The Blood of Eden

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start

And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
The heated and the holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying

In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
We wanted the the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man

My grip is surely slipping
I think I've lost my hold
Yes I think I've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance any more
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand

In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
We wanted the the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man

At my request you take me in
In that tenderness I am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting
A moment of bliss
Oh....

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden we have done everything we can
In the blood of Eden, so we end as we began
With the man in the woman and the woman in the man
It was all for the union, oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man

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The Beast as Saint: The Truth About "Martin Luther King, Jr."

WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER a country, one of the first things that they did was to confiscate all the privately-held weapons, to deny the people the physical ability to resist tyranny. But even more insidious than the theft of the people's weapons was the theft of their history. Official Communist "historians" rewrote history to fit the current party line. In many countries, revered national heroes were excised from the history books, or their real deeds were distorted to fit Communist ideology, and Communist killers and criminals were converted into official "saints." Holidays were declared in honor of the beasts who murdered countless nations.

Did you know that much the same process has occurred right here in America?

Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy of adulation for the so-called "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr." King has even had a national holiday declared in his honor, an honor accorded to no other American, not Washington, not Jefferson, not Lincoln. (Washington and Lincoln no longer have holidays -- they share the generic-sounding "President's Day.") A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until the year 2027. What are they hiding? Let's take a look at this modern-day plastic god.

Born in 1929, King was the son of a Black preacher known at the time only as "Daddy King." "Daddy King" named his son Michael. In 1935, "Daddy King" had an inspiration to name himself after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He declared to his congregation that henceforth they were to refer to him as "Martin Luther King" and to his son as "Martin Luther King, Jr." None of this name changing was ever legalized in court. "Daddy" King's son's real name is to this day Michael King.

King's Brazen Cheating

We read in Michael Hoffman's "Holiday for a Cheater":

The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled "Life is What You Make It," according to the testimony of King's best friend of that time, Reverend Larry H. Williams.

The first book that King wrote, "Stride Toward Freedom, - -was plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according to documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow.

And no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors of "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., whose staff includes King's widow Coretta), stated of King's writings at both Boston University and Crozer Theological Seminary: "Judged retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instances of plagiarism.... Appropriated passages are particularly evident in his writings in his major field of graduate study, systematic theology."

King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God," written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of theologian Edgar S. Brightman, author of "The Finding of God."

Another of King's theses, "Contemporary Continental Theology," written shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton.

King's doctoral dissertation, "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman," for which he was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, "The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's Concept of God."

According to "The Martin Luther King Papers", in King's dissertation "only 49 per cent of sentences in the section on Tillich contain five or more words that were King's own...."!

In "The Journal of American History", June 1991, page 87, David J. Garrow, a leftist academic who is sympathetic to King, says that King's wife, Coretta Scott King, who also served as his secretary, was an accomplice in his repeated cheating. ("King's Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation," The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87)

Reading Garrow's article, one is led to the inescapable conclusion that King cheated because he had chosen for himself a political role in which a PhD would be useful, and, lacking the intellectual ability to obtain the title fairly, went after it by any means necessary. Why, then, one might ask, did the professors at Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University grant him passing grades and a PhD? Garrow states on page 89: "King's academic compositions, especially at Boston University, were almost without exception little more than summary descriptions... and comparisons of other's writings. Nonetheless, the papers almost always received desirable letter grades, strongly suggesting that King's professors did not expect more...." The editors of "The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers" state that "...the failure of King's teachers to notice his pattern of textual appropriation is somewhat remarkable...."

But researcher Michael Hoffman tells us "...actually the malfeasance of the professors is not at all remarkable. King was politically correct, he was Black, and he had ambitions. The leftist [professors were] happy to award a doctorate to such a candidate no matter how much fraud was involved. Nor is it any wonder that it has taken forty years for the truth about King's record of nearly constant intellectual piracy to be made public."

Supposed scholars, who in reality shared King's vision of a racially mixed and Marxist America, purposely covered up his cheating for decades. The cover-up still continues. From the "New York Times" of October 11, 1991, page 15, we learn that on October 10th of that year, a committee of researchers at Boston University admitted that, "There is no question but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation." However, despite its finding, the committee said that "No thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree," an action the panel said "would serve no purpose."

No purpose, indeed! Justice demands that, in light of his willful fraud as a student, the "reverend" and the "doctor" should be removed from King's name.

Communist Beliefs and Connections

Well friends, he is not a legitimate reverend, he is not a bona fide PhD, and his name isn't really "Martin Luther King, Jr." What's left? Just a sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist, and a criminal betrayer of even the interests of his own people.

On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther King and four others at a strange institution called the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The Highlander Folk School was a Communist front, having been founded by Myles Horton (Communist Party organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for North Carolina). The leaders of this meeting with King were the aforementioned Horton and West, along with Abner Berry and James Dumbrowski, all open and acknowledged members of the Communist Party, USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states to initiate demonstrations and riots.

From 1955 to 1960, Martin Luther King's associate, advisor, and personal secretary was one Bayard Rustin. In 1936 Rustin joined the Young Communist League at New York City College. Convicted of draft-dodging, he went to prison for two years in 1944. On January 23, 1953 the "Los Angeles Times" reported his conviction and sentencing to jail for 60 days for lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion. Rustin attended the 16th Convention of the Communist Party, USA in February, 1957. One month later, he and King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC for short. The president of the SCLC was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The vice-president of the SCLC was the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who was also the president of an identified Communist front known as the Southern Conference Educational Fund, an organization whose field director, a Mr. Carl Braden, was simultaneously a national sponsor of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which you may have heard. The program director of the SCLC was the Reverend Andrew Young, in more recent years Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the UN and mayor of Atlanta. Young, by the way, was trained at the Highlander Folk School, previously mentioned.

Soon after returning from a trip to Moscow in 1958, Rustin organized the first of King's famous marches on Washington. The official organ of the Communist Party, "The Worker,- - openly declared the march to be a Communist project. Although he left King's employ as secretary in 1961, Rustin was called upon by King to be second in command of the much larger march on Washington which took place on August 28, 1963.

Bayard Rustin's replacement in 1961 as secretary and advisor to King was Jack O'Dell, also known as Hunter Pitts O'Dell. According to official records, in 1962 Jack O'Dell was a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA. He had been listed as a Communist Party member as early as 1956. O'Dell was also given the job of acting executive director for SCLC activities for the entire Southeast, according to the St. Louis "Globe-Democrat - -of October 26, 1962. At that time, there were still some patriots in the press corps, and word of O'Dell's party membership became known.

