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"Lost in the noise and fury over the Greens' rude interruption of President George Bush's address to the Australian Parliament was a New York Times article which cast the incident in a starkly different light to the debate here about bad manners.
"David E.Sanger, the NYT correspondent who had travelled with Bush on his six-day journey through Asia, reported how the 'fearsome security bubble' that cocoons the President from reality wherever he travels was pierced just briefly during his trip.
"The first time, the article said, was when Bush met Islamic leaders in Bali and was totally surprised to be told that they believed the US was pursuing a deliberate anti-Muslim foreign policy. The second was when the Greens interrupted his speech in Parliament and confronted him with the 'uncomfortable reality' that Bush's approach to the world 'is deeply unpopular among Australians'.
"Sanger reported that even some of Bush's top aides conceded that the President had only begun to discover the gap between the picture of a benign superpower that he sees and the 'far more calculating, self-interested, anti-Muslim America the world perceives as he speeds by behind dark windows' ..."
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"Lost in the noise and fury over the Greens' rude interruption of President George Bush's address to the Australian Parliament was a New York Times article which cast the incident in a starkly different light to the debate here about bad manners."David E.Sanger, the NYT correspondent who had travelled with Bush on his six-day journey through Asia, reported how the 'fearsome security bubble' that cocoons the President from reality wherever he travels was pierced just briefly during his trip.
"The first time, the article said, was when Bush met Islamic leaders in Bali and was totally surprised to be told that they believed the US was pursuing a deliberate anti-Muslim foreign policy. The second was when the Greens interrupted his speech in Parliament and confronted him with the 'uncomfortable reality' that Bush's approach to the world 'is deeply unpopular among Australians'.
"Sanger reported that even some of Bush's top aides conceded that the President had only begun to discover the gap between the picture of a benign superpower that he sees and the 'far more calculating, self-interested, anti-Muslim America the world perceives as he speeds by behind dark windows' ..."
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Cheney's hawks 'hijacking policy'
The Hubble Telescope has taken a picture of an astronomical wonder known as "
Among the many great feats of the 
An American custom? Many Australians think it is. 
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - "A shockwave from the Sun hit the Earth on Wednesday, the final burst from a solar hurricane that has hampered some space satellite transmissions and led electric grid operators to curb power transmissions as a precaution. 
Only on October 30, 1945 did Australian relatives of victims of the Montevideo Maru disaster of July 1, 1942, began receiving news of the tragedy from the Australian government – more than three years after their loved ones had been sent to the bottom of the ocean by an American submarine’s torpedoes.
"A staggering US$4 billion in oil revenues and other Iraqi funds earmarked for the reconstruction of the country has disappeared into opaque bank accounts administered by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the US-controlled body that rules Iraq. By the end of the year, if nothing changes in the way this cash is accounted for, that figure will double."
The Rhyne Toll, Chetwode Manor
"Recently I received a response to the Harmonic Concordance audio that began with: "The Harmonic Concordance is probably just what this country needs." That got me thinking about how this event appears to be manifesting in the realm of US politics.
"This is not an abstract reflection. The EU's constitution is being drawn up in a context where the notion of an endless clash of civilisations between the West and Islam has become fashionable. In this context, the demand that the EU constitution should explicitly pay homage to the Christian nature of Europe's heritage is not innocent. Two years ago, the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, told us that Western civilisation is superior to Islam and therefore would triumph over it.
"The 3,000-year-old mummy left Egypt in the 19th century and returned Saturday as a gift from the Michael C. Carlos Museum in the U.S. city of Atlanta. It was unveiled in the Cairo Museum amid an unruly scene of journalists crushing around the corpse. 
Whether you are in the Northern Hemisphere, or the Southern, chances are that you adjusted your clocks recently because of 
The 49 m-tall Statue of ‘
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Some of the now-debunked Michigan Relics – once considered by some influential Mormons as evidence of the church's connection to a Near Eastern culture in ancient America – have a new home. 
An oval-shaped South Pacific island lying near the equator, 
In Egyptian mythology, Hathor is the mother goddess and goddess of love of ancient Egypt. She was worshipped c. 2700 BCE or possibly earlier, to c. 400 CE, in a cult that flourished in Ta-Netjer (‘Land of God’ – modern day Dendera, or Dendara) in Upper Egypt, as well as Thebes and Giza, and her priests included both men and women. 
"MANCHESTER (Reuters) - An artist is building a life-size copy of Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta in a bid to make Britons aware of the conditions in which detainees are being held at the U.S. military base on Cuba.
"It was supposed to honour his resistance to racism in South Africa, but a new statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg has triggered a row over his alleged contempt for black people.
If "heaven is the Lord's," the earth is the inheritance of man, and that consequently any honest traveller has the right to walk as he chooses, all over that globe which is his.
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"WASHINGTON — The United States has no yardstick for measuring progress in the war on terrorism, has not 'yet made truly bold moves' in fighting al-Qaeda and other terror groups, and is in for a 'long, hard slog' in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a memo that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sent to top-ranking Defense officials last week.
"Greens senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle interrupted US President George Bush several times when the world's most powerful political leader addressed a special joint sitting of both houses of federal Parliament in Canberra on Thursday
As stated above, this site is dedicated to the victims of the 
USA: The Great Disappointment. The predicted day that Christ would come again to make the Last Judgment, according to William Miller, a Baptist preacher, respectable farmer and keen amateur student of scripture living in northern New York State, and founder of Seventh Day Adventism.
