Mind The Gap

Angels and Demons

2009-05-14T10:26:00.005Z

This is a list of angels and demons probably not featured in the recently released movie of the same name. The entities listed below, have at various times been subject to exoteric and esoteric teachings throughout our history in many allegedly divinely inspired traditions as physical beings or as a psychological projection into the outer world of our own good and evil emotions and thoughts.

10. Uriel
In Christianity, one of the 7 archangels, Uriel plays a role in the rescue of Jesus’ cousin John the Baptist from the massacre of the innocents. He carries John and his mother Saint Elizabeth to join the Holy Family after their Flight into Egypt. Their reunion is depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks.
From medieval Jewish mystical traditions, Uriel is also the Angel of Sunday and the Angel of Poetry.

9. Azrael
The archangel of death in Islam also equated with the angel of death in Judeo-Christian traditions and sometimes more commonly known as the grim reaper. He has 4 faces to watch over the 4 cardinal points of the earth, he has 4000 wings, and his whole body consists of eyes and tongues, the number of which corresponds to the number of people inhabiting the earth, he will be the last to die, recording and erasing constantly in a large book the names of men at birth and death.

8. Gabriel
In Christianity and Islam, Gabriel prophesised the birth of Jesus. He is regarded by Muslims as the intermediary between God and Muhammad in revealing the Qur'an, where he is known as Jibril. Believing in angels is one of the six Articles of Faith in Islam, without which there is no faith.
In Mormonism he was both Noah in his mortal existence and Gabriel in the realms of heaven.
Gabriel is mentioned only twice in the New Testament, the passage "I am Gabriel, who stand before God" (Luke 1:19), have led some to think that he must belong to the highest rank, however he is an archangel which is 8th in rank of the 9 orders of angels. The orders are: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels and Angels

7. Incubus/Succubus
These are demons, male and female respectively who inhabit people’s dreams in order to have sex with them. One such encounter with an Incubus is said to have resulted in the birth of Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend. The Succubus are said to be highly attractive, sustaining their life force by repeated and forced fornication in the presence of the mans wife to the point of complete exhaustion resulting in death.
(The moral of the story anyone?)

6. Metatron.
Metatron is primarily associated with Judaism. The Zohar identifies him as the Angel who oversaw the exodus of the people of Israel out of Egypt. Many esoteric traditions teach that he is the scribe who takes down Gods words, it is said he has an immense sense of humour, and can at times be very mischievous!! Metatron is associated with the symbol of a blacksmith's hammer, which represents the shattering of our realities, and then the forging of new ones.

5. Babalon
Referred to as The Guardian of the Abyss, The Scarlet Woman, Mother of Abominations, her place in St. John's Book of Revelation and Enochian magic inspired occultists to elevate her to the position of the liberated woman within the Mystical system of Thelema. This culminated in a series of magical rituals known as the Babalon Working. These took place between January 4 and March 4, 1946 by Jack Parsons(the co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL) and his partner and scribe Frater H. The point of these rituals was to invoke and manifest Babalon, then to conceive a child who would bring forward the aeon of Horus and the death of all religion.
The success of the rituals has been debated ever since, in esoteric and occult legend.
Jack Parsons died in 1952 aged 38 in an explosion at his home, and rumours have persisted of a magical working gone wrong. He has a crater on the far side of the moon named after him. After the Babalon working, the scribe, Frater H, eloped with Parson’s wife and his money, a habit he never lost and indeed developed and mastered until his own death. The identity of Frater H? None other than L Ron Hubbard the founder of scientology!

4. Moroni
The angel who appeared several times to Joseph Smith Jr in the 1820’s and the keeper of the gold plates upon which was written, the book of Mormon. The plates were written in unusual characters, referred to as "reformed Egyptian". Smith along with his neighbour Martin Harris, worked continuously to translate the gold plates given to him by Moroni.
Moroni instructed Smith to use every means at his disposal to facilitate the translation including the use of a seer stone and exhuming the body of his dead brother Alvin.
In 1826 Joseph Smith was charged with being a disorderly person and an impostor by a court in Bainbridge NY.
Mormon theology says Moroni still has the gold plates along with several other book of Mormon artefacts in his possession.

3. Choronzon
In Aleister Crowley’s magical system of Thelema, the serpent Choronzon is the 'dweller' in the Abyss, the final great obstacle between the magician and true enlightenment. Choronzon is known as the 'Demon of Dispersion', and described by Crowley as "a temporary personification of the raving and inconsistent forces that occupy the Abyss." The name Choronzon though popularised by Aleister Crowley, first occurred in the Enochian records of John Dee (a consultant on many issues to Queen Elizabeth I) where Choronzon is synonymous with the serpent of the garden.

2. Seraphim
Many civilizations believe in angels, and many names have been given to the various angels. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Bible names only three angels that have a definite individual personality. They are Michael – Prince of Angels, Gabriel – Archangel of annunciation, resurrection, mercy, revelation and death, (Gabriel is considered by many theologians to have been female.) and Satan – The Fallen Angel.
Whilst angels are our own personally assigned spiritual guards, their role is to watch over us during our lives, the Seraphim are said to be the highest order of angels who guard God's throne. They are often depicted as 'burning angels' to represent them on fire with love for God. In the bible Isaiah saw them as six winged beings. These heavenly creatures constantly sing of their love to God. The Seraphim hold purifying and enlightening powers, it's believed they were the first creation of God, to enable God to know himself, through the Seraphim's existence and experiences.

1. Lucifer
My pet subject, ill do my best to keep this brief.
Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else:
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written long before there was a Roman language?
In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The word Lucifer comes from lucem ferre meaning the bearer of light. In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king.
Scholars authorized by King James I to translate the Bible into current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions translated largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place.
The irony for those who believe that "Lucifer" refers to Satan is that the same title ('morning star' or 'light-bearer') is used to refer to Jesus, in 2 Peter 1:19, where the Greek text has exactly the same term: 'phos-phoros' 'light-bearer.' This is also the term used for Jesus in Revelation 22:16.
On a lighter note, Arthur Clarke, in his fictional book “2061” correctly uses the word "Lucifer". He uses it as a name for a new sun in the solar system which is correct since the new sun is a second 'morning star' of 'original' 'light-bearing’.

Bonus Item:
Sasha Fierce
Many pop and rock stars have been said to have sold their soul to the devil, many use an alter ego to transform themselves on stage i.e. Bowie and Ziggy Stardust, Prince and his squiggly thing, the concept is nothing new. A very recent transformation has seen the introduction of Sasha Fierce. Having watched this transformation very closely it is just a little more intense than your average pop/rock star ascendancy into a higher degree of performance.
In many interviews this person talks about how she is completely taken over and possessed by Sasha and how Sasha makes her do things that a normally good Christian girl would never do!!
The identity of Sasha Fierce? Click here

Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism

2009-03-19T19:47:00.001Z

ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SERIES ON YOU TUBE, FROM AronRa

Commandments

2009-02-11T18:30:00.000Z

Every culture, religion, and system of philosophy since the dawn of civilisation has had a list of rules for living on this planet and helping secure unity with the divine e.g.

the 10 Christian commandments
the 613 Mitzvot of Judaism
the 252 Taudhihul Masael of Islam
the 5 precepts of Buddhism
the 189 chapters of the Egyptian book of the dead

My own rules are a little less complicated than the inflexible and fear mongering rules listed above....

1. Never DRINK anything you cant spell
2. Never EAT anything you cant spell
3. Never SHAG anything you cant spell

They're not difficult to follow, they require a modest amount of education and a similarly modest amount of self control.
But for those of you who require a more traditional list, i will supplement it with two others

4. Be nice to each other
5. Thou shalt keep thy religion to thy self!!!

Athe

2009-01-03T19:07:00.004Z

Athe Nogod Antichrist
Athe is the supreme Goddess of Atheism. She exists, but does not want anyone to know, and will actively kill anyone who says that She does... Oh no! Spare me,

from Atheist Wisdom

Occult coronation

2008-12-04T11:56:00.004Z

Michael Tsarion

Addiction

2008-08-20T08:59:00.002Z

The reasons why people start to abuse substances may be many, such as curiosity, peer pressure, boredom, the lack of self-confidence or even a secret spiritual longing. Substance abuse can be sometimes considered as a symptom of a conscious or unconscious deep crisis in someone's life.
Alcohol and drugs cover the frustration and the anxiety that are linked with it. Moreover, most of the drugs poison the body and create psychological and/or physical dependency.Long term drug abuse doesn't only lead to serious health problems it also very often leads to a decay of your character: Your will power, sincerity, integrity and self-esteem are little by little sacrificed. You start to nourish darkness instead of your Inner Light.This inner misery then requires an increased "anesthesia" through drugs. After some time you find yourself hopelessly caught in a self-destructive vicious circle.
Drug detoxification means two things:
A) To withdraw the poisons from the body.
B) To withdraw yourself from the darkness.
This process starts as soon as you stop nourishing darkness with thought, speech, language and physical actions, and as soon as you begin to nourish what is good and precious, with thoughts, speech, language and bodily actions.
Drug-treatment basically requires four components:
1. The total detoxification of the body.
2. The mental confrontation with yourself and your situation, which can lead to fundamental life changes.
3. Tools to build up your will power.
4. The insight that the search and the realization of your "life-task" will be a long-term effort.
In order to live a satisfying life, it needs more than a struggle against drugs; it needs a positive aim! As soon as you have found your constructive "life-task", as well as the will power to realize it, drugs will not be necessary anymore.You are totally responsible for your actions and their consequences, the physical detoxification is only 5% of the healing process. you must do the remaining 95% yourself.Therefore an addict must get the chance to confront themself, in order to reorganize their life. This is one of the reasons why the path of physical withdrawal should be a medically supervised"cold withdrawal". This path often leads to the building up of high level of will power.Medicines can very effective, but the strength and the endurance of the addict are deeply challenged. After some time of serious practice, the insight about what to do in life may appear spontaneously.
This is the decisive thing.
If you don't use the potential that is inside you in a good way, it WILL become destructive.

