Re: Altzheimers.
No Allan I dont. I always dowse for the potencies as they can change from time to time, and from person to person. James - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:19 PM Subject: Re: Altzheimers. I suggest that you look at Lachesis 60c as to whether you think that it describes the symptoms being experienced. James - do you have a materia medica that breaks things out by potentcy as well as remedy? -Allan
Re: Eucalyptus
Hi! Tony, It is not all, but some specific Eucalypts. Some of the Mallees - these are multi-trunked trees that grow from a lignatuber, which is the famed Mallee Stump, the preferred fire wood in the drier areas. In my area the Sugar Gum, E. cladocalyx, will allow no pasture grasses to grow under them, but some native grasses will. The is some times used in property planing and management. A strip of mallee a chain or so wide will stop most weeds invading, while a stand of sugar gum can form a fire break for grass fires. Gil Tony Nelson-Smith wrote: Interested to read about inhibiton of germination under eucalypts. Is this restricetd to certain species? Is there also inhibition of growth of plants spreading in from beyond the sphere of influence? I ask because I have a shelter-belt of large (?) snow gums, plus several single ones scattered around elsewhere, here in South Wales (UK) and have noticed no restriction of growth beneath them. BTW, did you know that when eucalypts first became popular in Britain a couple of decades ago, people planted species such as E. gunnii which were listed as 'hardy': turns out that they are sensitive to frost but hardiness, in Australasia, refers to restistance to drought. Tony N-S. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
The strike was reported on CNN the morning after it happened, though was not a lot of discussion concerning it. Just another news item Don Thanks for this info, Don. Thats probably what we call 'a leak in the Matrix,' proof that we live in a free country where someone can actually post a story the Powers do not want to circulate before their management tells them that that story is not being covered. A similar story was the report of a 'terrorist' being shot outside of the World Trade Center the morning of Sept 11, hours before the attack. Although I talked to people who heard that broadcast, it's never been repeated to discussed to my knowledge since. -Allan
Re: regeneration OT USA?
Hi! Liz, Briefly: Heavily graze the land to be direct seeded for two years, during seed set, to reduce seed level. Most sites are sprayed with Roundup after the germination of the grasses to reduce competition for water. (I am trying vinegar/ lemon juice, as mentioned on this list earlier.) We tend to seed in early spring as earlier the young plants may get too wet. The seeder we use has been developed over twenty years and by several people adding their ideas. It is basically a ripper on the three point linkage of a Fordson 5000, with two blades, which skim the weeds and seeds aside. There are two revolving seed drums, each with two sections. The seed is dropped onto the rip line and also to the side. A press wheel follows and the seeding mechanism is belt driven from it, so when the ripper is lifted, the whole thing stops. We use fifty to eighty varieties between the four seed dispensers on any one site. Some times it is necessary to spray for red legged earth mite or like. It seems to work better later rather than too early. NB we have a Mediterranean type climate with most of our rain in winter/ spring with dry summer. Gil Liz Davis wrote: Hi Gil, James et al, The work you are doing sounds very interesting Gil. I've been asked by my local landcare group to follow up the lack of success of direct drilling native tree seeds into paddocks.
The Dadswell Collection
It is about a year since I first heard of the hardwood samples at the
Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia's National
Capital. Their story, which I researched and wrote up some months ago,
has nothing whatever to do with biodynamics. However, I have submitted
it to the list knowing that there are members who are tree-lovers or who
appreciate the value of timber in mapping out the history of our planet
and people. It is my fervent hope that someone will come up with an
inexpensive answer to the problem posed.
*
The Dadswell Collection
In the 1920s, Australia was a timber importer and a fledgling timber
exporter. Someone (at the Council of Science and Industrial Research
(CSIR) in Melbourne, as the Commonwealth Scientific amd Industrial
Research Organisation (CSIRO) was known then) recognised that we as a
nation did not have a ready means of positively identifying our hardwood
timber species and set about organising one by calling for samples from
all over this country. In the early 30s, the samples were assembled into
a collection by a CSIR person named H.E. Dadswell, in conjunction with
two other people (Maisie Burnell Audrey M Eckersley) who then produced
several reference works.
In all, the Collection consisted of samples from 13,000 tree species of
9,000 genera belonging to a total of about 270 botanical families - from
Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae. Samples from butt sap, butt truewood,
and toplog were taken from each tree. Each sample was an undressed
block approximately 600mm x 100mm x 50mm (24 x 4 x 2). Pieces
measuring 100mm to 150mm long were cut from the butt truewood samples
for macroscopic and microscopic examination.
