Society

The Riddle: Who We Are?

Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, Contributor Waking Times Our Origin According to tradition, humanity originated ‘far beyond the stars’ and is on a journey back to its Source.  While in the earth phase, there are numerous opportunities to embrace ‘our real’ or ‘lasting nature’ and begin the spiritual journey back home. In this physical world, because we …

Cyber Activism Scores Victories Behind the Great Firewall of China

Michael Caster, Waging Non-Violence Guest Waking Times A popular meme on Weibo of a photo of the Wenzhou crash site with oversized monsters tearing up the rails with a caption that read, “I would rather believe this than the official explanation.” On Sept. 26, 2013, a court in Beijing sentenced Li Tianyi to 10 years …

Africa to Build World’s Largest Hydro-Electric Dam, but Who Will Benefit?

Liz Kimbrough, Mongabay Waking Times The Congo River traverses the continent of Africa, ending its journey in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it spills 1.5 million cubic feet per second into the Atlantic Ocean. Now, plans are underway to harness this tremendous force of water in what promises to be the world’s largest …

The 7 Most Important Requirements for Healing

Dr. Ben Kim, Guest Waking Times After badly dislocating my left shoulder while playing basketball during my first year of university, I began experimenting with a variety of strength-training techniques for my shoulders. Over the course of several years, I tried numerous routines that called for dozens of exercises with free weights and machines. While …

5 Things to Consider When Ordering Seafood

Kaye Spector, EcoWatch Waking Times Ever think about where your seafood comes from? You might be surprised to learn that much of the seafood sold in the U.S. is imported—frequently from places where health, safety and environmental standards are weak or non-existent. And less than 2 percent of seafood imports to the U.S. are inspected for …

Astrology and the Four Horsemen of Revelations

Jennifer Asad, Contributor Waking Times The story of the four horsemen is found in the Revelation of John, which scholars believe was written in 95 AD. They did not carbon date it. It is given this date because the author alludes to a numbers of kings who had come and gone. It was more likely …

Ten Reasons To Buy Local Food

Brenton Johnson, Guest Waking Times  1. Locally grown food tastes better. Food grown in your own community is usually picked within the past day or two. It’s crisp, sweet, and loaded with flavor. Produce flown or trucked in from Florida, Chile, Mexico, or Holland is, quite understandably, much older. Several studies have shown that the …

Did Charity Wander Off?

Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times I remember walking down the boardwalk at Venice Beach, and seeing a woman sitting on the sidewalk with her two small children, holding a sign that asked for charity. It was shocking to me, as I felt, deep inside, the loss of human dignity that she was experiencing. But for …

Sonar Directly Impacts Whale Behavior, According to Military Study

Dominic Rowland, Mongabay Waking Times Noises from pile-driving, explosives, ship motors and other industrial activities have all been linked to adverse effects on marine wildlife. A new study, funded by the US Navy and published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggests that military sonar may be directly impacting whale behavior. The idea that …

When Children Misbehave

Anthony Sammeroff, Contributor Waking Times “What should I do when my children misbehave?” a client asks during a communication coaching session. If we agree that the use of force, threats and punishments are not favourable approaches because they damage the relationship between parent and child, and that bribing children will only turn them into sneaky …

Sugar Promotes Heart Disease and Cancer

Dr. Mercola Waking Times More than 1,660,290 new cancer cases are projected to be diagnosed in the US this year, and an estimated 580,350 Americans will die from the disease.1Another 600,000 Americans die of heart disease each year.2 At present, heart disease is the leading cause of death among both sexes. Despite massive technological advances over …

FDA Concedes Antibiotic Use In Farm Animals Must Be Phased Out

April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times Antibiotics are added to animal feed or drinking water of cattle, hogs, poultry and other food-producing animals to make them gain weight faster or use less food to gain weight. The United Nations and World Health Organization have both stated that humans are building up dangerous levels of resistance …

Speculations on a Probable Future Destruction of the Internet

Zakaria Bziker, Contributor Waking Times Kenitra, Internet after all is not without enemies… The Internet has become the Archimedean point in our daily life. Almost nothing gets done without it nowadays. The more we rely on it, the more it seems impossible to live without it. It is undoubtedly the most reliable machine Man has ever …

The Post-GMO Economy

Elizabeth Royte, Modern Farmer Waking Times One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed — and he’s not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks still call Huegerich “Crash.” And though he eventually went down a …

7 Tips on Surviving The Medical Industrial Complex

Ken McGowan, GreenMedInfo Waking Times Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.” ~ Dr. Benjamin Rush 1787 (Founding Father, signer of …

Islam: Religion of Peace and Love?

Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, Contributor Waking Times “Say ye: ‘we believe in God and the revelation given to us and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord. We make no difference between one and another of them, and we bow …

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The Life-Altering Consequences Of Marijuana Possession in New York City

Johnny Green, The Weed Blog Waking Times Last night, BuzzFeed released a gripping video about one New Yorker’s harrowing experience of being arrested for marijuana possession.  A Marijuana Arrest  tells the story of former Manhattan Public School art teacher Alberto Willmore, who recounts how his life was upended after NYPD officers aggressively seized and charged him with marijuana …

Why Mammograms Are a Harmful Waste of Time & Money

Christina Sarich, Natural Society Waking Times Millions of women are subjected to ionizing radiation every year when we get mammograms at the directive of our health care providers. Radiation risks might be worth it if actual cancerous tumors were detected by mammograms, but a Swedish study involving over 60,000 women pointed out recently that 70% of all detected ‘tumors’ weren’t …

From the Summer of Love to the Arab Spring

Robert Bonomo, Contributor Waking Times “Those who believe that the world of being is governed by luck or chance and that it depends upon material causes are far removed from the divine and from the notion of the One.” — Plotinus On May 27, 2010 the planet Uranus entered Aries and in December of that same …

Truth Apnea

Zen Gardner, Guest Waking Times It’s amazing how starved for truth such an informationally soaked world can be. But here we are. Sleep apnea, or discontinued, interrupted breathing during sleep, is a terrible condition for anyone, often requiring the assistance of breathing machines. It’s a relatively new affliction to our times often having to do with …


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