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I read this book, "Grand Illusions" by Greg Little about a year and a half ago.  I already knew about the "unseen" dimensions and of course (for those of you who know me and what I am about) I already had spiritual beliefs, but I found this book to be simply amazing in that he approaches the whole topic of the astral (which he never calls "the astral") from the persepective of a UFOlogist...which he was for decades, if I remember correctly.

Anyway, he breaks down the whole phenomenon of alien abductions, etc. by introducing what he calls the Electromagnetic Energy Spectrum theory.  In other words, visions and intrusions into "our reality" are actually beings or archetypal visions from higher or lower dimensions...anyway, I am doing a shabby job of recapping his work...but it's a fascinating book.  

One thing I know for sure, everything considered paranormal and metaphysical in this life can and will be (if not in this life the next) explained "scientifically", for lack of a better word, because it's all part of a bigger, objective reality that is as real as anything our physical senses can detect in this life.

Here is some info about this book.  I have typed the above statement very quickly and I am not sure I have made sense, so I will let this summary of this book speak for itself:
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Paranormal Texts
by Dr. Gregory L. Little
 
  CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT
271 pages, 6 X 9 trade softcover, color cover
Line Illustrations by John Michael McCarthy
Foreword and Afterword by Brent Raynes
Extensive Index, highly illustrated
Retail Price: $19.95; Published 1994
ISBN: 0-940829-10-X
 
In Grand Illusions Dr. Greg Little continues to solve and piece together the most profound enigmas into a comprehensive and understandable theory. Grand Illusions is Dr. Little's third book on bizarre phenomena following his earlier The Archetype Experience (1984) and People of the Web (1990). Profusely illustrated, Grand Illusions takes its readers on an adventure through reports of crashed saucers and alien intervention, conspiracies in government and ufology, solving mysterious disappearances of ships and strange appearances of glowing objects and apparitions, through ancient and modern sexual abductions, and into the world of science. Sacred Native American sites and ceremonies, the Cult of Osiris, near death experiences, Satanic rituals and the core of Masonic belief are all explored. Following the writings of Dr. Carl Jung and author John Keel, Little shows how abductions, apparitions, and UFO phenomena are phenomena stemming from the electromagnetic energy spectrum. Grand Illusions is not all pleasant reading, and the implications of the electromagnetic spectrum manifestations are profoundly sobering.

In Grand Illusions:

The Disappearance of the Enigmatic Riverboat Iron Mountain Is Solved

Images of the Dead Emerge From Mirrors

Haunted Houses Come Alive Scientifically

The Scientific Search for the Soul Is Revealed

Native American Visions of the Little People Are Detailed

Ancient Incubus and Succubus Reports Are Explained

Sexual UFO Abductions Are Explained

Cattle Mutilations Are Explained

Rituals That Interact With The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Satanic Rituals Revealed

Brain Chemistry and the Electromagnetic Spectrum Made Understandable

Near Death Experiences Explained

The Real Use of the Great Pyramid

Shamanic Powers Explained

The Reality of Heaven and Hell

The Core of Masonic Beliefs


Reviews —

"His intriguing beliefs for me have melded science and spirituality into a rational and understandable theory. If he is right, it is the greatest discovery in the history of the world." —Mike Masterson, Editor, Northwest Arkansas Times, November 17, 1996

"...a new big step at confirming the incredible. 'The answers to UFOs lie not in the visitations of beings like us. Something far deeper and profound is going on.' ...presents systematic but provocative ideas about UFOs that include expansion of Carl Jung's ideas. ...Little surveys abductions through the ages, the biochemistry of the brain, the zealous search for God by some, and tales of little people. A rational, convincing and scary clincher."— The Book Reader, Summer 1994

"Fortean writer and psychologist Dr. Gregory Little continues his quest begun with People of the Web: a quest in search of crashed saucers, glowing apparitions, sexual abductions, government conspiracies, and more strange goings on. ...looks at various phenomena as stemming from the electromagnetic energy spectrum... Heaven and Hell, haunted houses, near death experiences..." — Adventures Unlimited, Fall 1995

"the culmination of a trilogy of works by one of America's most freethinking ufologists. ...Words are not minced and punches not pulled. ...You should add this instant classic to your bookshelf." — Strange Magazine, 1995

"...clears out some of the dross that holds back and devalues our work...he sets an example of what more of us should be doing." — Kevin McClure, Promises & Disappointments, 1995

"If it's insight into the human condition you're after, you want this book." —Bob Girard, Arcturus Book Service, 1994

"...a thought-provoking book ... devoid of tedious jargon... Highly recommended." — Leading Edge Reviews, 1994

Termed one of the six best UFO books ever published. — John Keel, Fate Magazine, 1998
 
To order by fax (901) 785-7592 by mail send to:
 
Eagle Wing,Books, Inc
 P.O. Box 9972
Memphis, TN 38190
 

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Grand Illusions
by
Gregory Little

Hailed as an "instant classic" by reviewers, Dr. Greg Little's newest book on enigmas solves many long-term mysteries. Follows the writings of Carl Jung and John Keel, showing how an intelligent, energy-based phenomenon occasionally intrudes into physical reality from the electromagnetic energy spectrum. "An adventure through false reports of crashed saucers, conspiracies, solving mysterious disappearances of ships, strange appearances of unknown objects, through reports of sexual UFO abductions and into science." With 90 pictures/illustrations, published in 1994.  

Book Review

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Grand Illusions: The Spectral Reality Underlying Sexual UFO Abductions, Crashed Saucers, Afterlife Experiences, Sacred Ancient Sites, and Other Enigmas
by Gregory L. Little

White Buffalo Books, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, 1994, 271 pp., paperback, $19.95.

Grand Illusions is the culmination of a trilogy of works by one of America's most freethinking ufologists. More blunt but no less provocative than his previous books, this is Gregory Little's finest work to date. Grand Illusions , following People of the Web (1990) and The Archetype Experience (1984), fine-tunes Little's thesis that was ignited by Carl Jung and John Keel--namely that archetypes are intelligent energy forms within the electromagnetic spectrum which can physicalize and account for virtually every anomalous event in ufology.

Little has theorized that there is indeed a mystery, or grand illusion, behind UFOs and related phenomena. He also suggests that many ufologists also harbor their own illusions concerning these phenomena. Words are not minced and punches are not pulled. Little calls for the death of the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) and, acting like the criminal justice psychologist that he is, points a finger at the rampant hoaxing and paranoia within the ufological fold.

This is strong stuff. For many involved in ufology, the aspect that first got them interested was the tales of real alien beings piloting the saucers (e.g., The Humanoids, Flying Saucer Occupants). A similar sense of interest (and pleasure) is attained, ironically, from reading Little's analysis, and rejection of, these same aliens. Ultimately, we all want to get at "the truth." The proffering of the alien-UFO motif in the media has made alternatives to the ETH all the more rare, especially for American ufology. Thus, the release of any non-extraterrestrial UFO book has become a major event. And a book that can explain the concomitant baggage that has glommed onto ufology is that much more of a treasure.

Little mentions the oft-repeated notion that the evidence for crashed saucers (notably the Roswell case) would prevail in a court of law, and states unequivocally that the case would not win. In this, his thrust is valid; however, what I feel he means to say is that the evidence for crashed saucers is not the "experimental" (scientific) proof required for its veracity. Legal proof is of a different nature, and the case for crashed saucers could probably be "proven" in court. Under the microscope of experimental proof, which requires more tangible evidence, no crashed saucer story holds up.

But even experimental proof is problematic. The scientific method, while powerfully effective, is composed of two elements that are fallible (i.e., both sense data and pure reason can be deceptive). In other words, our perceptions, liable to being erroneous, cannot lead us to conclusions with absolute certitude. This seems to aim at the heart of fortean philosophy, in that the best that can be said in reaching a conclusion is that it is the most accurate possible approximation.

What seems striking in its absence, noting that Little's background is in counseling psychology, is that no mention is made of the benefit to be gained through knowing the mechanism of abduction. If the process is known (do people "tune-in" the grays with the magnetite in their brains?), then the trigger of the experience can be reversed or halted, abductions can be stopped, and the true healing of the abduction syndrome can begin.

Still somewhat mystifying is the process by which the archetype and the percipient attune themselves to each other to "create" a UFO experience or abduction encounter. Specifically, how do these psychoid energy forms adapt their physical shape and behavior to the culture and expectations of the percipient? How, and from where, does this energy gain the knowledge to accomplish this feat?

These are minor quibbles. What is important is that Little has plunged ahead, forging his thought from what he has encountered, rather than ramming the data into preconceived beliefs.

You should add this instant classic to your UFO bookshelf.¥


Originally published in Strange Magazine 15, Spring 1995.




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I was recently talking to a man who served a prison sentence for attempted murder.  The topic of OBE's came up and I asked him if he was familiar with the term/experience.  He told me that the only time he had ever really heard anyone talk about it was from another convict.  He said the guy was a very intelligent psychopath who I believe he said was in for murder.  He told me the guy could have conscious projections.

This brings up an important question that I have long pondered: How much contact with the astral do very evil people have.

If there is duality/opposition in all aspects of existence then obviously if there are spiritually advanced persons such as Robert Bruce, then wouldn't there be very evil counterparts?  Arch-enemies to peace loving projectors.  The terminology here is kind of hoky (even the term OBE is really kind of funny when you break down the elements of existence and inter-dimensionality, etc.) but I still wonder.



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First of all, I suspect most of you who come into this forum on a fairly consistent basis can see from some of my other posts that I am a fairly politically minded person.  I can't help it.... so here comes some more of my rubbish, so if politics turn you off, or listening to an air bag like me makes you sick, adios!
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I personally don't like most politicians, no matter how much I might agree with their underlying ideologies.  I dislike most politicians for all of many reasons most people don't, but every once in a while there comes along someone so deceptive and evil that it makes me sick.  Ex-President Bill Clinton, despite the few positive contributions he made to the US and the world, is one of those people.  I can't believe how so many people clamor for this man and was aghast to find out there is going to be a Bill Clinton library, an institution dedicated to the deeds of Clinton.  "What in sam hell?!"  I thought, "This nation is sicker than I thought".  Luckily, however, there are others out there like me, who, unlike me, actually have power and influence and are erecting an Anti-Bill Clinton library, here's the scoop:

Plans for ''Counter Clinton Library'' Are Announced
By Marv Essary
Saturday, December 07, 2002
    We've been hearing about the elaborate plans for the Clinton Library scheduled to open in less than two years in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Now it looks like there may be TWO Clinton libraries in that city.
    John LeBoutillier, former congressman from New Jersey and now a nationally syndicated columnist, announced on the Hannity & Colmes TV show on Thursday and on NewsMax.com, plans for the proposed ''Counter Clinton Library'' to be opened near the Clinton's presidential library in Little Rock.  ''The new library,'' he said, ''will present the truth about the Clintons and their years in public life.''
    LeBoutillier stated: ''Clinton's official Presidential Center and Library will be a gigantic public monument to both Clintons, to their 'Co-Presidency,' and to their left-wing political and social agenda--and will conveniently ignore their lawbreaking, scandals, and misdeeds...The Clintons and their acolytes intend to spin their record in the White House--and since--in a never-ending campaign to make Bill and Hillary Clinton the first-ever husband and wife Presidents of the United States.''
    LeBoutillier continued:  ''We--a group of concerned Americans who are appalled at the Clinton's atrocious behavior--have joined together to build--within walking distance of the Clinton Library--a monument to the Real Truth about the Clintons:  The COUNTER CLINTON LIBRARY...Our Counter Clinton Library will be a permanent thorn in the side of the Clintons as they try to hide and distort their anti-American, anti-family, anti-military legacy.''

    His announcement continued:  ''Unlike previous retired presidents who use their presidential libraries to store their memorabilia and offer students and scholars a repository of papers for scholarly study, Bill Clinton is in a desperate race to change his legacy.  He wants to use his library to literally alter his reputation--from one of impeachment and disgrace--to one of respectability and statesmanship.''

    He continued: ''We are devoted to countering--with the truth and with facts--each and every lie, distortion, and exaggeration about his White House years--and also about Hillary's campaign for President.''

     The library will feature ''voluminous research materials--from the Whitewater records to the Special Counsel's Report to the House Impeachment record--which scholars can pore over for years to come to get the real truth about the Clintons.  Certainly these unflattering records will not be available down the street at Bill and Hillary's 'LIE-brary.' ''

    After announcing the project on the Hannity Radio Show and on the Hannity & Colmes show on Fox News Channel, the columnist reported:  ''We have been completely inundated by wonderful e-mailed messages of support from all over the country.  Such an outpouring reminds me of just how many wonderful people there are in this great, great country of ours.''

    He stated that donors to the initial building fund will receive charter membership certificates, bumper stickers reading ''I helped build the Counter Clinton Library,'' and other items.

    To learn more about the project, read ''Letter from the Founders of the Counter Clinton Library'' and ''Launching Anti-Clinton Library'' at:  http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/5/113745.shtml
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I will updating this thread as things progress.  





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In my opinion, there are some great new movies coming out, here's a few of them of my personal list of films to see:

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The sequel to the Golden Globe-nominated and AFI Award-winning The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which grossed $350 million worldwide in its first two weeks of release, The Two Towers follows the continuing quest of Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and the Fellowship that has joined together to destroy the One Ring and stand against the evil of the dark lord Sauron.

Gangs of New York
Director Martin Scorcese takes on historic New York City in this film, which examines--in full-blown drama--the formation of the opposing Irish and Italian immigrant groups which would come to be known as the New York mafia...

About Schmidt (2002) starring Jack Nicholson:
Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) has arrived at several of life's crossroads all at the same time. To begin with, he is retiring from a lifetime of service as an actuary for Woodmen of the World Insurance Company, and he feels utterly adrift. Furthermore, his only daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) is about to marry a boob. And his wife Helen (June Squibb) dies suddenly after 42 years of marriage.

Catch Me if You Can
Synopsis:
Oscar® nominee Leonardo Di Caprio ("What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "Titanic") and two-time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia," "Forrest Gump") engage in a game of cat and mouse in the real-life crime drama "Catch Me If You Can," under the direction of three-time Oscar® winner Steven Spielberg ("Saving Private Ryan," "Schindler's List")...
more...

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Sterling Wal-Mart Resells Donated Toys
National Headquarters Donates Toys To Make Up

POSTED: 12:21 p.m. MST December 5, 2002
UPDATED: 5:18 p.m. MST December 5, 2002

STERLING, Colo. -- Toys that had been placed in a drop-off box for charity at a Wal-Mart store were put back on the store's shelves after a mix-up that frustrated organizers.

With 10 days left until the end of the annual Toys for Tots drive for the Logan County Chamber of Commerce, organizer Susan Kraich said she was back at square one.


"I've been keeping an eye on that box every time I went to Wal-Mart, and was so excited as it slowly began to fill. Over the weekend I heard that it was nearly full, so I went to pick it up. I was devastated when I found it empty," Kraich said.

Kraich said she complained to store management, but was told the store would only replace the items she knew for a fact were in the box. She left the store after replacing only three toys that she had purchased and donated to the cause.

"I don't know how I am suppose to prove what was in there ... I thought since Wal-Mart agreed to place the box, they were agreeing to keep an eye on it," she said.

Wal-Mart manager Brad Barritt said the Toys for Tots organizer he met, whose name he could not remember, was instructed that donated items needed to be wrapped in Wal-Mart bags to ensure the items had been purchased.

Kraich denied ever receiving any such instruction.

"There was everything in that box -- clothing, sporting goods, food items. My understanding was that the box would be emptied regularly. We had no way of knowing whether or not those items had been paid for," Barritt said.

He said the box was not visible from the store's security cameras, so there was no video proof that the toys were purchased.

As a result, he decided to place all of the items in the box back on store shelves to be resold.

Barritt noted that the retailer is a regular benefactor to area clubs and organizations, donating more than $50,000 annually. Wal-Mart even offered a $1,000 cash grant to Toys for Tots this year.

"Not that that has anything to do with this situation. Only to say that, as a corporation, we are very community minded. I'd hate to see a discrepancy over a few toys change that perception in the eyes of the public," Barritt said.

By late Wednesday, telephone lines were buzzing between Wal-Mart, its Arkansas corporate headquarters and the local charity.

Before the day was out, $425 worth of toys were delivered to the Sterling office of First America Cash Advance, where Kraich works.



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For those of you who enjoy personality tests (ink blot, etc.) this is a great site.  Of course for the full results to your tests they want you to pay (bawhaaha!) they do give you feedback.  Although fairly simple, these are some of the best tests I have personally found on the net that don't take an hour or more.

Check em' out at:
http://www.emode.com/

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Although for must of us OBE/remote viewing isn't anything new, it's interesting to read articles like the one below that show how others use or at least desire to use those with the talent for their own purposes:

PSYCHIC WARFARE

   Psychic intelligence is information obtained by paranormal means through extrasensory perception (ESP) or the use of psychic powers.  The U.S. Intelligence Community (primarily the DIA) in the 1980s, spent millions of dollars investigating the feasibility of using psychics in espionage work.  Code-named Star Gate, the 10-year project was inspired by reports that the Soviets were using similar techniques.  

   Several American psychics were recruited and assigned to NSA headquarters in Ft. Meade in a joint NSA-CIA operation.  The U.S. Navy also experimented with ship-to-shore telepathy using psychics stationed on submarines and ashore.  There were some successes reported, such as the ability of psychics to predict the exact date of launchings of new enemy submarines and their missile complements.  The DEA also reportedly took an interest in the program because it provided valuable information about drug trafficking routes. Despite these modest successes, the CIA shut down the program in 1995 after having it evaluated by outside consultants.  The report by consultants was entirely negative.

