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Dedicated to those who lead a life of service to the good of the whole......

This is a testament to those who stand passionately, and with strength, to the service of humanity and the planet.  It is a clarion call to those individuals on our earth who inspire and organize initiatives dedicated to that end.

A Poem of Parents

Both of my parents circulate in my blood, the one fierce, hard, and morose, the other tender, kind, and saintly.  I have carried them all my days; neither has died.

My lifelong effort is to reconcile them so that one may give me their strength, the other their tenderness to make the discord between them, which breaks out incessantly within me, turn to harmony inside their daughter's heart.

~ Nokos Kazantzakis : "Report to Greco" ~

A RESPONSE OF LIGHT TO THE TRAGEDY IN NEWTON from Steve Beckow and Julie Redstone

RESPONSE OF LIGHT

www.responseoflight.com

TRAGEDY at NEWTOWN, CT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Prayer/Meditation – Friday, Dec. 14th – 8PM (EST)
Saturday, Dec. 15th – 8PM (EST)

Shooting in Newtown, CT of many children and adults at elementary school 

The details of today’s shooting are still unclear. However, as of this writing, there are 18 elementary school age children and 9 adult fatalities. Prayers are needed to help all souls who have died to ease their transition into the light. Prayers are also needed for those in shock and grief who are left behind.

Please join us in prayer/meditation tonight, (Fri. – 12/14) at 8PM EST and tomorrow night (Sat., 12/15) again at 8PM EST.

With blessings and gratitude for your help.

Julie Redstone

Horrific! Unconscionable! Disgusting! PLease sign petition if you are inclined! Thanks!

FROM THE FOLKS AT WATCHDOG NET:

When Kristen Cunnane was in middle school, she was molested by one of her male teachers. Years later, she and several other survivors managed to charge their attackers for the crime, suing California's Moraga school district for sheltering these predators.
Now Moraga’s lawyers have formed a response: Kristen Cunnane was so "careless" and "negligent" when she was 12 years old that she practically deserved to be raped.
“She was herself responsible,” the district and three other defendants’ attorneys wrote in a Oct. 24 legal filing: “Carelessness and negligence on her part proximately contributed to the happenings of the incident.”

This is a 12-year-old girl we’re talking about here. A scared little girl molested by a man she thought she could trust, now a young woman being told that this teacher’s advances were her “responsibility” to deflect.

Please, join us in writing the Moraga school district and its legal team to express your horror and disgust at their attack on Kristen Cunnane. If we can bring enough media attention to this story, we can stop this appalling victim-blaming once and for all – but if we don’t speak out, more women and girls will be shamed into silence.

PETITION TO MORAGA SCHOOL DISTRICT: Blaming pre-teen victims for the actions of their molesters is nothing short of horrific. We demand that you stop the assault on Kristen Cunnane and her fellow survivors, taking responsibility for your failure to protect them from predatory teachers

Sign this petition now.
Thanks,
-- The folks at Watchdog.net
P.S. If the other links aren't working for you, please go here to sign: http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/1848?n=4749713.3Nb9CF

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"How the US Election Was Planned To Go, and How the Plan Came Unglued" ~ by Steve Beckow

Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix

Monday, 19 November 2012 16:02 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take | News Analysis
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12845-anonymous-karl-rove-and-2012-election-fix

At around 11:25 pm EST on election night, Karl Rove knew something had gone terribly wrong.

Minutes earlier, Fox News called the key battleground state of Ohio for President Obama, sealing his re-election. But as the network took live shots of jubilant Obama supporters celebrating their victory camped outside the Obama re-election headquarters in Chicago, Karl Rove began building a case against the call his employer network had just made.

Rove explained that when Fox called Ohio, only 74% of the vote was in showing President Obama with a lead of roughly 30,000 votes. But, as Rove contended, with 77% reporting according to the Ohio Secretary of State office, the President’s lead had been slashed to just 991 votes.

“We gotta be careful about calling the thing,” Rove said, “I’d be very cautious about intruding in on this process.”

Rove was supremely confident that the numbers coming in from Ohio throughout the night that favored President Obama weren’t indicative of who would win Ohio when all the votes were ultimately tabulated by the state’s computers. With a quarter of the vote still out there, Rove was anticipating a shift to the Right just after 11 pm, which, coincidentally, is exactly what happened in 2004.

That year, John Kerry and the entire nation were watching Ohio just after the 11pm hour. Florida had just been called for George W. Bush and according to the Electoral College math whoever won Ohio would win the election. And considering that exit polls from the state showed John Kerry with a substantial lead, there were a lot of tense moments for Karl Rove and the Republicans that night.

