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"A decline in crime rates has encouraged materialistic values by making people feel more secure, less worried that they will be robbed or physically harmed. In the United States, the rate of property crimes per 1,000 people fell 49% between 1993 and 2003, and the rate of violent crimes per 1,000 people fell 55%.11 One can more comfortably flaunt wealth today, and so wealth has become more attractive. Living in an ostentatious home is much more appealing. Fear of terrorism has increased, but terrorists do not seem to strike wealthy people preferentially, and generally not in their homes." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Consideration should also be given by state and federal government to using laws on white-collar crime ?which are now applied largely just to crimes of economic motivation with adverse economic consequences —against crimes of economic motivation with adverse public health consequences, consistent with a major legislative initiative that I proposed nearly three decades ago (5)." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Ralph Nader has repeatedly commented, "Jail for the crime in the streets, but bail for crime in the suites." More general reform of toxics use would have a positive impact as well. Following a well-organized political campaign by environmental groups and far-sighted industry representatives, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts unanimously passed the "Toxics Use Reduction Act" in 1989 which created the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Program." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Watching any movie based on modern crime-scene investigation, we learn quickly that the identity of the perpetrator can be detected from traces of him or her left at the place where the crime was committed. If the investigators can identify any part of a person's body or anything that comes from it—from a splatter of blood or a broken strand of hair to stains of semen or even torn fingernails—then they can identify someone. And it makes no difference where in the body the DNA comes from because of the holographic principle—all parts mirror the whole." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Ralph Nader has repeatedly commented, "Jail for the crime in the streets, but bail for crime in the suites." More general reform of toxics use would have a positive impact as well. Following a well-organized political campaign by environmental groups and far-sighted industry representatives, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts unanimously passed the "Toxics Use Reduction Act" in 1989 which created the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Program." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The recent wave of white-collar fruit crime has taken on an international dimension. "Stand By to Repel the Fruit Pirates" blared the headline of a Thai newspaper about western countries removing Southeast Asian fruit in order to breed improved varieties. As I was writing this book, some disturbing crime occurred in my own Montreal neighborhood. A fruit store just down the street was fire-bombed on two different occasions, and no culprit was ever found. Some suggested that it was a mob hit, others that it was orchestrated by their main competitor—another fruit store a few doors away." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"There was, I should note, no difference in the two groups in terms of vandalism, marijuana use, alcohol use or petty crime. "There are many, many nutrients, minerals and vitamins that are useful in treatment. Recent scientific studies support use of omega-3 fatty acids, found in flaxseed oil. We know about zinc. Studies of the effect of magnesium go back to at least 1922, when McCollum at Johns Hopkins put some rats on a low magnesium diet and those who did not get enough magnesium were irritable, had convulsions and some of them died." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The Transcendental Meditation organization has long held a similar view of meditation—that a certain percentage of regular meditators is required to exert an effect on misery indices such as the crime rate. It was also evident that our technical problems had interfered with intention. In the March 24 and April 21 experiments, the technical glitches may have caused the experiments to fail. During the March 24 experiment, although many people had tried to send intention to a mental image of the geranium leaf, we did not record a significant effect." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"A Dynamic, Multifactorial Model of Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Crime: Linking Neuroscience and Behavior to Toxicology." Social Science Information (1999b). Masters, Roger D.; Coplan, Myron J. and Hone, Brian T. "Silicofluoride Usage, Tooth Decay, and Children's Blood Lead." Poster Presentation, Environmental Influences on Children: Brain, Development, and Behavior, Conference at New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, May 24-25, 1999. Masters, Roger D.; Coplan, Myron J. and Hone, Brian T. "Heavy Metal Toxicity, Development, and Behavior." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Federal agents were everywhere, swarming the property in their black bulletproof jackets with the words "Federal Agent" blazed on their backs, setting up tape around the barn, treating our farm like a crime scene, while I knew it was they who were committing the crime. "This is like something out of a movie!" I whispered in disbelief to Larry. Larry stormed over to one of the agents and asked who was in charge. The agent pointed to another man, of similar height and hair color, wearing an identical jacket, talking on a cell phone. "What the hell do you think you are doing?" Larry demanded." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Our diabetes-creating diet is a crime Against Wisdom that brings increasing amounts of death and misery through the disease of diabetes to millions of people. We have already said that the research shows that a high-saturated-fat diet tends to shut down healthy gene expression. We have, through high intake of cooked animal fat, saturated fat, high omega-6 versus low omega-3 fats, glucose from junk food, and refined carbohydrates, created a genetic downgrade that deregulates our phenotypic expression to one that sets off the diabetic process." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Depending on the nature of your intention, make one member of the group responsible for researching statistics involving your local accident, weather, or crime statistics. For these types of statistics, it is a good idea to get hold of reports for the last five years in your area and surrounding communities so you have something solid to compare. Then, when you meet, decide on a group intention statement. When you are "powering up," visualize yourselves as a single entity (say, a giant bubble or any other unified internal image)." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Diet, crime and Delinquency Alexander Schauss was the Director of the American Institute for Biosocial Research when he wrote his book Diet, crime and Delinquency in 1980. This slim, 108-page volume presents startling evidence that what we eat can have a significant impact on our potential to commit crimes and misbehave. The book is not just about food intolerance, however, but also refers to sugar, toxic metals such as lead, food additives, nutrient insufficiencies, lack of exercise and lack of proper exposure to light." - Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes, Food Intolerance Bible (Get the book.)

"After the group disbanded, the crime rate in the capital rose again.15 The TM organization has also targeted global conflict. In 1983 a special TM assembly met in Israel to send intentions through meditation to resolve the Palestinian conflict. During their sessions, they made daily comparisons between the number of meditators working on the project and the state of Arab-Israeli relations. On days with a high number of meditators, fatalities in Lebanon fell by 76 percent." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"If an individual is convicted of a crime, we call him a criminal; however, if a company is convicted of a crime, what do we call it? We don't call it a criminal corporation, but perhaps we should. I have to admit I felt great sadness writing this particular chapter. I have been proud of the drug industry's accomplishments, and most colleagues I have worked with have been honest, hard-working regular people. But when you look at the public record, these companies appear more like mob enterprises than law-abiding organizations. The only explanation I have is that money corrupts—again and again." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Consumption of 150 pounds of sugar per year (52 teaspoons per day) is an active crime Against Wisdom. Moderation Kills! If your friend had been a smoker all of his or her life and looked to you for advice, would you tell them to cut down to only two cigarettes a day, or would you tell them to quit smoking all together? It's in this way that I'm telling you that moderation, even with the best intentions, sometimes makes it more difficult to succeed. T. COLIN CAMPBELL, THE CHINA STUDY Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's reasonable deception." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "This is not an accident—the Culture of Death is an active and thoughtless crime Against Wisdom. The Culture of Life manifests as cooperation, health, harmony, and compassion, combined with production of healthy, natural, organic foods that preserve soil and minimizes the pollution of both people and planet. The Culture of Life helps us reconnect to our heart and soul in a way that brings the presence of light, love, and the Divine back into the core of our human experience." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Gary Schwartz suggested that we attempt to lower the crime rate in Tucson or the mortality rate at a particular hospital. Marilyn Schlitz liked the idea of helping a child with attention deficit become more attentive as attention is a quality that can be easily measured. Dean Radin produced some wonderfully creative ideas that would have turned our website into a computer game: we could create a computer image of someone with Alzheimer's and ask the readers to help him back to his room, observing his progress in real time." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"The behavior and lifestyle habits that create Type-2 diabetes are a crime Against Wisdom. It is this lifestyle and diet of refined white sugar, saturated animal fat, and junk food that causes a metabolic disorder of carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism. Yes, diabetes has a very clear genetic component, especially for Type-2 diabetes. Type-1 diabetes also has a genetic component, but the genetic component is a less important factor. Both of these may be associated with gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy). Type-2 is also associated with vitamin and mineral deficiencies." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The result is the persistence of social and political oppression, economic warfare, cultural intolerance, crime, and disregard for the environment. Eliminating social and economic ills and frustrations calls for considerable socioeconomic development, and that is not possible without better education, information, and communication. These, however, are blocked by the absence of socioeconomic development, so that a vicious cycle is produced: underdevelopment creates frustration, and frustration, giving rise to defective behaviors, blocks development." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"A serious crime would be brought before the whole Arhuaco community assembly, which met annually. The community would hash out the facts and mete out an appropriate remedy. If an Arhuaco committed a minor crime or breach of the peace in Valledupar, the case would probably be referred to the comisario, who would come down and cart the offender back up to Nabusimake. Gregorio pointed out a round stone building used for day-to-day administration. It had a small solar panel on the thatched roof to power a radio transmitter." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"This is no crime but science as usual.6 Nature's results had a devastating effect upon Benveniste's reputation and his position at INSERM. A scientific council of INSERM censured his work, claiming in near unanimous statements that he should have performed other experiments 'before asserting that certain phenomena have escaped two hundred years of chemical research.'7 INSERM refused to listen to Benveniste's objections about the quality of the Nature investigation and prevented him from continuing. Rumours circulated about mental imbalance and fraud." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"To resist it, you need to get the entire picture, to see the end of the pattern, in the way a junkie needs to see that the fast high leads to a future of overdosing, infection, poverty, crime, and so on. In the case of food compulsion, you need to see not only the weight you'll gain by eating too much—because that clearly hasn't been enough to stop you in the past—but also to understand how covering up emotions with food sets you back psychically, spiritually, and effectually. Your feelings aren't there to make you miserable." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Answering e-mails, watching TV shows about crime and murder, exercising, thinking about money and business, or planning the next day's agenda are all activities that are not conducive to sleep. Eating too late or drinking too much caffeine and/or alcohol are equally bad. Over-the-counter medications such as decongestants, pain pills, diet pills, cold/allergy medications, and sinus remedies often contain stimulants. Prescription medications, particularly antidepressants, asthma medications, blood pressure pills, and even sleeping pills (for prolonged periods), can cause or worsen insomnia." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"You will also discover that mistakes, accidents, coincidences, negativity, deception, injustice, wars, crime, and terrorism all have a deeper purpose and meaning in the larger scheme of things. So naturally, much of what you will read may conflict with the beliefs you currently hold. Yet you are not asked to change your beliefs or opinions. Instead, you are asked to have an open mind, for only an open mind can enjoy freedom from judgment. Our personal views and worldviews are currently challenged by a crisis of identity. Some are being shattered altogether." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"By spring, Totila had tired of his depopulated conquest (upon entering the city, he had started to destroy many of the city's monuments, but had been dissuaded by a letter from Belisarius, still encamped in Porrus, reminding his adversary that "an insult to the monuments would be considered a great crime against all men of all time"6) and departed for the north. Now thrice deserted—once by its garrison, once by its civilian population, and now by its Gothic occupiers, Rome was reentered by Belisarius and his troops." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"When and if the accused is convicted of perpetrating the crime, then medical experts could be appropriately involved to testify before a judge or jury about mitigating circumstances such as involuntary intoxication that might reduce the sentence. Under this system, a person could not be found "not guilty by reason of involuntary drug intoxication" or "not guilty by reason of insanity." Opinions concerning involuntary drug intoxication or insanity would be reserved for postconviction sentencing in regard to mitigating the sentence." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "I was told that this DA was a woman determined to build an image for being tough on "teenage crime." In the trial, the district attorney placed emphasis on the fact that Jennie called the boy on the phone with the intent of killing him. The DA would argue that this proved premeditation and intent, the attributes of first-degree attempted murder. But there's no evidence that Jennie had thought through what she was doing. She acted impulsively in front of witnesses. She made no preparations to escape." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "In concluding my report, I wrote: I believe within a reasonable degree of medical certainty that—due to a combination of mental disorder (Major Depression) and involuntary intoxication with Prozac—Jennie Hope was unable to form the intent to commit a crime when she pulled the trigger. This fourteen-year-old girl was unable to control her impulses, to conform them to her understanding of right and wrong, or to understand their consequences." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

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