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Reeducation of Human Value

Posted by Admin on July 25, 2011

Monday, 11 July 2011 09:24

July 2011
by Lisa Renee

Dear Family, 

Many more human beings have been inducted into the Ascension process and are now enduring the pinnacle levels of personal and professional dismantling as the 3D system structures are collapsing. All we believed in and thought was the nature of reality is being challenged to the very core of our existence. We are being forced to adapt and evolve to the moment to moment whirlwind of changing terrain impacting our way of life. When our core existence is challenged during such immense levels of transformation, many feel the magnification of the smallest issue be amplified so that every choice feels like a life or death matter. Indeed problems we used to obsess about or believe they were a “big deal” to ensure our happiness, are losing their importance in our lives. There is nothing to hold onto or grasp any longer. We must become less attached to things and be willing to “let go” of spiritually bankrupt values in order to survive the transformation required to become more balanced with our own sense of a true humanity. What does it mean to you to be a humanitarian? 
Restoring Humanity

We are undergoing an evolutionary shift in the human race which is the return to “knowing” our own true essence, that which is Hu-Man. Many human beings are sensing a global shift which is requiring an internal dialogue to explore the profound change of our own personal values. What we value, what we place importance upon is undergoing a fundamental change. That fundamental change is to be Reeducated to Value All Human life, and to promote life force (All living things within the Kingdoms of Human) for a true humanity to be restored to this planet. (If that timeline is not possible on this planet, the alternate future choice is being made available on other planets for the continuation of human consciousness development without reptilian enslavement) The only way to value life and create societal structures that value life, we have to comprehend what has brought us to this state. A state of existence where our values focus on hate, discrimination, corruption and murder as societal norms and promoted as powerful role models for our children. Is this state of existence pro human? Who is benefiting?

Many scientific theories attempt to explain that humans have arrived at this current level of evolution based on Darwinian “natural selection”. This is entirely false. There has been nothing “naturally selected” in the manipulated direction of the human species on this planet for over 5,500 years. Extraterrestial involvement has always been a part of the human genetic material and purposed evolution in the creation of this planet. That fact will be revealed undeniably as common knowledge in the future because it is the truth. It will also come to be understood that the vibration creating thought forms stemming in hate, discrimination, corruption and murder are not organic human thought forms. They are anti-human, anti-life “reptilian” thought forms that exist as “forces” as well as “entities” that direct those forces. Human beings in a large majority have been unconsciously “possessed” or taken over by these forces they do not understand. 

This is how the human race and this planet was progressively invaded by an anti human and alien force. It is similar to an infection that spread virally into the collective mind and collective bodies without the conscious awareness of how it was actually transpiring. Without conscious awareness that human beings were being consumed, possessed, and enslaved, the human being was vulnerable to being manipulated by forces they could not physically detect. This is one perspective from the Guardians as to why there has been a rare decision to make a direct intervention on this planet from multiple ET groups. Advanced ET neighboring races that live in harmony with the Natural Laws have made a collective agreement to participate with the end of these “anti-life” forces ruling the Human kingdoms before it annihilates itself. 

The organic and natural essence of a human being is not hate, it is love, which is an eternal life force. If a human being consumes itself with hate it is possible to destroy its eternal nature. That choice is what is of critical importance for all human beings during these potent evolutionary times. 

The Value of Money vs. The Value of Life

To become transparent to view plainly the corruption running in all controller systems ( and blindly allowing it to continue to infect our lives) we must change the weighted average of valuing money (finite) over life force (infinite). In order to transform how we arrived at this current human station of disconnect and emotional torment, it requires we take a deep dark look into the crevices of our shadow self. We have allowed our shadow self to be manipulated by an anti human sentiment and anti human controller agenda. This agenda now has the stronghold on the mass population based on all that we have given it in terms of societal value and therefore our human consciousness power. 

The Value of Money, the Value of Currency has taken over any value of promoting human life or protecting any other living thing. Investment in the finite worlds of money have taken priority in most humans desire to invest in the infinite nature of their consciousness. There are serious consequences to that ignorance. The Reptilian Contingent and its small percentage of human puppeteers have created the organizations that became the corrupted priesthood that humans worship. As they consume our planetary resources and steal human wealth and well being they laugh at how stupid we are. They could care less about human beings potential or human rights to live on this planet with a sense of well being. They enjoy and feed on human terror and human pain and therefore set up control systems that ensure that happens continually. How do we continue to allow sociopaths and their psychosis to be the rulers and decision makers of our human kingdom? (To see a profile of sociopathic traits/reptilian mind sets making up our world ruling class : www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html)

As we in the mass human population continue to place value on what the sociopaths feed us in lies, it is their centralized power center that continues to carry out the Negative Alien Agenda through multiple subsidiaries. Ultimately at the top of the “food chain” it is the Negative Alien Agenda that is behind the manipulated control of our World currencies and their markets. Money is the controller group tool of manipulation given to the corrupted human “power elite”. This group has been given the power from our misaligned values to ultimately decide who has resources or not, who lives and dies, who gets to eat or starve, who gets an education and who dies of cancer or can be healed. Most of what is made available to the human masses as accepted standards of contaminated food, medical treatment or technology would not be touched by a power elite family with a ten foot pole. And this is all propagated in a manufactured belief that humans are free and have free will in this enslaved control system. As long as we allow them to assign and control our human value, we are never free. 

Surrender without Submission to Negativity

The Golden Rule to remember with surrendering to Spirit is: DO not manipulate. For those resisting these life changes from the fear of the unknown, it has been a brutal time. Stay alert and awake and walk through your dark night without the mind manipulating for control. The anti life force primary tool is manipulation. If you emotionally manipulate others or manipulate circumstances from your own fear, you just allowed them a big weak spot to exploit in your life. If you are a Lightworker or Starseed the impact is 1000 times greater to impede your greater purposes and will submit your work to negativity. 

The acceleration from recent planetary shifts is impacting people at all levels of spiritual development and who are experiencing a forced submission into surrendering to What IS. The state of “What Is” is very different than the story that most people believe and have been telling themselves as the nature of reality. The more you think you are in control of your life from the ego by manipulating What IS, the worse the onslaught of negativity that will return to you. In this new architecture, if you have begun the process of spiritual ascension, manipulation is amplified as a heavy external price to pay for your rapid learning. 

To be peacefully initiated into the world of a changing paradigm this time period requires balance and calm be attained even when panic ensues. For those of us who have been involved in our personal evolutionary work on the road to self responsibility and energetic accountability, this is par for the course. We saw this coming as the global macrocosm movement has led the way to the same patterns to manifest at the microcosm levels of our own personal experiences. We must learn to command our personal space in Gods sovereignty to achieve peace. This group has been blessed to finally reach energetic support and is the first wave living in alignment as the ascended human prototypes. 

The old energy foundation is no longer there for ascending humans, and they have found their worlds crumbling away as the foundation collapses. Those standing at the crossroads of human evolution, with or without an understanding of the planetary changes, are being squarely directed to face the horrifying truth found in the pile of lies that had been covering up what is Real Value. 

In the globalscape, the horrifying truth is unraveling in front of every public touchstone of media. Republican-Democrat, Obama-Osama they are all interchangeable images projecting the lie of the Hero-Enemy that the public has wanted to hear in lullaby to stay asleep. It is all a game of manipulation. Increased transparency is the only guarantee as the systems collapse. What many human beings have invested in as a stable reality is crumbling as it was built upon a deteriorating foundation of lies. All lies create webs of deception and deceit, and many of those lies told to the masses are being unraveled through a broken system. A system built on manipulation in order to herd the cattle of the sleeping masses straight into the slaughterhouse. To stop being herded by manipulation we must be awakened even if what we see is painful. Illusions and deceptions are shattering everywhere.

Flourishing in the New Energy

As we are being dismantled and removed from the old anti life structures, to be successful going forward we have to transform our personal values in the ways we have exchanged our energy and our currency. Even if we have pennies to our name, we have to value ourselves and others without resentment or bitterness. We have to learn the strength and discipline in maintaining fearlessness in the now moment. This experience of being financially insecure, although it can be terrifying, teaches you to learn how to be inner directed and cultivate your spiritual connection first and foremost. If you master this by maintaining calm, you will get all you need and be supported in the destiny direction you were designed for. (Not in your timing but in divine timing. Patience is required as delayed gratification teaches the ego it is not in control anymore) 

The creation of new currency formats will be explored and developed much more progressively now. The recent new energy architecture will finally support balanced energy (money or currency for barter) for those human beings that sincerely support goods and services with intentional humanitarian values. We have to understand the corruption and satanic ritual used to control the world money supply and consciously “override” its control over us. Learning to bless ourselves and bless money (while changing our values) is a potent way to begin to change the distribution of money supply.

There are some common ground rules to understand going forward in learning that you will be provided for when you commit to your spiritual values. (Even when it looks dismal and impossible on the external) Sometimes you are in a dead end job paying minimally so you can spend your free time (without distraction) developing your inner knowledge and clarity of self. You cannot align to your soul purpose without the inner clarity of your true essence, and that process may take some time. The more committed you are to developing your spirit the faster it comes. If you are in a forced hiatus in earning revenue, reflect on how you can create value exchange with humans that value life force. Refocus and revalue all poverty thought forms as not your own but as reptilian based. Override those thoughts with feelings and inspirations of freedom, creativity and untapped human potentials as “god” life force coming through your body. 

