This should be on the front page of every newspaper.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Unity Method Patent Application
United States Patent Application: 20070170306: Consider a "Headache"
Consider a "Headache"
[0026] Your brain is throbbing, you had a long week and are running late to work and just got a flat tire. You feel like someone is you pounding on your head with a sledge hammer. You might even experience the "white throbbing" sensation that accompanies migraine headaches. However, now conceive of the headache through this Method and recognize the unity of your own brain and body where they are only reacting to stimuli you have focused them on. When considering this Method in relationship to the immediate problem of the headache; you recognized that your consciousness is always in control of the mind and body, there is only one energy stream in your body=your own will power.
[0027] Now you choose to visualize this problem in a new way. You see this big white hammer pounding on the front of your head as a "picture." It is like a movie picture flashing on the wall of your head. Now you choose to focus on this picture throbbing on the wall of your head, and decide to redecorate this room. You see yourself walk across the inside of your head and grab that picture on the wall and through it out the window. Simultaneously you imagine the wadded up picture flying out your ear to land on the floor next to you.
[0028] Stop and notice now; your headache is gone. This simplistic example is perceived, understood and recognized instantly. Most people initially get a flash of "no headache" but then they are stunned and fall back into the familiar feeling of having no control and returning to their "headache." However, when accepting the conscious understanding of how everything is connected and related as defined by this Method; this simplistic insight and conscious exercise will end your headache. Seeing yourself in control allows yourself to take control. You are conscious of the energy moving through your nerves and brain and have decided to change the flow of your own energy. That fleeting moment you felt with "no headache" can simply be focused on and expanded. I almost never get headaches, and might get sick once a year. However, I simply remove this energy from my system and return to peace and comfort easily.
[0029] This is an improvement on the prior art of having no control over oneself and taking an aspirin, where mass media has programmed you to believe the drug will relieve your headache, while experiments have shown patients will respond and be relieved with just a sugar pill as well. This Placebo Effect is the unconscious version of this Method (Nordenberg, 2000).
Consider a "Headache"
[0026] Your brain is throbbing, you had a long week and are running late to work and just got a flat tire. You feel like someone is you pounding on your head with a sledge hammer. You might even experience the "white throbbing" sensation that accompanies migraine headaches. However, now conceive of the headache through this Method and recognize the unity of your own brain and body where they are only reacting to stimuli you have focused them on. When considering this Method in relationship to the immediate problem of the headache; you recognized that your consciousness is always in control of the mind and body, there is only one energy stream in your body=your own will power.
[0027] Now you choose to visualize this problem in a new way. You see this big white hammer pounding on the front of your head as a "picture." It is like a movie picture flashing on the wall of your head. Now you choose to focus on this picture throbbing on the wall of your head, and decide to redecorate this room. You see yourself walk across the inside of your head and grab that picture on the wall and through it out the window. Simultaneously you imagine the wadded up picture flying out your ear to land on the floor next to you.
[0028] Stop and notice now; your headache is gone. This simplistic example is perceived, understood and recognized instantly. Most people initially get a flash of "no headache" but then they are stunned and fall back into the familiar feeling of having no control and returning to their "headache." However, when accepting the conscious understanding of how everything is connected and related as defined by this Method; this simplistic insight and conscious exercise will end your headache. Seeing yourself in control allows yourself to take control. You are conscious of the energy moving through your nerves and brain and have decided to change the flow of your own energy. That fleeting moment you felt with "no headache" can simply be focused on and expanded. I almost never get headaches, and might get sick once a year. However, I simply remove this energy from my system and return to peace and comfort easily.
[0029] This is an improvement on the prior art of having no control over oneself and taking an aspirin, where mass media has programmed you to believe the drug will relieve your headache, while experiments have shown patients will respond and be relieved with just a sugar pill as well. This Placebo Effect is the unconscious version of this Method (Nordenberg, 2000).
Sunday, June 09, 2013
NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999
NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 | Washington's Blog:
Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software:
NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999
Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11
In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it’s much more wide spread than you’ve heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers to install a backdoor in all software.Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software:
A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA “help information” trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled.We have repeatedly pointed out that widespread spying on Americans began prior to 9/11.
The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two years ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren [an expert in computer security]. But it was only a few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.
