The Universal Pulse Of Truth

There is a sacred pulse that you have. It often follows the pulse of your biological heartbeat. 

It makes sense, since the Pulse comes from the biological pulse of the heartbeat is in sync with the Celestial Pulse.

It can tear down outside walls and if it does, it manifests in a revolutionary way.  It’s very powerful yet very subtle. That is why it can be a life changing experience, either to Pulse it out or be the receiver. And I really don’t feel comfortable saying that, since there is no transmitter and no receiver in the higher altitudes of the Pulsing hearts. There is no inside and outside.

There are no contradictions – there are only perceptions of diversions. All resonated reminiscences of the division Bell which started its toning when the control system came up with that once so powerful design which still holds the heart people in Morph City, like wallflowers in the ballroom of life.

I would like to stick to the Matrix of outside and inside though to get my point through:

There are no powers in this world that have that authority over you! Not being able to Pulse your, maybe brushed and battered heart, out into the field of infinite possibilities, the field of infinite creativity or the field of infinite love. Same field by the way.

Can’t blame it on the control system anymore. We have evolved rapidly over the last decade, forming heart based networks, networks of friendship, networks of kindred spirits, networks of the “Internet awakening” and so many more.

So the only one keeping you is you. Blaming it on the Matrix is very hollow in the field of the Pulsing Hearts.

The only one holding you back is: You.

Once we realize that fact we become free, obviously detaching the blame game and reclaiming our powers as heart based radiant pulsing beings.

So the problem could be elsewhere:

Maybe you will feel shy.

Maybe you will feel misunderstood.

In a world that thrives on coldness, you might feel lonely-afraid-sad.

Every emotion no matter how high or how low has a counter emotion:

Joy-Sadness

Pain-Relief

Bliss-Darkness

High-Low

Celestial-Hell

It comes with the territory, since we have not fully reached the state of “Staying Power” in the heart-based realms of our divinity.

And we get the Downs. And it’s fully okay. Highs and lows.

Some people get so scared of the power of their Hearts that they think:

I need a 77 step program to tell me the coordinates of the Pulsing Heart.
Really, you don’t.
You might need signposts but no one on this planet can tell you how to live your life and express your heart unless the “rules/principles/laws” to be followed are very elastic and grant you the freedom to do it your own way, by the guidance or advice from someone who might have travelled a bit further down the road of “Talking the talk, and doing the walk”.

Seek inspiration – Avoid control and maybe bare in mind that control can be very subtle and nicely wrapped in.

Sometimes we need to surrender to outside perimeters in order to find our home and true potentials again. But do not take anything for granted.

Take the inspirations if you find them resonating, but never go: “This is the only way”. Waste of incarnation really, another remote control matrix. And they come in many forms, mind-bending, heart twisting and maybe there are very good principles to follow for the person advertising them, pretending it to be the way to the Kingdom, The New Dawn or whatever and persuading you that this also goes for you.

My point is, because I believe in you:
You have it. It’s the precious gift from the universe we manifested from, are in and will go back to.

I really don’t believe in:

B.asic I.nstructions B.efore L.eaving E.arth.

As goes for holding the The Universal Pulse Of Truth hijacked into a confined space of: You cannot do this and that. Do what you fancy – it is all learning by doing here.

You can. You are that greatness. You are the embodiment of that gift.

The heart often being symbolized like an unfolding Rose, it may acquire water, but to fully unfold it does not need some Guru in any form to tell it how it should. That would be like going out into the garden and commanding the flowers to bloom, but only according to the commandments in The Book of Flowers © . Chance of getting cut down will be imminent.

We are diamonds in the rough and our polishing goes through learning by doing, by addressing the three lives we have: The physical, the emotional and our intellect.

When they merge: Blooming sets in. Pulsing sets in. Everything sets in and a birth, maybe a symbolic one: A metaphysical merging between what were divided, the physical – the emotional and the intellectual and we can truly speak of wholeness in our beings:

Since we differ no more.

Reborn and frail.

Reborn and radiant.

Reborn and strong.

Every spiritual guru/teacher who tells you that this is complicated and wants to tell you that there’s a long and winding road here, that is not conquered without great distress and his teachings, frankly hasn’t got a clue to what he’s talking about.

It’s projections. It might have caused him great distress but he’s not allowed to pass that onto the disciples or whatever he would call you.

You have it – You might need a hand or a mirror to show you – but you have it. I know that for a fact. Because: There are no children of a lesser God.

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Tesla Revisited: Wireless Devices That Harvest Energy From Thin Air Demonstrated

We might be one step closer to an Internet-of-things reality.

University of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power, instead harvesting energy directly from the ambient radio-frequency signals that surround us nearly everywhere.

The new communication technique, which the researchers call “ambient backscatter,” takes advantage of these TV and cellular transmissions. Two devices communicate with each other by reflecting the existing signals to exchange information. The researchers built small, battery-free devices with antennas that can detect, harness and reflect a TV signal, which then is picked up by other similar devices.
The technology could enable a network of devices and sensors to communicate with no power source or human attention needed.

“We can repurpose wireless signals that are already around us into both a source of power and a communication medium,” said lead researcher Shyam Gollakota, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. “It’s hopefully going to have applications in a number of areas including wearable computing, smart homes and self-sustaining sensor networks.”

“Our devices form a network out of thin air,” said co-author Joshua Smith, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering. “You can reflect these signals slightly to create a Morse code of communication between battery-free devices.”

Smart sensors could be built and placed permanently inside nearly any structure, then set to communicate with each other. For example, sensors placed in a bridge could monitor the health of the concrete and steel, then send an alert if one of the sensors picks up a hairline crack. The technology can also be used for communication – text messages and emails, for example – in wearable devices, without requiring battery consumption.

The researchers tested the ambient backscatter technique with credit card-sized prototype devices placed within several feet of each other. For each device the researchers built antennas into ordinary circuit boards that flash an LED light when receiving a communication signal from another device.
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Research: Radiotherapy Causes Cancer, Blueberry Kills It

An important new study reveals both the abject failure of conventional radiation treatment for cancer, and the very real possibility that blueberries contain a curative compound far more effective than anything modern cancer specialists have available to them to strike at the very root of cancer malignancy.

Published in the journal eCAM and titled, "BlueBerry Isolate, Pterostilbene, Functions as a Potential Anticancer Stem Cell Agent in Suppressing Irradiation-Mediated Enrichment of Hepatoma Stem Cells,"[1] researchers reported two major findings:

• Irradiation of liver cancer cells (hepatoma) with the same type of radiation used to treat cancer patients resulted in enriching the highly malignant cancer stem cell subpopulations, as well as cell properties associated with increased invasiveness and treatment resistance. [see figure 1 below]
• The addition of pterostilbene, a stilbenoid chemically related to resveratrol and found in blueberries and grapes, suppressed the adverse changes associated with irradiation.

