Apples, Lies and Assassination

Quote of the Day:
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
~ Plutarch ~

Every gardner pulls weeds. Those who tend the inner garden of Truth are no exception. There is, however, a huge gulf between weeding a regular garden and a garden trying to nurture the Soul. The lies found in the inner garden kill.

Lies kill through manipulation, subversion, deception, and often direct emotions towards unspeakable acts. Such a scene is, at this very moment, taking place in the Middle East.

The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has been blamed on Syria. Why? Such an act would elevate Syria to a position which could bring the wrath of the world to it's doorstep.

Who benefits from such a horrendous deed? Certainly not Syria. The Syrian government was just beginning negotiations with Israel for apples grown by Arab farmers in the Golan Heights.

Recently, Syria has been engaged in trying to rebuild it's position in the Middle East.

Syria to Host Meeting of Israel’s Neighbors

DAMASCUS, 11 February 2005 — Syria is to host a five-way meeting of all Israel’s neighbors following this week’s peace summit in Egypt to which it was not invited, Foreign Minister Faroul Al-Shara said yesterday.

“Our colleagues wanted such a gathering held in Damascus, so we are going to host it, maybe very soon,” Shara told reporters after talks with his Jordanian counterpart Hani Mulki. Mulki said Jordan was keen to see the momentum from Tuesday’s summit in Sharm El-Sheikh carried forward to all the tracks of the Middle East peace process.

“We discussed supporting the peace process on the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese tracks,” he said. Neither Lebanon nor Syria were invited to the talks in Egypt, at which Israel and the Palestinians agreed a mutual cease-fire, but host President Hosni Mubarak expressed hope at the meeting of a resumption of talks on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks.

Shara told Syria’s official SANA news agency yesterday that Damascus was happy with the progress made at Sharm El-Sheikh.

“Syria welcomes the efforts aimed at ending the suffering of the Palestinian people and allowing it to set up an independent state, as well as establishing a just and lasting peace in the region,” he said.

Late last year, Syria announced that it was ready to resume without precondition peace talks with Israel which broke off in early 2000. Previously it had insisted that the talks take up where they left off — with what it insists was a firm, if unwritten, Israeli commitment to withdraw from the whole of the Golan Heights, captured in the 1967 Middle East war and unilaterally annexed in 1981.

Meanwhile, a senior United Nations envoy said yesterday he had held highly encouraging talks with the Syrian president about a UN resolution calling for Syrian troops to pull out of neighboring Lebanon.

“I am encouraged and hopeful and look with optimism forward toward the fulfilment of my assignment,” Terje Roed-Larsen, sent to oversee implementing the controversial resolution, told reporters after meeting President Bashar Assad in Damascus.

Syria is ready to talk to Israel concerning the Golan Heights and wants to "end the suffering of the Palestinian people?" Nope, can't let that happen.

Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz has been quoted as saying his assessment was "that a pro-Syrian group murdered Hariri because of his opposition to the Syrian presence." The US has recalled it's ambassador from Damasacus and is threatening serious sanctions against Syria.

Blame the victim is a favorite method used by Psychopaths to create an image of the hero or guardian of all that is good and true.

"For sure, it is not in Syria's interest for Lebanon to be rocked by such a massive security breach. After all Syria is responsible for Lebanon's security," the leading Saudi newspaper al-Watan said in an editorial.

Iran said Israel, which invaded the Lebanese capital in 1982, had the resources to carry out the attack. Security sources said the bomb which killed Hariri had the explosive power of 300 kg (660 pounds) of dynamite.

"An organised terrorist entity like that of the Zionist regime has the capability to carry out such operations and it targets breaking unity and solidarity in Lebanon," a state-owned Iranian newspaper quoted the foreign ministry as saying.

