Notes From Grandfather Tree

Independent Bookstores - How Much Fun Can They Be

2009-01-10T08:40:00.002-05:00

There's a new independent bookstore in town - it's called "The Rabbit Hole".

Since I love books, ergo love bookstores, I've been keeping my eye on this place. And besides getting myself some great books (as they have new and used books) to read over the long winter months, I've gone to some really fun author book signings.

Big chains bookstores like Barnes and Noble or Boarders are just toooooo biggggg ! ! ! I feel like an ant crawling around someone elses ant mound - lost. But there's a definite comfortable quality and feeling to the smaller independent stores. For one thing, I've gotten to know the people who work there and call them by their first names. They'll always ask how I'm doing and that makes it much more enjoyable ..... to go into a store where you are recognized and valued as a customer.

Since it's not too far off before baseball's spring training to begin (I know, I know, football is still going strong) and I'm a lover of the game, it was a nice surprise to see The Rabbit Hole having an upcoming author book signing with three baseball authors ! ! ! These guys are locals to the area and I've not read their books, but I'm gonna go out and rub elbows with some ball fans in a couple weeks. Then, I truly will believe Spring is on it's way.

So, if you're in the area - Fitchburg - come and talk baseball and enjoy the company of other sports fans. The authors are Rip Pallotta (One Day In Mudville), Jack Walsh (Baseball's Good Guys) and Rich Letarte (That One Glorious Season).

I'm giggling, I know that it's silly to be this excited. But I am. Praying for a no-snow-weekend on the 24th.

~ The Mediator

Life and Liberty: A Coming Thing of the Past ??? ???

2008-10-09T09:27:00.003-04:00

Here are some articles you might want to review - just a heads up on what's ahead for the u.s.of corp. and it's citizens.

Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry
Out "Crowd Control"

by: Naomi Wolf

date: October 8, 2008

Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time.

Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals," and the management of a national emergency.

I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.

George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the "War on Terror," the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.

You can read the rest of the article here:

http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/thousands_of_troops_are_deployed_on_u.s._streets_ready_to_carry_out_%22crowd_control%22/

And then we have this:
Naomi Wolf - Give Me Liberty and The US Coup of October 1, 2008

Naomi Wolf

Give Me Liberty

Mon, 06 Oct 2008

Naomi Wolf is experiencing the Cassandra Syndrome - which is a term applied in situations in which valid warnings or concerns are generally dismissed or disbelieved. Societal sleep is a mighty foe.

Societal transformation into a 'controlled society' or fascist dictatorship does not happen without precedent, nor does it happen 'by accident'. There are very clear steps that signal such an environment and Wolf has consistently documented them. The following video interview is a continuance of that...

The Video and the rest of the article can be read here:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/166972-Naomi-Wolf-Give-Me-Liberty-and-The-US-Coup-of-October-1-2008

or here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI

~ The Mediator

FORECLOSURES: Sheriff Refuses to Evict

2008-10-09T09:19:00.003-04:00

Found this article today and just wanted to say that this actually gave me a reason to smile for about 30 seconds. There are honorable human beings left in this in-human world we now live in. But will the government allow this to go on - I think not. Sadly, we are all in for a very rough winter and beyond. Our lives, our children's lives will NEVER be normal (you know, get a job, get an education, buy a home, have a family and live happily-ever-after) again.

By Mark Konkol
Sun-Times News Group
By suspending some foreclosure evictions, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is throwing down a challenge to judges who order evictions and banks that want to clear out foreclosed homes and put them back on the market.

Dart said he's willing to face contempt-of-court charges for not following eviction orders, but Circuit Court Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird said she won't take that step yet.

"It seems he has communicated more to (the media) than he has to the court," Kinnaird said. "I want to find out what issues they (the sheriff's department) are having."
Dart told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that about one-third of foreclosure evictions in the county affect renters who say they had no idea about the residence being in foreclosure.

"We will no longer be a party to something that's so unjust," a visibly angry Dart said. "We have to be sure that when we are doing this - and we are destroying some people's lives - we better be darned sure we're talking about the right people." .......................................

You can read the rest of the story here:
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1211345,100908evict.article

~ The Mediator

Anger and Fear Are Sweaping Over Us All

2008-09-26T09:18:00.003-04:00

Boy, am I upset. No, upset is to neutral a word. Furious would be better (and I hope not too extreme.......). What's going on in politics, in the financial world, events taking place behind the scenes with our leaders - it's plain immoral, unethical, pathological.

Actually, words fail me. There's no way I can voice how absolutely unamerican the behavior of our leaders of OUR country are moving us towards a national breakdown (which at this point is inevitable). I also can't help but wonder what is going on with our congressional leaders - are they being blackmailed or something??? No wonder they're calling troops back from iraq and it isn't to protect us American's but to finally bring us to our knees.

Here is an article that should be read by everyone. This one is not about the financial crisis aflicting each and every one of us - but a different kind of take-over of our country (I know, you are asking how many kinds of take-over can there be). But this one has been in the planning stages for quite a long time. If you do read the article, you may find that what happened in Germany during World War II was only a trial run.........this one is the big kahuna.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/165994-The-Dominionism-Apostasy-The-Despoiling-of-America-by-Christianity-turned-Evil

Or you can just google 'dominionism' and see what comes up and where one of our vp candidates fits into the whole creepy scenario.

Check out the Yurica Report for more articles.

http://www.yuricareport.com/

~ The Mediator

Dissociation: It's Not What You Think (Part 1)

2008-05-15T17:20:00.003-04:00

Lately I've been fascinated with and reading alot about what is termed dissociation. It's that part of you that dis-connects with reality when you do such simple things as read a book, go to the movies, go shopping even experience trauma.

You know, like for me, when I go shopping (something I don't do too often) and you are in the store wandering around looking at all the stuff on the shelves, the sales items, new products. Suddenly, two hours have passed and you don't remember - cannot believe - that it's been two hours since you first entered the store. Seems more like 15 minutes, really. That's what will happen to me and is presented as just one example.

Interest in this dissociated state all began because I cannot remember my childhood. Not one part of it. Zip, gone, like it never happened TO ME. How can someone NOT remember their past. I was there. I was younger.

I grew up in a seemingly normal household with 4 sisters and one brother and a mom and dad. My siblings remember my childhood. But NOT ME. I actually thought that it was normal not to remember your past.......so I went through most of my life thinking that my memory just wasn't as good as everyone elses. Ha,ha, just a big joke! No memory! There was no reason to believe otherwise. Here I am, a grown woman, two children, divorced, and at 60 years old feeling quite happy with my life - until one day I pick up this book called "The Myth of Sanity" written by Martha Stout, Ph.D. I actually bought the book at a yard sale along with a few other books and brought them home, thinking I'd have some new reading material available when I was in the mood.

It was on page 29 of the book. As I was reading this part of the book, I actually thought it was me that she (Martha) was talking to and that it was me (The Mediator) answering her. From the book:

(Martha)

What does this feel like, not being able to

remember whole chapters of one's own

life? I have asked many people this

question, Julia among them. As usual,

her answer was obvious and starteling

at the same time.

(Julia)

"It doesn't feel like anything," she answered.

"I never really thought about it. I guess

I just assumed, sort of tacitly assumed, that

everyone's memory was like mine, that is to

say, kind of blank before the age of twenty

or so. I mean, you can't see into someone

else's mind, right?"

What a can of worm I opened up when I began reading this book. . . . . . . . .

~ The Mediator

Food Shortages.....What's Happening ???

2008-04-25T17:29:00.005-04:00

In my last blog I was commenting about insurance and how there are those that have and those that just don't make the cut - useless eaters - is the term I've heard bantered about, apparently a description of those that are wanting.

Also, I've come across a couple of articles (and actually there are thousands of 'hits' on google about food shortages, riots, etc) with regard to something going on, whether manufactured information OR actual knowledge about what each and every human should be concerned about: the coming food shortages or food rations or food riots...........take your pick, my friend.

Somewhere in the last six weeks, the terms 'food shortages' have been in the news. First, just a small comment about rice shortages, riots in Haiti over food, wheat rust, limiting the amounts of bulk food you can purchase, etc.

Years ago, if any of you remember the TV show 'Johnny Carson', the late night talk show that I used to watch back in the 60's and 70's, (actually, Jay Lenno took Johnny's place) there was a comment made by Johnny one night that there was a toilet paper shortage. Sure 'nuf, during the next week, you couldn't find any toilet paper anywhere. People were buying up and hoarding toilet paper.

Turns out, it was just a joke. There was no shortage. But, people react to whatever they hear - especially if it is spoken on the (got one in every room) 'boob-tube'. But today, I'm really wondering what is the truth. Is there a coming shortage, is it a hype? Time will tell, but y'all might want to keep an eye on your supermarket shelves and make a mental note if you see that there are gaping holes where food/supplies should be stocked. It might be a good indication that something's a-foot. Time to put away some extra munchies for the fam.

There is a great article here with lots of links called "Connecting the Dots - Shortage of Food and Signs of War; the Future is Now".

~ The Mediator

Life Expectancy In The US ... Diminishing

2008-04-22T10:58:00.003-04:00

Holy toledo Batman, this article stopped me in my tracks. And here's a quote from the article:

“It’s very troubling that there are parts of the wealthiest country in the world, with the highest health spending in the world, where health is getting worse,"

I always thought that any one of us would be able to access the best in health care that this country (USA) has to offer it's citizens. Not until recently, being one of those 'older individuals' who happened to lose her health care insurance because of a job loss, and now relies on state funded insurance, did I find out exactly what my options are.

Now, I am classified as one of those individuals who, because of income, because of the type of insurance I am enrolled in, has very few options available to me when it comes to getting 'the best health care available'. Guess I shouldn't be so surprised, with all that's going on in the world and at home. But I was surprised. Just when you need something the most, that's when the PTB seem to make it disappear. It's just beyond your grasp. What a game.

What's next.......food??
To read more go here.

And, keep yourselves healthy.

~ The Mediator

DRUG for HEALTH: We live in a Backwards World

2008-04-07T18:51:00.004-04:00

Yes, I have to admit it, I'm all for living a life free of drugs - both recreational and medicinal. My grandmother, a French Canadian woman, lived to the wonderful age of 89 and never saw the inside of a hospital until she suffered a stroke and died three days later 'in hospital' was never on any medication(s) her whole life.

It still brings tears to my eyes, remember the morning that my son, who was three years old at the time, who also was born with Down's Syndrome .... and had snuck away from me to go downstairs to see Meme (he loved his great-grandmother and we, fortunately, lived with her. My family lived upstairs and she, alone, downstairs in her two family home that her father and husband built). I went downstairs looking for Josh only to find him sitting holding Meme's hand and she, calling out his name over-and-over - Joshua, Joshua.........

She didn't know me, but the ambulance was quick and my Aunt was even quicker. Meme was not in any pain, her heart just slowed down and finally stopped, leaving her - or rather she, leaving us, quietly one day. She died the exact moment I had to put down my favorite dog (and her's also), but that's another story for another day.

At her funeral I cried for my dog Buddy. I knew my grandmother had live the life she was dealt with much wisdom, grace, pride and love of family. She taught me so much of how I live my life today and how I deal with illness, disease and middle age. She was more of a mother to me than my actual mom. I miss her even today and it's been almost 20 years that she's been gone. But, to the point of my writing today:

Drug Companies - can you trust them? Do you want to bet your life, your health, your mind, your future on what they tell you is their truth?

Fosamax Linked to Serious Abnormal Bone Fractures
by Byron J. Richards
March 20, 2008

The New England Journal of Medicine published a physician group report of 15 women taking Fosamax who experienced "atypical low-energy fractures," which means their bones broke doing almost nothing – a serious kind of injury typically seen in very elderly individuals in declining health. The fact that the NEJM is reporting this is a major wake up call to anyone who hasn't figured out that Fosamax is dangerous to your health.

You can read the entire article here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/z022895.html

And the reason I include this article is because if you are taking Fosamax (like the elderly lady I am caring for) and you have any type of dental work done, watch out ........ your jaw bone just might become a dead, decaying piece of bone matter, like poor Sophie (name change) has had happen to her. Unfortunately, at the age of 95, there's not much they can do for her. She's in almost constant "jaw" pain and has been told by the Oral Surgeon, only after she had a tooth extracted, that "Oops, you should have told us you were taking Fosamax."

Then I see this article:

Ketek: One Drug, Many Tragedies
by Alex Jetter
Readers Digest, 3/17/08

The well-dressed woman in the waiting room was yellow, recalls John Hanson, MD -- a clear sign of jaundice. That was puzzling: One month earlier, in March 2005, Vivienne Wardley (not her real name), 51, had been in excellent shape except for a cold. A health-conscious woman, Wardley avoided prescription drugs and drank moderately. But tests showed that she needed an emergency liver transplant. And when Dr. Hanson, a gastroenterologist in Charlotte, North Carolina, examined her liver, he was startled. It was only a third of its normal size and showed massive tissue death.

What could have attacked Wardley's liver so quickly? The doctor remembered another patient his partner had treated in February. Usually healthy, Ramiro Pulquero, 26, walked into the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte jaundiced, feverish and vomiting blood. He died three days later. The autopsy showed that his liver, like Wardley's, had suffered tissue death.

The rest can be read here:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/152168-Ketek-One-Drug-Many-Tragedies

Ketek is a new antibiotic. Don't know anything more than what I've read in the above Readers Digest article. I don't want to say much of anything else other than maybe you should be careful WHO tells you that this DRUG or that DRUG will be good for you. It seems to me that we live in a backwards universe. Reverse the meaning and there's the truth of the matter.

Well, just some ramblings of a middle-aged woman. Be careful. Stay well.
~ The Mediator

Where Is The World Headed (and there's no getting off this ride either)

2008-03-23T10:46:00.004-04:00

Really great article (as usual) from Lesvisible. Can be found at his blog's website:

http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2008/03/like-it-had-eyes-and-fangs-and-claws.html

Read part of the article here:

Like it had Eyes... and Fangs... and Claws
Friday, March 21, 2008
Lesvisible

Well, I hate to tear you away from the screen. I know you are all focused hard, except for those who are hardly focused, on Slutz-Girl Vodka’s new butt girl “It goes down like smooooth reptile ooooooze.” It’s the American way to go from a whore to a princess of the marketplace over night. Where would we be if we didn’t have things like this to pay attention to? Maybe paying attention to something important, whatever that is.

You knew it was coming. You just didn’t know when. Or maybe you didn’t know it was coming because things like Slutz-Girl Vodka had your attention. For some of us it’s a no brainer that our terror impresarios; the Bush players, neo-cons and assorted n’er do wells were going to blow something up this year. We knew that the usual suspects were going to go into the prop room and pull out a false flag for the benefit of our brothers and sisters in Tehran, or Lebanon, or Syria or… all of them.

We swallowed a load in 2001 and we’re seeing signs and wonders and signs and wonders all over the place now. We are seeing a collection of related events that are all indicating that ‘the future is now’ or just around the corner. Ominous evidence of three dimensional chess pressures are pushing circumstance …and daring it to do something stupid. Food shortages; high fuel costs, housing foreclosures, bank failures, the falling dollar and assorted saber rattling all seem to indicate that ‘the boys in the backroom’ are getting all sub rosa before they go nova.

It becomes especially clear when The Scarlet Pimpernel, Bin Laden, starts doing his Baron Samedi impressions and popping up out of the grave and on to your dinner table. Most of the readers of this blog are regular visitors to http://www.uruknet.info/ http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/ http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ and the venerable http://www.sott.net/ so you have all probably seen the links I’ve placed above and you know that there are many more that all relate to the same mass of confusion that defines the present moment. You know about Russia and Kosovo; The Palestinian Genocide, Israel and her neighbors near and far. You know about Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran. You’re familiar with what happens when anonymous spokesmen for government agencies start talking about looming terror threats. You know Easter is coming and you know what a bonanza it would be were Christians to have a bad hair day at a holy site but… other days are coming and it could be any day and any scenario as long as it points to Iran. Still, it’s interesting what Bin Laden had to say about the pope and Europe, even if it wasn’t- and it wasn’t- Bin Laden.

Bushco is looking into Switzerland’s deal with Iran because it might violate some gratuitous sanctions that somebody put on paper and supposedly means something but probably doesn’t.
Yes, we know about that joint military exercise in Tel Aviv which, like the war games that were taking place on 9/11, that were simulating the very thing that took place and like the terror drill that was taking place in London at the same time as the 7/7 attacks… we know that terror drills and war games are often a cover and a distraction from the real thing. Sure this one is over now but… ah the mind wanders and speculates. The mind wonders how tragic it would be if something were to happen to someone somewhere. Israel killed a high ranking Hezbollah leader and they’ve spared no press in letting the world know that surely Hezbollah has a retribution planned................................

And for more and other fascinating, up-to-date world reports, go to
http://www.sott.net/ for your daily dose of REALITY.

~ The Mediator

With Spring Around the Corner, So Is Your Chance For More Sunshine and Vitamin D

2008-03-16T08:31:00.002-04:00

I hate winter, yes it's true. I'm not a skiier, but I do like to snowshoe. With Spring just around the corner, I can't wait to get back outside and start walking again. Hiking on the weekends is such great fun and wonderful exercise. And since I'm an apartment dweller, the outdoors is even more precious to me. When I had my own home and had to tend to two acres of land, I never gave being outdoors as much thought as I do now.

So I thought it appropriate to include this article on vitamin D and sunshine. But ya gotta remember to treat the sun with r-e-s-p-e-c-t. That means small doses to build up your tolerance. Personally, I do not wear sunscreen for most of my outdoor treks and walks. Although if I were to go to the ocean for the day, of course, I would put on some protection and wear a hat (probably with a wide brim), as there is no hiding from the strong rays of the sun bouncing off the water and sand. Even on a cloudy day you can get a burn at the ocean. So hurray for Spring.......this article was found at:

http://www.naturalnews.com/z022841.html

Rise and Shine: More Sunlight is Good for Your Health
by Tom Mosakowski (see all articles by this author)

A study by researchers at the Institute for Cancer Research in Oslo, Norway has given further credence to the claim that the benefits of modest sun exposure outweigh the risk of skin cancer for most people. Johan Moan, the researcher who led the study said, "Modest sun exposure gives enormous vitamin D benefits.

"He estimated that doubling the amount of sun exposure for residents of Norway would double the number of deaths due to skin cancer to 300. However, the great benefit to this would be a decrease of 3,000 people who die from other cancers [1].

The human skin synthesizes vitamin D when exposed to the ultraviolet type B (UVB) radiation in sunlight. Solar radiation is the main source of vitamin D for most people. Modest sun exposure causes a significant amount of vitamin D to accumulate in the body and protect from some internal cancers and other illnesses such as diabetes and rickets. Vitamin D promotes bone mineralization and calcium absorption thus protecting against osteomalacia and osteoporosis. The vitamin also helps the body's immune system function properly [2]. When deficient, the human body is at great risk of acquiring these conditions and deficiency is linked to heart attacks and mental depression. Most people could experience the benefits by increasing their sun exposure, but not too much as to cause any burning.

Vitamin D deficiency has been measured to be as high as 21 to 58 percent in adolescents and adults in the United States [3].

Several factors reduce individuals' exposure to sunlight and UVB light rays: the amount of time spent in the sun is the most obvious. Also, more polar latitudes, the time of day such as dusk compared to noon, high cloud cover, smog, and sunscreen use lower the amount of UVB radiation that reaches people.

Geographic latitude plays a significant role. Generally, the farther an individual is from the equator, the more difficult it is to synthesize enough vitamin D. For example, in Boston, MA, from November through February, the average amount of sunlight is inadequate for an individual to synthesize enough vitamin D [4]. Additionally, the researchers at the Institute for Cancer Research in Oslo determined that, given the same amount of sunlight, inhabitants of Australia just below the equator produced 3.4 more times the vitamin D than people in Britain and 4.8 times that of Scandinavians [1].

It's essential to learn the optimal amount of sun exposure that is healthy for you without causing sunburn. Moan recommended that a person's daily sun exposure should be about half the time that it would take to burn. Lighter skinned people are more sensitive to sunburn and skin damage, but they are more proficient at creating vitamin D with less sun exposure than a darker skinned person (Please see [5] below for a related, generally accepted theory for skin color variance). Light skinned peoples in Southern United States can synthesize enough vitamin D by exposing their face and arms to the sun without sunscreen for about 15 minutes a few times a week. Dark skinned people need about 5 to 10 times more exposure [2].

A consensus has not been made for how much vitamin D is a healthy level for most people, but it's generally agreed that for people up to the age of 50, 200 IUs (international unit) is the Adequate Intake (AI). For 51 to 70 year olds, 400 IUs is the AI and for individuals over 70, 600 IUs is recommended. The ability to synthesize vitamin D decreases with age. However, recent studies have shown amounts of vitamin D of 2,000 IUs and higher to be more effective and still safe [6]. If a person works outside under the summer sun for hours in a tank-top and shorts, his skin will have made thousands of IUs. Of course, a baseline tan to prevent burning would be a good idea. Normal body levels of vitamin D can't reach the level that a large vitamin D pill would produce. The body self-regulates; reducing vitamin D synthesis when levels are getting high from sun exposure.

Is there a difference between taking say, 1,000 IUs in pill form and synthesizing it via UVB radiation? Is putting a 1,000 IU pill in your body versus forming it all over your skin comparable to drinking 8 glass of water at once versus spreading it throughout the day? This, I am unsure of.

Within UVB light are a range of wavelengths. Some are more optimal for vitamin D synthesis than others. A person at sea level will receive these wavelengths when the sun is 45 degrees above the horizon or the UV index for the day is above 3. When the sun is at or above this elevation in the sky, sufficient amounts of vitamin D can be made by the skin in about 15 minutes a few times a week. The area of the planet within the tropics provides this solar elevation daily, but it occurs daily only in the spring and summer seasons of temperate regions, and nearly never in the arctic circles [7]. Seasonal supplementation seems to be appropriate.

Sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 8 prevents more than 95% of vitamin D production [11]. So when you lather up with this sunscreen, it will take 20 times longer than usual to make enough vitamin D. This effect was observed during a campaign in Australia to increase sunscreen use to prevent skin cancer. The result was an increase in Australians with vitamin D deficiency [8].

You can read the rest of the article here

~ The Mediator

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Exercising on the Rebounder

2008-03-14T07:05:00.004-04:00

Well, I came across this article about chronic fatigue and exercise. Rebounding, or jumping on a mini-trampoline, seems like it might be helpful to those suffering from CFS.

You can read the article here:
http://www.fatigueanswers.com/mini-exercise-trampoline.html

Just thought this was something that searchers should be aware of. I know that when you are 'tired' the last thing on your mind is exercise. The motivation is not there. But this simple, gentle bouncing might be something to help you slowly build up a tolerance and a good place to start. They even make rebounders with a bar attachment that you can hold onto. All you need is 2 minutes ! Just give it two minutes first thing in the morning - the best time to clear your lymph system. At least, that's what I've read.

Remember, this is not medical advice. This is information to be aware of.

~ The Mediator

ps......there is another website you might want to read here:

http://www.wholisticresearch.com/info/artshow.php3?artid=359

Internet Free Speech Under Threat! Eric Pepin - Higher Balance Institute Sue SOTT for 4.47 Million Over SOTT Forum Comments!

2008-03-10T16:17:00.005-04:00

Hey, Internet freedom of speech is under attack again.

This article brings back memories of when I, many years ago, got involved with a group. They were loving, kind and welcoming. It took me such a long time to realize that most of the members in this group were questionable individuals. The purpose of my joining was to help heal people. Many of the others, well they were there for other purposes. I left the group, thankfully.

This article is for all who value free speech. Read it here or go to:

http://www.sott.net/ and look for the article below:

Internet Free Speech Under Threat! Eric Pepin - Higher Balance Institute Sue SOTT for 4.47 Million Over SOTT Forum Comments!

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
sott.net
Fri, 07 Mar 2008

Yesterday, as I was working on finishing up the next installment of the Comet Series of Articles, FedEx delivered a packet of mail from our corporate registered agent in the U.S. It was "Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial" filed in the State of Oregon by Eric Pepin's Higher Balance Institute, LLC. The reason? A discussion on the SOTT Forum that begins HERE.

Well, that was entertaining enough when you think about the fact that the discussion that he objects to was centered on several newspaper articles that describe his close calls with the legal system in Oregon over charges of sex abuse.

The legal document I received is 10 pages long so I'm just going to summarize it here. If you want to read the whole thing (it's hilarious beyond belief!) go HERE for the pdf.

(....snip.....)

Whoah! That's some heavy duty stuff, eh? Sounds like we just ripped up on that poor guy for no reason at all!

But that's not quite the situation. The original article about Eric Pepin that was brought to our attention on page 5 of the above-mentioned forum thread:

Check out the above links for more information. Knowledge does protect.
~ The Mediator

Freedom of Speech and Your Mental Health

2008-03-08T14:14:00.007-05:00

Since my passion is alternative medicine, and I love to write about ways I've found to keep myself healthy 'in body', I thought I'd also let you in on how I keep myself healthy 'in mind'.

I'm sure that most of you realize stress can be a killer. And, we all have stress to deal with each and every day. It just depends on how much stress is involved and how well you can cope. From the commute to work, worry about family, job, health, the economy, it's pretty much an in-your-face daily struggle not to have a nuclear meltdown emotionally.

I've had my share of stresses thoughout the last 30 years.......what with having a child born with a disability, an alcoholic husband, divorce, suffering from panic attacks, even having my car repossessed while I was at work and all my co-workers knew.......there were times when I thought that checking-out would be the best and only option for getting some peace of mind.

I was a worrier. My mom worried and I thought I'd inherited the familial gene and my fate was sealed. Once, when I was a teenager, I went to an amusement park, had my palm read. The woman took one look at the lines on my hand and said to me "My dear, you worry so much, you worry about worrying." She hit the nail on the head. But what was I to do. Then I devised a plan (too bad it took me soooo many years to come up with this workable idea). The Plan: I allowed myself 24 hours to worry/stress over any given situation or problem that popped into my life. It worked ! ! !

Yes. I would cry, scream, agonize, think about the most horrific end-of-the-world scenarios and literally get it all out of my emotional system. Phew; sometimes it was really exausting. But it worked.

The reason I'm writing about stress and mental health is that I read this article where an independent new site was being sued for telling the truth.

It seems that ever since 911 people have been more and more fearful of speaking what is it that they really think or feel about what is going on in our world, our country. And that bothers me. Not only because I can see fear in other people, but I can also sense fear in myself about speaking up.

Anyway, it is this article that's got me all worked up. So I had to implement my "Plan" and I guess part of the plan is my writing about it. This is an article about truth, freedom of speech, and some questionable individuals. As a mom, I would want my family to be aware of what's out there and that's why this rant. Maybe you'll read the article.

It's time we stop being afraid.

Here's the link to the blog

or......go read about it here

~ The Mediator

Ya Gotta Have "Hope"

2008-03-04T14:31:00.004-05:00

Do any of you like to re-read books that you've enjoyed in past. I do. Sometimes I have three books by my bedside, one new and two old books that I just have found so interesting that I need to bring them out and read through them from time-to-time.

Anyway, I only mention my quirky book reading style because I was going through my blog and re-read an article that has much relevance as to what is going on around our planet today. With the constant sightings of fireballs and meteors, here's an article which, if you haven't read it the first time, you should.

Kinda gives you the shivvers, but this article is packed with things you should know.

Note, this article is not mine. Click on the link to read the whole thing.

THE HOPE

My last contribution to the Blogosphere must have been pretty scary. Geeze! You shoulda seen my mail! People going bananas and writing "what to do? what to do!?"

Well, this one's not going to be any better. But let me say in advance that today's particular collection of items will lead us to a certain point of hope which I wish to elucidate at the end.

It is 7.17 am, Eastern Standard Time, on the thirtieth of June [some year in the not-too-distant future]. Suddenly the power fails.

The basement centre of the Defense Communication Operations Unit adjoining the White House is plunged into darkness, and only the distant rumble of early morning traffic reminds the duty officer that another day has already begun. There have been power failures before, however, and there is no hint of impending crisis

Almost immediately, an automatic switch brings in the emergency supply. But now the duty officer observes that something is wrong. Telephone links to the outside world have gone. These include the open links, via commercial cables, to NORAD's bunker a thousand feet under Cheyenne Peak in Colorado, and to the Offutt command post near Omaha

Within seconds it is ascertained that neither the President nor Vice-President, both of whom are out of town, can be contacted: radio communications are blacked out, on all frequencies. Further, because of the telephone failure, none of the Presidential stand-ins scattered around town and country can be expected to call in to give their exact locations, as they would normally if there were a recognized national emergency. However, the Secretary of Defense, third in the chain of command, is at breakfast somewhere in the White House

It has taken 45 seconds to confirm the general breakdown of communications; it takes another 45 seconds to locate the Secretary of Defense and inform him of the problem; and it is another 90 seconds before the Secretary finds himself in the cramped underground Situation Room along with his advisors. He is aware that the travel time of a missile from a hostile submarine off the Atlantic coast to Washington is just over fifteen minutes; three of these minutes have gone
Emergency procedures for transferring authority are now in hand and the Secretary of Defense becomes in effect the new President. The 'gold codes', which would enable him to initiate a nuclear response, are placed before him. The black SIOP books with their theoretical scenarios are produced. The 'Mystic' and 'Nationwide' communication systems are successfully activated utilizing deeply buried, protected cables. He now has control of the National Command Authority, the channel of communication for execution of a nuclear strike; and another two minutes have gone

The underground cables to Cheyenne, Offutt and other SAC bases are now open with secure links to the radar lines covering the northern approaches. None of them - Dew Line, the 55th Parallel or Pine Tree - is functioning properly, however; their screens are strongly upset with many spurious signals: there seem to be huge scattering modes in the ionosphere.