The figure above shows the enrichment of the CD133 cell marker, and list of 5 additional cellular markers (e.g. c-Myc) indicates enhancement of "stemness" (i.e. malignancy) following radiation treatment.

In order to fully appreciate the significance of these findings, one must first understand what cancer stem cells are.


Cancer Stem Cells

As far as back the mid-19th century, researchers observed that cancer tissue looked like embryonic tissue, and formulated what is known as the embryonal rest theory of cancer (ERTC).[2]  According this theory, cancers grow out from a small collection of embryonal cells that persist and do not differentiate into mature adult cells. While the past century has been dominated by the view that cancer is a de-differentiation of adult cells that through repeated arbitrary damage to their DNA have gone 'rogue,' the recent discovery of a small population of stem cells within most cancers, capable of differentiating into all the cell types found within various tumor samples, lends support for ERTC. Furthermore, it underscores just how misguided our views and treatments of cancer have been since the official 'war on cancer' was declared by Nixxon in 1971. If cancer is not strictly a chance byproduct of multi-mutational DNA changes (known as 'internal Darwinism) but a highly organized hierarchy of cells created and governed by the cancer stem cell, then using what amount to weapons-grade materials of mass destruction (chemoagents and radioisotopes) to further drive mutagenesis and cause fatal collateral harm to the patient makes little sense.

Indeed, the ERTC/Cancer Stem Cell explanation is very important, as it explains the mechanism behind the abject failure of the modern chemotherapy and radiation-based standard of care.

Conventional cancer treatments were almost exclusively developed using animal models, where a therapy's effectiveness was determined by its ability to shrink tumors. Animal models, however, are entirely inappropriate when it comes to understanding human cancer because the average rodent life span does not exceed two years, and therefore tumor relapse is exceptionally difficult if not impossible to study. When applied to human physiology, conventional chemotherapy or radiation treatment will effectively 'debulk' a tumor ('fractional ablation'), creating the appearance that the 'war is being won,' when in fact the stem cell population within that tumor has either been enriched, or worse, has been supplemented through de novo transformation of non-tumorigenic cells within a benign or indolent mass into cells with cancer stem-cell like properties, i.e. the theoretically infinite ability to self-renew.

This, of course, means that years after the original treatment, the small population of highly invasive and malignant cells can reappear somewhere else in the body, which the conventional cancer establishment often categorically denies as being linked to the original cancer (this is not unlike the re-emergence of an antibiotic resistant infection). If a patient makes it past the '5-year- survival mark' post-treatment they are considered 'cured' and any new cancer defined as being of novel origin and written off as unrelated to the original treatments.


Cancer Stem Cell-Targeted Therapies Hold the Key

And so, the emerging acknowledgment that the treatments themselves either enrich and/or create cancer stem cells, and that natural compounds have the ability to selectively kill ('selective cytotoxicity') only the cancer stem cells, hold as much promise to the victims of cancer as it does liability to those who have been in the 'medical dark ages' for so long, causing massive collateral damage and iatrogenesis in their patients all in the name of 'saving them.'

The new study, in the conservative tradition of peer-reviewed and published science related to oncology, suggests that pterostilbene should be used as an adjunct or complementary treatment with radiotherapy. However, we believe* that the obvious conclusion is that radiotherapy should be discontinued entirely in favor of a truly intelligent cancer stem-cell targeted treatment protocol, in combination with profound dietary and lifestyle changes consistent with using food, detoxification, and mind-body therapies to adjust the bodily environment (and by implication, the tumor microenviroment) so that cancer proliferation and cancer stem cell formation is not encouraged, but discouraged. For additional research on Radiotherapy's ability to dramatically increase cancer malignancy up to 30-fold, view our article on the topic: Study: Radiation Therapy Can Make Cancers 30x More Malignant

Blueberries have already been found to cause programmed cell death (apoptosis) within in the significantly more virulent triple negative breast cancer cell lines,[3] and an accumulating body of research reveals that the blueberry phytocompound resveratrol has the ability to kill dozens of lethal cancer types, including targeting the cancer stem cells within them.


Blueberry is Only the Tip of the Fruit Bowl

In total, our project has identified no less than 27 substances with experimentally confirmed cancer stem cell-killing properties. View them all here on our research page dedicated to the topic: Cancer Stem Cell-Killing Substances. Also, you may be interesting in reading another article on the topic: Are Cancer Stem Cells the Key to Discovering a Cure?

Incidentally, the best way to defeat cancer stem cells is to avoid their generation and promotion in the first place. This is why the above-mentioned page on cancer stem cell-killing substances also includes a list of problematic environmental exposures associated with cancer stem cell creation, including chemotherapy, low oxygen (hypoxia), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, alcohol and surgery itself. As the subtitle of the book I co-authored articulates so clearly, "Cancer Killers: The Cause is the Cure," meaning, removing the "cause" is the "cure."

*This opinion is not to be substituted for, or misinterpreted as, medical advice from a licensed health care practitioner. It represents a personal viewpoint, that the author applies only to his own life, which is all he is legally empowered to affect.

[1] Chi-Ming Lee, Yen-Hao Su, Thanh-Tuan Huynh, Wei-Hwa Lee, Jeng-Fong Chiou, Yen-Kuang Lin, Michael Hsiao, Chih-Hsiung Wu, Yuh-Feng Lin, Alexander T H Wu, Chi-Tai Yeh. BlueBerry Isolate, Pterostilbene, Functions as a Potential Anticancer Stem Cell Agent in Suppressing Irradiation-Mediated Enrichment of Hepatoma Stem Cells. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013 ;2013:258425. Epub 2013 Jun 26. PMID: 23878592

[2] Sadhan Majumder, Stem Cells and Cancer, 2009, page 8

[3] GreenMedInfo.com, Blueberry Kills Triple Negative Breast Cancer


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Dismantling the Structure

How do you like your world? Well I hope you really really like it because you built it! 

I don’t know if you have a job or you work full time or part time or not at all but your real full time or actually 24/7 job is maintaining the structure of your world. You see not only did you create the world you live in but it requires your constant maintenance just like a precision machine that has to run continuously. If you did not constantly maintain it, well, the world as you know it would fall apart. We tend to think, because of our conditioning, that the world is separate from us, separately existing. However the sages have told us for countless centuries that this is an illusion, an optical illusion of consciousness as Einstein is reported to have said. In the east they call this illusion Maya and its an illusion in exactly the same way a movie is an illusion.


In a movie we see images projected onto a screen which seem to come to life as we engage our attention in the story. If its a really good movie we may even forget its a movie for a brief time as we become immersed in the display. Yet the events and objects of the movie are not real, it is nothing more than light projected onto a blank screen. This is precisely how our world works, the mind contains mental patterns which are projected onto the blank screen of consciousness as the light of consciousness shines through them. The true underlying reality is consciousness and this is not something you need to believe, it can be personally and precisely confirmed by each one of us. One way of describing that process is called the Path of Self Discovery. On this path you become an explorer who’s mission is to look into the very fabric of reality.

