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Monday, June 30, 2008
'Only MNCs will profit from the N-deal'
The National Alliance of People's Movements, the largest network of grassroots people's movements in India, has reaffirmed its opposition to the India-United States nuclear agreement.
A statement issued by the NAPM argues, "The deal has the potential of disturbing regional stability and further distorting India 's relationships with important neighbours like China, Pakistan and Iran." It states that the efforts to generate power from nuclear energy have failed in advanced countries and the nuclear fuel cycle is dangerous to the common man.
NAPM cautions that the deal might make India a junior military ally of the US and only MNCs and the nuclear industry of other developed nations will benefit from the deal.
The signatories of the statement include prominent filmmaker Anand Patwardhan and activist Medha Patkar, among others.
The NAPM also cites other environmental and security concerns against the nuclear deal:
Amidst protests against price rises of essential items throughout the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] has again started harping on the issue of the Indo-US nuclear deal. The deal has been pushed forward in India in an anti-democratic manner without the approval of the Parliament - in fact in the teeth of opposition by a large majority of parliamentarians. The deal has the potential of disturbing regional stability and further distorting India 's relationships with important neighbours like China, Pakistan and Iran . This cannot also but severely undermine the prospects for both vertical and horizontal non-proliferation and thereby the prospects for global nuclear disarmament.
This allurement also has the danger of further propelling India towards becoming a junior military ally of the US and a market to mint profits for its MNCs and also the nuclear industry of other advanced countries -- Russia [Images] and France [Images], in particular. Most importantly it will be a set back to the environmentally friendly sustainable ways of meeting our energy requirements. Power from nuclear energy is a failed project in developed countries and the eagerness of the Prime Minister to clinch the deal fails to generate any enthusiasm among the common people of India. Neither is nuclear energy a solution to global warming as some experts make it out to be. On the contrary, the entire nuclear fuel cycle is fraught with danger and exposes human beings to hazardous radiation. The world is yet to find a safe way for disposal of radioactive waste, a factor that is constraining the growth of nuclear power programmes in the developed countries.
The Indo-US nuclear deal is meant to serve the interests of the global nuclear power industry and is a ploy to keep India away from staking claims to the shrinking fossil fuel reserves in proportion to its large population, so that these reserves may last for some more time for the rich countries.
The undue importance given to the Indo-US nuclear deal, as opposed to the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, even though gas is predicted to be the major source of power globally for the next two to three decades, raises questions about the motives of the Indian government.
We take strong objection to the joint Indo-US military exercises that have been taking place for the last seven years with the aim of building interoperability and we demand immediate closure of the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte in Mizoram. The increasing militarisation of the India State is also being used to crush civil liberties and democratic movements in the country. India must learn a lesson from the history of US military involvement in various parts of the world.
We appreciate the consistent stand taken by the Left Front, a partner in the United Progressive Alliance, in successfully stalling the Indo-US Nuclear Deal up till now and hope that the India specific agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency will never be finalised. Even as we note their foresight in foiling the US hegemonic designs in South Asia, we also expect them to take a principled stand against the nuclear power programme. We believe that the IAEA safeguards must be implemented nationally and internationally on all declared and undeclared nuclear activities, including that of Israel and US. The government of India must also make its nuclear related activities transparent and accountable to the people, especially those who are directly affected by radiation.
We welcome the government's decision to ask the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to draft an umbrella legislation for promotion and growth of renewable energy.
Surendra Mohan, Achin Vanaik, Major General S.G. Vombatkere (Retired), J Sri Raman, Thomas Kocherry, Sukla Sen, Mukta Srivastava, Anand Patwardhan, Ajit Jha, Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishore Jagtap, P.T.M. Hussain, Ashish Ranjan Jha, Kamayani, Sanjay M G, Arundhati Dhuru, Medha Patkar, Sandeep Pandey
On behalf of National Alliance of People's Movements
A statement issued by the NAPM argues, "The deal has the potential of disturbing regional stability and further distorting India 's relationships with important neighbours like China, Pakistan and Iran." It states that the efforts to generate power from nuclear energy have failed in advanced countries and the nuclear fuel cycle is dangerous to the common man.
NAPM cautions that the deal might make India a junior military ally of the US and only MNCs and the nuclear industry of other developed nations will benefit from the deal.
The signatories of the statement include prominent filmmaker Anand Patwardhan and activist Medha Patkar, among others.
The NAPM also cites other environmental and security concerns against the nuclear deal:
Amidst protests against price rises of essential items throughout the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] has again started harping on the issue of the Indo-US nuclear deal. The deal has been pushed forward in India in an anti-democratic manner without the approval of the Parliament - in fact in the teeth of opposition by a large majority of parliamentarians. The deal has the potential of disturbing regional stability and further distorting India 's relationships with important neighbours like China, Pakistan and Iran . This cannot also but severely undermine the prospects for both vertical and horizontal non-proliferation and thereby the prospects for global nuclear disarmament.
This allurement also has the danger of further propelling India towards becoming a junior military ally of the US and a market to mint profits for its MNCs and also the nuclear industry of other advanced countries -- Russia [Images] and France [Images], in particular. Most importantly it will be a set back to the environmentally friendly sustainable ways of meeting our energy requirements. Power from nuclear energy is a failed project in developed countries and the eagerness of the Prime Minister to clinch the deal fails to generate any enthusiasm among the common people of India. Neither is nuclear energy a solution to global warming as some experts make it out to be. On the contrary, the entire nuclear fuel cycle is fraught with danger and exposes human beings to hazardous radiation. The world is yet to find a safe way for disposal of radioactive waste, a factor that is constraining the growth of nuclear power programmes in the developed countries.
The Indo-US nuclear deal is meant to serve the interests of the global nuclear power industry and is a ploy to keep India away from staking claims to the shrinking fossil fuel reserves in proportion to its large population, so that these reserves may last for some more time for the rich countries.
The undue importance given to the Indo-US nuclear deal, as opposed to the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, even though gas is predicted to be the major source of power globally for the next two to three decades, raises questions about the motives of the Indian government.
We take strong objection to the joint Indo-US military exercises that have been taking place for the last seven years with the aim of building interoperability and we demand immediate closure of the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte in Mizoram. The increasing militarisation of the India State is also being used to crush civil liberties and democratic movements in the country. India must learn a lesson from the history of US military involvement in various parts of the world.
We appreciate the consistent stand taken by the Left Front, a partner in the United Progressive Alliance, in successfully stalling the Indo-US Nuclear Deal up till now and hope that the India specific agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency will never be finalised. Even as we note their foresight in foiling the US hegemonic designs in South Asia, we also expect them to take a principled stand against the nuclear power programme. We believe that the IAEA safeguards must be implemented nationally and internationally on all declared and undeclared nuclear activities, including that of Israel and US. The government of India must also make its nuclear related activities transparent and accountable to the people, especially those who are directly affected by radiation.
We welcome the government's decision to ask the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to draft an umbrella legislation for promotion and growth of renewable energy.
Surendra Mohan, Achin Vanaik, Major General S.G. Vombatkere (Retired), J Sri Raman, Thomas Kocherry, Sukla Sen, Mukta Srivastava, Anand Patwardhan, Ajit Jha, Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishore Jagtap, P.T.M. Hussain, Ashish Ranjan Jha, Kamayani, Sanjay M G, Arundhati Dhuru, Medha Patkar, Sandeep Pandey
On behalf of National Alliance of People's Movements
INDIAN PEOPLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM
Meeting to discuss and formulate resolution
to express our categorical opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
at Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Azad Maidan, CST - July 1st (Tuesday), 5.30-7.30pm
Leaders & Representatives from Political Parties, Mass Organizations, Social Movements as well as Marathi and Urdu Editors & Literary figures will be present at the meeting.
to express our categorical opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
at Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Azad Maidan, CST - July 1st (Tuesday), 5.30-7.30pm
Leaders & Representatives from Political Parties, Mass Organizations, Social Movements as well as Marathi and Urdu Editors & Literary figures will be present at the meeting.
The following is the basis of the draft that will be considered for discussion and suitable amendments:
Once again the PM Manmohan Singh has plunged the nation into a crisis, ostensibly due to his over zealous committment to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The ordinary people had voted for a secular dispensation in 2004, but had not forseen a situation where their democratic aspirations would be sacrificed on the altar of a nuclear agreement. This is clearly a betrayal of the mandate of the "Aam Aadmi", which was basically for a roll back of unbridled neo-liberalism and rampant communalism.
Our opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal stems from the following three reasons:
The primary objective of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal is to bind our country into a Politico-Military-Strategic Alliance as an ally & a junior partner of the US Empire with designs for global hegemony. Clearly our foreign policy has veered away from the path of Third World solidarity and the Non-Aligned Movement and is becoming increasingly "congruent" with that of the US. The "Indo-US Defence Framework Agreement" signed between Pranab Mukherjee and Rumsfeld in June 2005 then led to the "July 18, 2005 Joint Statement" between Manmohan Singh and Bush. The following strategic agreements are under consideration, Maritime Security Co-operation, Logistics Support Agreement, Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement. This will lead to India providing refuelling, maintenance, communications, interoperability, partaking in "relief operations" in war zones and collaborate in multi-national peace-keeping operations outside UN auspices. This will effectively reduce India to an Asian outpost of NATO.
The 123 Agreement and the Hyde Act (December 2006) infringe upon our National sovereignty and curtail our strategic programmes. For the first time in the history of Independent India, the government has signed a deal which is subordinate to the law of another country i.e. the Hyde Act. This Act makes Nuclear Trade with India conditional to the annual certification by the US president. The Hyde Act stands in support of the NPT regime which we have rejected as discriminatory and a system of ensuring nuclear apartheid. A determination and any waiver shall cease to be effective if the US President determines that India has detonated a nuclear explosive devise thus effectively curtailing our strategic options in testing a nuclear device. The 123 Agreement does not secure our national interests, nor does it give us an equal status to the US and is therefore in direct contradiction of the July 18, 2005 Joint Statement as well the assurances given by the PM to the Parliament on July 29, 2005.
Even in terms of Energy Security this deal has very little to offer. Both in terms of advanced Nuclear Technology and fuel, US lags behind the leading nations. India has an ample supply of Uranium ore to support 10,000 MW of Nuclear power for the next 30 years, so where is the rush we ask? Countries such as France and Russia are willing to enter into agreements on equitable terms. Even within the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) there are bitter differences over the fact that we have not signed the NPT and Australia the leading supplier of Uranium has said so categorically. Undoubtedly our growing economy requires an abundance of energy and for that we need to invest in Coal based Thermal Plants as well as invest in research in alternative energy sources, for which the Manmohan Singh government has little to offer. The UPA government in its short-sighted approach has not inked the long pending agreement with Iran and nor has it vigorously tapped the abundant Oil resources of Central Asia, due to which we as a nation stand to loose in the immediate future.
The government claims that it has undertaken negotiations with the IAEA and has negotiated India-specific safeguards that our supposedly to our benefit, but yet to this day the UPA government has not shared the details with the Parliament, leave alone the People or the media.
Why this secrecy, if it's all to the benefit of the nation?
Why is the the PM plunging the entire nation into a political and constitutional crisis?
What are the reasons as to why we are being compelled to sign a deal, that is, and will prove disastrous to the long term interests of the nation?
This is the time to standup and be counted and come forward to protect the nation from the tentacles of the US Empire !!
We therefore appeal to the political parties, social movements, mass organizations and the people to take to the streets and organize demonstrations across the nation so to effectively thwart the Indo-US Nuclear Deal & oppose the designs of US Imperialism on our country.
:Organizers:
CPI, CPI-ML, Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh, Rashtriya Samaj Paksh, Jan Morcha, Lok Rajniti Manch, Awami Bharat, NAPM, Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI), Republican Panther, Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), Hindu Vikasini, Dhamma Sansad, Yashwant Sena, CNDP (Mumbai), Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy, Vidyarthi Bharti, Yuva Sarkar, Indian Social Movement, OBC Arakshan Samiti, Jamaat-i-Islami, Phule-Ambedkari Vichar Manch, Dalit Intellectual Forum, Movement for Peace & Justice, Muslim Intellectual Forum, Dhangar Samaj Vikas Samiti and Muslim Youth of India.
Once again the PM Manmohan Singh has plunged the nation into a crisis, ostensibly due to his over zealous committment to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The ordinary people had voted for a secular dispensation in 2004, but had not forseen a situation where their democratic aspirations would be sacrificed on the altar of a nuclear agreement. This is clearly a betrayal of the mandate of the "Aam Aadmi", which was basically for a roll back of unbridled neo-liberalism and rampant communalism.
Our opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal stems from the following three reasons:
The primary objective of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal is to bind our country into a Politico-Military-Strategic Alliance as an ally & a junior partner of the US Empire with designs for global hegemony. Clearly our foreign policy has veered away from the path of Third World solidarity and the Non-Aligned Movement and is becoming increasingly "congruent" with that of the US. The "Indo-US Defence Framework Agreement" signed between Pranab Mukherjee and Rumsfeld in June 2005 then led to the "July 18, 2005 Joint Statement" between Manmohan Singh and Bush. The following strategic agreements are under consideration, Maritime Security Co-operation, Logistics Support Agreement, Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement. This will lead to India providing refuelling, maintenance, communications, interoperability, partaking in "relief operations" in war zones and collaborate in multi-national peace-keeping operations outside UN auspices. This will effectively reduce India to an Asian outpost of NATO.
The 123 Agreement and the Hyde Act (December 2006) infringe upon our National sovereignty and curtail our strategic programmes. For the first time in the history of Independent India, the government has signed a deal which is subordinate to the law of another country i.e. the Hyde Act. This Act makes Nuclear Trade with India conditional to the annual certification by the US president. The Hyde Act stands in support of the NPT regime which we have rejected as discriminatory and a system of ensuring nuclear apartheid. A determination and any waiver shall cease to be effective if the US President determines that India has detonated a nuclear explosive devise thus effectively curtailing our strategic options in testing a nuclear device. The 123 Agreement does not secure our national interests, nor does it give us an equal status to the US and is therefore in direct contradiction of the July 18, 2005 Joint Statement as well the assurances given by the PM to the Parliament on July 29, 2005.
Even in terms of Energy Security this deal has very little to offer. Both in terms of advanced Nuclear Technology and fuel, US lags behind the leading nations. India has an ample supply of Uranium ore to support 10,000 MW of Nuclear power for the next 30 years, so where is the rush we ask? Countries such as France and Russia are willing to enter into agreements on equitable terms. Even within the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) there are bitter differences over the fact that we have not signed the NPT and Australia the leading supplier of Uranium has said so categorically. Undoubtedly our growing economy requires an abundance of energy and for that we need to invest in Coal based Thermal Plants as well as invest in research in alternative energy sources, for which the Manmohan Singh government has little to offer. The UPA government in its short-sighted approach has not inked the long pending agreement with Iran and nor has it vigorously tapped the abundant Oil resources of Central Asia, due to which we as a nation stand to loose in the immediate future.
The government claims that it has undertaken negotiations with the IAEA and has negotiated India-specific safeguards that our supposedly to our benefit, but yet to this day the UPA government has not shared the details with the Parliament, leave alone the People or the media.
Why this secrecy, if it's all to the benefit of the nation?
Why is the the PM plunging the entire nation into a political and constitutional crisis?
What are the reasons as to why we are being compelled to sign a deal, that is, and will prove disastrous to the long term interests of the nation?
This is the time to standup and be counted and come forward to protect the nation from the tentacles of the US Empire !!
We therefore appeal to the political parties, social movements, mass organizations and the people to take to the streets and organize demonstrations across the nation so to effectively thwart the Indo-US Nuclear Deal & oppose the designs of US Imperialism on our country.
:Organizers:
CPI, CPI-ML, Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh, Rashtriya Samaj Paksh, Jan Morcha, Lok Rajniti Manch, Awami Bharat, NAPM, Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI), Republican Panther, Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), Hindu Vikasini, Dhamma Sansad, Yashwant Sena, CNDP (Mumbai), Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy, Vidyarthi Bharti, Yuva Sarkar, Indian Social Movement, OBC Arakshan Samiti, Jamaat-i-Islami, Phule-Ambedkari Vichar Manch, Dalit Intellectual Forum, Movement for Peace & Justice, Muslim Intellectual Forum, Dhangar Samaj Vikas Samiti and Muslim Youth of India.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
McCain aide states another terrorist attack will help the campaign
by jurnei
From Glen Johnson, AP writer:
FRESNO, Calif. -
A top adviser to John McCain said another terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be a "big advantage" for the Republican presidential candidate, drawing a sharp rebuke Monday from both the presumed GOP nominee and Democrat Barack Obama.ADVERTISEMENT
Charlie Black, already in the spotlight for his past lobbying work, is quoted in the upcoming July 7 edition of Fortune magazine as saying such an attack "certainly would be a big advantage to him." Black said Monday he regretted the comment.
Black is also quoted as saying the "unfortunate event" of the assassination of former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto in December 2007 "helped us."
Questioned about Black's comments during a news conference, McCain said, "I cannot imagine why he would say it. It's not true. I've worked tirelessly since 9/11 to prevent another attack on the United States of America. My record is very clear." more
After reading the article, is it not clear that McCain is trying to spin a grossly inappropriate remark? Did they forget that thousands of people lost their life during that "terrorist" attack (I use that word loosely as investigations into the event are still murky). Are they only concerned with winning an election, so much so that they are hoping for an attack on our soil? It makes it sound as if they are planning another one.
This is also a "top advisor" saying this - did Black and McCain not discuss this? And just how has McCain been working tirelessly? He was caught on national television not knowing the difference between Shia and Sunni, which group was in Iran, telling folks that Baghdad is safe enough to walk through without protection while the General doesn't move anywhere without an armored and guarded hummer, and more too numerous to mention here. But in hearing McCain speak, it is clear that he is not clear on what is happening in the Middle East. Working "tirelessly" may have more to do with waking up when he hears the word "terrorist", only to have missed most of the conversation.
It's time to get rid of the politics of spin, little regard for human beings, and leaders that don't act in the best interests of this nation.
From Glen Johnson, AP writer:
FRESNO, Calif. -
A top adviser to John McCain said another terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be a "big advantage" for the Republican presidential candidate, drawing a sharp rebuke Monday from both the presumed GOP nominee and Democrat Barack Obama.ADVERTISEMENT
Charlie Black, already in the spotlight for his past lobbying work, is quoted in the upcoming July 7 edition of Fortune magazine as saying such an attack "certainly would be a big advantage to him." Black said Monday he regretted the comment.
Black is also quoted as saying the "unfortunate event" of the assassination of former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto in December 2007 "helped us."
Questioned about Black's comments during a news conference, McCain said, "I cannot imagine why he would say it. It's not true. I've worked tirelessly since 9/11 to prevent another attack on the United States of America. My record is very clear." more
After reading the article, is it not clear that McCain is trying to spin a grossly inappropriate remark? Did they forget that thousands of people lost their life during that "terrorist" attack (I use that word loosely as investigations into the event are still murky). Are they only concerned with winning an election, so much so that they are hoping for an attack on our soil? It makes it sound as if they are planning another one.
