting in your mouth you’re not going to eat badly. Nobody can cook what they cook in fast-food joints and restaurants, in general, because you just don’t have the same ingredients. But if you looked at what it means to put a half a cup of butter in a dish, you would just look and say, “I’m going to use less.'’ When you cook yourself, you just don’t put the same kind of crappy things in there that people put in food that is prepared for you.

Do you have a favorite ingredient?

I go through an awful lot of olive oil, a stunning amount. I’m eating a lot of legumes.

You’ve talked a lot about beans. How do you cook them? Don’t you have to soak them?

You don’t have to soak them, but it makes it faster if you do. If you soak small dried beans overnight, I wager you could get them most of the way cooked by the time you and your daughter got out of the house in the morning. There’s a lot of stuff you can start and stop in the morning, especially beans and grains.

I have to confess, I’m not much of a bean eater. Maybe I need to start. Why are you such a fan?

It’s the flavor, the satisfaction, the non-meatness, the high-fiberness. When you get into cooking you start to see the subtle differences among things. At first I didn’t know anything about fish, then I learned 50 species, and then it mattered if it was bay scallops or sea scallops or pink scallops. That’s where I’m at these days with vegetables and legumes. I didn’t pay much attention to cooking them for most of my adult life, and now I’m starting to understand the subtle differences.

Okay, so what beans should we all be trying?

Chickpeas are the best. Now I’m into these huge beans called gigantes. You eat three of them and it’s like you had a small potato. But you can take a pound of chickpeas, cook them on a Saturday and stick them in the refrigerator tossed with olive oil, and you can eat them all week long.

Do you have a particular food indulgence?

I have a lot of friends in the food business, so I get my share of treats. At home it’s almost like I’m happy with pretty much everything I cook. It’s not that it’s so great. It’s the knowledge that I put something together, it’s simple and I put something on the table and there we are, sitting and eating it. It’s something I’ve loved doing for a long time, and I’m still into it. Read more on this article...

Zimbabweans pushed up stocks by more than 300,000 percent in 2007, handily beating inflation of 24,000 percent. The point is that it didn't pay to keep cash in the bank or anywhere else for that matter. The stock market at least offered the opportunity to invest in businesses with tangible assets that appreciate with inflation.

Perhaps what will be different this time is that while most people will want the convenience that paper money and electronic payments provide, fewer of them will trust money as a store of value. What that means for individual commodities is anybody's guess. But, unless 1) we are miraculously delivered into a time of plenty by huge, unexpected discoveries of the basic building blocks of civilization or 2) people suddenly en masse embrace an abstemious lifestyle (or are forced to embrace it by a depression), it seems possible that one time-honored role of money, that is, as a store of value, will disappear for an extended period as the world comes to grips with resource limits that are only now beginning to convulse our societies.

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ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- You think I'm drinking that famous Beltway Kool-Aid, maybe because I'm predicting another meltdown coming in 2011? Well, you're being served from the same punch bowl, my friends.
Wall Street, Washington and the Fed are all praying the credit crisis is under control. Unfortunately, all their happy-talking is just a lot of hype, to hide their next bubble.
World markets are headed into another meltdown by the end of the first term of the next president ... and you won't even hear it coming under all the happy-talk.

Cycles happen. Bubbles blow, pop, meltdowns happen. Significantly, they're getting bigger and more frequent. Think 1987, 2000, 2007 -- the next in 2011. All the happy-talk from Washington and Wall Street gurus can't start the bull before it's time. Nor will a lot of non-happy-talker warnings make a bubble burst early.

For example, two years ago I analyzed the 2000-2002 bear phase of "The Cycle." We reported on 16 reasons why all the happy-talk failed to restart the bull market during that 30-month recession, while investors slowly lost $8 trillion.
Now you'll see how all the warnings of a housing bubble and a coming meltdown also had no effect on the 2004-2007 bull phase of "The Cycle."

Why? Because bull/bear, bubble/bust, expansion/recession cycles have a natural pattern that ebbs and flows on their own time, making fools of all gurus predictions. And all the happy-talk and not-so-happy-talk in the world has no effect: Happy-talk won't restart a bull. Nor can not-so-happy-talk warnings puncture a bubble. Cycles have lives of their own, they mature and die unpredictable, age and pop when they feel like it.
Another will happen, soon. A busted bubble and a new meltdown coming by the end of the next presidential term. Why then? Because the last few occurred with increasing frequency, separated by thirteen years then seven, and the next will come within four years. These trends are obvious from studying the works of masters like former Commerce Department chief economist Ed Dewey's classics, including his Cycles, the Mysterious Forces that Trigger Events.
Here's my list of warnings from 20 not-so-happy-talkers. Notice how they were as unable to pop the 2004-2007 bubble before its time, as the happy-talkers were unable to restart a bull during the 2000-2002 recession:

1. 2000: Fed governor warns Greenspan. Former Federal Reserve governor Ed Gramlich served 1997-2005. He was warning Alan Greenspan as early as 2000 about the coming subprime crisis. See his book "Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom & Bust."

