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Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005 Dear Readers: On the sad anniversary of the Sept. 11 incident, here's a mostly complete compilation of my writing on the subject, and related subjects -- including a couple of early pieces on Iraq. These articles are all from the open archives, as well as from Chronogram, rather than the subscriber archives; I would suspect there is a bit more on the subscriber side. I included just one article specifically on the astrology of the Bush administration, which is a different genre. In 1814, Thomas Jefferson said, in a letter, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." I think that today, we need to take these words to heart. Part of the vigilance we need is to know when we are being mislead, when we're being emotionally manipulated, and when someone in power has a hidden agenda. Being trusting is a great human virtue. But that is different than being naïve. We live in a time when we're both confronted with vast amounts of information, and when we doubt that there is such a thing as the truth. We can leave the truth out of the discussion and look for certain basic facts that point to other basic facts. It is easy to say, "There is no such thing as the truth, therefore, I will not consider the facts." It's also easy to say, "These facts are disturbing, therefore I'm not going to deal with them." A little too easy. I doubt these articles will lighten up your day, but I hope you'll at least find them evocative, perhaps even informative, whether or not you agree with where I'm coming from. For a bit of biting levity, The Onion has done a job on the flood story at this link: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40305 And there is a parody of the White House web page called http://whitehouse.org/ Here ya go on the 9/11 articles. Hold, on world... e ------------------------------- Hold On World http://www.ericfrancis.com/articles/holdonworld.html Mercury Also Rises http://www.ericfrancis.com/articles/mercury.html Why Does the Moon? http://planetwaves.net/contents/light.html Sept. 11, 1984 http://www.ericfrancis.com/planetwaves/9eleven1984.html Were It So http://www.ericfrancis.com/articles/wereitso.html I Was There http://www.ericfrancis.com/issues/0209/0209nine11essays.html Mars, Chiron & Iraq http://planetwaves.net/astrology/marschironiraq.html The Case of the Occultation http://www.ericfrancis.com/issues/0308/kelly_astro.html Lightwork Update http://planetwaves.net/contents/light.html All the Usual Suspects http://planetwaves.net/astrology/londonterroristbombings.html Bush for President http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2004/09/backbone/planetwaves/ The One We All Missed http://planetwavesweekly.com/book/chapter17.html The Anti-9/11 http://planetwaves.net/contents/anti_9_11.html
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