Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear arms probe

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_iran

And so Iran kicks out UN inspectors searching for any evidence of Iran developing Nuclear Weapons. There is no longer doubt in anyone's mind around the world that Iran is now developing or has already developed one or more nuclear weapons.

Om Mani Padma Hung

This Sanskrit Mantra invokes the jewel in the center of the lotus, Avaloketesvara, a physical manifestation of which is the Dalai Lama who is supposed to be the Deity of Compassion incarnate in a physical body on earth. Often Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhists will carry pictures of the Dalai Lama and touch it to their foreheads to invoke compassion, protection and blessings upon themselves and friends and loved ones in dangerous situations while trekking in the Himalayas or anywhere on earth.

My direct experience with all this began for me around 1980 when I met my first Tibetan Lama in Ashland, Oregon. This sequence of my life grew and prospered until I was initiated by the Dalai Lama, along with 500,000 other Tibetan Buddhists into the Kalachakra initiation in Bodhygaya, India, near where Buddha achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree over 2500 years ago there. In 1980 I was a Christian mystic and constantly searching for the truth and for God in everything everywhere I physically went or thought about. The idea of having compassion for all beings in all time and space throughout the universe appealed to me. For, you see when I grew up in a Christian cult I was told only about 10,000 people in my cult were going to heaven. I always felt upset about this growing up. So as an adult I wanted to include all beings in all time and space in my prayers of compassion for all beings. In this way I could facilitate the end of suffering for all beings eventually beginning right now by consciously moving toward Buddha hood like Buddha and I believe Jesus also did through becoming enlightened and helping all beings toward compassion, enlightenment and the permanent end of suffering.

This mantra facilitates the end of suffering of all beings on earth and beyond. Tibetan bracelets have this carved into them in either Tibetan or Sanskrit. Sanskrit is the root language of both Tibetan and Hindi just like Latin is the root language of all romance languages like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese etc.

About 20% of all Buddhists worldwide or more also believe in God and I am one of them. Though I consider myself to be what I would call a universalist in that I believe in the 49,000 correct paths to enlightenment as talked about by Tibetan Buddhists which include all compassionate religions and philosophies, I also consider myself to be a Tibetan Buddhist, Catholic and mystic. So, for me, God is where I find him, her, the being. Wherever I look I see God even in your eyes. Namaste. (which means, "I bow to the God within you".

Fathers and Mothers of the Future

Many people will tell you we live in difficult times. After living 60 I can say in complete honesty, "Times are always difficult, just in different ways." I think a good way to look at all this might be to study 1908, for example. If you study how people looked at things then and compared it to now you might get some interesting similarities. If you lived in the United States in 1908 you likely would not have a car or motorcycle or definitely not a plane. A car had just been invented as an evolution of a horse drawn wagon. In fact, they were called "horseless carriages" at first.

What I'm trying to get at is that most people have no idea what is coming and those of us who do see more than most cannot see everything and all the infinite details and ramifications of everyone and every beings thought and actions as it relates to earth and the whole universe. So, the single most important thing if you want to survive all or a part of this century is to not be a victim of any person or news in the way you look at things. Even during the Great Depression people made incredible amounts of money and wonderful relationships between people existed.

Some of the most wonderful times in my whole life were when I literally had nothing but a good relationship with a girlfriend and my friends. Often when you have everything later in life one longs for ones youth and those very free times when one has freedom of both thought and movement and dreams and hope of a good future. Whether those dreams are completely realistic or not, one at least has a hope of a future or a good future.

In order to survive to even be a father or a mother of the future one must not allow oneself to be victimized in their minds and emotions by the media by friends or by relatives. Getting angry and saying to myself, "I would rather die than be a victim of this job, this person, this company often created a much better future for me both in relationships and as an entrepreunneur. Learning how to harness ones anger at injustice not to hurt anyone but simply to create a better future for oneself and ones loved ones and friends is actually the real key to success. The first step is usually anger at something really stupid in ones life and a choice not to be a victim of a stupid person, company or situation. This is how the whole human race moves forward. Yes. Love is all you need. But to get to this place one often needs to know how to harness ones righteous anger in a positive useful way in order to get there.
Remember, nothing ventured, nothing gained. That's life. C'est la vie!

Mamma Mia

I went to see Mamma Mia with my family. Meryl Streep really nailed this one and held it together. All the other older male and female actors were veterans and made this whole thing fly. I would have to say that this was the most delightful movie thus far this year, even though it is kind of for the 10 or 12 years or older croud because of the subject matter. (three fathers?) bawdy humor etc. However, only you will know if your child is okay to see this. For me, my older kids would have loved this even at 6, 8 or 10 during the 1980s when things were different than now. I find people much more uptight since AIDS and Herpes became a problem(25% of New York City has herpes for example.)