What did King do? Shortly after the negative news reports, King fired O'Dell with much fanfare. And he then, without the fanfare, "immediately hired him again- - as director of the New York office of the SCLC, as confirmed by the "Richmond News-Leader - -of September 27, 1963. In 1963 a Black man from Monroe, North Carolina named Robert Williams made a trip to Peking, China. Exactly 20 days before King's 1963 march on Washington, Williams successfully urged Mao Tse-Tung to speak out on behalf of King's movement. Mr. Williams was also around this time maintaining his primary residence in Cuba, from which he made regular broadcasts to the southern US, three times a week, from high-power AM transmitters in Havana under the title "Radio Free Dixie." In these broadcasts, he urged violent attacks by Blacks against White Americans.

During this period, Williams wrote a book entitled "Negroes With Guns." The writer of the foreword for this book? None other than Martin Luther King, Jr. It is also interesting to note that the editors and publishers of this book were to a man all supporters of the infamous Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

According to King's biographer and sympathizer David J. Garrow, "King privately described himself as a Marxist." In his 1981 book, "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.", Garrow quotes King as saying in SCLC staff meetings, "...we have moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution.... The whole structure of American life must be changed.... We are engaged in the class struggle."

Jewish Communist Stanley Levison can best be described as King's behind-the-scenes "handler." Levison, who had for years been in charge of the secret funnelling of Soviet funds to the Communist Party, USA, was King's mentor and was actually the brains behind many of King's more successful ploys. It was Levison who edited King's book, "Stride Toward Freedom." It was Levison who arranged for a publisher. Levison even prepared King's income tax returns! It was Levison who really controlled the fund-raising and agitation activities of the SCLC. Levison wrote many of King's speeches. King described Levison as one of his "closest friends."

FBI: King Bought Sex With SCLC Money

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had for many years been aware of Stanley Levison's Communist activities. It was Levison's close association with King that brought about the initial FBI interest in King.

Lest you be tempted to believe the controlled media's lie about "racists" in the FBI being out to "get" King, you should be aware that the man most responsible for the FBI's probe of King was Assistant Director William C. Sullivan. Sullivan describes himself as a liberal, and says that initially "I was one hundred per cent for King...because I saw him as an effective and badly needed leader for the Black people in their desire for civil rights." The probe of King not only confirmed their suspicions about King's Communist beliefs and associations, but it also revealed King to be a despicable hypocrite, an immoral degenerate, and a worthless charlatan.

According to Assistant Director Sullivan, who had direct access to the surveillance files on King which are denied the American people, King had embezzled or misapplied substantial amounts of money contributed to the "civil rights" movement. King used SCLC funds to pay for liquor, and numerous prostitutes both Black and White, who were brought to his hotel rooms, often two at a time, for drunken sex parties which sometimes lasted for several days. These types of activities were the norm for King's speaking and organizing tours.

In fact, an outfit called The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, which is putting on display the two bedrooms from the Lorraine Motel where King stayed the night before he was shot, has declined to depict in any way the "occupants - -of those rooms. That "according to exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold "would be "close to blasphemy." The reason? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third.

Sullivan also stated that King had alienated the affections of numerous married women. According to Sullivan, who in 30 years with the Bureau hadáseen everything there was to be seen of the seamy side of life, King was one of only seven people he had ever encountered who was such a total degenerate.

Noting the violence that almost invariably attended King's supposedly "non-violent" marches, Sullivan's probe revealed a very different King from the carefully crafted public image. King welcomed members of many different Black groups as members of his SCLC, many of them advocates and practitioners of violence. King's only admonition on the subject was that they should embrace "tactical nonviolence."

Sullivan also relates an incident in which King met in a financial conference with Communist Party representatives, not knowing that one of the participants was an infiltrator actually working for the FBI.

J. Edgar Hoover personally saw to it that documented information on King's Communist connections was provided to the President and to Congress. And conclusive information from FBI files was also provided to major newspapers and news wire services. But were the American people informed of King's real nature? No, for even in the 1960s, the fix was in "the controlled media and the bought politicians were bound and determined to push their racial mixing program on America. King was their man and nothing was going to get in their way. With a few minor exceptions, these facts have been kept from the American people. The pro-King propaganda machine grinds on, and it is even reported that a serious proposal has been made to add some of King's writings as a new book in the Bible.

Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of this radio program is far greater than to prove to you the immorality and subversion of this man called King. I want you to start to think for yourselves. I want you to consider this: What are the forces and motivation behind the controlled media's active promotion of King? What does it tell you about our politicians when you see them, almost without exception, falling all over themselves to honor King as a national hero? What does it tell you about our society when any public criticism of this moral leper and Communist functionary is considered grounds for dismissal? What does it tell you about the controlled media when you see how they have successfully suppressed the truth and held out a picture of King that can only be described as a colossal lie? You need to think, my fellow Americans. You desperately need to wake up.

Sources:

1. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change).

2. "King's Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation," The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87) David J. Garrow

3. New York Times" of October 11, 1991, page 15.

4. "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.", David J. Garrow, (1981).

5. "And the walls came tumbling down," Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1989)

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Waco: A New Revelation

Waco: A New Revelation is the film that triggered a new Congressional investigation of the Waco tragedy, and caused the Justice Department and the FBI to reverse their long-held positions on Waco. It has generated a firestorm of events unprecedented in the history of documentary filmmaking.

After six years of painstaking investigation, the complete story of the tragedy in Texas is finally coming to light. This compelling feature-length documentary presents new revelations about the events that led up to the deaths of 79 men, women and children at Mount Carmel on April 19, 1993.

In the spring of 1998, under the Freedom of Information Act, investigators from MGA Studio’s film division became the first private citizens to gain access to the Waco investigation evidence lockers. What they found was shocking. Upon examination, the evidence gathered under the supervision of federal officials appeared to contradict the FBI’s congressional testimony, raising serious and disturbing questions about events surrounding the siege at Mt. Carmel and the deaths of the Davidians.

Gene CullenSince 1993, former members of the FBI, former Special Forces and CIA operatives have come forward with new evidence to suggest that the FBI’s claim is inaccurate.

Waco: A New Revelation (Part I)

Waco: A New Revelation (Part II)

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Due to imbalances in the grain markets, Food prices are about to have a MAJOR increase

Dan Norcini | JSMineSet.com

See the chart below.

Something that should be of interest to our readers is the current developments in the grain markets.

As you know, during most of the commodity-wide rally that has taken place over the last few years, the grain sector has been a relative laggard when compared to the extent of gains we have witnessed in some of the other sectors. Several market analysts have commented on the fact that when grain prices were compared to the commodity sector as a whole, they were actually quite cheap in historical terms.

Today the USDA issued a report which sent shockwaves through the entirety of the grain complex but especially the corn market. The report on crop output and usage estimated that old crop corn ending supplies in August of this year will be roughly the equivalent of three weeks of corn usage. That is simply staggering! Corn immediately responded by opening at limit bid and as of the close today, there remains an estimated 90,000 or better bids to buy at the limit price. That suggests corn will open limit up this coming Tuesday barring any unforeseen developments over the weekend.

