Lebanon uncovers European-run spy network
2/28/2007 4:45:00 PM GMT

Lebanese security officials have uncovered a European-run intelligence network that spies on the resistance movement Hezbollah, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to As Safir, Lebanon’s General Security Department arrested an inspector at the Rafiq Hariri International Airport in Beirut after “noticing suspicious action.”

The daily said the inspector, from the northern port city of Tripoli, was one of the top members of the spy network. It didn’t say when he was detained, but noted that he has been referred to the military judiciary.

Lebanon Interior Minister, Hassan Sabeh, was informed of the incident, and ordered security officials to “put an end to these acts that disturb security”, the newspaper said.

As Safir also reported that security experts following the inspector found out that he was trying to recruit airport staff and other civilians to work for European spy services.

The report suggested that the network aimed at “monitoring Hezbollah centers and institutions as well as military positions."

It said maps, pictures and videotapes of Hezbollah offices in Beirut and in south and east Lebanon were seized during a raid on the inspector's house.

"A digital camera used in the photographing task was also confiscated," As Safir said.

Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad, has been working under the cover of European intelligence agencies’ names, the newspaper said.

It appears that the Mossad was doing the same thing with the recently uncovered network, it added.

Last June, Lebanon uncovered a “terror network” that was used by the Mossad to carry out attacks inside Lebanon, mainly against Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance groups.

The Lebanese army said at the time that a retired police officer, identified as Mahmoud Abu Rafeh, was the head of the terror network, and that he confessed to assassinating a number of Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters on behalf of the Mossad. j



I am so shocked. I wonder if this is how THIS got there?

Liquid explosives found South Lebanon
3/3/2007 2:00:00 PM GMT

Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon

After nearly six months of extensive search by U.S. and European intelligence agencies for lethal "liquid explosives", that followed a foiled plot to attack passenger aircraft on flights across the Atlantic, the Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon.

Of course it is. Dummie. It is a trick question. Both articles from CNN/CIA/MOSSAD affiliated Al Jazeera.

American Gothic

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none.The simulacrum is true.=Ecclesiastes, from Baudrillard's The Precession of the Simulacra.

It used to be the sky
and vast dominion meant
this side next, fill it up or erase it.
All the water in the far off sea was clean
under and outrageously deep, freshening the edges.
Once upon a time mom and dad
could fill a car for the weekend
with gum and wrappers
as children fell asleep in the corners,
jarred and blinking in the glow
of good intentions.
There was no where to run, no real need to
and plenty of jargon to fill the time.
Nothing needed to be done about
the same old secrets: engine on, engine off.
Easy does it and upsy daisy in the rigamarole,
we kept the getty-up and go
in the thingamajig under the hood.
Time doesn't pass in these juke boxes anymore,
there's more fidget in a pesky market
than on the streets where everyone used to ride
look no hands and by the seat of the pants
all torn and socks full of thorns.
The weeds mattered more than the sanctions
when girls got up slow and boys grew up thin.
Way back when a window was mostly pegs and putty
instead of glide and shine, no one minded a crack.
No one bothered to count the missing bits
of paint or the patches on a pair,
it was expected. Life needed to end somewhere.
We could stitch the universe with a thread,
organize the world with a rake and we sure did.



Thanks to the Love Contract between Israel and the US:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=80181

Radio Nablus

We know how the old women cry
from Nablus,
into the radios that carry
voices into the transient beyond
where kinship is a violation
and walls are the dominion.

Grandmothers of the ya habibi
yah ayooni, send us a bag full
of bulghur cleaned and tightened
by your old hands, send us
your own on Radio Nablus.
Send us something and we
will bring you perfume and slippers
the next time we come.

How she cries, that old woman
on the radio, for Hadi and Iman
to pour the tea and kiss the hand.
Her generic voices are dry
commands of echo and ache
on the seas of return, listen, stay.

http://www.quran-radio.ps/about_us_italy.asp

Is this true? No way. Israel and Israelis are such very nice people.


March 2, 2007 -- ISRAEL'S DOUBLE GAME IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: ARMING TERRORISTS WITH KHMER ROUGE WEAPONS


WMR's report yesterday on the U.S. naval buildup in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia, coincides with a major Israeli intelligence and weapons smuggling operation in the region.

Israel has been a major, albeit covert, player in Southeast Asia since Israeli multi-billionaire tycoon Shaul Eisenberg began supplying weapons to Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Eisenberg, a close business partner of China's military, was also an early arms supplier to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Eisenberg was active with Asia's Jewish community during World War II, not as an compatriot of the Allies but as a close intelligence and business partner of Japan's Imperial government, which was allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the Axis Alliance. Escaping Nazi-controlled Europe, Eisenberg settled in the Far East, making his primary bases of operation Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Japan itself. In Shanghai, Eisenberg, along with Imperial Japanese military intelligence units, formed units of future Jewish terrorist groups -- the Irgun and the Shanghai Betar (Betar was founded in the 1930s by the Polish Zionist Yakob Jabotinsky, a supporter of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, to battle the British for control of Palestine and the ideological godfather of later neoconservative oracle Leo Strauss). The Japanese taught the Jewish paramilitary forces in Shanghai, including some who escaped from Joseph Stalin's Jewish Autonomous Region creation in the Soviet Far East on the Chinese border, how to disrupt colonial occupiers' logistics and command and control elements, strategies that had been successful against the British, Dutch, French, and American colonial authorities in Asia. The Irgun and Betar gangs would eventually use the knowledge gained from the Japanese in their terror campaign against British and Arab forces in Palestine following World War II. Eventually, Irgun and Betar veterans would form the present-day Likud Party, now headed by Binyamin Netanyahu, a noted extreme right-winger.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

WMR visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia and discovered that the Mossad and Cambodian criminal syndicate allies continue to obtain bought-back Cambodian weapons from Cambodian government warehouses and are selling them to guerrilla groups throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, anti-Laotian Hmongs, the small anti-communist Free Vietnam Movement, and Burmese tribal guerrilla groups.

WMR photographed a number of Zim shipping containers portside along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh. From this and other port facilities, including the port of Sihanoukville, bought-back Cambodian weapons , some originally provided to the Khmer Rouge by Eisenberg and the Chinese, are making their way to insurgent groups around Asia, possibly including Iraqi guerrillas battling U.S. forces in Iraq.

Not far from Zim's Mekong port facilities in Phnom Penh sits a quiet and unassuming Mossad surveillance station. From this vantage point, Israeli operatives keep a close eye on Mekong river traffic and any "new players" who arrive into town. With new oil deposits being discovered in contested waters of the Gulf of Thailand, border skirmishes in the region are likely to increase, driving up the demand for small arms in the region. The cached weapons in Cambodia stand to make Israeli intelligence a handsome profit.

Dubai Ports? Oh yea. Evil Arabs. Forgot about that!

Zim Integrated Shipping (Isreali Firm Supports DPW, Will appear on CNN "Situation Room" Today)
www.zim.com ^


Posted on 03/02/2006 8:22:01 AM PST by new yorker 77


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Since its establishment in 1945, Service to clients through modernization and improvement have always been the hallmark of our company.


(Excerpt) Read more at zim.com ...

The War at Home

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6400179.stm


The cause of the losses, which range from 30% to more than 70%, is a mystery, but experts are investigating several theories.

American bee colonies have been hit by regional crises before, but keepers say this is the first national crisis.

Bees pollinate more than $14bn (£7bn) worth of US seeds and crops each year, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts.

The mystery disappearances highlight the important link that honeybees play in the chain that brings fruit and vegetables to supermarkets and dinner tables.

The crisis threatens numerous crops, from avocados to kiwis and California almonds - one of the most profitable in the US.

"I have never seen anything like it," California beekeeper David Bradshaw, 50, told the New York Times.

"Box after box after box are just empty. There's nobody home."

Heh.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31032&s1=h1




http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerPage.jhtml


Where do you hide a crime? Right out in the open. No one cares.
No one ever did.

