e.e. cummings on trees

[i thank You God for most this amazing]

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginably You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
-e. e. cummings

e.e. cummings. he taught us how to do stream of consciousness with no caps and to play with words. he influenced me a lot. one of my favourite weird poets.
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alito is confirmed to the supreme court.

no comment.

2 deaths

Wendy Wasserstein, playwright

and Coretta Scott King.

they always come in 3's you know.
alito's appointment is a death.

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G-d I'm good. I just watched the Clinton video. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is in the audience.
chills and smiling and crying at the same time.
Changes, hey.
note to myself:
remember what you need to remember, and know that there is a reason why the posts were 90 and 91.
hmmm.
i love it when i'm right.
deep in my soul i knew it.
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remember VickeB.
ha
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finally found the story to go with the clinton-liel video.
Not just a candle in the windBy Viva Press
September 29, 2003
{i've been trying to date that video for a couple a months now. bless the internet.}
14-year-old Israeli singer Liel Kolet shares a stage with former U.S. president Bill Clinton while singing a rendition of "Imagine" at the 80th birthday party of Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv.

Fourteen-year old Liel Kolet could easily be mistaken for your average Israeli teenager. She sports fashionable oversized sneakers and low-rider cargo pants, she speaks a mile a minute, she likes best to hang with her friends, and she can easily rattle off all the latest videos on MTV.

But the ninth-grader - who hails from a kibbutz in the north of the country - sets herself apart from the pack when she opens her mouth and sings. The owner of a truly amazing voice, Kolet has turned into an overnight sensation throughout Europe.
Since her professional debut just two years ago, she has performed at massive venues alongside singers Elton John and U2's Bono and entertained world leaders.

Last week, in an impressive display of self-confidence, she spontaneously invited former U.S. president Bill Clinton to sing a duet with her at the gala 80th birthday party for Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv.

As she began to sing John Lennon's "Imagine" with an 80 member youth choir at Peres's party, she approached Clinton and said, "I heard that you like to sing, and I'd like to invite you to join us." Clinton accepted the invitation and joined in on the chorus.

"I wasn't afraid for a minute that he would refuse," Kolet said afterward.

http://www.liel.net/

here's the link to her website. i just ordered the cd's.
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the video is just a little less than 2 1/2 years old. see post clinton at davos, and we know where prime minister ariel sharon is now.
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i need to think about singing because i cannot bear to look at alitos face.
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Clinton at Davos

the news doesn't stop. Good story here.

http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/2006/01/clinton_time.php

Clinton TimeCategories: Reporter's Notepad

He may be long out of office but the Masters of the Universe gathered here still got starry-eyed when Bill Clinton was interviewed in an auditorium packed to capacity. Looking haggard, with bags under his eyes, and wearing a multicolored African-style bracelet, Clinton nevertheless ranged eloquently on subjects from global warming to the future of Iraq, the election of Hamas and how to tame Iran.

At one point Klaus Schwab asked Clinton how he would advise future U.S. presidential candidates including McCain -- or ''the person you're married to.'' In these cultutrally charged times, I just want to make clear that I am not married to Senator John McCain," Clinton quipped, drawing a roar of laughter from the crowd. Clinton said that a president should ultimately be judged on whether people are better off than they were before he or she enters office. Commenting on US diplomacy in the world, Clinton quoted Winston Churchill's saying that "the U.S. always gets things right in the end, once it has exhausted all the other alternatives."

Many in the audience contrasted Clinton's oratory prowess to his successor's, and some waxed nostalgic for the days when he occupied the Oval Office. "He is just brilliant,' said a British spectator. "Monica Lewinsky or not, when he was President, you just wanted to plant a flag on the White House lawn saying ' a real person lives here."
Posted by Dan Bilefsky on January 28, 2006 05:23 PM (Paris)

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I agree. I think President Clinton was a great President and is a great man.

lets find that link again, shall we.
ok. here it is

http://www.liel.net/Liel-ClintonVideo2.wmv

And as the last post was the 90th for ayin, so is this post the 91st for aleph tzadick etz tree.

91 also = amen = maslach = angel.

coincidence? there are no coincidences with numbers.

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i'm sneaking this story in. notice that it is a bottlenose dolphin, like the bottle nosed whale. they're same genre, different species i do believe. sub genus. see after the story.

Trapped dolphin freed from marina
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4661238.stm

The dolphin has finally be rescued and released at seaA dolphin which had been trapped in Maryport Marina for almost a month has been set free by rescuers

Marine life experts were worried that Marra, a bottlenose dolphin, was losing weight and decided to drain the marina and capture the animal in a net.

Experts then took Marra far out to sea and released the animal on Monday.

An attempt to coax Marra out into open waters using specialist equipment failed last week.
Tony Woodley, a spokesman for the British Divers Marine Life Rescue group, said the rescue was launched over concerns about the dolphin's skin which had been bleached by salt water.

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Bottlenose DolphinStatus

Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Cetacea
Family:
Delphinidae
Genus:
Tursiops
Species:
truncatus
Binomial name
Tursiops truncatus(Montagu, 1821)

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/b/bo/bottlenose_dolphin.html

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90th post :D

almond tree. antelope valley california. photo courtesy webshots.

and if this isn't the 90th post. 90 = tzadik . blows my mind.

this is the 90th post.

yeah
i love the numbers
B'H

good daily dose:

B"H
At the Essence -----
Do not be misled by those who claim there is no purpose.

They may know life, but not the bowels of its fountain.

They may know darkness, but not its meaning.

They may have wisdom, but they cannot reach higher, to a place beyond wisdom from which all wisdom began.

They may reach so high until the very source from which all rivers flow.

To the place where all known things converge, where all knowledge is one.

But they have not touched the Essence.

At the Essence there is nothing--no light, no darkness, no knowledge, no convergence, no wisdom--nothing but the burning purpose of this moment now.

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I like that.

90
hmmmm
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Musing on Trees Begins :)

1 Shevat 5766.

Starting to muse on trees. Aquarius, the water bearer, bringing the water of life to the roots of the tree which is the Tree of Life. Torah is referred to as Etz Chaim also.
I like the way trees look silhoueted against the sky. It all goes back to marking time for the harvest, dun'n't it.
This is the 7th year i've been noticing that trees are leaving the planet. hmmmmm.
{ha i still have my fiber optic tree going. it is fascinating, because the colours do not reveal the same as they did during the holiday season. hmmmmm. in my inner eye, The Tree is ablaze with glowing energies as are we. Lots and lots of lights alive. I built one in a virtual reality once. it was pretty. I named it Tree of Life :D}.

The seven kinds of fruit found in Eretz Yisrael are wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranites, olives and dates.

bloopers and poopers i can't get the pic up for a change. ah well. i know my way around that now. i just have to do it in a separate post.

Here is the first tree quote. Our similarities are greater than our differences ya know. And I Will Continue To Maintain that THE SUM OF THE PARTS IS GREATER THAN THE WHOLE.
Quantum physics tells us that.

An ancient Arab legend relates:

During the rainy season, man and beast shiver from the cold and await expanses for grazing. And now Allah arises in his great compassion and brings down for them from heaven three burning coals.

The first ember is the ember of the air. It descends on the seventh of Shevat and warms the air. On the fourteenth of Shevat Allah brings down from Heaven the second ember, the ember of water. When it descends the water warms up, and enters the trees and restores them to their blossoming and fertility. The farmer counts an additional seven days, and then Allah brings down the third ember, the ember of land. The earth warms up and is covered with soft grass.