Anyway, for a good time, and the feel good movie of the year for us old ABBA fans, go see Mamma Mia. It is a must see for those of us who came up during the 60s, 70s and even into the 80s. Good fun. Good humor!

EVen those born as recently as 5 years ago might find it interesting! Good movie!

1/3 of flights in U.S.

Since April, several airlines have gone out of business in the U.S. In addition those airlines staying in business are cancelling about 1/3 of their flights to mostly small airports. For air commuters to work this is very bad news.

I recently found out it is now cheaper to travel by Amtrak than even by bus most places within the U.S. Amtrak now provides train or if there is no train tracks, buses to most larger cities in the U.S. So traveling does not have to just be by train to get the great fares. Though it might take in some instances longer to get some where, still one can save hundreds or even thousands of dollars in plane or bus tickets and still get there safely while not worrying about burning up more diesel or gas in a less efficient way than on the trains.

For example, a friend of mine was able to travel from oregon to southern California recently for $90 recently one way. Even in a Prius, just paying the gas bill would likely have been much more than that. I checked the plane fare one way and found around $550 for a one way ticket. I was amazed how much the airfares have gone up in that time. I think it's time we built high speed trains accross the western United States too.

To Honor a Good Man

A friend of mine passed away this week. He was 89 and a veteran of World War II. I met him in 1994 and I want to say of him that he was one of the most benevolent men I have ever met in my life. There are many who talk the talk but few who can walk the walk. He did both with style. He is one of the last of the greatest generation who fought in World War II and lived good lives until now. He wasn't afraid of death. Most of the guys who went through the great depression and World War II weren't afraid of death. I am writing here to witness the passing of a good and benevolent man who helped anyone he could and when his body just couldn't work right anymore he went to join all his friends and relatives already on the other side of life. God Bless You John. Godspeed!

Today's crunch feels like '70s

http://www.ajc.com/services/content/business/stories/2008/07/13/seventies.html

The above internet address of the title of the article speaks about some of the similarities of todays problems in the U.S. and those of the 1970s where gas prices quadrupled. However, it is good that at least so far there are not fist fights at gas stations over people cutting in on one mile lines to buy gas.

However, on the other hand globalization was not yet a problem like it is now and there was no Subprime meltdown affecting not only U.S. homeowners but also unhappy mortgage investors worldwide.

I can remember in 1969 still being able to buy gas at independent gas stations for 17 cents a gallon,(I was college age) and being able to drive in my friends 1956 36 horsepower VW bug from from Los Angeles to Mt. Shasta to go climbing and it cost less than ten dollars round trip.(around 1200 miles). Those were the days. Then gasoline reached 40 to 50 cents a gallon and we couldn't even buy it at that price because there were mile lines and fist fights breaking out all over because of people who cut in gas lines. I usually waited until the lines were the smallest to get gas which usually meant 2 pm to 4 pm or after 9pm at night. I didn't like to watch people get hysterical and physically fight over gas and the prices. Because these things often got out of hand with tire irons, knives and guns. The average person tends to be less violent now than then. People then were used to a much rougher world where children commonly played with toy guns and prepared to fight and die and be drafted into the military and die in wars. Death was much more real and pressing and present to the average person then than now. On TV we watched bloody dead and dying U.S. soldiers being blown apart and being carried away every single night on national TV. It wasn't like now when all the blood and death is hidden completely away from Americans except in words.

I didn't understand national and international economics like I do now in the 1970s.
It wasn't until the early 1980s that I really understood economic problems worldwide and how nations all affected each other. So when most South and Central American nations defaulted on their large loans from the U.S. it caused the Savings and Loans to collapse in the United States. Many people lost billions of dollars and were wiped out and many died or commmited suicide because of this here in the United States. Bear Stearns and Indymac foreshadow more of this sort of thing right now. It is said that 90 banks in the United States could potentially fail. Everyone should make sure to have no account or group of accounts in any one named bank to total more than 100,000 dollars. If you do you might lose all or part of it that isn't FDIC insured. However, if enough banks fail then FDIC could be wiped out and only a home safe or a coffee can buried in your yard or something like that would work. My Grandad buried 25,000 dollars in his front yard during the great depression in a coffee can to weather that storm. I think a safe you set in cement somewhere in your house is a better idea, personally, or a safety deposit box.(Even if a bank fails it shouldn't affect a safety deposit box). Only a bank fire might be a problem then.

At the time of the collapse of the Savings and loans I owned property that was very remote and was home schooling my children with my wife. We prepared by buying food that could be stored long term in 50 gallon drums and buried it in the ground preparing for a collapse at that time. However, what I didn't understand during the Savings and Loan collapse was that the rest of the world wasn't going to let the U.S. collapse. However, now the U.S. has lost its good will from much of the world. Our financial survival as a nation might be dependent on Obama becoming the new JFK. (JFK is recognized along with Reagan as the most popular President of the 20th Century worldwide). Clinton was a very popular president worldwide as well.