The Impermanance of Democracy

2008-08-08T08:13:00.004Z

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."

Attributed to Scottish History Professor at University of Edinburgh Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)

Kabbalah: a very brief overview

2008-07-24T22:12:00.003Z

Kabbalah seeks to lead to Self knowledge among those who use it. It attempts to provide answers to the riddles of the universe and the riddles of humanity. This it does, in part, by likening the one to the other" saying, "that which is above is like unto that which is below." In terms of the "above," it sets forth a description of the basic laws of the world or the universe, and works its way, step by step, to individual human beings and their various states of awareness. It is a comprehensive system, and is so constructed that it can readily absorb into itself other teachings and philosophies without losing anything of its own character.
The basis of Kabbalah is a diagram called the Tree of Life. It consists of a representation of ten spheres or regions systematically arranged to illustrate the patterns and relationships of things. The most important thing about this diagram is that it illustrates the doctrine of emanations, by which each sphere emanates its successor, without losing anything of itself, so that the first sphere is said to contain all those below it in order of creation.
Similarly, it is said that the last sphere contains all those above it in the order of creation.
These ten spheres are called the ten Sephiroth, a Hebrew word meaning numbers, or better, numerations, the singular of which is Sephira.
The first Sephira is called Kether, which means Crown, and may be considered as representative of the Infinite Source of all things. From the activity of this source emanates 'Hokma, Wisdom, which, while being a separate sphere, is nonetheless still part of Kether; and Kether, although having emanated 'Hokma, has lost nothing of itself. 'Hokma in turn emanates Binah, Understanding, which in turn causes to be emanated 'Chesed, Mercy; Geburah, Strength; Tiphareth, Beauty; Netzach, Victory; Hod, Glory; Yesod, Foundation; and Malkuth, Kingdom.
Kabbalah is a Hebrew system which has been developed and expanded by Christians and others. The important thing, however, is not how it has developed but what it is capable of bringing to its students. It is suited particularly for those seeking an increase of awareness, Self-knowledge and Self-realisation.
The ten Sephiroth exist in what are called the Four Worlds. This means that Kabbalah distinguish between four states of being, from the most abstract and spiritual to the most dense and material. Rather like the Sephiroth, the Four Worlds depend from each other, but in a different manner. The first of the Four Worlds or levels is called Atziluth, or the World of Emanation. Here, creative force is seeking expression, but lacks form. In Atziluth, the Divine Source takes the first steps towards creation. If we think of this in terms of the creation of the world, then drawing a parallel with Genesis we can say:
"In the beginning the Earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God (or "the gods") moved upon the face of the waters."
Atziluth, then, is pure spirit beginning to take its first movements towards creative expression. It is that region where all potential lies, from where may come anything we may learn how to bring into expression, or that may be brought into expression by divine activity or "Holy Spirit." In Kabbalah, we try to make our actions and operations come into line with this divine activity, or LAW.
The next World in order is called Briah, and is described as the World of Creation. It is the region where the basic plans for the objects of creation have their beginning. From Genesis again:
"And God said 'Let there be light,' and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
If there were no light or darkness we should be unable to perceive anything, whether of light we measure in wavelengths, or of spiritual light when the word is used another way. In Briah are the the seeds - and only the seeds - of differentiation. In terms of human psychology, here lie the roots of mind, the raw material from which ideas and ideals are born.
It is not until we reach the World of Yetzirah, or the World of Formation, that form, produced through force, begins to take on recognisable shape. In this region, everything that takes place can present an image to the mind. Symbols, as distinct from the words which describe them, are of great value, for they can convey concepts which, if we tried to think about them in an ordinary sequential manner might take days to formulate. An excellent example of this is the Tree of Life itself. It makes no difference whether an image invoked in the mind is of an object, perhaps remembered, or if it is pure fantasy. For this reason Yetzirah, where in human terms, all is seen in the form of image and symbol, is the most dangerous of the Four Worlds, for here fantasy is almost as real as the record of facts held in the memory.
To complicate matters, it is at this level that we mostly "live and move and have our being" in real terms: another way of saying that we spend most of our waking lives in a perpetual round of fantasies and mental imaginings, often hardly noticing our physical surroundings at all. This will help explain why, in Christian terminology, the world of Yetzirah equates with Purgatory - not a place to which we go after death to be "punished" for our crimes, but a world in which we live right now, and in which we need to "purge" or purify our lives. It is in this world that most of the work of the Kabbalist takes effect.
Kabbalah helps us to distinguish between that which is real and that which is not. From there we can begin to build a real place for ourselves in a real world, and to become real people.
The last of the four Worlds is called Assiah, the material world, related to the Klippoth, or shells. In Assiah, all the activity of the previous three Worlds finds its expression in material activity, or material objects. It is also the world of appearances, for all things in Assiah contain within them the three worlds preceding it, hence the idea of shells, or containers. That includes us. It is Assiah with which we are necessarily the most familiar, and in which we seek to create order. We often fail in this, since for there to be order in Assiah, it must first be conceived in Atziluth. In other words, there can be no harmony in the world unless we recognise therein the activity of the divine influence, the Holy Spirit, or presence of 'God' - YHWH - "That-which-is," or "Eternal Being."

Carl Sagan "pale blue dot"

2008-06-25T10:28:00.001Z

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds."

"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."

"The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand."

"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

Paisley Curse

2008-06-24T07:24:00.008Z

In 1696 my home town of Paisley Scotland had a famous witch trial concerning Christian Shaw, the daughter of the Laird of Bargarran,which eventually resulted in six people being condemned as witches.
When aged 11, Christian diplayed all the signs of being possessed, apparantly bringing up bones, pins and all manner of small items.
She blamed a coven of witches, amongst them her servant, and eventually seven people were found guilty of witchcraft.
One killed themself in prison and the other six were strangled and burnt on the Gallowgreen.
This is all that remains of the Gallowgreen.

Their remains were buried on a crossing now known as Maxwelton Cross, with a horseshoe placed on top of the buriel site. This spot is still visible today although the horseshoe went missing many years ago.

Mystery and intrigue has long surrounded the slaying of the so-called witches in the 17th century.
The four women and three men were strangled at the stake on the Gallow Green in the West End of Paisley and then had their bodies burned on a blazing bonfire.
Afterwards, their charred remains were buried at Maxwellton Cross at a site marked by a horseshoe and circle of cobbled stones.
The mass execution at the Gallow Green was one of the darkest days in Paisley’s history.
The alleged Paisley witches – who were simply ordinary countrymen and women who used herbal remedies and forecast the weather by studying natural phenomena like the flight patterns of birds and the behaviour of cattle and sheep – had been found guilty of putting a spell on 11-year-old Christian Shaw, the daughter of the wealthy laird of Bargarran.
The child, who nowadays may have been diagnosed with the attention-seeking Munchausen’s Syndrome, accused the seven of causing her to float through the air and regurgitate bones, fur, feathers, sticks and stones.
The men and women vigorously denied the allegations but the court, which was made of local ministers, wealthy landowners and government officials, found them guilty and sentenced them to death.
In accordance with the laws of the time, they were taken to the Gallows Green, just off Castle Street, and executed on June 10, 1697.
The gruesome scenes included the sorry spectacle of young brothers John and James Lindsay, from Formakin Mill, near Houston, aged just 11 and 14, clutching one another’s hands as they were garrotted together.
Katherine Campbell was carried struggling and screaming to the stake, where she called down the wrath of God and the Devil on her accusers, while Margaret Fulton, who was said to have gone insane with terror, spoke cheerfully about visits to Elfland and the Abode of the Fairies on the backs of magical horses.
Margaret Lang is said to have admitted consorting with the Devil in the Renfrewshire countryside but added that she had renounced sin and become reconciled to God.
The other victims were John Lindsay, who protested his innocence, and Agnes Naysmith, who laid ‘a dying woman’s curse’ on all those present at the scene and their descendents.
For many years afterwards, every tragedy in the town – including the Paisley Canal disaster in 1811 which claimed 85 lives – was attributed to what many Buddies described as ‘the witches’ curse’.

