Prison camps for Americans

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

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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?

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

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.]