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This writer and his wife were fortunate indeed, to have attended the Prophets Conference in Santa Monica, CA. earlier this month. We were inspired by JZ Knight's talk and purchased the CD set, to which I was listening for the first time while driving today. I contemplated that this is THE single grandest speech I have ever heard presented by a human being on the potential in every individual and Ms. Knight's message of hope for the world as reflected in this remarkable woman's life. I want to give KK readers the opportunity to purchase this speech for themselves by ordering now from:
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then scroll down to "JZ Knight"
And the Conference write-up of Ms. Knight:
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Directly under this listing is the "Panel: Dimensional Mind and The Experience of Creating Personal Reality" CD set where Ms. Knight teaches the inherent ability of the mind in every individual through a discipline from Ramtha's School of Enlightenment called "sending & receiving." If you are interested in learning more about Ramtha's School:
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1. RESEARCH: MECHANISM IN BRAIN CONNECTED TO GUT GIVES ONE A "SIXTH SENSE"
"Ever get a gut feeling something just isn't quite right and make a decision accordingly? Science is beginning to suggest those instincts may have roots deep in the brain. Research in young volunteers points to some kind of "sixth sense" – a mechanism in the brain that picks up on subtle clues, then sends out subconscious signals of trouble ahead. The finding could help explain certain intuitive phenomena seen among humans. For example, in the recent Asian tsunami, aboriginal people sought out higher ground in the moments before the disaster, as did many wild animals. Could subtle changes in weather or the environment have warned them early on? Just such an early warning system may exist in the anterior cingulate cortex, a brain area important in processing complex information, according to a report by psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis. Their findings appear in the Feb. 18 issue of the journal Science," quoting HealthDay.
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2. STUDY: BOSTON COULD FLOOD WITHIN CENTURY DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING
Quoting the Boston Globe, "By the end of this century, global warming threatens to raise the sea level enough that a heavy storm would send flood waters into Boston's downtown waterfront, the Financial District, and much of the Back Bay, based on projections in a federally funded report to be released today [Feb. 15]. The five-year study, commissioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency and completed by university researchers, indicates that the mildest impact of global warming would leave local landmarks such as Massachusetts General Hospital, the Public Garden, the Esplanade, and MIT, in a pool of water after a strong storm surge in the harbor. Global warming, which melts polar ice and has been gradually raising the atmospheric temperature, could actually cause the sea level in the Boston area to rise as much as 3 feet in the next 100 years, the researchers predict.
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3. [ED. NOTE: KK READERS WILL NOT BE SURPRISED AT THIS STORY]
USA'S EPA BROKE LAW IN DEAL-MAKING WITH PESTICIDE INDUSTRY
Quoting the NRDC, "The Environmental Protection Agency is illegally negotiating secret agreements with industry lobbyists over pesticide regulation, according to a lawsuit filed today [Feb. 17] by NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council). The lawsuit specifically cites private agreements between the agency and chemical companies over the regulation of atrazine, one of the most heavily used weed-killers in the country, and DDVP, a highly toxic insecticide. NRDC contends the agreements have undermined public health safeguards by failing to restrict the use of these dangerous chemicals."
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4. NO SURPRISE HERE EITHER: SCIENCE STIFLED UNDER 2 BUSH TERMS
"The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting. Speakers at the national meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science expressed concern Sunday [Feb. 20] that some scientists in key Federal agencies are being ignored or even pressured to change study conclusions that don't support policy positions. The speakers also said that Bush's proposed 2005 Federal budget is slashing spending for basic research and reducing investments in education designed to produce the nation's future scientists.
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5. GLOBAL WARMING MAY CAUSE MAJOR U. S. SUMMER AIR POLLUTION
"Global warming could stifle cleansing summer winds across parts of the northern United States over the next 50 years and worsen air pollution, U.S. researchers said on Saturday [Feb. 19]. Further warming of the atmosphere, as is happening now, would block cold fronts bringing cooler, cleaner air from Canada and allow stagnant air and ozone pollution to build up over cities in the Northeast and Midwest, they predicted, "quoting Reuters.
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6. NW DAIRY VOTES TO BAN MONSANTO'S BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE
"In a stunning decision, Tillamook [Oregon] Creamery Association's Board voted unanimously to require all 147 member dairy farmers to go rBGH-free. According to a story broken by KGW [Portland, OR.] reporter Vince Patton last night, 'A barrage of consumer questions and complaints has convinced the Tillamook Creamery Association to force all of its dairies to abandon the use of genetically engineered growth hormones in its cows.' That's us, folks! We started contacting Tillamook a year ago about rBGH and began a full-scale postcard, phone call, and e-mail campaign about six months ago. Combined with other people independently asking questions, Jim McMullen, Tillamook President, concluded that 'When eight percent of your customers are talking about that issue, that's substantial and we need to listen,'" quoting Organic Consumers Assn. site.
