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June 25, 2007

Lessons from Panic

OPTIONS - Pathways to Well-Being


In finance, an option is a contract, or a provision of a contract, that gives one party (the option holder) the right, but not the obligation, to perform a specified transaction with another party (the option issuer or option writer) according to specified terms.

In human terms, options imply contracts you make with yourself. They aren't obligatory, but they will help you TRANSACT with yourself!!

I did a little checking and discovered that the term OPTIONS often surfaces when working with the most vulnerable populations, who often do not feel like they have options, like impoverished youth, youth facing mandatory military service, those with illiteracy problems and so on. In the middle of a Panic Attack we do not FEEL as though we have options, we feel like it's fight or die ... or we run away. We are vulnerable.

OR options are associated with the PRIVILEGED, those who have money as a tool and can "buy" something or use their power over others. The use of options is something we can do get our power back, an empowering set of possibilities.

And the possibilities for healthy living are literally endless. Below is an exercise to help you tap all those inner potentials.

In a PANIC attack, or in an intense anxiety situation, the idea we have options appears pretty limited, maybe even non-existent. Am I ringing any bells yet? A good preplan for panic attacks is giving ourselves a way to feel empowered. So being able to recall the exercise below was part of what became for me, a big tool in my recovery tool kit. It's these little time savers that make a difference over the long haul. Using these tools can turn our lives around.

We find out when we list out a few options that we have more time, can use our energy wisely, live with a passion (instead of internal constriction), wish to LIVE in reality and can go from an emotional/mental prison to freedom very quickly.

Options exercise
:

Take a DEEP breath -- relaxing right into it -- and then:

1. Take a piece of paper and number from 1 to 10

2. Write down each and every option that comes to mind, including those really dire ones.

I mean take a pen or pencil and list out the ghastly options we don't like anyone to know are there, burying themselves in our mind, such as: eating an entire chocolate cake, calling up an old toxic friend (or two or three), taking a trip down to the local bar where we got plastered last panic attack and so on. In a panic, our minds are likely to throw up the MOST despicable options at a "time like this". So we want to take a good look at those, later.

On the other hand, our Survivor inside also remembers some pretty good options, and is really excited to let them have some fresh air, so write down options like praying, meditating (not always easy in a panic attack, but the rest of the exercise should clarify that), take a walk, listen to some LOUD and WILD rock and roll, visit a friend, drink a glass of water or brew some tea ..

Hey, this is up to YOU! This is YOUR list! This is YOU figuring it all out in a framework you can understand.

You will find the limitless possibilities; a good list of 10 will help us reconnect with our intuition.

Write down ONLY ten, no more. We are not aiming for overwhelm. Concentrating on verbs helps us see the possibilities for action and find solutions, if you have a mind to do that.

3. Decide which you are willing to do. Circle those which seem appealing.

Take a look. What ten things were SCREAMING at you ..? The reason we do ten, is that it forces the mind to list more than one, thus we see how our having options is the greatest resource bank to draw on.

If you are like most of us, you will quickly and noticeably just leave the old, stale, self-harm non-options where they belong -- on the piece of paper. By now, your inner balance should have reached a point of equilibrium.

By now, those dire option will seem like what they are, dire and undesirable - these will hurt those we love and who love us. They surely will not lead to growing a healthy self of SELF esteem. They don't lead to growth and change, and perhaps we notice that they were robbing us of our human birthright which is, after all, creativity.

By looking at the list when we are feeling a bit less desperate we find that we can find at least one, or two or maybe more events or activities that we CAN do -- right now.

4. DO one of the circled OPTIONS!

This taking back our right to make decisions is very empowering.

Maybe things are so bad, we have to call a crisis hot line. This is actually an act of self empowerment, strange as that notion may sound. Our hands and mouth connect so that our brain can tune into in some new information by simply dialing a phone number and becoming ready to listen. Our mouths get used in a productive way as we speak our truth. For resources, here is a list of great numbers to call. It really is a great DO option.

You'll find it really doesn't take much to find that you have lots of power, right under your nose.

That's one thing about meeting our needs, they usually -- if not always -- can be fixed by something just as close as our nose, our fingers, our eyes, our ears, or our tongues. Use of the five senses rapidly changes our emotional landscape and our minds begin to clear.

5. Celebrate your success!

This can be so important as it reinforces that we can find our way back from any and all crises. It's a healthy form of self parenting and an amazing stress reducer.

The importance of a long term recovery PLAN

Meditation is a powerful tool for many. But if our mind/body/spiritual connection isn't authentic, meditation can stop us from experiencing emotions that need to be dealt with. It is a great and powerful recovery tool, but I have doubts about its use when having a panic attack. To be useful, some form of meditation must be used every day, even if it's just a few minutes of sitting quietly. I personally call this psi time; you can call it what you like.

I've met meditation addicts. This is a controversial area and not everyone will agree with me. Most people use meditation for the intended purpose - to help relieve a sense of inner peace and to help the subconscious mind unlock inner truths. According to Dr Thynn Thynn, meditation can be as addictive as your
morning cup of coffee or tea. You can become addicted to meditation also. Although this is definitely not a bad conditioning per se, there are many subtleties that one must be aware of in meditation. The mind is very tricky, and one must always be aware of how the mind can be trapped.
If you are using meditation to help your subconscious find new options to deal with your panic then that is a healthy use for meditation. But, if you are using meditation as a way to escape from having to deal with your underlying issues, or to repress anything outside your "comfort" zone, then you will stay stuck in old unhelpful patterns. I have hung out with people who suppress their problems and end up reverting back to the same old, same old answers that never worked. As Ernie Larson has pointed out, insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result. You can only resolve these issues and thought patterns by digging deep into the mind/body connection.

And ditto for the affirmations "racket". What I mean by this is that in a crisis, it's hard to trust WORDS. It's great to SAY, right aloud, with each syllable ringing above the din, "I CAN COPE!" But what I am saying is that writing down "I am a beautiful and loving person" 100 times is like scratching on a blackboard with chalk after being found guilty at school. AWK!

