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Hey Mr.Spaceman...

2012-02-23T22:41:00.000-08:00

James interviews Ralph Ring

2012-02-23T20:22:00.001-08:00

Ralph Ring Interview - Part 1

2012-02-23T18:53:00.000-08:00

My friend Oya sent me an interview that Kerry Cassidy did with Ralph and his woman . It is interesting . When I was raised by my grandparents, my grandfather, Stephen Buffy, a multi-talented man, always used to have magnets around that he would "play with". He had an old car in the back yard that he was trying to get to run on water instead of gasoline. He also let me read a book on UFO's over L.Ontario when I was younger. It was interesting to be raised by a working man, he was a tool and die setter,( like Ralph in the video clip) who was also an artist, wood carver, house builder and a real thinker out of the box. I wondered what his fascination was with all the varying magnets he had around, but now, having watched this clip, I think my grandfather was playing with ideas in regards to zero gravity and such.

Expendable

2012-02-22T18:35:00.000-08:00

I watched this documentary as Max Igan spoke of it on his radio show and Eceti had sent the Igan show link out. It is truly a most revealing documentary and it is just so cruel and inhumane how this young Australian woman is spending her years locked up in a prison in Indonesia, for something she did not do. It is a shocking account of how a young woman is rotting away in a prison and I can understand why so many folks risked alot to get the truth out to the world to see. A must see.

2012-02-22T16:11:00.001-08:00

Dear friends,

In 48 hours Australia could save one million square kms of ocean -- but the commercial fishing industry is vigorously opposing this move. The government is holding a public consultation to get a clear mandate to put the environment above corporate profit. The consultation closes in two days -- let's send a flood of support to save our dying oceans. Send a message now, then forward this email to everyone:

In 48 hours, Australia could save one million square kms of ocean forever -- setting up the largest marine reserve in the world and preserving thousands of delicate species. But they will need an global outcry to beat out commercial fishing and mining companies hoping to destroy the plan.

The Australian government is holding a public consultation, hoping it will give them a mandate to take a big step towards a sustainable future for our oceans and our planet. But the reserve will cost money and without massive support right now, the short term financial interests of industry could beat out our hopes for a safe future for our seas.

We only have 48 hours until the consultation closes -- click to send a submission to the consultation now, then forward this email to everyone:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_coral_sea_4/?vl

The reports are dire: in 36 years, our oceans could be completely fished-out, in 100 years, all coral reefs might be dead. This action alone won’t be enough to turn the tide. But it will establish the largest marine reserve in the world!

Saving the world’s oceans from collapse will require bold political leadership and dedicated citizens taking action. The Australian government could be at the forefront. But industrial fishing companies want a marine highway through the area for their long line vessels.

We can save a million square kms of ocean by flooding the consultation with appeals from around the world. Let's drown out the voices of the commercial fishing companies, and protect our oceans for generations to come. Click the link below to send an urgent message, then forward this to friends and family:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_coral_sea_4/?vl

In 2010, Avaaz members helped create the world’s largest marine reserve around the Chagos islands -- let’s create an even bigger one this time and stand up for the future of our oceans!

With hope,

Stephanie, Maria Paz, Alice, Ricken, Dalia, Diego, Antonia and the rest of the Avaaz team

More information:

Protect our Coral Sea
http://www.protectourcoralsea.org.au

Valerie Taylor joins battle for the Coral Sea (The Cairns Post)
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2012/01/23/201901_local-news.html

Does the Coral Sea marine park proposal provide enough protection? (The Conversation)
http://theconversation.edu.au/does-the-coral-sea-marine-park-proposal-provide-enough-protection-4474

Coral Sea Commonwealth marine reserve proposal (Australian Government website)
http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/mbp/coralsea/consultation/index.html

Impacts of fishery activities (FAO)
http://www.fao.org/fishery/topic/12273/en

Queenslanders support coral sea protection (Pew Press Release)
http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/press-releases/queenslanders-support-visionary-protection-for-our-coral-sea-85899365934

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2012-02-22T14:16:00.001-08:00

Dear Linda, Losar Tashi Delek! At ICT, we will honor Losar by renewing our efforts to work for peace and justice in Tibet and we thank you for your support in standing with people of Tibet at this time.
	The word Losar is derived from two words, “Lo” meaning “year” and “sar” meaning “new.” For centuries, Losar, Tibetan New Year has been a time of celebration, a time for families to come together and be thankful for their blessings, for religious faith to be honored in prayer and a time when neighbors and friends greet each other with “Losar Tashi Delek!” or (Best wishes for an auspicious New Year!”). But this year’s Losar is marked with sorrow, with repression in Tibet reaching new lows, so it will be observed as a time for quiet reflection and tribute to all those Tibetans who have sacrificed their freedom and even their lives in protest against Chinese policies in Tibet. We humbly wish you a Losar Tashi Delek, and best wishes for the Tibetan Water Dragon Year 2139. Mary Beth Markey President
This painting of the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Tibetan Buddhism is by 15 year-old Shaokyi Amdo, a student of the Capital Area Tibetan Association’s weekend Tibetan language school for Tibetan-American children living in the Washington DC metro area. The eight symbols are very popular in Tibet and represent the eight precious offerings made by the gods to Shakyamuni Buddha upon his enlightenment.

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The dailies

2012-02-22T13:48:00.000-08:00

hmm...it is a gray day mostly, some rain, some snow, the sun came out for a couple of moments and that was that. Having now relocated the two elder cats in to my pink room,(from the outback catio/apt) Hobbes has perked up some. He has eaten tiny bits of this and that, and is still drinking water too. So for now, the seniors are lazing about in the pink room, and the younger cats want to be where the "non-action" is, so that is how it is this day in the village. As for me...well I am as the old song goes , "California Dreaming" on such a winters day...

Peter Wilson

2012-02-21T23:36:00.000-08:00

I was chatting long distance with an old friend tonight in Grass Valley California and at the end of our chat, her children's father, Peter Wilson arrived for dinner. I asked him how his cd concert debut had gone recently at the Center for Performing Arts there in Grass Valley. He said it was a full house. I was already longing for a visit there, and so I thought with my new moon in Pisces today intention to visit my friends in Grass Valley and Nevada City,(hopefully this spring) where I lived for 16 years, and which I miss alot some days, I would post one of the tunes Peter played that night . Thanks Peter for a chance via youtube this night to be there at the concert ...love Buff

RON PAUL IS THE CHOICE OF THE TROOPS

2012-02-21T20:14:00.000-08:00

Keep Shell out of the Arctic

2012-02-21T16:20:00.001-08:00

Dear Linda,

Help us get the word out to stop Shell
from drilling in both Polar Bear Seas
this summer!

Please share Robert Redford’s powerful video and message with your family and friends. Urge them to join us in telling the Obama Administration to keep Shell out of the Polar Bear Seas.

Thanks for taking online action to stop Shell from drilling in both of our nation’s “Polar Bear Seas.”

You joined tens of thousands of BioGems Defenders in watching Robert Redford’s compelling new video and telling Interior Secretary Salazar to deny Shell the final permits it needs to begin drilling.

Today I’m asking you to take one more small but important step that will build this campaign to stop Shell.

Share Robert Redford’s video and message with your family and friends and urge them to join you in taking action to stop Shell.

Please help us spread the word and raise an outcry that Secretary Salazar won’t be able to ignore.

You and I haven’t worked so hard to protect one of our planet’s last truly wild places, only to see it destroyed by Big Oil. Thank you for passing on this important message.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

John Glenn on Fraser show speaks about UFO's

2012-02-21T10:26:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Liz for sending this clip today. It is a real hoot!

Syria Crackdown on Civilians

2012-02-21T10:20:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

Assad’s ruthless massacre of civilians in his attempt to crush the Syrian Spring is escalating. But a new international coalition led by Arab League members is meeting in 4 days and is our best hope to stop the bloodshed. Avaaz has a seat at the table and can bring the voices of world citizens directly to decision-makers. Let's call on the coalition to end the violence now:

With each passing day, Syria's crackdown on democracy protesters reaches new levels of horror -- bombing crowded neighborhoods filled with innocent civilians, cutting off electricity and phones so families can’t call for help, and blocking medical aid to the wounded. But finally a flicker of hope is emerging that could stop the terror.

After the UN Security Council failed, Syria's neighbours in the the Arab League are taking the lead. They have called other key powers to an emergency meeting in 4 days in Tunisia, and Avaaz will be sitting at the table with the Syrian democracy movement to deliver a clear mandate for strong action.

Right now, the level of public outrage could make the difference between forceful action and feckless diplomacy. Let's deliver a 1 million-strong call to action, and press negotiators to move now to stop the bloodbath. Click below to sign the petition -- it will be delivered directly to the delegates in the meeting:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/arab_league_save_syria_3/?vl

The student organizers and mothers who month after month have led peaceful marches for freedom are now facing down the full military might of Assad’s army. They are calling for the world’s help to ensure that the Syrian Spring does not die a gruesome death on the streets of Homs, Hama and Idlib.

So far, the Arab League and United Nations have failed to stop the slaughter. But the international community knows that they cannot postpone action any longer. There is no panacea to end this, but a combination of more targeted sanctions, humanitarian action, support to the opposition to form an alternative government that unites people across the sectarian divide, and a plan to help those fearful of regime change to defect, could tip the balance of power.

In situations like this one, a clear public proposal can force the hand of politicians and governments to take meaningful action fast. Let's show those meeting this week the extent of global determination to save the Syrian Spring and end the bloodshed. Sign the urgent petition for action now:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/arab_league_save_syria_3/?vl

With so many challenges facing our globe, our community rarely campaigns on the same issue numerous weeks in a row. But the situation in Syria is dire and the Syrian people are counting on us not to let this opportunity to make a difference pass us by. Let’s come together one more time and show them that the world stands with them.

With hope and determination,

Ian, Jamie, Maria Paz, Allison, Andrew, Emma, Wissam, Stephanie, Bissan and the whole Avaaz team

More Information:

U.N. Rights Chief Decries Inaction Over Syrian Assault (New York Times)http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/world/middleeast/syrian-forces-continue-attack-on-homs.html

Syria rejects UN charges as Homs battered (AFP)http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1pclwMLlv27cvsSseqnSzyCg2xw?docId=CNG.f403ea8aad2faad073236239e9b0c0df.af1

Tunis to host meeting on Syria on February 24 (Reuters)http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/12/us-syria-arabs-friends-idUSTRE81B0DN20120212

Syrian regime 'emboldened' by UN inaction, says human rights chief (The Guardian)http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/13/syrian-regime-emboldened-un-inaction?newsfeed=true

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g’ in Homs for days, say activists, as massacres reported (al Arabiya)http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/14/194498.html?newsfeed=true

No Losar this year(Tibetan New Year)

2012-02-20T22:27:00.001-08:00

UFO Mountain: Temple of the Tiger

2012-02-20T11:59:00.000-08:00

ICFT Support Tibet Losar

2012-02-19T22:46:00.001-08:00

Dear Linda,

Losar, the Tibetan New Year, is just around the corner but we’re not celebrating as tradition would dictate. This year, to acknowledge all those who have sacrificed their lives recently for the Tibetan cause, Losar will be a more solemn occasion.

At ICT, we’re using the day to honor the Tibetan people by renewing our efforts to strengthen and protect the Tibetan identity. I hope you will join us, because the actions we take together are an important counter to the oppression of the Chinese government. We must remember that our actions signal to Tibetans that they are being heard.

Will you join us in welcoming the Tibetan Year of the Water Dragon by sharing good fortune with the Tibetan people?

In observance of Losar, we invite you to send a gift to support our Private Partnership for the Sustainability of Tibetan Communities, which funds projects that directly support and empower Tibetan communities to thrive.

Last year, gifts to the Sustainability Fund helped send hundreds of books to a Tibetan refugee school in Ladakh, India and enabled ICT to provide a $25,000 grant to help improve the Tibetan settlements in India, Bhutan and Nepal. With your help this year, we can do even more!

For peace and justice in the new year,
Melissa Jimison
Director of Development

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET
1825 Jefferson Place NW | Washington, DC 20036
info@savetibet.org | (202) 785-1515

Many Tibetans not celebrating Losar (Tibetan New Year)

2012-02-19T21:42:00.001-08:00

we are sorry to say that we couldn’t keep in touch for some time due to some works and also for exam preparations. Hope everyone in your family is well. Everyone over here from our khangtsen is in good health and doing well in studies. Tibetan Losar is two days from now (22^ndFeb). But we the Tibetans all over are not going to celebrate Losar in solidarity with the unfortunate events (self immolations) happening in Tibet. Instead we will be mourning for the Tibetans who have sacrificed their lives for Tibet. So, no celebrations this year during Losar.

May this Losar(Dragon Year) brings you and your family all the happiness, good health and success. We thank you for all your help.

With prayers

Lawa Khangtsen

The Dailies

2012-02-19T21:33:00.000-08:00

My elder cat Hobbes is readying for his transition to another octave of expression, or dying to this earth . He is almost 18 years old, I have had him since we found him as a meowing kitten, later one night, while coming home from a pub after an Art on the Green event in Idaho where I was living and married at the time. Hobbes was originally my partner then Jims' cat but I was the one who kept him when the marriage dissolved. Hobbes is an east coast maine coon cat and when he was younger he was a big fluffy male who loved to be combed. He has gotten quite thin over the months and last week he was of a sudden behaving differently. I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was seeing thru the veil alot more. When I got home from work this afternoon, I knew that he was telling me that he is readying to go when I got up high on top of the cat apt. and he reached out his paw to touch me as I spoke to him. As I cried tears, he licked my face and then licked up a big tear. That really cracked open my heart which I have been holding in reserve for the past couple of weeks , observing him, feeding him salmon, hoping that he was going to make a recovery . But no, he made it clear with his actions tonight that it is soon his time to make the journey that we all make eventually. I will savour the next few remaining hours/days with my friend of so many years. And thus are the dailies.