If we want to see reality directly we have a task to accomplish first. You may have already started it because for some it begins without their knowledge. That task is dismantling the mental structure you have erected around yourself which obscures the truth. We have all built such a structure around ourselves usually preferring to call it – The World. Very few people are willing to really do this or even consider the task to begin with because it seems too threatening. Will I lose everything I know and become nothing? The mind is armed with numerous traps to dissuade one from messing with the structure except to add to and reinforce it. If you want to see what its made of or take it down you will have to deal with the most powerful weapons the mind has, desire and fear. The mind will simultaneously bring up your greatest desires to keep you attached to the things of this world while it brings us the fear of losing them.

If your desire for truth and freedom is strong enough and you can find the courage you will overcome these defenses of the mind and be able to start the task. To engage this task we must have some understanding of the structure we have built. One way of looking at it is this: Out of unified undifferentiated consciousness emerges the first manifestation of God, I am. I am or I is the sense of individual presence or existence and out of the cosmic will for experience from the I am ego is born. The ego is the conceptualization of consciousness and it is the foundation of our structure. The ego forms to setup the conditions necessary for experience to happen and to be the center point of all the other thought forms and mental patterns which form from it. Now initially the ego takes on a few very broad characteristics such as certain thoughts, inclinations and beliefs and these make up the first level of the structure which is built on the foundation of the ego. The next level of the structure involves a particular physical body. It is through the senses of that physical body that the ego projects further to create the experience of the external environment and we have a personal world.

So we have a multilayered structure starting with the foundation of the ego with the mind and its content built on that and the body and the external world built on the mind. The construction of this structure didn’t really have a beginning as death does not destroy the foundation of it, you could consider an individual life as like a house being built on a foundation and then being demolished (death) and a new house built on the same foundation (next life). The foundation remains even as different structures are built on it. Nevertheless these structures require our constant attention and care. We have to put enormous energy into maintaining it and replacing parts that have worn out. When a piece of the structure fails us especially if its a key piece we feel a crisis and we are powerfully motivated to fix it by replacing the broken piece. The piece might be a relationship, a job, the identification with a religion or other core belief. These mental structures are inherently unstable so they require constant work to try to keep together. We are always replacing pieces, trying to fix pieces and deciding which pieces to discard or add. It’s very much like the game where you build a tower of little blocks and you add and remove them all the while trying to keep it from collapsing. This is the nature of manifest existence or the play of Maya.

Yet an interesting thing happens for some beings, some reach a point where their structure begins to fall apart and no matter what they do they cannot seem to fix it. This person’s structure may actually disintegrate at an increasing rate creating a great deal of turmoil. Its possible that the person may even lose interest in doing whats necessary to maintain their structure. At this point its time for it to come down because the call of truth is starting to overpower the call of illusion. Truth is the great destroyer, nothing false can stand up to it and our structures are ultimately false in the context of reality. If this is happening to you or if you feel it beginning to happen I want to encourage you to go with it regardless of the fear and confusion you may feel because these things are not true. What is true cannot harm you and it cannot be resisted because it is reality itself.

To aid in the process of dismantling the structure I can offer a few suggestions. The mental structures we live in consist of projections as mentioned but there are two types of projections, manifest and unmanifest. Manifest projections are things that have already taken form in the physical world. Manifest projections only exist in the present moment and they constitute the immediate experience of life. Unmanifest projections have not taken actual form, they are projections that only exist as thought. This includes all consideration of the past and the future. All imaginations of what might happen or what might have happened. Unmanifest projections carry our desires and fears and those that are powerful enough become manifest in form eventually. So what we want to do is learn to focus our attention in the present moment so we are dealing with the manifest world and don’t worry ourselves with the past and future.

When the past and future are seen to be nothing but thought and de-emphasized our problems, fears and habit patterns dissolve because they depend on the past and future for their existence. When we live in the present moment we only have to deal with what actually happens not what might happen. Instead of problems we simply see the situation as it is and respond accordingly without adding a conceptual layer which is negative more often than not. Even positive projections create an expectation which obscures other possibilities and if not met results in disappointment. One great secret to freedom is that present moment reality contains exactly what is needed for our life to move in the direction it needs to move in. What you need is ALWAYS immediately available to you. However it may not be what you THINK is needed. If we have a mental conception of what is happening and what needs to happen next we cannot see clearly because that conception clouds our vision. Instead of thinking our way through life, we DISCOVER our way through it. We learn to pay close attention to reality and read the movements of energy so we move with the flow of life instead of creating conflict with it.

If you practice truly living in the present moment your mental structure will slowly crumble on its own and when it dissolves sufficiently you are left with the naked experience of life without the veil of separation and mind. Its not a question of whether we could live this way, its a question of how can we possibly keep living in the limited conflict ridden structure of our mind when a life of joy and freedom is what underlies it? We hold on to our attachments, beliefs and identity so strongly that many would rather suffer horribly than let them go. Life is a beautiful expression of consciousness and you are an aspect of this expression. See who and what you are, see what is true, what is real. Be free! Or continue to play with your structure as long as you desire, it makes no difference to consciousness.

You do not need to live life. Life is not something that you do. You are life, there is really no you and life as separate things. So there is no one apart from life to live life. Life is an endlessly flowing current of energy manifesting in a limitless field of something beyond description. Know who and what you truly are and all difficulty, all confusion, all doubt, all struggle, all problems will immediately cease to exist and you will flow free as your true Self.


Colin Bondi

'Conscious living' community raided at gunpoint by SWAT in yet another paramilitary police action

A small, Texas-based group calling itself a "sustainability community" says it was raided by a police SWAT team over suspicion that members were growing and distributing marijuana, but officers were unable to locate any contraband.

According to a press release from the group, which calls itself The Garden of Eden, "a small Intentional Community based on Sustainability," Arlington P.D. SWAT officers raided the community the morning of Aug. 2, awakening inhabitants while executing a search warrant. But, says the group in a press release, no pot was found.

"Ultimately only a single arrest was made based on unrelated outstanding traffic violations, a handful of citations were given for city code violations, and zero drug related violations were found," said the group.



Seriously, a SWAT team?

Officers were reportedly on scene for about 10 hours, group officials said, conducting searches that "involved many dozens of city officials, SWAT team [sic], police officers and code compliance employees." The group said "numerous official vehicles including dozens of police cars" were involved in the operation, along with some "specialized" vehicles that were involved in the "'abatement' operation."

"Witnesses say that there were helicopters and unmanned flying drones circling the property in the days prior to the raid that are presumed to have been a part of the intelligence gathering," said the release. "The combined expenses for the raid itself and the collection of information leading up to the fruitless raid are estimated in the tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars."

