“Your life is the mirror image of what you are”

And so it seems that I have been absent from my blog for quite awhile. Circumstances I guess, I took some time off to analyze several problems that were haunting my life, as well to analyze the current situation of the world. I did had a clue as to why the world is as it is, but I honestly didn’t had a clue as to why my life was as it was, hmm, well, I should say is as it is… It is hard to start a brand new life after a lifetime of laziness, ignorance; after all, going with the flow is the easiest way to live. Gurdjieff said that ordinary man always lives just going with the flow and that man is not just sleeping, he is absolutely dead. I guess that to grasp this concept of going passively with the flow and being dead I should quote again Gurdjieff when he said, “existence is the means, or the instrument, for action.”

Gurdjieff's Aphorisms

Conscious love evokes the same in response.
Emotional love evokes the opposite.
Physical love depends on type and polarity.
Conscious faith is freedom.
Emotional faith is slavery.
Mechanical faith is foolishness.

More of Gurdjieff's aphorisms and links here

Amores Perros

The Mexican film “Amores Perros” is one of my favorite movies ever. Film director Alejandro González Iñarritu portrays the real nature of human love based on the lower passions of sex, hunger and fear. It’s a movie that delivers you a shocking experience through the suffering of all its characters. Suddenly life seems so meaningless from our low human nature and leaves you with a sense of hopelessness. At the best it leaves you with the longing to pursue something higher, which is for what is worth. I pulled out the following film review that I think it doesn’t depict the movie quite well but it does make the point with the quotation of Milan Kundera:

[…]This searing Mexican film, an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film of 2000, depicts the toxicity of that kind of human betrayal. It begins with a frantic car chase as Octavio (Gael García Bernal) and his friend flee two armed thugs from an illegal dog-fighting match. He crashes into another car, and we are taken into the lives of the people affected by the crash. […]
The other thematic strand is the role of dogs in all the stories. I recalled a quotation from Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Humankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals." […]

The way we treat animals should give us food for thought; human kind is not on top of the food chain…

Movie

Another Jewish connection?

The other day I was visiting a book store with special collections on esoteric and political books when someone stepped in with a hypnotizing presence that was rather freaky. The owner of the book store started an interesting conversation with the guy who was knowledgeable about the role of the Jews and the Mossad. He mentioned the Max network in World War II which I never heard before and as he walked out of the library with a book titled “The Indestructible Jews” I felt like digging around about this Max network just to add it into the pile.

The Elkhorn Manifesto

[…]The Max network actually misled the Nazis, feeding them false intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet Union, leading "the Nazi divisions into a series of death traps on the Eastern front." The Max double-agents were responsible for the Nazis defeats at Stalingrad, "the giant battle of Kursk where Hitler's tank divisions were slaughtered. The final sting," continue the authors, "was to mislead Germany into believing that the Red army was on the verge of collapse in 1944, when in fact the Soviets were preparing for the most massive onslaught of the war.

"It would not be an exaggeration to say that the "Fascist Jews" of the Max network did more to defeat the German army than all the Western intelligence services combined. Seventy percent of all Hitler's divisions were destroyed on the Eastern front, largely as a result of the misleading intelligence supplied by Max." (22)

When Gehlen was recruited by the United States, Allen Dulles ordered the ex-Nazi spymaster to "revive the Max network." Gehlen already had plans to do just that, intending "to make Turkel's Max network the centerpiece of his new West German intelligence agency. As soon as a Republican president was elected in the United States, Dulles intended to take over the CIA and make Gehlen and Turkel the heart of his anti-Soviet network.[…]

Tumbling down the rabbit hole...

Standard Operation Procedure

Through the political and psychological manipulation of human compassion, they mold and even deform human sentiments - tears are only shed from the left eye, favoring evil causes and harming the noble causes, something that would not be possible without the decisive role, by action or omission, of the communications media. [Destaque Internacional]

Costa Rica's stone balls

While exploiting the region of the Diquis (in the southern countryside of Costa Rica) for agricultural purposes, the United Fruit Company brought to light fabulous stone balls of different sizes and weights with an impressionably perfect spherical shape during the decade of the 1940's.