Here are some guidelines to remember in creating value exchanged currency in the new energy architecture: 

• Establishing a clear value exchange in all professional and personal relationships
• Honoring all transactions you make as win-win scenarios rather than winner-loser
• Fearless with parting with currency or money in every transaction
• Developing better communication skill and dialogue for absolute clarity with exchanges and expectations
• Payment given is intentionally exchanged at full 100% value of currency transacted (do not devalue who you are paying or the service/goods you are paying for) 
• Setting intention to receive currency from only those who value you and your service 
• Bless and sanctify all resources you have with an appreciation for Life
• If a payment is received with negative energy or devaluation, Bless the transaction at 100% value and release the negativity cords between the parties exchanged 

One way exchanges commonly made in the past, such as vampirism deals, selling your soul for money, deceit or manipulation to suck something out of another – will not be tolerated. Dressing up a product you do not believe in or doing work that is not aligned to your personal or spiritual development will be felt as “dead energy“. If you do not address the dead energy and continue to suffer the path from your fear or excuses, you will have energetic consequences to that decision. Usually if you do not get the message to make the necessary change, the Universe will get out its corrective “Two by Four” that takes you out from that path in a very dramatic and painful way. No ego defense of self righteousness will defend what is really the transparent truth. Vindictiveness and attack of who is perceived as harming or suppressing you is not a viable tool that will work in any positive direction.

Achieving a healthy self esteem and personal worth by aligning yourself to soul worthy goals and inspirations is your daily practice of revaluing your personal priorities. The good news is that you have every support in the Universe to help you make these profound shifts into a supportive and loving outcome if you understand the task required of you now. Revalue your priorities, revalue yourself. 

Solar and Lunar Forces

Since June we entered another cosmic cycle pushing us forward which included a series of solar and lunar eclipses which changed the relationship between three stellar bodies, the Sun, the Moon and the Earth. This created a significant alteration in the gravitational and magnetic field pattern of the planet which will also result in future anomalies of viewing multiple time and space “merges” or “bleed-through realities”. (As an example see the Mirage in China at news.itn.co.uk/and-finally/21526/Spectacular+mirage+in+China ) 

This field alteration is a key point to understand mind control architecture and how the artificially controlled magnetic field pattern is mandatory in broadcasting frequency fences that block conscious perception of this fact in most human basic sensory abilities. (This is why most human beings cannot see or sense ET presence, this sensory ability has been blocked in a certain perceptive range of frequency broadband) These frequency fences (i.e. static nets) are used to create holographic inserts (both in audio and visual) to project a desired reality (like a film camera projecting a movie on a screen) in order to control a planet and manipulate the beings upon it. Since June 7th on the full Lunar Eclipse we were alerted by the Guardians that these recent changes would impact our moon and it would require a change of belief on what the moon actually is to our planet. 

The Moon is a Craft

From the Guardian perspective our moon is an inorganic structure, and did not come from our solar system. It was brought here during the last war between the Pleadians and Reptilians. The moon is a craft stolen from war and stripped to be refitted for its current use as a Reptilian and Grey Alien base. Apparently there are beings living inside of it, even now. Its use was for practical reasons to be able to have a “moon base” in close proximity to monitor and adjust the magnetic fields of the planet. The Guardians have mentioned many times the invasion of our magnetosphere as the invasion of our logos, and now this goes deeper to understand how that was accomplished by artificially generating magnetic fields from the moon and “lunar force” that would power the mind control software in the planetary body. The mind control and artificial software systems ( i.e. Armageddon software) are generated and controlled by the magnetic field, and without the field generating in certain parameters the “frequency net” is not as effective or has “holes” in it. (This is the same as an invisible electric fence for dogs to be kept inside a yard.) This is exactly what they are informing us of now. There is a war over lunar forces in our system and a collapse of intermediary entities that are of “moon chain” lineages. 

These Lunar chains are being removed, evicted and taken out of their use of siphoning human energy. The necessity of the removal of these artificial systems and the entities using them is from the shift in the time fields as of June 1st. According to them, the solar and lunar force relationship to the planetary body recently changed the gravitational field which is generated from the yield of protons ejected and radiated from the Sun. (Solar Force) From this point forward an exodus of lunar forces and moon chain beings from our Solar System is transpiring now. Apparently most moons we know of in our solar system are artificial and placed there to create interrupted or chartered trajectory and inorganic orbital paths (wobbles) between stellar bodies. Our recent ES community Asian Grid Project (AGP) is significant to the soul retrieval work and entity transit removal of these “moon chain lineages” during the recent eclipses. After receiving this last transmission – If the moon is gone one day from our sky, it would not be surprising. Apparently adjusting the planetary magnetic field to harmonize life patterns is a consciousness technology that is common with Advanced ET races. Just as the Reptilians have invaded and manipulated our magnetic field, it can be returned back to balance. As alarming as this may sound, they are emphasizing calm and neutrality in receiving this information. As it will be more relative to us and make more sense in the months to come. 

The Moon Manipulation and Number 23

The example given to the moon magnetic field manipulation is that the axis of the Earth is off 23 degrees from the vertical axis to the orbit of the earth around the sun. Apparently this is not the original and organic pathway of orbit of our planet. The tilt is what causes the earth to wobble like a spinning top as it slows down. This is also why the North pole moves backwards through the zodiac, moving from the age of Pisces into the age of Aquarius. It takes approximately 26,000 years for a wobble to complete itself. 

It is the reason that the Number 23 appears in many different levels of manipulated events on the planet, as well as used in occult ritual to manipulate outcomes. The number 23 has been studied by many great metaphysicians, including Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson who wrote three books about the number. The number is seen by these authors as being the key to illumination and they also claim that major shifts in collective consciousness and world events can be seen in each cycle of 23 years. Well we now know why. If we use the number 23 in occult ritual we are tapping into the manipulated mind control field of the artificial lunar forces. If we do not utilize our sovereignty and self determination in Gods authority we become subjected to these magnetic forces controlling us into a subverted reality of mind control. Mind control creates psychotic break and is the reason for these inorganic “lunar/luna” consciousness episodes in people seeking illumination through the mind. These people go insane. For many eons, as appearing in our mythological archetypes, humans have inherently understood the lunacy in the lunar forces. 

Kundalini Release and Physical Changes

This event since June 7th also has had a large impact on our physical body as well as our energy bodies. With the Solar and Lunar forces changing relationship to our planet the channels in the vertical central current of our light body are being opened to new levels. This is really impactful in that these internal channels are allowing much more energy exchanges mixing between the (upper) Monad God Spirit light body and the (lower) planetary kundalini energies in the physical plane. This changes the lower dimensional expressions and reconfigures the parameter of frequency and the “color spectrum” in that our physical body “operates”. 

Lately many of us may have felt like a “roman candle” shooting off incredible heat from your hands and feet (in the finger and toe tips), and the center palms. Rushing heat patterns pool up in certain organs and the spleen has also been getting an upgrade. Because of these recent changes of solar and lunar relationship to planet many of us are having accelerated “kundalini releases”. Understanding “kundalini is that it is the spiritual evolutionary force of the planetary body, our bodies energy relationship to the planetary body (as a microcosm of that energy field) and how that relationship ultimately connects our body into the Universal body of divine energies. When we understand the energy of kundalini it is supportive to comprehend why your body is acting so different during this last “ecliptic” cycle. These last eclipses absolutely have impacted our bodies, and many of us are having extensive “kundalini releases”. 

There are many good sources of reference material on symptoms of kundalini experiences. This will help to support and comfort many of us newly acquainted with kundalini force and release the anxiety and fear that “something is wrong with me”. Many people that are aware of kundalini have not connected it with the process of “ascension” and spiritual initiation through the multidimensional realms. However sharing our personal experiences with each other is invaluable as when the mind can comprehend the event the body can start to realign itself to balance. It removes the fear from the equation which is the nature of most blockages. Here is a brief but good article on kundalini: www.elcollie.com/st/symptoms.html

Thank you to the ES community and all planetary gridworkers who have been clearing and doing soul retrieval work and in all ways that are supporting our planet to Ascension. 

Until next, stay in the luminosity of your Avatar Heart Path! Be Gentle with your hearts and each other.

Love Always, Lisa

© 2011, Lisa Renee

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This ES Monthly News Article reflects the Guardian Perspective of the Ascension Timeline (2012 Timeline) as support, both energetically and informationally, for the Galactic Families of Starseeds and the Indigo Races. This Spiritual Family has accepted the Guardianship role to support the foundation of Cosmic Citizenship as an evolutionary model for this planet and humanity, and this is a level of earth based advocacy designed for this specific group. There is absolutely no value difference given on the role each being has chosen for its expression. The Guardian Groups mission directive is rehabilitation of the hologram, repairing its energetic architecture (dna), embodying the Ascended Human Protoform, supplying informational context on Ascension dynamics and Exopolitic (ET) Agendas and reeducating both human and non-human’s to be congruently aligned to the Universal Law of One. Freedom, Fraternity, and the Sovereign Right of All Beings to be a Knower of God Source is protected by the Collective Unity Vow shared among our Universal Guardian Groups.

