tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60539679790081771562024-03-13T16:14:15.398+10:00Nambassa2000Discussing alternatives in health and diet, spirituality, politics and the environment.NAMBASSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302307986735020007noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-78884673406107547172009-02-23T18:23:00.001+10:002009-02-23T18:25:50.007+10:00AMERICAS COWARDICE<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Iraq war was a sign that the world has lost the will to fight for true justice</span><br /><br />Sometimes there’s truth in old clichés. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there can be no justice. Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.<br /><br />The assault on vulnerable, fragile sections of society is so complete, so cruel and so clever that its sheer audacity has eroded our definition of justice. It has forced us to lower our sights, and curtail our expectations. Even among the well intentioned, the magnificent concept of justice is gradually being substituted with the reduced, far more fragile discourse of “human rights”.<br /><br />This is an alarming shift. The difference is that notions of equality, of parity, have been pried loose and eased out of the equation. It’s a process of attrition. Almost unconsciously, we begin to think of justice for the rich and human rights for the poor. Justice for the corporate world, human rights for its victims. Justice for Americans, human rights for Afghans and Iraqis. Justice for the Indian upper casts, human rights for Dalits and Adivasis (if that). Justice for white Australians, human rights for aborigines and immigrants (most times not even that).<br /><br />It is becoming more than clear violation that violatinghuman rights is inherent and necessary part of the process of implementing acohesive and unjust political and economic structure on the world.Increasingly, human rights violations are being portrayed as the unfortunate,almost accidental, fallout of an otherwise acceptable economic and politicalsystem. As though they are a small problem which can be mopped up with a littleextra attention from some non-government organisation.<br /><br />This is why in areas of heightened conflict in ..Kashmir..and in Iraq for example- human rights professionals are regarded with a degree of suspicion.Many resistance movements in poor countries which are fighting huge injustice and questioning the underlying principals of what constitutes “liberation” and “development”view human rights non government organisations as modern day missionaries who have come to take the ugly edge off imperialism- to diffuse political anger and to maintain the status quo.<br /><br />The illegal invasion and occupation of ....Iraq....will surely go down in history as one of the most COWARDLY wars ever. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United nations to force it to disarm,then invaded it, occupied it and are now in the process of selling it.<br /><br />I speak of ....Iraq....not because everybody is talking about it, but because it is a sign of things to come. Iraq marks the beginning of a new cycle. It offers us an opportunity to watch the corporate-military cabal that has come to be known as “empire” at work. In the new Iraq, the gloves are off.<br /><br />As the battle to control the earth resources intensifies, economic colonisation threw formal military aggression is staging a comeback. Iraq is the logical culmination of the process of corporate globalisation in which neo-colonisation and neo-liberalism has fused. If we can find it in ourselves to peep behind the curtain of blood, we would glimpse the pitiless transactions taking place backstage.<br /><br />Invaded and occupied Iraq has been made to pay out$US200 million in “reparations” for lost profits to corporations such as Halliburton, Shell, Mobil, Nestle, Pepsi, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Toys R Us. That’s apart form its $US125 billion sovereign debt forcing it to turn to the IMF waiting in the wings like the angel of death, with its structural adjustment program. (Though in Iraq there doesn’t seem to be any structures left to adjust).<br /><br />So what does peace mean in this savage, corporatised, militaristic world? What does peace mean to people in occupied Iraq, Palestine, Kashmir, Tibet, Georgia and Chechnya? Or to the aboriginal people in Australia? Or to the Kurds in Turkey? Or the Daltis and Adivasis of ....India? What does peace mean to non-Muslims in Islamic countries, or to women in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan? What does it mean to the millions who are being uprooted from their lands by dams and development projects? What does peace mean to the poor who are being actively robbed of their resources? For them, peace is war.<br /><br />We know very well who benefits from war in the age of empire. But we must also ask ourselves honestly who benefits from peace in the age of empire? Warmongering is criminal. By talking of peace without talking of justice could easily become advocacy for a kind of capitulation. And talking of justice without unmasking the institutions and systems that perpetuated injustice is beyond hypocritical.<br /><br />It is easy to blame the poor for being poor. It is easy to believe that the world is being caught up in an escalating spiral of terrorism and war. That’s what allowed George Bush to say, “You’re either with us or with the terrorists.” But that’s a spurious choice. Terrorism is only the privatising of war. They believe that the legitimate use of violence is not the sole prerogative of the state.<br /><br />It is mendacious to make moral distinction between the unspeakable brutality of terrorism and the indiscriminate carnage of war and occupation. Both kinds of violence are unacceptable. We can not support one and condemn the other.<br /><br />A. Roy<div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>NAMBASSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302307986735020007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-44604177803816658122009-01-06T14:01:00.007+10:002009-01-06T20:29:49.364+10:00Brief History of the Hippies<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} h3 {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-outline-level:3; font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:bold;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p><b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HIPPIES</span></span>
<br /></b></p><p><b>Kia ora Tatau. Tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>Take a virtual multimedia tour down memory lane and revis</b><b>it the history making and internationally acclaimed Nambassa alternatives festivals of music, arts and culture, and grab a glimpse of the splendour and wonders of the artistic, dynamic and thought provoking culture of New Zealand's unique 1970’s home grown hip movement.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="all" data="http://lads.myspace.com/photoshow/slideshow.swf" width="445" align="middle" height="230"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"> <param name="allowNetworking" value="all"> <param name="movie" value="http://lads.myspace.com/photoshow/slideshow.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="scale" value="noscale"> <param name="flashvars" value="userID=105661597&bgColor=65280&bgColor2=0&transitionSpeed=4&transitionStyle=b&showCaptions=1"> </object>Nambassa is the tribal name of a Charitable Trust and </b><b>series of hippie/counter-culture 3 and 5 day music, arts and alternatives festivals held around Waihi and Waikino in </b><st1:place><st1:city><b>Aotearoa-</b></st1:city><b> </b><st1:country-region><b>New Zealand</b></st1:country-region></st1:place><b> during the 1970s. These series of multi-faceted festivals are w</b><b>idely regarded by many as being three decades before their time. These were festivals not only</b><b> celebrating music and the arts, but events where one could attend any number of practical workshop demonstrations on issues we felt necessary to promote for the time. Workshops covered topics such as holistic health, the environment, arts and crafts, self-sufficiency, healing and spirituality. As Nambassa promotes that multiculturalism is a fundamental component in the building of a tolerant, inclusive and cohesive society, workshops on cultural exchanges played a prominent role.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>The Nambassa festivals were organised on a voluntary basis by crea</b><b>tive young hippies from </b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>New Zealand</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b> and across the globe. They were part of an international phenomenon in the 60s and 70s heralding a new artistic culture of music, freedom, love and social revolution; where millions of young people reacting against old world antecedents, embraced a new hippie ethos </b><b>while promoting their alternative lifestyle as a natural part of ordinar</b><b>y life. The Nambassa festivals were vegetarian and alcohol could not be purchased at any of its events. For archival details of the 1970s Nambassa, check out Wikipedia.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <h3>The History of the Hippies</h3><h3><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguSptDlGa90QVx9pczWi1ps_KDtWzhQr40NdYr07SgP_Hm6U8qPqCv0oaQiEABsEI4fstwrvr-_f4HiCgF-VhjlzkXZMoUySDVurd64ySCAkDcyyoxCRQxACsjg3X0jRgXy2OynLx1Lac/s1600-h/hippyreligioncopy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguSptDlGa90QVx9pczWi1ps_KDtWzhQr40NdYr07SgP_Hm6U8qPqCv0oaQiEABsEI4fstwrvr-_f4HiCgF-VhjlzkXZMoUySDVurd64ySCAkDcyyoxCRQxACsjg3X0jRgXy2OynLx1Lac/s320/hippyreligioncopy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288027876755016322" border="0" /></a></h3> <h3><o:p></o:p></h3> <p><b>As to where the hippie-counterculture movement began is a m</b><b>atter of opinion which varies upon which country the history is being analysed from and the fusion of which subculture groups the hippies were said to have emerged. In Trafalga</b><b>r Square London in 1958 in an act of civil disobedience 60,000-100,000 peace loving protesters made up of students and pacifists converged in what was to become the “ban the Bomb” demonstrations out of which surfaced one of the first counterculture groups. It is from this British group that the peace sign surfaced and remains to this day the most recognised symbol of peace, freedom and hippiedom. In </b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>America</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b> six years later, on </b><st1:date year="1964" day="2" month="5"><b>May 2 1964</b></st1:date><b>, the first student demonstration against the Vietnam War saw hundreds of students march through </b><st1:place><b>Times Square</b></st1:place><b> in </b><st1:city><st1:place><b>New York City</b></st1:place></st1:city><b>, while another 700 marched in </b><st1:city><st1:place><b>San Franci</b></st1:place></st1:city><st1:city><st1:place><b>sco</b></st1:place></st1:city><b>. In December that year 25,000 people arrive in </b><st1:state><st1:place><b>Washington</b></st1:place></st1:state><b> to take part in the largest anti-war rally in American history to that date. Through 1965-66 a youth rebellion against subscription and certain death in the Vietnam War began to emerge. In 1967 100,000 young hippies converged on </b><st1:city><st1:place><b>San Francisco</b></st1:place></st1:city><b> in the neighbourhood of </b><st1:place><b>Haight-Ashbury</b></st1:place><b> in what was to become known as The Summer of Love. They declared themselves pacifists, rebelled against the system, burnt their draft cards, dropped out of University, adopted the new upbeat hip music, they took lots of psychedelic drugs, made sex for free love and partied in the music and the adulation of freedom, big-time! </b></p> <p><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>The New Zealand and Australian counter-culture models sought to expand in its own unique way from what many viewed as the dramatic collapse of the American hippie movement after the Vietnam War, when most hippies no longer plagued by the burden of the military draft, hopped back into the system and rejoined big-brother. But the music continued to expand. The antecedents of the early 1960s </b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>US</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b> hippie phenomenon along with its British music and protest influence, were the leading inspirations of this cultural and spiritual insurgency. While the early American hippies rocked and were colourful, the movement seemed destined for degeneration given the intense weight of the overwhelming conservatism of American culture and the religious right. While many young Americans became hippies just to party with the music and to avoid the military draft, they became the obsession of corporate media who looked for reasons to denigrate hippies as some kinds of freakish and exaggerated drug- sex enigma. While this analogy had some validity, the true believers of the hippie movement were fine-tuning the lifestyle and creating a new consciousness which would later influence the world. By the late sixties the counterculture movement had split into two factions, those who believed change had to be articulated threw political influence and those who saw change better influenced threw spiritual development of oneself. It was the classic divide between city and country to which the latter would eventually have the greatest influence on western society.