Satellite communication with military forces abroad is impaired. No information is coming in from the big synchronous DSP satellites over South America, the central Pacific or the Indian Ocean; nothing is arriving from the relay stations near Aurora in Colorado or Pine Gap in Australia. And the 'hot line' is dead. On the other hand in the minutes before the confusion they had reported no anomalous infrared emissions and hence no evidence of heat from the exhausts of rising missiles. At the moment all that can be said is that there is a very unusual atmospheric disturbance, that telephone lines are dead and that there are widespread power failures. The disturbed atmosphere might just be some strange effect due to sunspots or the like, but the telephone and power failures are ominous. On such a scale, the only plausible explanation is an electromagnetic pulse caused by nuclear fireballs

Eight minutes into the emergency - if it is an emergency - the Secretary issues a number of precautionary orders. His deputy is ordered upstairs to await the arrival of a helicopter from Quantico Marine Corps base about 30 miles away. This will transport the deputy to the waiting 'Nightwatch', a Boeing 747 which functions as an airborne command post. Another helicopter is dispatched to retrieve the President. A 'flash alert' is sent to Hawaii, to get a second command post aloft, but the message goes unacknowledged. SAC missile silos and bomber bases are put on full alert

Nine minutes on, ............... gotta go here to read the rest.

Comets, Meteors, Fireballs......Does Humanity Have A Chance???

2008-03-01T21:10:00.002-05:00

A few years ago I witnessed a ginormous meteor fly overhead (um, I am assuming, since I am not a scientist, that it was a meteor) while driving home one winter's night. The whole area lit up like it was noon and a bright light went zooming past high up in the night's blackened sky. To this day, I still have a vision of what I saw that night very clearly in my mind. I've never seen anything like it before or after. And I truly didn't know what to make of it until lately when I've been reading more and more articles about people seeing meteors streaking across the skies.

There are several articles I have come across recently, and one can be found here if you are inclined to find out more about these celestial objects that seem to be coming into frequent contact with our living space these days. It seems that there may be alot more to these meteors than just watching a pretty shooting star.

The other article is from a blog I read frequently. The beginning of the article is below. It's title is:

Wars, Pestilence and Witches
~by Laura Knight-Jadczyk

It was a warm, clear afternoon in the capital. The bustle of metropolitan commerce and tourism filled the streets. Small sailing vessels dotted the sheltered waters within sight of the government buildings, riding on a soft southerly breeze. The Sun sparkled on the gentle swells and wakes, lending a luminous glow to the poppies and tulips nodding in the parks along the water's edge. All was in order.

But suddenly, the sky brightened as if with a second, more brilliant Sun. A second set of shadows appeared; at first long and faint, they shortened and sharpened rapidly. A strange hissing, humming sound seemed to come from everywhere at once. Thousands craned their necks and looked upwards, searching the sky for the new Sun. Above them a tremendous white fireball blossomed, like the unfolding of a vast paper flower, but now blindingly bright. For several seconds the fierce fireball dominated the sky, shaming the Sun. The sky burned white-hot, then slowly faded through yellow and orange to a glowering copper-red. The awful hissing ceased. The onlookers, blinded by the flash, burned by its searing heat, covered their eyes and cringed in terror. Occupants of offices and apartments rushed to their windows, searching the sky for the source of the brilliant flare that had lit their rooms. A great blanket of turbulent, coppery cloud filled half the sky overhead. For a dozen heartbeats the city was awestruck, numbed and silent.

Then, without warning, a tremendous blast smote the city, knocking pedestrians to the ground. Shuttered doors and windows blew out; fences, walls, and roofs groaned and cracked. A shock wave raced across the city and its waterways, knocking sailboats flat in the water.......

continue here

~ The Mediator

Rebounding ... ever tried it

2008-02-26T11:56:00.006-05:00

Yesterday I came across this article on "rebounding", it's a trampoline you use indoors to strengthen the cells of your body - not to make you physically strong - but to keep you healthy and your immune system working at top notch speed. Most people call rebounders 'mini-trampolines'. And, I've been rebounding for years. My children, when they were young, thought that it was the best thing since jumping on your bed.

Rebounding for health was what got me started and this was about 26 years back. After my son was born 23 years ago, (he was born with Down's Syndrome and as a result had a depressed immune system, low muscle tone - flabby arms, legs, neck) I brought him home from the hospital and would hold him in my arms and jump and sing to him on a daily basis. I did this hoping to help him grow strong and healthy. He still jumps today, although today I have to remind him that it's part of his exercise routine.

Anyway, the reason for writing all the above is that I saw this great article that I thought I'd include below. It's how rebounding for only two (yes 2) minutes a day can clean your lymph system. I had always been under the impression that I needed to jump 15-20 minutes for needed health benefits. But read the article.........two minutes, several times a day boosts your immune system and increase production of your white blood cells.

You can also find more great articles on health here.

The article was taken from:
http://www.naturalnews.com/z022716.html

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Whole Body Detox (Part 1): Lymphatic Cleansing With Rebound Exercise
by Mary Laredo (see all articles by this author)

With each passing decade since the end of World War II our planet has become silently, yet increasingly, toxic as pollutants from pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, industrial chemicals and other residual offenders choke the land, water and air that sustain us. As our planet becomes dangerously congested with debris so do our bodies, as evidenced by the alarming rate of deaths due to preventable illness and disease. We are neither helpless nor hopeless in this dire state, and just as we can strive to minimize our imprint on the planet, we can also take measures to reduce, eliminate and cleanse toxins from the blood, tissues and organs of our bodies. One of several effective methods of detoxification is through lymphatic cleansing.

Among the various functions of the lymphatic system is its ability to carry waste away from the cells and bloodstream to the body's organs of elimination. The system is comprised of veins and capillaries, with one-way valves, that contain a clear fluid called lymph. This fluid also surrounds cells throughout the body and collects cellular debris before draining it into the lymphatic system. Lymph carries the waste on a one-way path toward the heart and passes through many filters (lymph nodes) where special white blood cells attack and eliminate foreign molecules.

Once the lymph fluid approaches the heart it is returned to circulation and makes its way for further cleansing of toxins by the liver and kidneys. The lymphatic vessels are not connected to the blood circulatory system, and unlike blood which is pumped by the heart, lymph fluid relies on bodily movement and exercise to drive it through the lymphatic system. Forceful flushing of the system cleanses lymph nodes, contributes to healthy, clear lymph fluid, and boosts the immune system. Stagnant, slow-moving and thick lymph fluid is due to a lethargic, toxic body and weakened immune system.

When the lymph fluid remains sluggish the lymph nodes become clogged and lose their filtering ability. Without routine flushing of the lymph, debris becomes trapped in the body, creating a toxic overload and contributing to the onset of disease.

Exacerbating the problem caused by lack of exercise is the constant onslaught of toxins from processed, denatured food and exposure to environmental pollutants. Regular exercise will help to offset these offenders.

Rebounding on a mini trampoline is perhaps the most efficient and forceful means of flushing the lymph while stimulating the immune system and defending against cancer and other ailments. During rebound exercise the forces of the upward and downward bounces – acceleration and deceleration – are vertically aligned on the same plane with gravity. It was proven by Albert Einstein in 1911 that the aligned forces of acceleration, deceleration and gravity result in an increased gravitational load (1). What this means for the body is that during rebound exercise cells adjust to the increased load by becoming stronger. Rebounding strengthens virtually every cell of the body at the same time and is equivalent to resistance training for the cells.

It takes only two minutes of rebounding to flush the entire lymphatic system, while cleansing and strengthening cells and lymph nodes. A further benefit to the body is that during this brief time span the white blood cells of the immune system triple in number and remain elevated for an hour. These specialized cells play a major role in the body's defense against illness and disease. For one full hour their activity is increased as they perform their tasks of destroying and eliminating cancer cells and other toxins, expending themselves in the process. An hour after rebounding for two minutes the white blood cell count returns to normal (1, 2, 3).

At this point another two-minute rebound session would increase the demand for white blood cells as the process of cleansing, strengthening, and the flushing away of spent cells and other cancerous debris is repeated. A therapeutic strategy to rebuild health would be to rebound for two minutes every waking hour, or as many times a day as possible. Two minutes of gentle bouncing throughout the day is more effective for healing than one long session. Repeated short sessions sustain an active immune system, oxygenate and strengthen cells, and continuously cleanse the lymph. Therapeutic rebounding has been shown to reduce cancerous tumors and improve or heal a host of other ailments (3).

Those who are too weak to exercise or have difficulty standing can use a stabilizer bar which is available with most quality rebounders, such as the Needak model. This enables the weak individual to feel secure while bouncing gently. It's important to begin slowly, and gradually increase to two minutes.

Rebounding can be performed by healthy individuals for health maintenance and disease prevention. One or more long sessions of aerobic rebounding will help stimulate the immune system, improve digestion, control weight, tone and strengthen the body, and build endurance – especially when done with hand-held weights.

When beginning a program of regular rebounding it's best to gradually increase time and intensity as the body – including bones and internal organs – adjusts to the increased gravitational load and becomes stronger.

A healthy existence can only be sustained when we recognize the correlation between our toxic planet and our polluted bodies and become conscious stewards of both. One means toward this end is through daily rebounding combined with an alkaline diet to detoxify the body and profoundly contribute to optimum healing.

Future reports will cover the effectiveness and physiology of fasting, enemas and infrared sauna use for therapeutic detoxification.

References:1. Brooks, Linda: Rebounding and Your Immune System. Urbana, OH: Vitally Yours Press, 29; 33-46, 20032. Brooks, Linda: Cancer – A Simple Approach. Urbana, OH: Vitally Yours Press,33-6, 20023. Brooks, Linda: Rebounding to Better Health. Sixth Printing, KE Publishing, 51-2; 39-56; 71-6, 2006

About the authorMary Laredo is an artist, educator and gallery curator who lives and works in Detroit, MI. As a breast cancer survivor who shunned conventional treatment, she is writing a book about her experience with natural therapies and nutritional healing. Visit http://marylaredo.blogspot.com/

UPDATE 3/09/08: found another web site that has good solid information on rebounding and your health. If you please, visit here:
http://pals2u.tripod.com/id34.html

~ The Mediator

HONEY.....a cure for the common ailement

2008-02-25T15:22:00.007-05:00

I've been away again. There has been so many family issues over the last couple of months that it's all I can do to turn on the computer and check out my favorite sites. But, this article about honey and cinnamon has really peaked my 'health' curiosity. The reason for it is as follows:

My son, during the winter months, has always produced these big, ugly pimples. This only happens November through March and nothing but time has made them go away - until I happened upon a hand cream that I purchased over the holidays. It's made from honey. All natural ingredients (only a few). Anyway, one night I decided to apply some of this honey hand cream to his face (where another pimple was forming) and the next morning it was all but gone. A little more honey hand cream and two days later there was no sign of a big 'ole pimple.

We did this over and over this winter, whenever a pimple (and no, it's not just a tiny zit, but a boil type zit) would begin to form, I'd apply the honey cream and voila~~~gonezo. So, when I read this article, I just had to dig a bit and look further into the idea of honey (and cinnamon) being an incredible natural healer......and maybe you will look deeper into this too.

Read on and also check out some other health and wellness articles
here.

cinamon and honey the miracle cure
posted 2/9/2008 9:13:46 AM

read below OR can be read here...just scroll down half way on the page to find it:

http://mysite.verizon.net/mdmasters/healthtips.htm

or read the paper here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48137/honey-cinnamon-multiple-cures

Facts on honey and cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and cinnamon cures most diseases.

Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a "Ram Ban" (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases. Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.

Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, in its issue dated 17 January, 1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASES:
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS:
Arthritis patients may take daily, morning, and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon honey and half teaspoon cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

TOOTHACHE:
Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied three times a day until the tooth stops aching.

CHOLESTEROL:
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of cinnamon powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:
According to the studies done in India and Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:
A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increases and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:
Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:
Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:
Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.

FATIGUE:
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than! than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the bo dy within a week.

BAD BREATH:
People of South America, first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:
Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restore hearing.

One Person's Trash is Another Person's Treasure

2007-12-11T22:08:00.001-05:00

Thought I'd post a couple of thoughts on the Christmas (er....Holiday) Season and the shopping that goes along with it. Actually, I'm not one that enjoys shopping. The malls are too crowded, the roads are congested and prices are skyrocketing but.......

..........since we all seem to be avid consumers, and shopping is our game, you might want to take a look at the following video from www.mercola.com:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/need-to-see-before-you-start-holiday-shopping.aspx

It's a wonderful visual on what 'consumerism' does to the planet and how we've been set-up by the corporations to make those of us who live in the USA into nothing more than consuming piglets. We're trapped in a viscious cycle and can't stop it. But, there's one way to help the planet and your pocketbook.
So, after you watch the video, you might want to check out this website:

http://www.freecycle.org

Just type in your State or City, State and watch for a 'freecycle group' near you. I've been a user of freecycle and it is a wonderful way of cleaning out your overstuffed drawers, closets - or, if you're moving, giving away those items that could wind up in the dump. Likewise, if you're in need of something you can ask. Everything posted on freecycle is FREE.....and RECYCLED.

"The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4194 groups with 4188044 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Membership is free, and everything posted must be FREE, legal and appropriate for all ages."

Also, there's this:

http://www.repairclinic.org

"RepairClinic.com® - The preferred resource for appliance parts and free repair help. Ask our RepairGuru® your repair question. Let our PartDetective® show the part photo, pricing and availability. Shop online or use our toll-free number. No-hassle returns."

Well Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to anyone reading this blog.

~ The Mediator

IF YOU WANT TO SMILE, THIS WILL DO IT FOR YA

2007-12-03T14:35:00.000-05:00

Came across an article on another website and, although it gave me 'goosebumps', it is something everyone should see. It will really make you feel good, smile and want to see it again. So here is the link:

http://www.maniacworld.com/Phone-Salesman-Amazes-Crowd.html

It will make your day.

And a 'Oops', cuz I just want to add something else to this post:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/144703-Town-of-Allopath

~ The Mediator

DO YOU SUFFER.....Then Read This

2007-11-25T09:05:00.000-05:00

With the Holiday Season all around us, and many, many parties to attend (both family and work), there's something I think you should be aware of - especially if you tend to put on too much weight during this season OR if you tend to 'feel unwell' during the month long celebrations leading up to Christmas.

There is a helpful website I have found which has lots of great information concerning health and wellbeing. So....

If you suffer from panic attacks, gas, anxiety, irregular heartbeat (these were actually MY SYMPTOMS ~ I am NOT diagnosing anyone), as I did, you might want to read the following:::

Website for the article: "Food for Thought" can be found here:
http://www.msgtruth.org/

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Food For Thought .... {from MSGTRUTH}

MSG is a nervous system stimulant.

Recent research at Johns Hopkins directly ties nervous system stimulation to the immune system.

The FDA admits that MSG has been proven to induce asthma attacks in certain individuals.
Asthma deaths have increased with the increased use of MSG in the US food supply.

Childhood allergies have increased with the increased use of MSG in the US food supply.

The EPA has approved a growth-enhancing crop spray for use on fruits and vegetables which contains free L-glutamic acid, which has the same action on the nervous system as the amino acid glutamate found in MSG.

The latest autism research links two genetic areas to the disorder

These genes code for proteins for glutamate receptors and synapses

Glutamate induces epileptic seizures

20% of autistic children also have epilepsy

Glutamate increases histamine response

Autistic children often have food allergies

Some autistic children improve on a gluten-free, casein-free diet

Glutamate is found in large amounts in gluten, and casein (wheat and milk proteins)

Glutamate reduces levels of taurine - essential to proper digestion

Autistic children often suffer digestive symptoms

Glutamate targets the amygdala of the brain

An overstimulated amygdala results in the most classic behaviour of autism:avoiding gazes perceived as threatening

MSG injected into mice reduces free glutathione levels

Glutathione protects children from mercury poisoning by chelating mercury

Both Mercury and glutamic acid are still found in certain vaccines

Vaccines are suspected of being an environmental trigger for autism in children

Mercury in the environment is increasing due to air pollution

The tobacco industry used ammonia in cigarettes because it enhances the addictive effects of nicotine.

Ammonia in the blood stream quickly crosses the blood brain barrier.

When ammonia in the bloodstream crosses the blood brain barrier, it is converted into glutamate.

There are glutamate receptors in the pancreas.

Excess Insulin release triggers hunger and can lead to obesity and insulin resistance in lab animals.

Laboratory researchers inject animals with MSG to induce obesity.

Ingested MSG has been shown in human subjects to increase blood levels of free glutamic acid and in turn, insulin.

Glutamate-induced obese animals become resistant to leptin - the substance released by fat cells that scientists hope will cure obesity.

Obesity and Type II Diabetes have increased to epidemic levels in the US in children since the introduction of MSG into the American diet.

Type II Diabetes has actually DOUBLED in the past 30 years in the U.S.
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/123/115231.htm

Obesity among young people in China is growing at 10% each decade. http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/02/china.obesity/

Over 85% of people studied with Type I Diabetes have tested positive for antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) which is the enzyme responsible for turning excess glutamate into GABA.

The glutamate in MSG has a vasoconstrictive effect.

MSG is added mainly to salty, processed American foods.

Teens in Canada are now suffering from high blood pressure in record numbers.

Hypertension incidence in America is 30% higher now than it was a decade ago.

Some Americans have "salt-sensitive" hypertension.

High blood pressure is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease in the US.

Millions of Americans are taking calcium channel blocking medication to treat high blood pressure.

The Glutamate in MSG acts as a calcium channel opener.

High blood pressure is a risk factor for stroke.

Asians have been using MSG in large amounts since 1908 when it was discovered.

Young adults in Asian countries are now experiencing stroke in record numbers.

A dentist recently discovered that anti-inflammatory topical medicine can alleviate migraine headaches.He believes inflammation in the mouth above the upper rear molars presses against nerves - causing migraine

MSG induces histamine response

Histamine induces inflammation

MSG is a migraine trigger

The latest drugs to treat Fibromyalgia are anti-epileptic drugs which reduce glutamate levels.
Hospitals warn patients taking anti-seizure medications to avoid MSG.

GlaxoSmithKline's Lamictal (lamotrigine), a glutamate BLOCKER, has just been approved in the US for treating "Grand Mal" or primary generalized tonic-clonic (PGTC) seizures. http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-09-25T121424Z_01_WEN5872_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-GLAXOSMITHKLINE-URGENT.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

The anesthetic Ketamine is a glutamate BLOCKER.

Stroke victims are now given glutamate blocking drugs

MSG contains glutamate

Late stage Alzheimer's patients are now showing improvement on the glutamate blocker, memantine

MSG contains glutamate

A.L.S. victims are now being treated with glutamate blocking drugs

MSG contains glutamate

MS victims may soon be treated with glutamate blocking drugs

MSG contains glutamate

Many of the elderly in nursing homes are suffering the effects of stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and A.L.S.

MSG producers are now advocating the use of MSG in nursing homes

The glutamate blocker Lamictal is used to treat bipolar disorder (manic depression).

MSG was only added to the American food supply after World War II and has steadily increased.

Suicide among adolescents and young adults has nearly tripled since 1952.

Chinese processed foods are high in MSG.

China now accounts for 42% of the world's suicides:
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200609130358.htm

Ketamine - a glutamate blocker - relieved depression in 71% of study patients within ONE DAY of treatment

The blood brain barrier protects most of the human brain

The hypothalamus of the brain is not protected by the blood brain barrier

The hypothalamus of lab animals was damaged by MSG ingestion

The hypothalamus directs the action of the pituitary gland and entire endocrine system

Many MSG-sensitive individuals have been diagnosed hypothyroid

The hypothalamus regulates body temperature

Many young athletes are exhorted to use body-building products which contain free glutamate (MSG)

There has been an increase in heat stroke deaths in young athletes
[....end article]

Happy and Healthy Times to all,
~ The Mediator

Haven't Heard Much About FLU.....Have You??

2007-11-24T09:22:00.000-05:00

Usually every year, starting around the 1st of October, we hear reporting non-stop about the coming (deadly) flu season. The hype usually includes the information that there will not be enough flu shots to go around and to call your doctor asap to get your flu shot.

This year, I've hardly heard anything about the flu season.......this year it's all about your finances and the christmas and sales season. Of course, both of those can make you sick with worry: you get to worry about possibly getting the flu or worry about your income/assets disappearing with the falling dollar rising oil prices and/or you can worry even more about your job stability.

Also, you can go here:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/144251-Disturbing-FDA-staff-urge-psych-warnings-for-two-flu-drugs
for other articles about health and fear.

So below is the article about the flu. Have a wonderflu season.

Disturbing! FDA staff urge psych warnings for two flu drugs
Kim Dixon
Reuters
Sat, 24 Nov 2007

[note: highlights and emphasis mine]

U.S. Food and Drug Administration staffers are recommending new warnings about psychiatric events observed in some patients taking Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Relenza, according to documents released on Friday.

An FDA advisory panel will review the recommendations for the anti-viral influenza drugs at a meeting next week.

The FDA held a similar meeting two years ago in response to reports of a dozen deaths of children in Japan who had been taking Tamiflu.

Experts then found no evidence of a direct connection between the drug and the deaths, although the FDA did ultimately update Tamiflu's label to add a caution urging close monitoring of patients for abnormal behavior such as delirium or self-injury.

In documents prepared for the meeting next week and posted on the FDA's Web site, agency staff recommended that Tamiflu's label be strengthened to note: "In some cases, these behaviors resulted in serious injuries, including death, in adult and pediatric patients."
The FDA staff also reviewed Relenza, a drug in the same class as Tamiflu, recommending its label be changed to note "reports of hallucinations, delirium and abnormal behavior" observed in some patients taking the drug.

The current Relenza label has no label warning related to psychiatric events.

The FDA staff said the evidence is "conflicting" as to whether the events are medication-related, a manifestation of disease or a combination of the two.

Tamiflu has been more widely used in Japan than in the United States, and there is some evidence that the Japanese are more vigilant about reporting side effects, the FDA has said.
Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, is a pill, while Relenza, generically zanamivir, is inhaled.

A Roche spokesman said no causal relationship between Tamiflu and these psychiatric events has been proven.

"Roche has extensively investigated the issue and is conducting ongoing clinical and nonclinical studies. Roche takes all adverse events reports very seriously," spokesman Terence Hurley said in a statement.

About 48 million people have taken Tamiflu worldwide, including 21 million children, since approval in 1999, he said.

A Glaxo spokeswoman said a review of premarketing and post-approval trial data showed no worrying safety signals on patients taking Relenza. The drug is not a major revenue-generator for UK-based Glaxo.

FDA staff based its recommendations on a review of nearly 600 cases of neuropsychiatric events reported by patients on Tamiflu and 115 cases of such events by patients taking Relenza.
The FDA staff will present the advice to the advisory panel of experts meeting on Tuesday, November 27. The agency typically takes the advice of these panels but is not bound by them.
JAPAN PROBE

Japan in March warned against prescribing Tamiflu to those ages 10 to 19 as more than 100 people, mostly young, showed signs of abnormal behavior after taking the drug.

Earlier this year, Japan broadened its probe of Tamiflu to look at flu drugs Relenza and amantadine, after reports of abnormal behavior among young patients.

FDA staff reviewed recent side effect reports on amantadine and rimantadine, another flu drug in amantadine's class, but recommended no label changes. Amantadine already has a strong warning about suicide attempts and an increase in seizures seen in patients on the drug, while rimantadine notes seizure-like activity and hallucinations.

Tamiflu was having lackluster sales as a drug to prevent and treat seasonal flu but got a second life when it was the first drug to show real efficacy in treating and preventing bird flu.

The FDA staff documents for the advisory meeting were posted at:

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/07/briefing/2007-4325b-00-in dex-27and28.html.
(Additional reporting by Ben Hirschler in London)
(Reporting by Kim Dixon; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Carol Bishopric)

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~The Mediator

Virtual Age.....how old are you?

2007-11-20T08:42:00.000-05:00

Thought I'd add someting a little different for the Holidays:

This website calculates your 'virtual age'.

http://www.peterrussell.com/

just go down and click on the

'life expectancy calculator'.

So when I went to calculate my life, this is the result I got:

Biological Age: 59
Virtual Age: 37

Average Life Expectancy: 78
Your Life Expectancy: 99

Phew, I said to myself. Living until I'm 99 years old ! I have a ways to go before the end. Unfortunately, living where I do, I see first hand the result of living into old age - and it's not pretty. There are those exceptions, of course. But an argument I had with a friend who lives in Florida went like this: She said "the sunshine all year long keeps you healthier and living longer and better........". Another friend, who lives in New England said this: "the cold whether keeps and preserves you, so you live longer.....".

So, which is it?? Sunshine vs. cold??

Doesn't matter to me because I attempt to get as much vitamin d from the sun as I can all year long and then supplement with caster (yuck!) oil. Soooooo I'm thinking that as long as I am able to live an independent and purposeful life, it doesn't matter to me how long I live - just as long as I am living and doing and not plunked in front of my tv set 24/7.

So for the fun of it, check out your virtual age!

As an aside, if you are struggling to get a holiday gift for someone who loves to read, someone who loves to learn, then this is a (my opinion only) great book to give. It's called POLITICAL PONEROLOGY by Andrew Lobaczewski. Only 235 pages, but packed with punch.

I'm just finishing the book for the second time. It's about the nature of evil in politics and life. But more than that, it's a fascinating historical account of what happens when psychopaths become leaders (of a country, of a town, of a workplace, of relationships). . . . . .and what you need to know to survive these people who are in control of your life (they are everywhere on some level).

Good book, great read, a survival book for someone you love (and don't forget yourself).

~ The Mediator

Gotta Laugh a Little

2007-11-03T11:49:00.000-04:00

I was laughing out loud today as I watched the following spoof on cable news:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/181.html

Then there's this:

http://www.theoinio.com/content/video/in_the_know_is_the_government?utm_source=videomrss_68210

Well, hoping this only makes people giggle. If you are into 'consipiracy theories' then these spoofs will give you something to relieve the tensions of late. Like the title said, gotta laugh a little.

How We Lie To Ourselves

2007-10-30T11:41:00.000-04:00

Very interrresting article I found on
http://www.sott.net

How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance
UnknownPsyBlog
Mon, 15 Oct 2007
16:02 EDT

A classic 1959 social psychology experiment demonstrates how and why we lie to ourselves. Understanding this experiment sheds a brilliant light on the dark world of our inner motivations.

The ground-breaking social psychological experiment of Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) provides a central insight into the stories we tell ourselves about why we think and behave the way we do. The experiment is filled with ingenious deception so the best way to understand it is to imagine you are taking part. So sit back, relax and travel back. The time is 1959 and you are an undergraduate student at Stanford University...

As part of your course you agree to take part in an experiment on 'measures of performance'.

You are told the experiment will take two hours. As you are required to act as an experimental subject for a certain number of hours in a year - this will be two more of them out of the way.

Little do you know, the experiment will actually become a classic in social psychology. And what will seem to you like accidents by the experimenters are all part of a carefully controlled deception. For now though, you are innocent.

The set-up

Once in the lab you are told the experiment is about how your expectations affect the actual experience of a task. Apparently there are two groups and in the other group they have been given a particular expectation about the study. To instil the expectation subtly, the participants in the other groups are informally briefed by a student who has apparently just completed the task. In your group, though, you'll do the task with no expectations.

Perhaps you wonder why you're being told all this, but nevertheless it makes it seem a bit more exciting now that you know some of the mechanics behind the experiment.

So you settle down to the first task you are given, and quickly realise it is extremely boring. You are asked to move some spools around in a box for half an hour, then for the next half an hour you move pegs around a board. Frankly, watching paint dry would have been preferable.

At the end of the tasks the experimenter thanks you for taking part, then tells you that many other people find the task pretty interesting. This is a little confusing - the task was very boring. Whatever. You let it pass.

...............and you can read the rest of the article here:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/142646-How-and-Why-We-Lie-to-Ourselves-Cognitive-Dissonance

or go here:
http://members.show.ca/positivedisintegration/gifted.htm
for more information.

~ The Mediator

SHORTAGES: Take Your Pick - Food, Water, Money

2007-10-27T12:34:00.000-04:00

Ya know, it feels like we're living in a dream world at the moment.

Everything seems to be normal. Food available, water everywhere, working still and paying the bills. At the same time, there is a growing anxiety deep in my solar plexus. Some days the anxiety is so strong I can't ignore it - other days I want to run home, put on the tv, get some ice cream and let myself get swallowed up in a mind-less sugar high ((my version of pulling the covers up over my head and ignoring the warning signs going off all around me.))

Sooooooooo, rather than depress myself further, I'll post some links where you can read for yourself that the US is facing a water shortage crisis, the dollar is tanking and oil prices will be up over $100.00 a barrell soon, and what no one is speaking about too much is the growing food shortage that's gonna be all to apparent come this winter/spring (2007/2008).

Never mind the growing drumbeats for war, war, war. The only question there is whether it will be nuclear or not.

So, do you feel like you are on the verge of become extinct?? We're only a step away. The edge of the cliff is much closer than anyone dares dream.

Have a nice weekend!!!

~ The Mediator

LINKS BELOW:::

http://www.survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=982
"Food Set To Become Next Big Global News Story"

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/142490-Much-of-the-U-S-Could-See-a-Water-Shortage

and

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/128992-Forget-About-Global-Warming-We-re-One-Step-From-Extinction-

TEN STEPS TO.........NAOMI WOLF SPEAKS

2007-10-24T15:45:00.000-04:00

Today is a day to feel depressed. Well, maybe I'm feeling lower than depressed and I don't have a word to describe it - except for the fact that every cell in my body is screaming and my mind seems numb.

If you are able to, go to the website:

http://www.sott.net

or you can go to Brasscheck TV to watch this dna altering talk. But watch the video of Naomi Wolf speaking. It's one video that will hold your attention like a good 'thriller' movie. She speaks to an audience about the TEN STEPS TO FASCISM ...... a blueprint that is used to create a closed society. And, personally, I think we're up to number 9. Not much time left. Choose wisely Grasshopper !!

Video: The Fascist Blueprint
Naomi Wolf BrasscheckTV/Youtube

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:23 EDT

"It can happen here

"Naomi Wolf on "The End of America" It not only can happen here, it is happening here.
Mussolini created the blueprint (with inspiration from Lenin), Hitler elaborated on it, Stalin studied Hitler...

"Here's how it works (notice how many Bush & Co. is using now.):

"1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy

"2. Create a gulag

"3. Develop a thug caste

"4. Set up an internal surveillance system

"5. Harass citizens' groups

"6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release

"7. Target key individuals

"8. Control the press

"9. Dissent equals treason

"10. Suspend the rule of law

"Wolf's conclusion? Impeachment of Bush and Cheney is not enough. Prosecuting (and jailing) them for crimes committed is the only rational solution.

