Book and Video | Take Your Life to the Next Level with Caroline Myss!
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New York Times best-selling author, renowned teacher, and medical intuitive Caroline Myss specializes in assisting people in understanding the emotional, psychological, and physical reasons why their bodies have developed an illness.

In Entering the Castle, Caroline offered a contemporary view of the classical mystical experience, encouraging the reader to discover his or her 'inner castle'?a metaphor for the soul inspired by the magnificent teachings of the 16th century mystical theologian Saint Teresa of ?vila.

Now, in Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason Caroline directs readers to leave their reason at the door, so to speak, and enter the realm of mystical consciousness?not just for healing but as a way of life.

Caroline challenges the conventional approach to healing, which maintains that we can always find reasons for why things happen as they do. We can't. And now it's time to explore a model for healing that leads us into deeper and more effective truths.

"After working in the field of health and healing for more than two decades, I have come to believe that we as a society have not fully animated the body-mind-spirit trinity that is the foundation of [the holistic model of] health, for a simple reason: we are still enamored of the more familiar power of the mind and intimidated by the less familiar, the mystical and transformational regions of the soul. And, so, although we may use the language of the spirit, we frequently retreat into the methods of the mind, which primarily indulge our need to find reasons why events happen as they do in our lives. The underlying premise is that if we can excavate these reasons, then our lives will return to normal. We will recover our health, just as vibrant as it was before the illness struck. But that rarely happens, because this system of reasoning our way through illness and crisis is undermined by a fundamental flaw: We cannot reason our way back to health. Our intellect is an inadequate vehicle to carry us through the arduous journey of healing.

Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming it into a process of return to life. The mind cannot accomplish such a task. Only the soul has the power to bring the body back to life. If it weren't for the fact that I have now witnessed this phenomenon several times, I would not venture into the territory of healing with enough confidence to share my findings with others. But I have been a witness to healings, and some might even say I have facilitated these healings because of what I now teach, namely, mystical wisdom blended with all that I have learned about human consciousness and this journey we share called life."

Drawing from her years as a medical intuitive and teacher, Caroline shares real-life stories of people who were considered "terminal cases" and, through nothing short of a miracle, survived their illnesses. Inspired by these ordinary people who overcame a wide array of physical and psychological ailments?from cancer to advanced diabetes?Caroline utilizes the wisdom of the great mystics, whose writings provide a deeper understanding of the spiritual underpinnings of healing. Based on these studies, she introduces a model of healing that draws on an understanding of the relationship between our seven shadow passions and our seven inner graces.

"The people I know who have experienced healings told me that they were able to detach from their pre-existing images of God. Indeed, they managed to detach from everything?their wounds, their need to be right, their need to win, their need to know why things happened as they did in their lives. In doing so, they discovered that all they really surrendered was their fear, their darkness?and, much to their great awe, their disease. In giving up these things, they were given everything they needed, beginning with their lives. That was the pattern that I saw in all of the healings that I witnessed, the pattern that became the inspiration for this book. I realized that healing was not a matter of visualizations, sacred oils, processing wounds, lighting candles, and all the rest. Ultimately, healing is the result of a mystical act of surrender, an awakening that transcends any religion. It is an intimate dialogue of truth between the individual and the Divine."

Integral to this mystical healing approach is the engagement of the soul, which we experience through abandoning the fruitless quest for reason and logic and working in harmony with the mystical laws that govern our lives. This knowledge holds the key to understanding what it means to defy gravity and break through the boundaries of ordinary thought. In doing so, you come to understand how to bring closure to personal suffering and find the courage to build a new life.

"We now stand at a pivotal moment of change in human history. Part of that change calls us finally to embrace our inner consciousness, not with words alone, but through understanding the profound mystical nature of life. I believe deeply that many people are more than ready to learn how to defy gravity in their lives-not just in order to heal from an illness or navigate a crisis, but as an integral part of everyday life."

This inspiring book teaches you what it means to defy gravity and break through the boundaries of ordinary thought. You can heal any illness. You can channel grace. And you can learn to live fearlessly.

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Turkey / Israel | Erdogan: Innocent children hurt by phosphorous in Gaza
'Iraq, Gaza were conquered. Humanity watching evils from a comfortable seat,' says Turkish PM [ i.e., the United States and Israel ]
Ynet - October 13, 2009
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel Tuesday of firing phosphorous bombs at innocent civilians during Operation Cast Lead and of hurting children. "In Gaza, phosphorous bombs fells on innocent children," the Turkish newspaper Sabah reported Erdogan saying in a conversation with religious figures in Turkey.
"There are countries in which children receive the best education and the most advanced medical services. In other places there is desperation, poverty, war, and weapons of mass destruction," he added.