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>The hippies are one of the most maligned subculture in western history, attracting the same level of intense rage, hatred and societal inquisition that was directed by the Christian churches of Catholicism and Protestantism at the spiritually founded free-thinkers of Europe's Early and Middle Ages.</b><o:p></o:p><b> Behind the façade of negative press against the rise of hippiedom, a serious cultural revolution was in the making. The international hippie movement given their successful campaign ending the Vietnam war in 1965, which </b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>America</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b> lost, shocked conservatism and was deemed by political officialdom as a serious national security risk. In a carefully orchestrated McCarthyism style inquisition the establishment fought back. In the </b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>US</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b> and around the world hippies and the counterculture were demonised and targeted with an overwhelming body of negative propaganda by various national security agencies and the international corporate media. Threatened by the achievements of the hippies and their vision for the new world, the debasing of hippiedom was organised by the political establishment, the CIA and the FBI, supported by with their democratic, capitalist and religious proxies. These the same conservative political establishments and media empires who had been telling the world that winning the Vietnam war was essential to protect civilisations freedoms and democracy and who had later become the official neo-con cheers squads encouraging and promoting the bloody Iraq war. By the mid seventies hippies with their predisposition to soft drugs, (marijuana and LSD which were often used to expand consciousness and enhance spiritual development), mysteriously found their communities suddenly awash with highly addictive killer drugs like heroin and opiate based pharmaceuticals. Many hippies responding to the commercialisation by big brother of the drug trade, gave up drugs during the mid seventies, while thousands of others blindly met their deaths from drug overdoses. These events precipitated a fracturing of the group and heralded the back to the land movement with thousands of hippies heading for the hills to establish alternative communities. Like the lost tribes of the old Hebrews the hippies spread their tentacles across the globe and got better organised from within the system. Throughout the 70s and 80s the counter-culture consolidated its influence upon mainstream western society and hippie ideals became the building blocks to a new emerging consciousness that was sweeping the world.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>The new order in art and entertainment, environmentalism, health and diet, multiculturalism, fashion, sexual tolerance and free spirituality that was developed by the counter-culture are now integrated into mainstream society. Even conservative mainstream Christian religions who once vehemently opposed the rise and threat of hippydom, have plagiarised many of their spiritual models and types of music to enhance their own community assemblies. Words like peace and love, vegetarianism, yoga, meditation, free spirituality, holistic healing, human rights, free speech, chanting, recycling and organics, gender equality, non-xenophobic, co-educational, new age, holistic health, gay liberation and protest are now accepted terms which have become central traits of western and other mindsets. Throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s the hippies and their modern evolution the yuppies, became the foot-soldiers and often the prime organisers of the campaigns throughout the world for; human and civil rights, anti war activism, the emerging Green movements, the health consciousness revolution, the voice advocating open spirituality and freethinking, women’s activism, and the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>Many of today’s youth are unaware as to what a different, closed and stultifyingly boring society we once lived in before the 1960s. Or to just how maligned and persecuted by that old society were the Hippies of the social revolution, as necessary change was articulated. However their effects on society has been permanent bringing new meaning to the notion that hippies saved the world.</b></p><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">By the mid to late 1970s as a reaction to a decade and a half of hippiedom spreading love and peace, a new nihilistic anti-hippie youth movement emerged. That of an alcohol and hard drugs induced cult called Punk Rock. While this new movement portrayed itself as being anti establishment, in actual fact it did the bidding of conservative society and attempted to redirect young people back to the annals of old antecedents of a pre 1960s culture and values. While Punk did not last its effect on the music industry was permanent because multinational record companies found better marketing leverage and increased sales by selling music to young people with a more violent tone. Today, hard core punk is predominantly the music and culture of choice of neo-Nazis and white supremacist. </b></p> <p><b>What is most compelling is that the rise, persecution and fall of hippiedom and the “NEW WAY”, was predicted thousands of years ago by Christ and the prophets of most of the world’s spiritual based cultures.</b></p><h3 style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hippies Environmental crusade</span></span><o:p></o:p></h3> <p><b>The early hippies pleaded with society to respect “Mother Earth” and warned of the dire consequences of continued mismanagement of the world resources and its sensitive ecological systems. The first Nambassa newsletter released in 1976 warned of the impending collapse of the economic and environmental system caused by vulture capitalism. These predictions bringing new meaning to a world, now grappling with unprecedented environmental degradation caused by global warming, and the collapse of capitalism caused by the disintegration or meltdown of the worlds banking system. "Quote from the 1976 Nambassa newsletter"<i>“There can be no doubt we are living in confusing times. The social pressures alone are enough to start one thinking about living an alternative lifestyle. Already many people are leaving the cities to live on the land, simply because they can no longer afford the costs of urban life. We are using up our natural resources at an ever increasing rate and they are not going to last for ever. In fact we are abusing our planet woefully. Mother earth will not tolerate this continued rape, and is groaning under the burden of unenlightened man. Consider this and ask yourself, “Is this a natural way of life, is this how we were meant to live?” In all truth we have entered a depression, and are fast reaching a stage, not only of economic collapse, but a point where our very survival is threatened. Now, more than ever before, there is a need and a growing desire for people to learn to live outside the collapsing economic and social system, with its greed and avarice, and it’s denial of individuality.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>The boom of psychedelic music, and the de-conditioning brought about by the hippie revolution, fostered the advent of a generation of musical originals. The sixties and seventies spearheaded new music types, these now the established artistic precedent from which new styles will naturally evolve. These musical growth spurts have broken free from old world experience, taking the various musical disciplines in new directions with impressive and innovative results. In much the same way the 1960s and 1970s social revolution also heralded significant changes in how the west viewed its relationship to its perceived core value systems.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <h3>A Legacy of Hippiedom</h3> <h3><o:p></o:p></h3> <p><b>While mainstream religious, political and economic systems have attempted to drag humankind back to the ignorance of the dark ages, the freeing up of mind and culture caused by the breaking away from decaying old world perception, has stimulated new found expanded consciousness levels throughout the world which has fostered unprecedented growth in world science and technology, human and civil rights standards, free speech and press, personal spiritual growth, environmentalism, and health and diet. The extent of the phenomenal and unprecedented speed and growth of our evolving culture over the past 50 years (since the rise of the counter-culture) has not been matched since life began to evolve on the planet. (“The number of days have been reduced, had this not have been done then nobody would survive.” Matt24-22 & "And it shall come to pass in the last days, ^of the age^, I will show wonders in the heavens above, ^spiritual renaissance^, and signs in the earth beneath. ^worldly advancements.^ Acts </b><st1:time minute="19" hour="14"><b>2:19</b></st1:time><b>)</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>The reasons we have seen these unprecedented growth spurts over this part of the age is due primarily to the transition of western spiritual consciousness, from the limitations of a 2000 year old repressive Roman Christian sectarian belief system/ tradition, to a new open and transparent practice of free spirituality. Humankind's quest to find answers to his purpose and to unlock the mysteries to creation outside the parameters of traditional or conventional models of thinking has delivered a profound acceleration of evolution with unprecedented results. The hippie revolution forged new horizons and the world changed accordingly, these new found keys unlocked new doors to once repressed aspects of the brains chemistry and intellectual capacity expanded forthwith.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>With our focus now on the future please visit the emerging<a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm5hbWJhc3NhLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbS8=" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Nambassa2000 blog</span> </a>which is a 2008 response to present world predicaments and events. This blog implores one to investigate the notion that if we are to survive ecologically and spiritually as a cohesive global community in this twenty-first century, then we are encouraged to consider revisiting many of the positive lifestyle and belief system traits proposed by the 60's and 70's hippie subculture. This blog intends to canvas constructive ideas concerning issues which effect our future human and world development. Nambassa2000 invites you to comment on issues that are effecting our survival in the twenty-first century, this against a backdrop of social and cultural collapse, war, religious misinformation, environmental degradation and community alienation.</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>The intentions of Nambassa-Online are not to simply regurgitate events and models of old, but to rediscover and build upon this unique spirituality or meaning, which fundamentally caused time and evolution to begin to accelerate from the 1960s and 1970s. Thus, causing a whole generation of disaffected youth to question the status quo, out of which seeds were sown for the new way or as some, would prefer it said metaphorically, a developing New Heaven (Spiritual methodology) and Earth (Lifestyle conducive to respecting Mother Earth, developing spiritual knowledge and ones personal growth).</b></p><h3><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Ffn2nxmkxwzFUZgOsPVsjNVha-bqaEG0hchmfWpENDJrS1EKxxsWK1fVl39-p7rAKhGBnFFXMc_D0Z5d-gNTX-sjUu7m10DwK4oSqT3XU1b4DTXlBxFNOnjXCSFnR1fUeD7BBel1xhs/s1600-h/finalcopy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 419px; height: 334px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Ffn2nxmkxwzFUZgOsPVsjNVha-bqaEG0hchmfWpENDJrS1EKxxsWK1fVl39-p7rAKhGBnFFXMc_D0Z5d-gNTX-sjUu7m10DwK4oSqT3XU1b4DTXlBxFNOnjXCSFnR1fUeD7BBel1xhs/s400/finalcopy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288031037181511074" border="0" /></a></h3> <p>