This is also a "top advisor" saying this - did Black and McCain not discuss this? And just how has McCain been working tirelessly? He was caught on national television not knowing the difference between Shia and Sunni, which group was in Iran, telling folks that Baghdad is safe enough to walk through without protection while the General doesn't move anywhere without an armored and guarded hummer, and more too numerous to mention here. But in hearing McCain speak, it is clear that he is not clear on what is happening in the Middle East. Working "tirelessly" may have more to do with waking up when he hears the word "terrorist", only to have missed most of the conversation.
It's time to get rid of the politics of spin, little regard for human beings, and leaders that don't act in the best interests of this nation.
'Emergency' Day - June 26, 2008
People's Declaration of Emergency and Pledge to Counter
We on behalf of Sanghrash, NAPM and other organisations invite you to join
people's declaration of Emergency in Mumbai,
on 26th June between 12 p.m to 5.30 p.m at August Kranti Maidan ( near Grant Road station).
Special Guests & Speakers: Mrinal Gore, G.G. Pareikh, Tushar Gandhi, Prabhash Joshi, Justice (Retd.) Suresh H., Surekha Dalvi, Jhelam Paranjpe, Medha Patkar and others.
Dear friends
India, today is at the crossroads, for a multitude of reasons. While on the one hand the city lines are gleaming with glossy malls, plush high rises, immaculate roads, flyovers and other 'structures of growth', a vast majority of the rest of the nation, presents a grim reality, which the State planners and policymakers would love to brush under the carpet. From the continuing spate of rather frequently reported suicides of farmers and weavers, and equally poignant albeit less reported suicides of thousands of others practicing traditional livelihoods, to persistent starvation and malnourishment in urban and rural pockets, continuing atrocities against women, dalits, adivasis, fisher folk, hawkers, and other marginalized groups in the name of SEZs, large dams, and other infrastructure projects (read 'development'), continued deprivation and neglect of 93% of the country's toiling work force to the plummeting state expenditure on crucial human rights concerns like education, health, agriculture and food security, among others on the one hand and the rocketing inflation, which is hitting the poor hardest, the State in every which way seems to be disowning its most fundamental constitutional mandate and instead paving way for corporatization and privatization of all essential services. The State is infact actively abetting, now even blatantly through the legal framework, the plunder of natural and human resources, stamping away the rights of communities, coupled with scheming exploitation of already limited state investments in irrigation, water and allied sectors, not to mention the countless incentives doled out to big business houses and branding anyone who questions this unconstitutional paradigm of 'development' in a confrontationist way as 'maoists, naxalites and so on....
We, the people, are particularly concerned about the increasing legitimization of this skewed and distorted form of technocratic and capitalist development from all quarters of the State, which is further passed off as India – Shining, glowing, glittering by political manipulators the media megaphones.
We are living in a 'police state' today where human rights defenders, artists, and those fighting for the justice have to bear the brunt of state's oppression. The laws like AFSPA, CSPSA, NSA etc. continue to harass and terrorise its own citizens all across India including J&K and North East.
The Legislature enacts nothing short of draconian legislations like the SEZ Act, proposes blatant changes in the CMZ Rules, introduces the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, which distorts the definition of public purpose, excelling even the British lawmakers and anti-people policies like JNNURM and scores of other policy and legal initiatives in various states to please corporates at the cost of the people. Submissive to the global powers and allowing the vision to investment, the self-reliance to sovereignty is compromised and loot is permitted.
The Executive, as always is over-zealous in the execution of these policies and further indulges in non-transparent exercises of bringing in questionable Government Orders, Policies, Rules and Regulations and special amendments in the garb of 'delegated legislation'. Failure of global markets and paradigm in providing employment, of protecting masses from terrorism, preventing price rise stands exposed.
The Judiciary has also, in many cases, chosen to be blinded by the vision of 'development', be it in the Narmada case, or in the recent order in the Vedanta Case, or many other cases. The lives and cultures of dalit, adivasis and other marginalised communities have and are being staked in the process of monolithic vision of technocratic development. It has also failed to defend the fundamental rights of its citizens when the State is impinging on them with impunity in name of fighting terrorism and naxalism and continues to use draconian laws in the name of security.
Key to be noted also is the manner in which one set of legislations are sought to be brought in and favoured by bypassing, neglecting, and violating another set of legislations and constitutional guarantees. In the latter line fall the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, the Forest Rights Act, the V Schedule to the Constitution the CRZ and EIA Notifications, the Environment Protection Act, related legislations and most important of all, the 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments. Central to all of these is probably the willful slackness of India Private Limited in that. Despite decades of these historical parliamentary interventions to further democratise governance, the State has chosen not to enact a law that would actualise the constitutional-democratic-decentralised governance by people themselves whether in urban or rural areas.
Nandigram to Narmada to Nandgudi, Kakinada to Kevadia to Kushinagar, Polepally to Plachimada to Posco, the struggle, issues and repression is the same, in a strange way bringing together and binding the victims of development in a common voice against this unconstitutional, undemocratic and inhuman process of limited growth just as the pre-independence era saw the unison of varied forces with the common agenda of deliverance. But the movement's politics, beyond electoral politics needs to be asserted towards the goal of 'people's power' that can bring in true democracy and development, both. It is this demand for a comprehensive Development Planning Act that we, the people's movements, put forth as the real pro-people alternative to the current pro-rich, pro-corporate paradigm of development and it is the passion for the realisation of this which brings us together in solidarity to continue our struggle for a just, sustainable and humane society and development.
DATE: 26th June
Time : 12 p.m. to 5.30p.m,
Venue: August Kranti Maidan near Grant Road
Contact: 9969530060, 9969363065
We cordially invite you to join the action and share your experiences of fight during emergency and to call upon people to collectivelly fight the new kind of emergency today.
Yours sincerely,
Medha Patkar, Mukta Srivastava, Chandershekar, Simpreet Singh , Mohan Chauhan , Feroze Mithibolwala, Suniti S.R
On behalf of National Alliance of People's Movements, Sang harsh, Awami Bharat , Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Shahar Vikas Manch , Tata Dharan Grast Sangharsh Samiti (Pune), Sahaydri Bachao Andolan, Ekveera Jamin Bachao Andolan , Dharavi Bet Bachao Andolan, and others
Monday, June 23, 2008
INDIAN PEOPLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM
DHARNA TO OPPOSE CONG-I/UPA on
INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL / STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
CHURCHGATE STN (East), Tuesday 24th June, 2008 at 5pm.
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Once again the PM Manmohan Singh has plunged the nation into a crisis, ostensibly due to his over zealous committment to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The ordinary people had voted for a secular dispensation in 2004, but had not forseen a situation where their democratic aspirations would be sacrificed on the altar of a nuclear agreement. This is clearly a betrayal of the mandate of the "Aam Aadmi", which was basically for a roll back of unbridled neo-liberalism and rampant communalism.
Our opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal stems from the following three reasons:
The primary objective of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal is to bind our country into a Politico-Military-Strategic Alliance as an ally & a junior partner of the US Empire with designs for global hegemony. Clearly our foreign policy has veered away from the path of Third World solidarity and the Non-Aligned Movement and is becoming increasingly "congruent" with that of the US. The "Indo-US Defence Framework Agreement" signed between Pranab Mukherjee and Rumsfeld in June 2005 then led to the "July 18, 2005 Joint Statement" between Manmohan Singh and Bush. The following strategic agreements are under consideration, Maritime Security Co-operation, Logistics Support Agreement, Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement. This will lead to India providing refuelling, maintenance, communications, interoperability, partaking in "relief operations" in war zones and collaborate in multi-national peace-keeping operations outside UN auspices. This will effectively reduce India to an Asian outpost of NATO.
The 123 Agreement and the Hyde Act (December 2006) infringe upon our National sovereignty and curtail our strategic programmes. For the first time in the history of Independent India, the government has signed a deal which is subordinate to the law of another country i.e. the Hyde Act. This Act makes Nuclear Trade with India conditional to the annual certification by the US president. The Hyde Act stands in support of the NPT regime which we have rejected as discriminatory and a system of ensuring nuclear apartheid. A determination and any waiver shall cease to be effective if the US President determines that India has detonated a nuclear explosive devise thus effectively curtailing our strategic options in testing a nuclear device. The 123 Agreement does not secure our national interests, nor does it give us an equal status to the US and is therefore in direct contradiction of the July 18, 2005 Joint Statement as well the assurances given by the PM to the Parliament on July 29, 2005.
Even in terms of Energy Security this deal has very little to offer. Both in terms of advanced Nuclear Technology and fuel, US lags behind the leading nations. India has an ample supply of Uranium ore to support 10,000 MW of Nuclear power for the next 30 years, so where is the rush we ask? Countries such as France and Russia are willing to enter into agreements on equitable terms. Even within the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) there are bitter differences over the fact that we have not signed the NPT and Australia the leading supplier of Uranium has said so categorically. Undoubtedly our growing economy requires an abundance of energy and for that we need to invest in Coal based Thermal Plants as well as invest in research in alternative energy sources, for which the Manmohan Singh government has little to offer. The UPA government in its short-sighted approach, as well as primarily due to US pressures, has not inked the long pending agreement with Iran and nor has it vigorously tapped the abundant Oil resources of Central Asia, due to which we as a nation stand to loose in the immediate future.
The government claims that it has undertaken negotiations with the IAEA and has negotiated India-specific safeguards that our supposedly to our benefit, but yet to this day the UPA government has not shared the details with the Parliament, leave alone the People or the media.
Why this secrecy, if it's all to the benefit of the nation?
Why is the the PM plunging the entire nation into a political and constitutional crisis?
What are the reasons as to why we are being compelled to sign a deal, that is, and will prove disastrous to the long term interests of the nation?
This is the time to standup and be counted and come forward to protect the nation from the tentacles of the US Empire !!
We therefore appeal to the political parties, social movements, mass organizations and the people to take to the streets and organize demonstrations across the nation so to effectively thwart the Indo-US Nuclear Deal & oppose the designs of US Imperialism on our country.
:Organizers:
CPI, CPI-ML, Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh, Rashtriya Samaj Paksh, Jan Morcha, Lok Rajniti Manch, Awami Bharat, NAPM, Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI), Republican Panther, Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), Hindu Vikasini, Dhamma Sansad, Yashwant Sena, CNDP (Mumbai), Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy, Vidyarthi Bharti, Yuva Sarkar, Indian Social Movement, OBC Arakshan Samiti, Jamaat-i-Islami, Phule-Ambedkari Vichar Manch, Dalit Intellectual Forum, Movement for Peace & Justice, Muslim Intellectual Forum, Dhangar Samaj Vikas Samiti and Muslim Youth of India.
Note:
All those organizations in agreement with the "spirit of the draft" are requested to add their name to the above and circulate the appeal. Since there is a shortage of time, as June 28 is the deadline for the talks between the UPA & the LEFT, we have decided to issue the appeal after consultation with the forces that were readily available at hand. The express intention is to mobilise and organize demonstrations in as many as centres across the country by the 27th of June. As of now we are in co-ordination between Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chennai & Kolkatta.
The list will grow ........ !!
In Solidarity !!
INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL / STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
CHURCHGATE STN (East), Tuesday 24th June, 2008 at 5pm.
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Once again the PM Manmohan Singh has plunged the nation into a crisis, ostensibly due to his over zealous committment to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The ordinary people had voted for a secular dispensation in 2004, but had not forseen a situation where their democratic aspirations would be sacrificed on the altar of a nuclear agreement. This is clearly a betrayal of the mandate of the "Aam Aadmi", which was basically for a roll back of unbridled neo-liberalism and rampant communalism.
Our opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal stems from the following three reasons:
The primary objective of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal is to bind our country into a Politico-Military-Strategic Alliance as an ally & a junior partner of the US Empire with designs for global hegemony. Clearly our foreign policy has veered away from the path of Third World solidarity and the Non-Aligned Movement and is becoming increasingly "congruent" with that of the US. The "Indo-US Defence Framework Agreement" signed between Pranab Mukherjee and Rumsfeld in June 2005 then led to the "July 18, 2005 Joint Statement" between Manmohan Singh and Bush. The following strategic agreements are under consideration, Maritime Security Co-operation, Logistics Support Agreement, Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement. This will lead to India providing refuelling, maintenance, communications, interoperability, partaking in "relief operations" in war zones and collaborate in multi-national peace-keeping operations outside UN auspices. This will effectively reduce India to an Asian outpost of NATO.
The 123 Agreement and the Hyde Act (December 2006) infringe upon our National sovereignty and curtail our strategic programmes. For the first time in the history of Independent India, the government has signed a deal which is subordinate to the law of another country i.e. the Hyde Act. This Act makes Nuclear Trade with India conditional to the annual certification by the US president. The Hyde Act stands in support of the NPT regime which we have rejected as discriminatory and a system of ensuring nuclear apartheid. A determination and any waiver shall cease to be effective if the US President determines that India has detonated a nuclear explosive devise thus effectively curtailing our strategic options in testing a nuclear device. The 123 Agreement does not secure our national interests, nor does it give us an equal status to the US and is therefore in direct contradiction of the July 18, 2005 Joint Statement as well the assurances given by the PM to the Parliament on July 29, 2005.
Even in terms of Energy Security this deal has very little to offer. Both in terms of advanced Nuclear Technology and fuel, US lags behind the leading nations. India has an ample supply of Uranium ore to support 10,000 MW of Nuclear power for the next 30 years, so where is the rush we ask? Countries such as France and Russia are willing to enter into agreements on equitable terms. Even within the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) there are bitter differences over the fact that we have not signed the NPT and Australia the leading supplier of Uranium has said so categorically. Undoubtedly our growing economy requires an abundance of energy and for that we need to invest in Coal based Thermal Plants as well as invest in research in alternative energy sources, for which the Manmohan Singh government has little to offer. The UPA government in its short-sighted approach, as well as primarily due to US pressures, has not inked the long pending agreement with Iran and nor has it vigorously tapped the abundant Oil resources of Central Asia, due to which we as a nation stand to loose in the immediate future.
The government claims that it has undertaken negotiations with the IAEA and has negotiated India-specific safeguards that our supposedly to our benefit, but yet to this day the UPA government has not shared the details with the Parliament, leave alone the People or the media.
Why this secrecy, if it's all to the benefit of the nation?
Why is the the PM plunging the entire nation into a political and constitutional crisis?
What are the reasons as to why we are being compelled to sign a deal, that is, and will prove disastrous to the long term interests of the nation?
This is the time to standup and be counted and come forward to protect the nation from the tentacles of the US Empire !!
We therefore appeal to the political parties, social movements, mass organizations and the people to take to the streets and organize demonstrations across the nation so to effectively thwart the Indo-US Nuclear Deal & oppose the designs of US Imperialism on our country.
:Organizers:
CPI, CPI-ML, Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh, Rashtriya Samaj Paksh, Jan Morcha, Lok Rajniti Manch, Awami Bharat, NAPM, Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI), Republican Panther, Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), Hindu Vikasini, Dhamma Sansad, Yashwant Sena, CNDP (Mumbai), Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy, Vidyarthi Bharti, Yuva Sarkar, Indian Social Movement, OBC Arakshan Samiti, Jamaat-i-Islami, Phule-Ambedkari Vichar Manch, Dalit Intellectual Forum, Movement for Peace & Justice, Muslim Intellectual Forum, Dhangar Samaj Vikas Samiti and Muslim Youth of India.
Note:
All those organizations in agreement with the "spirit of the draft" are requested to add their name to the above and circulate the appeal. Since there is a shortage of time, as June 28 is the deadline for the talks between the UPA & the LEFT, we have decided to issue the appeal after consultation with the forces that were readily available at hand. The express intention is to mobilise and organize demonstrations in as many as centres across the country by the 27th of June. As of now we are in co-ordination between Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chennai & Kolkatta.
The list will grow ........ !!
