According to TV2000, a Catholic television channel, the act was carried out in St Peter’s Square after Mass on Sunday.
Smiling broadly, the Pope initially shook the man’s hand, but the South American pontiff’s expression changed dramatically after a priest from the Legionaries of Christ, a conservative order, leaned in close and spoke a few words to him.
With a more serious expression on his face, Francis placed both hands on the man’s head for 15 seconds.
The pilgrim, said to be a 43-year old married man from Mexico called Angelo, then convulsed briefly and emitted a long sigh. His body went limp and his mouth dropped open.
“Exorcists who have seen the footage have no doubt – this was a prayer for liberation from Evil, an actual exorcism,” said TV2000, which is owned by the Italian Bishops Conference.
The station gathered a panel of clergy specializing in exorcisms who scrutinized the footage and concluded that the pope had performed an exorcism.
The Vatican downplayed the incident, although it used ambiguous language that did not deny altogether that Francis had tried to rid the man of evil.
“The Holy Father did not intend to carry out any exorcism,” said Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman.
“Instead, as he often does for sick and suffering people, he simply intended to pray for a person who was presented to him.”
Leading exorcists insisted that the Pope had indeed taken on the forces of evil.
“The Pope is also the Bishop of Rome, and like any bishop he is also an exorcist,” Father Gabriele Amorth, the Catholic Church’s best known exorcist and the head of the International Association of Exorcists, told La Repubblica newspaper.
“It was a real exorcism,” he said. “If the Vatican has denied this, it shows that they understand nothing”, said Father Amorth who claimed that the Mexican was “possessed by four demons”.
The Rev. Giulio Maspero, a Rome-based systematic theologian who has witnessed or participated in more than a dozen exorcisms, said he was certain that Francis’ prayer on Sunday was either a full-fledged exorcism or a prayer to “liberate” the young man from a demonic possession. He noted that the placement of the pope’s hands on the man’s head was the “typical position” for an exorcist to use.
“When you witness something like that – for me it was shocking – I could feel the power of prayer,” he said in a phone interview, speaking of his own experiences.
Fr Maspero said it was particularly symbolic that Francis’ purported exorcism occurred on Pentecost, an important feast day for the church when the faithful believe Jesus’ apostles received the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
“The Holy Spirit is connected to the exorcism because … it is the manifestation of how God is present among us and in our world,” he said.
There was now, more than ever, a need for exorcists to combat people possessed by “sorcerers” and “Satanists”, Father Amorth said.
“We live in an age in which God has been forgotten. And wherever God is not present, the Devil reigns.”
He acknowledged that many people, even Catholics, regarded exorcism as mumbo-jumbo but insisted they were mistaken. “Those who don’t believe should read the Gospels. Jesus continually performed exorcisms.
“Today, unfortunately, bishops appoint too few exorcists. We need many more. I hope that Rome will send out directives to bishops around the world calling on them to appoint more exorcists.”
He said John Paul II had carried out many exorcisms during his pontificate, but that Benedict XVI had not performed any, instead leaving it to bishops and priests.
“John Paul II fought many times against Satan,” Father Amorth said. “Those battles continue, even though he is dead. In fact he is present today in many exorcisms. If you cite his name during an exorcism, the person who is possessed literally froths at the mouth in fury.”
Francis has made repeated references to the Devil since he was chosen as Benedict’s successor during a secret conclave in March.
At his first Mass, which was held in the Sistine Chapel, where he had been elected by his brother cardinals, he warned: “If we do not confess, if we do not pray to the Lord, we are praying to the Devil. When you do not confess to Jesus Christ, you are confessing to the worldliness of the Devil.”
People possessed by evil are said to display certain symptoms, from extraordinary physical strength to speaking “in tongues” and vomiting nails and bits of glass.
Catholic priests who have trained as exorcists have to follow a ritual known as “De exorcismis et supplicationibus quibusdam”, or “Of exorcisms and certain supplications”, according to guidelines laid down by the Church.
The 84-page document was drawn up in 1998 and is an update on an exorcism rite which was compiled in 1614.
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If this interests you, you might be interested in Jeffrey Seelman’s class, “The Art of Psychic Protection” offered here at the International Metaphysical University. It sure makes more sense to protect yourself from possession in the first place than to track down the pope for an exorcism!
You don’t have to be a shaman to feel a tremendous sense of loss at a moment like this. In a world where nothing is sacred to the masses it is somehow acceptable to tear down our sacred sites in the name of “progress.” We really must learn how to bring a higher state of awareness to the world as this sort of activity is just downright unacceptable.
City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam’s Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart.
A University of Alabama archaeology report commissioned by the city found that the site was historically significant as the largest of several ancient stone and earthen mounds throughout the Choccolocco Valley. But Oxford Mayor Leon Smith — whose campaign has financial connections to firms involved in the $2.6 million no-bid project — insists the mound is not man-made and was used only to “send smoke signals.”
“The City of Oxford and its archaeological advisers have completed a review and evaluation of a stone mound that was identified near Boiling Springs, Calhoun County, Alabama, and have concluded that the mound is the result of natural phenomena and does not meet the eligibility criteria for the Natural [sic] Register of Historic Places,” according to a news release Smith issued last week.