Try everyday to take time out for both these things. Make friends with your mirror and say the afirmations right aloud to yourself and get totally comfortable with saying them. But don't expect them to be cure alls during a panic attack.

Ever hear this joke ...? The good news is you are in recovery. The bad news is there are no days off.

When we start making a plan for recovery, the tools we select should accomplish job. No need to use a sledge hammer when a gentle pat will do the job. Prayer, meditation and affirmations are part of Daily Plan - they are not rescue workers.

What looking at active options accomplishes

During a panic attack, what I need is more room for growth. And I need it NOW. My bet is so do you when out feeling overwhelmed.

I know that if I start writing other types of activities down I get the relief I need. Usually it is my Inner Child who just wants to have some FUN. I find instead of engaging in "word work" that I want to reach UP! and OUT, flinging away all the webs and creepy crawlies that are lodged in my inner garden.

I am a walking meditator. I CAN sit for hours, I've had years of practice. And I can go "way out there" with mediation, too, in terms of hitting "other worldly" states of consciousness.

But I find that when my body is full engaged in the walking meditation activity, those inner promptings have a way of coming right to life inside this old noggin of mine. My best ideas have a way to flow. The possibilities enlarge while I am out there among other living beings. Nearly every really good thought I have had has come on "walks". When I lived in the UK, going to Stonehenge and sitting waiting for "answers" didn't do much for me. I went to the awesome Avebury, took a walk all the way round those inimitable stones (where did they come from?), crossed the old riverbed and climbed to the top of the hill. I felt AWESOME! That is when I realized, "Virginia, you are a walking meditator." All of me became open to CHANGE. Even the air I was breathing up on that tor seemed charged with possibility.

The two tools of sitting mediation and affirmations "work" and are most wisely used in a disciplined manner, setting aside prescribed times, rather than being used as a "fix". They deserve proper respect, not to be utilized to "cover up" and distract us from truly dealing with our problems. Most "word answers" have layers upon denial that might mask the real problem, still waiting to be addressed.

Instead, this list making frees up our right brain, coming up with just the right answer!! I love seeing that all I want to do is dance, dance, dance the night away and shake my sillies out. Indulging this craving allows me to get my "stuff" in a proper perspective, which only time can provide.

I am truly amazed how checking in with this "assignment" has accomplished for me over the years. I have a profound sense of what I am really excited about doing, what makes me doze, what has been imprinted on me as being "acceptable". After all, emotional well being is, at least in part, socially determined. Nobody wants to live in shame spirals by straying too far from what their social connections tell them are acceptable.

This options list making is easy, simple and HONEST. The ability to help me in moments of panic increased the longer I employed it. And that has made me into a better, kinder person. I take out my contract, no obligation but to myself to be just as I really AM; happy, joyous and free. What a freeing option. The lists become a way to take an inner breath, a process not an event.

Care to try it ...?

This is the fourth in a series of Lessons from Panic

Related Stories:
Lesson 1: Inside panic and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Lesson 2: Learning to set reasonable goals and deal with PTSD
Lesson 3: Cut to the Chase - write about it!

Lady Broadoak or Virginia Simson


December 10, 2007

S. Korea has a Big OIL spill (surprise, surprise)

South Korea Cleans Up Big Oil Spill



Han Myung-gu/World Picture Network

An oil slick has been washing up since Saturday along a 12-mile-long shore of South Korea’s west coast. Strong tides hampered the cleanup efforts of thousands of volunteers over the weekend. More Photos >

Published: December 10, 2007

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 9 — Thousands of fishermen, soldiers and volunteers struggled on Sunday to clean up an oil spill that has caused an environmental disaster in South Korea. It has blackened once scenic beaches, coated birds and oysters in sludge and driven away tourists with its stomach-churning stench.

Multimedia
The New York Times

An oil tanker and barge collided off South Korea’s coast. More Photos »


Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

Some 7,000 people have been mobilized to cope with the worst oil spill in South Korea’s history, including these workers in Taean. More Photos >

But the 7,000 people mobilized were too few to clean up the oil slick, which has been washing up since Saturday along a 12-mile-long shoreline of the nation’s west coast. Strong tides, which dragged the sludge before pushing it ashore again, hampered the cleanup operations by villagers, who complained of headaches and nausea from the stench.

The oil spill occurred Friday when the steel wire linking a tugboat to a barge carrying a crane snapped in stormy seas. The barge lurched toward the Hebei Spirit, a Hong Kong-registered oil tanker, which was at anchor, and punched three holes into its hull.

The spill came a week after the South Korean port town of Yosu won the right to be the host in 2012 for an international event called Expo. Bidding for the event, South Korea championed the theme of “the living ocean and coast,” a slogan it hoped would bolster environmental awareness in Asia.

The size of the oil spill was about one-fourth that of the 260,000 barrels, or 11 million gallons, leaked into Prince William Sound off Alaska from the Exxon Valdez in 1989. It was twice as big as a spill off South Korea in 1995 that cost $101 million in damages to fishermen and required a cleanup operation that took months.

By Sunday, it became clear to local residents that they were battling an environmental disaster. The tidal flats near Taean County, about 95 miles southwest of Seoul, are home to rich wildlife, oysters and fish farms, and a national park. Each year, millions of tourists flock there to bathe in the summer or watch migrating birds stop to feed in the muddy flats teeming with clams. About 64,000 people live in Taean.

“Everyone is out there fighting — there is so much oil we have to use buckets to scoop it up,”
Moon Hong-chol, a resident in the village of Wonbuk in Taean, said by telephone.
“The dark brown slime is all over our oyster and abalone and clam beds. Tourists are canceling resort reservations. I think we are finished.”

The provincial government appealed to people to donate used clothes for soldiers who were collecting the sludge in the freezing cold.

The central government declared a state of disaster, which makes it easier for regional governments to mobilize personnel and equipment.

Neither ship involved in the spill was in danger of sinking, and there were no casualties. But the tanker spilled an estimated 10,500 tons, or 2.8 million gallons, of crude oil before the last of the three holes was plugged Sunday.

