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The War No One Ever Wins
By John Novak
changingplanet@hotmail.com
Well we're having a war
at Saddam's front door
And we'd like it if you all could attend
It's a casual affair
we don't care what you wear
and you can even bring a friend
So just come on down
and we'll sign you up
get a haircut and a physical free
when you get down there
you don't need no hair
'cuz your ass will be all they see
And there'll be bullets flying
people dying
car bombings all around
At night the missiles flare
in the smoke filled air
for the cameras on the ground
And all those trigger happy Army dudes
awaitin' with their M-16's
Well the man in charge
gives out credit cards
and the booze is always free
Now Abahmanajad
will declare Jihad
and send the orders to his men
but when they arrive
oh what a suprise
It's that terror guy Bin Laden
With his Al Quada boys
and their terrorist toys
all itching for a gnarly fight
Cuz when it hits the fan
in the Arab lands
It's fireworks in the night
And Bush and Cheney
Are ecstatic with the thought of a global war
Don Rumsfeld will arrange
for an arms exchange
to even up the score
Sell all those warheads, guns and nuke supplies
for oil to send back west
Buy lots of stock in Halliburton
as they clean up all the mess
Then one day you find yourself
washed ashore on a lonely beach
you walk around
and you find a town
but the war is out of reach
then you hear a tone
on your old cell phone
and you talk to Uncle Sam
who puts you back
in full attack
you're locked in war again
So as you're waitin' for the trucks to come
To take you on back out there
Go downtown in the middle of the night
to the ladies in the city square
you'll see those trigger happy army dudes
naked with their M-16s
where the girls in charge
take credit cards
and the rooms are always clean
So we're having a war
On the Arab shores
And we've still got a couple spots free
So if you'd care
to take a dare
and head on down with me
Cuz when we're done
With Al Quada bums
spraying bullets with a grin
well the bottom line
works out just fine
It's the War No One Ever Wins
© 2008 Changing Planet
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Sting - desert rose
When Atoms Dance
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The Basics of energy and form and life
In order to further understand consciousness
within all it helps to
have a basic understanding of the foundation
of our physical universe and the nature of our own forms.
Before we have our bodies, we have energy.
Energy has an important characteristic in
that it seeks its own balance.
As the energy comes from within the hologram, it is known by science as subatomic particles.
These particles determine the core nature of our future, behavioral characteristics, our physical appearance, memories from the past, and will in general; exert a subtle influence upon our future life in this world.
In metaphysics, these particles are called seed atoms,
of which there are five that
we carry with our being throughout all existence, and all incarnations.
In the physical sciences, these particles
are of many types and verities.
The most common today are, from
the largest to the smallest are
protons, neutrons and electrons.
The next size down, which,
size relating to particle mass,
or density, are electrons and their counterparts,
positrons.
These guys are one thousand six
hundred and forty five times
smaller that the big daddy protons and neutrons.
Remember our earlier discussion about polarity?
Well it’s quite true here too.
The protons are a positive uplifting force,
as they are the nuclear building
force of all cells, along with their smaller counterparts, the electron, which has a negative electrical force. However, the electron applied in a positive manner, although negatively charged, makes for a positive uplifting feeling.
If you strip the electron away from the proton, during a chemical reaction, you create a free radical, which is a negative force, i.e. free radicals cause cancer.
If you strip an electron away from a proton during an electrical reaction, such as a negative ionizing machine, you create a positive force as these electrons,
when inhaled through the nose or mouth, create a natural cellular reproduction process that increases the natural life force enhancing process.
The reason the electron behaves in such a strange way in body and consciousness processes is as follows. The electron is a fast moving lightweight particle in comparison to the heavier slower proton.
The only reason the electron does not stick to the proton, as unlike charges attract, is that it is moving in an orbit around the proton at a speed close to the speed of light.
This creates a centrifugal force that holds it away, much as the moon, (electron), moves around the earth, (proton) .
However the similarity ends there.
As the electron moves around the
proton in cellular reproduction,
it does so in a dance.
In ancient Eastern, Vedic, science,
this called the dance of Shiva, wherein the female, Shakti, does the DANCE OF LIFE and procreation for Shiva the male energy. In modern science, this dance is called orbital patterns, and terms such as “P’ orbital, “S’ or “W” orbital patterns in which the electron, sometimes goes into a bow tie orbit, rather than a circular-elliptical orbit as seen with the moon. These orbital patterns breathe life into the cells, and the organs and finally the body as we shall see.
How this works
The next peculiarity is that the electron actually pauses during its trajectionary around the proton. This pause, in reference, allows other smaller particles, which we will discuss in a minute, to move into action. In physics, this is called transmutation, wherein an element can become something similar, but heavier, (Isotope), or causes an energy release, (nuclear reaction). In the body, this is called consciousness and energy. Along with these smaller particles, much smaller even that the electron, is another effect, a matrix, called time. A matrix is defined as “something within which something else originates or develops”. I am sure many of you readers out there have noticed changes in time, or in many cases, time is appearing to speed up, which from a relative point of view, (HEY!! REMEMBER EINSTEIN!!) is true .Much more on this later, when we are a little informed on the basics. These newer particles are called, in order of their relative size ,protons ,electrons, then within protons, and much smaller than electrons come the subatomic, hadrons, quarks, omegons, leptons, bosons and many smaller particles beyond these, which are most common. One of these smaller particles, called hadrons, acts as a binding force for our protons and neutrons, which compose the cells that become our bodies. Leptons are another particle that helps determine the density of our bodies, as well as contribute to another force that we know as gravity. As a matter of fact over the last forty years, over two hundred and fifty particles have been discovered by science. And as more are found and make the evening news, you will after this be able to explain some of this phenomenon to your friends! You may become the resident genius!
There are particles and antiparticles. There is a physical universe as we know it and there are parallel universes. When particles are here they are called matter. When they are there, they are called anti matter. Science fiction, becoming science fact, calls these transferences, psychic energy, teleportation, time travel, transmutation, and a whole host of new terms.
Normally we associate atoms with electrical charges and characteristics. However this is not true when we start to deal with the smaller particles. At this point let us make a relative size to a relative energy comparison. If we were to make the nucleus of an atom the size of a baseball, the whole atom itself would have a diameter of 2.5 miles!! That makes the nucleus 1/100,00th the total volume of the atom. This leaves a lot of room for the dancing of the electrons and still much smaller subatomic particles. This enormous dance floor is called the” Higgs field”. Modern science has been looking for a long time as to what goes on in this enormous dance floor. I'm sure most of you will as you scan the evening news, discover the scientific search for the mysterious Boson, a missing element in the yet discussed here upcoming topic. To pursue this quest, laboratories housing giant nuclear particle accelerators, are being constructed all over the world. More on this later.
What science is starting to find out now is that consciousness is going to play in great effect, upon the world of atomic physics. Our bodies are made up of four basic atoms. If you want the heart of this chapter here it is! These atoms are oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon. The oxygen atom provides animation into our forms. Eastern science calls this action prana. Without prana consciousness cannot maintain itself in our forms. This is an easy to understand, as without air we would not be in our bodies very long. Within oxygen, there are other particles. These particles are in all atoms. Oxygen comes in two forms. One is a charged form, the charge being called a vitality globule, or ANU, and the other form is simply uncharged and basically lifeless, used in rocket propulsion and chemical reactions. The charged form is usually experienced in the early-morning sun. The lifeless form is more available in the wee hours of the morning, usually between 2 and 4 A.M. It's a known fact that more natural deaths, permanent out of body experiences, occur during these hours, and usually in the darkest part of the winter months. Nitrogen is the physical building block of our cells. Basic amino acids contain nitrogen. Nitrogen is a high-energy element and is used in the manufacture of explosives such as nitroglycerin, which most of us are familiar with, as we've all seen action movies. Carbon is the first physical element of our bodies, in which oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and combines with. Carbon is an octahedral shaped atom. Imagine a four sided pyramid, with a base, making it a five sided pyramid, facing right side up. Positioned below the right side up pyramid, is another pyramid facing down, with its point or apex pointing towards the ground. The two are connected at their respective bases. This shape represents not only the carbon atom in the body, but also the red blood cell. As a matter of fact, the red blood cell, hemoglobin, is stacked with four of these octahedral shapes that deliver oxygen, prana, into the bodies, and removes the trapped carbon dioxide. These four octahedral pyramid groups are divided into two groups, called alpha and beta chains. Hydrogen is the element that delivers consciousness into the body. The hydrogen atom is the atom we are going to look at now in more detail. Just remember, a basic fact throughout this book, that the four building atomic blocks of the body are oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon.
The hydrogen atom allows us to perceive color. It allows us to hear different sounds. The hydrogen atom allows us to feel. It allows us to smell. The hydrogen atom is the essence of our thoughts. The hydrogen atom allows us to communicate with each other, hopefully with the element of intelligence. Sometimes, this appears to be doubtful. Pun intended. The hydrogen atom makes water, of which is the composition of 70% of our bodies. The hydrogen atom, when its energy is unleashed, creates a hydrogen bomb, the most powerful weapon of any arsenal. The hydrogen atom, because it houses pure intellect, fuels our suns and stars. Although matter as we know it is carbon based, it becomes alive with the addition of hydrogen, and the permeation of oxygen. Add spirit to the mix, and suddenly we are in God's laboratory. Maybe this is the beginning of divine alchemy!
Let's examine the physical properties of hydrogen a little closer. The hydrogen atom itself is composed of a proton, and a small dancing electron. The electron does not orbit its nucleus, the proton in a circle. But rather, it moves different orbital patterns. As the electron moves through these orbital patterns, it moves up to a maximum speed, computed to be 186,273 miles per second, that of the speed of light, and a slower, more variable speed. This variation in speed was first pointed out in modern science. In 1930 by a physicist named Erwin Schrödinger, named this phenomenon Zitterbewegung. Working with Erwin, was another scientist named Paul Adrianne Maurice Dirac. British-born Dirac has been given credit for the theory of antimatter. Antimatter is basically the existence of an opposite and parallel universe. What Paul Dirac predicted, was that during this dance, especially during the moment when the electron stopped in its orbit, it attracted a positive electron, (antimatter) called a positron from a parallel universe. This moment of union is called in science, a magnetic moment. In 1933, Paul Dirac, and Erwin Schrödinger won a Nobel Peace Prize for this work. Dirac became the Lucasian Professor at Cambridge College, a position now held by the famous Stephen Hawking.
Another interesting personality that put something important into the mix is Austrian born physicist Wolfgang Pauli. He won it a Nobel peace prize in 1945 for his work on atomic fission. Fission is the principal of releasing energy used in the atomic bomb, and a miniature atomic bomb produces heat to trigger a more powerful hydrogen bomb. I'm not trying to emphasize the negative energy here, but there is tremendous energy in consciousness within the hydrogen atom. In 1925 Pauli coined the famous Pauli exclusion principle that stated,” only two electrons can occupy the same energy level simultaneously in an atom”.
Not trying to be too difficult or to technical. I want to go a little bit deeper into physics. I'm trying to keep this book simple, but nuclear science is rapidly approaching the domain of the general public, just look at how many science fiction dramas are out there, and these little explanations, if given a little bit of time for thought, will help you greatly understand what's coming into, or rapidly approaching the daily news. I know this may be brand new to some of you out there, but new is fun, and it’s a good test on patience! Remember when you were back in grade school, or high school? Some of that knowledge from the past surely helps you understand and attune to ever present progression of science.
When we look at an atom, we see protons and neutrons in the center core and electrons orbiting in the strange manner that we have been studying so far. The general rule is the first ring of orbiting electrons contains two. The second ring contains eight. The third ring, 64. These are sometimes referred to as shells. If you look at Pauli’s statement that only two of all of these electrons can have the same rate of energy, and that all of these electrons are dancing simultaneously, then we can realize that this is a very interesting characteristic. These types of observations are called quantum mechanics. If we were further going to examine the inside of an atom, we would find that electrons have four basic values. These values are called quantum numbers and describe the atom mathematically. The principal, first, quantum number defines the principal shell, (energy state), or electron group as we previously discussed. Remember the shell is the circular dance floor for electrons, as they dance around the nuclease of the atom. The first shell is complete with two electrons. If it only has one, it is a hydrogen atom. Because it wants to have two electrons, partners for the dance, it can be called a hydrogen ion, until it finds one more electron to complete its first shell. The second shell of an atom wants to have eight orbital electrons to complete its dance. Oxygen has two electrons in its first shell, but its second shell has six electrons. A complete second shell needs eight electrons. So what happens? Two Hydrogen atoms, (atoms), meet one Oxygen atom, while out on the town and get married. The result, water, H2O, is now a very stable molecule, and one of the fundamentals of life. In order for an atom to be stable in the third shell it wants to have eighteen electrons, the fourth is thirty two and the fourth shell, sixty four. Anything less on any shell makes that atom active. The more electrons the atom has, the heavier an element becomes due to cellular union. Gold for example is very heavy. Gold has seventy nine electrons. That would be two in the first shell, eight in the second shell, eighteen in the third shell, thirty two in the fourth shell, and only nineteen in the fifth shell, which obviously incomplete, but that last nineteen sure attracts us to it!
The angular momentum quantum number, second, describes a magnitude of an electrons angular momentum. This could be understood as the dance within the dance. The magnetic quantum number, third, describes the magnetic orientation of the orbital plane of an electron. This could be understood as the mood of the dance. This could also be the flavor, or emotion of the dance. The spin magnetic quantum number, fourth, designates the electrons spin as clockwise or counterclockwise. This could be observed as a male and female, yin or yang energy influencing the overall consciousness of the atom. Physicists use these quantum numbers to establish the maximum number of electrons permitted in each electron shell of an atom. Now before I go on I want to make an interesting point. Physicists Wolfgang Pauli, discoverer of the aforementioned Pauli exclusion principle, later on would Co-write with psychoanalyst Carl J. Jung and essay entitled “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principal.” Pauli claimed that new discoveries vindicated synchronicity, which as one commentator has noted,” the old belief in a system of magical correspondences in a new guise,” because it suggests events may be linked by similarity, just as much as proximity. Pauli also felt that it might explain some of the mysteries of psi.
