Our Round Table (Table 26 in Essen) is proud to present the 2nd auction for selling art as a charity to help kids and their mothers when they are in difficult situations.

We sponsor additional aids to recent mothers by prolonging the time mid wifes support them. This helps keeping them connected to the society and avoids starting the vicous circle of neglect.

From every piece of art you buy, we donate 50% to the project "secure start" (Sicher Start in German). So join us on November 16th and get yourself some interesting art! More information at http://www.aRTessen.de (sorry, only in German).

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Release Date: 2008-10-22
Language: Japanese

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01 ナガレボシ
02 茜色センチメンタル
03 祈り
04 ナガレボシ -without Nino-
05 茜色センチメンタル -without Nino-

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"It would have been quite impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries ..."
- David Rockefeller, Bilderberg club permanent member, 1991

This conversation never happened. Well, it actually did. Date: March 5 to 8, 2005. Location: the isolated, fully-booked Dorint Sofitel Seehotel Ueberfahrt in Rottach-Egern, 60 kilometers east of Munich, Germany. Essential amenities: luxury rooms, a lake, a golf course, no suits - and no wives. Participants: 120-odd Western movers and shakers - politicians, tycoons, bankers, captains of industry, so-called strategic thinkers - invited for the 2005 meeting of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg club. Security: absolutely draconian. Global media coverage: non-existent.

Talk about white man's burden: Bilderberg is strictly "Western" elite, ie American-European. Bilderberg resolutely excludes Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Bilderberg operates in strictly master of the universe territory: what we say goes. Only when events happen will corporate media report them, even though selected media people would have been aware of what has been decided weeks or even months in advance. The New York Times, the Big Three American networks, the Financial Times have all been represented at many Bilderbergs. But they are constrained by the silence of the lambs (see Asia Times Online's report on Bilderberg 2003 in Versailles The masters of the universe May 22, 2003)

Bilderberg has an address - in Leiden, Holland - and even a phone number - always on female answering-machine mode. No website though. In an annual ritual, Bilderberg meeting places and agendas have to be painstakingly uncovered by a small group of independent sleuths like Briton Tony Gosling or American James Tucker - who has been following Bilderberg for 30 years. Tucker is publishing a book on Bilderberg later this year. Historian Pierre de Villemarest and journalist William Wolf have already published Facts and Chronicles Denied to the Public, volumes 1 and 2, which include a secret history of Bilderberg. Belgian sociologist Geoffrey Geuens from the University of Liege has also included a full chapter on Bilderberg in one of his books. Although Geuens condemns Bilderberg's obsessive secrecy, he does not subscribe to conspiracy theories: he prefers to study how Bilderberg unmasks the way power works and the incestuous relations between politics, economics and the media.

Whenever corporate media approaches Bilderberg it mirrors the silence of the lambs. In 2005, the Financial Times released a classic pre-emptive story downplaying what it qualifies as conspiracy theories. In fact, anyone who questions the most powerful club in the world is derided as a conspiracy theorist. Bilderbergers like British lords or American policy-makers meekly justify it as "just a place to discuss ideas", an innocent "forum" where anyone can "speak frankly", and other assorted cliches.

Bilderberger Etienne Davignon, a former vice president of the European Commission, adamantly stresses "this is not a capitalist plot to run the world". Thierry de Montbrial, director of the French Institute of International Relations and a Bilderberg member for almost 30 years, says this is only "a club". The official Bilderberg 2002 press release, for instance, said that "Bilderberg's only activity is its annual conference. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken and no policy statements issued." Bilderberg is just "a small flexible, informal and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced". This is, in fact, what the much-lauded "trans-Atlantic relationship" is all about.

Members only
The Bilderberg group - which took its name from a Dutch hotel - was founded in 1954 by Prince Bernhard from the Netherlands. German-born Bernhard was a card-carrying Nazi and member of the SS. As it is well-known, Prescott Bush was an officer of W A Harriman & Co, which financed Adolf Hitler and the Nazis with the help of Averell Harriman and German tycoon Fritz Thyssen. Alden Hatch wrote a biography of Prince Bernhard where he insists that Bilderberg was the cradle of the European Community - later rebranded European Union. He describes Bilderberg's ultimate goal as a one-world government.

Bilderberg's membership is heavily crossed with the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pilgrims Society, the Trilateral Commission and the famous "Round Table" - a British, Oxford-Cambridge elite group crystallized in the homonymous journal of empire founded in 1910. The Round Table - which also denied its existence as a formal group - called for a more efficient form of global empire so that Anglo-American hegemony could be extended throughout the 20th century.