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7. TSUNAMI UNVEILS OLD CITY
"The deadly tsunami could have uncovered the remains of an ancient port city off the coast in southern India. Archaeologists say they have discovered some stone remains from the coast close to India's famous beachfront Mahabalipuram temple in Tamil Nadu state following the 26 December tsunami. They believe that the 'structures' could be the remains of an ancient and once-flourishing port city in the area housing the famous 1200-year-old rock-hewn temple. Three pieces of remains, which include a granite lion, were found buried in the sand after the coastline receded in the area after the tsunami struck," quoting the BBC.
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8. SATURN BEHAVES DIFFERENTLY THAN WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE THOUGHT
"The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years. New research by a team of astronomers led by John Clarke of Boston University has overturned theories about how Saturn's magnetic field behaves and how its auroras are generated. Their results will be published in the February 17 issue of the journal Nature," quoting the Hubble website. "HubbleSite is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), for NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA)."
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9. INVISIBLE GALAXY DISCOVERED
"Astronomers have discovered an invisible galaxy that could be the first of many that will help unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries. The object appears to be made mostly of "dark matter material of an unknown nature that can't be seen," quoting Space.com
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10. SCIENTISTS GROW NEW AUDITORY HAIR CELLS IN GUINEA PIGS, STEP IN TREATING HUMAN HEARING LOSS
"After 11 years of intensive research, medical school scientists have succeeded in using gene therapy to grow new auditory hair cells and restore hearing in deafened adult guinea pigs—a major step forward in the search for new ways to treat hearing loss in humans. Results from the study—the first to demonstrate restoration of auditory hair cells at the structural and functional levels in mature living mammals—were published Feb.13 on Nature Medicine's advance online publication Web site. Hair cells are the sensory cells of the auditory and balance organs in the inner ear. Auditory hair cells reside in the organ of Corti, which is part of the cochlea—a spiral-shaped bony organ in the inner ear. They get their name from the numerous microscopic hairlike projections that grow from each cell," quoting the University of Michigan Record Online.
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11. SEARCH FOR NEW AIDS STRAIN CONTINUES
"AIDS viruses isolated from two people are being studied to determine whether either might be the source of a rare and potentially more aggressive form of H.I.V. detected in a New York City man, an AIDS scientist involved in the studies said yesterday [Feb. 13]. Many more tests need to be conducted to determine if the strains from the three people are the same, said the scientist, Dr. David Ho. He directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in Manhattan, which is conducting some of the studies in collaboration with the New York City health department. While some findings may be available in a week, others will take longer, Dr. Ho said in an interview," quoting the New York Times.
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12. ANCIENT PUEBLO FOUND UNDER SANTA FE, NM, CITY HALL;
RAMTHA’S SCHOOL COMES TO SANTA FE THIS WEEKEND
“A 600-year-old pueblo is buried under Santa Fe's City Hall, its convention center, the parking lot they share, and nearby Federal buildings. An archaeology report by the Museum of New Mexico's Office of Archaeological Studies confirmed what Santa Fe historians and archaeologists long suspected. The report will be submitted to the city's archaeological review committee Thursday [Feb. 17]. The relatively undisturbed village dates to between A.D. 1350 and 1400 and was possibly a Tewa village, the report said,” quoting the AP.
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Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment is holding a 2-1/2 day Intro Workshop this weekend in Santa Fe, NM. Check it out!
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WHAT THE BLEEP – THE MOVIE NEWS
Now the DVD version can be pre-ordered at Amazon.com for a March 15th release date.
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OF LOCAL NOTE
Washington State taxpayers again are back on NASCAR radar, as developers revisit state in effort to build track in the Northwest, possibly in Lacey (17 miles from Yelm) says The Olympian.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"...man is not free unless government is limited.
There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat
and predictable as a law of physics:
As government expands, liberty contracts."
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
40th President of the USA
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| Kleiner's Korner For Week of February 21, 2005
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CORRECTION TO LAST WEEK’S COMMENT: Quoted was a line from Thomas James Segel's poem "For the Dream of Peace.” The actual quote is: "This day truth has been spoken in your midst; he who has ears to hear let him hear!" and was originally said by Jeshua ben Joseph, quoting Jesus’ twin brother Thomas in the Gospel of Thomas, submitted by a KK reader.
1. STUDIES: EMOTIONAL STRESS HARMS HEART HEALTH; POSSIBLE HEART REGENERATION CELLS DISCOVERED
"Being 'broken-hearted' as a result of emotional trauma may be a more apposite turn of phrase than we imagined. US researchers have shown how sudden emotional stress can release hormones that stun the heart into submission, resulting in symptoms that mimic a typical heart attack...'The tissue is alive,' says Hunter Champion of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the study. 'It's just not moving.'" quoting the journal Nature.
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"The heart contains cells that can divide and mature after birth, which might allow the organ to regenerate itself. This surprise discovery raises the possibility of transplanting these cells into hearts crippled by heart attack to mend the damage...Because fully developed heart cells do not divide, medical experts viewed the organ as unable to regenerate after injury. But Kenneth Chien, of the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues now challenge this belief," quoting the journal Nature.