<br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p><strong><i>"While we are divided by man made religious, political and economic interests, we all share and are united by the common thread of our humanity. At Nambassa we encourage the labels to fall away and we feed from the well of a sacred oneness, from this the essential building blocks of spirituality are developed. Here we create the environment for Nirvana so that we will replenish and Christ the earth".</i></strong><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b>AROHANUI- Peter Terry</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>Peter Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01068807082545373677noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-33337642288060009522008-12-31T01:59:00.003+10:002009-01-01T08:48:33.192+10:00Israel's axis of evil<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/SVv2W53zWYI/AAAAAAAAASg/2yeqfvqgLdQ/s1600-h/300_humandignity.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 215px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/SVv2W53zWYI/AAAAAAAAASg/2yeqfvqgLdQ/s400/300_humandignity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286089461001836930" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >Israel’s axis of evil</span><br />The cruel and inhumane annexation of Palestinian territories by the British Mandate 1917- 1948 saw Palestinians evicted from their homes and their lands forcibly given to the Jewish Zionists which became the State of Israel. This act of inhumanity against the Palestinians, who had lived and developed this land for generations, was designed by western hegemony as restitution to a Jewish people who had been horrifically persecuted by Christian civilisation for nearly 2000 years. The Jews must have thought that the Promised Land had arrived and that the long awaited Messiah in the name of the Christian Jesus had finally delivered. However the blood which has flowed since indicates that this arrangement was not spiritually ordained but was just another politicised land grab which gave one group a nation at the expense of another.<br /><br />Ironically the once persecuted and nationless Jewish people suddenly developed amnesia and forgot their years in the wilderness, and so they became the deliverers of heinous crimes against their former brothers and sisters of old Palestine.<br /><br />The Christian west (especially the US) is supporting Israel’s criminal war machine against Palestine because its wacko religious Christian fundamentalists follow an unsupported doctrine which promises the return of a manufactured Jesus- Mithras apparition only after the Jews regain the so called holy land and Jerusalem. As a result we have witnessed over 80 years of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians, with Israel acting as proxy tyrant for the Americans, using American money and weapons of mass destruction to drive the Palestinians across the border to Jordon. But they refuse to go and fight back with sky rockets and stones.<br /><br />Israel’s refusal to honour UN resolutions and withdraw from Arab lands it annexed after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and Israel’s decades of carnage and murder and a daily barrage of heinous crimes against the innocent civilians of Palestine, will see history immortalise Israel and their proxy Christian fundamentalist controllers in Britain and America as one of the worst examples of crimes against humanity from the darkest annals of the so called modern era. This history will eventually be elevated alongside the atrocious history of Nazism. That a sophisticated technologically advanced American militarised state like Israel can repeatedly attack and economically starve a virtually defenceless peoples like the Palestinians, reeks of the sorts of cowardice one sided battles of Masada, the Cathars, Wounded Knee, Nagasaki- Hiroshima, Vietnam and Iraq.<br /><br />Clearly in Palestine, unfolds the classic story of David and Goliath with the role of David being played by the Palestinians and Goliath starring the Israelis, which is supported and empowered by their archaic and plagiarised Jewish religion.<br /><br />The high symbolism of the Jews bowing down, cowering and worshipping their ancestors through an old Roman wall, (The Wailing Wall is the western wall of an old Roman fortress finally built and enlarged by Herod the Great. Palestinians say that the Jews never considered it a holy place until the British mandate in1917), demonstrates that the state of Jewish Israel is now the proxy of the Roman founded Christian religion with its unresolved history of Inquisitions and Crusades that are remanifesting by being re-enacted in the modern arena. These bloody crusades are being controlled by the western Christian political, economic and religious cabals. (666). When Rome (now America and its western alliance) falls again, as is evident that this process has begun in earnest, it will take with it the state of Israel and its entire economic support base.<br /><br />While Israel has a right to its nationhood and self determination, (to which I repeat it was given to it by the western Christian alliance out of guilt for 2000 years of persecution of the Jews by Christianity), it has no right to further usurp Palestinian lands and kill without impunity, the Palestinian people, because they refuse to allow this western backed militaristic cabal to roll right over it and push them from the face of the earth. Jewish dominated Israel will never succeed in this military objective which it carries out on behalf of the Christian cabals because it is not the true and authentic “chosen people” and nor is Christianity the “body of Christ”. Both religions are both demon inspirations who historically plagiarised and then nationalised as an entity of nationhood, the teachings of the original visionaries of the Hebrews and the Nazarenes of Christ.<br /><br />Both Jesus and Daniel predicted the modern outcomes out of which emerged the Zionist and the Holy Roman Christian Empires, which is today’s western alliance. Jesus & Daniel said that a spiritual abomination will continue to occupy and control the holy office of God.<br /><br />Standing in the holy place where it should not be you will see the AWFUL HORROR which the prophet Daniel spoke of. (Jesus, Mat 24:15 & Mark 13:14)<br /><br />The AWFUL HORROR will be placed at the highest point of the temple and will remain there till the one whom put it there meets the end which God has prepared for him. (Daniel 9 v 26:27)<br /><br />There can never be peace in the Middle East until justice is done and the Israelis and Palestinians bury the hatchet and live side by side as they have done previously up until their politicisation by western Christian interests.<br /><br />Peter Terry<br /><br /><a href="http://www.inminds.com/boycott-israel.php"><img src="http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i138/nambas/forNambassa2000blog.jpg" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>NAMBASSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302307986735020007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-71914628585870113292008-12-31T01:55:00.001+10:002008-12-31T01:56:55.839+10:00NAZI ISRAEL<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >Nazi Israel … Indeed</span><br /><br />By Dr. Elias Akleh<br /><br />24 December, 2008<br />Countercurrents.org<br /><br />Richard Falk, the professor of international law at Princeton University and the UN’s special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, had accused Israel of violating international law, international humanitarian laws, and the Geneva Convention. He described Israel’s policies against Palestinians and its siege of Gaza as “war crimes”, “genocidal tendencies”, “holocaust implications”, and “holocaust-in-the-making”. He urged the International Criminal Court to look into the possibility of indicting Israeli leaders for war crimes.<br /><br />Professor Falk had a little taste of Israel’s Nazi-like crimes and human rights violation when he traveled to Israel, last Sunday December 14th, 2008, to visit the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to report on Israel’s compliance with human rights standards and international humanitarian law. The Israelis “detained” Professor Falk at the airport, treated his as a criminal and a threat to the state, humiliated him and deported him next day back to Geneva.<br /><br />Despite Israel’s strong declaration that every Jew in the world is automatically granted full Israeli citizenship with all the protections this entails, and despite being a Jew himself, Professor Falk was not spared the humiliations and cruelty Israel treats its enemies with<br />Emboldened by the American blind and unconditional support, defiant Israel wanted to publicly give its finger to Falk and to the UN he represents, declaring itself above all international laws and above any criticism of its crimes and human rights violations even if such criticism comes from a Jew himself. Such defying humiliation of the world political body is meant to distract the UN, and thus the whole world, away from the holocaust it is perpetrating against the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, and all its on-going war crimes against the rest of Palestinians throughout the whole Palestine.<br /><br />Falk’s accusations of Israel’s Nazi-like holocaustal implications are no different from those made by John Dugard, his predecessor, in several reports on conditions in occupied Palestine. Many conscientious political figures, as well as regular citizens, around the world had described Israel’s policies in occupied Palestine in specific and in the Middle East in general as war crimes and threat to world peace.<br /><br />Comparing the present-day Israel with Nazi Germany one discovers that the majority of the Israeli policies are the exact copies of the Nazi policies. Nazi Germany had invaded its European neighbors extending from England to Russia. Israel had also invaded all its neighboring countries; Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. It is also heavily involved in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Its tentacles had also reached African countries as far as South Africa, Somalia, Sudan, Angola, and Sierra Leone.<br /><br />Nazi war machines used to invade resisting towns, line up the men in the center of the town to be executed in cold blood, and destroyed the whole town as a deterring example for any possible other resisting towns. Worse than the Nazis Israeli forces used to invade peaceful Palestinian towns, execute men, women and children in cold blood everywhere and anywhere they encounter them, dynamite their homes on top of their residents, and finally demolish the whole town making room for new Israeli colonies. Throughout 1948/49 Israelis had committed 70 ugly massacres against Palestinian villagers, and totally destroyed 675 Palestinian towns and villages including their churches and mosques. Such massacres and demolitions followed a set pattern, repeated in one village after the other, indicating a pre-meditated genocidal plan.<br /><br />In the words of the late Israeli General Moshe Dayan: “The declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 was at the expense of ethnically cleansing 513 Palestinian villages, creating over 700,000 Palestinian refugees and expropriating their lands, homes and businesses in 78% of Palestine … There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former (Palestinian) population.”<br /><br />Israel is, still up till today, carrying these same genocidal Nazi-like holocaustal crimes gradually choking 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza to death by starvation, thirst, lack of fuel and disease. Israeli army is in the process of demolishing 40 Palestinian villages in the Negev desert. Army bulldozers are daily destroying Palestinian homes in major Palestinian cities such as Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah, and Nablus.<br /><br />The Nazi army perpetrated many massacres against prisoners of war. They used to execute prisoners and dump them in graves the prisoners where ordered to dig for themselves. The Israeli army followed the same method of executing prisoners of war especially during 1956 and 1967 Israeli-Egyptian wars. This was reported in the Israeli Haaretz newspaper in June 27th 2000. The Egyptian Human Rights Organization Secretary-General, Muhammad Munib, submitted a report confirming that Israel had killed between 7,000 to 15,000 Egyptian prisoners of wars of 1956 and 1967. The report also identified the locations of 11 mass graves in Sinai and Israel in which thousands of Egyptian prisoners were buried.