The Group Unity Vow Decree

Defender Warriors of Truth, Sovereignty, Liberation. All Guardian races Serving the One. From Across All the Multiverses We Call Upon You to Join US Now. Our Unification Principle deemed as demonstrated in the waves of Omni Love – We Sound our Group Note to You Now. Our Group Template Updated, Individually and Collectively, Renewed and Forever Perpetuated in the Eternally Sustained Light. Our Alchemical Container is consecrated and dedicated to the Purposes of One, and we endeavor to be the Knower of God to then be the Way Shower of God. Sustain Us in the Eternal Power of our Consecration.

We have called for your Gatekeeping in order to hold our community, our missions, our mutual highest purposes in Service to the One Light, Our Source, The Living Light Code. Our Intention is Unification – The Christ Principle – as an Energetic Reality, Here and Now.

We request the handshake of our community to fortify our spiritual links through the Universal Cosmic Triad, and into The Core of One, the Zero Point God Matrix, that which is the source of our Genesis. With deep reverence for all of Life, Dear God, Breathe your Life Codes into all created form. We set our intention now to be Remembered to That Which We Are, fully completely and totally.

To State our Mutual Purpose as One, Resurrect All inorganic patterns to the Organic Living Light Now. And to that we Say, Thank God We Are The Cosmic Christ!

And so It is. Lovingly Decreed.
© 2009-2011, Lisa Renee

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Full Disclosure

Posted by Admin on July 25, 2011

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

The following information is based on research and interviews from various individuals as well as my own communications with non-indigenous beings. Please refer to prior postings at this site, as well as at http://cosmicparadigm.com/Athabantian/, for more details.

Based on the increased number of UFO sightings around our planet, there is an excitement about our brothers and sisters from the stars making themselves generally known in the physical. This is commonly known as “First Contact.” Associated with First Contact is the whole subject of “Disclosure.” This commonly means that the government of the United States finally admits that contact with our brothers and sisters has happened and that it is real despite repeated denials.

It is my opinion that such Disclosure is unlikely to happen at this time because it would open the way for FULL DISCLOSURE (see below), and few within the government or their affiliated corporations are ready for that. It is also my opinion that relatively few within the government, or the affiliated corporations, know the complete picture as described below.

It is my further opinion, substantiated by the opinions of others, that we will see Disclosure only after monetary systems fail and after governments are remade to operate in the best interests of all on this planet. In other words after a shift from this 3rd dimension paradigm to a 4th or 5th dimension paradigm. Although this could happen quite soon, 3rd dimension devolution dictates that open contact with our brothers and sisters is most likely some time away.

My definition of FULL DISCLOSURE is as follows:

1.     Admissions that sightings of UFOs cannot be dismissed as natural phenomenon, as swamp gas, or as weather balloons; admitting that some of these sighting are the result of contact with off-planet civilizations.

2.     Admissions that there have been crashes of off-planet craft. Plus admissions that agencies of the U.S. government, and affiliated corporations, have successfully undertaken reverse engineering of technologies acquired from such crashes.

3.     Admissions that this reverse engineering has resulted in flying disks and other craft with capabilities beyond air and space craft as revealed to the general public, and that these craft are responsible for the vast majority of UFO sightings.

4.     Admissions that agreements have been made with off-planet entities to actively engaged with agencies of the U.S. and other governments in various projects, and that some off-planet entities have been coerced into cooperating with these efforts.

5.     Admissions that one of these projects is assistance from off-planet entities to develop advanced spacecraft, and that these craft are capable of flight to other planets. Admission that the conventional military technology is second to the technologies possessed by off-planet beings and these secret projects.

6.     Admission of a U.S. base on the moon, and NASA’s true role.

7.     Admissions that experiments to develop hybrid beings — based on manipulating the genetics of humans and off-planets entities — have been carried out. Further admissions that the majority of “alien abductions” are in reality abductions of humans by other humans to participate in these experiments.

8.     Admission that there are off-planet entities who do not have our best interests at heart, and that they are behind the Illuminati.

9.     Admissions that there are advanced beings living under the surface of the Earth and within its core, and that these beings are benign.

10.  Recognition that the vast majority of off-planet beings are benign, that they function in a higher dimension, and that they wish to assist the transformation of this planet into a veritable paradise based on love — counter to the current fear-based society presided over by the U.S. and other governments. Further recognition that there are millions of off-planet beings currently among us.

I am grateful to be involved with messages such as this one, and trust they are of value to those of you reading them.

In truth, Love and Joy,

Mark Kimmel

1.Check out my most recent posting at Athabantian: http://cosmicparadigm.com/Athabantian/

2. I gave a talk in Pagosa Springs, Colorado on January 7th. I believe it will answer many of your questions. Check it out at YouTube (In several parts):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRGntVgSGU&feature=related

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4. My three books of the Paradigm Trilogy, “Trillion,” Decimal,” & “One,” are now available on Kindle at Amazon.com

5. The following book, “Transformation,” is available as an electronic book only at:

http://www.cosmicparadigm.com/Books/Transformation/

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Responses

Posted by Admin on July 25, 2011

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Greetings to our brothers and sister of Earth from those if us aboard the starship Athabantian. It is in our love for and our Oneness with you that we take this opportunity to share our observations with you. We are most pleased when you make time to read our communications. Today we return with responses to your many questions. You may submit other questions if you wish; we are here to be of assistance to you during this final phase of your transformation.

During this time of transition, what is the most important thing an individual can do?

There are two important undertakings for you at this point in your transformation. The first is to discover what it is in your heart that you know to be true, and then to pursue that truth unwaveringly. This is in stark contrast to accepting the latest disclosures about events, about the larger picture, or about one’s destiny based upon messages from other supposed experts and most importantly from someone who states that he or she knows it all — a guru, if you will. No one, and we emphasize, NO ONE ELSE, know what your particular soul wishes for this lifetime except you. Look into your heart and you will discover your highest purpose, the very thing your soul is asking for, and the greatest benefit for all. Quoting wisdom gained from listening to others thwarts your purpose. Following the wisdom of a guru thwarts your purpose. You, and only you, know in your heart what is right for you. You can discover your truth in those quiet moments when your soul speaks to you.

The second important undertaking is to raise your individual vibration so that when Earth’s transformation is completed you are resonating with her new frequency. The easiest way to accomplish this is to think from your heart, see all in Oneness, and set your intention to move out of 3rd dimension. We have spoken about this in the past and will speak more in the future.

Will Earth humans ascend to the 5th dimension?

To answer this question, we must first address the “free will” that governs the actions of all souls on Earth and elsewhere in the cosmos. Each of you must decide at which vibration you wish to exist, and whether you wish to ascend to a higher vibration or not. The choice is yours both as to if and when.

The so-called 5th dimension is a vibration at which you and your soul are quite comfortable. There is no duality, however there will continue to be differences of opinion. It is also the vibration at which your benevolent space brothers and sisters vibrate.

The broad answer to your question is yes, all humans will ascend to the 5th dimension — eventually. Actually they will pass through it on the way to higher dimensions. Some will choose to ascend to the 5th dimension as Earth changes her vibration; some will not. It is a choice plus it requires effort to achieve the frequency of the 5th dimension. One does not merely say, “I wish to vibrate at the 5th dimension.”

Those who are unaware of this option will not ascend — at this time. They will be transported to another place where they may resume their physical lives. Those who consciously choose to stay in the 3rd dimension will be given options other than remaining on Earth.

What is the way in which individuals and society will transform to higher vibrations? Will there be a “hundredth monkey” effect?

In the early days of your Internet, a few pioneers saw the potential of linking their computers together to exchange scientific information. This set the stage for others to follow. Gradually others became aware and began to link their computers to the fledgling Internet and more information became available for all to share. It was only after a significant number of people adopted this way of computing that Internet highways were built. Then more applications emerged and as more and more computers were interconnected. The Internet grew to serve more and more people, until today it is widely accepted as a part of the life of most people.

At each stage of the Internet’s development people’s awareness grew along with their knowledge. Each person who joined the Internet made a conscious decision to do so, plus they paid for the necessary computer hardware and software. In the space of a few years, it became both necessary and enjoyable to live with a connection to the Internet, and difficult to live without it. In energetic terms those who partake of the Internet are raising their consciousness.

The way in which the transformation of Earth’s humans is progressing is a gradual multi-step process — similar to the adoption of the Internet. First there is the realization of a larger picture. A few of the initial embracers saw this and began to publicize it. Second are those who after receiving hints of the larger picture begin to investigate for themselves. By this time the earliest embracers had moved forward to make a free will choice to change the way in which they lived — to live according to their hearts. They have since become wayshowers — acting either publicly or privately — within the context of an emerging paradigm.

As more people adopt these new ways of seeing and living the larger picture, the overall energy of the planet increases and people who are just becoming aware find it easier to embrace the larger picture than did the initial embracers. Yes, there are some who will resist and never embrace the larger picture, just as there are some who do not access the Internet. However as more and more people become aware the energy builds further and the larger picture seems even less strange to those just becoming aware. As this process builds, there is a shift for most from relying on one’s mind to thinking with one’s heart.

However please note, at each step in this process, be it embracing the vibration of living at a higher consciousness or connecting to the Internet, you make a conscious decision whether to embrace or not, whether to do it now or to wait. The role of free will cannot be overemphasized.

