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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

11 November - Lest We Forget

Albert Carrying Pogo - Walt KellyImage by Lynn (Gracie's mom) via Flickr

 This is an odd place for it - but I will likely replay the New Reality Transmission a number of times. Growing up in the shadow of  The Bomb affects a kid - thinking there has to be a better way to run a world.

And a week later note that Canada is committing to a further 2 years in Afghanistan through 2011 and the US 'drawdown' of 2011 is to be a farce - with even the 'projection' of closure in 2014 admitted to be little more than fantasy.

 

Mother of Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan Calls for An End to the War

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Lest We Forget 2009

"Bad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it." –Jon Stewart

 Pogo daily strip from Earth Day, 1971.Image via Wikipedia

Vagabond Scholar

 War and the Denial of Loss

(This post is part of a series on war, and a smaller set of posts for Armistice Day 2009.)
Nations wage unnecessary wars because their leaders lack wisdom or conscience, and the checks to force them to act wisely and conscientiously are tragically wanting. However, wars also start – and persist - because of the denial of loss. Scoundrels and fools in positions of power and influence can urge splendid, glorious war in large part because it's unlikely they'll pay the terrible costs. Soldiers, civilians and their loved ones bear those, as always. 

Thursday, November 11, 2010


11/11 Armistice Day 2010






In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly wrote:
The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart. Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name "Armistice Day." Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful.
You said it, brother.Afghan women at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.Image via Wikipedia

( That's just the teaser ! There's much more )


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Through Thick and Thin

A veteran myself, I am appalled about how what should be a day of somber reflection about the horrors of war has turned into a celebration of permanent war.  And I am so sick of hearing people say and write “Our troops are protecting our freedoms.” The last time American troops fought to protect our freedom was during the Revolutionary War in the late eighteenth century. Americans have fought in hundreds of wars and military actions since then, some justified, some less so … but in no case was an enemy fighting to take away our freedoms. And in some cases the opposite was true, it was the other side fighting to protect their American Revolutionary WarImage via Wikipediafreedoms.

And this is most certainly true in our current wars, where we are fighting to deny our chosen enemies the most important freedom of all, the freedom to form their own government. Invading a foreign land and installing a government of our choosing is called conquest, and has nothing to do with protecting America. It has everything to do with enriching our oil industry and military/industrial complex, generals and armaments manufacturers love war. And war is what we now have, war forever. Terrorism forever too, since our wars seem designed to breed terrorists.Surrender of Cornwallis at YorktownImage via Wikipedia

 The following came in mail a few days ago. I don't care to violate that privacy on the open Net by specific reference.

Psychic Event Horizon - The Eve Of Our Major Societal Transformation

[*Note: I am relating my personal experiences publicly and fully aware of this fact. I freely submit this into the permanent public record.  I felt I had to enlist some imagery that the reader would perhaps be able to identify with; such as from the movie "Paycheck".]
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*Foreword Preface:

I am hurriedly gathering research material and reading through Internet links and archives myself to resolve a personal situation in my life and freely admit to using the Internet, you, everyone who will give input, and this very debate itself to achieve the desired objective.

I have a situation that translates into 'we may have a real and serious problem' in the very near future (common logic is currently dictating that this to already be the case regardless of what I have to say on the subject!).

It is imperative for me to personally seek resolution quickly to a once private matter that involves psychic phenomena.

I have just now decided to write it up and air it publicly, on the public record for assistance and no doubt will have to experience massive misplaced ridicule from some.

Nothing is free and I intend to post my personal journal entry within a day or so, because I will have to condense it down for the reader.

