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Email 'bout numerology & 2012

Thursday 28th of January 2010 by Jesse


Hey guys, i received this email couple of minutes ago. Check it out :
 
Hi Jesse,


One of the most significant years in numerology is the year 2012
A.D. That is because that is the date that the Mayans predicted
that the world would end.

Even people who do not know a lot about Mayan astrology have heard
this theory that the year 2012 will bring the apocalypse. It is
supposed to end on December 21st at 11:11 am. This is a date that has
always significant to theorists, physicist, astrologers,
historians and numerologists as the year signifies the end of the
thirteen cycle that make up what is known as the Mayan Long Count
Calendar.

The Mayan Calendar contains both components of astrology and
numerology. The people that belonged to this ancient civilization
of Central America were adept pampers and trackers of the heavens.
The massive temples that were built by this early civilization were
not just tombs or places to worship the Gods. They were also built
to be giant observatories of the heavens.

These temples were architecturally designed so that the movements
of the planets, the sun, the moon and the stars could be tracked.

The majestic structures that the ancient Mayans built were not just
places of worship. They were centers of astronomic studies that
also did dual duty as temples of worship. Some temples even had
cut-outs in their stones in the shapes of snakes. As the sun would
raise, these cut out shapes would cast lengthening shadows in the
shape of snakes down the temple steps.  From a distance it would
seem that a real snake was slithering down the steps. When the
snake shadow lengthened so that it reached the bottom of the steps
it marked a day. One whole day in the Mayan calendar was called a
Kin.

Many ancient civilizations in Africa and the Far East developed
calendars based on a 20 unit mathematical system and coincidentally
so did the Mayan civilization.

In essence the Long Count system nested cycles of days based on the
number 20.   Every unit of time in the calendar was based somehow
out of that unit of 20.

Twenty days was called a Uinal. 7200 days was called a Katun and
144,000 days was called a Baktun.  The Mayan year consisted of 360
days and was called a Tun.  This calendar was a little shorter than
ours in terms of year length because it was only 360 days. Those
360 days were in turn divided into units of twenty days.

The reason that ancient Mayan year was a little bit shorter than
our current calendar of 365 years is that it was based on the
astral cycles of Venus. The ancient Mayans knew that whenever this
shining celestial body was close to the earth that it seemed to
bring good times.  Of course today we would note this knowing that
the planet Venus is associated in astrology with love and
blessings. The planet Venus also has cycles that are the equivalent
in length to the number twenty.

This Long Count system of measuring time was first put into
practice by the Mayans around 32 B.C.  The reason that it was
called The Long Count is because the Mayans, who were quite dark
spiritually, believed that the end of the world must happen. In
fact it was something to look forward to, because life was believed to
be easier after that.

In essence the Mayan Long Count is the countdown to the eventual
and unavoidable apocalypse that would bring the end of the world.
The high priests and shamans in the Mayan culture figured out that
the Long Count which is supposed to equal 5125.36 days.

This number of days is also known as the Mayan Great Cycle. This
passage of time ends exactly on the winter solstice. Amazingly the
Mayan mathematicians were able to pinpoint the exact day and time
that the world will end in the future and that is on December 21st
2012. Just as a matter of interest they also believed that the
world was conceived on August 13th.

There is actual astrological and astronomical data to back up the
theory of the Mayan Long Count, and there are things happening in
the sky that day that could potentially bring the end of the world!

Astrologically this date is important as this marks the date when
the Sun is going to cross what is astronomically known as the Milky
Way Equator.  The Mayans were absolutely incredible mathematicians
and they could predict centuries into the future when it came to
predicting the trajectory of the Sun.

Further here is a lot of imagery representing the Milky Way in
works of art done by the Mayans. The sea of stars of the Milky Way
is essential to the Mayan myth of the Sacred Tree.

In many of these drawings the sun is symbolized as a canoe
that carries Mayan deities across the sky.  In many drawings on
temple walls there is a progressive series of images that shows the
end of the world as symbolized by the canoe sinking into the Milky
Way. Astrologically the crossing of the sun over the Milky Way
equator scheduled to happen at exactly 11:11 a.m GMT on December 21st
in the year 2012.

This type of astrological event is unheard of as the sun will
technically be in what is known as the "dark rift" of the Milky Way
and oddly will also be in conjunction with the exact center of the
universe.

Many visionaries and metaphysicians have noted how important this
date is to the end of the world. One famous analysis called "The
Mayan Prophecies" (authored by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterill)
have put forth the theory that the sun will reverse its magnetic
field that day. This would be a development that would result in
weather changes and seismic shifts that could cause the end of the
world.

Of course the end of the world has been predicted many times in
history and it is more likely that the Long Count will signify the
end of one era and a new beginning of consciousness.  However it is
quite odd that the number 11:11 -- which is apocalyptic in other
religions and cultures -- is the same in this system.


Yours in Numbers,
 Blair
 Numerologist.com

Un interviu exceptional cu un om exceptional : Tvrkto Vujity

Tuesday 26th of January 2010 by Jesse



Tvrtko Vujity
Foto: Hotnews
Ne-am intalnit in fata ambasadei Ungariei la Bucuresti. Tvrtko e faimos la Budapesta, dar in Romania nu-l cunoaste nimeni. Ne-am asezat la o masa sa mancam. Deasupra, pe ecranul unui televizor, curgea un talk-show la care participau Bogdan Chireac si Sorin Rosca Stanescu. Noi am inceput sa discutam despre jurnalism, apoi despre calatoriile lui in locuri imposibile. Abia puteam sa-l privesc in ochi. Desi are o figura adolescentina, ochii jurnalistului maghiar sunt foarte batrani. Si al naibii de tristi. A vazut multe omul asta. Poate prea multe…  

„Putem fi noi tristi aici, in estul Europei?”

Ca si in cazul meu, unul dintre parintii lui Tvrtko este croat. Ne amuzam de coincidenta si, in timp ce imi arata buletinul lui croat, observ ca are in portofel mai multe permise de conducere bizare. 

Tvrtko Vujity: Am cetatenie maghiara pentru ca m-am nascut in Ungaria. Am si cetatenie croata pentru ca sunt minoritar in tara mea. Vorbesc de altfel croata si iubesc cultura croata. Dar am si cetatenia celei mai mici tari africane, Gambia, cu o populatie de un milion si jumatate. Copiii mei au mers la gradinita in Gambia.

V.M.: Cati copii ai?
Tvrtko Vujity: Am doi copii si jumatate. Imediat iti explic. Impreuna cu sotia mea, care a jucat in echipa nationala de baschet a Ungariei, am doi copii: Benjamin si Barnabas. Iar anul trecut am adoptat-o pe Samira, o fata din Somalia. Ea este jumatate unguroaica, jumatate somaleza. Tatal ei, care era ungur, a fost ucis datorita culorii pielii lui. Am adus-o pe Samira acasa si ea a devenit membra a familiei mele. Asadar am doi copii care sunt sangele meu si o fiica musulmana care nu e din sangele meu dar este copilul meu.

V.M.: Care e povestea Samirei?
Tvrtko Vujity: Samira are 19 ani. E o tanara domnisoara. Povestea ei este si povestea vietii mele. Tatal Samirei s-a nascut nu departe de Pecs, care e orasul meu natal. Dupa revolutia din 1956, tatal Samirei a fugit din Ungaria. Nu stiu cum, dar a ajuns in Somalia, una dintre cele mai periculoase tari din lume. In urma cu trei ani a fost ucis din cauza ca era alb. Era in timpul
 
Exista o vorba frumoasa: „daca poti salva o viata, atunci salvezi o intreaga lume”
 
 
Tvrtko Vujity
razboiului civil cand, intr-o zi, Samira s-a intors de la scoala si si-a gasit tatal si fratii ucisi in casa. A fugit dar a fost prinsa si abuzata. I-au taiat trupul cu cutitul...

Aici, Tvrtko se opreste din povestit. Ochii lui de copil batran sunt plini de lacrimi. Dar inghite in sec si continua...

A devenit a patra sotie a unui barbat de 64 de ani de la care a fugit si a ajuns in tabara de refugiati Dada din Kenya, unde era unul dintre cei 170.000 de refugiati. Pe 16 iunie am mers in Kenya si am adus-o acasa unde a devenit membra a familiei noastre. Exista o vorba frumoasa: „daca poti salva o viata, atunci salvezi o intreaga lume”. Samira e toata lumea mea si iti spun de ce.

E o fata zambitoare, frumoasa si fericita acum. Si dupa tot ce ti-am povestit despre ea, dupa ce familia ei a fost ucisa, dupa ce a fost taiata si abuzata, dupa ce a suferit intr-o tabara de refugiati, ea zambeste. Daca ea poate zambi dupa toata aceasta suferinta, putem fi noi tristi aici in estul Europei? Ce fel de probleme avem? Ca alegerile au fost castigate de un partid si nu de celalalt? Ca seful meu e un tampit? Ca autobuzele intarzie? Dar gandeste-te numai putin la viata acestei fete si iti vei da seama ca problemele noastre, in Romania, in Ungaria sau in Bulgaria, nu sunt deloc probleme. Acesta e motto-ul vietii mele.

„Am invatat cum arata cu adevarat Iadul.”

V.M.: Ce alte cetatenii mai ai?
Tvrtko Vujity: Mai am una din Republica Central Africana si mai am si din... Dar ia stai sa-ti spun ceva. Astea sunt doar documente. Daca esti jurnalist prima propozitie pe care trebuie sa o inveti este „poti face orice cu reportajele tale, doar sa nu minti”. Nu-i asa? Sa nu minti niciodata. Asta e lucrul principal. In ultimii 15 ani de cand sunt jurnalist eu am mintit de dimineata pana seara. Si scriu carti despre minciunile mele. Pentru ca sa-mi scriu povestirile trebuie sa mint.

V.M.: Lucrezi sub acoperire intotdeauna. De ce?
Tvrtko Vujity: Cum altfel as putea ajunge in locurile in care am ajuns? Eu am avut multe vise, dar unul singur mi-a schimbat viata. 53 de ani dupa sfarsitul celui de-al doilea razboi mondial, impreuna cu un psiholog, am dat de urma ultimului prizonier de razboi din lume. Un barbat internat fortat intr-un ospiciu din fosta Uniune Sovietica, in Tatarstan. Domnul Toma Andras a ajuns acolo in 1944 ca prizonier de razboi si, la mai mult de 50 de ani dupa, l-am gasit si familia sa a putut sa-l revada.

Toate rudele lui erau convinse ca Toma Andras a murit. Si noi l-am gasit. Ei bine, cum ar fi fost sa merg intr-un ospiciu din fosta Uniune Sovietica si sa le spun: „Salut. Sunt Tvrtko, am o camera de filmat mica si vreau sa fac un reportaj despre faptul ca nu l-ati intrebat pe omul asta niciodata in 50 de ani cine esti si de unde vii?” Tocmai de aceea am fost in Tatarstan sub acoperirea de vanator de ursi pentru ca acolo merg multi italieni sa vaneze ursi. Camera o aveam pentru ca sa-mi filmez trofeele de vanatoare. Asta a fost acolo minciuna mea. Dar dupa ce l-am adus acasa si am vazut valul de afectiune publica declansat mi-am spus „gata, hai sa mergem asa peste tot in lume”.

Si cel mai mare vis din viata mea a fost sa ajung in Coreea de Nord, cea mai izolata tara din lume. Iti poti imagina cum ar fi fost sa le spun: „Salut baieti, sunt Tvrtko. Uite, vreau sa scriu despre regimul vostru idiot”? Am fost ca membru al unei organizatii internationale de caritate a baptistilor, iar camera de filmat o aveam pentru a arata donatorilor unde ajung ajutoarele. Adu-ti aminte ca, in vara, Bill Clinton a trebuit sa intervina pentru eliberarea a doi jurnalisti americani care nu facusera altceva decat sa treaca granita in Coreea de Nord cu 15 metri.

V.M.: In ce an ai fost in Coreea de Nord?
Tvrtko Vujity: In 2002.