"Share this video widely."

~ The Mediator

Got Psychopaths

2007-10-24T06:59:00.001-04:00

This morning I was reading an article and the following paragraph struck me as one of those 'aha' moments. You can read this entire article and more like it at:

http://friedgreentomatoes.org/articles/frontal_ventral_brain_study.php

or, just go to http://friedgreentomatoes.org/

But, over the years, the questions I had involving someone in my life - someone that I could never, ever come to understand - were answered. You might want to read more about psychopaths and narcissists.......that is if you are in an unhappy, frustrating, confusing relationship. And that relationship could be spouse, family, child, workplace, friendship. Anyone in your life that continually causes much drama and drains you of your energy and sanity.

Psychopaths are constantly searching for strong stimulation, and are therefore attracted by activities that involve risk. For psychopaths the mastery of their behavior is difficult: irritation can turn to verbally or physically aggressive behavior. They show intolerance to frustration, a lack of guilt, and an inability to plan coupled with a lack of concern for the future.

How To Make A Rat "Fat"

2007-10-11T07:36:00.000-04:00

You just never know what you'll find while surfing the web. And so, I've come across this article about MSG (monosodium glutamate). MSG is in a lot of the foods that we eat. To explain MSG in simple terms: MSG makes food taste good - even when you are on your third helping. That is the simple explanation of what MSG does. Another explanation is that MSG kills brain cells. It is an excitotoxin. But, I'm jumping way ahead of myself.

I used to always wonder WHY I look forward to ordering a particular sandwich / pasta dish from a local restaurant. I mean I would literally think about a certain food alot (sounds silly doesn't it). I thought maybe the reason I was developing these unusual cravings was that I was getting older and lazy about cooking, but apparently these were not the reasons.

So read on about the dangers of this potent product. Especially if you are young person, if you are thinking about having children, if you are worried about alzheimers disease, you should be afraid......be very afraid. MSG is a danger to your health and especially a danger to your BRAIN.

How Do You Make a Rat, Fat?And what it means for you.
By Chuck Fenwick, Director Medical Corps
http://www.medicalcorps.org/fat-rat.htm

"In the wild, rats and mice don't get fat.

When they are full they stop eating. Most animals, including humans, are like that. When we are full our brain says, "Stop Eating." And so we do. Enter the worldwide obesity epidemic, especially among European nations.

Why are people gaining weight? I know they are eating too much food, but the question begs to be asked, "Why are they eating too much food?"

While doing some studies on PubMed, National Institutes of Health, I kept running across research which involved "MSG treated" mice and rats. What stood out was not that researchers were researching monosodium glutamate (MSG), but that they injected or fed lab animals MSG to make them fat. That's how they do it.

It is a given in research that if you need a fat-rat then you give it MSG. Now that's interesting considering that MSG is often added to everything we eat.

It's found naturally in most food, but many food suppliers often add more of it to our food products. It makes bad food taste good. It makes good food taste better.

From the tree, one apple tastes good. The second apple doesn't taste quite as good and the third doesn't taste good at all because the body says, I'm full, don't give me another apple or I will give it back.

If you put MSG on the apples then the third one tastes as good as the first and your body won't give you the, "Stop Eating!" command. But, I think, that just doesn't make sense because my stomach gets full and I stop anyway.

Right, however, the body will adjust over a period of time and make room for the food by extending stomach capacity. From the body's perspective, it's still food and it makes sense to accommodate and store it for later use.

In medicine we call this process, establishing fat reserves. It's good to have fat reserves to carry you through times when you can't eat, like when you are sick or when no food is immediately available.

Another point to consider is if indeed MSG would correspondingly affect humans then why would two people eating the same MSG laced food, not gain weight the same way.

Too many calories, or just MSG?

The answer is, for the same reason that one drug does not always affect two people the same. Codeine makes one person drowsy while the other can't sleep because the codeine stimulates them. Similarly, some people seem to be ultra sensitive to MSG while others are not. After finding out about the MSG Treated Fat-Rat, I wondered if MSG might cause other problems in mice and rats.

Causing Other Problems?

As a result, I started looking for other tox problems with MSG. Granted, rats aren't human and humans aren't rats (except for some of those people in Washington… okay, and possibly at least one of my ex sons-in-law), but we do use animal research to see if a new drug is dangerous.

With that in mind, if a standard research practice causes a rat to get fat then what else does MSG Treatment do to the animal?

I'll put this in human terms: MSG treated rats and mice produce offspring that have learning problems, eating disorders and need glasses because their eyesight isn't very good after the MSG treatment.

Examination of their hypothalamus shows they also suffer brain damage.

Keep in mind what this article is about as well as what it is not about. It is about how to make a rat, fat. It is not about food industry conspiracies or how to lose weight.

The one thing I know for sure from the research is this: If you want to make a rat, fat then give it monosodium glutamate (MSG). "

There are other websites and articles you may want to check up on. Go here for more information:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/137263+How+To+Find+Hidden+MSG+on+Food+Labels
http://www.msgmyth.com/hidename.htm

http://www.mercola.com/

~ The Mediator

CONTROLLED BY F.E.A.R.

2007-10-10T18:00:00.000-04:00

This is a great article taken from the website
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/

But what caught my eye, after reading the article, was the video created on behalf of the book "The Shock Doctrine" by Naimi Klein. Words cannot describe it. It's short and you've gotta see it for yourself. The video can be seen here:

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

but to start, just read the article below. We have lost our country. We are now in a police state - it just hasn't been officially proclamed by the PTB. So, keep your head down, your nose clean and maybe stock up on toilet paper and cigarettes.

American lockdown: Law enforcement out of control and beyond the pale

Carolyn Baker, The Peoples Voice
Tue, 09 Oct 2007
22:21 EDT

"In my recent article "The End Of America: The Police State Is Right Here, Right Now" I included experiences of escalating intimidation on the part of law enforcement in the United States within recent months. I must confess that when I cite such incidents, I fear that in a few days or weeks, it will all go away, and everyone, myself included, will begin to question the validity of the examples, breathing a heavy sigh of relief and rejoicing that the situation isn't nearly as dire as I'm asserting it is.

"This time, however, I have nothing to fear because since that article was posted, the ante of out-of-control law enforcement in America appears to have been upped with a rapidity that I could not have imagined just a few weeks ago.

"Have we not all heard about the New York woman on her way to rehab who passed through the Phoenix airport, became distraught when she had just missed her flight, and was arrested for disorderly conduct by airport police? The suspect, Carol Ann Gotbaum, was handcuffed and then placed in a holding cell and left alone. According to police, when they returned, she was dead. At this writing, Gotbaum's family and officials are awaiting the autopsy report -- the "official" cause of death.

"Just a few days later, again in Phoenix, a male suspect was handcuffed after an on-foot chase by police, and shortly after being handcuffed, according to police, he lost consciousness. He was then taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

"In yesterday's New York Daily News, the story "Science teacher's brush with police ends in heart attack" relates an incident that happened back in June of this year when an African American Brooklyn high school teacher was mistaken for a perpetrator by police, suffered a heart attack, and was left on his own by the street cops who accused him of "acting."

"As outrageous as these incidents may be, the most chilling event appeared on networks across the nation yesterday morning with the story of a 20-year-old Wisconsin sheriff's deputy who shot and killed six young people at a party Saturday night. The most obvious question: How is it that a community of citizens allows a 20-year-old to become a deputy sheriff? Why not give an M-16 to a third-grader?

"Nevertheless, all of these stories are connected by a common thread: Law enforcement in the United States, whose duty it is to "protect and serve" have now become not just part of the problem but in fact, predatory devourers of those they are sworn to keep safe.

"Deepening collapse will be attended by manifestations of the unraveling of all institutions, one of the most frightening examples being law enforcement's hysterical repression of citizens.

"Although we are seeing more media attention given to private security companies such as Blackwater, we should not assume that the power and funding granted to these firms will dissipate anytime soon. They are an integral part of the Shock Doctrine brilliantly analyzed by Naomi Klein in her new book of the same title. The greater the extent of the empire's collapse, the greater the intensity of the shock applied to those who reside within the belly of the beast. From those shocks flow not only increased terror and social control, but flourishing profits for private security companies.

"The U.S. government is making it unmistakably clear that it intends to use every avenue of power at its disposal to lock down the nation. A story sent to my subscribers today from the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) reveals that in its correspondence with the Treasury Department, "The Treasury Department was surprisingly candid in that correspondence, asserting the U.S. Government's authority, in declared emergencies, to confiscate precious metals and to restrict ownership of mining shares -- and to confiscate and restrict every other financial asset as well."

"Almost daily we hear of increased surveillance of Americans as well as unprecedented restrictions on travel, not only on persons entering the U.S. but on persons traveling within the country and on dissenters who attempt to enter other countries as in the case of two activists, Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright, who were denied entrance into Canada last Thursday "because their names appeared on the FBI's National Crime Information Center database."

"Another relevant story relinked today pertains to the anti-terrorism Vigilant Shield 2008 exercise of U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM): "The series of exercises is mandated by the US government to prepare, prevent and respond to any number of national crises that would call for the use of the military inside the United States. Vigilant Shield 2008 builds a scenario of a domestic disaster in the US (terrorist attack or natural disaster). It posits the domestic use of the US military including a special role for the US Air Force." As we know, a precedent for using the U.S. military inside the U.S. was set in the aftermath of Katrina in 2005.
"For those considering expatriation, it will soon be too late to leave. For those who choose to remain within this increasingly locked down nation, it will be necessary to acquire survival skills, a strong community of friends, and a great deal of stealth in order to navigate this empire's exacerbating Orwellian treachery. "

YA GOTTA ADMIT, secretly, you've been trying to figure out how to get out of this country, right. So where would you go? There are no countries any longer, just corporations that own governments. Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run. Bummer.

I can suggest one thing though, read the book "Political Ponerology" by Lobaczewski. It just may save your life and the lives of your children. Up to you. http://www.qfgpublishing.com/

~ The Mediator

Sunshine vs. Sunscreen: You Be The Judge

2007-10-08T15:44:00.000-04:00

With the days getting shorter, I'm trying to get out in the sun more to build up an extra-abundance of Vitamin D for the fast approaching winter months.

Lately there has been lots in the news about (preventing) cancer and Vitamin D. And today I read this article on suncreens ... don't use them (sunscreens), never did. But, the following seven questions that were written up in this article will help your sort out the issue of whether or not to use sunscreens. Just use your LOGIC.

SEVEN IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ABOUT SUNSCREENS:

Reat the entire article at:

http://www.newstarget.com/021903.html

...(snip)...
The next time you see some public service advertisement urging you to smother yourself and your children with sunscreen chemicals, think hard before taking action.

Ask yourself these seven commonsense questions:

1) Is the sun really dangerous to humans? If so, how did humans survive for the last 350,000 years on planet Earth?

2) Have the chemicals used in sunscreen products ever been safety tested or approved by the FDA? (The answer is no.)

3) Who financially benefits when you keep buying and using sunscreen products?

4) What is the environmental impact of sunscreen chemicals washing off into the ocean, a lake, a swimming pool or being washed down the drain in your shower?

5) Sunscreen manufacturers say the skin doesn't absorb their chemicals. If that's true, then how do nicotine patches work? How do transdermal drugs get absorbed through the skin if sunscreen chemicals don't? (Answer: ALL these chemicals get absorbed through the skin. The skin is not selective about what it chooses to absorb.)

6) If the sun is so dangerous, then why is the vitamin generated by sunlight (vitamin D) so healthy for humans? Why would humans evolve a mechanism for generating a vitamin from sunlight if we weren't supposed to be exposed to sunlight in the first place?

7) If sunlight is so dangerous, then why is virtually every living creature on planet Earth dependent on sunlight for survival? Plants use sunlight to generate their nutrition, too, and most animals eat either plants or other animals that originally ate plants. Nearly all life on planet Earth is powered by sunlight.

Why does the cancer industry believe sunlight causes death when, in reality, sunlight delivers life? Once you answer these questions, the reality of the situation becomes obvious: Sunlight is good for you, and sunscreen is a hoax............(snip)........

And, if you're into getting your immune system turned up a notch before flu season hits, you can find lots of good articles on health at:

http://www.signs-of-the-times.net/

especially if you are a smoker, and you are tired of feeling guilty for smoking. Check out some of the smoking articles at the above website.

Well, gotta get outside for another "sun walk".

~ The Mediator

MORE UNANSWERED 9/11 QUESTIONS: MAYBE THE ANSWERS ARE HERE

2007-09-15T10:21:00.000-04:00

It's a rainy Saturday morning and I was sitting at the computer reading, drinking my morning cup of coffee when I came across this interesting (kinda creeped me out) article about the possibility of space-based weapons involved in the 9/11 destruction of the twin towers.

More food for thought, if you have the courage to read through this article. Best place to read it would be on the author's web blog. There she has graphs, pictures that link up with her list of "9 pieces of evidence"................but, here's her blog:

http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/2007/09/ultra-terrestrials-and-911.html

Date: 15 September 2007

Title: Ultra-terrestrials and 9/11

Among the many things being argued by the 9/11 “Truthers” is the question of whether or not advanced, secret, “Space Based Weapons” could have been utilized to disintegrate the World Trade Center Towers. This discussion is, of course, going on in spite of the silly propaganda nonsense recently put out by the tabloid BBC which reported on the “findings” of Cambridge Don, Keith Seffen.

All I can say to Keith is: Thinking that a steel framed building could collapse at freefall speed from the impact of even a jetliner loaded with fuel is absurd. In order to collapse at free fall speed, the underlying floors need to be removed before the floors above. It's something called Conservation of Momentum, and anyone not familiar with this should get educated before making a fool of themselves as Seffen has done.

The footage of the collapse of the 1,300ft WTC towers has been played and replayed ad nauseum and is etched in all of our minds. If by some miracle you have not seen the footage, it is freely available on the various memorial DVDs of the 9/11 attacks. It is also available for download from our web site. I strongly suggest that you avail yourself of a copy and study the collapse of both towers.

What you will see is that from the start point of the collapse until there is nothing but air where the towers used to be, about 10 seconds elapse. An object in `free fall´ i.e. falling through thin air, will take a specific amount of time to reach the ground. The laws of gravity dictate that a 5 ton SUV, for example, and a 1lb rock, given that their relative densities are so much higher than the resistance presented by the surrounding air, will take approximately the same time to reach the ground when dropped from the same height.

The time t required for an object to fall from a height h (in a vacuum) is given by the formula t = sqrt(2h/g), where g is the acceleration due to gravity. Thus an object falling from the top of one of the towers (taking h = 1306 feet and g = 32.174 ft/sec2) would take 9.01 seconds to hit the ground.

Of course, this is in a vacuum, with no air present. It's basic physics. I guess Seffen skipped that lecture.

Allowing for the resistance of the air we would have to add on a few seconds, yet according to the government´s 9/11 Commission report , the south tower collapsed in 10 seconds flat. But, as we all saw, the collapse of the south tower `pancaked´ through the 75 lower floors of the tower.
Those undamaged floors below the impact zone would have offered resistance that is thousands of times greater than air. What time might we allow for the section above the impact point that collapsed to pass through each floor? 1 second each floor? If so, then the collapse should have taken 75 + 10 seconds, or over 1 minute and 20 seconds.

For the sake of discussion, let´s allow just a half second delay in the collapse provided by each `pancaked´ floor. In this case it should have taken 37.5 + 10 seconds. But let´s be really charitable and suggest that each floor below the impact point offered just 1/10th of a second resistance to the section that first began to `pancake´ on the lower floors. In this case the collapse should have taken 7.5 + 10 seconds for a total of 17.5 seconds. Yet this is not what happened. As the official 9/11 report states and as we all saw, the towers collapsed in just 10 seconds! How can this be possible? (Seffen's silliness notwithstanding). The only explanation is that the floors below the impact point offered no resistance whatsoever allowing the building to fall in `free fall´ with only air as resistance. The only way that this could have occurred is if the support offered by the steel core beams was in some way undermined. The most obvious way to undermine the steel core beams of the WTC tower would seem to be via the techniques employed by demolition experts to take down buildings and have them fall into their own `footprint´ - which is exactly what happened to the WTC towers. However, in the case of the WTC towers there are several factors that point to something other than standard technology being used to demolish towers.

This is what is being hotly contested among 9/11 researchers. In an email I received this morning, a 9/11 researcher wrote:

If Tarpley is embracing the "space beam theory", he's hurting the Truth Movement. The ptb are trying desperately to keep the Peace Movement and Truth Movement from joining forces. So far, they've been successful, but i don't think they'll be able to keep these natural allies apart much longer.

To which another researcher replied:

Surely all it would take is a qualified physicist to explain to Tarpley the physical impossibility of such weaponry?

My husband IS a physicist and he spent some time working for a DOD contractor in the U.S. before 9/11 subsequent to which we decided to leave the U.S. He has looked long and carefully at all the evidence and has some thoughts about it. Let me tell you what he proposed as an appropriate way to approach this subject in our book 9/11: The Ultimate Truth.

"Most investigators point to evidence of "explosives" and "squibs" in video footage of the collapse of the two towers, yet to effect the complete destruction of so much concrete and office material, a massive quantity of explosives would surely have been required, and such a quantity is simply not evident in the available footage. As has been suggested by Professor Jones, an advanced and publicly unknown form of "superthermite" was probably used to cut the steel core beams of the WTC towers, which leaves open the possibility that other similarly advanced and publicly unknown technology was used to disintegrate the concrete that constituted the body of the towers. In this case, it would not be responsible or wise for me to theorize about what specific device or technique was used to turn the towers to dust, however, I will say that `sound´ and `light´ weapons have been developed in the past 20 years by the U.S. and Israeli military that are capable of `invisibly´ destroying hardened targets. To that I will add that part of the prepping of the WTC towers could have included the planting of `conductors´ to effect the propagation of such an induced wave throughout the buildings and thereby causing the vaporization of concrete and human bodies alike."

That's the short version. Now, let's look at that paragraph in a broader context.

Controlled demolitions at the WTC has been scientifically proven long ago since the government's version defies basic laws of physics (not to mention an amazing series of coincidences all over the place on that day.). At this point it's just a matter of figuring out what method was used for the demolition.

NINE PIECES OF EVIDENCE FOR SPACE-BASED WEAPONS ON 9/11:

1. Seismic readings too low to account for two 500,000 ton towers
(On Dec 14, 2006, a NIST scientist said "...the collapse of the towers were not of any magnitude that was seismically significant...")

2. Concrete pulverized to powder in a way that cannot be accounted in a standard controlled demolition. (i.e. more than 50% of samples under 100 microns)

3. Steel spire turns to dust and trickles down in news videos.

4. Photographs of Ground Zero lacking enough concrete and steel to account for two 110 story towers.

5. Toasted cars over half a mile from Ground Zero.

6. Large sections of buildings "vanish"

Round holes in WTC 5 roof

Large vertical chunks "missing" from WTC 3

and WTC 6

7. Downtown Manhattan not flooded. If one million tons of towers collapsed on the slurry wall / bathtub at freefall speed, it would have broken through and flooded New York.

8. All airplanes ordered to land about fifteen minutes before the South Tower is destroyed. Right after the North Tower goes, government allows military aircraft back up.

9. Evidence for existence of Space-based weapons. (Let's remember, the government is always at least 15-20 years ahead in technology from where they publicly admit.)

Introducing the Particle-Beam Weapon by Dr. Richard M. Roberds; published in Air University Review, July-August 1984

Millimeter-wave energy to be used in a weapon by Peter Clarke; published in EE Times June 6, 2001

US hails airborne laser as weapons milestone, ABC News, October 29, 2006

So, ask yourself... what can explain ALL the anomalies listed above?

First of all, my husband, as a physicist, knows for a fact that there are weapons and technology that are already being used that are not known to the public. He developed certain technology himself that has never yet seen the light of day because it was buried in black projects. Sure, word eventually gets out after some years; but often that "word" is disinfo to distract away from what is really being done. Sometimes, it is announced as a "new discovery" because people are noticing strange things going on and the PTB have to do damage control.

This brings me to the topic of the day: Ultra-terrestrials and 9/11.

The whole "alien abduction" thing is a case study of what is being done within the 9/11 Truth Movement. Let me explain a bit:

Based on my experience as a hypnotherapist working with several alleged "alien abductees", I think it is highly probable that there is a "secret government" program that "fakes" alien abductions. However, the question must be asked "why?"

To get a complete picture of the problem, let´s look at what Richard Dolan has reported in his book "UFOs and the National Security State". He writes:

The UFO problem has involved military personnel around the world for more than fifty years, and is wrapped in secrecy. [...] Because this subject is so widely ridiculed, it is important to stress why it is worthy of serious attention.[...]

Stories of strange objects in the sky go far back into time, but the problem received little attention until the Second World War. [...]

During the UFO wave of 1947, American military and intelligence organizations conducted multiple, simultaneous investigations of these sightings. [...]

By the end of 1947, a contingent of analysts at the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base believed that UFOs were extraterrestrial.

By the summer of 1948, this team prepared an "Estimate of the Situation." [...] As the story goes, Air Force Commander Hoyt Vandenberg rejected [this conclusion.] [...]

In the summer of 1952... UFO sightings were so frequent and often of such high quality that some in the air force actually wondered whether an invasion was under way. With some help from the secret CIA sponsored Robertson Panel of January 1953, the air force improved censorship over the problem. Still, it never quite went away. Civilian organizations began to collect and analyze interesting UFO reports. [...]

Then came the great UFO wave of 1965 and 1966, when the air force could no longer hide behind weather balloons and swamp gas, nor withstand public scrutiny. [...]

Let us pause to assess the situation. By the mid-1940s, America´s intelligence apparatus had reason to believe that there were artifacts in the skies that did not originate from America, Russia, Germany, or any other country. These objects violated some highly sensitive military airspace, and did not appear to be natural phenomena. One may presume that the affected national security authorities made it an immediate obsession to determine the nature and purpose of these objects, and we may infer that the issue probably became a deep secret by 1946, or 1947 at the latest. (Dolan, Richard, UFOs and the National Security State, (Charlottesville: Hampton Roads 2002) Introduction p. xix.)

It was at this precise moment in time that the Human Potential movement was "born." Do we think that this was a coincidence? By the mid-50s, it was becoming obvious that things were getting out of control and coincidentally, in August of 1956, the FBI began its COINTELPRO operation.

When traditional modes of repression (exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes) failed to counter the growing insurgency, and even helped to fuel it, the Bureau took the law into its own hands. Its methods ranged far beyond surveillance, and amounted to a domestic version of the covert action for which the CIA has become infamous throughout the world.

Usually, when we think of COINTELPRO, we think of the most well known and typical activities which include sending anonymous or fictitious letters designed to start rumors, among other things, publishing false defamatory or threatening information, forging signatures on fake documents, introducing disruptive and subversive members into organizations to destroy them from within, and so on. Blackmailing insiders in any group to force them to spread false rumors, or to foment factionalism was also common.

What a lot of people don´t keep in mind is the fact that COINTELPRO also concentrated on creating bogus organizations. These bogus groups (or alleged "experts") could serve many functions which might include attacking and/or disrupting bona fide groups, or even just simply creating a diversion with clever propaganda in order to attract members away so as to involve them with time-wasting activity designed to prevent them from doing anything useful. COINTELPRO was also famous for instigation of hostile actions through "independent" third parties.

According to investigators, these FBI programs were noteworthy because all documents relating to them were stamped "do not file." This meant that they were never filed in the system, and for all intents and purposes, did not exist. This cover was blown after activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971. The possibility of finding evidence for any of it, after that event, is about zero. To spell it out in Dolan´s words:

Regarding matters connected with "national security," there appears to be a wealth of information that does not exist officially. Thus, a request to find such documents through a Freedom of Information Act request would be in vain. Add to this the likelihood that perhaps the most sensitive information regarding UFOs may not even exist in document form ("the first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper," Richard Helms), and one can appreciate the difficulty that an honest UFO researcher or 9/11 researcher has in ferreting out the truth.
Now, let us take a few logical steps. The UFO problem emerged into the national consciousness in 1947, or thereabouts. Not long afterward, a lot of people began asking a lot of questions. The government wasn´t answering, and so the people began to band together to find out the answers for themselves.

Sounds a lot like 9'11, yes?

They started forming groups. And this is where things get just a bit curious. The thing that was most threatened by the UFO/alien issue seems to have been the Standard Monotheistic Religions. Religion seems to be a necessary component of political control. Social control - that is the mainstay of religion - was most definitely under threat. In fact, what seems to be true is that it is not even clear that religions - as we know them - would have survived a full disclosure. So the logical conclusion is that part of the main reason for the cover-up was to "protect the religious status quo."

As things stood at the time, protecting the religious status quo - mainly the social controls that stem from religion - was iffy at best. After a century of scholarly investigation into many religious texts, and the raising of many questions about the "old time religion," there were a lot of people in society who were most definitely turning away from religious dogma. It´s fairly simple to take the next logical step and see that a combining of the questions of those who were disenchanted with religion, politics, government, with the questions of those who wanted to know just what the heck was going on in terms of possible "extraterrestrials," was seen as a dangerous and explosive mixture. Something had to be done.

The activities of COINTELPRO in attempting to neutralize political opposition have been pretty well exposed. But we are now considering the fact that, in addition to political activists, it seems that COINTELPRO has particularly targeted groups that are seeking the truth about the interactions between the US government and Ultra Terrestrials, or so-called "aliens." That a long-time cover-up of these matters has been in effect is certainly evident to any careful researcher.

The COINTELPRO files show the U.S. Government targeted a very broad range of religious, labor and community groups opposed to any of its agendas, and it is only logical to assume that the same type of operation would be created to cover up the "alien agenda." Such a theoretical COINTELPRO operation also goes far in explaining why, when the sincere researcher of UFO phenomena enters this field, he or she discovers only lies, lies, and more lies; confusion and disinformation. That is most definitely the signature of COINTELPRO.

[It is definitely what one finds when trying to discover the truth about 9/11, or the JFK and RFK assassinations, and a whole host of other clandestine activities.]

Considering all of this, would anybody care to suggest that it did not also occur to the Powers that Be that the chief means of diverting attention and covering up the truth would be to literally fund and create the "New Age" and "Human Potential movement" so that it would follow their agenda of keeping secrets?

The same is probably true regarding the 9/11 Truth Movement. If nobody has really thought of this, better think again! Probably most of it IS COINTELPRO!

In other words, it is extremely likely that the most successful and popular of Metaphysical Mavens and New Age Impresarios are COINTELPRO agents - either conscious or dupes of those who are. And the same is the true of the 9/11 Truth Movement and even the Alternative Media.

The main objective seems to be to attack and "neutralize" those who are seeking the answers. Those who are sincere, who do bona fide research and seek to explicate the truth, are infiltrated, attacked, and marginalized according to standard COINTELPRO procedures.

What all of this seems to suggest is that the Powers That Be (PTB) have developed COINTELPRO to an all new level of Social Shaping, Cultural Brainwashing, and the main targets of this activity would include virtually anyone who is seeking the truth about the shifting realities of our world.

The cases of COINTELPRO activities against political groups must be no more than the tip of the iceberg, given that the great bulk of COINTELPRO-type operations remain secret until long after their damage has been done. By all indications, domestic covert operations have become a permanent feature of U.S. politics and Social Programming, and it is hardly likely, considering the evidence, that the New Age and Human Potential fields are exempt.

Or the 9/11 Truth Movement or the Alternative Media.

The implications of this are truly alarming. Those who manage to get close to the truth of these matters, despite the many obstacles in their path, face National covert campaigns to discredit and disrupt their research and reputations. Clearly, COINTELPRO and similar operations under other names also work to distort academic and popular perceptions of the problems facing our world.

This is glaringly obvious in the 9/11 Truth Movement.

They have done enormous damage to the search for the Truth.

"Terrorism is changing. New adversaries, new motivations and new rationales have surfaced in recent years to challenge much of the conventional wisdom..." wrote Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Director of RAND. And he was right. The only problem is, the reader is largely unaware of the definition of "new adversaries" that might be implied in his remarks. A careful reading of Richard Dolan´s book will immediately reveal what Dr. Hoffman really meant in his remarks about "terrorism." He was talking about citizens wanting to know the Truth about their world and what happens within it. Based on the documents assembled by Dolan, it is obvious that the governments of the world do indeed see the UFO problem as a very, very serious matter. In the course of assembling the documents and reporting the events, Dolan came to the inescapable conclusion that there exists an "Above Top Secret" group with access to all available UFO data, and that this group "straddled" the worlds of government, military, and industry. The evidence proves that the military created a complete fiction for public consumption designed to convince the masses that the UFO problem was "nonexistent." They were assisted in pulling the wool over the eyes of the public by "heavy handed official media and culture," and they were obviously under orders to consistently and repeatedly "debunk" the idea that aliens were ensconced in our world. What seems to be true is that most of our elected officials are as much victims of the debunking as anybody else. And the same is true about mainstream science.

Dolan writes:

Next to the bureau, the military intelligence services became the most important component of the domestic intelligence scene. Army intelligence had nearly unlimited funds, extensive manpower, specialized personnel, deep planning and training resources, and the most sophisticated communications and data processing capability. [...]

The army´s intelligence surveillance did not focus on tactical and reconnaissance data, but on political and ideological intelligence within the United States. (This was wholly illegal.) [...]
Then there was the CIA. By the late 1960s, there were more spies than diplomats in the State Department, or employees in the Department of Labor. [...]

When the Weather Underground, a radical splinter of the SDS, had an "acid test" to detect agent´s provocateurs, they had no idea that the CIA had been tripping on LSD throughout the 1950s, creating a special caste of "enlightened agents" for precisely these occasions.

Based on this, we wonder about "agents provocateur" in the New Age and UFO community who are "specially trained" as "UFO experts"? And what about the "experts" in the 9/11 Truth Movement?

The agency continued its work on mind control. Following the work of Dr. Jose Delgado [experiments in] Electrical Stimulation of the Brain [were conducted.] This involves implanting electrodes into the brain and body, with the result that the subject´s memory, impulses, and feelings could all be controlled. Moreover, ESB could evoke hallucinations, as well as fear and pleasure. "It could literally manipulate the human will at will," [said Dr. Robert Keefe, a neurosurgeon at Tulane University.]