Rav Hai Gaon said: "It would appear from this that Tu bi-Shevat is the New Year for trees, for it is close to the day of the 'second ember' which is called in the language of the Ishmaelites aljamara al-thaniye, in which the trees are moistened and begin to drink. This is close to Tu
bi-Shevat of the solstice, and it is fitting that it should be the New Year for trees."

The 13th-century Arab geographer Qazwini states in his cosmography that on the day following the second ember, the fifteenth of Shevat, roses, jasmines, and narcissus are planted.

(Sefer ha-Moadim [The Book of Festivals])
Copyright (c) 1996 by The Jewish National Fund, Department of Education.


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Trees don't kill each other.

Peace

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Shevat - Aquarius - The Water Bearer

Shevat = Aquarius Hebrew Name D’li or deli.

Lets see what we can find out about Shevat that will help to dechiper this tangible energy shift.
I for one am oh so glad to shift from Tevet into Shevat. Tevet and I don’t get along so well. Sigh. I guess that’s why I was raised by Capricorns. Sigh. Why can't I just be a happy go lucky gal.

Shevat is the 11th month of the Hebrew Calendar.
Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat, is the New Year of Trees. You’re supposed to eat the 7 species of fruit from Eretz Yisrael on this day.

The letter for the month of Shevat is the Tzadik – it looks a lot like the ayin. Tzadik is the 18th letter of the Aleph Bet, Gematria 90.

this is ayin, the letter for Tevet.

This is Tzadik, Letter for Shevat.

For Final Tdazik, we need to look at the full Aleph Bet Chart. I need visuals.

There it is.

Ha.

The following is from Rabbi G http://www.inner.org/. Some of it is old and isn’t on the site anymore. But phew, I ‘ve got it printed.

The word Tzadik means righteous one. A Tzadik is Holy Master, one who has the ability to reveal and draw down Divinity into the physical.

{by the by, some of this is paraphrased, but this is what Rabbi G says- of course I’ll use quotes duh}
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“The Tzadik lives by his faith”.. The form of the letter Tzadik, or tzadi, resembles that of the aleph more than any other letter. The 22 letters of the alef-beit pair into 11 form mates, the 2 letters whose forms most closely resemble one another, as taught in Kabbalah. The ‘mate’ of the aleph, the Master of the Universe, is the Tzadik,’the righteous one,” upon whom the world stands, as is said:”Thje Tzadik is the foundation of the world.”
end quote.

Ah. Here is why I’m feeling the energy of Shevat in a familiar way. It is Da'at. And we just started Shemot, Exodus, and Moshe is Da’at too. I have to be careful when I’m connecting to Da'at – I can go too far sometimes. But I love it. Ah ha. Here’s some gematria my favourite.

Quote
“The very form of the letter Tzadik , especially its final form which represents the true manifesttion of the Tzadik – ‘ the righteous one’ – in the future, resembles a tree. In Torah, man is called Etz hasadeh – “ the tree of the field”. Etz hasadeh = 474 = Da'at. Da'at is the unique property of man in general and of the Tzadik in particular. Da'at is the power of connection. The month of Shevat is the month of connection to the true Tzadik, the Tree of Life.”
End quote.
Ah ha again.

Tu B’Shevat, the New Year of Trees is the 15th middle day of Shevat. The Rabinnic word for tree, “ilan” = 91, the sum of the letters aleph = 1, and Tzadik = 90 = 91.

I love the numbers.

According to Rabbi G, the gematria 90 means total consciousness – of worlds, souls, and Divinity. That’s heavy duty.

Aquarius is an air sign, and is left column, fire, of air. Saturn is the ruling planet for Aquarius, and as the synchronicity goes, Saturn is now visible in the Northern Hemisphere about 2 hours after dark. Saturn is glowing yellow. During Scorpio ruled by Mars the planet Mars was visible in the night sky, and now during the month of Shevat Saturn is visible. Uranus, more recently discovered, also rules Aquarius. The probe they just sent off to Pluto will pass Uranus on the way. Hi Uranus. Hmmmm. We’re getting dosed with the energy to move us upwards and outwards – wheeeeee Da’’at whoa eeeeeee.

“The ascent of water in general is represented by the deli. The Hebrew D’li or deli means pail, the symbol for Aquarius the water bearer.
The root of deli means ‘to lift up’. When the ayin – eye – of Tevet is lifted up to connect to the Tzadik of Shevat the word etz – tree is formed.”
Etz is Aleph Tzadik.
Ha.

So, our eyes were opened in Tevet to allow us to “life up thine eyes” now being able to connect to the Divine consciousness instead of the arousal of the anger of righteous indignation.

The Water Bearer.
Cool.

The sense is eating and the organ is stomach.

Muse on muse on.

It calms me to do this study, because it enable me to see the synchronicity, ans to feel that perhaps I’m not crazy at all. After all, it has been studied for milennia, and I'm even beginning to understand the Ari. so i'm heping to reveal the concealed. Every drop of water together fills the pail.

And then again, maybe I am stark raving. But who cares right now.

This is Fun.

Chodesh Tov Shevat

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year Year of the Dog.

I'm a Tiger myself.

Everything is coinciding synchronisticly.

quantum hummmminnnnngggggggg

bird

tree

sky

sun

life

soul

being

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Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him

Gettin a little out o hand here.

From the New York Times

Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: January 29, 2006

The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.

Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. "They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public," he said.

Dean Acosta, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs at the space agency, said there was no effort to silence Dr. Hansen. "That's not the way we operate here at NASA," Mr. Acosta said. "We promote openness and we speak with the facts."

He said the restrictions on Dr. Hansen applied to all National Aeronautics and Space Administration personnel. He added that government scientists were free to discuss scientific findings, but that policy statements should be left to policy makers and appointed spokesmen.

Mr. Acosta said other reasons for requiring press officers to review interview requests were to have an orderly flow of information out of a sprawling agency and to avoid surprises. "This is not about any individual or any issue like global warming," he said. "It's about coordination."

Dr. Hansen strongly disagreed with this characterization, saying such procedures had already prevented the public from fully grasping recent findings about climate change that point to risks ahead

"Communicating with the public seems to be essential," he said, "because public concern is probably the only thing capable of overcoming the special interests that have obfuscated the topic."

Dr. Hansen, 63, a physicist who joined the space agency in 1967, directs efforts to simulate the global climate on computers at the Goddard Institute in Morningside Heights in Manhattan.

Since 1988, he has been issuing public warnings about the long-term threat from heat-trapping emissions, dominated by carbon dioxide, that are an unavoidable byproduct of burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels. He has had run-ins with politicians or their appointees in various administrations, including budget watchers in the first Bush administration and Vice President Al Gore.

In 2001, Dr. Hansen was invited twice to brief Vice President Dick Cheney and other cabinet members on climate change. White House officials were interested in his findings showing that cleaning up soot, which also warms the atmosphere, was an effective and far easier first step than curbing carbon dioxide.

He fell out of favor with the White House in 2004 after giving a speech at the University of Iowa before the presidential election, in which he complained that government climate scientists were being muzzled and said he planned to vote for Senator John Kerry.

But Dr. Hansen said that nothing in 30 years equaled the push made since early December to keep him from publicly discussing what he says are clear-cut dangers from further delay in curbing carbon dioxide.

In several interviews with The New York Times in recent days, Dr. Hansen said it would be irresponsible not to speak out, particularly because NASA's mission statement includes the phrase "to understand and protect our home planet."

