The Downfall of the True Occult - Catholism in Australia..

The sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children by the priests and clergy of the Catholic Church have long been known to occur.  I have known people from my own childhood in the care of the government of Queensland.  There were many many horror stories. 

Now the O'Farrell Government of New South Wales has called for an investigation into the church and they are calling for the terms of reference to be widened to take in the entire Catholic Church of Australia.  Instead the Government have bowed down to the church once again and have now switched tac's and are now trying to ask for an inquiry into the Police who were investigating the allegations of abuse.

This is outrageous and together with the mining issues the government has this will bring about a complete uprising in the peoples hearts.  You cannot do this to abused people like they are those sheep sent to slaughter in Pakistan recently.  These are people with thoughts and feelings and by negating every single one of these by switching from the investigation of the Church to the investigation of the Police is reprehensible to say the least. 

St Mel's Catholic Church, Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia (Photo credit: ausgenjourneys)

From the AM Program

NSW Govt criticised over abuse inquiry

Emily Bourke reported this story on Saturday, November 10, 2012 08:08:00

ELIZABETH JACKSON: The New South Wales Government's decision to establish a special commission of inquiry into the police, rather than the Catholic Church, in relation to allegations of sexual abuse by priests, has been labelled a decoy.

The announcement of the inquiry by the New South Wales Premier came in response to explosive allegations by a senior detective who claimed the church actively and systematically hampered police investigations into pedophilia in the New South Wales Hunter region.

This morning there are renewed calls for the resignation of Catholic Cardinal George Pell and a nationwide Royal Commission to investigate decades of sexual abuse of children and alleged cover ups by the Catholic church.

Emily Bourke reports.

EMILY BOURKE: The New South Wales inquiry will look at how police handled claims of sexual abuse by priests in the Hunter region after a senior detective detailed allegations of a cover-up by the Catholic Church.

Nationals MP Troy Grant welcomes the special commission of inquiry but he says it's not enough by itself.

TROY GRANT: This inquiry is not the golden panacea to address the broader issues about the Church's response to paedophilia, or their lack of response, and inappropriate response, and their actions to thwart investigations or to interfere. That is most definitely the domain of a national Royal Commission in my view.

EMILY BOURKE: As a police officer in the 1990s, Troy Grant led an investigation in the Newcastle area that uncovered the abuse of 35 people.

He says the leadership of the Catholic Church remains unaccountable.

TROY GRANT: The behaviour of the Church has been consistent back in the 70s right through to the mid-2000s, which is why I've called for the leader of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Pell, to fall on his sword.

He should've and could've done more and done better. I think he's lost the moral right to decide whether the Church's response is now appropriate.

That should be left to a Royal Commission.

EMILY BOURKE: But Troy Grant says a state-based Royal Commission would be half-hearted.

TROY GRANT: The country owns this problem.

These offenders have been moved. There's been a systematic process of them being moved from parish to parish, from state to state, from country to country.

The states do not have the capacity to properly investigate that to get to the bottom of this problem, it has to be at a national level.

EMILY BOURKE: But Frank Brennan, a leading human rights lawyer and Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University, disagrees.

FRANK BRENNAN: I think a Royal Commission has become something of a platitude.

I think to have a specific inquiry at this stage in relation to the events at Newcastle is helpful in that it helps to focus on an area under diocese where there's obviously been considerable trouble. And to try and get clarity about an appropriate way forward there might then give lessons for other places and for the future.

My concern still about a Royal Commission as such, particularly at a national level, would be that it would be such an open-ended process that whether or not you'd get the same learnings, I just don't know.

EMILY BOURKE: During her trip to Bali this week, the Prime Minister was asked whether it was time for a proper inquiry.

She expressed her concern about the issue but said she'd review the latest revelations when she returns to Australia.

JUDY COURTIN: A Royal Commission is a bit of a no-brainer and should be non-negotiable.

