Despite the fact that he’s not a scientist, the Dalai Lama will give the keynote lecture at a major neuroscience conference in November, about how Buddhist meditation affects the brain. Does he have any real information?apart from his Buddhist beliefs?to share with scientists?

David Adam writes in The Guardian that Chinese scientists are planning to boycott the Dalai Lama’s talk. There are probably political reasons for this, although they insist otherwise. The Dalai Lama has fled invading Chinese troops in 1959 and has lived in India ever since.
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As the years seem to race past faster and faster, more of us wonder every day if the 2012 prophecies mean anything. Now Belgian author Patrick Geryl has decoded the Mayan and Egyptian prophecies, and he lays it all out for us in this stunner of a show. Then Linda reports on that troubling collapse of the marine food chain off the Pacific Northwest. Is it going to fix itself, or is it a sign of bigger trouble tocome? And why can?t we get any political leadership on global warming here in the US?
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Speculation about the investigation of Federal ProsecutorPatrick Fitzgerald into the Valerie Plame affair has reacheda fever pitch in the conspiracy community, along with claimsthat there will be a terrorist attack staged in the UnitedStates in August to deflect public attention from theactivities of the Chicago Grand Jury. Whether or not any ofthis is true remains to be seen, but the intensity of theclaims is unusual.

For example, Libertarian muckraker Tom Flocco has just posted an article on his website,TomFlocco.com claiming thatGeorge W. Bush, Karl Rove and numerous others have beenindicted by the Chicago Grand Jury convened to investigatethe Valerie Plame leak.
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Is your grandmother constantly playing Bingo? Do your friends take every vacation in Las Vegas, even though they can’t afford to lose? When relatives come to visit, do they always make a detour to a nearby Indian reservation in order to gamble? You can have a gambling problem the same way you can be addicted to alcohol or drugs?it’s the same personality profile. And just like alcoholics and drug addicts, gamblers need the help of a twelve-step program.
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