Knowing How To Wait

Neither Hitler, Napoleon, nor the Romans conquered Russia, and the Western Empire is not going to conquer Russia either. The Roman Empire was eventually split into the Eastern Empire and the Western Empire. The new capital was Constantinople because the East was richer than the West. This might sound familiar to some people.

Russia, the 'Stans' and the Middle East hold vast reserves of Gas and Oil. Those vast reserves translate into riches. The old-world-order struggle to control wealth through military violence. If you look back through history this approach has not translated into a lasting solution.

Here we are in 2007, heading into 2012, 2013, 2014... and control through force has still not figured out that the invasion of military might provides no solution, and that historically the Western powers will not control Russia. This has nothing to do with 'Communism', which did not exist at the time of Napoleon and the time of the Roman Empire.

"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait."

It seems that the Western mind is unable to underststand the Russian, the Chinese and the Eastern mind. This lack of understanding will lead to their downfall. The West will not conquer China, they will not conquer Russia and they will not conquer the Middle East. Perhaps much later down the road people will appear who realise this fact?

The only difference between the decline of the Roman Empire and the struggles of today's world, is that the dying and defeated entity of the old Empire can contaminate the entire world with atomic radiation before it dies (loses virility). Obviously, an irradiated world is also a defeat for the forces seeking to control resources. Which raises the question: Are there people in control of atomic weapons who would destroy the entire world rather than admit that they are in decline?

In that respect I sense the Russian proverb above, little understood by the West, will conquer the world through knowing when to wait and knowing when to act. But the defeat will not be a military defeat, it will be a spiritual and evolutionary defeat. After which the people of the Western world will rely on the Eastern mind to retain their sanity.

Peloponnesian War

Was the Peloponnesian war Athens' Vietnam? The disastrous twenty-seven year war fought between the rival Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta from 431-404 B.C.E. was part of a growing economic rivalry as well as arising from political differences. Sparta was a military dictatorship and Athens a democracy.

Although Athens achieved some military successes in the war, particularly through its navy which was far superior to that of Sparta, the war turned out badly and ended with Athens' surrender in 404 BC.

"The war between Athens and the Athenian empire versus Sparta, Thebes, Corinth, and other members of the Peloponnesian Confederacy. Large scale campaigns and heavy fighting took place from Sicily to the coast of Asia Minor and from the Hellespont and Thrace to Rhodes. It was the first war in history to be recorded by an eyewitness historian of the highest caliber. It has come down through history as the archetypal war between a commercial democracy and an agricultural aristocracy and a war between a maritime superpower and a continental military machine." The Peloponnesian War

For Athens war was equal to a never ending crisis, and once they lost the war the Athenians were left starving. The question is why would humans destroy themselves, their society and their cultures like this over and over again? War, destruction, death, war, destruction, death. Apparently humans do not learn from this... they keep going and making the same mistakes again and again. Especially as in wars there are no winners.

Is it: The Controller Agenda?

Some group attempted to overpower humanity.

The field of attack was psychological and perceptual.
Human thinking was superior to theirs.
Something about their pleasure and beauty is off.
They succeed, but only through deception because...
...There is such a thing as "divinity."
...It is implied that we have it.
...They lack it.

Open Seti

Feminine Solution To War = Stop Now

No matter where one looks, the media is full of war, sectarian division, conflict and destruction. The male dominated political system and the male dominated media list a whole array of wars. They have the 'war on drugs', they have the 'war on terror', there are the UN wars, the NATO wars, the Shia and Sunni wars. There are the Palestine wars and the Israeli wars. The police forces in America are buying military equiptment and the people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza are spending how much money on military weapons?

From a female perspective there is only one winner: the people who manufacture weapons. The weapons and war industry are the winners all the way to the bank. Also from a female perspective the answer is both simple and obvious. Destroy all weapons. From Israel to Palestine, from America to Iran, from Russia to Europe, from India to China. Throughout the whole world end weapons production and destroy what you have. Turn guns into ploughs, and turn soldiers into farmers. Stop killing people and start growing food.

Take the soldiers and start cleaning up the environment. Begin to advance all forms of direct humanitarian aid. Go into countries and help them to build local irrigation projects and help them to grow food. Build simple housing and create basic health care. Work together and create a new world. Take our resources and build a new world. In order to do this all countries and governments end the manufacture of weapons. Don't have a war on drugs - fight the manufacture of weapons on every continent. Stop building land mines. Stop building submarines. Stop building tanks and missiles.

