Think you have gut feelings. Well, they’re real! The gut contains 100 million neurons – more than the spinal cord. Major neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, glutamate, norephinephrine and nitric oxide are in the gut. Also two dozen small brain proteins, called neuropeptides are there along with the major cells of the immune system. Enkephalins (a member of the endorphins family) are also in the gut. The gut also is a rich source of benzodiazepines – the family of psychoactive chemicals that includes such ever popular drugs as valium and xanax.

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Israeli journalist Barry Chamish has been attacked in the Jerusalem Post because of his work suggesting that former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated not by a lone gunman but as part of a political plot, by his own bodyguards.

The Post used the fact that Chamish has carried out UFO investigations to suggest that his work on the Rabin case should be dismissed. However, both his work investigating UFOs and his work investigating the Rabin case reveal a high degree of journalistic professionalism.

He speaks out in an Unknowncountry.com Insight article not only about the attacks he is experiencing, but about his disappointment with much that he found in the UFO community. To read his statement, click here.
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The anonymous leader of the World Prayer Group has called for daily prayer that “children may have tender lives.” No doubt, the current brutalization of children being observed worldwide is the reason for this important new intention.

In Africa, children as young as ten are routinely inducted into armies and rebel groups and sent out to kill and torture. Among Moslem fundamentalists in the Middle East, children are placed in the line of fire in order that their deaths will gain headlines, and young people are counseled that they will be honored by God if they become suicide bombers.
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Astronomers have found a new planet orbiting our Sun. The new-discovered icy, reddish body is between 595 and 788 miles across, around the size of Pluto?s moon Charon. It has been named 2001 KX76 for now. ?When we spotted it, we just wrote ‘wow’ on the image,? says co-discoverer Dr Lawrence Wasserman of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. ?We knew right away it was a big one.?
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