Monday, November 11, 2013

Reflections on a Public Holiday

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Culled from past posts

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WE THOUGHT WE WERE FREE
Slowly but surely the fear driven Orwellian noose closes as civil liberties and freedoms which were once taken for granted are gradually restricted or ended and always for the same reason ~ National Security
“They Thought They Were Free” (The Germans 1933 – 1945).
German exceptionalism in the 1930’s was really not too different, in many ways, than American exceptionalism in the last decade and very likely headed for the same disastrous fate.
“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security.
And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it … this separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.”

The Assassination at SerajevoFriday, November 11, 2011 12:04:55 AM

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Today we remember!

On the twenty eighth of June in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was Killed in Serajevo.

This event sparked "The Great War", The "War To End All Wars!"

Today marks the Official end of that War. And those who remember, will wear a poppy today, "lest we forget!"

In 1939, we forgot!

Let's not forget again!          

Comment  "Interesting. Why the poppy, though? Poppies are illegal in the US, you know." 

Mad Scientist  ....the way it was explained to me was that during one of the battles of WWI, took place in a field of white poppies. Now, poppies are one of the many flowers that change colour as they mature. According to legend, the entire field's poppies had turned red the next morning, almost as if they'd soaked up the blood of the soldiers that had been killed in battle. .
Most people use paper representations of poppies rather than real poppies. The poppies are always red, representing the blood that was spilled in that war.
The people who honor this day usually point out that it is all soldiers who died in battle that are to be remembered on this day, regardless of which side they were on or which war they fought in. .     

I have seen men who fought on opposite sides of WWII embrace one another as friends on Rememberance day. .
Generally, most soldiers who in to war believe that they are fighting on the side of 'good' at the time. Some continue to believe that after the war has ended. Only God knows the truth in my opinion. .
War cannot always be avoided. But I believe that good people will always make the effort to at least try to avoid starting a war.
There is a story about English and German soldiers who, Christmas day, celebrated Christmas together.
http://history-world.org/world_war_i.htm
There soldiers were, on both sides, fighting because they were ordered to, not because they hated one another.

John(oldephartte) # Saturday, November 12, 2011 2:54:13 PM
I didn't update my usual collection this year. Front and center is the poem from a Canadian shortly before he died in 'the Dutch killing fields' of WW I - the 'War to End All Wars' - where a stalemate existed that ate up men to machine gun fire in the trenches....
In Flanders fields, the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place And in the sky
The Lark still bravely singing flies
Scarce heard among the guns below

Not that he lived long enough to 'get it' The motto 'Lest We Forget' applied to not romanticizing the horror of war so that it was not a repeated exercise.

Bad Kitty

A 'terrorist' is one who lives with people who do not have uniformed army. navy and air force. It's a lie used to justify murder. And shortages are the leverage of monopoly and empire : slavery.

I featured this history by a WW II bombardier who realized the true nature of his society and its place in the world...to a far greater extent than most, anyway. http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2011/11/11-november-war-to-end-war.html http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

Here's the collection including the poem
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/11/11-november-lest-we-forget.html     

11 November - Lest We Forget

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

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

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

 

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

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Lest We Forget 2009

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

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

Vagabond Scholar

 War and the Denial of Loss

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

11/11 Armistice Day 2010






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

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


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Through Thick and Thin

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

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

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

Psychic Event Horizon - The Eve Of Our Major Societal Transformation

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

I am hurriedly gathering research material and reading through Internet links and archives myself to resolve a personal situation in my life and freely admit to using the Internet, you, everyone who will give input, and this very debate itself to achieve the desired objective.
I have a situation that translates into 'we may have a real and serious problem' in the very near future (common logic is currently dictating that this to already be the case regardless of what I have to say on the subject!).

It is imperative for me to personally seek resolution quickly to a once private matter that involves psychic phenomena.
I have just now decided to write it up and air it publicly, on the public record for assistance and no doubt will have to experience massive misplaced ridicule from some.

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

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

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> Closing Statement:

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

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

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

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

The Unsuitablog

 From 'Military'

Iraqi and Afghan vets testify

The real terrorist was me

Murphy's Laws of Combat

U.S. military interventions since 1890 

From 'Links'

Deaths from military actions


Gulfwar 1 & 2 Song 

An Homage to Moxy Fruvous, a Canadian Band, that did/didn't write a song about the first Gulf War, but all these years later it still has me ...