“The worst is over in that there is no more spill,”
said Ryu Young, a coast guard official in Taean.
“We are doing our best to contain as much of the slick as possible before it reaches the shore.”

The 147,000-ton Hebei Spirit was five miles off the coast at the time of the collision, waiting to unload its 1.8 million barrels of crude oil at a nearby port.

The barge belonged to Samsung Heavy Industries, a shipbuilder affiliated with the Samsung conglomerate. The police were questioning officials of the company, as well as the crews of the barge and the tanker, the Yonhap news agency reported.

Kang Moo-hyun, minister of maritime affairs and fisheries, said Sunday that it would take at least two months to complete the cleanup.

“The oil stuck to the shore or sank to the sea bottom, causing serious damage to the maritime biology and ecosystem in the region,”
Mr. Kang said.
“Even if some maritime organisms survive, they won’t be marketable for quite a while.”

Coast guard vessels hurried to establish floating oil fences, but high waves left them useless. Offshore, 105 coast guard, navy and private fishing boats were throwing absorbing cloth and spraying chemicals, as oil continued to zigzag toward the shore, where people wearing rubber gloves and masks spread out with mats to absorb oil.

“All day, people have been scrubbing boulders coated with oil and scooping up sand soaked with oil,” said Lee Hyun-jin, a resident in the village of Sowon in Taean. “But now they are retreating because the sea is in high tide again. We feel hopelessly outnumbered.”

Kim Eun-young, in the nearby village of Yiwon, said:

“This morning, we found clumps of oil floating like ugly pan-fried cakes. They retreated with the tide and now are coming back again.”

“This is getting worse, and we have 260 villagers out there today with buckets, cans and whatnot, compared with 57 yesterday,”
Ms. Kim added.

Environmental Recovery of Oil Spill Needs at Least 12 Years

By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter

Full recovery of the marine ecological system from the nation's worst oil spill at Taean, South Chungcheong Province, will need at least 12 years, a marine expert said Monday.

Prof. Lee Jae-hak, director of the Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, said because the West Sea is blocked on west, east and north side, the current circulation is not fast enough and it may take more than 12 years to make a full recovery. He also said that the coast of China could be affected.

Although visible oil may seem to be contained, the aftermath of the contamination will destroy the environment and ecological system, experts said.

The oil that soaked into the sand, pebbles and tidal land will remain without being dissolved and will seep out occasionally. Also, oil left inside the sea will kill plankton, fish eggs and microscopic creatures first. When these die off, the food chain will be disrupted.

Prof. Kim Sang-jin, another professor of the institute, said in the sea off Yeosu in Jeolla Province, where the Sea Prince spilled 5,000 tons of crude and fuel oil back in 1995, oil can still be found stuck on seashells and in the sand. He said due to the spill, the amount of seaweed decreased as did the fish and shellfish eating it.

``The sea off Alaska where the Exxon Valdez leaked oil in 1989 is still reported to be contaminated with oil, and Taean will be no exception,'' he added.

At the moment, alongside the 40 kilometer-seashore of Taean, there is an oil slick 10-30 meters in width. The government said a mere 5 percent of the 10,500 tons of leaked oil has been contained.

The beaches are covered by the oil slick and cormorants, grebes and other birds and creatures are being found dead after being suffocated by it. More than 440 oyster and abalone farms have reportedly lost all their products and migratory birds that visit the area will be affected by the contamination, too, experts said.

Natural Treasure No. 431, Shinduri Dune, was saturated and environmental activists fear that Taean Seashore National Park, one of the world's five largest tidal lands, may be destroyed.

Also, another concern is the use of emulsifier. The government has already used more than 34,000 liters of it out at sea, and though it dissolves the oil into smaller particles, it kills seaweed and causes whitening, Choi Ye-yong of the Korean Federation for Environmental Movements said.

bjs@koreatimes.co.kr

The Korea Herald said precious time was lost, while the JoongAng Ibo said it suspected the authorities had acted "in a loafing and idle manner".


MARITIME OIL SPILLS
July 1979 - Greek tanker Atlantic Express spilled 287,000 tons off Trinidad and Tobago
March 1978 - Amoco Cadiz spilled 223,000 tons off Brittany, France
November 2002 - Greek-owned Prestige spilled 77,000 tons off Galicia, Spain
March 1989 - Exxon Valdez spilled 37,000 tons in Prince William Sound, Alaska, US
December 2007 Hebei Spirit spills 10,000 tons off S Korea's west coast


The Age
Smell, tides hamper oil cleanup in S. Korea
San Jose Mercury News, USA - 3 hours ago
The tidal flats near Taean County, about 95 miles southwest of Seoul, are home to rich wildlife, oysters and fish farms, and a national park. ...
Korean oil spill threatens marine farms Independent Online
S. Korea Expected to Declare Oil Spill Coastline a Disaster Area Voice of America
South Korea fights huge oil spill BBC News
Reuters UK - Chicago Tribune
all 1,332 news articles »

Boston Globe
S. Korean wildlife, livelihoods being choked by spill
Toronto Star, Canada - 3 hours ago
For Chung and others in Taean County, 160 kilometres southwest of Seoul, the pollution shattered lives and livelihoods. South Korea declared a "state of ...
Oil spill hits small businesses in region Gulf Daily News
South Korean Spill Hits Seafood Industry The Associated Press
Workers no match for vast oil slick TheNewsTribune.com (subscription)
Detroit Free Press
all 67 news articles »

Korea Times
Oil Spill Devastates Korean Coast
Chosun Ilbo, South Korea - 15 hours ago
The slick from an oil spill in the waters off Taean, South Chungcheong Province rapidly reached the nearby coastline with devastating effects. ...
Environmental Recovery of Oil Spill Needs at Least 12 Years Korea Times
Oil Blankets West Coastal Line Korea Times
Korea뭩 Worst Oil Spill Ever Donga.com
Korea Times - Korea Times
all 12 news articles »
South Korean Oil Spill Ruins Seafood Farms
Donga.com, South Korea - 18 hours ago
According to authorities, the oil leak now stretches 2100ha as of yesterday, devastating aquatic farms and six beach resorts in Taean County and beyond. ...
South Korea fights worst-ever oil spill
Christian Science Monitor, MA - 16 hours ago
But now they are retreating because the sea is in high tide again," said Lee Hyun Jin, a resident in Sowon village in Taean. "We feel hopelessly outnumbered ...

