Forwarded by Christine
From: golden3000997
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:40 pm
Subject: Forwarded by Christine
Subj: [native_american_storytellers]
Unity
Date: 3/15/2004 7:56:07 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: blue_panther@mindspring.com (blue panther)
Reply-to: native_american_storytellers@yahoogroups.com
To: Native_village@yahoogroups.com (Native_Village)
Unity... Many, many years
ago turtle was the designated "keeper of the waters."
You could see him as he swam about his duties. His shell was
made up of solid plates of red, black, white, or yellow color.
He was very distinctive and visible. All the animals respected
and honored the turtle... all except one, 'ole coyote.' One day
turtle was out sunning himself and coyote came along and ate
turtle up. Of course all the waters, ponds, streams, and rivers
started to dry up and become stale and unclean. The animals hurriedly
gathered from all four directions to coyote and pleaded, "Please,
please bring back turtle... surely we will all perish... the
waters... the cool clear water... please, please..." So
coyote finally conceded and "threw-up" turtle. The
animals immediately began to piece turtle back together the best
they could. It worked. The shell came together to become a beautiful
mosaic blend of many, many colors... extremely shiny and beautiful.
Each plate shined with the remains and debris of all the colors.
And sure enough turtle came back to life. And when he did, the
water came back, too. The waters flowed again... tumbling down
from the mountains and rippling out clear, clean, and pure.
From the Archives of Blue
Panther
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From: dottie zold
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:47 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Forwarded by Christine
Christine, I hope you didn't forward this
to the critics list as you know how Dugan hates anything positive.
And I can't take one more moderator warning. But,then again,
well, maybe all the red black white and yellow cats here will
have him wondering if this has anything to do with Anthroposophy.
I am sure he could possibly find some way as you taught at a
Waldorf school before. You know the THOUGHT POLICE
Thanks for the poem:)
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From: golden3000997
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:11 pm
Subject: Forwarded by Christine
Not Steiner, but what the heck? Christine
Subj: [Dreamkeeper] "The
Living Language of Light" Another Transmission from The
Reconnections.....
Date: 3/12/2004 12:58:25 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: --Shiva--
Reply-to: Dreamkeeper@yahoogroups.com
To: Dreamkeeper@yahoogroups.com, spiritcomm@yahoogroups.com
Another Transmission from
The
Reconnections.......
"The
Living Language of Light"
Hello, My Dear Friends,
"In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God,
and the Word was God."
Nearly everyone has heard this phrase, throughout many generations
of the world. And it is wondrous and activating, giving folks
the vision that they have truly made contact with the Core of
All Being. It makes a person want to take shoes from off his
feet, wiggle his toes, and shout for joy......that he finally
stands upon holy ground!
Your history books are filled with wondrous tales about "The
Word of God," as it flowed from the prophets' pen, spread
rapidly through word and deed, and was taught in every church,
synagogue, or temple in the land. Wars have been fought over
it, congregations have been divided over it, and millions of
lives have been healed and reborn through even the slightest
contact with it. And this, my friends, is only the beginning.
What has previously been considered "The Word of God,"
in the lives of many beings.........is simply a "Forward"........a
"Frontispiece" to a vast storehouse of knowledge that
is about to be made available to the mind of man. The library
of which we speak is not just new and unusual "data"
that has been waiting to be revealed. Instead, it consists of
a whole new way of seeing and experiencing the world---a way
of gathering, collating, processing, and sharing knowledge---crossing
language barriers and spreading rapidly through all cultures.
We will call this "The Living Language of Light." It
is a "Meta-Language" that will eventually take the
place of words and phrases, in all the ways you have come to
know them.
It is for this reason that we are recording these words to you
today! We are The Reconnections. We represent all those parts
of your expanded self that you had to forget about in order to
become human. We've never been very far from you, just far enough.
Within our ranks are contained all the necessary "bridge
concepts" that will connect you with what is called The
Multiverse. Once you are connected there, you will have merged
with a complete storehouse of knowledge--an archive of all being,
or variations of being--regarding what you have been, or will
be, across the ages.
TONAL COMMUNICATION
In the higher vibrational dimensions, words and thoughts are
replaced by clear unbroken tones. If one picture is worth a thousand
words, one tone is worth a million pictures. Truly words and
thoughts are simply tones, living in separation. So are each
of you. They who can hear these tones, high above all other sounds,
will never be deceived. Words can be misleading, ideas can be
obscured, but in UNBROKEN TONES, there is no place to hide.
As we have said in days past, the word "tone" is really
a contraction. It joins the words: "to one." When communication
goes "tonal," it begins to reunite people, and gather
them together in a place of Oneness and Collective Cooperation
and Design.
The usage of the word TONE (to one)......has many applications.
A tone can be a sound, a color, or it can even refer to the emotional
atmosphere that exists in a room or a conversation. Musical tones
have their own sign language, thanks to the system which was
constructed by composer Zoltan
Kodaly. There are
those who believe that music, itself, is a universal language.
Others believe that mathematics forms the bridge that will one
day connect you all. This field of study has learned to express
its many tones and concepts through the visual construction of
fractals. And this is just the beginning.