   In recent years, several psychics who allegedly were involved in these programs have come forward to tell their stories. Gerald O'Donnell (who maintains one of the websites listed below) claims to have worked for a European intelligence service. The most well-known former-CIA psychic is David Morehouse, author of the book Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA's Secret Program.

   According to Morehouse, Operation Star Gate was part of much larger remote viewing experiments. The most secretive operation was code named Grill Flame, which was at Ft. Meade and involved recruiting military volunteers to have their psychic powers tested. The tests of Operation Grill Flame involved hooking soldiers up to biofeedback devices and monitors to determine if they could "see" the contents of what's inside an envelope.

   Apparently, seven soldiers out of thousands tested qualified for continued service in the project. These soldiers were called "viewers" and each of them was assigned a "monitor", or person that handled them. At first, the CIA used them for fairly passive things like getting inside the minds of engineers or military leaders overseas. In the initial stages, the CIA also took an interest in the ability of viewers to transcend time as well as space (apparently, remote viewing involves seeing the past as well as the future). Soon, however, the CIA required viewers to see things from the eyes of hostages being tortured or airline bombing victims on their way to a fiery crash. As can be expected, these horrific scenes had a mental deteriorative effect on the psychics. Many of the CIA's psychics needed counseling or therapy to keep up with the stress of their workload. Toward the end, the CIA tried getting the psychics to use their powers as weapons, to assassinate people from abroad and so forth. That was when almost all the psychics quit. Some of them tried to blow the whistle to Congress, but the whole matter was kept out of the news and the program was quickly shut down.

INTERNET RESOURCES:
Academy of Remote Viewing
Remote Viewing and the CIA
Thinking Critically about ESP

PRINTED RESOURCES:
Hersha, C. & L. (2001) Secret Weapons. NJ: New Horizon.

Last updated: 01/13/02
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Has anyone here seen this film?  I am excited to check it out...it pertains to the thread from a month or so ago that I started "Do You Believe in Guns?"

Here is a synopsis of it for those of you who have hearn nothing about it:

Documentarian Michael Moore delves into the issue of violence in America, traveling across the country to examine the nation's obsession with firearms. His journey takes him to Columbine High School, a bank that gives away a rifle to anyone who opens an account, South Central Los Angeles and NRA President Charlton Heston's home

A couple of postive reviews:
American outlaws
BY JOE LEYDON
Special to The Examiner

   We live in an age when real-life events frequently are far more fantastically absurd or epochally horrific than anything an author or filmmaker would dare contrive. At such a time, even the most inspired satirists are hard-pressed to invent anything more outrageous than yesterday's headlines or last night's newscast.

   So it's up to inquisitive observers like Michael Moore, the droll director-narrator of "Roger & Me" and the rabble-rousing author of "Stupid White Men," to make us laugh -- and, perhaps more important, make us wince -- while we ponder imponderable questions, seek explanations for the inexplicable, and gradually come to accept that the world is even weirder and the problems are more problematic than we suspected.

   Moore is up to his usual tricks in "Bowling for Columbine," his latest free-form filmic essay, which means that, even when he's taking shamelessly cheap shots, he's more often than not on target. His sharp-eyed aim serves him well in a first-person documentary intended as nothing less ambitious than a contemplation of gun culture, violent crime and media-stoked paranoia in the United States.

   The provocative title alludes to a darkly ironic historical footnote: A few hours before they gunned down a teacher and 12 classmates at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold played a few games at an on-campus bowling alley.

   Moore doesn't claim to see any connection between the innocent pastime and the subsequent killing spree. (And to make sure we know he appreciates the magnitude of the tragedy, he gives us a jolting peek at videotapes of Harris and Klebold during their rampage.)

   On the other hand, Moore does find it somehow relevant that the Columbine massacre occurred on April 20, 1999 -- the heaviest day of U.S. bombing in Kosovo. And when he visits the nearby Lockheed Martin plant, 5,000 of whose employees live in the Littleton area, Moore none-too-subtly suggests another connection. Like, maybe when a father constructs nuclear missiles every day, his offspring may conclude it's OK to shoot people.

   Specious reasoning? Perhaps. But, then again, Moore doesn't pretend to offer definitive answers, only pointed questions.

   Like, why does a Michigan bank offer guns to anyone opening a new account? (Moore shows up, deposit slip in hand, then ingenuously inquires: "Isn't it dangerous to be giving away guns in a bank?") Or, why do so many Americans believe violent crime has reached epidemic proportions when FBI statistics indicate a marked decline in murder rates? (Could it be due to "If it bleeds, it leads" TV news?) Why did the National Rifle Association refuse to cancel plans for a pro-gun rally in Colorado just weeks after the Columbine killings? (Near the end of the movie, NRA spokesman Charlton Heston walks away from a conversation with Moore when he realizes he's being -- pardon the pun -- out-gunned.)

   And, by the way: Just why do so many Americans kill so many other Americans?

   Moore, a lifetime NRA member himself, raises serious doubts that all the violence can be blamed on the widespread availability of guns in the United States. After all, he notes, Canadians have equally easy access to firearms, and they don't shoot each other at nearly the same rate. But if it's not guns -- or video games, or violent TV shows, or even Marilyn Manson music -- what's the cause of our colossal body count?

   Moore offers generous servings of food for thought throughout "Bowling for Columbine." And while even people who share his views might dismiss some of what he serves as junk food -- or, worse, skewed statistics -- Moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought. Better still, he does all of this, and more, while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of Jonathan Swift.

   E-mail: JoeLeydon@yahoo.com


By BRUCE WESTBROOK
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
In Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore does to the National Rifle Association what he did to the automotive industry in 1989's Roger & Me.

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Moore launches his incendiary documentary condemning America's culture of violence from Columbine High School, where two students shot and killed a dozen classmates and a teacher -- after bowling that morning.

He ties that 1999 tragedy to his hometown of Flint, Mich., which one killer had visited, and where Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh once lived.


In his travels, Michael Moore even found out how to open a bank account and get a free gun in Bowling for Columbine.  
Moore continues to weave Columbine throughout America's fabric, taking a road trip to learn why we have so many more gun murders than other countries.

He takes aim at the U.S. welfare system, consumerism, news media, military manufacturers, willy Clark, Charlton Heston and white people in general.

It's a dishonest, scattershot diatribe from a man who makes no pretense of objectivity. Moore isn't a documentarian so much as a leftist propagandist -- and proud of it.

Even if you share his principles, you may wince at his oversimplifications, leaps of logic and grinding of axes. Though Moore can be amusingly impish -- Bowling is as darkly absurd as it is disturbing -- he turns mean at the end.

In the home of NRA spokesman Heston, Moore accosts his host with a photo of a 6-year-old Flint girl who was killed by a 6-year-old boy in her class, virtually laying blame at his feet. As an addled Heston trudges away, Moore accusingly props the girl's photo against a wall.

Does he accost the boy's uncle about failing to lock up the fatal firearm? No, because that wouldn't serve Moore's agenda.

Nor does he probe the motivations of Columbine's killers. Rather, he witlessly suggests they acted because they lived near a Lockheed Martin arms plant and the United States (NATO, actually) was bombing Kosovo that day. He then interviews shock rocker Marilyn Manson, whose lyrics got some blame for the tragedy.

Moore asks Manson what he'd say to Columbine's kids if given a chance. Manson wisely replies he'd say nothing -- he'd just listen to what they had to say.

Moore doesn't listen much himself, but he does do some good. He takes two youths wounded in the attack -- with bullets bought at Kmart -- to Kmart headquarters, where they insist the retailer stop selling the ammo.

Moore brings along the same TV news crews he condemns elsewhere. Caught in a media spotlight, Kmart diplomatically announces it will phase out the bullets. This is rare dignity in a film where most interviewees dangle in nooses of their own creation.

Bowling has wrenching footage -- some from Columbine surveillance cameras -- but Moore often attacks with dark humor. As in the anti-nuke documentary The Atomic Cafe, naive archival clips and twisted cartoons spark bitter laughter.

He also personalizes gun violence. Moore grew up as a marksman and joined the NRA. He sees gun use as a byproduct of conditioning and fear.

Moore places some blame on broadcast news, showing that while crime rates dropped, violent TV news rose dramatically. Unlike the calm Canadians he interviews, agitated Americans see threats whenever they turn on the tube. Sept. 11 didn't help.

Moore's movie may not help, either; he's better at fingering problems than finding solutions. But though he only scratches the surface, at least he provides a strong itch to explore more.

Grade: B




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Here is another article from CCN regarding the newest type pof DVD players.  I think these will be a common feature in almost every household in the near future....just like the whole CD burning thing took over, next it'll be DVD burning.  
DVD players do a lot more than just play movies
Thursday, November 14, 2002 Posted: 3:02 PM EST (2002 GMT)


(CNN) -- DVD players are likely to be popular gifts this holiday season, and not just because of their ability to play DVDs.

NEXT@CNN's Ann Kellan spoke with consumer tech expert Marc Saltzman, for a rundown of the bells and whistles offered on DVD players.

Marc Saltzman: The first one we are going to look at today is from Apex and it plays DVD karaoke discs. There are two slots for microphones. They are sold separately. You plug them in and you can adjust the volume and the echo level.... And you sing along with the DVDs that you buy at retail, maybe specialty stores or maybe online.... And I should mention that this player is also a three-disk carousel, so you can fit three different DVDs or CDs in here. And this player also supports picture CDs. What that means is you can take your favorite photos from your digital camera and burn them onto one of these with your computer and they will play them in a player.

Ann Kellan: How much is this one?

Marc Saltzman: It's only $170, which I think is reasonable because it also plays MP3 CDs. The value there is that if you have a computer with a CD burner, you can store up to 200 songs on one CD instead of the 80 minutes on a regular music CD.... The second DVD player we are looking at today is from Sampo, and what I like about it is that it's got a compact flash reader at the front of the machine. What that means is that you take your CompactFlash reader... from your digital camera. It typically stores photos on it, and you just snap this into the front of the player and it will start (a) slide show of your photos on your TV. You can also store music on a lot of CompactFlash cards. A lot of PDAs or personal digital assistants allow you now to listen to MP3 music on these CompactFlash cards. So this player will read those too. And you can maybe make a party mix for the next time you have guests over.

Ann Kellan: So, would you find that memory card in all digital cameras?

Marc Saltzman: No. That's a good question. There are about four or five different technologies -- one is called a memory stick from Sony. Another one is called SD. But a lot of cameras, probably the majority of them still use CompactFlash. It's a little bit bigger than a postage stamp, and it is pretty much the most common format right now.

Ann Kellan: Then we move up a level, don't we?

Marc Saltzman: Yes, well that player, the Sampo player, is about $150 bucks, which is pretty reasonable because it also plays MP3s as well. The next player we have is from Panasonic (and) we are jumping up in price a little bit to $700, because it's not just a DVD player -- it's also a DVD recorder. Most of our viewers know that most DVD players out there don't act as a VCR. You couldn't, say, tape your favorite shows. But when you buy black DVD discs, this player will record them.

Ann Kellan: And that technology has come down in price since last year.

Marc Saltzman: It has come down a few hundred dollars and so has the media itself. You can now buy a DVD-R disk for about $1, and a DVD-RAM disk, which this player will also write to, for about $5. And as you can see, it's the same size as a regular DVD or CD. And you pop it in and once again you can record onto it, either once in that format, or you can erase the DVD-RAMs and keep putting on your favorite shows.

Ann Kellan: So how much can you record on a CD?

Marc Saltzman: About two hours of high quality video, you know, like MPEG quality video, so it will be as good looking as the TV show you taped it off of. Now the last player that we have is the Toshiba DVD player. That's portable. It's got its own screen, in fact it's an 8.9-inch wide screen which is a nice wide screen angle for this DVD player.

Ann Kellan: Look how portable it is.

Marc Saltzman: Now keep in mind this is without the docking station, so without the battery. We have this plugged into the wall. But it adds a little more bulk in the bottom if you do want the battery, which lasts about three hours, by the way. So it's perfect for people who fly a lot, you don't have to watch the movie that they are playing on the plane.... It will read DVD movies (and) it will read music CDs, MP3 CDs so you can bring your favorite music with you to go, and DVD audio. So (it supports) multiple formats, it's $1,000, and it does have an 8.9 inch screen. It's very lightweight and portable, and (has) a beautiful picture quality.

Ann Kellan: So all of these do more than just play movies.

Marc Saltzman: That's right. And this is the trend that we are all seeing.



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I thought this was cool:

World's fastest computer simulates earth
Friday, November 15, 2002 Posted: 9:52 AM EST (1452 GMT)
 
The Earth Simulator consists of 640 supercomputers that are connected by a high-speed network.  

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SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- A Japanese supercomputer that studies the climate and other aspects of the Earth maintained its ranking as the world's fastest computer, according to a study released Friday.

The Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan, performs 35.86 trillion calculations per second -- more than 4 1/2 times greater than the next-fastest machine.

Earth Simulator, built by NEC and run by the Japanese government, first appeared on the list in June. It was the first time a supercomputer outside the United States topped the list.

Two new machines, called "ASCI Q," debuted in the No. 2 and No. 3 spots. The computers, which each can run 7.73 trillion calculations per second, were built by Hewlett-Packard Co. for Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Clusters of personal computers rank
For the first time, high-performance machines built by clustering personal computers appeared in the top 10.

A system built by Linux NetworX and Quadrics for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ranked No. 5. A system built by High Performance Technologies Inc. for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Forecast Systems Laboratory was No. 8.

Hewlett-Packard Co. led with 137 systems on the list, followed by International Business Machines Corp. with 131 systems. No. 3 Sun Microsystems Inc. built 88 of the top 500 systems.

The Top 500 list, which has been released twice annually since 1993, is compiled by researchers at University of Mannheim, Germany; the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Berkeley and the University of Tennessee.



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Gordon B. Hinckley, "We Look to Christ," Ensign, May 2002, 90
....one thing we do know. Like the polar star in the heavens, regardless of what the future holds, there stands the Redeemer of the world, the Son of God, certain and sure as the anchor of our immortal lives. He is the rock of our salvation, our strength, our comfort, the very focus of our faith.

In sunshine and in shadow we look to Him, and He is there to assure and smile upon us.

He is the central focus of our worship. He is the Son of the living God, the Firstborn of the Father, the Only Begotten in the flesh, who left the royal courts on high to be born as a mortal in the most humble of circumstances. Of the loneliness of His living He said, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head" (Matt. 8:20). He "went about doing good" (Acts 10:38).

He was a man of miracles. He reached out to those in distress. He healed the sick and raised the dead. Yet for all of the love He brought into the world, He was "despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: ... he was despised," and was esteemed not (Isa. 53:3).

We look upon His matchless life and say with the prophet Isaiah:

"He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. ...

"... He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" (Isa. 53:4-5).

When the great War in Heaven was fought, Lucifer, the son of the morning, came forth with a plan that was rejected. The Father of us all, with love for us, His children, offered a better plan under which we would have freedom to choose the course of our lives. His Firstborn Son, our Elder Brother, was the key to that plan. Man would have his agency, and with that agency would go accountability. Man would walk the ways of the world and sin and stumble. But the Son of God would take upon Himself flesh and offer Himself a sacrifice to atone for the sins of all men. Through unspeakable suffering He would become the great Redeemer, the Savior of all mankind.

With some small understanding of that incomparable gift, that marvelous gift of redemption, we bow in reverent love before Him.

As a Church we have critics, many of them. They say we do not believe in the traditional Christ of Christianity. There is some substance to what they say. Our faith, our knowledge is not based on ancient tradition, the creeds which came of a finite understanding and out of the almost infinite discussions of men trying to arrive at a definition of the risen Christ. Our faith, our knowledge comes of the witness of a prophet in this dispensation who saw before him the great God of the universe and His Beloved Son, the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. They spoke to him. He spoke with Them. He testified openly, unequivocally, and unabashedly of that great vision. It was a vision of the Almighty and of the Redeemer of the world, glorious beyond our understanding but certain and unequivocating in the knowledge which it brought. It is out of that knowledge, rooted deep in the soil of modern revelation, that we, in the words of Nephi, "talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that [we and] our children may know to what source [we] may look for a remission of [our] sins" (2 Ne. 25:26).

And so, my brothers and sisters, as we bid you good-bye for a season, we repeat our firm and enduring testimony. We do it as individuals with a sure and certain knowledge. As I have said many times before, and as I now say again, I know that God our Eternal Father lives. He is the great God of the universe. He is the Father of our spirits with whom we may speak in prayer.

I know that Jesus Christ is His Only Begotten Son, the Redeemer of the world, who gave His life that we might have eternal life and who rules and reigns with His Father. I know that They are individual beings, separate and distinct one from another and yet alike in form and substance and purpose. I know that it is the work of the Almighty "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39). I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet, the great Prophet of this dispensation through whom these truths have come. I know that this Church is the work of God, presided over and directed by Jesus Christ, whose holy name it bears.

Of these things I testify in solemnity as I leave with you, my beloved associates, my love and blessing, in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen. God be with you 'til we meet again.



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Has anyone here experienced the phenomenon of "Astral Wind"?

If so, please share your experience if you feel so inclined.