PRESS TV
S Korea trying to clean up oil spill
PRESS TV, Iran - 19 hours ago
The Hebei Spirit tanker was about eight kilometers north west of the Taean peninsula, which is 110 kilometres south-west of Seoul, waiting to enter the port ...

AFP
Volunteers struggle to save the beach that turned black
AFP - 4 hours ago
Marine farmers around Taean county, 90 kilometres southwest of Seoul, were also in shock. At Uihangri village, where 150 farms are located, ...

Cleaning up of leaked oil
Yonhap News, South Korea - 11 hours ago
9, TAEAN, South Korea -- Volunteer workers pour oil into a plastic jar to clean up the oil flown to the seaside of Taean on the west coast of South Korea on ...
Tanker leaks oil off S.Korea coast
Reuters Canada, Canada - 7 Dec 2007
... South Korea's maritime ministry said on Friday. The Hong Kong-registered Hebei Spirit was struck while at anchor off Daesan port in the Taean region on ...

April 18, 2008

Canada's medical report this week

[under construction, but DEFINITELY getting there. Sneak preview for those paying attention. More shall be revealed and the final touches will be attempted!! It must be done at once before the material stales. I have been working for hours to get all the links just so, but the fact that my energy is flagging and I want to go outside, requires that I take a long break and then return.]

Like a lumbering giant with a stupifying level of pnuemonia, sick patient Canada comes lumbering on the world state once again this week. A pocket full of stolen ca$h, and what it elives is a bright future ahead, Canada has become a world class bully - an Abusive Dad - hanging out with bullies in the Imperial Dynasty to the south and laughing at the nice boys and girls in its home and those in their planetary neighborhood. Linda McQuaig has already made famous reference to Canada's dysfunctional character in Holding the Bully's Coat. I think the metaphor is more profound than that, I think Canada is suffering a right bad case of Torture Culture.

The tale gets told not blatantly in the main stream media as the official appointments calendar, but in little notes written by the blogosphere by those who would have our Authoritarian Figure take its medication - and FAST !

Otherwise the illness will go all terminal once we either catch it ourselves and go all XIII th century - or we fall victim to the contagion and find ourselves confined to the hospital beds called jails that The Harper and Co. are building to contain us. The neighorhod thugs running Canada are getting just a bit too uppity by half in their cocky delusional power mongering, and people are looking at his cabinet to see which of the cronies must go - and fast. This obvious change from last week will be noted below.

Current situation explained

The Harper and The Boys are going to have to hide that lunch money they've shaken down pretty fast, if they haven't already. His London friends have been found out and are being exposed, thus the patient is apt to get more beligerant and dangerous as he is living in a danger zone what seems likes ever-worsening danger. Any crazy tactic might be employed. This week's report contains numerous examples of increasing abusive behavior. Thus we ask that the readers of this report not expect miracles, but rely on a strict regimen of self care and self protection. Continual robbery should be expected until a full cure or recovery program can be effected.

As each blow hits, we find ourselves licking our wounds and trying to ride out the sick room atmosphere, all the while hoping that the Staff Psychiatrist will take notice and do some to quarantine and slap the this Neighbohood Gang with Divine Abusive Intention with a section slapped on them for committa. But that day has yet to arrive. Although the Theocratic Neocons crowd seem to have the upperhand after a particularly delusional spell, this week there are some encouraging signs and at least some of the worst symptoms are coming to more fully into light. As should be apparent, one cannot expect too much too soon, as the patient still has paid mouthpieces and apologists. Many spokespersons for the patient are afraid of retalliation and cannot be reasonably relied upon during this week's report. Daily doses of outside information are required to see the true nature of the fatal diseases thus leading to an optimal solution to the difficulties in dealing with sudden reversal from a collective dream of progess to the dismal picture the bloodless coup has produced.

Extenuating Circumstances

With the obvious change of seasons is going on in this month of 2007, it is hoped that fresh air and higher energy levels will result in further progressive steps towards an Ultimate Cure. In short, the author of the report reminds you that the outcome depends on YOU. Although you may have varying degrees of hardship and suffering or alternatively you may have been allowed to escape the torture(s) yourself, you can still benefit from the report below and the footnotes that follow. We wish you well as you build your true Rainbow Tribe and find ways to celebrate in the Sunshine to come. Those in Canada living under the regime of the sick patient although the task seems daunting, may find that there is much inspiration in what can be created out of the circumstances available and thus the Dream may be closer at hand than YOU might anticipate or imagine.

Diagnosis: Terminal Torture Culture psychosis, with Theocratic features with a concurrent power addiction. Delusional charactistics are obvious. Coughing and sputtering also very apparent and the patient's relationships to other countries threatened in a paranoid situation with counries it presumes to help. The full of such activities is yet to be fully established, yet it is safe for diagnostic purposes to say it is quite extensive if elusive to document fully at the writing of the report. The extent of abusive behaviour is still being established in such places as Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, Diego Garcia, Irak and other locations. The extent of its financial activities in particiting in dangerous acts and behaviours will require further investigations so that a full and complete diagnosis can be attempted at a later date. This All attributes of Rogue Nation status are evident and getting worse. Being joined at the hip with other abusers in the Bullying cabals in the world's rich nations has made this diagnosis strident and alarming. It is not, however, to be taken with a grain of salt. It is apparent that association with other Violent Neighborhood Gangs has made the patient more dreaded and apparently mad; while a good assessement of the patient indicates that continual observation is necessary. An OPEN EYED diagnosis has been attempted and it is up to the reader to decide on its applicablity and treatment potential. It has been undertaken in good faith to show the reader what is obvious to world-wide observers.