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Two weeks ago, a US security company came up with conclusive evidence that the second key belongs to NSA. Like Dr van Someren, Andrew Fernandez, chief scientist with Cryptonym of Morrisville, North Carolina, had been probing the presence and significance of the two keys. Then he checked the latest Service Pack release for Windows NT4, Service Pack 5. He found that Microsoft’s developers had failed to remove or “strip” the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for the two keys. One was called “KEY”. The other was called “NSAKEY”.
Fernandes reported his re-discovery of the two CAPI keys, and their secret meaning, to “Advances in Cryptology, Crypto’99″ conference held in Santa Barbara. According to those present at the conference, Windows developers attending the conference did not deny that the “NSA” key was built into their software. But they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been put there without users’ knowledge.
A third key?!
But according to two witnesses attending the conference, even Microsoft’s top crypto programmers were astonished to learn that the version of ADVAPI.DLL shipping with Windows 2000 contains not two, but three keys. Brian LaMachia, head of CAPI development at Microsoft was “stunned” to learn of these discoveries, by outsiders. The latest discovery by Dr van Someren is based on advanced search methods which test and report on the “entropy” of programming code.
Within the Microsoft organisation, access to Windows source code is said to be highly compartmentalized, making it easy for modifications to be inserted without the knowledge of even the respective product managers.
Researchers are divided about whether the NSA key could be intended to let US government users of Windows run classified cryptosystems on their machines or whether it is intended to open up anyone’s and everyone’s Windows computer to intelligence gathering techniques deployed by NSA’s burgeoning corps of “information warriors”.
According to Fernandez of Cryptonym, the result of having the secret key inside your Windows operating system “is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operating system“. The NSA key is contained inside all versions of Windows from Windows 95 OSR2 onwards.
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“How is an IT manager to feel when they learn that in every copy of Windows sold, Microsoft has a ‘back door’ for NSA – making it orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer?” he asked.
Thursday, June 06, 2013
We've reached the tipping point against Monsanto
Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Monsanto-Tipping-Point-by-Mike-Adams-130604-336.html (sent via ) ---- Source: Natural News Monsanto is now in full retreat against a global grassroots rejection of its poisons and lies. The company is backpedaling on every front now, even admitting defeat in Europe and now trying to focus its last, desperate efforts on the United States and Brazil. But even in the Americas, Monsanto is losing on every front: GMO labeling legislation is cropping up in over a dozen states, the global March Against Monsanto demonstrated global grassroots unity against GMOs, and even the so-called "science" behind the "safety" GMOs is revealed as utter hogwash now that GMOs have escaped Monsanto's experimental wheat fields and contaminated commercial wheat crops in America. Japan has halted U.S. wheat imports and South Korea joined in as well. Ben & Jerry's ice cream company has announced it is going 100% GMO-free, and massive boycotts are underway against brands that tried to block the GMO labeling ballot measure in California (Prop 37). We've reached the tipping point against Monsanto Jeffrey Smith of www.ResponsibleTechnology.org has always talked about a "tipping point" being reached on GMOs, after which the flood of consumer awareness and demand would force food manufacturers and retailers to begin the process of ditching GMOs. I believe that tipping point has now been reached. In fact, I believe the March Against Monsanto was the final push over the fulcrum of the tipping point, and I am ecstatic that so many people all around the world marched in the streets to protest global food injustice while the wholly-discredited mainstream media sat back and pretended the march never even took place! In one fell sweep, the tipping point against Monsanto was triggered and the whole world realized the mainstream media has zero credibility. I'll call that a victory any day! Next steps: Commands from headquarters? If you're waiting for "commands from headquarters" to figure out what's next in the war for food justice and farming justice -- the war against Monsanto and GMOs -- you don't really understand this movement. The beauty of everything that's happening today is that there IS no headquarters! Activists against Monsanto are simply making this up as we go along. There is no "leader." There is no secret strategy meeting. There are no talking points. There is no overarching set of milestones being discussed. There is no one person that makes all this happen. The anti-GMO movement is all just large numbers of courageous individuals waking up and doing what needs to be done, whether that's organizing a march, posting videos online, boycotting food brands that use GMOs, or