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FADING STAR
Basically this is simply a new thread but I am writing this on the eve of when the US Mars goes retrograde by progression. Beginning tomorrow and playing out for the next 80 years, this country will collectively begin the process of a journey within our collective unconscious. One of the most interesting aspects to this progressed retrograde Mars is it conjuncts GWB's Jupiter. So what will that mean for all of us? I will first address what it could mean for our President. It could mean that we just give up to the agenda of the government completing their financial fraud on this country. That we lose our will to fight for our money or fight to save our resources from being plundered. We lose the will because our focus is more on an inward journey for our lives than an outward journey of "things." Much confusion will reign for us until we settle in to a pattern of healing ourselves. In 2030 Mars will conjunct the US Saturn perhaps signaling a return to restrictions of civil rights. Progressed Mars last conjuncted the US Saturn in 1978/1979 with the hostage crisis that cost Jimmy Carter the election. At that time we had an oil crisis (or so they said) and a recession. The 1980 Election saw the US elect a President who wanted to return us to some mythical "good ole days." He was a puppet in the hands of questionable people and inflicted enormous damage on this country and the present administration is attempting to finish what was started at that time. Retrograde Mars on GWB's Jupiter could also mean a sudden withdrawal of support for outward expressions of imperialism by this country. That support would be withdrawn between now and next spring. Violence could suddenly sicken us and we only wish to withdraw off that stage of super power and sicken us as to the shallow politicians we have elected to lead us. As a country if we continue along a self-willed path and not re-direct our energies to resolving internal conflicts we will find that our outer affairs are thwarted and hampered. Over time we will wish to become less fast paced in the external world but the inner nature will be accelerated. We may not be so intent upon acting out of blind instinct. We could become a more spiritual country (hope that doesn't mean the "rapture" group gains control) We will begin questioning our rightful place in the world and what is the difference between religion and spirituality. There will be huge changes in this country over the next 80 years. Another possibility is going back to pick up some of the projects we abandoned, such as the progress we were beginning to make in 78/79 on alternative fuels, cancer, environmental stewardship. This next year could find us, as a country, waffling back and forth even more in what we want, how we want to be represented in the world, unsure of a direction. One thing for sure, we will see and experience situations we may not like but everything will have the effect over the next 80 years of bringing us as a nation back to our true soul and spirit. An example of a country with a retrograde Mars is Germany and Mars went retrograde at 8 degrees Libra (Mars is in its fall in Libra) in late 1892, within a few years when the retrograde Mars was square their Saturn they became the focal point for WWI and in 1933 when retro Mars was in a trine to their Sun they felt they had a chance to rule the world, both those opportunities were thwarted and Germany as a power was destroyed, forcing the country to go within and find the strength and discipline and soul to rebuild. In 1959 their retrograde Mars went direct and Germany has been on a successful and realistic trajectory ever since. During the retrograde period Germany made some foolish choices and disasterous consequences, time will tell if the lessons experienced during the retrograde period has changed Germany and their ideals forever. So far they haven't seemed to desire their old mantle of a super-power. Will the US, like Germany feel that internal loss of power and respect and try in inappropriate ways to gain it back? Or will we have lose our desire to be the super-power of the world and work on our internal dimensions? We don't seem to be headed in that direction now, but there is a sense of being tired out there, weary of the constant lies, death, war, crisis. One thing for sure the United States stands on the brink of massive internal change. Mars goes retrograde in aspect to the Sun/Mercury and Moon/Uranus US midpoints. The Sun/Mercury is a will to fight, angry words, to think critically, heated arguments, excitement or upsets. Moon/Uranus is lack of self-control, violence, tendency to act rashly. Progressed retrograde Mars will be aspecting those points for several years. I remind you that going against the impulse of the spirit with progressed retrograde Mars results in frustration and defeat. On a side note as related to the Sun/Mercury midpoint, indeed the Stem-Cell Veto had transiting retrograde Mercury in an exact conjunction to the US natal retrograde Mercury. Today's Sun was conjunct GWB's Saturn and oppose the US Pluto, inconjunct the US Moon giving him a desire to be the punishing father and he was and to show the people who was in charge. It might be years before that is overturned. While the country/collective is experiencing a progressed Mars retrograde, individuals are not and we could see a brain drain of scientists, intellectuals, writers, statesmen etc just as Germany witnessed in the 30's, or we could witness an underground of scientific advancement thrive. My hope is we get sick of past American childishness and grow up, we in fact, become so sick and tired of being the ugly American we will demand our politicians grow up with us. On a personal basis, you might find things feeling off balance for awhile as the collective try on this new energy, we've been in rapid forward motion, the beautiful and beloved petted child of the earth for over 200 years. We are teenagers now and the world is saying with a sigh, just as our parents did, "it's time for you to grow up." Nothing pointed out our immaturity more, to me, than George Bush at the G8 literally slurping on a roll with his mouth wide open. Only children do that and usually someone is around to say "close your mouth when you chew." This day was set in motion and has been coming since July 4, 1776, and the cosmic gods are about to show us that it is polite to "shut our mouth when we chew on an international stage." We have to learn how, as a nation, to relate to the grownups.
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Sally and my AW group celestial soul mates: The Timing of WWIII according to Islamic Texts It is said in one of the Hadeeths (which are Islamic texts that record the preaching of Prophet Muhammad and interpret the Holy Koran) that the sign of imminent appearance of the Antichrist (Dajjal), Imam Mahdi and the second coming of Jesus Christ will be the occurrence of both a solar and a lunar eclipse in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. It is said that the war of the Antichrist will take place in the year following these occurrences. Based on this prophecy, it is possible to speculate the timing of the war. Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar. So a particular day under that calendar does not occur around the same day of the solar Roman calendar. Roughly speaking, every year the month of Ramadan starts 11 days before the day on which it started in the previous year, according to the solar calendar. For example, Ramadan started on 17th November in 2001. So in 2002 it will start approximately 2001 16 Nov - 16 Dec 2002 5 Nov - 5 Dec 2003 25 Oct - 25 Nov 2004 14 Oct - 14 Nov 2005 3 Oct - 3 Nov "2006 22 Sep - 22 Oct" , The Partial Lunar Eclipse taking place on 17th October 2005 can be observed from "Since the Hadeeth says that the war will take place in the year following the year when these eclipses take place, we get the time of the war as end of 2006 or 2007 as Nostradamus seems to indicate in X.74. Then the great Empire of the Antichrist will begin where once was Attila's empire and the new Xerxes will descend with great and countless numbers, so that the coming of the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the 48th degree, will make a This will be preceded by a solar eclipse more dark and gloomy than any since the creation of the world, except that after the death and passion of Jesus Christ. The first para describes the place of the beginning of the empire of the Antichrist while the second para states that a solar eclipse, will precede the appearance of the Antichrist. It also states that the eclipse will take place in The other solar eclipses visible in the month of October after the year 2005 are 23.10.2014 (partial) Visible from North and South Americas 25.10.2022 (partial) Visible from France and Saudi Arabia 14.10.2023 (annular) Visible from North and South Americas 02.10.2024 (annular) Visible from southern South America 25.10.2041 (annular) Visible from Australia and Pacific 14.10.2042 (annular) Visible from Australia and S. East Asia 03.10.2043 (annular) Visible from Australia and Antarctica 04.10.2051 (partial) Visible from Antarctica and Pacific 24.10.2060 (annular) Visible from Africa (misses Saudi Arabia) In the next 60 years, the Solar Eclipse of 3rd October, 2005 uniquely stands out as the eclipse which fulfills both the prophecies of Nostradamus and the timing derived from the Islamic prophecies. Coming to the question of why Nostradamus said that this eclipse will be "more dark and gloomy than any since the creation of the world" and "that it (earth) is to be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness", it is observed from the simulation of this solar eclipse from places like France and Saudi Arabia using various astronomy softwares like Cybersky http://www.cybersky.com/ etc., that this eclipse will be an annular eclipse and the apparent motion of both the moon and the sun in the sky vis-a-vis the viewer on the Earth at these places will almost be the same. What this means is that the observer on earth will see the sun and the moon race from east to west almost at the same apparent speed and path and hence some or other part of the sun will remain covered by the moon for a major part of the day and the sun will never shine with its full brightness almost throughout the day ! This will be a unique solar eclipse. "It is thus established beyond reasonable doubts that both Nostradamus and the Islamic prophecies speak of the Solar Eclipse of 3.10.2005 as an important milestone, signaling the appearance of the Antichrist within one year (2006-7)or so and the war that will follow." Another clue regarding the timing of the Third World War can be obtained from a quatrain of Nostradamus, which correspond to the Islamic prophecies that talk about the appearance of "Urwah", the Arab Prince, who will appear before the appearance of Imam Mahdi and rule over Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and http://santanu.virtualave.net/russia.htm http://santanu.virtualave.net/islamicprophecy.htm The Arab Prince Mars, Sun, Venus, Leo, the rule of the Church will succumb by "We have to work out the time when Mars, Sun and Venus is in the constellation of Mars Data: Location:France, Marseille (Coordinates 005° 22' 00" E 43° 17' 00" N) Sun Data: Location:France, Marseille (Coordinates 005° 22' 00" E 43° 17' 00" N) Venus Data: Location:France, Marseille (Coordinates 005° 22' 00" E 43° 17' 00" N) "Mars, Sun, Venus in Leo as seen from Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, France on 28.8.2006
Aint gonna study war no more!!bjt Posted by: Betsy on July 20, 2006 12:39 PMPhilo, funnily enough, I've been seeing "predictions" for "the Rapture" on July 28. I've always wondered about the difference between people's collective thoughts "predicting" something to happen, or whether their thoughts actually manifest something to happen? Posted by: Peg on July 20, 2006 01:01 PMHi Sally thanks for the great article! As for the progressed Mars of the USA and it's turning retrograde - the Sabian Symbol is Libra 19: A Gang of Robbers in Hiding... The obvious manifestation of the Gang of Robbers is terrorists and assorted fear mongering, but the less obvious are the worrying threats, the things that rob us of our mental space and health, the disabling of social security and the health system and the enabling of the security forces and the tapping of phones and other invasions of personal privacy, etc, etc. The movement backwards of Mars after Libra 19 is Libra 18: Two Men Placed Under Arrest... Further, I should like to point out that the degree after Libra 19 is Libra 20... I always look at the degree after a degree as the 'quest' symbol... (I hope I'm making sense, it's late here) and Libra 20 is A Jewish Rabbi Performing His Duties. I don't mean to bring the 'jewish' story into this, but I do mean to bring in the 'religious' story... that degree is the administering of the religious life of the nation. It seems to me (and I feel sure that others on this board feel the same way) religion is often at the root of the psychological problems in the world... the Gang of Robbers - all those rules and regulations imposed by the church, the synagogue, the mosque... etc. Posted by: Lynda Hill on July 20, 2006 02:59 PMSally, beautiful article! Lynda, your "Gang of Robbers in Hiding" reminds me of the old "wolf in sheeps clothing" and I view it as all of the current authoritarian figures (govt./religion) hiding their true intentions and selves from us in order to rob us of our liberties and free will and reduce us to slaves. Bush visit staged propaganda:
This is a very reflective article and one that I will be using for some time to nurture my own meditations, Thank you!
