by Kim Petersen / July 17th, 2009

Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves from Work
By Pamela Satterwhite
Publisher: Humming Words Press (2009)
ISBN: 978-0-9649465-1-4

“Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life energy.” – Nikola Tesla, quoted in Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves from Work

Tesla’s quotation captures the reality of the working world for many people. People trudge off to work, do work, return home, recuperate, and go to work the next day. Most people will do this five days a week for most of the year.

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Broadcast on PressTV at approximately 1820GMT on July 15, 2009. [Read more]
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Israeli navy in Suez Canal prepares for potential attack on Iran
Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem

The exercises come at a time when Western diplomats are offering support for an Israeli strike on Iran in return for Israeli concessions on the formation of a Palestinian state.

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Tehran’s streets erupt after a key cleric speaks
By Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim

Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s harsh rebuke of Ahmadinejad supporters is followed by renewed violence, suggesting the discontent over recent election results is as strong as ever.

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Offices Raided By PA Forces Over ‘Incitement’
by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, 15 July 2009

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today declared a total ban on the al-Jazeera television station, preventing it from operating in the West Bank and ordering security forces to raid its offices in Ramalllah.

The organization’s Information Ministry said the ban was a result of a report aired on the channel yesterday, in which a senior official in the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) publicly criticized Abbas and accused him of being aware of an Israeli plot to assassinate Yasser Arafat.

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