V.M.: Stiu ca sotia ta era gravida in acel an. Nu a fost egoist din partea ta sa faci o calatorie atat de periculoasa chiar in acele 9 luni?
 
De cand am fost in Coreea de Nord nu ma mai pot plange de problemele din viata mea. Daca am un pahar de apa si o farfurie de mancare sunt multumit.
 
 
Tvrtko Vujity
Tvrtko Vujity: Asta e o intrebare grea pentru mine. Ea a jucat baschet la nivel international si mie imi era foarte frica ca s-ar putea accidenta. Dar asta e meseria mea. Am studiat pentru ca sa fac jurnalism. Nu am plecat in Coreea de Nord asa, peste noapte. Mi-am organizat calatoria doi ani.

Cand am fost la Cernobal am pregatit totul vreme de un an, cand am fost in Rwanda m-am pregatit un an si jumatate. Iar pentru mine Coreea de Nord a fost ceea ce este rolul lui Romeo pentru un actor. Asa ca trebuia sa o fac. Si de atunci sunt mult mai puternic pentru ca acolo am invatat cum arata cu adevarat Iadul. De cand am fost in Coreea de Nord nu ma mai pot plange de problemele din viata mea. Daca am un pahar de apa si o farfurie de mancare sunt multumit.

„In Coreea de Nord am facut pe mine de frica”

V.M.: Nu cred ca am mai avut pana acum in fata un om caruia sa i se potriveasca atat de bine intrebarea „ce e libertatea”?
Tvrtko Vujity: Ha... Dupa ce m-am intors din Coreea de Nord mai intalneam coreeni care ma intrebau: „Ai fost in Coreea? In Seoul?”. Cand le spuneam ca am fost la Pyongyang erau atat de uimiti incat orice alta discutie se bloca. Asa ca nu le mai spun ca am fost in Coreea de Nord. In al doilea rand, eu locuiam pe aceeasi strada din Budapesta unde este ambasada Coreei de Sud. Nu am primit in viata mea atat de multe invitatii la dineuri ca de la ei. Doar ca sa le povestesc putin ce am vazut acolo.

V.M.: Nu mi-ai raspuns la intrebare: ce e libertatea?
Tvrtko Vujity
: Totul. Tot ce avem acum aici: ca bei acum limonada. Ca eu imi cumpar bilet si ma duc maine acasa, apoi merg in Slovenia. Ca pot sa spun orice la microfonul asta si nu ma va ucide nimeni. Dar cred ca in Coreea de Nord nimeni nu stie asta. Ei traiesc intr-o inchisoare si stiu ca au doi zei: Kim Ir-sen si Kim Jong-il si nu stiu nimic despre altceva. Si Vlad, daca ai fi auzit inca din copilarie ca Statele Unite sunt cel mare dusman al tarii tale sunt sigur ca i-ai uri pe americani.

V.M.: Ti-a fost frica in Coreea?
Tvrtko Vujity: Am fost terifiat. A existat un moment in care am facut pe mine de frica. La propriu. Am scris asta in carte. Trebuia sa scriu despre asta. A fost un moment in Coreea de Nord cand am crezut ca s-a terminat. Gata sunt terminat, mi-am spus. Dar aveam si o plasa de siguranta. In Coreea am fost in calitate de voluntar al Asociatiei Umanitare Baptiste care a adus cu ea 5 milioane de dolari donatii. Daca mie mi se intampla ceva atunci coreenii comunisti nu mai primeau acei bani. Acolo banii erau mai puternici chiar decat puterea.

V.M.: De unde vine curajul asta al tau? Esti nebun?
Tvrtko Vujity: Nu sunt. Chiar nu sunt. In Coreea de Nord am ajuns in orasul Sarivon unde sunt foarte multi copii care mor de foame. Dupa filmul meu au primit donatii de cateva milioane de euro din partea oamenilor care au vazut reportajul meu.

V.M.: Esti sigur ca banii au ajuns la copii si nu la elita comunista?
Tvrtko Vujity: Da. Pentru ca ajutoarele ajung acolo sub forma de alimente si medicamente si sunt distribuite personal. Desigur ca unele lucruri mai ajung si la sefi, dar cea mai mare parte nu. Si sa-ti mai spun ceva: ai auzit de povestea detinutului Papillon, cel care a incercat sa evadeze de 13 ori? El s-a dus pe insula leprosilor si eu am vrut sa vad tabara de leprosi din Etiopia. Dar nicaieri nu am vazut ce am vazut in Coreea de Nord.

“Oamenii valorosi nu apar in tabloide. Ei doar muncesc.”

Calatorii in infern
Calatorii in infern
Foto: HotNews.ro
V.M.: In Romania, jurnalismul trece printr-o perioada dificila: sunt concedieri multe, independenta putina. E natural sa te intreb, cu gandul la jurnalistii romani, ce este jurnalismul?
Tvrtko Vujity: In primul rand trebuie sa-ti spun ca eu nu am facut niciodata politica. Eu povestesc despre oameni. Uneori ne facem gresit meseria, nu doar in Romania sau in Ungaria. Le aratam oamenilor eroi falsi. Erou e cel care a participat la Big Brother. Erou e cel care are o poveste amoroasa cu o vedeta. Dar redactorul tau sef trebuie sa te intrebe: de ce povestesti asta? Care este scopul? Niciunul. Ce iti spune personalitatea asta? Nimic. Eu vreau sa arat doua lucruri. Primul: sunt multe locuri in lume unde un pahar de apa e o comoara, unde poti fi ucis din cauza nationalitatii tale. Asa ca eu vreau sa le spun oamenilor din estul Europei ca avem cu totii o viata buna.

Dar nu ne dam seama intotdeauna cat de valoroase sunt lucrurile pe care le avem. Al doilea lucru: vreau sa iti cunosti eroii. Cei adevarati. Oamenii despre care ai povesti copiilor tai. Titlul cartii mele este “Calatorii in infern”. Dar e o carte despre oamenii care lucreaza in iad. Da, exista in Etiopia cel mai mare lagar de leprosi din lume, 7000 de oameni, dar exista acolo si un medic, Agnesa, care ii ajuta sa nu moara. Exista Coreea de Nord unde copii mor de foame dar exista si Sandor care incearca sa-i salveze si sa le dea de mancare. Unul dintre noi e erou. Acesti oameni valorosi nu apar in tabloide. Ei doar muncesc. Dar muncesc din greu si ei sunt adevaratii eroi. Ei sunt ingerii care lucreaza in Iad, asa ca povestile mele infernale sunt despre ingerii acestia.

V.M.: Esti independent financiar?
Tvrtko Vujity: Cartile mele ma elibereaza. Datorita lor sunt liber. Sunt independent financiar. Nu trebuie sa merg la nicio conferinta de presa a vreunui politician care sa-mi spuna…hmm…povestile lui. Asta e jurnalismul meu. Jurnalismul politic este altceva.

V.M.: Cum iti finantezi calatoriile?
Tvrtko Vujity: Prima data am investit banii mei proprii. Apoi, din cartile vandute am putut sa-mi si finantez calatoriile. Dar nu sunt atat de scumpe pentru ca eu sunt si reporterul si cameramanul si soferul. Eu le fac pe toate. Nimeni nu mi-a spus “noi iti adoptam reportajele si iti dam bani sa le faci”.

V.M.: De ce crezi ca oamenii sunt atat de atrasi de povestile tale?
Tvrtko Vujity: Pentru ca se uita la prea multe lucruri de rahat. Sa-ti spun ceva: cu 9 ani in urma, dupa ce am scris prima carte am fost cu ea la trei edituri. Fiecare mi-a spus ca nu vor publica reportajele mele pentru ca au fost deja la televizor si nu le va citi nimeni. Eu le-am spus ca e ceva diferit: filmul e obiectiv, cartea e subiectiva. Eu am scris despre cum am plans eu, despre cum am facut pe mine de frica. E ceva diferit. Dar ei au tinut-o pe-a lor: nu si nu. Ok. Mi-am controlat buzunarele. Nu era prea mult acolo. Bun, atunci voi tipari 6000 de exemplare pentru ca doar de atata am. Cinci zile mai tarziu seful unei edituri m-a sunat sa-mi spuna ca au nevoie urgent de 18.000 de exemplare. Ei bine, cartile mele au fost tiparite in peste o suta de mii de exemplare. Si ce responsabilitate am eu in fata atator cititori. Emisiunile de televiziune trec, dar cartile raman.

Eroul roman al unui jurnalist maghiar

V.M.: Cand esti in Ungaria te recunoaste lumea pe strada?
Tvrtko Vujity (zambeste si raspunde soptit): Da.

V.M.: Deci esti faimos?
Tvrtko Vujity: Ce-i aia faimos? Pe mine televiziunea m-a facut popular dar oamenii nu doar ma recunosc ci ma si cunosc. Datorita cartilor.

V.M.: Cum te simti aici in Bucuresti unde nimeni nu te cunoaste?
Tvrtko Vujity: Bine. Pentru ca asta este o lupta buna. Nu pentru afacere sau pentru piata de carte. Eu nu am venit aici pentru afacere. In cartea asta e sufletul meu. Si am vrut sa o public in Romania pentru ca unul dintre eroii mei este roman. Si lui i-am dat primul exemplar din cartea mea tiparita in limba romana. Acest erou e Petre Cozma, tatal handbalistului Marian Cozma care a fost ucis in 8 februarie 2009. De atunci Ungaria nu mai e aceiasi. E o poveste atat de trista… In acele zile strigatele impotriva tiganilor au fost mai puternice ca niciodata.

Multi oameni au simtit atunci ca nu doar un singur om e vinovat, ci o intreaga minoritate. Au fost atunci demonstratii violente. Toti ii cautau pe criminali. Toti vroiau sa-i prinda. Sunt sau nu tigani? Si acel om care avea dreptul sa fie cea mai furioasa fiinta de pe pamant, tatal lui Marian Cozma, a venit la noi si ne-a invatat ce inseamna pacea. Daca in acele zile el ar fi spus ceva rau, si ar fi fost de inteles sa o faca, s-ar fi putut naste mari probleme. Dar el ne-a spus: “Nu dati foc intregii paduri. Haideti sa dam acestei paduri copaci noi. Iar cand nepotul meu va creste il voi aduce aici, la Veszprem, la un meci al fostei echipe a lui Marian”. Petre Cozma a venit de mai multe ori in Ungaria la meciurile fostei echipe a fiului sau. La un meci din Liga Campionilor, acest munte de om tinea pe genunchi un baietel de 7 ani, iar mana lui uriasa ii mangaia parul.

Cand i-am vazut am stiut ca baietelul se simtea in siguranta. Era fiul meu. De ziua nationala a tarii mele, Petre Cozma a fost decorat cu cea mai inalta decoratie a Ungariei. Acest om urias cu o inima atat de mare a fost decorat nu pentru ca fiul sau a fost ucis, ci pentru ca a facut pentru prietenia dintre unguri si romani mai mult decat multi politicieni in multi ani. Cartea mea este dedicata fiilor mei si lui Petre Cozma. Pentru ca el este eroul meu. Toata lumea stie in Ungaria ce a facut Petre Cozma pentru noi si eu vreau acum ca acest lucru sa se afle si in Romania.



Tvrtko Vujity s-a nascut in 1972 in orasul Pecs din sud-vestul Ungariei. A studiat jurnalism in Statele Unite la sectia Comunicare a Universitatii din Miami. Realizeaza o emisiune de mare audienta la Televiziunea Maghiara. Reportajele sale sunt adesea preluate de catre posturi internationale de televiziune.

Tvrtko a reprezentat orasul Pecs in cursa pentru desemnarea drept capitala culturala europeana in 2010. Dupa castigarea acestei titulaturi, jurnalistul a devenit unul dintre ambasadorii orasului sau natal.