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2. FIRST TIME STAR SEEN MOVING FAST ENOUGH TO EXIT MILKY WAY
"'We have never before seen a star moving fast enough to completely escape the confines of our galaxy,' says Warren Brown, part of the team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who spotted the 700-kilometre-per-second star. It is the swiftest star ever spotted in the outskirts of our galaxy, travelling at twice the speed needed to escape from the Milky Way. Runaway stars have been seen before, but the previous record-holder was seen travelling at a mere 490 kilometres per second, and all of them are still confined in our galaxy. The new speedster is called SDSS J090745.0+024507, but 'we're tempted to call it the outcast star,' says Brown. The research will be published in a forthcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal," quoting the journal Nature.
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3. TSUNAMI WAVES FOUND UNDERESTIMATED, PROMPTING A RELOOK AT POTENTIAL THREATS
"Scientists studying the Indian Ocean tsunami have discovered startling evidence that the killer waves, at least for one coastal area in northern Indonesia, were much larger than earlier believed. The new findings, of keen interest worldwide to researchers seeking insights into the mechanics of this disaster, also translate into a disturbing suggestion that the experts have significantly underestimated the magnitude of the tsunami threat in the Pacific Northwest and perhaps to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean," quoting the Seattle P-I.
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4. WARNING – SMOKING MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR WEALTH
”At least that's the claim of Jay Zagorsky, an economist at Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research. Zagorsky found that the net worth of nonsmokers is roughly 50 percent higher than that of light smokers and about double the wealth of heavy puffers. He also found that the wealth gap grows by about $410 for each year that a person continues to smoke — changes that could not be explained away by differences in education levels, income, or other factors associated with wealth accumulation. The researcher analyzed data collected from nearly 9,000 individuals who were interviewed in 1985, 1992, 1994, and 1998 on a variety of issues, including smoking and wealth, as part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth," quoting the Washington Post.
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5. WORLD’S LONGEST-RANGE COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT UNVEILED
This new aircraft can fly between "Los Angeles and Johannesburg, London and Sydney, as well as New York and Jakarta," nonstop, says Boeing of its new long-range 777, unveiled in Washington State Tuesday, Feb 16th. The Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner is the world's longest-range commercial aircraft. [Ed. Note: Would you want to be on an airplane for 20 hours nonstop?]
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6. STANFORD STUDY: YOUNG BLOOD REVIVES AGING MUSCLES
"Any older person can attest that aging muscles don't heal like young ones. But it turns out that's not the muscle's fault. A study in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature shows that it's old blood that keeps the muscles down. The study, led by Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, built on previous work showing that old muscles have the capacity to repair themselves but fail to do so...In older mice the satellite cells hold the same position, but are deaf to the muscle's cry for help. In the Nature study, Rando and his group first attached old mice to their younger lab-mates in a way that caused the two mice to share a blood supply. They then induced muscle damage only in the older mice. Bathed in the presence of younger blood, the old muscles healed normally. In contrast, when old mice were connected to other old mice they healed slowly," quoting PharmaLive.
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7. NEW, HIGH-TECH CLUE SEARCH IN PRINCESS DI’S DEATH
A team of British detectives on Tuesday [Feb. 16] searched the Paris tunnel where Princess Diana died in a 1997 car crash, hoping the use of the latest high-tech equipment would provide new clues to the accident. More than a dozen British police officers bearing tripods, special cameras, and other equipment moved into the Pont D’Alma tunnel for the late-night probe that included a laser scan of the site,” quoting the AP.
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8. WINTER FINALLY LANDS IN EUROPE, LATE AND FIERCE
Europe had an unusually warm winter until latter January when heavy snows and frigid cold blanketed much of the Continent. These are pictures of Lake Léman (Lake Geneva), Switzerland, taken on Wednesday, January 26, 2005, with wind gusts reportedly 110km (68 mph).
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9. BLACK BOX REPORTEDLY SEES INTO THE FUTURE
“Deep in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream. At first glance, it is an unremarkable piece of equipment. Encased in metal, it contains at its heart a microchip no more complex than the ones found in modern pocket calculators. But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events. The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by skeptics. But last December, it also appeared to forewarn of the Asian tsunami just before the deep-sea earthquake that precipitated the epic tragedy,” quoting Red Nova.
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10. TOO LATE TO FRET OVER GLOBAL WARMING; PREPARE FOR ITS EFFECTS
“At the core of the global warming dilemma is a fact neither side of the debate likes to talk about: It is already too late to prevent global warming and the climate change it sets off. Environmentalists won't say this for fear of sounding alarmist or defeatist. Politicians won't say it because then they'd have to do something about it. The world's top climate scientists have been sending this message, however, with increasing urgency for many years,” quoting the San Francisco Chronicle.