<br />The most prominent of these massacres was the El-Arish massacre, where Israeli forces murdered at least 150 Egyptian prisoners of war. Some of the prisoners were run over by Israeli tanks several times, a crime that is still practiced by Israeli army especially in the Gaza Strip. The story of the massacre was originally reported by Israeli eyewitnesses in Israel’s Yediot Ahronot newspaper, and later by Israeli journalist Ran Adelist on Israeli television. It was also reported by the Washington Report of May/June 1996 pages 27 and 28. The massacre was also recorded by the American USS Liberty surveillance ship that was sailing 12 miles off the shore of Gaza. This massacre was a serious war crime and could have been the main reason for the Israeli attack on the Liberty.<br /><br />Worse than the Nazis the Israeli army had adopted the policy of targeting young Palestinian children in an attempt to “nudge” Palestinian families to leave the country for the sake of the future of the children, and/or to exhaust their financial resources in treating and caring for their disabled and crippled wounded children; the victims of Israeli snipers. Since the beginning of the second Palestinian Intifada, September 2000, Israeli forces have murdered 1050 children in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank; see also the Guardian, October 21, 2008, and Al-Jazeera, October 22, 2008. A Palestinian Centre for Human Rights report documented, with eyewitness testimonies, at least 68 children were murdered by Israeli army during 12 months from June 07 to June 07 just before the cease fire agreement. The child murder toll rose dramatically during the first six months of 2008 with the Israeli army massive assault of “Operation Winter Heat” against Gaza Strip. Children were directly targeted by Israeli snipers while walking in the streets, while standing in front of their homes, and even while sitting in their school rooms, also directly by drone missiles while playing in courts. They are also the indirect victims if Israeli deliberate targeting densely populated residential areas (Gaza is densely populated) including schools, hospitals and food markets.<br />The average age of the targeted children was ten years old according to a thousand-page document by Save the Children. The majority of these children were innocent bystanders not participating in any “hostile” activity or causing any threat to the heavily armed Israeli soldiers. In the 80% of the cases of targeted children, the Israeli army prevented the victim from receiving any medical attention. The report also documented that more than 50,000 child victims required medical attention for injuries including gunshot wounds, tear gas inhalation and multiple fractures. A bulletin titled “Deliberate Murder” published in 1989 by the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights reported the targeting of Palestinian children by Israeli army and snipers from “special unit” had “carefully chosen” the children, who were shot in the head or heart and died instantaneously (Mike Berry & Greg Philo, ‘Israel and Palestine-Competing Histories’, Pluto Press, London, 2006, pp. 86-87).<br />According to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (signed by Israel) children are to be afforded special protection during international armed conflicts. Israel had, and still is violating these international laws.<br /><br />Like Nazi Germany, who developed and used all kinds of new weapons including the V2 rocket bomb and nerve gas, Israel has used every kind of weapons, even new experimental ones, against Palestinian civilians. This included the Dumdum exploding bullets, nerve gas, experimental chemical and biological weapons, flying drones, and DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive) and the latest remote control high power machine guns (seer shoots) installed on the high towers of the imprisoning wall (separation wall) and operated by teen aged female soldiers in far away operating rooms like computerized war games. Israel is also know to be a nuclear weapon and is always hinting at using it if/when they feel threatened.<br />Nazi Germans were brainwashed and driven by a social supremacist ideology of the superior Aryan Race (Der Supermann). They believed that they were superior to the rest of the people and that they should rule the world. Similarly the Israelis are brainwashed and driven by the religious supremacist ideology of god’s chosen people in god’s promised land, and believe that it is their religious duty (mitzvah) to cleanse the world from all gentiles (non-Jews), and to establish a Jewish only world government in preparation for the coming of the Messiah. Such dangerous extreme ideology is taught to Israeli children since childhood.<br /><br />Moshe Feiglin, who won a respectable position on the Likuds’ Knesset list for the upcoming Israeli election is an admirer of Hitler and his superior ideology. In an interview with the Ha’aretz Newspaper in 1995 he described Hitler as a military genius and a great nation builder. “Hitler was an unparallel military genius. Nazism had transformed Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status. The ragged, trashy youth body turned into a neat and orderly part of society and Germany received an exemplary regime, a proper justice system, and public order. … This was no bunch of thugs. They merely used thugs and homosexuals”. His holocaustal solution to the Palestinian problem, according to his Manhigut ha’Yehudit (Jewish leadership) website, is to order “the complete stoppage of water, electricity and communication” to the four million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.<br /><br />Feiglin expresses the inner sentiment of every Israeli political leader starting from their first Prime Minister Ben Gurion up to Tzipi Livni, the latest acting Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affair, who have been calling for the murder and the transfer of Palestinians out of the god’s promised land of Israel (Erez Israel). Their real policies become obvious and louder in their campaign rhetoric.<br /><br />Such genocidal holocaustal tendencies are nurtured, encouraged and called for by top Israeli Rabbis and political leaders. Rabbi Yousef Obadia, the top Israeli religious leader, Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, the leading religious authority in Israel’s religious national current and former chief Eastern rabbi for Israel, Rabbi Dov Lior, president of the Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Safed and a candidate for the post of chief rabbi or Israel, Rabbi Eliyahu Kinvinsky, the second most senior authority in the Orthodox religious current, Rabbi Israel Ariel, one of the most prominent rabbis in the West Bank colonies, and Rabbi Yitzhaq Ginsburg, a top rabbi in Israel among many other extremist religious Israeli leaders are continually calling for total extermination and transfer of Palestinians.<br /><br />Brainwashed and misguided Israelis, especially religious fundamentalists, regularly attack Palestinian towns, vandalize their churches, mosques and cemeteries with graffiti slogans such as “Death to Arabs”, “Gas the Arabs”, and “Mohammad is a pig”, occupying Palestinian after forcefully evicting their Palestinian owners, attacking farmers, burning their crops, cutting their fruit trees, poisoning their water wells, killing their farm animals, destroying properties, looting shops, terrorizing civilians and children and shooting people. Searching youtube.com for “Israeli settlers violence” to watch the hundreds of videos showing Israeli settlers terrorism.<br /><br />One prominent similarity between Israel and the Nazis is their state sponsored terror groups. According to articles “Eichmann Tells His Own Damning Story”, Life Magazine, Volume 49, Number 22, (November 28th 1960) pp. 19-25, 101-112, and “Eichmann’s Own Story: Part II”, Life Magazine, December 6th 1960 pp. 146-161, Adolf Eichmann stated how Zionist leaders were idealist like Nazi leaders, willing to sacrifice hundred thousands of their own blood to achieve political goal. Lenni Brenner explains in his book “Zionism in the Age of Dictators”, in chapter 25, that Eichmann was referring here to a deal the Nazi struck with Zionist leaders, such as Hungarian Rezso Kastner, to save a few thousand hand-picked Zionists and wealthy Jews, who would immigrate to Palestine, in return for leading 750,000 Hungarian Jews, and other millions of European Jews to their death to make Jews “rightful victim”, so that World Zionist Organization would have the “right” to come “ before the bargaining table when they divide nations and lands at the war’s end … for only with (Jewish) blood shall we (Zionists) get the land.”<br /><br />The Nazis set up Police Battalion 101, a terrorist group, whose sole purpose was hunting Jewish citizens, killing them and looting and destroying their property. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen states in his book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” that Battalion 101 was responsible for “the deportation and gruesome slaughter in Poland of tens of thousands of Jewish men, women, and children”.<br /><br />Israel had its own exact copy of Battalion 101 called Unit 101 under the terrorist Ariel Sharon, who later became Israel’s Prime Minister. Under Sharon’s leadership Unit 101 adopted the same criminal methods to terrorize Palestinians. It also implemented what became known as jeep raids; driving jeeps, with machine guns mounted on the front and rear, into Palestinian towns murdering inhabitants, dynamiting homes, and burning their fields. Since early 1950s Unit 101 was responsible for massacres in Palestinian towns such as Bureij refugee camp, Qibya, Idna, Surif, Wadi Fukin, Falameh, Rantis, Jerusalem, Budrus, Dawayima, Beit Liqya, Khan Younis and Gaza.<br /><br />Israel had always resorted to terrorist attacks against Jews in other countries especially Arab countries, such as North African Arab countries, Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan, to encourage Jewish Arab residents to immigrate to Israel. The Lavon Affair is just one famous terrorist related incident in Egypt.<br /><br />In January 29th 1999 article in Israeli Ha’aretz paper, Gideon Spiro, a former member of the 890 battalion, stated that Unit 101 was an early, more primitive prototype for the more sophisticated liquidation units of Duvdevan and Shimshon established during the Intifada” Its operations were characterized by “lots of killing of civilians and little real combat”.<br />Israel is the only county in the world with many Prime Ministers, who were members of terrorist and state-sponsored terrorist organizations directly involved in slaughter of civilians. These include Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Shimon Peres.<br /><br />Arnold Toynbee wrote “It was a supreme tragedy that the lesson learnt by them (the Jews) from their encounter with the Nazi German Gentiles should have been, not to eschew but to imitate some of the evil deeds that the Nazis had committed against the Jews.”<br /><br />Israelis and Jews of the world have relentlessly pursued Nazi war criminals for decades for their war crimes committed during WWII. They chased Nazi war criminals for the rest of their lives, even when they were old and close to their death, to make them pay for their crimes. No doubts in my mind that Israeli war criminals, in turn, will be pursued and sentenced for their war crimes committed against Arabs. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>NAMBASSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302307986735020007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-22278863951777029382008-10-05T08:21:00.001+10:002008-10-05T08:23:02.029+10:00Nambassa predicted global economic and environmental meltdown<p class="blogContent"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Nambassa predicted global economic and environmental meltdown -(1976)</span></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">(This 1970s warning concerning the pending economic & environmental collapse of the planet was taken from the first 'Nambassa Sun' newsletter of 1976- 1977, Volume 1. Issue 1. That newsletter announced to the New Zealand public the creation of the Nambassa Trust to run its first Music, Arts and Alternative festivals with an educational workshop base.)</span></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Extracts from this newsletter</span> -----------------------------></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Head for the hills…....</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">'<span style="font-style: italic;">There can be no doubt we are living in confusing times.</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">The social pressures alone are enough to start one thinking about living an alternative lifestyle.