Foreign Feline Correspondent...

-Butterscotch brings us "Feline News" this week...
Reporting from the US...From: Drudge:
This week "This is london.co.uk" features a story about Grumpy… (below)
Described as a 'four-month reign of terror' in Swindon, Wiltshire (England)...Grumpy terrorized neighbor cats (and their "human servants") before he was finally apprehended, and put into a cage...
"So, as you can see…We have our terrorists, too."Terrorist Grumpy-06...And (unfortunately) our share of terrorist sympathizers...Excerpt:“Neighbors 'felt sorry' for the puss,
but after four received nasty cuts and scratches”...
"Felt...Sorry for him??! #%@!"
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Media Fixation of the Cowardice Fascists

The confiscations of thousands of satellite dishes, pagers, and terminated internet connections placed against the hundreds of thousands of Iranian bloggers...Continue to be a way for the regime to "self-express"...

Instead of addressing the Human Rights' demand for the
release of tens of thousands of bloggers who are still
being held captive, in Iranian prisons...
Ahmadinejad responds by setting up his own blog…Instead of meeting the demands of the World Community,
who desperately hold 'Safety of Our Civilization' in direct
correlation with 'Regulated Nuclear Technology'.
Ahmadinejad responds by challenging Bush to a
Televised debate...
Iran's usual style of stripping Iranians from contact with the outside world, while befriending militants, continues to enable them to shape an appeasing world media with anti-western propaganda. This remains the clearest indication of the cowardice of radicalism...

In lieu of Iran's 30,000 known political prisoners, held for crimes of speaking out against the regime, you wonder what self-respecting Media would support false and manipulated stories from a country who represses, and imprisons its journalists?
Answer: Most nearly all-
Journalists and Bloggers in jail...
Please contact and petition... Amnesty International in
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Telephone +1 212 807 8400
Fax number +1 212 463 9193\1 212 627 1451
E-mail admin-us@aiusa.org
Reporters Without borders
Middle-East desk :
middle-east@rsf.org
Americas desk: Americas@rsf.org
Human rights watch
New YorkPress Desk Tel: 1 212 216 1832 hrwpress@hrw.org
Minky WordenMedia Director Tel: 1 212 216 1250
Emma DalyPress Director Tel: 1 212 216 1835
Lance LattigMedia Editor Tel: 1 212 216 1252~~~~~~-Iran-Related Posts: Victor Davis Hanson:
Western Cannibalism
Eating each other while our enemies smile.
Excerpt: "The courage and sacrifice of thousands of American soldiers now determine whether those who dream of freedom step forward boldly into the light, or retreat meekly into the shadows, and whether we will be safe in our own homes."
A very moving post by womanhonorthyself:
WelcomE TerroristS
The latest news update at : Right Truth!
Great coverage by inthebullpen:
Ahmadinejad Challenges Bush to Debate;
His Letter to Merkel
Basilsblog:
U.S. Dismisses Bush-Ahmadinejad Debate
Uncooperativeblogger:
Rumsfeld: Terrorist Groups
‘Actively Manipulating’ U.S. Media
Conservative Cat:
Notes from Ferdy - Terror Fears Get Scary
Outside the beltway: Beltwaytrafficjam
Extremists Discredit Heritage:
Of once freely accepted and welcomed
Israel to resettle in Jerusalem...
"Cyrus II le Grand, roi de Perse, permet aux Hébreux, en captivité à Babylone, de retourner dans leur patrie et de reconstruire la ville de Jérusalem et le Temple."

P.M. Al Maliki: Reshuffling Iraqi Cabinet

Matthew Yglesias with Talking Points Memo, reports on the Shiite Militia Clashes With Iraqi Troops ... And brings up a valid point...
Excerpt:
"What kind of sense does it make to fight Mahdi Army militiamen on the one hand, and on the other hand have the leaders of the Sadr Movement sitting in parliament and in the cabinet?"
ENTER: Soon to be "weeded out" Iraqi Cabinet...While much has been said with regard for Iraqi peoples' government ...Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki plans to reshuffle his coalition cabinet just 100 days after it was formed, because he wants to root out disloyal or poorly performing ministers and rally factions behind his national reconciliation plan... More .
Referendum Map-4.16-Map (above) represents the mix of tribes who voted freely to elect a democratic Government... (Green "Yes" and Red represents "NO" to referendum)... But make no mistake about it, trimming the weeds will further expose a people harmed not by Democracy, but interventions of outside militant groups, who continue to block the path to their security...~~~~~~-According to an article at RFE:
PRAGUE- 8. 26. 06 | Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged the country's tribes to join his national reconciliation plan to stop sectarian strife and terrorism, saying that U.S. forces are unlikely to withdraw until Iraqis are united....