...and so are it's neighbors, wv. Posted by: Pat C on July 20, 2006 04:20 PM....and so are it's supporters, you know the folks who say "Green light", and oh here we will support you to the tune of billions of our tax dollars so you to can buy our best war machinery. Gotta Defang'em, beat'em up for a week... bs. Posted by: Morgana on July 20, 2006 04:30 PMIt is bs. It's dangerous and ugly bs, and none of it is serving the good of anyone. Posted by: Pat C on July 20, 2006 04:39 PMhttp://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/20/voting/index.html?source=newsletter Taking the paper trail to Washington The dangers of electronic voting machines got tallied Wednesday on Capitol Hill. ........ Here is Mark Crispin Miller's response to the Salon article. "I hate to rain on anyone's parade, but this is not a good idea. Why is our democracy at risk? Is it just because those DRE machines don't leave a paper trail? Or is it that the Bush Republicans detest democracy, since they cannot wield power without subverting the electoral system? The fact is that they're pushing an agenda that could never win majority support in the United States--from liberals or conservatives. They've therefore had no choice but to commit election fraud, repeatedly and on a mammoth scale, deploying every trick and tactic in the book, and then some. As I point out in Fooled Again, the Bush Republicans used paperless machines to cut the Democratic vote, not only in Ohio but from coast to coast--but they also cut the vote in states and counties that did not use paperless machines; and in those places that did use them, the Busheviks also relied on many other means of disenfranchising the majority. They kept Americans from registering, tossed out or passed over countless ballots (including absentee ballots), wiped the names of (at least) tens of thousands from the voter rolls, carefully dispatched too few machines to Democratic precincts nationwide, used "challengers" to bully countless would-be voters into going home or staying home, mounted vast disinformation drives to mislead countless more, arranged a most fortuitous computer glitch so as to keep some two million expatriates from voting absentee, and otherwise transported this whole nation, white and black alike, back to the catastrophic epoch of Jim Crow. The problem, then, is civic, not just technical, concerning the fanatical persistence of a full-scale movement deeply hostile to the letter and the spirit of our Constitution. Now, we must ask ourselves: Would that movement be frustrated, its agenda thwarted, by the use of paper trails? Evidently not--since members of that very movement also back the Holt bill with enthusiasm. As the Salon piece points out, Mary Jo Kiffmeyer, Minnesota's Secretary of State, has now testified in favor of the bill. It is more than relevant to note that Kiffmeyer is a stalwart Bushevik and theocratic maniac, who has publicly deplored the separation of church and state, and who did everything she could to slash the Democratic vote in Minnesota in the last election. (That appalling story is in Fooled Again, pp. 138-39.) Her record is so dismal that she's now in trouble, facing a strong challenge by Mark Ritchie, who knows full well what she has done to the electoral system in his state and means to change the situation. That such an operative as she--and David Cole, and John Groh of ES&S, and other Bushist agents--would support this measure tells us all we need to know about its usefulness. We have heard it argued that the Holt bill is a half-step in the right direction, and that some reform is surely preferable to none at all. In this case that's a dangerous self-delusion. Sometimes "compromise" can only make things worse, as there really is no valid "middle way." So it is with torture, and illegal wars. Whatever "compromise" serves merely to protract such horrors is finally nothing but abetment, however well-intended it may be. And so it is with the far-right crusade against American democracy. We must oppose that drive in every way we can--and that means not allowing its own managers to cast themselves as champions of electoral "reform."" Posted by: Pat C on July 20, 2006 04:42 PMhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072000794.html Bush Touts Voting Rights Act Renewal WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Thursday urged the Senate to renew a landmark civil rights law passed in the 1960s to stop racist voting practices in the South. "President Johnson called the right to vote the lifeblood of our democracy. That was true then and it remains true today," Bush said in the first address of his presidency to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's annual convention. Acknowledging his administration's bumpy relations with black voters, Bush said he wants to change the Republican Party's relationship with African-Americans. "I understand that racism still lingers in America," Bush said. "It's a lot easier to change a law than to change a human heart. And I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party. "I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historical ties with the African-American community. For too long, my party wrote off the African-American vote, and many African-Americans wrote off the Republican Party." Bush, joined by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and his chief political adviser Karl Rove, spoke as the Senate debated a bill to approve a 25-year extension of expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The House has passed the bill, and the Senate was expected to pass it quickly, propelled by a Republican push to increase the party's credibility with minorities. For five years in a row, Bush has declined invitations to address the NAACP convention. This year, he said yes. He was introduced by NAACP head Bruce Gordon. More... Posted by: Pat C on July 20, 2006 04:54 PM Annan demands Lebanon ceasefire Mr Annan's call for a ceasefire followed a similar demand by the EU, which pledged 10m euros (£6.8m) in aid. Bombed roads are hampering aid efforts as the fighting continues. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5199088.stm Great article Pat.. :) Here is today's Mike Quisey's last prargraphs of St Germain:
Now you are in the final straight and the time of the dark is ending. So look upon what is happening now as their last gasp, and the final act in their attempt to conquer you. The end times have been divinely decreed, and it is not within the capabilities of any mere mortal to change them. You are well on the path to Ascension and a wonderful future waits you. You are all acting out the last scenes having learnt your lines well. If you can see this time as the end of a great experience that will now come to a conclusion, you will realize that it can no longer hurt you unless you allow it. I am St. Germain and tell you that everything planned; including duality has been approached with great love and consideration. It was never intended that you should find your own way out without help. It has always been there, and now you shall see the magnificence of the Beings of Light as they come closer to you. You will be blessed and healed, and released from your traumas, never to return to this level of being unless you so choose.
Raise your consciousness sufficiently and you will find it will carry you through these testing times. Make allowances for others who cannot yet do so, as some are unable to break away from the negative energies that have engulfed them. Eventually the Light will awaken them, but it is not easy after millennia of time living in the dark. Through your own progress and the bringing of Light to Earth, you are helping every one else to rise up, and all will eventually be brought into the higher levels of consciousness. The Creator has planned for all to return to the path of Light, and you may rest assured that your fellow companions will not be left behind. The Creator is all Love, and Love is the motive power behind all things and it exists for all Infinity. Thank you St. Germain. Mike Quinsey. Posted by: flo c. on July 20, 2006 05:01 PM
He also said Ankara could be forced to act to stop cross-border raids by Kurdish rebels operating from Iraq. Mr Gul's comments came in a wide-ranging interview with the UK's Financial Times newspaper. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5198290.stm What's the general assumption around here regarding timing the effects of eclipses? Some think a month prior, a month after, some say six months. In my own life I've had major event unfold within days of elcipses, and at the end of the series of Aries/Libra eclipes much has happened over the course of a few months. I'm sure for individuals it's different than for the charts of countries, but wondering what y'all think about it. If this Virgo ecllipse in late summer is already energetically affecting us, we're already deep in the soup. I can feel it in my body and have for a long time. I keep thinking about the power of consciousness, and how we're potentially capable of changing the outcome of things with our minds. Little meditations like sending love to strangers on the street, working on not erupting in anger, etc. In NYC, it's especailly useful for me to try and send love to those that steal my taxi, cut in line, almost run me over, etc. When I used to live in the suburbs and drove, I found the anti-road rage meditation to be quite enlightening. I tried to stay totally still and quiet and internal on the road, and to love all the other drivers no matter how rageful and destructive they were, and to stay calm no matter what. It was extremely difficult and I often failed, but I found it to be an excellent daily practice. Posted by: stefanie on July 20, 2006 05:16 PMSally, thank you so much for all your aticles, I do not post often but love them, as well as all the comments posted, and always forget to say thank you to you and everyone !! :) Posted by: on July 20, 2006 05:18 PMalso, my gut says that if the us plans to become involved in this militarly, we will get word sometime soon that hizzbolah has hit one of our warships or cruiseshps on the way to cyprus, killing americans, and boom, we'll be in it. i hope that i'm wrong. i don't know how they possibly think they can do it, stretched as they are, but if they have "reason" to go in perhaps they think they can make quick work of iranian nukes -- they know that airstrikes won't work, so they'd have to go in on foot with a massive army. oy, oy, oy. Posted by: stefanie on July 20, 2006 05:23 PMAnother power piece, Sally. Your light has grown far more intense of late, a beacon of enlightment. Posted by: karen on July 20, 2006 05:34 PMstephanie, eclipse effects can be felt for 6 mos- 3 mos. before, 3 mos. after. Here is an excellent site for learning about all things eclipse in nature: http://www.hermit.org/eclipse/why_solar.html#Total Posted by: Peg on July 20, 2006 05:39 PMPosted over on Starlight News “Stephanie’s Daily Forecast: more http://www.thecosmicpath.com/index2.htm Posted by: Pat C on July 20, 2006 05:40 PMoops sorry, steFanie (with an "f") Posted by: Peg on July 20, 2006 05:40 PMAs a progressive Jew, I must share with you all that I am finding this situation deeply, deeply troubling on multiple levels. I've never cowered from criticizing Israel, and I think recent actions are outrageous. The progressive Jewish community is working to develop the right response to this, but it's complicated by the fact that the world is now erupting in vicious anti-Jewish rhetoric, rather than simply opposing the actions of the IDF. I am afraid that the Israelies are doing my people in -- I don't yet understand why. (I'm beginning to get it astrologically, but politically, it still makes little sense.) For some comfort and in order to better understand the complexities, I've found two very instructive pieces I'd like to share. First is something by Greg Palast, to ease us beyond conspiracy theories and into well-researched journalism -- I know we all love and respect Greg, right? This piece is about the Iraq war and explains why it was not, indeed, a Zionist conspiracy: http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0607/palast And here is another piece I found from the same website that very clearly breaks down the history on both sides, what happened even before the shelling of the family on the beach in Palestine. It's the most evenhanded analysis I've come across, and I will be sharing it with everyone I know, including those that support Israel. At the end of this piece, they've reprinted the article by Gideon Levy that ran in Ha'aretz at the beginning of the week and was pasted onto the astroworld board. http://www.tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/news_item.2006-07-17.9426591429 Thanks for correcting the spelling of my name, Peg! My mother thought the "F" was softer than the "Ph", but it's a much rarer spelling of Stefanie. Posted by: stefanie on July 20, 2006 06:02 PMIn case anyone doesn't "get it" ... this should help. An Imperial Edict on the Late Disturbances in Phoenicia Wednesday, 19 July 2006 Citizens, Attend! A Communication from the Divine Emperor Georgius Secundus Guber, Conqueror of Babylon, Scourge of Bactria, Groper of Germania, Teat of Succor to the Wealthy and Defender of the Faith-Based: We have in our imperial wisdom have decided that our most steadfast and faithful satrap, Ehud Agrippa, lord lieutenant of the province of Judea, shall be allowed to continue his destruction of the Arab rabble in Tyre, in Sidon, in Beirut – yea, in all of the Lebanon shall there be no place safe from his sword. We have fixed the remaining duration of this most highly approved and unrestrained slaughter of troublesome vermin for the term of not less than one week, after which time we will deign to send our most beloved and comely Companion of the Throne, Condioryza, to our Phoenician and Judean domains, there to establish once more our imperial Peace. Until that time, we send this stern counsel to the recalcitrant tribes who trouble our repose: Thou beasts, thou blocks, thou low and bitter things, it is best for you now to commend your hearts to the gods – for your posteriors belong to Ehud. U.S. Appears to Be Waiting to Act on Israeli Airstrikes (NY Times) Excerpts: The outlines of an American-Israeli consensus began to emerge on Tuesday in which Israel would continue to bombard Lebanon for about another week to degrade the capabilities of the Hezbollah militia, officials of the two countries said. Then, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would go to the region and seek to establish a buffer zone in southern Lebanon and perhaps an international force to monitor Lebanon’s borders to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining more rockets with which to bombard Israel. A foundation of -- A foundation of -- A foundation of
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REPORT: Oman Trade Pact Permits Foreign Ownership of U.S. Nat'l Security Assets By David Sirota In an explosive report tonight, top House Democrats discovered provisions in the controversial Oman Free Trade Agreement that would permit foreign ownership of U.S. ports and other key national security assets. Three Democrats and one Republican held an emergency press conference today to expose the provisions just before the House is scheduled to vote on the Oman pact on Thursday. As Reuters reports in the story attached, "Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who serves on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, said the pact would allow companies such as Dubai Ports World to acquire U.S. port operations by establishing a shell company in Oman." Those provisions might also allow foreign ownership of other key national security assets, considering just after the recent Dubai Ports controversy, that country went ahead with plans to purchase a major U.S. defense contractor. Stefanie, Eclipse's while set off six months before and up to six months after as far as immediate reactions, actually last for up to 3 or 4 hundred years. Everytime an eclipse point is set off by a powerful group of aspects (happening at the same time) or by another eclipse at the same degree it's set off. The grand square eclipse of 1999 has been activated when any powerful planet or group of planets have hovered around those mid degrees of fixed signs. Get Bernadette Brady's book "The Eagle and the Lark." Posted by: Sally on July 20, 2006 07:42 PM
