The Excavator

There Is No Civil War In Syria

2013-05-21T01:17:00.005-04:00

There were no WMDs in Iraq and there is no civil war in Syria. To say that there is a popular revolution taking place against Assad is to turn reality upside down.

Obama and Erdogan both want Assad to step down, but it doesn't matter what they want for Syria's future because political and social reality is going against their wishes.

Obama is not God. The White House can't shape and manipulate the reality in Syria. Saying Assad is a butcher doesn't make it so. Washington has lived in a fantasy world for so long that it doesn't know how to adjust to reality. It is foreign to them. They are like spoiled children who for the first time in their lives can't get what they want.

Washington's machinations and the media's deceptions cannot destroy the reality on the ground. The response of the Syrian people to the war of aggression waged by Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, EU, US, and Israel has been heroic.

This is the response of the Syrian people to the thugs Obama and Erdogan: Welcome to the real world. In the real world, Syria is not in a civil war, it is fighting a foreign-led Jihadist insurgency. Syria is doing what America and Israel won't: defeating Al-Qaeda.

II.

Below is a short article called, "Syria: it’s not a ‘civil war’, it’s an imperialist war," that was published by the blog 'Agent of Change' on May 20:

‘Civil war’ is a totally inaccurate label for what’s going on in Syria. I think we should start calling it what it is: an imperialist war of destabilisation, where the aggressors’ fighting has been outsourced to sectarian religious terrorists. This outsourcing follows the same logic as any other type of outsourcing: it’s cheaper. The political and economic cost of pushing thousands of Iraqi, Libyan and Saudi (etc) terrorists in Syria’s direction is extremely low, at least in the short term. Imagine if it was European and North American soldiers coming home in body bags - there might actually be a viable anti-war movement in the west! And people the world over would know exactly who was to blame for the shameful destruction of a beautiful nation - for the needless deaths of thousands, for the forced migration of hundreds of thousands, for the reversal of decades of progress, for the brutal attack on thousands of years of civilisation.

And of course the ‘civil war’ narrative has another very important function: it contributes to our general prejudice that “these Arabs” (much like “these Africans” and “these Asians”) are inherently barbaric people who simply can’t get along. And it sends out a message that any attempt by a third world nation to follow a path of resistance to imperialism and zionism will inevitably end in murderous in-fighting - for which the civilised, sophisticated, modern imperialist states of course cannot reasonably be blamed.

So to call it a civil war is to take part in a vast deception.

Video: Calling Syria A Civil War Is A Vast Deception - Carlos Voice Over. Morris of '108morris108' reads the article above for his YouTube channel audience.

Rudolf Steiner On Ancient Indian Vedanta Wisdom

2013-05-20T18:59:00.000-04:00

Below is an excerpt from Rudolf Steiner's book, "Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos." 1994. Anthroposophic Press: Hudson, New York. Pg. 135-36.

"This is one of the fundamental ideas of ancient Indian Vedanta wisdom. The sage acquires during earthly life what other people experience only after death, namely the ability to grasp the thought that we ourselves are related to all things, the thought, "that is you." In earthly life this is an ideal that our thinking can aspire to, but in the country of spirit beings it is an immediate fact that becomes ever clearer as we gain spiritual experience. We become ever more aware that, in our essential being, we belong to the spiritual world. We perceive ourselves as spirits among spirits, as organs of the primal spirits. We feel in ourselves their word, "I am the primal spirit," or, in terms of Vedanta wisdom, "I am Brahman," that is, I am part of, an organ of, the primal being from which all beings spring. Thus we see that what we grasp during earthly life as a shadowy idea and the object of all wisdom's aspiration is a matter of direct experience in the spirit world. This idea can be thought during earthly life only because it is an actual fact in spiritual existence."

The Real News - New Film Exposes the Israeli Weapon and Security Industry

2013-05-20T13:38:00.003-04:00

Below: a video about Israel's military-industrial complex. Also, read the article, "How the EU subsidises Israel’s military-industrial complex," by Ben Hayes.

