Steven M. Greer – USA

Linked with Announcing the Orion Project, with The Orion Project, and with The Disclosure Project.

Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American physician known as a proponent of openness in government, media and corporations when it comes to advanced technologies that he and others believe to have been shelved and hidden from public awareness for reasons of profit and influence. To this end he has founded the Disclosure Project in 1993 and the Advanced Energy Research Organization AERO in 2007. (full long text on wikipedia).

It is said: It is said: He brings a unique combination of scientific knowledge, credibility , vision, humor and inspiration to his lectures. Dr. Greer relies on first hand knowledge of extraterrestrial activity world wide and has direct sources for information regarding covert operations dealing with the subject. Supporters of his world are as diverse as Apollo astronaut, Dr Edgar Mitchell, who walked on the moon in Apollo 14, to benefactor and philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller, to former British Ministry of Defense Head and five star admiral, Lord Hill-Norton, to folk legend, Burl Ives … (full text).

Books written by Steven M. Greer.

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Steven M. Greer – USA

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He says: « The universe is teeming with intelligent life. In fact, the universe itself is intelligent and alive. The multiplicity of life in the universe, while diverse, is essentially a singularity; beyond division, it exists in the unitive state, a marvelous, conscious Oneness. All that there is exists in its true nature as pure, undifferentiated, eternal Mind. And yet from the awareness of that which is relative, we find inner and outer, mind and body, good and evil, oneness and separation. Truth is often born from the contemplation of these paradoxes; both perspectives are true, but are dependent on the level of awareness of the observer. As we ponder the universe and a new cosmology which accounts for the existence of advanced non-human life forms, the lesson of the paradox will visit us over and over again. But if we look intently with the eye of oneness, perhaps the cosmos will offer up a few of its mysteries » … (full long text).

WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND IS « PLANET X » APPROACHING? January 1, 2006.

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Ann Njogu – Kenya

Linked with WorldPulse Magazine, and with CREAW.

Ann Njogu is the executive director of the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness in Nairobi, Kenya. In recognition of her contribution toward gender equity, Njogu received the International Community Awareness Award given by Rainbow House in Chicago, Illinois. (OSI-Forum).

She asks: … “If indeed the commissioners were in possession of the files, how did they get access to them yet the chairman is on record that they needed a court order to access the documents? When did they obtain the order?” … (full text of Crucial files lost in ECK drama, March 3, 2008).

Listen her on this video on YouTube: Ann Njogu, 2.46 min, February 13, 2008. Same video on AOL-video, same video on e-mule.com.

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Ann Njogu – Kenya

She works as Executive Director of the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness CREAW in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ann Njogu named in Charity Ngilu’s wikipedia-text.

It was an assassination attempt on the life of Mwalimu Mati, Ouma Odera and Okoiti Omtatah. There was also a brutal attack on Ann Njogu and Hon. Charity Ngilu Minister of Health who was roughed up when she went to Ann Njogu’s rescue. All five leaders were removed from central police station without the knowledge of their families, olleagues and friends in an attempt to assassinate them. The police alerted the media that they had released the civil society leaders when in fact they had not … (full text, August 1, 2007).

Female Candidates in Kenya Say They Face Discrimination, Violence, Dec. 24, 2007.

… Sexual abuse on children and young adolescents is also increasing at family level. The World Health Organisation estimates a prevalence of 25 per cent for girls and eight for boys. Mrs Ann Njogu, executive director of the Centre for Rehabilitation and Education of Abused Women (Creaw) decries harassment by police when dealing with rape cases. The harassment, she says, discourages many victims from reporting rape cases. (full text, March 10, 2008).

Women’s Property Rights in Kenya’s Draft Constitution, A Joint Letter to Delegates of Kenya’s National Constitutional Conference, August 2003.

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Durre Sameen Ahmed – Pakistan

Linked with Rationality And The Lived World.

She says: ” … Fundamentalisms are to be understood as political projects by certain groups in the different societies aimed at gaining or keeping political and/or economic power. They project a vision of community and more often of a nation, based on a certain identity-related understanding suggesting that only one societal concept is in accordance with the vision of community/nation. Behind these fundamentalist projects we can find special political forces that use religion – be it Christian, Muslim, Jewish or other religions – to impose a certain “holy” concept of society as the only true one. They deny the right to choose between different societal concepts, and present their vision as the only legitimate. They do not leave room for opposition, for alternative ways and for individual rights. They try to silence opposition, put pressure on it and form a homogenised society …  » (full text of her speak at the Panel-discussion: « Feminists versus Fundamentalisms », 09.09.2005).

