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  • The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long

    The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long

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    This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War .

    Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Vietnam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view.

    In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a VA Medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Vietnam.

    Sally said, “I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our apartment on Doctor’s Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative middle of the road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. What is more, the VA Medical center let him do it, and other very conservative men in the staff followed his example.

    As I read the documents, I learned why. It seems that during the Vietnam War special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. Before being approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts in tracking and survival.

    With the usual enticements, the well proven smooth phrases used to enroll new recruits, some of these Indian trackers were then enlisted. Once enlisted, an amazing thing happened. Whatever talents and skills they had possessed on the reservation seemed to mysteriously disappear, as recruit after recruit failed to perform as expected in the field.

    Serious causalities and failures of performance led the government to contract expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

    When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistently that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer ‘sense’ the enemy, they could no longer access a ‘sixth sense’, their ‘intuition’ no longer was reliable, they couldn’t ‘read’ subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

    So the testing institute recruited more Indian trackers, let them keep their long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests.

    Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores.

    Here is a Typical Test:

    The recruit is sleeping out in the woods. An armed ‘enemy’ approaches the sleeping man. The long haired man is awakened out of his sleep by a strong sense of danger and gets away long before the enemy is close, long before any sounds from the approaching enemy are audible.

    In another version of this test the long haired man senses an approach and somehow intuits that the enemy will perform a physical attack. He follows his ‘sixth sense’ and stays still, pretending to be sleeping, but quickly grabs the attacker and ‘kills’ him as the attacker reaches down to strangle him.

    This same man, after having passed these and other tests, then received a military haircut and consistently failed these tests, and many other tests that he had previously passed.

    So the document recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from military haircuts. In fact, it required that trackers keep their hair long.”

    Comment:

    The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up with more discoveries about the amazing abilities of man and animal to survive. Each part of the body has highly sensitive work to perform for the survival and well being of the body as a whole.The body has a reason for every part of itself.

    Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved ‘feelers’ or ‘antennae’ that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.

    Not only does hair in people, including facial hair in men, provide an information highway reaching the brain, hair also emits energy, the electromagnetic energy emitted by the brain into the outer environment. This has been seen in Kirlian photography when a person is photographed with long hair and then rephotographed after the hair is cut.

    When hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment are greatly hampered. This results in numbing-out .

    Cutting of hair is a contributing factor to unawareness of environmental distress in local ecosystems. It is also a contributing factor to insensitivity in relationships of all kinds. It contributes to sexual frustration.

    Conclusion:

    In searching for solutions for the distress in our world, it may be time for us to consider that many of our most basic assumptions about reality are in error. It may be that a major part of the solution is looking at us in the face each morning when we see ourselves in the mirror.

    The story of Sampson and Delilah in the Bible has a lot of encoded truth to tell us. When Delilah cut Sampson’s hair, the once undefeatable Sampson was defeated.

    Reported by C. Young

    Comment: SOTT can’t confirm this story or the research it suggests took place, however, we have wondered on many occasions, what is the use of hair and why so many legends refer to hair as being a source of strength, from Samson, to Nazarenes, to the Long Haired Franks.
  • Vietnam and Turkey’s Trade to increase

    Vietnam and Turkey’s Trade to increase

    Viet Nam News spoke with Turkish Ambassador Ates Oktem on the occasion of his country’s national day today.Turk Amb to viet

    Viet Nam and Turkey are aiming to achieve a two-way trade turnover of US$1 billion in 2010. In the first eight months of this year, it was about $400 million – a major increase as from the same period last year. Do you think the two countries will be able to achieve this year’s trade target?

    In spite of the global economic crisis, the volume of trade between Turkey and Viet Nam is promising to reach $1 billion in 2010.

    The Governments of Turkey and Viet Nam have been encouraging and facilitating economic and trade relations and co-operation by creating the necessary legal framework and infrastructure. Turkish and Vietnamese businessmen are looking to develop economic and commercial relations.

    The Agreement on the Reciprocal Promotion and Protection of Investment and the Agreement on Avoidance of Double Taxation between Turkey and Viet Nam are in their concluding phase. These agreements will serve to create a secure business environment for our private sectors. Both sides want to hold joint economic and trade committee meetings. Business forums held in Istanbul in November 2008 and Ha Noi in October 2009 were successful. Businessmen from both sides had the opportunity to exchange views on issues of mutual interest. Meanwhile, the Joint Business Council will serve as a permanent consultation mechanism between the private sectors. It comes under the auspices of the Turkish Union of Chambers of Commerce and Commodity Exchanges and the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and will contribute to strengthening commercial relations. These positive developments in recent years have given impetus to our economic and commercial relations.

    Efforts have been made to promote co-operation between Turkish and Vietnamese business communities by encouraging greater participation in activities such as trade fairs, conferences, seminars and workshops in high-priority sectors such as textiles, machinery and food. That, in conjunction with greater contact and dialogue between businesses and industry on both sides, leads us to believe we will achieve a bilateral trade volume of $1 billion either in 2010 or 2011.

    Turkish Airlines plans to begin flying between Istanbul and HCM City by the end of 2010. How will this benefit the two countries?