Bilderberg regulars include Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller (of JP Morgan's International Council), Nelson Rockefeller, Prince Philip of Great Britain, Robert McNamara (J F Kennedy's secretary of defense and former president of the World Bank), Margaret Thatcher, former French president (and main redactor of the EU constitution) Valery Giscard D'Estaing, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan. The Rothschild family has hosted many Bilderbergs. In 1962 and 1973, on the island resort of Saltsjobaden, Sweden, the hosts were the Wallenberg banking family.

Some of these masters control more of the universe than others. They are the members of the steering committee, which includes Josef Ackermann (Deutsche Bank), Jorma Ollila (Nokia), Jeurgen Schrempp (DaimlerChrysler), Peter Sutherland (former North Atlantic Treaty Organization - NATO - general and now with Goldman Sachs), James Wolfensohn (the outgoing World Bank president) and the "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle. Iraq war conceptualist and incoming World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is a also a Bilderberg permanent member. George W Bush happened to be in the neighborhood - the Netherlands, for the World War II commemorations - during Bilderberg 2005. He may have dropped in. Bush did meet Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who must be present at every Bilderberg.

To whose advantage?
Bilderberg certainly is not an executive council. British economist Will Hutton may have gotten closer to the truth when he said that the consensus reached at each Bilderberg meeting "is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide". What Bilderberg decides can be expected to be later implemented by a G-8 meeting, and International Monetary Fund and World Bank decisions.

No matter what, for innumerable, serious critics in Europe as well as the US, Bilderberg is everything from a Zionist plot to a megalomaniac secret cult. Serbs, not without some reason, blamed Bilderberg for the 1999 Balkan war and the fall of Slobodan Milosevic: after all, the US needed to control vital, Balkan pipeline routes. Bilderberg 2002 - although not without controversy - is thought to have cemented the invasion and conquest of Iraq. In his seminal A Century of War: Anglo-American oil politics and the New World War, F William Engdahl details what happened at Bilderberg 1973 in Sweden. An American outlined a scenario for an imminent 400% hike in the oil prices of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Bilderberg did not prevent the oil shock; instead it planned how to manage with mega-profits - what Kissinger described as "recycling the petrodollar flows". Everyone that mattered was present at this Bilderberg: oil majors and major banks. Engdahl's conclusion:

What the powerful men grouped around Bilderberg had evidently decided that May was to launch a colossal assault against industrial growth in the world, in order to tilt the balance of power back to the advantage of Anglo-American financial interests and the dollar. In order to do this, they determined to use their most prized weapon - control of the world's oil flows. Bilderberg policy was to trigger a global oil embargo, in order to force a dramatic increase in world oil prices. Since 1945, world oil had by international custom been priced in dollars, since American oil companies dominated the post-war market. A sudden sharp increase in the world price of oil, therefore, meant an equally dramatic increase in world demand for US dollars to pay for that necessary oil.

Saudi petrodollars then moved to the "right" banks in London in New York to finance US government deficits. Game, set, match to Bilderberg - where the mandarins of global finance always win.

Plutocracy international
Although not a single word uttered inside the Bilderberg vaults is allowed to reach public opinion, it's possible to take an educated guess as to what they're talking about. Last week, the ubiquitous Kissinger started the proceedings by illuminating the meaning of "freedom" - the Bush version. Natan Sharansky, Bush's democratic guru, was a participant.

Issues that would logically have interested Bilderberg 2005 include the role of NATO and the necessary approval in 2005 of the European constitution by all 25 members of the EU - the consequences of a French "no" in the upcoming May 29 referendum to approve the constitution need to be considered. Widespread job outsourcing in Europe to the Ukraine, China and India may sound the death knell to the constitution: French protesters - who have awakened the German and the Dutch - are insisting that what is good for big corporations may not be necessarily good for Western European workers. Critics say that chapter III of the constitution in fact details the way free trade may effectively kill the European welfare state.

They have their reasons to be concerned. In his book The Great Chessboard, Bilderberger Zbigniew Brzezinski hails "a Western Europe ... staying in a large measure an American protectorate". Brzezinski also insists that "Europe has to solve the problem caused by its social redistribution system", which "prevents European initiative". The father of the European constitution is none other than Bilderberger Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who happens to be very close to Kissinger.

