Kaddafi is alive; Western media hoax (video)

The official reports coming over the Western media are false. Gaddafi (Kaddafi, Qaddafi) is alive -- injured or not, RT was told by Stephen Lendman, an American radio host, author, and blogger, who got the news from the independent Mathaba News agency.

­“I’m very skeptical of the so-called official reports,” at least media from NATO countries taking part in the Libyan campaign should be distrusted.

The blogger also does not believe the latest news that one of Gaddafi's sons, Mutasim, has also reportedly just been killed in Sirte.

“Western media reports are absolutely falsified -- Sirte is not controlled by the NTC, neither is Bani Walid, and as a matter of fact, Tripoli as well,” states Stephen Lendman, saying he admires the loyalist forces who, after seven months of hard stand-off against the world’s most advanced military powers, have the ability to continue fight against Western-led mercenaries.

“Western media is lying, the official reports are lying -- the balance is going back and force,” he claims.

Stephen Lendman informs that as far as he knows, most of the Libyan cities -- including that of Benghazi -- are under loyalist control. More

Killing Kaddafi... and propping up new dictator

Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)

A United States of Africa under Kaddafi, but not without US approval (RussiaToday).

Oct. 20, 2011 - Col. Kaddafi (Gaddafi, Qaddafi) was reportedly captured alive after two months on the run. The country's new authorities -- sponsored by the US and other western powers -- claim the ousted leader has been taken into custody in his hometown of Sirte, Libya.

It was reportedly overrun by rebel forces. He was soon executed presumably under orders from the people paying the bills. Sirte was the last major stronghold of Kaddafi's old regime supporters for the past two months.

Reporters in Sirte were unable to immediately confirm Kaddafi's capture, or even that the town had fallen to interim forces. Libya's current ruling body, the National Transitional Council, had said they would declare Libya liberated once Sirte fell.

The embarrassing appearance of Kaddafi's son and heir reveals
western disinformation campaign (psychological operation).

Reports are now rampant that Kaddafi was assassinated by those who took him into custody for those in the West wishing to keep him quiet. While he was indeed a monster, dictator, and criminal, he was OUR monster, dictator, and criminal. We set him up, kept him going, and are in the market for a new dictator. We will accept nothing less.

War hawks who argue that pacifists should be happy that such a criminal was murdered ignore the fact that this is "business as usual" in the New World Order. Why bother with kangaroo court trials when extrajudicial killings are so much more "convenient"?

Never mind the harm, injustice, or perpetuation of a corrupting system of installing dictators friendly to the West. The people never have a chance to be free or to enjoy the natural resources that are their birthright as citizens born in oil-rich lands.

(AlJazeeraEnglish)

Moammar Kaddafi's rule in Libya lasted more than four decades, longer than any other world leader. Having siezed power in a military coup at at the age of 27, he imposed a pan-Arab, anti-imperialist philosophy that won him both friends and enemies.Despite admitting that he had a nuclear weapons program, he was tolerated by the international community because of Libya's rich oil deposits, a dwindling international resource. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher takes a look back at his rise and subsequent loss of power.

Amazing Video Art

(LINK) Art gives life meaning. It unites us, as this peaceful video from violent Israel demonstrates. There just might be hope for us all to live joyfully together. Note the moving picture in their hands.

• FilmWeek: The Debt, Seven Days in Utopia, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, and more
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• Anti-Israel protest disrupts UK concert series
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Rebels loot strange treasure of Gadhafis

The Gadhafi family's ostentatious homes filled with expensive cars and clothes shock and anger Libyans. - "Darling" Condie Rice photos found - Rebel steals famous hat - Comedian: Harder to joke

• Libya fighters look for desert showdown with Qaddafi
• Gaddafi, in hiding, vows NO surrender in Libya
• Kaddafi: NATO trying to "occupy" Libya
• Rebels claim Kwadhafi foreign minister caught
• Libya rebels focus on tribal city as Gaddafi haven
• A glance at Moammar Gaddafi's family

Space junk suddenly a big problem

Earth's orbit is now so dirty that officials might have to clean it with unique tech tricks. - New findings on Mars - Shuttles' final wrap - Space station's future

World's Arts and Religions are All Related

Wisdom Quarterly

Messiah, a great pharoah in a lineage of great rulers,*King Tut (copycateffect blog)

The world's great artistic and cultural (particularly sacred mythological/historical texts) borrowed from one another. From prehistory, to ancient Sumeria, to Egypt, to Vedic India, to Buddhism, to Christianity, to our "Western" eclectic cosmopolitan tastes, the similarities are no coincidence. Ancient astronauts (devas) shared much around throughout the planet -- particularly to mystics and shamans wherever they were residing -- leaving behind pyramids to massive stupas visible from space. The world is interdependent and one.

Maitreya, the Buddha-to-come, from the Tibetan Thiksey monastery in Ladakh, India (allposters.com)

Fjordman Report (Scandinavia) Gatesofvienna
There was...was the heretical Pharaoh Akhenaten in the 14th century BC. The art depicting him and his wife [the great] Nefertiti is quite naturalistic.

