May 31, 2007

This is from today's Turkish newspaper, Today's Zahan.

I don't want to "over" post on this, but I feel that much is revealed to the "futurist" in all of us, by following the "proceedings" going on there right now.

Interesting headline when you consider that there is NO ongoing official diplomacy since Bush took office regarding the Middle East, eh what ..?

News Diplomacy

Wolfowitz, Kissinger to attend the Bilderberg meeting

The Bilderberg Group, which brings together people of influence from around the world, will begin its 2007 meeting in Turkey today.

Bilderberg is an annual conference of the global elite, the location of which changes every year. Power brokers from industry, oil companies, politics, banking, business, academia, royalty and the media get together to privately discuss the course of the world with no outside press coverage whatsoever. The secrecy of the group has attracted criticism and given rise to much conspiracy theory about possible covert plans of the global elite to rule the world. Many treat the meeting as a significant event during which participants also determine the following year’s agenda.

However, the group claims it does not set policy.

The elite group will be meeting today at the Klassis Hotel in the town of Silivri, 40 miles from İstanbul.

Sources say the meeting, which will be held from May 31 to June 3, will mainly focus on issues such as a probable operation against Iran, energy policies and Turkey’s EU membership process. During last year`s meeting, Turkey-EU relations were discussed quite intensely by the participants.

Two Bilderberg conferences were previously held in Turkey, the first in 1959 in Istanbul and the other in 1975 in Çesme, near the Aegean city of Izmir.

Economy Minister Ali Babacan, KOÇ Holding CEO Mustafa Koç and Yeni Şafak columnist Fehmi Koru are some of the Turks expected to attend the conference, while former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and UN Development Programme (UNDP) chief Kemal Derviş are some of the international personalities expected to attend this year`s meeting.

31.05.2007

Today’s Zaman İstanbul

God has spoken to Tom Delay, told him to rebuild Republican party

"God has spoken to me," DeLay said. "I listen to God, and what I've heard is that I'm supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican party.....What's in heaven's name is NEXT ...?



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Posted to Bilderberg forum on Thu May 24, 2007 8:39 pm

I , Marek Tysis, officially announce the discovery of Ritz Carlton Hotel, Istanbul, as the results of Turkish searchers.

The Ritz-Carlton, Istanbul
Suzer Plaza, Elmadag, Askerocagi Cad. No: 15 34367 Sisli - Istanbul Turkey
Phone: (90) 212 334 44 44 Fax: (90) 212 334 44 55
http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Istanbul/Default.htm

I had less success last year than this. Turkish searchers are thus the real finders of Bilderberg 's hotel with indications given by some Turkish journalists.

22May07 - Significance of Constantinople as this year's venue


As a pivotal point in spiritual history, command centre of the Holy Roman empire later a major objective of the crusades Istanbul is a most significant place to meet. Particularly in a time in the epic East/West War on Terror battle when the Western military adventures in the Middle East have hit the buffers. This fact will be in the forefront of Bilderbergrs' minds.

As the so-called war on terror, so favoured by Bilderberg, teeters on the brink of disaster and credibility their task this year, should they chose to accept it, is to bolster the expansion of the US Empire and bring about 'regime change' in Iran by whatever means necessary.

Straddling the Bosphorus, its skyline studded with domes and minarets, Istanbul is one of the truly great romantic cities. Its history tracks back from Byzantium to Constantinople to its place at the head of the Ottoman Empire. Today it hums as Turkey's cultural heart and good-time capital.

How fitting then that those royalty, bankers, media moguls and politicians who believe they are destined to rule the world should chose this city for their dark plans to establish corporate elite global empire. Think big, think Bilderberg!

Official Turkish government website explaining how to get to Turkey and what to see (not mentioning the Bilderberg Conference of course).
http://www.tourismturkey.org/

Istanbul: Queen of Cities
http://www.petersommer.com/Istanbul.html

Straddling the continents of Europe and Asia, Istanbul's strategic location has made it a cultural crossroads beyond compare. Its geographical position alone seems to have made it destined to be the capital of a mighty empire. In fact it was the epicentre of two great but very different empires, the Byzantine and Ottoman, for some 1,700 years. Yet even before it ascended the imperial throne it shone as a dynamic vibrant city for almost a thousand years, from the moment it was first founded as the Greek town of Byzantium...............

Istanbul History
http://www.city-data.com/world-cities/Istanbul-History.html

Archaeological remains show that people have inhabited the immediate area of present-day Istanbul for tens of thousands of years. A large population lived in the area around 5,000 B.C. Greeks from Miletus and Megara began to settle along the coasts of Bosporus and the Black Sea during the latter part of the eighth century B. C. According to legend, the colony of Byzantium was founded in 660 B. C. by a Megarian named Byzas. The colony was named after him. Because of its strategic position, Byzantium didn't take long to establish its economic dominance over the region, inviting unwanted attention..........

The History of Istanbul
http://www.world66.com/asia/middleeast/turkey/istanbul/history

Byzantium was one of the many colonies founded from the end of the 8th century onward along the coasts of the Bosporus and the Black Sea by Greek settlers from the cities of Miletus and Megara. In 343 BC Byzantium joined the Second Athenian League, throwing off the siege of Philip II of Macedon three years later. The lifting of the siege was attributed to the divine intervention of the goddess Hecate and was commemorated by the striking of coins bearing her star and crescent. Byzantium accepted Macedonian rule under Alexander the Great, regaining independence only with the eclipse of Macedonian might. A free city under Rome, it gradually fell under imperial control and briefly lost its freedom under the emperor Vespasian. When, in AD 196, it sided with the usurper Pescennius Niger, the Roman emperor Septimus Severus massacred the populace, razed the walls, and annexed the remains to the city of Perinthus (or Heraclea, modern Marmaraereglisi), in Turkey.

Pacific Ocean Plastic Stew Entering Our Food Chain

Allen Roland takes you on a tour of an area the size of Texas times two, to urge us all to TAKE ACTION against the sea of plastic. Specific articles regarding the Bush administration's sad encouragement of pollution are cited. The article includes whocking pictoral links. Suggestions for specific action are made.



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May 29, 2007 at 17:08:44





A dead Ocean bird from a dying Pacific Ocean garbage patch that is growing and is now twice the size of Texas ~ and could well be contaminating our food chain : Allen L Roland

This is a must read story for it has dire implications for all human beings and especially mothers and newborn infants.

This story is a wake up call to the world that we must help and cooperate with one another, especially pursuant to polluting our oceans, if we are to survive as a human species.

Next time you look out at this beautiful Pacific ocean, as I often do, realize that there is a garbage patch of discarded plastic twice the size of Texas a few hundred miles away and its growing !
Then we add this stunning announcement last week from The Center for American Progress ~ which should not be a surprise.

ENVIRONMENT / POLLUTERS FLOURISH UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION:


"Environmental enforcement efforts by the U.S. EPA and the Justice Department have plummeted over the last five years, resulting in a
38 percent decline in criminal fines and a 25 percent drop in civil penalties, according to a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP)."

Susan Casey and photographer Gregg Segal will lead you on this journey through a man made hell.

Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?

By Susan Casey, Photographs by Gregg Segal May 11, 2007 - 11:45:03 PM

A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.

To Captain Charles Moore

Fate can take strange forms, and so perhaps it does not seem unusual that Captain Charles Moore found his life’s purpose in a nightmare.

Unfortunately, he was awake at the time, and 800 miles north of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.
It happened on August 3, 1997, a lovely day, at least in the beginning: Sunny. Little wind. Water the color of sapphires. Moore and the crew of Alguita, his 50-foot aluminum-hulled catamaran, sliced through the sea.

Returning to Southern California from Hawaii after a sailing race, Moore had altered Alguita’s course, veering slightly north. He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. This was an odd stretch of ocean, a place most boats purposely avoided. For one thing, it was becalmed. "The doldrums," sailors called it, and they steered clear. So did the ocean’s top predators: the tuna, sharks, and other large fish that required livelier waters, flush with prey. The gyre was more like a desert—a slow, deep, clockwise-swirling vortex of air and water caused by a mountain of high-pressure air that lingered above it.