Looking back now, again at the hydrogen atom let's examine it one more time. Why, you might ask are spending so much time here? Because science is moving into the public domain and you want to be informed, and farther into this book it will help, and still farther out yet, after you read this book you will one day be thankful for your newfound wisdom. Within its proton or nucleus are nine smaller and very special particles called quarks. This is where we can begin to understand the link of our consciousness to other dimensions, and our source of creation. In the future, science will spend a lot of time here. For here is where the true nature of our genetic heritage begins. Everything we do from this point determines what kind of health we will have, how our emotions will function individually, our perceptions, and in general our overall behavior.
More on Quarks!
Quarks were first postulated in 1963 by Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist, from the California Institute of technology. Consequently his work, secured him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1969. He described quarks as coming in flavors and colors. Each flavor of quark comes in three colors, red, green and blue. A grouping of three quarks is called a Haydron. The flavors are called up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm. As we mentioned earlier, there is also a parallel universe. Now that we are looking into the inside of the atom, we are at the doorway of the parallel universes. So therefore, we also have antiquarks. Where as quarks come in red, blue, and green, antiquarks can be viewed as yellow, cyan, or magenta. When we have a combination of three of these quarks and three antiquarks, we have a particle called a Baryon.
All of these particles also have another strange characteristic. They can increase in mass or density. Ordinary matter such as protons and neutrons are composed of up-and-down quarks. A proton contains two up quarks, and in one down quark. This trinity is also called hadrons. Therefore a proton or neutron is also known as hadrons. As the quarks move around inside the proton, their energy is called a gluon, because they act as glue holding the proton into form. A neutron is made up of two down quarks and one up quark. The other quarks are not present on the physical plane during ordinary conditions. Strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks, are invoked by energy. This usually happens when we accelerate them towards a speed of light. This can happen in one of two ways. The first is through acceleration by high-energy particle accelerators, such as the type used in high-energy physics laboratories. The second way is through rising and focusing are conscious minds into an absolute value. Now realizing when we think, we are actually transferring hydrogen atoms, complete with their inner workings, into energy. If we give them concentration, we are increasing their energy. If we are increasing their energy, then we are increasing their mass, in these kinds of situations. Therefore there are two forms of energy release affecting quarks, chemical release, which is a low form of energy release, and nuclear energy release. Our bodies are capable of the first form, and our minds, both forms. With our minds engaged, than the body becomes capable of both forms. Because our consciousness comes from our immune systems, when we begin to take control of our consciousness on atomic level, we begin to accept responsibility for how our body's immune systems perform. Did you ever notice that some people are always sick, and some never. This is just the beginning of tapping into our natural resources and utilizing them for life more eternal. There is a big difference between living an existing. Using the study of physics, as we are here now, is just one way to approach superhuman consciousness, and superhuman living. There are many ways. But as our human experience moves forward, society at this point in time seems to be more attuned to the scientific approach. Great advances in nutrition are taking place. And we will study these momentarily, but a physics background, will give us the best of all worlds, and all approaches. Don't try to comprehend all of this in one reading. Go study other chapters, and then you will know when to come back here for further grounding and understanding.
Sometimes people ask,” why is so much energy produced when an atom is split or fused? A good example would be atomic bomb fission, or a hydrogen bomb fusion. When you ask,’ so much energy’----relative to what, might be the true question.
Let's look at an automobile engine or a coal burning plant. Here energy is being released, but not like a nuclear bomb. The difference is atoms are not being created in a chemical process, such as burning gasoline or coal. Within atoms, the force that holds them together is called the binding energy. When we're burning gasoline or coal, we are looking at the energy present before burning, and after burning. What we are seeing is basically the conversion of an element into heat. The mass itself of the atom involved here is very small. Now let's look at the nuclear process. Here the role of the atom is replaced by the protons and neutrons within the nucleus. These are considered to be nuclear binding forces, where as the other reaction was chemical binding forces. There is a big difference obviously, between changing molecules around within a substance, and changing the structure of the atom within the molecules of the substance. As a matter of fact, I'm sure everyone reading this book has heard of the formula E=MC2, or E. equals MC squared. This means in nuclear energy, the mass is multiplied by the speed of light Times itself and the result is energy. To put this in a practical sense, a chemically propelled bullet moving a fifteen hundred feet per second does a lot of damage. Imagine the same bullet moving 186,000 times faster, the damage that would cause. That’s a nuclear answer!
Going back to our thinking process again, our concentration can become very intense. Deep within our body there is a force called the Chi force. It has two energies, called yin and yang. When these forces are drawn upon by a disciplined individual, such as a martial artist, that person can appear to have superpowers. This is merely an example of the human being able to harness nuclear like energy from within. In the Far East, these powers are taught to individuals seeking them. One of our past times is comic characters with super powers. If you look at how far athletes are surpassing old records, and take into account science fiction today is science fact tomorrow, superpowers are not that far away. I know for those of you not in good health yet, any improvement you attain from where you are now, may appear to be a super improvement tomorrow! When you search for the hidden mysteries of the mind, in a logical and sequential way, you may find what you are looking for.
Looking again into quarks with our magnifying glass, we find that each quark is composed of three smaller particles called omegons. These omegons are the elements of color itself. They originate from a place called the astral plane. The astral plane is an energy field that is accessible to human beings in the dream state. It is self, illuminating because it is the origin of color. These omegons are bound together by a particle called a gluon. Omegons have nine color shades, dark, medium, and light shades of the colors red, green, and blue. A tenth color is thought to exist, and it is called a lepton.
Now that we are beginning to understand where color comes from, let's look at how we perceive it. We all know that we see within what is called the visual spectrum. As to where the continuous spectra come from-- any hot body, such as the sun radiates light in a continuous spectrum. The shape and frequency range of electromagnetic radiation emitted depends only on the temperature of the object. This is called a” black body” or “thermal spectrum”. You see this when you look at the” red hot” wires of a toaster, or the “white-hot” filament of a light bulb. The evolutionary advantage of being able to see, using the spectrum of light coming from the hot sun, determine the fact that our vision is well matched to the range of frequencies in the peak of thermal spectrum from the sun. Any single atom is a discrete set of frequencies that emits or absorbs, due to electrons making a transition from one shell level to another.
If you use a device called a spectrometer to look at the sun or any other star, what you see is a continuous spectrum, with certain discrete frequencies missing from it and because light from that Star or Sun is absorbed by the gases in our atmosphere. The visual spectrum for humans is between 380 and 700 nanometers. Ultraviolet rays occur below 380 nm and infrared occurs above 700 nm.
The properties that determine what colors they look to us have less to do with the atomic transitions and a more to do with the relative absorption and reflection of light given by their surface structure, at the molecular level. A leaf looks green, because absorbs most of the red and orange part of the spectrum and reflects in the yellow to blue parts. A Rose looks red because it does the opposite, absorbs the blue and green and reflects the red and orange. Each type of leaf or a Rose arrives at its own particular color by differing degrees of absorption and reflection. As you move across the visible frequency spectrum.
When we began to develop ourselves into a higher frequency individual, as we will learn to do so soon, we can increase our visual spectrum. Snakes for example, see things above 700 nm, heat, and butterflies, see below 380 nm, other dimensional doorways. Today many people undergoing disciplines in diet and exercise and meditation are beginning to see far beyond this spectrum. So in effect, what we're saying here is that in one direction, we can see into energy, and the other direction consciousness. Remember a step towards pure consciousness is the astral plane. When we sleep deeply, as our body relaxes, we approach REM, rapid eye movement sleep. Then our body frequencies drop further, lower on the spectrum, like the butterfly!
Now, more about the Higgs field and that mysterious boson. One of the big concerns of science is about the relationship between mass and energy. It is believed that a mysterious particle called a boson exists, and to document its existence, huge linear accelerators are being built around the world. Literally, billions of dollars are being spent by many nations to verify the existence of the boson and therefore confirm the existence of the Higgs field. The boson is much like the elusive butterfly. It has its own time, space, and world of self existence.
Supposedly, the boson multiplies its energies and the result creates a mass within any given atomic particle that has a mass. Therefore, because mass in motion, possesses energy, the discovery of the boson would be a huge find for science. Herein lays the mystery.
How about a few clues? Consider the universe to be constantly expanding. The accelerating effect of the expansion creates gravity. When we look at each other, we appear to be the same size. But if we are expanding equally, our observation will be just as it is. Imagine if you were on top of a building and drop two objects. One is very large, the other very small. They will fall, a total of 64 feet. The question is which one gets to the ground first? The answer is simple. They both arrive at the ground the same time. According to Newton's law of universal gravitation, which appeared in 1687, gravity accelerates at the rate of 32 feet per second (fps). This acceleration of gravity is indifferent to the mass of the object. The mass is a factor in that the greater the mass or density of an object, the stronger will be the attraction, (gravity), but the rate of closure to each other is one of a constant rate, unaffected by mass, and therefore becomes an acceleration.
Another way to look at this would be to assume that when we drop the objects from the top of the building, the objects remain stationary, and the ground came up, due to expansion to meet them. Meanwhile, we also were expanding, so therefore, relative to the ground we moved away from it at the rate it came at us. Now when you when you begin to think about the construction of the universe, you might try a few different approaches. And one more thing, another clue, remember this, energy follows thought, an object in motion is another expression of energy, and this expression is consciousness, therefore consciousness is expanding. The question here is where does the energy come from that gave us the thought. What is the relationship between the multiplicity of many thoughts, the expenditure of energy therein, in the expansion of consciousness? Now assign a mysterious particle, as a source of energy, which you somehow control, and for the sake of fun call it a boson.
With that, we will end this chapter and go onto the next. Maybe as you finish reading this book, you will have solved a great mystery of science, and will have presented a new understanding of the Higgs field and saved the scientific establishments a lot of time and money!
http://www.bbsradio.com/bbc/dr_fred_bell_show.shtml
Rumi, The Image of the Beloved
The End of Faith?
Margaret Wertheim| BIO
Here is a story about the Catholic Church and liberal activism, a story that suggests the two forces are not the non-intersecting sets they are widely assumed to be. The story is true -- it stars my mother -- and I present it as a counterpoint to Sam Harris' widely acclaimed account of religious faith, an account I believe we liberals ought to view with considerable skepticism.
As a good Catholic woman in 1960s Australia my mother believed it was a sin to use contraception, and as a result she had six children in five and a half years. I am the eldest, along with my twin sister, a conjunction that enabled my mother to have four children two and under (one of them with a serious kidney problem). 40 years later I still cannot wrap my mind around how she dealt with this overload of offspring. For ten years she did not get a complete night's sleep -- there was always some child sick, or with a stomach upset, ailing from a cold or an itch or nightmares. Throughout my childhood I remember my mother as stoic beyond belief but, in retrospect, often on the verge of exhaustion. My father was little help in all this -- he was too busy being a sixties radical, organizing marches against apartheid in South Africa or leading student protests against the Vietnam war.
I once asked my mother how she got through our childhood without shooting herself. She told me she had thought of doing do, but realized that if she killed herself there would be no one to take care of us kids, so she would have to shoot us as well. Since there are only 6 bullets in a gun, that would require her to reload. While she might have been able to go one round in an act of desperation, a second, she thought, would be beyond human capacity.
Then there was her Catholic upbringing, which categorically forbids suicide. In Catholic theology a human life is not the property of the individual but a resource for the whole community -- to take that life is to deprive the community of the resource, in short, an act of supreme selfishness. And so my mother shot neither us or herself but carried on with the burden of raising six small children essentially alone.
My mother's story resonated in my mind as I recently read Harris's book "The End of Faith," which posits that religion -- especially Christianity -- is the source of pretty much all social evils and that rational liberalism, informed by science, will create a utopian paradise of justice and equity.
Harris's book has been widely embraced by liberals outraged at the rise of a virulent religious right. Certainly we ought to be alarmed about the unholy fusion of politics and proselytizing currently gripping our nation, but as a bone fide pinko-liberal-feminist who embraces every syllable of that oh-so-unfashionable phrase, I would like to stand up for religion and the value of faith.
As it happens my Catholic mother left the Church soon after my youngest sister was born. After six children in fewer years she knew she could not sustain another pregnancy and decided to start taking the pill. In 1964 Australia that meant leaving the Church or lying to her priest. She chose the former option. She believed she was making the right decision, because, as she says, she could not believe God would want anyone to have another child under such circumstances. In any pre-industrial society, no woman could have this many kids so close together because each child that did not die would be breast fed for several years -- naturally children would be spaced several years apart. The only reason we all survived was modern medicine and baby formulae.
After my mother left the church she went on to become one of the leaders of Australia's fledgling feminist movement. She helped to set up Australia's first women's shelters and went on to have a long career working for social justice for women and minorities. All this, she insists, was a direct outgrowth of her working-class Irish Catholicism and its insistence on the mendicant tradition of fighting on behalf of the oppressed. God did not leave her life -- he informed and supported her feminism. That does not mean one cannot be a feminist or social activist without God, but it does mean that Harris's presentation of religion as inherently repressive is just plain wrong.