ODE TO THE DOG TICK

Never was a parable so small
yet so blood-filled as the song
of the dog tick. Out in the garden
catching the shadows of butterflies.
Remember when the box started
scratching? Nine and ten cocoons
started wanting to fly? Oh yes
the bookshelf and we were eating
our breakfasts. Woke up and just
started eating. All the noises
but not like the sound of a tick
burning in the ashtray because
that is more silent still.
Burn tick burn, bother not the dog.
He only waits for your mysterious arrival,
the one on the wind, the one he never chose.

http://www.loosechange911.com/

The Famous Chewbacca Defense
which freed OJ Simpson:

Cochran: Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski: Dammit!
Chef: What?
Gerald: He's using the Chewbacca Defense!
Cochran: Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.[1]

The Five Dancing Smoking Guns:

1. The Israeli "movers" cheered the 9-11 attacks to celebrate the successful accomplishment of the greatest spy operation ever pulled off in history.
2. One of them, or an accomplice, then calls a 9-1-1 police dispatcher to report Palestinian bomb-makers in a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel.
3. Having thus pre-framed the Palestinians with this phone call, the Israeli bombers then head for the George Washington Bridge instead, where they will drop off their time-bomb van and escape with Urban Moving accomplices.
4. But the police react very wisely and proactively by closing off ALL bridges and tunnels instead of just the Holland Tunnel. This move inadvertently foils the Israelis' misdirection play and leads to their own capture and 40 day torture.
5. To cover up this story, the U.S. Justice Department rounds up over 1000 Arabs for minor immigration violations and places them in New York area jails. The Israelis therefore become less conspicuous as the government and media can now claim that the Israelis were just immigration violators caught in the same dragnet as many other Arabs.
6. After several months, FBI and Justice Department "higher-ups" are able to gradually push aside the local FBI agents and free the Israelis quietly.


Ah. Well, I always knew that but what about that woman in CA that incinerated in her car at 25mph versus tree. The next day she was to give a deposition on the identity of those she issued "fake" driver's licenses to...she was of course, the only person to be able to physically ID any hijacker of any nationality. And she burns up in a car which hits her neighbor's Cypress going 25 mph?

Oh yea. Right. Whatever.

Hell is an ambush. And I'll bet there are still people who don't know the USAF planned to use "kamikazee" pilots in WWII but scrapped it d/t a catastrophic crash during training (into one of its own bases, duh).

The Chargers, The Glorious Qur'an, Sura 100


By the (Steeds) that run, with panting (breath),
And strike sparks of fire,
And push home the charge in the morning,
And raise the dust in clouds the while,
And penetrate forthwith into the midst (of the foe) en masse;-
Truly man is, to his Lord, ungrateful;
And to that (fact) he bears witness (by his deeds);
And violent is he in his love of wealth.
Does he not know,- when that which is in the graves is scattered abroad
And that which is (locked up) in (human) breasts is made manifest-
That their Lord had been Well-acquainted with them, (even to) that Day?

Photo by: Bisbohemian/Flickr



THE MINING TOWN WAVER

Silly old man walks down silly old street
waves his hand at everybody. You don't know him.
No one does. So, he must be a retarded angel.
Past the hospital, across from Dottie's Diner,
he walked every day just waving his hand in the air.
Eternity behind him, a shadow calls his name.
A thousand ghosts shimmer in a tributary

all the way back down
the other way to the Campbell Shaft.
We called to him the Philosopher King.
They say, he was born that way.

For Whom the Central School Bell Tolls

So, before WWII was even halfway over, the Reader's Digest announced that six million Jews would be dead and a "phantom" by the end of the war. Now that is just too crazy eh? What a premonition don't you think!? Is it any wonder that Israel is such a desperate nation and people?

Anyways, I finally met Alice Notley. She read my favorite poem One of the Longest Times just as one of my very dear Laundry Hill siblings is going to go in for a bit of non elective and perhaps life saving surgery. So, it was great but all in all, it was somewhat of a let down in the context of knowing no one but RAP knows what I'm talking about and why the tears just poured out when it got to the part about this stick is 'little sister" and this stick is "you". The Creosote. What would Alice Notley care?

Ahem.

I wonder if this is the company that rebuilt our home that was so badly damaged this summer?

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=79748&categ_id=17

"In July 1993, an Israeli military onslaught in South Lebanon demolished or badly damaged more than 4,700 homes; Jihad al-Binaa restored virtually all of them. Three years later, the Israelis went on an even more destructive rampage that completely or partially destroyed about 7,000 residences; Jihad al-Binaa rebuilt or repaired 6,714. This past summer, Lebanon's wrathful neighbor to the south lost all sense of proportion and damaged or destroyed at least 86,000 homes; Jihad al-Binaa sent some 1,000 engineers and 5,000 volunteers to conduct site surveys (although actual rebuilding has been delayed by the current political impasse in Beirut). Leaving aside questions of right and wrong, what can the Bush administration hope to achieve with an empty statement of hostility toward an organization that has done so much good for so many Lebanese who have suffered so much heartache because of so many bombs and shells supplied by the United States?"

Ah yes. '96 was a great one too. Very hot that summer and the six hour drive to Beirut in the river of refugees then seems just a pale memory and even then, this summer might one day pale as well.

Goodnight Alice Notley.

And I truly did enjoy the reads from Grave of Light. It looks like another success story for you.

http://www.bisbeearizona.com/www/members/members.php?scat=10





Malnutrition in Gaza resulting in sales of family possessions:
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m30834&hd=&size=1&l=e

USA and ISRAEL (same thing really) LOVE CLUSTER BOMBLETS D/T EFFECT ON CHILDREN:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/070222/1/46v0b.html

Israel HATES Muslims and hopes you do too:
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/16748151.htm

Iran has "no right to exist" according to fleet commanders:
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=43943

US continues to blame muslims for American antimuslimism and hate crimes:
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_has_no_intention_of_attacking_Ir_02222007.html

Super Duper Power, Incestuatious Amplification:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qGAqA-muYU&mode=related&search

"If they were realistic about the war, the American people wouldn't have bought it."

But you know what? The American people don't give a shit. They need to suffer a little more before they can actually develop the ability to be empathetic. Sad but true. Crying and starting blogs about having flights delayed (Jet Blue)....for crying out loud. Americans are not only babies but they are stupid.

Holocaust Denial Movies

1. Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec2. The Well3. Hair Cut4. Engine Exhaust5. Nuremberg Trial6. Gassing Building7. Abraham Bomba, Treblinka Barbar8. Eliyahu Rosenberg9. Reader's Digest and Ben Hecht10. Ridiculous Experiments11. Treblinka Burial Space12. Belzec Burial Space

My personal favorite is the Reader's Digest film. Precious.

Poor old Messiah.

The Vitus Mystica and St. Vitus' Dance of Poetry Past



http://www.religioustolerance.org/isl_intr.htm


-His (rasool Mohamed SAW) mother said "When he was born, there was a light that issued out of my pudendum and lit the places of Syria."
-Also at the time of his birth, "...fourteen galleries of Kisra's palace cracked and rolled down, the Magians' sacred fire died down and some churches on Lake Sawa sank down and collapsed."
-His foster family had many experiences of amazingly good luck while he was in their care.
-As a young child, the angel Jibril visited the boy, ripped his chest open, removed his heart, extracted a blood clot from it, and returned him to normalcy

http://www.seekwisdom.org/

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained

http://www.muhammadanreality.com/descentmuhammadreality.htm

This narration is from Ka`b al-Akhbar, who was known as Abu Ishaq. Ka`b was of the learned scholars of the Jews and during the blessed lifetime of the Holy Prophet {S} he lived in the land of Yemen. He did not accede to the honor of true faith during the Prophet's {s} lifetime, but only thereafter, during the Khalifa of Abu-Bakr as-Siddiq, or, according to other accounts, during the time of ‘Umar. He is referred to in some of the hadith related by the honorable companions of the Holy Prophet {S}. One of these companions, Sahif bin ‘Umar al-Ansari, claims to have heard from his father ‘Amr:

During the Holy Prophet's {s} lifetime I became acquainted with Ka`b and I used to meet him in a number of assemblies. It was his intention to come and attend the association of the Holy Prophet {S}, and without yet having met him, he confirmed that he was indeed the Seal of the Prophets; he frequently describe his characteristics to us. One day he told us that this was going to be the Holy Prophet’s last year, and that he very much wished he could make ready and go to meet him on time. He hastened his preparations and set out on the journey. There came one night, however, when he was seen to dart in and out (of the tent) at frequent intervals during the night, gazing intently at the night sky and weeping copiously.

http://takingaimradio.com/m3u/takingaim070213.m3u

Heh.