Also, for those of you who have not but have read about it in AD or in other places, what do you think about it?  I find Robert's theory fascinating.  If it is true, then Astral Wind is very important.

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Ok...maybe the title of this post was pushing the envelope some, but I am going to post the bizzare stuff here that makes me laugh, cry or both.  I consider myself to be someone with a very "ou-of-the-box" sense of humor... so enoy if you do too, and if not...go away.  (:

Here's some "stuff" from the infamous Gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson:

"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others --- the living --- are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later.

But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. The association of motorcyles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions." --- HST '65

"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era --- the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run ... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant....

History is hard to know, because of all the hired B.S., but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time --- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened." --- HST '71


"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning....

And that, I think, was the handle --- that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting --- on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave..." --- HST '71

"We had two bags of Grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cacaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls... but the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge..." --- HST '71

SIMPSONS QUOTES
1) Moe: "I'll use your head as a bucket and paint my house with your brains"

2) Barneys Japanese Girlfriend: "I would like a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a mans hat"

3) Homer: "And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?"

4) Homer: "To alcohol! The cause of- and solution to- all of life's problems"

5) Homer: "Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time, just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow! Well, good night.

6) Homer: "Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers."

7) Homer: "Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that."

Homer: "Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."

9) Homer: "Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try"

10) Homer: "All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one"

11) Ralph Wiggum: "when the doctor said I didn't have worms any more, that was the happiest day of my life."

12) Homer: "Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose; it's how drunk you get."

13) Bart: "What's Santa's Little Helper doing to that dog? Looks like he's trying to jump over, but he can't quite make it."

14) Homer: "Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love."

15) Homer: "Dear Lord: The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal. In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done."

16) Homer: "Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen."

17) Homer: "Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family."

18) Homer: "I am so smart, I am so smart, s-m-r-t....I mean s-m-A-r-t."

19) Homer: "It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day."

20) Homer: "Yeah Moe that team sure did suck last night. They just plain sucked! I've seen teams suck before, but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked."

21) Homer: "Ha ha! Look at this country! ? R U Gay!? Ha ha!" (looking at Uruguay on the globe)

22) Homer: "What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts."

23) Homer: "I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented the light bulb."

24) Homer: "Trying is the first step towards failure."

25) Homer: "Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them." (to aliens who abducted Simpson family)

26) Homer:: "The lesson is: Our God is vengeful! O spiteful one, show me who to smite and they shall be smoten!!!"

27) Homer: "It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone."

28) Homer: "Me lose brain? Uh, oh! Ha ha ha! Why I laugh?"

29) Homer: "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true."

30) Homer: "Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?"

31) Homer: "'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?"

32) Homer: "You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on."

33) Homer: "Now, son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for daddies and kids with fake IDs."

34) Bart: "What if you're a really good person, but you get into a really, really bad fight and your leg gets gangrene and it has to be amputated. Will it be waiting for you in heaven?"

35) Bart: "Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ."

36) Bart: "There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson."

37) Hippy: "Uh, Homer, those were our PERSONAL vegetables."

38) Krusty Look-Alike: "Hand me over all your money in a paper sack!"
Apu: "Yes, yes! I know the procedure for armed robbery!"

39) Mindy(Homer's crush, inside an elevator): "Well, it looks like we'll be getting off together, uh, I mean, going down together,uh, I mean- "
Homer: "That's okay, I'll just press the button for the stimulator - I mean elevator!"

40) (Familiar mechanical-sounding scream from outside the plane) Airline captain: "Uh, everyone, please strap yourselves in, as we are experiencing a little Godzilla-related turbulence. It doesn't look too bad, though. He usually lets go at about 30,000 feet, and, after that, we'll just have to worry about Moth-Ra, Ged-Ra, and Rodan."

41) Barney: Uh oh, my heart just stopped. Ah...there it goes.

42) Ralph: "That's where I saw the leprechaun! He told me to burn things."

43) Chief Wiggum: Mrs. Simpson, I believe your husband is DOA....
Marge: HE'S DEAD?!!
Wiggum: Oh, no, that's DWI. I always get these police terms mixed up.
Women in Police Station: Hi, you said my husband was DWL....

44) I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over fifty and if its speed dropped, it would explode! I think it was called... "The Bus That Couldnt Slow Down"

45) Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounter is true and by true, I mean false. Its all lies. But they're entertaining lies, and in the end isn't that the real truth? The answer is no.

'Single and Sassy' - Homer's bumper sticker.

Internet! Is that thing still around?

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

Okay, whatever to take my mind off my life.

I voted for Prell to go back to the old glass bottle. Then I became deeply cynical. ( about voting )

To find Flanders, I have to think like Flanders.

Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know?

Well, maybe if he had had better arch support, they wouldn't have caught 'im. ( about Jesus wearing sandals ).

Ah, the college roadtrip. What better way to spread beer-fueled mayhem?

All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

America's health care system is second only to Japan ... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain ... well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.

Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies. If you wish me to eat them instead, please give me no sign whatsoever ... thy will be done. (munch munch munch)

The girls of the internet. Ooh, I'd go online with them anyday! ( Looking at a "nudie deck" )

If he is so smart, how come he is dead?

This kid's a wonder!. He organized all the law suits against me into one class action suit.

I have to work overtime at work instead of spending time with my wife and kids, which is what I want.

Aaw! it's so hard to get to 500 words ( Homer, the food critic ).

The food was not undelicious.

I'll tell people what to think. Now you tell me what to think.

I hope you cut me better than you cut these string beans.

And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

Lord, I know I shouldn't eat Thee, but ... (munch munch munch) mmm ... sacrelicious.

Awww, 20 dollars?!? I wanted a peanut.

I don't apologize. I am sorry Lisa, that's the way I am.

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

WHO IS FONZY!?! Don't they teach you anything at school?

It's twice the work of a deadbeat dad. ( about spending a saturday with kids ).

God cannot be EVERYWHERE, right? ( Homer as Adam in a dream ).

Screw that squeaky stuff. I want some hard antacid for my kid.

What's keeping Joan Rivers alive?

Ooh! sensory depravation kicks butt!

Oh! look at that car burn! Does it get any better than this?

Bart, a woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!

Bart, you're saying butt-kisser like it's a bad thing!

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

Marge, can we go home? All this fresh air is making my hair move and I don't know how long I can complain.

Black, marbelized with a liquid center. The Stealth Bowler. The pins don't know what hit 'em.

Dear Homer, IOU one emergency donut. Signed Homer. Bastard! He's always one step ahead.

To be loved, you have to be nice to others EVERYDAY!. To be hated, you don't have to do squat. ( advice to Mr.Burns ).

Do I know what rhetorical means?

Do you want to change your name to Homer, Jr.?
The kids can call you Hoju!

Does whisky count as beer?

Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

Don't worry, son. I'm sure he's up in heaven right now laughing it up with all the other celebrities : John Dilinger, Ty Cobb, Joseph Stalin.

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

Are you sure you're an accredited and honored pornographer?

I can't believe that someone I've never heard of wants to hang out with a guy like me.

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

God bless those pagans.

Ah! I was voted most likely to be a mental patient or a hillbilly or a chimpanzee. ( Homer, the Outsider Artist )

Stupid ice. I always knew I'll get stuck in something.

I get weary in this sexually suggestive dancing.

Marge, I think I'll remember my own LIFE!

Marge, your paintings look like the things they look like.

What is a wedding? Webster's Dictionary defines a wedding as "The process of removing weeds from one's garden." ( giving a lecture on marriage ).

Good drink ... good meat ... good God, let's eat!

Ha ha! Look at this country! You are gay!? Ha ha!

Heh Heh Heh! Lisa! Vampires are make believe, just like elves and gremlins and eskimos!

Here's to alcohol : The cause of ... and answer to all of life's problems.

Hey, I asked for ketchup! I'm eatin' salad here!

I am so smart, I am so smart, s-m-r-t ... I mean s-m-A-r-t.

I bet Einstein turned himself into all sorts of colors before he invented the light bulb.

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

I don't want to go, so if he asks me to go, I'll just say, 'Yes!'

I guess you might say he barking up the wrong ... bush.

I hope I didn't brain my damage.

I know what you're saying, Bart. When I was young, I wanted an electric football machine more than anything else in the world, and my parents bought it for me, and it was the happiest day of my life. Well, goodnight.

I know you can read my thoughts, boy : Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow.

I like my beer cold ... my TV loud ... and my homosexuals flaming.

I promised my boy one simple thing : lots of riches, and that man broke my promise!

I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, 慣he Bus That couldn't Slow Down.

I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.

I wonder where Bart is, his dinner's getting all cold ...... and eaten.

I won't sleep in the same bed with a woman who thinks I'm lazy! I'm going right downstairs, unfold the couch, unroll the sleeping ba- uh, goodnidght.

If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.

If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're sadly mistaken!

If this were really a nuclear war we'd all be dead meat by now.

I'll handle this ... the only danger in space is if we land on the terrible Planet of the Apes ... wait a minute. Statue of Liberty ... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.

I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!

I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!

I'm just a technical supervisor who cared too much.

I'm no supervising technician, I'm a technical supervisor.

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women!

It may be on a lousy channel, but the Simpsons are on TV!

It's a good thing that beer wasn't shaken up any more, or I'd have looked quite the fool. An April fool, as it were.

It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone.

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 hours of TV a day.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign!

Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.

Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of chocolate to milk.

Lisa, stop that racket! I'm trying to fix your mother's camera. Easy, easy. I think I'll need a bigger drill.

Lisa, the mob's working on getting your saxophone back, but we've also expanded into other important areas ... World domination.

Lord help me, I'm just not that bright.

Lurlee your song touched me in so many ways ... and which way to the can?

Marge! Look at all this great stuff I found at the Marina. It was just sitting in some guy's boat!

Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.

Marge, please. Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so that it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

Shut up, Brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

Marge, would you please tell Bart that I would just like to drink a glass of syrup like I do every morning?

Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman -- and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.

Me lose brain? Uh, oh! Ha ha ha! Why I laugh?

Mr. Scorpio says productivity is up 2%, and it's all because of my motivational techniques, like donuts and the possibility of more donuts to come.

No jokes, no taunting -- That kid's got bosoms! Somebody get me a wet towel!

C'mere you butterball.

No! No-no-no-no-no-no! Well, yes.

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way.

Now Bart, since you broke Grandpa's teeth, he gets to break yours.

Now go on, boy, and pay attention. Because if you do, someday, you may achieve something that we Simpsons have dreamed about for generations : You may outsmart someone!

Oh look at me !!! I'm making people happy! I'm the magical man from happy land, with a gumdrop house on lollipop lane! Oh by the way ... I was being sarcastic.

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Oh no! What have I done? I smashed open my little boy's piggy bank, and for what? A few measly cents, not even enough to buy one beer. Wait a minute, lemme count and make sure ... not even close.

Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.

Oh, Lisa, you and your stories ... Bart's a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now let's go back to that ... building ... thingie ... where our beds and TV ... is.

Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.

OK, son. Just remember to have fun out there today, and if you lose, I'LL KILL YOU!

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

Read your town charter, boy. ?If food stuff should touch the ground, said food stuff shall be turned over to the village idiot? Since I don't see him around, start shoveling!

Relax. What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind!

Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family.

Safety? But sir! If truth be known, I actually caused more accidents around here than any other employee, including a few doozies no one ever found out about.

Simpson-Homer Simpson , he's the greatest guy in his-tor-y. From the town of Springfield, he's about to hit a chestnut tree. D'oh!

Solid waste! I could kiss you! Bleh! Ew! Yeech! Ooh! I think this was pizza!

Son, being popular is the most important thing in the whole world.

Son, this is the only time I'm ever gonna say this. It is not okay to lose.

Stealing! How could you?! Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain Whats-his-name?

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!

The lesson is : Our God is vengeful! O spiteful one, show me who to smite and they shall be smoten!

The only danger is if they send us to that terrible planet of the apes.

The strong must protect the sweet.

There's a New Mexico?!?

They have the Internet on computers, now?

This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit.

This is absolutely the last funeral we ever take you kids to.

This perpetual motion machine she made is a joke : It just keeps going faster and faster. Lisa, get in here! In this house, we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!

Movies are the only escape from the drudgery of work and family ... No offense.

I am sick of running away. Did 'brave heart' run away? Did 'payback' run away? (to Mel Gibson)

Just where do you think you are going, missy?(Lisa "ascending" into heaven)

Uh huh. Uh huh. Okay. Um, can you repeat the part of the stuff where you said all about the ... things? Uh ... the things.

A big mountain of sugar is too much for one man. I can see now why God portions it out in those little packets.

I've got the presciption for you, Doctor ... another hot beef injection! ( Hands him a hot dog )

Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.

Wait a minute. I'm a guy like me!

We monorail conductors are a crazy breed.

Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren? ( for Bart to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or a sleazy male stripper ).

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

Well, crying isn't gonna bring him back ... unless your tears smell like dog food. So you can either sit there crying and eating can after can of dog food until your tears smell enough like dog food to make your dog come back or you can go out there and find your dog.

Well, I'm tired of being a wannabe league bowler. I wanna be a league bowler!

Well, it's like the time that your cat Snowball got run over? Remember that, honey? Well, what I'm saying is all we have to do is go down to the pound and get a new jazzman.

Well, let's just call them, uh, Mr. X and Mrs. Y. So anyway, Mr.X would say, 'Marge, if this doesn't get your motor running, my name isn't "Homer J. Simpson."

Well, you can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They taste as good as they look. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like catsup - it tastes like catsup. But brother, it ain't catsup!

We're gonna get a new TV. Twenty-one inch screen, realistic flesh tones, and a little cart so we can wheel it into the dining room on holidays.

We're laughing with her, Marge. There's a big difference. Ha ha ha! ... with her.

What are you gonna do? Sick your dogs on me? Or your bees? Or dogs with bees in their mouth so when they bark they shoot bees at me?

What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.

What the hey, I'll take the job.

What's the point of going out, we're just going to end up back here anyway?

When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, like that movie -- Spaceballs. But instead it was dark and disturbing like that movie, Police Academy.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces. Just know they're about to jab me with something.

When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Yeah Moe that team sure did suck last night. They just plain sucked! I've seen teams suck before, but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked! Oh, I gotta go, my damn weiner kids are listening.

Yes, honey ... Just squeeze your rage up into a bitter little ball and release it at an appropriate time, like that day I hit the referee with the whiskey bottle.

Lisa, remember me as I am - filled with murderous rage. (y2k disaster)

You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.

You know, Moe, my mom once said something that really stuck with me. She said, `Homer, you're a big disappointment,' and God bless her soul, she was really onto something.

You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on EVERY CAR!

You know, my kids think you're the greatest. And thanks to your gloomy music, they've finally stopped dreaming of a future I can't possibly provide.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.

You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.

Your lives are in the hands of men no smarter than you or I, many of them incompetent boobs. I know this because I worked alongside them, gone bowling with them, watched them pass me over for promotions time and again. And I say ... This stinks!

Now son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for Daddys, and kids with fake IDs.

Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems!

I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, 'cover for me.'Number two, 'oh, good idea, boss. 'Number three, 'it was like that when I got here.

Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leah and as smart as Yoda.

Step aside everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population : you.

Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose : it's how drunk you get.

Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else - and it hasn't - it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughin', did you?

Marge send the kids to the neighbors. I'm coming home loaded.

Oh, well, of course, everything looks bad if you remember it.

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.

You must love this country more than I love a cold beer on a hot Christmas morning.

Alcohol is my way of life, and I aim to keep it.

Honey, I am not the catch that I appear to be. (in Las Vegas)

The only guys who were Hawaiian shirts are gay guys and big fat party animals.

Sweet Merciful Crap!

Lisa do I have my pants on?!

Excuse me Doctor, I think I know a little something about medicine.

Nacho, nacho man. I want to be a nacho man.

I kicked a giant mouse in the butt! Do I have to draw you a picture?

Hey, can you take the wheel for a second, I have to scratch my self in two places at once.

Ooh, a graduate student huh? How come you guys can go to the moon but can't make my shoes smell good?

Alcohol is a way of life, alcohol is my way of life, and I aim to keep it.

Television - teacher, mother, secret lover!

Good Things don't end in "eum", they end in "Mania" or "Teria"

Carnies Built this country, the carnival part of it anyway.

The Alien has a sweet Heavenly Voice ... Like Urkle, And he appears every Friday night ... Like Urkle.

If god didn't want me to eat in church, he would've made gluttony a sin.

I felt a surge of power, like god must feel, when he's holding a gun.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

My Bologna has a first name. It's H-O-M-E-R, my bologna has a second name. It's H-O-M-E-R.

This ticket doesn't just give me a seat, it gives me the right, NO, the DUTY! to make a complete butt of myself.

Jesus, Alla, Buddha ... I love you all!

... and I'm not impressed easily ... VOW! a blue car!!!

Don't worry honey, daddy will fix that broken animal.

Hey, if you dont like it, go to Russia!

Guys are always patting my bald head for luck, pinching my belly to hear my girlish laugh.

Hahahahaha, I'm so funny.

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy.

Man it feels good to get out of that car! Oooo go-karts, come on every body, let's go!

Maybe he is acting stupid to infiltrate an international gang of idiots. ( about a TV character named after him ).

Hmm ... Fabulous house ... Well-behaved kids ... Sisters-in-law dead ... Luxury Sedan ...WOOHOO! I hit the jackpot! Marge dear, would you kindly pass me a donut.