Then the clock struck 11:14pm, and the servers counting the votes in Ohio crashed. Election officials had planned for this sort of thing to happen and already contracted with a company in Chattanooga, Tennessee called SMARTech to be the failsafe should the servers in Ohio go down.

As journalist Craig Unger lays bare in his book, Boss Rove, SMARTech was drenched in Republican politics. One of the early founders of the company was Mercer Reynolds who used to the finance chairman of the Republican Party. SMARTech’s top client was none other than the Bush-Cheney campaign itself and SMARTech also did work for Jeb Bush and the Republican National Committee. And it was Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, who ensured that SMARTech received the contract to count votes on election night should the servers go down, which they did at exactly 11:14pm.

Sixty long seconds later the servers came back up in Ohio, but now with vote rerouted through SMARTech in Chattanooga.  And, coincidentally, Bush’s prospects for re-election were suddenly a lot brighter. The vote totals that poured into the system from SmartTECH’s computer in Chattanooga were flipping the exit polls on their head. The lead Kerry had in the exit polls had magically reversed by more than 6%, something unheard of in any other nation in the developed world, giving Bush the win in Ohio and the presidency for another four years.

Unger further explains in his book that the only independent analysis of what happened in Ohio was done by Richard Hayes Phillips and published in the book, Witness to a Crime. Phillips and his team analyzed more than 120,000 ballots, 127 polls books, and 141 signature books from Ohio’s 2004 election.

Phillips found zero irregularities in vote totals from all the counties that reported results before the servers crashed at 11:14pm. But of the fourteen counties that came in after the crash connected Ohio’s election computers to SmartTECH’s computers in Chattanooga, every single one of them showed voter irregularities – that all favored George W. Bush.

For example, consider Cleveland’s Fourth Ward. In 2000, Al Gore won 95% of that ward’s vote. But in 2004, the county reported its results after the 11:14 pm crash, and it showed that Kerry had only won 59% of the vote – a 35% drop without any explanation. There were several other abnormalities across Ohio’s post-server crash that delivered the state to Bush.

John Kerry never protested the election and to this day, these 2004 voter abnormalities have never been addressed.

So the question is: on election night this year, when Karl Rove was protesting the call his network had just made in Ohio, was Rove anticipating a wave of unpredicted vote totals to swing the election back to Mitt Romney after a statewide server crash, just as had happened in 2004?

Perhaps. He did make the point that the race was about to drastically narrow according to the Secretary of State’s office. And as The Free Press reports, a number of odd similarities with 2004 began occurring in Ohio this year just after the 11pm hour once again:

“Curiously, the Ohio Secretary of State’s vote tabulation website went down at 11:13pm, as reported by Free Press election protection website monitors, and mentioned by Rove on the news. This was one minute earlier than the time on election night 2004 — when Ohio votes were outsourced to Chattanooga, Tennessee — and then the vote flipped for Bush…This time, the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) vote tabulation site went down as on election night as well. In his rant on Fox, Rove argued that Fox News should not confirm Ohio for Obama until votes came in from the southwest Ohio GOP strongholds of Delaware, Butler and Warren counties and suburban Cincinnati. It was after the crash of the secretary of state’s site in 2004 that improbable vote totals came in from Republican counties in southwest Ohio – particularly Butler, Clermont, and Warren counties. These three counties provided more than Bush’s entire Ohio victory margin of 119,000.”

Only this time, when the servers came back up, the votes never flipped. President Obama’s lead held and he went on to win, while Karl Rove – and Mitt Romney – watched in slack-jawed amazement.

We know there was a parade of Conservative talking heads in the days before the election predicting a landslide victory for Mitt Romney. Is it because they lived in a bubble, lacking pollster Nate Silver’s facts and arithmetic that actually showed the President winning in a landslide? Could it be that Rove’s election night freak-out was just a result of this same Election Day ignorance held by all Republicans? Or was Rove genuinely shocked by what he was seeing because he knew the fix was in, just like in 2004, and there was no way President Obama was going to win re-election?

And if that’s the case, why did the plan to steal the election not work?

Here’s where the story gets really interesting.

Just a few weeks before Election Day, the hacktivist group Anonymous issued a video statement against Karl Rove. Anonymous is notorious for numerous cyber actions against the Justice Department, the Pentagon, the Recording Industry of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, and even the Church of Scientology.

