12/24/10

Remember the Progressive anti-war movement that surged under Bush? Where are their voices? Remember our Nobel Prize-winning president's call for hope, change, and peace? What happened to that? Remember ALL that has come out of this "War on Terror" after the events of 9/11? You know, a war in Afghanistan that has taked the lives of 1, 368 Americans and injured 9,828 more (as of two days ago); a Patriot Act that our new president resigned after saying he opposed it which allows for unapolagetic spying on the American people; Homeland Security and their extra-precautious and extra-invasive security measures; an influx of heroin production and distribution; a society of increased fear; Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Fear, lies, and control is what it's all about. Geopolitical control and domestic control. I have some tidbits about war, lies, corruption, tragedy, some out-of-the-box-thinking, and perhaps a dash of hope today, but first, I think I'll start with a prayer. The prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. A prayer for peace.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

NEWS AND WHATNOT:

NATO Attacks Official Convoy, Killing Two Afghans

Afghanistan: Obama Capitulates to the War Makers
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/jan10_lerner_editorial_afghanistan

Number of Civilian Casualties in Afghan War Rises 20% U.N. Report Shows
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/23/AR2010122303521.html

"New START" Ratification Likely End of Obama's "Disarmament Vision," and of Arms Control Era, as New Political Alignments, Fresh Crises Loom
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/20101222183707366

9/11 First Responders Health Care Bill Passed By House & Senate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/911-first-responders-heal_1_n_800326.html

Woman arrested at ABIA after refusing enhanced pat down
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Woman-arrested-at-ABIA-after-refusing-enhanced-pat-down-112354199.html

Passengers And ACLU Critique Random Baggage Checks
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=126175&catid=188

Seth Walsh: 1997-2010
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights/seth-walsh-1997-2010

LBJ-CIA Assassination of JFK
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/12/my-files-on-lbj-and-cia-assassination.html

No More Secrets: A Call for Transparency
http://www.realitysandwich.com/no_more_secrets

Carnival 2012—A Psychological Study of the 2012 Phenomenon and the 22 Classic Pitfalls and Blind Spots of Esoteric Research
http://www.zaporacle.com/carnival-2012-a-psychological-study-of-the-2012-phenomenon-and-the-22-classic-pitfalls-and-blind-spots-of-esoteric-research/

THE KEY TO DREAMSPELL
http://edj.net/mc2012/fap6.html


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