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10th Planet Discovered:

Astronomers have found a new planet in the outer reaches of the solar system.

The planet, which hasn't been officially named yet, was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It is currently about 97 times farther from the sun than Earth, or 97 Astronomical Units (AU). For comparison, Pluto is 40 AU from the sun.

Read more: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/29jul_planetx.htm

(Note from the author: It is actually suspected there are 12 planets in our solar system! Another interesting phenomenon is mirror matter. Learn about it here: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0104/0104251.pdf)

Health Supreme Update: Food Safety: Codex Backs World GM Experiment
- Could AFRICA Be Control?

September 15, 2005
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Food is of crucial importance to good health. The international
food code, also called CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, was set up in the
1960's, ostensibly to promote the safety of foods. But
recently, Codex has come up with an extraordinary piece of
advice: "Be careful about those nutrients." A Codex Vitamin and
Mineral Food Supplement Guideline adopted by the Codex
Alimentarius Commission in Rome in July this year says just
that. On the other hand, Codex has consistently refused to get
a handle on the most widespread and mind boggling experiment
endangering not only world food safety but the sustainability
of agriculture itself - the genetic modification of staple
foods. The experiment...
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Full article: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/
2005/09/15/food_safety_codex_backs_world_gm_
experiment_could_africa_be_control.htm

Guide to Less Toxic Products
www.lesstoxicguide.ca

Everyday, most North Americans use beauty and cleaning products which contain
hazardous ingredients. How can you find the products which are least toxic, among
the thousands of products on store shelves?

The objective of this site is to:

• Provide information about potential health risks of commonly used products.
• Help identify less toxic alternatives for personal care, household cleaning, baby care,
• and household pest control.
• Provide information to help you evaluate products not in this Guide
  
• in order to choose the safest ones for your needs.

“Chemicals have replaced bacteria and viruses as the main threat to health. The diseases
we are beginning to see as the major causes of death in the latter part of (the 1900's) and
into the 21st century are diseases of chemical origin.”
Dr. Dick Irwin, Toxicologist, Texas A&M University

The guide: http://www.lesstoxicguide.ca/print.asp?fetch=personal

Druide: A Great Canadian Company

check out www.druide.ca and see for yourself!

Mission
Our values
To respect and promote Ecology, Efficiency and Commitment.
Ecology
To commit ourselves to a charter surpassing the world’s strictest ecological standards. (see charter)
Efficiency
To offer an innovative solution to our most demanding customers.
To enrich each formula with active ingredients making the body care ritual pleasant and healthy.
Commitment
To involve ourselves socially in the creation of a more humane society.
To contribute actively to changes which promote the protection of life on Earth.

Can you help out Planetfriendly?

If you're a fan of People & Planet, here's a chance to help
in a big way. Would you, or someone you know, like to
host the project for a few months (or longer)? This is an
opportunity for someone who has some unused space
to make an invaluable contribution.

We're seeking a highly affordable, subsidized or free space
in which to continue our work. Our needs are modest --
e.g. a room in a house or a shared apartment, with space
for a desk. This would serve as both as workspace and
residence for P&P founder and coordinator, Peter
Blanchard.

Ideal locations include Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Kingston,
or other university towns in Ontario. Other Canadian locations
with like-minded persons would also be considered.

Why is People & Planet seeking subsidized space?

People & Planet is a very successful but unfunded project.
Most people use the website, job postings and e-mail lists free
of charge. Despite positive feedback and acclaim, response
to our appeals for contributions has been limited. The
coordinator has been donating his time and energy to develop
and operate the project, but can no longer continue without
greater support.

We are hoping to find a place where, for a few months, the
coordinator can focus on ramping the project up to greater
financial sustainability. If no space is found, the coordinator
will have to seek other work, and further development of
People & Planet will stop, at least for the time being.

If we can't find a subsidized space we will look into more
conventional rental situations, probably in Ottawa, and
the coordinator will seek out other work.

About Peter...
* non-smoker, car-free, cyclist, easy to get along with
* content to live with males or females, vegetarians or
omnivores, any culture or orientation
* clean, quiet, responsible, references available

In return, we can offer:
* the satisfaction of contributing to one of Canada's
most exciting projects and helping the community grow
* possible tax-deductible receipt for rental value (ask
for details)
* optional exchange for services (such as house sitting,
maintenance, tutoring, consulting, child care)
* partial payment of rent or utilities, negotiable

Desired occupancy:
Ideally beginning in November, but Dec. or Jan. are also possible.

CONTACT
If you're interested, contact Peter at p2@planetfriendly.net
or (416) 410-8630.

ABOUT PEOPLE & PLANET
People & Planet is a unique gateway to environment, peace
and sustainable living, in Canada and beyond. We are
probably best known for our listings of "GoodWork"
opportunities and our popular Gateways & Guides on
topics ranging from Organic/Sustainable Food &
Agriculture, to Renewable Energy, to Alternative &
Eco-Media, to Sustainable Living Links.

People & Planet operates on a not-for-profit basis, relying
on contributions and donations from interested individuals.
http://www.planetfriendly.net/donate.html
--
People & Planet
http://www.Planetfriendly.net --
Peter Blanchard
e-mail: p2@planetfriendly.net
tel. (416) 410-8630

The Real Cost of Drugs:

Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life Extension, a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries. In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America.

