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		<title>Death of the Internet Imminent&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carol Webb</dc:creator>
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<p id="BlogTitle"><strong>And it came to pass&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>So many predictions have come to pass in the last few months that it has become impossible to decide which message was most important to bring to your attention. (Project Blue Beam begins!)</p>
<p><strong>David Icke</strong></p>
<p>All are available on other sites&#8230;David Icke being the most responsible, as it avoids sensationalism.</p>
<p><strong>The Rothschild High Jump</strong></p>
<p>However, if  a Rothschild says jump the U.K. government asks &#8220;How high?&#8221; We now know how high. Western countries will have the same internet service as China. The I.S.P.s won&#8217;t have a choice and neither will we.</p>
<p>The question that we need to ask ourselves is how are we going to get around censorship.</p>
<p><strong>A winning position?</strong></p>
<p>We can protest, which will achieve nothing.  We can riot, thus giving the &#8216;authorities&#8217; the right to beat us black and blue and bring in martial law for &#8216;our&#8217; own protection or we can use our brains.</p>
<p><strong>Disappearing Sites</strong></p>
<p>Sites like this one will eventually disappear&#8230;but how much more do we need to know about what is going to happen? It is happening now, and coming to terms with that is painful, but there have always been ways to subvert dictatorships, and quiet persistence has <em>always</em> triumphed over brute force.</p>
<p><strong>Your Choice</strong></p>
<p>There is no &#8216;right&#8217; way for you to continue your life in a comfortable fashion, you need to decide that for yourselves. Remember that charismatic leaders usually turn out to have feet of clay, therefore following is not a good option, be they politician or theologian, all will have a different agenda from you.</p>
<p>Read and digest this article from &#8216;Infowars&#8217; and although Alex Jones is often sensationalist is his delivery, and sometimes has questionable motives, there is often much truth to be found and is therefore one source of information.</p>
<p><strong>The Waiting Game</strong></p>
<p>We will have to wait and see just how this plays out, and how many sites just disappear and I shall be monitoring this closely before deciding what to do.</p>
<p><strong>Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Steve                             Watson</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.infowars.net/index.html">Infowars.net</a><br />
Thursday, Dec 17, 2009</p>
<p>Internet censorship bills currently working their way into law in the UK, Australia and the U.S. legislate for government powers to restrict and filter any website that it deems to be undesirable for public consumption.</p>
<p>In the UK, legislation slated as the “<a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/digitaleconomy.html" target="_blank">Digital                     Economy Bill</a>“, currently being debated in the House of Lords, would allow the Home Secretary to place “a technical obligation on internet service providers” to block whichever sites it wishes.</p>
<p>Under <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldbills/001/10001.13-19.html#j158" target="_blank">clause                     11</a> of the proposed legislation “technical                     obligation” is defined as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>A “technical obligation”, in relation to an internet service provider, is an obligation for the provider to take a technical measure against particular subscribers to its service.</p>
<p>A “technical measure” is a measure that — (a) limits the speed or other capacity of the service provided to a subscriber; (b) prevents a subscriber from using the service to gain access to particular material, or limits such use; (c) suspends the service provided to a subscriber; or (d) limits the service provided to a subscriber in another way.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, the government will have the power to force ISPs to downgrade and even block your internet access to certain websites or altogether if it wishes.</p>
<p>The legislation comes in the wake of amplified UK government efforts to seize more power over the internet and those who use it.</p>
<p>For months now unelected “Secretary of State” Lord                     Mandelson has overseen government efforts to <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/mandelsons-dept-mulls-uk-internet-power-grab.html" target="_blank">challenge                     the independence of the of UK’s internet infrastructure</a>.</p>
<p>Mandelson also wants to impose harsh policies, via the Digital                     Economy Bill, that would see  <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/mandelson-web-cutoff-plan-potentially-illegal.html" target="_blank">users’                     broadband access cut off indefinitely,</a> in addition to a fine of up to £50,000 without evidence or trial, if they download copyrighted music and films. The plan has been identified as “potentially illegal” by experts.</p>
<p>The legislation would impose a duty on ISPs to effectively spy on all their customers by keeping records of the websites they have visited and the material they have downloaded. ISPs who refuse to cooperate could be fined £250,000.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/19/breaking-leaked-uk-g.html" target="_blank">Journalist                     and copyright law expert Cory Doctrow </a>has noted, the bill also gives the Secretary of State the power to make up as many new penalties and enforcement systems as he likes, without Parliamentary oversight or debate.</p>
<p>This could include the authority to appoint private militias, who will have the power to kick you off the internet, spy on your use of the network, demand the removal of files in addition to the blocking of websites.</p>
<p>Mandelson and his successors will have the power to invent any penalty, including jail time, for any digital transgression he deems Britons to be guilty of.</p>
<p>Despite being named the Digital Economy Bill, the legislation contains nothing that will actually stimulate the economy and is largely based on shifting control over the internet into government hands, allowing unaccountable bureaucrats to arbitrarily hide information from the public should they wish to do so.</p>
<p>Mandelson began the onslaught on the free internet in the UK                     after spending a luxury two week <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/lording-it-up-at-a-rothschild-mansion-the-man-whos-supposed-to-be-running-the-uk.html" target="_blank">holiday                     at Nat Rothschild’s Corfu mansion</a> with multi-millionaire                     record company executive David Geffen.</p>
<p>The Digital Economy Bill is intrinsically linked to long term plans by the UK government to carry out an unprecedented extension of state powers by claiming the authority to monitor all emails, phone calls and internet activity nationwide.</p>
<p>Last year the government announced its intention to <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4882622.ece" target="_blank">create                     a massive central database</a>, gathering details on every text sent, e-mail sent, phone call made and website visited by everyone in the UK.</p>
<p>The programme, known as the “Interception Modernisation Programme”, would allow spy chiefs at GCHQ, the government’s secret eavesdropping agency, the centre for Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) activities (pictured above), to effectively place a “live tap” on every electronic communication in Britain in the name of preventing terrorism.</p>
<p>Following outcry over the announcement, the government suggested                     last April that it was <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/97377" target="_blank">scaling                     down the plans</a>, with then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith stating that there were “absolutely no plans for a single central store” of communications data.</p>
<p>However, as the “climbdown” was celebrated by civil                     liberties advocates and the plan was “replaced” by  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/06/internet-data-storage" target="_blank">new                     laws</a> requiring ISPs to store details of emails and internet telephony for just 12 months, fresh details emerged indicating the government was implementing a big brother spy system that far outstrips the original public announcement.</p>
<p>The London Times published leaked details of a <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6211101.ece" target="_blank">secret                     mass internet surveillance</a> project known as “Mastering                     the Internet” (MTI).</p>
<p>Costing hundreds of millions in public funds, the system is already being implemented by GCHQ with the aid of American defence giant Lockheed Martin and British IT firm Detica, which has close ties to the intelligence agencies.</p>
<p>A group of over 300 internet service providers and telecommunications                     firms has <a href="http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucestershireheadlines/Internet-firms-condemn-plans-GCHQ-access-email-records/article-1219267-detail/article.html" target="_blank">attempted                     to fight back over the radical plans</a>, describing                     the proposals as an unwarranted invasion of people’s privacy.</p>
<p>Currently, any interception of a communication in Britain must be authorised by a warrant signed by the home secretary or a minister of equivalent rank. Only individuals who are the subject of police or security service investigations may be subject to surveillance.</p>
<p>If the GCHQ’s MTI project is completed, black-box probes would be placed at critical traffic junctions with internet service providers and telephone companies, allowing eavesdroppers to instantly monitor the communications of every person in the country without the need for a warrant.</p>
<p>Even if you believe GCHQ’s denial that it has any plans to create a huge monitoring system, the current law under the RIPA (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) allows hundreds of government agencies access to the records of every internet provider in the country.In publicly announced proposals to extend these powers, firms will be asked to collect and store even more vast amounts of data, including from social networking sites such as Facebook.</p>
<p>If the plans go ahead, every internet user will be given a unique ID code and all their data will be stored in one place. Government agencies such as the police and security services will have access to the data should they request it with respect to criminal or terrorist investigations.</p>
<p>This is clearly the next step in an incremental program to implement an already exposed full scale big brother spy system designed to completely obliterate privacy, a fundamental right under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.</p>
<p>Similar efforts to place restrictions on the internet are unfolding                     in Australia where the government is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/15/like-china-iran-australia-filter-internet/" target="_blank">implementing                     a mandatory and wide-ranging internet filter</a> modeled                     on that of the Communist Chinese government.</p>
<p>Australian communication minister Stephen Conroy said the government would be the final arbiter on what sites would be blacklisted under “refused classification.”</p>
<p>The official justification for the filter is to block child                     pornography, however, as the watchdog group <a href="http://www.efa.org.au/2009/12/17/filtering-coming-to-australian-in-2010/" target="_blank">Electronic                     Frontiers Australia</a> has pointed out, the law will also allow the government to block any website it desires while the pornographers can relatively easily skirt around the filters.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, the Wikileaks website published a leaked  <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/19/1237054961100.html?page=fullpage" target="_blank">secret                     list of sites slated to be blocked</a> by Australia’s                     state-sponsored parental filter.</p>
<p>The list revealed that blacklisted sites included “online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.”</p>
<p>The filter will even <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/web-filters-to-censor-video-games-20090625-cxrx.html" target="_blank">block                     web-based games</a> deemed unsuitable for anyone over                     the age of fifteen, according to the Australian government.</p>
<p>The broad attack on the free internet is not only restricted                     to the UK and Australia.</p>
<p>The European Union, Finland, Denmark, Germany and other countries in Europe have all proposed blocking or limiting access to the internet and using filters like those used in Iran, Syria, China, and other repressive regimes.</p>