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> The Following Is My Journal Entry:
I intended to eventually share this with everyone and now is as good a time as any . . . and you will have to admit that it takes great nerve on my part to come forward across a growing more shallow everyday Internet, which is seriously lacking (in some instances) of manners and the proper 'code of conduct'. I am sorry if this statement offends some Internet users, but it's the truth.
At the very beginning of identifying that there was a phenomena in progress (1985), I started assuming that the U.S. Government was the sole culprit and was at the very heart of it all, in regard to their USN high-energy experiments, which I had been privy to one particular classified event (No Comment).
But now in retrospect, I seriously suspect that this is now becoming a more personal and localized event in its very nature; meaning that I believe it to be originating from something that I am yet to do.
However, there is evidence that the government has become aware of this ongoing phenomenon event, perhaps has tapped into it, and is even now being manipulated by it somehow.
I am currently tracking the origin point.
When I boil it all down, it involves the powers of the human mind, psychic research, government intervention, and an advanced technology that is way ahead of our time.
> RE: Case Evidence:
I am currently at home with my large dining room table filled with physical evidence to substantiate my claim that something extremely unusual is going on in the 'real' world.
I only began using and learning the Internet in 2007, so my skills for creating videos and the like are unfortunately nil and I don't have the proper equipment either, or else I could easily and visually place this evidence on public display.
The stark reality is that based upon my personal testimony alone, you will have to either believe me or else you will not.
This is your domain and all I can do is swear it to be the truth and put forth its warning message that is being delivered through very unusual methods.
[*Note: I had developed a working theory early-on during my teenage years, in case I was ever confronted by an early death experience, to telegraph an alert warning backward in time to myself and thus be able to change the circumstances. That was presupposing at the time that psychic phenomena was real, but I had already had my share of like experiences to say there was indeed at least something supporting its existence.]
It involves my early family photos, family memories, family members, even personal books and memorabilia, and my entire life being literally invaded and altered by an external psychic phenomenon force, which is in no uncertain terms an advanced early warning message concerning our future destruction.
Quite normal physical objects are also being slightly transformed and encoded with unique symbols, that I seem to have been programmed with the codex capability to decode these incoming messages.
I show signs of missing time and have successfully recovered most of the information through professional hypnosis sessions.
MK-Ultra and their mind control process are at least in part responsible for this missing time, but since these Black Operations are so covert in nature and compartmentalized, it leaves a rather large grey area of speculation.
The U.S. Government is either trying to control and guide my memories or else they are attempting to edit or delete certain aspects.
This is mental manipulation at its very finest, but does not account for the physical manipulation of visual objects around me.
Don't worry, this always sounds strange even to me!
Some of you cannot handle this idea very well, but I assure you that you should learn to and also know that I have been doing everything humanly possible to divert the human disasters listed down below.
However, by the act of you (the reader) reading this and coming into direct contact with its internal message, then this could cause history to become better or worse from the experience through the 'ripple effect' or otherwise known as the 'butterfly effect'.
There is no way to exactly know for sure, however I have been compelled to share this with you nonetheless.
> My Personal Testimony:
[*Note: Farther below is a list of what you might consider as prophecies (knowledge in advance), which are not written in stone and the central message of this text is to warn us all that we can take action and make proactive daily attempts with our minds and exert our physical activism efforts toward changing human history before it arrives. If at all possible.]
I have access through old military channels and acquaintances from my military past, who are validating 'for me' that at least something very significant is occuring throughout our world as we approach 2013.
Of course my few contacts are demanding anonymity, which leaves me standing all alone and hanging in the breeze, but I refuse to let that stop me.
I personally see no evidence concerning the Mayan 2012 media frenzy, however it is extremely interesting to note that everything involving my phenomena also relates directly to the beginning of a massive tribulation period during the same time of 2012-2013.
I am currently being forced to presuppose this to be only a random coincidence, but I am certain that some readers will chastise me for not vindicating their 2012/Nibiru belief-system; however I will not refute their assumptions at this time . . . due to insufficient evidence.
Some readers will say that I am just a nut-job, in order to quickly dispell their close-minded fears and anxieties, but believe you me, there will be no place to hide, so now is the time for action!
I have actively pursued petition signing, started groups and entered into heated debates in an attempt to awaken and alert a sleeping global public.
I am sure that some of you are already quite awake and taking action on a daily basis.
However, this text also refers to subject matter involving multi-dimensions, repeating loops in time and quantum physics.
There are probably no scientists among us here, but this is what messaging backward through time truly involves.
All I can do here is swear this to be the truth as I have and am currently experiencing it and I am equally certain that you can tell by the way I write this text, that something out of the ordinary is in progress here and is truly compelling me to come forward at this time.
> Warning of Events in Advance:
#1.  Global rising temperatures will accelerate projected ice-melt, thereby beginning to rapidly increase coastal flooding around the world. Solar and cosmic radiation interference is actually at the route cause and global CO2 rising levels are only magnifying the worst case scenarios.
#2.  2011 Tax Hikes and continued excessive government spending will merge taking us to the brink of a global economic depression. Another terrorist attack on New York City and the U.S.'s retaliatory military strike response listed below in #3 will crash the global stock markets.
#3.  War:  A united and well coordinated terrorist force of 200+ radical Islamic terror cells connecting China, Iran, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, North Korea, and Venezuela will effectively strike New York City. The U.S. Government will greenlight the U.S.S Enterprise to make two conventional strikes upon declared intelligence targets, then will continue the assault with a 'glowing hit', which is thought to be in regard to bunker-buster nuclear ordnance and another conventional air strike. This action will topple our 'house of cards', but if we fail to retaliate, the the terror cells will hit the U.S. over and over and over again. At the core of this conflict is religious belief-systems and the depletion of all natural resources on Planet Earth.
#4.  The U.S. will experience a long-lasting wave of hyperinflation and all gold transactions will be outlawed right in the middle of the worst economic disaster, which will make the Great Depression look like a school field trip to the bread factory.
#5.  During this same time period all ocean life will begin to become extinct, with bizarre mutations being brought up from the ocean depths as key evidence of changing ocean temperatures, pressure distribution and salinity indexes. Mass human migrations will begin.
#6.  Above numbers 1-5 will trigger exponential feedback loops adding to more personal public devastation.
#7.  Specifically the United States Government's 'business as usual' policies throughout 2011 to 2013 are the key cause for our seemingly inevitable demise, so I challenge you here today to take immediate proactive steps to help me divert this tragic vision being sent backward through time. They will not even prepare for the coming worldwide fresh drinking water shortages.
#8.  An asteroid impact large enough to wipe out one American city.