United States Government

Congress | Senate Finance Committee Approves Health Care Reform 14-9
Huffington Post - By ryan Grim - october 13, 2009
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Sixty-four years ago, President Harry Truman stood before a joint session of Congress and called on the body "to assure the right to adequate medical care and protection from the economic fears of sickness."
Forty-nine years later, President Bill Clinton made the same demand.

On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Congress moved closer to achieving that goal than it ever has. The hold-out Senate Finance Committee voted by a 14-to-9 margin to move the fifth and final health care reform proposal through the conservative panel.

The package, coming in at under $900 billion over 10 years, is the least generous in terms of subsidies for working- and middle-class Americans to purchase health insurance, and it does not include a national public health insurance option. But the bill would dramatically reorganize the nation's system of health care and health insurance and stands as the foundation on which Democrats hope to build a strong reform package with negligible GOP support

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National Security Agency | Power Shortage for the National Security State
Harpers - By Scott Horton - October 12, 2009
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On a remote edge of Utah?s dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America?s equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges?s ?Library of Babel,? a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world?s knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood. At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.

Unlike Borges?s ?labyrinth of letters,? this library expects few visitors. It?s being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency?which is primarily responsible for ?signals intelligence,? the collection and analysis of various forms of communication?to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital ?pocket litter.? Lacking adequate space and power at its city-sized Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, the NSA is also completing work on another data archive, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome.

The latest NSA project is storage on a massive scale of everything?signals intelligence harvested continuously from all over the world. It represents one of the clearest examples of ?capture? in the intelligence community. Contractors make equipment and sell it to the government at princely prices. The government agencies are always eager to own whatever the contractors can deliver to them. The investment in intelligence slides continuously towards these newfangled toys and away from human beings, particularly away from investment in human capital geared to digesting, interpreting, and understanding this massive flow of data. This process has been with us for some time, but in the Bush era, particularly under the questionable leadership of General Michael Hayden, it accelerated quite dramatically. Is the nation?s security enhanced by this process? To put it another way, is our intelligence very intelligent?

Civil Organizations / Activism
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

United States | The insurance industry is launching desperate attacks to stop health reform from happening.

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United States | Well, not too civil, but mischievously organized - Cheney & Co.: All Quiet on the Counterterror Front?
Conservatives huff that Obama is weak on national security, but say nothing about the gains in the fight against al Qaeda.
Mother Jones - By David Corn From His Corner - Friday, October 9, 2009
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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama visited the National Counterterrorism Center outside Washington and declared that "because of our efforts" al Qaeda and its allies have "lost operational capacity." He cited recent arrests of terrorist suspects in Colorado, New York, Illinois, and Texas, asserting that these actions have made the nation safer. Afterward, his critics responded with...silence. Since Obama was sworn in, conservative hawks, led by former Vice President Dick Cheney, have been pounding the president for being weak on national security, accusing him of leaving the country vulnerable to another catastrophic attack. But this chorus of scaremongers tends to go mute when the Obama administration scores apparent counterterrorism successes. Cheney, for instance, hasn't said anything publicly about the arrest last month of Najibullah Zazi, the Denver airport shuttle driver, and others accused of planning an al Qaeda bombing operation.

Nor have Cheney and his amen corner acknowledged other gains in the fight against al Qaeda. Instead, it's been a fussillade of potshots. Let's roll the tape.

Cracking Books and Mags in the Coffee House

Book - France | Serge Bastarde Ate My Baguette by John Dummer
Financial Times - Review by Donald Morrison - October 2, 2009

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The Anglo-Saxons, as we English-speakers are somewhat inaccurately known by the French, have long regarded their Gallic neighbours with a mix of amusement and horror. The intensity of that regard, however, has rarely faltered.

France is the country we love to hate, hate to love, and cannot get enough of. We vacation and migrate there in prodigious numbers (dimmed briefly by recession), turn French foibles into jokes and television series, and write books about why the French are so exasperatingly different.

Lots of books. Though the French begin at Calais, only a few miles away from England, they tend to be depicted in English prose as an especially exotic species of fauna with customs and folkways that require elaborate explanation. Shakespeare, Dickens, Orwell, Waugh, Wodehouse and countless other observers have given the French a going-over that the Italians and Belgians, for instance, rarely enjoy, despite being every bit as foreign.

Britain?s awed incomprehension of the French is embodied in Instructions for British Servicemen in France, a 1944 manual reprinted three years ago to wide amusement. ?If you should happen to imagine that the first pretty French girl who smiles at you intends to dance the can-can or take you to bed,? goes one of the manual?s warnings, ?you will risk stirring up a lot of trouble for yourself ? and for our relations with the French.? Relations remain stirred; we Anglo-Saxons remain fascinated.