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Durre Sameen Ahmed – Pakistan

(She) started her academic education at Punjab University in Lahore/Pakistan, from where she received an MA in Clinical Psychology. She continued her education in the USA at Columbia University, where she received her PhD in communication and education after having finished an MA. Currently she is the director of the first research program of its kind in South Asia in communications and cultural studies at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where she has been working as a professor already for many years. Additionally she is a visiting professor at the Catholic University in Mechelen/Belgium and the director in Institutional Development of the Lahore Society for Education and Research. For her academic achievements she was honored with numerous national and international awards. She publishes regularly about gender issues, religion, family, drug addiction, tradition and women. Besides that she has done well reviewed work in Conceptual Art and has been working as an advisor to the Punjab government. (Read on Congress Femme Globale 2005).

Find her and her publications on Google Book-search; and on Google Scholar-search.

Her lifeworld is described in the following book: … Fifteen women of various age-groups, from different cultural, religious, social and geographical backgrounds, were asked to write about the lives of their grandmother, their mother, themselves and their daughters (or, if this was impossible, other women of those generations close to the family) … (full text):

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Stephen J. Gallagher – USA

Linked with Council for secular Humanism, and with the Institute for the Secularization of the Islamic Society.

Stephen Gallagher is a philosopher and writer who lives and works in North Carolina. He recently addressed the International Philosophers for Peace conference on the history of religiously based prison discourse in America … (full text).

He says: « Quality is not a thing. It is an event … It is the event at which the subject becomes aware of the object…Quality is the event at which awareness of both subjects and objects is made possible … This means that Quality is not just the result of a collision of subject and object. The very existence of subject and object themselves is deduced from the Quality event. The Quality event is the cause of the subjects and objects ». (full text).

Stephen J. Gallagher’s favorite links.

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Stephen J. Gallagher – USA

He writes: … At the moment I’m juggling several balls in the air:

  • Wrapping up a review of Barry Lynn’s book, « Piety and Politics »,
  • Fleshing out an essay tentatively titled « Forgetting Guantanomo »,
  • Reworking a short play I wrote into format suitable for a radio play,
  • Last but not least, the big kahuna on my list of To Do’s, I’m working on a book tentatively titled « Leaps of Faith: When Mania Meets Modernity ».

Yep, I’m a busy guy … (full text).

He writes also: … Even in a period when the fallibility of the death penalty has been repeatedly exposed, roughly two out of three Americans still support it. In Texas, current United States president George W. Bush personally supervised the executions of 152 people – and he is proud of that fact. That the blood of this slow-motion massacre on the president’s hands is a political asset says everything about current U.S. values. As the civilized world goes in one direction on this question, the United States goes in another. Proudly. If the whole, long, desperate struggle of rational thought is to have any meaning, then I must renounce my all-too-human craving for revenge and blood. We all must. (full text).

His conferences.

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Xinzhi Guo – China

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Guo Xinzhi (46) is the chief medical officer and director of the Shanxi Poliomyelitis Rehabilitation Hospital, and a State Council subsidized specialist and pioneer in the recovery, prevention and study of poliomyelitis and senile dementia. Through various tests, Guo has achieved many breakthroughs in the treatment of these diseases using a combination of Chinese and Western medicine.

She says: « We must solve the problems faced by the Party, government, patients and families, and improve the lives of Chinese people and the well-being of the human species. I have no regrets or grudges”.

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Xinzhi Guo – China

Guo was born in a family with a history of doctors in earlier generations. She graduated from Shanxi Medical University in 1978. From 1980 onwards, with her immense knowledge of Western and Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and her dedication to this life-saving profession, she has been working on testing, including continuous testing of the impact of acupuncture and medicine on her own body and important acupoints like fengfu and yamen.

Guo often contacted abandoned children with poliomyelitis. As a doctor, she could not accept such tragedies and felt a strong sense of responsibility to surmount the disease. After 20 years intensive research and exploration, she found over 10 new effective acupoint areas in the head, eye, neck, hands, waist, and belly, bringing a new rehabilitation theory and experiences to the treatment of poliomyelitis and senile dementia by combining acupuncture with western and traditional Chinese medicine. This is a great leap forward in the history of both Chinese and world medicine since these diseases were considered incurable before.