One of the reference books is entitled Methods for the Identification of
the Light-Coloured Woods of the Genus Eucalyptus. I have a copy which I
tracked down at an auction house in Adelaide, South Australia. It
contains 60 pages of methodology; tree descriptions (of 41 species of
Eucalypts) including common botanical names, distribution, general
properties, basic density, burning splinter test result, and anatomy;
and 41 photographic plates. The tree species range from E. gigantea -
Alpine Ash to E. consideniana - Yertchuk.
The Collection was held by CSIR's Division of Forestry Products in
Melbourne for some considerable time and then one or more pieces 25mm
were cut from each sample and collated into a second collection. They
number in total 47,000. At some time (presumably when Dadswell died)
this second collection was named the H.E. Dadswell Memorial Wood
Collection; since then the words 'and Slide' have been added after
'Wood. In 1993, three further reference books were compiled using this
collection which has been described by CSIRO as 'an important national
resource'.
(One would have to agree, considering that a great number of these tree
species are now either extinct, commercially extinct, or 'locked up' in
national parks. One would also think that the original collection was an
equal important national resource. However .)
When the second collection had been put together, the original one was
offloaded on to Latrobe University in Victoria ('offloaded' is my word -
it may not have been as casual as that). It was kept there for a number
of years until the institution ran out of space (or the inclination to
hold on to it wore off) and then the decision was made to dispose of it
at the local landfill! Fortunately, a Reader in Wood Science at the
Department of Forestry, Australian National University, Dr Philip Evans,
heard about it and with the help of a sympathetic faculty head, had the
collection trucked to Canberra.
A happy ending, one might think. But, No. The collection (down, I think,
to a few hundred samples) is stored under tarpaulins in the open air;
the blocks are packed in banana boxes. They are deteriorating badly,
which is hardly surprising.
There was a woodworking exhibition last year called Rings of History.
The beautiful artefacts in it were made from some of the blocks in this
collection. They may (probably 'will') be the last objects made if we do
not somehow get that collection into clean, dry and secure surroundings
very quickly indeed.
You may wonder what my interest in this affair is. It's very simple.
Most of my life I spent in the RAF and RAAF but it's irrelevant to this.
For most of the last 15 years I was a woodworker working with recycled
timbers. (Not a turner, but a box and cabinet maker.) Most of the woods
I have used have been common-or-garden compared to many in this
collection; indeed, I know my limitations very well and while I have the
skills to dress and lacquer the samples (which is surely part of what
they need) I could in no way match the brilliance of the Rings of
History collection.)
In 1993 I was living in a tiny village near the Sassafras Hills between
Braidwood and Nowra in NSW. At that time I was exploring the old
Re: Field Broadcaster
I agree with Virginia. When you're growing for a CSA, you've made a commitment to families with children to provide them with as much food as your skill and the season allow. Deer damage much more than what they eat. One of the worst things they will do is trample remay that is excluding flea beetles (oops, there I go again!!) from cole crops. Their hooves tear the remay, damage that may not be discovered until harvest time. (Which remind me: as well as zuchinni that seemed to bear for months, I seem to remember remay that didn't tear as easily as any remay I buy nowadays does.) We get lots of stuff just out and out trampled also. The deer only bother our stuff, however, when it's more desireable than what they can fine in the woods. This season, apparently, there wasnt a lot of edamame out in the woods. Dear Sharon, You are most generous and I imagine unruffled even when the corn plants you have sweated over are all broken, your trees are continually browsed or the fruits that you've waited for are strewn all over the place before they even mature. While they may eat some, the damage they cause is to an extent that some people have given up growing a garden altogether. Too bad, because gardening is immensely therapeutic and healing. For animals, there are wild plants in abundance which may be much more healing for them. Virginia
Re: regeneration / direct seeding
Hi Liz (and Gil) Graham Strong and his family at Narrandera has had good success with direct seeding local tree species - they were featured on the front cover of The Land newspaper earlier this year - they use a 30 foot (I think) air seeder. Seems to me the common thing that successful direct seeding implements have is (as Gil described ) a system of blade scraping or similar to clear aside the shallow topsoil layer containing the weed seeds and leaving a strip a foot or so wide of completely bare soil to seed into. Liz for info on chemical effects try the Northwest Co-alition Against Pesticides NCAP search should locate it. Look at roundup and the soil active herbicides first - there is a lot of references - also David Suzuki's book Naked Ape to Super Species heaps of reference material too. The scientists have done the research work and its published but nothing gets any further - funds are cut and the info gets buried. Also Gil there was a feature on Landline several months back about clay pelleting seed these people were doing it by hand - making pellets about marble size with a mix of native seeds in the clay - so that if enough rain came to dissolve the large clay pellet and expose seed there was a reasonable chance there was enough moisture to get germination and establishment of the seeds. Is this what you are doing?? Cheers Lloyd Charles
Re: Field Broadcaster