It is impossible to date these stone balls, but chances are that they are pretty ancient. They come in different sizes (from more than six feet to just a few inches in diameter). Most of them have been removed from their original sites and placed in front yards of wealthy residences, parks, and public and private buildings all over Costa Rica... What a big mistake! I heard that local myth depicted the balls as having "something to do with stars". Some people began mapping the balls that remained in situ and some suggest that the sightlines correspond to a past position of the stars. Others suggest that they describe a geographical directional path.

It seems that the stone balls have been found in clusters of up to twenty, and often in geometric patterns such as triangles, rectangles or straight lines and that such alignments often point to the earth’s magnetic north.




I think that you can find these stones only in Costa Rica and Mexico. For more interesting info on megalith stones see “The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive”.




miscellaneous

The Israeli origins of Bush II's war

The following quotes are from the article "The Israeli origins of Bush II's war" by Stephen J. Sniegoski:

"While the neoconservatives were the driving force behind the American invasion of Iraq and the consequent efforts to bring about regime change throughout the Middle East, the idea for such a war did not originate with American neocon thinkers but rather in Israel."

"Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. "

"Even if imagined, such a policy revolution was certainly impossible in that decade [80s]. However, through the long-term efforts of the American neoconservatives, the transformation actually occurred in the Bush II administration. The neocon advocacy of dramatically altering the Middle Eastern status quo stood in stark contrast to the traditional American position of maintaining stability in the area — though it did, of course, mesh perfectly with Israel's long-established goal of destabilizing its enemies."

"To reiterate the central point of this essay: the vision of "regime change" in the Middle East through external, militant action originated in Israel, and its sole purpose was to advance the strategic interests of Israel. It had nothing to do with bringing "democracy" to Muslims. It had nothing to do with any terrorist threat to the United States. Those latter arguments accreted to the idea of regime change as the primary military actor changed from Israel to the United States. But the Israeli government would continue to be a fundamental supporter of the regional military action, even as the ostensible justifications for action changed. The Sharon government advocated the American attacks on Iraq and has preached the necessity of strikes on Iran."

"It would appear that for Ariel Sharon during the Bush II administration, the strategic benefits that would accrue to Israel from such a militant restructuring of the Middle East were the same as those that Likudniks sought in the 1980s. But unlike Begin's failed incursion into Lebanon in 1982, the Bush II effort not only relied upon the much greater power of the United States but also was wrapped in a cover of "democracy" and American national interest, effectively masking the true objective of Israeli hegemony. That helps to explain the much greater success of this intervention, which has come at no cost to Israel."

Read the entire article here.

News and politics

New Crop Circle

May 1st 2005
(cropcircleconnector.com)

The New Crop Circle at Golden Ball Hill in Oil Seed Rape with the ghost of the Dolphins from 2004

Lombardy

I remember when I first came to Italy. At the beginning it was depressing to say the least because I was used to my good old banana republic and views like the following were the rule rather than the exception:




Italians kept cheering me up, telling me that Italy was the most beautiful country in the whole world, only that I ended up in the wrong city...Milan, which by now I learned to appreciate. Anyway, to demonstrate that Italy was unique, they organized a tour to the lakes and indeed I understood that after all my banana republic was behind in some panoramic views. It is just different.


Lake of Como


Lake of Garda

With the years I had the chance to get involved in other tours and now I am struggling to choose which is the place that I like the most. Rome, Florence? It’s hard to choose, but Lombardy is the region where I am more involved with and getting to know its people and its culture is a life experience. In a contrast between poor foreigners from all around the world and the wealthiest people that I ever met, the region of Lombardy is one of the three richest regions in Europe. Every time I had a social invitation from my friends of Lombardy I knew it was a high class tour time. But there is something that catches my attention from the way they are (with some exceptions that is). It is something in between a sarcastic, practical, expressive, friendly and direct way of being. It’s hard to put it into words.