In fact, the report does not conclude the mound is a result of “natural phenomena” but says very clearly it is of “cultural origin.” And while the University’s Office of Archaeological Research does not believe the site qualifies for the National Register of Historic Places, the Alabama Historical Commissiondisagrees, noting that the structure meets at least three criteria for inclusion: its “association with a broad pattern of history,” architecture “embodying distinctive characteristics,” and for the information it might yield to scholars.
The site is also significant to Native Americans. The Woodland and Mississippian cultures that inhabited the Southeast and Midwest before Europeans arrived constructed and used these mounds for various rituals, which may have included funerals. There are concerns that human remains may be present at the site, though none have been found yet.
United South and Eastern Tribes, a nonprofit coalition of 25 federally recognized tribes from Maine to Texas, passed a resolution in 2007 calling for the preservation of such structures, which it calls “prayer in stone.” Native Americans have held protests against the mound’s demolition, and last week someone altered a sign for the Leon Smith Parkway that runs past the development to read “Indian Mound Pkwy.”
A local resident named Johnny Rollins told the Anniston Star how his Native American grandmother taught him that when she died he could “go to that mountain” to talk to her:
“It seems like it’s taking part of you away,” he said of the demolition. “I always felt I had ties to that there.”
Since the media began reporting on the site’s demolition, city officials have revised their storyand are now claiming that dirt from the mound is not being used as fill, despite earlier statements to the contrary. But eyewitnesses say they have seen workers hauling dirt from the mound to the Sam’s Club development.
“I mean really, I went there, saw the giant trucks deliver the earth straight from the mound to the construction site, and I still can’t believe what they are doing,” writes the seventh-generation Alabamian behind the blog Deep Fried Kudzu. She shared the photo above showing roads for construction vehicles now cut to the top of the mound and has other photos and her story of visiting the site at the website.
‘More prettier’ than an Indian mound
Deepening the development’s controversy is how the contracting has been handled. The force behind the project is Oxford’s Commercial Development Authority, a public board that uses taxpayer money to lure businesses to the area. The CDA owns the land where the mound is located.
Alabama law exempts CDAs from bid requirements, which means contracts can go to whomever the board chooses. A recent Anniston Star investigative series about the CDA revealed among other things that the group has awarded nearly $9 million in contracts since 1994 but has taken bids for none of them.
The newspaper also detailed the financial ties between the CDA, firms it does business with, and Mayor Smith’s political campaign.
For example, the $2.6 million contract for preparing the Sam’s Club site went to Oxford-based Taylor Corp., with the money for that coming in part from the sale of city property to Georgia-based developers Abernathy and Timberlake. Taylor Corp. owner Tommy Taylor, who has received thousands of dollars in city contracts for non-CDA work, donated $1,000 to Smith in 2004 and $1,000 in 2008, while Abernathy and Timberlake donated $1,000 to Smith’s re-election campaign in 2004, the paper reports.
The Anniston Star also found that the CDA paid engineering firm Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood of Montgomery, Ala. $45,000 in engineering contracts for the Sam’s Club project, with part of that money paying for the archaeological study. The firm contributed $500 to Smith in 2004.
An Alabama Ethics Commission official said the relationships could violate state law “depending on facts,” but the mayor said he’s done nothing wrong.
Meanwhile, the controversy over the damaged mound’s fate rages on. After getting an earful from alarmed preservationists, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R) forwarded their concerns to the state Historical Commission — but said his office has no intention of getting involved. According to the National Institute on Money in State Politics, Tommy Taylor contributed $1,000 to Riley’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, while Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood contributed $1,500.
For now, it appears Oxford officials are pressing ahead with the project. AsMayor Smith said in its defense, “What it’s going to be is more prettier than it is today.”
The orbit of asteroid 1998 QE2. (NASA / JPL / Caltech)
By Deborah Netburn
May 17, 2013, 7:00 a.m.
It’s 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby.
Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its closest pass to Earth on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. PDT.
Scientists are not sure where this unusually large space rock, which was discovered 15 years ago, originated from. But the mysterious sooty substance on its surface could indicate it may be the result of a comet that flew too close to the sun, said Amy Mainzer, who tracks near-Earth objects at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. It might also have leaked out of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, she said.
We will know more after the asteroid zips closer to Earth and scientists using the Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico can get a better look at it. Astronomers at both observatories plan to track it closely from May 30 to June 9, according to a JPL release.
At its closest approach the asteroid will still be 3.6 million miles from our planet (about 15 times the distance between the Earth and the moon), but it will be close enough for these powerful radar antennas to see features as small as 12 feet across.
“With radar we can transform an object from a point of light into a small world with its own characteristics,” Lance Benner, JPL’s principal investigator for Goldstone radar observations, said in a statement.
There is no chance that asteroid 1998 QE2 could collide with Earth this go-around, and its next close approach won’t be until 2119.
Still, Mainzer said the size of the asteroid, and its potential for mass destruction, should remind us that there are some scary things flying around in space.