The Importance of Being Earnest

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=79625

"What does it all mean Basil?" - Austin Powers,, The Spy WHo Shagged Me




Ah, now what does it all mean nowdays? Ask a Shi'i. You need to ask one that understands what being a Shi'i is first off. Then, you need to listen to that Shi'i when that Shi'i is telling you she knows what Nasrallah is thinking before he states it openly. All one has to do actually to know that, is to read the Nahjul Balagha it seems and of course, to have faith and be certain of the afterlife. Without those three things though, you must rely on someone like me. I often tell my kids who are profoundly influenced by the dreadful societies we must live in, that "if you cannot have certain faith, have faith in someone who does." That'd be me. Um, especially when I'm telling you about Sayyed Nasrallah as opposed to some dead poet who is basically, dead.

Unfortuantely for some people it seems.

Anyway, we just celebrated the second year anniversary of the mob style hit on Valentine's Day (forget about the NINETEEN supposed hijackers and the message that was sent, heh, and there weren't even NINETEEN known culprits you know) of our beloved martyr, Rafik Hariri. He is much beloved and he is a martyr. But, and I say, BUT....was he the only one that should require such profound ceremonies and heartaches? How about the eighty people who died when Israel tried to assassignate a much beloved Shi'i scholar by the name of Fadallah? Oh, he is still alive you know and going strong. Runs Mobil gas stations through the Levant and donates everything to his well known charities, mostly orphanages.

What does it all mean? What does it mean when a week ago, Nasrallah demanded the Lebanese government return a weapons shipment to Hezbollah. Is he CRAZY?

Not at all. And when I read about it a week ago I had a great big "Aha!" Yes indeed. Beloved Sayed Nasrallah who never lets anyone down, not so far anyway. What was he doing? Admitting OPENLY that Hezbollah was receiving arms shipments? Is he really all that naive? Or, are we? Alas. His concerns are that the arms shipments will go to one of the many US backed "insurgencies" present in Lebanon (the Mossad most importantly and their minions) and will be used against the Lebanese people instead of against the usurper known as Israel. That is what they are for you know and rightfully so. Noting that the US arms Israel, pays Israel's bills and seems to have this crazy lock-step march going on with their Zionist brethren.

Nasrallah is "going on the record" so to speak. That famous record that recorded that 85% of all Israelis support Israeli war crimes against the Shi'i of South Lebanon this past summer. On THAT record called "the periodical one".

So...what else does this story mean and reflect upon? What is the message when Nasrallah holds a much smaller rally, not internationally televised or recognized commemorating the fallen Shi'i of Lebanon's brutal past as it pertains to Israeli expansionism? It means, we won't be neglected and that the Sunnis in Lebanon have fallen prey to this steady pandering to their misery over ONE fallen Sunni businessman which the US is using against the muslims as a whole. Because Nasrallah is known throughout the ME as a muslim who has faith and is worth following his every word and deed and he is being listened to before anyone is and that includes George Bush, Musa al Sadr, Ahmadinijad, Assad, the King of Jordan, Mubarak and of course, GLEN the MORON BECK.

From the article:

In a rare public appearance, Nasrallah paid tribute to the two Hizbullah leaders, and also responded to comments made by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Friday, as well as those made by members of the governing coalition on Wednesday during the two-year commemoration of former Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination. However, Nasrallah did not mention the international tribunal to try those accused of killing Hariri.

"We never hid the fact that we had weapons, unlike other groups in this country who demand disarmament and themselves are armed to the teeth," the leader of the resistance said. "We have many weapons of many different kinds." During the war last summer, "we didn't fight Israel with swords made of wood," he joked.

Nasrallah insisted that he would not forgive Lebanese authorities for seizing weapons from his group. "We are ready to provide the army with all the weapons that it requires ... but we will not forgive anyone who confiscates a bullet and uses it irresponsibly," he said, referring to the truck-full of Hizbullah weapons seized by the Lebanese Army, near Beirut. Defense Minister Elias Murr has said the army would use the seized weapons to fight Israel in the event of any future violation of Lebanese sovereignty.




Sura Yunus (Jonah)

[10.2] What! is it a wonder to the people that We revealed to a man from among themselves, saying: Warn the people and give good news to those who believe that theirs is a footing of firmness with their Lord. The unbelievers say: This is most surely a manifest enchanter.

Photo: Heart of a Zinnia by Radiann Porter






1. From the Book of Confusions

Silly old man walks down silly old street
waves his hand at everybody. You don't know him.
No one does. So he must be a retarded angel. - Ode to the Mining Town Waver

As the bee tends
the tendrils of time
on the outskirts
of her metaphysical chores,
she is weightless, harmless, free.
Flowers are her chaplains,
out in space and so small.
Daisy, peony, carnation:
you paper-puzzles, you grand masters
how about me? Is this a Valentine?

Hey pollen pushers, egg minders
in the society of specialists,
who gave you your orders
to sting and mend?
All this subatomic origami, all these stars.


A must read is, The Chain of Miracles by Harun Yahya the famous Turkish anti materialism advocate and Islamic scholar. Makes you realize that the reason astrophysics is so hard for the layman to comprehend is because those describing it in the text books are lying about who invented it in the first place. They like to take a little too much credit and therefore, do not describe the invention of "something else" (Allah) as plainly as they ought to.

http://www.harunyahya.net/V2/Lang/en/Pg/WorkDetail/Number/2537

http://joannafrancis.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/israeli-snipers-killing-us-troops-in-iraq/

Americans are supposed to believe that rag-tag “insurgents” use IEDs powerful enough to kill three US troops per day, on average. An American soldier even set up a blog on how “Intel” is betraying and targeting US troops. But sometimes Mossad bomb-makers accidentally blow themselves up in Iraq.

According to Richard Wilson, Israeli sniping and IEDs are false flag operations. He says that on March 28, 2005, Americans arrested 19 Mossad agents who fired twice on a US Marine checkpoint. The Marines beat up the Mossad agents and tore off their Star-of-David necklaces. (The US media incorrectly said the agents were Americans.) The Mossad agents said they were employees of Zapata Engineering, which helps the CIA conduct interrogations, and also manages US ammo dumps and US motor pools in Iraq.

Rocks, Mining and Human Nature

Opals are beautiful and Alexandrite, which is somewhat similar is the most valuable stone...more expensive than a diamond of the same carat weight. Alexandrite is a stone that is measured by its degree of color change...most of them are found in Russia and there are very few with color change potential greater than 90%.

I saw one in Riyadh that was 95% and it was valued at 24,000 US dollars and weighed only one fourth of a carat. When you hold them up to LIGHT, Alexandrites can appear to be green or purple or yellow or pink or any color of the rainbow. Lower quality Alexandrites only show a few of their colors and are worth much less in dollars.

It is the one stone that is like the human being. The higher degree of flexibility, visability and change, the more valuable it is. Diamonds are really the stone of peasants. Traded for weapons you know and actually quite abundant. Like people who are unable to change colors and dimensions, the diamond is not the girl's best friend at all, but humanity's worst enemy.

In reality though, these are all only rocks. You cannot eat them and when you die, you leave them behind and you are buried under nothing but rocks and dirt.

The Light

24:35
Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.


Ode To Rocks

In pockets and gardens, under
our beds for miners carry
a fair share in long gray
pails with jugs of soup
near shanks and flesh
with crusts plus those
stored in the chests.
The spare parts of the world
cast about pose a craving
as deep as the ocean is long
as the rivers are wide. A record
of perennial harvests hauled
up from the ground
on ladders of iron, even that!
Beloved fountains of slag
pour into banks of remains
where genuflection pays
paper for gold and time with loss.
Poor men fair well in shifts,
forever on the way in or out
with dirt clinging, dirt in love
with the heroic skin, part
ancient shroud part, let me in.

