From language@webpal.org Tue Aug 12 04:43:52 2003 Received: from bbeach (d127.gocom.ca [209.135.104.127]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h7C8hoJB009107 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 04:43:51 -0400 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 04:39:22 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: [Arktwo] Ring of Fire - Try 3 Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: You are living in the Ring of Fire. Much is made of the earth changes taking place on the Pacific Rim reflecting earth's very core while the Sun has become exceptionally active. Meteorologists mostly observing that annual weather patterns have become very extreme and unpredictable. New records are being set in many parts our old world. How exactly exceptional geological movements the weather cycles or the Sun cycles may be remains hard to say since man has tracked them centuries at most and they do have million year periods. There remains a mystical relationship between the social activities of man and the extreme activity of Nature. It is mankind's social activity that is exhibiting the great change from what has been the normal all the long centuries past. It is all mankind's social activity that is showing the most deviation with the most accelerated rate from what has been the past norm. Truly a typhoon of activity - and earth shaking events. And you are living at the center of the storm - in the middle of the Ring of Fire. Tween' East and Mid East- stands America. The earth shakes and all shall shake with it. America is presently the calm center - the one point of great desired stability peace and great prosperity - the desired refuge of millions as the world society rocks, rattles, and rolls about it. The calm center in the Ring of Fire - but when all erupts about it also the simultaneous focal point of those forces that will be unleashed. So sit upon the creeping earthquake fault - and do live upon the rumbling volcano- at the center of the unstable sea within this Ring of World fire as a world shifts its gears. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpalp.org From language@webpal.org Sat Aug 16 09:43:50 2003 Received: from bbeach (d116.gocom.ca [209.135.104.116]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h7GDhmNt003729 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:43:49 -0400 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:39:16 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: [Arktwo] Paranoia Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Okay, so I was raided. For those of you who don't know - it was back in 99' with 7 police vehicles 4 fire vehicles and 40 personnel. We called ourselves Waco North. Someone later sent me a government organizational suspect list that had been published and we had made the list. I stopped flying long ago. Even stopped auto border crossings a couple of years ago. Received intensive surveillance even before 9-11. Some may remember some of my exciting experiences about crossing with radiation detection equipment before then but even before 9-11 when I reached the inspection booth the guard would hold up the traffic and concentratedly study the screen for several minutes before letting us proceed. Pretty obvious. Although I have no idea what they were reading. So, during the blackout in the middle of when I was talking to my friend who is a consultant at a Major Nuclear Generating facility in the US - the phone SUDDENLY went dead as he explained some technical details to me - I thought - "Oh, oh! - I have been bugged and cut." Went down to the corner store - and yep - their phone was still on. Just the village phones were out. I figured I had gotten the village knocked off because the cut would not be on just my line but from the main green box or the rather the circuit from the central office to that main green box. (I used to be a central office telephone engineer with the largest manufacturer in the US.) Further checking found the phone on at the auto repairs garage - and so forth. Yep, I figured they had gotten me. Paranoia. My wife takes her finger and draws little circles up by her forehead when I tell the story. But anyway, it is a good story. However, I later learned that my daughter's phone and numbers of others farther away had gone out also. Before that - The Toronto Sun had called and interviewed me for about 20 minutes about how prepared for this we were. Yep, we were prepared. Sitting there with my battery powered radio - flushing the toilet with water from the stream - flashlights at the ready for nightfall - even sandwich in hand when he called. Yep, I told him, if it went on for days we had enough food supplies to feed the neighbors for a week or two if that should become critical. I was expecting it to last 3-4 days, given the experience of other major outages - the one in 1965, the Quebec Ice Storm a couple of years ago - and so forth. However, they did a marvelous job of getting it back up. I think that it was the result of all the Y2K preparedness and practice. I knew the extent of it because the moment it went out I yelled down to my wife - "What did you do now?" :) Then I checked the neighbors - who were also out checking outside. I always start out my story - "It will be a clear day - with blue skies - the sun will be shining - and the birds singing - but without any noise or anything - the power will suddenly go off." So- I started calling the circle. Yep, off at my barber shop 7 miles away. Yep, off at my daughter's 50 miles away. Yep, off at a friend's 100 miles away. Yep, off at the Christian Science Reading Room in Toronto. So, I called the operator in New York, and couldn't get through. My story always continues - and then word will drift in that New York has a problem. Next step was to call my daughter in Kansas. She didn't have the TV on but turned it onto the breaking news station and was able to tell me what was going on. Didn't take me much longer than all the military and the government to determine that it wasn't an attack. The government probably remained suspicious (paranoid) longer than I did. If it had been a real attack - then I probably wouldn't have gotten through to Kansas because of EMP and the phones and radio might not have worked at all. My wife just saying - first it was 9-11 and now it is also 4-11. (Four o'clock and 11 minutes - that started all this.) It was a nice wake-up call. I told my wife that we were stupid if we couldn't learn something from the experience. And we did. We made a list of ten items that we need to sharpen up on. Greatly prepared for the BIG one - but we need a smaller shelf for preliminaries or smaller events such as this one so that we don't have to immediately breakout the big supplies. Rather than bothering - we just did without. Did talk with TEAM members - about what steps to take if the situation dragged on. But, all in all, it was for us - just a nice little 22 hour interlude. Nothing really serious for anyone. Unless you were victim of the nearly 150 lootings or 50 robberies or dozens of gun incidents in Canada. (I have no statistics for the US). A boon for water bottling companies - and some others. A holiday for most. Like I said for the movie - "The Day After" - a walk in the park. Pleasant weather and all that. If it had been in the winter - and EMP with power out everywhere - plus panic - that would have been an ENTIRELY different story. So, if you were in the East - I hope that you enjoyed the event like we did - once I got past my paranoia. It was when the phone severance happened - not that it happened - that caused it. The world is full of weird coincidences. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Sun Sep 14 11:58:34 2003 Received: from bbeach (d126.gocom.ca [209.135.104.126]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h8EFwSTI027237 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:58:31 -0400 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:50:05 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] Loss for words Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I haven't written for almost a month because among other things I have been at a loss for words. Really confused and perplexed. The world didn't end when I planned and now under great financial pressure am having to return to the work world at my age! Because of a traumatic experience in my wife's purchasing a "new" car that wasn't e-tested I have decided to try the auto industry with a unique selling proposition for others who need inexpensive vehicles. Not to bother you with the details - but the bureaucracy hurdles against getting into the business have been immense. This newsletter isn't really about my personal challenges so now I will turn to my confusion in analyzing world affairs. As bad as are Beach's problems - Bush's are bigger. Conquered countries can be so unappreciative. Japan and Germany recovered nicely from their defeats - but they were already technologically advanced societies. Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the rest of the Moslem countries, in all these decades since the dawn of flight, have never designed, built or mass manufactured an airplane. Today some of them are getting together the means of making nukes along with some missiles for delivery to nearby neighbors (enemies). However, they are still far behind North Korea, in this regards. And that is one of Bush's problems. Now he wants to go after another part of his declared axis of evil in another part of the world and the troops are still tied down with the first foray. A year ago much of my talk was about the BIG buildup in preparation for Iraq. I kept reporting ships, ships, ships and all the aircraft carriers that were in the Gulf region. Now look at this news item: WASHINGTON (AP)--Dow Jones Newswires 09-05-03 1545ET- - 03 45 PM EDT 09-05-03 Defense officials speaking on condition of anonymity said Friday that the USS Nimitz, whose home port is San Diego, and its carrier strike group were headed east toward the Pacific, having operated in the Gulf since early April when major combat operations in Iraq were winding down. The Nimitz's departure marks the first time since 1997 that the Navy has had no carrier in the Gulf, whose strategic importance has made it a central focus of U.S. naval operations for decades. The Air Force also has adjusted its presence in the Gulf region The Air Force also ended its Turkey-based aerial patrols over northern Iraq The Marines, whose 1st Marine Expeditionary Force joined the Army's 3rd Infantry Division in toppling Baghdad in April, are rapidly shrinking their presence in Iraq and should be all but gone soon. ---------------- " first time since 1997 that the Navy has had no carrier in the Gulf" NO CARRIER IN THE GULF !!! One of two messages in that for Iran and Syria. The US is moving them out of harms way as it plans to drop a big one - (not likely with all the troops there) or it is moving off to a new front. Now, who do you think should be concerned about that? North Korea, maybe? If that wasn't enough to concern NK then look at this: By Eva Cahen CNSNews.com September 05, 2003 The United States along with France, Australia and Japan will participate in military exercises in the Western Pacific next week in simulations of what may become real interceptions. The exercise has been named "Pacific Protector." -------------- If you don't get the point - (and NK does) it is NK's ships that will be intercepted. I am not the only one that thinks this way. Look at the following. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...thkoreastandoff TOKYO, Sept. 5 Former President Jimmy Carter, who was credited with defusing the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis, warned here today that the current standoff is the world's "greatest threat." This paranoid nation and the United States now are facing what I believe to be the greatest threat in the world to regional and global peace," Mr. Carter said. ---------------- I don't know - Jimmy. Paranoids also can have real enemies - and I do think that NK does have one. Admittedly NK is getting (or has gotten) missiles that can reach the US proper. (Whether or not they can yet carry a nuke is still problematical). However, if the US is about to go there - because of its "interests" it appears that its interests has no bounds. Japan is discussing intervention - and China has moved its troops up to that border. http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/inring.htm China's military is quietly building up troops on borders from North Korea to India by replacing tens of thousands of border police with regular army forces, a U.S. official said. About 150,000 Chinese military troops recently replaced People's Armed Police troops on China's border with North Korea, according to Hong Kong's Sing Tao newspaper. --------------- However, not everyone agrees. WASHINGTON (AFP) Sep 08, 2003 Powell said "we have to accept them at their word" and he added he does not view North Korea as the greatest threat to global peace. --------------- I am sure that you will feel that you can have complete confidence in the statements of the Secretary of State and that "we have to accept them (NK) at their word", as well as Powell's seeing how accurate the information was that we got from him prior to Gulf War II. Speaking of which - here is a neat little quote - from another source: That the rebuilding effort is failing is obvious to any honest observer — and that failure is leaving our military dangerously overextended. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released on September 2nd predicted that the administration "may have to cut U.S. troops in Iraq by more than half to keep enough forces to face other threats," reported a Reuters summary. Even though the present force of roughly 150,000 troops is proving inadequate to maintain security in Iraq, the administration "would be able to sustain an occupation force of [only] 38,000 to 64,000 in Iraq long term," continued Reuters. --------------- Meanwhile - back in the Middle East- David Dolan states: I have never seen my Israeli friends more determined to see their country’s renowned military forces wipe out the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure. In a visit to the Old City on Wednesday, I also learned that many Palestinians seem just as determined to continue their jihad war against the Jewish State (a Palestinian opinion poll conducted after the deadly bus attack in Jerusalem last month showed that over 60% support such attacks). ------------- Yep, the Israelis have become really fed up with the terrorist attacks and as of this morning are discussing a "final solution" regarding Arafat. But on the other side of the coin - Hossein Shariat-Madari, editor of Kayhan, wrote that no power in the world has the right to tell the Islamic Republic how to defend itself and its citizens, a view echoed by Resalat editor Morteza Nabavi. These guys can be considered summary spokespersons for those who advocate International State Sovereignty and who are opposed to a NWO. -------------- Nope, those fellows just don't seem to be working things out - and neither does Pakistan and India, or North Korea and Japan, or China and Taiwan, or the US and the UN. And, Argentina defaulted on its IMF payment due on Tuesday. So, what does it all mean - in the face of the US presidential election that is still over a year away. Can the tail still wag the dog? I really don't know what to expect - except probably the unexpected. So is Ark Two still at Alert Level 1b? Nope, we have gone back to Level 1a. But we are still keeping up preparations. This week Ed came up from Michigan to get the power house batteries wired into the house. Bill and Bonnar got the generator off the truck and Ed tuned it up also. We also got a 100amp charger for the power house. John and his brother came over to help put the generator back on the truck and John scrubbed the truck roof with bleach, and neighbor Gord provided his long reach power saw for us to cut away the trees. Fred and his Dad showed up to help at this time so with Jean and myself we had (having to stop to count) 10 of us working away on it at one point. I bleach scrubbed the power house and we left it on over night - and washed it off the next morning. Next day put two coats of rubber paint on the power house and one on the storage truck. Maintenance of a gigantic survival system like we have - is always immense - and costly. Prepared. For forty years - and for what? The Lord knows. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Fri Oct 17 07:54:00 2003 Received: from bbeach (d123.gocom.ca [209.135.104.123]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h9HBrp5R017141 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:53:57 -0400 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:42:34 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] Optimism vs. Pessimism Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I am very optimistic about the long term future of mankind. When it comes to the benefits of technology - as the old saying goes: "You ain't seen nothin yet". In that regards I wish to share with you the most informative free science newsletter of which I am aware. Howard Rheingold, founding editor of "Hotwired", said in an interview, "I subscribe to only two newsletters; FUTUREdition is one of them." I actually get several for science and the one from MIT is also great but if you are going to only read one for science - read this one. You can go to: http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/futuredition/index.html#SUBSCRIBE and subscribe for free. I am optimistic about not only mankind's technological future but also its long term social and spiritual future. However, I dread what mankind is doing in the immediate future in all three of these spheres. Every nation is developing more and more horrendous instruments of war. Every nation - advanced of backward - has real reason to fear what some other nation may discover and spring upon them. Science is as unethically bound as are the social systems that form the world's political structure. American policy may desire or advocate (and try to institute) regime change in numerous countries - but there are also many peoples in the world that would like to effect a regime change in the US. Americans are horrified at the idea of someone interfering with their political organization. Say China or someone contributing funds to a US political campaign - but have always shrugged at the role of the CIA in funding regimes throughout South America, Africa, and elsewhere in Third World Countries. US support of oppressive military powers within those countries has just gone with the territory - as well as has on occasion outright assassination. This is not to say that other nations do not follow the same policy. Indeed, quite the opposite - this is to say that other nations do follow the same policy - and that is the sad low level of attainment of mankind's social systems. The present degradation of the world's spiritual systems - in that they support and practice prejudice hatred of other cultures injustices to other cultures and often decreasing standards of morality in every sphere of economics entertainment education and interpersonal and social relationships - is so well known that I need not document it. Optimism and pessimism - appreciation and deprecation - anticipation and dread - such are the mixture of emotions that confront us at this juncture is the affairs of man. People often ask me if I am disappointed that it has not all blown up already. And truthfully, I am, because seeing it as being inevitable I would rather have had it to be in earlier days of my life when I had more energy to see my children and grandchildren through it. Now, I fear for their futures. Imminent - thought I - forty years ago. Imminent still - think I - but I cannot be any more convinced of the imminence now - than I was then. George and I have similar problems. Neither of us can predict or control the future. Potential daily disaster seems to be both my individual and the global threat. The US carriers stationed in the Gulf for Gulf War 2 have now been pulled out of the Gulf, because the US now has a much larger Super Carrier - that is much more stable, many, many times easier for pilots to land on and take off from - can handle a thousand times more aircraft than all the other carriers put together - and which is much easier to supply and never has to return to port for maintenance. It is called Iraq. It does require a very large crew, and the US may have considerable difficulty in continuously manning it. It has another problem in that it is not very well air conditioned. I often write in this newsletter about 'windows' for event potentials. The events are only potential - but nevertheless it is well to be aware of the windows. Let me mention a few now. First - some strange prophecies. I am hearing from numerous sources that Islam has long had a prophecy that (in our terms Armageddon) will occur when there are two eclipses during Ramadan. In all the history of Islam - such an astrological (I intentionally use the phrase astrological instead of astronomical) phenomena has never occurred. And yet - it will occur during the next 30 days of Ramadan which is just beginning. Another one: The Popular Polish Pope has been looking positively pensive and pooped of late although he just recently celebrated 25 years of poping. Long before he became pope - there was a saying that - the last pope would be Polish. Don't know what that meant but all the previous popes of the Catholic Church has been Italian - so that is curious. Our Palestinian pal also has a pasty pallor. These things may not be of world shaking significance but one never knows what may be the spark that ignites these tinderboxes. For the last several years it has now become customary for me to mention the weather window in the Middle East. Particularly, in Iraq. Weather there now is good. But four months will pass very quickly and it is going to get hot and heavy for the boys out back. When I was a kid - we didn't have air conditioning. Big heat wave came in Kansas and the temperature stayed above a hundred for several weeks. Couldn't sleep at night - and then I said I preferred winter because one could at least then control the temperature to get warm but in the summer there was no way to get cool at night so one could sleep. Long tours - lots of heat - no relief - I do declare it is going to be worse for these guys than it was for me when I was a year in the arctic away from my wife and family, and I remember how dreadful that was for all of us there and how I wished then that I was in the Atlanta Federal Pen because my wife in Atlanta could have at least visited me there. I really feel for the guys in Iraq. Bad for them. Bad for Bush. That window will overlap other windows. By the end of this month Iran will have had to make a response (no response would be a response) to the head of the International Atomic Energy Commission. To mix metaphores - there we are waiting for the other shoe to drop and the possibility that window is about to slam down on all our toes. A number of reports this week about the Israeli nuclear armed subs. Certainly old news to readers of this newsletter. While the subs are unquestionably becoming better trained technologically upgraded and more ship shape - they have been there for a couple of years. Some other windows. The economic window - rapidly accelerating US debt - exhaustion of unemployment benefits - upcoming political campaign shrillness - greatly accelerating Muslim extremism - Israeli intervention in Syria and or Iran. Who, how, where, what - impossible to say when we are looking at a stadium of rascals there is no telling where the next brawl will break out but we can almost be certain that it will. Pakistan and North Korea have openly announced their nuclear arms. Many people feel very certain that Iran, Syria, and others are making efforts in the same direction. Still others like Japan and Taiwan might like to be players also. There is no question but that the big boys (US, China, Russia) have lots and lots of terrible toys and are getting themselves even more prepared. As another tier there are also Britain, France and India, all getting ready to enter the fray. For awhile - at the rapid conclusion of the US invasion of Iraq inquiries about nuclear shelters had dropped off but in the last couple of weeks they have accelerated to an all time high. So, what next? I have no idea. Nor how soon. Train time is anytime. My only advice is - stay prepared. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Sun Oct 26 09:55:46 2003 Received: from bbeach (d118.gocom.ca [209.135.104.118]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h9QEtd5R027988 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:55:43 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:43:28 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] Threats Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Threats - Real and Imagined surround us. The nearness and personalness of a threat determines its priority to us. Thus it is that a mosquito buzzing around our ear bothers us more than news that a train wreck has killed a hundred in India. Distance creates insulation. This is good - because in the human condition there are immense tragedies occurring every moment throughout the world. We get small and selected samplings of them through the media. In the news at this moment - fires destroying homes in California, a kidnapping in Toronto, miners trapped in Russia, US helicopter down in Iraq, an earthquake in China, Israeli terrorist retaliations, and others. Throughout the world at any given moment police and emergency crews are responding to violence and emergency wards are treating trauma. Not one tiny fraction of a percent will we hear about. Thank goodness. We merely sample such events - to know the nature of the world about us. We could become very depressed by the transience of this world. Death eventually comes to all of us and to all systems, no matter how cosmic. The stars themselves eventually, supernova, darken, or descend into black holes. Our response to all this is often to ignore it - to seek pleasure in the moment or to at least deal with the problems that are closest. With spiritual maturity we pass beyond our self absorption and try to deal with other's pain. The more mature mind develops a philosophical explanation as to the purpose of it all. Finds a Divine Destiny for the soul - or perhaps a deeper reality that categorizes pain and evil as illusions as are time, space and matter. Whatever the reality - how we categorize it probably says more about us than it does about the absolute reality. How we prioritize the threats about us defines our spiritual maturity. To completely ignore them is as infantile as the child in the bassinet. To complain only about those that immediately affect us is no more mature than the child in the crib. As we mature we become more and more concerned about the welfare of others. Still most emails that I receive are concerned about individual survival. Many newsletters that I receive are focused upon the needs of some special group. Many, indeed most, of the 'patriotic' newsletters that come to me - focus only on America's needs for security economic well being social justice. (Get us out of the UN now. Bomb the bastards. Let them rot in their own morass. etc. etc. etc.) The world does need more spiritual maturity. Just as when one is experiencing personal pain trauma it is very difficult to be empathetic to the needs of others so it may be that the masses emerged in the morass of daily economic survival the need for personal ego substantiation imposed upon them by the cultural milieu and the apparent coincidental events of this contingent world are therefore incapable of determining what is important - and what is not. Let us try to prioritize the threats that should concern us. Just as we live our lives in a balance between the macrocosm and the microcosm so do we need a balance in our perspective about the threats. It may well be true - that the sun is dying out (in millions of years) or that massive asteroids strike this planet (every hundreds of thousands of years or so) or that there are even other inter-relationships to the cosmos that determine the planets eventual destiny - however, in most paradigms these lack an immediacy such that they should require the immediate focus of our attention. And admittedly, if one is suffering traumatic pain either physically, socially, or emotionally - such that they are about to be evicted or fired from their job tomorrow or have essential services cut off or are having some major change in interpersonal relationships - they too will hardly be able to focus on the more universal threats. This does not mean that they won't be affected by the more general events - threats or catastrophes, it only means that they do not have the resources to prepare for them. So aside from the cosmic events about which we have no control and about which we probably should not be overly concerned - and the immediate events which may of necessity momentarily preoccupy us - what are the priority of threats that should concern us? People worry about robbers and kidnappers and strangers in the street but in actuality the greatest violent threat for anyone is probably riding in a car. Every disease and ailment doth seem to attack mankind - and most will eventually die from heart attack or stroke or cancer or some unavoidable ill. So other than buckling up your seat belt - not speeding - eating a reasonable diet and keeping a positive frame of mind there is not much you can do about it - because you are going to eventually die anyway. However, there are immense tragedies in the history of men and animals that take massive numbers of lives in very unpleasant ways and it is prudent where possible to avoid these also. One cannot prevent them - but they can minimize their effect. If one lives in a tornado area - then it is wise to have a shelter. In an earthquake, volcanic, or forest fire area it is wise to have a bug out kit. The greatest need, however, is to prepare for the greatest threat facing humanity and that is war. Specifically nuclear war. The memory of North Americans does not include their own land being decimated by war. This week I have received many, many more requests for free Survival CDs from Europe and Asia than I have received from North America, (probably in the last month or two put together although I have no idea how many our state TEAM Leaders send out). The response of most people is to do whatever everyone else is doing. To ignore the problem - if everyone else is ignoring the problem and to panic if others are panicking even if there is no real threat from terrorists that justifies buying up all the duct tape. How real are the threats? Well - in my estimation they are very real. The following are quotes from Russian President Vladimir Putin in an Oct 16th interview on Al Jazeera. Unfortunately, the links have disappeared and so far as I know they never appeared in the Western Media - but I have no reason to doubt their accuracy. "... the Defense Minister did in fact speak of the possibility of preventive strikes. ... we are against such a policy, but if it were to continue to be upheld in the practice of international affairs, then Russia would retain its right to act in exactly the same way." [The US called its invasion of Iraq - a preventive strike - may be considering one against N. Korea, and Israel is eyeing its neighbors.] "Concerning our heavy missiles, the SS-19, there was never any secret about the fact, that Russia possesses these rockets. These are today probably the most powerful missiles in the world. They are called heavy, because they can carry larger payloads into space, which means, they can carry many separable warheads. These are missiles, that can easily penetrate any system of anti-missile defense, that could be built in this decade." "...Russia possesses a significant quantity of such missiles, which were never operationally deployed. "...they are new, they have been in dry storage; and when now-operational missiles are retired from service, we are going to replace them by these new, heavy rockets." Bottom line is - Russia has greater capacity to strike North America than it has ever had at any time in its history. Here is a different missile story from just this week. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031015/wl_sthasia_afp/u s_pakistan_missiles_031015053219 "The United States preached restraint in South Asia, after Pakistan test-fired its third nuclear-capable missile in 11 days." And still another, this one from Reuters on Oct 25th. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031025/wl_nm/korea_north _missile_dc_3 TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea may have test-fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Saturday for the third time in a week, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. Now, I realize that none of this excites the average person in North America - but the latter excites people in S. Korea, Japan, Taiwan and even China. What excites people in the Pentagon, and in the Israeli Military are the reports that North Korea and Pakistan are selling their missiles and nuclear technology to Iran Saudi Arabia Syria. Saudi Arabia is not at all thrilled with the idea of Iran have nukes and missiles. There is less love between the Sunni Moslems of Arabia and the Shiite Moslems of Iran than there is between the Protestant and Catholic Christians in Ireland. None of those countries are about to let the other get one up on them. BUT, Israel is already there - with several methods of delivery including submarines. Now, the questions to ask yourself are: 1. Will Israel be concerned about its Moslem neighbors implementing nuclear armaments? 2. Could Israel which has previously used a pre-emptive policy use such a policy again? 3. If Israel were to use that pre-emptive policy to prevent such Moslem implementation what would be the response of Russia? 4. Can you see where this might be going? So, you may have more pressing problems about which to concern yourself. And what can you do about it anyway? Well, my advice has always been get out of the cities and to build a shelter. It has been my advice for over 40 years and if you had followed it that long ago what would it have gained you? You would be retiring in the country. Not a bad lifestyle - I can tell you :) There are other possible responses. Some are expecting a lift off the planet by space brothers. Others are expecting to be raptured. (Thousands have left my list with that expectation.) But for us sinners, who may have to hang around for this event - I recommend moving out of the cities and building a shelter. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Mon Oct 27 18:42:45 2003 Received: from bbeach (d154.gocom.ca [209.135.104.154]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h9RNgf3c028620 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:42:42 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:30:18 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: [Arktwo] The Next 30 Days Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: If the next 30 days are anything like the first day of Ramadan - then they will be about as hot as it is out in California. Person after person is writing me with similar scenarios. The world is more and more choosing up sides. The Big Items to be watching right now. 1. The Quartet This is the name given to Russia's proposal that US UN Europe Russia sit down with Israel and the Palestinians to determine a peace plan that the Quartet is going to enforce. The US has said that it will go along with this although Israel is opposed to outside interference. UN will probably approve and we may end up seeing Peace Declared. 2. Iran has already said that they will go along with nuclear inspections. Just haven't said when. 3. US has sent message to North Korea that it will seek a combination of non-aggression guarantees from Japan and other countries on behalf of North Korea and North Korea has said it will consider the proposal. The three above items sound very good - unfortunately - those are just the words - the actions are very different. 1. Syria this week calling up reserve troops. 2. Israel this week calling up reserve troops. 3. The US this week calling up reserve troops. 4. China has recently called up reserve troops - ostensibly for "war games" - and some have speculated to put pressure on North Korea and Taiwan. 5. The US has moved troops back from the DMZ in Korea - to give a cushion for attack and response (possibly so the troops will be out of the way for tactical nuclear response). 6. This morning a report from Israel that Syrian troops are skirmishing with Israeli troops on the Syrian, Israeli, Lebanese border. No confirmation in US media. 7. In my last newsletter I detailed missile tests in the last ten days by N. Korea and Pakistan. 8. Increased arms purchases - by India from Israel - by Saudi Arabia from Pakistan - by Iran from Russia - by Israel from the US - by Taiwan from the US - by Pakistan from North Korea - by Syria from the French - by China from Russia - by several Mid-Eastern countries from the US have all made news in the last week. 9. Insurgent activities increasing in Iraq with input from Moslem fundamentalists from any country that they can get there from. Those are some of the things to watch. However, some things to not be particularly concerned about. 1. The bill in US Congressional Committee to draft ALL Americans (male and female) between the ages of 18 and 26. In the first place - if it passes - it would (IMHO) take too long to implement before the conflict takes place. Secondly, while draftees could take over some of the mundane work - help out in the kitchen, drive trucks, fill out paper work, etc., etc., etc., they cannot take the place of highly skilled technicians, pilots, electronics operation and repair, sophisticated weaponry, and the other facets of high tech war that composes the modern military. Mostly - they would be in the way, and would divert the energies of the experts in trying to train them. The trouble is - the experts are retiring. Too arduous duty assignments away from home for too long - and insufficient rewards for them to re-enlist. The US Senate last week gave the senators a $21,000 dollar raise and reduced (at Bush's request) military veteran benefits. The handwriting is on the wall. Understandable that solutions are being looked for, such as the proposed draft bill - but there are no solutions against a Vietnamese type of insurgency action. The US has been there and done that. Sort of like putting your hand on the stove - twice - because you couldn't believe it was really that hot! But not to worry - Bush announced this week that he is winning in Iraq. As a matter of fact - he announced a few weeks ago that he has already won in Iraq. I guess he just needs it to be confirmed by the US Supreme Court. 2. Second thing not to worry about. All those terrorist sleeper cells in North America. If they were there - you would have heard from them long before now. Lots of talk - in the past from Saddam's sons, and OBL - but that (talk) is the Moslem way. 3. While we may see lots of terrorist attacks in the Middle East - there will probably not be a major Israeli (with US permission) response until after Ramadan. As inconsistent as it may seem the Moslems celebrate their Holy Month by attacking - the US and Israel will respect it by not attacking. (Most likely). However, in about 30 days - Israel will be ready to go - Iran will have not shut down its nuclear program - Syria will not have reigned in Hizbollah - Hamas and the Quartet will not have made a peace agreement that satisfies Israel- North Korea will not have convinced the US that it is not going to build nukes- there will be even more agitation in Iraq - and Russia, China, India, Pakistan, France will not be satisfied with the role proposed by Bush for them in the NWO. Bottom line is - no matter what the diplomats are saying - things will not be calmer in thirty days - and there is that old Middle East weather window with the US troops getting tireder and tireder. Flying home 3,000 troops each week for R & R- does amount to 150,000 in a year but 2 or 3 weeks a year out of that hell just isn't enough. Things are really not getting better, no matter how much the stock market goes up or how glowing the reports that the economy is improving. For any who happen to think as I do - this just in from a Canadian Realtor: Build your dream home on top of this app 1400 sq foot completely solid cement basement- designed to withstand air attacks- (supposedly a nuclear shelter but I haven't seen the plans - although I have read a newspaper article about it. The owner died). fireplace -well- walls 12 inches thick cement!! situated on year round road with hydro and telephone - on a nice treed 12 acres of land- half mile from lake nippising- Lot size approx. 3000 x 165 - in nice area of homes- where can you buy this for 39,900.00!!! That would be about $30,000 US And another one - just as I was writing this. This one in Wyoming. But I don't know for how much. "I know of an underground facility with over 60,000 sqft designed to withstand a nuclear event. Private sale. Not listed." And for anyone wishing to move near Ark Two. A two story building - the bottom is a store front. About 75K US. Of course I don't make a nickel - off any of these. Just my usual encouragement to people. Get out of the cities. Build a shelter. But I have mentioned that before. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Sun Nov 2 19:20:15 2003 Received: from bbeach (d149.gocom.ca [209.135.104.149]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hA30K5BD029963 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:20:10 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:03:23 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] Bringing it on! Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Bush told the Baghdad Baddies to "Bring it On". We have certainly seen some response along these lines - since the beginning of Ramadan. Whether the momentum will continue and climax at the end of Ramadan - we shall have to just wait and see. Probably what is being brought on in the long run is - Armageddon. Much noise now being made that the WMDs went from Iraq to Syria and that Syria is supplying insurgents into Iraq. Lots of speculation that Russia has stationed under Russian control nuke missiles in Iran and Syria. US carrier fleet now out of the Gulf Region, because against Russian missiles they make no sense. Think of the pictures of the Bikini tests. Anyway, US now has no need for them there with its new flat top called Iraq. Last week - landmark event with more US military now killed after the war - than during it and then today the single greatest toll with the Chinook. Fortunately, nice weather there now - but that will change. Russia's and China's biggest concern is - that US is about to develop a new weapon that will completely disrupt the balance of power. Numerous rumors about new laser weapons - and devices that employ a variety of fields associated with the electromagnetic spectrum. The converse is true of Pentagon concerns. American pride would always have one believe that all technological advances are made in America and the Russians and Chinese have stolen everything they have from the US. How can one miss that the Russians were the first to launch a satellite, put a man in space, put up a giant space lab, and that today when Americans go into space or return as they did this week it is on a Russian space craft. Even the Chinese had a man in space this last week and their announced plans are to build a base on the moon. The US has told them not to. Their response to the US was the diplomatic version of - "Go suck a lemon". Interesting note here about the California fires. The Russians claim (and have indeed demonstrated - elsewhere in the world) that they have planes that could have put it out. They offered to send two of them (had them on the runway, crewed and all ready to go) FREE of charge - (US only had to feed the crew and fuel the planes while here) but the literal reply was - "We don't want no blankety, blank commies over here." Reduces my sympathy for the Schwarzenegger Supporters. (This story was from Pravda - but sounds believable to me.) There is an old saying - that men have about women - "You can't live with them - and you can't live without them." The US is sort of that same way about the rest of the world. It can't live without it - for its oil, hundreds of products such as rare metals, bananas, and coffee - and the mass production of cheap labor from China and elsewhere. But still - it does not seem to be able to live with it either. Interesting observation from Stephen Lewis former leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party and Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations 1984 through 1988. He is now the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for AIDS in Africa. He said: "I don't deny that Iraqis are under stress and numbers of them are dying tragically. But I am forced to point out that more than 2 million Africans are dying of AIDS every year, and their poverty is vastly more wretched." (and it is a) "weird, discordant upset in the scales of justice" that the $33 billion pledged for Iraq over the next four years, including $20 billion from the United States, is more than 10 times the UNDP's annual funds of $2.8 billion for all underdeveloped countries. The amount is also nearly 10 times the pledges to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which kill millions every year. Lots of speculation about why the US is in Iraq. The given reason was WMDs although many thought it was the oil - (which they aren't getting any - and won't because just one bullet will always disrupt the pipeline) - and now it is said that the purpose was to bring freedom and Justice to the Iraqi people and that Iran and Syria are next on the list of the Axis of Evil. In light of the above quote - I wonder how many really find that convincing. My own view - (and I suspect the way that the Russians, Chinese, Europeans, and others view it - is that Iraq was simply available and central to a Middle East position in the geopolitical struggle if not for US Imperialism then at least for the Elder Bush view of a US dominated NWO. (Which the Russians, Chinese, Europeans, and others are not going to let happen.) However, here are some Perles of unwisdom as of Monday, Oct. 20, 2003 and as voiced by Bush Pentagon adviser Richard Perle so you can take it as if the Burning Bush itself were speaking. Perle offered his analysis of the growing North Korean threat to Fox News’ Cal Thomas while in Israel. He said that unless China and other countries help the U.S. embargo North Korea, military force remains the only other option available. [The Chinese are meeting with NK this week - but vis-à-vis US actions in Iraq - where do you imagine China's sympathies lie?] Perle warned that that North Korea is a “serious problem” as the regime moves toward building a nuclear arsenal. He said with such an arsenal he had no doubt the cash-strapped communist regime would sell nuclear weapons to other rogue states or terrorist groups, which in turn would use the weapons against the United States. [Strangely, France this week said that it would "target rogue states" with its nuclear weapons. Coincidence?] Barring an embargo that cripples North Korea’s nuclear program, Perle said, “I don’t see how we can stop that nuclear momentum on their side; and it may be the only instrument left to us is force.” [What do you think maybe that means? What do you think that NK thinks that means? How do you think that might effect you?] Perle gave his take on the war on terror: Iraq: Perle said “tremendous progress” has been made and that the U.S.’s liberation remains a “worthy undertaking, one we can be proud of.” [Do you see this as a week of progress? Do you feel that in light of the analysis by Stephen Lewis that the US policy is really one to be all that proud of?] Iran: Perle said Iran should be next on the target list in the war on terror. [Do you see this as an "Uh oh!"? Do you think that the Iranians might see this as an "Uh oh!"? Do you think Perle just accidentally made these statements - or that they were intentionally made on behalf of the Bush administration? If you don't believe they were intentional - then you must believe - that people in high positions like this, can just go around speculating about wild ideas - and still keep their jobs.] He said the Iranian people are ready to rise up against the dictatorship, but “unfortunately we don’t seem to be helping them.” [That was also the expectation about Iraq - and some would believe that it is also true about NK. Do you feel that is really proving true?] Anyway, here we have it directly from the horse's mouth that the US is about ready to take on: Iran, Syria, North Korea, and whoever else is necessary. Do you think that Russia and China might think that they could be next in line - and that they are not going to standby and watch all that happen. Do you really feel that Russia and China are so technologically backwards that they can do nothing to prevent it? Do you feel that as more and more nuclear weapons are developed by more and more countries that the world is becoming safer and safer? While there was more shelter building in the 60s, during the Berlin Wall Crises, and the Cuban Missile Crises, and later the Falkland Island Crises, the Gulf War I and II Crises, excited more people - I feel that the most critical period is right now. This week the news is that the US economy is greatly improving. Peace talks are taking place in the UN and also between China and North Korea. Iran has until mid-November to implement the Atomic Energy advisories. The California fires are winding down - and in spite of terrorist attacks in Iraq and Israel the news says things are getting better and better. I can see how things 'might' hang on for another year until the 2004 elections - but should the economy bust - the heat get to the troops in Iraq - and Bush get bombed in the election - then do you think that the philosophical elements now in power will really turn it all back over to other political powers that they utterly detest? Bring it on - the man says - and I do think something is coming on - or coming down - as the saying is. One fourth of my newsletters got stopped last time as spam because I mentioned shelters that were available. Filters killed them because of the mention of key words in regards to real and property. The last time that happened I used the L word in regards to certain social mores of some women. You just have to watch what you say. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Fri Nov 7 10:49:46 2003 Received: from bbeach (d124.gocom.ca [209.135.104.124]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hA7Fngbt017260 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:49:43 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:36:09 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] The Next Hundred Years Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Richard Fleetwood has created and is coordinating a new thing for Ark Two members who would like to meet others in their locality. Go to the following url: http://survivalism.meetup.com and give it a try. Please give me any reports of success, and I will pass them on to Richard. Several hundred new members have joined the Newsletter so I am going to take this moment to hand out some basic info about Ark Two. If you have friends that you would like to receive this newsletter just have them send a blank email to: arktwo-request@deuce.pairowoodies.com with the subject as subscribe. I have never promoted subscribing before - but suddenly it has just come to me that this might be instrumental in saving some person's or family's lives. If a life could be saved that would be otherwise lost then it would be a bad thing for me to not have done this. So maybe you will think the same way and want to make up a little invitation and include the above subscription address and send it out to your personal mailing list of people that you would feel concerned about and would regret your not having given the message that is contained in these newsletters. One of the main things in the newsletters is about the availability of the FREE CD and you can tell them about that also. The address for it is: http://www.webpal.org/freecd.htm There is some motion, thought, talk, of people who have said that they will gather at Ark Two come the time - to start moving this way. I don't have any other than the usual expectations but maybe there is a general consciousness developing much like that at the time of the Titanic sinking there were numerous people that had both private premonitions, dreams, and publicly expressed concerns. ACCEPTABLE LOSSES Another helicopter down today - as I write this. One must expect losses in every war. If the trend continues we may expect to see about 10 fatalities each day. (Many more casualties with people very seriously hurt in ways that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.) But still - with 10 each day we are talking about 3,500 a year (think WTC) and 35,000 in 10 years. Still nothing like Vietnam proportions. If in fact, for these costs in human suffering - Bush's goals of - stopping terrorism preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons bringing stability to the Middle East starting Moslem countries on the path to democracy establishing the roots of a NWO securing the dollar against the Euro assuring a continued supply of oil to the US then - the costs would certainly be worthwhile - as compared to what he sees as the alternative. Unfortunately, all that will not likely happen - because while he is desperately trying to do so - it is unlikely that he is going to win the minds and hearts of the Moslems. THIS WEEKS NEWS Iranian Mullahs have announced this week that WMDs (nuclear weapons) are ENTIRELY un-Islamic and that the US need have no fear of Iran developing them. I am sure that India would like for them to inform Pakistan of this fact (that nukes are un-Islamic) and I am sure that the Kurds wish Saddam had known that years ago before he gassed them. Nevertheless, Iran says to preserve its sovereignty and prestige that it may have to back away from its agreement to allow nuclear inspectors to go wherever they wish in Iran. Some see this as just a negotiating position. It may be the reports that the US is repositioning large numbers of aircraft to Europe and that the US Marines have been told that they will be returning to the Middle East - is also just a negotiating position. On the other hand - some curious calendar coincidences. The deadline date for Iranian compliance is November 20th. The 2nd eclipse of Ramadan in November 23rd. The date the US aircraft are supposed to be in position is about the same. Lots of statements around about how quickly Iran could have nukes and missiles capable of striking Israel. Both Israel and the US have stated pre-emptive policies that won't permit Iran to continue to develop nukes. No need to tell me - that I don't definitively know what is going to happen. But, if you do - then it must be by Divine Revelation of which it is going to be difficult to convince anyone else. Does Iran have nukes - or do they not? One would think that they would be EAGER to show that they don't - if they don't. Saddam WAS again co-operating with inspectors - Israel and the US don't permit inspections. South Africa got rid of its nukes, but North Korea got rid of the inspectors. Maybe there is a pattern there, as to who has nukes and who doesn't. Also, with news of Saudi Arabia making motions towards becoming a nuclear power (through agreements with North Korea and Pakistan) it seems questionable Iran would feel very comfortable with its neighbors no matter how un-Islamic they may say it to be. While I don't know how much it actually has to do with the phases of the moon - as long as there are large numbers of people who do think it does and who plan their actions