A NEW memorial which honours seven Paisley ‘witches’ who were brutally executed has been unveiled – more than 300 years after their deaths.
The tondo – a Renaissance term for a circular work of art – sits in the middle of the busy junction at Maxwellton Street and George Street and includes the inscription ‘Pain Inflicted, Suffering Endured, Injustice Done’.
Piero Pieraccini, Paisley Development Trust spokesman, said: “We have been working on this for the past three years. It is a bronze tondo and has a stainless steel horseshoe embedded in it.
“The local folklore at the time was that, as long as the horseshoe was there, Paisley would prosper, so there is no coincidence that, when the original horseshoe disappeared in the 1970s, the town went into decline.

George Carlin May 12 1937 -- June 22 2008

2008-06-24T00:53:00.002Z

This was the 1st clip i had ever seen of George Carlin, i was blown away by this, it was so refreshing to hear someone tell it as it is.
George died on Sunday June 22 2008 of heart failure, this is how i will remember him

Appeasing Islam Pat Condell Transcript

2008-06-22T00:03:00.002Z

Full Transcript

Given that Islam is above criticism in the west, it’s hard to imagine how we could give it any more respect . . .short of closing down all of the pubs, growing beards and beating up women who don’t want to dress like nuns.Ah, yes, of course. Silly me.I think many people in the West, are now realizing that Islam has already been given far too much ‘respect’. Especially here in Europe where according to another poll, people now see it as a threat to their culture. They carry on accomodating it’s every demand of course, but this is not because Islam is welcome in Europe. Far from it. It’s because people have been conditioned by the lie of multiculturalism to believe that what they SHOULD think is more important than what they DO think.
So, although people will criticise Islam in private, they know that to do so publicly, in other words to be honest about their feelings would instantly make them racists and Islamophobes and nazis and disgusting imperialists, ethno-centric-fascist bastards grinding their jack boots into the faces of the innocent and the weak - so, best not make a fuss. You want to beat your wife and mutilate your daughter? Be our guest. We’ll even subsidize it - because we want to be your friend. What’s that? You want to destroy our corrupt society? Well that’s our fault. Not yours. Here, have some more money.This film that’s coming out in Holland shortly, which has got the whole country in a state of heightened terrorist alert, is yet more proof that everything in Europe now needs to be measured against the possiblity of Muslim violence.
Every play, every film, every art exhibition, every magazine article . . .in fact, our whole culture is now subject to Muslim approval. But then, this is Europe and we have a history of appeasment and caving into threats. Radical Islam knows this and is playing us like a violin. They KNOW that Islam will never get blamed for anything in Europe, no matter what happens. So that, for example, when the Danish press reprinted the cartoons recently, which was followed by a week of rioting by Muslim ‘youths’, Copenhagen’s Chief of Police refused to admit that it had anything to do with the cartoons. He said it was because they were ‘bored’.Yes, that’s right. They all rushed out and set fire to the city every night for a week ‘for something to do’. If only they had a table tennis club!The whole thing happened because three Islamic fanatics were caught planning to murder the cartoonists. Imagine how ‘bored’ THEY must have been!Oh, yes. Also. A news flash for European journalists. An anti-semitic attack by Muslims on Jews IS NOT a ‘conflict between communities’. In case you haven’t noticed, Islam HATES Jews. Even if Israel didn’t exist, Islam would still HATE Jews. Their holy book tells Muslims that they should HATE Jews. So, I think you’ll find that what is happening is NOT a ‘conflict between communities’ at all, but a violent unprovoked racist attack by Muslims on Jews - because they’re Jews. Just thought I’d clear that one up for you so that you can report it accurately next time if you bother to report it - at all.If we were serious about respecting Islam we would give it an HONEST REALITY CHECK. Islam needs to adapt to Europe. Not the other way around. Now, I know a lot of Muslims actually agree with this and they make an effort to adapt and to rub along with everybody else, which is great and it’s very welcomed.But we all know that a lot of others don’t. Which is why many European cities have large Muslim ghettos controlled by religious bigots, where indigenous law and values are increasingly unwelcome.Places full of people who have no intention of integrating and who want nothing less than the end of our civilization while we pander and defer to them thanks to a biased press and a complacent judiciary and the kind of politicians you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. Actually, you probably would. And this situation is as much a threat to the freedom of ordinary Muslims as it is to everybody else.
And it’s a clear indication of what we need in Europe now is NOT more respect for Islam. It’s less respect for Islam, and MORE RESPECT FOR OURSELVES. We need to stop pretending because thats what we are doing. We’re pretending that all cultures are equal. Well we can clearly see that they’re not. Islamic culture is NOT equal to Western culture. It encourages violence against women, against Jews and homosexuals. It sanctions polygamy and marrying old men to young children in a disgusting travesty of human relations. Anyone in the West advocating these kind of values would very quickly find themselves in jail. It’s NOT equal. It’s inferior. And given radical Islam’s openness about it’s totalitarian agenda, this is NOT something that should be encouraged in ANY WAY.It should be discouraged by firm legislation and by rigorous enforcement of the law.Remember, “the law”?Now, I know that I’m going to be accused of racism and Islamophobia by the usual self-righteous pinheads but I don’t mind because those words have no value in this context. One has been neutralized by repeated dishonest disuse and the other is just a bare faced lie concocted by the political left in tandem with the religious right in a marriage of convenience which is, well, quite simply beneath contempt.
A phobia is an irrational fear. Resisting Islam is not irrational. Pandering to it is irrational. Indulging the lie that Islamic culture is somehow equal to Western culture - while ignoring the victims of that culture - is more than irrational. It’s downright criminal. And if you really want to talk about racism, then look no further than the poisonous fiction of multiculturalism, a devisive and patronizing racist ideology. And the governments of Europe who promote it are racist governments. The civil servants who pander to it are racists. The university lecturers who encourage it are racists. The journalists who lie about it are racists. And the ordinary people who say one thing in private and another in public are cowardly racist hypocrits.If we can’t bring ourselves to say what’s in our hearts when it truely matters, then we have already given up our freedom and with it the freedom of future generations - which is something that we have no right to do. We didn’t earn this freedom. It was handed to us on a plate by people who DID earn it with their lives. We don’t own it. We’re custodians of it. It’s not ours to give away. So, it’s time to speak up Europe. It’s time to stop whining and belly aching about the Americans for five minutes and show a little back bone for once. Just once! Or, do we want to spend the rest of our lives cowering like frightened mice from a handful of violent bigots who think they have a right to poke a finger into our chest and tell us how we are allowed to live. . . what we can and can’t do, say and think. Well, I don’t know about you but anyone who asks me that question is going to get a very short answer. I’ll give you a clue, it won’t contain the words ‘allah’ or ‘akbar’. Peace, wouldn’t that be nice?

Unwanted Visitors

2008-06-21T09:38:00.002Z

The dangers of mormons, jehovah witness, insurance men, global warming apologists, politicians, clerics, and everyone who tries to convince you of something...my adage has always been "if it sounds and smells like shit, then it probably is"

Royal Ascot

2008-06-20T08:42:00.004Z

A few pics from royal ascot and other places from 19th june 2008 including Corporal Sarah Bryant the first U.K. woman soldier to be killed in action in Afghanistan.... i hope you ascoteers enjoy your champagne and sunshine

Oh My God(s)

2008-06-19T12:40:00.001Z

Oh my GOD, Christ, The Holy Spirit, Allah, his Holiness Lord Melchizedek, Odin, Zeus, Mithras, Nimrod, Osiris, Horus, Amen-Ra, Thor, The Mahatma, Archangel Metatron, The Office of the Ein Soph, The Office of The Divine Mother, Jehovah, Yahweh, Jupiter, The Office of The Christ, Lord Buddha, Lord Maitreya, Sananda, Melchior, Vywamus, Mother Mary, Kwan Yin, Isis, Kuthumi, Mother Earth, Helios and Vesta, Archangels Gabriel and Hope, Archangels Michael and Faith, Archangels Jophiel and Christine, Paul the Venetian, Lord/ Lady of Arcturus and The Arcturians, The Ashtar Command, Ambassadors from Christed Extraterrestrial Races, Archangelic Councils, Councils of The Elohim, White Time Masters, Elohim Ecstasy, Intergalactic Federation of Planets, Lady Venus and Sanat Kumara, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Saint Germain and Lady Portia, Pallas Athena, Allah Gobi, The Chohans of the Seven Rays, Djwhal Khul, Angel of Bliss, Archangels of The Twelve Rays, Archangels of The Cosmic Rays and the Cosmic and Planetary Hierarchy, etc,etc,etc..... someone pick one for me please

The Great Mormon Hoax

2008-06-12T20:56:00.004Z

A few Questions for mormons everywhere:

