Before I go wherever this essay takes me I’d like you to read this. Every now and again I read something that pulls at the fabric of my shirt, just above the elbow and seems to say, “See...?” It’s one of the reasons that I think the light is breaking; all the little evidences of people waking up and wondering how they came to fall asleep in the first place.

I see the same news that you see. I see where oil is expected to rise to $160.00 a barrel and I remember when they said it would go to a hundred if Iran were attacked. I guess that was some kind of serious under-estimation at the time, given what they are saying here. Then there is the disappearance of the bees which, since I mention it a lot, you can assume I think it’s a very big deal.

On the geo-political stage the neo-con American government is foaming at the mouth about Iran. Every day they’ve got some new piece of information being delivered to the press by, “a source who can’t be named because they are not authorized to speak on the subject”; about how Iran is behind everything from canceling Deadwood to the long brown hair in your hash browns. They fired Admiral Fallon and General Hayden got all choked up about the people the neo-cons murdered on 9/11. It’s not as cutting edge Theater as Bush and Cheney doing the Walrus and Carpenter but it’s good enough for TV.

Israel hasn’t missed a beat either. When they’re not building massive settlements anywhere they can find a Palestinian family to evict ("double your pleasure, double your fun..."), they’re doing things like this. I’d like it if you took the time to read that article carefully. These despicable Swedish aid workers have the nerve to walk Palestinian school children home, right in front of Israeli settlers who are already contending with Palestinian sub-human’s occupying land that God gave to the Israelis and which involved keeping it clean of pests and a player to be named later. It’s an established custom for Israeli settlers to have the opportunity to pelt Palestinian children with rocks as well as club them to the ground and why the Swedes thought they could just waltz in and interrupt what is basically a religious ritual… well, I think you get the picture.

There aren’t too many things that possess as much sheer poetry as watching a ten year old girl’s head explode into a red mist through a sniper scope. Little cameras on the rifles make it possible for all Israeli’s to share those special moments and it’s totally déclassé for foreign vermin to get the mistaken idea that they’ve got some sort of right to interfere in another country’s business. God didn’t just give the Israelis all the land from Antarctica to the Tigris and Euphrates. He also gave them the Palestinians to do with as they wished. I got so mad when I saw this that I nearly hopped a flight to wherever that was to see if I couldn’t bring some succor, healing and closure to the settlers who must be suffering terribly from the interference.

Along with the rising food prices and the subprime gold rush are a host of shadow dancers, hoofing it like deranged Rockettes in front of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Let’s face it, it don’t look good but…

I’ve seen this before. I’ve seen it in other lifetimes at Waterloo and Gettysburg. I’ve seen it along with the rest of you when we ran out of potatoes in Ireland and during the pet rat period earlier on in the rest of Europe. We saw it in the blood-soaked trenches of Second Ypres and on the Russian front in the next war after that. This isn’t anything new. Somehow all of those darknesses went away and things got stable for awhile until some new darkness formed, west of Mirkwood and east of Eden, by way of the Same old Same Old, Here is Comes Again.

I’ve got a funny feeling this time. I can’t give you hard evidence of why I feel the way I do. I don’t like to talk about it because people’s eyes glaze over when I get all mystical and stuff. I’d ask you to imagine that I commune with my invisible friends and they tell me it’s going to be alright on down the road.

This doesn’t mean that hundreds of millions of people won’t die. They well might. This doesn’t mean that plague and famine won’t be doing a tango across the landscape. It could get a whole lot worse before it gets better but it will get better. It’s just something I feel and I want to tell you that because a lot of you are getting a little too down in the mouth for my tastes.

People talk about Armageddon but Armageddon comes to someone every day. Doesn’t the whole world end inside someone’s mind every time they die? In a hundred years almost no one presently living will still be here. They’ll all have died and gone. Is that any less of an Armageddon just because it happened in stages instead of all at once?

