Saturday, December 24, 2005

Shutup and Fight for US

Quote of the Day:

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever
has..."
~ Margaret Mead ~


I guess the people who believe bush is telling them the truth are just blind, deaf and dumb to the reality around them. Here is an article from a Military Mom who was harrassed by the US Army for creating a website supporting the troops and their families.

Read it. Think. Make up your own mind.

Letter From a Military Mom: Domestic Spying & Incident of Intimidation of Military Families


It wasn’t that long ago that the military command in Iraq started pulling computer access to various units. Seems some of the troops were writing emails home to family, to friends, to various anti-war groups and the like, and the military was getting a bit disconcerted by that. After all, can’t have your own troops pretty much turning the “official news” on its head now can you? So what do you do? You shut them up and any way that you can. Let them know they are monitored works pretty good.
But, what about the “moms” back home that are writing on the internet? Moms like Robin Vaughan, whose letter detailing her recent experiences with the Department of Defense and the Army is below.

Moms writing back and forth to “sons and daughters” in Iraq, who might “slip” and tell “mom” what life is really like in Iraq; Can’t have that now, can we? What if the “moms” start telling others what their sons and daughters are telling them (at least the ones that are still able to access a computer). Can’t have that people might turn against the war ON Iraq. I guess we better threaten and intimidate the moms so they’ll keep their mouths shut, stay off the internet and just go home and be a mom. Doesn’t matter to the military these moms only wanted to do what moms do, especially military moms, worry and take advantage of the internet to chat with sons and daughters.

This is pretty much what has happened to Robin Vaughan, the mother of a young man who was in Iraq. We have a DoD and Pentagon (military) that has become the foreign policy ‘setter’, and enforcement arm for the Bush/Cheney cabal--(you know, the guy who said, with a smirk, that he broke the law then pretty much asked, what are you going to do about it?)--that is now attempting to eliminate the rights, the very speech of a group of mothers with sons and daughters in Iraq.

Read Robin’s letter. Write her. Give her your support—what has been done to her and the other mothers in her group cannot go unanswered! This will only get worse the longer we delay in taking this nation back from the crooks, thugs in whose hands it now is in. Too many Iraqi’s; too many of our own; just too many, period have been killed and maimed already! Now moms are being threatened…what next? (Definitely a rhetorical question)

Robin’s letter came to me thru VAIW (Veterans Against the Iraq War). I have since exchanged a couple of emails with Robin and phone calls, and plan on helping her get this story out—read her letter and join me. –- Jack Dalton

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Letter From A Military "Mom": Domestic Spying & Incident of Intimidation of Military Families
Written by: Robin Vaughan

I am sending this letter to you in hope of finding a source to hear my concerns. It is something that has bothered me since the occurrence, and I know it is not something that should have happened, and I worry for my family's safety as I step out to speak about this.

During my son's deployment to Iraq, February 2004-February 2005: I created a small group website on MSN, for families and friends of our soldiers’ deployed unit. It was a membership only site, and we were a tight group of mostly "Moms", from all over the United States, just trying to make it through each day. The support and help we gave one another is a singular experience of grace, I will never forget.

During the first few months of our site, the Army decided to call every single family on the site, informing them, that the site was not to be used by any of the families. The Department of Defense called families in the middle of the night to notify them to not use the web site. Most of the families were near tears, thinking they were getting "THE" call telling them their child or loved one had been killed or injured.

The information received via the phone call was to inform the families that the base did not condone the site, nor [did] the Army, and that it was not to be used; the gist was, families were not allowed to use the site, or they could get into "trouble". Some members reported their soldier calling from Iraq, telling them to be careful about using the site as the Army was monitoring it.

As Web Mistress of the site, I needed to respond and qualify this information, as well as to educate this commanding officer as to the rights and liberties of a private web site; which I did. I was told I would have to let a commanding officer on the site to monitor the messages; I did allow this, but I also informed the officer that this was a courtesy, as there is no such law, or right of the military to monitor, shut down or exclude our web site.

I believe we received this order, and treatment for a couple of reasons.

Occasionally we would voice our concerns publicly over what our government was failing to do to help our soldiers, or we would share or argue political opinion as well. The second reason may be: the armed services all have a group of their own family type support (FRG); as we were not local to the base our soldiers deployed from, the site was a means to provide that support, as best as we could.

The support group at our base, tried to force the site to be given over to them, which I refused. At this time I was told, I might want to be careful, as the government was monitoring the site as well. Soldiers in our unit, while in Iraq, were telling their parents to stay off of the site, or to be very careful of what they wrote. This came from a rear detachment officer in charge, and members on the site.