The area’s reputation didn’t deter Moore. He had grown up in Long Beach, 40 miles south of L.A., with the Pacific literally in his front yard, and he possessed an impressive aquatic résumé: deckhand, able seaman, sailor, scuba diver, surfer, and finally captain.

Moore had spent countless hours in the ocean, fascinated by its vast trove of secrets and terrors.
He’d seen a lot of things out there, things that were glorious and grand; things that were ferocious and humbling. But he had never seen anything nearly as chilling as what lay ahead of him in the gyre.

It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped it for a landfill.

How did all the plastic end up here? How did this trash tsunami begin? What did it mean? If the questions seemed overwhelming, Moore would soon learn that the answers were even more so, and that his discovery had dire implications for human—and planetary—health. As Alguita glided through the area that scientists now refer to as the "Eastern Garbage Patch," Moore realized that the trail of plastic went on for hundreds of miles. Depressed and stunned, he sailed for a week through bobbing, toxic debris trapped in a purgatory of circling currents. To his horror, he had stumbled across the 21st-century Leviathan. It had no head, no tail. Just an endless body.
"Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." This Andy Warhol quote is emblazoned on a six-foot-long magenta and yellow banner that hangs—with extreme irony—in the solar-powered workshop in Moore’s Long Beach home. The workshop is surrounded by a crazy Eden of trees, bushes, flowers, fruits, and vegetables, ranging from the prosaic (tomatoes) to the exotic (cherimoyas, guavas, chocolate persimmons, white figs the size of baseballs). This is the house in which Moore, 59, was raised, and it has a kind of open-air earthiness that reflects his ’60s-activist roots, which included a stint in a Berkeley commune.

Composting and organic gardening are serious business here—you can practically smell the humus—but there is also a kidney-shaped hot tub surrounded by palm trees. Two wet suits hang drying on a clothesline above it.

This afternoon, Moore strides the grounds. "How about a nice, fresh boysenberry?" he asks, and plucks one off a bush. He’s a striking man wearing no-nonsense black trousers and a shirt with official-looking epaulettes. A thick brush of salt-and-pepper hair frames his intense blue eyes and serious face. But the first thing you notice about Moore is his voice, a deep, bemused drawl that becomes animated and sardonic when the subject turns to plastic pollution. This problem is Moore’s calling, a passion he inherited from his father, an industrial chemist who studied waste management as a hobby. On family vacations, Moore recalls, part of the agenda would be to see what the locals threw out. "We could be in paradise, but we would go to the dump," he says with a shrug. "That’s what we wanted to see."

Since his first encounter with the Garbage Patch nine years ago, Moore has been on a mission to learn exactly what’s going on out there. Leaving behind a 25-year career running a furniture-restoration business, he has created the Algalita Marine Research Foundation to spread the word of his findings. He has resumed his science studies, which he’d set aside when his attention swerved from pursuing a university degree to protesting the Vietnam War. His tireless effort has placed him on the front lines of this new, more abstract battle. After enlisting scientists such as Steven B. Weisberg, Ph.D. (executive director of the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project and an expert in marine environmental monitoring), to develop methods for analyzing the gyre’s contents, Moore has sailed Alguita back to the Garbage Patch several times.

On each trip, the volume of plastic has grown alarmingly. The area in which it accumulates is now twice the size of Texas.

At the same time, all over the globe, there are signs that plastic pollution is doing more than blighting the scenery; it is also making its way into the food chain. Some of the most obvious victims are the dead seabirds that have been washing ashore in startling numbers, their bodies packed with plastic: things like bottle caps, cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, and colored scraps that, to a foraging bird, resemble baitfish. (One animal dissected by Dutch researchers contained 1,603 pieces of plastic.) And the birds aren’t alone. All sea creatures are threatened by floating plastic, from whales down to zooplankton.

There’s a basic moral horror in seeing the pictures: a sea turtle with a plastic band strangling its shell into an hourglass shape; a humpback towing plastic nets that cut into its flesh and make it impossible for the animal to hunt. More than a million seabirds, 100,000 marine mammals, and countless fish die in the North Pacific each year, either from mistakenly eating this junk or from being ensnared in it and drowning.

Bad enough. But Moore soon learned that the big, tentacled balls of trash were only the most visible signs of the problem; others were far less obvious, and far more evil. Dragging a fine-meshed net known as a manta trawl, he discovered minuscule pieces of plastic, some barely visible to the eye, swirling like fish food throughout the water. He and his researchers parsed, measured, and sorted their samples and arrived at the following conclusion: By weight, this swath of sea contains six times as much plastic as it does plankton.

This statistic is grim—for marine animals, of course, but even more so for humans. The more invisible and ubiquitous the pollution, the more likely it will end up inside us. And there’s growing—and disturbing—proof that we’re ingesting plastic toxins constantly, and that even slight doses of these substances can severely disrupt gene activity. "Every one of us has this huge body burden," Moore says. "You could take your serum to a lab now, and they’d find at least 100 industrial chemicals that weren’t around in 1950." The fact that these toxins don’t cause violent and immediate reactions does not mean they’re benign:

Scientists are just beginning to research the long-term ways in which the chemicals used to make plastic interact with our own biochemistry.

Plastic never really goes away ~ discover why and what are its effects on humans ~ here's a short trailer before you read on .

Each of us tosses about 185 pounds of plastic per year. We could certainly reduce that. And yet—do our products have to be quite so lethal? Must a discarded flip-flop remain with us until the end of time? Aren’t disposable razors and foam packing peanuts a poor consolation prize for the destruction of the world’s oceans, not to mention our own bodies and the health of future generations? “If ‘more is better’ and that’s the only mantra we have, we’re doomed,” Moore says, summing it up

Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Ph.D., an expert on marine debris, agrees. “If you could fast-forward 10,000 years and do an archaeological dig…you’d find a little line of plastic,” he told The Seattle Times last April. “What happened to those people? Well, they ate their own plastic and disrupted their genetic structure and weren’t able to reproduce. They didn’t last very long because they killed themselves."


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26.05.2007 00:22:00
A COLONIAL STORY
DOGS DAY AFTERNOON



MNN. May 25, 2007.
The colonists keep saying we and our ways are finished! They are 3rd
generation immigrants who think they belong on Turtle Island keep
trying to find ways to force us to join them and to be pawns in their
games. Even after killing off over 100 million of us, we and our
memories are still alive.



Let's compare. There are two kinds
of dogs. There are wild dogs that are free and part of the "natural
world". They have the memory of running, playing and exploring vast
territories.



Then there are “domesticated” dogs, those
pampered pooches that wait for the sound of the can opener so they can
beg for their bacon. They won’t turn against their masters even when
abused and beaten by them. They just keep wagging their tails harder
and harder trying to be liked. It’s a kind of “wife” syndrome. They
can’t even shit where they want. If it wasn’t for “pooper scoopers”,
they’d be extinct.



Today most dogs are domesticated and tied
up. If they are let loose, watch out! They’re angry. They go crazy and
they’re dangerous. Some don’t know what to do because there are no
rules or enforcers for them. They just lie down and die.



Sometimes
the natural dogs try to break the kennel chains and invite them to
“come run with us, doggie”. The domestics are trained to stay in the
yard. Some get away and enjoy freedom. Some are too old and beaten down
even though freedom feels good. The domestic dogs have litters that are
content, well behaved and bred to live with chains on them.



The
master goes to dog shows and says, “I have a proven method to make them
subservient”. They talk about new dog foods, new breeds, better
security fencing, muzzles, the future of their kennels and the problem
about those “wild” dogs that are giving their dogs complexes.



They
come up with ideas to get rid of the wild dogs. “Let's kill them all”.
They really want to trek out onto their territory to expand their
kennels. They try to breed the wild ones with the domestics. They are
the authorities on how dogs are supposed to act. They surmise that
those wild ones are not dogs at all. So what are they? Maybe they’re
wolves!



This story has something to tell us. It shows the
underside of the thinking of the people who invaded Turtle Island. They
saw us as people living in the natural world who operated by keeping
our instincts intact. We functioned well and reproduced ourselves.
Living within our environment we were safe, could not be attacked and
could protect ourselves and our young.