In Solidarity !!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Haifa Conference
Haifa Conference for the Right of Return and the Secular Democratic State in Palestine
Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, 2008Haifa, Al Midan Theatre, Khouri St 2 Extract: (1) Aspects of the Conflict in Palestine Facilitator: Hisham Naffa1. The Palestine Question, from understanding the conflict, to defiance: theory and practice, Dr Massoud Eghbarieh2. Between national and class levels – the history and horizon of the trade union struggle in Palestine, Wehbe Badarneh3. The racist separation wall and the World Monetary Fund's policy, Doud Hamoudi4. Israeli economic hegemony – variations in a one complementary colonialist economic order throughout Palestine, Prof. Leila Farsakh5. The Jewish question and the Jewish state, in view of resisting imperialism in Palestine, Eli Aminov (2) Zionism and the Borders of Ethnic Cleansing; facilitator: Dr. Johnny Mansour1. Ethnic cleansing in Zionist ideology and practice, Dr. Mahmoud Muhareb2. The Negev – ethnic cleansing here and now, Atiya el-A’assam3. Cleansing without borders – ethnic cleansing in the Golan and failed attempts in South Lebanon, Dr. Taysir Mara’i4. Separation as a new form of transfer, Jonathan Cook5. Ethnic cleansing in Palestine, a crime against humanity – who bears the responsibility?, Attorney Walid Al-Fahum (3) Right of return and the democratic secular state in human rights perspective; facilitator: Attorney Hussein Abu Hussein1. Democratic regime throughout Palestine: expanding the borders of the state of all citizens, and the return of the refugees, Attorney Hassan Jabareen2. Right of return of the internally displaced and refugees – between positive law and natural right, Attorney Wakim Wakim3. Return of the refugees as a condition for humanizing the Israeli entity – criticism of recognizing the right of return in exchange for an actual return, Michael Warshavsky4. The democratic secular state – the right to self-determination and de-Zionisation of historical Palestine, Omar Barghouti (4) Partition of Palestine: Solving the problem or complicating the solution?facilitator: Rawiya Shanti1. Palestine – a one united continual history and geography across the eras, Dr. Ibrahim El-Fanni2. The colonization and racist separation regime – comparing South Africa and Israel, Dr. Amneh Badran3. The right of return between the two-state and the one-state solutions, Badil - Bethlehem4. Concluding the one-state solution from international law and legitimacy, Dr. Uri Davis (5) Palestine towards freedom and return – Philosophical, pedagogical and political perspectives; facilitator – Salman Natur1. Dialectics of homeland and Diaspora, and resisting the misleading temptation of the 'return home', Prof. Ilan Gur-Ze’ev2. Scenes of the tragedy – notes at the sides of the catch, Dr. Ismail Nashef3. Secularism – supportive environment for the national and cultural freedom project, Abed Anabtawi4. An optimistic look at the return of the refugees – from an anarchist point of view, Eyal Rosenberg (6) The Crisis in Israeli Society; facilitator: Ranin Giryes1. Who's afraid of the return of the refugees? Developing practical ideas about the return of the refugees to Palestine, Eitan Bronstein2. An optimistic perspective: "Despairing of the state" as a leverage to end the religion/state fixation, Ofra Yeshua-Lyth3. Jewish Arabs in Israel: will they facilitate the way to the 1 state?, Reuven Aberjil4. Anti-Zionism as a Zionist belonging, and alternatives to a Jewish collective identity, Yana Knopova (7) Different Perspectives of a One-State Palestine; facilitator Muhammad Kayal1. A bi-national state for Palestinians and Israelis, Dr. As’ad Ghanem2. A democratic secular republic of all its Palestinian citizens, Prof. Yehuda Kupferman3. The democratic secular state in the context of a liberation vision of the Arab world, Muhammad Kana’aneh4. The catch and the escape, Ahmad Katamesh (8) Boycotting Israel and Solidarity of Nations; facilitator Samieh Jabbarin1. Lessons to be learned from South Africa – boycott from without and popular struggle within, Melissa Hall2. The European civil society’s support of the struggle for return and against racism, John Rose3. Boycotting Israel – Resisting the normalization of Occupation and Apartheid, Yael Lerer4. How to comply with the Palestinian call to boycott Israel?, Roy Haroush/Kobi Snitz5. Boycott: civil resistance is the most effective in face of a complicated Zionist Colonial oppression, Omar Barghouti (9) Approaches to freedom and enlightenment in the activity of civil society organizations; facilitator Subhi Zgheir1. Feminism: resisting hegemony in theory and in practice, Leila Jaroushi / Areen Hawari2. The dialectics of the self and the other, and the formation of a belonging youth Palestinian identity, Awni Kreim3. Towards liberation of the Israeli Society of Hegemony and the Nakba denial, Dr. Mary Totari4. The Palestine 48 struggle against discrimination and racism, differs but completes the struggle of the Palestinian people, Muhammad Zidan Full programme:www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5729&Itemid=55 ************************************Anti-imperialist Campwww.antiimperialista.orgcamp@antiimperialista.org************************************ If you do not want to receive this newsletter, pls. click here:http://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/aic
Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, 2008Haifa, Al Midan Theatre, Khouri St 2 Extract: (1) Aspects of the Conflict in Palestine Facilitator: Hisham Naffa1. The Palestine Question, from understanding the conflict, to defiance: theory and practice, Dr Massoud Eghbarieh2. Between national and class levels – the history and horizon of the trade union struggle in Palestine, Wehbe Badarneh3. The racist separation wall and the World Monetary Fund's policy, Doud Hamoudi4. Israeli economic hegemony – variations in a one complementary colonialist economic order throughout Palestine, Prof. Leila Farsakh5. The Jewish question and the Jewish state, in view of resisting imperialism in Palestine, Eli Aminov (2) Zionism and the Borders of Ethnic Cleansing; facilitator: Dr. Johnny Mansour1. Ethnic cleansing in Zionist ideology and practice, Dr. Mahmoud Muhareb2. The Negev – ethnic cleansing here and now, Atiya el-A’assam3. Cleansing without borders – ethnic cleansing in the Golan and failed attempts in South Lebanon, Dr. Taysir Mara’i4. Separation as a new form of transfer, Jonathan Cook5. Ethnic cleansing in Palestine, a crime against humanity – who bears the responsibility?, Attorney Walid Al-Fahum (3) Right of return and the democratic secular state in human rights perspective; facilitator: Attorney Hussein Abu Hussein1. Democratic regime throughout Palestine: expanding the borders of the state of all citizens, and the return of the refugees, Attorney Hassan Jabareen2. Right of return of the internally displaced and refugees – between positive law and natural right, Attorney Wakim Wakim3. Return of the refugees as a condition for humanizing the Israeli entity – criticism of recognizing the right of return in exchange for an actual return, Michael Warshavsky4. The democratic secular state – the right to self-determination and de-Zionisation of historical Palestine, Omar Barghouti (4) Partition of Palestine: Solving the problem or complicating the solution?facilitator: Rawiya Shanti1. Palestine – a one united continual history and geography across the eras, Dr. Ibrahim El-Fanni2. The colonization and racist separation regime – comparing South Africa and Israel, Dr. Amneh Badran3. The right of return between the two-state and the one-state solutions, Badil - Bethlehem4. Concluding the one-state solution from international law and legitimacy, Dr. Uri Davis (5) Palestine towards freedom and return – Philosophical, pedagogical and political perspectives; facilitator – Salman Natur1. Dialectics of homeland and Diaspora, and resisting the misleading temptation of the 'return home', Prof. Ilan Gur-Ze’ev2. Scenes of the tragedy – notes at the sides of the catch, Dr. Ismail Nashef3. Secularism – supportive environment for the national and cultural freedom project, Abed Anabtawi4. An optimistic look at the return of the refugees – from an anarchist point of view, Eyal Rosenberg (6) The Crisis in Israeli Society; facilitator: Ranin Giryes1. Who's afraid of the return of the refugees? Developing practical ideas about the return of the refugees to Palestine, Eitan Bronstein2. An optimistic perspective: "Despairing of the state" as a leverage to end the religion/state fixation, Ofra Yeshua-Lyth3. Jewish Arabs in Israel: will they facilitate the way to the 1 state?, Reuven Aberjil4. Anti-Zionism as a Zionist belonging, and alternatives to a Jewish collective identity, Yana Knopova (7) Different Perspectives of a One-State Palestine; facilitator Muhammad Kayal1. A bi-national state for Palestinians and Israelis, Dr. As’ad Ghanem2. A democratic secular republic of all its Palestinian citizens, Prof. Yehuda Kupferman3. The democratic secular state in the context of a liberation vision of the Arab world, Muhammad Kana’aneh4. The catch and the escape, Ahmad Katamesh (8) Boycotting Israel and Solidarity of Nations; facilitator Samieh Jabbarin1. Lessons to be learned from South Africa – boycott from without and popular struggle within, Melissa Hall2. The European civil society’s support of the struggle for return and against racism, John Rose3. Boycotting Israel – Resisting the normalization of Occupation and Apartheid, Yael Lerer4. How to comply with the Palestinian call to boycott Israel?, Roy Haroush/Kobi Snitz5. Boycott: civil resistance is the most effective in face of a complicated Zionist Colonial oppression, Omar Barghouti (9) Approaches to freedom and enlightenment in the activity of civil society organizations; facilitator Subhi Zgheir1. Feminism: resisting hegemony in theory and in practice, Leila Jaroushi / Areen Hawari2. The dialectics of the self and the other, and the formation of a belonging youth Palestinian identity, Awni Kreim3. Towards liberation of the Israeli Society of Hegemony and the Nakba denial, Dr. Mary Totari4. The Palestine 48 struggle against discrimination and racism, differs but completes the struggle of the Palestinian people, Muhammad Zidan Full programme:www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5729&Itemid=55 ************************************Anti-imperialist Campwww.antiimperialista.orgcamp@antiimperialista.org************************************ If you do not want to receive this newsletter, pls. click here:http://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/aic
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
PRESS CONFERENCE
AWAMI BHARAT
PRESS CONFERENCE
Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Azad Maidan, CST, Mumbai
June 18, 2008 (Wednesday), 3-4pm
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In the light of arrest of Ramesh Gadkari & Mangesh Nikam for terror activities both who have been active members of the Hindu Janjagriti Samiti & the Sanatan Sanstha, we reiterate our demand for the government to constitute an Independent Commission of Inquiry to Investigate all the acts of terrorism that have been perpetrated on our country.
We also request the media to strictly refrain from using the terms "Hindu Terrorist" & "Muslim Terrorist" as it tars entire communities of millions of people, who then live with a guilt of which they have no part. We appeal to all concerned to abjure from using these terminologies as it is also counter-productive for our larger struggle. The policy should be to simply name the organizations or individuals concerned as neither Hinduism or Islam or any other religion for that matter preach violence.
The fact that the terror investigations of the last three years have lead us nowhere also basically means that our security agencies have failed only because they have been pursuing a preconcieved path and have looked into only one possibility. This has only led to the widespread demonization of the Muslim community and the rise of Islamophobia as well.
It has been clear especially since the Nanded blasts of April 2006 that there were other terror networks that are operational as well as lethal, but they were not being given the attention due to them either by the government, the security establishment or the media.
Since the last few years, Awami Bharat has consistently put forth its analysis in the public domain and we have offered a coherent hyothesis that seeks to explain the "politics of terrorism in the age of Imperialism". Basically the "politics of terror" has replaced the "politics of communal riots" and this is a key part of our discourse if we are to deconstruct this diabolical phenomenon.
Terrorism has now arisen as the political and social challenge of our times and therefore it is imperative that we strive to undertstand the International context and the specific agencies as well the forces within our country that are at the root of the terror. We believe that primarily there are three networks that are operational and all of these need to be investigated if we are to live in an India and a world free of terror.
We will discuss all of the above issues and length and we request you to depute your reporter and photographer to cover the proceedings.
In Solidarity
Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishore Jagtap, Sayeed Khan, Varsha V V, Amol S B, Asif Khan, Chetna Birje, Arif Kapadia, Reshma Jagtap, Syed Iftikhar Ahmad, Mulaniwasi Mala, Jagdish Nagarkar, Bhagwan, Jyoti Badekar, Aslam Khan, Afaq Azad, Irfan Mulla, Avinash Kamble & Harshavardhan Vartak.
We also request the media to strictly refrain from using the terms "Hindu Terrorist" & "Muslim Terrorist" as it tars entire communities of millions of people, who then live with a guilt of which they have no part. We appeal to all concerned to abjure from using these terminologies as it is also counter-productive for our larger struggle. The policy should be to simply name the organizations or individuals concerned as neither Hinduism or Islam or any other religion for that matter preach violence.
The fact that the terror investigations of the last three years have lead us nowhere also basically means that our security agencies have failed only because they have been pursuing a preconcieved path and have looked into only one possibility. This has only led to the widespread demonization of the Muslim community and the rise of Islamophobia as well.
It has been clear especially since the Nanded blasts of April 2006 that there were other terror networks that are operational as well as lethal, but they were not being given the attention due to them either by the government, the security establishment or the media.
Since the last few years, Awami Bharat has consistently put forth its analysis in the public domain and we have offered a coherent hyothesis that seeks to explain the "politics of terrorism in the age of Imperialism". Basically the "politics of terror" has replaced the "politics of communal riots" and this is a key part of our discourse if we are to deconstruct this diabolical phenomenon.
Terrorism has now arisen as the political and social challenge of our times and therefore it is imperative that we strive to undertstand the International context and the specific agencies as well the forces within our country that are at the root of the terror. We believe that primarily there are three networks that are operational and all of these need to be investigated if we are to live in an India and a world free of terror.
We will discuss all of the above issues and length and we request you to depute your reporter and photographer to cover the proceedings.
In Solidarity
Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishore Jagtap, Sayeed Khan, Varsha V V, Amol S B, Asif Khan, Chetna Birje, Arif Kapadia, Reshma Jagtap, Syed Iftikhar Ahmad, Mulaniwasi Mala, Jagdish Nagarkar, Bhagwan, Jyoti Badekar, Aslam Khan, Afaq Azad, Irfan Mulla, Avinash Kamble & Harshavardhan Vartak.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Hindu radicals behind Thane theatre blast
Two persons were arrested late on Sunday for allegedly planting explosives in two auditoriums and a movie hall in Mumbai’s extended suburbs over the past ...
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The Terror that begot Israel
"We committed Nazi acts."Aharon Zisling, Israel's first Agriculture Minister"There is no doubt that many sexual atrocities were committed by the attacking Jews. Many young (Arab) girls were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also molested."General Richard Catling, British Army Assistant Inspector after interrogating several female survivors (The Palestinian Catastrophe, Michael Palumbo, 1987)As the evil state of Israel is celebrating sixty years of ethnic cleansing and atrocities against the native Palestinians, many people around the world, especially young generations, will not be fully aware of the manner in which Israel came into existence. Similarly, the younger Zionist generations who don't stop calling their Palestinian victims "terrorists" should have a clearer idea about Israel's manifestly criminal past which Zionist school textbooks shamelessly glamorize and glorifyPrior to "Jewish" statehood, three main Jewish terror organizations operated in Palestine, primarily against Palestinian civilians and British mandate targets. The three were: The Haganah, the Zvei Leumi or Irgun and the Stern Gang. The Haganah (Defence) had a field army of up to 160,000 well-trained and well-armed men and a unit called the Palmach, with more than 6,000 terrorists. The Irgun included as many as 5,000 terrorists, while the Stern Gang included 200-300 dangerous terrorists.The following are merely some examples of Zionist terrorism prior to the creation of the Zionist state in 1948: The list doesn't include the bigger massacres such as Dir Yasin, Dawaymeh, Tantura and others.1937-1939During this period, Zionist terrorists carried out a series of terror attacks against Palestinian buses resulting in the death of 24 persons and the wounding of 25 others.1939Haganah blew up the Iraqi oil pipeline near Haifa/Palestine. Moshe Dayan was one of the participants in this act. The technique was used in 1947 at least four times.1940On 6 November, 1940 , Zionist terrorists of the Stern Gang assassinated the British Minister resident in the Middle East , Lord Moyne, in Cairo .1940On 25 November, S.S. Patria was blown up by Jewish terrorists in Haifa harbour, killing 268 illegal Jewish immigrants. The explosion, carried out by the Haganah terrorist group, was only meant to prevent the ship from sailing. However, it seemed that the terrorists had miscalculated the amount of explosives needed to disable the vessel. Other sources reported that this was no miscalculation and was a deliberate mass murder of Jews by Jews aimed at drawing sympathy and influencing British immigration policy to Palestine .1946Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed the civilian administration of the government of Palestine, killing and injuring more than 200 persons. The Irgun gang claimed responsibility for this criminal act, but subsequent evidence indicated that both the Haganah and the Jewish Agency were involved.1946On 1 October, the British Embassy in Rome was badly damaged by a bomb explosion for which Irgun claimed responsibility.1947In June 1947, a postal bomb addressed to the British war office exploded in the post office sorting room in London, injuring 2 persons. It was attributed to Irgun or Stern Gangs (The Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1972), p. 8.1947In December 1947, six Palestinians were killed and 30 wounded when bombs were thrown from Jewish trucks at Arab houses in Haifa; 12 Palestinians were killed and another injured in an attack by armed Zionists at an Arab coastal village near Haifa.1947On 13 December 1947 , Zionist terrorists believed to be members of Irgun Zevi Leumi murdered 18 Palestinian civilians and wounded 60 others in Jerusalem , Jaffa and Lud areas. In Jerusalem , bombs were thrown in an Arab market-place near the Damascus Gate; in Jaffa bombs were thrown into an Arab café; and in the Arab village near Lud, 12 Arabs were killed in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons.1947On 9 December, Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near Safad, blowing up two houses, in the ruins of which were found the bodies of 10 Arabs, including 5 children. Haganah admitted responsibility for the attack.1947On 29 December, two British constables and 11 Palestinians were killed and 32 others were injured at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem when Irgun terrorists threw a bomb from a taxi.1948On 1 January, Haganah terrorists attacked a village on the slope of Mount Carmel , killing 17 Palestinian civilians and wounding 33 others.1948On 4 January, Haganah terrorists wearing British Army uniforms penetrated into the centre of Jaffa and blew up the Sarai, which was used as headquarters of the Arab National Committee, killing more than 40 persons and wounding 98 others.1948On 5 January, the Arab-owned Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem was blown up, killing 20 civilians, among them Viscount De Tapia, the Spanish Consul. Haganah admitted responsibility for this outrage.1948On 7 January , seventeen Arab civilians were killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem , 3 of them while trying to escape. Further casualties, including the murder of a British officer near Hebron, were reported from different parts of the country.1948On 16 January, Jewish terrorists blew up three Arab buildings, killing 8 children between the age of 18 months and 12 years.December 13, 1947- February 10, 1948Seven bombing attacks by Jewish terrorists took place and the targets were innocent Arab civilians in cafés and markets, killing 138 and wounding 271 others. During this period, there were 9 attacks on Arab buses. Moreover, Jewish terrorists attacked passenger trains on at least four occasions, killing 93 persons and wounding 161 others.1948On 15 February , Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near Safad and blew up several houses, killing 11 civilians, including four children.1948On 3 March, heavy damage was done to the Arab-owned Salam building in Haifa (a seven-story block of flats and shops) by Jewish terrorists who drove an army truck to the building and escaped before detonation of 400 pounds of explosives, killing 11 Arab civilians and 3 Americans. The Stern Gang claimed responsibility.1948On 22 March, Jewish terrorists from the Stern Gang blew up a housing block in Iraq Street in Haifa , killing 17 and injuring 100 others. Four members of the Stern Gang drove two truckloads of explosives into the street and abandoned the vehicles before the explosives went off.1948On 31 March, Jewish terrorists mined the Cairo-Haifa Express, killing 40 people and wounding 60 others.1948On 16 April, Jewish terrorists attacked the former British army camp at Tel Litvvinsky, killing 90 Palestinians.1948On 19 April, fourteen Palestinian civilians were killed in a house in Tiberias, which was blown up by Zionist terrorists.1948On 11 May, a letter bomb addressed to Evelyn Baker, former commanding officer in Palestine , was detected in the nick of time by his wife.April 25, 1948- May 13, 1948Wholesale looting of Jaffa was carried out following armed attacks by Irgun and Haganah terrorists. They plundered and carried away everything they could, destroying what they could not take with them.1948On 17 September, Count Folke Berndadotte, UN Mediator in Palestine was assassinated by members of the Stern Gang in the Zionist-controlled sector of Jerusalem . Bernadotte's aide Col. Serot was also killed and murdered by Jewish terrorists.1948In November, the Christian Arab villages of Igrit and Birim were attacked and destroyed, killing and injuring many unarmed civilians, including women and children. All the Christian Arab inhabitants were forcibly expelled from their homes. The State of Israel still refuses to allow them to return to their villages despite several court orders.1948-1949The greatest acts of Jewish terror took place when Jewish terrorists, now called Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), uprooted 700,000-800,000 Palestinians from their ancestral homeland in Palestine . Since then the refugees have consistently been denied the right to return home. After the expulsion, the Zionist terrorist army razed to the ground hundreds of Arab towns, villages and hamlets and obliterated their remains. Eventually, Israeli villages, Kibbutzim and towns were built on the remaining rubble.
HUNDREDS OF MOSSAD AGENTSCAUGHT RUNNING WILD IN AMERICA!
Warren Royal
Originally posted at http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2003/07/74953_comment.php?theme=1
The Austin American-Statesman, November 25, 2001, pg. A-11
We spoke earlier about the five celebrating Israeli "movers", (Mossad agents), who were arrested and placed in solitary confinement for weeks after they were spotted in a white van suspected of attempting to blow up the George Washington Bridge. We also reviewed how the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems - Dominick Suter - then suddenly abandoned his "moving company" and fled for Israel on 9-14. But there were still more Israeli "movers" and other Israelis whose actions raise serious suspicions. Even more suspicious is how they are always quietly released and deported.
