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p.03 Science, Entactogens & Psychedelic Healing INTERVIEW with one of the very few scientists in the world who dare to work on the positive effects of hallucinogenic allies.
p.07 GM Crops Killing The Bees? FEEDBACK + MORE SCARY INFO
p.12 Cell Phone "Safety Suggestions"
p.13 Gurdjieff// FEEDBACK
p.13 The Money Masters//FEEDBACK
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Get UP! Stand Up For Your Rights! (and everybody else's too of course! :)
u can't understand the world without innerstanding yourself
UP! 249 22 04 07
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Tough Talk Can't Replace Real Vision
“We all know that these are not the best of times for America's reputation in the world. We know what the war in Iraq has cost us in lives and treasure, in influence and respect. We have seen the consequences of a foreign policy based on a flawed ideology, and a belief that tough talk can replace real strength and vision.” Barack Obama.
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Plastic Solar Cell Efficiency Breaks Record
Wake Forest researchers have achieved record efficiency for organic or flexible, plastic solar cells by creating "nano-filaments" within light absorbing plastic, similar to the veins in tree leaves.
This allows for the use of thicker absorbing layers in the devices, which capture more of the sun's light, reaching more than 6 percent efficiency.
[Physorg.com]
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Solar Cells That Work All Day
Georgia Tech Research Institute researchers have developed solar cells designed to operate at relatively high efficiencies during much of the day.
Its surface consists of hundreds of thousands of 100-micrometer-high towers that catch light at many angles.
[Technology Review]
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for everyone who doesn't notice
any signs of alien presences around...
Shape-Shifting 'Smart Dust' May Explore Alien World
Thousands of miniscule wireless sensors, or "smart dust," could one day be used to explore other planets.
Several research groups are developing tiny smart dust devices. Each is a few cubic millimetres in volume and can perform simple sensing tasks and relay messages to other such devices over distances of less than a meter.
Together, they can be sprinkled across an area, and used to sense chemicals or vibrations, and relay messages from one another back to a central control.
[NewScientist.com]
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for anyone still nursing the idea that our scientists
have a single CLUE as to what the world is about...
Black Holes Exhale Enormous Gas Cloud
A giant cloud of superheated gas 6 million light years wide, and located about 300 million light years away, might be formed by several super-massive black holes - SAY 'SCIENTISTS'.
>> that'll be right then!
[Space.com]
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for anyone who's forgetting to notice the continuing,
unstoppable collapse of the Dinos' Last Stand :)
Just Another Dino Leaving The Stage As
Bush Official Linked to Call-Girl Probe Resigns
Randall Tobias, head of the Bush administration's foreign aid programs, abruptly resigned Friday after his name surfaced in an investigation into a high-priced call-girl ring.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807Z.shtml
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Science, Entactogens
& Psychedelic Healing
Susan Blackmore /New Scientist
INTERVIEW
Torsten Passie is one of the very few scientists in the world who dare to work on the positive effects of hallucinogenic drugs.
His research centres on the life-enhancing and therapeutic effects of the most powerful mind-altering drugs known to science, including hallucinogens, psychedelics (literally "mind-revealing" drugs) and entactogens (substances that induce a deep change in feelings). These are drugs that can turn your mind inside out, throwing everything into question. An LSD trip can be a terrifying whirlwind of horrific hallucinations, a delightful journey of discovery or even a mystical experience.
But while the dangers of hallucinogens are well known, the stigma of their illegality makes it nearly impossible to discuss, let alone research, their positive potential. Could they help the dying, the depressed or the mentally ill? If so, argues Passie, perhaps we should treat them more like dangerous sports - acceptable if treated with caution - rather than ban them and push them underground.
Susan Blackmore met him earlier this year at an occasion that could hardly have been more appropriate: a conference in Basel celebrating the 100th birthday of Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD.
Why are you willing to put your reputation on the line to work with hallucinogenic drugs?
I have long worked on altered states of consciousness, looking at their philosophical implications, but I'm also interested in temporarily inducing severely altered states. I want to explore these states and make scientific experiments on them, including those induced by using hallucinogens.
Isn't it almost impossible to get grants and licences to use these drugs?