Consider the patient to be armed and dangerous at this time. He has a marked proclivity for incarcerating other healing elements and charging them for his own crimes, which is known as projection. Although other clincians may come up with alternative opinions, it is asked that the reader always consider the source. This opinion and diagnosis is as good - if not better - than many available. Fascistic syndrome sufferers, with belligerent tactics, often produce many around them who cannot face reality. For this reason, this diagnosis must be read in all seriousness. It will help other diagnositians to proceed with caution with dealing with a patient with such advanced insanity features, yet the diagnosis is meant to assist other dysfunction reporters not yet known to the author of this report.

Alhtough those who challenge the brains of the patient's operation are themselves privvy to influence peddling and arms profiteering while tearing the neighborhoods of the world, it is asked that they continue efforts to keep the patient on tenderhooks on a 24/7 basis, so that further symptomology can be revealed and the diagnosis more precise. A successful outcome is totally dependent a full and complete diagnosis. Only constant observation and Optimal Frustration of the patient will result a more useful diagnosis. His relationship with his kith and kin requires that the patient be given constant monitoring and surveillance. This is why the deepest understanding will result in a constructive and useful diagnosis. It may serve as a historical artifact for upcoming generations as far as seven genertions down the road if not further if reliable observations are forthcoming and the diagnosis can fully document the features of the maladies under which the patient currently suffers. One person's diagnostic skills may be deficient in some areas. This problem can, with persistent effort, be remedied. The author asks your cooperation in this valuable task. As the steadily decaying state of health in the patient continues, is readily apparent, that more indepth analysis becomes more than a remote possiblity; it becomes an imperative and in fact, a bedrock of the necessary hope required that a cure will be effected.

Prognosis: Poor to abysmal, as his friends and associates are not doing very well - although the protocol advised below could result in dramatic alteration of the opinion held at this time. Obviously, to continue functioning remedial steps must be taken; however at this time no definitive assessment of recovering behaviour is possible as YET. Subsequent reports may change the prognosis radically depending on the attitude and commitment of those who must participate in the intervention intended. This type of Street Gang that has grabbed power are notoriously hard to eradicate as history teaches, but this is not to proclaim by any means its impossibility; rather this is a mere weekly statement of how things appear this week as Wesak comes into focus for 2007. It is not a statement of future assessments that will come at a later stage, as you are all aware.

Protocol: Some observations as of this week that appear highly recommended.

1. Associates and family members are advised to pursue and unified intervention at the earliest opportunity. It is suggested that a list of CRIMES and FELONIES be drawn up to confront the patient with his dysfunctional, addictive and abusive behaviour. TOUGH LOVE principals may need to have the patient either hospitalized or allowed to suffer the consequences of prolonged incarceration but it is obvious that a protraced approach is warranted, as there is much symptomology and episodic distressing behaviour to sort through as the condition is of long standing.

2. Families members will have to pursue recoveries on their own, and this is advised taking care that they do not confuse well being with continuing their codependent behaviours in new forms. Outside help in the form of therapeutic international tribunals may prove highly necessary. It is advised that true recovery, Participatory democracy, never be lost which may prove particularly tricky.

3. All toxins will need to be removed from all Players in the sick room, which will prove difficult as resources are not forthcoming from the patient, but all opportunities to obtain them must be taken. A full list of the patients victims must be drawn up - from unit trust investors, to those who ride in the patient's transportation system, to those he has thrown out of their homes, to the cousins whose residences he has invaded and has struck terror in their hearts, to those he has accused of aborrent behaviours to avoid his own moral culpability, the list of known torture locations must be drawn up in full so that the patient can be confronted with his crimes, obvious examples of delusional statements notated - any list that will help empower those who must insist on wellness - or else - are encouraged.

4. As the patient has become bellicose and demanding towards all, he must be shown that no one will tolerate his unreasonable behaviour.

Accepting insincere apologies rather than a true change in behaviour is mandatory. Not attempt should be made to accomodate further evasive behaviours, no matter how daunting that task may prove to be. Due to the psychotic nature of this advanced state of decay, it may prove tempting to make compromises, but the author of this report highly recommends against that approach. Toleration of this fatal condition will only make the symptomology worse.

5. While becoming obsessed with the patient's behaviour may seem a reseasonable tactic, it is further advised that no one involved in forcing a therapeutic situation do so. This has shown to be counterproductive in the case of that patient's cronies to the South. BaZhing the Harper&his gang may be individually responsible may be financially rewarding, but one can reasonably expect this will not achieved the desired result which is legal and moral culpability with the attendant negative consquences for prolonged Bad Behaviour. It is cautionary to point out; let them do what they do and you do what you do while you attempt to affect a cure. There is no point in resulting to the same tactics as the patient and learning from the lessons of those who tolerated and came up with ineffective solutions in America should not be repeated in the Canadian household. Being good to the mothers and children of Canada would be a first priority to reinforce that therapeutic regime and will greatly enhance the process. Intolerant responses to ill, marginalized, disabled family members should be addressed in the very first instance. Particular care must be taken to provide amply for the previous tenants in the neighborhood, and you will find ample examples below of coming developments and the current situation listed below, although no attempt has been made to be exhaustive in such coverage.

6. Relying on natural and cosmic forces is part of the protocol as is staying in touch with other members in the international community who seem to want to help. Such help will become apparent from those who have walked this road before - the path to Higher Recovery.