Title: New Film Exposes the Israeli Weapon and Security Industry. Source: The Real News. Description:

Yotam Feldman: the Israeli economy has become dependent on the massive security market. Governments act in hypocrisy when they purchase Israeli arms used against Palestinians, but criticize Israeli violence.

Video From German Documentary: Americans Teaching Iraqis How To Torture

2013-05-20T02:11:00.002-04:00

Below is a clip from what looks like a German documentary about the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It shows American soldiers teaching Iraqi officers the dark art of torture.

Remember what Obama said soon after he became president: "We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." Imagine an American president saying that at Nuremberg.

My god, how low America has fallen. It went from liberating Europe to teaching Arabs how to torture other Arabs.

Why post this video now? Because we must look backward. Even in the middle of the night.

Obama is wrong. Torture is wrong. America has chosen to be the masters of torture and terror, and taking this destructive path will haunt America and its people for years to come.

But is America alone in this injustice? No. Islam and Israel both have their torturers. None of the main armies that are fighting each other in the Middle East can truly call themselves liberators. America, Israel, and the Islamic Republic of Iran all live and thrive on terror, torture, assassinations, executions, systematic deception, totalitarian propaganda, collective brainwashing, state violence, and oppression.

5 Poems by Edward Dorn

2013-05-20T00:43:00.001-04:00

Title: 5 Poems by Edward Dorn. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: PoemsBeingRead. Uploaded on June 27, 2010]:

Ed Dorn (1929-1999)

Edward Dorn told Effie Mihopoulos in a 1991 interview that "[Poetry is] obsolete...But so what? There are lots of great things that are obsolete. Kerosene lamps are obsolete, but there's no light like it in a cabin in Northern Wisconsin...." (1)

Edward Dorn was born April 2, 1929 in Villa Grove, Illinois. Attending a one-room school house until eighth grade, he was raised during the Depression in a family of itinerant farmers. In 1964 he included poems about his memories of his childhood in his collection Hands Up!

Dorn spent two years at the University of Illinois and then graduated from Black Mountain College in North Carolina. At Black Mountain he became acquainted with Robert Creeley and Charles Olson. His first teaching position was at the University of Idaho in 1961.

In the summer of 1965 Dorn visited Indian reservations in collaborated with photographer Leroy Lucas for a book, The Shoshoneans. He was invited to join the faculty at the University of Essex in England that fall. During the five years he stayed in England, he wrote the first book of Gunslinger.

Robert Duncan said the 5 volume work "Gunslinger" was like an American "Canterbury Tales." Myrna Oliver in the Los Angeles Times says "Gunslinger" involves a diverse cast of characters including a talking horse, who are headed to Las Vegas to confront Howard Hughes whom they view as "hustling the future." This merry band is stoned most of the time and tell nightly tales on their trek.

Stephen King said Dorn's poetry is a "talismans of perfect writing." Along with British poet Eric Mottram, Dorn was a mentor of the group Devo.

Tom Raworth in an obituary of Dorn in The Independent said "Dorn suffered fools not at all, and sloppy thinking not for a moment." In his August 2003 Jacket review of Tom Clark's biography of Edward Dorn, Skip Fox suggests that Dorn was dropped from anthologies because of his outspokenness. He quotes Amiri Barka's "I dug Ed Dorn because he wd rather/ Make you his enemy/ Than Lie."

Always a witness to his time, Dorn considered democracy a responsibility, and included political and social criticism in his work.

Edward Dorn died December 10, 1999 of pancreatic cancer.

Light Reading: Articles About The Tentative Turkish-Kurdish Peace Deal

2013-05-19T21:43:00.001-04:00

"The anti-humanitarian tenor of Western policies towards the Kurds are well rooted in history. Indeed, they are based on long-standing strategic interests in the region. “The Kurds are in several countries and that was planned by Britain”, observes former President of the American Kurdish Society in Boston, Hussein Aktas. “If you have a problem with Iraq, you can use them against Iraq, same for Iran and Turkey.” Thanks to this disasterous condition, historically established by the West, there are “millions of Kurds who have been displaced from their homes since 1993 in Turkey”, and “hundreds of thousands of people have been tortured.”" - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, "Modern Turkey - A Shining Example of Secular Democracy?"