<p>In 2008 in the U.S., The <a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/mpaa-obama" target="_blank">Motion                     Picture Association of America</a> asked president Obama to introduce laws that would allow the federal government to effectively spy on the entire Internet, establishing a system where being accused of copyright infringement would result in loss of your Internet connection.</p>
<p>In 2009 the <a href="http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2009/010609Cyber.htm" target="_blank">Cybersecurity                     Act was introduced</a>, proposing to allow the federal government to tap into any digital aspect of every citizen’s information without a warrant. Banking, business and medical records would be wide open to inspection, as well as personal instant message and e mail communications.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-773" target="_blank">The                     legislation</a>, introduced by Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) in April, gives the president the ability to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any “critical” information network “in the interest of national security.” The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president, according to a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-internet" target="_blank">Mother                     Jones report.</a></p>
<p>During a hearing on the bill, Senator John Rockefeller betrayed the true intent behind the legislation when he stated, “Would it have been better if we’d have never invented the Internet,” while fearmongering about cyber attacks on the U.S. government and how the country could be shut down.</p>
<p>The Obama White House has also sought a <a href="http://infowars.net/articles/september2009/160909Mapping.htm" target="_blank">private                     contractor to “crawl and archive” data</a> such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place online where the White House “maintains a presence” – for a period of up to eight years.</p>
<p>Obama has also proposed scaling back a long-standing ban on <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002743.html" target="_blank">tracking                     how people use government Internet sites</a> with “cookies”                     and other technologies.</p>
<p>Recent disclosures under the Freedom Of Information Act also                     reveal that the <a href="http://epic.org/privacy/socialnet/gsa/" target="_blank">federal                     government has several contracts</a> with social media outlets such as Youtube (Google), Facebook, Myspace and Flickr (Yahoo) that waive rules on monitoring users and permit companies to track visitors to government web sites for advertising purposes.</p>
<p><a href="http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/060508DARPA.htm" target="_blank">The                     U.S. military</a> also has some $30 Billion invested                     in it’s own mastering the internet projects.</p>
<p>We have extensively covered efforts to <a href="http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2007/170407internet.htm" target="_blank">scrap                     the internet</a> as we know it and move toward a greatly restricted “internet 2″ system. All of the above represents stepping stones toward the realisation of that agenda.</p>
<p>The free internet is under attack the world over, only by exposing the true intentions of our governments to restrict the flow of data can we defeat such efforts and preserve the last vestige of independent information.</p></div>
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		<title>How to Combat Swine Flu&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carol Webb</dc:creator>
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<p>I may be jeopardizing this blog to bring you information that you won&#8217;t read on any government site, so be it! This is important information that we all need to know.</p>
<p><strong>Cannabis Best Medicine </strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know of any conspiracy to make Cannabis illegal because it is the best medicine for Swine Flu, if this were the case it must have been known many years ago that flu would be used as a depopulation tool, which doesn&#8217;t  seem plausible. However we know now&#8230;and governments aren&#8217;t interested.</p>
<p><strong>Follow the Recipe </strong></p>
<p>The recipe below for <em>Cayenne Tincture</em> can also be followed using Cannabis plant material. The only way that you will be able to obtain Cannabis tincture at the moment is by prescription, but often this is synthetic and un-helpful, as the plant works synergistically while synthesized drugs do not.</p>
<p><em>Use the two herbs together for an enhanced effect </em>&#8230;</p>
<p>The answer is to <strong>grow it yoursel</strong>f. There are reams of instructions on the web which explain how to grow it. Unfortunately most sites suggest smoking the herb.<em><strong> I do not recommend this</strong></em>. Any inhalation of any smoke includes tar and any tar is carcinogenic to the lungs.</p>
<p>You have time before the virus is mutated to cause death, use it wisely.</p>
<p><strong>Cayenne, Chillies, Bright Red Dried Pods&#8230;.Powder known a Cayenne Pepper</strong></p>
<p>This is the purest and safest stimulant known. It opens up every tissue in the body to an increased supply of oxygenated blood.</p>
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<li><strong>Home Tincture </strong></li>
<li>1 oz bruised chillies or other herb</li>
<li>half litre 60% alcohol (Vodka etc.)</li>
<li>Macerate (Leave to soak) 7 days</li>
<li>Shake daily</li>
<li>Decant into smaller bottles</li>
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<p><strong>Dose:</strong></p>
<p>2 or more teaspoons in wineglass of water&#8230;1 -2 drops of the tincture <em><strong>enhances the action </strong></em>of most herbal preparations and may be taken in teas or other beverages for cold hands and feet.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.hiddenknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cannabis.jpg" title="cannabis.jpg"><img  src= "http://www.hiddenknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cannabis.thumbnail.jpg"  title= "cannabis.jpg"  alt= "cannabis.jpg"  align= "left"  border= "0" /></a><strong>Cannabis Science Inc. Reports on Prospective Life Saving Treatments for H1N1 Swine Flu and H5N1 Bird Flu in View of the Current Global Threat</strong></p>
<p>SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Cannabis Science Inc. (OTCBB: <a href="http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GFON.OB">GFON.OB</a>), an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis        company, reported today on the current state of development of its        whole-cannabis lozenge in response to Homeland Security Administration        Secretary Janet Napolitano’s declaration of a public health emergency to        deal with the emerging Swine Flu pandemic. The Company’s non-toxic        lozenge has properties that could alleviate many of the symptoms and        harmful effects of the H5N1 bird flu and H1N1 swine flu viruses, and has        offered its assistance to HSA today in a letter to Secretary Napolitano.</p>
<p>Cannabis Science Inc., President &amp; CEO, Steven W. Kubby said, &#8220;We have        the science and preliminary anecdotal results confirming the        anti-inflammatory properties of our new lozenges and indicating they may        present an effective and non-toxic treatment for minimizing the symptoms        and harm from influenza infections. Our lozenges appear to down-regulate        the body&#8217;s excessive inflammatory response to the influenza virus, which        could reduce the deadly consequences of an infection into something that        is more like a common cold. Because of my cancer and diminished        auto-immune functions, even common influenza is a deadly threat, and        I’ve had incredible symptomatic relief with the lozenge.”</p>
<p>Dr. Robert J. Melamede, Director and Chief Science Officer, stated, &#8220;The        influenza virus has a unique genetic make up that, in combination with        its replicative machinery, has an extraordinary capacity to mutate. As a        result, the high lethality of some strains can be attributed to the        resulting adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). ARDS is caused by        an excessive immune inflammatory response driven by Tumor Necrosis        Factor (TNF) that leads to the death of respiratory epithelial cells and        resulting organ failure. Endocannabinoids are nature’s way of        controlling TNF activity. Existing peer reviewed publications have shown        that phytocannabinoids can prevent this cell death by mimicking the        endocannabinoids that nature has selected to prevent excessive        inflammatory immune responses.”</p>
<p>Dr. Melamede, who is also a researcher and past Chairman of the Biology        Department at the University of Colorado Springs (UCCS), cautioned,        “Smoked marijuana will not effectively prevent the excessive        inflammatory response, despite delivering the beneficial pharmacological        agents, due to the irritating, pro-inflammatory nature of smoke. In        fact, I believe it will make things worse and should be avoided by        infected individuals.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr. Kubby added, “If a swine or bird flu pandemic emerges &#8212; and        everyone seems to think that it is just a matter of when, not if &#8211;,        there is simply no time for the usual bureaucratic process. With        emergency government approval, we can legally access the huge supply of        medical cannabis available in California to produce millions of life        saving doses within a relatively short period of time.”</p>
<p>Dr. Melamede furthermore stated, &#8220;Based upon recent discoveries        regarding the role that endocannabinoid system plays in maintaining        human health, we have a unique solution to the looming threat posed by        deadly influenza strains that we believe, if implemented,<em> could save        millions of lives.</em> We will strive for an emergency review of our        cannabis extract-based lozenge because we believe its availability will        prevent many of the deaths associated with the hyper-inflammatory        response associated with known lethal strains of the influenza virus.</p>
<p>Current anti-influenza medications have a demonstrated decreased        effectiveness against some of these lethal variants. Mankind cannot wait        for the emergency situation to materialize. We must be proactive in        gaining the necessary governmental approvals to test, and pending the        outcome of our studies, produce our lozenge.”</p>
<p>Mr. Richard Cowan, Director and CFO, who recently spoke in Mexico City        to a conference sponsored by the Mexican Congress, stated, “I believe        the Mexican Congress recognizes that doctors should be able to prescribe        medical cannabis. We are prepared to work with the government of Mexico        to produce similar medical cannabis products to help fight the outbreak        there. We look forward to working with Government officials, including        Homeland Security, to help advance our treatments for these outbreaks in        Mexico, Canada, the USA, and around the world.”</p>
<p><em><strong>About the H5N1 Bird Flu and H1N1 Swine Flu Strains</strong></em></p>
<p>The H5N1 bird flu currently has 63% lethality. A swine-derived H1N1        strain was responsible for 20,000,000 influenza associated deaths in        1918 (more than killed by World War I). The current lethal outbreak of        swine flu (H1N1) in Mexico has killed over 80 people and infected more        than 1,400 others. There are 20 confirmed cases in the United States,        with reports of infections in Texas, New York, Ohio, California and        Kansas. Additional reports identify possible cases in New Zealand,        Canada, Spain, France and Israel. The H1N1 Swine flu is a porcine        respiratory disease caused by type A flu viruses. Human cases occur in        people who are around pigs, but an infected person can transmit the        disease to another person. Symptoms include a high fever, body aches,        coughing, sore throat and respiratory congestion.</p>
<p><em><strong>About Cannabis Science, Inc.</strong></em></p>
<p>Cannabis Science, Inc. is at the forefront of medical marijuana research        and development. The Company works with world authorities on        phytocannabinoid science targeting critical illnesses, and adheres to        scientific methodologies to develop, produce, and commercialize        phytocannabinoid-based pharmaceutical products. In sum, we are dedicated        to the creation of cannabis-based medicines, both with and without        psychoactive properties, to treat disease and the symptoms of disease,        as well as for general health maintenance.</p>
<p><em><strong>Forward-Looking Statements</strong></em></p>
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<p>Cannabinoids are a group of terpenophenolic compounds present in Cannabis (Cannabis sativa L). Currently, 538 natural compounds were identiﬁed from this plant. 43 of these 108 are identiﬁed as cannabinoids, which are C21 compounds uniquely present in Cannabis sativa L. There are ten main types of cannabinoids and fourteen different cannabinoid subtypes. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the principal psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, but it also has other effects. Cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabinol (CBN) are the other two most prevalent natural cannabinoids and have received the most study. All three are listed as ingredients in Sativex®, the only multi-cannabinoid medicine currently approved for marketing (only in Canada.)</p>