After the invasion,
some of our people were forced into the cage that the white people
brought with them from Europe. 1500 years of what they call
“civilization” in Europe [not including Egypt] developed a system of
control where everybody except the oligarchy lived in boxes. Their
minds were controlled. After a while they could not think freely. When
they came here and saw us, they were envious of and perplexed by our
freedom and our ability to think for ourselves. This was something they
would never dream of doing.



Some thought, “Hey! We want some
of that too”. Some thought we were the devil. So they decided to bring
us under their control, study us and try to become like us. At the same
time, they tried to take away the very thing they envied most. One of
our pastimes is to watch them watching us trying to figure us out.



We
operate from a deep knowledge of who we are. It is spontaneous, not
contrived, not controlled. It expresses itself in freedom of the mind.
We do not identify ourselves in relation to the materialistic world
around us. The Six Nations people who are taking back our lands on the
Haldimand Tract do not want money. We want our land and our freedom.
This is something the colonizers can’t understand.



The
non-native way requires “touchstones” of material things around them as
a base for their identity. They’re always talking about “my car”, “my
house”, “my wife”, “my tv”, “my cd player”, “my Blackberry”, “my kids”,
“my vacation”, “my”, “my”, “my”, “my”, “my”! They can only tell who
they are by what they own.



Some colonists come out and try to
romp around with us and act free. They become confused and revert back
to re-attaching themselves to their material possessions. Rules,
regulation and government are all set up to reinforce this.



Our
identity comes from our being tuned in to the world around us. When the
food we eat is proper and nutritious, we function quite well. When the
“visitors” force us into their cage, they want to control what we eat,
how we speak, dress and think. This almost kills us.



Why are
the visitors so envious of us? They covet something we have, besides
our land and resources. It’s a natural human instinct to want freedom.
Equality and freedom evolved out of the Onkwehonweh’s mind. The world
is trying to emulate our democratic form of government known as the
Great Law of Peace. The leadership is the servant, not the dictator.
Their role is to help people be free and to work for the common good of
all.



We are part of the natural world and live with the
environment. Our visitors brought an artificial environment here which
we refuse to adapt to. We are watching their false environment starting
to expire. They’re destroying nature. Soon the earth will be in such
bad shape, no one will be able to survive.



They fear us
because they’re afraid of the unknown. They are like the dog that has
been domesticated. He can only survive when his master is there to tell
him what to do.



Like the bears in Jasper National Park, who
come in from the wild, the tourists are destroying them. They throw
scraps and garbage at them to eat. They lose their instincts to survive
in the wilds and become dependent. The bears are losing their eyesight,
become overweight, sick and mentally chemically imbalanced. Sound like
anyone you know? When they have been taken out of their natural
habitat, they become domesticated and dangerous.



This was the
plan for us, to remove us from our natural state, bring us into the
cage so we could lose our bearings and our natural ability to survive
as we were meant to.



They looked through the bars of heir
cages at us running around free. They became jealous, “We have to pull
them in here with us”. They convinced themselves they’re perfect and
their system is the best. They think the cage is the only way people
should live. Large urban areas in Canada are prime examples of this.
The developers are placing condos, houses and apartment buildings
inches apart. They’re eliminating yards and green spaces. They are
actually promoting this as a conservation measure that prevents urban
sprawl! They want to push more people onto smaller pieces of land for
higher prices. They want us all to live in boxes stacked on top of each
other. What the hell kind of life is this? Is t his what we’re put on
the earth for?



When our people move in from our natural
environment into cities, many wind up sleeping alongside the Don Valley
Parkway or on the street. We are showing that we cannot function in
these unnatural cages that white people think they are comfortable in.



The
settlers are envious that we can still live and be happy in the natural
environment. They think that once a year for a week they’re Indians
when they go to the parks with their RVs and campers. They bring along
their televisions, cell phones, computers, and battery operated vacuum
cleaners. Of course, they would not want to live our reality – the one
they created for us - bad water, confinement and social problems.



In
the great scoop of the 1960s, our babies were raised in middle class
white society. Some adoptive parents got a $20,000 incentive grant to
take our children. Until about age 13, the Onkwehonweh was quiet and
tried to fit in. When they hit puberty, a time when youngsters are
striving for an identity, their natural instincts for survival kicked
in. The relationship between them and their adoptive parents broke
down. This led them to find their own people. Somehow when they are
with their own people they become sane again. They innately want their
freedom. That is what the world wants and seeks too. White society is
fearful that this desire for freedom might infect their kids. Control
freaks fear losing their control.



Something’s missing. They
want to destroy the very thing they envy most. It’s sad. How do we cure
this disease? They can’t allow us to be ourselves. We have to go around
wearing masks to hide our faces, our feelings and our true identity.



In
the past our people told us what was coming. They saw these ships
coming to bring over some strange people. They would try to seduce us
to change and become like them. Our ancestors told us, “No”. That is
why all the treaties were meant to keep our peoples and our cultures
apart from them. The Two Row Wampum agreement between us provided that
the white man’s ship shall remain separate from our canoe. We would
travel in parallel paths with everything that belongs to us. We cannot
become part of them as it is destructive. They violated this agreement
by kidnapping our young people and putting them in residential schools.
They beat and molested them like they beat and molested their own
children, or worse.



Their policy was, “We want you to be like
us, subservient to authority and in every other way”. Every time an
Onkwehonweh child ran away, trying to go back to their natural
community, they sent the police and search dogs to find and bring them
back to the residential schools. They told them, “This is where you
belong. To survive, you have to become like us”.



They were
really saying, “We cannot allow you to spread that disease of freedom.
It will destroy our whole civilization”. In the colonists’ way there is
a lord and master that dictates everything that people do. They cannot
have their own mind. They have to be dominated. They think the
alternative to hierarchy is chaos. So they set out to crush the spirit
of freedom in the minds of the Onkwehonweh and inkling of it in their
own people.



For their own sake, instead of destroying and
controlling us, the colonists have to set us free and give us back what
is ours. We are not greedy for this freedom. We want to share it with
everybody. That’s what the Tree of Peace is all about.



Kahentinetha & Katenies



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May 30, 2007

Last year's detention of Alex Jones in Canada during the Bilderberg "do", produced a result that the Bilderbergers did not want .. PUBLICITY.

I am no fan of wikipedia .. I KNOW that the government messes with it. I also know that I submitted very good information to it that was REJECTED - stuff on cognitive dissonance. this is an area all global people need to understand, but th entry is nearly impossible for the layman to read (and it is also misleading, btw) So wiki and I aren't bossum buddies ...

However, as the Bilderberg, Inc. group is hard to summarize, and becuz I got this via email, I decided to publish these bits for your consumption. (They consume, consume, consume, why shouldn't we at least get some bites..? All the world's resources, beauty, sacred sites, animals and every other living thing are considered sandbox toys for THEM). There is plenty of material on Bilderberg on this blog; just run a search on the box for the blog to bring it up.

Last year, someone, somehow got a transcript of what took place out on the web, but they gave you a teaser for free and wanted $25 or so to read the lot. Lots of us in the wrong side of the tracks on the digital divide couldn't afford to read it. TOPIC: Iran. The point: someone paid someone working in the hotel to "tell all" and I have spent nearly a year wondering WHO. There were major photos last year showing all the security required to protect the Bilderbergers from people "like us" -- and this in a "democratic" country. Who paid .. the Canadian taxpayer.

This year, it's TURKEY .. and I noted no less than FOUR of the members have something to do with Turkey, and I would guess many more coming this year do, too, it's just that what they are listed as covers up their "interests" there.

All too obviously, CANADA is a big topic this year.

A quick google search will net you the MANY internet journalists and groups that track the Bilderberg "phenomena". A visit to www.prisonplanet.com over the next few days should be enlightening to those interested as well!

Virginia
ps."influence" - now there is a word!!


Bilderberg Group From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Bilderberg Group or Bilderberg conference is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media, and politics.

Owing to discussions by public officials and powerful business leaders (and others) being off the record, these annual meetings are the subject of much criticism (for circumventing the democratic process of discussing issues openly and publicly) and numerous conspiracy theories.