The reason I mention this to our readers is that the rally in the grain complex is the market attempting to adjust to the new source of additional demand for corn in ethanol production – something which is not a flash in the pan kind of demand that comes and goes but rather a wholesale change in the supply/demand structure of the corn market. There is a spillover effect that has caused both soybean and wheat prices to rally as well.

The implications for this are enormous on the food chain here in the US. Corn is the primary feed source for the broiler and the livestock sector. Along with feed wheat and soymeal, the increase in price has a significant effect on the profitability of chicken, hog and cattle producers. Simply put, those guys are in direct competition with ethanol plants for available corn. The rising cost of corn has taken a huge toll on their profit margins and threatens the livestock and broiler industries. The only way they are going to be able to maintain current levels of production is to receive higher prices for their finished product since the cost of the grains to feed them is at a new higher level which looks to be here for some time. That in turn is going to require the packers being able to get higher prices for meat and chicken at the wholesale level so that they can offer more money to the producers. Of course, it goes without saying that prices must rise at the retail level to keep grocer margins profitable as well. In other word, brace yourself for higher meat and chicken prices in the months ahead.

Additionally, cereal makers, bread makers and anyone else that uses grain to make a baked or finished product of some sort faces the same predicament. They are going to have to charge higher prices to compensate for the increase in their input costs.

All of this is going to feed through into the food sector and translate into higher prices at grocery stores and restaurants. Consumers are going to see higher food bills – Period! The pencil pushers at the Commerce Department can massage and manipulate the data used to concoct the worthless CPI and will attempt to hide it, but real world experience is going to impact directly on the pocketbooks and wallets of Americans visiting the grocery store.

While the recent setback in the energy sector has taken some of the burden off of consumers from the high gasoline and heating oil prices seen earlier this year, higher food costs are on their way. Once the temporary surplus in gasoline and distillate stocks gets worked off and energy prices resume their uptrend or we get another surge in prices due to some sort of “10 sigma event”, a double hit is going to be felt here at home.

Either way, it certainly has my attention.

Best wishes from your pal,
Dan

Click here to view today’s Corn chart from Trader Dan Norcini

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The one who taught us to love

30 Years ago was the last time that A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (September 1, 1896 – November 14, 1977), graced this dying planet with his love for all life. He sought to enlighten us and teach us all how to love God and prepare for the great journey that awaits us in our future lives.

At the ripe old age of 69 Prabhupada sailed to New York City in 1965. He had almost no money and very few possessions; nonetheless, before his death, he was able to inspire over 10,000 people to dedicate their lives to spiritual awakening.

By July 1966 he had brought Hare Krishna to the West, founding the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in New York City. Srila Prabhupada became well known as one who truly practiced what he preached; leading by example he expanded the movement from a small group of people in New York in 1966, to an international movement incorporating many thousands of people. By the time of his death in Vrindavan eleven years later (1977), ISKCON was a widely known expression of Vaishnavism in the West.

In the twelve years from his arrival in New York until his final days he:

• circled the globe fourteen times on lecture tours that took him to six continents.
• introduced Vedic gurukul education to a Western audience.
• directed the founding of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, the world's largest publisher in the field of Vedic religious texts and commentary.
• founded the religious colony New Vrindaban in West Virginia
• authored sixty books (many available online here) on Vedantic philosophy, religion, literature and culture (including four in Bengali)
• watched ISKCON grow to a confederation of more than 100 schools, temples, institutes, farm communities, and ashrams.

Through his mission, Prabhupada followed and communicated the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and introduced bhakti yoga to an international audience. Within Gaudiya Vaishnavism this was viewed as the fulfillment of a long time mission to introduce Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's teachings to the world.

I hope that many of you will take some time, if you haven't already, to study the incredible life of this man. Although I have only studied him for a short period of time, I am already convinced that his teachings have much to offer us and will benefit everyone if properly understood and adhered to.




Videos about A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

• The Acharya: part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V
• Srila Prabhupada in Bombay
• The Simple Temple: Chowpatty
• The Science of God
• Srila Prabhupada in New Dwaraka

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Mossad murdered 530 Iraqi scientists

5/9/2006 1:30:00 PM GMT | aljazeera.com

Numerous reports for many months have stated that with collaboration from American occupation forces, Israel’s espionage apparatus, Mossad, slaughtered at least 530 Iraqi scientists and academic professors.

Persistent Israeli hit squads against Iraqi scientists had been active in Iraq since April 2003, but the latest chapter was uncovered on Tuesday, 14 June 2005 by the Palestine Information Center which, citing a report compiled by the United States Department of State and intended for the American President, stated that Israeli and foreign agents sent by Mossad, in cooperation with United States, to Iraq, killed at least 350 Iraqi scientists and more than 200 university professors and academic personalities .

According to the report, which was referred to the U.S. president George W. Bush, Mossad agents had been operating in Iraq with the aim of liquidating Iraqi nuclear and biology scientists, among other scientists, and prominent university professors.

That was after the U.S. failed to persuade those scientists to cooperate with or work for it.

"Israeli commandos had been operating on Iraqi territory for more than a year, the focus of their activities being the assassination of Iraqi scientists and intellectuals. The Zionists resorted to the large-scale assassination campaign after the failure of American efforts that started immediately after the American occupation of Iraq, aimed at attracting a number of Iraqi scientists to cooperate and go to work in the United States,” The Palestine Information Center quoted the report as saying.

"Some Iraqi scientists were forced to work in American research centers; however, the majority of them refused to cooperate in certain fields and fled the U.S. to other countries", it further stated.

The Pentagon agreed with the suggestion of Mossad, which believed that the best way to get rid of those scientists was to "physically eliminate them".

The American security service provided Israel with complete biographies on the Iraqi scientists and academics to facilitate killing them, the report said, adding that the Mossad campaign targeting Iraqi scientists is still underway.

“Plight of Iraqi Academics”

Below is a presentation by Dr Ismail Jalili titled “Plight of Iraqi Academics”, in which he details Mossad crimes against the Iraqi scientists.

The presentation was made during Madrid International Conference on the Assassinations of Iraqi Academics on 23-24 April 2006.



















Dr. Jalili notes that:

- Many assassination attempts resulted in the death of other family members and escorts which have not been included or referred to in this study.

- Multiple assassination attempts are ongoing.

- Repeated threats to life are made to force people to leave Iraq.

- Considerable numbers of threats to life go unreported.

- In the last week of April 2006, a mass campaign was reported in Mosul of threats to doctors calling on them to leave Iraq.

- Assassinations of Iraq academics is a new phenomena in Iraq, that never existed prior to April 2003.

- The pattern indicates a sinister campaign and motives.