Today, it is as though humankind is moving, once again, to the
Tower of Babel--that place where everyone and everything is united,
according to a single purpose and self-concept. This time, however,
there will be a great unscrambling of language that occurs. Having
come
down to visit and
identify with their People, the Gods of All Religion and Creation
are beginning to chip off parts of themselves to participate
in this Wondrous Merge to Oneness, which is happening here, within
The Reconnection Universe.
In other universes, there will still be rage, division, corruption
of purpose, and anything else that is required to form "All
That Is." This will continue for all eternity. Each person
gets to choose his destination, choose his or her way. But in
this universe, there will be The Oneness of All That Is............a
specified focus for all beings who wish to communicate, join
together, and learn to love.
THE POWER OF FOCUSED INTENT
In the first Temple of the God of Abraham (one of the familiar
religious contexts of this physiological channel), the sanctuary
or holy place was maintained in a tent. We will speak about that
here, though we could just as easily speak within contexts of
other religious traditions as well. Perhaps some of you reading
here would call to us, and ask that we translate some Oneness
Concept through your traditions at this time. We will do it.
These are just words, though they carry within them some valuable
analogies and bridge concepts that will be useful later.
This TENT we speak about was called The Tabernacle, and it had
several divisions within it, dedicated to various phases of the
sacred ceremony and activities that were conducted there. When
the Spirit of God was present within the Tabernacle, it had a
luminance to it, which was called The Shekinah Glory of God.
We call your attention, therefore, to the miracle of inspiration
and power that came when God was in the tabernacle--when He was
"in the tent," so to speak. It is from this picture
that you might gather a unique root meaning for your application
of the word INTENT. We ask you: "Is your God Self in residence
in what you're doing or saying today?"
At the heart of every action, every communication, and every
situation that arises, the God Creator of that universe has a
plan, an idea, an initiative that he or she is trying to make.
That plan (or will of that creator) dwells in the center of each
reality context in the form of INTENT. It is a root desire that
is being sought after, an "outcome" that is sought.
In fact, we have mentioned before that the word "desire"
literally means "of the Father." It is a genesis from
which all other actions, ideas, or initiatives are born.
Just as the Jewish Tabernacle had many "levels" within
it--an outer court, as well as a Holy of Holies--so also could
it be said that every word or action has many levels to it as
well. At the center of them is what we call the ROOT INTENTION
that brought about the communication in the first place. This
is also the Gateway into the TONE that connects that particular
word or action to every other word or action like it, throughout
all time and eternity.
Your education and legal systems of today have, in many ways,
departed from the original sanctity and purity of honor that
characterized their establishment so long ago. As a result, your
usage of words has become a dance of ambiguity and manipulation
of the senses. We do not condemn this, as every movement in your
history has its purpose. But we do point out that the proliferation
of "relativity" and "ambiguity" in your intent
has destabilized your contact with one another, thereby requiring
a newer, more universal means of communication. This will make
way for the formation of TONAL COMMUNICATION, with the resulting
establishment of the Living Language of Light.
ABBREVIANCE
Let us speak now about your generation's diminishing need for
physical detail. The 3D world is currently built upon a conceptual
template that is founded upon the words "I AM." To
have an identity here, you must ascribe to yourself certain characteristics
and attributes which form an identity, a signature of sorts,
that can exist within the parameters of an established reality
base. The energy signature for the Multiverse is lighter and
more porous than that. It is built upon the words "Suppose
I were..........," and deals more with potentialities than
with actuality. It is the INDEX PAGE for All That Is, while each
discrete universe embodies a "chapter" in the Grand
Book of Life.
The more you concentrate upon where you have been, what you now
are, or what you earnestly desire to be, the more you are operating
within the spiritual frequency of "I AM." The more
details you ascribe to yourself, and require---the denser your
conception of yourself will be. There is no problem in this,
if self actualization is what you have left on your itinerary
of evolution. However, if freely traversing the Portals is now
the object of your desire, some ballast has to be dropped from
your boat, so that you can attain the speed required to make
the journey.
To abbreviate a word, a person removes as many unnecessary letters
as he can while still retaining a sense of what that word is.
Abbreviance is the conscious ability to look ahead and "fill
in the blanks," rather than to rely upon explicit detailed
descriptions of what is happening. Do you currently finish other
people's sentences before they complete their communications
with you? Do you have a growing impatience with waiting in lines,
stopping in traffic, and speaking in explicit ways and formats?
If your answer is yes, you may now be in the process of installing
Abbreviance Software onto your inner computer.
Even as your physical world is virtually awash with the availability
of physical details, people are overlooking them more and more.
Jumping to conclusions is becoming a worldwide sport! Have you
noticed how your computer software will actually finish familiar
words for you, once you begin to type them? Your own minds are
also doing that. Little by little, the planet is developing a
UNIVERSAL TONAL VOCABULARY---consisting of physical symbols,
sounds, colors, words, and phrases that immediately invoke virtually
the same inner experiences, wherever they appear.
