Blue Gold

This is one you won't want to miss.

go to www.1channel.ch and search Blue Gold, you wont be sorry.

for those of you who want to be vegetarian body builders

http://fitnessdoctrine.com/diet-nutrition/vegetarian-bodybuilding/

even UFC fighters are going veg

http://fitnessdoctrine.com/diet-nutrition/fighter-diet-mma-diet/

Esselstyn Diet

http://www.cbass.com/Esselstyn.htm

AETA

http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/aeta-analysis-109th/

the shape of stories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ

a specific article to check

http://www.theocracywatch.org/appeal2.htm

This article makes the case that the fundamentalist, dominionist, christian, right wing movement in the states is gaining power because so many Americans feel alienated and the church offers a sense of community that is lacking in many peoples' lives. It also talks about how the christian right uses that for political ends.

This link contains two links within it which are also useful to check out.

A site to take note of - an explanation for greed and profit mongering

http://www.theocracywatch.org/

an excerpt from this site which is, in itself, an excerpt from a book:

From Let There Be Markets: The Evangelical Roots of Economics:

[Writing about the early eighteen hundreds] For [evangelicals] it was unthinkable that capitalism led to class conflict, for that would mean that God had created a world at war with itself. The evangelicals believed in a providential God, one who built a logical and orderly universe, and they saw the new industrial economy as a fulfillment of God's plan. The free market, they believed, was a perfectly designed instrument to reward good Christian behavior and to punish and humiliate the unrepentant.

At the center of this early evangelical doctrine was the idea of original sin: we were all born stained by corruption and fleshly desire, and the true purpose of earthly life was to redeem this. The trials of economic life-the sweat of hard labor, the fear of poverty, the self-denial involved in saving-were earthly tests of sinfulness and virtue. While evangelicals believed salvation was ultimately possible only through conversion and faith, they saw the pain of earthly life as means of atonement for original sin.

Moreover, they regarded poverty as part of a divine program. Evangelicals interpreted the mental anguish of poverty and debt, and the physical agony of hunger or cold, as natural spurs to prick the conscience of sinners. They believed that the suffering of the poor would provoke remorse, reflection, and ultimately the conversion that would change their fate. In other words, poor people were poor for a reason, and helping them out of poverty would endanger their mortal souls. It was the evangelicals who began to see the business mogul as an heroic figure, his wealth a triumph of righteous will. more