- On Sunday November 28th, 1841 Joseph Smith stated: "I told the brethern that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."
1- Why has the Mormon Church made over 4,000 changes in the Book of Mormon?
2- The French language was developed from Celtic and Latin at about 800 A.D. How does the Mormon Church account for the word "adieu" being found in the Book of Mormon?
3- There are 17 full chapters from the Book of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon in Mosiah. In a close comparison of chapter 53 of Isaiah and the 14th chapter of Mosiah one will find that all the italicized words in Isaiah are word for word copied in Mosiah. Those italicized words were added by the King James translators in 1611 for clarification and easier reading in English. How does the LDS Church explain their presence if Joseph Smith didn't copy out of the Bible?
4- According to Mormonism there was a "great apostasy" after Jesus' original 12 apostles were killed, the priesthood authority was lost. In addition they also teach that if there is one priesthood holder alive on earth, the priesthood power still functions through that man.
According to the Book of Mormon there are three Nephite Apostles still alive in the world today.
If that is the case the priesthood authority was not lost or those Nephite Apostles had no priesthood authority to begin with. Why did Joseph Smith claim to restore something that was still here?
5- In Mormon Temples there are dressing rooms where members change into their temple clothes. Each changing booth has lockers with keys. If each member that is "worthy" to go to the temple has passed two recommend interviews as to their honesty and worthiness, why are there locks on the lockers and the temple states they will not be responsible for stolen property?
6- Why in 1987 was it necessary to send out a 92 question survey to help make the decision to change the temple ceremony so it would be more palatable to new converts in April of 1990?
7- Why is the Mormon Temple Ceremony so similar to the Masonic Ceremony?
8- At age 8 the Mormon Church considers youngsters old enough to join by baptism. How then can it be that several years later they are not old enough to make the decision to leave?
9- Mormonism teaches that children are born sinless and do not commit sins until after age 8. Why are they then baptized for "the remission of sins?"
10- When a new adult member is baptized all of their sins are "washed away." Now, being sinless, why do they have to wait one year to be eligible (worthy) to go to the temple?
11- The church's 2nd Article of Faith states: "We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression." Why in the "washing and anointing" ceremony in the temple are patrons, "washed to be clean of the sins of this generation"?
12- The 13th Article of Faith states: "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men;..." Why don't the Mormon missionaries explain the real reason they are out trying to convert people? Such as; all other churches are wrong and apostate; and salvation only comes through the Mormon Church; and husbands and wives can become gods and goddesses?
13- And in conjuction with the above 13th Article of Faith, why did the church allow the change in policy towards allowing blacks to have the priesthood, be called a "revelation" when in fact it was voted in by the First Presidency and the Council of Twelve?
14- Again in conjuction with the 13th Article of Faith, why was it necessary for Gordon B. Hinckley to not be truthful during an interview, when asked if the church taught that God was once a man, and that men can become gods, as taught in church lesson manuals? Is he just using the "unspoken" term of "lying for the Lord"?
15- If "The glory of God is intelligence" why would Gordon B. Hinckley state to students at BYU: "Don't be counted among those who have studied themselves out of the Church"?
16- Spencer W. Kimball taught that Mormons can't be saved without their dead. If researching one's genealogies is so important, why do 1 Timothy and Titus in the New Testament teach Christians that they are "unprofitable", "vain" and "foolish"?
17- If the office and authority of Prophet is in succession and Brigham Young taught that Adam was God for 25 years, why did Spencer W. Kimball state in General Conference on October 2, 1976, : "We warn you against the dissemination of doctrines which are not according to the scriptures and which are alleged to have been taught by some of the General Authorities on past generations. Such, for instance, the Adam-God theory. We denounce that theory and hope that everyone will be cautioned against this and other kinds of false doctrine." Which of these two men is a false prophet, Brigham or Spencer?
18- In History of the Church written by Joseph Smith and dated 1829, he stated, "He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni;" In the Pearl of Great Price printed in England in 1851 the very same thing is stated, "...and that his name was Nephi." Then in 1892 in the Temple Souvenir Album produced for the dedication of the Salt Lake City Temple on page 8 is a picture of the angel on the East Center Tower of the temple and his name is Gabriel. Which angel is it?
19- According to the 8th Article of Faith of the Mormon Church, they "...believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as translated correctly." With all the church translators, "scholars" at BYU and FARMS and a "living Prophet and Apostles", why haven't they corrected the errors in the Bible? The Hebrew and Greek texts are available from several sources.
20- Throughout the Old Testament, there was only one High Priest at any given time and they were from the Levitical Priesthood.
Why do the Mormons have thousands of High Priests today after the order of Melchizedek? That priesthood belongs to Christ alone.
21- In connection with #20 above, throughout the Bible a man had to be a descendant of Aaron to be able to function as a priest in the Aaronic Priesthood. Also they had to be adult men. Why do young Mormon men, not from the tribe of Levi and the house of Aaron, 12-18 years old function in this priesthood?
22- During the 1950's, 60's and 70's the Mormon Church adamantly claimed that they were not Catholic, Prostestant nor Jewish, but were Mormons. Now they claim to be Christian. If that is the case why do they proselytize (to convert from one belief or faith to another) instead of evangelize (to share the good news of the biblical gospel) as Christians do?
23- Why is it that Mormons are buried in the same ceremonial clothes that they were married in?

Lucifer

2008-06-12T09:46:00.008Z

Ive become fascinated with the meaning of Lucifer as a metaphor for light, knowledge and power and those people who use the Luciferian doctrine in their daily lives, particularly those in positions of power.
So first of all lets try and discover where the name comes from:

"Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else:

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"

The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? To find the answer, I consulted a scholar at the library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. What Hebrew name, I asked, was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell?
The answer was a surprise. In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. The Hebrew scholar could only speculate that some early Christian scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name "Lucifer."
Why Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King").
The scholars authorized by ... King James I to translate the Bible into current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions translated ... largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. Lucifer the morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule eternally in hell. Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same as Satan, the Devil, and --- ironically --- the Prince of Darkness.
So "Lucifer" is nothing more than an ancient Latin name for the morning star, the bringer of light. That can be confusing for Christians who identify Christ himself as the morning star, a term used as a central theme in many Christian sermons. Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in Revelation 22:16: "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."
And so there are those who do not read beyond the King James version of the Bible, who say 'Lucifer is Satan: so says the Word of God'...."
Henry Neufeld (a Christian who comments on Biblical sticky issues) went on to say,
"this passage is often related to Satan, and a similar thought is expressed in Luke 10:18 by Jesus, that was not its first meaning. It's primary meaning is given in Isaiah 14:4 which says that when Israel is restored they will "take up this taunt against the king of Babylon . . ." Verse 12 is a part of this taunt song. This passage refers first to the fall of that earthly king...
How does the confusion in translating this verse arise? The Hebrew of this passage reads: "heleyl, ben shachar" which can be literally translated "shining one, son of dawn." This phrase means, again literally, the planet Venus when it appears as a morning star. In the Septuagint, a 3rd century BC translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek, it is translated as "heosphoros" which also means Venus as a morning star.

How did the translation "lucifer" arise? This word comes from Jerome's Latin Vulgate. Was Jerome in error? Not at all. In Latin at the time, "lucifer" actually meant Venus as a morning star. Isaiah is using this metaphor for a bright light, though not the greatest light to illustrate the apparent power of the Babylonian king which then faded."
Therefore, Lucifer wasn't equated with Satan until after Jerome. Jerome wasn't in error. Later Christians (and Mormons) were in equating "Lucifer" with "Satan".
So why is this a problem to Christians? Christians now generally believe that Satan (or the Devil or Lucifer who they equate with Satan) is a being who has always existed (or who was created at or near the "beginning"). Therefore, they also think that the 'prophets' of the Old Testament believed in this creature. The Isaiah scripture is used as proof (and has been used as such for hundreds of years now), the concept of Satan has evolved over the years and the early Bible writers didn't believe in or teach such a doctrine.
The irony for those who believe that "Lucifer" refers to Satan is that the same title ('morning star' or 'light-bearer') is used to refer to Jesus, in 2 Peter 1:19, where the Greek text has exactly the same term: 'phos-phoros' 'light-bearer.' This is also the term used for Jesus in Revelation 22:16.
Luciferis a far bigger problem to Mormons who claim that an ancient record was written beginning in about 600 BC, and the author in 600 BC supposedly copied Isaiah in Isaiah's original words. When Joseph Smith pretended to translate the supposed 'ancient record', he included the Lucifer verse in the Book of Mormon. Obviously he wasn't copying what Isaiah actually wrote. He was copying the King James Version of the Bible. Another book of LDS scripture, the Doctrine & Covenants, furthers this problem in 76:26 when it affirms the false Christian doctrine that "Lucifer" means Satan. This incorrect doctrine also spread into a third set of Mormon scriptures, the Pearl of Great Price, which describes a war in heaven based, in part, on Joseph Smith's incorrect interpretation of the word "Lucifer" which only appears in Isaiah.

