Confirmed coalition deaths:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A. wrote:
:
: In article <bqc0d0$6ob$1@pencil.math.missouri.edu: , MichaelP says...
:
: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=4579
:
: Independent (London) November 29, 2003
: by Robert Fisk
:
: When George Bush sneaked into Baghdad airport for his two-hour "warm
: meal" for Thanksgiving, he was in feisty form. Americans hadn't come to
: Baghdad "to retreat before a bunch of thugs and assassins". Evil is still
: around, it seems, ready to attack the forces of Good. And if only a
: handful of the insurgents in Iraq are ex-Baathists -- and I suspect it
: is only a handful -- then who would complain if Saddam's henchmen are
: called "thugs"? But Evil's a tricky thing. Here one day, gone the next.
: Take Japan.
:
: Now, I like the Japanese. Hard-working, sincere, cultured -- just take a
: look at their collection of French impressionists -- they even had the
: good sense to pull out of George Bush's "war on terror". And Japan,
: remember, is one of the examples George always draws upon when he's
: promising democracy in Iraq. Didn't America turn emperor-obsessed Japan
: into a freedom-loving nation after the Second World War?
:
: So, in Tokyo not so long ago, I took a walk down memory lane. Not my
: memory, but the cruelly cut-short memory of a teenage Royal Marine called
: Jim Feather. Jim was the son of my dad's sister Freda and he was on the
: Repulse when she was sunk by Japanese aircraft on 10 December, 1941. Jim
: was saved and brought back to Singapore, only to be captured when the
: British surrendered. Starved and mistreated, he was set to work building
: the Burma railway. Anyone who remembers David Lean's magnificent film
: Bridge on the River Kwai will have a good idea of what happened. One of
: his friends later told Freda that in Jim's last days, he could lift the
: six-foot prisoner over his shoulder as if he were a child. As light as a
: feather, you might say. He died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp
: sometime in 1942.
:
: I wasn't thinking of Jim when I walked into the great Shinto shrine in
: central Tokyo where Japan's war dead are honoured; not just the
: "banzai-banzai" poor bloody infantry variety, but the kamikazes, the
: suicide pilots who crashed their Zero fighter-bombers on to American
: aircraft carriers. Iraq's suiciders may not know much about Japan's
: "divine wind", but there's a historical narrative that starts in the
: Pacific and stretches all the way through Sri Lanka's suicide bombers to
: the Middle East. If President Bush's "thugs and assassins" think of Allah
: as they die, Japan's airmen thought of their emperor. At the Shinto
: shrine, in the area containing photographs of the Japanese campaign, there
: are some helpful captions in English. But in the room with the portraits
: of the kamikazes -- including a devastating oil painting of a suicide
: attack on a US carrier -- the captions are only in Japanese. I wasn't
: surprised.
:
: What I was amazed to see, a few metres from the shrine, was a stretch of
: railway with a big bright green Boy's Own paper steam locomotive standing
: on it. Japanese teenagers were cleaning the piston rods and dabbing a last
: touch of green to the boiler. As a boy, I of course wanted to be an engine
: driver, so I climbed aboard. Anyone speak English, I asked? What is this
: loco doing in a Shinto shrine? An intense young man with thin-framed
: spectacles smiled at me. "This was the first locomotive to pull a Japanese
: military train along the Burma railway," he explained. And then I
: understood. Royal Marine Jim Feather had died so this pretty little train
: could puff through the jungles of Burma. In fact, this very same loco's
: first duty was to haul the ashes of dead Japanese soldiers north from the
: battlefront.
:
: The Japanese are our friends, of course. They are the fruit of our
: democracy. But what does this mean? Even now, the Japanese government will
: not acknowledge the full details of the crimes of rape and massacre
: against women in their conquered "Greater South East Asia Co-Prosperity
: Sphere". After the post-war International Military Tribunal -- 27
: Japanese war criminals were prosecuted and seven of them were hanged --
: not a single Japanese has been prosecuted for war crimes in Japanese
: courts. Men who have admitted taking part in the mass rape of Chinese
: girls -- let alone the "comfort women" from China and Korea forced to
: work in brothels - are still alive, safe from prosecution.
:
: Didn't these men represent Evil? What is the difference between the young
: Japanese men honoured for blowing themselves up against American aircraft
: carriers and the equally young men blowing themselves up against American
: bases in Iraq? Sure, the Iraqi insurgents don't respect the Red Cross. Nor
: did the Japanese.
:
: It's all a matter of who your friends are. Take that little exhibition of
: "crimes against humanity" a year ago at the Imperial War Museum in London.