2. 2004: Nixon's secretary of commerce. In "Running on Empty," Peter Peterson says: "This administration and the Republican Congress have presided over the biggest, most reckless deterioration of America's finances in history" creating a "bankrupt nation."

3. June 2005: The Economist. Cover story two years before collapse: "The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history. ... Rising property prices helped to prop up the world economy after the stock market bubble burst in 2000." Values increased 75% worldwide in five short years. "Never before have real house prices risen so fast, for so long, in so many countries ... This is the biggest bubble in history."

4. January 2006: Fortune. Interview with Richard Rainwater. "This is the first scenario I've seen where I question the survivability of mankind." He's 112th on the Forbes 400, worth $2.3 billion: "Most people invest and then sit around worrying what the next blowup will be. I do the opposite. I wait for the blowup, then invest." He waited with a half-billion-dollar war chest.

5. February 2006: Faber's Market Newsletter. "Correction Time is Here!" was Faber's headline: "If we combine the overbought condition of the stock market, investors' sentiment high optimism, equity mutual funds' low cash positions, and also heavy foreign buying, we have all the ingredients for a stock market correction in the US getting underway very shortly."

6. March 2006: Forbes. Economist Gary Shilling wrote: "The current housing weakness will develop into a full-scale rout ... It's clearly a bubble and is nationwide ... The house-price collapse will induce a painful recession that will send U.S. stocks into a tailspin ... China will suffer a hard landing ... and weakness in the U.S. and China will spread worldwide."

7. March 2006: "Sell Now." Former Goldman Sachs investment banker John Talbott's book: "Sell Now! The End of the Housing Bubble." His statistics covered America's top 130 metropolitan areas. The top 40 were facing an average 47.2% decline.

8. March 2006: Pimco Investment Outlook. In the quarterly newsletter, "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight," Pimco's boss Bill Gross took a big swipe at a presidential economic report: "It's not so much that the report was a compilation of untruths or even half-truths. It's just that it failed to tell the truth," and hid the fact that Washington's "borrowed from the future to pay for today's party."

9. March 2006: Buffett in Fortune. Remember Warren Buffett's famous farmer story: "Our country has been behaving like an extraordinarily rich family that possesses an immense farm. In order to consume 4% more than they produce -- that's the trade deficit -- we have, day by day, been both selling pieces of the farm and increasing the mortgage on what we still own."

10. May 2006: Harper's magazine. Michael Hudson wrote an article, "Guide to the Coming Real Estate Collapse," analyzing 20 trends: "Taken together, these factors will further shrink the 'real' economy, drive down those already declining real wages, and push our debt-ridden economy into Japan-style stagflation or worse."

11. August 2006: Wall Street Journal. Countrywide's CEO Angelo Mozilo: "I've never seen a 'soft-landing' in 53 years, so we have a ways to go before this levels out. I have to prepare the company for the worst that can happen." He did little. A year later, he was in full denial mode.

12. November 2006: Fortune. Cover story asks: "Can the Economy Survive the Housing Bust?" They said "the correlation between current builder confidence and future stock market returns over the past 10 years is downright unnerving." The NAHB confidence index is a leading indicator because the stock market inevitably follows in lockstep a year later. The index had "plummeted 54%."

13. November 2006: The Economist. In a cover story: "The Dark Side of Debt," Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in a Hong Kong speech: "The same factors that have reduced the probability of future systemic events, however, may amplify the damage caused by, and complicate the management of, very severe financial shocks. The changes that have reduced the vulnerability of the system to smaller shocks may increase the severity of the larger ones." Geithner later negotiated the Bear Sterns collapse.

14. January 2007: Los Angeles Times. Schwab "averaged 242,300 trades a day the first nine months of 2006. That was up 29% from the same period a year earlier, and a click above its 242,000 peak in 2000"and the last collapse.

15. April 2007. GMO Quarterly Newsletter. GMO manages $145 billion. CEO Jeremy Grantham wrote: "The First Truly Global Bubble: From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair; from forestry, infrastructure, and the junkiest bonds to mundane blue chips; it's bubble time. ... Everyone, everywhere is reinforcing one another. ... The bursting of the bubble will be across all countries and all assets ... no similar global event has occurred before."