The Dallas Morning News reported that, despite finding nothing but a few code violations, the city is defending the raid and, especially, the raid utilizing SWAT officers.

Arlington Police Sgt. Christopher Cook says it's not at all uncommon to use them for drug raids, though it is becoming apparent that police departments all over the country are using them more often for any kind of raid.

He also said the department was "concerned" about how the group reacted to the raid on social media sites.

"That's what concerns me about their social media allegations," Cook said. "Yes, they were initially handcuffed, however once it was determined it was secure they were taken out of handcuffs. Typically we wouldn't do that, but they were compliant."


'We have been targeted'

The group's press release confirms the handcuffing:

All 8 adults present in the house were initially handcuffed at the gunpoint of heavily armed SWAT officers, including the mother of a 22-month-old and a two-week-old baby who was separated from her children during the raid.

The group said that city code enforcement officials ordered members to cut the grass, destroy some wild and cultivated plants including blackberries, lamb's quarters and okra, and remove "other varied materials from around the premises such as pallets, tires and cardboard that the Community members say they had collected for use in sustainability projects."

Shellie Smith, who owns the land the community sits on, says the rights of her and her members were violated.

"We have been targeted by the system because we are showing people how to live without it," she wrote in a Facebook post. "We are growing more than just tomatoes here, we are growing the consciousness that will allow people to live freely and sustainably, and the system doesn't want that to be known."

City officials said simply: "No cultivated marijuana plants were located on the premises. Narcotics detectives and members of the tactical unit cleared the scene within 45 minutes."


'They destroyed everything'

As we have oft reported here at Natural News, it is becoming far too common for police departments large and small to resort to using militarized SWAT teams inappropriately. What is quite obvious in this case is that the group that police were dealing with was about as non-violent as you can get. If in fact the Arlington P.D. conducted surveillance of The Garden of Eden for days before the raid, officers should have known this.

Therefore, is it unreasonable to expect a softer approach to carrying out a search warrant? I don't think so, given the fact that we are talking about suspicion of growing marijuana, not cooking meth or pushing heroin.

Police know which groups in their communities are violent and which ones aren't. And they knew in this case, too. But they used a SWAT team anyway.

"They came here under the guise that we were doing a drug trafficking, marijuana-growing operation," Smith told WFAA, a local ABC affiliate. "They destroyed everything."

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 Marine Corps Colonel: “DHS is Building a Domestic Army to Take on Citizens”

Marine Corp Colonel speaks out at a local council meeting about the militarization of our police forces on 08/12/13 at 41 Green St, Concord, NH 03301.


“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
- President Obama, Colorado, July 2, 2008

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Transformation – Our Deepest Purpose

What, if not transformation, is our deepest purpose? -Rainer Maria Rilke

One of the reasons we are here, perhaps the most meaningful reason, is to transform ourselves. But what does that really mean?

To transform is to change the shape or character of……. according to my dictionary. I love this definition because it fits so perfectly with my worldview, which, as an evolutionary astrologer, is centered on the evolution of character. This, in other words, is transformation. This is our deepest purpose. And it is a lifetime’s work.

The question then becomes, how do we go about this process of transformation? And it clearly is a process – taking the raw material of youthful and unformed character and, through the gradual acquisition of knowledge and experience over the passage of time – moulding and perfecting it. We are all involved in the work of integrating aspects of our characters and taking them to the higher ground. And boy, are we up against it there!

The world we have been born into seems designed to make things as challenging as it can for us.

We arrive here equipped for physical survival – which means we are hardwired to see the world around us as threatening. We are born into fear.  This is not all bad, but it does mean we learn to live on our nerves. When you think about it, all the stresses we feel can be related back to one fear or another.  Not only does ‘the system’ program us (through its insistence on consumerism and competition) to exist in a state of continual background fear and anxiety, but it is simultaneously bombarding us with assault after assault of pollutants – chemical and emotional. All of this undermines our health and wellbeing, on every level.

As we know, everything has a frequency. We have a frequency that evolved along with the frequency of our planet Earth.  Our frequency is compatible with the Earth’s that means.  Natural food, clean water and air – all have a frequency that is harmonious with our own.  But as most of us reading this are well aware, this is a situation that is becoming increasingly more difficult to sustain. Our food, our water and our air are all being contaminated with pollutants. The frequencies, or energy fields we are taking into our bodies, in the form of our food, water and the air we breathe, are disharmonious, chaotic, and disruptive. They disrupt our physical body, and our mental and emotional bodies, through altering our biochemistry. We are vulnerable, multi-dimensional beings, and we are now being assaulted on all levels of our being.  This being human is becoming increasingly more challenging as ‘the system’ – controlled obviously by a force that does not have our best interests at heart, accelerates its unspeakable agenda.

Sourcing pure, organic food and clean, un-fluoridated (!) water can be a mission. (I travel 30 km to an artesian water spring, in order avoid fluoridated tap water  – and I’m lucky I know to have this resource). It takes time to read labels in the supermarket – but we need to, now more than ever. In short, our health depends on our knowledge. We need to educate ourselves – and time is not on our side.

It isn’t only our food and water – if we live in an urban area, how can we avoid the electromagnetic smog that fills the airwaves?  The frequencies being emitted by technology, cell phone towers, mobile phones, wifi, microwaves, x-rays, and heaven help us, smart meters (!) can be nigh on impossible to escape from. These frequencies are steadily undermining our cellular integrity – of that there is little doubt.  It is hard not to despair.

And that is the biggest challenge. Overcoming our despair, our fear, our heartbreak – when we see the pain and insanity in the world, through taking back our power – is how we transform it.

In astrology, Pluto is the transformer.  This planetary body is associated with not only transforming, and healing, but it is also about all things dark. It symbolises the shadow, that which is hidden – whether it be psychologically, or on another level, physically. Pluto’s domain is the invisible.

This is relevant because as members of the human race, we all have Pluto somewhere in our psyche. If astrological terminology puts you off, replace the word Pluto with wound.  We all have individual wounds to heal, and we all share in the collective wounds of humanity.  At some point, the two merge into one – and it seems we are at that point.  Society’s disease has become our disease.

If we are on a mission to transform and heal ourselves, then transforming our world is part and parcel of that.  This ‘change in form’ is as much about changing the ‘state of the world’ – disintegrating as it appears to be around us, as it is about changing our inner world. When we change inwardly, the outer form changes too. Our integrity (wholeness) and the integrity of our world are at heart one and the same.  

Overcoming our despair then depends on us waking up, and helping each other to wake up.  That is, we need to grow our awareness, our consciousness  – to realize that we are all individual cells in the one body of humanity – a body that is looking pretty sick right now.  But we each have the power to change that.  The cells in the human body work together for the good of a whole – the rogue cancer cell, an example of the exception.