EMILY BOURKE: Judy Courtin is a Melbourne-based lawyer who is researching abuse within the Catholic Church and its response.

JUDY COURTIN: The reasons for a Royal Commission have existed for decades.

What's different now is that there is, after many decades of hundreds and hundreds of people trying to do something about these crimes, finally these victims are being heard, they're being listened to.

I think there is an extraordinary amount of momentum growing for a Royal Commission, and I don't see that there's any other way out.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Judy Courtin, a Melbourne-based lawyer, ending that report from AM's Emily Bourke.

And we have attempted to contact George Pell this morning and invited him to appear on Saturday AM, but so far our calls haven't been returned. 

 Images @ Melonpopzdropz Flickr

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist when he grows up.

Pablo Picasso..

Heart at Hungry Head.

The government cuts funding to the arts because the creative thoughts may come to something and someone may actually work something out.  I think they are concerned if the masses get too clever.

In the mean time I will continue with  my art of photography and finding heart shapes in fun places.

Image by Mezza -A heart shape in the wood washed up on the beach at Hungry Head NSW

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

This quote about water is from Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey, 1957.

An annoying woman is like this tap below. Well that is what the bible quotes she is. As annoying as a dripping tap. Gee I was really interested to find they had taps let alone ones that dripped and annoyed in biblical times. Hectic. I suppose it is allegorical.


Image by Mezza - A dripping tap at the waters edge in Urunga

Management of sleep disturbances

Management of Sleep Disorders that are secondary to mental, medical, or substance abuse disorders should focus on the underlying conditions

Bring me my bed.  I am tired already and its only Saturday morning.  I went to bed late last night around 1:00 am in order to sleep to a more sociable time and instead I still woke up at the usual 4am time.  Three hours in my bed if that. I regularly only ever sleep five hours so I may need to find those couple later on somewhere.

When I was a tiny child I never slept well then either.   Because of this affliction  I got the nick name "Cinderella",  which was conveniently shortened to Cindy by Edith.

This name for me suited her very well as she had such a hard time even saying my mothers name which was  Ellen. My name is part of her name and she just couldn't say it. Kay said she called me all sorts of things until "Cindy" was settled upon.

Many people still call me Cindy.  A couple of people even have this name (attributed to me) tattooed on their bodies as Cindy.  My very good friend Rosey has my name on her wrist.  I had her's and I am going to get it put back now.  By order of Montana and Rosey.

Image by Mezza - Dawn over the Pilot House in Urunga

Cosmic Party 2012

On the Hill we are feeling star struck.  Our bodies are our space suits if you like to think of it in this way.  Personally,  I would love an updated space suit  because this one has a few cracks and tears.   This happened when I forgot who I was and I acted as If I were a rock.  Hard and metamorphic and unforgiving.  I am outta the rock phase now and into the skip of the hip hop and loving life again with its emotions

If you have an understanding of what I am conveying here you will know that as you awaken and you will realize  that your true family isn't those of your own race, religion, culture, county, or even your biological family.  Your true family is your cosmic family.   Those who have come as you have come, on assignment to assist in ways large and small in the current transition occurring here on this planet.  Souls who have been close to us here are now leaving at a rapid rate. It has begun.

While I have been here inhabiting planet Earth I wanted to experience self sufficiency since the very beginning.  I have yet to do this fully.   I guess I didn't chose well to put myself through that test.  I know that I love camping so I may pass but it will be an only just pass.  I have one thing going for me and that is my heart.  It wells with the emotions of  love and creativity and the wonder of the miracle of life itself.

I am a true Star Seed.  I came here to experience life on a level that at times  even I can only wonder why.  I came with the full ferocity of a fire exploding into a brilliant flame.  The flame got very low at various times and was almost extinguished on occasions. 