Licences aren't really the problem. I have permission to work with cannabis, ketamine and psilocybin, and it was no big problem to get it, but then I've been in the field more than 20 years and I know all the literature. My head of department had done a lot of work with cannabis before. He did have problems with ethics committees, but now we've got permission for everything we want. If you know what you're doing, they'll give you permission. Grants, however, are nearly impossible to get.
Why are you doing this work?
My personal interest is because I worked for many years with Hanscarl Leuner, who did pioneering work with LSD in the 1960s, and continued research on hallucinogen-assisted psychotherapy until the 1990s. My intention is to rediscover the therapeutic potential and applications of these substances.
What kind of patients can these drugs help?
Nearly all kinds of patients with neurotic and psychosomatic diseases can be helped, as shown by the 300 to 400 studies from the 1950s and 1960s. Especially appropriate may be patients with anxiety neuroses, depressive neuroses and post-traumatic stress disorder.
How can these drugs help them?
It seems that MDMA (ecstasy) and the entactogens can de-traumatise people from experiences that have left them in states of heavy tension and friction. To achieve this you first have to prepare a safe and stable therapeutic relationship with the patient so as to have a safe inner setting, and you need a safe external setting too. We found that these ways of experiencing oneself, others and the world are very productive and can promote what is essentially a self-healing process.
People can confront their memories in a state not limited by neurotic fear and inner defences - they can really open up. It seems they can mainly self-organise the processing of their experiences to promote their own healing. They can see that it's safe, and that it's nice to be open again. After that they may not go back into a closed state and you can work psychotherapeutically with them in a much more effective way.
You mean you provide the setting, the drug and the support and they do it themselves?
That's right. It activates their self-healing power. This may be problematic for therapists because they are kind of useless then. This is something that people don't realise: that normally therapists are trying to influence somebody in some way. Here you don't have to. You only have to furnish a room nicely, do some background work, and then the process happens without danger and with great potential for a lot of people.
>> see how thoroughly revolutionary this thing still is?!
The earlier researchers found that you should do therapy in mixed groups, treating people with different kinds of neurosis together. In a scientific design you would use people who all have the same kind of neurosis, but that's counterproductive for therapy. We would like to give them MDMA first because it's easier to handle, and then give them Lucy a few times.
Are you also interested in how healthy people use drugs for recreation?
>> this is the key question.
I am, because from these people we may learn how you can misuse the drugs or use them in an appropriate manner. When I worked with Hanscarl Leuner he was allowed to do therapy only on severe neurotics who were resistant to treatment, because of all the panic and phobia surrounding LSD in those days. We found that these people can profit from hallucinogens, no question, but the healthier the people are, the more they can profit, because healthy people have a greater capacity for self-healing.
But why, if these drugs have such great healing potential, aren't they available to use?
There are two reasons. Firstly, any patents on them ran out long ago. No pharmaceutical company will finance a study if it gets nothing out of it. This is a major reason why we can't get money for our studies and especially for clinical studies, which are quite expensive.
The second reason is that pharmaceutical companies are not interested in things that patients have to take only once. They're more interested in something like a hair-growing ingredient that people have to take every day and if they don't take it their hair will fall out again. That's what they're looking for. With a depressed patient, the physician may say, "Take this SSRI [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor] anti-depressant medication and you will be better." Sure, they will be a little better, but they have to take a pill twice a day.
You mean you could heal them once and for all?
As potential therapists, we would give them MDMA perhaps 3 times and LSD twice. Who could earn money out of it? From five doses? And after psychedelic therapy, the patient may be much better or completely healed, rather than showing slightly improved symptoms and having to take the medication for years. So in a way the pharmaceutical company is our enemy.
Are there many others working in this field?
I'm really on my own. This is the real problem, that there are so few people who are seriously scientifically interested. It's astonishing because a lot of people try to get information out of you, especially journalists, but they usually only want to have an impression of a special facet of the topic. They don't want to take on the therapeutic applications, or the religious and spiritual potential of these drugs. So normally I don't give interviews and I don't have that many students.
http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=37434
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this is good! keep it coming and let me know stuff.
super necessary... some people are understanding the info age
and we can change the world at the speed of enlightenment.
way necessary.
yeah, add me to your mailing list, send me old stuff too...
thanks.
mikal haley, tokyo.