In Ungaria i-au fost publicate noua carti care s-au vandut in peste 800.000 de exemplare. In Romania, cartea lui de reportaje a fost publicata sub titlul “Calatorii in Infern”(ed.Curtea Veche, 2009). Din beneficiul provenind din vanzarea cartilor a infiintat, impreuna cu sotia sa, Premiul Eroului Cotidian, care se acorda in luna decembrie a fiecarui an insotit de o consistenta suma de bani.

sursa:
http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-6842536-jurnalistul-maghiar-tvrtko-vujity-unul-dintre-eroii-mei-este-roman.htm

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The Lovely Bones

Sunday 24th of January 2010 by Jesse


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Filmul prezinta drama familiei Salmon care isi pierde unul din cei 3 copii, Susie, fata cea mare in varsta de 14 ani, ucisa cu salbaticie de un psihopat gen Ted Bundy. Prinsa intre doua lumi, Susie isi priveste familia incercand sa treaca peste disparitia ei, aproape destramandu-se, emanand o energie negative asupra sa in momentele in care isi urmarea ugicasul plina de ura. Efectele filmului sunt uimitoare iar scenariul se vede de la o posta ca e de fapt o carte (scrisa de Alice Sebold).
 

Ce m-a uimit la acest film este faptul ca reuseste sa te hipnotizeze trimitandu-te intr-o lume de vis, unde realitatea se imbina cu fantezia, ura cu dragostea si groaza cu speranta. Un film care pune accent pe drama unei familii care trece printr-o situatie teribila si a parintilor care isi vad implinita cea mai mare teama.

Filmul e regizat de Peter Jackson iar in rolurile principale apar Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon si Michael Imperioli.


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Suport Tehnic vs Clienti

Tuesday 19th of January 2010 by Jesse


Suport tehnic: Ce model este calculatorul dumneavoastra?
Client: Unul alb...

Client: Buna, Mariana aici. Nu pot sa-mi scot discheta din calculator.
Suport tehnic: Ati incercat sa apasati butonul?
Client: Da, sigur, e chiar blocat.
Suport tehnic: Asta nu suna prea bine; Voi trimite pe cineva.
Client: Nu , stati putin..Inca n-am bagat-o... e inca pe birou... scuze...

Suport tehnic: Apasati pe simbolul "My Computer" din partea stanga a
ecranului.
Client: Stanga ta sau stanga mea?

Suport tehnic: Buna ziua. Cu ce va pot ajuta?
Client: Buna...Nu pot sa listez.
Suport tehnic: Puteti va rog sa dati click pe "Start" pentru mine si...
Client: Asculta domnule, te rog sa nu ma iei pe mine cu chestii din astea
tehnice! Ca doar nu-s Bill Gates.

Client: Buna, Marta aici, nu pot sa listez. De fiecare data cand incerc,
imi spune ca nu poate gasi imprimanta.
Chiar am luat imprimanta si am ridicat-o in fata monitorului si el
tot imi spune ca nu o gaseste...

Client: Am o problema daca vreau sa listez cu rosu...
Suport tehnic: Aveti imprimanta color?
Client: Aaaah.....................

multumesc.

Suport tehnic: Ce vedeti pe monitorul dumneavoastra doamna?
Client: E un ursulet pe care prietenul meu mi l-a cumparat de Valentine's
day.

Client: Tastatura mea nu mai functioneaza.
Suport tehnic: Sunteti sigur ca e conectata la calculator?
Client: Nu. Nu pot sa vad in spatele calculatorului.
Suport tehnic: Ridicati tastatura si mergeti 10 pasi in spate.
Client:! OK
Suport tehnic: Inca mai aveti tastatura in mana?
Client: Da
Suport tehnic: Asta insemana ca nu e conectata la calculator.Mai vedeti
vreo tastatura pe birou?
Client: Da, mai e una pe aici. Ah...asta merge... multumesc tare mult!

Suport tehnic: Parola dumneavoastra este "a" mic, de la ananas, "V" mare de
la Victor, si cifra 7.
Client: Mare sau mic?

Client: Nu pot sa intru pe internet.
Suport tehnic: Ati folosit parola corecta?
Client: Da, sigur. Am vazut-o la colegul meu.
Suport tehnic: Puteti sa-mi spuneti ce parola ati folosit?
Client: Cinci stelute.

Suport tehnic: Ce program anti-virus folositi?
Client: Firefox.
Suport tehnic: Acesta nu este un program anti-virus.
Client: Aa, scuze...Internet Explorer.

Client: Am o maaare problema. Un prieten mi-a pus un screen saver pe
calculator dar de fiecare data cand misc de mouse, dispare......

Suport tehnic: Cum pot sa va ajut?
Client: Scriu primul meu e-mail.
Suport tehnic: OK, si care ar fi problema?
Client: Pai, am scris litera "a" in adresa, dar nu stiu cum sa desenez
cerculetul din jurul ei


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Epidemiologul si deputatul Wolfgang Wodarg denunta CARDASIA DINTRE OMS SI â

Tuesday 19th of January 2010 by Jesse


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“Este o gripă cât se poate de normală. Ea nu cauzează nici o zecime din decesele provocate de gripa sezonieră clasică. Singurul lucru important care a condus la formidabila campanie de panică la care asistăm este faptul că
reprezintă o ocazie de aur pentru reprezentanţii laboratoarelor, care
ştiau că vor trage lozul cel mare în cazul declarării unei pandemii”.


“Vaccinurile au fost create prea repede, unii adjuvanţi au fost insuficient testaţi. Ceea ce e mai grav, vaccinul creat de Novartis a fost produs într-un bioreactor pe bază de celule canceroase. O tehnică ce nu a mai fost folosită până acum”.




GRASSLEY  investigation graphic money and stethescope 500



Va prezentam mai jos, in traducere, integral, interviul acordat cotidianului L’Humanite de catre deputatul german Wolfgang Wodarg pe tema anchetei
pe care Comisia de Sanatate a APC o va conduce asupra legaturilor
dintre OMS si industria farmaceutica, precum si asupra falsitatii
alarmei privitoare la “pandemia” gripei porcine.



Medicul si deputatul german Wodarg pune
in evidenta foarte multe lucruri dubioase legate de procedeul folosit
de OMS pentru a declansa campania de vaccinare impotriva “gripei
porcine”. Esenta contestarii ramane faptul ca pandemia este un fals
inventat pentru “binele” industriei farmaceutice si spre paguba
buzunarului si sanatatii omului obisnuit.


Asadar, toata operatiunea declansata,
la noi in tara, de secretarul de stat Streinu Cercel, precum si de
perpetuatorii din sistemul politic, sanitar si mediatic, se bazeaza pe
un FALS. Mult zgomot pentru un nimic costisitor si foarte riscant
pentru sanatatea noastra. Mai mult, asa cum arata si deputatul
german, rolul institutiilor sanitare publice de la noi a fost extrem de
rusinos in cazul gripei porcine, deoarece a lipsit orice evaluare
critica a deciziei de producere si operationalizare a milioane de doze
de vaccinuri. In schimb, in Finlanda si Polonia
institutiile sanitare si chiar si liderii politici si-au facut datoria, respingand isteria intentionat propagata de OMS.
Au existat si in alte tari critici acerbe la nivel oficial
(caci la nivelul populatiei in niciun loc nu a fost primit orbeste si
cu bratele deschise) fata de isteria pandemiei si a vaccinului, cum ar
fi cazul Germaniei, Turciei, iar in Elvetia vaccinurile nu au fost recomandate femeilor gravide. Numai in tara lui Streinu-Cercel parerea critica se cere a fi
penalizata…
Mai trebuie sa adaugam faptul ca vaccinul produs la noi in tara nu e lipsit nici el de componentele riscante denumite, la noi, “excipienti“.


Punctul slab al atitudinii adoptate
de deputatul Wodarg este increderea acestuia in institutiile
supra-nationale si nationale (de tip public) in a putea gestiona
corect, obiectiv si onest o amenintare (reala) de sanatate
.
Or, tocmai cazul actual al OMS si al institutiilor supra-nationale, dar
si nationale, arata ca avem mai degraba toate motivele sa fim sceptici
fata de capacitatea lor de a fi obiective.
De altfel, girul dar
autoritatilor europene de catre deputat este cel putin ciudat, avand in
vedere ca si autoritatea europeana este suspectata de legaturi
netransparente cu producatorii de medicamente si ca procesul prin care
aceasta a autorizat vaccinurile este unul profund criticabil.


Una peste alta, mai jos avem o
atitudine critica fata de actualul proces de isterizare si vaccinare
riscanta a populatiei care, cel mai probabil, va fi profund ignorata de
mass-media autohtona.


wodarg-privireGripa A. “Au organizat psihoza”


Rechizitoriul necruţător al deputatului Wodarg


Preşedintele Comisiei de sănătate a Consiliului Europei, deputatul german Wolfgang Wodarg a obţinut lansarea unei anchete cu privire la implicarea laboratoarelor farmaceutice în campania de panică creată în jurul acestui virus.

Fost membru al Partidului SPD, Wolfgang Wodarg este medic şi epidemiolog. El a obţinut în unanimitate din partea membrilor Comisiei de sănătate a Consiliului Europei înfiinţarea unei comisii de anchetă cu privire la rolul companiilor farmaceutice în gestionarea gripei de către OMS şi state.

- Ce v-a trezit suspiciuni despre influenţa laboratoarelor asupra deciziilor luate cu privire la gripa A?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Ne confruntăm cu un eşec al marilor instituţii
naţionale, care au sarcina de a avertiza cu privire la riscuri şi de a
lua atitudine în cazul unei pandemii.
În aprilie, la primul semnal de alarmă din Mexic, am fost uluit de
cifrele avansate de Organizaţia Mondială a Sănătăţii (OMS) pentru a
justifica declararea unei pandemii.
Am avut imediat suspiciuni: cifrele erau foarte mici, iar nivelul alarmei foarte ridicat. Nu erau nici o mie de bolnavi şi se vorbea deja de pandemia secolului.
Iar alerta extremă decretată se baza pe noutatea virusului. Însă
afecţiunile gripale se dezvoltă foarte rapid, cu viruşi care iau mereu
alte forme şi se instalează la noi gazde, animale, oameni etc. În
sine, nu era nimic nou aici. În fiecare an apare un nou virus de acest tip „gripal”.
În realitate nu exista nici un motiv să se dea alarma la acest nivel, fapt care a fost posibil deoarece la începutul lunii mai OMS a modificat definiţia pandemiei.
Înainte de această dată, trebuia nu numai ca boala să izbucnească în mai multe ţări odată, ci să aibă şi consecinţe foarte grave, cu un număr de cazuri mortale peste mediile obişnuite. S-a eliminat acest aspect în noua definiţie, rămânând doar criteriul ritmului de răspândire a bolii. Şi s-a susţinut că virusul este periculos pentru că populaţia nu a dezvoltat imunitate împotriva lui. Ceea ce era fals. Pentru că s-a observat că persoanele cu vârste peste 60 de ani aveau deja anticorpi. Adică fuseseră deja în contact cu virusuri similare. De aceea, nu au existat persoane peste 60 de ani care să se îmbolnăvească. Şi totuşi, tocmai lor li s-a recomandat să se vaccineze cât mai repede. Între
lucrurile care mi-au trezit suspiciuni a fost aşadar pe de o parte
această hotărâre de a trage alarma, iar pe de altă parte, unele aspecte foarte ciudate. Cum ar fi, de pildă, recomandarea OMS de a administra două injecţii cu
vaccin.

Niciodată nu s-a mai procedat aşa. Nu exista nici o justificare ştiinţifică pentru acest lucru. A
mai fost şi recomandarea de a utiliza numai vaccinuri speciale
brevetate. Nu exista însă nici un motiv să nu se adauge, ca în fiecare
an, particule antivirale specifice acestui nou virus H1N1, în
„completarea” vaccinului împotriva gripei sezoniere. Nu s-a întâmplat
aşa, preferându-se să se folosească materiale brevetate pentru vaccin,
elaborate şi fabricate deja de marile laboratoare pentru a fi gata în
caz de izbucnire a unei pandemii. Şi procedând astfel, persoanele vaccinate au fost puse în pericol fără nicio ezitare.

