Over 100 UK Parliamentarians from different parties have so far signed a statement demanding an end to the slaughter in Gaza. The statement calls for an immediate ceasefire, an embargo on the supply of military equipment to both sides and for urgent intervention by the international community to stop the humanitarian catastrophe which is unfolding.

The continuing slaughter in Gaza is an outrage. The international community has to make clear that respecting its calls for a ceasefire is not simply an optional extra for those launching attacks on either side. International humanitarian law must be upheld. That means protecting civilians from military attack. Common humanity also demands that food, medicines and other essential supplies must be allowed to get through to the one and a half million people who are under siege.

The statement – below – was first published on 31st December 2008. It has now (as at 16:00 GMT on 06 January 2009) been signed by 106 Parliamentarians: 97 Members of Parliament and 9 Members of the House of Lords.

STOP THE SLAUGHTER IN GAZA

Israel's continuing massive military strikes on Gaza are an outrage that the international community must not allow to continue. Palestinian rocket attacks which traumatise the lives of communities in Southern Israel are also utterly unacceptable. Both sides must cease fire.

Israel's actions are disproportionate and counter productive to achieving either security for the people of Israel or peace in the Middle East. Physicians for Human Rights (Israel) have warned that "targeting of civilians and of medical facilities is a breach of international humanitarian law. The targets chosen by the Israeli military include also clearly civilian installations."

Gaza is one of the poorest and most densely populated places on earth. For the last two years, the blockade and previous Israeli strikes had already disrupted electricity supplies and access to clean water. Even before the current attack, Gaza's health system was near collapse. Hospitals are short of medicines, blood and essential equipment. Only half of Gaza's 58 ambulances are functioning.

We call on the international community, and especially the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, to intervene to stop the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire by all parties and for an embargo on the supply of military equipment to both sides. The international community must also assert unambiguously that there is no military route to peace in the Middle East and redouble its efforts to create a secure and independent state of Palestine alongside a secure and independent Israel.

Signatories:

HOUSE OF COMMONS: Nick Ainger, Danny Alexander, John Austin, Norman Baker, Anne Begg, Roger Berry, Clive Betts, Roberta Blackman-Woods, Peter Bottomley, Colin Breed, Lyn Brown, Karen Buck, Richard Burden, Lorely Burt, Alistair Carmichael, David Chaytor, Katy Clark, David Clelland, Harry Cohen, Michael Connarty, Derek Conway, Frank Cook, Jeremy Corbyn, Ann Cryer, Jim Devine, Jim Dobbin, Frank Dobson, Jim Dowd, David Drew, Mark Durkan, Clive Efford, Natascha Engel, Paul Flynn, Hywel Francis, Neil Gerrard, Ian Gibson, Roger Godsiff, Nia Griffith, Nick Harvey, John Hemming, David Heyes, Simon Hughes, Brian Iddon, Eric Illsley, Lynne Jones, Sir Gerald Kaufman, Sally Keeble, Peter Kilfoyle, Susan Kramer, Norman Lamb, Mark Lazarowicz, John Leech, David Lepper, Tom Levitt, Martin Linton, Tony Lloyd, Andy Love, Judy Mallaber, Rob Marris, Chris McCafferty, John McDonnell, Anne Moffat, Madeleine Moon, Michael Moore, Doug Naysmith, Edward O'Hara, Nick Palmer, Andrew Pelling, Steve Pound, Ken Purchase, Andy Reed, Alan Reid, Linda Riordan, Martin Salter, Mohammad Sarwar, Alison Seabeck, Virendra Sharma, Jim Sheridan, Clare Short, Marsha Singh, Andy Slaughter, Andrew Smith, Angela C Smith, Sir Peter Soulsby, Phyllis Starkey, Jo Swinson, Ian Taylor, David Taylor, Sarah Teather, Robert Walter, Steve Webb, Mike Weir, Alan Whitehead, Stephen Williams, Hywel Williams, Derek Wyatt, Tim Yeo.

HOUSE OF LORDS: Bishop of Winchester, Lord Cope of Berkeley, Lord Luce, The Right Reverend Michael Scott-Joynt, Lord Hylton, Lord Wright of Richmond, Baroness Northover, Baroness Tonge, Lord Sheikh of Cornhill.



Richard Burden, MP

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Several truths have been buried beneath these crisscrossing agendas.