</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span>Already many people are leaving the cities to live on the land,simply because they can no longer afford the costs of urban life.'</span> ....</p><p><span style="">'Let us take a look at city life, the frantic rush and bustle on the streets, all that traffic and factories with all their pollution, noise and waste, and cynical exploitation by big business. And where are you? In the midst of the frenzied grime, paying high rent or struggling to cope with mortgage payments. Food and heating costs have rocketed, and we know they can only go up. You are working as many hours as you can to pay for city life, with little time for leisure,even less time to get to know your children, or to spend a few days with friends. Altogether it’s a vicious circle, a struggle for survival, with no time to think and be oneself. No wonder that crime is on the increase and mental institutions are overcrowded. If you haven’t fallen victim to one of these social ills, then you could be facing a coronary in your efforts to maintain the pace.'</span>....</p><p><i><span style="">'We are using up our natural resources at an ever increasing rate and they are not going to last for ever. In fact we are abusing our planet woefully. Mother earth will not tolerate this continued rape, and is groaning under the burden of unenlightened man. Consider this and ask yourself, “Is this a natural way of life, is this how we were meant to live?” In all truth we have entered a depression, and are fast reaching a stage, not only of economic collapse, but a point where our very survival is threatened. Now, more than ever before, there is a need and a growing desire for people to learn to live outside the collapsing economic and social system, with its greed and avarice, and it’s denial of individuality.</span></i><span style="">' <br /></span></p><p><span style="">1976 Peter Terry....</span></p><p><span style=""><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br />Head for the hills…</span><p class="MsoNormal">(Part1) 'Humanity has become a cold, hard crust upon the face of the earth through which nothing can pass. <span style="font-style: italic;">At the moment we are doing this planet no good.'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">'The earth creates us out of herself and of herself. We are the very flower of all her produce and she makes us for a very special purpose. That purpose which we are not fulfilling is to feed back into the earth through ourselves that 'Nectar' from the gods out there.'</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">'The earth is starving and dying for want of spirit food.</span> Great powers of this food are drawn when all hearts come together in joy, relaxed happiness and nature- like conditions, enhanced by singing, music and above all love.' </p> <p class="MsoNormal">'This festival is unique from its very inception.<span style="">' <br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">'It is willed through godliness. At this special time, on this special place, the Eden of New Zealand, the earth will be momentarily replenished.' </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">'Miracle conditions will be created so that God's spirit can, and will, flow threw the hearts of this angelic generation in order to 'Christ' the earth. This is one of the great duties of humankind, what his people are about to do, in the heart centre of 'NAMBASSA' ....New Zealand.</span>....' <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">1976 Peter Terry.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">......................<style>..</style>..</p><h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Referenced: National Library of </span>....<span style="font-size: 12pt;">New Zealand</span>....<span style="font-size: 12pt;">, Te Puna Matauranga O Aotearoa, Alexander Turnbull Library collections.....</span></h1><div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>NAMBASSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302307986735020007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-737121679727861952008-02-06T07:41:00.004+10:002009-01-06T15:38:14.496+10:00STOP MCDONALDS AND ILK<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/R_YO_in5KdI/AAAAAAAAAME/ke26vsKipfA/s1600-h/IMG_0798.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/R_YO_in5KdI/AAAAAAAAAME/ke26vsKipfA/s400/IMG_0798.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185348505752381906" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2JveWNvdHRtY2RvbmFsZHM=" target="_blank"><img src="http://i6.tinypic.com/16lyzv7.gif" alt="http://www.myspace.com/boycottmcdonalds" border="0" /></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>NAMBASSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302307986735020007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-50983548744910836372007-12-30T13:47:00.000+10:002007-12-30T14:04:01.142+10:00DID GOD ERR WITH CREATION AND SO MUST WE NOW REVISE OUR BELIEFS? (click on text below)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-ujflparLOTWpiNxAsTxSVn6j7aMHvXof50OoRpHHXpkltGpkS4eVG9rEB8ULKGT-id5nTDf_mixmrlS0-8TZ2s_vV8mwZ5ZI66WIC6PRz1pCDtl4lvBBJ6Wp5mYjkO1S_tX3wHJU6w/s1600-h/Did+God+stuff+up+creation+or+must+we+now+revise+our+beliefs.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149608610847746770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-ujflparLOTWpiNxAsTxSVn6j7aMHvXof50OoRpHHXpkltGpkS4eVG9rEB8ULKGT-id5nTDf_mixmrlS0-8TZ2s_vV8mwZ5ZI66WIC6PRz1pCDtl4lvBBJ6Wp5mYjkO1S_tX3wHJU6w/s400/Did+God+stuff+up+creation+or+must+we+now+revise+our+beliefs.jpg" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>Peter Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01068807082545373677noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-15775870991679323462007-12-24T21:26:00.000+10:002007-12-24T21:28:02.030+10:00WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW<a href="http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=6625296">Rainbow Warriors</a><br><embed src="http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf" flashvars="m=6625296&v=2&type=video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="430" height="346"></embed><br><a href="http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.addToProfileConfirm&videoid=6625296&title=Rainbow Warriors">Add to My Profile</a> | <a href="http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.home">More Videos</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>Peter Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01068807082545373677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-23110276775336909802007-12-07T12:43:00.000+10:002007-12-18T14:05:11.452+10:00REINCARNATION (click on image)<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/R2dGEIDsOjI/AAAAAAAAALs/q9GMAsoH0Iw/s1600-h/ONEhumanity.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145158135990467122" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEIDLezrAInd7iPpmAsdZrJS9rj8gP6Jhx9VA-bLn2lsJ95kZI_vf0JRVZVx-s3pwz0C8P11yERCglsAbl0jWCmOtvXz-6fQm0WnOayoPzdj5JTSi_i6s77yL-5IyZ60tVrLH-Qyf1ZSw/s200/Aboriginal+prisoners.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />While there are many compassionate and spiritually aware Australians it is universally accepted throughout the democratic world that Australia is the last bastion of racism in the so called western global civilization. Racism remains an accepted part of Australian culture perpetuated since federation some 200 years ago, and successive Government’s in this country of all political divides have sought to manipulate for political gain its citizen’s xenophobic fears. Australia’s inherent racism was initially born out of its geographical isolation and the nation’s collective insecurity caused in part that its historic cultural roots were founded upon the background of its first colonial settlers who forcibly removed the first Australians from their ancestral lands to establish penal colonies for deported criminals from Britain. As soon as white settlers landed in Australia they began a program to exterminate the countries original inhabitants. Tasmania is widely regarded by international genocide scholars as "one of the world's authentic cases of genocide" in the 1820s and 1830s. While Australia’s program of aboriginal extermination and genocide was not completely successful because the British motherland passed laws to prevent this, irregardless, Australians have continued throughout its history to discriminate against and dispossess its blacks. The final result of this 200 year holocaust has left these people a fallen culture without means to elevate themselves from the despair of their history, and the collective feelings of hopelessness caused by death of their aboriginal identity. In short, if you kick a person or group to the ground for long enough, they will evolve a genetic response that will prevent them from raising themselves up to any sense of dignity and self-respect! On the question of the historic plight of aboriginal Australia, this is essentially a heinous crime against humanity that must be reconciled.<br /><br />Last Saturday on the 24th November 2007 Australians finally removed from power one of its post wars most extreme fanatical right wing Governments since the ultra conservative Robert Menzies declared war on socialism, lent Australia to the British so that they could test their atomic bombs and sent Australians to go fight America’s lost cause, the Vietnam War. Kevin Rudd and the Labour Party won comprehensively in last Saturday’s general election. The question of new leadership is whether much will change in Australia especially on the subject of whether the new Government will improve the plight of its degraded aboriginal people. Will Kevin Rudd attempt to restore Australia’s blighted reputation which in part caused by its denial of global warming issues, its involvement in the Iraq debacle and its continuing degradation of its indigenous folks?<br /><br />The recently deposed Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his Liberal party have been in power for 11 years ( 1996- 2007), having comprehensively won 4 consecutive elections; two electoral victories won in true conservative style by Howard’s Liberal coalition cleverly milking Australians inherent xenophobia and historically held racist paranoia. In white Australia today Islamophobia is now entrenched within the Australian psyche; blatant racism against Muslims on a daily basis now stands as a national pastime alongside of aboriginal and Asian bashing. The Australian government under Howard has been widely criticized internationally for its mistreatment of refugees arriving from war torn countries and manipulating their plight for political purposes.<br /><br />Because of the Howard Governments clear anti Moslem agendas Australians have now become prime terrorist targets the world over and declared so by the world’s most abhorrent terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda. The targeting of Australians in Bali in 2002 and 2005 by <a title="Jemaah Islamiyah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemaah_Islamiyah">Jemaah Islamiyah</a> was a direct reaction to the countries racist neo cons foreign and domestic policies. It’s is only a question of time before a group of these murderous terrorists thugs breach the security cordon and strike at mainland Australia. According to the terrorists who bombed the Australian tourist strip in Bali in 2002; their prime objective was to target Australian civilians as payback for their Governments manipulation of the Islamaphobia card which helped Howard win re-election in 2001. Howard’s unconditional support of American foreign policy and the Iraq war which has seen a million people killed and further millions end up as refugees, also contributes to fanatical Islam’s rage against Australia.