And why November 11 ? Victory in Europe Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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( Final positions of the Allied and Soviet armies, May 1945. Victory in Europe Day ( V-E Day or VE Day) commemorates 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries; ... ) wasn't the reason.

September 2 Holiday VJ Day / Victory over Japan Day by Holiday ...
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September 2 Holiday VJ Day marks the end of WWII, and the cessation of fighting against Japan.

Armistice - The End of World War I,

1918

11 November - 'War to End War'

Countdown to ZeroCountdown to Zero (Image via RottenTomatoes.com)
A People's History of the United States
History Is A Weapon.

Ecuador Healthlinks
the PAHO has found a profound increase in the number of illnesses caused by the use of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals.....free reproductive health services have been guaranteed for all

We Want Hex Chrome Out of Our Drinking Water. D... [Published Oct 03 2011 by Switchboard, from NRDC]
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 Skoll Foundation

“The world is a vast and complicated place and it needs each of us doing all we can to ensure a brighter tomorrow for future generations. Conrad Hilton said it is the duty of successful people to give back to the society from which their success was derived. I feel privileged to have grown up in Canada and to now live in the US, two countries that value and reward education, hard work and good choices. I feel lucky to have been able to pursue my dreams and I hope that my contributions will in some small way lead to a sustainable world of peace and prosperity.”
- Jeff Skoll in his Giving Pledge

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Countdown To Zero

Countdown to Zero explores the history of “The Bomb” since the Manhattan project, including the proliferation and devastating consequences of its use.  One of the strengths of the film is showing the mistakes that have occurred over the years, that could have been catastrophic, including a moment in 1995 when the Russians believed they were being attacked by the U.S., with nuclear missiles.When asked by a reporter which country posed the greatest “nuclear” threat to the world, Valerie Plame said “proliferation is the biggest threat,” along with ”madness, accidents and miscalculation.”

The film’s shortcoming is its failure to recognize the policies of the U.S. and Israel that have contributed to the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. The stated goal of the movie is to help change the “minds” of people. Hopefully that will happen first among those who see themselves as being the “good guys.”

Global Zero Leaders Applaud New START Treaty; Urge Ratification

 



Peace must precede the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free Middle East and not the other way round.

 

IAEA report on Iran exposed as a Big fraud | EUTimes.net
2 hours ago by The European Union Times
Ahmadinejad also took the occasion to rebuke the IAEA director general, Japanese Yukiya Amano, for being “a puppet” of the White House, challenging him to bring accurate and reliable information about the nuclear ...
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Fool Me Once 

Though lacking deep support on his own, Dr. ElBaradei, a Nobel laureate and diplomat, could serve as a consensus figure [ie, a figure head] for a movement that has struggled to articulate a program for a potential transition. It suggested, too, that the opposition was aware of the uprising’s image abroad, [the opposition is un-organized, except for the Muslim Brotherhood, so who decided they needed a moderate for a front man?  Hint: it wasn't the democratic secular opposition, most of whom are Arabic nationalists and not Jeffersonian democrats, in any event.] putting forth a candidate who might be more acceptable to the West than beloved in Egypt.
In scenes as tumultuous as any since the uprising began, Dr. ElBaradei defied a government curfew on Sunday night and joined thousands of protesters in Liberation Square, which has become the epicenter of the uprising and a platform, writ small, for the frustrations, ambitions and resurgent pride of a generation claiming the country’s mantle.
“Today we are proud of Egyptians,” Dr. ElBaradei told throngs who surged toward him in a square festooned with banners calling for Mr. Mubarak’s fall. “We have restored our rights, restored our freedom, and what we have begun cannot be reversed.”
The reports of the Muslim Brotherhood and secular opposition banding together should be a cause for great concern; we have seen this before:
I would like to remind people that after the 1979 revolution in Iran, the secularists and the various religious groups united to form a coalition government. Within a year, the Islamic Republic party (two of the members of which were Rafsanjani and Khamenei) completely took control and turned Iran into a totalitarian state in the guise of a so-called “Islamic” republic that took away many of the hard-earned rights that Iranians had gained in the last century. This regime is still in power in Iran today, executing opposition members and Iranian citizens who dare oppose them.
I would like to remind people that when Khomeini came to Iran he promised freedom, democracy and human rights. As we are seeing today — with people telling us not to worry about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt — in Iran in the early days of the revolution people said the same about Khomeini and his minions. Western media and even western leaders, including former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, tried to deal with the government of Khomeini, only to see radical so-called “students” who called themselves “Followers of the Imam’s Line” occupy the U.S. embassy in Tehran and take its employees hostage for 444 days, only to release them on the day that Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President, humiliating Carter and releasing a new meme–the idea that Islamic revolution could spread throughout the world. Radical Islam has been with us since.
In fact, one of the members of the Muslim Brotherhood, involved in the assassination of former liberal Egyptian President Anwar Saddat, is Ayman Al-Zawahiri, one of the leaders of Al Qaeda. Remember them?
Barry Rubin supplies some useful quotes that you will not see in the MSM delimiting the "moderation" of the Muslim Brotherhood:

