Calling LIGHTWORKERS! A Meeting Place !

Hi Cosmo and Curuso -- Don't ya just love the way it all comes together.

This is for the Desert dwellers

Extending from the giant hand of Arizona’s Black Mesa that juts down from the northeast, three great fingers of rock beckon. They are the three Hopi Mesas, isolated upon this desolate but starkly beautiful landscape to which the Ancient Ones so long ago were led. Directing our attention to this “Center of the World,” we clearly see the close correlation to Orion’s Belt. Mintaka, a double star and the first of the trinity to peek over the eastern horizon as the constellation rises, corresponds to Oraibi and Hotevilla on Third (West) Mesa. The former village is considered the oldest continuously inhabited community on the continent, founded in the early twelfth century.

[link to www.bibliotecapleyades.net]

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Cool post, Dances. Like that site, it has a nice vibe.

If you follow the Little Colorado river south about an inch from where it runs off the map, that's where I was born.

Guessing I'd be coming out of Orion's kneecap, lol.

That map sure is interesting, tell me Ahim-sa where is Monument Valley in there??? And is this the same place/area we flew around??

Anyways i wish to ask something.

when i went to NZ years ago i met a few healer type folk and they were obsessed with my hands, kept feeling them and looking like they knew something but would not tell me. Gave me the whole you not ready sort of look.

And this happend on 3 times, the healer person i got a healing from and the guy who did my aura pics for me and my guide portait, now he was strange as again did the whole thing with my hands and then told me to run my hands under cold water for 10 mins before he would even take my aura pic.

why is this?

does anyone know?

Anyways i wish to ask something.

when i went to NZ years ago i met a few healer type folk and they were obsessed with my hands, kept feeling them and looking like they knew something but would not tell me. Gave me the whole you not ready sort of look.

And this happend on 3 times, the healer person i got a healing from and the guy who did my aura pics for me and my guide portait, now he was strange as again did the whole thing with my hands and then told me to run my hands under cold water for 10 mins before he would even take my aura pic.

why is this?

does anyone know?


First thing in my mind was "Fire Hands" Maybe Wasayo could tell you more Ebidah.

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Here it is --really makes ya go hhhmmmmmmmmm

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The map shows Sunset Crater which is a dormant volcano cone. The other crater, Meteor Crater is shown but there's no mention of it in the text. The giant hole in the desert is alleged to be an impact crater yet over a century of drilling and probing have yielded no evidence of a meteor.

If we were to consider the newly emerging Electric Universe theory, could that explain the crater's formation as well as it's location between Orion's legs..

Yuppers, that's up around Orion's head and neck area, actually. Monument Valley straddles the Utah/Arizona border.

don't forget all the Masonic stuff, about the 33rd Parrell, posted that last year some time.

Cool post, Dances. Like that site, it has a nice vibe.

My clock says 11:22




C ya in the Astra

The planetary warrior ... the yellow one of tomorow means:

Planetary = Manifestation
warrior= inteligence = connecting Soul, hearth and mind

First thing in my mind was "Fire Hands"

Dark Understanding of Matter

Images from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a so-called "ring of dark matter" circling a galaxy cluster. Does dark matter exist? Or is electricity a better explanation for the structure of the universe?

In a recent announcement, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) reported the discovery of something in deep space that seems to confirm previously inferred observations of "dark matter." Although "dark matter" cannot be seen or detected by instruments, its existence has been hypothetically considered a necessary aspect of cosmology because, as ESA scientists put it:

"Our own galaxy should have fallen apart by now," said Frederic Bournaud, an astrophysicist with the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat a l'energie atomique). "So dark matter - this unseen force - is somewhere keeping it glued together."

The gravitational force exerted by this unseen and undetectable material is sustaining not just our galaxy, but all galaxies. Astronomers have long been dismayed by the lack of matter that can be observed in the visible universe. According to conventional theories, it was the "big bang" that brought all matter and energy - including gravity - into existence, so their postulates about dark matter must fit within the confines of that hypothesis. Every modern cosmological theory has the "big bang" at its core. For many years, investigators tried to reconcile the lack of mass, particularly in galaxy clusters, with the expansion of the universe and the acceleration of that expansion. There is, apparently, not enough gravity available in observed matter to account for the excess speed and the consolidation of both individual galaxies and their bunching together.

