Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love

Nov. 18, 2011: Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love

Is Being Healthy a Revolutionary Act?

Is Being Healthy a Revolutionary Act? by Dr. Mark Hyman

REVOLUTIONS BUBBLE OUT OF INJUSTICE. Social, political, economic, spiritual, and physical oppression drives people to rise up against violations of basic human rights. Working with Partners in Health this year, after the earthquake in Haiti, I learned from Dr. Paul Farmer that health is among the most neglected of human rights.

The injustices that violate our health as a human right occur not just in impoverished countries like Haiti, but are embedded in 21st century America. And we are exporting disease across the globe, where the overweight - now 1.7 billion large - outnumber the malnourished.

I would argue not only that health is a neglected human right, but that it is a right that has been taken from us.

Our health has been hijacked - slowly, quietly and often deliberately over the past century.

Our social, political and economic conditions support obesity and disease. Habits and the default choices in our society are built into the fabric of every segment of our society - families, homes, schools, workplaces, and places of worship, our government institutions and health care centers.

Our current food, social, and community environments make it hard for us to make healthy choices. In fact, staying healthy has become almost impossible, which is why almost three quarters of Americans are overweight and one in two Americans have one or more chronic diseases.

If you are healthy today, you are increasingly in the minority. But we can get healthy and reclaim our lives and wellbeing.

And if we do that, it won't just benefit us as individuals, it will have some very positive side effects, such as preventing economic collapse, climate change, and environmental degradation. It will help re-invigorate our families, communities and faith-based organizations. And it will reverse the epidemic of obesity and chronic disease weighing on our planet.

No single change will help us take back our health. It is the hundreds of little choices we make every day, a hundred small revolutionary acts we can control that will transform our collective health.

It is time to take back our health, by every means available to us.

With that in mind, this week an extraordinary website - RevolutionaryAct.com - was launched by an extraordinary woman, Pilar Gerasimo, founding editor of Experience Life magazine (circulation: 630,000). The site, based on the idea that "Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act," is dedicated to sparking and supporting a healthy revolution.

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Highly Toxic Mercury Present in Processed Foods, Yet FDA Does Nothing

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Highly Toxic Mercury Present in Processed Foods, Yet FDA Does Nothing by Anthony Gucciardi

 Why has the FDA ignored the fact that mercury, an element that is highly toxic in all forms, was found in a large number of brand-name processed foods?

Specifically, the mercury content was found to be contained in high-fructose corn syrup, which also reportedly contains genetically modified ingredients.

Instead of addressing this major public health concern, the FDA is focusing their time on crushing beneficial supplements through ridiculous NDI regulations that threaten the entire infrastructure of the nutraceuticals industry.


Researchers from two U.S. studies reported that about half of tested samples of high-fructose corn syrup contained mercury. Mercury was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products which listed high-fructose corn syrup as the first-or-second-highest labeled ingredient.

Following the report, organizations like the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy called on the FDA for immediate action:

'Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply,”'the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.

 Americans Consumed Over 37 Pounds of Mercury-Laden HFCS in 2008

Mercury is toxic in any dosage, but the information becomes even more alarming when you consider the fact that the average American consumed 37.8 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup in 2008! If this is not explosive enough on its own, remember the fact that this is but one source of mercury exposure. CFL light bulbs, mercury-contaminated seafood, and some dental fillings are a few sources of mercury exposure that affect millions of individuals.

The ubiquitous nature of high-fructose corn syrup in processed food products makes it difficult to avoid if you are on a junk food diet that is devoid of essential nutrients. Unfortunately, a large number of people worldwide subscribe to this nutritional program while in the dark regarding the true effects that such a diet can have on the human body. Until the FDA decides to step in (which simply will not happen unless activists make enough noise), protecting yourself and your family against HFCS is your priority. If you eat 100% organic food items, or grow your own organic food, you will not have to worry about toxic high-fructose corn syrup.

It’s time to tell the FDA to focus on the real issues, like toxic elements in our food supply — not health-promoting supplements that have improved lives and boosted immune systems.

Explore More:

1. Flashback: Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
2. Growing Evidence Finds Processed Foods and Sugary Drinks as ‘Addictive as Cocaine’
3. BPA Highly Present in Canned Foods Marketed to Children
4. How Natural Sweeteners Can Eliminate Soaring Cancer and Obesity Rates Today
5. Many “All Natural” Foods are Actually Heavily Processed
6. Major Find: Processed Food Lowers IQ in Children, Nutritious Food Raises It

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Homeopathic treatment slows progression of Alzheimer's disease

Homeopathic treatment slows progression of Alzheimer's disease by JB Bardot

(NaturalNews) A huge leap in the natural treatment of Alzheimer's disease was recently reported at the Neuroscience Conference in Washington by the National Center for Homeopathy. Homeopathic manufacturer and research organization, Heel, presented studies on a multi-target, combination homeopathic medicine that has proven effective for both relieving symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and influencing the reduction of the formation of amyloid plaques in the brains of patients. In-vitro and in-vivo studies were conducted in France and Finland, and confirm that subjects had enhanced learning abilities, an increase in their ability to recognize objects, and improvement in memory performance after treatment.

Classical homeopathy also offers patients hope. Classical homeopathy uses one remedy at a time, and may take a similar multi-targeted approach to treating Alzheimer's; however, the practitioner may either alternate or use several remedies in succession rather than giving them together in combination. The announcement from Heel allows people, who would otherwise not seek homeopathic treatment, to feel more confident of its efficacy.

What is Alzheimer's Disease?

Alzheimer's is an affliction of the brain causing the gradual deterioration of brain cells that result in the loss of memory, cognitive abilities and intelligence. The disease afflicts primarily the elderly and symptoms are often seen as early as the late 40s. Alzheimer's is the primary cause of dementia, a decline in brain performance, thinking skills and reasoning. The disease is caused by two abnormalities including neurofibrillary tangles (or bunches of altered proteins inside brain cells) and amyloid plaques (or fragments of proteins forming outside the brain cells).

Symptoms and Presentation

Alzheimer's most common early symptom is memory loss. Progressing age is the common denominator in the development of the disease, bringing difficulties in thinking, reasoning, communication and forgetfulness. Patients feel lost in familiar places and are unable to recognize their family members and friends. Loss of words, the ability to speak, and loss of judgment also characterize this disease. Additionally, patients may experience personality changes, becoming suspicious, angry, fearful, moody and highly dependent on family members and caretakers.

