Kulapavana

There are quite a few scholars who think that Jesus of Nazareth received much spiritual training in India (you can google tons of stuff on this subject). His concept of God much more resembles the Vedic version than the Old Testament crude spirituality. The word Christos is something his disciples had developed. Jesus never used it himself. He had to preach in a somewhat criptic way, as anybody who dared to chalenge the Torah (Old Testament or rather the Jewish Law scriptures) would have been stoned to death immediatelly...

Spiritual Wickedness in High Places

 

Malachi Martin on The End of Religion (As We Know It)

 

by Uri Dowbenko

 

(Note: The following was one of the last interviews by Malachi Martin before his death in 1999.)

 

Ever since Nimrod and the Tower of Babel, the Power Elite have never given up on their feverish dream of a One World Government.

 

Former Jesuit Malachi Martin's novel, Windswept House (Doubleday/ Main Street Books), offers a lurid behind the scenes look at a cabal of Vatican insiders who want to use the Roman Catholic Church as a foundation for a politico-religious New World Order.

 

The plot of the novel involves a group of Church officials who scheme with a group of like-minded corporate executives to manipulate the Church into a ready-made infrastructure for a One World Religion -- a universal umbrella for everybody from Episcopalians to voodoo practitioners.

 

The new ecumenicalism is clothed in Globalist garb. The agenda includes promoting issues like population control, environmentalism and secular humanism, which the plotters hope will eventually lead to the complete secularization of religion.

 

The most outrageous and controversial premise of the novel -- described in great detail in the prologue -- is that a ceremony was performed in the Vatican in 1963 -- an occult ritual which enthroned the fallen archangel Lucifer as the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

Does Dr. Martin believe that this enthronement actually took place in his novel, which could liberally be described as a roman a clef?

 

"Yes, it did," he says emphatically. "Beyond a shadow of a doubt in my mind. But now the place, time, hour etc., are all obfuscated to protect the guilty and save the innocent."

 

Was it common knowledge in the Vatican at the time? "Not common knowledge," explains Martin. "But I found out about it by being a member of the Vatican circles that learned these things. It's like everything else. I'm sure there are people floating around Washington, and they know an awful lot about what's going on. Someone says, 'how do you know that'? Well, it's just... we know it."

 

The story ofWindswept House continues in present day Europe as an international group of conspirators spanning Church and State plots a one world government on behalf of Lucifer. So are readers to infer that no matter what happens, the Pope and the Church hierarchy are bound to serve the fallen angel?

 

"No," explains Dr. Martin. "What it means is that for the moment, Lucifer the biggest archangel, the leader of the revolt against God, has a big in with certain Vatican officials. Enthronement doesn't mean that he rules. It means that they did their best to put him there. The ideal would be to have their man as Pope. In that case then Satan would be enthroned."

 

The book goes on to describe how two brothers, one a priest and the other an investment banker, grapple with these awesome consequences as pawns in the game. Meanwhile the cabal of Globalist-oriented Vatican officials and European-based internationalists try to corner the Pope into voluntary resignation so that they can get their man in the Chair of Peter.

 

This theme coincidentally is also the basis, albeit in non-fiction form, of Martin's book The Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order.

 

The upshot? A One World Government is a fait accompli, he infers. What Dr. Martin calls the "millennium endgame" is a competition for a new global hegemony by the key Globalist players. What's interesting is that the novel appears to be a seamless transition from his previous non-fiction work. The reader then is put in the position of concluding that the New World Order is a done deal, that a One World Government is here and now and, as the expression goes, it's all over but the crying.

 

But you wouldn't expect Globalist agit-prop from a former Jesuit. Or would you?

 

And Who Is Malachi Martin?

 

Author of 15 books on religious and geo-political topics, Malachi Martin is highly regarded and respected as a world renowned scholar.