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Last year's detention of Alex Jones in Canada during the Bilderberg "do", produced a result that the Bilderbergers did not want .. PUBLICITY.

I am no fan of wikipedia .. I KNOW that the government messes with it. I also know that I submitted very good information to it that was REJECTED - stuff on cognitive dissonance. this is an area all global people need to understand, but th entry is nearly impossible for the layman to read (and it is also misleading, btw) So wiki and I aren't bossum buddies ...

However, as the Bilderberg, Inc. group is hard to summarize, and becuz I got this via email, I decided to publish these bits for your consumption. (They consume, consume, consume, why shouldn't we ..? All the world's resources, beauty, sacred sites, animals and every other living thing are considered sandbox toys for THEM). There is plenty of material on Bilderberg on this blog; just run a search on the box for the blog to bring it up.

Last year, someone, somehow got a transcript of what took place out on the web, but they gave you a teaser for free and wanted $25 or so to read the lot. Lots of us in the wrong side of the tracks on the digital divide couldn't afford to read it. TOPIC: Iran. The point: someone paid someone working in the hotel to "tell all" and I have spent nearly a year wondering WHO. There were major photos last year showing all the security required to protect the Bilderbergers from people "like us" -- and this in a "democratic" country. Who paid .. the Canadian taxpayer.

This year, it's TURKEY .. and I noted no less than FOUR of the members have something to do with Turkey, and I would guess many more coming this year do, too, it's just that what they are listed as covers up their "interests" there.

A quick google search will net you the MANY internet journalists and groups that track the Bilderberg "phenomena". A visit to www.prisonplanet.com over the next few days should be enlightening to those interested as well!

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The Bilderberg Group or Bilderberg conference is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media, and politics.

Owing to discussions by public officials and powerful business leaders (and others) being off the record, these annual meetings are the subject of much criticism (for circumventing the democratic process of discussing issues openly and publicly) and numerous conspiracy theories.

The elite group meets annually at exclusive, four or five-star resorts throughout the world, normally in Europe, once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands. They are expected to meet at the Klassis Hotel in a town 40 miles from Istanbul, Turkey for the 2007 meeting.


Origin of the name "Bilderberg"
The "Bilderberg" title comes from what is generally recognized to be the location of its first official meeting in 1954 ; the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek near Arnhem in the Netherlands. Although the conference is not officially regarded as a club of any sort, many members are regular attendees, and guests are often seen as belonging to a secretive Bilderberg Group.

Origin and purpose of the first annual conference The original Bilderberg conference was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg, near Arnhem, from May 29 to May 31, 1954. The meeting was initiated by several people. Polish emigre and political adviser, Joseph Retinger, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, proposed an international conference at which leaders from European countries and the United States would be brought together with the aim of promoting understanding between the cultures of United States of America and Western Europe.

Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who agreed to promote the idea, together with Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, and the head of Unilever at that time, the Dutchman Paul Rijkens. The guest list was to be drawn up by inviting two attendees from each nation, one each to represent conservative and liberal (both terms used in the American sense) points of view.\u003cbr\>\n The success of the meeting led the organizers to arrange an annual conference. A permanent Steering Committee was established, with Retinger appointed as permanent secretary. As well as organizing the conference, the steering committee also maintained a register of attendee names and contact details, with the aim of creating an informal network of individuals who could call upon one another in a private capacity. The declared purpose of the Bilderberg Group was to make a common political line tie between the United States of America and Europe in their opposition to the USSR and the global communist danger.\u003cbr\>\n Dutch economist Ernst van der Beugel took over as permanent secretary in 1960, upon the death of Retinger. Prince Bernhard continued to serve as the meeting's chairman until 1976, the year of his involvement in the Lockheed affair. There was no conference that year, but meetings resumed in 1977 under Alec Douglas-Home, the former British Prime Minister. He was followed in turn by Walter Scheel, ex-President of Germany, Eric Roll, former head of SG Warburg and Lord Carrington, former Secretary-General of NATO.[1]\u003cbr\>\n \u003cbr\>\n

Declared purpose
The original intention of the Bilderberg Group was to further the understanding between Western Europe and North America through informal meetings between powerful individuals. Each year, a "steering committee" devises a selected invitation list with a maximum of 100 names. Invitations are extended only to residents of Europe and North America.

The location of their annual meeting is not secret, but the public and press are strictly kept at distance by police force and private security guards. Although the agenda and list of participants are openly available to the public meanwhile - mainly in the internet and posted there by outsiders - whose sources and reliability are not known — it is not clear that such details are disclosed by the group itself. Also the contents of the meetings are kept secret and attendees pledge not to divulge what was discussed." Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who agreed to promote the idea, together with Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, and the head of Unilever at that time, the Dutchman Paul Rijkens. The guest list was to be drawn up by inviting two attendees from each nation, one each to represent conservative and liberal (both terms used in the American sense) points of view.

The success of the meeting led the organizers to arrange an annual conference. A permanent Steering Committee was established, with Retinger appointed as permanent secretary. As well as organizing the conference, the steering committee also maintained a register of attendee names and contact details, with the aim of creating an informal network of individuals who could call upon one another in a private capacity. The declared purpose of the Bilderberg Group was to make a common political line tie between the United States of America and Europe in their opposition to the USSR and the global communist danger. Dutch economist Ernst van der Beugel took over as permanent secretary in 1960, upon the death of Retinger. Prince Bernhard continued to serve as the meeting's chairman until 1976, the year of his involvement in the Lockheed affair. There was no conference that year, but meetings resumed in 1977 under Alec Douglas-Home, the former British Prime Minister. He was followed in turn by Walter Scheel, ex-President of Germany, Eric Roll, former head of SG Warburg and Lord Carrington, former Secretary-General of NATO.

Declared purpose
The original intention of the Bilderberg Group was to further the understanding between Western Europe and North America through informal meetings between powerful individuals. Each year, a "steering committee" devises a selected invitation list with a maximum of 100 names. Invitations are extended only to residents of Europe and North America. The location of their annual meeting is not secret, but the public and press are strictly kept at distance by police force and private security guards. Although the agenda and list of participants are openly available to the public meanwhile - mainly in the internet and posted there by outsiders - whose sources and reliability are not known — it is not clear that such details are disclosed by the group itself. Also the contents of the meetings are kept secret and attendees pledge not to divulge what was discussed.

The group's stated justification for secrecy is that it enables people to speak freely without the need to carefully consider how every word might be interpreted by the mass media. However, it could easily be argued that the elite and secretive nature of the meeting is antithetical to the democratic ideals of public debate.

Attendees

Attendees of Bilderberg include central bankers, defense experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America.\u003cbr\>\n Some of the Western world's leading financiers and foreign policy strategists attend Bilderberg. Donald Rumsfeld is an active Bilderberger, as is Peter Sutherland from Ireland, a former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs and of British Petroleum. Rumsfeld and Sutherland served together in 2000 on the board of the Swedish/Swiss energy company ABB. Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and current World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz is also a member, as is Roger Boothe, Jr. The group's current chairman is Etienne Davignon, the Belgian businessman and politician.

The group's stated justification for secrecy is that it enables people to speak freely without the need to carefully consider how every word might be interpreted by the mass media. However, it could easily be argued that the elite and secretive nature of the meeting is antithetical to the democratic ideals of public debate.



Attendees


Attendees of Bilderberg include central bankers, defense experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America.

Some of the Western world's leading financiers and foreign policy strategists attend Bilderberg. Donald Rumsfeld is an active Bilderberger, as is Peter Sutherland from Ireland, a former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs and of British Petroleum. Rumsfeld and Sutherland served together in 2000 on the board of the Swedish/Swiss energy company ABB. Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and current World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz is also a member, as is Roger Boothe, Jr. The group's current chairman is Etienne Davignon, the Belgian businessman and politician.

Meetings

2006 (June 8-11) at the Brookstreet Hotel [3] in Kanata, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2007 (May 31 - June 3) in Istanbul, Turkey


References
^ Rockefeller, David (2002). Memoirs. Random House, p.412. ISBN 0-679-40588-7.
^ Bill Hayton (29th September, 2005). Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group. BBC.
^ Panetta, Alexander (2006). Secretive Bilderbergers meet. www.thestar.com. Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. Retrieved on 2006-06-12. First ever mainstream media news item on the Bilderbergs ....