It is unlike anything before in Egyptian history and may have been inspired by that of the Minoan culture on the island of Crete -- considered by many to be the first European civilization.

This style is still discernible in objects found in the tomb of Tutankhaten, believed to be son of Akhenaten, who later changed his name to Tutankhamun [King Tut] as the old religion was reestablished.

Even though the artistic legacy of Akhenaten was quickly forgotten, his religious ideas may have proven far more durable. His insistence on worshiping one supreme god, Aten, makes him a pioneer in monotheism. It has been speculated, though disputed by many scholars, that Akhenaten’s ideas may have inspired those of Moses, which led to the creation of Judaism and, by extension, Christianity.

King Tut's Lineage Revealed (witola.com)

The earliest alphabet, the ancestor of nearly every alphabet used around the globe, including -- via Phoenician -- the Greek and the Latin [Indo-European, rooted in Sanskrit] ones, was partly derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs representing syllables.

Greek artists studied and imitated Egyptian art but experimented and decided to look for themselves instead of following any traditional, ready-made formula.

As Gombrich says, “The Greeks began to use their eyes. Once this revolution had begun, there was no stopping it.” It is surely no coincidence that this Great Awakening of art to freedom took place in the hundred years between, roughly 520 and 420 BC, in Greek city-states such as Athens, where philosopher Socrates challenged our ideas about the world:

“It was here, above all, that the greatest and most astonishing revolution in the whole history of art bore fruit.... The great revolution of Greek art, the discovery of natural forms and of foreshortening, happened at the time which is altogether the most amazing period of human history.”

This art was later spread far beyond the borders of Greece, when Alexander the Great created his empire and brought Hellenistic art to Asia:

“Even in far-distant India, the Roman way of telling a story and of glorifying a hero was adopted by artists who set themselves the task of illustrating the story of a peaceful conquest, the story of the Buddha. The art of sculpture had flourished in India long before the Hellenistic influence reached the country; but it was in the frontier region of Gandhara that the figure of Buddha was first shown in the reliefs which became the model for later Buddhist art.... Greek and Roman art, which had taught men to visualize gods and heroes in beautiful form, also helped the Indians to create an image of their saviour. The beautiful head of the Buddha, with its expression of deep repose, was also made in this frontier region of Gandhara.”


Buddhism spread from India to the rest of Asia and brought with it these influences from Western art. This is highly significant if we remember that the invention of block printing during the Tang dynasty in China was intimately linked to Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist art.

Alexander the Great may also have brought with him inked seals to India during his invasion, and Indian merchants later introduced them to the Chinese. Stamped figures of the Buddha marked the transition from seal impression to woodcut in China.

The oldest surviving printed texts from East Asia are Buddhist scriptures. Printing was thus used to promulgate a specific religion, just like Gutenberg’s printing press in Europe was later used to print Bibles.

The Islamic Middle East, however, for centuries rejected both the Eastern and the Western printing traditions due to religious intolerance and hostility towards pictorial arts. And they suffered all the more for it. More

• *We are suggesting that the reason St. Issa (Isa, Y'shua, Joshua, Jesus Christ) seems to have come out of nowhere to dominate world headlines is not only because early Christianity and subsequent Catholicism borrowed from the best of all the world's spiritual traditions, particularly Buddhism with Jesus learning Buddhism at Hemis Gompa, a Buddhist monastery in the Indian Himalayas), but because the pharoahs also believed in rebirth and returned to rule their people like Dalai Lama incarnations. The many gospels of the Judeo-Christian Bible said so before it was edited out at various councils that particularly excised the African (Egyptian and Ethiopian) connection and what are now known as the enlightening Gnostic Gospels of the Essenes and the libraries of Nag Hamadi and Qumran that paint a much more complete picture of his life and explain the roots of the monasticism he brought to Jews.
  

• Was Jesus a Pharoah?
• "Jesus: Last of the Pharoahs" (Ralph Ellis)
• "Jesus in the House of the Pharoahs"
  
• Historic Connection of Jesus and Moses with Pharaohs Ankhnaten and Thoth Moses III
  

Animal Karma: "One Lucky Elephant" (film)

(One Lucky Elephant) What happens to a circus elephant when it comes time to retire? After 16 years in the spotlight, Flora, an African elephant living in St. Louis, must find a new home. And David, the circus producer who has cared for her all these years, must say goodbye. The road to Flora's retirement, however, is a difficult and emotional one. The bond between human and elephant is tested in unexpected ways. Ten years in the making, this touching, thought-provoking film deftly investigates the problems and mysteries posed by keeping wild animals in captivity while never losing sight of the delicate love story at its heart.

The Mystery of the Dogon

Unmuseum.org

Full moon emerging from clouds (Sam Mugraby/Photos8.com)

Last month two Suns were filmed at sunset from various parts of the world. Today there was a full lunar eclipse. All this got us to thinking about the amazing Dogon of Africa, who long ago claimed there was a "Dog Star" behind the Sun. It is only visible (with telescopes) every fifty years according to their ancient astronomy. They also knew a great deal about this solar system. The source of their information? Strange beings (amphibian Nommos, hermaphrodite mermaids) who came from their and left behind this legacy.