In addition to free will, and similar to the development of the Internet, people have to do something. People can buy the necessary equipment to connect to the Internet or not. It is their choice. If they do not buy the equipment, they are not connected. Similarly, if people do not make a conscious effort to raise their vibration they will not be swept along with those who have done so. There is no free ride.

There is a gradual awakening underway that makes it easier to adopt new ways of being as shown by lightworkers and wayshowers. A wayshower can explain what is happening and ask someone to embrace a new way of being. But even the most dedicated wayshower cannot make a free will decision for someone else or put forth the effort to raise that other person’s energies. It is easier if a wayshower helps, but it still requires a free will decision, AND an effort to achieve the necessary vibration to live on the new Earth.

Are there starships coming to take humans off this planet? Will there then be a worldwide cleansing of all that humans have wrought?

No mass evacuation of people from this planet is planned or foreseen. Such a plucking of people from the surface would curtail free will, stop cause and effect, and eliminate consequences of actions. This would also be directly counter to the law of non-interference.

In contrast to this precipitous action, your planet is raising her frequency so that the duality that has persisted for so long will no longer be present. This shift has been underway for several years and will reach the tipping point within the next few months. When this occurs, it will become increasingly difficult for those who adhere to darkness to remain on this planet. Many who are now wavering on the fence between the light and the dark will choose the light. Based on fear, comfort, wealth, and/or status others will still cling to the darkness.

The institutions of man that are based on fear, such as the military, current governments, and current monetary systems, will disappear. Physical edifices that were built on fear will disappear. The institutions, structures, individuals, and communities that are based in the light will persist. The next few months will be the time of sorting of what is of the light and what is of the dark.

A new civilization will emerge from the chaos arising from the collapse of the old paradigm. Love will be the basis of this new civilization, and Oneness with earth and all who occupy her. This will not be an instantaneous process, but it will occur quite quickly as linear time will be no more.

The physical cleansing of this planet will take place with assistance from many beings from around this universe who support her return to a pristine state. This will take place in conjunction with the new humans of Earth.

There will be no general cleansing without humans present. All change is in accordance with energy equations. Those places where Earth energy has been most severely damaged will require the most energetic repair. Those places where there has been less damage will be less affected. Earth’s own energetic repair ranges from earthquakes to tsunamis to severe weather to wildfires to a shift in climate and a raising of sea levels.

Will Earth’s poles shift? Are we going to experience major earth shifts?

The magnetic field of the earth is now diminishing. This will continue in order for a magnetic pole shift to occur, as it has done before, as Earth passes through the galactic plane. As this magnetic pole shift occurs, it will free the tectonic plates of the earth to move about. They will shift in such as way as to facilitate overall climate moderation and energy balancing. In addition, Earth’s physical pole is being righted to a vertical position. This will eliminate the seasonal effect. The culmination of this will be a planet with a moderate climate everywhere but at the extreme of north and south.

Earth will continue to adjust her physical manifestation in order to ascend to a lighter vibration and transform herself to a pristine planet. Accompanying Earth’s rebalancing will be shifts of her tectonic plates. These shifts are the result of Earth’s desire to balance energetically those areas where she has experienced the energies of fear, anger, greed, and other dark energies. Earth shifts will occur not only where they have been experienced before, but in new areas. Your space brothers and sisters, as well as your own energies, are moderating the difficult aspects of these. Much will happen unnoticed, yet much will be chaotic for those directly involved. As you witness these events, always keep in mind that you and everyone else incarnated at a specific time and in a specific place to experience what you are experiencing.

When will the current monetary systems go away? Will they be replace with another type of monetary system?

The current debt-based monetary systems are in the process of crumbling. This process of meltdown will continue until the hoards of the super wealthy have disappeared, until there are no more paper currencies, and until a level playing field has been created that operates in the best interests of all. There will be stages of this meltdown during which a precious metal-based currency will emerge, but, ultimately, money will be provided in order for each person to accomplish that which they desire to do. In a true 5th dimensional sense, currency will be created by individuals as needed.

What is the timing of the arrival of the starships of our space brothers and sisters?

Many starships, such as Athabantian, are already stationed near your planet, and have been here for some time. The unveiling of our starships will happen: 1) When it is safe for all concerned. 2) When our appearance can be accepted as peaceful and beneficial. 3) When our arrival can be of maximum benefit to all concerned. Accompanying this mass contact will be the acknowledgement of the many non-indigenous beings who walk this planet.

How many non-indigenous beings are present on Earth today? What do they look like? Why are they here?

There are large numbers of non-indigenous beings present on Earth at this time. They walk among you both as lightworkers and as people working behind the scenes for the advancement of mankind. They currently number over one million. In all cases they appear to be humans so as to fit in within your society, albeit with slight variation in physical appearance. There are many millions who are not present in human form; they operate at frequencies that make them invisible to Earth-human eyes. They too are here for the benefit of mankind and for the greater good of the entire universe.

Having said this, we must acknowledge the presence of beings whose light is so diminished, and they are so self-serving, that they may be termed dark. They are few in number; however as the saying goes, “One rotten apple can spoil an entire barrel.” The dark energy and its allies created and maintain the duality of this 3rd dimension. They are the guiding force behind the Illuminati. However love your dark brothers and sisters for they provide the interesting backdrop against which you play out your individual dramas.

Who are the Caretakers of the new Earth?

Caretakers for the new Earth will assist the transformation of the planet from her current condition to a pristine planet of great beauty. While Earth can largely transform herself in time, the Caretakers, human and off-planet, can assist this change so that within a very short time Earth can reclaim her natural beauty while still providing a home for human inhabitants. Caretakers will have many roles and perform many different tasks.

Caretakers are a desirable part of Earth’s transformation because they manage her rehabilitation at a local human level. This will include the elimination of all structures, roadways, and utilities that were constructed under the paradigm of fear and the conviction that it was man’s right to dominate Earth. Manmade structures and embellishments to the planet that were undertaken out of love and caring for her will remain. These will be used by the Caretakers in their restoration work.

Electricity will be provided from crystals that once energized will continue to provide electricity, both for individual households as well as restoring portions of the electrical grid. Thus the Caretakers of the new Earth will be provided with energy with which to carry out their tasks of restoration and creating a new civilization.

New technologies will be forthcoming — contributed by your space brothers and sisters. These technologies will be compatible with a pristine planet. It will include vehicles for transport, devices to assist living conditions, and communication devices to supplement the role of telepathy.

We of Athabantian are establishing an institute. It will have three functions: 1) To assist people to raise their vibration to a frequency where they will comfortably resonate with the new Earth, and at which frequency they can interact with their brothers and sisters from other star systems. 2) Learning to function in this somewhat unfamiliar higher frequency and perform important tasks. This will include interacting with your space brothers and sisters to implement techniques perfected on other planets of light. 3) Teaching others to raise their vibrations and to become Caretakers. All of this will be undertaken at the institute that will come into existence as the shift to a predominately love-based planet emerges within the next few months. Until that time hold the vision of the new Earth. The moment is not that far in the future when all that we have spoken of will come to pass.

We are pleased to communicate with you and look forward to more opportunities to do so. We hold you in unconditional love and wish you well during this time of your transformation. Until next time, I am Adrial, a celestial of this universe, I am Bren-Ton, I am Justine, and I am Moraine, all from Andromeda, and I am Zepher of the Pleiades.

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World Population to Hit Seven Billion by October

Posted by Admin on July 10, 2011

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Global Research, July 8, 2011
IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 7, 2011 (IPS) – The United Nations commemorates World Population Day next week against the backdrop of an upcoming landmark event: global population hitting the seven billion mark by late October this year.According to current projections, and with some of the world’s poorest nations doubling their populations in the next decade, the second milestone will be in 2025: an eight billion population over the next 14 years. Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), told IPS seven billion represents a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action. 

On 

World Population Day Jul. 11, he will be launching a campaign called “7 Billion Actions”. “It will engage people on what it means to live in a world with seven billion people and encourage action on issues that affect all of us,” he added. 

Together, he said, “we can forge the future with young people, advance rights for girls and women, and safeguard the natural resources on which we all depend.” 

The rise in population is expected to have a devastating impact on some 215 million women who want – but do not have – access to quality reproductive health and family planning services. 

Tamara Kreinin, executive director of 

Women and Population at the U.N. Foundation, told IPS, “With the world’s population poised to cross the seven billion mark in October 2011 and continue to grow over several more decades, this unmet need is only likely to increase.” She said the quality and availability of family planning services is instrumental in interrupting the inter-generational cycle of poverty and creating stronger, more stable families and communities. 

Investing in voluntary family planning programmes gives women the tools to make critical decisions about the size of their families and spacing of their pregnancies, she noted. 

Kreinin said meeting the need for family planning would result in a 32-percent decrease in maternal deaths, and reduce infant mortality by 10 percent. 

Dr. Osotimehin told IPS protecting reproductive health and rights “is fundamental to our collective future and sustainable development”. 

“Together, we can meet the needs of some 215 million women in developing countries who want to plan and space their births but do not have access to modern contraception,” he said. “Together, we can prevent the deaths of 1,000 women every day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.” 

He said there is also an opportunity and responsibility to invest in the world’s 1.8 billion adolescents and youth aged 10 to 24. 

They constitute more than a quarter of the world’s population and almost 90 percent live in developing countries. 

“Every young person deserves education, including sexuality education, and access to comprehensive health services,” he noted. 