<br /><br />Australia’s new PM Kevin Rudd and the Labour Party have pledged to withdraw Australia’s combat troops from Iraq, and to publicly at least officially apologise to the aboriginal peoples for 200 years of the most heinous crimes against them. (The recently deposed Government appealing to the huge volume of racists in the country has refused to offer the aboriginal people any kinds of official apology.) Even though Rudd during his election night speech declared for the International media that he will Govern Australia for its indigenous peoples too, there are many who believe that on the question of Aboriginal affairs Rudd will do little, rather business as is traditionally usual in Australia with little changing for aboriginal rights. The day before the election Rudd declared that a proposed referendum on aboriginal reconciliation and a separate aboriginal treaty would not occur in the first term of his Government, if at all. This bought about a reaction from Noel Pearson a noted aboriginal lawyer and human rights spokesman who declared that he felt betrayed and said that he thought that Rudd and Labor talk with forked tongues on indigenous policy. Pearson accused Rudd of “an absolute betrayal” of indigenous people. Noel Pearson went onto to say quote, “This is a repetition of my history with Mr Rudd. My involvement in public life goes back 17 years with Mr Rudd when he first dudded us on land rights here in Queensland when he was the director general of the Goss government. We had our bitter disputes at that time, and I though after a decade and a half he had a more mature attitude towards indigenous policy questions. This kind of off-the-cuff tossing of the aboriginal policy over his shoulder has once again reminded me of the contempt in which this bloke views indigenous people and their affairs. This is a gross betrayal of indigenous people."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22809264-601,00.html">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22809264-601,00.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nit.com.au/opinion/story.aspx?id=13401">http://www.nit.com.au/opinion/story.aspx?id=13401</a><br /><br />On climate change Rudd has guaranteed to immediately ratify the Kyoto agreement, which the former government following America’s standard has refused to do when John Howard stood alongside environmental denialists like the US and George Bush.<br /><br />Kevin Rudd a local Brisbane boy won an emphatic victory last Saturday. Rudd’s rapid rise through Labour Party ranks to leader of his party and now Australia’s current PM has been unprecedented, if not remarkable, given especially that he has not even held a shadow cabinet position in the Labour Party. Rudd a former career diplomat and Director-General of the Office of Cabinet for the Queensland State Government, has been a member of parliament only since 1998. Rudd is a centre right-wing Christian of the same Christian religious background as Blair- Bush and Clinton. Although Rudd still remains relatively an unknown, I don’t expect much to change under his leadership, except that his style appears to be a lot softer around the edges than John Howard’s. However if history is anything to go by then perhaps one should beware of rightwing Christian conservatives riding upon the mantra of a political parties that were founded upon the socialist premise of justice, equality and a fair go for all. Lest we not forget what Tony Blair and new Labour did to the British Labour party after he got into power!<br /><br />I first met Kevin Rudd (be it briefly) in Feb 2003 when he was a just a normal run of the mill MP attending a major anti Iraq war demonstration in Brisbane, with 100,000 other Brisbanites, concerned that the US was taking Australia down a path only too familiar to some- the Vietnam war debacle. Rudd was at this demonstration with the former Democrats leader Andrew Bartlet. At the Brisbane Botanical gardens I casually walked up to them both. We exchanged a few pleasantries regarding the political state of the nation. Voicing my concerns that the country needed new leadership to help resolve Australia’s flagging international reputation, I suggested to Rudd that the international perception was that Australia was the last bastion of western racism and that PM John Howard is perceived internationally to be an ardent racist. The topic of conversation revolved around how the Howard Government had won the election of 2002 after a campaign which has been universally condemned as racist by many prominent Australians, the United Nations and many from the international media. In 2002 the UN High Commission for refugees had sent a special representative to hear Australia's defense on alleged breaches to the 1951 Geneva Convention which sets out certain standards for the treatment of refugees. When refugees arrive in Australia they are either imprisoned in detention centers or balloted off to other South Pacific countries for processing. To these suggestions they reservedly agreed. However, when I joked that Aussie was giving its kiwi neighbors a bad reputation they responded jovially with the usual sheep joke taunts. I then said to Kevin Rudd that I could sense that the karma of the nation would soon change to a new evolutionary cycle that would allow the rebirthing of an improved principal which would give rise to the opportunity for new political leadership and to reconstitute the spiritual principals of the nation that had been so severely damaged from 11 years of extreme right wing conservative Government. I could sense that Rudd felt awkward at the language of my view, and that his conservative Christian background had contributed to this unease. However in the main I felt Rudd to be a very approachable and likable person. I thanked them for the chat, wished them the best and left to join my family to complete the demo which ended up in a concert overlooking the Brisbane River.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136970299708575298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/R0ovRU_cjkI/AAAAAAAAAKg/n_4BpybWJ-M/s320/img804.jpg" border="0" /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#663366;"><em><span style="font-size:180%;">Supporting sources and notes:</span></em> </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">VIDEO DOWNLOADS:</span></strong></p><p><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#660000;">Indigenous peoples of Australia & their fight for rights</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G2wqPMJO88">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G2wqPMJO88</a></span></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">I still call Australia home</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGzoGhfM24A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGzoGhfM24A</a></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">Stolen Generation</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsdZjapMfqE&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsdZjapMfqE&feature=related<span style="color:#660000;"></span></a></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">The stolen generation</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvdGkmVtNTg&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvdGkmVtNTg&feature=related</a></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">Uncensored guide to Australia Part 1 & 2</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iCi8WMPl5g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iCi8WMPl5g</a></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">Rabbit Proof Fence Tribute Video</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5y5nP8Pps&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5y5nP8Pps&feature=related</a></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">Australia Quest: Aboriginal history</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lay46ftS_3w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lay46ftS_3w</a></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">Racists In Australia</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjyVkhya6Ec&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjyVkhya6Ec&feature=related</a></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">Australian Govt racism against American military blacks in WW2</span><br /><a href="http://www.videosift.com/video/US-military-and-Australian-govt-racism-in-WWII">http://www.videosift.com/video/US-military-and-Australian-govt-racism-in-WWII<span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></a></p><p><span style="color:#660000;">Racism and violence against women is so prolific in Australia<br />that the Govt is now forced to run adds on TV to combat the problem!<br /></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07iH64AxzpM&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07iH64AxzpM&feature=related</a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCCt-Bo07oc&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCCt-Bo07oc&feature=related<span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">The plight of aboriginals in Australia</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><strong><em>An International call for sanctions against Australia</em></strong></span> </p><p><em>There is broad discussion amongst human rights activists of different nationalities across the globe, (many of whom were involved in organising the International anti Apartheid movement which helped free Nelson Mandela and bring down the white South African Apartheid regime in the early nineties), to formulate and organise an international campaign that would isolate Australia politically, culturally and economically. It is suggested that Australian sports participants who perform internationally be boycotted by disruptions to their events (acts of civil disobedience) so that the plight of aboriginals be highlighted by the international media.<br /></em><br /></p><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em></em></span><ul><li><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>Australia's indigenous peoples are over represented in prisons</em></span><br /></li><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em></em></span><li><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>Aboriginal peoples die 15-20 years younger than the Australian population.<br /></li></em></span><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em></em></span><li><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>They endure 23 times the average death rate from infections of the kidney</em></span></li><li><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>12-17 times the average for diabetes (one of the highest rates in the world)</em></span></li><li><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>3-5 times the death rate from chronic respiratory disease</em></span></li><li><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>They are 10 times more likely to suffer blindness than the general population, largely because of corneal scarring from trachoma or unoperated cataract and, increasingly, from diabetes.</em></span></li><li><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>They are twice as likely to be admitted to hospital, usually so ill that they need to stay longer - mainly for dialysis, pregnancy and childbirth complications, respiratory and digestive diseases and injury. They suffer higher than average rates for mental disorders, alcohol and other drug related conditions, circulatory diseases, nervous system disorders, skin diseases and infectious and parasitic diseases. These conditions reach an acute stage because of lack of early attention - either because services are not available, or because they are inaccessible to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.<br /></em></span><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></li></ul><p><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Aboriginal Australians only secured the right to vote in Federal elections in 1962. ONLY in 1967, following a referendum by white Australians did Aboriginals gained full legal citizenship rights to the country they had lived in for 50,000 years.<br /></span></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_of_Australian_Aboriginals">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_of_Australian_Aboriginals</a><br /><br /><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Prior to the Second World War, Australia's position as a nation with a basically homogeneous European population was secure. Under the unofficial title of the White Australia Policy, various policies were in place to ensure this situation: immigration laws were administered strictly to ensure that non-Europeans were not admitted, citizenship requirements were very exacting and well-guarded, and governments of all hues were committed to a White Australia.<br /></span></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy</a><br /><br /><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">The Australian aboriginal STOLEN GENERATION records coloured children forcibly removed from their families and assimilated into white society. The Christian churches of both Protestant and Catholic denominations played a pivotal role in the implimentation of these human rights abuses.</span></em><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_generation">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_generation</a><br /><br /><strong>New Oxfam report: Australia's Indigenous health shame:</strong><br />While most Australians enjoy amongst the highest standard of health and life expectancy in the world, the aid group Oxfam has revealed that Indigenous health in this country is comparable to that in some of the poorest countries in the world. And it is way below that of Indigenous people in New Zealand and Canada.