When the nation has a popular President, America is more likely to financially do well and to survive in general better. America has completely squandered world good will since 9-11. We live in very scary times as a result.

Pakistan says US not hunting bin Laden on its turf

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080712/ap_on_re_as/us_pakistan

I have long believed that Osama Bin Laden was a deep cover CIA operative. He was a known CIA operative during the Afghanistan war with the Soviet Union. Since International CIA operatives tend to either stay operatives or become residents of coffins it is logical to assume that Osama is still working for the CIA.

If this is true then Osama Bin Laden is a secret services "fund raiser" for all the secret services and military branches of the western world. They started to panic when the Cold War ended and funding dried up so about 10 years later Osama Bin Laden is pushed to the front. Do I have any evidence of this? Of course not. It is just completely logical. If you run through the logic it makes complete financial sense to agencies who were bleeding financially after the Soviet collapse.

Does it matter I believe this? Probably not. Because if it is true it will continue until just like the oil and food debacle every last dollar is drained from all western democracies and they collapse just like they are doing now. Who's minding the store?
Certainly, no one with the common peoples interests in mind.

The Moon is from the Asteroid Belt

I looked up into the sky tonight and being a psychic some times one is in the right frame of mind to see things or to ask the right questions. I thought to myself, "Where did the moon come from?" and got back an answer from the universe. Since I have been a natural psychic all my life it wasn't just an impression this particular time it was what I sometimes call "a certainty". I realized that when the Asteroid Belt was formed by a surface thermonuclear war on a planet out past Mars and this war blew apart the planet sometimes called "Maldek" and turned it into the asteroid Belt that now exists out past Mars that our Moon is a piece of the planet our ancestors lived on. This explains our odd relationship with it. It is a meteor slammed piece of the planet our ancestors once lived on before the dinosaurs died on earth. We are the descendants of the survivors of Maldek. I guess humanoids like us are millions of years older than many people think.

Later: The larger Dinosaurs on land died about 65.5 million years ago. So, only the little ones that could hide underground or in caves or crevices on in the water survived the Asteroid from the Planet Maldek that hit in the Gulf of Mexico and created the Gulf of Mexico at that time. So, likely whatever humanoids on Maldek and  Mars moved eventually to Earth or left the Solar system to either go back to the planets they originally came from or to new planets that could work for humanoids. The rest who couldn't afford to leave the Solar System for one reason or another likely came to Earth to survive and eventually created a Humanoid Ape Hybrid which we are likely related to. So, I expect our DNA is likely humanoid with ape since Apes don't process words and can't speak or sing words like we do. So likely that part of our DNA came from humanoids from other planets.

Mongol:The Movie

I went to see the movie "Mongol" today. It is excellent. Surprisingly, it is a love story. For me, it was "Behind every great man is a great woman". I especially liked the way shamans and Buddhist monks were depicted. The way they were shown reminded me a little of the lady shaman in "10,000 BC. However, the Seer tradition was alive then just as it is alive now in Asia and throughout the world. In the movie, Khan's loyalty to his wife and her loyalty to him was remarkable for that era. The culture of the time was depicted in such a way that wives seemed to be chattel and nothing else. By chattel I mean property. The fact that Genghis Khan saw his wife as his equal and a partner to be loved and honored no matter what and likewise for her, made this movie and story a truly remarkable one. One gets the feeling from the story that the two actually were fated for one another to make a better Mongolia and Asia. However, where legend begins and reality leaves off it is hard to say. However, the attention to detail in this movie I found remarkable. So, even though it was subtitled, one was listening to the movie, in Mongolian, and so one felt transported to that era and that time completely.

Iran missile test 'provocative

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
middle_east/7498214.stm

The rest of the world can only look on in horror as Iran and Israel act out their apparent struggle to the death. Though firing off these missiles might give the rest of the world pause, for Israel, this is a fight to the death with Iran. To think something else is going on is to be naive. So once again for Iran to fire off missiles that can reach Israel might be one thing, to the rest of the world it must be remembered that Israel has had almost continual missiles fired upon its territory for about 20 or 30 years or more. To think they wouldn't take these bigger missiles that could potentially carry nuclear weapons to Israel to detonate there as anything other than an imminent threat and a "Clear and Present Danger!" is to be very very naive!

Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony On Warming

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070801442.html

Though I think what Cheney's staff did to cut testimony was wrong, I also think that the biggest damage to Global Climate change was done by the 1950s to 1970s. In order to avoid mass suffering that is now coming no matter what anyone does, people would have had to make major changes by 1920 or 1930. I believe by 1950 to 1970 there really was no way to prevent what is now coming as a result.