Not everyone’s dream comes true either. Look at poor David Rockefeller. He’s been dreaming of eugenics all his life and he’s still waiting. What will the poor Israeli settlers do when they run out of Palestinians? Have you considered that? I can see a time in the future when sad eyed, neo-con settlers sit by the roadside with signs that say, ‘Brother can you spare a Palestinian?” or “Will work for Palestinians.” It is to weep.

We need to be more grateful for what we have, although it occurs to me that it might be better if we could identify what we actually possess.

I’m going to get a little esoteric on you now and I hope you’ll forgive me for this and I hope it won’t prevent some web sites from reprinting this just because it gets a little spiritual. Anyway, a lot of the evil against which humanity contends is invisible. You can’t see it. Often these invisible entities will possess a person in a moment of weakness and do terrible things and then abandon them like a stolen car by the side of life’s highway ...before they move on.

Every two thousand years, at the beginning of each new age, a teacher comes. As this teacher approaches, he drives all of the darkness of the inner planes before him. These invisible entities have no where to go but outward into human form. This is the actual meaning of Armageddon in occult understanding.

All of the dark denizens are forced into vulnerable flesh where they can be dealt with. It appears to them that they are wielding great power and that they are untouchable; even as we see it now in Bush and Cheney, Rupert Murdoch and all the rest of what are, in fact, demons clothed in human form. The stage is being set for them to get a big wakeup call and that goes for the human race as well. You may think that things are out of control and that the big Roadmaster of life might go off into the ditch at any moment but… I assure you that EVERYTHING is very much under control.

The safest thing you can do for yourself is to keep an understanding heart and behave according to what your conscience tells you. These are the times we always heard about. We are living in them right now. Do yourself a favor and assume the mantle of a true human being and live and act in a reach to your higher self. This is achieved in all the little things we do every day. This is achieved by knowing what is right and not being afraid to say and do it.

In any case… turn off your TV set and turn on your heart. Everything is going to get sorted out. You don’t have to worry about that. Just do your best and don’t walk by those in need when the moment is upon you.

And now I'd like it very much if you would listen to this song.

When Darkness Falls

I like the 'on the edge' quality of that website you linked showing $160 oil.

This was an interesting tidbit

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Unfortunately not to be bandied about here on the politically correct Fray...

One thing to keep in mind about $100 oil. When Bush took over oil was in the $25 range and was running about 30 Euros a barrel. Today oil is over $100 and is running about 60 Euros. So while it has quadrupled in dollars, it's only about doubled in Euros.

Like www.rense.com they print whatever is controversial. My only concern is, "is it true?" not whether it will upset someone which is almost guaranteed.

the post, the links...the link in genedio's post....they all confirm what is a growing shadow of a form that has an ugly face and a black heart.

I have refrained from linking passges to the scriptures for a long time but here is one that probably should be looked at more closely.

1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a revelation was given to Daniel (who was called Belteshazzar). Its message was true and it concerned a great war. The understanding of the message came to him in a vision. 2 At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. 3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over. 4 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris, 5 I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of the finest gold around his waist. 6 His body was like chrysolite, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude. 7 I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid themselves. 8 So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision; I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale and I was helpless. 9 Then I heard him speaking, and as I listened to him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground.

10 A hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. 11 He said, "Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you." And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.

12 Then he continued, "Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. 13 But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.

This is one of my favorite passages from Daniel. It indicates that there is an organization of unseen forces driving us in the direction that we are going in....

jo

I still have vivid memories of the media going into oil-shock when oil spiked up to thirty dollars a barrel in 2000.
I was led to think the Clinton administration was irresponsible and incompetent, that they didn't know what they were doing and we were in for nothing but a roller coaster ride back to economic instability and that always dreaded word: inflation.
I watched FoxNews back then, it was before the Bush regime reigned supreme.