Avaaz

2012-02-19T19:38:00.001-08:00

Dear Amazing Avaazers,

It feels like everything is happening exponentially.

In the last 30 days, our community has grown by 2.5 million people. We were already the largest political web movement ever, and yet we're growing faster than anyone has seen before! We're taking more actions, winning more victories, donating more and generating thousands more media hits in one month than we used to in a year. It's thrilling, even a little scary, especially when we see that the pace is still accelerating...

Just to give a snapshot of the last few weeks --

5 million of us stood up to the ACTA and SOPA internet censorship bills, helping to put SOPA on ice, and putting ACTA under threat, with the President of the European Parliament and Germany, Poland and many other countries reconsidering their positions.
we smuggled $1.8 million worth of medical supplies into Syria when no one else could, and raised $1.5 million more in donations, while our citizen journalists provided much of the world media's information and images.
we generated thousands of news articles on 20 different campaigns.
our sex trafficking hotline generated information that will result in a major set of arrests this week (can't say which country yet).
we raised over 4 million dollars/euros/yen online to supercharge our work, and are growing our staff team like mad to keep up with the need.
we ran over 40 campaigns, took over 10 million actions and told 25 million friends about campaigns we care about, on everything from deforestation in Brazil to the Murdoch scandal in the UK -- and made a serious impact on many of these.

If all that wasn't enough, we're about to launch a couple of big projects (stay tuned) that will take our community to a whole NEW level!

It's a thrilling privilege to serve this amazing community, and while the challenges we face are growing, the surge of spirited people rising to meet these challenges is growing even faster and stronger. We've come together and built something special, and it's taking off. Let's shoot for the stars.

With hope and excitement,

Ricken, Stephanie, Wen, Emma, Wissam, Veronique, Heather and the entire Avaaz team

PS - here's some recent features on our community in the Economist, Times and Guardian. And here's a radio piece by NPR on our work in Syria, and an LA Times article on our Internet freedom campaign.

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Which World Are You In~James Gilliland

2012-02-19T08:58:00.000-08:00

Which World Are You In
With all the new energies coming in it seems people are wigging out projecting and transmitting energies to fictitious enemies. Some are completely unaware of where these energies are coming from. There is often more than one source. It is a multilevel problem yet the point of power lies within self. There is the reactionary mind and the wounded ego always looking for external sources and boogey men as the source for their anger and unhappiness. The wounded ego; which will go to the greatest lengths to validate and justify external forces, others as the source of their problems and unhappiness rather than go within and observe the reoccurring patterns. It will try to gather others to support its cause to maintain itself as victim or validate the external enemy. They will have a long list of people and events to validate external forces responsible for their anger, sadness and victimization. Yet if we magnetize to us people, places and events then where does the responsibility lie? If we are creating from reactionary mind and a wounded ego what are we creating? We often project on others until they become the projections or finally set a firm boundary.

If you are constantly transmitting anger, fear, judgment, victim patterns to others they will eventually react in the same manner or become the projection unless they are firmly established in their own center. Only when one is centered and healed can they really see the big picture. Nothing is ever as it seems and we live in a world of opposites and illusions, fictitious assumptions and creations until we master our selves and start operating from creationary mind. The creationary mind is coming from ones Godself and the reactionary mind is coming from the ego.The ego is very tricky and often will assume the position of the voice of God which could never possibly be wrong. There are great masters supporting at-one-ness, unity consciousness, peace, harmony, service to others just as there are darker forces supporting all the baser self centered me thoughts coming from the ego with all its wounds of the past.

What it all boils down to what are you transmitting, what are you focusing your attention on, what are you allowing to channel through you? The observer is the point of power not the runamuk ego blaming and projecting everything external creating fictitious enermies and allowing darker forces to feed off of and energize these be lie fs. Most of the time it is just a matter of reframing the experience, look at it with the eyes of gratitude, focus and be grateful for what you have, what has been given. Much of what is given and of true value may not meet your egos specifications yet spiritually you have abundance. We have two worlds from which to choose and at any moment we can step out of the ego, let go of the fictitious enemies, stop the negative transmissions, forgive and look through the eyes of gratitude. Then the people, places, things and events in your life transform. We can continue to project, blame, transmit and feed the baser world thus it being the world in which we live. It has always been a matter of choice and consequence as well as where you focus. I personally want to focus my energy on the awakening and healing process from creationary mind rather than being depleted and redirected due to dramas created by those who resist their own healing process and persist in making it everyone elses problem. As a sensitive the projections and transmissions suck yet underneath all this craziness is the healing.Maintaining the levels of sensetivity to communicate with the spiritually and technologically advanced off worlders while at the same time dealing with the baser energies and projections is quite an art. My advice to the Pleadians is we are not ready, do not subject yourself to these energies and now I fully understand why you remain in the heavens making yourself known to only a few. I fully understand why your would not want to engage with or take this aboard your ships. It is up to us to rise to the occasion.

James Gilliland www.eceti.org

Lord is it Mine - Written and Composed by Roger Hodgson

2012-02-18T13:59:00.000-08:00

Wish I were a rich gal, I would book a flight and get a ticket to see Roger play ...again....love this angel singing and playing.

After having posted this today, I was then watching another video clip of an interview with Roger. I was dismayed to see about 444 minutes in to the interview, that he makes what to all purposes is an illuminati sign or symbol..Now one has to wonder, with a musician who's tunes seem so spiritual and from higher octaves, why would he make this sign? Was it simply a gesture of which he has no idea what the symbol means...a sudden slip of the fingers? I had an English boyfriend 3 years ago, who always made that symbol to everyone, and it used to drive me bonkers. Why are you making the devil sign all the time I used to ask him? He seemed to enjoy it and carried on, but at least he quit doing it to me as he knew how it bothered me...here is the interview and if you feel like it, at 444(which ironically is a symbol of when the angels are with you) is where he does the finger thang. Geez Louise. Adonai

The girl killed by Barack Obama - she never saw it coming

2012-02-18T13:25:00.000-08:00

It is so distasteful to joke about predator drones as he does in this video clip. Killing civilians is so sad. Especially children.

Not so Smart Meters ~Actions you can take

2012-02-18T11:40:00.001-08:00

	Not So Smart Meters - Actions You Can Take to Protect Your Rights

Join the Anti-Bullying Rallies
on February 29, 2012

Beware the Corix Creatures
who come out at night

100,000 signature is our goal -
Can you help?

How to Keep your Analogue Meter
1. Send theLetter of Non-Consent to BC Hydro & Corixby Registered Mail, and also by e-mail. Keep copies for legal reasons.

2. Post the Letter of Non-Consent, the No Trespassing Signand the Private Property Noticeon your front door and also on or beside your meter. Make sure they are signed and protected in a plastic sleeve.

3. Take a dated picture of the above for legal reasons. You may wish to consider that others have secured their meter.

4. If the installer attempts to force a smart meter onto your property, do everything you can to make a video or recordingof any abusive actions or statements. Obtain full ID if possible, and license number of vehicle.

5. Advise the installer that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms fully applies on your private property, and advise them to leave immediately and do not return. (**Note - this flyer makes a great handout .) Immediately take the time to write down everything that happened including the date.

6. Tell your friends and family - share this information quickly!

When Hydro Tries to Bully You
1. If you want the smart meter removed or it was put on against your wishes, send the Removal Letterby registered mail and also by e-mail. Keep careful records for legal reasons.

2. If Hydro is trying to force you to meet with them, send theRefusal to Meet Letter by registered mail and also by e-mail. Keep careful records for legal reasons.

3. Advise Hydro that you wish to communicate only in writing for legal reasons. Let them know you are recording any and all conversations to protect your rights. Threats to cut off power are extortion. Demand these threats from Hydro be put in writing for legal reasons.

4. Join the upcoming Anti-Bullying Demonstrationsoutside Hydro offices.

5. If you have health reasons or a medical condition requiring avoidance of pulsed microwave radiofrequency radiation to maintain your health, consider joining the Human Rights Action. Contact una@citizensforsafetechnology.org to learn more. Please put "Human Rights" as subject.

The Best Thing You Can Do Right Now...... it is vital to support the legal and human rights actions currently underway. Your support is urgently needed. The BC Liberals and Hydro are intent on removing our rights and forcing the unacceptable into our lives and homes, even refusing to listen to the 32 Municipalitieswho have voted for a moratorium and/or choice to opt out.

Right now is the time to fight for our rights with all the legal support we can muster. If you want to stop smart meters , please help us win by donating to the legal and human rights actions. The Coalition to Stop Smart meters and CST have joined forces to raise $50,000 for the legal efforts, and we are almost half way to our goal. Rest assured, every penny funds legal solutions.

You can donate easily via Paypal at the CST website at http://app.expressemailmarketing.com/get.link?linkid=3553296&subscriberid=308684211&campaignid=983855&linkurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.citizensforsafetechnology.org%2f or mail a cheque to the Coalition to Stop Smart Meters, P.O. Box 28154, West Shore RPO, Victoria, BC, V9B 6K8. We thank everyone who has donated so far, and their actions have made possible the Complaint to BC Utilities and the Human Rights Action (see above). We continue to investigate different legal options and will launch more legal actions as funding allows.

The Petition - Keep It Growing!

We will present the CST Petition again (not a new one, continuation from previous) in the Legislature in March. Keep those signatures coming - make sure your friends and families make their mark and state their concerns! Our goal is to reach 100,000 signatures - I Love Democracy More Than Smart Meters!

People who haven't signed already Can Sign Here
Best wishes from all the volunteers at CST. You asked us to help you stop those stupid meters, and we are doing that every day!

Una St.Clair
CST, Executive Director

Ron Paul - Vancouver Washington - Supporters overflowing - 2/16/2012

2012-02-17T17:02:00.000-08:00

If I were an American I would vote for Ron Paul.

UFO Explodes Over South Carolina? 2012

2012-02-17T14:54:00.000-08:00

I just love how excited the local woman who witnessed the big sky event is when she mentions she thought it was the aliens arriving.

ScienceCasts: An Alignment of Planets

2012-02-17T14:17:00.000-08:00

beacons of light

2012-02-17T12:40:00.001-08:00

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The first topic of this message is about the solar flares that are now beginning. The day prior to this channel we experienced an X class solar flare. Even though it was only an X2 it was pointed at Earth. As a result it created the largest magnetic wave in recorded history ever to hit Earth.

In previous channels the group has talked about these magnetic waves of energy and how they are reprogramming not only the Earth but our physical bodies as well. Since these waves are magnetic in nature they affect us in the emotional body first. The group has even said that the height of these waves is 36 hours after the event.

In this message the group talks about the emotional effect this wave can have on all of us. They told a story about a rope I use often to exercise with and how all of us can find ourselves at the end of the rope.
Have a great month.
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Greetings from Home
This day marks a level of vibration much the same way as the last seven times that we have been together. Humanity is now moving at the speed of love, which is slightly faster than the speed of light. What is taking place, at this time, is that all of humanity and the planet itself are starting to go through a birthing process. We have mentioned before that the Earth is not sick, she is pregnant. She is giving birth and this is a good way to look at it, but she is not giving birth to another planet. Earth is giving birth to a new form of human, for you have evolved past your current physical housing for your spirit.