In the video released prior to Election Day, Anonymous warns Karl Rove that he’s being watched. “We know that you will attempt to attempt to rig the election of Mitt Romney to your favor,” a black-robed figure in a Guy Fawkes mask says in the video. “We will watch as your merry band of conspirators try to achieve this overthrow of the United States government.”

The figure then warns Rove that Anonymous is “watching and monitoring all your servers,” and goes on to say, “We want you to know that we are watching you, waiting for you to make this mistake of thinking you can rig this election to your favor…If we catch you we will turn over all of this data to the appropriate officials in the hopes that you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Then, just two days after Election Day, as the Republican Party was in full-blown despair and Karl Rove was trying to figure out what went wrong, Anonymous released a press statement claiming it did indeed prevent an attempt by Rove to steal the election for Mitt Romney.

The statement reads, “We began following the digital traffic of one Karl Rove…After a rather short time, we identified the digital structure of Karl’s operation and even that of his ORCA. This was an easy task in that barn doors were left open and the wind swept us inside.”The “ORCA” that Anonymous is referring to in the press release is a massive, high-tech get-out-the-vote system created by the Romney campaign this year that will keep tabs on potential voters and coordinate with operatives to target who has and hasn’t voted yet on Election Day.

Romney’s Communications Director Gail Gitcho bragged about how sophisticated ORCA is saying, “At 5 o’clock when the exit polls come out, we won’t pay attention to that. We will have had much more scientific information based on the political operation we have set up.” In other words, ORCA will know who won Ohio better than any exit polls.

But, according to Anonymous, ORCA had nothing to do with getting out the vote and everything to do with rigging the vote.

“We coded and created, what we call The Great Oz. A targeted password protected firewall that we tested and refined over the past weeks. We placed this code on more than one of the digital tunnels and their destination that Karl’s not so smart worker bees planned to use on election night.”

Anonymous alleges these “digital tunnels” were leading to servers in three different states. The release goes on to detail what happened on election night as Rove’s operatives attempted to access these tunnels. “We watched as Karl’s weak corrupters repeatedly tried to penetrate The Great Oz.  These children of his were at a loss-how many times and how many passwords did they try-exactly 105.”

“Karl’s speared ORCA whale was breached, rotting with a strong stench across his playground, unable to be resuscitated,” claims Anonymous.

So might this have really been the reason for Karl Rove’s shock on election night? Under the guise of sophisticated get out the vote operation, had Rove and the Republican Party actually built up a massive system to steal the Ohio election, just like in 2004, only to have it thwarted at the last minute by a group of computer hackers?

If this is true, then the implications are enormous and could take down the entire Republican Party and finally wake Americans up to the fact that our privatized vote system is shockingly flawed and insecure.

In their press release, Anonymous concludes, “We have a warning for Karl – sail again at your own peril. We may just put all the evidence into a tidy little package and give it to a painfully bored nemesis hanging out in a certain embassy in London.”

In an era of internet lulz and digital false flags, we must demand proof for these sort of claims made by Anonymous. But given Karl Rove’s history with elections in Ohio and the known vulnerabilities with our corporate owned electronic voting machines, there may be both smoke and fire with these election night allegations.

That’s why it’s vitally important for Anonymous to release any information or evidence it has about this plot to not just Julian Assange, but to law enforcement authorities as well. Otherwise, the alleged democracy-saving actions of the hacktivist group will instead be regarded as useless internet antics, relegated to the dustbins of history.

This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12845-anonymous-karl-rove-and-2012-election-fix

At around 11:25 pm EST on election night, Karl Rove knew something had gone terribly wrong.

Minutes earlier, Fox News called the key battleground state of Ohio for President Obama, sealing his re-election. But as the network took live shots of jubilant Obama supporters celebrating their victory camped outside the Obama re-election headquarters in Chicago, Karl Rove began building a case against the call his employer network had just made.

Rove explained that when Fox called Ohio, only 74% of the vote was in showing President Obama with a lead of roughly 30,000 votes. But, as Rove contended, with 77% reporting according to the Ohio Secretary of State office, the President’s lead had been slashed to just 991 votes.

“We gotta be careful about calling the thing,” Rove said, “I’d be very cautious about intruding in on this process.”

Rove was supremely confident that the numbers coming in from Ohio throughout the night that favored President Obama weren’t indicative of who would win Ohio when all the votes were ultimately tabulated by the state’s computers. With a quarter of the vote still out there, Rove was anticipating a shift to the Right just after 11 pm, which, coincidentally, is exactly what happened in 2004.

