Hermes Trismegistus

The ancient Greek word for interpreter/translator is Hermeneus directly related to the name of the god Hermes.

Mythology

Hermes, the herald of the Olympian gods, is son of Zeus and the nymph Maia, daughter of Atlas and one of the Pleiades. Hermes is the god of shepherds, land travel, merchants, weights and measures, oratory, literature, athletics and thieves, and known for his cunning and shrewdness. Most importantly, he is the messenger of the gods. Besides that he was also a minor patron of poetry. He was worshipped throughout Greece – especially in Arcadia – and festivals in his honor were called Hermoea.

According to legend, Hermes was born in a cave on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. Zeus had impregnated Maia at the dead of night while all other gods slept. When dawn broke amazingly he was born. Maia wrapped him in swaddling bands, then resting herself, fell fast asleep. Hermes, however, squirmed free and ran off to Thessaly. This is where Apollo, his brother, grazed his cattle. Hermes stole a number of the herd and drove them back to Greece. He hid them in a small grotto near to the city of Pylos and covered their tracks.

Before returning to the cave he caught a tortoise, killed it and removed its entrails. Using the intestines from a cow stolen from Apollo and the hollow tortoise shell, he made the first lyre. When he reached the cave he wrapped himself back into the swaddling bands. When Apollo realized he had been robbed he protested to Maia that it had been Hermes who had taken his cattle. Maia looked to Hermes and said it could not be, as he is still wrapped in swaddling bands.

Zeus the all powerful intervened saying he had been watching and Hermes should return the cattle to Apollo. As the argument went on, Hermes began to play his lyre. The sweet music enchanted Apollo, and he offered Hermes to keep the cattle in exchange for the lyre. Apollo later became the grand master of the instrument, and it also became one of his symbols. Later while Hermes watched over his herd he invented the pipes known as a syrinx (pan-pipes), which he made from reeds. Hermes was also credited with inventing the flute. Apollo, also desired this instrument, so Hermes bartered with Apollo and received his golden wand which Hermes later used as his heralds staff. (In other versions Zeus gave Hermes his heralds staff).

Being the herald (messenger of the gods), it was his duty to guide the souls of the dead down to the underworld, which is known as a psychopomp. He was also closely connected with bringing dreams to mortals.

It was Hermes who liberated Io, the lover of Zeus, from the hundred-eyed giant Argus, who had been ordered by Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus, to watch over her. Hermes charmed the giant with his flute, and while Argos slept Hermes cut off his head and released Io. Hera, as a gesture of thanks to her loyal servant, scattered the hundred eyes of Argos over the tail of a peacock (Heras’ sacred bird).

Known for his swiftness and athleticism, Hermes was given credit for inventing foot-racing and boxing. At Olympia a statue of him stood at the entrance to the stadium and his statues where in every gymnasium throughout Greece. Apart from herms, Hermes was a popular subject for artists. Both painted pottery and statuary show him in various forms, but the most fashionable depicted him as a good-looking young man, with an athletic body, and winged sandals and his heralds staff.

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Metaphysics

Hermes was the Master of all arts and sciences, perfect in all crafts, Ruler of the Three Worlds, Scribe of the Gods, and Keeper of the Books of Life, Thoth Hermes Trismegistus – the Three Times, the "First Intelligencer" – was regarded by the ancient Egyptians as the embodiment of the Universal Mind. While in all probability there actually existed a great sage and educator by the name of Hermes, it is impossible to extricate the historical man from the mass of legendary accounts which attempt to identify him with the Cosmic Principle of Thought.

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus

Hermes was Thoth the Egyptian Scribe Who wrote the story of our reality

Hermes was Mercury – the Messenger of the Gods. Greek Gods of Mount Olympus – Mercury inherited Hermes’ attributes

Hermes was the Trickster Representing the Duality of our Reality – Good vs. Evil. In the role of the Trickster he was also the god of thieves and deceit. His lessons are taught by tricking you.

Hermes was Merlin the Magician – linked to his role as the Trickster. His lessons are taught by Magic to help you see through the illusion of Time and Emotion.

Hermes – Ancient Mystery School Teachings – the Hermetic Orders – which is linked with Alchemy of Consciousness – Moving to a higher frequency of thought – Releasing the Hermetic seals at the End of Time – Or the Illusion of Time – the release of the soul from the physical form.

An end time happens when the grid program of a reality – triggers a release into the next level of consciousness and all souls return to higher light.

Hermes Wikipedia

Hermeticism Wikipedia

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Prophecy

There will come a time when it will have been in vain that Egyptians have honored the Godhead with heartfelt piety and service; and all our holy worship will be fruitless and ineffectual. The Gods will return from earth to heaven; Egypt will be forsaken, and the land which was once the home of religion will be left desolate, bereft of the presence of its deities.

They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which he has built, this sum of good made up of many diverse forms, this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which he has made, ungrudgingly favoring man’s welfare.

Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.

As for the soul, and the belief that it is immortal by nature, or may hope to attain to immortality, as I have taught you; all this they will mock, and even persuade themselves that it is false. No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven, will be heard or believed.

And so the Gods will depart from mankind – a grievous thing and only evil angels will remain, who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches into all manner of reckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul.

Then will the earth tremble, and the sea bear no ships; heaven will not support the stars in their orbits, all voices of the Gods will be forced into silence; the fruits of the Earth will rot; the soil will turn barren, and the very air will sicken with sullen stagnation; all things will be disordered and awry, all good will disappear.

But when all this has befallen, then God the Creator of all things will look on that which has come to pass, and will stop the disorder by the counterforce of his will, which is the good. He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; he will cleanse the world of evil, washing it away with floods, burning it out with the fiercest fire, and expelling it with war and pestilence.

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The God Hermes

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Mercury

Astrology – Mercury Retrograde

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Hermes Trismegistus Greek for "Hermes the thrice-greatest"

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Caduceus Rod of Hermes

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Lyra of Hermes

Using the Rod to Slay the Dragon

Omega Project, Ending the Human DNA Experiment, Leo, Lion

Merlin and His Prophecies

Merlin and His Prophecies

Merlin is best known as the mighty wizard featured in Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures. Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt (Merlinus Caledonensis), a northern madman with no connection to King Arthur, with tales of Aurelius Ambrosius to form the figure he called Merlin Ambrosius.

Geoffrey’s version of the character was immediately popular, and later writers expanded the account to produce a fuller image of the wizard. His traditional biography has him born the son of an incubus and a mortal woman who inherits his powers from his strange birth. He grows up to be a sage and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic. Later Merlin serves as the king’s advisor until he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake.

Merlin, as King Arthur’s adviser, prophet and magician, is basically the creation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, who in his twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain combined the Welsh traditions about a bard and prophet named Myrddin with the story that the ninth-century chronicler Nennius tells about Ambrosius (that he had no human father and that he prophesied the defeat of the British by the Saxons).

Geoffrey gave his character the name Merlinus rather than Merdinus (the normal Latinization of Myrddin) because the latter might have suggested to his Anglo-Norman audience the vulgar word "merde." In Geoffrey’s book, Merlin assists Uther Pendragon and is responsible for transporting the stones of Stonehenge from Ireland, but he is not associated with King Arthur.

Geoffrey’s composite Merlin is based primarily on two figures: Myrddin Wyllt, also called Merlinus Caledonensis, and Aurelius Ambrosius, a highly fictionalized version of the historical war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus. The former had nothing to do with Arthur and flourished after the Arthurian period. Supposedly a bard who went mad after witnessing the horrors of war, he was said to have fled civilization to become a Wildman of the Woods in the late 6th century. Geoffrey had this individual in mind when he wrote his earliest surviving work, theProphetiae Merlini (Prophecies of Merlin), which he claimed were the actual words of the legendary madman. (See below)

Geoffrey’s Prophetiae do not reveal much about Merlin’s background. When he included the prophet in his next work, Historia Regum Britanniae, he supplemented the characterization with stories about Aurelius Ambrosius, taken from Nennius’ Historia Brittonum.According to Nennius, Ambrosius was discovered when the British king Vortigern was trying to erect a tower. The tower always collapsed before completion, and his wise men told him the only solution was to sprinkle the foundation with the blood of a "child born without a father". Ambrosius was rumored to be such a child, but when brought before the king, he revealed the real reason for the tower’s collapse: below the foundation was a lake containing two dragons who destroyed the tower by fighting.

Geoffrey retells this story in Historia Regum Britanniae with some embellishments, and gives the fatherless child the name of the prophetic bard, Merlin. He keeps this new figure separate from Aurelius Ambrosius, and to disguise his changing of Nennius, he simply and baldly states that Ambrosius was another name for Merlin. He goes on to add new episodes that tie Merlin into the story of King Arthur and his predecessors.

Geoffrey dealt with Merlin again in his third work, Vita Merlini. He based the Vita on stories of the original 6th century Myrddin. Though set long after his timeframe for the life of "Merlin Ambrosius", he tries to assert the characters are the same with references to King Arthur and his death as told in the Historia Regum Britanniae.

Merlin was very popular in the Middle Ages.

He is central to a major text of the thirteenth-century French Vulgate cycle, and he figures in a number of other French and English romances.

Sir Thomas Malory, in the Morte d’Arthur presents him as the adviser and guide to Arthur.

In the modern period Merlin’s popularity has remained constant. He figures in works from the Renaissance to the modern period.

In The Idylls of the King, Tennyson makes him the architect of Camelot.

Mark Twain, parodying Tennyson’s Arthurian world, makes Merlin a villain, and in one of the illustrations to the first edition of Twain’s work, illustrator Dan Beard’s Merlin is similiar to Tennyson’s.

Numerous novels, poems and plays center around Merlin. In American literature and popular culture, Merlin is perhaps the most frequently portrayed Arthurian character –

King Arthur and his bride Lady Gwenevere.

Tintagel is said to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

At base of Tintagel Island’s cliff is Merlin’s Cave
suggested to be haunted by Merlin’s ghost.

The earliest (pre-12th century) Welsh poems concerning the Myrddin legend present him as a madman living a wretched existence in the Caledonian Forest, ruminating on his former existence and the disaster that brought him low: the death of his lord Gwenddoleu, whom he served as bard. The allusions in these poems serve to sketch out the events of the Battle of Arfderydd, where Riderch Hael, King of Alt Clut (Strathclyde) slaughtered the forces of Gwenddoleu, and Myrddin went mad watching this defeat. The Annales Cambriae date this battle to AD 573, and name Gwenddoleu’s adversaries as the sons of Eliffer, presumably Gwrgi and Peredur.

A version of this legend is preserved in a late 15th century manuscript, in a story called Lailoken and Kentigern. In this narrative, Saint Kentigern meets in a deserted place with a naked, hairy madman who is called Lailoken, although said by some to be called Merlynum or "Merlin", who declares that he has been condemned for his sins to wander in the company of beasts. He added that he had been the cause for the deaths of all of the persons killed in the battle fought "on the plain between Liddel and Carwannok." Having told his story, the madman lept up and fled from the presence of the saint back into the wilderness. He appears several times more in the narrative until at last asking Kentigern for the sacrament, prophesying that he was about to die a triple death. After some hesitation, the saint granted the madman’s wish, and later that day the shepherds of King Meldred captured him, beat him with clubs, then cast him into the River Tweed where his body was pierced by a stake, thus fulfilling his prophecy.

Welsh literature has many examples of a prophetic literature, predicting the military victory of all of the Celtic peoples of Great Britain who will join together and drive the English and later the Normans back into the sea. Some of these works were claimed to be the prophecies of Myrddin; some were not, as for example the Armes Prydein. This wild prophetic Merlin was also treated by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Vita Merlini which looks like a close adaptation of a number of Myrddin poems.

Merlin Ambrosius, Myrddin Emrys Ambrosius Aurelianus

Geoffrey’s account of Merlin Ambrosius’ early life in the Historia Regum Britanniae is based on the story of Ambrosius in the Historia Brittonum. He adds his own embellishments to the tale, which he sets in Carmarthen (Welsh: Caerfyrddin). While Nennius’ Ambrosius eventually reveals himself to be the son of a Roman consul, Geoffrey’s Merlin is begotten on a king’s daughter by an incubus. The story of Vortigern’s tower is essentially the same; the underground dragons, one white and one red, represent the Saxons and the British, and their final battle is a portent of things to come. At this point Geoffrey inserts a long section of Merlin’s prophecies, taken from his earlier Prophetiae Merlini. He tells only two further tales of the character; in the first, Merlin creates Stonehenge as a burial place for Aurelius Ambrosius. In the second, Merlin’s magic enables Uther Pendragon to enter into Tintagel in disguise and father his son Arthur. These episodes also appear in many later adaptations of Geoffrey’s account.

Later adaptations of the legend

Somewhat later the poet Robert de Boron retold this material in his poem Merlin. Only a few lines of the poem have survived, but a prose retelling became popular and was later incorporated into two other romances. In Robert’s account Merlin is begotten by a devil on a virgin as an intended Antichrist. This plot is thwarted when the expectant mother informs her confessor Blaise of her predicament; they immediately baptize the boy at birth, thus freeing him from the power of Satan. The demonic birth bestows upon Merlin an uncanny knowledge of the past and present, which is supplemented by God himself, who gives the boy a prophetic knowledge of the future.

Robert de Boron lays great emphasis on Merlin’s power to change his shape, on his joking personality and on his connection to the Holy Grail. This text introduces Merlin’s master Blaise, who is pictured as writing down Merlin’s deeds, explaining how they came to be known and preserved. Robert was inspired by Wace’s Roman de Brut, an Anglo-Norman adaptation of Geoffrey’s Historia.

Robert’s poem was rewritten in prose in the 12th century as the Estoire de Merlin, also called the Vulgate or Prose Merlin. It was originally attached to a cycle of prose versions of Robert’s poems, which tells the story of the Holy Grail; brought from the Middle East to Britain by followers of Joseph of Arimathea, and eventually recovered by Arthur’s knight Percival. The Prose Merlin was detached from that shorter cycle to serve as a sort of prequel to the vast Lancelot-Grail, also known as the Vulgate Cycle. The authors of that work expanded it with the Vulgate Suite du Merlin (Vulgate Merlin Continuation), which described King Arthur’s early adventures. The Prose Merlin was also used as a prequel to the later Post-Vulgate Cycle, the authors of which added their own continuation, the Huth Merlin or Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin. These works were adapted and translated into several other languages; the Post-Vulgate Suite was the inspiration for the early parts of Sir Thomas Malory’s English language Le Morte d’Arthur.

Many later medieval works in also deal with the Merlin legend. For example, The Prophecies of Merlin and contains long prophecies of Merlin (mostly concerned with 13th century Italian politics), some by his ghost after his death. The prophecies are interspersed with episodes relating Merlin’s deeds and with various Arthurian adventures in which Merlin does not appear at all. The earliest English verse romance concerning Merlin is Arthour and Merlin, which drew from chronicles and the French Lancelot-Grail.

As the Arthurian mythos was retold and embellished, Merlin’s prophetic aspects were sometimes de-emphasized in favor of portraying Merlin as a wizard and elder advisor to Arthur. On the other hand in Lancelot-Grail it is said that Merlin was never baptized and never did any good in his life, only evil. Medieval Arthurian tales abound in inconsistencies. In the Lancelot-Grail and later accounts Merlin’s eventual downfall came from his lusting after a woman named Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, who coaxed his magical secrets from him before turning her new powers against her master and trapping him in an enchanted prison (variously described as a cave, a large rock, an invisible tower, etc.) This is unfortunate for Arthur, who has lost his greatest counselor.

The name "Myrddin" may have arisen from the Roman-period Celtic name for a place in Wales, *Mori-dunon, meaning "sea fort". The name became Carmarthen (Caerfyrddin in Welsh), which can be loosely translated as "Fort of Moridunum", since a Caer is a fortified royal residence. It seems that the name was taken to mean "Caer of [some man called] Myrddin".

Some accounts describe two different figures named Merlin. For example, the Welsh Triads state there were three baptisimal bards: Chief of Bards Taliesin, Myrddin Wyllt, and Myrddin Emrys. It is believed that these two bards called Myrddin were originally variants of the same figure. The stories of Wyllt and Emrys have become different in the earliest texts that they are treated as separate characters, even though similar incidents are ascribed to both.

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Merlin’s Prophecies

The scales of Libra will hang awry until Aries props them up with its curving horns.

The tail of Scorpio shall generate lightning, and Cancer will fight with the Sun.

Virgo shall climb on back of Sagittarius and so let droop its maiden blossoms.

The Moons chariot shall run amok in the Zodiac; the Pleiades will burst into tears. None of these will return to the duty expected of it.

Ariadne will shut its door and be hidden within its enclosing cloud banks.

In the twinkling of an eye the seas shall rise up, and the arena of the winds shall be opened once again. The winds shall do battle together with a blast of ill-omen, making their din reverberate from one constellation to another.

Merlin saith that in England shall be seen strange things, as preaching of traitors, great rain and wind, great hunger among the common people, great oppression of blood, great imprisonment of many men and great battle; so that there shall be few or no quiet place to abide in; the Prince shall forsake men of the church, Lords shall forsake righteousness, counsel of the aged shall not be set by; religious men and women shall be thrust out of their houses; the common people for fear shall not know which way to turn; parents shall be hated by their children, men of worship shall have no reverence of others; adultery shall abound among all; with more ill than I can tell of, from which God us defend." [From Sunday Prophecies of Merlin, Becket, and Others, Author Unknown, published in London in 1652.]

"Luxury shall overspread the land, and fornication shall not cease to debauch mankind. Famine shall then return, and the inhabitants shall grieve for the destruction of their cities. In those days the oaks of the forests shall burn, and acorns grow upon lime trees! The Severn sea shall discharge itself through seven mouths, and the river Usk burn for seven months! Fishes shall die in the heat thereof, and from them serpents will be born."

The baths of Badon [hot springs of Bath] shall grow cold, and their salubrious waters engender death! London shall mourn for the death of twenty thousand, and the river Thames shall be turned to blood! The monks in the cowls shall be forced to marry, and their cry shall be heard upon the mountains of the Alps."

"The seas shall rise up in the twinkling of an eye, and the dust of the ancients shall be restored." [From The History of the Kings of Britain, The Prophecies of Merlin by Geoffrey of Monmouth.]

The cult of religion shall be destroyed completely, and the ruin of the churches shall be clear for all to see. The race that is oppressed shall prevail in the end, for it will resist the savagery of the invaders.

The Boar of Cornwall shall bring relief from these invaders, for it will trample the necks beneath its feet. The islands of the Ocean shall be given into the power of the Boar, and it shall lord it over the forests of Gaul. The House of Romulus shall dread the Boar’s savagery, and the end of the Boar will be shrouded in mystery. The Boar shall be extolled in the mouths of its peoples, and its deeds will be as meat and drink to those who tell tales.

Six of the Boar’s descendants shall hold the sceptre after it, and next after them will rise up the German Worm. The Sea-wolf shall exalt the Worm, and the forests of Africa shall be committed to its care.

Religion shall be destroyed a second time and the sees of the primates will be moved to other places. London’s high dignity shall adorn Durobernia, and the seventh pastor of York will be visited in the realm of Armorica.

Menevia shall be dressed in the pall of the City of the Legions, and the preacher from Ireland shall be struck dumb by a child still growing in the womb.

A shower of blood shall fall, and a dire famine shall afflict mankind. The Red One will grieve for what has happened, but after an immense effort it will regain its strength.

Calamity will next pursue the White One, and the buildings in its little garden will be torn down.

Seven who hold the sceptre shall perish, one of them being canonised. The bellies of mothers shall be cut open, and babies will be born prematurely.

Men will suffer most grievously, in order that those born in the country may regain power. He who will achieve these things shall appear as the Man of Bronze, and for long years he shall guard the gates of London upon a brazen horse.

Then the Red Dragon will revert to its true habits and struggle to tear itself to pieces. Next will come the revenge of the Thunderer, and every one of the farmer’s fields will be a disappointment.

Death will lay hold of the people and destroy all the nations. Those who are left alive will abandon their native soil and will sow their seeds in the fields of others. A king who is blessed will fit out a navy and will be reckoned the twelfth in the court among the saints. The realm shall be deserted in the most pitiful way, and the harvest threshing floors will be overgrown once more by forests rich in fruit. Once again the White Dragon shall rise up and will invite over a daughter of Germany. Our little garden will be stocked again with foreign seed, and the Red Dragon will pine away at the far end of the pool. After that the German Worm shall be crowned, and the Prince of brass will be buried.

limit was set for him, beyond which he was powerless to pass. For a hundred and fifty years he shall remain in anguish and subjection, and then for three hundred more he shall sit enthroned. The North Wind will rise against him, snatching away the flowers which the West Wind has caused to bloom. There will be gilding in the temples, but the sword’s cutting edge will not cease its work. The German Dragon will find it hard to escape to its cavernous lairs, for vengeance for its treason will overtake it. In the end it will become strong again just for a short time, but the decimation of Normandy will be a sorry blow. There shall come people dressed in wood and in iron corselets who will take vengeance on it for its wickedness. This people shall give their dwelling back to the earlier inhabitants, and the destruction of foreigners will be clear for all to see.

The seed of the White Dragon shall be rooted up from our little gardens and what is left of its progeny shall be decimated. They shall bear the yoke of perpetual slavery, and they will wound their own mother with their spades and ploughshares. Two more Dragons shall follow, one of which shall be killed by the sting of envy, but the second will return under the cover of authority.

The Lion of Justice shall come next, and at its roar the towers of Gaul shall shake and the island Dragons tremble. In the days of this Lion, gold shall be squeezed from the lily-Bower and the nettle, and silver shall flow from the hooves of lowing cattle.

They who have had their hair waved shall dress in woolen stuffs of many colours, and the outer garment shall be an index of the thoughts within. The feet of they that bark shall be cut. Wild animals shall enjoy peace, but mankind will bewail the way in which it is being punished. The balance of trade shall be tom in half; and the half that is left shall be rounded off. Kites will lose their ravenous hunger, and the teeth of wolves will be blunted. The Lion’s cubs shall be transformed into salt-water fishes, and the Eagle of Mount Aravia shall nest upon a summit.

Venedotia shall be red with the blood of mothers, and the house of Corineus will slaughter six brothers. The island will lie sodden with the tears of the night-time, and everyone will be encouraged to try to do everything. Those who are born later shall strive to fly over even the most lofty things, but the favour given to the newcomers will be loftier even than that.

Piety will frown upon the man who has inherited goods from the impious; that is, until he takes his style of dress from his own father. Girded around with a wild boar’s teeth, he shall climb over the mountain summits and higher than the shadow of the Helmeted Man.

Albany will be angry: calling her near neighbours to her, she shall give herself entirely to bloodshed. Between her jaws there will be found a bit which was forged in the Bay of Armorica. The eagle of the Broken Covenant shall paint it with gold and will rejoice in her third nesting.

The cubs shall roar as they keep watch; they will forsake the forest groves and come hunting inside the walls of cities. They will cause great slaughter among any who oppose them, and the tongues of bulls shall they slice off. They shall load with chains the necks of the roaring ones and live again the days of their forefathers. Thereafter, from the first to the fourth, from the fourth to the third, from the third to the second shall the thumb be rolled in oil.

The sixth shall throw down the walls of Ireland and transmute its forests into a level plain. The sixth shall unite the different parts into one whole, and he shall be crowned with the head of a lion.

His beginning will yield to his own unstable disposition, but his end shall soar up towards those on high. He shall restore the dwellings of the saints throughout the lands and settle the pastors in places which befit them.

Two towns shall he cover with funeral palls and to virgins he will present virgin gifts. By doing this he will earn the favour of the Thunderer, and he will be placed among the blessed. From him there will emerge a She-lynx, and this will nose its way into all things and strive for the downfall of its own race. Because of the She-lynx Normandy will lose both its isles and be deprived of its former dignity. Then the island’s inhabitants shall return to it, for a great dissension will arise among the foreigners.

A hoary old man upon a mow-white horse shall divert the River Periron, and above the stream he will measure out a mill with his white rod. Cadwallader shall summon Conanus and shall make an alliance with Albany. Then the foreigners shall be slaughtered, and the rivers will run with blood.

The mountains of Armorica shall erupt, and Armorica itself shall be crowned with Brutus’ diadem. Kambria shall be filled with joy, and the Cornish oaks shall flourish. The island shall be called by the name of Brutus, and the title given to it by the foreigners shall be done away with. From Conanus there shall descend a fierce Boar, which will try the sharpness of its tusks in the forests of Gaul, for it will lop down all the larger oak trees, taking care to protect the smaller ones.

The Arabs shall dread this Boar and so shall the Africans, for the impetus of its onslaught will carry it into the remotest parts of Spain. Next after the Boar shall come the Ram of the Castle of Venus, with golden horns and a beard of silver.

It will breathe such a fog from its nostrils that the entire surface of the island will be overshadowed by it. In the days of the Ram there shall be peace, and the harvests will be plentiful because of the richness of the soil. Women shall become snake-like in their gait, and every step they take will be full arrogance.

The Castle of Venus will be restored, and Cupid’s arrows will continue to wound. The source of the River Amne shall turn into blood, and two kings will fight each other at the Ford of the Staff for the sake of a Lioness. All the soil will be fruitful beyond mans need; and human beings will fornicate unceasingly.

Three generations will witness all that I have mentioned, and then the kings buried in the town of London will be disinterred. Famine will return, and death, and citizens will grieve for their townships. The Boar of Commerce shall come and call back the scattered flocks to the feeding ground which they have forsaken. Its breast will be as food to the hungry, and its tongue will assuage the thirst of those who are dry. From its mouth shall flow forth rivers which will water the parched gullets of men.

Then a Tree shall spring up on the top of the Tower of London. It will be content with only three branches, and yet it will overshadow the whole length and breadth of the island with the spread of its leaves. The North Wind will come as the Tree’s enemy, and with its noxious breath it will tear away the third of the branches.

The two branches which are left will occupy the place of the one ripped off: this until one of them destroys the other by the very abundance of its leaves. This last branch will fill the place of the other two, and it will offer a roosting place to birds come from foreign parts. To birds native to the country it will seem harmful, for through their dread of its shadow they will lose their power of free flight. The Ass of Wickedness will come next, swift against the goldsmiths, but slow against the wolves’ ravenous appetites. In these days the oaks shall burn in the forest glades, and acorns shall burgeon on the lime trees’ boughs.

The Severn Sea shall flow forth through seven mouths, and the River Usk shall be boiling hot for seven months. Its fish will die because of the heat, and from them serpents will be born. The baths shall grow cold at Bath, and its health-giving waters shall breed death. London shall mourn the death of twenty thousand, and the Thames will be turned into blood. Monks in their cowls shall be forced into marriage, and their lamentation will be heard on the mountain peaks of the Alps.

Three springs shall burst forth in the town of Winchester, and the streams which run from them will divide the island into three parts. Whoever will drink from the first will enjoy long life and will never be afflicted by the onslaught of illness. Whoever will drink from the second shall perish from insatiable hunger: pallor and dread will be clear to see on his face.

Whoever will drink from the third shall die a sudden death. And it will not be possible for his body to be buried. In their effort to avoid so voracious a death, fit men will do their best to cover it over from layers of different materials, but whatever structure is placed on top will immediately take on the form of another substance. As soon as they are placed there, earth will be turned to stones, stones to liquid, wood into ashes, ashes into water.

However from a town in Canutes forest, a girl shall be sent to remedy these matters by her healing art. Once she has consulted all the oracles, she shall dry up the noxious springs simply by breathing on them.

Next, when she has restored her own strength by some invigorating drink, she shall carry the Forest of Caledon in her right hand, and in her left the buttressed forts of the walls of London. Wherever she passes she shall leave sulphurous footprints which will reek with a double flame.

The smoke from them will stir up the Ruteni and will provide food for the creatures who live in the sea. Tears of compassion shall flow from her eyes and will fill the island with her dreadful cries. He that will kill her shall be a stag of ten tines, four of which will bear golden coronets; the other six will be turned into the horns of oxen, and these horns will rouse the three islands of Britain with their accursed bellowing.

The Daneian Forest shall be wakened from its sleep and, burst into human speech, it shall shout, "Kambria, come here; bring Cornwall at your side! Say to Winchester, ‘The earth will swallow you up. Move the see of your shepherd to where the ships come in to harbour.

Then make sure that the limbs which remain follow the head! The day approaches when your citizens will perish for their crime of perjury. The whiteness of your wool done you harm, and so too has the variety of their dye. Woe to the perjured people, for their famous city shall come toppling down because of them! The ships shall rejoice at such a great increase, and each one of them will be constructed out of the material of two. A Hedgehog loaded with apples shall rebuild the town and, attracted by the smell of these apples, birds will flock there from many different forests. The hedgehog shall build a huge palace and then wall it round with six hundred towers. London will view this with envy and will increase her own fortifications threefold.

The River Thames will surround London on all sides, and the report of that engineering feat will cross the Alps. The Hedgehog will hide its apples inside Winchester and will construct hidden passages under the earth. In that time the stones shall speak.

The sea over which men sail to Gaul shall be contracted into a narrow channel. A man on any one of the two shores will be audible to a man on the other, and the land mass of the island will grow greater. The secrets of the creatures who live under the sea shall be revealed, and Gaul will tremble for fear. Next a Heron shall emerge from the Forest of Calaterium and fly around the island for two whole years. By its cry in the night it will call all winged creatures together and assemble in its company every genus of bird.

They will swoop down on to the fields which men have cultivated and devour every kind of harvest.

A famine will attack the people, and an appalling death rate will follow the famine. As soon as this terrible calamity has come to an end, the accursed Bird will transfer its attention to the Calabes Valley and rise it up into a lofty mountain.

On its highest peak the heron will plant in an oak, and on the branches of the oak it shall build its nest; three eggs shall be laid in the nest, and from them will emerge a Fox, a Wolf, and a Bear.

The Fox will devour its mother and then put on an Ass’s head. Once it has assumed this monstrous guise, it will terrify its brothers and drive them away to Normandy. In that country they will in their turn stir up the tusky Boar.

Back they will come in a boat, and in that way they will meet the Fox once more. As it begins the contest, the Fox will pretend that it is dead and will move the Boar to pity. Soon the Boar will go up to the Fox’s corpse. and, standing over it, will breathe into its eyes and face.

The Fox, not unmindful of its ancient cunning, will bite the Boars left hoof and sever it completely from the Boars body.

Then the Fox will leap at the Boar and tear off its right ear and its tail and slink off to hide in the mountain caves. The deluded Boar will then ask the Wolf and the Bear to restore to it the parts which it has lost.

Once they have agreed to support the Boar, they will promise it two feet, two ears and one tail, from which they will manufacture a truly porcine member.

The Boar will agree to this and will stand waiting for the promised return of its parts.

Meanwhile the Fox will come down from the mountains and will metamorphose itself into a Wolf. Under the pretense of holding a conference with the Bear, it will approach that animal craftily and eat it up.

Then the Fox will change itself into a Boar and stand waiting for its brothers, pretending that it, too, has lost some of its members. As soon as they come, it will kill them with its tusk without a moments delay and then have itself crowned with a Lion’s head.

In the days of the Fox, a Snake shall be born, and this will bring death to human beings. It will encircle London with its long tail and devour all there who pass by.

A Mountain Ox will put on a Wolf’s head and grind its teeth white in the Severn’s workshop.

The Ox will collect round itself the flocks of Albany and those of Wales, and their company will drain the Thames dry as it drinks.

An Ass shall call to itself a long-bearded Goat and then will change shapes with it. As a result the Mountain Bull will lose its temper: it will summon the Wolf and then transfix the Ass and the Goat with its horn. Once it has indulged its savage rage upon them, it will eat up their flesh and their bones, but the Ox itself will be burned up on the summit of Urianus.

The ashes of its funeral pyre shall be transmuted into swans, which will swim away upon dry land as though in water. These Swans will eat up fish inside fish and they will swallow men inside men. When they grow old they will take the shape of sea-wolves and continue their treacherous behaviour beneath the sea. They will sink ships and gather together quite a treasure house of silver.