"In an explosive report tonight, top House Democrats discovered provisions in the controversial Oman Free Trade Agreement that would permit foreign ownership of U.S. ports and other key national security assets." They never give up do they, I thought this was settled, obviously not. How tiring they are, you just get worn out with their bait and switch stuff. Posted by: Sally on July 20, 2006 09:01 PMVery good article, Sally! We all will be paying close attention as this cycle unfolds. Philomena, your post on the timing of WWIII is amazing. I have only lightly touched on the Nostradamus prophecies, so to see what you've laid out here certainly impresses me! When I see all the time & commitment to quality research various people, including Sally & Morgana, put in to provide information for the rest of us, I am humbled...thank you all! Posted by: Neith on July 20, 2006 09:11 PMRobert F. Kennedy Jr. | Democracy in Crisis http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072006A.shtml In an interview with Brad Friedman (of BradBlog), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains that "the Republican Party, the Republican National Committee, has been using old-fashioned, Jim Crow, apartheid-type maneuvers to steal the last two national elections." Posted by: Pat C on July 20, 2006 09:43 PMHi Sally, thanks so much again for all that you do, you are, you share. Oh, and speaking of origins, there was some discussion of the word "holy" on an earlier thread: etymolgy indicates Holy is basically from Old English, meaning - that must be preserved whole, or intact; that cannot be transgressed or violated. Also connected to the word heal. Whole, uninjured, of good omen. Also connected to the german word Heil. 1297 was the first use of the term "Holy Land" as relates to the whole historical Palestine area. Here is a link to an apropos article from Astrococktail's website: http://www.astrococktail.com/newsletter4.html They cover the influence of Mars in the wars involving Israel since it's inception. Plus there is a link to an earlier newsletter that discusses Saturn cycles that is very relevant. Posted by: Neith on July 20, 2006 10:37 PMThis nation is going completely to dogs for the following reasons. Thief at the stolen helm talks
By Norman Solomon "In American media, the current mumbling about the need for "restraint" is little better than window-dressing for bomb-dropping. The prevalent dynamic is based on a chain of rarely spoken lies, however conscious or unconscious: none more important than the lie that a religion can make one life worth more than another; render a human death unimportant; elevate certain war-inflicted agonies to spiritual significance." === Lebanon - Israel Facts the Media Isn't Telling You 7 Minute Video and transcript. Click here to view === By Jonathan Cook Israel may be able to drag its paymaster, the United States, deeper into the mire of the Middle East as a junior partner rather than as an honest broker, giving Israel cover while it carves up yet more Palestinian land for annexation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14084.htm === By Shirl McArthur Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since World War II. The $3-plus billion per year that Israel receives from the U.S. taxpayer is about one-fifth of the total U.S. aid budget, and amounts to more than $600 per Israeli. At the moment, Raw Story has a picture up of the National Embarrassment "playfully" slapping an African-American, Rep. Green, at the NAACP meeting. Unbelievable. Posted by: shylurker on July 21, 2006 03:04 AMKiwijeannie, I'm not sure that is it, but probably is part of it. Last night when I was sending energy it was ok, but there where a lot more dark beings that seemed to be focused on something. There's something spooky in Jerusalem that these beings are protecting whatever is there or preventing the world from coming in contact with 'it'. That whole part of the world has always creeped me out. Posted by: Cybear on July 21, 2006 03:32 AMThat should have been...these beings are either protecting or... Posted by: Cybear on July 21, 2006 03:34 AMIn case the "playful" slap of the African-American Congressman by the National Embarrassment disappears from Rawstory, it's now also here: Shy, lordy. Bush has come undone. First he gropes Merkel, then he slaps the Congressman (who, like Merkel, does NOT look pleased). If this is how he treats the "elite" you can only imagine what he has in store for us ... Psychopath, sociopath ... Posted by: Marta on July 21, 2006 04:23 AMWhoever placed that "rant" above, way to go. One does get that passionate over it, I myself was furious as he talked about the "morals" of stem cell research and he simply didn't believe in "murder." Oh my gosh I was furious. Israel is coming up on her 2nd Saturn Return later this summer, and her Saturn squares her NN so the return always relates to something Karmic for Israel, the last one was in 1977. At that time the international community was complaining that they were in violation of agreements made with Palestine. There was great concern about the instability in the Middle East and the problems it was causing throughout the world. So here we are again with instability and Israel is being being chastised by the rest of the world. I would give a lot to find out when Hezbollah started in 1982, but so far no luck. I've said this several times and will probably continue to say it several times more, the absolute disregard for the civilians in Jordan and Israel by all those with the guns is stunning to me. Posted by: Sally on July 21, 2006 04:31 AMYessum, Cap'n Sally. And I wish we could start a world-wide movement that says, "If it's harmful to children, it must not be done." Posted by: shylurker on July 21, 2006 04:46 AMThank you WV. I always have a hard time explaining what it is like on a daily basis. The pictures might say it better. I can't concentrate on much else these days...always a huge heavy lump at the center of my ribcage...Lebanon is in my cellular structure. Fed me first. Baby food made out of cooked, fresh Lebanese produce. Still remember the pressure cooker chugging and my Mom mashing fresh bananas to feed me... I called my senators and congressman. I am going to write the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lebanon's civilian population reaching a critical moment. They're angry, and many are hungry. Thank god it's summer. It doesn't rain in Lebanon in summer. Brother-in-law finally out. My sister is quite relieved. Others are stuck. I heard briefly on NPR that the Christian churches in the North are opening their doors to the Shi'aa refugees of the South. I could not find this verified anywhere else...I hope it is true...it would signify much has changed internally with the stereotypical Maronite response of old. Some of my Israeli friends are agitating quite aggressively for peace... god give us strength. Posted by: Beasley on July 21, 2006 04:58 AMYour plea for strength is shared widely, Beasley. I wish I could say/do more. Posted by: shylurker on July 21, 2006 05:01 AMquick note before bed. Israel positions in right ascension and date Natal Pluto 137d 21m on Aug 5 & 6 Prog Mars SQ prog Ura in RA Aug 29 bob Posted by: bob on July 21, 2006 05:10 AMI strongly believe that (aside from at least half of the current U.S. misadministration) the Israeli policy makers responsible for this horrificly violent over-reaction leading to the death of so many innocent Lebanese civilians and the wanton destruction of their infrastructure should be charged with war crimes. Posted by: Grizzly on July 21, 2006 07:35 AMSo agree, Grizzly Posted by: flo c. on July 21, 2006 07:52 AMhttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0720-01.htm Attacks Qualify as War Crimes, Officials Say by Warren Hoge
“The scale of killings in the region, and their predictability, could engage the personal criminal responsibility of those involved, particularly those in a position of command and control,” said Louise Arbour, the high commissioner for human rights. Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, next to the Lebanese border, Monday, July 17, 2006. Diplomatic efforts to end Israeli-Hezbollah fighting gained traction Monday, with Israeli officials saying the country would agree to halt fighting if its two captured soldiers were returned and Islamic guerrillas withdrew from the border. Publicly, the officials continued to insist their goal was to dismantle Hezbollah. But senior aides to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert office said he told his Italian counterpart, Romano Prodi, that Israel would accept cease-fire terms of Hezbollah releasing the Israeli soldiers and withdrawing from the border. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) “International humanitarian law is clear on the supreme obligations to protect civilians during hostilities,’’ she said. That same obligation exists, she added, in international criminal law, which defines war crimes and crimes against humanity. Posted by: flo c. on July 21, 2006 07:55 AM
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My country has been "torn to shreds," said Fouad Siniora, the prime minister of Lebanon, as the death toll among his people passed 300 civilian dead, 1,000 wounded, with half a million homeless. Israel must pay for the "barbaric destruction," said Siniora. To the contrary, says columnist Lawrence Kudlow, "Israel is doing the Lord's work." On American TV, former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says the ruination of Lebanon is Hezbollah's doing. But is it Hezbollah that is using U.S.-built F-16s, with precision-guided bombs and 155-mm artillery pieces to wreak death and devastation on Lebanon? http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51164 Posted by: wv on July 21, 2006 11:39 AM
http://www.care2.com/ecards/p/8020-3532-10346-2209 Posted by: wv on July 21, 2006 02:44 PMhttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072006A.shtml RFK JR.: Well, you see this was just another corporate boondoggle that gave the most venal mendacious corporations charge of our most sacred public trust, which is the right to vote. These corporations were making hundreds of millions of dollars. The machines, as it turns out, were manufactured by wireless companies and were just a cheap piece of junk that cost less than $100 to manufacture, and they were selling them for $2400 apiece. And they were using Jack Abramoff and other corrupt lobbyists to persuade federal officials to pass the federal act to appropriate the money and then to persuade state and local officials to purchase the defective machines. BB: Jack Abramoff was involved in this? RFK JR.: Oh yes. Jack Abramoff, and Bob Ney (R-Oh), the principle figure in the Abramoff scandal and he's the author of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). And Diebold contributed millions of dollars to these guys, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to Abramoff to lobby on behalf of HAVA, and to lobby states like New York and the other states, to adopt the Diebold machines. BB: So HAVA was "created specifically to disenfranchise voters and verfication"? RFK JR.: HAVA was written specifically to require the states to buy Diebold machines. I mean one company basically had control of the whole legislative process. That's why HAVA has a provision in it that discourages vote verification by paper ballots. Both Republicans and Democrats tried to reform the HAVA, saying of course we should have paper verification of the vote. Paper verification would allow you to go in, make your vote on the electronic machine, and you get a receipt that is a copy of who you voted for and you are allowed to examine that receipt. You deposit it in a locked box in the voting area. That way, if there's ever any question, if you need to count, you can count the papers, and see if it compares to what the machine says. But Bob Ney fought tooth and nail against that provision because Diebold made a machine that does not provide a paper ballot. And he went so far, because Diebold contributed a million dollars to an organization that purportedly protects the rights of blind people. And in exchange for that, that organization got one of its officers to testify on Capitol Hill at the HAVA hearings, that blind people in America did not want paper ballots - voter verified ballots - because it would deprive someone of the right to vote secretly. Now the other organizations that support handicapped rights and rights of the blind, do not take that position. This was a position that that organization adopted after accepting a million dollars from Diebold. The whole operation was corrupt and now Bob Ney is going to jail for it. BB: Also, speaking of those guys, election officials in several states, most notably Ken Blackwell in Ohio and Bruce McPherson here in the state of California, appear to be be deliberately flaunting established law and procedures as well as direct court orders, and they seem to be just "getting away with it". How can that be? RFK JR.: Well, again, it's because of the failure of the American press. This is the most important issue in American Democracy and the press isn't covering it. So the politicians who want to fix the elections, and who want these fraudulent machines, can get away with it, don't take a position because it gets no traction in the press. RFK JR.: Listen: all I can say is that the Diebold machines are among the worst. They break down, they are easily hacked, Diebold uses fraudulent misrepresentations to sell the machines, and they should not be part of our voting system. BB: Are there any plans on a national or state level to contest suspicious results this time around? RFK JR.: They make it very difficult to contest crooked elections. Nebraska is one of several states that have now passed laws, and I believe Florida is one of those states, that prohibit counting paper ballots in votes that were originally counted by machines. The only way that you can count votes is the original way in which they were counted. And so, of course, that makes it easy to fix any election and make sure that nobody has the right to challenge it. Many other states, including Ohio, have made it impossible for anybody to challenge an election, even if it was obviously fixed. And these kinds of initiatives are happening all over the country. Why would any state legislature vote for such a rule unless they were Republicans who felt that elections would be fixed in their favor? Why would any American vote for such a rule? It is completely anti-American and un-American. We should be encouraging Americans to vote and encouraging EVERY American to cast a vote and to make sure that every vote is counted. And both parties should be working toward that. Republican Senator Arlen Specter introduced a bill that would not only confirm Bush's unrestrained, unconstitutional one-man rule – it would augment it, exalting the Dear Leader to even greater authoritarian heights. The emperor's new veto Bush's first veto of Congress marks the collapse of his imperial presidency -- and a crisis for the paranoid style he and his party have mastered. By Sidney Blumenthal Posted by: Pat C on July 21, 2006 03:06 PMIsrael Appears to Be Gearing Up for Ground Offensive http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072106Z.shtml Israel today called up reserve troops as it appeared to prepare for a ground offensive in southern Lebanon, warning residents to evacuate the border zone, as its jets continued their relentless pounding of the country from the air in the face of growing international condemnation over civilian casualties. Unbelievable! Must watch! (You can get to it through dailykos and rawstory, if the link below doesn't work): Posted by: shylurker on July 21, 2006 03:18 PM
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'If you think of yourself as Israeli, there's really not a choice' By Ira Moskowitz SHARON, Massachusetts - A special El Al flight from New York brought 220 American immigrants to Israel yesterday. The flight was the second of seven Jewish Agency/Nefesh B'Nefesh charters planned for this summer, and the first to arrive since warfare erupted on Israel's northern front. According to the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, 20 prospective immigrants who had signed up for yesterday's flight decided to postpone their arrival at least for a week or two. On the eve of the flight, Haaretz visited with Joel and Debbie Wine in Sharon, Massachusetts as they struggled to finish packing their belongings, complete a list of last-minute errands, tend to their three young children and say good-bye to friends and family. "Yes, it's crazy globally and crazy in our little world, getting everything done," Joel acknowledged, sitting on a folding chair among the open suitcases and sprawl of unpacked items. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=741121