<p>Cannabinoids were first discovered in the 1940s, when CBD and CBN were identified. THC was not identified until 1964, but by that time cannabis had been removed from the pharmacopeiae of most countries, making further research on the plant difficult.</p>
<p>There are three general types of cannabinoids:</p>
<p><span class="number">1</span>	Phytocannabinoids occur uniquely in the cannabis plant.</p>
<p><span class="number">2</span>	Endogenous cannabinoids are produced in the bodies of humans and other animals.</p>
<p><span class="number">3</span> Synthetic cannabinoids are similar compounds produced in a laboratory. Forms of synthetic THC are available by prescription in a number of countries, including the US. In the US, synthetic THC is marketed as Marinol®.</p>
<p>Phytocannabinoids, also called natural cannabinoids, herbal cannabinoids, and classical cannabinoids, are only known to occur naturally in significant quantity in the cannabis plant. They are concentrated in a viscous resin that is produced in glandular structures known as trichomes, and are most prevalent in the flowers of the female plants.</p>
<p>Cannabinoid receptors in the human body were not discovered until 1990. CB1 receptors are found primarily in the brain, specifically in the basal ganglia and in the limbic system, including the hippocampus. They are also found in the cerebellum and in both male and female reproductive systems.</p>
<p>CB1 receptors appear to be responsible for the euphoric and anti-convulsive effects of cannabis.</p>
<p>Cannabinoid pharmaceuticals, unlike many other pharmaceutical compounds, do not represent a risk factor for respiratory or cardiovascular failure. Cannabis has been called one of the safest drugs known by Federal Judge Young in 1977. In fact, there is no known lethal dose of cannabis. It has an estimated therapeutic index of 40,000 to one as compared to aspirin with a therapeutic index of 15.</p>
<p>CB2 receptors are found almost exclusively in the immune system, with the greatest density in the spleen. CB2 receptors appear to be responsible for the anti-inflammatory and possibly other therapeutic effects of cannabis.</p>
<p>The endocannabinoid system refers to a group of neuromodulators and receptors involved in a variety of physiological processes including appetite, pain sensation, mood, and memory. The system is named for endocannabinoids, the endogenous lipids that bind cannabinoid receptors (the same receptors that mediate the psychoactive effects of cannabis).</p>
<p>Science increasingly recognizes the role that endo-cannabinoids play in almost every major life function in the human body. Cannabinoids act as a bio regulatory mechanism for most life processes, which explains why medical cannabis has been recommended as a treatment for many diseases and ailments in anecdotal reports and scientific literature. Some of these ailments include: Pain, arthritic conditions, migraine headaches, anxiety, epileptic seizures, insomnia, loss of appetite, GERD (chronic heartburn), nausea, glaucoma, AIDS wasting syndrome, depression, bipolar disorder (particularly depression-manic-normal), multiple sclerosis, menstrual cramps, Parkinson&#8217;s, trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux), high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, and bladder incontinence.</p>
<p>Cannabis has been used medicinally for thousands of years in China, India and the Middle East. Of course, most traditional medicines were plant-based, but until recently no one knew how or why they worked. Modern science now routinely verifies the efficacy of this “folk medicine” tradition and the door is opening to a more systematic and effective use of cannabinoid therapies.</p>
<p>While cannabis was widely used in the West during the 19th century, the technology was lacking to detect and understand its active ingredients, to standardize dosages of those ingredients, and to effectively deliver those ingredients, owing largely to cannabis&#8217;s non-water-solubility. Consequently, it became less widely used in the early 20th century and was eventually renamed “marijuana” and banned as part of a politically-driven prohibition craze. It was gradually removed from the pharmacopeiae of most advanced countries; research was discouraged, and when beneficial results were discovered, the studies were sometimes suppressed.</p>
<p>For example, when Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) was recently diagnosed recently with a form of brain cancer, malignant glioma, the media largely ignored reports from the medical cannabis community of studies showing that cannabinoids can kill glioma cancer cells.</p>
<p>Nearly a decade ago, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws&#8217; weekly news release for December 31, 1998 reported that “Cell studies performed by researchers at Madrid’s Universidad Complutense demonstrate that THC, one of the active compounds in marijuana, can induce cell death in certain brain tumor cells without affecting the surrounding healthy cells.”</p>
<p>Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen of the German-based Association for Cannabis as Medicine (ACM) proposed that marijuana’s constituents may one day play a role in cancer treatment. &#8220;It is desirable to have a substance that induces programmed cell death in tumor cells but not in health cells for the treatment of cancer,&#8221; he wrote in the December 13 issue of the ACM-Bulletin. &#8220;It has been demonstrated by the Spanish scientists &#8230; that THC could be such a substance.</p>
<p><strong>Known Facts about Tamiflu and Donald Rumsfeld</strong>In October 2005 the Pentagon ordered vaccination of all US military personnel worldwide against what it called Avian Flu, H5N1. Scare stories filled world media. Then, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced he had budgeted more than $1 billion to stockpile the vaccine, Oseltamivir sold under the name, Tamiflu. President Bush called on Congress to appropriate another $2 billion for Tamiflu stocks.</p>
<p>What Rumsfeld neglected to report at the time was a colossal conflict of interest. Prior to coming to Washington in January 2001, Rumsfeld had been chairman of a California pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences.</p>
<p>Gilead Sciences held exclusive world patent rights to Tamiflu, a drug it had developed and whose world marketing rights were sold to the Swiss pharma giant, Roche. Rumsfeld was reportedly the largest stock holder in Gilead which got 10% of every Tamiflu dose Roche sold.<br />
* When it leaked out, the Pentagon issued a curt statement to the effect that Secretary Rumsfeld had decided not to sell but to retain his stock in Gilead, claiming that to sell would have indicated something to hide. That agonizing decision won him reported added millions as the Gilead share price soared more than 700% in weeks.<br />
<strong> Known Side-Effects</strong></p>
<p>Tamiflu is no mild candy to be taken lightly. It has heavy side effects. It contains matter that could have potentially deadly consequences for a person&#8217;s breathing and often reportedly leads to nausea, dizziness and other flu-like symptoms. (It causes flu symptoms!!!)<br />
Since the outbreak of Swine Flu Panic (not Swine Flu but Swine Flu Panic) sales of Tamiflu as well as any and every possible drug marketed as flu related have exploded. Wall Street firms have rushed to issue buy recommendations for the company.</p>
<p>I will not be persuaded to trust myself with any product associated with this man and his corporation, and now that you have the facts you too have a choice.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hiddenknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/elderberry.jpg" title="elderberry.jpg"><img  src= "http://www.hiddenknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/elderberry.thumbnail.jpg"  title= "elderberry.jpg"  alt= "elderberry.jpg"  align= "left"  border= "0" /></a><strong>Other Immune Enhancing Herbs </strong></p>
<p>There are other easily obtained Immune Enhancing herbs which can be used to boost your immunity so that it is less likely that you will succumb to any of the influenzas. They are the common black Elderberry and some mushrooms found in our native woodland. All can be made into tinctures and taken with other fluids.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people believe that their government is on their side. That the manufacture of vaccines can only be for their own good...this is not so.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="subheadlinemain"><strong>Who Are the Good Guys?</strong></p>
<p class="subheadlinemain"><a href="http://www.hiddenknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/flying-pig.jpg" title="flying-pig.jpg"><img  src= "http://www.hiddenknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/flying-pig.thumbnail.jpg"  title= "flying-pig.jpg"  alt= "flying-pig.jpg"  align= "left"  border= "0" /></a> Many people believe that their government is on their side. That the manufacture of vaccines can only be for their own good&#8230;<em><strong>this is not so.</strong></em></p>
<p class="subheadlinemain"><strong>True to Your Convictions </strong></p>
<p class="subheadlinemain">If you believe in this way then nothing that I or anyone else may write will convince you otherwise, and neither should it, you will live or die true to your own convictions.</p>
<p class="subheadlinemain"><strong>The Thinking Few </strong></p>
<p class="subheadlinemain">There are, however, others who will be in a position to think about the truths of the many conflicting statements about vaccination and may choose to decide for themselves.</p>
<p class="subheadlinemain">The government propaganda machines have all gone into overdrive to persuade their populations of the efficacy of vaccination, these articles below may go some way to redress the balance.</p>
<p class="subheadlinemain">When you have read and digested the truth about vaccination, you may want to read the next entry in which I will teach you how to confront government statutes,  but save your life!</p>
<p class="subheadlinemain"><strong><em>These Articles are taken from writers who research the truth:  </em></strong></p>
<p class="subheadlinemain"><em>It looks like governments around the world will either force these vaccinations on the public or launch a massive propaganda campaign to trick you into submitting to a jab. If they attempt to force these untested and essentially experimental vaccinations on you, cite the <a href="http://www.knowvaccines.com/nuremberg.htm" title="Nuremburg Code">Nuremberg Code</a>, which states: “The voluntary consent of the human subject is essential.” No experimental vaccine should be “conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur, except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects.” In addition to the “experimental physicians” submitting to their own toxins, Obama, every member of Congress, the CEOs of the drug companies, all members of WHO and the United Nations, all members of the CFR and Bilderberg, etc., should submit to a jab. A third party should be on hand to make sure these folks do not get a saline injection instead of the vaccine: </em></p>
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<blockquote><p>Swiss drugs giant Novartis has completed a first batch of swine flu vaccine for pre-clinical trials and aims to make a version available from September, the company said.“Novartis has successfully completed the production of the first batch of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, weeks ahead of expectations,” the company said. The 10-litre batch “will be used for pre-clinical evaluation and testing and is also being considered for use in clinical trials”.</p>
<p>Novartis hopes to start clinical trials in July and “expects licensure in the fall (September to November) of 2009″, it said. It added that “more than 30 governments have made requests to Novartis to supply them with influenza A(H1N1) vaccine ingredients.”</p>
<p>The company used cell-based technology to produce the vaccine, a faster method than the traditional technology that uses eggs, according to Novartis. (AFP, June12, 2009)</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25627061-23109,00.html" title="AFPress Report">Read full AFP report</a></p>
<p>At least three US federal laws should concern all Americans and suggest what may be coming &#8211; mandatory vaccinations for hyped, non-existent threats, like H1N1 (Swine Flu). Vaccines and drugs like Tamiflu endanger human health but are hugely profitable to drug company manufacturers.</p>
<p>The Project BioShield Act of 2004 (S. 15) became law on July 21, 2004 &#8220;to provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the United States by giving the National Institutes of Health contracting flexibility, infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific peer review process, and streamlining the Food and Drug Administration approval process of countermeasures.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, the FDA may now recklessly approve inadequately tested, potentially dangerous vaccines and other drugs if ever the Secretaries of Health and Human Services (HHS) or Defense (DOD) declare a national emergency, whether or not one exists and regardless of whether treatments available are safe and effective. Around $6 billion or more will be spent to develop, produce, and stockpile vaccines and other drugs to counteract claimed bioterror agents.</p>