On a lighter note, Arthur Clarke, in his fictional book 2061 correctly uses the word "Lucifer". He uses it as a name for a new sun in the solar system which is correct since the new sun is a second 'morning star' of 'original' 'light-bearing' substance--not some evil being of religious mythology.
David Grinspoon comments on the historical aspects of the word as follows: "The origin of the Judeo-Christian Devil as an angel fallen from heaven into the depths of hell is mirrored in the descent of Venus from shining morning star to the darkness below. This underworld demon, still feared today by people in many parts of the world, is also called Lucifer, which was originally a Latin name for Venus as a morning star." (Venus Revealed p. 17) Actually, Grinspoon should just refer to the "Christian Devil" since the Jews never believed in such a creature and still don't to this day.

Article from: here, and reposted on red ice

Dead Kennedys California Uber Alles

2008-06-10T21:40:00.002Z

I am governor jerry brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president

Carter power will soon go away
I will be fhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school

California über alles
über alles california

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, cant happen here
Big bro on white horse is near
The hippies wont come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay

California über alles
über alles california

Now it is 1984
Knock knock at your front door
Its the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
Youd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Dont you worry, its only a shower
For your clothes heres a pretty flower

Die on organic poison gas
Serpents eggs already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with president brown

California über alles
über alles california

Messianic Claiments

2008-06-08T10:25:00.007Z

-List of 10 people who have claimed to be the Messiah:

A list of people who have convinced themselves and others that through divine revalation they have been chosen to be the messiah, saviour, teacher or leader for all humanity. in no particular order

1. "Buffalo Bill" Hawkins (present)
Nuclear war will begin next Thursday, June 12 2008, or sooner, according to the latest prediction of self-proclaimed prophet Yisrayl "Buffalo Bill" Hawkins, the founder of a religious sect in Abilene, Texas.
"It could be turned loose before then," Hawkins told 20/20 for a report to be broadcast tonight. "You're going to see this very soon, really soon," he said.
Hundreds of truck trailers have been loaded with food and water on the group's 44-acre compound, in preparation for the coming war.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsGK1CA34Y&eurl

2. Marshall Applewhite 1931–1997
Applewhite posted a famous Usenet message declaiming, "I, Jesus—Son of God—acknowledge on this date of September 25/26, 1995: …". This was two years before he and his Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide to rendezvous with a spaceship hiding behind the comet Hale-Bopp.
website as it was the day they died.......
http://www.heavensgate.com/

3. Sun Myung Moon (b. 1920), founder of the Unification Church ("Moonies"). Claims he is the Second Coming of Christ, the "Savior", "returning Lord", and "True Parent". He teaches that all people should become perfected like Jesus and like himself, and that as such he "appears in the world as the substantial body of God Himself." He is well-known for holding Blessing ceremonies, which are often called "mass weddings".
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f08clPMODw8

4. Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda (b. 1946),
a Puerto Rican preacher who has claimed to be "the Man Jesus Christ", who is indwelled with the same spirit that dwelled in Jesus.. the founder and leader of Creciendo en Gracia (Growing In Grace International Ministry, Inc.), a movement that teaches the "doctrine of Grace." It is based in Miami, Florida. He claims to be both Jesus Christ returned and the Antichrist, and exhibits a "666" tattoo on his forearm.He has referred to himself as "The Man Christ Jesus". Creciendo en Gracia has been described as a cult by cult expert Rick Ross, and Freedom of Mind's Steven Hassan.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8g7VmF6SI0M

5. Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892),
born Shiite, adopting Bábism later in life, he claimed to be the promised one of all religions, and founded the Bahá'í Faith. Bahá'u'lláh declared that he was the "Promised One" of all religions, fulfilling the messianic prophecies found in world religions. He stated that his claims to being several messiahs converging one person were the symbolic, rather than literal, fulfilment of the messianic and eschatological prophecies found in the literature of the major religions.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsq9T81hWio

6. David Koresh (Vernon Wayne Howell) (August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993)
was the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect, believing himself to be the final prophet. A 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch. Koresh, 53 adults and 21 children died in the fire.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn0hcpyGuac

7. Jim Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978)
Claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, Buddha, Lenin, and Father Divine. He performed supposed miracle healings to attract new converts. Members of Jones' church called him "Father" and believed their movement was the solution to the problems of society; many did not distinguish Jones from the movement. He was the American founder of the Peoples Temple, which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 people from cyanide poisoning in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, along with the death of 9 other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRKWb4LO3w

8. Fathyer Divine (c. 1880 – September 10, 1965),
George Baker, also known as Father Divine, was an African American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, and he was also known as "the Messenger" and George Baker early in his life. He founded the International Peace Mission movement, Father Divine claimed to be God. Some contemporary critics also claimed he was a charlatan, and some suppose him to be one of the first modern cult leaders. However, Father Divine made numerous contributions toward his followers' economic independence and racial equality.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQzbYaAHcQ

9. L. Ron Hubbard 1911-1986
Founder of the Church of Scientology. Declared himself to be "Metteya" (Maitreya) the forthcoming world spiritual teacher and leader, in the 1955 poem Hymn of Asia. In the book's preface, his editors indicated that Hubbard possessed specific physical characteristics said to be outlined in unnamed Sanskrit sources as properties of Maitreya.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-moX_gduI

10. Ram Bahadur Bomjon, (born c. 1990, sometimes Bomjan or Banjan),
also known as Palden Dorje (his official Buddhist name), is from Ratanapuri village, Bara district, Nepal and drew thousands of visitors and media attention for spending months in meditation. Nicknamed the Buddha Boy, he began his meditation on May 16, 2005, disappeared from his hometown on March 11, 2006, and reappeared elsewhere in Nepal on December 26, 2006 only to leave again on March 8, 2007. On March 26, 2007, inspectors from the Area Police Post Nijgadh in Ratanpuri found Bomjon meditating inside a bunker-like square ditch of seven feet.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rQoxWQLSnCg

bonus: Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC/BCE to 26–36 AD/CE)

10 Declassified Documents

2008-05-04T10:30:00.003Z

1. CHURCHILL WANTED HITLER TO DIE ON THE ELECTRIC CHAIR:
Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime Prime Minister, planned to execute Adolf Hitler in the electric chair if the Nazi leader fell into Allied hands.
Declassified documents reveal that Churchill was opposed to Allied plans for war crimes trials and wanted summarily to execute leading Nazi figures including Hitler who he regarded as "the mainspring of evil" and a "gangster", and was also content to see Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi starve to death during a hunger strike in 1943
They also show that he was willing, against the advice of his Cabinet colleagues, to "wipe out" defenceless German villages in retaliation for Nazi atrocities in Czechoslovakia.
Churchill's choice of the electric chair was despite the fact that it was never used in Britain before the final abolition of the death penalty in 1965.

source, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/churchill-wanted-a-captured-hitler-to-die-like-a-gangster-in-the-electric-chair-521289.html

2. OPERATION NORTHWOODS: US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS
According to secret and long-hidden documents, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war.
One idea seriously considered involved the launch of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. On February 20,1962, Glenn was to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on his historic journey. The flight was to carry the banner of America's virtues of truth, freedom, and democracy into orbit high over the planet. But Lemnitzer and his Chiefs had a different idea. They proposed to Lansdale that, should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof that . . . the fault lies with the Communists et al Cuba.

pdf file showing the original documents, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
3. OPERATION GLADIO and THE RED BRIGADE:
1956 Formation of Gladio "US documents declassified in the 1970's show that General Giovanni de Lorenzo, the chief of Sifar (Italian Military Intelligence), joined the US in the 1950's in preparing a plan against a Communist takeover, but did not inform his own government. According to a document released by Mr Andreotti the CIA and Sifar sketched a plan in November 1956, codenamed Gladio, to form a force of 1000 men capable of guerilla warfare and espionage. A training base was set-up in Sardinia and 139 weapons and ammunition dumps were hidden in Northern Italy."
Gladio was controlled by NATO's Clandestine Planning Committee attached to Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe. It was appropriate that the documentaries should be made by the BBC, since Britain's MI6 and SAS were key movers and trainers, with the CIA, in the Gladio operation.
In 1990 the Italian secret army was exposed by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Italian Senate, whereupon the press spoke of "The best kept, and most damaging, political-military secret since World War II"
"On the morning of August 2, 1980, a massive bomb exploded in the waiting room of the central train station in Bologna, killing 81 people and injuring 200 others. General Santorito, the chief of Italy's military intelligence agency, SISMI testified in the wake of the bombing that it had been planned by the British-Swiss-American 'Montecarlo Comite' based in Monaco."

Google have unfortunatley removed the 1st 2 episodes of a 3 part docu on operation gladio.
part three is here,

4. MY LAI MASSACRE:
The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), almost entirely civilians and majority of them women and children, conducted by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968. Before being killed some of the victims were raped and sexually molested, beaten, tortured, or maimed. Some of the dead bodies were also mutilated.
Six months later, Tom Glen, a 21-year-old soldier of the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, wrote a letter to General Creighton Abrams, the new overall commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, accusing the Americal Division (and other entire units of the U.S. military) of routine and pervasive brutality against Vietnamese civilians. The letter was detailed and its contents echoed complaints received from other soldiers.