In 1968, George Estabrooks, another spook scientist, spoke indiscreetly to a reporter for the Providence Evening Bulletin. "The key to creating an effective spy or assassin, rests in creating a multiple personality with the aid of hypnosis," a procedure which he described as "child´s play."

By early 1969, teams within the CIA were running a number of bizarre experiments in mind control under the name Operation Often. In addition to the normal assortment of chemists, biologists, and conventional scientists, the operation employed psychics and experts in demonology. (!!!)

Over at the NSA, all one can say with certainty is that its budget dwarfed all others within the intelligence community.

Dolan documents how the intelligence organizations of the United States - and very likely other countries who are working in concert with them, though outwardly they may pretend to be oppositional - have conducted terminal mind- control experiments, biological spraying of American cities, human plutonium and syphilis injections, illegal communications interception, and nationwide domestic surveillance of private citizens, political assassinations and coups, ongoing media manipulation and outright public lying on a continual basis, most especially in regards to UFOs. The above organizations, via any and all means available, made sure that, to the public at large, UFOs and aliens were a "dead issue."

Scientist and UFO disclosure advocate James McDonald said in 1969: "I am enough of a realist to sense that, unless this AAAS symposium succeeds in making the scientific community aware of the seriousness of the UFO problem, little response to any call for new investigations is likely to appear."

McDonald presented a brilliant paper entitled "Science in Default: Twenty- two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations." Dolan comments that it was "perhaps the most damning statement about UFO research ever made." Speaking before the convention at Boston´s Sheraton Plaza Hotel, McDonald came down hard on everyone: Condon, Menzel, Hynek, and finally the scientific establishment itself. He said:

No scientifically adequate investigation of the UFO problem has been carried out during the entire twenty-two years that have now passed since the first extensive wave of sightings of unidentified aerial objects in the summer of 1947.

...In my opinion, the UFO problem, far from being the nonsense problem that many scientists have often labeled it, constitutes a problem of extraordinary scientific interest.

The grave difficulty with essentially all past UFO studies had been that they were either devoid of any substantial scientific content, or else have lost their way amidst the relatively large noise content that tends to obscure the real signal in the UFO reports.

This high noise to signal ratio is, based on the evidence, the direct product of the frenzied activities of the "National Security State" in their promulgation of the New Age/Human Potential smoke and mirrors magic show.

What is also clearly evident is that this noise is the fundament of the prevailing scientific doctrine. What we see is that the Scientific Community - though they claim to be seekers of advanced scientific truth - have been as easily duped as Joe Sixpack and Shirley Seeker of Truth. The former is interested in little more than his truck, his dog, and his weekend football game, while the latter is generally looking for a lifestyle of higher "experiences." What I also suspect is that even the lower echelons of the intelligence and military organizations must be included in this rather large grouping of the duped and deceived sheep.

An example of this duping of those investigating the matter from the "bottom up," is Andrew Tully who wrote The Super Spies, supposedly an early report on the NSA. He, and many who have followed him, suggest that the UFO is an "intelligence" device and that it evolved out of Nazi Secrets brought to the US under Project Paperclip.

Dolan lays out the evidence and disabuses us of the notion that the UFO activity could be human, technological breakthroughs as such naive conspiracy theorists propose. As he says, "all of the indicators point to a definitive NO." He then points out that, every single person who actually studies the UFO problem [yours truly included - who began as a flaming skeptic] - becomes convinced that it IS a problem of Alien invasion of our planet. Every official study of UFOs persuaded the researchers that aliens were the explanation for the data. But that data has been denied, and when denial no longer worked, it was obscured by the noise, the smoke and mirrors that prevail today in UFO research and the New Age and Human Potential movements. Do we think that this is coincidence?

Another evident production of "noise" is the nonsense that passes today as "channeling" or "alien contacts". Indeed, my own work involves what can certainly be called inspirational material, but as we have noted repeatedly, it is not your usual "channeled" info, nor do we treat it as such. For us, a controlled channeling experiment is the 10% inspiration that must be matched by the 90% perspiration of real research.

With a broad historical awareness of the facts, a firm grounding in the realization that most of what is out there is deliberate disinformation, the individual who surveys the plethora of "alternative information" in books and on the internet, can easily recognize the "noise" factor produced by the Secret State. Dolan tells us:

By the early 1970s, there were already means available to alter the moods of unsuspecting persons. A pocket-sized transmitter generating electromagnetic energy at less than 100 milliwatts could do the job. This is no pie-in-the- sky theory. In 1972, Dr. Gordon J.F. McDonald testified before the House Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment on the issue of electromagnetic weapons used for mind control and mental disruption. He stated:

"[T]he basic notion was to create, between the electrically charged ionosphere in the higher part of the atmosphere and conducting layers of the surface of the Earth, this neutral cavity, to create waves, electrical waves that would be tuned to the brain waves. ...About ten cycles per second.

"...You can produce changes in behavioral patterns or in responses."

The following year, Dr. Joseph C. Sharp, at Walter Reed Hospital, while in a soundproof room, was able to hear spoken words broadcast by `pulsed microwave audiogram.´ These words were broadcast to him without any implanted electronic translation device. Rather, they reached him by direct transmission to the brain.

Consider the above "neutral cavity in the ionosphere" in terms of so-called "chemtrails."

Consider the bizarre fact that the entire American populace appears to be brainwashed so that they cannot even see that they are being herded to their own destruction. Obviously, a lot more is being done with this technology than creating faux "alien abductions."

Notice the dates in the above quote from Dolan´s book telling us that in the early 70s certain technologies were being developed that could "broadcast" "mind control" signals over the entire nation. We certainly suspect that this technology was developed further in the subsequent years. The question is: what did they do with it? Better yet, what ARE they doing with it?
And this is where we come to the COINTELPRO function of creating bogus organizations to attack or disrupt bona fide groups seeking truth.

We have already noted the fact that research in Electrical Stimulation of the brain could produce hallucinations. If you put hallucinations together with words, you can produce just about anything that you want in the way of "noise" to obscure the truth - including the "shape-shifting reptoids-as- humans," or a "gray dude in the bathroom," or a "Guardian Alliance," or a "Nibiruan Council," or an "Ashtar Command," or talking whales and dolphins, or belief in the Official Conspiracy Theory of 9/11. You name it - they can produce it via voices in the head and hallucinations and transmissions of frequencies that produce ecstatic states, healings, or whatever.

And so it is that the human element of the Cosmic COINTELPRO operation manages their many "agents" of disinformation - pied pipers leading the masses of Truth seekers - so that whatever the real truth is remains their secret. And that´s exactly the way they want it.
What strikes me as an essential turning point in this COINTELPRO operation was the beginning of the "expose" of two particular items that hold sway in certain "conspiracy" circles to this very day: Alien Abduction and Satanic Ritual Abuse.

The Gray alien scenario was "leaked" by Budd Hopkins. Whitley Strieber´s alien abduction books, including Communion, followed a few years after. Prior to the publication of these books, the ubiquitous "Gray aliens" had never been seen before. In fact, a review of the history of "contact" cases show that the type and variety and behavior of "aliens" around the world are quite different across the board. But, along came Budd, followed by Whitley and his glaring alien on the cover, and suddenly the Grays were everywhere.

In respect of Whitley and his Grays, allow me to emphasize one of Dolan´s comments quoted above: "By early 1969, teams within the CIA were running a number of bizarre experiments in mind control under the name Operation Often. In addition to the normal assortment of chemists, biologists, and conventional scientists, the operation employed psychics and experts in demonology." This, of course, brings us to the parallel event of that period of time: Satanic ritual abuse. SRA is the name given to the allegedly systematic abuse of children (and others) by Satanists.

As it happens, keeping our timeline in mind, it was in the mid to late 1970s that the allegations of the existence of a "well-organized intergenerational satanic cult whose members sexually molest, torture and murder children across the United States" began to emerge in America. There was a panic regarding SRA triggered by a fictional book called "Michelle Remembers". The book was published as fact but has subsequently been shown by at least three independent investigators to be a hoax. No hard evidence of Satanic Ritual Abuse in North America has ever been found, just as no hard evidence of abductions by Gray aliens has ever been found.

Nevertheless, the allegations were widely publicized on radio and television talk shows, including Geraldo Rivera´s show.

And note that Geraldo is deep in the 9/11 Coverup!

Religious fundamentalists promoted the hysteria and, just as during the Inquisitions, endless self-proclaimed "moral entrepreneurs" both fed the fires of prosecution and earned a good living from it. Most of the early accusations of satanic ritual abuse were aimed at working-class people with limited resources, and with a few exceptions, the media and other groups that are ordinarily skeptical either remained silent or joined in the feeding frenzy of accusations. The few professionals who spoke out against the hysteria were systematically attacked and discredited by government agencies and private organizations.

The same system of mass manipulation is evident in the 9/11 Truth Movement.

The question has to be asked: If there are thousands of baseless accusations of SRA and thousands upon thousands of cases of unverifiable alien abductions, how do they originate?
Most of the SRA cases are said to originate with children. Since there is a widespread belief that children wouldn´t make up stories of eating other children or being forced to have sex with giraffes after flying in an airplane while they were supposed to be in day care, the stories are often taken at face value by naive prosecutors, therapists, police officers and parents. Researchers have found that children are unlikely to invent stories of satanic ritual abuse on their own. So, where do the stories come from? Accusing the therapists, district attorneys, police and parents of inducing such stories from children doesn´t seem to be a very productive answer. Yes, it may happen in some cases, but certainly doesn´t seem likely in the vast number of cases.

Now, let´s go back and think about our timeline. As it happens, "Michelle Remembers" was published in 1980, co-written by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, M.D. Budd Hopkins finished "Missing Time" in December of 1980, with an "afterward" by Aphrodite Clamar, Ph.D.
Set this side by side with the potential for broadcasting mass mind-control signals over the entire country, and it´s looking pretty "coincidental" from where I sit.

Consider this capability in terms of the 9/11 Cover-up also.

What occurs to me - putting the pieces of the puzzle together - is that there is some general kind of imagery being widely broadcast in the "neutral cavity" described above, and that it depends a lot on the individual and their cultural programming how it "takes." When we consider the fact that "Operation Often" employed "the normal assortment of chemists, biologists, and conventional scientists" and "psychics and experts in demonology," we begin to think that electronic COINTELPRO includes a whole supermarket of new "beliefs" - Gray aliens and "alien contacts" for the New Age crowd and a whole range of "sexual/ritual abuse scenarios" for those who are not open to the alien shtick; and we can't forget political persuasions and belief in Islamic terrorists.

Just think of the potential such technology possesses for convincing the public that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by 19 Arab terrorists who took down the defenses of the planet's "superpower" not to mention all the other patently absurd official explanations about that day, not to mention everything that has happened since.

Is the whole thing beamed out as some sort of "free-formal imaging," and, based on the conscious acceptance of one or another version, it takes on its individual characteristics in the minds of the millions of recipients? In other words, is it picked up by the subconscious in alpha states or in sleep, perceived as traumatic in a general scenario that can then be interpreted by the individual belief systems in terms of either being examined and or sexually manipulated by aliens on a table or "raped on an altar" by Satanists, or threatened by terrorists? Are the public productions - books by Hopkins, Strieber, and the SRA scandals, the Right Wing pundits, just variations on the "closing of the circuit" by the conscious mind accepting or creating some scenario as the explanation for the constant bombardment of such signals as described in Dolan´s book? Is it the job of COINTELPRO to create "bogus organizations" that produce various "explanations" to close the circuit and "make it real" in the person´s mind?

One has to wonder about the name of the program: Operation Often in terms of the claims of abductees - victims of repeated and "often" abductions - as well as the claims of those who suggest the SRA explanation. In either case, the believer is being "herded" into a "response camp" of either faith in alien saviors, or faith in Jesus to save them from the demonic/satanic Illuminati, Jews, Pagans; or George Bush, Israel, or War that will save them from Islamic terrorism - take your pick.

Let me make it clear that I am in no way suggesting that "abductions" or some whacked out satanic rituals do not ever take place somewhere, under some circumstances. What I am suggesting is that the Gray Alien and SRA phenomenon most certainly was not restricted in any way by COINTELPRO, and may indeed be the smoke and mirrors that hides a far more insidious state of affairs.

And the 9/11 Truth Movement itself along with much of the Alternative Media, may also be a complete Smoke and Mirrors show.

In essence, Dolan´s book shows us the history of how the many levels of society have been duped and deceived - or directly controlled - from the average citizen, to the seeker of higher truths, to the scions of science and industry, to the hallowed halls of government. Each "type" has been targeted in the way most likely to "manage" them best. Those who cannot be "managed" generally die, as scientist James McDonald - and others - did. But all the while, the UFOs kept coming, and people kept seeing them, and they kept asking questions.

In April 1971, an engineering research magazine, Industrial Research, published the results of a poll in which 80 percent of its members rejected the Condon Report; 76 percent believed that the government was concealing UFO facts; 32 percent believed that UFOs were extraterrestrial. Poll or no poll, the CIA continued to lie about its UFO interests. [...]

The worst story of 1971 was the demise of James McDonald. [Atmospheric physicist from the University of Arizona.] As far as anyone could tell, McDonald was fine all through 1970 and into 1971. On March 2, 1971, he testified as an expert in atmospheric physics at the House committee on Appropriations regarding the supersonic transport (SST) and its potentially harmful atmospheric effects. McDonald´s opponents questioned his credentials and ridiculed him as someone who believed in "little men flying around the sky." Laughter broke out several times.

Shortly after this incident, McDonald shot himself in the head and became blind. He was committed to the psychiatric ward of the VA medical Center in Tucson. In June, he signed himself out. On Sunday morning, June 13, a woman in south Tucson, identifying herself as a doctor, said a deranged blind man had taken a cab to the area. She wanted to know where the driver had dropped him off, and she made several calls. Meanwhile, a married couple and their children, walking along a shallow creek, found McDonald´s body under a bridge at 11:40 a.m. A .38 caliber revolver was in the sand, near his head. A brief note attributed his suicide to marriage and family problems. [...]

We know that many intelligence agencies were skilled in "creating" suicides. But, one might ask, wasn´t McDonald´s mental condition already deteriorating? Jerome Clark stated that McDonald was ready to "crack" in the aftermath of the SST hearings. But what caused this? Embarrassment at the SST hearings? His marriage? Perhaps, one supposes, but both of these explanations feel flimsy. Without exception, those who knew McDonald described him as possessing great integrity and courage. Was he really the type of person to commit suicide?
McDonald had been described as a man who was "afraid of nothing." What seems to be so is that this was why he was destroyed. Hynek had written that McDonald was considered by the Air Force to be an "outstanding nuisance." With the mind control arsenal that has been described at their disposal, we have a good idea of what "they" can do to the mind. Even the strongest. Courage and integrity, it seems, are no protection. We would like to note another curious death - that of Edward Ruppelt. After years as an advocate of disclosure, he suddenly did an about face - re-wrote his book recanting his belief that UFOs were extraterrestrial craft, and was dead within a year at a very young age.

It looks to me as though, if you are important enough to make a difference in the way people think and they can´t corrupt you, they kill you, and if they can corrupt you, they still kill you so you won´t have a chance to change your mind and recant your recantation like Jacques de Molay did when the Templars were destroyed. Those who get close to the belly of the beast are generally subjected to a variety of treatments it seems.

Many important and influential people have attested to the reality of the UFO phenomenon as an "alien reality." Within the military organizations, those who affirm the "alien hypothesis" are widespread and numerous. But, as Dolan shows us, they cannot discuss those views without risking the penalties of imprisonment and stiff fines.

In the present day, we have Steven Greer´s "Disclosure Project." Based on the mail I get, it seems that many in the New Age/UFO community think that this is a great and novel idea. However, history shows that it has been tried before. The one thing about Greer´s effort that suggests it is just more and better COINTELPRO is his attachment to the "aliens are here to help us" idea which is directly contradicted by history, though widely promoted by most "contactees." Even Linda Howe, for a long time the most reputable of careful researchers - and no stranger to the machinations of the Secret State - seems to have fallen for this one - or COINTELPRO. It is also now being promoted in "Fate Magazine" by Rosemary Guiley, who has the odor of COINTELPRO about her with her notable connections to military "agents." Jerome Clark is also a regular contributor to Fate.

Let me make it clear at this point that I am convinced that a lot of honest, sincere, hard-working individuals are being duped and/or controlled without being fully aware of it. But, not being aware of how your own mind is being used against you doesn't lessen the problem; in fact, it makes it all that much more tragic.

Dolan documents the failure of civilian groups in their efforts to really "end UFO secrecy." NICAP had prominent and active members, connections to Congress and the military, and their effort continued for over ten years. NICAP fought diligently for congressional hearings, and yet every time they got "close" to bringing it to the table for public consideration, the congressional sponsorship "backed off" and reversed their support.

What kind of group is it that can control our government officials in this way? An even deeper question might be: What kind of group is it that can control the media, the military, the CIA, the FBI, NSA, and even the President? What do they do to intimidate and dominate ethical and substantial persons in positions of authority? (Assuming there are any ethical persons left in any positions of authority!)

Whatever it is, we would certainly like to know because it suggests that they are hiding something so significant that even hints of it behind closed doors can send the most powerful congressmen running with their tails tucked between their legs.

This brings us back to the problem of the Secret State and its agenda. Some people believe that this secrecy is absolutely essential. They say that the public simply could not handle the truth about aliens. They say that there is no reason to spoil people´s lives with the truth because there is nothing that the average person could do about it anyway.

Is that really true? Would there be so much effort to conceal the alien agenda if disclosure of the truth wasn´t harmful to that agenda?

Dolan´s chronological history of the actual interaction between UFOs and the public and the corresponding behavior of the military, the intelligence community, the media, the scientific community in its interaction with the public, make this abundantly clear. Dolan writes:
Some believe this is, as it ought to be. Can the public really handle the truth about aliens? If the presence of others constitutes a threat to humanity, for example, what could the average person even do about it? There are those who believe that secrecy about UFOs is in the public´s best interest.

What is clearly evident, and most especially so in the past year or two, is that the "public interest" is not the concern of those making these decisions. As Dolan rightly says, secrecy is being utilized not to protect the public, but to protect those keeping the secrets - the "Above Top Secret" group - and very likely even the aliens themselves - who are not really aliens, but rather denizens of hyperdimensional realities. See:

Laura Knight-Jadczyk Interview on BBC Radio

When we consider the modus operandi of the intelligence community, in its historical perspective, what we see is that, at every level, right up to the very top, there is control and manipulation. This leads me to suggest that even those at the top level of the human Consortium are being duped and deceived and are as unable and/or unwilling to consider that possibility as those at the lower levels.

It seems obvious from the documentary evidence as well as the behavior of the military in response to UFOs and the "alien matter," that the aliens do have an agenda, and that - at some level in the layers of secrecy - there are those who know - at least on a "need to know" basis - what that agenda is. It seems abundantly evident that the secrecy has been enjoined on this group by the aliens themselves. What is more, a careful assessment of the evidence does not suggest a benevolent agenda.

As a result of the manipulations of this "Consortium," the majority of Americans are inculcated into the fiction of a representative government - a democracy - and that our scientists and representatives are "taking care of business" for us, and even if they are sometimes corrupt, they aren´t as bad as a totalitarian regime.

It has become most definitely obvious in the past couple of years that this is not the case - and probably never was. We don´t even really elect our representatives. It´s all a sham. But the fiction propagated by the media has clouded the ability of the American people to see their society and government for what it really is: an oligarchy that pretends to be a democracy to placate and deceive the public.

And one must not ever forget those "mass mind control signals" that are probably flooding the air-waves, even carried on cell phone signals.

To those who suggest that it doesn´t really matter since it is an efficient way to organize and manage millions of people, let us suggest that it is suicidal to think that an oligarchy is not primarily interested in maintaining its own position to the exclusion of all other considerations.
When we consider the evidence, we see that the groups in question have never acted in the best interests of the public. If you doubt this, spend some time reading about non-consensual human experimentation. And so, logically speaking, there is no reason to even suggest that the secrecy surrounding the "alien reality" is any different.

Dolan notes that, as a result of the concerted "debunking" of UFOs perpetrated on a populace that has been mind manipulated and dumbed down by public "education" for a very long time, our society has become extraordinarily schizophrenic about UFOs. At the level of "officialdom," as in academia, mainstream media, government and so forth, UFOs are either ignored or treated as a joke. You won´t find UFOs or Aliens - or their repeated invasion of sensitive airspace - discussed on the nightly news. You won´t find Ted Koppel analyzing them as a threat to National Security. And this state of affairs is totally bizarre because it is abundantly - overwhelmingly - clear and evident that our military and intelligence organizations consider them to be so important that information about them is classified "Above Top Secret."
However, being classified "Above Top Secret" does not seem to matter to the aliens. They arrogantly do as they please and leave the "clean up" to their human lackeys the same way some media personalities have been reported to destroy hotel rooms, and then have their accountants write checks to cover the damages, while their agents give press releases that deny any such thing ever happened.

This brings us back to the efforts of COINTELPRO. Since the military is in the position of dealing with beings of such arrogance that their checks don´t cover the damage they do, the "press releases" are issued in the form of diversion and division. UFOs and the "alien reality" are promoted in ways that simply do not relate to the documentary evidence or the factual data.
UFOs and aliens are given cachet in the New Age and metaphysical communities, and groups studying them or "channeling" them are "managed" so that the possibility of exposure of the Truth is completely minimized in the plethora of conflicting, generated "beliefs." At the same time, there are organizations that are set up to operate as "professional debunkers" and disinformation artists. Smoke and mirrors and endless confusion.

What is evident from the documents and statements of those "in on the secret," is that the current "popularity" of aliens and New Age presentations of the subject are the direct result of deliberate infiltration by intelligence personnel who are continually "spinning the wheel" of lies and distortion.

UFOs have national security implications for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that they have involved military and industrial personnel of many nations around the globe. This situation has existed for over fifty years. In fact, a careful study of history shows an intersection between UFOs and the military for hundreds, if not thousands of years! Unauthorized airspace violations continue to occur; attempted interceptions repeatedly take place; and the secrecy orders are more severe now than ever.

We have to ask ourselves why this is so?

If the military organizations are as interested in UFOs and Aliens as we know them to be based on the evidence, and if they are in the dark about them, as the evidence also suggests, would they not be utilizing the many claimed "alien contacts" among the New Age community as resources if there was the possibility that such sources really were in contact with the "real aliens" in and about the planet as they claim? There are certainly many of these contactees that claim "extreme military interest" in their work.

However, based on the facts of the operations of the National Security State, we can pretty well objectively assess that if this were true, such contactees would not be out there promulgating their information. That they often operate unmolested, and even achieve great popularity is compelling evidence that their "information" is useless to the military, if not created by it. What seems to be true is that most contactees and channelers are dupes of the military cover-up - victims of COINTELPRO - created to generate the noise that hides the signal of the true Alien Reality. In short, the majority of claims of channelers, contactees, new age gurus, UFO researchers, and the like, both in books and on the internet, about the "alien reality," is COINTELPRO at its finest.

Take that to the bank.

And the same is true of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

One thing is clear: the UFOs themselves are not under the control of the military - or anybody else. But that the Consortium continues to debunk and cover it up - in the face of its violations of their own airspace - suggests to us again the analogy of arrogant and powerful Masters of Reality, aided and abetted by their military and intelligence organization servants who, all the while they are obeying the powerful overlords, which very well may include the 9/11 Attacks and war with Iraq, Iran, and God knows who else, seek to keep everything quiet while they try desperately to discover the secrets of power so as to arrogate it to themselves. And it seems evident that, in the present time, the game is afoot in the citadels of Power and Secrets. We don't know - and cannot know at present - whether some super secret beam weapon was used to take down the Twin Towers on 9/11; but it is possible. And frankly, it is the one explanation that seems to cover all the anomalies.

Bottom line is: Something is happening, there is a schedule, and the servants of the alien masters are pushing an agenda that few of us understand. They are trying to cement controls, to solidify their power base, because Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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Long article. But, if you're just an ordinary citizen like myself, (not a scientist, not a researcher) it does give you a totally new perspective. Gotta get another cup of coffee
and do some more reading.

~ The Mediator

A VERY ORDINARY THING TO HAPPEN ! ?

2007-09-13T07:57:00.000-04:00

Morning all,

I was looking at another blog I like to check from time to time. So, my recommendation would be to check her blog out if you are so inclined.

http://shar131.blogspot.com/

Anyway, found this on her blog. It's her latest post, which is a reprint of an article about 911. And, whether I want to admit it or not, I find myself constantly questioning those major trauma's to our psyche - things that happen in our world - where the official answers do not make any sense to me. And, as many others have stated, 911 has never made much sense to me. What does stand out in this article, for me, is that the scientists states that the collapse of the Twin Towers was "A very ordinary thing to happen." Ordinary.....ordinary??? But anyway, read on ........ comments and all ! ..................

******
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Unhappy Annivaersary

Well, we can't let the "anniversary" pass without a little bit of reading material from the "Signs Of The Times"! see below:

9-11 Anniversary Propaganda Special!: Demolition theory challenged by Cambridge University engineer

Comment: Well, an anniversary wouldn't be an anniversary without something a little special to mark the occasion, to let you know that folks are still thinking for you, oops, of you! Today is no exception, with the BBC kindly sending this reminder of why everything is just great and why we should all go back to sleep.

Demolition theory challenged

An analysis of the World Trade Center collapse has challenged a conspiracy theory surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

The study by a Cambridge University engineer demonstrates that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total.

Comment: Above we have a few key words to frame the article for the reader: analysis; study; engineer; and demonstrates. This sets up the expectation that one is reading new and useful information, data to shed light on the Twin Towers collapse from a credible source, Cambridge no less, the renowned MI5 recruiting ground.

But that aside, here at Signs of the Times, we are all for useful data and information, lets see if we can find any...

One of many conspiracy theories proposes that the buildings came down in a manner consistent with a "controlled demolition".

Comment: Indeed, lets hope the good Dr. can solve the mystery of how these steel framed buildings collapsed at near free fall speed due to fire when no other buildings have have suffered similar fates after far more extreme blazes. How steel girders were cut cleanly by fires not hot enough to melt them. How molten steel amassed in the rubble and burned on for weeks, of how steel beams were ejected hundreds of feet laterally from the towers.

The new data shows this is not needed to explain the way the towers fell.

Comment: New data? So far lots of words, but nope, no DATA. Maybe that's further on..?

Over 2,800 people were killed in the devastating attacks on New York.

Comment: At last some information! Sadly this does not help us to better understand the collapse, but useful perhaps only as an emotional anchor point to remind the reader, lest any doubt creep in.

After reviewing television footage of the Trade Center's destruction, engineers had proposed the idea of "progressive collapse" to explain the way the twin towers disintegrated on 11 September 2001.

Comment: Oh, so "analysis" and "study" are in fact "reviewing television footage". Lets hope they had some good clear shots to work with, with all the pulverized concrete dust clouds in the way.

This mode of structural failure describes the way the building fell straight down rather than toppling, with each successive floor crushing the one beneath (an effect called "pancaking").

Comment: And completely collapsing at near free fall speed? - Billiard Balls!

Resistance to collapse

DrKeith Seffen set out to test mathematically whether this chain reaction really could explain what happened in Lower Manhattan six years ago. The findings are published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.

Comment: Well, still no data. But hey, why not pay a visit to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics to read the good Dr's. findings? Here's the link as posted by the BBC, can you find Dr. Seffen's work? No, neither can we. LOTS of words going on the page here but, still no DATA.

Previous studies have tended to focus on the initial stages of collapse, showing that there was an initial, localised failure around the aircraft impact zones, and that this probably led to the progressive collapse of both structures.

In other words, the damaged parts of the tower were bound to fall down, but it was not clear why the undamaged building should have offered little resistance to these falling parts.

Comment: So what then led to the collapse of Building 7, that was not hit by a plane and suffered only minor fires yet still collapsed into its own footprint at free fall speed?

"The initiation part has been quantified by many people; but no one had put numbers on the progressive collapse,"

Dr Seffen told the BBC News website.Dr Seffen was able to calculate the "residual capacity" of the undamaged building: that is, simply speaking, the ability of the undamaged structure to resist or comply with collapse.

His calculations suggest the residual capacity of the north and south towers was limited, and that once the collapse was set in motion, it would take only nine seconds for the building to go down.

Comment: And do the calculations provide any clue as to how each floor's reinforced concrete managed to pulverize itself into dust, erupting like a volcano? Do we find evidence of a stack of 'pancaked' floors at ground zero?

This is just a little longer than a free-falling coin, dropped from the top of either tower, would take to reach the ground.

Comment: A free falling coin dropped from where on the tower? The top, the middle, the point of impact? Where is the DATA? Billiard Balls!

'Fair assumption'

The University of Cambridge engineer said his results therefore suggested progressive collapse was "a fair assumption in terms of how the building fell".

"One thing that confounded engineers was how falling parts of the structure ploughed through undamaged building beneath and brought the towers down so quickly," said Dr Seffen.

Comment: Apparently the good Dr. is not at all confounded by the miraculous collapse of Building 7. No need to even mention it. What a pity the BBC did not have comments open for this article so that informed readers might put the question.

He added that his calculations showed this was a "very ordinary thing to happen" and that no other intervention, such as explosive charges laid inside the building, was needed to explain the behaviour of the buildings.

Comment: A "very ordinary thing to happen", aside that is from three steel framed buildings never having collapsed into their own footprint such a way before, ever.

The controlled detonation idea, espoused on several internet websites, asserts that the manner of collapse is consistent with synchronised rows of explosives going off inside the World Trade Center.

This would have generated a demolition wave that explained the speed, uniformity and similarity between the collapses of both towers.

Comment: Correction: the similarity between the collapses of all THREE towers.

Conspiracy theorists assert that these explosive "squibs" can actually be seen going off in photos and video footage of the collapse. These appear as ejections of gas and debris from the sides of the building, well below the descending rubble.

Other observers say this could be explained by debris falling down lift shafts and impacting on lower floors during the collapse.

Comment: Miraculous! Debris falls faster inside a building than it does free-falling on the outside!

Dr Seffen's research could help inform future building design.

Comment: Indeed it may. If he were ever to provide any useful DATA for analysis and peer review that is.