<p>The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act slipped under the radar when George Bush signed it into law as part of the 2006 Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2863). It lets the HHS Secretary declare any disease an epidemic or national emergency requiring mandatory vaccinations. Nothing in the Act lists criteria that warrant a threat. Also potential penalties aren&#8217;t specified for those who balk, but very likely they&#8217;d include quarantine and possible fines.</p>
<p>The HHS web site also says the Secretary may &#8220;issue a declaration&#8230;.that provides immunity from tort liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of (vaccine or other pharmaceutical) countermeasures to diseases, threats and conditions determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible risk of a future public health emergency&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>The industry-run US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notoriously rushes inadequately tested drugs to market, putting their efficacy and safety into question, and turning those who use them into lab rats. It includes everyone if a mass vaccination is ordered on the mere claim of a public emergency &#8211; no proof required.</p>
<p>The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (S. 3678) is the other worrisome law, effective December 19, 2006. It amended &#8220;the Public Health Service Act with respect to public health security and all-hazards preparedness and response, and for other purposes.&#8221; Even its supporters worry about issues of privacy, liability, and putting profits over public health. Critics express greater concerns about dangerous remedies for exaggerated or non-existant threats as well as mass hysteria created for political purposes.</p>
<p>At least one other measure is also worrisome &#8211; The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA). So far it&#8217;s just a proposal by the Center for Law and the Publics  Health &#8211; &#8220;A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities (as) a primary, international, national, state, and local resource on public health law (and) policy for public health practitioners, judges, academics, policymakers, and others.&#8221;</p>
<p>MSEHPA is now &#8220;track(ing) legal responses to the emerging international response to the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak, including declarations of public health emergency at the international, national, state, and local levels&#8230;.&#8221; even though forensic evidence can&#8217;t confirm any H1N1 deaths. No emergency exists anywhere, and reporting one is all hype to sell dangerous drugs to unsuspecting people globally.</p>
<p>On its web site, the ACLU says this about MSEHPA:</p>
<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;written in a way that doesn&#8217;t adequately protect citizens against the misuse of the tremendous powers that it would grant in an emergency. (It&#8217;s) replete with civil liberties problems. Its three top flaws are that:</p>
<p>(1) It fails to include basic checks and balances (by) grant(ing) extraordinary emergency powers (that) should never go unchecked. (It) could have serious consequences for individuals&#8217; freedom, privacy, and equality.&#8221;</p>
<p>(2) &#8220;It goes well beyond bioterrorism (with) an overbroad definition of &#8216;public health emergency&#8221; that may be anything a local or national authority declares for any reason with no conclusive evidence for proof.</p>
<p>(3) &#8220;It lacks privacy protections (and) undercut(s) existing protections for sensitive medical information.&#8221;</p>
<p>MSEHPA worries other organizations besides the ACLU, both conservative and progressive &#8211; including the Free Congress Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council, conservative association of state legislators, Human Rights Campaign, and Health Privacy Project.</p>
<p><strong>The Real Threat of Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations</strong></p>
<p>In the wake of the hyped Swine Flu scare, media reports suggest mass vaccinations are coming. The May 6 Kimberly Kindy &#8211; Ceci Connolly Washington Post one, for example, headlined &#8220;US May Add Shots for Swine Flu to Fall Regimen&#8221; without saying they&#8217;ll be mandatory but reading between the lines suggests the possibility this year or later.</p>
<p>The writers report that &#8220;The Obama administration is considering an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign&#8221; to include regular and Swine Flu shots, the latter because it&#8217;s &#8220;spreading across the globe.&#8221;</p>
<p>HHS&#8217; Dr. Robin Robinson said &#8220;We are moving forward with making a vaccine,&#8221; and if the government proceeds with a national program, enough supply will be produced to provide two doses for all Americans with spokespersons like National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, claiming adverse reactions aren&#8217;t to be expected and adding another shot for Swine Flu &#8220;should not present a problem.&#8221;</p>
<p>The New York Times also hypes the scare with reports of city schools closed after unconfirmed Swine Flu cases, a few adult deaths blamed on H1N1 bringing the claimed total in the city to seven, and the World Health Organization (WHO) saying on June 3 that it&#8217;s moving closer to declaring a worldwide (Level 6) Swine Flu pandemic &#8211; even though none exists.</p>
<p>With all the hype, misinformation, and willful lies WHO&#8217;s Dr. Keiji Fukuda, in charge of flu, said only 117 deaths globally have been &#8220;blamed&#8221; on Swine Flu and any warning may include the caveat that the virus isn&#8217;t very lethal. A more accurate statement would explain that no forensic evidence links any deaths to H1N1, and influenza annually kills about 30,000 people in America alone &#8211; something the major media never report or that scattered accounts of any type flu deaths worldwide are no cause for alarm or reason for scary headlines.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also unconscionable for the WHO, US and other nations&#8217; officials to spread lies, deception, and hysteria so major pharmaceutical companies can foist dangerous vaccines and other drugs on unsuspecting people, harming their health and making them vulnerable to later diseases and possible early deaths.</p>
<p><strong>Massachusetts May Be A Forerunner of What&#8217;s to Come</strong></p>
<p>On April 28, the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a pandemic flu preparation bill that rises to the level of martial law. If approved by the House and signed into law, it will mandate among other measures:</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of&#8221; all individuals involved in providing health care &#8211; as perhaps step one before ordering the same process for all state residents;</p>
<p>&#8211; owners or occupiers of all premises &#8220;to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; closure, evacuation, and decontamination of all suspected facilities; and</p>
<p>&#8211; restricting or prohibiting &#8220;assemblages of persons.&#8221;</p>
<p>Other states may be planning similar measures as precursors to mandatory nationwide vaccinations and overall suspension of civil liberty protections.</p>
<p><strong>Adverse Vaccination Effects on Gulf War Troops</strong></p>
<p>Before deploying to the Persian Gulf in 1990 &#8211; 91 (and thereafter to the present), all US troops got a standard series of inoculations against infectious diseases &#8211; the same ones given to all US citizens traveling to the region. After arriving, 150,000 also got anthrax vaccinations and 8000 botulinum toxoid ones even though concerns were raised about adverse long-term health consequences.</p>
<p>A National Academy of Sciences&#8217; Institute of Medicine (IOM) study was conducted to assess them with results released in September 2000. In December 1997, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that all US military forces would receive anthrax vaccinations. The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) began in March 1998 even though IOM found little published peer-reviewed scientific information on its safety.</p>
<p>In its study, IOM reported evidence of an association between vaccinations studied and transient acute common health effects, including redness, swelling, and fever commonly associated with other vaccinations. However, conclusive proof of long-term problems wasn&#8217;t determined &#8211; likely because study findings were skewed not to find them. More on that below.</p>
<p>IOM also studied botulinum toxoid vaccines and found evidence of an association between the vaccine and transient acute local and systemic effects similar to anthrax vaccinations. Again, conclusive proof of long-term adverse health effects wasn&#8217;t found &#8211; another very dubious conclusion as evidence below explains.</p>
<p>Military personnel usually get multiple vaccinations. IOM studied their effects but didn&#8217;t prove or disprove any long-term adverse effects. However several independent studies of British Gulf War veterans found some link between multiple vaccinations and later health problems.</p>
<p>Gary Matsumoto is a New York-based award-winning investigative journalist. His 2004 book, &#8220;Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That&#8217;s Killing Our Soldiers and Why GIs are Only the First Victims&#8221; took sharp issue with IOM results and the Pentagon&#8217;s denial of Gulf War syndrome.</p>
<p>Investigating the shadowy vaccination development world, he discovered US military-employed doctors and scientists conducted secret medical experiments on US citizens in violation of the Nuremberg Code and fundamental medical ethics.</p>
<p>For its part, Nuremberg established legal medical experimental standards now incorporated into ethical medical codes, including:</p>
<p>&#8211; requiring voluntary consent of human subjects without coercion, fraud, deceit, and with full disclosure of known risks;</p>
<p>&#8211; experiments should avoid &#8220;all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; experiments should never be conducted if there&#8217;s &#8220;an a priori reason to believe death or disabling injury will occur;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; risk &#8220;should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved..;&#8221; and</p>
<p>&#8211; experiments should be terminated if there&#8217;s reason to believe they&#8217;ll cause &#8220;injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to Matsumoto, the Pentagon violated these and other standards, betrayed the troops, and the fundamental duty of military and civilian leaders to protect them. Since at least 1987, biowarfare development trumped the welfare of tens of thousands of GIs used as human guinea pigs for inoculation with experimental unlicensed anthrax vaccines containing squalene &#8211; an oil-based adjuvant (to enhance immunity) known for decades to cause severe autoimmune diseases in lab animals, yet administered involuntarily without disclosure of its harmful effects to human health. Matsumoto wrote:</p>
<p>&#8220;The unethical experiments detailed in this book are ongoing, with little prospect of being self-limiting because they have been shielded from scrutiny and public accountability by national security concerns.&#8221; He suggested the &#8220;writing (was) on the wall&#8221; of what&#8217;s to come with prospects now it may be soon.</p>
<p>&#8220;When UCLA Medical School&#8217;s Michael Whitehouse and Frances Beck injected squalene combined with other materials into rats and guinea pigs back in the 1970s, few oils were more effective at causing the animal versions of arthritis and multiple sclerosis.&#8221; In 1999, immunologist Dr. Johnny Lorentzen at Sweden&#8217;s Karolinska Institute found that on injection, an &#8220;otherwise benign molecule like squalene can stimulate a self-destructive immune response,&#8221; even though it occurs naturally in the body.</p>
<p>Other research shows that squalene is the experimental anthrax vaccine ingredient that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths for many Gulf War veterans from the US, UK, and Australia, yet it continues in use today and for new vaccines development in labs. There&#8217;s a &#8220;close match between the squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Other autoimmune diseases are also linked to humans injected with squalene. &#8220;There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from ten different laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, documenting that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in animals&#8230;observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits. Sweden&#8217;s Karolinska Institute has demonstrated that squalene alone can induce the animal version of rheumatoid arthritis. The Polish Academy of Sciences has shown that in animals, squalene alone can produce catastrophic injury to the nervous system and the brain. The University of Florida Medical School has shown that in animals, squalene alone can induce production of antibodies specifically associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner conducted research into the adverse effects of adjuvants in vaccines and wrote:</p>