The chart below speaks for itself.

Celebrex 100 mg Consumer price (100 tablets):
$130.27 Cost of general active ingredients:
$0.60 Percent markup: 21,712%

Claritin 10 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets):
$215.17 Cost of general active ingredients:
$0.71 Percent markup: 30,306%

Keflex 250 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets):
$157.39 Cost of general active ingredients:
$1.88 Percent markup: 8,372%

Lipitor 20 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets):
$272.37 Cost of general active ingredients:
$5.80 Percent markup: 4,696%

Norvasec 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets):
$188.29 Cost of general active ingredients:
$0.14 Percent markup: 134,493%

Paxil 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets):
$220.27 Cost of general active ingredients:
$7.60 Percent markup: 2,898%

Prevacid 30 mg Consumer price (100 tablets):
$44.77 Cost of general active ingredients:
$1.01 Percent markup: 34,136%

Prilosec 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets):
$360.97 Cost of general active ingredients
$0.52 Percent markup: 69,417%

If you would like a copy of this full email please send a message to
amandha@sustainablespirit.org

"The time is always right to do what is right"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Tidbits] Earth, Air, Fire, Water...

May We Awaken!

Blessings from Amandha-la (Tibetans add this at the end of a name as a term of endearment). Enjoy Tidbits!

A COCA-COLA STORY
Once upon a time (in 2001, to be specific), the Coca-Cola corporation built a bottling plant in a small and remote Indian village in the state of Kerala. In exchange for sucking vast amounts of water out of the local land, the mighty corporation promised to bring the people great wealth. But within a few short months, the village people began to notice their wells were running dry, so they complained to the corporation. Coca-Cola calmed the concerns of the people and attempted to win back their favor by giving them vast amounts of free fertilizer, saying it would grow bountiful crops beyond their wildest dreams. After several years of use, we arrive at the present day when the village people have suddenly discovered the fertilizer is actually the bottling plant's waste sludge and is laden with cadmium, a highly toxic, cancer-causing heavy metal. The village soil and water are now too heavily contaminated to safely occupy human life, so the plant was shut down last week. Moral of the story: Don't drink Coke..........drink Pepsi! Just kidding, Pepsi is actually in the process of being thrown out of India for similar crimes, as well. http://www.organicconsumers.org/BTC/cocacola082405.cfm

Centre Of The Sun -CRITICAL UPDATE

*** Remember to gather on the 17th, 18th & 21st of September, and send out LOVE and COMPASSION to the world...

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AWAKENING ELEMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
A Star Elders Message through Aluna Joy Yaxk'in

Recent events are a signpost that another step toward your evolution, empowerment and awakening has been taken. Because of this, it is time to share with you a message about the elements. With the recent floods in the USA, the tsunami waves in Asia, increased volcano and earthquake activity, and even increased terrorist attacks, it is time to understand your part in all of this, and what you can do about it as a co-creator. It is time for you to understand that everything happens for a reason. Everything is in a divine plan for perfection even though, outwardly, it might look otherwise. Everything has a cause. That cause is found in levels of consciousness.

Read the entire chanelling at my blog: http://energyhealing.blogspot.com/

CHICKEN POX VACCINE ASSOCIATED
WITH SHINGLES EPIDEMIC

Pearblossom, CA - New research published in the International Journal of Toxicology (IJT) by Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D., reveals high rates of shingles (herpes zoster) in Americans since the government's 1995 recommendation that all children receive chicken pox vaccine. Goldman's research supports that shingles, which results in three times as many deaths and five times the number of hospitalizations as chicken pox, is suppressed naturally by occasional contact with chicken pox.

Read full article at my blog: http://energyhealing.blogspot.com/

VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS REDUCE PLASMA HOMOCYSTEINE LEVELS AND YOUR RISK OF HEART ATTACKS

One physician' comment: Homocysteine is a frequently overlooked risk factor for heart disease. I had a patient last week whose 46 year old brother just had a heart attack and her dad died earlier from a heart attack. When she asked the hospital staff if homocysteine levels were done on her brother, they had no idea what she was talking about. It is sad that some of this information takes such a long time to be transferred to the medical community at large. Homocysteine is such a simple cardiac risk factor to reverse. Just a bit of folic acid and B12 and some pyridoxine (B6) will easily correct this problem. More than likely, the reason it is not being heavily promoted is that no company stands to earn significant profit from its promotion. Indeed, a sad commentary on the current state of our health care system.

Tidbits comment: Naturopathic Doctors look at these things in detail!