“This is a really big asteroid, similar in size to the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and it’s getting very close to us,” she said. “Fortunately we’ve been tracking its orbit very carefully so we know with great certainty it won’t hit us.
“We don’t need to panic, but we do need to pay attention,” she said.
So everywhere you look nowadays, you see news of the “tax scandal” where we have learned (gasp) that the white house ordered tax hits on people they didn’t like. Yeah, I know. BIG surprise. Who would have ever thought that taxes were a vehicle of intimidation?
The reality is that we all know that the IRS is the big bully on the street. They survive on fear and intimidation and would be powerless without it. They are the essence of everything wrong with the world.
Yeah, I know, pulling together group resources to make our country better is how we get great infrastructure like roads and schools and stuff like that. And so on some level this thing we call “taxes” is a good thing. And I think that if we went around our neighborhood and said, “hey, we need to build a park over here for the kids to play, can you help out?”, most would reach for their wallet. They’d even show up to dig the trenches and plant some trees. It is a giving born of love. And yet as soon as it is the IRS at your door, fear is the emotion that comes to mind.
Why does everyone I know (except for my friend Ted, who is seriously my hero) cower in the corner as soon as the word IRS comes up? Why is everyone so afraid of them? Really, EVERYONE is afraid of the tax man.
Recently, I noticed that they even went so far as to put iconic songstress Lauryn Hill in jail over it.
Perhaps it is because the IRS goes unchecked. They are the bulliest of the bullies, the scariest of the scary, and they can do anything they want at any time with no checks and balances and no real oversight. As long as they bring in the money, nothing you can do will will protect you if they want to bring you down. The rules are so varied, changing, and voluminous that no one can possibly get it right if a person has a complicated portfolio. I remember listening to a story on NPR a few years back where they took the same couples tax information to a multitude of tax preparers, all of whom came up with different figures for the amount due. Most notably the numbers varied widely and even the IRS themselves were unsure as to what the exact amount due really was.
So why isn’t the media talking about THIS aspect of the story? Why aren’t the examining the fact that the IRS has carte blanche to write a blank check out of your bank account and you have no real recourse. Yeah, yeah, the courts are supposed to give you a say but does anyone believe that they are on YOUR side here? Or do you think that they are enforcement arm of the IRS? Without them to back up the IRS, they have no real power at all.
But it seems to me like the government LIKES it that way. They like that people are afraid and intimidated into giving them money. They LIKE that the tax man is the scariest man in town for without that fear they would be powerless.
Instead the media focuses on the political aspect of it. Oh no! The president used the IRS to intimidate people! As if every other president, and politician for that matter, didn’t do the same thing. It’s a powerful tool and they all know it.
So perhaps they’ll turn it into the scandal du jour and they’ll hold some feet to the fire and then some low level scapegoat will get fired and then we’ll all forget about it and it will go back the way it is. We don’t believe we have any control over it, just like chem trails and fluoride in the water and genetically modified food and a healthcare system that leaves huge chunks of our country without so much as basic healthcare. The list goes on and on and is really a reflection of the powerlessness we, as a nation of people, feel at this moment in history? I sometimes wonder what it would take for us to rise up?
To me, this is a reflection of the power of fear and the power of consciousness. Until we can, as a world, find our way to vibrate ourselves beyond a world of chronic fear, the IRS will continue to rule by intimidation and do so unchecked and at the whim of the decision makers.
I only wish I knew how to change the cycle of fear to a cycle of love. I know it is possible. For they are only as powerful as we let them be.
I’d love to hear your suggestions or solutions. Together, we can always make a change if we just start.
It is so nice to see a Christian leader of our time actually step up and take a stand for the little guy. Moreover he does it from a place of credibility and humility that I have not seen in the Christian world since the loss of Mother Theresa. Too many of them are standing on their pulpits as their mega churches in their very expensive suits dishing out the fare of the day as they peddle their latest book and promise you riches in exchange for your donation.
As spiritual leaders and teachers, our role is to help bring the world together and to see to it that all of us have what we need to be safe and joyous. Pope Francis has seen the horrific affects of greed in the streets of Argentina, a country that collapsed under the weight of the financial tyranny. Having seen it, he comes to the role of pope with a new compassion that I have not seen in a pope in my lifetime. Long live Pope Francis. And may his words affect change. It is certainly time.
Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the “cult of money” that he says is tyrannising the poor and turning humans into expendable consumer goods.
In his first major speech on the subject, Francis demanded that financial and political leaders reform the global financial system to make it more ethical and concerned for the common good.
He said: “Money has to serve, not to rule!”
It’s a message Francis delivered on many occasions when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, and it’s one that was frequently stressed by retired Pope Benedict XVI.
