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Dear Group Members, I am sending you an Article to read. This is about the link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. Can you (and your colleagues) help me in circulating this message among the right people? Thank you, Sushil Yadav [ My background is given in the first letter ( letter No. 1 ) under the topic " Correspondence with neuroscientists " on the website : www.netshooter.com/emotion ] MAIN ARTICLE & EXPERIMENT Please note : The article has been written in short sentences rather than paragraph-form because it is about subjective experience / emotion/ reduction of thought. Industrial Society...

Some comments by Pope John Paul II: --- "Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid to welcome Christ and accept his power ... Open wide the doors for Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of states, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilization and development." - Mass homily during installation as pope, Oct. 22, 1978. --- "On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence and return to the ways of peace. You may claim to seek justice. I too believe in justice and seek justice. But violence only delays...

Rule of Law Damaged by Schiavo Billby Sheldon Richman, March 23, 2005 The events surrounding the life of Terri Schiavo are tragic enough. Now congressional Republicans and President Bush have made things worse. In one weekend they disabled federalism, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. These principles were embraced by the Founding Fathers because they tend to protect individual liberty. By tearing them down, the Republican leadership jeopardizes our freedom. How ironic that this comes at the hands of the self-proclaimed party of limited government. It is beyond dispute that the legal issues involved in the Schiavo...

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was so concerned about Talon News reporter James Guckert's potential ties to the Republican Party that he stopped calling on him at press briefings for about a week in 2003, Fleischer told E&P today. "I found out that he worked for a GOP site, and I didn't think it was my place to call on him because he worked for something that was related to the party," Fleischer said in a phone interview. "He had the editor call me and made the case that they were not related to the Republican Party. He...

It's been buzzing all over the Internet, on the pages of the Washington Post and, according to White House press secretary Scott McClellan, it even merited a brief discussion with President Bush. It involves an alleged homosexual prostitute who managed, with no previous journalism background, to wiggle his way into the White House as a correspondent for the conservative Internet-based Talon News and ask Bush loaded questions at presidential news conferences, before being ripped to pieces by Left Wing bloggers and liberals in the media and Congress. I can't help wondering why the Left got so upset over Jeff Gannon...

Slaughter to White House - "Stop the Stonewalling!" Washington, DC - During the February 10 White House briefing, Press Secretary Scott McClellan stated that Jeff Gannon, "...like anyone else, showed that he was representing a news organization that published regularly" in order to receive his day pass to press briefings. It has been confirmed that Jeff Gannon was in the White House briefing room, actively participating in these briefings, as early as February 28, 2003 a full month before Talon News even existed. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (NY-28), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Rules, who has lead the...

UPCOMING EPISODE: "There's something about Marrying" To boost tourism, the town of Springfield decides to legalize same-sex marriage and one of Springfield’s own comes out of the closet... Sunday February 20 8/7c.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is in response to a column by Knight Ridder columnist Celia Rivenbark that ran here a week ago. Dr. James Dobson has a problem with SpongeBob SquarePants. At least that's what the media would have you believe. In recent days, the Focus on the Family chairman has been crucified by the press for supposedly disparaging the beloved cartoon character in a speech he gave in Washington last month. Several major newspapers have even implied that Dobson believes SpongeBob is gay. Nothing could be further from the truth. I was in the audience at the preinaugural dinner during...

Dear Mr. McClellan: I am writing you in regard to the now-vacant position of White House press corps plant. It is my understanding that your previous press corps plant, James D. Guckert - to whom you issued White House press credentials under the name Jeff Gannon - is no longer with the administration. ...If my name seems at all familiar, it is probably because I have written to you in the past hoping to secure a contract writing pro-administration columns.

New riddle in O'Malley rumor saga A mysterious Web site visitor known as 'MD4BUSH' appears to have helped entice Steffen into spreading tales about the Baltimore mayor. By David Nitkin Originally published Feb 15, 2005 NOW WE know "NCPAC". But who is "MD4BUSH"? That's a remaining mystery in the continuing saga of the rumors about Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley's marriage and the role of a former Ehrlich administration staffer in spreading them.