- The assassinations, kidnaps and threats to life forcing academics and doctors to leave Iraq do not follow any religious or sectarian pattern.

- The only dominant pattern is that the absolute majority of victims are ethnically Arabs.

The presentation affirms the following:
- The defence of Iraqi academics and medical professionals should begin by condemning the illegal war and occupation that created the situation in Iraq where assassinations are endemic and go unpunished.

- Occupying powers and their collaborators are responsible for the protection of the lives of Iraqi civilians and imputable under international law for the failure to do so.

- The assassination of Iraqi academics and health professionals is part of a conscious attempt to prevent Iraq from regaining its just independent and sovereign status.

- Defending Iraqi academics and health professionals is not separate from the necessity of being in solidarity with the Iraqi people and their national anti-occupation movement.

- Iraqis, like all people, have a right to science and education and to enjoy the inalienable rights of freedom of thought, expression, research and innovation.

- The right of families of assassinated health professionals and academics to have the killing of their loved ones investigated by an independent and competent body, and compensation paid, must be assured in all cases.

Delegates who attended the seminar reaffirmed their commitment to work with determination to raise at all levels the issue of the criminal destruction of Iraq’s professional and intellectual wealth.

In particular, delegations committed to:

- Demand that UNESCO act in defence of Iraq’s intellectuals and professionals.

- Demand that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights fulfill its duty to protect the lives and human rights of Iraqi doctors and academics, and all Iraqi civilians.

- Spread awareness of the issue of the assassination of Iraqi academics and doctors with the appreciated commitment of Autonomous University.

- Madrid to transmit the key concerns of this campaign to Spanish universities, the International Federation of Universities and the Association of Arab Universities of the Arab League.

- Call upon the world’s media to understand that the killing of Iraqi academics and health professionals is a result of the occupation, not sectarian civil war.

- Continue working to build an international solidarity campaign linking Iraqi academics in exile and in Iraq with their peers in universities worldwide.

- Press national and regional parliaments to raise and discuss the criminal destruction of Iraq’s intellectual and professional class.

- The undersigned affirm that they will continue to cooperate in their denunciation of the occupation and its numberless crimes and always stand in solidarity with the people of Iraq.

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Kali Yuga, The Problems and the Solution

The cycle of life on earth is divided into different Yugas (or phases). Currently we are existing in the Kali Yuga. In the lowest phase, Kali Yuga, most people are aware only of the physical aspect of existence, the predominant emphasis of living is material survival, and power is mostly in the hands of men. People's relationship with the spiritual is governed predominantly by superstition and by authority.

The age of Kali is the most condemned age due to its quarrelsome features. Kali-yuga is so saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest misunderstanding. Those who are engaged in the pure devotional service of the Lord, who are without any desire for self-aggrandizement and who are freed from the effects of fruitive actions and dry philosophical speculations are capable of getting out of the His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (03-10-06)

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Also, for more information on the nature of the Yuga cycles and why they occur, check out The Great Year. This explains how our Sun is, most likely, in a binary orbit around another star; an orbit which creates the repetitive cycle of the Yugas and the wax and wane of civilization.

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"Evolution And Elevation"

This is an interesting discussion between Srila Prabupadh and his disciples.

source: prabhupadavani.org
Los Angeles, May 13, 1973
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Prabhupada: ...to stop him for taking another Nobel Prize. Where is? (laughter) I am giving him notes that life is not from matter. Matter is from life. So he is going to write thesis on this.

Paramahamsa: Jaya. Vedanta-sutra.

Prabhupada: This is the fact. The so-called scientists, they are going on a wrong theory. Krsna says, aham sarvasya prabhavah: [Bg. 10.8] "I am the origin of everything." So Krsna is life. Krsna is not dead stone. Svarupa Damodara?

Svarupa Damodara: Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: Krsna says that "I am the source of everything." He is life.

Svarupa Damodara: Yes.

Prabhupada: He is not a dead stone. Then how matter can be the cause of life?

Svarupa Damodara: Matter is caused by life.

Prabhupada: Yes, matter grows upon life. Just like why this body has grown upon me? I am the spirit soul. This is maya. Just like, this is... I have explained in Bhagavad-gita. I am putting on this overcoat. The overcoat is made according to the size of my body, but I am thinking, "I am overcoat." This is foolishness. Just like I got my hand, therefore this overcoat is made of warm cloth. It has got a hand also. Because originally I have got hand, therefore the overcoat has got a hand. Similarly, originally I am spirit soul, I have got my spiritual body, and the material body has grown, cut according to the body.

Paramahamsa: Srila Prabhupada, what about in mineralogy? Scientists have proven that, for example, mountains are growing by sedimentary activity.

Prabhupada: Yes, that is also growing on spirit soul, Supersoul.

Paramahamsa: In the mountain?

Prabhupada: Yes, everything. Mountains have been described in the Bhagavata as the bones of God. These grasses are described as hairs on the body of God. These holes, there are holes, we saw that. They have been described as oceans. So in this way, this virat, the biggest body. As the smallest body is producing chemical, similarly the biggest body also, producing chemical. A small tree, lemon tree, how many pounds of the citric acid it is produced?

Paramahamsa: I do not know.

Prabhupada: No, producing, you know.

Paramahamsa: Yes.

Prabhupada: So if the tree can produce so much chemicals, how much the body of God can produce chemicals, we can imagine only. They are giving the theory that "From these chemicals life begins, or evolution begins." But wherefrom that chemical developed? That they do not know. That explanation is here, Krsna: "I am the source."

Paramahamsa: Srila Prabhupada, in the Srimad-Bhagavatam or the Krsna Book, you state that even clouds have souls. But then again they dissipate, in the rain they dissolve. Does that mean they die?

Prabhupada: No. Just like your body dissolves. Does it mean you die?

Paramahamsa: So that means the life span of a cloud is very minute or very short. Is that so?

Prabhupada: Yes, there are many living entities.

Svarupa Damodara: Srila Prabhupada, my understanding of the evolution and the transmigration is that evolution is uni-directional, only in one direction.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Svarupa Damodara: Whereas the transmigration can be both, in both directions. They can go up or can go down.

Prabhupada: No. Both ways. When you say "trans," "trans" does not mean stereotyped. For lower animals, that is one side, and for human being, both sides. Because after all, the body is made according to your desire. The lower animals, they have got one kind of desire, but the human being, he has got thousands and millions of desires.

Svarupa Damodara: So the platform of transmigration from the human platform, so it works, either it can go down or it can go up.

Prabhupada: No, transmigration (is) going on. They are coming automatically, animals, to the upper level of human form. But when you come to human form, if you don't cultivate Krsna consciousness, you remain as cats and dog, then you become again cat and dog.

Svarupa Damodara: But the evolution stops when the spirit soul reaches the eternal abode in the spiritual...