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I think UP! 248 is the best this year, though it's hard to tell.
steve ash, london.
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4 Million Displacement “Surge” in Iraq
A Congressional Research Service report has found that the unfolding civil war and inter-sectarian violence in Iraq is deepening a “surge” in the humanitarian crisis of refugees. An estimated 13% of the Iraqi population, or 4 million refugees, have been displaced.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507B.shtml
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Kucinich Officially Moves to Impeach Cheney
Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. Kucinich outlined 3 charges against Cheney:
*** he "manipulated the intelligence process ... by fabricating the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" to justify the war in Iraq;
*** he deceived citizens and Congress "about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda" to justify the war;
*** he has "openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran, absent any real threat to the United States, and has done so with the United States' proven capability to carry out such threats."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507L.shtml
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Fallujah: The Play
An extremely high profile and hard hitting new play called Fallujah opens in London on May 1st for a month. It tells the story of the siege of Fallujah through verbatim statements from people who were there, from soldiers to civilians. It stars Imogen Stubbs and Harriet Walter, and is scored by Nitin Sawhney,
@ Brick Lane's Truman Brewery (London, UK) from 1 May for the month.
http://www.fallujah.co.uk
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GM Crops Killing The Bees?
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Angry Mother Speaks UP!
I agree - the finger is most definitely pointing in a certain direction... especially as the chemical industry has dodged the bullet so far...
Bees = flowers = countryside = cellphones?! Right, that makes sense...
[u got bumble bees wrong tho, they're solitary and live in holes and they don't have that much in common with honey-bees.]
Directional dysfunction? Maybe.. Oh, in the experiment you mention they threw a few cellphones into a beehive and this apparently upset the bees.. i.e. a relatively powerful and very close dose of radio waves... didn't kill 'em - just pissed them off a bit. You could accurately describe the outcome as, 'Bees have difficulty returning to the hive if you put several active cellphones in it'. Now that's what I call scientific...!!! (I'm not sure, but I think I read all about that on The Register - where the debate also rages).
>> i was just about to ask where you got this info. pleeease find it!
but a more important point is WHO PAID FOR THIS QUICK CRUDE EXPERIEMENT??!!
I do feel for Angry Mum... it is frustrating these days.
>> if hive collapse is going to wipe out most of plant life in 4 years and the perpetrators are spending their blood money to HIDE it from us then am goddamned enraged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jerry, italy.
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I intend to get some bees - did a course years ago.
Yup - no bees, no people. fucking roll on i say (joking).
But the way people behave is reflected in the temperament of bees when their numbers increase.
dr.filf, cornwall, uk.
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Honey Bee Navigation
in our attempts to discover why bee colonies are collapsing so dramatically, we must consider that the bees may not be actually dying, it could equally be that they cannot find their way home.
this article shows how immeasurably complex is this insect's equipment (and all of Nature's). in past UP!s we have explored the possibility that they perceive in 7 dimensions! so it wouldn't take much gm distortion to ruin the whole thing.
in other words WE COULD BE RUINING LEVELS OF COMPLEXITY IN NATURE WITHOUT BEING ABLE EVEN TO DETECT, LET ALONE MEASURE THEM!!
what blind arrogance!
Navigation
The average worker bee flies more than 900km during a lifetime of foraging - a very big distance for such a small insect. The majority of food is found within 2.5km of the hive, but a bee will also visit familiar flowers up to 10km away. Since honeybees have low-resolution vision and only large, or close landmarks are of any use to them, the navigation skills required for travelling such distances are awesome. Indeed it's one reason why bees are one of the most studied insects on the planet.
The Sun Compass
The sun is their primary navigation compass. Though they're unable to resolve the sun's disk, they can see a bright area in the sky which is sufficient for them to orientate themselves. They can also account for the movement of the sun by using their internal clocks, so that, on returning from a foraging run, the angle of the their flight path relative to the sun will be different to their outward angle. The amount of adjustment depends on the time spent foraging. Such impressive calculation is not hard coded into the bee's brain, but is learnt during a young bee's early training flights.