That year, John Kerry and the entire nation were watching Ohio just after the 11pm hour. Florida had just been called for George W. Bush and according to the Electoral College math whoever won Ohio would win the election. And considering that exit polls from the state showed John Kerry with a substantial lead, there were a lot of tense moments for Karl Rove and the Republicans that night.

Then the clock struck 11:14pm, and the servers counting the votes in Ohio crashed. Election officials had planned for this sort of thing to happen and already contracted with a company in Chattanooga, Tennessee called SMARTech to be the failsafe should the servers in Ohio go down.

As journalist Craig Unger lays bare in his book, Boss Rove, SMARTech was drenched in Republican politics. One of the early founders of the company was Mercer Reynolds who used to the finance chairman of the Republican Party. SMARTech’s top client was none other than the Bush-Cheney campaign itself and SMARTech also did work for Jeb Bush and the Republican National Committee. And it was Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, who ensured that SMARTech received the contract to count votes on election night should the servers go down, which they did at exactly 11:14pm.

Sixty long seconds later the servers came back up in Ohio, but now with vote rerouted through SMARTech in Chattanooga.  And, coincidentally, Bush’s prospects for re-election were suddenly a lot brighter. The vote totals that poured into the system from SmartTECH’s computer in Chattanooga were flipping the exit polls on their head. The lead Kerry had in the exit polls had magically reversed by more than 6%, something unheard of in any other nation in the developed world, giving Bush the win in Ohio and the presidency for another four years.

Unger further explains in his book that the only independent analysis of what happened in Ohio was done by Richard Hayes Phillips and published in the book, Witness to a Crime. Phillips and his team analyzed more than 120,000 ballots, 127 polls books, and 141 signature books from Ohio’s 2004 election.

Phillips found zero irregularities in vote totals from all the counties that reported results before the servers crashed at 11:14pm. But of the fourteen counties that came in after the crash connected Ohio’s election computers to SmartTECH’s computers in Chattanooga, every single one of them showed voter irregularities – that all favored George W. Bush.

For example, consider Cleveland’s Fourth Ward. In 2000, Al Gore won 95% of that ward’s vote. But in 2004, the county reported its results after the 11:14 pm crash, and it showed that Kerry had only won 59% of the vote – a 35% drop without any explanation. There were several other abnormalities across Ohio’s post-server crash that delivered the state to Bush.

John Kerry never protested the election and to this day, these 2004 voter abnormalities have never been addressed.

So the question is: on election night this year, when Karl Rove was protesting the call his network had just made in Ohio, was Rove anticipating a wave of unpredicted vote totals to swing the election back to Mitt Romney after a statewide server crash, just as had happened in 2004?

Perhaps. He did make the point that the race was about to drastically narrow according to the Secretary of State’s office. And as The Free Press reports, a number of odd similarities with 2004 began occurring in Ohio this year just after the 11pm hour once again:

“Curiously, the Ohio Secretary of State’s vote tabulation website went down at 11:13pm, as reported by Free Press election protection website monitors, and mentioned by Rove on the news. This was one minute earlier than the time on election night 2004 — when Ohio votes were outsourced to Chattanooga, Tennessee — and then the vote flipped for Bush…This time, the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) vote tabulation site went down as on election night as well. In his rant on Fox, Rove argued that Fox News should not confirm Ohio for Obama until votes came in from the southwest Ohio GOP strongholds of Delaware, Butler and Warren counties and suburban Cincinnati. It was after the crash of the secretary of state’s site in 2004 that improbable vote totals came in from Republican counties in southwest Ohio – particularly Butler, Clermont, and Warren counties. These three counties provided more than Bush’s entire Ohio victory margin of 119,000.”

Only this time, when the servers came back up, the votes never flipped. President Obama’s lead held and he went on to win, while Karl Rove – and Mitt Romney – watched in slack-jawed amazement.

We know there was a parade of Conservative talking heads in the days before the election predicting a landslide victory for Mitt Romney. Is it because they lived in a bubble, lacking pollster Nate Silver’s facts and arithmetic that actually showed the President winning in a landslide? Could it be that Rove’s election night freak-out was just a result of this same Election Day ignorance held by all Republicans? Or was Rove genuinely shocked by what he was seeing because he knew the fix was in, just like in 2004, and there was no way President Obama was going to win re-election?

And if that’s the case, why did the plan to steal the election not work?

Here’s where the story gets really interesting.

Just a few weeks before Election Day, the hacktivist group Anonymous issued a video statement against Karl Rove. Anonymous is notorious for numerous cyber actions against the Justice Department, the Pentagon, the Recording Industry of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, and even the Church of Scientology.