Prabhupada: Yes, when he is no more entangled by a material body. Hare Krsna.

Svarupa Damodara: The scientists have no information that there is evolution after human platform.

Prabhupada: That is their rascaldom. Therefore I say they are rascals. They have no knowledge; still, they proclaim they are scientists.

Paramahamsa: They think that evolution is continuing. They think that the human species will...

Prabhupada: Yes, evolution... That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita: yanti deva-vrata devan pitrn yanti pitr-vratah [Bg. 9.25]. Progress is going on. That progress, the ultimate progress is yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama [Bg. 15.6]. That where you're going, you do not return, that is the supreme progress. Samsiddhim paramam gatah. That is the highest perfection. You read Bhagavad-gita. Everything is there. Mam upetya kaunteya punar janma na vidyate. Duhkhalayam asasvatam, napnuvanti mahatmanah samsiddhim paramam gatah [Bg. 8.15]. They have no idea what is the highest perfection of human life.

Svarupa Damodara: They are saying that the material body started from elements, the chemical elements.

Prabhupada: That we admit also. That we also admit. But on what basis?

Svarupa Damodara: And when the spirit soul, when the living entity reaches the human platform, then again goes back to the...

Prabhupada: Do the rascals believe in the living entity?

Svarupa Damodara: No, they don't say living entity. Bodies.

Prabhupada: Then?

Paramahamsa: Something akin to Buddhism.

Prabhupada: Yes. Yes.

Paramahamsa: The Buddhists also say that the body is like a house. You put the house together, you put the body together with chemicals. And when the bodies die, just like you take the house apart, all the wood, and then there is no more house... no more soul, no more life.

Prabhupada: Yes. That is called nirvana. And with the chemicals you can build another house. Buddhists they do not give any information of the soul. That is Buddhism. What...? Oh, wet? (the ground?)

Svarupa Damodara: No, it's dry.

Paramahamsa: There's another very interesting factor that scientists, they state that matter is, or that there is, they dispute the fact that there's one soul within the body. There's a special kind of worm, it's an earthworm, that if you cut it in half, both parts will live.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: So they wonder how is it possible that if there is soul, that there could be two souls within one body?

Prabhupada: Yes, why not. Souls takes the opportunity.

Paramahamsa: Oh, it takes the opportunity of the other body, the fertile...

Prabhupada: Yes, yes.

Svarupa Damodara: The spirit soul must necessarily have a body, either spiritual or material.

Prabhupada: He has got already spiritual body. Material body is his covering. It is unnatural. Real body is spiritual. Just like your coat, this is unnatural. But your real body is natural. Otherwise how transmigration is possible? I am accepting different unnatural bodies. Unnatural means to my constitution. My real constitutional body is servant of Krsna. So, so long I do not come to that position, I remain servant of nature and I get so many bodies. According to the nature's direction I am getting body, I am giving it up, again I am desiring something, I am getting another body. This is going on. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah, ahankara-vimudhatma [Bg. 3.27]. He is a rascal. He is thinking, "I am this body." Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati, bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani mayaya [Bg. 18.61]. This is a yantra, machine. And we are traveling many species of life, all riding on this car, given by nature. Yantrarudhani mayaya. Maya has given this vehicle, anywhere wandering, up and down, sometimes demigod, sometimes dog. This is going on. And in this wandering process, if he gets in touch with a devotee, then his real spiritual life begins. Otherwise he has to go on, rotating.

ei rupe brahmanda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva

guru-krsna-krpaya paya bhakti-lata-bija

[Cc. Madhya 19.151]

Svarupa Damodara: Mahaprabhu?

Prabhupada: Yes, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. By mercy of spiritual master, the mercy of Krsna, he gets the seed of devotional service, and if he cultivates, then his life becomes successful. Otherwise he has to rotate, sometimes up, sometimes down. Sometimes this grass, sometimes lion.

Paramahamsa: But ultimately if we come to Krsna, there's no return. But nevertheless, Jagai, and..., the two gatekeepers, they returned?

Prabhupada: There is return, that is voluntary. Return there is.

Paramahamsa: If we want.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: So we can come to the spiritual world and return?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: Fall down?

Prabhupada: Yes. As soon as we try, "Oh, this material world is very nice," "Yes," Krsna says, "yes, you go." Just like nobody is interested in Krsna consciousness. Do you think everyone is interested? So. They want to enjoy this material world. Otherwise what is the meaning of free will? Every living entity has got a little free will. And Krsna is so kind, He gives him opportunity, "All right, you enjoy like this." Just like some of our students, Krsna conscious, sometimes go away, again come back. It is free will, not stereotyped. Just like one goes to the prisonhouse, not that government welcomes, "Come on. We have got prisonhouse. Come here, come here." He goes out of his free will; again comes out, again goes. Like that. Krsna-bahirmukha hana bhoga vancha kare, nikata-stha maya tare japatiya dhare (Prema-vivarta). The police is there. Just like the police car was there. We have nothing to do with it. But if you do anything criminal, immediately you will be arrested, under police custody. The maya may be there, but maya captures him who is not a devotee of Krsna. That's all. Therefore, mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te: "Anyone who surrenders unto Me, maya does not interfere anymore."

Paramahamsa: So our desire to enjoy, we achieve these bodies; and our desire to achieve Krsna brings us to our natural position.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: But then again there's this constant struggle with our lower nature? We are constantly fighting our desires even though we want to serve Krsna? This continues?

Prabhupada: What is that? I do not follow.

Paramahamsa: Well, like, many devotees, they experience the difficulty that although they sincerely want to love God and serve Him, yet their body is almost like another dictator within them.

Prabhupada: Yes. That means he is strongly under the grip of maya.

Paramahamsa: Even though the desire exists.

Prabhupada: Yes. Just like a thief, he knows that "If I steal, I will be arrested. I will be put into jail." And he has seen that one thief, he has stolen, he is arrested. Still he commits theft. He knows everything. Why does he commit theft?

Paramahamsa: Why?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: Ignorance?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Svarupa Damodara: Srila Prabhupada gives the example of the elephant.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Svarupa Damodara: Takes shower again and...

Prabhupada: Yes. Hasti-snana. Therefore, knowledge giving, that is the beginning of spiritual life. Krsna gives Arjuna, knowledge giving, that "You are not this body." This is the beginning of knowledge. What is that knowledge, all over the world? Where is that university? This preliminary knowledge which Krsna begins, Bhagavad-gita, where is that university? Svarupa Damodara, where is that chemical laboratory or university?

Svarupa Damodara: There is none in the universities.

Prabhupada: Yes. So this is the position of your education. There is no knowledge, and you are simply advertising, "Advancement of knowledge, university, PhD's, Nobel Prize holder." But they are all rascals. Fools' paradise. It is called, fools' paradise.