Francis, who has made clear the poor are his priority, made the comments as he greeted his first group of new ambassadors accredited to the Holy See. – AP
Pope Frees Dove
Security personnel hand Pope Francis a cage containing two doves during his weekly general audience in St. Peter Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. As Francis toured the square in his open-topped popemobile at his Wednesday audience with the public, someone at the edge of the crowd thrust a white bird cage at him. Looking puzzled, his security detail took the cage, containing a pair of white doves, and handed it to Francis. Without hesitation, the pope opened the cage door, thrust a hand inside and extracted one dove, and with a flick of his hand, sent the bird flying over the square. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
(NaturalNews) Angelina Jolie’s announcement of undergoing a double mastectomy (surgically removing both breasts) even though she had no breast cancer is not the innocent, spontaneous, “heroic choice” that has been portrayed in the mainstream media. Natural News has learned it all coincides with a well-timed for-profit corporate P.R. campaign that has been planned for months and just happens to coincide with the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on the viability of the BRCA1 patent.
This is the investigation the mainstream media refuses to touch. Here, I explain the corporate financial ties, investors, mergers, human gene patents, lawsuits, medical fear mongering and thetrillions of dollars that are at stake here. If you pull back the curtain on this one, you find far more than an innocent looking woman exercising a “choice.” This is about protecting trillions in profits through the deployment of carefully-crafted public relations campaigns designed to manipulate the public opinion of women.
The signs were all there from the beginning of the scheme: Angelina Jolie’s highly polished and obviously corporate-written op-ed piece at the New York Times, the carefully-crafted talking points invoking “choice” as a politically-charged keyword, and the obvious coaching of even her husband Brad Pitt who carefully describes the entire experience using words like “stronger” and “pride” and “family.”
But the smoking gun is the fact that Angelina Jolie’s seemingly spontaneous announcement magically appeared on the cover of People Magazine this week — a magazine that is usually finalized for publication three weeks before it appears on newsstands. That cover, not surprisingly, uses the same language found in the NYT op-ed piece: “HER BRAVE CHOICE” and “This was the right thing to do.” The flowery, pro-choice language is not a coincidence.
What this proves is that Angelina’s Jolie’s announcement was a well-planned corporate P.R. campaign with carefully-crafted messages designed to influence public opinion. But what could Jolie be seeking to influence?
…how about trillions of dollars in corporate profits?
Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision to rule on patent viability for BRCA1 gene
Angelina Jolie’s announcement and all its carefully-crafted language had four notable immediate impacts:
1) It caused women everywhere to be terrified of breast cancer through the publishing of false statistics that drove fear into the hearts of anyone with breasts. (See below for explanation.)
2) It caused women to rush out and seek BRCA1 gene testing procedures. These tests just happen to be patented by a for-profit corporation called “Myriad Genetics.” Because of this patent, BRCA1 tests can cost $3,000 – $4,000 each. The testing alone is a multi-billion-dollar market, but only if the patent is upheld in an upcoming Supreme Court decision (see below).
3) It caused the stock price of Myriad Genetics (MYGN) to skyrocket to a 52-week high. “Myriad’s stock closed up 3% Tuesday, following the publication of the New York Times op-ed,” wrote Marketwatch.com.
4) It drove public opinion to influence the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision to rule in favor of corporate ownership of human genes (see more below).
Women all over the world are being duped into supporting Angeline Jolie, having no idea that what she’s really doing is selling out women to the for-profit cancer industry. But to fully understand what’s happening, you have to dig deeper…
Myriad Genetics sees stock price skyrocket thanks to Jolie, and Obamacare will funnel billions their way
“Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics (MYGN) holds the patent on the test that determined the actress had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer, as well as the genes themselves,” wrote MarketWatch.com.
And that’s only the beginning. If the U.S. Supreme Court can be influenced to uphold Myriad’s patent, it could mean a trillion-dollar industry over just the next few years. Even more, Myriad Genetics is reportedly “ripe for mergers” according to the financial press, because it’s part of the super-hot human genome industry.
“The world’s largest maker of DNA testing and analysis tools, Life Technologies Corp. said that it is set to be acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific for a record $13.6 billion,” writes MarketWatch.com. “A race that kicked into high gear more than 26 years ago is heating up, with foreign governments and corporations joining the U.S. in funding the quest to map all the human genomes. And even as the recent flurry of mergers and acquisitions in the genomics space has spurred returns, investors still have opportunities to profit from this multibillion-dollar industry.”
The higher Myriad’s stock price goes, the more profitable a merger becomes for its current owners. So Jolie’s P.R. stunt just happened to generate unknown millions of dollars in value for the very people who claim a patent monopoly over the breast cancer genes residing in the bodies of women. Coincidence? Hardly.
Obamacare mandates taxpayers pay for BRCA gene testing: yet another government handout to wealthy corporations
But here’s what’s even more crooked about all this: You know how Obama likes to talk “free market” but actually engages in so-called “crony capitalism” by handing out money to all his corporate buddies, Wall Street insiders and deep-pocketed campaign donors? Part of Obamacare — the “Affordable Care Act” — mandates that taxpayers pay for BRCA1 genetic testing!
Myriad Genetics, in other words, stands to receive a full-scale windfall of profits mandated by government and pushed into mainstream consciousness through a campaign of “medical terror” fronted by Angelina Jolie and the New York Times. Are you starting to see how this all fits together yet?