II. Light Reading: Articles About The Tentative Turkish-Kurdish Peace Deal

Oray Egin - Turkey Kurd Peace: What Lies Beneath Turkey's Peace With Kurdish Rebels? (May 13).

Isabel Coles/Reuters - First Kurdish rebels arrive in Iraq under Turkey peace plan (May 14).

Galip Dalay - Kurdish peace process: The latest phase of de-securitisation politics (May 14).

AlBawaba.com - Kurds Begin Arriving In Iraq, Government Says Relations With Turkey Damaged (May 14).

John Hannah - Erdogan's Great Gamble (May 14).

Wladimir van Wilgenburg - Turkish Ties with Iraq, Iran Worsen Over PKK Peace Plan (May 19).

Noreldin Waisy - With Abdullah Ocalan from Athens to Nairobi: Exclusive interview with former Greek intelligence officer Savvas Kalenteridis (May 6).

III. My Thoughts, For Whatever It's Worth (Not Much, I Know)

Where to begin?

Well, for one thing, Erdogan cannot be trusted, plus he is America's dog in the region so his word means nothing. Siding with America and Erdogan against Syria's Assad may boost the options for peace between Kurds and Turks in the short term but it won't end well for the Kurdish people in the long-term, especially since after America is done wrecking the region it will leave the Kurds to fend for themselves. How do I know this? Because it happened once before in history. And it wasn't that long ago. America betrayed the Kurds once, and it will do so again.

America betrays its allies at will because it has no morals, honour, a long-term vision, or anything except guns and bombs to offer. Being the ally of America is like being the ally of Death. You're better off marrying Lady Death and spending your honeymoon in Hell than forming an alliance with America.

So good luck to America's allies like Israel, but be prepared to be stabbed in the back, along with the Kurds. That's how America treats its friends. And, oh yeah, Turkey will end up getting screwed as well.

There is nothing honourable about that evil regime in Washington. It deserves to crumble to ashes and wither away from this earth.

Richard Tarnas - City Dark: Facing the Shadow of Modernity's Light

2013-05-19T16:21:00.003-04:00

"Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View" by Richard Tarnas.

City Dark: Facing the Shadow of Modernity's Light, Richard Tarnas 11-30-2012. Source: Uploaded by ArchetypalView on December 26, 2012.

The City Dark Trailer (2012)

Turkish TV Reporter/Propagandist Gets Owned By A Truth-Telling Villager

2013-05-19T15:25:00.003-04:00

Somebody wrote in the comment section for the video below, "this needs to happen all over the planet....correct the mouthpieces live on tv!"

Also, remember this? CNN got caught demonizing the Tea Party movement.

Turkish People Protest Against Their Government's Policy Towards Syria

2013-05-19T15:04:00.002-04:00

Now it's about to get interesting.

Cops beat, teargas Turkish protesters angry at govt stance on Syria. Source: RT.

Anti-government anger in Turkey after Syria border bombings. Source: Euronews.

'Neo-Ottomanism driven Turkey does NATO's job, adds fuel to Syrian fire.' Source: RT.

The Plight of Syrian Refugees

2013-05-19T13:10:00.001-04:00

There are Syrian refugees in Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and other countries. There is an estimated 400,000 refugees in Turkey alone. But it is hard to pin down the real number of Syrian refugees because there has been no systematic accounting of people leaving Syria during this crisis.

Also, since belligerent nations like the United States, Saudi Arabia, France, and Turkey that seek to oust Assad have a political interest to increase the number of refugees on paper, official statistics that are reported in the news cannot be trusted.

One last note: Thank you United States of Israhell for all that you do! First you create problems in the Arab world by arming Jihadist terrorist groups to fuel years of warfare in the region, and then you don't do anything about the human costs and consequences of your war-making. Have a nice fall, assholes. And don't let your pet toy, Al-Qaeda, hit you on the way down.