And I hope that the Creator is pleased with my work. I don't try to publish at all anymore...not really. I believe that my poems are recorded and will be returned to me if I am lucky enough to enter paradise.

And here is an exceptional article about the famous Russian stones:

http://www.gemstone.org/gem-by-gem/english/alex.html

So, I was sayin', there was a flood and this guy looked at me and said...


http://gsahist.org/gsat2/pardee.htm

"Various correspondence in the 1920s led Bretz to believe (Bretz, 1978, personal communication) that Pardee was actually considering flooding from a glacial Lake Missoula as a cause for the scabland topography. Bretz (1974) speculated that Alden dissuaded Pardee from the idea. Bretz saw a memorandum of September 25, 1922, to David White, chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, in which Alden noted of Pardee's work: "... very significant phenomena were discovered in the region southwest of Spokane.... The results so far ... require caution in their interpretation. The conditions warn against premature publication." "

So far we have, silence on the Cambrian Radiation, the origin of the universe from a single point of "zero mass and infinite density" and a flood. What next, the plague?

The Heretic, one J Harlen Bretz:

"It seems then that Pardee actually considered the flood hypothesis with Lake Missoula as the source, but was probably dissuaded from pursuing such a heretical notion any further by Alden and Kirk Bryan (Pardee's superiors at the time). This idea is at least consistent with Pardee's silence when Bretz presented his rather shocking catastrophic flood idea at the now infamous 1927 "scabland debate". 2

Sometime before 1927 geologists were catching on to the seriousness of what Bretz was suggesting. If true, Bretz's theory would undermine the very foundation of Uniformitarianism. Just as anticipated, the general outcry against any hint of a catastrophic model was very loud indeed. In fact, there was a very strong desire to publicly discredit and humiliate Bretz. So, to this purpose, Bretz was asked to present his ideas in public forum to the Geological Society of Washington. Bretz himself was rather unaware of the underlying purpose of this gathering or just how hostile his audience actually was to his ideas. Unawares to Bretz, six "challenging elders", as Bretz later referred to them, were chosen to counter Bretz's claims and beat him in public debate.6

http://www.detectingdesign.com/harlenbretz.html

...I am reminded of the watering of lawns, the boats called sticks and ants.

In response to the bogus movie: The Lord of War which suggests the AK 47 to be the weapon of mass destruction, the poor man's atom bomb, etc. Hollywood oh, yea. Hollywood. Forgot who was taking issue with violence.

T-bird At The Gila River, Summer '05




"Advice: learn poems so that you don't have to write them.
Strategies are useless testimonials."
- The Book of Warnings, D. Whitehead

This pretty life is death's comma,
we are in between, constructing
the darkest layer in the top soils
over which the eagle flies
with the owl, as same as the bug.

Once I stood on a reservation
for Indians and thought.
The wild wisdoms entered
into the world's recorder
like drugs with the cackle
of gypsies and caw of old birds.

When suddenly! Like that!
…the newest grand canyon opened
her secret vaults to receive
the sound and reek of vomit leaving the throat
of a drunkard who turned in and then, sped away.
Ah, the stories the rocks will tell.

Old Woman w/backdrops

Ouzai, Beirut: Mechanics

Looking Up From The Statue...meanwhile back at the ranch a Coke Monkey runs rampant in Tyre South Lebanon. Coke, it's the real thing and it beats Drano:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/azstar/20070204/lo_azstar/tucsonfightsopenairmethmarketmidtownresidentscleanupeffortwatchedbypoliceacrosscountry

Why an Arabic Qur'an?


http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~coby/essays/refdigl.htm

It’s a warm Friday mid-afternoon in a village in the Peruvian Highlands, not far from Cuzco. In the main plaza, a small crowd consisting mostly of women and young children – some of elementary-school age, some pre-school – is chatting in Quechua, seemingly waiting for something to arrive. And , sure enough, something does arrive: a brightly painted school bus, which stops near the crowd and disgorges a dozen or so neatly uniformed high-school students. It’s their families who have been waiting for them. But before these older boys and girls join in the Quechua chatter with their mothers and younger siblings, they bid farewell to one another and to their schoolmates who stay on the bus to go on to the next village. They talk about plans for the weekend – soccer, movies – and for the following week. How do I know this? Because this conversation is in Spanish, not Quechua.

Snort, Swill and Blow:

What next, the plague? Seems to me that rumors of avian flu are a bit overrated in light of midnight tornadoes, a binge-drinking rate among US teenagers at 45% and Italian snuff:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070202/hl_nm/italy_cocaine_dc

What is the world's problem? The sniffles?

I hardly think so.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. -Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Aboard the USS Trent, Summer 2006

photo by: Radiann Porter, "Miss Opie's Agave"

Ode To Miss Opie

After he died you didn't want to change a thing
so you didn't and stayed the slow hours
waiting to go yourself and we'd pay you a visit.
One eye snapped shut and sultry
wise minks so long in the closets,
an exact replica of the twenties and the same
thing that you were when you died at 98,
the oldest old-woman in town.
How to be a widow? How to be?
Not Kate Chopin but more like
the Cat in the Hat, all those weird things
on your credenzas, all the crystal lamps,
the bobby pins on your dresser
where we practiced counting.
A hundred salt and pepper shakers,
the collections of a young woman, depression glass.
Lorna called you Miss Dopie just to be mean
or funny, hard to tell,
all your orifices in moth balls anyway.
We laughed until we found you in your kitchen one day,
propped in a chair near the yellow clapboards
looking really poor like us, real hungry
and too blind to cook.
That last year me and Lorna baked you a birthday cake
and it was real pretty for a couple of kids.

Crash Course in Islamic Created Causality

45- Have you not seen how your Lord lengthens out the shadow? He could have kept it motionless had He liked. Then We made the sun a proof for it.

Is justice blind or is she just not looking?

View From 16th

"Nothing in Clouds Hill is to be a care upon the world. While I have it there shall be nothing exquiste or unique in it. Nothing to anchor me." T.E. Lawrence

There is a sense of not wanting to be here on 16th and Center, address 319 North, some awful transposition of 19 squared there, in the Masonic house. Two small, concrete obelisks are on either side of the driveway and it ought to be pleasant to look out onto the hills from the large, clean windows of this house, the natural hills and those which are man-made and called slag; the way the sun and the iron play off of each other to create lavender vistas all around is very lovely. There isn't though any solace in the view or on the roofs of so many quaint houses staggered around the smallish valley nor any charm in the massive structure sitting directly across from here just under a natural incline where the cliffs contain whole dynasties of evolution in fossils. It is right at the base of dump number seven. That would be the old hospital which is now a boarding house for the indigent and elderly. It is a handsome building, particularly in the afternoon when the light sculpts the art deco facades into crisp shapes. The place is charming the way things like that are, irresistable to people overly accustomed to the less than Byzantine. It is mostly brick and wood laid against timber, all quite flammable and impermanent. The only solid structures in sight are the several frames of shaft elevators that dot the hills in seemingly arbitrary places that mark areas where minerals are easy to find and extract by those who, in the past descended to mine the rock walls for a variety of things like copper and silver and sometimes, a bit of gold. It ought to be pleasant, but it isn't.

The best part of being in a catastrophe is actually being in one. There is nothing anyone can really say about that sort of thing, there is no choice within the boundaries of it, no conclusions and nothing which resembles remorse. It just is. It is a case that one does what one is compelled to do and that would be, to move along with it as if in a river, just glide along and look at things as they pass by or remain motionless at various points along the way.