- Ce pericol?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Pentru ca produsele să poată fi puse la dispoziţie cât mai rapid, în unele vaccinuri s-au folosit adjuvanţi ale căror efecte au fost insuficient testate.
Cu alte cuvinte: s-a dorit folosirea cu orice chip a acestor produse
noi brevetate, în loc să se pună la punct alte vaccinuri, în
conformitate cu metodele tradiţionale de producţie mult mai simple, mai
fiabile şi mai puţin costisitoare. Şi acest lucru fără nicio o raţiune medicală. Numai în scopuri de
marketing.

- Şi ce explicaţii s-au dat?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Pentru a înţelege, trebuie să ne întoarcem la episodul gripei aviare din 2005 – 2006.
Cu acel prilej s-au definit noile planuri internaţionale destinate să
facă faţă unei alarme pandemice. Aceste planuri au fost puse la punct
în mod oficial pentru a se asigura fabricarea rapidă a vaccinurilor în caz de alarmă, ceea ce a dus la negocieri între companiile farmaceutice şi state. Pe de o parte laboratoarele s-au angajat să dezvolte preparatele, pe de altă parte statele le-au promis să le cumpere pe toate. După această învoială ciudată, industria farmaceutică nu îşi mai asuma niciun risc economic angajându-se la alte producţii. În plus, era asigurată că va da lovitura în cazul declanşării unei pandemii.

- Contestaţi diagnosticele stabilite şi gravitatea, chiar posibilă, a gripei A?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Da, este o gripă cât se poate de normală. Ea nu

dr. Wodarg nu ii e frica de gripa porcina
dr. Wodarg nu ii e frica de gripa porcina

cauzează nici o zecime din decesele provocate de gripa sezonieră clasică. Singurul lucru important care a condus la formidabila campanie de panică la care asistăm este faptul că
reprezintă o ocazie de aur pentru reprezentanţii laboratoarelor, care
ştiau că vor trage lozul cel mare în cazul declarării unei pandemii.

- Faceţi nişte acuzaţii foarte grave. Cum a fost posibil un astfel de proces în cadrul OMS?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Un grup de persoane de la OMS are o legătură foarte strânsă cu industria farmaceutică.

- Ancheta Consiliului Europei va opera şi în această direcţie?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Dorim să se facă lumină peste tot ce a putut duce la această formidabilă operaţiune de dezinformare. Dorim
să ştim cine a decis, pe baza căror probe ştiinţifice şi care a fost
exact influenţa industriei farmaceutice în luarea deciziilor.
Şi trebuie să prezentăm nişte revendicări guvernelor. Obiectivul comisiei de anchetă este ca în viitor să nu mai existe alte alarme false de acest tip. Ca
oamenii să aibă încredere în analiza şi expertiza instituţiilor publice
naţionale şi internaţionale. Acestea sunt acum discreditate pentru că milioane de persoane au fost vaccinate cu produse care prezintă riscuri pentru sănătate. Nu era necesar. Acest lucru a dus şi la o proastă gestionare a banului public.

- Deţineţi cifre concrete privind amploarea acestei proaste gestionări?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: În Germania este vorba de 700 de milioane de euro. Însă
e foarte greu să aflăm cifrele exacte, deoarece există şi o cotă de
revânzări de vaccinuri către ţări străine, şi mai ales, pentru a nu
trăda „secretul profesional” firmele nu dezvăluie cifrele din
contractele încheiate cu statele şi eventualele clauze de despăgubire
prevăzute.

- Ancheta consiliului Europei va cerceta şi activitatea de
„lobbying” a laboratoarelor pe lângă institutele naţionale de sănătate?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Da, vom analiza atitudinea unor institute precum Robert Koch din Germania sau Pasteur în Franţa, care trebuiau să-şi consilieze guvernele în mod critic. Aşa s-a întâmplat în unele ţări. În Finlanda şi Polonia, de exemplu, s-au ridicat voci critice care au spus: „Nu avem nevoie de aşa ceva”.

- Putem spune că această formidabilă operaţiune de dezinformare la nivel planetar a fost posibilă şi pentru că industria farmaceutică îşi are „reprezentanţii” ei în guvernele celor mai puternice ţări?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: În ministere mi se pare evident. Nu
pot să-mi explic cum e posibil ca nişte specialişti, oameni foarte
inteligenţi care ştiu pe de rost problemele afecţiunilor gripale, să nu
fi observat ce urma să se întâmple.

- Ce s-a întâmplat atunci?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Fără a vorbi de corupţia directă, de care sunt sigur că există, există o mulţime de moduri în care laboratoarele îşi pot exercita influenţa asupra deciziilor.

klaus-sthorAm văzut la modul concret cum, de exemplu Klaus
Stöhr, care era şeful catedrei de epidemiologie a OMS în perioada
gripei aviare, fiind astfel cel care a întocmit planurile de
preîntâmpinare a pandemiilor cum am menţionat mai sus, a primit între
timp o funcţie înaltă la compania Novartis.
Şi legături similare există între Glaxo sau Baxter (etc.) şi membrii influenţi ai OMS. Aceste
mari firme îşi au oamenii lor în aparatele de conducere şi acţionează
în aşa fel încât să se ia deciziile politice potrivite. Şi anume cele care le permit să
pompeze cât mai mulţi bani de la contribuabili.

- Dar, în cazul în care ancheta dvs. are succes, cetăţenii nu
vor fi îndreptăţiţi să pretindă guvernelor să ceară explicaţii de la
aceste mari grupuri?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Da, aveţi dreptate, e una dintre problemele majore legate de această anchetă. Într-adevăr,
statele vor putea să se sesizeze pentru a contesta contractele
încheiate în condiţii, să spunem, nu tocmai curate. Dacă se poate
dovedi că influenţa firmelor a dus la declanşarea procesului, atunci
vor trebui determinate să ceară rambursări.
Dar asta e doar partea financiară, mai există şi partea umană, a persoanelor care au fost vaccinate cu produse insuficient testate.

- Ce au riscat fără să aibă habar, aceşti oameni în stare bună de sănătate atunci când s-au vaccinat?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Repet, vaccinurile au fost create prea repede, unii adjuvanţi au fost insuficient testaţi.. Ceea
ce e mai grav, vaccinul creat de Novartis a fost produs într-un
bioreactor pe bază de celule canceroase. O tehnică ce nu a mai fost
folosită până acum.

- De ce, evident, eu nu sunt specialist, dar cum s-ar putea face un vaccin din celule bolnave?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: În mod normal, se folosesc ouă de găină pe
care se cultivă virusurile. Trebuie să se lucreze pe celule vii. Pentru
că virusurile se pot înmulţi numai în acest fel, deci şi produsele
antivirus. Dar acest proces are un defect mare, este lent, e nevoie de
foarte multe ouă. Durează şi este complex pe plan tehnic
. O altă
tehnică ce prezintă un potenţial remarcabil este cultivarea virusului
pe celule vii în bioreactoare. Pentru aceasta, este nevoie de celule
care să crească şi să se dividă foarte repede. Seamănă puţin cu
metoda folosită pentru cultura iaurtului, care are loc tot într-un
bio-reactor. Dar, în acest context, celula e atât de bulversată în
mediul său şi în creşterea sa, încât se dezvoltă ca o celulă
canceroasă. Şi pe aceste celule cu randament foarte mare se cultivă
virusurile.
Numai pentru fabricarea vaccinului trebuie să se extragă din nou virusul din aceste
celule pe care a fost implantat. Şi se poate întâmpla ca în timpul procesului de fabricaţie a vaccinului să rămână resturi de celule canceroase în produs.
Aşa cum se întâmplă şi în fabricarea clasică, cu ouă. Ştim că, în cazul
vaccinării împotriva gripei clasice, pot apărea reacţii adverse la
persoanele alergice la ovalbumina din albuşul de ou.. Prin
urmare, nu putem exclude faptul că proteinele, resturile dintr-o celulă
canceroasă prezente într-un vaccin produs în bioreactor, pot genera o
tumoare la persoana vaccinată.
Deci,
potrivit principiului prudenţei, înainte ca un asemenea produs să fie
permis pe piaţă, trebuie să existe certitudinea de 100% că aceste
efecte sunt realmente excluse.

- Şi nu există?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Nu. AME (Agenţia Europeană a Medicamentelor), instituţie
aflată sub autoritatea comisarului european pentru economie, cu sediul
la Londra, care acordă autorizaţii de introducere a vaccinurilor pe
piaţa din Europa, a dat undă verde pentru comercializarea
produsului, argumentând că acest mod de fabricare nu constituie un risc
„semnificativ”.
Acest lucru a fost privit foarte diferit de numeroşi experţi din Germania şi de o instituţie independentă, care dimpotrivă, şi-au exprimat îngrijorarea şi obiecţiile. Am luat avertismentele în serios. Am
studiat dosarul şi am intervenit în Comisia pentru sănătate din
Bundestag din care făceam parte pe atunci, pentru ca vaccinul să nu fie
folosit în Germania.
Am afirmat că
nu mă opun elaborării vaccinurilor cu această tehnică. Dar trebuie să avem mai întâi garanţia totală a siguranţei lor. Prin urmare, produsul nu s-a folosit în Germania, unde guvernul a reziliat contractul cu Novartis.

- Cum se numeşte acest vaccin?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Obta flu.

- Dar asta înseamnă că în alte ţări europene, cum ar fi Franţa, produsul poate fi comercializat fără probleme?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Da, a obţinut permisiunea de la AME şi poate fi folosit oriunde în Uniunea Europeană.

- Ce alternativă propuneţi pentru a evita alte scandaluri de acest gen?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Trebuie ca OMS să fie mai transparentă, să ştim
clar cine decide şi ce tip de relaţie există între cei ce fac parte din
organizaţie.. Ar trebui de asemenea să fie flancată de cel puţin o
cameră care să poată reacţiona foarte critic şi în care oricine să se
poată exprima.
Consolidarea controlului public este esenţială.

- Nu este vorba de un alt sistem capabil să trateze o chestiune
ce de fapt vizează un bine comun al cetăţenilor de pe întreaga planetă?

- Wolfgang Wodarg: Oare putem lăsa producerea de vaccinuri şi
administrarea acestei producţii pe mâna unor organizaţii al cărui
obiectiv este de a câştiga cât mai mulţi bani posibil?
Sau
producerea de vaccinuri nu intră, prin excelenţă, în sectorul pe care
statele trebuie să îl monitorizeze şi să îl pună în aplicare ele
însele? De aceea, cred că ar trebui să se abandoneze sistemul
brevetelor pentru vaccinuri, adică posibilitatea monopolizării
producerii vaccinului de către un grup mare. Pentru că această posibilitate presupune sacrificarea a mii de vieţi, în numele respectării drepturilor de monopol.
Aveţi dreptate, acea revendicare, cel puţin pentru mine, a luat aspectul evidenţei.

Interviu realizat de Bruno Odent


7 ianuarie 2010


(originalul, pe siteul ziarului L`HUMANITE la: http://www.humanite.fr/Grippe-A-Ils-ont-organise-la-psychose


si: http://www.humanite.fr/2010-01-07_Societe_Grippe-A-L-implacable-requisitoire-du-depute-Wodarg )
 
http://www.razbointrucuvant.ro/2010/01/11/epidemiologul-si-deputatul-wolfgang-wodarg-denunta-cardasia-dintre-oms-si-big-pharma-campania-de-vaccinare-demarata-pe-baza-unei-farse-istorice/

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Magazinele care vand ierburi halucinogene in Romania au aproape 500.000 de clienti

Sunday 17th of January 2010 by Jesse


Aproape o jumatate de milion de tineri romani, cu varste
cuprinse intre 14 si 23 de ani, folosesc ierburi halucinogene cumparate
de la cele aproape 200 de magazine de acest fel din tara. Potrivit
datelor Raportului pentru Romania al reprezentatului oficial la
Consiliul Europei al Organizatiei, Gigel Lazar, citat de Radio Romania,
numarul persoanelor internate din cauza consumului este in continua
crestere.