 

Trained in theology at Louvain, he received his doctorates in Semitic Languages, Archaeology and Oriental History. He subsequently studied at Oxford and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1958 to 1964, he served in Rome, where he was a close associate of the Jesuit cardinal Augustin Bea and Pope John XXIII, as well as a professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute.

 

Malachi Martin is the author of many best-selling books including Vatican, Hostage to the Devil, The Jesuits, The Final Conclave, and The Keys of This Blood. Also he was a Roman Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus until 1964 when he left the Jesuits. Why?

 

"It was a grave decision," he says. "I could see the way the Church was going, the way churchmen were going in their decisions and all the anchors I had for morality and zeal were being undone. Then when the Vatican Council started in 1962, I could see the way the flow of opinion was going in the Vatican by a group of cardinals from Belgium, Germany and France. They were maneuvering the Church into totally new ecclesiology. I couldn't accept this."

 

As an advisor to three Popes, Dr. Martin has had his fair share of romanita, that uniquely Roman methodology of connivance and power politicking. "I started off as an advisor on Judaism," he continues. "I was trained in Semitic languages and I spent a year and a half studying the Talmud... Then my superiors in Rome also found that I understood Judaism very well. They wanted someone to explain it, since they were studying the whole question of Jewish-Christian relations. So I was drafted into helping with that."

 

And the outcome? "They produced a document in which they sort of absolved the Jewish people of the death of Christ."

 

Based on his research? "No, not on my research," argues Martin. "I was only a cog in the wheel. I didn't agree with the final document either. It went too far. And then there were conclusions about the need for Catholics to study Judaism and get to know them better."

 

So this was the ecumenicalization of the Church that was going on?

 

"That's it in one word," concurs Martin. "And I couldn't agree with the total effect of all that because I thought they went too far."

 

Dr. Martin was also involved with Vatican intelligence. What did he do? "Just assessing things in Israel, whatever anti-Christianity there was amongst the Israelis. There was and still is. And what was the position of the Arabs. I used to live in Jordan and Lebanon and Egypt. I knew those places very well and could assess the position of the Church and the various Christian communities."

 

The many-talented Dr. Martin is also known as a practicing exorcist and has even written a book about the subject called Hostage to the Devil.

 

He says he came up against evil as a force in the world in an uncontrovertible undeniable way in his first exorcism.

 

"I was in Cairo and it was evil," Dr. Martin recalls.

 

"You know you only have to enter its presence, or for it to enter your presence to know that you are in the presence of something which is summarily evil."

 

"It's invisible. You can't see it. But you know it wants you dead. Dead. Dead. And in a horrible way," he repeats in a hypnotic voice. "It's touching your very bones by its presence."

 

So how does he explain the phenomenon of demonic possession? "Free will", says Dr. Martin. "For the first time in the work we have been doing for thirty-one years in this corner of the globe, during the last ten years or so, we have found young men and women thirty-somethings or twenty-somethings coming forward and saying, 'Listen I made a pact with the devil. I wanted this woman. I wanted this man. I wanted this job. I wanted this money. I wanted this, this, this, and I made a pact and he gave it to me and now I can't get free of him. He dominates my will. Please liberate me. And then people get to it by means of things like a ouija board or by spiritual seances or channeling."

 

Malachi Martin is also known as a serious scholar of apocryphal writings, having authored a book called The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

 

(As an impressive mark of his erudition, Malachi Martin even knew about the alternative Abraham and Isaac story in one of the so-called Pseudepigrapha, the Book of Jubilees. In this unsanctioned version of Genesis, Abraham is commanded to kill his son, but not by God. Instead it is Mastema, a fallen angel known as "the accusing angel" as well as the Tempter and Executioner, who tells the Hebrew patriarch to do the dirty deed. To his credit, of course, Abraham doesn't slaughter his firstborn. When asked why the Genesis version omits details of the fallen angel Mastema as the instigator of Abraham's test, however, even Malachi Martin admits ignorance.)