"Yes to unity, yes to Iraq," a few tribal chiefs chanted during the speech. Tribes are a key element of Iraqi society, wielding enormous influence over members. Iraqis -- whether Shi'ite, Sunni, or Kurd -- owe as much allegiance to their tribes as to the religious leaders.~~~~~~Iraq's sectarian violence exploded after the bombing of a Shi'ite mosque in Samarra at the end of February. Sectarian killings and animosity between Shi'ite and Sunni communities are becoming the biggest problems for the Shi'ite-dominated unity government...
-Map below: Hard-hit areas (and communities) of Sectarian Conflict:SUNNI, SHI'A: Iraq is riven along sectarian lines, faults that frequently produce violent clashes and are a constant source of tension. Sectarian concerns drive much of Iraqi politics and are the main threat to the country's fragile security environment...RFE (c)

And of that Feb. explosion of violence, Iraq has rotated from insurgence to gain control over much of the nearby Diyala Governorate... To the formation of an Islamic caliphate in areas extending from Al-Ramadi to western districts of the capital (as was declaired by such militant groups as the Mujahedin Shura Council)...To Shi'ite infighting, corrupt police and security forces, and armed gangs aimed to destabilize the governorate in Al-Basrah...~~~~~~As insurgents continue to destroy structures of "first-time" improvements towards the quality of life for Iraqis (including Nasa water-supplies)...Significant and steady progress towards the expulsion of the militias will be made. We must hold the faith, along with the Iraqi People...
-Others News stories today, in Iraq:
The Strata-Sphere Iraqis Purging The MilitiasCaptain Ed: Iraqi PM: Iraq Will Never Have Civil War~~~~~~-Catch Basil at the WAR radio... Back At WAR for details...

TV NEWS: Stepping-up the Centrifuge

-Click-Image-View-M.East -TV--Catch the TV News of Iran’s current nuclear stats, site re-location, and secret company (in the North East of the capital of Tehran) which aids Iran's "stepped-up" P2 centrifuge manufacturization.
Iran's latest disturbing declaration:6 . 26 . 06 | In an effort to prevent a decision by the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against the regime, the First Deputy-Speaker of the regime’s Majlis (Parliament) Mohammad-Reza Bahonar reiterated yesterday that if pressure is put on the regime to adhere to the demands of the international community and suspend uranium enrichment then it is possible that “our nation asks the government to make nuclear weapons.” The state-run news agency ILNA reported his comments...
-Not only do 'tens of millions' of the world community (Germany, France, England, etc.) question the stability of a country who is (undoubtedly) willing to sacrifice its people, for a fully de-regulated nuclear program... Millions of Iranian citizens are questioning how they can prevent a cataclysmic event, of which they may be elected as this sacrifice...-View-Latest-coverage
(Click Image Above)-Others posting on this:
-Debbie at inthebullpen:
Iran’s new phase in the
Arak heavy-water reactor
(Originally posted at
Right Truth)
-DJ Drummond at Wizbang:
This Week in Iran
Oursidethebeltway:
Iran Opens Uranium Enrichment Plant
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You Know: In 1/10th of A Second...

An interesting new study indicates that people evaluate trustworthiness within one tenth of a second! So, you can see why the World is in so much trouble...-Most do not trust their own judgment...**** Great 3 min.Song! ****
(Except about the CIA)
Worth the wait!
IF the World would see with heightened sense of perception... (as does a cat)...Butterscotch-06We would see beyond the limited interests of agenda, view behind the scenes of media coverage... To view exactly what is really going on...And help others in 1/10th of a second beyond our own consequence...
...Beyond our own limited needs...