holding home-viewing parties of DVDs that educate people on the truth about GMOs. This is the movement's strength. This is why nobody can be intimidated, sued or shut down by Monsanto. Behind every activist there are a thousand more carrying the torch for food justice. The anti-GMO grassroots movement absolutely will not stop until GMOs are banned from the global food supply, and that bold statement is just as true in Venezuela and Portugal as the United States. Everywhere that people eat food and grow food, everyone who is informed supports the idea of outlawing GMOs entirely. This goal will be achieved. I can see it now with clarity. The grassroots energy behind this movement is unstoppable. And while everyone in the grassroots anti-GMO movement may come from slightly different viewpoints on other social, political and economic issues, they all agree that GMOs have no place in the food supply, period! As I recently said in my speech at the March Against Monsanto in Austin: "The fact that you are here, in all your beautiful diversity... is proof that they cannot divide us! They can only unite us with their insanity!" If you are part of the effort to stop Monsanto and outlaw GMOs, you are winning. You are making a measurable, effective difference in the world, and the positive shockwaves of your efforts will be felt for generations to come. Keep up the good work. :-)
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GE News: Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in Europe
GE News: Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in Europe: Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in Europe
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Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in EuropeThis article was originally published by DW.de on May 31, 2013. The world's largest producer of seeds, Monsanto, has apparently given up on attempts to spread its genetically modified plant varieties in Europe. A German media report said the firm would end all lobbying for approval. The German newspaper "taz" reported Friday that US agriculture behemoth Monsanto had dropped any plans to have farmers grow its genetically modified (GM) plant varieties in Europe. Monsanto Europe spokesman Brandon Mitchener was quoted as saying the company would no longer engage in any lobbying fur such plants on the continent, adding that at the moment the firm was unwilling to apply for approval of any GM plants. DW.DE Saying 'No' to genetically modified food All over the world, protesters have been rallying against genetically modified food - and in particular, against seed giant Monsanto. (28.05.2013) Monsanto said its decision was partly based on low demand from European farmers. "We've understood that such plants don't have any broad acceptance in European societies," Monsanto Germany spokeswoman Ursula Lüttmer-Ouazane commented. "We haven't been bale to make any progress over the years, and it's counter-productive to tilt against windmills," she added. Public resistance The German Agriculture Ministry said Monsanto's move was a corporate decision and would not comment further. But it added it was no secret the ministry had been highly critical of gene modification technologies. "The promises of GM industry have not come true for European agriculture, nor have they for the agriculture in developing and emerging economies," the ministry said in a statement. In Germany, the protest movement against GM plants has been particularly strong for years. Vociferous rallying prompted the government in 2009 to prohibit the growing of Monsanto's MON810 GM maize variety. Rivals of the US company, such as Bayer CropScience, BASF and Syngenta had largely withdrawn from the German market because of large-scale public opposition, the "taz" report claimed. hg/mz (dpa, AFP)
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Sunday, June 02, 2013
Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex
How the prefrontal cortex has come to dominate human consciousness: Shamanism is one of those controversial terms that can spark innumerable debates among both academics and spiritual seekers, such as whether it should be identified with a specific region, how old it is, and even how it should be defined. For our purposes, a shaman can be understood as a particular person within a hunter-gatherer society who is believed to have the ability to mediate between the everyday world and the spirit worlds (of which there are frequently two: an upper world in the sky and a lower world beneath the earth)
Nature’s Organizing Principles: The Li. | Finding the li
Nature’s Organizing Principles: The Li. | Finding the li: Ultimately “finding the li” is about finding our way in this world by finding ourselves. Or, in the words of Chang Tsai, one of the founders of the Neo-Confucianist movement
Note: This is the first in a series. Go to other posts:
1: Nature’s Organizing Principles: The Li.
2: The Li: Beyond the Laws of Nature.
3: Wiggles in the Stream of Time: Li and Ch’i.
4: The Rosetta Stone of Metaphysics: The Li.
5: Einstein, Chu Hsi and the Investigation of Things.
Note: This is the first in a series. Go to other posts:
1: Nature’s Organizing Principles: The Li.
2: The Li: Beyond the Laws of Nature.
3: Wiggles in the Stream of Time: Li and Ch’i.
4: The Rosetta Stone of Metaphysics: The Li.
