What is REALLY happening?

Governments now to tax green initiatives

2009-12-07T09:57:00.002+02:00

Since it has now become clear that we are in fact entering a global cooling instead of global warming phase; governments has implemented tax on all carbon friendly initiatives. The governments were forced to change their taxing focus because we suddenly need all the carbon in the air we can get.

Global cooling and an imminent ice age can leave economies and regions devastated with crops failing and global food shortages. So, governments are left with no choice but to increase taxes on all “eco” friendly initiatives like solar power, wind power, hybrid cards and especially recycled and renewable energy sources. “We urgently need more carbon in the air” governments urge everyone’s help on this “and those that can’t help, must just keep on paying taxes…”

Governments haven’t decided what to do on the “old” taxes that are still enforced on companies and people for carbon emissions. This tax will for now also remain in place and the money will be allocated to initiatives to reverse previous harmful policies that were introduced to cut carbon and energy use. “We ask all citizens to remain calm and keep paying your taxes, we know what we are doing”, governments around the world explain.

Some scientists belief that human and human’s impact on the environment have little to no affect on the global climate system. That this change might be part of a long cyclical weather pattern we are going through, measured over thousands of years. It might fall part of a “seasonal” change our solar system is going through but because our history books don’t stretch back that far, we don’t have records of these “seasonal” changes on a solar system scale.

Governments don’t accept this last theory because this means they need to blame the universe or “god” for these climate changes and they can’t blame nor tax these entities. “Just pay your taxes and don’t ask questions” they have responded with.

What credit crunch?

2008-12-28T09:55:00.000+02:00

They say a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world can cause a hurricane on the other side. Maybe the same person, who said this, also asked if a tree falls in a forest and there is no one to hear it, will it make a sound… This is how I see this credit crunch effect on the world and world economies. What started off as a decline in properties values, placing risk on financial institutions and what happens? The world falls apart financially speaking.

It does look like things have been set-up to fall and many of the pieces are coming apart. It started with property, then financial institutions, then car companies this filtering down to you and me. I sometimes wonder if this credit crunch is not being made worse by ourselves. We see the fall-out on the news media and the talk of companies closing; people losing jobs and this in turn make us as consumers more conservative with our spending.

We delay making decisions on whether to extend the house, replacing the car that needs replacement and not buying those expensive items where you need to make more loans. These decisions are also being made by companies, making plans and cutting costs and reducing spending with the view that this credit crunch will also affect them. If everyone is doing this with the view that the credit crunch will affect them in the future; are we then not “designing” that future for ourselves?

If this is true then I suspect the idea of the credit crunch is being “sold” to us and we are “buying” into the concept. We are making the effect of the credit crunch worse, causing more people to loose their jobs, more companies closing, more nationalization of large enterprises in the name of a rescue plan. This cause more economies moving into recession and ultimately depression. Are we looking at another world war on the horizon caused by desperate people and nations?

What are the potential outcomes of this worst case scenario? Has this credit crunch been designed and sold to us for a worse case scenario outcome?

The right side of history

2008-09-11T20:15:00.000+02:00

These strange words were used by Bill Clinton recently. Sometimes I think we as a human race are living on the wrong side of history. Today will be remembered again for something that happened on 11 September 2001. On that day, several people decided to move the human race to the wrong side of history. The day our freedoms were taken away (the little we’ve had) and it was replaced by the enemy that was created on that day; the terrorist.

That historical event was used as an excuse to mane and kill thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in Afghanistan and Iraq. That historical event was used to monitor all our voice and electronic conversations for future use. People are placed on special security lists based on criteria which are never explained.

All this is happening due to a historical event where a huge lie was “sold” to us. On that day the rules of science changed. Three tall buildings collapsed due to fire, something that’s never happened before in history. A large plane disappeared into a small hole at the Pentagon, another historical event.

I wonder who were the people who were on the right side of that history? Whoever planned an executed this was not an old bearded man sitting in a cave in Afghanistan. He had to be a great magician to be able to break the fundamental laws of science. He had to get the media on his side too. I just know whoever those organisations or governments were; they left us on the wrong side of history.

Are more people getting lost?

2008-08-04T20:14:00.000+02:00

I have recently noticed that more and more people are driving with GPS devices in their cars. This was noticed not on an average week day but a Sunday, a day people go to shops or church or friends, depending on your choice of “religion”. So why do people need GPS navigation on a Sunday?

I can understand the functionality of this product for a sales guy, or a delivery fan or if you are in a big city or country for the first time, but Sunday morning outings? Is it that people have become bored to such an extend that they need some sort of distraction in the form of global positioning to make their drive more interesting? Don’t we already have cell phones, car entertainment systems and the act of driving to keep us busy?

What about using this time to have a conversation with the people next to you or if you alone, give yourself some time to reflect and think as per my previous post? These devices take up a fair amount of space on the front window and limit the road view extensively. This coupled with other distracting devices like cell phones, must make using the road a lot more dangerous for everyone else.

But my main concern here is for the individual that need this device for their average daily use. Have these people stopped using their minds? Are they constantly lost? As one manufacturer says; “You are lost without it”…come on, you might loose your mind without it because you might stop thinking! I’ve seen people becoming passengers in cars; they don’t focus on their directions and therefore get lost. These devices have the same effect.

Already stories of people turning into walls and drive into rivers or dead end streets, following the prompts of the GPS navigator as if they are driven like robots. People don’t consciously think anymore. They just listen to another “authority” to obediently follow and observe just like a machine. But maybe we are taught this way? I see many lost people in this world.

Time to think

2008-08-02T16:28:00.000+02:00

Someone recently told me, referring to my blog, that I should write more. This made me think about my reasons for not writing more frequently. Life has become a marathon. Everyone I speak to, myself included, comment on how busy they are. What happened to all those advertised products that were supposed to give us more time?

People don’t have time to make food, so they buy processed food. Our computers get faster processors to make us working more efficient and faster. Our cars get more powerful and faster even though we don’t need more speed. We get irritated when service takes longer than we think we should be served. It feels like we are being programmed to act like machines. Work faster, quicker, more efficient year on year because our rationale is to make more money or to be able to pay the bills or to have more time for ourselves. But this seems to never to happen. We might make more money, but then we somehow find more things to buy, to save more time, which never happens.

We are so busy doing things that we struggle to do nothing. Have you observed people at a seminar? They constantly fiddle with something. Either a phone to read their emails and SMS or they make notes of things they have just remembered. During breaks they rush of to listen to their messages and return calls.

I thought of these things today during a mountain bike race. It is strange what fatigue can do to you. You reach a point where you get tired and exhausted and that’s when your body seems to move into an element of its own. Your mind become clear and you stop worrying about the daily stuff. You focus on what happening to you and your body there and now. It is as if you now have time to really think and focus on what is important.

Many philosophical books have been written on this subject. Some say you can reach it during meditation, others by means of physical endurance. People like Gurjief used physical labour in his teachings, Carlos Castaneda writes about the time he spend in nature in complete silence to be able to “see” and some religions like Buddhism makes use of meditation to quieten the mind. Not that I think religion per se is a good example to get yourself time to think more.

Listening to a preacher, rabbi or cleric is about as good as sitting in front of the television watching a soapie. It is just another form of hypnotising and won’t make you think more. In fact religion bars critical thinking; you should just accept everything you’re told, like a machine… We are constantly being fed by lots and lots of information, but we don’t have time to reflect and think. Maybe if we do, we will see more things in this world.

If this was only an April fools joke

2008-04-01T01:10:00.000+02:00

Even if you were told to watch out for April fools jokes in advance, sometimes you still get caught out. But sometimes when I read or watch the news I wish they were April fool jokes. I sometimes wish they will come back and say, we were only kidding, it was not real, we were just trying to play a cruel joke on you…

So which news item was I hoping to be April fools joke? Well the biggest one that changed the world permanently as we know it must be the events of 911. News agents tell us it was a guy who planned and executed this military precision style operation from his cave in Afghanistan.

He was able to train some people with little or no flying skills to operate commercial planes in such a manner that it should be listed on the Guinness book of records in the case of the Pentagon crash. Not only was that pilot able to decent from 30 000ft to fly the plane just above the ground which must have resulted in some serious g force manoeuvres, but also he managed to level out and without touching the lawn, crash the huge plane leaving just a small hole in a reinforced concrete wall.

The this guy planned something else so amazing; he not only manage to plan exactly how much fuel will be needed in each plane so that when it crashes into the twin towers, that the fuel combined with the impact will makes these buildings collapse, but he also managed to collapse Building 7, a 50 story building without a plane getting close to it! He must have used a different kind of Jet fuel too, because normal Jet fuel burns at a too low temperature for it to cause steel to weaken enough to make those buildings collapse.

It’s also amazing to note that Building 7 was reported to have collapsed by all the mayor news networks about 30 minutes before it actually did. The archives of these news reports were removed from the various news agencies websites shortly after this was exposed on the Internet by some people.

So this 911 event started the war on terror, it is faceless and could be potentially be found in any place around the world. It’s the perfect enemy for the governments to ask for endless amount of funds to use as “prevention” and “justified” attacks. This is also a perfect excuse to use to control and limit everyone. I wish this has happened on 1 April instead of 11 September! Then maybe someone told us this was only an April’s fools joke.

Reading what has happened and how it happened that day makes you think it should have been some elaborate joke for a movie script but sadly this was not the case. It looks almost like it must have been planned by the same guys who planned the JFK assassination. 45 Years later and it is still difficult to distinguish between reality, truth and a cover-up story. Sometimes April fools jokes goes unnoticed and many belief them as real events as reported. The same seems to happen when lies are reported. I wonder what April fools jokes will be reported today?

Should we worry about global cooling instead?

2007-12-05T22:07:00.000+02:00

Everyone talk about global warming and how humans were responsible for this. Global corporations are jumping on this opportunity because they see a unique situation to make more money. Governments around the world also see opportunities to get more taxes from us. Now they can tax us for everything that they or scientists perceive as us contributing to this global warming of Earth. So instead of developing technologies that are more efficient, they “charge” us for using their inefficient power sources like electric grids, gas guzzling cars, long range flights and even food.

Now new research indicates that we could be looking at a potential ice age soon. This all comes from looking at the solar effects on the sun. In this article: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/144859-What-s-going-on-with-the-Sun-Will-it-save-us-from-global-warming- it is explained that although we should have moved through a solar minimum, moving to the next sunspot maximum, this has not happened. The low sunspot activity has not happened since the period between 1645 and 1915 when a mini ice age was experienced in Europe.

So does this mean we should stop worrying about global warming? To what effect has our global warming been the result of human activity or have the majority of global warming effects been from external forces like the Sun? The article above says the following: “They estimate that the Sun's reduced activity may cause a global temperature drop of 1.5C by 2020. This is larger than most sensible predictions of man-made global warming over this period.”

It does appear that we might have to get ourselves ready for some serious cold instead. On account of this article it looks like global warming will be replaced by an ice age instead. Looks like Al Gore will have to make another documentary.

Zimbabwe economic collapse is only a test run

2007-08-11T19:24:00.000+02:00

The current situation of extreme government control and police state rule is only a test run for implementation into the rest of the world. This is an experiment to see how far people can be pushed into more poverty, more control and less choices before they stand up for their own rights. So far the experiment must be quite promising to the ones in charge. Not since the Second World War has a country seen such high inflation rates. There is total control over the country’s news reporting internally. The country has written new laws to take over land and businesses of those who don’t comply with their regulations.

So why has this experiment proven to be so successful? Well, even Zimbabwe’s neighbors like the South African government who has supposedly fought for “human rights” will remain silent while thousands of Zimbabweans don’t know where their next meal will come from. Thousands more has decided to move to other countries out of desperation. The people of Zimbabwe themselves seems to have accepted their fate, saying they hope the next election will be fair so that a new government can be voted into power.

We actually see this happening all over the world. People seem to trust the “democratic” way and think that voting systems are flawless. We think that the people representing them in power are reflecting their views and best wishes. Even worse, we have reached a stage where we don’t care. We are occupied by our own lives; our work, the next sporting event or TV programme. We don’t care about what is happening next to us, unless it affects us directly.

Politicians around the world don’t see their positions as a service to their people anymore. They see it as the ultimate power position. The ultimate place to control others, make money and get fame. The system of “democracy” whereby electing the party or person with the most charisma created the ideal breeding ground for psychopaths. The person looking for power and control is ideal for individuals who can lie and do well in acting. A person that has no compassion or real feelings can “act” his way into power. They will be perfect liars and cheats and will be able to get their way into or out of any situation.

So who will do the finger pointing after Mugabe has left? Who will say why haven’t we done anything? Who will say but we have not known this was happening? This is a repeating syndrome it seems. We never learn. Bad things happen in broad daylight and only afterwards do we ask the questions. In Germany we’ve had Hitler, in the Middle East we have Israel terrorizing the Palestinians, we have the USA terrorizing the planet it seems with its war and invasion plans and in Africa we have Mugabe. It seems each continent has its own dark horse to show us the nature of things influencing the human race.

Cellphone towers are safe, as long as you think they are safe.

2007-08-02T21:07:00.000+02:00

In a recent study completed by the University of Essex, researchers found that people fell ill to the closeness of cell phone towers because they think it will have a negative effect on them. They found that the cell phone towers were not responsible for people feeling anxiety, nausea and fatigue. They found however that the people who thoughts cell phone towers were a bad for them, caused them to then show the symptoms like anxiety.

If this study is true, then we might have found a cure for the whole world. Just think positive things and you will be fine! So let’s all stop worrying about all kinds of things and we will be safe from everything. Ok, let me try it; that secretive Osama Bin Laden, doesn’t exist! Terrorism, none existent! Poverty and hunger, no more! Diseases like TB, AIDS, Cancer and Flu is all just a figment of my old imagination. Whew…I feel much better now, do you?

I find it strange in the article that was released about cell towers that actual research was not done on the effects of the towers close proximity to humans. Instead the research concluded that the people’s knowledge of these devices made them sick? Is it not like saying; staying next to the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant is fine unless you think that radio active fall-out is bad for you?

Maybe one day research companies other than those funded by the Cell phone networks will do proper research into the safety of cell phone towers. Maybe one day independent research companies will also do research on the side effects of medicines without being paid by the pharmaceutical companies themselves to do it. Maybe one day real research will be done on GM (genetic modified) foods. Until that day comes; I prefer to keep researching and reading on potential dangers of all the new developments in food, medicine and technology. I don’t belief ignoring it will protect me!

The Earth is flat…again!

2007-07-01T21:14:00.000+02:00

It has happened; we have come around in circles and now if you belief anything other than the Earth is the center of the Universe, that the sun rotates around the Earth and that it is actually flat; then you will go to hell. This is what the theory of creationism is telling us, well almost. In the USA it has become a huge political controversy and expect this way of thinking to come to a country near you.

This reminds me a bit about Douglas Adams’ book; Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe where he says there are no living things in the universe because and I quote: “It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the universe has a population of zero, then the entire population of the universe must also be zero, and any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”

Now people will belief the world is only 6000 years old because the Bible says it is? Is this what could be called blind faith? Then you get people that will say that you should not read it literally, but then will in the same breath quote another section of the Bible and say it is the only truth. So if you are a Christian, you must either take everything in the Bible as literal truth or you have to be judgmental to what was meant as the literal truth and what was a metaphor for something.

How is it that people will say; but the Bible says….and quote it ad-nauseam and never think about looking at the correctness of this source in detail? I once ask someone if he has done some research about the origins of the Bible, who wrote it and to my surprise he told me he had. Then he pulled out books for me to read to prove the Bible is real and not corrupted and all those books were written by Christian scholars and professors. Now really! Does he expect someone following the faith will truly research the Bible’s history and report inaccuracies? Does he expect these people will truly question things that don’t fit?

Isn’t it like asking a pharmaceutical company whether their products are potentially dangerous or poisonous to human consumption? Do you expect the pharmaceutical company to release reports to show harmful and potential side effects? Surely they will release all kinds of white papers to prove the benefits of the drug and leave the fine print somewhere to protect them against any legal action. Now the Bible, like all the other mind controlling religions around the world has the same hidden fine print. It is called mind programming from an early age. Not to question your “faith”, to blindly accept what you are told.

Not to long ago the same religions would have burnt you at the stake if you questioned them for saying the world is actually round or rotates around the sun. Now a museum has opened in Kentucky, USA to tell you that the world was created 6000 years ago in 6 days. The museum depicts dinosaurs alongside Adam and Eve and apparently even on Noah’s Ark! Now they just need to ad a flat Earth and depict how the Sun rotates around it and we will be back in the dark ages.