Then the Thames shall begin to flow again. It will gather together its tributaries and overflow the confines of its bed. It will submerge nearby towns and overturn the mountains in its course. It will join to itself to the Springs of Calabes, filled as they are to the very brim with wickedness and deceit.

As a result, a number of mutinies will occur, and these will encourage the Venedoti to make war. The oaks of the forest shall band together and come into conflict with the rocks of the Gewissei.

A Raven will fly down with the Kites and eat up the bodies of the dead. An Owl will nest on the walls of Gloucester, and in its nest will be hatched an Ass. T

he Snake of Malvern will nurture this Ass and teach it many deceitful tricks. The Ass will put on a crown and then clamber above all that is most lofty and terrify the people with its hideous braying.

In the days of the Ass the Pacaian Mountains shall totter, and the country districts shall be deprived of their forest lands, for there shall come a Worm which will puff forth fire, and this Worm will burn up the trees with the breath which it exhales.

Out of the Worm shall come seven lions malformed with goats heads. With the fetid breath from their nostrils, they will corrupt married women and cause wives so far faithful to one husband to become common prostitutes.

The father shall not know his own son, for human beings will copulate wantonly as cattle do. Then indeed shall come a very Giant of wickedness who will terrify everyone with the piercing glance of his eyes. Against him will arise the dragon of Worcester, which will do its best to destroy him; but when they come to grips, the Dragon will be worsted and overwhelmed by its conqueror’s wickedness, which will terrify everyone.

The Giant will climb on the Dragon, throw off all his clothes, and then ride upon it naked. The Dragon will rear the Giant up in the air and lash his naked body with its erected tail, but the Giant will recover his strength and cut the Dragons throat with his sword.

Finally, the Dragon will become entangled in its own tail and die of poison.

The boar of Totnes shall succeed the Giant and will oppress the people with grievous tyranny. Gloucester shall send a lion which will harass the raging Boar in a series of battles. This Lion will trample the Boar under foot and terrify it with its open maw. Finally the Lion will be at odds with all in the kingdom and climb up on the backs of the nobles.

A Bull will pursue the Lion through all the narrow byways of the kingdom, but in the end it will break its horns against the walls of Oxford. The Fox of Caerdubalum will wreak vengeance on the Lion and tear it up with its teeth. Then the Adder of Lincoln will coil round the Fox and announce its presence to the assembled Dragon with a terrifying hiss.

The Dragons will attack each other and tear each other to pieces.

A Dragon with wings will overwhelm the Dragon without wings, driving its venomous claws into the others muzzle. Two more Dragons will join the battle, and the one will kill the other. A fifth Dragon will replace the two dead ones and will destroy the two left alive by various stratagems.

It will climb on the back of one, holding a sword in its claws, and hack its head away from its body. Then it will cast its slough and climb on the second one with its opponent’s tail in its right and left claws.

Naked, it will overwhelm the other; when fully covered, it will achieve nothing. It will torment other Dragons by climbing on their backs and will drive them round the kingdom.

Then a roaring Lion will intervene, terrifying in its monstrous cruelty. This Lion will reduce fifteen portions to a single entity, and by itself it will hold the people in its power. A Giant, snow-white in colour and gleaming bright, will beget a radiant people.

Soft living will enervate the leaders, and those under their command will be changed into beasts. In their number will arise a Lion, fat with human blood. A Man with a Sickle will act as the Lion’s helper in the harvest, but when the man is perplexed in his mind, the Lion will destroy him.

The Charioteer of York will soothe the people. He will throw his master out and climb up into the chariot which he is driving. He will draw his sword and threaten the East, and he will fill with blood the ruts made by his wheels. Next he will turn himself into a Sea-fish and mate with a Snake which has attracted him by its hissing.

As a result, there shall be born three Bulls, which will glitter like lightning. They will eat up their pasture lands and then be turned into trees.

The first Bull will carry a whip made of vipers, and it will turn its back on the one born second. The second Bull will struggle to snatch the whip from the first, but the whip will be seized by the third. They will avert their gaze from each other until they have thrown away the poison cup.

A Farmer from Albany shall take their place, and down his back a Snake shall hang. He will spend his time ploughing the earth, so that the harvests of his homeland may grow white, but the Snake will busy itself in scattering poison to prevent the green corn from ever coming to harvest.

The population shall decrease through some deadly calamity, and the walls of the towns will come tumbling down. The City of Claudius will be proposed as a source of remedy, and this city will put forward the Foster-daughter of the Scourger. She shall come bearing a saucer of medicine, and in next to no time the island will be restored.

Two men shall hold the sceptre, one after the other, and a Horned Dragon will serve them both. The first man will come clad in iron and riding upon a flying Serpent. He will sit astride its back, with his body naked, and he will grasp its tail in his right hand.

The seas will be made turbulent by his cry, and he will strike terror into the second man. As a result, the second man will make an alliance with a Lion, but a quarrel will ensue, and they will fight. Each of the two will suffer greatly from the other’s blows, but the animal’s ferocity will enable it to win.

A man shall come with a drum and a lute, and he will soothe the Lions savageness. The various peoples in the kingdom will be pacified as a result, and they will encourage the Lion to take the saucer of medicine. As it sits in the dwelling allocated to it, it will examine the dose, but it will stretch out its hand toward Albany.

The regions of the north will be saddened by this, and they will throw open the gates of their temples.

A Wolf will act as standard bearer, and it will coil its tail round Cornwall. A soldier in a chariot will resist the Wolf and transform the Cornish people into a Boar. As a result the Boar will devastate the provinces, but it will hide its head in the depths of the Severn.

A man shall wrestle with a drunken Lion, and the gleam of gold will blind the eyes of the onlookers. Silver will shine white in the open space, causing trouble to a number of wine presses.

Men will become drunk with the wine which is offered to them; they will turn their backs on Heaven and fix their eyes on the Earth.

The stars will avert their gaze from these men and alter their accustomed course.

The harvests will dry up through the stars anger, and all moisture from the sky will cease.

Roots and branches shall change their places, and the oddness of this will pass for a miracle.

Before the amber glow of Mercury the bright light of the Sun shall grow dim, and this will strike horror into those who witness it. The planet Mercury, born in Arcady, shall change its shield, and the Helmet of Mars shall call to Venus.

The Helmet of Mars shall cast a shadow, and in rage Mercury shall overrun its orbit.

Iron Orion shall bare its sword.

The watery Sun shall torment the clouds. Jupiter shall abandon its preordained paths, and Venus desert its appointed circuits.

The malice of the planet Saturn will pour down like rain, killing mortal men as though with a curved sickle.

The twelve mansions of the stars will weep to see their inmates transgress so.

The Gemini will cease their wanton embraces and will dispatch Aquarius to the fountains.

Ancient Alien Astronaut Theory

Ancient Astronaut Theory

Ancient Alien Theory

Most people believe in aliens – from ancient visitors to modern day extraterrestrial encounters. Clearly the creation myths of each ancient civilization discuss alien gods who descended from the sky for any number of reasons, some of who allegedly mated with human woman to create a bloodlines.

Sumerian God Anu

Is he holding the mythical Holy Grail cup?

Sumerian Artifacts, British Museum

Zecharia Sitchin – Anunnaki Theory of Creation

Did ancient astronauts seed the human race? If so, what was their agenda? Have these ancient astronauts used planet Earth as a place for their ‘science projects’, creating race after race using biogenetic manipulation, then wiping everything out and starting again?

According to ancient alien theorists, most of whom have researched the topic for decades, extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago, sharing their expertise with early civilizations and forever changing the course of human history. To this day researchers look for evidence to support this theory.

Ancient alien theory grew out of the centuries-old idea that life exists on other planets, and that humans and extraterrestrials have crossed paths before. The theme of human-alien interaction was thrust into the spotlight in the 1960s, driven by a wave of UFO sightings and popular films like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The space program played no small part in this as well … if mankind could travel to other planets, why couldn¹t extraterrestrials visit Earth?

Also in 1968, Swiss researcher and author Erich von Däniken published Chariots of the Gods, which became an immediate bestseller. In it, he put forth his hypothesis that, the technologies and religions of many ancient civilizations were given to them by space travelers who were welcomed as gods. He is regarded by many as the father of ancient alien theory, also known as the ancient astronaut theory. Since that time, he has written many other books and appeared in media presenting physical proof of his theories. In 2010 he appeared in the History Channel mini series, "Ancient Aliens".

The types of evidence von Däniken cites can be categorized as follows:

The existence of structures and artifacts have been found which represent higher technological knowledge than is presumed to have existed at the times they were manufactured. Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from them.

These artifacts include the Moai of Easter Island

Egyptian Pyramids

Stonehenge

Submerged Cities thousands of years old

Humans could not have designed and constructed them

The medieval map known as the Piri Reis Map

allegedly shows the Earth as it is seen from space

Nazca Lines of Peru

which von Däniken believes was a landing strips or airfield

Art History

Interpretations of ancient artwork throughout the world as depictions of astronauts, air and space vehicles, extraterrestrials, and complex technology. Däniken also describes elements that he believes are similar in art of unrelated cultures.

Explanations for the origins of religions as reactions to contact with an alien race, including interpretations of the Old Testament of the Bible. According to von Däniken, humans considered the technology of the aliens to be supernatural and the aliens themselves to be gods. Däniken asks if the oral and literal traditions of most religions contain references to visitors from stars and vehicles traveling through air and space.

Vimanas

These, he says, should be interpreted as literal descriptions which have changed during the passage of time and become more obscure. Examples such as: Ezekiel’s revelation in Old Testament, which he interprets as a detailed description of a landing spacecraft with angels in the likeness of man. Moses and the directions ‘God’ gave him to construct the Ark of the Covenant, which is assumed to be a communication device with an alien race. Lot and his extended family being ordered by human like ‘angels’ to go to the mountains, due to the destruction of the city of Sodom by God. His wife looked back at the possible nuclear explosion, and falling "dead on the spot". Däniken attempts to draw an analogy with the "cargo cults" that formed during and after World War II, when once-isolated tribes in the South Pacific mistook the advanced American and Japanese soldiers for gods.

If aliens visited Earth in the past, could they make an appearance in the future? For ancient alien theorists, the answer is a resounding yes. They believe that, by sharing their views with the world, they can help prepare future generations for the inevitable encounter that awaits them.

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In China we find theories about an alien race

called the Dropa who left behind fascinating discs.

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The Mayan – Popol Vuh, states,

"Men came from the stars, knowing everything, and they examined
the four corners of the sky and the Earth’s round surface."

One has to wonder where the ancient Maya got their advanced
knowledge in astronomy, mathematics, and other physical sciences.

Mayan Calendar

2012

The Mayan Chilam Balaam texts stated,
"Beings descended from the sky in flying vessels…
white men in flying rings, who can touch the sky."

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Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs found on cave and mountain walls in many parts of the world,

imply that ancient aliens may have visited the planet.

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I am an ancient astronauts theorist. The signs are there. The symbols are there. Human consciousness is awakening to the greater truth of its origins. As we search for the truth behind the illusion about who created the human race, or biogenetic experiment, we look to those who came from the stars, ancient astronauts, creation gods, for our answers. Reality is consciousness created in the matrix of time. Soon the truth will be known as the hologram of our reality concludes and we move into something else.

 

 

 

Ancient astronauts

Ancient paintings from Val Camonica, Italy are believed to depict forgotten deities; ancient astronaut proponents claim these pictures resemble modern day astronauts despite being painted ca. 10,000 BC.

According to certain authors, intelligent extraterrestrial beings called ancient astronauts or ancient aliens have visited Earth, and this contact is connected with the origins or development of humancultures, technologies, and religions. A common variant of the idea include proposals that deities from most, if not all, religions are actually extraterrestrials, and their technologies were taken as evidence of their divine status.^[1][2] These proposals have been popularized, particularly in the latter half of the 20th century, by writers Erich von Däniken, Zecharia Sitchin, Robert K. G. Temple, and David Icke.^[3] Ancient astronauts have been widely used as a plot device in science fiction, but the idea that ancient astronauts actually existed is not taken seriously by most academics, and has received little or no credulous attention in peer reviewed studies.

Details

Proponents of ancient astronaut theories often maintain that humans are either descendants or creations of beings who landed on Earth thousands of years ago. An associated idea is that much of human knowledge, religion, and culture came from extraterrestrial visitors in ancient times, in that ancient astronauts acted as a “mother culture”. Other proposals include the idea that civilization may have evolved on Earth twice, and that the visitation of ancient astronauts may reflect the return of descendants of ancient humans whose population was separated from earthbound humans.^{[citation needed]} These ideas are generally discounted if not ridiculed by the academic and skeptical communities.^[4]

Proponents argue that the evidence for ancient astronauts comes from supposed gaps in historical and archaeological records, and they also maintain that absent or incomplete explanations of historical or archaeological data point to the existence of ancient astronauts. The evidence is said to include archaeological artifacts that they argue are anachronistic or beyond the presumed technical capabilities of the historical cultures with which they are associated (sometimes referred to as "Out-of-place artifacts"); and artwork and legends which are interpreted as depicting extraterrestrial contact or technologies.

Mainstream academics, when they comment at all on such proposals, have responded that gaps in contemporary knowledge of the past need not demonstrate that such speculative ancient astronaut ideas are a necessary, or even plausible, conclusion to draw.^[5] Academic researchers in related disciplines generally maintain that there is no evidence to support the proposals of ancient astronauts or paleocontact. Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA, however strongly believed in what he called panspermia, the concept that earth was ‘seeded’ with life, probably in the form of bluegreen algae, by intelligent extraterrestrial species, for the purpose of ensuring life’s continuity. He believed that this could have been done on any number of planets of this class, possibly using unmanned shuttles. He talks at length about this theory in his book Life Itself.

Scientific consideration

In their 1966 book Intelligent Life in the Universe^[6] astrophysicists I.S. Shklovski and Carl Sagan devote a chapter^[7] to arguments that scientists and historians should seriously consider the possibility that extraterrestrial contact occurred during recorded history. However, Shklovski and Sagan stressed that these ideas were speculative and unproven.

Shklovski and Sagan argued that sub-lightspeed interstellar travel by extraterrestrial life was a certainty when considering technologies that were established or feasible in the late ’60s;^[8] that repeated instances of extraterrestrial visitation to Earth were plausible;^[9] and that pre-scientific narratives can offer a potentially reliable means of describing contact with outsiders.^[10] Additionally, Shklovski and Sagan cited tales of Oannes, a fishlike being attributed with teaching agriculture, mathematics, and the arts to early Sumerians, as deserving closer scrutiny as a possible instance of paleocontact due to its consistency and detail.^[11]

In his 1979 book Broca’s Brain, Sagan^[12] suggested that he and Shklovski might have inspired the wave of ’70s ancient astronaut books, expressing disapproval of "von Däniken and other uncritical writers" who seemingly built on these ideas not as guarded speculations but as "valid evidence of extraterrestrial contact." Sagan argued that while many legends, artifacts, and purported out-of-place artifacts were cited in support of ancient astronaut theories, "very few require more than passing mention" and could be easily explained with more conventional theories. Sagan also reiterated his earlier conclusion that extraterrestrial visits to Earth were possible but unproven, and perhaps improbable.

Authors of books and stories on ancient astronauts

Pseudoscientific concepts

Claims

Intelligent extraterrestrials visited the Earth in ancient times and profoundly affected the development of human civilization.

Related scientific disciplines

Archaeology

Year proposed

1919

Original proponents

Charles Fort,
Erich von Däniken

Subsequent proponents

Robert K. G. Temple, Zecharia Sitchin, Richard C. Hoagland,Burak Eldem

Ancient astronaut theories can be found in the work of the following authors (listed by year of initial publication):

• 1897 – Garrett P. Serviss (book, Edison’s Conquest of Mars)
• 1919 – Charles Fort (book, The Book of the Damned)
• 1928 – H.P. Lovecraft (short story, "The Call of Cthulhu")
• 1954 – Harold T. Wilkins
• 1955 – Morris K. Jessup
• 1957 – Peter Kolosimo (book, Il pianeta sconosciuto (The Unknown Planet))
• 1957 – George Hunt Williamson
• 1958 – Henri Lhote,^[13]
• 1959 – Matest M. Agrest
• 1959 – Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels (authors of The Morning of the Magicians)
• 1960 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench
• 1963 – Robert Charroux (book, One Hundred Thousand Years of Man’s Unknown History)
• 1964 – W. Raymond Drake (book, Gods or Spacemen?)
• 1966 – Iosif Shklovsky and Carl Sagan (book, Intelligent Life in the Universe)
• 1967 – Brad Steiger (book, The Flying Saucer Menace)
• 1968 – Erich von Däniken (book, Chariots of the Gods?)
• 1971 – Andrew Thomas (book, We are not the first: riddles of ancient science)
• 1972 – Thomas Charles Lethbridge (book, The Legend of the Sons of God: A Fantasy?)
• 1974 – Charles Berlitz (book, The Bermuda Triangle)
• 1974 – Josef F. Blumrich (book, The Spaceships of Ezekiel)
• 1974 – Claude Vorilhon aka Rael (book, Le Livre Qui Dit La Vérité (The Book Which Tells the Truth))
• 1976 – Robert K. G. Temple
• 1978 – Zecharia Sitchin
• 1988 – Riley Martin
• 1993 – David Icke
• 1996 – Alan F. Alford
• 1996 – Richard C. Hoagland (book, The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever)
• 1998 – Lloyd Pye
• 1999 – Laurence Gardner (book, Genesis of the Grail Kings: The Explosive Story of Genetic Cloning)
• 2003 – Burak Eldem

Erich von Däniken

Sarcophagus lid of Pakal the great, which according to Von Däniken represents an "ancient astronaut" ascending to the stars in his spaceship.

Main article: Erich von Däniken

Erich von Däniken was a leading proponent of this theory in the late 1960s and early 1970s, gaining a large audience through the 1968 publication of his best-selling book Chariots of the Gods? and its sequels.

Certain artifacts and monumental constructions are claimed by von Däniken to have required a more sophisticated technological ability in their construction than that which was available to the ancient cultures who constructed them. Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were constructed either directly by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from said visitors. These include Stonehenge, the Moai of Easter Island, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and the ancient Baghdad electric batteries.

Von Däniken claims that ancient art and iconography throughout the world illustrates air and space vehicles, non-human but intelligent creatures, ancient astronauts, and artifacts of an anachronistically advanced technology. Von Däniken also claims that geographically separated historical cultures share artistic themes, which he argues imply a common origin. For one such example, is von Däniken’s interpretation of the sarcophagus lid recovered from the tomb of the Classic-era Maya ruler of Palenque, Pacal. Von Däniken claimed the design represented a seated astronaut, whereas the iconography and accompanying Maya text identifies it as a portrait of the ruler himself with the World Tree of Maya mythology.

The origins of many religions are interpreted by von Däniken as reactions to encounters with an alien race. According to his view, humans considered the technology of the aliens to be supernatural and the aliens themselves to be gods. Von Däniken claims that the oral and written traditions of most religions contain references to alien visitors in the way of descriptions of stars and vehicular objects travelling through air and space. One such is Ezekiel‘s revelation in the Old Testament, which Däniken interprets as a detailed description of a landing spacecraft.

Von Däniken’s theories became popularized in the U.S. after the NBC-TV documentary In Search Of Ancient Astronauts hosted by Rod Serling and the movie Chariots of the Gods.

Critics argue that von Däniken misrepresented data, that many of his claims were unfounded, and that none of his core claims has been validated.^[14]

Zecharia Sitchin

Main article: Zecharia Sitchin

Zecharia Sitchin’s series The Earth Chronicles, beginning with The 12th Planet, revolves around Sitchin’s interpretation of ancient Sumerian and Middle Eastern texts, megalithic sites, and artifacts from around the world. He theorizes the gods of old Mesopotamia were actually astronauts from the planet "Nibiru", which Sitchin claims the Sumerians believed to be a remote "12th planet" (counting the Sun, Moon, and Pluto as planets) associated with the god Marduk. According to Sitchin, Nibiru continues to orbit our sun on a 3,600-year elongated orbit. Sitchin also suggests that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is the shattered remains of the ancient planet "Tiamat", which he claims was destroyed in one of Niburu’s orbits through the solar system. Modern astronomy has found no evidence to support Sitchin’s claims^{[citation needed]}.

According to Sitchin, the Sumerians relate how 50 Anunnaki, the inhabitants of Nibiru, came to Earth approximately 400,000 years ago with the intent of mining raw materials, especially gold, for transport back to Nibiru. With their small numbers they soon tired of the task and set out to genetically engineer laborers to work the mines. After much trial and error they eventually created homo sapiens sapiens: the "Adapa" (model man) or Adam of later mythology. Sitchin claims the Anunnaki were active in human affairs until their culture was destroyed by global catastrophes caused by the abrupt end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago. Seeing that humans survived and all they had built was destroyed, the Anunnaki left Earth after giving humans the opportunity and means to govern themselves.

Robert Temple

Main article: Robert K. G. Temple

Robert K. G. Temple’s 1976 book, The Sirius Mystery argues that the Dogon people of northwestern Mali preserved an account of extraterrestrial visitation from around 5,000 years ago. He quotes various lines of evidence, including supposed advanced astronomical knowledge inherited by the tribe, descriptions, and comparative belief systems with ancient civilizations such as ancient Egypt and Sumer. His work draws heavily on the studies of cultural anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen.^[15]

His conclusions have been criticized by scientists, who point out discrepancies within Temple’s account, and suggested that the Dogon may have received some of their astronomical information recently, probably from European sources, and may have misrepresented Dogon ethnography.^[16][17][18]

UFO religions

Main article: UFO religion

Various UFO religions including theosophy, Nation of Islam, Scientology, The Urantia Book, Raëlism, and Heaven’s Gate dogmatically accept ancient and present-day contact with extraterrestrial intelligence as a matter of faith. Many of these faiths rely on the reinterpreting various ancient scriptures and new revelations as being associated with the action of super-intelligent aliens and technologically-advanced spacecraft. Sociologists and psychologists who have examined New Religious Movements which engage with these themes have noted parallels between amongst these religions which suggest a conscious or unconscious parallel acceptance of the associations between enchantment and the memes of science fiction.^[19]

Evidence cited by proponents

Religious texts

Proponents cite ancient mythologies to support their viewpoints based on the idea that ancient creation myths of gods who descend from the heavens to Earth to create or instruct humanity are actually representations of alien visitors, whose superior technology accounts for their reception as gods. Proponents attempt to draw an analogy to occurrences in modern times when isolated cultures are exposed to Western technology, such as when, in the early 20th century, "cargo cults" were discovered in the South Pacific: cultures who believed various Western ships and their cargo to be sent from the gods as fulfillment of prophecies concerning their return.^[20]

Flying machines are sometimes mentioned in ancient texts; one example is the Vimanas, mythological flying machines found in the Hindu epics. These tales range from fantastic aerial battles employing various weaponry, to the mundane relating simple technical information, flight procedure, and flights of fancy. (See also Vaimanika Shastra, a text on Vimanas supposedly "channeled" in the early 20th century.)^[21]

Ezekiel

In the Biblical Old Testament, the Book of Ezekiel tells of a flying object seen as a fiery whirlwind which when descended to the ground gave the appearance of being made of metal. It is described among other things as a wheel within a wheel containing four occupants, "living creatures", whose likeness was that of man. The passage goes on to say that wherever the wheels went the creatures went, and when the living creatures were lifted up the wheels were lifted up.^[22] In chapter 4 of Chariots of the Gods?, entitled, “Was God an Astronaut?” von Däniken refers to the vision of Ezekiel, suggesting Ezekiel had seen a spaceship, a comparison Morris Jessup had made in 1956.^[23]

Genesis

In the Book of Genesis, Genesis 6:1-4 states that "When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose… The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them." In the King James Version they are identified as "giants".

The Nephilim are perhaps children of the fallen angels, although scholars are uncertain.^[24] Erich von Däniken sees an extraterrestrial connection in this passage, and suggests that here “we have the sons of God, who interbreed with human beings.” ^[25]

Chuck Missler and Mark Eastman argue that UFOs carry the fallen angels, or offspring of fallen angels, the Nephilim of Genesis, who have now returned. They believe it was this interbreeding between the angels and humans that led to what they call “the gene pool problem.” Noah was perfect in his “generations,” that is “Noah’s genealogy was not tarnished by the intrusion of fallen angels. It seems that this adulteration of the human gene pool was a major problem on the planet earth.” ^[26]

Von Däniken also suggests that the two angels who visited Lot in Genesis 19 were not angels, but ancient astronauts. They may have used atomic weapons to destroy the city of Sodom. In any case, the otherworldly beings acted as if there was a time set for Sodom’s destruction. Von Däniken questioned why God would work on a timetable and why an "infinitely good Father" would give "preference to ‘favorite children,’ such as Lot’s family, over countless others."^[27]

Other Old Testament passages

In several chapters of the Old Testament God is depicted as traveling as a column of smoke and/or fire^[28] and making the sound of a trumpet.^[29] These descriptions also describe Yahweh as having a physical presence,^[30] rather than an abstraction. Yahweh is described raining lightning^[31] and stones^[32] down upon the enemies of the Hebrews. However, descriptions of the Hebrew God have also featured protecting wings and outstretched arms in the Psalms, features which may be considered contrary to theories of mechanical manifestations of God.^{[33][citation needed]}

Additionally, the characteristics of the Ark of the Covenant and the Urim and Thummim are identified as suggesting high technology, perhaps from alien origins.^[34]

Apocryphal writings

The apocryphal Book of Enoch tells of similar flying objects and beings called "the Watchers" who have mutinied from "heaven" and descended to earth, but goes further in that Enoch is taken on journeys to various corners of the Earth in the object and at one point even travels to the heavens.^[35]

Artifacts and artwork

Alleged physical evidence includes the discovery of artifacts in Egypt (the Saqqara Bird) and Colombia–Ecuador, which are claimed to be similar to modern planes and gliders,^[36] although these have been interpreted by archaeologists as stylized representations of birds and insects.

"The Baptism of Christ", 1710, byAert de Gelder

More support of this theory draws upon what are claimed to be representations of flying saucers in medieval and renaissance art.^[37] This is used to support the ancient astronaut theory by attempting to show that the creators of humanity return to check up on their creation throughout time.

Other artistic support for the ancient astronaut theory has been sought in Palaeolithic cave paintings.^{[citation needed]} Wondjina in Australia and Val Camonica in Italy (seen above) are claimed to bear a resemblance to present day astronauts.^{[citation needed]} Supporters of the ancient astronaut theory sometimes claim that similarities such as dome shaped heads, interpreted as beings wearing space helmets, prove that early man was visited by an extraterrestrial race.^[38]

Nazca Lines

The ancient Nazca Lines comprise hundreds of enormous ground drawings etched into the high desert landscape of Peru, which consist primarily of geometric shapes, but also include depictions of a variety of animals and at least one human figure. Many believers in ancient astronauts cite the Nazca lines as evidence because the figures created by the lines are most clearly depicted or only able to be seen when viewed from the air. Writing professor Joe Nickell of the University of Kentucky, using only technology he believed to be available to people of the time, was able to recreate one of the larger figures with a reasonable degree of accuracy.^[39]

Monumental architecture

Evidence for ancient astronauts is claimed to include the existence of ancient monuments and megalithic ruins such as the Giza pyramids of Egypt, Machu Picchu in Peru, or Baalbek in Lebanon, and the Moai ofEaster Island.^{[citation needed]} Supporters contend these stone structures could not have been built with the technical abilities and tools of the people of the time and further argue that many could not be duplicated even today. They suggest that the large size of the building stones, the precision with which they were laid, and the distances many were transported leaves the question open as to who constructed these sites. These contentions are categorically rejected by mainstream archeology. Some mainstream archeologists have participated in experiments to move large megaliths. These experiments have succeeded in moving megaliths up to at least 40 tons,^[40][41] and they have speculated that with a larger workforce larger megaliths could be towed with ancient technology.^[42] Such allegations are not unique in history, however, as similar reasoning lay behind the wonder of theCyclopean masonry walling at Mycenaean cities in the eyes of Greeks of the following "Dark Age," who believed that the giant Cyclopes had built the walls.

Reception

Despite the proponents’ own interpretations of ancient writings and artifacts, there has yet to be found any hard evidence to support the ancient astronaut hypothesis.

Alan F. Alford, author of Gods of the New Millennium (1996), was an adherent of the ancient astronaut theory. Much of his work draws on Sitchin’s theories. However, he now finds fault with Sitchin’s theory after deeper analysis, stating that: “I am now firmly of the opinion that these gods personified the falling sky; in other words, the descent of the gods was a poetic rendition of the cataclysm myth which stood at the heart of ancient Near Eastern religions.”^[43]

In a 2004 article in Skeptic Magazine,^[44] Jason Colavito states that von Däniken plagiarized many of the book’s concepts from Le Matin des Magiciens, that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. P. Lovecraft‘s short stories "The Call of Cthulhu" and "At the Mountains of Madness".

 

Ancient Alien – Theory
According to ancient alien theorists, extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago, sharing their expertise with early civilizations and forever changing the course of human history. But how did this concept develop, and is there any evidence to support it?
Ancient alien theory grew out of the centuries-old idea that life exists on other planets, and that humans and extraterrestrials have crossed paths before. The theme of human-alien interaction was thrust into the spotlight in the 1960s, driven by a wave of UFO sightings and popular films like 2001: A Space Odyssey. The space program played no small part in this as well: If mankind could travel to other planets, why couldn’t extraterrestrials visit Earth?
In 1968, the Swiss author Erich von Däniken published Chariots of the Gods?, which became an immediate bestseller. In it, he put forth his hypothesis that, thousands of years ago, space travelers from other planets visited Earth, where they taught humans about technology and influenced ancient religions. He is regarded by many as the father of ancient alien theory, also known as the ancient astronaut theory.
Most ancient alien theorists, including von Däniken, point to two types of evidence to support their ideas. The first is ancient religious texts in which humans witness and interact with gods or other heavenly beings who descend from the sky—sometimes in vehicles resembling spaceships—and possess spectacular powers. The second is physical specimens such as artwork depicting alien-like figures and ancient architectural marvels like Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt.
If aliens visited Earth in the past, could they make an appearance in the future? For ancient alien theorists, the answer is a resounding yes. They believe that, by sharing their views with the world, they can help prepare future generations for the inevitable encounter that awaits them.
Ancient Aliens – The Mission
If ancient aliens visited Earth, what was their mission, and is there evidence that points to when they will return? Ancient Sumerian tablets describe an alien race, known as the Anunnaki, who came to Earth to mine for gold. Egyptian hieroglyphs depict hybrid creatures that were part man, part animal. Mysterious crop circles and unexplainable crystal skulls are thought to contain messages that man has yet to decipher. Strange evidence may exist in multiple cultures throughout history suggesting that aliens came here to explore, excavate raw materials, experiment on human beings, and even for pure conquest.
Ancient Aliens – The Visitors
If ancient aliens visited Earth, who were they, and where did they come from? Possible historic evidence and beliefs are examined around the world. The Dogon people possess knowledge of a galaxy they claim was given to them by a star god named Amma. The Hopi and Zuni people celebrate Kachinas, gods from the sky, whose headdresses and costumes appear to resemble modern helmets and protective clothing. Halfway around the world, Chinese legends tell of the Han leader, Huangdi, arriving on Earth on a flying, yellow dragon. Was this dragon more likely a spacecraft? Ancient astronaut theorists believe that these are far from chance encounters and that extraterrestrials not only interacted with us, but changed the course of human history.
Ancient Aliens – The Evidence
If ancient aliens visited Earth, what was their legacy, and did they leave behind clues that exist in plain sight such as sophisticated aircraft, complex electrical grids, and intricate construction machinery? Indian Sanskrit texts, dating back to 6000 B.C., describe in varying but vivid detail flying machines called Vimanas. Megalithic stone structures in Egypt reveal evidence of precision saw work. Interpretations of the Jewish Zohar writings offer depictions of a life-sustaining manna machine, eerily similar to chlorella algae processing systems today. Are these examples of modern technology, or is there evidence that these incredible mechanisms existed on Earth thousands of years ago?
Ancient Aliens – Chariots, Gods & Beyond
What if life on Earth began in outer space? Millions of people accept the theory that intelligent life forms visited Earth thousands of years ago and were worshiped as gods by primitive man. Are monuments like Stonehenge and Easter Island the last remains of an ancient alien visitation? From unexplainable super structures, to knowledge of the solar system, mathematics, and even the ability to make electricity, this special explores evidence of super-human influences on ancient man and embarks on an around-the-world search for answers. It’s an investigation into a theory some believe cannot be true, but many agree cannot be ignored.
Erich von Däniken
Born in Switzerland in 1935, Erich von Däniken is widely regarded as the father of ancient alien theory, also known as ancient astronaut theory. He published his first of 26 books in 1968 while working as the manager of a five-star hotel. In Chariots of the Gods?, Däniken put forth his controversial hypothesis that, thousands of years ago, space travelers from other planets visited Earth, where they taught humans about technology and influenced ancient religions. As evidence, he pointed to religious texts in which heavenly beings with supernatural powers descend from the sky. He also suggested that extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of engineering helped ancient civilizations build architectural marvels like Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Maoi statues of Easter Island.