Read full article at my blog (scroll down): http://energyhealing.blogspot.com/

An Interesting Video and Site about Katrina and the US lack of Response:
MTP VIDEO: Jefferson Parish Prez -- in Tears -- Begs for FEMA Help
~Presidential visit to disaster area was faked, media hype...
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001798.htm or http://www.truthout.org/

Other excellent sites devoted to the truth:
Tonnes of stuff here: http://www.truthout.org
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/index.html
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/24995/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474507/posts

"We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it,
ripped things from it, buried things in it. ...
That does not fit my definition of a good tenant.
If we were here on a month-to-month basis,
we would have been evicted long ago."
-- Rose Elizabeth Bird former California Chief Justice

Letter From Michael Moore to Bushie

From Daily Mirror

3 September 2005

MICHAEL MOORE: DEAR MR BUSH

Dear Mr Bush,

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our National Guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this - after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them - BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing.Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 per cent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing - NOTHING - to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com; www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

[Tidbits] Indian Storytime and Current Events

This India:

What adventure and magic! Right now I am in Dharamsala, relaxing and meditating in the Himalayan Mountains, sheltered by my Tibetan family whom I love dearly. We are tending to Sasha, the most adorable 3 month old puppy I rescued in Dehradun at the end of my medical program (another story in itself). Her abdomen had been ripped apart by 4 other dogs. I found her screaming in the street on the way to do some major amounts of email, ants crawling all over her. An Indian woman recounted the story to me and that she chased the big dogs away but didn't know what else to do. I got her temporarily patched by a very new MD that happened to be across the street. It’s been a challenge because she keeps ripping her stitches open (just where the location is by her hips, movement alone does this, like a C-section wound). It has been 4 times she has been stitched and broke them: now we are just keeping her clean and preventing infection as she heals in her own puppy-like way. I am looking for a home for her so if you would be interested in the smartest puppy EVER (knew her name, sit, paw, come, & no by the first few days! And she toilet trained to newspaper very easily.) She is so full of love and really adores the two boys here (ages 3 and 5). She loves sleeping on laps and cuddling. She is black and white boots, stomach, nose (but in the sun her black seems more reddish-brown: I will try to upload a picture soon). It is possible to bring her into Canada so if you are interested or know someone who is, please let me know ahead of time (I would need a definite commitment as I cannot take her due to my other dog Lucie whom I rescued from Honduras! What is WITH me and puppies anyway?!?)

So I was on a bus from Dehradun to Dharamsala the same day of finding Sasha, 13 hour bus ride and she was so good! Then I was here one full day to settle in with my family and get her stitched up and then immediately I was in Vipassana meditation for 10 days. This is a silent meditation learning the same technique as taught by Gotama the Buddha that he used to reach enlightenment. It has certainly changed my life. I send below some info about this and I cannot encourage this retreat enough. I am aware there is a brand new center in Toronto. This is the most naturopathic meditation I have ever come across. It is a deep surgical operation of the mind, using the sensations of the body (since mind and body are one) to alter the mind so to notice reactions to pleasure and pain, understand the nature of impermanence, to learn how to observe with non-judgment and develop unconditional love for all sentient beings. It helps to understand and be aware of reality as it IS and get off the rollercoaster of suffering. What peace! The root cause of our misery is uncovered instead of merely working with trimming the leaves every now and again with tools like mantras, breathing exercises and other meditation practices (not that these practices aren’t helpful). It motivated me to stay in Dharamsala/MacLeod Ganj instead of traveling to Nepal and Tibet so that I can continue to write this book on Activism and Spirtuality, as most of what the guru S.N. Goenka was teaching us was exactly in my line of thought for the book. From the bottom of my heart and soul, I encourage you all to learn Vipassana as taught in its pure form. There are a few groups that have taken aspects of this technique and created other meditation methods. I asked about some of them at the course and they said that people are, of course, free to try anything they wish, but these other experiences are most certainly not Vipassana. Vipassana is free for all, only a donation is suggested as well as dhamma service if you so wish (volunteering at another 10 day meditation for as many days as you so desire). It is scientific, non sectarian and gives immediate results…I will share more later about how Vipassana is helping reform inmates in Indian jails. It fills them full of love and healing and they realize that they are the only ones responsible for their lives…thoughts of revenge end and they leave the jails full of compassion and understanding, not to return. The police and jailers are also taking courses and it is most certainly changing India for the better…

It is wonderful to really get to know a place and to bond with my family, see the sweet boy that I have been sponsoring, Pasang and meditate in the mountains and clouds with puppy eyes and thunder and documenting the Tibetan way of life here. Soon I visit the Karmapa and yesterday I had a tour of the upper TCV (Tibetan Childrens Village School) as Ngawang and Phurbu are both teachers in this lovely place. I will be creating a documentary about the Tibetan situation in India as I have been filming as I go along.

So much to share, in time, all shall be revealed.

May all beings be happy,
Amandha


Introduction to the Technique

Vipassana is one of India's most ancient meditation techniques. Long lost to humanity, it was rediscovered and furthered by Gotama the Buddha more than 2500 years ago.

The word Vipassana means seeing things as they really are. It is the process of self- purification by self-observation. One begins by observing the natural breath to concentrate the mind. With a sharpened awareness one proceeds to observe the changing nature of body and mind and experiences the universal truths of impermanence, suffering and egolessness. This truth-realization by direct experience is the process of purification.

The entire path (Dhamma) is a universal remedy for universal problems and has nothing to do with any organized religion or sectarianism. For this reason, it can be freely practiced by everyone, at any time, in any place, without conflict due to race, community or religion, and will prove equally beneficial to one and all.

http://www.ontario-dhamma.org


Miracle of Kuan Yin...
Flowers are growing miraculously from the statue of Kuan Yin at a temple near Seoul in South Korea.
The miracles have started and Buddhist monks are gathering to wait and pray for the event that will change all of our lives...

