Yes, and TM'ers are too damned nice too. The science on meditation is just so too staggering to not have all our public policy mandate the teaching of effective meditation in all schools to every child and have quiet-time meditation in every school every day. It is time to make science-based consciousness-based education national policy and leave no child behind in this. If only as Americans in a competitive world economy, we can't afford to not to have every child learn a Transcendental Meditation. It is time to get real about this. It is time for serious revolutionary action on science-based consciousness-based education for every child. -Buck in the Dome
.. for being too nice. They needed to be meaner and more aggressive ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote: Mike Adams of Natural News blamed the supporters of the anti-GMO initiative that lost in Washington state for being too nice. They needed to be meaner and more aggressive as big fooda was able to defeat the initiative through lies and maybe even fraud. Mike Papantonio, a lawyer who also hosts a progressive talk show, said yesterday that the left is too polite and needs to be more aggressive. He said this on wimpy Thom Hartmann's show. Thom has become more wussy since moving to DC from Portland, Oregon and I believe this is due to his veganism which seems to make some people wimpy. Thom ought to have a steak every so once in a while. ;-) On 11/09/2013 09:16 AM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... wrote: Part of the problem is the use of an all-purpose term like "far-right". I suppose Nazis and Ayn Rand could both be described as far right but they were as different as chalk and cheese. Some of the success of Euro right-wing parties is down to frank racism; some is down to fears about Islamic extremism. But a lot of the appeal is because no one (and I do mean no one!) thinks the mainstream party MPs really listen to the concerns of the electorate; instead they are just part of a wealthy, self-perpetuating and remote elite. The National Front in France has a long history of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Recently they've reinvented themselves and appeal to those worried about the emergence of a centralised, unaccountable European super-state. They're also threatening to ditch the Euro currency and return to their own French frank - which makes sense when you see what a dog's dinner the EEC has made of currency integration. The tricky question is how far it's a risk worth taking to vote for these right-wing groups to scare the mainstream politicians into changing course - could you end up opening Pandora's box? What is striking is the failure of the political left to take advantage of the widespread dissatisfaction. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Oh, hmmm, it seems like the U.S. isn't the only country that has problems with its right wing. From an article in today's NYTimes entitled, "Right Wing’s Surge in Europe Has the Establishment Rattled": "...All over, established political forces are losing ground to politicians whom they scorn as fear-mongering populists. In France, according to a recent opinion poll, the far-right National Front has become the country’s most popular party. In other countries — Austria, Britain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland and the Netherlands — disruptive upstart groups are on a roll. "This phenomenon alarms not just national leaders but also officials in Brussels who fear that European Parliament elections next May could substantially tip the balance of power toward nationalists and forces intent on halting or reversing integration within the European Union...." Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/world/europe/right-wings-surge-in-europe-has-the-establishment-rattled.html