Chariots of the Gods? appeared at a time when aliens and space travel loomed large in film, fiction and popular culture. It was the era of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek and Frank Herbert’s Dune series. Däniken’s ideas thrived in this climate, and his book became an immediate bestseller in the United States and Germany. It can now be read in more than 30 languages and has seen 40 printings to date. Over the years, Däniken has attracted a large group of followers, many of whom have conducted and published their own research, although he has also received criticism from some within the scientific community.
For more than four decades, Erich von Däniken has been writing and speaking about the notion that mankind and aliens crossed paths in the distant past. His work has inspired documentary features and television specials while capturing the imaginations of multiple generations of people around the world.
Evidence of Ancient Aliens
Ancient alien theorists like Erich von Däniken believe that, thousands of years ago, extraterrestrials landed on Earth, where they were hailed as gods and helped shape human civilization. But what proof could possibly exist for such an encounter? Proponents of the theory point to two types of evidence: ancient religious texts and physical specimens such as cave drawings, stone sculptures and pyramids. Is your curiosity piqued? Here’s a quick introduction to some of the most famous examples.

The Nazca Lines
Etched into a high plateau in Peru’s Nazca Desert, a series of ancient designs stretching more than 50 miles has baffled archaeologists for decades. Along with simple lines and geometric shapes, they include drawings of animals, birds and humans, some measuring more than 600 feet across. Because of their colossal size, the figures can only be appreciated from way up in the air—and there is no evidence that the Nazca people, who inhabited the area between 300 B.C. and 800 A.D., invented flying machines. According to ancient alien theorists, the figures were used to guide spaceships as they came in for a landing, and the lines served as runways.
Vimanas
Many Sanskrit epics, which were written in India more than two millennia ago, contain references to mythical flying machines called vimanas. Pointing to similarities between descriptions of vimanas and reports by people who claim to have seen UFOs, ancient alien theorists have suggested that astronauts from other planets visited India during ancient times.
The Moai of Easter Island
The Polynesian island of Easter Island is famous for its “maoi”: the 887 giant human figures with enormous heads that guard its coastline. Roughly 500 years old, these monolithic statues stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, but some are twice as tall and much heavier. How could human beings without sophisticated tools or knowledge of engineering craft and transport such incredible structures? Some ancient alien theorists believe it is the work of visiting extraterrestrials who left their mark on the island.
Puma Punku
Located in the Bolivian highlands, Puma Punku is a field of stone ruins scattered with giant, finely carved blocks. Such precise workmanship on a massive scale would have been nearly impossible without modern tools and machines, yet the ruins are more than 1,000 years old. Ancient alien theorists have hypothesized that extraterrestrials with advanced engineering techniques created the site or advised the people who built it.
The Book of Ezekiel
In the Book of Ezekiel, part of the Hebrew bible, a prophet has a vision of a flying vessel accompanied by fire, smoke and a loud noise. Some ancient alien theorists have argued that the vehicle’s design closely mirrors that of a modern spaceship. Rather than a divine intervention, then, perhaps the text describes an early encounter between humans and alien astronauts.

Pacal’s Sarcophagus
Pacal the Great ruled over the Mayan city of Palenque, in what is now southern Mexico, during the seventh century. Upon his death, he was buried inside a pyramid called the Temple of Inscriptions. The intricately carved lid of his sarcophagus has become a classic work of Mayan art—and an oft-cited piece of evidence for ancient alien theorists. In their view, Pacal is pictured in a spaceship during takeoff, with his hand on a control panel, his foot on a pedal and an oxygen tube in his mouth.

HANNIBAL Harper Conservatives whipped their Conservative Senators last evening into passing Bill C-36 without critically needed amendments

We, The People of Ontario and Canada have a very serious problem. The Harper Conservatives have broken all of the Canadian Written and Unwritten Constitutional values, principles and customs and whipped their Conservative Senators last evening into passing Bill C-36 without critically needed amendments [See Exhibits 1, 2 & 3].

This is one of the most serious affronts to the very nature of our De Jure English Rule of Canadian Common/Private Law democratic society that a Prime Minister has ever done.

Please see attached as Exhibits 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 & 25] the facts pertaining to this oppressive tyranny that, if allowed to be implemented into Federal Public Statute Law will set a dangerous precedent that threatens the good health, well-being and sacred Fundamental rights, freedoms and liberties of all Canadians. Bill and debates and analysis

Included are also all of the communications that have been sent out from the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom [See Exhibits 26, 27, 28, & 29] as well as the letter that we sent on behalf of our party requesting a chance to witness [See Exhibit 30]. Please go to our website at www.pfrpo.ca and send the E-Mandate Protest letters to all 400 plus MPs and Senators immediately. We have also provided blank E-Mandate Protest and/or appreciation letters to the Liberal MPs and Senators, the Conservative MPs and Senators and the NDP MPs.

In this edition of our GIA BeeHive Freedom News we have included a number of other background documents for your reading [See Exhibits 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 & 38].

For those of you in Ontario please donate and/or join our party now. We are a Registered Ontario party and below you will find the break down of tax deductions which are available.

We need $5,000 in new monthly pledges in order to file a lawsuit in January challenging the constitutional validity of this new federal legislation. Unfortunately, unlike in the USA our Provincial Attorney Generals are not yet elected and will not respond to our ongoing requests for meetings to discuss these ever expanding federal intrusions into exclusive fields of Provincial jurisdiction [See Exhibit 39].

Those outside of Ontario who want to become supporters need to go to the People First Republic Party of Canada website at www.pfrpc.ca and donate and/or join. We are not a registered federal party yet and cannot give tax deduction receipts at this time.

Yours for Freedom, Truth, Justice and Peace,

Trueman Tuck,

Party Leader

INDEX

Exhibit

Document Description

1

Canadian Implied Bill of Rights

2

Written and Unwritten Constitution

3

Article on Implied Bill of Rights, Mclachlin urges judge to go beyond letter of law, Courts should defy legislation to protect rights, chief justice says, by Janice Tibbets, The Ottawa Citizen dated December 5, 2005

4

Bill C-36

5

Bill C-36 Analysis and the Inconsistencies within the Bill prepared by Trueman Tuck on behalf of the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom & Friends of Freedom International

6

House of Commons 1^st Reading – June 9, 2010

7

House of Commons Debates at 2^nd Reading – October 7, 2010

8

House of Commons 2^nd Reading October 7, 2010

9

Health Committee Meetings October 19, 2010

10

Health Committee Meetings October 21, 2010

11

Health Committee Meetings October 26, 2010

12

Health Committee Report October 28, 2010

13

House of Commons Debates at 3^rd Reading October 29, 2010

14

House of Commons 3^rd Reading October 29, 2010

15

Senate 1^st Reading November 2, 2010

16

Senate Debates at 2^nd Reading November 4, 2010

17

Senate 2^nd Reading November 18, 2010

18

Social Affairs, Science and Technology Committee Meeting November 24, 2010

19

Social Affairs, Science and Technology Committee Meeting November 25, 2010

20

Social Affairs, Science and Technology Committee Meeting December 1st, 2010

21

Social Affairs, Science and Technology Committee Report December 2nd, 2010

22

Senate Debates at 3^rd Reading December 7, 2010

23

Senate Debates at 3^rd Reading December 9, 2010

24

Senate Debates at 3^rd Reading December 13, 2010

25

Senate 3^rd Reading December 13, 2010

26

Senate Debating Today….Bill C-36 Could Pass Any Day sent on behalf of the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom dated December 8, 2010

27

An Update from the Senate in Ottawa in regards to their deliberations of the Fascist/Socialistic Police State Bill C-36 sent on behalf of the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom dated November 25, 2010

28

Bill C-36 update from Ottawa, today the Senate once again debates this totalitarian Bill and we need your immediate help to try and stop it. sent on behalf of the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom dated November 16, 2010

29

Bill C36 GIA Health Freedom Update from the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom [CCHF] prepared by Trueman Tuck dated November 3, 2010

30

Letter to Jessica Richardson, Procedural Clerk re: Our party’s division of powers and infringement of constitutional rights issues with Bill C-36 dated November 19, 2010

31

Letter to Canadian Citizens from Senator Joseph Day dated December 10, 2010

32

Are Canadians really interested in Canada as a democracy?

33

Railroading of C-36 dated December 11, 2010

34

An Open Letter to all Senators: re Bill C36 dated December 6, 2010

35

Terence Corcoran: Tories push draconian Consumer Bill, National Post dated December 8, 2010

36

National Post Editorial Board: Parliament ponders a bad bill dated November 29, 2010

37

Deaf to warnings about passing Bill C-36, Now Before the Senate dated November 16, 2010

38

Bill C-36 an Act respecting the safety of consumer products

39

Obama checked by the Constitution on Health Care For now, Attorney Eugene J. Koprowski, NewsWithViews.com dated December 14, 2010

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COMPLETE BASIC NEW WORLD ORDER GUIDE FOR THE NEW PEOPLE WAKING UP

COMPLETE BASIC NEW WORLD ORDER GUIDE FOR THE NEW PEOPLE WAKING UP – THE ILLUMINATI IS REAL Official proof that the Illuminati is real

COMPLETE BASIC NEW WORLD ORDER GUIDE FOR THE NEW PEOPLE WAKING UP
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THE ILLUMINATI IS REAL
Official proof that the Illuminati is real (show this to sheep)
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=78673.msg441268#msg441268
Proofs of a Conspiracy
by John Robison
[1798]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/sro/pc/index.htm#contents
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THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS COMING!_

ENDGAME – documentary
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261&ei=QF_mSa37I5KYrAKf9sW2BQ&q=endgame
Esoteric Agenda – documentary
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/educational/watch/v14169847YxrXQFfK
America: Freedom to Fascism – documentary
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173&ei=r2zmSbOsH5OEqwK8-aTaBg&q=aaron+russo&dur=3
George H. W. Bush ,new world order speeches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9Syi12RJo
George Bush – New World Order Speech – March 6 1991 – P3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvzwzaifJYI
President of Georgia New World Order on Glenn Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCVZoY1ldo
Walter Cronkite admits there is a new world order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTwce_ZLDw

Sarkozy and Barroso call for a Global Government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2X4w7Yacwk
Obama’s New World Order Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lsltxgrr_o
Obama = Bush = Clinton ; they all work for the same people:
THE OBAMA DECEPTION – documentary
http://www.obamamovie.tk/
Gordon Brown New World Order Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5cqh26CC0
Henry Kissinger on CNBC calling for a New World Order 1-8-09 (from 1-5-09)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aROay5kufxc
Kissinger New World Order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZlxtTxJAD4
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Nov 19th 2008 Kissinger about what will be the 2009 and coming years
http://www.economist.com/theworldin/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12574180

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America will be less powerful, but still the essential nation in creating a new world order, argues Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state and founder of Kissinger Associates

The first barons of banking – The National Newspaper
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081106/BUSINESS/167536298/1005-

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“Baron Rothschild shares most people’s view that there is a new world order. In his opinion, banks will deleverage and there will be a new form of global governance.”

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IMPORTANT TO SEE; left and right are the same shit, all from the "elite":
WALL STREET
AND THE
BOLSHEVIK
REVOLUTION
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/WallStreetCommieRevolution.pdf

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Chapter I:
The Actors on the Revolutionary Stage
Chapter II:
Trotsky Leaves New York to Complete the Revolution
Woodrow Wilson and a Passport for Trotsky
Canadian Government Documents on Trotsky’s Release
Canadian Military Intelligence Views Trotsky
Trotsky’s Intentions and Objectives
Chapter III:
Lenin and German Assistance for the Bolshevik Revolution
The Sisson Documents
The Tug-of-War in Washington
Chapter IV:
Wall Street and the World Revolution
American Bankers and Tsarist Loans
Olof Aschberg in New York, 1916
Olof Aschberg in the Bolshevik Revolution
Nya Banken and Guaranty Trust Join Ruskombank
Guaranty Trust and German Espionage in the United States, 1914-1917
The Guaranty Trust-Minotto-Caillaux Threads
Chapter V:
The American Red Cross Mission in Russia — 1917
American Red Cross Mission to Russia — 1917
American Red Cross Mission to Rumania
Thompson in Kerensky’s Russia
Thompson Gives the Bolsheviks $1 Million
Socialist Mining Promoter Raymond Robins
The International Red Cross and Revolution
Chapter VI:
Consolidation and Export of the Revolution
A Consultation with Lloyd George
Thompson’s Intentions and Objectives
Thompson Returns to the United States
The Unofficial Ambassadors: Robins, Lockhart, and Sadoul
Exporting the Revolution: Jacob H. Rubin
Exporting the Revolution: Robert Minor
Chapter VII:
The Bolsheviks Return to New York
A Raid on the Soviet Bureau in New York
Corporate Allies for the Soviet Bureau
European Bankers Aid the Bolsheviks
Chapter VIII:
120 Broadway, New York City
American International Corporation
The Influence of American International on the Revolution
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York
American-Russian Industrial Syndicate Inc.
John Reed: Establishment Revolutionary
John Reed and the Metropolitan Magazine
Chapter IX:
Guaranty Trust Goes to Russia
Wall Street Comes to the Aid of Professor Lomonossoff
The Stage Is Set for Commercial Exploitation of Russia
Germany and the United States Struggle for Russian Business
Soviet Gold and American Banks
Max May of Guaranty Trust Becomes Director of Ruskombank
Chapter X:
J.P. Morgan Gives a Little Help to the Other Side
United Americans Formed to Fight Communism
United Americans Reveals "Startling Disclosures" on Reds
Conclusions Concerning United Americans
Morgan and Rockefeller Aid Kolchak
Chapter XI:
The Alliance of Bankers and Revolution
The Evidence Presented: A Synopsis
The Explanation for the Unholy Alliance
The Marburg Plan
Appendix I:
Directors of Major Banks,
Firms, and Institutions Mentioned
in This Book (as in 1917-1918)
Appendix II:
The Jewish-Conspiracy Theory of the
Bolshevik Revolution
Appendix III:
Selected Documents from Government
Files of the United States and Great Britain

—> And Hitler too:
IBM and the Holocaust
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Standard Oil Fuels World War II (Rockeffeler)
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_04.htm
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1549381614128077376
Let´s continue with what is going on nowdays:
Problem – Reaction – Solution:
How the Financial Crisis Was Built Into the System
http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/richricher/124339

IT’S THE DERIVATIVES, STUPID!
WHY FANNIE, FREDDIE AND AIG ALL HAD TO BE BAILED OUT
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/its_the_derivatives.php
Understanding How Glass-Steagall Act Impacts Investment Banking and the Role of Commercial Banks
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/SPECIALREPORTS/GlassSteagall.html

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The Glass-Steagall Act has remained one of the pillars of banking law since its passage in 1933 by erecting a wall between commercial banking and investment banking. In effect, the law keeps banks from doing business on Wall Street, and vice versa. In actuality, there are two Glass Steagall measures. The first was the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932, a bookkeeping provision that allowed the Treasury to balance its account. And what is commonly known today as the Glass-Steagall law is actually the Bank Act of 1933, containing the provision erecting a wall between the banking and securities businesses. It also laid the groundwork for legislation that would allow the Federal Reserve to let banks into the securities business in a limited way.

Guess what?? it was removed by Clinton in the year 1999 with the Financial Services Modernization Act (FSMA), and Bush didn´t do anything about it, and Obama is doing the same shit; they created the problem to impose their World Government as the "unique solution"
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Some Council on Foreign Relations Members :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations#Notable_historical_members
David Rockefeller
Alan Greenspan
George H. W. Bush
George Soros
Dick Cheney
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Henry Kissinger
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Allen Greenspan when asked about the relationship of The Federal Reserve and the President
Min. 7:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QkmLnNEvdU

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-Lehrer: What is the proper relationship, what should be the proper relationship, between the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and a President of the United States?
-Greenspan: Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means basically that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place, and there is no evidence that the Administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don’t frankly matter.

Greenspan was CEO of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, and he allowed the derivatives in the market and never regulated them. He always said, "it does good to the market"; he always knew that the derivates are really toxic, but the idea always was to destroy the economy, what are you looking now
Mr. Greenspan: a Proponent for Derivatives
http://www.usagold.com/greenspanderivatives.html
Global Derivatives Market now valued at $1.14 Quadrillion! (June 24 2008)
http://blog.goldassets.co.uk/2008/06/24/global-derivatives-market-now-valued-at-114-quadrillion/

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The Bank of International Settlements, which seems to be the only institution that tracks the derivatives market, has recently reported that global outstanding derivatives have reached 1.14 quadrillion dollars: $548 Trillion in listed credit derivatives plus $596 trillion in notional/OTC derivatives.
Yes, that is Quadrillion. One and 15 zeroes!

http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/us_derivatives_chart.jpg?w=520&h=299

Are you ready for the CHAOS that they have prepared for us, so then they can impose a Global Government saying that is "the unique solution"? (Problem – Reaction – Solution / Order out of Chaos)
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Nice 2 quotes:

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David Rockefeller speaking at the UN, Sept. 14, 1994. 109.
“This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

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President H. W. Bush addressing Congress, September 11, 1990.
Former President Bush echoed that assurance. “Out of these troubled times… a new world order can emerge,”

Let´s continue:
‘Gold Cartel suppressing, manipulating gold price’ | 09 December 2008 |
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Gold-Cartel-suppressing-manipulating-gold-price-13224-3-1.html

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The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee’s basic assertion for the past 9 ½ years is that there is a Gold Cartel out there suppressing the price of gold. It consists of the US Government, including the Fed and Treasury, various other central banks, and bullion banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.

Professor: Gold Price Manipulated – Free Market News Network
http://freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=57228&fb=1
Bailouts Will Push US into Depression
http://www.cnbc.com/id/26656750/site/14081545/
US Inflation Could Hit 200%: Dr. Doom
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29047443
Bailout bill includes Hidden Carbon Tax Provisions
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200810022109/energy-and-environment/bailout-bill-includes-hidden-carbon-tax-provisions.html
The Great Global Warming Swindle – documentary
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=288952680655100870&ei=N3HlSYHUHoH4-wHuvcTPBg&q=The+Great+Global+Warming+Swindle&dur=3
Former astronaut speaks out on global warming – BostonHerald.com
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view/2009_02_15_Former_astronaut_speaks_out_on_global_warming/srvc=home&position=recent-

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Associated Press- Former N.M. Senator and Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, “…global warming scare is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives…”

U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510937,00.html

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A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.

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The New World Order on CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight
President Obama and Gordon Brown: We need a new world order, world government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0sfseHsqT4
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About the last G-20 meeting:
Hannity, Morris Agree with Conspiracy People About New World Order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wH5YqsuZiw
Gordon Brown announces New World Order on G20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn9BvUiHtuU
The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5096524/The-G20-moves-the-world-a-step-closer-to-a-global-currency.html

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The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity.
A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.
"We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity," it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century.
In effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF’s power to create money and begin global "quantitative easing". In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body.

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MUST WATCH:
The orchestrated financial crisis and new world order explained in a very easy way:
(1) Salbuchi – Global Financial Collapse – Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDNMB6wYmI&feature=PlayList&p=D413EAAC312AF31A&index=0
(2) Salbuchi – Global Financial Collapse – Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ddURofMWs&feature=PlayList&p=D413EAAC312AF31A&index=1

(3) Salbuchi – Will It Be World Government? – Part 1: Private Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEp1D5hAGO8&feature=PlayList&p=D413EAAC312AF31A&index=2
(4) Salbuchi – Will It Be World Government? – Part 2: "Orchestration"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4pDIwMukA8&feature=PlayList&p=D413EAAC312AF31A&index=3
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How propaganda and the mass media works:

http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/ok_dees.jpg?w=488&h=435
EDWARD L. BERNAYS – PROPAGANDA
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/propaganda_bernays.pdf

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CHAPTER I
ORGANIZING CHAOS
THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the
organized habits and opinions of the masses is an
important element in democratic society. Those who
manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute
an invisible government which is the true ruling
power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our
tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men
we have never heard of. This is a logical result of
the way in which our democratic society is organized.
Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in
this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly
functioning society.
Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware
of the identity of their fellow members in the
inner cabinet.
They govern us by their qualities of natural leadership,
their ability to supply needed ideas and by their
key position in the social structure. Whatever attitude
one chooses to take toward this condition, it
remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily
lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business,
in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are
dominated by the relatively small number of persons—
a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty
million—who understand the mental processes and
social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the
wires which control the public mind, who harness old
social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide
the world.

Watch TV!:
Your Brain Waves Change When You Watch TV -Low Alpha Waves Can Lead to "Mind Fog"
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/247802/your_brain_waves_change_when_you_watch.html?cat=5

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Alpha waves are brainwaves between 8 to 12 HZ. and are commonly associated with relaxed meditative states as well as brain states associated with suggestibility.
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In an experiment in 1969, Herbert Krugman monitored a person through many trials and found that in less than one minute of television viewing, the person’s brainwaves switched from Beta waves– brainwaves associated with active, logical thought– to primarily Alpha waves. When the subject stopped watching television and began reading a magazine, the brainwaves reverted to Beta waves.

PASSIVE LEARNING FROM TELEVISION
HERBERT E. KRUGMAN and EUGENE L. HARTLEY
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/2/184

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Learning is generally conceived as active and purposive behavior, involving motivation, practice, achievement. Here, the authors focus on "passive" learning, on what is "caught" rather than "taught," and on the processes by which such learning may take place. Passive learning is typically effortless, responsive to animated stimuli, amenable to artificial aid to relaxation, and characterized by an absence of resistance to what is learned, thus opening up possibilities that, depending on one’s point of view, one may welcome or deplore.

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BELIEVE ALL WHAT YOUR GOVERNMENT SAYS!:
LOOSE CHANGE (9/11 TRUTH) – documentary
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-3719259008768610598&ei=hl_mScv-LI6YrQLVopGyBQ&q=LOOSE+CHANGE&dur=3
A danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust ( english subtitles )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_tf25lx_3o
BBC Reports Collapse of WTC Building 7 Early– TWICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxFRigYD3s&NR=1
Larry Silverstein admits to having demolished wtc building 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2q2mD2HaKA&feature=related
See: http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/evid-cards_x.jpg
TERRORSTORM – documentary
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-8136133221213939183&ei=Y1_mSey5H4_-qwLRlLyoBQ&q=terrorstorm
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Take your fluoridated water!

http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/water1.jpg?w=400&h=423
fluoridated water and your health:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/
Effect of high-fluoride water on intelligence in children.
Lu Y, Sun ZR, Wu LN, Wang X, Lu W, Liu SS.
Fluoride 2000; 33:74-8.
http://www.fluoride-journal.com/00-33-2/332-74.pdf

http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tablaiq.jpg?w=500&h=210
GERMANS & RUSSIANS USED FLUORIDE TO MAKE PRISONERS ‘STUPID & DOCILE
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd102.htm

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“Mr. Dickinson reveals that, “At the end of the Second World War, the United States Government sent Charles Elliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farven chemical plants in Germany. While there, he was told by German chemists of a scheme which had been worked out by them during the war and adopted by the German General Staff. This scheme was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water. In this scheme, sodium fluoride will in time reduce an individual’s power to resist domination by slowly poisoning and narcotising a certain area of the brain, and will thus make him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him. Both the Germans and the Russians added fluoride to the drinking water of prisoners of war to make them stupid and docile.”

http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=19990817225011

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DR. JAN DE VRIES, Dr. H.Med., Ph.D., D.Ac., D.O., N.D. “I was very shocked that you poor people in Toronto have to drink this water. We have had a tremendous fight in Holland, which we won. This fluoride water is a chemical soft-working tranquilizer. Hitler put fluoride in the water to keep his prisoners quiet, and the same thing happens in other parts of the world. If I put a homeopathic remedy in this water, the remedy is destroyed. If you can work at getting this out of your water in any way at all, I would be very happy.”

Don´t drink Tea!, i used to drink it until i found this: (now i can think better )
http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/fluoride.html

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TEA
In their drive to fluoridate the public water supplies, dental health officials continue to pretend that no other sources of fluoride exist. This notion becomes absurd when one looks at the fluoride content in tea. Tea is very high in fluoride because tea leaves accumulate more fluoride (from pollution of soil and air) than any other edible plant.49,50,51 It is well established that fluoride in tea gets absorbed by the body in a manner similar to the fluoride in drinking water.49,52
Fluoride content in tea has risen dramatically over the last 20 years due to industry contamination. Recent analyses have revealed a fluoride content of 17.25 mg per teabag or cup in black tea, and a whopping 22 mg of soluble fluoride ions per teabag or cup in green tea. Aluminum content was also high–over 8 mg. Normal steeping time is five minutes. The longer a tea bag steeped, the more fluoride and aluminum were released. After ten minutes, the measurable amounts of fluoride and aluminum almost doubled.53
A website by a pro-fluoridation infant medical group states that a cup of black tea contains 7.8 mgs of fluoride54 which is the equivalent amount of fluoride from 7.8 litres of water in an area fluoridated at 1ppm. Some British and African studies from the 1990s showed a daily fluoride intake of between 5.8 mgs and 9 mgs a day from tea alone.55, 56, 57 Tea has been found to be a primary cause of dental fluorosis in many international studies.58-70
In Britain, over three-quarters of the population over the age of ten years consumes three cups of tea per day.71Yet the UK government and the British Dental Association are currently contemplating fluoridation of public water supplies! In Ireland, average tea consumption is four cups per day and the drinking water is heavily fluoridated.
Next to water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Tea can be found in almost 80 percent of all US households and on any given day, nearly 127 million people–half of all Americans–drink tea.71
The high content of both aluminum and fluoride in tea is cause for great concern as aluminum greatly potentiates fluoride’s effects on G protein activation,72 the on/off switches involved in cell communication and of absolute necessity in thyroid hormone function and regulation.

enter to the website for the references
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Take your vaccines!!

http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/vacunacion5b35d.jpg?w=318&h=320
Vaccination – The Hidden Truth – documentary
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-4032071156806560888&ei=7V_mSfn1LYbWqAKV-OWGBQ&q=VACCINES+TRUTH&dur=3
Hair mercury in breast-fed infants exposed to thimerosal-preserved vaccines
http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/l878274257350570/
Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas
http://www.safeminds.org/research/library/Palmer-et-al-Texas-Autism-Mercury-Link.pdf
Hidden CDC Data Confirms Vaccine-Autism Link
http://nhillman.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/12/1566555-hidden-cdc-data-confirms-vaccine-autism-link
The next is from:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=64372.0
So, let’s look at what Mercury does to a person’s brain, since it’s in the vaccines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImCpWzXJ_w
There are three things in this video you have to remember:
1: This quote: "In 1997 a team of research scientists demosntrated that mercury vapor inhalation by animals produced a molecular lesion in brain protein metabolism produced a lesion that is seen in 80% of Alzheimer’s diseased brains.
2: The Neurofibrillary tangles shown.
3: The free Amyloid beta, that is caused by the Mercury.
Why, because the first shows evidence that Mercury causes Alzheimer’s and after reading the other two, you will understand the main symptoms in Alzheimer’s:

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http://alzheimers.about.com/od/caregivers/a/alz_brain.htm
The two major findings in the Alzheimer’s brain are amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Amyloid plaques are found outside the neurons, neurofibrillary plaques are found inside the neurons. Neurons are the nerve cells within the brain.
Plaques and tangles are found in the brains of people without Alzheimer’s. It is the gross amounts of them that are significant in Alzheimer’s disease.
The role of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s
Amyloid plaques are mostly made up of a protein called B-amyloid protein which is itself part of a much larger protein called APP (amyloid precursor protein). These are amino acids.
We do not know what APP does. But we do know that APP is made in the cell, transported to the cell membrane and later broken down. Two major pathways are involved in breakdown of APP (amyloid precursor protein). One pathway is normal and causes no problem. The second results in the changes seen in Alzheimer’s and in some of the other dementias.

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The truth behind vaccines, Websites:
http://vaclib.org/
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html
http://www.vaccination.inoz.com/
http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/
http://www.thinktwice.com/
http://www.vran.org/
http://www.nvic.org
Spanish website:
http://www.librevacunacion.com.ar/
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Cellphones And Cellphones Tower

http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tumor_dees.jpg?w=400&h=355
3 Studies:
(1)
http://www.vws.org/documents/11GermanreportInfluencemastcancer.pdf
The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone
Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer
(2)
http://www.duisburg.de/vv/31/medien/netanya-e.pdf
INCREASED INCIDENCE OF CANCER NEAR A CELL-PHONE TRANSMITTER STATION.
(3)
http://www.vws.org/documents/Austrianstudy.pdf
Environmental Epidemiological Study
of Cancer Incidence in the Municipalities of
Hausmannstätten & Vasoldsberg (Austria)
and cellphones:
More young people at risk of getting brain cancer
http://www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20080819-83040.html
Brain tumours: the silent killer
http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=112098

http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/cancer0123.jpg?w=405&h=582
A lot of info:
http://www.microwavenews.com/news/backissues/j-f97issue.pdf
And a nice website:
http://mast-victims.org/
There are alotta humans, is hardest to control them, lets kill some!:
Population Reduction – Eugenics:
Steven Kotler, member of the Council on Foreign Relations:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/erin-brown/2009/02/09/psychology-today-blog-ban-having-children-5-years

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A bestselling author has called octuplets-mother Nadya Sulamen a ‘murderer’ and warns of overpopulation saying, "we need to lose 4.4 billion people."
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You think the economy is bad now – wait a few years,” Kotler said. “Wait until we’re almost completely out of oil and food and water and available land … we need to lose 4.4 billion people and we need to lose them fast.”