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> Closing Statement:

Even if you don't believe in psychic phenomena, you should still see where our future seems to be leading and take the appropriate steps to help stave off the possibility of my being right . . . even if it is quite merely by chance or even perhaps just by accident.

I can only relate my information to you, but it is you who will have to decide upon the proper response and perhaps you can see a plan of action that I have failed to perceive.

It sounds like to me that we should either prepare to evacuate the planet or else prepare to dig-in and try to ride this out.

Please provide you own personal insight, even if you don't believe it, but rather instead as if you were giving this discourse the benefit of the doubt, for I would surely thank you for your input.
Remember: I might just be unfortunately correct.
 Internet Map. Ninian Smart predicts global com...Image via Wikipedia
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

8 November - Late Links

A sergeant mounted on a reconnaissance vehicle...Image via Wikipedia

Allies charm Canada to stay in Afghanistan

The U.S., Britain and NATO headquarters spearheaded a stealth diplomatic charm offensive to keep Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan until 2014, mindful that too much pressure could "blow up" their efforts

( Have you had a look at 'Military' in the Topical Index ?  It takes an entry like ABCA armies to start to make sense of the mythic muddle sacrificing blood offerings of the young to Mars, God of War. 

Canadian and Afghan national army soldiers pat...Image via WikipediaGulf War Song - Moxy Früvous

 Rebranded for the day, few changes need to be made.

Should we stay and  continue to imprison for torture while insincerely flaunting our nonexistent reputation for fairness ? It's nonexistent these days : just check on the conduct of Canadian mining operations in the Third World. )

Afghan plan includes up to 1,000 troops

 ( Hey, this is a good idea ! We can do what the Yanks did when they 'left' Iraq !  Fake it. BTW Is there a Mission which is likely to be accomplished by the military and sold to the Canadian electorate ? Right. I thought not. There's a good reason those 'pep talks' are kept secret...and it's not fear of the Taliban. )

 Global PostCanadian soldiers supporting Operation Endurin...Image via Wikipedia( If this is NATO's notion of prime real estate I'm glad it isn't my travel agent )

Afghanistan War: In Kabul, a feeling of being under siege

A man came up to me on Chicken Street the other day, took my hand, and asked me if I were Christian. Not a good sign, I thought. Happily all he wanted to tell me was that Muslims believed in Jesus as a secondary profit, but that the Americans were a fearful people.
He said that Russians walked around Kabul freely and openly in their day. We Americans, however, were always closed off behind our fortresses. He said many of the Russians were Muslims. He suggested if Americans became Muslim they would not be so afraid.
Mohammad Nasib, American-trained and helping to run a constructive NGO, said he’s confused about Americans and NATO. As a matter of fact he said most Afghans are confused.
“What is going on?” We are fighting the Taliban and yet the Americans are saying we are bargaining with them. Can NATO be helping the Taliban?
It’s a common rumor.
Americans say the Taliban are fractured into at least five major groups, and even more sub-groupings. In other times “you knew the phone to pick up to end the war,” said the senior official. “Now we don’t have that phone number, and this is unique in American history.”

