Check out this great link from The Economist online:  World Votes for Obama

Click here for the 3 minute video:  Letter to Secretary of Treasury Paulson from Presidential Candidate Nader

Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader asks Paulson to donate $200 million of his own money for the Wall Street Bailout, rather than taxpayers paying for this mess. Paulson made 1/2 billion when he left his position as CEO of Goldman Sachs in 2006. Hmmm…..

From an ABC news article (cited below): Medical studies show the poses, along with meditation and specific yoga breathing techniques, reduce stress responses, which significantly influences health.

“There are specific areas of the brain that have been shown to change with advanced yoga and meditation practitioners. These areas of the brain are those areas that deal with the control or the ability to self-regulate emotion, the ability to maintain attention,” said Harvard Medical School assistant professor of medicine Sat Bir Khalsa. “And so if you put these practitioners in the brain scanner, you can see that these areas of the brain light up more than other areas of the brain.”

ABC News VIDEO on Health Benefits of Yoga

Besides John McCain and Barack Obama, did you know the following candidates are also running for U.S. president?  Do you know what they support?  Check them out and you will find you have excellent CHOICES beyond Obama and McCain.

• Ralph Nader – Independent Party
• Cynthia McKinney – Green Party
• Bob Barr – Libertarian Party
• Chuck Baldwin – Constitution Party

Texas congressman Ron Paul is advocating for Third Parties to be included in the debates; see his statement to CNN here:

Ron Paul on CNN

George Farah from Open Debates on CNN

Third Party Ticket

Richard Heinberg has written an excellent book called The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, which I highly recommend.  The video clip below will give you a brief overview of what he discusses in the book.

Richard Heinberg on peak oil