And WAKE-UP!!
Raphael's-Exercise the depth of the consciousness, and see the ability to go beyond the odds to make a difference...A simple concept, but a more complicated delivery...

"Do one simple conveyance of trust in sight, today."...M.B.
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Water: A Call for Innovative Technologies

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(Nasa; Nambia Desert 'ecological preserve')
As we observed World Water Week (ending today) there were many new ideas, exchanges, and challenges which reflect and impact our growing and shifting "shared" Earth...
-Additionally...
President of the non-governmental World Water Council, Loic Fauchon, spoke to a gathering at the international summit on global water supplies... And explained, "We must stop attempting to solve the problem of water supply on the basis of macro-economic theories, abstract mathematical models, or inhuman restructuring plans," he said, calling for policies based on "feeling and solidarity."

-According to a Forbes article, the rise of the price of bottled water is at an unequal access to the economic ability of those whose water is not fit for consumption... German Martinez, director of the water system in Mexico City, went on to say... "What we really have to do is get people
to pay for their water," Read full story... (*'_'*)Wikipedia Photographer (c)-I believe that ...
"With Earth experiencing consumable water shortages, water quality degradation, and destruction of aquatic ecology, and the entry into an anticipated growth of 2-3 billion by half of a century into the 2000’s.... Scientists may continue to alert the global community of the down-spiral of water availability, however, the urgent need is not only for a "required management" and development of a " radical transformation ", but the URGENT call for innovative technologies!... M.B.

Radical Transformation:
A study of the increasing polar caps in regions of the surrounding Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains (Himalayas) and the diminishing water source of the East, will help scientists predict, and address better long-term control of water for irrigation and power supplies needed to supply the population’s needs via the building of Dams ... ~~~~~~-Meanwhile…The water tables continue to shift… Of what were once deep channels, have now become steep ravines and empty tributaries... Leaving diminishing water sources, an eminent global reality...
Click-image-View-Animation
-In all corners of the globe, every species of wildlife, are effected ...In the UK alone, the average rainfall has dropped by almost 30 percent since 2004....

Before Religious Militant take-over of water rights becomes a reality (pushing millions away from survival)... We must utilize and share technologies with those less fortunate, in order that we might develop substantial science to advert this problem...

-Visit the UK site, and keep these issues in your conscious awareness... (More later)...
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Religious Clarity and the Militant Strain

-Michael: Coming to Angel Gabriel's aid-Many questions and answers from a world blend of religious diversity... Regarding assassins who kidnap and kill under the name of Islam... The entire multi-cultural world is seeking confirmation that these groups of small international guerilla warfare have been disassociated, disciplined, and discredited by the true and peaceful followers of Islam...

"Holy Jihad Kidnappings by the
Holy Jihad Militants ???" [Al Aqsa Brigades-AP:Nasser Ishtayeh]
-The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (A.k.a: Palestinian nationalists) pictured above, as they attend a funeral for one of their leaders...(Years prior)
To deny these guerillas a voice as 'Messengers of Islam', will take intentionality and public declaration. Not only by the full effort of the majority of Islam, but together with the whole of the International Community. Only then, will we begin to rid the Earth of these Jihad Militants...

Who are the largest mass casualties of the Jihad Militants?Somali PM Accuses Iran of Backing Terrorists(a.k.a: disruption of the last of the stable water sources found in African Countries, with recruitments and weaponry importation...)
-So far, the jihad movement has worked to hit the poorest of the poor, while facilitating the need to Westernize, Europeanize, and occupy the Middle East with humanitarian groups. The Jihad Militant Groups have provided services which include freshly imported troops & weaponry, for insurgence... As soon as :
Somali leaders agree to end rift after crisis talks
-Sun Aug 6, 2006 1:00 PM GMT...
Thousands flee clash between Congo army and rebels...More insurgence is stirred up.... (Just like the tactics in Iraq)

It is of concern that unless these terrorist groups are severed from the true principals of Islam, history may look unkindly upon 'Islamic Militants' as the maker of the largest on-going African genocidal humanitarian crisis, in the World...

Tags:
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz
HRH Prince Turki al Faisal
Take Islam away from militants | Peaceful Islam

Caviar and Classical...