From a geopolitical perspective, the heart of the whole matter is that the constitution legally confirms that Europe cannot have a defense force apart from NATO, ie outside the control of the US. Bilderberg beliefs would point to only one direction: an ever-expanding, US-controlled NATO, an ever-eastward-expanding EU, mass delocalization, mass corporate profits and unchallenged US military supremacy. No wonder this is the focus of a bitter debate inside EU corridors in Brussels, where scores of diplomats and commission officials openly complain of Washington's bullying and accuse their governments of selling out. Gunther Verheugen, the European commissioner in charge of expanding the EU, happens to be a Bilderberger. When members of the European Commission go to a Bilderberg, their travel expenses and their daily allowance is provided by the commission. This certainly disqualifies Bilderberg's self-presentation as a "private club".

Bilderberg 2005 has - coincidentally? - merged with Bush's tour among his Baltic friends and the tense meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The containment of Russia was likely top of the agenda for Bilderberg. Russia is very much worried about its "near abroad" and sees no reason to remove its army from bases in Georgia or its navy from Sebastopol, in Ukrainian Crimea - no matter how many color-coded revolutions happen at its doorstep.

European Commission sources assure that Brzezinski remains an extremely influential figure. The Bilderberg discussion on the control of Eurasia still refers to The Grand Chessboard. Washington is such an avid cheerleader of Turkey's accession to the EU because this means increased American influence near the Caspian and over the eastern Mediterranean. And it also works towards the containment of Iran, Russia and China - which, according to Brzezinski, may not be allowed to emerge as rival powers to the US in Eurasia.

Another contentious issue that must have occupied the minds of those at Bilderberg 2005 is preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon - this is just a detail: the point is how to prevent Iran from becoming a first-rate Eurasian power. Some in Brussels do not discount the possibility of a scenario of massive propaganda buildup to try to convince American and European public opinion of the necessity of a strike against Iran. How to force Beijing to appreciate the yuan must also have been a topic.

In our endeavor to keep the spirit of "Coming Together Roundtable" we have been working towards meeting with the goals set out in the last Round Table held in Mumbai at the Mancherji Joshi Hall at the Dadar Athornan Madressa on January 15, 2008.

To read a quick review of the developments since then, click here :

Round Table Six Monthly Report - June 2008

For reference to the annexures to the report, click on the links within the report.

• Call for World-Zoroastrian Congress Proposals
• World Zoroastrian Congress Guidelines 28 July 2008
• UN Reports - Behram Pastakia
• Inter-Faith Activities - Dr. Homi Dhalla
• Operation Eyesight Dubai-2009 - Poster
• Operation Eyesight
• Brief Updates_- Dr. Homi Dhalla
• NAMC Executive Board Report - Soli Dastur
• Thoothi Agiary
• Hamazor-1- Strenght in unity - Dr. Ramiyar Karanjia
• Hamazor-2 - Coming together 15Jan 2008 Opening Remarks - Dr. Ramiyar Karanjia
• List of Baugs Colonies in Mumbai - Prof. Faredoon Kapadia
  
• Naurooz  Celebrations Around the World
• Projects for further review

Of course, there is lots to do and much more to achieve, and with the active co-operation of the community we are sure to make greater strides in the coming years.

]]> http://zoroastriansnet.wordpress.com/?p=1358 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:13:25 +0000 Support http://zoroastriansnet.de.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/wzcc-the-2008-world-agm-registration-package/ The Program for the 2008 Global AGM of the "World Zarathushti Chamber of Commece"  (WZCC) is as follows:

WZCC  2008  GLOBAL  AGM  –   HOUSTON,  TEXAS,  USA

                                   DEC 27, 2008                7:00 PM        PRE-AGM GLOBAL DIRECTORS’ MEETING

DAY 1, SUN             DEC 28, 2008             10:00 AM        WZCC GLOBAL AGM – SESSION I

                                                                       1:00 PM        LUNCH          ($15)

                                                                       2:00 PM        WZCC GLOBAL AGM – SESSION II

                                                                       5:00 PM        BREAK OFF FOR THE DAY

DAY 2, MON            DEC 29, 2008               9:00 AM         FULL DAY TRIP TO SAN ANTONIO                                                                                                           ($50) 

DAY 3, TUE             DEC 30, 2008             10:00 AM         VISIT STAR OIL RIG IN

                                                                                              GALVESTON     ($23)

                                                                       2:30 PM         POST-AGM GLOBAL DIRECTORS’  