<p>Squalene &#8220;contributed to the cascade of reactions called &#8220;Gulf War syndrome. (GIs developed) arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud&#8217;s phenomenon, Sjorgren&#8217;s syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever.&#8221;</p>
<p>Matsumoto&#8217;s book includes numerous case studies of GIs afflicted with one or more of the above syndromes, their devastating effects, and the outlandish US government reaction &#8211; failing to acknowledge their existence or a connection between them and administered vaccines. Also denying the effects of other toxic Gulf theater exposures (like depleted uranium) as well as withholding meaningful treatments or protocols.</p>
<p>US Army Captain George L. Skypeck spoke eloquently for many when he said:</p>
<p>&#8220;Was the character of my valor less intense than those at Lexington? Was the pain of my wounds any less severe than those at Normandy? And was my loneliness any less sorrowful than those at Inchon? Then why am I forgotten amongst those remembered as &#8216;heroes?&#8217; &#8221;</p>
<p>If mass vaccinations are ordered, millions of Americans may ask: Why do you keep using unsafe vaccines and other drugs when clear evidence shows their dangers? Why do you jeopardize all Americans by unleashing a future plague of serious illnesses, diseases, and disabilities? Why have you willfully and maliciously ruined my health?</p>
<p>Immunologist Dr. Pamela Asa first recognized autoimmune diseases showing up in GIs that mirrored those in lab animals injected with oil formulated squalene adjuvants. By 1997, hundreds of millions of dollars had been spent testing vaccines containing them, in animal studies since 1988 and human clinical trials since 1991 &#8211; by leading research institutes like NIH, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).</p>
<p>According to Matsumoto, today, &#8220;Squalene adjuvants are a key ingredient in a whole new generation of vaccines intended for mass immunization around the globe&#8221; even though researchers at Tulane Medical School and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research proved &#8220;that the immune system responds specifically to the squalene molecule.&#8221;</p>
<p>The immune system &#8220;see(s) and recognizes it as an oil molecule native to the body. Squalene is not just a molecule found in a knee or elbow &#8211; it is found throughout the nervous system and the brain.&#8221; When injected in the body, the immune system attacks it as an enemy to be eliminated. Eating and digesting squalene isn&#8217;t a problem. But injecting it &#8220;galvanize(s) the immune system into attacking it, which can produce self-destructive cross reactions against the same molecule in the places where it occurs naturally in the body &#8211; and where it is critical to the health of the nervous system.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once self-destruction begins, it doesn&#8217;t stop as the body keeps making the molecule that the immune system is trained to attack and destroy.</p>
<p>Immunologist Dr. Bonnie Dunbar also did extensive research on hepatitis B-inflicted illnesses and found similar autoimmune processes involved in molecular mimicry in people with devastating neuroimmune syndromes after getting vaccine injections.</p>
<p>Matsumoto says &#8220;Squalene is a kind of trigger for (a) real biological weapon,&#8221; what Soviet researchers called &#8220;a biological time bomb!!&#8221; and Matsumoto says is &#8220;the immune system.&#8221; When its &#8220;full repertoire of cells and antibodies (attack) tissues they are supposed to protect, the results can be catastrophic.&#8221; He and Dr. Pam Asa conclude that &#8220;Oil adjuvants are the most insidious chemical weapon ever devised,&#8221; including ones with squalene &#8211; something the Soviets knew could be used as a weapon in the 1980s.</p>
<p>Matsumoto says that &#8220;the real problem with using squalene (isn&#8217;t) that it mimics a molecule found in the body; it is the same molecule. So what American scientists conceived as a vaccine booster (or what&#8217;s now being developed in labs) was another &#8216;nano-bomb,&#8217; instigating chronic, unpredictable and debilitating disease. When the NIH&#8230;.argued that squalene would be safe because it is native to the body, just the opposite was true,&#8221; and, of course, still is. &#8220;Squalene&#8217;s natural presence in the body made it one of the most dangerous molecules ever injected into man&#8221; and using it in vaccines is outlandish and criminal.</p>
<p>So why does Washington sanction its use? According to Matsumoto: &#8220;scientists in the United States are now literally invested in squalene. Army scientists who developed the second generation anthrax vaccine have reputations to protect and licensing fees to reap (as well as) worldwide rights to develop and commercialize the new recombinant vaccine for anthrax&#8221; and ones for other health threats.</p>
<p>Disturbingly, &#8220;Many of the cutting-edge vaccines currently in development by the NIH and its corporate partners contain squalene in one formulation or another. There is squalene in the prototype recombinant vaccines for HIV, malaria, herpes, influenza (including the swine strain), cytomegalovirus and human papillomavirus.&#8221; Some of these &#8220;are intended for mass immunization(s) around the globe&#8221; and that possibility should terrify everyone enough to refuse any mandate or doctor&#8217;s prescription to take them.</p>
<p>Another problem is that &#8220;Autoimmunity (takes) years to diagnose&#8221; because early symptoms (headaches, joint pain, etc.) are so vague they can easily be from other causes.</p>
<p>From inception, vaccines have always been dangerous enough for some experts to call them biological weapons undermining health, manipulating and crippling the immune system, and creating the possibility of future debilitating diseases. So Big Pharma&#8217;s solution is new, more potent genetically engineered vaccines and drugs that may end up harming or killing many who take them, especially people with weakened immune systems.</p>
<p>Matsumoto and others sounded the alarm to alert everyone to avoid these poisons masquerading as protective drugs. In fact, they benefit only the bottom lines of companies that manufacture them and scientists reaping generous royalties.</p>
<p><em><strong>Stephen Lendman</strong> is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. </em></p>
<p><em>Also visit his blog site at <a href="http://www.sjlendman.blogspot.com/" title="lendman blog">www.sjlendman.blogspot.com</a>  and listen to The Global Research News Hour on <a href="http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/" title="broadcasting lendman">www.RepublicBroadcasting.org</a> Monday &#8211; Friday at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy listening. </em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=13859">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=13859</a>  </em><br />
<em>Stephen  Lendman is a frequent contributor to Global Research.</em>  <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/06/readying-americans-for-dangerous.html"><em>Global Research Articles by Stephen  Lendman</em></a></p>
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		<title>The Dark Green Agenda</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carol Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[certain aspects of the modern green movement, that is now permeating every segment of our society, are not about protecting the environment.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Hidden in Full View</strong></p>
<p>Most of us realize that the Human Race is not a good steward, bringing untold pollution and disaster to planet Earth.Therefore, when we read about groups and organizations calling for a &#8216;greening of the planet&#8217; we usually say&#8230;&#8217;hear hear&#8217; we agree with you. However, certain aspects of the modern green movement, that is now permeating every segment of our society, are not about protecting the environment.</p>
<p>You don’t have to dig very deep to discover the true beliefs of the influential leaders who are using our genuine concerns about the environment to promote their agenda of fear and control.</p>
<p>The<a href="http://green-agenda.com/index.html" title="Green Agenda Web site"> Green Agenda </a>web site has gathered together a string of quotations, which when read with insight, allow us to access the collective thought  processes of their authors.</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The common enemy of humanity is man.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>The real enemy then, is humanity itself</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Club of Rome</strong>, </font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">premier environmental think-tank,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">consultants to the United Nations</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>We need to get some broad based support,</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>to capture the public&#8217;s imagination&#8230;</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>So we have to offer up scary scenarios,</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>make simplified, dramatic statements</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and make little mention of any doubts&#8230;</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Each of us has to decide what the right balance</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>is between being effective and being honest.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Prof. Stephen Schneider</strong>, </font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Stanford Professor of Climatology,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">lead author of many IPCC reports</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>We&#8217;ve got to ride this global warming issue.</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>we will be doing the right thing in terms of </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>economic and environmental policy.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Timothy Wirth</strong>, </font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">President of the UN Foundation </font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>No matter if the science of global warming is all phony&#8230;</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>climate change provides the greatest opportunity to</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>bring about justice and equality in the world</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Christine Stewart</strong>,</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">former Canadian Minister of the Environment</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">“<em>The data doesn&#8217;t matter. We&#8217;re not basing our recommendations </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>on the data. We&#8217;re basing them on the climate models</em>.”</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Prof. Chris Folland</strong>,</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">“<em>The</em> <em>models are convenient fictions </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>that provide something very useful</em>.”</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Dr David Frame</strong>, </font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">climate modeler, Oxford University</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>I believe it is appropriate to have an &#8216;over-representation&#8217; of the facts </em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience</em>.&#8221;</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Al Gore</strong>,</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Climate Change activist</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>It doesn&#8217;t matter what is true,</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>it only matters what people believe is true</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Paul Watson</strong>,</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">co-founder of Greenpeace</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Unless we announce disasters no one will listen</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Sir John Houghton</strong>,</font></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">first chairman of IPCC</font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The only way to get our society to truly change is to</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- emeritus professor <strong>Daniel Botkin</strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and</em></font></span></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span><font color="#000000"><em>spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest</em></font></span></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span><font color="#000000"><em>opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level</em><font color="#000000">.&#8221;</font></font></span></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span><font color="#000000">- </font></span><font color="#000000"><strong>Al Gore</strong><span>,</span></font></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span>Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech</span></font><span></span></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span></span></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>We are on the verge of a global transformation.