While Harris is correct that religion can become a pernicious and oppressive right-wing force, it also has the power to inspire, sustain and instigate compassionate social action of a profoundly leftist stripe. This is the Catholicism of Dorothy Day and liberation theology -- a tradition that Harris blithely ignores. As a pinko-liberal-feminist atheist, and as a person who has devoted my own life to expanding the public understanding of science, I too fear the dogma, meanness and narrow mindedness of the religious right, but I know from first-hand experience -- learned at my mother's knee -- that the left hand of God is also one of the greatest powers for social change on this planet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-wertheim/the-end-of-faith_b_16542.html?view=print
Storms
Eric Clapton
interview with Larry King yesterday night
was refreshing.
Clapton spoke about the
horrors of addiction and
the loss of his four year old
son.
He was simply
honest.
Tears in Heaven
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The suppression of truth has long been among the highest priorities for the upper echelons of power and authority. For a minority elite that clings to power by the manipulation of the masses using an omnipresent cocktail of lies, deception, mass-produced ignorance and ingrained propaganda, the destruction of truth is an essential method of control. It is a formula that has worked to unmitigated success for the elite throughout history, whether the shadows of power stretch from ancient pyramids, marble temples, castles, mansions or halls of governance. Those holding the levers of power and control understand, better than most, that the dissemination of truths to a blind majority could spell the end of their reign, for truth brings sight to the blind.
These entities understand that truth is like a massive breath of fresh mountain air, pure and energizing, refreshing and invigorating, and that once inhaled by the masses, the balance of control can easily be disturbed and seriously threatened. Revolution of the many against the few oftentimes results, mostly to the enormous detriment of the powerful. They know that widespread circulation of the truths of what they have done in the past and are at present doing to the majority could light a flame onto a massive cauldron overflowing with dry kindling, sparking an enormous inferno of anger. Truth, in short, could lead to an awakening of hundreds of millions of human beings who for too long have had their minds held captive by the instruments of control used by those in power.
It is for this reason that truth is hidden, fought, ridiculed, destroyed and suppressed, why it is emaciated and torn to bits, why its advocates and defenders are smeared, ostracized and silenced, their reputations purposefully shattered, their lives picked apart and criticized. Truth must never be allowed to gain momentum or be exposed, which is why truth seekers must be made examples. Those in power will fight tooth and nail to destroy the messenger of truth, yet will never answer the questions or investigate the proposition presented by the message itself. Better that truth remain a microcosm of darkness in the American subconscious rather that it be allowed to sprout from the fertile soils of free-thinking minds.
Thus, as can readily be seen on a daily basis, both in the corporatist stenograph called the mass media and inside the halls of governance – for those willing to open their eyes and see, for those that have escaped the slavery of thought – is the perpetual attempt to make extinct all traces of inconvenient truths that might upset the long-standing balance that maintains the few in mastery over the many. The crimes of the elite over the masses must never see light of day. Truth, therefore, is and always will remain the true enemy of those in power; lies, propaganda, manipulation and ignorance are their weapons, the methods by which they have always ruled over the masses, the master key to control.
So it comes as no surprise that over the course of the last sixty years, since the inception of television, since the rise of the military-industrial-energy complex, since the growth and corruption of the corporate world, since the marriage of government with the corporate world, better known as fascism, that all manner of truth has been hidden in the deep recesses of America’s black holes and tight-locked vaults.
In order to keep the beautiful minds of Americans from being distracted, upset or informed, in order to prevent truth from ever reaching the cauldron of mass awakening, the corporate media has purposefully been mutated into a propaganda and manipulation machine unlike the world has ever seen. Mass media has become, in the course of a few decades, a tool of dumbed-down distraction, suppression of truth, creator of ignorance, disseminator of disinformation and a stenograph for the corporatist elements that rule America. It is, quite simply, the elite’s evolved mechanism of control that maintains the masses in quiet and unknown servitude.
There is no innocence and altruism with the corporate media; it has been designed for one purpose: to control human beings, from cradle to grave, to the dictates of our corporatist masters, making us over the course of our lives obedient consumers, producers and slaves to the corporate world. It has been designed, through years of trial and error, to make of us all a grandiose army of good Americans, compliant, acquiescent, passive and ignorant, a nation of serfs in feudal servitude to corporatist lords.
Make no mistake, to those governing over our lives, we are nothing but the cogs in the system of consumer and producer, nothing but the energy that feeds the giant engine of mass production and consumption that only serves to fatten the wallets of the corporatist world and the levers of control over our lives. Thus, inconvenient truths about their methods of control and manipulation will always be massacred in favor of charades and fictions, in favor of propaganda and dumbed down infotainment, lest the truth of what America has become be allowed to permeate throughout the dormant minds of 300 million citizens.
Yet truth always has a way of unearthing itself from the mass graves of suppression, for its virtue, and by consequence its pursuit, is inherent in the minds and spirit of billions of human beings. The thirst for truth is as human as the hunger for justice. It is an absolute of the human experience, especially in the wake of lies and known deceptions, when those in power seek to squash it or when evidence proves incontrovertible. Thus, truth is a passion sought when experience, knowledge, research and the naked eye tell us that the lies and deceits bombarded into our lives do not make sense. For truth does not lie, as evidence and facts and the unmistakable laws of science point in a certain direction, toward a certain reality. Truth in the usurpation of justice compels the human spirit to pursue it unequivocally, in an attempt to right what has been made wrong, to restore justice where it has been trampled.
Human beings do not respond well to lies and deception, and the bigger the lie, the more malignant the truth, the greater is the quest to uncover what has been hidden, especially when the truth is as self-evident to common sense as to logic and reason and analysis and research. Humankind, by and large, craves the truth in everyday life, detesting lies, charades and manipulations. We also seek the concepts of justice where injustice dwells, desiring to bring justice to a world we know is full of injustice. The quest for truth and justice compels us forward, brings us strength, mobilizes energy and unites truth seekers.
It is our love for humankind, our respect for life, our desire for a better world, our hatred of wickedness and injustice and deception and all the evils the truth we seek has created and brought forth that compels in us the responsibility to bring honor and dignity to those whose voice and energy have been silenced, to bring justice to criminals and murderers and malfeasant evildoers, to restore balance to a tilting world, to awaken those yet to see the grand lie for what it is, to bring bravery to those still too frightened of the consequences of knowing the truth.
Catastrophe of a Post 9/11 World
Most importantly, perhaps, those that already know the truth – as horrible as its reality is, as mind bending as its ramifications are – those whose minds have been emancipated beyond the lies, distortions, manipulations and massive propaganda, fight to expose the truth and free the minds of tens of millions of Americans because they see what it has wrought, what it has spawned in the name of every American citizen. They see new Pearl Harbors leading to perpetual war and perpetual fear for perpetual profit, power and control. They see a century-long war on concocted dark skinned enemies from alien lands, conveniently scapegoated as America’s new bogeyman, conveniently living atop billions of barrels of petroleum, their lands strategic and vital for the aspirations of a delusional empire. They see the purposeful murder of their fellow countrymen as the marketing ploy by which empire seekers unleash hell on Earth, resulting in untold death, suffering and ever-growing levels of hatred against American citizens.
They see the destruction of America as we know it. They see the decimation of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, the shredding of civil liberties and rights, the rape of Lady Liberty, the extinction of habeas corpus and due process. They see a future saturated by a police state, a place where neighbor spies on neighbor, where children are programmed in the tenets of fascism. They see once cherished freedoms criminalized, the ability to think freely eviscerated. They see a nation controlled by perpetual fear, with a corporatist government controlling how we think and act using color-coded alerts and false alarms designed to terrorize the citizenry into giving up even more freedoms. They see a century of psychological war upon the American people by our own leaders, using their power to concoct wars based on lies, using their control over us to murder hundreds of thousands of human beings, all the while imprisoning us further in the cages of authoritarian rule.
They see America’s rural and urban poor, young in mind and body, conscripted into perpetuity, their destiny becoming cannon fodder for their corporatist masters, dying not for freedom’s ring or democracy’s protection but for protecting pipelines, spigots and the ballooning profits of the military industrial energy complex. The Truth Movement sees thousands of lives once promising and full of talent wasted killing innocent people, sent to die unprotected into a burning inferno, believing lies of protecting freedoms and bringing democracy, returning home maimed in body and mind, deep psychological fissures ripping through their minds and lives, left to rot in the halls of apathy and corruption.
What truth seekers see, and which so many so-called left gatekeepers, writers, reporters and intellectuals fail to comprehend, is that the inside job of 9/11, for that is what this truth is called, allowed predetermined and planned wars of aggression to become reality. It allowed a decades-long plan of perpetual war and fear and empire building and mass murder to begin, and continue relentlessly, leaving the American people as the sacrificial lambs to blowback, karmic terror and untold sacrifice. The new Pearl Harbor, for that is what 9/11 was, was but the first bomb to explode in a psychological war aimed at the American people. Indeed, 9/11 was designed, like the Reichstag fire in 1930’s Nazi Germany, and as other false flag operations throughout history, as the first salvo in a war of propaganda and fear upon the American people. Without exposing the criminality, 9/11 will not be the last attack by the enemy within against the American people. If left unchecked, America as we know it will not survive. Indeed, if not stopped, we will not see peace and security in our lifetimes. This post 9/11 world vision will never cease, taking us all down with it, including our children, who will one day wonder what freedoms and rights were.
It was 9/11, after all, that shifted our world into what we have today. Without 9/11, the American people would have never become the crazed and hypnotized warmongers that they inevitably became, allowing criminals and murderers in government to invade, attack and occupy lands that had no reason for attack. Hypnotized inside the clouds of 9/11 and easily manipulated by terror and insecurity, the American people gave the criminals and murderers in power free reign to murder and pillage and rape and torture and destroy in our name. 9/11 allowed Bush and his cabal of criminality carte blanche to do as they pleased, unrestricted and unquestioned, given power never before granted a group of individuals. This impact on the American populace 9/11 was specifically designed to achieve.
With the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq having been green-lighted many months before 9/11 even came into existence, the criminals and murderers in the military-industrial-energy complex and the pro Likud/AIPAC neoconservative needed a catalyzing event that would mobilize the American citizenry, turning hundreds of millions of ordinary, peace loving people into the united voice demanding vengeance and death to the Arab world. Quite conveniently, those lands the cabal of criminality sought to conquer were the exact ones the concocted enemy was from.
Through 9/11, the American population would enter a submissive, acquiescent and warlike state, becoming the army of good Americans our rulers have always dreamed of possessing. 9/11 allowed America and her people to be hypnotized by a catalyzing event that was played and replayed hundreds of times, thereby ingraining itself into the American psyche. Propaganda in the corporatist controlled mass media made sure to hammer down its horrors, its wickedness, its masterminds and its reasons. A new enemy had been created; new excuses were discovered as to why they had attacked us: they hate us for our freedoms, for our democracy, for our way of life the talking heads exhaled. Fear on steroids was allowed to permeate the airwaves, as always making sure to emphasize who the enemy was, as always hiding uncomfortable truths from ever coming to light. It was our government, not the so- called evildoers, that since 2001 has blitzkrieged terror into our daily lives. It is it, more than anything else, that is the real terrorist organization. Much of the world already acknowledges this reality.
The massive propaganda machine of the corporatist world was unleashed, night and day, on a bewildered and frightened populace. The war on terror had been born, an enemy had been found to replace the dreaded Communist, and scapegoats were chosen to have the fires of hell unleashed onto their lands. In a matter of days after 9/11, the dreaded Patriot Act was introduced and soon passed, at once decimating many civil liberties and rights of Americans. Yet nobody bothered to ask how a document so extensive and complicated, so massive in its regulations and laws, was written in such a short amount of time after 9/11. For if it had been written before 9/11, as many suspect, would this not invite suggestions of premeditation and foreknowledge, of a desire to destroy liberties and freedoms, waiting patiently for a new Pearl Harbor to do just that?
With the oil fields of Iraq and quite possibly Iran having been carved up and selected for exploitation by American and British oil conglomerates months before 9/11, in the Cheney Energy Task Force, with the Taliban given an ultimatum to open up Afghanistan to American oil and gas pipelines, with a choice of either riches or war in the months prior to 9/11, and with the Bush Administration negligently unconcerned with terrorism prior to 9/11, yet fully committed to war with Iraq, as per PNAC and the neocons, only the arrival of a new Pearl Harbor was needed to implement what has since occurred.
With the arrival of 9/11 the world changed for the worse, with the United States expanding its power, reaching with imperial ambitions abroad while extending its corporatist tentacles at home. The PNAC blueprint was implemented and to this day continues to guide many of the policies the Bush administration has in place. With so many PNAC members, known as neocons, at one time or another given powerful positions in the Bush administration, with so many of these criminals and murderers roaming the halls of governance, it is easy to see how 9/11 became a new Pearl Harbor, a new catalyzing event that transformed the American psyche. It is easy to see how a new Pearl Harbor became the invasion and occupation of both Afghanistan and Iraq. Only the laughable incompetence and ignorance of the neocons, along with the massive, well organized and brutal resistance of Iraq’s freedom fighters, have prevented the timely continuation of the neocon agenda.
An Unearthing
The events and reality of 9/11 can no longer be questioned. The only conspiracy theory is the “official” one, for it makes no sense. To believe the official story, the official “truth”, one would have to suspend reality, entering into Fantasyland, drinking the corporate world’s kool-aid, believing a government that has not told one truth in almost seven years of office. To believe the corporatist version, one would have to overlook the myriad number of truths, or coincidences, any of which standing alone disprove the official story. To believe a government, and by complicity the mass media, that has not once told a truth about any of its activities, choosing instead to ignore, omit and hide facts that do not validate the official story, choosing to smear and taint the lives of truth seekers instead of confronting and trying to challenge their truth, cherry picking facts much like they cherry picked facts on Iraq before it was invaded, is to purposefully decide to live in delusion, as if the official conspiracy theory is sacrosanct. The laws of common sense, physics, logic, reason, and of evidence, both physical and of countless witnesses, not to mention the knowledge of experts, would have to be abandoned and rewritten for the official conspiracy theory to survive scrutiny.