Snakes in Suits

2007-06-22T10:13:00.000+02:00

The book; Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare is an interesting book http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/0060837721 that describes and also shows that psychopaths are not the type you see in movies with characters like Hannibal Lector. The “successful” psychopaths are the ones that can even imitate empathy; they can also recognize other psychopaths and collude with them.

Off course this is not just confined to the corporate office environment. The same applies to the “democratic” political system of the West. This reminds me of a quote by Douglas Adams: “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

Another excellent book looking more into the political side of psychopaths is; Political Ponerology and can be found on this link: http://redpillpress.com/retail/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=45&zenid=cfd26e78ce90fe90101bf5422b8c7429 and another good reference to this book is here: http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/134866-Political+Ponerology

Normally I don’t refer to books in my blog, but I think these books are important for those that need to know for their own protection and knowledge.

US pay compensation to Iraq

2007-06-02T21:38:00.000+02:00

Information has been released that the US military is paying Iraqi civilians compensation for “accidental” loss of life. They call this “condolence” payment and this is capped at $2500 which is offered without admission of guilt or fault.

Now I suppose for those receiving money for loosing a family member in an illegal invasion is better than nothing, but who allowed for this to happen in the first place? Why are the politicians responsible for this invasion not being held accountable? They were the ones who gave the orders to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. They might have acted on incorrect intelligence data, but they decided to drop bombs, launch missiles while the UN requested more time looking for the weapons of mass destruction.

They decided to act fast; not waiting another week or two and the result of their actions meant the death of thousands of civilians just from the initial invasion. These compensations are not being paid to the people of Iraq who lost their family members during the time when thousands of high altitude bombs and missiles rained on their land.

The compensations are only being paid to recent events, for example when the US military mistakenly opened fire on a car and discovered the car was transporting women and children, killing and maiming them as a result. So if the US military is paying compensation to admit their mistakes (unofficially), when will we see the likes of GW Bush and Tony Blair appear before an International court to defend their aggressive military actions?

We have seen Sadam Hussein appear in such a court. He was found guilty for killing 148 civilian men and boys in Dujail. He was found guilty by this court and sentence to death by hanging. So it appears there is a measure in place to treat dictators and war criminals for their evil acts. Then why are people like GW Bush and Tony Blair not appearing before this court to be tried for lying to the world and for killing thousands of civilian people?

Prison camps for Americans

2007-05-27T19:13:00.000+02:00

What has happened to this world since 911? According to the powers that be it has become a very dangerous place to live in. We need all kinds of protection and all the measures put into place for our own peace of mind and sense of security. If we have to fly now, we need to be triple checked, our luggage is not only x-rayed; certain items needs to be placed in clear for everyone to see bags. Liquids have restriction in size and I wonder what is happening to all those nail clippers, scissors and sharp items that get confiscated everyday at security checkpoints in airports around the world?

Then we have more and more security cameras going up, people’s private lies is not private anymore. Our e-mails, voice conversations and money transactions are checked and intercepted for any “terror activities”. Expect these treatments if you are one of the “good” citizens, the treatment for “bad” ones are much worse. They get to go to prison camps without any trails or any opportunity to proof their innocence. There they will be subjected to all kind of torture methods; psychological and physical. After many years of this treatment they will surprisingly “confess” to their “terrorist” deeds and “evil” plans to the world news media after a special military court case.

Now expect this sort of treatment if you are a second rate world citizen. You see, for some reason the media will place more importance on the lives of “western people”. The number of Americans dying in their invasion of Iraq will be televised on a daily basis, the number of Iraqi’s dying will never be told. The same is happening in the Israeli conflict with its neighbors. If an Israeli soldier is kidnapped in a foreign country, they will destroy that country, killing hundreds of people as witnessed in Lebanon recently.

So what will make people say they don’t accept the treatment of war prisoners in Guantanamo Bay? How is it possible that in the 21 century; America can have prison camps and torture people? I thought places like the United Nations are there to prevent these kinds of things from happening. Why are all the governments of the world quiet on these matters? Are they all in on this; agreeing to the treatment of these people?

Maybe the world will react differently if it was Americans being held in prison camps. How would the world react if American soldiers were held in prison camps without trial and tortured in Iraq or Afghanistan for their war crimes? Maybe people are silent about places like Guantanamo Bay, because it doesn’t affect them. Maybe people believe the government’s stories. That the “bad” people are out there, they happen to be of a different race and religion. Because they are “second rate citizens” and labeled as “terrorists”; do they deserve this kind of treatment?

The risk with this view is, that maybe one day you might not agree with your government, maybe one day you will be labeled a terrorist for your disagreement, maybe one day you will find yourself at a “Guantanamo Bay”. Will other people then care about you? Will you expect other people, the UN and news media to stand up for your rights? When something like this happens to any of you out there, then I hope that there are others like me writing about it!

Fundamentalism Christianity in Sport

2007-05-21T20:37:00.000+02:00

This weekend’s Final of the Super 14 rugby showed how extreme people’s view of religion can be. After the game most (if not all) of the winning team members commented that they want to thank God for their victory.

I need to ask the question, what made them think that God decided they should be victorious over their competitors? Were they better men? Did their God favour them over their competitors? Were their competitors’ bad people? Did their competitors sin against this God to favour the winning team? What if they have lost the game? Would they have blamed their God for the loss?

Then a player from the winning team was wearing a white shirt with the words; “Jesus is King” written on it. While the other team members appeared in their rugby jerseys during the trophy presentation, this one team member proudly made sure his white shirt was available for all the TV cameras and photographers to see.

If the same guy was wearing the words; “Allah is the Lord” or “Praise to Mohammed” or “Satan is King” or “911 was an inside job” or “Impeach Bush for the lies told”…etc, would he have been allowed to wear that t-shirt during the televised Super 14 rugby trophy presentation?

Somehow I think if he was any other religion or wanted to make any controversial statement or alternative religious view; he would have been prevented from wearing it. If he had a pro-Islam message, he would have most likely been told not to display his religious views. Some people would most likely then have labeled him as a terrorist with extreme religious views.

Why was this player allowed to wear a t-shirt with blatant pro-Christianity advertising on the field? It made me really sad to see this happening. I can imagine this player having no feelings of empathy or compassion towards anyone else’s view and he felt the need to enforce his own religious view upon others. It was a sad day for sport to see religious “scoring” being used (and abused) by fundamentalist Christians.

When truth is stranger than fiction

2007-03-19T21:49:00.000+02:00

We hear it so many times when we watch news programmes; “we are here to tell you the truth”, “we uncover the hidden secrets”, “we ask questions others avoid”…but are these statements true? Do news networks truly question and investigate something when even scientists struggle to explain the official version of events. What am I talking about? Well, I am not talking about UFO’s or Men in Black but what seems to be the biggest puzzle in modern times that happened right in front of our eyes. I am talking about the strange events that happened on that fateful day in USA what is now referred to as 911.

The “official” version of events tells us that a couple of “terrorists” led by Bin Laden or is it now Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; planned and executed an attack on the most advanced military in this world. They high-jacked four planes flew three into buildings and one did not reach its target and was crashed into the ground when the passengers took over the plane from the “terrorists”. Reading it just like this it almost sounds plausible, maybe they were just damn lucky to get it right, maybe they were damn lucky for fighter planes to not be scrambled and ordered to take the planes out before they crashed into the buildings. Maybe it was just a bad day for the people that perform this duty on a daily basis, getting calls to investigate planes not responding to the ATC.

But then if you are not the average person that accepts everything that he/she is told, then you would have read about all the things that don’t ad up. Maybe you are also one of those people that wonder how three steel framed buildings can collapse due to a fire; something that has never happened before in history. Do you also question how a Boeing could fit into a hole smaller than itself and leave very little behind and a perfect lawn at the Pentagon? Do you also question how people on Flight 93 were able to make cell phone calls at cruising altitudes and then be scattered in tiny pieces over a large area when the plane was supposed to have been crashed?

People reading my articles would notice that I write about 911 all the time and maybe you will ask why I do this. Well, there are many things wrong in this world, but seldom do you get to see a cover-up in plane sight. Here it is out in the open for those who can question things and for those that can see. Flight 77 made maneuvers impossible for a rookie pilot to perform and most definitely impossible for a Boeing to perform. The speed and altitude it struck the Pentagon would have left the engines scraping on the ground before impact, but the lawn was left in a perfect condition. The hole after impact is too small for the fuselage to fit into and the two large engines, two wings and whole tail section seem to have disappeared or somehow, instead of breaking off, folded up nicely and also squeezed into that hole to small for the fuselage.

So what happened to Flight 77 if that was not a Boeing that struck the Pentagon? Well ask the guys who told us that it was. Recently they launched video “evidence” to show it was the Boeing that struck the Pentagon. Have you seen it? If you have, then you will be even more concerned about what happened to the people on that plane. The video footage that would have shown the flight path and impact of the plane was removed by FBI shortly after the crash at a petrol station and a hotel. Where is that video footage that will prove me wrong?

Structural engineers have shown that steel framed buildings can’t weaken due to fire. Especially not fire from Jet fuel as the “experts” say have happened. Jet fuel burn at to low temperatures to weaken steel and even if it somehow went against scientific rules and did weaken the structure, it would have partially collapsed and would not have come down in less than 10 second at free fall speed as if no resistance was offered. Now this looks like demolition to me and then we have building number 7, a 48 storey building in the complex that was reported “collapsed” before it actually happened by the large media houses. Now how did this building collapse if the “experts” say the twin towers came down because of jet fuel? No plane struck this building at all.

Maybe one day the truth will be told on what really happened on that day, maybe only some of it will be told. Maybe if more and more people ask and push the issue, then will something else happen to deflect this questioning? Maybe I will be proven wrong or partially wrong, who knows, but what worries me is that something else might have happened on that day that could have a far worse consequence for mankind than a couple of “terrorists” that might have been involved. The evil might not be “over there” as we are being told by our mainstream media, it might be right here between us. Just maybe the evil looks like us and will not hesitate to hurt, mane and kill innocent people and blame it on someone else (over there) to justify a war.

Man responsible for 911 confesses

2007-03-15T22:09:00.000+02:00

Finally we can now all sleep better at night. The person responsible for planning and executing the attack on America; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has now confessed for being the person responsible for 911. This has been widely reported on all the news networks. The networks don’t question his confession seeing that he was held since 2003 without a trial at USA’s prison camp; Guantanamo Bay where rumors of torture and other human right infringements seems to be happening on a daily basis.

The news networks also don’t seem to ask how he planned and manage to highjack 4 planes and take control of the aircraft with pilots who struggled to fly light aircraft. Nor have they asked how he manages to keep the world's most advanced air defence on the ground during the time they flew into the buildings. How he master minded and switched off the anti-aircraft defence system at the Pentagon mind boggles me. How did he manage and planned for a plane like a Boeing 757 to fit into a smaller hole than its own circumference and make the wings and two large engines disintegrate?

They really need to ask him these questions, because I am sure scientists would love to know these details for them to adjust their books on physics and change their formulas on strength of materials when it comes to steel beams. How did he know that fire could make steel weaken enough to make three buildings totally collapse? I am sure insurance firms around the world have increased their insurance premiums now that they know that fire can in fact make steel structured buildings totally collapse, although scientists said this could not happen.

I am sure the scientific community is re-writing their books as we speak. They must by now teach students in universities that a fire burning at a lower temperature than would make steel weaken, will result in a total collapse of the building. I am sure structural engineers are now taught to factor this into their building designs, that the strength of steel needs a much higher safety factor because fire can make them weak enough to collapse the whole structure.

So now that the man that was responsible for all these evil deeds has confessed, maybe he will now be tried in a real court of law. Then hopefully he will be asked these and other puzzling questions to make us better understand our world. And when he has been tried, hopefully he will be jailed in a proper jail so that we can sleep peacefully. The man who master minded 911 from start to finish has now been caught and all those “conspiracy” theorists were wrong. You don’t need demolition explosives to take down 3 tall buildings, you don’t need experienced pilots to fly Boeings and these Boeings can fit and disappear in holes smaller than themselves. Time for bed, good night…

Three Buildings collapsed by fire?

2007-03-04T18:04:00.000+02:00

For the first time in history, fire caused 3 buildings to collapse. Nowhere in history had this happened before. As recent as in 2005 a 32 storey building in Spain burned for 2 days and the whole structure remained intact. So why can 3 buildings have collapsed due to fire in NY during 911?

Some say that the planes crashing into the Twin Towers weakened the structure, causing it to collapse. But these buildings were in fact designed with the possibility of a Boeing 707 (the biggest plane during construction) to crash into the building keeping the structure sound. The Twin Towers were designed with its core strength down the centre of each building. If those planes took out the outer beams, the building would have remained intact. Some people say the heat generated by the jet fuel caused the steel to weaken. But jet fuel doesn’t burn at the required temperature to have weakened the steel and in video footage you can actually see people standing at the gaping hole where the plane entered the building after impact. So how could there have been hot burning, steel weakening fires ragging as suggested by the “experts”?

So what caused these two buildings to collapse? Also the 3rd building, building number 7 in the complex (a 47 story building); collapsed without any aircraft hitting its structure. What makes this event even more peculiar is that CNN and BBC reported that the building has collapsed before this has actually happened. Who supplied these news networks with this information that the building collapsed, how was these people to know it would also collapse unless someone knew it would be demolished? Are they the same people that supplied the news networks with the information that Bin Laden was responsible? That a couple of people living in a cave in Afghanistan planned and executed this enormous feet? They were able or lucky that the air defence was called to stand down and also for some reason managed to catch the automatic air defence system off guard at the Pentagon. This system was supposed to deploy anti-aircraft missiles if a non-military aircraft ignored the non fly-zone rules.

I find it even more surprising that although so many gaping holes exist in the whole 911 “official” version and yet no main stream news media are doing any “investigative” reporting on these suspicious events. Are they also being told not to report this? You would think that an enormous, world changing event like 911, would be scrutinized and any strange and unexplained things would be reported. So the general public are oblivious to the lies told and that our history books will be written about a day when the world changed, that “terrorists” high jacked 4 planes, that 3 buildings collapsed due to fire, that the small hole at the Pentagon was made by a Boeing, that the scattered remains of flight 93 was not shot down, but brought down by the passengers. If our history books tell us these lies, then I would question many of the “official” versions told by news networks and schools.

What is love?

2007-02-14T11:54:00.000+02:00

On this day celebrated and commercialized around the world, Valentine’s Day, I want to ask this question; what is love? So many people use this word to describe all kinds of things. They say they love someone, love their cars, love their jobs, love their pets and love the world…so many things with the same word. People also say things like they have “fallen” in love, discovered a new love of their life etc etc. What does this word love mean? Just looking at some of the things people attach this word too tells me that what its means to one person can be a totally different meaning to someone else.

For example, I am not so sure I would trust someone if she says, she loves me and later on she would say she loves her car. Then I would question her meaning of the word love. If she uses the same word to describe how she feels about me and then later use the same word to describe her car, then I would really question her knowledge of the word love.

Is love not a selfish thing, something you want, something you desire or need? Is that word as used in this world then not a term used by people interested in service to themselves? Something they want and as long as the other person is to your liking, then you are in love with that person. If that person does something you do not like or make a mistake, then the word hate is very easily used. People seem to use both words very easily and both are potentially very meaningful and very damaging words; love and hate!

So on a day like this where people buy flowers, cards and chocolates to “show” their love for someone else, how real is that gesture? Here we attach a physical item to show our love for someone. Most people are now doing it out of convention and that they “have” to do it, it is expected to do this when you are engaged, married, attached to someone… Am I the only person that find reading those cards with all those romantic words an empty gesture to give to the person you care about?

But here I am off to the shops to buy exactly that, an empty gesture, just because my wife is sold on the idea that if I don’t get her something, then our marriage is in trouble. They do create great marketing concepts don’t they? Here I will do something I don’t want to, to satisfy my wife’s attachment of love to a physical object. I don’t think this is the meaning of love…but let me go and buy it for her anyway…I hope she doesn’t read this article!

Will Israel give its land back to Palestine?

2007-02-11T19:40:00.001+02:00

The state of Israel has now occupied Palestine and its people for a very long time. It is a repeated history of people from a different country takes control of a land, set its own rules and borders and make the original native people the oppressed. Some destroy the original native people or reduce their numbers significantly as was evident in the United States of America with the Indians. Some make sure they remain in control by sheer numbers. They move the native inhabitants into their “land” and take control of the rest.