16. June 2007: Shilling's Insight Newsletter. "Just as the U.S. housing bubble is bursting, speculation elsewhere will come to a violent end if history is any guide. ... Richard Bookstaber, who designed various derivative-laden strategies over the years, now fears that financial derivatives and hedge funds, focal points of today's huge leverage, will trigger a financial meltdown."

17. June 2007: Pop! Then it happened! And Dan Gross had a well-timed book: "Pop! Why Bubbles are Great for the Economy." He says bubbles work miracles, so just let them pop, Pop, POP!

18. July 2007: Fortune. As the contagion spread, Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson tells Fortune "this is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime." He's repeated the same remark often since. Earlier, he and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the subprime crisis was "contained." Clueless, Bernanke assembled hedge fund managers, asking them to explain the global derivatives market.

19. August 2007. Wall Street Journal. Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt wrote on the Journal's Op-Ed page: "In terms of market meltdowns and the degree of pain inflicted on the financial system, the subprime mortgage crisis has the potential to rival just about anything in recent financial history, from the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s to the post-Enron turndown in the beginning of this decade."

20. August 2007: 60 Minutes. While Paulson and Bernanke were claiming the subprime crisis was "contained," the chief architect of the subprime-housing meltdown, Alan Greenspan, was on tour, making millions, hustling his new book, "The Age of Turbulence." On 60 Minutes he made a totally incredulous denial that he "really didn't get it until very late." He "didn't get it?" Yes, and to this day Greenspan rigidly maintains his blind faith in the free-market myth. His latest argument: Bubbles are a function of innovation, like the dot-coms and subprime derivatives. Regulators should trust the free markets, never micromanage innovation.

But what blinded Greenspan? His ideology? A brain quirk? Genetics? The president's reelection? It doesn't matter why: Whatever it was, it's bad news for America. Why? Because if the leader of America's monetary system for 18 years "doesn't get" that he was also the chief architect of the biggest economic blunder in American history since the 1929 Crash, can we ever trust any future leaders?

Scary, isn't it! How can we have faith in the next guy? Are our leaders the problem? Or is the system broken? Is capitalism itself at risk when the best and brightest are "blinded," unable to see disasters until it's too late?

But that is our "system," and in this system our leaders inevitably morph into bulls, ideologically blinded by their power. And like real bulls, all they see is red. So eventually ... they must run onto a sword, and self-destruct! End of Story

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Bryan Bonner's mock video used DIY digital effects and a store-bought costume to show how easy it would be for Stan Romanek to fake his evidence of alien life. The fake, pictured at left, was released the day before a news conference when an actual still from Romanek's footage was released (right), though bloggers have picked up the Bonner footage as the "real" thing. (Stills via the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society and the Rocky Mountain News)

If real life were anything like a sci-fi movie, Stan Romanek might just hold the future of mankind in his hands. Judging from his own (now very public) accounts, Romanek has had a staggering amount of contact with extraterrestrials. He has photographed a so-called flying orb emblazoned with what appears to be a face. He has met aliens in person, and drawn sketches of their vast eyes and swollen craniums. And late last week, Romanek stirred up a Web frenzy by showing a room full of reporters in Denver a brief clip of what he says is an alien peering into his window.

Clearly, this is no coincidence.

Many of the legions of UFO believers and spotters—whether driven by publicity, paranoia or hope—have taken a single suspicious photo. Some have reported an abduction or two. But for one man to have such a voluminous (and diverse) history of close encounters with nonhuman intelligence, you'd think Romanek had been chosen as Earth's unlikely ambassador to the stars. That, or he's coming out with a movie.

In what amounts to a bizarre new kind of viral marketing, the footage screened on Friday—to be included in an upcoming documentary about Romanek's experiences—is also part of a ballot initiative to create a commission that would formalize contact with aliens. The man heading that effort, 54-year-old Jeff Peckman, has a curious political track record running parallel to his extraterrestrial PR. In 2003, he campaigned for an initiative to reduce Denver's collective stress levels, using such measures as group meditation and the playing of sitar music in public buildings. But Peckman's efforts to promote Romanek's footage have been considerably more successful, garnering national headlines and an appearance on Larry King Live. And the hyperbole is frustrating the already combative cult of UFO followers, skeptics and believers alike.

"We saw this guy trying to pass off things that looked paranormal as something related to aliens," says Bryan Bonner, head of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society, which has been recreating Romanek's photos and videos for several years—to disprove him. That's because the same type of evidence once used by paranormal scientists to indicate the presence of ghosts is now being doctored by amateurs as proof of alien life.