This is all one big coordinated corporate sellout of women, and it’s all being hidden by playing the “women’s power” card and using “choice” language to more easily manipulate women. Angelina Jolie, remember, is a key spokesperson for the United Nations, an organization already caught engaged inchild sex slavery and drug running. Although Jolie obviously isn’t engage in that sort of behavior, her job is to covertly influence American women into supporting a carefully-planned, plotted and executed corporate profit campaign that turns women’s bodies into profits.
Here’s why the Supreme Court decision puts trillions of dollars at stake…
Details on the upcoming Supreme Court decision
The ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit in 2009, challenging the corporate ownership of human genes. Anyone who believes in women’s rights, human rights, civil rights or even the right to eat non-GMO foods should immediately agree that corporations should NOT be able to patent human genes and then use those patents to rake in billions of dollars in profits while stifling scientific research into those genes.
A question to all women reading this: Do you believe a corporation in Utah owns your body? If not, you should be opposed to corporate ownership of human genes. It also means you should oppose Angelina Jolie’s P.R. campaign because although she’s running a brilliant public relations campaign, behind the scenes her actions are feeding potentially trillions of dollars of profits directly into the for-profit human gene patenting industry that denies human beings ownership over their own genetic code.
On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA1 and BRCA2, are unconstitutional and invalid. On November 30, 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to hear argument on the patentability of human genes. The ACLU argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 15, 2013. We expect a decision this summer.
On behalf of researchers, genetic counselors, women patients, cancer survivors, breast cancer and women’s health groups, and scientific associations representing 150,000 geneticists, pathologists, and laboratory professionals, we have argued that human genes cannot be patented because they are classic products of nature. The suit charges that the gene patents violate the First Amendment and stifle diagnostic testing and research that could lead to cures and that they limit women’s options regarding their medical care.
Got that? If the Supreme Court rules against Myriad Genetics, it will cause a multi-billion-dollar breast cancer genetic testing industry to collapse virtually overnight. This means a huge loss for not just Myriad, but also many other human gene corporations that wish to exploit the human body — including the bodies of women — for monopolistic profits. (All patents are government-granted monopolies.) Ultimately, trillions of dollars in corporate gene patents are at stake here.
Patenting human genes is huge business
Today, about 20 percent of your genes are already patented by corporations and universities. As the ACLU explains, “A gene patent holder has the right to prevent anyone from studying, testing or even looking at a gene. As a result, scientific research and genetic testing has been delayed, limited or even shut down due to concerns about gene patents.”
This means that when corporations own patents on human genes, it stifles scientific research while granting that corporation a monopoly over the “intellectual property” encoded in your own DNA! (How criminal is that? You decide…)
What this means is that if the Supreme Court rules against Myriad, it would set a precedent that woulddismantle the entire human gene patenting industry, affecting trillions of dollars in future profits.
This, I believe, is the real reason behind Angelina Jolie’s announcement. It seems designed to invoke women’s emotional reactions and create a groundswell of support for corporate-owned genes, thereby handing these corporations a Supreme Court precedent that will ensure trillions in future profits. It’s a for-profit PR stunt that tries to trick women into supporting a corporate system of patents and monopolies that claims, right now, to own portions of the bodies of every woman living today.
While most media outlets have no clue about the patent issues at stake here, the Detroit Free Presstook notice, saying:
“The Hollywood star’s decision to get tested for a breast cancer gene mutation, undergo a double mastectomy and then write about it calls attention to a case now pending before the court. The justices have just weeks to decide if Myriad Genetics’ patent on the two genes that can identify an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer is legal. Critics complain that the company’s monopoly leaves them as the sole source of the $4,000 tests needed to determine each woman’s risk.”
Lying with statistics: Jolie’s 87% risk exaggeration
There’s more to this story than just the patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. Angelina Jolie is also using blatantly misleading statistics to terrify women into thinking their breasts might kill them.
In the NYT op-ed piece, Jolie claims her doctor told her she has an “87% risk” of developing breast cancer. But what she didn’t tell you is that this number doesn’t apply to the entire population: it’s actually old data derived almost exclusively from families that were previously documented to have very high risks of breast cancer to begin with.
A study published on the National Human Genome Research Institute website and conducted by scientists from the National Institutes of Health reveals that breast cancer risks associated with BRCA1 genes are significantly lower than what’s being hyped up by Jolie and the mainstream media.
In fact, in a large room of 600 women, only ONE will likely have a BRCA mutation in her genetic code. The actual incidence is 0.125 to 0.25 out of 100 women, or 1 in 400 to 1 in 800. I used 600 as the average of 400 and 800.
And out of that 1 in 600 women who has the mutation, her risk of breast cancer is only 56 percent, not 78 percent as claimed by Jolie. But 13 percent of women without the BRCA mutation get breast cancer anyway, according to this scientific research, so the increased risk is just 43 out of 100 women.
So what we’re really talking about here is 1 in 600 women having a BRCA gene mutation, then less than half of those getting cancer because of it. In other words, only about 1 in 1200 women will be affected by this.
Yet thanks to people like Jolie and the fear-mongering mainstream media, women all across the nation have been terrified into believing their breasts might kill them and the best way to handle the problem is to cut them off!