In some areas the minority “settlers” creates rules of separation between themselves and the native people. This was evident in South Africa and is still the case in Israel. In South Africa the ruling minority realized (or was forced to realize) that they’ve made a mistake and that they need to hand the control to the majority in the land.

For this process to happen peacefully both sides needs to give up something. The side currently in control needs to know they have to hand over (give way) this control and the previously oppressed needs to take control over without the need for prosecution. Both sides need to compromise and give up something.

In South Africa it worked very well by the means of a process called; Truth and Conciliation. The process works where any previous transgressors of Human rights may receive pardon or amnesty in return for full testimony. This process resulted in the transition from a minority white government to a black government without bloodshed or civil war as everyone predicted during those days.

Can the people of Israel do the same? Firstly, would they recognize that they have received a piece of Palestine illegally? Do they recognize that England had no right to offer Jews a piece of this land, just like they had no right to offer Uganda to the Jews in 1903?

In this world we have many nationalities with many borders. Do we really need borders based upon religion? Why must the Jews have their own land? Do Muslims, Christians, Buddhists ask for their own piece of land? Why cant people live together without borders? Within countries we even have economical borders between the haves and have not’s.

Will Israel realize the injustice and hand the land back to its rightful owners? Will the Palestinians be able to negotiate a peaceful transition should this hand-over ever happen? Let’s hope there will be some sort of resolve in this region, otherwise we will see other countries getting involved and a potential World War 3 will be on our doorsteps.

Comet Watch

2007-01-17T22:04:00.000+02:00

For those who have some interest in astronomy would have been fascinated with the view of comet Mc Naught tonight. The comet made its appearance in the Southern Hemisphere and tonight in particular was spectacular. It had a very long tail and was almost as bright as Venus. Both appeared to have roughly the same altitude in the sky and not far from each other and both dipped towards the horizon after the sun moved below the horizon.

I was very disappointed when after much hype; Halley’s Comet’s appearance in 1986 was nothing but a fuzzy star. This comet is different; its path around the Sun is inside that of planet Mercury. No one was sure what will happen to the comet when it passes so close by the sun. It was also uncertain whether a close passage like this would have any effects on the Sun with Solar flare activity.

The Sun is currently at Solar Minimum so activity is generally low but we have seen recently extraordinary flares on the Sun’s surface with X9 flares about a month ago. Are these things connected in some way? What’s also interesting is that this new comet was only recently discovered; August 2006 by Mr. R.H Mc Naught.

It tells us that the Oort Cloud can potentially hide some devastating comets and rocks and no one can for sure predict that the next “killer” asteroid is only a few millions of years away, like scientists tend to report. Comet Mc Naught shows us that these space travelers can be huge and give us spectacular evening shows, but they can potentially also be devastating to our planet.

Will the real Saddam Hussein step forward?

2006-12-30T10:17:00.000+02:00

Now that one of Saddam Hussein’s many look a likes have been executed, I wonder what happened to the real Saddam Hussein. The way this copy was executed so quickly makes me question why they were in such a hurry. For those who ask how can I say this was one of Saddam Hussein’s look a likes, you are welcome to search the Internet for clues, but here is a link to one article that points to that direction:

http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20061106_TheCaptureTrialandConvictionofSaddamHusseinAnotherUSIntelligenceFarce.php

So here is an example of a leader that was found guilty in a trail for killing 148 men and boys from the Shia Muslim town of Dujail. The reason for this killing was supposedly that they were part of an opposition group that tried to assassinate Saddam Hussein in 1982. Pity he did not call them terrorists because if he called it the war on terror, he would have not been executed for it. If you call your killing actions; war on terror, then you may kill as many people you want, by any means possible and get away with it. Just look at George Bush getting away with his hunger for killing innocent people.

He was even allowed recently by the senate to send more troops to Iraq. Do we see people like him facing charges for killing innocent people? No? Just because it is called “war on terror” he has free reign to use any means he feel fit to utilize to obtain whatever results he was told to obtain. Leaders like him can hold people for an indefinite time in custody, torture them, even kill them; as long as it’s called war on terror it is fine.

If this is allowed to continue while the agencies that are suppose to monitor and stop these illegal actions like the United Nations remain silent; no one will be safe on this planet. We have seen many examples where innocent men, women and children die by deliberate military attacks from Israel on Palestine and Lebanon, but they call it war on terror so they are safe. We have seen the USA drop bombs on Afghanistan and almost totally destroy Iraq, killing thousands of women and children, but they are immune to prosecution because they called it war on terror.
So it looks like the only mistake Saddam Hussein made was that he did not use the words; fighting war on terror. And for him not using those words, he was then labeled a terrorist himself. But maybe he was following orders and acted exactly the way he should have anyway. For following those orders, setting the stage for US invasion, he was given protection and one of his many look a likes was executed in his place.

What wrong with our Star?

2006-12-13T20:06:00.000+02:00

Has anyone noticed the recent solar flares on the Sun? This happened during solar minimum, something that happens every 11 years when the magnetic field on the sun changes around. It goes through phases of 11 years of high sunspot activity and 11 years of low sunspot activity. This has been monitored and measured by our ancient friends in other parts of the world for thousands of years. There were signs that the Mayans and the Chinese measured the level and number of sun spots all the time.

Our “advanced” technological community doesn’t understand the reason for them to measure these differences. Today we need to know this because mayor sunspot eruptions can cause disruptions in our telecommunications and also our electrical power grids. It has been known to destroy satellites and can be very dangerous for astronauts, should they be outside their spacecraft during a mayor solar eruption.

So why is this happening now and why don’t you read about it on the mayor news networks? It is unusual for the sun to erupt with an X6 solar flare (6th December 2006) during the solar minimum? We were lucky; this flare was directed away from Earth. What is even rarer is for the same sunspot (sunspot number 930) looking like it might die, erupted in an X3 solar flare (13th December 2006), directed towards Earth.

In 2003 the most powerful solar flare ever recorded was measured at an incredible X28! In fact the scientists don’t exactly know how strong that explosion was, it was only an estimation because their equipment failed from the noise and distortion caused by this event. The questions remains, what does these huge flares mean at this time? Also, does large eruptions like these have any effect on humans?

Israel now in charge of the UN

2006-12-11T15:51:00.000+02:00

Now Israel may decide if they “may” authorize a visit to their country by the United Nations or not. Did Saddam Hussein block any UN investigators to his country when the “Intelligence Agencies” said he had weapons of mass destruction? No, Saddam Hussein allowed UN access to all the areas of his country. The UN inspectors were just to slow for the USA; they had to invade the country at all costs.

Now the UN led by Nobel Peace laureate, Desmond Tutu was refused entry to investigate the massacre of 19 people (at least 14 were women and children). Israel says it does not see the role of the UN mission, that it has already “acknowledged” its mistake. So if you are friends with the likes of the USA and UK, you can make “mistakes” like these, killing innocent people and not being held responsible? As long as you “acknowledge” your mistake, you won’t be called a terrorist, dictator or threat to world peace?

The UN kept silent when the USA invaded Iraq, killing thousands of civilians in the process. The UN kept silent when the USA invaded Afghanistan, killing thousands of civilians. Now the UN is helpless in investigating matters like these? Will no one hold politicians responsible for their decisions and actions? If the UN are not allowed to ask and investigate these questions, who will?

When is it fine to make “mistakes” like these? Is it right to destroy a home with women and children using artillery fire because the “intelligence” pointed to someone close by as a suspected terrorist? Where will the line be drawn? The USA destroyed a whole country for that reason, so it seems that politicians may kill as many people they like as long as they use the words, fight terrorism or “acknowledge” a mistake afterwards. This world has become a far more dangerous place to live than in the old cold war days!

Dubai Company takes control over Cape Town’s Port

2006-12-07T21:40:00.000+02:00

Can this be true? The same company that recently took over the operations of the New York port; DP World is closely tied to the company that bought the V&A Waterfront for R70bn. The controversy of the NY harbor deal came about shortly after the 911 event that changed the world’s history forever. The US Congress tried to block the deal but President Bush threatened to veto the legislation should the deal be blocked by Congress.

DP World operates in over 19 major terminals around the world. These include ports in the following counties; Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, China, India, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Germany, Romania and UAE with new developments in South Korea, Turkey, Peru and Vietnam. Now South Africa can be un-officially added to this list.

The company that bought the V&A Waterfront; Nakheel Hotels and Resorts’ sister company is DP World, so they are both owned by the same people, mostly the Dubai government. Is this a way to gain control over the port of Cape Town?

The West is King

2006-12-06T22:46:00.000+02:00

Who made the West king on this world? Why may the West decide who are the good and who are the bad? I ask this question after reading a news article titled; “Follow God or vanish”, apparently a quote given by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying “They are angry with our nation. But we tell them 'so be it and die from this anger'. Rest assured that if you do not respond to the divine call, you will die soon and vanish from the face of the earth," http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2041017,00.html

Look, these are some scary words from a leader in a world already divided and fragmented between several divisions, but what I find surprising is somewhere further in the article, it says the following: “A defiant Iran has refused to suspend its uranium enrichment work, a process that the West fears could be extended to make nuclear weapons.” Who is the West this article’s referring to? Could this be USA or UK and does Israel fall part of the West? These are the nations that in the last 40 years have invaded more nations, used more mass military operations and killed more innocent victims than any other country! But the West is worried about Iran?

Who then speak for the innocent people of Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon (to name a few recent events) if the West don’t protect them? Who speaks against these aggressor nations? The only nation to have used nuclear weapons on innocent civilians was the USA, yet they may tell others that they fear Iran might build nuclear weapons!

The article further says the following: “the UN security council is agreed there will be sanctions on Iran”. If the UN Security Council plans to impose sanctions on Iran, why not those that have nuclear weapons already? Those aggressor nations that without UN sanction invaded other countries, killing thousands of civilians; women and kids with long range missiles and massive bombs dropped from high altitude planes. If I read this article it implies that the West are the good guys and everyone else the bad. Does this world’s moral fate lie with the West?

If this is the case, then we are in big trouble. How can the USA say who the good Nations are if they are allowed to invade other countries, destroy infrastructure and kill innocent civilians? If the UN sanctioned these killings, then the UN does not represented the rest of the world in equal measure. If the UN were the true “United Nations”, the true representation of the whole world, then this will not have been allowed. Nor would Israel have been allowed to occupy someone else’s land and allowed to invade its neighbors, killing innocent people in Lebanon and Palestine.

Who made the West king? By reading this article I have to say it sounds like the media has made the West king. Most, if not all news articles like these originate from the West. The same media that said Iraq can strike within 24 hours. The same media that said Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. The same media that were imbedded with the USA troops during the Iraq invasion. It looks like the West and main stream media are the one and the same.

Why is everyone so busy?

2006-11-09T17:16:00.000+02:00

What is causing our lives to become so hectic? Most people complain that life is becoming to fast and busy. Yet we quickly get bored if something is not exciting enough. People are constantly busy with all kinds of things. If our work involves working on the computer, we are bombarded by e-mails. To make it worse, we have a messenger program running, constantly chatting to people. We make and receive calls all the time. In between our cell phones interrupt with calls, test messages and picture messages.

Have you observed people at a seminar? Recently I went to a computer seminar and at the foyer people met for coffee before the seminar started. I watched started to people feeling uncomfortable with themselves. In particularly the ones who did not know anyone else there looked out of place. They would take out their cell phones and either make calls to someone they knew or send/receive sms messages.

When we go to our homes, we switch on the television. We religiously follow some shows and programmes on the television, not to mention sport event. Even if we don’t actively watch television, it is running in the back ground while we eat our dinners. Some people are now obsessed with the console games. They grew up with it and now can’t stop playing games. In the malls people walk around with their MP3 players, totally oblivious of the people around them, like they are tuned into another world!

Are we getting used to being bombarded with a constant flow of “information”? Do we find life boring if we are not constantly being distracted by these modern devices? I have seen people almost getting withdrawal symptoms from not being able to receive their e-mails for a few minutes. Some people find it unacceptable to go to a place where Internet access is not available, not to mention cell phone connectivity!

Does these devices and distractions effect our attention span? Does it make us more or less tolerant of other people? Do we find time to notice real things in this world? If we do “see” something we agree or don’t agree with, do we find it important enough to care about it?

It looks to me like we are not only being bombarded with useless everyday things to keep us distracted and busy; we are looking for even more “distractions” to make our lives interesting. We are even growing to love these new toys and struggle to see how we could have lived without it. We have become totally dependent on these technologies.

We can’t remember nor do we need to remember someone’s telephone number. We don’t even need to remember someone’s birthday or home address. Everything is stored and saved on these devices. They can even direct us to street addresses, no need to ask for directions or actually remember the road. We still have to remember our multiple pin numbers for everything, but I suspect that soon a device or implant will be developed that will change all this. Again, I suspect we will gladly accept and embrace this technology. It will be sold as another way to make our lives better, if not safer.
All this sounds to me like we are living in a high tech prison, we are trapped. The only difference is we like our prison; we just need more and more things to keep us busy here.

How can USA tell North Korea they may not have Nuclear weapons?

2006-10-12T09:00:00.000+02:00

The only nation in this world that used nuclear weapons on civilians tells North Korea they must dismantle. Where is the logic in this argument? The USA has more nuclear weapons than anyone else in the world. Yet they tell others like Iran that they may not enrich uranium for their own power stations!

If the USA had a track record of always looking for peaceful means to resolve situations, if the USA had a track record for being the one to give concessions, if the USA had a track record of tolerance and understanding to other nations, then I would have to agree with their stance on North Korea. But the exact opposite is true. The USA has been the biggest aggressor and responsible for the largest troop movements and invasion in recent history. The USA ignored UN resolutions and invaded Iraq, destroying buildings and infrastructure, killing countless civilians in long range missile attacks and aircraft bombings.

This same nation stands up to speak against North Korea’s nuclear testing, while they themselves used depleted uranium in its ammunition during the invasion on Iraq. This will leave a legacy of illness and diseases in that land for many years and generations to come. Yet this same nation tells Iran and North Korea they need to dismantle.

Building nuclear weapons are awful and indiscriminately destructive things. To build these weapons and to store those means it could be used in the future, or even worse. A situation by evil men could be created to justify the use of them.

We don’t have to look to far back in history to look for an example of a nation, getting (making) an excuse to use nuclear bombs on civilians citizens in Japan. Yet this same nation doing this evil deed can tell others to dismantle their nuclear capabilities. They won’t dismantle their own nuclear arsenal as an example to the rest of the world. In fact the opposite is happening. Now talks of developing new, smaller nuclear weapons are happening and this is said to be used in the fight on “terrorism”!

Why is the USA silent on other nations developing and storing nuclear weapons? Why is Israel allowed to have their nuclear arsenal while Iran may not? Why can India develop nuclear technology, while North Korea may not?

This world has become a far more dangerous place to live in recently. Everyone said the cold war was living on the dangerous edge of extinction. I am scared that some evil men decide to create a scenario to justify using their nuclear weapons on more civilian people and then call it the fight upon “terrorism”! They will need to justify spending Billions on these destructive weapons instead of using that same money to create a better place for their citizens.

This is the reason why these politicians need to make sure we belief their stories that there is evil out there. They need to keep reminding us that terrorism is the new unknown enemy out there. They need to keep on creating scenarios to remind us that we need their protection, their surveillance and their nuclear weapons. So we will most likely hear more stories of airport closures because of security threats, more incredible stories where planes and fires can bring down 3 tall buildings that were designed to stay intact for just such an accident in the first place. Even worse, we might hear of a fabricated story where “terrorists” have detonated a nuclear weapon at a city. I hope I am wrong!

Humans have pets, are we “pets” for Others?

2006-10-03T15:04:00.000+02:00

We somehow always think we are on top of the food chain. The world is there for us, we are in control of the animals, plants and soil. The only thing we can’t control is the weather…or maybe this can also be controlled….so we are the “gods” of all these things. Some of our pets we keep at home, we even “love” and adore them. Some people treat their pets as if they were their children! Other pets we store for food, to put it nicely…we eat them.

I wonder what our pets think of their “gods”. The ones we “love” might see that feeling as a sign that we are one of them. That we just happen to look strange, that we are tall dogs or cats and we are part of their clan. I wonder what chicken, sheep and cattle think of us? We store them in confined spaces, feed them all kinds of strange food and when they are big and fat enough, we kill them. They must wonder why these “gods” are so cruel to them. Presuming plants and trees have similar thoughts and feelings, then they must also wonder about the rationale of their “gods” actions, if they can perceive us.

