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A man being prepared for
burial had been declared dead by an Expert when he revived during
the burial ritual.
He sat
up. He was so shocked at the situation he fainted dead away. It must have been
a postmortem reflex.
Put in
a coffin,
the funeral party set off
for the Cemetery.
As
they arrived at the grave, he regained consciousness again, lifted the coffin
lid, and cried out to be saved.
"It is not possible that he has
revived," said the mourners.
"He has been
certified dead by
an Expert."
"I am
alive!" shouted the man.
The Expert who had orginally
pronounced him dead at the scene was present and the man appealed to him.
"Tell them I am
alive!"
"Just a moment," said the Expert.
The
Expert then turning to the mourners and asked,
"We heard what the
alleged deceased has had to say.
You fifty witness' tell me what you
regard as the truth."
"He is dead,
as expertise
judged", agreed the witness'.
"Bury him!" declared the Expert.
So the living man was
buried.
Somebody is not born an expert.
No one gains expertise by
jumping through the hoops
and being declared an expert by a council of experts.
Experts develop over many
instances of trial and error.
Expertise is developed through
deciding to start and stick with something more than other people are willing
to.
"Experts are people who
actually do, not those who analyze and wait for somebody else
to come along and tell them that they are now experts." - Zachary
Slayback
"Besides the fact that Jesus regarded the present situation, with
its economic injustice and
political servitude to foreign rulers, as
controlled by demonic
power, there are still other signs that his was
an anti-imperial
gospel.
One of these signs is the evidence, embodied in the
traditions (Mark 12:13-17;Luke 23:2), that Jesus
had challenged the payment of
the tribute to Rome -
which, as stated earlier, was the most volatile of all
issues.
Furthermore, given the widely held conviction that the Temple
had become illegitimate and idolatrous through its
subservience to Rome, a challenge to the Temple would also have
anti-imperialist implications.
The evidence firmly supports the
opinion that Jesus' final action - the one that led to his death -
involved a challenge to the
Temple and its high priests.
Just as the parable of the vineyard
suggests that he had indicted
this ruling group, but the evidence also suggests that
he had challenged the payment
of the half-shekel tax to the Temple.
Probably most important item
for understanding why Jesus was
put to death was creating a disturbance in the Temple in
protest against the system set up there to collect money from the people.
Whatever the exact nature of this disturbance, it was probably a
symbolic action, with the primary antecedent being the prophet Jeremiah's acts
symbolizing the imminent destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.
Regarding the crucifixion of Jesus, scholars point out for numerous
reasons, the gospel accounts of the "Trial of Jesus," especially their attempt
to portray "the Jews" as responsible for the death of Jesus, are surely
fictional.
Pontius Pilate -
in extreme contrast with the
indecisive, vacillating figure portrayed in the Gospels - was "not one to
waste time on legal
niceties."
His administration was known, in the words of
Josephus, for "frequent murders of untried
prisoners."
These scholars also agree that
the High Priests were probably
involved."
- David Ray Griffin, Christian Gospel for
Americans
"Why is it we have finite
resources for health
care but unlimited money for war?
Trillions for war and
Wall Street, billions for insurance companies.
When we were
promised change, we weren't thinking that we give a dollar and get back two
cents." - Dennis Kucinich 11/09
2004 According to
the US Defense Energy Support Center Fact Book US military fuel consumption
increased to 144 million barrels.
About 40 million barrels more than
the prior "peacetime" military usage.
144 million barrels makes 395 000
barrels per day, almost as much as daily energy consumption of
Greece.
2006 CIA World Factbook, only 35
countries (out of 210 in the world) consume more oil per day.
2009
US military officially uses ~ 320,000 barrels of oil a day. this excludes
contrators.
2011
Pentagon, after
a public relations
campaign to "go green," spends $17.3 billion on oil, a 26% increase over
2010.
Is it realistic to expect
nations and tribes to war with one another ?
Is it natural for humans to make
war?
New study of tribal societies reveals conflict is an alien
concept .
Organised violence between
rival political groups is not an inevitable outcome of the human
condition.
Those engaged in
selling weapons treat human nature as
immutable, unchangeable and barbaric
which is the case only when under
imminent threat of
physical annihilation or imminent threat of the annihilation of
traditional modes of living.
This
ponerological form of reality requires an
expression of the will born out of resentment,
fear,
terror and
a need to control or
to isolate the
'other'.
Infiltrating the
military-industrial-entertainment nexus by creating an
ever-expanding database
of hyperreal,
real-time 3-D simulations.