OF THE SELF, BY THE SELF, AND FOR THE SELF
We have spoken to you in days past about the difference between
being "self-centered" and being "centered in self."
The former mindset still believes in separation, and rejects
the idea that everyone and everything are aspects of the same
Oneself. Insisting on having its own way, it denies the rest
of humanity as a viable source of concern, or an additional reflection
of what is going on within him or her. The soul wants what it
wants, and it does whatever is necessary to "win."
The latter mindset has effectively integrated the concept "It's
all you." It
knows that every person is the creator of his or her universe,
and everything in each universe mirrors an aspect of who and
what that creator is. Life gets very PERSONAL when you view it
this way. There is no longer a need to ask the questions "Who
is speaking?" and "Who is being spoken to?" Oneness
solves all that. Once that is recognized, the only question remaining
will be: "Do you really want to listen?"
A good deal of the superfluity in life could be eliminated if
people were genuinely honest with themselves about what they
actually want, at any point in their day. Immediate feedback,
honest and sincere, creates instant evolution in society. This
is why the Internet is having such a powerful effect on your
collective consciousness in daily life. Believing without question,
the internal information one receives (his or her intuitive assessment
of a situation), is a turbo booster pack to speed humanity on
its way to personal and collective expansion.
Before the Living Language of Light can truly manifest, there
must be an appropriate environment within which it can function.
We spoke about this a bit in our transmission concerning "Time/No-Time." There must be time to feel, time
to align your body energy with what is going on around you. Personal
authenticity (congruence between the inner you and the outer
you) must carry a far greater importance than it currently does.
Do not wait for society to change before you begin making some
of these necessary shifts in priority. Creating your personal
"flow" and setting your own "groove" is the
beginning of personal wisdom. No amount of possessions or stature
in society can even come close to replacing it. It's simple,
direct, and it becomes its own filter--blocking out unnecessary
involvements and superfluous concerns.
Your personal universe is all you, and it's all about you. Believe
that, and go forward. As you process images, deal with situations,
or have encounters with various individuals, keep asking yourself
the question: "What do I want all of this to mean? What
interpretation will make my heart sing?" When all is said
and done, it is a singing heart that forms the foundation for
your Living Language of Light.
In days to come, we will be speaking more about the actual translation
of tones from one context of reality to another. We will talk
about certain symbols, colors, sounds, and movements that can
assist you to form real and fundamental bonds between yourself
and the rest of your universe.
To begin preparing for your shift to these new modes of communication,
it may help you to set aside some time in your week, or your
month, where you deliberately de-emphasize the importance of
WORDS in daily life. As we said earlier, words are powerful.
We cannot deny that. But words are only part of the picture.
Try going for a week or a month without speaking. Pretend you
are mute, and see how creative you can be as you find new ways
to make your messages known. Begin looking for all of the non-verbal
ways that communication flows in and through your life: body
language, physical arrangement of environment and circumstances,
facial expressions, internal "knowing" about things,
hand gestures, and so forth. You will be amazed how multi-track
and extensive your communication already is.
Now is truly your time! Infinity is opening, right before your
very eyes. With an endless sea of choices, you will find it very
hard to function if you don't know your signature vibration,
and learn to stay within it. We are available to help you personally
if you so desire. Just call to us and we will be there. But remember,
we listen closely to the heart, not just the words. It will help
you considerably if you begin to do that as well.
As the writer once said so beautifully: "What you are speaks
so loudly, we cannot always hear what you say."
<end transmission>
Channeled by Daniel Jacob
www.reconnections.net/
Copyright, 2004, by Daniel Jacob. All Rights Reserved. May be
copied and shared, for purposes of personal growth and/or research.
All reproduction for profit requires the written permission of
Reconnections, Inc.
DISCUSSIONS ON THIS TOPIC (click link):
New Discussion List, called "Metalanguage" (come and join!)
Meta-bolizing the New Language
Tom Kenyon on Sound Linguistics (tones)
The Language of Affirmation/Response
Freeflow Writing: Expanding Yourself Beyond Words
The Icons of a New Age
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From: golden3000997
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:16 pm
Subject: Forwarded by Christine
Subj: [TIME WAVE ZERO 2012]
FW: [AtlanteanForum] Olmecs and Ancient India
Date: 3/12/2004 1:17:18 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: ghanesh
Reply-to: mailto:timewavezero2012@yahoogroups.com
To: 2012-Theories@yahoogroups.com (2012-Theories (E-mail)), timewavezero2012@yahoogroups.com
(Timewavezero2012 (E-mail))
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bader
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:37 AM
To: Atlantean Forum
Subject: [AtlanteanForum] Olmecs and Ancient India
In the 1900s, Mexican scholars
noted that the Nahuatl language is derived from Sanskrit. Even
the word Nahua derives from the Sanskrit word for "sailor:"
Nava or Navaja. Like their brother Allemans in Germany, the Olmecs
could pronounce "V" only as "W... Thanks to the
increasing cultural compression of the world, archeologists and
linguists are concluding that men like Edward Pococke, William
Jones, and Godfrey Higgins were right after all. The historical
linguists and non-diffusionist archeologists are beginning to
retire or change professions.
http://www.ufoarea.com/aas_olmecs_hindu.html
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/meso/cultures/olmec.html
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From: golden3000997
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:05 pm
Subject: Fwd: Forwarded by Christine
From: Lisa D. Ercolano
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:28 pm
Subject: Re: Forwarded by Christine
To: waldorf-critics@topica.com
Huh?