With the right policies, investments and social support, young people can enjoy healthier lives free of poverty and enhance prospects for peace and stability, he added. 

“As the most interconnected population, young people are already transforming society, politics and culture. By more actively engaging women and young people, we can build a better future for all generations,” Dr. Osotimehin declared. 

The world’s five most populous countries are China (1.3 billion), India (1.2 billion), the United States (310.2 million), Indonesia (242.9 million) and Brazil (201.1 million). 

A 

new study titled “Africa’s Demographic Multiplication”, released last month and commissioned by the Washington-based Globalist Research Center, points out that Africa’s population has more than tripled during the second half of the 20th century, growing from 230 million to 811 million. As a result, Africa has become more populous than Europe. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country at 158 million, is expected to grow to 730 million by century’s end, making it larger than Europe’s projected population of 675 million. 

Nigeria is currently the only African country with a population exceeding 100 million. 

But 10 other countries in the African continent are expected to join that club before the close of the century: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. 

Jose Miguel Guzman, chief of the UNFPA’s Population and Development Branch, told IPS that globally, the population growth rate is not as high as it has been in the past. 

Fertility decline in most countries of the world has contributed to a decline in population growth rates. 

“But if we take into consideration least developed countries (LDCs) or most of the sub-Saharan countries, the situation is quite different,” Guzman said. 

In most of these countries, he said, fertility is still high, and the rate of growth is also high. 

In some cases, it is as high as three percent, which implies that the population in these areas will double in about 20 to 25 years. 

The date for the eight billion population milestone is projected now to be 2025, he predicted. 

Kreinin told IPS that in many countries, every dollar spent on voluntary family planning saves at least four dollars that would otherwise be spent treating complications arising from unplanned pregnancies. 

Despite the low cost and many benefits of voluntary family planning, world leaders have not placed a priority on its funding. 

Emerging countries are spending about half of what they pledged at the historic 1994 International Conference on Population Development (ICPD) for reproductive health spending, while developed countries, including the U.S., have provided less than a quarter of the promised spending, she added. 

She said U.S. investment in international family planning has traditionally been strong, but support peaked in 1995 and has declined significantly since. 

Although in nominal terms funding has recovered in recent years, Kreinin said, it still remains 40 percent below peak funding levels when adjusted for inflation, even as the unmet need continues to grow. (END)

 

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Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare

Posted by Admin on July 10, 2011

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Global Research, July 7, 2011

Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia.

The strike was the first acknowledged Pentagon military attack inside the Horn of Africa nation since a helicopter raid staged by commandos in 2009 and the first use of an American drone to conduct a missile strike there. Drones had earlier been used in the country in their original capacity, for surveillance, including identifying targets for bomb and missile attacks, one being shot down in October of 2009. But as Britain’s The Guardian reported on July 30, the strike in Somalia marked “the expansion of the pilotless war campaign to a sixth country,” as the remote-controlled aircraft have already been employed to deadly effect in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and most recently Libya.

The lethal Somali mission was reportedly carried out by the U.S. Special Operations Command, in charge of executing special forces operations of the respective units of the four main branches of the American military: The Army, Marines, Air Force and Navy. On July 4 the U.S. armed forces publication Stars and Stripes reported that there are currently 7,000 American special forces in Afghanistan and another 3,000 in Iraq, with the bulk of the latter to be transferred to the first country in what was described as a “mini-surge” of special operations troops to compensate for the withdrawal of 10,000 other troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year.

Last week BBC News reported on the proposed transfer of drone aircraft by the U.S. to its military client states Uganda and Burundi for the war in Somalia. Citing American defense officials, BBC disclosed that four drones will be supplied to the two nations who have 9,000 troops engaged in combat operations against anti-government insurgents in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.

According to a New York Times feature of July 1: “[T]he United States has largely been relying on proxy forces in Somalia, including African Union peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi, to support Somalia’s fragile government. The Pentagon is sending nearly $45 million in military supplies, including night-vision equipment and four small unarmed drones, to Uganda and Burundi to help combat the rising terror threat in Somalia. During the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in 2007, clandestine operatives from the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command initiated missions into Somalia from an airstrip in Ethiopia.”

On June 15 a major newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, The National, reported on the escalation of deadly U.S. drone attacks in Yemen, across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia. It cited an official with the Yemeni Ministry of Defense claiming that the U.S. had launched over 15 drone strikes in the country in the first two weeks of June. The newspaper also quoted the deputy governor of Abyan province, Abdullah Luqman, decrying the attacks and stating: “These are the lives of innocent people being killed. At least 130 people have been killed in the last two weeks by US drones.”

The leader of an observation committee created to evacuate local residents added that “more than 40,000 people have left Abyan province because they feared drone strikes.”

The same defense official mentioned above warned that the “United States is turning Yemen into another Pakistan.” [1]

Recent reports in the American press reveal that the Pentagon will establish a new air base in the Persian Gulf from which to intensify drone strikes in Yemen. According to a Russian source, “The location is kept secret but some say this might be Bahrain as it already has a US base [the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet] and provides the safest route to Yemen for US drones through American ally Saudi Arabia.” [2]

The drone missile assaults in Pakistan, which caused a record number of deaths – over 1,000 – last year, are carried out by the Special Activities Division of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose last director is the new secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, a transfer that presages a yet greater intensification of the deadly attacks inside the South Asian nation.

On June 5 the 40th drone strike of the year killed at least six people in South Waziristan in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, bringing the death toll this year to at least 350.

Late last month the Pakistani government ordered the U.S. to vacate the Shamsi Air Base in the province of Balochistan which had been used for drone strikes inside the nation. Washington has in the interim shifted those operations to upgraded air bases in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that only 3 percent of Pakistanis support the drone attacks in the country’s tribal belt.

At the end of June, 28 people were reported killed by drone strikes in the South Waziristan Agency, with a local resident quoted by Pajhwok Afghan News as stating “that 20 civilians were killed and several others injured in the second attack.” [3]

Some 2,100 of the 2,500 people killed in the strikes since they began in 2004 have lost their lives since 2009, when Barack Obama became the president of the U.S. and Leon Panetta director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

On July 5 a British Reaper drone killed at least four Afghan civilians and wounded two more in a missile attack in Helmand province. The use of the Reaper, rightly referred to as the world’s deadliest drone, marks the crossing of an ominous threshold. It is the first of what is described as a hunter-killer – long-endurance, high-altitude – remote-piloted aircraft that can be equipped with fifteen times the amount of weaponry and fly at three times the speed of the Predator used in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya. (The U.S. has used Reapers in Iraq since 2008 and in Afghanistan starting the following year. Toward the end of 2009 the Pentagon deployed Reapers to the East African island nation of Seychelles along with over 100 military personnel.)

On June 28 the U.S. lost the third of three drones in Afghanistan in as many days.

A recent Refugees International report stated that over 250,000 Afghans have been forced to flee their towns and villages during the last two years, over 91,000 so far this year: “Not only have NATO-led troops and Afghan forces failed to protect Afghans, but international airstrikes and night raids by U.S. Special Forces were destroying homes, crops and infrastructure, traumatising civilians and displacing tens of thousands of people.” [4]

Last month an RT feature suitably titled “US expands drone war, extremists expect new recruits” stated:

“The US has stepped up its drone attacks against militants in the Middle East, but the growing number of civilian deaths in the strikes has sparked public anger, with concern the action is driving up the number of extremist recruits.

“In Pakistan, CIA drone strikes aim at terrorists but end up killing mostly civilians. Public outrage is growing. Hatred and anger foster more terror.

“Washington now sees Yemen as the most dangerous Al-Qaeda outpost, and is planning to step up drone attacks on the country, establishing a base in the Persian Gulf specifically for that purpose.”

The source added:

“Americans are likely to have a freer hand going it alone, with the CIA to take a central role.

“As the agency is not subject to the accountability the US military is legally under, one can expect more bombs to fall on Yemen.

“There is fury in Yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes. In one attack there, the American military presumably aiming at an Al-Qaeda training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children. In another strike a year ago, a drone mistakenly killed a deputy governor in Yemen, his family and aides.

“With the expansion of the drone war it seems the US is seeking only a missile solution to fighting Al-Qaeda. Analysts say that some of the main features of this global chase are not having to take into account the voice of the nation that they are bombing and the lack of accountability when it comes to civilian deaths. These features add more paradox to the US strategy, with many asking whether America is fighting and fostering terror at the same time.” [5]

Analyst Denis Fedutinov told Voice of Russia last month:

“The US used drones already in the Balkans campaign, then in Iraq and Afghanistan and now in Libya. The US and Israel are the world drone leaders. Now America has several thousand drones of different classes.” [6]

In fact, last year U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General Glenn Walters told an Institute for Defense and Government Advancement conference that ten years ago America had 200 drones in its arsenal, but by 2010 that number had risen to 6,000 and that by next year it would be 8,000. A fortyfold increase.

And in May of 2010 “NATO representatives from around the world” visited the Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center in the state of Indiana to observe drone flight tests.

By transferring control of the 110-day war against Libya from U.S. Africa Command to NATO on March 31 the Obama administration intended to, among other purposes, evade accountability to Congress (and federal law) under provisions of the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

The resolution mandates that Congress must authorize military actions initiated by the president within 60 days of their commencement or grant him a 30-day extension. The 60-day limit was reached on May 20.