This is what we must do as individual cells in the body called humanity.  It is imperative that we see the bigger picture and realize that the healing of our society and our planet must come from our cooperation. This is what happens in the body – 50 trillion cells cooperate to maintain the healthy functioning of the system. As we heal our individual wounds and become whole in body and mind, the world around us will be healed. It is our apathy, our ignorance and the firewalls of our beliefs that must be transformed.  There is no power in maintaining the status quo. The only power is in healing and transformation.

Here then are some humbly offered suggestions, to help your transformation……And all power to you!

-        Inform yourself.  Read as widely as you can on the subject of natural heath and healing,  (The time for trusting your health to outside authorities has long past), and what is happening in the world (you can’t trust the mainstream media to tell you the truth on anything of importance).

-        Share information.  Keep talking and sharing your experiences and discoveries re the above, with others. Sign petitions. Write letters to editors and emails to TV stations.

-        Take care of your health by not vaccinating your children or yourself, drinking fluoridated water, eating GMO containing foods, eating processed foods, talking too long on cell phones, living in a continuous wi-fi environment, using microwaves and smart metres, living close to cell phone towers, over-using pharmaceuticals or other drugs.

-        Clear your emotional body. Learn techniques, such as breath and body work to release heavy, low vibratory emotions from your system. Live as much as possible in the NOW.

-        Move your body.  Do physical exercise on a regular basis – even if it is just walking, or gardening. Particularly if it is walking or gardening. Take up yoga.

-       Make time to just be. Each day take some time to meditate or just sit and let your thoughts be still. Be in nature for your ‘just be’ time, whenever you can. This resets your internal clock to timelessness – the opposite state to that in which we normally live.

-       Connect with animals and nature.  And realize the life-force in all things. Minimise consumption of animals and animal products.

-       Look within. Consider having your evolutionary astrology chart done, or other technique that connects you with your own psyche and the energies you are working with in this life.  Knowledge is power. Power is transformation.

-       Drink green juices.  Blend organic fruits and greens and drink often.

-       Do what you love.  You are utterly unique and that is enough. Whatever you love doing is what you are here to do. Create. Express yourself – and most of all ENJOY your days.  You never know when they will be up.

About the Author

Linda George is a writer, yogi, and evolutionary astrologer living in New Zealand.  She has been deeply involved in astrology, alternative health, spirituality and metaphysics for 35 years.  Author of two books on consciousness and astrology – both finalists in the Ashton Wylie Mind/Body/Spirit book awards, she is committed to joining with others in ‘spreading the word’ in these waking times. Please join us.   Her blog .

3 Quick Steps To Mindfulness

The mind is a tool to be used and directed according to one’s wishes. 

An out of control mind, one that has become your master instead of your servant, is both an incredible waste of energy as well as being a potentially damaging and limiting influence on your life. A voice in your head that you are unable to control or channel into a meaningful direction is a form of insanity, but one that we have become so used to and accepting of that we no longer recognize as such.

The practice of mindfulness is the art of making ourselves well again through raising awareness of the thought process and regaining control over our minds and therefore our lives. Here are 3 straight forward steps to get you started:


1. Realize your thoughts are not ‘you’

There is a common misidentification of the self, or the real ‘you’, with the body and the mind. Certainly, these are faculties and tools that you possess, but they are not who you actually are. This can be seen practically by the fact that you are capable of observing your body and your thoughts from an almost external perspective: if you are them and they are you, who is doing the watching?

Thoughts arise from an unknown source, appear to persist for a time and then fade into a similarly mysterious realm. We do not know for certain where they happen, what they are and what their significance is. One thing we do know is that they are impermanent and can be watched in exactly the same way a slide show or a film can be viewed as it passes before us.

Detaching from thoughts and realizing it is possible to observe without becoming involved with them is the most important starting point in mindfulness. Thoughts happen to you, they are not who you are.


2. Commit to bringing all thoughts into conscious awareness

We are normally so busy with external actions and preoccupations that we spare little time or energy to watching our thoughts and seeing exactly what is going on with them. It is exactly this lack of attention and care that has allowed the mind to go from humble servant to megalomaniac master of our lives, so to remedy the situation it is essential we make a firm commitment to get to know our minds again on a daily basis.

One great method for doing this that you can try tomorrow is to simply resolve to not let one single thought happen without being intensely aware of it. This does not mean you cannot be externally active or be getting on with things, but simply that an equal amount of attention and focus must be directed inwards as well.

Crucially, this is not the same as judging, labeling or attempting to stop the thoughts, which will only create further conflict and internal chatter. One must just watch dispassionately and impersonally, simply noting what patterns and recurring thoughts are coming to the surface and letting them be as they are without seeking to change them.


3. Do not get drawn into the dialogue of thoughts

Anxiety, or the energetically draining background unease without a discernible cause, is incredibly common in our society. It is an insidious presence that saps energy, vitality and spontaneity and holds untold people back from achieving their true potential and dreams. This malady, as well as several others, is simply the result of being drawn into the endless maze of thoughts and uncertainties going on within oneself, and can be easily resolved by simply putting an end to this habit of listening to what the mind is saying.

Once steps 1 and 2 above have been mastered, you will have understood both that the mind is not you and also that it is possible to watch thoughts. It will then be seen that each unwanted thought is like a doorway opening up into a labyrinth of interconnected paths, dead ends and false floors, designed to lead you in so that you waste endless time and energy going round and round whilst not actually achieving anything tangible.

To avoid this happening, see the thought arise, observe the temptation to enter into and listen to it and then simply do nothing. Change the pattern. Do not believe what it is saying or go where it wants to lead you. You will see that is soon timidly subsides and is replaced by another thought, which is again powerless to draw you in unless you consent to it.

We are constantly choosing to let our minds lead us astray but do not accept responsibility for doing so. We complain that we are powerless to stop it, but in reality all we have to do is withdraw our cooperation from the process and it will cease on its own. Every time a thought arises and tempts you to become drawn into its dialogue, simply take a breath, detach and exercise your power to not do so.

Implement these 3 simple steps into your everyday experience and watch for the incredible change in your energy level, productivity and overall vitality and joy. Begin it now!

Peter O’Donoghue


 

5 Cool Facts About Sweat You Probably Don’t Know

Sweating is both a sign of good health and an indicator of stress. 

It can be worn like a badge of honor after a workout or a badge of shame when you’re feeling the pressure of a job interview. It’s wet, salty, sometimes stinks, and can’t be avoided, but it does serve several purposes.

So here are some little-known facts about sweat that might just make you appreciate it a little more.


1. Not All Sweat Stinks - There is actually more than one type of sweat. Stinky sweat is the kind produced by glands called apocrine glands, located in areas where there is more hair like your underarms and groin. This is the sweat produced when you are under stress, not the kind associated with a good workout. The stink associated with “body odor” and sometimes sweat is actually the result of bacteria breaking it down once it’s released from the apocrine glands and onto your skin.

