We aren’t the only onesworried about rioting at home?the UK is too. The Ministry of Defense (the equivalent of our Pentagon) has made plans in case there is a “summer of discontent” coming up in the UK, caused by the recession.

In the March 1st edition of the Express, Geraint Jones quotes a dissident blogger as writing, “How to keep warm during the credit crunch? Burn a banker.” Ideas like this have the DOD worried. They?re worried that normally law-abiding citizens who have lost their jobs and their homes may take to the streets. And as the French learned during the ten years of their revolution, starting in 1789, in Western countries, it’s the middle class that ferments revolution.
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We’ve written about marijuana medicine?now it turns out that the party drug known as Ectasy may be a useful treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is a major problem for our returning soldiers.

The party drug known as Ecstasy, which has been against the law for years, is now being considered as a serious medicine for soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. In the March 4 edition of Military.com, Bryan Mitchell quotes a former Army Ranger who tried it as saying, “It’s an extremely positive thing. I feel so lucky that I got to take part in the project. It’s basically like years of therapy in two or three hours. You can’t understand it until you’ve experienced it?If it helps soldiers like me recover, they’re going to have to look at it seriously.”read more

An unseen web of life exists, and understanding it is an extraordinary source of personal power. We do have destinies, and clues to them can be found in the coincidences and synchronicities that fill our lives.

In this mind-opening interview, Marie D. Jones explains to Anne Strieber just how we can find, understand and make use of the hidden order that underlies our lives. 11:11: the Time-Prompt Phenomenon will completely revise your understanding of number, and will enable you to see into the hidden meanings of the numbers that fill your life.

Marie?­s website is MarieDJones.com.

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As part of a celebration of the writer Richard Matheson, author of the novel “I am Legend” (on which the recent Will Smith hit movie was based) as well as novels such a “What Dreams May Come” (which was made into a film starring Robin Williams), Whitley will be appearing with Matheson (and his son, Richard Christian Matheson, as well as other writers) at the bookstore Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA on Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m. They will be signing the book He is Legend, an anthology which is a tribute to Matheson. To learn more, click here.

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