Allen and Virginia , A while back ,before we got our dog, we went on a trip and came home to a devestated corn patch, with lots of half eaten corn, damage from a coon . We now have a big yellow lab that feels duty bound to protect the perimiters, she had a groundhog in a tree last year for a whole day, till we brought her indoors so the groundhog could leave. Perhaps the right dog could help send the word out to the critters to keep their distance. We have some bd neighbors who actually bought and trained their dog to guard their flock of 300 egg layers that were free ranged from the healthy population of fox in the woods surrounding them. just a thought. We all need to eat. ( csa members included.) :)sharon - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:14 AM Subject: Re: Field Broadcaster I agree with Virginia. When you're growing for a CSA, you've made a commitment to families with children to provide them with as much food as your skill and the season allow. Deer damage much more than what they eat. One of the worst things they will do is trample remay that is excluding flea beetles (oops, there I go again!!) from cole crops. Their hooves tear the remay, damage that may not be discovered until harvest time. (Which remind me: as well as zuchinni that seemed to bear for months, I seem to remember remay that didn't tear as easily as any remay I buy nowadays does.) We get lots of stuff just out and out trampled also. The deer only bother our stuff, however, when it's more desireable than what they can fine in the woods. This season, apparently, there wasnt a lot of edamame out in the woods. Dear Sharon, You are most generous and I imagine unruffled even when the corn plants you have sweated over are all broken, your trees are continually browsed or the fruits that you've waited for are strewn all over the place before they even mature. While they may eat some, the damage they cause is to an extent that some people have given up growing a garden altogether. Too bad, because gardening is immensely therapeutic and healing. For animals, there are wild plants in abundance which may be much more healing for them. Virginia
Re: Field Broadcaster
Dear Allen and Virginia . I didn't mean that you shouldn't seek a solution for the problem, and just let them damage your crops. Awhile back we went on a trip and found our winter corn crop totally destroyed by racoons. We now have a big yellow lab that feels duty bound to keep critters at bay. We get deer out in the pasture with the horses but none in the gardens yet. We have a neighbor with 300 free range laying hens , that bought and had trained a dog to guard their flock from fox . Perhaps the right dog would do the trick.We all need to eat real food (csa members included) :) sharon. - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:14 AM Subject: Re: Field Broadcaster I agree with Virginia. When you're growing for a CSA, you've made a commitment to families with children to provide them with as much food as your skill and the season allow. Deer damage much more than what they eat. One of the worst things they will do is trample remay that is excluding flea beetles (oops, there I go again!!) from cole crops. Their hooves tear the remay, damage that may not be discovered until harvest time. (Which remind me: as well as zuchinni that seemed to bear for months, I seem to remember remay that didn't tear as easily as any remay I buy nowadays does.) We get lots of stuff just out and out trampled also. The deer only bother our stuff, however, when it's more desireable than what they can fine in the woods. This season, apparently, there wasnt a lot of edamame out in the woods. Dear Sharon, You are most generous and I imagine unruffled even when the corn plants you have sweated over are all broken, your trees are continually browsed or the fruits that you've waited for are strewn all over the place before they even mature. While they may eat some, the damage they cause is to an extent that some people have given up growing a garden altogether. Too bad, because gardening is immensely therapeutic and healing. For animals, there are wild plants in abundance which may be much more healing for them. Virginia
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 06:58:56 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq The strike was reported on CNN the morning after it happened, though was not a lot of discussion concerning it. Just another news item Don Thanks for this info, Don. Thats probably what we call 'a leak in the Matrix,' proof that we live in a free country where someone can actually post a story the Powers do not want to circulate before their management tells them that that story is not being covered. A similar story was the report of a 'terrorist' being shot outside of the World Trade Center the morning of Sept 11, hours before the attack. Although I talked to people who heard that broadcast, it's never been repeated to discussed to my knowledge since. -Allan Allan, I rather doubt that there is an active system of news suppression in the US. I think its more a question of editorial sensitivity as to what their readers and listeners want to hear. For example, about six months back Noam Chomsky gave a lecture in Islamabad, attended by some two-thousand Pakistanian intelligensia, In which he was extremely critical of American foreign policy. There was a quite detailed report on it carried on the news services at the time, but categorized as an 'op Ed.' To my knowledge none of the major American networks picked up on the story, so that as far as the US public was concerned it might just as well not have happened. Don