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And the 2003 Pentagon Report on Climate Change:
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And this from Fortune Magazine:
"Global warming may be bad news for future generations, but let's face it, most of us spend as little time worrying about it as we did about al Qaeda before 9/11.. The threat that has riveted their attention is this: Global warming – rather than causing gradual, centuries-spanning change – may be pushing the climate to a tipping point. Growing evidence suggests the ocean-atmosphere system that controls the world's climate can lurch from one state to another in less than a decade—like a canoe that's gradually tilted until suddenly it flips over. Scientists don't know how close the system is to a critical threshold. But abrupt climate change may well occur in the not-too-distant future. If it does, the need to rapidly adapt may overwhelm many societies—thereby upsetting the geopolitical balance of power. Though triggered by warming, such change would probably cause cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to longer, harsher winters in much of the U.S. and Europe. Worse, it would cause massive droughts, turning farmland to dust bowls and forests to ashes."
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11. NUCLEAR & WIND POWER COMING ON STRONG IN USA
"The [U.S.] government wants to prime the pump for nuclear energy plants. So it’ll pay half the tab for studies required to get approval for facilities planned for sites near existing plants in Va. and Ill. Regulators also plan to streamline approvals, halving the time needed. Recent Energy Dept. moves are meant to end a financing logjam that’s blocking construction of new plants, including the two planned for the Va. and Ill. sites. Lenders have balked at the 10-year lead time and the $50 million to $100 million needed to meet requirements imposed by DOE, EPA and a variety of other federal, state, and local agencies. By 2010 the two plants will come on line, launching a 50% hike in nuclear energy output expected by 2020 as even more plants are built. DOE doesn’t plan to continue picking up study costs for other facilities. It figures once streamlined regs are in place, financing will be easier," quoting Kiplinger (Letter) forecasts. [Ed. Note: More nuclear wastes coming to WA State? Thank you President Bush!]
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Follow-up to last week’s KK story on wind power is this story: “With every turn of the giant blades of the 136 windmills here on the edge of a mesa, the stiff desert breeze is replacing expensive natural gas or other fuel that would have been burned in a power plant somewhere else. Wind energy makes up a small fraction of electric generation in this country, but the rising price of natural gas has made wind look like a bargain; in some cases, it is cheaper to build a wind turbine and let existing natural gas generators stand idle. Giant, modern wind farms like the New Mexico Wind Energy Center here may become more common if prices continue to rise.
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And this fabulous New York Times article on this subject:
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12. WASHINGTON STATE ECOLOGY AWARD GIVEN TO YELM BUSINESS
"The [WA] State Department of Ecology (Ecology) today will present an Environmental Excellence Award to Gordon's Garden Center of Yelm for using innovative business practices that support a healthy environment. In particular, the garden center no longer sells or uses hazardous garden chemicals, instead offering less-toxic, organic gardening alternatives. ‘Gordon's Garden Center took a financial risk because some of the biggest profits in this retail industry tend to come from selling pesticides, herbicides, and garden supplies that can be hazardous to the environment,’ said Dick Wallace, Ecology's southwest regional director. ‘Now Gordon's is a role model for other garden centers, fostering gardening methods that are friendly to the earth and healthy for people.’ The garden center conducted a pesticide round-up in 2003 with help from the Thurston County business pollution-prevention program and safely ridded itself of hundreds of pounds of chemicals. Gordon's took the pesticides to the Thurston County hazardous-waste collection facility and paid the full disposal cost. On March 12 and 13 Gordon's will again collaborate with the county to collect garden-related chemicals from customers at no charge, so they can be properly disposed. These products include chemical fertilizers, insecticides, and fungicides," quoting the Access Washington, official State Government website. [Ed. Note: Gordon's owner Kellie Petersen verbally stated that KK reader Nadja Galadram was the inspiration behind this endeavor. Ask your local garden center to follow Gordon’s lead.]
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WHAT THE BLEEP - THE MOVIE NEWS
Axiom Conferences will have many of the scientists from the Bleep at several different Prophets Conferences throughout North America this year. View their schedule.
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COMMENT
Four Hundred and five years ago this week, Giordano Bruno died, February 17, 1600 to be exact. Bruno was arrested by the ecclesiastical authorities (the Inquisition) and put on trial for his beliefs, which were based on the real world, such as those of Copernicus asserting that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled around the sun once yearly; a fantastic concept for the times. Up to the time of Copernicus thinkers of the Western world believed in the Ptolemaic theory that the universe was a closed space bounded by a spherical envelope beyond which there was nothing. Giordano Bruno had the audacity to even go beyond Copernicus, and dared to suggest that space was boundless and that the sun and its planets were but one of any number of similar systems, postulating there even might be other inhabited worlds with beings equal or superior to ourselves. For such blasphemy Bruno was tried before the Inquisition, condemned, and burned at the stake in 1600. One of his several books was titled "The Infinite Universe and its Worlds." Bruno was the mentor of Galileo while they were both at Padua University (Italy). Galileo was brought forward in 1633 and, under the threat of torture and death, forced to renounce all belief in Copernican theories and sentenced to imprisonment for the rest of his life, passing in 1642. The Holy Mother Church under the current Pope finally apologized—sort of—for the Church’s condemnation of Galileo, 350+ years later. Hopefully the world has evolved since those times, as society does not burn people at the stake today. No, no, today we spread false rumors and trumped up charges against out-of-the-box thinkers via the media or Internet. Let’s hope as we remember Bruno’s life this week, that we remember this when truth is spoken.