5: Einstein, Chu Hsi and the Investigation of Things.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot:
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences Mathematics Department - Yale University IBM Fellow Emeritus T.J. Watson Research Center International Business Machines Corporation | | |
| | Seeks a measure of order in physical, mathematical or social phenomena that are characterized by abundant data but extreme sample variability. The surprising esthetic value of many of his discoveries and their unexpected usefulness in teaching have made him an eloquent spokesman for the "unity of knowing and feeling." Member of National Academy of Sciences |
Saturday, June 01, 2013
Mysterious, Massive Disappearance/Death of US Honey Bees – Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) : Target Health Global
Mysterious, Massive Disappearance/Death of US Honey Bees – Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) : Target Health Global
Diana Cox-Foster, a professor of entomology at Penn State University, has been working on the problem for months now. She says the die-off is unprecedented, and she’s made some dramatic discoveries. For example, the normally resilient bees she dissected showed traces of not one or two diseases, but nearly every disease known to affect them over the past century. They had all the diseases at once, a sign their immune systems have been compromised.
Diana Cox-Foster, a professor of entomology at Penn State University, has been working on the problem for months now. She says the die-off is unprecedented, and she’s made some dramatic discoveries. For example, the normally resilient bees she dissected showed traces of not one or two diseases, but nearly every disease known to affect them over the past century. They had all the diseases at once, a sign their immune systems have been compromised.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Circular Economy Reports - Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Circular Economy Reports - Ellen MacArthur Foundation: he purpose of Towards the Circular Economy reports is to make the case for a faster adoption, quantify the economic benefits of circular business models, and lay out pathways for action.
In order to bring together leading experts who are re-thinking around the framework of a circular economy, a Knowledge Transfer Network has been created in LinkedIn.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation was formed in 2010 to inspire a generation to re-think, re-design and build a positive future. The Foundation believes that the circular economy provides a coherent framework for systems level re-design and as such offers us an opportunity to harness innovation and creativity to enable a positive, restorative economy.
The Foundation is supported by a group of ‘Founding Partners’ – B&Q, BT, Cisco, National Grid and Renault. Each of these organisations has been instrumental in the initial formation of the Foundation, the instigation of these reports and continues to support its activities in education, communications and working as a business catalyst
In order to bring together leading experts who are re-thinking around the framework of a circular economy, a Knowledge Transfer Network has been created in LinkedIn.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation was formed in 2010 to inspire a generation to re-think, re-design and build a positive future. The Foundation believes that the circular economy provides a coherent framework for systems level re-design and as such offers us an opportunity to harness innovation and creativity to enable a positive, restorative economy.
The Foundation is supported by a group of ‘Founding Partners’ – B&Q, BT, Cisco, National Grid and Renault. Each of these organisations has been instrumental in the initial formation of the Foundation, the instigation of these reports and continues to support its activities in education, communications and working as a business catalyst
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Guerrilla road safety group
Guerrilla road safety group ‘politely’ installs illegal bike lane protectors on Cherry Street | Seattle Bike Blog: Guerrilla road safety group ‘politely’ installs illegal bike lane protectors on Cherry Street
The group—calling themselves the Reasonably Polite Seattleites—wanted to make a statement about how easy and affordable it would be for the city to use the method to make bike lanes safer all over the city. To stress how polite they are, they attached them using an adhesive pad for easy removal, according to an email sent to SDOT and Seattle Bike Blog.
The city has removed them, but responded with an equally polite email thanking them for making the statement, apologizing that they had to remove them and even offering to give the pylons back. Below are the shockingly polite emails, starting with the RPS:
Guerrilla road safety group ‘politely’ installs illegal bike lane protectors on Cherry Street
An extremely polite group of anonymous guerrilla road safety activists armed with $350 worth of reflective plastic pylons turned the painted Cherry Street bike lane under I-5 into a protected bike lane Monday morning.The group—calling themselves the Reasonably Polite Seattleites—wanted to make a statement about how easy and affordable it would be for the city to use the method to make bike lanes safer all over the city. To stress how polite they are, they attached them using an adhesive pad for easy removal, according to an email sent to SDOT and Seattle Bike Blog.