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael - Original Message - From: Eve Cruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 9:07 AM Subject: Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 06:58:56 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq The strike was reported on CNN the morning after it happened, though was not a lot of discussion concerning it. Just another news item Don Thanks for this info, Don. Thats probably what we call 'a leak in the Matrix,' proof that we live in a free country where someone can actually post a story the Powers do not want to circulate before their management tells them that that story is not being covered. A similar story was the report of a 'terrorist' being shot outside of the World Trade Center the morning of Sept 11, hours before the attack. Although I talked to people who heard that broadcast, it's never been repeated to discussed to my knowledge since. -Allan Allan, I rather doubt that there is an active system of news suppression in the US. I think its more a question of editorial sensitivity as to what their readers and listeners want to hear. For example, about six months back Noam Chomsky gave a lecture in Islamabad, attended by some two-thousand Pakistanian intelligensia, In which he was extremely critical of American foreign policy. There was a quite detailed report on it carried on the news services at the time, but categorized as an 'op Ed.' To my knowledge none of the major American networks picked up on the story, so that as far as the US public was concerned it might just as well not have happened. Don
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
Title: Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq The Madison weekly paper Isthmus does carry his weekly column. But it's long been said that Madison 30square miles surrounded by reality. Markess From: mroboz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 09:40:46 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
At 09:40 AM 09/08/02 -0700, you wrote: Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael - Original Message - All of Chomsky's many books are highly critical of US gov't policies. Is this a new book (written after his book: 9-11) and, if so, what's the title? Essie
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
At 09:40 AM 09/08/02 -0700, you wrote: Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael - Original Message - All of Chomsky's many books are highly critical of US gov't policies. Is this a new book (written after his book: 9-11) and, if so, what's the title? Essie If it is the book 9-11, I picked that one up at Borders -Allan
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
Don - We've run pieces on BD Now! about the Matrix earlier. Put simply, it is essentially a coherent PR program that markets EVERYTHING to the American people. Management people by their nature have an innate sense of what the PR machine promotes and what it denies. That in itself is usually enough to 'keep the vision consistent.' Sometimes, though, a young reporter will post a story that gets out. It only gets out once, though. Management kills the follow-up or expansion. Like the story I heard on NPR one morning on the epidemic of e-coli contamination of meat in Japan. Or the one on how the Mormon Church owns 90 percent of the mass media in North America, and so on. Totalitarian? Business as Usual? Who knows, eh? Allan, I rather doubt that there is an active system of news suppression in the US. I think its more a question of editorial sensitivity as to what their readers and listeners want to hear. For example, about six months back Noam Chomsky gave a lecture in Islamabad, attended by some two-thousand Pakistanian intelligensia, In which he was extremely critical of American foreign policy. There was a quite detailed report on it carried on the news services at the time, but categorized as an 'op Ed.' To my knowledge none of the major American networks picked up on the story, so that as far as the US public was concerned it might just as well not have happened. Don
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
I'm asking if he's written anything since he wrote 9-11. To my knowledge, that was published in the US. I've been looking for something from him any day now since Bush et al went so unabashedly off the deep end and our freedoms vanish by the moment. Essie At 02:49 PM 09/08/02 -0400, you wrote: At 09:40 AM 09/08/02 -0700, you wrote: Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael - Original Message - All of Chomsky's many books are highly critical of US gov't policies. Is this a new book (written after his book: 9-11) and, if so, what's the title? Essie If it is the book 9-11, I picked that one up at Borders -Allan
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
As a Canadian mouse living beside the American elephant, my take on the dullness of discourse that happens in the American main stream psyche is that they are like a gigantic booster club, generating a spirit of exceptionalism, that somehow character, ideas, and spirit are just inherently better in the USA than anywhere else in the world. But, in order to maintain this foggy myth, the American mainstream mind finds it necessary to block out anything foreign, and anything that might call into question this mindless mantra. The members of the Rotary Club ignore what is happening in the Lions Club. So, the media, in order to maintain their prime product, advertising, continue not to inform, but to stroke the masses to maintain the myth. There is something more sinister going on though, a cultural myopia to reality, and the lack of courage to challenge the status quo. Think of the USA as a large service club, started under the auspices of a profound and great charter, the Declaration of Independence, that has allowed itself to nudge, cajole , and often twist its Charter into something that the founding fathers would cry out against in alarm. Mythology can be dangerous. An example is the constant clamour I hear from Americans about our so called socialist health care system here in Canada. I always counter with Socialized health care? But what about the socialized sidewalks I see all over the USA? The government takes tax dollars from you, builds the sidewalks, and lets poor people and rich walk side by side on them. The most difficult chore for all of us cultivate a desperate need for the truth. And to learn to accept what we find. Gary Elliott . - Original Message - From: Essie Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 3:15 PM Subject: Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq I'm asking if he's written anything since he wrote 9-11. To my knowledge, that was published in the US. I've been looking for something from him any day now since Bush et al went so unabashedly off the deep end and our freedoms vanish by the moment. Essie At 02:49 PM 09/08/02 -0400, you wrote: At 09:40 AM 09/08/02 -0700, you wrote: Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael - Original Message - All of Chomsky's many books are highly critical of US gov't policies. Is this a new book (written after his book: 9-11) and, if so, what's the title? Essie If it is the book 9-11, I picked that one up at Borders -Allan