MIRACULOUS FLOWERS SPROUT ON A GOLD
STATUE IN SOUTH KOREA
"Flowers that bloom only once every 3,000 years are budding on the head of a sacred Buddhist statue."
Buddhist priests in South Korea "say the legendary flowers blossoming on the forehead of Kuan Yin the Compassionate" only appear "when the 'Sage King of the Future' (also known as Maitreya, the future Buddha--J.T.) comes into the world," which one Buddhist leader called, "a delight that gives joy beyond description."
"The Miracle of the Flowers, as it's now being called, happened in the Chonggyesa Temple," in a suburb of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. "Tens of thousands of
pilgrims are flocking to see the white blossoms on the tip of the eyebrow of the shining, gilded statue of Kuan Yin."

Whole story: http://www.mysticgoddess.org/kuanyininfo.htm

The Wingmakers

Nearly a thousand pages of thought-provoking multimedia content that introduces a new cosmology and a future vision of our universe and our purpose therein. It is certain to expand the mind of any who reads, listens, and views this startling collection of philosophy, art, poetry, science, music, and integrated, multi-level story.

The origin of all of this material is a mystery. It is brought to the public anonymously by a source known simply as James. The Ancient Arrow Project is as much a spiritual revelation as it is a mind-expanding adventure into the profound discoveries that await humanity in the fields of metaphysics, cosmology, psychology, and genetics.

http://www.wingmakers.com

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For my Science friends:

Eur Heart J. 2005 Aug 4; [Epub ahead of print]

The effect of micronutrient supplementation on quality-of-life and left ventricular function in elderly patients with chronic heart failure.

Witte KK, Nikitin NP, Parker AC, von Haehling S, Volk HD, Anker SD, Clark AL, Cleland JG.

Department of Academic Cardiology, Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Cottingham, Hull HU16 5JQ, UK.

Saturday, June 18, 2005

[Tidbits] Events Update

Hello!

These events are in Ontario but everyone can tune in to NatRadio.com on Thursday June 23rd at 10pm EST for Amandha Vollmer (me!) and Angela Bishoff among others in an informative talk on 'Between the Lines with Sammuel Jennings and boilingfrog'. Please tune in! Also see the event that we are doing on the 22nd below if you happen to be in Toronto!

Love!

Amandha

June 21, 2005, 7:00 pm (door 6:30) $5 sugg.
Kensington Community Centre, 160 Baldwin St.
limited seating.
video http://www.mercola.com/forms/vaccine_video.htm -

'Vaccines: What CDC Documents and Science Reveal, with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny'

Vaccines ARE Linked to Disease and Chronic Illness
The pharmaceutical giants profit immensely from vaccines and so they pour immense effort into suppressing the information, and the government seems more than willing to oblige them, but it’s time for you to know the truth: vaccines can do far more harm than good, and they can kill.
"Vaccines: What CDC Documents and Science Reveal" is the culmination of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s intensive 3-year investigation into the real story behind vaccines. You will get the facts, in Dr. Tenpenny’s always lively format, on all the crucial areas including:
~How vaccines can cause illnesses including autoimmune diseases, allergies, ear infections, and more,
~The very real link between vaccines and developmental, learning and behavioral disorders in children,
~How vaccines have never been proven safe,
~The ingredients and contaminants in vaccines and why they’re detrimental to your health,
~How vaccine studies are seriously flawed ... (cont.) http://www.mercola.com/forms/vaccine_video.htm
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June 22, 2005, 7:00 pm
What's Up with Antidepressant Drugs?
PLUS video 'Little Helpers' (CBC 2004)
Woodsworth College Residence
321 Bloor St W, room 35 downstairs
(SE corner Bloor W and St George, Toronto, new building)
What's Up with Antidepressant Drugs? a frank look at suicide, withdrawal, and alternatives.
w/ Angela Bischoff <www.greenspiration.org> & Amandha Vollmer
*Angela Bischoff is an activist and partner of the late Tooker Gomberg
*Amandha Vollmer is an activist and a student of Naturopathic Medicine <www.sustainablespirit.org>

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REGIONAL SOCIAL FORUM: Exploring the Globalization Project
June 23-26, 2005, London, Ontario

boilingfrog is attending the media fair on Saturday June 25, and screening the film at 9:00 pm
'Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War'

The Forum will consist of four days of workshops, panels, conferences, presentations, testimonials, seminars, cultural and artistic performances/activities, film screenings, and other media of consciousness raising, dialogue, and progressive social change. After Thursday’s pre-conference day, the* Opening Ceremony *on the evening of Friday, June 24^th will feature such keynotes as *Judy Rebick*, one of Canada’s foremost activist, author and critical thinker, and *Alex Neve*, the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, as well as a diversity of cultural performers. The* Closing Ceremony *on Sunday afternoon will feature such keynotes as writer and /Globe and Mail/ columnist *Rick Salutin* and *Dr. John McMurtry*, Professor of Philosophy, now editing the /Philosophy and World Problems /section of/ UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems/.