In intreaga tara exista aproape 200 de astfel de magazine.

Raportul
acuza faptul ca statul nu se implica in campanii de informare in ceea
ce priveste efectele pe care aceste substante le produc. Mai mult, anul
trecut, autoritatile publice centrale si locale nu au alocat niciun ban
pentru campanii anti-drog, Romania fiind singura tara din Europa aflata
in aceasta situatie.

Plenul
Senatului a adoptat, in noiembrie anul trecut, o propunere legislativa
care are ca obiect interzicerea comercializarii produselor etnobotanice
cu efect halucinogen sau euforic, care in prezent se gasesc in
"weed-shop-uri". Proiectul de lege asteapta acum aprobarea Camerei
Deputatilor, care este camera deci
zionala.
 
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The Comet That Speaks Sumerian

Saturday 16th of January 2010 by Jesse




On July 4th 2005, a NASA spacecraft named Deep Impact thrust out a metal probe devised to collide with a comet named Tempel-1.  The purpose of the planned collision was to ascertain the true makeup of such a primordial comet by observing and analyzing the impact and its resulting debris.

The successful collision observed from the spacecraft and a variety of Earth-placed and Earth-orbiting instruments, caused a spectacular flare and an expanding ball of ejecta.  As the reports of what had been observed begin to trickle out, it becomes evident that the scientific community is facing a major puzzle: The blast, instead of confirming the comet as a celestial body formed in the solar system’s deep-frozen outer fringes, “set loose key ingredients of Earth” (according to the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle of 9/9/05).

Among the perplexing emerging findings are these:

•  Comets are described as ‘frozen balls of dirty ice’; the findings from Tempel- 1 indicate that it is made of broken up rocks that contain clays and carbonates -- the minerals of limestones and seashells that are formed only in liquid water.

 “How do clays and carbonates form in frozen comets where there isn’t liquid water?” asked Dr. C.M. Lisse, a Mission scientist, according to the New York Times of September 7, 2005; “Nobody expected this,” he said.

•  The Spitzer space telescope also detected in Tempel-l crystalline silicates - a form of the mineral that requires at least 1300 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures to form.

 “How do you put that stuff into a comet that forms out by Pluto?” asked the puzzled Dr, Lisse.  How, indeed, do you get mineral-melting temperatures in a region of absolute cold?

 …And Life’s Chemicals Too

Reporting some of the initial puzzling findings at a scientific meeting at Cambridge University in England on September 7-8, 2005,  Dr. Lisse (of John Hopkins University), Dr. Michael A’Hearn (University of Maryland) and other scientists expanded the list of Earthlike components discovered in the comet to include chemicals associated with living organisms.

They listed (in addition to clays and silicates) carbonates, iron sulfides, alumina, and compounds called PAHs “which are among many organic chemicals that show up in living organisms on Earth.”

Another reported surprise: “The team has detected an unexpectedly high concentration of methyl cyanide; biologists say methyl cyanide is a key player in reactions that form DNA” (Christian Science Monitor).

 A Comet in The Wrong Place 

Comet Tempel-1 is not a new comet.  It was discovered in 1867 by Ernst W. L Tempel of Marseille, France, and its very short period of less than six (Earth) years was determined that same year by C. Bruhns of Leipzig, Germany.  It was thereafter observed on and off until it and its slightly changed orbit were re-determined in 1963 by the American astronomer B.G. Marsden. 

“Comets form way out in the frigid edges of the solar system, and their nuclei remain deeply frozen during most of their passage through the inner solar system,” said Dr. Lisse in pointing out the problems astronomers and astrophysicists now face. 

Yet it is beyond doubt that the comet has been orbiting the Sun in a relatively limited and nearby part of the solar system, between Mars and Jupiter, as the NASA-released skymap shows: 

How then explain this “wrong place” of comet Tempel-1?  Dr. Lisse rejected speculation that the comet “migrated to the warmer inner solar system within the last 10,000 years.”  Indeed, were it ever formed out there in the deep freeze, it would not be so Earthlike in all the other respects enumerated above. 

The Sumerian Solution

In fact, there seems to be only one simple solution to the host of enigmas now puzzling the scientists:

•  Comet Tempel-l is where it is because it was ‘born’ there, between Mars and Jupiter;

•  It is Earthlike in its components because it and the Earth were ‘born’ of the same planetary ‘mother’. 

Readers of my books will hardly need reminding that that planetary mother was called TIAMAT in the Sumerian Epic of Creation - a text deemed by scholars to be an allegory, a myth, a religious text -- but treated by me in The 12th Planet and Genesis Revisited as a sophisticated cosmogony dealing with the creation of our Solar System and the fate of Tiamat, a watery planet that had existed in the space between Mars and Jupiter and was destroyed in a celestial collision with an Invader-planet (Nibiru). As a result of the collision:   

•  Half of Tiamat was smashed to bits and pieces to become the asteroids and short­ term comets that orbit between Mars and Jupiter;

• The other half was thrust closer to the Sun to become planet Earth;

• The leading large satellite of Tiamat (“Kingu”) was carried along to become Earth’s Moon;

• Tiamat’s other ten satellites were broken up to become comets, especially those with retrograde orbits.

  

Sumerian texts dealing with Nibiru explicitly state that during the collision, the life-bearing Nibiru transferred the “seed of life” - what we now call DNA and the “chemicals of life”—to the vanquished Tiamat, and thus to Earth and, we can now realize, to an asteroid called Tempel-1.

         The Sumerian texts, as I expounded them, answer all the puzzles flowing from the Tempel-1 collision.

So, Now That Science Has Caught Up...

Even before this more detailed (but not yet full) extent of the discoveries that puzzle astronomers and astrophysicists was publicized, keen-eyed fans of mine have sent to me congratulatory messages: Your 12th Planet theories have just been proved!

I of course appreciate the compliments; but I remain doubtful regarding the outcome of this one more “so now that you were proven right...” As readers of this website (or participants in my seminars) know, it is not the first time that scientific discoveries “prove me right.”  Indeed, the subtitle of Genesis Revisited was (already in 1990) “Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge?” 

Modern science continues to catch up with ancient knowledge, but stubbornly the scientists continue to ignore it.

Zecharia Sitchin

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Eden Was the North Pole!--A Capsulized History of the Predeluvial World and the Science of Human Behavior.

Saturday 16th of January 2010 by Jesse


 

One day, while doing my usual research on Ancient India at a nearby university, I asked a young Hindu student I met there whether he could explain why India, the mother of all human civilizations and religions, knew so little about its own ancient history. He said that Hindus fear they might discover that their families really descended from the lowest and most miserable of India's four castes, the Sudras.

At first, I naively accepted his explanation, for it's a historical fact that most of our American forefathers, from whatever nations, were the lowest of the low in their own respective countries of origin. Fortunately, my ancestors refused to believe that only the British Royal Family had the divine right to rule.

Later on, I found out that the problems Hindus have with their own ancient history had nothing to do with fear of finding out their grandparents were Sudras. They came to adopt many historical and spiritual traditions that occurred, not in the ancient Indian subcontinent, but thousands of miles northward at the North Pole!

Even the Turks and Siberians gratefully acknowledge that the Hindus unselfishly preserved the formers' own ancient history at the expense of their own.

Turkish-Russian Murad Adji expresses in his book, The Kipchaks -- An Ancient History of the Turkic People and the Great Steppe, his gratitude to the Hindus for preserving the Turks' and Siberians' ancient history which the Hindus mistakenly thought was their own:

'...an Indian page opened in Turkic history two thousand years ago, or even slightly earlier... The Hindus did a great honor to Turkic culture�they have preserved for the Turkic race a sacred treasure that the Turkis have managed to forget.'

It's strange how mental conditioning can blind people to reality. At least, the Turks are willing to admit the truth that the Hindus preserved Turkish and Siberian history. I have actually heard Evangelical Christians say that God has punished those 'polytheistic Hindus' for their paganism by denying them knowledge of their own past. But Christians don't know much about their remote past either. At least, the Hindus know they are the parents of the rest of us in all areas. Furthermore, both the monotheistic Christians and the polytheistic Hindus are guilty of the same spiritual crimes. It's very troublesome for both Christians and Hindus to make sense out of Genesis 4:22: 'And the LORD GOD said, 'now that the man has become like one of US, etc., etc.' Mankind is still too primitive and stupid to know that atheists, monotheists, and polytheists are one and the same where true spiritual wisdom is concerned. We humans differ mainly in intelligence and propensities.

I can't even begin to count the times Christians have told me I'm hell-bound for learning the truth about what little religious history I know! There's a strange reason why ignorance of one's spiritual and cultural past plagues the Christians infinitely more than it does the Hindus. You'll find out why in this article.

The ancient histories of all the major nations and religions on earth mention a time when the several races of mankind lived in a temperate paradise at what is now the North Pole. We remember them as Aryans (Ari), Krishtaya (Christians), Kurus, and Tur/anians. We also remember them as the maritime nations called Phoenicians or Hya. Even today, their descendants occupy Siberian Russia: Yakuts, Saka (Scythians), and Buryats. According to Hindu legends, they were able to hold on to their civilization for no less than 30,000 years. They thought of themselves as spirits occupying physical bodies. For them, their bodies had no life at all. They were just shells which these spirits occupied and used, just as we drive and manage our automobiles. As long as they did not identify themselves as physical bodies, they were always happy and in good health. They could die only by committing suicide when they felt bored living in the same bodies for a thousand or more years, or through some unintended accident.

They seem to have had religions and were either atheists, monotheists or polytheists according to their faulty understanding of the Universal Equation, for the Hindu Vedas and a number of Gods, such as Shiva, Kubera, the Nagas, Indra, Vishnu, and Brahma, originated there. Even famous geographical terms and other expressions found in today's subcontinent India were exported to India from the North Pole. God(s) apparently allowed humans to speculate about religious doctrines and to be atheistic, monotheistic, or polytheistic, just so long as they knew they were spirits occupying dead, unthinking physical bodies. However, when they forgot that truth, becoming more and more convinced that they were live bodies in various degrees, they fell deeper and deeper into degradation as well as religious error.

God, Nature, or whatever you want to call The Universal Power entirely ignores mankind's interpretations of life and spirituality. It knows nothing of chanting mantras, Mosaic law, chakras, vain prayers, atheism, monotheism, polytheism, spiritual systems such as Hatha Yoga, Bakhti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, sectarianism, secularism, dogmas, rules of every description such as making it a sin to attend movies, scriptures, religions, conversions, theories, jihad, etc.

We can only come to know what truth is all about by refusing to accept the body as real. Only the spirit encased in or casing the body will make mankind spiritual, healthy, wealthy and wise. The Greek dictum was Man, know thyself. What was he to know about himself? He had to know he was not his lifeless body but only the spirit directing that body. Why must he know himself? Because when he knows himself, he automatically and subconsciously, individually, and collectively begins to think less of 'me' and more of 'thee.' You may also want to know why I combined the story of our North Pole origins with knowledge of Self. I did this because if we don't know where we came from, we don't know who we are. Please keep what I have said uppermost in your mind as you finish this article.

Hindutva, an aggressive Hindu nationalist organization, wants us to think the Aryans never left the North Pole and invaded India. However, they can't hide the reality that more than one hundred fifty million Aryans (Ari) or Kurus still inhabit Central Asia. And if that fact doesn't convince anyone, no one will be able to keep their DNA hidden under the rug.

Indian historian Kuttikhat Purushothama Chon states in his book, Remedy the Frauds in Hinduism:

'In December, 1988, Soviet scientists found to their surprise that the Yakutian nationality [also called Saka and Buryat] living in remote Siberia have in their blood the HLA�B70 antigen, which is possessed only by the Hindus of Northern India... Archeological evidence in the Indus Valley, and skull and bone measurements of some people of South India indicate the Siberian origin.

'Philologists have found a common origin for Sanskrit, Persian, and European languages. Literary Russian language has 30 to 40 percent of words with Sanskrit origin...