Re:correction/ direct seeding
From Lloyd Charles Hi Liz (and Gil) Graham Strong and his family at Narrandera has had good success with direct seeding local tree species - they were featured on the front cover of The Land newspaper earlier this year - they use a 30 foot (I think) air seeder. OOps That was front cover of the 0269 phone book - sorry
Re: regeneration / direct seeding
Hi! Liz and Lloyd Two points. Our seeders have a single ripper and the blade clear about three feet wide. The tractor is driven in loops and swirls to try and make many different micro climes. Re hand made pellets. Almost imposibly to make any meaningful quantity. Merrick and Marrion sat down the other night with two and a half kilos of seed needed for a job. Five hours later they had used twenty grams of seed!!! Gil
Re: The Dadswell Collection
Hi! Roger, Thank you for posting this. It is a sad reflection of our country and how we care for it. I wonder if there is a Woody's Group or a federation of Woody Groups who could take it on as a project, in the interest of their interest? Gil Roger Pye wrote: It is about a year since I first heard of the hardwood samples at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia's National Capital.
OT: FW: [globalnews] Meditation Focus #71: Preventing a New GulfWar and Shifting The Focus Towards Peace
Title: OT: FW: [globalnews] Meditation Focus #71: Preventing a New Gulf War and Shifting The Focus Towards Peace For the whole of this message go to: http://www.aei.ca/~cep/MeditationFocus71.htm Hello, What follows is the 71th Meditation Focus suggested for the two consecutive weeks beginning Sunday, September 8, 2002. Preventing a New Gulf War and Shifting The Focus Towards Peace 1. Summary 2. Meditation times 3. More information on this Meditation Focus --- 1. SUMMARY As we approach the first anniversary of a tragic event that has left deep emotional traumas in so many humans and after a military campaign that has tried to eradicate from Afghanistan those allegedly responsible for this catastrophe, the country that has taken upon itself to lead an international coalition to root out terrorists wherever they may be is now facing the difficult task of convincing an increasingly skeptical international community that one of his old foes, Saddam Hussein, is up to ill intents and is feverishly striving to acquire some of the most devastating and lethal weapons ever designed, and the means to deliver them, so as to avenge the devastation visited upon his country during the 1991 Gulf War. Whether this threat is real and imminent remains to be proven - according to Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq for six years, as of December 1998 when inspectors with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) were pulled from Iraq prior to a heavy four-day U.S. bombing campaign, 95% of Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons had been destroyed and the crippling trade embargo imposed upon Iraq since 1991 by the U.N. has certainly greatly hampered any possible re-armament effort - but so far this has not stopped the hyping of this threat by hawkish elements within the U.S. administration bent on even going it alone to finish the job left undone in 1991 and effect a regime change. The military planning and armament build up around Iraq is already at an advanced stage of readiness and the drums of war are beating louder every day for what is portrayed to be an all-out military assault reminiscent of the carnage that left over 200,000 Iraqi people dead (according to former U.S. Navy Secretary John Lehman), including up to 3,000 civilians (according to the Human Rights Watch organization) in the first Gulf War, and with consequences that could reap apart the fragile political balance of the Middle East and potentially bring about calamitous destruction for millions of innocent people. Actually, it can also be argued that this war has already begun just a couple days ago when 100 British and United States war planes attacked an air defence base in western Iraq, apparently to allow easy access for special forces helicopters to fly into Iraq to hunt down Scud missiles before a possible war within the next few months. It is worth mentioning also that according to reliable estimates by the UNICEF, well over a million Iraqis, including some 500,000 children, have died as a result of the U.S-led sanctions regime in place for the last decade (a regime that has been described as the most draconian and prolonged economic sanctions ever imposed by the United Nations), while an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 children still die every month from various preventable, sanctions-related diseases, a situation which led in September 1998 to the resignation of Denis Halliday, as head of the UN humanitarian programme in Iraq, in protest against the morally indefensible consequences of UN policy towards Iraq. In February 2000, his successor, Hans von Sponeck, also resigned and both have since campaigned for the lifting of sanctions on Iraq. Smart Bombs dropped by the U.S. 11 years ago targeted water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, power plants, schools and hospitals. As a result the overall deterioration in the quality and quantity of drinking water