Waking up in a large hall prepared in advance for the arrival of so many souls (on the run) after one has slept what seemed like several lifetimes contained in a few seconds, is the material of which epiphanies are made, the kind of thing a person only gets to do once, like everything else in the scheme of things. Ship load after ship load, ours was the fourteenth wave. When a person arrives in such a hall, the rest have already disappeared to wherever it is they ship people like us, refugees. There are lines and lines of open cots with one blanket each and a brand new pillow depending on the invasion and the invader. In this particular case, it could be said of it, "it was well appointed". There are boxes full of food and the essentials, foot powder and sanitary napkins and one bathroom with three stalls and three sinks for the women and probably, about the same for the men. It is an exhibition hall on the Turkish side of the island. It is prearranged for cataclysm.

I lay down after spending several hours settling in to the camp by organizing and reorganizing my few possessions but could not sleep because I was still bleeding and felt unclean. I didn't want to shower out in the open with the other women. The children were sleeping on and off and our traveling companions with whom we had left the city two days before were actively moving about and making phone calls to Kabul and Boston. They seemed very busy. Jessica, the mother, was worried about her diet, she could not be around people who had eaten carbohydrates within the previous 24 hours, it was very important to her that we respect this. We had no phone though and there wasn't really anything any of us wanted to say, my children and I, to anyone we knew. We felt very far away, so far that no phone could ever span the distance we felt.

Night began to fall and the hall was still empty. The few stragglers from the boat before ours had departed at one, just after we arrived. We were absolutely alone with thousands of empty cots and all sorts of personal expectations that we knew could never be fufilled. We did not know how we felt yet, not really and somehow, I knew we wouldn't really know how we would feel for a very long time to come. Perhaps forever. We might never recover, I knew that much but also knew that recovery isn't always the best thing if it means there isn't a lesson learned or a price paid. We were paying dearly for something but didn't quite understand what or when the debt we had incurred would finally be paid in full. The numbness was profound.

I spent a few hours walking around the fairgrounds looking for others like myself or those even worse off, those in shock or perhaps even ill. I looked for tears and slouching and found a woman on a bench sitting all alone. I tried to comfort her with talk of God and she appreciated it even though we were of different sects entirely, whole different ballparks of understanding about our status and the cause of the invasion. The woman sobbed as we compared what we'd seen so far and how we feared what else it might be that we would see. She spoke of the sister she'd left behind. It was a kind of sad excitement that allowed the closeness to exist between us for nearly a half hour. I finally got up, held her her for a moment and said goodbye to her. I can remember her face as one of average intellect, average sadness and a complete sense of loss and frustration that aggravated the tiny lines around her eyes. Her face was already anemic from several days living under seige in the south of our country. She could have been a woman in a painting.

When I returned to the hall, everyone in my group, my children and my friend and her two daughters were already asleep or resting with their eyes half closed. No one seemed to have anything left to say even though we'd not spoken more than a few words to each other since the early afternoon. I hadn't slept for nearly a week. The last time I had slept I awoke to a thunderous explosion above our building which lit the sky like a match suddenly lights a dark room. No one moved or said anything as I prepared to lay down, not even a goodnight let alone, an I love you. Then I fell without even a pause to observe my last deep sigh into a dark and immense sleep.

I woke up suddenly but without being startled or disoriented. I had no idea how much time had passed but if time were to be measured as change it must have been years that I had slept because what I saw as I opened my eyes was a world which had completely changed.

The cavernous hall which had been so empty was now filled, every cot in it had a sleeping body there and some held two. None of them moved. I cannot imagine how they settled so close to us in such silence, the way an army of butterflies must arrive in a tree. Thousands more had arrived in those hours or moments of sleep of which I have no real record to refer to. They appeared to be dead rather than exhausted. There was only one soldier walking out of the hall who looked back over his shoulder briefly before disappearing and I sat alone looking over the great event horizon. I sat and waited for things to begin moving again, I was frozen in pain and wonder at the company of souls in which I was immersed as if in the clearest water on the highest mountain, a place where no one had ever been before or would ever go again. Here it was at last, Nirvana, wildly unstable and utterly somnolent. The darkest star on the brink of radiation over a graveyard of the living.

The two obelisks mark the driveway but I do not want to know what they mean. I only know that I exist on the corner of 16th and Central, 319 North.

Divinity versus Purity in the context of Miracles

The Quran in its style is not just a book being dictated as one would a letter, "to so and so". It is an actual theological event complete with Allah's knowledge of what occurs in the prophet's own mind and that is included. Even the notion that Allah dictates to the angel and then to the prophet what his own actions should be i.e. "Say" and then it is followed by what should be said clearly pointing out those verses from others. Other statements that are meant only for the prophet are also included and show the incredible detail required in recording such an event. It exposes the actual process of revelation so to speak. It also indicates that there was a moral "burden" on the prophet and what the actual burden looked like in great detail highlighting certain events and I don't think we are to consider it a log of ALL the prophet's activities, thoughts or actions. That would be impossible (to read). The thing is, when a person (prophet or ordinary guy) KNOWS they are in a miracle situation, their fear of making a mistake is much greater (I think) and in the case of Mohamed (SAW) his miracle was so great that he would be HIGHLY unlikely to make even the smallest of mistakes in his practice.

This type of recitation exists no where else in terms of the other prophets but that doesn't mean that a "theological event" of the mental order didn't occur rather it just wasn't recorded verbatim by any prophet that we know of.


To offer the rhetorical question: How does a personal miracle lead to a person's recovery from any given thing and improve their character?

On the Divinity of Mohamed (SAW), Musa (SAW) and Isa (SAW) respectively referred to as Mohamed, Jesus Christ and Moses by other "believers":

I think the question is actually of Divinity not necessarily infallibility in the sense of human error. The Quran clearly demonstrates that mistakes happened but not necessarily mistakes that were of the intentional type and what is a mistake in the landscape of a miracle?

The Quran suggests over and over and over that if Allah wanted to create people who would not err he could have and if he wanted to make a Quran that glowed and flew into the air or whatever, he could have but then there would be no "test" for the believers/unbelievers/humanity. Those things that occurred that "appear" to be mistakes are, to me, part of the story that is necessary to reveal something else and something else and something else.

As well, Allah did not write a story or plan a plot in which he wasn't aware of something or someone's intents, actions or the personal dramas they were all involved it. Allah is basically not constrained by time and already knows the conclusion of the famous tale of this particular civilization i.e. the one involving this group of adversaries and advocates. In that case, there are not mistakes really.

In some cases, the prophet and his companions were given details as well. Stories in the hadith and in particular some that I know of from the Nahjul Balagha were actually revealed to that peer group as well. Sometimes via dreams and sometimes via actual statements of the prophet that were often times cloaked in mysterious language so as not to directly reveal the future. Like the case of the death of Abu Dhar(pbuh) in which at the time of his inevitable death he told his daughter to go to the caravan road and wait and that travellers would soon be coming who would help her to bury her father. She left him alone in his close to death state and went to the road and was met by a caravan. When the members of the caravan questioned her she told them her father's name and they were incredulous and asked to see the old man. When they arrived he was already dead and the rich merchants buried him in a very expensive piece of cloth. There are several other deaths like this recorded in the Nahjul in which the person who was going to die experienced something particular and then stated "Ah, I am going to die then tomorrow as the prophet said such and such"..in one case that a fighter would drink milk just prior to dying. The man asked for water as he was dying but instead, was brought a glass of milk just as the prophet had indicated to him years before (the prophet was at the time dead already i.e. when the old man was readying to die).

In Sermon 5 of the NB, Ali Mu'mineen (pbuh) states the following:

SERMON 5 of the Nahjul Balagha, The Peak of Eloquence


Delivered when the Holy Prophet died and `Abbas ibn `Abd al-Muttalib and Abu Sufyan ibn Harb offered to pay allegiance to Amir al-mu'minin for the Caliphate

O' People! (1)

Steer clear through the waves of mischief by boats of deliverance, turn away from the path of dissension and put off the crowns of pride. Prosperous is one who rises with wings (i.e. when he has power) or else he remains peaceful and others enjoy ease. It (i.e. the aspiration for Caliphate) is like turbid water or like a morsel that would suffocate the person who swallows it. One who plucks fruits before ripening is like one who cultivated in another's field.