Neither Romanek nor Peckman responded to requests for comment for this article, but their new footage—for now reduced to a single night-vision still image they've made public—and the ensuing fakes, headlines and hysteria have shed light on what researchers monitoring the field say is an increasing trend of hoax hype in a digital age.

The Watchdogs of Photoshopped Fame
Bonner and his team of investigators, who specialize in reports of haunted houses, actually saw the video months ago, when he says it was making the rounds in the UFO community as Peckman was garnering interest for a 4000-signature ballot initiative to start an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver. "It sparked our interest, but he seemed like another nut off the street," Bonner remembered. "Then he says he has evidence."

Bonner assumed that the Romanek footage was that so-called evidence, and with Peckman's press conference preview on Thursday confirming this, Bonner's team put together a mock video of its own that night. To counter claims that it would have taken thousands of dollars for Romanek to create a convincing, blinking prosthetic creature, the investigators from Rocky Mountain Paranormal rented a dummy alien from a costume shop, then spliced together quick-and-dirty special effects to make its giant eyes appear to blink.

In a strange twist, Bonner's mock video has been embedded on various blogs and linked on forums, mistaken for the actual Romanek footage. But that's an increasingly common mistake when so much can be made to look real with even an amateur's desktop software. "The problem with any data—I don't care if it's a video, a photo, electromagnetic readings—it can be faked," Bonner says. "And because of the digital age, it can be faked easily."

One film, released in 1995 to some notoriety in the geekosphere, purported to show a military autopsy performed on an alien. More than a decade later, the filmmaker changed his story, claiming that the video recreated footage he had seen, which had degraded before he was able to gather the necessary funds to buy it. And a few months ago, an anonymous source released footage of another alien autopsy, although the corpse in question is a rubbery, toylike thing, roughly the size of a baby chimpanzee. No explanation has been provided for where the video came from, why the alien is so small, or why there's such an obvious edit before the creature's entrails are removed (they also change color). "Any evidence is only as good as the reputation of the group that gave it to you," says Bonner.

By that measure, Stan Romanek is a problematic source. The evidence he has presented since his first reported contact in late 2000 is full of red flags. One photo posted on Romanek's Web site shows what he interprets to be a UFO covered in bubblelike pods. The next UFO he encountered had a classic flying-saucer profile. Another one appears as a sphere with barely visible facial features. According to Bonner, Romanek has also tried to talk with aliens using the classic paranormal "Frank's Box" gadget, which is generally a modified car radio that picks up random snippets of speech from AM stations—often for attempted communication with the dead. Even less consistent are Romanek's personal encounters, which include mysterious wounds that glowed under a black light, a chair that spun on its own, and an ominous black silhouette moving through his home.

At Friday's news conference, according to a video on the Denver Post's Web site, Peckman deflected those inconsistencies by citing public sentiment—a majority of Americans do believe extraterrestrials exist—and saying the new footage would help push awareness for his alien oversight board in the local November election. "There's already quite a bit of information out there—there's momentum, there's support, and I believe it will pass," Peckman said. "I don't think it would pass today, because there's been too much denial of information, too much misinformation."

The Gadget-Built Currency of Conspiracy
In the sprawling community of hardcore extraterrestrial believers, footage like Romanek's is not only rare, but widely derided. Clark McClelland, a former Spacecraft Control Operator at NASA who claims to have seen extraterrestrials firsthand, called the Denver footage "a pathetic disclosure."

The central currency of this subculture is evidence of "orbs," unexplained glowing balls that appear only in photographs. James Randi, a professional magician and legendary skeptic, whose foundation is still offering $1 million for verifiable proof of the paranormal, receives a handful of orb photographs each week. "Most of the photos aren't fakes," he says. "These are just people who don't know how to operate a camera." The orbs themselves are not only easily explained, but even more easily replicated. "The majority are dust motes that are brightly lit. With an infrared camera they show up particularly well," Randi says. Even with a standard camera, spotters can create their own suspicious balls of light with a particulate that's close to the lens and properly illuminated by the flash.

Lens flare can also be easily misinterpreted for the presence of an orb, particularly when the apparent object winds up with something that could be described as a face. Laying aside the ridiculous engineering implications of a head-shaped spacecraft, there's nothing new—or mysterious—about seeing faces where they shouldn't be. "It's a condition we all have, called pareidolia," says Bonner. "It served an evolutionary purpose. When we were out in the bushes, trying to fend for ourselves, it meant we didn't get eaten by the big fuzzy thing trying to kill us before we killed it. We still have those instincts, but we don't know how to interpret it. So we look at clouds, or orbs, and we still see faces."

