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[Michael Meltzer]

"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth."
 --Morpheus

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 - from Peter Kent

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The Inka Prophecy of the End of Time
Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.

Synopsis

Q. What does the Inka Prophecy reveal?
A. It announces a time of upheaval and turmoil in the world, starting in the
year 2000 and ending on 2012. This coincides with the time frame of the
prophecies of the Maya and the Hopi.

Q. When was the Prophecy read?
A. We accompanied the Inka elders with a camera crew to the Holy Mountain,
Mt. Ausangate, in 1995. I brought a map and globe of the world. This was the
first time they had ever seen a globe. At my request they read the Prophecy
for various geographical regions, including the United States and the Middle
East.

Q. What did they say about the US?
A. It really startled me, because they said that the United States was at
war. They said that we had no enemy in the ordinary sense, but that the
enemy was already within American cities. They were clear that the enemy
were terrorists that would attempt to wreck havoc on America, and that this
would go on for several years, but eventually they would be defeated.
America's courage would be tested. They claimed that buildings and public
places would be targeted, and in the documentary we showed the Federal
Building in Oklahoma City to illustrate this point. They cautioned us to be
alert, and not give in to fear. In the Middle East they foresaw 'a great
peacemaker getting killed.' Within two months Izak Rabim was assassinated.

Q. What can we do to prepare ourselves?
A. As I understood the elders, this war would involve the entire world, a
World War III. It would be fought in two camps. The first was the
battlefield, the drinking water supplies, and the cities of the Western
world. The second would be internal - and would be won by the practices of
forgiveness and compassion. The latter is the one each of us must engage
through our healing and personal transformation.

Full story The Inka Prophecy of the End of Time at:
http://www.thefourwinds.com/AProphecy.html

 - from Jimi Pocius

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Tim Tyers
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 8, 2003 12:00 AM

Pat and Kevin Tillman have returned stateside from Operation Iraqi Freedom
and have been selected by the Army to participate in a three-month-long
elite Ranger training regimen.

Pat Tillman walked away from a three-year, $3.6 million contract with the
Arizona Cardinals, and his brother Kevin gave up a minor league baseball
career to enlist in the Army in the wake of the 2001 World Trade Center
disaster in New York.

"The boys have been back for a couple of weeks now, and now they are
stationed in the Tacoma, Washington, area," their father, Patrick Tillman
Sr., said on Monday. "They are both healthy and fine, and we, of course, we
are very relieved and very happy."

Since enlisting in the Army with the plan of becoming Rangers, the Tillmans
have refused all media interviews, a policy they still enforce.

Their sacrifice as well as their service in the war in Iraq will be
recognized on ESPN's 2003 ESPY Awards on July 19, when they will receive the
Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

The brothers, both former Arizona State athletes, will not be in attendance
at the ESPY Awards program to accept the award.

"No, that will be brat No. 3, their younger brother Richard, who will accept
it," Patrick Tillman said, laughing. "To tell you the truth, the boys are
not too pleased about the ESPY thing. But I am. I'm very happy about it. I'm
proud.

"I better be careful here and not get too yappy about it."

Patrick Tillman, an attorney in Alameda, Calif., would not elaborate when
asked if his two sons saw much combat, other than to say, "That's something
they won't talk about very much."

Are they still as gung-ho about being Army Rangers now that they have
experienced combat?

"They are still pleased with the decision that they made," he said.

 - from Dennis Beggan

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States will suspend military aid to about 35
countries that didn't meet a deadline today for exempting U.S. troops from
prosecution before the new UN international war crimes tribunal.

Among the countries cut off is Colombia, the main supplier of cocaine and
heroin to the United States, where some assistance for fighting drugs and
terrorists could be in jeopardy.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the military aid cut-offs are "a
reflection of the United States' priorities to protect" its troops.

"These are the people who are able to deliver assistance to the various
states around the world and if delivering aid to those states endangers
America's servicemen and servicewomen, the president's first priority is
with the servicemen and servicewomen," he said.
Overall, about $48 million in aid will be blocked, said State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher.

Congress set a July 1 deadline for most recipients of U.S. military aid to
exempt U.S soldiers and other personnel from prosecution before the new UN
International Criminal Court. President George W. Bush's administration
fears the court could leave U.S. personnel subject to false, politically
motivated prosecutions.

Created under a 1998 treaty, the court was established to prosecute
genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity cases against nationals of
countries unwilling or unable to try the cases themselves.

Former president Bill Clinton's administration signed the treaty but the
Bush administration nullified the signature and has sought a permanent
exemption from prosecutions. Those efforts have been blocked by the European
Union, though the UN Security Council last year gave the United States a
second one-year exemption.

U.S. diplomats have pressed allies to approve bilateral agreements exempting
Americans. Advocates of the court have accused the U.S. administration of
trying to bully weaker countries and undermining an important advance in
human rights. Under the law approved by Congress last year, at least 27
foreign states were exempted from the military-aid cut-off, including the 18
other members of the NATO military alliance and the two largest recipients
of military aid, Israel and Egypt. Bush also could exempt countries if he
deemed it in the U.S. national interest.

The Bush administration did not identify the countries whose aid will be
suspended. Boucher said the list would be provided first to Congress. The
U.S. State Department has identified 44 of the more than 50 countries that
have signed agreements to exempt Americans from prosecution. Not all of the
44 countries were military aid recipients or are participating in the court.
The White House identified six countries that received full waivers: Gabon,
Gambia, Mongolia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Tajikistan. Sixteen more
received waivers until Nov. 1 or Jan. 1 to give them time to complete their
ratification processes.
Mongolia, Senegal, Botswana and Nigeria received waivers though the U.S.
State Department had not identified them as signing exemption agreements.
The State Department did not say why they were included.

The aid suspensions are not likely to have a dramatic effect right away. Not
all military assistance programs are affected. Also, with only three months
remaining in the U.S. government fiscal year, most of the money budgeted for
2004 has already been spent.

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 - from Jay Pocius