He said he was particularly incensed that the directives had come through telephone conversations and not through formal channels, leaving no significant trails of documents.
Dr. Hansen's supervisor, Franco Einaudi, said there had been no official "order or pressure to say shut Jim up." But Dr. Einaudi added, "That doesn't mean I like this kind of pressure being applied."

The fresh efforts to quiet him, Dr. Hansen said, began in a series of calls after a lecture he gave on Dec. 6 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. In the talk, he said that significant emission cuts could be achieved with existing technologies, particularly in the case of motor vehicles, and that without leadership by the United States, climate change would eventually leave the earth "a different planet."

The administration's policy is to use voluntary measures to slow, but not reverse, the growth of emissions.

After that speech and the release of data by Dr. Hansen on Dec. 15 showing that 2005 was probably the warmest year in at least a century, officials at the headquarters of the space agency repeatedly phoned public affairs officers, who relayed the warning to Dr. Hansen that there would be "dire consequences" if such statements continued, those officers and Dr. Hansen said in interviews.

Among the restrictions, according to Dr. Hansen and an internal draft memorandum he provided to The Times, was that his supervisors could stand in for him in any news media interviews.

Mr. Acosta said the calls and meetings with Goddard press officers were not to introduce restrictions, but to review existing rules. He said Dr. Hansen had continued to speak frequently with the news media.

But Dr. Hansen and some of his colleagues said interviews were canceled as a result.
In one call, George Deutsch, a recently appointed public affairs officer at NASA headquarters, rejected a request from a producer at National Public Radio to interview Dr. Hansen, said Leslie McCarthy, a public affairs officer responsible for the Goddard Institute.

handwritten notes taken during the conversation, Ms. McCarthy said Mr. Deutsch called N.P.R. "the most liberal" media outlet in the country. She said that in that call and others, Mr. Deutsch said his job was "to make the president look good" and that as a White House appointee that might be Mr. Deutsch's priority.
But she added: "I'm a career civil servant and Jim Hansen is a scientist. That's not our job. That's not our mission. The inference was that Hansen was disloyal."

He's not trying to create a war over this," said Larry D. Travis, an astronomer who is Dr. Hansen's deputy at Goddard, "but really feels very strongly that this is an obligation we have as federal scientists, to inform the public."

Dr. Travis said he walked into Ms. McCarthy's office in mid-December at the end of one of the calls from Mr. Deutsch demanding that Dr. Hansen be better controlled.

In an interview on Friday, Ralph J. Cicerone, an atmospheric chemist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's leading independent scientific body, praised Dr. Hansen's scientific contributions and said he had always seemed to describe his public statements clearly as his personal views.

"He really is one of the most productive and creative scientists in the world," Dr. Cicerone said. "I've heard Hansen speak many times and I've read many of his papers, starting in the late 70's. Every single time, in writing or when I've heard him speak, he's always clear that he's speaking for himself, not for NASA or the administration, whichever administration it's been."

The fight between Dr. Hansen and administration officials echoes other recent disputes. At climate laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for example, many scientists who routinely took calls from reporters five years ago can now do so only if the interview is approved by administration officials in Washington, and then only if a public affairs officer is present or on the phone.
{story continues ...long ...the Times}http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?th&emc=th

Dr. Hansen's Recent Lectures and Papers (columbia.edu)


hmmmm

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maybe the trees can save us? maybe not. can we save ourselves? maybe. maybe not.
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hmmmm
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Plant a Tree

Plant a Tree
Plant it in physicality and plant it in your soul, if you would. {see e space for would}
All the knowledge is contained in the seed. The Branches lift Upwards and the Roots delve deep into the Earth for Sustinence. The Tree is the Tree of Life. The Physical World, Malchut, could not exist without The Tree of Knowledge. The Ari talks about that a lot. I love the Ari. The Waters of Life Flow from Binah.
Remember ---Everything is connected--from Syriana to Tu B'Shevat the Holiday of Trees in the Hebrew Calendar. Don't mind me. I'm just musing. Talking to myself. Putting it down. yeah. Better print out all our blogs before they take them away.

Tu B'Shevat the Holiday of Trees is February 16.

Plant a Tree .
I'm not promoting this site or anything. But planting a tree is a lovely thing to do methinks. Talk to trees and notice them. Because . Just Because. I haven't been doing it a lot in Florida, but I do talk to my little Red Maple that I planted because the original tree got killed by Hurricane Charlie in 04.

I belong to this group called "Spiritual Cinema Club" {oy, never watched even one of the CD's} because they plant a tree when you join. I'm a sucker.

Each day until Tu B'Shevat I'm going to do a tree poem or a tree quote above the news story. It was a little disappointing doing the web surf on tree poetry. Maybe it has something to do with the story below. I'm always musing thinking and looking for synchronicity.

http://www.treesfortheholyland.com/index.html


Shavuoh Tov

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the site is very reliable i use it frequently. Our tradition is that when somebody dies, you plant a tree in Israel in their memory.
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Bloggers Beware?????????????

US plans to 'fight the net' revealed

By Adam Brookes BBC Pentagon correspondent
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.

Bloggers beware.

As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.

From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war.

The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act.

Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it.
Information Operations Roadmap
Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

The "roadmap" calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare.

The document says that information is "critical to military success". Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance.

Propaganda

The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks

All these are engaged in information operations.

Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.

"Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads.

"Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on.

The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. "Specific boundaries should be established," they write. But they don't seem to explain how.
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In this day and age it is impossible to prevent stories that are fed abroad as part of psychological operations propaganda from blowing back into the United States - even though they were directed abroad," says Kristin Adair of the National Security Archive.

Credibility problem

Public awareness of the US military's information operations is low, but it's growing - thanks to some operational clumsiness.

When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone. It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system

Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications.

And websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be run by the Pentagon.

But the true extent of the Pentagon's information operations, how they work, who they're aimed at, and at what point they turn from informing the public to influencing populations, is far from clear.

The roadmap, however, gives a flavour of what the US military is up to - and the grand scale on which it's thinking.

It reveals that Psyops personnel "support" the American government's international broadcasting. It singles out TV Marti - a station which broadcasts to Cuba - as receiving such support.

It recommends that a global website be established that supports America's strategic objectives.
But no American diplomats here, thank you. The website would use content from "third parties with greater credibility to foreign audiences than US officials".

It also recommends that Psyops personnel should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet.
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Fight the net'

When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.

It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.

The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the roadmap.

The authors warn that US networks are very vulnerable to attack by hackers, enemies seeking to disable them, or spies looking for intelligence.

"Networks are growing faster than we can defend them... Attack sophistication is increasing... Number of events is increasing."

US digital ambition

And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".

US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".

Consider that for a moment.
The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.
Are these plans the pipe dreams of self-aggrandising bureaucrats? Or are they real?

The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.

And that the scale and grandeur of the digital revolution is matched only by the US military's ambitions for it.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
The italic are my addition to call attention to these lines.
People still accuse me of making up these stories. Uh uh. I'm not. I'm just posting them to bring awareness. I always give the link. This stuff needs to be blogged. I'm blogging. I may be in danger for doing it, yeah well. I never take the easy road.

