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It's not the economy, it's the stupid war

Americans will continue to die in George W. Bush's failed war and U.S. taxpayers will continue to pay $12 billion a month to fund his folly but, politically, the war is no longer the issue that drives voters to the polls or determines their vote.

Exit polls in the Ohio and Texas primaries last week show the issue that determined how primary voters cast their ballots was -- survey says -- the economy.

Americans are now more concerned about paying $4 a gallon for gas at the pump and the prospect of losing their home. As a campaign issue, Iraq is dropping faster in the polls than Bush's approval ratings.

Of course, the Iraq war is a direct cause of the economic problems that now top voter concerns. You can't spend $12 billion a month in a far away war without it dragging down the economy back home. The old conventional wisdom that war is good for the economy doesn't play out this time.

But cause means a lot less than effect in politics. Voters are, by nature, a selfish lot. They care a hell of a lot more about their own self-interests than they do about more global issues that affect this nation.

Voters need to understand that their empty pockets are directly related to that far-away war that is now Page 2 news and a back-burner issue.

Local governments are going broke because they can't afford to buy gas for school buses or collect taxes from foreclosed homes. State governments that depend so much on federal funds find those funds shrinking or gone because the fed is diverting all its resources to pay the $12 billion a month bill in Iraq.

So when voters say the number one issue is the economy they are really saying the number one issue is an economy devastated by the high cost of an illegal and immoral war.

Too bad they don't realize that simple fact.

Capitolhillblue

Entry #665

Mayan calendar, Sun, comet Holmes

There is a comet called Holmes 17p which will pass very close near the date of 2012.

The video is not about the comet, but about the the sun's activity during 2012 that will be the highest in decades preceeding 2012.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rb9jTeFcatU

It's all about the Sun

It's ironic (or maybe not) that the Mayan Calendar is often called the "sun stone." While the calendar does have "solar" days, acknowledging the 365 days it takes for Earth to rotate around the Sun, it is also true that the Sun plays a key role in the final day of the "long count." To understand what will happen to the Sun on December 21, 2012, we need to review some scientific terms like "ecliptic," "barycenter," and "sunspots." These are important in the discussion that follows. We'll start with the most difficult one first.

Here's how it works.

 

The barycenter is not a single point in the Sun. Because the Sun is a rotating gaseous sphere, the barycenter forms a vertical, cylindrical "sleeve" that is partially inside and outside the main solar body. All of the planets have such a "sleeve," one inside the other, depending on their relative mass and the location of their barycenters. The particular sleeve representing the mass of Jupiter intersects the solar surface at 35.9 degrees North and South. This is precisely where sunspot and flare activity begin and end during each 11 year cycle. [Update: The new cycle has already begun!]

Scientists have noted that when Jupiter and Saturn are aligned on the same side of the Sun, the solar activity is at its minimum; when they are on opposite sides of the Sun the solar activity is at its maximum.

But nature is never perfect. The Sun rotates at a slight angle (7.25 degrees), much as our Earth does. As it wobbles, it tilts the sleeves, causing them to clash with eachother and eventually disrupt the surface. Havine the barycenters of the to most massive planets, Jupiter and Saturn, in maximum misalignment is especially disruptive. This disturbance, to put it simply, works its way to the surface and erupts in sun spots and solar flares or CME's (Coronal Mass Ejections).

The last solar cycle was at its maximum in 2001. Each active solar cycle has a period when the flares are strongest, usually happening near the solar equator, called the "solar maximum." This is significant because the next "solar maximum" event will coincide with December 21, 2012. But wait -- there's much more!

Solar flares are pieces of the sun which leap into space, discharging radiation and strong electrical currents that travel outward into space. They often fall back to the surface of the Sun. Sometimes, a very strong flare, called a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), actually leaves the Sun and this deadly mass shoots out from the Sun towards the planets like a bullet. Usually these CME's don't hit anything but occasionally they hit a planet like Earth. Some believe a powerful CME once hit Mars.