In the video released prior to Election Day, Anonymous warns Karl Rove that he’s being watched. “We know that you will attempt to attempt to rig the election of Mitt Romney to your favor,” a black-robed figure in a Guy Fawkes mask says in the video. “We will watch as your merry band of conspirators try to achieve this overthrow of the United States government.”

The figure then warns Rove that Anonymous is “watching and monitoring all your servers,” and goes on to say, “We want you to know that we are watching you, waiting for you to make this mistake of thinking you can rig this election to your favor…If we catch you we will turn over all of this data to the appropriate officials in the hopes that you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Then, just two days after Election Day, as the Republican Party was in full-blown despair and Karl Rove was trying to figure out what went wrong, Anonymous released a press statement claiming it did indeed prevent an attempt by Rove to steal the election for Mitt Romney.

The statement reads, “We began following the digital traffic of one Karl Rove…After a rather short time, we identified the digital structure of Karl’s operation and even that of his ORCA. This was an easy task in that barn doors were left open and the wind swept us inside.”The “ORCA” that Anonymous is referring to in the press release is a massive, high-tech get-out-the-vote system created by the Romney campaign this year that will keep tabs on potential voters and coordinate with operatives to target who has and hasn’t voted yet on Election Day.

Romney’s Communications Director Gail Gitcho bragged about how sophisticated ORCA is saying, “At 5 o’clock when the exit polls come out, we won’t pay attention to that. We will have had much more scientific information based on the political operation we have set up.” In other words, ORCA will know who won Ohio better than any exit polls.

But, according to Anonymous, ORCA had nothing to do with getting out the vote and everything to do with rigging the vote.

“We coded and created, what we call The Great Oz. A targeted password protected firewall that we tested and refined over the past weeks. We placed this code on more than one of the digital tunnels and their destination that Karl’s not so smart worker bees planned to use on election night.”

Anonymous alleges these “digital tunnels” were leading to servers in three different states. The release goes on to detail what happened on election night as Rove’s operatives attempted to access these tunnels. “We watched as Karl’s weak corrupters repeatedly tried to penetrate The Great Oz.  These children of his were at a loss-how many times and how many passwords did they try-exactly 105.”

“Karl’s speared ORCA whale was breached, rotting with a strong stench across his playground, unable to be resuscitated,” claims Anonymous.

So might this have really been the reason for Karl Rove’s shock on election night? Under the guise of sophisticated get out the vote operation, had Rove and the Republican Party actually built up a massive system to steal the Ohio election, just like in 2004, only to have it thwarted at the last minute by a group of computer hackers?

If this is true, then the implications are enormous and could take down the entire Republican Party and finally wake Americans up to the fact that our privatized vote system is shockingly flawed and insecure.

In their press release, Anonymous concludes, “We have a warning for Karl – sail again at your own peril. We may just put all the evidence into a tidy little package and give it to a painfully bored nemesis hanging out in a certain embassy in London.”

In an era of internet lulz and digital false flags, we must demand proof for these sort of claims made by Anonymous. But given Karl Rove’s history with elections in Ohio and the known vulnerabilities with our corporate owned electronic voting machines, there may be both smoke and fire with these election night allegations.

That’s why it’s vitally important for Anonymous to release any information or evidence it has about this plot to not just Julian Assange, but to law enforcement authorities as well. Otherwise, the alleged democracy-saving actions of the hacktivist group will instead be regarded as useless internet antics, relegated to the dustbins of history.

This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license.

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Right now, the Dow is at 13,000. It was below 8,000 when the president took office. Job growth is rising. Unemployment is dropping. We desperately need to stay the course with this president........"(Click here to read this compelling article!)

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"Ascending with Both Feet On the Ground" ~ Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown has afforded us with his many gifts. This book is yet another. His style is captivating...he writes from soul.  I cannot recommend it highly enough!

Ascending With Both Feet On the Ground

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Perhaps the first of its kind, ‘Ascending with both feet on the Ground’ is a collection of author Jeff Brown’s most inspiring and well-loved Facebook quotes, soul-bytes, excerpts and aphorisms. In Jeff’s hands, Facebook status became a kind of spiritual graffiti, a grass roots opportunity to inspire, support and connect with humanity. With a writing style that is unforgettably original, Jeff calls out to our inner knowing and reminds us of the magnificent life that awaits us. A wonderful gift to give to others, this little treasure book is no generic quotes book. It is an impactful, stirring and enlivening piece of art that will keep you company on the journey home. It will help you to excavate your purpose, befriend your confusion, confront your avoidance, ground your spirituality and open your heart.