This, my friends, is the essence of doomsday fear mongering. This issue affects less than one-tenth of one percent of women but is being riled up into a nationwide fear campaign that just happens to feed profits into the for-profit cancer diagnosis and treatment industry, not to mention the monopolistic human gene patenting cartels.
That’s the real story of what’s happening here. Don’t expect to read this in the New York Times.
Corporate media refuses to mention real prevention and treatment options
As part of the breast cancer fear mongering and treatment scam now being run across the mainstream media, nearly all media sources are prohibiting any mention of holistic or natural options for treatment or prevention.
Sure, the media talks about “options,” but all those options just happen to lead back to the for-profit cancer industry. As an example, read this story by ABC News, part of the lying mainstream media that misinforms women and pushes a corporate agenda:
If you do test positive for BRCA, you have options, and you don’t necessarily have to go the Jolie route. Some women choose not to have surgery. Instead, they increase cancer surveillance with imaging tests. These include regular mammograms to test for breast cancer, and regular pelvic sonograms and blood-tests to watch for ovarian cancer.
Nowhere in this article does ABC News mention ways to suppress the BRCA1 gene by, for example, eating raw cruciferous vegetables containing Indole-3-Carbinol (I3C), a potent anti-cancer nutrient that halts breast cancer in its tracks. Nowhere does ABC News mention vitamin D which prevents nearly 4 out of 5 cancers of all types, including breast cancer.
Nope, the “options” being pushed by mainstream media are nothing more than mammograms, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy — all owned and run by the for-profit cancer industry that feeds on women and exploits their bodies for profit.
Nor is their any discussion of the total scam of the “pink ribbons” cancer cure industry which is primarily focused on giving women cancer through “free mammograms.” As any scientist or physicist already knows, mammograms cause cancer because they emit ionizing radiation directly into the breast and heart tissues. Get enough mammograms done and sooner or later they will detect breast cancer because they caused it! To date, 1.3 million women have been harmed by mammography.
Thanks, Angelina, for keeping the wool pulled over the eyes of women everywhere while selling out to for-profit, monopolistic, corporate interests that incessantly seek to exploit women for profit.
Photo credit: PEOPLE Magazine cover, used under Fair Use for public commentary and education.
Some things are just beyond comprehension, though I’m constantly amazed at the depth of the slumber for the sleeping ones. I have to refer back to the biblical passage, “forgive them for they know not what they do.” I can only believe that the people who did this are so unconscious that they really DON’T understand the implications of what they have done. Otherwise the horror is beyond comprehension. I only know that the energy of this decision will weigh on their souls for eternity. For this, justice really is, as they say, a bitch.
For me, one of my favorite memories EVER was of visiting Altun Ha from the metaphysical cruise that we took back in 2008. We stopped at Tulum and at Altun Ha. I’ve been to several of the pyramidal sites, including Tikal itself, and my favorite, to this day, is probably Altun Ha, the only one in Belize that I’ve visited. It’s an experience I recommend for everyone so if you get a chance, check out the pyramids. The energy will leave you on a high for sure.
Posted by Stephen Cook Bulldozers were used to extract crushed rock for a road-building project. Photo: AP
Stephen: I’m amazed that in 2013, this was allowed to happen. We know that many of our ancient temples and pyramids around the world contain the truth of our planetary history, could somebody have been trying to destroy something the Mayans may have left for us to know before it was publicly ‘found’?
Belize City: A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project.
The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial centre dates back at least 2300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.
“It’s a feeling of incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity … they were using this for road fill,” Mr Awe said. “It’s like being punched in the stomach, it’s just so horrendous.”
An obscene example of disrespect for the environment and history
Nohmul sat in the middle of a privately owned sugar cane field, and lacked the even stone sides frequently seen in reconstructed or better-preserved pyramids. But Mr Awe said the builders could not possibly have mistaken the pyramid mound, which is about 30 metres tall, for a natural hill because the ruins were well-known and the landscape there is naturally flat.
“These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It’s just bloody laziness,” Mr Awe said.
Photos from the scene showed backhoes clawing away at the pyramid’s sloping sides, leaving an isolated core of limestone cobbles at the centre, with what appears to be a narrow Mayan chamber dangling above one clawed-out section.
“Just to realise that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tumplines,” said Mr Awe.
“To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can’t these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It’s mind-boggling.”
Belizean police said they are conducting an investigation and criminal charges are possible. The Nohmul complex sits on private land, but Belizean law says that any pre-Hispanic ruins are under government protection.
The Belize community-action group Citizens Organised for Liberty Through Action called the destruction of the archaeological site “an obscene example of disrespect for the environment and history”.
It is not the first time it’s happened in Belize, a country of about 350,000 people that is largely covered in jungle and dotted with hundreds of Mayan ruin sites, though few as large as Nohmul.
(NaturalNews) With President Obama’s recent signing of the Monsanto Protection Act, food safety advocates are up in arms. As GMOs fill grocery store shelves at an alarming rate, more people are growing aware of the health risks associated with genetically altered organisms. People are growing tired of this disease-promoting, genetically manipulated food. They are sick of controlling multinational corporations like Monsanto dictating their food supply. That’s why on May 25th 2013, rallies across the world are organizing, from Australia to Germany, from New York to California. A March against Monsanto is expected to take place.