Hi Big Brother Watching me.
This Shabbat's Torah Portionwas Va'Era = revealed.
I had started reading a new book,
Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate--America's Psychic Espionage Program Paul Smith Format: HardcoverPub. Date: December 2004
I couln't read it - it was too intense and too real, and I didn't like the in depth explanations about remote viewing. I've been keeping informed on remote viewing and psychic espionage by Russian friend Marina who has been reading the stories of these ex soviet psychic viewers in russian. They are all out of work now, so they're writing their experiences.
I forwarded the book to a friend.

Whe had better watch out, there's no where to hide.
I still love the internet. Above it states"they seem to see the internet as equivalent to an enemy weapons system." I see the internet as an eternal library where I can look up the words to The Lovesong Of J Alfred Prufrock, or lyrics to a song, or celestial phenomona, An Instant Library. I often think, if my father had lived to see the internet. He was such a news freak. Sinchel would have loved it. And I like to read news online so my fingers don't get filthy with newsprint, and then it gets all over my face and my white t shirt and I looke like a chimney sweep.

Better start believing, that's what I say. That's what people said about Hitler - oh he isn't doing those things. Then, 6 million Jews and Minorities later..... History.
6 million is a big number.
Lots of bloggers and blogging.
blog on.
raspberries.

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7.7 Quake in Indonesia Synchronicity

posting this story because I received this interpretation of Parashat Vaera on email.
The time coinciding is because it was a leap year. 5766 is not leap year.

The extended narrative of the ten plagues that God visits upon the Egyptians now begins. The first plague turns the Nile to blood. (Last year, we read about water turning to blood the week after the devastating tsunami in Asia.) The theme of the plagues is "that Egypt will know that I am God" a phrase that recurs ten times for each of the plagues. It is the answer to Pharaoh's retort: "Who is the Lord that I should heed God and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord nor will I let Israel go." (Ex. 5:2). Indeed, this phrase is also repeated four times in our prophetic passage (Ez. 28:26b; 29:9; 29:16; 29:21).

I'm posting it because of the synchronicity. I believe Torah is alive.
just a little too coincidental. Water turns to Blood. hmmmmmmmmm
when the sun sets red, the water turns to blood, dun't't?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4656130.stm
Huge quake off Indonesian coast
A massive underwater earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 has struck off the eastern coast of Indonesia, according to the US Geological Survey.

The quake reportedly took place at 0158 local time on Saturday morning (1658 GMT on Friday) in the Banda Sea.

There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

In December 2004, a huge earthquake off Indonesia's coast killed hundreds of thousands of people by triggering a tsunami across the Indian Ocean.

There is no immediate risk of a tsunami from the latest quake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reports.

According to the US Geological Survey, the epicentre of the quake was at a point some 195km (120 miles) south of the city of Ambon at a depth some 342km (212 miles) below sea level.

People in Ambon fled their homes in panic when the two-minute long quake struck, the Associated Press news agency quotes internet news site, Detik.com, as saying.

Indonesia's location along a boundary between continental plates makes it prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity.

The 2004 tsunami had a magnitude of 9 and killed more than 130,000 people in Indonesia's western province of Banda Aceh.

Tens of thousands more died when giant sea waves triggered by the quake lashed the shores of Thailand, Sri Lanka and southern India.

Another strong earthquake in early 2005 killed almost 1,000 people on the Indonesian island of Nias.


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In case we forget to remember huh, one more time humans.

Shabbat Shalom
Chodesh Tov Shevat
Muse on Trees
{secret - I keep my fiber optic tree up until Tu B'Shevat - the holiday of Trees cause it is all interconnected isn't it. and i'm not playin here. sigh.

Peace?
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3 news stories and into Shevat

Coming into Shevat - Aquarius on Monday phew.

3 news stories.

if i read back in this blog, i see history being written. Now, all Ariel Sharon is is alive. There's a line in Bruce Springsteen's song 'Jungle Land' - " and they wound up wounded, not even dead tonight in Jungle Land.
see e space for wound

Sharon’s Doctors Discuss Long-Term Care http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=97308

Two intensive-care specialists at a long-term care facility met on Wednesday with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s doctors to talk about his future care.

According to a spokeswoman for Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, Sharon's condition has not changed significantly and he remains comatose.

Dr. Ben-Zion Khromchensky and Leon Sezbon, intensive care specialists from Beit Levenstein Rehabilitation Center, also met with several members of Sharon’s family.

Yael Bossem-Levy, Hadassah spokeswoman, did not indicate whether Sharon would be moved to the facility, a long-term rehabilitation center in Ra’anana. She said, however, that there were no immediate plans to do so. She also declined to say whether Sharon is still receiving medication.

Sharon remains in serious but stable condition after suffering a massive stroke on January 4.
He is unconscious and breathing spontaneously with the assistance of a respirator, and responds to pain stimuli.

Doctors not connected with Sharon’s care have said that the Prime Minister might still return to consciousness, but that the possibility is remote.

Dr. Avraham Lazri commented that based on reports he has seen, Sharon is in a “vegetative state." Lazri is Deputy Hospital Director and head of the Brain Injury Department at Reut, another long-term care facility.

Lazri hastened to add that Sharon’s condition does not completely meet the medical definition of a vegetative state.

A patient in a vegetative state can breathe without the assistance of a respirator and his condition remains stable even without medication.

In a vegetative state the patient seems to be unaware of his surroundings but shows a low level of consciousness in which he may open his eyes, cry or laugh – none of which means he has regained consciousness, according to an intensive-care specialist quoted by Haaretz.R

Responses to pain stimuli, such as those exhibited by the Prime Minister, are the signs that
differentiate a vegetative state from a deep coma.

“The tendency in the world is to wait six months from the time of the stroke to say whether or not someone will fully regain consciousness,” he said.

Nonetheless, said Lazri, the severity of Sharon’s stroke, combined with his age and medical history, is working against him.

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sigh .

The following is from the New York Times. The United States of America is in deep doo doo crap. I thought we had this document called the Constitution, and Separation of Church and State, cause didn't we have this thing called the Revolution and that was against England? I think history goes something like that.

Democrats in 2 Southern States Push Bills on Bible Study

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 27, 2006
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — Democrats in Georgia and Alabama, borrowing an idea usually advanced by conservative Republicans, are promoting Bible classes in the public schools. Their Republican opponents are in turn denouncing them as "pharisees," a favorite term of liberals for politicians who exploit religion

Democrats in both states have introduced bills authorizing school districts to teach courses modeled after a new textbook, "The Bible and Its Influence." It was produced by the nonpartisan, ecumenical Bible Literacy Project and provides an assessment of the Bible's impact on history, literature and art that is academic and detached, if largely laudatory.

The Democrats who introduced the bills said they hoped to compete with Republicans for conservative Christian voters. "Rather than sitting back on our heels and then being knocked in our face, we are going to respond in a thoughtful way," said Kasim Reed, a Georgia state senator from Atlanta and one of the sponsors of the bill. "We are not going to give away the South anymore because we are unwilling to talk about our faith."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/politics/27religion.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
the gist is that this is ok.
but it isn't ok. If you teach the Bible in Schools, whether you called literature or religion, then aren't you also bound to teach the other Literary Texts ? Bible is religion guys. Hello.

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Dead Sea is in 'Deep' Trouble
The Dead Sea is disappearing, experts told President Moshe Katsav on Wednesday. The water level has fallen some 25 meters in 120 years, leaving the lowest spot in the world even lower.

President Katsav toured the area and was shocked to learn that the Dead Sea is now standing at 417 meters below sea level. At present the water is dropping at the alarming rate of a meter each year.