In 1933, Fritz Zwicky was studying the Coma Cluster of galaxies and found that his calculations for orbital acceleration and stellar mass within it was off by a factor of about 160. He concluded that there must be something invisible to his instruments somewhere within the cluster that was holding it together. His hypothesis was supposedly confirmed in 1979 with the discovery of 'gravitational lensing' (another theory of Dr. Zwicky) and the "twin quasar" QSO0957+561 A.

In the image at the top of the page, the blue rays are actually a map of distortions in the shape of the galaxies within the cluster. The distortions are like ripples on the surface of a lake, according to astronomers. As the ripples shift over the stones and plants, they cause their shapes to deform because the light from above passes through regions of varying density. In the same way, NASA scientists think, the ripples in a dark matter halo are what is passing through CL0024+17. This conclusion is an artifact of Zwicky's "gravitational lensing"; since it is actually instability in the gravitational presence of unseen matter that is supposedly, 'bending light' around and through the galactic cluster over five billion light-years away.

Since "dark matter" is unseen and undetectable and can be analyzed through inference alone, could it be that something else is taking place? Something that NASA and the ESA observers have failed to consider as an active force? That "something" is electricity. Because "there is electricity in space, but it doesn't do anything" is the mantra of current cosmological and astrophysical theories, then the mysteries of the universe will continue to rely on explanations that seem to have more basis in fantasy than reality.

From the perspective of the Electric Universe theory, the clusters of galaxies, the galaxies themselves and their associated stars are all driven by electric currents flowing in dusty plasma over immeasurable distances. Birkeland currents create z-pinch compression zones between the spinning magnetic fields in the electrical vortex. The compressed ions form spheres of glowing plasma - some in arc mode, some in glow mode and some with variability between the two states. Circuits of electricity pouring into them from outside power the stars and galactic wheels. What should we expect to see in their shapes and behavior in that case?

Around the galaxies and throughout the cluster will be Birkeland filaments that slowly fluctuate in their intensity, causing mass density variations that might be interpreted as gravitational effects.

The plasma in which the galaxies exist creates radial magnetic fields as the current flows, interconnecting each galaxy with its neighbor and forming electrical bridges between them.

Double layers form in plasma as the electrical charges isolate themselves from one another. They may break down if too much current flows in the circuit. In that instance, there will be a "supernova."

Around the galaxies and clusters will be toroids, or rings of charged plasma. They are detectable in extreme ultra-violet, x-ray and gamma ray light.

In the Hubble image of galaxy cluster CL0024+17, all of those phenomena may be witnessed. There is no need to resort to things that do not exist in order to explain the things that do exist.

As both an historian and a conscious African man, I am constantly impressed by the stature and majesty of African women and their prominent position in the pages of world history. From the earliest times, African women were loved, honored, respected and adored in Africa and around the world. African women often administered mighty nations, and sometimes even led victorious in battle. Dahia al-Kahina of Mauretania, North Africa was one such example. Al-Kahina, described as possessing "dark skin, a mass of hair," was a Moorish freedom fighter, resistance leader and African patriot. The term Moor, meaning scorched or black, was a designation applied to the Black populations of Northwest Africa. An early Muslim scholar, in discussing the ethnicity of the Moorish women of North Africa, wrote simply that "their color is black."

Dahia al-Kahina directed the most determined resistance to the seventh century Arab invasions of North Africa. About 690, al-Kahina, whose name means the 'priestess' or the 'prophetess,' assumed personal command of the African forces, and under her aggressive leadership, the Arabs were briefly forced to retreat. The Arabs were relentless, however, and as the African plight deteriorated, our brave and audacious sister ordered a scorched earth policy. It is said that the effects of this devastation can still be seen in the North African countryside. In 701, however, after fierce resistance, the Africans were defeated. Dahia al-Kahina took her own life, and sent her sons to the Arab camp with instructions that they adopt Islam and make common cause with the Arabs. Ultimately, these men participated in invading Europe and the subjugation of Spain and Portugal. With the death of Dahia al-Kahina, however, ended a magnificent and heroic endeavor to preserve Africa for the Africans

Dark Understanding of Matter

Images from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a so-called "ring of dark matter" circling a galaxy cluster. Does dark matter exist? Or is electricity a better explanation for the structure of the universe?