In October of 2001, three more Israeli "movers" were stopped in Plymouth, PA because of their suspicious behavior. These "movers" were seen dumping furniture near a restaurant dumpster! When the restaurant manager approached the driver, a "Middle Eastern" man later identified as Moshe Elmakias fled the scene. The manager made note of the truck's sign which read "Moving Systems Incorporated" and called the police. When the police spotted the truck, two other Israelis - Ayelet Reisler and Ron Katar began acting suspiciously. The Plymouth police searched the truck and found a video. The Israelis were taken into custody and the video tape was played at the police station. The video revealed footage of Chicago with zoomed in shots of the Sears Tower. The police quickly alerted the FBI and it was also discovered that the Israelis had falsified travel logs and phony paperwork on them. (1) They were also unable to provide a name and telephone number for the customer that they claimed to have been working for. These Israelis were up to some sort of dirty business, and you can be sure it had nothing to do with moving furniture. These Israeli spies may have had a dark sense of humor. The name of their "moving company" actually contained the word MOSSAD embedded inside. Moving Systems Incorporated. MOving SyStems IncorporAteD...MOSSAD
On October 10, 2001, CNN made a brief mention of a foiled terrorist bomb plot in the Mexican Parliament building. They promised to bring any further developments of this story to their viewers, but the incident was never heard of again in America. But the story appeared in bold headlines on the front page of the major Mexican newspapers (2) and was also posted on the official website of the Mexican Justice Department. (3) Two terror suspects were apprehended in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Caught red-handed, they had in their possession a high powered gun, nine hand grenades, and C-4 plastic explosives (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Within days, this blockbuster story not only disappeared from the Mexican press, but the Israelis were quietly released and deported! The two terrorists were Salvador Gerson Sunke and Sar ben Zui. Can you guess what their ethnicity was? Sunke was a Mexican jew and Zui was a colonel with the Israeli special forces (MOSSAD). (4)
The story in El Diario de Mexico went on to reveal that the Zionist terrorists had fake Pakistani passports on them. Can you say "false flag operation?" The probable motive of this particular botched terrorist operation was to involve oil rich Mexico in the "War on Terrorism". (The War on Israel's enemies would be a more accurate description). Mexico is no military power, but the psychological trauma of an "Arab" attack on Mexico would surely have induced Mexico to provide unlimited cheap oil to her American "protector". With cheap oil flowing to America at low prices from Mexico, the US could better afford to break off relations with the oil rich Arab states in general and Saudi Arabia in particular. That's why the planners chose 15 Saudi identities to steal for the 9-11 operation.
Many Mexicans expressed shock at the release of the two Israelis. But when you learn that Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations is a Zionist named Jorge Gutman, it's not surprising! The Zionist tentacles reach even into Mexico! La Voz de Aztlan (Mexican-American news service), in it's excellent investigative report revealed:
"La Voz de Aztlan has learned that the Israeli Embassy used heavy handed measures to have the two Israelis released. Very high level emergency meetings took place between Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Jorge Gutman, General Macedo de la Concha and a top Ariel Sharon envoy who flew to Mexico City specially for that purpose. El�as Luf of the Israeli Embassy worked night and day and their official spokeswoman Hila Engelhart went into high gear after many hours of complete silence. What went on during those high level meetings no one knows, but many in Mexico are in disbelief at their release." (5)
In November of 2001, 6 more suspicious Israelis were detained in an unspecified mid-eastern state. They had in their possession box cutters, oil pipeline plans, and nuclear power plant plans. (6) The local police called in the Feds and Immigration officials took over the scene and released the men without calling the FBI. The Jerusalem Post, the Miami Herald, (7) and the Times of London (8) all carried this amazing story and all revealed how furious FBI officials were that these terror suspects with nuclear power plant plans were allowed to go free. Of course, the corruption riddled FBI would only have caved into Zionist pressure from the Justice Department's Criminal Division boss, Michael Chertoff, and also from the ADL's "partner", FBI boss Robert Mueller - who would no doubt have found a way to eventually release those Israeli terror suspects too.
In December, 2001, the Los Angeles Times published the story of how two jewish terrorists were arrested by the FBI for plotting to blow up the office of US Congressman of Arab descent - Darrell Issa (R-CA), and a California mosque. (9) Irv Rubin and Earl Kruger of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) were charged with conspiracy to destroy a building by means of explosives. This story got brief national coverage but quickly disappeared too. These Zionists sure love blowing up buildings and killing innocent people don't they?
In May of 2002, yet another moving van was pulled over in Oak Harbor, Washington near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Fox News reported that the van was pulled over for speeding shortly after midnight. The passengers told the police they were delivering furniture, but because it was so late at night, the police weren't buying the story. A bomb sniffing dog was brought in and the dog detected the presence of TNT and RDX plastic explosives in the truck (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Both Fox News (10) and the Ha'aretz newspaper of Israel (11) reported that the two "movers" were Israelis.
In December, 2002, Ariel Sharon made the amazing claim that Al-Qaeda agents were operating inside of Israel. But when Palestinian authorities apprehended the suspects, they turned out to be Palestinian traitors impersonating Al-qaeda agents for the MOSSAD! From the Sydney Morning Herald of Austrailia:
"Palestinian security forces have arrested a group of Palestinians for collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior official said yesterday. ..The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and in Lebanon.
It was considered a surprise because the Gaza Strip is virtually sealed off by Israeli troops. The hardline Israeli leader also charged other members of the terror group were cooperating with Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hizbollah" (12)
You know, if Sharon wasn't so dangerous, I'd almost be amused by his bullshit!
According to FOX news, throughout late 2000 and 2001, a total of 200 Israeli spies were arrested. (13) It was the largest spy ring to ever be uncovered in the history of the United States. The Washington Post also reported that some of these Israelis were arrested in connection with the 9-11 investigation. (14) US. Carl Cameron of FOX News Channel did a excellent four part, nationally televised, series of investigations into this blockbuster scandal. But FOX pulled the investigative series after Zionist groups complained to FOX executives. FOX even went so far as to remove the written transcripts of the series from its website! In it's place was posted a chilling, Orwellian message which reads: "This story no longer exists." (15) Fortunately for the sake of history, the FOX transcripts were copied onto to many other websites and all four parts are available for your review. (see footnotes.)
The FOX series and other mainstream news media sources revealed that many of these Israelis were army veterans with electronics and explosives expertise. Many of them failed lie detector tests. FBI agents told FOX that some of their past investigations were compromised because suspects had been tipped off by Israeli wiretapping specialists. It was discovered that Israeli companies such as Comverse and Amdocs have the capability to tap American telephones (great for blackmailing all those wife-cheating politicians!) FBI agents also told FOX they believed the Israelis had advance knowledge of the 9-11 attacks. (which certainly would explain why no Israelis died in the WTC) Still another US official informed FOX that some of the detained Israelis actually had links to 9-11, but he refused to describe the nature of those links. The FBI official told FOX's Carl Cameron:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information." (16) (emphasis added)
Then there was that small army of Israeli "art students" who were arrested for trying to sneak into secured US Federal buildings and staking out 36 Department of Defense sites. Some of these suspicious "art students" even showed up at the homes of Federal employees. (17) Ron Hatchett, a Department of Defense analyst, told Channel 11, KHOU news in Houston that he believed that the "art students" were gathering intelligence for future attacks. Here's an excerpt from the October 1, 2001 KHOU investigative report by Anna Werner:
"Could federal buildings in Houston and other cities be under surveillance by foreign groups? That's what some experts are asking after federal law enforcement and security officials - nationally and in Houston - described for the 11 News Defenders a curious pattern of behavior by a group of people claiming to be Israeli art students."
"Hatchett says they could be doing what he would be doing if he were a terrorist, sizing up the situation: "We need to know what are the entrances to this particular building. We need to know what are the surveillance cameras that are operating. We need to know how many guards are at this operation, when do they take breaks?" Says Hatchett: This is not a bunch of kids selling artwork."
"A former Defense Department analyst, Hatchett believes groups may be gathering intelligence for possible future attacks. "Some organization, thinking in terms of a potential retaliation against the U.S. government could be scouting out potential targets and . looking for targets that would be vulnerable."
And a source tells the Defenders of another federal memo, stating that besides Houston and Dallas, the same thing has happened at sites in New York, Florida, and six other states, and even more worrisome, at 36 sensitive Department of Defense sites. "One defense site you can explain," says Hatchett, "well that was just a serendipitous, .... Thirty-six? That's a pattern." (18)
A Federal memo stated that these "art students" may have had ties to an "Islamic terror group". More likely, they were the "Islamic terror group"! Remember the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946, and how the "Arab terrorists" were actually Irgun terrorists? Remember the Zionist terrorists caught in Mexico with Arab passports? Remember the official motto of the Mossad - By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War. Are you getting the picture? Can you say "false flag operations"?
In a follow up report a few days later, KHOU Channel 11 revealed that Dallas was also targetted:
"11 News reported how people claiming to be "Israeli art students" might be trying to sneak into federal buildings and defense sites, and even doing surveillance. And at least one expert said he thought it could all be preparation for an attack. Well, now federal sources say they are not ruling out that all of this could be connected with the hijackings on September 11, because of events in another Texas city.
In Dallas, the so-called students hit early this year at the city's FBI building, the Drug Enforcement Administration and at the Earle Cabell Federal building, where guards found one student wandering the halls with a floor plan of the building.
So the Dallas INS went on the alert, finding and arresting 15 people in March. Thirteen claimed to be Israelis and two are professed Colombians. But according to sources, once again their passports were phony. And another federal source says some of those arrested also appeared to have lists of federal employees and their home addresses.
All 15 "students" have now been deported. Now, since our first story ran Sunday night, some viewers called who said that they've been visited by people who claim to be Israeli students selling art." (19)
Absolutely mind boggling! Why were Israeli explosives experts, posing as "art students" roaming the halls of US Federal buildings? Why were Israeli army vets, armed with explosives and detonators, roaming the halls of the Mexican Congress? Why were Israeli "movers" caught in vans with explosives residue ? Might some of these shady characters have once also "roamed the halls" of the World Trade Center prior to 9-11? Why aren't "60 minutes", "Nightline", "20/20", and the rest of the Zionist media aggressively pursuing the story behind the Israeli "art students" and "movers" with 1/1,000th the zeal that they pursued Martha Stewart over allegations of insider trading (who cares?), or 1/10,000th the zeal that they pursued the Catholic Church over an occasional pedophile priest? (funny how we never hear about the documented cases of pedophile rabbis!) or 1/100,000th the zeal that they pursue the Muslim bogeyman on a daily basis? Something smells rotten here!
One would think that these intriguing mysteries would have great TV audience appeal, especially in light of the fact that the Oklahoma Federal building was blown up in 1995 by the since executed Timothy McVeigh (dead men tell no tales), and a "John Doe # 2" of "Middle-Eastern appearance", who was never tracked down or pursued despite numerous eye-witness accounts and despite an FBI All Points Bulletin which clearly described him as such.
Of America's major networks, only FOX News made a meager attempt to investigate these mysteries, but FOX was quickly silenced by Zionist pressure. This alone is evidence of criminal activity! Before his excellent work was silenced, FOX's Carl Cameron reported this amazing bit of information:
"Investigators within the DEA, INS, and FBI have all told FOX News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying is considered career suicide." (20) (emphasis added)
Did you catch that? If a Federal investigator dares to "even suggest" Israeli spying, he has committed "career suicide"! And if a journalist like FOX's Cameron dares to bring this scandal to light, he is told to shut his mouth. If they persist, they may even be called "anti-Semitic" - a label which has served as the kiss of death for many a career. This means that Zionist Mafia can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and however it wants - including orchestrating, financing, executing, and covering up the true story of events in the Middle East, the 9-11 massacre, and the ensuing "War on Terrorism" (war on Israel's enemies).
Now do you remember the Mossad's "warning" about the 200 "Al-Qaeda terrorists" said to have been preparing major attacks in the US? (21) At the time of this writing, we are one year into the largest investigation in American history, and not one of these 200 "terrorists" has yet to be uncovered. (22) But 200 Israeli spies were uncovered, among them many military members, electronics experts, wiretapping and phone tapping specialists, and explosives experts with the skill to bring down tall buildings. (23) Logic and common sense leads to the conclusion that the "200 Al Qaeda terrorists" were in reality, 200 Zionist terrorists sent to frame the Arabs for terrorist attacks and drag America into a war.
On December 11, 2002, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), a leading member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared as a guest on the PBS Newshour with Gwen Ifill. Graham surprised Ifill by expressing his belief that a foreign government or governments had to have funded and supported the hijackers. Here's part of the exchange:
IFILL: "Are you suggesting that you are convinced that there was a state sponsor behind 9/11?"
GRAHAM: "I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing - although that was part of it - by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States."
IFILL: "Do you think that will ever become public, which countries you're talking about?"
Now listen to Graham's bombshell.........:
GRAHAM: "It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today." (24) (emphasis added)
Senator Graham is suggesting that US intelligence knows which foreign government helped the terrorists, but the government isn't going to tell us for another 30 years! Given the current state of anti-Muslim war hysteria being promoted by the media and government, common sense dictates that if an Arab government was ever discovered to have sponsored 9-11, we'd be seeing the evidence night and day on the controlled media, and hearing about it non-stop from all the President's warmongers as well as the Israeli-occupied US Congress and Senate. This alone is evidence that no Arab government was involved in 9-11.
It can't be an Arab government. Why would any Arab government sponsor "Al-qaeda", an organization dedicated to overthrowing what it sees as corrupt, US-backed Arab governments? What Arab government would have incentive to attack America- its best oil purchasing customer? What Arab government would have the ability to shield itself from US media exposure? What Arab government would be so suicidal, so hell-bent on its own destruction, as to attack a mighty nuclear superpower like the United States? So who, if not an Arab government could be the chief sponsor of 9-11? Again, let's go back to FOX News quoting an FBI official. Pay close attention to the specific language used:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information." (25) (empasis added)
In order for evidence "linking these Israelis to 9-11" to become classified, the evidence has to have existed in the first place! Furthermore, but it must have been very, very serious stuff indeed. Only the really ugly stuff merits the distinction of being "classified!"
It may be possible that the good Senator doesn't know himself which country or countries are involved. Graham may still be under the delusion that it's an Arab government. Or, perhaps he's a disgusted patriot just trying to throw a subtle shot at Israel in his own little way, without actually having to commit "career suicide" as so many other anti-Zionist politicians have in the past. History will reveal the truth one day, just as it did for Pearl Harbor. The trouble is, by that time, no one will care about 9-11 and this phony war "War on Terrorism" anymore. The American attention span does not reach "20-30 years". It's closer to 20-30 minutes, about the length of an average Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, or Tom Brokaw infomercial. If even that!
History always repeats itself. But who will teach this history to the American people when the Zionists control the information industry? The Zionist Mafia and their ass-kissing careerist henchmen in media, government, academia, and business have all of the bases covered.
See also: Israel and 9/11 - Index of What Really Happened
Originally posted at http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2003/07/74953_comment.php?theme=1
The Austin American-Statesman, November 25, 2001, pg. A-11
We spoke earlier about the five celebrating Israeli "movers", (Mossad agents), who were arrested and placed in solitary confinement for weeks after they were spotted in a white van suspected of attempting to blow up the George Washington Bridge. We also reviewed how the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems - Dominick Suter - then suddenly abandoned his "moving company" and fled for Israel on 9-14. But there were still more Israeli "movers" and other Israelis whose actions raise serious suspicions. Even more suspicious is how they are always quietly released and deported.
In October of 2001, three more Israeli "movers" were stopped in Plymouth, PA because of their suspicious behavior. These "movers" were seen dumping furniture near a restaurant dumpster! When the restaurant manager approached the driver, a "Middle Eastern" man later identified as Moshe Elmakias fled the scene. The manager made note of the truck's sign which read "Moving Systems Incorporated" and called the police. When the police spotted the truck, two other Israelis - Ayelet Reisler and Ron Katar began acting suspiciously. The Plymouth police searched the truck and found a video. The Israelis were taken into custody and the video tape was played at the police station. The video revealed footage of Chicago with zoomed in shots of the Sears Tower. The police quickly alerted the FBI and it was also discovered that the Israelis had falsified travel logs and phony paperwork on them. (1) They were also unable to provide a name and telephone number for the customer that they claimed to have been working for. These Israelis were up to some sort of dirty business, and you can be sure it had nothing to do with moving furniture. These Israeli spies may have had a dark sense of humor. The name of their "moving company" actually contained the word MOSSAD embedded inside. Moving Systems Incorporated. MOving SyStems IncorporAteD...MOSSAD
On October 10, 2001, CNN made a brief mention of a foiled terrorist bomb plot in the Mexican Parliament building. They promised to bring any further developments of this story to their viewers, but the incident was never heard of again in America. But the story appeared in bold headlines on the front page of the major Mexican newspapers (2) and was also posted on the official website of the Mexican Justice Department. (3) Two terror suspects were apprehended in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Caught red-handed, they had in their possession a high powered gun, nine hand grenades, and C-4 plastic explosives (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Within days, this blockbuster story not only disappeared from the Mexican press, but the Israelis were quietly released and deported! The two terrorists were Salvador Gerson Sunke and Sar ben Zui. Can you guess what their ethnicity was? Sunke was a Mexican jew and Zui was a colonel with the Israeli special forces (MOSSAD). (4)
The story in El Diario de Mexico went on to reveal that the Zionist terrorists had fake Pakistani passports on them. Can you say "false flag operation?" The probable motive of this particular botched terrorist operation was to involve oil rich Mexico in the "War on Terrorism". (The War on Israel's enemies would be a more accurate description). Mexico is no military power, but the psychological trauma of an "Arab" attack on Mexico would surely have induced Mexico to provide unlimited cheap oil to her American "protector". With cheap oil flowing to America at low prices from Mexico, the US could better afford to break off relations with the oil rich Arab states in general and Saudi Arabia in particular. That's why the planners chose 15 Saudi identities to steal for the 9-11 operation.
Many Mexicans expressed shock at the release of the two Israelis. But when you learn that Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations is a Zionist named Jorge Gutman, it's not surprising! The Zionist tentacles reach even into Mexico! La Voz de Aztlan (Mexican-American news service), in it's excellent investigative report revealed:
"La Voz de Aztlan has learned that the Israeli Embassy used heavy handed measures to have the two Israelis released. Very high level emergency meetings took place between Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Jorge Gutman, General Macedo de la Concha and a top Ariel Sharon envoy who flew to Mexico City specially for that purpose. El�as Luf of the Israeli Embassy worked night and day and their official spokeswoman Hila Engelhart went into high gear after many hours of complete silence. What went on during those high level meetings no one knows, but many in Mexico are in disbelief at their release." (5)
In November of 2001, 6 more suspicious Israelis were detained in an unspecified mid-eastern state. They had in their possession box cutters, oil pipeline plans, and nuclear power plant plans. (6) The local police called in the Feds and Immigration officials took over the scene and released the men without calling the FBI. The Jerusalem Post, the Miami Herald, (7) and the Times of London (8) all carried this amazing story and all revealed how furious FBI officials were that these terror suspects with nuclear power plant plans were allowed to go free. Of course, the corruption riddled FBI would only have caved into Zionist pressure from the Justice Department's Criminal Division boss, Michael Chertoff, and also from the ADL's "partner", FBI boss Robert Mueller - who would no doubt have found a way to eventually release those Israeli terror suspects too.
In December, 2001, the Los Angeles Times published the story of how two jewish terrorists were arrested by the FBI for plotting to blow up the office of US Congressman of Arab descent - Darrell Issa (R-CA), and a California mosque. (9) Irv Rubin and Earl Kruger of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) were charged with conspiracy to destroy a building by means of explosives. This story got brief national coverage but quickly disappeared too. These Zionists sure love blowing up buildings and killing innocent people don't they?