If immediate steps are not taken to remedy the situation, the mineral-rich water will drop to 440 meters below sea level by 2025, and another 25 meters by 2050, according to a report by the Ministry of National Infrastructures’ chief scientist Professor Michael Byeth.

The reasons for the destruction, he told Katsav, are numerous and complex.

Before the 1960’s, said the report, a drop was due to a lack of rain and a drought in the Dead Sea’s drainage basin.

Since that time, however, the National Water Carrier has redirected water from the Kinneret to the rest of the country, severely reducing the flow to the Dead Sea.

With the creation of Jordan’s Abdullah Canal, the flow to the sea slowed even more.

Syria’s dam on the Jordan River’s main tributary, the Yarmukh River, also contributed to the drop in fresh water supply to the area.

Worse, evaporation and drying procedures by Israeli and Jordanian chemical extraction plants have now essentially turned the southern basin into an artificial evaporation pool for the Dead Sea Works. The southernmost portion of the sea has already been seperated by land from the rest of the sea.

Chemical extractions in the southernmost basin damage the remainder of the sea, as salt has been rapidly accumulating in the nearby resort area.

The salt accumulation at the bottom of the sea bed has been artificially raising the water level there by 20 centimeters per year. This threatens both existing infrastructures and the dozen or so hotels along the southern strip.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

all over the planet something is happening to the water.
Dr. Emoto knows.
I just look at facts, and think about the inter connectedness.
Hey, somebody's got to do it.

Candelighting 5:42 + 6 minutes hooray.
Parashat Vaera, 2nd in the book of Shemot, Exodus.

Shabbat Shalom
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World Economic Forum Blog

I didn't know about this and I consider myself to be quite well informed.
http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/?th&emc=th
Contributors to this blog include the following reporters from The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune: Liz Alderman, Katrin Bennhold, Dan Bilefsky, Thomas Crampton, Mark Landler, John Markoff, Floyd Norris, and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Anti-Zionism at Davos

Klaus Schwab, executive director of the World Economic Forum, issued an apology this afternoon after a bitter controversy broke out over an article calling for the boycott of Israel that was published in the Forum's Global Agenda magazine, distributed widely to the 2,500 attendees of this year's conference.

The article which was also distributed at the Zurich airport and various hotels, was written by Mazin Qumsiyeh, a geneticist. The article equates Zionism and racism.

In a release this afternoon Schwab stated, "With great concern and pain, I just learned that the Global Agenda, a publication distributed to our members at the Annual Meeting 2006, contains an article calling for a boycott of Israel. This article is totally in contradition to my own and the Forum's, mission and values."

He said that the article appeared because of an "unacceptable failure in the editorial process, specifically an insufficiently short period for review of content - for which there is no excuse."

One attendee said the Forum was considering tearing the article out of the remaining copies of the Global Agenda magazine.

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This is interesting data for me.
I didn't know that the anti-semitism was so wide spread. I don't see how one can interpret this any way but dangerously. Danger Danger Red Alert. Celebs are now involved in this conference - Bono, Angelina Jolie and now Nicole Kidman. Hope they help the situation.
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hatred for no reason marches on.
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stupid, isn't it.
yeah, it is.
why does it continue?
personally, i can't see the purpose in it. even a virus knows better than to kill its host.
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The Little Whale that Died Update

This is really fascinating, because as I was getting ready to post the update on little bottle-nose, the headline changed from:

"Whale died from dehydration" to Whale died from multiple causes. It changed right before mine eyes. Did I zap into a parallel universe for a second? Or did I miss the true story?
Interesting, kabbalistic, quantum, and musable.

Here is the update.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4645726.stm

Whale died from 'multiple causes'

A post-mortem examination on the whale which became stranded in the River Thames showed it died from dehydration, muscle damage and failing kidneys.

The preliminary findings showed it had been unable to feed for three days.

The 19.2ft (5.85m) female northern bottle-nosed whale died on Saturday as rescuers tried to take it back out to the open sea.

It first surfaced on Friday after mistakenly swimming into the North Sea and up the Thames, experts said.

They said it may have been trying to head west to the Atlantic Ocean where it could feed on deep sea squid, but made a wrong turning, ending up near Chelsea Bridge in the heart of London.

Bacterial infection

Without its normal squid diet, it was unable to rehydrate, they said.

Scientists examined the animal's body for up to eight hours at the dockside in Denton in Kent, and samples were then taken back to the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) for further analysis.

This showed it had a minor cut near her eye, but had been in good health and there was no evidence of any internal injury.

"The last few days have been an unforgettable and ultimately sad experience for us all, and we are now determined that the whale did not die in vain "
Dr Paul Jepson
Boost for whale conservation

Further tests to be carried out over the next few weeks will determine whether there was any bacterial infection or pollutants in the whale's body, such as heavy metals.

In the meantime, the bones have been given to London's Natural History Museum and are in the process of being cleaned.

The entire skeleton will be kept for scientific research and made available to scientists from around the world.

On Saturday evening, the whale rapidly became disoriented and distressed.

Anti-submarine sonar

It was then that it was decided to put it down for its own welfare, said ZSL's veterinary pathologist Dr Paul Jepson, who carried out the post-mortem tests.

"While I was drawing the lethal injection, she died," he said.

"The last few days have been an unforgettable and ultimately sad experience for us all, and we are now determined that the whale did not die in vain.

"The incident has demonstrated a clear message of the nation's passion for these animals and their conservation."

Dr Jepson dismissed speculation that the whale's death was caused by anti-submarine sonar from Navy vessels.

Following worldwide coverage of the story, the British Divers Marine Life Rescue group, the small charity behind the rescue operation has received more than £10,000 in donations.

The bill for attempting the rescue was about £5,000.

The whale was female and aged 11 years

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I'm so in awe of this little whale.

What a Grand Statement on Life she made.

Unfortunately, in order to do it, she left the planet.

Where do whales souls go?

Why do whales sing?

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here is the little bottle-nosed whale.

here is some data :

Northern Bottle-nosed Whale
Class: Mammalia: Mammals
Order: Cetacea: Whales
Size: 7.3 - 10 m (24 - 33 ft)
Family: Ziphiidae: Beaked Whales
Scientific Name: Hyperoodon ampullatus
Range: Arctic Ocean, Northern Atlantic Ocean
Diet: Squid, fish
Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Habitat: deep offshore waters

A sturdy, round-bodied whale, the northern bottle-nosed has a prominent, bulbous forehead that is particularly pronounced in older males.
Males are generally larger than females. The adult male has only two teeth, which are in the lower jaw, but these are often so deeply embedded in the gums that they cannot be seen.
Adult females also have only two teeth, and these are always embedded in the gum.
Some individuals have further vestigial, unusable teeth in the gums.
Squid, some fish such as herring and sometimes starfish make up the diet of the northern bottle-nosed whale.
A member of a deep-diving family, it is believed to dive deeper than any other whale and certainly remains under water for longer. T
hese are gregarious whales, and they collect in social units of 4 to 10 individuals, a group usually consisting of a male and several females with young.
Pairs mate in spring and summer, and gestation lasts about 12 months.
The whales are sexually mature at between 9 and 12 years of age. Since commercial whaling of this species began in 1887, populations have been seriously depleted

well, now we know about bottle-nosed whales.