It wont kill you to stop, but it will kill you to continue with these weapons and the inherant insanity and complete inhumanity. The weapons will destroy you. Take the toys from the boys and stop manufacturing weapons that kill.

State of Collapse

The false Orionians, Sirians, Pleiadeans - which are all created by the Nephilim - cannot work through the full-Light Metatronic Spiral. This means that their evolution, both physically and more importantly spiritually, is trapped, contained in the bottle of the Oritron. They are a product of the Luciferian Fall, having displaced themselves in the Universal Continuum. Thus, they must have those who contain Earth genetics and thus Earth chromosomes, to carry out certain functions that interfere with the Metatron (therefore the tamperings that go on).

...According to Thoth / Tehuti there are two basic types of Light, the Oritronic* or half-Light spectrum, and the Metatronic* or full-Light spectrum. These two different spirals of Light are synonymous with the fallen universe’ and the pure universe’ respectively. The world we know is actually in a space where the two overlap, with the planetary consciousness strongly oriented towards the Oritronic spectrum. We are as a planetary consciousness however, evolving towards what is commonly being called a planetary ascension, into the Metatronic Light. William Buehler - KOALA

The Economic Problems of War

The high cost of financing the Roman war against the Celtic Germanic tribes was a major burden to the Roman Empire. Through the might of military force the Romans were able to conquer the Germanic tribes, but they were not able to continue to hold together such a vast and diverse Empire under the control of Rome. Rather than admit defeat the leaders of Rome obtained funding for their wars by minting more currency without an increase in the supply of precious metals.

The Roman state, bankrupt by the third century, became increasingly incapable of paying its officials and its armies without further decline to the money supply. In an attempt to find answers to the continued decline, the Roman Empire began drawing in recruits with the promise of free citizenship. The Empire could not maintain its superior force and resorted to the creation of mercinary armies drawn from populations who would do the job for them.

Obviously, the mercinaries take care of themselves and their own. They are filling a large and vulnerable gap in the system, and they consolodate their advantage by increasing their own status and wealth. Whichever way one turns Rome is losing control of its interests.

There is a human perspective that is often missed by historians and military analysts who view the might of the army as being vitality and strength. You know how it is... Zeus, Thor, Posidon, the immortal gods of war. Few researchers consider the high demand placed on the populations to eternally provide young soldiers to feed the growing monster of war, colonisation, victory and expansion.

No matter what the average age of the invading army is during an invasion, the army is aging and the aging process is happening a lot faster than the numbers killed in combat. As each year passes the Empire is losing its military vitality to the god of exhaustion and the passing of time: Cronos, which is also related to fatigue. In theory the Empire's need for a continued supply of young, strong, committed soldiers is equal to the size of the battlefield. Therefore the Empire itself is the monster consuming the vital energy of the society, the country, the state.

When studying the decline of the Roman Empire, you have to also take the drain of the resources of the population into consideration. The Empire has to produce soldiers at a much faster rate than the decline caused by Zeus (war) and Chronos (time). This is why the Romans brought the mercenary armies into the game, and the mercenaries are groups focused on increasing their own personal wealth. There again you have a decrease in the power of the Empire as it begins to depend on outside help to achieve its aims.

Who knows? Maybe an Empire was not such a good idea? They certainly could not sustain the military supply to meet the demands. It all became too expensive in terms of money, in terms of population. They trained the militias and the militias turned on them. They brought in the mercinaries and the mercinaries allied themselves with the highest bidder. As the resources of the Empire dwindled, other interests had the capital to buy the firepower of the mercinaries. In the end it was all a big mess. Militias and mercinaries will take money from five, ten, fifteen different groups and tell no one what they are doing. So, the power of Rome - its buying power - fell into decline. That is what war is. The power to buy and sell.

We Must All Become Prophets

Blessing the Bombs:
The Hiroshima Bombers' Chaplain Faces Christ
Sixty years ago, as a Catholic Air Force chaplain, Father George Zabelka blessed the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Years later, he left this message for the world...
By George Zabelka

George Zabelka a Catholic chaplain with the U.S. Air Force, served as a priest for the airmen who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and gave them his blessing. Days later he counseled an airman who had flown a low-level reconnaissance flight over the city of Nagasaki shortly after the detonation of "Fat Man." The man described how thousands of scorched, twisted bodies writhed on the ground in the final throes of death, while those still on their feet wandered aimlessly in shock-flesh seared, melted, and falling off. The crewman's description raised a stifled cry from the depths of Zabelka's soul: "My God, what have we done?" Over the next twenty years, he gradually came to believe that he had been terribly wrong, that he had denied the very foundations of his faith by lending moral and religious support to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Zabelka who died in 1992, gave this speech on the 40th anniversary of the bombings.