has contributed to the rapid spread of infectious disease. Raw sewage often flows into streets and homes. [World Food Program] One-fourth of Iraqi children under the age of five are malnourished. [UN Report, March 1999] There has been a 160 percent rise in Iraq's infant mortality rate since 1991. Iraq has the highest increase in child mortality during the period 1990-99 of 188 countries surveyed. [UNICEF, December 2000] As many as 70 percent of Iraqi women suffer from anemia as Iraq experienced a shift from relative affluence to massive poverty. [UN Report, March 1999] Please dedicate your prayers and meditations, as guided by Spirit, in the coming two weeks, and especially in synchronous attunement at the usual time for the next 2 Sundays, starting at 16:00 Universal Time (GMT), to contribute in preventing the onset of another terrible war in the Middle East through envisioning a positive, non-violent solution to the risks posed by all modern weapons capable of inflicting massive death, such as can be fostered by concerted actions by and humanitarian
FW: [globalnews] The Living Light
Title: FW: [globalnews] The Living Light THE LIVING LIGHT Christ is incarnate in all humanity. Prometheus is bound for ever within us. They are the same. They are a host, and the divine incarnation was not spoken of one, but of all those who descending into the lower world tried to change it into the divine image and to wrest out of chaos a kingdom for the empire of light. The angels saw below them in chaos a senseless rout blind with elemental passion for ever warring with discordant cries which broke in upon the world of divine beauty; and that the pain might depart, they grew rebellious in the Master's peace, and descending to earth the angelic lights were crucified in men; leaving so radiant worlds, such a light of beauty, for earth's grey twilight filled with tears, that through this elemental life might breathe the starry music brought from Him. If the Foreseer be a true name for the Titan, it follows that in the host which he represents was a light which well foreknew all the dark paths of its journey; foreseeing the bitter struggle with a hostile nature, but foreseeing perhaps a gain, a distant glory o'er the hills of sorrow, and that chaos, divine and transformed, with only gentle breathing, lit up by the Christ-soul of the universe. There is a transforming power in the thought itself: we can no longer condemn the fallen, they who laid aside their thrones of ancient power, their spirit ecstasy and beauty, on such a mission. Perhaps those who sank lowest did so to raise a greater burden, and of these most fallen it may in the hour of their resurrection be said, The last shall be first.. . . Our deepest life is when we are alone. We think most truly, love best, when isolated from the outer world in that mystic abyss we call soul. Nothing external can equal the fulness of these moments. We may sit in the blue twilight with a friend, or bend together by the hearth, half whispering, or in a silence populous with loving thoughts mutually understood; then we may feel happy and at peace, but it is only because we are lulled by a semblance to deeper intimacies. When we think of a friend, and the loved one draws nigh, we sometimes feel half-pained, for we touched something in our solitude which the living presence shut out; we seem more apart, and would fain wave them away and cry, Call me not forth from this; I am no more a spirit if I leave my throne. But these moods, though lit up by intuitions of the true, are too partial, they belong too much to the twilight of the heart, they have too dreamy a temper to serve us well in life. We should wish rather for our thoughts a directness such as belongs to the messengers of the gods, swift, beautiful, flashing presences bent on purposes well understood. What we need is that interior tenderness shall be elevated into seership, that what in most is only yearning or blind love shall see clearly its way and hope. To this end we have to observe more intently the nature of the interior life. We find, indeed, that it is not a solitude at all, but dense with multitudinous being: instead of being alone we are in the thronged highways of existence. For our guidance when entering here many words of warning have been uttered, laws have been outlined, and beings full of wonder, terror, and beauty described. Yet there is a spirit in us deeper than our intellectual being which I think of as the Hero in man, who feels the nobility of its place in the midst of all this, and who would fain equal the greatness of perception with deeds as great. The weariness and sense of futility which often falls upon the mystic after much thought is due to this, that he has not recognized that he must be worker as well as seer, that here he has duties demanding a more sustained endurance just as the inner life is so much vaster and more intense than the life he has left behind. Now the duties which can be taken up by the soul are exactly those which it feels most inadequate to perform when acting as an embodied being. What shall be done to quiet the heart-cry of the world: how answer the dumb appeal for help we so often divine below eyes that laugh? It is the saddest of all sorrows to think that pity with no hands to heal, that love without a voice to speak, should helplessly heap their pain upon pain while earth shall endure. But there is a truth about sorrow which I think may make it seem not so hopeless. There are fewer barriers than we think: there is, in truth, an inner alliance between the soul who would fain give and the soul who is in need. Nature has well provided that not one golden ray of all our thoughts is sped ineffective through the dark; not one drop of the magical elixirs love distils is wasted Surely it was to bring comfort to hearts like thine that that most noble of all meditations was ordained by the Buddha. He lets his mind pervade one quarter of the world with thoughts of Love, and so the
FW: [globalnews] War against Saddam? Make your voice heard!
