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Introduction


The Evolution of the Idea of Justice
MotherOfJustice.com is an informational site that will release additional material in the coming weeks and months about the evolution of the idea of Justice.

The research behind this material has been ongoing for more than 15 years. It was realized early on that the explorations into the breadth of material involved could be best accomplished with the aid of the rapidly improving personal computer.

A comprehensive software package designed to facilitate further in-depth examination of many subjects is nearing completion, and will soon begin beta testing of both a commercial version, and a limited feature freeware version.

More information about this impending release will be provided by redirecting you to an another site at a later date.

A book about this material has been in planning and development stages for some time, as well. Yet, it was not originally planned to release any material prior to the release of the software.

This site was brought about by urgent necessity in response to the beating of the war drum, rather than planned intent.
A Comment on Professor Zinn's Observation
Many students of history have come to value Professor Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." It may not be possible to begin to evaluate accurately the history of the United States without examining many of the events Prof. Zinn explores, and which are too often not found in other texts.

One such event has come to be known as the "Ludlow Massacre" of April 20, 1914. (p.354-7, 1999; p.57-60, 1984 paperback) In brief, miners began a strike in September 1913 at one of the Rockefeller's Colorado coal mines. After many tumultuous months, in the midst of a long period in U.S. history of intense labor organization, the National Guard was called to the scene around the mine and the striking miners. The Guards' wages were being paid by the Rockefellers. On the morning of April 20, from a hill overlooking the tents of the striking miners, women, and children, the National Guard opened fire with machine guns. "The miners fired back... The women and children dug pits beneath the tents to escape the gunfire. At dusk, the Guard moved down from the hills with torches, set fire to the tents, and the families fled into the hills; thirteen people were killed by gunfire." The next day, the charred bodies of eleven children and two women were discovered in a pit at the bottom of the ruins of a miner's tent.

On that same day, U.S. warships began bombarding and occupying Vera Cruz, Mexico in response to a diplomatic slight. Prof. Zinn concluded by commenting that "It was surely a coincidence - the bombardment of Vera Cruz, the attack on the Ludlow colony...Perhaps the affair in Mexico was an instinctual response of the system for its own survival, to create a unity of fighting purpose among a people torn by internal conflict."

#24 Themis: April 20, 1914 
         S: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/

         Date__(UT)__HR:MN        ObsEcLng 
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         1914-Apr-15 00:00 *   155.9703096 
         1914-Apr-16 00:00 *   155.9471844 
         1914-Apr-17 00:00 *   155.9303067 
         1914-Apr-18 00:00 *   155.9196705 
         1914-Apr-19 00:00 *   155.9152684 
         1914-Apr-20 00:00 *   155.9170916 
         1914-Apr-21 00:00 *   155.9251283 
         1914-Apr-22 00:00 *   155.9393638 
         1914-Apr-23 00:00 *m  155.9597798 
         1914-Apr-24 00:00 *m  155.9863535 
         1914-Apr-25 00:00 *m  156.0190576 
        ***********************************
In the above example, we see both in a segment of graph taken from the 1901-1920 #24 Themis graph, and, in a data sample* from NASA's JPL SSD site, an additional phenomenon natural to all major and minor planets when observed from Earth: times of stationary direct, in this instance, or stationary retrograde, as is evident in the graph segment just after January, 1914.

This phenomenon is an 'apparent' phenomenon, meaning that the bodies do not actually come to a stop, but that when viewed from Earth - geocentrically - the bodies appear to periodically slow down, stop, reverse direction, accelerate, then eventually slow down, stop, and begin to move forward again.

A Few More Thoughts For Your Consideration
Most will ask: "Why do any of these phenomena have any bearing on the nature of human experience?"

Yet, we do not have any conclusive answers to the 'why' here, any more than we have conclusive explanations for many issues of quantum mechanics, or even gravity itself.

But, again, that does not mean that we need limit ourselves from developing high speed electronics, or even space travel.

On the other hand, people have for thousands of years believed, with good enough reason they felt, that life on Earth was connected somehow to the larger universe. Many cultures developed extensive belief systems based upon that essential 'knowing.' Those systems of belief, have in turn, provided much of the basis for human society as we know it.

Quantum mechanics, a body of knowledge that has taken a different approach in attempting to understand the micro and macrocosmic, has itself concluded for now that the essential behavior of matter displays a similar unfathomable connectedness.

The essential point is that we must not limit ourselves from exploring both within our hearts and minds, and with our neighbors, before we carelessly risk unleashing the beast of war again.

We Approach Another Intensive Series
Examination of the graphs for the periods in 1939, 1941-42, 1950-51, and 1989 will show a common pattern of repeated transits to the 0° and 180° points. Those periods were incomparable in the last century.

In 1989, 1991-92 we can observe that the same phenomena of repeated transits almost occurred, but not quite.

The world feared, at that time and for the ensuing years, that the war in the Balkans would escalate beyond.

However, those outside the Balkans were spared. The 1992 cyclic process came very close, but was never quite exact.

Now we again approach another major series similar to those described above. A close examination shows that the recent and impending pattern is very similar to that which occurred for World War II.

...and we hear the drums of war beating louder and louder, from too many familiar places, from too many familiar voices.

We need all people, now, leading their leaders truly to peace.



Notes:

*Data for #24 Themis

Notice that by April 19, 1914, the Observer Ecliptic Longitude at Midnight UT, had reversed to 155.9152684 degrees. On the next day, April 20, 1914, the Longitude at Midnight UT has begun to advance just slightly forward, as evidenced by the increase to 155.9170916
Acknowledgements
Data used for the calculation of the graphs was obtained from a Lowell Observatory research project funded principally by NASA grant NAG5-4741, and in part by the Lowell Observatory endowment. That Lowell Observatory project is directed by Dr. Edward Bowell. Neither Dr. Bowell, nor anyone connected with the Lowell Observatory were involved with, or aware of the project associated with this web site.

Many people have contributed ideas and support to this project. Some gave support to aspects of this project without any knowledge of its larger purpose. For many reasons, no additional people will be identified yet in connection with this project.

However, I hope that my gratitude for all of the help and support over the years can begin to be heard in these few pages, and this closing acknowledgement.

Peace is the way.


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