'The original Siberian home of our Vedic ancestors has been conclusively shown in our Vedas in many places. Rig Veda mentions the existence of large Aryan kingdoms in Roosam (Russia) and Hariyupia (Eastern Europe).' (p. 116.)

The proof appears to be conclusive: One people with three different names: (Yakut, Saka [Scythian], and Buryat (Bharat), the true name of India; the same DNA; the same spiritual and historical traditions; the same names of landforms, rivers, etc. How can anyone keep all this locked in the closet?

If the Hindu, Jewish, and Christian myths are true, there is no doubt that the North Pole was the Garden of Eden. It is well-known that at one time, the climate at the North Pole was pleasantly mild and that abundant flora and fauna existed there.

Dr. Valery Dyemen, a Russian researcher of the Arctic, is convinced that Hyperborea existed. He said:

'I believe we should be looking for the traces of that civilization in Eurasia and American arctic regions, in the islands and archipelagos of the Arctic Oceans, at the bottom of some seas, lakes and rivers. It's worthy of notice that Russia has the largest number of locations and artifacts that could bear relevance to Hyperborea. Some ... have already drawn attention of specialists; others are yet to be discovered. Active exploration is currently under way in the Kola Peninsula, in the Island of Vaigach, in Karelia, Ural Mountains, West Siberia, Khakasia, Yakutia, and a few other regions. There are good prospects for conducting research in Franz Josef Land, Taimyr, and Yamal.'(UFO Digest, 1/12/2007.)

'One of the charts by Gerhardus Mercator, the 16th century Flemish cartographer and geographer, shows a huge continent lying in the vicinity of the North Pole. The land is an archipelago composed of several islands divided by deep rivers. A mountain sits in the center of the land (according to legends, the ancestors of Indo-Europeans lived near Mount Meru). The question is: How did that land appear on the chart? There was no information whatsoever regarding the Arctic regions during the Middle Ages. We have some reasons to believe that Mercator had used an ancient chart, the one that is mentioned in his letter dated 1580. That chart showed a continent located in the center of the Arctic Ocean, which was pictured ice-free on the chart. Mercator's chart seems to be based on the ancient chart.'

It seems that within a few years, we may be able to see the ruins of ancient civilizations under the present polar ice and snow keeping them hidden. Some experts are saying that by the year 2012, the North Pole won't have any more snow and ice. What did the Mayans say about 2012?

Flavius Josephus, the great Jewish historian, wrote that the Garden of Eden in which Adam and Eve lived was 'watered by one river, which ran around the whole earth, and was parted into four parts, and Phison, which denotes a Multitude, running from India, makes its exit into the sea, and is by the Greeks called Ganges. Euphrates also, as well as Tigris, goes into the Red Sea... and Geon runs through Egypt, and denotes what arises from the East, which the Greeks call Nile.' (Book I:I:3.)

Genesis 2:10-4 states: 'And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. The name of the first is called Pison, that is it which encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold... the name of the second river is Gihon; the same which compasses the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hid-de-Kel: that is it which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.'

The Cologne Online Sanskrit Dictionary says that Meru was the name ...' of a fabulous mountain (regarded as the Olympus of Hindu mythology and said to form the central point of Jambu-dvipa; all the planets revolve round it and it is compared to the cup or seed-vessel of a lotus , the leaves of which are formed by the different Dvipas [A division of the terrestrial world, situated around Mt. Meru, separated by other Dvipas by distant circumambient oceans.] q.v. ; the river Ganges falls from heaven on its summit, and flows thence to the surrounding worlds in four streams; the regents of the four quarters of the compass occupy the corresponding faces of the mountain, the whole of which consists of gold and gems; its summit is the residence of Brahma, and a place of meeting for the gods...'

Drawing of Mt. Meru with Lotus seed vessel.

I once tried vainly to reconcile the flow of those rivers between India and the North Pole. Later on, I found out that the ancients were not knowledgeable enough of the laws of gravity and whether the earth was flat or round. They reasoned that since the North Pole was at the top of this globe, it was only natural to assume that the waters and rivers of the world flowed downward, either dripping off the world at the South Pole or flowing into the ocean itself, with the upper part of the world flowing on top of it. See the following illustrations:

The pre-deluvial Aryans were afraid to sail south of the equator. They thought they would not be able to tolerate the heat and were fearful of falling off the world. Nevertheless, the Koran tells us that Adam (the Turkish word for humankind) left Eden and went to Ceylon. From there, he sailed around the world from east to west, conquering his fear that the world was flat and that he might fall off of it.

The Great Flood scattered mankind in all directions, destroying all extant civilizations. No longer able to travel around the world from north to south, as they did in Eden, humans then had to follow the trade winds from east to west, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Mankinds' post-flood civilizations developed between these tropics. See the following Illustration.

The ancient Aryans and Hindus thoroughly exploited the natural resources of Northern India: cutting down the forests, misusing the natural resources as we are doing today, and damaging the environment in other ways. Even the Saraisvati River and its companion Hakra(Haggar) dried up, partly because of mankind's folly, creating an almost uninhabitable desert.

Mr.Jayendra Upadhye, A Hindu expert on India's history and mythology, provided me with more evidence that the Aryans were from the polar regions:

'The Mahabharat mentions Uttara-Kuru and the Yama/Yami Samvad (conversation). During their travels, the Pandavas reach Mandara mountain and the Rishi there shows them how the Sapta-Rishis (the 7 Great Bear Stars) circumambulate Meru, literally meaning they go round the pole!

'The axis of the earth is still referred to as Meru-Danda or the Rod of Meru. Regarding cooling of the earth, it could only be the last of the transitory climate change that triggered the ice ages and inter glacial warm periods.

'Ante-deluvian records of 60,000 years were preserved in the libraries of Egypt, as told to Plato by Solon, the Egyptian priest-scribe, when he told him about Atlantis (mentioned in the 'Critias').

'Considering the last ice age saw humans in England, the Parsis in Iran, Aryans in India (towards the end of it), we can be sure the Zoroastrian Avesta is talking about the sudden freezing of the poles at the outset of the last Ice Age.

'The Deluge was the end of that period when the polar ice caps released their load of ice in a sudden surge. Indra is called Vritra-hanta or Killer of the demon Vritra.

'Vritra (Lord of Drought) had locked up all water on earth. (the polar cap and the glaciers). Indra (Lord of Rain) freed that body, and thus became lord of the rains! (Giver of Water)'.

Using old pictures and drawings of Meru, William F. Warren, who in 1885 published his famous book entitled Paradise Found -- The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, provided us with a drawing of Mt. Meru had it been drawn using the geographical knowledge we have today.

As you can see by the previous drawing, The pre-noachide ancients did not go around the world from east to west, as we do today, but from the North Pole southward. This means they could visit nearly every large land mass on earth while still hugging the shoreline. It was also easily possible that one of the first extant world maps ever made, the Mercateur, was made from another map which someone made from an ancient Aryan map, around 4,000 BC. Evidently, the Arctic Circle was probably still navigable in the summers at that time.

In Indian mythology, Mount Meru was revered as an archetype of the whole world. After the Great Flood, the Aryan hordes spread out from the North Pole in all directions. That's why we see so many place names named after the Greek colonizers Erectheus and Aram, the grandson of Noah. Perhaps Erectheus and Aram were the same group personalized. In Sanskrit, Ara and Arak mean 'the spokes of a wheel'. Aramaic, father of the Hebrew language, used to be one of the principal languages of the Central Asia and the Middle East. We still see proof of the 'spokes' presence in various part of the world, especially in the Americas. In Central Asia, we have Armenia and Arya; Arab in the Middle East; the two ancient kingdoms of Aragon and Navarra in Spain.

The Mexican Huichol Indians claim to have gone to Mexico from a port on the other side of the world, called Aramra. From Southern Florida and the Caribbean Sea to eastern South America we have the Arawaks. In Western South America we have the Auraucans. The Aymara (Family of Aram) are thought to be the descendants of the civilization of Tihuanaku. The Iroquois stretch from Canada to the United States. These words, Erectheus, Ara, Aram and Arak have influenced human languages in other areas also: area; aura; aurora; arm; arachnea (spider); ray; radio; radius; era; radiate; race (human groups); arc; reach, reek, army, etc. They are used to imply 'extension outward in time and space.' Truly, these words prove conclusively that the predeluvial world belonged to the Aryans (Turks) and the Hindus.

Having spread out from the North Pole in different directions, they renamed prominent landmarks in the new lands in remembrance of Meru Mountain or whatever other names they left behind at the North Pole and Siberia: Moriah and Siyoni (Zion) in Israel; Su-Meru in Mesopotama; Meroe in Egypt (also, M'ru = Pyramid in ancient Egyptian); Olympus in Greece; Baboquivari among the O'odham Indians of Arizona; Citlaltepetl (Mountain of the Stars or Mt. Orizaba in Mexico); Mt. Moray in Peru; Mt. Shasta, California; some now unknown mountains in the Adiron-Dak chain, a one hundred percent Turkish name for the Himalayas (Adrian-Dag) that the Adirondak Indians of the U.S. called the Navel of the world; Homolowvi, which the Hopi Indians named after Himalayas, etc.

Baboquivari Mountain.

Caption B. Mt. Kailasa, India's Post-Noachide Navel of the World in Western Tibet, is the home of God Shiva and Kubera, India's God of Riches, who was originally from Bulgaria. For the O'odhams, Quivari (Kubera) is the mountain and God I'itoi or Sewa (Shiva) lives within it. Babo derives from the Sanskrit Babu, meaning Grandfather. Kailasa was said to be guarded by poisonous serpents. Archeologists tell me that Baboquivari has more than its share of rattlesnakes.

Caption C. The Great pyramids of Egypt. M'ru means "pyramid" in ancient Egypt. All kinds of guesses are made about the purpose of the Great Pyramids. In reality, they are reminders of the North Pole, the original Meru from which all humans fled. Such mountains as Mexico's Mt. Orizaba, California's Mt. Shasta, Japan's Mt. Fuji, Israel's Mt. Moriah, Peru's Mt. Moray, and countless others dot this entire globe. Nearly all are reminders of where all humans originated -- The North Pole!.

Little by little, as their memories of their North Pole or Siberian paradise got hazier and hazier, the refugees from Eden came to identify all their spirituality, traditions and ideas about life with their new homes. That's why we all see ourselves as 'different' from one another and even antagonistic. And when someone says we are really the descendants of Turks and Hindus, we yell indignantly that we're anything but! The following is an excellent example of what I�m writing about:

Krishna was the Tara (protective father of Brahma, Maheshvara (Moses) and Sarasvati.

Terah was the father of Abraham and Sarah.

Brahma was a god.

Abraham was a patriarch -- a father of nations.

Sarasvati was a goddess.

Sarah was a matriarch -- a mother of nations.

Sarasvati was a woman of exceptional beauty.

Sarah was a woman of exceptional beauty.

Brahma was the half brother of Sarasvati.

Abraham was the half brother of Sarah.

Brahmavarta was a region of India.

Sarasvati was a great river that passed over Brahmavarta.

Hakra or Hakkar was a tributary of the River Sarasvati. Haggar was a servant of Sarah and the mother of Ishmael.

A name of Krishna, father of Brahma, was Malika Sadhaka (King of Magicians). Melchisedec, King of Jerusalem, was a mentor of Abraham.

Krishna, Sarasvati, and Brahma fled Haran and went to Jerusalem? after a flood. Abraham and Sarah fled Haran and went to Jerusalem after a flood.

My conclusion: Abraham, Sarah, and Melchisedec were Brahma, Sarsvati, and Malika Sadhaka (Krishna). This information and the rest in this article should inspire us to realize we are all from the same source, encouraging us to respect one another.

Most Jews and Christians conclusions: Gene Matlock is forcing us to swallow a Hindu lie, in order to make us lose our faith or convert to Hinduism.

Most Hindus conclusions: What Gene Matlock says is a Jewish and Christian lie, in order to weaken our faith and encourage us to convert to Christianity or Judaism.