1. Hamas has no power to destroy Israel.
2. Moderate Arabs and almost all Sunnis are opposed to Hamas's politics.
3. The deeper issue is about Iran and its desire to become a dominant force in the Middle East by backing Shia extremists.
4. The Palestinian question will ultimately be solved through politics and economics, not war.
5. Tolerating the intolerant is a chronic problem in every society and every age. It must be managed as best as society can, the way it deals with crime and drugs, the other chronic ills.

Making Hamas into a unique demon is pure propaganda. They owe their slim power to two things: the untold misery of life in the Palestinian territories, which fans rebellion at its most extreme, and the sufferance of Israel and the Arab world, together who could bypass Hamas and reach meaningful accords without them. If both parties, with the help of the U.S., went on with the business of peace, Hamas would prove manageable in the short run and would disappear in the long run.

But no form of Islamic extremism will end until moderate Muslims stand up for their religion. The rich Arab countries feel that they can afford to bribe the terrorists to leave them alone, or to suppress them with secret police and the army should they get out of hand. Poor Muslim countries have little ability to cure the endemic poverty and ignorance that is the seedbed of terrorism. The only solution is long-term and self-generated. No one can extirpate extremism from without. The U.S. and its global allies can only police the problem for the foreseeable future.

It's a sobering development in our own society that the religious right was able for almost thirty years to leverage its intolerance into power -- and a deep shame that so-called moderate Republicans enabled them. So we cannot afford to be self-righteous in this matter. The burden of a civilized society is to tolerate the intolerant. There are limits, of course, and Hamas pushes against those limits outrageously. The undeniable fact is that Israel is seen by the entire Arab world as an extension of European imperialism. The West created Israel by fiat in 1948 without consulting the Arabs. That insult fuels long-held resentments about their own colonial past in many countries. For this there is no outside cure, either. Islam is being used to justify eternal grudges, and not just by the extremists.

In the end, every religion must tend to its own beliefs. Thirty years ago the West was caught off guard when the Shah of Iran, a symbol of modernized, Western-facing progress, was overwhelmed by the tide of anti-modernist, Western-hating reactionaries. We have never recovered from that shock, nor have we remotely solved the problem. The West marches on. India and China join in. But Islam massively holds out for an anti-future, and it can back up its medieval delusions with oil riches and suicide martyrs. This is the prevailing situation that's being handled globally while we wait for Muslims to find their own tipping point in favor of a realistic tomorrow instead of fatal nostalgia for the past.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/deepak_chopra/

"be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful!"

Our view is that one should never be greedy! The financial events of 2008 were broadly predicted by the ATCA group of 5000+ and there is no room for being greedy within this massive and ongoing adjustment.

This downturn could have a long way to run yet. Talking up stocks and shares, whilst beneficial to those who hold existing positions, may be damaging for those waiting on the sidelines. A sudden correction could wipe the new entrants out and so we would rephrase:

"be extra cautious when others are being fearful, may be they know something, which the Sage of Omaha does not wish to acknowledge!" We are in the middles of several black swans!

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I am not really taking sides on this one just yet, but it does strike me as surprising that this is not a bigger issue than it seems to be. Check that - it is clearly the #1 news story pretty much everywhere and yet, it seems to me that it's being covered with a certain degree of detachment and indifference. That, of course, might be because Israel is not allowing foreign journalists into some of the conflict areas, in fact defying an Israeli supreme court order to do so.

Nevertheless here's the thing: Israel is currently in full scale war mode and the rest of the world appears pretty passive. And I am talking both sides. Israel's allies (like the US and various European nations) have been pretty idle, sure enough making statements and expressing concern but not really doing anything. Israel's many enemies have expressed rage, instigated protests etc, but have really not taken any meaningful action.

What gives?

Hamas, no doubt, made a serious miscalculation it would appear with their antagonistic moves that triggered Israel's onslaught. Now they clearly lack the firepower to respond to Israel and instead will do what they do best, exploit the murder and mayhem in the Occupied territories to insure another generation of radicalized Islamists that will terrorize Jews in Israel and elsewhere for years to come.

And make no mistake, Israel's aggression in Gaza is its own brand of terrorism. At latest count, a reported 500 casualties with no end in sight with many of them innocent civilians caught in the crossfire. Blame it on Hamas for intentionally putting their own people in harms way (and that is an absolute shameful fact), but also accept the fact that at any given moment, Israel can call of the dogs and spare additional lives. That, of course, is just not the way they roll as they have deemed it acceptable that slaughtered children is okay.