I put myself here to experience this.  I had then to experience the fear that came with protecting my space suit while I was here.  Everyone is obsessed pretty well in certain parts of the world.  I was in one of those areas, I chose to not deface my suit by shaving it.  My suit hated being shaved.  I never pulled at it and yanked hairs out in my earlier time, waiting until a certain maturity was reached before participating in that one.

My space suit is my body and my skin.  It protects me from the environmental changes going on around me and at times I have meltdowns and freeze ups and I think this is similar to our awesome sun and the CME's it emits.  I feel like the sun appears and all I can say to describe this is; Stuff is coming out of me.  and all of  the plasma in my body is swaying and moving and emotionally I am directly affected.

I have blue eyes and blonde hair.  My blonde hair is a dead give away to my true star lineage.  A Pleiadian light worker,   One of the blondes and subject to the phenomena of the "The Blondening" as apposed to the "Quickening" .  I am being slightly in jest here and the reason why they joke about us is because we are suckers for love.  We are gullible and  tend to think everyone here on this plane just vibrates on love but they don't!  You know that you have seen blonde aboriginals and they say the original aboriginal person did have blonde hair and blue eyes.  We are from the same place

It has been said of my hair that it feels out of this world.  I sound rather self obsessed but I have to say that it does feel pretty special.  I have been clinging to a few hairs since my birth.  Never ever going to sleep with out a few hairs clasped expertly in my fingers and the feeling is unimaginable and divine.  I find this hard to explain as it is more than just playing with my hair.  I set my self a challenge once and that was to see how I felt with out this hair and so I shaved it all off bald.  I was fine but my children suffered badly and were ever so embarrassed and to this day I still cannot work out why.

I am now an usher.  When you go to the movies and you are late, the usher shows you the way in with a torch and seats you in a place and does this in a manner as to not upset the other participators who are watching the movie.  Here on Earth I am an usher in training. I have a massive torch and it is my heart.    I still experience great turmoil about not being listened to and my throat Chakra  which is the colour blue  is a little blocked.  I want to get it spinning. I want to rectify the energies here
Psycho-spiritually speaking.   Blue relates to self expression.   For a long time this has been an issue.


Speech, communication, and the ability to communicate our needs and requirements,  is our Spirit of truth and purpose.  When this chakra is balanced the positive aspects of this colour will prevail. However, an imbalance here can produce the negative aspects of this colour and a display of disloyalty, unfaithfulness, self righteousness and a coldness of heart will surface.  When back in balance I will be extremely loyal and very trustworthy, tactful and calm.  This is the perfect state for this Chakra.  This is what we try to achieve here on earth.

I see all of these wheels as cogs, always have.  My personal cognizants and I  must see the cogs turning beautifully and smoothly. With not much knowledge of the chakra system  I still managed to see  these wheels inside of myself and at the time I was too concerned with other projects to slow down enough to care.   Now it is time for all of this to come to a crossroads and its  time to usher in the changes.    I do understand their purposes now  as I have seen them in operation.  They connect me to the universe and all of the forces that ensue.  This is the number one reason for the abilities I have that some term as psychic.  We brought these abilities with us from other places and where we came from this is the way communication occurs and not with the basic levels of communication  used here.

CME's = Coronal Mass Ejections  release huge quantities of matter and electromagnetic radiation into space above the sun's surface, either near the corona (sometimes called a solar prominence) or farther into the planet system or beyond (interplanetary CME). The ejected material is a plasma consisting primarily of electrons and protons, but may contain small quantities of heavier elements such as helium, oxygen, and even iron. It is associated with enormous changes and disturbances in the coronal magnetic field.
(from Wikipedia)

Image of Mezza -  A large log at the Christmas Waterholes at Gleniffer NSW Australia

My Religion is very simple, It is kindness. Dalai Lama

I have a thing about Religion doing its thing on the  people.  It is a binding up agent, a farce.  It is a very tight knit in crowd type group.  Religion is very evil.  It has kept humanity from discovering the potential we are meant to be walking this earth plane in.
We are here for such a short time in light of eternity. We could enjoy the heavenly bliss of our mortal lives while we have our mortal lives if we don't listen to the liars on earth.
Live a happy fulfilled life.  If you bless someone with kindness, it keeps an energy going around the world and that energy is love.  Love is the highest vibration there is.