In a recent announcement, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) reported the discovery of something in deep space that seems to confirm previously inferred observations of "dark matter." Although "dark matter" cannot be seen or detected by instruments, its existence has been hypothetically considered a necessary aspect of cosmology because, as ESA scientists put it:

"Our own galaxy should have fallen apart by now," said Frederic Bournaud, an astrophysicist with the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat a l'energie atomique). "So dark matter - this unseen force - is somewhere keeping it glued together."

The gravitational force exerted by this unseen and undetectable material is sustaining not just our galaxy, but all galaxies. Astronomers have long been dismayed by the lack of matter that can be observed in the visible universe. According to conventional theories, it was the "big bang" that brought all matter and energy - including gravity - into existence, so their postulates about dark matter must fit within the confines of that hypothesis. Every modern cosmological theory has the "big bang" at its core. For many years, investigators tried to reconcile the lack of mass, particularly in galaxy clusters, with the expansion of the universe and the acceleration of that expansion. There is, apparently, not enough gravity available in observed matter to account for the excess speed and the consolidation of both individual galaxies and their bunching together.

In 1933, Fritz Zwicky was studying the Coma Cluster of galaxies and found that his calculations for orbital acceleration and stellar mass within it was off by a factor of about 160. He concluded that there must be something invisible to his instruments somewhere within the cluster that was holding it together. His hypothesis was supposedly confirmed in 1979 with the discovery of 'gravitational lensing' (another theory of Dr. Zwicky) and the "twin quasar" QSO0957+561 A.

In the image at the top of the page, the blue rays are actually a map of distortions in the shape of the galaxies within the cluster. The distortions are like ripples on the surface of a lake, according to astronomers. As the ripples shift over the stones and plants, they cause their shapes to deform because the light from above passes through regions of varying density. In the same way, NASA scientists think, the ripples in a dark matter halo are what is passing through CL0024+17. This conclusion is an artifact of Zwicky's "gravitational lensing"; since it is actually instability in the gravitational presence of unseen matter that is supposedly, 'bending light' around and through the galactic cluster over five billion light-years away.

Since "dark matter" is unseen and undetectable and can be analyzed through inference alone, could it be that something else is taking place? Something that NASA and the ESA observers have failed to consider as an active force? That "something" is electricity. Because "there is electricity in space, but it doesn't do anything" is the mantra of current cosmological and astrophysical theories, then the mysteries of the universe will continue to rely on explanations that seem to have more basis in fantasy than reality.

From the perspective of the Electric Universe theory, the clusters of galaxies, the galaxies themselves and their associated stars are all driven by electric currents flowing in dusty plasma over immeasurable distances. Birkeland currents create z-pinch compression zones between the spinning magnetic fields in the electrical vortex. The compressed ions form spheres of glowing plasma - some in arc mode, some in glow mode and some with variability between the two states. Circuits of electricity pouring into them from outside power the stars and galactic wheels. What should we expect to see in their shapes and behavior in that case?

Around the galaxies and throughout the cluster will be Birkeland filaments that slowly fluctuate in their intensity, causing mass density variations that might be interpreted as gravitational effects.

The plasma in which the galaxies exist creates radial magnetic fields as the current flows, interconnecting each galaxy with its neighbor and forming electrical bridges between them.

Double layers form in plasma as the electrical charges isolate themselves from one another. They may break down if too much current flows in the circuit. In that instance, there will be a "supernova."

Around the galaxies and clusters will be toroids, or rings of charged plasma. They are detectable in extreme ultra-violet, x-ray and gamma ray light.

In the Hubble image of galaxy cluster CL0024+17, all of those phenomena may be witnessed. There is no need to resort to things that do not exist in order to explain the things that do exist.

[link to www.thunderbolts.info]

If we consider the Electrogenetics information and look at liquid crystals forming 'transmission pathways' a rather interesting development came circa 1970. Microcrystals were discovered in the pituitary glad via scanning electron microscopy. These same crystals were discovered in the inner ear.

These microcrystals are believed to be responsible for the previously observed second harmonic generation (SHG) in pineal tissue samples and they may also exhibit piezoelectricity, suggesting a unique electromechanical biological transducer mechanism in the human brain.