: Included is a section on the 1915 Armenian Holocaust, the genocide of one
: and a half million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, which taught Hitler how
: to carry out the greatest genocide of the 20th century, the Holocaust of
: six million European Jews. But the exhibition included a disclaimer from
: the Turkish government, which still fraudulently claims that the Armenians
: were not murdered in a genocide carefully planned by the Turkish leaders
: of the time -- which is the truth -- but merely victims of chaos in
: First World War Turkey.
:
: Andy Kevorkian, whose father's entire family was murdered by the Turks in
: 1915, wrote a letter to Robert Crawford, the museum's director general.
: Nowhere in the exhibition is there a disclaimer of the Jewish Holocaust by
: the right-wing historian David Irving or by neo-Nazis, Kevorkian
: complained. Nor should there be. But "for the IWM to bow to Turkish (or is
: it Foreign Office?) pressure to deny what the entire world accepts as the
: first genocide of the 20th century is an insult to the Armenians who
: survived... For the IWM to allow the Turks to say that this didn't happen
: is a travesty of justice and truth."
:
: But the disclaimer wasn't removed. The New York Times, which originally
: broke the story, now spends its time casting doubt on the killings,
: calling them "alleged". Not long ago, the paper carried a well-known 1915
: photograph, taken by a German, of a line of Armenian men being led away to
: execution. But The New York Times caption fraudulently stated that the
: Armenians were being "marched to prison [sic] by Turkish soldiers in
: 1915". What next? Is The New York Times going to carry photographs of
: Europe's doomed Jews being packed into cattle trains and claim they are en
: route to "resettlement camps"?
:
: It's the same old problem. The steam loco in Tokyo and the disclaimer in
: the Imperial War Museum and the newspaper photo caption are lies to
: appease enemies who are now friends. Japan is a Western democracy. So Evil
: is ignored. Turkey is our secular ally, a democracy that wants to join the
: European Union. So Evil is ignored. But fear not. As the Americans try
: ever more desperately to escape from Iraq, the thugs and assassins will
: become the good guys again and the men of Evil in Iraq will be working for
: us. The occupation authorities have already admitted re-hiring some of
: Saddam's evil secret policemen to hunt down the evil Saddam.
:
: Tricky stuff, Evil.
EVIL spelled backwards is LIVE
http://www.bikinipage1.com/t01/barbie01/barbie14.jpg
"... I perhaps saw something happening in the
future when everything is different and we have all awakened.
"When we're all almost ready to go home.
My very best to each and every one of you."
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=21324
-Fratre Cobaltus
08 February, 2003 [Gregorian]
http://www.noveltynet.org/content/paranormal/www.brotherblue.org/index.html
The Kinetic Quantum Theory of Gravity
by Fran De Aquino (Maranhao State University, Brazil)
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0212033%20
_~O~_
http://www.americanantigravity.com/johnthomas.shtml
"Few will dispute that dreams are powerful stuff.
For centuries mystics have maintained that dreams
allow people to see into the future, and more
recently the science of psychology has said that
at dreams allow the unconscious mind to solve
problems that often elude the waking mind.
Dreams play a role in science, too - the most
widely known example of this is the solution for
the structure of the benzene molecule.
Chemist August Kukule realized in 1865 that
benzene's structural-backbone was a ring of
6 carbon atoms after having a dream the night
before about a serpent chasing its own tail."
http://www.americanantigravity.com/johnthomas.shtml
_~O~_
The Quest For Overunity
(c) JLN Labs 1997-2003 - by Jean-Louis Naudin
http://www.jlnlabs.org
"Gravity, Anti-Gravity, EHD, N9M,
Northrop, Repulsin, Schauberger,
Tesla, Stirling engine, Ginger, IT,
Kamen, Nicola Tesla, Over-Unity,
Overunity, Free Energy, Bearden,
Magnetic Motor, Propelantless,
inertialess, reactionless,
Electrogravitation, Faraday,
New energy, OAUGDP, plasma, GEET,
Alternative fuel, Alternative Energy,
Water, VTA, Sweet, ZPE, ZPF, casimir,
Zero point energy, Negative Resistance,
Chung, NDR..."