"This day truth has been spoken in your midst; he who has ears to hear let him hear!" from the Gospel of Thomas quoting Jesus.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
1. PONDERED: IS SOCIETY GOING WAY OF PREVIOUS EXTINCT PEOPLES?
“Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond considers the odds that modern civilizations will disappear, following into oblivion the ancient Maya, Polynesia's Easter Islanders, Greenland's Vikings, and the Anasazi of the American Southwest. In his new book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking; $29.95), Diamond looks at civilizations that crumbled. And he ponders how today's societies can dodge the fate of their failed ancestors, “ quoting USA Today.
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2. 2004 FOURTH WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD
“Last year was the fourth warmest year on average for our planet since the late 1800s, according to NASA scientists. To determine if the Earth is warming or cooling scientists look at average temperatures. To get an "average" temperature, scientists take the warmest and the coolest temperatures in a day and calculate the temperature that is exactly in the middle of those high and low values. This provides an average temperature for a day. These average temperatures are then calculated for spots all over the Earth, over an entire year,” quoting RedNova.
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3. STUDY: NEW GLOBAL AREAS ADDED TO AT-RISK LIST
“A global study has identified nine new environmental “hot spots,” areas of great ecological diversity, that are under threat and together shelter most of the planet’s endangered plant and animal species. ‘Nine new hot spots have been identified, including one that traverses the U.S.-Mexico border, one in southern Africa, and one that encompasses the entire nation of Japan,’ said Conservation International, which helped organize the analysis in a book "Hotspots Revisited" that was released Monday [Feb. 2].
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Interesting enough, this writer and his wife met two women on the flight to the Prophets Conference and met these two again in the elevator later that night in the same hotel. We spoke and discovered they were from the Seattle Chapter of Conservation International (CI). CI applies innovations in science, economics, policy, and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity in the hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas, and key marine ecosystems. With headquarters in Washington, D.C., CI works in more than 30 countries on four continents.
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4. YOU CAN JOURNEY TO HOLLOW EARTH IN 2006
“Would you be interested in a once-in-a-lifetime chance to discover our Hollow Earth first hand? If so, we invite you to join us for an expedition to the North Pole with Steve Currey, one of the leading river explorers in the world! Indigenous Eskimos believe that there is a hole in the Arctic Ocean and observations by several Arctic explorers, like Olaf Jansen and Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, U.S.N. who claim to have seen mirages of exposed land near the North Pole, indicate that the most plausible location for an opening is located at 84.4 N Latitude, 141 E Longitude. Steve Currey's Expedition Company has chartered the Russian Nuclear IceBreaker YAMAL to take 100 adventurers to the North Pole for an expedition to conduct scientific observations that could resolve once and for all whether the Hollow Earth Theory has any validity! Departure date is scheduled for June 26, 2006,” quoting the VoyageHollowEarth site.
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5. "GREENHOUSE EFFECT COULD MAKE MARS LIVABLE"
"The best way to make Mars habitable would be to inject synthetic greenhouse gases into atmosphere, researchers said Thursday [Feb. 2]. The stuff could be shipped to Mars or manufactured there. Scientists and science-fiction authors have long pondered terraforming Mars, melting the vast stores of ice in its polar caps to create an environment suitable for humans. The topic is highly controversial," quoting Space.com.
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6. TWO PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT
"The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance is a nonprofit corporation supported by electric utilities, public benefits administrators, state governments, public interest groups, and energy efficiency industry representatives. These entities work together to make affordable, energy-efficient products and services available in the marketplace." quoting their site.
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“Seattle has a mandatory recycling act that took effect Jan. 1. The city wants to keep 60 percent of its waste out of landfills by the end of the decade. ...OR ELSE: Penalties don't kick in until next year. Single-family households won't get their trash picked up; businesses and residential complexes face $50 fines,” quoting the Seattle PI on this story.
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More on Seattle’s mandate from Environmental News Network (ENN):
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7. MICROPROCESSOR WITH SUPERCOMPUTER POWER UNVEILED
"Setting up a battle for the future of computing, engineers from IBM, Sony, and Toshiba unveiled details Monday [Feb. 7] of a microprocessor they claim has the muscle of a supercomputer and can power everything from video game consoles to business computers. Devices built with the processor, code-named Cell, will compete directly with the PC chips that have powered most of the world’s personal computers for a quarter century," quoting the AP.