Most solar flares are small. But even a small flare can be dangerous. In 1989 a flare hit the North American continent and fried electric lines, zapped power grids in the US and Canada, and created large power backouts. Flares can also effect our moods and physical health. In theory, a large flare impacting the Earth could zap the ionosphere (there goes all the satellites, cellphones, GPS...) and irradiate the surface, killing every living organism that it touched.

Solar flares and sun spots have an average cycle of 11.120412 years (estimated from one "solar maximum" to the next). Right now, 2007, we are in a relatively quiet part of the cycle. The small discrepancy between this figure and the 11.861773 year period of Jupiter is close enough to be significant but suggests that something else is also influencing solar disturbances. Sure, it could be attributed to the various positions of the other less massive planets, but it could also be something even more significant -- the Milky Way.

 

 

The Galactic Alignment of December 21, 2012

The Perfect Storm

Our solar system is part of a huge disc shaped collection of stars and planets called the Milky Way. We're located somewhere on the edge of the disc, slightly on top of the narrow disc. But very soon we'll be moving to the bottom of the disc. This change, from top to bottom, begins on December 21, 2012.

Yes, that's right. On the same day when our Sun is at it's solar maximum, something will happen that's never happened before -- the ecliptic of our solar system will intersect with the Galactic plane, called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way! [see star chart].

If you imagine our solar system as a bunch of peas on a plate, with a huge meatball in the center, imagine the Milky Way as a city-size pizza with the "Guiness World Book Record Meatball" in its center!

Prior to December 2012 we have been drifting on the top of the pizza, never really able to see the bottom. The plate and pizza are not parallel. They are moving at different angles. We've been drifting down, down, down... and on December 21st, 2012, we will be exactly level with the crust -- forming an "x" at the Galactic Equator where galactic gravity is the strongest. After 2012, if we are still here, we will be passing through the bottom zone, viewing the Milky Way pizza from the South.

Yes, there's even more!

By some amazing coincidence, not only will we be intersecting with the Galactic Equator, but we will be doing this precisely aligned with the center of the Galaxy where there is maximum mass! More mass means more gravity. More gravity means more influence from those barycenters in our Sun. That means exponential increases in solar disruptions -- all coinciding on the same day! Whew!

 

Entry #664

What do you get from a pampered cow?

What do you get from a pampered cow?
  Spoiled milk.

 

What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
  A nervous wreck.

What's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer?
  The taste.

What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup?
  Anyone can roast beef.

Why do bagpipers walk when they play?
  They're trying to get away from the noise.

 

Take my advice; I don't use it anyway.

 

He does the work of three men: Larry, Moe and Curly.

If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?"

 

Did you hear about the dyslexic Rabbi?
He walks around saying "Yo."

Why is there no Disneyland in China?
No one's tall enough to go on the good rides.

My wife and I were happy for twenty years .... then we met.

 

Entry #662

Secret U.N. U.F.O. meeting

Pressure from foreign governments have sparked an unusual meeting at the U.N. In this report, it details the government's unveiling of the truth with a deadline set at about 2013. The aliens have said that if the governments won't reveal them, then they will take it upon themselves to do it by 2017.

                Richard Hoagland

                Richard C. Hoagland-Ufo investigator

Principal Investigator of The Enterprise Mission

(www.enterprisemission.com)

On the Secret UN UFO Meetings

By Robert D. Morningstar

Editor, UFO Digest

 
Posted: 12:50 March 7, 2008

 

On Thursday, March 06, 2008, I received the following inquiry from Richard C. Hoagland (RCH), founder of The Enterprise Mission.

RCH is the recipient of the Angstrom Medal, former science advisor to CBS News and Walter Cronkite, author of "The Monuments of Mars," co-creator of the "Pioneer Plaque," originator of the "Europa Proposal," and principal investigator of The Enterprise Mission. I replied in detail, regarding Secret UN UFO Meetings held in New York City on February 12th, and follow-up meetings in the days that followed, February 13th & 14th, 2008.

