'When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.' Mahatma Gandhi

"I am only a child"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17665.htm

Ah... maccas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyDXH1amic

...and GM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG8Y-_p8XSg

Zeitgeist - the movie

This movie made me at once angry and inspired. It plainly states a lot of what many of us have always feared to be true about the systems of control put in place to keep us ignorant and complacent, sighting just a few obvious examples, Religion, 911 and The US Federal Reserve.

I recomend watching it on Google video as it is bigger. Follow the link on the screen that pops up (the first 3 minutes are with out picture).

A smothered fire can still smolder

I am raging right now, but it is a good rage, a healthy rage. I want to stand up and fight but i know that fighting is not the answer. Who would i fight? Myself? The evil which permeates the world does not come from somewhere out there, from some beast or being hell bent on the destruction of human kind. It comes from within, the greed of us all is responsible for everything which suppresses or threatens to destroy us. The good news is that most people don't succumb to it, not whole heartily at least, and for the most part not consciously. The bad news is that unfortunately it is no longer us who decides what is good for us or others. We have given our power over. The greed of a few seems to be more powerful than the compassion of all others. How is this possible, how are they able to control us, and continue to ensure the suffering of all? Because we are divided and because we let them. By them i simply mean the powers that be. The Corporations, Governments, and institutions who decide for us what we hear, eat, drink, and speak, and equally what we don't. I no-longer trust anything that I am allowed to do.

Ok, so perhaps i am caught in a negative cloud, but what i am actually doing is transmuting it, this apparent negativity, into something positive. If darkness is just the absence of light, then shedding light onto situations and systems which suppress us is surely a positive thing? As long as it results in some positive action. Understanding is wonderful and with awareness comes choice, but with out action it is all for nothing. For realisation to be actualised it takes action.

A smothered fire can still smolder. And when the time is right it can spark up again and rise from its ashes to burn anew. That is what I want to do, and i can feel that the time is right. It has always been right. It is now. We are not really separate. We really are limitless and whole beings and anything that tells you otherwise is simply not the truth.

From Unlikely Quarters

From Unlikely Quarters, Bruce Willis and The JFK Debate
The Kennedy assassination furore is over and the "conspiracy theorists" won, 9/11 is soon to follow
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Bruce Willis' insightful and definitive comments to Vanity Fair about the assassination of JFK, in which he =oldly states that Kennedy's killers were never caught and are still in power today, are a benchmark as to how far the truth movement has progressed since 9/11.
"They still haven't caught the guy that killed [President] Kennedy," Willis told Vanity Fair's June issue.
"I'll get killed for saying this, but i'm pretty sure those guys are still in power, in some form. The entire government of the United States was co-opted," adds the Die Hard star.
Bruce Willis is a perfect example of how the rampant corruption of the U.S. government and the overwhelming evidence proving that the entire war on terror is a manufactured hoax has ostracized even the administration's most fervent cheerleaders.
The son of a military man, Willis was and still is an ardent patriot and like many was caught up in the post-9/11 fervor, believing that his beloved America had been attacked from outside and committed his work to supporting a positive and healthy message that America's motives in the war on terror were just and necessary.

Willis' genuine patriotism and moral compass was exploited and perverted by the Neo-Con agenda to police the world not in the interests of America but to serve the agenda of the military industrial complex. Again, like the majority of the nation, for a time Willis was fooled into supporting the lie, but soon came to the realization that he had been double crossed.
After Hollywood director Richard Linklater handed Willis DVDs of Alex Jones' documentary films Terror Storm and Martial Law on the set of Fast Food Nation, Willis underwent a political awakening and his entire paradigm was shifted.
Sources tell us that Willis is now virtually obsessed with "conspiracy" material and, like Charlie Sheen before him, spent months researching the JFK assassination as well as 9/11 before he spoke publicly to Vanity Fair.
We salute Mr. Willis for having the courage to use his huge profile to draw people's attention to subjects of vital importance, flying in the face of the fear, in his own words, that they might kill him for doing so.
Willis' comments follow last week's definitive revelations concerning the role of CIA veteran E. Howard Hunt in the murder plot and his deathbed confession that the assassination of JFK was a conspiracy on behalf of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
The establishment news media have completely blackballed one of the stories of the decade and it would take a very naive person to believe the ignorance wasn't deliberate. As Bruce Willis said, the U.S. government was overthrown in November 1963 and the military-industrial complex have been running the show ever since - they are still in power today. The press are afraid to cover this story because a lot of people who have pursued the truth about the assassination or simply been in a position to know certain information - have ended up in a coffin pretty soon after.
Some even scoff at the tape's authenticity simply because it was aired first on Coast to Coast Live, ashow that tackles a multitude of controversial and quirky issues. How else could Saint John Hunt have got the tape released when no corporate media outlet dare touch it? Coast to Coast has 20 million listeners every night, in using them as a forum, Hunt was ensuring the maximum exposure possible outside of mainstream channels.
The tape is real, the confession is real - burying your head in the sand and pretending it's all a fairy tale is not going to make the truth of this story go away.
We are now declaring victory on proving the assassination of JFK was an inside job - polls routinely show that around 90% of Americans agree and one of the main conspirators has now admitted this to be the case, in addition to others on the inside like Madeleine Duncan Brown and LBJ's lawyer who also blew the whistle on the fact that it was a coup de 'tat orchestrated by Johnson.
There can no longer be any debate, the establishment press can continue to use their little "grassy knoll" cliches to try and debunk anyone who questions the official government version of anything, but the fact is that they now reflect a tiny minority of popular opinion in this context.
Similarly in the case of 9/11, polls show that around 84% distrust the government's account and suspect a cover-up, and no amount of ad hominem attack slurs and Popular Mechanics style hit pieces are going to reverse that growing trend. The game is almost up, we are in the fourth quarter and we have accrued an unassailable lead - the conspiracy theorists have won and though things may get worse before they get better, the success of our mission to rouse the human race from its sleepwalk will soon begin to catalyze measurable change in the world around us and freedom will rise again.