Hatch, Alden (1962). "The Hôtel de Bilderberg", H.R.H.Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands: An authorized biography. London: Harrap. ISBN B0000CLLN4. <>\n Eringer, Robert (1980). The Global Manipulators. Bristol, England: Pentacle Books. ISBN 0906850046.

External links

Note: the Bilderberg Group does not have a website. (No longer true according The Economist as at 30 May, 2007)

Paper by Sociology Professor (LMU) Mike Peters: "
The Bilderberg Group and the Project for European Unification" from Lobster:
The Journal of Parapolitics

Free Press International: Bilderberg video and info
Extract from the official Bilderberg report on the Fiuggi Conference 4-6 October 1957 Guardian article on the group - an excerpt from Jon Ronson's book Them \
BBC Interview with Étienne Davignon, September 2005
Elite power brokers meet in secret BBC News 15 May 2003
BBC online article on Group
CTV.ca - Shadowy group meets amid secrecy in Ottawa
2006 Bilderberg Group meeting attendance list
Minutes from the 1999 Bilderberg meeting from SchNEWS website

List of recent mainstream news articles and Bilderberg conspiracy gossip

Historical information on the Bilderberg Group-mentions original location of 1976 meeting Robert Eringer writing about Bilderberg, Carroll Quigley
The world's most powerful secret society - 1998 article from Punch magazine

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Bilderberger attendee list leaked

Whlle Turkey is screaming bloody murder about the US invading their airspace as the US navy is patrolling the Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz, a first has been achieved .. a LEAK revealing exactlly WHO will be deciding the world's next big course of action. The 2007 list of Bilderberg attendees (slavery., inc.) has been leaked in advance for the first time ever



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Bilderberger meeting list leaked

Other sources I've read reveal that they expect the TURKISH issue of having their airspace invaded to be the REAL issue this year.



Shades of Paris, 1912.





Date: Tues, May 29 2007 11:13 am

From: Tony Gosling





1. Bilderberg 2007 participant list leaked




2. The Economist magazine on
the Bilderberg Conferences




Author Danny Estulin has managed to get hold of this year's

participant list BEFORE the event. Please circulate it to all your

National Press and broadcast media to give them as littyle excuse as

possible for ignoring arguably the most important global political

event of the year.



This years' Bilderberg conference is the big one. If Kissinger and the

steering committee can convince the Turks, through threats and

bribery, to go for the NeoCon 'regime change' agenda for Iran we can

expect a further Middle Eastern bloodbath and Islamic genocide.



Let's hope and pray that the Turkish decision makers and political

classes are not that stupid. For anyone planning to travel to witness

the conference this year please do keep me informed over the weekend

and/or use the new(ish) Bilderberg forum.



Breaking news direct from the 2007 Bilderberg
conference

http://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=3710



So here this year's Bilderbergers! Here's hoping the Turkish police

will surround the hotel and arrest all the steering group members for

questioning while the Turkish Secret Service deal with the CIA.

Fingers crossed! And well done over-safe Danny Estulin. Nuff respect

for getting the leaked participant list BEFORE the conference - this

is unheard of.



Tony





http://www.bilderberg.org/2007.htm



and more

and a bit more





George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Economy and Finance (Greece);

Ali Babacan, Minister of Economic Affairs (Turkey);

Edward Balls, Economic Secretary to the Treasury (UK);

Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former

Prime Minister (Portugal);

José M. Durão Barroso, President, European
Commission (Portugal/

International);

Franco Bernabé, Vice Chariman, Rothschild Europe (Italy);

Nicolas Beytout, Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro (France);

Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister (Sweden);

Hubert Burda, Publisher and CEO, Hubert Burda Media Holding

(Belgium);

Philippe Camus, CEO, EADS (France);

Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA

(France);

Juan Luis Cebrian, Grupo PRISA media group (Spain);

Kenneth Clark, Member of Parliament (UK);

Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood

Holdings, LLC (USA);

Bertrand Collomb, Chairman, Lafarge (France);

George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A. (USA);

Kemal Dervis, Administrator, UNDP (Turkey);

Anders Eldrup, President, DONG A/S (Denmark);

John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A (Italy);

Martin S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic

Research (USA);

Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO,
Federal Reserve Bank of New

York (USA);

Paul A. Gigot, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Wall Street Journal

(USA);

Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group (Ireland);

Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company

(USA);

Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former

Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings (the Netherlands);

Jean-Pierre Hansen, CEO, Suez-Tractebel S.A. (Belgium);

Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations (USA);

Richard C. Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC (USA);

Jaap G. Hoop de Scheffer, Secretary General, NATO (the Netherlands/

International);

Allan B. Hubbard, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy,

Director National Economic Council (USA);

Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit (Germany);

James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC (USA);

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co.

LLC
(USA);

Anatole Kaletsky, Editor at Large, The Times (UK);

John Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc (the

Netherlands);

Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates (USA);

Mustafa V. Koç, Chariman, Koç Holding A.S. (Turkey);

Fehmi Koru, Senior Writer, Yeni Safek (Turkey);

Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign Affairs (France);

Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

(USA);

Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc. (USA);

Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, European Commission (the Netherlands/

International);

Ed Kronenburg, Director of the Private Office, NATO Headquarters

(International);

William J. Luti, Special Assistant to the President for Defense Policy

and Strategy, National Security Council (USA);

Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International

Peace (USA);

Frank McKenna, Ambassador to the US, member Carlyle Group
(Canada);

Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International

Relations (France);

Mario Monti, President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Italy);

Craig J. Mundie, Chief Technical Officer Advanced Strategies and

Policy, Microsoft Corporation (USA);

Egil Myklebust, Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro

ASA (Norway);

Matthias Nass, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit (Germany);

Adnrzej Olechowski, Leader Civic Platform (Poland);

Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc/Nokia (Finland);

George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK);

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Minister of Finance (Italy);

Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for

Public Policy Research (USA);

Heather Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. (Canada);

David Rockefeller (USA);

Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander

Bank, (Spain);

Dennis B. Ross,
Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

(USA);

Otto Schily, Former Minister of Interior Affairs; Member of

Parliament; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Germany);

Jürgen E. Schrempp, Former Chairman of the Board of Management,

DaimlerChrysler AG (Germany);

Tøger Seidenfaden, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Politiken (Denmark);

Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, BP plc and Chairman, Goldman Sachs

International (Ireland);

Giulio Tremonti, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy);

Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor, European Central Bank (France/

International);

John Vinocur, Senior Correspondent, International Herald Tribune

(USA);

Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB (Sweden);

Martin H. Wolf, Associate Editor and Economics Commentator, The

Financial Times (UK);

James D. Wolfensohn, Special Envoy for the Gaza Disengagement (USA);

Robert B. Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State (USA);

Klaus Zumwinkel,
Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutsche Post AG

(USA);

Adrian D. Wooldridge, Foreign Correspondent, The Economist.





The Economist magazine on the Bilderberg Conferences

http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#econ

Bilderberg - Ne plus ultra

BILDERBERG takes its name from a Dutch hotel where, in the early

1950s, the first meeting took place under the aegis of Prince

Bernhard. The occasion has outgrown the hotel, but the Dutch link

remains. Among several European royals who attend as occasional

guests, Queen Beatrix and her husband come regularly. A Dutch

professor who has brokered coalition governments into existence on her

behalf is one of the secretary-generals (the other, American, one

lives in San Francisco), and Bilderberg's tiny secretariat sits in The

Hague. The meetings now take place by informal rotation in countries

of the Atlantic community.

Some 100 or more attend, by invitation of a steering committee.
The

meetings happen once a year, in the spring. They last 2.5 days

(Thursday night until Sunday lunch) and are held in varying but always

comfortable surroundings - in 1987 Lake Como, before that Gleneagles.

Apart from a half-day on the golf links or sleeping off the previous

night's dinner, morning and afternoon sessions fill up the time.