These types of crystals generate voltage via 'mechanical stress'. If sound, light, heat, (the variety of stimuli) are 'vibrations' etc then it appears that some forms of 'awareness' ('consciousness' of the outside world) might be electrical via some sort of resonant piezoelectric 'phase translation' along those 'transmission pathways'.

Today, we know of many crystals which are piezoelectric, some of which can even be found in human bone. Certain ceramics and polymers have exhibited the effect as well.

A piezoelectric crystal consists of multiple interlocking domains which have positive and negative charges. These domains are symmetrical within the crystal, causing the crystal as a whole to be electrically neutral. When stress is put on the crystal, the symmetry is slightly broken, generating voltage. Even a tiny bit of piezoelectric crystal can generate voltages in the thousands

Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA

Given the historical context of the unrest in Tibet, there is reason to believe Beijing was caught on the hop with the recent demonstrations for the simple reason that their planning took place outside of Tibet and that the direction of the protesters is similarly in the hands of anti-Chinese organizers safely out of reach in Nepal and northern India.

Similarly, the funding and overall control of the unrest has also been linked to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and by inference to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because of his close cooperation with US intelligence for over 50 years.

Indeed, with the CIA's deep involvement with the Free Tibet Movement and its funding of the suspiciously well-informed Radio Free Asia, it would seem somewhat unlikely that any revolt could have been planned or occurred without the prior knowledge, and even perhaps the agreement, of the National Clandestine Service (formerly known as the Directorate of Operations) at CIA headquarters in Langley.

Respected columnist and former senior Indian Intelligence officer, B Raman, commented on March 21 that "on the basis of available evidence, it was possible to assess with a reasonable measure of conviction" that the initial uprising in Lhasa on March 14 "had been pre-planned and well orchestrated".

Could there be a factual basis to the suggestion that the main beneficiaries to the death and destruction sweeping Tibet are in Washington? History would suggest that this is a distinct possibility.

The mustard seed in global strategy

A self-described revolution in world affairs has begun in the heart of one man. He is the Italian journalist and author Magdi Cristiano Allam, whom Pope Benedict XVI baptized during the Easter Vigil at St Peter's. Allam's renunciation of Islam as a religion of violence and his embrace of Christianity denotes the point at which the so-called global "war on terror" becomes a divergence of two irreconcilable modes of life: the Western way of faith supported by reason, against the Muslim world of fatalism and submission.

As Magdi Allam recounted , on his road to conversion the challenge that Pope Benedict XVI offered to Islam in his


September 2006 address at Regensburg was "undoubtedly the most extraordinary and important encounter in my decision to convert". Osama bin Laden recently accused Benedict of plotting a new crusade against Islam, and instead finds something far more threatening: faith the size of a mustard seed that can move mountains. Before Benedict's election, I summarized his position as "I have a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it." Now the mustard seed has earned pride of place in global affairs.

Magdi Allam tells us that he has found the true God and forsaken an Islam that he regards as inherently violent. Magdi Allam has a powerful voice as deputy editor of Italy's newspaper of record, Corriere della Sera, and a bestselling author. For years he was the exemplar of "moderate Islam" in Europe, and now he has decided that Islam cannot be "moderate".

Since September 2001, the would-be wizards of Western strategy have tried to conjure an "Islamic reformation", or a "moderate Islam", or "Islamic democracy". None of this matters now, for as Magdi Allam tells us, the matter on the agenda is not to persuade Muslims to act like liberal Westerners, but instead to convince them to cease to be Muslims. The use of the world "revolution" is Magdi Allam's:
His Holiness has sent an explicit and revolutionary message to a Church that until now has been too prudent in the conversion of Muslims, abstaining from proselytizing in majority Muslim countries and keeping quiet about the reality of converts in Christian countries. Out of fear. The fear of not being able to protect converts in the face of their being condemned to death for apostasy and fear of reprisals against Christians living in Islamic countries. Well, today Benedict XVI, with his witness, tells us that we must overcome fear and not be afraid to affirm the truth of Jesus even with Muslims.
There is no deference to mutual respect and multi-culturalism. Magdi Allam forsook Islam because he considers it to be "inherently evil". As he wrote to his editor at the Corriere della Sera:
My conversion to Catholicism is the touching down of a gradual and profound interior meditation from which I could not pull myself away, given that for five years I have been confined to a life under guard, with permanent surveillance at home and a police escort for my every movement, because of death threats and death sentences from Islamic extremists and terrorists, both those in and outside of Italy ...