The Economist has stated, "Some detect the work of an intelligence service—if not Syria’s, some other foreign power’s—in the method of the attack. Certainly, the size and sophistication of the bomb suggest it was the work of a well-organised and experienced group, or a government. The blast was big enough to leave a huge crater and shatter windows hundreds of metres away. Moreover, it was sophisticated enough to defeat jamming mechanisms, which the billionaire Mr Hariri’s convoy always used while travelling, to forestall such remotely triggered attacks. Mr Hariri, who made his fortune in construction in Saudi Arabia, knew he had many enemies and took what countermeasures he could."

"While the US and Israel both make much of their bogus "war on terrorism", both countries have long since realized that it is by fomenting "terrorism" and "terrorist" groups that their control of the Middle East can be assured."

The emotional response in Lebanon, ignited and fanned by propaganda, could grow into another inferno in the Middle East.

Look! Up in the Sky! It's... A Bottle of HAARP?

Quote of the Day: "I was determined to know beans."
~ Henry David Thoreau ~


The deep freeze of winter places many a garden on hold. There is nothing much to be done when the beds are covered with snow. Planning for the spring day when you can throw on the compost and turn the soil is accompanied by perusing seed catalogues and reading the old gardening logs to make sure you plant the beans and peas in a new space.

The monochromatic winter in New England is sometimes broken up by the aurora borealis. A show which turns the sky green, red, gold and white, the aurora was a welcomed site. Friends would make arrangements to call each other when the sky lit up and everyone would enjoy the ballet dance of light. If the phone rang at three in the morning you were fairly certain it was from an aurora watch member. Slinging on a coat over your shoulders and quickly stepping into warm slippers, you would rush outside to see the brilliance in the sky.

The days of au natural auroras in Vermont, affectionately called the crunchy granola state by some locals, may be numbered. An article at Live Science reports that the aurora ain't what it used to be. Scientists, the article says, are messing about with the upper atmosphere by "shooting intense radio beams into the night sky" from an antenna array in Alaska called HAARP to create a light show. They speculate it could be used "to light a city or generate celestial advertisements."

Yep, you read that right. Advertising in the night sky by manipulating one of natures wonders, the Aurora Borealis. Whats next? Banner ads spanning the Grand Canyon? Or maybe the heads on Mount Rushmore speaking the latest stock qoutes?

True to form I conducted a search to find out more.

It turns out that the HAARP experiment is not just going to be used for commercial purposes. What I read at Laura Knight-Jadczyk's site was, once again, very interesting and gave me a bit of a shock. Very thoughtful and well researched article.

It is not, in my opinion, too far out or fringe to think that the next step to manipulating people will be through direct control of their minds. Heck, the major religions have been doing this for hundreds of years. And, I might add, have been very successful. They ask you to believe in a product which has no guarantee. Show me some real evidence. Not the so called miracles or scriptural verses either. Objective facts are what I am looking for, not emotional maneuvers.

A lot of my crunchy granola friends in Vermont will be very disappointed if they step outside some night and see an a bottle of HAARP floating in the sky. Most of them, myself included, are aficionados of Guinness.

Signs Of the Times

Quote of the Day:
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
~ M. Gandhi ~

Lt. general James Mattis is in hot water. On Feb 3, during a press conference, he mentioned how much fun it was to "shoot some people." While he did not actually say the word 'kill,' and compared shooting to brawling, his idea of fun did not appeal to the public. The article says the audience applauded and laughed. They seem to have a very warped sense of humor. Or perhaps they remember how it much fun it is to play video games.

Video games have come a long way since the appearance of Pac-Man and Donkey Kong in the eighties. Gaming grew with computer technology, becoming more intricate and realistic. Graphics in games now show blood spurting out and hitting the wall or the shooter. The character who pulled the trigger calmly walks on looking for another hit to raise the score of the player. Even the plot of Spyro, a game for children, revolves around killing enemies for points.

The US army is always looking for ways to recruit. Their buddies, in the US Navy Grad School, wrote a game for them. Can't think of a better way than to show how much fun it is to shoot people. In 2002, the Army released "America's Army." A relationship between the game and recruitment strategies can easily be seen. An Army spokesman even says

"The two games will cost about $7 million to design and to maintain 140 servers for online play, according to Lt. Col. Casey Wardynski, director of the Army's internal consulting team. That's about the same as a new M1A3 tank, and less than one-half of one percent of the Army's recruitment budget.