Homeopathic Treatment

Classical homeopathy aims to find the simillimum, or the remedy that covers the most prominent features of the case. Homeopathy can slow the progression of the disease and ease symptoms, as shown by the Heel studies. There is no single remedy effective for the treatment of all patients. However, several remedies are often associated with this disease.

Baryta Carb helps those who have regressed back to childish behavior. They may be fearful, timid and shy and lack confidence. There is loss of memory and some patients may suffer from chronic glandular disorders.

Natrum Sulf can often bring relief to those who are fixated with and dwell on past hurts and unpleasant events. They may feel sad and lonely, be filled with self-pity, or be unable to express the love they feel for others. These people often have headaches and painful joints.

Nux Vomica patients are often angry, quarrelsome and irritable, faultfinding and insensitive to other's feelings; however, they themselves are extremely sensitive to everything, becoming easily hurt and insulted.

Alumina is an excellent remedy for those who are depressed and afraid of losing their minds. They become confused with their identities and experience rapidly changing moods. Patients are often chilly, constipated, and very hurried in their actions and movements.

These and other well-chosen remedies can improve the quality of life for those suffering with the disease. People diagnosed with Alzheimer's should not treat themselves. Consult a knowledgeable homeopath familiar with caring for people with this disease.

Sources for this article include

National Center for Homeopathy: http://www.nationalcenterforhomeopa...
Business Wire: http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...
Homeopathictreatment.com: http://homeopathic-treatments.com/?...
Dr. Shreya's Health and Homeopathic Blog: http://drshreya.blogspot.com/2011/0...
Classical Homeopathy -- Alzheimer's Disease: http://www.homeopathy-cures.com/htm...
ABCHomeopathy -- Homeopathy and Health Forum:
http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php...
Hpathy -- Alzheimer's Disease: http://hpathy.com/cause-symptoms-tr...

About the author:
JB Bardot is trained in herbal medicine and homeopathy, and has a post graduate degree in holistic nutrition. Bardot cares for both people and animals, using alternative approaches to health care and lifestyle.

The Dangers of Soy Are Real - and Much Worse Than You Might Think

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The Dangers of Soy Are Real - and Much Worse Than You Might Think

Promoting soy foods as health foods while ignoring the dangers of soy and soy derivatives should be considered a crime against humanity. If you think this statement is too extreme, read this article to the end, and then see what you think!

The dangers of soy are thoroughly documented in the scientific literature, which makes it hard to believe that many health and fitness communities and counselors, and most health food stores, still promote soy products as ultra-healthy foods.

Hopefully this harmful misrepresentation of soy foods will begin to change as the dangers of soy become better known.

A Summary of the Dangers of Soy

• Soybeans and soy products contain high levels of phytic acid, which inhibits assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, and zinc.
• Soaking, sprouting, and long, slow cooking do not neutralize phytic acid.
• Diets high in phytic acid have been shown to cause growth problems in children.
• Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders.
• Test animals showed stunted growth when fed trypsin inhibitors from soy.
• The plant estrogens found in soy, called phytoestrogens, disrupt endocrine function, that is, the proper functioning of the glands that produce hormones, and have the potential to cause infertility as well as to promote breast cancer in adult women.
• Hypothyroidism and thyroid cancer may be caused by soy phytoestrogens.
• Infant soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.
• Soy has been found to increase the body's need for vitamin B12 and vitamin D.
• Fragile soy proteins are exposed to high temperatures during processing in order to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein, making them unsuitable for human digestion.
• This same process results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines. (Doesn't sound like anything anyone would want to eat, does it?)
• MSG, (also called free glutamic acid), a potent neurotoxin, is formed during soy food processing. Many soy products have extra MSG added as well. (See video on the dangers of Aspartame, MSG's chemical first cousin.)
• Soy foods contain elevated levels of toxic aluminum, which negatively effects the nervous system the kidneys and has been implicated in the onset of Alzheimer's.

If this list of the dangers of soy isn't enough to make you run out the door of your local health food store, keep reading. It gets worse.

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Comment: Please read the entire article by following the link and consider visiting Wikipedia and reading phytic acid, just listening to the sound of that name is curious, especially when the article reveals the presence of aluminum. You may want to ask yourself where did that come from and study the table of elements a litte better. This is not the only suspicion related to this chemical. The author at Wiki concludes that this monster is still a debate!?

Dehumanized Perception: A Brain's Failure to Appreciate Others May Permit Human Atrocities

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to a prisoner, known to the Abu Ghraib guards
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Dehumanized Perception: A Brain's Failure to Appreciate Others May Permit Human Atrocities by Lasana Harris

 Shortcoming also may help explain how propaganda has contributed to torture and genocide.

A father in Louisiana bludgeoned and beheaded his disabled 7-year-old son last August because he no longer wanted to care for the boy.

For most people, such a heinous act is unconscionable.

But it may be that a person can become callous enough to commit human atrocities because of a failure in the part of the brain that's critical for social interaction. A new study by researchers at Duke University and Princeton University suggests this function may disengage when people encounter others they consider disgusting, thus "dehumanizing" their victims by failing to acknowledge they have thoughts and feelings.

This shortcoming also may help explain how propaganda depicting Tutsi in Rwanda as cockroaches and Hitler's classification of Jews in Nazi Germany as vermin contributed to torture and genocide, the study said.

"When we encounter a person, we usually infer something about their minds. Sometimes, we fail to do this, opening up the possibility that we do not perceive the person as fully human," said lead author Lasana Harris, an assistant professor in Duke University's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Harris co-authored the study with Susan Fiske, a professor of psychology at Princeton University.

Social neuroscience has shown through MRI studies that people normally activate a network in the brain related to social cognition -- thoughts, feelings, empathy, for example -- when viewing pictures of others or thinking about their thoughts. But when participants in this study were asked to consider images of people they considered drug addicts, homeless people, and others they deemed low on the social ladder, parts of this network failed to engage.

What's especially striking, the researchers said, is that people will easily ascribe social cognition -- a belief in an internal life such as emotions -- to animals and cars, but will avoid making eye contact with the homeless panhandler in the subway.

"We need to think about other people's experience," Fiske said. "It's what makes them fully human to us."

The duo's previous research suggested that a lack of social cognition can be linked to not acknowledging the mind of other people when imagining a day in their life, and rating them differently on traits that we think differentiate humans from everything else.