A mixture of able and distinguished folk attend - a sprinkling of

serving prime and cabinet ministers, central-bank governors, defence

and other experts. They talk, often to galvanising and fascinating

effect, about the main issues of the day - East-West relations, arms

control, deficits, debt, the Falklands, sanctions, whatever. Their

thoughts may not be repeated outside the meetings and never are. This

frustrates outsiders but helps 100 great and good people be frank with

each other, as does the fact that Bilderberg members are limited to

people of NATO and West European countries who know how
to be kind or

rude to each other without causing such misunderstandings as would

occur if Indians, Fijians, Africans, Chinese or Japanese were also

present.

Elite and discreet, Bilderberg has inevitably been talked of in hushed

tones by conspiracy theorists over the years. It needn't be. The lists

of attenders are published, as are the agendas, and before each

meeting the chairman (currently Lord Roll) holds a press conference at

which few journalists bother to turn up.

Where does the money come from? Not complicated. The steering-group

members raise from business the small sums necessary to keep the

organising secretariat going hand-to-mouth in The Hague. Members from

the host country raise enough money to pay for the hotel and

conference when it takes place on their home soil (they are allowed to

ask extra guests to make this money-raising easier). Participants pay

their own long-haul travel, but are usually shepherded as VIPs
from

the nearest airport. They also pay expenses over and above the basic

bill for their hotel room - the Bilderberg custom being that a whole

hotel is booked for each meeting so that Bilderbergers may be alone

with each other, their words, their thoughts and, these days, their

security men.

When you have scaled the Bilderberg, you have arrived.





see also

http://www.underthecarpet.co.uk/

your first site for news



When DOES The US economy melt down ...?

"Rules 'hiding' trillions in debt





Liability $516,348 per U.S. household






http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070529/1a_lede29.art.htm

"The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far

more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style

accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows."

May 29, 2007

Denial the 51st state

As "unconscious" cocreators of the current regime, Paul Levy takes on a deep analysis that allows us to "live" our lives in light of the current international state of affairs. By reading the dynamics really playing out, we can break our collective psychosis, recognizing that the "state of affairs" is part of the healing ...



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Are Uranium weapons highly radioactive ..? You BETCHA!! And why IS Canada complicit in their use .. well, we tackled the latter previously. Here is a great answer to the former ...

ob
Nichols Answers An Email Question: "Where did you get the idea that the [uranium] weapons are highly radioactive? Uranium is bearly [barely] radioactive. "

Shock_awe

Good question, I'm glad you sent it in.

" Where did you get the idea that the [uranium] weapons are highly radioactive. Uranium is bearly [barely] radioactive. "

The questioner is faithfully repeating what he is supposed to
according to the Pentagon. The nefarious SPINmasters in the American
Pentagon and CIA have spend an enormous amount of money to convince him
and millions of others that the properties of a gravel sized chunk of
uranium ore sitting on a shelf somewhere are the same as the properties
of battlefield ballistic uranium.

Yea, when pigs fly. These psychopaths are lying to you John.

Col "Kill-A-Patient" Kilpatrick is in charge of lying to the world
about uranium weapons for the Pentagon. The professional liars work for
him, Col Cherry and Col Daxon. Apparently you bought what The Three
Colonels are saying, hook, line and sinker.

Here's the bottom line. Battlefield ballistic uranium is a fine
aerosol so tiny that it acts like a gas. A milligram, smaller than one
of these periods so you can't even see it, does its work Inside
people's bodies. So small, it even goes through your clothes and skin.

Breathe battlefield ballistic uranium and it is a Death Sentence.
When you die depends on dose and it does not take much. This has been
common knowledge since 1943 in the Pentagon and Labeled "Top Secret."

A milligram, so tiny you cannot see it, fires out powerful Helium
Bullets all the time until you die - 1,251,000 Bullets a Day - Every
day. That is what Radioactivity is all about.

Let's compare two numbers. The numbers 4,200,000 and the simple number 10. These are of forces measured in "electron volts."

Ten is the strength of the intracellular force that holds the individual cell membranes of the cells in your body together.

4,200,000 (4.2 Million) is the force each one of the 1.2 million
bullets a day smash into the surrounding cells, about six rows deep.
Another 20 rows of cells in your body get the dreaded "by-stander
affect."

Just picture in your mind what a run away freight train weighing
4,200,000 pounds does to an animal, like your cat or dog, weighing only
10 pounds.

Kind of takes your breath away, doesn't it? That is why I say ballistic uranium is deadly and highly radioactive.

Your move. Come join us and spread the word. We can use all the help we can get.

Regards,

Bob Nichols

Project Censored Award Winner

San Francisco Bay View newspaper

Radio Talk Show Guest

NUCLEAR FREE ZONE

http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/nuclear_free_zone/


Denial the 51st state

As "unconscious" cocreators of the current regime, Paul Levy takes on a deep analysis that allows us to "live" our lives in light of the current international state of affairs. By reading the dynamics really playing out, we can break our collective psychosis, recognizing that the "state of affairs" is part of the healing ...



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Denial the 51st state

&gt;DENIAL: The 51st State




By Paul Levy



What the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that

controls our government is doing, both domestically and

internationally, is so horrifying (please see my article Homeland Insecurity

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/insecurity.html) that it is literally

traumatizing to consciously bear witness to it, to experience it. When

we become traumatized, we become stuck, literally “frozen in time,” as

our ability to creatively respond and mobilize ourselves in the present

moment into effective action in the world becomes in-operative. When we

become overwhelmed by trauma, we are not able to creatively express our

internal experience in a way that dis-charges what has been triggered

in us. We feel impotent. We are unable to give voice to our experience,

as our power to be ourselves has become foreign to us. We become mute.

When we become traumatized, we lose touch with our inner voice, which

is our guiding spirit, our true genius.



Bush and his regime could only be getting away with the atrocities they

are perpetrating not only because there are an insufficient number of

people who see what they are doing, but because there are enough people

who see what is happening and remain silent (please see my article

Breaking the Vow of Silence http://www.awakeninthedream.com/vow.html). To

quote Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Abuse, “The ordinary response

to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations

of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the

meaning of the word unspeakable.” When our nation is seen as a family

system composed of interrelated roles that do not exist in isolation from

each other but rather in co-relation to one another, the people in the

role of the abuser, Bush and his regime, depend upon the tendency for

most people to split-off from and deny the horror of the atrocities they

are perpetrating to be able to get away with them. When we deny what

is

happening, we are not able to speak about it, for to speak about what

is happening is to invest our experience with a living reality, which is

the very thing our denial ensures doesn’t happen.



As perpetrators of the abuse, the Bush regime will do everything in

their power to promote our denial, pretense, and silence. Our becoming

silent is the very thing which allows them to literally get away with

murder. They need to induce our denial, which is an internal cover-up, as a

necessary requirement for them to act out their role as “perpetraitor.”

Denial is an integral dynamic which sustains the pathology of the

victim-perpetrator collusion.





The abuser’s refusal to hear the voices of those they are exploiting is crucial to their continued domination.




When the abuse is so horrific, it forcibly overwhelms the human psyche

so as to split the psyche from itself and shatter its wholeness, which

is the very root of trauma. When the atrocity is so inhumane, we

dis-associate from the experience, creating a self-protective amnesia for

ourselves. An (arche)typical response to trauma is to simply “forget about

it” and try to go on with our life. Like Bush himself counseled us

after 9/11, we should just continue shopping. It is the strangest

experience to walk around town and see so many people just going about their day, drinking their cup of coffee in their favorite café and reading the

sports page as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening, while in the

same moment on another part of the planet bombs are being dropped on

innocent people with our names on them. A more perfect image of

collective denial is hard to imagine. “Hey, did you hear the Yankees took two

yesterday?”



To be in denial is both an unconscious, primitive, and magical defense,

as well as on some level also being a conscious choice. There is a

collective denial that most of us support by acting out our own personal

denial in our individual lives, which in turn simply feeds into our

collective madness. To the extent that we aren’t completely outraged with

what our government is doing, we are in denial, for what could we

possibly be thinking? To the degree we are in denial about the horror that is

playing out in our world, we are, to that extent, complicit.



When the abuse is so overwhelming, we become numbed, desensitized, and

anesthetized, as if a psychological “operation” (psy-ops) is being done

on us (please see my article The War on Consciousness

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/warconsc.html). Instead of being

enlivened by the abuse, we become “deadened,” as if we have become

dehumanized. Devalued, we become incapable of “feeling.” In this covert

operation, our ability to respond creatively and responsibly becomes disabled.

