Go Lilly!

Needs no intro...
But the words of the song are below.

Do you think, everything, everyone is going mental
It seems to me, we're spiraling out of control, and it's inevitable
Now don't you think, this time is yours, this time is mine, it's temperamental
It seems to me, we're on all fours, crawling on our knees, someone help us please

Oh Jesus Christ almighty
Do I feel alright, no not slightly
I wanna get a flat, I know I can't afford it
It's just a bureaucrats who won't give me a mortgage

It's very funny 'cos I got your fucking money
And I'm never gonna get it, just because of my bad credit
Oh well I guess I mustn't grumble
I suppose its just the way the cookie crumbles

Oh yes, I'm fine
Everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life

Don't you want, something else, something new, than what we got here
And don't you feel, it's all the same, some sick game, and it's so insincere
I wish I could, change the ways, of the world, make it a nice place
Until that day, I guess we stay, doing what we do, screwing who we screw

Why can't I sleep at night
Don't say it's gonna be alright
I wanna be able to eat spaghetti bolognaise
And not feel bad about it for days and days and days

In all the magazines they talk about weight loss
If I buy those jeans I could look like Kate Moss
I know it's not the life that I chose
But I guess it's just the way that things go

Oh yes, I'm fine
Everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life

Oh yes, I'm fine
Everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life

Ba ba ba ba etc.

Oh Jesus Christ almighty
Do I feel alright, no not slightly
I wanna get a flat, I know I can't afford it
It's just a bureaucrats that won't give me a mortgage

It's very funny 'cos I got your fucking money
And I'm never gonna get it just 'cos of my bad credit
Oh well I guess I musn't grumble
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles

But I guess it's just the way that things go
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
But I guess it's just the way that things go
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles

Bitterness

I've been fortunate enough to meet many people who encourage this flavour in their hearts and lives. I say fortunate because they are teachers. They teach me to value whatever life is offering in the moment, and never to hold on too tightly to the past because for all its joys and sorrows it is no more.

Only now exists and it is sweet. That is a choice.

Notably those who cultivate bitterness in the heart are usually unaware or unconscious that they choose to do so. Instead they nurture the pain and the pain nurtures them, urging them on to continue the cycle. They then walk into situations where pain is because it is familiar and comfortable and they can add to the basket. In any of these actions there is choice and the decision to be conscious at the very least to what is happening.

Peace will only grow where the soil is fertile with NOW!

Prayer

Hi All,
I hope your holidays were bountiful and peaceful. For this year which is an 11 vibration in numerology there is much to be accomplished so put your mind to work on how to make our immediate environment and the world in general a better place. This is a year for getting things done on a grand scale!
For one thing let us not underestimate the power of prayer which ripples out into the ether and universes and brings with it waves of our peaceful and harmonious intentions. Please do not stop praying for it does have a beneficial effect and we do need it.
Love to all...

Happy New Year Everyone Around the World

I have to say that I really like the idea Matt has used with this media and the latest video presentation of it does not disappoint. It needs no further description, however I urge you watchers to put aside your inner critiques and enjoy the simple message here...and now.

Damn! Just when you thought it was ok to phone home...

Uh Yeah...

Okay so the title of this should be "WOW!" or "WOAH!!" . You decide after watching this and opening your eyes.

Happy Diwali!

The Goddess Lakshmi is one of the central figures of Hindu mythology associated with the festival of Divali. Legend states that Lakshmi emerged from the ocean of milk after the churning by the devas (gods) and the daanavas (demons). This event is a source of great joy because Lakshmi is considered to be the embodiment of loveliness, grace and prosperity. Another event associating Lakshmi with Divali is highlighted in the The Puranas (a series of Hindu religious text steeped in allegory). According to these texts, Divali represents the day Lord Vishnu (the Preserver) married Goddess Lakshmi (the Goddess of wealth and prosperity). The marriage of Lord Vishnu to Goddess Lakshmi denotes the connection between preservation and wealth.