around them - as Islamic terrorist groups are rumored to be doing both in Europe and the US - (the rumors could be psych-warfare from anywhere) then it is possible that the rest of November and the first part of December may be VERY interesting. Pentagon (and Rumsfield) have announced major troop rotations to Iraq (or at least the Middle East). I could write a book on the problems of logistics that are involved. For example - "All at once?" (The present tours of duty - all end in a relatively short time window). Do the troops travel (both ways) with their own tanks and equipment? (Equipment also needs repairing and restoration - but the more interesting question is - who is responsible for it - the guys and gals using it or someone else that you are relying on to look after your gear.) This subject goes on and on - and has many interesting implications regarding the calling up of reserves - activating the draft - and so forth. BUT there is one thought that I have heard no one express. The last time Bush did a major "troop rotation" he simply sent over the additional troops and didn't bring back the first bunch (there were a lot of aircraft carriers and other ships of the fleet involved at that time - plus many land based aircraft). He just kept them there for use in Gulf War II. I have no particular thoughts or knowledge on this - other than perhaps the timetables mentioned above. The NEXT Hundred Years While it is much easier to speak as a historian than as a prophet (and I am certainly not a prophet) still I think it is now easier to make some predictions about the next hundred years. I will explain why. Suppose that a hundred years ago - someone tried to predict the hundred years until now. Impossible. Airplanes, Missiles, Satellites, Nuclear Power, Television, Computers, all unknown or seemingly impossible dreams. Over ninety percent of the technology that makes modern life what it is today - was unthought of 150 years ago. Moreover, the rate of expansion of technology has been increasing - exponentially. Not just the amount - but the rate at which it appears. If the present trend were to continue we could expect greater change in the next 20 years than there has occurred in the last 50. For an old timer like me - to look back 50 years where my grandmothers house still had gas lights - and there was no television (where I lived) PCs ICBMs satellites most modern plastics and hundreds of items that children today now take for granted as a part of life - and then to think that it could change more than that in the next 20 years - is just astounding. But it won't. The big changes of the next 20 years will be sociological (and I hope spiritual) but there is going to be a technological setback. This is what makes it possible to predict life 100 years in the future. Technologically, we will be reliving much of the last hundred years - not that technological knowledge is going to fall that far backwards. It is the next twenty years that (IMHO) are going to be the most interesting. There are many paths that events may follow. Some would be more beneficial than others - but what will occur will be a mixed bag no matter. Power struggles will contend to establish a world order. To the degree that presently entrenched political monetary interests are able to shape events it will be a failure. To the degree that spiritual maturity prevails and that there is a recognition that justice (economic, political, social) must be universal - then it will be a success. Whatever is organized will need to be structured so that economic, political and social justice will develop progressively. There will still be those who have - and those who have not. This cannot be resolved by simply taking from those who have. It must be resolved so that those who have not have the opportunity and incentive to produce and obtain - and are not restricted from doing so by those who have. Those who do not have political and social maturity - cannot suddenly be given that either. One problem in the United Nations today is that a majority of the voting countries do not have a philosophy or sense of fair play, tolerance, and other attributes necessary to make a truly just political system work. Those nations who guide the future of the whole of mankind need to first demonstrate their ability to guide their own affairs. American monetarily influenced power politics is NOT a model that the world should seek to emulate. Neither are the failed communist models or the intolerant Islamic models that hold sway in much of the world. There are many people who await Divine Intervention and direct Divine rule - (Jesus sitting upon a throne or whatever) but the Divine Order has prescribed free will and mankind while provided with a Divine Blueprint must still itself build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. The struggle will be long and arduous. Not just in the coming century - but for centuries to come. The long curve of progress will be steady, but there will be numerous momentary lapses and retrenchments. The major one about to occur imminently. Things are going to get much worse - before they get better. A major die-off of humanity is in the offing. Decades will pass before the present level of technology is recovered, or the present level of anything is achieved. The next World Olympics will see few new world records established. The measure of all events will be how it stands up to pre-catastrophe attainments. As "good as before the catastrophe" will be the standard to obtain - "better than what was done before the catastrophe" will be a goal very seldom achieved - for decades afterwards, in technology, science, medicine sports or production. There is little that won't be recoverable, but it will take a long time to master it all again. To slowly assemble, train and build up artists, musicians, athletes, scientists, engineers, technicians, surgeons, physicians, scholars, teachers, coaches, trainers, craftsmen, and expertise in every field. The bench marks, the models, the demonstrated goals - will all exist to establish the path so that social conditions permitting mankind will be able to retravel it once again. Hopefully, this time - without some of the mistakes of the past. However, if mankind fails to learn the futility of the methods of past - the false paths of jihad, terrorism, national sovereignty, exclusive privilege, then all it shall do is put it back together again like it presently is and be prepared to make the same mistake again with anarchic sovereign nations possessing the tools for nuclear holocaust. There are none that will be able to say - that I am wrong in my predictions - because of course I will not be around a hundred years from now to see how true they have become, unless they are right - those who expect to see the graves to literally open - and the dead return - in which case there will be a population problem like no one has imagined. But in truth - I expect a glorious future for the whole of mankind - which is simply (maybe not so simply) passing through the trials of adolescence. Eventually, a world government will be established. Probably centered in Jerusalem because only by making it a world metropolis open to all the nations, cultures, and religions of the world will it be possible to resolve that conflict there. World-wide communication in a universally shared language will eliminate illiteracy and much of the world's ignorance. Social and economic exchange will be facilitated by a world currency - and the world's resources will be devoted to peace rather than war. There will still be crime, disease, and death, sin and evil, as a result of the Divine Gift of free will - but much of the horrendous effect will be mollified, and life upon the planet can become better and better. All this depending upon mankind progressing in spiritual values - otherwise it will all come to naught - as sometimes I dread that it already has. Nevertheless, those who recognize the ideal - must continue to make every effort to obtain the ideal. We all eventually depart this life. Our individual attainment here is measured by how we have contributed to the collective attainment. Our individual spiritual growth is our contribution to the collective spiritual growth. The slogan (goal) of the Ark Two Community is: "To Build a Better World". Toward that end- with Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Sat Nov 8 17:04:40 2003 Received: from bbeach (d149.gocom.ca [209.135.104.149]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hA8M4bQT014651 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:04:38 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:50:57 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: [Arktwo] Moonshine Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Much has been said of late regarding Moslem prophecies of events to occur when there are two eclipses during Ramadan. One being of the moon and the other being of the sun. While there have occasionally two eclipses occurred during a single month - it is often said there has never been such an occurrence during the month of Ramadan. The following source, however, seems to refute that claim. http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/melwood/368/eclramx.html The significance of the double eclipse has been greatly emphasized by certain Islamic groups. One being the Ahamadiyya's with whom I am quite conversant having visited many times their main mosque in North America. http://moonsighting.com/2eclipses.html Numerous Islamic web pages have articles on the subject. Some take note of the fact that while both eclipses will take place this month - indeed the first being this very evening - not both will be visible from Mecca. http://moonsighting.com/2eclipses.html I have searched, without avail, several versions of the Qu'ran, and resources on the Hadiths and I have not been able to find the actual prophecies. The following Islamic source may explain why. http://www.albalagh.net/qa/eclipse_ramadan_mahdi.shtml Nevertheless, there are many Islamic WebPages devoted to the subject and a search with Google will lead you to many discussions of the subject. Meanwhile, in turning my thought to this - there came to my memory Bible References and I have looked up the following quotes. Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come. Revelation 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; Do not be concerned that the last verse is in the past tense because it was still being given as a prophecy of something that was to occur. In my own religion such prophecies have a spiritual meaning but I shall not expound upon those here. What is curious is that the two astronomical events will occur this month. Certainly not every double eclipse happens during Ramadan and certainly not every eclipse of the moon is a BLOOD Eclipse. How a blood eclipse occurs is interestingly and dramatically shown at the following NASA url. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/04nov_lunareclipse2.htm?list970626 If the skies are clear you may not wish to miss this event tonight Saturday, Nov. 08, 2003 (being 11/9 in some parts of the world). Eastern Time 06:32 p.m. Eclipse starts 08:06 p.m. Totality begins 08:31 p.m. Totality ends 10:04 p.m. Eclipse ends Central Time 05:32 p.m. Eclipse starts 07:06 p.m. Totality begins 07:31 p.m. Totality ends 09:04 p.m. Eclipse ends Mountain Time 04:32 p.m. Eclipse starts 06:06 p.m. Totality begins 06:31 p.m. Totality ends 08:04 p.m. Eclipse ends Pacific Time 03:32 p.m. Eclipse starts 05:06 p.m. Totality begins 05:31 p.m. Totality ends 07:04 p.m. Eclipse ends For those into astrology - this particular astronomic event is seen as particularly significant because it is reputed to be the beginning of the Harmonic Concordance. I am not going to delve into that but for those so inclined here is an url - http://www.harmonicconcordance.com/ For further elucidation let me leave you with a Hadith and quotes from a couple of versions of the Qu'ran. Volume 2, Book 18, Number 170: Narrated Abu Bakra: In the life-time of the Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) the sun eclipsed and he went out dragging his clothes till he reached the Mosque. The people gathered around him and he led them and offered two Rakat. When the sun (eclipse) cleared, he said, "The sun and the moon are two signs amongst the signs of Allah; they do not eclipse because of the death of someone, and so when an eclipse occurs, pray and invoke Allah till the eclipse is over." It happened that a son of the Prophet called Ibrahim died on that day and the people were talking about that (saying that the eclipse was caused by his death). And now the Qu'ran Sura 75 (The first version from Palmer - the second from Pickthall) Nay, but man wishes to be wicked henceforward! he asks, When is the resurrection day? But when the sight shall be dazed, and the moon be eclipsed, and the sun and the moon be together, and man shall say upon that day, 'Where is a place to flee to?' -nay, no refuge! and to thy Lord that day is the sure settlement: He will inform man on that day of what He has sent forward or delayed! ------------- 6 He asketh: When will be this Day of Resurrection ? 7 But when sight is confounded 8 And the moon is eclipsed 9 And sun and moon are united, 10 On that day man will cry: Whither to flee! 11 Alas! No refuge! 12 Unto thy Lord is the recourse that day. 13 On that day man is told the tale of that which he hath sent before and left behind. 14 Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself, 15 Although he tender his excuses. 16 Stir not thy tongue herewith to hasten it. 17 Lo! upon Us (resteth) the putting together thereof and the reading thereof. 18 And when We read it, follow thou the reading; 19 Then lo! upon Us (resteth) the explanation thereof. 20 Nay, but ye do love the fleeting Now 21 And neglect the Hereafter. 22 That day will faces be resplendent, 23 Looking toward their Lord; 24 And that day will other faces be despondent, 25 Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them. 26 Nay, but when the life cometh up to the throat 27 And men say: Where is the wizard (who can save him now) ? 