 Afghanistan Sun

 Obama backs India's quest for U.N. permanent seat 

U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed on Monday India's long-held demand for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, a reflection of the Asian country's growing global weight and its challenge to rival China.

India says a seat on the council would reflect the importance of the G20 nation as its trillion dollar economy helps spur global growth and its government exerts more and more influence over issues from Doha trade to climate change talks.

 Congolese citizens sue Canadian mining company, alleging complicity in massacre 

Congolese citizens have moved to file a class-action lawsuit against a Canadian mining company, alleging that it played a key role in a massacre in their country six years ago.

According to the application filed Monday in Quebec Superior Court, victims' relatives are seeking unspecified damages from Anvil Mining Limited (TSX:AVM).
The suit claims that Anvil provided logistical support — like planes, trucks and drivers — that helped the Congolese military quash an October 2004 rebel uprising in the central African country.
It alleges that more than 70 people were killed in the ensuing incident while countless others were beaten, tortured and raped upon the military's arrival in the port city of Kilwa.
The company is accused of providing planes and trucks that ferried in the soldiers, and carted out victims to be executed.

 Afghanistan War: Let the transition beginCanadian Forces personnel carry the coffin of ...Image via Wikipedia

Michele Flournoy, U.S. under secretary of defense for policy, has acknowledged in public statements that NATO members are under pressure to demonstrate progress to their domestic constituencies by the Lisbon gathering, scheduled to begin Nov. 19.
“The long pole in the tent here is growing Afghan capacity in the security forces,” she told American Forces Press Service. “[This] must be addressed if we’re going to be in a position to transition to greater Afghan lead for security.”
There’s that word again.
(  There is no evident nor immediate threat of a transition to candor and clarity. )

Michaëlle Jean begins UN job

Jean was officially named UNESCO's special envoy to Haiti at a ceremony in Paris on Monday.
She is recognized by the international organization for her dedication to the reconstruction of the country following the earthquake last January.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/11/08/jean-unesco.html?ref=rss#ixzz14lHQr4sr
( mm. Earthquake,occupation,relief sidetracked,disease already on the rise...and the Corexit Plagues. Should be a fun place. )

 

U.A.E. slaps visas on Canadians

A U.A.E. embassy staff member noted that every U.A.E. citizen has always needed a visa to enter Canada, including diplomats and the embassy's head of staff.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/11/08/canada-uae-visas.html?ref=rss#ixzz14lIEAQMh

 News Headlines - Reuters

 War stories a hit on Facebook 

Suicide attacker strikes Pakistan mosque, killing 50 

"The attackers are wild, not human; anything can be expected from them," said an official, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
"Militants can't be eliminated until the U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan share information."

Prisoners suffer bed linen beatings in HMP Forest Bank

Young inmates at HMP Forest Bank in Salford are being tied up in their bed linen and beaten by other prisoners


New History or a New Mirage
Echoing Edward Said, the legendary Palestinian scholar, Antoine Raffoul addresses the ambiguities of Israel’s "new historians" who, with the clear exception of Ilan Pappe, condemn the occupation but fail to question the legitimacy of the Zionist State. They denounce the 1967 borders but not those violated in 1948. For as long as their celebrated revision of Israeli history continues to evade this core issue, the "new historians" will continue to be part of the problem, not the solution.