RCH lived in the New York City area between 1994 and 1997. Having worked together on "The Mars Mission" (which evolved into the present day Enterprise Mission), RCH and I are close friends and remain research colleagues to this day. I forward these comments to him (and the public at large) to address concerns regarding the veracity and accuracy of our continuing reports on the recent UFO-related Meetings held at the UN.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:21 AM, RCH wrote:

Robert,

I'm really in the dark about this "UN Meeting."

Do you have ANY truly independent (that's the key detail) evidence that this meeting actually took place?

Do you KNOW that the guy you met with was a) an actual diplomat, and, if he was, wasn't b) a member of the French intel community (working with the CIA) pulling your leg ... and the "leg' of the "UFO community?"

And, if you have satisfactorily answered these questions in your own mind, what do you think is the "precipitant cause" for international concern over this problem NOW?

We've all been fooled before .... :)

RCH

Hello, Richard,

The contact whom I have met with (3 times) is an American diplomat, not a French diplomat.

Our contact is a highly decorated career US military officer, working in the Pentagon in the Dept. of the JCS {Joint Chief's of Staff} and is now assigned to the State Department as a Military Liaison diplomat. He reports to BOTH the Joint Chiefs and the State Department. Bona fide credentials and other documentation were presented to me for review, which I examined and accepted as authentic and they satisfy my concerns. I find him credible and I respect this courageous gentleman, who in accepting this mission from top Pentagon leaders has also accepted some great risks to fulfill his mission.

"Why now?" you ask. What is the "precipitant cause" for this action at this time (after 60 years of public deception)?

During the last year, pressure from foreign governments, Britain, France, Belgium, the Washington DC National Press Club UFO Conference in November and the Stephenville UFO flap with the embarrassing performance of the USAF (bold face lies) has shaken up the longstanding, official UFO policy in the Pentagon and new people are in charge. The US government has also been given a timetable for disclosure by the ETs to prepare our people for open contact by 2017..."or else."

We first met on February 18th, '08. During our 3rd meeting in 3 weeks (February 18th & 26th, March 3rd), I was briefed last Monday on the results of a fact-finding mission that he had just completed, visiting NATO HQ, European capitals and the Middle East.

Britain, France and Italy will stand with US but their attitude is "You go FIRST!" But Germany, Spain, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are adamant and hostile to the US plan to Disclose.

We (Clay and Shawn Pickering and I) were asked to notify the public and to help organize the UFO community to put pressure on the politicians to give the military leadership "the official orders" that they need to proceed in a constitutional manner to disclose the ET presence.

In the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are not happy with an archaic secrecy policy that has cost them the respect, credibility and support of the American public over the years and they blame the politicians (pawns of economists, oil moguls and bankers) for that.


                                                            ufo

                                                What's Making the Russian Military So Anxious?
Black Triangle UFO in NASA Photo labeled "Space Junk" by NY Times - 2/6/08

 

 

Another problem lies with the Russians who have been chasing UFOs across Russian skies for years. In keeping with their historic proclivity for paranoia, the Russians suspect that the UFOs that they are chasing over "Mother Russia" are products of advanced American technology, intruding into their sacrosanct, maternal airspace.

While this was true about U-2, that is not our "Space Junk" spooking Russian skies and pilots today. Alleviating Russian fears was one of the primary reasons for convening the closed-door UN meeting of February 12th, to reassure the Russians (and other countries) officially through our military liaison diplomat that the UFOs to be seen in their national airspace are NOT ours.

Our highest-ranking military leaders feel that the 60-year old NSA/CIA national security paradigm (Above Top Secret) policy is now detrimental to national security because it has resulted (on the part of the pro-secrecy intelligence factions) in political actions that are unconstitutional and they are opposed to going any farther in that direction.

 

Therefore, they have asked us (you are included) to bring public pressure to bear on our political leaders to give the military orders officially to do what they need (and want) to do, i.e. stop lying to the American public and to disclose the reality of the alien presence(s) to the nation and the world.