......now you can go to the original article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6987965.stm

or you can read the article and lots of other interesting articles that you'll never find in your local papers or on the nightly news:
http://www.sott.net

So, as as always say to my children when ending our phone call (as we live a distance away from each other - and besides telling them that I love them - ):

Be Safe.
~ The Mediator

Smoking: Good or Bad

2007-09-10T13:35:00.001-04:00

Thought I would write some comments about smoking.

Both my parents smoked. My mom recently passed away at age 83. She had her mental faculties intact, but her body was unwilling to continue on. Mom began smoking at the age of 15. Up until recently, she smoked two packs a day, claiming that during the last three years of her life, she did not inhale.

My dad, started smoking at age 13 on the advice of his doctor (M.D.). My dad suffered from asthma and the doctor told him that smoking would help him to breathe better and have less asthma attacks. Apparently this worked for my dad, because he enlisted in WW2 and was stationed overseas for a few years.

The only time my dad had an asthma attack (during his time in the military) was when he was shipped back to the states. I wish that I had questioned him more thoroughly on his smoking, but in our conversations his asthma attacks only occurred when there was some type of acute emotional trauma. All I can say is that this does seem to be true, from our limited conversations.

But, there is a growing body of evidence that smoking, er...nicotine..., may be quite helpful to the human condition. Now I am in no way encouraging smoking, but you cannot wonder why there is such a concerted push to END smoking.

Personally, I think that all the additives that have been added to TOBACCO are the root cause of most of the illness caused from smoking. But, who am I, certainly I am no scientist. Just someone who logically can connect the dots.

If interested, you can read the following article, in part, which I read over here:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/138489-Brain+cells+work+differently+than+previously+thought%3A+Nicotine+helps+to+spark+creativity

Brain cells work differently than previously thought: Nicotine helps to spark creativity
University of California - Irvine
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:38 EDT

Scientists know that information travels between brain cells along hairlike extensions called axons. For the first time, researchers have found that axons don't just transmit information - they can turn the signal up or down with the right stimulation.

This finding may help scientists develop treatments for psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia in which it is thought that different parts of the brain do not communicate correctly with each other.

"Until now, scientists have thought that in the brain's cortex -- where most cognitive processes occur -- information was only processed in the cell body," said Raju Metherate, author of the study, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior, and director of the Center for Hearing Research at UC Irvine. "The result of our study suggests that we must consider the axons as sites of information processing - and of potential problems when things go wrong."

This study appears online Aug. 19 in Nature Neuroscience.

Increasingly, studies are beginning to show that complex information processing, and perhaps consciousness itself, may result from coordinated activity among many parts of the brain connected by bundles of long axons. Cognitive problems may occur when these areas don't communicate properly with each other.

Cognitive function occurs when millions of brain cells communicate with each other at the same time. A brain cell has a network of branches called dendrites through which it receives and processes information from other cells. The body of the cell then relays the processed information along an axon to a terminal that links to another cell's dendrites. At the terminal, chemicals called neurotransmitters are released, allowing the information to enter the receiving cell. Until now, scientists believed axons were just the wires between point A and point B.
(...end snip...)

Not being a smoker myself, the article gives pause as to why the Government is demanding that no one smoke EVER. Kinda makes you think that eventually there will be no place where you can legally smoke ~ except in Congress ! !

But wait, there's another article with 'tons' of links about smoking and it's possible benefits with much more to research and read about. If you are a smoker, or think that smokers are getting a bum-rap, just follow your nose:

http://sott.net/articles/show/139304+Let%27s+All+Light+Up%21

~ The Mediator

DARK SECRETS

2007-09-05T06:21:00.000-04:00

Somebody wake me up. Came across this article entitled:

"America's Darkest Secret: The Nine Stages of American
Autogenocide"

author is Martha Rose Crowe

http://hiddenmurder.blogspot.com/

I have never ever heard the word autogenocide before. Wish I hadn't. But, now that I have, and don't see it in any of the main stream media news, I thought I would post part of the article below so I don't forget about this man-made horror. The portion of the article that I posted seems to sum up what autogenocide is. But I suggest reading the entire article for FULL IMPACT either at Martha Crowe's blog or at Signs-of-the-Times website.
http://www.sott.net/signs/articles/show124948-America%27s+Darkest+Secret%3A+The+Nine+Stages+of+American+Autogenocide

(snipped)......American Autogenocide Told From An Eye Witness:

It was a Minnesota State Representative who told me about autogenocide. This happened in August of 1998. I called him at his home. Many times, I'd call him about news reports I had seen on television announcing that the "government" reported a surplus of jobs and a shortage of workers. This was almost the daily news in the late 1990's. Chronically under-employed, I wanted to know where these jobs were. Nobody ever seemed to know. When I'd call the television station or Job Service and actually talked with a live being on the other end of the phone (most of the time I would be forwarded to an answering machine), someone would promise to call back and never did.

Almost ten years later, most people know that it was all propaganda. The abundance of jobs that the government and media constantly told the village about didn't exist.

When I called the politician this time, I was worried about the upcoming vote to continuance of the end of welfare. The state government was forcing the most poorest and helpless women in the village to work, when work was almost impossible to find and when it was found, it paid minimum-wage, was part-time and offered no fringe benefits. Armed with research I had been doing, I told him there was not enough work for all the workers in the village.

"How are these women and their children supposed to survive on part-time work and no welfare?" I asked. "Don't you know that many women and children are going to die if you do this?"

I could hear his frustration with me as the tone of his voice changed on the other end of the phone line. Exasperated, he told me, "Okay, Martha, I am going to tell you something off the record. If you ever tell anyone, I will deny it." I listened carefully as he proceeded to tell me something that shocked me all the way to the core of my being.

First, he asked me, "What do you know about farming?"

I replied, "What does farming have to do with women not getting work?"

He replied, "A lot and I'll get to that in a moment." Then he told me that economists, industry and politicians knew that the 'flush' economy was going to last until around the year 2000 (he was right), and then 'welfare reform' would have to be shelved because the more privileged people in society would demand all the remaining jobs of a slagging economy. This didn't happen because the Will of the Elite became too powerful and entrenched, plus the virtual war on "terror" that sucks all the money out of the treasury and spent on the new police state instead of citizens who are going to die from governmental neglect.

The local politician told me that in the interim, someone, namely women and children, had to be sacrificed. Yes, he said, politicians knew that some innocent people were going to die, but 'welfare reform' was a 'red button' political issue that 'had to be addressed' because the middle-class and the upper-classes did not want to pay taxes to support disadvantaged people.

Therefore, some of the most powerless people had been targeted for elimination from society.
"It is no big deal," he told me, "Every society does it. Think of it in these terms: Farmers don't keep animals that cost more than they produce. People in power have to make those same decisions regarding people just like farmers have to make the same decisions regarding livestock. Someone has to control the size of the herd. Unlike animals, it is the powerless, not the sick or lame, that are selected to be removed.

Politicians have to make difficult, executive decisions for their constituents, even if it seems unfair. That's what they are elected for and they are giving the voters what they really want. If politicians refuse to make these decisions, they won't get reelected. There are lots of people willing to run for office and make those executive decisions if the current politicians won't do it. These choices are natural and a fact of life, Martha. I told you, every society does it."

Surprised and confused, I replied, "Wait a minute, are you telling me that our society intentionally kills our own people, even women and children, only because the wealthy don't want to share? That these deaths are intentionally planned? Don't the wealthy know that poverty is one of the 'natural' byproducts of capitalism, that capitalism depends on an official 'average' five percent unemployed to hold it up? Are you telling me that all politicians, local ones to national ones, not only know about this murder but willingly participate in it?"

"All of them know about it, Martha," he told me. "Now you do, too. Don't ever call me again and don't ever quote me. I'll deny I ever told you this."

"Wait!" I said, "How you can be a part of this and live with your conscience?"

He hung up on me. I tried to call him several times after that and he would never talk to me.

Putting Flesh and Blood On the Surreal:
Any kind of a murder is surreal. It is a symbol of power: Someone has taken someone else's life. It is a symbol of evil, of the dark side of the human existence/experience. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, gives murder (particularly murder of your brother) not only the symbol of ultimate evil, but its parable is a warning to all humans.

Murder always creates a surreal atmosphere. Its name and dynamics are psychological "redbuttons" that the psyche (subconscious) recognizes before the conscious. Murder is always dark and it hides in the darkest places that people don't want to peer into because of many reasons including the fact that it might affect their conscience and make them depressed.

Only the perpetrators, researchers and real thirsters of justice will look inside these dark places. You have to have courage to do this because these dark places are rabidly shielded and watched by guards of the elite. Like any murderer, the persons who caused the murder will do everything to keep the evidence hidden. In the case of Silent Autogenocides like the one that is happening in America, the truth of it will remain hidden until all the players have long since left life's arena. More, few ever mourn for the loss of weakest members of society.

(end snip)........

So, what's up with this ??
I never thought I would read words like the above. If you have the courage to read the entire article, it will leave you feeling hopeless, helpless. But then STOP for a moment, take a deep breath and you may realize you are now better equipped to deal with LIFE.

Knowledge is power. Remember that. What you do with the information you gain in reading (and sharing) is up to you. You may now know a new truth. How can that be bad?

You also can visit:

http://ponerology.blogspot.com/

or read the book "Political Ponerology" by Andrew Lobaczewski for additional information on what's happening in our world today.

Just visit www.redpillpress.com/ to order the book.

~The Mediator

V FOR VENDETTA ... the movie (or is it)

2007-08-06T09:04:00.000-04:00

, last night I was searching for something to watch. TV is soooo lacking in entertainment, so I went through my movies and decided to watch the movie "V for Vendetta" again.

Although I loved the movie when I first watched it, it was simply entertainment. But, as I re-watched this movie, I could not help making so many connections between what was going on in the movie "V" and what is going on within the government of the (US)A - my government.

In my younger days, I 'believed' that the gov''t was: 'For', 'By' and 'Of the People'. Now, as I am a bit older, I've changed my belief. I NOW believe that the gov''t: 'Uses', 'Takes' and 'Screws the People' ........ the people the gov''t is supposed to protect.

And to quote from the movie "V for Vendetta": " THE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR GOVERNMENT ........ THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE."

Katrina, the hurricane, really did make it totally clear to all americans that we are not to rely on our gov''t for help in any way - when disaster strikes. For it just may be that they are responsible for the disaster. Maybe it's a game to see how different types of disasters are played out. Like watching a movie, wondering how it will end, we-the-people are the government's "movie". Who knows........

Here are a couple of articles in part:

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000742

The Boot is Descending
by Scott Horton

(snip)...

This weekend something of tremendous consequence happened. The attitude of the Bush Administration will likely be mirrored by that of the Democratic leadership: this is nothing, tend to your own work, just move along. The media will dish up some more Paris Hilton prolefeed (let’s call it by its proper, Orwellian name). But what happened was very important–another massive sledgehammer blow was taken to the foundations of our democratic institutions. And it was a thoroughly bi-partisan effort.

Here’s what occurred. The Bush Administration sought an amendment of FISA to overcome roadblocks that the FISA court threw in its way. It put its case to Congress in secret and sent its national intelligence czar to negotiate a deal. When he concluded an agreement, Bush rejected it. The White House replied with threats, essentially stating that as soon as another terrorist attack occurs, we will pin the blame on Democrats in Congress because of their failure to amend FISA to give us what we want.

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and then there is this article

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/137727-Bush+signs+new+Wiretapping+Law%2C+no+warrants+needed

Bush Signs New Wiretapping Law - No Warrants Needed
by James Risen of the NY Times, Sunday, August 5, 2007

President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants.

Congressional aides and others familiar with the details of the law said that its impact went far beyond the small fixes that administration officials had said were needed to gather information about foreign terrorists. They said seemingly subtle changes in legislative language would sharply alter the legal limits on the government's ability to monitor millions of phone calls and e-mail messages going in and out of the United States.

Comment: As evidenced by this new legislation, and once again by Gonzales' verbal squirming in recent Senate testimony, this administration and its minions hide their actions and true intentions behind a web of deceit. For lack of truth, governments develop the language of ambiguity, the interpretation of which is constantly altered to fit the end.

Truth has no need for crafty words and deceit.

They also said that the new law for the first time provided a legal framework for much of the surveillance without warrants that was being conducted in secret by the National Security Agency and outside the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that is supposed to regulate the way the government can listen to the private communications of American citizens.

"This more or less legalizes the N.S.A. program," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington, who has studied the new legislation.

Previously, the government needed search warrants approved by a special intelligence court to eavesdrop on telephone conversations, e-mail messages and other electronic communications between individuals inside the United States and people overseas, if the government conducted the surveillance inside the United States.

Today, most international telephone conversations to and from the United States are conducted over fiber-optic cables, and the most efficient way for the government to eavesdrop on them is to latch on to giant telecommunications switches located in the United States.

By changing the legal definition of what is considered "electronic surveillance," the new law allows the government to eavesdrop on those conversations without warrants - latching on to those giant switches - as long as the target of the government's surveillance is "reasonably believed" to be overseas.

For example, if a person in Indianapolis calls someone in London, the National Security Agency can eavesdrop on that conversation without a warrant, as long as the N.S.A.'s target is the person in London.......................

you can read the rest at the website.

So, when you are on the telephone, don't make an 'oopsie' and say the wrong word. That word can be taken out of context and used against you. Think I'm paranoid. Well, yes, I guess now I am.

Can you feel the 'boot' coming down on your head (or does it start with your wallet?).

~ The Mediator

THE SUNSHINE FACTOR

2007-08-02T10:46:00.000-04:00

So, it's August. And, it's been a while since I posted to my blog. It's just that time has been passing by an incredible (to me, anyway) speed. It seems that I get up from a good night's sleep and it's time for lunch !

Having a new job (doing elder care) and as a single mom with a disabled child a-n-d an elderly mother to keep tabs on, the 24 hour day just doesn't work for me.

I've tried sleeping less (bad idea) and eating less (better idea) to make more time for those things that simply need-to-be-done each day. One thing I have made time for is walking. I'm going out and doing a lovely 2 mile face-paced walk twice a day.......once with my son and later on I'll walk either by myself or with a friend.

We have a lovely bike path and since apartment living is new to me, this walk makes for a wonderful change-of-pace and helps with the SUNSHINE FACTOR, which I have been reading much about lately. Seems alot of humanity's ills could be cured by spending more time outside. Vitamin D is absolutely essential for good health.

By the way, whoever started the rumor that the sun was bad for us??? Read this article and maybe, if you've been avoiding the sun (you know, with lots of suncreen and sunglasses) you'll let your skin, the largest organ on your body, get what it needs and deserves. Anyway.......................here's one article from Dr. Mercola's sight:

www.mercola.com/

"VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO THE IMPORTANCE
OF VITAMIN D AND SUN"

Vitamin D deficiency is a major problem in the United States but many Americans are not aware that they may be lacking this important nutrient. Although word is beginning to leak out even among the traditional medical community, testing for vitamin D will not skyrocket like cholesterol or other testing because there is no expensive drug to push, thus making the public more aware.

It is essential to understand that in order to know how much vitamin D you should be taking, you should get your blood level checked. Unfortunately, very few doctors do the blood test for vitamin D. You can't rely on the media to expose the issue. If and when they do, it will be too late for most of you and you will have suffered decreased bone density and an increased risk of many cancers. But you don't have to wait for the media.

You can read my article on vitamin D testing and get up-to-date on this important topic before it is too late. Unless you are getting significant sun exposure on large amounts of your skin, in fact, I would advise reading the article right now.

Vitamin D is such an important topic that we recently conducted an exclusive interview with one of the top vitamin D researchers in the world, William B. Grant, Ph.D. Here you will get the insights of someone who is on the cutting edge of vitamin D research and knowledgeable about the importance of sun exposure for health. Taking a few minutes to read through the information below will broaden your understanding of this important issue to help you reach higher levels of health.

also, you can go to this article:

http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/137333-Sunshine+%27protective%27+against+ms

or this article:

http://www.mercola.com/2005/jul/5/sunshine_vitamin_d_htm

and this:

http://www.mercola.com/2005/jun/7/sun_vitamind.htm
which says in part:

"CRITICS NOW ACCEPT THE SUN AS YOUR HEALTHIEST
SOURCE OF VITAMIN D"

Evidence continues to mount in support of the obvious link between vitamin D and getting the right amount of sunshine so the body can naturally produce it. And unlike other medical fads that boomed and bombed, this evidence is strong and keeps growing.

In fact, the concept questions the longstanding conventional belief that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun.

The "Sunshine Vitamin"

Vitamin D bears the nickname the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin produces it from ultraviolet rays. Researchers believe slapping on sunscreen may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents as doing so blocks this vital vitamin production.

Thus, while dermatologists and health agencies have long touted that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer, some scientists are now challenging that advice. Their main argument: Vitamin D is important for preventing and treating many types of cancer; studies have found it helped protect against lymphoma, as well as cancers of the:

Prostate
Lung
Skin
Colon

In fact, one Harvard professor offered such compelling evidence in a recent study -- vitamin D may prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer -- that the American Cancer Society is now reconsidering its own sun guidelines.................

So, if you've read this far, hopefully your interest has been stirred up a bit to check out more on sunshine and vitamin d.

And, here's to your good health.

~ The Mediator

THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA

2007-06-26T12:43:00.000-04:00

Next year I'll be 60 years old. I'm healthy, look younger than my age, have great work experience and for the first time in my life - I'm unemployed. I've been sending out resume's with 'no responses' to any of them. Just last night, I saw an old friend, we were both talking about the difficulties of becoming part of the 'senior' (whatever that means) generation. She offered me one good bit of advice that I had not thought of..............eliminate the DATES on your resume. Just list your work experiences. That's how she got her job.

Considering that most manufacturing has left the USofA and most other jobs are easily outsourced overseas and with immigrants offering up their services for less than us 'merican workers..............jobs are getting harder and harder to come by. And I don't think it all has to do solely with my a.g.e.

So read the following article. It can be read in it's entirety here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06252007.html

And to Its Fabled Economy
Goodbye to the City on the Hill

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

America is being destroyed. Many Americans are unaware, others are indifferent, and some intend it.

The destruction is across the board: the political and constitutional system, the economy, social institutions including the family itself, citizenship, and the character and morality of the American people.

Those who rely on the Internet for information are aware that the Bush regime has successfully assaulted the separation of powers and civil liberty. Both Bush and Cheney claim that they are not bound by laws that impinge on their freedom of action or that interfere with their ideas of the power of their offices. Bush has issued presidential directives that permit him to make himself a dictator by declaring a national emergency. Cheney asserts that his handling of secret documents is not subject to oversight or investigation or bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information.

The foundation of social organization--marriage, family, and parental control over children--is disintegrating.

Mass unassimilated and illegal immigration has destroyed the meaning of American citizenship and forced large numbers of Americans into unemployment. For example, Steve Camarota at the Center for Immigration Studies reported on June 20 that state employment data show that in the first six years of the 21st century 218,000 high school graduates in the state of Georgia have been employment-displaced by immigrants. Moreover, wages have stagnated, putting the lie to the claim that there is a shortage of workers. If there were a labor shortage, wages would be bid up and rising.

Many Americans are unconcerned that the US government in behalf of an undeclared agenda has invaded two countries, killed hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians, produced 4 million Iraqi refugees, rejected the Geneva Conventions and reverted to medieval torture dungeons. It does not trouble them that their government blocked ceasefires and UN resolutions so that Israel could bomb and murder Lebanese civilians and destroy the country's infrastructure.

Americans, whose ethical behavior toward others was once reinforced by having to look oneself in the mirror, now have a different ethos. Many cannot look themselves in the mirror unless they have pulled a fast one and advanced themselves at someone else's expense. It is not only crooked prosecutors, such as Michael Nifong, who get their jollies from destroying their fellow citizens.

A google search will call up enough information to make the case for these points many times over. However, the destruction of the US economy, though far advanced, is still largely unknown. It is to this subject that we turn.

For a number of years Charles McMillion of MBG Information Services and I have documented from BLS nonfarm payroll jobs data that the US economy in the 21st century no longer creates net new jobs in tradable goods and services. In the 21st century, job growth in "the world's only superpower" has a definite third world flavor. US job growth has been limited to domestic services that cannot be moved offshore, such as waitresses and bartenders and health and social services.

These are not jobs that comprise ladders of upward mobility. Income inequality is worsening, and education is no longer the answer.

The problem is that middle class jobs, both in manufacturing and in professional occupations such as engineering, are being offshored as corporations replace their American workforces with foreigners. I have called jobs offshoring "virtual immigration."

The latest bombshell is that even those professional jobs that remain located in America are not safe. There is a vast industry of immigration law firms that enable American corporations to replace their American workers with foreigners brought in on work visas............................

~ The Mediator

GREAT ANALOGY OF 'WHAT IS A SOCIOPATH'

2007-06-25T13:29:00.000-04:00

Sometimes I find it difficult to explain OR introduce a new concept to people about that "other species" we share this planet with: sociopaths/psychopaths.

The article below gives a great visual for anyone wanting to get a better grip on understanding what humanity is up against. Think of it as the 'end-times' games that are being played out by a group of so-called people who have NO CONscience.

Now I have also read this wonderful book: The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout. And would highly recommend this book to anyone - and to your children before they start dating, go off to college, or if you just want to prepare your family for the inevitable: YOU WILL, AT SOME POINT (IF NOT ALREADY) INTERACT WITH 'THESE PEOPLE' who make up at least 6 percent of our population.

This article below, "If The Sociopath Is Next Door - Move Upstairs" is reproduced in it's entirety. But, for a more rounded education on sociopathic behavior/psychopathic behavior, you can visit this well informed website:

http://www.sott.org/

But now..............read on:

If The Sociopath Is Next Door - Move Upstairs

by Keit,
SOTT editor
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:22 EDT

I recently finished reading "The Sociopath Next Door" by Martha Stout Ph.D. and wanted to share with you some realizations. I hope they are helpful.

Before reading the final pages of the book, I was sure that the idea that psychopaths are NOT like most of other people was pretty much "accepted" in my mind. I was sure that I "understood" it intellectually, even if I did not "believe" it 100% yet. Well, somehow, those few final pages organized everything in my mind, and the realization is profound and shocking: psychopaths ARE different. I'll try to explain what I've understood.

First, some words from Laura Knight-Jadczyk about the importance of "believing":
"Today it came to me: The biggest problem most of us have (yours truly included) is BELIEVING that there can be human looking beings that are simply not human inside, or are deviant from normal humans, or cannot be fixed, or whatever.

We keep wanting to try this or that or the other thing because in our heart of hearts, we do not WANT to believe it. We do not want to acknowledge that our reality is that cruel, that human beings are not at the top of the food chain, that there ARE different sub-species of human beings that prey on other sub-species.

It's just too damn far out.

And that is because we have been taught something entirely different from infancy, and so we can't BELIEVE it.

What is so important about understanding it this way?

What I notice is that many of you still do not "believe" it and you have not reached that point where you have nothing to lose to try a different hypothesis of reality. You continue on every day in low-level interactions with teensy tinesy petty tyrants and don't really believe that quite a number of them could, just possibly, be intra-species predators... It's all theoretical and interesting and all that, but not really real. It is not part of your BELIEF.

And your belief about reality which is shaped by psychopaths seeking to conceal their existence and reality and control is still a LIE. And as long as you continue to believe a lie, you are blocked from the cascade of events that can transpire if the "truth" binds to your psychic receptors.
When I first read the above comments, I hadn't yet read the book, and I have to admit that my understanding of psychopaths being "different" was mainly theoretical, even if I had lot of opportunities to observe their nature and experience it in the flesh. But it didn't "click" until I finished "The Sociopath Next Door".

Here is a quote from the book that made all the difference. It is a story about Tillie - the female psychopath next door. Notice her thinking processes.

Fred takes the light out of his pocket, holds it close to the ground, and turns it on. After a few moments, they find the melon-size rock, somewhat more easily than they could have hoped, because the rock is smooth and white and the surrounding earth is dark. Catherine exhales and pushes a loose strand of hair behind her left ear. She and Fred bend down and lift the rock together, revealing a surprisingly small hole in the ground, considering it is used by a fat little groundhog.

Catherine has an impulse to shine the penlight into the hole to check on its occupant. But then she realizes that she will not see much and that she may scare the animal.

Arm in arm, whispering and containing their laughter, she and Fred stumble home.

Tillie does not see them. As they return from their mission, she has already been drinking and sulking for several hours, as usual. She sits on a sofa in her living room and pours herself glasses of Glenlivet, trying to drown out the monotony of her life and the idiots she continually has to deal with. The only thing that makes this evening different from any other is the accumulation of packing boxes now stacked around her.

Inside her drunken fog, she congratulates herself on her brilliant idea not to put up a "FOR SALE" sign this time. She thinks, "I'll take those cretins by surprise. Their stupid mouths will gape."

The good-for-nothing real estate agent keeps telling her that not using a sign is shooting herself in the foot, and that he really thinks she should wait for a higher offer. This buyer came in under her price. But Tillie cannot wait. She has never liked waiting. She will have her moment, and her moment will be tomorrow morning. And then everyone in this whole horrible neighborhood will be in complete shock about her move. She is sure of it. The agent does not understand why secrecy matters, but he is a fool, so why listen to him? She has taken losses before when she wanted to get out of the house fast. "It's all in the game", she thinks to herself, "All in the game. You can't stay in a place where people won't listen to you. And giving them a parting shot is extremely important."

Nothing is very interesting, really. Suffocating the rodent [by placing a rock over the burrow opening] was okay for a few minutes, and she hopes Catherine was watching. Catherine would have a stroke. But then that project was over, and there was nothing else to do. She cannot imagine what these absurd people on all sides of her do that seems to occupy them so completely as they scurry about their little lives. They must have brains the size of peas.
In the house up the hill, Greta has the weekend off, and she and Jerry sleep late. When they slowly rouse themselves and go out to the sunroom to drink their coffee, they notice a big moving truck in Tillie's driveway.

"Does that mean what I think it means?" Jerry asks, staring at the truck. "Or are we in bed, dreaming?" "Got to be dreaming," says Greta, also staring. "I never saw a sign. Did you ever see a sign over there?" "Nope"

Just now, two men wearing canvas coveralls come out of Tillie's house, each carrying one end of a sofa. Greta and Jerry look at each other and begin to laugh. Jerry laughs so hard, he spills some of his coffee.

Greta asks him, "Why do you suppose she kept it a secret?" "Why does she do anything? But it doesn't matter anymore, does it? Unbelievable."

Greta is thoughtful for a moment, and then says, "How old do you suppose she is?" "I don't know. Not young." "I wonder whether she ever had any children. Oh wow. Can you imagine being one of her children?" "Worse yet, can you imagine being her?" "So do you think we should feel sorry for her?" Greta asks.

Jerry grins and waves his hand dismissively at the furniture-moving scene in the distance, "Well, I am not sure sweetheart. But if we're going to feel sorry for her, let's do it over breakfast, okay? Remember that strudel?"

"Yes!" says Greta, smacking her lips. She picks up both coffee mugs, and they abandon the view from the sunroom, for the pastry in the kitchen.

Since they are in the house next door to Tillie's, Catherine and Fred also notice the activities of the men from the moving truck, and wonder why they never saw a FOR SALE sign or heard from Tillie that she was moving. Fred rolls his eyes again, and Catherine shakes her head. But then they are distracted by another phone call, this one from their daughter and son-in-law, who say that in two weeks they and four-year-old Katie are flying out for another visit. Catherine is beside herself with excitement, and Tillie's moving day, still in progress outside is forgotten.

As Tillie said: it is "all in the game". All thinking capabilities are busy observing and calculating the outcome. There are no disruptions from those silly and foreign "things" called emotions. Tillie saw emotions as buffers, interferences, something her stupid neighbors didn't know how to get rid off. Tillie's thinking process is so drastically different from her neighbors, the only thing they can do afterwards is shake their heads while witnessing such absurdity.

But for Tillie this thinking is not absurd. It is crystal clear and obvious. She sees everything around her as a game, chess maybe. And all the people are chess pieces, and her life goal is to win the game and gain the maximum power she can gain. There is nothing above this goal.
And there is this boredom. Tillie must be so frustrated that those stupid neighbors don't "dance" to her tune, and she gets only short pleasure from time to time.

But what does she do, and how does she see it?

Imagine a very strange and lazy person sitting near an ant hill. He has been sitting there for a very long time and is extremely bored (too lazy to get up and go somewhere else). He takes a small tree branch and sticks it into the middle of the ant hill and thinks: "Oh, cool! Those tiny creatures started to move. Not boring! Lets see what will happen if I do this", and he disrupts the hill structure a little bit more. "Oh, this is just great! All this action, and I am the one who controls it. Definitely not boring. What a great way to spend time". And he continues to play with the ants, each time inventing new ways to torture them and entertain himself. After a while all the ants are either dead or have left the place. It is boring again.

Luckily for this person, some tourists just happen to be in the area, and this strange person decides to see if he can play with them as with the ants. Apparently it is so easy, they don't have a clue! Not boring again.

So from Tillie's point of view it was very important that Catherine would watch Tillie throwing the stone onto the groundhogs burrow door, without it there is no fun, only boredom.

Catherine's strong reaction is fun, because Tillie is the one who makes her squirm and feel this emotional chaos inside. "Oh, this is so invigorating!" It is the game, and Tillie is the master player. She knows exactly what makes people tick. This is easy for her, and she cannot understand how stupid others can be for not getting it. The thrill of winning is all that counts.
So after realizing this, it is very easy to understand why she decided to keep her moving as a secret.

She wanted to poke the human ant hill one last time. She wanted to make them run frantically, with confusion in their minds. And Tillie as a "game master" is the reason for this chaos. She introduced this unexpected event into their lives, and now she will enjoy seeing them coping with the consequences.

If Tillie was less lazy, she could be some municipal clerk, making decisions on who will get registration papers and who will not. Oh, it could be a thrill. To see people crying after telling them that their papers are lost and the date for appeal is expired! What chaos, what fun! She could hold the control keys to their lives in her hands. She could do even so much more if she could be president.