The Philosophy



Whatever the story, Divali is a very special occasion for Hindus throughout the world. The many ceremonies signify one's journey and the qualities that should be fostered for Self-enlightenment. One is reminded to wake up from the slumber of ignorance and to pursue knowledge. As light dispels darkness, so should knowledge dispel ignorance. Through learning, man is expected to advance to the stage of enlightenment in which he realizes that God is the Light of lights, and that God brings warmth, love and illumination to all beings and therefore there can be no light greater than God.

The aim of Divali celebrations is to get man moving on the spiritual path and ultimately attain illumination by becoming one with God. As they light the lamps in their houses, those celebrating Divali are reminded to light the lamps of wisdom, goodness and God-consciousness in themselves. It is through this, that they can attain the “Light of Lights” - God.

Why

I searched the whole wide sky
Looking for you by and by
Seeking the love that was already within me
I saw it in the wing of the hawk
I heard it in the song of the dove
I felt it in the sweep of the lash
I knew it completely as love
Why be lost in that searching when
The finding is in the heart always and always?
So my heart flowered and sweet perfumes came forth Shadowed like the midnight sun of north werelongings and heartfelt songs,
As unto dreams that go on and on
into the forest, Into the waves,
along the mountain tops, swept into storms. The journey is the way, we are one.

Lessons

Be the change that you wish to see in the world!

Perpetual circle? Its about time!

Across the oceans of time

Peace-May it Always Be

4, 3, 2, 1...

Actually the startup date is tomorrow, September 10th,2008. Lets pray it all goes well...The price tag is enormous.

For You

look closely don't miss it...its in you to give...

To You

thankful that you're here at last...

Simplicity

Any truthful answer is always pointing to this method: Develop and practice compassion for others and oneself. This is the basis of the universe.

Give Up?

No we won't! Not even for a second so try your best, it won't make a dent in our resolve. This is the age of Pluto.

Published on ANH Campaign (http://www.anhcampaign.org)

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Canadian's beat Bill C-51 — but watch the back door!

By Rob

Created 24/06/2008 - 23:16

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A chess game is being played out by a global corporate-governmental machine which appears focused on preventing our free access to foods and natural products which are the life line to millions who choose these in place of patented drugs. The Canadian people have risen to the challenge and have fought off one Bill—only to be immediately confronted with another.

Updated on:

24 Jun 2008

Published on::

24 Jun 2008

ANH, 24 June 2008

Bye-bye C-51

Around a million Canadians made their feelings known about Bill C-51, an amendment introduced by the Harper government to the Canadian Food & Drugs Act. The mass opposition to this Bill forced the Canadian Parliament to call off the second reading last Friday. The Bill, having been successfully through first reading on 8 April 2008, is now dead. Hooray for mass protest!

The Bill was going to create a new category called 'therapeutic products' which would throw natural health products—or ‘therapeutic foods’—into the same category as drugs. It would also have given Canadian authorities obscene powers to raid premises, confiscate products—with no reasons given. It would scare the small, somewhat fragile and fragmented natural products industry into submission—an industry that is the life line for millions of consumers who prefer to take natural products rather than drugs to manage their health.

To find out more about what Bill C-51 was going to mean to Canadian citizens, click here [1].

If there is one true hero—and of course there are many—in the C-51 battle, it is none other than Shawn Buckley, President of the Natural Health Products Protection Association [2]. Shawn, we fully recognize and appreciate your fantastic work and capability.

However, many will realize that in the minds of those steering the government-corporate machine that is hell-bent on removing our ability to freely access unpatented, natural products and ‘therapeutic foods’ (aren’t all wholesome foods therapeutic?) used in healthcare, this is a chess game. A chess game on which Canadian citizens’ lives depend.

Enter: Bill C-52

The backdoor the authorities are planning to use is Bill C-52. This Bill is designed for something entirely different. It’s meant to be about protecting consumers from unsafe products and chemicals, such as pesticides. It is not directly concerned with natural health products.

But, Shawn Buckley has identified that by slipping in one simple amendment to Schedule 1 of Bill C-52, the Bill could be applied to natural health products overnight. It could—put simply—be used to take away their rights in the name of safety.

And the clock is ticking. The Bill made it though second reading on 1 May 2008! One more reading [3] and it’s through!

To find out more about Bill C-52, click here [4].