At its core, Ascending reflects the grounded spirituality that threads through all of Jeff’s writing, a ‘sole to soul’ philosophy that celebrates ‘enrealment’ – a way of being that is inclusive and honoring of all that is human. Nothing and no one gets left out on the path home. Everything- feelings, personal identifications, practical challenges, mystical moments, the dust that falls off our awakening hearts- is part of our spirituality. With writing that is simultaneously mystical and practical, this heartfelt book beautifully reflects the indistinguishable weave between spiritual and emotional life that is becoming deeply important to seekers on the path.

Time and again, you can turn to its pages to feel supported in your quest for an authentic and integrated life. And at the back of the book are 3 of his most inspiring blogs, including the profound ‘Apologies to the Divine Feminine- from a warrior in transition’, now read and loved by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. In an effort to bring this book to more people, shipping is included in the price. And, if you order 4 copies, we will include 2 extra books in the package so you can gift the book to 2 additional friends that you feel may benefit from it.

Early Praise for ‘Ascending with both feet on the Ground’…

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Elizabeth Lesser, Co-host Oprah’s ‘Soul Series’ radio, author of Broken Open and The Seeker s Guide; Cofounder, Omega Institute

“Anyone who has ever tried to write about the spiritual journey knows how hard it is to find words that are big yet humble enough, serious yet light enough, full of drama and awe yet also stripped down and naked. This little book pulls it off. Jeff Brown has a most marvelous way with words. You think you’re reading a joke, and it turns into a profound realization. Or you’re following a complex thought to completion and suddenly it blossoms into a song and dance. I love learning about life and truth and love and purpose through the wizardry of Jeff s words. I think you will too.”

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“Jeff Brown stirs the soulful imagination with words that encourage, challenge and remind us what we are and why we are here. His aphorisms- soulshaping nuggets for the journey- come from the heart of his experience. Enjoy!”

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“With great wisdom, depth, humor and warmth, Jeff Brown s brilliant offering pierces through the veil of pretense, and brings us to our knees before the refreshing alter of authenticity. His musings manage to offer both an elevated, delightful and invigorating perspective as well as gift us with a grounded, solid pathway home to the most true and tender parts of ourselves. A heartwarming and heart-opening read, this beautiful little piece of art rekindles an almost childlike faith in the possibilities present, while reminding us to do the very real work to actualize them.”

Stephen and Ondrea Levine, authors of Embracing the Beloved and The Healing I took birth for

“Jeff’s writings are so inspiring! His quotes wisely and warmly support our shared expansion, and his Apologies series brings men and women together in a healing process that we all must go through to be whole. We heartfully recommend this special book.”

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“The book is fabulous—provocative, encouraging, and blazing with a clear-eyed truth that bows to no icons, only to the sweet, clear song of reality itself. There are enough sparks of wisdom in this book to ignite a blaze in the soul. Exhilarating, compassionate, in-sightful, these truth-soundings will vibrate in your being long after you have put them down. This is the kind of provocative companionship I cherish.”

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“Ascending with both feet on the ground is a concrete and vital approach to personal evolution. The process of “enrealment” is not for the faint of heart—this is a serious commitment to standing in the purifying fire of a deeply discerning and ever-expanding personal awareness. Jeff Brown’s call to consciousness is clear and direct as he cuts to the heart of the matter with his words of wisdom in this eloquent and engaging book of quotes and commentary.”

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“Jeff Brown is the Spiritual Warrior our planet needs today. Truth permeates his work and his authentic “soul” message hugs my open heart. His wisdom will inspire you to not only take your step, but to reach the luminous place inside your soul.”

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“This book is a breathtaking accumulation of offerings. It turns out that our greatest love affair is actually with our very own soul. With his written words and their subsequent echo through the center of the heart, Jeff Brown validates the inner journey, filled with both blustery canyons and snow-capped mountaintops, coupled with authentic external expression as the path to freedom. Rather than resist the paradoxes of life, we are invited to rest within them to know ourselves, full-out and full-on, as spirit-embodied. Savor each drop for this is as deliciously nitty-gritty as soul recognition gets!”

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“An insightful, wide-ranging collection of navigational aids for the path of awakening, with a special emphasis on grounded spirituality and deep healing.”

Jessica Bahr, author of The Awakening Woman

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Angels Radiate God’s Influence to Humanity ~ Steve Beckow

Some people first coming to this site are surprised. Extraterrestrials. Ascended Masters. Angels!

