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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Five Reasons You Won't Die

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/5-reasons-you-wont-die_b_810936.html

Friday, January 21, 2011

Great Documentary Site with Interesting Film Here

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secrets-of-the-stone-age/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TopDocumentaryFilms+%28Top+Documentary+Films+-+Watch+Free+Documentaries+Online%29

Flame Retardant Found in Foods


Flame Retardants Found in Common Foods (1/12/2011)
The dangers of flame retardants are nothing new. At Natural Home, we've been advising readers for years to pick natural and organic textiles, furniture and mattresses and to avoid those treated with the toxic chemicals used to make products resistant to open flames. Flame retardants have been known to cause a number of health problems, including heart, liver and thyroid damage, as well as reproductive, developmental and neurological problems. Unfortunately, avoiding flame retardants may not be as easy as purchasing organic textiles and furniture. Many common foods contain traces of flame retardants-and some at alarming levels, according to a recent study. For the study, researchers tested ten samples from 31 distinct food groups, such as meat, fish and dairy products, for traces of two brominated flame retardants, polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD). Butter topped the list of most contaminated foods, followed closely by canned sardines and fresh salmon. The lowest detected levels of flame retardants were found in vegetables and dairy products such as whole milk and yogurt.Although PBDEs were phased out in the early 2000s, brominated flame retardants build up in the body and the environment, storing up in fat tissues of animals and resisting being broken down in the environment. It's still a little unclear how the PBDEs end up in food products, but common theories include through contaminated animal feed and during product packaging and processing. CLIP

How To Limit Your Wireless Exposure



With something like 3 billion cell phones loose on this planet, and more than 2 million cell phone towers in the USA alone, resistance seems hopeless. Not! We can take heart from action being taken by governments are the globe to rein in this malignant technology. A few examples:-- Israel has banned all advertising for home wireless routers.-- New Zealand prohibits cell phone towers on school yards. -- Germany is considering banning all portable phones that have "always on" base stations. -- Russia wants all children under 18 kept away from microwave exposure. -- Britain says children under 12 should have no microwave radiation exposure at all.
-- In Luxembourg, an administrative court has upheld a lower court ruling in favour of a couple after a company installed six cell phone transmitters 270 meters from their home. In its ruling, the court referred to the Precautionary Principle. The court pointed out an error in calculation regarding the permitted threshold of exposure to electromagnetic radiation calls into question the present limits.  -- After a study on mobile phone use and Wi-Fi radiation, France is shutting down all cell phone use in its elementary schools, due to health concerns. Currently cell phone use is permitted on elementary school grounds, but not in classrooms. The new mandate will shut down their use completely. A ban on cell phones in public libraries is next. The French Government is also considering prohibiting cell phone use by all children 14 and under.  -- The European Parliament has written to its 27 member countries urging them to ignore WHO guidelines and set exposure limits at lower levels.  Don't play into "overwhelm" by trying to deal with worldwide wireless. Act locally! First, suggests cell phone author and activist Amy Worthington, establish and own your priorities. Make the choice for robust health, improved mental function and personal space. Explain to others that you are rejecting wireless devices because you regard premature aging, memory-vision-hearing loss, genetic damage and cancer as inconvenient. [The Radiation Poisoning Of America] If you absolutely must use cell or cordless phones, keep them off your body and in speaker mode only for one or two one-minute essential calls every month. Refuse to allow any identification or communication device to be implanted in your body. Defending your personal sovereignty means cleaning up "electrosmog" from your personal space. Remove all wireless routers, portable phones, cell phones and other wireless gadgets from your home. Say "Nix, nope, nyet, forget it already" to Smart Meters. Avoid airport scanners by not flying.  CLIP

Boeing Makes a Plane

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=zKnsyYbfC60&feature=popular

More on the Pyramids

http://www.examiner.com/la-in-los-angeles/the-great-pyramid-and-the-great-flood

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Jews Did Not Build Pyramids

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2010/0111/Egypt-says-Jewish-slaves-didn-t-build-pyramids

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Most Mysterious Archeological Discoveries

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/earths-most-mysterious-archeological-discoveries--0367/1