Other keynote speakers and panelists include *Tony Clarke*, director of the Polaris Institute, board member of the International Forum on Globalization, and co-author with Maude Barlow of/ Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water/; *Dr. Mel Watkins*, former President of Science for Peace; *Adrian Harewood*, former host of CBC's /Counterspin/; *Rod Macdonell*, Executive Director of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression; *Darrell Anderson*, a conscientious objector to the Iraqi War, among numerous other activists, academics, and members of non-governmental and grassroots organizations.

The RSF will also feature an Independent Media Festival, NGO display booths, a thought-provoking photography exhibition, a bike rally, dynamic activities, and more, all intermingled with healthy, organic meals and presentations of a variety of themes from which people can choose to attend.

There are no costs to attend the Forum. Tenting on our beautiful outdoor site in London and (limited) billeting options are also available free of cost for those interested in taking part in several days of the Forum. Childcare services will also be provided free of cost. Healthy, organic and local food will be served on site for minimal costs.

For more details about the Regional Social Forum – to register as a participant, presenter, or performer; to access our programme; to volunteer; or to donate to the Forum – please visit our web site at *_www.RegionalSocialForum.ca_* or email us at *RegionalSocialForum@gmail.com.*

**MEDIA CONTACT:*/

Andrea Browning
General Facilitator, Regional Social Forum 2005
E-mail: regionalsocialforum@gmail.com / andrea.browning@gmail.com
Tel (home): 519 433 1768
Web: www.regionalsocialforum.ca

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Saturday, June 25, 2005

10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

What Money is, its Power and Potential:

How Canadians Could Use

the Bank of Canada to Solve 100 Problems

A Presentation by Paul Hellyer

Senior Privy Councillor

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*Parkdale Public Library, *Basement Auditorium A**

1303 Queen Street West, Toronto

(between Dufferin and Lansdowne)

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Discussions will continue over lunch, which will be provided.

*A donation of $10 is requested to cover expenses.*

TTC Directions:

From the Bloor Subway, take the Dufferin Bus #29, or the Lansdowne Bus #47.

From the Yonge or University Subway, take the Queen Streetcar #501

Driving Directions:

Gardiner Expressway to Dunn exit. North 2 blocks to Queen. One block to the right. Park on a side street.

Paul Hellyer is one of Canada’s best known and most controversial politicians. First elected in 1949, he was the youngest cabinet minister appointed to Louis St. Laurent’s government eight years later. He subsequently held senior posts in the governments of Lester B. Pearson and Pierre E. Trudeau, who defeated him for the Liberal Party leadership in 1968. The following year, after achieving the rank of senior minister, which was later designated Deputy Prime Minister, Hellyer resigned from the Trudeau cabinet on a question of principle related to housing.

A man of many interests, Hellyer’s ideas are not classroom abstractions. He was born and raised on a farm and his business experience includes manufacturing, retailing, construction, land-development, tourism and publishing. He has also been active in community affairs including the arts, and he studied voice at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. His multi-faceted career, in addition to a near-lifetime in politics, and union membership as a radio and TV commentator, gives Hellyer a rare perspective on what has gone wrong with the Canadian and world economics with their high unemployment and volatile growth rates. He claims that only radical new solutions will solve these problems that are endemic to economic fundamentalism.

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[Tidbits] Secrets Revealed!

What? You mean, the government keeps secrets?!?!?

RawStory.com will be posting an article that they have been researching for several days. Six new secret British documents have been leaked and made widely available on the internet, including via the links below. These were retyped from the originals to protect the source, but RawStory.com has verified the authenticity and will be reporting on that research, on the significance of the documents, and on the timeline of the events illuminated by this information, known to the British media but new on this side of the pond. • "Iraq Options Paper," UK Overseas and Defense Secretariat, March 8, 2002

The greater investment of Western forces, the greater our control over Iraq's future, but the greater the cost and the longer we would need to stay. The only certain means to remove Saddam and his elite is to invade and impose a new government, but this could involve nation building over many years. Even a representative government could seek to acquire WMD and build-up its conventional forces, so long as Iran and Israel retain their WMD and conventional armouries and there was no acceptable solution to the Palestinian grievances.

SIGNIFICANCE: UK government anticipated "nation building over many years," in contradiction to public case by Bush administration. British also believed Iraq might acquire WMD without Saddam Hussein in power.

Juicy! http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=205

German Court Orders Monsanto to Make Documents Public on GE

Court orders Monsanto to make scandal report public Environmental Media Services

Source: Greenpeace International
Jun 10, 2005
www.ems.org/nws/2005/06/10/court_orders_mon

Amsterdam/Cologne, 10 June 2005 - A German law court in Cologne/Germany today ordered biotechnology giant Monsanto to make one of it's confidential reports public after the company tried to prevent the dissemination of its own study. The 1000-page document is in the center of international attention after its results were exposed by the British newspaper Independent On Sunday

Source: www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/german061005.cfm

BOOK: "BEYOND FOREVER"

**BEYOND FOREVER IS NOW FREE**

We have received a matching grant from an outside source enabling us to make available this book at cost plus shipping & handling. It is the desire of the donor "that Beyond Forever be made available to all at a minimum price, so they may be exposed to this crucial and timely work."