Image by Mezza - The beautiful heavenly sky over the Pacific Ocean Australia

Nunguu Miirlarl - Gumbaynggirr

This is a kangaroo increase site. Senior ‘clever men’ from the tribe would visit Nunguu Mirral to perform ceremonies to ensure that the time was right to hunt kangaroo in the tribal area.

Nunguu Miirlarl - PICKETT HILL

The last initiation was held in this area around 1920.  This area is rich in cultural heritage to the Gumbaynggirr people.

Jagun Nature Reserve was purchased under the Coastal Lands Protection Scheme and gazetted in 1999. The reserve covers 100 hectares and is approximately one kilometre north of Valla Nature Reserve. The creek bed of Oyster Creek forms the north-western boundary of the reserve. Part of the inlet to Oyster Creek also lies within the reserve.  The corridor of the North Coast Railway Line forms the south-western boundary. The eastern boundary of the reserve runs along the mean high water mark of North Valla Beach.
Image by Mezza - Looking towards Pickett Hill from North Beach.

Nunguu Miirlarl - Gumbaynggirr

This is a kangaroo increase site. Senior ‘clever men’ from the tribe would visit Nunguu Mirral to perform ceremonies to ensure that the time was right to hunt kangaroo in the tribal area.

Nunguu Miirlarl - PICKETT HILL

The last initiation was held in this area around 1920.  This area is rich in cultural heritage to the Gumbaynggirr people.

Jagun Nature Reserve was purchased under the Coastal Lands Protection Scheme and gazetted in 1999. The reserve covers 100 hectares and is approximately one kilometre north of Valla Nature Reserve. The creek bed of Oyster Creek forms the north-western boundary of the reserve. Part of the inlet to Oyster Creek also lies within the reserve.  The corridor of the North Coast Railway Line forms the south-western boundary. The eastern boundary of the reserve runs along the mean high water mark of North Valla Beach.
Image by Mezza - Looking towards Pickett Hill from North Beach.

I wonder why I want to go on  examining the old emotions again ~ I suppose it is because it isn't sorted.   So we will see as time goes on and as the Sun dawns on me a few more times if things do actually change. 

This is what I have been taking to the sunshine and laying into the light.  This stuff about the past and how to deal with it and I have been letting the light onto the subject so to speak!  I have not been afraid to brooch God for an answer to this.  I think that the God  of the Universe knows and knows everything because this is our source of all things!  The light and God are similar or the same.  I am not sure of this.  I feel a sense of reverence though.

If we as plants were to go one day with out light we would immediately start to die. This doesn't happen to us that quickly or so it may seem.  But the moment we have less light hitting our eyes we are dying.  It is this sort of light that I am speaking of.

Everything is better when light is shone onto it.  Things are much scarier in the dark.  Hell,  the dark even makes things appear very different to what they may be in the light. 

In the bible it also says many times that Jesus is the Light of the world.  Jesus doesn't make the plants grow with this light.  The light that is spoken of is knowledge.   In ancient times we were privy to much ancient knowledge that for the purposes of greed has been bred out of us and the story lines have been lost.

In aboriginal culture here in Australia they tried to destroy this as well.  Thank God that some of those story lines do still exist if only a few,  This is a sad reality, but at least some survived..

Our most ancient knowledge has also been bred out of the white folk as well.  We have no idea of our northern Nordic past. Plundering badly in long boats.  I am sure there were story lines there as well.  We do know the answers.  They are encoded within your very genetic make up.  The code for all of the past is there right back to the beginning.

This sort of technology is a little frightening  but also ground breaking.  I worry about it in the hands of the wrong person.

