by Jake Anderson, ANTIMEDIA

Milan, Italy — Milan is the most polluted city in Europe. In fact, the smog is so bad that in 2012, the country reported 84,000 premature deaths linked to poor air quality. Last year, both Milan and Rome introduced traffic bans to combat pollution.

Now city officials are trying something relatively new: paying commuters to bike to work. France tried this in 2014, when employees were offered 25 cents per kilometer traveled, but the program failed due to lack of citizen participation.

By Makia Freeman
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Religion has caused a lot of unnecessary pain to mankind, despite whatever truth and good intentions their followers may hold. Restrictive, false and dangerous religious beliefs abound throughout the world, and dominate the mainstream teachings of organized religion.

Some of these dangerous religious beliefs fool you into thinking you can out-source your morality, ethics or spirituality to some external organization. Others prevent you from taking full responsibility for yourself and your actions, thus hindering you from stepping fully into your power. Others goad you into a false sense of security where there is none. All of them limit you and the deeper realization of Who You Are, and all of them stem from the single fundamental delusion of separateness, i.e. that we are discrete and separate beings, that some people are better than others and that there is somewhere better you need to get to. It is an idea based on separateness leads to judgment and exclusion, and can never be as true and powerful as one based on connectedness.

Alex Pietrowski, Staff
Waking Times

Health officials and establishment doctors in West Virginia are not happy about giving the public greater access to raw milk. 

The governor of West Virginia recently signed a new bill that will make it easier for some people to access and consume raw cow’s milk, which may surprise those who had no idea that it is largely illegal in the United States to share, trade, or buy raw, unpasteurized milk.

On March 3, 2016, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, signed new legislation that would allow people to share ownership of a dairy animal in a legal arrangement called “herd sharing,” which allows for the owners to receive milk from that animal for personal consumption. One of the stipulations of the bill (SB 387) is that the individuals who purchase the animal must sign a disclaimer, verifying that they acknowledge the potential risks associated with consuming raw milk. West Virginia’s Department of Agriculture will also distribute rules regulating consumption and require health tests for the animals.

Emotions are not meant to be erased or ‘controlled’, they are meant to be experienced. It is part of your Earth-plane existence. Treat them as waves on the shore, they come and go, nothing more. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/emotions-2/

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein

Life is indeed mysterious and magical. From birth we begin a personal journey of self-discovery. As we grow through childhood we begin to form our beliefs and opinions, deciding what we like and what we don’t like. We form our identities. For some, this journey continues to be all-encompassing, because they constantly analyze themselves and others. It can become so consuming and blinding that many become oblivious to the mysterious, until they are eventually forced into recognising its beauty.

The secret to a happy and fulfilling life is to recognise this beauty right now. We have a choice to see beyond our personal identification and obsession; in doing so we free ourselves from our limiting judgements and opinions, and our ideas about who we are and what we are capable of. Only when this happens can we experience the beauty of the mysterious and realize the simplicity of living a happy and fulfilled life.