</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>All we need is the right major crisis</em>&#8230;&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>David Rockefeller</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Club of Rome executive member</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>world&#8217;s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>major catastrophe that could send our entire planet&#8217;s climate system</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods,</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>ever experienced &#8211; a catastrophe of our own making.</em>&#8221; </font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Al Gore</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">An Inconvenient Truth</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;</font><em>We are getting close to catastrophic tipping points,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>despite the fact that most people barely notice the warming yet</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Dr James Hansen,</strong></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">NASA researcher</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>By the end of this century climate change will reduce the human</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Sir James Lovelock</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Revenge of Gaia</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Climate Change will </em></font><em>result in a catastrophic global sea level</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>rise of seven meters. That&#8217;s bye-bye most of Bangladesh,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Netherlands, Florida and would make London the new Atlantis</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Greenpeace International</strong></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>This planet is on course for a catastrophe.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>The existence of Life itself is at stake</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Dr Tim Flannery</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Principal Research Scientist </font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It&#8217;s global warming. </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>It&#8217;s ruining our country. It&#8217;s ruining our world</em>.&#8221; </font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Harry Reid</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">U.S. Senate majority leader</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Climate Change is the greatest threat that</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>human civilization has ever faced</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Angela Merkel</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">German Chancellor</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;C<em>limate change is real. Not only is it real, it&#8217;s here,</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Barak Obama</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">US President</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>We simply must do everything we can in our power to</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>slow down global warming before it is too late</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Arnold Schwarzenegger</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Governor of California</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Climate change should be seen as the</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>greatest challenge to ever face mankind</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Prince Charles</strong></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Climate change makes us all global citizens,</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>we are truly all in this together</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Gordon Brown</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">British Prime Minister</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change.</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Failure to act to now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible.</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>We urgently require a global environmental revolution</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Tony Blair</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">former British PM</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>We are close to a time when all of humankind </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>will envision a global agenda that encompasses </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>causes of poverty and suffering and </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>environmental destruction all over the earth.</em><font color="#000000">&#8220;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Al Gore</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Earth in the Balance</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;</font><em>In Nature organic growth proceeds according </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such a ‘master plan’ is </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>missing from th<font color="#000000">e process of growth and development of</font></em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em><font color="#000000">the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for </font></em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em><font color="#000000">sustainable growth and world development based on global </font></em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em><font color="#000000">allocation of all resources and a new global economic system.</font></em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em><font color="#000000">Ten or twenty years form today it will probably be too late.&#8221;</font></em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Club of Rome</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Mankind at the Turning Point</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;</font><em>We need a new paradigm of development in </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>which the environment will be a priority. </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>World civilization as we know it will soon end. </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>We have very little time and we must act. </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>If we can address the environmental problem, </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>it will have to be done within a new system, a </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>new paradigm. We have to change our mindset, </em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>the way humankind views the world.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Mikhail Gorbachev</strong>,</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">founder of Green Cross International</font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable,</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>indeed a sacred principle of international relations.</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to</em></font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>UN</strong> Commission on Global Governance report</font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>&#8220;Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely.</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>representatives to make competent decisions at the right time.</em>&#8221; </font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- </font><strong>Club of Rome</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">The First Global Revolution</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The emerging &#8216;environmentalization&#8217; of our civilization</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>community will inevitably have multiple political consequences.</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>assume some aspects of a world government.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Mikhail Gorbachev</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">State of the World Forum</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>be a new form of the ten commandments.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>They lay the foundation for a sustainable</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>global earth community.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Mikhail Gorbachev</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">co-author of The Earth Charter</font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>In my view, after fifty years of service in the United Nations system,</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>political and economic systems are no longer appropriate</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet.</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways.&#8221;</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Dr Robert Muller</strong>, </font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">UN Assistant Secretary General,</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>to the international community and beginning to create a </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>new system of international environmental governance </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable crises</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Lester Brown</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">WorldWatch Institute </font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Regionalism must precede globalism.</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>We foresee a seamless system of governance from</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>local communities, individual states, regional unions</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and up through to the United Nations itself</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>UN</strong> Commission on Global Governance </font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income.</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Perhaps only a new and enlightened humanism</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>can permit mankind to negotiate this transition.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Club of Rome</strong>,</font></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Mankind at the Turning Point</font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The alternative to the existing world order can only</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress. </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Mikhail Gorbachev</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">State of the World Forum</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>We require a central organizing principle &#8211; one agreed to voluntarily.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change &#8211; these are all forms of</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>of society will not be necessary</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <font color="#000000"><strong>Al Gore</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Earth in the Balance</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Adopting a central organizing principle&#8230;</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>means embarking on an all-out effort to use every </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>policy and program, every law and institution&#8230;</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>to halt the destruction of the environment.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Al Gore</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Earth in the Balance</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>governments and individuals and an unprecedented</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>of every human action be integrated into individual and</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>collective decision-making at every level.</em>&#8221; </font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>UN Agenda 21</strong></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;</font><em>The current course of development is thus clearly unsustainable.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Current problems cannot be solved by piecemeal measures.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>More of the same is not enough. Radical change from the</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>current trajectory is not an option, but an absolute necessity.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Fundamental economic, social and cultural changes that</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>address the root causes of poverty and environmental</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>degradation are required and they are required now.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">– from the <strong>Earth Charter website</strong></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>which is nature&#8217;s proper steward and society&#8217;s only hope</em>.