Rockefeller About Population Reduction – UN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un-N_HLQMwY
History Channel Admits Rockefeller Population Control Agenda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XrGINLd_r8&feature=PlayList&p=8FD639C53E6E3968&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=9
Eugenics Quotes: From lofty ideals to highly-centralized population control run by psychopathic maniacs
http://jonesreport.com/article/09_08/05eugenics.html From this website:

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“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it.”
– Jacques Cousteau, 1991 UNESCO courier

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“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing… War… has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full… The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s… There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority…”
– Bertrand Russell, THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON SOCIETY 1953

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“And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”
– The Project for a New American Century, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, p. 60

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What is in the mind of the "elite" / "Illuminatis":
The Kabbalah
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=59769.0

DARK SECRETS: INSIDE BOHEMIAN GROVE – documentary
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-82095917705734983
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Zionism is not Judaism:

http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/end-of-zionism.jpg?w=301&h=450
The Non-Jewish Origin of Zionism
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/mouldmey/The%20Non-Jewish%20Origin%20of%20Zionism.PDF
"Because We Are Jews"
Rabbi Mordechi Weberman
http://www.arabnews.com/?elpage=7&section=0&article=28392&d=5&m=7&y=2003

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There are those who ask us why we march with the Palestinians. Why do we raise the Palestinian flag? Why do we support the Palestinian cause?
“You are Jews!” they tell us. "What are you doing?"
And our response is very simple:
It is precisely because we are Jews that we march with that we march with the Palestinians and raise their flag!
It is precisely because we are Jews that we are Jews that we demand that the Palestinian peoples be returned to their homes and properties!
Yes, in our Torah we are commanded to be fair. We are called upon to pursue justice. And, what could be more unjust then the century old attempt of the Zionist movement to invade an other people’s land, to drive them out and steal their property?
The early Zionists proclaimed that they were a people without a land going to a land without a people.
Innocent sounding words.
But utterly and totally untrue.
Palestine was a land with a people. A people that were developing a national consciousness.
We have no doubt that would Jewish refugees, have come to Palestine not with the intention of dominating, not with the intention of making a Jewish state, not with the intention of dispossessing, not with the intention of depriving the Palestinians of their basic rights, that they would have been welcomed by the Palestinians, with the same hospitality that Islamic peoples have shown Jews throughout history. And we would have lived together as Jews and Muslims lived before in Palestine in peace and harmony.
To our Islamic and Palestinian friends around the world, please hear our message —
There are Jews around the world who support your cause. And when we support your cause we do not mean some partition scheme proposed in 1947 by a UN that had no right to offer it.
When we say support your cause we do not mean the cut off and cut up pieces of the West Bank offered by Barak at Camp David together with justice for less than 10 % of the refugees.
We do not mean anything other than returning the entire land, including to Jerusalem to Palestinian sovereignty!
At that point justice demands that the Palestinian people should decide if and how many Jews should remain in the Land.
This is the only path to true reconciliation.
But we demand yet more. WE demand that in returning the land back to its rightful owners we have not yet done enough. There should be an apology to the Palestinian people which is clear and precise. Zionism did you wrong. Zionism stole your homes. Zionism stole your land.
(…)

Who are the Shministim?
http://december18th.org/about/

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hministim means “twelfth-graders” in Hebrew. Military service is mandatory after high school for young Jewish Israelis. The Shministim are Israeli youth who refuse to serve in the army because it enforces Israel’s 40-year occupation of the Palestinians.
While a number of Shministim letters have been written in the past (read about the first letter sent to Prime Minister Golda Meir here ), about one hundred youth have signed the current 2008 Shministim letter which articulates the basis for refusal.
Because of their principled refusal to serve in an occupying army, youth who sign the letter face jail terms in Israeli military prisons. Terms range from 21 to 28 days; those who refuse to wear a military uniform while in jail are sent to solitary confinement for the duration of their term.
After completing their sentence, they are then drafted again and if they refuse a second time, as most do, they face the same sentence. This can be a repeated process in which Shministim return home for a few days or longer and are then drafted and then imprisoned. Even through they refuse to serve, they still in a sense ‘belong’ to the military until they receive their discharge papers. A Shministi may never receive these papers, and although the Israeli military may tire of re-calling objectors into prison regularly, without these papers, an objector’s fate is always uncertain. There is literally no end to the number of times youth might be sent back to jail.

–> Shministim blog in hebrew: http://shministim.blogli.co.il/
Israeli Soldiers Refuse To Serve In Palestine: Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA2PsnNGGl0

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Israeli Soldiers Refuse To Serve In Palestine: Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqqNZ…
Up to date list of Refuseniks:
http://oznik.com/news/021225.html
List of Refusenik signers (Hebrew Only):
http://oznik.com/h/combined_list.html
In May of 2002 CBS interviewed Israeli Soldiers who conscientiously refused to serve in the occupied/stolen land in Palestine. They drafted a letter to explain their grievances.
January 2002, a group of Israeli reserve officers and combat soldiers returned from their duty in the Gaza strip, and drafted a letter that would change they way Israelis conceive the military control of the occupied territories. This document came to be known as the Combatant’s Letter:
* We, reserve combat officers and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, who were raised upon the principles of Zionism, self-sacrifice and giving to the people of Israel and to the State of Israel, who have always served in the front lines, and who were the first to carry out any mission in order to protect the State of Israel and strengthen it.
* We, combat officers and soldiers who have served the State of Israel for long weeks every year, in spite of the dear cost to our personal lives, have been on reserve duty in the Occupied Territories, and were issued commands and directives that had nothing to do with the security of our country, and that had the sole purpose of perpetuating our control over the Palestinian people.
* We, whose eyes have seen the bloody toll this Occupation exacts from both sides,
* We, who sensed how the commands issued to us in the Occupied Territories destroy all the values that we were raised upon,
* We, who understand now that the price of Occupation is the loss of IDF’s human character and the corruption of the entire Israeli society,
* We, who know that the Territories are not a part of Israel, and that all settlements are bound to be evacuated,
* We hereby declare that we shall not continue to fight this War of the Settlements.
* We shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people.
* We hereby declare that we shall continue serving the Israel Defense Force in any mission that serves Israel’s defense.
The missions of occupation and oppression do not serve this purpose — and we shall take no part in them.

Anti-zionism websites made by Jews:
http://www.israelversusjudaism.org/index.cfm
http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
http://www.ijsn.net/home/
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GMO food:


http://skyfind.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/monshop_dees.jpg?w=500&h=444
The world according to monsanto – documentary
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B8DC51B28C789BB2
Genetically modified maize lowers fertility in mice, study finds
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/241141,genetically-modified-maize-lowers-fertility-in-mice-study-finds.html
Codex alimentarius
GMO food+aspartame+sucralose and No vitamins, for all the world; sponsored by Monsanto and the New world order that loves you
The truth behind Codex Alimentarius, info main page:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=155
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Cannabis, the real medicine:
Large Study Finds No Link between Marijuana and Lung Cancer
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0002491F-755F-1473-B55F83414B7F0000
Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729_pf.html

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The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."

Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic. “A connection between marijuana smoking and lung or colorectal cancer was not observed”
http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/2/1/21

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More people are using the cannabis plant as modern basic and clinical science reaffirms and extends its medicinal uses. Concomitantly, concern and opposition to smoked medicine has occurred, in part due to the known carcinogenic consequences of smoking tobacco. Are these reactions justified? While chemically very similar, there are fundamental differences in the pharmacological properties between cannabis and tobacco smoke. Cannabis smoke contains cannabinoids whereas tobacco smoke contains nicotine.
Furthermore, compounds found in cannabis have been shown to kill numerous cancer types including: lung cancer [9], breast and prostate [10], leukemia and lymphoma [11], glioma [12], skin cancer [13], and pheochromocytoma [14]
Por otra parte, compuestos que se encuentran en el cannabis se ha demostrado matar a numerosos tipos de cáncer, incluyendo: cáncer de pulmón [9], de mama y de próstata [10], la leucemia y el linfoma [11], glioma [12], cáncer de piel [13], y, feocromocitoma [ 14]
References:
[9]
Munson AE, Harris LS, Friedman MA, Dewey WL, Carchman RA: Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids.
J Natl Cancer Inst 1975, 55:597-602. PubMed Abstract
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Sanchez C, de Ceballos ML, del Pulgar TG, Rueda D, Corbacho C, Velasco G, Galve-Roperh I, Huffman JW, Ramon y, Cajal S, Guzman M: Inhibition of glioma growth in vivo by selective activation of the CB(2) cannabinoid receptor.
Cancer Res 2001, 61:5784-5789. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text
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McKallip RJ, Lombard C, Fisher M, Martin BR, Ryu S, Grant S, Nagarkatti PS, Nagarkatti M: Targeting CB2 cannabinoid receptors as a novel therapy to treat malignant lymphoblastic disease. Blood 2002, 100:627-634. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text
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Sanchez C, Galve-Roperh I, Canova C, Brachet P, Guzman M: Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol induces apoptosis in C6 glioma cells. FEBS Lett 1998, 436:6-10. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text
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Casanova ML, Blazquez C, Martinez-Palacio J, Villanueva C, Fernandez-Acenero MJ, Huffman JW, Jorcano JL, Guzman M: Inhibition of skin tumor growth and angiogenesis in vivo by activation of cannabinoid receptors. J Clin Invest 2003, 111:43-50. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text | PubMed Central Full Text
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Sarker KP, Obara S, Nakata M, Kitajima I, Maruyama I: Anandamide induces apoptosis of PC-12 cells: involvement of superoxide and caspase-3. FEBS Lett 2000, 472:39-44. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text

A preliminary DTI study showing no brain structural change associated with adolescent cannabis use
http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/3/1/17/lIDABD3EJ

Cannabis less harmful than drinking, smoking: report
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jRGC7NMbpXzbOEjhCCYVQ3my6e_w
Heavy Marijuana Use Doesn’t Damage Brain
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051015/fob7.asp

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“He and his colleagues started investigating this mystery by searching cell surfaces in live, cultured slices of rat hippocampus for receptors that respond to marijuana and a few other similar drugs, called cannabinoids. They reasoned that if marijuana affected neurogenesis in the hippocampus, then cells in that area must have a way to recognize the drug. Sure enough, 95 percent of hippocampus cells responsible for neurogenesis showed evidence of cannabinoid 1 (CB1) receptors, one of two receptors that respond to cannabinoid drugs

CB1 and CB2 receptors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_receptor

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A study done on CB1 knockout mice (genetically altered mice who cannot produce CB1) showed an increase in mortality rate. They also displayed suppressed locomotor activity as well as hypoalgesa (decreased pain sensitivity). The CB1 knockout mice did respond to Delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol. This shows that either CB2 or unknown cannabinoid receptors also have pharmacologic significance

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CB2 receptors are mainly expressed on T cells of the immune system, on macrophages and B cells, and in hematopoietic cells. They also have a function in keratinocytes, and are expressed on mouse pre-implantation embryos. It is also expressed on peripheral nerve terminals. Current research suggests that these receptors play a role in nociception, or the perception of pain. In the brain, they are mainly expressed by microglial cells, where their role remains unclear.

—> Using cannabis you stimulates this cannabinoids receptors
Heart study finds benefit from pot
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/sections/news/focus_health/article_471358.php
Marijuana Chemical Fights Hardened Arteries
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050406/marijuana-chemical-fights-hardened-arteries
Marijuana can prevent blindness in Glaucoma patients.
http://www.preventblindness.org/resources/factsheets/MarijuanaFS01.PDF
Marijuana’s Active Ingredient Targets Deadly Brain Cancer
http://www.webmd.com/news/20000228/marijuanas-active-ingredient-targets-deadly-brain-cancer
Cannabidiol Prevents Cerebral Infarction Via a Serotonergic 5-Hydroxytryptamine1A Receptor–Dependent Mechanism
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/5/1071
Cannabidiol and (−)Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol are neuroprotective antioxidants
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/95/14/8268
Neuroprotection by Delta 9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, the Main Active Compound in Marijuana, against Ouabain-Induced In Vivo Excitotoxicity
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/21/17/6475
Post-ischemic treatment with cannabidiol prevents electroencephalographic flattening, hyperlocomotion and neuronal injury in gerbils.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12850548&dopt=Citation
Cannabinoids and neuroprotection in CNS inflammatory disease
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T06-4G5BJYG-2&_coverDate=06%2F15%2F2005&_alid=365635784&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=4854&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=eee6183b504cfe0f9ecd713e4c6bf29b
Cannabinoids inhibit neurodegeneration in models of multiple sclerosis
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/126/10/2191

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: delayed disease progression in mice by treatment with a cannabinoid
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis.htm
Decreased Depression In Cannabis Users, Study Says
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6586
Cannabis also protects mice against brain cell death caused by alcohol.
http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/2/780?maxtoshow=&HITS=&hits=&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabidiol%2Bantioxidants%2Bdiuretics%2Bneurotoxicity&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
—> Now you know why cannabis is illegal meanwhile vaccines, fluoridated water, GMO food, and more, is legal?
—> You don´t need to smoke cannabis, you can eat it, as oil:
how i make my canna oil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HZh_k_nkZ0&feature=related
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About the year 2012:
The date 21 december of the 2012 is the end of the actual mayan calendar, wich lenght 26000 years. Of course, this is not the end of the world, or that aliens will come, or somethig like that. Another cycle will begin, and the life will continue. We must not forget, that cultures like the mayans based their astronomy in the cycles of the universe/nature, and when this cycle ends in the year 2012, it doesn´t mean that…. phuf! magically all your problems will disappear and you will be in a "world of life"… IT COMES FROM YOU THE DECISIONS, THE PATH THAT YOU TAKE, AND IMPROVE YOUR LIFE! By this date may be already we have a Global Government, and using this date, the elite, the illuminatis, will make you think that this date means that everything in the world is GOOD AND YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT IT, but don´t get fooled, as i said, it comes from you the path that you take: The New world order path, or the other path that you have to discover
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the forum.prisonplanet.com user jofortruth has made a complete guide, with all the info and documents, about the last Alex Jones documentary, The obama deception,http://www.scribd.com/doc/13404412/The-Obama-Deception-Guide
jofortruth also has made another helpful guide that may help you:
The New World Order
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14132594/The-New-World-Order-The-Great-Deception
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United Nations’ Local Agenda 21 (LA-21) & Communitarian Development Programme

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by Niki Raapana, revised August 21, 2006
Table of Contents
Welcome to the supranational system
For visitors coming from outside the U.S.
1. How U.N. Agenda 21 is directly tied to the U.S.
2. How non-U.N. afilliated American researchers see Local Agenda 21
3. How the U.N. Agenda 21 ties to the War on Terror
4. How U.N. Agenda 21 blends communism
5. Imperial Great Britains’ influence on Agenda 21
6. How Agenda 21 incorporates global Community Policing
7. How Agenda 21 ties to data gathering
8. Here’s a sampling of “spontaneous” local sustainable development movements around the world
9. Here’s how U.N. Agenda 21 promotes elitist eco-tourism
10. Here’s how Agenda 21 ties to the Peace Movement
11. Here’s how Local Agenda 21 ties to our health
12. Here’s some holistic organizations that work for U.N. Local Agenda 21 objectives, but pretend they work for the “planet”
13. Here’s how Agenda 21 ties to feminism
Recent Updates/Additions
Welcome to the supranational system

“The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.” (“Europe, A Beautiful Idea” by Amitai Etzioni, September 2004 conference at the Hague)

The communitarian plan for reinventing a global government was adopted by the UN in 1992 at the Earth Summit. There were no public votes cast for or against it in any of the affected “free” nations. Average citizens were not consulted. In most free and democratic countries, the nation’s taxpayers (who pay for it) were never even told about it. The major media outlets were mostly silent while for thirteen years, the UN’s LA-21 laws have been imposed on all 166 member nations.
There were no big discussions of its purpose or ultimate consequences. It just slid into law. It’s really pretty amazing. No major editorials, no explanation of how it would be imposed, it was barely announced by the national governments who endorsed it. Only a few enlightened locals understand LA-21 requires a total reorganization of government systems. It eliminates individual rights in the free countries. National systems of political economy are subserviant to LA-21 laws.
The plans are generally thought of as a “good thing.” So few people bother to read their new vision for community, even if they know there’s a plan. Why should they? It’s presented by experts, and none of us common folks are experts, are we? Besides, really nice people promote it as a just, scientific, holistic, grass-roots, non-threatening way of cleaning up the world and making it a friendlier place. The barriers are outdated national governments and the millions of selfish people who cling to the idea of local rule. The entire world must be merged into a communitarian system. Because so many resist, it’s best if only a few know about it until the integration process is complete.

“One must act ‘as if’ in Europe: as if one wanted only very few things, in order to obtain a great deal. As if nations were to remain sovereign, in order to convince them to surrender their sovereignty. The Commission in Brussels, for example, must act as if it were a technical organism, in order to operate like a government … and so on, camouflaging and toning down. The sovereignty lost at national level does not pass to any new subject. It is entrusted to a faceless entity: NATO, the UN and eventually the EU. The Union is the vanguard of this changing world:it indicates a future of Princes without sovereignty. The new entity is faceless and those who are in command can neither be pinned down nor elected … That is the way Europe was made too: by creating communitarian organisms without giving the organisms presided over by national governments the impression that they were being subjected to a higher power. That is how the Court of Justice as a supra-national organ was born. It was a sort of unseen atom bomb, which Schuman and Monnet slipped into the negotiations on the Coal and Steel Community. That was what the ‘CSC’ itself was: a random mixture of national egotisms which became communitarian. I don’t think it is a good idea to replace this slow and effective method – which keeps national States free from anxiety while they are being stripped of power – with great institutional leaps – Therefore I prefer to go slowly, to crumble pieces of sovereignty up litle by little, avoiding brusque transitions from national to federal power. That is the way I think we will have to build Europe’s common policies…” – Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato, later Vice-President of the EU Constitutional Convention, interview with Barbara Spinelli, La Stampa, 13 July 2000. Posted in a great list of quotes compiled by Free Europe.org.

UN Local Agenda 21 is the foundation for the international sustainable development movement, a “great institutional leap.”
The official purpose for sustainable development was defined by the United Nations. Today this is the exact same definition used by all U.S. government agencies.
These are their primary official sites:
United Nation’s Local Agenda 21 homepage
The History of the U.N.
U.N. Facts.
Agenda 21: Number of formally committed municipalities from Earthtrends in 2001.
Be sure to visit: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). “ICLEI’s mission is to build and serve a worldwide movement of local governments to achieve tangible improvements in global environmental and sustainable development conditions through cumulative local actions.”
Here’s an example of LA-21 corporate government structure in english (Finland’s):

Here’s why the ACL includes UN Local Agenda 21 in its research topics:

Communitarianism is the political theory that supports LA-21 redevelopment. We are anti-communitarians, which means we oppose the dialectical ideology that insists the globalists hold the power to rebuild the world into one imperial community under supreme COMMUNITARIAN LAW.

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Coming here from outside the U.S.?
If you are coming here from outside the United States, please know that we are openly opposed to communitarian laws and plans. This site does not support eliminating nations in order to form a one world community government.
Many nations, from Cuba to Romania to Ecuador to New Zealand, have established communitarian development integral programs like the Ministerio de Energia y Minas. There are hundreds of international communitarian development volunteer programs (for well-to-do Western whites), and communitarian development schools are rapidly popping up all over the world, like the Waikato Management School- A Model for Communitarian Approach to Accountability for Sustainable Development There are even Communitarian development consultants. It appears the ONLY place in the world where it is not openly identified as “communitarian development” is in the United States where communitarian anything is in direct violation of constitutional law. Communitarian development is often disguised as global giving. The oldest professional “givers” are in the UK and across the “former” British Empire. It’s always taught as An Emancipatory Communitarian Approach to Vocational Development Theory, Research, and Practice. For Western defined “third world economies,” communitarian development signals the final death blow to poor, indigenous people. The United Nations Organisation pour la promotion et l’épanouissement de la femme nigérienne “Rayouwan Mata” is a false front for global slavery and minority oppression. It uses inequality and famine to promote Western Zionist Communitarian Development “principles.”
Many nationals come here after searching for specific country’s Local Agenda 21 Plans. If you agree with us, or if there is any organized local resistance in your country against your Plan, we’d like to know. From the number of visitors lately, it appears this powerful and important legal document is finally getting the national attention it deserves. Every country in the world has a Local Agenda 21 blueprint, even though many remain unfinished. We link to several of them here if you cannot find yours online. We appreciate links to opposition sites from anywhere in the world. It’s not only our country that will disappear under this plan. Iraq had one before Operation Freedom, and hardly any of their plan was filled in. This really is the plan for a global government. The entire world is at risk.

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I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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1. How U.N. Agenda 21 is directly tied to the U.S.:
The U.S. system of government is designed to protect and maintain individual rights: “All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights.”(Article One, Section One, Washington State Constitution http://www.courts.wa.gov/education/constitution/index). LA-21 modifies legitimate national laws, programs, and policies that conflict with the plan.
Individual rights lose against community rights, five to four — Homes may be ‘taken’ for private projects. Justices: Local governments can give OK if it’s for public good by The Associated Press, June 23, 2005, at msnbc.msn.com. “WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses – even against their will – for private economic development.
It’s impossible to negate the fact that there IS an organized plan for a global government. Local Agenda 21 is the blueprint for world government, and it’s already being implemented across the globe. Just because most Americans have never heard of it doesn’t mean it isn’t real. It really doesn’t get any more real than this.
All new communitarian laws that eliminate rights guaranteed by national constitutions are inside this international blueprint for rebuilding subserviant local political structures. Many of these spontaneous, grass-roots “visions” for rebuilding community plans are identical. And, none of them happened by “accident.”
After the ACL found Agenda 21 in 2000, we asked everyone in Seattle government if the Roosevelt Neighborhood Plan was a UN Local Agenda 21 Plan. They all assured us they had no idea what we were talking about. Former Bellevue Councilmember Nancy Rising, (who was an enormous assistance in our quest for answers) took the ACL to visit several Seattle Councilmembers, including Seattle City Councilmember Margaret Pageler. Today Pageler’s website openly states: “The City of Seattle works for sustainable development at the local and regional level, in a program that parallels Local Agenda 21. The City Council endorsed the Earth Charter in a 2002 resolution.”
The Communitarians came to the United States to “shore up the moral, social and political environment.”
Earth Charter USA, OUR NEW MORAL AND LEGAL CODE.
United States of America’s United Nations’ Local Agenda 21 Plan
US Municipalities Undertaking Sustainability Initiatives– LA21 Initiatives
NCSD Sustainable Development Report.
Local Agenda 21 in the United States: Municipal Sustainability Efforts: Status Report.
A Sustainable Community within a seven mile radius of the City of Pacific, MO at pacificring.net.
Statement by Herbert Traub, United States Adviser, on Item 87(a): Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Program for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, Before the Fifty-seventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in the Second Committee, November 14, 2002
PDF file: US Mission to United Nations Press Release on November 26, 2002 posted by World Wide Volunteer Web.
United States Mission to the United Nations, USUN PRESS RELEASE # 197 (02),
THE U.S. COMMITMENT TO AGENDA 21: CHAPTER 11 COMBATING DEFORESTATION – THE ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT APPROACH, by SUSAN BUCKNUM, Cited: 8 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol’y F. 305, Duke Law Journals.
Joint Center for Sustainable Communities, U.S. Mayors
Not only has the U.S. government totally reinvented itself (and eliminated required checks and balances between branches of government under another communitarian creation called Homeland Security), but almost every state in the U.S. has implemented LA-21 set-up organizations. Most are doing it very quietly, but a few are bragging about doing it. An Earth Charter and Agenda 21 for Iowa posted by University of Iowa is not a “conspiracy theory.”
Living Lakes and Agenda 21 freely calls it a UN plan, whereas Anchorage 2020 does not. (See Anchorage’s Code Compliance Photo Gallery.)
Samples of USA-UN Local Agenda 21 community development news:
Anger Meets New Orleans Renewal Plan By GARY RIVLIN, New York Times, January 12, 2006.
Big Dreams for the Big Easy– What New Orleans could look like the second time around By Timothy Lange, 15 Sep 2005.
Here’s Agenda 21 and Hurricane Katrina in German. (Here’s a Partial english translation.)
Community-Based Economics – Synthesis/Regeneration 21 by Steve Welzer, Green Party of New Jersey, Winter 2000
“Without further ado, let the Business Action begin!”
“Paris, 3 May 2005 — These were the words of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development 13 (UNCSD 13) Chair, John Ashe, when he opened the Business Action event, at the high-level segment of the annual conference in New York last week. Set in motion to demonstrate the business community’s commitment to help resolve the global challenges on water and energy, Dr Ashe commended the initiative. “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem,” he said. “These initiatives show that business is part of the solution.” He also encouraged business to increase its involvement in partnerships.”
See also: Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, NYU holds a Seminar on “Community Development Law,” including “Property Theory: This seminar, taught by Professor Wyman, examines contemporary debates about property using a range of legal, historical, and philosophical materials. The seminar begins by considering four theoretical approaches to property law: the classic utilitarian justification for private property; the Lockean case for property; contemporary rights-based theories of property; and communitarian perspectives. The seminar applies these approaches to live controversies in areas such as environmental and intellectual property law. Drawing on the four theoretical perspectives, the seminar then addresses a range of topics, including property and economic development, the tragedy of the commons, the limits of property rights and markets, social norms, takings, and reparations.”
2020 is a key word in identifying LA-21 plans and community mapping/security programs i.e. NIC 2020.
Planning and Community Development Links posted by Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington.
“The World Future Society is open to anyone who would like to know what the future will hold.”
American Lands Alliance.
For how Agenda 21 ties into the ACL’s research, go to Neighborhood Plans.
For how Agenda 21 ties to mapping, go to Seminar on Global Mapping was held on November 13-16, 1996 in Santa Barbara, California, USA
For how Agenda 21 ties to communitarianism, go to German discussion of Local Agenda 21, Civil Society and Transnational Networks.
For how Agenda 21 uses non-governmental oragnizations, read Jackie Patru’s The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations on Sweetliberty.org.

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2. How non-U.N. afilliated American researchers see Local Agenda 21:
There’s nothing local about Local Agenda 21. Local Agenda 21 is the programme for a supra-national government.
Be sure to visit Freedom 21 Santa Cruz-Advance the cause of freedom in the 21st century. America is very fortunate for this organization. Liberty Gardens is a perfect example of the American principles for private land ownership. Owners and developers Michael and Joann Shaw have the most professional approach available to further the side of U.S. opposition to U.N. Local Agenda 21. Their pamphlets and simple tools for local government officials and others asked to write the “local” plans are an excellent source for introducing the real agenda behind gloablized sustainable development. (At the ACL we talk to scholars, and about every related (and often uncomfortable) topic; Freedom 21 Santa Cruz talks to locals and officials who just want to know what’s happening to their homes, businesses, and their beloved country.)
Community Developments in Washakie County, Wyoming by Niki Raapana, March 18, 2004. This page is devoted to showing local residents tools for taking back their communities and identifying Local Agenda 21 facilitators in their backyards. (We lived in Wyoming after we left Seattle, so we were able to witness the community developers act in a rural setting. Quite different approaches. Now we live in rural Alaska where it’s just beginning to be introduced. Think we should start attending their “meetings?”)

Non-afilliated also means non-grant funded. Invest in poor American anti-communitarian writers and researchers:

The real agenda: Communitarians quietly (and illegally) balance U.S. laws in favor of the global sustainable developers. Our “new” law endorses free trade economics, promotes a quasi-religious blending with ideologies, and is based in ancient mysticism. The “moral” communitarians think they’re above U.S. law. They ignore the fact that all changes to the U.S. Constitution must be pre-approved by 3/4 of the fifty united state’s legislatures. Based on the available evidence, the ACL finds the entire Communitarian policy agenda is treason against the people of the United States. Our goal is to expose the Communitarian philosophy used by Libertarians, Republicans, Democrats, Greens, and bi-partisan Third Wayers. We want every voter in the world to recognize communitarian laws, buffer zones, players, policies, and “logic.”
What is Communitarianism? Communitarianism is the over-all system used by the ruling elite to govern the globe in their emerging Supra-national World Order.
Communitarian “thinking” can be categorized into 11 primary disciplines: Philosophy, Law, History, Ideology, Religion, Natural Sciences, Politics, Education, Public Policy, Economics, and Social Theory. The ACL will (someday) reformat this entire site according to each of the above categories. Early ACL “explanations” of communitarianism show how hard it’s been for us, as untrained writers, to introduce the main topic of communitarianism without getting lost in its hundreds of thousands of sub-topics (The Balance of Man, What the Communitarians Stand For,What in the World is Communitarianism?). Our interest in Etzioni and the communitarian system of law began when we learned about Community Policing. Dr. Etzioni led private “debates” to limit American’s privacy. (Dr. Amitai Etzioni April 2003, under revision)
Katrina related LA-21 plans: Mobile, Alabama, answers the United Nations call! By Don Casey posted at eco.freedom.org.
Death, Taxes and Agenda 21 By Don Casey, July 2, 2005 at Alabama Constitutional Party.org.
Hegemony Lost, The American Economy is Destroying Itself By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS posted August 25, 2005 at counterpunch.org.
Sample LA-21 Programmes operational in the United States:Community Policing, Landlord Training, Rebuilding Community, Mandatory Volunteerism, Regulatory Inspections, Asset Based Community Development, Rural Development, Urban Re-Development, Re Wilding America, Faith-Based Initiatives, Character Education, government child care, The Real National ID, and life long surveilliance.
1997 United Nations List of Protected Areas in the United States. We got this link thanks to Jackie Patru.
Center for Democracy and the Third Sector, a new Ph.D. program at George Washington University, D.C. (The Third Sector, by Henry Lamb is a nice explanation of what U.S. elite Third Sector professional training has to do with Local Agenda 21.)
Most Americans share a valid concern for the state of the environment – by Gaylan King. Bill W. sent this link today (5/27/04), says it was circulated around Worland, Wyoming by BLM, 8 years ago!
U.N. Plan for Internet Control Tiptoes Forward by Cheryl K. Chumley April 9, 2004 posted by Capitalism Magazine.
Escape from ‘Ecotopia’ By Pat Joseph, Grist Magazine. Posted May 14, 2005.
Click the picture below and go to garykah.org. He can introduce you to the major global players.
U.N. Charter or U.S. Constitution? By Bud Landry, Apr 2, 2004, posted at Magic City Morning Star which has a nice list of Agenda 21 articles by Americans.
Agenda 21 Or Freedom 21: Making The Right Choice By Tom DeWeese (04/27/05)in the American Daily.
Aliance for Citizen’s Rights (ACR) ADVOCATING ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY & ENFORCEMENT OF ALABAMA’S 1901 CONSTITUTION
Freedom 21 Lake County
Regional Governance by Jackie Patru. This is a concise collection of citations of U.S. government discussing the need for creating U.N. regional governments. It’s been a stated necessity that the government must gain control all private property (particularly farm lands) for the good of the public, dating back to 1934.
The Population Control Agenda By Stanley K. Monteith, M.D.
Joan Veon has attended U.N. conferences for many years, she’s interviewed several of the major U.N. players, and she presents links to all the major conferences combined with the most detailed coverage and analysis of Agenda 21 on the net, all posted at WomensGroup.org.
Amerikan Expose with Chris Gerner has some great observations of Local Agenda 21 and like all American Agenda 21 researchers, he links to many direct sources.
Our Global Neighborhood by Henry Lamb at eco-logic in 1996 is a thorough examination of the Commission on Global Governance. Highly recommended for the serious student of national sovereignty and individual freedom.
Berit Kjos does a wonderful job of examining what Local Agenda 21 will do to America.
Freedom domain.com doesn’t pull any punches and has links to books and videos.
UNslaver News Daily ” Our Mission: To Unveil Invisible Puzzles, & Decry Invisible Slavery. To Provide Resources & Methods to Identify Puzzles and Dethrone the Invisible Slavery System.”
SUSTAINABLE MEDICINE + SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT = DUTY TO DIE PART 1 OF 3- UN AGENDA 21 AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by Dr. Madeleine Cosman, Ph.D., JD, July 5, 2005, NewsWithViews.com.
Henry Lamb’s research and essays on our loss of constitutional government at Freedom 21 Santa Cruz represent the more (or less) accepted “alternative” American opinions about our rebuilt America.
THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA TO WORLD GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION An Outline of Key Players, Organizations, and Events of the Global Agenda Developed for Reclaiming America Convention, September 28-29, 2000, ©1997, 1998, 2000 Discerning the Times Digest, Environmental Perspectives, Inc. and Sovereignty International, 6 Heather Rd., Bangor, Maine 04401
The Environmental Agenda by Gary Kah includes a nice background introduction to Mikhail Gorbachev.
Americans Berit Kjos, Virginia Bert Baker, Charlotte Iserbyt and Mary Thompson wrote this article in November 2003, The Draft is Back: Universal National Service Act of 2003.
Faulty Shades Of Green 2002-07-22, Source: Raj Patel. Posted at Creative Resistance, BC.
According to MSNBC, the far-right sees the United Nations as a precursor to world government, and the far-left sees it as a tool of the Imperial United States. So we see, even mainstream news sites like MSNBC speak to us only from the dialectic. There are more than two American views to the U.N., but as usual, we’re expected to identify our opposition to the U.N. with either the far-right or the far-left. If we just cannot join one of the established opposition camps, we are labeled into the communitarian-Third Way camp, which is the Hegelian synthesis to the conflicts between the right and the left. As freeborn people, we still believe in the spectrum of infinite possibilities, and so the ACL considers the facts about U.N. Local Agenda 21 from outside the dialectic. Our opposition to submitting to a communitarian global legal system fits into none of their predetermined viewpoints.