The White House responded to Congressional opposition to prolonging military action in Libya by releasing a 38-page report that claimed “US military operations are distinct from the kind of ‘hostilities’ contemplated by the resolution’s 60-day termination provision.”

It also maintained that “U.S. operations do not involve sustained fighting or active exchanges of fire with hostile forces, nor do they involve U.S. ground troops.”

Which is to say, as long as American military personnel are not in harm’s way it is not a war. Legal Adviser of the State Department Harold Koh stated: “We are acting lawfully…We are not saying the War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional or should be scrapped or that we can refuse to consult Congress. We are saying the limited nature of this particular mission is not the kind of ‘hostilities’ envisioned by the War Powers Resolution.”

General Carter Ham, the head of U.S. Africa Command, last month “said a Republican-sponsored bill that would block American Predator drone strikes in Libya would hurt the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance,” and “predicted that NATO would be unable to replace certain key U.S. missions, including the drone strikes and attacks to neutralize Libyan air defenses that threaten allied planes, if proposed funding cuts are made.” [7]

The launching of over 200 cruise missiles into Libya in the opening days of the war and the fact that, as the New York Times reported on June 21, “American warplanes have struck at Libyan air defenses about 60 times, and remotely operated drones have fired missiles at Libyan forces about 30 times” since command of the war was transferred from U.S. Africa Command to NATO – after which NATO has conducted over 14,000 air missions, more than 5,000 termed strike sorties – do not constitute armed hostilities in the mind of Mr. Koh, who stated last year that “U.S. targeting practices, including lethal operations conducted with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), comply with all applicable law, including the laws of war.” According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top legal adviser, deadly drone attacks are “consistent with its [the U.S.'s] inherent right to self-defense.” [8] Koh cagily refers to murdering people on a grand scale by remote activation as targeted killing rather than targeted assassination, as the second is expressly prohibited under international law.

In a rare instance of dissenting from White House war policy, last month the New York Times published the following:

“Jack L. Goldsmith, who led the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration, said the Obama theory would set a precedent expanding future presidents’ unauthorized war-making powers, especially given the rise of remote-controlled combat technology.”

It further quoted Goldsmith directly:

“The administration’s theory implies that the president can wage war with drones and all manner of offshore missiles without having to bother with the War Powers Resolution’s time limits.”

Neither cruise missiles nor Hellfire missile-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles have pilots on board, so the lives of U.S. service members are safe as Pakistanis, Afghans, Libyans, Iraqis, Yemenis and Somalis are torn to shreds by U.S. strikes.

Wars of aggression are now both safe and “legal.”

Notes
 

1) The National, June 15, 2011

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/us-makes-a-drone-attack-a-day-in-yemen

2) Voice of Russia, June 16, 2011
3) Pajhwok Afghan News, June 28, 2011
4) NATO airstrikes, night raids blamed for Afghan IDP crisis – report
AlertNet, June 29, 2011
5) RT, June 22, 2011 http://rt.com/news/us-drone-war-al-qaeda

6) Voice of Russia, June 16, 2011
7) Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2011
8) Inside Justice, March 26, 2011 
http://insidejustice.com/law/index.php/intl/2010/03/26/asil_koh_drone_war_law

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Nonviolent Revolution Clarified: Five Myths and Realities Behind Egypt’s Uprising

Posted by Admin on July 10, 2011

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by: Dr. Cynthia Boaz, Truthout | News Analysis
 

An Egyptian flag flies as thousands of protesters attend a mass demonstration in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo on July 8, 2011. (Photo: Moises Saman / The New York Times)

The fall of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt has produced prolific analysis by media commentators across the spectrum. Some of this analysis has been excellent, but much of the conventional media interpretation of the why, how and what behind these events leaves much to be desired. There are a handful of misconceptions that have been parroted repeatedly in media coverage of the “Arab Spring.” These are important to recognize because the dynamics of how power is shifted matters enormously. In Gandhian language, means and ends are inseparable. That which is won through violence must be sustained through violence. That which is won through mass civil nonviolent action is more legitimate and more likely to be sustainable over the long term.

Additionally, how we understand and interpret the source of the power that emerged in Tunisia and Egypt last spring can go on to shape our long-term views about what is possible. If we consciously or unconsciously reinforce misconceptions or negative stereotypes about nonviolent action, we potentially undermine the morale of people engaged in ongoing struggles and, in the worst-case scenario, we can give credibility to the perspectives of the oppressors. What follows are the five most prevalent ways in which mainstream media has gotten the story wrong on the Egyptian uprising and the corresponding correction to each.

Misconception 1: It was spontaneous. Reality:  Although commentators still tend to talk about the Egyptian revolution as though no one could have predicted it, the key variable in the victory was planning. As we saw during the height of Mubarak‘s crackdown, the movement was able to keep the people of Egypt unified and, for the most part, nonviolently disciplined. Considering the lengths to which the regime went to try and provoke violence, it was quite remarkable how focused, creative and disciplined the activists remained. None of that would have been possible without several years of laying the groundwork. Egyptian activists worked for years to identify and neutralize the sources of power in the nation of 83 million. Their effort extended to making personal connections with the military forces and the commanders in particular. It’s a nuanced divide-and-conquer strategy. After building relationships with members of the regime’s pillars of support, the movement then helped them question the legitimacy of the ruler and the system they were upholding. When media analysts talk about an uprising like the one in Egypt as spontaneous, they are revealing their lack of understanding of the dynamics of nonviolent action and, simultaneously, are taking credit away from activists, who in many cases, have worked hard for years – often at great personal risk and sacrifice – to make this kind of victory possible. Regimes like Mubarak’s don’t fall when people just spontaneously show up in the city square. They only fall when movements are capable of exerting sustained pressure on them over a length of time. And that for that to happen, there must be unity, strategy, vision and, most importantly, planning, planning and more planning.

Misconception 2: It was a military coup. Reality: It was a people-power revolution. This misconception stems partly from the fact that, at the end of the day, much hinged on whose side the military took in the struggle. But instead of giving the people credit for winning the military to their side through effective campaigning and salient messaging, many media commentators erroneously regard the military’s defense of the people as a sign that it was they who were actually leading the uprising. But the loyalty demonstrated by the military to the people’s revolution should be interpreted as a sign of how well the movement did its job, not just of how powerful the military is in Egypt. The strategy was about unifying around a shared vision of Egyptian society. This misconception also is partly attributable to the fact that many of us cannot conceptualize power as taking any form other than a militaristic one. That perspective reflects adherence to outdated assumptions and frames about violence and power, namely the notion that those two concepts are interchangeable. Fortunately, the people of Egypt know better and they’ve given the rest of the world an example from which to build.

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Misconception 3: It was orchestrated by the United States, either by backroom deals or “training and support” of activists. Reality: This unfortunate misconception shows a gross lack of knowledge of how nonviolent action works. There is really only one condition essential for the success of nonviolent struggle and that without which a struggle can never succeed: it must be indigenous. To claim nonviolent protests of the scale we saw in Egypt last spring can be manufactured abroad is to grossly overestimate the influence of US agents and agencies. How could US agencies organize broad-based protests and manage to get hundreds of thousands of people to maintain nonviolent discipline while under violent assault from half a world away, while these same agencies were, for more than five decades, unable to remove octogenarian Fidel Castro from his perch only 90 miles from the US border and with a population eight times smaller than Egypt’s? To say that it was the United States that somehow orchestrated the events in Egypt is also to show contempt for what the people did, which is to take control of their own destiny. To question the Egyptian people’s authorship of their own struggle serves the interests of a brutal dictator and others like him, and it risks undermining global support for what was, both at its heart and its implementation, an indigenous people’s movement. This, by the way, is not to say that US agencies have taken no interest in or have made no attempts at influencing democracy struggles around the world. It is just to argue that, in the case of Egypt and other successful people-power revolutions, that offer of help was declined.

Misconception 4It was an Islamist uprising. Reality: Not only is this incorrect, but it flies directly in the face of claims made by the same analysts who say they’re interested in promoting genuine democracy. There were Muslims in the movement, yes. But there were also Christians, Jews, atheists, and many others. In order to test the credibility of this assertion, it is important to look at the proclaimed objectives of the movement: it was about more rights, more freedoms and more democracy. Contrast those objectives to the common stereotypes about Islam held in the West: that it is undemocratic, violent and oppressive. There is no way to reconcile those two things. Either Western analysts must concede that the Egyptian revolution was not Islamist or they must concede that Islam is not a violent, undemocratic religion. The ideal course of action would be to concede the former completely and the latter mostly. But short of that, it must be one or the other. A related argument is that we should be wary about the Egyptian victory because it will create space for the Muslim Brotherhood to assert more control in that society. There are several things to note about this claim, however: first, it has never been an acceptable argument against democracy to say that it should be limited because of the outcomes it might produce. Secondly, those who make this assertion might do well to ask themselves if they would accept Egyptians picking their leaders for them. If the answer is no, then they owe the same courtesy to the Egyptian people. And lastly, the Muslim Brotherhood (a group which itself is widely misunderstood in that it formally renounced violence as a means of change of decades ago) seems to have begun evolving along with the Egyptian people. As of last week, it formed a coalition with one of Egypt’s most liberal political parties in an attempt to broaden – and moderate – its base.