Title: FW: [globalnews] War against Saddam? Make your voice heard! Dear Voter, President Bush has pledged to get approval from Congress before taking action against Saddam Hussein, whom he describes as a serious threat. Many lawmakers agree that Saddam must be removed, but some say that Bush has not made a good enough case for war. Now you can make YOUR voice heard on this important issue. Log onto http://www.vote.com to tell your congressional representative and senators if they should vote for or against an attack on Iraq. When you vote on this topic at Vote.com, your opinion will be sent to Congress! Please make your vote count, and forward this message to friends and family so they can make their voices heard too! http://www.vote.com If you would prefer not to receive this type of mailing, please click the link below to unsubscribe: http://www.vote.com/confirm/subscription.phtml?u=59584e73613252776158564d626 e566d4f7679425a70767533303072366e3364307a544a33795750593138623566474eref=vo teov=1nv=1 (NOTE: If your e-mail software does not make the above link active, please copy paste it into your web browser and press the Enter key.)
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
the desparate truth is that american or perhaps all people are lazy given the choice. it is easier to buy cheap produce from the industrial machine than to relate to your local farmer and until there is no competition the local farmer will not be really supported. hard words but the truth as i see it so many people don't want to do the work. In love sharon. - Original Message - From: gary elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 4:11 PM Subject: Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq As a Canadian mouse living beside the American elephant, my take on the dullness of discourse that happens in the American main stream psyche is that they are like a gigantic booster club, generating a spirit of exceptionalism, that somehow character, ideas, and spirit are just inherently better in the USA than anywhere else in the world. But, in order to maintain this foggy myth, the American mainstream mind finds it necessary to block out anything foreign, and anything that might call into question this mindless mantra. The members of the Rotary Club ignore what is happening in the Lions Club. So, the media, in order to maintain their prime product, advertising, continue not to inform, but to stroke the masses to maintain the myth. There is something more sinister going on though, a cultural myopia to reality, and the lack of courage to challenge the status quo. Think of the USA as a large service club, started under the auspices of a profound and great charter, the Declaration of Independence, that has allowed itself to nudge, cajole , and often twist its Charter into something that the founding fathers would cry out against in alarm. Mythology can be dangerous. An example is the constant clamour I hear from Americans about our so called socialist health care system here in Canada. I always counter with Socialized health care? But what about the socialized sidewalks I see all over the USA? The government takes tax dollars from you, builds the sidewalks, and lets poor people and rich walk side by side on them. The most difficult chore for all of us cultivate a desperate need for the truth. And to learn to accept what we find. Gary Elliott . - Original Message - From: Essie Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 3:15 PM Subject: Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq I'm asking if he's written anything since he wrote 9-11. To my knowledge, that was published in the US. I've been looking for something from him any day now since Bush et al went so unabashedly off the deep end and our freedoms vanish by the moment. Essie At 02:49 PM 09/08/02 -0400, you wrote: At 09:40 AM 09/08/02 -0700, you wrote: Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael - Original Message - All of Chomsky's many books are highly critical of US gov't policies. Is this a new book (written after his book: 9-11) and, if so, what's the title? Essie If it is the book 9-11, I picked that one up at Borders -Allan
Re: [globalnews] The Living Light
Title: FW: [globalnews] The Living Light Thank you jane for this uplifting post :)sharon - Original Message - From: Jane Sherry To: BdNow Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: FW: [globalnews] The Living Light THE LIVING LIGHTChrist is incarnate in all humanity. Prometheus is bound for ever within us. They are the same. They are a host, and the divine incarnation was not spoken of one, but of all those who descending into the lower world tried to change it into the divine image and to wrest out of chaos a kingdom for the empire of light. The angels saw below them in chaos a senseless rout blind with elemental passion for ever warring with discordant cries which broke in upon the world of divine beauty; and that the pain might depart, they grew rebellious in the Master's peace, and descending to earth the angelic lights were crucified in men; leaving so