Thursday, January 17th, 2013
MARC LALLANILLA, Assistant Editor - Live Science
Stephan: As cardiovascular care and resuscitation technologies become more sophisticated, there will be more and more Near Death Experiences, and they are forcing us to deal with nonlocal mind. Here's one. The materialist bias of this story, and its ignorance about the actual research should be pretty obvious. Take a look at my essay, Nonlocality, Near-Death Experiences, and the Challenge of Consciousness http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2812%2900177-2/fulltext for some of the research.
Illinois Senator Mark Kirk has wrestled with lots of devilish political issues during his 28-year political career, but after suffering a stroke one year ago, he claims he had a very different experience: an encounter with angels.
The Republican senator was recovering from a massive stroke in the right side of his brain at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit in Chicago when Kirk said three angels visited him, the Chicago area’s Daily Herald reported.
Standing at the foot of his hospital bed, the angels, Kirk said, asked him, ‘You want to come with us?’
‘No,’ Kirk said he told them matter-of-factly. ‘I’ll hold off.’
Kirk, 53, has spent the past year undergoing intensive therapy to help him regain his ability to walk and perform other basic functions. Kirk’s mind, according to his surgeon Dr. Richard Fessler, is still very active. ‘His thought process is normal, and his mental state remains sharp,’ Fessler told the Daily Herald.
Kirk now joins an estimated 8 million Americans who claim to have received celestial visitors or had some other type of near-death experience (NDE): The congressman sensed he was close to death in the days following his stroke. ‘A thing goes off in your head that this […]
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Thursday, January 17th, 2013
ANTHONY GUCCIARDI, - Natural Society
Stephan: Is it any wonder we have an obesity problem?
Click through to see the illustrations.
It’s ‘McRib season’, and thousands across the nation are scrambling to use online websites like the ‘McRib locator’ to stuff the McDonald’s McRib sandwich down their throats. A sandwich that is not only full of genetically modified ingredients, a medley of toxic fillers and preservatives, but also some ingredients that are actually banned in other nations around the world. But honestly, are you surprised?
The McRib is the result of intensive marketing by McDonald’s. Utilizing the basics of supply and demand through creating scarcity over the McRib by only unleashing the culinary abomination for a fraction of the year that is only known once it is released, McDonald’s fans have been known to ‘hoard’ McRib sandwiches and eat them in extreme excess. It’s even a topic of the popular documentary Super Size Me, where filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (who gorges himself with McDonald’s for 30 days only to find serious health consequences) encounters ‘McRib hunters’ who actually travel the country eating McRib sandwiches.
Related: 3 Fast Food Secret Ingredients
McDonald’s even made McRib fans sign a petition to ‘save the McRib’ online, bringing out a conglomerate of fans to bring back their favorite franken sandwich.
What’s Inside a McDonald’s McRib Sandwich?
But what’s really inside the […]
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Thursday, January 17th, 2013
BRIAN MOCKENHAUPT, - Esquire
Stephan: This is a searingly honest account. It's hard to get through, but I encourage you to do so. We are putting tens of thousands of men and women through this experience -- in the service of what exactly? And these people, and their families, about one per cent of our population, are going to have a huge impact on our future. Just as the Viet Nam War, both vets, like Sen. Kerry, those marked by working the system to stay out, Dick Cheney; as well as the dead, the maimed physically and psychologically, and their families, have affected the present day. We will be shaped for two generations at least by these wars.
A few months ago, I found a Web site loaded with pictures and videos from Iraq, the sort that usually aren’t seen on the news. I watched insurgent snipers shoot American soldiers and car bombs disintegrate markets, accompanied by tinny music and loud, rhythmic chanting, the soundtrack of the propaganda campaigns. Video cameras focused on empty stretches of road, building anticipation. Humvees rolled into view and the explosions brought mushroom clouds of dirt and smoke and chunks of metal spinning through the air. Other videos and pictures showed insurgents shot dead while planting roadside bombs or killed in firefights and the remains of suicide bombers, people how they’re not meant to be seen, no longer whole. The images sickened me, but their familiarity pulled me in, giving comfort, and I couldn’t stop. I clicked through more frames, hungry for it. This must be what a shot of dope feels like after a long stretch of sobriety. Soothing and nauseating and colored by everything that has come before. My body tingled and my stomach ached, hollow. I stood on weak legs and walked into the kitchen to make dinner. I sliced half an onion before putting the knife down and watching […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
KAREN MCVEIGH, - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: This story should horrify, and outrage you. I read it early this morning, in my first pass for today's SR. It upset me so much that I had to just stop and sit, and meditate for some moments. And it worried me that I knew nothing about this. That's how deeply buried this part of the war on women has been.
As you can see, this is where personhood amendments take us.
Notice that this is 75 per cent a Red value state issue. For this reason I see it as also part of the Great Schism trend. Not only on the basis of values, but because the Blue value states are tiring of financially supporting the lunacies of the Red value states.
NEW YORK — Hundreds of women have been arrested, convicted, jailed, detained in mental institutions or forced to endure medical procedures as a result of the ‘criminalisation of pregnancy’ over the last four decades, a new report has found.
In the first study of its kind, to be published on Tuesday, researchers from the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) identified 413 criminal and civil cases across 44 states involving the arrests, detentions and equivalent deprivations of pregnant women’s liberty between 1973 and 2005. NAWP said that it is aware of a further 250 cases since 2005. Both figures are likely to be underestimates, it said.
The report, which will appear in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, found that women were denied a wide range of basic human rights, including the right to life, liberty, equal protection and due process of law ‘based solely on their pregnancy status’.
It found a wide range of cases in which pregnant women were arrested and detained not only if they ended a pregnancy or expressed an intention to end a pregnancy, but also after suffering unintentional pregnancy loss.
The cases of detention and forced medical intervention varied widely and included one in which a […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Stephan: One of the alarming unintended consequences of the universal digital media trend has been the way in which it has empowered lunatic fringes. You see it all through our culture now. This is the latest example.
It becomes more and more important that socially progressives stay involved. Voting power is going to become the real power. That's why, at the state level states under Red value control are trying to rig elections.
Yes, there really are Newtown truthers.
But in the crazy world of Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, this one may be the worst yet. (Maybe you’ve already heard some of the others, like the one about fantasy ties between the gunman’s family and the LIBOR banking scandal and a related theory about the Aurora shooting and the ‘Dark Knight Rises.
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