Christine, please: if you
are going to post aphorisms and folk tales, please explain why.
Many of us lead quite busy
and productive lives outside of our membership on this list,
and we prefer to optimize our time here with relevant discussion.
If you cannot make these posts relevant, well, than they seem
unworthy of our time and attention.
In a few words: please stop
being so obtuse. We want to hear what you have to say. So just
say it.
Lisa
From: golden3000997
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:40 pm
Subject: Forwarded by Christine
Subj: [native_american_storytellers]
Unity
Date: 3/15/2004 7:56:07 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: blue_panther@mindspring.com (blue panther)
Reply-to: native_american_storytellers@yahoogroups.com
To: Native_village@yahoogroups.com (Native_Village)
Unity... Many, many years
ago turtle was the designated "keeper of the waters."
You could see him as he swam about his duties. His shell was
made up of solid plates of red, black, white, or yellow color.
He was very distinctive and visible. All the animals respected
and honored the turtle... all except one, 'ole coyote.' One day
turtle was out sunning himself and coyote came along and ate
turtle up. Of course all the waters, ponds, streams, and rivers
started to dry up and become stale and unclean. The animals hurriedly
gathered from all four directions to coyote and pleaded, "Please,
please bring back turtle... surely we will all perish... the
waters... the cool clear water... please, please..." So
coyote finally conceded and "threw-up" turtle. The
animals immediately began to piece turtle back together the best
they could. It worked. The shell came together to become a beautiful
mosaic blend of many, many colors... extremely shiny and beautiful.
Each plate shined with the remains and debris of all the colors.
And sure enough turtle came back to life. And when he did, the
water came back, too. The waters flowed again... tumbling down
from the mountains and rippling out clear, clean, and pure.
From the Archives of Blue
Panther
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From: golden3000997
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:05 pm
Subject: Fwd: Forwarded by Christine
From: Christine Natale
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:04 pm
Subject: Re: Forwarded by Christine
To: waldorf-critics@topica.com
Hi Lisa,
You have a really hard time
with the right-brain stuff, don't you?
: ) Christine
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From: dottie zold
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:27 pm
Subject: Re: Fwd: Forwarded by Christine
Lisa:
In a few words: please
stop being so obtuse. We want to hear what you have to say. So
just say it.
Hey Lisa, no need to be so nasty. I realize
you got caught red handed with handing a 'fixed PLANS list' for
the 'anthros are cults' but that's no reason to take it out on
Christine. Be accountable for your actions.
Dottie
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From: golden3000997
Date: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:08 pm
Subject: Forwarded by Christine - Not a Fairy Tale
Subj: [Dreamkeeper] No
nap time for 4 year olds?
Date: 3/16/2004 10:20:04 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: Deborah Harmes, Ph.D.
Reply-to: Dreamkeeper@yahoogroups.com
To: Dreamkeeper@yahoogroups.com
washingtonpost.com Education
Time May Be Up for Naps in
Pre-K Class
By Nancy Trejos
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 15, 2004; Page A01
After lunch and snacks, alphabet
and story times, the lights go off. Sixteen tiny bodies sprawl
on a sea of red foam mats, the sounds of classical piano coaxing
them to sleep.
And there they stay, tucked
under Spider-Man and Powerpuff Girls blankets, until teacher
Chantay Wynn switches on the lights 45 minutes later. "Come
on, get up," Wynn chides 4-year-old Steven Dieu, lifting
him from his mat. "Open your eyes."
It's a daily ritual for the
pre-kindergarten students at Hoffman-Boston Elementary School
in Arlington, as it is at countless schools across the country.
But in the increasingly urgent world of public education, is
it a luxury that 4-year-olds no longer can afford?
By asking that question, a
few leaders of Washington area school systems have begun to challenge
one of the pillars of the early school experience: afternoon
naps.
"Nap time needs to go
away," Prince George's County schools chief André
J. Hornsby said during a recent meeting with Maryland legislators.
"We need to get rid of all the baby school stuff they used
to do."
Hornsby wants to convert his
pre-kindergarten classes into a full-day program. If he secures
the funding to begin that next fall, there will be no mats or
cots allowed, he said. In Anne Arundel County, where full-day
pre-kindergarten is in place, Superintendent Eric J. Smith also
has opted not to build nap time into the schedule.
Educators including Hornsby
and Smith find themselves under growing pressure to make school
more rigorous -- even in the earliest grades -- in the belief
that children who are behind academically by age 6 or 7 have
a difficult time catching up. "The time is very precious,"
Smith said. "When they come into first grade or kindergarten
for the first time, they learn within a few weeks of the school
experience that they're not as capable, and that's a burden that
is extremely damaging."