The Evolution of the Bubble of Biology
The bubble of biology, which houses every spirit, is challenged keeping up with the vibrational growth. There are events taking place within the earth herself and throughout the cosmos that will create opportunities for you to carry much more of your own light than you ever dreamt possible. You have disconnected yourself from Home long enough to pretend to be a human, and yet you still have the essence of who you are in that body. Many times you look at the body and say,“That’s strange, I wonder how I got here. I wonder what this means.” Your body has often fought you, as you tried to move forward. It seems like many of you have actually been dragging your body around with you for most of your lives, sometimes just trying to make it work with you to hold your spirit for a time. And we see the challenges with that, but there are different events that are now underway that will help to clear much of this energy.
Many of you are now consciously releasing your old templates, letting go of some of your old belief systems about who you truly are, and who you thought you were. This has been very helpful and enabled many to move forward, but now the solar flares have begun and everyone on earth will feel this. We do not call them solar flares, as they are very similar to what you will experience as a magnetic bath. Huge waves of magnetism are coming in and stretching your own magnetic boundaries. They are moving your own lay lines of planet Earth, which are shifting as this energy comes in. During those times they are stretched out of shape, and your lay lines on an emotional level lose their anchoring. Animals tied in to the magnetic grids of earth may lose their way and often strand themselves as a result. It is almost as if no one is on solid ground anymore. Please be aware that most human reaction is experienced through magnetism; reactionary mechanisms originate from the emotional body, which has caused some challenges in the past. Several new illnesses have passed through humanity helping to adjust the magnetic body, and we tell you this will intensify during 2012.
Magnetic Rollercoaster
The first wave of this energy from the sun occurred between 2000 and 2001, and this magnetic energy was stored in the tectonic plates of planet Earth. This prepared the plates to hold the energy that entered over the next five years, which is why you have seen much of the movement in those tectonic plates. As the plates become charged they reach the level at which humans are ready to receive this energy, and then it slowly releases from these plates. This process is very similar to what you would consider an electrical capacitor or a battery, holding the charge until it is needed.
This has been happening with many of you, but as this starts to intensify and these magnetic waves arrive on planet Earth you have options. You can choose how you receive this energy, although you have not known this before. You can take this energy, which has usually knocked you off center in your emotional body, and turn it into something that feeds your love centers because this is true love that is coming in from the universe. And we tell you that the sun is not quite what you think it is. Many of you believe it to be a hot gassy ball of fire, but we tell you it is actually a portal that energy is transported through. So much energy will be released over this next few years that there is not enough energy in the sun to fill the demand. It was not long ago that many of your scientists on earth believed (very quietly) that the sun was reaching its end. They theorized that it would burn out because so much of its energy had been released. Dear ones, we tell you that almost twice that amount of energy will be arriving very soon.
End of the Rope
So, what should you do? Begin with the understanding that it is your position that will determine how the energy affects you. Let us share with you a story that may help you to understand. The Keeper (Steve) has his exercise place, he calls it his sauna. He exercises in his sauna every morning and one of the exercises involves a rope. He bought himself a rope about an inch in diameter and very soft so that he could stretch his back, and he has been doing this exercise for some time. Well the other day, not too long ago, that rope came close to his nose and he realized this rope really smelled awful. He has been holding and sweating on this rope for a while. Well, you know he is going to have to do something about it. So he tries to wash it in the shower, but it does not wash very well. Then unannounced to the keeper’s keeper (Barbara), he actually figures out how to work the washing machine which he has never used before. He put the rope in the washing machine and carefully adds only a little bit of soap, because he has seen movies where too much soap creates a messy disaster. He is very careful as he turns on the washing machine, waits for the cycle to complete and it seems that everything goes well. However, when he comes back and opens the washer door, there is no rope any more just a big pile of loose string. He looks at the rope and says to it: “You forgot how to be a rope. You used to know exactly how to be a rope and now you’re not a rope anymore. What happened?” We are laughing hysterically as he is talking to the rope. He then realized that by washing the rope he had interfered with its inner alignments. The rope realigned itself inside of the washing mashing and today is no longer a rope. He asked the rope at one point, “Did you forget that you were a rope?”
That is what tends to happen when these magnetic waves come in. When this cleansing energy comes in, we tend to forget the game we were playing. Dear ones, we will help you to re-member where you were. Many of you will finally see yourself finally walking toward a goal that you have been working on for so long, and then you suddenly ask why you are going there.
Making New Supportive Alignments
These magnetic waves will affect many of you, because generally you think first and feel second. Many things are becoming challenging for you because the magnetic emotions are coming in so strongly, so it will be necessary for you to feel first and think second. That is taking place in such a beautiful way now, as it is working throughout many different levels. What is taking place is that you are being re-leased and re-aligned the same way the rope was of its original form. It was re-leased by letting go of its current alignments. Well, the rope was in the washing machine trying not to lose its current shape; it was holding onto its alignments very tightly, still trying to pretend to be a rope. This is exactly what we see happening here on planet Earth. As these next levels come in you will have great opportunities to move at astounding rates and make new alignments that empower you. All you have to re-member to ask is, did you re-member to be a human today? Are you in the same place as you were before? Where is your passion? That is going to be your anchoring energy to all the new alignments in the new earth. It is no longer about where you thought your safety was, or about what you were building. The keys in life are found by expressing your light from Home. Your passion carries your channel from home and that is what you came to give, to bring to planet Earth.
And many of you are saying, “Oh, I can’t do that, it’s too much fun! How can I make a living at my passion?” Well, we hope you have fun and master all human experiences. We hope you learn both the positive and the negative, for there is absolutely beauty in the darkness. Humans have been so afraid of the dark, but now you are going to see if from a different level. You will see light on what used to be darkness and much of your fear will disappear quickly. It is getting you to that point that we are working on at this moment.
Science and Light
We wish to share with you an event that is now taking place in the scientific world, which might help you to understand why so much attention is on planet Earth throughout all that is. Up until this point, Earth has been the only planet of free choice. In other words, you basically did not have any pre-direction. You did not have spirits coming into your world and actually touching you on the shoulder and correcting your course.
Yes, sometimes angles come to your world. You receive divine guidance if you are open to it, but not to the point that you absolutely do not have a choice or are being led in some way. Free choice is the ultimate and only rule on planet Earth. There is now a second game of free choice because of your success, and it’s evolving at an incredible rate on an entirely different time line. At some point you will be able to see it, but not by building rockets or spaceships, or by time travel. You will be able to see for the simple reason that humanity is evolving. Humans call us angels but there is also an interim spot, the Human Angel, and that’s where you are right now. You are learning how to be the angels on planet Earth, because eventually you will be the angels to the second planet of free choice. You are in training right now, evolving faster that you can possibly know to be able to work in these areas. We are so incredibly proud of you, for you have taken the greatest possibilities of humanity and already exceeded that so that now you’re pushing past each marker at this point. You are starting to move past each road block very quickly, as is humanity’s collective vibration of humanity. That is changing the world around you and you are beginning to see that you create everything you witness. How do the little god’s play the game of pretending to be a human on planet Earth? By putting mirrors everywhere so they can see their own light, even though they rarely know it is their light. This is changing very rapidly now, for you will begin to see your light. Yes, you will do well to balance your egos; you have done that so far. You have experienced that many times and we want you to feel your worth, because the ego has to be in balance. That does not mean that you will be losing it for many of you have challenges the other way for you do not have enough ego to stand up and say, “This is what I brought from home.”
As those leading the way vibrationally, your job is not just to hold the door open but to make it safe for every single one of you to take the step. Make is safe for the people around you. Move out of the judgment, out of the polarity consciousness that is almost strangling this planet. You will experience more polarity, especially as you go through your elections. This will be quite fun to watch, for every election has become closer, closer and closer, and it will be the same for this particular one. The reason for this is that polarity is leaving, and just as anything is taken away from humanity, humanity grabs onto it and will not let go. That is exactly what is happening, you are making a difference. Do not believe everything you see on television or read in the news, because this planet is evolving and graduating very quickly. You have already set that into motion.
Discovery ~ Evidence of Life
So, what about the science? The science is beginning to understand the energy of what we have called spirituality. Of course, from our perspective there is no difference between spirit and human. We simply see that humanity is spirits pretending to be human and playing the game of evolving their souls. You are doing this well at the game, and now for the scientific piece. Something just happened that was not in your news, and you will not see it on television: another planet was just discovered, and it is believed to have supported life. They have not found the actual evidence of life, but they have discovered the residual debris field and remnants of life. The challenge about this particular planet is that it is about 620 light years away. Is this the second planet of free choice of which we just spoke? No, it is not. It is another planet that is on a similar path and that’s why it was found. As the discovery becomes known there will be some that will try to disprove it, and many others that will try to validate it. However, you still do not have means to visit this planet, or communicate with its inhabitants.
So, there is much that needs to happen. Here is another very interesting piece, for it was not planet Earth that discovered the other planet. It was the other planet that discovered you. This will play out in the history of Earth, and the discovery will make a huge difference in your planet as it starts to evolve. It will take time, for you have no technology in place and no way to communicate. You do not even communicate the same way at this moment.
Choose Your Vibration
You are not alone. You have always known that, but now you will find validation for it which will give you opportunities. We have mentioned before that as all of humanity evolves many elements of the veil disappear, which means that you will have direct communication from one heart to the next. You do not need to speak or write your words, for you can connect one heart to another right now if you will start practicing that. It will help you tremendously as you move into these new bodies. You have put filters into place so that you could pretend to be a human on this very difficult planet, but those filters are starting to dissolve. They are being washed away by the magnetic energy, and we don’t even care if you re-member whether you are a rope or a knot. What is taking place is that you have opportunities for new alignments. As those filters are also being gently washed away, the external vibration will now have more of an effect on the human body than ever before. Now, what does that mean? Well, you will all know very shortly exactly what we are speaking of. Every vibration that is caused externally and enters the body from the outside, whether it enters through the chakra system or simply a vibration of the body, you are more susceptible to interpreting vibration than ever before. For some of you this will be a weak spot, it will be an Achilles heel and you will compensate. Most of you will feel strengthened by this Energy; certain pieces that you have become accustomed to will start to change.
One of these outside vibrations is what you call music. Music has always had an effect on your spirit. Music has always been able to reach the human part of you and touch your soul very quickly, especially if it’s your favorite music. Now we tell you that music will become a form of communication that you will eventually use just as much as your words, because now the vibrations can reach you on much different levels. You will find that suddenly many of your choice in music will change. Some of you are now thinking, “Well, I will never listen to Rap music.” However, there is a rhythm in Rap music that carries vibrations just the same way as other music genres, for it only needs to be in alignment with you. Choose what fits into your world, and realize it is not just music anymore.
Sensitivity to Background Noise
We also tell you that from now on you will be very sensitive to ambient noise, to background noise. Here is the challenge and what is taking place on a larger scale. Humans are wired in such a way that you do not actually hear such a sound; what you hear is a difference in the background sound. If all of you walked into a quiet room, you would still hear a buzzing in your head. That is kind of the background noise that is often described white noise, background noise, or hissing and crackling.. Much of that is actually the sound of the machinery that makes up the illusion of the game, but on top of that you don’t actually hear the sounds but the variations of the background sound. Soon you will start to hear all of it including the background sound, which you have not been conscious of before.
That will cause challenges for many of you. So, work with it ahead of time and start to know what this feels like. Work with this and start listening to the silence right now, start getting comfortable with how your ears work and how they change even as you move to different dimensions, heights, and elevations. Feel how that works because your own body is beginning to expand energetically. The expansion is not yet physical, but the expansion is taking place energetically. When you expand, you automatically touch everything around you. Your natural reaction is, “Oh, excuse me I wasn’t meaning to touch you or to be in your space.” In a very short time humanity will become comfortable with itself again. You will put your energy back into the Universe, where it has been missing ever since you began pretending to play this game of pretending to be a human. The love that you have right now will change this energy overnight. You have the ability to take these steps, and be dragged from one level to the next or jump joyously up the steps skipping two or three steps at a time. It is your choice, literally. You are grasping it. This is not happening to you, for you are welcoming and embracing every part of that experience. We watch in amazement, for so many of you have hit the proverbial brick wall so many times before. We are so proud of you that you trust yourself and still dare to move forward. You have the light inside that you can anchor onto, but then that is the nature of lightworkers. That is the spirit of those of you who choose to come in first to hold the door open for others.
It is not a race. You have definitely chosen the more difficult role, for it is lonely to be the first ones to arrive. We could not talk you out of it; you have performed this same service in every life time that you have been here, and you will do it again.
Although only Earth is making this move, every physical body will evolve to allow you to hold more of your spirit. Your higher self will be a conscious anchor that you can use on a daily basis, and it will talk to you the same way you talk to it now. Enjoy this journey. Step into it with absolute joy, wonderment, and excitement of what you can create next. There are no limits, and that is why we give you these concepts and ideas to stretch your brain to start to think about what is possible. You have created a miracle here on planet Earth.
You have created something that has never happened before in the Universe. You are evolving god. Incredible work, dear ones, we are so proud of you. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and pretending to be a human, because you’re doing one hell of a job with it.
It is with the greatest of honor that we ask you to treat each other with respect, nurture one another every chance you get and
Play well together.
Espavo.
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Winter Wonderland
Steve and I have just returned from presenting our seminar in Belgium. The memories of this event warm my heart although the weather chilled my entire being.

How wonderful it was to be with spiritual family in person again. As much as I have enjoyed being home and doing our work through the internet, it is not the same as being one on one with the beautiful people who attended the Transition Team event. It was not only the hugs I collected it was the personal stories I loved hearing from people who were on journeys of their lives.
The Transition Team seminar celebrates the birth process throughout life to the passing of going home called the death experience. It was very moving, I feel for all who attended, but for Steve and I as well. It was an emotional time filled with tears and laughter. I felt that all shared themselves with each other. I feel all got to see both a side of Steve and I that they did not see before. You have to understand, this Lightwork helps us grow individually each time we present. I always say it would be easy if we could just talk about this spiritual growth but no, the group makes sure we experience it on a personal level as well. I wouldn’t have it any other way. When I go through something I feel I can help others through my own experiences. You all know I am open with my life. I cannot be any other way. We are all in this together. What affects me, affects someone else. That is why it is so important to share. We need to know we are not alone and that we are supporting each other in our growth and understanding of who we are.
We began our trip arriving in Amsterdam. Steve and I love this city. It is an exciting place that offers so much. We found it was so cold we stayed inside our hotel room for two days getting over jet lag. The third day we venture out to drive to Belgium to find the city in a winter wonderland. Steve looked outside the hotel window and he said with excitement: “Oh look honey, it’s snowing!” That was only the beginning of what was ahead of us. When Steve went to get the rental car, which usually only takes around twenty minutes, I was waiting with our bags ready to journey on our trip. After an hour and a half I became very concerned that he was nowhere in sight. I had the hotel call the car rental company to check on him. They said he left some time ago. I tried not to panic but the snow continued to downfall minute by minute. It was cold and icy. I was concerned about not making it to our event, but of course more concerned about Steve’s safety. The hotel staff felt my uneasiness and did everything to comfort me. Finally Steve pulled up with the car. What a welcomed sight he was! Even with my concern I did enjoy the beauty of nature. As I was watching for Steve to return I observed people outside being like children enjoying the heavy snow surround them. Even the hotel staff was taking pictures of the splendor. We loaded the car with our luggage and proceeded to travel to Belgium.
Just getting out of Amsterdam was quite an adventure. The car would slip around the elements as bikers and other cars were trying to control their own situation. Once on the main highway we thought all would be well. The highways were stuck like a parking lot. Our navigation system in our car suggested we get off and travel on side roads. It sounded like a good idea until we found even more ice and snow on them. I call Steve the best driver in the world. He handled this drive in the most expert way. We both grew up in Missouri where you learn how to drive in such conditions. I felt safe in his care until on a side road an oncoming passing car made us move a bit out of our lane and the car swerved to the side. I saw a huge tree coming our way. I yelled at Steve to get back on the road. He remained calm and told me after we were safe that the tree was at least three feet (one meter) away. We laughed about it later, but it was scary.
We finally arrived in Belgium after seven and a half hours. Usually the trip for Amsterdam to Belgium talks two and a half to three hours. We were greeted by some of our spiritual family Carla, Wouter and Saskia. It was a real welcome. We were told that on Facebook everyone was concerned about our safety. Thank you to all of you.
The trip was an adventure but we made it. Steve was so good about getting us there safely. I just kept saying how beautiful the snow and the surroundings were. It was easy for me to appreciate the beauty knowing I was in Steve’s safe protective hands.