The destruction of civilians in war was always forbidden by the church, and if a soldier came to me and asked if he could put a bullet through a child's head, I would have told him, absolutely not. That would be mortally sinful. But in 1945 Tinian Island was the largest airfield in the world. Three planes a minute could take off from it around the clock. Many of these planes went to Japan with the express purpose of killing not one child or one civilian but of slaughtering hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of children and civilians—and I said nothing.

I never preached a single sermon against killing civilians to the men who were doing it. I was brainwashed! It never entered my mind to protest publicly the consequences of these massive air raids. I was told it was necessary—told openly by the military and told implicitly by my church's leadership. (To the best of my knowledge no American cardinals or bishops were opposing these mass air raids. Silence in such matters is a stamp of approval.)

I worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights struggle in Flint, Michigan. His example and his words of nonviolent action, choosing love instead of hate, truth instead of lies, and nonviolence instead of violence stirred me deeply. This brought me face to face with pacifism—active nonviolent resistance to evil. I recall his words after he was jailed in Montgomery, and this blew my mind. He said, "Blood may flow in the streets of Montgomery before we gain our freedom, but it must be our blood that flows, and not that of the white man. We must not harm a single hair on the head of our white brothers."

I struggled. I argued. But yes, there it was in the Sermon on the Mount, very clear: "Love your enemies. Return good for evil." I went through a crisis of faith. Either accept what Christ said, as unpassable and silly as it may seem, or deny him completely.

For the last 1700 years the church has not only been making war respectable: it has been inducing people to believe it is an honorable profession, an honorable Christian profession. This is not true. We have been brainwashed. This is a lie.
War is now, always has been, and always will be bad, bad news. I was there. I saw real war. Those who have seen real war will bear me out. I assure you, it is not of Christ. It is not Christ's way. There is no way to conduct real war in conformity with the teachings of Jesus. There is no way to train people for real war in conformity with the teachings of Jesus.

The morality of the balance of terrorism is a morality that Christ never taught. The ethics of mass butchery cannot be found in the teachings of Jesus. In Just War ethics, Jesus Christ, who is supposed to be all in the Christian life, is irrelevant. He might as well never have existed. In Just War ethics, no appeal is made to him or his teaching, because no appeal can be made to him or his teaching, for neither he nor his teaching gives standards for Christians to follow in order to determine what level of slaughter is acceptable.

So the world is watching today. Ethical hairsplitting over the morality of various types of instruments and structures of mass slaughter is not what the world needs from the church, although it is what the world has come to expect from the followers of Christ. What the world needs is a grouping of Christians that will stand up and pay up with Jesus Christ. What the world needs is Christians who, in language that the simplest soul could understand, will proclaim: the follower of Christ cannot participate in mass slaughter. He or she must love as Christ loved, live as Christ lived and, if necessary, die as Christ died, loving ones enemies.

For the 300 years immediately following Jesus' resurrection, the church universally saw Christ and his teaching as nonviolent. Remember that the church taught this ethic in the face of at least three serious attempts by the state to liquidate her. It was subject to horrendous and ongoing torture and death. If ever there was an occasion for justified retaliation and defensive slaughter, whether in form of a just war or a just revolution, this was it. The economic and political elite of the Roman state and their military had turned the citizens of the state against Christians and were embarked on a murderous public policy of exterminating the Christian community.

Yet the church, in the face of the heinous crimes committed against her members, insisted without reservation that when Christ disarmed Peter he disarmed all Christians.

Christians continued to believe that Christ was, to use the words of an ancient liturgy, their fortress, their refuge, and their strength, and that if Christ was all they needed for security and defense, then Christ was all they should have. Indeed, this was a new security ethic. Christians understood that if they would only follow Christ and his teaching, they couldn't fail. When opportunities were given for Christians to appease the state by joining the fighting Roman army, these opportunities were rejected, because the early church saw a complete and an obvious incompatibility between loving as Christ loved and killing. It was Christ, not Mars, who gave security and peace.