You don't know what its like, I'm the one out there everyday putting his butt on the line, and I'm not out of order!You're out of order! The whole freakin' system is out of order! You want the Truth? You want the TRUTH?! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

I am 26 hours late for work. No time for Maggi.

Who is this? ... ugly nose ... liver spot ... liver spot ... liver spot ... liver spot ...

Is it normal to see Mr.Burn's face on a bowling ball?

I know what is going on here. They did it to Jesus. Now they are doing it to me.
Marge : Are you comparing yourself to our Lord?
Homer : Only in bowling ability.

Maggi, that was a perfect game. But you stepped a little over the line. So, I am taking off 5 points. ( Maggi at 295 in bowling ).

Kids are great, Appu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate and they practically raise themselves now-a-days, you know, with the internet and all.

Bart : Gee ... Sorry for being born.
Homer : I've been waiting for so long to hear that.

Because when you reach over and put your hand into a pile of goo, that was your best friend's face, you don't know what to do!

FORGET IT MARGE! ITS CHINATOWN!

Ahhh ... sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?

Sorry Mr Burns, but I don't go in for these backdoor shenanigans. Sure I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no!

I'm hittin' the road. Maybe I'll drop you a line some day from wherever I wind up in this crazy old world.

Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk.

Whoooa, that's hot. There isn't a man alive who wouldn't get turned on by that. Well, goodbye.

sure, IN theeoory, in theory communism works ...

When I was seventeen
I drank some very good beer
I drank some very good beer I purchased
With a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen.

Kids, if he (Grandpa) starts acting weird, lead him down into the basement.

Call Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again, is Mr. Plow!

Hey there, Blimpy Boy, flying through the sky so fancy ... free ...

Where's my Burrito? Where's my Burrito?

We are not criminals. We are just two crazy, mixed-up kids (con artists Homer and Bart).

Well ... GOD conned me out of 6500 bucks for car repairs.

I told you I find them boring (little league games).

We'll be stealing from people we KNOW.

You've just won 10 million from the publishers clearing dealy.

60 cents!?! I could've made more money if I had gone to work.

O.K. you can park my car, but remember, NO joy riding.

Ooh! The magic is made of chimps.

Get used to it honey. From now on, we'll be spelling everything with letters.

This place is a blast. All we have to do is bear two hours of excruciating pain. Then it is all sun and surfing.

You're not the only one that can abuse a non profit organization!

Spine buster ... boring ... Oooh Kaleistromister!!!

Flanders!?! That suit is a bit revealing, isn't it?

Chesty Lerou ... Busty St.Claire ... Booby McBoob [Homer's suggestions for a namechange for Marge].

Nobody snuggles with Max Power ( name change ).

Thank YOU for getting me out of work.

Did somebody say 'Num Num'???

Sometimes you have to break the rules to free the heart.

I should have paid attention to the side effects. It's all in here.

Now I prepare my soul for an eternity of fire and poking.

I am doing a walk-on. It is a show business thing. ( after bowling fame ).

I know someone holier than Jesus. ( Flanders ).

You can't depend on me all your life. You have to learn that there's a little Homer Simpson in all of us.

The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do. What else ...

And there's nothing wrong with hitting someone when his back is turned.

What? Those cute little monkeys? That's terrible. Who told you that? I can understand how they wouldn't let in those wild jungle apes, but what about those really smart ones who live among us? Who roller-skate and smoke cigars?

And Lord, we are especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is. Except for solar, which is just a pipe dream.

Because sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

Hey Flanders, it's no use praying. I already did the same thing, and we can't both win.

You heard me, I won't be in for the rest of the week. ... I told you! My baby beat me up! ... No, it is not the worst excuse I ever thought up.

Ah, good ol' trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.

Dear God, just give me one channel.

Pffft, English. Who needs that. I'm never going to England.

Well, you bought all those smoke alarms, and we haven't had a single fire.

Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn't get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn't get to go to college.

Bart : I am through with working. Working is for chumps.
Homer : Son, I'm proud of you. I was twice your age before I figured that out.

Marge, I can't wear a pink shirt to work. Everybody wears white shirts. I'm not popular enough to be different.

Oh, Marge, cartoons don't have any deep meaning. They're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh.

A job's a job. I mean, take me. If my plant pollutes the water and poisons the town, by your logic, that would make me a criminal.

Here's good news! According to this eye-catching article, SAT scores are declining at a slower rate ... Hey, this is the only paper in America that's not afraid to tell the truth, that everything is just fine.

Well, I know you love me, so you don't get squat. Hee hee hee. ( to Bart ).

Lisa : It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.
Homer : Don't you ever, EVER talk that way about television.

Homer : Your mother has this crazy idea that gambling is wrong. Even though they say it's okay in the bible.
Lisa : Really? Where?
Homer : Uh ... Somewhere in the back.

No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.

Homer : Well, he's got all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy.
Marge : What's that?
Homer : [thinks] A dinosaur

Homer : I can't fake an interest in this, and I'm an expert at faking an interest in your kooky projects.
Marge : What kooky projects?
Homer : You know, the painting class, the first aid course, the whole Lamaze thing.

I hate all the programs Marge likes, but it's no big deal. You know why? Whenever Marge turns on one of her "non-violent" programs, I take a walk. I go to a bar, I pound a few, then I stumble home in the mood for looooove.

If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.

Homer : Marge, where's that ... metal deely ... you use to ... dig ... food...
Marge : You mean, a spoon?
Homer : Yeah, yeah!

Marge, there's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer.

Marge : Homer, please don't make me choose between my man and my God, because you just can't win.
Homer : There you go again, always taking someone else's side. Flanders ... the water department ... God ...

God : Thou hast forsaken My Church!
Homer : Uh, kind-of ... b-but ...
God : But what
Homer : I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
God : [pause] Hmm ... You've got a point there.

Bart : Dad, this money is from Montana Militia. This is not real money.
Homer : It will be soon.

I will live to be 42. Oh, only 42 ?!? I won't even live to see my children die.

I am not crazy. It's the TV that's crazy. Aren't you, TV?

Yeah, that's true. But the guy I REALLY hate is YOUR father. [to a psychiatrist].

I am sane again . Look Marge! ... and I owe all this to ... THE SPRING BREAK!

Marge : Homer, you are going to kill us all.
Homer : Or DIE trying.

That's fine. There are plenty of other states where we are welcome. [to Florida officials after the alligator debacle].

Arizona smells funny. [AZ and ND are the left-over states].

I'll lucky if I could get just half-an-hour to get funky [Rocker Homer].

Oh! I haven't changed since high school and suddenly I am uncool.

People know your name. You don't know theirs. It's great [about being a rocker].

It's mor important to be with my family than being cool.

Lisa : Wait a minute, rhinos don't come from eggs.
Homer : What did you just see, Lisa?
Lisa : But ...
Homer : What did you just see, Lisa?

Guide : This man here is more than 200 MILLION years old.
Homer : Pssst ... I got more bones than he has. If you're trying to impress me, you failed.
Guide : It's not the bones ...
Homer : You failed to impress me.

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

You put the beer in the coconut and throw the can away.

Are you sure this is the Sci-Fi Convention? It's full of nerds!

Once the sun goes down, all the weirdos turn crazy!

Oh, let's just say I had help from a little magic box.

How about 'Screw Flanders' ?

But I was going to loot you a present.

They took the foam off the market because they found out it was poisonous, but if you ask me, if you're dumb enough to eat it, you deserve to die.

Rev. Lovejoy : So Homer, please feel free to tell us anything. There's no judgment here.
Homer : The other day I was so desperate for a beer I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
Rev. Lovejoy : I cast thee out!

Homer [thinks] Don't tell him you were at a bar! Gasp! But what else is open at night? [aloud] It's a pornography store. I was buying pornography. [thinks] Heh heh heh. I would'a never thought of that.

God is teasing me! Just like he teased Moses in the desert!

Marge : Homer, the plant called. They said if you don't show up tomorrow don't bother showing up on Monday.
Homer : Woo-hoo! Four-day weekend!

Wow. A baby and a free burger. Could this be the best day of my life?

So I says, blue M&M, red M&M, they all wind up the same color in the end.

Homer : Hey boy! Wanna play catch?
Bart : No thanks dad.
Homer : When a son doesn't want to play catch with his father something is definitely wrong.
Grandpa : I'll play catch with you!
Homer : Go home.

Marge we're gettin some drive-through then doin it twice.

Ahh burn it, send it to hell!

Yeah! He's a crazy nut! It's not about me being lazy! It's about him being a crazy nut!

Marge : It looks like there's going to be twice as much love in this house.
Homer : You mean we're going to start doing it in the morning?

Give me some peace of mind or I'll mop the floor with you!

My wife is not a doobie to be passed around! On our wedding day I promised to bogart her for life!

We played Dungeons & Dragons for three hours! Then I was slain by an elf.

Ive been muscled out of everything Ive ever done, including my muscule-for-hire business.

Lenny says that I'm a (laughs) get this ... (laughs) ... a little SLOW ... (laughs, pauses) ... how come you're not laughing? Do you think I'm slow?

You jive turkey. See? You got to sass it. Quit jivin' me, turkey. You got to sass it. A "turkey" is a bad person.

You gave both dogs away?! You know how I feel about giving!

Marge : Homer there's a man here who thinks he can help you!
Homer : Batman?
Marge : No he's a scientist.
Homer : Batman's a scientist.
Marge : He's not Batman!

Marge : Have you noticed something about Bart?
Homer : New glasses?
Marge : No. It seems like something could be troubling him.
Homer : Probably misses his old glasses.
Marge : I want to get more involved in Bart's activities, but then I'd be afraid of smothering him.
Homer : Yeah, and then we'd get the chair.
Marge : That's not what I meant.
Homer : Admit it Marge, it was.

Homer : Kids, Kids! I'm not gonna die! That only happens to bad people!
Bart : What about Abraham Lincoln?
Homer : Err ... He sold poisoned milk to school children.
Marge : Homer!
Homer : Hey, I'm just trying to make it easier on them.

Default! The two sweetest words in the English language.

Back you robots! Nobody ruins my family vacation but me! And maybe the boy.

Burns : And this must be ... (reading card) little Brat.
Bart : Bart.
Homer : Don't correct the man, Brat.

Kent : Well what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing?
Homer : Oh, Kent I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes.
Kent : (pause) Mmm, touché.

Homer no function beer well without.

Bart : We were just planning the father-son river rafting trip.
Homer : He he. You don't have a son.

No offence Apu, but when they were handing out religions you must have been out taking a whizz.

Take it easy Marge. How about if we dope you up real good? [Marge's fear of flying].

Marge that's twice - I think you're spending entirely too much time with this woman.

Homer : Here's your giraffe little girl.
Ralph : I'm a boy.
Homer : That's the spirit. Never give up.

That's it! Being abusive to your family is one thing, but I will not stand by and watch you feed a hungry dog! Go to your room.

Marge : This is terrible! How will the kids get home?
Homer : I dunno. The Internet? [Springfield snow].

I want to set the record straight - I thought the cop was a prostitute.

That's it! If I'm gonna be trapped inside the house I gotta go out and buy some beer.

Oh! it's 1 am. I better go home and spend some quality time the kids. [at Moe's]

... lousy lovable dog ...

FBI agent Scully : This is just a simple lie-detector test. I'll ask some simple questions and you should answer with yes or no. Do you understand?
Homer : Yes.
[ The machine blows up ].

Homer : I am not going to sleep with a woman who thinks I am crazy ... unless you are feeling amorous ...
Marge : No, I am not.
Homer : [angry] Okay then, good night.

Bart : What if don't find anything?
Homer : Then we'll fake it and sell it to the Fox network.
Bart : They'll buy anything.
Homer : Now son, they also do a lot of quality shows ... ha ha ha ... They kill me.

Homer : No one believes me.
Bart : I believe you, dad.
Homer : Then can you stop the cats from swearing?

Man1 : Is the alien carbon-based or silicon-based?
Homer : The second one ... xelaphone .
Man2 : Is the alien santa claus?
Homer : Yes.
Flanders : Where you on my roof yesterday night stealing my weather meter?
Homer : This interview is OVER.

You changed me too. I am not the same money-driven workaholic that I once was. [nanny Sherry Bobbins].

Homer : I'll have this sweet blood pudding.
Bart : The secret ingredient is blood.
Homer : Blood!?! Olakkkk ... instead I'll have this sweet brain and kidney pie.

Homer is not a communist.
My Homer may be a liar, a pig, an iditot, a communist, but he is NOT a pornographer.
Absent-minded Abe Simpson

I would rather let a 1000 guilty guys go free ... than chase after them.
Chief Wiggum



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I am taking a survey and I hope all of you will participate. Some of these questions may seem silly, others personal...please only answer them if you feel comfortable.  This is for a research project I am doing.  Thanks!

1.  Are you male of female?

2.  What race do you associate yourself with, if any?

3.  What is your favorite color?

4.  Favorite type of music (and group if you have a specific favorite)?

5.  Favorite kind of films (ie. drama, action, documentary)?  Do you have a specific favorite?

6.  Do you read often, sometimes or never?

7.  If you enjoy reading, what kind of books do you like?

8.  Do you like television?  Do you watch often?

9.  How do you feel about the media?

10.  Do you consider youself open minded?

11.  Are you an extrovert or an introvert?  Neither?

12.  How do you feel about capitalism?

13.  Do you feel racism is a big problem still?

14.  What is your favorite type of food (general, ie. Italian and/or specific, ie. lasagna)?

15.  Do you believe in God (ie. intelligent design of the universe)?

16.  Do you believe in evolution?

17.  Do you enjoy watching sports?

18.  How do you feel about homosexuality?

19.  Is society better today then 200 years ago?

20.  If you had one wish, what would it be?

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Do you believe this?  What proof do we have?  I believe it, but why don't more people ever remember, or do they?  Do they think it's just a dream?  What do you think about this?  Do you talk to friends, family members, etc and hear them say "You know, I had the strangest dream..." and then go on to explain something that sounds an awful like an OBE?


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What?!  That's what I said, the following is an article that could make you cry and/or laugh.  

MIND CONTROL IN MOVIES & COMPUTER GAMES
Personal experience of Scooby Do, Star Wars, & Caesar

Part 1: Mind Control in Computer Games

By Stephanie Relfe B.Sc.

Around mid 2000 I started playing the computer game Caesar. Caesar is a computer game where you get to build an ancient Roman city. It is very complicated and highly addictive. There is something about this game that makes time fly by at an incredible rate, and it is hard to stop playing. I played it for days on end. My mother also played the game - often past the small hours of the morning.

Later, the same company brought out two other games - Pharoah. where one builds cities in Ancient Egypt, followed by Zeus, where one builds cities in ancient Greece.

The day after that I played Pharaoh for about half of the day I was feeling a sick feeling in my body, and a stuffiness in my head, which I intuitively thought came from the game, but I ignored it and kept on going.

That night I woke at 4 am having a terrible nightmare. I have virtually not had nightmares for years. It felt what I can only describe as 'demonic'. The description of it may not sound much, but the FEELING that it left me with was incredibly strong and awful. I was trying to warn two men who had been customers of a very suppressive boss I had about twenty years before, about some kind of incredible crime. I was in a garden in front of some buildings. A car drove up - I looked inside and knew from something I saw inside that it was black witches in the car. Some how they coerced me into the car. Quickly I managed to roll out the other door, and would have been taken back but I managed to remember to call on God for help. The three people in the car were surprised, and let me go. At the same time, a number of people came up the road and were able to help me. I woke up feeling awful. I felt so bad that I woke my husband Michael, and after a while with us both praying I felt safe enough to go to sleep again. I had had the thought that some how aliens were involved in this dream. Michael made the comment that maybe aliens sent the dream because they were mad at not being able to abduct us. (Michael had found a way to stop the monthly abductions he had been suffering from. See "The Mars Records" Book 2 at www.themarsrecords.com)

The feeling of being sick was like the feeling I had once when I played Zeuss. It was, I think, about the third day I played it. I can only decribe the feeling as feverish. I got worse and worse the longer I played. I KNEW the game was causing this feeling, but I didn't stop playing. Finally I had to stop - my head was pounding and I felt sure I was going to throw up. However, after Michael layed hands on me and prayed deliverance for me from the game, I got better within a few hours.

I had never had these problems with Caesar, which was the first game that came out. The second game that came out was Pharaoh. Playing this game caused me to feel feverish and have nightmares. The third game that came out was Zeuss. That made me feel much worse than any previously

Just before I stopped playing Zeuss permanently, when my headache & nausea was at its peak, I got the impression of a big black hole opening up, that was somehow connecting me spiritually to another dimension full of evil. I felt that I was still connected to that dimension even when I stopped playing. I finally disconnected when Michael prayed to remove all ties from me to the games and anyone / anything connected with the games.

Part 2: Mind Control in Movies

I had read articles about how different negative and controlling things are secretly placed into movies etc. by encryption and occult practices. However, I had not personally been aware of this until Michael and I were at the movies and watched a preview of the cartoon Tarzan. Within a minute of the stupid cartoon & the sound of drums beating, tears come to my eyes within a few minutes!!! I know that I'm sensitive, but this was incredible - crying over a dumb cartoon. What were they doing to pull my strings so much???!!!

Michael and I have always liked movies. The old movies don't seem to do to us what the movies that have been made since around 1998 do (give or take a year or two). There have been a number of movies that have given me a major headache - almost a migraine, plus nauseous feelings. I have NEVER had a migraine outside these movies (and the time I played the computer games described above). I cannot remember which movies did this to me, but they were always very popular, expensive movies. One of these was Star Wars Episode 1, the Phantom Menace. The older three Star Wars movies were among my favourites, but the Phantom Menace gave me a headache (apart from boring me - the Jedi Knights in that movie had no SOUL - they just couldn't project).