Barbara Rother

As most of you know Elke, our unofficial adopted daughter, who is ours though a backup plan, is our gift that we brought back from Belgium. She has decided to stay with us for three months in Las Vegas. It will be for a longer time if I have my way!
Our event in Belgium was magical. Steve and I will always hold this memory in our hearts. As we presented our seminar for the three days we were together, I kept looking out the windows and appreciated the beauty of this winter wonderland.

With Love and Light

Barbara

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Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (From "Live at Montreux 1980" DVD)

2012-02-16T22:01:00.000-08:00

This song first came out in 1971, the year I finished high school. Isn't it something (sadly so) that these lyrics apply even more now, some 41 years later, than they did then. It is time to change it up folks.
Lyrics to Mercy Mercy Me

Oh, mercy mercy meOh, things ain't what they used to beNo, noWhere
did all the blue sky go?Poison is the wind that blowsFrom the north,
east, south, and seaOh, mercy mercy meOh, things ain't what they used to
beNo, noOil wasted on the oceans and upon our seasFish full of
mercuryOh, mercy mercy meOh, things ain't what they used to beNo,
noRadiation in the ground and in the skyAnimals and birds who live
nearby are dyingOh, mercy mercy meOh, things ain't what they used to
beWhat about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can you
stand?My sweet LordMy sweet LordMy sweet Lord

Check out the video clips/ om mane padme hung

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This is a special update from The International Campaign for Tibet on recent developments inside Tibet and related to the U.S. visit of China’s Vice President Xi Jinping.

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS SNEAK INTO TIBET
Recently a few journalists have snuck into Tibet to report on the increasingly oppressive situation there for the Tibetan people. Here are their video reports.

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Inside Tibet's heart of protest
From the UK’s Guardian News: After a 10-hour drive across the Tibetan plateau, Jonathan Watts was able to get into the town undetected and witness how the authorities are trying to extinguish dissent with fire engines, riot police and patriotic 're-education' campaigns.

China lock-down seals off Tibetan unrest
From BBC News: A BBC news crew travels through China as security is increasingly tightened in the Tibetan areas of Sichuan province following a series of self-immolations and protests. The reporter and his crew attempt to enter Tibetan areas only to be followed, detained and threatened.

Rare visit to remote Chinese region shows depth of Tibetan despair
McClathey Beijing Bureau Chief Tom Lasseter snuck into Ngaba to try to verify the situation inside.Read his story here >>

XI JINPING'S U.S. VISIT
ICT Board writes to Secretary of State Clinton
From February 13-15 China’s Vice President Xi Jinping, who is expected to become China’s next president, visited Washington. The Board of Directors of the International Campaign for Tibet wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the U.S. government to use the opportunity of Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington to press for a change in Tibet.

In the letter, sent on February 7, the ICT Board wrote “We believe that new Chinese leadership has the potential and power to chart a Tibet policy that is not only a departure from decades of Chinese misrule in Tibet, but also recognizes the value in direct engagement with the Tibetan people as legitimate stakeholders in their own future. This engagement is necessitated by, and grounded in, the scope of long-standing U.S. Tibet policy as laid down by successive Administrations and Congress.”

For the full letter, please click here (PDF download) >>

Himal South Asian: Man on fire
ICT's Vice President Bhuchung K. Tsering wrote a piece recently published in Himal South Asian, which analyzes the self-immolations as a radicalization of the Tibet struggle. Read the full article >>

MAP & FACT SHEET

Since 2009 there have been 21 confirmed self-immolations within Tibet. A map marking the locations of the self-immolations can be found here >

Detailed information about each self-immolation can be found on our fact sheet >

TAKE ACTION
Write to your Sentors and ask them to cosponsor Senate Resolution 356!

This resolution mourns the death of Tibetans who have self-immolated, calls for China to open Tibetan areas to journalists, diplomats and international organization and asks for an accounting of Tibetans who have disappeared.

This resolution sends the strong message to Beijing that the ongoing repression in Tibet is unacceptable!

TIBET LOBBY DAY

On March 19 and 20, Tibetan-Americans and friends of Tibet are invited to Washington, DC for the Fourth Annual Tibet Lobby Day.
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2012-02-16T10:00:00.001-08:00

Working with their allies in government, powerful lobbyists are pushing a set of initiatives designed to create bigger bills, widespread surveillance, and restricted online choice.

This is big. Powerful lobbyists, working with their allies in government, have put forward what amounts to an unavoidable choke point for your Internet use: two bills aimed at Internet users, and a government decision about the future of Internet access.
If we don’t stop this set-up, you’ll have to deal with bigger bills, widespread warrantless surveillance, and restricted choice.
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Online Spying: The government has tabled their invasive spying plan (Bill C-30) to mandate that every Internet provider must hand "authorities" access to the private information of any Canadian, at any time, without a warrant¹. Despite appearances the contrary, they are still pushing this through parliament.

The Internet Lockdown: Through Bill C-11, Big Media lobbyists are seeking the power² to compel telecom providers (who will now have surveillance capabilities) to cut Internet access for no good reason, remove or hide vast swaths of the Internet, and lock users out of their own services.

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[1] The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has written that the online spying bills could “undercut the future of freedom, innovation and privacy”
[2] Big Media is pushing for C-11 to include the power for courts to issue injunctions ordering ISPs to block access to websites. Many proposed amendments also include rules that mean accused (i.e. not necessarily convicted) “repeat infringers” could have their Internet connections terminated. The “enabler provision” may also be expanded in such a way that could be used to target legitimate websites that host user generated content. Those websites—including YouTube—could be penalized for hosting content that Big Media controls.
[3] Montreal Gazette: Spectrum auction called a threat to new entrants
[4] Conservative supporters, including some conservative MPs, have denounced the online spying bills.
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The Unicus Radio Hour 11/10 by Robert Stanley | Blog Talk Radio

2012-02-15T22:02:00.000-08:00

The Unicus Radio Hour 11/10 by Robert Stanley Blog Talk Radio
this is a very interesting interview with David Adair on Preparing for 2012, he also shares a lucid dream of a fleet of starcraft, with animal (feline and wolverine) beings, heading en masse to earth, and the why is most interesting. David Adair built a rocket which came to him also in a lucid dream when he was just a teenager. He has common sense which you can hear in this interview. Thanks to Marvin for sending this one today.

2012-02-15T16:34:00.001-08:00

2/14/2012 -- 6.0 magnitude earthquake -- Coast of Oregon -- ALERT Coas...

2012-02-14T21:49:00.000-08:00

The Dailies..Roo visits

2012-02-14T17:11:00.000-08:00

Always give a dog a snack to make them feel at home

Always bring the guest dog's stuffed monkey, (best kind of monkey by the way..hahahajuskiddinmonkeypalsomine....) along

Let old god or dog rather check out the intruder of the day

Let the Roo do what Roo's do

Taking it all in stride as long as Roo stays away from the feeding hopper

What was I thinking when I got my first new couch and loveseat? That they would stay all fresh and such..hahahah..big joke

Today, and for the rest of this week, I have taken on a Roo assignment, in that my neighbour is taking a course in Nelson and so the dog needs outings etc, and has not ever been left alone in the house for very long before today. Well then, up I got earlier than my usual hibernating in winter here time, with the intent to feed all my animals and then go and get the Roo. Which I did. So this day has been a series of short walks with Roo, a walk with my Miss Mikki to the park for our ball throwing session, and some cat time in, to do the weekly litter box change for garbage day manana and a nice clean sweep of the catio. Yup, the dailies . Somehow the unlocked door got locked after I got Roo for this afternoons outing, so now he is here until his caregiver gets home from the course. Geez louise...ah well, the felines are in the bedroom sleeping together on the bed, and we are all cosying up by the woodstove until "pickup time".

Travelling Valentine

2012-02-14T15:44:00.000-08:00

Travelling Valentine (just click here)
Much Love to all today......Linda

2/14/2012 -- 6.5 magnitude earthquake in soloman islands -- OBVIOUS glob...

2012-02-14T14:47:00.000-08:00

Latest earthquake activity on the planet Earth

Tonight's Pondering....

2012-02-13T21:33:00.000-08:00

I watched the video clip that I posted under the Roger Hodgson music clip. The video clip all about the crud in the chemtrails and the woman presenting the material did a sound job tying it all together..what I like to call "connecting the dots". It is so overwhelming this factu...actuality...I have known about and watched the aerosol spray program for a decade and more, and at first I felt it was something to do with the Haarp technology, or war planning, or geoengineering, or a mix of all this. Now though, with these more recent disoveries of what is taking place within our bodies(*Morgellons) and what it is that is entering our bodies through the chemtrail sprays (nano particulates) it has taken on such a deep sinister game plan of the global elitists. It seems so mad and depraved to be fecking around with our planet and all the lifeforms on it, with this sinister intent of those in charge of the plan to turn us all in to mind controlled, weak, subservient , hive mentality , neutered nothingnesses. Yessir, nosir, can I kiss your ass now sir? Well it is much worse actually than the above. Transhumanism....what was once known as eugenics has a new title. Ok then...my pondering now on this one.
Since I chose this current incarnation, and are here for some reason beyond just breathing, eating and such, and I am now hep finally to why and what has been being sprayed on us all these past years, how in the world are we to stop a program that mainstream may just think is yet another "conspiracy". And, if it isn't stopped, by some magnanimous event, ie the shift to a new earth...then who wants to become some transhuman ? Yuck. This is such a depressing situation which I so want to know how to change it all up. I welcome any ideas from my friends who may have pondered how to change this current matrix. That's all folks..love L

Yours truly in Nelson today...a nice shade of winter white...peace...one day

The Meaning - Roger Hodgson, Writer and Composer

2012-02-13T21:09:00.000-08:00

Chemtrails and Morgellons - Dark Agenda of Synthetic Biology 2011

2012-02-13T17:22:00.000-08:00

NEW PRINCESS KAORU NAKAMARU PYTHAGORAS CONFERENCE 2012 OFFICIAL VIDEO

2012-02-13T16:48:00.000-08:00

A 2012 possibility ....according to the Princess and old Biblical prophecy etc.
And here is a link for a bit of a biography and other clips with the Princess
http://nakamarukaoru.com/profile/indexE.html

Seeking a Friend for the End of the world

2012-02-12T09:11:00.000-08:00

My friend Liz sent me this link this morning. I kinda want to see this movie, cuz hey, sometimes I lay in bed wondering , "how is it that we are on this countdown to galactic alignment, and I am lying here solo?" when I would prefer being with a new flame..well hey, it is after all...the end of the world as we know it....(and siriously now...I feel fine) Here is the link
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world/trailers/seeking-a-friend-at-the-end-of-the-world-theatrical-trailer-28244110.html

2/11/2012 -- 4.2 magnitude earthquake in SWITZERLAND -- Europe should pr...

2012-02-11T23:06:00.000-08:00

IRAN: Follow the Money (with Foster Gamble)

2012-02-11T14:07:00.000-08:00

This is a very good clip from the Thrive originator. Have a listen if you are following the USA wanting to invade Iran.

The dailies

2012-02-11T00:32:00.000-08:00

Gray Boy kitty loves the dog's new bed

The dog, Miss Mikki, actually gets to have a nap on the new bed for her today

An Aquarian's kitchen table....so where do you eat ? Not at the table this week, art projects in progress...like the tulips? I do, my friend Oya gave me those at a birthday brunch last weekend .

This is my neighbour Di who showed up to go to kareoke on my birthday last night. I love the lion feet on the Wizard of Oz calendar above her head

This is my friend Tanya, about 3 mos. ago when she thought it was my birthday. It was fun that night celebrating anyway.

Since for my birthday I went shopping and got a new white faux duvet , (no feathers in it) and a couple of purple fleece blankets for the bedroom, the dog inherits the old comforter from the thrift store. The dog Mikki had taken to sleeping on the front room couch, after 2 of my elder felines both died on her old bed. Most likely why she stopped sleeping on it in the first place. Of a sudden she has started sleeping on the floor in the green guest room , where I have relocated to myself as it is warmer there. So here are photos of the dailies ....this week ...I had a great birthday. It was a quiet day and I went to shop for the bed covering. I had lots of loving telephone and emails and ...ta da...a little box of my favourite chocolate on the planet...DeGroots truffles...my life is so blessed and I counted and was grateful for all my many blessings yesterday, of which I would have to say, my animals and my fabulous magical friends are tops! Love you all soooooooooo much . Linda

A birthday card so special

2012-02-10T21:25:00.000-08:00

This was a birthday card my friend Michele sent to me yesterday. The photo was taken a few years ago at the river across from Eceti. I love the woods there and the banks of the little river that are of black volanic sand. I always feel so at peace at that river's edge. It is most magical. So I loved this card that arrived in my inbox yesterday. Thanks M. for the lovely card! Love Linda

Open Media and our Internet Threat

2012-02-10T15:53:00.001-08:00

Legislation like Bill C-11 could create an Internet lockdown, where Internet users are cut off for no good reason, and vast swaths of the Internet are removed or hidden from view.