Below are videos about the Syrian refugee crisis:

Title: The Syrian Refugee Crisis In Iraq: Neglected, Underfunded And Escalating. YouTube Description - [Channel: NorwRefugeeCouncil. Published on May 16, 2013]:

Today there are more than 140 000 Syrian refugees in Iraq. Every week, thousands of new refugees cross the border in the search for protection. What's needed?
1: Emergency funding to provide safe water and camp sanitation
2: A realistic plan to house the expanding refugee population
3: Political and technical support to bolster the capacity of host authorities

Title: Race against time in Zaatari refugee camp. YouTube Description - [Channel: NorwRefugeeCouncil. Published on December 21, 2012]:

With temperatures plummeting down to near freezing point at night, it is a race against time to ensure that Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp are prepared for winter. The NRC is insulating tents, distributing thermal blankets and has airlifted 6,000 heaters into Jordan to be distributed in the coming days.

Title: The Plight of the Syrian Refugees. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Salwa Attiga. Published on January 28, 2013]:

Hi everyone, this is a video that I made to support my 10th grade personal project at school. The objective is to raise awareness about the suffering of Syrian refugees in Jordan and particularly those in Al-Za'atari refugee camp in Mafraq.

Hope you enjoy it...

Title: The suffering of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Uploaded by Medlebanon on March 31, 2013.

Rudolf Steiner On Cultivating The Higher Organs

2013-05-18T20:29:00.000-04:00

Below is an excerpt from Rudolf Steiner's book, "Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos." 1994. Anthroposophic Press: Hudson, New York. Pg. 96-99.

"Within our body, our eyes and ears develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes. Similarly, we can develop soul and spiritual organs of perception that will open up soul and spirit worlds to us. For anyone who does not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the physical world is dark and silent to a being without eyes and ears. However, we relate differently to these higher senses than to our physical ones, which as a rule are fully developed in us by good Mother Nature without our doing anything about it. But we ourselves must work at developing our higher senses. Just as nature develops our physical body so that we can perceive our physical surroundings and orient ourselves in them, so we must cultivate our own soul and spirit if we want to perceive the soul and spirit worlds.

There is nothing unnatural about cultivating the higher organs that nature itself has not yet developed, because in a higher sense, everything that human beings accomplish also belongs to nature. Only those who contend that we should all stay at the level of development where nature left us could call developing these higher senses "unnatural." For such people, these organs and their significance are "mis-known" in Goethe's sense. Such people might as well oppose any and every kind of education for human beings---because that too goes beyond the work of nature---and should also be especially opposed to operating on anyone who was born blind. What happens to a blind person after a successful operation is very much like what happens to those who awaken their higher senses in the way described in the last section of this book. The world now appears to them full of new qualities, new processes and new facts that their physical senses never revealed. They see clearly that there is nothing arbitrary or capricious about supplementing reality through these higher organs, and that without these organs the essential part of this reality would have remained hidden from them. The soul and spirit worlds are not "next to" or "outside" the physical world, not separated from it in space. The formerly dark world is suddenly radiant with light and color for a person born blind who has undergone an operation. Similarly, the soul and spiritual qualities of things that until now had appeared to us only in a purely physical way are revealed when we are awakened in soul and spirit. Of course this new world is also full of occurrences and beings that remain totally unknown to anyone who has not undergone a soul and spiritual awakening. (Later on in this book, the development of the soul and spiritual senses will be discussed in greater detail, but first the higher worlds themselves will be described. Those who deny the existence of these worlds only demonstrate that they have not yet developed their own higher organs. Human development is never complete at any given level; it must always be taken further.)

We often tend, unintentionally, to imagine these higher organs as being too much like our physical ones. It is important to remember that these organs are soul or spiritual formations and that we must not expect what we perceive in the higher worlds to be only a misty and diluted form of material substance. As long as we expect anything of that sort, we will not come to a clear idea of what is actually meant here by "higher worlds." Many people would find it much easier to actually know something---at first, of course, only the elementary facts---about these higher worlds if they did not imagine that what they are to perceive is a highly refined version of something physical. That they make this assumption usually means that they do not want to recognize what is really involved. They find it unreal, do not accept it as something that could satisfy them, and so on. True, the higher levels of spiritual development are difficult to reach, but the levels adequate for recognizing the nature of the spiritual world---and that is already a lot---would not be nearly as difficult to reach if people would first get rid of the prejudice that makes them imagine that what is of a soul and spiritual nature is simply a more refined version of what is physical.