We were getting ready to go to Star Wars Episode 2, Attack of the Clones, when suddenly I felt that we shouldn't go. After all, how spiritually destructive is it to see a movie about a bunch of people getting taken over by the dark side of the force? About fifteen minutes after we decided to NOT go, we both came under sever psychic attack - major headaches, pressure, nausea and tiredness. I used muscle testing to find out what going on. I got that some Draconians were very angry that we had decided not to go. For some reason, it was in their best interests that we watched that movie.

I finally felt that I had to write up my experiences after what happened when we went to see "Scooby Do". We saw a review about it on www.drudgereport.com and felt like going to see it. We took an eight year old daughter of a friend of ours with us. After all, it's just an animated cartoon. What harm could it do?

First of all, we were surprised at how dark and scary it was in places. It is definitely not for five year olds or even eight year olds. It is very interesting that the story so closely matches what many people including David Icke say is going on in the world. A group of tall, skinny, reptilian looking creatures wanted to take over the world. In order to do that they had to possess human bodies so that they could go on the surface of the planet. And their leader had to absorb life force/ souls from people in order to achieve his plan.

We got a very bad feeling when we saw the pyramid and ancient writing in the movie. After the movie, all three of us had a headache.

The next day the little girl reported that she got a picture in her head of a scaly head. Using muscle testing I got that this came from the movie. The next day after that, when going to bed, I felt that I was being psychically attacked. The word "sacrifice" came to my mind. Again, this was in the movie. Michael used muscle testing, and it indicated that there was an energy drain from me to someone high up connected with the movie. Michael had the same. Michael prayed the energy drains off us, and we felt better.

The next day we checked the little girl with muscle testing. This indicated that she also had an energy drain from her to someone connected with the Scooby Do movie.

At first it seemed ridiculous - all this to do with Scooby Do!!! But then again, if you were an evil entity with designs on the life force of the people of earth, what better vehicle than a movie that will seen by millions of innocent children, all full of life force?

Post script

I have had psychic & radionic etc. attacks after writing various articles before, but I have never felt such a fast and horrible attack as when I wrote the "Scooby Do will mind control you" article.

The INSTANT I started to write it, I started to feel dizzy and light headed. The room even span a bit. Michael felt the same. I could 'see' a very large, dark entity associated with this. Muscle testing indicated that this entity was one of the "principalities" mentioned in the bible.

During that day I would get a major headache and feel very nauseous. Michael would pray for me and do hands on healing, and the effect would go - only to return a few hours later. By 10.00 pm I felt REALLY sick with a major headache - despite taking a painkiller (which I don't normally do). Michael layed hands on me and started to pray in Jesus' name to remove the effects of the principality - and I instantly vomited my dinner up, twice. After that, I felt terrific!!!! Michael felt that some how the principality affected the energy of the food in my body.



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More in-depth Information:

Here is a quote from Conversations With Research Scientist Initiates: Brain and Technology Update ©1995-1997 Leading Edge International Research Group
http://www.trufax.org/convers/conv4.html
Therefore, 1995 will be the year where massive doses of electronic mind control, programming, thought intrusion and brain/biogenetic manipulations will commence in grand scale. These projects are no longer experimental. They are fully operational, for the "field testing" is over! The whole arsenal of frequencies will be unloaded on the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Mexico as part of Stage 1 of the First Protocol, (to include) Woodpecker, Buzzsaw, Videodrome, Subliminals29, Sonic Pulses, Optical Holograms, Visions, Voices and strange Psychokinetic phenomena. Beware of TV's, computers, movies, radios and phones! Also books, magazines, newspapers, printed advertisements and posters will also contain the encrypted hidden subliminal holograms. Ladies and gentlemen, the Gestalt of the video movie "They Live" is here now -- 1995! ( dead silence ) Any questions?

(The article that this quote comes from has a lot more VERY important and HIGHLY recommended information).

"The Network of Stolen Consciousness": A survivor of intelligence mind control programs talks about the metaphysical and spiritual aspects are manipulated in mind control. http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/Goobie.htm
Here is a quote from a post from a former consultant to the NSA titled "NSA and Mind Control" http://www.geocities.com/capaliwoda/mc/Abemarf_part_1.htm
Subliminal Implanted Posthypnotic Suggestions and Scripts Using Acoustically Delivered and Phonetically Accelerated Posthypnotic Commands

Similar reports from readers of this article:

"Hi, I just read your article about "computer games" and "movies". I just wanted to add that recently I had a similar experience of nausea playing a computer game, and I have never felt that way before playing those games. It was a 3D "shoot`em up kind of game" I don´t recall the name". Ken, Portugal.
"Hi Stephanie, I read your article on "Scooby Doo can mind control you" a couple of days ago. Thanks so much for sharing this information as it clarified something that happened to me last Wednesday.
I took my daughter to the movies to see star wars - Attack of the Clones. After we got home from seeing it I had a phone call from my ex-husband (who is a good friend) telling me that God had told him to pray for me that afternoon (about the same time we were at the movie). I was a little mystified as to why.

A little later I started to feel very frightened and anxious and this developed into a major fear attack re my finances and future. After dinner my daughter and I both felt unwell but we thought it might have something to do with something we'd eaten - could have been. That evening before I went to bed I was still fighting the fear and praying for God to protect me. I tried several times to get some messages from God but nothing came through.

So I then prayed and asked God to communicate with me by way of a dream if there was anything I needed to know. I went to bed and dreamed during the night that I had 3 hooks or soul ties in or to my heart. In the morning I dealt with this but still didn't feel quite right. My daughter woke up with a headache and very low energy and I had to keep her home from school. On Friday I read your article and things suddenly became very clear to me so I have now said various prayers and decrees to deal with the situation for both of us". J.O., Auckland, New Zealand







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and I for one am a little excited.  Imagine the day all of our cars run without the need of gas and our computers fit in the the palm of our hands, well, they do already...but not everyone has them yet.  Anyway, I am going to continually add posts to this thread that have to do with new tech.  I hope people post their own articles, ideas and opinons too!
Thanks,
Dan

New clean, quiet cars guzzle hydrogen
Experimental autos offer clean alternative to gasoline
By Jeordan Legon
Thursday, October 10, 2002 Posted: 11:35 AM EDT (1535 GMT)


 
The Mercedes fuel cell car mixes hydrogen with oxygen to make electricity.  



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(CNN) -- They don't use gasoline or electricity, but these new Honda and Mercedes-Benz cars can whiz by at speeds up to 93 mph.

The new fuel cell cars are powered by hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, and they are pollution and noise free.

The mayor of smog-choked Los Angeles, Jim Hahn, likes them so much he signed a lease with Honda this week that will put city employees behind the wheel of five of the experimental cars by year's end.

"Hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles hold great promise for future clean air vehicles," Hahn said in a press release. "It's important that Los Angeles play a leading role in development and early use of this technology."

Not to be outdone, DaimlerChrysler also announced this week the production of a fleet of Mercedes-Benz A-Class cars in the U.S. and Europe. Like Honda's cars, the DaimlerChrysler cars get their power from compressed hydrogen, which mixes with oxygen to create electricity.

But finding a fueling station won't be easy. Companies who agree to use Mercedes-Benzes' 60 fuel cell cars will also have to install hydrogen-filling stations, and a Honda spokesman said his company plans a mobile refueling unit.

 
Honda's fuel cell vehicle can reach speeds of 93 mph.  



If all that compressed hydrogen sounds dangerous, DaimlerChrysler spokesman Max Gates offered some reassurance.

"The engineering has been done with the fuel tanks to ensure their safety in all kinds of conditions, including collisions," he said.

Honda said its cars are certified by the California Air Resources Board and the Environmental Protection Agency.

And the company claims its fuel cell cars even outlast the Mercedes version, covering 220 miles before needing refueling. The Mercedes car is a hydrogen guzzler in comparison -- getting only 90 miles per tank.

Pressure mounts
While the auto industry has tested hydrogen-powered cars for years, this is the first time that automakers are letting average drivers have the keys, a crucial step before the cars can be introduced to the general market.

That's not likely to happen for a decade or longer while more testing is done, Gates said.

Hydrogen is the latest in a long line of alternative fuels considered by automakers: electricity, methanol and natural gas among them.

With pressure to introduce more zero-emission vehicles -- including a California law requiring a percentage of new cars sold in that state to produce no smog -- the car industry is in a race to find a new fuel that will click with consumers.

Blame game
Car industry critics say the problem lies with automakers reticent to shell out millions of dollars to develop the technology. Carmakers blame consumers for not embracing alternative fuel vehicles.

With environmental damage from vehicle emissions mounting, many fleets of alternative fuel cars will have to hit the road to clean the air, said Richard Varenchik, spokesman for the California Air Resources Board.

"It's really for the automakers to decide to a great extent when they will introduce the cars to a wide enough market and then for the public to use them," Varenchik said.



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The following news you've all probably seen already, but what do you think?  Can you believe this?  It's horrible and has to be stopped.  
Oh yeah, and what do you make of the Tarot card he left (death)?

Man shot and killed at Virginia gas station
Friday morning 'emergency situation' on I-95
Friday, October 11, 2002 Posted: 11:23 AM EDT (1523 GMT)


Police inspected vehicles and questioned motorists Friday on I-95 just south of Washington.  
 
 SUSPECT INFORMATION:
Tip line:
888-324-9800
$350,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people involved in the shootings.
Reward contribution line:
240-777-8970

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Suspect vehicle:
White van, possibly an Isuzu or a Mitsubishi, with black lettering on the side.



 

MANASSAS, Virginia (CNN) -- A man was shot and killed at a gas station near Fredericksburg, Virginia, Friday morning. Police responded by launching a manhunt on Interstate 95, closing exits and stopping vehicles.

The man was killed at an Exxon gas station on U.S. Route 1 in Spotsylvania County, in the area of Massaponax, Exit 126 on I-95, about 9:30 a.m., according to Virginia state police and county police.

It was not known whether the killling was related to the recent Washington-area sniper shootings that have killed seven people and wounded two others.

Three of the sniper shootings targeted people filling their cars at gas stations.

State police are looking for a white Chevrolet Astro-type minivan with ladders on top. The task force investigating the sniper shootings is sending investigators to the scene.

Closer to Washington, in Alexandria, Virginia, police reported making a traffic stop of a person in a white van, and officers have surrounded the van.

FBI calls for help
Meanwhile, an FBI team is developing a "graphic aid" to be released to the public that police hope will help capture the elusive sniper or snipers.

Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose said investigators have received "very helpful" information from witnesses as the hunt for the shooter widens, but gave no hint that authorities are close to bringing the shootings in the Washington D.C.-area to an end.

"We're very hopeful that the special projects unit will have that information ready," Moose said. "We'll have that aid as soon as possible and then get it out."

Fear throughout the district has led schools to place restrictions on outdoor and extracurricular activities.

The sniper case has baffled and tested investigators, but FBI Special Agent Gary Bald praised the public input.

"We do have information that is very helpful to us. It's not as much information as we would like to have and we have appealed to the public. I'm very confident that there are people that have observed the shooter or shooters and that they -- some of whom we've heard from, not necessarily the people that have given us complete descriptions, but we have the information from citizens," Bald said.

Bald urged witnesses to come forward.

"I'd like to encourage the people that are out there that, I believe, have seen the shooters, perhaps in his vehicle, in their vehicle," Bald said. "We are interested in the information. We are not interested in the individual's identity. And I would like to encourage the citizens to contact us as they have."

Also, Bald was asked about the profile investigators are developing of the sniper. He said investigators have received "significant information" from witnesses and crime scenes. "I don't want to comment specifically on the profile, but it has been of assistance." (Full story)

Moose also said "people are talking to us" and urged potential witnesses to contact authorities if they think they have a viable tip.

"People need to be open-minded in what they saw and what they think they know," Moose said. (Moose profile)

In the latest shooting, ballistics evidence confirmed a man killed Wednesday night at a gas station in Manassas, Virginia, was the latest victim. Police were scouring the area for clues, talking to witnesses and trying to gather surveillance video from the filling station where the killing took place.

"As a result of the autopsy, ballistics evidence has linked these cases," said Prince William County Police Chief Charles Deane.

Forensics evidence, including ballistics tests on the bullets, have shown that each of the nine victims, seven of whom have died, was hit once with a .223-caliber bullet fired from a rifle from a relatively long distance. (Trail of the sniper)

Police said the bullet was fired from "some distance" away, similar to all the other cases. (Tracing the bullets)

The victim was alone when he was shot and was hit once in the upper body. He was identified as Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, who was the third person to be shot at a service station.

At one of the earlier sniper shootings, a witness reported seeing a white boxy van speed away from the scene, and police were continuing to look for that vehicle. No one has been able to report a license plate number.

Police said a white minivan being sought earlier with a possible connection to the crime had been found, and its driver was being interviewed, but it appears as if the driver was "innocently there." No other vehicles are being sought in Wednesday night's killing, Prince William Police Chief Charlie Deane said.

Investigators say there was no communication from the sniper as there apparently had been in Monday's shooting, when a 13-year-old middle school student was shot and critically wounded. An unidentified source said a Tarot death card had been found at the scene with the message -- "Mister Policeman: I am God."

Donors from 20 states have contributed $350,000 to a reward fund for information leading to the capture and indictment of the killer.

A source said authorities had planned to comply with a reported message on the card asking police to keep the contents of the message a secret to build rapport and possibly begin a dialogue with the person who dropped the card.

Moose was angry Wednesday that the information about the card was leaked to the media.

The evidence was taken to an FBI lab for fingerprint and DNA tests as well as analyses of the handwriting, spelling and the card's origins.

The card was the one depicting death in the deck used by fortune tellers. The death card, which often shows a skeletal figure on a horse, represents endings, transitions, eliminations and the experiencing of inexorable forces.

Authorities said the card could have been left by a prankster.

A week of killings
Wednesday night's killing in Virginia came exactly a week after the first shooting was reported in Montgomery County.

Five people were killed in Montgomery County during a 16-hour period from October 2 into the next morning. A sixth victim was shot dead the night of October 3 on a Washington street.

Two of the Maryland victims were killed at gas stations. (Victims' profiles)

A woman was wounded last Friday in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She was released from a hospital Tuesday.

Wayne Curtis, the cousin of the boy shot Monday at Benjamin Tasker Middle School, made a short statement Thursday regarding his relative, who is still at Children's National Medical Center in critical but stable condition.

Curtis thanked law enforcement and the public for their support and asked the media to respect the family's privacy.

He said the family hopes to be more forthcoming as the boy's recovery continues and said the family doesn't want to place the boy at risk or hinder the investigation.

"He's a fighter," Curtis said of his cousin, who has not been identified. "We remain optimistic."



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It's been kind of quiet here in the Astral Chat lately.  I know I just started school again and so my time is a lot more limited.  Are there other students here?

Anyway, maybe there's just not a lot on our minds...or so much that we don't have time to get on here and play in cyberspace.  

I am enjoying school.  Everytime a new quarter starts I realize how much I love to learn and discuss ideas.  

If you go to school, what are you studying?  If you are finishes, what degree did you get?

Hope to see more exciting topics soon!

-Dan

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I am trying to find/dowload Robert's most recent interviews (Schreiber and After Dark) but have been unable to get them.  I went to www.robertbruce.hit.bg or whatever that site is but have been unable to get the pages with the downloads load.  Anyone know of other sources??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-Dan

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I had an interesting experience the other night and hopefully someone can comment on similar expereinces, etc.

I was dreaming about sitting at a table conversing with a few friends of mine.  The dream was in black and white, by the way, and not very enjoyable.  Suddenly I gained a certain sense of lucidity and decided I wanted to leave.  I looked at the wall in front of me and suddenly I saw a grid pattern with the flower like symbols (such as the one found on the cover of Astral Dynamics) and I knew I could fly into one of them and leave my present location.  The patterns too were in black and white.  I flew up and into the pattern and that's all she wrote.

Anyway, I didn't download the rest of the experience into my waking conscious, but for some reason this experience sticks out in my mind.  What is the significance of black and white dreams/OBE's??

-Dan

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Does anyone here know much about this guy?  Here are some things he propones:

"Once, all life in the universe knew the Flower of Life as the creation pattern...the geometrical design leading us into and out of physical existence. Then from a very high state of consciousness, we fell into darkness and forgot who we were. For thousands of years the secret was held in ancient artifacts and carvings around the world, and encoded in the cells of all life. In this long-awaited book, Drunvalo presents in text and graphics the first half of the Flower of Life Workshop, illuminating the mysteries of how we came to be, why the world is the way it is, and the subtle energies that allow our awareness to blossom into its true beauty."

I wonder if this has anything to do with the patterns you fly in and out of in the astral...?

Alton Kamadon, the founder of "The Melchizedek Method", is a clairvoyant channel and spiritual teacher. He is responsible for grounding upon the Earth plane the vibration of the Kamadon Order of Mastery of Unconditional Love.

He has been initiated into the Alpha Omega Order of Melchizedek and, as a spiritual teacher, he has been actively involved in presenting world meditations, healings, counselling, and initiations. As he constantly travels the world, he presents up-to-date information and techniques within workshop and seminar environments. He has been a guest speaker at the United Nations where he gave a speech on unconditional love and channelled a message of love from Lord Sananda.