In Mali, West Africa, lives a tribe of people called the Dogon. The Dogon are believed to be of Egyptian descent. But their astronomical lore goes back thousands of years to 3200 BC. According to their traditions, the star Sirius has a companion star, one invisible to the human eye. This companion star has a 50 year elliptical orbit around the visible Sirius and is extremely heavy. It also rotates on its axis.

This legend might be of little interest to anybody but the two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterlen, who recorded it from four Dogon priests in the 1930's. It would be of little interest except that it is exactly correct.

How did a people, who lacked any kind of astronomical devices, know so much about an invisible star? The star, which scientists now call Sirius B, was not photographed until a large telescope was devised and finally used in 1970.

The Dogon stories explain that according to their oral traditions, a race of "people" from the Sirius system called the Nommos visited Earth thousands of years ago. The Nommos were ugly, amphibious beings resembling mermen and mermaids.

They also appear in Babylonian, Accadian, and Sumerian myths. The Egyptian Goddess Isis, who is sometimes depicted as a mermaid, is also linked with the star Sirius.

According to the Dogon legend, the Nommos lived on a planet that orbits another star in the Sirius system. They landed on Earth in an "ark" [spacecraft] that made a spinning descent to the ground with great noise and wind. The Nommos gave the Dogon their knowledge about Sirius B.

Moreover, according to legend, the Nommos furnished the Dogon with very interesting information about our own solar system:

• The planet Jupiter has four major moons
• Saturn has rings
• The planets orbit the Sun.

These are all facts only discovered by Westerners after Galileo invented the telescope.

The story of the Dogon and their legend was first brought to popular attention by Robert K.G. Temple in his 1977 book The Sirius Mystery. Science writer Ian Ridpath and astronomer Carl Sagan replied to Temple's book, suggesting that this modern knowledge about Sirius must have come from Westerners... [because, of course, an African hunter-gatherer tribe who speak a languages distinct from everyone around them could not possibly be reporting their lore accurately].

• History of Mali's Timbuktu
  

But it does not explain a 400 year old Dogon artifact that apparently depicts the Sirius configuration nor the ceremonies held by the Dogon since the 13th century to celebrate the cycle of Sirius A and B. Nor does it explain how the Dogon knew about the super-density of Sirius B, a fact only discovered a few years before anthropologists recorded the Dogon stories.

But it is also important to remember that although many parts of Dogon legend ring true, other portions seem mistaken [from the point of view of our current understanding]. One Dogon belief is that Sirius B occupied the place where our Sun is now. Our understanding of physics prohibits this. And if the Dogon believe that Sirius B orbits Sirius A every 50 years, why do they hold their celebrations every 60 years? [Never mind that few who begin the massive preparations will live to see those celebrations.] More

Malcolm X: Our history destroyed by slavery

(AH) Malcolm X appears on the Chicago TV show "City Desk," March 17, 1963.

"My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather, who got it from the slavemaster. The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves. And then the name of the slavemaster was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever."

• The Complete Malcolm X (MalcolmXfiles.blogspot.com)

The Wisdom of Malcolm X

"We declare our right on this Earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this Earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary!" - Malcolm X

"The Ballot or The Bullet" was a speech by Malcolm X. It is about the struggle of all disenfranchised people from the example of 1950-1960's American black nationalism, the wish to have a nation where displaced blacks (who were enslaved by early Euro-Americans) can be treated fairly and equally). It was delivered on April 12, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan (Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University).

• Transcript
• Unedited transcript

"Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention"

Marable’s Exhaustive Biography of the Civil Rights Leader
DemocracyNow.org

Events are being held today, May 19th, across the country to mark what would have been Malcolm X’s 86th birthday. Earlier this year a major new biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention was published. The book’s author, Columbia Univ. Professor Dr. Manning Marable, died at the age of 60 just days before its publication. Two decades in the making, the nearly 600-page biography is described as a re-evaluation of Malcolm X’s life, providing new insights into the circumstances of his assassination [by the American government through the FBI and the war against black America through the FBI's Cointelpro?], as well as raising questions about Malcolm X’s own autobiography. DemocracyNow! speaks with Zaheer Ali, one of the researchers who worked with Dr. Marable on the biography. "In a sense, this book is a kind of iconoclasm in that way, in that it takes Malcolm off of the pedestal to examine him as a human being struggling through these political and religious currents that he was in," says Zaheer. More

Malcolm X versus the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

How Gangs Began in Los Angeles (film)

(Watch: Part I)

April 15, 7:00 pm: (Ross Chapel, Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, Pasadena) Reverend Hannah Petrie presents Bleecker Street Cinema’s film, "Bastards of the Party." This film is about the historical creation of gangs in Los Angeles. It deals with Malcolm X and other black leaders around the time of the Black Panthers and FBI fear of African-Americans and other sixties-era revolutionaries.

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