And this in fact is what is happening. We are those ants, at the mercy of strange bored creatures, who are not able to grasp the thing called "emotion" or "conscience" or "empathy". This is who they are - soulless game masters. We cannot outsmart them in direct confrontation, because all their thinking capabilities go into calculating and analyzing our natures - we just will make them more thrilled from an opportunity to play the game with engaging ants. But we can fight them still, by learning their natures and avoiding being their "ants" - learning not to play the game. We must learn how to be above the game, a concept that they simply cannot grasp.
Maybe that is why psychopaths have an ability to "sense" wounded souls, people who were hurt in childhood and are generally more susceptible to manipulation. They are much more fun than "healthy" ants! Every tiny suggestion creates chaos in a wounded mind, they can be shaped so easily - a rich source of "fun".

All of this reminded me of a dialog from a great movie "The Fifth Element", between the psychopathic character of Zorg, and the Priest:

Zorg: It's nice to see you again, Father.

Priest Vito Cornelius: Ah, I remember you now. The so-called art dealer.

Zorg: I'm glad you got your memory back. Because you're gonna need it.
[directs his men out of the office]

Zorg: Where are the stones?

Priest Vito Cornelius: I don't know. And even if I did know, I wouldn't tell somebody like you.
Zorg: Why? What's wrong with me?

Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. But you only... seem to want to destroy it.

Zorg: Oh, Father, you're so wrong. Let me explain.
[closes office door, places an empty glass on desk]

Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is...
[pushes glass off table]

Zorg: destroyed...
[robot cleaners move to clean broken glass]

Zorg: Look at all these little things. So busy now. Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people who'll be able to feed their children tonight so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny weeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain... of life.
[Desk prepares a glass of water and a bowl of fruit]

Zorg: You see, Father, by creating a little destruction, I'm actually encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business. Cheers.
[drinks water with cherry, only to choke on cherry stuck in throat. Zorg frantically presses all buttons on his desk in an attempt to get something to clear his throat]

Priest Vito Cornelius: Where's the robot to pat you in the back? Or the engineer? Or their children, maybe?
[Desk brings out Zorg's pet Picasso; Zorg motions it to try and help him]

Priest Vito Cornelius: There, you see how all your so-called power counts for absolutely nothing? How your entire empire of destruction comes crashing down. All because of one little... cherry.
[Slaps Zorg in the back, causing him to spit the cherry at Picasso]

Zorg: [opens doors, throws Cornelius to guards] You saved my life, and in return, I'll spare yours... for now.

Priest Vito Cornelius: You're a monster, Zorg.

Zorg: I know.
[directs guards to take Cornelius away]

Zorg: [snaps fingers] Torture who you have to. The President, I don't care. Just bring me those stones. You have one hour.

JUST A LITTLE VENTING.....IN A BACKWARDS UNIVERSE

2007-06-04T18:56:00.000-04:00

I have a new job. I work in a Group Home for the physically and mentally challenged. I've come to enjoy the ladies I work with and the residents of the home I am working at. For the last few months that I've been working there, the job has provided me with some 'eye opening' information.

Part of me hoped that working for a non-profit organization would, in and of itself, be satisfying to my personality type. But sadly, it has proven to be an experience in total frustration. Here's why.

-The non-profit expects it's staff to integrate the individuals
into the community.

-The non-profit expects it's staff to find activities for the
individuals they work with.

-The non-profit expects it's staff to help the individuals they
work with to lose weight.

Now since I've had a good five months to observe how the organization runs, and have been told what is expected from me in the position I hold, let me tell you how I CANNOT SUCCEED AT MY JOB:

-Each individual I work with has a different level of functioning. Their verbal skills are still a challenge to me, never mind someone who has met them for the first time. Therefore when you live in a small city, with absolutely limited activities, where do you integrate 40, 50, and 60 year old people??? I have talked with my supervisor and mentioned that it would be so nice to have the non-profit rent, buy, a hall where these ladies and gentlemen can get together with their friends from work. How exciting for these individuals to be able to get out of the homes and visit in the evenings, on weekends with those that they are MOST comfortable with - their FRIENDS. But no, the non-profit says that is not their goal for these individuals........some of whom were raised in institutions. The goal of the non-profit is to integrate.

The individuals I work with constantly ask if they can see their friends, who also live in Group Homes owned and run by the same non-profit, but we are supposed to take those we are caring for and drag (sorry for my choice of words) them through Wal Mart, Mc'Donalds, etc.

One week, I found an Art Exhibit in our city that was free. I took the ladies there. We were all so out-of-place. But, the non-profit was happy that these individuals got to look at pictures and eat a cookie.

How would you like to spend your time after work, your weekends, with people you have NOTHING IN COMMON WITH ??? What if after work, after saying bye to your friends, you went home and staff said, we're going out tonight to spend time with people who only speak Pig-Latin. How much fun do you think these individuals have doing this week after week???

I know, only because I have a son with a disability. It has been hard to find places to integrate him into. And, my son is lucky because he has found a small nitch in our community where he is happy. But I don't think that a Group Home would be a safe and nurturing place for him.

Of course, the individuals I work with have the 'option' of NOT going out into the community. And, most of the time, they opt to stay home. They do not want to go somewhere just for the sake of 'going somewhere'.

-Next is the issue of 'loosing weight'. The individuals that I work with are older, they are ladies going or have already gone through menopause. They are overweight. They all visit the doctor twice a year for weight checks. At their last visit, they all put on two to four pounds. The manager of the house is upset, asking staff to make sure they discourage the ladies from eating between meals and no eating after supper. But ....... the key, in my humble opinion, is the meals they get. Most of the time, lunches are bologna sandwiches, sometimes tuna, and egg salad. Breakfast is always toast with artificial butter or generic cereals. And supper is rice-a-roni, noodles in boxes with cheese sauces, and a meat and a vegetable. That's it. Oh, they do get their fruit, it comes in little cans.

Now these ladies do not have desserts. They sometimes have granola bars for a snack in their lunches but that's about it. On rainy Saturdays I will bake cookies with the ladies, but that has been discouraged by the house manager, saying that we don't want to get them into any bad habits. I look for recipies that are low in fats & calories, but tasty. But I'm totally discouraged.

The ladies do not exercise. On weekends, we will take them for walks, but most of them will walk 50 feet and cry that their knees hurt, or are just tired and won't walk anymore. It is an exercise in frustration only.

So, what do I do. I have ideas, I present ideas to the appropriate people, the ideas are always po-poo'd as those in charge say they know better. They (those in charge) keep coming up with more and more rules.....more and more paperwork/documentation.

Like the title of this blog says, I'm venting. I left a job that was being overrun with narcissistic managers/bosses. And here I find myself faced with the same thing again - just different.

Sooooooooo, I just heard about this book, "Snakes in Suits", and I'm going down to the bookstore to get it pronto. I wanna know what it is I'm up against in this backwards world of ours ..... a world run by psychopaths.

~ The Mediator

NIGHTMARE 101.....

2007-05-29T09:31:00.000-04:00

In my book, it's official....we're living in full 3D Nightmare 101. Don't need no stinkin 'reality tv' to entertain you, cause not too long from now, you'll be freakin living in all to real-reality.

Imagine you're working. Life seems good. Don't wanna rock the boat. Don't wanna get noticed. Keep quiet, keep your opinions to yourself. Be careful what you say, what you write, who you say it to, where you surf the net, what magazines you subscribe to, and what organizations you donate money to. EVERYTHING IS A SET-UP FOR FAILURE.

The World is being run amuck by psychopaths. If you want to understand more about how they have come to RUN_THE_WORLD, ya gotta read to the end of this article.

Guess I'm just feeling frustrated because of the following article I read at:

http://pressesc.com/01180202266_eevs also at:
http://www.sott.net/
(article (#1 below)

No jobs for US citizens without Homeland Security approval
Canada IFPMon, 28 May 2007 07:12 EDT

US citizens who apply for a job will need prior approval from Department of Homeland Security under the terms immigration bill passed by the Senate this week.

American Civil Liberties Union pointed out that the DHS's Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) is error plagued and if the department makes a mistake in determining work eligibility, there will be virtually no way to challenge the error or recover lost wages due to the bill's prohibitions on judicial review.

Even current employees will need to obtain eligibility approval from the DHS Within 60 days of the Immigration Reform Act of 2006 becoming law.

"EEVS would be a financial and bureaucratic nightmare for both businesses and workers," said Timothy Sparapani, ACLU Legislative Counsel. "Under this already flawed program no one would be able to work in the U.S. without DHS approval - creating a 'No Work List' similar to the government's 'No Fly List.' We need immigration reform, but not at this cost."

The act allocates US$400 million for the implementation of the EEVS, but the Congressional Budgeting Office estimates the system to cost in excess of a billion dollars......................

What are you going to do when your name 'inadvertently' get on the NO WORK LIST??? How will you survive?? How will you support yourself and your family/children?? If you remember, it is almost impossible to get your name removed from the NO FLY LIST - nevermind the NO WORK LIST. That, my friends, will be IMPOSSIBLE.

And then I heard this on the radio this morning ... a story about three critically ill people who are doing a reality tv show in the Netherlands. They are competing for a terminally ill person's KIDNEY. You can find the entire article here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18918794/#storyContinued
(article # 2 below)

Dutch Show Has Kidney Donation Contest

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch reality show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ donors said Tuesday it would go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman will choose a contestant to receive one of her kidneys.

The program, "Big Donor Show," has been attacked as unethical and tasteless. One member of the Dutch parliament suggested the government should block Friday's broadcast.

"We know that this program is super controversial and some people will think it's tasteless, but we think the reality is even more shocking and tasteless: waiting for an organ is just like playing the lottery," Laurens Drillich, chairman of the BNN network, said in a statement...................

Well, for further research on 'Ponerology' you can order the book "Political Ponerology by Andrew Lobaczewski published by Red Pill Press or check out:

http://ponerology.blogspot.com/
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm
http://www.sott.net/

~ The Mediator

A SIMPLE TRUTH

2007-05-21T09:09:00.000-04:00

There is a video I came across (always these things happen by accident - but there are no accidents !) which helped to brighten my day.

Not trying to be overly mushy about this one, but the one minute movie is called "The Simple Truths of Service" and is based on a true story of a young man who was born with Down's Syndrome. His job is a bagger for a grocery store and by his inspiration, transformed the way business was done where he worked.

As I have a son who was born with Down's Syndrome AND who is a bagger in a grocery store, I remind him every day - and this is something I have been doing since he was a child - that he is an Ambassador for all people who were born with Down's Syndrome, that his actions speak volumes and he must always be aware of how he conducts himself........with the utmost respect and responsibility.

Hope you will view this video and find the ability within to transform something about your life that you want to change. No act goes unnoticed.

http://www.stservicemovie.com/

~ The Mediator

Wake Up, Wake Up

2007-05-06T21:22:00.000-04:00

Below is a great, great article. I am posting it here, because I want to read and re-read this again and again........to remind myself to WAKE UP.

Published on Friday, May 4, 2007
by CommonDreams.org

ONE DAY YOU'RE GONNA WAKE UP
by David Michael Green

One day you’re gonna wake up, America.

And, like every other one since last you can remember, it’s gonna be an ugly morning.

One day you’re gonna wake up and go to your lousy job with its lousy salary and non-existent benefits. You might even remember the good job you once had. Or that the government you once supported gave tax breaks to companies like the one that exported that good job of yours to the Third World (which is what they’re now starting to call your country). Or that that same government undermined the labor unions which fought to get you your good wages and benefits.

One day you’re gonna wake up and be furious at the monstrous tax burden you are carrying, a tab which accounts for fifty of the seventy hours you must work each week just to eke by. You might even figure out why your tax bill is so high. You might remember that the government you once supported shifted the tax burden from the rich onto people like you, and from the taxpayers of the time onto those of today. And that they borrowed money in astonishing quantities to fund their sleight-of-hand, so that you work thirty hours a week just to pay the interest on a mountain of money borrowed decades ago.

One day you’re gonna wake up in anger at the absurdly poor education your children are receiving. You’re gonna remember that it wasn’t always that way, that even after the military’s voracious appetite was temporarily sated, your country still managed to find a few bucks to at least educate a workforce. No more. And you’re gonna remember how you applauded when your educational system was twisted in to a test taking industry that is careful, above all, not to teach children how to think.

One day you’re gonna wake up literally sick and tired. You’re gonna want treatment for your maladies but you won’t be able to touch the cost. You’re gonna wonder what you were thinking when believed your country had the best healthcare system in the world, even though it was the only advanced democracy in the world that didn’t provide universal care, even though it devoted fifty percent more of its economy than those other countries to pay for a system that left fifty million people uninsured, and even though there were massive layers of unnecessary and harmful private sector bureaucracy skimming hundreds of billions of dollars of profits out of the system in the name of free enterprise.

One day you’re gonna wake up too tired to go to work anymore. You’re gonna want to retire in dignity but will be left instead to laugh bitterly at the cruelty of that joke. And you’re gonna wonder what in the world you had been thinking voting for a president who’s primary goal was to allow Wall Street to raid Social Security, destroying what had once been considered the most successful domestic program in human history.

One day you’re gonna wake up and wish that it wasn’t so bloody hot, and that there weren’t so many diseases and species eradications and violent storms lashing the planet. And maybe you’ll even remember that you once supported a government that lied about the very existence of global warming - back when it might have been curtailed - a government that scuttled the barest remedy for the problem in order to protect oil company profits.

One day you’re gonna wake up and wish you had a government that could simply and competently do the basic things it was designed for. A government that could protect you from foreign attack, that could come to your rescue after a devastating hurricane, that could properly manage a new program or other people’s security. An administration that didn’t pervert the purpose of every agency within the government to its opposite, using civil rights lawyers to fight civil rights, for example, or the EPA to protect polluters.

One day you’re gonna wake up and cry out for simple justice, blindly applied without bias. And perhaps you’ll remember when that principle died. When your country stood by and watched the politicization of its judicial system for purposes of partisanship, and said nothing. When it stood by and watched its highest law enforcement officials in the land lie about their failing memory of events and pretended to believe that was acceptable.

One day you’re gonna wake up and wish that you weren’t being drafted to go fight wars you don’t believe in. You’ll remember how soldiers were sent to their deaths for lies. You’ll remember how badly they were treated when they came home maimed and twisted. You’ll remember how real, patriotic, former soldiers were mocked and humiliated by dress-up, unpatriotic, former non-soldiers. And suddenly you’ll understand why no one would volunteer for the military anymore, and why people like you had to be drafted.

One day you’re gonna wake up and want very badly to run outside and scream in anger about a government that long ago stopped serving your interests in favor of the narrow interests of a tiny oligarchy. But instead you’ll stay inside and keep your scream tucked safely in your belly. Because you’ll know that in your country dissent has long since been outlawed, on pain of torture and death. You’ll remember concepts like due process, limitations on government search, seizure and wiretapping, habeas corpus, trial by peers, legal representation and prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment as historical artifacts no longer even taught in schools.

On day you’re gonna wake up and want so badly to change governments. You’re gonna treasure the concept of democracy like no Soviet dissident ever did. You’re gonna crave the opportunity to own your own government, to make your own societal choices, to make a change of direction never before so desperately necessary. And you’re gonna wonder why you didn’t speak up as you watched first-hand the dismantling of the democracy you had been handed by previous generations of patriots. You’re gonna wish you had been patriotic enough yourself to demand, above all else, free and fair elections, and you’re gonna shake your head in puzzlement at how you stood by watching in silence those that patently were not.

One day you’re gonna wake up and want to get the hell out of your rotting, repressive country. You’re gonna remember a time when that wasn’t true. But, oddly enough, you’ll find that other countries remember too. They’ll remember your country’s arrogance, its unilateralism, its walls, its racism, and its politicized abuse of immigrants. And they’ll remember how your government undermined and violently replaced theirs whenever corporations from your country had their profits threatened. You’re gonna want to leave, but there will be nowhere you’ll be welcome. You’re gonna find out that walls can face both directions.

READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/04/962/

or you can go to:

http://www.sott.net

and read this, and additional fascinating topics from round the globe.

~ The Mediator

DON'T READ THIS BLOG - IT'S TOO DEPRESSING

2007-05-04T10:05:00.000-04:00

I am depressed. Not in the medical sense, but just from reading about what is happening to our beautiful planet, and what is going to be in store for our children - if not ourselves too.

BILLIONS AT RISK FROM WHEAT SUPER-BLIGHT by:

Debora Mackenzie, New ScientistFri, 04 May 2007 07

Billions at risk from wheat super-blight

Was Bristol Channel hit by a tsunami?

As drought worsens, Australian cattle scour roadsides for food

Hurricane force winds blow through north Texas

Reality hits! Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply

'Merman' spotted in Caspian

"This thing has immense potential for social and human destruction." Startling words - but spoken by the father of the Green Revolution, Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, they are not easily dismissed.

An infection is coming, and almost no one has heard about it. This infection isn't going to give you flu, or TB. In fact, it isn't interested in you at all. It is after the wheat plants that feed more people than any other single food source on the planet. And because of cutbacks in international research, we aren't prepared. The famines that were banished by the advent of disease-resistant crops in the Green Revolution of the 1960s could return, Borlaug told New Scientist.

The disease is Ug99, a virulent strain of black stem rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), discovered in Uganda in 1999. Since the Green Revolution, farmers everywhere have grown wheat varieties that resist stem rust, but Ug99 has evolved to take advantage of those varieties, and almost no wheat crops anywhere are resistant to it.

The strain has spread slowly across east Africa, but in January this year spores blew across to Yemen, and north into Sudan (see Map). Scientists who have tracked similar airborne spores in this part of the world say it will now blow into Egypt, Turkey and the Middle East, and on to India, lands where a billion people depend on wheat.

There is hope: this week scientists are assessing the first Ug99-resistant varieties of wheat that might be used for crops. However, it will take another five to eight years to breed up enough seed to plant all our wheat fields.

The threat couldn't have come at a worse time. Consumption has outstripped production in six of the last seven years, and stocks are at their lowest since 1972. Wheat prices jumped 14 per cent last year.

Black stem rust itself is nothing new. It has been a major blight on wheat production since the rise of agriculture, and the Romans even prayed to a stem rust god, Robigus. It can reduce a field of ripening grain to a dead, tangled mass, and vast outbreaks regularly used to rip through wheat regions. The last to hit the North American breadbasket, in 1954, wiped out 40 per cent of the crop. In the cold war both the US and the Soviet Union stockpiled stem rust spores as a biological weapon.

After the 1954 epidemic, Borlaug began work in Mexico on developing wheat that resisted stem rust. The project grew into the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym CIMMYT. The rust-resistant, high-yielding wheat it developed banished chronic hunger in much of the world, ended stem rust outbreaks, and won Borlaug the Nobel peace prize in 1970.

Yet once again Borlaug - now 93 and fighting cancer - is leading the charge against his old enemy. When Ug99 turned up in Kenya in 2002, he sounded the alarm. "Too many years had gone by and no one was taking Ug99 seriously," he says. He blames complacency, and the dismantling of training and wheat testing programmes, after 40 years without outbreaks.

Now a Global Rust Initiative (GRI) is under way at CIMMYT. It's head, Rick Ward, blames the delay on cuts, starting in the 1980s, in CIMMYT's funding for routine monitoring and maintenance of crops and pests.

"CIMMYT was slow to detect the extent of susceptibility to Ug99 [because] it didn't have the scientific eyes and ears on the ground any more," says Chris Dowswell of CIMMYT. "Once it did, it had to start a laborious fund-raising campaign to respond."

Ward is now being promised adequate support as fears grow in rich wheat-growing countries, but meanwhile Ug99 has got worse. It was first noticed because it started appearing on wheat previously protected by a gene complex called Sr31, the backbone of stem rust resistance in most wheat farmed worldwide. Then last year it acquired the ability to defeat another widely used complex, Sr24. "Of the 50 genes we know for resistance to stem rust, only 10 work even partially against Ug99," says Ward. Those are present in less than 1 per cent of the crop.

The first line of defence is fungicide, but the poor farmers who stand to lose most from the blight generally cannot afford it, or don't have the equipment or know-how to apply it. CIMMYT is considering "fire brigade" spray teams armed with cheap, generic fungicides in poor areas. However, they will be competing with the rich for fungicide, and depending on where Ug99 strikes, stocks could be limited.

Even rich countries face problems. The US has been fighting soybean rust with fungicide ever since spores blew in on hurricane Ivan in 2004. If Ug99 arrives as well, the US could be in trouble because it doesn't make enough fungicide for both crops. Kitty Cardwell of the US Department of Agriculture says there might be enough if the US fights Ug99 the same way as it is tackling soya rust: spotting outbreaks with a fast DNA-based field test and posting the results on an interactive website (www.sbrusa.net), so farmers spray only when danger looms. Ultimately, says Ward, the only real answer "is to get new, resistant varieties out there".

CIMMYT has been working on this by taking countries' top-yielding varieties and crossing them with wheat from its seed collections that does resist Ug99. For two years now the crosses have been tested for resistance at field stations in Njoro, Kenya, and in Ethiopia, where it is safe to release Ug99 as it is already there. Resistant strains are sent back to CIMMYT in Mexico and assessed for yield and other qualities, then sent out again for further tests. Resistant lines are now being grown on 27 plots in Nepal, India, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

So far so good, but the real challenge is multiplying up enough resistant seed so that if Ug99 hits, there will be enough to plant the next crop. This takes time - and it will only happen if the new resistant varieties match or exceed existing yields. Nor is it an exact science. No one knows why wheat that looks good in Mexico might grow as well in Egypt, say, but fail in China unless it is crossed with a local variety.

There is nothing for it but to do the tests, says Ravi Singh, the GRI's chief wheat pathologist. The resistant lines must be just as good as the ones people are growing now, he says, or farmers won't use them, and government-owned seed companies that dominate the wheat industry in developing countries won't sell them, no matter what new disease the scientists say is coming.
Singh calculates that if he can get countries to devote 3 to 5 per cent of their wheat-growing area to resistant varieties, the seed harvest will be enough to plant the whole country with resistant wheat if Ug99 hits.

So it's a race, and who wins depends on what Ug99 does now. Stem rust can arrive in a new area and lurk for years before it gets the right conditions for an outbreak. "It won't suddenly explode everywhere. It will be like a moving storm," says Dowswell.

However, Ug99 has another ace up its sleeve. The spores blowing in the wind now are from the asexual stage that grows on wheat. If any blow onto the leaves of its other host, the barberry bush (Berberis vulgaris), they will change into the sexual form and swap genes with whatever other stem rusts they find. Barberry is native to west Asia. "As if it wasn't challenging enough breeding varieties that resist this thing," laments Ward. "All I know is that what blows into Iran will not be the same as what blows out."

What's more, Ug99 will find agriculture has changed to its liking in the decades stem rust has been away. "Forty years ago most wheat wasn't irrigated and heavily fertilised," says Borlaug. Now, thanks to the Green Revolution he helped bring about, it is. That means modern wheat fields are a damper, denser thicket of stems, where dew can linger till noon - just right for fungus.

Another worry is that travel has exploded in the past 40 years. There have now been several documented cases of travellers carrying rust spores on their clothing. Some fear Ug99 will hitchhike as much as it flies - and its spread need not be innocent. New Scientist has learned that the US Department of Homeland Security met in March to discuss the possibility that someone could transport Ug99 deliberately.

Even at 93, Borlaug is looking to the long term. Eventually, scientists will have to create wheat with a wide spectrum of resistances. The genes may be hiding in other grains and grasses. "Why has rice had no rusts for millions of years?" he asks.

For now, Borlaug says, we have to rely on fungicides, wheat breeding and luck. "We're moving as fast as we can now, but we started three years too late," he says. "We'd better have some good luck. Governments think this is still small and local, but these things build up."

From issue 2598 of New Scientist magazine, 03 April 2007, page 6-7

{{Comment: Add this to the bee die-off and we're in for some serious trouble, folks.}}

So, my friends, things, our future......not looking good. Please note, comments are from the article posted at SOTT.

~ The Mediator

Weather - Giant Dust Storms

2007-05-02T15:57:00.000-04:00

Gotta go to the website to actually see the picture. AMAZING ! !

http://www.sott.net/

~ The Mediator

Giant Dust Storm Blows Over Khartoum
Wed, 02 May 2007
12:12 EDT

Giant Dust Storm Blows Over Khartoum

and these other stories:

Survey to pinpoint moths' decline

Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes

Over 160 homes flooded, 750 people evacuated in Urals

Pacific whale decline 'a mystery'

Images show a gigantic cloud of dust billowing over an African city.
The dust storm - known as a "Haboob" - gathered over Khartoum, the capital of Sudan in north east Africa yesterday.

©AP
They are caused by downdrafts created when a thunderstorm reaches its final phase. These downdrafts cause descending air to hit the ground and pick up large amounts of dust.

The gathering dust clouds then travel forward at a speed of 30 mph, creating the frightening spectacle. The dust storms can reach a height of 3,000 feet and contain a wall of sand up to 60 miles wide.

The word Haboob comes from the Arabic for "phenomena".

The Haboob also occurs in America, especially in hot dry states such as Arizona and Texas.

Studying the Subject of Psychopaths

2007-05-01T08:13:00.000-04:00

Lately I have been reading as much as I can. Having been introduced to the subject of psychopaths and narcissist's, I have found some books to be quite helpful to my life situation.

I 'suffer' from not being able to remember my childhood. Not only that, I don't remember high school either. Of course, I do have glimpses and memories of events that happened. But my brain just cannot pull memories out - as much as I have tried.

The reading I have been doing has been quite helpful, and so, I thought I'd pass some of it on. My way of 'giving back' should anyone be interested.

Anyway, I just completed reading (for the second time) The Myth of Sanity by Martha Stout, Ph.D. Great read. Not a lot of psycho-babble but lots of real-life examples to explain some of the reason's why we don't remember.

But I thought that if someone is NOT up for reading an entire book, that maybe you'd prefer a shorter read - like an article.

So, if that be the case, there are sooooo many wonderfully written articles at this site:

See THE PSYCHOPATH - The Mask of Sanity

Read on,
~ The Mediator

ps. And the above site title "The Mask of Sanity"....... isn't that what we do every day of our lives, put on a mask for our family, friends, co-workers, strangers, and especially ourselves.

CLIMATE CHANGE....GET THE REAL SCOOP

2007-04-30T08:44:00.000-04:00

The topic of weather is something we discussed with each other every day. For me, right now, I'm always saying "Glad it's not snowing !" because Spring is supposed to be here. But, when you go from 15 degrees Farenheight to 82 degrees Farenheight in less than a week, and the temps stay in the 70's for a week......well, that's something to take notice of.

So, reading further I find this article: Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda by author Laura Knight-Jadczyk to be full of useful information AND comments. Sometimes I enjoy author's comments in their articles, sorta makes it more personal for me.

Anyway, click on the link below if you would like to read the article in it's entirety. Also, there are also a few other links from this wonderful "world news website".

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Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Signs Of The Times
Wed, 14 Mar 2007
07:15 EDT

SOTT Focus: Signs Economic Commentary for 30 April 2007

SOTT Focus: Psychopathic Morals And The Fantasmagorical War On Terror

SOTT Focus: New Podcast! Interview With Richard Sauder: Underwater and Underground Bases

SOTT Focus: To Bee or not to Be

SOTT Focus: Signs Economic Commentary for 23 April 2007

SOTT Focus: Beware The Ides of April: Cho Seung-hui and the Mosaic Distinction

(begin article).............

What is the truth about Climate Change?

Some time ago I wrote about Climate Change as being probably the most pressing problem facing humanity today. It is so pressing that I am convinced that possibly 90% of the human race - over 6 billion people - could be at risk of certain death in the very near future - like within ten years - if this matter is not addressed adequately and appropriately very, very soon by our "glorious leaders" who seem to have little on their mind other than blowing up innocent people.
But then, that war-mongering has a hidden agenda behind it: to grab and hold resources.

But rest assured that the intent is not to grab and hold those resources for you and me; it is to get them for the "elite," that 6% of humanity that is on the top of the heap and intends to stay there regardless of the fact that those genes should never be passed on.

Well, the Climate Change Confusion factor is heating up.

Channel 4 recently broadcast a special on the "Climate Change Swindle," that was intended to "expose the myths about climate change that have been promulgated in order to hoodwink the world into accepting the man-made theory of global warming."

As far as it went, this special wasn't too bad. However, it didn't really tell the whole story which is that, yes, Climate Change is real and a serious threat, but not for the reasons given.

As it happens, one of the experts included in the presentation has now announced that he was badly mis-quoted, or quoted out of context, and he is back-pedaling like mad.

Keep in mind that this is really just a distraction, something to keep the masses busy so that they don't see the real agenda: that it is intended that they should be "left out in the cold" because they didn't act to get rid of corrupt leaders in time to do anything to prepare for what is coming.

To make the point, let's look at this little debacle a bit more closely.

Expert in oceanography quoted in Channel 4's debunking of Global Warming says he was 'seriously misrepresented'

It was the television programme that set out to show that most of the world's climate scientists are misleading us when they say humanity is heating up the Earth by emitting carbon dioxide. And The Great Global Warming Swindle, screened by Channel 4 on Thursday night, convinced many viewers that it is indeed untrue that the gas is to blame for global warming.

But now the programme - and the channel - is facing a serious challenge to its own credibility after one of the most distinguished scientists that it featured said his views had been "grossly distorted" by the film, and made it clear that he believed human pollution did warm the climate.

{Comment: This sentence right here is the first "twist." If the reader will go to Professor Wunsch's website and read his actual comments, they will discover that he did NOT say the "human pollution did warm the climate" in the sense that this writer is trying to convey - as if that was all there was to it. What Dr. Wunsch actually said will be discussed further on.}

Professor Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said he had been "completely misrepresented" by the programme, and "totally misled" on its content. He added that he is considering making a formal complaint.

A Channel 4 spokesman said: "The film was a polemic that drew together the well-documented views of a number of respected scientists to reach the same conclusions. This is a controversial film but we feel that it is important that all sides of the debate are aired. If one of the contributors has concerns about his contribution we will look into that."

Any complaint would provoke a crisis at Channel 4, now recovering from the Jade Goody Big Brother storm. It had to make a rare public apology after the Independent Television Commission convicted previous programmes on environmental issues by the same film-maker, Martin Durkin, of similar offences - and is already facing questions on why it accepted another programme from him.

The commission found that the editing of interviews with four contributors to a series called Against Nature had "distorted or misrepresented their known views".

.......................(need to go to article to read the rest)

~ The Mediator

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ALL THE BEES - EXTINCTION??