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Jo Vallentine – Australia

Linked with SafeCom Inc., and with The Alternatives to Violence Project AVPbritain.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Jo Vallentine is a Quaker, peace activist, and social justice advocate who made history in 1984 when she was elected to the Australian Senate as the world’s first single-issue peace politician. She has worked tirelessly for more than three decades at grassroots, national, and international levels, via People for Nuclear Disarmament, the Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia, the Alternatives to Violence Project, the Greens (WA), and Abolition 2000 (UN) to put these issues onto the political agenda. She has two daughters. (1000peacewomen).

She says: « We did the lovely elm dance about gratitude, sending healing energy to a place or to people to cut through the violence. In no time the atmosphere shifted, the hostile energy just evaporated ».

Her Senate-Biography.

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Jo Vallentine – Australia

She works for the People for Nuclear Disarmament PND, for the Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia ANAWA, and for the Alternatives to Violence AVP.

Look at The Perth Social Forum – 18-20 March 2005 (texts and photos).

Josephine Vallentine (b. May 30, 1946) is a peace activist and a former Australian Senator for Western Australia. Vallentine entered the Senate on July 1, 1985 after she had been elected as a member of the Nuclear Disarmament Party but she sat as an independent and then as a member of the Greens Western Australia from 1 July 1990. She resigned on January 31, 1992 and after a brief respite, has been active in community issues ever since. Jo Vallentine grew up in Western Australia’s conservative Wheatbelt, around Beverley. As a young woman she travelled to the United States and was moved to hear and meet Robert Kennedy. In an interview in 2001 for a history of the WA peace movement she offered the following summary of the establishment of her political career: « The Quakers influenced me I suppose from the Vietnam Moratorium days because I was a teacher then, in 1967-69, when the marches were getting going in Perth, and I can remember being a bit nervous because in those days if you were seen in a protest you might have lost your job on Monday when you went to work … (full text).

What Crimenet Sells.

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Mark Z. Jacobson – USA

Linked with terra choice.com.

He is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor by Courtesy of Energy Resources Engineering.

The main goal of Jacobson’s research is to understand physical, chemical, and dynamical processes in the atmosphere better in order to address atmospheric problems, such as climate change and urban air pollution, with improved scientific insight and more accurate predictive tools. He also evaluates the atmospheric effects of different solutions to climate change and air pollution problems, supports mapping and analysis of winds for wind energy, and studies issues related to combining renewable energies … (full text stanford 1/2).

He says: « These aerosol particles are having an effect worldwide on the wind speeds over land; there’s a slowing down of the wind, feeding back to the rainfall too », … (full text).

Watch his video: Ethanol may lead to more ozone-related deaths, 3.54 min, April 24, 2007.

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Mark Z. Jacobson – USA

His Blog: Mark Z. Jacobson.

The study found that carbon dioxide increases ozone and particulate matter – unhealthful pollutants in smog – by increasing temperatures and water vapor in the atmosphere. What’s more, it showed that ozone, in particular, increases the most where it is already high. This does not bode well for California, which has six of the 10 most polluted cities in the United States: Los Angeles, Visalia-Porterville, Bakersfield, Fresno, Merced and Sacramento. (full text).

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He says also: « Ethanol is being promoted as a clean and renewable fuel that will reduce global warming and air pollution, » said Jacobson, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.  »But our results show that a high blend of ethanol poses an equal or greater risk to public health than gasoline, which already causes significant health damage …  » (full text).

Effects of Ethanol (E85) Versus Gasoline Vehicles on Cancer and Mortality in the United States.

Mark Z. Jacobson, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, recently published that « a blend of ethanol poses an equal or greater [environmental health] risk than gasoline, which already causes significant health damage ». His paper, based on computer models, appeared in the online edition of Environmental Science and Technology. The study suggested a net few hundred more people in America might suffer respiratory illnesses if the nation were to switch all vehicles to 100% ethanol. It received mainstream media attention this week, given that ethanol proponents have long maintained that the fuel is substantially less polluting, citing volumes of data … (full text).

Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling, 16 pdf-pages.

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Biro Bala Rava – India

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

The story of Biro Bala Rava (born 1959) reads like an inspirational, if medieval, battle between good and evil: Biro lives in a remote, backward village in Assam, where she has been fighting to save women condemned to death as « witches ». She then moved on to other equally vitiating issues that affect the lives of those around her, showing exceptional courage in the face of personal danger and isolation by family and community, and perseverance in fighting against the custom that demonizes women. And she is winning. (1000peacewomen)

It is said: In Biro Bala Rava’s world, hunting those branded as ‘witches’ had an economic aspect. So, she used the modern weaponry of women’s education to counter a heinous practice.