                                                                                              MEETING                                     

                                                                       8:00 PM         AWARDS-ENTERTAINTMENT-DINNER                                                                                                 ($15)

DAY 4, WED            DEC 31, 2008             10:00 AM        COMING TOGETHER – SESSION I

                                                                     12:30 PM        LUNCH (HOSTED BY ZAH)

                                                                       1:30 PM        COMING TOGETHER – SESSION II

                                                                       4:00 PM        BREAK OFF FOR THE DAY

                                                                       8:00 PM        NEW YEAR’S EVE DINNER & DANCE 

                                                                                             ($60)

                                 JAN 01, 2009                4:00 PM        FOUR DAY WESTERN CARIBBEAN

                                                                                                CRUISE FROM GALVESTON, TEXAS

For Registration and complete details click on the below link :

wzcc-the-2008-world-agm-registration-package

COMING TOGETHER ROUNDTABLE

Dear Friends:

Many, many thanks for your past support and interaction at the “Coming Together Roundtable”. As you are aware, the idea of holding a "Coming Together Roundtable" emerged in London as the legacy of the Zoroastrian World Congress organized by the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe. Our sincere thanks go to the hosts Dorab Mistry and Paurush Jilla.  Since then we have held two other Roundtables both in Mumbai in January 2007 and January 2008. With your indulgence our bonds are getting stronger and our network spreading.
 
Our next Roundtable is scheduled in Houston on December 31, 2008 from 10 AM to 4 PM.  It will be held in conjunction with the 2008 Annual General meeting of the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce and the 10^th Anniversary Celebration of the Zarathushti Heritage & Cultural Center from December 28 to 31, 2008. During the past few months, you may have already seen various announcements advertising the four day event that includes a day trip to San Antonio, a visit to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a WZCC awards dinner and a grand party to ring in the New Year 2009.  We are hoping that you have marked your calendar for attending the Roundtable on December 31, 2008. For those who want to make a family vacation out of this event, a special 4 day Western Caribbean cruise is also available.

The Roundtable is a meeting place for Zarathushtis worldwide where items of common interest affecting the worldwide Zarathushti community are discussed and action items identified with owners who will work as facilitators with like minded volunteers to develop those themes.  At the last January 2008 Roundtable it was decided that an administrative assistant be appointed with contributions from interested persons. This task was assigned to Yazdi Tantra who has moved forward with the appointment of Percis Dubash who has been giving us a hand to process the action items that have been generated at the Roundtable. An interim report will be prepared by Percis shortly and distributed for your information and knowledge.

Registration package with fees and accommodation information is attached. For additional information, you may contact WZCC Houston Chapter Chair Behroze Daruwalla behrozepersonal@yahoo.com (Tel: +1 281-861-7588) or WZCC Global Director rustom47@hotmail.com (Tel: +1 281-265-5070) or in India WZCC Global Director and Board Secretary Zarine Commissariat zcommissariat@hotmail.com For Roundtable program related information you may contact Rohinton Rivetna rivetna@aol.com

We are proud to have the  full support of the WZCC-North Texas Chapter from Dallas, Texas.. 

Your presence at the December 2008 Roundtable in Houston is solicited and will be very welcome.

Best regards, 

Rustom Engineer

Firdosh Mehta

Behram Pastakia

Rohinton Rivetna

Shall a pale shadow,

and she a ghost, a phantom

cost so valiant a king,

whose heart will hold by the promise,

and break it with beguiling.

She will betray you with her kiss.

*

Arms that will hold you,

eyes that have encaptured your own,

in another's arms entwined

making warm with passion the place,

where is no promise to bind,

sweetly dying in the embrace.

*

Chivalry begone,

with chasing from the kingdom,

Camlan's field will be the site.

The question Guinevere shall pose,

wild the cherry she will bite,

will bitter you too in the throes.

*

Was it  Caliburn

taken up for the kingdom

that had brought the victory?

or was it honour which prevailed?

the true cause we may now see,

then cast away the sword that failed.

*

Oh Valiant heart!

will be for a shadow pale

pierced through with lady's arrow,

when she has made you cuckold

then Albion's race shall know

for Guinevere's bed were they sold.

*

Mist that lays across

not only lake but the realm

now veils from our eye the view, 

that noble which made you great.

 Then find your strength in virtue

victory shall not be late. 