GaryP said...
Call me cynical but...
The media supported Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Khomeini, Chavez, Arafat etc., etc., etc.
They extolled their virtues and concealed or excused their crimes (usually by blaming the West and the US).
That the media is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood is neither a surprise or an indication of naivety. It is what they do. When (if) the MB takes over and starts killing their own citizens and terrorizing ours, they will be shocked, shocked that this has happened and will blame it on the Administration (if it is Republican) or on Western Civilization (if a Democrat is in charge).
I ignore most of the MSM. Did Soviet citizens read Pravda? Probably many did because there was no other source of news.
The only reason to listen to NPR, or most of the MSM, is to keep track of the latest lies of the enemies of freedom. They are always predictable. Keep telling the truth and ignore the lies. Solzhenitsyn could not drown out Pravda but eventually their lies were revealed. We cannot drown out NPR but eventually, perhaps too late, their lies will also be revealed.
There can be no productive conversation with liars and tools of despots. They know they are lying but excuse it because it serves a "higher cause." They cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be convinced. Thankfully, the Internet provides a means of a parallel conversation (much like the samizdat did for Solzhenitsyn) with the bonus that we can't be arrested (yet) for using it.

Judge Crater said...
"The best case scenario in Egypt is another dictator who is willing to begin the process of constructing a more free, more democratic society; the worst case scenario is the triumph of Thanatos, in the person of the Sunni Islamists."
That pretty much sums up the neoconservative, Pax Americana, view of the world doesn't it? Freedom, with Tea Parties and "Second Amendment remedies" and "Don't Tread on Me" rallies by Medicare recipients for the good Ole USA, but despots and dictators (of the correct political persuasion) for the rest of the world. It really is all about us isn't it?
Talk about solipsism. When our deals with the devil - whether it is Mubarak or Sadaam (he was our buddy once) or the Shah of Iran or any of a score of other puppets and oligarchs - don't pay off, as they inevitably don't, then we have to double down. In other words, keep meddling.
Keep the CIA busy doing black ops, put guys like Ahmed Chalabi on our payroll, rattle sabres, send carrier groups, expeditionary forces, even entire American armies into harm's way. Maybe our next puppet in Cairo, in addition to beginning the process of democratization, will allow us to fill they skies with Predator drones to keep the Muslim Brotherhood hunkered down.
Because, of course, it's worked so well over the past 50 or 60 years. The tens of trillions of dollars spent on these adventures, and countless American and foreign lives lost or destroyed, have produced little besides more and more dangerous foreign venues where the neocons hope, in their relentless and compulsive way, to extend their stupendous losing streak.
It's not the 19th Century anymore. A few hundred British civil servants can no longer run India for Queen and country. Tens of thousands of American troops can't drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan or put Humpty-Dumpty Iraq back together again. Every "regime change" we engineer, every foreign pawn we cleverly move on the global chess board only drives us deeper into the quicksand. No sparrow falls anywhere on the planet where we, in our fevered and imperial-minded altered state, don't imagine that America, and/or its President/military, isn't responsible for good or ill.
Historians are likely to look back in time and wonder not about the mainstream media (which will be a small footnote), but about the imperial vision that somehow seduced the United States and took the nation down a dangerous and reckless path.