I asked myself how it was possible that those who, like me, sincerely and boldly called for a "moderate Islam", assuming the responsibility of exposing themselves in the first person in denouncing Islamic extremism and terrorism, ended up being sentenced to death in the name of Islam on the basis of the Koran. I was forced to see that, beyond the contingency of the phenomenon of Islamic extremism and terrorism that has appeared on a global level, the root of evil is inherent in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictive [emphasis added].
Far more important than denouncing the evils of Islam, though, is Magdi Allam's embrace of what he calls the God of faith and reason:
The miracle of the Resurrection of Christ has reverberated through my soul, liberating it from the darkness of a tendency where hate and intolerance in before the "other", condemning it uncritically as an "enemy", and ascending to love and respect for one's "neighbor", who is always and in any case a person; thus my mind has been released from the obscurantism of an ideology which legitimates lying and dissimulation, the violent death that leads to homicide and suicide, blind submission and tyranny - permitting me to adhere to the authentic religion of Truth, of Life, and freedom. Upon my first Easter as a Christian I have not only discovered Jesus, but I have discovered for the first time the true and only God, which is the God of Faith and Reason ...
Magdi Allam presents an existential threat to Muslim life, whereas other prominent dissidents, for example Ayaan Hirsi Ali, offer only an annoyance. Much as I admire Hirsi Ali, she will persuade few Muslims to reconsider their religion. She came to the world's attention in 2004 after a Muslim terrorist murdered Theo van Gogh, with whom she had produced a brief film protesting the treatment of women under Islam. As an outspoken critic of Islam, Hirsi Ali has lived under constant threat, and I have deplored the failure of Western governments to accord her adequate protection.
Yet the spiritual emptiness of a libertine and cynic like Theo van Gogh can only repel Muslims. Muslims suffer from a stultifying spiritual emptiness, depicted most poignantly by the Syrian Arab poet Adonis (see Are the Arabs already extinct?, Asia Times Online, May 8, 2007). Muslim traditional society cannot withstand the depredations of globalized culture, and radical Islam arises from a despairing nostalgia for the disappearing past. Why would Muslims trade the spiritual vacuum of Islam for the spiritual sewer of Dutch hedonism? The souls of Muslims are in agony. The blandishments of the decadent West offer them nothing but shame and deracination. Magdi Allam agrees with his former co-religionists in repudiating the degraded culture of the modern West, and offers them something quite different: a religion founded upon love.

Only a few months ago it seemed fanciful to hail Benedict XVI as the leader of the West. I wrote late last year (The inside story of the Western mind, Asia Times Online, November 6, 2007):
The West is not fighting individual criminals, as the left insists; it is not fighting a Soviet-style state, as the Iraqi disaster makes clear; nor is it fighting a political movement. It is fighting a religion, specifically a religion that arose in enraged reaction to the West. None of the political leaders of the West, and few of the West's opinion leaders, comprehends this. We are left with the anomaly that the only effective leader of the West is a man wholly averse to war, a pope who took his name from the Benedict who interceded for peace during World War I. Benedict XVI, alone among the leaders of the Christian world, challenges Islam as a religion, as he did in his September 2006 Regensburg address.
One does not fight a religion with guns (at least not only with guns) but with love, although sometimes it is sadly necessary to love one's enemies only after they are dead. The Church has lacked both the will to evangelize Muslims as well as the missionaries to undertake the task. Benedict XVI, the former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, has thought about the conversion of the Muslims for years, as I reported just before his election in 2005 (The crescent and the conclave, Asia Times Online, April 19, 2005). Where will the Pope find the sandals on the ground in this new religious war? From the ranks of the Muslims themselves, evidently. Magdi Allam is just one convert, but he has a big voice. If the Church fights for the safety of converts, they will emerge from the nooks and crannies of Muslim communities in Europe.