We of the West are especially hostile to Hindu ideas of how homo-sapiens-sapiens or Modern Man made his debut in the world. Even we who are religious often insist that mankind evolved on this planet from single cell organisms, to fish-like creatures, to apes, and then to humans.

The Hindus claim that early mankind came here from other planets. Our Bible states this more than clearly, but we refuse to believe it. In Genesis, we read that they were the Nephilim (the Divine Ones). According to the Bible, when they arrived here, they saw that mankind was degenerating to animal level. At that time, the races of mankind were the Yadu, Turvasa, Druhyus, Anu, and Puru. The Nephilim mated with the daughters of men, implanting the seeds of their own divinity into their wombs. After that, God destroyed most humans in a big flood, allowing only a few to live. Evidently, the previous races were Cro-Magnon man. It is also possible that prior to the Cro-Magnon, most of the Neanderthals were destroyed similarly and the Cro-Magnons put in their place. The Greeks called these Divine Ones Nuphylum (The Phylum of Noah).

In Sanskrit, they were called Navalin (Star Ship People) and Anunaka/Anunaki (From the vault of Heaven; One who is from the Sky. From the place where there is no pain; God Shiva.

Caption. A clay relief of a Sumerian Anunaki altar. We should not forget that all ancient civilizations were closer timewise to the stories of our Outer Space ancestors than we. How could they have known about people living on other planets -- unless those stories were true?

The Sumerians, Mesopotamians, and Akkadians called them Anunaki (Children of the God of Heaven; Those of Royal Blood; Princely Offspring; Sky Gods; People of Heaven and Earth).

Most Westerners reject the claim that our ancestors came here as full--fledged human beings, even though the peoples I have named were not far removed in time from our Outer Space ancestors. According to our Bible, and even the holy books of the Hindus, the new divine men entered the world through the bloodline of Japhet/Yayati. Japhet (Skt. Jyapeti) was also India's God Shiva, Jupiter, Zeus, Apollonius, Apollo, India's God Krishna, Melchizedek, and even our Jesus Christ. From Japhet/Yayati, they spread to the close relatives of Yayati/Japhet: Yadu, to Yadava, and then to the Jews or Yahuda. It seems that the Anu were favored in the same way. The Middle Eastern Druze may also be the descendants of the Druhyus. The DNA of the Druze shows that their ancestors came from ancient India. Even today, they worship Gold Krishna and read the Vedas. Yet, their millenniums-old home is Israel, Syria, and surrounding nations. They will usually be Jews, Muslims, and Christians publicly, practicing their own Hindu-derived religion secretly.

The famous Hindu geographer, Dr. Shyam Narain Pande, echoes the rage Hindus feel when Western scientists and Christians tell them that we humans really descend from apes and not from divine visitors to Earth:

'...Western scientists such as Darwin and Morgan, etc., exploded the divine theory about the origin of man. Prior to them, centuries of turmoil which seemed to threaten the existence of mankind upon the surface of the earth passed away without injuring the social structure and moral values intact. But no sooner had the Darwinian theory that the man descended from the ape had been expounded, the brute in man, his ancestors, raised its head, demolishing the moral edifice which man strenuously strove to build. There was nothing sublime and lofty to aspire. The Christian world in particular and others in general, suffered a lot. The higher values of life were thrown to the wind and only gross materialistic view of life arrested the growth of a virtuous society --Christianity was only 18 hundred years old and hence had been shaken to its root whereas the Vedic people having centuries of existence felt only a tremour without any remarkable harm to deep rooted social paradigm.(Ancient Geography of Ayodhya,' p. 30.)'

I must confess that I used to be a fanatical believer in Darwin's theory of evolution. But my research, which led me to the outer space founders of all gods and religions, has turned me into an Intelligent Design Creationist.

Unfortunately, like his monotheistic competitors, the Christians, and even atheists, Dr. Pande cannot see that Hinduism is as much in trouble as Christianity is. He is allowing sectarian, spiritual and cultural chauvinism to blind his spiritual vision. The peoples of the world must look beyond vain comparisons, religio-cultural bias, false ideals, and evil urges to convert their fellow atheists, monotheists, and polytheists to competing ideologies, whatever they may be. We must bring ourselves to see that we are all spirits walking around in physical bodies. This is not so difficult to do if we'll just think about this for a while. All the evils on earth happen when men think they are bodies and nothing more. It was not Darwin�s fault that mankind tends to think of himself as animal first and foremost. The fault lies at the feet of all mankind. Until we awaken, we well deserve everything that is happening to us. We know it inwardly anyway. If we don't act right now, this ignorance leading to indescribable evil may get worse in the near future.

William F. Warren gives the following food for thought:

'...All the most ancient traditions of mankind represent him as having commenced existence in a divine fellowship, and as having lost this holy and blessed estate only through sin. This view of the origin of religion has prevailed from the beginning of traceable history among all nations of the earth, varying only to such slight extent as would permit polytheistic peoples to conceive of the primeval divine fellowship polytheistically, and the monotheistic peoples monotheistically. The solid traditional belief of the whole human family in every age of the world has been that man began his existence pure and sinless, and in conscious and divine communion. This is the pan-ethnic no less than the Biblical doctrine of the origin and first form of religion among men.

'...at the present time new light is greatly needed on this question. The need is special for the reason that... certain speculative minds, oblivious of the history of mankind, ignoring the sacred books of all nations, despising the consentaneous convictions of all peoples, and more or less ridiculing the very idea on which religion itself is based -- namely, the idea of the existence and action of extra human and super human personalities -- have undertaken to set aside the view which we have above described as the pan ethnic doctrine of the origin of religion, and to substitute for it some other explanation, so framed as to make it appear that religion originated from man himself, apart from any divine manifestation, or teaching, or impulse whatever. The result has been a succession of crude speculations, inadequate in their premises and contradictory in their respective conclusions. Professing unusual philosophic candor, aided by the interest which always attends novel attempts to set aside the beliefs of ages; adapting themselves to every class of readers, and especially to all the successfully ruling fashions in non-religious and irreligious current speculation, these writers have at last not only wrought a perfect confusion in this portion of the philosophy of religion, but have furthermore so degraded and bestialized their readers' conception of primitive humanity, and so outraged all probability in their descriptions of primitive savagery, that even from biological and sociological sides a strong reaction has already set in. (pp.362, 363,364.)'

William Warren stated in his book exactly what I say in this article. Mankind must again know exactly who and what he is... If he will not do this, he may again bring about his destruction, along with all he has accomplished until now.

Only recently, scientists have come to suspect that one cell organisms from Outer Space could not possibly have evolved to mankind. Therefore, the 'authorities' Warren discussed are trying to make other speculations about Darwin's Theory, which will also someday be proven invalid.

One day, my Hindu friend, Jayendra Upadhye, an expert on interpreting the Hindu Holy books, and I were discussing whether puny mankind has as much control of his fate as he thinks he has. I want to share his thoughts with all of you:

'For the Creator, we are like programmed machines, each executing his or her program. After all, the genetic code is the world's best and most efficient self replication and evolving indestructible program, that has endured 600 million years and counting.

'The religious ideas each of us has, may be, for all we know, useful illusions that serve the Creator's purpose for some thing beyond our understanding! These could be even an aberration built into us to prevent us from monopolizing everything and enable humans to have their Achilles heel, if it comes to wiping them off the globe! (total religious wars or Armageddon). Nature is far more cunning and masterful for us to underestimate it.'

The Bible tells us that while flood waters killed most people in the world during the time of Noah, this time it will destroy most of us with fire and heat. What races and individuals will The Divine Ones put out of business in 2012? Are you and the racial or cultural group to which you belong inscribed on that list?

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Sumerian Harps from Ur

Saturday 16th of January 2010 by Jesse



More than 7,000 years ago, the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers teamed with life. The first settlements of small villages, some coalescing into towns, were built by the Ubaidians, the nomadic tribes from Al-Ubaid site. These settlements, later known as the Sumerian civilization, gradually developed into sophisticated city-states, namely Uruk, Kish, Umma, Lagash, Larsa, Nippur and Ur, the most celebrated of all.

During the centuries that followed, the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Chaldeans, Israelites, Pheonicians, and Elamites (Persians) established their kingdoms in the region – the foundation for future civilizations, on which many cultures succeeded.

Until the mid-19th century the existence of the Sumerians was merely not suspected. The first major excavations leading to the discovery of Sumer were conducted in 1842-1854 at the Assyrian library of King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. During the late 19th century, a series of excavations was undertaken at Lagash and Nippur. In the late 1920's and early 1930's, during almost 20 years of immense excavation 18 feet below the ground level, the joint British-American team led by the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley – assisted by Sir Max Mallowan and his wife, the mystery novelist Agatha Christie – made sensational discoveries at the city of Ur (biblical, Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Patriarch Abraham, the son of the wealthy shekh Terah).

The archaeological finds included: a massive pyramidal and amazingly well-preserved temple – a ziggurat, known today as Tall al-Mukayyar, c. 2,100 B.C.; the Royal Cemetery at Ur, filled with valuable jewelry and gold artifacts, including several musical instruments; flood strata – a deposit of silt measuring 11 feet in depth, the evidence of the Nuh's Flood from the times of Noah, c. 4,000-3,000 B.C.

The 4,500-year-old cemetery at Ur was in use for almost five hundred years. The most renown of the burials, described by Woolley as "Royal Tombs", dated from the Early Dynastic-III period, c. 2,600-2,500 B.C. Among the 1,800 graves of "common folk", containing the remains of nearly 2,000 people, there were sixteen "royal tombs" with the remains of many attendants, suggesting human sacrifices, probably carried out among willing participants. Musicians, soldiers, courtiers, and servants had accompanied their kings and queens into the afterlife. Some of the most beautiful artifacts of Sumerian art were found mostly at the "royal tombs". The luxurious contents included richly adorned headdresses, ritual gold daggers, cups made of gold and silver, alabaster bowls, gold vessels, thousand of small beads of lapis lazuli, personal ornaments, gold pins and amulets, rings and necklaces, solid gold bull's heads on tops of embellished wooden harps and lyres, mosaic panels, cuneiform tablets, sledges and chariots, helmets and spears, horses and oxen, a gold statuette of a ram caught in a thicket (recalling Abraham's ram sacrifice), and offerings of food.

The treasures recovered from the Royal Cemetery at Ur were subsequently divided among the University Museum of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the British Museum in London and the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.


  • Catalogued as "private grave" PG-800, the remains of Lady Pu-abi, known also as "Queen Shub-Ad" were found. Her name was identified by the inscription on a lapis lazuli cylinder seal that laid on her shoulder.



    Bust of Lady Pu-abi.
    Reconstructed with golden earings and elaborate headdress
    - a confection of golden leaves, golden ribbons,
    and rosettes set of with lapis lazuli.
    Reconstruction, 1982, after Leonard Woolley.


    Bust of Lady Pu-abi.
    Reconstructed.
    (Taken by looters, April 2003.)
    Iraq Museum, Baghdad.


    Pu-abi's "death pit" contained the remains of more than a dozen ladies-in-waiting in "full regalia". The approach to the burial chamber had been "guarded" by five men with copper daggers. The harpist "seated" at the corner still accompanied his/her "divine" queen to the next world. Close by, the remnants of two wooden frames with many separate parts were found. The modern reproduction became a challenge for Woolley. He reconstructed the object, but was never happy with the result. Actually, this particular restoration suffered from the problem that the frames, appeared to be that of a harp and a lyre, long buried together, were restored as one musical instrument. Later on, a separation was achieved in form of two instruments: the harp, decorated with a bull's head, and with a pattern of gold on the sound-box, and the lyre with rectangular sound-box, and with the golden bull's head on its top. In the late 1960s, a new silvery lyre was reconstructed from the many pieces still left. The wooden parts and the strings on the instruments are modern, but the lapis lazuli, shell and limestone mosaic, set in bitumen are ancient. The gold bull's head (but not the horns) on one of the lyres are ancient, and the restored horns on the other lyre have been made of ivory. All three instruments are eleven-stringed ones, but the shape of the sound-boxes, along with the length of the strings distinct them. The strings of the harp, fastened on the wooden beam, pointed upward with gold rings (or tuning pegs) are of diminishing lengths, while the strings of the lyres are relatively equal in length.