2007-04-26T08:49:00.000-04:00

If you get your news from the TV or newspaper, you probably have not read much about the current "bee crisis" that is going on all over the world.

Researchers seem to be playing down the significance of the situation, calling for more studies. But honestly folks, we are screwed if the bees are dying.

Doesn't matter WHAT is causing them to die ...... or does it. Like the canary in the coal mine, could it be that so goes the bee's, goes humans???

This article says way more than I could ever explain to you. But, if you are at all interested in what is really happening in the REAL WORLD (no, that is not a reference to a new TV series) just get yourself a cup of coffee or tea and read on..........

(snip article)..

Over the past couple of months we here at SOTT have been following the Bee crisis with some interest. It caught my eye when I read the first media article about it that was brought to my attention; I knew this was important.

As Albert Einstein observed:"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."

This really is BIG, people! Do you realize how CLOSE you are to the total collapse of whatever lifestyle you have, including having food on your table (let alone having a table to put it on or a house to keep the table in!) Don't yawn because the habits of bees might be boring and it certainly isn't as entertaining as TV or whatever mindless thing you do and call it entertainment.

If you read every word I have written and assembled here, you will know more about global agriculture than you probably ever thought you WANTED to know, but just now, you had BETTER know it because YOUR life depends on it!

The fact is, the disappearing bees are giving you a gift, right now, a choice if you will only take the time to read and learn.

(snip)..

There are so many useful "links" throughout this article that if you want a thorough education on what's up with the bee's, read all the way through.

To read more go here:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/130784+To+Bee+or+not+to+Be

~ The Mediator

It's April, but the Snow Has Not Stopped

2007-04-13T21:19:00.000-04:00

This was today's weather report on our local tv station:

http://wbztv.com/

"If you thought Thursday's weather was bad, wait until this weekend. A major nor'easter is expected to hit the area on Sunday, but the good news is the worst may be over by the time the Boston Marathon starts Monday morning." (end)

Today was April 13th (actually, Friday the 13th!) and as I went about my day, many people commented on how weird the weather has been for this time of the year.

We, who live in New England, have a saying: "Wait ten minutes and the weather will change." Well, I'm waiting for the weather to change. Since April 1st, it has snowed or we've had snow fluries every day - except for one.

In my neck of the woods, the big Spring Event is the traditional Boston Marathan - a 26 mile race for runners of all caliber. But even though we're expecting a Northeaster of a snowstorm on Sunday night, the marathon has not been cancelled.

To add to the weather mystery of 2007 is this article (which is lengthy, but full of information.....)
Title: Climate Change Report Warns of Increased Hunger and Species Extinction
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/04/06/climate-un.html

"An international global warming conference approved a report Friday warning of dire threats to the Earth and to mankind — from increased hunger to the extinction of species — unless the world adapts to climate change and halts its progress.

"Agreement came after an all-night session during which key sections were deleted from the draft and scientists angrily confronted government negotiators who they feared were watering down their findings. "

So, has anyone notice the price of FOOD GOING THROUGH THE ROOF. And, with all these problems with the weather and crops endangered from frost and a late planting season and other weather anomalies that are sure to make their presence known ---- is anyone out there concerned?????? And I'm just thinking about the weather here in the good ole usofa.

You can read the rest of this article at the above link......but if you go to the signs-of-the-times page, you'll also find this article with the most interesting comments at the end of the article which says:

http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/130024-Climate+change+report+warns+of+increased+hunger%2C+species+extinction
(comment below has been added from Signs-of-the-Times)

"Comment: There it is, folks. Life on the Big Blue Marble in a microcosym. Let's separate out the facts and the players. Let's start with the data:

"Global warming is real. It is here. It will "affect billions of people" and will lead to the extinction of many species, storms, drought, and the possible cutting by one-half of food production in certain countries. The model used doesn't include, from what we can glean from this article, any research into the effects of a sudden global drop in temperatures leading to a new ice age. So keep in mind the report, as dire as it is, could be optimistic.

"Next we get the governments who don't want to admit publically that the situation is so bad. That is to be expected, and anyone who still thinks that governments have the best interests of their citizens at heart is delusional. Global warming and the war on smoking while filling the Middle East and the atmosphere with depleted uranium... yeah, these people really care about humanity.

"Then we come to the explanation for why the Earth is warming. Of course, it is our fault! Get out the whips and the guides to self-flaggellation. "I'm bad! I'm bad!" and beat yourself because of the SUV in the driveway.

"The problem isn't that you are driving the SUV. The problem is that you are a self-centered, narcissistic, mechanical robot, inbided with a pathological culture, who is incapable of seeing the ramifications of even the smallest and least important of your acts. That's why you drive the damn SUV.

"People! We are so screwed! Do you get it yet?!

"What does that have to do with global warming? Check out the following articles to learn more:

"What does that have to do with global warming? Check out the following articles to learn more:

Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda

Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!

The Hope

The Body Snatchers

Environment of Evil

(end comments)

People, people, my friends, what are we going to focus on from here on in. How distracted our lives makes us from recognizing what is looming before us in all of it's horror. What are you going to tell the kids when there are no more chips to be bought, no more pepsi, no more mcdonalds, no more bread.

Gotta start thinking outside the box - gotta read more.

~ The Mediator

Moments in my Life where Time has Stopped

2007-04-12T20:31:00.000-04:00

This is probably a strange title for something I am having a hard time putting into words.

Have you ever had moments in your life where you heard some news and then TIME for you just seemed to STOP?? These moments have happened to me. They all live somewhere in my mind, although I cannot be sure where in my mind they reside.

But they all tend to pop up when another 'time stopping' event occurs.

For each and every one of these 'time stoppers' I can recall where I was, what I was doing, thinking, feeling. I even remember saying a prayer once when I was young asking god to take years off my life and give those years as my gift to someone else to help him live.

My 'time stopping' list is as follows:

*President Kennedy Dies
*Jim Henson (the Muppet's creator) Dies
*Princess Diana Dies
*911 (here many people died)
and today, I have added to my list (and an odd one it is)
*Don Imus fired from MSNBC and CBS Radio (free speech has died).

The first four memories, everyone will recognize those events. The fifth time stopper, well I'm not sure how many people know who Don Imus is.

To learn more about him, just google or alltheweb, his name. He is/was not your typical radio talk-show host.

Imus would, on live tv and radio, verbally badger congressmen and authors, his employers at MSNBC and CBS without shame or regret. He (at least it seemed to me) was trying to get at the truth. This radio talk-show host (of more than 30 years on air) had no problem mentioning the names of the famous, calling them to task on any given issue he had taken up as a cause worth investigating.

He was very vocal on some issues like: thymerisol (a toxic mercury additive in children's vaccines - possibly connected to the cause of autism), SIDS (sudden-infant-death syndrome) and has helped in raising money to build a state-of-the-art Veterans Rehab Center in San Antonio, TX (whatever you thoughts on the war are, this rehab center is what our returning injured vets desperately need). He also has invested much of his time and money in his Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer.

I've been a long-time listener to Imus in the Morning radio show. He's rude, crude, but has what seems to be honorable intentions to do good in the world. And, like Borat, his raw honesty makes me laugh. He makes fun of everybody, including himself. His staff, also continually poke fun at him, calling him old and shriveled.

Why you say, does the firing of such a controversial figure make a 'time stopping' memory for me. It basically is not WHO Don Imus is but WHAT has happened as a result of something inappropriate that he (Imus) said on air. And, that resulted in him loosing his job - that is what has me freak'in out.

Don Imus was not shy, was controversial and always came out with 'comments' that, in my opinion, most of us were probably thinking but afraid to say. You most likely either loved his show or hated it/him.

Today, I'm afraid, free speech has died a painful death here. Although this is nothing I can prove to be true, I know it to be true with every cell of my body. And, unfortunately, time will tell what happens next.

I think we all knew IT (losing our ability to speak freely) was coming. You have probably even experienced moments of it yourself - wondering just how far you should go in a discussion with co-workers, friends, family. Holding back a comment that you are not sure how your friend will react to (or possibly he will remember this comment you made and use against you in the future). But knowing the loss of your ability to speak freely is coming and then actually emotionally experiencing the death of this, another of our freedoms, has me feeling like a basket case tonight.

Gotta go put on the tv and numb my mind (oh, just kidding).

Everyone..............heads up. Something wicked this way comes.

~ The Mediator

FROGS FLY and OTHER WEIRD WEATHER

2007-04-10T11:57:00.000-04:00

Today I came across a couple of strange weather/climate anomalies and thought they might provide 'food for thought' for someone. I know it made me stop and think what would cause thousands of frogs to be picked up by wind and fly through the sky. What the hey???

Article is entitled:
Frogs Rain Down on Serbia
Date: April 10, 2007

and it begins........

"Traffic came to a halt and locals fled inside after thousands of frogs fell from the sky onto a Serbian village.

"Residents in Odzaci told local daily Blic they thought the world was coming to an end.

"Aleksandar Ciric said: "I saw all these small frogs just start raining down. There were thousands of them."

You can read more here...........
http://www.sott.net

just scroll down to the header: "The Living Planet".

and then there is THIS:::

Volcano's Fury Throws Up Mystery Fish
from: The Scotsman
Date: April 10, 2007

"SCIENTISTS on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion have discovered hundreds of fish of unknown species, floating belly-up in the sea, following a spectacular volcanic eruption over the past week.

"It's crazy.

Yes my friends, c.r.a.z.y is the word of the day ! Don't you just love a good mystery. And you can read more here on the mystery fish. Reminds me of high school on Fridays, when we always had our 'mystery fish' meal.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=548442007

Now I know, you're probably saying something like this: "Weird stuff happens all the time. This is nothing unusual. You can't scare me."

No my friend, I'm not out to scare anyone. I am out to make you see that things in life, in climate, in history circle round and, unfortunately, come back to haunt us in our personal lives, on our planet, and in those events that we recognize as history.

It's the circle of life ........ and death. Can't be avoided unless you (yes, I said YOU) open your eyes and take note of what is really going on on this big blue marble - our home.

~ The Mediator

Our Climate is Changing - Oops, no it's not, go back to sleep

2007-04-06T09:10:00.000-04:00

Well, it is Easter and we here in New England have 20 degree weather to wake up to with snow on the ground and temps rising to not much more than 40 degrees during the sun shining days. It was noted on the news last night, that the weather for Easter is the same exact weather we had here on Christmas 2006.

Go figure, with there being no difference in weather from December to April what is is that our weather anchor men and women are NOT telling us. Well, if you read the article below, you'll begin to understand WHY we're not being told.

As I have said in my previous post, 'something wicked this way comes'. And for some reason, the PTB don't want us to know / be prepared / panic (???). Only thing is, I don't know why.

Found this article from the PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY@

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=841

in part it says this............

*Any “fundamental research communication” must “before the communication occurs” be submitted to and approved by the designated “head of the operating unit.” While the directive states that approval may not be withheld “based on policy, budget, or management implications of the research,” it does not define these terms and limits any appeal to within Commerce;

*National Weather Service employees are allowed only “as part of their routine responsibilities to communicate information about the weather to the public”;

*Scientists must give the Commerce Department at least two weeks “advance notice” of any written, oral or audiovisual presentation prepared on their own time if it “is a matter of official interest to the Department because it relates to Department programs, policies or operations.”

“This ridiculous gag order ignores the First Amendment and disrespects the world-renowned professionals who work within Commerce agencies,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch.

Then there is this from the article entitled:

Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda
dated: March 14, 2007
by: Laura Knight-Jadczyk

"Some time ago I wrote about Climate Change as being probably the most pressing problem facing humanity today. It is so pressing that I am convinced that possibly 90% of the human race - over 6 billion people - could be at risk of certain death in the very near future - like within ten years - if this matter is not addressed adequately and appropriately very, very soon by our "glorious leaders" who seem to have little on their mind other than blowing up innocent people.

"But then, that war-mongering has a hidden agenda behind it: to grab and hold resources.
But rest assured that the intent is not to grab and hold those resources for you and me; it is to get them for the "elite," that 6% of humanity that is on the top of the heap and intends to stay there regardless of the fact that those genes should never be passed on.

"Well, the Climate Change Confusion factor is heating up. "

More of THIS ARTICLE here:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/128521-Climate+Change+Swindlers+and+the+Political+Agenda

I know, i know, DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. Don't think about tomorrow. Turn on the TV and watch ' American Idol'. You probably don't really want to know what's going on, cause if you did you wouldn't sleep for weeks.

Time for bed little one's. What - you're all grow'ed up ! ! Then start acting that way and begin to read/learn and be concerned for your children.

~ The Mediator

Global Warming - Want To Know the Truth ?

2007-04-05T19:49:00.000-04:00

Tonight, as I was driving home from work, our local "talk radio" station was discussing the topic of 'Global Warming'. Now I'm no expert on this subject, but I've been reading all that I can get my hands on, as I find it an extremely IMPORTANT subject due to the fact that I have children and I want to be sure that their future is going to be a safe one (and that fact still is up in the air).

Just like I've investigated and read about alternative medicines due to the same reason, being that my children are the world to me and I want them to be as healthy as possible. But this is another subject for a later discussion.

Well, back to Global Warming and 'talk radio'.......what I heard said by the host of 96.9 FM was that global warming had nothing to do with us humans, nothing to do with our air conditioners, our cars, our pollution. But it had everything to do with cycles of the universe and that MAYBE our scientists should take another look at what might be coming our way (and I don't me more lazy, hazy days at the beach).

Ever heard the phrase, "Something wicked this way comes"? Well if you go to where I found this article on global warming you just might pick up some useful information.

It's time to get the truth out..............

FORGET ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING: WE'RE ONE STEP AWAY FROM EXTINCTION

Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007

"Often, some of the most important news comes from local papers, stories that don't make it up the feeding chain and onto the news wires or major newspapers or nightly network news. It can be news that at first glance wouldn't appear to have a national or international impact. Second glance, and a good memory, can reveal that the impact may well be quite significant.

"The other day a reader sent us an article link that he found on another alt.news website: Bad news - we are way past our 'extinct by' date

"Since we had run the same story back when it first came out, we thought "yeah! Flashback!" After all, with all the talk about Global Warming, it served to remind readers that human caused CO2 levels are not all there is to what is going on here on the BBM today.

.................to read the rest of the article, you can go here:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/128992-Forget+About+Global+Warming%3A+We%27re+One+Step+From+Extinction%21

Have a nice summer. And keep looking up ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
~ The Mediator

SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE - READ THIS

2007-04-02T14:12:00.001-04:00

I've been away too long from my blog, and now I'm gonna try and make up for some lost time. There is sooooo much going on in this world that is extremely important to know about (remember I love the phrase: "Knowledge protects") that I came across this article by a lady who is, in my opinion, a brilliant writer/researcher, Laura Knight-Jadczyk.
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/

So whatever your position in life is, whether you are wealthy, intelligent, secure in your job, think that nothing of a negative sort could affect you or your life, you must read this article in it's entirety.

It just might save your life and, save your children. And if you have children, think to the future my friend.

The article I am referring to is entitled "The Hope" and can be found here:
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/2007/03/hope.html/

the article begins here:

THE HOPE
~ Laura Knight-Jadczyk

"My last contribution to the Blogosphere was pretty scary, wasn't it? Geeze! You shoulda seen my mail! People going bananas and writing "what to do? what to do!?"

"Well, this one's not going to be any better. But let me say in advance that today's particular collection of items will lead us to a certain point of HOPE which I wish to elucidate at the end.
IT is 7.17 am, Eastern Standard Time, on the thirtieth of June [some year in the not-too-distant future]. Suddenly the power fails.

"The basement centre of the Defense Communication Operations Unit adjoining the White House is plunged into darkness, and only the distant rumble of early morning traffic reminds the duty officer that another day has already begun. There have been power failures before, however, and there is no hint of impending crisis

"Almost immediately, an automatic switch brings in the emergency supply. But now the duty officer observes that something is wrong. Telephone links to the outside world have gone. These include the open links, via commercial cables, to NORAD's bunker a thousand feet under Cheyenne Peak in Colorado, and to the Offutt command post near Omaha.

"Within seconds it is ascertained that neither the President nor Vice-President, both of whom are out of town, can be contacted: radio communications are blacked out, on all frequencies. .......................

There's tons of information in this article. More than you can imagine only if you read it to the end.

~ The Mediator

LOOKING BACK ON A SITUATION - JOB LOST

2006-10-15T09:25:00.000-04:00

I HAVE BEEN READING this book entitled: Political Ponerology - A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes....by the author Andrew M. Lobaczewski.

Well, I just read the following and my mind exploded with a memory from the past several months with regard to my (my interpretation) being harrassed at my workplace (again, a place where I have been employed for the last 10 years, with not one documented complaint about my work OR behavior).

This is what I read that triggered memories from my work experience:

((begin)) When the human mind comes into contact with [the psychopath directly and with this reality] so different from any experiences encountered by a person raised in a society dominated by normal people, it releases psychophysiological shock symptoms in the human brain with a higher tonus of cortex inhibition and a stifling of feelings, which then sometimes gush forth uncontrollably.

The mind then works more slowly and less keenly because the associative mechanisms have become inefficient. Especially when a person has direct contact with psychopathic representatives of the new rule, who use their specific experience so as to traumatize the minds of the "others" with their own personalities, his mind succumbs to a state of short-term catatonia.

Their humiliating and arrogant techniques, brutal paramoralizations, and so forth deaden his thought processes and his self-defense capabilities, and their divergent experiential method anchors in his mind.

In the presence of this kind of phenomenon, any moralizing evaluation of a person's behavior in such a situation thus becomes inaccurate at best. Only once these unbelievably unpleasant psychological states have passed, thanks to rest in benevolent company, is it possible to reflect, always a difficult and painful process, or to become aware that one's mind and common sense have been fooled by something which cannot fit into the normal human imagination. ((end))

Again, I must repeat: "The mind works more slowly (snip) especially when the person has DIRECT CONTACT with a psychopathic representative (snip) who use their specific experience so as to traumatize the mind of others......"

Basically this passage reminded me of my last day at work. I had given my notice, due to the constant pressures being applied to me personally. Emotionally and physically I could not continue working under such circumstances, and I caved in (or maybe I actually saved myself by leaving the job - time will tell).

Well, I was saying goodbye to our Practice Administrator (she was the person who would NOT back me in my complaints about our new Office Manager and her behaviors and veiled threats towards me), when I brought up (once again) the situation with my Office Manager.

My Practice Administrator at once changed her tone of voice, her demeanor became very hostile and her eyes (pupils) became what I can only describe as 'pointed arrows' directed at me.

She repeated a phrase over-and-over to me. She had also done this in past encounters when I went to her with complaints. When I recognized what she was doing I immediately asked her to STOP. That this direction of our conversations was not going anywhere.

But she did not stop and kept on going round and round with the same phraseology in a slightly different manner. THREE TIMES did I have to ask her to STOP what she was doing. Finally with my saying that I was leaving and I would not listen to what she was saying anylonger, she did stop - but only because I was the one who walked away from the conversation.

In reading the above from Lobaczewski's book, it absolutely occurred to me that what this woman was doing to me was just what he wrote about - she was traumatizing my mind (and now I recognize that she has done this in the past also) and that I was recognizing that something unnatural or creepy was happening to me and by my repetedly asking her to STOP, I was becoming aware of what was happening to me.

Of course, then again, maybe as it was my final day of work, I just didn't care to hear any more of her lies and complaining about the same old issues. But I like to think that there was, somewhere deep within me, a RECOGNITION of what was actually happening to me.

To anyone who reads this blog piece, I apologize for not making myself any clearer than I am. But I wanted to write this down for my own self-remembering so that I can remind myself that I am starting to SEE.

~ The Mediator

ps. Anyone and everyone should read this book. It is going to be a lifesaver (lifepreserver) for humanity. Just go to:

http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs.php

OUT OF A JOB.......

2006-09-26T08:13:00.000-04:00

Tomorrow I go back to work. Tomorrow I will give me notice. Tomorrow my future will be held within a black hole. And the really said thing is, I don't care.

My job.....I've done my job to the best of my ability for the past 10 years. For the last five of those years, I have so enjoyed what I do, how I do it, when I do it, and with whom I have spent my working hours doing it with.

I have learned, I have shared, I have loved, I have cried, I have laughed with my co-workers. And right now, I am grieving over the loss of all those things.

Loosing/getting out of this job is like a divorce. You think of all the things that should be/could have been and cry and weep because it's not supposed to end this way. I had planned to retire from this position. But, I'm still years away from retirement. Too old to begin anew, too young to retire. At least, this is how I feel at the moment.

So it is, that I will grieve and weep for the next 24 hours. That has always been what works for me when I am scared/frustrated/worried. Just grieve/worry my little mind out. Then, let it all go. Let the future begin.

~The Mediator

THE STRUGGLE FOR SELF

2006-09-05T08:30:00.000-04:00

Here I go again, making note of what book has been a helpful read to make me aware of why my life has been such a struggle.

This next book I want to share with all is entitled:
"Trapped in the Mirror
Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self"
by: Elan Golomb, Ph.D.

and to add some issues this book explores, here are some comments from the back of this wonderfully helpful book:

~ the nature of the paralysis & lack of motivation so many adults feel
~ stress & its role in exacerbating childhood wrongs
~ why so many of our relationships seem to be "reruns" of the past

Have you grown up with a feeling of unworthiness?? I have. And, it did continue into my marriage and even with my children. I still struggle with some personal issues, but have changed my outlook on myself. I no longer feel unworthy. And, I find myself feeling proud of myself for having the strength to continue on with my life and that I continued looking for answers to the many baffling questions of my childhood, and my life in general terms.

But, becoming aware of how you were molded as a child....of how you were manipulated in your most innocent of years, is the first step in overcoming many of the programs that were instilled into your being.

Read this book and weap. I guarantee you will. But, you'll feel much stronger a person after finishing this book.

~ The Mediator

ARE YOU THE 'BLACK SHEEP' OF THE FAMILY

2006-09-03T10:15:00.000-04:00

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGH: "WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?"

Well, I have. For most of my life I have thought things like the above, or I must be the 'black sheep' in the family, I'm so different from everyone. Those thoughts took up way too much of my time, wondering 'what's wrong with me'. But, after all these years I have found some answers to my questions.

Hold on to your socks, because there may in truth, be nothing wrong with you except that you are surrounded by people who have BPD....Borderline Personality Disorder.

Another book I could recommend without hesitation is this one:
"Stop Walking on Eggshells
Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care
About Has Borderline Personality Disorder"
by: Paul T. Mason, M.S. & Randi Kreger

I think there are a couple of Universities who give classes on this exact issue BPD. I've read the book and have taken some interesting concepts on and have actually successfully used them with my ex-spouse and in my workplace.

So, as the back of the book cover says:
~ Do you feel that anything you say or do will be twisted against
you?
~ Does no one believe you when you explain what is going on?
~ Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages,
alternating with periods when they act normal & loving?

Read the book, and then let the games begin. You'll be a top player and will have much more control over your life, your emotions and your well-being.

Good luck ! !

~ The Mediator

MANIPULATIVE PEOPLE .... GOTTA LOVE 'EM (NOT)

2006-09-02T11:19:00.000-04:00

Well, I've decided that I need to share some of the truly incredible and helpful reads that have entered into my life. And, since I've found great inspiration and assistance through reading about and becoming aware of these types of people, I'm hoping to help even one other human by writing about this. So, here goes...............

If you've ever been manipulated by someone you love or respect or thought was a friend, then you MUST read this book. It will free your mind, make you more aware, and help you to not be ma-ni-pu-la-ted again. Er...... at least you'll become aware you were/have been manipulated. And, as time goes by, you'll start to pick up on cues and eventually find yourself in a position where you won't be the target of any more manipulations.

Knowledge protects, right ! !

So, to begin with here is my personal recommendation. It's a small book, a quick read (for those of you who aren't into reading much) and the title is:

"IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People"
by: George K. Simon, Jr., Ph.D.

.....and here's a little quote from the back of the book cover:

"Whether it's your mate or child who knows how to push your buttons, the co-worker who quietly undermines your efforts while professing to be helpful, or the boss who preys on your weaknesses, manipulative people have two goals: to win and to look good doing it. Often those they abuse are ignorant of, or only vaguely aware of, what is happening to them."

The book is immensely helpful to us who think that all people are looking out for our best interests (and this includes parents/spouses/friends).

The book helps you to spot weaknesses in your character that can set you up for manipulation.

Enjoy your new adventure into finding out about the true nature of people. Not everything is as it seems. I can say this because of personal experience.

Like it or not, once you start reading about manipulators, agressive personalities, psychopaths, you'll never look at this world with the same pair of innocent eyes. Sorry if this will take away any joy in your life. But 'truth' will keep you ... and your children ... safe.

~ The Mediator

HATS OFF TO AUTHOR ANNA C. SALTER, PH.D.

2006-09-01T21:13:00.000-04:00

I just want to start this off by saying that I love the author Anna Salter. I consider her one-of-several-people who have helped me save my soul. And, she doesn't know me, has never met me - doesn't know I exist, yet she is my hero.

I'm not a young person, neither am I an old person. In my middle age, I have discovered something that has helped me understand my life.

This 'something' has had a miracle-like effect on my well-being.

My life has been, up to now, like I was stuck in mud, not understanding why my life didn't work, why I was miserable most of the time, why I developed this, what I call, a "guilt-gene" that pretty much dictated what I would/could/should do with every move of my life - up until this past year or so.

Anna Salter has written several books. All, of which, I would highly recommend to anyone/everyone - no matter who you are.

The subject matter is PSYCHOPATHS/PREDATORS.......and these two words were never thought of consciously by me before being introduced to several authors, Anna Salter, being one of them.

Now, no way am I professing to be a specialist in the area of psychopaths/predators, but once you begin reading on the issue, it will make your eyes pop! ! ! Your mind will race, like Nascar, with moments in your life.....with those most important people in your life....like those times you can't fully explain to yourself...., well, at least that's what happened to me.

IF....your life is not working.
IF....that special someone in your life continually causes chaos in your
relationship.
IF....you are unable to focus on your own future, your own ideas, your
own goals without being c-o-n-t-i-n-u-a-l-l-y distracted by lots &
lots of DRAMA, then you need to read some of Anna's books.

~ The Mediator

WHO AM I ? ?

2006-08-27T09:38:00.000-04:00

I can't stop thinking about this issue.

How do I possibly get this down on paper, it's something that in reality doesn't make any sense at all. It is something I have thought of on-and-off, for many, many years .... so many years that it seems to be coming to a head and I am finding that I think of this issue daily.

What is it, you ask, that makes my mind wander back and forth. It is something that many children ask themselves at some point in their growing up years, hoping that their parents aren't really their parents. But, I never was one to do this to myself. It all started about 25 years ago - mostly as a joke, but today has become more of an irritation of sorts.

The 'issue' that is torturing me is this...........am I adopted (?) was I a baby who was switched at birth (?) or was some kind of baby switch done around 18 months old (?).

Now for the facts. I'm in my 50's. I have four sisters and one brother. None of them do I look like. Nor do I look like my mother or father or grandparents or aunts or uncles.

It has been a sort of family joke that I'm the milkman's daughter. Everyone gets a chuckle at that, especially when we are at a family gathering and someone new to the family will say to me with complete surprise "You're (so and so's) sister, daughter ! ! You don't look anything like the rest of the family."

But back even further, to the beginning of the questions that have been raised, not by me, but by my mother. Many, many years ago she relayed an unusual story to me and the family. From time to time, she brings this up and it has made me wonder what, if anything, this story rings of some sort of truth - something maybe even my own mother doesn't seem to be conscious of.

The story goes like this.....when I was about 18 months old, I was quite something. I was talking quite a bit (apparently quite unusual for the time) and my aunt, my mother's sister (who was pregnant at this time) thought I was just the most wonderful child. I, like my parents, had dark black hair and bright blue eyes. I was just beautiful ! ! !

The story gets quite sad at this point. My aunt, who was pregnant, gave birth to twin boys. But she, and her two sons, died in childbirth. It was a very traumatic time for my mom and her family. Something I cannot even imagine the grief they were experiencing. But, here is where the story takes the strange twist ..... my mother relates that the day my aunt and her boys died, she put me to bed. When she picked me up in the morning, from my crib, I had this incredible change of hair color and eye color - going from black hair to blonde and eyes from bright blue to green. Go figure.

Now I never, ever gave that story any credence of truth, although I thought it was a wildly impossible event, but my mom insists it was absolutely true. I went from black hair/blue eyes to blonde hair/green eyes overnight. Is this medically possible? I know that babies eyes do change color. But haircolor too - overnight?

Could it be from the trauma the family was experiencing?? Could my mom have been so filled with grief that she didn't recognize/experience that her child was (maybe) not her child?? None of this story logically makes any sense to me.

But my mom, who is now 82, still sticks by this story - the hair/eye color change that happened overnight. What am I to make of this??

To continue on with the story I should tell you that I love to go yard-sailing, as we call it around here. Usually I go with one or two or three of my sisters, since we all love to find a good "bargain" now and then.

Every weekend, as we stop to check out the 'sales', it never fails that someone will talk to one of my sisters (we are all very friendly) and say to that person "Oh, and this is your sister too." ..... and be referring to the other one or two sisters who are with us. But never, NEVER, do they include me in the referring. For the last couple of years it's just been something we've all laughed at. But, it's just getting weirder and weirder.

A week ago, I took my mom to the hospital to get some blood drawn. We sat down next to another elderly lady. As it turned out, she and my mom were friends in their younger days and they talked for sometime until we had to leave. My mom introduced me to this woman as her 'oldest daughter'. The woman said "You're kidding, I would never have guessed she was one of your children. She doesn't look like any of the others I know." Well, you know my mom and I brought up the old joke of me being the milkman's daugher. Everyone laughed.

But, this is just getting rediculous.

Yesterday, at two separate yardsales, people talked to my other sister and said things like "Oh, and so-and-so is your sister, you look just like her." I was just so irritated by it all I walked away. Determined not to stand there and say (as I usually do) "I'm so-and-so's sister too." It's just getting to be too much for me.

And, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. It's on my mind alot. Can't shake the feeling that there's something more to this whole story than I may ever find out. It's a mystery (or maybe it's not) that I want to solve, to settle in my own mind.

Anyone have any suggestions??? I am actually asking myself this question. But as yet I have not come up with an answer - except to try to do a dna test. But how would I bring that up to my mom without offending her or scaring her?