In May of 2002, yet another moving van was pulled over in Oak Harbor, Washington near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Fox News reported that the van was pulled over for speeding shortly after midnight. The passengers told the police they were delivering furniture, but because it was so late at night, the police weren't buying the story. A bomb sniffing dog was brought in and the dog detected the presence of TNT and RDX plastic explosives in the truck (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Both Fox News (10) and the Ha'aretz newspaper of Israel (11) reported that the two "movers" were Israelis.
In December, 2002, Ariel Sharon made the amazing claim that Al-Qaeda agents were operating inside of Israel. But when Palestinian authorities apprehended the suspects, they turned out to be Palestinian traitors impersonating Al-qaeda agents for the MOSSAD! From the Sydney Morning Herald of Austrailia:
"Palestinian security forces have arrested a group of Palestinians for collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior official said yesterday. ..The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and in Lebanon.
It was considered a surprise because the Gaza Strip is virtually sealed off by Israeli troops. The hardline Israeli leader also charged other members of the terror group were cooperating with Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hizbollah" (12)
You know, if Sharon wasn't so dangerous, I'd almost be amused by his bullshit!
According to FOX news, throughout late 2000 and 2001, a total of 200 Israeli spies were arrested. (13) It was the largest spy ring to ever be uncovered in the history of the United States. The Washington Post also reported that some of these Israelis were arrested in connection with the 9-11 investigation. (14) US. Carl Cameron of FOX News Channel did a excellent four part, nationally televised, series of investigations into this blockbuster scandal. But FOX pulled the investigative series after Zionist groups complained to FOX executives. FOX even went so far as to remove the written transcripts of the series from its website! In it's place was posted a chilling, Orwellian message which reads: "This story no longer exists." (15) Fortunately for the sake of history, the FOX transcripts were copied onto to many other websites and all four parts are available for your review. (see footnotes.)
The FOX series and other mainstream news media sources revealed that many of these Israelis were army veterans with electronics and explosives expertise. Many of them failed lie detector tests. FBI agents told FOX that some of their past investigations were compromised because suspects had been tipped off by Israeli wiretapping specialists. It was discovered that Israeli companies such as Comverse and Amdocs have the capability to tap American telephones (great for blackmailing all those wife-cheating politicians!) FBI agents also told FOX they believed the Israelis had advance knowledge of the 9-11 attacks. (which certainly would explain why no Israelis died in the WTC) Still another US official informed FOX that some of the detained Israelis actually had links to 9-11, but he refused to describe the nature of those links. The FBI official told FOX's Carl Cameron:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information." (16) (emphasis added)
Then there was that small army of Israeli "art students" who were arrested for trying to sneak into secured US Federal buildings and staking out 36 Department of Defense sites. Some of these suspicious "art students" even showed up at the homes of Federal employees. (17) Ron Hatchett, a Department of Defense analyst, told Channel 11, KHOU news in Houston that he believed that the "art students" were gathering intelligence for future attacks. Here's an excerpt from the October 1, 2001 KHOU investigative report by Anna Werner:
"Could federal buildings in Houston and other cities be under surveillance by foreign groups? That's what some experts are asking after federal law enforcement and security officials - nationally and in Houston - described for the 11 News Defenders a curious pattern of behavior by a group of people claiming to be Israeli art students."
"Hatchett says they could be doing what he would be doing if he were a terrorist, sizing up the situation: "We need to know what are the entrances to this particular building. We need to know what are the surveillance cameras that are operating. We need to know how many guards are at this operation, when do they take breaks?" Says Hatchett: This is not a bunch of kids selling artwork."
"A former Defense Department analyst, Hatchett believes groups may be gathering intelligence for possible future attacks. "Some organization, thinking in terms of a potential retaliation against the U.S. government could be scouting out potential targets and . looking for targets that would be vulnerable."
And a source tells the Defenders of another federal memo, stating that besides Houston and Dallas, the same thing has happened at sites in New York, Florida, and six other states, and even more worrisome, at 36 sensitive Department of Defense sites. "One defense site you can explain," says Hatchett, "well that was just a serendipitous, .... Thirty-six? That's a pattern." (18)
A Federal memo stated that these "art students" may have had ties to an "Islamic terror group". More likely, they were the "Islamic terror group"! Remember the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946, and how the "Arab terrorists" were actually Irgun terrorists? Remember the Zionist terrorists caught in Mexico with Arab passports? Remember the official motto of the Mossad - By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War. Are you getting the picture? Can you say "false flag operations"?
In a follow up report a few days later, KHOU Channel 11 revealed that Dallas was also targetted:
"11 News reported how people claiming to be "Israeli art students" might be trying to sneak into federal buildings and defense sites, and even doing surveillance. And at least one expert said he thought it could all be preparation for an attack. Well, now federal sources say they are not ruling out that all of this could be connected with the hijackings on September 11, because of events in another Texas city.
In Dallas, the so-called students hit early this year at the city's FBI building, the Drug Enforcement Administration and at the Earle Cabell Federal building, where guards found one student wandering the halls with a floor plan of the building.
So the Dallas INS went on the alert, finding and arresting 15 people in March. Thirteen claimed to be Israelis and two are professed Colombians. But according to sources, once again their passports were phony. And another federal source says some of those arrested also appeared to have lists of federal employees and their home addresses.
All 15 "students" have now been deported. Now, since our first story ran Sunday night, some viewers called who said that they've been visited by people who claim to be Israeli students selling art." (19)
Absolutely mind boggling! Why were Israeli explosives experts, posing as "art students" roaming the halls of US Federal buildings? Why were Israeli army vets, armed with explosives and detonators, roaming the halls of the Mexican Congress? Why were Israeli "movers" caught in vans with explosives residue ? Might some of these shady characters have once also "roamed the halls" of the World Trade Center prior to 9-11? Why aren't "60 minutes", "Nightline", "20/20", and the rest of the Zionist media aggressively pursuing the story behind the Israeli "art students" and "movers" with 1/1,000th the zeal that they pursued Martha Stewart over allegations of insider trading (who cares?), or 1/10,000th the zeal that they pursued the Catholic Church over an occasional pedophile priest? (funny how we never hear about the documented cases of pedophile rabbis!) or 1/100,000th the zeal that they pursue the Muslim bogeyman on a daily basis? Something smells rotten here!
One would think that these intriguing mysteries would have great TV audience appeal, especially in light of the fact that the Oklahoma Federal building was blown up in 1995 by the since executed Timothy McVeigh (dead men tell no tales), and a "John Doe # 2" of "Middle-Eastern appearance", who was never tracked down or pursued despite numerous eye-witness accounts and despite an FBI All Points Bulletin which clearly described him as such.
Of America's major networks, only FOX News made a meager attempt to investigate these mysteries, but FOX was quickly silenced by Zionist pressure. This alone is evidence of criminal activity! Before his excellent work was silenced, FOX's Carl Cameron reported this amazing bit of information:
"Investigators within the DEA, INS, and FBI have all told FOX News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying is considered career suicide." (20) (emphasis added)
Did you catch that? If a Federal investigator dares to "even suggest" Israeli spying, he has committed "career suicide"! And if a journalist like FOX's Cameron dares to bring this scandal to light, he is told to shut his mouth. If they persist, they may even be called "anti-Semitic" - a label which has served as the kiss of death for many a career. This means that Zionist Mafia can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and however it wants - including orchestrating, financing, executing, and covering up the true story of events in the Middle East, the 9-11 massacre, and the ensuing "War on Terrorism" (war on Israel's enemies).
Now do you remember the Mossad's "warning" about the 200 "Al-Qaeda terrorists" said to have been preparing major attacks in the US? (21) At the time of this writing, we are one year into the largest investigation in American history, and not one of these 200 "terrorists" has yet to be uncovered. (22) But 200 Israeli spies were uncovered, among them many military members, electronics experts, wiretapping and phone tapping specialists, and explosives experts with the skill to bring down tall buildings. (23) Logic and common sense leads to the conclusion that the "200 Al Qaeda terrorists" were in reality, 200 Zionist terrorists sent to frame the Arabs for terrorist attacks and drag America into a war.
On December 11, 2002, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), a leading member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared as a guest on the PBS Newshour with Gwen Ifill. Graham surprised Ifill by expressing his belief that a foreign government or governments had to have funded and supported the hijackers. Here's part of the exchange:
IFILL: "Are you suggesting that you are convinced that there was a state sponsor behind 9/11?"
GRAHAM: "I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing - although that was part of it - by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States."
IFILL: "Do you think that will ever become public, which countries you're talking about?"
Now listen to Graham's bombshell.........:
GRAHAM: "It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today." (24) (emphasis added)
Senator Graham is suggesting that US intelligence knows which foreign government helped the terrorists, but the government isn't going to tell us for another 30 years! Given the current state of anti-Muslim war hysteria being promoted by the media and government, common sense dictates that if an Arab government was ever discovered to have sponsored 9-11, we'd be seeing the evidence night and day on the controlled media, and hearing about it non-stop from all the President's warmongers as well as the Israeli-occupied US Congress and Senate. This alone is evidence that no Arab government was involved in 9-11.
It can't be an Arab government. Why would any Arab government sponsor "Al-qaeda", an organization dedicated to overthrowing what it sees as corrupt, US-backed Arab governments? What Arab government would have incentive to attack America- its best oil purchasing customer? What Arab government would have the ability to shield itself from US media exposure? What Arab government would be so suicidal, so hell-bent on its own destruction, as to attack a mighty nuclear superpower like the United States? So who, if not an Arab government could be the chief sponsor of 9-11? Again, let's go back to FOX News quoting an FBI official. Pay close attention to the specific language used:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information." (25) (empasis added)
In order for evidence "linking these Israelis to 9-11" to become classified, the evidence has to have existed in the first place! Furthermore, but it must have been very, very serious stuff indeed. Only the really ugly stuff merits the distinction of being "classified!"
It may be possible that the good Senator doesn't know himself which country or countries are involved. Graham may still be under the delusion that it's an Arab government. Or, perhaps he's a disgusted patriot just trying to throw a subtle shot at Israel in his own little way, without actually having to commit "career suicide" as so many other anti-Zionist politicians have in the past. History will reveal the truth one day, just as it did for Pearl Harbor. The trouble is, by that time, no one will care about 9-11 and this phony war "War on Terrorism" anymore. The American attention span does not reach "20-30 years". It's closer to 20-30 minutes, about the length of an average Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, or Tom Brokaw infomercial. If even that!
History always repeats itself. But who will teach this history to the American people when the Zionists control the information industry? The Zionist Mafia and their ass-kissing careerist henchmen in media, government, academia, and business have all of the bases covered.
See also: Israel and 9/11 - Index of What Really Happened
The Man Who Knew Too Much - Who Killed John O'Neill?
From Jerry Politex politex@bushwatch.com
© The Daily Brew Bushwatch.com 1-9-2
If you believe the media, John P. O'Neill was simply another innocent victim killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. But you don't need much imagination to suspect something deeper was at work.
Clearly, O'Neill was a man Osama bin Laden wanted dead. O'Neill had been a Deputy Director of the FBI, and Osama bin Laden's main pursuer in the US government. O'Neill had investigated the bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993, a US base in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam in 1998, and the USS Cole last year.
But once the first plane hit the North Tower, Osama bin Laden wouldn't be the only man to profit from O'Neill's death. At the moment of impact, O'Neill became the man who knew too much.
Just two weeks, TWO WEEKS, prior to the attack, O'Neill had left his job with the FBI. O'Neill had quit because he believed that the Bush administration had stymied the intelligence agency's investigations on terrorism. O'Neill charged that it had done so even as it bargained with the Taliban on handing over of Osama bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and economic aid. In the ultimate irony, O'Neill had gone public with these charges at the same time that he was leaving the FBI to become the head of security at the World Trade Center.
"The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests, and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it," O'Neill reportedly told the authors of an explosive new book, Hidden Truth, by intelligence analysts Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie. Brisard met O'Neill several times last summer and reports that O'Neill complained bitterly that the US State Department - and behind it the oil lobby who make up President Bush's entourage - blocked attempts to prove bin Laden's guilt.
Released just last November, Brisard and Dasquie's book was mostly ignored by the US media. But it is beginning to cause a stir. Just two days ago, the story aired for the first time on US television when CNN's Paula Zahn interviewed former Iraqi chief U.N. weapons inspector Richard Bulter. "The most explosive charge, Paula, is that the Bush administration -- the present one, just shortly after assuming office slowed down FBI investigations of al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a deal with the Taliban on oil -- an oil pipeline across Afghanistan" Butler said.
Maybe part of the reason Paula left Faux news is because she knew her right wing bosses would never let her run a story like this one. But what Paula didn't explore, or even mention, was that O'Neill was not alive to confirm or refute those charges. What CNN didn't find interesting was the fact that John P. O'Neill was in his 34th-floor office in the World Trade Tower when the first of two hijacked planes hit the building, or that he phoned a son and a friend to reassure them he was fine.
What the US media have apparently found less interesting than the death of Clinton's dog is that we have only the government's version of what happened next. O'Neill is reported to have called FBI headquarters, and then re-entered one of the towers to help others. The official story is that O'Neill was inside when the buildings collapsed.
How convenient for the Bush administration that Mr. O'Neill would not only die in the attack, but also that he would make such a call. Not only was the Bush administration's most dangerous critic forever silenced, but he also provided the administration the perfect story to explain his death.
Can you imagine how the events of the past four months would have differed had John P. O'Neill, former Deputy Director of the FBI and head of security at the World Trade Tower at the time of the attacks, had been alive to tell this story?
Can you imagine the uproar this story would be causing if Bill Clinton were still president?
As things stand, only time will tell if O'Neill's story is investigated by the US press that found Monica Lewinsky worthy of two years of our lives. Certainly, the authors who have reported it are credible. Till the late 1990s, Brisard was the director of economic analysis and strategy for Vivendi, the giant French conglomerate that owns Universal Studios and effective control of USA Networks. He also worked for French secret services (DST), and wrote for them in 1997 a report on the now famous Al Qaeda network, headed by bin Laden. Dasquie is an investigative journalist and publisher of Intelligence Online, a respected newsletter on diplomacy, economic analysis and strategy. And Richard Bulter, who put the story in play on the US cable networks, is hardly an excitable conspiracy nut.
Perhaps the CIA will investigate. But I wouldn't expect much from them. After all, they were apparently unable to penetrate the same Al Qaeda network that welcomed in John Walker, a confused 20 year old kid from California, who is reported to have met bin Laden himself.
Note: See also, a reprint of a recent Bush Watch letter, directly below.
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TODAY'S LETTER AT BUSH WATCH
There's really only one thing that needs to be known about the culpability for 9/11 - during the Clinton administration, no requests for a FISA warrant were denied. (Foreign Intelligence Security Act) Under the Bush administration, previous to 9/11, all such requests were denied, because the Bush administration shut down all intelligence inquiries that would expose Saudi complicity with terrorism. The Minneapolis FBI office, with its 20th hijacker in custody since August, asked for a FISA warrant and was denied. New York FBI counter-terrorism chief John O'Neill quit his job in protest of Bush's obstructionism, only to die in his new job as chief of security at the WTC, probably the only man to die that day that understood the context of his death.... --Kent Southard
© The Daily Brew Bushwatch.com 1-9-2
If you believe the media, John P. O'Neill was simply another innocent victim killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. But you don't need much imagination to suspect something deeper was at work.
Clearly, O'Neill was a man Osama bin Laden wanted dead. O'Neill had been a Deputy Director of the FBI, and Osama bin Laden's main pursuer in the US government. O'Neill had investigated the bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993, a US base in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam in 1998, and the USS Cole last year.
But once the first plane hit the North Tower, Osama bin Laden wouldn't be the only man to profit from O'Neill's death. At the moment of impact, O'Neill became the man who knew too much.
Just two weeks, TWO WEEKS, prior to the attack, O'Neill had left his job with the FBI. O'Neill had quit because he believed that the Bush administration had stymied the intelligence agency's investigations on terrorism. O'Neill charged that it had done so even as it bargained with the Taliban on handing over of Osama bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and economic aid. In the ultimate irony, O'Neill had gone public with these charges at the same time that he was leaving the FBI to become the head of security at the World Trade Center.
"The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests, and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it," O'Neill reportedly told the authors of an explosive new book, Hidden Truth, by intelligence analysts Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie. Brisard met O'Neill several times last summer and reports that O'Neill complained bitterly that the US State Department - and behind it the oil lobby who make up President Bush's entourage - blocked attempts to prove bin Laden's guilt.
Released just last November, Brisard and Dasquie's book was mostly ignored by the US media. But it is beginning to cause a stir. Just two days ago, the story aired for the first time on US television when CNN's Paula Zahn interviewed former Iraqi chief U.N. weapons inspector Richard Bulter. "The most explosive charge, Paula, is that the Bush administration -- the present one, just shortly after assuming office slowed down FBI investigations of al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a deal with the Taliban on oil -- an oil pipeline across Afghanistan" Butler said.
Maybe part of the reason Paula left Faux news is because she knew her right wing bosses would never let her run a story like this one. But what Paula didn't explore, or even mention, was that O'Neill was not alive to confirm or refute those charges. What CNN didn't find interesting was the fact that John P. O'Neill was in his 34th-floor office in the World Trade Tower when the first of two hijacked planes hit the building, or that he phoned a son and a friend to reassure them he was fine.
What the US media have apparently found less interesting than the death of Clinton's dog is that we have only the government's version of what happened next. O'Neill is reported to have called FBI headquarters, and then re-entered one of the towers to help others. The official story is that O'Neill was inside when the buildings collapsed.
How convenient for the Bush administration that Mr. O'Neill would not only die in the attack, but also that he would make such a call. Not only was the Bush administration's most dangerous critic forever silenced, but he also provided the administration the perfect story to explain his death.
Can you imagine how the events of the past four months would have differed had John P. O'Neill, former Deputy Director of the FBI and head of security at the World Trade Tower at the time of the attacks, had been alive to tell this story?
Can you imagine the uproar this story would be causing if Bill Clinton were still president?
As things stand, only time will tell if O'Neill's story is investigated by the US press that found Monica Lewinsky worthy of two years of our lives. Certainly, the authors who have reported it are credible. Till the late 1990s, Brisard was the director of economic analysis and strategy for Vivendi, the giant French conglomerate that owns Universal Studios and effective control of USA Networks. He also worked for French secret services (DST), and wrote for them in 1997 a report on the now famous Al Qaeda network, headed by bin Laden. Dasquie is an investigative journalist and publisher of Intelligence Online, a respected newsletter on diplomacy, economic analysis and strategy. And Richard Bulter, who put the story in play on the US cable networks, is hardly an excitable conspiracy nut.
Perhaps the CIA will investigate. But I wouldn't expect much from them. After all, they were apparently unable to penetrate the same Al Qaeda network that welcomed in John Walker, a confused 20 year old kid from California, who is reported to have met bin Laden himself.
Note: See also, a reprint of a recent Bush Watch letter, directly below.