Angels seem to be the hardest to accept. Never mind that the Bible sees angels has angels deliver the glad news of the messiah’s coming, rescue people from dire situations, protect the prophets, etc.........(read more)

The Romney Men: 6 Filthy Rich Moguls Who Will Do Anything to Elect Mitt ~ Alternet / Lynn Parramore

This is what plutocracy looks like:

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Biden vs. Ryan: "The Old Pro Takes On the Lying Kid" ! Alternet/Adele M. Stan

"That's a lot of malarkey," Biden said of Ryan's lies -- and then went on to slice and dice, smiling all the while......
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JPMorgan Chase CEO: 'I Should Have Caught' $5.8 Billion Error : The Two-Way : NPR

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, wearing a dark suit possibly made of sackcloth, didn't hold back when discussing the derivative trades that led to massive losses for his company...(read more)

A must-read article!: Seeds of Deception: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Cover-up. Genetically Engineered Food.

Posted on "Wantstoknow.inf":

Praise for the Book Seeds of Deception

"Outrageous! That's what you'll say when you read how the biotechnology companies have manipulated the government, our food, and the media, and put an entire generation at risk.
            - Ben Cohen, Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry's

"Clear, profound, and unerringly accurate, Seeds of Deception tells what you need to know about genetically engineered food — and what Monsanto won't tell you. If you care about the safety of our food supply, if you care what corporations are doing to your food and health, this is the book to get."
           - John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution and Diet For A New America

"This pivotal exposé leaves no doubt that politics and corporate influence, not sound science, allowed these potentially dangerous GM foods onto supermarket shelves."
           - Joe Mendelson, Legal Director, Center for Food Safety

"I've seen first hand how Monsanto and the FDA resorted to scientific deceit of the highest order to market genetically engineered milk. With captivating style and a flair for describing science in clear, accurate language, Seeds of Deception unveils the distortions, omissions, and lies for all to see."
           - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., professor emeritus environmental and occupational medicine
                 University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition...........

(click to read more shocking details)

Seeds of Deception: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Cover-up. Genetically Engineered Food.

It's not an exaggeration to say that almost everyone wants to see the labeling of genetically engineered materials contained in their food products. And on Nov. 6, in what's unquestionably among the most important non-national votes this year.....
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Study finds tumors in rats fed on Monsanto's GM corn

LONDON (Reuters) - In a study that prompted criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday that rats fed on Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumors and multiple organ damage.......(click here to read more)

Mitt Romney: Free Speech Is for Billionaires, Not School-Teachers | Alternet

"What does a plutocracy look like? How about a leveraged buy-out artist who used his family connections – and gamed the tax code – to amass a $378 million fortune , and whose campaign is almost entirely financed by deep-pocketed conservative sugar-daddies, saying that while money equals Constitutionally protected free speech for his own donors, there should be limits on political spending by teachers making $75,000 per year......."
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Bill Moyers Exposes the Stranglehold the Corporate & Right-Wing Alliance Has on Our Democracy | Alternet

A special report from the legendary veteran journalist on the American Legislative Exchange Council.

This week,  Moyers & Company  reports on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of America has  never heard of —  ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council . A national ........(read more)

Sociopaths: Impaired Sense of Smell? from Psychology Today/ Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.

Published on Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com)

Sociopaths: Impaired Sense of Smell

By Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.

Created Sep 26 2012 - 7:46am

A study by Mahmut & Stevenson (2012) has found impaired senses of smell in people with sociopathic tendencies.
The study sample consisted of 79 subjects, and the sample was taken from the community (as opposed to a psychiatric clinic). 
Researchers found that people that scored highly on sociopathic traits had more difficulty identifying scents and differentiating between scents.
The researchers hypothesize that not only may sociopathic behavior be connected to frontal brain impairment, but there may also be impairment in other olfactory areas of the brain. The amygdala is one of the parts of the brain that process olfactory sensations, or smells. The amgydala is also connected to social interaction and aggression, two traits that may be found in people with sociopathic behavior.
The study authors stated that it would be more difficult to "fake good" or "fake bad" on an olfactory test.  
Obviously there need to be more studies with a higher sample size in order to make further connections between sociopathic behavior and sense of smell.
Read the Science Daily article about this study: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120920115739.htm
www.stephaniesarkis.com

3 Big Lies in Religious-Right "Voter Guide" Hitting 13 Million Cell Phones ~ Alternet/Adele M. Stan

In his Christian education, Ralph Reed apparently never learned that it's a sin to tell a lie. His voter guide, soon to paper churches and pop up on cell phones across the battleground states, offers three big ones......(click here to read more)

The Contested Color of Christ - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Contested Color of Christ

How the image of Jesus has been made and remade in American history

By Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey

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Take a Look at What Paul Ryan Did to His Own Congressional District, and Be Very Scared for Your Country ~ Alternet: Roger Bybee

Child abuse and suicide is skyrocketing, the number of battered women has tripled, foreclosures have tripled, wages plummeting, and more........
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Voter ID Laws Take Aim At College-Student Voters-Hufffington Post

In Tennessee, a new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls explicitly excludes student IDs.