The promotional video of Viewpoint
DataLabs opens with the memorable scene of the alien fighters swarming the
F-18's in Independence Day.
It buzz-cuts into a pair of attacking
mosquitoes in a Cutter Insect Repellent advertisement, then to
spaceships attacking in Star Trek Voyager.
Followed by mega-explosions,
a simulation of a missile launch from helicopters, dropping of a fuel-air
dispersal bomb from Outbreak, and a trio of Eurofighter 2000s doing
maneuvers that are aerodynamically
impossible.
"In the realm of diplomatic and strategic theory, this
version of reality creates a
fluctuation of appearances, at one moment fleeing into the ideal of a
"democratic peace"
underwritten by an expanding neoliberal
global order, and at the next, retreating into a "fortress America"
protected by a ballistic missile defense.
Ethical inquiry into
the relationship of this form of
reality to organized violence begins with an inquiry into rationality of
the necessity of, or need for, government sanctioned
violence." - James Der Derian, Virtous War
"What experience and history teach is this - that
nations and governments have never learned any thing from history or acted upon
any lessons they might have drawn from it." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel
"The
war in Iraq has spawned a new
industry in Washington that could be called psy-ops journalism.
The new
breed of journalists are following the money trail to the Pentagon.
Some
$400 million in media consulting contracts has been awarded during the past few
years by the Pentagon.
Psy-ops
journalism is a cross between what is accepted as
mainstream journalism
and what is known psychological
operations, those engaged
in mind control warfare, to
gain military advantage by
fooling the enemy." - Alvin Snyder; Executive of the
US Information Agency; Senior
Fellow at the USC Center for Public Diplomacy
"If you look at the hole that was made in the
Pentagon, the nose penetrated far enough so that there should have been wing
marks on the walls of the Pentagon. I have been unable to find those wing
marks. So where were they?" - Major General Albert Stubblebine, former
commanding general of the United States Army Intelligence and Security
Command
"A US military
plane, not one piloted by al-Qa`ida, performed the highly skilled, high-speed
280-degree dive towards the Pentagon that Air Traffic Controllers on 911 were
sure was a military plane as they watched it on their screens.
Only a
military aircraft, not a civilian plane flown by al-Qa`ida, would have given
off the "Friendly" signal needed to disable the Pentagon's anti-aircraft
missile batteries as it approached the building.
Only the US military,
not al-Qa`ida, had
the ability to break all of its Standard Operating Procedures to
paralyze its own emergency
response system." - Barbara Honegger, senior military affairs journalist at
the Naval Postgraduate School (DoD's advanced science, technology and national
security affairs university)
"Any unbiased rational investigator
could only conclude that a Boeing
757 did not fly into the Pentagon as alleged.
Similarly, with all
the evidence available at the Pennsylvania crash site,
it was most doubtful that a passenger
airliner caused the obvious hole in the ground and certainly not the
Boeing 757 as
alleged.
In all my years of direct and indirect participation, I never
witnessed nor even heard of an aircraft loss, where the wreckage was
accessible, that prevented investigators from finding enough hard evidence to
positively identify the make, model, and specific registration number of the
aircraft." - Col. George Nelson, former US Air Force aircraft accident
investigator
"The Pentagon had all sorts of air defense equipment
around it; they could take out anything that was coming at it." - Col. Ann
Wright
"There was
a dearth of visible debris
on the relatively unmarked [Pentagon] lawn, where I stood only minutes after
the impact.
Beyond this
strange absence of airliner
debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure
one would expect from the impact of a large airliner.
This visible
evidence or lack thereof may also have been apparent to the secretary of
defense [Donald Rumsfeld], who in an
unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft that slammed into the
Pentagon as a "missile"." - Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski
"Arms dealers suggest to
foreign officials that their military
just might need a slight
upgrade.
Arms dealers
point out, haven't you noticed that your neighbor just upgraded in jets,
submarines, and tanks?
Didn't you guys fight a war a few years back?
Doesn't that make you feel insecure?
Why feel
insecure when, for just a few
billion bucks, we'll get you suited up with the latest model
military?"
Frida Berrigan
"You know, I remember having a long
conversation with Warren Buffett, who is obviously a friend of mine, but I
think he's the greatest investor of our modern era, and he said, you know, I
would go and I'd talk to my friends and I'd ask them to explain to me what a
default credit swap was, and
by the time they got into their fifth minute, I had no idea what they were
talking about." - Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton |
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