And again, there is the matter of the rest of the world who seems to be sitting on the sidelines on this one. What really are Israel's intentions this time around? An invasion followed by a full scale occupation? Or just leveling Gaza and then pulling out? Perhaps I am the one who has not dug deep enough to uncover what's being said but it strikes me as odd that this remains unclear and the rest of the world is okay with that.

Yes, the US invaded Iraq years ago and pretty much leveled the country and then occupied it. Argue whether or not it was a just war, but let's be clear, there was a certain transparency about it. The Bush administration bothered to go through various protocols with its own congress (and got the okay) and the UN (and then defied their resistance) but it was pretty clear to the rest of the world what was going on. I mean that's generally what you have to do. After all there is only one planet and even if we all disagree on certain things, there is a definite reality that we share it.

Here's my problem with the whole thing. I get the fact that Israel may want to once and for all obliterate Hamas. They are annoying and dangerous but this strategy seems shortsighted and doomed. The larger problem is the fact that it's entirely unclear to me where this goes from here. Without the backing or frankly knowledge of the rest of the world, this thing runs the risk of becoming a much much greater conflict that will consume many others. Anyone ready to sign up for that?

I've never been one to really care for the notion of homelands or chosen people and all that. The great irony of course in this case is that both sides claim to be persecuted, declare themselves as God's favorites, and justify their violence as part of a greater struggle. Even more ironic is that they are both descended from the same stock - after all Isaac and Ishmael were brothers, sons of Abraham, right? Sadly it seems if they were alive today, they'd be racing to slit the other one's neck and the rest of the world would simply shrug and watch. Apparently we haven't evolved that much.

Dear Friends, we are deeply sorry to note the escalating conflict between Israel and Palestine... What of the peace process now...? What of the road map...?

Very concerned to note the asymmetric ratio of the Israel-Palestine conflict... latest numbers are 500+ killed in Gaza (100 women & children) versus 5 in Israel, ie, 100:1.

It is a perception issue as well... remember that when the tragic and ghastly 9/11 event took place the asymmetric ratio was 150:1 and the sympathy perception across the world swept one way as a result... it is a reciprocity measure.

Asymmetric ratios, low probability high impact events and black swans are a key interest in the areas of emotional and sociological response... you may find this interview which I gave to The Wall Street Journal's Wealth Bulletin to be of interest...

http://www.wealth-bulletin.com/home/rss/content/3452575759/

Apologies for any errors or omissions, your feelings are important.

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In the last twelve months, I’m convinced that I have learned
more about life, love, business, silence, and success than I
have in the last twenty-six years of my life. My story, which
seems to be unfolding totally out of my control and
simultaneously completely guided by my own wisdom, has
been nothing short of a rollercoaster.

I began this year with a vision – to inspire one million people
to meditate. I had no idea how I was going to reach them (or
who I was talking to for that matter) but none-the-less, I was
fired up. It was a big dream; and I had a plan, money to get me
through the first phase, and more courage than I myself
expected. Blend that with a strong ego and a willful desire to
succeed and I had the ingredients for meditation domination.
Or so I thought.

Was it the plan? Was it the strategy? Was it me?

The answer was a huge painful YES; and little by little, my
faith in the mission dwindled as I invested more and more of
my own money only to see none of it return.

I attempted to raise capital, and failed. I attempted to
collaborate with partners, and failed. I attempted to fill seats at
events, and failed. It didn’t seem to matter what I did, the net
return was a loss – emotionally and financially.

But something inside of me kept propelling me forward. In
fact, this is when my faith in meditation grew leaps and bounds.
Time and time again, I was slapped down only to muster up the
strength to try again. I continued to reflect back on what didn’t
work and make adjustments. I continued to think outside the
box and come up with creative solutions. I continued to do
everything I possibly could to inspire meditation while building
a healthy business. Most importantly, I put my rather large ego
aside and started to lead with my heart.

Little by little, things started flowing. People enrolled in our
events. The media began to publish really positive articles
(Martha Stewart selected us to be the “Next Big Idea”). We
created a number of really amazing video’s. One person at a
time, the tribe was growing. We were still loosing money but
at least it felt like we were gaining momentum.