My personal feeling is that someone switched me in my crib when I was 18 months old. But that's probably too conspiritorial for it to have any truth. And I'm not a crazy person. Just trying to figure out an answer to this crazy issue in my life.

~ The Mediator

Ponerology/Psychopaths/Condoleeza Rice

2006-07-25T13:10:00.000-04:00

Ponerology, psychopaths, does she speak for you??
This article was taken from:
http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs.php

Signs of the Times for Mon, 24 Jul 2006

Signs Editorial:

Condoleezza Pregnant: Giving Birth to Monster
by: Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Rice sees bombs as "birth pangs"

Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire."This is a different Middle East. It's a new Middle East. It's hard, We're going through a very violent time," the US secretary of state said."A ceasefire would be a false promise if it simply returns us to the status quo."Such a step would allow terrorists to launch attacks at the time and terms of their choosing and to threaten innocent people, Arab and Israeli, throughout the region."

I have to say that, as the mother of five children, these remarks stopped me cold in my tracks. Aside from the obvious question "what can Condoleezza Rice - a woman who has never given birth - know about "birth pangs"? - there is another more compelling question: what kind of human being can be so callous as to say such a thing when tens of thousands of mothers in the Middle East have suffered the unimaginable grief of seeing their beautiful babies crushed under the jackboots of rapacious Imperialism and religious fanaticism?

In Norman Finkelstein's book Beyond Chutzpah, he writes:
In the course of preparing the chapters of this book devoted to Israel's human rights record in the Occupied Territories, I went through literally thousands of pages of human rights reports, published by multiple, fiercely independent, and highly professional organizations - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories), Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel - each fielding its own autonomous staff of monitors and investigators.

Except on one minor matter, I didn't come across a single point of law or fact on which these human rights organizations differed.

In the case of Israel's human rights record, one can speak today not just of a broad consensus - as on historical questions - but of an UNQUALIFIED consensus. All these organizations agreed, for example, that Palestinian detainees have been sytematically ill treated and tortured, the total number now probably reaching the tens of thousands.
Yet if, as I've suggested, broad agreement has been reached on the FACTUAL record, an obvious anomaly arises: what accounts for the impassioned controversy that still swirls around the Israel-Palestine conflict?

To my mind, explaining this apparent paradox requires, first of all, that a fundamental distinction be made between those controversies that are real and those that are contrived.

To illustrate real differences of opinion, let us consider again the Palestinian refugee question.

It is possible for interested parties to agree on the facts yet come to diametrically opposed moral, legal, and political conclusions.
Thus, as already mentioned, the scholarly consensus is that Palestinians were ethnically cleansed in 1948.

Israel's leading historian on the topic, Benny Morris, although having done more than anyone else to clarify exactly what happened, nonetheless concludes that, morally, it was a good thing - just as, in his view, the "annihilation" of Native Americans was a good thing - that, legally, Palestinians have no right to return to their homes, and that, politically, Israel's big error in 1948 was that it hadn't "carried out a large expulsion and cleansed the whole country - the whole Land of Israel, as far as the Jordan" of Palestinians.

However repellant morally, these clearly can't be called FALSE conclusions.

Returning to the universe inhabited by normal human beings, it's possible for people to concur on the facts as well as on their moral and legal implications, yet still reach divergent POLITICAL conclusions.
Noam Chomsky agrees that, factually, Palestinians were expelled; that, morally, this was a major crime; and that, legally, Palestinians have a right of return. Yet, politically, he concludes that implementation of this right is infeasible and pressing it inexpedient, indeed, that dangling this (in his view) illusory hope before Palestinian refugees is deeply immoral.
There are those, contrariwise, who maintain that a moral and legal right is meaningless unless it can be exercised and that implementing the right of return is a practical possibility.

For our purposes, the point is not who's right and who's wrong but that, even among honest and decent people, there can be a real and legitimate differences of political judgment.

This having been said, however, it bears emphasis that - at any rate, among those sharing ordinary moral values - the range of political disagreement is quite narrow, while the range of agreement quite broad."
Let's run that by one more time: The scholarly consensus is that Palestinians were ethnically cleansed in 1948 and Israel's leading historian, Benny Morris, thinks that this was a good thing.
And now, Condoleezza Rice thinks that further ethnic cleansing of the Middle East by the psycho-bullies of Israel is just "birth pangs" of a "New Middle East."

Most Westerners have been brainwashed to think that the "Arab-Israeli Conflict" is some kind of old, historical hatred, a "cosmic clash of religions, cultures, civilizations. This is what Finkelstein refers to as a "contrived controversy." It is all bunk and mystification and it serves to blow smoke on the so-called "Two State Solution" that is the favored political gambit of most normal, decent, humane and moral people. Noam Chomsky favors this view to some extent, but I sometimes wonder how a person can have any moral fiber at all if they, on the one hand, agree that a deed is totally morally reprehensible, and on the other hand, suggest that righting the wrong is not feasible.

For the rest of the article, go over to 'signs'
http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs.php

Someday, We All Will Wake Up To This Life

2006-07-18T20:22:00.000-04:00

Can anyone read this article and not wonder why what is seen and heard in the news reports, on tv and on the nightly newscasts, is SO DIFFERENT from what is reported here in this editorial from the Signs page.

You can read more at:
http://www.sott.net

Signs Editorial:

Dispatch from Palestine - Nablus: "It is our life"
by: Silvia Cattori

Our friend Silvia Cattori sends this report from Nablus:

Every night the city of Nablus is shaken by the sounds of war, sounds that drive away sleep. One awakens with a start, not knowing if one has slept, not slept, or if we are in a waking nightmare. There is shooting, nearby explosions resonate, go off in the distance, and return as an echo.

You don't know what is happening or where it is happening. At first, you are very worried, then you stop thinking about it. One waits for daybreak with resignation.

The people around tell you it is like that every day of the year here in the district of Nablus, that nothing has changed since 2000, that it is simply part of the panoply of the war of terror waged by Israel, added on top of the countless other repressive measures.

Soldiers regularly penetrate the small alleys of Nablus or its villages at night. They break down doors, throw grenades. House by house they search for men they say are "wanted", are "suspects". They force families out on the street, then they search, breaking everything, and if they don't find what they are looking for, they order mothers to call their sons to hand themselves in via the loud speakers. If the "suspect" doesn't appear, they may arrest the father, the brothers, or blow up the house. They leave before dawn.

The shooting ceased after midnight.

But the fiercest fighting started at 4:00 this morning when the city was shaken by a strong explosion. Then intense shooting. The sound of the shooting was twice drowned out by the voices of the muezzin, voices going far, returning as an echo as we held our breath.

What happened tonight during the raid was not the usual. Israeli troops arrived around 4 am without making a sound, by surprise. Generally, the soldiers don't come face to face with combatants because the wanted men hide. They know they are hunted and, with their poor rifles, are no match. But this morning, the lookouts resisted. The fighting lasted several hours. The Israeli army lost one dead and six others wounded, several very seriously.

Four young Palestinians were captured and taken away by the soldiers. They are undergoing interrogation by Shen Bet. The information that they will manage to extort will serve to justify the next round of raids and punitive actions. We are waiting for the army to return at any moment and know that the repression will be all the more severe as the dead soldier is the son of the commander in charge of the region.

The people are at the end of their ropes. Israel has humiliated them, starved them, taken away all of their rights. They live here as prisoners. When people present themselves at the checkpoints - which are military zones where the soldiers amuse themselves by installing a reign of terror - they are humiliated, arrested, beaten. The young - those between 14 and 30 years old - are not allowed to pass. They must take, at great risk, the mountain paths.

A student at An-Najah University was arrested at the checkpoint one year and one-half ago and is still being held for having slapped a soldier who gave him a body search.

After six years of deprivation and massacres, one senses the people are all the more revolted and on edge that, beyond the persecutions of Israel, that they will also undergo the strangulation by Europe. A scandalous Europe that punishes and starves an entire people for having voted for Hamas. It only reinforces their spirit of resistance. To rebel is the only thing that remains for them to protect their battered dignity. Because of this, one senses they are determined, ready to hold out against the entire world until that moment when the latter finally feels the full shame of having committed such a horrendous crime, until it understands that demanding the respect of their stolen rights is the legitimate right of the Palestinians.

It remains that what happened tonight will not be without serious consequences for them. The Israeli army will return to punish them all the more ferociously. But they continue on with their work, proceed as if nothing had happened. They look at you with the calm regard of those who know they have humanity on their side. It is their strength. "It is our life," they let calmly answer when you worry for them.

HELL

2006-07-18T20:05:00.000-04:00

This isn't heaven on earth. It is truly hell-on-earth.

I sit here in my home, drinking a glass of wine, reading and watching the massacre of men, women and children and am horrified to the depths of my soul. I feel guilty that I sit here seemingly safe. I feel guilty. What can one do??????????

This article was taken from an alternative news website:
http:///sott.net/signs/editorials/signs2006718_Hell.php

Signs of the Times for Tue, 18 Jul 2006

Signs Editorial:

"Hell"

by: Henry See

What do you do when the entire world is siding with murder? When the life of one Israeli soldier is worth more than the lives of an entire civilian population? Make that two civilian populations - Gaza and Lebanon. What do you do when the deliberate gunning down and bombing of villagers evacuating their town calls forth no shouts of protest, when the premeditated massacre of women and children is called "defence"?

Israel is given free reign to kill as many Arabs as its blood lust demands while the world looks on in silence, or worse, by suggesting those crazed Arab terrorists should calm down, implying "they deserve it".

Israeli psychopath in chief Olmert lets it be known in no uncertain terms that the bombing of Lebanon will continue until the two captured Israeli soldiers are returned. The headlines in the west read "Israeli foreign minister lays out conditions for ceasefire with Hezbollah". They're joking, right? Olmert's violence is played out as an offer for peace!

But it's no joke. It is simply business as usual in a media that is owned and operated as a subsidiary of the Zionist state. The media turns everything upside down: revenge murders carried out with a powerful military armed by US money are 'defence', while people fighting for their lives with homemade rockets and old rifles are 'terrorists'.

Welcome to the pathocracy.

Robert Fisk reported last week on a village in Lebanon whose occupants were ordered by the Israelis to evacuate before their village was to be bombed. As the villagers left, the Israeli's targeted not their homes and businesses, but the fleeing villagers themselves. They were killed. All of them, men women and at least 9 children.

Then John Bolton has the gall the step up and say "I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts," he added, while defending as "self-defense" Israel's military action, which has had "the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths".

"It's simply not the same thing to say that it's the same act to deliberately target innocent civilians, to desire their deaths, to fire rockets and use explosive devices or kidnapping versus the sad and highly unfortunate consequences of self-defense."

Did you catch that? The willing and knowing slaughter of over 200 Lebanese civilians by Israel in the past 5 days is only the "sad and highly unfortunate consequences of self-defense"?!

Can you see how far down in the muck of psychopathic values we have become mired? Can you see that there is no humanity in Bolton's words? That it is a sound bite meant to reassure the American public that the Palestinians and the Lebanese are no better than animals, that it is OK to slaughter them wholescale in the name of "defence"? That it is meant to put you back to sleep so that all the noise of those bombs is disturbing your rest?

And this just in: "Race to Rescue 20,000 Brits Trapped in Lebanon Hell". It wasn't hell a week ago. You know, before Israel started bombing it back to the stone age.

But it's their own damn fault, right?

We read today as well that "UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has accused Hezbollah militants of 'pouring petrol on the bonfire'"! You mean the fire ignited in Gaza when Israel launched the invasion? Or maybe the fire ignited when the great, Western democracies decided the Palestinians needed to be collectively punished for voting for Hamas? Or could it be the fire that started to burn when Palestine was taken away from the people that had been living there for thousands of years and given to the Jews?

Of course not! It is simply because Arabs are different than "you and me". They don't value life the way "we" do. After all, anyone else on the globe would have been happy to turn over their ancestral land to the Jews after WW2, right? And when the new residents started demanding more and more and more, anyone but the Arabs would have been happy to continue giving them everything they demanded. Wouldn't you? If only those unreasonable Arabs were as unattached to their land as Americans...

Let's be honest here, if soldiers were to come and break down the doors of your home at night, you would welcome them in, offer them a smoke and a drink, wouldn't you? "Hey, just make yourselves comfortable. What's mine is yours. It's just those damn Arabs, be they Palestinian or Lebanese or Iraqi who go and make a fuss about searches that destroy all their belongings and heirlooms, or "accidents" that kill their children, or bulldozers that raze their houses. Anyone else in the world would have been happy to do any of this after all that the Jews suffered in WW2. Wouldn't they?

I suppose it's just bad luck that the Zionists had to choose the one place on the planet where they weren't going to be welcome.

SECRET HISTORY REVEALED . . . . .

2006-06-05T08:04:00.000-04:00

I have recently read the above mentioned book "The Secret History of the World & How to Get Out Alive" by Laura Knight-Jadczyk. As a matter of fact, there is so much information contained within these pages, that I have begun re-reading this book.

If you liked the Da Vinci Code book by Dan Brown, you'll be absolutely fascinated by this definitive account of the world's history. The book takes you on a fascinating historical ride. One you'll never find anywhere else.

The phrase "nothing is as it seems" is truly the truth here. Our world, our beliefs, as we think they are, are not real - not the truth. And, the truth IS quite painful.

Do you have the guts to read this book?

~ The Mediator

PEOPLE ALWAYS DISAPPOINT YOU IN THE END

2006-05-31T20:41:00.000-04:00

I used to enjoy reading the articles on the http://www.rense.com/ website.

Well, I'm totally disappointed with this now. And, if you care to find out why, if you're someone who goes to check out the site often, read the link below and you'll understand.

http://www.wingtv.net/thorn2006/rense1.html

Totally disgusted.

~ The Mediator

I USED TO BE A 'NEW AGER'

2006-04-17T09:24:00.000-04:00

lIKE THE TITLE SAYS, I USED TO BE A NEW-AGER.

I spent all my free time reading about how to ascend. There were also classes on rituals on attracting abundance, radiant health, angelic protection, finding my higher-self, chanting and healing.

For some time, I was part of a healing group, and we attracted many clients (although I was never paid or compensated for my part in this group - neither were any of the other individuals who participated - only the "healer" took in all the $$). But, we all though we were doing such necessary and benevolent work, that we never thought about any type of monetary compensation. We were a group of truth seekers, honest as the day was long, and just wanting to 'help' and 'assist' those who asked.

I remember telling people (family, friends, anyone who would listen) that to make their lives better, they needed to do this 'affirmation' or that 'intention' and things would work out for the best ! ! All the while, as I was INTENDING and AFFIRMING, my life was spiraling out of control ...... on a downhill slide ..... but I was unable to recognize any of it, as I was so caught up in my belief of 'intending' and 'affirming' and 'believing' that I would be blessed.

Well, I wasn't blessed at all.

One of the books we, in our little group, were urged to purchase and read was called "THE KEYS OF ENOCH" by JJ Hurtak. At that time, the books were in limited supply (or so we were told) and to purchase one (at a cost of $65.00) would be the best investment for our little ascention group. So, we all scraped up the cost of the book, and read and studied.

Sometime after this, I remember coming to a small realization that all that I was doing, to make my life better, was NOT working. That I needed to STOP and backup and figure out whether my praying, hoping, waiting for help to arrive was the RIGHT thing to do.

Well, it must have been time, because one day I just STOPPED EVERYTHING. No more rituals, intentions, chants, visualizations, etc. I decided it was time to DO something. And, almost magically things began changing in my life - and for the better.

The magic for my has become the DOING. When faced with a situation, you need to stop focusing on someone or something to help make your problem(s) disappear. You need to DO something to make your problem(s) disappear.

The reason for this post is an article I recently came across. It made me realize how taken in I was by all this New Age trickery. And, like anything, you can be taken in so easily when you are feeling down-and-out, ill, emotionally vulnerable, searching for an answer to your life's problems.

Take it from me, just one person, just my opinion, but New Age is just another money making scheme. Keep your money, and DO.

Below is part of the article that I referred to.

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The article below was found on a blogger's site:

http://anti-cointelpro.blogspot.com/2006/04/who-is-jj-hurtak.html

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

WHO IS JJ HURTAK ?

To kick off this ambitious project, let us have a look at Don JJ Hurtak, the guy who started the whole “Keys of Enoch” deal and garnered such followers as the young Don Bernard “Drunvalo” Perona. Now a fully fledged psychic mafia Don in his own right.

Don James J "J.J." Hurtak's published bio says:

"J.J. Hurtak, Ph.D., Ph.D., M.Th. is a social scientist and futurist who studied at the University of California and the University of Minnesota."

Now, certainly he does not say that his degrees came from the University of California and the University of Minnesota... he only says he has degrees, followed by the names of two universities where he "studied." However, certainly, a reader would assume from this juxtaposition that his degrees came from those universities.

The fact is that his PhD is in social science and his other PhD in History and Oriental Studies, were obtained from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico.

Regarding Hurtak's claims to have been at the Uni of California in 1973, we find the following.
The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch® (1973, 1975, 1977) makes the correlation that this Divine Name was the key behind the transcription code of chemical letters which develops the human body. In 1973 while at the University of California, Hurtak came to understand that there was a connection between the series of linguistic and genetic associations in the spelling of God’s name in the biblical Hebrew (YHVH).

http://www.keysofenoch.org/html/academy_learning_session__dna.html
Hurtak’s bio claims:

To read more, go check out this blogger's site.

RULES FOR DEALING WITH SOCIOPATHS

2006-04-12T21:19:00.000-04:00

Found this article from another blogger at:

http://wandering-reflections.blogspot.com

THIRTEEN RULES FOR DEALING WITH SOCIOPATHS IN EVERYDAY LIFE......

Well, this is only a guide... is much better to read the book from which these rules came from, "The Sociopath Next Door" by Martha Stout.

1) The first rule involves the bitter pill of accepting that some people literally have no conscience.

2) In a contest between your instincts and what is implied by the role a person has taken on, go with your instincts.

3) When considering a new relationship, practice the Rule of 3s regarding the claims and promises a person makes, and the responsibilities he or she has.

4) Question authority.

5) Suspect flattery.

6) If necessary redefine your concept of respect. [based on fear?]

7) Do not join the game.

8) The best way to protect yourself is to avoid him, to refuse any kind of contact or communication.

9) Question your tendency to pity too easily.

10) Do not try to redeem the unredeemable.

11) Never agree, out of pity or any other reason, to help a sociopath conceal his or her true character.

12) Defend your psyche.

13) Living well is the best revenge.

And, I absolutely agree that #13....living well is the best revenge IS THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY.

~ The Mediator

A FAREWELL TO MY DOG, HONEY

2006-04-12T00:04:00.000-04:00

It has been a month now, and I cannot stop thinking about Honey. She was my wonderful companion and best pooch ever for 10 years.

Honey was a golden colored cocker spaniel that I rescued from a dog catcher on a cold February night. She was about 8 months old. I already had two other dogs, a Samoyed named Maxine and an all-american pooch named Baby. Honey was a wonderful addition to our family and home. Although, with three dogs, the workload could be extremely annoying, as I had to vacuum the house daily. And, during Spring and Fall, when the dogs were shedding, there were moments when I absolutely hated 'dog hair'. But never, did I hate the dogs.

In the winter, our families best friend was masking tape. Couldn't leave the house without a strip of that masking tape tapping on your coat, your sweater, your pants or sometimes the couch, chairs, side of the quilt on the bed, etc, etc, etc. But, even with all the added work for me, I never felt more loved than when I came home from errands, or being out and about for an entire day, and the three dogs would come running up to me, tails wagging, barking and running circles around me. It was pure l-o-v-e......magical, actually.

About 7 years after Honey joined the family, our first pooch, Baby, was put down. She had become very ill and it was time. I was with her (I went alone as my husband did not have the courage to be there with me) till the end. We brought her home and burried her in the back yard. The house seemed quite strange and empty without her.

Two and a half years later, Maxine was put down. Again, I was with her and my heart broke into a thousand pieces. Unlike Baby, who knew her time had come and didn't struggle....Maxine did struggle and it was extremely traumatic for her and for me. Now there was just Honey left to keep me company. And she did, for another two years. Then, I had to move. I had lived in my home for 15 years. And never once, in all my life, (and I had two other dogs before Baby, Maxine and Honey) had I ever been put in a position where I had to give up a pet. But, due to circumstances, now I did have to find a home for Honey.

During the process of selling my home, my Realtor's associate had to come to the house to show it to a client because my Realtor had to have some surgery. Deb (the assicoate) fell in love with Honey and commented to my Realtor that someday she would want a dog just like her. When my Realtor told Deb that I was looking for a home for Honey, Deb contacted me and we began what turned out to be a rather long and drawn out transition for Honey.

First, I took Honey to Deb's house for a long weekend to see how they both would react to each other. Deb was totally happy having Honey around for the three days. I was totally misearable. Honey was a bit confused.

Next, about a month later, we tried a longer boarding at Deb's. And again, both Deb and Honey got along fabulously. Emotionally I was devastated. Having had Honey for 10 years, it was like giving my child to another woman. I was jealous, scared, fearful, actually sick to my stomach. Moving day was now only a month away. Final preparations were being made by Deb and myself for Honey's permanent move.

The day of 'transition' for Honey was one of my saddest days. I woke early, took her for a long walk around the neighborhood. We walked through the woods, I made her waffles (her favorite people food) and packed her belongings. Later that day, we drove to Deb's and since Deb and I both lived on 'dead-end' streets, when I got there, Deb, Honey and I went for a walk along her road. As we finished our walk & approached Deb's home, I handed her the leash and bent down and hugged Honey, gave her a kiss and walked to my car.

Honey, of course, yipped and pulled on the leash, wanting to come with me. I never looked back, but drove home crying the whole way. The next day, we moved all our belongings out of the home we had lived in for 15 years and started a new journey.

Deb and I communicated via email weekly. She informed me of Honey's adjustments, the fun they were having together, and how much happiness she had brought into Deb's life. I was so glad that Honey was doing well. But I was going through terrible withdrawal symptoms of not having a pet to love, to greet me unconditionally when I came home. So time went by...........

After about 9 months, I contacted Deb via email. We had become friends. But, all along those nine months, even though she said I could come visit Honey anytime, I declined, as I did not want to confuse Honey and also seeing her would make me sad(er). Anyway, since so much time had passed, I told Deb, as Christmas was coming, and she wanted to go visit family who lived far away, that if she thought it would be ok, I could come over and take care of Honey while she visited family. Deb agreed ! ! !

Visiting Honey and caring for her for three days was wonderful. My children even got to see her. Honey took a little time warming up to us, but after some time, she was wagging her tail and climbing in our laps, licking our faces.

I also got to babysit Honey on one other occasion. Just an overnight, but at that time, I noticed she was thinner, walked with a limp and took a long time to get up out of her bed. I spoke w/Deb and she told me that she was steadily loosing weight, had a chronic uti and that she was sure that there was not much time left.

Two weeks later, Honey was put down. Deb called to let me know. We both cried and a couple weeks later, when the emotions weren't so raw, we went to dinner together to talk about Honey and how much happiness she brought into both our lives.

Well, I just wanted to put down on paper (so to speak) how much I loved my pets and how much I miss them, all of them - Buddy, Tippy, Baby, Maxine, Honey. Never have there been such wonderful companions.

I guess I'm feeling rather sad and wanting for the love of an animal companion. But that will have to wait.

~ The Mediator

DO YOU FEAR A NUKE IS NEAR ? ?

2006-03-18T10:32:00.000-05:00

I'm just a little fish in a big pond. I like to think that I can still "think" and "learn" and "reason". There is much to learn about what is going on in our world. There is much to read about, especially my new found craving to reading about history past. And, it scares me......only because of the phrase: HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. Don't think so, read the article below. Or, if you have the courage, go to the very intelligent woman's website and read it in full there.

Below is an article from Laura Knight-Jadczyk's blog. Be afraid, be very afraid.

18 March 2006

TERRORISM AND THE THREE SILLIES

This weekend's edition of http://www.sott.net
carries several important pieces that I would like to bring to everyone's attention and then I am going to present a fable that I read as a child that will shed some light on our present situation.

The first article is by Paul Craig Roberts: Is Another 9/11 in the Works? Paul points out that what is happening in global politics - i.e. Bush planning another war in the midst of losing the first one - is totally insane. Yet, as anyone can see, the rhetoric leading up to bombing Iraq was identical to the mad propagandistic ravings that pass for political discourse concerning Iran today. "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The immediate past tells us that Bush and the Neocons very definitely intend to make war on Iran. And yet, that is so insane that most of us can't grok it. The US Army is stretched to the breaking point, the economy is floating on illusion, the American people are a heartbeat away from unimaginable financial disaster, and yet Bush and the Warmongers are planning another hideously expensive war... or so it seems. Roberts states the case succinctly:

First of all, Bush lacks the troops to do the job. If the US military cannot successfully occupy Iraq, there is no way that the US can occupy Iran, a country approximately three times the size in area and population.

Second, Iran can respond to a conventional air attack with missiles targeted on American ships and bases, and on oil facilities located throughout the Middle East.

Third, Iran has human assets, including the Shia majority population in Iraq, that it can activate to cause chaos throughout the Middle East.

Fourth, polls of US troops in Iraq indicate that a vast majority do not believe in their mission and wish to be withdrawn. Unlike the yellow ribbon folks at home, the troops are unlikely to be enthusiastic about being trapped in an Iranian quagmire in addition to the Iraqi quagmire.
Fifth, Bush’s polls are down to 34 percent, with a majority of Americans believing that Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a mistake.

If you were being whipped in one fight, would you start a second fight with a bigger and stronger person?

That’s what Bush is doing.So, since Bush doesn't have the manpower or the moneypower (or even the cojones) to wage a proper war (I'm being sarcastic here since no war is ever "proper"), what's he gonna do?

The obvious answer is: Nukem!

Yup. It seems pretty clear that this is the answer that will suit. And Bush and gang have plenty of resources already on hand to do the job without making another blip in the current economic crisis; and just maybe, as a sideline, they can end up nuking Iraq too and "kill two birds with one stone". I mean, if you are going to start nuking, no reason to hold back, right? Solve all your problems with the same solution!

But there is a problem here: nuking Iran without provocation will absolutely enrage the whole rest of the world that is already feeling a lot of hostility toward the U.S. because there were no WMDs in Iraq not to mention the growing belief all over the planet that Bush and Co were complicit in the 911 attacks.

So, what to do? How to get justification to nuke Iran?

The answer is simple: "Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The history indicates that Bush and Co are certainly quite capable of engaging in False Flag operations against their own country in order to justify their actions (things they wanted to do and planned to do in advance). As noted above, 911 is most likely just such a scenario even if I think that the Bush Gang were only complicit and did not carry out the entire conspiracy on their own. In that sense, I think that a lot of commentators are correct: the U.S. couldn't have pulled that off alone. But I digress.

Justifying the nuking of another country is going to take a bit more than a 911 type attack; you know, "like attracts like." That means that what we (at Signs of the Times) have been saying for some time is becoming more and more likely to transpire: a nuclear attack on the US devised and carried out as a False Flag operation designed to lay blame on Iran. Roberts presents this idea in the following way:

Readers, whose thinking runs ahead of that of most of us, tell me that another 9/11 event will prepare the ground for a nuclear attack on Iran. Some readers say that Bush, or Israel as in Israel’s highly provocative attack on the Jericho jail and kidnapping of prisoners with American complicity, will provoke a second attack on the US. Others say that Bush or the neoconservatives working with some “black ops” group will orchestrate the attack.

One of the more extraordinary suggestions is that a low yield, perhaps tactical, nuclear weapon will be exploded some distance out from a US port. Death and destruction will be minimized, but fear and hysteria will be maximized. Americans will be told that the ship bearing the weapon was discovered and intercepted just in time, thanks to Bush’s illegal spying program, and that Iran is to blame. A more powerful wave of fear and outrage will again bind the American people to Bush, and the US media will not report the rest of the world’s doubts of the explanation.
Reads like a Michael Crichton plot, doesn’t it?

Fantasy? Let’s hope so. I'm afraid that I don't exactly agree with this version. I don't think that minimizing American deaths will be an objective. On the contrary, I think that maximizing American deaths will be deliberately sought so as to maximize the fear and hysteria. That means a nuke attack on American soil - not on a ship - and probably highly populated soil at that.

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Moving on to the next item that caught my eye from the weekend edition of Signs: Robert C. Koehler writes a piece entitled Trust Us. In this article he tells the story of Ion Sancho, the election supervisor of Leon County, Fla., my home state. Koehler writes:

The problem is, there's an anti-democratic force rampaging across the country that wants ... privately conducted, secrecy-shrouded elections. The state of Florida even has a bizarre law outlawing manual recounts of election results. This removes all chance of public scrutiny from the process.

I humbly submit that this is nuts, and that if we don't scream out at the top of our lungs we're going to lose our democracy. What we're witnessing, I fear - and what isolated watchdogs like Sancho are warning us about, but cannot prevent all by themselves - is democracy's transition to expensive charade.I've been talking about this since the last election. When I saw what happened then, when the Signs Team had collected certain data, it was clear that fraudulent elections were already a fact of life in the U.S. Certainly, the 2000 election was the last fair election that was ever held in this country and that one was "given" to George Bush by trickery, bribery, coercion, blackmail, and having certain elements in place at the right place and time according to a devious plan. Once Bush had been declared president, he and his minions were then able to suppress any process that might have undone the "appointment." What's more, there were then able to set into motion the plan that ensured that whoever they want gets into office whereever and whenever they choose: manipulatable electronic voting.

So folks, its already a done deal. It's all over but the crying. There is NO chance whatsoever of anyone getting rid of the "Powers That Be" in the U.S. by way of the exercise of the vote. Anybody who suggests anything different to you is just living in denial or deliberately blowing smoke.

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The third item on the Weekend Signs Page that I want to talk about is J. Crofts The Two Americas. He writes:

There are two Americas.

There's the America most of you reading this actually believed in-or still believe in. That America is the fabled "land of the free, home of the brave".

...........and you'll have to go to Laura's blog to read the "rest of the story"..........
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/

Sleep well...........the nightmares are sure to follow...........

~ The Mediator

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DO YOU FEAR A NUKE IS NEAR ? ?