I reminded the Army I am a private citizen, not on base, with a private site making no claims to have any affiliation with any branch of service, but clearly stating we were families and friends of our unit in support of one another. We were treated to power by intimidation. It isn't hard to make that work, when you have someone's child in a war zone.

We were a group of 77 families from all over the country, at the time of the call. Every single family was phoned and told not to use the site; and I believe some 150 other families were phoned as well, as it was an official order from a commanding officer.

I have waited to speak of this situation until my son was home safe and sound, and also after his transfer to another base. Yes, I was afraid of repercussions that could have harmed him, one way or another. I called my local senator's office, 4 months ago, following up every 10 days to 2 weeks, and still have no answers or support.

I admit I am not comfortable writing this, as required to, as I am still concerned for my son and the other soldiers and families involved on the site. We didn't endanger them by means of displaying their photos with their names, giving up information about their location and actions. We were very careful to not breach Intel protocol, learning Ops protocol, as well as respecting and complying with it. We simply were at times, vocal about our displeasure with our president and government for how our military was being treated, or how the presidential election was being handled.

There are literally hundreds of military family, private support groups on the Internet. I truly believe we were singled out because of my refusal to hand the site over to the local F.R.G., as well as [my] outspoken political beliefs.

It's simply amazing that my son and others risk their lives for ”Freedom" in Iraq, when his own mother's civil liberties are threatened, and families are intimidated into silence, by the very same Army he is serving. I am hoping after reading this you may direct me as to where I can at least have this concern heard. Basically, are the following common practice, and legal?



**The Armed services can order families from communicating in a private forum?
**The Armed services can threaten private citizens’ first amendment rights?

I want to make sure this is not happening to other service member's families. We live in a hell everyday during the deployment of our loved ones; we don't need the added bullying or stripping away our means of helping one another.

Any idea or direction you can point me in would be greatly appreciated. Also, this problem can be corroborated by other families if need be.

Why did it take so long for me to step forward?

Originally I contacted my Senators office, with no reply for six months, and have also spoken with the A.C.L.U; (with little hope of action due to the length of time that has passed) but until now was not willing to come forward in a public way. It took until September for my son to be safely stationed at another base, and other family's service members to either be out of the service all together, or be transferred as well.



We were afraid for their safety, our own, our relationships with them and their future in the service, all of these things could have been affected, and we couldn’t chance one more problem or pressure being added to the already heavy load the families and soldiers live with. The intimidation worked. Is this just something silly I should let go?

It doesn't seems trivial to me, but I am learning unless it happens to someone personally, no one seems to care.

Thank you, for your time

Robin Vaughan
MomRobin7@msn.com

Monday, December 19, 2005

Fool Me Twice? What a Sham Shame.

Quote of the Day:

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
~ Michel De Montaigne ~


He's still lying and scheming and smiling to our faces while dealing out death and raking in the dollars.

Who? bush of course.

Now he wants the country to believe that the Invasion of Iraq is morally right and a fight that can be won. Just take a look at the collection of articles here to get an idea of what is being reported as coming out of his smirking mouth.

The thing is ... people believe him. Yes, they believe him when he says forgive me. They think he being truthful and contrite.

I think they need to be exposed to these two articles which the pathocrats who lie and the people who believe them to get an understanding of how they are being bamboozeled by a boozer and manipulated by a murderer.


Sunday, December 18, 2005

Lie Pie

Quote of the Day

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now --
always.
~ Albert Schweitzer ~

Doug Thompson of Capital Hill Blues speculates on how and why Bush has decided to 'tell the truth.' Maybe he is not speculating; maybe he has solid inside info that is the basis for his article.

Dec 14, 2005, 07:14

As the dank grayness of late fall and early winter settled in over the Nation’s Capital, a winter storm of its own raged inside the White House.

George W. Bush’s senior advisors, frantic over what to do about the President’s plummeting approval numbers, argued over conflicting strategies. The President’s attempt to use Veterans Day as a rallying cry for his war in Iraq, fell flat on a skeptical public and attempts to paint Democratic Congressman John Murtha, an honored Vietnam war veteran, as unpatriotic brought disapproval.

In conversations with White House aides, GOP advisors and others close to the Bush administration, all of whom insist on anonymity for fear of retaliation from a President who views such actions as treason, a portrait of a White House torn by turf battles and finger pointing emerges. Yet, amid all this debate, a classic case of “good cop/bad cop” political strategy emerged.