Let's stop this now.

We really didn’t want to send you another email so soon, but we know you count on us to alert you about major threats to Internet choice and affordability. So here it is...
According to copyright experts, giant media conglomerates are lobbying for Internet lockdown powers allowing them to cut Internet access for no good reason, remove or hide vast swaths of the Internet, and lock users out of their own services.
Taken together, these new powers would fundamentally change the Internet, severely limit free expression, and hogtie innovators. And all to supposedly protect Big Media’s content assets.

We can convince the government to stand up to lobbyist pressure if we raise our voices together. Please send the government a message now.

A similar scheme in the US led to a huge public outcry forcing Big Media lobbyists to back off from their plan to impose the now-infamous SOPA and PIPA¹ legislation.
Now, those lobbyists are turning to Canada through copyright legislation like Bill C-11 and trade agreements called ACTA² and TPP³. Internet law expert Michael Geist recently revealed that behind-the-scenes Big Media lobbyists are pushing for powers such as website blocking⁴, Internet termination for people that threaten their business interests⁵, and huge threats for sites that host user-generated content (like YouTube)⁶, in addition to the “most restrictive digital lock provisions in the world,”⁷ which are already in Bill C-11.
Canadians are not taking this lying down. Across the country, online and off, Canadians are standing up against this Internet lockdown. Protests are being held in several cities today⁸; at the same time thousands of people are getting active online, using the Internet to say no to the Internet lockdown.

Let’s do our part today ..and make the Internet scream.

Politicians and policymakers have an opportunity to put Canada on the map as a leader in Internet openness and affordability. But they have to know that we’re behind them if they stand up to megacorporate lobbyists. Their approach is backwards: it suffocates online choice and it’s patently unfair.

Let’s kick up some dust. Tell the Prime Minister and the Industry Minister to say no to the Internet lockdown.

For the Internet,
Steve, Lindsey, and your OpenMedia.ca Team
P.S. Thanks so much for standing up for your digital rights. It’s amazing to see Canadians, like our global counterparts, use the Internet to save the Internet.

Footnotes
[1] The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a U.S. bill that, alongside its sister bill PIPA, is designed to block offshore websites that are associated with copyright infringement. SOPA would allow a judge to order any Internet service provider to block a website and any links to it, including links from websites like Google, Wikipedia, or Reddit. It would effectively give the US government and private corporations the power to cripple sites that allegedly—but not conclusively—make unlicensed use of copyrighted content.
[2] Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in an international intellectual property enforcement treaty, primarily lobbied for by big industry in Europe and the U.S. Though there's little public information about ACTA, it's clear that it will target “Internet distribution and information technology". According to the EFF, ACTA raises "significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet legitimate commerce and for developing countries’ ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development."
[3] The The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a multi-nation trade agreement that will rewrite the global rules on intellectual property enforcement, and as such could limit the future of the open Internet. Currently U.S. negotiators are pushing to include copyright measures that are far more restrictive than currently required by international treaties (including ACTA). For more, check out the EFF’s backgrounder here.
[4] Big Media is pushing for C-11 to include the power to pull a website or application offline, without the hassle of having to prove it has violated their copyright.
[5] Many proposed laws include rules that mean accused (i.e. not necessarily convicted) “repeat infringers” could have their Internet connections terminated.
[6] This refers to the “enabler provision”, is that overly broad language could create increased legal risk for legitimate websites that host user-generated content. Those websites—including YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr, and more—could be penalized for hosting content that Big Media controls.
[7] The “digital locks” provision of Bill C-11 could criminalize common practices that most people have been engaging in for years. In short, companies can build “locks” into software or hardware, and anyone cracking those locks—either to share content or to modify the product they own—would be breaking the law. For more, see Peter Nowak’s analysis here. Michael Geist’s quote cited above can be found here.
[8] Find a working list of the events here. We’re especially excited for this one in Montreal.

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OIL ON LUBICON LAND: A PHOTO ESSAY

2012-02-10T14:57:00.000-08:00

Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation and a Climate
and Energy Campaigner with Greenpeace, describes the impact of oil and gas
developments and the recent oil spill in the traditional territory of the
Lubicon Cree in northern Alberta.

Tibetan Self Immolations Pondering ..

2012-02-10T14:13:00.000-08:00

I have been reading with horror about the many Tibetans, both male and female, and not all are monks or nuns, who have taken their lives in this dramatic fashion. Ingesting gasoline, pouring it on oneself and then lighting a flame and then burning to death in a most painful way. For a human being to do this outrageous act, one would have to be incredibly repressed and in such deep anguish. Tortured, taunted,shot at, not allowed to follow their spiritual path, due to the Chinese military and government repression and force. This is just heartbreaking. Living in Canada , where the controls are subtle and not so restricting, I just find it almost unbelievable that this is happening and no ending yet in sight. So it has me pondering of how horrid it must be to be a Tibetan living under the severe controls and restraints and torture of the Chinese military who invaded their country and have raped the natural resources and are now doing a full blown genocide of the native peoples. Why does this occur all around our planet. Genocide for all to see , as in Tibet and Iraq( and not so many decades ago here in N.America) .Then we have a global genocide going on as the skies rain chemtrails upon our land,water, animals and our selves , along with doses of radiation from Fukishima, which is still radiating . Irregardless of the global elite and their mad plan for the planet, it still is a bit of a mind bend to grasp that so many of us as a collective of humans, can be brainwashed by the few holding the ultimate power over all, to such atrocities as killing one another, maiming, hurting in any way. This doesn't seem like how a human with a heart would behave. So therefore, mind control and other forms of reducing our compassion to a big zero, has to be in place. Through gmo foodstuffs, chemicals in food, plastic and tin cans, water systems fleuridated, chemtrails , radiation , advertising , tv and Haarp and geoengineering, not so smart meters ....on and on it goes.
What to do as humans who still live in areas where the controllers are not quite so in effect, but the above mentioned controls are? I suppose that as my friend Nancy said an old friend Stan Padilla told her, we are the canaries in the coal mine, and as such, it is our duty to find out all the ways to stay healthy as possible when we are exposed to all these chemicals and controls currently in place. This takes researching and then deciding if one wants to take any of the ingredients or supplements etc that will asssist in detoxing the heavy metals and other poisons out of our bodies and our brains. So that we can stay as mentally and physically clear and healthy as possible, during this last waltz of the tyrants as one book title named it, and be the ones who help to see in to place,the new earth (and for some of us be activists as we are seeing it in to place) This is a huge responsibility to ourselves and our planet and with the timeline fast approaching galactic alignment 12 21 2012 or thereabouts, we are really in the fast lane now. That said, I will know that the new earth is indeed in place, when I no longer have the white jets spraying toxins over my home and village, and when the need for humans to self immolate is no longer occurring. Until that time, my prayers, visualisations, health modalities to stay well and activism will contine. Eh ma ho .....adonai Linda

Tibet Press Watch

2012-02-10T13:15:00.001-08:00

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Friend of Tibet,

This edition of the Tibet Press Watch focuses on the self-immolations in Tibet. Since Tapey, a young monk from Kirti monastery in eastern Tibet, set himself ablaze in February 2009, there have been 16 additional self-immolations in Tibet.

These acts of protest have been remarkable in their extreme nature, but they represent a continuum of resistance against Chinese policies that effectively rob Tibetans of every other form of self-determination.

We are confronted at once by the tragedy and the strength of these acts, and we are compelled to reach. I believe the self-immolations wish to provoke an international reaction that moves China to back off its heavy-handed policies in Tibet and allow the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet.Continue reading...

THE DALAI LAMA OUTLINES HIS MASTER PLAN
By: Bhuchung Tsering ICT Vice President of Special Programs

On September 24, 2011, the fourteenth Dalai Lama made yet another statement that will have great impact on the future direction of the institution that he represents. I am of course referring to his statement about the evolution of the Dalai Lama institution and the reincarnation system.

Through a succinct explanation of historical development, His Holiness has outlined his decisive role in matters relating to the next Dalai Lama. As expected, the Chinese Government has taken this personal with its spokesman asserting on September 26, 2011 that only it that had the authority. In general, recognition of reincarnation is a spiritual process in which temporal leadership had at best only marginal roles.Continue reading ...

UNDERSTANDING THE SELF-IMMOLATIONS: A TIMELINE
In 2008, spontaneous protests ignited across Tibet, protesting China’s repressive rule and the deliberate subversion of the Tibetan culture and of Tibetan Buddhism. The resulting governmental crack-down has further limited Tibetan freedom. Numerous Tibetans have found their only outlet for protest to be publicly setting themselves on fire—begging the question: How bad do things have to be for self-immolation to be the best alternative?Continue reading...

	For the latest information:
	Since 2009 there have been 22 self-immolations within Tibet, 12 occurring in 2011. A map marking the locations of the self-immolations can be found here >		Detailed information about each self-immolation can be found on our fact sheet >

THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE
Governments from around the world honor the death of these Tibetans and speak out in protest of China’s repressions.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: We have made very clear our serious concerns about China’s record on human rights. When we see reports of lawyers, artists, and others who are detained or disappeared, the United States speaks up both publicly and privately. We are alarmed by recent incidents in Tibet of young people lighting themselves on fire in desperate acts of protest. We continue to call on China to embrace a different path.Continue reading ...

	For the latest information:
	A 2011-2012 timeline juxtaposes the dates of the acts of self-immolation and statements on them from various governments can be found here >		If you are interested in reading the most current statements please visit the ICT website. Organized by government bodies, we update this resource as statements are made public. Read the statements >

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This resolution mourns the death of Tibetans who have self-immolated, calls for China to open Tibetan areas to journalists, diplomats and international organization and asks for an accounting of Tibetans who have disappeared.

This resolution sends the strong message to Beijing that the ongoing repression in Tibet is unacceptable!

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Tibetans Self-Immolation Fact Sheet

2012-02-10T13:13:00.000-08:00

Self-Immolation Fact Sheet

22 Tibetans have self-immolated since February 27, 2009
20 men, two women
13 of the 22 are known to have died following their protest
13 of the 22 are from Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Three are from Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province (One monk from Nyitso monastery, one monk from Kardze monastery and one nun from Tawu)
One is from Chamdo prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region
One is from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province
Five of the 22 were monks at Kirti monastery in Ngaba
Five of the 22 are former monks at Kirti monastery in Ngaba (It is currently not known whether the five chose to disrobe, or were expelled from the monastery by government authorities)
One of the 22 was a nun from Mame Dechen Chokorling nunnery in Ngaba
21 of the self-immolations have occurred since March 16, 2011
A map marking the locations of the self-immolations can be viewed here.

Sonam Rabyang

Date: February 9, 2012
Protest location: Triwang (Chinese: Chen wen) Town, the Capital of Tridu County
Age: 35
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Taken to a hospital; condition is unclear
Info: ICT is still collecting information from sources inside Tibet. We will release details when they are confirmed.
ICT Report:

[ An official ICT report is pending. ]

Rinzin Dorje

Date: February 8, 2012
Protest location: Ngaba county town in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province (the Tibetan area of Amdo)
Age: 19
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Taken away by police, unknown if he survived
Info: According to two Tibetan monks from Kirti monastery in Dharamsala, India (associated with Kirti monastery in Ngaba), the Tibetan set himself on fire at a primary school early in the evening in Ngaba county town in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province (the Tibetan area of Amdo). Sources said that the Tibetan seemed to be a monk, but his name and place of origin are not known. He was taken away by police, and it is not known whether he is still alive. Two monks were also detained from the vicinity.
ICT Report:

Tibetan man self-immolates today in Ngaba (8 February 2012)

February 3rd Self-Immolations

NOTE: These self-immolations are not confirmed and have been denied by the Chinese state media. ICT is awaiting further information.
Names: Tsabtsel Tsering, Gyalri, Unknown
Protest location: Serthar (Chinese: Seda), Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: One was 60 years-old, the other ages are unknown
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: One of the three has reportedly died, the whereabouts of the other two are unknown, and circumstances remain unclear
Info: The Serthar area of eastern Tibet remains under tight lockdown after three Tibetan herders, including a 60-year old man, set themselves on fire on Friday (February 3).
Two of the Tibetans have been named as Tsabtsel Tsering from Shulsang village in Puwu township, and Gyalri from Bumshul village in Puwu. According to several exile Tibetan sources who know people in the region, one of the three died. The circumstances of the self-immolations – whether all three Tibetans set themselves on fire simultaneously – are not known. The self-immolations occurred in a remote village in Serthar (Chinese: Seda), Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, close to the border with Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) in Qinghai. The welfare and whereabouts of the two other Tibetans is not known. Radio Free Asia reported that as they set themselves on fire, the Tibetans called for freedom and for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet. (RFA, 4 February 2012).
ICT Report:

Serthar under lockdown following self-immolation of three Tibetan herders (7 February 2012)