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3. How the U.N. Agenda 21 ties to the War on Terror:
Iraq’s Local Agenda 21 Plan. Was this UN plan for rebuilding Iraq written before or after the latest joint US-British-Israeli Operation Freedom invasion?
Syria’s Local Agenda 21 Plan. Was the Israeli need to “cut out Syria” and rebuild the old (1948) British-mandated pipeline that gave Iraqi oil to Israel included in Syria’s “Local” Agenda 21 Plan? Does it matter that the proposed Haifa pipeline was already built in the 1980’s? or that ” .. an agreement has been quietly renewed every five years, with special legislation which permitted the United States to stock a strategic oil reserve for Israel, at a cost to the United States of $3 billion in 2002, even if this entailed domestic U.S. shortages.”
United Nation’s Development Programme: The Arab States. “Our work in Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, and Syria integrates social, economic, and environmental concerns into local and national development.”
Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, ARIJ, Localizing Agenda 21
L O C A L I Z I N G Agenda 21 in Palestine. Does Chapter 19 of AIRJ’s plan for Localizing Palestine include plans for the Palestinian “wall?” (Note: this link to pictures of the wall is on an openly critical anti-Zionist/anti-Bush website that supports leftist anti-war efforts, but it has the only good pictures of the wall I could find. Does this “fence” really exist?) 6/5/04- here’s the contractor information: McGraw-hill.
Saudi Arabia’s incomplete Local Agenda 21 Plan… doesn’t the format look familiar?
U.N.’s tentative agenda for the September 2003 Habitat Meeting includes plans for Eqypt and Libya. Do the people in these countries know about this plan? Or is it like it is in the US, where only politicians, academics and “development partners” know about the Plans, and the majority of the population isn’t told ANYTHING?
Lebanon’s Local Agenda 21 Plan
Mediterranean Environmental Forum includes all Mediterranean nations in Local Agenda 21 plans, including Libya.
“A new world order must provide for the full and fair participation of the majority of the people of the world who live in developing countries. They must have equitable opportunities to share the benefits, just as they share the risks, of our technological civilization. And surely the highest priority should be accorded to eradication of the dire and debilitating poverty that condemns so many people, particularly in developing countries, to suffering and hunger that are an affront to the moral basis of our civilization. This is one of the primary themes of Agenda 21.” Remarks by Maurice F. Strong Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Hydro Chairman, The Earth Council, The European Institute, Washington, D.C., USA, November 4, 1993
International Conference The Opportunity and Challenge of Diversity: A Role for Social Capital? Background Documents, November 24-25, 2003, Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal (Québec), Canada

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4. How U.N. Agenda 21 blends communism:
PRC Sustainable Development Solutions: Markets, Rights and Democracy —“Grave Concerns” Conclusion – Part Six A May 1999 report from U.S. Embassy Beijing.
China’s Agenda 21 includes a Capacity 21 contribution to communist China’s Plan, in US dollars.
Even Taiwan has a Local Agenda 21 Plan, and they’re not a member of the U.N.! Does this mean China will give up wanting Taiwan and point their nukes somewhere else?
They’re Building Sustainable Communities in Russia using Agenda 21, and even Cuba’s got a Local Agenda 21 Plan

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5. Imperial Great Britains’ influence on Agenda 21: in their “endless adventure of governing men”.
Direct British influence on Seattle’s Local Agenda 21 Plan
Nottingham University Library presents a lovely collection of Agenda 21 programs.
Here is where Nottingham connects Agenda 21 to the Fabians. (Very long list!)
House of Commons Office of Foreign Affairs discusses the European Union.
Here’s more on Europe’s New Shape.
Thurrock LA-21 and Eden LA-21

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6. How Agenda 21 incorporates global Community Policing:
President’s Council on Sustainable Development: Chapter 5- Safe and Healthy Communities
Functions of Sustainable Community Systems for Transformation, by Kenneth Hunter, 1999: “This chapter offers a perspective on ten functions of community-level systems, how to identify those which are crucial to community evolution and empowerment, the public policies which will facilitate them, and the actions required to support communities.”
A PWV Initiative in Community Policing
Religion and Social Policy
Project Harmony: “The Community Policing Training Initiative supports democratic change by facilitating sustainable partnerships that empower law enforcement professionals, educators, city administrators, media specialists, and social service providers in Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. to build healthy and safe communities through collaboration, transparency and public accountability.”
The Community Safety Initiative
Lockerbie, Scotland’s UPPER ANNANDALE AND ESKDALE AREA COMMITTEE AGENDA, Meeting of Monday 8 July 2002, at 7.00 p.m. in the Town Hall, Lockerbie. #2 on the agenda is: COMMUNITY POLICING – Presentation by representative of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary [pages 7 and 8].

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7. How Agenda 21 ties to data gathering:
ARC-GIS as an Instrument of City Management.
Global Vision: Sustainable City (formerly Zero Population Growth) Sustainable City is an international collaborative research endeavour to develop the world’s first GIS (Geographical Information Systems) computer simulation programme for any town or city to see itself – and its surrounding environment – as a whole system. The project is now in development by Global Vision Corporation, a Non Governmental Organisation accredited to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). It is part of the international follow-up to Habitat II – the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (June 1996), where it was nominated as a Corporate Best Practice at the World Business Forum on Enterprise, the City, and Sustainable Development.
Sustainable City is designed as a practical tool for sustainable development planning. It is intended to facilitate the local implementation of Agenda 21, the blueprint for the sustainable development of our planet which was agreed at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the exellent Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide published by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Its 48 applications will empower urban stakeholders to understand and balance their community, economic, and ecosystem development needs, and will enable them to:”[endquote]
15 United Nation’s Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific “A milestone for sustainable development”.
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). ABCD developed an 11 page “interview” that logs all our skills and abilities into a community mapping database.
Asset Based Strategies for Faith Based Communities ties community development to Bush’s “Faith-Based Initiative”.
Community Mapping Network, “The primary goal of the Community Mapping Network (CMN) is to provide a service that collects and integrates natural resource information, maps and mapping information to promote sustainable resource management and to assist planning sustainable communities in British Columbia, Canada.”
Community Mapping, Planning and Analysis for Safety Strategies (COMPASS). COMPASS is another specific ACL Area of study
HELP: Human Early Learning Partnership. This is how Agenda 21 designs community development data gathering programs that will control our children’s futures.
HUD’s Information Collection Activities, (HUD’s Community 2020 data software was updated to Maptitude).
SEAP-Human Settlements, Urbanization and Envirnonmental Health Working Group
Civic Renewal
Development Gateway
BGSI, European Projects.

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8. Here’s a sampling of “spontaneous” local sustainable development movements around the world:
“All over the planet, cities are carrying out the “utopias” of Sustainable Development. Inspired by the World Environment Day slogan “Green cities, plan for the planet”, Geneva is inviting innovating cities across the world to come and present their best practices.” Conference:”Innovating cities across the world”. “From the 11 to 13 October 2005, the S-DEV Geneva 05 Conference will showcase innovative and participatory solutions proposed by 25 cities from all continents. Their innovations are ingenious, simple, efficient and cost-effective. The key to success is coordination and synergy between the following four poles : sustainable technologies, active citizenship, new governance and corporate responsibility. An annual rendez-vous of Sustainable Development, S-DEV Geneva 05 focuses on the exchange of concrete solutions articulated around a Conference, Workshops and an Exhibition, bringing together local authorities, public services, enterprises, NGOs, researchers and International Organisations.
Global Green USA. “We need a new system of values, a system which recognises the organic unity between humankind and nature and promotes the ethic of global responsibility,” by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, former president of the USSR, former Communist turned communitarian, recent socio-economics partner with Amitai Etzioni. Gorbaachev thinks he’s a more moral global leader of formerly free nations like the USA.
Nepotism and elite bloodlines prevail in the New Global Architecture. Global Green USA is directed by Diane Meyer Simon, who was a legislative aide to Senator Birch Bayh in the 1970s. Senator Birch Bayh’s son, Evan Bayh, is a current Senator from Indiana and the leader of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). The DLC is the communitarian 3rd Way political organization that endorses a quietly implemented and completely “new” system for all Americans, regardless of what Americans think. Most Americans have no idea what the DLC or Green Cross represent, and since these organizations always speak about their goals in the loftiest of phrases, only a few astute listeners actually hear their communitarian propaganda. Most Americans DO NOT KNOW what a communitarian stands for. The ACL has a page devoted to the current Senator Bayh, called Bayhwatch. The ACL also has a page devoted to The Third Way.
Havanna 2005 UN Habitat United Nations Human Settlements Programme The Sustainable Cities Programme and the Localizing Agenda 21 Programme-6th Global Meeting of Partners. “The 2005 Global Meeting of the Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) and Localizing Agenda 21 Programme (LA21) partners will take place from 26 June to 1st July in Cuba, hosted by the City of La Havana. The meeting offers the partners of the UN-HABITAT Urban Environment Section the opportunity to advance their collective know-how, exchange experiences, review activities, and discuss how to mainstream Environmental Planning and Management (EPM) into local, national and global policies. The meeting will bring together: mayors, high-ranking city officials, urban practitioners, representatives of central/federal governments, urban institutions, heads of international support programmes and key representatives of donor agencies. The meeting is organized jointly by UN-HABITAT, UNEP, the Government of Cuba and the City of La Havana.”
Note to U.S. Americans from the U.S. Department of State December 06, 2004. “COUNTRY DESCRIPTION : Cuba is a totalitarian police state, which relies on repressive methods to maintain control. These methods, including intense physical and electronic surveillance of Cubans, are also extended to foreign travelers. Americans visiting Cuba should be aware that any encounter with a Cuban could be subject to surreptitious scrutiny by the Castro regime’s secret police, the General Directorate for State Security (DGSE). Also, any interactions with average Cubans, regardless how well intentioned the American is, can subject that Cuban to harassment and/or detention, amongst other forms of repressive actions, by state security elements. The regime is strongly anti-American yet desperate for U.S. dollars to prop itself up.”

Philippine Agenda 21 is the nation’s blueprint for sustainable development. In concreting the vision, it describes a path for individuals, families, households and communities; an action plan for each ecosystem (coastal/marine, freshwater, upland, lowland, and urban); and across ecosystems in consideration of the interaction of the various lifescapes and landscapes found therein. The path is grounded on respect and active advocacy for the empowerment of the various social groupings of society to manage the economy, critical resources, society and culture, politics and governance and in the arena of foreign relations.
Philippine Agenda 21 advocates a fundamental shift in development thinking and approach. It departs from traditional conceptual frameworks that emphasize sector-based and macro concerns. Philippine Agenda 21 promotes harmony and achieves sustainability by emphasizing.
* A scale of intervention that is primarily area-based. The national and global policy environment builds upon and supports area-based initiatives.
* Integrated island development approaches where applicable. This recognizes the archipelagic character of the Philippines which includes many small island provinces.
* People and integrity of nature at the center of development initiatives. This implies the strengthening of roles, relationships, and interactions between and among stakeholders in government, civil society, labor and business. Basic sectors have an important role to play in achieving equity and managing the ecosystems that sustain life.
PA 21 envisions a better quality of life for all Filipinos through the development of a just, moral and creative, spiritual, economically vibrant, caring, diverse yet cohesive society characterized by appropriate productivity, participatory and democratic processes, and living in harmony and within the limits of the carrying capacity of nature and the integrity of creation.
PA 21 was adopted on 26 September 1996, with the issuance of Memorandum Order No. 399 by then President Fidel V. Ramos which identified the roles of the Philippine Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) and each sector in the operationalization of PA 21. The action agenda is based on the imperatives of the current national situation and emerging landscape for sustainable development.
PA 21 is a dynamic document that will continue to evolve as new challenges and opportunities emerge, as the level of consensus continue to deepen in the Philippine society, as the Filipinos attempt to solidify the framework, as the government continue to refine the processes, and as the Filipinos strive to widen and enrich their understanding of each other to pave the way for new modes of collaboration.

Example of recent LA-21 job openings in the Philippines:
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2005, Organization: Louis Berger Group, Country/Region: Philippines, Apply By: 01 Nov 2005, Contact Information : Email: egrant@louisberger.com Please reference the “Recruiting Center at DevelopmentEx.com” when you apply by email. Description: The Louis Berger Group, a leading environmental engineering firm operating worldwide in more than 90 countries, is seeking qualified Filipino candidates for a 6 month project to evaluate Greenhouse Gas Emission inventory for the Laguna Lake Development Area. Applicants should be both citizens of and currently located in the Philippines- experience in greenhouse gas emissions and environmental evaluation is a plus.Postions include: 1. Environmental Management, 2. Scientist, 3. Environmental Scientist, 4. GIS expert (with background in satellite imaging), 5.Modeler, 6. Forester, 7. Training Specialist. Source: The Development Group. (WARNING! The money is very tempting.)
Here’s the . “The Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI) is a Philippine-based civil society organization (CSO) dedicated to the study, encouragement and implementation of sustainable development through threefolding, partnerships. CADI was established in February 1988 to spread the reality of holistic sciences and philosophies of human beings, society and nature.”
Agenda 21 for Culture: “The Agenda 21 for Culture promotes the adoption of a series of principles, commitments and recommendations to strengthen the development of culture on an international scale from the local arena, considering it as a collective right to participation in the life of societies.”
Office of Sustainablity – Local Agenda 21
U.N. Projects Historic City Populations by 2007 by Grant McCool, Reuters, March 24, 2004. Posted at Amerikanexpose.com. Thanks Chris and Darren!
Republic of Korea’s Local Agenda 21 Plan.
Here’s Rome, Italy’s Local Agenda 21. One of their “activites”: Data bank on the best practices in reconverting processes, micro and macro economical data, national and communitarian laws, etc.
An Agenda 21 for the Baltic Sea Region.
Portugul’s Agenda 21 Plan.
Hannover, Germany’s Local Agenda 21 Plan
Colombia’s Local Agenda 21 Plan
Argentina’s Local Agenda 21 Plan
A selection of institutions working on Local Agenda 21 and related issues in the Asia-Pacific Region
Indonesia’s Local Agenda 21
Canada’s Local Agenda 21 , “Indigenous peoples represent a significant part of the world’s population with unique contributions to make to the achievement of the goals of Agenda 21, based on ways of life directly dependent on the utilization of wild living resources. Indigenous peoples have evolved a holistic, traditional scientific knowledge of the land, natural resources and environment they interact with and depend on to maintain their well-being.”
Mexico’s Local Agenda 21
U.N. Local Agenda 21 is not a local or grassroots movement of an evolving, holistic, more moral humanity, no matter what evolved British–Israeli or Fabian scholars tell us. Local Agenda 21 is a top-down global-government program created by the U.S. in collaboration with communist and imperialist governments. Agenda 21 will over-rule national and state constitutions.

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9. Here’s how U.N. Agenda 21 promotes elitist eco-tourism:
Ecotourism Links selected by Claudia Fox. “Explore these links for a deeper understanding of Ecotourism.”
TBR “THE MISSION OF THE TRAVEL BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE (TBR) IS TO EDUCATE ELECTED OFFICIALS ABOUT THE IMPORTANT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE TRAVEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY.” (Nice overview of corporate influences over elected public officials.)
New Marine Conservation Area to Span Four Nations by John Pickrell for National Geographic News, February 26, 2004
Twin Creek Ranch, Lander, WY
Local Dialog 21: Project name: Environment and tourism in the Arctic .
Environmental Restoration Adventures, Palo Alto, CA.
Victoria Falls Zimbabwe Dimbangombe Ranch, Africa
Ecotourism Explorer
Ecotourism Pakistan provides links to Official Websites of the World
Classic Journeys

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10. Here’s how Agenda 21 ties to the Peace Movement:
Civil Society aims described by the World Federalist Association of Northern California: This worldwide organization has a 2020 Global Peace Initiative whose aim is to create a culture of Peace by the year 2020. “This Initiative reflects a global vision of unity: one heart, one mind, working toward one goal. We are many races which form One race: the human race. Each and every one of us has a different place we call home: but ultimately this planet is our Home. While the name 2020 is symbolic, thereby working with and reinforcing positive mass conscious thought forms, it has also been chosen as a practical time-frame for humanity to work towards creating a culture of Peace. Princeton University’s ‘Great Experiment’ which relates to measurement of emotion and directed thought appears to support what metaphysicians have claimed for years: our thoughts impact our reality. The 2020 Initiative calls on UN member-states and non member-states to support the 2020 Initiative through action, specifically: 2. Formulating a global constitution supporting this Initiative, 3. Opening the borders-i.e. allowing free movement and residence of all Beings.”
Legislative History of National and Community Service.
Sustainable Development Requires Peace.
European Network for Peace and Human Rights
Peace Matters, UK.
CONTACT, Training a New Generation of Peacemakers.
Seattle University, Social Justice Education
Taskforce for Change– this organization appeals entirely to emotive reasoning and like all the rest of these Hegelian change NGO’s, their bottom line is to “Endorse a global plan that supports country programs including the transportation, law enforcement, urban planning, and public health sectors.”

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11. Here’s how Local Agenda 21 ties to our health:
Human Health, a Local Agenda 21 sub-topic.
Agenda 21-6: Protecting and Promoting Human Health, Earth Summit, 1992
From our British friends, we learn The Key Quality of Life Issue.
Family Health International
Health and the Context of Agenda 21 in Sustainable Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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12. Here’s some holistic organizations that work for U.N. Local Agenda 21 objectives, but pretend they work for the “planet”:
Holistic Development The Auroville Earth Institute, UNESCO Chair Earth Architecture.
International University for Human Transformation “As a part of personality development, counselling sessions are conducted regularly for the students who are selected through a system based on proactive approach of identification of potential counselling needs. Graphological Analysis, Personality Analysis and Standard Psychometric Tests are used as tools by the counsellors to get the holistic perspective about the potential users.”
ISPO: From Globalization to Sustainability-A New Global Policy for Social Justice. The Imperial British plans to “restore” global democracy takes many forms, and this organization is going to convince us all to elect politicians who will simultaneously implement their sustainable agenda. Like most of the British programs for “world peace and social justice”, ISOP has the support of many well educated academics, including Noam Chomsky.
The Alan Savory Center for Holistic Management. “Holistic Management enables you to improve the quality of your life while enhancing the environment that sustains us all. And it’s all based on a simple change in the way you make decisions. Holistic Management gives you a practical way to develop a clear, focused vision for your future, and enables you to plan how to get there in the most economically, environmentally and socially sound way.”In what dictionary did they find this lovely terminology?
Holistic Solutions, financial planning for a sustainable world.
Holistic Resource Management, Texas
Sustainable Northwest.
The Change Project
Goebel and Associates, Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building.

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13. Here’s how Agenda 21 ties to feminism:
“A leading American feminist and human rights activist, Bella Abzug (1920-1988) [pictured right] served in Congress from 1970 to 1976. In the years that followed, she headed the National Advisory Committee on Women, founded Women, USA, and co-founded the Women’s Environment and Development Organization.”
Betty Friedan endorsed the Communitarian Platform.
Women’s Rights in A Global Context by Margaret A. McLaren, Rollins College 2005 Conference Papers. “Communitarian feminist critiques echo some of these concerns, but focus more on the issues of identity and community and their significance in our lives.”
Women’s Environmental and Devolpment Organization (WEDO).
DAWN.
UN instraw.org (pdf): Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development, Towards a Theoretical Synthesis, with a preface by Bella Abzug.
3rd WWW Wave

SUN

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This article is about the star. For other uses, see Sun (disambiguation).

The Sun

Observation data

Mean distance
from Earth
1.496×108
km
8 min 19 s at light speed

Visual brightness (V)
−26.74 ^[1]

Absolute magnitude
4.83 ^[1]

Spectral classification
G2V

Metallicity
Z = 0.0122^[2]

Angular size
31.6′ – 32.7′ ^[3]

Adjectives
solar

Orbital characteristics

Mean distance
from Milky Waycore
~2.5×1017
km
26,000 light-years

Galacticperiod
(2.25–2.50)×10⁸ a

Velocity
~220 km/s (orbit around the center of the Galaxy)
~20 km/s (relative to average velocity of other stars in stellar neighborhood)
~370 km/s^[4] (relative to the cosmic microwave background)

Physical characteristics

Mean diameter
1.392×106
km ^[1]
109 × Earth

Equatorialradius
6.955×105
km ^[5]
109 × Earth^[5]

Equatorialcircumference
4.379×106
km ^[5]
109 × Earth^[5]

Flattening
9×10−6

Surface area
6.0877×1012
km2
^[5]
11,990 × Earth^[5]

Volume
1.412×1018
km^{3 [5]}
1,300,000 × Earth

Mass
1.9891×1030
kg^[1]
333,000 × Earth^[1]

Average density
1.408×103
kg/m^{3 [1][5][6]}

Density
Center (model): 1.622×105
kg/m^3[1]
Lower photosphere: 2×10−4
kg/m³
Lower chromosphere:5×10−6
kg/m³
Corona (avg.): 1×10−12
kg/m^{3 [7]}

Equatorialsurface gravity
274.0 m/s^{2 [1]}
27.94 g
28 × Earth^[5]

Escape velocity
(from the surface)
617.7 km/s ^[5]
55 × Earth^[5]

Temperature
Center (modeled): ~1.57×107
K ^[1]
Photosphere (effective): 5,778 K ^[1]
Corona: ~5×106
K

Luminosity(L_sol)
3.846×1026
W ^[1]
~3.75×1028
lm
~98 lm/W efficacy

MeanIntensity (I_sol)
2.009×107
W·m⁻²·sr⁻¹

Rotation characteristics

Obliquity
7.25° ^[1]
(to the ecliptic)
67.23°
(to the galactic plane)

Right ascension
of North pole^[8]
286.13°
19h 4min 30s

Declination
of North pole
+63.87°
63°52′ North

Siderealrotation period
(at equator)
25.05 days ^[1]

(at 16° latitude)
25.38 days ^[1]
25d 9h 7min 12s ^[8]

(at poles)
34.4 days ^[1]

Rotation velocity
(at equator)
7.189×103
km/h ^[5]

Photospheric composition (by mass)

Hydrogen
73.46%^[9]

Helium
24.85%

Oxygen
0.77%

Carbon
0.29%

Iron
0.16%

Sulfur
0.12%

Neon
0.12%

Nitrogen
0.09%

Silicon
0.07%

Magnesium
0.05%

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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×10³⁰ kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.^[10] About three quarters of the Sun’s mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. Less than 2% consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, iron, and others.^[11]

The Sun’s stellar classification, based on spectral class, is G2V, and is informally designated as a yellow dwarf, because its visible radiation is most intense in the yellow-green portion of the spectrum and although its color is white, from the surface of the Earth it may appear yellow because of atmospheric scattering of blue light.^[12][13] In the spectral class label, G2 indicates its surface temperatureof approximately 5778 K (5505 °C), and V indicates that the Sun, like most stars, is a main sequence star, and thus generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium. In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second. Once regarded by astronomers as a small and relatively insignificant star, the Sun is now thought to be brighter than about 85% of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, most of which are red dwarfs.^[14][15] The absolute magnitude of the Sun is +4.83; however, as the star closest to Earth, the Sun is the brightest object in the sky with anapparent magnitude of −26.74.^[16][17] The Sun’s hot corona continuously expands in space creating the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that extends to the heliopause at roughly 100astronomical units. The bubble in the interstellar medium formed by the solar wind, the heliosphere, is the largest continuous structure in the Solar System.^[18][19]

The Sun is currently traveling through the Local Interstellar Cloud in the Local Bubble zone, within the inner rim of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Of the 50 nearest stellar systems within 17 light-years from Earth (the closest being a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri at approximately 4.2 light years away), the Sun ranks 4th in mass.^[20] The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way at a distance of approximately 24,000–26,000 light years from the galactic center, completing one clockwise orbit, as viewed from the galactic north pole, in about 225–250 million years. Since our galaxy is moving with respect to the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in the direction of constellation Hydra with a speed of 550 km/s, the sun’s resultant velocity with respect to the CMB is about 370 km/s in the direction of Crater or Leo.^[21]

The mean distance of the Sun from the Earth is approximately 149.6 million kilometers (1 AU), though the distance varies as the Earth moves from perihelion in January to aphelion in July.^[22] At this average distance, light travels from the Sun to Earth in about 8 minutes and 19 seconds. The energy of this sunlight supports almost all life on Earth by photosynthesis,^[23] and drives Earth’s climateand weather. The enormous effect of the Sun on the Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times, and the Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. An accurate scientific understanding of the Sun developed slowly, and as recently as the 19th century prominent scientists had little knowledge of the Sun’s physical composition and source of energy. This understanding is still developing; there are a number of present-day anomalies in the Sun’s behavior that remain unexplained.

Contents

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• 1 Characteristics
  • 1.1 Core
  • 1.2 Radiative zone
  • 1.3 Convective zone
  • 1.4 Photosphere
  • 1.5 Atmosphere
  • 1.6 Magnetic field
• 2 Chemical composition
  • 2.1 Singly ionized iron group elements
  • 2.2 Solar and planetary mass fractionation relationship
• 3 Solar cycles
  • 3.1 Sunspots and the sunspot cycle
  • 3.2 Possible long-term cycle
• 4 Life cycle
• 5 Sunlight
• 6 Motion and location within the galaxy
• 7 Theoretical problems
  • 7.1 Solar neutrino problem
  • 7.2 Coronal heating problem
  • 7.3 Faint young Sun problem
  • 7.4 Present anomalies
• 8 History of observation
  • 8.1 Early understanding and etymology
  • 8.2 Development of scientific understanding
  • 8.3 Solar space missions
• 9 Observation and effects
• 10 Terminology
• 11 See also
• 12 Notes
• 13 References
• 14 Further reading
• 15 External links

Characteristics

The sun shows a C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right) and multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface.

An illustration of the structure of the Sun:
1. Core
2. Radiative zone
3. Convective zone
4. Photosphere
5. Chromosphere
6. Corona
7. Sunspot
8. Granules
9. Prominence

The Sun is a G-type main sequence star comprising about 99.8632% of the total mass of the Solar System. It is a near-perfect sphere, with an oblatenessestimated at about 9 millionths,^[24] which means that its polar diameter differs from its equatorial diameter by only 10 km. As the Sun consists of a plasmaand is not solid, it rotates faster at its equator than at its poles. This behavior is known as differential rotation, and is caused by convection in the Sun and the movement of mass, due to steep temperature gradients from the core outwards. This mass carries a portion of the Sun’s counter-clockwise angular momentum, as viewed from the ecliptic north pole, thus redistributing the angular velocity. The period of this actual rotation is approximately 25.6 days at the equator and 33.5 days at the poles. However, due to our constantly changing vantage point from the Earth as it orbits the Sun, the apparent rotation of the star at its equator is about 28 days.^[25] The centrifugal effect of this slow rotation is 18 million times weaker than the surface gravity at the Sun’s equator. The tidal effect of the planets is even weaker, and does not significantly affect the shape of the Sun.^[26]

The Sun is a Population I, or heavy element-rich,^{[note 1]} star.^[27] The formation of the Sun may have been triggered by shockwaves from one or more nearbysupernovae.^[28] This is suggested by a high abundance of heavy elements in the Solar System, such as gold and uranium, relative to the abundances of these elements in so-called Population II (heavy element-poor) stars. These elements could most plausibly have been produced by endergonic nuclear reactions during a supernova, or by transmutation through neutron absorption inside a massive second-generation star.^[27]

The Sun does not have a definite boundary as rocky planets do, and in its outer parts the density of its gases drops exponentially with increasing distance from its center.^[29] Nevertheless, it has a well-defined interior structure, described below. The Sun’s radius is measured from its center to the edge of thephotosphere. This is simply the layer above which the gases are too cool or too thin to radiate a significant amount of light, and is therefore the surface most readily visible to the naked eye.^[30]

The solar interior is not directly observable, and the Sun itself is opaque to electromagnetic radiation. However, just as seismology uses waves generated by earthquakes to reveal the interior structure of the Earth, the discipline of helioseismology makes use of pressure waves (infrasound) traversing the Sun’s interior to measure and visualize the star’s inner structure.^[31] Computer modeling of the Sun is also used as a theoretical tool to investigate its deeper layers.

Core

Main article: Solar core

Cross-section of a solar-type star (NASA)

The core of the Sun is considered to extend from the center to about 20–25% of the solar radius.^[32] It has a density of up to 150 g/cm^3[33][34] (about 150 times the density of water) and a temperature of close to 13.6 million kelvin (K). By contrast, the Sun’s surface temperature is approximately 5,800 K. Recent analysis of SOHO mission data favors a faster rotation rate in the core than in the rest of the radiative zone.^[32] Through most of the Sun’s life, energy is produced by nuclear fusion through a series of steps called the p–p (proton–proton) chain; this process converts hydrogen into helium.^[35]Less than 2% of the helium generated in the Sun comes from the CNO cycle.

The core is the only region in the Sun that produces an appreciable amount of thermal energy through fusion; inside 24% of the Sun’s radius, 99% of the power has been generated, and by 30% of the radius, fusion has stopped nearly entirely. The rest of the star is heated by energy that is transferred outward from the core and the layers just outside. The energy produced by fusion in the core must then travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as sunlight or kinetic energy of particles.^[36][37]

The proton–proton chain occurs around 9.2×1037
times each second in the core of the Sun. Since this reaction uses four free protons (hydrogen nuclei), it converts about 3.7×10³⁸ protons to alpha particles (helium nuclei) every second (out of a total of ~8.9×10⁵⁶ free protons in the Sun), or about 6.2×10¹¹ kg per second.^[37] Since fusing hydrogen into helium releases around 0.7% of the fused mass as energy,^[38] the Sun releases energy at the mass-energy conversion rate of 4.26 million metric tons per second, 384.6 yottawatts (3.846×1026
W),^[1] or 9.192×10¹⁰ megatons of TNT per second. This mass is not destroyed to create the energy, rather, the mass is carried away in the radiated energy, as described by the concept of mass-energy equivalence.

The power production by fusion in the core varies with distance from the solar center. At the center of the Sun, theoretical models estimate it to be approximately 276.5 watts/m³,^[39] a power production density that more nearly approximates reptile metabolism than a thermonuclear bomb.^{[note 2]} Peak power production in the Sun has been compared to the volumetric heats generated in an activecompost heap. The tremendous power output of the Sun is not due to its high power per volume, but instead due to its large size.

