[Arktwo] Listening to other voices

[Bruce Beach]

Messages come to me from many readers.
I share the following observation with you
because:

a. it is so beautifully written

b. it represents from a different source
that which I have already said.

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I live on an island in the Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest, a
short drive, skip and a jump on a ferry ride from Seattle. My home is near
enough to a US Navy Air Station to sometimes catch the drifting din of what
is euphemistically described around these parts as the sound of
"freee-dumb." When the wind is right, one hears a symphony of thunders
belched from the afterburners of warplanes practicing their martial arts. If
you live long enough around here, you acquire a discerning ear for aerial
military moods. You look up from your chores, or your gardening and can
distinguish between "peace is our profession" professing thunders and the
sound of coming war.

At present, near the air station, the presaging sound of war is silence.

The days of thunder and jets filling the sky suddenly vanished, just like
they did before Operation Iraqi Freedom in early 2003. The "thrum" beat of
growling US Navy Prowlers--the vaunted anti-radar jamming jets--echoed
frequently in the late and paling summer sky attended occasionally by the
prop-stick beat of naval helicopters and the deep basso profundo "aum" of
B52s better heard than unseen at 40,000 feet. At the beginning of autumn
northern winds carried a relentless crescendo down the Saratoga Straits of
Prowlers practicing takeoffs and landings for many hours on end, day and
night.

Then there was the silence.

The gray eagles with bomb racked arrowhead wings no longer traced their
white mist lines across the invisible plane of sky in thunder-show. They are
on an infernal migration to their new roosts in distant desert bases, desert
Indian Ocean islands, and floating US carrier rookeries now approaching
desert straddled seas. Some of them are with the nuclear carrier fleets of
the Enterprise and Eisenhower Carrier Strike Groups bearing down on the
Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. They have joined most of the US Navy's
mine sweepers heading for station at the Strait of Hormuz. Two nuclear
aircraft carriers, bristling with cruise missiles and a full array of air
combat wings (including my missing brood of Prowlers) have converged upon
the coast of Iran along with other armadas of attendant Aegis cruisers,
battle cruisers, destroyers, missile frigates, fast support ships, and
docking vessels. Nearby on station are the helicopter carriers, attending
vessels and 8,000 sailors and Marines of Expeditionary Strike Group 5 from
San Diego. There are also US attack submarines tagging along.

I wonder what need there would be for submarines if these belonged, as we
are told by official Pentagon sources, to a redeployment of fresh units to
guard and sustain US occupying forces of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Iraq has
no subs. Iran does. Five Kilo Class Russian built attack submarines, I
believe.

There is also a convergence of naval armadas of the US and NATO in the
Eastern Mediterranean of such array of force gathered off the coast of
Lebanon that seems puzzling if they are there under UN mandate to keep the
peace after the recent Israeli-Lebanese War. Why is a NATO battle fleet
needed when a few dozen Israeli patrol boats off the coast of Lebanon were
enough naval presence to board and confiscate the random ship smuggling
weapons to Hezbullah during the war? Perhaps this far more potent force is
an over-killing pretense to overtly kill someone else--and soon.

Nostradamus may have the answer who, if we read rightly his cryptic
quatrains written in the 16th century that use astrological aspects to
predict when the West would plan a war against the radical nations of the
Middle East.

In Century (Volume) 9 of Quatrain 55, he says:

L'horrible guerre qu'en l'Occident s'appreste
L'an ensuiuant viendra la pestilence,
Si fort horribles que ieune, vieulx, ne beste,
Sang, feu, Mercure, Mars, Iupiter en France.

A horrible war which is being prepared in the West
The following year the pestilence will come,
So very horrible that young nor old, nor animal (may survive):
Blood, fire Mercury Mars Jupiter in France

Nostradamus displays a prescient chauvinism, or presaged empathy, for the
future of his country.

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I do note, however, the curiosity
of fate that brings the native France of Nostradamus
to the fore of in the events
of Lebanon and Iran at this moment.

The source for the quoted writer is located at:

http://www.hogueprophecy.com/

although you may not find
this exact quote there
because it was in a newsletter.
I do not put a lot of stock
in such things as Nostradamus
but that there are so many such voices
must be at least symptomatic of the times
in some Jungian manner of the collective consciousnees,
and I do certainly value
the eyewitness account that was presented here.