We obviously do not really know a person if we have only an idea of his or her physical appearance, nor do we really know the world around us if we know only what our physical senses can tell us about it. A photograph becomes intelligible and full of life to us once we come to know the person in the photograph so well that we know his or her soul, and in the same way, we can really understand the material world only once we know its soul and spiritual basis. That is why it is good to talk first about the higher worlds of soul and spirit, and only then come to conclusions about the physical world from a spiritual scientific point of view."

Egyptian Music Video About The Betrayal of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-05-18T19:48:00.003-04:00

An excerpt from the article, "Brotherhood loses the middle class," by Azmi Ashour, published in Al-Ahram on December 5, 2012:

Anyone who watched the million-man marches in Tahrir and other Egyptian cities on 23, 27 and 30 November (which is to say three huge mass protest demonstrations in a single week) can easily observe the change in the composition of the revolutionary crowds. The middle class, which is generally more moderate and less activist than the revolutionary youth, added their numbers to Tahrir and other major squares in the country. Their anxieties as to where the Muslim Brotherhood is leading the country galvanised them into staging huge marches from various parts of the capital to the epicentre of the revolution, lending a strong backing to the youth who had remained steadfast in their defence of the principles of the revolution from the outset.

Title of Song - Ikhwan Survive. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Aaskar Kazeboon. Published on May 16, 2013]:

Ikhwan Survive.. performed by: Kazeboon campaign team
Original music -- sound track:
"I Will Survive" is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor,
written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Survive

Friedrich Hölderlin - To Hope

2013-05-18T17:22:00.000-04:00

Friedrich Hölderlin - Love.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Time of Socrates.
Friedrich Hölderlin - To the Sun-God.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Ganymede.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Vulcan.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Blind Singer.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Sung Beneath the Alps.

Source: Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. Translated by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover. 2008. Omnidawn Publishing: Richmond, California. Pg. 165.

Hope! Sweet industrious one
   Who doesn't scorn the house of grief,
   Serves happily, noble one, to form ties
   Between mortals and the powers of heaven.

Where are you? I have lived little; but my evening
Already breathes cold. And silent as the shadows
   I am already here; and, without a song,
My shivering heart lies quietly in my chest.

In the green valley, there, where the fresh spring
Rushes daily from the mountain, and the lovely
   Meadow saffron blooms for me on a fall day,
There, in the quiet, I will search for you,

My dear, or when at midnight
   Invisible lives stir in the forest,
   And above me the ever-joyful
   Flowering stars are shining,

Daughter of the Upper Air, you appear to me
Out of your father's gardens, and if you cannot
Draw near as a spirit of the earth, frighten, o
Frighten my heart with a different face.

Some Light Reading For Saturday [Plus Breakdown on The Situation In Syria]

2013-05-18T02:46:00.004-04:00

Breakdown on The Situation In Syria:

The Obama administration is supplying weapons and money to Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria in order to create chaos, destroy its economy, disrupt the regional peace, keep the central state occupied with security problems for years to come, and, finally, to be able to present invented excuses to the world to justify the invasion of another Middle Eastern nation.

Assad is no butcher. He is simply defending his country from an empire gone mad and thousands of Jihadist terrorists who can't tell their head from their ass.

If you're looking for heroes in this tragedy, they're hard to find. Villains are all around. But, those who are using terrorism to destroy Syria and use deception to create public support for another war against an innocent country are definitely the bigger villains.

Again, Assad is not Saddam. He has never gassed anybody. He is the one who is acting with humanitarian motivations and proceeding with caution in this crisis, not the United States, Saudi Arabia, France, Qatar, Israel, and Turkey, who are aiding and protecting Al-Qaeda.

Some Light Reading For Saturday:

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - Iraq Then, Syria Now? (May 15).

F. William Engdahl - Israel’s Act of War Against Syria—Madness or Cold Calculation? (May 12).

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett - "Iran and American Foreign Policy: Where Did the US Go Wrong?"— Noam Chomsky and The Leveretts at MIT (May 17).