Emotional Healing Without Pathologizing or Drugging: from When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home. How all of us can help veterans

Given the huge and rising numbers of war veterans who are isolated, homeless, experiencing family breakdown, abusing alcohol or drugs, or committing suicide, it is clear that the vast numbers of therapists in the military and the VA systems, combined with the vast numbers of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs handed out in those systems and in the private sector, are at the very least woefully insufficient.
In a subsequent essay some weeks from now, I will describe the approaches in detail and name the names of the programs. But for today, Veterans Day, what is important to know is that at the conference, speakers described their work, which ranged from the use of the arts to help with healing to the training of service dogs to help bring vets gently out of terrifying flashbacks to various community initiatives to Native American re-entry rituals to training vets to work for nonprofits and many, many more.
A major theme that ran throughout was the irreplaceably important act of listening to veterans’ stories of war and attempts to come truly home

Iran and weapons of mass destruction

 Iran is not known to currently possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and has signed treaties repudiating the possession of weapons of mass destruction including the Biological Weapons Convention,[1] the Chemical Weapons Convention,[2] and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)[3]. Over 100,000 Iranian troops and civilians were victims of chemical weapons during the 1980s Iran–Iraq War.[4][5] On ideological grounds, a public and categorical religious decree (fatwa) against the development, production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons has been issued by the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic Ali Khamenei, and the rest of the clerical establishment.[6

The IAEA has been able to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran, but not the absence* of undeclared activities
 * You cannot find evidence something doesn't exist.. Of course, you can gin up 'evidence' it does! 

Jeffrey Skroll
Skoll is also the founder, chairman and owner of Participant Media (formerly Participant Productions), a Los Angeles based media company he created to fund feature films and documentaries that promote social values while still being commercially viable. Its first three films were Syriana, Good Night, and Good Luck, and North Country along with the documentary Murderball. These films accounted for 11 Oscar nominations in 2006.
Subsequent films have included An Inconvenient Truth, American Gun, Fast Food Nation, and The World According to Sesame Street. An Inconvenient Truth won two Oscars in 2007 and has been credited with extending the public debate over climate change. Other films in 2007 included Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, The Kite Runner directed by Marc Forster, Angels in the Dust about an AIDS orphanage in South Africa, Darfur Now about the genocide in Darfur with Don Cheadle, and Jimmy Carter Man from Plains, a film about Jimmy Carter directed by Academy Award winning director Jonathan Demme.
Films in 2008 included The Visitor, by Thomas McCarthy with Richard Jenkins and Hiam Abbass; Chicago 10, based on the 1968 Democratic convention protests; and Standard Operating Procedure, a documentary about Abu Ghraib by Errol Morris. "Nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards"
Retrieved 11 February 2010. documentary about the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan; The Crazies, an updated version of the George A. Romero biotoxin thriller from 1973; and Pressure Cooker, a documentary about an inner-city school cooking contest, set in Philadelphia. One announced 2010 release, set for Earth Day on April 22, is Oceans, a documentary about the oceans by Jacques Perrin, director of the Oscar-winning Winged Migration. Films in 2010 included "Waiting for Superman."
The company also has publishing and television divisions, and operates Takepart.com
, an online site catering to social activists.

Deficit Committee Should Consider Cutting Nuclear Arms, Lawmaker Says

“America needs a new nuclear weapon as much as Lady Gaga needs another new outfit,” Representative Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said at a Capitol Hill news conference.

“Our nuclear policy is the epitome of overkill,” the Massachusetts lawmaker said. “When you get your annual flu shot do you think, 'Well, one shot protects me from the flu, then 10 flu shots must give me 10 times more protection.' Of course not and that's exactly what we're doing with our current nuclear policy.”
Meanwhile, a group of roughly 50 nongovernmental organizations, including arms control advocates, and social policy and religious groups, distributed a letter asking members of Congress to support Markey's recommendations.

Iran Continues Atomic Site Construction: Satellite Images

( You may recall heavy water moderation was a feature of original German systems - and is a basis for Canada's Candu reactors - which do not leave fissile repositories unused ) 

Iran Containment Cast in Doubt

 ( Continuing the practice of characterizing Iran's nuclear program  as a viable arms project....despite decades of rebuttal  and debunking )

Canada Contributing $10M to Secure Libyan WMD Materials



The Jewish hand behind Internet 
In the following document we will give an insight into the Jewish penetration of the Internet and also show the level of cooperation between leading Jewish Internet entrepreneurs and the racist Jewish Apartheid state of Israel.

The Jews - contrary to the "liberal" views they officially say they profess - in their suppressive acts practically demonstrate that they always seek to dominate the information flow, they don't tolerate any dissent. It is just as when Israel says "Shalom" while Israel's military at the very same time pounds its Arab neighbour states with bombs and missiles.

The Arabs have learnt the hard way the falsehood of these Jewish statements, it is now time for the rest of the non-Jewish world to get this right, and to see that the freedom of information on the Net is seriously threatened. 



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