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8. STUDY: CONTACT WITH FRIENDS COUNTERACTS STRESS
”Scientists now suspect that hanging out with our friends can actually counteract the kind of stomach-quivering stress most of us experience on a daily basis. A landmark UCLA study suggests that women respond to stress with a cascade of brain chemicals that cause us to make and maintain friendships with other women. It's a stunning find that has turned five decades of stress research – most of it on men –upside down. Until this study was published scientists generally believed that when people experience stress, they trigger a hormonal cascade that revs the body to either stand and fight or flee as fast possible, explains Laura Cousin Klein, Ph.D., now an Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University and one of the study's authors, “ quoting the University of Oregon site.
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9. OBJECT SMALLER THAN PLUTO DISCOVERED ORBITING DYING STAR WITH MINI SOLAR SYSTEM
“An object smaller than Pluto has been discovered orbiting a dying star in what astronomers said Monday [Feb. 7] resembles a pint-sized version of our solar system. In a separate study, a disk of planet-building material was spied circling a dim starlike object just 15 times the mass of Jupiter. The brown dwarf, as it is known, is a cosmically lukewarm ball of gas that straddles the definition between planet and star. The system could evolve into a compact, dim solar system, again with a familiar look," quoting Space.com.
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10. YIKES! CHILDREN AND ANIMALS NOW TAGGED IN NEW ID PROGRAMS
“Angry parents saying their children's privacy rights are being violated have asked the board of the tiny Brittan School District to rescind a requirement that all students wear badges that monitor their whereabouts on campus using radio signals. Located between the massive silos of Sutter Rice Co. and the Sutter Buttes, this small town has 587 kindergarten through eighth-graders who are the first public school kids in the country to be tracked on campus by such a system, which is designed to ease attendance taking and increase campus security,” quoting the San Francisco Chronicle.
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"The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is a national program intended to identify specific animals in the United States and record their movement over their life spans. It is being developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and State agencies—in cooperation with industry—to enable 48-hour trace-back of the movements of any diseased or exposed animal. This will help to ensure rapid disease containment and maximum protection of America's animals," quoting the USDA site.
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11. TRUTH REVEALED ABOUT ENRON/WHITE HOUSE CONVERSATIONS ON ENERGY PRICES
“California ratepayers' worst suspicions were confirmed when audiotapes were released the other day revealing that Enron plotted in January 2001 to take a power plant offline in a deliberate bid to jack up electricity prices during the worst of the energy crisis. What few people may realize though is that just three months after the company's power-plant conspiracy, which resulted in rolling blackouts throughout Northern California, Enron was making its case to the White House for why the government shouldn't cap energy prices. And Vice President Dick Cheney, who met with then-Enron Chairman Ken Lay in April 2001 and was handed a secret memo stating the company's policy wishes, subsequently echoed Enron's position on why price caps are unnecessary,” quoting the San Francisco Chronicle.
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KK readers know full well the Bush record on energy. Here is the latest thanks to the NRDC:
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12. TERRIFIC TOOL FOR CHILDREN [AND ADULTS] TO LEARN ABOUT USA
A clever use of the Internet, to place a state on the map in its proper place.
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WHAT THE BLEEP - THE MOVIE NEWS
The DVD of this terrific movie can now be pre-ordered at
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong
— if there is any root to life — because nowadays the family is broken up
and people don’t live in the same place for very long.”
-- Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
American Playwright, who passed last week, speaking in a 1988 interview of his plays, their strong emphasis on family, morality, personal responsibility, and the growing fragmentation of American society..
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JZ Knight will be the guest on the "Coast to Coast" Show on Thursday, February 10th. "Founder and President of Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, JZ Knight, shares her story and experiences connected with the channeling of a 35,000 year old warrior from the lost continent of Atlantis called Ramtha."
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Dr. Bruce Lipton will be on the same progam on Wednesday, February 9th. "Scientist and lecturer, Dr. Bruce Lipton will be discussing the recent advances in cellular science that are heralding an important evolutionary turning point."
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1. DRINKING DAILY GLASSES OF ALCOHOL/WINE MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER COGNITIVE ABILITY
"Researchers based at University College London have put forward the latest food for thought on wine and health. They found that drinking alcohol, even in low amounts, might be associated with higher cognitive ability, especially for women. Their study, published in the Aug. 1 [2004] issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, found that people who consume anywhere from one drink a week up to 30 drinks a week performed better than nondrinkers on a battery of different tests designed to measure their intellectual ability. 'Compared with abstainers, persons drinking one or two glasses of alcohol per day had a significantly lower risk of poor cognitive function,' the authors wrote," quoting Wine Spectator Magazine. [Ed. Note: The aforementioned Wine Spectator article is via subscription only. The following link quotes this article and is from a blog.]
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The abstract from the American Journal of Epidemiology is found at:
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"Women who enjoy a drink of beer or wine daily have sharper minds into old age than women who abstain, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday [Jan. 19]. The report, based on a study of nearly 12,500 nurses, adds to the apparent benefits of light to moderate drinking, which can also prevent heart disease and stroke.