 

The Globalist Imperative

 

Like the prissy intellectuals of the 1930s enamored by National Socialism (as well as Fabian Socialism), the current fin de siecle version of internationalists are likewise paving their own road to a Globalist hell with good intentions.

 

Using the Hegelian model of history, first there was Capitalism (thesis), then Communism (antithesis), and now there's the New World Order (synthesis), risen from the ashes of the Cold War and the formerly 'competing' ideologies.

 

International socialism or corporate fascism (aka Globalism) is, in fact, the trendy philosophy for the end of the millennium. In his book Megatrends 2000, Olympian futurist John Naisbitt calls it "free market socialism," a hybrid economic system that combines welfare state policies with multinational corporate business on a global level.

 

Globalism, however, as a secular religion, has a dogma all its own. Its primary belief system is based on the notion that the usefulness of the nation-state is over. In other words, national sovereignty is a thing of the past and a One World Government is inevitable. But... this effort, at least for now, must be couched in cryptic language for the unwashed masses. Otherwise they'd get too upset.

 

Globalist spokesman Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Columbia University professor, President Carter's former National Security advisor, and founder of the Trilateral Commission spoke at the Gorbachev Foundation's State of the World Forum in 1995, "We cannot leap into world government in one quick step," he said. "(It) requires a process of gradually expanding the range of democratic cooperation." In plain language, that means people must be further indoctrinated.

 

Eurocrat Jean-Marie Guehenno hints at this global hegemony or one world totalitarianism calling it an "empire without an emperor." Guehenno wrote The End of the Nation-State (1995) which was called La fin de la democratie (The End of Democracy) in the original French version. Since nation states are obsolete, he claims, "'wise men' capable of thinking through the finite world that has become our common lot" must be entrusted to guide us into what he calls an 'Imperial Age'." Presumably Guehenno counts himself as one of the ranks of "The Wise Men."

 

Most striking though is a chapter in Guehenno's book called "Religions without God", which evokes the image of the humanist shaking his fist at an empty sky. The ultimate reduction of this conundrum for the internationalists is to hint at a "global politburo" to run the world as posited by Paul Mazur in Unfinished Business (1979).

 

According to Dr. Martin's nomenclature, Guehenno is one of the Transnationalists -- bureaucrats who believe that Globalism is based on "the development of new and ever wider interrelationships between the governments of the world".

 

On the other hand, the Internationalists are "individuals who operate from a power base of finance, industry and technology". Together these groups are the Globalists, the social engineers conniving for the convergence of East and West in the so-called New World Order.

 

Luciferian Geo-Politics

 

For a Churchman, Malachi Martin shows a remarkable familiarity and understanding of Luciferianism, a belief system which hold human wisdom, secular humanism if you will, as its paragon and the fallen archangel Lucifer as the Prince who will rule the world.

 

Readers of Windswept Houseare given the impression that the old traditional Catholic Church is good because the protagonists, Christian Gladstone and his mother are defending it, while we know that the Church has been dedicated to Lucifer. Faced with these two alternatives, the conclusion is that the Roman Catholic Church run by Lucifer is good -- a classic (and incredibly sophisticated) double bind, which is constantly reinforced in the reader's mind throughout the 646 pages of the novel.

 

"Well, the Church itself has not been given to Lucifer," argues Dr. Martin. "He was enthroned in the Vatican by Vatican officials. That doesn't mean he possesses the Church yet. The Church anyway is an ambiguous term because it either means the actual physical bloc of churches, convents, libraries, academies, parish houses and cathedrals, the physical plant. Or it means the group of faithful in the state of grace whether they are alive in Purgatory or in Heaven. That is the body of Christ."

 

"There has always been, since the fourth century, this organization set up by the Emperor Constantine. But that is not essential for the Church. The Church can exist without it. So that mystical body of Christ has not fallen into Lucifer's hands. The organization to some degree has. That's the difficulty."

 

What about the book putting his readers in a double bind? You're presented with two choices. Either A. The Luciferian-controlled Roman Catholic Church. Or B. The Luciferian-controlled New World Order. So where does Malachi Martin find himself?