The city has removed them, but responded with an equally polite email thanking them for making the statement, apologizing that they had to remove them and even offering to give the pylons back. Below are the shockingly polite emails, starting with the RPS:
Tom, I’m an avid reader of your blog and avid cyclist. We’ve attended meetings together, though I don’t think we’ve ever actually met. I’m emailing because this morning a friend and I installed a string of plastic pylons along the Cherry Street bike lane under I-5. I’ve attached a couple of pictures. In New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, the city transportation department usually installs these things, which slow traffic to the posted speed limit, and afford cyclists some protection. Some might ask, very reasonably, how does a piece of cheap plastic protect you from a drunk or distracted driver in a two ton SUV? Based on my experience commuting in such lanes in other cities, 1) they slow speeding traffic by making the lane appear narrower (without actually reducing its size); and 2) it’s essentially a warning system for a drunk or distracted driver; once he hits one, he’s more likely to slow down, lessening the chance of hitting a cyclist or pedestrian down the road. This string cost about $350 in materials and required literally 10 minutes to install (admittedly, because SPD HQ is across the street, we hurried). SDOT will probably argue maintaining these things costs money, they complicate street cleaning, etc., etc. These are reasonable arguments, except that Chicago, D.C., San Francisco have confronted and overcome the same issues.Two days later, the group received an equally-polite response from SDOT’s traffic engineer explaining why the bollards had to be removed (and offering to give them back):
We chose this block fairly arbitrarily; we certainly don’t enjoy riding it, despite the fact the bike lane is relatively new–cars race past, gaining speed for the approaching hill, or to accelerate onto I-5. The grade is inclined, so cycling is slow–thus, as cars accelerate to 45 mph, we’re moving at 4 or 5. But this certainly wasn’t the worst bike facility in Seattle. Our intention was merely to demonstrate how an incredibly modest investment and a few minutes of SDOT’s time is capable of transforming a marginal, under-utilized and dangerous bike facility into one dramatically safer for cars, pedestrians and bicyclists. (This is not mere rhetoric; as you undoubtedly know, New York City’s investments in pedestrian facilities, bike lanes and cycletracks led to the lowest number of traffic related facilities in the city’s recorded history—not per capita, but in absolute numbers, despite exponential population growth; in other words, these facilities are safer not only for pedestrians and cyclists, but drivers.)
We sincerely hope the new master bicycle plan, which currently includes 137 miles of cycletracks, is fully implemented, though we’re understandably skeptical. While we’re waiting, many obvious, inexpensive, relatively non-controversial solutions exist, as we’ve sought to demonstrate here. We wish Mayor McGinn would explore such opportunities. We wish we didn’t have to spend our own money on common-sense, unobtrusive traffic calming treatments, and risk arrest installing them, in order to feel safe riding in this city.
PS: Because we we’re still polite Seattleites (even when we engage in acts of civil disobedience), we used an adhesive pad, which is removable, not epoxy, which is more permanent, meaning Mayor McGinn and SDOT can remove these in a matter of minutes, if they so choose.
Hello reasonably polite Seattleites,
Thank you for pointing out some easy ways to calm traffic and provide more secure feeling bicycle lane on our streets. Your sentiment of unease and insecurity riding on painted bicycle lanes next to high speed and high volume traffic is exactly what I am hearing from the our residents as we update our bicycle master plan. This strong message to me and my staff that we have be more thoughtful on facility design and implementation is being heard loud and clear. You are absolutely correct that there are low cost and simple ways to slow traffic, increase the sense of protection, and provide bicycle facilities that are more pleasant and accommodating for larger portion of people who ride bicycles. I am truly appreciative that you care enough to take time, money, and risk to send your message to me and my staff. It is my commitment to you that I will do my best to update our existing facilities and install new bicycle facilities that will be more thoughtful. Some of these will be low cost, such as what you demonstrated on Cherry Street, while others will require more resources to implement.
The posts that you installed on Cherry Street will be removed and I am sorry about that. The posts are 36 inches high and is higher than most road bicycle handle bars. A rider can hit the post with their handle bar, which is a safety concern. The bicycle lane narrow and is five feet wide. The travel lane is 11 feet wide, which is what the State DOT permitted us to narrow the lane to. Cherry Street is under the freeway and is owned by the State, so we do have to get their permission for reconfiguring the street. If we had more lane width to work with, we could installed shorter posts. Unfortunately, this is not the case here. Please let me know if you would like the posts back and I will have the crew leave the post in a safe area for you to pick up. Thank you, again, for your thoughtful demonstration.
Sincerely,
DONGHO CHANG, PE, PTOE
City Traffic Engineer
Seattle Department of Transportation
Traffic Management Division
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