Realizing that I really didn’t know sh*t, I started to ask a lot
more questions. I spoke to mentors, successful entrepreneurs,
professional speakers, famous authors, and most importantly,
people like you. I read books, attended way too many seminars,
and hired coaches. As I got out of my own way, it became clear
that many of the things I had done in the early stages of
selfcentered weren’t what people wanted but rather what I felt
they needed. Realizing this has been one of the most profound
life and businesses lessons to date.

Just when I thought that I had everything all figured out, I had
back-to-back experiences that turned my world upside down.
First, I went on a 10-day meditation retreat where in my deep
silence, I saw all of the reasons for why selfcentered wasn’t
actualizing its potential (ie: ego, attachment, greed, fatigue,
etc…all the usual suspects). Then I went to a business seminar
that showed me a step-by-step strategy for how to bring
meditation to college campuses across the country. Like two
swift kicks in the ass, I was back to zero….again.

This my friend, brings us to now. To get the energy of
selfcentered in a pure place, we launched the Pay it Forward
Experiment and I’m thrilled to announce that our next Out of
Your Mind Immersion on January 23-25 is just about full. In
the meantime, I’m preparing to launch a college tour like the
world has never seen to take meditation to students across
the country (we're aiming to visit 100 campuses next year!).
I also just finished my first book that will be launching early
next year (more info will be coming soon).

So with everything that has taken place over the last twelve
months, here are my 2008 words of wisdom:

Take the leap and follow your dreams. It will not always be easy
but I can guarantee you that it will always be real. Fear is the only
thing in your way, and that’s hardly a reason to stop. Everything is
possible and nothing means anything. Lead with your heart and
listen with your mind. Be discerning and don’t waste your energy;
there will always be more opportunities. Love strong and don’t hold
back. Be authentic always. Dance like nobody’s watching. Meditate
daily and create space to do nothing. Injoy the ride.

In essence, this can all be summed up in one beautiful phrase:

Get selfcentered! haha....I love that.

As I reflect back on the last period of my life, there is only one thing
that I know for sure: it's that I am completely insane and so are you.
Thank god I’m not alone.

( Please share your comments. I always read them! )

Much love for a prosperous, love-filled, out of your mind 2009,

Much love,

Max Simon
Founder, Tribe Leader
www.getselfcentered.com

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Dear Friends, Happy New Year! 2009 is going to be wondrous and eclectic! In the middle of the economic and financial turmoil of 2008, which ATCA's 5,000+ global community of experts had predicted to a large extent and discussed point by point in Socratic Dialogue between 2001 and 2007, something new, something massive, is emerging.

The characteristics of the Golden Age are likely to be accelerated enlightenment, renaissance and reinvention of the individual's thinking, societal group think and the redesign of linear industrial age systems and support mechanisms towards non-linear and circular ones by corporations, organisations and governments.

Out of the ashes of the existing old-model linear industrial civilisation a new non-linear society has the potential to emerge. A society offering a decent life style for the majority of the human population. In order to achieve this, the focus of entrepreneurship has to be channelled on the well being of humanity, the preservation of the world's natural resources, eco-systems and future generations. We are all one as children of the same planet and together we have no choice save to create a meaningful future for the generations to come. We can facilitate the transformation as we work together. It is time to leave the yard stick of the past behind and to recognise that we are all entrenched in this new reality and to explore the available avenues we are facing together.

The step-by-step revolution has just begun and it has a long way to go as humanity realises its full potential by integrating the physical, intellectual and spiritual dimensions to build a non-linear and circular economic model that produces near zero waste and consumes responsibly whilst being conscious of the consequences to the environment and upon itself. The concept that the environment, ie, the habitat and humanity are not separate from each other and are essentially one is going to gain ground as we seek to find asymmetric solutions for the global crises which we now confront. What we do to others we do unto ourselves. With the elimination of duality, and confrontation of one-ness, how easy will it be to wage war with mutual assured damage and destruction? There is also the wisdom of another great spiritual poet -- Saadi -- to be considered:

"The human family is one body with many parts
Creations arising from one unseen essence
Any harm to any part summons an awakening
a dis-ease and a healing response from all parts
Those who fail to feel the pain of others cannot be called truly human."

We are grateful to Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, a distinguished ATCA and Holistic Quantum Relativity (HQR) group contributor; Founder and Chairman of Vision-In-Action, based in New York; an ordained Buddhist Priest and Scholar; and Transhumanist Philosopher. He is Japanese-American and he writes:

Dear DK and Friends

A Happy New Year!