Since the amount of nectar released by flowers changes during the day, honeybees also use their internal clocks to remember the time when particular food sources are at their best. It's accurate to within 15 minutes, and bees will regularly turn up at 9 separate feeding appointments at exactly the right time.
Polarised UV Light
When the sun is obscured but patches of blue sky are still visible, the bee can use polarised light as a backup navigation system. Exactly how they manage to do this is still unknown.
Landmarks
When the sky is deeply overcast, honeybees navigate using landmarks such as the shoreline of a lake or the edge of a forest. Prominent landmarks like these can even take precedence over the position of the sun.
When there's a prominent, unambiguous landmark near the hive, a lone tree for example, bees are able to learn the position and movement of the sun relative to the landmark. This way they are able to correctly orient themselves from memory even when the sky is overcast.
Magnetic Fields
The Earth's magnetic field changes on a daily cycle. It is suspected that this cycle is used by bees to maintain their internal clock. Sensitivity to the magnetic cycle would be especially useful to bees who remain inside the hive and are unable to detect sunrise and sunset. It has been experimentally shown that subtle magnetic disturbances can disrupt the bee's time-keeping abilities.
Distance Measurement
The honeybee has a couple of techniques for measuring how far it has flown. One is to judge how much effort was expended during the flight. The other, probably more important, makes use of what is called "Optic Flow" - a measure of the movement of images across the visual field. The further a bee flies the greater the number of images that will pass through the visual field. By remembering how much optic flow there was during a flight, the bee can infer the distance.
http://www.setiai.com/archives/000064.html
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NEW YORK TIMES 'DISCOVERS' BEE DISASTER
More than a quarter of Yankeeland's 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost - tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping. So far, no one can say what is causing the bees to become disoriented and fail to return to their hives.
>> yeah, right.
As with any great mystery, a number of theories have been posed, and many seem to researchers to be more science fiction than science.
>> mobile fones. an invasion of australian killer hornets. what else can we think up?
People have blamed genetically modified crops, cellular phone towers and high-voltage transmission lines for the disappearances. Or was it a secret plot by Russia or Osama bin Laden to bring down American agriculture? Or, as some blogs have asserted, the rapture of the bees, in which God recalled them to heaven? Researchers have heard it all.
>> except that you've left out the actual cause!
The volume of theories “is totally mind-boggling,” said Diana Cox-Foster, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University. With Jeffrey S. Pettis, an entomologist from the United States Department of Agriculture, Dr. Cox-Foster is leading a team of researchers who are trying to find answers to explain “colony collapse disorder,” the name given for the disappearing bee syndrome.
Dr. Cox-Foster and fellow scientists who are here at a two-day meeting to discuss early findings and future plans with government officials have been focusing on the most likely suspects: a virus, a fungus or a pesticide.
>> yeah, right. why don't they even MENTION the most likely cause?
About 60 researchers from North America sifted the possibilities at the meeting today. Some expressed concern about the speed at which adult bees are disappearing from their hives; some colonies have collapsed in as little as two days. Others noted that countries in Europe, as well as Guatemala and parts of Brazil, are also struggling for answers.
So far, known enemies of the bee world, like the varroa mite, on their own at least, do not appear to be responsible for the unusually high losses.
Genetic testing at Columbia University has revealed the presence of multiple micro-organisms in bees from hives or colonies that are in decline, suggesting that something is weakening their immune system.
>> so surely they are about to mention GM!
The researchers have found some fungi in the affected bees that are found in humans whose immune systems have been suppressed by the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or cancer.
“That is extremely unusual,” Dr. Cox-Foster said.
>> why didn't i think of that?! it's AIDS that's killing off the bees!
“There are so many of our crops that require pollinators,” said Representative Dennis Cardoza, a California Democrat whose district includes that state's central agricultural valley, and who presided last month at a Congressional hearing on the bee issue. “We need an urgent call to arms to try to ascertain what is really going on here with the bees, and bring as much science as we possibly can to bear on the problem.”
So far, colony collapse disorder has been found in 27 US states, according to Bee Alert Technology Inc., a company monitoring the problem. A recent survey of 13 states by the Apiary Inspectors of America showed that 26% of beekeepers had lost half of their bee colonies between September and March.