Many of these pets must be confused or simply ignorant of their “gods”. They might not even see our “god” status as the ones who are taking care of them, feeding them, moving them, eating them. They might even not be aware of us at all, only feel the effects of our presence. Or they might experience the result of our presence but never perceive us as we perceive ourselves. They might not know that we are their “appointed gods”. That we are in total control of them, we can cull them, move them, breed them, cross breed them, manipulate their DNA, create new species and we can even eliminate them!

If this scenario is true, then could we be pets for other “gods” without perceiving them? They might be all around and we can only experience the result of their presence. If we are their pets, we could be the ones they “love” and “cherish” almost like their children, but we could also be the ones they “play” with. We could be a game for them. Like for example; they could create “nice” war and division scenarios and laugh to see how we hate and kill each other. Just like we like to shake the bottle with two spiders to see if they will fight…

Maybe our “gods” like to see our reactions to experiences of pleasures (sex?) and pain (war, famine, illness, disasters). What if our “gods” were responsible for our religions? Wouldn’t it be a great joke for them to create the “law” of devotion to them and then set “rules” which they know because of our design and nature would make it very difficult for us to keep. That way they can create “great” games of anguish, feelings of remorse, regret and despair. Also a nice “joke” they can play is to create religions with opposing rules. Creating division in the thinking of their “pets”, setting up feelings of anger and create more war scenarios.

The scary thought is; if we are pets for unseen “gods” as described here, are we also their food? Are we being stored for future consumption? Are we being fatten up in our “pens” and “recycled” when the “harvest” time arrives? Is there a way for us to escape from our holding cells? Can sheep escape and avoid being slaughtered should they discover their fate? Would they want to escape if they have this knowledge? Is there a way we can’t become food for our “gods” or is this part of “life”? Maybe I am just having a nightmare, in it I am writing this story, thinking things I should not. Hopefully I will wake up soon!

Why do politicians kill innocent people?

2006-09-22T08:14:00.000+02:00

Everyday on the news we hear or read that this or that alleged murderer is appearing in court to face murder charges. Why do we never hear of politicians appearing for ordering to kill hundreds, if not thousands of people?

When a person decide to murder or kill someone for whatever reason and this person gets caught, they will have to appear in court to defend themselves. He will need to give reasons for his actions and if he is found guilty, he will receive a jail sentence.

Most of these individuals know the result of his actions beforehand. They either act out of response or act with the knowledge that he will not be caught. The persons with criminal intend to murder will either act knowing they will not get caught or they have no conscience at all, or both.

So if a normal person ends up in court for his actions, then why don’t politicians? When a politician decides to invade a country and indiscriminately kill people with long range missiles and dropping bombs indiscriminately on everyone below, levelling buildings and killing faceless individuals…aren’t they also killers?

When a politician decide to kill instead of using other avenues like negations or discussions or using avenues like the United Nations to resolve matters, what sort of example does that show to everyone? That is ok to shoot then ask questions later? That as long as the killing is in the name of “fighting terrorism”, is it then ok?

We have seen recently examples of where George W Bush orders the attack on Iraqi, killing thousands of women and children while the United Nations were asking for a couple more weeks to search for those elusive weapons of mass destruction. It was not even a question of sending in more troops to search for those weapons, it was flat out war, the world largest and most advanced military in the world taking on a couple of people with guns. That sounds like murder to me!

And then the fourth largest military in the world; Israel, taking on Lebanon, again a few men with a couple of home made fireworks, converted into rockets. This politician Ehud Olmert decided to flatten a cities, drop large; building destroying bombs on civilians, killing hundreds and why, because of two Israeli soldiers being kidnapped inside Lebanon? That sounds like murder to me.

Why aren’t these politicians facing court hearings to explain their killing behaviour? Do they think they will get away with these killings or don’t they have a conscience to realize the amount of grief, destruction and death they are causing? Will the “self defence” and “those terrorists” cards always be played by these dangerous politicians? Will killing thousands of civilians always be justified by saying we have a right to self protection?

These same politicians will say Iran can’t enrich their own Uranium because Iran can’t be trusted with potentially making their own nuclear weapons! In recent history the only nations “entrusted” to have nuclear weapons have mostly been the aggressors. We don’t see Iran confiscating land, building high walls and creating multiple check points. Yet Israel may have nuclear weapons and Iran may not?

When will the world see these dangerous politicians appear in court to defend their murderous actions?

Remembering 911

2006-09-11T09:49:00.000+02:00

Which version of 911 will be remembered by our children? The one the US government told us? The one where they say a Boeing 757 can disappear into a small hole in the Pentagon, leaving no large broken off tail sections or wings? Are our children going to be taught in school how two planes could bring down three buildings, flatten them in demolition kind of fashion although scientists can’t explain how jet fuel can melt steel? Will more movies be released telling stories of cellphone calls being made at 30 000 ft altitude?

It is so sad for almost 3000 people to have lost their lives that day in America. It saddens me even more that tens of thousands if not more people lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq as a result on this war on “terror”. How sad is it if I look at how much “freedoms” we have to give up in this fight on “terrorism”. We gladly accept being spied upon, our phone call listened too, our mail intercepted and video surveillance everywhere in the name of “safety”.

This is what that fateful day on 911 left us, the legacy of fear, hatred, war and more questions for those willing to ask. The only bit of light I see out of this event are the few people that do ask questions. It means that not all the people have been hypnotized to belief what CNN or Fox tell them. It means there are at least a few people in this world that can think for themselves or at least ask questions and don’t accept the “official” line.

Five years ago a few evil men needed another “Pearl Harbor” to start the war on “terror”. They seemed to have accomplished that mission. Today we see Israel killing innocent Palestinians, flattening buildings, destroying bridges in the fight on “terror” and the world says nothing. We see airports closed, flights cancelled, people arrested in the UK and people accept this discomfort, because they are fighting “terrorism”. We see people being locked up without court trails in secret jails. We accept this because it is the fight against “terrorism” and because it is not happening to us.

What if these evil men decide to make the new “terrorist’s” face look like yours? What if you are now the one that are locked up without a court trial or being subjected to discrimination because you have the “terrorist’s” look? Will you remain quiet when you are unfairly treated just because of the way you look?

Five years ago we saw evil happening first hand. Most people think that this evil is somewhere over there, sitting in a cave in Afghanistan. It is far closer to “home”. If you truly belief this “official” story about what happened on this day in America five years ago, then the evil has won over your mind. You will then believe their next story of a “terrorist” attack and give up more of your freedoms in the name of safety and security. I am using this 5th “anniversary” of the event 911, to remind me that I should question more the “official” versions of events in this world and not to blindly accept what I am told.

I want the real Truth to be exposed so that when we look back at historical events like 911, that the real historical event is taught to our children. I am not sure if the world is ready for the Truth, the Truth can be much scarier than the lies we are being told and taught. But what is the alternative? To live believing all these lies is like living in a fantasy land, you will also become part of the fantasy land.

I truly hope there are other people like me also looking to gain true knowledge and search for Truth. Then our news papers will tell the real story of what happened on this day 5 years ago or at the very least also question the “official” version told by the US Government.

Does George Bush know the difference between invasion and self-defense?

2006-07-13T20:40:00.000+02:00

I ask myself this question after hearing him on the news tonight saying that Israel has the right to self-defense in its attack on Lebanon. How can the president of the United States declare that Israel has a right to self-defense when Israel is killing many innocent lives with reckless long range bombings? How can the “leader” of the “free world” say it is self-defense when the attacks of Israel include Civilian Airports frequented by innocent people?

After asking this question I had to look at how this “leader of the free world” reacted recently in “protecting” its own civilians. The “enemy” was then decided to be the people of Iraq. Not just Saddam Hussein, because if he thought he was the “enemy”, then the “most powerful leader of the world” surely could have organized a way for him to leave. So he decided self-defense meant killing thousands of innocent civilians by bombing cities with long range missiles.

We are now told that this country has been rid of the evil and “freedom” has returned to the people, they have their own “government” now, can elect their own in “free and fair” elections…nothing is said about the death and destruction this has lead too. Infrastructure and buildings are still left devastated. There seems to be no end in violent escalations between factions, mostly wanting the foreign invader out of their land! Depleted uranium used in the American weapons will be a legacy left behind that will cause countless diseases and more hardship for the “free people of Iraq” for generations to come.

All this happened because the world was told a lie. He and his administration told us that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. Nothing was found! Thousands of innocent people died because of a lie! I get really scared when people like George Bush say Israel has a right to kill innocent people, because this is what he is saying when he condones Israel’s attack on innocent people. When “leaders of the free world” think many innocent people may be killed to get one “evil” one, we as a human race will never be safe.

What next, use an atomic bomb and take out millions in a city to get the five “terrorists”? At least a couple of countries are speaking out against the Israeli attacks on innocent people. I just wished they were there when the innocent people lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. The longer crimes like these continue while the world remains silent, the more the chance will be that no one will sleep peacefully in the future. Maybe this is part of plan.

The Incredible Story

2006-07-01T14:56:00.000+02:00

This is a short story of fiction, maybe even science fiction, one that did not happen far , far away, but rather far in the future or is this far in the distant past? The date doesn’t matter because the time scale as we know it would be totally different and this race has evolved in many ways. The reality of living and the way of survival has completely changed. They were not aware of this change; this happened very long ago but for one, they have become much further advanced in the engineering and science world than we know about. They can travel vast distances in massive flying machines. Their physical bodies have evolved in such a way that they don’t need to eat anymore, although the normal way of eating can still be performed. Their digestive systems have become far more sensitive. They can recharge their bodies and “eat” by “consuming” the energies supplied by lesser beings, commonly referred to as plants and animals. Plants and animals produce energies when they are excited and the “flavour” of the “food” can be changed by creating energies of pleasure, pain or fear and this flavour also vary between the different species.

For millennia and generations everything on this planet went on normally but with their advanced scientific and astronomical knowledge they realize that their solar system will not last for long. Calculations show that the star close to their planet was imminent in becoming a super giant and possibly a super nova. They have no choice but to look for another home. They have observed another planet for a long time in another region of their galaxy. This planet went through many upheavals and disasters with another great disaster on its way, but this cosmic event will intersect with a great opportunity as well.

This planet is not only well suited for this advanced race now in transit towards this planet called Earth but also the “lesser” beings on this planet can provide massive quantities of “food”. They have many species of animals and plants, but more valuable than this; they have a great food source called humans. The traveling race has sent in advance fast traveling ships to prepare the new planet and make it comfortable for their arrival. Part of the preparation includes supplying the humans with knowledge to build certain technologies and structures that would make their lives easier upon arrival and this technology could be used against them in the future. It also includes creating various religion systems that would make the humans expectant of a great miracle to arrive in the future and when this miracle arrives, they must see this as a sign from their god or savior. These religions must also make them obedient and fearful of their gods, so when they arrive, they will be worshipped. This is all part of creating a welcoming party for the main ships and also to encounter no resistance when they take over their home.

The advance race is lucky to have found this planet. The humans are lazy, don’t want to think for themselves, are easily influenced by any forms of “authority” and can be easily persuaded and directed. The humans can also be very easily influenced and confused to cause harm in between them; creating war and destruction on their own. These hardships generate far better food sources for the digestive systems of this advanced race than they can get from any other food source. The promotion of sexual intercourse between humans has a similar effect and the advance race made extensive use of their technologies they have developed to promote these activities. These technologies includes images shown on television networks, a source the humans find more and more a way of life.

The advanced race is very close to completing its design and plans for the arrival of the main ships. This process took thousands of Earth years and the takeover plan is almost complete. Backup plans have been arranged and very little can stand in their way of conquering the planet. They do however fear exposure before the whole plan is complete, that humans might discover them and even more risky would be for the humans to see the lies everywhere. They fear that humans will discover that they are not on top of the food chain, that they are sources of food and with correct knowledge, will withhold this food source from them. They fear that humans will start to question things more and search for answers and gaining knowledge for themselves. They fear that humans will awake to see who they have become and what has been controlling their thoughts.

The advanced race knows that being discovered could be dangerous. They have to ensure the humans are occupied and kept busy with senseless things. Their thoughts and focus must either be controlled or diverted. At the moment both methods are working very well. As long as the humans believe that the enemy is that race, that religion or that country over there, then they won’t see the real enemy and danger all around them. They will belief what their news networks, priests, preachers and politicians tell them without verifying the facts for themselves. As long as the human race is hypnotized this way, they won’t awake and the advanced race will have nothing to worry about.

How will this story end? Has this happened before in ancient times and is this about to happen again?

[I have discovered this short story and translated it from Afrikaans into English from an anonymous author.]

Would governments conspire and make things like 911 happen?

2006-05-28T12:50:00.000+02:00

I am responding to an anonymous comment posted on my Blog article titled “The Pentagon Flight 77 crash video released”. The article was also posted on Shoutwire but for some reason my article was removed.

Thanks for your comment. I hope my blog motivated you to go and look for yourself and not to rely on what mainstream media says. You will be surprised to know that I actually agree with most of the things you’ve said.

I agree with you that we can’t give President Bush the “credit” for planning and staging such a well planned and organized event. I also agree with you that there were lots of small aircraft pieces to be found on the Pentagon’s lawn, I never said a missile struck the building. In fact, apart from knowing it was not a Boeing 757; I don’t know what really struck the building. If I had to guess, then I will have to say it was a small maneuverable aircraft with explosives on it. This will explain the small and only jet engine found inside the building and it will also explain why such a small hole was left in the building right after the crash and also why no marks are visible on the lawn, right before the impact zone.

I have to disagree with your theory that the plane “corkscrewed” into the pentagon. A Boeing 757 can’t do such maneuvers without falling apart from excessive G forces. Also if it was not flying level when it struck the Pentagon, then it was even more impossible for it to leave no marks on the approach to the building as was witnessed on the photos shortly after the innocent. There were no marks visible on the lawn at all. A good flash video was released on the Internet showing exactly this, have a look at:
http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/

I also agree with you that four planes were high jacked, but the issue about mobile phones being able to make connections to the ground (as “witnessed” on flight 93) at cruising altitudes (over 30 000 feet) makes me think something was stage managed.

Again I agree with you saying that Bus, couldn’t have pulled this off himself and exactly for the reason you’ve mentioned; “he would need the help of thousands of people”, do I also think it is impossible for someone like Osama Bin Laden, sitting in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan with a couple of his people, could have planned and pulled this off! This was planned and executed with military precision…

Yes, it is sad to think that so many innocent people had to die so that a new enemy had to be created. It is also very sad that the result of 911 caused so many more deaths of innocent people’s lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not to mention the freedoms taken away from people in the name of fighting “terrorism”. But maybe you should look back in history and see that this has happened before. You don’t have to look far back to see something similar that happened. Research the strange things that happened around the Pearl Harbor attack and you will be surprised to see what you will find. That event moved everyone’s support for the USA to get involved in WW2 and to “justify” dropping atomic bombs on thousands of innocent people in Japan.

Your strongly worded comments make me think you feel very passionate about your point of view. I don’t mind that you disagree with me; you are entitled to your own opinions. I would however recommend that should you feel so strongly about your opinion to voice it as such, your opinion only, don’t speak on behalf of others and maybe you can create your own blog or website to voice your concerns. I do however hope that my blog made you question things more and thanks for the invite to Area 51, but I am happy where I am now, thanks.

Pentagon video

2006-05-22T08:08:00.000+02:00

Just a short update from my previous post; the video showing the Boeing 757 going into the Pentagon, or should I rather say the video showing very little at all, should have looked like the one on this link instead: http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060518_WhatthePentagonVideoShouldHaveShown.php

Go and have a look what the size of the plane were suppose to look like compared to what was actually released...

The Pentagon Flight 77 crash video released

2006-05-17T10:03:00.000+02:00

Have you seen this video? Does it show a Boeing 757 crashing into the Pentagon? Go and have a look on CNN”s website. When I heard on the news that this video was released and I quote “Finally, we hope that this video will put to rest the conspiracy theories involving American Airlines Flight 77” I had visions of some clever computer graphic designer creating a movie to “proof” that a Boeing 757 did crash into the building.

The first thing this morning I did was to go and watch this video on CNN that proves everything and finally show that I was wrong; that a Boeing can disappear into a hole smaller than itself, disintegrate into reinforced concrete walls, leaving no large wing section torn off, totally vaporizing two large turbine engines, not to mention the most incredible flying skills ever displayed… So what did I see in this video? Have you gone there to look at it for yourself by now? Please do, because you might think I don’t see things realistically. Do you see a Boeing 757 in that video? There is something, it could be a small plane, but even that I can’t tell for sure after seeing; The Video proving everything!