<br /><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/661/7082">http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/661/7082</a><br /><br /><strong>Report details crimes against Aborigines:</strong><br />The genocidal practices perpetrated against Australian Aborigines were the outcome of policies adopted and implemented by all Australian governments from British settlement in 1788 until the present. A people who had virtually no contact with the outside world, were suddenly confronted with a hostile and alien force. Aborigines were forced out of their traditional homes, hunted like wild animals, poisoned or shot, and confined to the harshest and most desolate climes. The effect of British settlement upon these people led to near extinction within 120 years.<br /><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/geno-s07.shtml">http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/geno-s07.shtml</a><br /><br /><strong>Australia has been forced to explain its Aboriginal policies to a high-level United Nations</strong> committee which includes the eminent Dutch lawyer who devised globally respected guidelines saying nations must apologise for past wrongs.<br /><a href="http://www.gaiaguys.net/WIK%20UN%20smh%2013-16.3.99.html">http://www.gaiaguys.net/WIK%20UN%20smh%2013-16.3.99.html</a><br /></p><p><br /><strong>Bringing them Home.</strong> Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/rsjproject/rsjlibrary/hreoc/stolen/">http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/rsjproject/rsjlibrary/hreoc/stolen/</a><br /><br /><strong>Australia: Howard’s Aboriginal “reconciliation” pledge a cynical fraud.</strong> Three days before declaring the date of the federal election, Australian Prime Minister John Howard delivered a major speech, promising to hold a referendum to formally recognise the Aboriginal population by including a “statement of reconciliation” in the preamble to the country’s constitution. <em>(It defies belief that a nation has to go and vote in a referendum to decide whether it believes in human rights for its indigenous peoples and whether the nation can love them for what they are!!!!)<br /></em></p><p>Howard’s announcement is a wretched and cynical maneuver on the part of a beleaguered government that faces defeat at the November 24 poll. The prime minister bears direct responsibility for the appalling level of poverty, social deprivation, and poor health afflicting Aboriginal people. Nevertheless he is once again seeking to exploit these very conditions for his own electoral purposes. Howard claimed he wanted to construct a “national consensus” for reconciliation. In fact, he has become aware of the extent of anger felt by wide layers of ordinary people at the sufferings of the indigenous population and is trying to tap it for his own sordid ends.<br /><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/howa-o17.shtml">http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/howa-o17.shtml</a><br /><br /><strong>The well documented history of aboriginal dispossession.<br /></strong><br />The European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR)<br /><a href="http://www.eniar.org/index.html">http://www.eniar.org/index.html</a><br /><br />Links to some Indigenous organisations<br /><a href="http://www.eniar.org/info/links.html">http://www.eniar.org/info/links.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nit.com.au/default.aspx">http://www.nit.com.au/default.aspx</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nit.com.au/links/">http://www.nit.com.au/links/</a><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136971571018894930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/R0owbU_cjlI/AAAAAAAAAKo/URlhu0khCeQ/s320/Nambassa+1981.+Photographer+Michael+Bennetts.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Is Australia the last bastion of racism in the west?</span><br /><br /><strong>Report reveals a rising tide of racism in Australia:</strong><br />Ethnic and Indigenous communities are turning inward in response to a rising tidemark of harassment and abuse according to a new report on racism in Australia. The study, undertaken by UTS <a href="http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</a> researchers Julie Browning and Professor Andrew Jakubowicz, is based on detailed reports and interviews with a range of Indigenous and ethnic community organisations in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.<br /><a href="http://www.uts.edu.au/new/releases/2004/June/09.html">http://www.uts.edu.au/new/releases/2004/June/09.html</a><br /><br /><strong>The Rise of Islamophobia in "White Australia"</strong><br />Islamophobia in Australia is not something suddenly appeared over the horizon because of the weather. To the contrary, racism against Muslims has always been part of Australia’s psyche. Whether it is against neighbouring Indonesia, Malaysia or Muslim Australians; the pall of racism is permanently hovering over Australia. Government policies, including the criminal war against Iraq and the introduction of the so-called “anti-terrorism” laws have legitimised racism against Arab and Muslim Australians.<br /><a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAS20051214&articleId=1485">http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAS20051214&articleId=1485</a><br /><strong>Australia cricket accused of 'organised' racism<br /></strong><a href="http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=92378">http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=92378</a><br /><br /><strong>Amnesty International has accused Australia of violating the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.</strong> The human rights group based its accusation on Australian troops boarding a Norwegian vessel carrying asylum seekers to stop it reaching the nearest port and the government proposal to introduce retroactive legislation to allow the ship be forced out of its waters.<br /><a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0829/australia.html">http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0829/australia.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Howard's Falkland War.</strong> PM John Howard's action against Norwegian freighter & asylum seekers amounts to an act of war, a breach of maritime law &, ultimately, a cynical re-election ploy.<br /><a href="http://workers.labor.net.au/111/c_historicalfeature_tampa.html">http://workers.labor.net.au/111/c_historicalfeature_tampa.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Poll: 75% disagree with Howard and say Australia is racist:</strong><br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/racism-voters-disagree-with-pm/2005/12/19/1134840796136.html">http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/racism-voters-disagree-with-pm/2005/12/19/1134840796136.html</a><br /><br /><strong>UN Concerned about Racism in Australia:<br /></strong>In its concluding comments released on 11 March 2005, the Un Committee on the Elimination of racial discrimination, spoke about its serious concerns on the abolishment of ATSIC, the practical barriers Indigenous people face in obtaining native title claims, the continuing high rates of over-representation of Indigenous people in prisons and the extreme inequities between Indigenous people and others in the areas of employment, housing, health education and income. The committee called on the government to work towards a meaningful reconciliation and to properly address the issues of the stolen generation.<br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/message/news/stories/s1326898.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/message/news/stories/s1326898.htm</a><br /><br /><strong>Portrayal of Muslims 'tainted by racism'</strong><br />THE Australian media's coverage of Muslims and Arabs is tainted with a racism that portrays them as "tricky, sleazy, sexual and untrustworthy", according to one of the country's most experienced journalists.Muslims are portrayed as uniformly violent, oppressors of women, and members of a global conspiracy opposed to Australian values, said Peter Manning, former head of ABC News, now Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Sydney's University of Technology. He said that the words "Arab" or "Muslim" were associated with terrorism in 89 per cent of articles that appeared in Sydney's two major newspapers in the year after September 11, 2001.<br /><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/portrayal-of-muslims-tainted-by-racism/2006/03/17/1142582526996.html">http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/portrayal-of-muslims-tainted-by-racism/2006/03/17/1142582526996.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Australia 'racist, sexist, deeply flawed'</strong><br />Sydney is racist, sexist and backward, according to a British newspaper columnist.The columnists writes that the events of the past week or so - Dean Jones labelling a Muslim a terrorist and Mel Gibson unleashing an anti-Semitic tirade - have done nothing to dispel Britain's perception of Australia as a nation of Sir Les Pattersons. Evening Standard writer Hannah Pool criticised Australia as homogenous and its national mood as smug.<br /><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/australia-racist-sexist-deeply-flawed/2006/08/11/1154803062934.html">http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/australia-racist-sexist-deeply-flawed/2006/08/11/1154803062934.html</a><br /><br /><strong>UN blasts Australia over asylum ship.</strong> UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan criticised Australia for its plan to send migrants stranded on a ship off remote Christmas island to New Zealand and the Pacific republic of Nauru. "It's not an ideal situation, and I feel for the refugees who are on this ship, in the heat, in containers," said Annan in Durban, South Africa.<br /><a href="http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/792500.htm">http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/792500.htm</a><br /><br /><strong>Australia rejects UN racism report: A BBC report.</strong> The Australian federal government has dismissed a United Nations report on racial discrimination against Aborigines, calling it unbalanced and inaccurate. A UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination published a report on Friday criticising Australia for failing to override mandatory sentencing laws in effect in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/690213.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/690213.stm</a><br /><br /><strong>Muslims the new bogeymen of racist Australia, says survey.</strong><br />Australian Muslims have surpassed Asians as one of the country's most marginalised religious and ethnic groups, research indicates. More than any other cultural or ethnic group, Muslims and people from the Middle East are thought to be unable to fit into Australia, with more than half of Australians preferring their relatives did not to marry into a Muslim family.<br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/18/1045330603395.html">http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/18/1045330603395.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Australia is now a damaged and divided land:</strong> These days, television footage of young children and pregnant women behind razor wire in detention centers is as familiar an image of Australia as its golden surf beaches. This sullying of the "lucky country's" image has come about on the watch of the man who has been its Prime Minister for the past eight years - John Howard.<br /><a href="http://eniar.org/news/issues.html">http://eniar.org/news/issues.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Vivid memories of a 'stolen generation'. A BBC report.<br /></strong>Lorna Cubillo has vivid memories of the day she was taken from her mother. She was just seven when government authorities put her in a truck lined with barbed wire and took her hundreds of miles away.<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/876165.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/876165.stm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Is Australia’s former PM John Howard (1996-2007) a warmongering racist?</span><br /><br /><strong><em>Link to a posting I made in 2003 and 2004: Australia Under attack.</em></strong><br /><a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/94269.php">http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/94269.php</a><br /><br />Journalist and political commentator Philip Adams asks: “Is Howard a bigot? His support of apartheid in South Africa, his long-term indifference to the issues of Aboriginal Australia, his exploitation of the refugee issue and his on-the-record hostility to Asian immigration would suggest so. Or is he a main-chancer, a cunning manipulator of other people’s fears and racism? If the latter, isn’t that morally worse? That’s why I’m not shedding tears at Howard’s departure.”