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Murder On The Occident Express

Wondering who killed democracy in the United States? Wonder why no one is ever held accountable? Perhaps you should read Murder on the Orient Express, the famous mystery by Agatha Christie.

In it, the detective Hercule Poirot is taking a train from Istanbul. There are only fourteen other regular passengers. On the second night, one of them is murdered.

The evidence is perplexing: the victim has twelve stab wounds. But some seem to have come from a right-handed person, and some from someone left-handed. Some seem to have been delivered by someone very strong, and others by someone weak. Other clues each point to different suspects.

Hercule Poirot then gathers all the passengers together, along with an owner of the railroad line. He produces two theories:

#1 The victim was murdered by a stranger who somehow boarded the train and then escaped unnoticed.

#2 The victim was murdered by everyone. All the suspects stabbed him, and none knew who struck the killing blow.

Poirot says he'll let the owner decide which theory is most likely. There is a pause. The owner, because the victim was dislikable, says it must have been the stranger. And that's what he'll tell the police.

So: who cooked the intelligence on Iraq? Was it the Bush administration? Or Republicans? Or Democrats? Or Bill Clinton? Some of them were more guilty than others, but THEY ALL DID IT. And thus they were all happy to blame it on a stranger called "intelligence failure."

Likewise, who authorized torture? As we've learned recently about the briefings given to high-level congressional Democrats on waterboarding, THEY ALL DID.

Who let the catastrophic housing bubble inflate? THEY ALL DID.

Who gave away hundreds of billions to the richest people in America? THEY ALL DID.

In each case, the Democrats and Republicans are the suspects. There are a few honest voices, most very far from power, who act as Poirot. Here's Scott Ritter, speaking about Iraq in 2005:

More at the link...

patb, sadly I don't know will on a personal basis. He's a joy on the internet though.

Pat C, Thanks regardless.
Will if your eyes catch this and you've the notion I can be reached at patwbishop@msn.com.
Love to hear from you!

Pat C. is right. Face it, you live in a one-party state.

Let's hold to hope, my wonderful Awers. In addition to the heroic acts of Kucinich, there is also this. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18888.htm

We are on walking on the edge of a cliff. Yet, there are those who are fighting hard on our behalf. Send energy to them -- at the least/or is that the most?

I agree with Morgana, that our acts are -- and have been -- receiving serious backlash from the rest of the world. This tempo will increase. However, my question is this. . .will those international entities (who understand the wicked tryst of powers) help those who seek to balance the scales once again?

I hope so, i pray so.

http://www.slideshare.net/aquariusmoonduhart/for-all-of-the-holidays/

A redone slideshow!

Here's another interesting find (from an internet friend)

http://lib.store.yahoo.net:80/lib/realityzone/UFNKitcocorner.htm

Exploring the same theme Morgana introduced. . .perhaps war is being waged on as i write this. That war has to do with our currency, the fact the dollar is being dropped as the major trade currency throughout the world. If each of us were to bail out the government right now, we would shell out some 340,000 or more.

I'll just bet each of you, as i did, that when NAFTA was enacted this was exactly what was going to happen. When you create a playing field of service sector jobs -- as opposed to high skilled innovation -- you sink the future value of your company's holdings. There IS a backlash.

Lord of the Underworld sure seems to be having his way these days. :)

Cartoon! Cartoon!
This wonderful animation won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939...last year this time was it you
QOP who posted this for us all (wv maybe), saved it to play again & again. THIS is REAL animation:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuiut_mgm-cartoon-1939-peace-on-earth

Sorry I can't claim credit. This time last year I was still on dial up, unable to get Youtube!
I loved it! That was my year of birth!
QOP

Speaking of youtubes, here is Al Gore openly opposing George Bush. Imagine that!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HeTA1S7TXM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U1LDeSEo40&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSVblW2ZtKc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2VKmpVOMU&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqKKdnpNseg&feature=related

QOP, 1939 was the best year, in my opinion, for the greatest advances in art and film in history.
Pure magic. The year that gave us a legacy of human warmth through the arts. And you, Pat Q are a living, card-carrying bearer of magic.
(what day in may or june were you born and what degree ascending are you, if you don't mind sharing QOP?).

If that's the cartoon where Gramps Squirrel visits and tells his twin grandchildren about the aftermath of WWI, I may have posted it. I found it last year around this time and was elated because I had seen it while very small and hoped it would be a series (I was quite tired of Disney even then), but I never saw it again for all those decades. I think somebody posted it over at DU.