The Pope also has in reserve the European youth movement "Communione e Liberazione", which he has nurtured for decades. Forty-thousand members turned out in 2005 when the then Cardinal Ratzinger addressed a memorial service in Milan for the movement's founder. European Christianity may be reduced to a few coals glowing in the ashes, but it is not dead, only marginalized. If the Catholic youth of Europe are offered a great task - to evangelize the Muslims whose restlessness threatens to push Europe into social chaos - many of them may heed the call.

As I wrote in 2005, "Now that everyone is talking about Europe's demographic death, it is time to point out that there exists a way out: convert European Muslims to Christianity." Today's Europeans stem from the melting-pot of the barbarian invasions that replaced the vanishing population of the Roman Empire. The genius of the Catholic Church was to absorb them. If Benedict XVI can convert this new wave of invaders from North Africa and the Middle East, history will place him on a par with his great namesake, the founder of the monastic order the bears his name.

As Magdi Allam enjoins his new Church:
For my part, I say that it is time to put an end to the abuse and the violence of Muslims who do not respect the freedom of religious choice. In Italy there are thousands of converts to Islam who live their new faith in peace. But there are also thousands of Muslim converts to Christianity who are forced to hide their faith out of fear of being assassinated by Islamic extremists who lurk among us. By one of those "fortuitous events" that evoke the discreet hand of the Lord, the first article that I wrote for the Corriere on September 3, 2003, was entitled "The new Catacombs of Islamic Converts". It was an investigation of recent Muslim converts to Christianity in Italy who decry their profound spiritual and human solitude in the face of absconding state institutions that do not protect them and the silence of the Church itself. Well, I hope that the Pope's historical gesture and my testimony will lead to the conviction that the moment has come to leave the darkness of the catacombs and to publicly declare their desire to be fully themselves.
What the outcome will be of the evangelization of Muslims lies beyond all speculation: that is a matter of every soul's relationship to God. But the global agenda has changed, not through the machinations of statesmen or the word-mincing of public intellectuals, but through the soul of a single man. Benedict's Regensburg challenge to Islam now demarcates the encounter between the West and the Muslim world, and nothing will be the same.

Hi Ahim-sa, warm sunny day here in London. French windows wide open.

What a difference a day/dream makes.

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Maybe "dark matter" in space -is the same thing as "the space" between atoms, and in us - who knows maybe all the dark matter and the "space in between" is spirit, a part that is not for us to see yet, hence we call it dark ????
The ultimate veil , if you will. And maybe the ultimate piece of "the puzzle" Something that no-one has ever ever thought of yet.

Why multinational political figures frequent Middle East?

Only days after German Chancellor Angela Merkel's historic trip to Israel and Palestine, US Vice-President Dick Cheney and Russian Foreign Minister Serge Lavrov have also come to visit the Middle East region.

US Vice-President Dick Cheney met and held talks with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank City of Ramallah on Sunday or March 23 and, a day earlier, Cheney met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Israel was the fifth leg of Cheney's Middle East trip, which had also taken him to Iraq, Oman, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia before heading to Turkey. In another development, Russian Foreign Minister Serge Lavrov arrived in Syria last Wednesday or March 19 before his tour of Palestine and Israel.

Why German, the U.S. and Russian political figures have flocked to the Middle East region on the heels of one after another? This evolves mainly a political background. First of all, it is currently an eventual period of times in the Middle East region. The Iraq war, which broke out five years ago, has altered the former political environment of the country, but terroriam remained there.

Second, a shadow of tragedy has loomed over the Palestine-Israel talks because of the "Operation Hot Winter" launched by Israel, the Jewish settlements built, missiles launched by Palestinian radicals, and the thwarting of follow-up actions of the International Middle East Conference held in Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. on November 27, 2007. Thirdly, the Arab League Summit is expected to convene shortly, and it will likely provide a pivot opportunity for big powers to wield their influences.

Angela Merkel's visit is especially intriguing, as she had become the first German chancellor to address the Israeli parliament. She told Israel of Germany's "holocaust shame," and asserted its support for the Jewish state during an unprecedented speech to the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) on March 18, or last Tuesday. She underlined Israel's security question and Germany's historical responsibility towards it, which represent part of the basic German (foreign) policies. Germany attempts to play its due role in the Middle East affairs by means of taking up more moral obligations to Israel, but Merkel's move, however, has drawn dissatisfaction from some Arab media.