If I speak out they would call me greedy towards power but if I keep quiet they would say I was afraid of death. It is a pity that after all the ups and downs (I have been through). By Allah the son of Abu Talib (2) is more familiar with death than an infant with the breast of its mother. I have hidden knowledge, if I disclose it you will start trembling like ropes in deep wells.


This is an example of perhaps the deliverance of messages or information in dreams (not indicated in the NB though) and the idea that a believer should not share negative dreams openly to others.

Then, if you compare Isa (SAW) it is clearly stated in the Quran that he will be judged and will come to testify against others. It is exactly this type of thing, the insistence on the 'infallibility" of a human prophet that lead to the ultimate equating a human being with Allah. There are a few ayat that show that Isa (SAW) was also given the opportunity to "defer" from orders and he will answer for those things on al Yawm.

5:117 I did not say to them aught save what Thou didst enjoin me with; That serve Allah, my Lord and your Lord

And I was a witness of them so long as I was among them

But when Thou didst cause me to die, Thou were the watcher over them

And thou art witness of all things

(These above three lines are all spoken by Isa, SAW)

This shows that the Quran talks about the "end" so to speak and there are two mentions of Isa (SAW) as "among them" and then, as a resurrected soul along with all the other souls on al Yawm. I take it to mean i.e. 'among them' as not actually dead. Death hasn't come to Isa (SAW) yet and therefore this ayat refers to a future time when he too will present HIS evidence as a counter to the evidence of anyone in dispute with Allah's commands which indicates that Isa (SAW) himself had a 'choice'. If he had no choice that would be due to a predetermined 'infallibility' rather than what I think it is better described by and that is "divinity". It is just the case that with prophets, they are more highly motivated to avoid error and hence, do not make mistakes but I don't think that necessarily "predestines" them to not make any mistakes.

*And "thou were the watcher over them" I take to mean "at that time" which is the dispute here, the actual time of Isa's (SAW) death/non death i.e. the "crucifiction" which is witnessed really only by two individuals that we know of, the person on the cross and Isa (SAW) himself and of course, Allah.

Allah is the only infallible "thing" in that sense of the word.

Furthermore, this is the paradox of the time Isa (SAW) spent in the desert fasting and was tempted by the Shaitan. Whereas the argument is completely illogical the way it is presented by Christians (that Isa was God) i.e. it is impossible for the Shaitan to tempt Allah who created EVEN him (sic Iblis) with anything at all...comes into full focus for US. He was tempted. His role was not of the Creator but of the created and that is not indicative of "infallibility" but instead, the 'likelihood' he would withstand greater pressures than any of us would due to his divine information and divine skills imbued upon him by the Creator. That story (Injeel) includes Isa (SAW) being so burdened by one instance of his prophethood that he sweat blood much like Mohamed (SAW) was reduced to a shivering and practically insane "looking" individual under a blanket who feared either being insane or being perceived as such (upon his first encounter with the angel).

For non muslims and unbelievers, this is one of the ways in which they are prevented from accepting Mohamed (SAW) as the last prophet i.e. they "detect" fallibility in a variety of things from his war time activities to his marriage to a young girl.

Snow Drunk


The sky at dawn is the shadow
of the deer who hoped to be seen,
lagging behind like that to peek
through the hedges. Painters
only did that when they lacked
cameras to abstract that which is
abstracted. This one is gray
on gray with a spray of rose leaves
in the black of what is actually there:

azures, lemons, magentas, pales and darknesses.

The proof is in everything and each
of the prostrating shadows
of dawn, of noon, of dusk,
move this way and that way,
several ways, each one
a better color than the next
one and the unknown of that
is certainly more
than black can tell you
in the constant sillhouette
of the materials frozen
into the peculiar shapes of deers.
My shape is said to be that of a pear.

When I say this to the beholder
I am finished. Returning to
the window of shadows I find
the world has been lit up
and it has snowed.
It has literally snowed,
it is quiet and I am quiet
more than the snow
can tell me in its shushing.
We all begin to jump around
and we begin again our falling.

J

He says this is my country.
I notice how the crack is larger
the place deeper and color stronger.
He doesn't know it is a town,
not a country, he doesn't even know
how much it costs to stay alive.
On the next turn he says
that is so amusing
and I think yes, it is.
I wonder who told him these.

The Molecular Model of Duality: Potassium

Dr. Plichta's conclusion:

The biochemical components of life, the amino acids, are coded by the number 19 . The structure of the eighty-one stable, natural existing chemical elements, the components of the Nature, are in many ways subject to the same code . A lonely number, the unique number 19, proves to be the King Number of the chemistry.

What worried Dr. Plichta the most, however , was the question, why all elements with odd atomic numbers possess either one or two isotopes? Only the nineteenth element, Potassium, does not? Because with its three isotopes the Potassium actually would have to be an element with even atomic number. Because this number is an odd prime number, and the element 19, therefore Potassium, behaves like an even-numbered element. For the first time, Dr. Peter Plichta came upon a double-face element. An element, which is odd, however it behaves like an even element .

41:53] We will show them our proofs in the horizons, and within themselves, until they realize that this is the truth. Is your Lord not sufficient as a witness of all things?

[ 72:28] ........ He (GOD) has counted the numbers of all things.

[ 27:82] At the right time, we will produce for them a creature made of earthly materials, declaring that the people are not certain about our revelations.

http://www.submission.org/miracle/19-chemistry.html

And hey, I'll "be damned" if I let a maniac like that get me down! Down to "wherever" he is.


The Divers, the Drowned, the Delivered

We landed on the beach in Bahia Kino
with our best memories and war stories,
monitoring time by watching shadows.

Simplicity is complex nowdays, so many gadgets.

There was a fire ring for instance,
and burning lanterns but no candles.
And diving birds, there were three kinds and their bones.

An old friend caught trigger and hoped for flounder.

After he had too much to drink
he resembled a demon but his hands trembled.
Near the fire at night his eyes glistened.

Don's wife likes Miami, she drinks there.

In the morning there was contrition
and there were flies to spread contagion
by thieving sugar and contempt, a diligent crew.

How many times have I seen this before?

Insects and yeasts take people apart
one piece at a time. We collect wood
to burn, it holds us together as it consumes.

Tayammum, sand ablutions are called Tayammum.

At dawn the sea leaves her glass behind,
ceramic prisons free for the taking.
I couldn't get enough, the sea is so generous.

I was questioned thoroughly, my fingerprints in sand are still there.

Don left so early Sunday, he left cans
and rope, he left precious amounts
of bile in shade trees, he left our rake unattended.

We come from a family of campers, we are honor bound.

Ours tell quiet stories of blindness all the time,
we frequent several places, the animals know
when we are there. Lizards aren't so cautious.

Aztec traders brought handmade trinkets on the last day.

Grandfather, father and two boys. Bedou salesmen
from the pagan interior. His son told me this, he knew why I asked.
He had assimilated over time using a small TV. His eyes said so.

There are rituals and there are habits. These are facts.

Yes I said, yes, there is only one.
He nodded when I spoke of the Arabs.
Vaya con dios I said. He liked that. He smiled.

Ah, what the news agencies won't tell you. I often have to gasp and wonder at the naivity of Americans in general.

You see, my losses due to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon this summer are truly miniscule indeed. And as we can see from below, the things I gained are immense. The discovery of hidden enemies there, the solidification of my children's faith, the immense amount of wisdom I picked up on my journey across the sea (which I still haven't really capitalized on yet)....oh I cannot even count the blessing that I have recieved.

The most important blessing that is going to be realized from Nasrallah's brave defense of his country against the Zionist invaders however is yet to come. Talks indicate that the Israelis are going to have to release TEN TIMES more Palestinian prisoners than they would have had to release if they'd have simply done the "right" thing, the "normal" thing and the thing allowed under the Geneva Conventions and had actually NEGOTIATED for the release of the few IDF commandoes. Ah. It is wonderful.

What has happened is that the families of those held in captivity are demanding Olmert negotiate and negotiate for real. Any country who is willing to try to "convince" the civilized world that they destroyed the infrastructure of their democratic neighbor in order to get a few men released must OBVIOUSLY care enough about them now to put their inordinate and Godly pride behind them and get those boys home. I must chuckle.