Presidential Chief of Staff Andrew Card, considered one of the saner voices within the administration, argued against attacking Murtha or other planned attempts by Presidential political guru Karl Rove to paint Democrats as cowards for opposing the war in Iraq.

Card, instead, pushed a plan to put Bush on the road with a new series of speeches where the President would admit some mistakes in the Iraq war but argue that the U.S. must remain committed to the war and see it through.

The plan angered Rove who never wants the President to admit error.

“Admitting mistakes is a sign of weakness,” Rove argued. “George W. Bush's strong points are his leadership, his steadfastness, his resolve. You can’t weaken that with a ‘we were wrong’ strategy.”

Rove wanted to step up attacks on Democrats, castigating them for advocating withdrawal from Iraq and painting them as un-American for opposing the war.

“We’ve tried that,” Card shot back. “It didn’t work.”

Rove argued that the plan would work if the White House didn’t quit changing strategy every time new poll numbers came in.

Bush, forced to choose between conflicting plans from two trusted aides, decided to give Card’s idea a try. His first speech met with lukewarm views but his poll numbers showed a slight bump. So the White House booked more speeches with Bush showing determination mixed with just enough admission of error.


Some might find the information fascinating. I think it is terrifying. These are the actions of psychopaths. And they are not just running this country, they are ruling the world.

In her book, "The Sociopath Next Door," Dr. Martha Stout describes Conscience as the Seventh Sense and states:

"When conscience falls into a profound trance, when it sleeps through acts of torture, war and genocide, political leaders and other prominent individuals can make the difference between a gradual reawakening of our seventh sense and a continued amoral nightmare. History teaches that attitudes and plans coming from the top dealing pragmatically with problems of hardship and insecurity in the group, rather than scapegoating an out group, can help us return to a more realistic view of the "others." In time, moral leadership can make a difference.

But history shows us also that a leader with no seventh sense can hypnotize the group conscience still further, redoubling catastrophe. Using fear-based propaganda to amplify a destructive ideology, such a leader can bring the members of a frightened society to the It's as the sole impediment to the good life, for themselves and maybe even for humanity as a whole, and the conflict as an epic battle between good and evil.

Once these beliefs have been disseminated, crushing the It's without pity or conscience can, with chilling ease, become an incontrovertible mandate."


The success of the psychopath is based upon who believes the story. From what I have observed Bush, Sharon, the Neocons, Rove and every single one of the political figures involved in past and current evil have been very successful. I see believers in my family, in acquaintances, in strangers.

Yes, very successful indeed. They are all eating Lie Pie.

They simply can not believe in real evil. And so, they think Bush has turned over a new leaf, asked for forgiveness. All the while he is revving up the chain saw and getting ready to attack.

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Earth's Magnetic Pole Drifting

Quote of the Day:

The oldest & strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
~ H.P. Lovecraft ~


Feel like your running around in circles and can't concentrate? Your not alone. Even the earth, as evidenced by 'wierd weather' and a Gulf Stream that is having trouble staying on it's usual path. The magnetic pole also seems to be in the midst of an 'identity crisis' as reported in an article from Newsday.

By ALICIA CHANG
AP Science Writer

December 9, 2005, 7:28 PM EST

SAN FRANCISCO -- Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday.

Despite accelerated movement over the past century, the possibility that Earth's modestly fading magnetic field will collapse is remote. But the shift could mean Alaska may no longer see the sky lights known as auroras, which might then be more visible in more southerly areas of Siberia and Europe.

The magnetic poles are part of the magnetic field generated by liquid iron in Earth's core and are different from the geographic poles, the surface points marking the axis of the planet's rotation.

Scientists have long known that magnetic poles migrate and in rare cases, swap places. Exactly why this happens is a mystery.

"This may be part of a normal oscillation and it will eventually migrate back toward Canada," Joseph Stoner, a paleomagnetist at Oregon State University, said Thursday at an American Geophysical Union meeting.

Previous studies have shown that the strength of the Earth's magnetic shield has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years. During the same period, the north magnetic pole wandered about 685 miles out into the Arctic, according to a new analysis by Stoner.

The rate of the magnetic pole's movement has increased in the last century compared to fairly steady movement in the previous four centuries, the Oregon researchers said.

At the present rate, the north magnetic pole could swing out of northern Canada into Siberia. If that happens, Alaska could lose its Northern Lights, which occur when charged particles streaming away from the sun interact with different gases in Earth's atmosphere.

Are you familiar with the writings of Edgar Cayce? He and others like him have predicted a pole shift and various scenarios involving earth changes.