When they aren't deliberate hoaxes, the oddly shaped spacecraft that populate so many UFO shots are often just misinterpretations of digital artifacts. Tweaking an image in a program like Photoshop can only exacerbate things, as an object is either intentionally or accidentally crafted into a more intricate vessel—deeper shadows, a more metallic sheen, even a more distinct face. All of which can be—and has been—debunked or recreated by photographers and video experts.

But in both Bonner and Randi's experience, explanations and counter-evidence tend to fall on deaf ears. "They need what we call a ‘woo-woo solution,'" Randi says. "They resist all attempts to rationalize. They see the thing demonstrated for them, replicated for them, and they'll just shake their heads and smile—and walk away."

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4266921.html

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Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioral problems, according to a study of more than 13,000 children.

Pregnant women using the handsets just two or three times a day was enough to raise the risk of their babies developing hyperactivity and difficulties with conduct, emotions and relationships by the time they reached school age.

The likelihood is even greater if the children themselves used the phones before the age of 7.

Specifically, mothers who used mobile phones were 54 percent more likely to have children with behavioral problems. When the children also later used the phones themselves, they were:

* 80 percent more likely to suffer from difficulties with behavior
* 25 percent more at risk from emotional problems
* 34 percent more likely to suffer from difficulties relating to their peers
* 35 percent more likely to be hyperactive
* 49 percent more prone to problems with conduct

The results of the study took the top scientists who conducted it by surprise. The research will carry particular weight because one of its authors, UCLA's Professor Leeka Kheifets, had previously been skeptical that mobile phones could pose a risk to health.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/03/cell-phone-use-during-pregnancy-can-seriously-damage-your-baby.aspx?source=nl

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* The Independent May 18, 2008

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First he says that the Govt. will not disclose. Now he says he will not disclose. Then he says he will not allow the public to see. Then he says that the person who took the video will not be revealed. Then he says that the person who authenticated the video will not be available. Then he links the release of a documentary to a Govt. election. Talk about transparency.

Looks like another money-making racket to me.

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"Jeff Peckman says the alien is "innocent, benevolent, youthful, more smooth-skinned than the kind of wrinkly 'E.T.' extraterrestrial in the movie.""

"One will be the footage of the extraterrestrial over the course of a minute, a couple different shots of a moving extraterrestrial within a 12- to 15-foot range."

Interviews with witnesses who have experience with suspected alien space craft and beings, and those with top security clearances, also will be screened Friday, he said.

A film expert who analyzed the authenticity of the video could not attend the Denver news conference, said Peckman, but he'll present his conclusions by videotape.

Peckman said the alien visited a private home in Nebraska a few years back. The figure stands about 4 feet tall, he estimates.

The documentary currently in production will profile the experiences of the man who filmed the creature. The subject of the film grew up in Colorado, lived elsewhere for a time but has since moved back to the state. Peckman declined to release his identity.

Peckman believes the video will provoke an important dialogue about alien life.

"I think it will engage people in a thoughtful way to decide if it's proof enough or if they need further documentation and more evidence."

The release date for the documentary is still under negotiation, he said, but he hopes it comes out before the November election.

"It would be a useful source of education for the voters."

Peckman got involved in the project after a chance meeting with someone who organizes lectures on the subject.

"I attended the lecture and was delighted to see how much is known about these extraterrestrial visitations," he said.

He heard a presentation by a former NASA scientist, who used declassified documents and said that the U.S. government would not release what it knows about alien life during his lifetime.

"That was unacceptable to me," Peckman said. "By the time I got home, I had already decided to sponsor a ballot initiative for the purpose of disclosing this information at a local level."

In 2003, Peckman proposed a "Safety Through Peace" ballot initiative, which would have required Denver to implement stress-reduction techniques.

Peckman said he has been in back-to-back media interviews, some from overseas, since word of Friday's screening was released.

http://origin.denverpost.com/ci_9416751

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Watch for a disclosure in the near future. That's going to bring about a tumult in the
psychology of man. Religious books may have to re-written!

Seems as if we are being "prepared" with a disclosure that we are not alone in the universe.

http://www.extracampaign.org/

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
Vatican Astronomer's interview "The Extraterrestrial is My Brother"
The Associated Press - 5.13.08 "... why do we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation."
In the interview by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, ...

Check out this trailer! It's beautiful!

http://www.thewakeupcallanybodylistening.com/Pages/thetrailer.html

The original Roswell autopsy video. 17 minutes. Always worth a look.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5830866813023883728

A video with an alien. Probably the most important video, if not a hoax. 38 levels above top secret.