The Democratic Party Debacle and the Demise of the Left-Center Left: A Worldwide Trend
Barack Obama’s and the U.S. Democratic Party’s recent electoral defeat is only a forerunner of future losses for similar ruling parties in much of the Western world. The so-called Left-Center Left is everywhere paying a high electoral price for sacrificing the working class in order to save bankers and profitability, reaping hostility and rejection among its natural constituency. James Petras analyses this unfurling phenomenon.
( One would think that impersonating the 'Left' has been a good gag for con-servatives aka con-liberals : chameleons of convenience in a bipartisan chimera of representative government via the political bagman. It is so much more genteel to lament constant promotion of murder than to openly flaunt one's enthusiasm, don't you think ?  Wiseguys R U$ )

No Quarter
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  • Sayonara, Nancy * Open Thread - 4 hours agoThe Democrats are imploring Nancy Pelosi to step aside, and Fox News has obtained the proof (!) … Even the New York Times agrees that Nancy needs to go … Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei (not two reporters...
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The Lord works in mysterious ways – and the Foreign Office keeps it all quiet



Spanish Prime Minister Sends Condolences Message to Raul Castro 

RAW Story

Narco-violence and political repression threaten Latin American press

Latin American media leaders warned Sunday that press freedoms in the region are under threat from narco-violence in Mexico and political repression in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.

What to eat less of to live a longer life

Food shortening your life

According to new research, eating less of certain carbs will turn off the 'grim reaper' gene. » Specific ones to avoid


Yahoo revises Web mail: social networking, content-based ads, still no free downloading

At midnight, Yahoo introduced a redesigned version of its Web-mail site, Yahoo Mail. And then a funny thing happened: Nothing. No Twitter chatter, no Facebook comments by friends, no late-night posts on the usual tech blogs. If you ask a randomly-chosen Yahoo Mail user what's new about the site, you're likely to hear "it's purple"

Internet TV Wars: Yahoo and Samsung Step Up to Google and Sony 

The two companies are going to sell Yahoo-connected TVs in 26 more nations.

Florida Oil Spill Law

 Epitaph for Science Blogs - which aren't refreshing

** "Canada considers"  That would be a novelty. When did going there at all ever get debated in the House ? For that matter....how many times have putative 'training missions' turned into combat ? Vietnam experience in the U.S. and Australia might lead to sage observations about that framing.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Timeline of New Democrat leadership on the treatment of Afghan prisoners

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NDP Press Releases

Timeline of New Democrat leadership on the treatment of Afghan prisoners


5 April 2006:
NDP defence critic Dawn Black calls on the Conservatives to ensure Canada’s prisoner transfer agreement reflects “our values as Canadians.” Stephen Harper’s defence minister declines: “We have no intention of redrafting the agreement … there is no need to make any change in the agreement.” - Gordon O’ Connor, Hansard.
26 May 2006:
Richard Colvin, the Political Director, Provincial Reconstruction Team files his first “serious, imminent and alarming” action message on Afghan detainees, KANDH-0029.
19 March 2007:
“Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor has apologized for telling the House of Commons that the Red Cross would share information with Ottawa about alleged abuses of detainees after Canadian troops handed them over to Afghan authorities.” CBC.ca
20 April 2007:
Colvin files an action message with 71 addresses in Foreign Affairs, and National Defence, including the Provost Marshal, KBGR-0258.
23 April 2007:
“Afghans detained by Canadian soldiers and sent to Kandahar's notorious jails say they were beaten, whipped, starved, frozen, choked and subjected to electric shocks during interrogation.” - Graeme Smith, Globe and Mail.
24 April 2007:
Colvin sends action message on detainees as chargé d'affaires of diplomatic mission on Afghanistan, and response to “diplomatic contingency plan” drafted by National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, KBGR-0261.
24 April 2007:
NDP leader Jack Layton calls on Harper to fire the defence minister. The Prime Minister denies reports of abuse and blames the Taliban: “Allegations to the effect that we are not living up to our responsibilities are only being made by the Taliban.” Hansard.
25 April 2007:
“The Harper government knew from its own officials that prisoners held by Afghan security forces faced the possibility of torture, abuse and extrajudicial killing.” Globe and Mail
25 April 2007:
Colvin files four reports on detainees, including two formal ones, sent to senior officials in Ottawa, including the head of the Afghanistan Task Force, KBGR-0263, KBGR-0265.
29 April 2007:
Conservatives continue to deny detainee abuse: "We have yet to see one specific allegation of torture. If they have one, we'd be happy to chase it down” Peter Van Loan, CTV Question Period.
28 October 2009:
New Democrat foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar’s motion “That the committee hold hearings regarding the transfer of Afghan detainees from the Canadian Forces to Afghan authorities” is adopted by the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan.

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