News in General

A television psychic traveling through the country of Saudi Arabia has been condemned to death by Saudi courts. Ali Sabat, not native to the country, was traveling through on a Pilgrimage when he was nabbed earlier last year by police. Mr. Sabat is known for his television appearance as a psychic who makes predictions on Lebanese Satellite television stations along with advice for relationships and life in general. Needless to say, public outcry to the sentence has been tremendous.

“Saudi judges have harshly punished confessed ‘witches’ for what at worst appears to be fraud, but may well be harmless acts,” the Director for the Middle East at Human Rights Watch, “Saudi judges should not have the power to end lives of persons at all, let alone those who have not physically harmed others.” The highly political incident has received relatively little attention by world media despite its sensational nature.

Serving only to inform, rather than decide for readers, there are opinions that can be drawn from this story without getting into the execution itself. It still holds as a universal prerogative that it’s always important to be aware of your environment‘s social climate, particularly if traveling. Some regions have specific customs that may not coincide with personal beliefs and it’s therefore important to stay aware of potential problems that may arise.

Ronald Smith, chief customs and border protection officer at Blue Water Bridge, told the Star Watts "became non-compliant ... and a physical altercation" ensued.

Some of the many comments posted at boingboing.net suggest Watts must have had an attitude.

"The question is what is attitude?" he said. "I've been told ... that the mere act of getting out of a car, the mere act of taking any action at all, not simply responding to an order ... is considered attitude. ... What they take offence to is not necessarily what anyone else would find offensive."

The $1-million Soldier

Back in 2002, as the United States was gearing up to invade Iraq, President George W. Bush fired his top economic advisor for overestimating the war's cost at US$100-billion to US$200-billion.

Now the sum seems paltry compared with the US$707-billion tally for the conflict to date. Add in the war in Afghanistan and the total cost for U.S. taxpayers is set to top US$1-trillion by early next year, roughly the same price tag for the proposed overhaul of America's health-care system over the next 10 years.

With no clear end in sight for either conflict, the cost could easily top US$2-trillion in the next several years, and hundreds of billions of dollars more for allies, including Canada.
http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2331695

• Highest Ever Reinforced Building Imploded....Really?

The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe

• NEW REPORT STARTS HERE:
  
  LIEN EXECUTED AGAINST TREASURY AND FEDERAL RESERVE IN THE SUM OF $47 TRILLION
  Following further intransigent obstruction, the Chinese parties who obtained the necessary World Court Writ of Execution and Lien on the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve, duly exercised their powers and imposed the Lien on or around 6th December 2009. The Lien against the Treasury is in the sum of $47 trillion, which is approximately the aggregate identified by this service in 2007.
  
  As happened shortly after the ‘lockdown’ of the $14.0+ trillion sovereign funds including the $6.2 trillion LOAN money provided by the British Monarchical Power [referenced again below] on 10th-12th September 2008, when the Editor’s voicemail received a message consisting of a recording of three actual gunshots, two specific threats, mentioned in an Update to the previous posting, were received on Sunday 6th December 2009, the date on which the Lien is believed to have been implemented. Transcriptions of these threats are given in Note 1 below (1) .
  
  SPECIAL CONFIRMATION OF THE LIEN OBTAINED BY THIS SERVICE
  We have obtained special confirmation of the foregoing Lien intelligence, otherwise, self-evidently, we would not have published this information. Furthermore, we have taken extra precautions to ascertain whether publishing this would be liable to ‘cause any difficulties’, and we have been advised that no impediment to publishing it has even been hinted at, although the fact that we possess the information ‘is known’. Indeed you will have observed that we have waited for a number of days in order to be sure that this shattering intelligence is fully confirmed.
  
  We have been emphatically and authoritatively advised, since 10th December, that it is. We obtained reiterated confirmation of this intelligence, from New York, on 12th December.
  http://www.worldreports.org/news/251_47_trillion_lien_against_u.s._treasury_and__fed

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  Vincent van Gogh's - Peasant Man and Woman

• "stick a fork in me, I'm done?"

An extraordinarily fucked up very fine piece
of work - Bernardine Dohrn

Sharon Tate

• "Offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then eating a meal in the same room, far out! The Weathermen dig Charles Manson!" -- Bernadine Dohrn

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  "Bernadine, I've got this great poster of you hanging in my cell
  here at Vacaville."

(RTTNews) - Wednesday, Norway's central bank unexpectedly raised its key interest rate for the second straight rate-setting session.

