At the Garrison Institute's 2011 Climate, Cities and Behavior Symposium, Dr. Dan Siegel of the Mindsight Institute discusses the neurological basis of behavior, the mind, the brain and human relationships in the contect of cities.
He explains one definition of the mind as "an embodied and relational emergent process that regulates the flow of energy and information," and describes the role of awareness and attention in monitoring and modifying the mind.
He recommends using the notion of health as a means of linking individual, community and planetary wellbeing.
Greetings Citizens of the world, this is Anonymous. It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings about the abuse of human rights, shutting down the internet in Israel and mistreating its own citizens and those of its neighboring countries. November 2012 will be a month to remember for the Israeli defense forces and internet security forces. We will strike any and all websites that we deem to be in Israeli Cyberspace in retaliation for the mistreating of people in Gaza and other areas. Anonymous has been watching you, and you have received fair warning of our intent to seize control of your cyberspace in accordance with basic humanitarian rights of free speech and the right to live. As of 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, the number of attacked Israeli websites is approximately 10,000. The further assault on the people of Gaza, people of Palestine or any other group will be treated as a violation of the Anonymous Collectives intent to protect the people of the World. Israel, it is in your best interest to cease and desist any further military action or your consequence will become worse with each passing hour. This is a message from Anonymous Op Israel, Danger Hackers, Anonymous Special Operations and the Anonymous Collective of the entire planet. We will treat each additional death as a personal attack on Anonymous and you will be dealt with swiftly and without warning. Our hearts are with the women, children and families that are suffering at this very moment, as a direct result of the Israeli Governments misuse of its military. Brothers and sisters of Anonymous, we urge you to protest the Israeli Government and any associated hostile forces. Now is the time for anonymous to help the people that are hurting. Help the people that are being taken advantage of. Help the ones that are dying and it will further the collective as a whole and we can help bring a peace within the Gaza region to those people that so desperately need it. We call on the Anonymous Collective to hack, deface, docks, hijack, database leak, admin takeover, four oh four and DNS terminate the Israeli Cyberspace by any means necessary. To the Israeli Government, Anonymous has grown tired of your bullying, and now you will see the result of your actions. Cyber war has been declared on Israel cyber space and you will see exactly what we are capable of. Israel, the angel of death has been called to your cyberspace. We are Anonymous. We are legion. Expect us and Respect us.
"Anonymous ha lanciato una campagna, denominata #OpIsrael, che ha attaccato circa 700 siti istituzionali israeliani in segno di protesta contro la nuova offensiva dell'esercito di Tel Aviv. L'attacco più eclatante è stato al sito del Ministero degli Esteri il cui database è stato cancellato dall'organizzazione pirata. Oltre a questo sono stati attaccati anche il sito di Kadima, il partito centrista che fa parte della coalizione di governo guidata da Netanyahu, quello della Banca di Gerusalemme e della città di Tel Aviv.
Molti di questi siti sono semplicemente inaccessibili mentre alcuni riportano delle immagini e dei messaggi a favore dei palestinesi. Uno di questi, ad esempio, riportava il messaggio: "Questo attacco è in risposta all'Ingiustizia perpetrata contro il popolo palestinese". Anonymous, inoltre, sta cercando di dare supporto, come può, alla popolazione palestinese. Sul proprio account Twitter, infatti, l'organizzazione ha messo a disposizione il "Gaza Care Package", una sorta di pacchetto di salvataggio, che contiene informazioni in arabo e inglese in caso di caduta della connessione internet. Il pacchetto contiente anche informazioni su come evadere la sorveglianza dell'esercito israeliano ed istruzioni di primo soccorso."
According to Reuters, Poland's Supreme Court has ruled that Adam "Nergal" Darski, frontman for Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH, committed a crime when when he called the Catholic Church "the most murderous cult on the planet" during the band's September 2007 performance in Gdynia and tore up a copy of the Bible, calling it "a book of lies."
A lower court will now decide if Darski is guilty of the crime, which carries a maximum sentence of two years in jail.
"[The decision] is negative and restricts the freedom of speech. The court decided that this is allowed in a democratic system," Jacek Potulski, a lawyer for Darski, told Reuters.
He added, "We are still arguing that we were dealing with art, which allows more critical and radical statements."
Ryszard Nowak, chairman of the privately run Nationwide Defence Committee Against Sects, told Polish television about the court's ruling, "The Supreme Court said clearly that there are limits for artists which cannot be crossed."
Back in August 2011, a Polish judge ruled that Darski's ripping up of a Bible during a show was a form of artistic expression consistent with the style of his band.
Judge Krzysztof Wieckowski said he considered Darski's actions "a form of art." He added that the court had no intention of limiting freedom of expression or the right to criticize religion.
The court said audience members who testified said their religious feelings had not been hurt despite the fact they were Christians.