Alton received "The Melchizedek Method," incorporating "The Hologram of Love" Light Body Activation, in August 1997 from the Ascended Master Thoth. Alton also constantly receives information and works with The Ascended Masters, The Angelic Realms, Lord Sananda and Melchizedek. He also has memories of his deep connection to the ancient Mystery Schools of Lemuria, Atlantis and Egypt.

Previous workshops presented by Alton have been "Introduction Into The Cosmic Consciousness Energy", "The Final Keys To Ascension" and "The Inner Door". These workshops have been centred around working with sacred geometry as in those ancient times of Lemuria, Atlantis and Egypt. In these workshops participants were introduced to working with Platonic solid shapes rotating around the body motivated into action by the Fibonacci ratio spiral. The exercises were lengthy but very powerful.

In August 1997 the Ascended Master Thoth introduced to Alton a completely new simplified approach to Ascension and merkaba light body activation. He also brought forward a new holographic healing modality. He called this new/old wisdom "The Melchizedek Method". Thoth impressed upon Alton that these new/old techniques were first practiced on Earth by the cetaceans (dolphins and whales) within the temples of self discovery and higher learning in Atlantis. He went onto say:

"The Melchizedek Method is much more than a lightbody activation, healing and rejuvenation technique. It's a whole new formula for body health, harmony and spiritual ascension."

The Hologram of Love is the basis for these extraordinary spiritual teachings and is the simplest, most powerful Ascension tool introduced to mankind at this time. The techniques introduced in "The Melchizedek Method" workshop are quick, simple and powerful, perfect for these ascending times. The Hologram of Love Light Body Activation expresses only three breaths and on a daily basis only one breath. Level Two of the Melchizedek Method includes many advancements upon the original techniques, but still only needs two breaths for full activation.

During the workshops, Alton tells many of his own miracle experiences as well as those of others that have used these extraordinary techniques.

Alton continues to tour the world presenting the constantly evolving Melchizedek Method workshop/seminars, training practitioners and facilitators in many countries in the hope that the teachings he has received can expand and embrace all those who are committed to raising the conscious vibration of humanity.



http://www.melchizedekmethod.com/
http://www.drunvalo.net/
http://www.melchizedek.com/
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/melchiz.html
http://www.quatloos.com/groups/melchiz.htm

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Don't know that I agree with everything in here, but some of the stuff has to be true...and it's scary:


Corruption of Judicial System
Growing Window of Vulnerability
More World Affairs

World Affairs Brief, December 21, 2001
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted.
Cite source as Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief (http://www.joelskousen.com).

SPECIAL REPORT: CORRUPTION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM

Of the three branches of the federal government, the most important, in terms of preserving liberty, is the federal judiciary. It was designed to be the ultimate bulwark against injustice. The final resolutions of all controversies in law and government in America, no matter how small, are eventually determined by judges. Judges are supposed to enforce the limitations on lawmaking power upon the other two branches as dictated by the Constitution. They do not have the power to make law, but to strike down unconstitutional legislation and edicts of the executive branch.

Of the three branches, the judiciary is supposed to be the most impartial and the least political, since its members are not directly elected by the people. Sadly, almost all constitutional safeguards and restraints on judicial misconduct are now dead. For decades, until just this year, Federal judges were nominated, unconstitutionally, by the American Bar Association (ABA), an organization controlled by a committee of left-leaning, anti-constitutional attorneys. As of this year, nominations once again publicly come from the President, but the ABA still maintains its control through key allies in the Bush Justice Department. Judges are confirmed by the Senate in a very politicized process as well, also controlled by the ABA. The result is that, regardless of the party in power, the vast majority of judges who are confirmed are strongly liberal. Although a small percentage of judges are conservative, these judges have a reliable track record of taking orders from higher judges when necessary--thus, their conservative leanings are easily overridden. Despite increasing public evidence of judicial misconduct, Congress has refused to invoke the constitutional remedy of impeachment to remove a judge, at least for many, many years. State watchdog agencies remove, on average, only 10 judges a year, compared to the approximately 10,000 cases of alleged abuse reported annually--and most abuse is never even reported.

There are two types of corruption with judges: individual corruption and systematic, or institutionalized, corruption. The only type you will ever see evidenced in the media is the individual or "rogue" type of corruption. The Powers That Be want you to believe that the judicial system is above reproach, an honored profession, and that only an isolated judge here and there would be caught taking a personal bribe, or bending the law to protect crime. The same is true regarding the woefully corrupt police system: the establishment only admits to the occasional rogue cop, never to systematic corruption. But strangely, even rogue judges--blight that they are on the sterling reputation of the courts--usually receive only a token slap on the hands, and they almost never serve jail time. This is because the bribe they were caught taking is usually only the tip of the iceberg, if they are part of a broader conspiracy to protect government illegal operations. The PTB in the Justice Department work overtime to make sure the systematic corruption and collusion of these judges is kept hidden so as not to expose the broader and deeper conspiracy for government control--of which judges form an integral part. The judges who do get harsh punishment, sadly, are usually the rare few who obstinately refuse to go along with the systematic corruption of the judicial system, and these are set up in some form of sting operation to remove them "for cause." Significantly, there have been almost no defectors from the judicial ranks who have admitted to the institutionalized corruption in the system. That's because these judges know exactly what kinds of penalties and threats they would face if they did so.

One of the most significant ways in which judges aid and abet the conspiracy within government is to participate in the "take down" of federal agents and military personnel who get cold feet about illegal activities. When the CIA or FBI wants to silence an agent who is threatening to expose corruption within the dark side of government, they almost always set him up for prosecution by giving him orders to carry out a secret operation that, like many before, is illegal and corrupt. Only this time, instead of ensuring that the operation is protected, the agency anonymously calls the police and has the agent compromised and arrested. In the ensuing legal proceeding, presided over by one of "their" judges, they disavow any relationship with the accused.

The two most common illegal practices used by federal judges to assist in the prosecution (and conviction) of the defector are: 1) deny as inadmissible the introduction of crucial evidence pointing to the accused's employment as a government agent, and 2) give carefully crafted, prejudiced instructions to the jury, dictating a narrow course of action that can only end in a guilty verdict. At least one defector from the high ranks of the CIA has detailed the system of payoffs the government makes to judges through gambling casinos and foreign banks. Such details, plus many more specific stories of federal criminal activity, are found in Rodney Stich's blockbuster book, Defrauding America (1-800-247-7389). I have mentioned this book numerous times before in my briefs because it is perhaps the most complete catalog of government crimes and cover-ups presented in a single volume. It obviates the need to read a dozen other books. This is one that should be in every library. Many of you complain about how hard it is to convince your friends that a conspiracy really exists. Hand them this book, and if they have even half an honest heart, they will come away shaken. If they don't believe Stich's documentation, they won't believe until the thugs are at their door. Stich's exposé not perfect, but at least he has done independent verification of the stories that no other author has done.

THE INEVITABLE RESULTS OF FEDERAL CORRUPTION

Most of my readers have never experienced corruption similar to the dark stories detailed by Stich and his cadre of courageous government defectors. So you feel detached, maybe even safe. "Why would I ever be a target?" you say. I'll tell you why: the inevitable result of corruption at the top is that systematic growth of corruption at the state and local level follows--simply because emerging criminal minds find out that there is a massive protection racket above them which will guarantee them immunity, if they play long. There is nothing like the promise of immunity to foster criminal growth. In better times, it was always the threat of federal prosecution that kept state and local rings from growing into national syndicates. Now that the feds are the biggest national syndicate in drugs, prostitution, money laundering, and war, the little bad guys have every incentive to join the big boys--for bigger profits and less risk.

I want to concentrate on local and state collusion with federal criminal acts because this type of corruption is becoming a very real threat to each of us personally--even if you don't stick your neck out for conservative causes. I'm going to detail two stories for you. There are hundreds like them and the list is growing daily. They are tragic, hopeless stories of innocent people suddenly caught up in the jaws of the dark side of government, where there is no escape. In each case the victim or his survivors seek redress through the courts, and in each and every case, justice is denied--not once, but tens of times as appeals are made from the bottom to the top of our supposed constitutional system. What is startling about these particular stories is that they name names. And the names of those who reveal themselves to be on the side of government collusion are often people who pretend to be conservatives politicians, or judges. It shakes your faith in the system.

People have faith in the legal system today because these corrupt judges are smart enough to play the part of noble judge most of the time. They know that if they rule according to law most of the time, they can cover up the exceptions--with a little help from their friends up the ladder. These cover-ups can take many forms. One of the prominent ways to conceal flagrant violations of law is for a judge to seal the court records so the public is denied access to the facts. Colluding appeals courts often rule on a sensitive case without recording a written justification (which should never be allowed in our constitutional republic). Sometimes judges write an opinion and then have it depublished or declared ineligible as future court precedent. There is also an unwritten incestuous relationship between judges and attorneys. Young attorneys quickly learn that judges and big law firms control the turf and if you go against what the local legal power players want, you can get blackballed for life--and never win another case. In my first example, from the book A Case of Injustice (published by Palatine Press), you will see this attorney control system at its worst.

EXAMPLE 1: ANNE MORROW in "A CASE OF INJUSTICE"

This is a dramatic and powerful account of one feisty Texas businesswoman who wouldn't quit. I don't know why she is alive today, except by the grace of God. The powers arrayed against her were and still are ruthless. This real live story is set in south Texas, an area of the US which in the 1980s became an alternate source of drug importation for the CIA and other competing drug lords--after south Florida became too hot, politically.

Anne Morrow had married into one of the first families of Dallas--the Parrino family. She had political connections and money. Life was good. After the death of her husband, she ran a successful gift shop and, in 1984, decided to expand her business down into Corpus Christi. Like any normal unsuspecting business person, she entered into a standard lease for space at a new shopping center owned by one A. C. Gilmore--a seedy, unkempt king of the florist trade in south Texas (her first mistake). Readers of the book will note that as her account unfolds, Anne makes a series of little errors in judgment, each compounding her involvement in future bad situations, and each error accompanied by those subtle nervous feelings of conscience that forewarn of trouble. She doesn't heed the little warning signs, being positive and upbeat. This mistake is made by most people basking in the illusions of "good times." For Anne, it wouldn't take long for her experiences to shatter these illusions, a hard lesson in learning to listen better to these small warning signs.

After the absentee landlord failed to fulfill certain verbal agreements dealing with the critical issue of signage, Anne tried to sue for breach of contract. During her initial investigation she found out the seedy landlord had altered the lease document in order to justify his breach--an obvious and outright act of criminal fraud. Gotcha!--or so she thought. Little did she know, the seedy, overweight A.C. Gilmore was protected by a corrupt local judicial system, intrinsically linked with local law firms. Gilmore was in fact involved in the drug trade, and was using his investments in shopping centers and other legitimate businesses to launder the profits. How many of us do business with companies every day (sometimes national chains) who appear legitimate but which may be fronts for money laundering operations or secret government operations? You may never know, but it's a much bigger problem than you think. Even major airlines and banks are involved.

The truth about a company's linkage with organized government crime may only surface if you have a significant legal problem with them and find out, in your quest for a resolution, that this particular business is beyond the law. Most front businesses are smart enough to not make a major issue of small legal matters--they settle quickly to keep their profile low. But A.C. Gilmore was a slob--he didn't care how he handled the situation because he knew he was working for people bigger than even the state of Texas. He also had local judges in his pocket and was confident they would cover for whatever he did. He was right.

This slowly started to dawn on Anne as she engaged one attorney after another in Corpus Christi. In each case, they turned from friendly one day to sour and distant the next and started giving her the run around about why they couldn't represent her, or why she didn't have a case. Somebody was turning these lawyers against her. She couldn't believe a louse like Gilmore could have this much power. Could he be buying them off? She had a near air-tight case and no attorney would take it. Convinced that Gilmore couldnn't control all 650 lawyers in town, she kept trying. A private investigator stepped forward one day and offered to help--suspiciously, without charge. He and other connected politicians steered her towards an attorney who did agree to take her case--and then proceeded to sabotage it in a major way. He was talking to all her adversaries and acting on their behalf--a clear violation of attorney responsibility. When she threatened to charge him for misconduct to the Texas Bar Association, he just laughed. He was protected.

One of the keys to this story is her documentation of dealings with these attorneys. For those who distrust attorneys, this book will justify your every suspicion. It wasn't that everyone was involved personally with A.C. Gilmore. He wasn't paying them off. Most of these attorneys didn't even recognize the name of Gilmore when she initially presented her case to them. But then the following day, someone would get to these attorneys and their demeanor would change. None had the principles to blow the whistle on those applying pressure. They all folded and turned on her--every one, without exception. This means that there is an informal control system that shadows the legal profession--even in small communities. Individual lawyers never see it or know it exists until they start to handle a case that threatens some higher power. Then the phone calls come; subtle threats or warnings are uttered. Names are dropped. Potential consequences are hinted at. Lawyers are ladder-climbers in the profession. Most value their position in the legal pecking order more than their sense of justice. This is telling...and chilling.

But the good ol' boys underestimated Anne Morrow's determination. She finally went to the local elected officials with her case. Friendly at first, they too turned on her, or actively attempted to steer her into the arms of other vultures. She then went to the county prosecutor to request that he file criminal charges. He refused to even see her--ever! He had already been alerted. She bypassed him and got the same treatment from deputy prosecutors. She then went to the grand jury direct but the foreman informed her they could do nothing without the prosecutor's approval (not true). She went to the county commission--same story. When she proceeded to the Sheriff's office, she initially did get an admission from them that the area is full of corruption. They welcomed her case, and promised to pursue it in order to clean up the county. However, within a month the investigation was shut down and they treated her like dirt.

Anne then turned to the State of Texas and charged the county prosecutor with prosecutorial misconduct. A major investigation by the Texas state Prosecutorial Council began. At first the investigators were on her side. But once again, after all the incriminating evidence was gathered and presented to the State Legislature, orders came down from "above the State" to kill it. The Council was disbanded for good. Over the course of the next 10 years or so, she took her story to the FBI (in many different states), to Congressmen, Senators, and others, pulling every political string she had. Same story--everyone protected the surly A.C. Gilmore. Anne's description of the hostility she received at the hands of the FBI, even as she went from one state to another, tells volumes about how completely the dark side controls this once-sterling agency of justice.

It was obvious to me, after reading halfway through her story, that A.C. Gilmore had more power than a simple south Texas drug lord. He had risen from a nobody to a multi-millionaire in less than 3 years. You can do that as a local drug lord, but you don't get the protection of the state of Texas, the FBI, and members of Congress unless you are working for the feds. In this case I presume A.C. Gilmore was working for the CIA drug pipeline.

Certainly, not all of the players who stonewalled Anne's case were guilty of direct conspiracy, or even had knowledge of the underlying conspiracy. But one thing was certainly happening: people with federal power at a very high level were calling down to the State level and telling them to shut down Anne Morrow's case--probably in the name of "national security," that ubiquitous cover that stops anyone from asking further questions. Everyone stupidly snaps-to and salutes, "Yes, sir!" Anne was also surveilled throughout this ordeal--and not by mafia thugs. She was shadowed and watched by clean cut federal agent types, and still is today to a lesser degree. That takes a lot of expensive resources, even for the dark side of government

Anne Morrow still fights on. She wants closure, but she will never get it--not, at least, in terms of ultimate justice. I have tried to console her with the thought that she has done us all a great service simply by putting up the valiant fight, and having the courage to name names and document the extent of collusion and criminal behavior of the entire justice system. Her book can do much to wake up sleeping America. But the media isn't about to help. The 4th estate, which should have been sympathetic to this case of extreme prejudice toward a woman businessperson, has scorned and betrayed her. We can only make her sacrifice meaningful if we buy the book, read her story and pass it on. Order A Case of Injustice online at www.palatinepress.com. It's available as a hardcopy, or half price as an E-book download to your computer. It's a must read.

What good will it do? Plenty. All of us, even conservatives, need to have our illusions of honesty and goodness on the part of local government shattered. It is true that not every town is as bad as Corpus Christi, Houston, Denver, Chicago, SF, NY, or LA, but every city is being worked on and is under pressure, and every city is slipping ever closer into the federal grasp. Read on for another sobering example.

EXAMPLE 2: JUDICIAL CORRUPTION PROTECTS A GROWING POLICE STATE

The following is by John Morgan Duty. In his youth he documented some incidents of rogue police officers who beat up on some of youth. Over the years he started to see a pattern of systematic abuse, that can only happen when the judicial system tolerates abuse and covers for it. He documents a train of increasing abuse in the essay, Lest we forget Micheal Arnold [www.jail4judges.org] , which I have excerpted with comments below.

"Come with me and travel a road 30 years long. Arrive in the POLICE STATE you thought couldn't happen...(When) I met Constance Flaum [mother of the victim, Michael Arnold] my entire standard of comparison was about to be changed in a most profound way. What little respect I had left for the police was to evaporate. On March 27th, 1998, 22 officers of the Lennox Sheriffs' office [LA county, California] and Highway Patrol committed the singularly most heinous crime, of which I am aware.

"In the wee hours of that fateful morning, about 3:05am, 22 ...armored, sheriffs and highway patrolmen opened fire with 9mm pistols, shotguns, and at least one AR-15 assault riffle, loosing 250 rounds of ammunition in a sleeping community. Rounds of ammo found their way into several homes in the community, one coming to rest in the pillow that was under the head of a sleeping child... When the siege was over, 150 bullets had screamed through the neighborhood, 165 bullets had taken down one unarmed man, 62 bullets grazed him, 106 projectiles penetrated Mike's body and 55 were 'kill shots.'