Media reports suggest that, over the past decade, there has been an increase in incidents of witch-hunts in India. Some reports say that several women have been attacked and killed because they were allegedly involved in black magic. Most of the « witches » are women from dalit or tribal communities. (full text).

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Biro Bala Rava – India

She works for Borjhara Tobarani Mahila Samata Sangha (mentionned on Business Line and on South Asia One World.net).

Biro Bala Rava alias « Bogi » was born in 1949 in Tridumpur, Goalpara district in Assam to Kaleya Ram Rava and Sagar Bala Rava. She had two elder brothers, both of whom died. Her two surviving siblings are an older sister and a younger brother. Biro’s father was an illiterate cultivator of 10 paltry bighas. Biro’s mother had studied a little, and little Biro herself studied only up to Class V. She was married in 1964 at the age of 15 to Sandhi Charan Rava, also a cultivator from Barjhora village, who had studied up to Class X. The couple has three boys and a girl.

Biro’s eldest son has a mental illness, which was a constant source of trepidation through all the backbreaking housework, and other pressures of daily living. An ojha (traditional healer; exorcist) had declared that her son was « married » to a fairy, destined to die when they would beget a child. Her son is yet alive, a standing pronouncement against the hogwash of traditional and unthinking contumacy. She tried expressing this insight to some women, but in vain.

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Neidonuo Angami – India

Linked with Mother’s Day, and with KUKNALIM.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Neidonuo Angami (born 1950), one of the founding members and former president of the Naga Mothers Association (NMA), has never known a peaceful life. She realized that the fierce fighting between the Naga underground army and the Indian security forces directly impacts the lives of mothers who lose their children to violence and resort to substance abuse in reaction to the conflict. So, she and other Naga mothers launched the Shed No More Blood campaign, which has proved to be a crucial link in the Naga peace process.

She says: « Starting with resolving the issues of conflict-driven drug addiction and alcoholism, the NMA has inserted itself into the state-Naga peace process, with women finally having a say ».

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Neidonuo Angami – India

She works for the Naga Mothers Association NMA, (named: in the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, page 627; on Nagalim.nl/news; on India Together).

NMA dismayed over Tadubi incident, Vol. 4 Issue 11-12, August 22 – September 6, 2001.

Neidonuo Angami was born in a village in Kohima, Nagaland, on 1st October 1950, at a time when Nagaland was ravaged by fierce hostilities between the Naga underground army and Indian security forces. She spent her early childhood hiding out in the dense, precarious jungles. When she was six years old, her father, an interpreter with the state administration, was captured and killed.

Her mother did her best for Neidonuo and her four siblings under strenuous economic conditions. The conflict, and its personal backwash, seared all of them.

Neidonuo started formal education only at the age of eight, studying at Kohima’s Cambridge School (now the Mezhur Higher Secondary School). She then went on to Baptist English School and the Government High School, from where she matriculated in 1968. She was active in extracurricular activities, often leading her school’s contingent during interschool parades and National Cadet Corps activities.

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Beena Sebastian – India

Linked with Save a Family Plan SAFP.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Beena Sebastian’s life and work illustrate how an ordinary woman with no special qualification can change the lives of many people around her. Among her most creative efforts are gender sensitivity training for police and lawyers and instituting an annual award for public officials who have done the most to prevent violence against women. These efforts have helped break the silence surrounding sexual violence in Kerala. She has also set up a shelter for abused women, providing them with both protection and a friend to accompany them to the police and the courts.

It is said: Through her years of working with women victims of violence, Beena began to make the larger connection between conflict in the public sphere and violence in the private domain.

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Beena Sebastian – India

She works for the Cultural Academy for Peace CAP, and for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation IFR.

Beena Sebastian was born in 1959 in an ashram in Kottayam, Kerala. The ashram had been set up by her father, who had also founded the Indian chapter of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in the early 1950s. The ashram continues to serve as an orphanage and a shelter for battered women.

Beena, therefore, grew up with a sense of social responsibility towards the marginalized practically from infancy. Even after she married and moved to Kochi, where her husband’s home was, her focus in life remained unchanged – working to empower the poor, especially women, in Kochi.

In the early 1990s, she began classes in life skills for slum women and girls, many of them immigrants from Tamil Nadu, who came to Kerala seeking work. She also began a successful income-generation project, teaching women the nontraditional skill of making motorcycle batteries. She founded an NGO called the Cultural Academy for Peace (CAP), which also runs a shelter, Sakhi (literally, friend) for abused women and their children. The shelter provides emergency housing and food, legal counseling, and accompaniment to women to the police and court, if necessary. It also offers income-generating work.

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