Environmental Disaster in Palestine
Feast day of St Ursula, and her companions, virgins (nuns) and martyrs (Hairy silphium, Silphium asteriscus, is plant of the day, dedicated to Ursula) 
If you like a bit of 
Dang it all! I missed the 
Associated Press
The charismatic and internationally famous Kelly was the first Green in any parliament in the world and the first German female head of a political party. While working at the 
IN the old days when London Bridge was lined with shops from one end to the other, and salmon swam under the arches, there lived at Swaffham, in Norfolk, a poor pedlar. He'd much ado to make his living, trudging about with his pack at his back and his dog at his heels, and at the close of the day's labour was but too glad to sit down and sleep. Now it fell out that one night he dreamed a dream, and therein he saw the great bridge of London town, and it sounded in his ears that if he went there he should hear joyful news. He made little count of the dream, but on the following night it came back to him, and again on the third night.
"It is not too late to save our skies, your active participation and campaigning with the International Dark-Sky Association can help insure that the nights are restored ..."
How many stars do you see when you step outside at night? Is your sky a blaze of starlight as in the picture at right, or dulled by human-made electric light like the picture at left?
I remember being there upon Horn Fair Day, I was dressed in my landlady's best gown and other women's attire, and to Horn Fair we went, and as we were coming back by water, all the cloaths were spoiled by dirty water, &c., that was flung on us in an inundation, for which I was obliged to present her with two guineas to make atonement for the damage sustained, &c.
The Legend of Herne
"Is Australia your deputy sheriff in the region, 
She gave us the word 'tawdry'
Which brings me right back to addiction, but are we being asked to accept the idea that ‘human nature’ is a kind of addiction too? If so, with the kinds of power we now have over nature, the game is surely up. This would appear to be the state of affairs we are being asked to accept when it comes to genetically modified life.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
A festival going back more than three centuries. Each drum float, or Taiko-dai, decorated with cloth woven with gold and silver tassles, weighs about two tons. It is carried by teams of over 150 men called Kakifu. More than 30 drums and their Kakifu teams parade throughout the town, and competitions are held at three places of the city.
Progress has been slow in efforts to reach the World Food Summit goal of cutting by half the number of the world's chronically hungry and under-nourished people by 2015. This goal will not be met if we continue doing "business as usual".
Says Beliefs Cannot Be Unified With Christianity
With only one dollar, UNICEF can:
"The key policy decisions which led to the unmasking of David Kelly, the Iraqi weapons expert, were taken at a Downing Street meeting chaired by Tony Blair, the top civil servant at the Ministry of Defence disclosed yesterday.
Vinternatsblót, or haustblót, to bid winter welcome. This marks the beginning of Winter season in old European calendar. “Long distance sailing and other Summer activities also stopped on this day, as preparations for the Winter took priority.” 
At midnight on Friday the 13th, a ceremony was held in Great Leighs, Essex, UK, to replace a 2-ton stone in the ground that had been dislodged some days earlier by a bulldozer. The stone was traditionally believed to pin down the evil spirit of ‘the witch of Scrapfaggot Green’, a witch who had been buried with a stake through her heart in the 17th Century. The local village had been beset by extreme poltergeist activity since the stone's dislodgement.
(Born at Islip, England, c.1004, died at Westminster, 1066; canonised 1161.)
Full moon in October or November:
"The next time you hear the Palestinians and their supporters bemoaning how Israel's determination to defend itself against terror has 'crippled' the Palestinian economy, consider a new report from the International Monetary Fund. 
"OSLO, Norway — Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi (.jpg)
Some readers might like to join me in exploring the subject of earth spirit as it's manifested globally in sacred founts, wishing wells and the like.
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"The global arms trade is dangerously unregulated, and allows weapons to reach repressive governments, human rights abusers and criminals, says a new report released today. To address these concerns, three international organisations have joined to launch a global campaign in over 50 countries. The 'Control Arms' campaign aims to reduce arms proliferation and misuse and to convince governments to introduce a binding arms trade treaty.
Lennon: Shot down in his prime at 40, John Lennon died in some sort of intense energy, just as he had lived. We might have expected it. 
"Ashville, Oct. 1 — At the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution here, through a set of double doors next to several vending machines, a gurney stands ready to deliver prisoners to their executions by lethal injection.
Which spouse will be the boss?
The Great Fire of Chicago began in Dekoven St when Mrs O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern.
At least 15 Australian pro-peace parliamentarians have announced their intention to wear black armbands and stand with their backs to George W Bush when the US President addresses a joint parliamentary session at 
"October 7, 2003
"An Australian lawyer working with prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba says he has no doubt Australians David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib have been tortured.
"David Hicks' father, Terry, says he's also heard of torture stories and of his son being put under duress.
The good news is that only three Mensa members achieved full marks, so if you got less than 100% it's no big deal. :)
"Amnesty International's most colorful action in Russia yet: a brightly decorated bus with Swiss registration plates -- an 'envoy' for the world's biggest human rights' organization -- is crossing the border of the Russian Federation for the first time. After a hugely successful visit to 14 Central and Eastern European countries, the bus will stop in: St Petersburg 7 October, Pskov 9 October, Novgorod 11 October, Moscow 13 October. 
The Waving Man
If you had asked me as a 17-year-old whether I would go to sea on a raft, I would have absolutely denied the possibility. At that time, I suffered from fear of the water.
Have you seen our range of 2004 calendars? There really are some beautiful ones in our 
1977 
The music of 
Jejunium Cereris, Fast of Ceres, ancient Rome
Feast day of 
"A reclusive order of Irish nuns has opened itself up to the outside world for the first time by launching a Web site to spread the good news. The Poor Clare nuns, who take vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, say the information superhighway will help them bring comfort to those in need of spiritual guidance. 
(0) 24 H in a D. Answer: 24 hours in a day. 
Annie Besant (October 1, 1847- September 20, 1933), English social reformer, author (The Political Status of Women,1874; Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, And As It Should Be: A Plea For Reform, 1878; The Law Of Population, 1877) and worldwide head of the Theosophy movement.
