2005[#61].3.2=3:4703.1.22[#22/60]: 1)Declining US Unilateralism. 2)US Unilateralism. 3)Bio-Terror Risk. 4)Tsunami Prediction. 5)Ancient Religions.

Wet, cloudy cool to fair: from 2:15 to 9:50 up, emails to [C] yesterday's topic "EU <> Russia multi-lateralism". Emails up to old ones, joined some AdlandPro communities, after dinner, now 10:23pm: http://community.adlandpro.com/friends.aspx?tb=invitations http://community.adlandpro.com/communitychat.aspx Jun's girl friend, Christine appeared. Mei was back from singing group unknown to us, the group discovered by me a few weeks ago. She has also evening class of computer at adult school. Already 11:24pm and Mei has just started practicing piano. I'm ready for bed now. Still 12:50! 1) Declining US Unilateralism: "The decline of the American Century", By K Gajendra Singh [[ Indian ambassador (retired), served as ambassador to Turkey from August 1992 to April 1996. Prior to that, he served terms as ambassador to Jordan, Romania and Senegal. He is now chairman of the Foundation of Indo-Turkic Studies. ]], Opinion Editorials, Al-Jazeerah, February 28, 2005: http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/February/28%20o/The%20decline%20of%20the%20American%20Century%20By%20K%20Gajendra%20Singh.htm "" BUCHAREST - It is the afternoon sun that dazzles onlookers though it is past its prime. That sums up the height of US power before last September 11. If the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki without fear of retaliation was the acme of the American Century, then the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, symbols of economic and military might, could be termed the begi! nning of the end of the American Century. US President George W Bush's spontaneous call for a "crusade" and "Infinite Justice" neatly expressed the reality better than the later slogans, "war on terrorism" and "Enduring Freedom". At least the Muslim masses all over the world now watching daily brutalities inflicted on innocent Palestinians and their persecution since the occupation of their land, illegal bombings of Iraq and now a threat of unjustified war without any casus belli are convinced that there is a Western crusade that calls for a jihad. "" "" Members of the EU, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the OECD should persuade the US to have a dialogue with the Organi! zation of Islamic Conference (OIC). With all its failings, it is the only organization where all Muslim countries have come together for the first time since the 10th century, when an Umayyad emir in Cordoba broke away from the Shi'a Fatimids' and the caliph in Baghdad. Ironically the OIC came into being after the 1969 fire in al-Aqsa Mosque in Israeli-controlled Jerusalem. In this perpetual crusade vs jihad, Hindus, Buddhists, followers of Confucius and others must speak up and counsel peace. It is misguided intolerance bred by "my God is the only God", followed by "my true and only ideology" such as fascism, Nazism, communism, capitalism or globalism, which has been used to impoverish and butcher hundreds of millions over the millennia, about 80 million in the 20th century alone. The followers of Buddha, Tao, Confucius, Mahavira, Shamanism and Hinduism never forced their beliefs or ideologies on others! "" 2) US Unilateralism: (1) " The oil factor in Bush's 'war on tyranny' ", By F William Engdahl [[ the author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, published by Pluto Press Ltd. ]], SPEAKING FREELY, Asia Times Online, Mar 3, 2005: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GC03Dj02.html "" In recent public speeches, President George W Bush and others in the US administration, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have begun to make a significant shift in the rhetoric of war. A new "war on tyranny" is being groomed to replace the outmoded "war on terror". Far from being a semantic nuance, the shift is highly revealing of the next phase of Washington's global agenda. In his January 20 inaugural speech, Bush declared, "It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world" (author's emphasis). Bush repeated the last formulation, "ending tyranny in our world", in the State of the Union address. In 1917 it was a "war to make the world safe for democracy", and in 1941 it was a "war to end all wars". The use of tyranny as justification for US military intervention marks a dramatic new step in Washington's quest for global domination. "Washington", of course, today is shorthand for the policy domination by a private group of military and energy conglomerates, from Halliburton to McDonnell Douglas, from Bechtel to ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, not unlike that foreseen in president Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 speech warning of excessive control of government by a military-industrial complex. "" "" The military infrastructure for dealing with such tyrant states seems to be shaping up as well. In the January 24 New Yorker magazine, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh cited Pentagon and CIA sources to claim that the position of Rumsfeld and the warhawks is even stronger today than before the Iraq war. Hersh reported that Bush signed an Executive Order last year, without fanfare, placing major CIA covert operations and strategic analysis into the hands of the Pentagon, sidestepping any congressional oversight. He added that plans for the widening of the "war on terror" under Rumsfeld were also agreed upon in the administration well before the election. The Washington Post confirmed Hersh's allegation, reporting that Rumsfeld's Pentagon had created, by Presidential Order, and bypassing Congress, a new Strategic Support Branch, which co-opts traditional clandestine and other functions of the CIA. According to a report by US Army Colonel (retired) Dan Smith, in Foreign Policy in Focus last November, the new SSB unit includes the elite military special SEAL Team 6, Delta Force army squadrons, and potentially a paramilitary army of 50,000 available for "splendid little wars" outside congressional purview. "" (2) 911 Conspiracy: 1. "Alexander Pope in a prose convertible", By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS, globeandmail.com, Saturday, February 26, 2005, Page F9: 2. " Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be 'suicided' ", Infowars.com [[ an Alex Jones company ]]: Total 9-11 Info / Prison Planet March 2, 2005 Toronto Globe and Mail February 26, 2005: http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/hunter_s_thompson_suicided_for_911_story.htm "" Paul William Roberts in his Globe and Mail article of Saturday, February 26, 2005 wrote the following: Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ." Hunter S. Thompson ... was indeed working on such a story. Now check out this February 25 Associated Press story about Thompson's death. Sounds a lot like a professional hit with a silencer: "I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen Daily News in Friday's editions. She said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column... "" 3) Bio-Terror Risk: "Interpol warns of bio-terror risk", http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4307465.stm "" Interpol says bio-terror knows no geographical boundaries. The world is ill-prepared for the threat of bio-terrorism, the head of Interpol has warned. Ron Noble told delegates at a two-day conference in the French city of Lyon that there is no "crime area where the police... have as little training". "" "" Jackie Selebi, South African police chief and president of Interpol, cautioned that an attack on the food chain, for example by targeting livestock, was "not science fiction". "" 4) Tsunami Prediction: "Russian scientist predicted tsunami two days before it hit Southeast Asia", 03/01/2005 11:21: US forces supposedly used a secret weapon in Iraq, which resulted in a powerful earthquake http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/15035_tsunami.html "" Viktor Bokov, a scientist from St.Petersburg, deals with short-term earthquake forecasts. The information about the forthcoming disaster in Southeast Asia, which killed 215,000 people, appeared on the website of the Arctic and Antarctic Institute (on which Bokov's forecasts are regularly published) two days before the tsunami hit the Asian shores. "" 5) Ancient Religions: (1) Chinese Ancient Legend: "Jade Bear-Dragons Corroborate Yellow Emperor Legend", by Shao Da, China.org.cn, May 8, 2004: "" For centuries Huangdi (the Yellow Emperor), legendary ruler and ancestor, lived only in the hearts and minds of the Chinese people and in the words of legends written down in antiquity. But in recent years, intriguing new clues have been emerging from the Neolithic Hongshan Culture. Over 5,000 years ago this was to be found in today's Liaoning Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Hongshan is world-famous for its many jade artifacts. Among these, it is the so-called bear-dragons unearthed in recent years that have provided the first hard archaeological evidence to add credence to the much-told story of Huangdi. As a rule, China's recorded history starts with the Xia Dynasty (c. 2100-1600 BC). In the absence of archaeological evidence, the pre-Xia era of the five "virtuous emperors" (Huangdi, Zhuanxu, Di Ku, Tang Yao and Yu Shun) has remained a time known only through legends handed down from ancient times. Historical documents indicate that Huangdi, first of the five legendary rulers, lived in northern China. According to the Historical Records of Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), Huangdi was called Youxiong (Keeper of bears). During times of conflict with Yandi (Red Emperor), Sima Qian describes Huangdi as training black bears, grizzly bears, foxes, panthers, lynxes and tigers. He recorded that these six animals were generally regarded as the totems of Huangdi's tribe. "" (2) Japanese Original Religion: "Mother Japan -- Way Of Kami": http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LeagueOfTheLastDays/message/928 "" Around 10,000 B.C., Japan's indigenous peoples melded into a cohesive economywhich lasted for several thousand years: the Jomon culture. As with allmatriarchal peoples, much of what we know of them comes from their manyartworks and tools and other archaeological artifacts. Much more comes fromintegrating those clues with our knowledge of other peoples worldwide. Jomonmeans "cord pattern," for these people designed cord patterns on their pottery? the oldest of its kind in human history. "" (3) Mayan Religion of C.Amercan Civilization: "Last Great Capital of the Maya", by Susan Mibrath [[ curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History ]], Archaeology [[ a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America ]]: Volume 58, Number 2, March/April 2005: http://www.archaeology.org/0503/abstracts/mayapan.html "" the city as a vital place full of painters, architects, sculptors, and stone masons who drew inspiration from Mixtec codices from southern Mexico, Maya sculpture from sites to the west, building forms at Chichén Itzá, and mural painting in Aztec style from central Mexico. Mayapán had diverse influences, as well as a wide network of trade contacts with other parts of Mesoamerica. Some effigy censers seem inspired by a marriage of Maya and Central Mexican themes and gods such as the Howler Monkey Scribe, which resembles both a Classic Maya deity and the Aztec god Xochipilli. The mixture of symbols suggests they were designed to be understood across language barriers, allowing the Maya, Mixtec, and Aztec peoples living there to share broader Mesoamerican traditions. ""