2. Women Have more Sweat Glands than Men – Yeah, women typically have more sweat glands, but men sweat more. In general, we all have around two to four million sweat glands, with some individuals being naturally sweatier than others. As a matter of fact, about 3% of the population suffers from hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating.

3. Eating can Make You Sweaty - When you eat, your metabolism naturally increases. This boosts your body temperature and causes you to sweat in order to cool down. Interestingly, foods like hot peppers, which contain capsaicin, are known to both boost metabolism and make you hot.

4. Sweat Glands are most Concentrated on the Bottoms of our Feet - The lowest concentration of sweat glands is on your back, while the most sweat glands are on the bottoms of your feet.

5. Vegetarians Sweat Just Smells Good - No this isn’t a ploy to get you to go vegetarian (but, if it works, so be it). A Czech study looked at how women perceive body odor, comparing the odors of vegetarians to those of meat eaters. Overall, the women found vegetarians to have “significantly more attractive, more pleasant, and less intense” odors.

And finally, if you don’t already know it: sweating is good for you. Sweat can actually help the body detox heavy metals as well as fight infection and illness. So, if you aren’t getting your daily sweat on, now is a great time to start.


Additional Sources:
HuffingtonPost
Buzzfeed
Naturalsociety

Mission Impossible? Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel clean-up yet

An aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture (Reuters / Kyodo)

Scientists at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant are preparing for their toughest clean-up operation yet – two and a half years after three of the plant’s reactors suffered a meltdown in Japan’s worst-ever nuclear power disaster.

The operation, to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel beneath the plant’s damaged Reactor No. 4, could set off a catastrophe greater than any we have ever seen, independent experts warn. An operation of this scale, says plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, has never been attempted before, and is wrought with danger.

An uncontrolled leak of nuclear fuel could cause more radiation than the March 2011 disaster or the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, say consultants Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt. "Full release from the Unit-4 spent fuel pool, without any containment or control, could cause by far the most serious radiological disaster to date," the scientists say in their World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013.

The operation has been tried before – but only with the aid of computers. This time it will be a painstaking manual process.

Here’s what needs to be done: more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies, packing radiation 14,000 times the equivalent of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, need to carefully be removed from their cooling pool.

Arnie Gunderson, a veteran US nuclear engineer and director of Fairewinds Energy Education, told Reuters that "they are going to have difficulty in removing a significant number of the rods," especially given their close proximity to each other, which risks breakage and the release of radiation.

Gundersen told Reuters of an incredibly dangerous “criticality” that would result if a chain reaction takes place at any point, if the rods break or even so much as collide with each other in the wrong way. The resulting radiation is too great for the cooling pool to absorb – it simply has not been designed to do so.

"The problem with a fuel pool criticality is that you can't stop it. There are no control rods to control it,” Gundsersen said. “The spent fuel pool cooling system is designed only to remove decay heat, not heat from an ongoing nuclear reaction."

The base of the pool where the fuel assemblies are situated is 18 meters above the ground. The pool itself is 10 by 12 meters, and the rods are seven meters under the surface of the water. One problem with that pool is it has been exposed to air in the 2011 catastrophe, when its roof was blown off by the explosion.

The operation is urgent – because even a minor earthquake could trigger an uncontrolled fuel leak. read more

Fukushima leak emergency: LIVE UPDATES

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60,000 in Tokyo protest government plans to restart nuclear power
Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in Drinking Water



 

New technique measures the level of Consciousness

Consciousness isn't easy to define, but we know it when we experience it. 

 It's not so simple to decide when someone else is conscious, however, as doctors must sometimes do with patients who have suffered traumatic brain injury. Now, researchers have come up with an approach that uses the brain's response to magnetic stimulation to judge a person's awareness, reducing it to a numerical score they call an index of consciousness, reports Science AAAS.

The metric relies on the idea that consciousness involves widespread communication between different areas of the brain, with each region performing specialized functions. Loss of consciousness during sleep or anaesthesia, or from brain injury, may be caused by the disengagement of brain regions from one another.

Neurophysiologist Marcello Massimini of the University of Milan in Italy and his colleagues, who carried out the latest research, have found that electromagnetic stimulation of conscious people's brains sets off a cascade of activity and generates unique responses in different brain regions. In unconscious people, however, the activity either fails to spread, or there is little variation in the responses from different brain areas, informs Scientific American.

Researchers tested the technique on 52 patients in various stages of sleep or with different levels of brain damage. Patients' consciousness was rated on a scale of zero to one. Fully awake patients in the study had a PCI (Perturbational Complexity Index) of 0.6 or higher, patients in a dreaming (light) sleep had a PCI of about 0.4 and patients in a deep sleep had a PCI of about 0.2. Those who were anesthetized had PCIs as low as 0.12, which means they were in a deep state of unconsciousness, according to Headlines&Global News.

sources:
Livescience
HNGN


  

The Dark Side Of The Moon: What Is It? What’s On It?

Have you ever heard about the “dark side” of the Moon? It’s the portion of the Moon that is permanently turned away from the Earth. 

Obviously it still receives sunlight, the name is not meant to imply that it doesn’t. The reason why we can never view this side of the Moon from Earth is because the time it takes for the Moon to rotate once is the same amount of time it takes for it to orbit around the Earth, approximately 27 days (5). The Moons rotation and revolution speeds are exactly synchronized, so from Earth’s point of view we always see the same side of our rotating Moon. Coincidence? Maybe not.

It’s also reasonable to note that the  theories about  the Moon’s existence are highly questionable, given the physics alone it’s impossible to know how it came to be. Theories regarding the creation of the Moon have very little evidence to back them.  Theories  of planetary collisions giving birth to objects with such characteristics and perfect placements are highly unlikely given what we know about physics.

Many scientists have pointed this out over the years. Many of them agree that how the Moon came to be is a complete mystery. Members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Vasin and Shcherbakov, 1970), run by the Russian Government even published an article entitled “Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?” as another explanation. This seems to be a better hypothesis, because there is actually a considerable amount of evidence that points towards something suspicious happening on the Moon.

We cannot help but come to the conclusion that the Moon by rights ought not to be there. The fact that it is, is one of those strokes of luck almost to good to accept – Isaac Asimov, Russian Professor of Biochemistry

It’s easier to explain the non existence for the Moon, than it’s existence – NASA scientist Robin Brett

The best explanation for the Moon is observational error – the Moon doesn’t exist – Irwin Shapiro, Harvard Astrophysicist


Is there something on the dark side of the Moon?