Colin Powell, then a 31-year-old Army Major, was charged with investigating the letter, which did not specifically reference My Lai (Glen had limited knowledge of the events there). In his report Powell wrote: "In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between Americal soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent." Powell's handling of the assignment was later characterized by some observers as "whitewashing" the atrocities of My Lai. In May 2004, Powell, then United States Secretary of State, told CNN's Larry King, "I mean, I was in a unit that was responsible for My Lai. I got there after My Lai happened. So, in war, these sorts of horrible things happen every now and again, but they are still to be deplored."

further info from the BBC in 1988, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/mylai/64344.stm

5. PLAME AFFAIR:
Beginning in mid July 2003, according to federal court records, Bush administration officials, including Richard Armitage, Karl Rove, and Lewis Libby, discussed with various reporters the employment of a then-classified, covert, CIA officer, Valerie E. Wilson (also known as Valerie Plame).

On September 16, 2003 the CIA sent a letter to the US Department of Justice, asserting that Plame's status as a CIA undercover operative was classified information and requesting a federal investigation. Attorney General John Ashcroft referred the matter to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel, directed by Patrick Fitzgerald, who convened a grand jury. The CIA leak grand jury investigation did not result in the indictment or conviction of anyone for any crime in connection with the leak itself. However, I. Lewis Libby, Chief of Staff of Vice President Dick Cheney was indicted on five counts of obstruction of justice, perjury, and false statements to the grand jury and federal investigators on October 28, 2005; Libby resigned hours after the indictment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair

6. OPERATION PAPERCLIP:
Convinced that German scientists could help America's postwar efforts, President Harry Truman agreed in September 1946 to authorize "Project Paperclip," a program to bring selected German scientists to work on America's behalf during the "Cold War"
The highest proflie of these scientist was Wernher Von Braun the man who masterminded the Moon shots, and a member of numerous Nazi organisations, he also held rank in the SS. His initial intelligence file described him as "a security risk". The US operation saw von Braun and more than 700 others spirited out of Germany from under the noses of the US's allies with the help of Vatican passports.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4443934.stm

interesting side piece, do some snooping and find out what and who links Werner von Braun and L. Ron Hubbard.

7. DUNBLANE MASSACRE:
THE Dunblane killer Thomas Hamilton might have been stripped of his firearms licence had prosecutors heeded police reports about his worrying behaviour towards children, according to secret files.
These include claims that police were tipped off that Hamilton was armed and en route to Dunblane Primary School, that he was a Freemason and received favours from Masons in the police allowing him to avoid prosecution, and that he was part of a paedophile ring that included members of the security forces. Lord Cullen on completing the public inquiry into the murders of 16 children and their teacher ordered the documents in the case sealed for an extraordinary 100 years. Even the major media in Scotland thought this smelled funny. What was being hidden?
The report banned under the 100-year rule was com piled by Paul Hughes, then a detective sergeant with Central Scotland police, and concerns Thomas Hamilton's activities at a summer camp in Loch Lomond in 1991, five years before the shootings. Selected extracts published during the Cullen inquiry revealed it recommended that Hamilton should be prosecuted for his activities at the summer camp and that he should have his gun licence revoked. The report, however, was ignored.
In October 2004, former conservative party chairman Lord Tebbit added his voice to the growing outrage at this decision, and in October 2005 half of the files were opened. Press reports suggested that the papers showed Hamilton be a paranoid obsessive, much given to writing letters of complaint to all and sundry; a paedophile ring has not been found.
sources include, http://news.scotsman.com/freemasonry/Question-on-Masonic-links-left.2666857.jp

8. U.S.S LIBERTY
On June the 8th 1967, during the six day war, Israel deliberately attacked the intelligence collection ship USS Liberty, in full awareness it was a U.S. Navy ship, and did its best to sink it and leave no survivors. The attack killed 34 U.S. servicemen and wounded at least 173.
Scores of intelligence analysts and senior officials have known this for years. That virtually all of them have kept a 40-year frightened silence is testament to the widespread fear of touching this live wire. According to NSA documents - classified top secret- some senior officials in Washington wanted above all, to protect Israel from embarrassment.
this video gives a brief overview of the incident along with a few others of note.

Huge archieve of ducuments are linked from wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident.

9. THE LOST BOMB:
A long lost U.S. nuclear bomb probably lies on the seabed off Greenland near Thule airbase, which the United States wants to use for its controversial anti-missile shield.. Classified documents obtained by a group of former workers at Thule, an Arctic air and radar base built by the United States in 1951-52, suggest that one of four hydrogen bombs on a B-52 bomber that crashed there in 1968 was never found, the daily Jyllands-Posten said ``Detective work by a group of former Thule workers indicates that an unexploded nuclear bomb probably still lies on the seabed off Thule,'' the right-leaning mass-circulation daily said.
The crash on January 21, 1968 led to a crisis in relations between the United States and NATO ally Denmark, which is responsible for Greenland's foreign, security and defense policy and at the time prohibited nuclear weapons on its territory, including Greenland. Denmark was never informed about the lost bomb, which has serial number 78252, the paper said.
A U.S. state department document dated August 31, 1968 said all weapons onboard the crashed aircraft had been accounted for but did not spell out whether they had been recovered. The United States assured the Danish government in spring 1968 that clean-up work after the B-52 crash had been completed and gave up searching for the lost bomb in August that year.. .
Home to a ballistic missile early-warning radar station, Thule sits at the midpoint of a chain of similar sites between Alaska and the British Isles -- a line along which the United States may build a shield against missiles from what it calls states of concern such as North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Libya.
Copyright © 2000 Reuters Limited.
10. VATICAN AND TEMPLARS
In October 2007 the vatican published secret documents about the trial of the Knights Templar, including a parchment - long ignored because of a vague catalog entry in 1628 - showing that Pope Clement V initially absolved the medieval order of heresy, The Vatican work reproduces the entire documentation of the papal hearings convened after King Philip IV of France arrested and tortured Templar leaders in 1307 on charges of heresy and immorality
According to the Vatican archives website, the parchment shows that Clement initially absolved the Templar leaders of heresy, though he did find them guilty of immorality, and that he planned to reform the order, However, pressured by Philip, Clement later reversed his decision and suppressed the order in 1312. Jacques de Molay, grand master of the Templars, was burned at the stake in 1314 along with his aides.
The Vatican put the blame squarely on the shoulders of King Philip IV of France.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7029513.stm

The secret gate to eden

2007-11-15T21:36:00.000Z

Christianity, Buddhism, Judiasm, Hinduism, Rosicrucianism, Islam (Sufi), Kabbalah, Theosophy, Aztec, Mayan and Egyptian path out of Eden.

A history of US secret human experimentation

2007-09-27T21:23:00.001Z

Soldiers being exposed to a nuclear explosion at the Nevada Test Site in 1951

1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells.

He later goes on to establish the US Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the US Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.

1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.

1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the US Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occurred within poverty-stricken black populations.

1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to
combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.

1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.

1943 In response to Japan’s full-scale germ warfare program, the US begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.

1944 US Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.

1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The US State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top-secret government projects in the United States.

1945 “Program F” is implemented by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive US study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.

1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word “experiments” to “investigations” or “observations” whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation’s veteran’s hospitals.

1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the US Atomic Energy Commission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.

1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.

1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.

1950 I n an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the US Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Francisco. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.

1951 Department of Defense begins open-air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.

1953 US military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocracy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.

1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.

1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven-year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.

1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army’s biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.

1955 Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.

1956 US military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.

1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army’s Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.

1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field-testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the European population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.

1965 Project CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.

1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.

1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.

1966 US Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop light bulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.

1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.

1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.

1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists.

1970 Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army’s top-secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.

1970 United States intensifies its development of “ethnic weapons” (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.

1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick’s Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the US Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).

1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.

1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.

1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine

1985 According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.

1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.

1986 A report to Congress reveals that the US Government’s current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.

1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.

1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an “experimental” measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.

1994 With a technique called “gene tracking,” Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.

1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Persian Gulf War.

1995 US Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.

1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Persian Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.

1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.

1997 Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Persian Gulf War Syndrome.

http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/a-history-of-us-secret-human-experimentation/

British Opium Company 2

2007-08-15T22:11:00.000Z

Farmers in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan.

Rice farmers along the Euphrates, to the west of the city of Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, have stopped cultivating rice, for which the area is famous, and are instead planting poppies, Iraqi sources familiar with the area have told The Independent.

The shift to opium cultivation is still in its early stages but there is little the Iraqi government can do about it because rival Shia militias and their surrogates in the security forces control Diwaniya and its neighbourhood. There have been bloody clashes between militiamen, police, Iraqi army and US forces in the city over the past two months.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2573299.ece

Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs says.

The World Drug Report says more than 90% of illegal opium, which is used to make heroin, comes from Afghanistan.

It says cultivation of opium poppies increased dramatically in the country, despite the presence of more than 30,000 international troops there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6239734.stm

At a glance:

· A 49% increase in opium production in Afghanistan has seen a new record in the world production

· Afghanistan accounts for 92% of global illict opium production.