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TODAY'S LETTER AT BUSH WATCH
There's really only one thing that needs to be known about the culpability for 9/11 - during the Clinton administration, no requests for a FISA warrant were denied. (Foreign Intelligence Security Act) Under the Bush administration, previous to 9/11, all such requests were denied, because the Bush administration shut down all intelligence inquiries that would expose Saudi complicity with terrorism. The Minneapolis FBI office, with its 20th hijacker in custody since August, asked for a FISA warrant and was denied. New York FBI counter-terrorism chief John O'Neill quit his job in protest of Bush's obstructionism, only to die in his new job as chief of security at the WTC, probably the only man to die that day that understood the context of his death.... --Kent Southard
The Gospel Of Judas, Barbelo & Long-Kept Secrets
By Mary Sparrowdancer
The truth usually surfaces sooner or later regardless of how carefully concealed it is. One of the most stunning truths imaginable has been hidden so well for the last 2000 years that we have not caught a glimpse of its light until the recently surfaced Gospel of Judas. This gospel suggests, among other things, that all generations of people have sat in judgment of Judas based simply on information given to the masses by the most powerful church on earth. In reading this newly surfaced Gospel, and then reading Bishop Irenaeus' scathing rejection of it in 180 A.D., as well as his scathing rejection of all gnostic teachings (personal knowing of the divine), one wonders if this is the tip of the most unfathomable iceberg that ever was. What else has been kept hidden from us by those in control of church and state? Were we told the truth about the identity of Jesus - or was his identity reinvented? If his identity was reinvented, then it appears that humanity's spiritual identity was reinvented as well.
The primary shock and awe caused by the Gospel of Judas has been in the Gospel's suggestion that Jesus asked Judas to betray him. It appears, however, that this Gospel contains hints of something else far more profound - so profound, in fact, that the implications are staggering, but they seem to have escaped notice thus far. It hints of something extraordinary that has been hidden for thousands of years, although in existence since the beginning.
In the "forbidden" gnostic gospels that have begun to emerge from antiquity, we find we have actually been divinely invited to seek the truth and ask questions, because the truth is never marred or harmed by questions. Asking questions only serves to make the truth shine brighter. One might wonder into which direction we should begin a search for the truth at this hour when the truth about anything is very hard to come by. According to the gnostic gospels, the answer from above seems to have been, "go within," because there is something within that awaits discovery.
In the gnostic scriptures, we learn that blind faith has never been demanded of us. Instead, the one we now refer to as "Jesus" (the J is relatively new - it is Iesous in transliterated Greek) urged people to go within and seek the truth and not stop seeking until they found the truth. Only a portion of this appears in the New Testament, but a more complete version can be read in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas. It includes a curious caveat of wisdom after the invitation to come seek and find all that awaits us. The caveat warns that when we discover the truth, we will at first be disturbed as well as astonished.
In the end, however, it is the truth that will set us free.
In looking at the Gospel of Judas (Ioudas) there are two words that are the keys to unlocking an extraordinary mystery. The first key word is, "Barbelo," the word by which Judas identifies Jesus. "I know who you are and where you have come from," Judas says. "You are from the immortal realm of Barbelo."
According to the scholars and editors who worked on the National Geographic translation of the Gospel of Judas, the word Barbelo "apparently comes from Hebrew," and perhaps means God. Others state it remains unexplained, and some suggest it refers to a divine "emanation." (1)
The second key word in the Gospel of Judas is, "betrayal," the word by which we now identify Judas. In looking closely at this word, one finds that its meaning has changed over the centuries - something that is very common. Many other words have changed in meaning as centuries separate us from the original writings.
"Lucifer," for instance, a Latin word that means "light bringer," has now become equated with "satan" or the devil, despite the fact that Lucifer actually appears in the Latin Vulgate as a reference to Jesus. Most people in the US no longer read or speak Latin, and therefore they are unaware of this. (2)
The meaning of "satan" has also changed. Satan, comes from Aramaic and simply means adversary or opponent. In Mark 8:33, Jesus refers to Peter as "satan." However, most people in the US do not speak Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic, and so they do not understand the meaning of this word, either. For them, "satan" has now come to be associated with "the devil," personified these days as Lucifer, no less.
"Betrayal," has come to be associated with Judas Iscariot, who - as the spin keeps spinning - has in turn come to be known as the most despicable of all villains. The end result is that currently, no one in their right mind would want to be associated with Lucifer, Judas, satan or a betrayer. It appears that at least a portion of the truth has been hidden in plain view for almost 2000 years. During those same years, it became clear to those in power that the masses could be easily swayed by what they were told, and most would not check the facts for themselves because most could not read. Reading materials were also easily controlled. It was easy to fill people with fear and misunderstanding of words that were once written, once known and once understood. From generation to generation, the legacy of fear has been handed down our tradition.
Betray comes from the Latin word, "tradere." Tradere means to reveal, declare and make known what is seen, including divine revelations. Hardly an evil word, tradere is also the root of the word "tradition." An archaic, Old English word "bewray," appears in Isaiah in the King James Version (KJV) of the bible, and is translated as "to uncover." "Bewrayeth" is found three times in KJV, twice in Proverbs where it is translated as "to proclaim," and "make known," and in Matthew 26:73, it is translated as "to make manifest, evident." (3)
Only when one understands what the word "betray" once meant can one understand the simple truth about Judas. When Judas realized the identity and origin of Jesus - Barbelo - Jesus then asked him to reveal it and make it known to others. Judas did as he was asked. But, if one is to understand what Judas was asked to reveal - a truth that would indeed leave most disturbed as well as astonished - it becomes imperative to find a more definite, plausible meaning for Barbelo.
When I first saw that word, Barbelo, my own impression was that it was not derived from a Hebrew word at all, but that it was possibly coming from an Aramaic phrase, or possibly even referencing a more ancient, Akkadian word. Anyone who has heard of a "bar mitzvah" might realize that "bar," in Aramaic, means son, and in particular, "son of" the word that follows. If Bar means, "Son of," and if, as the scholars say, Barbelo seems to indicate the word "God," the logical procession might be to find a time and language when "God" was once known by a word sounding like "Belo."
One can find some names of gods in the bible, but in order to see what is actually written rather than what has been translated into English, one has to look at the Hebrew. Starting with the first line of Genesis, one can immediately see that in Hebrew, "God" is another of those words that has also changed in meaning over the ages. In English, the bible speaks only of one God, but in Hebrew, in over 2600 instances, the word is plural: "gods," or elohim starting with the first line of Genesis. Since the beginning, the word has been "Gods."
Some of the gods have been identified by name - such as Jehovah or Yahweh - who is believed to be the only god of the universe by approximately half of the people on earth at this time. Jehovah is described as a "war god," with an impressive death count including men, women, children, babies and animals. Although the name of Jehovah only makes it into the English translation four times, in Hebrew it occurs over 6000 times. In English we usually see this word translated as "LORD." (Caps theirs.) Other gods are also named, but as stated, this is translated repeatedly into English as "God." This in turn gives the impression that the entire bible was only referencing the words of one God - Jehovah - when this is apparently not the case.
In some instances, different gods gave conflicting instructions. In Genesis, for example, there were conflicting instructions pertaining to what mankind may and may not eat. In Genesis 1, mankind is told by the unnamed elohim that we may partake of all seed-bearing fruits and vegetation on the face of the earth. There is no mention of anything forbidden, and there is also no mention of Jehovah. The unnamed gods in Genesis 1 stated we were created in their image.
Genesis 2 tells a different story. The Jehovah elohim tell mankind that severe penalties will apply if certain forbidden vegetation is so much as touched. (The list of forbidden fruits and vegetation continues to this day.) Unlike the unnamed elohim in Genesis 1 who stated we are in their image, the Jehovah elohim state instead that we are dust - and will return to dust - an insult that until the Gospel of Judas has been unchallenged.
Of those gods who were identified by name in the Old Testament, there is one who seems to be the chief enemy of the admittedly jealous Jehovah elohim. The name of the enemy god is "Baal." Baal means, "Lord," not to be confused with "LORD," which means Jehovah. People had been acknowledging The Lord for a very, very long time.
Since the earliest known writings, people acknowledged the presence of gods. All over the world, people have known that the gods came from above. Some were very kind and arrived with gifts of food and civil teachings. According to what has been handed down in some teachings, it appears that at least in some cases, the gods took time to point out the location of their lofty homes that were visible in the night sky, and perhaps this is why the ancients then came to identify certain heavenly bodies with the gods. This would at least provide an answer as to why certain heavenly bodies, such as Jupiter, were carefully followed and venerated.
Baal is referred to by name over 60 times in the KJV, and numerous other times in spelling variations. Baal, or the Lord, is known in other languages as Bel, Belos, Belus, and all of these names were references to what we call Jupiter. Jupiter is also known in Greek as Zeus, and it has been observed that the etymology of Jupiter appears to be two words, Zeus Pater, meaning God the Father. Baal is also associated with Dagon, a fish god associated with water and grain. The ancient root of Baal is in the Akkadian language, reaching back to Babylon and "Babel," the tower, is yet another word that has lost its meaning over the centuries. It was reduced to "babble," after it was destroyed by Jehovah, but its meaning prior to its destruction is from Akkadian, "Bab-elu," which means "The Gate of God." Jehovah destroyed the gate and confused the speech of mankind, and the speech continues to be confused today.
Jupiter was called "Marduk belu." "Belu" means "The Great Lord." This appears to bring us back to Barbelo, which, in following this procession would be: Son of the Great Lord, or, Son of Jupiter, God the Father. Since pronunciation changes as a word is spoken in different languages, there is also the possibility that Barbelo might have been reference to "Bab-elu," the Gate of God.
A daring few have noted that the sound of "son" in Modern Greek is pronounced, Yos and that when it is placed together with Zeus, as in, YosZeus, or even ZeusYos, it seems to have a familiar ring to it. Still others have noted that Virgil's Aeneid, which was written prior to Virgil's death in 19 B.C., tells of a vision in which Zeus was said to have fathered two sons born of a virgin. One son was named Dardanus, and the other is referred to as "Father Iasius" - sounding strangely similar to Esau, who, in Genesis 25:30 is also named "adam." (This word is translated into English as "Edom" although it is spelled in Hebrew the same way "adam" is spelled.) It means red as well as human. According to several translations of the Aeneid - but curiously not all - it is said that the blood of "Father Iasius" and his brother represents the most ancient of the bloodlines of Zeus. (If there were truth in this, it might at least explain why the elusive missing link has never been located by scientists who insist our ancestry is apes, rather than gods.)
We have been told repeatedly of encounters with someone who appears and disappears in a manner that is difficult to describe. He performs his trademark miracles, he heals the sick and reminds us that we should be performing miracles ourselves. He appears to be fully human, and at other times he and the others like him are glowing with an extraordinary light. He seems to have been known by many different names, apparently preferring not to refer to himself by name at all. Throughout the millennia, his messages have been clear, simple and similar. He has imparted teachings about civil liberties and civility, and he seems to be somehow connected to fish, water and grains. In the most ancient times, a similar water deity was referred to as "Ea/Oannes," because he frequently submerged in the waters. John, (as in Baptist), is spelled Ioannes in Greek. He repeatedly told those listening to live just, compassionate and forgiving lives, and he challenged laws that he felt were unjust.
Many believe that Gnosticism predated Christianity. Indeed, perhaps raising the consciousness has resulted in the divine visits of Iesous - a Shining One. One can find ancient written accounts about "the Watchers," (or Shining Ones - glowing beings of great wisdom) referred to in Egyptian writings as netjeru. This word is even mentioned in Jeremiah 4:16 as a warning - the "natzorim" (plural form of ntzr) come from a distant earth to give voice against the cities of Judah. In fact, it appears that this word is the more likely root of the word, "Nazareth," when one considers there was no "town" by this name mentioned by historians, it is not mentioned in the Old Testament, and no one but Jesus is said to have come from this mysterious place. It now seems to have become his descriptive surname.
The great and ancient mysteries of consciousness, however, seem to have been trampled like a serpent and fear has reigned in their place for thousands of years. The only ingredient necessary to assure this ongoing oppression of knowledge has been mandatory ignorance. While we have obeyed, and obeyed, the gates of wisdom and truth were closed, and the Light that is ours by birthright, turned off. A new time is at hand, however. Communication and access to knowledge have finally been restored to us for the first time since the Gate of God was turned to babble by Jehovah. At last, we can finally see that we have been kept ignorant in much the same way that Adam and Eve discovered their nakedness.
Evidence that divine encounters are ours by birthright can be found in our own bodies. We have been physically programmed to encounter the divine. We are born with a pineal gland, two hippocampi, and the mysterious right temporal lobe that some say acts as a receiver. In addition, and as though making certain we might never, ever, lose our most important way, we also have within our bodies the capability of creating a personal dose of dimethyltryptamine - DMT - which is called the "spirit molecule" by physician and researcher, Rick Strassman, M.D. Research shows that when the body creates DMT, it washes through the brain and a gate seems to be opened into another dimension. It is there that many people report face-to-face meetings with very much alive and sentient entities, including Iesous. It would appear that we truly have been invited to seek the divine truth. (4)
Unfortunately, however, at this time fluoride has now been found to be forming concretions in our pineal glands. (The fluoride spin is another one based upon a gamble that people will listen to what is repeated without reading the devastating facts for themselves.) In addition to our pineal glands being turned into pillars of stone, one does not report encountering the divine without risking life, limb, livelihood, reputation and all else. If encounters with angels are dismissed as nonsense or even "temporal lobe epilepsy," encounters with Jesus are met with even worse reactions.
At this time, all vegetation containing substances that might result in a spiritual encounter are as verboten as the Tree of Knowledge in Eden. As if a further safeguard were needed to assure the worried that humanity's spiritual gates would remain closed, DMT has been labeled a "Schedule 1 Controlled Substance" despite the fact that it occurs naturally within our own bodies.
So overwhelming is this fear of human spiritual encounters, it has caused the truth to be distorted and destroyed.
According to Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D, expert in early Christianity, author of Misquoting Jesus, and one who worked on the National Geographic Gospel of Judas project, many of the texts contained in the New Testament have been altered throughout the years. Because of this, closer attention should be paid to the ancient and more pristine documents now surfacing. In the lost Gospel of Judas, it is apparent that those encountering Iesous were experiencing something far more extraordinary than a simple carpenter who was the lone resident of a neighboring village. (5 )
This gospel states that when Jesus appeared on earth, he performed miracles and spoke of mysteries. "Often he did not appear to his disciples as himself" the gospel states. On one occasion, when he found his disciples in "pious observance" and giving thanks to their god, he laughed and they asked why. In his answer, it is made abundantly clear that their god is not his god - he is not the son of their god, and they did not know his identity. In fact, he does not speak highly of their god. (This sentiment can be also found in the New Testament in John 8, where Jesus refers to their god as a liar, a murderer, and the devil.)
Only moments after understanding this, Judas alone makes his observation: "I know who you are and where you have come from. You are from the immortal realm of Barbelo. And I am not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you."
Hearing Judas say this, Jesus asks Judas (to whom he refers as the "thirteenth spirit") to come and privately hear the mysteries. He tells Judas that Judas will suffer extreme grief and will be replaced with another so that the twelve may "come to completion with their god."
Judas was indeed replaced and when Iesous and Judas left the picture the thirteenth later became Saint Paul, who was never chosen as a disciple. It would be Church-selected teachings of Paul that would then become the foundation of Christianity, while the gnostic teachings of Iesous were anathematized. This is despite the fact that Paul's meeting with Iesous was, as clearly stated, a gnostic encounter. The writings were selected. Writings such as the instructions not to form a church with clergy over laity, and instructions to allow women to speak, were discarded. According to the gnostic teachings, all who had received visions from the divine were already "divinely ordained to speak, whether man or woman." These teachings were declared a heresy. (6)
But eventually, Jesus says, the truth about Judas will become known. When Judas asks him when the great day of light would dawn, Jesus abruptly leaves and reappears the following morning. They ask him where he had been and he answers that he had been to visit a generation that they cannot even imagine - a generation he refers to as "great and holy." They tell him they have had a disturbing vision, and he interprets it for them, telling them that in the future, atrocities will be done in his name. "That is the god you serve," he states, and many will be led astray.
He explains to Judas that god had only "loaned" souls to humanity, thus perhaps churning out workers again and again. But "The Great One," he states, has ordered that souls and spirits be "given" as a gift to the "great and holy" generation over which there will be no ruler. That generation, upon physical death, will be "taken up" - set free at last for having found the truth.
In what can be gleaned from the fragments, Judas is told that all generations will curse him except for one - and at that time, when the truth is known, Judas will be exalted as the greatest of all the disciples for having revealed the truth of Barbelo - and also cursed for having revealed the truth.
It would seem, therefore, that since the old texts have found their way into our hands, the generation spoken of appears to be this one. We have new information in front of us - information that is certain to leave us disturbed as well as astonished. But there is even more information, and this moment seems the appropriate time for it also to be revealed.
Having been raised a Catholic and finding I could not bear it any longer, I left Christianity 30 years ago and converted to Judaism where I was sent to Hebrew school. I was unable to find what I sought there either - perhaps because I found Jehovah frightening. And so I left Judaism as well and became what I assumed was an atheist.
On September 11, 1988, exactly thirteen years before America's darkest day, and eighteen years before the Gospel of Judas surfaced, I had my own darkest day and it included a diagnosis of cancer. I went to bed that night with no spiritual place to hide. The sun set on that day, marking its end, and at approximately 4 A.M. the following morning, a new sun rose when I was awakened by a bright light shining on me. I opened my eyes to see a large sphere of light floating in my room. A man's voice came from the sphere.
"You're not afraid are you?" he whispered.
There were unusual properties about this light swirling in the sphere, and I began feeling exceptionally well. The light seemed to be passing through me and correcting things.
"No," I replied, "I'm not afraid."
"Good," he said. "None of this is meant to frighten you."
He talked for a long time on that night, but I was unable to see the man standing there for most of that visit. He asked me if I would come with him so that he might show something to me, and I did so. After accompanying him into the Light, we walked on a summit in what I later identified as Qumran. We entered a cave where an old but beautiful woman was waiting, and after meeting her - and with no further explanations - I was returned to my physical body. Shortly after this, I was able to see the man still standing in the sphere of Light. He was about 33 years old with perfect facial features. His hair was long, past his shoulders. He did not have a beard. He was wearing what appeared to be sun-dried linen, and he had a fragrance of negative ions, myrrh and spices. I had no idea who he was. Being an atheist, I assumed he was from another planet.
Before he left, he told me that my cancer would be healed and that I needed fish. The sphere of light surrounded him again, and the light swirled as though blown by winds from within and a huge eye came across the surface of the sphere. I blurted out, "I know what you look like, you look like Jupiter. Is that where you are from?"
"Something wonderful is going to happen," he said, a line that is from "2010: Odyssey Two," based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel about Jupiter. "Find out all you can about the Tenth Moon of Jupiter."
I was unable to find out much about the Tenth Moon of Jupiter, other than it was said to be a "perfect sphere" by the astrophysicist I contacted. Two years ago, I would learn through Robert Temple's book, The Sirius Mystery that a tribe in Timbuktu known as the Dogon, claims to have been visited by fish gods many years ago. These gods arrived and left in a craft and gave them gifts of grain. The visitors took the time to explain from where they had come - that they were parked in orbit around one of the larger planets in our outer solar system. Specifically, the Dogon claim the visitors were from "the star of the Tenth Moon." Temple interpreted this as being Saturn.