(CBS) The 19-year-old daughter of Alan Keyes has a Valentine for the anti-gay rights conservative pundit and frequent Republican candidate. Maya Marcel-Keyes will be making her first public appearance as a gay activist at a Valentine Day's rally in front of the Maryland State House, says Dan Furmansky, the leader of Equality Maryland, a gay rights group. Last summer her father, a conservative pundit and frequent Republican candidate, caused a stir during the Republican convention by labeling Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter a sinner and calling homosexuality "selfish hedonism." "It was kind of strange that he said it like a...

MARYLAND - Scheduled to speak at an Equality Maryland rally for gay rights today, Maya Keyes, 19, daughter of former Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes, is speaking publicly for the first time about her sexuality and her soured relationship with her parents. Both Advocate.com and The Washington Post ran articles over the weekend wherein Maya Keyes discussed the situation. Read Maya Keyes' interview with Advocate.com: Maya Keyes ends speculation about her sexuality. On Sunday, Marc Fisher of the Washington Post reported, Maya Keyes loves her father and mother. She put off college and moved from the family home...

Nebraskans call the Fair Housing Center in Omaha from time to time seeking help, saying they believe landlords won't rent to them because they're gay. The answer? That's discrimination. But it's not against the law. Center staffers tell the callers that, under Nebraska and federal law, they have no legal protection, said Jill Fenner, Fair Housing Center director. A legislative proposal would change that. Introduced by State Sen. David Landis of Lincoln, Legislative Bill 50 would prohibit housing discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Fair Housing Center, a division of Fair Housing Advisory Services, doesn't take positions on legislative proposals....

London, IRNA - A fresh initiative was launched Thursday to develop a new relationship between the West and Islam based upon 'mutual listening' at all levels. "There are many in Europe and US, ex-diplomats, ex-military and those from my background, who are very concerned at the increasing and worsening estrangement between the West and Islam," former British MI6 intelligence agent, Alastair Crooke said. "Many in both are societies are quite angry at what it is doing to our societies and the damage being done to worsen the circumstances of Muslims everywhere," Crooke said, who also referred to the deterioration in...

Something I was thinking today. Could bush be elected again? I was thinking he was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2000 and this time he was elected. So technically he was only elected once. So could he run again? Im sure Bush wont run again Im not saying that at all. Just something I was curious about.

The majority of the American people voted against the "Politics of Hate" and repudiated Michael Moore and his clones. On the other hand, CNN said 70 percent of the Kerry voters were voting not for him but against President Bush. The "Hate George Bush" slogans we heard so much during the election may be unusual in this day and age, but hate and violence are not unknown in American history. For almost 100 years after the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, the Ku Klux Klan maintained a solid Democrat South through violence and intimidation. The Klan murdered black people for many...

To all good people of countries other than the US- WE are now officially a rogue nation- please don’t blame the citizens of the US as we have been taken over by Nazis. Trust us, we are more frightened than you. There is no possible way that Bush is the most popular president ever. There is no way that he won this election. It is a lie, supported by fraudulent elections and corrupt government officials. There is no popular support for Bush, only Bush freepers on the net paid for by homeland security to convince other nations and naive US...

<p>Buh Bye former great Freerepublic, home of wannabe conservativ idiots, GESTAPO-like Mods and NAZIs. This once great forum has been trashed over the past three years like never before and I’m GLAD that these fucking MOD’s banned me today. If we loose this Election, then FR will be a part in this disaster. No freedom of speech, no real conservatives anymore, it’s a catastophical failure like our President said correctly, hehe… Just like fucking Germany back in 1933, Brownshirts all over the place. I’m puking, little boys.</p>

NYT DEVELOPING EXCLUSIVE FRONT PAGE STORY ON TERRORISTS AND EXPLOSIVES. EDITOR HAS SET LEAD POSITION FOR STORY, NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... DEVELOPING...

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