See how clever CNN is. They say this will prove that “conspiracy theorists” are wrong, that a missile didn’t hit the building, that the plane wasn’t shot down. When did “conspiracy theorists” say that! Very few people suggested a missile, in fact I am careful not to suggest anything, just show the missing elements. Why can’t “they” explain the basic questions of physics, like getting some large plane into a small hole to start off with?

Well, I am not holding my breath for answers from the “free and fair” main stream media. Who knows maybe soon they will surprise me with a video from the hotel or garage that was confiscated minutes after this incident by the FBI. When they do finally show this video, then I will still ask the same questions; how can such a large plane make those maneuvers, how can this incompetent pilot (supposed to have been a “terrorist” that can’t even fly a Cessna properly) could make an almost impossible perfect crash, not leaving any marks on the lawn? If this plane miraculously did fit into that small hole in the wall so low to the ground, its large engines were supposed to drag on the ground, taking at least 1 meter deep earth trenches with it along the way? How almost everything disintegrated, no large wings or tail section left broken off as you can see an every plane crash site?

Thanks to the US Justice Department for releasing this very informative video. It shows nothing, it proves nothing and makes hopefully anyone “awake” to sit up and realize that the “official story” told by the media is total nonsense. I also hope this makes people question things more, because if you just listened to the story on the news that they now can “proof” with this video that a Boeing did hit the building, without checking the facts for yourself, then you would have gone to “sleep” and accept more things “they” tell you as being real.

The Official 911 Conspiracy

2006-04-28T16:34:00.000+02:00

There is a conspiracy theory going around that on that fateful day of the 11th September 2001 a couple of terrorists planned from inside a cave in Afghanistan an attack on the USA. According to this theory the attack was planned by an ex CIA operative; Osama Bin Laden. They had incredible luck on their side! They were able to catch the US defense system off guard, highjack 4 planes, fly two into the World Trade Center towers, one into the Pentagon and unfortunately for them, the last one did not reach its intended target.

This would not have been a conspiracy theory as told by the US government if it was not such an incredible story that would made any science fiction movie director sit up and notice. Let’s presume the first crash into the tower caught the authorities’ off-guard, that neither a warning of a plane off course nor any highjack alert went out to intercept the plane. And let’s also presume the horror of these men’s plans was only discovered after the second plane went into the Towers, so by then everyone knew that this was not an accident. Things really get strange after this event.

A third plane, Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with a wingspan of 38 meters and two large turbofan engines and a large tail section disappeared into a 5 meter diameter hole when it crashed into the Pentagon. It managed this by flying at a very high speed not touching the lawn in front of the building and the terrorist that was supposed to make this incredible maneuver could hardly fly a Cessna! The US government says this Boeing 757 was able to do just this and also penetrate 3 walls of reinforced concrete rings and that almost nothing was left of the plane after the crash. No wings, no tail section, no large engines were left behind apart from the “APU” turbine that doesn’t belong to a Boeing. According to the conspiracy theory from the authorities this was the case because of the speed and heat at the crash site, however all the passengers on the plane’s DNA were identified at the site… The videos that could show the Boeing crashing into the Pentagon were removed by FBI minutes after the event happened from a nearby garage and hotel rooftop.

The fourth plane, Flight 63, the passengers were able to make cell phone calls at a cruising attitude of 32000 feet. The technology for passengers to make cell calls on passenger planes were only made commercially available two years ago, so either that plane was a far advanced development plane or those calls were not made from that plane. According to the government’s official conspiracy theory, the plane was brought down by the passengers although the crash site does indicate that it must have been in several pieces before it struck the ground. The plane for some reason was spread out over a very large area at the crash site indicating either an explosion in mid air or maybe this aircraft was taken out by a military aircraft…but for now lets stay with the government’s story because it might make a good movie…oops wasn’t one made recently?

For the first time ever a steel framed building collapsed because of a fire! This is however the conspiracy theory of the US government. They say the planes removed some supporting structure and then incredibly the jet fuel burning caused the steel to weaken resulting in the collapse. Their conspiracy theory becomes even more incredible because then they talk about the pancake effect, must be a new scientific term because according to this theory the one floor collapsing on the one below resulted in the next floor weakening and falling onto the next. Not only did this pancake effect result in the two building falling perfectly on one center line, but also it fell at such a speed as if the one floor falling onto the next, encountered no resistance at all. In fact if someone at that moment when the buildings started to collapse were to drop a stone, both would have reached the ground at the same time!

Now the last part of the US government’s conspiracy theory is rather a non-theory because of no explanation given. The collapse of building 7, a 50 story building collapsing in similar fashion to the two main towers was met with silence, so they did not offer to explain why this building would collapse as if it was demolished and no plane hitting it. Neither did they say why they thought it would be safe to keep the US President at a highly publicized and televised event; at a primary school while this event was unfolding! For some reason they thought it would be safer there and the children would not be in danger although at that stage no one knew how many planes were high jacked nor where they were or what their intended targets were. The government’s conspiracy theory does also not explain why firemen and other eye witnesses heard many other explosions at the World Trade Center before the planes crashing and before and during the collapse of the three buildings.

There are so many theories about what happened on that day, but the conspiracy theory presented by the US government as the official one, seems to be the one with most of the holes in the story. But maybe people reading this article won’t want to think what the alternative could be. I must admit it is a scary thought to think that maybe the US Government could have sacrificed its own citizens by either planning 911 or allowed it to happen. Wouldn’t it be scary to know that the 3 buildings were brought down by controlled demolition and that flight 77 had another fateful ending with something else crashed into the Pentagon instead and that Flight 63 was shot down?

If this official conspiracy theory from the US Government turns out to be a lie, will I not be surprised. Chances are this is not the first time a politician or government lied or withheld information about something. I am however surprised to see that no main stream news media aren’t doing any research and investigations of their own into these same questions. Should I be surprised?

Why do governments kill?

2006-03-16T08:47:00.000+02:00

What makes governments decide to invade other countries and kill people? Are governments not people too? Don’t they have families and kids that they love and adore? How can these same people give orders to invade other countries and subsequently kill their kids? We see today so much violence both in our streets and on the news channels. We see how the USA government can invade other countries (Afghanistan and Iraq to name a few recent ones), drop bombs indiscreetly on houses and buildings, killing many innocent people. We see how the Israeli government orders missile strikes on houses and buildings in Palestine, killing many innocent people. What happened to dialect and discussion? Don’t the people sitting on the opposite of the table have families and kids?

Are we not all humans here in this small planet trying to fight to survive and live in peaceful manner? Who are these few that want war and destruction? Is the “fight” for “democracy”, “freedom”, “peace” and “human rights” not just an illusion? We have seen how a government can create a war by either designing or allowing for 911 to happen to justify killing others. Must we keep on feeding this “industrial military complex” machine?

I look around me at my friends, collogues and every person I’ve met so far. I don’t see the desire in their thoughts and minds to destroy others. In fact most if not all are very considerate and kind to other people and they are from all walks of life and vary in race and religion hugely. So where does this desire from governments come from? Some governments impose the death penalty on their own people. Is this where it starts, if they can kill their “own”, then surely they may kill others in other countries?

Maybe we are not all the same humans on this planet. Maybe there is more than one type of human on this planet thinking differently. Maybe we are not in control of this planet. So many questions I know. It just frustrates me to see that governments are allowed to give killing orders indiscriminately and very few “humans” seems to question these motives. Sure, the mainstream media supports them and sure, the “polls” seems indicate that the “people” are behind their decisions (hope you notice my level of sarcasm here).

I wonder what this world would have looked like if our governments spent their budgets on healthcare, transport infrastructure, job creation etc instead of huge military budgets driving more wars and destruction. I wonder what will happen if we all as humans one day realize that we have a far larger and more dangerous enemy on this planet than that guy sitting in the cave with a headscarf on.

The widening abyss between people and government

2006-02-10T07:57:00.001+02:00

People reading my blog might think I am anti-American, anti-Bush or that my blog has political agendas. This is not the case. Currently in the world environment, the American issue has just become such a vivid example of how far apart governments of our world and their people (who supposedly elected for them in the first place), have drifted apart.

This can be seen everywhere in the world, even more so in Africa where corrupt officials live in luxury, fly around the world to conventions in their private planes, are transported in their luxury vehicles under heavily armed escorts, while many people living in their country wonder where their next meal will come from! Because of the large media exposure it is easier to show what is happening in America.

Here is the latest example of the abyss between government and the people:

They came to praise King and bury Bush

George W. Bush’s pathetic attempt to turn Coretta Scott King’s funeral into a politically-advantageous photo op fell flatter than his State of the Union speech Tuesday – a textbook example of just how out of touch the President has become with the American people.

"This commemorative ceremony this morning and this afternoon is not only to acknowledge the great contributions of Coretta and Martin, but to remind us that the struggle for equal rights is not over," said former President Carter, who remarks brought loud cheers. "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans."

Carter’s comments ring true about Bush and his right-wing Republican followers – a group of rabid racists whose tokenism only deepens the racial divide in this country.

But Carter drew even louder cheers when he compared King’s struggles against FBI harassment and surveillance to Bush’s use of the National Security Agency and other government agencies to spy on Americans.

“It was difficult for them personally,” Carter said of both Kings, “with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance, and as you know, harassment from the FBI."

Bush tried his usual plastic smile but his body language clearly showed discomfort as speaker after speaker zeroed in on the hypocrisy of his Presidency – one that talks unity but practices division.

He offered phony applause when the Rev. Joseph Lowery, King protege and longtime critic, who cited Coretta King's opposition to the war in Iraq and scored the administration’s phony commitment to helping the poor.

"She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar," Lowery said. "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor."

When Bush’s turn came, the audience, for the most part, sat on their hands, offering only muted applause for his seven-minute eulogy. It was a pitiful performance by a President whose legacy is marked all too often by shameless self-promotion.

Longtime political scientist George Harleigh, who worked in both the Nixon and Reagan White House, called the President’s appearance at King’s funeral “the equivalent of a walk-on, a token but-failed attempt to show compassion that does not exist for a cause he does not support.

“George Bush has never been a compassionate man,” says Harleigh, “but lately he looks more detached than normal, like someone going through the motions, marking his time and hoping against hope that his time is not up.”

But Bush, despite his clumsy attempts to put on a strong public face, should realize he is living on borrowed time, not only as a lame duck President but as one who could well face impeachment if enough Democrats win seats in this fall’s House and Senate elections.

“The Bush era is coming to an end – in 2008 or perhaps even sooner,” Harleigh says. “It is an era that will not be remembered fondly.”

There is little doubt that George W. Bush will go down in history as one of the most controversial, morally-challenged, dishonest Presidents to serve at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. What remains in doubt is how his Presidency will end and whether or not there will be an America left to put that painful memory behind it.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_doug_tho_060208_they_came_to_praise_.htm

Another Bush and Blair lie exposed

2006-02-03T14:50:00.000+02:00

A new memo was released where again the lies of the leaders of the “free” world are exposed. I can bet you that instead of the world media asking the real questions; like how can these leaders consider to use “false flag” operations, painting planes in UN colours and then draw Saddam into attacking them…creating a war situation, instead they will most likely go after whoever released this memo. The authorities will most likely prosecute whoever released this memo under some secrecy act, while the real deceivers and tyrants go free, unquestioned! If they are prepared to paints planes in UN colours and send them into Iraq to be attacked, then we should ask to what other measures they would take to get what they want. Would they for instance fake a 911 attack, using fake “terrorists” to create a perfect enemy and an endless war?

Here is a copy of the memo news article printed by Mail and Guardian Online:

Blair-Bush deal before Iraq war revealed in memo

British Prime Minister Tony Blair told United States President George Bush that he was "solidly" behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion's legality and despite the absence of a second United Nations resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published on Friday.

A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 -- nearly two months before the invasion -- reveals that Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second UN resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme.

"The diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning", the president told Blair. The prime minister is said to have raised no objection. He is quoted as saying he was "solidly with the president and ready to do whatever it took to disarm Saddam".

The disclosures come in a new edition of Lawless World, by Phillipe Sands, a QC and professor of international law at University College, London. Sands last year exposed the doubts shared by British Foreign Office lawyers about the legality of the invasion in disclosures which eventually forced the prime minister to publish the full legal advice given to him by the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith.

The memo seen by Sands reveals:

Bush told Blair that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard evidence against Saddam that it thought of "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours". Bush added: "If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN resolutions]".
Bush even expressed the hope that a defector would be extracted from Iraq and give a "public presentation about Saddam's WMD". He is also said to have referred Blair to a "small possibility" that Saddam would be "assassinated".
Blair told the US president that a second UN resolution would be an "insurance policy", providing "international cover, including with the Arabs" if anything went wrong with the military campaign, or if Saddam increased the stakes by burning oil wells, killing children, or fomenting internal divisions within Iraq.
Bush told Blair that he "thought it unlikely that there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups". Blair did not demur, according to the book.

The revelation that Blair had supported the US president's plans to go to war with Iraq even in the absence of a second UN resolution contrasts with the assurances the prime minister gave Parliament shortly after. On February 25 2003 -- three weeks after his trip to Washington -- Blair told the Commons that the government was giving "Saddam one further, final chance to disarm voluntarily".

He added: "Even now, today, we are offering Saddam the prospect of voluntary disarmament through the UN. I detest his regime -- I hope most people do -- but even now, he could save it by complying with the UN's demand. Even now, we are prepared to go the extra step to achieve disarmament peacefully.

"On March 18, before the crucial vote on the war, he told MPs: "The UN should be the focus both of diplomacy and of action... [and that not to take military action] would do more damage in the long term to the UN than any other single course that we could pursue."

The meeting between Bush and Blair, attended by six close aides, came at a time of growing concern about the failure of any hard intelligence to back up claims that Saddam was producing weapons of mass destruction in breach of UN disarmament obligations. It took place a few days before the then US Secretary Colin Powell made claims -- since discredited -- in a dramatic presentation at the UN about Iraq's weapons programme.

Earlier in January 2003, Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, expressed his private concerns about the absence of a smoking gun in a private note to Blair, according to the book. He said he hoped that the UN's chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, would come up with enough evidence to report a breach by Iraq of is its UN obligations.

Downing Street did not deny the existence of the memo on Thursday night, but said: "The prime minister only committed UK forces to Iraq after securing the approval of the House of Commons in a vote on March 18, 2003." It added the decision to resort to military action to ensure Iraq fulfilled its obligations imposed by successive security council resolutions was taken only after attempts to disarm Iraq had failed. "Of course during this time there were frequent discussions between the UK and US governments about Iraq. We do not comment on the prime minister's conversations with other leaders."

Menzies Campbell, the British Liberal Democrat acting leader, said on Thursday night: "The fact that consideration was apparently given to using American military aircraft in UN colours in the hope of provoking Saddam Hussein is a graphic illustration of the rush to war. It would also appear to be the case that the diplomatic efforts in New York after the meeting of January 31 were simply going through the motions.

"The prime minister's offer of February 25 to Saddam Hussein was about as empty as it could get. He has a lot of explaining to do."

Sands says Jeremy Greenstock, Britain's UN ambassador at the time, told a foreign colleague he was "clearly uncomfortable" about the failure to get a second resolution. British Foreign Office lawyers consistently warned that an invasion would be regarded as unlawful. The book reveals that Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the FO's deputy chief legal adviser who resigned over the war, told the Butler inquiry into the use of intelligence during the run-up to the war, of her belief that Goldsmith, the attorney general, shared the FO view. According to private evidence to the Butler inquiry, Goldsmith told FO lawyers in early 2003: "The prime minister has told me that I cannot give advice, but you know what my views are".

On March 7 2003 he advised the prime minister that the Bush administration believed that a case could be made for an invasion without a second UN resolution. But he warned that Britain could be challenged in the international criminal court. Ten days later, he said a second resolution was not necessary. - Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleid=263174

Another 911 was a hoax news article

2006-02-01T08:50:00.000+02:00

Where do people have to go to read the Truth? Many people belief if something has not been reported in the main stream news, it has not happened. So if the main stream news sources are under limited control and they are told what and how to report, then only their “propaganda” will be “advertised”. Not only that, they will also be in control to divert attention away from a “difficult” topic or totally ignore it. And if all fails, they can claim that the people saying "controversial" things are only conspiracy theorists or totally nuts. They can also bombard you with their official versions of events and because it was broadcasted by the famous xyz, it must be true hey? So where do you go for your news today?

Well here is a copy of a recent article published by eMedia Wire:

Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax

Scholars for 9/11 Truth call for verification and publication by an international consortium.