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This exploding interest can be credited in large part to thousands of UFO sightings, and years of research and education by dedicated
champions, throughout the world.

These champions include: scientists,
"abductees", government officials, NASA astronauts and personnel, authors, and advocates of government disclosure about evidence of extraterrestrial beings and their vehicles.

A vast amount of credible evidence in the public domain backs up the claim that Extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth. Below are just some of the many web sites that collectively offer a wide range of this evidence.

The EXTRA Campaign makes no claims regarding the accuracy of information on these web sites. However, it is precisely this kind of information that inspired the idea to develop a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado as a model for the world.

http://www.disclosureproject.org/ - Hundreds of very credible witnesses recently admitting their involvement and experiences with UFOs.

http://www.stanromanek.com - Stan Romanek, a Colorado resident, has had encounters with craft and extraterrestrail beings since the year 2000. He's been an unwitting participant thrust into this bizarre and twisted series of events involving government agents, extraterrestrial beings, unexplainable craft, balls of light, threats, floating objects, bizarre communications, advanced scientific equations, implants and much more. If it weren’t for video and audio recordings, photos, physical evidence, police reports and hundreds of witnesses confirming these accounts, he and others would question his sanity.

http://www.cohenufo.org/Military%20Nuclear%20Specialists%20Testify%20To%20UFO%20Reality.htm - Quotes by military officers about extraterrestrial UFO's disrupting nuclear missile systems and disabling a nuclear tipped missile while in flight.

http://www.nicap.org/babylon/missiles_incidents.htm - UFO sightings at ICBM sites and nuclear Weapons Storage Areas, By Robert L. Hastings

http://www.stargate-chronicles.com/those_who_know.html - web site of a former NASA engineer with inside knowledge of UFO's observed during NASA activities.

http://www.presidentialufo.com/ - History of U.S. Presidents and their familiarity or involvement with UFO's and Extraterrestrials

http://www.mufon.com/ UFO Reporting Center, by State or date
(Mutual UFO Network) is the largest UFO investigation/ reporting agency in the world and was created in 1959. It’s consulting board consists of over 300 professionals, primarily medical doctor and scientists, and has representatives on most developed countries. They have received over 10,000 written reports of UFO sightings in the U.S. in the past 2½ years. They have been receiving over 500 UFO sighting reports per month since the Stevensville, TX sighting January 2008.

http://www.nuforc.org/ UFO Reporting Center, by State or date

http://www.theblackvault.com/modules.php?name=core&showPage=true&pageID=25
Hundreds government documents acknowledging and addressing UFOs

http://www.majesticdocuments.com/documents/pre1948.php - Excellent collection of government documents referencing UFO's and Extraterrestrials. At this URL page, select "Franklin D. Roosevelt on Non-Terrestrial Science and Technology, 22 February 1944", a letter where he mentioned "...coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life in the universe."

http://www.ufoevidence.org/ - In-depth, quality and scientific research on the UFO phenomenon
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/PublicOpinionPolls.htm - Public opinion polls on UFO's and Extraterrestrial beings.

http://www.ufodigest.com/balducci.html - "Vatican Official Declares Extraterrestrial Contact is Real" (article)

http://www.exopolitics.com - EXOPOLITICS: Politics, Government, and Law in the Uniververse

http://www.exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-38.htm - Policital implications of the extra-terrestrial presence
Former Canadian Defense Minister Speaks Out on Extraterrestrial Visitors & Government Secrecy

http://www.thewakeupcallanybodylistening.com/Pages/thetrailer.html - Excellent documentary on crop circles with an amazing shot of how one is created, and it's clearly not with earthly technology. Even the trailer is impressive.

Books:
UFOs and the National Security State, by Richard Dolan

The Day After Roswell, by Col. Philip Corso

UFO Politics at the White House: Citizens Rally 'round Jimmy Carter's Promise, by Larry W. Bryant

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A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver.

Jeff Peckman, who is pushing a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver to prepare the city for close encounters of the alien kind, said the video is authentic and convinced him that aliens exist.

"As impressive as it is, it's still one tiny portion in the context of a vast amount of peripheral evidence," he said Wednesday. "It's really the final visual confirmation of what you already know to be true having seen all the other evidence."

When Peckman went before city officials this month to discuss his proposed ET initiative, he promised to show the video.

Peckman said the general public will have to wait to see it because it's being included in a documentary by Stan Romanek.