I thought that bore your stamp, Shy! Consequently I am flattered to be thought responsible for your postings!
Patb, The warmth emminating from this site is very welcomed today as the temp is still only 22o ( started at 4o this AM!)
We ( me & the movie industry) have 2 grand trines water & earth!
I was born on May 4th, Bridgeton, NJ 8:13 AM. 20o Gemnini rising!
I thought it was ( my Mother said!) 8:30,( Events in my life were out of time cinc, with my chart, for 20 years.....)until, I unpacked my baby book about 16 years ago and found the 8:13 time written down in my baby book. (
( there was a major shift with my Mother moving to the West coast about the time I came to MAine, and I brought the family photos with me.)
Before I bought this house in MAine, I consulted Astrocartography, and was told that Jonesboro, 15 miles up the road from here was the best place in the entire world for me to be! Unhappily, there is an anomally with the daylight saving time in my home town, and they gave me a 4o Cancer rising!
BUT, Jacob Schwartz insisted on the 20o Gem. and it fits.
QOP

Pat C, Thank gawd for youtube and you for posting that comprehensive train of videos, especially the 4th one (unnamed man)with his patient, intelligently expressed view. It shows us that the world has not gone mad, and the best in us is being evoked from malaise to manifestation.
Alchemy, anyone? The fight is a shortways down the 'pike, at the same time the 100th monkey and the sugar in the saturated solution which WILL form crytals of a more loving reality...love potion #9!

Shy, so you're the christmas fairy. People are just as stupid! We watched Merry Christmas from Nextflix last nite, about the Ceasefire on christmas eve 1914 between encamped english, scots, germans and french (wonderful story).
Sometimes it becomes apparent the wildman has to come out and destroy everything before he can FEEL anything. Like an addiction to the (created) depths of hell and the (imaginary) heights of heaven. All slobbery and sentimental only AFTER untold damage has been done! As in Zeitgeist, there have been about 75 Christmyths since the beginning of 'recorded' history.
Man: ignorance, passion, aggression and the tale told by the animator is EXACTLY the same.
How about we skip continuing this slide into hell.
We've known all along where it leads, destruction with corny imbeciles at the wheel. What a price for a "high".

QOP, powerfully connected chart you've got there, no surprise! My birthtime has also been a bit of a mystery on my birth certificate & the stories wildly conflicting between my parents. The certificate has a 7-long slash-9 at the top for my time, old style numerals, and thought the long slash could actually be a numeral "one".
My father said "we couldn't get a cab" to the hospital, the certificate said my mother was there for 17 hours which would mean they needed a cab in the wee hours of the morning, about 2:30am. Sadly, my mother notoriously distorts truth and said "she went herself to the hospital when my father was sleeping and that I was born "in the morning", which doesn't add up to what the birth cert. says.
SO,if I have it right, my ascendant is 20.55 libra, whew.
No wonder I began persueing psychology and philosophy 13 & 17 and read the classics like crazy, because I knew the truth was NOT coming from my parents! Alchemy at it's finest!

Another short flick worth watching...

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film

Superb reporting

http://www.atlargely.com/2007/12/the-permanent-r.html

A term we can live with(coined here and now by yours truly):

MERRY CHRISTMYTH!

UK has left behind murder and chaos, says Basra police chief

Guardian Unlimited - 1 hour ago

.. full scale of the chaos left behind by British forces in Basra was revealed yesterday as the city's police chief described a province in the grip of well-armed militias strong enough to overpower security forces and brutal enough to behead women ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2228690,00.html

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Happy Holidays to you patb! :-) When we are skating on thin ice, we might as well dance!

Sooner or later this was going to be made an election issue. If even he is a Muslim, why should it mean that he "poses a threat to the security of the US"? This is such bigoted thinking, but it just goes to show what kind of atmosphere the present administration has fostered for Muslims, so that if you are a Muslim, you are automatically equated with the word"terrorist"; and this comes from people who really should know better. I think this stems from ignorance of the Muslim religion by a majority of Americans. Because of 9/11, and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan, and Iraq, I think it will behoove every American who thinks that Islam is synonymous with terrorism, to get a hold of a good English translation of the Qur'an, read it from cover to cover, and then draw their own conclusions. They may find that it is not that different from the Bible, and actually supplements it, because it takes up where the New Testament left off, and also has references to Jesus, and his mother Mary, though in a different context to the Bible - that is if you believe in traditional religion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071216/ap_po/obama