Losang Jamyang

Date: January 14, 2012
Monastery: Formerly of Andu
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: 20's
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Info: According to exiled Tibetan sources, at around 1:30 pm he doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire. He walked into the street calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama and for freedom in Tibet, according to the same sources.
Police began to kick and beat him with clubs spiked with nails rather than immediately focusing on putting out the flames. According to two Kirti monks in Dharamsala, India, who have spoken to several individuals in the area: "Unable to bear this sight, local Tibetans on the scene stood up to the armed security personnel without regard for their own lives, and shouting that the body should be handed over to them, tried their best to block their path as they tried to take him away."
Losang Jamyang died after his self-immolation but reports about the time of his death differ. He was taken away by police, and one of the most reliable reports suggest that he may have survived until Monday (January 16) when he died.
Losang Jamyang became a monk at the local Andu monastery (of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism) as a child, but later joined a primary school (Bontse school) in Ngaba county and completed his education there. In 2011 he was a leading member of a popular association for the promotion of Tibetan language in his village, and as a result had faced pressure from the local authorities.
ICT Report:

Escalation in Ngaba following self-immolation: Two Tibetans shot (UPDATED Jan. 16) (14 January 2012)
New information on latest self-immolation, Tibetans critically injured by police (18 January 2012)

Sonam Wangyal

Date: January 8, 2012
Protest location: Darlag county, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province
Age: 40's
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Info: Sonam Wangyal (also referred to as Lama Sobha), a respected religious figure in his local area, drank kerosene and set himself on fire on January 8 early in the morning in Darlag county, Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai (the Tibetan area of Amdo), according to the Tibetan government in exile. His self-immolation was said to be linked to lack of religious freedoms in the area. Radio Free Asia reported that before he set himself ablaze, he climbed a local hill to burn incense and pray before distributing leaflets saying he would act "not for his personal glory but for Tibet and the happiness of Tibetans."
ICT Reports:

Harrowing images and last message from Tibet of first lama to self-immolate (1 February 2012)
Tibetan self-immolations continue and spread in Tibet into 2012 (9 January 2012)

Tsultrim

Date: January 6, 2012
Monastery: Formerly of Kirti
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: Around 20
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Info: According to information from exiled Tibetan sources, two Tibetans, both aged around 20, called Tsultrim and Tennyi, set themselves on fire in the courtyard of a hotel in the center of Ngaba town, and ran into the street shouting "His Holiness the Dalai Lama must return to Tibet" and "May His Holiness the Dalai Lama live for 10,000 years!" Tennyi died on the same day, and Tsultrim died on January 7, according to the same sources.
ICT Report:

Tibetan self-immolations continue and spread in Tibet into 2012 (9 January 2012)

Tennyi

Tibetan self-immolations continue and spread in Tibet into 2012 (9 January 2012)

Tenzin Phuntsog

Date: December 1, 2011
Monastery: Karma Monastery, located in Chamdo township
Protest location: Chamdo (Chinese: Changdu or Qamdo) prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Age: 40's
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased.
Info: This the first self-immolation to occur in the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the 13th since Kirti monk Tapey set himself on fire on February 27, 2009. The self-immolations have mainly occurred in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Amdo), with three in neighbouring Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (the Tibetan area of Kham).
Radio Free Asia reported that the former monk set himself ablaze in Khamar township in Chamdo, that his wife's name is Dolma, and that he has two sons and a daughter. (Radio Free Asia Tibetan service in English, December 1).
According to the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Tenzin Phuntsog died at Chamdo Hospital on December 6, 2011 (TCHRD, 9 December 2011).
ICT Report:

First self-immolation in Tibet Autonomous Region; former monk sets himself on fire (1 December 2011)

Palden Choetso

Date: November 3, 2011
Nunnery: Ganden Jangchup Choeling
Protest location: Tawu (also known as Dawu) county in Kardze
Age: 35
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased (believed)
Info: A Tibetan, Palden Choetso set fire to herself November 3, 2011 and is believed to have died in Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, the Tibetan area of Kham. The state news agency Xinhua confirmed the self-immolation and reported that the nun died after setting herself on fire near her nunnery in Tawu (also known as Dawu, Chinese: Daofu) county in Kardze.
According to one source in exile, "After Palden Choetso's self-immolation the nuns took her to the nunnery, and she died soon afterwards. Nuns began to pray for her. The local authorities have locked down the area, closing a major road in Tawu, and deploying troops to the nunnery."
ICT Report:

Tibetan nun self-immolates today in Kardze: continued resistance despite Chinese crackdown
(3 November 2011)

Dawa Tsering

Date: October 25, 2011
Monastery: Kardze
Protest location: Kardze
Age: 38
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown
Info: Dawa Tsering, 38, became the 11th Tibetan to self-immolate as a form of political protest against Chinese rule when he set fire to himself on the morning of October 25 in Kardze Monastery in eastern Tibet. Dawa Tsering was reportedly participating in a religious ritual inside the monastery attended by hundreds of local people when he set himself on fire. His current condition and whereabouts are not known, and Chinese police have reportedly surrounded the monastery.
ICT Report:

11th self-immolation in Tibet; Kardze monk sets fire to himself during religious ceremony
(28 October 2011)

Tenzin Wangmo

Date: October 17, 2011
Nunnery: Mame Dechen Chokorling (also known as Mame nunnery)
Protest location: Sumdo bridge, located below Mame nunnery, approximately three kilometers outside of Ngaba county town, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: 20
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Info: Tenzin Wangmo, a 20 year-old Tibetan nun from Mame Dechen Chokorling nunnery (also known as Mame nunnery) in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province (Tibetan region of Amdo), died after self-immolating at the Sumdo bridge, located below Mame nunnery, approximately three kilometers outside of Ngaba county town. According to the same sources, Tenzin Wangmo called for the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet and for religious freedom, during a protest that lasted approximately 10 minutes. Tenzin Wangmo's body was taken back to the nunnery before police arrived, whereupon the authorities demanded that her body be turned over or buried the same day, according to the same exile sources. The nuns of Mame nunnery refused, after which soldiers and police cordoned off the nunnery and surrounding villages. Details are still emerging, however, according to the same exile sources, Tenzin Wangmo's body was cremated on the evening of October 17, by order of the authorities.
ICT Report:

Tibetan nun dies following self-immolation protest (21 October 2011)

Norbu Damdrul

Date: October 15, 2011
Monastery: Formerly of Kirti (It is not known whether Norbu Damdrul chose to disrobe, or was expelled from the monastery by government authorities.)
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: 19
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased.
Info: Norbu Damdrul, 19, a former Kirti monk, set fire to himself in a protest on the main street in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) county town just before noon on October 15. According to exiled Tibetan sources he shouted “We need freedom and independence for Tibet,” and called for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet as his body was burning, according to the same sources.
Norbu’s body was badly burned, but according to the same sources he was still alive when police stationed on the street extinguished the flames and kicked Norbu before taking him away. A large crowd of Tibetans who had gathered at the scene was dispersed at gunpoint by security personnel, according to the same sources.
ICT Report:

Self-immolations continue in Tibet; 8th young Tibetan man sets fire to himself in Ngaba (16 October 2011)
Tibetan self-immolations continue and spread in Tibet into 2012 (9 January 2012)

Choepel

Date: October 7, 2011
Monastery: Formerly of Kirti (It is not known whether Choepel chose to disrobe, or was expelled from the monastery by government authorities.)
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: 19
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Info: Choepel and Kayang, both former monks at Kirti monastery who may have been expelled, set fire to themselves along the main road of Ngaba county town. The two young men clasped their hands together and set fire to themselves before security personnel extinguished the flames and took the two to the county’s government-run hospital. Both young men died following the protest.
The Chinese state media reported the self-immolation in a Xinhua report on October 8, saying that two Tibetans were "slightly injured" after a "self-immolation attempt."
ICT Reports:

Kayang

Date: October 7, 2011
Monastery: Formerly of Kirti (It is not known whether Kayang chose to disrobe, or was expelled from the monastery by government authorities.)
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: 18
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Info: Choepel and Kayang, both former monks at Kirti monastery who may have been expelled, set fire to themselves along the main road of Ngaba county town. The two young men clasped their hands together and set fire to themselves before security personnel extinguished the flames and took the two to the county’s government-run hospital. Both young men died following the protest. Kayang’s cousin, a Tibetan named Tashi, was one of the Tibetans killed in the Chinese government crackdown in Ngaba in 2008.
The Chinese state media reported the self-immolation in a Xinhua report on October 8, saying that two Tibetans were "slightly injured" after a "self-immolation attempt."
ICT Reports:

Kelsang Wangchuk

Date: October 3, 2011
Monastery: Kirti
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: 17
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Tibetan exile sources indicate that he is in a ward of the county hospital under strict surveillance. The same sources said that he had sustained a head injury as a result of the beatings from police at the time of his detention.
Info: A 17-year old monk from Kirti monastery immolated himself in Ngaba county town at approximately 2:00 pm local time on October 3, according to Tibetans in exile in contact with Tibetans in the area. The monk, Kelsang Wangchuk, carried a photo of the Dalai Lama and was shouting slogans against the Chinese government when he set fire to himself along the main street in Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province. Full details of the incident have yet to emerge, but some exiled sources say that he was immediately surrounded by security personnel, who extinguished the fire and beat Kelsang Wangchuk before taking him away. Kelsang's current wellbeing and whereabouts are unknown.
Shortly after the immolation, additional security forces were deployed in Ngaba county town and at Kirti monastery.
According to monks from the re-established Kirti monastery in exile in Dharamsala, India, pamphlets were distributed and posted around Kirti monastery and the market place in Ngaba county town a few days ago, stating that if the current security crackdown in the area were to continue, "many more people were prepared to give up their lives" in protest.
ICT Report:

17 year old Tibetan monk from Kirti monastery self-immolates in new protest (3 October 2011)

Lobsang Kelsang

Date: September 26, 2011
Monastery: Kirti
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: Believed to be 18
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: In a hospital, according to exile Tibetan sources. Lobsang Kelsang was featured on Chinese state television from hospital.
Info: On September 26 Lobsang Kelsang and Lobsang Kunchok, both believed to be approximately 18-years old, set fire to themselves while shouting “Long live His Holiness the Dalai Lama,” in a protest also held in Ngaba county town. After extinguishing the flames, police took the two young monks into custody.
ICT Report:

Two more Tibetan monks from Kirti monastery set themselves on fire calling for religious freedom
(26 September 2011)

Lobsang Kunchok

Date: September 26, 2011
Monastery: Kirti
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: Believed to be 18
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: In a hospital, according to exile Tibetan sources.
Info: On September 26 Lobsang Kelsang and Lobsang Kunchok, both believed to be approximately 18-years old, set fire to themselves while shouting “Long live His Holiness the Dalai Lama,” in a protest also held in Ngaba county town. After extinguishing the flames, police took the two young monks into custody.
A video was posted on YouTube showing Lobsang Kunchok in the street after he self-immolated.
(Warning: graphic content)
ICT Report:

Two more Tibetan monks from Kirti monastery set themselves on fire calling for religious freedom
(26 September 2011)

Tsewang Norbu

Date: August 15, 2011
Monastery: Nyitso
Protest location: Tawu county, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: 29
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Info: Tsewang Norbu died after setting fire to himself and calling for freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet. Tsewang Norbu drank petrol before immolating himself and died soon afterwards, according to Tibetan exiles in contact with the area.
In a rare instance of prompt reporting on such an incident, the Chinese state media confirmed the death of a Buddhist monk shortly afterwards, with Xinhua stating: "it was unclear why he had burnt himself", and that the local government had launched an investigation. (Xinhua, August 15).
A hotel receptionist near the scene of Tsewang Norbu’s death told AFP that the monk had been distributing leaflets, saying: "I saw a monk lying on the ground and burning, he died right in front of the county government building." (AFP, August 15).
The state media confirmed that Tsewang Norbu had been swiftly cremated on Wednesday, August 17, evidence that the Kardze Party Secretary's instructions for a prompt cremation were followed. Xinhua reported that Nyitso monk Tsewang Norbu (Chinese transliteration: Tsongwon Norbu) had been "cremated Wednesday in accordance with Tibetan rituals", according to the local government. (Xinhua in English, August 17).
ICT Report:

Troops surround monastery as Tibetan monk dies after setting himself on fire and calling for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet (16 August 2011)