"No one will be allowed to film the segment with the extraterrestrial because there is an agreement in place limiting that kind of exposure during negotiations for the documentary," he said.

But people won't have to wait too long to see it for themselves.

"There is an open, public meeting in about a month in Colorado Springs," Peckman said. "We'll hope to do one in Denver at some point, and then in a few months, there will be the documentary that anybody can have, and it'll have the footage."

An instructor at the Colorado Film School in Denver scrutinized the video "very carefully" and determined it was authentic, Peckman said.

Peckman, 54, said the video was among the reasons he was "compelled" to launch the proposed ballot initiative, which has generated news as far as South Africa.

"It shows an extraterrestrial's head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that's visible through an infrared camera," he said. The alien is about 4 feet tall and can be seen blinking, Peckman said earlier this month.

In a statement, Peckman said "other related credible evidence" proving aliens exist will be shown at Friday's news conference, too.

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Considering that Sodium Benzoate is the MOST COMMON preservative in virtually ALL processed foods from jams to biscuits to bread to whatever you find in the supermarket which is in a packed or bottled state, this must be an astonishing eye-opener as to a prime cause of so many diseases which we cannot put a finger on.

Sodium benzoate is a PRESERVATIVE. A known fact as enumerated by Ayurveda, is that the body produces a substance called "ama" (pronounced "aamaa"), which is one of the waste products produced after digestion. "Ama" is the sticky substance that's on your tongue in the morning!

So, Sodium Benzoate, when ingressed into the body, ends up PRESERVING "ama"!!

Looks like the medical profession is so far gone from the principles set down by Hippocrates, that the true nature of disease has been relegated to "alternative medicine" whereas the fact is that "allopathy" is really the alternative medicine to be imbibed in case of acuteness of in case of trauma, as a TEMPORARY measure.

"Soft drink giant Coca-Cola is phasing out a controversial additive that has been linked to hyperactivity and causing damage to DNA.

The chemical Sodium Benzoate, also known as E211, is used to stop fizzy drinks going mouldy.

But recent research has shown that the chemical can deactivate parts of DNA, the genetic code in the cells of living creatures.

Coca-Cola said it was withdrawing the additive from Diet Coke in response to consumer demand for more natural products."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021809/Coca-cola-phase-controversial-chemical-linked-hyperactivity-gene-damage.html


Sodium benzoate (E211), also called benzoate of soda, has chemical formula NaC₆H₅CO₂. It is the sodium salt of benzoic acid and exists in this form when dissolved in water. It can be produced by reacting sodium hydroxide with benzoic acid.

In combination with ascorbic acid (vitamin C, E300), sodium benzoate and potassium benzoate may form benzene^[6], a known carcinogen. Heat, light and shelf life can affect the rate at which benzene is formed.

Professor Peter Piper of the University of Sheffield claims that sodium benzoate by itself can damage and inactivate vital parts of DNA in a cell's mitochondria. "The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it - as happens in a number of diseased states - then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA - Parkinson's and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of aging. Read more on this article...