Duluth, MN (PRWEB) January 30, 2006 -- A group of distinguished experts and scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have concluded that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11.

They have joined with others in common cause as members of "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" (S9/11T), because they are convinced, based on their own research, that the administration has been deceiving the nation about critical events in New York and Washington, D.C.

These experts suggest these events may have been orchestrated by elements within the administration to manipulate Americans into supporting policies at home and abroad they would never have condoned absent "another Pearl Harbor."

They believe that this White House is incapable of investigating itself and hope the possibility that Congress might hold an unaccountable administration accountable is not merely naive or wishful thinking.

They are encouraging news services around the world to secure scientific advice by taking advantage of university resources to verify or to falsify their discoveries. Extraordinary situations, they believe, require extraordinary measures.

If this were done, they contend, one of the great hoaxes of history would stand naked before the eyes of the world and its perpetrators would be clearly exposed, which may be the only hope for saving this nation from ever greater abuse.

They hope this might include The New York Times, which, in their opinion, has repeatedly failed to exercise the leadership expecedt from our nation's newspaper of record by a series of inexplicable lapses. It has failed to vigorously investigate tainted elections, lies leading to the war in Iraq, or illegal NSA spying on the American people, major unconstitutional events. In their view, The Times might compensate for its loss of stature by helping to reveal the truth about one of the great turning-point events of modern history.

Stunning as it may be to acknowledge, they observe, the government has brought but one indictment against anyone and, to the best of their knowledge, has not even reprimanded anyone for incompetence or dereliction of duty. The official conspiracy theory--that nineteen Arab hijackers under control of one man in the wilds of Afghanistan brought this about--is unsupportable by the evidential data, which they have studied. They even believe there are good reasons for suspecting that video tapes officially attributed to Osama bin Laden are not genuine.

They have found the government's own investigiation to be severely flawed. The 9/11 Commission, designated to investigate the attack, was directed by Philip Zelikow, part of the Bush transition team in the NSA sector and the co-author of a book with Condoleezza Rice. A Bush supporter and director of national security affairs, he could hardly be expected to conduct an objective and impartial investigation.

They have discovered that The 9/11 Commission Report is replete with omissions, distortions, and factual errors, which David Ray Griffin has documented in his book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. The official report, for example, entirely ignores the collapse of WTC7, a 47-story building, which was hit by no airplanes, was only damaged by a few small fires, and fell seven hours after the attack.

Here are some of the kinds of considerations that these experts and scholar find profoundly troubling:

* In the history of structural engineering, steel-frame high-rise buildings have never been brought down due to fires either before or since 9/11, so how can fires have brought down three in one day? How is this possible?

* The BBC has reported that at least five of the nineteen alleged "hijackers" have turned up alive and well living in Saudi Arabia, yet according to the FBI, they were among those killed in the attacks. How is this possible?

* Frank DeMartini, a project manager for the WTC, said the buildings were designed with load redistribution capabilities to withstand the impact of airliners, whose effects would be like "puncturing mosquito netting with a pencil." Yet they completely collapsed. How is this possible?

* Since the melting point of steel is about 2,700*F, the temperature of jet fuel fires does not exceed 1,800*F under optimal conditions, and UL certified the steel used to 2,000*F for six hours, the buildings cannot have collapsed due to heat from the fires. How is this possible?

* Flight 77, which allegedly hit the building, left the radar screen in the vicinity of the Ohio/Kentucky border, only to "reappear" in very close proximity to the Pentagon shortly before impact. How is this possible?

* Foreign "terrorists" who were clever enough to coordinate hijacking four commercial airliners seemingly did not know that the least damage to the Pentagon would be done by hitting its west wing. How is this possible?

* Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, in an underground bunker at the White House, watched Vice President Cheney castigate a young officer for asking, as the plane drew closer and closer to the Pentagon, "Do the orders still stand?" The order cannot have been to shoot it down, but must have been the opposite. How is this possible?

* A former Inspector General for the Air Force has observed that Flight 93, which allegedly crashed in Pennsylvania, should have left debris scattered over an area less than the size of a city block; but it is scattered over an area of about eight square miles. How is this possible?

* A tape recording of interviews with air traffic controllers on duty on 9/11 was deliberately crushed, cut into very small pieces, and distributed in assorted places to insure its total destruction. How is this possible?

* The Pentagon conducted a training exercise called "MASCAL" simulating the crash of a Boeing 757 into the building on 24 October 2000, and yet Condoleezza Rice, among others, has repeatedly asserted that "no one ever imagined" a domestic airplane could be used as a weapon. How is this possible?

Their own physics research has established that only controlled demolitions are consistent with the near-gravity speed of fall and virtually symmetrical collapse of all three of the WTC buildings. While turning concrete into very fine dust, they fell straight-down into their own footprints.

These experts and scholars have found themselves obliged to conclude that the 9/11 atrocity represents an instance of the approach--which has been identified by Karl Rove, the President's closest adviser--of "creating our own reality."

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/1/emw339303.htm

Who benefits from a Hamas win?

2006-01-27T08:30:00.000+02:00

Who could have predicted a win by Hamas? Not even they themselves predicted for this to happen! The exit poles gave Hamas only a third of the potential vote, so how did it differ so drastically? Where in the world has this also happened where exit poles shows someone else will win and the final “count” resulted in the opposite effect? In United States of America of course! In the presidential election where Bush won with fewer votes over Gore.

So I wonder how this new “upset” in the world of “democracy” has happened. Is it possible that the result was again fabricated? Who would benefit from a militant group like Hamas taking control through an “open and free” election? Does this not maybe play into the hands of people looking to create an enemy for the world? Does this not maybe suit the “war lords”; United States of America’s fight against “terrorism”? Does this not play into the hands of Israel to justify putting up the wall of “apartheid” faster, further dividing the region?

So many questions, I know…I don’t have the answers for them! Or I should rather say, I think I know a portion of them but they are to depressing and scary to write about on this blog. Hamas winning this election is almost as scary as Bush winning a second term in the office!

Who writes our history?

2006-01-19T08:28:00.000+02:00

I have thought about this subject many times. Who is responsible to write history books? I use the country I reside in (South Africa) as an example. Here we only have around 350 years of recorded history since the Europeans arrived. Those days it was mostly Dutch settlers but soon they were joined by French, English and other nationalities. After the Boer war this country became part of the British government and history books were written how the English defeated the Boers in their stand to try and establish their own country. Later the land was handed back to “the people” of South Africa and history books and school training manuals were changed to show awful that Boer war was and how the English were only able to win it by burning farms and placing thousands and thousands of women and kids in concentration camps, causing many fatalities. Now South Africa’s “ownership” belongs to the people who were here originally before the Europeans arrived. So history books are being changed again to reflect the evils of the previous Apartheid system and how the current regime has defeated the previous.

This is a short example of how in a short space of time, with three regime changes, writing different history books, highlighting their causes and victory over the other. A person being born today in South Africa will be told the evils of Apartheid and the fall of the Afrikaner regime, if you were born 50 years ago, you would be taught about the Afrikaner regime overcoming the British despite suffering huge losses and destruction and if you were born another 100 years before that, you would be told how your fellow Europeans overcome and killed the local “savages” of the time residing in this land. So it all depends in what period you were born and what the current “story” is that will form inside you an idea of what the world is about.

So who wrote religious books like the Bible? What were their agenda when it was decided in this format the book should be written. What pieces of history were left out or added to suit their view of the world? People are very quick to question a new piece of scientific discovery when it is slightly controversial, but the same somehow doesn’t apply with religion. It is as if we belief that the people that lived 2000 years ago were not deceitful, that somehow everything that was written by various people and changed and translated over and over again, that the truth remained. It is quite interesting that books like the Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) had been so popular because that book questions so many things about our history of Christianity. I’ve also read an interesting article on the Internet by Laura Knight-Jadczyk titled: The Ark of the Covenant and the Temple of Solomon about ideas around who actually wrote the Bible. The link to the first page is here: http://cassiopaea.org/cass/biblewho1.htm

Who is busy writing the history books on 911? There are so many conflicting reports on what really happened that day, but I can bet you the US government will write the history books, ignoring all the questions asked and blaming the Arab, extremist terrorists for that fateful day. Will they also confuse the issues by saying on one page it was Bin Laden and on the next, link him to Sadam Hussein to justify “their” war on Iraq? The United States of America wrote history books for a long time and it goes back to Christopher Columbus. It is sad that the local Indian population never had a chance to write their own history books after almost being wiped out by the settlers. There are now reports of a Chinese map dating back to 1418 showing the world not yet discovered then:
(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0118_060118_chinese_map.html)

I am sure this map will be explained as some kind of fake. Surely our history books tells us that we crawled out of the ocean as a fish after developing lungs, to eventually become a “modern” human after developing through millions of years. We must now be at the peak of human development. Surely those stories of previous advanced civilizations like Atlantis are all myths…surely we develop in a straight line, always improving? I wonder what historical “facts” will be written in our new history books by our future governments.

Did a Boeing REALLY crash into the Pentagon?

2006-01-09T12:56:00.000+02:00

I have written about the question around the truth of what happened on 911 before. There seems to be now lots of counter websites to mislead and re-direct any person searching for the truth. I have come across two sites that explain firstly the details of the Boeing 757 and how it was not possible for a plane that size to leave such a small hole in the wall, not to mention being able to maneuver a few inches from the ground not touching the lawn before impact!

The excellent self explanatory article can be found under the title: Evidence That a Frozen Fish Didn't Impact the Pentagon on 9/11 and Neither Did a Boeing 757 and the link is: http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/Above_Top_Secret_article.htm

The next article I found was posted on a blog and was a very nice article about how and to what measures are being taken to counter the exposing of truth. The article titled: COINTELPRO Updates: Above Top Secret Forum and the link is: http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/

I wish more and more people can start to ask questions and look more objectively into matters. Maybe if we continue to write articles and question things as the average world citizen, then mainstream media might become compelled to actually start doing real investigative reporting. If a crime like 911 was committed by a government or individuals within the government using its own citizen’s lives to justify a war against Afghanistan and Iraq, then these crimes needs to be exposed. If we don’t and allow for more lies to be covered up, then we are destined to experience more of them!

What happens when mindsets of the architects of war are exposed?

2005-11-30T07:56:00.000+02:00

I reported this story in my previous blog article where it seems that the United States of America has decided to bombed civilian targets in their illegal invasion of Iraq. It was about a discussion between George W Bush and Tony Blair, with Bush wanting to bomb Al-Jazeera (which seemed to have happened soon after this discussion). Now if there was no truth to that article, why are the men exposing this letter being taken to court for leaking this “secret” document? Here is the story of the men being prosecuted:

British men in court over Al-Jazeera row

London - Two men appeared in court on Tuesday charged with violating the Official Secrets Act by leaking a document which reportedly detailed a private conversation between United States President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The Daily Mirror newspaper, citing unidentified sources, has claimed that the document reveals that Blair argued against Bush's suggestion of bombing the headquarters of the Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. The Daily Mirror said its sources disagreed over whether it was a serious suggestion.

Civil servant David Keogh, 49, appeared on a charge of passing a document to Leo O'Connor, who formerly worked for a British parliamentarian.

Keogh was charged with an offense under Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act relating to "a damaging disclosure" by a civil servant of information relating to international relations, between April 16 and May 28 last year.

O'Connor, 42, was charged under Section 5, which relates to receiving and disclosing the information.

O'Connor indicated he intended to plead not guilty. Keogh did not say how he intended to plead.

Judge Timothy Workman ordered both men to appear again at London's Bow Street magistrates court on January 10.

Neil Clark, O'Connor's lawyer, said it was important that the court saw the contents of the document.

"As far as we are concerned, it needs to be disclosed because it is impossible to defend unless you know the case you are defending," Clark said outside court.

He said his client, who worked as a researcher for former Labour Party lawmaker Tony Clarke, had simply passed on the document hoping his employer would then return it to the government - which he did.

Clark said he did not know what was in the document, and could not confirm the Daily Mirror report.

Last week, legislator Adam Price asked Blair in a written parliamentary question "what information you received on action that the United States administration proposed to take against the Al-Jazeera television channel".

In his one-word reply published on Monday, Blair replied: "None."

White House spokesperson Scott McClellan has called the newspaper's claims "outlandish and inconceivable."- Sapa-AP

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1133268120376B216

Who are bombing civilian targets in Iraq?

2005-11-22T10:59:00.000+02:00

It is not often that I copy news articles in my blog, but this one makes me wonder what others civilian targets were on the US invasion target list? I copy this recent article from www.news24.com

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1838413,00.html:

London - United States President George W Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said on Tuesday, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret".

The five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals that Blair talked Bush out of launching a military strike on the station, unnamed sources told the anti-war-in-Iraq daily.

The transcript of the pair's talks during Blair's April 16, 2004 visit to Washington allegedly shows Bush wanted to attack the satellite channel's headquarters.
Blair allegedly feared such a strike, in the business district of Doha, the capital of Qatar, a key western ally in the Persian Gulf, would spark revenge attacks.

The Mirror quoted an unnamed British government official as saying Bush's threat was "humorous, not serious".
Al-Jazeera's perspectives on the war in Iraq have drawn criticism from Washington since the US-led March 2003 invasion.

The station has broadcast messages from al-Qaeda terror network chief Osama bin Laden and the beheadings of Western hostages by insurgents in Iraq, as well as footage of dead coalition servicemen and Iraqi civilians killed in fighting.
A source told the Mirror: "The memo is explosive and hugely damaging to Bush.
"He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere. Blair replied that would cause a big problem.
"There's no doubt what Bush wanted to do - and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it."
Another source said: "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair. That much is absolutely clear from the language used by both men."

A spokesperson for Blair's Downing Street office said: "We have got nothing to say about this story. We don't comment on leaked documents."
The Mirror said the memo turned up in the office of then British lawmaker Tony Clarke, a member of Blair's Labour Party, in May 2004.
Civil servant David Keogh, 49, is accused under the Official Secrets Act of handing it it to Clarke's former researcher Leo O'Connor, 42. Both are bailed to appear at Bow Street magistrate?s court in central London next week.
Clarke returned the memo to Downing Street. He said O'Connor had behaved "perfectly correctly".
He told Britain's domestic Press Association news agency that O'Connor had done "exactly the right thing" in bringing it to his attention.

The Mirror said such a strike would have been "the most spectacular foreign policy disaster since the Iraq war itself".
The newspaper said that the memo "casts fresh doubt on claims that other attacks on al-Jazeera were accidents". It cited the 2001 direct hit on the channel's Kabul office.
Blair's former defence minister Peter Kilfoyle challenged Downing Street to publish the transcript.

"I hope the prime minister insists this memo be published," he told the Mirror.
"It gives an insight into the mindset of those who were architects of the war."

Who's been caught using chemical weapons in Iraq?

2005-11-16T07:30:00.000+02:00

Now it is interesting that there is a legal case going on where Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants are on trial over the killing of more than 140 Shia men in Iraq in 1982. He is charged for using chemical weapons (a contravention of the UN) and these weapons were supplied by the United States. Interesting that this is not highlighted in news reports, that the US supplied the chemical weapons in the first place?

This Iraq war is getting out of hand. First the war or invasion was “justified” by “intelligence” reports (lies) that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that he was capable of using this within 24 hours. So based on this lie America invaded Iraq, killed thousands and thousands of innocent people with the bombings. For some reason Bush could not wait another week or two for the UN weapons inspectors to complete their search for these weapons of mass destruction, he had to invade the country, why? Did he know that there were no weapons and then he could not justify the invasion?

Now it is becoming known that America used chemical weapons on the people of Iraq. There are reports that were aired on an Italian TV station showing how the US military used a chemical weapon – white phosphorus against civilian targets. The report shows scenes of burned and melted bodies, burned children and women. Apparently white phosphorus kills indiscriminately; it spread out in a cloud and will burn every human and animal within a wide radius.

Now I should ask the question; if Saddam Hussein is on trial for killing innocent civilians using chemical weapons, when are we going to see George W Bush on trial for invading a country illegally (without UN approval) and then also use chemical weapons on civilians?

When did Sonic Blasters become everyday weapons?

2005-11-09T08:17:00.000+02:00

It is getting scary to read about all the “non-lethal” weapons being developed to use against people and crowds. Most of the time you think at least the police force and military has a weapon that doesn’t kill and if this is used against criminals, it is safer. But what if this becomes the weapon of use against anybody not necessarily criminals but for example a crowd of people demonstrating their cause? What if in the future any sort of verbal or visual disapproval of the government in power is seen as not protest but labeled anti-government or worse; terrorist and those weapons are used against you?