28 And he knoweth that it is the parting; 29 And agony is heaped on agony; 30 Unto thy Lord that day will be the driving. 31 For he neither trusted, nor prayed. 32 But he denied and flouted. 33 Then went he to his folk with glee. 34 Nearer unto thee and nearer, 35 Again nearer unto thee and nearer (is the doom). Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Thu Nov 27 10:22:55 2003 Received: from bbeach (d153.gocom.ca [209.135.104.153]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hARFMn9G022213 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:22:52 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:06:11 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] Palatable Paranoia at the Party Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Never have I received so many emails - that it is about to happen NOW - as I have received during the last two weeks. Not just tides, but number of births, crimes, and other activities have well measured correlations to the phases of the moon. Maybe all this paranoia did have something to do with the two eclipses and the sunspots. It is obligatory when speaking of paranoia to repeat the well worn caveat that even paranoids can have real enemies. And certainly, there are enemies a many in this world. The current concern coagulates in very high places regarding terrorist threats. The last week saw very strong statements by the American and British equivalents of Homeland Security. There was also a strong statement by a retiring US general and a re-release of what was probably a bogus Al Qaeda announcement. With every calendar window these concerns have been with us for the last several years. Ramadan phases of the moon, Thanksgiving and major holidays, large public events, seasonal weather peaks, governmental terms of office, and dozens of others that could be listed. The skeptics, scoffers and skulkers, have always been able to subsequently point out with glee how Y2K, biological threat, Planet X, asteroid, nuclear holocaust and other fears have been unfulfilled. So far. What is the reality? Somewhere between Bush's "Mission Accomplished" accompanied by his sending more Marines to Iraq and the official Israeli announcement that it will personally take out the Iranian nuclear facilities if there isn't complete comprehensive and conclusive evidence that they have stood down from their nuclear weapons development. So how is the world doing at this Thanksgiving / Christmas season? Very well thank you, according to George. Never has a president ever had such a large pre-election campaign fund. The US economy, according to some statistics, is booming. (Keynesian theory might say it is the result of the gigantic amount of military spending). Feel good legislation is on the roll. Seniors (a large voting group) are about to get (literally) pharmaceutical relief. Bigger parades, bigger games, bigger shows in the feel good time coming up to the next election. Less that a year away and maybe the serious problems can be held off until after then. Terrible terrorist talk by the Islamists - as far as the US is concerned - should be seen now for what it is. Just talk. On all the many anniversaries such as 9/11 and many others they would have done SOMETHING if they could have. The big threats such as Taiwan / China and Pakistan / India North Korea/South Korea and even still bigger ones of cold war US, China, Russia have all gone on for so long now they seem to be now the status quo in a state of undisturbable equilibrium. So all seems well. Time for a little story. There was this burglar - one dark night broke into a screened porch and was jiggling with the door to get on into the house. A voice said: "God will get you." The burglar flashed his light all around the porch but saw no one, and decided he was just hearing things, and started working on the door again. The voice again said: "God will get you." "Who said that", said the burglar. "Jesus", said the voice. The burglar again flashed his light around the porch. In the corner he saw a parrot cage. "Did you say that?", the burglar asked. "Yes", said the parrot. "What kind of people would name their parrot Jesus?", the burglar asked. "The same kind of people who would name their Rottweiler, 'God'", replied the parrot. The humor of all this is that many people are more afraid of God spelled backwards than of God. Three little news items on my desktop this morning. 1. Seems that a drag queen played the role of Mrs. Claus in the Macy's Santa Claus parade this year - what the news item referred to as a "revered event". 2. FCC says it is now okay to use the F-word in broadcast TV. 3. Sgt. Scott Robinson of the Louisiana National Guard was especially thankful to be make it back in Houma, La., for Thanksgiving: He arrived from duty in Iraq on Tuesday, giving him two days before the holiday to spend with his wife of less than a year. This last little item reminded me of a Bible scripture- Deuteronomy 24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. That of course has no significance to a country that no longer hardly acknowledges the ten commandments. There has been not only separation of church and state - but also of church and God. I am not suggesting that governments should rigorously enforce religious doctrines such as the wearing of the burkah, but I do feel that America has drifted far too away from morality as demonstrated by the language on TV. Profanity (in violation of the Third Commandment) and obscenity have become the fare of the day. The name of the Lord is repeatedly used in vain both in broadcast TV and in general public conversation. Most people could not today even list the ten commandments which I had to memorize as a child. For those who don't know them here is a brief synopsis of Exodus 20:3-17. 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image... 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work ... 5. Honour thy father and thy mother... 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness ... 10. Thou shalt not covet ... Whatever America is reverencing in its celebrations today - it is not the Lord. Obscenity is a whole other matter and people are so far from righteousness that I won't even bother going into the differences between profanity and obscenity. It used to be that a soldier had to get the permission of his commanding officer in order to get married. I wonder what would happen today if two soldiers of the same sex went to their commanding officer and asked permission to marry? The world builds its own conundrums. Perhaps you will think that some of these problems are not all that serious, but one more news item that is: http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/74349.php Israeli Subs Have Nukes Aimed at Iranian Sites by AFP • Sunday October 19, 2003 at 04:00 AM 100 Harpoon cruise missiles have been secretly airlifted to the remote island of Diego Garcia, a joint UK-U.S. base in the Indian Ocean. The three Israeli submarines that arrived at the base early this month were each loaded with 24 Harpoon missiles. They then set sail for the Gulf of Oman—bringing Iran’s nuclear facilities all within range of the submarines’ payloads. "God will get you." Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Sun Nov 30 20:44:35 2003 Received: from bbeach (d149.gocom.ca [209.135.104.149]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hB11iV9I005671 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:44:33 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:01:26 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] rock, rock around the clock Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: In Iraq they rock, rock around the clock. Bush rallied the troops and made points with the voters. A courageous and positive thing to do. Being president is dangerous. The percentage mortality for presidents is higher than that of all US armed forces past or present. Iraqis, however, remain miffed. Americans should think how they would feel if their country was occupied by uniformed soldiers who spoke a different language were generally members of a different religion and were part of a different culture. Still, the main the thing that miffs Iraqis is the lack of security. Would you prefer knowing that your daughter could walk safely around the block at night - or being able to buy a new TV satellite dish? In either system - they are not able to effect who governs them - and in either system they were generally able to practice their religion. (Unless they were a Baha'i, or a Jew, or a Christian in most Moslem countries like Saudi Arabia). Oh, well. Speaking of satellite dishes. I don't own one. Have never owned one. And don't plan to get one. But have been seeing the ads about stealing satellite signals. "Boy - why did you steal that candy bar? Where did you learn to steal?" "But dad, you steal satellite signals." Ack! That is terrible. Written by lawyers and PR people with absolutely no moral persuasion that have absolutely no compulsion against tearing down parental respect and the integrity of the family - so long as it makes them a buck. One does not steal something if it does not deprive the owner of that thing. Peeping Toms, intrusion of privacy, and all that sort of thing aside - the electromagnetic spectrum is out there for the taking. Morality is defined by God. Adulterers have anciently argued that sleeping with another man's wife does not deprive that man of her. Aside from the fact that there are many falsities in that belief - including safety from disease, and responsibility for children - there is a Divine Law - one of the Ten Commandments that says: "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery". There is also a commandment that says: "Thous Shalt Not Steal". But, there is no commandment that thou shalt not receive a satellite signal. The lawyers would make it illegal if they could to receive the electromagnetic spectrum from the sun - without paying them a fee. "I have been granted a license by the FCC on that part of the electromagnetic spectrum that brought you tonight's sunset and you have deprived me of my property by taking a picture of it." The only social justification for licensing the spectrum other than maintaining order in the same way as we direct traffic on the highways - would be to reward the providers of intellectual content - (who traditionally have been paid for by advertisers) and likewise those who generate the signal who were likewise remunerated for broadcast radio and TV. Changing times and changing mores - and they may pull this off - but I don't think so. I have thought of painting a picture on the side of a building and charging everyone that looks at it. Some fellows built an outside movie theatre in our home town. Wanted people to board over their windows on the adjoining back lots so they could watch their pictures. I would like to see more rewards go to the creators of intellectual properties - but our system does not do that in any of the media. It simply permits the media moguls to extend copyrights and restrict usage which certainly has not been to the public good. Starving artists and impoverished publicists still abound. There are systems that could remedy the injustices but the lawyers hired by the concentrations of wealth are not interested in finding or founding them. Just another of my little irrelevant rants. What is relevant is that society is coming apart at the seams. Each day a bit more. People see it more in other countries where they live with it daily. Daily deaths in Iraq. Daily terrorists in Israel. Daily threats in Korea. More chain rattling this week in Taiwan - with threats of a referendum on separation. Troubles in Tokyo with a rocket that didn't make it into space. Looking at the space scene. Russia first country to put up a satellite and a man in space. China not that far behind (certainly on a geological scale) long ago put a satellite and now has sent a man to space. Only other country to have done this is the US. We are not counting people who ride in other peoples rockets - (like the Canadians and Japanese do). Russia, China, US. Space. The mark of being a world power. Space - the next frontier. Space - the present high ground militarily. Space - and mankind hasn't even gotten it together - yet - here on planet earth. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Fri Dec 19 17:58:39 2003 Received: from bbeach (d112.gocom.ca [209.135.104.112]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hBJMwZUi022713 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:58:37 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:40:38 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] Some new material Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: It has been about three weeks since I have written but really nothing has changed of significance. Yes, Saddam was captured, betrayed, or whatever. Yes, Sharon made his speech, and the wall continues to rise in Israel. Yes, Iran has agreed to inspections, and the North Koreans haven't. Yes, the stock market has gone up - and unemployment has gone down. Yes, the world continues to revolve - but there is nothing that seems to me to be really that different. Things all continue in the same direction. Russian and China signed a bigger billion dollar arms pact. National leaders around the world complained more and more about American Imperialism. If I reported all the talk about terrorist threats I would have had to write every day. But we have had weeks - even months - and now years - of threats - and all so far has just been talk. It may be that the important events don't really make the news. I keep a little file of news items ready for this newsletter and the next couple interested me but I bet you didn't see them elsewhere. :: SAUDIS TO EXPAND AIR BASE NEAR ISRAEL: The Saudi Defense Ministry has launched a project to develop and expand the King Faisal Air Base in Tabuk, near the Israeli border. The base is home to about 50 advanced F-15S fighter-jets, which were sent to the facility on the eve of the war against Iraq in March 2003. Under a 1978 agreement, Saudi Arabia pledged not to deploy the aircraft in Tabuk. Israel has also warned the U.S. that the presence of the fighters at Tabuk could be used by al-Qaeda agents within the Saudi military to attack the Jewish state. ..................................................................... [Sources: Jerusalem Post, Arutz-7, Ha'aretz, AP, IMRA, MENL, US State Department, N.Y. Times, The Media Line, Ministry of Tourism Spokesman's Office] --------- :: GAZA ATTACKES UP 70%: The past 10 days have seen a 70% increase in attacks in Gaza, most involving Qassam rockets and mortars, and a total of 26 explosive devices were set during November. ---------- TOURISM UP 46% OVER OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR: Tourism from the United States to Israel during October 2003 surged by 78%, and from France by 80%. Tourism Minister Benny Elon: "Tourism is the only sector of the economy generating growth. The impressive growth in numbers from the Tourism Ministry's focus countries, is proof of the success of its overseas marketing efforts." The upswing in tourism to Israel is continuing: In October 2003, an increase of 46% was recorded over October 2002 in the number of tourists arriving in Israel. Especially impressive were the figures for the United States and Europe. So it emerges from data of the Tourism Ministry's Statistics and Information Department, published today. From the United States, 28,500 tourists arrived in October 2003 compared to 16,069 in October 2002, a jump of 78%. During the first ten months of the year, 210,266 tourists came from the United States as against 163,153 in the same period last year, an increase of 29%. ------------ Sort of the way things go. The Israeli military is probably VERY EXCITED about those jets moving in there - but tourism and terrorist attacks are up, which means that like me - these people are seeing it as the old same old. It is constant creep. If it had happened all at once a couple of years ago - there would have been a lot of excitement about it. But now - a batch of kids got killed by American forces - and then a couple of weeks later, another batch - but - "ho hum". No one is going to get shook about them being killed by friendly fire like they did a couple of Canadian soldiers - because there is no money in it for the lawyers. Life and law are funny. Look at this case before the US Supreme Court in my news file. ---------- In Nelson's appeal to the Supreme Court, Atlanta attorney Michael Kennedy McIntyre told justices that authorities had told his client they might have to cut through skin, tissue, fat and muscle to get to a vein. "A cut-down procedure is an invasive and barbaric medical procedure which does not comport with the contemporary practice of medical care," he wrote. He said it would have been the first instance of Alabama performing such a medical procedure before an execution, and that there were insufficient safeguards to protect his health. The cases are Schirro v. Summerlin, 03-526 and Nelson v. Campbell, 03-6821. ---------- Get that! They might break his skin sticking the needle in. He would never notice it - with local anaesthesia. In the olden days I doubt that a horse thief would have gotten very far complaining about rope burn at the necktie party. Time to inject a little humor. Big news this week was the government saying they will be non-invasive in watching email and Internet activities. Do take a quick look at this url - it only takes a moment. http://users.chartertn.net/tonytemplin/FBI_eyes If you would be interested in reading a really serious think piece that impressed me - may I suggest. http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0309&article= 030910 And if you would like to help me with a new web page I would really appreciate your critique and any input that you can give. http://www.webpal.org/b_recovery/2_farm_recovery/uv.htm Peace and love, Bruce From language@webpal.org Thu Jan 1 16:21:41 2004 Received: from bbeach (d135.gocom.ca [209.135.104.135]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i01LLSFf024792 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:21:35 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:03:40 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] Time for introspection Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is the traditional time of the year to review one's thoughts. Introspection and resolutions are the order of the day. For great grandfathers, such as I, introspection is prompted by time of life as well as time of year. I was born in a different culture. Not saying a different country - or even a subset culture of the country. Simply a different culture that existed because of that different time before "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "The Outlaw" which were the watershed events in American print and film mores. My childhood, and even through my early teens, was very sheltered in a community where no one had ever heard of a Moslem - and wouldn't until years later with the event of Muhammad Ali - and where to this day many have still never personally met a Moslem. Because of TV my grandchildren are exposed to sex and violence by the age of six such as I was unaware of at age sixteen. They also become skeptics at a very early age about advertising and other things they hear. Living through events that changed my view of the world were shocks to the psyche. I list below some of the discoveries that really hurt - That adults would not always tell the truth. (About age four). That boys and girls aren't alike. (Doctor games about age five - and being caught playing them). Where eggs come from. (A trip to grandfathers farm about age 5). How sausages are made. (A trip with uncle to a meat packing firm about age 5). That my pet rabbit didn't't run away. (Dinner at grandfather's farm about age 5). That storks don't bring babies. (A whispered rumor in grade one). That there was no Santa Claus. (Around third grade Christmas). That children can die young. (A fourth-grade school-friend's suicide). That blacks could only swim in the black only swimming pool - but there was no black only swimming pool. I went and looked through the boarded up fence - into the dried up old pool full of scrap boards and trash. And also learned that the black scout troop - didn't have a real tent. (about 6th grade) That blacks had to eat in the restaurant kitchen. And only that was allowed because they were chauffer and maid to a passing tourist in a big car. That Roosevelt knew Pearl Harbor was going to occur. This was told to me at about age 12 by a neighbor from scrapbooks kept by his son who was at Pearl at the time of the attack. I didn't believe it then. It was perhaps in the last 10 years that I became increasingly historically convinced. That there were homosexual predators. It has left me with the impression that most homosexuals are pedophiles - and I must have been hit upon a half dozen times, which I doubt is unusual - although in that social clime and time they always backed off. (about ages 12-18) That the girl that I was most attracted to in junior high was not a virgin. Never got a date with her. Girls with much better morals were highly attracted to me - but I ignored them - and was gaw-gaw over this girl. Weird world. That there were other religions besides Christian. This was in a Bible belt town - before the arrival of TV - and the math teacher in high school that gave us a handout on that, they let go. (He was a poor math teacher - and both that and the handout greatly affected my life). That someone would try to con me out of my bed and food. Which happened on my very first night away from home - when I reported to the hotel for a traveling magazine sales job that mother had gotten for me. (age 16) That there were nymphomaniacs. Getting out of the sheltered environment of home - creates a new perspective - and the magazine crew provided that. That the American Japanese were imprisoned in concentration camps This was told to me by some Japanese patrons at a hotel where I gotten a job as a bellhop when I decided the magazine sell was a bit of con. (By today's marketing standards of anything - it was practically as pure as the driven snow). I didn't really believe the Japanese at the time - that their homes had been confiscated and all. That my government would lie to me. It was tough making it as a bellhop and since I was going to have to go into the service eventually anyway (these were the Korean War years) I thought I might as well get it over with - and enlisted. They broke every enlistment promise they made to me. I scored the highest of the intakes on the IQ test - and was made 'troop movement commander' but that was the last benefit I ever received. No pick of job. (Anything doing with flying was filled). That the military code of honor was practically non-existent. Strange little events in our lives really tick us off. End of boot camp. Snow and we were in tents. Assigned guard duty on a stupid wood pile. Awakened and flashlight and guard list shoved into my hand. Standing out there freezing decided to look at the list. Names had been torn out of the paper. I was always the bottom sucker guy in the flight. Just call for the corporal of the guard they had said. Called and called - no answer. (They were all inside keeping warm). Will be court martialed if you leave your post. (Shot in earlier times). Freezing because wearing summer gear and decide to go to the headquarters anyway. Just sent to bed. No one questioned about anything. Saw this kind of attitude about military justice many times afterwards. I had (and still have) a very idealistic outlook on life. That professors with high degrees can be just as narrow minded and dogmatic as anyone. Had never had a professor with a Ph.D. and now this guy had two. Passed his course with a 'B'. No other courses available (up in the arctic with the military) the next semester. Took the course a second time and argued against the Malthusian Theory - so he gave me a 'D'. Met others just as bad in later years. One at BYU never read my papers because I was the wrong religion. Just always gave me a 'B' - and I discovered that I could copy anything into the papers and would get a 'B'. That my dad was a member of the KKK. I discovered when I returned from the service. Superb guy. Highly respected by blacks and whites. Commander of the American Legion. Blacks would come to our door to have him come resolve problems in the black community. A different culture. You had to be there. That whites could join the NAACP. When I was invited to give a talk there. My parents were very racist then - (but changed considerably over the decades). My son, years later, brought home a black choir from Oral Roberts University. My mother called me distressed. "They are eating at our table and sleeping in our beds." "Well, you would let your grandson do that - but you would never have let me." Silence for a moment. "You are right about that." Kikes, Commies, and Niggers. My dad couldn't abide any of them. Yet, I married a Jewess, had Jewish children, went through my communist political stage - and became president of a local NAACP. Still my parents loved me through it all. That there were lesbians. The Kinsey revolution during my college years was certainly a cultural revolution in many ways. That my former wife could turn on me in post partem depression. Was one of the two most traumatic events in my life. (The other a son killed in an accident). Truly nearly drove me nuts. Got twenty-two tickets in the next few weeks time. That Chicago policemen were on the take. Shook the hand of the last one to give me a ticket - and thanked him. Explained to him that he was the first one that hadn't asked for a bribe. Another later got me fired from my job for refusing to give him a bribe. That bureaucrats and politicians fixed tickets. Arrived back in Chicago for one day on what coincidently happened to be election day. Looking for some place to pay the tickets. Fellow took me to a politician. "How much do you want to pay". "What is fair". (I had in mind to just have the tickets paid on the next business day - but anyway - I never heard from them again). That judges decide in favor of lawyers. And there is a lengthy story. Son died in hospital. Had exceptional amount of insurance for grad student. Nurse nun said, "Will show boy in semi-private room" (instead of nursery). When settlement came she said she was "amazed" at the tens of thousands of dollars - and it left only a few hundred dollars on the bill. I pointed out that the insurance paid for semi-private and child was in nursery - so that should settle it. "No - you will have to pay the balance." Carrying newspapers while supporting family and in graduate school - did not have the money. Collection agency called and harangued me every week. Finally told them - "Stop calling or I will sue for malpractice - because the child died of an infection gotten in the hospital." Calls stopped. Months later, one year to date after child died, calls started again. Went to lawyer. One has one year to sue for malpractice - hospitals have 7 years to sue for debt. (Guess who wrote law that way). Notice to appear in court. Gigantic theatre downtown. All main floor and three surrounding balconies filled. Clerk calls out - "Company so and so versus individual". [Can barely him over the noise - with hundreds of lawyers chatting with each other]. One lawyer stands up. "I represent the company". Clerk says - "Is there representation for the defendant?" Never a response. Judge says: "Do you have notarized itemized bills." Lawyer says: "I do your honor in the amount of $______". Judge raps gavel and says. "Awarded to the plaintiff." and the clerk calls out the next one. The legal system and your day in court. Comes to mine after about 45 minutes of this. Clerk says: "Hospital versus Bruce Beach". Lawyer says: "I represent the Hospital". Clerk says: "Is there representation for the defendant?" I stand up and say, "I am Bruce Beach and I am here to defend myself." You gotta be there - when hundreds of people stop talking and there is not