"When the military style assault was over, the police went door to door demanding the citizens tell them what they had seen and heard. They instructed the citizenry to stay in the house, away from the windows and remain there until the scene was secured. [Citizens should never comply with these kinds of demands.] Then the police searched the dead man's new white Lincoln Towncar to find out who they had just killed, only to discover they had made one of their famous mistakes. It seems they had just massacred a young, highly successful, local businessman known for his genteel nature and philanthropy. Mike Arnold was so kindhearted he was known as that guy who carried around his blind pooch in his arms and collected stuffed animals. He never owned a gun in his life.

"He did, however, keep an air pistol or two because he managed property and occasionally had to scare away a rodent or snake. Realizing what they had just done, the adrenaline pumped cops huddled and came up with a quick but feeble plan. One of the cops got into the car and moved it down the street nearly to the corner and a couple of the other cops retrieved a high-pressure hose from the meat packing company across the street.

"They rinsed the torn flesh and blood down into the gutter. They then moved the car back to its original position, placing it between the dead man's body and the street. They opened the trunk and upon finding the air pistol, they placed it in the mutilated hand of the victim in an attempt to make the man look as if he were armed when they shot him. Interestingly, the hand in which they placed the gun had been shot three times.

"Two shots went completely through the hand and the third severed the tendons, making it impossible for the victim to have held anything. The other interesting point of consideration was that the gun had not one scratch on it so how did the bullet pass through the hand and not the handle of the pistol? At this point I am asking myself what kind of explanation did the police try to offer to cover up their crime? It went something like this according to the story in the newspaper. 'Unidentified suicidal freeway sniper killed in shootout with police.'

"Apparently the news reporter didn't bother to investigate or interview anyone on the scene or he would have found out that when the police stopped Mike, they ordered him out of the car. With hands in the air as commanded, they told him to keep his hands up and to step backwards toward them. He was in complete compliance with the police especially since everybody knows how deadly the California Highway Patrol can be. His fatal mistake was to turn ever so slightly to the left to get a look at who was barking orders, at which point one of the psychopaths ripped off a shot that tore Mike's face off. Statements the police spokesman made on TV alleged that, 'Michael Arnold had been armed with two handguns from which he fired multiple rounds at the police, endangering the community.'

"THE FACTS

1) ONLY one gun was produced into evidence -- a BB-Gun

2) The make and model of BB gun placed in Michael's hand was not capable of firing 'multiple rounds' nor was it possible for an air pistol to leave the gunpowder residue found on Michael's hands. This proves that the shooters moved him.

3) The very first shot blew Michael's brains out thus rendering him incapable of holding anything.

4) Three bullets passed completely through his hand shattering his arm and shoulder bones, and severed tendons required for gripping.

5) Though bloody, the BB pistol didn't have a single scratch on it according to the coroner.

6) Trajectory experts concluded the 'kill zone' was in the middle of the street and not on the sidewalk where the coroner examined the body some 7 hours after the murder took place.

7) All 165 bullets entered Michael's body front to back and left to right putting the car directly between them. Though an excess of 250 rounds were fired, only one bullet hit the car. Unlikely or impossible?

When the car was moved to the corner of the street to allow the police to rinse down the scene they backed over the gutter drain. As the blood and flesh was hosed down the drain, DNA and blood was splattered into the wheel wells and undercarriage of the car. Undeniable proof of evidence tampering.

9) Experts, eyewitnesses, and incontestable forensic evidence corroborated all offering of facts. All of the facts and evidence was either refused or ignored by: 1) The LA County Sheriff 2) LA County Board of Supervisors 3) The California State Attorney 4) Governor Gray Davis 5) EVERY Senator and Congressperson from the state of California 6) The United States Senate and House of Reps 7) The FBI The US Attorney General 9) The US Dept. of Justice 10) President of the United States." [End of JMD quote]

The list of official government accomplices to the cover-up matches what Anne Morrow found. Morrow's experience is not unique. The problem is nation-wide.

Sadly, the lesson from these two examples is that the Constitution is only a paper document now, enforced selectively as a suitable cover to make evil government officials look benign while they engage in gross violations of law that are kept hidden. Believe me, judges are violating people's fundamental rights in every state of the union, though some states are much worse than others. Judges would never dare do this, with court reporters recording their words, if they were not confident their illegal actions would be covered for by higher judicial authority at the federal level. This is my message. Our liberties are in grave danger because our ultimate recourse to the courts is now effectively blocked by corrupt judges in collusion with the evil powers that control this nation. It isn't absolute control, and all judges are not involved directly, but too many judges and attorneys assent by their silence, and that is how liberty dies.

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2002-2006:  The West's Growing Window of Vulnerability

by Joel M. Skousen,

Editor World Affairs Brief

http://www.joelskousen.com

For the last thirty years the West--and the US in particular--has engaged in de facto unilateral disarmament vis-à-vis the twin Communist threats of Russia and China.  Ostensibly, the original official policy was conditioned upon a series of multilateral and verifiable disarmament agreements with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact states--but these agreements have, in fact, been neither.  Instead, the West has acted unilaterally to disarm while China and the Soviet Union (and its successor, the Commonwealth of Independent States) have either refused to signs such agreements or have violated them repeatedly.

In response to these violations, the US has engaged in a policy of denial that Russia and China are strategic threats, choosing instead to focus on the much smaller threats from minor rogue nations--all of which are client states of the "Big Two" Communist powers.  In addition, both Republican and Democratic administrations in the US have engaged in a systematic covering operation for Russian and Chinese hostile intentions by:

a) minimizing the perception of Chinese and Russian aggression against other nations (Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Tibet, Chechnya),

b) downplaying or hiding from public disclosure Chinese and Russian violations of arms agreements,

c) amending arms treaties or making secret side agreements formalizing the legitimacy of violations,

d) facilitating military technology transfers to both China and Russia as if they were allies or "strategic partners,"

e) encouraging or allowing the Russians to build compensatory modernized missile systems, presumably so they won't feel insecure about proposed US missile defense systems.

IS THERE A CREDIBLE THREAT TODAY?

One of the most egregious deceptions perpetrated upon the public today is that Russian military might has collapsed.  Actually, Russia still presents a very real threat, with a military that is continually being updated and strengthened.  However, to perpetrate the theory of their own military weakness, Russia has removed from public view the major portions of ongoing weapons modernization programs and allowed Western arms control inspectors to see only old, outdated weapons systems that Russia needs to replace anyway.  Then, feigning poverty, they have induced the West to pay for the modernization.  Never mind that Russia always seems to have the funds to develop new and expensive high tech weapons for sale to client rogue nations.  

Western inspectors have never been allowed into any of the major underground storage and manufacturing depots scattered around the CIS--only the old ones built early in the Cold War which are hardly serviceable.  Instead of making realistic approximations of Russian military assets based upon a clear pattern of obscuration and cheating, virtually every official US and British source of intelligence lists Russian and CIS military assets today as if they were abiding by arms control treaties.  In other words, the numbers of nuclear warheads and missiles in official records are listed to match what they are supposed to be, according to treaty--not what they really are (which no one knows for certain).

Russia is in the completion stage of two huge underground military-industrial complexes and numerous other interconnected bunker developments throughout Russia (e.g.: the Sherapovo bunker site, south of Moscow).  The  Yamantau Mountain underground complex in the Beloretsk area of the southern Ural mountains is estimated to be the size of the Washington DC metro area, and the Yavinsky Mountain complex is slightly smaller.  Although Russia claims both these sites to be mining projects, the multiple standard sized rail lines entering hardened entrances at each complex suggest otherwise.  Why would Russia refuse to let US inspectors inside if they were only mining operations?   When the New York Times ran a front page article in 1996 on these facilities, the CIA responded by excusing them as "defensive," even though they admittedly have never been inside. Clearly this is another example of US agencies being directed by higher authority to downplay any evidence that Russia is still a threat.  Private military analysts, myself included, suspect that these huge underground complexes are housing complete nuclear, biological and chemical warfare factories capable of surviving nuclear retaliation and maintaining Russia's production capacity during a nuclear war.  Russia clearly intends to start and win a nuclear conflict, despite all the wishful thinking by disarmament experts to the contrary.

THE MYTH OF RUSSIAN DISARMAMENT

While Russia feigns poverty and purposefully keeps major sectors of the economy in shambles, huge amounts of Western loans and aid are secretly being funneled into growing weapons programs.   According to Pentagon analyst  Frank C. Spinney,  "Since 1991, Congress has authorized nearly $2 billion to assist Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan with the safe and secure storage, transportation, and dismantlement of nuclear and chemical weapons (The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program for Soviet Weapons Dismantlement).  The United States also arranged to purchase 500 metric tons of enriched uranium from dismantled warheads to keep it out of circulation. The warhead materials are to be blended down and made into reactor fuel. The deal, however, has run into difficulties due to haggling over the price the United States would pay for the uranium and due to financial pressures stemming from the privatization of the government corporation charged with implementing the deal, the United States Enrichment Corporation. Critics say the US aid is freeing up money for Moscow to continue its strategic nuclear buildup, which includes two new long-range missile systems and a new class of missile submarines."  Notice that when it comes to Russian compliance some snag always emerges that keeps them from complying--and yet the money keeps flowing.

 

Here is a recent assessment of the disarmament boondoggle by J. R. Nyquist, author of Origins of the Fourth World War:  "Recently, it was pointed out by Colin McMahon, of the Chicago Tribune, that the United States is probably paying for the modernization of Russia's nuclear weapons industry.  Meanwhile, our own nuclear-weapons production capability is – according to Senator Fred Thompson – beginning to crumble.  At a secret 'nuclear city' in Russia there is a $640 million structure built for housing plutonium from dismantled Russian nukes.  American tax dollars paid for this structure.  According to McMahon, some experts contend the US has been 'hoodwinked into financing an upgrade of Russia's weapons complex.' As it turns out, US observers are not allowed to see what is going on at the Russian facility where the $640 million was spent.  This would not be the first instance of America unwittingly financing Russian weapons programs. American dollars sent to Russia have been diverted, and many of these diversions have probably benefited Russian military programs. In recent years, the United States has spent nearly $5 billion in Russia."

What is particularly disturbing is that the US is responsible for its own arms race.  The US gave the secrets of the atom bomb to Russia during the Lend-Lease period of WWII as documented in the diaries of Major George Jordan, the Lend-Lease officer who objected and was overruled by the FDR White House.  The US also provided the nuclear material for Russia's first bomb.  In the 1970s, the US facilitated the transfer of sensitive military technology to improve the range and accuracy of Soviet missiles.  Sadly, the American people never realized why we had to build anti-missile systems against these weapons--or how our enemies got them.  

The excuse used at the time for American complicity regarding these transfers was that Russia was too weak to be a threat.  When it became strong due to Western assistance--and very dangerous--we were then told we must appease the Russians because they are a nuclear threat.  Brilliant deduction!  The same rationale is being repeated with China.  Within 10 years or less, China will be a predatory  power that both the West and Russia will come to the same brilliant conclusion after it's too late. It is no secret among Pentagon experts that both Russia and China still adhere to the military doctrine of using a massive nuclear pre-emptive strike on the West as the opening salvo in the next war.  Russia begins each military exercise with such a simulated nuclear strike, according to reliable Russian military defectors.

Interestingly enough, if the US believes that Russia is no longer a threat, then why does the Pentagon's Monterey Language School still continue to train more Russian language specialists than any other language by far?   Why, if the US really believes that only rogue nations are a threat did the US install the newest Globus-2 tracking system in Norway--a site suitable only for tracking Russian missiles?  Obviously, while the US government is assuring the world of Russia's peaceful intentions and specifically excluding a Russian strike from its defensive assumptions, they are planning for something much more ominous.  

THE SHAM OF CONVENTIONAL FORCES REDUCTION

Americans are pacified about the US disarmament policy by their own government's falsification of estimates regarding Russian nuclear and conventional forces.  I've already mentioned the fact that Russia's true numbers of nuclear weapons and warheads is beyond knowing, so US policy makers are told to assume that Russia is in compliance (a fool's paradise).  Putin, in a recent interview taken a week after his meeting with President Bush, made these candid remarks about the futility of an ABM system: "We will be unable to monitor one another and see how many missiles we have decommissioned . . and when we have unscrewed a warhead, see whether we have placed it nearby or destroyed it...there will be no control. What we unscrew today, we can install tomorrow."   Absolutely true, and every starry-eyed arms controller knows this but refuses to talk about it, so strong is the ideological tenacity to which they adhere to the cause.

Disarmament of conventional forces has also been downplayed unrealistically.  The Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) required that the Soviets would reduce their ground forces west of the Urals (an important loophole) to one-third of their mid-1988 levels by the end of 1994.  Their armored forces would be reduced from 40,400 tanks and 138 reserve motor rifle divisions to 13,000 tanks and 50 divisions.  There were also reciprocal "flank" provisions in which Russia and NATO agreed not to permit concentrations of their own armed forces on their flanks to the north and south.

Before the implementation of the CFE treaty, the Russians were allowed (and encouraged) to withdraw 70,000 pieces of heavy armor and artillery beyond the Ural mountains so they would not be calculated in the CFE provisions.  So, with all the equalizing of numbers supposedly mandated by the CFE, keep in mind that Russia has stockpiled a huge number of modern tanks and mobile artillery in depots east of the Ural mountains which can be brought back into operation quickly during war.  

Even with these loopholes and concessions granted, the Russians have never fully implemented their side of the CFE.  For example, in 1996 Latvia protested the US approval of Moscow's plan to increase the number of armored personnel carriers in the flank region of Latvia from 400 to 600, when Latvia only had 15 such vehicles.  The Latvian protest went unheeded by the US.  Last year, Poland protested the buildup of tactical nuclear stockpiles in the Kaliningrad Oblast--another violation of the flank agreement.  The Clinton administration refused to pressure Russia to back down and instead entered into a side agreement making the violation acceptable.  

As the Center for Security Policy reported in 1995, "Russia will formally violate the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty.  That it would do so comes as no surprise; Moscow has failed fully to draw down the thousands of battle tanks, armored vehicles and heavy artillery pieces it is obliged to remove from the northern and southern flank regions and has telegraphed its intention not to do so for months. Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev did so again quite pointedly yesterday, announcing that 'compliance [with the CFE accord] will fully violate our country's system of security both in the south and in the north.' Evidently, the Kremlin believes it must retain 1,100 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles and 2,100 artillery pieces in its Western region in order to intimidate -- and, if necessary, to fight -- adversaries at home (e.g., the Chechens) and abroad (e.g., the Baltic States, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey).

"The Clinton Administration has responded to this strategically portentous and politically sensitive Russian recalcitrance by essentially capitulating. It has agreed to support an adjustment to the CFE Treaty that would enable Moscow to keep the tanks and artillery pieces it wants along the flanks. Washington has, to date, agreed nearly to double the number of armored vehicles the Russians are allowed to have in the region (i.e., 1,000 armored personnel carriers, etc. versus the 580 it is permitted to have and in contrast to the 3,000 the Kremlin currently seeks).   When the CFE Treaty was signed on November 19 [1994] the Soviets had 20,700 tanks remaining in the Atlantic-to-Urals region. That leaves 7,550 Soviet tanks to be destroyed under the treaty's requirements."   Still, these numbers do not include the 70,000 pieces Russia has stockpiled east of the Urals.  To date, the Russians have only destroyed a few hundred of the oldest tanks.  Other armored vehicles have been sold to neighboring client states, and thus are still available to enforce Russian foreign policy.

Another chronic disinformation ploy is to claim the Russian air force lacks sufficient fuel to maintain pilot readiness.  A typical quote from the Pentagon proclaims, "The most acute problem in the Russian Air Force is lack of training resources, specifically lack of fuel. Flying hours have been kept to the minimum for years, which erodes besides the pilot skills also the readiness of the whole system."  This is ludicrous.  Russia is awash in oil resources and doesn't lack for refineries.  The country is a huge exporter of oil and fuel products.   If Russian officials are limiting the fuel available for flying time, it is because they have chosen to do so, for reasons of promulgating an image of weakness.

RUSSIAN MILITARY POWER VS. NATO

As of late 1990 (prior to the CFE) here is a typical view of NATO vs. Soviet conventional forces according to Soviet Military Power.  Note that there was an approximate 2:1 Soviet advantage in quantity of land based weapons:

                                                               NATO:                   WARSAW PACT:

Divisions                                               46                            90

Tanks                                                     23,000                     53,000

Armored Combat Vehicles  30,000                     53,000

Artillery                                                 19,000                     39,000

Combat Aircraft                                    5,500                       8,500

Helicopters                                            1,700                       1,600

Carrier Groups                                      15                            0

Military Ships                                       1,300                       1,500

Armored Divisions                              41                            79

Manpower                                             1.85 million            5.3 million                                                              

Here is a current view of the West vs. East comparison after CFE including Russian Ural stockpiles, normally omitted from conventional assessments for political reasons.   There still is a 2:1 Russian bloc advantage in conventional land-based weaponry.   The two sides are at least comparable in nuclear forces.