A complete poem list<<<here

Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum

named and added to gallery #11,2008  at Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum

"The Abstract Holy Grail"

acrylics 21"x18"

lisited in New Paintings  2008

Today's Keyword

within Museum paintings

"holy, sacred "

latest contents: "holy, sacred "

]]> http://zoroastriansnet.wordpress.com/?p=1216 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:48:22 +0000 zoroastriansnet http://zoroastriansnet.de.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/call-for-world-zoroastrian-congress-proposals/ Dear Friends,

Greetings! At the "Coming Together Roundtables" held each year since the World Zoroastrian Congress in London, matters pertaining to our worldwide Zarathushti 'Community without Borders' are discussed and actions proposed.  The topic of establishing a process with.global involvement, for the selection of a host and venue for the World Zoroastrian Congresses, has been on the agenda of the Roundtable for some years.

The attached docoument, "World Zoroastrian Congress Guidelines and Selection Process for Host/Venue", inspired by the Coming Together Roundtable, has now been prepared, enabled by the persons listed below:
Rohinton Rivetna (North America)
Behram Pastakia (North America)
Firdosh Mehta (North America)
Rustom Kevala (North America)
Minoo Shroff (India)
Meher Bhesania (UAE)
Dorab Mistry (UK)
Paurushasp Jila (UK)
Mehraban Firouzgary or delegate (Iran)
Sam Kerr (Australia)
Tehmus Mistry (New Zealand)

We are requesting that you urge the organizations that you may be associated with, to submit a proposal to hold the next World Zoroastrian Congress, following the Congress in Dubai in December 2009.  Congresses are generally held at intervals of 4 to 5 years.  The process and guidelines are described in the document.   Proposals may be sent to Rohinton M. Rivetna,  preferably by email to Rivetna@aol.com, by November 30, 2008.  They will then be forwarded by the Coming Together Roundtable administrator, to a Selection Committee for evaluation.

Please feel free to forward this request to the media and email lists, for wider circulation.

Best regards,
Rohinton M. Rivetna
5750 South Jasckson Street
Hinsdale, IL 60521
(630) 325-5383, Rivetna@aol.com

Please click here for the Guidelines Document

World Congress Guidelines 28Jul08

But is edification a serious artistic goal? This is a careless assumption to begin with. The idea that art's purpose is to explain complicated things certainly has historic associations with religious and political artwork. But moral and aesthetic weight don't necessarily come from someone pushing a message, but from asking questions and challenging basic perceptions. The Impressionists painted the same scenes as everyone else. It was how they painted them that brought Modernism crashing down on the twentieth century. Real revolutionary artwork doesn't explain the revolution, it formally embodies the revolution.

Even beyond general objections to edification, it hardly seems a good fit for videogames. True, developers in serious games have demonstrated gaming's strength at explaining complex processes. Nonetheless, there's something that doesn't sit right about trying so hard to communicate through a medium that highly privileges individual experience. If you want to send a message, don't let the recipient write it. My suspicion is that most games teach the player more about herself than anything else, and this introspective potential is a much more fruitful source of seriousness than edification could ever be.

Please visit the Round Table's Main Hall for links to all entries.

Lance Holyfield, who researches the historical era when English knights fought in shining armor, said a warrior who was labeled the "Dark Knight" fought alongside King Arthur and his knights in the 6th Century A.D.

"Kenibi Otoba traveled from Africa to England to learn how to be a knight," Holyfield said. "He learned so fast and was such an impressive warrior that he was allowed to join King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table."

But the Dark Knight soon encountered the ugly reality of racism present in England at that time.

"The other knights had the utmost respect for Kenibi," continued Holyfield. "It was the people of Camelot who expected the Dark Knight to be treated in an inferior manner, so the knights had no choice but to comply with the people's wish."

Such treatment included making Kenibi ride his horse in the back of the line behind the other knights and making him use a separate section of the river for bathing. But perhaps the worst treatment occurred inside Camelot's castle.

"Kenibi was not allowed to sit at King Arthur's famous Round Table," Holyfield explained. "Instead, a small, kiddy round table was brought in and placed next to the Round Table for Kenibi's use."

According to historical records and contrary to popular myth, Queen Guinevere did not cheat on King Arthur with Sir Lancelot.

"She cheated with Kenibi," Holyfield said. "But the Dark Knight was forbidden from fighting for the Queen's honor after she was accused of this by Sir Gawain, so Lancelot fought instead. The Dark Knight retired after this, and spent his time developing a new style of lute music. His performances amazed the citizens of Camelot, because he would often smash his lute on the ground and catch it on fire."

(Painting by Eugène Delacroix. Photograph by Rama, Wikipedia)