Why is it so hard for some to think these actions of nature are impossible? One word - Uniformitarianism or the theory that science and evolution proceed at a slow and steady pace. The idea that cataclysm could be an instigator for change is frightening. The thought that it could occur within our lifetime is a source of nightmares.

Here is a bit from the link just mentioned to help churn the compost pile.

Both Herodotus and Plato are explicit in saying that the phenomenon is dual natured, that something happens "out there" and the results on the earth are cataclysmic. Herodotus says that it happened four times in an 11 thousand year period, and Plato says that it is an ever-recurring phenomenon.

As also noted, interpreters of these passages generally divide into two groups: the catastrophists and the uniformitarians. The catastrophists suggest that the description is that of a literal 180 degree flip of the earth. Comte George Louis Buffon, an eighteenth century naturalist, proposed a scientific theory of polar shifts to account for the evidence of a warm climate having once existed in the Arctic, as shown by the fossils of trees and tropical creatures. Jean-Jacques Rousseau adopted this idea as an explanation for the evolution of mankind; a pole shift that initiated seasons would force human beings to build shelters, migrate to new lands, develop their skills and so on.

But modern science was rapidly moving away from catastrophism under the influence of Laplace and Lyell. Through their writings, the ideas of the steady-state of the universe and the peaceful, gradual changing of the earth were firmly established in science. It was at this point that the bifurcation in interpretations occurred, and material science established the uniformitarian view, while catastrophism was consigned to the realm of "fringe science" or occultism.

Nevertheless, through an interesting series of events, the "uniformitarian" view made its way into "fringe science" and occultism as well! Such groups explain that the "pole shift" is merely "astrological" world ages based on the precession of the equinoxes. This means that the change of the sun's rising, as described by Plato and Herodotus, relates only to its shift through the signs of the zodiac. So, the sun having moved "four times from his accustomed place of rising" in the allotted period is just noting the fact that the sun has precessed through four signs of the zodiac. [A third view is that the ancients just kept renaming the directions and there was nothing cosmic in these ideas at all, but we aren't concerned with that ridiculous suggestion here.] These "occult uniformitarians" are still active today, as we will see.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Cycles - Heating Up

Quote of the Day:

And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and dawn
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we con only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game.

~ Joni Mitchell ~


CNN reports on a study conducted by the UK's National Oceanography Centre.
"The Atlantic Ocean's flow between the tropics and cold, northern waters appears to be weakening, which could drastically alter the weather in Europe, a newly released study shows.

The findings, published in the journal Nature, found that the Atlantic Conveyor flow slowed by about 30 percent between 1957 and 2004.

The cycle of flow, technically known as the "Atlantic meridional overturning current," plays a key role in warming northern Europe.

This conveyor belt process "brings heat northward, gives it up to the atmosphere, and we benefit in England from having the winds pick up this heat and blow ... relatively warmer air over us," said oceanographer Harry Bryden, one of the study's authors. "So that's what gives us a good climate even in wintertime in England."

Bryden said that climate models suggest that if the Atlantic Conveyor shut down, temperatures in northwest Europe could drop by 4 to 6 degrees Celsius, or about 10 degrees Fahrenheit, in 20 years.

The Atlantic Conveyor works because the cold water of the North Atlantic gets saltier and more dense, causing it to sink to the bottom of the ocean and flow south.

Warmer surface water then flows north from the tropics until it gets cold and sinks Then the process starts over.

"Overall, there was a reduction in the net northward transport of warm upper waters, and a reduction also in the net amount of southward transport of cold, deep waters," Bryden said.

Scientists have predicted that global warming could disrupt the current. Melting ice caps would add freshwater to the ocean, which would reduce seawater salinity, which in turn reduces seawater density. Less dense water would reduce the flow."


The Gulf Stream, AKA Atlantic Conveyer, is cooling off due to ice melt caused by Global Warming. In the meantime, here's a report from this past July concerning a Santa Barbara 'hot spot.'
Posted July 11, 2005 at 7:50 a.m.
Mysterious Hot Spot Sparks Fire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) --

Scientists are puzzled by a mysterious Los Padres National Forest hot spot where 400-degree ground ignited a wildfire.

The hot spot was discovered by fire crews putting out a three-acre fire last summer in the forest's Dick Smith Wilderness.

"They saw fissures in the ground where they could feel a lot of heat coming out," Los Padres geologist Allen King said. "It was not characteristic of a normal fire."

Fire investigators went back to the canyon days later and stuck a candy thermometer into the ground. It hit the top of the scale, at 400 degrees.