Though Leo is mostly thought of as shallow—caring most about outer appearances—it actually carries an inner vision sourced in a deep desire to powerfully express personal creativity. More than any other sign, Leo rules creative actualization of the self; the ego. Ego is the self, knowing and creatively actualizing itself, in all its complexity and beauty… yes, complexity and beauty. The more we know about who we are the more complex our view of self becomes and consequently we begin to become more adept at skillfully dealing with a wider rage of experience. This is what I call creative mindfulness: opening awareness to a deeper, yet broader experience of the ramifications of action. Leo rules personal power. What exactly does that mean? In our world it usually means a kind of power-over, which expresses itself in everything from caring only about personal gain and exerting excessive influence over others, to war mongering, exploitation and land grabbing. I have written quite extensively about these harmful qualities in my article on Saturn in Leo. http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisnewmoon.htm Posted by: wv on July 21, 2006 05:18 PMnot all israelies back the war: http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en Posted by: stefanie on July 21, 2006 05:34 PM
A Conversation with Ben A. Barres By CORNELIA DEAN Now he has taken his unusual perspective to the current issue of the journal Nature, in a commentary titled “Does Gender Matter?” Dr. Barres (pronounced BARE-ess), 51, who grew up in West Orange, N.J., said he had been thinking about the gender issue for over a year, since Lawrence H. Summers, then the president of Harvard, gave a talk in which he suggested that one explanation for women’s relative absence at the upper ranks of science might be innate intellectual deficiencies. Assertions of innate differences by other researchers — “sexist opinions,” Dr. Barres calls them — fueled his anger, especially because they came from scientists. Dr. Barres discussed his commentary, his career and sexism in science in a telephone interview from his home in Stanford, Calif. Posted by: wv on July 21, 2006 05:44 PMThis article explains a lot. Oh Man, Oman http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/21/oh_man_oman.php Posted by: Pat C on July 21, 2006 05:53 PMFrom Wayne Madsen(and if the plot sounds familiar, it's basically the same one Valerie Plame-Wilson uncovered which caused her to be outed asa CIA agent--but as usual, take with the requisite grains of salt): July 21, 2006 -- Informed sources have told WMR that arch-neocon Michael Ledeen, who acts as an unofficial foreign policy adviser to Karl Rove, was at the White House yesterday with a group of Iranian opposition figures. Among the topics discussed was a promised $25 million grant by the Bush administration to the Iranian insurgents. The money is to be used to plant Desert Storm-vintage biological and chemical weapons shells, confiscated by U.S. forces in Iraq, on the Iranian side of the Iraqi border. The weapons will be used as "proof" of Iran's plan to "attack" U.S. troops in Iraq. That will be used to justify, ex post facto, the coming U.S. attack on Iran. Our sources report that George W. Bush dropped by the White House meeting to offer his support to the Iranian opposition operatives. Posted by: Garry on July 21, 2006 06:41 PMSally, the 'rant' was by me. After my rant,no body Dear Raj, it's happened to me, too. Makes me want to privately email somebody and tell them to post something--anything--since it seems I've committed some kind of terrible faux pas. You didn't, or at least I surely didn't think you did. Keep the faith! The world's children depend on it! Posted by: shylurker on July 21, 2006 08:05 PMThanks for your support shylurker, Sally. Posted by: Raj on July 21, 2006 08:12 PMLynda wrote: "As for the progressed Mars of the USA and it's turning retrograde - the Sabian Symbol is Libra 19: A Gang of Robbers in Hiding... The obvious manifestation of the Gang of Robbers is terrorists and assorted fear mongering, but the less obvious are the worrying threats, the things that rob us of our mental space and health, the disabling of social security and the health system and the enabling of the security forces and the tapping of phones and other invasions of personal privacy, etc, etc. The movement backwards of Mars after Libra 19 is Libra 18: Two Men Placed Under Arrest..." Lynda, A Gang of Robbers in Hiding! Cheyney, Bush and Rove!!! They ARE in hiding and have been for a long time, what with all the cover-up going on. followed by "Two Man Placed Under Arrest!!!" Posted by: Sharon on July 21, 2006 08:25 PM
http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs20060721.php Posted by: wv on July 21, 2006 09:25 PM
Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know By ALEXANDER COCKBURN As the tv networks give unlimited airtime to Israel’s apologists, the message rolls out that no nation, least of all Israel, can permit bombardment or armed incursion across its borders without retaliation. The guiding rule in this tsunami of drivel is that the viewers should be denied the slightest access to any historical context, or indeed to anything that happened prior to June 28, which was when the capture of an Israeli soldier and the killing of two others by Hamas hit the headlines, followed soon thereafter by an attack by a unit of Hezbollah’s fighters. Memory is supposed to stop in its tracks at June 28, 2006. Posted by: wv on July 21, 2006 09:43 PMStefanie's post: "not all Israelies back the war" I think Stefanie there are "thinking" people all over the world from all nationalities who are saying "what on earth is happening here." People who are just as outraged over what these governments/faux governments are doing to this world and why. Posted by: Sally on July 21, 2006 10:40 PMAgain, JMM offers some very interesting, sober comments: I'm reeling from wondering if this mess is being accomplished through incompetence or through actual, malevolent design. Of course, it could be the latter counting (and egging) on the former. Posted by: shylurker on July 21, 2006 11:42 PMGreat article Shylurker from Josh Marshall. "Right now forget about the past, what will we do now." I don't know if that region is capable of forgetting the past, they are so steeped in Nationalism and Religion and their gods they seem unable to even think about letting the past go. The inaction of this government and governments around the world is disturbing, perhaps they figure this has always gone on and will always go on, but to some of us the Middle East all looks the same, like rabid dogs who are sick with hatred, unable to forge peace for their people, not even caring about forging peace for their people. This country and Israel are talking about Hizbollah's weapons coming from Syria and Iran, and rightfully the rest of the middle east points to Israel weapons made in the USA. A few months ago there was a small article and a mention on a couple of MSM stations that the US had opened the way for arms manufacturers to sell high powered weapons to the Middle East, all of the Middle East (thanks to the NRA Lobby) and it was questioned at the time if it was a wise move given the violence and instability of the region, seemingly the Bush Administration thought it was a good decision because they allowed it and I expect some of those weapons in the Hizbollah hands are made in the USA Posted by: Sally on July 22, 2006 12:03 AMPentagon OKs $6 bln in arms sales to Saudi Arabia If this has already been posted I am sorry to repeat but this gives a more balanced view of what is going on, more of what both sides are experiencing and why. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/worldopinionroundup/2006/07/a_conflict_viewed_through_very_1.html Posted by: Sally on July 22, 2006 12:40 AMA very smart person put these articles together on Starlight News. Israel massing military on Lebanon border Israel warns of war over water Middle East: Lebanon: Water Dispute With Israel Drought of biblical scale worsens modern conflict among Jews and Arabs Drought and diplomatic dilemmas – facing a water shortage, Israel curbs exports to neighbouring drought-stricken Jordan Pat C, Thanks for the RFK, Jr./Diebold article. Has anyone made a connection between HAVA and CHAVAH, the Hebrew equivalent of Eve, of Garden of Eden fame? Abramoff is a highly observant Orthodox Jew who most certainly understood the mystical, even magical implications of such a designation. What's actually being done here? Is there more going on than meets the eye? ...the birthing of a new order of life. Posted by: Dawn on July 22, 2006 01:04 AMJudiG, he's also "rushing" an arms sale of 16 Fighter jets to Pakistan. You know, our "good friends" in Pakistan. Hmmmm http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/21/17528/2547 Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 01:19 AMToday 7/21 would have been Paul Wellstone's 62nd birthday. "The powers that be" killed him on October 25, 2002. They dispose of anyone who would speak for the "little man". I remember feeling such anger and hopelessness when he died. Sort of what I felt when Kennedy was asassinated (sp). 14 years old...So long ago. Patricia Posted by: Patricia on July 22, 2006 01:41 AMDawn, you're welcome. I have as I'm sure so many others have as well. I've noticed some very angry and serious comments on some of the teevee shows lately. I can only hope there is somthing going on quietly and powerfully to oppose them. Patricia, me too. ........... http://www.stariq.com/AquariumAge.HTM A recent article in the Science Section of the New York Times about rogue waves of the sea (great name for a band) captured my imagination and started me thinking about the similarities between astrological patterns and other patterns in nature. Rouge waves are giant waves, towering near to 100 feet that have the power to sink ships and/or bend the metal of those that manage to survive. They were previously thought to be made of the same stuff as mermaids and sea monsters, but now technology can prove their existence—they come into being when “strong currents meet winds and waves moving in the opposite direction.” A description that could also apply to a Uranian wave of change, or a convergence between Uranus and one or more of the other planets that produces enormous eruptions of intensity that clash and crash upon the seas of daily life destroying continuity, swallowing stagnant situations, provoking rebellion, and occasionally ferrying its passengers safely to shore. Uranus is always about shift, personal and collective, and whether it is negative or positive, the result is usually evident in significant life-altering events. Since the middle of April, we’ve been in the wake of several Uranian waves, and many a worthy vessel, personal and collective, has suffered from the strain of Uranian intensity. One of the symptoms of this stress is oddly disproportionate or disjointed reactions—feeling sad when the situation is joyous, angry for no good reason, compliant when we “should” take a stand, or manically going to extremes. These waves of change will continue for the next several weeks. And while there may be a lull, that doesn’t necessarily mean the seas of daily living are calm. Often, an absence of activity exacerbates emotional reactions. Rather than having to cope with an immediate crisis, there’s enough room to express what we’re feeling. More.... Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 02:01 AMPatricia, me too. And "the powers that be" are getting their slaughter and war wading through the blood of the "little man" and his little children and his old mother with the weapons provided by the taxes on the wages of the "little man". the powers that be collect taxes they never pay them. Posted by: clymela on July 22, 2006 02:15 AMRaj, Last night I met a Chinese doctor at the English Corner who wanted to talk with a foreign patient but could not get an intrepreter who knew the word "allergy" to translate for him or the patient. Oh, Patricia. Wellstone. What a man. From the samd mold as our Founders. My heart does hurt so much for our losses. Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 02:49 AM
By Robert Fisk: These great warships had been sent here by Western leaders (Jacques Chirac excepted) too craven, too gutless, too immoral, to utter a single word of compassion for Lebanon's suffering. === By George Galloway Imagine if Lebanon destroyed every bridge in Israel, blew up the international airport, blockaded the ports, severed every arterial road, ordered people to leave their homes and then bombed them to pieces when they did... Do you think any Western leader would utter the words "Lebanon has a right to defend itself"? === By Mike Whitney Lebanon 7-20-06: 300 dead, 20,000 wounded, 500,000 displaced by Israeli aggression; vast swathes of the infrastructure in complete ruins; including airports, the highway grid, electrical power stations, sea-ports, factories, housing units and apartments, and all major bridges and highways. The Los Angeles Times reports, "Civil structure appears to have broken down almost completely. Ambulances have not been able to operate. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14125.htm Posted by: wv on July 22, 2006 02:51 AMAnd if I may, Patricia: we just don't turn too many out of that mold any more, do we? And when we do they seem to have lives far shorter than they should. Seems sometimes the ultimate goal of some is just to shatter the mold. Philomena, I understand your agony and outrage, but this is not the appropriate place for it. Please take it elsewhere. Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 04:06 AMSomething interesting happened this evening while me and a friend were leaving a restaurant downtown. Some Arabs, for lack of a better word since I didn't know their nationality, were protesting Isreal and signs saying "Isreal is the terrorist", etc. We passed by them and so I said,"I think both Isreal and Hamas are acting like terrorist, and God is a woman and I'm tired of patriarchal religion". Well, it was really interesting because they were more offended that I said God was a woman. That really pissed them off. My friend was laughing and they finally said "f*ck off". I said,"well, not everyone believes in religion and there is also a lot of evidence that the Koran was written by Jewish scribes since Mohammad was illiterate." They started saying "f*ck you, blah, blah.". Finally I said. "Why are you all so hateful? I didn't say anything negative about you. See how religion makes people so hate-filled." You know, all I hear is religion and I'm really tired of it. If they were Christians or Jews, I would have said pretty much the same thing. YOu know, if they are going to express their opinion, expect the same from others. That's democracy. Posted by: Travieso on July 22, 2006 04:14 AMPhilomenia, that is obviously some kind of chemical weapon. I wonder if these "warriors" over the world ever tire of the carnaige? Why? I just don't get why and I don't get why they won't stop it, why the world won't stop it, the following is an article from the BBC about the Sri Lanka maids trapped in Lebanon and their employers won't give them their passports to get out of Lebanon. Scroll down the page and there is a staggering list of tourists that were in Lebanon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5203320.stm Posted by: Sally on July 22, 2006 04:22 AMPhilomena, I want peace. Who I am is no more your business than who you are is mine. Many of us come here trying to sort things out, not to confront or throw around harsh terms and accusations. Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 04:29 AMSally -- I am networking fast to understand the situation. Please give me a pass here. My concern is for humanity -- not prejudice against anyone. we are working fast and furious on a humanitarian relief fund -- I meet tomorrow w/ my friend in the hope of .... hopes of... all of us.... to live with this (and many other past atrocities) who knows -- it is only based on our soul... what we can suffer This is the worst of it all.. I am sure it will It is still easy for me but can they