Without such progessive steps undertaken and the illuminating light of those who have effective change in other communities to guide the healing process, the entire structure of Canada's vast neighborhood will continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate, the patient's allies in crime will continue to puff and gloat and take advantage of those weaker and in ill health as the coughing and sputtering worsen. This would prove fatal. Maintenance of basic life supports to the household would go begging - water, food, medicine and basic provisions would become weapons of war to a degree so staggering that interventionists would have difficulty remembering the Ultimate Goal. Asymetrical warfare via computerwarfare; bank reports on supposed yet projected criminalityl wiretapping; surveillance; discrediting tactics; status degradation rituals; torturous behaviours; historical revisionism; diversion of needed healing protocol energies; theft of other sovereign entities riches,;the exploitaiton of those who can be isolated or easily intimidated; the weakening of legal structures that promote justice, peace and equality; the sack of strategic resources; looting of strategic neighborhoods; bribery; influence peddling; corruption of all kinds; the takeover of strategic resources such as the Government Printing Office and resultant opportunistic use of the Postal Service; harm to the environement on a ongoing basis; the mislabelling of genetically modified foods, the introduction of survelliance via VCHIP and other devices; the continuous of the availabilty of street drugs; the mistreatment of children to produce a hysterical result; the lieing and deceptions - all this and obviously more must be presumed when looking at the full picture of obvious symptomology of said warfare against the people. Genuine alarm when the idea of electronic voting is proposed should precipate a a wide and thundering action alert. All the symptomology is the sign that a healing process is indeed underway and not to be taken as a sign of defeat. In fact, it is that a healing crisis, much to be desired, is actually underway. "Better out than in" is a simplist but affective attitude to be undertaken as stagnated energy is released that begins to let off the apathetic nature of those who must affect a remedy to the current dire situation. Detoxification of patients of this type are known to be arduous and ridiculous in the "best" of circumstances. But due to the toxic nature of the Canadian usurpers and their modus operandi it is probable that such features will become pronounced unless those who have taken sworn oaths suddenly and strategically uphold them much to everyone's surprise.

7. At this mystical number point 7 the author asks heartily that you remember at all times that the patient and his friends are armed and dangerous. You may have to rely on outside law enforcement. But the author of this report is quite concerned for the family members and encourages all those who wish to see recovery to always turn to others for outside support. Alliances of a supportive nature are vital to the recovery process. If you remain honest and detail all the defects, remain open to the challenges ahead that are apparent now as well as those you will encounter -- sanity becomes a possibility. And although now it seems like an impossible task, if those in the interventionist team make a decions after a Dark Night of the Soul and make that impossible leap towards towards becoming Children of the ONEiverse, divine guidance will become available to all concerned. In such an attitude you will find POWER. It has been done by others such as Chile and Estonia before, so try to have trust. You may find it inspiration to continually remember the loving example of Our Global Inspiration, Salvador Allende who did not blink. Breaking bread with "the enemy" may prove to be most useful. Your letters to international tribunals should be undertaken on as swift a basis as is humanly possible. They will gladly catalogue your complaints about the ongoing abusive behaviour. They well know what goes on in The Belly of The Beast already. They will be the least surprised of anyone to hear what you may have to say. You may wish to several different committees or groups, as various complaints may fit better with some bodies gathering of diagnostic evidence than others. Make sure to make your complaints and wide ranging as observation allows. Some day they may be researched deeply after archive or action activities. Nuremberg was not achieved in a day and neither will the lawful accumulation of data on Canada's cabal of torture. Their full cooperation in beastly behaviour is not yet fully known. It is presumed to be worse than commonly thought. One would hope with resolve and time invested such collaboration in international warcrimes culpability could ultimately be established. Your cooperative effort is sought at this time.

Concluding recommendation

With such an approach, the prognosis will improve steadily over time. This is no time to play the insidious "game" of SocialISM for the rich, whereby these rascals and their cohorts share the profit$ and you take the losses. Make your demands clear and reasonable, but accept nothing less than compliance with radical changes in the patient's modus operandi. After prolonged study of the patient's methods, it is more than well established that subtrefuge was used and all instances must be noted as indicated above.

Should it be required, a full statement can be produced on the condition of the patient's long-suffering family can be produced. The only prerequisite is a desire to know.

The documents relating to this week's report are footnoted and explained below. Take care to read the appendix fully before deciding on your course(s) of action in the upcoming months.

Cavaet and disclaimers: The author apologizes for any mistakes or misread opinions. She is only human and this is the best she can do this week. She asks for your tolerance and also requests that you consider this merely a personal opinion, and it is not suggested that it be taken as as Ultimately authoritative. The matter has yet to be heard in a court of opinion and thus can not be taken as legally binding or subject to legal jeopardy. It is merely an opinion. Strategic, but merely an opinion. Her qualifications can be submitted to the reader with a written request, but suffice it to say it is based on experience and hard-earned acquaintance with such situations. Her authority rests merely in the minds of the reader, yet it Considered Opinion that the author is of sound mind and body, although suffering traumatic effects at living in the home of the abuser and his cronies for too long a period of time to be "objective". George Orwell wished to live to endorse this report, but sadly his days were tragically shortened and he could not perform the task. We ask that you circulate this and subsequent reports to get the widest amount of authoritive backup; thus the reports will vastly improve over time. The author wishes to thank those who have contributed to the research and the inspiration. She is certain that some of you know who you are. For those who expressed reservations at the validity of the information supplied or questioned the ability of the author to write such a report or the tools used to produce it, she wishes you to know that you are challenged to do better and contribute to the task at hand rather than showing your codependent symptoms for all to see. In this way, a more integrated approach to recovery is possible and rapid improvement in The Patient, who is the real problem, will result. In order for for further reports to be filed, it is important that you do not allow Official Attacks on the author who is, afterall, only doing her job.


Appendix I

GLORIA GALLOWAY From Thursday's Globe and Mail

OTTAWA — A group led by evangelist Charles McVety says a contentious proposal to withhold tax credits from TV shows and films deemed pornographic may not go far enough because the majority of Canadians do not want to fund those types of productions.

Yes, like Chalres McVety speaks for ME - and all other intelligent Canadians. Those theocon neocons are a bit much!!

City braces for TTC strike



VINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR
Commuters crowd the Yonge and Bloor St. subway station on April 17, 2008. Subways, streetcars and buses will be idled at 4 a.m. Monday unless the TTC reaches a settlement by Sunday at 4 p.m.
Yes, Canadian politicians have really provided economic leadership to help out the workers in Canada. (and even better on issues regarding the poor and disabled.) You see short term looks on how to save Canada's cities has been on the back burner for too long - and man! these strikes cost Big Business Plenty. Maybe they should think a bit more intelligently before donating to campaigns, do ya THINK?