 

"The New World Order is definitely won by Luciferian believers," says Dr. Martin. "There's no doubt about that."

 

And then he starts to rationalize their modus operandi.

 

"But these are men who came to be and are in their actions at least, humanitarian and philanthropic. They want to wipe out hunger and disease. They want to limit the population of the world. They believe the world is headed for mass starvation. They also want to enter into education. They would like to have an alliance with the Roman Catholic Church and with another pope. This one -- they know would stand in their way in regards to population control because he is deadstart against abortion, contraceptives, genetic engineering."

 

And what about "The Process" he refers to in his book?

 

Dr. Martin replies that it's the "Luciferian Process" of secularizing every religious mind so that the common mind today would be one which regarded the earth as a planned paradise to be built up. There is no God above the skies, no heaven, and there is no hell beneath the earth. It's complete secularization."

 

(John Lennon's classic rock anthem "Imagine" comes to mind. "Imagine there's no country," he sang. "It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too.")

 

But do the Luciferians have a timetable?

 

"We are now according to the official doctrine of the Luciferians in what they call "the Availing Time". They have a tradition that in these years they can avail of the time to install the Prince, who is Lucifer, as the greatest power on earth in charge of human civilization and adored by men."

 

And to what end?

 

"To exalt the power of Lucifer. That is the end in itself. It's the Luciferian purpose. If they don't do it in these years, then it is put off sine die, without resolution. They are very keen on getting it done."

 

And what are the next steps in this "Process"?

 

"The purpose is to secularize education completely," continues Dr. Martin. "And to eliminate from considerations of life and death -- medicine, sociality, finance, birth, development etc., to free that of any religious presumption whatever. To free it from the superstition of religion so that man is dealt with scientifically and humanly. And that is 'the Process'. 'The Process' is to make the human mind accept that... 'The Process' is whereby all education, primary secondary and higher, college university and all public activity is completely rid of all religious presumptions."

 

"There is a layer of satanism, of satanist ritual which prepares people for perfect Luciferian adoption. They have covens and sacrifices and rites. The Luciferians have no rites, you know."

 

So dabbling with satanism in these rituals leads to a different form of "commitment" which is Luciferianism?

 

"It is a preparation for Luciferianism and there are reversals sometimes," claims Dr. Martin. "You will find a crowd of Luciferians having a satanic ritual as a reminder of things. But they have all passed through in a sense and that involves three things: the infliction of pain without flinching, the infliction of death without flinching, and the use of fire."

 

Windswept House — Message and Subtext

 

In Windswept House, Christians and Luciferians clash over the remains of the Roman Catholic Church. It's a controversial and provocative story, a political thriller with metaphysical implications. It delves into the depths of treachery, intrigue and Machiavellian politics at the highest levels of the Church. As a fact-based novel with frequent lengthy asides on real historical geopolitical events like the fall of the Soviet Empire and the Helsinki Accords,Windswept House is a vehicle for one simple message -- the New World Order is here and now.

 

While a group of cardinals scheme to force the Pope to resign his office so they'll be able to install a man who will do the Luciferians' bidding, a priest, Christian Gladstone is called to Rome. Cardinal Maestroianni, a power player and one of the leaders of the cabal, enlists the priest to poll bishops regarding closer ties with the European Economic Community. In fact, however, the Cardinal is assessing the timing for a conclave in which the Slavic Pope would be forced to resign because he has become a stumbling block in the Luciferians' plans.

 

From the business side, Paul Gladstone, Christian's brother and an expert in international relations working at a Globalist law firm, is also unknowingly recruited to bring the Luciferian plan to fruition. When the brothers find out they are both being unwittingly used in the schemes of the Luciferians, they join forces. Christian then must reach the Pope to tell him that he is being manipulated to abdicate the Chair of Peter.

 

Will the Pope resign? And will he exorcise the Church in time?