please care If this can happen to them the ones who have a good life Love Peace Blessings shylurker -- get your good head out of the lower part of your thighs... Posted by: on July 22, 2006 04:37 AMshy, ignore them. They are obviously either drunk or on some strange meds. That is not the conversation of a clear thinking beings. ((shy)) Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 04:41 AMWoo-hoo, poster at 4:37 am. You didn't sign your post. My My. Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 04:42 AMPatC -- You are either a total stooge -- or simply a moron who can do nothing more than post links. The photos of the chemical attack are horrific. The racist remarks and hateful comments to shy have no excuse. Also after all the formulas re the eclipse the only summation is that Israel equals the Anti-Christ? Hate is so ignorant. PatQ, Good for you. Travesio, hahahahahah! Didn't I just talk about the wave of the Divine Mother? Ride the Wild Uranian Surf! Anonymous poster at 4:43 am, there is a saying, a wise one: You are either part of the solution or you are part of the problem. Or, to borrow from my deep Southern spiritual roots: Which side are you on? Back to peace, if we can find our way. Thnx for the indulgences of the rest of you. Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 04:49 AMHere's something heavy to ponder that just came to mind.... What if what is going on now in the ME with the US, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and all of the other players has something to do with the end of the Mayan calender in 2012? Posted by: Cybear on July 22, 2006 04:50 AM bhakti, Funny you should talk about Uranus. I have transiting Uranus just pass my IC and is hovering over my natal Venus and Mercury in Pisces. Now if that is not a configuration to bring out the hippy "love child" out of someone, I don't know what is. Posted by: Travieso on July 22, 2006 04:51 AMOh yeah, I'm letting my freak flag fly these days! Posted by: Cybear on July 22, 2006 04:53 AMSky, you are doing a good thing. By invoking the words "peace" and "love" you are creating those energies which we can feel ourselves as posters on the messageboard. Thank you Sky for that gift. I have been on this board for years and I have found you to always be a positive person. My love goes out to you. Posted by: Skylurker on July 22, 2006 04:54 AMThe above post was written my me, Travieso. Not Skylurker. Sorry. Posted by: Travieso on July 22, 2006 04:55 AMSo much nastiness in the world. Such a shame that it ends up here sometimes when we are all seeking the same answers and sharing the same path. Posted by: Cybear on July 22, 2006 05:01 AMPat C, as a school teacher for 10 years you always have a child who comes in with a huge defense mechanism. They become "operationally defiant", meaning that they gain negative attention by doing opposite of the class. Many of these children develop this attitude because they come from very undemocratic households where they don't feel that they are valued. Take from my advice what you will, but I ignore the bad behavior because it only feeds their negative behavior. I hope that you can use this with posters who exhibit the same bahavior. Posted by: Travieso on July 22, 2006 05:11 AMTravieso, that was funny! But we all know that fanatics of any stripe are narrow minded and can be inflamed easily. I'm still trying to figure out how to make their heads explode like the martians from "Mars Attacks". Hahaha!!! Posted by: Cybear on July 22, 2006 05:11 AM"Philomena" no, not really. You know what they say about assuming. I didn't respond to you earlier, but to shy. I'd like it if we kepty it that way. Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 05:12 AMI love that movie and I have the DVD. Any movie with Tom Jones as a cameo appearance is sure to be a hoot. Posted by: Travieso on July 22, 2006 05:12 AMTravieso, I posted before your post came up. Good advice. Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 05:14 AMTravieso, thank you so much for your kind words. Bhakti, only you could inspire me to even think of surfing even a mild wave let alone a wild one! Cybear, let us go forward clear-eyed with peace as our goal. We won't reach it, at least not in my life-time, but there's nothing better to try and reach. Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 05:15 AMHey Pat C and shy, thanks for taking over my role as the Cappy Cop of AW ;) My naysayer seems to have Zol-offed into cyberspace and landed on another planet. Posted by: bhakti on July 22, 2006 05:15 AMbhakti, please, take it back! ;-) Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 05:19 AMhttp://alternet.org/story/39151 Ohio's Coming Electoral Meltdown Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 05:54 AMSally, thank you for posting the BBC article although I had a creepy feeling that it was published to somehow "balance" the news of the attacks on Lebanon-not by you but by the BBC. "This is the ugliest agression since the Vietnam war and we can see it immediately." Yes, clymela, you speak truth. How do we stop it? Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 06:07 AMThe only person who's been "unmasked" here, "Philomena", is yourself. Good night, good bye. Posted by: shyurker on July 22, 2006 06:16 AMSkylurker, I send love your way. Same with you Philomena. I send you love too, because it will heal us, no? Posted by: Travieso on July 22, 2006 06:38 AM(Just sent this, but it didn't seem to post--sorry if it's a dupe.) Travieso, thank you, thank you, thank you. Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 06:44 AMPhil, it is obvious that you care. It is obvious that what Isreal is doing effects you so much, and it shows that you are sensitive to the plight of the Lebanese. You know, my first boyfriend was Xian half-Lebanese and French, so I worry about his family anf friends. I have a question for you. If you met an Isreali girl who is young, and because of her youth, is by no means guilty of the atrocities committed by her government, how would you treat her? Likewise, who would you expect to be treated as an American is Iraq? Even though we know that you are personally against the war, how do you think that an Iraqi whose family was murdered by American soldiers would treat you? This is not rhetorical. I really want to know. Posted by: Travieso on July 22, 2006 07:02 AMPhilomena, I have deleted your posts except the first one, the only reason I have not blocked your IP address is in the past you have offered valuable information and enlightened discourse, that all seemed to go tonight. One of the rules of this blog is no name calling or personal attacks and you pushed that way too far today. If it does continue from anyone I will block the IP address. These are stressful times for everyone and all are on edge and sometimes very frustrated with the world's situation. But to verbally reflect the violence we see in front of us isn't helpful anywhere. It's not easy to raise consciousness, it's not easy to understand our own energies much less warring nations, but I am going to try on this blog to keep the level of discourse at as high a vibration as possible. Posted by: Sally on July 22, 2006 07:10 AMThis is really a treat as a site. Be sure to look at forcasts and read the link to the Kabbalah to find your destiny and life numbers. Very interesting, especially the forcasts. http://www.lightenterprises.com/ Posted by: Sally on July 22, 2006 07:14 AMGreat article and thanks for the link Sally! Just to let you know that George Galloway has his own radio show on Talksport here in the U.K. from 8-10p.m. BST. You can vist www.talksport.net and listen for free. Posted by: Jase on July 22, 2006 12:08 PMThought I'd pass on the latest in news in this part of the globe. I am SOOOO appalled The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Citing US officials who spoke on Friday on condition of anonymity, the Times said the decision to ship the weapons quickly came after relatively little debate within the administration, Posted by: kiwijeanie on July 22, 2006 12:50 PMIs the US pulling everyone's string? Violence broke out outside the US Consulate in Auckland during an anti-Israel protest this afternoon. The protestors were condemning comments by US Secretary of State Condaleezza Rice who said her country will not support a ceasefire. Protester Simon Oosterman was apprehended by police after pulling the US flag down to half-mast. He was head-locked by an officer and dragged to the ground. Mr Oosterman says the police actions were unwarranted. He says it was extremely violent and painful and he thanks the other protestors who came to his rescue. If you want to take a couple of soothing minutes and go to the moon: Sally, thank you for blocking philomena. She "talks" a good game but she doesnt walk it and has had nothing positive to share in quite some time. So much white light, namaste, blessings, and goody-goody stuff from posters, who apparently think that "goodness" should only benefit their "side/cause" (thankfully some have left), make it hard to navigate here sometimes. In fact, it is our "enemies" that need the true spirit of love and understanding. Posted by: on July 22, 2006 03:40 PMHi there The last day or so, Venus has been on Cancer 4: A Cat Arguing With a Mouse. This Symbol brings up bickering, people taking advantage, going for the kill, picking on each other, etc. Sound like what's been happening? It certainly is in the middle east. It's also the Venus of the 4th July USA chart... and that chart is having its Venus return (I think I mentioned this the other day). Venus is now on Cancer 5: A Train Wrecked at a Railroad Crossing. This degree shows situations where people get in the way of the collective, people get 'wrecked', have 'collisions', feel disempowered by the larger field of reality... go against the grain of others, etc. Speaking for myself, I have seen quite a lot of lack of courtesy and derailing in the last few days. This first 1 - 5 degree stretch of Cancer is one the most difficult runs on the zodiac. Also, Mars has been on the last degree of Leo, An Unsealed Letter. With Mars here, we let things fly out of our mouths, OR, we can feel like we're pent up and ready to burst with so many things wanting to be said but so little energy, possibility, etc. etc. BTW, just when I wrote the word 'Mars', above, I heard a gun shot here. It's 1.32am and I've never heard a gun shot... we don't have many guns in Australia, certainly they're not something people are known as having and... there's another one. I do hope that there's not some loony out there hurting any living being... (images of missiles and bombs run through my mind) Love to all from DownUnder... We gotta be sisters and brothers together and not let the fabric be torn, even though it may feel at times that a steam train is aimed right at us. Posted by: Lynda Hill on July 22, 2006 04:33 PMLynda, my copy of "360 Degrees" arrived yesterday and it is fascinating! I went through the symbols on my natal and progressed charts and all I can say is WOW! Also, as an oracle it is amazingly accurate. This book/system is a valuable addition to my ever expanding library of knowledge! Many Blessings! Posted by: Cybear on July 22, 2006 04:45 PMwell, folks, im glad i completely missed whatever philomena said and that it's now deleted. sounds like everyone's feathers were ruffled considerably. the fact that i can't scroll through the posts in order to only raise my blood pressure is a good thing indeed. the less anger, the better. what's that fine line between justice, calling people on their shit, and simiply takung a deep breath and walking away? i have no idea -- i'm not there yet, but i'm trying to learn, because the condition of the planet requires it. i wish we could suck out all the bad energy with a giant straw, starting with the tanks and missles and rockets. Posted by: stefanie on July 22, 2006 04:48 PM Condi’s Flying Dutchman As USA Today noted about summer movies, the hot trend in heroines “is not the damsel in distress. It’s the damsel who causes distress.” Uma, Oprah. Oprah, Condi. The more W. and his tough, by-any-means-necessary superbabe have tried to tame the Middle East, the more inflamed the Middle East has become. Now the secretary of state is leaving, reluctantly and belatedly, to do some shuttle diplomacy that entails little diplomacy and no shuttling. It’s more like air-guitar diplomacy. Condi doesn’t want to talk to Hezbollah or its sponsors, Syria and Iran — “Syria knows what it needs to do,’’ she says with asperity — and she doesn’t want a cease-fire. She wants “a sustainable cease-fire,’’ which means she wants to give the Israelis more time to decimate Hezbollah bunkers with the precision-guided bombs that the Bush administration is racing to deliver. “I could have gotten on a plane and rushed over and started shuttling, and it wouldn’t have been clear what I was shuttling to do,” she said. Keep more civilians from being killed? Or at least keep America from being even more despised in the Middle East and around the globe? Like Davy Jones, the octopus-headed creature who had to keep sailing Flying Dutchman-like without getting to land in the new “Pirates of the Caribbean,’’ Condi had a hard time finding an Arab port in which to dock. The Arab street, declared prematurely dead by the neocons after the Iraq invasion, is so incensed over scenes of mass graves, homeless children and Israeli ground incursions into Lebanon that Egypt spurned Ms. Rice’s bid to meet next week in Cairo. (Her only consolation is that at least the autocratic Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, is listening to the Arab street as she has been harping on him to do for more than a year.) The Arab allies, who agreed to meet her and European envoys in Rome, clearly did not want to be used as a stalling tactic on Arab turf, with Condi miming diplomacy to buy time for Israel. Maybe, like Jack Sparrow, they can at least bring a jar of Arab turf with them. In a twist that illustrated the growing power of Shiites and Iranians, even the Shiite Iraqi prime minister broke with the Bush stance and denounced Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Is there no honor among puppets? Condi was as cool as ever in the State Department briefing room yesterday, perfectly groomed in a camel-colored suit with an athletic white stripe. Like her boss, she does not show any sign of tension over the fact that all of their schemes to democratize the Middle East ended up creating more fundamentalism, extremism, terrorism and anti-Americanism. Having ginned up the idea that Al Qaeda was state-sponsored terrorism backed by Saddam, now W. and Condi have to contend with the specter of real state-sponsored terrorism. Like a professor who has grown so frustrated with one misbehaving student that she turns her focus on another, Condi put aside the sulfurous distraction of Iraq and enthused over the need to make the fragile democracy in Lebanon a centerpiece of the “new Middle East.” She said that the carnage there represented the “birth pangs of a new Middle East, and whatever we do we have to be certain that we are pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old one.” Yet everything in the Middle East seems to be reeling backward in a scary way, and neocons are once more mocking W. as a wimp who should blow off the State Department and blow up Syria and Iran. Having inadvertently built up Iran with his failures in Iraq, W. is eager now to send Iran a shock-and-awe message through Israel. The Bush counselor Dan Bartlett told The Washington Post that the president “mourns the loss of every life, yet out of this tragic development he believes a moment of clarity has arrived.” W. continues to present simplicity as clarity. When will he ever learn that clarity is the last thing you’re going to find in the Middle East, and that trying to superimpose it with force usually makes things worse? That’s what both the Israelis and Ronald Reagan learned in the early 1980’s when they tried disastrously to remake Lebanon. The cowboy president bet the ranch on Iraq, and that war has made almost any other American action in the Arab world, and any Pax Americana that might have been created there, impossible. It’s fitting that Condi is the Flying Dutchman, since Lebanon represents the shipwreck of our Middle East policy.
