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World Peace' Hitcher Is Murdered

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:51:01 GMT

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An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.

The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the northern city of Gebze on Friday.

She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.

Ms di Marineo was hitch-hiking from Milan to Israel and the Palestinian Territories with a fellow artist on their "Brides on Tour" project.

They had separated in Istanbul, planning to reunite in Beirut.

"Her travels were for an artistic performance and to give a message of peace and of trust, but not everyone deserves trust," another sister, Maria, told the Italian news agency, Ansa.

Tags: artist, peace, world, murder

Laws Targeting Mediums Spot On

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:48:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sundaysun.co.uk

HOW many psychics does it take to change a lightbulb? Just the one . . . but they need the help of a dead relative whose first name begins with the letter J.

We can all have a laugh at so-called mediums, but from where I’m sitting they fall into one of two categories.

They either truly believe themselves to be gifted, in which case I file them under “self-deluding nutters” or they’re the very worst kind . . . the nasty, manipulative, money-grabbing leeches who prey on vulnerable people.

Thankfully, the Government is at last waking up to the damage these charlatans can do and is in the process of introducing some form of regulation.

It plans to repeal the Fraudulent Mediums Act — are there any other kind? — which, co-incidentally, replaced the 1735 Witchcraft Act.

And, if approved by Parliament, new consumer protection laws will pave the way for disgruntled customers to sue psychics who fail to deliver the promise of good fortune, health or everlasting love.

Tags: law, government, england, psychic, fraud, witchcraft

Do we have multiple personalities?

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:37:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Instead of seeing each person as a single personality, award-winning science journalist Rita Carter argues in "Multiplicity" that we all consist of multiple characters, each one with its own viewpoint, emotions, and ambitions. She writes that they may share the same body, and none is any more "authentic" than another.

Chapter One
The idea of there being two or more selves in a single body sounds crazy. Look carefully, though, and you will see that the evidence for human plurality is all around us and always has been.

We glimpse it wherever people talk to ancestors, get divine wisdom from spirit guides, receive messages from personified gods, consult oracles, get “taken over” by the souls of the dead or tune in to an “inner helper.”

When someone says “I don’t know what got into me,” or “I just wasn’t myself,” they are implicitly acknowledging the existence of a self other than the one who is speaking.

Tags: science, mind, psychology, human, personality

Undersea quake swarm puzzles the experts

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:34:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption — except there are no volcanoes in the area.

Scientists don't know exactly what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of molten rock rumbling away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said Robert Dziak, a geophysicist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University.

There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Newport, Ore. The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, Oregon State University reported.

“In the 17 years we’ve been monitoring the ocean through hydrophone recordings, we’ve never seen a swarm of earthquakes in an area such as this,” Dziak said.

Tags: science, earth, earthquake, oregon, underwater, volcanoes