Single-Needle Healthcare

Is high-tech acupuncture the wave of the future? Maybe I’m becoming a hypochondriac, do you think? Lately, something always seems to be going wrong with my body. But have I been taking all this lying down? Sure, absolutely. This morning, however, I resolved to get my body back into shape and went down to Oakland to get myself checked out at the local acupuncture school. Why not. For only $20, you can get a complete physical diagnosis and tune-up. They check the pulses in your wrists, look at your tongue,... Read article

Karzai Visit to U.S. Set Against Backdrop of Civilian Deaths, Opposition to Obama Plan

U.S. President Barack Obama met this week with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, while another U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan resulting in dead civilians set the tone for the visit. U.S. bombings in the Farah province of Afghanistan on Monday resulted in a large number of civilian deaths. Local villagers gave figures as high as 150 or more dead civilians, but the numbers have yet to be confirmed. Rohul Amin, the provincial governor, said he saw about 30 bodies, including many women and... Read article

Can Christians Serve In The New World Order Army?

Many patriotic Americans, including many retired and former military personnel, are increasingly chagrined at the direction the U.S. armed forces are taking. For one thing, there were numerous instances in the Clinton and both Bush administrations when American GIs were required to serve under foreign or United Nations commanders. Does anyone remember the Michael New case? How can any American GI, who has taken an oath to the U.S. Constitution, willingly surrender himself to a foreign commander, flag, or uniform? That is... Read article

Prayers of Millions a Part of History

Millions of Americans come together on National Prayer Day to raise their collective, repentant and prayerful voices to God for our country, our leaders, our people. According to recent surveys many citizens, self-identified Christians, doubt that America was ever a Christian nation. Some believe that America began Christian, but have since deserted their Christian roots. Decades of U.S. Supreme Court decisions have misinterpreted the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment to mean “religion shall be totally separated... Read article

Stopping Truth at the Border

Banning Michael Savage from Britain… When I awoke Tuesday morning, I ambled over to the computer, as is my wont, and made my usual cyber rounds.  I logged on to the Drudge Report and, lo and behold, saw the following headline, “RADIO HOST MICHAEL SAVAGE BANNED FROM UK FOR ‘EXTREME VIEWS’….”  “Wow,” I thought, “Britain strikes again.” The prohibition is the handiwork of England’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, who included Savage on a list of 16 unwelcome... Read article

Iraq Committed to June 30 Deadline for Withdraw of U.S. Forces from Cities

A spokesman for the Iraqi government said this week that the June 30 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from urban areas would not be extended. Although there has been some talk that U.S. forces might be asked to stay longer due to an increase in violence in some areas, including the northern city of Mosul, spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said, “These dates cannot be extended, and this is consistent with the transfer and handover of responsibility to Iraqi security forces.” The June 30 deadline is part of the... Read article

Sail along silver girl: It’s Palestine’s time to shine?

Yes, I’m quoting Simon and Garfunkel. “Like a bridge over troubled waters….” And this song somehow reminds me of all the people in both Israel and Palestine who are laying down their lives in nonviolent protest against the injustices that Palestinians — both Muslim and Christian — have had to endure for the past 61 years. And it’s getting harder and harder to ignore these injustices — it’s been over four months since the slaughter at Gaza and still nothing has changed... Read article

The Great American Garbage Patch

In my 40 years traveling around this planet, I discovered human beings respect nothing anywhere in the world. No matter how beautiful, no matter how pristine the location and no matter what country-human beings toss their trash everywhere.  They inject their chemicals into the land, air and water.  They throw their rubbish into rivers, lakes and streams. In my forty years of Scuba diving around the world, I’ve seen our pristine lakes and oceans turn into trash cans for humans.  Millions of tires, nets, plastic,... Read article

Key Climate Science Problems In Plimer’s “Heaven and Earth’

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not to their own facts” (Senator Daniel Moynihan) Bold claims as if the science is “missing” from the extensive research conducted by the world’s premier research bodies (Hadley-Met, NASA, Potsdam-Oceanographic, CSIRO, Tindall, national academies of science), reported in thousands of peer-reviewed science journal papers and complied by International and government panels (IPCC, Stern, Garnaut) [2], which amount to attempts at reinvention of the... Read article

How The New ‘US Hate Laws’ Will Change Our Lives

REVEREND TED PIKE, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK, is the publisher of the world-renowned Web Site, Truth Tellers. Reverend Pike, who is often featured on the Rense Radio Program, has played a key role in defeating federal hate crimes legislation in the past. This time it may be quite different… Brother Nathanael: On April 29, 2009, the US House of Representatives passed the Federal Hate Crimes Bill, HR 1913. The Bill was approved despite compelling testimony by House Republicans who were constrained by a Democrat-imposed... Read article

The Curse of Self-Righteousness

Syncretic Insanity… “He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, is as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth through sunshine after rain.” 2 Samuel 23:3-4 From the last words of King David. Modern warfare is supported by massive propaganda campaigns that are designed to deceive citizens. They are well orchestrated and few understand the manipulation. I was a teen during World War II and in those formative... Read article

Requiem for the Republican Party

The experts think the Republican party can get up off the canvas and stage a comeback, but don’t bet on it. The poor GOP isn’t really even a party anymore; it’s more like a vaudeville troupe scuttling from one backwater to the next performing the same worn slapstick. They’ve simply become irrelevant, a “non-party” that no one pays much attention to apart from the occasional zinger on the Daily Show or Letterman. In truth, the GOP is so deeply-traumatized from their shocking fall from power,... Read article

Next Added 100 Million Americans: Poverty in World’s Cities

Chapter Eighteen… “I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” ~ Oprah Winfrey Urban dwellers worldwide outstrip rural populations. Poverty, slums and pollution grow in the wake of population increases. For example, each week, the United States grows by 8,200 people. Most of them settle into cities. California adds 1,600 people per day! One look at Los Angeles, Chicago,... Read article

Good Luck With That

Popular insistence upon prosecuting George W. Bush stems from at least two faulty assumptions: 1) that our political and economic systems function in the general interest, and 2) that the crimes of the Bush administration are isolated violations of those systems. “Now, that man over there — he’s the prosecuting attorney — and he couldn’t be happier today. He’s a happy man today, because today he’s going after a judge [President]. And if he gets him — if he gets him —... Read article

An inconvenient truth: “Swine flu is less dangerous than regular flu.”

After a friend of mine came down with a severe dose of some kind of terrible flu and I nursed him back to health, guess what happened next?  Yeah, I got sick too.  Really sick.  “OMG, now I’ve got swine flu!” I whined — in between trips to the bathroom.        But in my more lucid moments, I managed to do some research on the subject (as we all know, Google is the poor man’s health insurance).  Just how serious IS swine flu?  I know that I am feeling like heck-warmed-over right... Read article

Economy On The Ropes

The economy continued to shrink in the first quarter of 2009 at an annual pace of 6.1 percent, making it the worst recession in more than 50 years. Gross Domestic Product slipped into negative territory from January to March for back-to-back quarters of negative 6 percent growth. The news of falling GDP was preceded on Tuesday by a dismal housing report which showed that housing prices have continued their historic downward plunge with only modest improvement. Since their peak in July 2006, housing prices have dropped 31... Read article

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