This latest study expands on that earlier work to show that these traits correlate with activation in brain regions beyond the social cognition network. These areas include those brain areas involved in disgust, attention and cognitive control.

The result is what the researchers call "dehumanized perception," or failing to consider someone else's mind. Such a lack of empathy toward others can also help explain why some members of society are sometimes dehumanized, they said.

For this latest study, 119 undergraduates from Princeton completed judgment and decision-making surveys as they viewed images of people. The researchers sought to examine the students' responses to common emotions triggered by images such as:

• a female college student and male American firefighter (pride);
• a business woman and rich man (envy);
• an elderly man and disabled woman (pity);
• a female homeless person and male drug addict (disgust).

After imagining a day in the life of the people in the images, participants next rated the same person on various dimensions. They rated characteristics including the warmth, competence, similarity, familiarity, responsibility of the person for his/her situation, control of the person over their situation, intelligence, complex emotionality, self-awareness, ups-and-downs in life, and typical humanity.

Participants then went into the MRI scanner and simply looked at pictures of people.

The study found that the neural network involved in social interaction failed to respond to images of drug addicts, the homeless, immigrants and poor people, replicating earlier results.

"These results suggest multiple roots to dehumanization," Harris said. "This suggests that dehumanization is a complex phenomenon, and future research is necessary to more accurately specify this complexity."

The sample's mean age was 20, with 62 female participants. The ethnic composition of the Princeton students who participated in the study was 68 white, 19 Asian, 12 of mixed descent, and 6 black, with the remainder not reporting.

The study, "Dehumanized Perception: A Psychological Means to Facilitate Atrocities, Torture, and Genocide?" appears in a recent issue of the Journal of Psychology.

Comment: The incessant dehumanization is certainly apparent in media creating a monotone in perception when interpreting "meanings," or signs that enlighten is deafened, in effect, "fear," is being interjected in its place. In my opinion, this may be what is being felt and is also a sign as measured.

Anti 'detox' stance is unscientific and defies common sense

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Anti 'detox' stance is unscientific and defies common sense

 I came across this story today. It's based on an article written by Professor David Bender - a nutritional biochemist. His article, which appeared in the journal The Biologist, apparently debunks detoxification regimes. They're worthless and unscientific, apparently. The body, we're assured, already has efficient detox systems (including the liver) that efficiently eliminates toxins and keeps us from harm.

But hang on a moment, if the body's detox system is to brilliant, how come a few thousand milligrams of paracetamol can lead to liver failure and death? Let's see how far our liver gets us if we decide to down a bottle of antifreeze? How come poisons are called 'poisons'?

Let's try a foodstuff, and an example that I think even Professor David Bender would have difficulty dismissing out-of-hand - alcohol. Drink enough alcohol, regularly enough, and it can damage the liver. As a result, the liver can fail to do its job properly, which can lead to the build-up of potentially toxic substances that effectively 'poison' the body. Liver failure due to alcohol can kill, too. There's nothing contentious about any of this, in that all this is utterly accepted by the medical profession.

People like Professor Bender appear to be keen to remind us that our natural detox systems work perfectly well, thank you very much, and will always keep us from harm. But that clearly is not true in in the case of, say, paracetamol and alcohol. He and others may rationalise this on the basis that paracetamol and alcohol are known toxins, while the ones referred to by natural therapists and purveyors of detox regimes are not defined.

I accept this might be true, but common sense dictates that our diet and even the air we breath may introduce substances into the body that have toxic potential. They may not be so well -known or well-recognised, but are well really saying these things have NO potential to harm health and wellbeing?

Is there no possibility that these things might overwhelm the body's detox capabilities just a bit, and therefore harm the body? And is it not possible that 'cleaning up the diet', ensuring better hydration and perhaps supporting the liver with some nutrients might help the body reduce the toxic load and enhance health and wellbeing? In my mind these are rhetorical questions.

I know that many doctors and researchers like to dismiss the concept of 'detox' but actually this practice is entrenched in conventional medicine. For example, when someone is suffering from paracetamol overdose they are usually treated with agent that reduces the toxicity of a breakdown product of paracetamol. That agent is N-acetylcysteine - a nutritional agent.

Some will claim that the difference is that the use of N-acetylcysteine in paracetamol toxicity is tried and tested, and that 'detox' products and regimes is not. This might be true, but that does not automatically invalidate detox regimes and products? Many people like Professor Bender make the mistake of dismissing something that has not been subjected to formal study. It is fair to say in such situations that there is no scientific evidence for something's purported benefits. However, to conclude from this that this proves it has no benefits is actually very unscientific indeed.

Comment: The idea of the Corporal is both abusive as a surface feature and also a form of awareness from the inside, one is a disease associating ponerology, and one is a form of association similar to homeopathy. In other words, just thinking about it is a form of healing. It is not anti- at all, it is science.

Murmuration & Occupation – Why We Shut Down the Ports

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Murmuration & Occupation – Why We Shut Down the Ports by Rebecca Sang

On Monday morning I awoke before dawn and somehow managed to crawl out of bed, fumble my jeans and boots on, and sling my drum and backpack – the one that has become the indefinite home for my first aid kit, a patchwork bag of herbal tinctures, a squirt bottle half-full of milk of magnesia, a bottle of bubbles, and some lavender essential oil – over my shoulder.

As I checked my back pocket one more time for my ID and locked the back door, the clock on the microwave read 5:08 AM. By 5:39 AM, I was snaking through the dark streets of West Oakland in what seemed to me to be a much-too-small crowd, mostly quiet except the occasional heartbeat of a lone drum or the sleepy but hopeful cheer that rose up as we passed under the overpass of Mandela Parkway. It was somehow comforting to hear our own voices echoing off the walls – it helped us remember our power.

You better believe I was asking myself the same questions that CNN, the Huffington Post, the BBC, and Mayor Quan had that morning: Why on earth are we doing this? Are you absolutely out of your gourd, trying to shut down all of the major ports on the West Coast?

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It was striking and slightly eerie walking through the streets in the pre-dawn darkness, surrounded by so many folks with faces hidden by in scarves and bandanas to protect them from the cold or worse. Because even the coffee shops are closed that early in Berkeley (where I live) I couldn’t even turn to caffeine for energetic inspiration. My feet felt like rocks with each step, and my eyes felt bleary. I found myself wishing, in the dark recesses of my mind, that the cops really would decide to block off all of the streets leading to the ports before we could get there – as many predicted they would – so I could just go home and go back to bed.