The destruction and implosion of the Twin Towers, falling into their own footprints, along with the destruction of WTC 7 by controlled demolition on 9/11 is now a self evident truth. This truth is no conspiracy theory, as the corporatist media would have us believe. It is quite obvious and apparent, to those whose eyes have been opened and whose minds have found freedom of thought. Sure, it is not easy to fathom that the government of your nation, the one you grew up thinking was altruistic and noble, good and virtuous, free of evil and wickedness, could ever be capable of destroying the lives of 3000 of your fellow citizens in order to have an excuse for perpetual war, perpetual fear and perpetual profit that will benefit only a small elite.
Unfortunately, the government of your childhood and of your delusions is one that has been inculcated into your head from birth through brainwashing and propaganda. In reality, it is a government that cares not one ounce for you or your fellow citizens, preferring to golf and fundraise while your city drowns in massive Katrina created floods, leaving you to rot in the squalor of sewage and human chaos. The government of your youth and dreams is one that has firebombed entire cities to rubble, killing hundreds of thousands in Germany and Japan. It is the only government to use nuclear weapons on foreign cities. It is the government that murdered 3 million Vietnamese and planted the seeds for Pol Pot to kill millions of Cambodians. It is the government that has decimated democracy in the Philippines and Indonesia, helping to suppress freedoms, assisting in destroying hundreds of thousands of lives.
This government of your fantasy has never cared about democracy or freedom, over the last fifty years overthrowing more than fifty democratically elected leaders of nations, either by coup, assassination or economic measures. As always, of course, these democratically elected leaders are replaced by military juntas, dictators, strongmen and puppets of our choice, picked because of their fidelity foremost to American interests, not those of their people. This government of yours, the one incapable of murdering 3,000 of its own citizens for economic, strategic and financial motives, has participated in or contributed in the death of one to two million souls in Central and South America, either through its dictators or its sponsored death squads or paramilitary thugs, never allowing Latin America the opportunity to prosper.
The altruistic government you cherish cares so much about human rights and freedoms that its multitude number of dictators and puppets are renowned for their human rights violations and their suppression of civil liberties and freedoms. The Middle East, that land of the Arab you hate so much, is a cesspool of torture, abuses, human rights violations and lack of freedoms, all supported by the puppets, kings and dictators your government is in bed with. Your government is the government most despised around the world after the one in Israel, thanks to its newfound affection with torture, mass murder, the preemptive invasion and occupation of Iraq, the death of one million of its citizens, the displacement of two million more and the importation of hell on Earth into its streets. Through a war of choice, based on lies and criminality, a civil war ready to burst and engulf an entire region in flames is afoot, yet your altruistic government is on the verge of attacking Iran, a nation that poses no military threat to America.
Indeed, the government of our childhood and of our delusions cares nothing for its people. Simply look at the way it treats its heroes, its bravest, those maimed and injured and psychologically destroyed by war and its human wickedness. Simply admire the conditions at Walter Reid and at many other such places. Notice too how many Vietnam and now Iraq veterans roam the streets of our cities homeless, with no place to go, no job, no life, forced to confront the evils of war through firewater or narcotics. Look at a veteran’s anguished face after he has been subjected to Agent Orange, or Depleted Uranium, or used as a lab rat or guinea pig in radiation experiments or anthrax vaccines and see how his body and mind deteriorate until he dies of what your government has subjected him to.
This government of the people, by the people and for the people, instead of using its vast wealth on education and healthcare and infrastructure and on providing decent jobs for its citizens, instead pillages the nation’s treasury, sending billions upon billions to the war machine destroying one nation after another. These billions, of course, end up in the accounts of war profiteers and elites and the cronies of the cabal of criminality, quickly made to disappear into foreign bank accounts. You, on the other hand, are but an automaton to your government, castrated of free thought, saturated with brainwash education, made conformist, complacent and acquiescent, transformed into the ignorant sheeple trained to be the obedient mass consumer and producer that guides the entire system forward. Meanwhile, year after year education rots, healthcare is made worse, infrastructure depreciates and the overall well-being of the nation plummets. This, indeed, is your government.
The Pursuit of Truth
The unearthing of truth can be an unsettling proposition, causing bouts of anger and animosity towards the truth seeker. Denial and the closing of the mind to new truths usually follows, as does ridicule of truth, suppression of it and fighting of it until one day, in the not too distant future, beyond the morning horizon, a sunrise suddenly appears, full of radiant light, warm in its glow, powerful in its brightness, ready to guide you forward. This is the moment of truth, when one finally reaches toward the sky, his or her mind suddenly made clear, now unafraid of what the truth may mean for a once beautiful mind.
The truth you have been fighting suddenly becomes self evident, bringing you the freedom of thought, of mind, of thinking for yourself for the first time in your life. You have fought against and declared victory against the pathology of years of brainwashing, of constant bombardments of propaganda, of being told to always have unyielding faith and loyalty in governance. With the warm rays of truth, you are no longer a slave to the system, a mere robot regurgitating the thoughts implanted in your head by the monitor in your home. You can now see what years of conditioning have prevented you from knowing, of a government far different than the one you were made to believe in. It is a government of the elite, for the elite and by the elite, pursuing the interests of the elite and the corporate world that now controls the hallways of power.
In your own research and investigation, using the full powers of the Internet at your disposal, using the free thinking mind you were born with, you discover the self-evident reality of 9/11. You watch videos of towers imploding and collapsing, of WTC 7 being demolished masterfully, as if experts in controlled demolitions were at hand. You wonder why air defenses failed so miserably even when hundreds of times before everything worked to perfection. You wonder how one of the most protected buildings in the world was struck so easily and without defense; yet in one of the most secure buildings in the country not one clear video exists of footage supporting the official conspiracy theory. You read about and become aware of the plethora of inconsistencies in the official conspiracy theory, and you realized how taken together, nothing adds up. You ask yourself who benefited most from the 9/11 attacks, and suddenly enemies within our own shores rise from the World Trade Center’s rubble.
In scanning the Internet for answers to government fictions you suspect of being lies, you see that the 9/11 Truth Movement is gaining momentum, gaining strength in numbers, for you see that more and more people are actually reading, observing, doing their own research and finding out that what they thought they knew simply does not and cannot possibly add up. You realize that more than one hundred million Americans doubt the official conspiracy theory, and that millions more are beginning to question whether or not it was an inside job. You see too that very few Americans, indeed, very few human beings, are aware that there even existed a WTC 7, and that it fell in perfect symmetry, into its own footprint, in classic controlled demolition style, even with minimal damage to its integrity, with insignificant fire damage. And you notice too that video for this demolition is readily available, from multiple angles, yet continues to be suppressed by the corporatist media, for reasons having to do with ignoring truth and disseminating the official fiction. Indeed, when WTC 7 is brought to the corporatist media’s attention, it is quickly returned to the black hole of silence, as if its reality never existed.
You wonder why the corporatist media is so quick to go after the personal lives and personalities of those who question the official story while choosing to remain silent on the questions presented by the truth seekers. You see the corporatist media smear and try to destroy the credibility of those that challenge the official story, and you wonder what is it exactly that these stenographers have to hide. You wonder why no corporatist journalist or news organization has taken it upon themselves to conduct a thorough and intensive examination of the events of that day, and why only the official conspiracy theory is given relevance, as if it is sacrosanct, untouchable. Meanwhile, any other theories or realities, most of which have more basis in truth than the official story, are bashed as the stuff of conspiracy theorists, become pariahs and are never given the light of day. What does the corporatist media have to hide, you ask, and who are they protecting?
Your research leads you to the gatekeepers of the left, those that feel the need to chastise and ridicule the Truth Movement, as if they want to make names for themselves, as if only they are allowed to know the truth, as if their arrogance has led them to believe the Almighty speaks through them. You realize instead that these bozos know very little about anything, and many, while competent enough, got their voices only through nepotism and connections, not because of their egocentric ability. You notice how these individuals smear the movement and resort to name calling, yet fail to comprehensibly put together a valid refutation of the Truth Movement’s claims. You understand their vested interests, you see through them, you decide to ignore them even though they provide a valuable tool in the discussion and debate of 9/11. After all, this is America, and everybody is entitled to freedoms of speech and thought and dissent and debate. You just hope these freedoms are not the next ones to disappear into oblivion.
Truth, invariably, is ridiculed, silenced, fought and eventually, accepted. The 9/11 Truth Movement is no different, for its foundation is constructed of solid granite, based on sound research and investigation. The Movement grows and grows and, no matter how hard the corporatist media and its agents try to slow down its momentum or halt it altogether, more and more Americans are becoming aware of its existence. The Movement cannot be silenced, for truth cannot be destroyed. What was done on 9/11 was a declaration of war against the American people, by internal enemies that have hijacked government, our freedoms and rights, and the Constitution. The Movement exists because it sees the dangers of leaving those in power unpunished, of doing nothing, of letting human wickedness continue. It flourishes because millions seek justice, truth and humanity, a better America, a better world.
Every act of criminality done in the past six years has as its genesis the horrific mass murder of 9/11. Every illegal war, every act of torture, illegal imprisonment, destruction of rights and freedoms, all mass murder done in America’s name is attributed to the destruction of the Twin Towers. If the enemy within is capable of such barbarity, if they had the audacity to perpetuate the greatest crime in American history, all to implement their delusional vision, all to enrich and empower their fellow criminals, what is to say that they will not do it again, in greater capacity, killing in greater numbers? One more so-called attack on American soil will destroy the America that we have lived in and enjoy, the one we love and cherish, the one of internal freedoms and rights, of the pursuit of happiness, the one enjoyed by present day citizens.
Already American democracy and freedom are in their last throes, hemorrhaging from years of corporatist mutilation. Elections have become a sham, a farce. Freedoms are disappearing, becoming extinct. The enemy within wishes for nothing more than an authoritarian, fascist nation, the easier to make decisions, the easier to implement their vision, the easier to control the population. The enemy within detests democracy, and this we must understand. Democracy and freedom are enemies. Ask yourself who has been the organization destroying our democracy and freedoms, our civil rights and liberties? Who has enacted Patriot Acts One and Two, who has destroyed due process, right to an attorney, habeas corpus? Who has tried to silence truth, dissent, protest and free speech? Who has made torture legal, false imprisonment necessary, confessions by torture legal and evidence concocted through hearsay or torture legal? Who has made it legal to spy on American citizens, opening our email accounts, overhearing our phone conversations, looking into our lives? It has not been the dreaded Arab evildoers. It has been the Bush administration. It has been your own government.
The truth is apparent, it can no longer be denied. The 9/11 Truth Movement thrives because it has truth and a quest for justice on its side. It has the power of the naked eye, for WTC 7 video footage cannot lie. It has physics, science, witnesses and research into government action and inaction. It has technology, experts and whistleblowers. It has honor, integrity and momentum. Of course there will always be 30 percent of the population that will never be made to believe in the criminality of its right wing heroes, even if the button for the controlled demolitions is put in front of their face. These 30 percent are sheeple, individuals comprising the army of good Americans, the most ignorant and closed minded people around. The Movement will never convince them. The challenge is reaching the millions who do have free-thinking minds, those who can put common sense and science and reason together.
The challenge ahead will not be easy, but the powerful never make it easy. They never grant the masses anything of value. We have to fight for it ourselves. Every civil liberty and right and freedom gained in the last century was achieved through the Power of the People. This Movement will be no different. Those that are our masters concede nothing, they take everything. They will throw obstacles at us, they will threaten and ridicule us, try to destroy our reputations and integrity. They will use the full power of the corporatist media to try and divide us, to divert us, to deceive us, to manipulate us. United we stand strong, divided we will fall. Strength in numbers, strength in conviction, it is time to bring these criminals and murderers to justice.
For what is braver, questioning authority or following it? What is more convenient, thinking for oneself or believing only what television wants you to believe? Who is more a patriot, the person who challenges the blatant lies of leaders in times of trouble or the person who obediently believes everything he is told him by a government that has not once told the truth? What is a true patriot, those that read the Constitution and seek to bring a bad government into account or someone who stands next to the flag and blindly follows the known criminality of the Commander in Chief? It is those that dissent and protest and debate, because they love their freedoms and rights, while being called traitor and treasonous and terrorist that are the true patriots of America. There are millions of them across the land, fighting to expose the greatest crime ever committed upon the American people, fighting to restore what has been and continues to be lost.
It is they who show the bravery and courage and strength and willingness to tolerate the smears and ridicule that are slowly, but surely, helping to return America to its rightful owners, namely, the People. It is these Truth Seekers whom history will remember as the ones responsible for ridding America of its greatest enemies, those that lie embedded within our shores, inside the cabal of criminality. When the day comes, and it soon will, when 9/11 is exposed for the inside job that it was, America and her people, and by consequence the world entire will smell the clear, pure mountain air of a truth too long hidden, of a sunrise giving birth to a new nation, a restored nation, returned to her People, where truth and justice prevails, where the Power of the People is omnipotent, where the interests of the People prevail, where criminals and murderers sit waiting in the gallows, waiting for the justice of 6,000 dead Americans and 1,000,000 dead Iraqis to be reclaimed.
The restoration of America thus begins with truth. Its unearthing is underway. America’s awakening will inevitably follow.
manfraud
4/07
With this in mind, it is easy to see the usefulness of never allowing the American populace the opportunity to relax or breathe in security and a sense of well-being. If tens of millions can be kept fearful and terrorized, perpetually afraid of their health and way of life, thinking that only by placing complete blind trust in the fascist party can they be protected from the dreaded Arab and Muslim “terrorists,” then surely the party in power can retain firm one-party control of the state, finally having the opportunity to shred social programs, expand the military budget and unleash war upon the American middle class. If this formula of fear, terror, protection and security can be perfected and maintained, it becomes a possibility that the party in power can retain its power as well as its one-party control for years to come, with each new year amplifying its authoritarian rule and its evisceration of democracy.