In times past we had to esteem our leaders and they made it difficult for the mere mortal to enter the courts. But now, it is a mere mortal who has invented the technology to outsmart this sort of LORDING over.  No longer will the knowledge be hidden in secret.  The knowledge of the absolute corruption that has shaped this society and various other societies over the years.

Image by Mezza - A Peewee on the Flagstaff

I wonder why I want to go on  examining the old emotions again ~ I suppose it is because it isn't sorted.   So we will see as time goes on and as the Sun dawns on me a few more times if things do actually change. 

This is what I have been taking to the sunshine and laying into the light.  This stuff about the past and how to deal with it and I have been letting the light onto the subject so to speak!  I have not been afraid to brooch God for an answer to this.  I think that the God  of the Universe knows and knows everything because this is our source of all things!  The light and God are similar or the same.  I am not sure of this.  I feel a sense of reverence though.

If we as plants were to go one day with out light we would immediately start to die. This doesn't happen to us that quickly or so it may seem.  But the moment we have less light hitting our eyes we are dying.  It is this sort of light that I am speaking of.

Everything is better when light is shone onto it.  Things are much scarier in the dark.  Hell,  the dark even makes things appear very different to what they may be in the light. 

In the bible it also says many times that Jesus is the Light of the world.  Jesus doesn't make the plants grow with this light.  The light that is spoken of is knowledge.   In ancient times we were privy to much ancient knowledge that for the purposes of greed has been bred out of us and the story lines have been lost.

In aboriginal culture here in Australia they tried to destroy this as well.  Thank God that some of those story lines do still exist if only a few,  This is a sad reality, but at least some survived..

Our most ancient knowledge has also been bred out of the white folk as well.  We have no idea of our northern Nordic past. Plundering badly in long boats.  I am sure there were story lines there as well.  We do know the answers.  They are encoded within your very genetic make up.  The code for all of the past is there right back to the beginning.

This sort of technology is a little frightening  but also ground breaking.  I worry about it in the hands of the wrong person.

In times past we had to esteem our leaders and they made it difficult for the mere mortal to enter the courts. But now, it is a mere mortal who has invented the technology to outsmart this sort of LORDING over.  No longer will the knowledge be hidden in secret.  The knowledge of the absolute corruption that has shaped this society and various other societies over the years.

Image by Mezza - A Peewee on the Flagstaff

The Biblical name for angel, מלאך mal'ach, which translates simply as "messenger,"

May the angel who redeems me from all evil, bless the children, and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them flourish like fish for multitude in the midst of the land. 

(Genesis 48:16)

 In Zoroastrianism there are different angel-like figures. For example, each person has one guardian angel, called Fravashi. They patronise human beings and other creatures, and also manifest God’s energy.

I like to craft things from virtually nothing, creating something useful from what others may term as rubbish or view with little or no importance.  It is within that framework of this that I try to find the original beauty from the elemets presented to me.

Pictured is part of this work and the beads seemingly took on a persona of an angel.  As soon as it was hung in the window I saw her and I felt compelled to say hello and bring her to the fore.

We all know angels hang out in strange places.  This angel seems to want to hang out in my back window, what a treat.  It is nice in the sun in this window and that is why I like it here also.


When the creative wave washed over me I tend to create something.  This time it was the Angel!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels

Images @ Eminpee Fotography 

The Biblical name for angel, מלאך mal'ach, which translates simply as "messenger,"

May the angel who redeems me from all evil, bless the children, and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them flourish like fish for multitude in the midst of the land. 

(Genesis 48:16)

In Zoroastrianism there are different angel-like figures. For example, each person has one guardian angel, called Fravashi. They patronise human beings and other creatures, and also manifest God’s energy.

I often make things from virtually nothing creating something useful from what others may term as rubbish or view with little or no esteem.  It is within these things that I try to find the original beauty from the pieces elements as presented to me.
I have all of my beads out on the table and I have been waiting for that wave to overcome me as it does and when it does is when I create these decals.  I love them and I love to make them from various materials.