Critics of eliminating school
naps say the reality is that many 4-year-olds don't get enough
sleep at home. There are piano lessons, soccer practices and
other scheduled activities during the day, and many kids stay
up past their bedtime because their parents come home late from
work and want to talk or play.
"Kids are often kind
of overscheduled even as toddlers, even as preschoolers,"
said Kenneth A. Haller, assistant professor of pediatrics at
Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
"We are a sleep-deprived
society," agreed Stephen H. Sheldon, director of the Sleep
Medicine Center at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Typical 4- and 5-year-olds
need 10 to 12 hours of sleep, and if they don't get that at night
they will likely fall asleep during the day, according to the
American Academy of Pediatrics. The amount of sleep a school-age
child needs decreases each year, and the need for naps diminishes
after age 3, pediatricians say.
Most evenings, Adrian Moreno
tries to get his son, David, to fall asleep by 9 p.m. The goal
is to wake David at 7 a.m. to get him ready for pre-kindergarten
at Hoffman-Boston, where administrators continue to support naps.
But David, who recently turned 5, has a 3-year-old sister, and
the two often keep each other awake playing games until 10 p.m.
or so, Moreno said.
It's no wonder that on a recent
rainy day, David was fast asleep soon after Wynn switched off
the classroom lights.
"I think they need to
sleep a bit," Moreno said. "They're small. They have
to rest their minds."
Nia Baker, 4, wakes up around
6:30 every morning to get ready for day care and later spends
almost three hours in pre-kindergarten at Seabrook Elementary
School in Prince George's, said her mother, Aisha Baker. Then
she goes back to day care until 6 p.m., when Baker, a single
mother and a cashier at a D.C. restaurant, picks her up.
The rest of Nia's evening
usually goes like this: She eats dinner, reviews what she learned
in school for about 20 minutes, plays a little, then watches
TV for 10 minutes. Bedtime is 7:30 p.m.
"You get tired,"
Nia said, reflecting on her schedule.
Nia gets a 30-minute nap at
day care, which her mother appreciates. "They need a break
to take a nap and get rejuvenated," Baker
said.
But support of naps is hardly
unanimous.
"Do all 4-year-olds need
nap time? The answer is certainly no," said Ari Brown, a
pediatrician in Texas and author of the book "Baby 411."
Smith, who came to Anne Arundel
County in July 2002 from Charlotte, is a firm believer that pre-kindergarten
students don't need naps. His teachers and principals urge parents
to make sure the children get enough sleep at home. In place
of nap time is "quiet learning time," during which
students look at books or play with puzzles, said Barbara Griffith,
coordinator of the county's early childhood programs.
If they do fall asleep, the
teacher doesn't wake them. But the message is clear: "This
is not a child-care program. It's an educational program,"
Griffith said.
In effect, kindergarten is
becoming more like first grade, teachers say, which makes preschool
more like the kindergarten of yesteryear. "When I was in
preschool, I remember learning socialization skills,"
Wynn said. "By the time
they get to kindergarten, they have to hit the ground running."
Wynn followed a recent "quiet
time" -- what many schools now call any break in the school
day -- with a rhyming drill. By the end
of pre-kindergarten, Wynn's
students have to master seven skills, from writing their names
to memorizing words in a sentence to matching words that rhyme.
She tests them each fall and spring to track their progress.
Zahava Johnson teaches two
pre-kindergarten classes at Seabrook Elementary, each almost
three hours long, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Johnson said her students
stop paying attention to her lessons after 15 minutes. So she
offers an occasional respite with fun activities, like singing
a song about trains.
If she teaches a full-day
class next year, she said, she wants the students to take a nap.
Or at least take a break from the learning. "This is an
introduction to school, and to have them work like a 6-year-old,
I don't think that's going to work," she said.
Seabrook Principal Marvel
Smith is more supportive of Hornsby's move to eliminate naps.
"They can't be babied," she said. "These are young
minds. We have to take advantage of this early stage when they
grasp everything."
© 2004 The Washington
Post Company
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From: Dan Dugan
Date: Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:29 pm
Subject: Re: Forwarded by Christine - Not a Fairy Tale
Christine, you posted the article,
washingtonpost.com Education
Time May Be Up for Naps
in Pre-K Class
By Nancy Trejos
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 15, 2004; Page A01
You didn't make any comment, so I'm not sure
what your intended message was. I'm sure most educators, public
and private, would agree that nap time is important in pre-K,
so I don't see this as having much to do with Waldorf. It's an
extreme, like the story of the Japanese child who was killed
by teachers slamming the school gate a couple of years ago. What
do you think?
-Dan Dugan
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From: golden3000997
Date: Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:17 am
Subject: Forwarded by Christine
Subj: [earthchanges] The
Unmentionable Source of Terrorism by John Pilger
Date: 3/21/2004 10:46:13 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: luckypig
Reply-to: earthchanges@yahoogroups.com
To: Animals2Chat@yahoogroups.com (@ A2C)
The Unmentionable Source of
Terrorism
by John Pilger
http://antiwar.com/orig/pilger.php?articleid=2159
The current threat of attacks
in countries whose governments have close alliances with Washington
is the latest stage in a long struggle against the empires of
the west, their rapacious crusades and domination. The motivation of those
who plant bombs in railway carriages derives directly from this
truth. What is different today is that the weak have learned
how to attack the strong, and the western crusaders' most recent
colonial terrorism (as many as 55,000 Iraqis killed) exposes
"us" to retaliation.