Activists push poverty plan

Hundreds of activists will gather today to present the McGuinty government with a plan to cut poverty in Ontario by 25 per cent over five years.

The action plan is the work of an ever-increasing coalition – with members as varied as the City of Toronto, teachers' federations, nurses, Ryerson University and health-care and immigrant groups. It calls itself the 25-in-5 Network for Poverty Reduction. The government had a lot of good rhetoric and below is the response following the action this week.

Time is running out for the poor

RCMP, elections officials inside Tory headquarters for second day

PM says Tories confident in legal position against Elections Canada

RCMP officers and Elections Canada officials spent a second day searching for documents inside Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on Wednesday, a day after raiding the party's offices.

Elections Canada is pursuing an investigation into alleged spending irregularities by the Tories in the last federal election.

and also see this story:

OTTAWA -- Opposition leaders demanded yesterday that the government make public a copy of the warrant presented by the RCMP.

Will the Cadman Affair -- whereby for a LOUSY one million dollars this delusional government took over ALL Canadian resources and the morale of Canadians citizens - suddenly be exposed to daylight. Remember this year's meme: ALL secrets revealed - not just a few. And here we have Canada claiming the right of The Harper to all of the Afghanistan riches .. Wow!! Ain't life grand (not unlike Frank Guistra, Billy Clinton taking over Khazakhstan, only WAY cheaper, eh?)

Interesting, all the red herrings about advertising budgests and how trickily the Conservative Real Assh*les Party while people lose their jobs, their homes, can't afford their cars, wondering what the future holds for their kids? After the CENTOM/ Central Canada Command deal has been inked already !! After Canada signed (illegally!) to protect ...Isrealis now they have access to your bank details ??

Seems to me since it seems to be a good political tactic to look at some of the distinguished MP's spouses "jobs" and "perks" - as that can often bring a government down. Just sayin'

SPEAK UP o mighty Canadians !! Are up aware that all banks who are required to file Checkpoint reports on "illegal" money transfers lose 20% profitability each year. The heads of Checkpoint (now) are a former South African and Lebanonese Christian. The Apartheid agenda is fast occurring in CANADA !!

Think any of this will be found in the CPC files? One can only hope.

Anti-uranium mining activists stage inquiry in Peterborough into province's plan to expand nuclear reactors

Posted By NICOLE RIVA/Examiner Staff Writer

The dangers of radiation, health problems and

environmental sustainability took centre stage at a meeting staged by anti-uranium mining activists at Sadleir House Tuesday.

Ah, would anyone say that things are so deluded that they'd rather irradiation their kids than to come to grips with REALITY. The whole of Ottawa would be irradiated if Chalk River were to reopened or a new nuclear plant gets built - and even if uranium mining is allowed on sovereign natives lands in Ontario. Do the McGiunty Liberals, those big fat CONtrollers themselves work for Stephen Harper? Only the hairdressers know for sure ..


and a good look about Hillier and the armaments traders is here ..



Raise of hands - how many think that John McInsane pays a visit to Canada REAL soon? All the other war criminals come here and visit with total impunity ..

Don't You Know that Happiness is a Warm Gun

By Jeff Davis

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), which

is charged with providing Canada's custom services, has become the most significant impediment for progress and growth at the Fredericton International Airport.

In fact, the government of Canada, through this agency, presents a significant challenge to the eventual survival of Fredericton's airport. But we

are not alone.

CBSA has demonstrated the same disinterest to all but a handful of the major Canadian cities where they have decided to increase their services. In the east, Halifax is the only winner.

[...] CBSA will be that it's too expensive to provide these services to our smaller communities. We should be reminded that the government of the d ay has seen fit to provide our customs officers with handguns at a cost of $1 billion. As you can't get on an airplane with weapons, the logic of customs officers needing handguns to meet passengers disembarking at an airport represents a level of disconnect in terms of logic. [...]

TTC study to look into arming transit police with Tasers






Toronto - The TTC will reportedly spend $100,000 dollars on a study to help them decide if transit police should be armed with Tasers.

Do tasers come to the entire Canadian landscape, and particularly in the major cities? These implements of torture are supplying Michael Mukasey's son, Marc with a pile o money!!

Bribery is bad for business


By Dan Roberts
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 13/04/2008


Corruption comes in many colours. At one end of the spectrum there are the murky brown envelopes, ladies of the night and shady Swiss bank accounts. At the other extreme, there are more humdrum euphemisms: facility payments, client entertainment and political favours - all carried out in broad daylight in many industries and countries.

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  • What unites these shades of bribery is the excuse re

    lied upon by those who get caught at it. "Get real," they invariably insist. "Smell the coffee"; "Don't be naive."



    To which I also refer people to THIS
    http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/342 6bae_cheney.html
    and THIS
    http://www.fsfinalword.com/archive/Jelinek_International.html
    and This
    http://ladybroadoak.blogspot.com/2007/11/arms-dealing-case-study-bae-part-iv.html
    and THIS
    http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2008/080324politico_pinochet.html

    Calls to reopen UK inquiry into BAE-Saudi arms deal

    Try to find just one little mention of this in the Canadian Press .. just one. The names of Otto Jelinek and Brian Mulroney are going to show up very soon!! Dirty Dick is going to have problems in both his countries!!

    Canada wanted detainee kept out of Gitmo

    Canada asked the United States not to send for mer child soldier Omar Khadr to Guantanamo after he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002, according to a letter released on Thursday.

    And when pray tell, does Omar walk forth into the sunshine?? And who is responsblte for the outrage that has gone all these years? WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE !!

    And now an Afghanistan round up .. the first two are old to give some needed background:

    Government can't be trusted on Afghanistan, lawyer

    US reader comment first: More on the story from yesterday... . lovely isn't it? Canada won't turn prisoners over to us because WE ARE TORTURERS! We need to indict the monsters in this administration.