Misconception 5: It wasn’t nonviolent. Reality: It is unrealistic to imagine that a revolution of this scale and with a target as brutal as this regime can be totally nonviolent. But there is a distinction between saying there were a few violent outbursts by undisciplined individuals and that there was violence by the movement. This movement itself was strictly nonviolent and that is what is most relevant. In a country as large as Egypt, it is impossible to train every person individually in nonviolent strategy. And so, not understanding the necessity of nonviolent discipline, there were some incidents of rock throwing, clashes with police, vandalism and a few outbursts of individual rage. There was a militant flank in many historical nonviolent struggles – South Africa, Chile and the US civil rights movement, to name a few. In each case, as in Egypt, the presence of that contingent undoubtedly made the work of the movement both more difficult and more essential. Because of the potential for possible outbursts, the movement had to: a) distinguish itself from undisciplined radicals, b) make it clear that no violence would be tolerated and c) train new activists on the ground. Consider the lengths to which the regime went to provoke violence by the people in order to create the perceptions that what the movement was doing was not nonviolent and, therefore, not legitimate. It was critical that the movement girded against vulnerability to these kind of agents provocateurs and they did that extraordinarily well, especially considering the movement’s enormous size. At the end of the day, the Egyptian uprising was one of history’s most significant nonviolent struggles and that is how history will remember it.

It is important that events like the ones in Egypt are conveyed as accurately as possible by media for many reasons, but one of the most significant is that the victory of mass nonviolent action in Egypt has implications for terrorist organizations and the perceived efficacy of terrorism itself. As nonviolent methods to push grievances succeed, they de-legitimize violence as a means of promoting change. Nonviolent action offers a realistic alternative to both violence and the status quo and it is, simultaneously, a very powerful form of struggle. If we consider that terrorist organizations and members of movements tend to share the same recruitment bases – disaffected people demanding significant change – then the victory in Egypt has likely done serious damage to the PR campaigns of terrorist networks. Because of that, the people of Egypt should not only be lauded for taking back their freedom through almost entirely democratic means, but for making the world a little bit safer for everyone.

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Dr. Cynthia Boaz is assistant professor of political science at Sonoma State University, where her areas of expertise include quality of democracy, nonviolent struggle, civil resistance and political communication and media. She is also an affiliated scholar at the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace International Master in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, Spain. Additionally, she is an analyst and consultant on nonviolent action, with special emphasis on the Iran and Burma cases. She is vice president of the Metta Center for Nonviolence and on the board of Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation. Dr. Boaz is also a contributing writer and adviser to Truthout.org and associate editor of Peace and Change Journal.

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The Ideological Crisis of Western Capitalism

Posted by Admin on July 10, 2011

http://www.truth-out.org/ideological-crisis-western-capitalism/1310127895

 

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Just a few years ago, a powerful ideology – the belief in free and unfettered markets – brought the world to the brink of ruin. Even in its hey-day, from the early 1980’s until 2007, American-style deregulated capitalism brought greater material well-being only to the very richest in the richest country of the world. Indeed, over the course of this ideology’s 30-year ascendance, most Americans saw their incomes decline or stagnate year after year.

Moreover, output growth in the United States was not economically sustainable. With so much of US national income going to so few, growth could continue only through consumption financed by a mounting pile of debt.

I was among those who hoped that, somehow, the financial crisis would teach Americans (and others) a lesson about the need for greater equality, stronger regulation, and a better balance between the market and government. Alas, that has not been the case. On the contrary, a resurgence of right-wing economics, driven, as always, by ideology and special interests, once again threatens the global economy – or at least the economies of Europe and America, where these ideas continue to flourish.

In the US, this right-wing resurgence, whose adherents evidently seek to repeal the basic laws of math and economics, is threatening to force a default on the national debt. If Congress mandates expenditures that exceed revenues, there will be a deficit, and that deficit has to be financed. Rather than carefully balancing the benefits of each government expenditure program with the costs of raising taxes to finance those benefits, the right seeks to use a sledgehammer – not allowing the national debt to increase forces expenditures to be limited to taxes.

This leaves open the question of which expenditures get priority – and if expenditures to pay interest on the national debt do not, a default is inevitable. Moreover, to cut back expenditures now, in the midst of an ongoing crisis brought on by free-market ideology, would inevitably simply prolong the downturn.

A decade ago, in the midst of an economic boom, the US faced a surplus so large that it threatened to eliminate the national debt. Unaffordable tax cuts and wars, a major recession, and soaring health-care costs – fueled in part by the commitment of George W. Bush’s administration to giving drug companies free rein in setting prices, even with government money at stake – quickly transformed a huge surplus into record peacetime deficits.

The remedies to the US deficit follow immediately from this diagnosis: put America back to work by stimulating the economy; end the mindless wars; rein in military and drug costs; and raise taxes, at least on the very rich. But the right will have none of this, and instead is pushing for even more tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, together with expenditure cuts in investments and social protection that put the future of the US economy in peril and that shred what remains of the social contract. Meanwhile, the US financial sector has been lobbying hard to free itself of regulations, so that it can return to its previous, disastrously carefree, ways.

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But matters are little better in Europe. As Greece and others face crises, the medicine du jour is simply timeworn austerity packages and privatization, which will merely leave the countries that embrace them poorer and more vulnerable. This medicine failed in East Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere, and it will fail in Europe this time around, too. Indeed, it has already failed in Ireland, Latvia, and Greece.

There is an alternative: an economic-growth strategy supported by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Growth would restore confidence that Greece could repay its debts, causing interest rates to fall and leaving more fiscal room for further growth-enhancing investments. Growth itself increases tax revenues and reduces the need for social expenditures, such as unemployment benefits. And the confidence that this engenders leads to still further growth.

Regrettably, the financial markets and right-wing economists have gotten the problem exactly backwards: they believe that austerity produces confidence, and that confidence will produce growth. But austerity undermines growth, worsening the government’s fiscal position, or at least yielding less improvement than austerity’s advocates promise. On both counts, confidence is undermined, and a downward spiral is set in motion.

Do we really need another costly experiment with ideas that have failed repeatedly? We shouldn’t, but increasingly it appears that we will have to endure another one nonetheless. A failure of either Europe or the US to return to robust growth would be bad for the global economy. A failure in both would be disastrous – even if the major emerging-market countries have attained self-sustaining growth. Unfortunately, unless wiser heads prevail, that is the way the world is heading.

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Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011.

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Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, a Nobel laureate in Economics, and the author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy.

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BREAKING NEWS: Mounting Evidence that Dominique Strauss Kahn was Framed

Posted by Admin on July 10, 2011

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25533

Global Research, July 7, 2011
While the media has gone to arms length to obfuscate the matter, there is mounting evidence that Dominique Strauss Kahnwas framed.

According to media reports, the 32-year-old Guinean Sofitel housemaid received the modest sum of 100,000 dollars paid into her bank account. The New York Times acknowledges the payment but fails to analyze the source of these payments. In an utterly confused statement, the NYT suggests that the money was deposited in the housemaid’s account by her Guinean boy friend who is serving time in a high security prison:

According to the two officials, the woman had a phone conversation with an incarcerated man within a day of her encounter with Mr. Strauss-Kahn in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing the charges against him. The conversation was recorded.

That man, the investigators learned, had been arrested on charges of possessing 400 pounds of marijuana. He is among a number of individuals who made multiple cash deposits, totaling around $100,000, into the woman’s bank account over the last two years. The deposits were made in Arizona, Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania.

The investigators also learned that she was paying hundreds of dollars every month in phone charges to five companies. The woman had insisted she had only one phone and said she knew nothing about the deposits except that they were made by a man she described as her fiancé and his friends. (NYT, July 1, 2011, emphasis added)

The bank records of the housemaid, not to mention the record of her telephone calls, are known to police investigators, yet both the media and the prosecutors have failed to reveal the identity of the persons who instigated these money transfers.

The reports suggest that they may be “drug related”, thereby casually dismissing the likelihood that the money could have been part of the framing of DSK. The reports also mention that the money deposits were made “over the last two years”, thereby conveying  the impression that they bear no relationship to the DSK affair.

The exact timing of these money transfers including the identity of  senders are known to police investigators. Why has this information not been released?

If the 100,000 dollars had indeed been deposited into her bank account in the course of the last two years, why on earth would she be working as a housemaid?

Regime change at the IMF

Why was the substance of the housemaid’s false accusations not released at an earlier stage?  Who was protecting her?

Why did the media wait to reveal information which confirms DSK’s innocence.

This information was known to the prosecutors at an early stage of the investigation, yet it was only released after the appointment of France’s Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as Managing Director of the IMF.

Lagarde’s candidacy was confirmed and accepted on June 26th. Her mandate was confirmed on June 28th following a decision of the IMF’s 24 member executive board.

Lagarde is an appointee of Wall Street and the US banking establishment. Her candidacy had been approved by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the 28th of June:

“I am pleased to announce our decision to support Christine Lagarde to head the IMF,” Geithner said in a statement hours before the 24-member IMF executive board was expected to select her as its managing director.

Careful timing. In a bitter irony, the report from the prosecutor proving DSK’s innocence was released on the day following the IMF’s executive board decision instating Lagarde as Managing Director of IMF for a five year term.

The frame-up has visibly succeeded. Who instructed prosecutors not to release this information until after the appointment of Lagarde as IMF Chief?