               

CONVENTIONAL FORCES:

US/NATO
RUSSIA/CIS

Divisions
11/19 = 30
50/20 = 70

Tanks  
4,000/16,000 = 20,000
43,000/7,000 = 50,000

Armored Combat Vehicles
5,000/24,000 = 29,000
40,000/15,000 = 55,000

Artillery                                
2,500/16,000 = 18,500
33,000/15,000 = 45,000

Combat Aircraft    
600/1,000 = 1,600
4,500/1,600 = 5,100

Helicopters
300/1,700 = 2,000
2,300/1,600 = 3,900

Carrier Groups      
6/3 = 9
1

Military Ships
300/600 = 900
1,200

STRATEGIC NUCLEAR FORCES:

US/NATO
RUSSIA/CIS

Nuclear Missile Subs
18/39
13

Nuclear Attack Subs
52/45
38

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
550, MX out in 2002
756 known, and growing

Sub Launched Missiles
432/640
412

Nuclear Bombers
115/204  
85/20

Total Nuclear Warheads    
6,500/550
9,000 est.

TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
2,000 or less
20,000 or more


AN ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT OF US/NATO VS. RUSSIAN MILITARY POWER

One cannot simply tally up total forces and come to a predictable outcome based upon quantity.  Quantity does matter, but it is only one of several factors to consider.  Quality of weapons systems are a factor.  Some high tech weapons are worth 10 conventional types.  But quality is overplayed by the Americans.  Smart weapons are ten to twenty times more costly than conventional weapons and thus are deployed in vastly smaller quantities.  None of the Western nations has the unlimited budget to field both quality and massive quantity.  In addition, high tech weapons have never been tested against a determined enemy possessing both quality weapons and overwhelming numbers.  The recent US experiments in clean, surgical stand-off warfare against Iraq and Serbia were not good real-world examples of military prowess.  Neither Iraq nor Serbia had the will or capability to fight back in a meaningful manner.  Yet even so, in both mini-wars, US stockpiles of smart weapons were drawn down to dangerously low levels.  In many cases the stockpiles have not been rebuilt.  Up against a Russian attack, with an adversary capable of throwing tens of thousands of armored weapons into the conflict, the US and NATO simply don't have enough smart weapons to disable even one-third of the potential threat.

Tactics are another major factor.   The US and NATO have ceded the advantage in tactical NBC weapons to the Russians.  The US developed and then declined to deploy the neutron bomb, capable of killing large numbers of people without destroying cities--a major battlefield advantage if faced with overwhelming numbers of enemy troops.  The US has also decommissioned and is destroying almost all its biological, chemical and tactical nuclear stockpiles. Meanwhile, the Russians have deployed the neutron bomb, are maintaining huge stockpiles of other tactical nuclear weapons, and continue to build (in violation of all treaties) stockpiles of modern chemical and biological weapons. Even though treaties have been signed agreeing to reductions of tactical nuclear weapons, these treaties required the Russians only to warehouse their stockpiles.  

In terms of morale and combat readiness, both East and West have serious shortcomings.  The Russians are purposefully allowing their troop levels to drop while maintaining unusually high levels of NCOs and officers.  Some analysts believe this is indicative of feigning weakness while holding on to the leadership capability to rapidly assimilate new recruits in a war.  In the West, NATO would be hard-pressed to field 4 divisions within a reasonable time. US forces are overplayed and understaffed as well.  Morale is at rock bottom in US units.  The US has been enforcing tenuous and unpopular peacekeeping operations abroad that have little bearing on American security interests and have been unpopular with US troops.   Politicians, knowing the fragility of American tolerance for these foreign entanglements,  have skewed military tactics to avoid (and sometimes cover up) getting Americans killed, leaving the false impression that military operations can be done with little risk of bloodshed--another fool's paradise.   Meanwhile, political correctness has invaded all aspects of American military training.  Irritating sensitivity training has caused racial sensitivities to heighten rather than lessen.  Preferential treatment for women in the military--forcing the use of double standards in training--also saps the morale out of mixed forces.   Pay and benefits have now become the sole motivators in recruitment efforts, and it isn't working.  The quality of retention is suffering along with quantity.   When politicians destroy the moral and patriotic basis for military service, good people leave and unprincipled mercenaries fill in the vacuum.



THE NUCLEAR FACTOR

The one factor that can unbalance all others is the nuclear factor.  Nuclear considerations dominate because only nuclear weapons have the potential to change the balance of power so quickly.  Of course, the mere possession of  nuclear weapons does not equate to deterrence if it is apparent that a nation lacks the political will to use them.   Communist leaders do not lack the ruthlessness to do so.   The Russians are so sure of the inevitability of a nuclear war that they have made substantial preparations to survive such a circumstance, including a huge underground hardened military support system and civilian shelter system.  

In contrast,  US and NATO allies are particularly unprotected and left vulnerable to nuclear attack.  In addition, the US has engaged in several unwise policies that actually encourage a Russian pre-emptive nuclear strike:

1) There are no longer any nuclear bombers on alert that can get airborne in time to escape a nuclear first strike.

2) Driven by naive notions of Russian disarmament and an inordinate fear of accidental launch, the US military today lives under the ominous and suicidal restrictions of a top secret Presidential Decision Directive (PDD-60) mandating that the US military absorb a nuclear first strike and not launch on warning.  This has not been rescinded by President Bush.

3)  The US has agreed to keep half of its ballistic missile submarine fleet (SSBN) in port at any time, ensuring the Russians' ability to eliminate half our capacity in a single blow.  These two ports at Bangor (Seattle), Washington and King's Bay, Georgia are guaranteed first strike targets.  Similarly the nation's B-1 bomber force is being consolidated into 2 bases instead of the current 5.  

4)  There exist no nuclear fallout shelters in the US intended to protect the general population.  The government has built numerous large scale underground shelters to protect military and high ranking civilians from attack--which is telling.

The Russians know all of this, and wonder privately how or if the US could be so naive, especially regarding PDD-60.   This order to absorb a nuclear first strike is like telling the Russians, "Look, you're going to have a free shot, so you'd better give us all you have on the first try, before we retaliate."   Retaliate with what?  If an enemy knew they could strike without the fear of launch on warning--a powerful deterrent--they would make sure to hit the US with everything necessary to ensure that any retaliation would be limited.  Russian forces can easily handle a limited retaliation, given their level of sheltering.  Launch on warning is a powerful deterrent specifically because of the time delay it takes missiles to arrive on target.  The US could launch its own silo-based missiles before the Russian missiles arrive on target.  With a knowledge of which Russian facilities had already launched weapons, US missiles could be retargeted to attack those Russian missiles or facilities that are still vulnerable.  When the Russian missiles finally arrived, many of their targets would be empty.  Thus, launch on warning actually gives an advantage to the side that launches second--not first.

Without a policy to launch on warning, two and a half legs of the US strategic triad (nuclear missiles, bombers, half of SSBNs) would be taken out all at once in a first strike.  The remaining SSBNs could easily be neutralized and cut off from command by a Russian EMP strike (multiple high altitude nuclear explosions producing electromagnetic pulses that destroy electrical connections below) combined with anti-satellite attacks.  EMP could destroy ELF low frequency communications and satellite systems used to direct submarine operations.  Without communications and authorization to launch missiles, our SSBNs would become isolated and ineffective.

The US has a massive superiority in aircraft carrier task forces.  But with today's high tech satellite surveillance systems, it is nearly impossible to hide these forces even on the open seas in bad weather.  One nuclear salvo could take out these forces in minutes.   The US navy currently has no effective ABM system to counter a nuclear strike on its carriers.  The Aegis system could potentially be modified to that purpose, but changes to the speed and range of the Aegis missiles would be substantial and costly.

ANALYSIS OF CURRENT US STRATEGY

The US strategy has left the nation blatantly vulnerable to a Russian pre-emptive strike during the 2002 to 2006 time frame--what is fast becoming a large window of vulnerability.  

The US is accelerating its unilateral disarmament by decommissioning the powerful MX ICBM in 2002. The MX is a crucial factor in the balance of nuclear deterrence for several reasons.

1) It is our only missile armed with 10 MIRVed warheads, each capable of hitting and destroying hardened Russian and Chinese targets.  

2) It is our most modern and accurate missile.

3) Even though only 50 MX missiles exists, with 10 warheads on each missile that's a loss of 500 potential targets--a huge loss in deterrence capability.  

4) With PDD-60 still governing our military's nuclear response, the loss of all 50 MX missiles frees up at least 250 Russian warheads to target other US facilities.  This is because the Russians would have to blanket a hardened MX silo with at least 5 ground burst weapons in order to ensure a kill.  

This unilateral move comes at a time when Russia is not only NOT disarming but is building and deploying 3 new SS-27 (Topol-M) ICBMs per quarter--and there could be more in production in underground factories.  Putin is openly threatening to place 3 warheads on this new 6th generation ICBM (rumored to possess ABM jamming capabilities and maneuvering warheads), even though the START II treaty only allows Russia one warhead per missile.  In fact, Putin's threat is disinformation for the media.  Both he and US intelligence know that Russia has already begun mounting multiple warheads on the Topols as of last year.   An SS-27 missile test with multiple warhead separation has even been recorded by space based sensors.  

What is also little known is that President Clinton already offered Russia the 3-warhead option as part of his deal to gain Russia's permission to build an ABM system--as if we needed Russia's permission to defend ourselves.  What was particularly egregious was Clinton's reasoning.  He said his offer was to assure Russia that they would have sufficient nuclear power to overwhelm the puny 100 missile interceptor system being planned at the time.  Here is an American president supposedly building an Anti-Ballistic Missile system to protect the American people and then offering to make an agreement with our largest potential nuclear enemy to render the system ineffective!  Thus, it was entirely predictable that Putin's defense minister would openly deride the US ABM system by saying exactly that--that by mounting 3 warheads on Russia's planned 500 SS-27s, Russia could overwhelm the US defense system.  

As if that weren't enough, Russian defense ministry spokesmen announced, after a test launch of an SS-19 ICBM this week, that Russia may not dismantle the SS-19s after all, in spite of prior promises to do so.   This is not surprising since Russia is and has been in violation of virtually every single disarmament agreement signed.  Strangely, the US not only never protests these violations, but insists on abiding by the agreements itself unilaterally.

As I have said before in prior World Affairs Briefs, our leaders aren't simply stupid, naive, or even suicidal.  These tactics of covering for Russian violations and war preparations indicate that US globalist leaders have some sort of ulterior motives not in accord with US sovereign interests.  These motives are instead tied, in my opinion, to global intentions of undermining US sovereignty and military might.  What better way to do that than create the conditions of US vulnerability whereby Russia is induced to finally destroy the one obstacle in Communism's long dream of world hegemony--the US military?  

OTHER UNTIMELY MOVES THAT WILL UNDERMINE US MILITARY STRENGTH

As Russia and China build for a two-ocean war of supremacy against the US, Sec. of Defense Rumsfield recently announced to Congress that as a matter of US military policy and strategy, the US will no longer prepare to wage two major wars simultaneously.   This is a tacit admission that the Bush campaign pledge to rebuild the American military does not involve a strategy for preparing against the greatest known threats--Russia and China--which would require preparing for the inevitable larger war to come.  

Rumsfield's stated intention of allocating almost the entire $8 billion in defense budget increases towards pay and amenities for service men is indicative that the Bush administration's increased spending will not be sufficient or timely enough to protect the US during this hastening window of vulnerability.  Thus, currently deployed weapons systems will not be maintained or increased in quantity due to the high cost of fielding the next generation of high tech weapons beginning in 2006-2010.  Ammunition and cruise missile stocks have yet to be replenished from the Serbia campaign.  

WHY 2002 TO 2006 IS SO DANGEROUS

With the continued downsizing of conventional forces and disarmament of strategic nuclear forces, the US has knowingly or unknowingly left itself dangerously exposed to Russia's nuclear option from 2002 to 2006.   Considering the quantities of conventional forces held in reserve by both Russia and China, the West would be hard–pressed even under existing favorable circumstances to field a sufficient quantity of smart munitions to fight a full scale, two ocean war during that period.  If such a war were preceded by a nuclear pre-emptive strike against the West, the resulting diminution of Western military power would be almost fatal.  I suspect strongly that the Russians intend to use the nuclear option on the US and Britain, and then attempt to blackmail Europe into submission.  If Europe fails to succumb, Russia will procede with an attack on Europe with tactical nuclear weapons and a massive quantity of conventional forces once Europe's compliment of the high tech weapons are eliminated or used up.  China, currently in a mutually supportive role with Russia, will use their advantage (in quantity of armed forces) to occupy vast territories, while Russia supplements China's limited naval transport capabilities.  

CONCLUSIONS:

the US is making a huge strategic mistake by downsizing and disarming strategic forces before new weapons systems are deployed to shore up the deterrence factor.  It's a mistake to disarm in any case, given the massive amount of Russian and Chinese violations of arm control agreements.   Even relying on small numbers of high tech equipment, without sufficient ammunition stocks to field a much larger threat, is very unwise, but disarming in the face of Russia's increased motivation to use the nuclear option is suicidal.  Sadly, it appears as if the United State's illusory days as the world's only super power are numbered.    

The window of US/NATO vulnerability will begin to open in 2002 after the MX missiles are destroyed.  The intention of the US to leap forward in time and field a whole new generation of high tech weaponry after 2006, coupled with the threat of a vigorous multi-tiered ABM system before 2007, almost guarantees that the Russians will see the necessity to strike before that time frame.  No single issue incites Russian or Chinese fears more than the specter of an ABM system that will potentially limit their planned first strike strategy.  Their opposition to this purely defensive system is clear evidence of eventual hostile intentions--all other excuses about its potential for creating an arms race are pure propaganda.  Russia is already in an arms race, building a new force of ICBMs, and the West is helping out with a steady flow of loans and joint venture military technology.  

The picture I paint is grim and holds little hope at this late stage for reversal. As Serbian-American Petar Makara said recently, "false hope will keep the victim immobilized when action is the only real hope left."   To a world accustomed to living in illusions of peace and hope, this projected Russian nuclear strike is unthinkable, therefore the public will continue to prefer paralysis to action.  

Furthermore, the West naively thinks that everyone is rational like themselves and that no modern nation would knowingly plan to destroy our marvelous way of life, since it would affect the perpetrator himself.  Sadly, these illusions of hope are reminiscent of the 1930s.  Most fail to remember that real evil rises up from time to time as men's consciences grow dull and they become resistant to the warning signs--and even anxious to disbelieve.  It's only been a little more than a half a century since the world succumbed to the same illusions of peace and prosperity that led to WWII.  It is my warning to the world that we are entering a similar but even more deceptive period which will sweep us into WWIII, to be followed by a total restructuring of the New World Order--which will destroy in one final motion what remains of national sovereignty and individual liberty.  

Naturally, the resulting form of government will still be called democracy and the "rule of law"--but the law will have become a vehicle of oppression and there will be no retreat allowed back to individual, family, or national sovereignty.  The EU, NAFTA, and the WTO are administrative precursors to this control system, which should be actively resisted.  But the real chains of international police power are only capable of being forged when people are suffering under the exigencies of war and cease to worry about rights and limited government in their quest for survival.  That's why, as Helmut Kohl cryptically hinted at his speech in Leuven, Belgium in 1996, "The only alternative to European integration is war."  As an insider, Kohl knows that war--what the world considers unthinkable--may soon become a tragic reality.

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It's been a year since the infamous attacks of September the 11th and I am sitting here wondering where we're at...and how I feel.  How do you feel?  Are we on track to stop terror?  

Another issue:
Should we take on Iraq now and force Saddam out of power?  Part of me says yes and the other says no.  Somtimes I think of how we had Osama in our hands about 5 years ago, about the time of the embassy bombings in Africa, etc. and we didn't do anything.  Many felt that evidence was scant and that it was none of our business...and besides few Americans died in those attacks.  We didn't do anything to Ossama and then look what he did.  Now I fear we are in the same situaion with Saddam.  Don't get me wrong, attacking Iraq will be a tragedy.  Innocent people wil die...but what do we do?  Do we wait until he detonates or launches a nuclear weapon at some city?  

Obviously the answer is to destroy all of our weapons and the come together.  Establish free trade, look for new sources of fuel....world peace.  But is that realistic?  We would still have those who would argue about spiritual matters and then they would make weapons and....you get the idea.

Where does this all end?  Well, I don't think it does end while we are in this spehere of existence we call life...it's part of this experience.  Therefore people like Saddam need to be forced out of power.  Does anyone even know how Saddam came to power?  Look up that story and then tell me that he deserves to be in power there.  Even his own people are constantly trying to kill him...

Anyway, I just wanted to share my thoughts...and please tell us how you feel about these things (ie. Sept 11, where we are at on the "war against terrorism", and whether we should attack Iraq or not.)

-Daniel

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A waste of time?  Fun?  Pong?

What do you think of when someone says "video games"?  I am just curious.

Personally, I am part of the infamous generation X, if you buy into this classification of "gens".  Anyway, I own the X-Box and enjoy my games.  I think most people are suprised to find out that video games make A LOT MORE money than movies these days.  Also, video games are radicaly changing...many are unbelievable, truly amazing.... 3D enviornments and story lines that take YEARS to create.  There are producers, contracts, etc.  Sony put more into designing the PS2 than it did any other product or line of products.  

Well, probably more than you wanted to know about them.  They are, I must admit, fun...but can also be an INCREDIBLE waste of time.  I think kids suffer because of them...actually, because they need to be regulated.  An hout or two a day is plently, but then look who's talking.  Somedays I play for hours....  think of what the future could be like when true virtual reality kicks in.  Anyone here familiar with William Gibson....scary stuff in a lot of ways.

-Dan

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