Meet Senator David Norris. Norris is an academic and civil rights activist from Ireland. Norris has been raising hell in Ireland for decades, having been credited with successes like eliminating the anti-homosexuality law that was on the books back in 1988 after fighting it for 14 years.

This video of him popped up on the web recently and has been getting a lot of play time. In this video, he condemns Israel for their aggression in Gaza, saying that they’re simply using the holocaust as a means to perpetrate their own.

From the video:

“Israel is afraid of Palestinian unity, that’s what all this is about. It has nothing to do with the murder of Israeli children, the Israelis knew that Hamas had nothing to do with it before this war started. With regards to Hamas, Israel created Hamas in order to split Fatah, so they’re responsible for Fatah, and I have that confirmed in the highest level in the foreign ministry in Jerusalem...

Waking Times

Video - A time lapse video that shows the amazing skill of the monks from the Drepung Loseling monastery as they construct a Zambhala sand mandala. During the creation of this amazing piece of artwork, the monks pour millions of grains of sand from traditional metal funnels called chak-pur. A mandala that’s about five feet by five feet in size can take up to two weeks to complete.

“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” – Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Just a few short months ago, American astronomers testified to congress that extraterrestrial life certainly exists. There’s no question about it. Given the size of the universe, and how many stars and earth like planets there are, they must exist.

“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion,” said Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute

During the testimony, Steven J. Dick, an astronomer and NASA historian said:

We’re looking at all scenarios about finding life. If you find microbes, that’s one thing. If you find intelligence, it’s another. And if they communicate, it’s something else, and depending on what they say...

Did you know that sodas often contain so much sugar that they need to add an ingredient to suppress our body’s response to vomit? That fact alone made me stop drinking soda completely.

Sugar first became popular in the use in the late 1970’s since it was cheaper than cane sugar. Today, we consume on average a total of 27 teaspoons of sugar daily. The daily recommended dose is only 6 teaspoons for women and 9 teaspoons for men.

HJ: What you perceive quickly becomes your reality.  Therefore changing how you see yourself and the world, changes everything.  It is the most fundamental key to creating whatever it is you want to experience.  Deep happiness. Deep fulfillment.  Success.  Peace. The perfect relationship.  Anything.  The key is to change your internal state.  In fact, to return to your essence, which is deep self confidence and love.  This is the journey we are all on whether or not we realize it.  And the article below has three powerful tools and suggestions to help you achieve all these goals and more.

- Truth

3 Ways to Change Your Outlook on Life

Make the most out of the moments of your life.

By Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. | Psych Alive | Psychology Today