The fusion rate in the core is in a self-correcting equilibrium: a slightly higher rate of fusion would cause the core to heat up more and expand slightly against the weight of the outer layers, reducing the fusion rate and correcting the perturbation; and a slightly lower rate would cause the core to cool and shrink slightly, increasing the fusion rate and again reverting it to its present level.^[40][41]

The gamma rays (high-energy photons) released in fusion reactions are absorbed in only a few millimeters of solar plasma and then re-emitted again in random direction and at slightly lower energy. Therefore it takes a long time for radiation to reach the Sun’s surface. Estimates of the photon travel time range between 10,000 and 170,000 years.^[42]

After a final trip through the convective outer layer to the transparent surface of the photosphere, the photons escape as visible light. Each gamma ray in the Sun’s core is converted into several million photons of visible light before escaping into space. Neutrinos are also released by the fusion reactions in the core, but unlike photons they rarely interact with matter, so almost all are able to escape the Sun immediately. For many years measurements of the number of neutrinos produced in the Sun were lower than theories predicted by a factor of 3. This discrepancy was resolved in 2001 through the discovery of the effects of neutrino oscillation: the Sun emits the number of neutrinos predicted by the theory, but neutrino detectors were missing ²⁄₃ of them because the neutrinos had changedflavor by the time they were detected.^[43]

Radiative zone

From about 0.25 to about 0.7 solar radii, solar material is hot and dense enough that thermal radiation is sufficient to transfer the intense heat of the core outward.^[44] This zone is free of thermalconvection; while the material gets cooler from 7 to about 2 million kelvin with increasing altitude, this temperature gradient is less than the value of the adiabatic lapse rate and hence cannot drive convection.^[34] Energy is transferred by radiation—ions of hydrogen and helium emit photons, which travel only a brief distance before being reabsorbed by other ions.^[44] The density drops a hundredfold (from 20 g/cm³ to only 0.2 g/cm³) from the bottom to the top of the radiative zone.^[44]

The radiative zone and the convection form a transition layer, the tachocline. This is a region where the sharp regime change between the uniform rotation of the radiative zone and the differential rotation of the convection zone results in a large shear—a condition where successive horizontal layers slide past one another.^[45] The fluid motions found in the convection zone above, slowly disappear from the top of this layer to its bottom, matching the calm characteristics of the radiative zone on the bottom. Presently, it is hypothesized (see Solar dynamo), that a magnetic dynamo within this layer generates the Sun’s magnetic field.^[34]

Convective zone

In the Sun’s outer layer, from its surface down to approximately 200,000 km (or 70% of the solar radius), the solar plasma is not dense enough or hot enough to transfer the thermal energy of the interior outward through radiation; in other words it is opaque enough. As a result, thermal convection occurs as thermal columns carry hot material to the surface (photosphere) of the Sun. Once the material cools off at the surface, it plunges downward to the base of the convection zone, to receive more heat from the top of the radiative zone. At the visible surface of the Sun, the temperature has dropped to 5,700 K and the density to only 0.2 g/m³ (about 1/6,000th the density of air at sea level).^[34]

The thermal columns in the convection zone form an imprint on the surface of the Sun as the solar granulation and supergranulation. The turbulent convection of this outer part of the solar interior causes a “small-scale” dynamo that produces magnetic north and south poles all over the surface of the Sun.^[34] The Sun’s thermal columns are Bénard cells and therefore tend to be hexagonal prisms.^[46]

Photosphere

The effective temperature, or black bodytemperature, of the Sun (5777 K) is the temperature a black body of the same size must have to yield the same total emissive power.

Main article: Photosphere

The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, is the layer below which the Sun becomes opaque to visible light.^[47] Above the photosphere visible sunlight is free to propagate into space, and its energy escapes the Sun entirely. The change in opacity is due to the decreasing amount of H⁻ ions, which absorb visible light easily.^[47] Conversely, the visible light we see is produced as electrons react with hydrogen atoms to produce H⁻ ions.^[48][49] The photosphere is tens to hundreds of kilometers thick, being slightly less opaque than air on Earth. Because the upper part of the photosphere is cooler than the lower part, an image of the Sun appears brighter in the center than on the edge or limb of the solar disk, in a phenomenon known as limb darkening.^[47] Sunlight has approximately a black-body spectrum that indicates its temperature is about 6,000 K, interspersed with atomic absorption lines from the tenuous layers above the photosphere. The photosphere has a particle density of ~10²³ m⁻³ (this is about 0.37% of the particle number per volume of Earth’s atmosphereat sea level; however, photosphere particles are electrons and protons, so the average particle in air is 58 times as heavy).^[44]

During early studies of the optical spectrum of the photosphere, some absorption lines were found that did not correspond to any chemical elements then known on Earth. In 1868, Norman Lockyer hypothesized that these absorption lines were because of a new element which he dubbed helium, after the Greek Sun god Helios. It was not until 25 years later that helium was isolated on Earth.^[50]

Atmosphere

See also: Corona and Coronal loop

During a total solar eclipse, the solarcorona can be seen with the naked eye, during the brief period of totality.

The parts of the Sun above the photosphere are referred to collectively as the solar atmosphere.^[47] They can be viewed with telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio through visible light to gamma rays, and comprise five principal zones: the temperature minimum, the chromosphere, the transition region, the corona, and the heliosphere.^[47] The heliosphere, which may be considered the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun, extends outward past the orbit of Pluto to the heliopause, where it forms a sharp shock front boundary with the interstellar medium. The chromosphere, transition region, and corona are much hotter than the surface of the Sun.^[47] The reason has not been conclusively proven; evidence suggests that Alfvén waves may have enough energy to heat the corona.^[51]

The coolest layer of the Sun is a temperature minimum region about 500 km above the photosphere, with a temperature of about 4,100 K.^[47] This part of the Sun is cool enough to support simple molecules such as carbon monoxide and water, which can be detected by their absorption spectra.^[52]

Above the temperature minimum layer is a layer about 2,000 km thick, dominated by a spectrum of emission and absorption lines.^[47] It is called the chromosphere from the Greek root chroma, meaning color, because the chromosphere is visible as a colored flash at the beginning and end of total eclipses of the Sun.^[44] The temperature in the chromosphere increases gradually with altitude, ranging up to around20,000 K near the top.^[47] In the upper part of chromosphere helium becomes partially ionized.^[53]

Taken by Hinode‘s Solar Optical Telescope on January 12, 2007, this image of the Sun reveals the filamentary nature of the plasma connecting regions of different magnetic polarity.

Above the chromosphere, in a thin (about 200 km) transition region, the temperature rises rapidly from around 20,000 K in the upper chromosphere to coronal temperatures closer to 1,000,000 K.^[54] The temperature increase is facilitated by the full ionization of helium in the transition region, which significantly reduces radiative cooling of the plasma.^[53] The transition region does not occur at a well-defined altitude. Rather, it forms a kind of nimbus around chromospheric features such as spicules and filaments, and is in constant, chaotic motion.^[44] The transition region is not easily visible from Earth’s surface, but is readily observable from space by instruments sensitive to the extreme ultraviolet portion of the spectrum.^[55]

The corona is the extended outer atmosphere of the Sun, which is much larger in volume than the Sun itself. The corona continuously expands into space forming the solar wind, which fills all the Solar System.^[56]The low corona, which is very near the surface of the Sun, has a particle density around 10¹⁵–10¹⁶ m⁻³.^{[53][note 3]} The average temperature of the corona and solar wind is about 1,000,000–2,000,000 K; however, in the hottest regions it is 8,000,000–20,000,000 K.^[54] While no complete theory yet exists to account for the temperature of the corona, at least some of its heat is known to be from magnetic reconnection.^[54][56]

The heliosphere, which is the cavity around the Sun filled with the solar wind plasma, extends from approximately 20 solar radii (0.1 AU) to the outer fringes of the Solar System. Its inner boundary is defined as the layer in which the flow of the solar wind becomes superalfvénic—that is, where the flow becomes faster than the speed of Alfvén waves.^[57] Turbulence and dynamic forces outside this boundary cannot affect the shape of the solar corona within, because the information can only travel at the speed of Alfvén waves. The solar wind travels outward continuously through the heliosphere, forming the solar magnetic field into a spiral shape,^[56] until it impacts the heliopause more than 50 AU from the Sun. In December 2004, the Voyager 1 probe passed through a shock front that is thought to be part of the heliopause. Both of the Voyager probes have recorded higher levels of energetic particles as they approach the boundary.^[58]

Magnetic field

See also: Stellar magnetic field

The heliospheric current sheet extends to the outer reaches of the Solar System, and results from the influence of the Sun’s rotating magnetic field on the plasma in theinterplanetary medium.^[59]

The Sun is a magnetically active star. It supports a strong, changing magnetic field that varies year-to-year and reverses direction about every eleven years around solar maximum.^[60] The Sun’s magnetic field leads to many effects that are collectively called solar activity, includingsunspots on the surface of the Sun, solar flares, and variations in solar wind that carry material through the Solar System.^[61] Effects of solar activity on Earth include auroras at moderate to high latitudes, and the disruption of radio communications and electric power. Solar activity is thought to have played a large role in the formation and evolution of the Solar System. Solar activity changes the structure of Earth’s outer atmosphere.^[62]

All matter in the Sun is in the form of gas and plasma because of its high temperatures. This makes it possible for the Sun to rotate faster at its equator (about 25 days) than it does at higher latitudes (about 35 days near its poles). The differential rotation of the Sun’s latitudes causes its magnetic field lines to become twisted together over time, causing magnetic field loops to erupt from the Sun’s surface and trigger the formation of the Sun’s dramatic sunspots and solar prominences (see magnetic reconnection). This twisting action creates the solar dynamo and an 11-year solar cycle of magnetic activity as the Sun’s magnetic field reverses itself about every 11 years.^[63][64]

The solar magnetic field extends well beyond the Sun itself. The magnetized solar wind plasma carries Sun’s magnetic field into the space forming what is called the interplanetary magnetic field.^[56] Since the plasma can only move along the magnetic field lines, the interplanetary magnetic field is initially stretched radially away from the Sun. Because the fields above and below the solar equator have different polarities pointing towards and away from the Sun, there exists a thin current layer in the solar equatorial plane, which is called the heliospheric current sheet.^[56] At the large distances the rotation of the Sun twists the magnetic field and the current sheet into the Archimedean spiral like structure called the Parker spiral.^[56] The interplanetary magnetic field is much stronger than the dipole component of the solar magnetic field. The Sun’s 50–400 μT (in the photosphere) magnetic dipole field reduces with the cube of the distance to about 0.1 nT at the distance of the Earth. However, according to spacecraft observations the interplanetary field at the Earth’s location is about 100 times greater at around 5 nT.^[65]

Chemical composition

The Sun is composed primarily of the chemical elements hydrogen and helium; they account for 74.9% and 23.8% of the mass of the Sun in the photosphere, respectively.^[66] All heavier elements, called metals in astronomy, account for less than 2% of the mass. The most abundant metals are oxygen (roughly 1% of the Sun’s mass), carbon (0.3%), neon (0.2%), and iron (0.2%).^[67]

The Sun inherited its chemical composition from the interstellar medium out of which it formed: the hydrogen and helium in the Sun were produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis. The metals were produced by stellar nucleosynthesis in generations of stars which completed their stellar evolution and returned their material to the interstellar medium before the formation of the Sun.^[68] The chemical composition of the photosphere is normally considered representative of the composition of the primordial Solar System.^[69] However, since the Sun formed, the helium and heavy elements have settled out of the photosphere. Therefore, the photosphere now contains slightly less helium and only 84% of the heavy elements than the protostellar Sun did; the protostellar Sun was 71.1% hydrogen, 27.4% helium, and 1.5% metals.^[66]

In the inner portions of the Sun, nuclear fusion has modified the composition by converting hydrogen into helium, so the innermost portion of the Sun is now roughly 60% helium, with the metal abundance unchanged. Because the interior of the Sun is radiative, not convective (see Structure above), none of the fusion products from the core have risen to the photosphere.^[70]

The solar heavy-element abundances described above are typically measured both using spectroscopy of the Sun’s photosphere and by measuring abundances in meteorites that have never been heated to melting temperatures. These meteorites are thought to retain the composition of the protostellar Sun and thus not affected by settling of heavy elements. The two methods generally agree well.^[11]

Singly ionized iron group elements

In the 1970s, much research focused on the abundances of iron group elements in the Sun.^[71][72] Although significant research was done, the abundance determination of some iron group elements (e.g., cobalt and manganese) was still difficult at least as far as 1978 because of their hyperfine structures.^[71]

The first largely complete set of oscillator strengths of singly ionized iron group elements were made available first in the 1960s,^[73] and improved oscillator strengths were computed in 1976.^[74] In 1978 the abundances of singly ionized elements of the iron group were derived.^[71]

Solar and planetary mass fractionation relationship

Various authors have considered the existence of a mass fractionation relationship between the isotopic compositions of solar and planetary noble gases,^[75] for example correlations between isotopic compositions of planetary and solar neon andxenon.^[76] Nevertheless, the belief that the whole Sun has the same composition as the solar atmosphere was still widespread, at least until 1983.^[77]

In 1983, it was claimed that it was the fractionation in the Sun itself that caused the fractionation relationship between the isotopic compositions of planetary and solar wind implanted noble gases.^[77]

Solar cycles

Main articles: Sunspots and List of solar cycles

Sunspots and the sunspot cycle

Measurements of solar cycle variation during the last 30 years

When observing the Sun with appropriate filtration, the most immediately visible features are usually its sunspots, which are well-defined surface areas that appear darker than their surroundings because of lower temperatures. Sunspots are regions of intense magnetic activity where convection is inhibited by strong magnetic fields, reducing energy transport from the hot interior to the surface. The magnetic field causes strong heating in the corona, forming active regions that are the source of intense solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The largest sunspots can be tens of thousands of kilometers across.^[78]

The number of sunspots visible on the Sun is not constant, but varies over an 11-year cycle known as the solar cycle. At a typical solar minimum, few sunspots are visible, and occasionally none at all can be seen. Those that do appear are at high solar latitudes. As the sunspot cycle progresses, the number of sunspots increases and they move closer to the equator of the Sun, a phenomenon described by Spörer’s law. Sunspots usually exist as pairs with opposite magnetic polarity. The magnetic polarity of the leading sunspot alternates every solar cycle, so that it will be a north magnetic pole in one solar cycle and a south magnetic pole in the next.^[79]

History of the number of observed sunspots during the last 250 years, which shows the ~11-year solar cycle

The solar cycle has a great influence on space weather, and is a significant influence on the Earth’s climate since luminosity has a direct relationship with magnetic activity.^[80] Solar activity minima tend to be correlated with colder temperatures, and longer than average solar cycles tend to be correlated with hotter temperatures. In the 17th century, the solar cycle appears to have stopped entirely for several decades; very few sunspots were observed during this period. During this era, which is known as the Maunder minimum or Little Ice Age, Europe experienced very cold temperatures.^[81] Earlier extended minima have been discovered through analysis of tree rings and appear to have coincided with lower-than-average global temperatures.^[82]

Possible long-term cycle

A recent theory claims that there are magnetic instabilities in the core of the Sun that cause fluctuations with periods of either 41,000 or 100,000 years. These could provide a better explanation of the ice agesthan the Milankovitch cycles.^[83][84]

Life cycle

Main articles: Formation and evolution of the Solar System and Stellar evolution

The Sun was formed about 4.57 billion years ago when a hydrogen molecular cloud collapsed.^[85] Solar formation is dated in two ways: the Sun’s current main sequence age, determined using computer models ofstellar evolution and nucleocosmochronology, is thought to be about 4.57 billion years.^[86] This is in close accord with the radiometric date of the oldest Solar System material, at 4.567 billion years ago.^[87][88]

The Sun is about halfway through its main-sequence evolution, during which nuclear fusion reactions in its core fuse hydrogen into helium. Each second, more than four million metric tons of matter are converted into energy within the Sun’s core, producing neutrinos and solar radiation. At this rate, the Sun has so far converted around 100 Earth-masses of matter into energy. The Sun will spend a total of approximately 10billion years as a main sequence star.^[89]

The Sun does not have enough mass to explode as a supernova. Instead, in about 5 billion years, it will enter a red giant phase, its outer layers expanding as the hydrogen fuel in the core is consumed and the core contracts and heats up. Helium fusionwill begin when the core temperature reaches around 100 million K and will produce carbon, entering the asymptotic giant branch phase.^[27]

Life-cycle of the Sun; sizes are not drawn to scale.

Earth’s fate is precarious. As a red giant, the Sun will have a maximum radius beyond the Earth’s current orbit, 1 AU (1.5×10¹¹ m), 250 times the present radius of the Sun.^[90] However, by the time it is an asymptotic giant branch star, the Sun will have lost roughly 30% of its present mass due to a stellar wind, so the orbits of the planets will move outward. If it were only for this, Earth would probably be spared, but new research suggests that Earth will be swallowed by the Sun owing to tidal interactions.^[90] Even if Earth would escape incineration in the Sun, still all its water will be boiled away and most of its atmosphere would escape into space. Even during its current life in the main sequence, the Sun is gradually becoming more luminous (about 10% every 1 billion years), and its surface temperature is slowly rising. The Sun used to be fainter in the past, which is possibly the reason life on Earth has only existed for about 1 billion years on land. The increase in solar temperatures is such that in about another billion years the surface of the Earth will likely become too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life.^[90][91]

Following the red giant phase, intense thermal pulsations will cause the Sun to throw off its outer layers, forming a planetary nebula. The only object that will remain after the outer layers are ejected is the extremely hot stellar core, which will slowly cool and fade as a white dwarf over many billions of years. This stellar evolution scenario is typical of low- to medium-mass stars.^[92][93]

Sunlight

Main article: Sunlight

Sunlight is Earth’s primary source of energy. The solar constant is the amount of power that the Sun deposits per unit area that is directly exposed to sunlight. The solar constant is equal to approximately 1,368 W/m² (watts per square meter) at a distance of one astronomical unit (AU) from the Sun (that is, on or near Earth).^[94] Sunlight on the surface of Earth is attenuated by the Earth’s atmosphere so that less power arrives at the surface—closer to 1,000 W/m² in clear conditions when the Sun is near thezenith.^[95]

Solar energy can be harnessed by a variety of natural and synthetic processes—photosynthesis by plants captures the energy of sunlight and converts it to chemical form (oxygen and reduced carbon compounds), while direct heating or electrical conversion by solar cells are used by solar power equipment to generate electricity or to do other useful work, sometimes employing concentrating solar power (that it is measured in suns). The energy stored in petroleum and other fossil fuels was originally converted from sunlight by photosynthesis in the distant past.^[96]

Motion and location within the galaxy

Motion of barycenter of Solar System relative to the Sun.

The Sun’s motion about the centre of mass of the Solar System is complicated by perturbations from the planets. Every few hundred years this motion switches between prograde and retrograde.^[97] The Sun lies close to the inner rim of the Milky Way Galaxy’s Orion Arm, in the Local Fluff or the Gould Belt, at a hypothesized distance of 7.5–8.5 kpc (25,000–28,000 lightyears) from the Galactic Center,^{[98][99][100][101]}contained within the Local Bubble, a space of rarefied hot gas, possibly produced by the supernova remnant, Geminga.^[102] The distance between the local arm and the next arm out, the Perseus Arm, is about 6,500 light-years.^[103] The Sun, and thus the Solar System, is found in what scientists call the galactic habitable zone.

The Apex of the Sun’s Way, or the solar apex, is the direction that the Sun travels through space in the Milky Way, relative to other nearby stars. The general direction of the Sun’s galactic motion is towards the star Vega in the constellation of Lyra at an angle of roughly 60 sky degrees to the direction of the Galactic Center.

The Sun’s orbit around the Galaxy is expected to be roughly elliptical with the addition of perturbations due to the galactic spiral arms and non-uniform mass distributions. In addition the Sun oscillates up and down relative to the galactic plane approximately 2.7 times per orbit. This is very similar to how a simple harmonic oscillator works with no drag force (damping) term. It has been argued that the Sun’s passage through the higher density spiral arms often coincides with mass extinctions on Earth, perhaps due to increased impact events.^[104] It takes the Solar System about 225–250 million years to complete one orbit of the galaxy (a galactic year),^[105] so it is thought to have completed 20–25 orbits during the lifetime of the Sun. The orbital speed of the Solar System about the center of the Galaxy is approximately 251 km/s.^[106]At this speed, it takes around 1,190 years for the Solar System to travel a distance of 1 light-year, or 7 days to travel 1 AU.^[107]

Theoretical problems

Solar neutrino problem

Main article: Solar neutrino problem

For many years the number of solar electron neutrinos detected on Earth was ¹⁄₃ to ¹⁄₂ of the number predicted by the standard solar model. This anomalous result was termed the solar neutrino problem. Theories proposed to resolve the problem either tried to reduce the temperature of the Sun’s interior to explain the lower neutrino flux, or posited that electron neutrinos could oscillate—that is, change into undetectable tau and muon neutrinos as they traveled between the Sun and the Earth.^[108] Several neutrino observatories were built in the 1980s to measure the solar neutrino flux as accurately as possible, including the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and Kamiokande.^[109] Results from these observatories eventually led to the discovery that neutrinos have a very small rest mass and do indeed oscillate.^[110][43] Moreover, in 2001 the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was able to detect all three types of neutrinos directly, and found that the Sun’s total neutrino emission rate agreed with the Standard Solar Model, although depending on the neutrino energy as few as one-third of the neutrinos seen at Earth are of the electron type.^[109][111] This proportion agrees with that predicted by the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect (also known as the matter effect), which describes neutrino oscillation in matter, and it is now considered a solved problem.^[109]

Coronal heating problem

Main article: Corona

The optical surface of the Sun (the photosphere) is known to have a temperature of approximately 6,000 K. Above it lies the solar corona, rising to a temperature of 1,000,000–2,000,000 K.^[54] The high temperature of the corona shows that it is heated by something other than direct heat conduction from the photosphere.^[56]

It is thought that the energy necessary to heat the corona is provided by turbulent motion in the convection zone below the photosphere, and two main mechanisms have been proposed to explain coronal heating.^[54] The first is wave heating, in which sound, gravitational or magnetohydrodynamic waves are produced by turbulence in the convection zone.^[54] These waves travel upward and dissipate in the corona, depositing their energy in the ambient gas in the form of heat.^[112] The other is magneticheating, in which magnetic energy is continuously built up by photospheric motion and released through magnetic reconnection in the form of large solar flares and myriad similar but smaller events—nanoflares.^[113]

Currently, it is unclear whether waves are an efficient heating mechanism. All waves except Alfvén waves have been found to dissipate or refract before reaching the corona.^[114] In addition, Alfvén waves do not easily dissipate in the corona. Current research focus has therefore shifted towards flare heating mechanisms.^[54]

Faint young Sun problem

Main article: Faint young Sun paradox

Theoretical models of the Sun’s development suggest that 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago, during the Archean period, the Sun was only about 75% as bright as it is today. Such a weak star would not have been able to sustain liquid water on the Earth’s surface, and thus life should not have been able to develop. However, the geological record demonstrates that the Earth has remained at a fairly constant temperature throughout its history, and that the young Earth was somewhat warmer than it is today. The consensus among scientists is that the young Earth’s atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide, methane and/or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the smaller amount of solar energy reaching the planet.^[115]

Present anomalies

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The Sun is currently behaving unexpectedly in a number of ways.^[116][117]

• It is in the midst of an unusual sunspot minimum, lasting far longer and with a higher percentage of spotless days than normal; since May 2008.
• It is measurably dimming; its output has dropped 0.02% at visible wavelengths and 6% at EUV wavelengths in comparison with the levels at the last solar minimum.^[118]
• Over the last two decades, the solar wind‘s speed has dropped by 3%, its temperature by 13%, and its density by 20%.^[119]
• Its magnetic field is at less than half strength compared to the minimum of 22 years ago. The entire heliosphere, which fills the Solar System, has shrunk as a result, resulting in an increase in the level of cosmic radiation striking the Earth and its atmosphere.

History of observation

Early understanding and etymology

The Trundholm Sun chariot pulled by a horse is a sculpture believed to be illustrating an important part of Nordic Bronze Age mythology. The sculpture is probably from around 1350 BC. It is displayed at the National Museum of Denmark.

The English proper noun sun developed from Old English sunne (around 725, attested in Beowulf), and may be related to south. Cognates to English sun appear in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisiansunne, sonne (“sun”), Old Saxon sunna, Middle Dutch sonne, modern Dutch zon, Old High German sunna, modern German Sonne, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō. All Germanic terms for the Sun stem fromProto-Germanic *sunnōn.^[120] In Germanic paganism, the Sun is personified as a goddess; Sól/Sunna.^[121]

Theories have been proposed that Sun, as Germanic goddess, may represent an extension of an earlier Proto-Indo-European deity due to Indo-European linguistic connections between Old Norse Sól, SanskritSurya, Gaulish Sulis, Lithuanian Saulė, and Slavic Solnitse.^[121]

Humanity’s most fundamental understanding of the Sun is as the luminous disk in the sky, whose presence above the horizon creates day and whose absence causes night. In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a solar deity or other supernatural phenomenon. Worship of the Sun was central to civilizations such as the Inca of South America and the Aztecs of what is now Mexico. Many ancient monuments were constructed with solar phenomena in mind; for example, stone megaliths accurately mark the summer or winter solstice (some of the most prominent megaliths are located in Nabta Playa, Egypt, Mnajdra, Malta and at Stonehenge, England); Newgrange, a prehistoric human-built mount in Ireland, was designed to detect the winter solstice; the pyramid of El Castillo at Chichén Itzá in Mexico is designed to cast shadows in the shape of serpents climbing the pyramid at the vernal and autumn equinoxes.

In the late Roman Empire the Sun’s birthday was a holiday celebrated as Sol Invictus (literally “unconquered sun”) soon after the winter solstice which may have been an antecedent to Christmas. Regarding thefixed stars, the Sun appears from Earth to revolve once a year along the ecliptic through the zodiac, and so Greek astronomers considered it to be one of the seven planets (Greek planetes, “wanderer”), after which the seven days of the week are named in some languages.^{[122][123][124]}

Development of scientific understanding

In the early first millennium B.C.E., Babylonian astronomers observed that the Sun’s motion along the ecliptic was not uniform, though they were unaware of why this was; it is today known that this is due to the Earth moving in an elliptic orbit around the Sun, with the Earth moving faster when it is nearer to the Sun at perihelion and moving slower when it is farther away at aphelion.^[125]

One of the first people to offer a scientific or philosophical explanation for the Sun was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, who reasoned that it was a giant flaming ball of metal even larger than the Peloponnesus rather than the chariot of Helios, and that the Moon reflected the light of the Sun.^[126] For teaching this heresy, he was imprisoned by the authorities and sentenced to death, though he was later released through the intervention of Pericles. Eratosthenes estimated the distance between the Earth and the Sun in the 3rd century BCE as “of stadia myriads 400 and 80000″, the translation of which is ambiguous, implying either 4,080,000 stadia (755,000 km) or 804,000,000 stadia (148 to 153 million kilometers); the latter value is correct to within a few percent. In the 1st century CE, Ptolemy estimated the distance as 1,210 times the Earth radius.^[127]

The theory that the Sun is the center around which the planets move was first proposed by the ancient Greek Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BCE, and later adopted by Seleucus of Seleucia (see Heliocentrism). This largely philosophical view was developed into fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system in the 16th century by Nicolaus Copernicus. In the early 17th century, the invention of the telescope permitted detailed observations of sunspots by Thomas Harriot, Galileo Galileiand other astronomers. Galileo made some of the first known telescopic observations of sunspots and posited that they were on the surface of the Sun rather than small objects passing between the Earth and the Sun.^[128] Sunspots were also observed since the Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) by Chinese astronomers who maintained records of these observations for centuries. Averroes also provided a description of sunspots in the 12th century.^[129]

Arabic astronomical contributions include Albatenius discovering that the direction of the Sun’s eccentric is changing,^[130] and Ibn Yunus observing more than 10,000 entries for the Sun’s position for many years using a large astrolabe.^[131] The transit of Venus was first observed in 1032 by Avicenna, who concluded that Venus is closer to the Earth than the Sun,^[132] while one of the first observations of the transit of Mercury was conducted by Ibn Bajjah in the 12th century.^{[133][verification needed]}

In 1672 Giovanni Cassini and Jean Richer determined the distance to Mars and were thereby able to calculate the distance to the Sun. Isaac Newton observed the Sun’s light using a prism, and showed that it was made up of light of many colors,^[134] while in 1800 William Herschel discovered infrared radiation beyond the red part of the solar spectrum.^[135] The 19th century saw spectroscopic studies of the Sun advance, and Joseph von Fraunhofer made the first observations of absorption lines in the spectrum, the strongest of which are still often referred to as Fraunhofer lines. When expanding the spectrum of light from the Sun, a large number of missing colors can be found.

In the early years of the modern scientific era, the source of the Sun’s energy was a significant puzzle. Lord Kelvin suggested that the Sun was a gradually cooling liquid body that was radiating an internal store of heat.^[136] Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz then proposed a gravitational contraction mechanism to explain the energy output. Unfortunately the resulting age estimate was only 20 million years, well short of the time span of at least 300 million years suggested by some geological discoveries of that time.^[136] In 1890 Joseph Lockyer, who discovered helium in the solar spectrum, proposed a meteoritic hypothesis for the formation and evolution of the Sun.^[137]

Not until 1904 was a documented solution offered. Ernest Rutherford suggested that the Sun’s output could be maintained by an internal source of heat, and suggested radioactive decay as the source.^[138] However, it would be Albert Einstein who would provide the essential clue to the source of the Sun’s energy output with his mass-energy equivalence relation E = mc².^[139]

In 1920, Sir Arthur Eddington proposed that the pressures and temperatures at the core of the Sun could produce a nuclear fusion reaction that merged hydrogen (protons) into helium nuclei, resulting in a production of energy from the net change in mass.^[140] The preponderance of hydrogen in the Sun was confirmed in 1925 by Cecilia Payne. The theoretical concept of fusion was developed in the 1930s by the astrophysicists Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Hans Bethe. Hans Bethe calculated the details of the two main energy-producing nuclear reactions that power the Sun.^[141][142]

Finally, a seminal paper was published in 1957 by Margaret Burbidge, entitled “Synthesis of the Elements in Stars”.^[143] The paper demonstrated convincingly that most of the elements in the universe had been synthesized by nuclear reactions inside stars, some like our Sun.

Solar space missions

See also: Solar observatory

A lunar transit of the Sun captured during calibration of STEREO B’s ultraviolet imaging cameras ^[144]

The first satellites designed to observe the Sun were NASA‘s Pioneers 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, which were launched between 1959 and 1968. These probes orbited the Sun at a distance similar to that of the Earth, and made the first detailed measurements of the solar wind and the solar magnetic field. Pioneer 9 operated for a particularly long time, transmitting data until May 1983.^[145][146]

In the 1970s, two Helios spacecraft and the Skylab Apollo Telescope Mount provided scientists with significant new data on solar wind and the solar corona. The Helios 1 and 2 probes were U.S.–German collaborations that studied the solar wind from an orbit carrying the spacecraft inside Mercury‘s orbit at perihelion.^[147] The Skylab space station, launched by NASA in 1973, included a solar observatory module called the Apollo Telescope Mount that was operated by astronauts resident on the station.^[55] Skylab made the first time-resolved observations of the solar transition region and of ultraviolet emissions from the solar corona.^[55] Discoveries included the first observations of coronal mass ejections, then called “coronal transients”, and of coronal holes, now known to be intimately associated with the solar wind.^[147]

In 1980, the Solar Maximum Mission was launched by NASA. This spacecraft was designed to observe gamma rays, X-rays and UV radiation from solar flares during a time of high solar activity and solar luminosity. Just a few months after launch, however, an electronics failure caused the probe to go into standby mode, and it spent the next three years in this inactive state. In 1984 Space Shuttle Challengermission STS-41C retrieved the satellite and repaired its electronics before re-releasing it into orbit. The Solar Maximum Mission subsequently acquired thousands of images of the solar corona before re-enteringthe Earth’s atmosphere in June 1989.^[148]

Launched in 1991, Japan’s Yohkoh (Sunbeam) satellite observed solar flares at X-ray wavelengths. Mission data allowed scientists to identify several different types of flares, and demonstrated that the corona away from regions of peak activity was much more dynamic and active than had previously been supposed. Yohkoh observed an entire solar cycle but went into standby mode when an annular eclipse in 2001 caused it to lose its lock on the Sun. It was destroyed by atmospheric re-entry in 2005.^[149]

One of the most important solar missions to date has been the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, jointly built by the European Space Agency and NASA and launched on 2 December 1995.^[55] Originally intended to serve a two-year mission, a mission extension through 2012 was approved in October 2009.^[150] It has proven so useful that a follow-on mission, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, was launched in February 2010.^[151] Situated at the Lagrangian point between the Earth and the Sun (at which the gravitational pull from both is equal), SOHO has provided a constant view of the Sun at many wavelengths since its launch.^[55] Besides its direct solar observation, SOHO has enabled the discovery of a large number of comets, mostly very tiny sungrazing comets which incinerate as they pass the Sun.^[152]

All these satellites have observed the Sun from the plane of the ecliptic, and so have only observed its equatorial regions in detail. The Ulysses probe was launched in 1990 to study the Sun’s polar regions. It first travelled to Jupiter, to “slingshot” past the planet into an orbit which would take it far above the plane of the ecliptic. Serendipitously, it was well-placed to observe the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994. Once Ulysses was in its scheduled orbit, it began observing the solar wind and magnetic field strength at high solar latitudes, finding that the solar wind from high latitudes was moving at about 750 km/s which was slower than expected, and that there were large magnetic waves emerging from high latitudes which scattered galactic cosmic rays.^[153]

Elemental abundances in the photosphere are well known from spectroscopic studies, but the composition of the interior of the Sun is more poorly understood. A solar wind sample return mission, Genesis, was designed to allow astronomers to directly measure the composition of solar material. Genesis returned to Earth in 2004 but was damaged by a crash landing after its parachute failed to deploy on re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Despite severe damage, some usable samples have been recovered from the spacecraft’s sample return module and are undergoing analysis.^[154]

The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission was launched in October 2006. Two identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to (respectively) pull further ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth. This enablesstereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections.^[155][156]

Observation and effects

The Sun as it appears from the surface of Earth

Sunlight is very bright, and looking directly at the Sun with the naked eye for brief periods can be painful, but is not particularly hazardous for normal, non-dilated eyes.^[157][158] Looking directly at the Sun causesphosphene visual artifacts and temporary partial blindness. It also delivers about 4 milliwatts of sunlight to the retina, slightly heating it and potentially causing damage in eyes that cannot respond properly to the brightness.^[159][160] UV exposure gradually yellows the lens of the eye over a period of years and is thought to contribute to the formation of cataracts, but this depends on general exposure to solar UV, not on whether one looks directly at the Sun.^[161] Long-duration viewing of the direct Sun with the naked eye can begin to cause UV-induced, sunburn-like lesions on the retina after about 100 seconds, particularly under conditions where the UV light from the Sun is intense and well focused;^[162][163] conditions are worsened by young eyes or new lens implants (which admit more UV than aging natural eyes), Sun angles near the zenith, and observing locations at high altitude.