• Killfile. If people send me too much junk mail (jokes, chain mail, etc.), they get added to my killfile. It’s a simple filter that looks at the “from” field and deletes the message if it’s one of the addresses I’ve added to the filter. Every now and then I’ll decide to add someone to my killfile, and I’ll just open up the filter and add their address.
• Booleans. The filter works much like Gmail’s search function, in that you can add search terms such as AND or OR or NOT. So I can look for addresses that are from a number of people (using OR), or emails that must include all of the words on a list (using AND). Use search operator symbols to make it even easier: “|” for OR, space for AND, “-” for NOT, and parentheses to group different terms in your search string.
• Other search terms. Beyond the common terms above, your filters can use other terms such as “from:”, “to:”, “has:”, “is:”, “filename:”, and “label:”, among others. Using these terms, you can make your filters even more powerful.
• Send reminders to someone. One of the things I wish Google would add to Gmail is the ability to send a delayed email. This would allow me to send reminders to someone at regular times. Instead, I sign up for a reminder email service to send reminders (meant for other people) to my gmail address, and then set up filters to forward the reminders to various people depending on the subject or content of the email. It’s not perfect, but it allows me to send reminders to different people on a regular basis.
• Calendar and log. I set up Google Calendar to send me reminders of events. You can set up a label (”events”) so that your calendar reminders go straight to the label, star the message, and skip the inbox. Now not only are your events in one place, instead of scattered through your inbox, you can unstar the message when you complete the task or event, and now you also have a log of all the things you’ve done.
• To-dos. This is a commonly used function, but you can email yourself tasks that you need to do, and then set up a filter that has your email address in both the “to” and “from” boxes, that applies the label “to-do” to the message. This will allow you to view all your to-dos in one filter. Or, if you’re a GTD fan, you could set up to-dos for each context (@work, @home, @errands, @phone, etc.), by creating different labels for each, and then setting up filters for different email addresses. Email yourself at yourname+work (you don’t need the @gmail.com part), and set up the filter to label that address “@work”, and so on for each context.
• Follow up. Even if you’re not a GTD fan, having a follow-up label is a must. Simply set up a filter with an email address such as “youname+follow” and put it in the “has the words” filter field, and have this filter label it “@follow” and skip the inbox. Now when you send out an email that needs to be followed up on, put yourname+follow in the “bcc” field, and it’ll go into your “@follow” label. Be sure to check this label once a day so you can follow up on your emails.
• Send spam to trash. Instead of having Gmail-filtered spam go into your Spam folder (and have the annoying count of unread spam by the folder’s name), set up a filter with “is:spam” in the “has the words” field (just click “OK” on Gmail’s warning dialog box when you click next step) and “Delete it” as the action. Now all spam messages will go in your trash.
• Archived bookmarks. If you use del.icio.us and other bookmarking services, you can archive them all in a Gmail label (”bookmarks”). Get the feed urls for each of your bookmarking services, enter them in a forwarding service such as rssfwd.com, and then set up a filter to label them all “bookmarks”. Now all your bookmarks are in one place, with Gmail’s great search.
• Attachments. If you’re like me, you like to go through your old emails and delete a bunch of them at a time. I do common searches during the cleanup process, such as “has:attachment”, so that I can look through all my bigger emails and delete them. Make this process quicker by making a label and filter for this search, and for any of your common searches, for that matter.
• Media. If you get a lot of media sent to you, such as music files, videos and photos, set up filters (”filename:wmv | filename:mov” for videos, “filename:mp3? for music, filename:jpg | filename:gif” for photos, or “filename:pdf | filename:doc” for documents). Now you can quickly find any media.
• Backups. Create a second Gmail account for storage, and create a filter to automatically forward any emails with attachments (”has:attachments”) to this second address. Now you can delete your old emails without guilt or worry.
• Newsgroups or feeds. You can set up filters for your newsgroups, so they don’t clog up your inbox. Or forward your favorite feeds to your Gmail, and automatically label and archive them for later reading. Now you can not only access them from anywhere, but you can search them too.
• Bloggers. If you run a blog, you can have all your blog’s comments and pingbacks automatically archived and labeled (”blog”), so your inbox doesn’t get filled up fast. Also have your blog stat reports mailed to you and shunted to this label, so you can get a quick look at your blog’s success at a glance.
• Delete old sent emails. There’s no reason, in most cases, to keep your really old sent emails. Delete them. Create a filter with “before:2006/06/01 label:sent” with “Delete it” as the action (you’ll need to click “OK” to Gmail’s warning dialog). Every month or so, update the date of this filter.
• No delete. Some emails you don’t want to delete - those precious ones from your kids, for example, or maybe ones from your boss. Set up a label (”nodelete”) and a filter that puts the nodelete label on emails from (or to) the addresses you want. Now, some of the above filters, add the string “-nodelete” so that it doesn’t show these emails. Now you can delete your old sent emails, or your attachment emails, for example, without worry that your kids’ or boss’ emails will be trashed along with the rest of the riffraff.
• Flickr. Forward your Flickr account’s feed to your Gmail, with a filter to automatically label it, and now your photos are searchable through Gmail. You can also set up filters to send notices that certain tags in your Flickr account has new photos to certain relatives.
• Notes. Email yourself notes on web research, on meetings, on books you’re reading, on classes you’re taking. Set up a filter to archive and label them (if you send notes to yourname+notes, for example). Now they’re searchable and archived and accessible from anywhere.
• Twitter. Use your mobile phone to send text messages or IM messages to Twitter, with a keyword at the beginning of each Twitter message (NOTE, TODO, BLOG, FOLLOW, etc.). Forward your Twitter account’s feed to your Gmail, and set up filters for each type of keyword (”note twitter” will be labeled “note” for example). Now you can use your mobile device to send notes, to-dos, follow-up reminders and more to your Gmail through Twitter.
• Wildcard. Use the wildcard character (*) for companies that use multiple types of address from the same domain. One great use I’ve seen is to use the wildcard character for vendors such as Amazon or eBay to make it easier to track online purchases. Create a label (”online shopping”) and a filter with such email addresses as “*@amazon.com|*@ebay.com|*@paypal.com|*@barnesandnoble.com”.

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