· Of the 11m heroin addicts in the world, 3.3m of them in Europe

· Cannabis is consumed by 160m people worldwide

· Over the 2005-2006 period, 25m people are estimated to have used amphetamines at least once in the previous 12 months

· More than 12% of Afghanistan's population is involved in poppy cultivation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2112348,00.html

A Buddha

2007-07-25T19:41:00.000Z

In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha's precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o'clock in the morning. The other teacher, Tanzan, a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, never observed the precepts. When he felt like eating, he ate, and when he felt like sleeping in the daytime, he slept.

One day Unsho visited Tanzan, who was drinking wine at the time, not even a drop of which is supposed to touch the tongue of a Buddhist.

"Hello, brother," Tanzan greeted him. "Won't you have a drink?"

"I never drink!" exclaimed Unsho solemnly.

"One who does not drink is not even human," said Tanzan.

"Do you mean to call me inhuman just because I do not indulge in intoxicating liquids!" exclaimed Unsho in anger. "Then if I am not human, what am I?"

"A Buddha," answered Tanzan.

Quotes

2007-07-23T22:51:00.000Z

"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." -- Dale Carnegie

“A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.” -- anon

"Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought." -- Deepak Chopra

"I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past." -- Stephen Covey

"re-invent yourself" -- my mother

The British Opium Company (still going strong)

2007-03-14T22:24:00.000Z

1700
The Dutch export shipments of Indian opium to China and the islands of Southeast Asia; the Dutch introduce the practice of smoking opium in a tobacco pipe to the Chinese.

1729
Chinese emperor, Yung Cheng, issues an edict prohibiting the smoking of opium and its domestic sale, except under license for use as medicine.

1750
The British East India Company assumes control of Bengal and Bihar, opium-growing districts of India. British shipping dominates the opium trade out of Calcutta to China.

1767
The British East India Company's import of opium to China reaches a staggering two thousand chests of opium per year.

1773
East India Company assumes monopoly over all the opium produced in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. Warren Hastings introduces system of contracts. Contracts for dealing in opium were awarded through auction.

1793
The British East India Company establishes a monopoly on the opium trade. All poppy growers in India were forbidden to sell opium to competitor trading companies.

1796
The import of opium into China becomes a contraband trade. Silver was smuggled out to pay for smuggling opium in.

1799
China's emperor, Kia King, bans opium completely, making trade and poppy cultivation illegal.

1800
The British Levant Company purchases nearly half of all of the opium coming out of Smyrna, Turkey strictly for importation to Europe and the United States.

1830
The British dependence on opium for medicinal and recreational use reaches an all time high as 22,000 pounds of opium is imported from Turkey and India.
Jardine-Matheson & Company of London inherit India and its opium from the British East India Company once the mandate to rule and dictate the trade policies of British India are no longer in effect.

March 18, 1839
Lin Tse-Hsu, imperial Chinese commissioner in charge of suppressing the opium traffic, orders all foreign traders to surrender their opium. In response, the British send expeditionary warships to the coast of China, beginning The First Opium War.

1841
The Chinese are defeated by the British in the First Opium War. Along with paying a large indemnity, Hong Kong is ceded to the British.

1852
The British arrive in lower Burma, importing large quantities of opium from India and selling it through a government-controlled opium monopoly.

1856
The British and French renew their hostilities against China in the Second Opium War. In the aftermath of the struggle, China is forced to pay another indemnity. The importation of opium is legalized.
Opium production increases along the highlands of Southeast Asia.

2000
Taliban leader Mullah Omar bans poppy cultivation in Afghanistan; United Nations Drug Control Program confirms opium production eradicated.

Autumn 2001
War in Afghanistan; heroin floods the Pakistan market. Taleban regime overthrown.

October 2002
U.N. Drug Control and Crime Prevention Agency announces Afghanistan has regained its position as the world's largest opium producer.

2006 Helmand province, where more than 5,000 British troops are deployed in a dangerous "stability" mission, has reported the biggest single annual increase in poppy production.
The enormity of the problems in tackling Afghanistan's massive opium crop has become apparent as the first wave of British troops are deployed in one of the most dangerous parts of the country.
British Government ministers had repeatedly declared that one of the primary tasks of the 5,700- strong expeditionary force was to help end Afghan heroin production, which supplies 90 per cent of the narcotic in Britain. But the commander of the British forces in southern Iraq has insisted that his troops would play no part in destroying poppy fields, while senior British civil servants cautioned that ending cultivation may take years.
"After all, it took 30 years to end opium production in Thailand under much more benign circumstances," said Nick Kay, the United Kingdom's regional co-ordinator for southern Afghanistan. "Considering the problems in Afghanistan one can see it will not be an easy process."
Col Gordon Messenger of the Royal Marines said that British troops deploying to Helmand, the biggest centre of heroin production in the biggest heroin-producing country in the world, would not be involved in a process being considered by President Hamid Karzai's government of eradicating poppies.
"There will be absolutely no maroon berets [of the marines] with scythes in a poppy field," he said.
British forces will not even directly stop vehicles suspected of smuggling the drug. The main role of the British forces will be to enable the Afghan police and army to establish control over areas which have remained outside their reach and allowed a resurgent Taliban and drug lords to gain ascendancy, said Col Messenger.
Even if the policy were changed to allow British involvement in poppy eradication, the troops would not be in a position to take part in such programmes, said Col Messenger, who won a DSO in the 1990-91 Iraq war.
Helmand, the biggest and the most lawless province in Afghanistan, accounts for 25 per cent of the opium produced nationally. It is the most important conduit for trafficking the drug to the West through Iran and to the rest of Asia through Pakistan.
According to British and Iraqi officials, the size of the crop is due to double next year, negating any gain made elsewhere in Afghanistan.
However, the yield from heroin has risen almost 1,000 per cent from seven Afghanis (around 8p) a kilo to 300 Afghanis (£3.44) in just two years.
Amir Mohammed, the district governor of Chemtal, west Mazar-I-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan , said: "We are trying to stop the problem, but people are poor and they are, of course, tempted by so much money."
The United Kingdom is giving aid of £20m a year in efforts to stop opium cultivation. However, farmers will not get monetary compensation matching the amount they will lose if they agree to abandon poppy cultivation.
Mr Kay said that a whole series of measures being implemented, including the establishment of law and order, and job opportunities, would eventually lead to a fall in opium production.
Engineer Mohammed Daoud, the governor of Helmand, stresses that the revenue from opium is fuelling the insurgency. " You cannot separate instablity and drugs in this province," he said. "The smugglers and drug dealers have very close connections with the Taliban and both support each other."
It will be interesting to see, say Afghan officials, how the British forces will fight this insurgency while refusing to get drawn into opium eradication.

My question, is heroin a weapon of mass destruction? How many deaths were there in the UK last year as a result of heroin addiction, deaths through overdose, accident, long term usage, and murder. Why arent we taking the same measures we did against Iraq and their supposed weapons of mass destruction? The answer is quite obvious. Fill the gaps.....

Evil Egos

2006-11-14T10:13:00.001Z

In psychological terms, evil is an aberration of the ego. An evil ego has a strong desire to dominate other egos. An evil person knows that terror is the most effective way to dominate other people because terror induces incapacitating fear. People who are stricken with fear cannot take effective action to defend themselves and while they are in that state, evil can do anything it wants to them. This perverted ego will inflict pain and suffering in order to be in total control. A healthy ego is self-sufficient, peaceful, joyful in its natural state, and it has a desire to help and serve others. A healthy ego does not have a desire to dominate and will not purposefully inflict pain and suffering.

The concept of ego domination has been practiced throughout human history, in the 20th century the Nazi's not only fully understood the concept, but they were the scientists of evil. They perfected the science of terror. "Blitzkrieg" is the term for warfare that terrorizes without warning, completely surprising the victims and totally incapacitating them by knocking them out before they have a chance to understand what is happening to them. Torture on a mass level is the method for keeping a population in a state of terror. This is the sick psychology of evil.

In religious or spiritual terms, evil is an aberration of the true nature of humanity. Let us assume that God/creator/nature/cosmic consciousness, (call it what you will)gave humanity the gift of free will. Let us also assume that in the beginning, there was a soul named Lucifer/destructor/perverter/cosmic anti-consciousness, (call it what you will). In response to the gift of free will, Lucifer retorted, "Really. I can do anything I want to do now? OK, fine. I want to be God." Lucifer's vanity was the aberration. Not particularly liking Lucifer's retort, God banished Lucifer from heaven. Lucifer's reaction to being banished from the house of fun was to dedicate his existence to wreaking as much havoc as possible. God was caught in his/her/its own trap because free will precludes interference.