For over eight months, the man from the sphere of light that looked like Jupiter returned here regularly as a healer and teacher. I was healed of the cancer and also suddenly appeared younger than usual, with dark auburn pigment returning to my hair. On many of his visits, small white stones materialized and fell on the floor, many of which I still have. Three were examined in a laboratory and found to be calcium carbonate - limestone - formed from calcite crystals. I do not know what their function is other than possibly to have served as affirmation that this was and is all really happening, and could not be dismissed as "temporal lobe epilepsy," etc. Or, it could be that there is something about limestone that awaits our discovery. The pyramids were once covered with limestone.
On one occasion almost eighteen years ago, he came here to tell me a love story about Judas. It was a stunning story that I had never heard before, and I told him I was anxious to tell people about this. He said I would be unable to recollect the full story, although he did allow me to recall a part of it - the part in which he explained that we did not have all of the facts about Judas, and that it is never appropriate to judge anyone, in particular Judas, when one does not have all the facts.
On another visit, he asked me why we were constantly searching for the "holy grail" and why we were digging for it in the dust. I told him it might have been a valuable cup, and he said, "Oh, then it is a container?" I answered that it was. He said, "If you wish to find such a cup, then look into one another's eyes."
In May of 1989, encouraged by a priest, I asked him his identity. He revealed it to me. I was disturbed and astonished. Dumbfounded might better describe the state I was in. But, when I came to terms with this I asked him to take me with him. He said he could not do so at that time, and he had something to ask of me. I suspected it might be a request to keep all of this quiet, and I was more than happy to oblige, but I was wrong.
"Tell others everything you have seen and heard," he said.
"What?" I was disturbed and astonished again.
"Tell others," he said, smiling.
"But no one is going to believe this," I protested.
He explained that I was not being asked to convince people, but merely to tell them what I had witnessed and what I have heard.
I did as he asked. I told people. Then, in 2001, thirteen years after first meeting him, and five years before the Gospel of Judas would come out, my book about this strange and ongoing encounter was published by Hampton Roads. I called my manuscript "Love Song," because I had been shown that there is an ancient song of love that is singing in our DNA, but we have not been told about it. It is where God is singing, and it is the root of our identity.
He told me to send my manuscript to Hampton Roads, specifically "to the person named Eagle." I sent it to the wrong person and then was contacted by the appropriate editor who stated she had my work in her possession and desired to be the editor. I thanked her, but told her that I had been instructed to place the manuscript into the hands of "the person named Eagle." She wrote back and said, "Dear Mary - My last name: in German it means Eagle. Have a nice day, Pat Adler."
She hand-carried the manuscript to the publisher and stood at his door until he picked it up and began reading it. The book's title was subsequently changed to "The Love Song of the Universe," and when I first saw the cover of the book, I saw that there were thirteen singular stars on it and wondered what that might mean.
In early 2001, several months before the book came out, the man from the shining sphere began talking about human rights and civil liberties on each of his visits here. This was new. I was scheduled to begin speaking on radio programs that year to discuss his book, and I was asked by radio hosts what his most recent messages were.
"He keeps telling me to 'study the Constitution' for some reason," I would reply again and again while on the air and also while giving talks to groups of people. I urged all who were listening to read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, knowing that for many it would be the first time they had ever looked at these exquisite documents that were created in mystery. The book was scheduled to come out in May.
On September 11, 2001, thirteen years after my own darkest day, America had her darkest day. We would learn shortly after 9/11 about the "P.a.t.r.i.o.t. Act" - a burdensome, anti-rights bill that was pushed through Congress, unread. A number of us finally understood the reason why we had been told to "study the Constitution."
On the morning of September 11, as I stood in my office watching the television in horror, he appeared and stood next to me. His hair was short on this day. He was not appearing as himself. He was covered with dust and wearing a grey jogging outfit and black athletic shoes with dark blue trim on them. I knew where he had been. He had been walking among the victims and comforting people. Not one of those who saw him, worked next to him, or were touched by him would suspect a thing. He would have simply been a mysterious stranger as he has been on so many other occasions.
"How could this have happened to us?" I asked him on that awful morning.
He did not answer my question, but instead he shook his head as though in disbelief while watching the events unfolding on the television and he said, "Tell them not to retaliate."
It was my turn to shake my head. "No," I said, "I can't say that. Someone's going to have hell to pay for this one."
He turned and looked at me. "You are going to have a very difficult time determining who was actually responsible for this," he said. "You do not have all of the facts. Tell them not to retaliate. Do not to harm the innocent." And then, he left.
I have wondered if he was there with Father Mychal, the first to officially die on that morning, and then if he was there with the others whose names we do not know. I learned later that Father Mychal had been a close personal friend of my editor, Pat, for many years.
I was already scheduled to speak on another radio program when 9/11 happened, and so when I went on the air, I delivered his message although my knees were literally shaking as I said it. I knew that no one else was making statements similar to this (yet).
In one of his more recent visits here, he revealed that he has been manifesting completely in the flesh throughout the entire time I have known him - eighteen years - similar to the way he did on 9/11, and I simply never knew when he was standing right next to me. Not always appearing as himself, he frequently appears as a black man, sometimes wearing a baseball hat. I have personally sat next to him on a bus as he drank coffee in full view of everyone and no one, including myself, suspected a thing at the time.
As I complete this paper, it is the month of May again - the anniversary of the month in which I first learned his identity, and now the month when I first learned about the Gospel of Judas. I learned of it from readers of my book, who saw that the gospel was providing affirmation for what I had written years earlier. This is also the month in which my publisher, Hampton Roads, sold the last copy of Love Song. As of May 31, 2006, the publisher has no more copies left.
I have, therefore, nothing to sell. I have only a statement to make after writing all of the above.
It appears that we are a prophesied generation into whose hands a profound truth has been placed. We have been called "great and holy" by a certain dignitary. This does not come without enormous responsibility.
The past 2000 years have been the only years in human history when we have not had free access to the philosophies and encounters with the gods of peace. These have also been the bloodiest years in all of human history. The toll of hatred, destruction and bloodshed is beyond comprehension. In innocence and ignorance, we have unwittingly sworn allegiance to a war god. We have obediently believed what we have been told, that the war god is the only god of the universe. Now we learn that this is not true.
This is a time for us to ask many questions. What is the real reason that the US is plundering the ancient land of Babylon at this time? Why were the ancient writings and artifacts in the museums immediately stolen? And why the bloodbath in Basra? The ancient Chaldean name of Basra was "Perat Maishan." Al-Maisan in Arabic is "the Shining One." Are there multidimensional portals associated with the "gates of god?" Is the US, which is currently spearheaded by followers of Jehovah, involved in a frantic final attempt to destroy evidence of the eternal, Shining enemy of Jehovah? Could it be that there is something other than WMD and oil the US government is desperately searching for in order to forestall the arrival of a long-awaited coming? Is this why the heads of state keep meeting at the Vatican?
But those in the Vatican should have already known some of the above was in progress and moving according to a quiet and ancient plan. As soon as my book came off the press in the spring of 2001, the man whose name I am unable to pronounce visited again and told me to send the first copy of the book to the Pope. He told me to include a white stone and a message for the Pope. I wrote down his words, although I did not understand what the message meant at that time. The message was, "You have already been forgiven."
It has always been about his blood - his royal blood - but not as depicted by Hollywood. It has not been about blood spilled for us because we are evil sinners, but about blood and DNA that is shared with us, given to us in the very beginning. Why else would the son of man refer to us as his brethren and tell us that what we do to each other we do to him? There is a message within his message that he is the son of man. It is not a message that means we must now find tax records to prove his birth. We will not find those. Nor do we need to try and track down rare offspring so that we might gaze at in awe. The message is that if he is the son of man, then all of man is the son of god.
As I finish this, there is something new happening on Jupiter. The large eye of Jupiter is not alone. There is another smaller swirling storm on Jupiter, and it has been called, "Red, Jr." As pointed out above, "red" in Hebrew is adam, and it means man. I will leave the translation of "Jr." to the reader. Astronomers feel that Red, Jr., will move closest to the Great Red Spot on July 4th
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If the truth is upon us, and it appears to have been placed in our hands, then this is a time like no other in history. It is time for those who are brave enough to do so to stand up and say that the age of war is at an end. Bring all troops of war home, forever. It is time for us to educate ourselves as though our lives depend upon it. It is time to focus on Jupiter, and the gifts given. We are no longer dust.
There is a song in our DNA that has never stopped singing despite the fact that we stopped hearing it thousands of years ago. It is time to finally listen and let the truth set us free.
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Mary is a science and health writer, and the author of The Love Song of the Universe. At this time, the publisher has sold all copies of Love Song, and while it is hoped that a second edition with updates will be forthcoming, the plans for doing so have not yet been made. You are welcome to contact Mary at sparrowdancer1@earthlink.net, or visit her website at www.sparrowdancer.com
Mary wishes to thank the numerous people, including friends and scholars who helped with and gave input in the preparation of this paper.
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References
1. "The Gospel of Judas," 2006, National Geographic Society. Editors: R. Kasser, M. Meyer, G. Wurst. Commentary: B. Ehrman. "Barbelo," p. 23.
2. "Lucifer" - New Advent, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX, copyright 1910, Appleton Company. May 2006.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09410a.htm
3. "Tradere." The Latin Mass; The Journal of Catholic Culture and Tradition. Fr. Ripperger, 2001. May, 2006.
http://www.latinmassmagazine.com/articles/articles_2001_SP_Ripperger.html
4. The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman, M.D. June, 2006.
http://www.rickstrassman.com/
5. "Misquoting Jesus, The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why," 2005, Bart D. Ehrman. HarperCollins.
6. "The Gnostic Gospels," Elaine Pagels, PhD, Vintage Books, 1981, p 78.
7. Jupiter's new storm, "Red, Jr." and possible cosmic show. June, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/06/05/jupiter.storms/index.html?eref=aol
The truth usually surfaces sooner or later regardless of how carefully concealed it is. One of the most stunning truths imaginable has been hidden so well for the last 2000 years that we have not caught a glimpse of its light until the recently surfaced Gospel of Judas. This gospel suggests, among other things, that all generations of people have sat in judgment of Judas based simply on information given to the masses by the most powerful church on earth. In reading this newly surfaced Gospel, and then reading Bishop Irenaeus' scathing rejection of it in 180 A.D., as well as his scathing rejection of all gnostic teachings (personal knowing of the divine), one wonders if this is the tip of the most unfathomable iceberg that ever was. What else has been kept hidden from us by those in control of church and state? Were we told the truth about the identity of Jesus - or was his identity reinvented? If his identity was reinvented, then it appears that humanity's spiritual identity was reinvented as well.
The primary shock and awe caused by the Gospel of Judas has been in the Gospel's suggestion that Jesus asked Judas to betray him. It appears, however, that this Gospel contains hints of something else far more profound - so profound, in fact, that the implications are staggering, but they seem to have escaped notice thus far. It hints of something extraordinary that has been hidden for thousands of years, although in existence since the beginning.
In the "forbidden" gnostic gospels that have begun to emerge from antiquity, we find we have actually been divinely invited to seek the truth and ask questions, because the truth is never marred or harmed by questions. Asking questions only serves to make the truth shine brighter. One might wonder into which direction we should begin a search for the truth at this hour when the truth about anything is very hard to come by. According to the gnostic gospels, the answer from above seems to have been, "go within," because there is something within that awaits discovery.
In the gnostic scriptures, we learn that blind faith has never been demanded of us. Instead, the one we now refer to as "Jesus" (the J is relatively new - it is Iesous in transliterated Greek) urged people to go within and seek the truth and not stop seeking until they found the truth. Only a portion of this appears in the New Testament, but a more complete version can be read in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas. It includes a curious caveat of wisdom after the invitation to come seek and find all that awaits us. The caveat warns that when we discover the truth, we will at first be disturbed as well as astonished.
In the end, however, it is the truth that will set us free.
In looking at the Gospel of Judas (Ioudas) there are two words that are the keys to unlocking an extraordinary mystery. The first key word is, "Barbelo," the word by which Judas identifies Jesus. "I know who you are and where you have come from," Judas says. "You are from the immortal realm of Barbelo."
According to the scholars and editors who worked on the National Geographic translation of the Gospel of Judas, the word Barbelo "apparently comes from Hebrew," and perhaps means God. Others state it remains unexplained, and some suggest it refers to a divine "emanation." (1)
The second key word in the Gospel of Judas is, "betrayal," the word by which we now identify Judas. In looking closely at this word, one finds that its meaning has changed over the centuries - something that is very common. Many other words have changed in meaning as centuries separate us from the original writings.
"Lucifer," for instance, a Latin word that means "light bringer," has now become equated with "satan" or the devil, despite the fact that Lucifer actually appears in the Latin Vulgate as a reference to Jesus. Most people in the US no longer read or speak Latin, and therefore they are unaware of this. (2)
The meaning of "satan" has also changed. Satan, comes from Aramaic and simply means adversary or opponent. In Mark 8:33, Jesus refers to Peter as "satan." However, most people in the US do not speak Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic, and so they do not understand the meaning of this word, either. For them, "satan" has now come to be associated with "the devil," personified these days as Lucifer, no less.
"Betrayal," has come to be associated with Judas Iscariot, who - as the spin keeps spinning - has in turn come to be known as the most despicable of all villains. The end result is that currently, no one in their right mind would want to be associated with Lucifer, Judas, satan or a betrayer. It appears that at least a portion of the truth has been hidden in plain view for almost 2000 years. During those same years, it became clear to those in power that the masses could be easily swayed by what they were told, and most would not check the facts for themselves because most could not read. Reading materials were also easily controlled. It was easy to fill people with fear and misunderstanding of words that were once written, once known and once understood. From generation to generation, the legacy of fear has been handed down our tradition.
Betray comes from the Latin word, "tradere." Tradere means to reveal, declare and make known what is seen, including divine revelations. Hardly an evil word, tradere is also the root of the word "tradition." An archaic, Old English word "bewray," appears in Isaiah in the King James Version (KJV) of the bible, and is translated as "to uncover." "Bewrayeth" is found three times in KJV, twice in Proverbs where it is translated as "to proclaim," and "make known," and in Matthew 26:73, it is translated as "to make manifest, evident." (3)
Only when one understands what the word "betray" once meant can one understand the simple truth about Judas. When Judas realized the identity and origin of Jesus - Barbelo - Jesus then asked him to reveal it and make it known to others. Judas did as he was asked. But, if one is to understand what Judas was asked to reveal - a truth that would indeed leave most disturbed as well as astonished - it becomes imperative to find a more definite, plausible meaning for Barbelo.
When I first saw that word, Barbelo, my own impression was that it was not derived from a Hebrew word at all, but that it was possibly coming from an Aramaic phrase, or possibly even referencing a more ancient, Akkadian word. Anyone who has heard of a "bar mitzvah" might realize that "bar," in Aramaic, means son, and in particular, "son of" the word that follows. If Bar means, "Son of," and if, as the scholars say, Barbelo seems to indicate the word "God," the logical procession might be to find a time and language when "God" was once known by a word sounding like "Belo."
One can find some names of gods in the bible, but in order to see what is actually written rather than what has been translated into English, one has to look at the Hebrew. Starting with the first line of Genesis, one can immediately see that in Hebrew, "God" is another of those words that has also changed in meaning over the ages. In English, the bible speaks only of one God, but in Hebrew, in over 2600 instances, the word is plural: "gods," or elohim starting with the first line of Genesis. Since the beginning, the word has been "Gods."
Some of the gods have been identified by name - such as Jehovah or Yahweh - who is believed to be the only god of the universe by approximately half of the people on earth at this time. Jehovah is described as a "war god," with an impressive death count including men, women, children, babies and animals. Although the name of Jehovah only makes it into the English translation four times, in Hebrew it occurs over 6000 times. In English we usually see this word translated as "LORD." (Caps theirs.) Other gods are also named, but as stated, this is translated repeatedly into English as "God." This in turn gives the impression that the entire bible was only referencing the words of one God - Jehovah - when this is apparently not the case.
In some instances, different gods gave conflicting instructions. In Genesis, for example, there were conflicting instructions pertaining to what mankind may and may not eat. In Genesis 1, mankind is told by the unnamed elohim that we may partake of all seed-bearing fruits and vegetation on the face of the earth. There is no mention of anything forbidden, and there is also no mention of Jehovah. The unnamed gods in Genesis 1 stated we were created in their image.
Genesis 2 tells a different story. The Jehovah elohim tell mankind that severe penalties will apply if certain forbidden vegetation is so much as touched. (The list of forbidden fruits and vegetation continues to this day.) Unlike the unnamed elohim in Genesis 1 who stated we are in their image, the Jehovah elohim state instead that we are dust - and will return to dust - an insult that until the Gospel of Judas has been unchallenged.
Of those gods who were identified by name in the Old Testament, there is one who seems to be the chief enemy of the admittedly jealous Jehovah elohim. The name of the enemy god is "Baal." Baal means, "Lord," not to be confused with "LORD," which means Jehovah. People had been acknowledging The Lord for a very, very long time.
Since the earliest known writings, people acknowledged the presence of gods. All over the world, people have known that the gods came from above. Some were very kind and arrived with gifts of food and civil teachings. According to what has been handed down in some teachings, it appears that at least in some cases, the gods took time to point out the location of their lofty homes that were visible in the night sky, and perhaps this is why the ancients then came to identify certain heavenly bodies with the gods. This would at least provide an answer as to why certain heavenly bodies, such as Jupiter, were carefully followed and venerated.
Baal is referred to by name over 60 times in the KJV, and numerous other times in spelling variations. Baal, or the Lord, is known in other languages as Bel, Belos, Belus, and all of these names were references to what we call Jupiter. Jupiter is also known in Greek as Zeus, and it has been observed that the etymology of Jupiter appears to be two words, Zeus Pater, meaning God the Father. Baal is also associated with Dagon, a fish god associated with water and grain. The ancient root of Baal is in the Akkadian language, reaching back to Babylon and "Babel," the tower, is yet another word that has lost its meaning over the centuries. It was reduced to "babble," after it was destroyed by Jehovah, but its meaning prior to its destruction is from Akkadian, "Bab-elu," which means "The Gate of God." Jehovah destroyed the gate and confused the speech of mankind, and the speech continues to be confused today.
Jupiter was called "Marduk belu." "Belu" means "The Great Lord." This appears to bring us back to Barbelo, which, in following this procession would be: Son of the Great Lord, or, Son of Jupiter, God the Father. Since pronunciation changes as a word is spoken in different languages, there is also the possibility that Barbelo might have been reference to "Bab-elu," the Gate of God.
A daring few have noted that the sound of "son" in Modern Greek is pronounced, Yos and that when it is placed together with Zeus, as in, YosZeus, or even ZeusYos, it seems to have a familiar ring to it. Still others have noted that Virgil's Aeneid, which was written prior to Virgil's death in 19 B.C., tells of a vision in which Zeus was said to have fathered two sons born of a virgin. One son was named Dardanus, and the other is referred to as "Father Iasius" - sounding strangely similar to Esau, who, in Genesis 25:30 is also named "adam." (This word is translated into English as "Edom" although it is spelled in Hebrew the same way "adam" is spelled.) It means red as well as human. According to several translations of the Aeneid - but curiously not all - it is said that the blood of "Father Iasius" and his brother represents the most ancient of the bloodlines of Zeus. (If there were truth in this, it might at least explain why the elusive missing link has never been located by scientists who insist our ancestry is apes, rather than gods.)