Norges Bank's Executive Board decided to increase the key policy rate by 0.25 percentage point to 1.75%. Economists had expected no change in the key rate. In October, the Norges Bank became the first European central bank to initiate rate hike after the global economic crisis rattled the world.

"Activity in the Norwegian economy has picked up," the central bank said in a statement. It noted that growth in private consumption is strong and house prices are rising sharply. The unemployment level remains relatively low.

Norway's tightening cycle will be slightly more aggressive than expected, said Jennifer McKeown, European Economist at the Capital Economics Ltd. But, "In any event, with other economies recovering less quickly than Norway (not least because they are oil consumers rather than producers) the Bank's action does not mark the start of a flurry of rate hikes elsewhere in Europe," the economist added.

Also on Wednesday, Sweden's central bank retained repo rate at 0.25%, while the Czech National Bank unexpectedly lowered key policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a record low of 1%.

• "In general, Americans represent a collective battered
  spouse who hopes that the batterer will change. Spitting
  teeth and squinting through two black eyes, they usually
  go back for more of the same."

• Mystery of Tony Blair's money solved
  
  The winner of the Guardian's online contest to solve the mystery of Blair's finances is Richard Murphy, a crusading accountant from Tax Research UK. His entry unearthed the small print of the Partnership (Accounts) Regulations 2008 to reveal that Blair has found an unusual method to keep his wealth secret from the rest of us. Murphy wins an original cartoon by Steve Bell.
  
  
  
  A little-known loophole in UK company law is being used by Tony Blair to keep his finances secret, the Guardian can disclose.
  
  Blair would normally have to publish company accounts detailing the millions flowing into his various commercial ventures since he stepped down from office in 2007.
  
  But he has set up a complicated artificial structure which avoids the normal rule. In effect, he is getting the benefits of running a British company without the drawbacks of unwelcome publicity. His main vehicle is a so-called limited partnership, christened Windrush Ventures No 3 LP. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/17/mystery-tony-blairs-money-solved

James Cameron himself hasn't been shy in publicly proclaiming the fact that he's an environmental activist who believes that humans and "industrial society" are "causing a global climate change" and "destroying species faster than we can classify them."

James Cameron, the film director, producer, screenwriter of movies
such as The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment
Day (1991), True Lies (1994) and Titanic now brings us Avatar, I can
hardly wait.

Never did like Canadians and some have said he's a real prick to work
with.

And Flames, how about a more recent picture of Cameron?
"Remote viewing?!" Please explain.

Board posters should be aware tgII hasn't spent a dime watching
any of these movies at a theater. Wouldn't you like to crawl into
Cameron's head to see where he acquires his ideas from for his
movies?

James Cameron himself hasn't been shy in publicly proclaiming the fact that he's an environmental activist who believes that humans and "industrial society" are "causing a global climate change" and "destroying species faster than we can classify them."

I suppose it should be pointed out Cameron believes, yes, he
believes, just like in religion, he believes, it doesn't matter what
the actual science and facts are just as long as he believes, because
if he doesn't believe, his movies would never make it to your television
or local theater.

Shirley, his mother, once put it, "James would draw the Star of
David on foggy windows." After reading Screenplay, it occurred
to James that integrating science and art were possible. That's
like combining magic and science, you see, James studied physics.

Do you believe? Those who believe can't deal with reality.

But I would bet you anything they would believe his movies though?!

Fuck it, I'm going to go read a good book and before I do, guess what,
Wikipedia, which is where I pulled much of this on Cameron from, just
got busted censoring anything negative about 'global warming', well
fuckin' blow me down, what do you know?!

"The sexual component of the...is very important: it provides the energy by means of which the links - the interconnectedness between events, people, objects, ideas - may be 'activated.' This is very old, [like as old as the Catholic Church and their ritual] standard occult practice even if it isn't always explained as such in the grimoires. After all, in many cases the magician [Cameron] uses eros to forge links with objects and ideas in his own consciousness, without the intermediary or other people. This was considered to be a grave secret, for it would enable virtually anyone to contact the 'sinister forces' independently."

But there's no denying director James Cameron has loaded one of the most expensive films ever made with messages about terrorism, environmental chaos, and government corruption. Let's break it down.

