I wonder why so few people have noticed Dick Cheney has admitted to being part of a process for U.S. war crimes?
amazingly, Cheney still supports waterboarding, despite the fact U.S. courts ruled long ago it constitutes torture, or that the U.S. War Crimes Act defines torture as a war crime
Whoa! sorry, I forgot we're talking we're talking about the U.S. vice-president who shot a Texas lawyer and got away with it
no wonder the December 20 editorial from the Los Angeles Times says he's delusional
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Blessed Be
20081220
20081216
awake yet?
hey, Hippies! remember Ziggy?
[ for under-40s, Zbigniew Brzezinski is an amazing yet underestimated geopolitical philosopher and strategist who served Jimmy Carter as principal foreign-policy advisor and National Security Advisor, a hawk who both played a role in détente and helped form the pre-Taliban Afghan mujaheddin network, way back when the Soviets were in Afghanistan ]
Ziggy’s written an excellent essay on political awakening, well worth the read in the International Herald Tribune
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Blessed Be
[ for under-40s, Zbigniew Brzezinski is an amazing yet underestimated geopolitical philosopher and strategist who served Jimmy Carter as principal foreign-policy advisor and National Security Advisor, a hawk who both played a role in détente and helped form the pre-Taliban Afghan mujaheddin network, way back when the Soviets were in Afghanistan ]
Ziggy’s written an excellent essay on political awakening, well worth the read in the International Herald Tribune
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Blessed Be
20081211
virgin birth? nothing special, even sharks do it
parthenogenesis, i.e. asexual reproduction, is not unknown among humans, although some would have you believe virgin birth only happened once and that that was a divine act [well yeah, isn’t everything, whether your personal divinity involves the Goddess, the Matrix, or whatever?]
true, it doesn’t occur often in mammals, but it’s common among plants, bees and fleas, and lots of other living things; now we can be more certain it happens with sharks, too
the first report, in 2001, came from a Nebraska zoo where DNA evidence proved a newborn hammerhead was a result of so-called virgin birth
now, at Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach, a necropsy after the death, during a routine physical exam, of a female blacktip shark revealed she was carrying a near-term pup fetus, even though there hadn’t been a male in her tank in more than 8 years
how come you don’t see these stories in your daily newspaper?
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Blessed Be
true, it doesn’t occur often in mammals, but it’s common among plants, bees and fleas, and lots of other living things; now we can be more certain it happens with sharks, too
the first report, in 2001, came from a Nebraska zoo where DNA evidence proved a newborn hammerhead was a result of so-called virgin birth
now, at Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach, a necropsy after the death, during a routine physical exam, of a female blacktip shark revealed she was carrying a near-term pup fetus, even though there hadn’t been a male in her tank in more than 8 years
how come you don’t see these stories in your daily newspaper?
more next time
Blessed Be
20081128
Goddess is Alive ...
mystics, cosmologists and some fringe scientists are just a few of the groups who've always believed that, at some level, everything is alive, that in fact the whole Universe is a living entity, metaphorically speaking
mainstream scientists are getting a nudge toward that view from a new report by an international group of geologists - including one from the Geological Survey of Canada - proposing evidence that rocks evolve in ways similar to plants and animals
the report presents a comprehensive analysis of a multitude of rock-life interactions and concludes that rocks are dynamic "species" which emerged and transformed over time, largely in concert with other living things
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Blessed Be
mainstream scientists are getting a nudge toward that view from a new report by an international group of geologists - including one from the Geological Survey of Canada - proposing evidence that rocks evolve in ways similar to plants and animals
the report presents a comprehensive analysis of a multitude of rock-life interactions and concludes that rocks are dynamic "species" which emerged and transformed over time, largely in concert with other living things
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Blessed Be
20081107
beyond this universe
a few years ago the science guys told us we can only ‘see’ 4% of what we think of as The Universe
by seeing, they meant not only with optical telescopes, but also through our interpretations of data collected by radio telescopes, electronic telescopes, satellites, at x-rays levels, at ultraviolet levels – way more than we can see with human eyes; that slice is probably about 0.002% of the known universe; the other 3.998% is scientific data; put it all together, process in a computer with sophisticated graphics programs, and you get pretty pictures
meanwhile, shaman etc. have always taught there are more realities than the physical world humans see; Buddha taught that reality is an illusion – we create our own individual, and thus unique, realities, so we can change our reality by changing our mind; Aleister Crowley defined magic as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will”
the recently popular concept of some kind of ‘multiverse’ is an interesting metaphor/myth that doesn’t even come close to describing the cosmic zoom
now, scientists have stirred things by suggesting our universe may exist within another context, i.e. there may be something outside The Universe
imagine that! it’s easy; shaman have been doing it for millenia
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Blessed Be
by seeing, they meant not only with optical telescopes, but also through our interpretations of data collected by radio telescopes, electronic telescopes, satellites, at x-rays levels, at ultraviolet levels – way more than we can see with human eyes; that slice is probably about 0.002% of the known universe; the other 3.998% is scientific data; put it all together, process in a computer with sophisticated graphics programs, and you get pretty pictures
meanwhile, shaman etc. have always taught there are more realities than the physical world humans see; Buddha taught that reality is an illusion – we create our own individual, and thus unique, realities, so we can change our reality by changing our mind; Aleister Crowley defined magic as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will”
the recently popular concept of some kind of ‘multiverse’ is an interesting metaphor/myth that doesn’t even come close to describing the cosmic zoom
now, scientists have stirred things by suggesting our universe may exist within another context, i.e. there may be something outside The Universe
imagine that! it’s easy; shaman have been doing it for millenia
more next time
Blessed Be
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