If you consider that the Canadian government has been an active party supporting the entire direction of the Codex Alimentarius Commission’s nutrition committee [5], which is developing international guidelines and standards on ‘safe’ nutrient levels—that are pitifully low because of a misapplication of scientific risk assessment [6]—you’ll understand that Canadians cannot afford to let this one slip through.

These ludicrously low global levels, sanctioned by the Canadian government, will become the stick with which it can beat its citizens!

What to do

If you are a Canadian citizen, please don't rest on your laurels for a second. If you aren't a Canadian citizen but have friends or relatives there—you have a duty to let them know if you care about their futures and you know they care about their natural health.

The chess game is still running. The backdoor is open—don’t let them make that move as it’s not only your lives at risk—it’s future generations that could have it so much worse if these sorts of legislative proposals are allowed to emerge as law.

More and more people are joining the dots.

Also—make sure you keep a close eye on the National Health Products Protection Association website. [2]

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Source URL: http://www.anhcampaign.org/news/canadians-beat-bill-c-51-%E2%80%94-watch-back-door

Links:
[1] http://www.stopc51.com/
[2] http://www.nhppa.org
[3] http://www.parl.gc.ca/compendium/web-content/c_g_legislativeprocess-e.htm
[4] http://nhppa.org/?page_id=24
[5] http://www.anhcampaign.org/campaigns/codex
[6] http://www.anhcampaign.org/campaigns/risk-assessment

Truth Telling is risky

Yep at the risk of getting tossed off this site I have to show this information that is quickly disappearing from the net.

Trace Arsenic in Water May Be Linked With Diabetes

By Carla K. Johnson
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 20, 2008; 1:23 AM

CHICAGO -- A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. The study's limitations make more research necessary. And public water systems were on their way to meeting tougher U.S. arsenic standards as the data were collected.

Still, the analysis of 788 adults' medical tests found a nearly fourfold increase in the risk of diabetes in people with low arsenic concentrations in their urine compared to people with even lower levels.

Previous research outside the United States has linked high levels of arsenic in drinking water with diabetes. It's the link at low levels that's new. The findings appear in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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"The good news is, this is preventable," said lead author Dr. Ana Navas-Acien of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

New safe drinking water standards may be needed if the findings are duplicated in future studies, Navas-Acien said. She said they've begun a new study of 4,000 people.

Arsenic can get into drinking water naturally when minerals dissolve. It is also an industrial pollutant from coal burning and copper smelting. Utilities use filtration systems to get it out of drinking water.

Seafood also contains nontoxic organic arsenic. The researchers adjusted their analysis for signs of seafood intake and found that people with Type 2 diabetes had 26 percent higher inorganic arsenic levels than people without Type 2 diabetes.

How arsenic could contribute to diabetes is unknown, but prior studies have found impaired insulin secretion in pancreas cells treated with an arsenic compound.

The policy implications of the new findings are unclear, said Molly Kile, an environmental health research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kile wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal.

"Urinary arsenic reflects exposures from all routes _ air, water and food _ which makes it difficult to track the actual source of arsenic exposure let alone use the results from this study to establish drinking water standards," Kile said.

Also, the findings raise a chicken-and-egg problem, she said, since it's unknown whether diabetes changes the way people metabolize arsenic. It's possible that people with diabetes excrete more arsenic.

The United States lowered arsenic standards for public water systems to 10 parts per billion in 2001 because of known cancer risks. Compliance was required by 2006, years after the study data were collected in 2003 and 2004.

I'll have to remember why

Like this Like That

I painted a poem, written in the sand with driftwood curled, written by hand.
I left a message for the birds to see, the only passengers of that distant country.
A red petal fallen gently, a blue jewel in the rain, a green leaf on a branch of elm, a yellow umber crystal falling through the air never touching ground, magenta and violet stones tumbling in the ocean's waves onto the sand where my poem painted and written by hand lay, waiting, for you the reader of the signs to see it.
In a dream a long and elegant hand gives me a white white rose, it opens up to reveal a crystal liquid, I drink long and deep from the cup, the nectar fills me up and I am no more. Thus do I travel...between the veils of worlds to reach you.