Hey Cybear Being in Australia, where the book is not published, I don't see it on bookshelves, although I have seen it in bookstores in the States when I've been there last year and the year before. Try checking out the 4th July chart for the U.S. (if you are interested in it, of course!) - it's mind boggling, as are the progressions. Posted by: Lynda Hill on July 22, 2006 05:00 PMAnd, thanks PatC, I really appreciate the links you post, please do keep up the good work! Posted by: Lynda Hill on July 22, 2006 05:01 PMI may have said it before, Condoleeza Rice's Sun is Scorpio 22: Hunters Shooting Wild Ducks... I wonder if she has shares in armament companies? Her Mars is on Aquarius 17: A Watchdog Standing Guard, Protecting His Master and His Possessions... Neptune, of course, has been and will be again, transiting conjunct this degree... I'm astounded that she hasn't cracked under the pressure (perhaps the cracks are beginning to show?) It's noteworth that her progressed Jupiter and Uranus are conjunct on Cancer 27: A Furious Storm in a Canyon Filled With Valuable Homes... they all sure know how to kick up a Storm (Desert Storm, anyone?), this administration. Posted by: Lynda Hill on July 22, 2006 05:06 PMstefanie, To all, Hey Raj, missed your spicy vindaloo and the rants. Posted by: bhakti on July 22, 2006 05:25 PMbhakti -- i'm thinking of ghandi, of how to react without being reactive, of how to respond to intolerance and hate without letting it impact us at the cellular level so we can be even more present and authentic in our response. kali the destroyer needs gentle parvati energy too -- how to find the balance in our own hearts and charts? the world is sooooo out of balance, the earth we walk on, the oceans, our own sick and dying bodies and consciousness refuses to change. one at a time, one at a time, but sometimes it just seems too slow, too little too late, as i watch the news. that's why i'm training myself to watch less, after realizing how lucky i was to miss out here on phil's outburst, whatever it was. this moment in history is so pivotal, such a chance for us in our own lives to be kind, to be love, to fill the world with it but also to stand up and speak for those that cannot stand up on their own. how to do that without falling into the cycle of hate and violence ourselves? i'm thinking of the death to israel demonstrations now going on in capitals across the world. a friend of mine who was with ammachi in boston told me about her talk last night. amma said that all her children must pray, and call anyone that they've had a disagreement with to say "sorry, i love you, no time to be angry." it's time for the population of planet earth to get into a twelve step program. forgive, forgive, let go, let god, and be love. sounds trite, but y'all get my drift. Posted by: stefanie on July 22, 2006 06:27 PMGood advice Bhakti. I was thinking this morning that I've tracked these days "coming" for 25 years and have seen the "flags" alongs the way. However watching it in the abstract is different than seeing it happen, it's more frustrating being an observer of events unfolding, when you've known for so long what was coming. But in the distant future (like this was for me over the last 25 years) there is a wave of spirit and joy and light just as real as the darkness seems now, and that's what is coming. Not as fast as we would like but it's coming. There will be an event this year or next that will jar the world back to its peaceful roots, or give the opportunity to return to that state, an evolutionary leap in consciousness. Posted by: Sally on July 22, 2006 06:31 PMWell put Stafanie. There is a passage in the old testament where people are urged to "stand in the gap" meaning to stand between this world and the next with light and love and peace. We all do that differently because we are all different and it's foolish to think we can or should all bring the same kind of healing gifts to the table, but we can all stand in the gap. Posted by: Sally on July 22, 2006 06:34 PMi'm troubled for you, Philomena and, although some of what you were posting was disturbing to read, I think it is a reflection of your own inner landscape, that you are trying to heal. Insults, attacks, name-calling, power-struggles, competing is what children do blatantly and what adults do in various ways, the most horrific of which is war and killing. It is obviously a negative, spiraling pattern and nobody wins. I know I sometimes allow myself to participate in some of that (power struggles, competing) and it is my hurt child doing it, with a child's level of understanding, doing it - and the egotistical part of me that wants to be right). Sometimes there's a fine line between speaking your truth, and getting into a fight with others over it. Adults want us all to win - they want the best for everyone. I do not want these wars. I condemn all who use violence to reach goals that are tainted with blood. The burnt bodies from the link that Philomena posted are something people need to see as we here live insulated from these realities. May everyone heal and consciously choose peace, love, acceptance and intelligent compromise. Posted by: Sharon on July 22, 2006 06:52 PMCap'n Sally's message at 6:31: YES! Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 06:53 PMLynda, I have not seen it in any of the shops or bookstores recently here in Houston so I ended up getting it from Amazon. I'll be looking at every chart in a different way now. Posted by: Cybear on July 22, 2006 07:08 PMSally -- I'm honored to be able to listen in and occasionally comment in this sacred space you've created. You offer such important wisdom, and this little corner of the universe has much to contribute to the healing and repair of the world. Thank you, and thank you to everyone here. Posted by: stefanie on July 22, 2006 07:15 PMMy copy of Lynda's book is already dog-eared! I really recommend it. It's a lovely book, and I've learned so much from it. I think it's one of those rare books that will never see the bookshelf, but will be out in a convenient place all the time. "Standing in the gap" is what I think so many of us have been trying to do. What an apt phrase that is for these times. I've found that music has been a tonic for me. My favorite is a Cajun band called Beau Soleil. Just makes me happy no matter what! Lynda, please let us know that you are ok. Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 07:30 PMI was confrontational yesterday, with the director of the Camp.( without insulting) After 3 exhausting weeks of a tough teaching job, I could see that I wasn't going to get any networking, or future developments, as a result of the effort, or even a "good job"! I recognize being "dissed" and minimized and wasn't ready to accept it! I MADE her look at my portfolio, ( something she has been too busy to do for a month) and she was impressed in spite of herself. But I don't know what the final outcome will be. I am now no longer a quiet obediant cog, who will keep my mouth shut and go with the flow. DO NOT SCROLL DOWN TO THE PICTURE IF THE IMAGES YESTERDAY UPSET YOU. Yes.........we are supporting "hell on earth"! I saw similar pix on a Link TV special, 90 minutes of Mosaic TV ( which has bumped my Deutsch World News Journal) The artillery shell below, with its FMU penetrator, can also be used to deliver chemical weapons, the use of which is also being reported from southern Lebanon. In addition, it can deliver white phosphorous, a substance that literally melts through skin but leaves clothing relatively intact. In Fallujah and elsewhere in Iraq, U.S. forces have used white phosphorous on civilians, leaving grotesque corpses as a psychological warfare reminder to the civilian population to surrender or evacuate an area. More zealots at the helm: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/39264/ Posted by: stefanie on July 22, 2006 08:09 PMRide the wild Shakti Surf! Cowabonga! Bumped into and old friend we had a fight about 15 or so years ago and lost contact. Went right over to her said hi and gave her a hug. She apologized to me (she was then in serious victim mode) about her behavior and I said accepted and made amends as well. She is depressed and now I can see it although was not aware years ago. We exchanged emails. Not sure about hanging out again but feel a new peace inside and some gnawing wondering gone. There's always gonna be some bs going on but why participate? That is where we can make choices between what is gratification in the moment or beneficial for the future. My book project keeps me happy and for me it's all about sparks of light. Hopefully sparking joy in a child. Not to forget that humans are diverse as we all swim together in the ocean of conciousness. The ME is not allowed to rain on my inner parade.
Good for both of you Pat and bhakti! Very healing. .......... Back to the ever apparent agenda of the people in charge. FYI I wrote about this on a psychic level twenty years ago, but didn't publish. While I was completely sure, I was also just as sure no one else was. http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/276 Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst Lurking in the background of the last great wars over oil is a likely series of battles over a resource without which we literally cannot live: water. That is why corporations have already begin working toward the privatization of water rights and the distribution of water throughout the globe. It is a relatively quiet profit-making encroachment on our most basic free commodity -- at least up until now. Water Wars sets the stage for the developing political and real wars over something we always believed to be a free, elemental resource. In short, it's an extremely fascinating and well-written primer into how historically we have gotten to this point. It focuses on specific issues and initiatives relating to water -- and reveals their impact on the global problem. Along the way, Diane Raines Ward, the author, provides us with historical background on the role of water in the development of civilization. After all, it's the ultimate resource we take for granted and is inextricably intertwined with life itself. More.... Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 08:53 PMmore interesting reading, whatever its level of "truthiness" may be: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4847 Posted by: Garry on July 22, 2006 09:36 PM I have told my relatives and friends in Canada, However, if the US, Mexico and Canada are to be Why does the CIA seem to consist of two distinct entities: one exemplified by, say, Richard Clarke and Valerie Plame, and the other exemplified by more sinister entities? A Challenge Emerges to Bush's Signing Statements ........... Sadly, wv, all three countries seem to be moving to the right and corporate/privatized rulership, and the end of regulated service. These termites are moving more closely to the thought processes of the Ferengi. http://www.sjtrek.com/trek/rules/ Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 10:40 PMTeresa Tritch | The Rise of the Super-Rich http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072206F.shtml "In the United States today, there's a new twist to the familiar plot. Income inequality used to be about rich versus poor, but now it's increasingly a matter of the ultra rich and everyone else," writes Teresa Tritch. ............. More Troops to Be Deployed in Baghdad http://www.truthout.org/ The top US commander for the Middle East said Friday that the escalating sectarian violence in Baghdad had become a greater worry than the insurgency and that plans were being drawn up to move additional forces to the Iraqi capital. Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 10:53 PMhttp://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13924 CANADA: Oil Production Strains Parched Landscape by Stephen Leahy, Inter Press News Service Money, energy and water are the three key ingredients that have made it possible to ship a million barrels of oil a day from northern Alberta's oil sands to the United States and other markets. Incredible quantities of those three ingredients have been used so far, and much more will be needed for production to triple in the next 15 years. Canada is a land of fresh-water lakes and rivers. The Athabasca River is born in the glaciers of Alberta's Jasper National Park and runs 1,538 kms through the oil sands region and eventually to Lake Athabasca in Wood Buffalo National Park. It is one of North America's longest undammed rivers, and one of its most beautiful. To squeeze oil from millions of tonnes of tar-laden sand requires similar amounts of hot water. After the sand is excavated, the material is crushed and then treated with 40 degree C water and caustic soda to turn it into slurry. It is then pumped, sometimes several kilometres, to an extraction plant. At the extraction plant, even hotter water is added to the slurry, where it is agitated and the bitumen oil skimmed from the top. Bitumen is much thicker than traditional crude oil, so it must be either mixed with lighter petroleum (either liquid or gas) or chemically split before it can be transported by pipeline for upgrading into synthetic crude oil. Every cubic metre (1,000 litres) of oil produced requires between 2 to 4.5 cu m of water. A million barrels a day of oil production translates into roughly 2 to 4.5 million barrels of water a day. Most of this water comes from the Athabasca River. Existing oil sands operations and ones that have been approved have been granted water rights allowing the removal of 349 million cubic metres of water each year for 40 or more years. More... Posted by: Pat C on July 22, 2006 11:15 PMI found this fascinating, particularly given some of the interpretations for the next few weeks in the ME: Pat QOP, you keep adding new dimensions to the "P". Pentacles, Peacock (a sparkling, multi-hued beauty) and Phoenix (which is how I've thought of you for some time). Posted by: shylurker on July 22, 2006 11:33 PM
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13062.htm Posted by: wv on July 23, 2006 12:03 AM
By Aljazeera US forces have committed butchery in Iraq and should leave, the speaker of the country's parliament has said. === By Mariam Karouny Iraqi leaders have all but given up on holding the country together and, just two months after forming a national unity government, talk in private of "black days" of civil war ahead. === http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14126.htm Posted by: wv on July 23, 2006 12:08 AM
The exchange rate for Lebanese vs Israeli deaths now stands at 10 to one By Robert Fisk As many lies are now falling upon Lebanon as bombs. The explosions are easy to count - three on the southern suburbs of Beirut yesterday morning and many on the main highway to Syria, destroying more of the great viaduct at Mdeirej along with three passengers buses which were returning to Lebanon after carrying foreigners to Damascus. The lies were less obvious but just as powerful.