Viewing the Sun through light-concentrating optics such as binoculars is very hazardous without an appropriate filter that blocks UV and substantially dims the sunlight. An attenuating (ND) filter might not filter UV and so is still dangerous. Attenuating filters to view the Sun should be specifically designed for that use: some improvised filters pass UV or IR rays that can harm the eye at high brightness levels.^[164] Unfiltered binoculars can deliver over 500 times as much energy to the retina as using the naked eye, killing retinal cells almost instantly (even though the power per unit area of image on the retina is the same, the heat cannot dissipate fast enough because the image is larger). Even brief glances at the midday Sun through unfiltered binoculars can cause permanent blindness.^[165]

Partial solar eclipses are hazardous to view because the eye’s pupil is not adapted to the unusually high visual contrast: the pupil dilates according to the total amount of light in the field of view, not by the brightest object in the field. During partial eclipses most sunlight is blocked by the Moon passing in front of the Sun, but the uncovered parts of the photosphere have the same surface brightness as during a normal day. In the overall gloom, the pupil expands from ~2 mm to ~6 mm, and each retinal cell exposed to the solar image receives about ten times more light than it would looking at the non-eclipsed Sun. This can damage or kill those cells, resulting in small permanent blind spots for the viewer.^[166] The hazard is insidious for inexperienced observers and for children, because there is no perception of pain: it is not immediately obvious that one’s vision is being destroyed.

During sunrise and sunset sunlight is attenuated due to Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering from a particularly long passage through Earth’s atmosphere,^[167] and the Sun is sometimes faint enough to be viewed comfortably with the naked eye or safely with optics (provided there is no risk of bright sunlight suddenly appearing through a break between clouds). Hazy conditions, atmospheric dust, and high humidity contribute to this atmospheric attenuation.^[168]

A rare optical phenomenon may occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise, known as a green flash. The flash is caused by light from the Sun just below the horizon being bent (usually through a temperature inversion) towards the observer. Light of shorter wavelengths (violet, blue, green) is bent more than that of longer wavelengths (yellow, orange, red) but the violet and blue light is scattered more, leaving light that is perceived as green.^[169]

Ultraviolet light from the Sun has antiseptic properties and can be used to sanitize tools and water. It also causes sunburn, and has other medical effects such as the production of vitamin D. Ultraviolet light is strongly attenuated by Earth’s ozone layer, so that the amount of UV varies greatly with latitude and has been partially responsible for many biological adaptations, including variations in human skin color in different regions of the globe.^[170]

Terminology

See also: The Sun in human culture

Like other natural phenomena, the Sun has been an object of veneration in many cultures throughout human history, and was the source of the word Sunday. Its formal name in the English language is, per the International Astronomical Union, the Sun (capitalized as a proper noun).^[171] The Latin name Sol, for the Sun god of the same name, pronounced /ˈsɒl/ (rhyming with doll) in English, is widely known but not common in general English language use; the adjectival form is the related wordsolar.^[172][173] “Sol” is, however, the modern word for “Sun” in many European languages.^[174]

The term sol is also used by planetary astronomers to refer to the duration of a solar day on another planet, such as Mars.^[175] A mean Earth solar day is approximately 24 hours, while a mean Martian ‘sol’ is 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds.^[176] See also Timekeeping on Mars.

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Notes

1. ^ In astronomical sciences, the term heavy elements (or metals) refers to all elements except hydrogen and helium.
2. ^ A 50 kg adult human has a volume of about 0.05 m³, which corresponds to 13.8 watts, at the volumetric power of the solar center. This is 285 kcal/day, about 10% of the actual average caloric intake and output for humans in non-stressful conditions.
3. ^ Earth’s atmosphere near sea level has a particle density of about 2×10²⁵ m⁻³.

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Common Purpose

Common Purpose UK

Common Purpose is a fraudulent ‘educational charity’ acting as a change agent being used to recruit and train the commissars and apparatchiks needed to implement the British government’s hidden New World Order communitarian agenda.
Common Purpose hates having people discuss it. Please donate to help keep this website going and spread the message.

1. Britain 2010s

We are living at a particularly momentous time in history. In order to understand what is happening in Britain in the 2010s, you need to know about four things:
1. The New World Order;
2. The United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development Plan;
3. A political philosophy called ‘communitarianism’;
4. A fake charity named Common Purpose.
These four things are linked together. This website will help you join the dots.

Background

In 1973 the UK joined the Common Market and in the 1975 referendum the people of Britain were conned into voting in favour of staying in the Common Market. [1.1]

Prime Minister Heath, whose government entered into the accession treaty, and Prime Minister Wilson, who arranged the referendum, both knew that the Common Market was simply a stage in the development of the European Union.

At some point, those behind the take-over of Britain by the EU realised that they needed people whom they could trust to manage the new bureaucracy.

Enter Common Purpose, which was established to recruit and train the commissars and apparatchiks needed to run this bureaucracy.

The Hidden Agenda

From 1997, the New Labour government worked to two agendas. Firstly, the open agenda as laid out in their manifestos and secondly, their hidden agenda.

The objective of the hidden agenda is the creation of a communitarian society controlled by the EU collective.

In order to achieve this objective, the New Labour government ran a parallel administration made up of QUANGOs and fake charities. A fake charity is legally a charity but effectively operates as a government department, receiving a substantial amount of funding directly or indirectly from government and operating as a government department.

The hidden agenda continues to operate under the coalition government.

The British parliament has become just a puppet organization. They merely go through the motions – the pretense of acting like a governing body, but the reality is they are just rubber-stamping the programmes of the New World Order global communitarian technocrats.

New World Order

This project has been in the works for decades. Its main objectives are:

1. The creation of a One World Government with a unified monetary system under their direction;

2. To bring about the utter destruction of all national identity and national pride;

3. To bring about the end to all industrialization in what they call ‘the post-industrial zero-growth society’.

Agenda 21

“United Nations Local Agenda 21 Programme for Sustainable Development is the ‘smoking gun’ for the New World Order. Adopted by all member nations in 1992, this is the model for redesigning a communitarian world. If you’re like a lot of people who sense something is very wrong, if you’re looking for concrete, irrefutable evidence for the New World Order in your neighborhood, nothing comes close to asking your local officials about Local Agenda 21 (LA21).” [1.2]

“Whatever you call it, Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, the goals are the same, to reduce and eventually eliminate private property ownership and rights.” [1.3]

Smart Growth

Another term for ‘Sustainable Development’. [1.4]

European Union

Part of the New World Order. Common Purpose members are taught to ‘lead beyond authority’ and are involved in the slow and secretive merging of the public and private sectors and preparing Britain for complete takeover by the EU.

Common Purpose is part of an extensive European Union espionage network in the UK. One of the senior spy masters in that network was Commissar Sarah Lambert [1.5], Head of Political Intelligence, EU Office in London.

The EU intelligence and monitoring teams are charged with seeing how well the EU’s plans are doing and reporting on anti-EU activists.

These EU spies in Britain not only engage in legitimate, open-source intelligence gathering such as monitoring websites, newspapers and political meetings but also engage in illegal intelligence gathering activities such as bugging, surveillance of individuals (stalking) and burglary.

The EU spy masters in London also employ criminals to intimidate and harass anti-EU activists.

USA

Common Purpose as exists in the UK does not have representation in the USA.

Common Purpose is being used to implement the EU/NWO communitarian agenda in the UK and a few other countries.

The NWO communitarian agenda in the USA is being implemented through other communitarian programs.

“Compassionate Conservatism is communitarianism. The Third Way is communitarianism. International Law has ‘communitarian pretentions’. Community Policing is Communitarian Policing. Bill Clinton was a communitarian president.” [1.6]

“Agenda 21 uses communitarian language. The President of Colombia is a communitarian president. President Bush was a communitarian president. Obama is a communitarian president. George Soros is a communitarian. Americorps is a communitarian programme. Citizen Corps is a communitarian draft. Hilary Clinton is (among other various titles) a communitarian. ABCD- Asset Based Community Development is a communitarian mapping programme. Domestic Violence Acts and laws rely on communitarian shaming. Family based crime prevention is communitarian. Creative crime prevention is communitarian. Talmudic Homeland Security is communitarian. Faith-based programmes are communitarian. Domestic disarmament is Communitarian. Character Building is Communitarian. Globalization of Values and Norms is Communitarian. The New World Order is communitarian.” [1.7]

“Communitarianism and the Third Way are completely incompatible with religion – especially Christianity – in any way. The two simply cannot co-exist, because Communitarianism puts the common good ahead of any God-given rights including the right to live. We’re not just talking about abortion, but also elder care and end-of-life medical decisions.” [1.8]

Obama is sometimes called a ‘socialist.’ He isn’t. He is a communitarian.

2. What is Common Purpose?

Some people think that Common Purpose is simply a criminal organisation set up to siphon off public money but there is a lot more than that to the Common Purpose agenda

On the surface, Common Purpose is an educational charity, registered in the UK under number 1023384, that does leadership and networking development training.

However, Common Purpose is not what it appears to be on the surface.

In reality, Common Purpose is a corrupt, subversive, secretive and deeply sinister organisation with a hidden agenda (communitarian corporate-communism, social control, corporate and EU state control) and hidden backers (Tavistock Institute, Fabian Society, Brussels).

The main function of Common Purpose is that of a recruitment organisation being used to recruit the commissars and apparatchiks needed to implement the government’s hidden communitarian agenda.

Common Purpose is also…

1. A Masonic-like society for careerists most of whose ‘graduates’ avoid admitting association with Common Purpose. ‘The first rule of Common Purpose is that you don’t talk about Common Purpose’;

2. A means of subversion used to undermine traditional British values and destroy the identity of Britain;

3. Obsessed with social control and social engineering;

4. Working towards the establishment of a communitarian society;

5. Fraudulently masquerading as an ‘educational charity’ when its objectives are clearly political;

6. A criminal abuser of public funds – the tax payer is funding the hidden agenda;

7. Hiding its true origins and controlled by hidden hands who thought up the idea for Common Purpose initially and pull Commissar Middleton’s strings;

8. An octopus-like mechanism with its tentacles reaching into national and local government departments, QUANGOS, charities, the media, the police and private businesses. The Italian word – ‘la piovra’ – means octopus and is used to describe the Mafia;

9. Corrupt, secretive, deceitful, fraudulent, treacherous, working to a fraudulent agenda and hiding its true intentions;

10. Blurring the edges between the public and private sectors to secretly merge these sectors;

11 Working as a change agent to subtly change Britain, British government departments and private industry. A change agent is a person, team or organisation used to effect changes in an organisation;

12. Helping to carry out the hidden agenda of the government;

13. A Bilderberg-type group for upper and middle management implementing the Agenda 21, sustainable development and communitarian policies of the New World Order;

14. Being used to form a New World Order control grid in the UK;

15. A ‘Trojan Horse’ fifth column operation and is part of the mechanism being used by Brussels to undermine and soften up British society to pave the way for the take-over of Britain by the European Union collective.

When I first came across Common Purpose, it reminded me of Scientology and then I found this quote:

“From what little I’ve been able to pick up from the bland yet creepy Common Purpose website and other little snippets I’ve encountered here and there, Common Purpose gives off a vibe of some kind of cross between Scientology, EST therapy, the Stepford Bureaucrats and the Masons.” [2.1]

Precisely.

Strange things have been happening in Britain in recent years. For example, the police have lost their common sense. The existence of Common Purpose helps to explain them.

Some people have worked out exactly what Common Purpose has been up to and it is not a very edifying story.

It is difficult to comprehend the enormity of the corruption, deceit, fraud and treachery that Common Purpose has engaged in. Common Purpose has been working with the British government to soften up Britain for takeover by the EU. This is what makes Common Purpose so unique. Most people will find it difficult to comprehend that any government could stoop so low as to betray its own citizens.

The economic and social chaos that we are witnessing nowadays has been deliberately engineered and Common Purpose along with New World Order plotters in places like the United States and the European Union.

There are literally no depths to which these institutionally-corrupt British governments will not descend: multi-billion eurofraud, relentless and ruthless abuses of citizens, lying, cheating, secrecy, going to war on the basis of lies, oppressive social control, abrogating sovereign rule to Brussels, corruption, deceit, fraud, treachery, bankrupting the country and so on.

Whilst carrying out the hidden United Nations Agenda 21, Common Purpose has corruptly abused millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money.

Common Purpose is guilty of defrauding YOU of YOUR money.

Change agent

Common Purpose is a change agent being used to recruit and train the commissars and apparatchiks needed to implement the British government’s hidden EU communitarian agenda.

Hidden agenda

Common Purpose is being used to recruit and train change agents to implement this hidden agenda.

3. Objectives

The main objective of Common Purpose is social control in a collectivist and corporatist society.

The other objectives of Common Purpose are the destruction of the national identity of Britain, the destruction of democracy in Britain, the undermining of traditional beliefs and values and the slow, secretive merging of the public and private sectors into a state-controlled partnership.

What would you say, if I introduced to you a system, whereby, in an ‘open and free society’, some views were not heard at all? Possible? That is precisely what Common Purpose has set out to do – create an organisation that instructs its members how they must think and act on a number of key issues such as immigration, multiculturalism, the EU, global warming and any type of nationalism.

The plan, now well advanced, is to create a massive network of ‘training and diversity’ organisations to brainwash the useful idiots needed to run society on behalf of the ‘élite’. These include those involved with the institutions of government, commerce, education, law enforcement etc.

Common Purpose proposes a ‘design for life’, from a frighteningly early age. If you are with them, you can rise through the system until you reach your calling – but dissent, and you will always be staring upwards from the nadir below. In other words, if you will not play by the rules of the manipulated system, you can kiss any future career goodbye.

We are all being ‘shafted’ by a group of so-called ‘élitists’, who see the people as little more than taxable cash cows, that must be firmly indoctrinated and then kept in their place.

Common Purpose objectives for individuals and families

* Rapidly falling incomes
* House repossessions
* Increasing debt
* Unemployment or low-skill employment
* Poverty
* Overcrowding
* Control from cradle to grave
* Victims of crime
* Cultural disintegration
* Constant surveillance

Common Purpose objectives for Britain

* Perennial trade deficit
* High unemployment
* Massive debt
* Mortgaged to foreigners
* Inequality
* High population density
* High immigration to destroy the culture
* Social fragmentation
* Economic enslavement
* Organised plunder
* Band-aid NHS
* Politically correct multi-culturalism
* Destruction of the middle class

Objectives for Common Purpose members, bureaucrats and politicians

* Rising incomes
* Full employment
* Tax-funded income
* Comfortable pensions
* Private medical insurance
* Human rights
* Lavish spending

Destroy Britain

Part of the objective is to destroy the identity of Britain and destroy democracy in Britain.

Social control

They are obsessed with social control and social engineering.

Create a communitarian society

Secretive merging of the public and private sectors into a state-controlled partnership – a communitarian society.

Create a technocracy

One of the objectives is to create a technocracy including an international system of computer control systems (management systems).  For a brief introduction, see What is Technocracy? [3.1]
Your future as a “biological economic device”: [3.2]

Power and money

Power and money are great motivators.

4. Philosophy

The hidden agenda of Common Purpose is based on the political philosophy of the ‘Third Way’ and pursues the political objective of the creation of a collectivist and corporatist society within the European Union.

Communitarianism

Communitarianism, the philosophy underpinning the NWO and its agenda, has been implemented by stealth in Britain over the past few years. For example, the smoking ban is a typical communitarian policy.

Communitarianism is a type of supranational collectivism that uses social, economic, psychological and systems manipulation in preference to violence to achieve its objectives.

Communitarianism is difficult to pin down. It is…

1. A strange mixture of capitalism and communism. Communitarians want social control in a collectivist and corporatist society;

2. A type of neo-communism that owes some of its ideas to Gramsci and the Fabians;

3. A ‘Big Brother knows best’ type of philosophy.

Communitarians want…

1. To create a post-modern, post-democratic feudal society known as the ‘New World Order’ run by a small number of rich and powerful people with everyone else working as peasants. In order to achieve their objectives they must destroy the middle class and the nation state;

2. Group rights dominant over individual rights;

3. Highly-taxed capitalism merged with social collectivism, administered through QUANGOs and fake charities. They call this ‘civil society’;

4. The ‘reinvention of government’ – replacing governments that operate under the rule of law with a system of ‘professional managers’;

5. Government by committee, with the committee deciding what is for the ‘common good’.

The communitarians, through stealth, perseverance, duplicity, and subversion, have snatched individual-rights based democracy right out from under our noses, and replaced it with group-rights based communitarianism – a trendy, innovative, and newish form of communism administered by foreign elitists.

They are convinced that a communitarian system is ‘better’ for society – ‘improved social cohesion’ is the central tenet of their political ideology.

Obama, Blair, Brown and Mandelson et al are Fabian communitarians and Cameron and Clegg show distinct communitarian tendencies, although you will not have heard them use the term. The truth of their hidden agenda is now known and we know their real intentions. These people are front-men for the New World Order communitarians.

Communitarian policy has been seen as fascist corporatism with the primary difference that instead of focussing on nation states, own country and people, it propagates a supranational policy. A secondary difference is it influences by means of informal social structures, like for example Common Purpose, instead of by institutionalised State violence – at least for the time being.

Communitarianism is aimed just like fascists, socialists and communists at the collective. The interests of the collective always prevail above the interests of the individual. Individuals must subjugate themselves to the ‘common good’. Communitarians create imaginary problems such as global warming, terrorism suppression and the bank crisis to force through their ideas.

Barack Obama is a Fabian Communitarian, although you will not have heard him use the term during his election campaign. Americans will get a shock when the truth of his hidden agenda becomes known and they find out his real intentions. Bear in mind that Obama is simply a front-man for the New World Order communitarians.

Quotes:

“In a communitarian society, which is inherently coercive, it isn’t just the majority view that prevails and becomes policy, the majority view is the only one which can be spoken, the only one which can be even heard.” [4.1]

“Communitarianism is a collectivist philosophy that explicitly rejects individualism.” [4.2]

“Communitarianism is not about ‘the common good’. It’s about power and the absolute and dictatorial control of money and people – nothing more and nothing less.” [4.3]

“The cult television series ‘The Prisoner’ tells the story of a man who, after losing and then regaining consciousness, opens the blinds of his London flat to find that the world outside has undergone a Kafkaesque transformation: the skyscrapers and city streets visible from his window have been replaced with a small and serene village. (2) Accompanying this stark change in his external environment is a sharp decrease in his freedom. Whereas his life in London was his own, he discovers upon venturing out into the village (3) that his decisions and actions are now community property. He is watched everywhere he goes both by neighbors and hidden cameras. (4) He is expected to be an enthusiastic participant in all communal events, and is ostracized as ‘unmutual’ when he instead seeks out privacy and seclusion. (5) The town’s authorities are intent on ensuring that residents cannot opt out of village life: quaint taxis transport people within the village, but never outside of it; phone service is strictly local; maps at the village store show nothing beyond the community’s boundaries. (6) Each showing of independence or defiance by the protagonist brings strong pressure from the authorities to fully account for (and recant) his actions. (7) In short, his familiar urban life is replaced with a communitarian dystopia, hostile to privacy and deeply suspicious of every act of individuality.” [4.4]

These links will explain more about this evil and dictatorial philosophy:
Niki Raapana’s excellent analysis: [4.5.1] Niki Raapana answers questions about communitarianism: [4.5.2] Communitarianism is rule by permit only: [4.5.3]
‘The EU Communitarian Agenda and The New Feudalists’: [4.6]
‘The Fabian Society, Communitarianism and the New World Order’ video: [4.7]

Fabians

Cui bono?

Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla, whom the Romans regarded as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, “To whose benefit?”

Some people have gone to a lot of trouble to set Common Purpose up and keep its real agenda and activities secret. Cui bono?

The benefits are a mixture of both political and financial and the people who benefit are the leaders and members of the Common Purpose network who want power and money.

1. The key to understanding Common Purpose is to realise that they are Fabians.

2. The final objective of the Fabians is to create a One World communitarian (‘Third Way’) government. This ties in with the New World Order project. [4.8]

3. Common Purpose is the management mechanism being used to carry out the true and hidden agenda of the Fabians.
“The Fabians have been, throughout their history, political and social chameleons who have, through stealth and deception, changed their outer skin to infiltrate every political, social and educational institution around the world, particularly in Great Britain and the United States. Speaking of chameleons, the primary symbol of the Fabians is a ‘wolf wrapped in a sheep’s skin’.” [4.9]

So what motivates the Common Purpose leaders?

1. The Fabian/Communitarian New World Order political agenda. These people despise individuals and people who seek free choice but instead wish to make everybody from the same mould and they despise nations and wish to see the destruction of the nation state – in this case, the UK.

2. The chance to get their hands on and abuse loads of free ‘government’ or rather, tax-payers’, money.

And what motivates those who support Common Purpose, go on courses and do what the Common Purpose network tells them to do in their work?

How about fat salaries and nice pensions? That’ll do to start with.

Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism

This is where one of the main tools of communitarians – political correctness – was developed. [4.10]

5. Controllers

Julia Middleton is nominally the Commissar-in-Chief of Common Purpose but other people further up the food chain pull her strings.

Middleton, Bell, Prescott and Co are verminous, corrupt and evil crooks who have conspired with others to corruptly abuse millions of pounds of public money and corruptly suborn some members of the British police, judiciary and armed forces.

Julia Middleton

Julia Middleton is nominally the Commissar-in-Chief of Common Purpose but other people further up the food chain pull her strings.
Muz Middleton is often classified as a Marxist but she is really a communitarian.
Strangely enough, she was described as “A communitarian before the word was invented” by the Independent newspaper in 1995. [5.1] This was at a time when the word ‘communitarian’ was virtually unknown in Britain and shows that she was most definitely in the inner loop.

An interesting video of how Common Purpose cult leader Julia Middleton uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques is available here: [5.2]

Sir David Bell

Bell is a Common Purpose trustee and one of the main string-pullers.

Hidden hands

Some of the input into Common Purpose comes from people whose identities are not revealed.

Although Julia Middleton claims to be the founder of Common Purpose, it was not her idea. The ideas behind Common Purpose are too sophisticated and subtle for one person to think up. The idea for Common Purpose originally came from the Tavistock Institute. [5.3] Like Common Purpose, the Tavistock Institute is another organisation which is not what it appears to be on the surface.

6. Criminal activities

Common Purpose  is a fraudulent educational charity that is clearly politically motivated and is corruptly abusing public funds to implement the British government’s hidden agenda.

Corruption

“Incitement to criminality: In reality operating outside authority for the police, and many others, means operating illegally and without accountability. This does not bother Middleton however, who urges Common Purpose leaders to create their own legitimacy. She quotes organisations as Stranger 1 and Stranger 2. But why are these strangers so shy? Are they financial contributors, do they have political agendas?
If readers sense something sinister at work, I agree. Middleton does not really explain how, when she took over, she was able to raise £500,000 in a few months, and continues to receive huge donations from big business. She does not tell the reader how her Advisory Boards in each City select members for the Common Purpose élite. We know about half are selected for the inner sanctum – those who can be compromised, those who can be bribed with big salaries in quango or non jobs ,and those who will lie to conceal CP activities. But she does give a hint as to how the chosen are classified – ‘Suns’ (people of established power and influence), as ‘Stars’ (those of rapid but unpredictable rise to power and influence), and as ‘Moons’ (those individuals of diminishing power). Those who will not help Common Purpose, or who challenge it, are called ‘Black Holes’.” [6.1]

Abuse of public funds

Common Purpose has been obtaining money for training unlawfully, on at least three counts:

1. The decision for local authorities to spend the money on training was taken outside of the democratic processes and is therefore unlawful

2. The local authorities, when pressed, had to admit that there was no financial benefit to the ratepayer, i.e. unlawful

3. There are large bills for creating bespoke training courses, when in fact it is the same off-the-shelf course, i.e. fraud

Fraud

Common Purpose operates fraudulently as a charity.

1. Common Purpose has redefined the meaning of ‘charity’. Although Common Purpose calls itself an ‘educational charity’, it is not the poor and disadvantaged who benefit. Instead, the main beneficiaries are the rich and powerful.

2. According to the Charity Commission, “An organisation will not be charitable if its purposes are political.” [6.2] When you get beneath the facade of Common Purpose, its purposes are clearly political, not educational.

Why is Common Purpose allowed to be a charity when its hidden agenda is clearly political?

Tax evasion

Common Purpose uses public sector facilities and office space for which it has made no payment nor signed any formal agreements. Is this to evade tax?

Breaches of data protection laws

Common Purpose has been reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office for alleged breaches of data protection law. [6.3] Of course, CP’s friends in the ICO made sure no action was taken.

Seven Principles

Those Common Purpose members who are public servants who breach ALL the Seven Principles of Public Life as set out by the Committee on Standards in Public Life. [6.4]

Ultra vires

A Common Purpose quote: “People who lead beyond their authority can produce change beyond their direct circle of control”. [6.5]

Leading beyond authority can mean acting ultra vires. Ultra vires a legal concept. It is Latin for ‘beyond the powers’. It can apply to any body which has rules, such as a charity or a local authority. An ultra vires act is one that is outside the specified and/or implied constitutional objects and powers of the body in question. It is ‘beyond the powers’ and therefore illegal.

Also, what are the implications of ‘leading beyond authority’ for services which require a hierarchical management structure to ensure discipline and cohesion, like the armed forces and police which can be manipulated from within for political purposes?

7. Members

Common Purpose calls its senior members ‘graduates’.

Police

The UK has a politicised police force that is being developed into a State police force along the lines of the Stasi. [7.1]

Common Purpose has corrupted the police in Britain.

One of the main targets of Common Purpose is the police because Common Purpose is obsessed with social control.

There is a surveillance camera system in Britain which would have been beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi. Britain is now an endemic surveillance society. [7.2]

How Common Purpose seeks to corruptly influence the police

1. Common Purpose sent a letter to the Chief Constable of Fife giving instructions on how to deal with Freedom of Information requests made to him about Common Purpose. [7.3]Many other Chief Constables would have received similar instructions.

Why is an ‘educational charity’ like Common Purpose giving instructions to police officers about how they should handle Freedom of Information requests made to them about Common Purpose? What is going on?

2. Norwich prison released to Common Purpose the name and address of a person who quite legitimately asked them, under the Freedom of Information Act, why the prison was providing offices for Common Purpose, and how much Common Purpose was paying. [7.4] HMP Norwich had no right to release this information contrary to the Data Protection Act and has had to apologise.

Why does Common Purpose want to know the identities of those people making FOI requests about them? Why did HMP Norwich flagrantly breach the Data Protection Act? What action is being taken against them?

How many more examples are there of Common Purpose corruptly influencing members of the police, judiciary, prison service and armed forces?

Police officers are supposed to operate ‘without fear or favour’ but there are plenty of favours being done by Common Purpose police for their colleagues in the Common Purpose network.

There is no need whatsoever for police officers to be part of any Common Purpose style network or act as agents for the European Union’s espionage service.

Police officers are also supposed to have allegiance to the Crown and not to Brussels.

All police officers who are Common Purpose ‘graduates’ have been corrupted and are totally untrustworthy. They are a disgrace to their uniform and should be removed from office immediately.

All police officers (and all other government employees for that matter) should be banned from attending any Common Purpose ‘training’ course.

Common Purpose should be investigated for fraud by police not corrupted by Common Purpose – if they can find any.

This is the thin end of a very nasty wedge.

Common Purpose has corrupted the police. The people of Britain have a really serious problem to solve.

Media

Common Purpose has corrupted the British media. Common Purpose has representatives in all parts of the mainstream media.

One of the main targets of Common Purpose is the media because the British government and Brussels need to control propaganda to the masses.

BBC

Many BBC, ITV and other media personnel are graduates of the Common Purpose Revolution by Stealth operation. In fact, the BBC and other media outlets have become the propaganda arms of the British government’s mealy-mouthed, pro-Europe and politically correct Ministry of Truth (Minitrue).

The Common Purpose commissars and apparatchiks who have infiltrated the BBC have destroyed the reputation that the BBC had amongst many for independent and accurate reporting of news and current affairs. And this deceit has all been funded by the BBC Licence Tax payer.

Mark Thompson, Dictator-General of the BBC, is a Common Purpose member but will not admit it. Mark Thompson is a corrupt and evil crook who has conspired with others to corruptly abuse millions of pounds of public money and corrupt the British media.

You will find NO criticism of Common Purpose in the mass media. Why are people in the media so terrified of discussing Common Purpose? If you know the answer to that, please contact me.

Media Standards Trust

Whatever this bunch of crooks is up to, the only standards they are interested in upholding are their own – censorship and control of the media. They even have the gall, audacity, impertinence and effrontery to co-sponsor the Orwell Prize for political writing. As far as taking the piss goes, this really does take the biscuit.

Their Board of Trustees reads like a Who’s Who of the Common Purpose and New World Order brigade and includes Robert Peston (Business Editor, BBC).

You need to keep an eye on the Media Standards Trust.

Government

All levels of government have been infiltrated by Common Purpose.

Local

How Common Purpose operates in councils.

1. Decisions concerning policy and expenditure affecting councils are made at meetings of Common Purpose that bypass the democratic, executive and scrutiny functions of the council. This is what Common Purpose calls ‘leading beyond authority’.

2. Members of Common Purpose, which includes senior council officers, are chosen by Common Purpose for their value to Common Purpose and trained at ratepayers’ expense, in spite of the fact that these costs are of no tangible benefit to the taxpayer.

3. The so-called ‘graduates’ or members of Common Purpose use unaccounted council employee time and resources for the business of Common Purpose and, as with their so-called training, the activities of Common Purpose within councils often escaped the attention of the Full Council, Cabinet and Scrutiny Panel.

4. Meetings of Common Purpose are held using a corporate account, off-books, to pay for the hospitality at these meetings.

5. Citizens are not only lied-to when questions are asked about Common Purpose, but are not even allowed to know which council officers have received the so-called training at the taxpayers’ expense, and legitimate requests are still being unlawfully withheld.

6. Common Purpose coaches its members on how to avoid answering Freedom of Information requests and how to break the Data Protection Act with unlawful disclosures.

7. Common Purpose encourages its members to identify 12-15 year olds for grooming before placement for so-called ‘Your Turn’ training without any evidence of having carried out the statutory criminal safety checks.

8. Those identified with Common Purpose, in any capacity or association, are among the same people determined as either corrupt or behind the worst and continuing abuses of citizens.

…and what YOU can do about it…

YOU have the chance to fight back! Let Common Purpose know that we are on to them.