One explanation for our seemingly endless need to decode France is the rigid sense of privacy that shields French politics, business and personal morality from the relentless attention common in the Anglo-Saxon world. But what really makes us obsess over the French is that they evidently do not much care what we think of them. Though our books about the ?Frogs? are legion, theirs about les rosbifs are rare. True, there are works such as Agn?s Poirier?s 2005 Les Nouveaux Anglais and 2006 Touch?: A French Woman?s Take on the English. But there exist hardly any French equivalents of Peter Mayle?s A Year in Provence, a sunny reminiscence of the former London advertising executive?s attempts to renovate a house in a southern French village.

Mayle?s 1989 bestseller propelled busloads of Brits southward and inspired some of them to write their own accounts of refurbishing a ch?teau/monastery/lemon farm while interacting with unreliable tradesmen and wily peasants. (It is, apparently, easier for an expat in France to find a publisher than a job.) Just as Americans have their ideal of individual prosperity, there is the British Dream of the good life amid sun-kissed vineyards in the Dordogne.

Even books about the bad side of the good life, such as Stephen Clarke?s darkly comic 2004 semi-autobiographical novel A Year in the Merde, find a ready-made audience. And long-term expats, many with French spouses, produce inside accounts of their adopted land while conceding, as the title of Mark Greenside?s 2008 entry puts it, that I?ll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do).

A new batch of Frog-centric books has just hit the British market. Though the lavender-scented lyricism has largely faded, most of them are labours of like, if not love.

Perhaps the clearest eye belongs to Lucy Wadham, a London-born writer who married a Frenchman, raised four children in France and has lived there (currently in the Cevennes) for a quarter of a century. In The Secret Life of France, she draws on her experiences to explain the unwritten rules of French table manners, civic ceremonies, breastfeeding habits, race relations and other behaviour.

Many of her revelations will be familiar to readers of contemporary books about France by foreigners: its schools suppress originality and force children to fit in; its culture values abstraction over experience; its idea of feminism is shockingly nude models on billboard ads.

No book of this sort would be complete without several such unfair generalisations, but Wadham takes them further still. That penchant for abstraction and fitting in, she says, has deprived the French of irony and, indeed, decent comedians ? except for a few immigrants and other misfits. The feminism gap has much to do with the country?s amicable gender relations, which allow girls to be girls without fear of letting the side down. ?In France,? she writes, ?the war between the sexes simply never got off the ground.?

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Art and Culture

Leonard Cohen | "First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin" | Music Video
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Civil and Corporate Crime

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.? -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-Nov-21, in a letter to Colonel E. Mandell House

Communities and Species

US - New Orleans | Houses of the Future
The Atlantic - By Wayne Curtis - November 2009
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Four years after the levee failures, New Orleans is seeing an unexpected boom in architectural experimentation. Small, independent developers are succeeding in getting houses built where the government has failed. And the city's unique challenges?among them environmental impediments, an entrenched culture of leisure, and a casual acquaintance with regulation?are spurring design innovations that may redefine American architecture for a generation.

A STURDY BIKE IS a good way to get around the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. The roads are still pretty rough, the distances between places tend to be too long to walk and too short to drive, and on a bike you can easily stop and chat with the residents who have returned. I moved to New Orleans about a year after Hurricane Katrina, and I?ve ridden my bike out here every month or two to see how the rebuilding has been faring. Also, I?ve heard that Brad Pitt likes to bike around when he?s in town. Folks tell me he?s a pretty regular guy. ?Brad was here yesterday,? a woman sitting on the front steps of her new and very modern house told me one day last fall. ?He was talking to everyone, just checking things out.?

He has a lot to check out, as it happens. Next to the levee along the Mississippi River sits the experimental ?project house? of Global Green, a nonprofit Pitt has been working with that?s trying to replace homes lost in the flood with energy-efficient ones. From there, it takes about 10 minutes to bike to the northern edge of the Ninth Ward, where the Industrial Canal flood wall collapsed in August 2005. Along the way you pass shotgun houses in various stages of repair and disrepair; Fats Domino?s home, from which he was rescued; and a large sculpture of empty chairs commemorating the hundreds who died in the storm. As you get closer to the failed flood wall, the land becomes more open and rural-looking, and the blackbirds grow louder. Only concrete steps standing in front of concrete slabs suggest the community that existed before the rushing waters erased it.