When more people started to ask questions about some sort of presence on the Moon, the most common response was the fact that it would be impossible. That amateur astronomers, given the technology today, would be able to identify such claims with ease. This response is only half valid, given the fact that they would only be able to observe one side of the Moon!  A lot of information is available  to suggest that there are some sort of structures on it, and some type of operation occurring that’s unknown to the majority of people on planet Earth. They could be human operations, extraterrestrial operations, or joint human and extraterrestrial operations. If your going to hide something from the eyes of astronomers, the “dark side” of the Moon is the perfect place to do it.  Let’s take a look at some of the evidence that suggests something is going on up there.

Research conducted by Stanford university was successfully able to identify the rings around Jupiter before science could confirm them.  Before the NASA pioneer 10 was about to flyby Jupiter, remote viewer Ingo Swann was able to describe the same characteristics illustrated by NASA’s pioneer 10 by remote viewing the planet (2). Remote viewing is the ability of individuals to describe a remote geographical location of up to several hundred thousand kilometres (even more) away. It’s kind of like projecting your consciousness to another place outside of your body.  This phenomenon has been confirmed by multiple studies(1)(0). The funny thing about remote viewing is that it gained a high level of interest from the intelligence community, and the programs have been wrapped in secrecy in the classified world within the department of defence for years. (0)(1)(2).

It’s one thing to read about UFOs and stuff in the papers or in books. It is another to hear rumors which say they have captured extraterrestrials and downed alien space craft. But it’s quite another matter to find oneself in a situation which confirms everything. I found towers, machinery, lights, buildings, humanoids busy at work on something I couldn’t figure out – Ingo Swann  (3)

Ingo wrote plenty about the Moon and his findings on it(3), the fact that this man was closely connected and often used by the intelligence community (2)(3) should ring some bells. Also, the fact that he successfully remote viewed Jupiter before modern science could is even more astonishing. These findings were published by Stanford University (2). You can find out more about Ingo’s findings on the Moon  in In his book, Penetration. He describes large structures, lights, buildings and some type of humanoid presence.

Ingo’s case isn’t the only one that holds a great deal of credibility behind it. Not to long ago, Garry McKinnon performed the greatest military computer hack of all time. In 2002, he was charged and arrested for hacking US Army, Navy, Air Force as well as 16 NASA computers.





What did Gary find? He found a list on “non-terrestrial off world officers” that had a rank. He was unable to tell if they represent the Air Force, Navy, Army, or either. He also found multiple pictures of UFOs and lists of “fleet to fleet” transfers of materials from “ship to ship.” To watch a full interview with Gary McKinnon and Kerry Cassidy from Project Camelot, right before he started making headlines, you can click here.

This interview became extremely popular, and right after that Gary began appearing on major mainstream news networks. Could they have been trying to divert attention away from this interview? I am glad to report that Gary has been cleared of all charges, which happened recently

Not many people know that the United States Air Force has a space command (4), they are responsible for conducting “cyber operations” that the general public knows nothing about. Could Gary McKinnon have shed some light on these operations? How are we to ever know about these operations. All of them remain classified for the sake of “national security.”

The dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts, far outweigh the dangers that are cited to justify them. There is a very grave danger, that an announced need for an increased need for security, will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of censorship and official secrecy. This is not what I intend to permit, to the extent that it is in my control – JFK

Given that the above information is highly credible and verifiable, meaning that there actually was a remote viewing experiment conducted by Stanford University (and many others) involving Ingo Swann (2), and that Gary McKinnon did indeed perform one of the greatest military computer hacks of all time, I wanted to present some more information.

Here is testimony given in 2001 at the National Press Club. As part of the disclosure project created by Dr. Steven Greer, hundreds of high ranking military personnel came forward to share their stories. Below are a couple of whistle-blowers that speak about the Moon. I urge you to check out  Dr Greer’ and Amardeep Kaleka’s recent film, the The Sirius Documentary. It touches upon some very important information.





So what do you think rests on the dark side of the Moon? For some to say that we never went to the Moon is ridiculous. Sure, some of the Moon landings that were televised could have been faked, but the fact remains, we have been to the Moon and the real thing probably wasn’t televised, or maybe it was?

Thanks for reading, hopefully I’ve presented enough information  for you to further your interest if interested. It’s a very fascinating subject with a lot more information on it than what is presented in this article.

I don’t know if this is real, but it fits in perfectly with the article. Regardless, it engages the imagination, especially for skeptics, which isn’t a bad thing.


















sources:

Princeton
LFR
Collective evolution
Scientific exploration
IA US archive
AFSPC
NASA


    
  

Vatican Secretary of State set to resign

A source within the Vatican announced today that Tarcisio Bertone, the most powerful official in the Roman Curia and one of five Cardinals convicted by a Common Law Court of Justice last February, has prepared his letter of resignation.

Cardinal Bertone has been the effective "king maker" at the papacy for many years, and helped force Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, from office on February 11 just days after an arrest warrant was to be issued against Ratzinger.

According to the Vatican insider,
"Bertone knows that if he's arrested while in office, all of the Vatican archives and his records are subject to seizure, and they can never let that happen. Once he's resigned, he can do like Ratzinger and claim immunity from prosecution as a 'private citizen', something the Lateran Treaty allows. These guys understand the power of the common law court arrest warrant, even if others don't."

Bertone's resignation also coincides with the recent formation of a new Italian movement to expose child torture and trafficking within the Vatican, announced by the ITCCS and Rete L'Abuso in Savona, Italy on May 23.

This campaign will commence on September 20 in Rome with civil disobedience actions and church occupations, and demands to the Italian government to revoke the Lateran Treaty with the Vatican. (see itccs.org, May 24 posting).

ITCCS Field Secretary Kevin Annett is in Europe investigating this latest development.

Further communiques on the impending Bertone resignation and the September 20 campaign will be forthcoming.

ITCCS Central Office Brussels


Related:
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Roman Catholic Church is declared a Transnational Criminal Organization


  

Google messaging service hacked, sends malware to Android users

Russia’s Kaspersky Lab has found a backdoor in Google Cloud Messaging service (GCM) used by hackers to steal Android users’ data and force them to send paid messages. 

The scheme is only stoppable by Google, as it relies on stolen IDs of GCM developers.

The Russian computer security firm on Tuesday said it had notified Google of a security breach in its service, which enabled the hackers to register Trojan and Backdoor malware in the network of the internet giant.

“Such tactics rule out the possibility to block access to master server directly on the infected phone,” the Kaspersky team warned in a statement on its website.

Thus, if an Android user is lured into installing some applications containing the malware, he is doomed to have his money or private data stolen – unless Google intervenes.

Blocking the accounts of GCM developers, who’s virtual IDs have been compromised and used for Trojan’s registration, is the only way to stop the malicious algorithm, Kasperky Lab explained.

The anti-virus developers have been warning that over the past year cybercriminals have become increasingly active in targeting tablets and smartphones – especially Android devices – with malicious software.