Svarupa Damodara: If the scientists know that we are not this body, then definitely the whole outlook will be changed.

Prabhupada: Yes. That we want to do.

Paramahamsa: They don't want to admit their failure.

Prabhupada: That is another foolishness. If you are a fool and if you want to pose yourself as intelligent, that is another foolishness. You cannot make progress. Stubborn dogs. If you are seeking after knowledge, you must take the right knowledge. That is intelligence. And if you want to remain in ignorance and advertise yourself that "I am man of knowledge," how much cheater you are! You are cheating yourself and cheating others. That is going on. We want to stop this.

Paramahamsa: Just like many of our devotees, we experienced when we tried to preach to our parents, because they are much older, to admit that Krsna consciousness is the right path in life, means to also admit that they have wasted their entire life.

Prabhupada: Real knowledge is to be given to the younger section. Older section, it is not possible. They will have to forget first of all, what they have learned. That they cannot. Therefore it is impossible. Therefore knowledge begins from the school children, not from the man who is going to die. (laughing) That is not... Impractical. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan: [SB 7.6.1] "Krsna consciousness should be taught from the very childhood." Not that at the time of death. That is not possible. Therefore our students, they are all young generation, they capture. These rascals, they cannot. Old fools, they cannot. There was a practical examination. One father and one daughter, both appeared for BA examination in India. The daughter passed and the father failed. It was in the newspaper. In old age they cannot take any lessons. They forget.

Krsna-kanti: Because of sense gratification or mind...

Prabhupada: Anyway, they say all... Yes. The bodily functions, intelligence...,

Svarupa Damodara: Blunt, intelligence becomes blunt.

Prabhupada: Yes, blunt. When the knife is sharp, it can cut, but if it is become blunt, then you cannot cut.

Paramahamsa: Or worn by age.

Prabhupada: Yes. They have all been described as mayayapahrta-jnanah: [Bg. 7.15] "Their real knowledge is taken away by maya." Therefore we don't give any credit to all these rascals. Although we are very small, but we don't give any credit. We frankly say, "These are rascals, fools."

Paramahamsa: After the 20th...During the Industrial Revolution in the western world....

Prabhupada: The Industrial Revolution means revolution of the sudras. That is Industrial Revolution. Increasing the number of sudras. These scientists, they are also sudras. Because they have no real knowledge. Brahmana means one who has got real knowledge. Brahma-janatiti brahmanah. And this industrial development means technologists; they are sudras.

Krsna-kanti: But they have taken the position of brahmanas in the society.

Prabhupada: No, no. They are never as... They are always working. How they can take the position of the brahmana? Brahmana's position is to teach brahmana knowledge, brahma-jnana. That is brahmana.

Paramahamsa: Prior to the growth of technology...

Prabhupada: Yes. No, there was technology. But not in such large scale. Village technology. There was a blacksmith. You want a knife. You take one piece of steel, and he will do it, phut phut phut phut, and he'll put in the fire, and everything do. And now you are manufacturing these cutleries, cutleries, in larger scale. So they are sudras. Similarly any factory, it is a combination of sudras. Kalau sudra-sambhavah: "In this age, all are sudras." Only we are trying to become brahmana. Otherwise all sudras. So therefore there is no adjustment. Just like if you have got only legs, no arms, no mouth, so what is this body?

Paramahamsa: Corpse.

Prabhupada: Corpse, yes. You require everything, full body. You require head, you require arms, you require belly, you require legs. But if you have got simply the belly and legs, then it is a dead body. It cannot work properly. The brain is lost; therefore they are mad after so much advancement of civilization. They are exactly like cats and dogs. As soon as you enter some country, dog, watchdog: "Wowf! Wowf! Why you have come? What is your position?" ("Where is your visa?"?) This is dog's business. This is dog's business. (laughter) And they have set up immigration department. But it is a dog's business, watchdog. I say it is watchdog's business. A first-class gentleman is being searched out pocket, whether you have got revolver. Cannot be trusted, all these educated rogues and thieves. So what is this advancement of civilization? It is civilization? No sober man, no intelligent man, all cats and dogs, thieves, rogues. Is that civilization? It is not civilization.

Paramahamsa: The question I have, Prabhupada is that before scientific advancement, many people would listen to, like, scriptural knowledge.

Prabhupada: Yes. That means sudras. That I have already said.

Paramahamsa: But now they listen more to scientists.

Prabhupada: That means sudra. Sudras are interested to hear from sudra.

Paramahamsa: For example in the Bible they quote that the world is flat. So therefore when they found out the world is round, they say, "Oh, scripture is false."

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: Scientists, they have proven the truth that the world is round. Therefore scientists...

Prabhupada: Yes. That must be, therefore the scriptures must be transcendental. Nonsense scripture, and people become nonsense. So except Vedic literature, all nonsense scripture. They are not scripture. Manufactured. This Bible was manufactured by the saint, this saint, that, according to their imagination. It was not spoken by Lord Jesus Christ. What was spoken by Jesus Christ, that they ignore: "Thou shalt not kill." They kill. Nobody is following Christian principle; neither Bible is perfect. But that, if we say, we will be shot. (laughter)

Paramahamsa: That is what they do now in the Vietnam. For God they are killing.

Prabhupada: Huh?

Paramahamsa: One of the reasons that the Vietnamese war was beginning was because Communists, being atheists, it was a fight between the theists and the atheists. This was an excuse given.

Prabhupada: Yes. But that is quite all right. We also prepare to kill atheists.

Paramahamsa: But preach first.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: They don't preach.

Prabhupada: That is, killing is also preaching. If I kill your ignorance, that is also killing. That is also killing. Not... Killing does not mean that everyone has to take the sword.

Paramahamsa: A new method of warfare.

Prabhupada: Yes, it is always there. By argument, by knowledge.

Svarupa Damodara: It's a little wet.

Paramahamsa: Srila Prabhupada, when you are not present with us, how is it possible to receive instructions, for example, on questions that may arise?

Prabhupada: Well, the questions... Answers are there in my books.

Paramahamsa: Other than that, for example, that we would ask you in...

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: Do you direct us also through the heart? Besides the Paramatma?

Prabhupada: If your heart is pure. Everything depends on purity. Whether there. What is this? Sacrificial arena? (laughter)

Paramahamsa: For children, I think. No? For cooking, yeah. (pause)

Prabhupada: (About tennis players) How people are kept into ignorance. Life is so valuable, and they are wasting time in that way. Life is valuable, how life should be utilized, what is the object of life -- they do not know anything.

Svarupa Damodara: Without knowing that the soul is eternal, everybody would be acting like this.