Given the high cost of persuading teenagers to join the Armed Forces, Wardynski figures the expense will have been worth it if an additional 300-400 enlist as a result of the game.

"In World War II, we had newsreels. Then came TV ads. More recently we've had banners. This is just the next step," said Wardynski, who also teaches economics at West Point."

Thats just dandy. If the indoctrination begins at a young enough age, by the time a child reaches 18 they could be psychologically and emotionally immune to pulling the trigger.

Do you think there is any difference between this game and Grand Theft Auto? A lot of people seem to think so. GTA is rated by the Entertainment Software Rating Board as suitable for mature audiences. It contains blood, gore, intense violence, sexual content and use of drugs. The army site is for teens and only exposes a player to blood and violence.

The game has spread all over the world and, in case a kid doesn't speak English, can be played in multiple languages. Join a clan and be a part of a team. Receive "challenging Green beret training" with "special forces equipment and military hardware" and authentic military experience. It's a snipers dream and sounds a lot like Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" to me.

The last link on the home page is to the US Army recruitment site. Sometime in the near future, anyone clicking this link could receive a 'Welcome to the US Army! Please report to...' letter.

Now I am going to check my PC for spyware. The America's Army site logged my zip code and who knows what else.

Ha Ha Just kidding. I think... Or is it one more of the many Signs of the Times? Read the last link to find out more. Knowledge Protects. The Truth is out there.

WYSIWYG or Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Pamela Anderson Save the Day????

Quote of the Day:
"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it." ~ James A. Michener ~

A recent article on the most frequently requested terms from search engines in 2004 has noted a total lack of interest in world affairs since Nero supposedly fiddled while Rome burned. Nero did not have a fiddle but he did fiddle about with the emotions of the Roman citizens for his own purposes by manipulating them with bread and circuses.

WYSIWYG is, in case you don't know, an acronym for What you see is what you get. In this case it pertains to making a choice to ignore the situation of the world at the current time. The article mentioned above is a rather scathing review of what terms were searched for on the internet. The author states, "It is a fascinating, albeit unflattering snapshot of what occupies our time, attention, and curiosity here at the beginning of the 21st century." He also wonders why the war on Iraq, the economy and the presidential election are not in the top ten list of searches.

What's wrong with celebrities being in the top searches? This is, after all, the USA. And part of relaxing means 250 channels of sports, Orange County Choppers, Opera Winfrey, Emeril, decorating with HGTV, Home Shopping, talk shows with a vengeance, celebrity watching and preachers helping lost souls to salvation. Why should US citizens search the internet for information pertaining to the real situation in the world? The media will tell us all that we need to know. The "president" knows what he is doing and will lead us. All is right with the world.

Internet research can lead to the most interesting places. I have to confess. I am an internet search addict. In the years since I bought my first computer, the internet has provided a rich source of information in my quest for Truth. For years I trod through a landscape of bright promises which detailed how the Earth could be saved, and everyone would be happy together. It was a lot like going to church minus the fire and brimstone. I came to understand that words like these are like prayers to a deaf god and for thousands of years have remained unanswered.

While reading the articles on the biggest free library in the world a problem arose. How do you know when you have found a Truth? What are the clues? Do bells ring or a warm fuzzy, good feeling develop inside? Separating the Truth from disinformation or outright lies is a monumental task. Subjectively viewing information based upon what you want to see can result in even more confusion. Believe me, trying to figure out what is bunk and what is real research had my head spinning in ways that even my chiropractor couldn't help.

How can a person learn to recognize Truth when, from the moment the take their first breath, society, family, religion and other assorted tools of culture write the template for their belief systems? No one really gets a chance or a choice to make up their own mind. It is all done for them on a level that is so deeply embedded into their psyche that they don't even realize it is not their idea.