The USG is also under pressure from the aliens, themselves, who have given it a timetable: 2013 for establishing diplomatic relations, and 2017 for open contact before the world-at-large.

If disclosure is not forthcoming, the alien presence will act unilaterally and force Disclosure on their terms, which may take the form described by Arthur C. Clarke in "Childhood's End," i.e. parking their Flying Saucers over capital cities around the world.

 

Fear not. This action will not be anything like an "Independence Day" attack but an unmistakable sign that would be demonstrated over perhaps 3 other nations, for example, New Zealand, Brazil and South Africa, or worse, Venezuela, North Korea or another 3rd World nation, like Uganda.

I told our diplomat that such an action on the part of "The Coming Race" would demote the US in stature, diminishing our credibility and prestige in the eyes of the world while elevating the international status and prestige of whichever countries they choose for this demonstration. Our diplomat expressed the undesirable prospects of watching Caesar Chavez of Venezuela or Kim Jung Il of North Korea delightedly welcoming Alien ships over Caracas or Pyongyang and boasting on the world stage (Live on CNN), using the event as proof of the superiority of the their regimes (as Chosen Ones) to strengthen their own fame, power and prestige as the first allies "chosen" by the arriving extraterrestrials.

And I do mean "arriving."

For that reason, I've decided to refer to them as "The Coming Race," borrowing Bulwer-Litton's term for the mythical "Vril."

Unilateral Disclosure on the part of the alien presence is what I feel has actually been happening for the past 2 years with open manifestations (flyovers) of Mexico, Britain, Canada, Peru, Argentina and, of course, Stephenville, Texas in January '08.

Few people (except Canadian UFO researcher, Don Ledger) seem to have noticed that the UFOs seen by Steven Allen and Ricky Sorrels over Stephenville were flying in close proximity, just a few miles from the Bush Ranch (Texas White House).

How far is "a few miles" when traveling at 3,000 mph (as reported by pilot, Steven Allen)? Now we understand why the USAF scrambled 10 F-16s to chase "something that doesn't officially exist"...

 

Shades of Washington, DC July 1952!

This is what I meant by "or else" above… Disclosure is being FORCED by the alien presence manifesting itself openly in our skies and around the world.

I view my role (working with Clay and Shawn Pickering) as being called upon to help prepare our own citizens (and our allies) for Disclosure on a psychological level in order to avoid a general panic of an Orson Wells effect and "culture shock" when disclosure happens, whichever way "IT comes DOWN."

Independent Corroboration Comes from France

 

As for "independent" corroboration, a French auditor, Gilles Lorant, who was luckily present at UN meetings on February 13-14th has independently confirmed those UFO-related follow-up meetings, which included a presentation of facts by representatives of the USAF and the National Guard

                                                                        giles

Gilles Lorant

Gilles Lorant has identified others who attended the UN UFO meetings of February 13th & 14th, including Srgiam Kerim of Macedonia, the current President of the General Assembly, who chaired the meetings.

                                                                        ambassador 

                                                                Ambassador Srgiam Kerim
President of the UN General Assembly

In an interview with French UFOlogist Gilles Bourdais in Paris on March 4th , '08, Mr. Lorant noted that the British representative, UK ambassador, Sir John Sawyers and the Vatican representative, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, were among the 28 representatives at the UN meetings, which discussed UFOs.

Most significantly, Gilles Lorant stated that the UN action was taken as a result of calls for action made by 3 (as yet unnamed) US Senators.

My guess (simply, a suspicion) is that the motion for action by the UN may have came from US Senators from Arizona (due to the Phoenix UFO Incident) and from Texas (due of the earth-shaking Stephenville sightings in January '08).

If my guess is right, at least one of our Presidential candidates may well be concerned with this issue and involved behind the scenes in changing the course of history, breaking ground in new directions.

Last November in Washington, DC, I met with former-Governor Fife Symington an ex-USAF officer, during the NPC UFO Conference. I expressed my feelings candidly on the subjects of official government secrecy and Disclosure to the governor who, himself, described being an eyewitness to the sight of a nearly mile-wide triangular UFO, flying slowly over the capital of his state.