By the time we made it to the Oakland Port, the sky was getting lighter – and the bricks lining my shoes seemed to, as well. The streets widened, the bay spread out before us to one side like rippling gray slate, and on the other side, the bright floodlights from the port glowed like willow-the-wisps in the misty air.

Shorebirds, waking up luxuriously late compared to the rest of us, stretched their wings and rose up into the clouds as we passed Shoreline Park. It felt strangely beautiful, this place of industry and concrete.

The cops made no disguise of their presence this time — when we closed down the port for the General Strike in November, they had been quite conspicuous in their absence. This time, they paraded past us in all of their various modes of transportation: cops in unmarked white vans, already suited up in riot gear; cops driving school buses painted blue, threatening a detention of an entirely different sort; cops on motorcycles blocking freeway on-ramps, cops in the creepy black tank-looking things with the teeny windows, and of course, entire entourages of cop cars.

After we began blocking the gates of the port, the cops formed platoons and marched here and there, standing for awhile near this or that and sending our twitter streams into – well, a twitter. But nothing happened. They marched and stood around, and we drummed and chanted and stood around. After three or four hours of this, we finally got the “final final” word that the port had been shut down, joining those in Portland and Longview (ports were also slowed down and partially closed in Seattle, San Diego, Long Beach, and Vancouver).

In spite of the insipid media response, stopping the massive machines of commerce all along the West Coast is a big deal. Each day that the port is closed means anywhere from $4-8 million dollars in lost revenue. On average, the port of Oakland makes $8.5 million a day. Not one penny is taxed by the struggling city which pays to maintain the roads, traffic lights, and other infrastructure that make port commerce possible.

The ports were theoretically targeted because of a longstanding but difficult to understand labor dispute that involves the firing of truck drivers who sported pro-union T-shirts in LA, longshoremen in Washington, and the EGT grain company. But perhaps more importantly, the ports are the bastions of capitalism on the West Coast: the closest thing we have to Wall Street in terms of being a symbol of concentrated capitalist power.

But to many people – in the media, across the internet, and in our own circles — these reasons felt insubstantial, intangible. By the time the second shift at the port was announced closed, everyone from the Oakland Chamber of Commerce to longtime activists and organizers seemed to be questioning the strategic intention and real-life impact of our actions. How much did shutting down the ports really affect those large corporations, compared to the money lost by truckers and dockworkers? Are we striking back against the 1% or standing in the way of the wellbeing of fellow 99% folks?

I took these questions to my community, curious about what they would say. The most articulate and beautiful response was from writer Adriana Camarena:”I define the Occupy movement as a social movement that simulates a startling murmuration in which participants tug and pull in different directions – even in opposition to each other – but under a principled commitment to question the economic and political structures that have institutionalized a devastating inequality between a top elite percent and the rest of us.”

Murmuration as a phenomenon is something that took the social media sphere by storm in the last few weeks, after two young Irish women happened across a flock of thousands of starlings swirling over the River Shannon and posted the handspun video on the internet (a flock of starlings is called a murmuration, much the same as geese are a gaggle and crows are a murder). The starlings seem to move as one organism, twisting and dancing in the sky, smooth and flawless as liquid.

It is one of nature’s most wondrous sights, and how it works remains mysterious for those of us born without wings. We know that each bird is actually following one other bird – the one closest to it – the same way that schools of billions of herring migrate hundreds of miles in warm coastal waters and still manage to evade predators. But knowing that one small fact explains relatively little.

“It’s easy for a starling to turn when its neighbor turns – but what physiological mechanisms allow it to happen almost simultaneously in two birds separated by hundreds of feet and hundreds of other birds?” asks Wired writer Brandon Keim. “That remains to be discovered, and the implications extend beyond birds. Starlings may simply be the most visible and beautiful example of a biological criticality that also seems to operate in proteins and neurons, hinting at universal principles yet to be understood.”

There is a lot that we can learn from starlings and sardines about collective movement – what we know in this moment is that it begins with relating to just one neighbor even as we hold a much larger collective intention. The neighbor, in this case, could be the longshoremen of Longview, the truckers in LA, the Occupiers in Seattle who were gassed by police officers, or the other protesters within Occupy Oakland who chose this action over countless others that we may have attempted. All of us in relation, moving together, even when it isn’t obvious how it will work out or if we agree on everything.

I know what some of you are thinking: that sounds a little cult-like. What if someone makes a wrong turn? What if we end up being lemmings instead of starlings?

Well, it turns out that lemming mass suicide is a myth, which, I’m quite sorry to say, comes from a 1958 Disney documentary that used staged footage showing the poor beasts being launched off of a cliff with a turntable.

In other words, I don’t think we have anything to fear when we can tune into our deepest, most instinctual ways of knowing and communicating with one another. When we move, dream, and organize in ways built out of our relationships with one another and have faith that we can navigate the complexity and the distance. When we tap into an intelligence greater than our own and more magnificent than a simple sum of its parts. This intelligence allows for infinite variation and subtlety, and if somehow we begin to go in a direction that is not the right way, we can trust that there will be others among us who from their different vantage point will be able to see the right path forward – even if that path is invisible, like navigating the chilly gray sky above river and wood.

Thinking back to that morning — the crowd weaving through the dark streets of one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the state, the spontaneous drum jams with people I’ve known for years and those I’ve never met before in my life, the Food Not Bombs team that showed up with coffee and polenta just when I thought I’d drop from exhaustion, the friends that I never managed to meet up with but who tweeted me with updates every ten or fifteen minutes from a different gate – I can feel that the shutdown of the West Coast ports, in spite of its imperfections, came from a deep instinctual place of our collective understanding about where we want to go and how we want to get there. Just as with so many things about the Occupy movement, it’s more complicated than a simple soundbite or facebook update can articulate, because it’s a transformation of the entire paradigm into one that honors our interdependent and interconnected nature.

And the next step? I’m not sure. What I do know is that in the murmuration of starlings and the silver swirl of herrings in the shoals, we may finally have found a map.

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Big Question For 2012: Will We Talk to the Animals?

Big Question For 2012: Will We Talk to the Animals? by Jennifer Viegas

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This year, enormous strides have been made in understanding non-human animal vocalizations. But will we ever be able to hold meaningful conversations with another species, such that both sides understand each other?