We have been told repeatedly of encounters with someone who appears and disappears in a manner that is difficult to describe. He performs his trademark miracles, he heals the sick and reminds us that we should be performing miracles ourselves. He appears to be fully human, and at other times he and the others like him are glowing with an extraordinary light. He seems to have been known by many different names, apparently preferring not to refer to himself by name at all. Throughout the millennia, his messages have been clear, simple and similar. He has imparted teachings about civil liberties and civility, and he seems to be somehow connected to fish, water and grains. In the most ancient times, a similar water deity was referred to as "Ea/Oannes," because he frequently submerged in the waters. John, (as in Baptist), is spelled Ioannes in Greek. He repeatedly told those listening to live just, compassionate and forgiving lives, and he challenged laws that he felt were unjust.
Many believe that Gnosticism predated Christianity. Indeed, perhaps raising the consciousness has resulted in the divine visits of Iesous - a Shining One. One can find ancient written accounts about "the Watchers," (or Shining Ones - glowing beings of great wisdom) referred to in Egyptian writings as netjeru. This word is even mentioned in Jeremiah 4:16 as a warning - the "natzorim" (plural form of ntzr) come from a distant earth to give voice against the cities of Judah. In fact, it appears that this word is the more likely root of the word, "Nazareth," when one considers there was no "town" by this name mentioned by historians, it is not mentioned in the Old Testament, and no one but Jesus is said to have come from this mysterious place. It now seems to have become his descriptive surname.
The great and ancient mysteries of consciousness, however, seem to have been trampled like a serpent and fear has reigned in their place for thousands of years. The only ingredient necessary to assure this ongoing oppression of knowledge has been mandatory ignorance. While we have obeyed, and obeyed, the gates of wisdom and truth were closed, and the Light that is ours by birthright, turned off. A new time is at hand, however. Communication and access to knowledge have finally been restored to us for the first time since the Gate of God was turned to babble by Jehovah. At last, we can finally see that we have been kept ignorant in much the same way that Adam and Eve discovered their nakedness.
Evidence that divine encounters are ours by birthright can be found in our own bodies. We have been physically programmed to encounter the divine. We are born with a pineal gland, two hippocampi, and the mysterious right temporal lobe that some say acts as a receiver. In addition, and as though making certain we might never, ever, lose our most important way, we also have within our bodies the capability of creating a personal dose of dimethyltryptamine - DMT - which is called the "spirit molecule" by physician and researcher, Rick Strassman, M.D. Research shows that when the body creates DMT, it washes through the brain and a gate seems to be opened into another dimension. It is there that many people report face-to-face meetings with very much alive and sentient entities, including Iesous. It would appear that we truly have been invited to seek the divine truth. (4)
Unfortunately, however, at this time fluoride has now been found to be forming concretions in our pineal glands. (The fluoride spin is another one based upon a gamble that people will listen to what is repeated without reading the devastating facts for themselves.) In addition to our pineal glands being turned into pillars of stone, one does not report encountering the divine without risking life, limb, livelihood, reputation and all else. If encounters with angels are dismissed as nonsense or even "temporal lobe epilepsy," encounters with Jesus are met with even worse reactions.
At this time, all vegetation containing substances that might result in a spiritual encounter are as verboten as the Tree of Knowledge in Eden. As if a further safeguard were needed to assure the worried that humanity's spiritual gates would remain closed, DMT has been labeled a "Schedule 1 Controlled Substance" despite the fact that it occurs naturally within our own bodies.
So overwhelming is this fear of human spiritual encounters, it has caused the truth to be distorted and destroyed.
According to Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D, expert in early Christianity, author of Misquoting Jesus, and one who worked on the National Geographic Gospel of Judas project, many of the texts contained in the New Testament have been altered throughout the years. Because of this, closer attention should be paid to the ancient and more pristine documents now surfacing. In the lost Gospel of Judas, it is apparent that those encountering Iesous were experiencing something far more extraordinary than a simple carpenter who was the lone resident of a neighboring village. (5 )
This gospel states that when Jesus appeared on earth, he performed miracles and spoke of mysteries. "Often he did not appear to his disciples as himself" the gospel states. On one occasion, when he found his disciples in "pious observance" and giving thanks to their god, he laughed and they asked why. In his answer, it is made abundantly clear that their god is not his god - he is not the son of their god, and they did not know his identity. In fact, he does not speak highly of their god. (This sentiment can be also found in the New Testament in John 8, where Jesus refers to their god as a liar, a murderer, and the devil.)
Only moments after understanding this, Judas alone makes his observation: "I know who you are and where you have come from. You are from the immortal realm of Barbelo. And I am not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you."
Hearing Judas say this, Jesus asks Judas (to whom he refers as the "thirteenth spirit") to come and privately hear the mysteries. He tells Judas that Judas will suffer extreme grief and will be replaced with another so that the twelve may "come to completion with their god."
Judas was indeed replaced and when Iesous and Judas left the picture the thirteenth later became Saint Paul, who was never chosen as a disciple. It would be Church-selected teachings of Paul that would then become the foundation of Christianity, while the gnostic teachings of Iesous were anathematized. This is despite the fact that Paul's meeting with Iesous was, as clearly stated, a gnostic encounter. The writings were selected. Writings such as the instructions not to form a church with clergy over laity, and instructions to allow women to speak, were discarded. According to the gnostic teachings, all who had received visions from the divine were already "divinely ordained to speak, whether man or woman." These teachings were declared a heresy. (6)
But eventually, Jesus says, the truth about Judas will become known. When Judas asks him when the great day of light would dawn, Jesus abruptly leaves and reappears the following morning. They ask him where he had been and he answers that he had been to visit a generation that they cannot even imagine - a generation he refers to as "great and holy." They tell him they have had a disturbing vision, and he interprets it for them, telling them that in the future, atrocities will be done in his name. "That is the god you serve," he states, and many will be led astray.
He explains to Judas that god had only "loaned" souls to humanity, thus perhaps churning out workers again and again. But "The Great One," he states, has ordered that souls and spirits be "given" as a gift to the "great and holy" generation over which there will be no ruler. That generation, upon physical death, will be "taken up" - set free at last for having found the truth.
In what can be gleaned from the fragments, Judas is told that all generations will curse him except for one - and at that time, when the truth is known, Judas will be exalted as the greatest of all the disciples for having revealed the truth of Barbelo - and also cursed for having revealed the truth.
It would seem, therefore, that since the old texts have found their way into our hands, the generation spoken of appears to be this one. We have new information in front of us - information that is certain to leave us disturbed as well as astonished. But there is even more information, and this moment seems the appropriate time for it also to be revealed.
Having been raised a Catholic and finding I could not bear it any longer, I left Christianity 30 years ago and converted to Judaism where I was sent to Hebrew school. I was unable to find what I sought there either - perhaps because I found Jehovah frightening. And so I left Judaism as well and became what I assumed was an atheist.
On September 11, 1988, exactly thirteen years before America's darkest day, and eighteen years before the Gospel of Judas surfaced, I had my own darkest day and it included a diagnosis of cancer. I went to bed that night with no spiritual place to hide. The sun set on that day, marking its end, and at approximately 4 A.M. the following morning, a new sun rose when I was awakened by a bright light shining on me. I opened my eyes to see a large sphere of light floating in my room. A man's voice came from the sphere.
"You're not afraid are you?" he whispered.
There were unusual properties about this light swirling in the sphere, and I began feeling exceptionally well. The light seemed to be passing through me and correcting things.
"No," I replied, "I'm not afraid."
"Good," he said. "None of this is meant to frighten you."
He talked for a long time on that night, but I was unable to see the man standing there for most of that visit. He asked me if I would come with him so that he might show something to me, and I did so. After accompanying him into the Light, we walked on a summit in what I later identified as Qumran. We entered a cave where an old but beautiful woman was waiting, and after meeting her - and with no further explanations - I was returned to my physical body. Shortly after this, I was able to see the man still standing in the sphere of Light. He was about 33 years old with perfect facial features. His hair was long, past his shoulders. He did not have a beard. He was wearing what appeared to be sun-dried linen, and he had a fragrance of negative ions, myrrh and spices. I had no idea who he was. Being an atheist, I assumed he was from another planet.
Before he left, he told me that my cancer would be healed and that I needed fish. The sphere of light surrounded him again, and the light swirled as though blown by winds from within and a huge eye came across the surface of the sphere. I blurted out, "I know what you look like, you look like Jupiter. Is that where you are from?"
"Something wonderful is going to happen," he said, a line that is from "2010: Odyssey Two," based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel about Jupiter. "Find out all you can about the Tenth Moon of Jupiter."
I was unable to find out much about the Tenth Moon of Jupiter, other than it was said to be a "perfect sphere" by the astrophysicist I contacted. Two years ago, I would learn through Robert Temple's book, The Sirius Mystery that a tribe in Timbuktu known as the Dogon, claims to have been visited by fish gods many years ago. These gods arrived and left in a craft and gave them gifts of grain. The visitors took the time to explain from where they had come - that they were parked in orbit around one of the larger planets in our outer solar system. Specifically, the Dogon claim the visitors were from "the star of the Tenth Moon." Temple interpreted this as being Saturn.
For over eight months, the man from the sphere of light that looked like Jupiter returned here regularly as a healer and teacher. I was healed of the cancer and also suddenly appeared younger than usual, with dark auburn pigment returning to my hair. On many of his visits, small white stones materialized and fell on the floor, many of which I still have. Three were examined in a laboratory and found to be calcium carbonate - limestone - formed from calcite crystals. I do not know what their function is other than possibly to have served as affirmation that this was and is all really happening, and could not be dismissed as "temporal lobe epilepsy," etc. Or, it could be that there is something about limestone that awaits our discovery. The pyramids were once covered with limestone.
On one occasion almost eighteen years ago, he came here to tell me a love story about Judas. It was a stunning story that I had never heard before, and I told him I was anxious to tell people about this. He said I would be unable to recollect the full story, although he did allow me to recall a part of it - the part in which he explained that we did not have all of the facts about Judas, and that it is never appropriate to judge anyone, in particular Judas, when one does not have all the facts.
On another visit, he asked me why we were constantly searching for the "holy grail" and why we were digging for it in the dust. I told him it might have been a valuable cup, and he said, "Oh, then it is a container?" I answered that it was. He said, "If you wish to find such a cup, then look into one another's eyes."
In May of 1989, encouraged by a priest, I asked him his identity. He revealed it to me. I was disturbed and astonished. Dumbfounded might better describe the state I was in. But, when I came to terms with this I asked him to take me with him. He said he could not do so at that time, and he had something to ask of me. I suspected it might be a request to keep all of this quiet, and I was more than happy to oblige, but I was wrong.
"Tell others everything you have seen and heard," he said.
"What?" I was disturbed and astonished again.
"Tell others," he said, smiling.
"But no one is going to believe this," I protested.
He explained that I was not being asked to convince people, but merely to tell them what I had witnessed and what I have heard.
I did as he asked. I told people. Then, in 2001, thirteen years after first meeting him, and five years before the Gospel of Judas would come out, my book about this strange and ongoing encounter was published by Hampton Roads. I called my manuscript "Love Song," because I had been shown that there is an ancient song of love that is singing in our DNA, but we have not been told about it. It is where God is singing, and it is the root of our identity.
He told me to send my manuscript to Hampton Roads, specifically "to the person named Eagle." I sent it to the wrong person and then was contacted by the appropriate editor who stated she had my work in her possession and desired to be the editor. I thanked her, but told her that I had been instructed to place the manuscript into the hands of "the person named Eagle." She wrote back and said, "Dear Mary - My last name: in German it means Eagle. Have a nice day, Pat Adler."
She hand-carried the manuscript to the publisher and stood at his door until he picked it up and began reading it. The book's title was subsequently changed to "The Love Song of the Universe," and when I first saw the cover of the book, I saw that there were thirteen singular stars on it and wondered what that might mean.
In early 2001, several months before the book came out, the man from the shining sphere began talking about human rights and civil liberties on each of his visits here. This was new. I was scheduled to begin speaking on radio programs that year to discuss his book, and I was asked by radio hosts what his most recent messages were.
"He keeps telling me to 'study the Constitution' for some reason," I would reply again and again while on the air and also while giving talks to groups of people. I urged all who were listening to read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, knowing that for many it would be the first time they had ever looked at these exquisite documents that were created in mystery. The book was scheduled to come out in May.
On September 11, 2001, thirteen years after my own darkest day, America had her darkest day. We would learn shortly after 9/11 about the "P.a.t.r.i.o.t. Act" - a burdensome, anti-rights bill that was pushed through Congress, unread. A number of us finally understood the reason why we had been told to "study the Constitution."
On the morning of September 11, as I stood in my office watching the television in horror, he appeared and stood next to me. His hair was short on this day. He was not appearing as himself. He was covered with dust and wearing a grey jogging outfit and black athletic shoes with dark blue trim on them. I knew where he had been. He had been walking among the victims and comforting people. Not one of those who saw him, worked next to him, or were touched by him would suspect a thing. He would have simply been a mysterious stranger as he has been on so many other occasions.
"How could this have happened to us?" I asked him on that awful morning.
He did not answer my question, but instead he shook his head as though in disbelief while watching the events unfolding on the television and he said, "Tell them not to retaliate."
It was my turn to shake my head. "No," I said, "I can't say that. Someone's going to have hell to pay for this one."
He turned and looked at me. "You are going to have a very difficult time determining who was actually responsible for this," he said. "You do not have all of the facts. Tell them not to retaliate. Do not to harm the innocent." And then, he left.
I have wondered if he was there with Father Mychal, the first to officially die on that morning, and then if he was there with the others whose names we do not know. I learned later that Father Mychal had been a close personal friend of my editor, Pat, for many years.
I was already scheduled to speak on another radio program when 9/11 happened, and so when I went on the air, I delivered his message although my knees were literally shaking as I said it. I knew that no one else was making statements similar to this (yet).
In one of his more recent visits here, he revealed that he has been manifesting completely in the flesh throughout the entire time I have known him - eighteen years - similar to the way he did on 9/11, and I simply never knew when he was standing right next to me. Not always appearing as himself, he frequently appears as a black man, sometimes wearing a baseball hat. I have personally sat next to him on a bus as he drank coffee in full view of everyone and no one, including myself, suspected a thing at the time.
As I complete this paper, it is the month of May again - the anniversary of the month in which I first learned his identity, and now the month when I first learned about the Gospel of Judas. I learned of it from readers of my book, who saw that the gospel was providing affirmation for what I had written years earlier. This is also the month in which my publisher, Hampton Roads, sold the last copy of Love Song. As of May 31, 2006, the publisher has no more copies left.
I have, therefore, nothing to sell. I have only a statement to make after writing all of the above.
It appears that we are a prophesied generation into whose hands a profound truth has been placed. We have been called "great and holy" by a certain dignitary. This does not come without enormous responsibility.
The past 2000 years have been the only years in human history when we have not had free access to the philosophies and encounters with the gods of peace. These have also been the bloodiest years in all of human history. The toll of hatred, destruction and bloodshed is beyond comprehension. In innocence and ignorance, we have unwittingly sworn allegiance to a war god. We have obediently believed what we have been told, that the war god is the only god of the universe. Now we learn that this is not true.
This is a time for us to ask many questions. What is the real reason that the US is plundering the ancient land of Babylon at this time? Why were the ancient writings and artifacts in the museums immediately stolen? And why the bloodbath in Basra? The ancient Chaldean name of Basra was "Perat Maishan." Al-Maisan in Arabic is "the Shining One." Are there multidimensional portals associated with the "gates of god?" Is the US, which is currently spearheaded by followers of Jehovah, involved in a frantic final attempt to destroy evidence of the eternal, Shining enemy of Jehovah? Could it be that there is something other than WMD and oil the US government is desperately searching for in order to forestall the arrival of a long-awaited coming? Is this why the heads of state keep meeting at the Vatican?
But those in the Vatican should have already known some of the above was in progress and moving according to a quiet and ancient plan. As soon as my book came off the press in the spring of 2001, the man whose name I am unable to pronounce visited again and told me to send the first copy of the book to the Pope. He told me to include a white stone and a message for the Pope. I wrote down his words, although I did not understand what the message meant at that time. The message was, "You have already been forgiven."
It has always been about his blood - his royal blood - but not as depicted by Hollywood. It has not been about blood spilled for us because we are evil sinners, but about blood and DNA that is shared with us, given to us in the very beginning. Why else would the son of man refer to us as his brethren and tell us that what we do to each other we do to him? There is a message within his message that he is the son of man. It is not a message that means we must now find tax records to prove his birth. We will not find those. Nor do we need to try and track down rare offspring so that we might gaze at in awe. The message is that if he is the son of man, then all of man is the son of god.
As I finish this, there is something new happening on Jupiter. The large eye of Jupiter is not alone. There is another smaller swirling storm on Jupiter, and it has been called, "Red, Jr." As pointed out above, "red" in Hebrew is adam, and it means man. I will leave the translation of "Jr." to the reader. Astronomers feel that Red, Jr., will move closest to the Great Red Spot on July 4th
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If the truth is upon us, and it appears to have been placed in our hands, then this is a time like no other in history. It is time for those who are brave enough to do so to stand up and say that the age of war is at an end. Bring all troops of war home, forever. It is time for us to educate ourselves as though our lives depend upon it. It is time to focus on Jupiter, and the gifts given. We are no longer dust.
There is a song in our DNA that has never stopped singing despite the fact that we stopped hearing it thousands of years ago. It is time to finally listen and let the truth set us free.
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Mary is a science and health writer, and the author of The Love Song of the Universe. At this time, the publisher has sold all copies of Love Song, and while it is hoped that a second edition with updates will be forthcoming, the plans for doing so have not yet been made. You are welcome to contact Mary at sparrowdancer1@earthlink.net, or visit her website at www.sparrowdancer.com
Mary wishes to thank the numerous people, including friends and scholars who helped with and gave input in the preparation of this paper.
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References
1. "The Gospel of Judas," 2006, National Geographic Society. Editors: R. Kasser, M. Meyer, G. Wurst. Commentary: B. Ehrman. "Barbelo," p. 23.
2. "Lucifer" - New Advent, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX, copyright 1910, Appleton Company. May 2006.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09410a.htm
3. "Tradere." The Latin Mass; The Journal of Catholic Culture and Tradition. Fr. Ripperger, 2001. May, 2006.
http://www.latinmassmagazine.com/articles/articles_2001_SP_Ripperger.html
4. The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman, M.D. June, 2006.
http://www.rickstrassman.com/
5. "Misquoting Jesus, The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why," 2005, Bart D. Ehrman. HarperCollins.
6. "The Gnostic Gospels," Elaine Pagels, PhD, Vintage Books, 1981, p 78.
7. Jupiter's new storm, "Red, Jr." and possible cosmic show. June, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/06/05/jupiter.storms/index.html?eref=aol
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