Nowdays, what a contrast! No more dire warnings of impending doom -- I remember the media was even calling for Clinton to tap into sacred oil reserves to keep the cost of fuel at the tank down in 2000.
Now it's oh, by the way, oil prices have inched up again and never, ever is it linked to Bush and his policies. Nowhere do it hear discussion that problem might be resolved by the Bush regime as it was when Clinton was prez. There is no connection made between Bush and the oil crisis in the media, maybe, The Nation makes the connection ....

Gas was around six dollars a gallon last year in Europe, combine those prices along with the autostrada tolls, and your on the way to the poorhouse.

great one ellen.

I kinda look at oil prices as a wierd type of taxation system. This is why I'm against the tax that Obama wants to levee on US citizens to support underdeveloped nations. I think that the Bill Gates Foundation and the Oprah Winfrey donations are doing a great job with that.

Now to get a Bill Gates Foundation that targets the problems we have here in the US. We have a BIll and Hillary Foundation which targets the US but it still isn't quite as big as 850 billion dollars poured into the US to bring us up educationally, I don't think.

The book of Daniel is perhaps the most mystical and occult of all the books of the Old Testament. It is filled with associations of gematria and is often referred to by the deeper and more mysterious of biblical scholars, meaning one doesn't hear about them and read what they have to say unless they go looking hard for it.

Well, I'm Eastern, but so was Christianity originally. Once they started packaging Jesus with your Big Mac and fries, I wound up where I always do sitting on a hill watching the festivities because I didn't get invited to the party because I would have said something that poisoned the punch and made the makeup run.

It's about getting accustomed. They do the same thing when they go to put the reins on a horse.

I've had a view for years that the people who use the highways ought to be the ones who pay, through taxes added onto the price of fuel at the pump, to go towards paying for the building and maintenance of roads and highways.

It is interesting that you bring up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Oprah Winfrey. I am just so ignorant about what they do, I've seen Bill Gates on Charlie Rose talk about his foundation, but that is all.

I'll look them up and find out. I did wonder if they are already involved with whatever it is they do (I'll find out now).
Do they contribute to Doctors Without Borders for instance? I do, about one zillioneth of what the Gates foundation might in say, one hour if they do at all. I can't think that they do not.

On Bill Moyer's Journal (thanks to firstphone) Friday, I saw a show about the war in the Congo and some of the measures that are being taken to get just basic sustenance to the refugees who still I gather live in the forests. And, some of the ingenious ways they've thought up to deliver supplies. Doctors Without Borders were the only people providing medical care to the people in the show.
An organization "Concern Worldwide" which I've never heard of before, helps to provide needed help and assistance to the survivors.

I have a suggestion for the U.S.Gates Foundation: solar energy.

I loved your funny, quirky post about putting ants (me too?) in dog training crates or cages, on another thread!!!!

Indoctrination ... mind control.... brain washing

Last week on Hardballs (naughty) Chris Matthews very earnestly, almost fiercely, said that "It took a lot of guts for Bush to go out on that field to throw the ball out" It's the media. Fox is just falling all over itself to pander to McCain. It's like they dress him up in a fine suit and prop him up on a chair and let him prattle on, with a clenched jaw, barely moving his lips, about absolutely nothing!
It's surreal!

Something strange is going on darnit! The media didn't let Clinton or Bush I, get away with anything, didn't give 'em time to pull anything underhanded. Now it's like a total blackout. If another Republican Regime gets in power, I'm convinced they will begin rewriting the history of these last incredible years to favor themselves.

and your diligence. You have provided a steady stream of reliable information on some of the toughest subjects to deal with imaginable here over the past few years and indeed it takes that kind of persistence to get a message of truth out against a tsunami of lies and bullshit.

It has taken some time for me to see it but I can see it more clearly with every passing day...the outworking of greed in our international spider web of deceit and treachery and the subsequent pain and suffering that has grown as the rotten fruit of this insidious tree.

This used to be a nice place to live...but lately I have been having thoughts....really serious ones about getting out.

Thoughts about getting out ?

Oh No!

You are planning to leave the closet finally?

Oh...:( such sweet pain...:(