The war on terror, more than anything else, is a war on the American people’s minds, an experiment at controlling, through fear and terror, the thoughts and decisions of 300 million citizens. The events of 9/11 became a bottomless gold mine to the fascist party, an opportunity to establish permanent rule and dominion over the American political landscape. It is for this reason that the fascist party refuses to stop terrorizing and instilling fear into the minds of the American people. If they can fill millions with fear, concern and attention directed at an alien, unknown, dark-skinned bogeyman, an easy scapegoat from which to place blame at, rather than at its own decimation of the middle class and the erosion of civil rights and liberties, then their job will be made that much easier. If we place our concern and our minds at the Arab terrorist trying to kill us for our freedom and our way of life then we will be less aware as the fascist party fuses with the corporate Leviathan to further devastate our way of life.
For this reason the five year anniversary of 9/11 was made, yet again, a spectacle full of patriotism, nationalism and love of tribe, from flags handed out at pro football games to those hanging on school grounds, from hours of television devoted to never forgetting and always remembering to homework assignments devoted to 9/11, all activities designed both to stir the same feelings, emotions and psychology in the adult population they experienced five years ago to inculcating a new generation of children to the official narrative of events, thereby capturing innocent minds into the devastating fictions and fears of the so-called war on terror. Like a new Thanksgiving or Fourth of July, 9/11 has become, in the short span of five years, yet one more tool of systemic control, a day designed to politicize the death of 3,000 people, a day to validate the fascist-driven war on terror, a day to remind people exactly who was in power and who defended them from the evildoers. In the American narrative, 9/11 has become part of the national lore, a myth like many others before, propagated from coast to coast, from generation to generation, giving life to a vicious circle of violence that is now a self-fulfilling prophesy, becoming the perpetual reminder, as well as the impetus, for the decisive “ideological struggle of the 21st century.”
It is rather interesting, in this day of fascist undertaking and authoritarian rule, that it is the fascist in power concocting fear mongering and emotion-laden terms such as “Islamofascist” and “Totalitarian Islamists” that, while successful in polls and focus groups, does not purport to explain the beliefs of the so-called enemy. Instead, in describing America’s new enemy – one that is perfect to the fascist party because it is so alien to our culture, religion and way of life, so far removed from our shores and our knowledge of foreign peoples, so perfect because of our ignorance of the outside world and that of anything that does not conform to our materialist, consumerist and capitalist way of life – he is describing himself, his party, his followers along with their actions, imputing his beliefs and ideologies onto an enemy marketed so as to correspond to America’s most dreaded fears and concerns.
This perfect enemy, remade one more time to see if Americans take the bait yet again, with its newly minted perfect focus group name, molded from the same soils and clay from which the fascist party takes a drink of water, is but a hollow invention of everything Americans fear, an amalgam of decades of fear-induced terms and ideologies conditioned into our being, combining all the greatest fears of all the enemies we have ever fought into one, absolute mammoth of a bogeyman, capable of destroying the world’s most powerful nation, something even the much more powerful enemies of our past could not achieve.
Imputed onto this terrorist enemy, then, is encapsulated our deepest fears of the various enemies of the Second World War, of the Cold War, of Vietnam, of everything we have been conditioned to detest and hate, using words such as “totalitarian” and “fascist” and “tyranny” and “Hitler” and “Stalin” and “Lenin” that, while historically facetious, nonetheless connote feelings of deep fear, terror and revulsion. Yet in the aura of this illusory enemy we see not a dark-skinned Arab or Muslim, but the reflection of ourselves and our history, for inside our greatest fears also lie our most sinister realities, truths we cannot bear to see except implanted in the face of alien enemies not known or understood.
Axiom Two: Inevitable Triumph of Truth
Yet, as can be seen today, the attempt at controlling the populace through the use of fear, in the age of the Internet, is much easier said than done. With Cold War mentalities prevalent in the upper echelons of governance, their faded ideology filling the halls of power, it was easy to become convinced that the population could be controlled in much the same way as when the dreaded Soviet was enemy number one. During this time, however, information was sequestered and controlled by a minute number of gatekeepers, thereby keeping the masses in perpetual ignorance of reality, unaware of truth and condemned to have no choice but to believe whatever information the government decided to provide. The Cold War was an authoritarian’s wet dream, for in their absolute control over information and knowledge the people were more willing to accept the dictates of power, their minds unable to entertain the thought of possessing non-governmental truth.
Today, however, the siphon of information has been blasted open by the power of the Internet. Entire legions of cyber patriots can in an instant hold accountable members of governance, their computer screens instantly popping up the latest news and information from all corners of the planet. What was once hidden from view, what once the gatekeepers kept from our curious eyes, today get spread like a virus from coast to coast, its dissemination opening minds and creating knowledge among entire tiers of the population. The Internet’s infantry, an army of couch activists, detectives, writers, journalists and watchdogs, living in a communal undertaking of global significance, can today hold to account governments, corporations, individuals, the media and the institutions that were once protected by the invisible cloak of secrecy.
It is not farfetched to describe the Internet as the greatest invention of communication and knowledge ever created by man, after that of language and writing, surpassing the printing press, the telephone and the television. In its enormous success at informing the People, however, lies its ultimate threat to the Establishment, and the reason why the next decade will see an aggressive attempt at curtailing its power, at infecting its capacity to inform and teach, at controlling its content, at making it much more difficult for the People to access its wonderful communicative capabilities. If we are not ready to fight for its survival, those in power will make sure it is never allowed to interfere in their plans and goals again. They have seen the monumental effect the Internet has had in informing the People regarding Iraq and the lies and fictions of the government. They have seen its ability to join ideas and thoughts, its capacity to regurgitate knowledge and truth, its mechanisms for shedding light where once darkness reigned. They have seen, in its purest and most absolute form, democracy rise and thrive in the plethora of websites scattered throughout the Internet.
It was the Cold War mentality of the architects of the attacks of 9/11, with their inability to adapt to societal change or to the informational potential of the Internet, along with their inability to escape their Soviet era strategies, that has enabled millions of people from all regions of the world to see for themselves the events of that fateful day, over and over again, from dozens of angles. The Internet has been the catalyst for millions of people to become informed by the studies, research, findings and information of many others, for the first time in history bringing together millions of individuals in the pursuit of seeking the truth to one of the most heinous crimes of the modern era. This development the architects of 9/11 did not plan for or expect, as their Cold War era mentality, where control of information by the state and the Establishment was absolute, did not contemplate or envision such a reality. As a result, an entire community of truth seekers is free to assiduously pursue a challenge to the official conspiracy theory, searching for answers the state and the corporate media, through their institutions and channels, have not and will never provide.
Today millions of individuals do not need to depend on the blind trust placed on the honor of the state or the last word of the corporate media; these entities need not be taken for their word any longer; their lies are no longer sacrosanct, their propaganda can now be dissected and destroyed, their charades can now be questioned and explored. Government and corporate media can be discovered for what they are, their manipulations and deceptions outlined and exposed, their whitewashes and cover-ups shown for the falsity they are. The population of a nation can now, at the touch of the keyboard, finally question authority, seeking answers to questions not by asking the state or corporate media lackeys, but by using critical thinking, reason and logic. The emancipation and expansion of the human mind, away from the dictates of the state, the interests of the corporate Leviathan or the conditioned brainwashing of our youth are but three benefits of this wonder called the Internet.
So transparent are the lies cover-ups and whitewashes of the government regarding the events of 9/11, so pervasive is the corporate media’s unwillingness to question the official conspiracy theory or investigate its many polemic events, and so obvious is the state’s blatant involvement on 9/11 itself, that the 9/11 Truth Movement has, thanks to the Internet, grown by leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, regardless of those gatekeepers, be it from the right or left, whose job it is to maintain as reality the fictional account as told by the Bush administration and the Democratic party. The Internet has opened the 9/11 events to the full investigative powers of the other superpower, humankind itself, from all walks of life, from all corners of the globe, all united in pursuit of the truth in the wake of such an apparent criminal undertaking. The Truth Movement, whether LIHOP or MIHOP, has been brought together by community and technology, by the collection of news and information once hidden and suppressed now deciphered and seen, free to roam the vast expanse of the information superhighway. The Truth Movement, more than anything else, has connected the dots to an enormous mountain of evidence supporting the fact that 9/11 was an inside job, an act of state sponsored terror.
This movement for truth, smeared as “conspiracy nuts, theorists,” and “wackos” by those whose beautiful minds are too perfect to contemplate thinking outside the box, by those who think their precious minds are too important to be bothered by such “ridiculous” opinion, by those whose ego will always be much greater than their intellect, is doing the job the media once did, searching for truth wherever it may lie, however uncomfortable it may seem, investigating, researching and studying the overwhelming evidence contradicting the official conspiracy theory. Whatever one chooses to believe regarding 9/11, the Internet has broken the seal off of the state and corporate monopoly on the dissemination of information, allowing the river of available information to flow freely through the consciousness of humankind. Today, millions of minds can see the evidence presented in front of their eyes, analyze the information, and draw a conclusion. More and more people, when confronted with all available 9/11 related research, are seeing 9/11 for what it really was, not what the state and its propaganda machines want the world to see. Millions are connecting the dots, finally seeing a picture that is altogether uncomfortable and frightening.
It is such levels of uncomfortable and frightening realities that will invariably lead millions of Americans to self-censor themselves, blinding themselves from seeing the light, refusing to believe in the possibility that their own government perpetrated the events of 9/11, in spite of mountains of evidence proving the contrary. It is the idea that those chosen to protect and defend the nation and its people could actually do both extreme harm that the majority of people cannot fathom. For our entire lives we have been nurtured to place complete trust in the mechanisms of the state; we have been brainwashed from birth to think the government is a benign and honorable entity, incapable of harming us or our fellow citizens. For years under the nation’s educational systems we are ingrained with the fictions of noble Presidents performing noble deeds, of a Congress comprised of honorable representatives, of a government of, by and for the People. These fictions are rammed down our minds, for years embedded into our belief system by the invisible hands of the state, inevitably making us completely subservient to its activities and functions.
It is this pervasive yet methodical brainwashing, this nurtured conditioning upon the bosom of governance, that acts as the subconscious barricade halting our quest for answers, for questioning authority, for seeing the reality of what the state is capable of doing to its people in the interests of power and greed. Years of brainwashing serve to make us obedient and subservient to the dictates of the state and our leaders, it serves to make us place blind trust and loyalty in governance, in a belief that those chosen by the people have only altruistic motives behind their political masks. This mirage, a belief that like religion we are naturally and genetically inclined towards following, is the greatest obstacle for seeing truth, yet it also separates those with internal bravery from those fearful of reality, for, just as it is much easier to believe a heavenly afterlife exists after death than to perceive death as the end of life and the beginning of nothingness, it is easier to live the charade of the state’s and our leaders’ altruism than in the prevalent wickedness of its actions.
Unable to escape the belief that the state and its leaders can do not wrong, not willing to accept the malevolent intentions of state sponsored terror upon the populace, millions would rather seek the comfortable satisfaction of drinking the kool-aid than the uncomfortable suffocation experienced going down the rabbit hole. Millions, through no fault of their own, are unable to escape the haze of perpetual brainwashing, preferring the warmth of ignorance over the unsettling fright of reality. Confronted with the mountain of truth placed in front of their eyes, millions will nonetheless choose to conjure up outrageous theories and explanations trying to validate the events of 9/11 through the official government narrative, refusing, because of the uncomfortable and traumatic ramifications of alternate theories, to believe anything outside what has conveniently been concocted by both the state and its corporate media propaganda.
The events of 9/11, as horrific and traumatic as they were, remain to tens of millions, either by purposeful blindness or lack of knowledge in the events, the evil yet sole intentions of Arab extremists, without complicity from the American government. Unfortunately for many, they will never be able to jump the hurdle placed in their mind almost from birth, unable or unwilling to escape the matrix of state and corporate control over their lives. The truth is too unbearable to bear, its reality too unfathomable to comprehend, its ramifications becoming too bizarre and corrosive for the average American mind to swallow. Thus, many will simply chose to remain ignorant, suspecting the truth yet belittling the patriots risking ridicule or worse to expose the truth, preferring to live enslaved rather than living free, their minds remaining chained to the vacuum of their masters, surrounding themselves with the comfort of materialism and the escapism of propaganda and television, their decision made so as not to interfere or interrupt lives normal and adequate. Better to live a lie than be bothered or rattled by truth; better to smear truth seekers than to contemplate an earth shattering and disturbing shock to the system.
Yet millions of Americans who remain ignorant should not be smeared themselves, for every person arrives at separate times in their journey called life, finding truth in their own way, confronting reality as best they know how. All the Truth Movement can do is offer them a hand at seeing beyond their cages, pointing them in the direction of all available 9/11 research and investigations and allowing each individual to make up his or her mind. For unlike George W. Bush’s democracy building project in the “new” Middle East, 9/11 truth and reality cannot be implemented at the insistence of a barrel of a gun, nor can it rush its devastating implications into the minds of those still unable or unwilling to confront a very difficult mindfuck. In time truth will find a way and when that day arrives, the cloudy skies will part, offering bright and radiant light where only dark surroundings once reigned, and the fertile valleys of awakening will overtake the barren deserts of despotism.