Butterscotch: "Ahhh...Beluga and Bach... To know such Heaven!"
Butterscotch, drifting off to sleep...
(Headphones intact.)
Click to Listen to Meow-zart
(Symphony no. 40 in G Minor,
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India: A Celebration and Awakening

Today (August 15th, 2006), India celebrates her
60th Independence Day. Wishing all those in India...
A "Happy Independence Day." -This Quote :
"A moment comes but rarely in history, when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to India and her People and to the still larger cause of humanity."
-D.A.com
-President of India: Direction: "National Awakening". -This is also the birth celebration of Krishna, which falls on the same day... Lord Krishna and his philosophy as euniciated in the Gita is indeed one of the greatest treasures of India...
Click-Image-Video-of Martin Luther King...
(As was also inspired by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi)(Listen to the song at the very end!)
From the Parade:

-Music of Avatar Studios: Bhajhu Re Mana Sky News: Children dress up as Lord Krishna
for the Janmashtami celebrations in Agartala -Listen to more music here.

Including my studies in college along with Law, I studied Philosophy and Religion. The awakenings were some of the most beautiful and Peaceful journeys, which have enabled me to experience many valuable lessons with many wonderful people...Not only in countries visited, but in all areas of my life...
-Including the Story of La Donna...~~~~~~
Indian PM Singh's comments, urging Pakistan to fulfill terror pledge, were made in his customary address to the nation on the anniversary of India's independence from British rule in 1947, being marked this year amid unprecedented security due to heightened fears of violence.

PM Singh's sincere plea (above) came a day after Pakistan celebrated the anniversary of its own independence 59 years ago when the Islamic nation was born after the partition of India...

India, which happily became Republic on the 26th Jan, 1950, also became a sovereign democratic republic with a written constitution and an elected parliament...

Ecclesiastical Censure to End Islamofacism

The Self is the sun shining in the sky,
The wind blowing in space; he is the fire
At the altar and in the home the guest;
He dwells in human beings, in gods, in truth,
And in the vast firmament; he is the fish
Born in water, the plant growing in earth,
The river flowing down the mountain.
For this Self is supreme!(Katha Upanishad II.2.2)
"As long as humanity lives in a World where defense is a struggle for Peace, it will also be a reason for Islamofascist’s to substantiate attack...Therefore, I am asking ALL Peaceful leaders of Islam, to use ecclesiastical censure, to exit the programmers of a misguided and hatefully indiscriminate, jihadist's Islam... (One-by-one)- via- Islamic courts"... M.B.

We ALL struggle for Peace from unwanted attacks, where Radical 7th century views, are substantiated by Radical 13th century actions; and innocent 21st century victims could be anyone who wishes to thwart this dynamic...Just as man seeks to find within himself...we are fighting a battle of which the answer is found within itself...

A most propound article: Arab Majority May Not Stay Forever Silent-Youssef Ibrahim- who speaks against the militant Islamo-fascists, as he aligns with denouncements by presidents, emirs, and kings at the highest level of government in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Morocco, and at the Arab League's meeting of 22 foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday...who stand for the Peaceful principals of Islam... But this denounce was even louder from pundits and ordinary people...~~~~~~
Take the Islam out of the Fascists!And this Radicalization will surely end...-And so, the mullah's murder-groups and their sponsors continue to proclaim Islamic values, by order of the Prophet Allah (pbuh) to forward their cults as they continue to kill innocents, on every continent...

Just as religious identities have evolved the World over, they did so by their ability to invoke changes which enabled their Religions to hold a better understanding of Peace throughout civilization... Sometimes these changes were brought forth by the excommunications of those who used HATE to relay a Religious message...But, in order to gain Peaceful distinctions, these and ALL "excommunications" have to be implemented within the religion itself...