Pictured above is part of the base of one of these and the beads seemingly took on a persona of an angel.  As soon as it was hung in the window I saw her and I felt compelled to say hello.
We all know angels hang out in strange places.  This angel seems to want to hang out in my back window and I love her and think she is quite lovely.  I think she likes the sun like I do and that is why she has chosen to hang out here with me in this spot.

I will get this wave I talk about and it is a creative wave.  I tend to call it the zone.  It isn't something I can manipulate though.  It comes and when it comes I do not have much control as I will create the most amazing things no matter where I am or whatever is at my disposal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels

Image by Mezza - Part of one of the window decals I made. 

Pickett Hill and Graft n Eruption

That was funny because lately all I have been thinking about is volcanoes near here. My young friend was wanting a name for an event and Graft N Eruption came straight to mind as a small play on words from Graft and corruption pun.   Anyway I hope that is a success for those fellahs up that way! It is all about the music and we must remember that and its so good to see that Malachi MC is following this principal in his business he loves.

Lately  I was fascinated with Pickett Hill.  I know now that it is a sacred place and young men are told to stay away! So I don't think that I will be going to close! If men are to stay away then why were the elder woman not respected at the meeting by national parks etc.  Very sad.

This hill still fascinates me though.  I am going to see a really big hill in May ... I am going to Uluru.  I live on a hill and this blog is called On the Hill.  I like hills.  I like high points.  Not sure if it is because I have experienced so many floods and this is the end result.

 

 For tomorrow the sun comes and goes like this on Fri Feb 17  

First Light 6:04am

Sunrise  6:28am

Sunset   7:34pm 

Last Light 7:59pm

Image by Mezza - Pickett Hill taken from Hungry Head.

Pickett Hill and Graft n Eruption

That was funny because lately all I have been thinking about is volcanoes near here. My young friend was wanting a name for an event and Graft N Eruption came straight to mind as a small play on words from Graft and corruption pun.   Anyway I hope that is a success for those fellahs up that way! It is all about the music and we must remember that and its so good to see that Malachi MC is following this principal in his business he loves.

Lately  I was fascinated with Pickett Hill.  I know now that it is a sacred place and young men are told to stay away! So I don't think that I will be going to close! If men are to stay away then why were the elder woman not respected at the meeting by national parks etc.  Very sad.

This hill still fascinates me though.  I am going to see a really big hill in May ... I am going to Uluru.  I live on a hill and this blog is called On the Hill.  I like hills.  I like high points.  Not sure if it is because I have experienced so many floods and this is the end result.

 

 For tomorrow the sun comes and goes like this on Fri Feb 17  

First Light 6:04am

Sunrise  6:28am

Sunset   7:34pm 

Last Light 7:59pm

Image by Mezza - Pickett Hill taken from Hungry Head.

Dawn today over the footbridge in Urunga

The golden light of this Saturday morning was glorious but I could see some rain building and a storm on the front.  I stood and took some images and gazed longingly into the pureness of the dawning suns healing light. 

Last week I met someone who told me that it took 9 minutes for your entire blood supply to pass by your eyes and this healing light.  This light is capable of bleaching things in its brilliance.  When you look into the sun you are perhaps bleaching your blood of the impurities within that cannot be dissipated any other way than by the suns rays into your eyes at either dawn or sunset at an hour either side of this.  Other times the suns radiation is too strong and will cause you damage.  This is where common sense kicks in and you make the choice not to do it then.

One hour after this image was shot the sky opened up and bucketed down once more.  Lightening and thunder all around and a shaking dog once more.

Image by Mezza - Dawn at Urunga

Dawn today over the footbridge in Urunga

The golden light of this Saturday morning was glorious but I could see some rain building and a storm on the front.  I stood and took some images and gazed longingly into the pureness of the dawning suns healing light. 