Ex-Governor Symington spoke in agreement (with the other National Press Club panelists from across the world) that current US government policies of denial and disinformation must stop and that Disclosure is advisable.

Mr. Symington explained honestly and assertively in detail, the need for "comic relief" (dressing his aide in an ET costume) that he felt compelled to use in order to assuage public anxiety after the Phoenix UFO incident and the fear of national ridicule in the media, a waste-product (my term) of the current policy of official government secrecy. The Phoenix incident cost Governor Symington dearly in credibility and even more politically.

                                                                  ufo

So, as we can see, at least one well-known Arizona politician has been lobbying public opinion actively in calling openly and publicly for UFO Disclosure. This reinforces my belief that Senator John McCain of Arizona may be one of the "movers and shakers" behind this UN motion.

                                                        mcain

 

As a former US Naval Aviator, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) is the most qualified person among the Presidential candidates, with the qualifications, political stature and acumen necessary to change the current USG policy from UFO Secrecy to Disclosure.

Another personal contact at the UN, a member of an officially recognized NGO (non-governmental organization), has informed me of a "big buzz" going around amongst the UN bureaucrats and a general excitement, as well as, "nervousness" on the part of some, at the UN as this process unfolds.

For the foregoing reasons, I have given my support to this planned push for UFO Disclosure. I've agreed to help "prep the public" psychologically and to act politically to bring pressure to bear on the "politicos."

By the way, the ETs involved in this Disclosure, whom I have dubbed "The Coming Race," are not "The Greys."

They are "Other."

This is good...We need help.

I will send you more details and information as the situation develops.

Robert M*

New York City

March 7th, 2008

 

Entry #659

Creative homeless signs

I'd throw a couple of bucks to these unfortunate folks just for their creativity. In a country like this, there is absolutely no good reason, especially vets, to live like this. I know most are asking for money to aide their alchohol or drug use, but I can't imagin not giving because those who really need it for food, will be deprived in the process of generalizing.

homeless

homeless

homeless

homeless

\homeless

 

Entry #657

Marine throws puppy off cliff

Warning....this might be overwhelming for some folks like me. But I had to watch it to see if it was real or not.

The link provided is a unique link, because it not only shows that horrific act of cruelty to a helpless animal, but other video instances by some military persons who have done so with other animals.

 A dog who has lost the use of his back legs is shown in this video having rocks thrown at it by soldiers.

Another is an explosive device thrown at a herd of lamb or sheep. Pretty digusting. I guess this is what happens to soldiers who are sent out to an unjustly war. They become desensitized to life in general.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqvFNaWHdz0&feature=related

 

Entry #655

Dishing it out, but can't take it

It amazes me how some people I've encountered throughout my life, can dish it out, but can't take it. They can't take an opinion from someone without making judgements. It's so sad because they feel they can complain or comment about something, yet others are not allowed.

I think they should look in the mirror first, then analyze what they're going to say in response. Not talk out of their butt.

They have no problem pointing fingers, but they have a diffuclt time when the finger gets pointed back. I call that a serious mental problem. And they call me childish. Hmmmmm

Don't believe me? Just watch the responses to this blog. If they don't agree, then I'm acting like a child. I believe it's they who need to grow up.

If you can't take the heat, get out of the discussion business. If you can't engage in a healthy debate and it doesen't qualify to fit your perspective, you have serious problems.

Now I'm not saying that people can't respond with different outlooks, but don't respond as if you have the end all solution to the subject, and try to beat it into the person. And most of all, don't twist someone's words to benefit your point.

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Pac: I don't like the color red.

responder: Whay not? Are you an idiot or something? No one I know doesen't like that color. Your strange. There must be something wrong with you.

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Pac: I don't like the color red.

Responder: Oh, that's interesting. Why don't you like that color?

Pac: I just don't like it. There is no specific reason. It's just my preference.

Responder: Ok.

 

Entry #654