In 2009 and beyond, we are entering an era of a new kind of frugality and prudence. Financially we must be prepared to be on our own and ready to voluntarily assist one another. Within the next few years the availability of many of our society's structures and systems that we now take for granted are likely to crumble.

Lao Tzu states in Tao Te Ching (in Verse 46):

"There is no greater vice than giving in to greed,
No greater calamity than not knowing contentment,
No greater imputation than succumbing to covetousness.
Therefore, know and be content with what is enough.
Then you will always have enough."

Those who cling to the notion of external causation or external authority will continue to depend on, and thus expect from, and push blame on, the government. While those who are willing to look within and develop their inner resourcefulness will grow and evolve in quantum leaps throughout the whole breakdown of the societal structure and infrastructure. The expansion of the inter-net will give way to the evolution of the inner-net which requires no external electricity but the internal light of awareness.

Lao Tzu states elsewhere (in Verse 44):

"The more excessive is your attachment,
The greater is your suffering.
The more excessive is your possession,
The heavier is your loss.
To know what is enough is to be free from disgrace.
To know when to stop is to be free from danger.
Those who practice this will long endure."

Like any academic discipline today, economics has become a highly specialised field, which the general public has difficulties comprehending because of its sheer complexity - its specialised language, use of complex mathematics, and enormity of statistical data. The talks on economy sometimes give an impression that economics is basically all about manipulating insubstantial numbers and figures.

However, in its basic essence, economics is "the science of who gets what, when, how, how much, for how long, and at what price." (W J Murray) The real substance of economics is the creation of wealth, the conversion of wealth into exchangeable asset, and the exchange of valued and valuated asset. In short, real value creation, production, and exchange. The numbers and figures do not mean anything unless they are attached to and backed up by real value (wealth/asset).

We simply need to return to the basics. That is, create wealth and produce value and live within our means. And develop the wisdom to know what is enough.

Wishing you all a Wondrous New Year of further growth and evolution!


Yasuhiko Genku Kimura

Vision without action is empty. Action without vision is blind. Opinion and ideology divide. Quest and commitment unite.

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is the Founder and Chairman of Vision-In-Action. He is an ordained Buddhist priest and scholar; transhumanist philosopher; creator and leader of transformational philosophical programs; consultant-advisor to leaders in business, science, and cultural organisations. Yasuhiko Kimura teaches dedicated adults philosophy as a way of self-realization outside the confines of academia, using his unique Zen-like Socratic method of philosophical inquiry and various intellectually challenging texts from the East and the West, contemporary as well as ancient. A philosopher of science, he is a founding member of the Evolution of Science Group that meets annually to explore and develop new philosophical foundations of science.

From 1998 to 2002 Yasuhiko Kimura served as Executive Director of The Twilight Club, originally established in the 19th century as a venerable American tradition by Herbert Spencer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Edwin Markham, Andrew Carnegie, Oliver Wendell Holms, William James, John Borroughs, and others for the purpose of ethical uplifting of the world through the enrichment of culture. In the early 20th century, Thomas Watson, Sr and Walter Russell developed The Twilight Club into The Society of Arts and Science. In 2003, Mr Kimura established Vision-In-Action, an action-oriented sapient circle of thought leaders, as the 21st-century version of The Twilight Club/Society of Arts and Science, to develop and implement creative, innovative, and transformative approaches to problems and challenges facing humanity that will bring about novel resolutions and a new evolutionary pathway for the world. He is the author of four books and over 50 essays on the subjects of philosophy, science and business.

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On December 26, 2008, the Wall Street Journal published “The Touch that Doesn't Heal,” an article by Steve Salerno. Without discernible professional credentials in health reportage, the writer opened his piece by pledging allegiance to "scientifically proven, evidence-based medicine." He next declared opposition to integrative medicine, and characterized as “gurus” two proponents of integrative medicine, Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil, choosing to overlook that we both are highly trained MDs with almost 40 years of clinical-experience. Joining us in our response is Rustum Roy, an internationally known scientist, and member of five major National Academies of Science Engineering, who has spent ten years researching a wide range of health technologies, both ancient and modern. We predict that while they may try to dismiss us, the Wall Street Journal writer and editors will find they can't dismiss a burgeoning field of medicine currently saving and improving millions of lives worldwide.