-Believe it...The exit of Islamofacism, will be supported by the
Entire Relevant, International Community...
Tags:
End Radical Islam | Peaceful Islam-Linked at: Basil's Blog

VIDEOS: Curiosities of Sunken Atlantis

The Lost City of Atlantis...
-Possible sites of which this sunken island are said to have been found: Azores, the Canaries, Iceland, Crete, Tunisia, Sweden, the coast of Western Africa, the Sahara, etc...
View: FalconHorus Great Sci-Fi Video-Edit!-VIDEO: Click-image (below) - "Through the Looking Glass."
Image: at Lekhapoddar's Palace-Man's curiosities have brought forth many claims, disproves, and new discoveries; ranging from floods, quakes, and various earth changes...
-"Plato wrote of an island of five stades (925m) diameter that was surrounded by several circular structures - concentric rings - some consisting of Earth and the others of water. We have in the photos concentric rings just as Plato described," Dr Kuehne said. Source: Werner Wickboldt-View larger image of Photo below: here
-Of all discoveries, my choice: Marc-André Gutscher (Plouzané, France) and his detailed mapping of the seafloor on Spartel Island ... (as stated by Plato.)
Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar)
-Or another theory and location:
Click-image-(above) Sarmast's Flood-Animation- -Found: Robert Sarmast's Lost City of AtlantisLifescience disputes Sarmast's find...-Yet Another Theory... After the earthquake in 373 BC:
Found: Helike; off the coast of Greece -Interesting Duke Study:
Scientists Discover Secrets of 'Lost City'~~~~~~
-Click-Book-To View Video snippet--This highly recommended book by Cambridge educated Archeologist, David Gibbins...is a well written and exciting scientific account (under the guises of fiction-and- reality) Purchase book here, too.
-And last, for those who love a little "conspiracy"... (^__^)
(My thoughts below)
-Video: "Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings"
The New Atlantis-In the history of man, it would be difficult to search the world for a developed civilization that has not been concoured or transformed, as a result of another man's vision of a better way... This is life...
Therefore; I hold a limited value in "secrets" of lost societies, or conspiracies of lost societies... Not only because 'what is told can no longer be a secret'... It is because we all come from a related soul, and the test of time (like it or not)...is Change...
-Post dedicated to: My friend Phil...

Mother Nature vs. the Warriors

Many of the war-aspects are emerging in our time-lines from the 200-300's BC... Particularly the Cyrus and of Alexander the Great's conquest which overthrew the Achaemenid dynasty two centuries after the death of Cyrus...
"And (of course) in the loop: "Every time the tectonic
plates separate, everything (again) becomes reinvented."
-Interesting are those artifacts from (700 BC to 800 AD) which represent still-life archives of former centuries of highly developed scientific and religious cultures and international trade... Having met with the devastating fate of natural disaster, this period was reduced to relic at the bottom of the sea, more than 1,000 years ago...
-As man today, reconstructs and recaptures, and reinvents the past from relics, religions, and rubble... His limited powers are what remain on this Earth. Wars for the sake of the continuum of religious ideology, discount the curiosity of future mankind who will always prioitize the search, for that which is hidden...M.B.
-IMAGE: Photographer Kenneth Garrett
(Egyptian Museum, Cairo-98)Caption: "For kings, supervising preparations for their death was every bit as important as ruling the country day to day. They believed their bodies needed to be preserved for travel into the afterlife, where they would be reunited with their fellow gods."
-National Geographic is featuring an article about the several major natural disasters which had sent parts of three Egyptian cities under the sea off the coast of the modern-day port city of Alexandria, 1,300 years ago... -VIDEO -click image--These Great finds of over 500 artifacts found beneath the sea, are now on exhibit at the Martin Gropius Bau museum...in Berlin.
Surfaced by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio and Gereon Sievernich~~~~~~-One may question:
So these are the truths, myths, and legends, and archives (above) by which the legendary Greek hero Heracles, with Helen and Paris, Alexander the Great and Cleopatra, have remembered? Just as conflicts today seem to stem from the conquests of Cyrus and liberations of European Alexander the Great??
-Click-Larger--No.... I think that there is a greater likelihood that the level of conviction used by the Egyptians, with its methodologies towards preservation of the souls of Mother Earth, serve to prove that man has only the power to create geographical war-loops...and Mother Nature decides the fate of the Warriors on Earth... (AMEN) :)

On travel for awhile…

Update: Flight cancelled...
Not going to be flying off in the sunset...(as was posted here yesterday) Wow.. It almost seems prophetic to have posted this flight image, yesterday!...By now we all know that UK flights are now cancelled...eee
-Post below

Haven't posted in ages... and now will be away on travel. :)
Unfortunately, won't be able to take Butterscotch...(And we all know how they feel about this...)-Click-to-enlarge--And don't forget to visit:
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A Sheep Decree?