After the 2007 incident, Nowak sued BEHEMOTH for promoting Satanism. Although a court expert witness on religious matters said that the act of destroying the Holy Bible could offend somebody's religious feelings, the case was discontinued because no one except Nowak accused BEHEMOTH of insulting their religious beliefs. (Under Polish law, there must be at least two formal complaints before a charge is laid. The previous complaint was made in 2008, and recently an unspecified number of other complaints had been filed.)
In a 2009 interview with Decibel magazine, BEHEMOTH bassist Tomasz "Orion" Wróblewski explained that the Bible-tearing incident was by no means a spontaneous outburst. "We'd been doing that for two years on tour before it happened in Poland," he said. "So, we had discussed it many times before. A BEHEMOTH show is a BEHEMOTH show, and BEHEMOTH fans are coming to a BEHEMOTH show. BEHEMOTH fans know what BEHEMOTH is about, know what the lyrics are about, and know at least a little of the philosophy behind the band. So, it's kind of surprising that there are people coming to the shows and feeling offended with what we do onstage. If such a person comes to a show, he comes with the purpose of being offended, I guess, and it shouldn't be like that. We're not offending any particular person. We're just offending the religion that we've been raised in."
Polish-language TV report on Supreme Court's ruling:
BEHEMOTH's Adam "Nergal" Darski tearing up the Bible:
In this amazing video you’ll learn more about the basics of acidic and alkaline foods. In fact, the body needs to balance the levels of PH to survive. A long-term consumption of acid-generating foods may cause a huge load of stress on the kidneys and may cause renal failure, high blood pressure and many other issues.
Watch this amazing video and choose a smart diet for yourself and your family. Beside the video, you can find a chart that shows which foods are bringing the body to acidic or alkaline states.
Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media and Charity Work.
The Movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality.
Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure. While intermediate Reform steps and temporal Community Support are of interest to The Movement, the defining goal here is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions.
This "Resource-Based Economic Model" is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits, corporations and other structural and motivational components.
The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crimes and many other money-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time.
The range of The Movement's Activism & Awareness Campaigns extend from short to long term, with the model based explicitly on Non-Violent methods of communication. The long term view, which is the transition into a Resource-Based Economic Model, is a constant pursuit and expression, as stated before. However, in the path to get there, The Movement also recognizes the need for transitional Reform techniques, along with direct Community Support.
For instance, while "Monetary Reform" itself is not an end solution proposed by The Movement, the merit of such legislative approaches are still considered valid in the context of transition and temporal integrity. Likewise, while food and clothes drives and other supportive projects to help those in need today are also not considered a long term solution, it is still considered valid in the context of helping others in a time of need, while also drawing awareness to the principle goal.
The Zeitgeist Movement also has no allegiance to a country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on the planet Earth, not a select group.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the European Union for its role in securing peace to the continent. The Nobel committee says the accolade is meant to be an encouragement to the union in difficult times. Norway - the home of the prize - is itself divided over EU membership and has twice refused it in a nationwide referendums. For more on this decision RT talks to host of the Keiser Report - Max Keiser.
RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
Ignorance is bliss in the land of illusion ... the United States of Illusion. People have been taught thru out their whole lives what to think and what history was. Those who control the printing houses rewrite history to suit their own needs. Those in control do not care about "We the People", only their own life styles and fortunes. Our country has grown to the point where those in control no longer need "We the People", we have developed machines to do away with manual labor and in essence sealed our own fates by doing so.
Schindler's List Movie CLIP, Commandant Amon Goeth (1993) HD
An educated citizen is no longer needed and in fact is now considered a threat to those who control. For to many years man has been content with only thinking inside the "box" and in the direction he was pointed in, today we must think "outside" the box and see what has been taking place in this country for the past 300 plus years since the "King funded" expedition settled in Jamestown. I use the word funded to show who actually owned whatever was discovered in the New World, the present United States of Illusion. Yes illusion as everything we have been taught has been to keep the “man behind the curtain” hidden from view.
Inhabitat's senior editor Yuka Yoneda talks you through how to lower your energy bill by swapping out your lightbulbs with the next generation of low-energy LED light bulbs.
She also discusses the coming light bulb ban, aka the Federal Energy Savings Act which phases out high-wattage incandescent bulbs.
Dimmers are devices used to vary the brightness of a light. By decreasing or increasing the RMS voltage and, hence, the mean power to the lamp, it is possible to vary the intensity of the light output. Although variable-voltage devices are used for various purposes, the term dimmer is generally reserved for those intended to control light output from resistive incandescent, halogen, and (more recently) compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). More specialized equipment is needed to dim fluorescent, mercury vapor, solid state and other arc lighting. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimmer)
Inhabitat's editor and ecocrusader Jill Fehrenbacher gives a lighting makeover at the Brooklyn home of Inhabitots' managing editor Julie Seguss, helping her save hundreds of dollars on her energy bill.
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