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Massive powers that we do not comprehend
- of communists in China
- of Islamists in 22 Islamic countries
- of capitalists in the West
have resources and strategies
in which they are in battle with each other.

Our world
- the world of the peasant masses
is on the tail-end of a whip
of human ideologies and actions
which we can neither comprehend
nor control.

The instigators and driving forces
behind the ideologies
each feel that they have a plan
through which they will succeed
in their goals.

The real goal -
the real Destiny -
however,
is Divine.
Although men may wish to subvert it -
and individually through free will
try to their detriment oppose it -
nevertheless, ultimately,
the Omnipotent will not be frustrated.

Some such as Ahmadinjhad in Iran -
or perhaps even Bush in Washington -
may think they know the Divine Destiny.
For one the return of the 12th Inman,
for the other the world-wide
US Imperialistic control of
a NWO of Corporate Capitalism.

Others expect Rapture -
a physical opening of the graves -
and the return to this life
of the dead.

I too think that I know the future
and God's Will -
through the Baha'i paradigm,
but for the moment
all of us are caught up
in the vortex of immediate events -
that in the words of Baha'u'llah
have made sure that:
"mankind is sore vexed and fearful"
for
"when the appointed  hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which
shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake."

	(Baha'u'llah,
         Gleanings p. 118)

According to the Baha'i Teachings -

"...a universal commotion, of a scope and intensity unparalleled in the
annals of mankind.

The violent derangement of the world's equilibrium; the trembling that will
seize the limbs of mankind; the radical transformation of human society; the
rolling up of the present-day Order; the fundamental changes affecting the
structure of government; the weakening of the pillars of religion; the rise
of dictatorships; the spread of tyranny; the fall of monarchies; the decline
of ecclesiastical institutions; the increase of anarchy and chaos; the
extension and consolidation of the Movement of the Left; the fanning into
flame of the smouldering fire of racial strife; the development of infernal
engines of war; the burning of cities; the contamination of the atmosphere
of the earth -- these stand out as the signs and portents that must either
herald or accompany the retributive calamity which, as decreed by Him Who is
the Judge and Redeemer of mankind, must, sooner or later, afflict a society
which, for the most part, and for over a century, has turned a deaf ear to
the Voice of God's Messenger in this day -- a calamity which must purge the
human race of the dross of its age-long corruptions, and weld its component
parts into a firmly-knit world-embracing Fellowship -- a Fellowship
destined, in the fullness of time, to be incorporated in the framework, and
to be galvanized by the spiritualizing influences, of a mysteriously
expanding, divinely appointed Order, and to flower, in the course of future
Dispensations, into a Civilization, the like of which mankind has, at no
stage in its evolution, witnessed.

	(Shoghi Effendi,
	 Messages to the Baha'i World - 1950-1957,
         p. 103)

At this hour -
as I prepare to send this -
I take note of the following news headline.

Iran could have nuclear bomb by 2015

BERLIN (Reuters) -

"Iran is unlikely to be able to develop a nuclear bomb before 2015, the
chief of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency said on Tuesday."

Yes,
listen to the MSM.
Forget that on
August 2, 1939
when Einstein wrote to
the President of the United States -

http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html

no one had started to figure out
how to build an atomic bomb
and that by
August 9, 1945
six years later
the US had dropped two of them.

So if one thinks
that now that the construction
details are so widely known
that one can get them from the Internet -
that every PhD physicist
is now versed in the principles -
that Iran was shown to have files
obtained from Pakistan
(which has proven its capability)
showing detailed drawings -
that Iran has funded and cooperated
with North Korea -
that Iran has been working on development
for twenty years -
and that Iran is thought to have
140 development sites -
and that the head of the IAEA thought
two years ago
that Iran would have the bomb
within months once it started its centrifuges -
but now -
the above article would have one conclude
that it will take the Iranians
9 more years to build a bomb -
when it only took the US
6 years to build one from scratch
when no one new for sure that it could be done.

Each one must choose -
for themselves -
the voices to which they will listen -
and the degree of confidence
that they will place in those voices.
Today,
there seem to be as many
that wish to intentionally mislead -
as those that are trying to discover the Truth.

Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org