Find out what you can about expenditure on Common Purpose courses by your local council.

Ask your councillors which Common Purpose courses the council pays for, who goes on these courses, what they cost, where they are held, why the council spends tax payers’ money on these courses, what the actual and perceived benefits of these courses are, what the course syllabus is, any course notes and documentation you can find and why people who attend these courses are so secretive about what happens on these courses. Also, what sort of tendering process is involved when these contracts for courses are given to Common Purpose? Are other training companies allowed to compete to provide leadership training courses?

Ask your councillors what is the benefit to YOU, the tax-payer, of these courses. (There isn’t any benefit to the tax-payer of these Common Purpose courses.) What assessments/results of the courses are put into writing? (Answer: none.) Why are these courses so expensive? Are they value for money? (Of course not.)

Is this money well-spent? (No, of course not.) Could all these thousands of pounds have been spent more wisely instead of being wasted on Common Purpose courses? (Yes… either your money could be better spent or YOUR taxes could be reduced.)

Find out if Common Purpose is given any free accommodation or services by the local council.

If you suspect behind-the-scenes corrupt deals going on in your council, see if you can find a common factor… all the people concerned may well be Common Purpose ‘graduates’. You can find out more about how to do Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to find out about Common Purpose activities here: [7.5]

Happy hunting… remember Common Purpose can’t stand people asking questions about them.

National

“Common Purpose is the glue than enables fraud to be committed across government departments to reward pro European politicians.”

Common Purpose undermines traditionally effective and efficient government departments with an overwhelming influx of new language, political correctness and management initiatives. The talk is of empowering communities, vision, mainstreaming (sucking EU money into a project to sustain it), community empowerment, working partnership, regeneration and celebrating diversity etc etc. Documents appear about change, and reorganisation. In time confusion rules, and things don’t seem to work properly. Management decisions are made that seem stupidly destructive. The organisational performance becomes sluggish. Council Officers are having quasi secret meetings with, for example, property developer Common Purpose friends. No agendas and no minutes. Common Purpose members from the public quango sectors such as the Regional Development Agencies attend, and have the power to award large sums of public money to projects.”

The EU plan has been very simple and very clever. First set up via the traitors within UK national government the Regional Development Agencies. These were designed to be smooth as silk and sweet as honey – to do all things good e.g. regeneration, helping communities, helping business, innovation, entrepreneurship etc etc. Next load the honey trap with large amounts of money so that people, organisations are attracted to the honey pot. As more people are attracted, increase the powers of the RDAs to include planning powers and input. Make it compulsory for City Councils, County Councils and District Councils to consult them, and then their power increases further. And with planning powers they can get their organisational snouts into virtually every walk of life.

Meanwhile ‘bring the government to the people’ by setting up the Regional Government Offices – (remembering Regional = EU). The Government Offices now get increasing powers to interfere in everything, and especially local and strategic planning, because almost nothing gets done, or built without going through the planning process. Make consultation with the Government Offices compulsory.

Now the clever bit. In the background the traitors now work to introduce the Regional Assemblies. At first unelected and informal, so as to allay fears and ease doubts as to their true purpose. Then the ‘behind the scenes traitors’ start to work to make them elected using large amounts of UK public money and EU funds.

The NHS

Undermining the NHS is Common Purposes’ biggest success so far. NHS senior and middle management is riddled with Common Purpose members, yet the average doctor or nurse has never heard of Common Purpose. Why is Common Purpose so secretive?

Charities

Many fake charities such as Age Concern have links to Common Purpose.

Characteristics

Common Purpose members tend to share the same characteristics.

Want power

People become Common Purpose members for career advancement and to be part of a secret, Masonic-like society for careerists who want what Common Purpose has to offer – access to the corridors of power. This is not the action of a selfless person. The Common Purpose idea of ‘leading beyond authority’ is particularly attractive to the corporate psychopath class of person who will see it a green light to go around their organisation and pick up power wherever they find it laying around. These people are not noted for their selflessness.

Lack of integrity

Being part of the Common Purpose network brings those in public service under pressure to do favours for other Common Purpose ‘graduates’. The lack of integrity and probity of some Common Purpose police officers is particularly disturbing.

Corrupt

Many Common Purpose members corruptly abuse public funds.

Secretive

Many Common Purpose ‘graduates’ in public service deliberately hide their membership of Common Purpose. This leaves them open to accusations of dishonesty, corruption, favouritism and under-the-counter dealings. Common Purpose targets the grey areas where public and private bodies meet such as Local Strategic Partnerships. These are prime candidates for potential corruption and dishonesty.

They operate according to the Chatham House rules which effectively means that meetings are held in secret with no agenda, records or accountability.

Untrustworthy

Common Purpose ‘graduates’ are incapable of leading by example because those people who have found out what they are up to do not trust them at all.

8. Methods

The methods used by Common Purpose are what you would expect from fraudsters in this Jigsaw of Deception.

The use of political correctness for social control and mental manipulation, deceit, fraudulent agenda, corrupt abuse of public funds, obsessive control freakery, secrecy and bland, banal and meaningless statements.

Many of the methods used by Common Purpose originated at the Tavistock Institute.

Social engineering

Vast sums of money have been spent in recent years on social control and engineering schemes.

Neuro Linguistic Programming

Neurological Linguistic Programming [8.1] is used by Common Purpose. This is similar to some of the techniques used to great effect by Derren Brown. [8.2] How Common Purpose cult leader Julia Middleton uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques: [8.3]

Political correctness

Common Purpose uses training courses to change the existing beliefs and values of an individual into a new ‘politically and socially acceptable’ set of beliefs and values and to find suitable recruits for the social control bureaucracy needed to run the ‘post-democratic’ society that they are trying to establish.

Common Purpose are obsessive control freaks and manipulators. One of their main tools of social control, the Marxist doctrine of political correctness, is used to usurp dissenting voices and paralyse thought. Just like in the Middle Ages with the use of the term ‘heretic’, this political correctness nonsense hides darker motives.

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.” Charlton Heston [8.4]

“Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous liberal press which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.” Attributed to students at Texas A&M University. [8.5]

Manipulating consensus

The Delphi Technique [8.6] is used to manipulate meetings to a pre-determined outcome. The Consensus Process: [8.7] and How to Fight the Consensus Process: [8.8]Cognitive Dissonance: [8.9]

It is the manipulation of consensus that has turned the three main political parties in Britain into one party all standing on the same ground. They might offer slightly different policies – and only slightly – but they are all agreed on the fundamentals and this makes elections irrelevant.

Common Purpose Orwellian doublespeak

* Equality means Inequality
* Cohesion means Fragmentation
* Diversity means Uniformity
* Civic Society means Communism
* Charity means Help the Rich
* Common Purpose means Élite Control
* Training means Brainwashing
* Change means Chaos
* Consensus means Dictatorship
* Democracy means Corporate/State Control
* Cultural Enrichment means Cultural Impoverishment
* Consensus Building – Reaching a predetermined outcome through facilitated dialogue, often by ignoring, labeling, intimidating, ridiculing, or ignoring any form of dissent.
* Critical Thinking – Criticizing and challenging traditional beliefs, values and authorities. Often uses ridicule, intimidation and rejection to conform people to the new paradigm.
* Promoting Content Standards – Censorship
* World Citizens – New World Order stooges.
Even George Orwell could not have made this up. But he got the year wrong.

Problem – Reaction – Solution

A classic Common Purpose-style ruse is to decide upon an objective, create a problem and then introduce a pre-planned ‘solution’ to that problem. Straight from the Hegelian Dialectic – create the problem, manipulate the response, come up with the solution. Problem – reaction – solution. A solution which puts you in the position you wanted to be in in the first place but needed to create the problem in order to get there.

Trojan mice

Although Common Purpose is a ‘Trojan Horse’ operation, some of its methods have been more akin to ‘Trojan Mice’. Trojan Mice operations have their roots in complex adaptive systems and Chaos Theory. (Please do a Web search for ‘Trojan Mice’ to find out more.)

These systems theories get a bit complicated but it boils down to the idea that the best way to change an organisation (or a country for that matter) is by the use of small changes which very few people take any notice of at the time. These small changes increment over time to make large changes. When the large changes become apparent to the organisation’s members or the general public, they may not be able to do anything about it.

Manipulating systems

Systems are manipulated to achieve the desired results.
“A system is a set of integrated processes that are linked together to achieve a goal. Systems have inputs and outputs. They have entities such as people serving in roles. There are locations, time, duration, events and actions. All of the entities of a system work in concert to achieve the goal whatever it might be. Use of the term ‘system’ does not necessarily mean computer system but even when it does, the part that the computer plays is only one aspect of the system. The manual processes before and after the computer process are all part of the systems design as are the people for whom the system is designed.
Organized societies are comprised of millions of systems and we play out our roles in those systems without really thinking much about them. We learn the procedures that we are to follow to get done what we need to have done. The Education, Health, Pension, Unemployment, Law Enforcement, etc. are all systems of government that are comprised of systems within systems as per the definition above.
Recently, David Cameron gave a speech to the Conservative Party in Birmingham. He mentioned ‘The Big Society’ as his goal. When you pull away the curtains, ‘The Big Society’ is the same as the American President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ of the 1960s. What they are talking about is design engineering of the social systems of your society. The role of Common Purpose is to inform and train you in the ‘new systems’ while making you believe that the changes they are implementing are local ideas. Nothing could be further from the truth. The systems they are implementing were designed at the global level and they are being implemented in all localities in most countries. The countries of the Middle East are ‘resisters’ to the global social systems engineering plans.” Vicky Davis [8.10]

Of particular interest is the way that Total Quality Management has been used to further the globalists’ agenda. [8.11]

“My observation has been that the Certified Public Accounting firms are the ones who are behind the consolidation of government systems. And I’m not just saying that because of the Pennsylvania story below. I keep seeing their names popping up in unexpected places.
KPMG
PricewaterhouseCoopers (formed in 1998 from a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers and Lybrand)
Ernst & Young
Accenture (was Arthur Andersen)
Here is something I wrote about the state of Pennsylvania after hearing a BookTV interview with former Governor Tom Ridge. Ridge became the first Homescam Security Director after 9-11.” [8.12]

Michael Douglas cancer cure announcement is a cruel medical hoax

Wednesday, January 12, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com(See all articles…)

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/030987_Michael_Douglas_throat_cancer.html#ixzz1B4KX1TnJ

 

(NaturalNews) Today the mainstream media is gleefully announcing that Michael Douglas has been “cured” of throat cancer. Yes, they use the “cure” word, as if to imply the cancer is gone and will never recur. Michael Douglas himself announced he has “beat cancer,” and various cancer survivor groups are celebrating Douglas as a “cancer survivor.”
Sadly, tragically, it’s all a cruel medical hoax. Michael Douglas is not a cancer survivor but rathera chemotherapy survivor. His doctors have poisoned his body’s vital organs — brain,liver, kidneys and heart — with extremely toxicchemicalsthat cause permanent, long-term damage. Yes, along the way acancertumor shrank in size, and yet even that observation is nocureeither. Why? Becausecancer tumors grow right back, usually within five years in the case of those with a history ofsmokingand drinking.

Mainstream media promoteschemotherapy

Yet, by parading Michael Douglas as an example of a cancer “cure,” themainstream mediais cruelly and unjustifiably functioning asthe marketing branch of the conventionalcancer industry, publicizing a blatantly false message that “chemotherapycurescancer.” This will have the effect of causing yet more cancerpatientsto sign up for toxic chemotherapy treatments which will, sadly, kill many of them.
In this way, the mainstream media has made Michael Douglas the poster boy for quackmedicineand fraudulent cancer “cures.” That’s not his fault, of course: He’s just trying to cure cancer the best way he knows how, and he no doubt believed the lies and deceptions his cancerdoctorswere trained to tell him. But the media is turning this into almost a celebration of the cancerindustry. And that is extremely irresponsible, given how many people don’t survive chemotherapy, even when far safer and morenaturaltherapies are readily available that really do cure cancer (but which have been outlawed in America).

The cancer industry is based on deception

If you really get down to the bottom of the issue here, the cancer industry is much like the financial industry (Wall Street) in thatit is based on lies and misinformation. In order to stay inbusiness, it must continue to promote those lies, which include messages like “There’s no such thing as a cure for cancer” unless you use their toxicpoisons, in which case they readily use the word “cure.” But you’re not really cured because 70% (or so) of people who get chemotherapy for throat cancer are dead within five years.
Whereas, in the natural realm, people who pursue radical changes inlifestyleand who undergo livefoodsjuicing therapies, Gersontherapyand other holistic approaches to cancer are literallycuredto the point where their bodies stop metabolizing cancer. They literally cure their own cancers out ofhealth, notpoison. And because of that, they survive a very large number of years thereafter.
Not every person is cured through the use of natural therapies, of course. Many people, for their own reasons, are unable to give up smoking cigarettes, or eating refined sugar, or consuming diet sodas or whatever substance probably contributed to their cancer in the first place. A genuine “cure” for cancer requiresabsolute commitment to a healthful lifestyle, including the complete avoidance of cancer-causing chemicals in personal care products (cosmetics, deodorants, perfumes, etc.), in foods (processed meat), in medicines and so on. It also requires a real nutritional overhaul of thebodythat boosts levels of vitamin D, selenium, zinc, vitamin C and plant-based anti-cancer nutrients such as those derived from raw cruciferous vegetables.
None of these things, however, were explained to Michael Douglas. The conventional cancer industry isn’t in the business of “educating” patients. It’s so much easier to justpoisonthem and bill their insurance companies for the poison. Then, for those who live through the suffering of the poison, they announce a (false) “cure” and congratulate them on being “cancer survivors.”

Why chemotherapytreatmentis a crime

It is cruel beyond measure to engaged in such celebration of the medical harming of a human being.Chemotherapy should be criminalized, not celebrated. It is a kind of “medical violence” being committed against human beings who are, 100% of the time, actually harmed by it. Remember that chemotherapy chemicals are derived from thechemical weaponsof World War I(Mustard Gas in particular). What was once used on the battlefield to murder soldiers is now dripped into the veins of cancer victims and called “medicine.”
The immediate side effects tell the real story of the dangers of chemotherapy to anyone paying attention: Extreme muscle loss, vomiting, hair falling out, a loss ofbrainfunction, sexual function and healthy sleep.These are not signs of peoplehealing.These are the signs of people who are being poisoned. This should be obvious to any intelligent observer.
That some people manage to survive these poisons is not a testament to the poisonous treatment itself but rather a demonstration of the amazing ability of the human liver to detoxify the human body, even against an onslaught of chemicalweaponsadministered by oncologists. And yet, even the liver has its limits, and after chemotherapy, most peoples’ livers are permanently damaged to some degree, setting them up for yet more medical procedures, pharmaceuticals and possibly even a liver transplant (ka-ching!).
Yes, it’s no exaggeration to say thatchemotherapy’s greatest benefit is to the doctors and hospitalswho depend on repeat business to stay profitable. Send a chemo patient home after a round of treatment, and you can be sure they will be back before too long, suffering from something else you can treat and bill.
Such is the sad,toxiclegacy of our so-called “scientific” system of modern medicine, where profits consistently override the best interests of the patients.

I wish Douglas the best possible outcome

Personally, I am saddened by the way in which the cancer industry exploits human suffering for its own profit. I am saddened to see such a fine individual as Michael Douglas have his health destroyed by chemotherapy. He deserves better. He deserves holistic medicine to remind his body thathe already knows how to cure his own cancerif he is just given the opportunity and education.
I genuinely hope Michael Douglas is cured of cancer through chemotherapy. Perhaps he will be one of the rare miracles who somehow escapes the toxic effects of being poisoned by doctors. Buthistorytells me that is a statistically unlikely and foolish hope, and that Douglas will be battling cancer yet again inside of five years.
I can only hope that he awakens to the world of natural healing and seeks a more natural route while that option remains available to him. In either case, even if he chooses conventional chemotherapy again, I wish him the best outcome and hope that his own biology can help him heal as quickly as possible. It saddens me beyond belief to see people being harmed by the conventional cancer industry. I am convinced that one day, chemotherapy will be outlawed. Until that day comes, it will continue to claim innocent victims who suffer and die at the hands of quack oncology.
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/030987_Michael_Douglas_throat_cancer.html#ixzz1B4KLskWL

Caution: This Common Device Can Double Your Risk of Getting a Brain Tumor

 

 

Commonwealth Club 11-18-10. Panel II – Martin Blank, PhD from ElectromagneticHealth.Org on Vimeo.

Dr. Martin Blank of Columbia University explains how the electromagnetic fields that emanate from your cell phone and other wireless devices affect your cells.

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Nikola Tesla once said:

"If you wish to understand the secrets of the Universe, think of energy, frequency, and vibration."

Energy, frequencies, sounds, and vibrations are all around us, even if you can’t hear them, see them or sense them in any way, and they can have a profound impact on your health. I’ve written a lot about the dangers of electromagnetic fields (EMF) in general, and cell phone radiation specifically, but appreciation for the critical importance of this science for humans as well as the environment is proving slow, with tremendous resistance from industries with potential liability.

This will hopefully change in time, thanks to the likes of Martin Blank, PhD, who spoke at the November 18, 2010 Commonwealth Club of California program , "The Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields", co-sponsred byElectromagneticHealth.org.

This event—the largest yet in the United States on EMF & health–was organized in association with the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Citizens for Health, the EMF Safety Alliance, the Radiation Research Trust (U.K.) and theInternational EMF Alliance.

I highly recommend you set aside 20 minutes to listen to Dr. Blank’s speech in the video above. Dr. Blank speaks with deep experience and commanding authority on the impact on cells and DNA from electromagnetic fields, and explains why your DNA is especially vulnerable to electromagnetic fields compared to other tissues.

Health-concerned citizens should hear this information and then urge each of your representatives in Congress to view this video as well. It is only when elected officials understand the gravity of the science and the implications for health and the future of the species that steps will be taken to protect public health.

Who is Martin Blank, PhD?

Dr. Blank, past president of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, has an impressive resume backing up his statements on this topic. He has two PhD’s, one from Columbia University in Physical Chemistry, and another from Cambridge University in Colloid Science (biology, physics and chemistry).

He’s an Associate Professor at Columbia University in the department of physiology and cellular biophysics, and a researcher in bioelectromagnetics. He authored the section on stress proteins for the Bioinitiative Report, and edited the journal Pathophysiology’s special issue on the biological effects of electromagnetic fields.

In this talk, Dr. Blank explains the science of EMF—how electromagnetic frequencies impact your cells and DNA. On exposure to electromagnetic fields, he explains, cells respond as if they are in distress. We see this through the cellular stress response. This truly is crucial information, because I’m sure you’ve heard more than a few people reiterate the now tired, scientifically disproven, and incorrect statement that "non-thermal radiation cannot produce a biological effect."

Dr. Blank lays this and other inaccuracies to rest here with compelling and credible evidence. There are a lot of bona fide scientists speaking about this topic, Dr. Blank says, but many of them are speaking without having the prerequisite expertise within the field. This is important. Being a "scientist" is not enough here.

Physicists in particular are often introduced as ‘experts’ to defend the status quo of EMF’s being completely harmless (unless there is enough power to heat tissue), but as Dr. Blank warns, "the fact of the matter is they have not read the literature."

The Science is Clear: Non-Thermal Radiation DOES Cause Biological Harm

Dr. Blank is adamant when he says that there IS evidence of harm, and that the harm can be significant. He also points out that the science showing harmful effects has been peer-reviewed, published, and that the results have been replicated, evaluated and "judged by scientists capable of judging it." Most importantly, researchers now have a fair understanding of the actual mechanisms causing the damage, which I will summarize below.

The Spectrum of Frequencies that Surround You

When looking at a spectrum chart of frequencies, you’ll find that cell phones operate in the middle of the spectrum, in the microwave range, which is a subset of the radiofrequency band. Below microwaves are lower frequency radio frequencies, and at the bottom of the spectrum you have ‘extremely low’ frequencies known as ELF, which include frequencies from electrical wiring and household appliances, for example.

All of these frequencies are within the non-ionizing radiation range, which means they don’t have enough heating effect, or power, to separate electrons from atoms. Above that, you enter the ionizing frequency range, which include ultraviolet (UV) rays, gamma rays and x-rays.

Some of these frequencies exist in nature while others, such as telecommunications frequencies, are man-made and not something our bodies are adapted to, nor expected to ever adapt to. Just one of the many reasons why we need to thoroughly investigate the biological repercussions of broadcasting a range of these frequencies is that technologies keep transmitting more and denser content, such as audio, video, data, etc., which can create significant biological disruption due to modulation of the signals.

Also, higher and higher frequencies are being used, ostensibly because more information can be transmitted at these higher frequencies.

While various high frequencies are biologically disruptive, understand that the very low ELF frequencies can also be similarly harmful, such as electric and magnetic fields. One is not better or worse than the other, necessarily, but it is the cumulativeload of these exposures and the chronic duration of the exposures that we need to become cognizant of and protect ourselves against.

And as we’ll see below, DNA is reactive across the entire spectrum.

It’s quite clear and non-controversial that ionizing radiation causes significant damage to the human body, including cancer, but certain physicists are simply wrong when they claim you cannot get any kind of biological reaction as long as you stay within the non-ionizing range of frequencies.

These physicists are thinking about what they know well—heating effects on matter—but it’s clear they need to start spending time with the biologists! And they should certainly not be opining on this subject until they have read the science on the biological effects of EMF at non-thermal exposures.

It’s true that there’s an insufficient amount of energy to dislodge an electron, "but boy, you can get a lot of biological reactions in the non-ionizing range!" Dr. Blank says. "And they have been published and repeated so we know that you can get biological reactions in the non-ionizing range."

How EMF’s Cause Cellular Stress Responses and Biological Damage

DNA, as you probably know, is a molecule that contains genetic information. However, this genetic information does more than simply pass traits down to future generations. In fact, this genetic information is constantly being accessed to maintain optimal functioning within your body, in response to your environment.

As Dr. Blank explains, your DNA "is constantly at work, making proteins required for the business of life."

The ladder-like structures that make up the double helix of your DNA represent the chemicals that tie the two strands together. These structures contain the genetic code, and the sequence of the bases tells you what kind of molecule is required for building protein needed.

Some of these proteins are created in response to stress in what’s known as the cellular stress response. You may be familiar with the stress response in your body, in which cortisol and adrenaline is produced, for example. But each and every one of your cells has a similar defense mechanism against stress as well.

According to Dr. Blank, there are about 20 different stress proteins in nature, called heat shock proteins (HSP), which are used by your cells to counteract harmful stimulus. Whenever a cell is exposed to an unfriendly environment, the DNA separates in certain regions and begins to read the genetic code to produce these stress proteins (HSP).

Therefore, the presence of stress proteins is an indication that the cell has come into contact with something that is detrimental to its wellbeing. Essentially, it’s your cells’ way of saying, "I’ve encountered something bad." And, Dr. Blank emphatically claims, "There’s no question cells react to EMF’s as harmful." Research has clearly shown that radiation within the non-ionizing range can cause single- and/or double-DNA-strand breaks, which cells respond to by creating stress proteins.

Interestingly, researchers have discovered that your cells do not only react to frequencies in the microwave range, but across the ENTIRE SPECTRUM of frequencies, from low ELF’s and up!

Your DNA Acts as a Fractal Antenna

Dr. Blank compares your DNA to what electrical engineers refer to as a ‘fractal antenna.’ A fractal antenna is an antenna that can pick up a range of frequencies across the EMF spectrum. Two additional features of your DNA that fulfill the requirements of a fractal antenna are that electrons in DNA conduct electricity, and the fact that the DNA is coiled within the nucleus.

In the video above, Dr. Blank shows a slide listing the diameter sizes of the coils within the DNA molecule:

• Double helix = 1 nm
• Chromatin fiber = 10 nm
• Solenoid = 30 nm
• Hollow tube = 200 nm

Each of these different coil sizes respond to a frequency on the EMF spectrum, which explains why your DNA responds to such a wide range of frequencies.

In a nutshell, the human body is constructed with a fractal antenna inside each and every cell, which responds to the entire range of frequencies on the EMF spectrum!

What this means is that it would be foolish to focus on just one frequency, because we are bombarded with ALL of these frequencies, from low ELF’s to microwaves, to ionizing radiation. "And you never know which frequency will do the most damage," Dr. Blank warns.

DNA Responsible for EMF Response has Been Identified

In the video above, Dr. Blank explains that they have now identified the DNA that controls the response to electromagnetic fields.

They did this by taking the piece of the DNA molecule responsible for stimulating one specific stress protein (out of the 20 stress proteins produced). This particular stress protein is called HSP70.

The long line you see in the screenshot below from Dr. Blank’s presentation at the Commonwealth Club is a symbolic representation of the different parts of the DNA that are part of the promoter—this is the part of the DNA that gets activated to start the synthesis process.

In his presentation, Dr. Blank explains that the red rectangles are particular configurations of bases (CT-CT). They found that the section known as the EMF domain (shown here as the large red rectangle), controls the response to EMF’s. And, by changing that part of the DNA, they were able to effectively eliminate the EMF response.

(Source: Slide from Martin Blank’s presentation at the Commonwealth Club of California, November 18, 2010.) In addition, a plausible EMF mechanism has also been identified and published in the Journal of Cell Physiology, back in 2008. (Other mechanisms of effect have been complied and recently published in the European Journal of Oncology in collaboration with ICEMS, and the Ramazzini Institute. The report, called "Non-Thermal Effects and Mechanisms of Interaction Between Electromagnetic Fields and Living Matter", can be downloaded at http://www.ElectromagenticHealth.org.)

In short, when you charge a molecule, you can cause that molecule to break apart. For example, researchers have shown that a hemoglobin molecule can be made to break apart by increasing the charge on the molecule.

The reason why the DNA molecule can be made to break apart even though the radiation is non-ionizing is because of the electrical conductivity inside the DNA molecule, i.e. the electrons present in the DNA bases can be made to move. And, EMF’s have been shown to cause electron transfer in the DNA.So, the idea that non-ionizing radiation cannot create a biological effect has been shown to be completely inaccurate.

Health Hazards Linked to Cell Phone Use

Scientists have found that microwaves transmitted by cell phones and other wireless devices can:

• Harm your blood cells
• Damage your DNA
• Cause nerve-cell damage
• Possibly accelerate and contribute to onset of autism, and trigger Alzheimer’s disease
• Damage your eyes
• Cause sleep disruptions, fatigue and headaches
• Contribute to salivary gland tumors
• Cause decreased bone density in the pelvic region
• Lead to electromagnetic hypersensitivity
• Affect your heart rate and blood pressure

Cell Phones and Brain Cancer

There’s also a strong link between EMF exposure and cancer. A review of 11 long-term epidemiologic studies published in the journal Surgical Neurology two years ago revealed that using a cell phone for 10 or more years approximately doubles the risk of being diagnosed with a brain tumor on the same side of the head where the cell phone is typically held.

Professor Mild, lead researcher of that particular study, also cautioned that the danger may be even greater than what they found because cancers need a minimum of 10 years to develop. Since children today are using cell phones at an earlier age than any previous generation, their exposure will be far greater over their lifetimes. Because children have thinner skulls than adults, and their nervous systems are still developing, children are particularly vulnerable to this type of tumor and should not use cell phones at all.

Australia has seen an increase in pediatric brain cancers of 21 percent in just one decade. This is consistent with studies showing a 40 percent brain tumor increase across the board in Europe and the U.K. over the last 20 years.

Brain cancer has now surpassed leukemia as the number one cancer killer in children.The BioInitiative Report also includes studies showing evidence for exposure to electromagnetic fields brain tumors, acoustic neuromas, and childhood cancers like leukemia.

Steps You Can Take to Protect Yourself and Your Family

In the end, all the evidence points to the fact that our current safety standards are completely inadequate. Our rapidly expanding wireless technologies must be properly evaluated, first of all, and the precautionary principle must be invoked when new technologies emerge. While you can’t completely avoid radiation in today’s wireless world, if you’re ready to give up your cell phone, you can virtually eliminate that one hazard, at least.

If you’re not prepared to take that step, you can minimize your exposure by heeding the following advice:

Children Should Never Use Cell Phones: Barring a life-threatening emergency, children should not use a cell phone, or a wireless device of any type. Children are far more vulnerable to cell phone radiation than adults, because of their thinner skull bones.

Reduce Your Cell Phone Use: Turn your cell phone off more often. Reserve it for emergencies or important matters. As long as your cell phone is on, it emits radiation intermittently, even when you are not actually making a call.

Use a Land Line at Home and at Work: Although more and more people are switching to using cell phones as their exclusive phone contact, it is a dangerous trend and you can choose to opt out of the madness.

Reduce or Eliminate Your Use of Other Wireless Devices: You would be wise to cut down your use of these devices. Just as with cell phones, it is important to ask yourself whether or not you really need to use them every single time.

If you must use a portable home phone, use the older kind that operates at 900 MHz. They are no safer during calls, but at least many of them do not broadcast constantly even when no call is being made.

Note the only way to truly be sure if there is an exposure from your cordless phone is to measure with an electrosmog meter, and it must be one that goes up to the frequency of your portable phone (so old meters wont help much). As many portable phones are 5.8 Gigahertz, we recommend you look for RF meters that go up to 8 Gigahertz, the highest range now available in a meter suitable for consumers.

Alternatively you can be very careful with the base station placement as that causes the bulk of the problem since it transmits signals 24/7, even when you aren’t talking. So if you can keep the base station at least three rooms away from where you spend most of your time, and especially your bedroom, they may not be as damaging to your health.

Ideally it would be helpful to turn off your base station every night before you go to bed.

You can find RF meters at www.emfsafetystore.com. But you can pretty much be sure your portable phone is a problem if the technology is DECT, or digitally enhanced cordless technology.

Use Your Cell Phone Only Where Reception is Good: The weaker the reception, the more power your phone must use to transmit, and the more power it uses, the more radiation it emits, and the deeper the dangerous radio waves penetrate into your body. Ideally, you should only use your phone with full bars and good reception.

Also seek to avoid carrying your phone on your body as that merely maximizes any potential exposure. Ideally put it in your purse or carrying bag. Placing a cell phone in a shirt pocket over the heart is asking for trouble, as is placing it in a man’s pocket if he seeks to preserve his fertility.

Don’t Assume One Cell Phone is Safer Than Another. There’s no such thing as a "safe" cell phone.

Keep Your Cell Phone Away From Your Body When it is On: The most dangerous place to be, in terms of radiation exposure, is within about six inches of the emitting antenna. You do not want any part of your body within that area.

Respect Others Who are More Sensitive: Some people who have become sensitive can feel the effects of others’ cell phones in the same room, even when it is on but not being used.

If you are in a meeting, on public transportation, in a courtroom or other public places, such as a doctor’s office, keep your cell phone turned off out of consideration for the ‘second hand radiation’ effects. Children are also more vulnerable, so please avoid using your cell phone near children.

Use Safer Headset Technology: Wired headsets will certainly allow you to keep the cell phone farther away from your body. However, if a wired headset is not well-shielded — and most of them are not — the wire itself acts as an antenna attracting ambient information carrying radio waves and transmitting radiation directly to your brain.

Make sure that the wire used to transmit the signal to your ear is shielded.

The best kind of headset to use is a combination shielded wire and air-tube headset. These operate like a stethoscope, transmitting the information to your head as an actual sound wave; although there are wires that still must be shielded, there is no wire that goes all the way up to your head.

As Dr. Blank says, we all have to live with risk, but unless we’re willing to give up the conveniences these technologies provide, we must at least make accommodations to minimize the inherent risks.

You’re bathed in a wide range of frequencies every day, so please, at least take the above precautions to reduce your risk, and the risk to your children, who are even more vulnerable to long-term damage.

Dr. Blank ended his remarks emphasizing people must get involved in raising awareness. "And probably the most important part is the public education campaign. That is, people must be made aware of this issue. They must realize that even though they cannot see EMF or feel it, it’s having its effect and that these effects are cumulative, many are slow-acting, and that you really can’t beat it."

Let’s all do our part to educate others, and especially those in government responsible for setting exposure guidelines.