Prabhupada: Yes. That is... Bodily concept of life means animal life. The animal does not know. Sa eva go-kharah [SB 10.84.13]. Go-kharah. Go means cows, and kharah means ass. One who is in the, under bodily concept of life, he is no better than animals. So when the animal talks of knowledge, an intelligent man laughs. That is our position. The animals, they are talking of knowledge.

Paramahamsa: At least, the animals live by certain codes. They do not kill unless necessary. They only eat when necessary, whereas man, he kills unnecessarily, eats unnecessarily. So forgetting God, we are even lower than animals.

Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore we suffer also, more than the animals. (pause) So Krsna consciousness movement is not a bogus religious sentimental movement. It is a scientific movement. So now it is up to you to prove this. Then you will be actually Krsna conscious. (pause) [break]

Svarupa Damodara: So they were saying that everything in the universe is just happening by chance.

Prabhupada: So you are writing book by chance. Then what is the value of your book?

Karandhara: The book is also by chance.

Prabhupada: Yes. Everyone can write chance, so what is your credit? Anything nonsense can be written.

Svarupa Damodara: Monod is his name. He got Nobel Prize in 1965 from... He is Frenchman, physiologist. And his, chance and necessity about life, he said everything started by chance. So he is saying that by chance these chemicals combined together, forming these molecules, the basic molecules...

Prabhupada: But wherefrom the molecules came?

Svarupa Damodara: According to him it is simply by chance.

Prabhupada: Chance. So everything is chance. So what is the necessity of your writing book?

Svarupa Damodara: Then necessity arises, so these molecules re-orient, change as a fashion because of necessity.

Prabhupada: Why? If everything is by chance, where is the necessity? What is the meaning? Let the chance take place. Why necessity?

Paramahamsa: He is hoping for another Nobel Prize by his chance.

Prabhupada: All fools' paradise. That's all. Why do they send their children to school? Why not let them grow by chance? Is there any excuse if I say, "By chance I have violated this rule?" Is that the cause of excuse?

Svarupa Damodara: That's because of my ignorance.

Prabhupada: That is chance. That is chance. Because I am ignorant, therefore there is chance.

Paramahamsa: It would be just as stupid as saying a beautiful instrument like a car was made by chance.

Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. That is the most regrettable condition, that these rascals are getting recognition; talking all foolish, and they are getting recognition.

Svarupa Damodara: It's so strange. When I read that book. He defines the difference between the living and the non-living by a term called teleonomy. I tried to find out in the dictionary and I couldn't find any word like that. But I understood that what he meant was...

Prabhupada: Hyerpolosvel. (Prabhupada's mythical scientific word) (laughter)

Krsna-kanti: He invents his own word jugglery.

Svarupa Damodara: He was trying to present the difference between organic beings and the non-organic beings. So he goes in such a round about fashion just to differentiate.

Prabhupada: Petitio principii. This logic is called petitio principii. He has to prove something, but he is taking his premises from that something. (end)

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 13, 1973, Los Angeles

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The Freeman Perspective w/ William Henry

Illuminism is a word that has gotten a bad rap. Could we ascend to new heights of humanity. Is it our destiny to be interstellar? William Henry joins Freeman this week for a discussion of Starwalkers and the Dimension of the Blessed.

The Freeman Perspective w/ William Henry (google video)

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Srila Prabhupada - guardian of the spiritual and philosophical wisdom of ancient India

This is a fascinating series of videos documenting the life of Srila Prabhupada.

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How The Bacteria In Your Gut Can Make You Fat

Mercola.com

Two new studies show that obese people have different intestinal bacteria than slim people. What's more, the microbes in an overweight body are much more efficient at extracting calories from food.

One study looked at mice, the other looked at humans. In both, a family of bacteria known as firmicutes were more plentiful in the obese (20 percent more). Bacteria called bacteroidetes were also much more abundant in those of normal weight (the obese had almost 90 percent fewer bacteroidetes).

Most likely because of the firmicutes, the obese mice were more efficient at taking calories out of complex sugars and depositing those calories in fat. When these microbes were transplanted into the normal-weight mice, those mice started to gain twice as much fat.

As obese people lost weight, their bacteroidetes increased, while the numbers of firmicutes decreased.

Nature.com December 20, 2006

USA Today December 20, 2006

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

Having the right bacteria in your gut has an enormous influence on your health. In fact it is likely that one of the main benefits of eating healthy is that it will nurture the right types of bacteria growing in your colon.

There is a wealth of evidence demonstrating that the nutritional cause of many diseases is related to an imbalance of bacteria in your gut, a problem easily rectified by eating a diet that has minimal processed high quality, preferably organic foods.

This is one of the reasons why taking antibiotics can be so dangerous as they kill beneficial bacteria in your gut and can lead to overgrowth of yeast that the late Dr. William Crook helped to bring to consciousness.

This new report gives more credence to infectobesity, the study of microbes and viruses in your gut that may be responsible for some cases of obesity.

Influencing the bacteria growing in your body for the positive is easy by making better food choices, starting with reducing, with the plan of eliminating, sugars and most grains from your daily diet. Ideally, your gut should contain a ratio of 85 percent "good" bacteria to 15 percent non-beneficial bacteria, but the high-sugar Western diet has caused this ratio to actually reverse in many people.

You can also use a high quality probiotic as an "insurance policy" to make sure you colon is balanced with good strains. Many of you may know that I recommend supplements very sparingly but for the patients that are seen in my Chicago area clinic nearly everyone is given an omega-3 supplement and a high quality probiotic.

On Vital Votes, Dr. Jason Lauer from Waukehsa, Wisconsin, says:

"Much can be said about lifestyle and the biochemical environment our choices create inside the body. Recall the work of Bruce Lipton, PhD (in the archives on this site) showing how the environment we create through lifestyle influences genetic expression.

"Along with proper lifestyle, supplementing with a probiotic and a pure and potent source of omega 3 fat are a scientific no brainer."

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Worse than communism and state sponsored terrorism. The USSA

by Ryan Dawson | Anti-Neocons.com

When the US government uses tax money or worse yet money borrowed from the Federal Reserve which has to be paid for later by tax money and inflation, and it gives the money to select industries (normally who have employees in the government or who government employees hold stock in) that is communism. State control on industry is communism. State control of industry for the sake of the poor is wishful communism.

The State is awarding no bid contracts to corporations normally to perform unnecessary things, over priced things, or the old duo of paying contruction/engineering companies to rebuild things they paid weapons companies to destroy. That is State control of industry and it is communism by definition.

Corporation that do not want to comply will have the lucrative contracts awarded to their competitors. The US creates state assisted monopolies.

The US uses 5 primary methods of communism and the 5th is the dirtiest of all. In the name of stopping communism the US commits it and in the name of fighting terrorism the US engages in it. Hiding behind the flag and the cross the US ignores the founding principles behind each and does the antithesis.