 

The subtext? It doesn't really make a hell of a lot of a difference.

 

The Future of the Church Militant

 

In his novelWindswept House Malachi Martin expostulates his readers regarding the reasons why the "Slavic Pope" (Pope John Paul II) is so ineffectual. But what is the Pope's agenda as he sees it?

 

"I think that from the very start John Paul II for whatever reasons, has sought after one thing and one thing only," says Dr. Martin. The formation of what now appears to be in his mind, a universal assemblage of Catholics at the core; grouped with them the Protestant denominations, sects and churches; grouped around them believing Jews, believing Muslims, believing Hindus, believing Buddhists. And that would be a universal religious assembly that could have a powerful dynamic kick in civilization and in solving the problems of men and women today. That is the only thing you can really say this man has sought heart and soul and body with all his travelling. When he went to churches all over the world, member churches of the Catholic Church in all the countries, he was bolstering the reputation of the papacy and he was speaking Catholic dogma, Catholic belief, Catholic morals. But in reality he was reaching out to everybody. He wanted to make friends with everybody."

 

And what about the widespread homosexuality, pedophilia and satanic rituals in the Church, common knowledge he avers known to all Vatican insiders? Since as he wrote Christ is no longer honored in the tabernacle, what does he think will happen?

 

"Once the tabernacle is emptied of Christ's real presence, then the Church ceases to be holy and therefore it's going to be entered by the opposite power, Lucifer," says Martin. "And this is taking place now. Not widespread, but it is taking place. There's no doubt about that."

 

So will the Church fall on its own? "It's disintegrating slowly," says Martin. "As an organization, it's being marginalized sociopolitically and culturally. And religiously, it's weakening and decaying, obsolescing..."

 

"If you look at any country today there are three identifiable components of that State. One, the government. Two, there is industry. Third, there are what we call NGOs, the non-governmental organizations. That's everything from Mothers Against Drunk Drivers to the Catholic Church. And they're just simply lumped together, voluntary associations with as much power as they can grasp but of no special importance. Now fifty or seventy years ago, when an ethical or moral question arose, people and governments looked to the churches. Now they don't any longer."

 

And yet another sensitive question. Something doesn't add up. Malachi Martin's a priest. He's supposed to fight evil. Yet his bookWindswept Houseis clear evidence that he's thrown in the towel.

 

"Well I don't see evidence of having thrown in the towel," protests Dr. Martin. "Because there's a lot I'm being made to pay for, in the sense that the writer obviously likes and reveres this Pope even though he disagrees with him. The writer also believes in the blessed sacrament. He believes in the Pope's infallibility. He believes in salvation. He believes in hell. He believes in the evil of the devil."

 

So why doesn'tWindswept Houseend with Christ victorious in the book?

 

Does Dr. Martin believe that the Luciferian forces have won already?

 

"No. No. No," insists Dr. Martin. "This is an interim book. It ends in a big doubt -- everybody waiting." This must be what they call the European ending -- as opposed to the American ending where all the loose ends are tied up.

 

Then the story shifts into "The Devil, Er, I Mean the Editor Made Me Do It". "The publisher said, 'listen the story isn't finished yet,'" says Dr. Martin. "I had a lovely glorious ending. I had a vision. I had a marvellous thing over the Alps. He cut it out."

 

This is an actual editorial decision? "Yes," says Dr. Martin.

 

But with all due respect, it almost sounds like Luciferian tampering. Not that anyone wants a saccharine ending. So are readers to conclude that the Luciferians won because of the passivity of the Pope in defending the Church?

 

"Well, they haven't won yet," says Dr. Martin on a slightly upbeat note. "We're waiting for this man to do something. He's the Vicar of Christ. I know I'm defending him but..."

 

"Readers who call me or write me say, what do we do now? I say, read my next book," he continues.

 

With Martin's death on July 28, 1999, his suggestion seems to be a moot point.