Last week I met someone who told me that it took 9 minutes for your entire blood supply to pass by your eyes and this healing light.  This light is capable of bleaching things in its brilliance.  When you look into the sun you are perhaps bleaching your blood of the impurities within that cannot be dissipated any other way than by the suns rays into your eyes at either dawn or sunset at an hour either side of this.  Other times the suns radiation is too strong and will cause you damage.  This is where common sense kicks in and you make the choice not to do it then.

One hour after this image was shot the sky opened up and bucketed down once more.  Lightening and thunder all around and a shaking dog once more.

Image by Mezza - Dawn at Urunga

Sergeant Matthew Locke- Killed in action on October 25, 2007 - aged 33 - The War is over for some..

The convoy’s departure came three days after the American military folded its flag in a ceremony to celebrate the end of its mission and marked the end of the nearly nine year war.    

The war launched in March 2003 with missiles striking Baghdad to oust President Saddam Hussein.. and then the the American military slipped out of the country last week, the world hardly noticed at all.

Sergeant Matthew Locke- Killed in action on October 25, 2007 - aged 33

He was a Special Air Service Regiment, the 3rd Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan.

He was also killed by Taliban fighters in Oruzgan Province.

 On 25 October 2007, Locke, who was serving a second tour of duty in Afghanistan, was engaged in a firefight with members of the Taliban militia, when he was injured in the chest by small arms fire. Other soldiers in his unit provided first-aid care prior to and during evacuation to a medical facility, where he died a short time later. Gurkha Lance Corporal Agnish Thapa, serving in the 1st Royal Gurkha Rifles, British Army was awarded the Military Cross for running 100 metres (110 yd) through enemy machine gun and RPG fire and extracted Locke by physically dragging him back to cover. Locke was killed while serving in Orūzgān Province. During his first tour of duty, Locke had been awarded the Medal for Gallantry.

Locke came from Bellingen.  ...

• The War In Iraq Is Over [Big Picture] (jezebel.com)
• The Last American Killed in Iraq (newser.com)
• Iraq: The Biggest Mistake In American Military History (forbes.com)
• The Iraq war pronounced dead - The Nation, Pakistan (nation.com.pk)
• At War Blog: Last Convoy of American Troops Leaves Iraq, Marking an End to the War (atwar.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Afghan chief wants Diggers to leave (smh.com.au)

the American military slipped out of the country last week, the world hardnoticed\\\\\\\

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The War is over for some..

The convoy’s departure came three days after the American military folded its flag in a ceremony to celebrate the end of its mission and marked the end of the nearly nine year war.    

The war launched in March 2003 with missiles striking Baghdad to oust President Saddam Hussein.. and then the the American military slipped out of the country last week, the world hardly noticed at all.

Sergeant Matthew Locke- Killed in action on October 25, 2007 - aged 33

He was a Special Air Service Regiment, the 3rd Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan.

He was also killed by Taliban fighters in Oruzgan Province.

 On 25 October 2007, Locke, who was serving a second tour of duty in Afghanistan, was engaged in a firefight with members of the Taliban militia, when he was injured in the chest by small arms fire. Other soldiers in his unit provided first-aid care prior to and during evacuation to a medical facility, where he died a short time later. Gurkha Lance Corporal Agnish Thapa, serving in the 1st Royal Gurkha Rifles, British Army was awarded the Military Cross for running 100 metres (110 yd) through enemy machine gun and RPG fire and extracted Locke by physically dragging him back to cover. Locke was killed while serving in Orūzgān Province. During his first tour of duty, Locke had been awarded the Medal for Gallantry.

Locke came from Bellingen.  ...