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2. SCIENTISTS CONVERT STEM CELLS INTO NEURONS
“Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, reported Sunday that they've whipped up an exciting — but intricate — new recipe that could someday treat spinal cord injuries or provide a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Step one: Take human embryonic stem cells, the microscopic dots that have brought condemnation from the Pope, opposition from the President and people generally opposed to abortion, add pinches of chemicals, dashes of other biological ingredients implicated in brain growth at just the right moment and voila: brain cells called motor neurons that control every body movement. The conclusion, reported online in science journal Nature Biotechnology, is important for two reasons. First, stem cell scientists have struggled to accomplish what researcher Su-Chun Zhang and his colleagues have just accomplished…Perhaps more important, Zhang's recipe shows researchers that timing is everything when adding their chemical cocktails to stem cell stews. Stem cells are vulnerable to successful human manipulation for only the briefest of moments — and at different intervals depending on the results each researcher craves,” quoting the AP.
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3. TEST DEVELOPING TO POTENTIALLY DETECT ALZHEIMER’S EARLIER
“A highly sensitive new test could lead to a different way to diagnose people with Alzheimer’s disease, possibly helping find the illness in its early stages when there might be time for treatment…Many companies have experimental therapies, he said, ‘But those therapeutics aren’t very good if you can’t definitively diagnose and follow a disease,’ explained Mirkin, a lead researcher — along with William L. Klein — on a team that developed the new test, which can detect small amounts of proteins in spinal fluid. The team’s findings are reported in Tuesday’s [Feb. 1st] issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,” quoting the AP.
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4. "WATER SHORTAGES, GLOBAL WAMRING TO HIT GRAIN SUPPLY"
"Water shortages and global warming will hit grain production and push up prices in the coming years, leading to unrest in countries unable to afford imports, the head of a leading think-tank said on Thursday [Jan. 27]," quoting Reuters.
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5. BREAD INDUTRY TOUTING BENFITS OF GRAINS IN LOW-CARB WORLD
“The bread industry, hoping for a comeback after last year's low-carb fad, is telling consumers bread is good for them -- especially whole-grain bread. Bread makers learned from the low-carb craze that they need to market themselves better. So, three weeks after new government guidelines calling for three one-ounce servings of whole grains a day, the industry is starting a campaign touting health benefits…On Tuesday [Feb. 1st], the industry will launch a low-carb counterattack pointing to benefits of grains as part of an overall diet. The $3.5 million Grains for Life campaign will be announced in New York and Washington with billboards, posters, and people dancing in bread costumes,” quoting MSNBC.
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“The Federal Government on Wednesday [Jan. 12] outlined how Americans should eat and exercise, backing a broad approach that stresses weight loss and a balanced, moderate diet,” quoting MSNBC.
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Grains for Life campaign:
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Coupled with The Washington (D. C.) Times input on this story:
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And the Grain Foods Foundation site:
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6. INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS GET EDUCATED ABOUT DISEASE SPREAD
Ed. Note: Now this is something I was taught years ago: “Exotic travel can lead to exotic diseases: Unusual illnesses not uncommon for adventure tourists” is the title and subtitle for this important and informative AP story. “American travelers made more than 56 million foreign trips in 2003, up from 46 million a decade ago. They often bring back germs that can take weeks or months to cause symptoms and diseases, which American doctors may be slow to recognize.”
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7. STUDY: CHILDREN DO GROW TALLER OVERNIGHT IS A TRUTH
“The perception that children seem to grow taller overnight is likely true, researchers said Thursday [Jan. 27]. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison placed sensors on the leg bones of lambs to monitor bone growth in the animals. Ninety percent of bone growth occurred when the animals were sleeping or otherwise at rest, according to the study published in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics, quoting Reuters.
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8. “LOGGERS GOING INTO OREGON OLD GROWTH RESERVE” & CALIFORNIA SUES FEDS OVER STATE’S WOODLANDS
“A timber company plans to start logging next week [week of Janaury 31] in a burned area that had been reserved as old growth forest, setting up a confrontation with environmentalists who believe leaving the dead trees standing is better for fish, wildlife, and the forest,” quoting the AP in the Seattle P.I.
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“California Attorney General Bill Lockyer waded into the Sierra Nevada logging fracas Tuesday [Feb. 2], announcing a lawsuit against a U.S. Forest Service management plan for the region's 11 million acres of federal woodland that could increase the number of trees that are cut by up to four times what has been allowed. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for eastern California in Sacramento, foreshadowed a decision expected soon by Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Rey over the fate of the plan, which has been in effect on the Sierra's 11 national forests and one special management area since January 2004,” quoting the San Francisco Chronicle.
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9. WORLD’S GLACIERS DISAPPEARING & OZONE LAYER THINNING
“Up and down the icy spine of South America the glaciers are melting, the white mantle of the Andes Mountains washing away at an ever faster rate…They'll disappear far beyond Bolivia. From Alaska in the north to Montana's Glacier National Park to the great ice fields of wild Patagonia at this continent's southern tip, the "rivers of ice" that have marked landscapes from prehistory are liquefying, shrinking, retreating,” quoting this special AP story on the Seattle PI.