 

"So perhaps editorially," he concludes, "it was the right decision, but religiously it was the wrong decision. I don't know."

 

It's been said that "by their fruits, ye shall know them." Malachi Martin's assent to the so-called "process" is the tangible "fruit" of Windswept House.

 

Is the novel a prophecy? Or is it just a warning?

 

In any case, the New (Luciferian) World Order that Martin describes puts a religious spin to the whole "process" of history.

 

It's also clear -- the book is a Luciferian masterpiece.

 

1999 Uri Dowbenko

 

 

lol@ Bush=Deva! that is so naive that it is somewhat funny... (and the eternal battle among neophyte Shivaites and Vishnu-bhaktas rages on... /images/graemlins/wink.gif

It always helps when you (at least try) think of yourself as a spirit soul, not the body (male or female).

...while the individual soul is actually "female" in nature, you need to understand what "female" and "male" means in the absolute sense in order to fully realize your true nature. all conditioned (embodied) souls have the tendency to think of themselves as "male" (purusha) and not as "female" (prakriti) - and that is certainly very obvious in the so called "feminist" circles /images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

this is not a joke. it is actually very deep stuff /images/graemlins/smile.gif

on one level the difference is in rasa: one addresses Lord Narayan, the other: Lord Krishna. you need to figure out which form of the Lord you are attracted to the most...

as you serve Krishna under his direction here in the material world, guru guides your service in Spiritual Sky as well

aum shanti, shanti, shanti om

persistent snoring is sometimes related to a serious condition called sleep apnia (irregular breathing leading to oxygen depravation). it is essentially an imbalance of the airs of life. accupuncture is often used to correct that condition.

his hair grew a lot as the sermon was so long...

my post was in reply to the "inquisitive mind" guest questions and jabs.

 

as to the suicide/ghost issue: yes, suiciders receive a certain ghostly body as a punishment for their sin. it is a ghostly body that still craves food, drink and touch. tormented by these desires of the flesh they wonder the earthly realm in futile search for fullfilment... not all ghosts are like that.

lol! was he an attractive man and are you a woman? that is the most common reason for such "divine" feelings... /images/graemlins/wink.gif

if you believe that God only gives you one chance to come to Him you believe that God is a stingy and cruel person, who punishes you with eternal hell for not loving Him... what kind of a stupid idea is that? God is very loving, just and patient and He certainly does NOT punish people for not turning to Him. The idea of "one life only" was introduced to strike fear of God in the hearts of primitive people so that they would live moral life. You should study Bhagavad Gita to grasp the true nature of God... Hare Krishna!

aye! he is an honorable man of God who has done much good, certainly worth our prayers... Hare Krishna!

I felt divine when I had a chance to talk to some very pure Vaishnavas about Krsna consciousness...

 

I felt divine when I had a chance to seve Their Lordships Gandharvika Giridhari and then later take their Maha-prasad...

 

I still feel divine when I can participate in a powerful and melodious kirtan in the temple and the Maha-Mantra pulsates in my consciousness...

 

If you are lucky enough to have such divine experiences now and then, you will gradually purify your life. That is the real proof of spirituality of such experiences. Krishna gives many people a taste of the spiritual to encourage them to seek Him out. Spiritual bliss is not limited to our tradition only.

 

As to being able to see God in 6 months: It is mainly up to you and such vision is certainly not cheap. Are you really sincere? Do you have what it takes? Yes there are many cheaters, but if you are sincere Krishna will guide you to the right person and tradition. Hare Krishna!

solar energy is not cheap (current generators are expensive and do not last very long). oil is relatively inexpensive and oil companies have a very strong grip on political power (see current US ruling asuras) and therefore dictate energy policy.

I would sincerely appreciate devotee comments as to the relevance of such an effort (creating a social movement with emphasis on restoring the values of Vedic Aryan civilization)

when are you ready to take initiation?

 

when you develop an intense desire to serve Krishna under the direction of this particular Vaishnava...

when you are willing to follow his orders...

and when you are humble enough to desire to wash his feet...