Today the world is on the brink of ruin because the church refuses to be the church, because we Christians have been deceiving ourselves and the non-Christian world about the truth of Christ. There is no way to follow Christ, to love as Christ loved, and simultaneously to kill other people. It is a lie to say that the spirit that moves the trigger of a flamethrower is the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. It is a lie to say that learning to kill is learning to be Christ-like. It is a lie to say that learning to drive a bayonet into the heart of another is motivated from having put on the mind of Christ. Militarized Christianity is a lie. It is radically out of conformity with the teaching, life, and spirit of Jesus.

Now, brothers and sisters, on the anniversary of this terrible atrocity carried out by Christians, I must be the first to say that I made a terrible mistake. I was had by the father of lies. I participated in the big ecumenical lie of the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox churches. I wore the uniform. I was part of the system. When I said Mass over there I put on those beautiful vestments over my uniform. (When Father Dave Becker left the Trident submarine base in 1982 and resigned as Catholic chaplain there, he said, "Every time I went to Mass in my uniform and put the vestments on over my uniform, I couldn't help but think of the words of Christ applying to me: Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.")

As an Air Force chaplain I painted a machine gun in the loving hands of the nonviolent Jesus, and then handed this perverse picture to the world as truth. I sang "Praise the Lord" and passed the ammunition. As Catholic chaplain for the 509th Composite Group, I was the final channel that communicated this fraudulent image of Christ to the crews of the Enola Gay and the Boxcar.

All I can say today is that I was wrong. Christ would not be the instrument to unleash such horror on his people. Therefore no follower of Christ can legitimately unleash the horror of war on God's people. Excuses and self-justifying explanations are without merit. All I can say is: I was wrong! But, if this is all I can say, this I must do, feeble as it is. For to do otherwise would be to bypass the first and absolutely essential step in the process of repentance and reconciliation: admission of error, admission of guilt.

I was there, and I was wrong. Yes, war is hell, and Christ did not come to justify the creation of hell on earth by his disciples. The justification of war may be compatible with some religions and philosophies, but it is not compatible with the nonviolent teaching of Jesus. I was wrong. And to those of whatever nationality or religion who have been hurt because I fell under the influence of the father of lies, I say with my whole heart and soul I am sorry. I beg forgiveness.

I asked forgiveness from the Hibakushas (the Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings) in Japan last year, in a pilgrimage that I made with a group from Tokyo to Hiroshima. I fell on my face there at the peace shrine after offering flowers, and I prayed for forgiveness—for myself, for my country, for my church. Both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This year in Toronto, I again asked forgiveness from the Hibakushas present. I asked forgiveness, and they asked forgiveness for Pearl Harbor and some of the horrible deeds of the Japanese military, and there were some, and I knew of them. We embraced. We cried. Tears flowed. That is the first step of reconciliation—admission of guilt and forgiveness. Pray to God that others will find this way to peace.

All religions have taught brotherhood. All people want peace. It is only the governments and war departments that promote war and slaughter. So today again I call upon people to make their voices heard. We can no longer just leave this to our leaders, both political and religious. They will move when we make them move. They represent us. Let us tell them that they must think and act for the safety and security of all the people in our world, not just for the safety and security of one country. All countries are inter-dependent. We all need one another. It is no longer possible for individual countries to think only of themselves. We can all live together as brothers and sisters or we are doomed to die together as fools in a world holocaust.

Each one of us becomes responsible for the crime of war by cooperating in its preparation and in its execution. This includes the military. This includes the making of weapons. And it includes paying for the weapons. There's no question about that. We've got to realize we all become responsible. Silence, doing nothing, can be one of the greatest sins.

The bombing of Nagasaki means even more to me than the bombing of Hiroshima. By August 9, 1945, we knew what that bomb would do, but we still dropped it. We knew that agonies and sufferings would ensue, and we also knew—at least our leaders knew—that it was not necessary. The Japanese were already defeated. They were already suing for peace. But we insisted on unconditional surrender, and this is even against the Just War theory. Once the enemy is defeated, once the enemy is not able to hurt you, you must make peace.

As a Catholic chaplain I watched as the Boxcar, piloted by a good Irish Catholic pilot, dropped the bomb on Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, the center of Catholicism in Japan. I knew that St. Francis Xavier, centuries before, had brought the Catholic faith to Japan. I knew that schools, churches, and religious orders were annihilated. And yet I said nothing.