News of the return of the Golan Heights being negotiated under Ariel Sharon...well. I'll believe that when I see the backs of those mofos leaving the Shebaa Farms. And when I stop hearing of the constant invasions of Lebanese airspace. And when I hear that the Israelis are forced to pay for the demining of South Lebanon and when I hear of the trial of Olmert at the Hague for dropping little gadgets that look like musical toys on southern Lebanon that are made to kill children who pick them up not knowing the vile history of Israel doing that sort of nasty and vile thing. THEN and only then will I believe that this recent "leak" of a document that promises the return of the Golan Heights is actually going to be acted on. I am so entirely used to the lying of that group of people that it makes me want to puke.

Athiests, the OPEN enemies
of Islam and Muslims

I was talking to a muslim fellow this past week (what I do in my spare time nowdays as opposed to talking to drunk old poets) and he was having a problem defending a nice young man who has taken Islam for himself without the supervision or permission of his parents, AGAINST a known athiest from Denmark. Some of these folks like to go to Islamic message boards and tempt muslims away from their religion by posing various questions (good ones) about pedophilia, homosexuality, polygamy, women's rights, etc. It is incumbent on all muslims to discuss these things and through that kind of discussion with the "open enemies of Islam" some muslims arrive at even stronger faith. It is noted in the Quran that "they" i.e. all other types of people who are loyal to any doctrine from Christianity to Marxism to Athiesm....will not be happy until "they" convert a muslim to "their" belief system i.e. religion. In the case of this young man who required protection from a much more experienced debate partner, the muslim fellow I am referencing ended up defending the athiest's right to harrass this young man who is not on certain grounds of faith yet. Many young people experience a documented phase of moral development in their mid to late teens (15 -18 yrs old). This is known by all secular childhood development theorists and in Islam is considered a phase of "negotiable" faith patterns. By the time a person reaches the age of forty, a person is expected to have generated a solid faith and in some cases (like my own) a state of "certitude" is reached. It is the most desirable level of faith in Islam and is unassailable.

This fellow thought my protectionism of the young man's thoughts as being outdated and he asked me, "Are you one of those muslims that believes that athiests are the open enemies to Islam?"

Oh yes. For sure. Absolutely. They are not only open enemies but they are HONEST OPPONENTS.

The problem with those types of readings and rationales in Islamic thinking and this new trend called "Fundamentalism" (whereas, ALL muslims are fundamentalists in terms of literally accepting the Quran as the "Word of Allah" i.e. kallam)..the problem with that rationale is that less experienced muslims and those who have not achieved what is called CERTITUDE, do not read the statement in terms of its reciprocal truth.

That reciprocal truth is that muslims need to fear the HIDDEN enemies of Islam. Sometimes that hidden enemy can be within a person's own self, their own heart and their own doubts. And in many cases, the hidden enemy can come in the form of "friends" who are actually kafr i.e. unbelievers and pretend to "like" Islam partially or fully. Like the old goat who produced the video below did for over three years. Now we can see he is obsessed with certain things and insane.

Well, I am sure glad I found a few of my hidden enemies before it was too late.

Al'ham'du'lillah. Allahu Ahkbar!

James Wolcott, Vanity Fair:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/blogs/wolcott/2007/01/sunday_sermonet.html

ABU ALI HASAN IBN AL-HAITHAM
( 965 - 1040 A.D.)
Another amazing fact about the famous Islamic prime number 19, Allahu Ahkbar!

Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham was one of the most eminent physicists, whose contributions to optics and the scientific methods are outstanding. Known in the West as Alhazen, Ibn aI-Hautham was born in 965 A. D. in Basrah, and was educated in Basrah and Baghdad. Thereafter, he went to Egypt, where he was asked to find ways of controlling the flood of the Nile. Being unsuccessful in this, he feigned madness until the death of Caliph al-Hakim. He also traveled to Spain and, during this period, he had ample time for his scientific pursuits, which included optics, mathematics, physics, medicine and development of scientific methods on each of which he has left several outstanding books.

He made a thorough examination of the passage of light through various media and discovered the laws of refraction. He also carried out the first experiments on the dispersion of light into its constituent colors. His book Kitab-at-Manazir was translated into Latin in the Middle Ages, as also his book dealing with the colors of sunset. He dealt at length with the theory of various physical phenomena like shadows, eclipses, the rainbow, and speculated on the physical nature of light. He is the first to describe accurately the various parts of the eye and give a scientific explanation of the process of vision. He also attempted to explain binocular vision, and gave a correct explanation of the apparent increase in size of the sun and the moon when near the horizon. He is known for the earliest use of the camera obscura. He contradicted Ptolemy's and Euclid's theory of vision that objects are seen by rays of .light emanating from the eyes; according to him the rays originate in the object of vision and not in the eye. Through these extensive researches on optics, he has been considered as the father of modern optics.

The Latin translation of his main work, Kitab-at-Manazir, exerted a great influence upon Western science e.g. on the work of Roger Bacon and Kepler. It brought about a great progress in experimental methods. His research in catoptrics centered on spherical and parabolic mirrors and spherical aberration. He made the important observation that the radio between the angle of incidence and refraction does not remain constant and investigated the magnifying power of a lens. His catoptrics contain the important problem known as Alhazen's problem. It comprises drawing lines from two points in the plane of a circle meeting at a point on the circumference and making equal angles with the normal at that point. This leads to an equation of the fourth degree.

In his book Mizan al-Hikmah Ibn al-Haitham has discussed the density of the atmosphere and developed a relation between it and the height. He also studied atmospheric refraction. He discovered that the twilight only ceases or begins when the sun is 19 degrees below the horizon and attempted to measure the height of the atmosphere on that basis. He has also discussed the theories of attraction between masses, and it seems that he was aware of the magnitude of acceleration due to gravity.

His contribution to mathematics and physics was extensive. In mathematics, he developed analytical geometry by establishing linkage between algebra and geometry. He studied the mechanics of motion of a body and was the first to maintain that a body moves perpetually unless an external force stops it or changes its direction of motion. This would seem equivalent to the first law of motion.

The list of his books runs to 200 or so, very few of which have survived. Even his monumental treatise on optics survived through its Latin translation. During the Middle Ages his books on cosmology were translated into Latin, Hebrew and other languages. He has also written on the subject of evolution a book that deserves serious attention even today.

In his writing, one can see a clear development of the scientific methods as developed and applied by the Muslims and comprising the systematic observation of physical phenomena and their linking together into a scientific theory. This was a major breakthrough in scientific methodology, as distinct from guess and gesture, and placed scientific pursuits on a sound foundation comprising systematic relationship between observation, hypothesis and verification.

Ibn al-Haitham's influence on physical sciences in general, and optics in particular, has been held in high esteem and, in fact, it ushered in a new era in optical research, both in theory and practice.


From the Sura called "The Cloaked (hidden) One" which is widely believed to be a Sura regarding mathematics and a proof to the Unbelievers:

74:18
For he thought and he plotted;-

74:19
And woe to him! How he plotted!-

74:20
Yea, Woe to him; How he plotted!-

74:21
Then he looked round;

74:22
Then he frowned and he scowled;

74:23
Then he turned back and was haughty;

74:24
Then said he: "This is nothing but magic, derived from of old;

74:25
"This is nothing but the word of a mortal!"

74:26
Soon will I cast him into Hell-Fire!

74:27
And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is?

74:28
Naught doth it permit to endure, and naught doth it leave alone!-

74:29
Darkening and changing the colour of man!

74:30
Over it are Nineteen.

74:31
And We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers,- in order that the People of the Book may arrive at certainty, and the Believers may increase in Faith,- and that no doubts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the Unbelievers may say, "What symbol doth Allah intend by this?" Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: and none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind.

74:32
Nay, verily: By the Moon,

74:33
And by the Night as it retreateth,

74:34
And by the Dawn as it shineth forth,-

74:35
This is but one of the mighty (portents),

74:36
A warning to mankind,-

74:37
To any of you that chooses to press forward, or to follow behind;-

74:38
Every soul will be (held) in pledge for its deeds.