Phuntsog

Date: March 16, 2011
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: 20
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Info: Phuntsog, a 20-year old monk, immolated himself on March 16, the 3rd anniversary of a protest at Kirti in 2008 during which at least 10 Tibetans were shot dead. Police extinguished the flames and were seen beating Phuntsog before he died, according to Tibetan exiles in contact with Tibetans in the area. According to Tibetan exiles who spoke to a witness of the protest, before he was stopped by police Phuntsog shouted slogans including "May His Holiness the Dalai Lama live for 10,000 years!"
According to the same sources, protests then broke out against the Chinese authorities involving hundreds of monks and laypeople. After an attempted peaceful march from the monastery, police broke up the protests, detaining an unknown number of monks and beating Tibetans involved.
An account of the aftermath of the self-immolation: Kirti monks intervened when police were beating Phuntsog and took him back to the monastery before ensuring he received medical treatment. The Chinese authorities' official statement included the false claim that the monks "forcibly took [Phuntsog] out of the hospital."
Two sources from Kirti monastery in exile told ICT: "When Phuntsog was taken back to the monastery, there was little hope of his surviving, but as he was not yet dead, there was still a chance. Without government permission, they knew the hospital would not take him. So the monks decided to give into the government so that he could be admitted to hospital. He passed away there at around 3 am local time today (March 17)."
The official state media account not only gave misleading information about Phuntsog's identify, but also claims: "Shortly after he set himself on fire, a policeman on patrol found him, put out the flames and rushed him to a nearby hospital...But a group of monks from the Kirti Monastery forcibly took him out of the hospital later in the afternoon and hid him inside the monastery, regardless of his injuries."
Kirti was soon placed under lockdown and monks subjected to a stringent patriotic education campaign as part of a wide-spread crackdown in Ngaba that included several hundred security personnel posted to Kirti monastery. Around 300 monks were taken away from the monastery in large trucks to unknown locations for the purpose of "legal education," and two elderly Tibetans were beaten to death by police while they were participating in a vigil at the gates of the monastery in an attempt to protect the monks during a security raid on the monastery.
In an official statement released on April 29 in English, the Chinese state media claimed that the reports by the international media citing ICT on the deaths of the two Tibetans were "fictitious" and that an "86-year-old female herder died of lung disease at her home in Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture."
Exiled sources from the area reported that contrary to the official report, the two people who died in their attempt to prevent monks from being moved from the monastery by armed police on April 21 were Dongko (male), aged 60, and 65-year old Sherkyi (female). The two Tibetans died after severe beatings.
Dramatic footage from Ngaba was released on April 19, a month after it was taken, which refutes the Chinese government’s assertions on April 19 that the situation is "normal" and "harmonious."
Kirti monk Losang Tenzin, age 22, was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment, and a Kirti monk also called Losang Tenzin (known too as Nak Ten) was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Barkham (Chinese: Ma'erkang) County People’s Court, Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province on August 30. On Monday, August 29, 46-year old Kirti monk Losang Tsondru (named in the state media as Drongdru), who was detained on April 12, was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by the same court. All three sentences were reported in the Chinese state media, with Xinhua reporting on August 31 that the two monks sentenced on August 30 "plotted, instigated and assisted in the self-immolation of fellow monk Rigzin Phuntsog, causing his death" (Xinhua, August 31, 2011). The same article stated: "Drongdru was given the sentence because he hid the injured monk and prevented emergency treatment, causing delayed treatment and the subsequent death for his disciple and nephew, according to the verdict."
On around May 2, 31-year old Kirti monk Losang Dargye of Me'uruma township was sentenced to three years in prison by the Ngaba county People’s Court. Losang Dargye became a monk at a young age, and in 2003 he travelled to Lhasa to begin higher Buddhist studies at Drepung monastery, which he completed with distinction. He is believed to have been among a group of Drepung monks who peacefully protested on March 10, 2008, and was detained for some months before being allowed to return to Ngaba. He was detained on April 11 this year in a raid by police and soldiers on his quarters in the monastery.
Kirti monk Konchok Tsultrim, age 33, from the rural area of Tawa Gongma was arrested after March 16. He was sentenced around the beginning of May to three years in prison by the Ngaba county People’s Court, and is now likely to serve his sentence outside Ngaba county. Konchok Tsultrim was serving as the monastery storekeeper. Details of the exact charges against him are not known.
State Department Acting Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner, in response to a question at a daily press briefing on April 14, said: "We have seen that Chinese security forces have cordoned off the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province. They've also imposed onerous restrictions on the monks and the general public. And we believe these are inconsistent with internationally-recognized principles of religious freedom and human right. We continue to monitor the situation closely, and are obviously concerned by it."
Asked if the US has raised this matter with China, Toner said: "Yes, I believe we raised it with the Chinese, as we would raise any human rights concerns."
On June 8, the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) of the UN Human Rights Council called upon the Chinese authorities "to disclose the fate and whereabouts of all those who have been subject to enforced disappearances in China, including a group of Tibetan monks whose fate or whereabouts still remain unknown."
ICT Reports:

Monk immolates himself; major protests at Tibetan monastery violently suppressed (16 March 2011)
Chinese authorities confirm death of monk after self-immolation; military crackdown at Kirti (17 March 2011)
Amidst heavy security presence, thousands of Tibetans attend funeral of monk who set fire to himself in Ngaba
(18 March 2011)
Protests, tensions escalate in Ngaba following self-immolation of monk: Kirti monastery under lockdown
(11 April 2011)
Crisis at Kirti monastery intensifies: rare public statements by lama in exile (13 April 2011)
List of prisoners and "disappeared" Tibetans in Ngaba crackdown: situation provokes U.S. government concern
(15 April 2011)
Dramatic new footage reveals Ngaba crackdown, refutes Chinese claims of “normal life” (20 April 2011)
Two elderly Tibetans killed as hundreds of monks detained from Kirti; crackdown deepens (22 April 2011)
Crackdown continues at Kirti as Chinese authorities maintain pretence of ‘normality’ (29 April 2011)
Ngaba students protest crackdown, authorities respond; new information on deaths of Tibetans who tried to protect monks (9 May 2011)
Crackdown in Ngaba: monks detained for giving wrong answers in ‘patriotic education’ (26 May 2011)
UN Human Rights Experts to China: Disclose the fate and whereabouts of Kirti monks (9 June 2011)
Fears for future of Kirti monastery; UN seeks answers (14 June 2011)
New developments at Kirti monastery; crackdown shows no sign of easing (28 June 2011)
Monks imprisoned for 10-13 years following self-immolation by Kirti monk (31 August 2011)

Tapey

Date: February 27, 2009
Protest location: Ngaba county town, Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
Age: Mid-20s
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown
Info: Tapey, a Kirti monk in his mid-twenties, was shot by security personnel when he set himself on fire as a form of protest after prayer ceremonies at his monastery were cancelled. Early in the afternoon, according to at least two sources including one who spoke to an eyewitness, Tapey walked alone to a nearby crossroads in the market area of the town. He had already doused himself with oil by the time he reached the crossroads. He then set himself on fire and raised a home-made Tibetan flag that had at its center a photograph of the Dalai Lama. When Tapey began to shout slogans (no details are yet known of what he said), People's Armed Police (PAP) personnel stationed nearby opened fire, and Tapey fell to the ground. Reports indicate that the PAP extinguished the fire after Tapey was shot and he was immediately taken away by police.
ICT Report:

Monk in Tibet sets himself on fire; shot by police during protest (27 February 2009)

Stop (not so) Smart Meter in BC

2012-02-09T19:46:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone...I have just completed signing two petitions that were sent to me. I hope that you will consider doing the same.

Re: the Kootenay Chapter of Citizens for Safe Technology...our numbers are growing...our voice getting stronger. Encourage others to join - we will be a force to deal with when we go before the B.C. Utilities Commission (if FortisBC goes ahead with its application to begin with its smart meter installation program).

Please take the time to sign these 2 petitions
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In Syria... an activist appeal

2012-02-09T00:36:00.001-08:00

Dear friends,

The Assad regime is slaughtering its citizens and tearing cities apart. The UN has failed to stop the killing, and Avaaz has the only network that is both smuggling medical equipment and journalists in and images and information out. Click to watch this video appeal from Danny, a brave Syrian democracy activist calling on Avaaz for help and chip in now to save lives:

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But that is just a part of what the Avaaz project has done. Thanks to the generous support of members across the world, Avaaz is providing a rare lifeline of critical support to the democracy movement in Syria. When activists told us medicines were running out, we set up a smuggling network to deliver over $1.8 million worth of medical equipment into the country, saving thousands of lives. When the Syrian National Council was struggling to present a credible leadership alternative to the world, we organized meetings in the UN, Russia and across Europe to support their work.

Day after day, Danny and Omar and hundreds of other heroes have turned out to film and protest, facing down tanks with no support from international governments. But what happens in the next two weeks will be decisive. This is the pinnacle of the Arab Spring and the global struggle against brutal despots. Together we can secure a lifeblood to the resistance and walk with the brave Syrian people on their journey to freedom. Click to watch Danny's desperate appeal and make a life-saving donation now:

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More information:

A Doctor’s Cry for Help as Homs Victims Pour In to a Medical Center [Warning: This is a graphic video not suitable for sensitive viewers]
http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=r3tmevemrqn0

At Least 200 Reported Killed in Syrian City of Homs (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/protesters-turn-out-across-syria-but-capital-is-quiet/2012/02/03/gIQAQOqNnQ_story.html

Homs: Bloody Winter in Syria’s Revolution Capital (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/16/world/meast/syria-homs-profile/index.html

Anger After Russia, China Block UN Action on Syria (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/05/us-syria-idUSTRE80S08620120205?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71

Syria Crackdown: Homs Bombarded, Dozens Killed (Huffington Post/Reuters)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/syria-crackdown-homs_n_1256699.html

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The Beatles - She Loves You (ESS - Feb 9, 1964)

2012-02-09T00:21:00.000-08:00

Okay , so you may be wondering ...why is Linda posting old Beatle tunes from their very first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show? The Ed Sullivan show ....that so many folks used to watch Sunday night at 8 pm, est . Well...on February the 9th, 1964, the band made their first appearance. It was my birthday that day, I had turned 11, and I got to see the Beatles on that show. Did I love it? You betcha. Did I love long hair on males? Oh you betcha! (Still do ;) Do I care what their his story was ...nope...just knew that this was new and I liked it. Who was my favourite Beatle...it was always a toss up twixt George and John. My best friend then, Kim, she liked Paul. When I saw her this summer after not seeing each other for 22 years, I pulled out my old Beatle bubble gum card collection, and gifted her a few to take home with her . I reminded her she always loved Paul. She said, Yeah well I would have chosen differently later...hahahah.....gotta love old friends and memories. Yeah yeah yeah!

The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (ESS - Feb 9, 1964)

2012-02-09T00:14:00.000-08:00

The Beatles - All My Loving (ESS - Feb 9, 1964)

2012-02-09T00:12:00.000-08:00

Superman Song

2012-02-08T23:25:00.001-08:00

Oh I used to just love this tune when it was popular, I listened to the tune, copied out the lyrics, posted them on my fridge, and sang along. Funny, how some songs just seem to catalyse or trigger a response or emotion in us. So here is a Superman Song by Five for Fighting. Love Linda

Essential Knowledge for a Wall St. Protester(pt.2)

2012-02-08T20:21:00.001-08:00

Ah, here is an interesting recent David Icke clip part two.

Love

2012-02-08T17:13:00.000-08:00

Love (just click on Love) for the message of today!

Fair Trade Roses for Women of Zimbabwe!

2012-02-08T14:25:00.001-08:00

February 8, 2012

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2012-02-08T13:10:00.001-08:00

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That’s why Bob made this urgent video: to explain the imminent threat and urge you to join our fight.

If we don’t act now, the summer of 2012 could produce a “perfect storm” for threatened polar bears ... leading to major spills across their two most important Arctic habitats: the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

NRDC has filed suit on two different fronts to defend the Polar Bear Seas and their wildlife. But to face down Shell on both at once we need your strong support.
View the video. Then make an emergency donation so that NRDC can fight in court and stop this two-pronged attack on the home of the polar bear.

Unless we stop Shell, the oil giant will be sinking its first drill bit just months before polar bear mothers move onshore into the Arctic Refuge to birth their cubs.

An oil spill that washes ashore in the Refuge would be an unmitigated catastrophe. Oil-covered polar bears have virtually no chance of survival.

What’s worse, the Coast Guard’s own Commandant Admiral Robert Papp has told Congress that the federal government has “zero” spill response capability in the Arctic.

Are you ready to trust Shell with the fate of the polar bear?

If not, then now is the time for you to give and make a difference. Your gift will enable NRDC to intervene immediately and be sure that polar bears get their day in court.
Please make a generous, tax-deductible donation so that we can defend our environment in the most effective way possible.

We must not wait for an oil spill to act. By then it will be too late.

Thank you for lending your support at this critical time.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

BC's Huge Gamble - short film - Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline

2012-02-08T13:08:00.000-08:00

Something to talk about

2012-02-07T21:42:00.000-08:00

Well time to listen up to some of Bonnie singing and playing. Haven't seen her perform since just after the World Trade Center got blown to bits. She and the band had to drive up to Spokane from California to do the concert since air travel was limited then. It was great that they showed up and it was an excellent concert. My friend Carolyn in Idaho and I went . I just love Bonnie...

7 Steps to Positive ET Contact

2012-02-07T12:22:00.000-08:00

Yet another attempt to discredit James Gilliland

2012-02-07T12:10:00.000-08:00

The source of this disinformation originated with Michael Horn who sent it to Victors massive email list. Luckily Victor had the integrity to contact me before he sent it out. The false name given Kesmit09 does not exist. Easy to open an email do your dirty work then close one. Considering the source of this disinformation and Michaels last feeble attempts to cover-up the fact that Billy Meier's son and wife testified that the majority of the contacts were fabricated along with the fictitous names he gave them borrowed out of Egyptian and Bible lore Michael's last dying effort is to discredit others. If these all knowing master beings were enlightened they would have researched the long history and evidence of UFOs appearing over Mt Adams, Yakama Nation accounts, Kenneth Arnolds account of them landing on the western slopes of Mt Adams, Forest Rangers accounts, Police accounts, Tribal Police accounts, Greg Longs book and the research done by none other than Dr. J Allen Hynek. Being totally unaware of all this Billy and his contact Ptah stated there is no UFO activity on Mt Adams. Then when the overwhelming evidence came in they changed the story to it is military black ops. Hmmmm seems this has been going on for over 200 years. These are bold face lies by Billy and Ptah perpetuated by Michael Horn on various talk shows. Enough said.

We have already disclosed the identity of the contacts here for years on the website, the contacts are ongoing and the ships are still flying. There is no UN connection with ECETI, James is not and has never been appointed as the official contact by any government agency or any other group. No landing dates for the masses have ever been given. The below email is an attempt to discredit ECETI. We have no idea who Kesmit is the creator of this nonsense and his email is invalid.