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“The ozone layer over the Arctic has thinned due to colder-than-normal temperatures and ‘large scale losses’ are likely if the cold conditions continue, a European research group reported. The research prompted the European Commission on Monday [Jan. 31] to issue a statement warning that ‘should further cooling of the Arctic stratosphere occur, increasing ozone losses can be expected for the next couple of decades,” quoting MSNBC.
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10. U. S. SCIENTIST SAYS SHROUD OF TURIN MAY NOT BE A FAKE
"The Shroud of Turin, which some Christians believe is Jesus Christ's burial cloth, may not be the fake scientific tests have concluded because they analyzed a patch put on it, according to a U.S. scientist. Raymond N. Rogers of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico published a paper this week arguing that new dating tests showed the 1988 tests were from a cloth patch probably sewn on after a fire damaged the Shroud in 1532," quoting Reuters.
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11. WIND POWER GENERATION IN THE USA HEARTLAND
“The Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) has released a new, updated version of our map of Midwest/Great Plains Wind Power Projects. [
link here ] This map illustrates the existing and planned wind power projects across the Midwest, including projects from the MISO, PJM, and SPP project queues. Overall, approximately 1,439 MW of wind power projects are now operating in the Midwest, with at least 11,759 MW of projects currently planned for construction. Since we released our first version of the map in the spring of 2004, operating projects have increased by almost 200 MW, and proposed projects have increased by more than 8,000 MW!” quoting the ELPC site.
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12. FACTORY FARMS NOW ALLOWED TO FREELY POLLUTE
“The day after the inauguration, January 21, the Bush Administration signed an agreement that allows factory farms to freely violate any and all clean air standards for the next two years, and forgives these same companies from paying fines for past air pollution violations. In exchange for the freedom to pollute without any restrictions, the deal "requests" that factory farms agree to monitor their air pollution and provide that data to the government…Fortunately there is a 30 day public comment period, and the OCA is collecting petition signatures for submission to the EPA. Please sign the petition or make comments directly to the EPA,” quoting the Organic Consumers Assn.
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WHAT THE BLEEP - THE MOVIE NEWS
This writer turned 50 years of age in this body last year and joined AARP. So now I get all of the AARP information and noticed What the Bleep is mentioned in the March AARP Magazine on page 50: "And even that expanded list fails to include such accomplishments as Mel Gibson's intensely personal The Passion of the Christ; Michael Moore's relentlessly controversial Fahrenheit 9/11; Shall We Dance?, a heartfelt ode to the happily resolved midlife crisis; and three high-profile, big-name films exploring existentialism and the meaning of life: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Jim Carrey), I ♥ Huckabees (Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, and Jude Law); and What the #$*! Do We Know? (Marlee Matlin). They are, in the words of Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan, "a certain kind of movie." Such films are "the movies that adults are hungering for, that are thoughtful and intelligent, that are about something but still are very entertaining," says Turan, author of the new book Never Coming to a Theater Near You. They engage your mind and your emotions."
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At The Prophets Conference last weekend in Santa Monica, CA. (with over 700+ paid attendees) JZ Knight, Dr. Joe Dispenza and Dr. Miceal Ledwith all gave fabulous lectures and had lively question & answer sessions, with Drs. Dispenza and Ledwith having huge lines of post-talk video signings, and all three discussing what they have learned at the Ramtha School of Enlightenment.
Ms. Knight's talk was the best I have ever heard her present with the collective completely silent and this writer could "hear a pin drop" due to the interest level about her sharing her association with and being taught by Ramtha, her vivid chronicling of what the students are accomplishing at the Quintessential School of the Mind, Ramtha's School of Enlightenment and her invitation for all to experience one of the School's "disciplines.". Included was an actual RSE training called "Sending & Receiving" led by JZ Knight, that was an event highlight among participants.
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Dr. Dispenza's "Create My Day" talk was one of the most anticipated talks at this event and had a huge attendance. Dr. Dispenza's talk was interrupted several times by standing ovations at his
declarations that our individual thoughts create our reality and how those effect the body every moment, right down to the DNA of the individual cell.
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Dr. Miceal Ledwith's fantastic "Sunday Morning Sermon" (tongue-in-cheek) titled "The Ultimate Challenge for Religion - The Quantum Age" had the collective laughing and then contemplating his description of the hypocrisies of the world's religions, and was the capstone of this event for this writer, including his introduction of "Orbs" and his acknowledgement of all that he learned from his teacher, Ramtha. The cleansing rains came to a desert L. A. during Dr. Ledwith's talk and washed the whole sky of Los Angeles urban, morning smog :
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
"Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press
is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free."
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
26th President of the USA from 1901-1909
Kiplinger Washington Letter, 23 April 1918
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