So far, researchers have discounted the possibility that poor diet alone could be responsible for the widespread losses. They have also set aside for now the possibility that the cause could be bees feeding from a commonly used genetically modified crop, Bt corn, because the symptoms typically associated with toxins, such as blood poisoning, are not showing up in the affected bees. But researchers emphasised today that feeding supplements produced from genetically modified crops, such as high-fructose corn syrup, need to be studied.
>> aha! a single mention!
Large bee losses are not unheard of. They have been reported at several points in the past century. But researchers think they are dealing with something new - or at least with something previously unidentified.
“There could be a number of factors that are weakening the bees or speeding up things that shorten their lives,” said Dr. W. Steve Sheppard, a professor of entomology at Washington State University. “The answer may already be with us.”
Scientists first learned of the bee disappearances in November, when David Hackenberg, a Pennsylvania beekeeper, told Dr. Cox-Foster that more than 50% of his bee colonies had collapsed in Florida, where he had taken them for the winter.
Dr. Cox-Foster, a 20-year veteran of studying bees, soon teamed with Dennis vanEngelsdorp, the Pennsylvania apiary inspector, to look into the losses.
In December, she approached W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at Columbia University, about doing genetic sequencing of tissue from bees in the colonies that experienced losses. The laboratory uses a recently developed technique for reading and amplifying short sequences of DNA that has revolutionised the science. Dr. Lipkin, who typically works on human diseases, agreed to do the analysis, despite not knowing who would ultimately pay for it. His laboratory is known for its work in finding the West Nile disease in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/science/24bees.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=science&pagewanted=all
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Genetically Modified (GM) Crops
May Have Sub-Lethal Effects On Bees
Even though the timing of the honeybee decline appears to coincide with the widespread deployment of GM crops, the possibility that they are involved in the decline in honeybees in North America was given little consideration by the NRC Committee.
[Following mega concern over the decline of the honeybee across the US, Europe and Australia, the United States National Research Council (USNRC) Committee of the Status of Pollinators in North America report focused on the impact of parasites, fungi, bacteria and viruses, but paid little attention on the impact of pesticides and genetically modified (GM) crops, which may have lethal or sub-lethal effects on the bee's behaviour or resistance to infection.]
>> follow the money! who's going to pay for further research if not YOUR government?!
GM crops are engineered to tolerate herbicides, especially gyphosate, or to contain biopesticides (the Bt Cry toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis), or both. The biopesticide toxins produced in Bt crops are not highly or acutely toxic to bees, but are toxic to butterflies, moths and beetles. Nevertheless, in some instances, the toxins can kill bees or modify their behaviour.
>> oh well, i spose we can live without butterflies, moths & beetles, ok?
The Bt toxin Cry1Ab caused reduced foraging activity in bees after they were fed with syrup containing the toxin. However, the Bt toxin produced less pronounced impacts on bee behaviour than the chemical pesticides deltamethrin or imidacloprid Bt bacteria caused mortality in bees when fed in broth cultures or sugar solutions. A number of purified Bt Cry toxins have been studied in the laboratory to determine their toxicity to honey bees and bumble bees. For the most part, those studies showed little threat from the Cry toxins. But sub-lethal effects on the bees were not recorded in those experiments.
In a series of experiments in Jena, Germany, bees were found not to be affected when fed on a diet of pollen doped with 100 times the concentration of toxin found in the Bt maize pollen; and feeding trials on larvae also showed no effects. In the field, bee colonies in flight tents were fed with Bt maize pollen to which a 10-fold concentration of Bt toxin had been added. Again, no negative effects were detected. But a chance infestation by the parasite microsporidia resulted in significantly more damage to the Bt-fed colonies compared with controls. Another limitation of the experiments so far is that they were carried out with toxins derived from bacteria, not transgenic toxin derived from the Bt crops, which are known to have very different properties, as we have pointed out repeatedly, most recently in GM Maize 59122 Not Safe.
Transgenic glyphosate-tolerant canola pollen was reported to pose no threat to honeybees. However, when organic, conventional, and herbicide-tolerant canola were compared with regard to pollination by wild bees in Alberta, Canada, the herbicide tolerant canola plots had the greatest pollination deficit, while conventional and organic plots were equally well served by the wild bees.