Why I bring this up is because I’ve read a news article earlier this week describing the unfortunate event that happened when on the East Coast of Africa (Somalia), a group described as pirates, attached a passenger liner. I will quote parts of the story from http://www.news24.com/ here:

“Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns on Saturday in an attack on the luxury cruise liner Seabourn Spirit off the coast of the east African nation of Somalia, the vessel's owners said.”

"The ship's crew immediately initiated a trained response and as a result of protective and evasive measures taken the occupants of the small craft were unable to gain access to the ship," Dingle said.

Now what this article didn’t say but what was further discussed on http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ is the following:
“The liner used a sonic blaster to foil the pirates. Developed by American forces to deter small boats from attacking warships, the non-lethal weapon sends out high-powered air vibrations that blow assailants off their feet. The equipment, about the size of a satellite dish, is rigged to the side of the ship.”

Now here we are seeing that this “military” technology is available and used on civilian ships. I was really surprised to read this! Well it is great for the passenger liner to have this technology in this case, because who knows what would have happened if they managed to board the ship.
I just find it unusual to read what until now I thought was almost science fiction, using a “sonic blaster” on this vessel, to be reported as an almost everyday thing that just happened there. When did these weapons become standard issue for passenger liners? Are they being installed on other civilian transport like aircraft, trains, and private security vehicles?

Just getting back to the pirate story as well, I wonder if this is something we are going to see more off. Is this another way of making people think twice before they travel? Are we going to see an escalation of attacks on passenger liners and holiday resorts? Are these people as was described just pirates, thugs looking for quick cash or are they going to be labeled “terrorist” to further install the fear in people’s minds that terrorists are real?

Are we REALLY in control of our thoughts?

2005-11-03T07:39:00.000+02:00

At my office today two of my colleagues described how their respective clients spoke to them about their current solutions with our company. They both said that they were looking for information on new solutions that we currently offer and on hearing this they both replied and said that not only have they already offered them the new solution but they have already signed new contracts to have the new solutions implemented! They responded with, oh ok, go ahead then.

Now this makes me question how it is possible for those clients; successful businessman with senior management positions not being able to remember that they have signed 24 month contracts. These contracts will not only have an effect on the way they do business, but will also have a CAPEX implication on their Balance Sheet! Then how can they have forgotten this? Were they “present” when they signed the contracts?

This makes me think if this can happen on a business level what happens to them and other people on a normal day to day basis? Are we always in our present state of mind or do we go into a day dreaming or hypnotized “robotic” mode? What is the cause of this, is it boredom, distraction, fantasizing or an external influence? I’ve noticed before that if I travel the same route to work everyday that my mind drifts off, I will arrive at work and not remember my journey. In a way I find this very scary. It means “I” was not driving the car, someone else was. I was not driving the car because otherwise I would have noticed unique things on the route. I would have remembered something unique in the journey, a new car, a person in the vehicle next to me or the beautiful sunrise.

So I’ve decided to make a conscious effort to start noticing myself more. The need for discovering myself and notice every time my mind drifts off to day dreaming or fantasizing about all kinds of things. In fact I tried to slow down the thoughts running through my mind and although I found this very difficult, I made some interesting discoveries. I started to notice that I “see” more things. Also because I am “there” all the time, I don’t forget things, like where I’ve left the car keys. The only time I forget where I left something is when “I” was not there when I placed at that location in the first place.
Try this for yourself and you will notice how your world of discovery will open up. You will become less “robotic” and more in control of your body, mind, feelings, emotions and thoughts. You will start to notice the smaller things in life and at the same time discover more about yourself (remember your Self).

What REALLY happened on 911?

2005-10-19T17:03:00.000+02:00

This is a question that keeps coming back to me. Are we going to experience the same feeling of something unusual did happen on that day but the major news networks aren’t talking about it? Many people feel that John F Kennedy was assassinated by the government or something deeper than that. Does this all sound like conspiracy theory stuff to you? Well what is conspiracy anyway? According to the dictionary this means; “a plan or agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal or subversive action.”

Now you can argue that all organizations are somehow already involved in some kind of conspiracy. It might not be termed illegal but they do “secretly” plan their marketing approach and strategy to obtain more business and take business away from their competitors. Only certain individuals in the organization know the real plans that were laid out for the company. Sometimes different things are deliberately told to the employees than what was discussed in the boardroom. Can’t this also be seen that this organization is conspiring in secret to gain in the long run at the cost of their competitors and sometimes employees to benefit the shareholders? So conspiracy is almost an everyday event, now the question remains whether this also includes governments and more importantly, will they conspire against their own citizens, the ones paying their salaries in the first place?

I’ve performed a lot of research on what happened on 911 and there are many websites, books and video clips on this subject. What I find the strangest about the incident is that the major news networks don’t run extensive research and coverage on what happened on 911. Why don’t they question the discrepancies? Aren’t they normally the ones that run these adverts saying they bring the news first and do all the research? Why are they so quiet on this subject and yet for those who seek will find things on the internet that so blatantly show something seriously went wrong on that day that can’t be explained away with a couple of terrorists who planned this operation from a cave in Afghanistan. That the same “terrorists” could foil what is arguably the best military defense system in the world.

Let’s look at that best defense system first at the Pentagon. They have anti-aircraft missiles that unless disabled will fire at any non-military signature entering the no fly zone. Why did this system fail? Why did a large Boeing virtually disappear into the wall of the Pentagon? No sign of broken wings or significant amount of debris that are always present at passenger aircraft crashes. How did it make such a small hole in the wall and penetrate so deep inside reinforced steel walls? It went into the building at such a low approach angle that the engines must have dragged on the ground before it made contact with the wall, however the lawn right in front of the crash site had no markings at all. It is strange that video camera’s footage that would have shown the aircraft’s approach into the Pentagon (a garage and hotel), that the FBI arrived minutes after the crash and removed the tapes from the respective sites, never to be seen and never viewed again.

Let’s look at the twin towers. Those two buildings came down as if they were demolished by a professional demolition company. Nowhere in history has a steel frame building collapsed because of fire and also never in a fashion of the buildings falling down perfectly. Some people say it was the “pancake” effect. That the planes destroyed the column structures and once it started falling, the one floor fell on top of the other causing the one to collapse on the next floor and so on. Now you expect the one falling on the other will cause a building of 110 floors to take lets say a second for each floor to hit the next, collapse and then fall again. If you look at the video of the buildings falling, it took only 10 seconds for it to collapse (that is almost freefall speed), which means the floors encountered no resistance at all, just like in a demolition. Also very little was mentioned about building no7, a 50 story building. This building wasn’t hit by a plane, but somehow it also manages to collapse as if it was demolished. How did this happen?

The other strange thing that happened that day was that President Bush was at a Primary School and this was a televised event, yet he was allowed to remain at this venue endangering him and all the kids, while all the planes were crashing not far from his location in New York! Now either knowledge that he was not a target was known, or it was a huge oversight.

What I am describing here sounds very much like a conspiracy theory doesn’t it? The trouble is if you look at all these events that took place, you can either decide that 911 happened because of a comedy of errors and mistakes that prevented fighter planes to be scrambled to intercept the planes. The anti-aircraft missiles at the Pentagon was turned off or malfunctioned (unless the plane gave off a military signature). This means gross incompetence from military defense and/or incredible luck on behalf of the terrorists. Or alternatively, the government allowed this to happen or even worse; they planned and participated in this event from the start.

What is far worse than the loss of life at this tragic event is what conspired directly after 911. Many times over lives (mostly innocent) were lost in the “fight for freedom” with the invasion of Afghanistan and later Iraq. Then more and more control measures were put in place everywhere, monitoring and spying on people. This was all done with the view to protect our “freedoms” but if you see how the most powerful nation in the world reacted to “protect” and rescue its own citizens in Louisiana after hurricane Katrina stuck, you have to wonder what the real intentions of all these control systems are?

What are dreams REALLY about?

2005-10-13T15:18:00.000+02:00

Today I am asking this question because I’ve had a strange dream last night. I dreamt that I was going to a concert, or at least tried to get into the concert but could not find any tickets for the event. This concert was held at a large hotel resort and it was fully booked. I can remember looking for ways to get in like trying to book a hotel room and see if I cant somehow get access to the concert that way.

I went through a door and walked down a flight of spiraled steps and strangely enough found myself inside the concert venue. There were a lot of people but very few showed interest in the performers. Most people were in fact sitting on the steps and floor looking very bored with themselves. The strange thing was that the group performing was Led Zeppelin, a band I know by name only, I can’t recall any of their songs and also there were two guys performing on the stage (supposedly them) but I did not recognize the song. They were also standing behind a glass wall during the performance and after the song no one applauded.

They disappeared back stage for a minute and then the one guy came back and said; “you are not alone”, then I woke up. I can remember the way it was said, almost implying that we are not alone on this planet, there are others…

This morning I thought I’ll have to look it up and performed a search on Google for Led Zeppelin. The results brought up a lyrics page for Stairway to Heaven. This intrigued me because it is strange that I dream about a rock band I don’t know and after searching the web I’ve picked up that they actually performed the song I knew; Stairway to Heaven and this also reminded me of the dream where I was walking on the spiral staircase.

I will copy the lyrics of the song Stairway to Heaven as performed by Led Zeppelin here; the lyrics do make for interesting reading:

There's a lady who's sure
all that glitters is gold
and she's buying the stairway to heaven.

When she gets there she knows
if the stores are all closed,
with a word she can get what she came for.

Ooo,......................
and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall,
but she wants to be sure,
`cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

In a tree by the brook,
there's a songbird who sings,
sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooo,......................
It makes me wonder.
Ooo,......................
Makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
and my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
rings of smoke through the trees,
and the voices of those who stand looking.
And it's whispered that soon
if we all call the tune,
then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn,
for those who stand long,
and the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow,
don't be alarmed now,
it's just a spring-clean for the May queen.

Yes, there are two paths you can go by,
but in the long run,
there's still time to change the road you're on.

And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go,
in case you don't know,
the piper's calling you to join him.

Dear lady can you hear the wind blow,
and did you know
your stairway lies on the whisp'rin' wind.

And as we wind on down the road,
our shadows taller than our soul,
there walks a lady we all know
who shines white light and wants to show
how everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard,
the tune will come to you at last,
when all are one and one is all (yeah),
to be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

What is planet Earth REALLY about?

2005-10-05T16:27:00.000+02:00

My whole life I questioned things. I never really knew why, but somehow I always felt or looked at things differently than other people. We are all influenced by the way we are brought up from a very young age. So many things “program” us the way we are today. Our parents teach us their version of the world, the education system does the same and then there are all the other external influences in our daily lives like TV, movies, radio, Internet, friends, colleagues and off course, religion.

After going through all these “normal” programming methods in my life, I have reached a point in my life where I am trying to de-program some of them, removing all the “clothes” so to speak to identify the real me. I am not sure if this is REALLY possible but I know it means a lot of personal work. It also means that I have to be “awake” all the time. Every time my mind drifts of into a state of dreaming I need to awaken myself again, know where I am and also know what is REALLY going on around me. This is easier said than done. Just try for 5 minutes not to think of anything at all or to make it slightly easier, focus on just one thing. Can you do it? Does your mind drift off to other thoughts? Can you stay “awake” for only 5 minutes?

Also, whenever a thought comes into your mind, do you analyze it? Where did the thought come from…, why do you think about it? Has the thought originated from you or were you influenced by external influences or different “motivation” methods? Energy seems to be linked to thoughts and the effect of thoughts. I wonder if writing does the same thing…

Is this world a kind of prison?

I get the feeling that we are living in a prison, we are an experiment and only a few REALLY know this. In a prison you have walls, high fences and the threat or fear of what will happen to you if you try to escape (this reminds me of that movie; The Village). You also have guards making sure you follow the rules and they enforce them, but then you also have the owners of the prison. The problem with prisons are that they are difficult and expensive to police. The ones on the inside want to find a way out or at least anticipate for the day they get out. The ones that patiently wait are not the problem; the ones who plan to escape and get others to escape with them are the ones to worry about.

So what do you do when you want the “prisoners” to follow the rules? What if this world is a prison but the walls are invincible to us? What if our walls are the day to day work (jobs) we mechanically do? What if our prison wires, fences and potential threats are our religions wanting to make sure we must stay our “term” because after our “sentence” we are promised “freedom”? We are expected to accept our “sentence” and wait for parole or the release date when we move onto a better place, is this not what religions are saying? Or maybe we must wait for that “one” that will come to release us and save us from this sentence? So we must be happy with the “cells” we’ve got, eat the food we are “given”, learn the rules of the prison and one day we will be released or set free? Does this sound familiar to you?

Maybe the best way is to make sure this world doesn’t look like a prison at all. In fact, get the “prisoners” to accept their fate and even get them to love it, to fight for what they have now, fear losing what they already have and fight for their “freedoms”. Again that sounds very familiar doesn’t it?

I will quote a story out of a book I’ve read (Ouspensky-In Search of the Miraculous):

"There is an Eastern tale which speaks about a very rich magician who had a great many sheep. But at the same time this magician was very mean. He did not want to hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where his sheep were grazing. The sheep consequently often wandered into the forest, fell into ravines, and so on, and above all they ran away, for they knew that the magician wanted their flesh and skins and this they did not like.
"At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to them first of all that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them when they were skinned, that, on the contrary, it would be very good for them and even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no need to think about it. Further the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.
"And after this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never ran away again but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their flesh and skins.

End quote.

This book goes into a lot of other things I don’t want to discuss here but this story tells us something about our current condition.

Who are the guards anyway? Were these “privileged” few given the task to control us? They interact directly with the owners of this prison and report to them. Who are the owners? It might be in the interest for them to keep us under control by any means possible. They might have technology and all the worlds’ resources at their disposal for this purpose. In fact the owners of this prison most likely have technology available to them that will make our “prison” technology look ancient. They can observe and affect us in many ways using this technology. It is very important for them to make sure we accept our walls and cells as real and distract us all the time.

To keep us occupied, we need to be kept busy too. We need to be kept “entertained” to distract us from what is REALLY happening here. Our multiple sport channels, 24 hour news feeds, work and “world events” all seem to make sure we are kept very busy indeed. Then there are the many who can’t afford all these “luxuries” and they are kept in a state of ignorance by just trying to survive, living from one day to the next. I wondered so many times why this world has reached such a state of utter poverty in many regions of this world. People are dying from malnutrition and treatable diseases, when we are supposed to have reached the most advanced state ever from a world development, scientific and technological advancement point of view.

While I was writing this article I was thinking of the best way I could end this discussion, but I can’t think of a way to do this. Maybe I should leave the questions unanswered for now and observe more, discover more, learn more? I think so many things have been put in place to distract an enquiring mind and there are also many wrong paths to deflect and misdirect anyone on the road of true discovery.

I don’t expect to find the answer “out there” anyway; I think it is very important to REALLY know yourself, where you are and what REALLY is happening around you. This requires a lot of work and dedication on the personal level.

Do we REALLY receive impartial news?

2005-09-26T11:28:00.000+02:00

Most people’s reality of the world is based upon what they hear and see. We read books and magazines, listen to the radio, watch television, access the Internet but when it comes to news, we normally read newspapers or watch televised news reports. These news stations have become pure business driven entities. It doesn’t matter how many adverts they run on impartial news reporting, their news items are driven by well researched target groups. They have a target group that needs to feed the “correct” news. When Rita was threatening the US, several huge storms were affecting China and Bangladesh, yet all the attention was on Rita and the US. Then we have the added element of ownership of these large Media corporations. Will they ever report a damaging report on something like Genetic Modified Food if one of their major shareholders is a producer and manufacturer of these goods? By the way, if you are interested in reading more on Genetic Modification a good read is; Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey Smith.

Getting back to impartial, unbiased and neutral news reporting, will the major news networks report any controversial material or ask controversial questions to heads of state? Are there network broadcasting licenses dependent on “elected” government’s approval? Will they be “invited” to the next White House News briefing when they ask controversial questions or divert from standard protocol and ask non pre-approved questions?

I ask these questions to myself and then copy a news article that did not make the mainstream news. This is a sad story that REALLY happened in that illegal invasion of Iraq and here is the article:

The deadly danger of working as a journalist in Iraq
by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

I had been dreading this moment for weeks, but I knew it would come inevitably. The night before leaving for Baghdad; preparing for yet another trip to that doomed city to report on yet more violence. For weeks at a time, I had lived in denial. I had told myself, no, it's not happening; no, I am not going back there. I have had enough, I am not going back to Iraq. But then I gave in, I started assuring my worried friends that I would be safe there - after all, it's not that dangerous.