Description: By exceeding the spiritual limits imposed by all religions, Beyond Forever unveils, explains, and diagrams in detail the definitive spiritual path enabling perpetual life existences. The Absolute Truth of reincarnation is unmasked and proves to be a self-creation process increasing the practitioner's existence infinitely. Many other verifiable Absolute Truths are revealed providing answers to age-old questions. Death: is it our choice? Eternal life: how and why it is possible. The Universe: are we alone? What is the true path to these revelations? Whether one is a devout seeker with a deep hunger to awaken or a practitioner searching anew or aiming beyond his spiritual or religious practice, Beyond Forever can help lay to rest the "Hungry Ghost" that resides deep within human longing.

Source: www.puremind.net/book.html

Exploring: Move your Mind

This is a video game that challenges and awakens your intuition. Have fun!

www.psiarcade.com (thank you Val for this!)

Where are they hiding the bodies?!

Canadian Health Authorities are ready to regulate supplements in a similar way as pharmaceutical drugs, but resistance is rallying around a law proposal - Bill C 420 - which would clearly define and distinguish supplements from dangerous drugs, suggesting that supplements are more close to foods than medicines and should therefore be regulated in a similar way as food products. Medicines regulation could crush the supplements industry and make many safe food-based health products unavailable to those using them.

More: www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/05/17/where_are_the_bodies_the_exceptional_safety_of_nutritional_supplements.htm

www.sustainablespirit.org "Embracing Diversity to Manifest Unity"

[Tidbits] "Would you like some toxins with your chemicals?"

Health Freedom: Mental Health angle with a side helping of Toxic Chemicals!

Seems like the universe designed it! I am joining Angel Bischoff (www.greenspiration.org) partnered with Boiling Frog to help bring awareness about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs, particularly psychiatric drugs and helping people find alternatives.

TUNE IN! We will be speaking on Nat radio this Thursday June 23^rd at 10pm EST (tune in to www.natradio.com). Angela will be talking about the dangers of psychiatric drugs and the problem of non-disclosure of the possible side effects from MDs to patients. I will be focusing on Codex issues and Naturopathic Alternatives (see articles below).

Wednesday June 22 at 160 Woodsworth College Residence, 321 Bloor St at 7pm, Angela will be discussing her research about psychiatric drugs and the cover up about addiction and horrific side effects, one being suicide, which killed her husband Tooker Gomberg, March 3^rd of 2004, from the drug Remeron.

I will be speaking about Naturopathic Medicine and the alternatives available including basic nutrition and vitamin/mineral supplementation and where to find more info. I will also touch on the Codex issue.

Power to the People! The time is NOW to take a stand for your rights and your health.

Blessings, Amandha

MindFreedom: United Action for Human Rights in Mental Health www.mindfreedom.org

Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault http://capa.oise.utoronto.ca

Our main purpose is to promote and distribute media materials dealing with the many issues either contributing to the rising heat, or efforts to turn it down. We also aim to create a collectively run activist/independent multi-media resource centre that operates in the physical realm as a fixed locale, or traveling road show. www.boilingfrog.ca

If You Drink Artificial Sweeteners You Must See this Movie

"Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World": A Compelling Documentary that Exposes the Real Dangers of Aspartame and How it Became FDA Approved

Most anyone interested in natural health will understand that artificial sweeteners are not healthy for you. But nearly everyone of us leads busy lives that limits us from reading all we would like to, especially about things that may not be that much of a problem anyway.

After all, millions of people drink diet sodas every day and they aren't dropping dead like flies, and the government did approve this sweetener as safe so it can't be too bad.

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

If you believe the above you are in for a sorry surprise. The beautiful aspect of this movie is that in a short ninety minutes you will easily in the relaxed comfort of your own home finally understand why aspartame is a toxic poison and needs to be avoided at all costs.

More: www.mercola.com/forms/sweet_misery.htm and www.wnho.net/sweet_misery_movie.htm

What the heck are the maniacs (aka Government) up to now? A few articles regarding Chem trails:

CLIMATE CHANGE JEKYLLS AND HYDES

W. Hall (Athens, Greece)

January 2005

At the conference Professor Hans-Joachim (John) Schellnhuber told BBC News Online that: “The Kyoto protocol is in a very difficult position, and it may be necessary to find other exit strategies. We may find we’re in a cul-de-sac and have to think of other policies which transcend it.”

An article entitled “Giant Space Shield to Save the Planet” appeared in the “Observer” of 10^th January. It mentioned an extraordinary plan, “underlining the catastrophic implications of climate change”, under which “scientists now want to curb the sun’s life-giving influence to save mankind from its biggest threat: global warming.”

“Key talks involving the Government's most senior climate experts have produced proposals to site massive shield on the edge of space that would deflect the sun’s rays and stabilise the climate. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of metallic ‘scatterers’ would be ejected into the upper atmosphere under the plans. In addition, billions of tiny barrage balloons could serve as a secondary barrier to block rays from the Earth’s nearest star.

Read it all here: www.holmestead.ca/chemtrails/jekyll-hyde.pdf

Chemtrails
- spraying in our sky

The geoengineering proposal of consciously altering atmospheric chemistry and conditions, of mitigating the effects of greenhouse gases, was put forward as an alternative to calling for reduction of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions.