How important is real, organic food to you? Do you want to support small farmers and their independence? Do you want to protect the future of the seed and health of your family?
Research – look for ways to speak up and make a difference. Join a march against Monsanto rally on May 25th in your city: http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/march/
Monsanto Protection Act awakening the republic
This new “Monsanto Protection Act” signed on March 26th, 2013, gives executive powers to the USDA that grant permission to companies like Monsanto to sell its genetically modify seed to farmers without any judicial accountability. The provision is written in a way to assure farmers a profitable and safe venture with GMO seed, but in reality, this law is designed to grant GMO producers like Monsanto legal immunity from the health problems their products will cause down the road.
This provision removes the judicial system from the picture, allowing Monsanto to dominate agriculture, selling genetically altered seed to farmers and damaging human genes – all without any real justice.
U.S. Senator and family farmer Jon Tester, spoke out on the Senate floor, “The United States Congress is telling the Agricultural Department that even if a court tells you that you’ve failed to follow the right process and tells you to start over, you must disregard the court’s ruling and allow the crop to be planted anyway. Not only does this ignore the constitutional idea of separation of powers, but it also lets genetically modified crops take hold across this country, even when a judge finds it violates the law,” Tester said.
Tester’s concerns were apparently disregarded. Five days later, Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act into law, ignoring the scientific evidence GMOs have on human health. Now multinational corporations like Monsanto have legal permission to make farmers their serfs, and to use the population as a science experiment with their altered, disease-spreading seed.
Government complying to Monsanto’s demands, despite health risks
Dave Murphy, founder of Food Democracy Now, said, “I think the Monsanto Protection Act, how it was passed and how it was slipped into law is just another example of how this company (Monsanto) operates, how they manipulate our democracy, and how they buy off our elected officials.”
It’s apparent. The industry demands profit. Instead of upholding justice, the government is bought off to pass laws that permit companies like Monsanto to trample the people’s health and environment. For example, scientists indicate that the world’s bee population is collapsing due to the presence of genetically modified seed. Altered food is also linked to serious health conditions such as the development of cancer, tumors, infertility and birth defects.
How can people everywhere stop this mad machine from controlling the world’s seed?
Is it time to spend an extra dollar, buying only real, organic food?
Is it time for a warning label to be required on all products that contain genetically modified food? This would help consumers make more informed decisions.
Is it time to pressure the government to repeal the provisions of the Monsanto Protection Act? The provision is temporary and is likely to come back up for a re-authorization vote in September 2013.
Is it time to write and inform others about GMOS, making more scientific studies available to people everywhere about the negative health effects of GMOs?
Is it time to hold Monsanto executives accountable through bold, direct communication?
Is it time to take the action to the streets in peaceful protest, shining a light on Monsanto’s influence over government and their direct contribution to disease in the world?
Many people think that because nothing horrific happened (or even obvious) with the end of the long-count Mayan Calendar that nothing happened at all. But I don’t buy it. As someone who has been part of the consciousness movement for some time now, I know that the shifts are rarely obvious. They are like an “ah ha” moment when you hear something different or you understand it differently and as a result, your whole life changes.
I think the shift is like that. It’s a grand ah-ha moment that has essentially changed everything.
So then you have to ask, what IS happening that will create a whole new world free of the layers and layers of enslavement that virtually all humans endure? (And I have to say that I think that even the “global controllers” are enslaved only in a different way.)
And the more I watch it, the more I think the answer to this is Free Energy.
IMU instructor Bruce Vinikas was the first one to really introduce the idea to me, at least in my recent memory. He has become a huge proponent of the work of world-renowned and controversial physicist Nassim Haramein who claims that he has actually submitted a free-energy device for patent.
Others have also made the same claim at one time or another. In fact, the internet is rife (ironic term in this sentence for anyone who understands its full implications) with people who have “solved the problem” of free energy. If it is true, we can guess that they will be killed or otherwise mitigated as that seems to be the modus operendi of those who have so much to lose.
And recently, with the release of the Sirius movie by Steven Greer and the testimony at the UFO hearings in DC last week, it has become increasingly clear to me that this is not only possible but it is in the works.
When we stop to think about the implications of free energy on the planet, it dwarfs everything else.
At this point in history, we don’t even know how to run our bodies on the energy that is around us. We need to feed it food to keep it going. But we have all heard of the enlightened ones who could go for long periods of time without food or water, living only on breath and sunshine. I even know of a man here in our own community who lives almost exclusively without food. He taught at my center one time and stayed with me for several days. It was an enlightening experience.
So I know it can be done. And as a healer, I also can see and feel the energy field that surrounds the body. As a person who has studied hermetics, I also know that what can be done on a micro level is also true on the macro level.
But all in all I think the shift in consciousness has happened and we will see free energy in our lifetime.
Something that escapes most people is that all the processes in and around us are powered by various forms of Energy.
Most of the Energy we use today on our planet is Solar energy. This solar energy has been captured by the plants in the past and converted over a very long period of time in coal or oil, that we are burning today to power our homes, our cars and our factories.