Such is the power and momentum of the 9/11 Truth Movement that a growing ideology is rising from the minds of fascists that seeks to squash and suppress the truth from ever rising. To the Establishment and those in power, the Truth Movement has become an enormous threat to the system, capable of uncovering the greatest hoax in the history of modern man, capable of unraveling carefully planned visions and goals. Already as much as 40 percent of Americans doubt the official conspiracy theory, with the numbers of enlightened citizens growing daily thanks to the plethora of evidence available online and in print. For truth cannot be hidden long or sequestered from the people; truth always finds a way out of the dungeons of falsities and fictions. For this reason truth seekers are being persecuted and intimidated, their voices silenced, their research questioned and invalidated, their momentum tried to be stopped. Truth seekers are smeared and ridiculed instead of being confronted with alternate research and facts, for it is easier to destroy truth by destroying and contaminating its voices than by confronting its reality. The corporate media, along with its journalist hacks, refuses to confront the questions regarding the events of 9/11, or investigate the myriad number of anomalies in existence, preferring to cover-up the possibility of truth, thinking that by ignoring the issue its truth will be made to disappear.
A war against the 9/11 Truth Movement is under way, both by the state and the corporate world, in an attempt at squelching the movement before it grows, before its momentum becomes an unstoppable tsunami capable of waking the American people from their decades-long doldrums. It is for this reason that the corporate media ignores a growing movement, pretending questions and answers do not exist, why gatekeepers try and alter opinion, why the state invests millions of dollars to contradict the research of scientists and tenured professors, why to even speak of alternate theories evokes the wrath of the Establishment. More and more, to question the narrative of the official conspiracy theory is seen as treasonous, as un-American, as anathema to the principles of the nation. To seek answers to the ambiguous events of 9/11, to deviate away from what the state says is truth is to become a pariah in the community, the university, work or in one’s profession. A disturbing pattern is emerging, one all too familiar in totalitarian societies, that seeks to quiet any questioning and investigation of the real events of 9/11 and who was responsible, using the veil of intimidation and the questioning of patriotism to silence dissent.
If there is nothing to hide, why the smear campaign? If the truth is what the state says happened, why the stifling of dissent? If so confident in the official narrative, why the suppression of truth seekers and their work? Why are the valid questions asked by the Truth Movement answered only by smears, libel and slander? Why does there exist such friction and inertia by the Establishment against asking questions, researching and investigating 9/11 and its history? Cannot the “official truth” of the state stand up to the “outlandish” theories of the “lunatic fringe” so that alternate theories cannot exist and indeed must be dispelled? Indeed, it is the actions of the Establishment and its gatekeeper lackeys that betray the falsity of the official conspiracy theory and the extent to which they will stoop to curtail the truth from rising to be seen.
For what the gatekeepers and opinion makers of the so-called progressive left who would rather smear than try to comprehend fail to understand, what they cannot see in missing the forest for the trees, is that the events of 9/11 gave rise to a paradigm shift in American life, transforming its culture and its people in negative ways, creating authoritarian mentalities, imperial ambitions, fascist ideologies and an overall descent into the corruption of morals and of society itself. 9/11 was the catalyst for a colonial, indeed an imperial war against exclusively Arab and Muslim peoples, against those lands pregnant with the devil’s excrement, resulting in a malevolence not seen since the 1930’s, with preemptive wars; the use of depleted uranium that has and will kill in genocidal figures; the brutal occupation of Iraq and her people, many subjected to torture, rape, mass murder, illegal detention and dehumanization, along with the vicious cycle of violence that creates rather than diminishes terrorism, making of the war on terror a self-fulfilling prophesy. 9/11 has resulted in the complete disregard for international law, in a level of hubris never before seen, in a complete corruption of society, in the deep division of Americans, in the rise and prevalence of xenophobia, bigotry and racism among the populace, the erosion of rights and the evisceration of civil liberties, the destruction and debauchery of democracy, the rise of predatory capitalism, the emergence of an inevitable police state and the introduction of fascist ideology and its implementation of beliefs throughout the American landscape.
What these perfect little people cannot grasp, those of beautiful minds and god-like intellect, is that everything America and the world are being subjected to, whether it is the rising threat of global or regional warfare, the decimation of America’s middle class, the coming collapse of the American economy, the rise of fascist ideology, the inhumane suffering in Palestine, the constant threat of war from America to those nations that do not kiss the ring of imperialism, the stolen elections in developing nations courtesy of America, a dictatorial presidency and the rise of the one-party state, has been born through the sinful events of 9/11.
Without 9/11 Bush is a one-term failure, a mere asterisk in history books, relegated to brushing weeds and avoiding horses in his little Hollywood production set in Texas. Without 9/11 the neocons at the helm of a hijacked America would be living back home in Israel, dreaming of ways to expand the power of the Israeli state. Without 9/11 imperial hegemony would be replaced by multilateral agreement; up to 250,000 Iraqis would still be alive, thousands more would live in peace and tranquility. The Middle East would be a much more peaceful and stable region, with the lives of almost 3,000 American soldiers saved, their energies not wasted in corporate wars for resources and hegemony. Without 9/11 the fascist party would not have become the rubber stamp Congress for a unitary executive approaching dictatorship, checks and balances would still be a reality and the growing police state would be checked at its infancy.
Without 9/11, America would still be the land of the free and the home of the brave, not the land of the meek and the home of the slave. Without 9/11 America would not today be the culture of cowardice, afraid and fearful of hyper-inflated and exaggerated enemies, a people terrorized by its own government into blindly handing liberties, rights and freedoms to authoritarian autocrats camouflaged as government servants. Without 9/11 the dangerous cocktail of jingoism, theology and ignorance would not merge forming one combustible citizenry ready at an authoritarian’s wave to hate, despise and scapegoat dark-skinned minorities whose only crimes is being different in culture and ethnicity to the god-fearing, flag-draped, follower-psychology, supporters of the fascist party.
It is the search for 9/11 Truth, and the subsequent justice spawned from its prosecution, that can put an end to, or at the least slow down, the tyranny at home and the imperial hegemonic aspirations of the Bush Cabal. Lacking the legitimacy of 9/11, with no enemy to blame or wickedness to castigate, those in power cannot continue with their intentions and goals. Were the 9/11 Truth to emerge, perhaps the paradigm shift that occurred on 9/11 would correct itself, insomuch as we could never return to an old image of ourselves, creating a new America, a better America for all, free of the debasement and pollution and corruption and greed born from pathological capitalism, perhaps granting us the window of opportunity needed to self-correct a sinking ship. If 9/11 was indeed an inside job, like many suspect, perhaps the end result would be an enlightenment upon the populace causing a new beginning in the way America treats the world, and itself. Were the truth to emerge, an awakening of everything that has ever been done in our name could be born, an understanding of all that has ever been done to us could materialize, a comprehension of what is presently happening in our nation could surface.
The search for what really happened on 9/11, besides being an investigation into a crime of the most malfeasant and nefarious degree, is also a search for an America lost now lost for five years, hidden beneath the ashes of the Twin Towers on that fateful and horrific day. Every day more and more people from all walks of life, from all corners of the globe walk the giant path across the invisible bridge of truth, displacing long held brainwashing and conditioning, long held chains and shackles that prevented freedom to think and analyze. Upon the great canyon of bravery these millions have taken the blinders off their eyes, finally able to see the shadows hidden throughout society, the dark figures of the state and the corporate world for decades preventing our eyes from seeing a reality disfigured by smoke and distorted by mirrors. Today, more than ever, the smoke is clearing and the mirrors are breaking, a product of millions of individuals joined in unison, marching strong towards the gates of truth.
The universal search for truth and justice is all encompassing, an omnipotent force that is compelling the people of the world, the Second Superpower, you, me and everyone else, towards the inevitable push in uncovering and bringing to justice a mass murder that killed 3,000 of the world’s citizens and altered, perhaps forever, the course of human events. In the quest for truth and justice the memories of the fallen, both in America and Iraq, compel us forward, granting us the energy and the strength needed to reach deep into realms never touched by humankind, forcing power to kneel before the weak, a mass of humanity demanding accountability from those few who think humanity is expendable, simple peons in the grand games nations play.
We seek truth because injustice and wickedness have been perpetrated against us and against those now deceased. We seek truth because to millions of people, the official story just does not add up. We seek truth and justice because to ignore the obvious would be to enslave ourselves to power, yet again, sacrificing the freedoms of our future for the comfort of our beautiful and precious minds. In truth we seek freedom, in freedom we seek a life free from the chains of bondage. In numbers we find strength, in strength we find people power. Our numbers will continue to expand, our power will continue to grow. The human quest for truth is never ending, it cannot be suppressed for long. The inevitability of our momentum and the exponential growth of our movement will make sure that sooner or later, the truth sets the world free.
For
those who are questioning faith,
there's always another fraud
to take the last one's place
what is this trgic majic
that keeps a fraud
from knowing he's a fraud
a frog cannot see itself as
a frog,
therefore, by a frog
you'll never get fraud!
The manfraud standing
next to the frog,
at the ponds' edge-
can see both reflections-
the frogs and his own-
the frog sees neither
of two reflections shown.
The manfraud will always be
a fraud until he too-
-like the frog-
sees none reflections shown.
But the manfraud has
what the frog has not
a choice, a chance
Hey there sir,
Welcome back!
Your place sounds
really nice.
"If you convert it,
they will come."
lol, just make sure
they aren't the lingering
type!
I posted the link to that
particular site,
so I'd wouldn't lose it.
I hesitate to link to any
site that may have
a product to sell.
The youtube video is
free to watch though.
I found it interesting-
YESTERDAY,
today, it's just another video..
:)
Wow...been awhile since I logged in here. Thanks for keeping the flame alive, SamIam :)
Been busy with a move to Eastern Washington. We bought a 10 acre ranch out in the middle of nowhere with a pond, stream, and spring. Clean air and water. Local fishing is amazing here. Big clear skies for stargazing. We will be converting an old shop into a guest house probably next year.
-John
Who "IS" the Idiot?
From "casual dinner"
at Camp David,
did two leaders emerge-
one spoke with eloquence;
the other, at BEST, totally absurd!
If ever in doubt,
my failings to comprehend,
I'll rewind the taping
and watch it again-
"no more, no more," my
faulters now
have an end.
from my most senile stage,
I'll be sharper than
George W bullshitBushin!
(note to self, lest we forget:
selfs, ya'll were
inspired by the Camp David
press conference coverage,
with Prez Bush and soon to officially be-
Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Bush bullshitin', making a complete moron
of himself, pounding on the lecturn,
AND, saying "it's HARD WORK!"
gawd forbid he'd ever use the term AGAIN!
What a complete idiot this president is!
Is it ignorance that fuels his stubborness
and incompetence!
When will his reign end????
SamIam
cst 11:55 am
7-30-07
A thought comes flashing in
not original i'm sure,
but unique with my own spin.
I rush to get it out,
recorded someplace-
for if i dont,
damn thing-it's gone, no doubt.
senility
senseless
sensitive
sleepy
stupid
is all there seems to be
when the mind
can't articulate what it sees.
there is an oddity here
though
as one who is aware
of the disturbances there
but,
it doesn't seem to care.
samiam 4:13pmcst
From SAMIAM:
Until a few moments ago, I'd did not know of this man. As usual, I'll go search for something in particular, and end up 1,000 miles away. I have posted much criticism on religion, fer sure. Some to provoke thought, some just to downright vent the anger at the atrocities which has happened in the name of religions - NONE BARRED.
From a movie recently this line, "what makes you think, that religion is the ONLY institution on the planet, untouched by corruption?
That's an amazing statement to me! Nothing profound, just a simple statement.
(Dern, forgot where I was going, hmmmm....i'll let it ride and write whatever comes to mind)
lemme see,
I've linked youtubes to different persons and religions, again, as a way to provoke emotion!
The separation of church and state seems like more of an idealism more than anything, to me, anyway.
I mean, what Catholic would've ever imagined, the Pope would proclaim Catholicism, as the ONE and only true church????
That's one strong statement! Now every protestant and all other religious organizations are SUDDENLY thrust into a conflict against the Roman Catholic Church! (hmmmm, ROMAN stood out just then....not inferring anything, BTW).
Now, I admit, I find the timing really, really bad for the pontiff to make such a profound, conflict-inducting proclamation!
Anyway, not my main point.
IT IS JUST, that, a personal choice in beliefs should light a fire inside. A hot white, intense fire that should turn to cinders, all that stifles an individual's well being and spiritual growth.
AND, what I've come to realize that, are you with me now? hehehe <images of the farting preacher flashed thru my demented brain>
<still grinning> hmmmm, ok where was I? oh yeah,
....come to realize that I best just accept that where ever one is, whatever they believe, is where they need to be, otherwise, they'd be something else.
Does that make any sense at all?
I guess it boils down to the words...
live and let live and live and let die....
or
a million other cliché that all say, stay the hell out of your neighbor's backyard until your own grass is weedless!
So, all, as far as I'm concerned, have the right to test the water,
to stay where the current barely moves a twig,
in the "no wake zone,"
or to a class 3 rapid, so swift and funtastically thrilling, that you're thoughts are all at one thought - "god, don't let me run this canoe into that big rock!"
OR
to the class 5 white foaming rapids,
where your life is seriously at risk of losing!
Oh well, I can't get back to the original thought, so i'll wind this ramble up.
I came across this fella today, quite by chance.
I thought, hmmmm, this would be a wonerful lithmus test for the SELF evolution scale (assuming a higher evolved individual, has less hang-ups and doesn't freak, when the canoe grazes a big boulder).
Or maybe it's just another useless youtube video that means nothing to none!
But whatever,
I'm gonna post it anyway...and, since it's naptime, i'm not going to edit for bad grammar!
:)
SamIam
god,
god-
your name's, so much said,
out loud and in vain-
and in songs, and prayers
for 'lil children,
just before bed!