Geoengineering included land, sea and air-based components. Some of the remedies it was proposing, like large-scale planting of trees, appeared uncontroversial and in fact worthy of support. Others, such as the ‘Geritol’ cure of sowing iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of carbon-consuming phytoplankton, seemed more problematic. Others again, such as the ‘sunscreen’ proposal of scattering millions of tons of metallic particles in the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space before it could be emitted in heat radiation and then absorbed by carbon dioxide, were probably judged by most geoengineering theorists to be virtually impossible to sell to the public.

www.holmestead.ca/chemtrails/waynehall.html

Ammendment!

Howard reminded me that I had forgotten to mention about the fantastic DVD about the Gerson Technique for Cancer:

Watch it and order it here: www.thegersonmiracle.org

THE REAL DRUG WAR IS VIOXX
New statistics reveal a mounting death toll from the blockbuster pharmaceutical drug Vioxx. The highly touted pain killer is estimated to have caused roughly 140,000 heart attacks, 44% of which led to death. The total number of U.S. deaths from this pharmaceutical drug that the FDA had claimed was "safe", is over 60,000, which is about the same as the combined number of deaths of all U.S. soldiers killed in the Vietnam war, Desert Storm, and the current Iraq quagmire. www.organicconsumers.org/Politics/medicine052605.cfm

www.sustainablespirit.org "Embracing Diversity to Manifest Unity"

Saturday, June 04, 2005

[Tidbits] Orthomolecular Conference Connections

Hello!

The Orthomolecular Conference in Ottawa was so amazing I can barely exclaim. This Tidbits is dedicated to some of the people I met at the conference and before hand at the Health Standing Committee Meeting for Bill C-420.

These are some really amazing people, projects and websites to help you with your health and help you become reempowered and reinspired!

Please also note that there is important Codex information published at my other blog: http://energyhealing.blogspot.com Please read this info!

Blessings! Amandha

Gerson Therapy

I had the honour of meeting Charlotte Gerson and her son Howard Strauss. I arranged with Howard to get a copy of the DVD ‘The Gerson Miracle”, Charlotte’s Book ‘The Gerson Therapy” and Howard’s Book “Dr. Max Gerson”, all about his amazing grandfather, to put into the CCNM library. If you wish to read these books/watch the DVD let me know or consult the library soon! ~AV

Gerson therapy is one of the metabolic therapies, using a special diet, plus supplements, and a coffee enema to cure terminal cases of cancer. 90-95% of his cancer cases were far advanced (terminal), and overall his cure rate was about 50%, which is exceptional because he counted all of his patients, not just those who lived for a year. This percentage is far higher than current day orthodox treatments and higher than most alternative cancer treatments!!

Learn More: www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Gerson.html

and: www.gersonhawaii.us/curedcancers1.html

also: www.gerson.org/about/default.asp

Patrick Holford

He’s in the UK but has a really great website and is changing many people’s lives through their diets! His book that I have so far is really great: “Optimum Nutrition for the Mind”. When I am done with it, I will offer it up to being borrowed. Here’s what it’s about:

Mental health problems – ranging from attention deficit disorder to Alzheimer’s, depression and schizophrenia – are fast becoming the number one health issue this century, with one in four people suffering at some point in their life. Having worked with thousands of people with these problems, and researched the underlying causes, I have come to the conclusion that most can be prevented, and in many cases reversed, by a fundamentally new approach to mental well-being. My tried-and-tested cure is simple – diet and nutritional supplements. Any intelligent person can recognize that our diets have changed radically in the last 100 years, along with our environment. When you consider that the body and brain are entirely made from molecules derived from food, air and water, and that simple molecules like alcohol can fundamentally affect the brain, isn’t it likely that changes in diet and the environment have an effect on our mental health? Drawing on more than 500 studies, I present evidence that most of us are not achieving our full potential for mental health, happiness, alertness and clarity because we are not achieving optimum nutrition for the mind. What you eat DOES affect your mind, and can transform how you think and feel. You don’t need to be depressed, stressed, anxious, hyperactive, losing your concentration or memory at any age.

From: www.patrickholford.com/content.asp?id_Content=548

Source: www.patrickholford.com

Also see: www.mentalhealthproject.com

Andrew Saul, PhD.

I love his book ‘Doctor Yourself”! The man is pretty freakin groovy too. His daughter Helen is also fantastic. He and his book are wonderful and super clever as well as funny and witty. This is a great book for laypersons and doctors alike. I would recommend this to patients and I am working to get them in our CCNM book store!

I have seen the foolishness of conventional disease care wisdom. I have seen hospitals feed white bread to patients with bowel cancer and hospitals feed "Jello" to leukemia patients. I have seen schools feed bright red "Slush Puppies" to 7 year olds for lunch and I have seen children vomit up a desk-top full of red crud afterwards. And, I have seen those same children later line up at the school nurse for hyperactivity drugs.

I have seen hospital patients allowed to go two weeks without a bowel movement. I have seen patients told that they have six months to live when they might live sixty months. I have seen people recover from serious illness, only to have their physician berate them for having used natural healing methods to do so. I have seen infants spit up formula while their mothers were advised not to breast feed. I've seen better ingredients in dog food than in the average school or hospital lunch.