How the heck can a person trust what they are finding and reading when Truth is twisted and dressed up with Lies? Can a person learn to separate from the programs and modifications made to their mind? Can an objective point of view be reached by recognizing the chemical cocktail of emotions and refusing to allow to interfere with thinking?

Are the majority of individuals in the US really as empty headed as the search engine results would lead one to believe? Does everyone have their head in the sand, refusing to see the catastrophes which will effect every living creature in the world?

Humanity appears to be moving through a momentous cycle of change, encompassing chaos and confusion, death and destruction. Why? Conspiracies have existed since the time of Cain and Abel. Facts of history have been altered to support the illusion. It’s no longer a question of whether or not deception occurs - it does - but whether a sufficient number of people can see through the deceptions.

How can the "man" who lives in the White House and his corporate buddies bamboozle an entire nation into believing total lies which have claimed the lives of thousands of innocents?

Is there anyone else out there searching who is able to differentiate between Truth and Lies?

A lot of questions without answers. Until another search took me to the website of a woman who was asking the same questions. Her name is Laura Knight-Jadczyk and what she has to say makes a lot of sense.

Last year, on Holloween, she wrote a particularly interesting editorial which asks some questions similar to those posed above and answers them in a lively style that is easy to read and understand.

"How can anybody be sure of anything in this day and time when the world seems to have gone mad and we find ourselves collectively in the position of the hero/heroine of the horror movie who hears a noise. Indeed, the audience can see that the monster is lurking in the bushes (no pun intended) just outside the door, the soundtrack is heavy with ominous portent, and with innocent naivete and a handy flashlight, the star of the movie puts his or her hand on the doorknob. The audience groans with the agony of knowing and collectively shouts "DON'T OPEN THE DOOR!"

Interesting way to illustrate subjective and objective points of view, yes? If, of course, you are sitting in the audience and not in the middle of the horror. The show is real and running everyday here on the face of the Earth. We're not in the audience anymore. We are in the movie. Making choices based upon what you want to see could lead to big problems.

There is probably published research (I know it's out there; just haven't searched yet) which could be used to check the age of the people who placed Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Pamela Anderson in the top ten internet searches for 2004. They might be young and not interested in the state of the world. OTOH, there appears to be an awful lot of adults who prefer to see the world through rosy glasses. But looking at the world from within a personal framework that does not take into account the objective view of reality could lead to unpleasant results.

How would you like to choose a school for your child based upon a neighbors opinion only to discover it was ranked lowest of all the schools in the state? Do you listen to the salesman's pitch and buy the car or do you ask questions and do research before going to the showroom? Living in today's world is very similar to these scenarios. WYSIWYG. Knight-Jadczyk describes it this way:

"In short, everyone who "believes" in an attempt to "create reality" that is different from what IS, increases the chaos and entropy. If your beliefs are orthogonal to the truth, no matter how strongly you believe them, you are essentially coming into conflict with how the Universe views itself and I can assure you, you ain't gonna win that contest. You are inviting destruction upon yourself and all who engage in this "staring down the universe" exercise with you."

"On the other hand, if you are able to view the Universe as it views itself, objectively, without blinking, and with acceptance, you then become more "aligned" with the Creative energy of the universe and your very consciousness becomes a transducer of order. Your energy of observation, given unconditionally, can bring order to chaos, can create out of infinite potential."

The Cassiopaea website is a treasure trove containing thousands of pages of fascinating reading for free. Anyone who has asked themselves "What is going on?" will be able to connect with Mrs. Knight-Jadczyk's years of personal questioning which have lead to real scientific research. Wishful thinking that we will all be saved by something or someone out there is not her style. She presents facts. It is up to the reader to choose what they will do with the information.

If your looking for information, I highly recommend the writings of Laura Knight-Jadczyk, her husband, Arkadiusz Jadczyk and the Quantum Future Group. From the esoteric to the mundane their words are worth reading. In a world gone mad the explanations found on this website are similar to seeing the first crocus blooming in the middle of a snow covered garden.