"CHILDREN,oh hell,
"Oh my god,
what do I tell my lil Isabel?"
One would have me
read her stories
of a big daddy in heaven
where angels sit by
his side forever signing
praises and glory!
And, for chidren who
act bad,
there's the devil to fear
should they make god mad!
Others would have me tell her
it's incense and devotion
and swirling and dancing
in circles of motion!
Another would have me say,
when she asks about you-
GOD, I do so dread the day-
that,
"Isabel, why,
you are god,
and we are all one!"
but, that would be as much a lie
and not nearly as much fun -
as the stories of a man in the clouds
and a devil somewhere below
and all stories that make
your stupid followers so proud!
I think I shall say
(god I dread the day)
when she asks -
who and where you are -
I'll have no choice
than to tell her only
what I know thus far-
"My Isabel -
I just dunno!
All I can say is what
I believe -
and that's-
THAT very moment
you let go of
YOUR NEED TO KNOW
It is only then
will god be able to show!"
Point of Farmer Geezer's Cross?
Driving from the church
of those "dying well," yesterday,
by the same ole
broken country homes
i've driven lots on my way.
A large structure, not there
before
caught my eye.
I turned to see
“what the hell!!”
I couldn’t help but yell
a cross no less than 10 feet
high- first thought was “why???"
Lights wound up and down,
left to right,
Sunlight hid
the lights from sight.
Good gawd,
for what reason?
Tis not the season
Of Xmas norEaster
"What's the point?
What's up farmer Geezer?"
eyes suddenly,
drawn
to it's point at center
where the poles dissect-
the crossroad for the sinner?
head spinning beyond belief
all this nonsense
good gawd, I just want my release!
I wonder if that point-
at the center,
at spinning speeds;
is this the point I should heed?
Please, show me then,
show me when and
how to enter....
(good gawd, shush old woman!)
Life~
Telescopic Evolution - Waking Life excerpt
Arrogance
"Theists often accuse atheists of being arrogant. Atheists often accuse theists of being arrogant. Let's explore why."
how bizarre they are,
the rituals a six year old
has already endured being
REARed in a cathlick family.
Baptismal, just beyond the birth canal.
First confession and first communion before age seven.
That first confession is particular bizarre.
It could be, this is where the wrong turn in the road occurs.
Prior to the First Confession, a young one has to practice
what to say upon entering the booth.
For weeks, we practice- repeating
"Bless me father, for I have sinned!"
So, maybe in a 6 year olds mind, one has to sin to get a blessing!
What if there's no sins to confess?
Would it mean by father, I'd not get blessed?
Religion causing too much fear
how can this be when their god, they
claim to be so near...
these gods couldn't be a thing
but dreams-
that carry their schemes
and deeds to dirty for
those to fair
take this one in
to shake up dead men.........
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Agnosticism, the logical conclusion?
This is a reply to the video "More like roflthiesm [sic] to Me" by UTNow.
One of the better videos I have seen on YouTube, this one actually challenged my beliefs, and I really had to respond to it.
I hope you'll enjoy watching.
Addendum: Please note, that I am not trying to refute agnosticism as a logic position as such, I am responding to the specific claim that atheism is AS ILLOGICAL as fundamentalist religion.
An email to God,
Dear Mr. Cheney-
I hope this email finds it's way through a secure server as emails are losing their way lately.
Why on God's green earth do you continue to support paramilitary forces in South America.
Is there anything sacred left? For you and this elite, grotesque, greedy, sodomizing, murdering,bunch of heartless bastards, I break my word.
I vowed to not ask the Great Jenie for any wishes, but it is my deepest wish, that some power--human, divine or animal stomps on your sorry fat gloated guts before you're allowed to finish destroying the land and the indigenous life of those who are already the oppressed.
Through your crooked channels, your criminal world bank which now holds hostage Ecuador for unpaid loans
The american funded paramilitary drughead thugs murder anyone who attempts to oppose the destruction of their land.
When is enough enough?
Damn you!
If I had the power, I'd personally put a bullet in each one of your worthless heads.
imperialism is planning to launch an attack against the Colombian people
and their liberation forces. This is not the first time and it will surely
not be the last. The examples of Yugoslavia and Iraq are still on the
agenda. What is the purpose of all these massacres and oppression?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] We have been writing and warning for yrs of this
impending anyone who doesnot see it coming contact us and will lay the
scenerio for you-hopefully you do have chilfren of US draft IS THERE
ANYBOBY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WHO BELIEVES THAT FARC-EP WILL SUDDENDLY HAVE A
CHANGE OF DIRECTION BECAUSE THE USA HAS FINALLY CAME OF THE CLOSET AND ARE
PARTNER WITH THE ANTI INSURGENCY COLOMBIAN MILITARY,ONLY THE US IS IN
CHARGE. FARC-EP HAS DEVOTED FORTY YEARS{REALLY SINCE 1830}AND 35 000 DIED IN
THE ATTEMPT TO REURN COLOMBIA TI=O THE COLOMBIA PEOPLE 58.OOO US SOLDIERS
DIED IN VIETNAM ,INCOMPARISON VIETNAM WILL LOOK like A WALK IN THE PARK ONCE
THE ESCULATION BEGINS IN COLOMBIA AND SPREADS INTO NEIGBORING
PERU,EUCADOR,BRAZIL, VENEZULA,BOLIVA ALL HAVE GUERRILLA CAMPS RIGHT NOW
INSIDE THESE FIVE COUNTRIES#####
<<<<<<<CULTURE OF FEAR>>>>>>>
There are two facts that should be of considered ,when attempting to make
sense of the insanity that engulfs Colombia today . In the *80' we had the
"Dirty War" waged by the state security forces and their paramilitary
associates to day we have a continuation of the "dirty war" along with the
"War on Drugs". The first thing is that
Colombia's "democra-tatorship," termed this amalgam of democratic forms and
totalitarian terror, has managed to compile the worst human rights record in
the hemisphere , no small achievement when one considers the competition.
The second is that Colombia has had accessories in crime, primary among them
the government of the United States, though Britain, Israel, Germany, and
others have also helped to train and arm the assassins and torturers of the
narco-military-landowner network that maintains "stability" in a country
that is rich in promise, and a nightmare for many of its people.
, The U.S. State Department plans for subsidized sales of military equipment
to Colombia, allegedly "for antinarcotics purposes." The sales were
"justified" by the fact that "Colombia has a democratic form of government
and does not exhibit a consistent pattern of gross violations of
internationally recognized human rights."Now the subsidized sales are
for the latest in modern sophisticated weapons and money totaling more than
the $1.6 billion dollar recently passed in the US house of representatives
and peddling final approval in the US senate
Atrocities in the late 80's , included over 3,000 politically-motivated
killings, 273 in "social cleansing" campaigns. Political killings averaged
eight a day, with seven people murdered in their homes or in the street and
one "disappeared."to-day the killing are somewhere around 800- 1000 per day
,kidnappings, disappeared have also soared. The new method of killing is
unique in that a necklace bomb is worn around the neck of the prisoner ,if
the captive refuses to cooperate their heads are literally blown off their
bodies
In Latin America "the vast majority of those who have disappeared in recent
years are grass-roots organizers, peasant or union leaders, leftist
politicians, human rights workers and other activists," over 1500 were
killed or disappeared when State Department's was offering praise for
Colombia's democracy and its respect for human rights. During the last
electoral campaigns, 19 of 87 mayoral candidates of the sole independent
political party, the UP, were assassinated, along with over 100 of its other
candidates. The Central Organization of Workers, a coalition of trade unions
, lost over 230 members, most of them found dead after brutal torture.to-day
the figure is not calculated due to the constant murders taking place. The
US government not only pays no attention to the human rights abuses, but
also has rewarded Colombia with favored nation status. the "democratic form
of government" emerged without stain, and with no "consistent pattern of
gross violations" of human rights.This the most outrageous denial of total
abuse,but who cares as long as the US administration can manipulate the US
population into believing ,that all of the killing and all of the money and
weapons are used to save "democracy in our own hemisphere,and put the brakes
on the drug cartels "RIGHT"! the situation will only get worse as the US
military, Arms Manufactures,US corporation benefit from this self
serving nightmare.
US State Department's , found Colombia to be praiseworthy based on some of
the information provided for the State Department by NGO's and Colombian
sources ;;;. Political killings rose to 11 a day, the Colombian branch of
the Andean Commission of Jurists reported. 1992, 9,500 people were
assassinated for political reasons along with 830 disappearances and 313
massacres (between 1988 and 1990) of peasants and poor people.from 1990 to
the present political killings reached forty per day the total people
assassinated or murder is appx 35,000
since the 80;s. the primary victims of state terror were peasants. ,
grassroots organizations southern department{states} Paramilitaries,death
squads with the green light from the government began campaigns of total
annihilation and scorched earth, Vietnam-style," Government
troops,paramilitaries,deathsquads acted in the most criminal manner, with
assassinations of men, women, elderly and children. Homes and crops are
burned, obligating the peasants to leave their lands." The government of
Colombia has established a new judicial regime that called for "total war
against the internal enemy." The US backed government would find various
channels for money to flow into the hands of paramilitaries.and special
death squads of course the Colombia government denies any knowledge,which is
purposturious because the paramilitaries and death squads could never
operate unless they had the green light. The government authorized "maximal
criminalization of the political and social
opposition,"Students,Unions,Media,rural youths,peasants are all suspects. in
many paramilitaries killed entire families in small villages as a message ,
The events in Colombia has not swayed the State Department at all , the
Colombian Minister of Defense again articulated the doctrine of "total war"
by state power "in the political, economic, and social arenas." Guerrillas
were the official targets, but as a high military official had observed ,
their organizations were of minor importance: "the real danger," he
explained, is "what the insurgents have called the political and
psychological war," the efforts "to control the popular elements" and "to
manipulate the masses."{this is outlined in detail by Utopiaunarmed in the
essay {" Superpower that is afraid of small countries"}The "subversives"
hope to influence unions, universities, media, and so on, and the government
must counter this "war" with its own "total war in the political, economic,
and social arenas."The "war" has been going for over forty years . The US
knows that the Colombian military is not capable of defeating the rebels. no
matter how much money weapons and training are provided by the US government
The FARC" the main rebel army is unique in that they are self supporting and
unlike the Colombia army do not take instruction from a third. party or
foreign power. As I have previously stated the US will have no choice other
than surrendering the Colombia government over to the FARC.which is not
about happen . USA would lose in every conceivable way if the US backed
government when down in flames.again,as stated before,beprepared for the US
military to become involved in a big way using their same cover story about
protecting the world. The vanguard of the US invasion is already in place
,they are the "military advisor,technicians,maintenance," along with
preparing Panama, and Honduras as r&r spots and logistics operation.
Honduras is know as the largest US military Aircraft carrier operating on
Land in the world
The US government realistically believes that the "internal enemy" of the
state terrorist AKA the "FARC"extends to "labor organizations, popular
movements, indigenous organizations, opposition political parties, peasant
movements, intellectual sectors, religious currents, youth and student
groups, neighborhood organizations," indeed any group that must be secured
against undesirable influences. "Every individual who in one or another
manner supports the goals of the enemy must be considered a traitor and
treated in that manner," In the essay by Utopiaunarmed " Superpower that is
afraid of small countries" may 17 2000, the whole plan is laid out. When you
cut to the chase and you really need a bottom line answer to why is the US
involved, the answer is always the same .In Colombia the US has made the"
War on Drugs" saving the children and democracy from communist-Marxist
guerillas, who now are presented as Nacro Guerillas", the cornerstone for US
involvement- sound like the US cares about these country, Unfortunately the
US could care less about communist,or rebel leaders in Colombia,what the US
does care about and are willing to go any length to protect are the
markets,raw materials,cheap labor. What the US sees as "our raw materials,
cheap labor, markets and American corporation interests and investment- that
the reason and sorry but their are no other reason at all
., Violence in Colombia has been on the rise for the last forty years and
for sure is exacerbated by external factors, such as the US exploiting the
labor market and robbing their raw materials. The former president of the
Colombian Permanent Committee for Human Rights, former Minister of Foreign
Affairs Alfredo Vasquez Carrizosa, said after reviewing the outcomes.from as
far back as the Kennedy administration, Washington has "took great pains to
transform our regular armies into counterinsurgency brigades, accepting the
new strategy of the death squads."The counterinsurgency brigades had one
responsibility -to protect US interests ,especially "our" raw materials at
any cost.
These initiatives "ushered in what is known in Latin America as the National
Security Doctrine, . . .not defense against an external enemy, but a way to
make the military establishment the masters of the game . . . [with] the
right to combat the internal enemy, as set forth in the Brazilian doctrine,
and the Colombian doctrine: it is the right to fight and to exterminate
social workers, trade unionists, men and women who are not supportive of the
establishment, and who are assumed to be communist extremists."The US made
sure each government that the US was exploiting had enough money and weapons
for their military to defend America raw materials
The "Dirty War" and War on drugs was not only in Colombia --take the Reagan
administration who expanded our quest to secure "our" raw materials and
labor markets The US and the military killing machines they financed and
supplied ; the likes of"contra's,deathsquads.and Paramilitaries,and the
puppet regimes that we kept in office Central America was .devastated,
strewn with hundreds of thousands of corpses tortured and mutilated people
who might otherwise have been insufficiently supportive of the
establishment, perhaps even influenced by "subversives."and committing the
worst sin all the using of raw materials to better their lives.
North Americans should never allow themselves to forget the origins of "the
Brazilian doctrine, the Argentine doctrine, the Uruguayan doctrine, the
Colombian doctrine," and others like them. They were crafted right, then
adapted by students trained and equipped right here. The basic guidelines
are spelled out in U.S. manuals of counterinsurgency and "low intensity
conflict."