And I have seen enough.

Don't bother looking in the history books for what has slaughtered the most Americans. Look instead at your dinner table. There's an old saying: "One fourth of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-fourths keep your doctor alive." We eat too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Scientific research continually indicates nationwide vitamin and mineral deficiencies in our country. We spend over one million million dollars (one trillion) each year on disease care in America. Is it any surprise that doctors consistently place among the very highest incomes?

A Fantastic Website and tool to find out much info about your health: www.doctoryourself.com

Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND

Now here is an amazing gal! What an inspiration! We were roomies at the Chateau Laurier for the conference, totally fun stuff. She is another worker for health freedom and has helping to educate the public about Codex. I really recommend all her books! “Death By Modern Medicine” is a MUST read! Please check out the site:

The experts who wrote the report feel that a diet low in sugars, salt, and saturated fats and high in vegetables and fruits, together with regular physical activity, can have a major impact on combating this high toll of death and disease. They focused special attention on added sugars and determined that a healthy diet should contain no more than 10 percent.

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general of WHO, said:

We have known for a long time that foods high in saturated fats, sugars, and salt are unhealthy; that we are, globally, increasing our intake of energy-dense, nutritionally poor food as our lives become increasingly sedentary; and that these factors—together with tobacco use—are the leading causes of the great surge we have seen in the incidence of chronic diseases. What is new is that we are laying down the foundation for a global policy response.

No other agency has set such a low limit for the intake of sugar. In the United States, in spite of the fact that 60 percent of the population is obese, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans only advise that sugar should be used in moderation. Even worse, the Institute of Medicine, part of the US National Academy of Sciences, indulges Americans with a whopping 25 percent of their calories from added sugar.

The major objection to any recommendations for reducing sugar comes from the sugar industry. Presently they are in a huge debate with WHO. The industry denies that sugar is the cause of any form of chronic disease and says that the solution to obesity is—more exercise. The US National Soft Drink Association’s stated position is that a 10 percent limit on sugar should not be included in the WHO plan.

They publicly claim that the scientific literature does not show an association between sugar intake and
obesity. In a blatant attempt to derail implementation of the Diet and Nutrition Report, the sugar industry is lobbying the US government to withhold funding from the UN and WHO if it goes ahead with its recommendations.

Excerpt from Death by Modern Medicine by Dr. Carolyn Dean

A Tidbit from Carolyn!

"So then, my question remains. Why do we want to make dietary supplements into a drug category? Even if Health Canada says it doesn't REALLY mean they are drugs (that's what the regulations say and that's how they are being treated regardless of what individuals say or do right now.) And remember they are still just regulations and not legalized in law. Nobody voted for them they were just imposed as regulations by the Health Canada bureaucracy.

My tidbit for the day!
Hope all is well.
Love
Carolyn"

Her site: www.carolyndean.com

Dr. Abram Hoffer

Wow. I don’t know what else to say about this incredible man. It was an honour to meet him and to be introduced to the world of Orthomolecular Medicine:

My work with schizophrenia and later in developing orthomolecular psychiatry depends on a series of events that possibly cannot ever occur again. I began to work for the Government of Saskatchewan in July 1, 1950, to organize a research division in psychiatry. The government was very hopeful that this would help them bring our mental hospital into the twentieth century. Our two mental hospitals were classed in 1954 as among the three worst in the world by Dr. John Weir, Medical Director of the Rockefeller Foundation. My chief was very supportive because he trusted and liked me even though he did not understand much about what we were doing. Dr. Humphry Osmond joined us from England. He was a refugee from the stiff conservative research intellectual attitude of academic psychiatry in England. He and John Smythies had formulated their M hypothesis of schizophrenia which was that it was possible that in the body of these patients there was a chemical with the psychological properties of mescaline and somehow related to adrenaline. Osmond brought this idea to us in Saskatchewan in the fall of 1951, and to me it made a tremendous amount of good sense. It gave us a map to follow in pursuit to the elusive schizophrenic toxin. I was Director of Psychiatric Research and was given full control. I knew no psychiatry, which was a major stroke of luck because I did not know that what we were trying to do was impossible. We had no medical school, another stroke of luck because we had no one who could countermand the direction I wanted to follow. Our team developed the adrenochrome hypothesis, which stated that adrenalin was oxidized to adrenochrome and this caused the disease. It was the first super oxidation hypothesis in medicine and it called for certain biochemical tricks to reverse this oxidation. We developed our research program with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation and showed that adrenochrome is an hallucinogen and showed how it could be made and studied. Later it was found in the body and is today receiving serious consideration as an element in many degenerative diseases of the brain. But we also wanted to treat our patients more effectively. All we had was ECT.

Sites: orthomolecular.org/history/hoffer/index.shtml

and www.islandnet.com/~hoffer

The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine www.orthomed.org/jom/jom.htm

Other beautiful people that I had a chance to meet when at the Health Standing Committee Meeting right before the conference were Croft Woodruff:

Croft’s Health Products:

www.cwhealth.com

And Lorna Hancock and Bayne Boynes of the

Health Action Network Society

www.hans.org

"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our patients and that much worse for the fishes." Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.

"It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within."

Albert Schweitzer, M.D.