And then, suddenly, amid heroically overgrown lawns, you see a cluster of modern, colorful, and modestly sized homes, looking like a farm where they grow houses for Dwell magazine. These are the fruits to date of Pitt?s other project, Make It Right New Orleans. New Orleanians refer to these homes collectively as ?the Brad Pitt Houses,? which gives them the pleasing ring of an ambitious public-housing project from the post?World War II years. But Pitt?s ambitions are not merely utilitarian. He hopes to offer displaced residents affordable, cutting-edge, radically green homes designed by name-brand architects like Thom Mayne and Frank Gehry. And he seems to be succeeding.

Economy and Finance

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Video | Ireland | People Powered Flour Mill
Organic Consumers Association [ From Fergus Walker - October 14, 2009
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Food and Nutrition

US | Video: Meet the Farmer TV Goes to Polyface Farm
Learning about natural food before the advent of indusrialised 'fluff'
Organic Consumers Association, Meet the Farmer TV - September 19, 2009
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Ireland Bans Genetically Modified Crops
ENN - October 13, 2009
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DUBLIN - The Irish Government will ban the cultivation of all GM crops and introduce a voluntary GM-free label for food - including meat, poultry, eggs, fish, crustaceans, and dairy produce made without the use of GM animal feed. The policy was adopted as part of the Renewed Programme for Government agreed between the two coalition partners, the centre-right Fianna Fa?l and the Green Party, after the latter voted to support it on Saturday.

The agreement specifies that the Government will "Declare the Republic of Ireland a GM-Free Zone, free from the cultivation of all GM plants". The official text also states "To optimise Ireland's competitive advantage as a GM-Free country, we will introduce a voluntary GM-Free logo for use in all relevant product labeling and advertising, similar to a scheme recently introduced in Germany."

Legal Issues

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Life Style

Rich People Things - Free Fall in Crimson Town
The Awl - By Chris Lehmann - October 12, 2009
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Harvard University and the New York Times are the high church bishoprics of the money culture?s permanent counter-reformation: elite northeastern institutions that compulsively monitor each other for any sign of declension, heterodoxy, or waning prestige in a time of corrosive status anxiety. Both, of course, have lately fallen on hard times. Harvard has hemorrhaged 27% of its endowment, which plunged from $36.9 billion to $26 billion between June 2008 and June 2009?a crisis that spurred the school?s largest ever single bond offering, of $1.5 billion, earlier this year. Meanwhile, the revenue-challenged paper of record finds itself some $250 million in hock to Mexican debt prince Carlos Slim Hel?. Both institutions are now stooped under cost-cutting mandates and hiring freezes?and both appreciate just how nettlesome it is for any world-renowned tribune of elite culture to be in the humiliating position of doing more with less.

Media

White House declares war on Fox News
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WASHINGTON -- After months of low-grade rhetorical combat with Fox News, the White House finally declared all-out war this weekend. "It really is not a news network at this point," White House communications director Anita Dunn told CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday.

The administration has been battling the conservative network since the campaign last year, but recently things have heated up. Aides refused to grant an interview with President Obama to Chris Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, last month -- even though Obama appeared on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and Univision on the same day. Fox's broadcast arm no longer interrupts its primetime programming to air presidential news conferences, relegating them to the news channel only, and as a result, Obama hasn't called on the network's White House correspondent for a question lately. A few weeks ago, when Chicago was passed over for the 2016 Summer Olympics, the White House put out a detailed document listing all the ways Fox and its commentators had twisted the story around.

But still, Dunn's blunt language on Sunday took things to a new level. "They're widely viewed as, you know, part of the Republican Party," she said. "Take their talking points and put them on the air. Take their opposition research and put them on the air, and that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is." Even the captions the network uses to headline its stories, Dunn said, are slanted.

The Most Hated Name in News
Can Al Jazeera English cure what ails North American journalism?
The Walrus - By Deborah Campbell - October 2009 issue
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There are three forces shaping the world, an Arab reporter I met in the Gaza Strip once told me: money, women, and journalism.

On the first and third counts, he might have been thinking of Qatar, where I pass by luxury shopping malls, glittering real estate developments, and, in a spirit of reasonableness, traffic signs that advise caution when driving the wrong way down one-way streets. Over the past decade, this tiny desert emirate of a million and a half people ? a bump on the rib cage of Saudi Arabia, directly across the Persian Gulf from Iran ? has asserted itself on the world stage in large measure by pouring money into, of all things, journalism. Since 1996, it has been funding Al Jazeera (Arabic for ?the island?), the network that revolutionized the Arab media and is poised to do the same for the English-speaking world.

Rights and Freedom

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians."
--- Angelica Grimke - (1805-1879) Source: Anti-Slavery Examiner, September 1836

"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction."
--- Thomas Jefferson - (1743-1826), Source: in a letter to John Adams as quoted in John A. Stormer, None Dare Call it Treason (Florissant, MO: Liberty Bell Press, 1964)

Science & Technology

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