Up to now the ony answe I got to is to be aware, excercise your freewill, team up with people alike and try to make aware people around you. But as much as you can take a horse to water but cannot make it drink and prevent someone giving up liberty for a feeling of security (B, Franklin, the qute goes on - do not deserve either) or  prevents rats from swimming back to a sinking ship (W Churchill - related to the probable "echo bubble" on the stock market), I accept seing the apparent world for what it seems being  and whereever  it may be heading.

Below is an article I thought might be of interest, eve though it discusses a different aspect of that tragedy.

All the very best to everyone.

Youri

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       The decapitation of American citizen Nick Berg at the hands of
the 
Jordanian terrorist Abu Zarqawi was a shattering act of barbarism. What
is 
perhaps equally disturbing is the fact that George W. Bush could have 
prevented it -- but refused to do so.

       Long before the war, Zarqawi and his band of non-Iraqi
extremists had 
a camp in northern Iraq, in territory controlled by U.S.-backed Kurdish 
armies, who had wrested it from the hands of Saddam Hussein. American 
military and intelligence forces had a free hand to operate there;
indeed, 
anti-Saddam Iraqi exiles also held open meetings in the territory, safe 
from the reach of the dictator.

       As NBC television reported months ago, American forces
pinpointed 
Zarqawi's location in June 2002. They prepared an attack plan that
would 
have destroyed this al-Qaida associate and his terrorist band. But
their 
request to strike was turned down -- twice -- by the White House. Why? 
Because such a strike would have muddied the waters in the Regime's 
carefully calibrated public relations effort to foment war fever
against 
Saddam's regime.

       At every turn, Bush and his top officials painted a picture of
Saddam 
Hussein as a powerful dictator able to threaten the entire world. At
every 
turn, they implied, insinuated and sometimes openly declared that he
was in 
league with al-Qaida. But this fictional portrait would have been 
undermined by a raid on Zarqawi, which would have exposed the truth:
that 
Saddam was a crippled, toothless despot who had lost control of much of
his 
own land and couldn't even threaten vast enemy armies within his own 
borders -- much less threaten his neighbors or the rest of the world.
It 
would have also exposed the fact that the only al-Qaida agents
operating on 
Iraqi soil were in areas controlled by America's allies.

       Bush could have easily destroyed this barbaric al-Qaida cell,
but he 
chose instead to focus on his long-planned invasion of Iraq: a country
that 
had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks on America but was itself
a 
target of al-Qaida's hatred. Not only was Zarqawi allowed to live and 
thrive, but massive resources were also diverted from the battle
against 
Osama bin Laden in order to launch an unprovoked war of conquest and 
occupation in the most volatile region on Earth.

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       Email the Opinion Page Editor The entirely predictable results
of this 
strategic and moral folly are plain to see. Iraq has been reduced to a 
state of chaos, where Islamic extremism has free rein for the first
time. 
In Afghanistan, the Taliban and al-Qaida have made a strong comeback, 
controlling large swathes of territory and operating with impunity 
throughout the land. Indeed, al-Qaida has launched more terrorist
attacks 
around the world in the past two years than in the whole of its
previous 
history. And just last month, Bush officials told us that it is "almost 
inevitable" that al-Qaida will strike America again, this time with a 
radioactive "dirty bomb." (Perhaps in time for the election?) Like
Zarqawi, 
bin Laden has thrived on Bush's obsession with Iraq, which long
predated 
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and had nothing to do with the "war on 
terrorism" -- or indeed any desire to "liberate" the Iraqi people from 
Saddam Hussein.

       As we've noted here many times, the plan to invade Iraq was set
out 
long ago, in September 2000, by a group called Project for the New
American 
Century, whose members included Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul 
Wolfowitz and many others now in the top ranks of government. PNAC
declared 
publicly that Iraq must be conquered in order to establish an American 
military presence in the heart of the oil-rich Middle East. The issue
of 
Saddam's thuggish regime was irrelevant to this larger goal, they said. 
Here is a direct quote: "The United States has for decades sought to
play a 
more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved 
conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a 
substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of
the 
regime of Saddam Hussein."

       The Bush Regime was always going to invade and occupy Iraq, no
matter 
what. It is central to its geopolitical strategy of ensuring what it
calls 
"American dominance" of world affairs in the coming decades. The Sept.
11 
attacks gave it an opportunity to galvanize -- and manipulate -- public 
opinion in support of this long-held goal. But as we have clearly seen,
the 
real war on terror -- the one focused on capturing or eliminating
al-Qaida 
terrorists like Zarqawi and bin Laden -- has been given short shrift
while 
the Bush Regime pursues the "bigger prize" of controlling Iraq.

       Now the Regime and its apologists have seized on this latest
atrocity 
to continue their heinous and deliberate policy of conflating the Iraqi 
people with al-Qaida. They've used it to deflect attention from the 
Regime's war crimes in the prisons of Iraq, where the U.S. military's
own 
intelligence officers say that an astounding 70 to 90 percent of the 
captives have been wrongfully imprisoned, The Wall Street Journal
reports. 
Yet the war crime apologists are now declaring that the act of these 
foreign al-Qaida terrorists justifies the torture and abuse of innocent 
Iraqis.

       Nick Berg went to Iraq in search of "business opportunities"
offered 
by the Bush Team's "reconstruction" of the country they have destroyed. 
Zarqawi, who could have been eliminated long ago, was "liberated" by
Bush's 
Iraqi invasion to roam the country, thriving on the postwar chaos.
Their 
fatal encounter is a paradigm of Bush's entire misbegotten enterprise
in 
Iraq: a tragic, senseless, unnecessary waste. 

   
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Joined in one with God,
a life, violently stolen,
may your soul now rest.

I send you my love,
may humanity now learn
how urgent Now is.

---

I just saw the video of the slaying of Nick Berg. It is a sad and gruesome sight, but one which, very truly - sadly, the world *needs* to see.

I say this because, in America specifically, we are far removed and withdrawn and sheltered from the New World within which we are now hostage. A world of war, terror and death. There is no honor, no noble cause, no value or benefit from the current situation the world has run into, eagerly without cognition.

We are in a time, Now, where we are propelling ourselves deeper into a manifestation of hellish experiences on Earth for many many people.

In the US - we have no idea of what the real situation is in Iraq. We do not see the urgency of the moment that the people of Iraq see second to second - the same urgency that the US Troops also see and live.

No longer can we hide behind the smug smile of the image of a president and his mighty army liberating a joyous and grateful people.

There is no high moral ground any longer - if there was any to begin with.

It is time to reclaim our Country, our Honor, and our Reality.

Please take a moment to realize that in the "Post 9-11" world what sacrifices you have made to address this "war on terror". Please take a moment to realize that in fact, you have likely spent very little time contemplating the grave importance of Freedom which is being stolen from all of Humanity, one bomb at a time. One DU round at a time. One law, one act, one lie and one cover-up at a time.

The war on terror is nothing about the protection of your freedom - it endangers your freedom, your family and your future. The war on terror is a war on your Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness.

Please remember that Freedom, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness does *not* mean now, nor has it ever in any point in history meant, the protection of consumerism and profiteering of large US, international or global companies and defense contractors.

These rights, which shall not be infringed, are your rights - your duty - to Humanity in evolving civilization, you mind, spirit and soul.

To the glory of all life. For through Honoring what we have and are here on Earth - we Honor God, and all that is of intrinsic value in the universe - regardless of Religion, Race or Creed. Existence is sacred, and its time we took the sanctity of our life and world back from those who wish to have a world of blind, feuding spiritually divided slaves to corporate profits and political regimes of nepotistic hegemony.