radiant worlds, such a light of beauty, for earth's grey twilight filled with tears, that through this elemental life might breathe the starry music brought from Him. If the "Foreseer" be a true name for the Titan, it follows that in the host which he represents was a light which well foreknew all the dark paths of its journey; foreseeing the bitter struggle with a hostile nature, but foreseeing perhaps a gain, a distant glory o'er the hills of sorrow, and that chaos, divine and transformed, with only gentle breathing, lit up by the Christ-soul of the universe. There is a transforming power in the thought itself: we can no longer condemn the fallen, they who laid aside their thrones of ancient power, their spirit ecstasy and beauty, on such a mission. Perhaps those who sank lowest did so to raise a greater burden, and of these most fallen it may in the hour of their resurrection be said, "The last shall be first.". . . Our deepest life is when we are alone. We think most truly, love best, when isolated from the outer world in that mystic abyss we call soul. Nothing external can equal the fulness of these moments. We may sit in the blue twilight with a friend, or bend together by the hearth, half whispering, or in a silence populous with loving thoughts mutually understood; then we may feel happy and at peace, but it is only because we are lulled by a semblance to deeper intimacies. When we think of a friend, and the loved one draws nigh, we sometimes feel half-pained, for we touched something in our solitude which the living presence shut out; we seem more apart, and would fain wave them away and cry, "Call me not forth from this; I am no more a spirit if I leave my throne." But these moods, though lit up by intuitions of the true, are too partial, they belong too much to the twilight of the heart, they have too dreamy a temper to serve us well in life. We should wish rather for our thoughts a directness such as belongs to the messengers of the gods, swift, beautiful, flashing presences bent on purposes well understood. What we need is that interior tenderness shall be elevated into seership, that what in most is only yearning or blind love shall see clearly its way and hope. To this end we have to observe more intently the nature of the interior life. We find, indeed, that it is not a solitude at all, but dense with multitudinous being: instead of being alone we are in the thronged highways of existence. For our guidance when entering here many words of warning have been uttered, laws have been outlined, and beings full of wonder, terror, and beauty described. Yet there is a spirit in us deeper than our intellectual being which I think of as the Hero in man, who feels the nobility of its place in the midst of all this, and who would fain equal the greatness of perception with deeds as great. The weariness and sense of futility which often falls upon the mystic after much thought is due to this, that he has not recognized that he must be worker as well as seer, that here he has duties demanding a more sustained endurance just as the inner life is so much vaster and more intense than the life he has left behind. Now the duties which can be taken up by the soul are exactly those which it feels most inadequate to perform when acting as an embodied being. What shall be done to quiet the heart-cry of the world: how answer the dumb appeal for help we so often divine below eyes that laugh? It is the saddest of all sorrows to think that pity with no hands to heal, that love without a voice to speak, should helplessly heap their pain upon pain while earth shall endure. But there is a truth about sorrow which I think may make it seem not so hopeless. There are fewer barriers than we think: there is, in truth, an inner alliance between the soul who would fain give and the soul who is in need. Nature has well provided that not
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
Ya Know folks, we need to be careful. By buying into our shared belief systems we can blind ourselves and fail to be awake enough so WE miss real light when it does shine in the populous. Here at the bureaucratic declared ground zero for chronic wasting. Folks of every walk of life are educating themselves and forming new original thoughts beliefs without direction from big daddy. On top of it the media are responding with great grace and caring for the populous. On the international scene is the megalithic media just responding to our expectations of them. Change our beliefs that they conspire are bafoons and they may surprise us with new expressions real information! Be the change we believe in and allow others to be where they can be, given their belief systems they will surprise us with change! In Love Light Markess
chomsky book
The book by Chomsky that I referred to earlier is not 9/11: "War Against People", (Original title published in Britain: "Rogue States. The Rule of Force in World Affairs." copyrite by Diane Chomsky Irrvocable Trust. Not sure about date, might be in 2000. The Europa Verlag edition came out in 2001. Cheers, Michael