Last Monday night I sat, sheepishly, in my bedroom, packing my bags. I was drowning in depression -- a mixture of fear and anxiety smouldering in my guts. I wanted to distract myself, so I started going through my favourite bedtime routine: checking the wires for the latest pictures from Iraq. What atrocity had I missed that day by hiding in London?

I soon came across an out-of-focus image of a policeman lifting a cover to show a dead body lying in a hospital morgue. It was the sort of photograph I had seen a hundred times before. Then I read the caption: "A policeman lifts ... the body of Fakher Haidar al-Tamimi ..."

My heart stopped and my eyes started watering. It can't be Fakher, I told myself, and started to frantically search the web for more details. Seeing his byline on a New York Times story from the day before, I was briefly reassured. But then I read the story of his death on the same website.

"An Iraqi journalist and photographer working for the New York Times in Basra was found dead early Monday after being abducted from his home by a group of armed men wearing masks and claiming to be police officers," read the report.

"The journalist, Fakher Haidar (38) was found with his hands bound and a bag over his head in a deserted area on the outskirts of Basra, in southern Iraq, hours after being taken from his house in that city. A relative who viewed his body in the city morgue said he had at least one bullet-hole in his head and bruises on his back as if he had been beaten."

I finished the article and started to search again. I soon found another picture of him on the web: Fakher, standing next to a cameraman in Basra with his most distinctive feature -- his big smile -- on full display. Fakher always smiled and always shook your hand firmly, a small notebook in his other hand. He was the sole authority on anything that happened in Basra. Journalists from all over the world would seek Fakher's help and insider's knowledge on the south of the country. He knew everybody and everything.

Because of his big smile, shadowed by a huge, bushy moustache wildly out of proportion with his gaunt face, Basra always felt safe to me when I was with him. I saw him for the last time two months ago. We were in Baghdad, in a dark street outside the fortified castles of one of the western newspapers. He looked wary, but still forced a thin smile.

One of the things that made him such a good journalist was his near obsession with details. I once called him to ask about some rumours that were circulating of clashes between rival tribes in Basra. He told me the story, the numbers of people fighting, the weapons, the time. I had to remind him, apologetically, that I was interested in writing a few hundred words about the battle, not a book.

Fakher is one of 56 journalists to be killed in Iraq since the war started. He is also the 36th Iraqi journalist to be killed, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Last Wednesday Ahlam Youssef became number 37. An engineer working for the Iraqi TV network, she was gunned down in Mosul with her husband.

"With the foreign press unable to move around freely for fear of attack, Iraqis have become the eyes and ears of the world in this conflict," reads a statement by CPJ executive Ann Cooper on their website. "The recent violence is threatening to cut off this critical source of information."

As reporting from Iraq is becoming almost impossible, new ground rules have been set for most of the foreign media. Apart from a handful of journalists, everyone goes out in armed convoys, if they go out at all. If you are six feet tall, fair-haired and stupid enough to come to Baghdad, then you might as well stick to the hotel swimming pool or your agency fortress, and the occasional trip embedded with the US Army. Instead you can count on your Iraqi employees to go out and get you the story.

A mixture of guilt, responsibility and ambition keeps driving Iraqi journalists to push the limits a bit further every time. The intoxication you get from reporting the truths after so many decades of lies is indescribable. You feel you can tell the world what is really happening, but you also feel that you are safe because of the way you look, because of your scruffy beard or your moustache. But far from being immune, the Iraqis are the ones getting killed.

Iraqi journalists, like local journalists all over the world, don't have the luxury of leaving the country every few weeks at the end of their stint. The few who do get to leave the country end up like refugees, drinking heavily in London pubs before being dragged back into the inferno.

The idea of independent Iraqi journalism is being killed only two years after it was born, a little of it dying with each of these brave 37 people. Iraqi journalists are being killed by the Americans, the insurgents, the militias and the police. They are often intimidated and threatened by anyone who doesn't like their coverage. There are no ground rules for them; they won't be allowed the luxuries of the fast car and the bodyguard, and they often have houses and families in the local area. They can be located easily, which is why they are often in the firing line.

News agencies are dependent on native journalists covering events in their local towns, where even Iraqis from another city cannot go. Those people are left there to fend for themselves, vulnerable in the midst of the insurgents. Americans often consider them to be cooperating with the insurgency or insurgents themselves, especially if they work for an Arab news channel. If they are not shot dead in fighting, they can end up in American custody.

This is not a phenomenon unique to Iraq. Local journalists are killed all over the world, from Colombia and the Philippines to the Lebanon. The difference is that "the Iraq war" is the biggest story in the world right now, and Iraqi photographers, cameramen and reporters are all under pressure from their bosses -- not to mention themselves -- to deliver something that is becoming increasingly impossible to deliver.

How can you establish a free media in such fear and anarchy? How can you expect thugs with Kalashnikovs to respect the media?

When, in August, the American journalist Steven Vincent was killed in Basra, his death was widely reported, and newspapers around the world used the occasion to discuss the horrible militia killings in the south. When Fakher was murdered, apart from the New York Times story, his death barely merited a mention. - Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

Who are REALLY the terror in Iraq?

2005-09-22T08:31:00.000+02:00

In the news yesterday was the story of two British agents wearing full Arab dress, with a car full of explosives opening fire on Iraqi Police and civilians. Two Iraqi Polices Officers were killed but luckily these agents were caught, unfortunately they were "released" by forceful means by the British forces. Now suddenly there are stories of them being handed over to Shiite militias and that there are rouge Iraqi Police Officers, but this all seems to be reports to deflect the issue.

Maybe these British agents were on a mission to plant a car bomb, maybe they were suppose to look like the "enemy" dressed up in Arab disguise creating the illusion of a rouge enemy inside Iraq, disrupting peace? Maybe the reason for the forceful "release" of these two agents is to hide the truth of who the REAL terrorists are? If the "terrorists" are in fact not real, then maybe questions should be asked about the London bombings, not to mention what REALLY happened at 911.

The other problem also exists. With two very conflicting stories in Iraq; who do you belief? Mainstream media whose interest lies in their allegiance with large corporate entities and close relationship with government? The government/s who has lied to the public and UN about WMD in Iraq? Where will people get the truth? Maybe it is time for people to rely on their own intuition when it comes to stories like these. Be informed, read news, question everything and do your own research. Knowledge is power and ignorance endangers you to become a robot. A robot that can only receive information and accept anything it receives as real. That is as dangerous as shutting your eyes to what is REALLY happening and think happy thoughts!

President Chavez's Speech to the United Nations

2005-09-20T11:37:00.000+02:00

I think this speech should be compulsory reading for everyone on this planet! It says so much about what is happening in this world! How we are being fed by lies by the mainstream media and for him to openly speak about this is refreshing to read. We need more leaders of countries around the world to speak openly about issues and problems and calling things what they REALLY are! For this reason will I copy his entire speech in this blog. I will however highlight one sentence at the end of his speech here: "We are thirsty for peace and justice in order to survive as species." I hope I am not alone in this world that agrees with this particular statement!

President Chavez's Speech:

"Your Excellencies, friends, good afternoon:

The original purpose of this meeting has been completely distorted. The imposed center of debate has been a so-called reform process that overshadows the most urgent issues, what the peoples of the world claim with urgency: the adoption of measures that deal with the real problems that block and sabotage the efforts made by our countries for real development and life.

Five years after the Millennium Summit, the harsh reality is that the great majority of estimated goals- which were very modest indeed- will not be met.

We pretended reducing by half the 842 million hungry people by the year 2015. At the current rate that goal will be achieved by the year 2215. Who in this audience will be there to celebrate it? That is only if the human race is able to survive the destruction that threats our natural environment.

We had claimed the aspiration of achieving universal primary education by the year 2015. At the current rate that goal will be reached after the year 2100. Let us prepare, then, to celebrate it.

Friends of the world, this takes us to a sad conclusion: The United Nations has exhausted its model, and it is not all about reform. The XXI century claims deep changes that will only be possible if a new organization is founded. This UN does not work. We have to say it. It is the truth. These transformations – the ones Venezuela is referring to- have, according to us, two phases: The immediate phase and the aspiration phase, a utopia. The first is framed by the agreements that were signed in the old system. We do not run away from them. We even bring concrete proposals in that model for the short term. But the dream of an ever-lasting world peace, the dream of a world not ashamed by hunger, disease, illiteracy, extreme necessity, needs-apart from roots- to spread its wings to fly. We need to spread our wings and fly. We are aware of a frightening neoliberal globalization, but there is also the reality of an interconnected world that we have to face not as a problem but as a challenge. We could, on the basis of national realities, exchange knowledge, integrate markets, interconnect, but at the same time we must understand that there are problems that do not have a national solution: radioactive clouds, world oil prices, diseases, warming of the planet or the hole in the ozone layer. These are not domestic problems. As we stride toward a new United Nations model that includes all of us when they talk about the people, we are bringing four indispensable and urgent reform proposals to this Assembly: the first; the expansion of the Security Council in its permanent categories as well as the non permanent categories, thus allowing new developed and developing countries as new permanent and non permanent categories. The second; we need to assure the necessary improvement of the work methodology in order to increase transparency, not to diminish it. The third; we need to immediately suppress- we have said this repeatedly in Venezuela for the past six years- the veto in the decisions taken by the Security Council, that elitist trace is incompatible with democracy, incompatible with the principles of equality and democracy. And the fourth; we need to strengthen the role of the Secretary General; his/her political functions regarding preventive diplomacy, that role must be consolidated. The seriousness of all problems calls for deep transformations. Mere reforms are not enough to recover that “we” all the peoples of the world are waiting for. More than just reforms we in Venezuela call for the foundation of a new United Nations, or as the teacher of Simón Bolívar, Simón Rodríguez said: “Either we invent or we err.”

At the Porto Alegre World Social Forum last January different personalities asked for the United Nations to move outside the United States if the repeated violations to international rule of law continue. Today we know that there were never any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The people of the United States have always been very rigorous in demanding the truth to their leaders; the people of the world demand the same thing. There were never any weapons of mass destruction; however, Iraq was bombed, occupied and it is still occupied. All this happened over the United Nations. That is why we propose this Assembly that the United Nations should leave a country that does not respect the resolutions taken by this same Assembly. Some proposals have pointed out to Jerusalem as an international city as an alternative. The proposal is generous enough to propose an answer to the current conflict affecting Palestine. Nonetheless, it may have some characteristics that could make it very difficult to become a reality. That is why we are bringing a proposal made by Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of the South, in 1815. Bolívar proposed then the creation of an international city that would host the idea of unity.

We believe it is time to think about the creation of an international city with its own sovereignty, with its own strength and morality to represent all nations of the world. Such international city has to balance five centuries of unbalance. The headquarters of the United Nations must be in the South.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are facing an unprecedented energy crisis in which an unstoppable increase of energy is perilously reaching record highs, as well as the incapacity of increase oil supply and the perspective of a decline in the proven reserves of fuel worldwide. Oil is starting to become exhausted.

For the year 2020 the daily demand for oil will be 120 million barrels. Such demand, even without counting future increments- would consume in 20 years what humanity has used up to now. This means that more carbon dioxide will inevitably be increased, thus warming our planet even more.

Hurricane Katrina has been a painful example of the cost of ignoring such realities. The warming of the oceans is the fundamental factor behind the demolishing increase in the strength of the hurricanes we have witnessed in the last years. Let this occasion be an outlet to send our deepest condolences to the people of the United States. Their people are brothers and sisters of all of us in the Americas and the rest of the world.

It is unpractical and unethical to sacrifice the human race by appealing in an insane manner the validity of a socioeconomic model that has a galloping destructive capacity. It would be suicidal to spread it and impose it as an infallible remedy for the evils which are caused precisely by them.

Not too long ago the President of the United States went to an Organization of American States’ meeting to propose Latin America and the Caribbean to increase market-oriented policies, open market policies-that is neoliberalism- when it is precisely the fundamental cause of the great evils and the great tragedies currently suffered by our people. : The neoliberal capitalism, the Washington Consensus. All this has generated is a high degree of misery, inequality and infinite tragedy for all the peoples on his continent.

What we need now more than ever Mr. President is a new international order. Let us recall the United Nations General assembly in its sixth extraordinary session period in 1974, 31 years ago, where a new International Economic Order action plan was adopted, as well as the States Economic Rights and Duties Charter by an overwhelming majority, 120 votes for the motion, 6 against and 10 abstentions. This was the period when voting was possible at the United Nations. Now it is impossible to vote. Now they approve documents such as this one which I denounce on behalf of Venezuela as null, void and illegitimate. This document was approved violating the current laws of the United Nations. This document is invalid! This document should be discussed; the Venezuelan government will make it public. We cannot accept an open and shameless dictatorship in the United Nations. These matters should be discussed and that is why I petition my colleagues, heads of states and heads of governments, to discuss it.

I just came from a meeting with President Néstor Kirchner and well, I was pulling this document out; this document was handed out five minutes before- and only in English- to our delegation. This document was approved by a dictatorial hammer which I am here denouncing as illegal, null, void and illegitimate.

Hear this, Mr. President: if we accept this, we are indeed lost. Let us turn off the lights, close all doors and windows! That would be unbelievable: us accepting a dictatorship here in this hall.

Now more than ever- we were saying- we need to retake ideas that were left on the road such as the proposal approved at this Assembly in 1974 regarding a New Economic International Order. Article 2 of that text confirms the right of states to nationalizing the property and natural resources that belonged to foreign investors. It also proposed to create cartels of raw material producers. In the Resolution 3021, May, 1974, the Assembly expressed its will to work with utmost urgency in the creation of a New Economic International Order based on- listen carefully, please- “the equity, sovereign equality, interdependence, common interest and cooperation among all states regardless of their economic and social systems, correcting the inequalities and repairing the injustices among developed and developing countries, thus assuring present and future generations, peace, justice and a social and economic development that grows at a sustainable rate.”

The main goal of the New Economic International Order was to modify the old economic order conceived at Breton Woods.

We the people now claim- this is the case of Venezuela- a new international economic order. But it is also urgent a new international political order. Let us not permit that a few countries try to reinterpret the principles of International Law in order to impose new doctrines such as “pre-emptive warfare.” Oh do they threaten us with that pre-emptive war! And what about the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine? We need to ask ourselves. Who is going to protect us? How are they going to protect us?

I believe one of the countries that require protection is precisely the United States. That was shown painfully with the tragedy caused by Hurricane Katrina; they do not have a government that protects them from the announced nature disasters, if we are going to talk about protecting each other; these are very dangerous concepts that shape imperialism, interventionism as they try to legalize the violation of the national sovereignty. The full respect towards the principles of International Law and the United Nations Charter must be, Mr. President, the keystone for international relations in today’s world and the base for the new order we are currently proposing.

It is urgent to fight, in an efficient manner, international terrorism. Nonetheless, we must not use it as an excuse to launch unjustified military aggressions which violate international law. Such has been the doctrine following September 11. Only a true and close cooperation and the end of the double discourse that some countries of the North apply regarding terrorism, could end this terrible calamity.

In just seven years of Bolivarian Revolution, the people of Venezuela can claim important social and economic advances.

One million four hundred and six thousand Venezuelans learned to read and write. We are 25 million total. And the country will-in a few days- be declared illiteracy-free territory. And three million Venezuelans, who had always been excluded because of poverty, are now part of primary, secondary and higher studies.

Seventeen million Venezuelans-almost 70% of the population- are receiving, and for the first time, universal healthcare, including the medicine, and in a few years, all Venezuelans will have free access to an excellent healthcare service. More thatn a million seven hundred tons of food are channeled to over 12 million people at subsidized prices, almost half the population. One million gets them completely free, as they are in a transition period. More than 700 thousand new jobs have been created, thus reducing unemployment by 9 points. All of this amid internal and external aggressions, including a coup d’etat and an oil industry shutdown organized by Washington. Regardless of the conspiracies, the lies spread by powerful media outlets, and the permanent threat of the empire and its allies, they even call for the assassination of a president. The only country where a person is able to call for the assassination of a head of state is the United States. Such was the case of a Reverend called Pat Robertson, very close to the White House: He called for my assassination and he is a free person. That is international terrorism!

We will fight for Venezuela, for Latin American integration and the world. We reaffirm our infinite faith in humankind. We are thirsty for peace and justice in order to survive as species. Simón Bolívar, founding father of our country and guide of our revolution swore to never allow his hands to be idle or his soul to rest until he had broken the shackles which bound us to the empire. Now is the time to not allow our hands to be idle or our souls to rest until we save humanity."