As Srila Prabhupada once said in a similar situation: "..just keep chanting Hare Krishna and it will all go away..."

 

btw: only very powerful ghosts can take control over your body while still awake and not intoxicated but the Holy Name will still chase them away. Hare Krishna!

World oil and gas 'running out'

By CNN's Graham Jones

Thursday, October 2, 2003 Posted: 1245 GMT ( 8:45 PM HKT)

 

 

LONDON, England -- Global warming will never bring a "doomsday scenario" a team of scientists says -- because oil and gas are running out much faster than thought.

 

The world's oil reserves are up to 80 percent less than predicted, a team from Sweden's University of Uppsala says. Production levels will peak in about 10 years' time, they say.

 

"Non-fossil fuels must come in much stronger than it had been hoped," Professor Kjell Alekett told CNN.

 

Oil production levels will hit their maximum soon after 2010 with gas supplies peaking not long afterwards, the Swedish geologists say.

 

At that point prices for petrol and other fuels will reach disastrous levels. Earlier studies have predicted oil supplies will not start falling until 2050.

 

Alekett said that his team had examined data on oil and gas reserves from all over the world and we were "facing a very critical situation globally."

 

"The thing we are surprised of is that people in general are not aware of the decline in supplies and the extent to which it will affect production.

 

"The decline of oil and gas will affect the world population more than climate change."

 

According to the Uppsala team, nightmare predictions of melting ice caps and searing temperatures will never come to pass because the reserves of oil and gas just are not big enough to create that much carbon dioxide (CO2).

 

Alekett said that as well as there being inflated estimates, some countries in the Middle East had exaggerated the amount of reserves they had.

 

Coal-burning could easily make up the shortfall. But burning coal would be even worse for the planet, as it would create even more CO2, he said.

 

Predictions of global meltdown by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sparked the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an agreement obliging signatory nations to cut CO2 emissions.

 

The IPCC examined a range of future scenarios, from profligate burning of fossil-fuels to a fast transition towards greener energy sources.

 

The Uppsala team say the amount of oil and gas left is the equivalent of around 3,500 billion barrels of oil -- the IPCC say between 5,000 and 18,000 billion barrels.

 

Alekett said his team had now established what they called the "Uppsala Protocol" to initiate discussion on how the problems of declining reserves could be tackled -- protecting the world economy but also addressing the problem of climate change.

 

The conclusions of the Uppsala team were revealed in the magazine New Scientist Thursday, and Nebojsa Nakicenovic, of the University of Vienna who headed the IPCC team said it was standing by its figures.

 

He said they had factored in a much broader and internationally accepted range of oil and gas estimates then the "conservative" Swedes.

 

A conference in Russia this week heard a warning that global warming kills about 160,000 people through its effects every year. The numbers dying from "side-effects" of climate change, such as malaria and malnutrition, could almost double by 2020, the climate change conference in Moscow was told.

 

"We estimate that climate change may already be causing in the region of 160,000 deaths... a year," Andrew Haines of the UK's London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said. ( Full story )

 

Most deaths would be in developing nations in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, says Haines. These regions would be worst hit by the spread of malnutrition, diarrhea and malaria as a result of warmer temperatures, droughts and floods.

 

 

 

you find them, and then you ask them... /images/graemlins/wink.gif

This sounds like a very good program. I hope it spreads all over the world. I also entered Krishna consciousness from the hatha yoga background many years ago and still maintain some level of yogic exercises.

I must say japanese have a serious fascination with technical gadgets... US military has done some secret work on bending light waves around objects to make them invisible. main problem was that strong magnetic fields used in this process were killing the very people they were trying to make invisible...