We can become incapacitated with inexpressible rage, hopeless despair

and a feeling of worthlessness. The worst of the abuse isn’t even so much

what the external abuse actually is, but what it creates in us

internally.



When we are overwhelmed by abuse, we are literally coerced to disavow

our perceptions, which is to betray ourselves. To quote the late Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr., “At some point, silence before a lie becomes

betrayal.” Betraying ourselves, we become a stranger to ourselves,

forgetting who we are. We become disoriented, as our bedrock connection between psyche and reality has been severed. Moment by moment we insist on building a wall between our inner selves and the outer world. Splitting off

from the abuse, we invariably internalize the abuser and police

ourselves. We lose our connection with our inner nature, as well as with

nature itself. Our sense of meaning, and our identity as sovereign

meaning-generators, becomes scrambled. When the nightmare that is playing out is so horrible, we marginalize and deny our very experience itself, as we

literally “split” (which means both “in two,” and “leave” – i.e., go

far away from the present, as well as from our true selves). A part

of us pretends that what is happening is not really happening.



A specific example of denial in our current day and age are people’s

reactions to 9/11. The most superficial inquiry into the facts reveals

that there is no doubt whatsoever that the government’s official story

about 9/11, a crazy conspiracy theory if there ever was one, is not only

not true, but is covering up what really happened. Who knows what

really happened on 9/11, but when the evidence is studied, it is beyond any

reasonable doubt that the same criminal enterprise that has infiltrated

the highest levels of our government also had its hands in creating

9/11. The underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate was the

only organization that had the motive and the ability to pull-off,

cover-up and capitalize on the “opportunity” of 9/11. To go down this

rabbit hole and see what the criminal forces that have taken over and

control our government are capable of is to unravel and shatter many of our naïve illusions, which is why many of us deny and simply refuse to

look at the evidence.




It is clear that the same underlying criminal syndicate that was

behind 9/11 is using 9/11 as a catapult to further expand its domination and

extend its tentacles to the furthest reaches of not just the planet,

but space itself. If you think I am exaggerating or being paranoid when I

point this out, I would respond by simply inviting you to open your

eyes and explore the ample evidence, which is readily available and

overwhelmingly convincing (see www.911truth.org). Besides being utterly

traumatic to realize, another reason the truth behind 9/11 is so hard to see

is because it is everywhere we look, literally staring us in the face.

If we don’t realize the truth behind 9/11, it is because we are in

denial.



When we realize that 9/11 was an “inside job” perpetrated by our own government against us, we step out of denying what deep down we know to be true.



9/11 was a wake up call for the American people and the world

at large, and it has the potentiality of snapping us out of our spell so

that we can begin to see what is actually happening in our world.

Looking beneath the superficial “official” explanation for 9/11 begins an

initiatory process of reconsidering the way the power structure of our

nation and the world operates. People who have woken up to the truth

behind 9/11 are very much like people who have had a kind of spiritual

awakening, in that having snapped out of the consensus trance, they are

recognizing a deeper, more fundamental process that is in-forming and

giving shape to events in our world. Like a person who has had a spiritual

awakening, people who have realized the truth about 9/11 have stepped

out of their denial and snapped out of an illusion.



When we are in denial, we avert our gaze, which is a reactive form of

psychic blindness. When we get stuck in and embody the madness of

denial, we become psychologically deaf, as we are not able to hear any

“informing” influences from the outside world which reflect back to us our

unconscious state. Falling into denial, we become psychologically deaf,

dumb and blind. We see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.



When we are riddled by denial, we hold contradictory viewpoints

simultaneously, while splitting off from the underlying contradiction, which

is a self-induced, trance-like dissociated state, in which we have

fixated our attention, restricted our own awareness and hypnotized

ourselves. When groups of people (or a nation) collectively fall into a mass

en-trance-ment together, they reinforce each other’s unconscious denial,

which feeds the zombie-like madness of the group. The name of this

phenomenon is “collective psychosis,” and this is what is presently

happening in the United States of America (please see my book The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis, to read the

first chapter, click http://awakeninthedream.com/georgew.html).



The underlying culture and field in which and from which we dissociate

conspires with us in our betrayal of ourselves. We are in-formed by and

receive feedback from the abusive family system, in this case, our

nation, that it is not OK and actually quite dangerous to be ourselves,

which only reinforces the trauma, ad infinitum. Part of the abuse in our

country is that, like an unrestrained malignant narcissist, the

criminal enterprise that controls our government has let it be known that it

will destroy anyone who tries to stand up to it (please see my article

George Bush is a Malignant Narcissist

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/bushnarc.html). This threat itself is a

form of terrorism, as it creates terror in US. As a result, for the

ordinary person, the utter evil of what is playing out in our country is

better left unsaid, so as to not cause trouble or rock the boat, which,

Titanic-like, is sinking due to our passivity and silence.



When the horror is so overwhelming, we become alien to ourselves and

deny our own experience. We then deny our denial and fall into the

depraved state of lying and actually believing our own lies. This is a state

of complete and utter self-deception. When we are in denial, we are in

the perverse state of fooling ourselves, while pretending we are not

fooling ourselves. This is to have fallen into a diabolically

self-perpetuating feedback loop, an infinite regression in which we deny that we are denying and then we deny that, and on and on, ad infinitum. This is

called “the state of being in denial,” which is the 51st state in the

US.&nbsp; [Virginia's note: THIS is called DELUSION, and is a mark of ADVANCED addiction .. in this case to an unsustainable way of "life" - read: empire]



Once we fall into the state of denial, we become invested in not only

keeping ourselves asleep but we also seek out others in the same state

of denial with whom to join forces. Once our mass unconsciousness gains

enough self-generating momentum, our denial has an inductive, magnetic

effect of entraining others into a similar state of unconsciousness as

our own. Our somnambulism has a bewitching effect on others, while at

the same time their unconsciousness strengthens our denial, in a

self-reinforcing web of mutual conditioning
. Falling into and supporting each other’s collective denial, we become infected by, while concurrently

infecting the field around us with a self-created, but very contagious,

psychological “virus.”



This is an immaterial, psychic “bug” that insinuates itself into and

operates through the psyche by distorting and manipulating our

perceptions so as to feed itself, while at the same time veiling that it is doing this so as to keep itself invisible. Jung never tired of warning us

that psychic epidemics such as this, which spread and replicate themselves

through our unconscious blind spots, were the greatest danger facing

humanity. In a crazy-making loop that both produces and is an expression

of madness, the denial in the underlying field feeds our denial, while

at the same time our denial feeds the denial in the underlying field.



When we live in the state of denial, we are investing all of our

psychic energy into a lie to protect ourselves from the awful shock of

stepping out of our denial and consciously experiencing both the lie that we have been living and the reality we have been avoiding.
Once our denial becomes invested with enough energy, a counter-incentive to step out of our denial arises, as we become highly motivated in sustaining the lie

that is fundamental to our denial, for the trauma of consciously

realizing the perverse state we have fallen into is too much for us to bear.

Once our denial solidifies its reign, it literally rules over us, as we

become obedient to it, as if we are its slaves and it is our master.

When we repress something from our consciousness, we unwittingly invest

it with power over us. Once we become sufficiently corrupted by our

denial, we become dedicated to preserving it at all costs. Once we become

tied, attached and bound to our denial, our entire modus operandi

is to do whatever it takes to continue the charade of hiding from ourselves.



At a certain point, we literally become taken over, as if possessed, by

our compulsion to avoid relationship with ourselves. We are then not

able to help ourselves from compulsively acting out our unconscious

denial, a perverse state for which we are ultimately responsible. Being in

the state of denial, we are not in our right mind, and we are not even

home in our own bodies. In this state, we can be of no help to either

ourselves or to others, as we ourselves are the ones increasingly in need

of help. Having fallen into a truly pathological state, we have become

addicted to our denial, which we then embody and act out in our lives,

as our denial continually in-forms us. Once this pathological process

develops a sufficient inner sovereignty, it “colonizes” our psyche and

we fall into becoming an unwitting instrument for what is called “evil”

to act itself out in our world.