The source of much of this
danger is Israel. A creation, then guardian of the west's empire
in the Middle East, the Zionist state remains the cause of more
regional grievance and sheer terror than all the Muslim states
combined. Read the melancholy Palestinian Monitor on the Internet;
it chronicles the equivalent of Madrid's horror week after week,
month after month, in occupied Palestine. No front pages in the
West acknowledge this enduring bloodbath, let alone mourn its
victims. Moreover, the Israeli army, a terrorist organisation
by any reasonable measure, is protected and rewarded in the west.
In its current human rights
report, the Foreign Office criticises Israel for its "worrying
disregard for human rights" and "the impact that the
continuing Israeli occupation and the associated military occupations
have had on the lives of ordinary Palestinians."
Yet the Blair government has
secretly authorised the sale of vast quantities of arms and terror
equipment to Israel. These include leg-irons, electric shock
belts and chemical and biological agents. No matter that Israel
has defied more United Nations resolutions than any other state
since the founding of the world body. Last October, the UN General
Assembly voted by 144 to four to condemn the wall that Israel
has cut through the heart of the West Bank, annexing the best
agricultural land, including the aquifer system that provides
most of the Palestinians' water. Israel, as usual, ignored the
world.
Israel is the guard dog of
America's plans for the Middle East. The former CIA analysts
Kathleen and Bill Christison have described how "two strains
of Jewish and Christian fundamentalism have dovetailed into an
agenda for a vast imperial project to restructure the Middle
East, all further reinforced by the happy coincidence of great
oil resources up for grabs and a president and vice-president
heavily invested in oil."
The "neoconservatives"
who run the Bush regime all have close ties with the Likud government
in Tel Aviv and the Zionist lobby groups in
Washington. In 1997, the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs (Jinsa) declared: "Jinsa
has been working closely with Iraqi National Council leader Dr
Ahmad Chalabi to promote Saddam Hussein's removal from office..."
Chalabi is the CIA-backed stooge and convicted embezzler at present
organising the next "democratic" government in Baghdad.
Until recently, a group of
Zionists ran their own intelligence service inside the Pentagon.
This was known as the Office of Special Plans, and was overseen
by Douglas Feith, an under-secretary of defence, extreme Zionist
and opponent of any negotiated peace with the Palestinians. It
was the Office of Special Plans that supplied Downing Street
with much of its scuttlebutt about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction;
more often than not, the original source was Israel.
Israel can also claim responsibility
for the law passed by Congress that imposes sanctions on Syria
and in effect threatens it with the same fate as Iraq unless
it agrees to the demands of Tel Aviv. Israel is the guiding hand
behind Bush's bellicose campaign against the "nuclear threat"
posed by Iran. Today, in occupied Iraq, Israeli special forces
are teaching the Americans how to "wall in" a hostile
population, in the same way that Israel has walled in the Palestinians
in pursuit of the Zionist dream of an apartheid state. The author
David Hirst describes the "Israelisation of US foreign policy"
as being "now operational as well as ideological."
In understanding Israel's
enduring colonial role in the Middle East, it is too simple to
see the outrages of Ariel Sharon as an aberrant version of a
democracy that lost its way. The myths that abound in middle-class
Jewish homes in Britain about Israel's heroic, noble birth have
long been reinforced by a "liberal" or "left-wing"
Zionism as virulent and essentially destructive as the Likud
strain.
In recent years, the truth
has come from Israel's own "new historians," who have
revealed that the Zionist "idealists" of 1948 had no
intention of treating justly or even humanely the Palestinians,
who instead were systematically and often murderously driven
from their homes. The most courageous of these historians is
Ilan Pappe, an Israeli-born professor at Haifa University, who,
with the publication of each of his ground-breaking books, has
been both acclaimed and smeared. The latest is A History of Modern
Palestine, in which he documents the expulsion of Palestinians
as an orchestrated crime of ethnic cleansing that tore apart
Jews and Arabs coexisting peacefully. As for the modern "peace
process," he describes the Oslo Accords of 1993 as a plan
by liberal Zionists in the Israeli Labour Party to corral Palestinians
in South African-style bantustans. That they were aided by a
desperate Palestinian leadership made the "peace" and
its "failure" (blamed on the Palestinians) no less
counterfeit. During the years of negotiation and raised hopes,
governments in Tel Aviv secretly doubled the number of illegal
Jewish settlements on Palestinian land, intensified the military
occupation and completed the fragmentation of the 22 per cent
of historic Palestine that the Palestine Liberation Organisation
had agreed to accept in return for recognising the state of Israel.
Along with the late Edward
Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.