Today...On breitbart:
Iranian Doctors Say They Cloned a Sheep Excerpt:-"We learned a lot about cloning during the experiment. It made us more hopeful about further cases," said a member of cloning team at I.R.I. in central Iran...
-The program has won backing from Iran's Shiite Muslim religious leaders, who have issued religious decrees authorizing animal cloning...~~~~~~
On the other hand...Butterscotch (a true persian) gives his verdict on Islam's
approval of ANY embryo cloning, to "create "ANY" life-form...Click-image-VIDEO- View a religious decree, by this group."To create physical life by use of any embryo (and the cloning of any form of life) violates the principals of Islam. This is forbidden by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be unto him) The promotions of Islamo Fascism, and Radical Islamic Principals are now in complete violation to the principals of Islam. -Butterscotch...(So, what's the next step?)
-linked:
-Al- Baqarah 2:216-217...| Basil's Picnic | Jo's cafe
-No, I don't think my photoshop (top of this post) will fly for reuters...
But speaking of Photoshop...
-An interesting post at Outside the beltway:Adnan Hajj’s Secret Identity

VIDEO: Modern View of Ancient Texts

Hidden by Greek monks in the Middle Ages (by a process embedded amongst the parchment of the Archimedes prayerbook) an amazing discovery reveals hidden text of at least seven treatises by Archimedes...
-These treatises: The Equilibrium of Planes, Spiral Lines, The Measurement of the Circle, Sphere and Cylinder, On Floating Bodies, The Method of Mechanical Theorems, and the Stomachion!

As scientists revealed the ancient texts beneath, it was said to be
'just like receiving a fax from the 3rd century BC'... -View imagery at the Scientist's site
Modern Technology Reveals Ancient Science!Click-image-view-VIDEO - Live webcast (Stanford) of 8/4/06!
-Using the latest Scientific techniques with cutting edge physics to view treatises of Archimedes palimpsest...
-View Palimpsest Viewer
SCIENTISTS: Roger Easton, Professor of Imaging Science at The Rochester Institute of Technology, Keith Knox, of the Boeing Corporation, based in Maui, and William A. Christens-Barry of Equipoise Imaging, LLC; who in cooperation, via the use of imaging techniques, made these remarkable discoveries, by the use of a (only copy of its kind) Archimedes palimpsest...

Of the number of techniques applied, confocal microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, however, multispectral imaging was the most successful..
- Process of Imagery techniques
-An excellent Archimedes biography
-A few of the Accomplishments of Archimedes
-Illustrations from Archimedes' Claw- (invention)
-Of the many inventions...there was also warfare made at King Hieron's request, designed to strike the Syracusans dumb with fear...