Neither the United States nor Israel is equivalent to Nazi Germany, yet both countries have adopted a Nazi-like obsession with collective punishment By Ted Rall 07/21/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- SAN DIEGO--As commander of a Nazi einsatzgruppen death squad in occupied Poland, Dr. Werner Best came to believe that the most effective response to terrorism was collective punishment. After the fall of France he went on to draft the Third Reich's counterterrorism policy for countries occupied by Germany. Towns where acts of "passive" resistance such as the cutting of telegraph cables had taken place were placed under curfews, fined and slapped with travel restrictions. "Active" resistance--the killing of a German soldier--would be met by reprisal killings of local civilians. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14122.htm Posted by: wv on July 23, 2006 12:34 AMOh thank you Shy! I DO want to be a phoenix! Subject: 911 Experts on C-Span,ONLY IF YOU call C-Span (Toll Free) 1-877-662-7726 REQUEST that they play show of the "911 Scientific Experts" in its EnTireTY Please call C-Span (Toll Free) 1-877-662-7726, (after the intro press #3 , which is 'comments or inquiries' aka (ReQuestS),,, after the second intro, press #1(and leave your message) I just called C-SPAN to inquire as to when they might air Dr. Jones' panel discussion. The lady who answered the phone (202) 737-3220 said she did not know when it would air, but that "a panel" would definitely be aired sometime. She urged me to keep checking scheduling for their shows at C-SPAN.org. Please call and insist that it be aired in its entirety."
Speaking of terrorists, here's some history of Israel's terrorist past, which they seem so conveniently to forget.
Gwynne Dyer
It won't change anything on the ground, and both the EU and Switzerland can expect the usual torrent of abuse from American sources for daring to criticise Israel. But Israel's actions in the past two weeks, since an attack on a military outpost left two Israeli soldiers dead and one a prisoner in the hands of Palestinian militants, have clearly "violated the principle of proportionality,'' as the Swiss put it. Corporal Gilad Shalit, the soldier who was taken hostage, is no more to blame for the mess he inherited than any other 19-year-old Israeli or Palestinian, and he certainly does not deserve to die. But it is hard to see how blowing up the Gaza Strip's main power generating station, or arresting eight cabinet ministers and 34 legislators of the democratically elected government of the occupied Palestinian territories in simultaneous night raids on their homes, furthers the cause of Cpl Shalit's freedom. There is no sense of proportion here. Israeli columnist Gideon Levy, writing in the newspaper Ha'aretz, put it best. "It is not legitimate to cut off 750,000 people from electricity. It is not legitimate to call on 20,000 people to run from their homes and turn their towns into ghost towns. It is not legitimate to kidnap half a government and a quarter of a parliament. A state that takes such steps is no longer distinguishable from a terror organisation." The Israeli government is run by men and women with decades of experience at navigating the shoal waters of Middle Eastern politics-people who think strategically, and who fully understand the complex relationship between an elected Palestinian government that doesn't carry out terrorist attacks, and related but semi-autonomous militant organisations that do. They understand it because it was part of Israeli history, too. Sixty years ago, when the Jews of British-ruled Palestine were an unrecognised proto-state under foreign military occupation, they had respectable political and military organisations like the Jewish Agency and the Haganah (the militia self-defence force that ultimately became the Israeli Defence Forces). They also had brutal terrorist organisations like Irgun and the Stern Gang, who killed both British soldiers and the Palestinians who had a rival claim to the land without compunction. The legitimate organisations did not control the illegitimate ones, but there were constant contacts between them. The Palestinian Authority's relations with the current crop of terrorist outfits is very similar. Hamas, the militant Islamic party that won the Palestinian elections last January and subsequently formed a government, has observed a self-imposed ceasefire with Israel for more than a year. Its "military wing,'' a largely separate organisation, has not, nor have various other radical groups whose main goal is to discredit mainstream Palestinian organisations that want a negotiated settlement with Israel. Israel's past offers enough parallels that its government should and probably does understand that it has a choice: to ignore the extremists and talk about some kind of peace deal with the mainstream -or to use the extremists as an excuse not to talk to the mainstream either. It has chosen the latter option, and the current, vastly disproportionate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip are the evidence for it.
Olmert knows (even if Washington doesn't) that destroying the Hamas government will not bring the "moderates'' back to power. It will just create a power vacuum in the occupied territories that will be filled by all kinds of crazies with guns. Ideal circumstances for carrying out Olmert's plans, wouldn't you say? - Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2736579 From DU Posted by: on July 23, 2006 03:46 AMCould somebody please fill me in on the house resolution defending Israel in this matter? Who were the respresentatives who voted against the resolution? I'll try and look it up. I'm not focused. I'm still not focused. Posted by: Beasley on July 23, 2006 04:48 AMOnly 8 Representatives had the Please, Call them and thank them so that they'll keep doing it and so that Any U.S. resident can use the toll-free numbers for the Washington, 1-888-355-3588 or 1-800-828-0498 If you call them, all of their staffs are very, very They are: 1. Jim McDermott - D from Washington * Paul Krugman: The Price of Fantasy Today we call them neocons, but when the first gbush was prez, those who believed that America could remake the world to its liking with a series of splendid little wars — people like [drunkie] cheney & [methhaid rummy] — were known within the adm as “the crazies.” Grown-ups in both parties rejected their vision as a dangerous fantasy. But in 2000 the Supreme Court delivered the WH to a [chimp] who, altho he may be 60, doesn’t act like a grown-up. The 2nd bush obviously confuses swagger with strength, & prefers tough talkers like the crazies to people who actually think things thru. He got the chance to implement the crazies’ vision after 9/11, which created a climate in which few people in Congress or the news media dared to ask hard questions. And the result is the bloody mess we’re now in. This isn’t a case of 20-20 hindsight. It was clear from the beginning that the US didn’t have remotely enough troops to carry out the crazies’ agenda — & bush never asked for a bigger army. As I wrote back in Jan 2003, this meant that the “bush doctrine” of preventive war was, in practice, a plan to “talk trash & carry a small stick.” It was obvious even then that the [regime] was preparing to invade Iraq not because it posed a real threat, but because it looked like a soft target. ... http://rozius.blogspot.com/2006/07/paul-krugman-price-of-fantasy.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 05:03 AMI like that. I'm going to refer to any bushaholic, chenaholic, ricelizard, neocons... all of 'em... "crazies." That'd be good & cut down on messy name-callin' rhetoric. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 05:10 AMJoO, you might want to consider one I saw a few days ago: President Chingadero. Yep. Posted by: shylurker on July 23, 2006 05:16 AM"Chingadero"... hahahahaaaaa!!! Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 05:49 AMWhaddaHOOT! Lookie this kitty face... it's like it smells a couple of dead rataholics & one ricealizard... crazies! http://planetwaves.net/WhatsNew/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 06:13 AM* Israel weighs up cost of invasion When elite Israeli troops crossed into Lebanon to clear booby-trapped Hezbollah positions along the border this week, they expected little resistance. Instead, they found fighters waiting for them with mortars & anti-tank weapons. ... http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/07/23/2003320037 Rather like what happened to the crazies in Afganistan/Iraq. Easy pickin's t'weren't so easy pickin's for the nasty supremacist pinks. I truly don't believe that this beautiful planet was meant to be an insane holding company for the crazies. I know that because too many fine/sane/creative folks live here not to mention other wonderful animals... which I just did. Crazies are not creative... they are hacks & copiers & liars... always have been... out for the biggest bang for the buck... most unfortunate. Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 06:36 AMJoO, please see the link I posted up at 11:31. Beasley, hang in there. We are all reeling, but together we can keep each other going. Or so I have to believe. Posted by: shylurker on July 23, 2006 06:42 AMHope I'm not double posting here but this poll needs help! Today I can not stop thinking about a book, The Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman. I read this book in early 1970's, I think. I can close my eyes and see the first chapter. I am in China and unless I can find it online I have no chance of getting it to see why I can not put it out of my mind. I know how it ends.....there was a World War.bjt Posted by: Betsy on July 23, 2006 02:27 PMOh, will this never end? (And, yes, I know it has to be exposed first, but it is so devastating to read the words and see the pictures.) http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009146.php http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009147.php Posted by: shylurker on July 23, 2006 03:19 PMBetsy, I'm still looking for the Tuchman book on-line for you. I did find this nice summary: Betsy, Another good review: She and Hannah Arendt were something else, weren't they? They begun producing at pivotal points in my life, I know. Posted by: shylurker on July 23, 2006 03:25 PM
It's Israel's Fault However, Hezbollah struck across the Israeli border with Lebanon, kidnapped two more Israeli soldiers, and killed eight. Now Israel is inflicting collective punishment on Lebanon. You can be sure the U.S. and the EU will fail to condemn that, too. http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20060719/index.php Posted by: wv on July 23, 2006 03:33 PM* US[ian pink crazies are] rushing arms to [pink crazy supremacist] Israel amid Lebanon bombings: WASHINGTON - The US expediting a shipment of precision bombs to [pink crazies in] Israel from an arms deal struck last year amid the Jewish state’s ongoing assault on Lebanon, a US official said Sat. A decision to rush the delivery of the weapons [of mass destruction] following an Israeli request was made around the time Israel began pounding Lebanon by air/sea on July 12... “It’s part of an arms sale that was made in 2005,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The official said the shipment “has either been made or is in the process of being delivered” but refused to specify whether it was being delivered by air or by sea. Last year’s arms deal allows Israel—-which agreed to purchase about one billion dollars [in US taxpayer's money] in US military equip in 2005, according to a congressional report—-to tap into the package depending on [phallic] need [for rape, murder, destruction, & regular all-around pink crazies' snuffing]. It was not immediately clear if [pink supremacist crazy] Israel requested the new shipments following the start of the Lebanon campaign or while it was still in the peak of an air offensive in the Palestinian Gaza Strip on its southern border. The US official told AFP the shipment was negotiated by Israeli officials with the State Dept & other agencies that have also refused to make public comment, highlighting the sensitivity of the decision [bullsh*t!]. “We do not, under a law[?!?!?], disclose sensitive info about foreign military sales,” a [pink prissy gussied-up crazy] Pentagon spokesman [mewled]. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/July/middleeast_July473.xml§ion=middleeast Pink crazy Israel is one big money laundering op for the USian pink crazies... among other things. Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 03:41 PM* Rice[aCrazyLizard] Enters Middle East Arena With Few Friends for Company ..."I could have gotten on a plane & rushed over & starting shuttling around & it wouldn't have been clear what I was shuttling to do," Rice said on Fri. [nobody cares about its mode of transport or bits about "rushing"] What she will not do, is accept rising demands from European & Arab states for an immediate ceasefire in Israel's battle against Hezbollah, regarding such a step as a "false promise" bound to simply incubate future conflicts. ... ...the US position appears to becoming increasingly lonely. Faithful US ally Britain Sat criticized Israel's tactics, & even took a swipe at [USian] strategy. The British junior foreign minister, Kim Howells, said in Beirut: "I very much hope that the [USian molloch-worshiping crazies] understand what's happening to Lebanon--the destruction of the infrastructure, the death of so many children & so many people." ... http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2107893,00.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 03:58 PM
http://www.jerusalem-times.net/main.asp?edition=619 Posted by: wv on July 23, 2006 04:01 PM