I will drop that dime if I am alerted to one more instance of harrassment. I am removing this post and saving it to my file "just in case" I need to use it again.

Zero. The Dog Allah gave me to forget the one the Israeli's forced me to leave behind.

Great dog, great pose. No name and now, no nuts.

Like certain poets.

(Zero's portrait courtesy Radical Ann Porter)

Iran has the right to attack Israel.

Well, I'll say.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/7/115611/5148

Everyone has the right to attack this rogue nation that is leading the world into the worst war scenario in history.

Penny wise and pound foolish
used to cut it but then we found
ourselves poor and very, very wise.

http://www.funeralplan.com/products/embalming.html

Your RIGHT to not be buried Like an Egyptian:

"Except in certain special cases, embalming is not required by law. Embalming may be necessary, however, if you select certain funeral arrangements, such as a funeral with viewing. If you do not want embalming, you usually have the right to choose an arrangement that does not require you to pay for it, such as direct cremation or immediate burial."

The Theory of Snow

The night was dark, really dark.
I stopped above the round about
and hurried to urniate
fearful of the wild pigs, omnivores
that stag along the streets
at night. The deer wander through
the hedges to gape and yawn.
The big cats and bears are still
one range away in their territory
where the roads washed away
in a hundred year rain last summer.

When will it be the last time?

This brain of mine is imagination,
corroborated and clean, full
of the most drastic information.
Women here are flag lace and spread eagled,
I'm not used to it anymore,
not used to the going feral.

This snow is a bright lozenge
in the night, hoped for, planned out.
Every piece falls conspicuously
through the lamplight as I wait
for the dragnet of your verbs,
the tragedy of all is well.

No one is well now, are they?

Thermohaline energy transfers and global warming:

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/oceans.htm



Another great unknown was the interaction between currents like the
Gulf Stream and the giant eddies that the currents spun off as they
meandered. Evidence of these broad, sluggishly rotating columns of
water had turned up during a survey voyage across the North Atlantic
in 1960. This was confirmed by an international campaign carried out
by six ships and two aircraft in the early 1970s — another example
of how studying ocean phenomena needed international cooperation.
The survey discovered eddies bigger than Belgium that plowed through
the seas for months. What oceanographers had supposed were static
differences in the oceans between their sparse measuring-points, had
often actually been changes over time, not over space.
The oceanographers had been vaguely aware that when meteorologists
built atmospheric models, they included the energy carried by wind
eddies as an important factor (physical oceanography, as one
practitioner remarked, was "to some extent a mirror of
meteorology"). Yet it was astounding to see what prodigious
quantities of heat, salt, and kinetic energy the ocean eddies
carried. Indeed nearly all the energy in the ocean system was in
these middle-sized movements, not in the ocean currents at all.
(28*)

He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier
between them. They do not transgress. (Quran, 55:19-20)

He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet
and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made
between them a barrier and a forbidding partition. (Quran, 25:53

Or (the unbelievers’ state) is like the darkness in a deep sea. It
is covered by waves, above which are waves, above which are clouds.
Darknesses, one above another. If a man stretches out his hand, he
cannot see it.... (Quran, 24:40)

Water is not like air, and computers that could handle meteorological computations were far too slow to work through comparable models for this swirling ocean "weather." As one ocean modeler complained in 1974, "Extensive research efforts have not yet yielded much more than a greater appreciation of the difficulty of these questions."(29) To get a handle on the problem, oceanographers had to understand the oceans from top to bottom. But they had little data on the depths — the occasional expeditions, retrieving bottles of water here and there from kilometers down, were like a few blind men trying to map a vast prairie. Oceanographers liked to remark that we had better maps of the face of the Moon than of the deep sea. After all, there was little economic incentive, nor much military interest either, in studying the colossal slow movements of water, salts, and heat through the abyss.

Heavy water

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Heavy water is a loose term which usually refers to deuterium oxide,
D2O or 2H2O. Its physical and chemical properties are somewhat
similar to those of water, H2O. The hydrogen atoms are of the heavy
isotope deuterium, in which the nucleus contains a neutron in
addition to the proton found in the nucleus of the hydrogen atom.
This isotopic substitution alters the bond energy of the hydrogen-
oxygen bond in water, altering the physical, chemical, and
especially biological properties of the substance to a larger degree
than is found in most isotope-substituted chemical compounds.

Sura Al Baqra:

2:74
Thenceforth were your hearts hardened: They became like a rock and
even worse in hardness. For among rocks there are some from which
rivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder send
forth water; and others which sink for fear of Allah. And Allah is
not unmindful of what ye do.

266: Does any of you wish that he should have a garden with date-
palms and vines and streams flowing underneath, and all kinds of
fruit, while he is stricken with old age, and his children are not
strong (enough to look after themselves)- that it should be caught
in a whirlwind, with fire therein, and be burnt up? Thus doth Allah
make clear to you (His) Signs; that ye may consider.

Ah! Hiroshima and Nagasaki while morons worry about something they
cannot possible understand regarding a hadith that states about
Aisha: There lies the scandal!



2:269
He granteth wisdom to whom He pleaseth; and he to whom wisdom is
granted receiveth indeed a benefit overflowing; but none will grasp
the Message but men of understanding.

News At Six

The night is just as cold
when you wait as when you don't,
it conceals the shadows
when the sunshine won't.
My sky is prettier at six
performing all those dying tricks,
so perfect it can make me cry
as on the stars I spy and spy.
No one can tell me a single thing
about fin and leg and wing
without the tongue and mouth
in a breath gone south.
I guess the world is a sadder place
and shame beats steady on the clock's old face,
I read a pome about a hungover gent
whose bed was full of navel lint
and parched old birds he keeps talking to
when no one else will listen or do.


Volume XXVIII, Voices

http://geclark.mystarband.net/

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v428/n6982/full/nature02399.html

Chromosome 19 has the highest gene density of all human chromosomes,
more than double the genome-wide average. The large clustered gene
families, corresponding high G + C content, CpG islands and density
of repetitive DNA indicate a chromosome rich in biological and
evolutionary significance. Here we describe 55.8 million base pairs
of highly accurate finished sequence representing 99.9% of the
euchromatin portion of the chromosome. Manual curation of gene loci
reveals 1,461 protein-coding genes and 321 pseudogenes. Among these
are genes directly implicated in mendelian disorders, including
familial hypercholesterolaemia and insulin-resistant diabetes.
Nearly one-quarter of these genes belong to tandemly arranged
families, encompassing more than 25% of the chromosome. Comparative
analyses show a fascinating picture of conservation and divergence,
revealing large blocks of gene orthology with rodents, scattered
regions with more recent gene family expansions and deletions, and
segments of coding and non-coding conservation with the distant fish
species Takifugu.

Chromosome 19 also has the gene for Alzheimer's. The verse corresponding to
senility is found in The Bee, 16 which "just happens to be" the haploid chromosome
number, of the bee. The same bee we know that practices eugenics.

16:70 It is Allah who creates you and takes your souls at death; and of you there are some who are sent back to a feeble age, so that they know nothing after having known (much): for Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.

16:92 And be not like a woman who breaks into untwisted strands the yarn which she has spun, after it has become strong. Nor take your oaths to practise deception between yourselves, lest one party should be more numerous than another: for Allah will test you by this; and on the Day of Judgment He will certainly make clear to you (the truth of) that wherein ye disagree.

Alas, when will people understand?



74:30 Over it are Nineteen.

74:31 And We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers,- in order that the People of the Book may arrive at certainty, and the Believers may increase in Faith,- and that no doubts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the Unbelievers may say, "What symbol doth Allah intend by this?" Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: and none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind.

http://www.ishwar.com/islam/holy_quran_(yusuf)/sura074.html

16:126 And if ye do catch them out, catch them out no worse than they catch you out: But if ye show patience, that is indeed the best (course) for those who are patient.

16:127 And do thou be patient, for thy patience is but from Allah; nor grieve over them: and distress not thyself because of their plots.

16:128 For Allah is with those who restrain themselves, and those who do good.