Clearly, the existing evidence calls for much fuller investigations on the sub-lethal impacts of GM crops on bees, such as learning and feeding behaviour, and immunity to disease. The potential consequences of pollinator decline on food crops can be staggering, and the impact on biodiversity may be irreversible.
For loadsa info on other possible causes of bee deaths see
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/contact.php
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Cell Phone "Safety Suggestions"
Cell phones transmit at maximum power when
- you switch them on and off
- you dial out
- it connects or disconnects
- it's ringing
Hold the phone AWAY from your body when you dial out and WAIT until the person answers before you put the phone near your ear. Hold the phone AWAY from you when you finish the call and switch it off. When you are texting, hold the phone AWAY from your body to send or receive a message.
When your cell phone is on standby, put it in a bag or somewhere away from you and others. Whenever possible, switch the phone off and keep it off between calls.
Males should not hold a cell phone on their lap when making calls, or when sending or receiving a text message. The testicles are particularly vulnerable to microwave radiation.
Do not carry a cell phone on standby next to your body, especially not clipped to your belt, or in a blouse or shirt pocket (anywhere near the heart), shirt collar (near the thyroid), tucked into a bra, etc. All of these will irradiate your body tissues and vital organs or glands with high doses of microwaves each time your phone 'talks' to the nearest cell tower, which it does at full power when on standby. The parts of the body most vulnerable to microwave damage are eyes, breasts, and testicles, although all soft body parts are at risk.
Do not carry your phone (on standby) in a bag, purse, fanny-pack, etc., or hanging on a baby stroller anywhere near the baby's head or body. They will be receiving a high dose of microwave radiation every time the phone logs on to the nearest cell tower. Always keep cell phones (while turned on or in standby mode) well away from children or babies. A truly safe distance would be around 100 feet.
Never use a cell phone (or carry it on standby) in a car, train, bus, etc. Metal surfaces reflect microwave radiation, bouncing it all around inside, exposing both you and any other passengers to high levels of radiation which are absorbed into the tissues and organs.
Don't let a passenger in your car use a cell phone. Find a safe place to pull over to allow them to step out and use their phone well away from the car. Ensure anyone riding in your car has their cell phone turned OFF. As you travel, any cell phone in standby mode will be in almost continuous communication with cell towers. The towers detect when a cell phone signal is getting weaker and will "hand off" the connection to another cell tower that is closer.
When making call, if you know the direction of the nearest cell tower, change your position so that the cell phone is BETWEEN you and the cell tower (signal source). If inside a building, position the phone between you and the nearest window.
Only use your cell phone when it shows it is receiving the maximum signal strength. The farther you are away from a cell tower, the weaker the signal and the more your cell phone has to "power up", which causes more EMF- and EMR-induced cellular damage.
The EMF from a cell phone placed right next to your ear is 160 times stronger than the maximum allowable EMF from a computer video monitor.
Cell phones emit frequencies in the 2 Hz and 8.34 Hz bands that correspond exactly to the frequencies of electrical oscillations found in the human brain (delta and alpha brain waves).
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Gurdjieff// FEEDBACK
Aloha Fraser,
Provocative writing on Gurdjieff evoking a wave of appreciation from me.
Have heard his name many times over the years, but never knew much about him, his life or his thought.
Am looking deeper into myself this morning, triangulating, as it were, with Gurdjieff and you . . .
aloha from Maui,
Kalima, Maui.
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The Money Masters//FEEDBACK
Fantastic.. scary too! I have a friend in the States with a Mac and the link is just the ticket... thanks! That's quite brave of Google, isn't it - I mean it's been around for several years and someone has done their best to stop it getting out.
>> One of the things he [Jose Arguelles] said is that in the next 5 years we could have this really incredible outcome for humanity and we could take away some of this negative technology and create a garden planet.
At least somebody talks sense. That would actually solve a lot of the problems we are facing, and hey, we get to live in a nicer place! Yes, absolutely, we have to learn to love and respect the life around us and stop trashing the place, coz if we don't... the bees die and we starve.
ATB,
Jerry, Rigex, Italy.
a l l g o o d t h i n g s c o m e t o a n e n d
which don't justify nuttin'
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