    These three instruments, the masterpieces of Sumerian art, dated c. 2,600-2,350 B.C., known as the Harp from Ur, the Queen's Lyre, and the Silver Lyre, are now preserved at the British Museum.




    Harp from Ur.
    Sumerian, 2,600-2,350 B.C.   (Restored)
    British Museum, London.




    Bull's head, Queen's Lyre   (fragment). Sumerian, 2,600-2,350 B.C.
    British Museum, London.




    Silver Lyre.
    Sumerian, 2,600-2,350 B.C.   (Restored)
    British Museum, London.




  • Catalogued as "private grave" PG-789, in the so-called "King's Grave", close to the sanctuary of Queen Pu-abi, the remains of King "Lugal" Abargi, dated c. 2,685 B.C., were found. Even though this tomb had been robbed in antiquity, its "death pit" remained intact. The entrance was "guarded" by six soldiers wearing copper helmets and carrying spears. A dozen men armed with their weapons laid close to the bodies of richly adorned women, supposedly singers and a harpist. Close to their heads the remnants of two musical instruments were found. They may be associated with the ceremonial burial of the king. Their music and songs accompanied their beloved king to the Underworld.

    One of the most beautiful restorations of a musical instrument from Ur, is the Great Lyre, founded in the "King's Grave" with its original and well-preserved inlaid plaque, and a gold bull's head with curls of hair, beard and eyes of lapis lazuli. The lyre’s wooden structure has been reconstructed from the detailed measurement made by pouring the plaster into the impression left by the disintegrated wood. The eleven strings fastened on the rectangular sound-box are modern. The front of the sound-box is decorated with the mosaic plaque, trapezoidal in shape and set in bitumen. In one of four scenes, depicting mythological creatures, a seated animal – onager or bear – plays a similar lyre. Curiously, the strings of the lyre are being plucked with the fingers (instead of hoofs) by an animal having a human hand.

    The Great Lyre, dated c. 2,750 B.C., regarded as a treasure of the ancient world had been recreated by Leonard Woolley, and is now on exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia.




    Great Lyre.
    Sumerian, 2,750 B.C.   (Restored).
    University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA.




    Bull's head, Great Lyre (detail).
    Sumerian, 2,750 B.C.   (Restored).
    University of Pennsylvania Museum,
    Philadelphia, PA.


    Great Lyre, front panel (detail).
    Sumerian, 2,750 B.C.   (Restored).
    University of Pennsylvania Museum,
    Philadelphia, PA.



  • Catalogued as "private grave" PG-1273, and referred by Woolley as the "Great death pit", contained a large number of skeletons laid in rows, side by side, as if asleep. The musicians, fully armed soldiers, and court ladies-in-waiting, elegantly dressed in silk with gold embroidery would follow their "divine" master into his grave. In this gigantic "death pit", suggesting a mass suicide, probably caused by despair (because the king was gone, or the city was destroyed once again, or because of orgies or a ritual sacrifice or ceremonial drinking of a drug or a poisonous liquid), the mystery of the Sumerians were discovered. It seems that they believed in continuation of life after death, described by many as – "a dark abode of miserable shadows where eternity was spent in a wretched existence" – even though their "gods" offered no explanation of any such existence. As the grave was dug out, two more musical instruments were uncovered. They laid on top of each other, and had been crushed together by the weight of the earth layer. Eventually, during the process of restoration they had been separated. The rectangular sound-box with mother-of-pearl inlay was decorated with a solid gold bull's head, wearing solid gold beard (no lapis lazuli) and solid gold horns.

    These two instruments known as the Queen's Golden Harp and the Lyre of Queen Shub-Ad, c. 2,600 B.C. were included in the Mesopotamian Archaeological Collection of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.



    Lyre of Queen Shub-Ad.
    Sumerian, 2,600 B.C.   (Restored).
    Damaged by looters, April, 2003.
    Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
    (Photo: Lynn Abercrombie, 1989)


    The bull's head is its detail.
    Sumerian, 2,600 B.C.   (Restored).
    Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
    Recovered in Iraq's Central Bank, June 2003.
    (Photo: Lynn Abercrombie, 1989)



  • Catalogued as "private grave" PG-779, the largest tomb at the cemetery contained an object, covered with inlaid little beads of lapis lazuli and small carved figures, which Woolley called "The Standard of Ur." It was found laying in the corner of a burial chamber above a head of a man. When found, the original wooden frame was decayed, and two mosaic panels, set in the bitumen, were broken. Its original function is not known. Woolley envisaged that it had been carried on a pole as a standard. Another suggestion is that the hollow box formed a part of a musical instrument. It was decorated on its four sides with inlaid mosaic scenes representing all social classes at war and peace. At the top of the "peace" panel, a singer and a harpist playing the vertical harp (also known as a lyre harp or a lyre like those found in many "royal" tombs) entertained the king.

    The Standard of Ur, c. 2,650-2,400 B.C., is one of the most informative Sumerian objects of art that were discovered at Ur. The present restoration is but a best guess as to how it originally appeared. It is now preserved at the British Museum in London.




    "The Standard of Ur".
    Two sides, called "War" and "Peace", on the hollow box.
    Sumerian, 2,650-2,400 B.C.
    British Museum, London.




    "The Standard of Ur".
    The "Peace" part on the hollow box.
    Sumerian, 2,650-2,400 B.C.
    British Museum, London.




    "The Standard of Ur", detail.
    Sumerian, 2,650-2,400 B.C.
    British Museum, London.



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In April 2003, after a 48-hour long rampage and plunder at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, many priceless artifacts of Mesopotamian culture were stolen, badly damaged or disappeared, perhaps forever. Among the lost treasures are Sumerian harps and lyres. Some elements of the musical instruments, like silver plating and inlays of gems, ivory and mother-of-pearl have been stripped off. The solid gold head of a bull was stolen.

Fortunately, thanks to the museum practices and the archaeologists' foresight, hundreds of relics from the ancient Sumeria have been distributed worldwide following excavation by the British-American team.

Finally, after more then forty eight centuries, the world received not only a glimpse to the past, but many exact replicas of the best golden objects, including several harps and lyres. The man to whom we owe all of this is Sir Leonard Woolley (1880-1960).




Sir Leonard Woolley with the�triangular�frame of an excavated Sumerian harp, 1920s.   (Plaster cast.)�
Such a frame is an archetype for the more developed mediaeval and modern framed harps.



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Note :
Some historical sources (not to mention media, newspapers and popular magazines) do not make a clear distinction between harp and lyre. The lyres founded at the Royal Cemetery at Ur have been misinterpreted as a harp. Due to common use of rectangular sound-boxes, identical Sumerian instruments, with two arms connecting a crossbar, were called harp or lyre, depending on the discoverer's preference. It resulted in having lyre – a smaller instrument – being called "harp", and lesser forms of harp being called lyres. The main element which distinguishes these two instruments (if not the shape of the sound-box or the frame) are the strings: diminishing in length in harp, and almost equal in length in the lyre. Most Sumerian lyres had eleven strings, and it is assumed that each string produced a different sound, thus suggesting that Sumerian music for the lyre was more complicated than its contemporary Egyptian music, written for four-stringed lyre. The large Sumerian lyres would have sounded somewhat like a stringed deep tone bass, and would have produced a voluminous sound, as powerful as a bull's bellowing, apparently in a human imitation of a bull's "voice".

It is worthy to add, that the oldest musical instrument in Sumeria was indeed the harp, dated from Uruk period, c. 4,000-3,200 B.C. It was a small harp made of cranium and horns of a Sacred Bull, which Gilgamesh, the King of Uruk (biblical Erech; modern Warka) heroically slew at the City wall's precinct of the Isthar temple. He then "clothed" the harp with gold and horns and dedicated it in memory of his father Lugalbandu, the third king of Erech after the great flood, worshipped for over a thousand years.



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Post Scriptum   (July 1, 2003)
In mid-May 2003, Professor John M. Russell, Chairman of Critical Studies Department, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, participated in a UNESCO visit to the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. In an e-mail message of June 19, 2003, he informed me that he has seen the Harp of Ur displayed on the table, along with other broken objects. Although badly smashed, the instrument appeared to be restorable. Also the golden bull's head was reportedly safe. Professor Russell expects, as we all do so, that one day the harp will be restored to an almost "good as new" condition.   (LOA)

(Quoted with Professor Russell's permission)





Post Scriptum 2   (July 7, 2003)
On July 6, 2003, a TV program on the recovered artifacts that belong to Iraq Museum in Baghdad was aired by The National Geographic. The Harp of Ur was shown being in a miserable condition, broken into three separate parts: the two vertical arms and the resonating box. The resonating box and the frame, both decorated with mother of pearl-inlaid mosaic, are badly smashed and large parts of the mosaic missing.

This TV program reported the sensational discovery made on June 12, 2003, at the site of Iraq's Central Bank in Baghdad. In the destroyed bank building, in underground vaults, flooded with sewer waters and hidden behind double walls, a US recovery team and Iraqi officials unexpectedly found in wooden cases the so called Nimrud Treasure, i.e. the fabled collection of golden jewelry that was unearthed in the 1980s by an Iraqi archeological expedition in the Assyrian royal tombs in Nimrud. The Nimrud Treasure had been shown publically only once soon after it was found. Then it mysteriously disappeared in the hands of Saddam Hussein's officials. This treasure was being sought after since the fall of the Saddam's regime.

And now, amongst the Nimrud Treasure, the golden bull's head that once adorned the Harp of Ur was found intact.

Even more surprising was the realization that this bull's head remained hidden in the vault since 1991, i.e. the first Gulf War, and that since then no one had reported its disappearance from Iraq Museum. It is anybody's guess if the motives behind hiding these most treasured ancient Sumerian artifacts were to make them safe, or to eventually appropriate them, similarly as it was recently done to huge monetary funds from the same bank.

On July 4, 2003, the Nimrud Treasure and the golden bull's head were shown to a selected group of experts and guests. It is planned that the Treasure will be publically exhibited at Iraq Museum in November 2003.   (LOA)

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A H1N1, pandemia falsa

Saturday 16th of January 2010 by Jesse


Wolfgand Wodarg, lider de sanatate al Consiliului Europei, considera groaza A H1N1 o "campanie a panicii", o "pandemie falsa", unul dintre cele mai mari scandaluri medicale ale secolului si pretinde ca vaccinurile, bazate pe celule canceroase, "soptesc" mesajul "va fi mai rau".

Pentru W.W., pandemia A H1N1, care a inceput ca Gripa Mexicana, devenita ulterior Gripa Porcina, a fost nici mai mult nici mai putin decat o campanie de creare a unei false impresii de insecuritate, astfel incat companiile farmaceutice sa faca profit de pe urma populatiei speriate.

Considerand "pandemia" drept "una dintre cele mai mare scandaluri ale secolului", dr. Wodarg a solicitat o cercetare amanuntita a situatiei. Rezolutia propusa de el in cazul investigarii rolului companiilor farmaceutice in povestea A H1N1 a trecut de Consiliul Europei de la Strasbourg. O dezbatere de urgenta va fi sustinuta la sfarsitul lunii ianuarie.

Referitor la vaccinul impotriva Gripei Porcine, dr. Wodarg a declarat ca acesta a fost dezvoltat la repezeala. Unele ingrediente nu ar fi fost suficient testate, iar lucruri mai rele urmeaza sa se intample, a declarat oficialul. "Vaccinul creat de Novartis a fost produs intr-un bioreactor, din celule canceroase, o tehnica nemaifolosita pana acum", a mai adaugat el.

Surse: http://vasluionline.ro/stiri-vaslui/local/1584-a-h1n1-pandemia-falsa.html ; Aroundglobe