We have then attained what political philosopher Hannah Arendt saw as

the fundamental characteristic of evil: the incapacity for thought. When

we are in denial, the primary thought we can’t think about is

ourselves, which is to say we are incapable of self-reflection, as if we are not

able to bend around backwards and see our reflection in the mirror of

life. When we are in the state of denial, we are “not ourselves,” but

rather, are “beside ourselves.” Instead of associating with all of

our-selves, we imagine that we exist separately from the world out there, of

which we are desperately afraid. This is an outer reflection of the

inner process of being terrified of a part of ourselves, which is the

dynamic which precipitated our denial in the first place.



As this inner pathological state takes us over, it develops a seemingly

autonomous life of its own, animating and playing itself out in the

most unconscious, and hence, destructive of ways, creating violence,

abuse, and terror, whether it be within ourselves or in the outside world.

Anyone who points out or reflects back the pathology is demonized,

pathologized, criminalized, and seen as the enemy.



People in denial react violently when they see someone who does not share their denial, as it secretly reminds them of

how sick they are.




When we are in the state of denial, we lose our ability to discern what

is really going on. For example, when we are in denial, we are unable

to discern whether or not others are in denial. When other people are

actually in denial, it has a resonance with our own denial and, insanely,

we see them as expressing the truth and being enlightened. At the same

time, people who aren’t in denial we see as being crazy. When we are in

denial, we live in an inverted world, blindly imagining others to be

the ones who are blind. We project the face of our own unconscious onto

the world, which simply mirrors it back to us, confirming our delusion.



To step out of our denial is the scariest thing imaginable to the part

of us that is in denial. To snap out of our denial is a form of

“death,” as it is to “die” to the fantasy world in which we imagined we lived.

This is why people will “defend” their denial to the point of death,

often in the most aggressively “offensive” of ways. People in denial will

actually create “explosions” in the outside world as distractions so as

to protect themselves from inwardly “imploding” at the sight of

themselves. People cherish their illusions, which they hold dear to

themselves, as if their illusions are their most sacred possession
. To be in

denial is to live in an illusion, and the system which produced this

pathological state is only too happy to configure itself to support the abuse

by supplying all the evidence needed to strengthen the denial and

confirm the illusion. Our denial allows the abuse to continue to be

perpetrated and perpetuate itself, while at the same time the abuse

facilitates our denial in a reciprocally co-arising, circular (as compared to

linear) and self-generating feedback loop that is truly pathological.
When

we are in denial, the system which precipitated our denial gets dreamed

up to collude with, nourish, nurture and justify our denial, creating a

psychological black hole: a true dis-ease of the psyche, in which no

light escapes or is emitted.



DENIAL IS ITS OWN MEDICINE



When we are taken over by the pathological state of denial, we embody

and incarnate it, becoming agents by which it propagates itself, as we

collectively act out our inner, unconscious state of denial on the outer

stage of the world. This is to say that the inner state of our

unconsciousness is actually being dreamed up into full-bodied form and

reflex-ively played out in the theater of the outside world. Just like in a

dream – where the outer dreamscape is a reflection of the inner psyche –

our unconscious has spilled out from the boundaries of our skull and is

materializing itself in, as, and through the seemingly outside world.

Not limited by the conventional laws of time and space, our unconscious

has changed channels and is nonlocally giving shape and form to itself

by synchronistically arranging events in the outside world so as to

express and reveal itself to those that have the eyes to see. The fact

that there is a synchronistic correlation and correspondence between

the unconscious process going on inside of our psyche and what is playing

out in the outside world is not an accident, as this mirroring is

reflecting something back to us that is most important for us to know.


Encoded in the outer manifestation of our unconscious denial is the key to

its resolution.



Collective events in our world are the expressions of our inner state

of unconsciousness, while simultaneously being the revelation of the

very unconsciousness of which they themselves are an expression. What this

means is that events in our world, while being manifestations of our

unconscious, are at the same time potentially the liberator and

liberation of the very unconsciousness of which they themselves are a

manifestation.



The malevolent events that are literally being unconsciously acted out

on the world stage are at the same time speaking to us symbolically,

which is the language of dreams. Seen as symbols that unite the

opposites, these events reflect back to us our inner state of unconsciousness,

while simultaneously revealing to us, and hence potentially

transforming, the very unconsciousness of which they are an unmediated

manifestation. Recognizing what is being revealed instantaneously, in no time whatsoever, transforms our unconscious, our experience of our world, and

ourselves, which empowers us to be a genuine agent for positive change in

the world.



Seen symbolically,

events in our world are

simultaneously

the problem
and the solution

co-joined in

one phenomenon,

and how they manifest
depends

upon

how we dream them.




Our world crisis is the problem, while at the same time it is the revelation of the solution, as it unveils the unconscious part of ourselves, which is the source of our current world crisis. Once we recognize what is being revealed, our consciousness has expanded itself through this realization, thereby transforming both our unconscious and the world crisis simultaneously. Seen as symbols in a dream, the malevolent events in our world are potentially expanding our consciousness so as to heal the very pathology which is at the root of their malevolence. Something is revealing itself to us as it acts

itself out through our unconscious. Recognizing what is being revealed

changes everything, for then all bets are off, as anything becomes possible.

We only suffer from a failure of imagination.



The collective denial and madness

that is playing itself out

in our world

is

paradoxically

ts own medicine.




How the events in our world actually manifest and what effect they have

on us, either continuing to traumatize us, or wake us up, depends upon

whether or not we recognize what they are revealing to us about

ourselves. Events in our world are being dreamed up to reflect back to us that

we ourselves are responsible for how we moment by moment collectively

dream up our world.



All six and a half billion of us are moment by moment collaboratively

dreaming up this universe into materialization, as if we are co-creating

a mass, shared dream. Once we realize this, we literally snap out of

the illusion of thinking we exist separate from each other, and recognize

we are “relational beings,” interdependent parts of one another, which

is to say we are “related,” members of a greater family. We are a part

of the whole but not “a-part” from the whole. We are interconnected

aspects and unique expressions of the whole. To consciously realize our

wholeness is to heal our disassociation from each other as well as from

ourselves.




Once we snap out of the spell of imagining we are separate from each

other, we can get in sync with each other so as to awaken “eros,” which

has to do with being able to relate with each other through a deeply

shared feeling of the heart called love. Reciprocally co-inspiring each

other, we mutually help one another plug into and activate our collective

genius, as if collectively awakening a higher strand of our DNA. Once

our awakening attains a certain momentum, we become instruments through

which something greater than ourselves is able to inform and give shape

to our world. We are then able to nonlocally effect the entire

universe, which is to say we can literally make a positive difference in the

world.



Putting our lucid awareness together, we synergistically activate our

inherent God-given power of being able to consciously co-create reality

in a way that serves our highest, evolutionary unfoldment. We discover

that we can enter into an engaged, intimate, and conscious partnership

with each other, as well as with the universe as a whole. Once our

intention is to serve what is best for the whole, we become inspired by

something greater than our own ego. We become imbued with life, as we

become guided and animated by a creative, and whole-making spirit. As

compared to the spirit of division and destruction, this is the spirit of

integration and creation. This is the point where we are able to join

together and, not just in imagination, but in seemingly real time and

space, change the collective dream we are having. Instead of destroying

ourselves, we can actually create the world in which we want to live.



Recognizing what is being revealed, we become students of history, as

we become educated by our experience, learn from our mistakes, and

organically grow. Stepping out of our shared delusion that we exist separate

from each other, we discover that we can co-operatively help each other

to evolve to greater orders of freedom and ever-deepening degrees of

compassion. Cultivating our shared awakening, we naturally change the

world in the process.



Paul Levy is an artist and a spiritually-informed political activist. A

pioneer in the field of spiritual awakening, he is a healer in private

practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dream-like

nature of reality. He is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A

Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis
, which is available on his website

www.awakeninthedream.com. Please feel free to pass this article along to

a friend if you feel so inspired. You can contact Paul at

paul@awakeninthedream.com; he looks forward to your reflections.

© Copyright 2007.



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