People
Diary

The HAARP zone

A compilation of bizarre news with an interesting analysis at Signs of the Times. Lets have a look at some of the strange events:

Alarming behaviour!

VILLAGERS say they are being plagued by a mystery interference which is playing havoc with their cars.
Meopham residents say their lives have been disrupted for two weeks by the strange happening.
They have seen their cars' remote-controlled locking systems go berserk meaning many motorists have been locked out of their own vehicles.
And to add to their fury, the cars' alarms are going off day and night apparently for no reason.[…]
Mr Broad said: "It's mystifying. We are at the end of our tether. If any readers can give us a clue as to why this is happening we want to hear from them."

And then this:

Scientists stumped by exploding toads

More than 1000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, baffling scientists.
German scientists still have no explanation for what's causing the combustion, an official said on Wednesday.

Welcome to the twilight zone... And considering the recent outburst of violence in the news, including: 15-year-old stabs his mother 111 times and Mother stabs each of her two children over 100 times and other several news (too many to quote…), shall I say then... Welcome to the HAARP zone?

miscellaneous

Graffiti

Milan

With the exception of some turistical attractions, I may say that this is what Milan is all about... graffiti
More graffiti from around the world at artincities

The case of Calipari

Things are heating up here in Italy. A few days ago we had the heater and today we have the air conditioner. But its okay, although I hate this hot weather, especially when it is early May, can’t imagine what will be like in August.

People here are upset from the way the Americans have responded to the “accidental” shooting of Calipari on the day journalist Giuliana Sgrena was liberated. The following are some translations of an alternative news source (LuogoComune):

[…] Rumsfeld decides to play the jolly of the advanced technology. Now he has the satellite that has seen all, but naturally nobody can verify that. Rumsfeld contacts the expert, who “reconstructs" with a diagram the images of the satellite: the patrol American sees the car of Calipari at 130 meters of distance (ANSA) and opens the fire when the car is at 42 meters. Measuring therefore the time interval, it is deducted that the car traveled at hundred kilometers per hour.

Evidently the Americans take us for dumb. Inasmuch as they say to have seen the Toyota at a distance of 140 meters, and to have shot at 42 meters, it means that the car of Calipari had gone 78 meters in the meantime. It’s a shame that at 100 km per hour, one goes 27 meters per second, which means that the time passed between the sighting and the shooting would be less than three seconds (27x3=81).

What signals would you be able to do with your hands, signals or all the rockets of this world, in less than 3 seconds? That is just the time that serves you in order to remove the lock and take the sight calmly, other than signals!

More than being a checkpoint it is a place of training for Olympic shootings! (Car! Taken. Car! Taken. Motion! Lacked. Damn... all dead?)

But it is possible that no Italian journalist has had the courage to raise this simple mathematical objection, obligating the entire country to make the figure of the deficient ones?

A reader commented: But, it is the same satellite that follows Bin Laden in its movements in Afghanistan?

Yeah, it is the same satellite…

Current events
Iraq

Deer in the Headlights

Some quotes from “Deer in the Headlights”, the new article of John Kaminski:

“Searching for the truth is
ugly, frightening and dangerous
— and the only worthwhile choice”

“As you know, we all have been looking for a way to explain the behavior and the rude and rapacious men who run our world, who are running it into the ground. They are not like us (or, they are not like me, I don’t know about you, really).”

“By the time I've come to awareness of the depth of the problem and the real issues, its an un-winnable situation. The media's sewn up. The voting process is totally co-opted. Whistleblowers are regularly and severely dealt with. The economic situation is getting ratcheted down to where the "middle class" becomes a term applying to the 1950s through the '70s; a historical footnote.”

“When you truly understand what's coming, can you do anything else? Can you?”

The article is here.