Ahmed Ateyya - 'Rebel' Egyptian Movement Defies Morsi Through Petitions (May 17).

Alexa L. McMahon - Syria? Turkey? Many Americans Still Unsure (May 17).

Nervana Mahmoud - Rise of Radical Jihadists Setback for Syria (May 15).

Nasser Chararah - Europe and the Politics Of Syrian Oil (May 9).

Kadri Gürsel - Ankara’s Syria Policy A Source of Instability (May 13).

Shlomi Eldar - The Kurdish Minority Within the Syrian War (May 10).

Moon of Alabama - Syria: News Roundup (May 17).

Friedrich Hölderlin - Sung Beneath the Alps

2013-05-17T18:12:00.000-04:00

Friedrich Hölderlin - Love.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Time of Socrates.
Friedrich Hölderlin - To the Sun-God.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Ganymede.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Vulcan.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Blind Singer.

Source: Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. Translated by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover. 2008. Omnidawn Publishing: Richmond, California. Pg. 141-43.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Sung Beneath the Alps

Holy innocence, that men and gods
Love the most! either inside the house
Or out of doors, you sit at the feet
   Of the ancients,

Always full of contented wisdom; for man knows
Much that’s good, but astonished as the animals
He looks toward heaven, but how pure everything is
                           To you, Pure One!

Look! The rough beast of the field gladly
Serves and trusts you, the voiceless forest
Speaks to you of the ancients, the mountains
                            Teach you

Holy laws, and even now what the Great Father
Wants to name for us, who have
Much experience, only you can clarify
                             And brighten.

To be alone with the gods, and when
The light passes over, and wind and flood, and
When time hurries to its place, you have a steady
                            Eye for them,

Nothing is holier that I know and want,
As long as the flood doesn’t take me, like
The willows, well cared for, sleeping as I must
                          On the waves;

He who holds divine things in his heart
Will gladly stay home, however, and I'll be free,
As long as needed, to translate and sing
                             In the tongues of heaven.

Rumsfeld The Wise Speaks About Iraq [May 16, CNN]

2013-05-17T16:55:00.003-04:00

Obamağan - Face of State Terrorism In The 21st Century

2013-05-17T00:45:00.001-04:00

Obamağan Is Bringing Death and Destruction To Syria In The Name of Democracy.

On Thursday, May 16, U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a press conference outside the White House to discuss their enthusiastic support for Al-Qaeda in Syria, as well as other pressing issues.

Both are leaders of the world's biggest terrorist states. America and Turkey lead the world in various uncivilized and undemocratic categories, from the torture of innocent victims to the number of repressive anti-terror laws.

Press freedom in both America and Turkey has been under attack for decades, but it only has been recently that Washington's horrible record of stopping the work of journalists has come under the light of public scrutiny.

Obama and Erdoğan - Obamağan for short - have supported Al-Qaeda terrorist groups in Syria from the start of the conflict. These groups have attacked Syrian civilians and terrorized towns across Syria.

Syria's minorities have been targeted by Al-Qaeda and other Sunni terrorist groups supported by the US and Turkey, especially the Christians, Kurds, and Alawites.

And, yet, Obamağan has the audacity to stand outside the White House and try to sell the world the big lie that all of the violence in Syria is Assad's fault.

But the violence in Syria is not Assad's fault. Not in the least. And the White House is not the White House but the Death House, because it spreads nothing but death all around the world in the form of GMO food, high-priced weapons, and Jihadist terrorist groups.

Let's call things for what they really are. Obamağan is not the liberator of Syria, but the face of state terrorism in the 21st century.

Obamağan is bringing death and destruction to Syria, and the civilized world must not listen to a word that this demon says.

Ian Hutchinson: The Scientism Delusion

2013-05-16T19:36:00.002-04:00

Title: Ian Hutchinson: The Scientism Delusion. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: VeritasForum. Published on May 5, 2012]:

http://www.veritas.org/talks - Since its beginning, science has demonstrated its uncapped ability to uncover and explain our universe... or has it? MIT Professor and Christian Ian Hutchinson argues that the fairly recent view that science can explain everything, or scientism, makes unrealistic promises of the scientific method. Instead, Hutchinson opens up a world in which multiple ways of knowing, including science, are equally legitimate. Among them, Hutchinson argues, is faith. Join Dr. Hutchinson and the Emory audience for a discussion about science, faith, and how we come to know the world.

