PSALM 29 - A PRAYER FOR A CAUSE!

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I ordinarily don't promote any particular "cause" on

the blog - I try to keep away from politics and such matters.

However, in this case, I have to make an exception.

A foreign-owned corporation is

 proposing to pump 54,000 acre feet of water, per year,

from an aquifer beneath the Plains of San Augustin in west-

central New Mexico (photo above) and sell it, and make

billions of dollars (yes, billions).

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The whole scheme is immoral and unethical.

Water, in New Mexico, legally belongs to the citizens of

the state.  It is not to be considered some commodity that

you can basically give away to a foreign corporation

so they can make bundles of cash.  The entire plan is obscene. 

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WATER IS LIFE!
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All over the planet multi-national corporations,
some mob-connected, some just greedy entrepreneurs, are
getting their hands on water resouces.
It's dark, and it's evil, and it's apocalyptic.
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 As part of an effort to educate the public,

and drum up support for the good guys, I've started

a blog on the matter - address further below.

One of the posts is basically a prayer - Psalm 29.  Here it is.

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PSALM 29
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 A SAN AUGUSTIN PLAINS PRAYER

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A PSALM OF DAVID
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Give to the LORD, you sons of God,

give to the LORD glory and might;

Give to the LORD the glory due his name.

Bow down before the LORD’s holy splendor!

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The voice of the LORD is over the waters;

the God of glory thunders,

the LORD, over the mighty waters.

The voice of the LORD is power;

the voice of the LORD is splendor.

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The voice of the LORD cracks the cedars;

the LORD splinters the cedars of Lebanon,

Makes Lebanon leap like a calf,

and Sirion like a young bull.
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The voice of the LORD strikes with fiery flame;

the voice of the LORD shakes the desert;

the LORD shakes the desert of Kadesh.

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The voice of the LORD makes the deer dance

and strips the forests bare.

All in his Temple say, “Glory!”

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The LORD sits enthroned above the flood!

The LORD reigns as king forever!

May the LORD give might to his people;

may the LORD bless his people with peace!

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Translation from the United Conference of Catholic Bishops website.
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Below is a sung Hebraic (Jewish) version of the Psalm.

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Above: A summer thunderstorm on the

Plains of San Augustin at the VLA,
the Very Large Array, the world's largest

radio astronomy facility, operated by the NRAO,
the National Radio Astronomy Observatory,

with funding through the National Science Foundation.

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The NRAO is one of the many "PROTESTANTS,"
no, not like those nice Methodist or Lutheran folks who
live down the road, but in this case, it's legalese - lawyer talk -
for the GOOD GUYS, in the legal battle against
 the WATER GRAB by the BAD GUYS, 
who hide under a corporate shadow of secrecy. 

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STOP THE WATER GRAB!
"Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water;
she is very useful, and humble,

and precious, and pure."
From the Canticle of the Sun
Saint Francis of Assisi

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If you're interested in finding out more about

the issue, please visit the new blog:

http://stopthewatergrab.blogspot.com/

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THANKS!
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Below is an 8.5" x 11" jpeg at 600 dpi.
It prints out real nice, especially on glossy paper or
card stock - please feel free to copy, and maybe even post
on your church or synagogue bulletin board.
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THE EVIL OF GOSSIP

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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Richard Steele

 

Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.

Liz Smith

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Paul Scott

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Erma Bombeck

Who gossips with you will gossip of you.

Irish Saying

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All parts of the human body get tired eventually -
 except the tongue.

Konrad Adenauer

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Mark Twain

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts 
but only diminished.

Pico Iyer

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The great man is not he who "takes a city"

or "overthrows a nation,"

but rather "he who subdues his own tongue."

 THE URANTIA BOOK

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Gossip, gossip

Gossip, gossip

I heard it in the night

Words that thoughtless speak

Like vultures swooping down below

On the devil's radio

I hear it through the day

Airwaves gettin' filled

With gossip broadcast to and fro

On the devil's radio

Oh yeah, gossip

Gossip, oh yeah

He's in the clubs and bars

And never turns it down

Talking about what he don't know

On the devil's radio

He's in your TV set

Won't give it a rest

That soul betraying so and so

The devil's radio

Gossip, gossip

Gossip, gossip

(Oh yeah) gossip, (gossip) oh yeah

(Gossip) oh yeah, (oh yeah) gossip

It's white and black like industrial waste

Pollution of the highest degree

You wonder why I don't hang out much

I wonder how you can't see

He's in the films and songs

And on all your magazines

It's everywhere that you may go

The devil's radio

Oh yeah, gossip

Gossip, oh yeah

Runs thick and fast, no one really sees

Quite what bad it can do

As it shapes you into something cold

Like an Eskimo igloo

It's all across our lives

Like a weed it's spread

'till nothing else has space to grow

The devil's radio

Can creep up in the dark

Make us hide behind shades

And buzzing like a dynamo

The devil's radio

(Gossip) oh yeah, (gossip) oh yeah

(Gossip) gossip, (gossip) gossip

Oh yeah, gossip I heard you on the secret wireless

Gossip, oh yeah You know the devil's radio, child

Gossip, gossip

Gossip, gossip
Oh yeah.

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George Harrison
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"GOSSIP, THE DEVIL'S RADIO - DON'T BE A BROADCASTER!"

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From Saint Paul's Letter to the Romans 1:28-32
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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, gossips, 

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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