The Whale Died

The whale died, and I cried.
Why did I cry?
I cried for everything.
The little whale was lost and sick. He found the River Thames, and swam it. All persons who saw him lost were deeply moved. They wanted him to be fine. A rescue attempt was made to take him back to sea, but he died.
A whale is a mammal. Whales have hearts and cardio vascular systems. Who are we to say that the whale does not possess an emotional system also? The whale had a heart attack. Here is the symmetry. The hearts of Londoners and the World were moved by the whale. The moral of the story. We should care about every single sentient being on the planet as our hearts were moved by the bottle-nosed whale, lost, could not find his way home.
The whale showed that it is possible for everybody to feel the same thing.
I believe that. We , as a species, human, are capable of it. It may take a lot of effort and a lot of change, but there is the truth of the matter.
Meditate on Whale song for a bit, and you'll know what I mean.

I'll say it again
quantum synchronicity abounds
whilst the world whirls
through the turbulence named time -
watching whales wailing.
in the silence
the stones do speak.
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whales wail and stardust sifts.

I'm glad to be almost out of the month of the anger of righteous indignation. no matter how many times i tell myself that it is here for a reason, i still don't like it.
Story Follows.

Lost whale dies after rescue bid

A whale that became stranded in the River Thames has died after a massive rescue attempt to save its life.

The 18ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale was first spotted in the river on Friday and rescuers began an attempt to save it on Saturday morning.

But the whale died at about 1900 GMT on Saturday as rescuers transported it on a barge towards deeper water in the Thames Estuary.

It was moved after being placed in a special pontoon near Battersea Bridge.

Alan Knight, from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) which led the rescue operation, said the animal died after it began to convulse while it was still on the barge.

It has been a helter skelter ride all the way through. It is a sad end to a very long day," he said.
"Basically this is probably the right thing to happen in the end.
"If it had continued in this way we certainly wouldn't have released it.
"Perhaps this has saved that very difficult decision."

Rescuers tried to keep the whale cool as they moved it by barge

Earlier, close to Battersea Bridge, thousands of onlookers applauded as rescuers placed the whale on to a pontoon to move it from shallow water.

It was winched on to the Port of London Authority barge where it was laid on an inflatable raft functioning as a "makeshift whale mattress".

As the whale was carried upstream towards the estuary a vet administered antibiotics.
Earlier, naturalist and television presenter, Terry Nutkins, said the rescue operation was the wrong thing to do and that the animal needed space.

He told BBC Radio Five Live: "It wouldn't know what was happening, it was surrounded by boats...it would have been absolutely terrified as well as being stressed because it wouldn't be used to noises of propellers or engines.

"It was kept...like a goldfish in a bowl. So, it doesn't surprise me that it's died."
However, he later concluded he had "no doubts" the rescue operation had been the best way to try to save the whale.

Pod spotted
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You can't leave a whale stranded in the Thames and we did the best we could," he added.
The whale, which could weigh about four tonnes, was first spotted at on Friday morning by a man on a train.

There were reports of a pod of whales in the Thames estuary earlier in the week, and it was possible that the whale had become separated from this group.

It was the first sighting of the endangered species in the Thames since records began nearly a century ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4635874.stm

Dead whale is examined by experts

An expert is carrying out a post-mortem examination on a whale which died after becoming stranded in the River Thames.

spokeswoman for the Zoological Society of London said Mr Jepson was among the best qualified to carry out the post-mortem examination given his previous research work on stranded marine mammals.

It will be carried out at Gravesend in Kent where the whale was unloaded and take about six hours.

She added the results of the tests would be known on Wednesday or Thursday.
The whale, which could weigh about four tonnes, was first spotted at on Friday morning.

This is from Yahoo news.

Bottle-nosed whales normally live in the northern Atlantic, diving deeply and travelling in pods. They can reach eight metres long, the size of a red double-decker London bus.

When sick, old or injured, whales often get disoriented and swim away from their pod, said Mark Simmonds, science director at the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.

Last week, marine officials said they saw two bottle-nosed whales in northeastern Scotland when the mammals are normally seen in northwestern Scotland.
That, coupled with the sighting Friday of a second whale in a different part of the Thames, could suggest that something is disrupting the whales, said Sadler.

There are many possible reasons whales become disoriented.
Scientists have said fluctuating ocean temperatures, predators, lack of food and even sonar from ships can send them into waters that threaten their survival.
"It's used to using acoustics to find its way around. What will happen is that the reflection from the noise from boats, from water lapping up around, will ring inside the whale's head," said Tony Martin, a senior scientist with the British Antarctic Survey."It's going to be very confused. It's already stranded twice. The poor creature doesn't know where to go."

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end of story for now.

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we are mammals also, you know.
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stardust in aerogel Nasa photo

Stardust Capsule Reveals Stardust

Scientists open Stardust capsule

Scientists in Houston, Texas, are "excited and awed" after opening the Stardust capsule which returned from space with samples of cometary dust.

The lead scientist on the US space agency mission said there were "more than a million" specks of material in the capsule's sample-return canister.

The Stardust probe released the capsule as it flew back to Earth after a 4.6-billion-km (2.8-billion-mile) trip.

The disc-shaped vessel landed in the Utah desert on Sunday.

The comet particles and interstellar dust it holds are the first ever returned to Earth; and will shed light on the origins of the Solar System, scientists say.

The canister, which was packed away inside a protective shell, was opened after being moved to Nasa's Johnson Space Center (JSC).

Exceeding expectations
Stardust returned to Earth after a seven-year mission to collect particles from Comet Wild-2 and samples of interstellar dust streaming into our Solar System from other parts of the galaxy.

The comet dates from the formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago.

It exceeds all expectations," said Donald Brownlee, a University of Washington astronomy professor who is lead scientist for Stardust.

"It's a huge success. We can see lots of impacts. There are big ones, there are small ones."
Professor Brownlee calculated there might be more than a million microscopic specks of dust embedded in Stardust's aerogel collector.

Aerogel, a remarkable material that is as much as 99.9% empty space, greatly reduced the stress of impact on the particles, he said.


Carrot-shaped

The carrot-shaped tracks of much larger particles are visible in the aerogel from several feet away, Professor Brownlee added, and in some of the tracks, the black comet dust is visible at the end of the track.

One track, he said, "is almost large enough to put your little finger into it."

Professor Brownlee said the mission already has its first scientific result: the first cometary particle the team looked at turned out to be a mineral grain.

The aerogel is contained within collector trays"There's been a lot of discussion over whether comets contain minerals or glass or water," he told journalists in a news conference at the JSC.
Stardust co-investigator Mike Zolensky added that some of the impacts could have been from grains containing ice, and that some of the water from this ice could still be retained by the aerogel.

"We have locations where particles went in and exploded. You can see little grains curling off in all directions from the cavity. That could be a particle that was an icy, dirty grain where the water evaporated," said Dr Zolensky.

"Aerogel combines with water and if you get rid of that and dry it out, not all of the water goes away. Some of it stays behind, bonded to the aerogel. It's possible that some of the cometary water is locked up in the interiors of the cavities around these big impacts."

Preliminary analysis

About 150 scientists around the world will get a chance to carry out a preliminary analysis of the contents, including researchers at the UK's Open University (OU).

Stardust took remarkable pictures of Comet Wild 2 "A very important part of the study of cometary grains is the study of organics.
We know comets contain abundant organics and abundant water. We're not sure what kinds of organics are in there," said Mike Zolensky.
"But we think that most of the Earth's water and organics - most of the molecules in our bodies - came from comets."

Members of the public are being asked to sift through millions of pictures of the gel to locate the precise positions of the tiny grains.