• The War In Iraq Is Over [Big Picture] (jezebel.com)
• The Last American Killed in Iraq (newser.com)
• Iraq: The Biggest Mistake In American Military History (forbes.com)
• The Iraq war pronounced dead - The Nation, Pakistan (nation.com.pk)
• At War Blog: Last Convoy of American Troops Leaves Iraq, Marking an End to the War (atwar.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Afghan chief wants Diggers to leave (smh.com.au)

the American military slipped out of the country last week, the world hardnoticed\\\\\\\

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They tried to denigrate 'Secret Woman's Business'

Stuff kept in secret is kept that way for a reason.  If you are trusted with a secret, always remember loose lips sink ships. 

Trouble always ensues when someone divulges a secret.  It is no longer a secret.
Secretive .. Secret woman's business..  

Looking out over the mouth of the Kalang and Bellinger Rivers towards the Heads.

Pain eases with apology over Ngarrindjeri secret women's business by: David Nason  July  2010 

As apologies go it lacked the grandeur of Kevin Rudd's 2008 sorry to the Stolen Generations and the awe of Paul Keating's Redfern speech of 1992.

But for the Ngarrindjeri women who had come to Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray to have their most sacred stories and songs vindicated, the words were powerful and felt deeply.
They gathered at Jekejere Park near the foot of the Hindmarsh Island bridge and heard South Australian Water Minister Paul Caica officially endorse the 2001 finding of Federal Court judge John von Doussa that their "secret women's business" was genuine.
Mr Caica said he hoped the acknowledgment could help heal the pain caused by the construction of the bridge and by a royal commission finding that the Ngarrindjeri beliefs were a hoax.

From Wikipedia:  Controversy plagued the work of the Royal Commission. The 'proponent women' refused to give evidence to the Commission; 'dissident' Ngarrindjeri women claimed threats and intimidation; Ngarrindjeri elder, Doug Milera reportedly withdrew his allegations that the 'secret women's business' had been fabricated; amateur historian, Betty Fisher, told the Commission she had first been told of the 'secret women's business' in 1960; and anthropologists from the South Australian Museum disputed the existence of the 'secret women's business'.

The Women.

The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, western Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term ngarrindjeri means "belonging to men", and refers to a "tribal constellation".

 Image by Mezza - Urunga playground at the foreshore 2011

Secret womans business

Stuff kept in secret is kept that way for a reason.  If you are trusted with a secret, always remember loose lips sink ships.  Trouble always ensues when someone divulges a secret.  It is no longer a secret.
Secretive .. Secret woman's business..  This was a travesty.   This may just have happened because the spiritual law meant it was a secret. Doesn't make what happened right though... SECRET is something that is between you and God.

Looking out over the mouth of the Kalang and Bellinger Rivers towards the Heads.

Pain eases with apology over Ngarrindjeri secret women's business  by: David Nason  July  2010 

As apologies go it lacked the grandeur of Kevin Rudd's 2008 sorry to the Stolen Generations and the awe of Paul Keating's Redfern speech of 1992.

But for the Ngarrindjeri women who had come to Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray to have their most sacred stories and songs vindicated, the words were powerful and felt deeply.

They gathered at Jekejere Park near the foot of the Hindmarsh Island bridge and heard South Australian Water Minister Paul Caica officially endorse the 2001 finding of Federal Court judge John von Doussa that their "secret women's business" was genuine.
Mr Caica said he hoped the acknowledgment could help heal the pain caused by the construction of the bridge and by a royal commission finding that the Ngarrindjeri beliefs were a hoax.

From Wikipedia:  Controversy plagued the work of the Royal Commission. The 'proponent women' refused to give evidence to the Commission; 'dissident' Ngarrindjeri women claimed threats and intimidation; Ngarrindjeri elder, Doug Milera reportedly withdrew his allegations that the 'secret women's business' had been fabricated; amateur historian, Betty Fisher, told the Commission she had first been told of the 'secret women's business' in 1960; and anthropologists from the South Australian Museum disputed the existence of the 'secret women's business'.

 Image by Mezza - Urunga playground at the foreshore 2011