He is also one of the most scholarly. This combination has brought
him many admirers, but also enemies among Israel's academic liberal
mythologists in Britain, one of whom, Stephen Howe, was given
the Pappe book to review in the New Statesman of 8 March. Howe
often appears in these pages; his style is to damn with faint
praise and to set carefully the limits of
debate about empire, be
it Irish history, the Middle East or the "war on terror."
In Pappe's case, what the reader doesn't know is Howe's personal
link to the Israeli establishment; and what Howe does not say
in his review is that here for the first time is a textbook on
Palestine that narrates the real story as it happened: a non-Zionist
version of Zionism.
He accuses Pappe of "factual
mistakes," but gives no evidence, then denigrates the book
by dismissing it as a footnote to another book by the Israeli
historian Benny Morris, who has long atoned for his own revisionist
work. To its credit, Cambridge University Press has published
Pappe's pioneering and highly accessible work as an authoritative
history. This means that the "debate" over Israel's
origins is ending, regardless of what the empire's apologists
say.
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From: golden3000997
Date: Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:22 am
Subject: Forwarded by Christine
Subj: [earthchanges] There
Are No Words...
Date: 3/26/2004 10:01:14 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: luckypig
Reply-to: earthchanges@yahoogroups.com
To: TheMulti-DimensionalNewsPortal@yahoogroups.com (!TheMulti-D)
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bob Nichols
405-749-5888
bobnichols@cox.net
There are no words.
Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000
Nagasaki Bombs
by Bob Nichols
(Oklahoma City) - Last summer
(2003) one of my neighbors had just returned from Iraq. I wanted
to ask him about the summer conditions in Iraq. The brutal summer
in Iraq is coming up again, the same way it has since the last
Ice Age.
The neighbor said it routinely
got to 142 Degrees F. in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq during
the summer months.
As a writer I do not have
a set of words to describe what 142 Degrees in the shade is like.
I've seen 120 D. in Phoenix and 110 D in the spa's sauna I use.
One hundred forty-two degrees leaves me speechless. Try to imagine
142 D temperature while wearing a helmet, long sleeve shirt,
long pants, a bullet proof vest, boots, and carrying a 70 pound
pack.
By contrast the Inuit of Alaska
and Canada have thirty-seven words to precisely talk about different
kinds of snow.
So, since the temperature
is heating up in Iraq it seemed like a good time to float this
story to different Internet sites and news publications. There
was one story in 2003 of one 19 year old British soldier whose
military job was to work in a British tank. In Iraq. In the summer.
Word is, from London, that he forgot to drink enough water and
he literally cooked in his tank.
But, this story is not about
the temperature in Iraq. You can bet, though, the weather will
be really important for those Americans unfortunate enough to
still be in Iraq this summer.
This story is about American
weapons built with Uranium components for the business end of
things. Just about all American bullets, 120 mm tank shells,
missiles, dumb bombs, smart bombs, 500 and 2,000 pound bombs,
cruise missiles, and anything else engineered to help our side
in the war of us against them has Uranium in it. Lots of Uranium.
In the case of a cruise missile,
as much as 800 pounds of the stuff. This article is about how
much radioactive uranium our guys, representing us, the citizens
of the United States, let fly in Iraq. Turns out they used about
4,000,000 pounds of the stuff, give or take. That is a bunch.
Now, most people have no idea
how much Four Million Pounds of anything is, much less of Uranium
Dust (UD), which this stuff turns into when it is shot or exploded.
Suffice it to say it is about equal to 1,333 cars that weigh
three thousand pounds per car. That is a lot of cars; but, we
can imagine what a parking lot with one thousand three hundred
and thirty three cars is like. The point is: this was and is
an industrial strength operation. It is still going on, too.
No sir-ee, putting Four Million
Pounds of Radioactive Uranium Dust (RUD) on the ground in Iraq
was a definitely "on-purpose" kind of thing. It was
not "just an accident." We, the citizens of the United
States, through our kids in the Army, did this on purpose.
When the uranium bullets,
missiles, or bombs hit something or explode most of the radioactive
uranium turns instantly to very, very small dust particles, too
fine to even see. When US Troopers or Iraqis breathe even a tiny
amount into their lungs, as little as One Gram, it is the same
as getting an X-Ray every hour for the rest of their shortened
life.
The uranium cannot be removed,
there is no treatment, there is no cure. The uranium will long
outlast the Veterans' and the Iraqis' bodies though; for, you
see, it lasts virtually forever.
But, it gets worse. Seems
an Admiral who is the former Chief of the Naval Staff of India
wanted to know how much radiation this represented. He also wanted
to express the amount in a figure that the world, especially
the non American world, could easily understand.
The Admiral decided to figure
out how many Nagasaki Atom Bombs it would take to deliver the
equivalent of the total amount of radiation deployed in Iraq
in 2003 in Four Million Pounds of uranium.
The Admiral also wanted to
figure out how much radiation the United States Military Forces
have deployed in the last Five American Wars, the so-called Five
Nuclear Wars.
That is a simple enough task
for somebody like the Naval Chief of Staff for a country that
is a member of the Nuclear Club. Using the Nagasaki bomb for
the measuring stick is a particularly gruesome twist, though.