The project, known as Stardust@home, has been set up by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Volunteers will be able to access the images via a web-based "virtual microscope".


SEE ALSO:
Recruits needed to sift stardust 14 Jan 06 Science/Nature
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New word
aerogel
i hope to be sifting stardust somehow

shabbat shalom

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The Ice is Melting The Ice is Melting & Pluto

BBC news - Antartica is warming more rapidly than any other place on the planet.



the quantum musing of this student of kabbalah says, hmmmm.

the ice caves are pretty. Antartica is a continent and it is big.


This rocket launch gave me such a bad allergy attack arghh. I'm right near Caniveral.


Pluto probe launches from Florida
By Paul Rincon BBC News science reporter

The US space agency (Nasa) successfully launched its New Horizons mission to Pluto on Thursday.

The probe lifted off at 1900 GMT aboard an Atlas 5 rocket on a 10-year journey to the planet, some five billion km (three billion miles) from Earth.

The $700m probe will gather information on Pluto and its moons before - it is hoped - pressing on to explore other objects in the outer Solar System.

Pluto is the only remaining planet that has never been visited by a spacecraft.

The spacecraft was launched after being postponed for two consecutive days due to bad weather and technical difficulties.

On Tuesday, controllers stood down the flight due to high winds at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station pad in Florida.

Then a power failure at the Maryland laboratory managing the mission forced that launch attempt to be halted.

Slingshot manoeuvre

Sending up the probe before 3 February means it will be in position to swing by Jupiter on its way to Pluto.
New Horizons will use Jupiter's gravity to pick up speed in a slingshot manoeuvre.

Mission Guide: New Horizons
This will increase the probe's speed away from the Sun by nearly 4km/s (9,000mph), allowing the spacecraft to reach the ninth planet by July 2015.

If the launch had been pushed beyond the 3 February, the probe would have been required to take a direct route to Pluto, arriving in 2018 at the earliest.

Some astronomers say Pluto is not a true planet at all, and should be classed instead alongside the small, icy objects which make up the region of space known as the Kuiper Belt.
This region, which lies beyond Neptune, consists of perhaps tens of thousands of icy objects spread out between 30 and 50 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

Double planet
Pluto is thought by some to form a "double planet" with its companion Charon.
New Horizons will fly by Pluto and Charon on the same day. The spacecraft's seven instruments will carry out detailed mapping of Pluto's surface features, composition and atmosphere.
"The probe will map the composition of materials on the surface of Pluto [and Charon], which will help tell us what molecules were present during the formation of this system," Dr Stephen Lowry of Queen's University in Belfast, UK, told the BBC News website.

After the Pluto encounter, it is up to Nasa to decide whether to grant the spacecraft an extended mission. Should this happen, mission scientists plan to send New Horizons to visit two Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) with diameters of 50km (30 miles) or more.

Scientists believe they can learn about the evolution of the Solar System by studying the Kuiper Belt since it possesses debris left over form its formation.


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Sifting Stardust

the term sifting stardust implies that stardust sifts.

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doesn't it?
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quantum synchronicity abounds whilst the world whirls through the turbulence of time
seeking the secrets of seeing
in the silence
as the stones
speak
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nothing else really matters in the end
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Stardust Update

Stardust capsule returns to Earth
By Helen Briggs BBC News science reporter

Watch the landing

A capsule containing comet particles and interstellar dust has landed on Earth after a seven-year space mission.

The Stardust probe released the capsule as it flew back to Earth after a 4.6-billion-km (2.8-billion-mile) trip.
The US-built capsule plunged through the atmosphere and touched down in the Utah desert at 0312 (1012 GMT).
Scientists believe the first cometary dust samples ever returned to Earth will shed light on the origins of the Solar System.

"We travelled about three billion miles in space, we visited a comet, grabbed a piece of it and it landed here on Earth this morning," Dr Don Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator, told reporters at a news briefing in Utah.

I fully expect textbooks in the future will have a lot of new information from the samples that landed here this morning."

It is amazing to think that such minute specks of dust can carry within them so much information about the origin of stars and planets
Prof Monica Grady, PSSRI

Fiery descent

The Stardust spacecraft released the 45kg (100lb) capsule at 0557 GMT as it looped past the Earth on its return from interplanetary space.

Mission controllers at the US space agency's (Nasa) Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, clapped and cheered as the capsule began its plunge to Earth.

Four hours after leaving the probe, the capsule entered the Earth's atmosphere 125km (410,000ft) over the Pacific Ocean.

It reached speeds of 46,660km/h (29,000mph) - the fastest re-entry of any manmade probe - and was visible from parts of the American northwest as a streak of light in the sky.

At about 32km altitude (105,000ft), the capsule released a small parachute to slow its descent.
The main parachute opened at about 3km (10,000ft), and brought the capsule down to land on a military base southwest of Salt Lake City.
"All stations, we have touchdown," an announcer declared to a jubilant control room.

First analysis

The capsule was located by helicopter almost an hour after the landing. It was then flown to a nearby laboratory for checks.

On Tuesday, it will be transported to a special lab at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where scientists will get their first chance to examine the precious contents.

I'm very confident we will have samples in there that are the first returned from beyond the Moon," former Stardust project manager, Ken Atkins, told the BBC News website.
"It is magnificent to see something that we saw leave the planet on 7 February 1999 return to the planet here on 15 January 2006."
The highlight of Stardust's seven-year mission was its close encounter with Comet Wild 2 in January 2004.

It swept up particles from the frozen body of ice and dust, flying to within 240km (149 miles) of the comet's core, or nucleus.
As part of its trip, the probe also captured a sprinkling of dust that originated in distant stars.
The Stardust mothership has now completed its main mission and has been sent into orbit around the Sun.

'Minute specks'

Stardust could provide a new window into the distant past
Dr Simon Green

Meanwhile the work of scientists is just beginning. On Tuesday, Nasa experts will open the canister containing the samples which is packed away inside a protective shell.

The capsule is believed to contain about a million particles of comet and interstellar dust left over from the birth of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago.
They are trapped inside cells filled with an ultra-light solid called aerogel.
About 150 scientists around the world will get a chance to carry out a preliminary analysis of the contents, including researchers at the UK's Open University (OU).

Professor Monica Grady, of the OU's Planetary and Space Science Research Institute (PSSRI), said it would be the most scientifically exciting and technically challenging material with which they had ever had the opportunity to work.
"Imagine trying to pick up a grain that is less than a hundredth of the size of the full stop at the end of this sentence," she said.
"It is amazing to think that such minute specks of dust can carry within them so much information about the origin of stars and planets."

Time capsules

Comets are thought to be cosmic "time capsules", containing material unchanged since the formation of the Sun and planets.
Some even think they may have seeded Earth with the chemical building blocks required for life.

Stardust's mission: How Nasa's probe collected comet dust and will return it to Earth
In pictures"Stardust could provide a new window into the distant past," said Dr Simon Green of the PSSRI.
"Because these particles have come from inside a comet, we know that essentially the particles haven't been heated since they became part of the comet, because the comet is made of ice," he told the BBC News website.

"That means that they contain information about the conditions that were present when they were incorporated into the comet.
"That time was four-and-a-half thousand-million years ago, back when the Solar System formed; so what we hope to know from these particles is essentially what the Solar System looked like at that time, and essentially what we're all made of."

They're looking for 100,000 people to help with reading the pictures.