&#8221; </font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>David Brower</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">founder of Friends of the Earth</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>If we don&#8217;t overthrow capitalism, we don&#8217;t have a chance of</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em> saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em> an ecologically sound society under socialism. </em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>I don&#8217;t think it is possible under capitalism</em>&#8221; </font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Judi Bari</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">principal organiser of Earth First! </font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Isn&#8217;t the only hope for the planet that the </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>industrialized civilizations collapse? </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Isn&#8217;t it our responsiblity to bring that about</em>?&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Maurice Strong</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">founder of the UN Environment Programme</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>United States. De-development means bringing our</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>economic system into line with the realities of</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>ecology and the world resource situation.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Paul Ehrlich</strong>, </font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Professor of Population Studies</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>United States. We can&#8217;t let other countries have the same </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Michael Oppenheimer</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Environmental Defense Fund</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Professor Maurice King</strong></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>free shackled rivers and return to wilderness </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>millions of acres of presently settled land</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>David Foreman</strong>, </font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">co-founder of Earth First! </font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Complex technology of any sort is an assault on </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>because of what we might do with it</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Amory Lovins</strong>, Rocky Mountain Institute</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>worst thing that could happen to the planet</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Jeremy Rifkin</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Greenhouse Crisis Foundation</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong><font color="#000000">Prof </font>Paul Ehrlich</strong>, Stanford University</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>the surface of the earth is a willful expansion</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Al Gore</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Earth in the Balance</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many,</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>doing too well economically and burning too much oil.</em>&#8220;</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">– <strong>Sir James Lovelock</strong>,</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">BBC Interview</font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>My three main goals would be to reduce human population to</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>returning throughout the world</em>.&#8221; </font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">-<strong>Dave Foreman</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">co-founder of Earth First! </font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>affluent middle class &#8211; involving high meat intake,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and suburban housing &#8211; are not sustainable.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Maurice Strong</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Rio Earth Summit </font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive, </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>selfish and unethical animal on the earth</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Michael Fox</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">vice-president of The Humane Society </font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Human beings, as a species, </em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>have no more value than slugs</em>.&#8221; </font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>John Davis</strong>, editor of Earth First! Journal</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumo</em>r.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Sir James Lovelock</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Healing Gaia</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The Earth has cancer</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and the cancer is Man</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Club of Rome</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Mankind at the Turning Point</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>apparently brutal and heartless decisions</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Prof</strong> <strong>Paul Ehrlich</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">The Population Bomb </font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>I don&#8217;t claim to have any special interest in natural history, </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>the number of game animals and the need to adjust </em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>the cull to the size of the surplus population</em>.&#8221; </font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Prince Philip</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">preface of Down to Earth</font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>at the present North American material standard of living </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>United Nations</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Global Biodiversity Assessment</font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>A total population of 250-300 million people, </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Ted Turner</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">founder of CNN and major UN donor</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;&#8230; <em>the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence</em></font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>more than 500 million but less than one billion</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Club of Rome</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Goals for Mankind</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>One America burdens the earth much more than </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say. </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>In order to stabilize world population,we must eliminate </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>but it&#8217;s just as bad not to say it</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Jacques Cousteau</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">UNESCO Courier</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>as a killer virus to lower human population levels</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Prince Philip</strong>, Duke of Edinburgh,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">patron of the World Wildlife Fund</font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>It played an important part in balancing ecosystems</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>John Davis</strong>, editor of Earth First! Journal</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The extinction of the human species may not</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>only be inevitable but a good thing</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Christopher Manes</strong>, Earth First!</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">“<em>T</em></font><em>he extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival </em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. </em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>Phasing out the human race will solve every </em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>problem on Earth &#8211; social and environmental</em>.”</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Ingrid Newkirk</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">former President of PETA</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Childbearing should be a punishable crime against</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>society, unless the parents hold a government license.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>All potential parents should be required to use</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>David Brower</strong>, </font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">first Executive Director of the Sierra Club</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">&#8220;<em>The fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>the emergence of a new faith in the future. </em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>Armed with such a faith, we might find </em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>it possible to resanctify the earth.</em>&#8220;</font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">- <strong>Al Gore</strong>,</font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">Earth in the Balance</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<font color="#000000"><em>The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Club of Rome</strong>,</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Goals for Mankind</font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>What an incredible planet in the universe this will be</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>when we will be one human family living in justice,</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>peace, love and harmony with our divine Earth, </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>with each other and with the heavens</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Robert Muller</strong>, </font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">UN Assistant Secretary General</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>species has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution&#8230;.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Our salvation depends upon our ability</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>to create a religion of nature</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Rene Dubos</strong>, </font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">board member, Planetary Citizens</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Each element, plant, insect, fish and animal</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>represents a certain aspect of Gaia&#8217;s &#8211; and our &#8211; being.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>In a way, we are Gaia&#8217;s intelligence and awareness</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>- currently lost in self-destructive madness.</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>We must acknowledge, respect and love her for being</em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>the Mother she is to us or we deny our very selves. </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Nurture the Mother as she nurtures us</em>.&#8221;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Prof. Michael J. Cohen</strong>, </font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">Ecopsychologist</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;I<em>t is the responsibility of each human being today to </em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>choose between the force of darkness and the force of light.</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.</em>&#8220;</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Maurice Strong</strong>,</font></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">first Secretary General of UNEP</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>The spirit of our planet is stirring! </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>The Consciousness of Goddess Earth </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>is now rising against all odds, </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>in spite of millennia of suppression, </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>repression and oppression inflicted on Her </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>by a hubristic and misguided humanity. </em></font></font></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>The Earth is a living entity, a biological organism </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>with psychic and spiritual dimensions. </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>With the expansion of the patriarchal religions </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>that focused on a male God majestically </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>stationed in Heaven ruling over the Earth and the </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>Universe, the memory of our planet&#8217;s innate Divinity </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>was repressed and banished into the </em></font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><em>collective unconscious of humanity.