These are euphemisms, technical terms for state terror, a fact well known in
Latin America. When Archbishop Oscar Romero wrote to President Carter in
1980 shortly before his assassination, vainly pleading with him to end U.S.
support for the state terrorist, he informed the rector of the Jesuit
University, Father Ellacuria, that he was prompted "by the new concept of
special warfare, which consists in murderously eliminating every endeavor of
the popular organizations under the allegation of Communism or terrorism . .
." So Father Ellacuria reported shortly before he was assassinated by the
same hands a decade later; the events framed the murderous decade with the
symbolism as gruesome as it was appropriate.
The agents of state terror are the beneficiaries of U.S. training designed
to ensure that they have an "understanding of, and orientation toward, U.S.
objectives,. This is a matter of particular importance "in the Latin
American cultural environment," where it is recognized that the military
must be prepared to "remove government leaders from office, whenever, in the
judgment of the{US} military, the conduct of these leaders is injurious to
the welfare of the nation." It is the right of the military and those who
provide them with the proper orientation who are entitled to determine the
welfare of the nation, not the beasts of burden toiling and suffering and
expiring in their own lands.The US government is the ultimate in deciding
who goes and who stays which can change direction depending on the US agenda
When the State Department announced new arms shipments as a reward for
Colombia's "achievements" in human rights and democracy, it surely had
access to the record of atrocities that had been compiled by the leading
international and Colombian human rights organizations. It was fully aware
of the U.S. role in establishing and maintaining the regimes of terror and
oppression. The example is, unfortunately, typical of a pattern that hardly
varies, as can be readily verified.
US. participation increased.steadily in the 80's -90's,and year 2000 6,844
Colombian soldiers were trained under the U.S. international Military
Education and Training Program. Over 2,000 Colombian officers were trained
f, as "violence reached unprecedented levels" currently the US military in
the process of training three balltional of special Colombian forces .
Previous Colombia President Gaviria was a particular favorite of Washington
as is the current President Pastrana, so admired Gaviria the Clinton
administration imposed him as Secretary-General of the Organization of
American States in a power play that aroused much resentment. "He has been
very forward looking in building democratic institutions in a country where
it was sometimes dangerous to do so," the U.S. representative to the OAS
explained -- not inquiring into the reasons for the "dangers," however. The
training program for Colombian officers is the largest in the hemisphere,
and U.S. military aid to Colombia now amounts to about half the total for
the entire hemisphere. It has increased under Clinton, Human Rights Watch
reports, adding that he planned to turn emergency overdrawing facilities
when the Pentagon did not suffice for still further increases.Colombia ranks
third in aid money behind Israel and Egypt,however Colombia is in a league
of their own when it comes to aid to protect against internal opposition,
#1.6 billion pending senate approval and a additional 500,000 million per
year for the next three years.
The official cover story for the participation in crime is the war "against
the guerrillas and narcotrafficking operations." , the State Department
attributed virtually all violence to the guerrillas and narcotraffickers.
Hence the U.S. is "justified" in providing military equipment and training
for the mass murderers and torturers.
Why is it, that the US sends Arms to the army and not to the Colombia
National police, who is responsible for the drugs.The largest shipment of
arms ever authorized under the emergency provisions of the Foreign
Assistance Act.was send by President Bush,which will soon be eclipse by the
Clinton aid package looming . The helicopters and jet planes are useless for
the drug war, as was pointed out at once, but not for other purposes. AS
soon as the Colombian military received the weapons the bombing of villages
and other atrocities began. It is also impossible to imagine that Washington
is not aware that the security forces it is maintaining are closely linked
to the narcotrafficking operations, and that exactly as their leaders
frankly say, the target is the "internal enemy" that might support or be
influenced by "subversives" in some way.Now maybe you will understand why
the War on Drugs is a farce and will never be anything other than a pretense
for US involvement
To impose silence on the internal enemy is necessary in the
"democra-tatorships" that U.S. policy has sought to impose on its domains
ever since it "assumed, out of self-interest, responsibility for the welfare
of the world capitalist system," in the words of diplomatic Gerald Haines,
senior historian of the CIA, discussing the U.S. takeover of Brazil in
1945---and indeed before, with important echoes at home as well. It is
particularly important to impose silence in the region with the highest
inequality in the world, thanks in no small measure to policies of the
superpower that largely controls it.
It is necessary to impose silence and spread fear in countries like
Colombia, where the top three percent of the landed elite own over 70% of
arable land while 57% of the poorest farmers subsist on under 3% -- a
country where 40% of the population live in "absolute poverty," unable to
satisfy basic subsistence needs according to an official government report
in 1986, and 18% live in "absolute misery," unable to meet nutritional
needs. The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare estimates that four and a
half million children under 14 are hungry, half the country's children.
Recall that we are speaking of a country of enormous resources and
potential. It has "one of the healthiest and most flourishing economies in
Latin America," Latin Americanist John Martz writes in Current History,
lauding this triumph of capitalism in a society with "democratic structures"
which, "notwithstanding inevitable flaws, are among the most solid on the
continent," a model of "well-established political stability" -- conclusions
that are not inaccurate, if not quite in the sense he seeks to convey
The effects of U.S. arms and military training are not confined to Colombia.
The record of horrors is all too full. In the Jesuit journal America, Rev.
Daniel Santiago, a priest working in El Salvador, reported in 1990 the story
of a peasant woman who returned home one day to find her mother, sister, and
three children sitting around a table, the decapitated head of each person
placed on the table in front of the body, the hands arranged on top "as if
each body was stroking its own head." The assassins, from the Salvadoran
National Guard, had found it hard to keep the head of an 18-month-old baby
in place, so they nailed the hands to it. A large plastic bowl filled with
blood stood in the center of the table.
Two years earlier, the Salvadoran human rights group that continued to
function despite the assassination of its founders and directors reported
that 13 bodies had been found in the preceding two weeks, most showing signs
of torture, including two women who had been hanged from a tree by their
hair, their breasts cut off and their faces painted red. The discoveries
were familiar, but the timing is significant, just as Washington was
successfully completing the cynical exercise of exempting its murderous
clients from the terms of the Central America peace accords that called for
"justice, freedom and democracy," "respect for human rights," and guarantees
for "the endless inviolability of all forms of life and liberty." The record
is endless, and endlessly shocking.
Such macabre scenes, which rarely reached the mainstream in the United
States, are designed for intimidation. Father Santiago writes that "People
are not just killed by death squads in El Salvador -- they are decapitated
and then their heads are placed on pikes and used to dot the landscape. Men
are not just disemboweled by Salvadoran Treasury Police; their severed
genitalia are stuffed in their mouths. Salvadoran women are not just raped
by the national guard; their wombs are cut from their bodies and used to
cover their faces. It is not enough to kill children; they are dragged over
barbed wire until the flesh falls from their bones while parents are forced
to watch." "The aesthetics of terror in El Salvador is religious." The
intention is to ensure that the individual is totally subordinated to the
interests of the Fatherland, which is why death squads are sometimes called
the "Army of National Salvation" by the governing ARENA party.
Latin Americans live in "culture of fear," , peace and order were guaranteed
by ferocious repression, and its contemporary counterpart follows the same
course: "Just as the Indian was branded a savage beast to justify his
exploitation, so those who have sought social guerrillas, or terrorists, or
drug dealers, or whatever the current term of art may be." The fundamental
reason, however, is always the same: the savage beast may fall under the
influence of "subversives" who challenge the regime of injustice, oppression
and terror that must continue to serve the interests of the United States
for their domestic privilege.
Throughout these grim years, nothing has been more inspiring than the
courage and dedication of insurgency who have sought to expose and overcome
the domination and fear in their suffering in Colombia. They have left
martyrs, whose voices have been silenced by the powerful -- yet another
crime.
The fate of Colombians and many others hinges on our willingness and ability
to recognize and meet them This an account accurate of how the US conducts
foreign affairs in Latin America. You can see why the US hates Cuba. Cuba is
the only country offering hope that you can overcome US Dominica but their a
Hugh price to pay, If you think the US foreign policy agenda.is something to
be proud of -well what can I say- but you cannot offer the excuse that you
did;t know or the US has a right to fight for democracy and preserve the
world for our children free from dug,communist,Marxist, Narco guerillas,and
what ever the next pretense that come up."
http://hasbrouck.org/IDP/IDP-APIS-comments.pdf
Sister Janet Mead: The Lord's Prayer
(wonder if she's recovered yet)
B-John,
I know you loved Molly and you miss her too!
nite then
Terry
sample of the many directives -
All in the name of fucking national security
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/remsens.html
SecureSources,
I'm not able to post on youtube at present, so i'll use this thread to reply to your post to me.
You're welcome! It's my absolute joy to post music and such. Someone indicated that "we" must be getting paid for posting youtube videos.
Boy, don't we wish.
For you sir -
Alice Faye - Silvery Moon
Bill Moyers part 2 - (what's up with the extra space between the heading and the content?
Make this your bible - It is important
Digital Destiny
Please watch this important Bill Moyers video.
The internet is the only media that is not owned by big media.
And, it's constantly under assault.
Rupert now owns myspace, google owns youtube....
Bill Moyers at NCMR 2007 -- PART 1
Upon his church
he built IROK
then Iran!
What did you say
to make him act this way?
George said it was you
that he listened to-
perhaps
you could whisper again
A wonderful IBOX. I recently saw a preview for TV special titled
"the dark secrets of issac newton."
I didn't catch the show so i can't say what mysterious information has been "discovered."
Don't much care about that but more about the need we have to dissect, label, compartmentalize, exploit, etc.
Good grief, Newton's been dead a pretty good while. Unless, this information is a revelation that might serve to better understand something, why bother?
Friday night reality check with my small circle of "talking heads," was excellent.
Discussions about the Christian Funda-MENTALISM was rather fiery. I kept my mouth shut for once.
These folks are my source of wisdom and grounding of sorts. I am their barometer for the "excitement factor/value" by which they guage the affect an issue would have on the average American. It's not a perfect trade-off but it's OK.
Now, when one of these "talking heads" is concerned about an issue, I get excited. Gives me an avenue to vent my frustrations about the establishment; you know, the legal criminals-at-large.
We all have-we must have, someone or something to serve this purpose.
My friend, Him, the environmental pro in the group, updated us on the situation surrounding Duponts facility in New Johnsonville, TN. Apparently, Dupont has been discharging Dioxin into the land (not the major immediate concern) but also into their discharge stream.
It's a big deal. A little dioxin goes a long way, "a little dab will do ya," kind of thing.
It's extremely toxic. The water becomes contaminated as do the fish.
This has been going on, apparently, for a long time.
Workers (most of them, steel workers) from a Dupont facility in a different state began getting sick and law suits were filed. The complaints spread to the TN facility. Currently the state has denied Dupont's request to extend their landfill until further investigation.
The next obvious question is how can this be allowed to happen!
The reply wasn't straight forward and wasn't answered.
But back to Christian fundamentalists.
They give LOVE a bad name!
:)
Things that make you go hmmmm,
and then
piss you off...
like CSPN's coverage of todays March on
Washington--
Such-
SUCH, an important message.
Why in earth
were the.....
-the same ole worn out
war protestors,
speaking for me?
Why does it matter?
So, I say hell with it!
I lie down because I'm tired.
Then,
as I'm drifting off to sleep!
I notice CSPN has cut away to----
huh,
what's Hilary doing at the rally?
So, I get up and go check and I stand cursing
my TV.
And, I think, good gawds, she says like a parrot;
spewing the same broken message
over and over and over!
Jezuz Kriist,
WWYD?
if they'd let you?
Ug, Ug, Uggggggggg
I said, "Who Am I?"
He said
"Your constant use of thought to give continuity to your separative self is 'you'.There is nothing there inside you other than that."
ugggggggggg
glad you enjoyed them and good luck finding a new home!
Don't be a stranger, ok?
:)
Still hangin'! I loved those clips :D
Just busy offline, trying to find a new place to live. All is well otherwise, thanks :)
So ramble on!
Hi Sovereign, thought i'd found a dead board to ramble on! How ya doing?
U.G. has excellent entertainment value to me. He curses and carries on like a madman, so, I use him when I need to.
As far as his statement- "Love implies two, there is a division there"
I can tell you that I know 100% intellectually what he means. But, before I am in the position to say, "he's talking about this and blah, blah, blah," I must be living it from experience, which I am not!
So, I must say, i've no idea what he's talking about.
And, "living by intention rather than motivation."
strike that one....that was my cynical twin ranting.
It means nothing!
Not much of a reply I know, sorry!
Whenever I try to make sense of the madness, I'll watch one of his videos! Helps me realize there's no meaning in this chaos, so enjoy the ride-the ups and the downs!
Take care
Sam
All religions and pathways to higher awareness must have built within them the key to their own destruction. If it does not, it is a trap.
If one cannot look back and laugh at the path taken, take all experience and life lessons gained and crumple them up as if on paper and toss it into oblivion without regret, then there can be no evolution.
Hehe...religion is a dirty word!
When my me is gone I will just be.
"Love implies two. There is a division there."
So if we live by love, we are divided between the lover and the one who is loved.
Live by intention. What is it that we should be intending?
Compassion? :)
"It is the religious thinking that has destroyed the possibility for the human species to flower into something extraordinary.
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events
All the accumulated knowledge, experience, and suffering of mankind is inside you. You must build a huge bonfire within you. Then you will become an individual. There is no other way.
The Natural State is a state of great sensitivity--but this is a physical sensitivity of the senses, not some kind of emotional compassion or tenderness for others. There is compassion only in the sense that there are no 'others' for me, and so there is no separation
UGK
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