In Wisconsin, college students are newly disallowed from using university-provided housing lists or corroboration from other students to verify their residence.

Florida's reduction in early voting days is expected to reduce the number of young and first-time voters there.

And Pennsylvania's voter identification bill, still on the books for now, disallows many student IDs and non-Pennsylvania driver's licenses, which means out-of-state students may be turned away at the polls.

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Forbes Real-Time (aka: these are really who run our country)

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Big Pharma Failures Light the Way to Change - Forbes

This is a guest post by Christopher Bowe, the US Healthcare Analyst at Informa Scrip. Informa is the leading global provider of specialist information to the scientific & academic, professional and commercial markets.

The pharmaceutical industry saw two very big drugs fizzle last week. Both wrecks show the way to real change......(click here to continue reading)

PolitiFact New Jersey | Medicare and football? Democratic congressional candidate Shelley Adler falls short with mock broadcast targeting Rep. Jon Runyan

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Right-wing think tank leaks salaries of Florida public employees via new website | The Washington Independent

Here we go....Florida again!!!

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10 Desperate and Depressed Conservative Reactions to Romney's 47 Percent Moment | Alternet

Some are standing by Romney; the semi-smart ones are running away like he's carrying Ebola......(click to continue reading)

Sarah Silverman's Insanely Great Video Going After GOP Vote Suppressors | Alternet

Take a few minutes to watch this video (without children around due to its language!). Make it a viral hit. And then make sure your voter registration is up to date.
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Voting Wrongs by Elizabeth Drew | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.......
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Paul Ryan and Allies Dance on Grave of Slain U.S. Diplomat at Right-Wing Confab | Alternet

When Mitt Romney lied about the Obama administration's response to the attack in Benghazi, pundits thought he'd killed his campaign. But at the Values Voter Summit, right-wingers are doubling down.....(continue reading)

Papantonio: Big Pharma Covers Up Antidepressant Dangers

PTSD Policy Changes | Psychology Today (very revealing!)

Army says some PTSD treatments are harmful.... when will we ever learn to cease being minions for Big Pharma?   

READ MORE! : PTSD Policy Changes | Psychology Today

Wired for Miracles? | Psychology Today

Epilepsy. ADD. Depression. PMS. Insomnia. What do all these conditions have in common? They're being treated with a new form of high-tech brain biofeedback. So open your radical science horizons.

By Jim Robbins, published on May 01, 1998 - last reviewed on June 13, 2012

READ MORE: Wired for Miracles? | Psychology Today

Sloppy and Wrong: 11 "Fox & Friends" Corrections and Apologies | Alternet

FOX is the most misleading and most watched morning news show on TV......


READ MORE: Sloppy and Wrong: 11 "Fox & Friends" Corrections and Apologies | Alternet

The Political Awakening of a Republican: 'I Had Viewed Whole Swaths of the Country and the World as Second-Class People' | Alternet

A former Republican tells about how his experiences in post-Katrina New Orleans and then Iraq destroyed his Republican worldview.




CONTINUE READING: The Political Awakening of a Republican: 'I Had Viewed Whole Swaths of the Country and the World as Second-Class People' | Alternet

Are Your Favorite National Parks Under Threat From Drilling? Find Out | Alternet

Click to read article: Are Your Favorite National Parks Under Threat From Drilling? Find Out | Alternet

The Hex on Paul Ryan - by Frank Bruni - NYTimes.com

Bruni:
The best morsel of political advice I can offer? If you catch even the faintest whisper that you might be nominated for the vice presidency, make for the hills. Run as fast as Paul Ryan pretends to. Your reputation depends on it. Maybe your sanity, too....(continue reading)

7 Ways Paul Ryan Wants to Betray His Fellow Generation X-ers | Alternet

The Peter Pan of American conservatism is bursting with immature, half-baked ideas for the country.....Paul Ryan, voted “Biggest Brown-Noser” in high school and born with enough money for Colorado ski trips and a surefire job at his family’s construction company, embraced libertarianism in college.....(read more)