You can observe three important things simultaneously in the Middle East: One, Israel's total disregard for the lives and property of the Arab people; two, the effectiveness of the Israeli propaganda machine; and three, the utterly craven support for Israel by the U.S. government. A fourth thing, if you can stand to watch television news, is how casually the talking faces dispense falsehoods because of their ignorance, which is understandable. Middle East history is too complex for a fly-in TV star to avoid the trap of failing to separate fact from propaganda. Hezbollah, for example, raided an Israeli military outpost on what Hezbollah considers the Lebanese side of the border. Hezbollah kidnapped two soldiers. It did not fire any rockets at Israel as several television people have said - mimicking, of course, Israeli propaganda. Instead of sending a special-forces team or setting up negotiations for a prisoner exchange, Israel launched an all-out attack, knocking out bridges, roads, airports and fuel facilities, and doing enormous damage to civilians. Only then did Hezbollah respond with rockets, as it certainly had a right to do. Israeli journalists have pointed out that Israel has been planning for years to destroy Hezbollah and is using the raid as an excuse. The Israelis did the same thing in Gaza. When a handful of militants kidnapped one soldier, what did the Israelis do? They destroyed the power plant, bridges and all the government facilities in Gaza. Once again, they are using the kidnapping as an excuse to do what they had planned to do anyway - destroy Hamas and the ability of the Palestinian people to govern themselves. It takes an enormous amount of chutzpah to destroy the Palestinian government and then demand that it control the militants. "With what?" American reporters ought to be asking the Israelis. By the way, the Israelis never ended their occupation of Gaza. They forced settlers to withdraw because it was too much trouble to guard them. But they retained control of Gaza. Nobody can go in or out without Israeli permission. The airport is closed. They cut off the tax money that is paid by Palestinians and rightfully should have gone to the Palestinian Authority. In other words, they turned Gaza, already one of the most densely populated areas in the world, into a Middle East version of the Warsaw Ghetto. And they regularly bombed it or sprayed it with artillery. Yet, so effective is Israeli propaganda and so ineffective is American news coverage, Israel is once again playing the poor victim. Gee, the Israelis tell the American media, we hate to destroy Lebanon - even as their planes and artillery continue to do just that - but we can't stand living under a rain of terrorist rockets. Well, obviously, they have not been. Hezbollah only fires its Katyusha rockets (a short-range, unguided missile with a 50-pound conventional warhead) in response to Israel's violation of Lebanon's borders, which it routinely does with its fighter planes. Even now, what Hezbollah is firing can hardly be called a "rain." It's more like a scattered shower. As for the "thousands" of rockets Hezbollah allegedly has, that number comes from the Israeli government. It may or may not be accurate. Like President Bush, the Israelis offer no evidence. Bush, who revealed himself inadvertently in St. Petersburg, Russia, as the arrogant, foul-mouthed slob he is, blames Syria and Iran for Hezbollah but offers no evidence whatsoever. If Hezbollah had thousands of rockets, you'd think it wouldn't be so sparing in the use of them. One reason Lebanon never disarmed Hezbollah is because its members are considered heroes by the Lebanese Shi'ites. They were the ones who made Israel's occupation of Lebanon so costly that the Israeli people demanded that it be ended. They also provide a wide range of welfare services to the Lebanese people, and they are not terrorists. The largest terrorist organization in the Middle East is the state of Israel, which kills civilians by the hundreds. What you are witnessing is a disaster in the making - not only for Lebanon, which will require 50 years to recover, but for the United States, which stands exposed once again as a prejudiced hypocrite and an accessory to Israel's war crimes. Posted by: wv on July 23, 2006 04:04 PMToday the Sun leaves Cancer and enters Leo. What a dramatic change of energy! Posted by: Pat C on July 23, 2006 04:04 PMLengthy, interesting interview with the head of Hezbollah. Proceed with care: self-serving, etc., but it does provide some insight. * Another Split With Russia: Putin Plans To Block Out US Oil Giants... http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1826629,00.html?gusrc=rss Mr Putin must not've enjoyed lookin' at crazy bushaholic chewin' rolls with its uncooth beak chompin' wide open... among other things. ... or the crazy notion that Russia should have the same "democracy" as Iraq... compliments of idiot bushaPickledBrains. Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 05:11 PMThanks, Shy. I read the review. It is the lead up to the war that I was interested in. I can not get wikipedia or bbc or anything that says bloggspot or such.But the review came in fine. It is the first chapter the lead up to the war that is important. I remember the chapter on the ship,too. Posted by: Betsy on July 23, 2006 05:26 PM Whoever posted the names of the 8 Representatives who didn't sign the resolution of support Israel's actions....Thank you! I'm on it. Will start my calls tomorrow. I looked it up last night on the congressional website. I noticed Rush Holt voted 'yea.' I wrote him a long email asking him to think outside the box...since that seems to be his specialty. Mentioned a few books he should read, since he was/is a scholar, articles and authors... Won't do much good, but calling to thank the others might. Thanks for your encouraging words, Pat C. and Shylurker. I don't really expect the pain to go away soon. I just need to be able to act on my convictions in order to stop from going insane. I'm not watching the news anymore. I cannot bear it. There is something almost salacious in CNN's coverage...voyeuristic...the "World at War...or the MidEast Crisis" with fire in the back ground and the drums rolling...news men getting their rocks off. Posted by: Beasley on July 23, 2006 06:14 PMBetsy, I'm glad you make it to the review anyway. Pls update us on your arm. Tnx. Posted by: shylurker on July 23, 2006 06:15 PMI can do most things. It is getting well fast now. My right shoulder bone appears larger than the left one. I think my disability is around 5% now as I can not scratch my own back, yet. I may have to take up badminton again, soon.thanks for asking.bjt Posted by: Betsy on July 23, 2006 06:22 PMBeasley, ( You have my deepest sympathy!) They'd probably replace us. Posted by: on July 23, 2006 07:31 PMhttp://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2006/07/mercury_trisept.html#more] Just found this and it is something to consider in this really crazy season. Posted by: clymela on July 23, 2006 07:49 PM"Why can't we all just go on strike tomorrow? Just not show up, not buy anything? I think it's an excellent idea & often thot it would work where nothing else would. May take more than one day tho. The "Latin Americanos" have a good start on it... everybody join them. I intend to... Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 07:54 PMJoanna O, you are cracking me up with your commentary, and all the nicknames for the BS administration. Posted by: Crystal on July 23, 2006 08:07 PMO Joanna O! I'm wiping the tears from my eyes. Your 5:06 post has me rolling on the floor - "Mr Putin must not've enjoyed lookin' at crazy bushaholic chewin' rolls with its uncooth beak chompin' wide open... among other things." My "thots" exactly, when I saw Bush chewing with mouth wide open at the banquet table. I thought what a lack of table manners, especially for a head of state. I guess all his money couldn't buy him some; but you have such a wonderful way with words, hahaha.
Bush Administration Asserts Greater Control Over Civil Rights Division http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072306X.shtml The Bush administration is quietly remaking the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights, according to job application materials obtained by the Globe. This changes everything: http://www.juancole.com/2006/07/war-on-lebanon-planned-for-at-least.html America was shown plans for Israel's War with Lebanon one year ago, according to this source. Ok, here is the pattern: 2001, the news media is scheduled to release its findings of the recount of all the ballots which will show that Gore won Florida. They decide or more precisely are persuaded to do it on 9-11, which is a day when the administration (Condie) admits the WH knew that terrorists were going to attack Americans (though she claims she had no idea how big the event was going to be). Many sources dispute the WH's claim that it did not know the nature of the attack, i.e there were hints that jets would be crashed into buildings somewhere, making it more than a routine hijacking. 2003, the FERC is schedule to release its report showing the Enron and others really did engage in price gouging of California, something they were able to do because W. rolled back price caps first thing in 2001, Cheney laughed at Gray Davis's pleas and Karl Rove put an Enron friendly person on the FERC who ignored California--until a federal judge stepped in that summer to proclaim "Hey, there is price gouging going on! Someone in the federal government do your job!". This report was going to be a major embarasmment and might lead to criminal charges against Thomas White and calls for investigation of Cheney's energy meetings. So, the invasion of Iraq and the release of the FERC report were scheduled to occur at the same time, even though it meant that the invasion of Iraq had to be forced up to March, meaning that the administration had to "fudge" some evidence. Now, we have a three year statute of limitations running out in the Valerie Plame case, so Cheney, Rove and Libby knew that a civil suit would be filed. They also knew that Israel was planning to declare war on Lebanon. All Israel needed was US assurances that the US military had its back should Iran intercede. Since Cheney and the RNC needed political cover for what could be a very, very bad story, they arrance to give Israel that military assurance, in exchange for the political coverage they would get from timing the war to coincide with the lawsuit deadline. Note, that the people of Lebanon are dying because of the mother of all Bush scandals, Enron. Oh, and the 2002 Senatorial elections had to be stolen because the Democratic Senate was still holding Enron investigations (I may be the only person in American who still remembers that) and these needed to be shut down ASAP. And Gray Davis needed to be recalled and a GOPer installed ASAP for the same reason. Saaaayy, Crystal! Which do you think is nastier... old, old wargeezer bush throwin' up in the Chinese leader's lap? ...or old wargeezer bushaholic masticatin' a roll in Putin's face? Hard to say, ain't it. Throwin' up routine is probably worse, but it just means that bushaholic hasn't gotten around to it yet is the way I see it. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on July 23, 2006 11:28 PMUh-oh. You can't get to it unless you have a sub, but buzzflash.com has this headline up right now: So, they fill the DOJ's Civil Rights Division with incompetents and they virtually shut down IRS audit activities for the super-rich. And how many people are getting the message? Or are most still going shopping and enjoying tee vee? Posted by: shylurker on July 24, 2006 12:29 AMIt was as obvious as the nose on one's face that David Kelly who was blowing the whistle on the weapons of mass distraction did NOT commit suicide. Thank God someone is making a bit of noise about it... http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/mp-casts-doubt-on-kelly-suicide/2006/07/23/1153593211311.html Anybody on astroworld an Eddie Izzard fan? He's a British comedian, very, very funny and very gorgeous. Here's a transcript from his Dressed to Kill show: He's speaking about Hitler here and mass murdering... and then about the British Empire and its use of flags... "Fun! What a bastard! And he was a vegetarian, and a painter, so he must have been going, "I can't get the fucking trees… Damn! I will kill everyone in the world!" And he was a mass-murdering fuckhead, as many important historians have said. But there were other mass murderers that got away with it! Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, well done there; Pol Pot killed 1.7 million Cambodians, died under house arrest at age 72, well done indeed! And the reason we let them get away with it is because they killed their own people, and we're sort of fine with that. “Ah, help yourself,” you know? “We've been trying to kill you for ages!” So kill your own people, right on there. Seems to be… Hitler killed people next door... “Oh… stupid man!” After a couple of years, we won't stand for that, will we? So I suppose we're glad that Pol Pot's under house arrest… you know, 1.7 million people. At least he - we know where he is - under house arrest! Just don't go in that fucking house, you know? I know a lot of people who'd love to be under house arrest! They bring you your food… "Just stay here? Oh, all right. (singing laconically ) Have you got any videos?" You know, you just sit there all day... And Pol Pot was a history teacher. And Hitler was a vegetarian painter. So... mass-murderers come from the areas you least expect it. I don't know how the flip comes over, but it happens. So, yeah. There was a lot of that, and we built up empires - we stole countries! That's what you do, that's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They go, "You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!" "Do you have a flag?" "We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!" "No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association." That was it, you know?" I LOVE Eddie Izzard, if you haven't heard of him, check him out... - this is the link: http://www.auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath/d2ktranscription.html Posted by: Lynda Hill on July 24, 2006 01:03 AM
By William Blum 07/23/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- There are times when I think that this tired old world has gone on a few years too long. What's happening in the Middle East is so depressing. Most discussions of the eternal Israel-Palestine conflict are variations on the child's eternal defense for misbehavior -- "He started it!" Within a few minutes of discussing/arguing the latest manifestation of the conflict the participants are back to 1967, then 1948, then biblical times. I don't wish to get entangled in who started the current mess. I would like instead to first express what I see as two essential underlying facts of life which remain from one conflict to the next: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14151.htm Posted by: wv on July 24, 2006 01:22 AMFrom the article posted above about Russia's intention to work with Norwegian rather than American oil companies: Noses in the air, unprofessional, about sums up everything the oilybushcrowd touches. 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