Strange events on the Big Blue Marble? Maybe not. Perhaps the huge compost pile of 'human experience in the form of cycles is being reflected in phenomena occuring on the earth.

Saturday, December 03, 2005

Brick by Brick

Quote of the Day:

"
The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide."
~
Michael Rivero ~


From Signs of the Times:

The United States was facing mounting embarrassment as allegations continued to emerge of a shadowy network of both secret prison camps and CIA "torture flights" carrying undeclared detainees through European and other countries.

In the latest such report the British newspaper The Guardian said Thursday it had seen navigation logs showing that more than 300 flights operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency had passed through European airports, as part of a network that could be involved in the clandestine detention and possible torture of terrorism suspects.


Of course this will be vehemently defended by the Bush regime as one of the ways they help keep the Peace and spread Demopcracy. Isn't it interesting that three years prior to this report, in May of 2002, Bush 'unsigned' the agreement which forms the International Criminal Court?

It looks like they knew all along what they wanted, and were going, to do. Is it premeditated? Another piece of the puzzle? After all, they have said they will create reality.

Read the article from 2002 and then think about the other treaties which have been torn to shreds by the US Administration and Neocons. Here are some examples compiled by "The Mother Earth News."

1. In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.

2. In July 2001 the US walked out of a London conference to discuss a 1994 protocol designed to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. At Geneva in November 2001, US Undersecretary of State John Bolton stated that "the protocol is dead," at the same time accusing Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, and Syria of violating the Convention but offering no specific allegations or supporting evidence.

3. Refused to join 123 nations pledged to ban the use and production of anti-personnel bombs and mines, February 2001.

4. Kyoto Protocol of 1997, for controlling global warming: declared "dead" by President Bush in March 2001.

5. Refused to participate in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)-sponsored talks in Paris, May 2001, on ways to crack down on off-shore and other tax and money-laundering havens.

6. September 2001: withdrew from International Conference on Racism, bringing together 163 countries in Durban, South Africa.

7. The US has signed but not ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which protects the economic and social rights of children. The only other country not to ratify is Somalia, which has no functioning government.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

The State of the World - Political Ponerology

Quote of the Day:

"
The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
~ Albert Einstein ~


An article in the UK Guardian asks "Is there a way out of Iraq for President Bush?"

There is a remarkable article in the latest issue of the American Jewish weekly, Forward. It calls for President Bush to be impeached and put on trial "for misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 BC sent his legions into Germany and lost them".

To describe Iraq as the most foolish war of the last 2,014 years is a sweeping statement, but the writer is well qualified to know.

He is Martin van Creveld, a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the world's foremost military historians. Several of his books have influenced modern military theory and he is the only non-American author on the US Army's list of required reading for officers.

The Signs has this explanation:

Professor Crevald asks Why President Bush "nevertheless decided to go to war escapes me and will no doubt preoccupy historians to come," can easily be answered if one considers the ideas of Dr. Andrew Lobczewski.

I shall accept the denomination of “pathocracy” for a system of government thus created, wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people. The name thus selected above all underscores the basic quality of the macro social psychopathological phenomenon, which differentiates it from the many possible social systems dominated by normal people’s structure, custom, and law.[...]

If the many managerial positions of a government are assumed by individuals deprived of sufficient abilities to feel and understand most other people and who also have deficiencies as regards technical imagination and practical skills - faculties indispensable for governing economic and political matters - this must result in an exceptionally serious crisis in all areas, both within the country in question and with regard to international relations.[...]

The following question thus suggests itself: what happens if the network of understandings among psychopaths achieves power in leadership positions with international exposure? This can happen, especially during the later phases of the phenomenon. Goaded by their character, such people thirst for just that [international exposure] even though it would conflict with their own life interest… They do not understand that a catastrophe would ensue. Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing.[...]

Pathocracy is a disease of great social movements followed by entire societies, nations, and empires. In the course of human history, it has affected social, political, and religious movements as well as the accompanying ideologies… and turned them into caricatures of themselves…. This occurred as a result of the … participation of pathological agents in a pathodynamically similar process. That explains why all the pathocracies of the world are, and have been, so similar in their essential properties. [...]

The actions of [pathocracy] affect an entire society, starting with the leaders and infiltrating every town, business, and institution. The pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country creating a “new class” within that nation. This privileged class [of pathocrats] feels permanently threatened by the “others”, i.e. by the majority of normal people. Neither do the pathocrats entertain any illusions about their personal fate should there be a return to the system of normal man. [Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Ph.D. (psychology);


Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes Available from Red Pill Press in early 2006]