Global Meditation

Worth reading, www.firethegrid.com - out of this amazing story has come a GLOBAL MEDITATION on JULY 17th, at 11.11 G.MT. - (this translates to 9.11 pm, Melbourne, Australia time.) Millions of people around the world will be tuning in at this time, in their own time zone, to meditate, pray, sing, dance, listen to wonderful music, whatever it takes to hold the upliftment of love globally at that time. Shelley was an atheist at the time of her drowning, but the miracles that happened with her and her son, soon converted her. Spirit has other plans for her, and it has led to this incredible global meditation, which started from nothing and without any financial help. At this stage I think 46 countries have joined in.

Letter toMrs. Bush

The following is an open letter from the poet Sharon Olds to Laura Bush declining the invitation to read and speak at the National Book Critics Circle Award in Washington, DC. Sharon Olds is one of most widely read and critically acclaimed poets living in America today.

Dear Mrs. Bush,

I am writing to let you know why I am not able to accept your kind invitation to give a presentation at the National Book Festival on September 24, or to attend your dinner at the Library of Congress or the breakfast at the White House.

In one way, it's a very appealing invitation. The idea of speaking at a festival attended by 85,000 people is inspiring! The possibility of finding new readers is exciting for a poet in personal terms, and in terms of the desire that poetry serve its constituents--all of us who need the pleasure, and the inner and outer news, it delivers.

And the concept of a community of readers and writers has long been dear to my heart. As a professor of creative writing in the graduate school of a major university, I have had the chance to be a part of some magnificent outreach writing workshops in which our students have become teachers. Over the years, they have taught in a variety of settings: a women's prison, several New York City public high schools, an oncology ward for children.

Our initial program, at a 900-bed state hospital for the severely physically challenged, has been running friendships between young MFA candidates and their students--long-term residents at the hospital who, in their humor, courage and wisdom, become our teachers. When you have witnessed someone nonspeaking and almost nonmoving spell out, with a toe, on a big plastic alphabet chart, letter by letter, his new poem, you have experienced, close up, the passion and essentialness of writing.

When you have held up a small cardboard alphabet card for a writer who is completely nonspeaking and nonmoving (except for the eyes), and pointed first to the A, then the B, then C, then D, until you get to the first letter of the first word of the first line of the poem she has been composing in her head all week, and she lifts her eyes when that letter is touched to say "yes", you feel with a fresh immediacy the human drive for creation, self- expression, accuracy, honesty and wit--and the importance of writing, which celebrates the value of each person's unique story and song.

So the prospect of a festival of books seemed wonderful to me. I thought of the opportunity to talk about how to start up an outreach program. I thought of the chance to sell some books, sign some books and meet some of the citizens of Washington , DC . I thought that I could try to find a way, even as your guest, with respect, to speak about my deep feeling that we should not have invaded Iraq, and to declare my belief that the wish to invade another culture and another country--with the resultant loss of life and limb for our brave soldiers, and for the noncombatants in their home terrain--did not come out of our democracy but was instead a decision made "at the top" and forced on the people by distorted language, and by untruths. I hoped to express the fear that we have begun to live in the shadows of tyranny and religious chauvinism--the opposites of the liberty, tolerance and diversity our nation aspires to.

I tried to see my way clear to attend the festival in order to bear witness-- as an American who loves her country and its principles and its writing--against this undeclared and devastating war.

But I could not face the idea of breaking bread with you. I knew that if I sat down to eat with you, it would feel to me as if I were condoning what I see to be the wild, highhanded actions of the Bush Administration.

What kept coming to the fore of my mind was that I would be taking food from the hand of the First Lady who represents the Administration that unleashed this war and that wills its continuation, even to the extent of permitting "extraordinary rendition": flying people to other countries where they will be tortured for us.

So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it.

Sincerely,
SHARON OLDS