one peep. Judge looks up into the balcony and sees this long haired sandaled hippie with his dirty paper bag over his shoulder and says: "Who are you?" "I am Bruce Beach". Judge says to the lawyer: "Do you have notarized itemized bills." Lawyer says: "I do your honor in the amount of $______". Judge lifts his gavel - puts it down and then says: "They are notarized itemized bills?" Lawyer says: "Yes, your Honor." Judge lifts his gavel - puts it down and sits for a moment then picks it up points it at me and says: "Alright - I will set a hearing for 9:00 am tomorrow and you had better be here." [No similar implied threat was made to the plaintiffs.] I said: "Thank you, your Honor" and left as the volume of the noise of talking once again resumed. Next morning: Walked into foyer of courthouse. Two lawyers standing there waiting for me. Civil greetings - "Shall we go in they say?" "You lead", say I. Into the empty court room and through the door in the rail, and they take one table and put their briefcases on it and point out the other table to me and I throw my paper bag up on it. Clerk comes in as says: "All rise." (we stand up) Judge: "Be seated". "Do you have notarized itemized bills" (to the lawyers). Lawyer: "Here they are your honor." Judge to me: "What is your defense?" Myself: "I have three your honor - may I present them one at a time?" "Very well." "First, the bills were intentionally inflated by the hospital. The child was not in a semi-private room - so the payment more than covered the actual cost." "Disallowed." "Secondly, the child died in the hospital because of the infection received while in the hospital." "You had a year to sue for malpractice - disallowed." "Thirdly, I had an implied contract with the hospital as represented by the collection agency in which I did not sue and they quit calling me - [that is until after the expiration of the year in which I could sue.] Long silence. [Lawyers later said - I 'almost' had them with that implied contract.] But of course - the judge ruled for the lawyers. I have been in court many dozens of times since. In retrospect that was one of the kinder - gentler experiences. One eventually comes to realize that the law is simply what the judges (and bureaucrats) say it is and that judges almost always will side with the lawyers and especially with police and bureaucrats who work for, and get their paychecks, from the same government as they do. I have been through some MUCH MORE dramatic and totally UNFAIR court scenes since but that was my first introduction to the American court system. That government agencies combine to assist one another against 'civilians' - which is to say someone is not a member of government agency. In later years this proved to be even more detrimental than the courts. That it is banks that create money. Sort of legalized stealing in that they loan out multiples of what you think you have safely stored there. Practice becomes custom and convention and I am not saying that there aren't worse systems than fractionalized reserve systems - but for an economics undergraduate it was an awakening - especially back then. That my Christian Science Church discriminated against blacks. Even required that practitioners list whether they were black or not - as if one's color makes a difference to one's prayers. That treaties were repeatedly broken with the Indians. Graduate school in political science and economics truly made me a social revolutionary - (I am much more an economic conservative now - although still 'radical' in my ideas). In those days these were facts about the Indians that were not even taught to undergraduates. That cannon were fired into the teepees and hogans where women and children were taking refuge. In those 'Un-American Activities Committee' days one just never spoke, repeated, taught, facts that were opposite of the American ideal. That Abraham Lincoln was a radical racist who did not free the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. (I first learned about these facts during a graduate course on the Lincoln / Douglas debates). The degree of Lincoln's racism is just really becoming apparent to me in the last few weeks). That the Jews Hitler sent to America were not permitted to land here. I had met some Jewish guests at the hotel and had been told about this but it wasn't until graduate school that I came to realize that it was true. That at least the second atomic weapon used against Japan was an experiment and need not have been used - because they were in the process of surrendering. It did expedite matters, but some have suggested they could have been given a demonstration even with the first weapon. That the US Government would lie about 'ancient' history. That the 1898 blowing up of the USS Maine was known by the government at the time not to be act of Terrorism. Its captain, Captain Sigsbee, himself said so. In 1975, an investigation led by Admiral Hyman Rickover examined the data recovered from the wreck and concluded that there had been no evidence of an external explosion. The most likely cause of the sinking was a coal dust explosion in a coal bunker as Captain Sigsbee had cautioned. 'Rememember the Maine' now has a whole new meaning for me. That the US attacked Russia and lost the war. I argued with the graduate school professor that this couldn't possibly be true. He sent me to the Congressional Record to check it out for myself. This is a little fact that was left out of American history textbooks but of course included in every Russian history textbook. I became thoroughly disgusted about the degree to which 'education' then, now, and always - seems to involve brainwashing. That the hospital where I worked intentionally terminated patients at set times. "Well, I got rid of three patients this morning", said the doctor, as we sat at Friday morning breakfast. That was so he wouldn't get called in over the weekend, if they had died then. Standard practice. That Roosevelt instigated Pearl Harbor. Beyond the fact that he knew it was going to occur - that he actually instigated the war by placing embargoes on Japan. This has come as increasing awareness in the last ten years. In those days, Italy, Japan, and Germany had signed a tripartite 'axis' agreement - and in those days Roosevelt was not able to get the US to attack a country that had not attacked it. (Not a problem today - like in Iraq). Anyway, Roosevelt was able to precipitate the Japanese into attacking via the embargoes, so that he could then declare war on Germany - (part of the mutual defense 'axis'). It took me years to assimilate this sort of reality. Anyway, it is my current view - that this was the reality. Eisenhower and the U2 - in which he said: "There are no U2s flying over Russia." and so there would be no misunderstanding he then spelled it out - "'N'---'O'" No, none. Of course Gary Powers made him out to be a liar. Not that Harry and Mrs. Eisenhower, hadn't discovered that already about his chauffer. What this said to all American children was - the president says you shouldn't lie - 'unless it is important like how come the lid is off the cookie jar'. I have seen many things like that since - but it was new to me then. Things like - "Read my lips", or "What do you not understand about 'No'" or later - "I mis-spoke myself." However, we are getting into the area of campaign promises - and people will tell me "that ain't lying". And then there was- Kennedy: "We aren't thinking of invading Cuba", Castro: "Yes, you are." Kennedy: "No we aren't.", Castro: "Yes, you are." Kennedy: "No we aren't, uh- sorry about the Bay of Pigs thing." That the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin “unprovoked attack” by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the USS Maddox while it was on “routine patrol” thus precipitating the Vietnam War was a hoax perpetuated by President Lyndon Johnson. In actuality the USS Maddox was involved in aggressive intelligence gathering in coordination with actual attacks by South Vietnam and the Laotian Air Force against targets in North Vietnam. Its captain, Captain John J. Herrick, the task force commander in the Gulf, cabled Washington DC, that the report of its being attacked was false. I of course did not become aware of this until years later - but that is why we went to war with Vietnam. Today, justifying hitting North Korea would be simpler. That the US used WMDs in Vietnam, unless you think that Agent Orange was just a harmless defoliator as far as Vietnamese children were concerned. That the US did chemical experiments on mental patients and prisoners without their permission. We heard a lot of this about the nazis - but it was a shock to me to hear it about America. While I discount all the present conspiracy theories about chemtrails and such - it does still give one pause. That both the government and my religion keep dossiers on me from secret informers. So much for facing one's accusers. That the US told Saddam that it was okay for him to invade Kuwait and sent word via April Glaspie that the United States would not intervene if Saddam Hussein took that part of Kuwait from which Kuwait was slant drilling under Iraq. (However, Saddam got greedy and went for the country). Possibly anticipated by Bush Sr., and could have been desired for other reasons to precipitate a war that the US could not otherwise initiate without agreement of the US public. Oil / politics often elude me. Endless propaganda stories such as the fraud Hill & Knowlton concocted with the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States, who went on TV pretending to be a nurse, and related a completely false horror story in which Iraqi troops looted the incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital, leaving the premature babies on the cold floor to die. There are so many such stories that this would become a book. It is a whole field of military and government specialty called 'psyops' (psychological operations) used against both the 'enemy' (people in other countries) and American citizens also. It can extend from 'secrets', misleading information and plain lies to the playing on loud speakers all night long to the trapped children of Waco the sounds of rabbits being killed. That there is vote manipulation of the kind that took place in Florida - and before that in Mayor Daly's Chicago. Perhaps simply the American way. That the US Supreme Court would refuse to have the vote counted, something which doesn't bother many - especially about America, but as I have said - I am still and idealist. That US politics is based upon money power and influence is something that seems to me to keep being revealed to a degree that I didn't think possible. The 1991 quote attributed to Nelson Rockefeller at the Trilateral Commission meeting - particularly got to me regarding the media. "We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries." [Note - I am in agreement with the World Government goals - but not the methods of many groups - and I am fearful of those wielding the methods.] That the US provided Saddam with WMD gas. That Saddam did not intentionally gas the Kurds if he gassed them at all. (Developing evidence is that they were gassed by the Iranians using a different kind of gas than that possessed by Saddam and given to him by the US). That the US military bulldozed sand ditches burying alive Iraqis who were trying to surrender. Too many eyewitness accounts - and photographs to make me think that this is not true. The rationale was that the surrenders could be trickery - and that there were not troops available to divert to taking prisoners. My own concern is - that since each of these little tales above - represent a change in my thinking of what was true - from before I got later facts (and that is the reason for their having been traumatic events) - I still wonder what many things I think today - that I would think differently about, if I had more facts. When one reaches my advanced age then they can tell of experiences like these - many times over, for in my own life these are but samples. I could mention many dozens of other examples - but these revelations are the ones that I remember as having been turning points in my thinking. Daily today - one can look at all the controversies about the 'facts' given for invading Iraq - or the 'terrorist threats' - or the reasons for reducing civil liberties. We stand too close in many instances to judge right from wrong - and I am not saying that I would ever have that wisdom. However, for the young American fellows and gals seventeen to twenty years old that have been killed in the last few months in Iraq, I doubt if they had as many experiences as I have. Still, some readers will tell you - that they understand better than I do - what it is that they are fighting for. I am concerned - that my government might still today, bring me some 'fact' that I might get all emotional about - and support some precipitous action - that I would later regret. But - that would be in retrospect - and that is what this newsletter was about - retrospection and introspection at the time of the New Year. Perhaps in the next letter I shall give some expectations - about the coming year. Peace and love, Bruce survival@webpal.org From language@webpal.org Sun Jan 4 02:01:45 2004 Received: from bbeach (d134.gocom.ca [209.135.104.134]) by mail.pairowoodies.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0471gSN031241 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 02:01:43 -0500 From: "Bruce Beach" To: Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:44:03 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: [Arktwo] Further Introspection at 3:00 a.m. Sender: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com Errors-To: arktwo-admin@ns.pairowoodies.com X-BeenThere: arktwo@ns.pairowoodies.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Among men I have been exceptionally blessed in that while being an only child I fully had two mothers because my grandmother lived with us. She was truly my first spiritual guide - and a woman of exceptional powerful prayer. My father would sacrifice anyt