Anyone who has a basic grasp on the reality of human existence knows that it's not possible to manifest everything we want and desire by applying our free will, concentrating our minds, working hard to get what we want, or even through the power of prayer. There is a will in our universe that is infinitely stronger than our free will. If our will and desire is in sync with the infinite will, then we can manifest our desire. If our will and desire is not in sync with the infinite will, we can try, try, and try again ad infinitum and nothing will happen except that we will frustrate ourselves. Someone once said, "When the Karmic Door is shut, even if you have the right key, the lock won't turn."

Individual free will tends to have very limited power. On the other hand, mass free, when millions of individuals unite in basic agreement behind a common purpose tends to be unstoppable. I believe that when masses of people unite behind a good purpose, the universe smiles and says "Go!". Now consider what has occurred as a result of the aberrant free will unleashed by the dictators of the 20th century. World War II is believed to have been necessary in order to stop Hitler, But there was a moment in time when the expenditure of millions of lives would not have been necessary. Winston Churchill knew when that window of opportunity had opened up but choose not to resist. The collective evil-ego's of those who owned and collectively controlled the U.K, U.S.A and the Nazi's thrived on the terror they had planned and created.

We have seen many atrocious people ascend to power in various countries. A few examples are Stalin in Russia, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Idi Amin in Uganda. George Bush (elder and junior) in the U.S.A. The list of atrocious dictators is long, but if we focus for a moment on Saddam Hussein because he was created by the same evil-ego's in the sense that he was trained, armed, and even supported against his enemies in the mistaken belief that he would remain an obedient worker. By the time the evil-egos understood their big mistake, it was too late and now we have all paid dearly for their mistake. The invoice for our cost is still mounting and our young people are still being willfully sacrificed by the evil-ego's.

Evil, has, for the time being, won the day. Why has evil never been banished from our planet? Fill The Gaps

Click on the Vulture

2006-10-20T11:00:00.000Z

Da-Vinci code?

2006-09-20T18:47:00.001Z

Much has been written about the Leonardo Da-Vinci painting "the last supper" most recently as a result of Dan Browns book "The Da-Vinci Code".
The single biggest piece of hype concerns what the author has to say regarding the famous portrait "the last supper", the artist Leonardo Da Vinci and the "priory of sion" which has proved to have been a hoax created in 1956 by Pierre Plantard, a pretender to the French throne.
A little bit of homework to consider the meaning (if any) of this portrait and the event it seeks to depict, you can soon uncover some facts and logic that the author chooses to ignore.
But in order to examine, we must go back, not 2.000 years to the birth of Christ, but to 8 to 10,000 years to the birth of modern man. For when you seek to establish foundations, you must begin at the beginning.
Firstly. no people of the ancient world believed the "Sun" to be "God". That belongs in the "disinformation file".In fact, every ancient culture and nation on earth have all used the sun as the most logically appropriate symbol to represent the glory of the unseen creator of the heavens.
Here it is important to remember two points:
First, with the exception of Japan, the ancient world mythologies always understood the sun to be masculine, and the moon feminine.
Second, the English language is derived from the German. In the Germanic, the word "sun" is spelled "Sonne". The two words can, and have been used interchangeably.
We have two "cosmic" brothers - one very good, and one very evil.
One brings the "truth to light" with the "light of truth".
The other is the opposite, or in opposition to the light - prince of this world in darkness. i.e. The Devil.
More than 3,000 years before Christianity began, the early morning "Sun/ Saviour" was pictured in Egypt as the "New Born Babe". The infant saviour's name was "HORUS".
The early morning Sun or "New Born Babe", was pictured in two ways.
A) The Dove - Bringer of Peace
B) The Hawk - God of War
(who punishes the enemies of God!).
At daybreak. this newborn child, God's 'Sun', is ... 'born again' Horus is Risen.
Even today, when the sun comes up, we see it on the "Horus-Risen", or "Horizon". His life was also divided into 12 parts or steps across Heaven each day: 12 HORUS = 12 HOURS. Horus is the new-born Sun, or the bringer of the light. In Latin, Light Bringer is Lucis, or Lucifer, or Luke.
But now, what about the evil brother of God's Sun, that old rascal "Prince of Darkness" himself?
In the Egyptian, he was called "SET". We are told in the Bible that when God's Sun died, He left the world in the hands of the evil prince of darkness. This evil prince took over the world at "SON-SET"
God's 'Sun' brought His light to the world, and distributed it over 12 months. So it was said, God's 'Sun' had 12 companions, or helpers, that assisted His life-saving work. So it was, God's 'Sun' had 12 apostles (or months) that followed Him religiously through His life.
As far back as we can go into the ancient world, we find that all known cultures had a "Three-in-one" Triune God. The very first trinity was simply the three stages of the life of the Sun.
A) New Born Saviour at dawn.
B) Mature, full-grown (The Most High) at 12 (High) noon.
C) Old and dying, at the end of day (going back to The Father).

All three were of course One Divinity - The Sun
three different phases, but one God!
The Trinity is truly a mystery...Like electricity, radio, TV, and jumbo-jets are all a mystery to the un-enlightened mind!
The Egyptians knew that the Sun was at its highest point in the sky at high noon. At that point, they offered prayers to the "Most High" God! To the ancients, the sky was the abode, or heavenly temple, of the "Most High". Therefore, God's 'Sun' was doing His heavenly Father's work of enlightening all in the temple at 12 ...not 12 years old!!!! but 12 noon!!!

God's Son/Sun with his 12 faithful monthly followers.

Since the Earth experienced 4 different seasons, all the same and equal (in time) each year, the round Sun calendar was divided into 4 equal parts. This is also why we have, in the Bible, 4 Gospels. Of this point, there can be no doubt. The 4 Gospels represent the four 4 seasons which collectively tell the entire story of the life of God's 'Sun'. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. This is why the famous painting of "The Last Supper" pictures the 12 followers of the Sun in four groups (of three) ... the four seasons!!!
The Sun, since the first day of summer, has each day been moving southward, and stops when it reaches its lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere (December 22nd - our winter solstice).At this lowest point, the Sun stops its journey southward.For three days, December 22nd, 23rd , and 24th, the Sun rises on the exact same latitudinal (declination) degree each day.This is the only time in the year that the Sun actually stops its movement northward or southward in our sky.
On the morning of December 25th the Sun moves one degree northward beginning its annual journey back to us in the Northern Hemisphere. Anything steadily moving all year long that suddenly stops moving for three days was considered to have died. Therefore, God's Sun who was dead for three days, moves one-degree Northward on December 25th beginning its annual journey back to the Northern Hemisphere. The Sun is symbolically born again.
And to this day, His worshippers still celebrate His BIRTHDAY!.... Merry Christmas.
So therefore Da Vinci's painting of the last supper has nothing to do with bloodlines or family ties. It is a portrait of the heavens according to Hermetic traditions, the question is .... Is it a representation of Hermetic interpretation of the story of Jesus?, or is the story of Jesus a representation of Hermetic Egyptian Astro-Theology. And if the story of Jesus is really the story of astrology, then, is that the "holy grail"? The big secret that the templars/freemasons/rosicrucian/thelema/jesuits/nazis, and many other esoteric societies as well as Dan Brown have searched for (and found!!!) and kept hidden under occultist teachings since the beginning of Christianity? Fill the gaps..............

(much of this blog is credited to the work of
Jordan Maxwell. for the full article click the link on the right hand side of this page)

The enemies within

2006-09-14T23:43:00.000Z

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. Maybe some of our fears are brought on by your own experiences, by what someone has told you, by what you've read in the papers. Some fears are valid, like walking alone in a bad part of town at two o'clock in the morning. But once you learn to avoid that situation, you won't need to live in fear of it.
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear can destroy fortunes. Fear can destroy relationships. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies living inside us.
Here are five other enemies we face from within.

The first enemy that you've got to destroy before it destroys you is indifference. What a tragic disease this is. "I'll just drift along and see what happens" Here's one problem with drifting along: you can't drift your way to the top of a mountain.

The second enemy we face is indecision. Indecision will steal opportunity and enterprise, and our chances for a better future.

The third enemy inside is doubt. Sure, there's always room for healthy skepticism. You can't believe everything. But you also can't let doubt take over. Many people doubt the past, doubt the future, doubt each other, doubt the government, doubt the possibilities and doubt the opportunities. Worse of all, they doubt themselves. Doubt will destroy your life and your chances of success. It will empty both your bank account and your heart. Doubt is an enemy. Go after it. Get RID of it.

The fourth enemy within is worry. We've all worry. Just don't let it conquer you. Instead, let it alarm you. Worry can be useful. If you step off the kerb in the street and a bus is coming, you've got to worry.
But you can't let worry loose like a mad dog that forces you into a small corner. Here's what you've got to do with your worries: force THEM into a small corner. Whatever is out to get you, you've got to get it. Whatever is pushing on you, you've got to push back.

The fifth enemy is being over-cautious. It is the timid approach to life. Being timid is not a virtue (unlike humility - they are different); in fact, it can be an illness. If you let it, it'll conquer you. Timid people don't get promoted. They don't advance and grow to become powerful over themselves, subsequently they fail to thrive. You've got to avoid over-caution.

Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from achieving your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.