Consider what we've learned about dolphins recently. Research a few months ago determined that dolphins talk like humans in terms of the physical process. Previously it was thought that many dolphin calls were just simple whistles, but the study found the sounds are produced by tissue vibrations analogous to the operation of vocal folds by humans.

Acoustics engineer John Stuart Reid and Jack Kassewitz of the organization Speak Dolphin have created an instrument known as the CymaScope that reveals detailed structures within sounds, allowing their architecture to be studied pictorially.

Similar to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, the researchers may then be able to figure out the meaning of dolphin calls. In addition to the whistle-like sounds, dolphins produce chirps and click trains, suggesting they engage in very complex and sophisticated social interactions.

"There is strong evidence that dolphins are able to 'see' with sound, much like humans use ultrasound to see an unborn child in the mother's womb," Kassewitz told Discovery News. "The CymaScope provides our first glimpse into what the dolphins might be 'seeing' with their sounds."

We might have to use special equipment to reproduce such sounds, but if that's possible and the sounds are deciphered, meaningful communication with dolphins could be a reality.

Recently we also told you about how kids understand dog barks. Children, in particular, seem to "get" dogs better than the rest of us do. Barks, however, aren't akin to words. They are more tied to emotional states. They do, however, contain some specific information.

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To fill in the conversational blanks with animals like dogs, horses, and cats, we all tap into other forms of communication, such as body language. Many of us are already enjoying dialogues with our favorite non-human animals, even if some degree of mystery remains.

I think one of the most promising areas of research is on non-human primate vocalizations. Animals such as chimpanzees communicate with each other in complex ways and some are skilled at understanding what we're saying. Some studies have also managed to decipher primate vocalizations, such as determining how bonobos communicate their thoughts about food.

In my view, a primitive communication system may unite virtually all mammals. It's taken for granted that we understand calls signifying danger, fear or contentment emitted by many animals. Hopefully future research will better define these vocalizations.

Who knows? We may learn more about ourselves and find out useful information. For example, not long ago we told you how chimpanzees self-medicate with food. They may know some things we don't about the healing properties of certain plants, insects and more.

Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Crops Leading to Mental Illness, Obesity

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Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Crops Leading to Mental Illness, Obesity by Mike Barrett

 It seems that the good bacteria found in your gut may actually be destroyed with every bite of certain food that you eat.

While antibiotics typically hold first prize in depleting the body’s gut flora levels, there may be a new culprit looking to take the spotlight which you may know as genetically modified food. 

Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Crops Leading to Decreased Gut Flora

A formula seems to have been made to not only ruin the agricultural system, but also compromise the health of millions of people worldwide.

With the advent of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops, resistant superweeds are taking over farmland and public health is being attacked. These genetically engineered crops are created to withstand large amounts of Monsanto’s top-selling herbicide, Roundup. As it turns out, glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is actually leaving behind its residue on Roundup Ready crops, causing further potential concern for public health.

According to Dr. Don Huber, an expert in certain science fields relating to genetically modified foods, the amount of good bacteria in the gut decreases with the consumption of GMO foods. But this outcome is actually due to the residual glyphosate in animal feed and food.

 Dr. Huber states that glyphosate residues in genetically engineered plants are responsible for a significant reduction in mineral content, causing people to be highly susceptible to pathogens.

Although studies have previously found that the beneficial bacteria in animals is destroyed thanks to glyphosate, a stronger connection will need to be made regarding human health for this kind of information to stick. 

Poor Gut Flora Means Poor Health 

As awareness grows, more and more people are realizing that poor gut flora often means poor health. Without the proper ratio of good bacteria to bad bacteria, overall health suffers and you could be left feeling depressed. In fact, poor gut health has been directly tied to mental illness, which may explain the influx of people being diagnosed with a mental illness. Not only that, but obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome have all been tied to poor gut health. 

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Chinese Village Rebellion: Communist Party Officials Expelled

A young villager walks inside a damaged
government office in Wukan

Chinese Village Rebellion: Communist Party Officials Expelled

For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt.

The last of Wukan’s dozen party officials fled on Monday after thousands of people blocked armed police from retaking the village, standing firm against tear gas and water cannons.

Since then, the police have retreated to a roadblock, some three miles away, in order to prevent food and water from entering, and villagers from leaving. Wukan’s fishing fleet, its main source of income, has also been stopped from leaving harbour.

The plan appears to be to lay siege to Wukan and choke a rebellion which began three months ago when an angry mob, incensed at having the village’s land sold off, rampaged through the streets and overturned cars.

Although China suffers an estimated 180,000 “mass incidents” a year, it is unheard of for the Party to sound a retreat.


But on Tuesday The Daily Telegraph managed to gain access through a tight security cordon and witnessed the new reality in this coastal village.

Thousands of Wukan’s residents, incensed at the death of one of their leaders in police custody, gathered for a second day in front of a triple-roofed pagoda that serves as the village hall.

For five hours they sat on long benches, chanting, punching the air in unison and working themselves into a fury.

At the end of the day, a fifteen minute period of mourning for their fallen villager saw the crowd convulsed in sobs and wailing for revenge against the local government.

“Return the body! Return our brother! Return our farmland! Wukan has been wronged! Blood debt must be paid! Where is justice?” the crowd screamed out.

Wukan’s troubles began in September, when the villagers’ collective patience snapped at an attempt to take away their land and sell it to property developers.

“Almost all of our land has been taken away from us since the 1990s but we were relaxed about it before because we made our money from fishing,” said Yang Semao, one of the village elders. “Now, with inflation rising, we realise we should grow more food and that the land has a high value.”

Thousands of villagers stormed the local government offices, chasing out the party secretary who had governed Wukan for three decades. In response, riot police flooded the village, beating men, women and children indiscriminately, according to the villagers.

In the aftermath, the local government tried to soothe the bruised villagers, asking them to appoint 13 of their own to mediate between the two sides – a move which was praised. But after anger bubbled over again local officials hatched another plan to bring the rebellious village back under control. Last Friday, at 11.45 in the morning, four minibuses without license plates drove into Wukan and a team of men in plain clothes seized five of the village’s 13 representatives from a roadside restaurant.

A second attack came at 4am on Sunday morning, when a thousand armed police approached the entrance to the village.

“We had a team of 20 people watching out, and they saw the police searchlights. We had blocked the road with fallen trees to buy us time,” said Chen Xidong, a 23 year old. “They banged the warning drum and the entire village ran to block the police.”