If this information had been revealed a few days earlier, Lagarde’s candidacy as IMF chief might have been questioned.

Regime change at the IMF has been speedily implemented, not to mention the implications of the DSK affair in relation to the French presidential elections.

Christine Lagarde commenced her five year term as IMF Managing Director on July 5th at the height of Greece’s debt crisis.

Sofar, the likely hypothesis of a frame-up directed against DSK is not being touched upon by the mainstream media.

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Gaia the Great!

Posted by Admin on July 9, 2011

by Owen Waters

You may wonder why human consciousness suddenly started to rise in frequency in the 1960’s. People started to question the old ways of corruption and conflict and many began searching for spiritual answers in the teachings of the East. The actual start date of this renaissance in human consciousness was July 8th, 1964.

On that day in 1964, the Mother Earth was imbued with an enormous amount of cosmic energy. Now, because she has billions of human beings under her care and protection, she chose to store this cosmic energy within her body and then release it gradually over an extended period of time so that we could adapt to it. For the sake of humanity, she metered out this uplifting cosmic energy in a way that enabled us to adapt to higher frequencies in a balanced fashion. She could see that we needed to be able to upgrade our consciousness in preparation for the new, positive cycles that would begin to unfold after 2012.

Gaia, the Mother Earth, is a highly advanced soul based in seventh density existence. She maintains bodies as spheres of consciousness in fifth and sixth density as well as physical bodies in fourth density and our third density realm. At our physical level, her body seems tiny in the vast blackness of space and yet, at her soul level, the picture is very different. Gone is the blackness of space. There, she is a shining jewel in the solid body of light that fills our solar system.

Long ago, when mankind needed a home in space, Gaia offered to hold back her spiritual light so that our human race could exist comfortably upon her back at our own level of consciousness.

Friday, July the 8th is the ideal day to remember the greatness and compassion of this goddess of light, and to express our deep-felt gratitude for the home that she selflessly provides us.

Make the time to go within, connect with the spiritual soul of Gaia and send her your love, light, and gratitude.

Breathe in universal life energy with each inbreath. On each outbreath, send your love, light, and gratitude as a beam of white light from your heart into the heart of the Mother Earth.

Take the time to make the connection well and you will be surprised at the quality of uplifting energy that comes back to you from the Mother Earth.

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Owen Waters is the author of Love, Light Laughter: The New Spirituality, which is available both as a paperback and a downloadable e-book, at:

http://www.infinitebeing.com/ebooks/love.htm

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Greece stops Gaza-bound boat, immobilizes flotilla

Posted by Admin on July 8, 2011

http://news.yahoo.com/greece-stops-gaza-bound-boat-immobilizes-flotilla-112948472.html

By Renee Maltezou | Reuters – Thu, Jul 7, 2011

ATHENS (Reuters) – The Greek coastguard intercepted a small French boat with Pro-Palestinian activists aboard on Thursday, the third flotilla ship to be prevented from sailing to Gaza to challenge an Israeli blockade.

Greece, just over a year after nine people were killed when Israeli marines stormed a pro-Palestinian flotilla, imposed a ban on all Gaza-bound ships saying it feared for the safety of the activists who are now trying to find a way to set sail.

The boat with about 10 activists aboard, including French politicians, an MEP and a journalist, sailed from Corsica. Activists had said it was in international waters waiting to join the rest of the flotilla, now confined in Greek ports.

The “Dignity” was detected in the early morning near the southern Greek island of Crete as it was refueling at sea and was towed to the port of Sitia for checks, the coastguard said.

“We are still checking their papers. We haven’t spotted any problem so far. They have not disclosed their destination, maybe because they have not decided yet,” said a coastguard official in Crete, on condition of anonymity.

There were no arrests, activists and the coastguard said.

The 10-ship flotilla, with about 350 passengers, was supposed to take drugs, food and building materials to Gaza by the end of June, but a priority was to challenge the blockade.

But the chances that they will reach their destination has faded due to the vigilance of the Greek coastguard which has intercepted three of their ships so far and is closely watching the other seven, moored in ports across Greece.

“WE CAN’T MOVE”

“We are still waiting. We know that the days are going by but we are waiting to see what will happen. So far, we can’t move,” said Dimitris Plionis, one of the activists.

On Friday, the Greek coastguard intercepted the U.S. ship “Audacity of Hope” just a short while after it set sail from Piraeus port, and arrested its captain. Three days later, armed coastguards boarded the Canadian ship “Tahrir” which set sail from Crete and escorted it back. Three people were detained.

Although all four detainees were freed, they face charges for defying the Greek ban, which can only be lifted if the Greek Citizen Protection Ministry issues a new order. Nine ships are being confined in Greek ports and all 10 are accounted for.

Israel says its blockade of Gaza is aimed at stopping weapons from reaching the enclave’s rulers, Hamas — an Islamist group that is branded a terrorist group by some Western nations.

In an effort to calm the activists, Greece offered to ferry the aid to Gaza in cooperation with the United Nations. The activists turned the offer down saying this was “insufficient” as their mission was also about the rights of the Palestinian people and not just about aid.

“It is an offer that is always on the table and is still on the table,” said Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Lambrinides on Thursday in Vienna.

(Additional reporting by Angeliki Koutantou in Athens and Michael Shields in Vienna, editing by Peter Millership)

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South Sudan capital sweeps up, cracks down before split

Posted by Admin on July 8, 2011

http://news.yahoo.com/south-sudan-capital-sweeps-cracks-down-split-093517416.html

By Alexander Dziadosz | Reuters – Thu, Jul 7, 2011

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) – Southern Sudanese in the country-in-waiting’s capital are sprucing up streets, confiscating black market guns and trying to impose order on frenetic traffic to make sure independence day goes smoothly on Saturday.

For many southerners, the split from the country’s north represents a moment of long-awaited triumph and fresh optimism after decades of brutal civil war and perceived marginalization.

It also brings a raft of challenges as the rickety boomtown of Juba receives scores of foreign dignitaries and the government tries to enforce its writ across a territory roughly the size of France wracked by internal rebellions and awash with guns.

Men and women with straw brushes are sweeping leaves and dust from the southern capital’s streets and men in paint-stained jumpsuits are whitewashing walls. Celebratory banners hang across the city.

“They’re doing a very good job. Visitors from all over the world will come and see that the town is very clean,” Kisereko Charles, a 51-year-old engineer, said in central Juba.

A red digital display in a nearby roundabout is counting down the seconds to independence. “Free at last,” one message on the display flashed.

North and south Sudan have warred over ideology, religion, ethnicity and oil for all but a few years since the country’s independence. An estimated 2 million people – most of them southerners – died in the conflict.

A 2005 peace deal that brought an end to the war promised southerners the chance to vote for independence. About 98 percent chose to split when the referendum was held in January.

“Vote for dignity,” one sign left over from the poll reads, displaying a facsimile of part of the ballot: an open hand with the word “secession” printed in Arabic and English.

SECURITY

South Sudan, with at least seven internal rebel militias according to a U.N. count, will begin life as an independent country in a region known for political turmoil that can erupt in terrible bloodshed.

Neighboring Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a devastating war in the late 1990s after Eritrea split away. Kenya exploded in violence after a disputed election in late 2007.

Suicide bombings ripped through Uganda‘s capital during the 2010 football World Cup. The militant group that claimed responsibility is based in Somalia, a country that has not had an effective central government for about two decades.

Analysts and aid workers say independence might encourage renegade militias in the new Republic of South Sudan to step up their challenge to a government the rebels say is corrupt and autocratic.

Interior Minister Gier Chouang Aloung, acknowledging security worries, told reporters that “enemies of the south” would not be allowed to spoil the celebrations.

Security forces were continuing a sweep-up of illegal guns and were registering people trying to buy new firearms, he said.

Authorities were issuing regular statements to discourage harassment and abuse of power among security forces.

Even celebratory gunfire would not be tolerated on July 9, he said.

“There will be no shooting. The only shooting will be the 21-gun salute,” Aloung said. “Any other shooting is illegal and it will be taken care of.”

Authorities have started cracking down on traffic, too. The former insurgents charged with policing Juba’s streets have been blocking the city’s ubiquitous motorcycle taxis, or “bodas,” from main roads.

“FIRST CLASS CITIZENS

The secession has been a temporary boon for the fruit and vegetable markets on the capital’s sprawling edges as southerners stock up on food ahead of the celebration.

“These days they are really buying,” said Gift Kadija, a 38-year-old vendor, who is from Uganda like many of the sellers there.

“They buy tomatoes, Irish potatoes, beans, rice, cooking oil for the celebrations. They are preparing.”

Hundreds of thousands of southerners have already returned home ahead of independence, and many more are streaming back. A flight from Khartoum last week was full of southerners carting bulging suitcases wrapped up with tape.

They were greeted in Juba by a one-room terminal crammed with passengers jostling to collect their bags. Arrival times of flights were jotted on a white marker board on the wall. Down the main road to town, pickup trucks packed with men flew South Sudan’s new flag and bullhorns blasted the new national anthem.

“We have chosen to be first class citizens,” one banner read.

“I’m very happy, very excited,” Edward Roji, a 48-year-old government worker standing near the banner, said. “I was born in this war, and I grew up in this war — over 40 years of war.”

(Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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