Our own bodies also take up energy in the form of food. This energy is used to grow and repair the body and a lot if it is used up by our brain. To grow this food, to package it, to transport it and store it in places where you can buy it, you also require Energy.
The idea is that everything on the planet right now is an Energy game. How this energy is produced (extracted), how it is exchanged and how it is converted in forms that are useful to the Human Species.
Introducing Free Energy
Ever since we have discovered fire, humans have been on a fast track to harness more and more energy for their use. More energy always meant a higher standard of living. Slavery was made obsolete by more energy. Women’s status has improved as soon as more energy was available. Large families stopped making sense, when child labor stopped making sense, and that was due to more energy being available. Life in the US is so much better than other parts of the world, because there is more energy available for each person living there. And we are just scratching the surface of what is possible.
At some point along this line, what I will call the Global Controllers had a realization: as soon as any human on the planet has access to abundant, unlimited clean energy their “power over others” games would be over. They would have to leave and play their games elsewhere. At that time, a campaign was started to suppress, by ridicule, the idea of Free Abundant Energy. It has been declared “proven to be impossible” as it “violates the laws of physics”. Even so, some scientists (starting most likely with Nikola Tesla) have been able to tap into various forms of Energy that are not powered by fossil fuels or radioactive material. This Energy source has sometimes been called “Zero Point Energy”.
The proof of this is beyond this writing, but anyone reading is invited to look this up, and read about it. For a few days just ignore the “laws of physics” and pretend this is actually possible. Have a look a it. If it were possible, how would it work? What would change in our world?
We the creators
The greatest victory of the Global Controllers is that they have made Abundance and Free Energy unimaginable. We are all familiar with “You can’t have something for nothing…”, “You gotta work for a living.”, “There is no such thing a free lunch”. And so on.
All the above are bits and pieces of what I call “The Scarcity Program” that is deeply embedded into our subconscious minds.
I don’t want us to fall into the “victim/aggressor” paradigm. I acknowledge that the Global Controllers act as a parasite but their actions are made possible by our collective agreement to “not even imagine abundance”.
So while I acknowledge the suppression and the vested interests to keep us addicted to fossil fuel, I choose to act as a creator and focus on abundance instead. Let’s choose to make the Global Controllers obsolete. If they have no one to control, they have no choice but to either join the party on our terms or pack and leave.
Free Energy, Sentience, Love, Joy and Abundance are linked together. And I will not be surprised if one day we will discover that in essence they are the same thing.
There may be many, many ways to raise our awareness and make manifest Heaven on Earth, but as far as I know, none of them will work faster and help more Humans (and other lifeforms on the planet) as bringing Free Energy out in the open.
There is a bit of a catch 22 here: Free Energy will make it so much easier to raise our awareness and yet it seems that we need to raise our awareness of Free Energy technologies first and how they would change the world, before we are able to manifest it into our reality.
An abundant, Free Energy based world
So let’s pretend for a moment that we have Free Energy now. Suspend your beliefs that it is not possible.
Each and every one of us has access to unlimited clean Energy and devices to convert that energy to various useful forms for us: electric, thermal and mechanic.
How would our lives change, now that you will not have to work for a living? What would you do if money or survival will no longer be an issue.
Free Energy would make profit obsolete. And once profit is out of the equation, then quality will take its place. Now every product we make, we make it out of joy, out of a desire to express our creativity, to be of service to us and our fellow humans and non-human life. We no longer work for money and we no longer work in jobs we don’t like. Just imagine how would that feel?
With abundant, clean energy the war for resources will stop making sense. Taking it from others so I can have it will no longer be required. Mining the Earth for oil will no longer be required. Free sharing of technology and information will come naturally once you no longer have a “profit margin” to maintain, or a competitor to wipe out. I can easily imagine a joyful coming together to eliminate poverty and hunger from all over the planet. With Free Energy that can be done in mater of days. Just think of the human potential unleashed, of all that creativity waiting to express it self in safe, abundant environment.
Virtually every aspect of our lives would be impacted and greatly improved with the advent of unlimited clean Energy. The way we think about family, relationships, sex, marriage, work, creativity, boundaries, nations, language, health, learning, traveling, food production, relationship with nature and the Planet. Everything would change.
The most important change however, would be within. In an abundant society, you would have to become a “response-able” Creator. There will be no one left to blame, no one to complain about. You will no longer be able to act as a victim (or aggressor for that matter). You will have full freedom and with that comes full responsibility for your life. We will truly be “self determined grown-ups”.
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(NaturalNews) Angelina Jolie’s announcement of undergoing a double mastectomy (surgically removing both breasts) even though she had no breast cancer is not the innocent, spontaneous, “heroic choice” that has been portrayed in the mainstream media. 
3) It caused the stock price of Myriad Genetics (MYGN) to skyrocket to a 52-week high. “Myriad’s stock closed up 3% Tuesday, following the publication of the New York Times op-ed,” wrote 
As part of the breast cancer fear mongering and treatment scam now being run across the mainstream media, nearly all media sources are prohibiting any mention of holistic or natural options for treatment or prevention.