After a tense two-hour standoff, during which the villagers were hit with tear gas and water cannons, the police retreated, instead setting up the ring of steel around Wukan that is in force today. The village’s only source of food, at present, are the baskets of rice, fruit and vegetables carried across the fields on the shoulder poles of friendly neighbours.

For more on this remarkable situation, go to the source of it here:  www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8954315/Inside-Wukan-the-Chinese-village-that-fought-back.html

New Underhanded Tactics from Pharma: Is It Greed, or an Act of Desperation?

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New Underhanded Tactics from Pharma: Is It Greed, or an Act of Desperation? - ANH

 It wasn't enough that they raised the price of this critical drug from $10 to $1,500 per dose. Now they are going after pharmacists and hitting pregnant low-income women the hardest.

KV Pharmaceutical Company is trying a new approach to corner the market for their drug Makena, which helps prevent premature births. They are "raising concerns" about the quality of 17P (17-Hydroxyprogesterone), a hormone that forms the active ingredient in the drug that has been used for many years by compounding pharmacies to make a low-cost version of the pregnancy medicine. The FDA has now agreed to investigate.

You may recall from our earlier article that KV took a compounded drug costing $10 per dose, patented 17P, got it approved by the FDA under the Orphan Drug Act, and immediately raised the price to $1,500/dose (or as much as $30,000 over the course of a pregnancy). When the media picked up this story, KV Pharmaceutical eventually lowered its price from $1,500 to $690 per dose - but that's still an absurd price when the compounded version only costs $10.

KV then sent letters to compounding pharmacists, telling them they must stop selling their versions of the drug or else face FDA enforcement actions! After an outpouring of protests from you and other grassroots supporters, the FDA was forced to officially concede that this was in fact not the case.

Last month, KV Pharmaceutical presented FDA with data that claims there is variability in the purity and potency of the bulk ingredient and compounded forms of 17P. However, KV has refused to make this data publicly available, so it is impossible to verify their information. FDA has agreed to look into KV pharmaceutical claims and will conduct an on-site review of the laboratory that makes the bulk ingredient.

By resorting to such bullying tactics, the drug company seems to be trying every approach it can to stamp out competition. Their questioning the quality of compounded drugs is especially ironic considering their own credibility is on the rubbish heap. This past week, the drug-maker agreed to pay $17 million as a settlement for violating the False Claims Act - the company failed to advise the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that two of its drugs were unapproved and didn't qualify for coverage. Besides selling unapproved drugs, they also admitted to making false claims and sending out false quarterly reports.

Remember last week's article about the government receiving settlements in lieu of prosecution, because the government doesn't want to lose the drug companies' business? Another week, another example of drug company crony capitalism.

This comes just seven months after Marc Hermelin, the former chairman and CEO of KV, pleaded guilty to presiding over the production and distribution of morphine sulfate tablets that were larger and contained more morphine than they were supposed to; other tablets were of irregular sizes. He himself was ordered to pay a $1.9 million fine.

Compounding pharmacies have been compounding 17P since 2000, with no controversy. So while KV attempts to bolster the price of its stock, now worth 5% of what it was worth four years ago (this year alone it has fallen from over $12 a share to its current $1.75 a share), its latest stratagem appears to us to be a calculated attack on compounding pharmacists and pregnant women - many of them low-income women without insurance who have no way of paying the exorbitant price of Makena.

US: Occupy 2.0: Persisting In A Police State

US: Occupy 2.0: Persisting In A Police State by Dustin Slaughter

"No government can exist for a single moment without the cooperation of the people, willing or forced, and if people withdraw their cooperation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill."  - Gandhi

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Occupy Philadelphia marches in early morning hours after eviction.

The Occupy movement is now a genie that cannot be put back in its bottle.

And while it has certainly gone through growing pains, and will continue to do so, the adversity faced has only forced the movement to adapt and refocus.

After their first eviction, Occupy San Francisco decided to occupy sidewalks around the downtown financial district (the original strategy for Occupy Wall Street before 17 September, I should add.) Can't have an encampment? Adapt and take public sidewalks. There is now a nationwide movement to also throw the gauntlet at major banks like Bank of America, and re-occupy foreclosed homes for families thrown out by the financial criminal class. The move has even prompted Bank of America to fire out an email to its employees. And yes, the email's existence has indeed been confirmed by a Bank of America representative.

The financial elite are not the only ones concerned about this nonviolent peoples' movement, of course. Incredibly, Mayor Jean Quan stated in a recent interview that mayors from at least 18 cities have been holding conference calls with each other to discuss how to deal with the Occupy movement. There are legitimate questions as to whether federal agencies like the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are playing some kind of advisory role or even assisting in coordinating crackdowns on occupations too. Indeed, it would be surprising if the federal government were not, given the history of programs like COINTELPRO. It is well known, however, that DHS operates what are known as fusion centers, which serve as "focal points within the state and local environment for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between the federal government and state, local, tribal, territorial (SLTT) and private sector partners." Investigative journalists such as Jason Leopold are continuing to search for more answers about what role, if any, the federal government is playing in these crackdowns.

What is no mystery, however, is the contempt and cruelty often displayed by police towards this movement. Here's what Patrick Meghan, a writer for the sitcom Family Guy experienced at the hands of the LAPD:

"I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh's "Being Peace" when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted 'We Are Peaceful' and 'We Are Nonviolent' and 'Join Us.'"

It gets worse.

"When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor's legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor's left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor's right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor. It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us."

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Philadelphia police on a SEPTA bus arrive
in riot gear to evict Occupy Philadelphia.

The police state will continue to use terror to coerce this movement into backing down. It will not work, however. As Andrew Kolin states in his book State Power and Democracy: Before and During The Presidency of George W. Bush: "Keep in mind that police states are by their inherent nature dysfunctional," Kolin said. "The Occupy movement is hope of a return to mass democracy as a countervailing force to the police state and to it's possible breakdown." In an excellent interview with Jason Leopold at Truthout, Kolin says that "in all police states, 'and Germany in the [1930s] is the classic example, they develop by crushing democracy.'"

Myself and over 50 others were arrested in the early-morning hours after Occupy Philadelphia's eviction - for marching. My resolve, as well as those who were arrested or were outraged at the way the police handled the eviction, has only strengthened. This movement must use love and persistence to fight back. There is no other way. The state knows only violence and fear, and this can only continue for so long in the face of what the Occupy movement offers as an alternative. This movement must continue to struggle for what dissident playwright and later president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel calls "defending the everyday aims of life."