Thank God that I'm able to stand here today and speak out against war, all war. The prophets of the Old Testament spoke out against all false gods of gold, silver, and metal. Today we are worshipping the gods of metal, the bomb. We are putting our trust in physical power, militarism, and nationalism. The bomb, not God, is our security and our strength. The prophets of the Old Testament said simply: Do not put your trust in chariots and weapons, but put your trust in God. Their message was simple, and so is mine.

We must all become prophets. I really mean that. We must all do something for peace. We must stop this insanity of worshipping the gods of metal. We must take a stand against evil and idolatry. This is our destiny at the most critical time of human history. But it's also the greatest opportunity ever offered to any group of people in the history of our world—to save our world from complete annihilation.

This article was originally compiled and published by Bruderhof.com, and is reprinted with their permission. The main text is an excerpt of a speech George Zabelka gave at a Pax Christi conference in August 1985 (tape of speech obtained from Notre Dame University Archives), and the first two paragraphs are from an interview with Zabelka published in Sojourners magazine, August 1980.©1980, Sojourners. All rights reserved.

Alice In Wonderland

The Walrus & The Carpenter

"It seems a shame," the Walrus said,
"To play them such a trick,
After we've brought them out so far,
And made them trot so quick!"
The Carpenter said nothing but
"The butter's spread too thick!"

"I weep for you," the Walrus said:
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.

"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.

US Failing In Iraq

Protector of The Gauls

In 59BC, Julius Caesar declared he was so shocked by the incursions of the dangerous Helvetii tribe into Gaul, and the suffering of the Gaulish peoples, that he had himself appointed 'protector of the Gauls'. By the time he'd finished protecting them, a million Gauls were dead, another million enslaved and Julius Caesar owned most of Gaul. Now I'm not suggesting there is any similarity between George W Bush's protection of the Iraqi people and Caesar's protection of the Gauls.

For a start, Julius Caesar, as we all know, was bald, whereas George W Bush has a fine head of hair. In any case, George W Bush is not personally making huge amounts of money out of it. The money-making is all left in the capable hands of companies like CACI International, Blackwater Security and Haliburton.

It's true that Vice-President Dick Cheney's stock options in his old company, Haliburton, went up from $241,498 in 2004 to $8m in 2005 - that's an increase of 3,281 per cent. But then Dick Cheney is bald.

The point I'm trying to make is that there is absolutely no comparison to be made between Julius Caesar's invasion of Gaul in 58-50BC and George Bush's invasion of Iraq.

I mean, Julius Caesar had the nerve to pretend that the Roman state was being threatened by what was going on in Gaul. He claimed he had to carry out a pre-emptive strike against the Helvetii in the interests of homeland security. In reality, his motives were political. He desperately needed a military victory to boost his standing in Rome and give him the necessary popular base to seize power.

George W Bush, on the other hand, was already in power when he invaded Iraq and, in any case, he didn't need to boost his popularity, because the popular vote had nothing to do with his getting into power in the first place. Julius Caesar was also a very adroit propagandist who made damn sure that his version of events prevailed. He even wrote eight books about his wars in Gaul to make sure it did. George W Bush doesn't need to go to such lengths. He has Fox News.

When Julius Caesar claimed his glorious victory over the Helvetii, he made it sound as if he had destroyed a vast army of 'wild and savage men'. Julius Caesar reckoned he had slaughtered more than 250,000 'insurgents'. In fact, documents found in the remains of the Helvetii camp showed that out of 368,000 people, only 92,000 had been capable of bearing arms.

In other words, it wasn't an army that Julius Caesar massacred, but a whole population including women, children, old and sick, which, I suppose, is one thing that George W Bush and Julius Caesar do have in common: pretending civilians are armed insurgents.

But there the similarity ends. One of the most fundamental differences between Julius Caesar and George W Bush is that Julius Caesar counted his dead, whereas George W Bush can't be bothered. It seems that, as commander-in-chief, George W Bush instructed his soldiers not to count the enemy dead. So the fact that he still sticks to an estimate of only 30,000 dead Iraqis, even when a recently published study in the Lancet suggests he's slaughtered at least 655,000, can only be the result of his extraordinary modesty.

Why else would he dismiss the study as pure guesswork or claim it had used a 'methodology [that] is pretty well discredited', even though the US government has been spending millions of dollars a year to train NGOs in this exact same methodology? Julius Caesar would have seized on the figures with alacrity.

And that is the biggest difference of all: Julius Caesar was an ambitious, vainglorious, would-be tyrant. George W Bush is a modest and self-deprecating one. Observer-Guardian: Comment