</em>&#8220;</font></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">- <strong>Envision Earth</strong></font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;</font><em>Still more important is the implication that the evolution of</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>homo sapiens, with his technological inventiveness and his</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>increasingly subtle communications network, has vastly increased</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>Gaia&#8217;s range of perception. She is now through us awake and aware</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>of herself. She has seen the reflection of her fair face through the</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting spacecraft.</em></font></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>Our sensations of wonder and pleasure, our capacity</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>for conscious thought and speculation, our restless curiosity and</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>drive are hers to share. This new interrelationship of Gaia with man</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>is by no means fully established; we are not yet a truly collective</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>species, corralled and tamed as an integral part of the biosphere,</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>as we are as individual creatures. It may be that the destiny of</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>mankind is to become tamed, so that the fierce, destructive, and</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>greedy forces of tribalism and nationalism are fused into a</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>compulsive urge to belong to the commonwealth of all</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>creatures which constitutes Gaia.</em>&#8220;</font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">– <strong>Sir James Lovelock</strong>, </font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">Gaia: A New Look At Life</font></p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Little by little a planetary prayer book is</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>thus being composed by an increasingly united</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>humanity seeking its oneness</em>. <em>Once again,</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>but this time on a universal scale, humankind is</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>seeking no less than its reunion with &#8216;divine,&#8217;</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>its transcendence into higher forms of life. Hindus</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>see no difference between our earth and the divine.</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again upon</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>humanity, as we are about to enter our cosmic age</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>and become what we were always meant to be:</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>the planet of god</em>.&#8221;</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Robert Muller</strong>, </font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">UN Assistant Secretary General</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>What if Mary is another name for Gaia? Then her capacity for</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>virgin birth is no miracle . . . it is a role of Gaia since life began . . .</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>She is of this Universe and, conceivably, a part of God. On Earth,</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>she is the source of life everlasting and is alive now;</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>she gave birth to humankind and we are part of her</em>.&#8221;</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">-</font> <strong>Sir James Lovelock</strong>, </font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Ages of Gaia</font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred;</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.</em>&#8220;</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Mikhail Gorbachev</strong>, </font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Green Cross International</font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">&#8220;<em>The spiritual sense of our place in nature&#8230;</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>can be traced to the origins of human civilization&#8230;.</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>The last vestige of organized goddess worship</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>was eliminated by Christianity.</em>&#8220;</font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">- <font color="#000000"><strong>Al Gore,</strong></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Earth in the Balance</font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">&#8220;<em>Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed,</em></font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><em>we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition</em>.&#8221;</font></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">- <strong>Peter Singer</strong>, founder of Animal Rights </font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">&#8220;<em>I pledge allegiance to the Earth and all its sacred parts.</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>Its water, land and living things and all its human hearts</em>.&#8221;</font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">- <strong>Global Education Associates</strong>,</font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">The Earth Pledge </font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">&#8220;<em>By fostering a deep sense of connection to others and to the earth</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>in all its dimensions, holistic education encourages a sense of</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>responsibility to self to others and to the planet.</em>&#8220;</font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">- <strong>Global Alliance for Transforming Education</strong></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font color="#4700b8">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></strong></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">&#8220;<em>The earth is not dead matter. She is alive.</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>Now begin to speak to the earth as you walk.</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind.</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>Send your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>heart touching upon the heart of the planet. Say to her</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I love you.</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>your creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth.</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>On behalf of the human race, I ask forgiveness</em></font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><em>for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth</em>&#8220;</font><br />
<font face="Arial, sans-serif">- <strong>US Student Textbook</strong>, </font><br />
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		<dc:creator>Carol Webb</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Communications Now Monitored</strong></p>
<p>The time has come, and now, for the population of the UK, there is no more pretense.  We are no longer free to communicate as we wish, without facing, as yet, unknown consequences.</p>
<p><strong>All Anti-Terrorist Laws Abused </strong></p>
<p>As anti-terrorist laws are now commonly abused by the state, so we can only wait for the first abuses of this E.U. legislation to be rolled out and be used to intimidate anyone who may still have a few brain cells of their own in good working order.</p>
<p>It is imperative that we remain calm in the face of this onslaught. Remember that civil disturbances will provide the ammunition for martial law, it would be playing into manipulative hands.</p>
<p>All relevant legislation is in place, but thankfully the G20 London protesters weren&#8217;t fooled by &#8216;<em>agent provocateurs</em>&#8216; working from within who might easily have tipped the balance enough to require the intervention of martial law.</p>
<p>Long may it remain so.</p>
<p><strong> Your Decision</strong></p>
<p>In the short term all UK ISP users need to decide how they will deal with the situation.</p>
<p>It is possible to change providers to those outside E.U. jurisdiction, as I imagine any terrorist will certainly do, but it will only be a stopgap as other countries will soon comply. If they are not secretly monitoring already. The American government has long held this capability, the software is available to all.</p>
<p>The piece below is from &#8216;The Independent&#8217; a newspaper, frequently used to test public opinion. There were some comments, but not enough to worry the government. This will slide effortlessly into operation, and no-one will pay attention until they are subjected to an intimidating interview with unknown results.</p>
<p><strong>Personal web data to be stored for a year</strong></p>
<p class="tagline">New law forces service providers to record all your calls and emails from Monday</p>
<p class="clear-f">             <author> 					By Robert Verkaik, Law editor</author></p>
<p class="info"><em>Saturday, 4 April 2009</em></p>
<p class="body font-null">The mobile calls, emails and website visits of every person in Britain will be stored for a year under sweeping new powers which come into force on Monday. Privacy campaigners warned last night that the information would be used by the Government to create a giant &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; super-database containing a map of everyone&#8217;s private life.</p>
<p>The new powers will, for the first time, place a legal duty on internet companies to store private information, including email traffic and website browsing histories.</p>
<p>Although the new retention powers will not permit the storage of the content of emails or phone calls it will show details such as IP addresses, date, time and user telephone numbers. Under the terms of the EU directive, the Home Office has written to leading internet service providers and phone companies offering to compensate them for the costs incurred in retaining the data for a year.</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association confirmed that the leading ISPs had received written orders from the Home Office setting out their obligations under the new rules.</p>
<p>Phil Booth of the civil rights campaign group, NOID, said: &#8220;Inch by inch, the Government&#8217;s plans to map and monitor everyone&#8217;s communications are creeping into place. Today it&#8217;s retention of data, soon it&#8217;ll be a giant database to suck it all up. And unless we speak out and stop this, what used to be private – details of your relationships and personal interests – will end up in the ever-widening control of the stalker state.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last week the The Independent reported that millions of Britons who use social networking sites such as <em>Facebook</em> could soon have their every move monitored by the Government and saved on a &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; database.</p>
<p>Then ministers faced a civil liberties outcry over the plans, with accusations of excessive snooping on the private lives of law-abiding citizens. Others fear the risk of security breaches. &#8220;Quite clearly, this new legislation opens up a whole can of worms for the ISPs when it comes to potential security implications,&#8221; said Neil Cook, a security expert with the internet data protection firm Cloudmark.</p>
<p>The Government has twice postponed publication of a new data communications Bill in which ministers will set out their plans for a centrally controlled database. A Home Office spokesman said: &#8220;If we do not make changes now to maintain existing capabilities, the law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies will no longer be able to use this data in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;It is the Government&#8217;s priority to protect public safety and national security. That is why we are completing the implementation of this directive, which will bring the UK in line with our European counterparts. Communications data plays a vital part in a wide range of criminal investigations. Without communications data, resolving crimes such as the Rhys Jones murder would be very difficult if not impossible.&#8221;</p>
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