JLN Labs Home Page:
http://members.aol.com/JNaudin509/
_~O~_
"Taking Technology
To New Dimensions"
Transdimensional Technologies:
http://www.tdimension.com/index.html
_~O~_
University of Washington, Department of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Seattle, WA,
http://www.aa.washington.edu
_~O~_
AntiGravity - Holy Grail of the 21st Century
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/Antigravity.html
_~O~_
Deep Space 1
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/
_~O~_
ABOUT THE DEEP SPACE NETWORK
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/
_________
"The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick" by R. Crumb
http://www.philipkdick.com/weirdo.htm
THE POWER of NOW
by Eckhart Tolle
http://www.eckharttolle.com/
... It is finding your true nature beyond
name and form. The inability to feel this connectedness
gives rise to the illusion of separation, from yourself
and from the world around you. You then perceive yourself,
consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated fragment.
Fear arises, and co
flict within and without becomes
the norm. ...
-- Eckhart Tollehttp://www.eckharttolle.com/
Adi Da Samraj wrote:
http://adidam.org/
Yes! There is no religion, no Way of God, no Way of Divine
Realization, no Way of Enlightenment, and no Way of
Liberation that is Higher or Greater than Truth Itself.
.... Therefore, Reality (Itself) Is Truth,
and Reality (Itself) Is the Only Truth.
-- Adi Da Samraj, a.k.a. "Bubba Free John",
a.k.a. "Da Free John", a.k.a. "Da Kalki",
a.k.a. "the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Love-Ananda Samraj",
a.k.a. "Franklin Jones"
http://adidam.org/
http://www.daplastique.com/home.html
Ram Dass <RDTapes@aol.com> wrote:
Let me share with you this little model I've worked out
about who we are as human beings. I call it the
"Three-Plane Consciousness Model." If I were to take a
picture of who I see you to be, the picture would show
three "I's" ---three different levels of who you are,
planes on which you have an identity.
Number One is what I call ego, that's the "I" we all
know very well, the plane of the body, mind, and
personality; of all those things we think we are.
Number Two I call the soul; the soul measures time not
in days and years but in incarnations, and it's the "I"
that was around before we as egos were born and that
will be around after we as egos die.
And Number Three is ... just Number Three. We all have
different names for it, and wars are fought over what
to call it, so I avoid all that by just calling it
Number Three.
I see our task as learning to live on more than one of
those planes simultaneously, experiencing ourselves as
egos and souls at the same time. And since "you gotta
be one to see one," once we are resting in our souls,
then we will see others as souls as well. Then when we
look into another person's we'll say, "Are you in there?
I'm in here. Far out!"
When we are able to look behind even that identity as
soul, we'll see that we have still another identity
because we are also Number Three.
That's the mystic "I," because in Number Three there's
actually only one of us. Your Number Three isn't merely
like my Number Three---They're the same thing.
-- Baba Ram Das, a.k.a. Richard Alpert
http://ramdasstapes.org/index.htm
_________
Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal
[ CSICON ] http://www.rawilson.com/csicon.shtml
C O N T A C T
http://neu-ark.net/contact.html
Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (Born 9 July 1918)
http://www.well.com/user/jct/mystiq1.htm
THE MYSTIQUE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Part One [Excerpt]
U.G. Krishnamurti
People call me an 'enlightened man' -- I detest that term -- they
can't find any other word to describe the way I am functioning.
At the same time, I point out that there is no such thing as
enlightenment at all. I say that because all my life I've searched
and wanted to be an enlightened man, and I discovered that there
is no such thing as enlightenment at all, and so the question
whether a particular person is enlightened or not doesn't arise.
I don't give a hoot for a sixth-century-BC Buddha, let alone all
the other claimants we have in our midst. They are a bunch of
exploiters, thriving on the gullibility of the people. There is
no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the
problem is fear and not God.
______________
I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to
realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes
as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have
invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in
the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover,
no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have
I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.
_______________
All kinds of things happened to me -- I went through that, you see.
The physical pain was unbearable -- that is why I say you really
don't want this. I wish I could give you a glimpse of it, a touch
of it -- then you wouldn't want to touch this at all. What you are
pursuing doesn't exist; it is a myth. You wouldn't want anything
to do with this.
UG: You see, I maintain that -- I don't know, whatever you call
this; I don't like to use the words 'enlightenment,' 'freedom,'
'moksha' or 'liberation'; all these words are loaded words, they
have a connotation of their own -- this cannot be brought about
through any effort of yours; it just happens. And why it happens
to one individual and not another, I don't know.
Questioner: So, it happened to you?
UG: It happened to me.
Q: When, Sir?
UG: In my forty-ninth year.
But whatever you do in the direction of whatever you are
after -- the pursuit or search for truth or reality -- takes
you away from your own very natural state, in which you always
are. It's not something you can acquire, attain or accomplish
as a result of your effort -- that is why I use the word 'acausal'.