Here is the nonsense

UFO Contactee to Make MAJOR Announcement

UFO contactee James Gilliland will make a major announcement,
fittingly on Christmas Day, 2011. Gilliland is expected to reveal the
actual identities of the extraterrestrial and inter-dimensional beings
that have been contacting him for years at his ECETI ranch near Mt.
Adams in Washington state.

He will also present never before revealed scientific evidence showing
that the visitors have been preparing him to officially represent the Earth
as the only true contact person with extraterrestrials. The Christmas Day
announcement will be the prelude to an even more important event - an
official daylight landing at the ECETI ranch on New Year's Day!

Details of the landing and official contact will be made available to the
press and government officials in time to record the event and allow
select officials to greet the extraterrestrials. Preparations are already under
way to obtain official recognition of Gilliland's liaison status through the UN.

Gilliland is reportedly quite humbled by the historical implications. He also
is confident that this will end the UFO cover-up once and for all, as well as
establish his ambassadorial status with extraterrestrials.

Tonites Pondering motherships and joyrides

2012-02-06T22:53:00.000-08:00

After last weeks new agey soap opera in regards to a mothership sending out" cadillacs" aka scout ships to pick up en masse a group of eager folks who signed on via the internet site for their big ride in space, with the usual excuses when it didn't occur, I just had to wonder about those following so glibly the gazillion latest messages from who knows who in the new age zoo. Used to be that intuitives asking for messaging from outside themselves cleared the space around them, called in only the highest to be there during their time of receiving( and for protection), and certainly once channelling,*----*///////////////////////////////////////////////////////----------------------************************************************************************************************************************** did not ask the person listening to their message to...."Trust me". Now if that isn't a clue , I don't know what is...Trust me? Come on now. Who would listen to anything more, after that coming supposedly from some oh so wondrous space capitan. I have compassion for all involved, for they are seeking some sort of comfort on this rapidly changing earth, and reaching out to hope for a joyride on a starship.
Lots of us would like a ride on a starship,in our full consciousness, and not in dreamtime or an OBE, and before our lives are over , some will have that. I just don't think it will be coming with alot of bells and whistles and media fanfare,( and for those who sign up online.) That is my perspective and you can have yours. The beauty of free will.
If a starship crew or off worlder asked me if I wanted a ride, I would be asking them a few queries right off the git go. Are you of the Light? Whom do you serve? Show me how you really look. Things of that nature. Just wanna be certain you aren't playing with some cleverly disguised lizzy when you go off for that ride....And check out how you feel around them. Knot in your tummy or wide open heart. When you hang out with the Cosmic Christ Light you pretty much can dispel those shadowy ones, oh it can take some battle too at times, but ...the Christ Light is key. Adonai

Oh and all those stars and such above...not channelled gibberish, just the big gray cat laying on the keyboard when I chatted on the phone with a friend. Guess GrayBoy added his take on it all....

CAKE - I Will Survive (Live)

2012-02-06T11:49:00.000-08:00

I just sent this one to a girlfriend who is still feeling the pain of a fellow and her splitting up . This is the song I played and danced to alot (at full blast) when my marriage went adios...that was 13 years ago now. So this one goes out to my girlfriend today...love ya Susie Q....Linda

Mother Ship Trip Cancelled, ECETI

2012-02-05T22:28:00.000-08:00

This is something that James Gilliland sent out today
We are overwhelmed with emails asking that I speak on this matter. I have already spoken yet not at length concerning the Mother Ship Neptune giving everyone a joy ride. We said there is no knowledge of any planned mass pickup or joy rides from the beings we are in contact with. We also said this does not fit into their ways or universal law of which they must work within. I find it odd that a master race would choose the name of a planet in our own solar system for their mother ship. Picking people up in black limousines that transform into space ships sounds like the old Masters of the Far East books or the Transformers. If they wanted to be discrete maybe a Volks Wagon bus or Ford Taurus might be a better cloak.

That being said there is a deeper level of understanding that needs to come into play. Training with the T.I C. Teachings of the Inner Christ and the Tibetan Foundation as well as years of study with Yogis and Lamas etc. has given the wisdom of discernment. Just because you are dead, an ET or an unseen entity does not mean you are enlightened. There are faker spirits, tricksters that love to interfere. Not having the inner sensitivity or training in healing unseen negative influences one can easily be misled. They often use flattery, you are the chosen one, special, etc. In the unified field we are all one, there is no separation and in the highest of levels there are no levels. It is called Omniscient or Omnipresence, one with everything aware of everything within your fields and some fields hold several dimensions. You can have a wealth of accurate, positive information then be misled and we all know what the masses do with one error. There are safeguards to pure channeling and they are in the books, Reunion with Source and Becoming Gods. www.eceti.org We highly recommend people reading these books before they get into channeling or delivering messages from unseen entities.

Another aspect to false information is psyopps. They will give disinformation or inside information to set up people. It will have 9 truths and 1 lie to steer information in the direction they want. They can also remote influence with trained psychics and technology. Implant messages, thoughts and feelings you would think were your own or some benevolent source. Discernment is the key. Many fall for this because they want to be the one with the breaking news, the new information often which; has to be wild and crazy never before told to humanity. The ego is very tricky and many a good soul have been mislead through the ego. All information has to come through the mind here on this dimension where it is often altered to fit within the reference points of the individual. Channeled messages will have a percentage of accuracy and it is up to us to discern whether or not the message has been influenced by a desired outcome.

There are safeguards for pure channeling the first and foremost is learning how to heal unseen negative influences then maintain a protected space holding out any intrusions. The tools are taught in the Self Mastery Classes. Always run any information through your own discernment and if it does not feel right or entirely accurate just put it on the shelf. It will return sometimes several times if it is necessary for your evolution. We all need to release the past, heal any wounds, traumas or wrong conclusions from past experiences. This includes past lives as well to be a clear channel. The more we clear the higher the percentage of accuracy. Love, Joy, Bliss, Service to Humanity and the Earth, oneness are the keys for discernment. Sometimes tough love is in order yet it is not done in competition or a need to put down another it is to heal or help them evolve. Energetically you can feel the difference. It is important to realize everyone is doing the best they can with the reference points and tools available to them. No one is infallible. Look at the intent and maintain discernment. If a mistake is made learn from it. There is a saying, I never made a mistake, I manifested a lot of things and gained a lot of wisdom." How do you know what works without experiencing what doesn't not knowing in advance the two? We are getting a crash course in what works and what doesn't. The time between the thought, action and manifestation is growing shorter. Gain the wisdom from your mistakes, forgive yourself and others, continue your evolution. This is the quickest path to enlightenment. You can blame and project yet very shortly you will see three fingers pointing back at yourself for the one you are pointing at others. Be well,
James Gilliland
www.eceti.org
www.bbsradio.com
www.worldpuja.net

Bradley Manning: 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination

2012-02-05T21:53:00.001-08:00

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29077

Jon Kelly clip and tale

2012-02-05T21:15:00.001-08:00

http://www.examiner.com/ufo-in-vancouver/seven-steps-to-positive-et-contact-on-ufo-mountain

Roger Hodgson, Writer and Composer of Dreamer - with Orchestra - Babelsb...

2012-02-04T22:14:00.000-08:00

Oh I have been blessed to hear Roger perform thrice with the old Supertramp, and once with local musicians in Nevada City where we all lived in the 80's. And I saw him in the Kootenays in Nakusp a few summers ago. He was , as always, angelic and magical. He is touring now in Europe. Would love to teleport to one of his awesome shows .

2/4/2012 -- Breakdown of West Coast earthquakes -- Vancouver, Oregon, an...

2012-02-04T18:02:00.000-08:00

2/4/2012 -- 5.7 magnitude earthquake -- Vancouver BC -- also Coast of Or...

2012-02-04T18:00:00.000-08:00

2012-02-04T17:10:00.001-08:00

Dear friends,

In days, Bolivia's parliament will decide whether to revive plans for a massive highway through the heart of the Amazon -- but a group of indigenous MPs is fighting back. Six months ago, we helped pause the deadly highway -- let's finish the battle and build a global call that will be delivered in next week's debates by brave indigenous MPs:

In days, Bolivia's parliament will decide whether to revive plans for a massive highway that would slice through a protected natural park at the heart of the Amazon -- but indigenous communities are standing firm and have called on us for help.

Last year we supported these brave communities and together forced President Morales to sign a law that pledged to preserve the TIPNIS territory forever. But the ruling party is leading a counter-offensive to overturn the law and pave the way for rampant exploitation and deforestation -- bowing to pressure from big Brazilian investors.

All that the indigenous communities fought for is under threat and they are calling for our support again. If enough of us stand with them, together we can defeat road plan for good. Click below to sign the urgent petition to save the TIPNIS park and then spread the word -- indigenous parliamentarians will deliver our global message straight into the crucial debates next week:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/mp_and_indigenous_old/?vl

The TIPNIS park in the Amazon remains one of Bolivia’s most precious treasures, famous for its majestic trees, unique wildlife and fresh water. No wonder it has been granted the status of a double protected area -- as a National Park and an indigenous reservoir. But now its future is at risk, and its preservation or final deforestation could depend on whether or not we act now.

Over the last 20 years, Bolivia has lost more than 6 million acres of forest and the TIPNIS could be next. Studies say that if the mega-highway is built, the protected territory would disappear and more than 600,000 acres would perish in just a few years. The scariest part is that two segments of the road are on their way, and trees are already being illegally cut-down within the protected area.

Local indigenous people, holders of the collective land title to the territory, have been fighting hard to protect their park and keep it safe from deforestation, and last year they won the bill that is under attack. Now, the party in power is trying to annul the bill and wants to open a flawed consultation process that would weaken the power of the legitimate owners of the TIPNIS.

A group of brave indigenous Congress representatives is fighting back and are lobbying others to ensure the protection of the park. But the ruling leadership is fighting back and they need our support. Let’s show them now that hundreds of thousands of us across the world stand with them to save the Amazon. Sign now and spread the word:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/mp_and_indigenous_old/?vl

Last year almost half-a-million Avaaz members from across the world signed a petition standing with the TIPNIS communities, whose leaders marched for weeks to oppose the mega-road project. Our message made headlines, reached key government ministers, and finally we celebrated an amazing victory when the Parliament passed a bill to preserve the natural park. But the TIPNIS is in danger again -- let’s help win this battle once and for all.

With hope,

Luis, Laura, Emma, Ricken, Allison and the rest of the Avaaz team

Sources:

Bolivian Indigenous Leaders Form New Caucus, Threaten MAS Majority (Andean Information Network)
http://ain-bolivia.org/2012/01/bolivian-indigenous-leaders-form-new-caucus-threaten-mas-majority/

Bolivia’s TIPNIS Highway Redux (NACLA blog)
http://nacla.org/blog/2012/1/20/bolivia%E2%80%99s-tipnis-highway-redux

Brazil Open to TIPNIS Route Alternatives (Bolivia Weekly)
http://www.boliviaweekly.com/brazil-open-to-tipnis-route-alternatives/2483/

Bolivian president Evo Morales scraps plans for Amazon highway (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/21/evo-morales-scraps-amazon-highway

Bolivia cancels controversial Amazon highway (AFP)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jf2Pe-nkNx8yXlAL_6crFa4VDk5g

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James Gilliland Prayer and Blessing for the Changes

2012-02-04T17:06:00.000-08:00

Prayer and Blessing for the Changes

Beloved Father/Mother God
That which I AM
That which is within
Come forth, come forth, come forth
Fully illuminate and fill my aura with your divine love, joy, bliss, wisdom and protection
Sever all psychic bonds, all karmic ties and send a thousand light beings down any of these connections to heal in the light of forgiveness any unresolved issues or unfinished business.
Teach them Love, the universal laws, how to manifest without trespass on others or in acts harmful to Earth.
May all go forward in Universal Peace, Brother/Sisterly Love, Individual Freedom and Prosperity for All.
SO BE IT.

Pass it on co-creators

This was given to me in deep meditation. It is a powerful prayer and blessing to be used individually and collectively. I take no credit or blame for its invocation.

James Gilliland
www.eceti.org
www.bbsradio.com
www.worldpuja.net

The Land Project for Canada

2012-02-04T16:36:00.001-08:00

This is an awesome project. Very important to share please!
(click show images above)

Occupy Oakland January 28, 2012 - Police Brutality

2012-02-03T23:46:00.000-08:00

This all happening recently in one of the places I used to live. Wow.

David Bowie - Ashes to ashes (live by request)

2012-02-03T22:33:00.000-08:00

PearlsnPonderings

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James interviews Ralph Ring

Ralph Ring Interview - Part 1

Expendable

The dailies

Peter Wilson

RON PAUL IS THE CHOICE OF THE TROOPS

Keep Shell out of the Arctic

John Glenn on Fraser show speaks about UFO's

Syria Crackdown on Civilians

No Losar this year(Tibetan New Year)

UFO Mountain: Temple of the Tiger

ICFT Support Tibet Losar

Many Tibetans not celebrating Losar (Tibetan New Year)

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Which World Are You In~James Gilliland

Lord is it Mine - Written and Composed by Roger Hodgson

The girl killed by Barack Obama - she never saw it coming

Not so Smart Meters ~Actions you can take

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UFO Explodes Over South Carolina? 2012

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Stop (not so) Smart Meter in BC

In Syria... an activist appeal

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Essential Knowledge for a Wall St. Protester(pt.2)

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7 Steps to Positive ET Contact

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