For those of you in the States who do not know it, the United
States Military Forces dropped two nuclear Bombs on Japan at
the close of World War II. The whole world remembers that.
One Atom Bomb was dropped
by Americans on the city of Hiroshima, the other on the city
of Nagasaki three days later. About 170,000 people were incinerated
immediately. It was a really big deal.
It is a measuring stick that
plays very well in the rest of the world; but, not very well
on Fox News (Fair & Balanced)(c) or the rest of the Fox-like
American media. The Department of Energy still lists the Hiroshima
and Nagasaki detonations as "tests." The admiral released
the data months ago at a scientific conference in India. This
article is the first report of the data in the United States.
It will first be released on the Internet.
The admiral in India calculated
the number of radioactive atoms in the Nagasaki bomb and compared
it with the number in the 4,000,000 pounds of uranium left
in Iraq from the 2003 war. Now, believe me, it is a lot more
complex than that; but, that is essentially what the experts
in India did.
How many Nagasaki Nuclear
Bombs equal the Radiation loosed in the 2003 Iraq war? Answer:
About 250,000 Nuclear Bombs.
How many Nagasaki Nuclear
Bombs equal the Radiation loosed in the last Five American Nuclear
Wars? Answer: About 400,000 Nuclear Bombs.
Who would do something like
this? We would. The only people in the history of the world to
engage in Nuclear Wars are Americans, citizens of the United
States. Allegedly, the Germans and Japanese of WWII also wanted
to engage in nuclear wars, except the American Military beat
them to the draw, so to speak.
Respected academic scholars
could debate forever whether or not Herr Hitler, Fuhrer of Germany,
would have deployed uranium munitions in the Sudetenland if the
weapons had been available. Certainly the Germans knew just as
much about uranium wars as we did at the time. It seems doubtful
that Adolph Hitler would have ordered the use of uranium munitions
there because the Sudetenland was so close to the Fatherland,
Nazi Germany.
An American General named
Leslie Groves was in charge of the bomb making operation called
The Manhattan Project. In 1943 The War Department knew exactly
what uranium bullets and bombs were good for.
If the nuclear weapons did
not detonate in Japan, the use of uranium bullets and bombs were
the fall back position. It was not till Ronald Reagan was President
in 1980 did the re-named Defense Department resurrect the deadly
radioactive uranium bullets, bombs, and missiles. No wonder his
popular nick-name was Ronnie Ray-Guns.
The American Military knew
the symptoms of radiation poisoning in 1943 too; starting with
the irritated sore throat through to an agonizing death from
being cooked from the inside out.
President Bush promised to
invade twelve countries in the 2003 State of the Union speech.
I believe the man. For some reason, some misguided Americans
do not believe him, or think he was "exaggerating."
The rest of the world has every reason to believe him, though.
Not to worry, the President
has plenty of raw material for radioactive uranium munitions
left. There are more than 77,000 Tons stored at the 103 nuclear
waste plants and the several Nuclear Weapons Labs in the US.
Each one makes another 250 pounds of radioactive material a day
for radioactive bullets, bombs,
and missiles. Not to put
too fine a point on it; but, that is enough for 40.5 more gloriously
successful campaigns like the 2003 Nuclear War in Iraq.
Every year about this time
the Southern winds leave a fine desert sand on the windshields
of cars parked outside in Continental Europe and Britain. Soon
this sand dust will carry a surprise. Thanks to the Americans.
Thanks to us. We did this to the world. And, we wonder why they
hate and despise us so.
These uranium weapons' indiscriminate
killing effect gives a whole new meaning to the age old term:
cannon fodder. In Iraq, what goes around, comes around. If not
the uranium munitions themselves, the uranium dust will be in
the bodies of our returning armed forces, time bombs slowly ticking
away the lives of the gullible and the ignorant with their very
own internal radiation source, the cannon fodder of the 21st
Century American Nuclear Wars.
Put your ending to this article
next. A lot of people have done everything we can think of to
stop these nuclear wars. Even more specifically to stop the use
of uranium as a munition and shut down the nuclear power plants.
We have tried and failed for years. Why don't you give it a try?
Can't hurt anything! Write what steps you would take to turn
this situation around.
Copyright 2004, Bob Nichols.
All rights reserved. Permission for reposting is allowed provided
the complete text and attribution are kept intact. Bob Nichols
writes in Oklahoma City and is the Editorial writer for DemoOkie.com.
Bob Nichols is a contributing writer for LiberalSlant, Democratic
Underground, OnlineJournal, AmericaHeldHostage, and other online
dot com publications. Mr. Nichols is a frequent contributor The
Oklahoma Observer and other print publications, and an editorial
writer for DemoOkie.com. He lives and works in Oklahoma. He is
a member of CASE - Citizens' Action for Safe Energy, and President
of the Carrie Dickerson Foundation. CASE has successfully killed
two serious, well funded attempts to build Nuclear Power Plants
in Oklahoma and several attempts to site what is now known as
the "Yucca Mountain Reactor Dump" in Oklahoma. All
these efforts to build nuclear facilities have failed.
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