War Inventions:
Archimedes created catapults to hurl burning balls of fire and grappling cranes to tip over ships. And, additionally, he invented a system of mirrors that reflected and directed the sun at warships causing them to set fire. It appears that Archimedes actually assembled a group of soldiers with polished shields into a large parabola shape and then focused the reflection from their shields onto the rigging of the ships and igniting them.
~~~~~~
Of all of his inventions, I consider the ratio of the volume of the cylinder to that of the sphere-- to be Archimedes’s greatest achievement.

Archimedean property:

Theorem 2.4.6: Properties of R and Q
The set of real numbers satisfies the Archimedean Property:
Let a and b be positive real numbers. Then there is a natural number n such that n * a > b
The set of rational numbers satisfies the following Density Property:
Let c < d be real numbers. Then there is a rational number q with c < q < d.

Earth Impact: Examining Sumatra quake

-U.S. scientists say they've determined Earth's gravity
changed as a result of the giant 2004 Sumatran earthquake.
We know the enormity of the Sumatra Quake, but now, according to a report by the UPI... Scientists are making more discoveries as to the true scale of earth impact. Observed by 'first time use of NASA satellite detection', Scientists have recorded these remarkable changes in the Earth's surface, caused by the 9.1-magnitude December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in the Indian Ocean; and examine how they have effected increase melting of polar caps.
-Click-image-view- NASA: Animation-
Graced Science Data System-06
(May take awhile to view animation)-Larger View of still example: -here.
Movie: Gravity Field Variations Observed by Grace
The above animation depicts variations in the Earth's gravity field observed by GRACE over the period 2002-2005. The variations are expressed as the amount of water in each location at the Earth's surface required to create the gravity change GRACE observe, because the main source of these variations is redistribution of water due to land surface hydrological processes like precipitation and river runoff, polar ice mass changes, and oceanography.
-Interesting Study: HT: NewsTrack - Science
-COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 3 (UPI)

-Research Scientist at Ohio State University, Shin-Chan Han explains that the event followed the slipping of two continental plates under the seafloor that raised ocean bed in the region by several feet for thousands of square miles.
Read full story...
NASA: Click-image-view-Larger-
Graced Science Data System-06 -GRACE Measurements Show Mass Loss in Greenland
This figure shows the ice mass loss in Greenland as observed by GRACE over the period 2002-2005 measured in cubic kilometers per year. The ice mass loss observed by GRACE contributes about 0.4 mm/yr to global sea level rise. GRACE is continuing to observe Greenland and other polar ice caps to better understand this phenomena.~~~~~~

Phoenix out of the Ashes

Peace remains the greatest gift given to the future generations of Mankind, as it is proof in the artifacts of culture, with which man tracks the progress of both his neighbor's philosophies... and that of his own.

More than any time on this Earth (in this age of the escalation of weaponry capabilities) the steps of mankind are at risk of being ...forever lost...

Again we see Palestine and Israel (BOTH of whose populations have inherited same-conflict war) have spent their life-times engaged in this same-conflict war... BOTH identify with what they believe Peace would look like...however, how can they possibly know how to achieve it.
The Art of Salvador Dali and current climate of 2006
The Emergence of the "Friendly” Phoenix
I site an example of one of the most endangered bird species in the world, and the discovery of what has clearly been mapped as the key to their survival. Incidentally: Six years ago, this species held only a few survivors; but now have grown to an estimated 170 birds... I call them "Troth" birds (after the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics)...more commonly known as "the Northern Bald Ibises"; or to Egyptians: "the Crested Ibis"...
- "Bird of the Pharaohs" Stages Comeback

click-to-enlargeThe ancient Egyptians believed the human soul turned into this "Geronticus Eremita" bird, when departing for the afterlife. Mummified remains and hieroglyphics, found inside tombs , have left Archeological evidence, which indicates that the Ibises were kept domestically. This is also experienced in their friendly nature, today.
-The Ibises species continue to place greater hope in Peace, as they continue to live fearlessly amongst the community of man...
-They live in Peace, that Man will "GIVE" Peace in reciprocation...
This is their instinct, and remains their only law of survival...
They are the givers of Peace, but experts believe that the Ibises' habit to live near to, trust, and give unconditional peace to humans, was the main cause of the bird's downfall...They say this made it "vulnerable to hunting, habitat loss, human disturbance, and pesticide poisoning"... I say, that the downfall of man has been his inability to "give peace". Wars recycle, and much of man's survival has been less than Peaceful..

I am saddened that the Palestinian/Israeli conflict has found its way to deepen, as groups of every culture have now become the eyes for the blind, and sad too, for every weakened ability for mankind to measure his steps on this little Earth…
While this conflict moves to a larger region (be it may, the thousand reasons to keep the suffering in place) a wider global confrontation will do little but broaden the casualties...though will still leave the solution as "one between two sets of people"...

But without it sounding like some sort of cliché,
The answer is in the Ibis... :)
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Rare Middle East bald ibis tagged
"Many the stars I passed in my journey,
many the races of men on their worlds;
some reaching high as stars of the morning,
some falling low in the blackness of night."
Note: Literal translation and interpretation of one of the most
ancient and secret of the great works of ancient wisdom."-Adapted from the Doreal translation of the Tablet VI of Troth...

-There are heritage issues, which must be protected. The realization of this, is man's salvation. Support Societies of whose mission is to protect artifacts:
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