1. No bid Contracts


2. Direct Subsidies


3. Indirect subsidies


4. Earmarked Foreign aid


5. Ajaxing or you could nick name it, 'Roosevelting' (as both Teddy and Kermit utilized it)

1 No bid contracts are easy enough to understand. The government simply awards corporations money for very expensive projects without any bidding. This form of legal bribery naturally creates the situation where corporations will give support through donations and mass media (which they own) to the candidates who will most return the favor. But it goes deeper than that. These same corporate fronts can and do act as money laundering agents where by they can pay foreign politicians who are usually involved in organized crime and work for the CIA.

The CIA cannot pay them directly but a company like Lockheed could say pay a Yakuza gangster like Kodama (a CIA asset) to manipulate Japan into buying Lockheed planes. As a result Kodama would become very wealthy and would use the money to assist more right-wing pro-MIC politicians and increase the power of the Mafia who actively work as modern "privateers" for intelligence agencies. That example I just gave was of course not fictional. It is one of many such operations. The Mafias of course also act as the primary drug runners for the CIA which finances its off the book black ops, bribing, blackmailing, prostitution, jackling etc with the money. The CIA is the Mob above the Mob and the things they have done in Cuba, South Korea, Israel and Saudi Arabia are sickening.

2 Direct subsidies is probably even easier to understand. The largest example would be agribusiness. Food does not need a temporary contract or project, there is always a demand for food. But factory farms and ranches buy from a lot of companies not related to selling food. Of course buy putting 36 billion a year (2003) into farm subsidies the US is creating a monopoly on a business that every country must participate in. If a country like Mexico cannot pay its farmers who must actually sell food to make money, then the subsidies US factory farms take over the market and put agribusiness workers in Mexico (in this example) out of work thus creating mass migration to the cities and undermining the labor pool driving down wages and so on.

3 Indirect subsidies are a bit more sneaky. Sticky with the factory farm example, giant agribusiness's buy a lot of things for their farms from big Pharma. Steroids, Pesticides, Antibiotics, and so on. Since they get money from the government, the government is indirectly subsidizing drug companies. The conditions to receive higher farm subsidies for example encourages the use of overcrowding animals which then creates the otherwise unnecessary demand for 70% of the antibiotics made in the US. That in turn is leading to superstrain diseases not to mention that it is just straight up unethical to the animals themselves.

Are large business such as let's say fast food or softdrinks are roped in to this as well. Where do they buy their sugar? Where do they get their corn syrup? Also tied into this are all things related to lumber as in 1902 Teddy Roosevelt decided trees were a "crop" thus making them subject to farm subsidies as well as tobacco which is totally unrelated to food. So you can see how many feed off of the government intervention into business. I can come back to this because it gets much worse. The Military obviously is the much larger umbrella cooperation but Agribusiness would be second, not only for the money it takes but because of how it can destroy labor and competition elsewhere.

4 Earmarked Foreign aid. This is when for example the US sends Israel 13 million dollars a day (conservatively) and earmarked 75% of it to be spent on certain US arms from certain companies which certain equity firms are invested in with absolute prior knowledge. This aid is not a loan, it is actual aid just given away top a foreign government. On top of that nasty mess, multibillion dollar tax free businesses also known and Churches, will invest their money into the same companies. Insider trading knowledge is given in exchange for supporting the Zionist rhetoric that creates the conflicts that gave a reason for the mass sale of armaments to begin with. That is a whole other can of worms. Basically any kind of criticism will be see as anti-Christian or worse yet anti-Semitic.

5 Ajaxing. I used this word for lack of a better term, based on operation Ajax. This is when the US manipulates the resources and wealth of another country by bribing/threatening/dupping puppet leaders. The way it works is usually the US will help a particular leader to power, or they will offer them great personal wealth, note that this is wealth for the leaders not for their people, in exchange for huge contracts to US companies to build infrastructure normally. The IMF or any global bank will issue a massive loans based on false projections from rigged economists (EHMs) to say Ecuador. Mega companies like Halliburton, Bechtel, etc will get massive amounts of overly priced projects to do in the "third world." The money really never even has to leave America. This is like no bid contracts only that the US pays them money and then the country getting Ajaxed pays it again with interest. The country under economic attack accepts loans that that they have no prayer of being able to pay. Also halfway through projects companies run into complications and ask for more money to finish or to maintain and so on. The leader takes the deal because they will be personally rewarded or because they think that they can modernize without seeing the larger picture. When the country cannot pay the loan with their money supply which is also under control of central banks and can easily be manipulated (another can of worms) they end up under the perpetual debt system where by they must sell off their natural resources for cheap to US companies thus making those companies all the more stronger and harder to compete with.

Now there are a lot of way to manipulate the leaders, one easy way is to kill the ones who oppose the US commercial interest. That has been done many times. Another is with black mail and bribery and here is always of course conflict be it invasion or financing paramilitary groups via the School of the Americas or normal mercenaries like Blackwater Inc. etc.

OK so I hope you now know the 5 major way the US engages in communism. One must understand that in order to understand why the US supports Israel and why the US invaded the Middle East as soon as the Neocons came into power with the Soviet Union out of the way, direct conflict (which is super expensive and thus creates even larger profiteering margins) option was back on the table.

Not long ago some Middle Eastern Nations realized what the US scheme was. They found a way around all of it. OPEC was formed and after Israel attacked its neighbors in 1973 the Yom Kippur War, and became the first country ever to use depleted uranium as a weapon, the OPEC nations raised the price of oil per barrel and eventually just created an all out embargo against the US when Nixon gave Israel 2.2 Billion dollars. The FACT that Israel's multiple war and been predated by busted false flag operations (with US complicity) is also interesting but too large a tangent for now.

The 1970s oil crisis began and by 1974 had drastically brought the US MIC and related powers to its knees. The principle country involved in this was Saudi Arabia. Things would soon change. The US knew it was absolutely imperative to remove the oil weapon and the key to that was to get Saudi Arabia, the country with the largest oil reserves in the world. The US planned to create an economic interdependency with Saudi Arabia. If they could remove this obstacle then the "oil weapon" would lose its wind as the Saudis could float US oil needs for long enough in the case of such an event.

Israel however was getting 90% of its oil from the Shah the US has such in Iran and from the territory they had illegally taken from Egypt. All that would change in 1979 when the Shah was out. This was also the same year Saddam was put in power in Iraq with help form the CIA who used the age old excuse of smelling Red. Shortly after Iraq was in a 9 year long war with Iran. You guys know about the story from there.

The US did create the interlock with Saudi Arabia, the Bush and Bin Laden construction and oil companies in particular benefited by using option number 5, well really 1-5 but mostly number 5. Remember that the British had been doing this same junk with royal families in the 20s. The World Wars just shuffled the deck and replaced the UK with the US and the principle exploiter of the world.

Ryan Dawson

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