[Arktwo] Leaving Iraq

[Bruce Beach]

A number of readers have asked 
that today I remind them 
THAT TONIGHT
on Sunday August 19th
at 10:10 p.m. Eastern Time
(7 p.m. west coast)
You can talk to me on Internet radio
for the balance of the hour 
by going to the web site

	www.nowlive.com

and linking into the program
"What Would Jesus Do Now"
(Information at www.wwjsnl.com )

To just listen to the program without participation
just go to the show site.

But if you are willing to talk with me on the show you should also -
at about 10:15 'onward' eastern time
(convert that to your corresponding time)

a. call on your telephone -
	the number 1 (310) 984-7600
b. you will be directed over the phone
	to press the # sign
	and some numbers for WWJDN
c. and then to go on the air live
	press 1 when directed

I am told that you will then be
in a 'waiting room' 
that only holds four at a time 
and that you will be brought on the air
in order as others finish speaking.

If you find the waiting room full - 
then try again ten minutes later.

The topic will be generally about my views
on the inevitability of nuclear war
and the story of Ark Two.

If you are a TEAM Leader,
or are a Project Editor,
or have visited the Ark,
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Around the bush again.

In my previous newsletter 
I provided a link to a breaking story 
about an event that had not occurred with Russia 
for the last seventeen years. 
A number of readers wrote commenting 
that the link did not say 
the same things as I posted in the newsletter. 

That is true. 
The link was being updated. 
That is the way it is with breaking stories. 

I said four bombers. 
By the time you read the link it said 14. 
I said 'combat duty' - 
by the time you read the link it said 
'combat alert' 
which is more critical. 
I had said in my commentary - 
the Putin had not asked for 'understanding' - 
but by the time you read the link - 
the story said that he had.

The next day 
additional background information 
filled out the story as presented elsewhere.
It was placed into the framework 
that in the last ten days 
Russian bombers had flown over Guam, 
and into Alaskan territory, 
and into North Sea areas adjacent to Britain. 

Responses were also noted 
by the White House, 
the US State Department 
and the British. 
Still and all - 
it received zero play in the US MSM 
compared to the miners in Utah.

Thousands read my newsletter on this - 
and while a few pointed out 
the inaccuracies -
(I would say better the inadequacies -
imposed by the restraints of timeliness) 
I do hope that most will appreciate 
that it is a hazard of trying to stay 
on the cutting edge of events - 
and even trying to look over the horizon. 

For others - they will appreciate better 
the greater accepted accuracy of 
historical analysis presented a few years later.

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On a similar story that I was discussing - 
the MSM gave almost no coverage 
(except in localities where it was apparent) 
of the bank runs that were taking place 
and of people lining up for hours 
to get their money out. 

http://tinyurl.com/2lnqwe

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On a third story about - 
The NAU 
important meeting among the Heads of Government
taking place this week 
I find almost nothing again 
of substance being reported 
in the MSM. 

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Fourthly - 
all week long 
I have watched one MSM 
intentional misleading optimistic headline after another 
regarding the stock market. 
No truly substantial news 
or insight there either - 
about the nature, method or motives of the PPT 
to be found on the main front pages.
 
All of this leads me to conclude 
that the MSM has a mission - 
and that is to NOT PANIC THE PUBLIC, 
regarding any of these subjects. 

There are headline stories 
about a few million being spent here and there - 
and the ones that particularly irk me 
are the self-righteous ones 
about money being wasted in social programs - 
for the poor - 
while many tens of billions are being spent  
of the taxpayers money 
to rescue the Wealthy Bankers in the stock market.
That is welfare on a ratio of thousands to one 
for the wealthy 
and represents to me 
the gigantic hypocrisy of the MSM, 
when they don't point that out - 
and I have never seen them do it once.

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This brings me to a fifth story - 
about leaving Iraq. 
Readers have been writing to me 
about how eager many of our troops are 
to get back to Iraq.

The MSM has been reporting this week 
about the Success of the Surge. 

For me to be less than supportive 
on any of the MSM positions - 
I realize that in the eyes of many Americans 
is for me to be un-American or anti-American.

Still I see little news blurbs 
like the following

http://tinyurl.com/3yhaup

which remind me of the ones a while back 
of so many female soldiers 
getting pregnant in Iraq 
so that they will be sent home - 
and I think again - 
that I am being manipulated.

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The people who vote for war - 
the people who make money out of war - 
(those same one's who are getting 
the big billions from the government 
this month) 
don't themselves go to Iraq - 
and for the most part 
don't even send their children. 
I consider that hypocrisy. 

Searching the Bible 
I find that Jesus was more critical 
of hypocrites 
than of adulterers and liars - 
both of which he condemned very strongly. 
It is just that his criticism of hypocrites 
doesn't seem to carry much weight today - 
especially in high places - 
and I think that speaks to the times.

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Which brings me back 
to the subject of 
WWJDN - 
and tonight's radio program 
which was the purpose of my writing this issue 
of the newsletter 
in the first place.

My obvious sympathies 
are with the soldiers on the ground 
in Iraq - 
as well as with all those being hurt 
by the war, 
rather than with the millionaires, billionaires 
and their struggles in the stock market 
and through the means of the war - 
to make more money. 

Because of that 
you would be amazed at how many emails 
I will receive saying - 
"Beach - 
you are a leftist, socialist, communist."

I don't think so - 
but I certainly don't like the way 
that things stand at the present.

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Conventional wisdom - 
seems so often, 
in my opinion to lead men astray. 

People have strong attachment 
to their language, culture, race, 
country, religion, 
all of which they have just been 
coincidently born into. 

There are a plethora of other ideas - 
which they have gathered - 
simply because those are the ideas 
that they have always heard expressed around them -
from youth onwards. 

It is these ideas 
that shape their attitudes 
about what is going on in 
Iraq, the stock market, the Middle East, 
the US government, the monetary system,  
and so forth.

Someone wrote to me this week -

"Those of us not trained in economics 
(as I am)
can understand a simple fact: 
when falling income and rising debt converge 
on the same family or business, 
the result is financial disaster. 
We are at that juncture today, 
even a Harvard professor knows 
we are speeding swiftly into a major depression!" 

What the writer of that paragraph 
holds as gospel - 
is that the same principles apply 
to a nation 
as apply to an individual family or business. 

But that is not true. 
Families and businesses cannot print money. 
Governments - 
and those who control them do.

For the most part - 
I think none of us understand 
the forces that are at work in 
government, the monetary system, 
culture, patriotism, religion 
and so forth - 
that are leading us into the 
gigantic conflagration 
that we are about to bring upon ourselves. 

However, 
we, individually and collectively,
are going to have to work through 
and beyond these misconceived prejudices 
and biases - 
if after the Great Catastrophe 
we are going to build a better world 
and humanity is going to survive.

Join me tonight - 
in that continuing quest, 
if your time and circumstances permit.

Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org