    I remind everyone to read this another time,

    A Dangerous Backslide

    Age-old problems-and a new Taliban surge-are dragging the Afghans down

    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN-If Iraq has been the self-destructive problem child of American intervention, Afghanistan seemed to be the model sibling. Ostensibly less demanding, it was, as far as most could tell, on its way to one day assuming a solid position in the world community.

    and this is part of this week's events -

    Goals achieved, Hillier to step down as Canada's top soldier

    Gen. Rick Hillier, the outspoken chief of Canada's defence staff and strong advocate of Canada's military intervention in Afghanistan, will step down in July.

    "I have chosen to retire from the Canadian Forces and end my tenure as your Chief of the Defence Staff in July of this year," said Hillier, 52, in a letter to the military released Tuesday.

    My own comments on the Hillier retirement can be found HERE
    http://mparent7777-1.blogspot.com/2008/04/rick-hillier-hamid-karzai-stephen.html
    and I pay a bit of attention to Maxime Bernier's shocking GAFE.

    Who owns Afghanistan, anyway ?? What is the plan ?? Just another endless war like the BuZhistas want in Irak ?

    Talking about toturuous geoplitical strategy, hers on this week on torture in prisons in Afghanistan;

    from the Canadian Press:

    Ottawa tries to halt military police commission probe of Afghan prisoners, Murray Brewster

    - Federal lawyers are attempting to shut down an investigation by the military police complaints commission into the handling of Taliban prisoners captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

    Government counsel have asked the Federal Court for a judicial review, claiming the independent commission doesn’t have the jurisdiction to “either investigate or hold a hearing into the complaint ” filed by Amnesty International Canada and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

    See also here.

    Timely Reminders !!

    Canada's top native chief says the Vancouver Olympics are a potential target for First Nations protest much like Beijing has been a flash point for Tibet supporters. Phil Fontaine says native leaders will use whatever chance they can, including the 2010 Winter Games, to focus governments on aboriginal poverty. Thousands of Canadians who've marched in support of a free Tibet should be "outraged" by abysmal native conditions in their own country, he said Thursday.

    "We find the Tibetan situation compelling," Fontaine said when asked if the 2010 Olympics could be disrupted by the sort of protest that has dogged Chinese planners.

    Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said he has heard such talk but finds it "a little odd."

    From job prospects to sports arenas, special effort has been made to ensure that the four First Nations located on Olympic grounds in British Columbia share related wealth, he said.


    Fontaine: 'Growing frustration'




    As the same moon shines over us all ..


    Seven Steps to Revolution
    By Vancouver's Sarah Robinson

    An interesting read. I greatly doubt that a people's revolution will/can come about in the U.S. of A. It seems to me that the PTB have laid their groundwork pretty well. And when push comes to shove, those PTB have clearly shown that they don't give a rat's ass for any but their own kind = fundamentally psychopathic. And then there's all those "patriots" out there with their guns & siege mentality - BIG problem I think.
    There is a vigorous discussion in the comments too. Go to webpage.
    http://ladybroadoak.blogspot.com/2008/02/seven-steps-to-revolution.html


    See this becomes a huge problem when you have IDIOTS running the government.

    If there ever gets to be a Democracy Now! type radio show in
    Canada, I want a BIG JOB!! and some real input into
    what gets put on it.

    Seriously, folks.

    I'd like to take over where the Latvian women
    were when the Soviet Union collapsed
    just banging out TRUTH 24 hours a day
    doing it right here in resourceland Canada.

    Real truth, nothing but the truth
    24 hours a day!!

    Mainstream. Loud. Riotous.

    But free of cointelpro and scientologists!!

    Hell, even disabled people can do that.













    June 06, 2008

    Art Two reminders on nuclear radiation

    State Maps and Information for
    Nuclear Survival
    (Updated as of October 1st, 2002)

    For the last several years, these pages USED TO include a list of hundreds of (Email VERIFIED) Intentional Communities and Survival Preparedness Groups along with an Ark Two state TEAM Leader in forty-eight of the 50 States.

    Because of the changing circumstances that some see as the increasing immediacy of the threat, and because of a perception that there has been a recent change in the social / governmental attitude towards individual rights regarding freedom and property there has been a growing consensus among the individuals that were listed here that it is no longer prudent for them to make their names and locations public. It has become too arduous to maintain the list in response to the growing number of requests for deletion, and the fact that the list was going to become too skimpy to be useful has now led us to have to regrettably abandon it altogether after these many years of effort spent to assemble it.

    While for years we have encouraged people to form survival communities and groups and to build shelters and otherwise make preparation - most of those who have done so are of the opinion that there may not any longer be sufficient time to integrate further members into their groups and communities. They are concerned that if the threat situation continues to increase, at the rate that it presently is, they will be overwhelmed by individuals who are not prepared and that those individuals instead of adding to their resources would only be a drag and potential for depletion to what they have prepared.

    It is with regret that we have come to this point. Ark Two itself still welcomes any who wish to join its community in Canada AND we are still maintaining the structure of these pages AND THE REGISTRY so that in case of a nuclear war we may be able to implement these structures for providing assistance during the RECOVERY and REORGANIZATION phases. We hope at that time to be able to re-establish contact with, or appoint new, TEAM leaders in all the states and localities and then provide a network for developing assistance and cooperation among them.

    The following States in "red" Generate the MAJOR FALLOUT
    According to FEMA

    Click on your STATE'S NAME in the DIRECTORY below to see its targets and other IMPORTANT information. Also look at the TWO maps at the botom of this page.

    Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California
    Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia
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    Virgina Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

    Because we are so often asked about nuclear reactor sites we have taken the following picture from Stan and Holly Deyo showing U.S. Nuclear Reactor Sites in relation to earthquake zones.

    US Nuclear Generating Plants


    The following is the most commonly used prevailing wind predicted fallout pattern, but remember, fallout can go anywhere or everywhere (and probably will).

    Continental US Fallout Pattern for Prevailing Winds (FEMA-196/September 1990)

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