Along the same lines, a little closer to home:

 

A Call for Equipoise

by Srila das

 

Posted September 29, 2003

 

I want to join in with others voicing their disappointment in VNN for publishing articles like Srivatsa's "Repetition of History," which lacked coherency, was poorly supported, and above all displayed sentiments inappropriate to an assembly of Vaisnavas. As our Divine Master Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada noted when asked as how to identify a Vaisnava, "He will be a perfect gentleman." Anti-Semitic rhetoric has little place in a Krsna-conscious forum, save and except to be rectified by a more enlightened understanding. A previous article by Jan Brzezinski has already addressed those particular issues.

 

However, I want to express some of my own reservations on this topic. As a general principle, we should react in alarm to the degree of possible harm. We should know that anti-Semitism, like any form of racism or ethnic ill-will, comes in different shades of gray. The Columbia Encyclopedia (1968, p.86) defines anti-Semitism as "sentiment, ranging from antipathy to violent hatred, against Jews." Racism can range from benign ignorance to virulent animosity. However, it is a logical error to equate the lesser with its more extreme counterpart; the former, a na•ve bias, does not necessarily lead to the latter, future Holocaust scenarios. I am not trying to excuse any form of prejudice -- ignorance, though perhaps not openly malignant, is still ignorance. But before we become carried away by a sense of self-righteousness, let us take pause to recognize the differences and subtleties.

 

Allow me to contextualize this issue with another quandary of contemporary political-correctness -- prejudice against Afro-Americans in the United States. Studies show that the vast majority of white Americans characterize themselves as not being prejudiced. However, when those same people are asked whether they would live in a predominantly Black neighborhood, their core prejudices subsequently become revealed. And if we take a look at the national census statistics, we will see how more pronounced is the physical reality: American cities are more segregated today than they were back in 1970. Espousing some politically-correct ideology is one thing, how we vote with our feet is another. Before we begin to point the finger at others, we might introspect as to where those other three fingers are pointing first.

 

(I personally live in a neighborhood that is 80% Afro-American, but I would be the first one to admit that I am still affected by my past cultural racist indoctrination.)

 

The point is that there is more to combating anti-Semitism, racism, etc. than simply raising a loud hue-and cry. Furthermore, over-reacting may serve to disguise our own prejudices and ignorance. In recent years the Anti-Semitic 'race card' has been overplayed, especially in a deliberate attempt to mask the atrocities of Israel (a so-called Jewish State) against the Palestinian people. Any criticism of Israel, Zionism, or America's economic and military complicity with Israel has thus been construed as "anti-Semitism."

 

The fact is that the situation in Palestine has become so egregious that it is compared by international observers to a 'Warsaw Ghetto' in the making. Former South African President Nelson Mandela attested that the degree of apartheid and collective punishment in Palestine exceeds that ever experienced under his racist regime. Therefore, at least as far as the title of Srivatsa's article is concerned, it seems that history does indeed repeat itself - the persecuted in turn has become persecutor. This is the material law of karma unfolding itself once again.

 

Let's recognize and denounce evil wherever it raises its ugly head without regard to caste, culture or creed. As Canakya notes, "Where is that race or society that is free from faults?"

 

On this last point, where were the cries of outrage when VNN published articles that were blatantly anti-Islamic? Where was the condemnation when Hindu religious fanatics butchered more than 2000 Muslims in Gujarat last year with tacit government support? Why do we passively sit back and tolerate VNN's regular articles tooting Indian right-wing nationalism? (On these points, I submitted two articles of protest, but neither were published.)

 

One of the symptoms of Krsna consciousness or any bona fide spirituality is equanimity -- an absence of prejudice, partiality or animosity. Let's have more equipoise purported to this end.

 

Om tat sat.

 

Srila dasa

 

 

 

 

 

Gollum is a character from the Lord of the Rings (books and now movie) who spoke in very peculiar English and was a little malicious... yess, my preciouss... ;-)

 

I hope this guest will forgive me... /images/graemlins/frown.gif

everything that happens to us happens for a reason. we should look at ourselves first as the cause of our problems. working humbly to correct our deficiencies is the only way to go through life. Hare Krishna!