As Mark Kurlansky writes of Havel in Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea:

"Organizations were formed to support the families of those persecuted by the government; alternative 'universities' taught the things excluded from official education; environmental groups were formed and cultural activities established...Increasingly citizens could live life apart from the one established by the regime. Though the actions were small, the goals were large."

Kurlansky goes on to write of Havel's strategy:

"...if people lived their lives parallel to the state system and not as a part of it - which he [Havel] termed "living within a lie" - there would always be a tension between these two realities and they would not be able to permanently coexist."

The Occupy movement has for months now been engaged in creating the very same "counter-society" Havel and the Solidarity movement created to eventually bring the Soviet empire to its knees. Occupations across the country have been stepping up to offer free food, shelter and healthcare to the homeless because the state has failed to do so, a state that in turn uses its own failure as an excuse to evict peaceful protesters. The "occupation" has plans to offer free college education in Philadelphia, with local college professors volunteering their time, as I'm sure there are similar initiatives to do so in other parts of the country. And the movement is now standing - physically - with American families from across the country who are trampled on by banks who knowingly committed fraud and tossed people out of their homes.

Despite the winter, Occupy 2.0 is just getting warmed up. What are YOU going to do now?

Ancient Map of the Hopi Prophecy

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This World Ends Now

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This World Ends Now by Alexander Billet

There is something very timely about listening to Lupe Fiasco’s new mixtape at this point in time. Part of it is obviously deliberate, dripping from the tape’s words and beats. Part of it is also, for lack of a better term, coincidental, the kind of happy half-accident that’s bound to arise when a grassroots movement captures the attention of people around the globe.

A few days before Lupe made Friend of the People: I Fight Evil available — online, for free, over the Thanksgiving break — I had cracked open Jared Ball’s recent book I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto. Ball, a professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore and frequent contributor to the Black Agenda Report, puts forth a main point in the book that surely isn’t lost on hip-hop’s most faithful: that the mixtape, “rap music’s original mass medium” as he calls it, is one of the few avenues where radical, bottom-up ideas can be expressed without the meddling censorship of the music industry.
Says Ball:

Unlike other popular forms of mass media today, the mixtape remains among the most viable spaces for the practice of emancipatory journalism and inclusion of dissident music or cultural expression. With few exceptions, the intentionally designed structure of commercial radio [as well as the record business -AB] exempts that space for any such content.

There are plenty of artists who know this first-hand, countless MCs who despite talent out their ears have been deemed too “controversial” by the biz. And as Lupe can attest, even those lucky few with a contract have no guaranteed freedom of speech. A version of Friend of the People was meant to hit the ‘Net last Christmas. But, presumably because of the two-year wrangling between Lupe and Atlantic Records over the content of his album Lasers, the mixtape was delayed indefinitely.

Even after Atlantic finally agreed, under threat of protests outside their headquarters, to release the album, its content was quite obviously compromised by record label meddling. Lupe himself admitted that this harrowing process, not rare in the music industry, took such a large toll that he was for a time thrust into full-blown depression.

The Lupe we hear on Friend of the People, however, is much different than that of Lasers. Right out of the gate we’re exposed to a melange of quotes from Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, and news soundbites of the crackdown at Occupy UC Davis. These are near-textbook examples of Ball’s emancipatory mixtape journalism — unabashedly radical and seamlessly interwoven with the content of the music.

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Crowdsourcing: Hidden Industry Dupes Social Media Users

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Crowdsourcing: Hidden Industry Dupes Social Media Users by Tom Simonite

A trawl of Chinese crowdsourcing websites - where people can earn a few pennies for small jobs such as labeling images - has uncovered a multimillion-dollar industry that pays hundreds of thousands of people to distort interactions in social networks and to post spam.

The report's authors, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, also found evidence that crowdsourcing sites in the U.S. are similarly dominated by ethically questionable jobs. They conclude that the rapid growth of this way of making money will make paid shills a serious security problem for websites and those who use them around the world. A paper describing their results is available on the Arxiv pre-print server.

Ben Zhao, an associate professor of computer science at UCSB (and a TR35 winner in 2006), started looking into the largely uncharted crowdsourcing industry in China after working closely with RenRen, a social network that is sometimes called the "Facebook of China," to track malicious activity on the site. Zhao was intrigued to see a lot of relatively sophisticated attempts to send spam and promote brands by users that appeared to be working with specific agendas.

When he and colleagues investigated the source of that activity, the team was surprised by what it found, says Zhao: "Evil crowdsourcing on a very large scale." Influencing public opinion with fake "grassroots" activity is known as astroturfing, leading Zhao to coin the term "crowdturfing," since it is done via large crowdsourcing sites.

The researchers discovered that a large amount of the suspect activity in China originated from two crowdsourcing sites: Zhubajie, the largest in China, and Sandaha. There, people are openly offered the equivalent of tens of cents to do things like create accounts on particular sites, post biased answers about specific products on Q&A sites, and create and spread positive messages about products on social networks.

"The websites are very public, and you can see who offered past jobs and what they paid," says Zhao. His team used software to show that Zhubajie and Sandaha are, respectively, 88 and 92 percent crowdturfing. They also found that Zhubajie currently processes over a million dollars every month for crowdturfing tasks; the figure for the younger Sandaha is tens of thousands of dollars. "This industry is millions of dollars per year already and [shows] roughly exponential growth," says Zhao. "I think we're still in the early stages of this phenomenon."

Spooked by the scale of activity on the Chinese sites, and the potential for them to be used to compromise U.S. sites, the UCSB team examined U.S.-based crowdsourcing sites. Amazon's Mechanical Turk may be the best known, but others have also sprung up.

"Most of those other sites have a lot of crowdturfing," says Zhao, and the sites don't actively shut down such tasks, as Amazon tries to do. ShortTask, the second-largest U.S. crowdsourcing site studied, was found to be 95 percent crowdturfing tasks, and helped workers get paid for over half a million astroturfing tasks in the last year. Despite Amazon's efforts, Mechanical Turk was found to be 12 percent crowdturfing, a lower estimate than the 40 percent alleged by a study from New York University late last year.

Zhao says these sites will likely become the source of significant trouble for social networks like Twitter and Facebook, just as it has become for their Chinese equivalents.