The software may often be disguised as an installation package of a popular mobile application, such as a game or a browser.

Kaspersky Lab expert Roman Unuchek said a typical example of such a trap for Android users – dubbed Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.OpFake.a – has already been detected in 97 countries. The firm has come across over 1 million different installation packages containing the malware.
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78 Children Under Government “Protection” Disappear in Oklahoma, Agency Blames the Children

78 Children who were taken from their parents are now missing and the government agency in charge is claiming that the children “probably just ran away because they didn’t want to follow the rules”

For years Intellihub has covered countless stories of abuse and neglect at the hands of CPS and the entire so called “child protection” racket.  Just this week we re-posted “10 Shocking CPS Videos You Need To Watch” and reported on a toddler who was killed by her foster mom, after being taken from her peaceful birth parents because they used cannabis.

Now it has been reported that 78 children in the state of Oklahoma under government “protection” have gone missing in just the past few months, and are still gone.

According to NewsOK:

Millie Carpenter, DHS’s (Oklahoma Department of Human Services) permanency and well-being program administrator, and Melissa Jones, a DHS program supervisor, insist there is accountability, but say preventing children from running away is not as easy as it might sound.  Carpenter said staff members believe all 78 children who are currently missing are runaways and not children who have been abducted.

There are more than 10,000 children in state custody. Most live in foster homes, while many others stay in shelters and group homes. Many of the children want more independence and some choose to run away, she said.

Some children run away to reunite with parents that state officials have deemed unsuitable, but “I’ve had just as many run just because they didn’t want to follow rules,” Jones said.
“For the most part, we don’t put children who are in DHS custody in a lock up facility,” Jones said. “They are in facilities where they can walk away.” read more


Related:
Foster Care System Traps Children into Vicious Cycle of Sex Abuse


 

Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance

100+ Organizations Sign Thirteen Principles to Protect Human Rights

More than 100 organizations from across the globe – including Privacy International, Access, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – are taking a stand against unchecked communications surveillance, calling for the governments around the world to follow international human rights law and curtail pervasive spying.

The coalition of groups have all signed the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication Surveillance – 13 basic principles that spell out how existing human rights law applies to modern digital surveillance. Written in response to the increasing number of government surveillance standards that focus on law enforcement and "national security" priorities instead of citizens' rights, the principles include advice on how surveillance laws should respect the law, due process, and include public oversight and transparency.

Current debates over government surveillance are often limited by outmoded definitions of content versus metadata, or stored data versus data in transit. The principles released today concentrate on the core issue: how human rights protect all information that reveals private information about an individual's communications.

"It's time to restore human rights to their place at the very heart of the surveillance debate," said EFF International Director Danny O'Brien. "Widespread government spying on communications interferes with citizens' ability to enjoy a private life, and to freely express themselves – basic rights we all have.

But the mass metadata collected in the U.S. surveillance program, for example, makes it extraordinarily easy for the government to track what groups we associate with and why we might contact them. These principles announced today represent a global consensus that modern surveillance has gone too far and must be restrained."

The organizations signing the principles come from more than 40 different countries. The principles will be used to advocate for a change in how present laws are interpreted, and new laws are crafted. read more

Wi-Fi Trashcans Now Silently Tracking Your Smartphone Data

In an astounding testament to the depth of our surveillance society, a new line of ‘spy trashcans’ have been rolled out that further the international agenda to track and collect all of your personal data at every turn.

In the past we’ve seen politicians revealing that various electronics like your television and computer can spy on you at any time using special built-in hardware, but now even the most basic items are being turned into tools of the surveillance state. In fact, they don’t even have to be electronic in the first place.

And such is the case with the new ‘spy trashcans’, rolling out just recently into the streets of London for beta testing.

Utilizing Wi-Fi technology within the infrastructure of the now tech-equipped trashcans, new ‘Renew Pods’ spy trashcans have been placed throughout the financial district of London. The trash cans actually go ahead and utilize their internet connectivity to collect information from your smartphones without your permission (or any form of warning).

While the true data the spy cans are collecting may be completely withheld thanks to various relationships with spy agencies like GCHQ and the NSA, the ‘Renew’ company behind the spy cans says that the Renew Pods track and collect a medley of information.

This includes information that is actually, under law, considered personal data that requires permission to collect. Specifically, it includes your phone’s unique Media Access Control (MAC) address, which these Renew Pods collect without even the slightest warning. But that’s along with collecting other characteristics that are used to sell to advertisers in order to better ‘target’ you with advertising in the area.

From your phone’s unique identification address to its manufacturer, model, and even speed, these spy cans know more about your phone than you do - read more

Saudi prince defects: 'Brutality, oppression as govt scared of Arab revolts' (EXCLUSIVE)

Protesters hold pictures of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr during a rally at the coastal town of Qatif, against Sheikh Nimr's arrest July 8, 2012 (Reuters / Reuters / Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Saudi Arabia, a major supporter of opposition forces in Syria, has increased crackdown on its own dissenters, with 30,000 activists reportedly in jail. In an exclusive interview to RT a Saudi prince defector explained what the monarchy fears most.

“Saudi Arabia has stepped up arrests and trials of peaceful dissidents, and responded with force to demonstrations by citizens,” Human Rights Watch begins the country’s profile on its website.

Political parties are banned in Saudi Arabia and human rights groups willing to function legally have to go no further than investigating things like corruption or inadequate services. Campaigning for political freedoms is outlawed.

One of such groups, which failed to get its license from the government, the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), was cited by AFP as saying the kingdom was holding around 30,000 political prisoners.

Prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al-Saud

Saudi Prince Khaled Bin Farhan Al-Saud, who spoke to RT from Dusseldorf, Germany, confirmed reports of increased prosecution of anti-government activists and said that it’s exactly what forced him to defect from his family. He accused the monarchy of corruption and silencing all voices of dissent and explained how the Saudi mechanism for suppression functioned.



“There is no independent judiciary, as both police and the prosecutor’s office areaccountable to the Interior Ministry. This ministry’s officials investigate ‘crimes’ (they call them crimes), related to freedom of speech. So they fabricate evidence, don’t allow people to have attorneys”, the prince told RT Arabic. “Even if a court rules to release such a ‘criminal’, the Ministry of Interior keeps him in prison, even though there is a court order to release him. There have even been killings! Killings! And as for the external opposition, Saudi intelligence forces find these people abroad! There is no safety inside or outside the country.” 

The strong wave of oppression is in response to the anti-government forces having grown ever more active. A new opposition group called Saudi Million and claiming independence from any political party was founded in late July. The Saudi youths which mostly constitute the movement say they demand the release of political prisoners and vow to hold regular demonstrations, announcing their dates and locations via Facebook and electronic newspapers. 

Human rights violations are driving people on to the streets despite the fear of arrest, according to activist Hala Al-Dosari, who spoke to RT from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 
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