Getting to know Krishna

Search for the Historical Krishna In the first of two articles, Dr. N. S. Rajaram examines some historical issues surrounding Lord Krishna. This article was originally published in the online journal \'Sword of Truth\'. Further information on the subject can be found in the author\'s book, of the same title. Dr. N. S. Rajaram is an author and mathematician, based in the USA, where he formerly worked for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. In recent years he has written extensively in the fields of archaeology and ancient history. History or myth? As we go on to celebrate another Sri Krishna-Janmashthami, here is a question of interest to all of us: was Krishna a historical figure, or is he just a myth created to fill a void in the Hindu soul? As the most admired and adored figure in the Hindu pantheon, Krishna occupies a unique place in Indian history and tradition. Known since time immemorial as a Yadava prince of the house of Vrishni, and the son of Vasudeva and Devaki, most Hindus have accepted Krishna an avatar or incarnation of Lord Vishnu. But now, in keeping with the spirit of the scientific age in which we live, many people - including Hindus - want to know if he really existed. This is not a new phenomenon: the question of his historicity has engaged the attention of scholars for nearly two centuries, ever since European scholars began to study India, questioning every belief that the Hindus had held for millennia. They concluded - and their Indian followers faithfully accepted - that Krishna was a myth. In reality, it was a preconceived answer, which they sought to justify by giving it an appearance of scholarship. But in these articles I will present evidence to show that Krishna was indeed a historical figure who lived about 5000 years ago. Since the life and career of Krishna lie within the century or so described in the great historical epic Mahabharata, if we can demonstrate the historicity of the characters and the principal episodes of the epic, we will essentially have established Krishna\'s historicity also. And the same goes for the date: once we know the dates of the principal events in the Mahabharata, like the War, we automatically have an approximate date for Krishna. If, on the basis of our search, we can ascertain the existence of Krishna, and arrive also at an approximate date for him, we are justified in regarding him as a historical figure. The approach that I follow is inspired by the work Sri Krishna Charitra written more than a century ago by the great Bengali author Bankima Chandra Chatterji, supplemented by archaeological and other research that has come to light up to our own time. The topics presented in these articles are discussed in greater detail in my book, Search for the Historical Krishna. Evidence for Krishna According to Indian sources, Krishna was a Vedic figure. He was a younger contemporary of Krishna-Dvaipayana - or \'Krishna of the Island\' - better known as Veda Vyasa - who by tradition was responsible for the organization of Vedic hymns into their four fold division, the form in which we know them today. He is also by tradition the author of the earliest version of the Mahabharata. It is worth noting that the names of some of the characters of the period are found in the literature of the period and also on some Harappan seals that Jha and I have deciphered. For example, words like Paila (Vyasa\'s pupil), Akrura (Krishna\'s friend), Vrishni (Krishna\'s clan), Yadu (Krishna\'s ancestor), Sritirtha (old name for Dwaraka) are found on seals, some of which may go back five thousand years. The greatest barrier to a rational study of ancient Indian history continues to be a nineteenth century colonial fiction known as the Aryan invasion of India. When the ruins of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were discovered about 70 years ago, this was followed by a new piece of fiction known as the Aryan-Dravidian wars. Science has now fully discredited both. We now know that the Harappan Civilization came at the end of the Vedic Age. I will not go into their details here, but only mention that in these articles I totally ignore both the Aryan invasion and the idea of the Harappan Civilization as Dravidian, unrelated to Vedic. (See my book The Politics of History, Chapter 1. For a more detailed exposition.) Panini, the great grammarian mentions several Mahabharata characters including Vasudeva (Krishna), Arjuna, Nakula, Kunti and others. We find the names of Mahabharata characters in Vedic literature - Vicitravirya in Kathaka Samhita; Sikhandin Yajnasena in Kaushitaki Brahmana; Janamejaya the grandson of Abhimanyu in Aitareya Brahmana; and Pariksita in Shatapatha Brahmana. And the list is far from exhaustive. Among Buddhist works Kunala Jataka mentions Krishnaa (i.e., Draupadi) in addition to Bhimasena, Arjuna, Nakula, Sahadeva and Yudhittila (Pali for Yudhisthira). Dhananjaya of the Kuru race (Arjuna) and Draupadi Svayamvara are referred to in Dhumakari Jataka. The same work refers also to Yudhisthira as an ancestor of the Kurus of Indapattana (i.e., Indraprastha) and also to Vidurapandita. In addition to these Mahabharata characters, Krishna himself is mentioned in Buddhist works such as Sutrapitaka and Lalitavistara. These works are often hostile to Krishna and his teachings, but the very fact they found it necessary to try to discredit him (and his teachings) shows that he was accepted as a historical figure even by them. They did not try to deny his historical existence. Returning to the late Vedic literature, one of the most interesting references to Krishna is to be found in the ancient Chandogya Upanishad. It goes (my translation): \"Ghora of the Angirasas spoke thus to Krishna, son of Devaki (Krishna Devaki-putra) - \"Hearing your words I too am now free of thirst.\" And till the end of life he sought refuge in these three principles: \"Thou art indestructible (akshita). Thou art eternal (acyuta). Thou art the flow of life (prana samhita).\" Krishna Devaki-putra is of course Krishna of the Mahabharata. It is worth noting that Krishna studied the Vedas under Ghora of the Angirasa clan, who seems to have inspired Krishna to develop ideas that later went into the Bhagavadgita. The Gita is essentially a summary of the Upanishads combined with the rationalism of the Sankhya philosophy. No less remarkable is the fact that there is a reference to this episode - of Ghora providing the seed of the Gita - on one of the Harappan seals. The message is \'ghorah datah dvayuh varcah\' - meaning \'Two essences given by Ghora\', the two essences being the Upanishads (Vedanta) and Sankhya. So in the third millennium BC, Ghora was recognized as the inspirer of this synthesis of Vedanta and Sankhya affected by Krishna in the Bhagavadgita. The important thing to note is that unlike the Harivamsha or the Bhagavata, these works - the Upanishads, the Jatakas, the Sutras or the Brahmanas - are not part of the historical tradition and had therefore no reason to use these names except familiarity. With such profuse references to Krishna and other Mahabharata characters in so many unrelated works of diverse kinds, written in different periods, there cannot be the slightest doubt that they refer to historical characters in a historical era. What remains now is to fix an approximate date for Krishna or the Mahabharata War. Contined next issue

http://www.hinduvoice.co.uk/index.php

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

New York Must Care for this Ancient Treasure

http://www.drhawass.com/blog/obelisk-central-park

Remember, this is an Egyptian artifact, created and found in Egypt.  The usual argument for a country taking and keeping an historic relic of another country is that it will "better preserve" the given piece for the future.  New York can hardly defend itself with this argument.  My recent trip to Egypt has made this tragedy even more poignant.  

Obelisks are enormously valuable and important beyond what we currently understand.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Excellent visual information about the science and age of the Pyramids!

This is an excellent interview which is in tune with the science presented in the works of West and Scanlon and visually explains it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyEGNZ5bEA&feature=player_embedded#!