It's like 'An Inconvenient Truth' ... re-imagined as a 3D sci-fi blockbuster.
Al Gore's 2006 documentary claims that global warming is real, that it's caused by human activity, and that humans and the government have to do something before it's too late and our planet moves beyond the point of no return. So, yeah, the argument could be made that it's sort of like what's happening in 'Avatar'

'Avatar' takes a jab at President Bush's War on Terror.
In fact, at one point, Stephen Lang's war-hungry Col. Quaritch proclaims, "We will fight terror with terror!" There's another reference to a "shock and awe" campaign. When it appears that the Na'vi are refusing to vacate their land so the government can mine the minerals there, the military will stop at nothing to achieve their goal -- even if it means killing every Na'vi and replacing all the delicate plant life with an apocalyptic landscape of charred rubble and chaos. They also enlist a group of scientists to create the avatar program, infiltrate the tribe and report back with pertinent info. Some of the scientists have hearts, whereas the military personnel are heartless you-know-whats.

tgII wrote:
Ioan P. Culianu wrote a book in 1987 called Eros and Magic in
the Renaissance, if you haven't read it you should probably
consider it, it's a real mind bender. The thing about it is, and
probably unrelated to the publishing of this book, Ioan P. Culianu
was assassinated in the bathroom at the University of Chicago,
kind of makes you wonder, don't it?

Eros and Magic in the Renaissance

Don't lose sight of the fact of the meaning of 'eros', it means
sex.

Yo, Kapas, your favorite topic of discussion: Sex = eros!!![/color]

I had not heard of that book above , any quotes from it anywhere ?
Heres some snippet from Evolas mAsterpiece on Eros

" Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex, Evola described the practice of sexual magic as an asceticism of action that allows one to achieve transcendent states through physical action, primarily sex.
To explain the metaphysics of sex, Evola cites the original meaning of the word "orgy" as "the state of inspired exaltation that began the initiatory process in the ancient Greek mysteries. But when this exaltation of eros, itself akin to other experiences of a supersensual nature, becomes individualized as a longing that is only carnal, then it deteriorates and ends finally in the form constituted by mere "pleasure, or venereal lust" (The Metaphysics of Sex, p. 48).
In his sexual philosophy, Evola followed the esoteric Hindu and Buddhist schools in the teaching of retention of semen as a means of ontological energization and ultimate self-mastery. "Virya, or spiritual manhood, if lost or wasted results in death and if withheld and conserved leads to life" (ibid., p. 219). Evola considered Traditional chastity as signifying "control, limit, anti-titanic purity, overcoming of pride, and immaterial unshakability, rather than a moralistic and sexuophobic concept" (The Mystery of the Grail, p. 80).
Evola considered sex as being "the greatest magical force in nature", but he fiercely opposed homosexuality, viewing it as a dysfunctional undermining of the magnetic polarity and complementary nature of the two sexes, and thus of the possibility of erotic transcendence. "In a civilization where equality is the standard, where differences are not linked, where promiscuity is in favor, where the ancient idea of 'being true to oneself' means nothing anymore—in such a splintered and materialistic society, it is clear that this phenomenon of regression and homosexuality should be particularly welcome, and therefore it is no way a surprise to see the alarming increase in homosexuality and the 'third sex' in the latest 'democratic' period, or an increase in sex changes to an extent unparalleled in other eras"

Using Cameron's movie Avatar, if that's what you prefer to call it,
a 'movie', I'd just as soon call it a ritual, just as the Catholic Church
called their masses rituals, sort of like the ritual depicted in the picture
here:

So using this ritual, I mean, movie, let's consider Avatar, and it could
be just about any movie really, and look at from the perspctive as
eros and magic.

I was reading from Peter Lavenda the other day, page 427 in book three
of Sinister Forces in fact, and here's what I read related to magic and
eros,

"The sexual component of the...is very important: it provides the energy by means of which the links - the interconnectedness between events, people, objects, ideas - may be 'activated.' This is very old, [like as old as the Catholic Church and their ritual] standard occult practice even if it isn't always explained as such in the grimoires. After all, in many cases the magician [Cameron] uses eros to forge links with objects and ideas in his own consciousness, without the intermediary or other people. This was considered to be a grave secret, for it would enable virtually anyone to contact the 'sinister forces' independently."

Alright, hold on, the brackets in blue are mine and are worthy
of commentary.

So you're sitting there watching the ritual called Avatar in a movie
theater with roughly 400 other people and is it conceivable here
people are being processed into a magic ritual, their thoughts, events,
ideas and subconscious being manipulated by connecting at a very
deep level magic and eros as the movie Avatar is scientifically occult
engineered into their psyches?

Just like a Catholic Church ritual sacrificing blood and breaking bread
without the sex/eros?

Who really cares about the plot of the ritual Avatar, i.e., pollution, alien
invasion, oil, remote viewing, rather, look at the manipulation of the
subconscious to control outcomes of people, objects, events, thinking,
ideas and subconscious.