As in Mr. Salerno’s article, this war extends to advancing ill-informed pseudo-scientific arguments to discredit effective low-cost health care options precisely because they compete with the current high-cost system.

“There are many factors driving up health care costs,” writes Daschle. “One problem is that 'supply side' forces exist in our health-care system. Physicians both diagnose and treat illness - in economic terms, they create and satisfy demand. . . . Conditions such as 'restless leg syndrome' weren't conditions until drugs were developed to treat them."

In his article Mr. Salerno acknowledged several factors in America's present health care crisis: "disenchantment" over spiraling costs, a bloated bureaucracy, and ''possible drug side effects."
While these clearly demand attention, he overlooks the crisis’ principal cause: The poor results of the present health care system. Numerous surveys show that for all its bank-breaking expense, the American medical system lags behind the rest of the developed world in most health indicators.

Nor does it sustain a doctor's sworn duty to "first do no harm." Abundant evidence uncovers high-tech medicine, with its powerful drugs, as a major, possibly the leading, cause of death in this country. The National Academy's data attributes 100,000 deaths per year to physicians' errors, added to well over 100,000 deaths due to severe drug interactions and another 100,000 fatalities from hospital-based-infections. (For a detailed analysis, see Death By Medicine, by Gary S. Null, et al.)

Why is the allegedly “scientifically proven” health care that the WSJ writer champions so dangerous to health? The blind allegiance to "evidence-based medicine" overlooks how readily this form of research can be manipulated. It was first developed to isolate patentable agents for drug formulations. In scientific arenas outside of mainstream medicine, this "statistics-based medicine" is regarded as dubious science at best. Narrowly confining itself to costly, selectively published, industry-sponsored clinical trials, to promote pharmaceutical products, "evidence based medicine" is the marketing “icon" used by the current system to squelch lower cost competitors.
Science’s only gold standard are facts derived from reproducible results, however unpalatable those facts are to current theory. When theories fail to explain the facts, they lose viability. The spectacular failures of "evidence based” medical theories include the millions spent on ineffective AIDS vaccines, the collapse of interferon as the wonder drug for cancer, and the marginal decrease in cancer deaths despite billions wasted during decades of fruitless research. Many once-standard treatments devised via this theoretical model now stand discredited, like the use of Thalidomide and Thorazine.
As Mr. Salerno and his editors stand bullish on the persistent investment of health care dollars into a model with runaway costs, poor results, lack of available personnel, and questionable science, we are convinced America can do better. Over the last three decades, millions of Americans, and a dedicated group of physicians and practitioners have front-line, hands-on experience with integrative health care. Via concerted research and clinical practice, international scientists and practitioners, have progressively uncovered the root causes and the most effective treatments for health maintenance and restoration. This is science’s cutting edge.
Yet like both the mainstream medicine and media, Salerno remains stubbornly ignorant of this vast field, which Daschle and the Obama Administration will undoubtedly consider before allocating billions more to the present, failed, high-cost medical system.
One sine qua non for any future sustainable U.S. health system is the necessity to empower, rather than undercut each citizen’s right to choose health care and take responsibility for his/her own wellness. Countless chronic diseases result from the neglect of basic wellness measures. The blame for underutilizing such proactive, cost-saving approaches lies directly with the official policy of blind reliance on drugs and surgery, whatever the cost. The public has been lulled into medical apathy on the false assumption that if something goes wrong, fix-it mechanics will tune up your body the way a garage tunes up your car.
A new integrative medicine system would marry the superb options of high tech emergency care, its brilliant surgical achievements, the tried and least harmful pharmaceuticals, by empowering and educating its citizens to maintain wellness and prevent disease, through improved nutrition, exercise, stress-management, and a wide range of other proven integrative approaches. Sadly, mainstream medicine largely ignores these viable health approaches, because they’re not financially lucrative.

To increase competition, reduce costs, and improve outcomes, we recommend that Daschle and his team move toward a more humane, sustainable, and effective health system through the wider adoption of integrative health options. And we invite the Wall Street Journal and its staff writers to board the lifeboat of integrative health, rather than go down with the Titanic, in yet another failing business sector—healthcare.

Dear Friends, we wish All-in-One a very peaceful, joyful and more enlightened 2009 with the Grace of the Supra Universal Consciousness!

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