"People are willing to do this for such small amounts, and we have seen that the results are very good," he says. Zhao thinks that favorable economics will lead to crowdsourcing sites in China and other developing countries troubling U.S. services. ShortTask and other U.S. crowdsourcing sites with a high proportion of crowdturfing have many workers from developing countries.

"The worst thing is that this is so difficult to detect," says Zhao. "All our security methods assume that there is a program at play, and that imposes constraints that you can detect." Zhao's group has previously worked to uncover spam inside Facebook, mostly a result of software bots gaining control of genuine user accounts. Facebook and other Web companies today rely on tools like Captchas or relatively simple rules able to easily spot automated accounts. "If you have a real human involved who is determined, then what you can do is really only limited by the price they are paid," says Zhao.

Filippo Menczer, director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at the University of Indiana, is working to develop systems to detect political astroturfing on Twitter. "It's already a hard thing to do, and probably it will get more difficult," he says, especially as crowdsourcing services become easier to use.

Menczer's group first built a system to detect political astroturfing in the run-up to the most recent midterm elections. It first identifies threads of political discussion circulating on Twitter, using hashtags, links, names, and sentences. Software trained to recognize both legitimate and astroturfing tweets then sifts fraudulent messages from that soup of political discussion, and even tracks their success in influencing real users.

That system was able to find automated accounts by sending carefully varying messages promoting certain political sites. But Menczer has always suspected they were missing an unknown amount of more subtle astroturfing campaigns. Looking at the origin of crowdsourced astroturfing provides another perspective, he says.

"The fact that there are websites almost dedicated to making it easy to hire people to do this is further evidence that this is happening," says Menczer, who is working to upgrade his astroturfing detection system to analyze discussion around next year's presidential elections.

One possible way to tackle such networks would be to follow the money, says Zhao. That would likely uncover a less distributed target. A study earlier this year found that 95 percent of the income from spam e-mail passes through just three banks, a much easier target than the millions of compromised computers sending out the unsolicited messages or the shadowy criminals coordinating them.

Comment: True intentions reveal what is actively arranged. Acting is a function of intention which is often concealed linguistically as a form of color to hide motive which is defined as emotion. In this case, emotion is neither pleasant nor unpleasant which cannot be valid. Emotions are always pleasant or unpleasant. This helps to explain why a metaphor such as crowdsourcing is used, as it seems to be related to emotion, but that is not the case, and it would be wise to consider why such a metaphor is chosen to describe one of the sickest states of awareness known, that of complete sleep and methodology to create emotions that do not exist. So, we see that a perceived (color as emotion) is working for intention which is cloaked as motive, for if the motive were revealed, the receiver would immediately reject the intention as a form of greed (emotions validated) which it is and the enticements of the corporeal's material nature. The word "corporeal," rests in the root language between the dog and the worm. Color is lingusitically associated with the apocalypse. There may be a way to kill the virus. If we consider our sensations as a mental formation rather than a body of deceit, and we consider our emotions as our methodology to validate objective feelings rather than subjective. At least one should be aware that corporeals exist within the matrix and attempt to associate emotions that do not exist and have no true color. To add, "tangible," is another definition of the corporeal which tells you that a Hydra has been formed where concrete is poured as the foundation for monetary dominance. The money that is exchanged today is completely worthless and cannot be sustained. Linguistics reveals what is actually touched in this case is the false subjective of emotions as taste, and tax and those who control money as a form of slavery.

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The disappearance of the elephant caused the rise of modern man 400,000 years ago

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This photo shows the dig at Qesem Cave.

The disappearance of the elephant caused the rise of modern man 400,000 years ago - PhysOrg

 Elephants have long been known to be part of the Homo erectus diet. But the significance of this specific food source, in relation to both the survival of Homo erectus and the evolution of modern humans, has never been understood - until now.

When Tel Aviv University researchers Dr. Ran Barkai, Miki Ben-Dor, and Prof. Avi Gopher of TAU's Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies examined the published data describing animal bones associated with Homo erectus at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in Israel, they found that elephant bones made up only two to three percent the total. But these low numbers are misleading, they say. While the six-ton animal may have only been represented by a tiny percentage of bones at the site, it actually provided as much as 60 percent of animal-sourced calories.

The elephant, a huge package of food that is easy to hunt, disappeared from the Middle East 400,000 years ago - an event that must have imposed considerable nutritional stress on Homo erectus. Working with Prof. Israel Hershkovitz of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, the researchers connected this evidence about diet with other cultural and anatomical clues and concluded that the new hominids recently discovered at Qesem Cave in Israel - who had to be more agile and knowledgeable to satisfy their dietary needs with smaller and faster prey - took over the Middle Eastern landscape and eventually replaced Homo erectus.

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Comment: If Authoritarianism seems dichotomous it is. We can see its development with the police state, yet this same feeling exists in nature and drives the life force through it seems contradiction.  Language:  Letter T - Brahman tem-

Financial 9/11 is REAL! They're Stealing All the Money

Justice in America is non-existent.

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Occupy Oakland: Lierre Keith - Deep Green Resistance

Lierre Keith, co-author of the book Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, speaks at Occupy Oakland.

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As I have elucidated here at Knowing Test that our democracy is mentally deformed, and the consequences, at least for me, are devastating, as is for millions who have become disconnected and exist within the matrix.



How We Assign Blame for Corporate Crimes are part of the problem.

All that which holds us together has been turned into unrelenting chaos. Here are two examples both of psychotic and narcissistic behaviors respectively in the Top Rankin Freak show.

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It all seems to be corrupt, and we see the grinch coming into town with a vapid heart of stone. Who and what seem to get lost in all of it, and all while the vampires continue to bleed the system redefining apathy.

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You must begin to ask yourself, "is it worth it?" At some point we have to conclude this is not a democracy unless you are able to unwittingly serve the very same things that destroy us. It is like a failed species and the fail-safe was omitted leaving the house that is great foreboding and subject to the beasts of burden. What possible constructive use could it have while empathy is drained from its existence?

We seem to forget the simple way of thinking. Money is simply something that is printed. As long as people accepted any printer, there would never again be any poverty. But because there is only one printer, there is only slavery. We have been made different in order to die upon the street of blood.

This has nothing to do with goods or services or economies. It is only power of difference like dominos that forever must be propped up and a world struck down by disease. We now spend all our time feeding the mercantile apparatus which feeds from us at the same time, the demon itself, the pentagram of weight.

In the film, "Star Trek: Generations," it was the character Captain Picard who saw what that light represented. A place where morals and death defy life itself.

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