Over the past two decades, The Veritas Forum has been hosting vibrant discussions on life's hardest questions and engaging the world's leading colleges and universities with Christian perspectives and the relevance of Jesus. Learn more at http://www.veritas.org, with upcoming events and over 600 pieces of media on topics including science, philosophy, music, business, medicine, and more!

Civilized Humanity: Obama and Erdogan Must Go

2013-05-16T19:05:00.004-04:00

The administrations of Obama and Erdogan are supporting Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Syria financially, militarily, and logistically. They must go in order for civilized humanity to get a chance at life in that region, and in this century.

Al-Qaeda Supporting Bullies Afraid Of A Little Rain

2013-05-16T14:29:00.001-04:00

Flashback: "Guess who isn’t afraid of a little rain? Mitt Romney attends rally, shakes hands of vets in downpour."

Prof. Ian Hutchinson - Monopolising Knowledge: A Refutation of Scientism

2013-05-16T01:38:00.002-04:00

"Monopolizing Knowledge" by Ian Hutchinson.

Title: Monopolising Knowledge: A Refutation of Scientism. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: FaradayInstitute. Published on August 2, 2011]:

Prof Ian Hutchinson of MIT, a speaker at the Faraday Institute Summer Course 2011, discusses the meaning of scientism and the limits and strengths of scientific knowledge.

Dr. Jacob Needleman On Gurdjieff - "A Man With Authority"

2013-05-16T00:16:00.000-04:00

"Introduction to the Gurdjieff Work" by Jacob Needleman.

Related:
Time and the Soul - Interview with Dr. Jacob Needleman.
Dr. Jacob Needleman - "The Difference Between A Cult And A Genuine Spiritual Path."
Dr. Jacob Needleman - Awakened Human Beings.

YouTube Video Description - [Channel: BarakaBee. Published on August 13, 2012]:

Jacob Needleman on Gurdjieff and the search for truth, the inner yearning, the unknown hunger

http://www.podcast.de/episode/134500051/Robert%2BMcDermott

Healing the Mind [Trailer]

2013-05-15T18:06:00.003-04:00

Title: Healing the Mind. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: DJ Kadagian. Published on April 29, 2012]:

This is an introduction to Four Seasons Production's upcoming film Healing the Mind.

With the acceleration in the speed and volume of experience we live on a daily basis we have seen a similar acceleration in the amount of depression, anxiety, ADD and other mood disorders. Many have turned to medication looking for relief. The use of antidepressants alone has increased nearly 400% since 1990.

Is there another way to address this epidemic? A 5,000 year old scientific tradition known as Ayurveda leads us to believe that there is.

Healing the Mind will be narrated by Giancarlo Esposito and feature interviews with world renowned doctors in the field of Eastern and Western medicine, Ayurveda, psychiatry, psychopharmacology and holistic healing. Ricky Williams will appear as a testimonial to the healing nature of Ayurveda.

Expected release date l Fall 2012.

Some Thoughts On The 9/11 Benghazi Attack [Plus Ron Paul On Benghazi]

2013-05-15T15:59:00.002-04:00

The most interesting thing about the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012, and the one that is least talked about in the U.S. press, is the date. If it happened on any other day then you could argue more successfully that the attack was spontaneous in nature and that Islamic radicals devised the whole operation from scratch.

But I have trouble believing that NATO-armed Jihadist terrorist groups were the only parties involved in the attack against the U.S. ambassador because of the symbolic nature of the date, its connection to the 9/11 false flag, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding the attack (the anti-Muslim film). My gut instinct tells me that Israel had a big hand in the Benghazi attack. Of course, NATO and the White House were in on it too, but Mossad is usually behind attacks that involve Al-Qaeda terrorists as the foot soldiers.

Israel gained control of the American psyche on September 11, 2001, that much is clear, and the Benghazi attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 was yet another example of the length that Israel's cunning leaders are willing to go to in order to pit the world of Islam against America.