<br /><a href="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2007/December/opinion_December3.xml&section=opinion&col">http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2007/December/opinion_December3.xml&section=opinion&col</a>=<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="color:#330000;">Australias former Prime Minister Malcom Fraser</span> <span style="color:#330000;">(1975-1983)</span></strong> <span style="color:#330000;">from Howards own Liberal party has lambasted Howard for his racist and </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#330000;">discriminatory policies.</span></span><br /><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/this-governments-inhumanity/2006/06/19/1150701481376.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1">http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/this-governments-inhumanity/2006/06/19/1150701481376.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2005/9/25/muslims-want-australian-pm-to-stop-inciting-hatred.html"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Muslims want Australian PM to stop inciting hatred</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#000000;">:<br /></span></strong><a href="http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2005/9/25/muslims-want-australian-pm-to-stop-inciting-hatred.html">http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2005/9/25/muslims-want-australian-pm-to-stop-inciting-hatred.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Howard's racist ASIO raids who's next?</strong><br />A woman told the November 1 Illawarra Mercury that she has stopped wearing her traditional hijab headscarf after suffering five years of taunts and abuse. She is not alone. Many Muslim and Arab Australians are bracing for an escalation of racist abuse and harassment following ASIO and Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the homes of Indonesian Australians at the end of October.<a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/2002/515/27198">http://www.greenleft.org.au/2002/515/27198</a><br /><br /><strong>Howard should be tried for war crimes says former colleague:</strong><br />Former Liberal Party federal president John Valder says Prime Minister John Howard should be tried and punished for war crimes over Australia's involvement in the Iraq conflict.<br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1156535.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1156535.htm</a><br /><br /><strong>Australian prime minister gives the nod to anti-Muslim racism</strong><br />Last week Reverend Fred Nile, leader of the rightwing Christian Democratic Party, issued an inflammatory call for the New South Wales state government to ban Muslim women from wearing the chador, the head-to-toe Islamic veil, in public. The coverings, he declared, were a “perfect disguise for terrorists” and could be used to “conceal both weapons and explosives”, citing the recent siege by Chechen separatists in a Moscow theatre.<br /><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/nile-n29.shtml">http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/nile-n29.shtml</a><br /><br /><strong>Exporting Howard's Racism</strong>... The very first action of John W Howard's National-Liberal Party government, when elected in 1996 , was to attack the hard won rights of Australia's First Peoples. After their first Cabinet meeting in, the National-Liberal Party coalition came our with all guns firing on the most disadvantaged group of people in Australia. It was a shameful act then, and it remains shameful today. During the ensuing debate about amending the 1993 Native Title Act, the Howard-lead charge against the rights of indigenous Australian citizens saw the Prime Minister cutting a ridiculous figure when he appeared at the Longreach Stockman's Hall of Fame dressed as a grazier (white farmer).<br /><a href="http://www.eniar.org/news/reyburn.html">http://www.eniar.org/news/reyburn.html</a><br /><br /><a name="87988"><strong>JOHN PILGER: </strong></a><strong>Australia’s racist shame</strong><br />Under Howard and Ruddock, Australia has built its own Gulag in the Pacific, imprisoning behind razor wire Iraqis and others fleeing dictatorships. These innocent people are held in some of the most isolated places on earth, including Manus Island and Nauru. They include children.<br /><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/2005/615/35406">http://www.greenleft.org.au/2005/615/35406</a><br /><br /><strong>Howard’s racist divide and rule:</strong><br />The Howard Government's support for a proposal to outlaw the wearing of traditional Muslim clothing is an incitement to racial and religious hatred. Racism has been a central plank of the Howard Government's political platform from the time of its election in 1996, be it racist slurs against Indigenous Australians, the demonising and dehumanising of asylum seekers or its paternalistic arrogance toward Australia's Asia-Pacific neighbours.<br /><a href="http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve5/1119racism.html">http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve5/1119racism.html</a> Howard Reckless as Australia Reels with<br /><br /><strong>Racism by Philip Addams Not for the first time John Howard is being widely described as a racist. Back in 1988,</strong> when he detonated the immigration debate, his apologists were defending him from that charge.<br /><a href="http://www.faira.org.au/lrq/archives/199804/stories/howard.html">http://www.faira.org.au/lrq/archives/199804/stories/howard.html</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Has former PM John Howard (1996-2007) made Australia a terrorist target</span><br /><br /><strong>PM Howard's party uses racist pamphlet scam in 2007 election</strong><br />2007 Australian Federal race scandal.<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lindsay_Affair">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lindsay_Affair</a><br /><br /><strong>Govt unswayed by 'Al Qaeda' threat</strong><br />The Federal Government says it will not be swayed by threats from a group claiming to be the European arm of Al Qaeda, which has threatened Australia with attacks if its troops are not pulled out of Iraq. A statement signed by "Islamic Tawhid Group, The Al Qaeda organisation, Europe" and posted on a website says it would attack with "columns of rigged cars" if the demand was not met. "Australian people, if your Government refuses to withdraw and respond to us we will shake the ground beneath your feet as we did in Indonesia and columns of rigged cars will not stop," it said.<br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1161149.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1161149.htm</a><br /><br /><strong>Australia will be terrorist target for years: ASIOAustralia</strong> will remain a terrorist target for several years to come, the nation's top spy agency said today.<br /><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/19/1019020704401.html">http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/19/1019020704401.html</a><br /><br /><strong>War in Iraq a crime, say legal experts.</strong> KUALA LUMPUR: Leaders of the United States, Britain and Australia are criminals who have committed crimes against humanity and should be hauled up and tried for war crimes, according to two law professors. <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20051217&articleId=1495">http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20051217&articleId=1495</a><br /><a href="http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/">Islamophobia Watch</a>:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Islamophobia Watch</strong></span></a><strong><span style="color:#000000;">:</span> Australia’s entry</strong><br /><a href="http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/display/ShowJournal?moduleId=103277&categoryId=13410">http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/display/ShowJournal?moduleId=103277&categoryId=13410</a><br /><br /><strong>Dissent Isn’t Taken Lightly Down Under</strong><br />Historian Michael Foley said during times of war pacifists often get mugged. As a nonviolent activist working to end the war in Iraq and the corporate war profiteering that comes with it, September 2005 has been the most surreal time of my life and I definitely feel like I got mugged by Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock and the Australian government.<br /><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1006-27.htm">http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1006-27.htm</a><br /><br /><strong>Police State in Australia</strong> Secrets of Howard's terror plan. TheFederal Government's tough new anti-terrorism laws go much further than previously stated, according to a draft copy of the Bill published yesterday on the ACT Government's website.Sweeping shoot-to-kill powers and strict secrecy provisions will further spook civil libertarians, who regard the new laws as draconian.<br /><a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MCP20051016&articleId=1097">http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MCP20051016&articleId=1097</a><br /><br /><strong>Father of 2002 Bali victim blames foreign policy</strong><br />The father of a victim of the 2002 Bali bombings has blamed the foreign policy of Australia and its allies for the latest terrorist attack on the Indonesian island.<br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/father-of-2002-victim-blames-foreign-policy/2005/10/02/1128191592735.html">http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/father-of-2002-victim-blames-foreign-policy/2005/10/02/1128191592735.html</a><br /><br /><strong>A Nazi in the Queensland-Liberal Coalition National Party.</strong><br />QUEENSLAND Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg has called on a National Party state election candidate linked with Australian Nazis to disprove the allegations or face disendorsement.<br /><a href="http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Conference/sacramento71.htm">http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Conference/sacramento71.htm</a><br /><br /><strong>Australian Iraq policy under fire. BBC report.</strong><br />Several Australian former diplomats and defence chiefs have accused the government of misleading Australia over the reasons for going to war in Iraq. In an open letter, the 43 signatories said the decision was based on false assumptions and deception.<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3545710.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3545710.stm</a><br /><br /><strong>Howard has put Australia at greatest-ever risk: former PM Hawke</strong><br />Opposition Leader Mark Latham's pledge to bring Australian troops home from Iraq by Christmas if elected was right, former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke said today, adding that no prime minister has ever put this country at greater risk.<br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/27/1082831551359.html">http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/27/1082831551359.html</a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIS01eqNSM9zyIwpxPVIJn100wIL0pwE1xUuybdml3eqKaXC5j-Lh9Bwt1YlKmvcAhxNt_pAXtWnSkdc_SDJ2J4CU8yXqoMaE3KPk-os9fNVgK2k-ehTiFVsu0RdjVZKDqgO1TkPVz8w/s1600-h/n20146947720_3462.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136964885909419154" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIS01eqNSM9zyIwpxPVIJn100wIL0pwE1xUuybdml3eqKaXC5j-Lh9Bwt1YlKmvcAhxNt_pAXtWnSkdc_SDJ2J4CU8yXqoMaE3KPk-os9fNVgK2k-ehTiFVsu0RdjVZKDqgO1TkPVz8w/s200/n20146947720_3462.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Peter Terry<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;">BY DENYING EVIL WE DO HARM, BY DENYING DARKNESS WE OBSCURE THE LIGHT.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>Peter Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01068807082545373677noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053967979008177156.post-27909622575600815842007-11-11T21:46:00.001+10:002009-01-06T15:20:28.036+10:00ENVIRONMENTPLEASE CLICK ON THIS LOGO TO VIEW THE ARTICLE:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/Rzbr6Lf5tzI/AAAAAAAAAJc/ZceNB10Njv4/s1600-h/6g1zk94.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131548210186794802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5WfowgZ3Ok/Rzbr6Lf5tzI/AAAAAAAAAJc/ZceNB10Njv4/s320/6g1zk94.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">For the remainder of this article click here:</div>NAMBASSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302307986735020007noreply@blogger.com0