Recruits needed to sift stardust
By Helen Briggs BBC News science reporter

Members of the public are being asked to help study cosmic dust samples returned by the Stardust space mission.

A capsule containing dust from stars light years away landed in the Utah desert on Sunday.
The particles are buried in gel that was exposed to the interstellar dust stream during the probe's seven-year voyage around the Solar System.
Scientists need volunteers to sift through millions of pictures of the gel to locate the few dozen tiny grains.
The project, known as Stardust@home, has been set up by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
"No-one has ever had a contemporary interstellar dust particle in the lab, ever, to study," senior fellow Andrew Westphal told the BBC News website. "It is really a unique opportunity."


Virtual microscope

Dr Westphal developed the technique that the US space agency (Nasa) will use to scan the ultra-light gel (aerogel) in which the interstellar dust grains are embedded.

The gel - which is contained within a "honeycomb" of collector trays - will be scanned by an automated microscope at a clean room in Nasa's Johnston Space Center in Houston shortly after landing.
The impacts are almost invisible and can only be found with a microscope with a field of view smaller than a grain of salt.
Volunteers will be able to access the images via a web-based "virtual microscope". To take part, they need a reasonably up-to-date computer with Netscape or Internet Explorer, patience and some spare time.
People who register will have to go through a web-based training session to see if they are suitable. Dr Westphal believes the untrained eye may be better at spotting what amounts to a cosmic needle in a haystack.
"It's probably better for people to look who won't have any pre-conceived notion of what these things look like," said Dr Westphal.

Naming opportunity


Scientists think they will find only a few dozen interstellar grains. More than 1.6 million individual fields of view will have to be searched over the course of several months.

A simulation of particles hitting aerogelOnce located, the particles will be extracted from the gel and analysed in research labs around the world.
"We will probably find the first grain within the first month," Dr Westphal said.
As well as the satisfaction of taking part in the space project, volunteers have another incentive - the chance to name any dust grains they find.
"There is a tradition in the interplanetary dust community that people name particles, usually those collected in the stratosphere by high flying aircraft," said Dr Westphal.
Examples to date included Florian and Benavente, he added.
Comet chase
Stardust's main mission was to chase a comet and capture material from its coma, the cloud of dust and gas that surrounds its nucleus.
But it also trapped a sprinkling of dust from the interstellar stream that flows through the Solar System.
The particles contain the heavy chemical elements that originated in stars.
"Ultimately, this is the stuff we are made of," said Dr Westphal.
"The fact that we really don't know what the typical interstellar grain looks like is outrageous - this is really a search for our own origins."

Scientists think they will find only a few dozen interstellar grains. More than 1.6 million individual fields of view will have to be searched over the course of several months.


Once located, the particles will be extracted from the gel and analysed in research labs around the world.
"We will probably find the first grain within the first month," Dr Westphal said.
As well as the satisfaction of taking part in the space project, volunteers have another incentive - the chance to name any dust grains they find.
"There is a tradition in the interplanetary dust community that people name particles, usually those collected in the stratosphere by high flying aircraft," said Dr Westphal.
Examples to date included Florian and Benavente, he added.
Comet chase
Stardust's main mission was to chase a comet and capture material from its coma, the cloud of dust and gas that surrounds its nucleus.
But it also trapped a sprinkling of dust from the interstellar stream that flows through the Solar System.
The particles contain the heavy chemical elements that originated in stars.

"Ultimately, this is the stuff we are made of," said Dr Westphal.

"The fact that we really don't know what the typical interstellar grain looks like is outrageous - this is really a search for our own origins."

BBC NEWS: VIDEO AND AUDIO See footage of the Stardust capsule returning to earth
SEE ALSO:
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Stardust targets lightning return 22 Dec 05 Science/Nature
Comet shakes conventional wisdom 07 Sep 05 Science/Nature
Detailed picture of comet's heart 22 Mar 04 Science/Nature
Rosetta probe heads for comet 02 Mar 04 Science/Nature
Comet dust packed away for Earth 08 Jan 04 Science/Nature
Stardust probe makes comet flyby 02 Jan 04 Science/Nature
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Thanks to BBC for the story and the links.

I think this is interesting stuff, stardust and all that. I registered to participate in the sifting. Sounds cool. They give you a virtual microscope on your puter then you look for stardust. I think I'd like to parcipate in that. That's the kind of science I approve of.
This will be a newsie blog for a while. My thoughts are to erratic to post. And I'm hurting. Know the song 'sometimes i feel like a motherless child'? Well, I do. And I am.

What is going on in Israel and the entire Middle East is too mind boggling. Especially this business with Iran and the nuclear weapons. Isn't anybody going to do anything? Or are we going to blow it all up? From what I can suss, Olmert, who now all of a sudden is here, while Ariel Sharon is not, is letting the US dictate Israel's politics. Yikes.
This is from http://www.israelnationalnews.com

Olmert Puts Roadmap at Forefront of Israeli Policy

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated Israel’s support for the U.S. backed Road Map initiative for the Arab-Israeli dispute at a meeting Tuesday with President Moshe Katzav.

Regarding the possibility of negotiating with the Hamas, Katzav said, after meeting with Olmert that “there is no basis or capacity to negotiate with one who does not recognize our right to exist, even

On the issue of Iran, Olmert said, “I believe that there is a way to ensure that non-conventional weapons don’t wind up in irresponsible hands which can threaten world peace.”

Olmert, formerly of the Likud, now heads the Kadima party, founded a few months ago by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, before he was incapacitated with a debilitating stroke. Regarding demonstrations by Jewish residents in Hevron, Olmert said he will act the way he believes Sharon would have. “I’ll do what I think Arik Sharon would have done…so there will be no hesitation,” he said. “Whoever raises a hand against security personnel, a soldier or policeman, will be punished with all available force, and will be expelled from any place he illegally occupies. This is right regarding Hevron, right regarding Amona (a Jewish community near Ofra), and it’s right in relation to other places.”

I don't like the sound of that. A New Leader has not emerged. Israel is following, not leading. Oh well.

A blogger friend of mine did a fabulous post on Martin Luther King Jr. http://willpowers-cerebytes.blogspot.com/. It took me back and made me think. That's an example of no leader emerging. After Martin Luther King Jr. was taken out, no leader emerged. There still isn't a leader for the Negro Nation. Nor has one emerged for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. No leaders. Just followers. Who is making these policies? I don't even want to think about that. But as everything is running at the speed of synchronization, so the times of change will be planted and the seeds sown.

Everybody seems to agree that something's up.

My musing brains says, la plus qui change, la plus c'est la meme chose.

Ontogency recapitulates philogeny.

Where are we Really?

Good Daily Dose:

B"H

Where Will I Be?

It will happen with you or without you, whether you believe in it or not. True, you could help it be sooner. But the fact is, it will be in our times whether you help or not. And it will be good for you, no matter what.But have you asked yourself, "Where will I be standing when that time comes? What will I be involved in? Will I be part of it, or will it be despite me?"

Interesting. Because when I'm being a student of kabbalah and Torah, instead of a raging maniac, I see the same . The quantum resonating. I think it is a good energy to tap into. In the meantime, I'm into that raging maniac mode. I'm also in terrible pain, as my back went into spasm yesterday.

peace your peace, pausing as your soul seeks -speaking whilst silent -and the world rages as the ions meld into all and nothing. the world ends not with a bang, but with a whimper.

i grow old i grow old i shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. (T.S. Eliot - The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock)

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