The importance of the Benghazi attack was not that the U.S. ambassador was treated as a sacrificial lamb, although that is disturbingly significant, but that the mythic narrative of the "clash of civilizations" was strengthened. The narrative that radical Islamic groups have the military competence, will, weapons, and desire to attack America was reinforced with the attack on Benghazi.

With these types of attacks, which have occurred pretty regularly since 9/11, Israel believes it can gain the upper hand in its conflict with Palestinians because if it is able to convince the American people of its anti-Islam narrative then it can secure U.S. public support for its crimes and wars until the end of time. So the main target of the Benghazi attack was not the U.S. ambassador or a U.S. outpost in Libya but the minds and hearts of the American people. It was a symbolic act that was mainly done for propaganda reasons.

I could be wrong. In fact, I have not thought much about the Benghazi incident since it happened, but I am certain that Islamic radical groups are not smart or crafty enough to pull off such a deadly operation on a highly symbolic day for the United States. Whenever there is symbolism involved in attacks against the U.S.A. in any part of the world then you better believe that the U.S. and Israeli governments were the ones who engineered it.

Always remember that the Jihadist terrorist groups in the Middle East are the monkeys with the wires attached to their shaved heads, while the CIA and Mossad officials are the ones who are wearing the lab coats and driving events behind the scenes of history and behind the thick glass of accepted reality. They like to observe peoples and nations destroy each other after they start the fire, and Benghazi was another instance of them adding fuel to the fire that they started on 9/11.

And that's all I have to say about that. I won't be writing about Benghazi in the future, because, frankly, it has become too boring. Also, it would take more than the sane alternative media to stop the collective madness that has taken over in America and elsewhere around the world.

Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/13/13: What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Blind Singer

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Friedrich Hölderlin - Love.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Time of Socrates.
Friedrich Hölderlin - To the Sun-God.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Ganymede.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Vulcan.

Source: Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. Translated by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover. 2008. Omnidawn Publishing: Richmond, California. Pg. 151-155.

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Blind Singer

Where are you, young one, who would always
     Wake me in the morning, where are you, light?
         My heart is awake, but the night always
             Holds and binds me in its holy magic.

Once near dawn I listened, glad to wait
     For you on the hill, and never for nothing!
         Not once did your messengers, the sweet breezes,
             Deceive me, for always you came,

All-inspiring in your loveliness,
     Down the usual path; where are you, light?
         Once again, my heart is awake, but always
             The endless night binds and constrains me.

Once the leaves greened for me; the flowers
     Would shine like my own eyes;
         Not far away, familiar faces
             Shone for me, and, when I

Was a child, I saw the wings of heaven
     Traveling above and around the woods;
         Now I sit silent and alone, from one
             Hour to the next, making shapes

Of love and pain from brighter days,
     Taking comfort only in my thoughts,
         And strain far to hear if perhaps
             A kindly rescuer comes to me.

Then I often hear the voice of the Thunderer
     At midday, when the brazen one comes near,
         When he shakes his house, and under him
             The foundation quakes, and the mountain resounds.

Then I hear my rescuer in the night, I hear
     Him kill, this liberator, to give new life;
         From sunrise to sunset I hear the Thunderer
             Hurry on, and you call in his direction,

My strings! My song lives with him,
     And, as the stream follows the source,
         Wherever he has a thought, I must also go,
             Following the sure one on his erratic path.

Where to? Where to? I hear you here and there,
     Majestic one! And all around the earth it sounds.
         Where do you end? And what, what is there,
             Beyond the clouds, and what will become of me?

Day! Day! Above the tumbling clouds, I will
     Welcome you back! my eyes will flower for you,
         O light of youth, o joy, returning once again,
             Yet now more spiritually the golden source

Flows from its holy chalice, and you,
     Green earth, in your peaceful cradle, and you,
         House of my fathers! and you, loved ones
             I met once in the past, o draw near,

O come, that the joy will be yours,
     That you all will receive the seeing man's blessing!
         O take this life from me, that I may
             Endure it, take the godly from my heart.