    Turkish Airlines will launch its flights from Istanbul to HCM City as from December 29, 2010, within the framework of the Bilateral Air Services Agreement Between the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam for Scheduled Air Services Between Their Territories and Beyond. That agreement and a memorandum of understanding was signed by the General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Turkey and the Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam on March 17, 2009.

    Turkey, because of her geographic location and close historical and cultural ties across a vast landscape, will serve as a crucial bridge for dialogue and interaction between civilisations at the heart of Eurasia. It will serve as a bridge between Viet Nam, Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus.

    Viet Nam is pushing ahead with its renewal cause in order to actively participate in the development of ever closer economic relations within ASEAN. It is also striving to promote economic interactions between ASEAN and its partners throughout the world. Viet Nam is an ideal bridge for Turkey to link with other Southeast Asian countries.

    Flights by Turkish Airlines between Istanbul and HCM City will help Turkish and Vietnamese businessmen interact, as well as tourists travel between the two countries. These flights will pave the way for developing and strengthening our bilateral economic, commercial and cultural relations.

    Turkey actively sends workers overseas as part of its economic development plan. Viet Nam has a similar policy. How successful has your programme been?

    The emigration of Turkish citizens to Western Europe to compensate for a labour shortage started in the early 1960s. Turkey signed Labour Force Agreements with Germany in 1961; Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands in 1964; France in 1965 and Australia in 1967. The immigration of Turkish labourers into Western Europe continued until 1974. From this date onwards, Turkish labourers began to focus on North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf countries. Following the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the labour force was directed towards the Russian Federation. This transformation helped to open up the Turkish economy to the world and benefited Turkish contractors undertaking infrastructure projects in the region.

    From the 1970s onwards, Turkish immigrants in Western Europe began to think of their move as permanent rather than temporary. Today, the majority of Turks living abroad, a considerable number of whom have obtained citizenship in their destination countries, are permanent residents.

    Today, approximately 5 million Turkish citizens live abroad, of which about 4 million reside in EU countries, 300,000 in Northern America, 150,000 in Australia and 200,000 in the Middle East.

    Turkish immigrants have contributed significantly to the Turkish economy as well as to the economic development of the immigration countries. Most of them also contribute to their destination countries’ political, social, cultural and economic life, not only as blue-collar labourers but also as professionals in many areas, such as academics, scientists, doctors, journalists, engineers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, artisans, politicians, athletes, etc. Numerous Turkish migrant workers have left their labourer identity behind and have established their own business. The number of companies established by Turkish businessmen in Western Europe has risen to approximately 140,000, 70,000 of them in Germany alone. These enterprises are providing jobs for 640,000 employees (330,000 in Germany). Their total annual turnover exceeds 50 billion euros – 32.7 billion euros in Germany alone. According to the latest statistics, the annual expenditure of Turks living in Western Europe amounts to 22.7 billion euros.

    Turkey welcomes the active participation of its citizens in the social, economical, cultural and political life of the immigration countries while maintaining ties with their motherland, original culture and mother-tongue.

    In June, Viet Nam and Iraq officially joined the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), which is chaired by Turkey. How will Viet Nam’s membership of CICA benefit these countries and the organisation itself?Kiz kulesi1

    CICA member states desire to establish a firm foundation for common action to promote co-operation in the CICA region in the spirit of equality and partnership, and thereby contribute towards peace, progress and prosperity in Asia. CICA member states are determined to create an environment of comprehensive and indivisible security in Asia, where all states co-exist peacefully and their peoples live in peace, freedom and prosperity.

    Viet Nam’s membership of CICA will help its development efforts, particularly as the country is also an active member of ASEAN and fully supportive of common efforts to strengthen and boost co-operation and dialogue between Asia and Europe.

    On the other hand, Viet Nam will benefit from co-operation within the framework of CICA, which is a multilateral forum for close ties, political dialogue and interaction, comprehensive consultation and decision making based on consensus.

    Could you briefly describe to our readers some of Turkey’s main attractions – cultural and work-wise?

    Turkey’s tourism industry has grown rapidly since 1980. The number of tourists visiting Turkey in 1980 was close to 1.5 million. This figure went up to 26.5 million in 2008. Meanwhile, tourism revenue in 1980 was $326 million, in 2008 it was $21.91 billion.

    Istanbul, which was the capital city of the Ottoman Empire, has become a modern city, while preserving its magnificence and history. Visitors are fascinated by Istanbul’s history and culture – its museums, palaces, mosques, churches, bazaars and natural attractions.

    The Cappadocian region is renowned for its beauty and history. Early settlers inhabited the rock formations known evocatively as Peri Bacalari Chimneys. They carved out houses and churches inside these formations and adorned them with frescos, which carry the traces of the thousands of years of civilisation.

    If someone said the most scenic vistas in Anatolia could be found on the coast of the Aegean, he would not be exaggerating. The bays and peninsulas, coves and golden beaches stretch the length of the beautiful coastline. At almost every turn, you will encounter theatres, temples and agoras (open places of assembly) in the ancient cities of Bodrum, Fethiye, Marmaris, Kusadasi. — VNS

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