It has no cause, but somehow the search come to an end.
Q: You think, Sir, that it is not the result of the search? I ask
because I have heard that you studied philosophy, that you were
associated with religious people ...
UG: You see, the search takes you away from yourself -- it is in
the opposite direction -- it has absolutely no relation.
Q: In spite of it, it has happened, not because of it?
UG: In spite of it -- yes, that's the word. All that you do makes
it impossible for what already is there to express itself. That is
why I call this 'your natural state'. You're always in that state.
What prevents what is there from expressing itself in its own way
is the search. The search is always in the wrong direction, so all
that you consider very profound, all that you consider sacred, is
a contamination in that consciousness. You may not (Laughs) like
the word 'contamination', but all that you consider sacred, holy
and profound is a contamination.
So, there's nothing that you can do. It's not in your hands.
I don't like to use the word 'grace', because if you use the
word 'grace', the grace of whom? You are not a specially chosen
individual; you deserve this, I don't know why.
If it were possible for me, I would be able to help somebody.
This is something which I can't give, because you have it.
Why should I give it to you? It is ridiculous to ask for a thing
which you already have.
Q: But I don't feel it, and you do.
UG: No, it is not a question of feeling it, it is not a question
of knowing it; you will never know. You have no way of knowing
that at all for yourself; it begins to express itself. There is
no conscious.... You see, I don't know how to put it. Never does
the thought that I am different from anybody come into my
consciousness. [...]
((({<snip>})))
Continued at: http://www.well.com/user/jct/Mystique.htm
The Archetype and the Beast '98
http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/arcbeast.htm
[~][^][~]
Disingenuous Demagogues Deteriorate Daily
All Politicians are Demagogues, yet not all
Demagogues are Politicians...
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Sagittarius assimilated by OUR Milky Way:
"Resistence Is Futile!"
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~mfs4n/sgr/
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T h e Y e z i d i s o f K u r d i s t a n
http://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/GnosisE.html
EARTHlights (by NASA):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp.jpg
~0~
"We're like a few bacteria
waiting for the next flush."
-- Peter Prehn
www.contemposcribe.com/cbcwash/centwashgeology.htm
~0~
ICE MEMORY by ELIZABETH KOLBERT
"Does a glacier hold the secret of how
civilization began--and how it may end?"
Excerpt:
"... Over the past decade or so, there has been a
shift--inevitably labelled a 'paradigm shift'--in
the way scientists regard the Earth's climate. The
new view goes under the catchphrase 'abrupt
climate change,' although it might more
evocatively be called neo-catastrophism, after the
old, Biblically inspired theories of flood and
disaster. Behind it lies no particular theoretical
insight--scientists have, in fact, been
hard-pressed to come up with a theory to make
sense of it--but it is supported by overwhelming
empirical evidence, much of it gathered in
Greenland. The Greenland ice cores have shown
that it is a mistake to regard our own, relatively
benign experience of the climate as the norm. By
now, the adherents of neo-catastrophism include
virtually every climatologist of any standing.
Abrupt climate changes occurred long before
there was human technology, and therefore have
nothing directly to do with what we refer to as
global warming. Yet the discovery that for most
of the past hundred thousand years the Earth's
climate has been in flux, changing not gradually, or
even incrementally, but violently and without
warning, can't help but cast the global-warming
debate in new terms. It is still possible to imagine
that the Earth will slowly heat up, and that the
landscape and the weather will gradually evolve in
response. But it is also possible that the change
will come, as it has in the past, in the form of
something much worse."
~0~
See also: North Greenland Ice core Project (NGRIP)
http://www.glaciology.gfy.ku.dk/ngrip/index_eng.htm
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED For 180 Light Year Round Trip Excursion!
[Estimated time of departure & arrival still under review]
Scientists Discover Planetary System Similar to Our Own:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0373.htm
"The small so-called grays ... are simply mature
human fetuses grown and tailored within artificial
wombs. I would assume that the reptilian and
insectoid humanoid entities reportedly seen by
some abductees are just other examples of
genetically engineered life forms culled
from reptilian and insect life forms on Earth."
-- Raymond Fowler
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/bio-fowler.htm
(Everybody 'wonders' about Raymond)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
B L U R ...
http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/beagle.html
An Atlas of The Universe
http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/
SDSS: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
http://www.sdss.org/
WMAP: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
LAMBDA: Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data
http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The Origins of the Fear of Death and Dying
http://primal-page.com/death.htm
Stuart Hameroff's Home Page:
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/hameroff/index.html
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/sunshine.jpg
Ommmmmmmm....