US Vice-President Cheney temporarily added his visit to Iraq and Afghanistan to his itinerary for the aim of eunciating or explaining away the U.S. invasion of Iraq, drumming up support for the stability promotion in Afghanistan while trying hard to weaken and curb Iran's influence in the region.

Particularly President Mohamould Ahmadinejad's "high-sounding" visit to Iraq, in early March, made Iran's impact conspicuous, and enabled the nation to gain more points in its face-off with the U.S. And Cheney's visit to Iraq and the Gulf region posed a response or challenge to Iran. While in Oman, he went fishing in the waters between Oman and Iran last Wednesday to display prowess to the opponent. Moreover, Cheney openly urged Arab nations to forge the all-round diplomatic ties with Iraq in a bid to jointly weaken Iran's impact in Iraq and in the region as a whole.

Furthermore, Cheney cited the U.S. commitment to the Israeli security as permanent and unshakable. He held that the Hamas' missile attacks have posed a very great threat to Israel so it has the right for self-defense. He also appealed for imposing punitive measures against Hamas. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Serge Lavrov voiced the hope that Russia will step up consultations and coordination with Syria, that Israel will halt the construction of Jewish settlements and lift blockades against the Palestine. And Russian would extend its involvement in the Middle East affairs to challenge the U.S.' leading and hegemonic positions in the region.

Moreover, Lavrov proposed during his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to sponsor an international meeting on the Middle East in Moscow later in the year to advance the peace process, and this proposal has won an enthusiastic response and support from Abbas, who said he hoped that Russia will host such a meeting as quickly as possible, but Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected Lovrov's proposals, for he held that there was no reason to call such an international meeting on the Middle East once again. Opinions indicate that Israel's rejection has obtained the approval or tactic consent of the U.S.

Nevertheless, an Israeli war ministry spokesman said Israel has agreed to let Russia deliver 25 armored vehicles to Palestine security forces in the West Bank. Hence, it seems that both sides have common interests on the issue of backing up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

US congratulates Gillani on becoming prime minister

WASHINGTON: The US on Monday congratulated Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani on his election to the office and reiterated its desire to work with the Pakistani leadership on issues of common interest. “We congratulate Mr Gillani on his election and look forward to working with him, as with all the leaders of Pakistan, in the months ahead,” a State Department spokesman said. The National Assembly voted 264-42 to elect Gillani. He will be sworn-in as head of the new government on Tuesday. Pakistan is an important US ally in the war on terror and Washington has been closely observing the political developments in Pakistan.

PM’s Ist order: release judges


ISLAMABAD: Newly elected Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani ordered the immediate release of all detained judges of the higher judiciary as his first orders after his election to the premiership office on Monday.

“I order the release [of the] detained judges of the higher judiciary,” the prime minister-elect said in his maiden speech after obtaining a record 264 votes to become the prime minister of Pakistan. Amid thunderous applause and a standing ovation from the people in attendance at the National Assembly (NA) building, Gillani said that he would release the policy statement of the new government’s priorities after obtaining the vote of confidence from the NA.

Benazir’s murder: Gillani also said that he would pass a unanimous resolution from the Lower House of Parliament seeking a United Nations probe into the murder of late Pakistan People’s Party chairwoman Benazir Bhutto as his first priority.

ZAB apology: “I would also request this house to pass another unanimous resolution seeking apology over the political murder of late PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,” Gillani added in his maiden speech.

Several judges of the higher judiciary have been released but some, including sacked chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and several other judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts, continue to be under detention since November 3, 2007, when President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule in the country. A senior member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had earlier told AFP that most of the judges who remained under detention would be freed as soon as Gillani was sworn in.

According to Reuters, Gillani, a close aide to Benazir and former NA speaker, had been expected to win the vote with a big majority, as members of his PPP and its coalition partners, including the PML-N and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, backed him.Gillani is expected to begin naming ministers to his cabinet later this week after taking oath today (Tuesday).

Good morning Aeiliandria and good morning Ebidah.

First thing in my mind was "Fire Hands"

Yes Ebidah, I can not remember the name of the "energy" that eastern and south american "adepts" call it. It mainfests over distance . You can use it how you wish. Looks like you have the natural construction to do it , frame of mind/knowing does the rest, if you so desire.

I think in some vids., the practitioners set fire to paper, as examples of their disipline.