As an intuitive and precognitive psychic I would say that 70 to 74 degrees farenheit average temperature at the North Pole will be reached once again before the climate settles down once more. The answer then was ferns growing from the equator to the north pole for a long time en masse finally reduced the CO2 back down to what we had in the 19th and 20th centuries once again.

I think it is fair to say that Any humans surviving the next 1000 years is debatable. Therefore, one can either blame ones ancestors for all the changes or themselves or both. However, neither of these reactions are useful. What is useful is to take stock of what we now can do.

Those genetic stocks that potentially eventually survive this will either live in space on space stations or underground here on earth for the most part. People will over time migrate closer to both poles.(However, because of the melting ice caps the poles might change in placement somewhat from what they are now.) The reason for this is that the melting ice is changing the weight ratios of both north and south and might alter where the poles are located. As rain stops falling a lot of places people will be forced to move closer to oceans for a water source and use solar distilling for drinking water to survive.

Places where it still rains will likely be more subject to flooding. Winds will increase as the gyrations of the weather from hot to cold to wind and rain and floods and drought increase in intensity and ferocity over the years.

The good thing about this is that people will have time to adapt and to move to new locations slowly so those that choose to move and change will survive. Those that don't won't.

Mileage

Like most of you my family sees the problems with the price of gasoline worldwide. I would like to share one potential solution. Though it is a best a short term solution to a very long term problem, still it is a start in the right direction.

First of all, like many families we now look at our SUVs differently. Mine gets 18.7 miles per gallon and is a four wheel drive SUV which is great in snow or rain or mud. My wife's gets 11 miles per gallon at best but can haul 1 adult and 6 kids or teenagers, a total of 7 people. Mostly for now we have pretty much decided to park the 11 mile per gallon vehicle for now except when 2 suvs are needed in exceptional circumstances. We also have a motor home that funny enough gets 12 to 14 miles per gallon. It is mostly parked too.

However, our solution is not to go buy a hybrid car. Our reasons for this might surprise you. First of all, even though a hybrid like a Prius might get 40 to 50 or more miles per gallon I don't necessarily consider passenger car hybrids that one uses every day for work as safe for humans to ride in. I lost my father to bone cancer that was caused by working under 130,000 volt lines in a power generating station. Before he died he taught me about coronas and how they can damage human tissue and cells. Though I think hybrids are generally safe to ride in I think they are unsafe if one rides in one every day for years. I guess it is a little like cell phones. More and more studies are finding how serious long term use of cell phones can be. There aren't enough years of exposure to fully understand this yet but 20 or more years of heavy cellphone use could be very damaging. So I worry about especially young girls and young women who spend hours on cellphones and how they could be damaging not only their long term health but also the genetic health of their babies and future generations worldwide. So I'm very concerned about the long term (ten to twenty years or more)use of cellphones, standing to close to microwave ovens in use, being close to electric motors or generators or alternators that use or generate more than 10 horsepower AC or DC. Remote or cordless phones in houses and apartments etc etc. etc.

Because my father was an Electrical Contractor and Electrician he understood a lot about this. However, his death from bone cancer taught us what long term exposure to high voltage can do to a human body.

So, though hybrid cars might be relatively safe in the short term, I believe in the long term of 20 to 30 years or more they likely will be deadly on the health of people riding in them long term. I believe the likely kinds of illnesses that will come from these things will be: immune problems, leucemia, and many kinds of cancer. It is not that one cannot get these things from insecticide or herbicide on plants and food or through exposure to paint or even old lead paint or lead in the soil from long term traffic that used leaded gas from the early 1920s until the 1970s when lead in gasoline was finally banned.

Anyway, to make a long story short I think a high mileage car like a Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic or other car that gets above 30 miles per gallon regularly is the best long distance driving option and health wise preferable to a hybrid. Since people don't drive Motorhomes every day I think that hybrid gas electric or diesel electric motorhomes without all the batteries is a very good idea too. No batteries makes it safer in an accident as well.(less chance of electrocution without the batteries).

Dual Power hybrid cars and motorhomes

I was listening the last few days to the news about the difficulty of making enough hybrid batteries for the Prius and other hybrids. This got me to thinking about dual power takeoffs like one finds on old pickup trucks. Why couldn't one build a power takeoff right where the U-joint is on rear wheel drive vehicles. Maybe by using the gas powered electrical generators on existing motorhomes, one could then use the 110 volts generated to power an electric motor big enough to move a motorhome on the level at 55 mph or more. So the way I envision this would be use your regular gasoline engine until you get to the freeway where you really need the mileage per gallon. Then pull to the side of the road and disconnect your U-joint and connect it to your 100+ horsepower AC 110 powered electric motor powered by your gas powered generator onboard and using a dimmer switch as a throttle power back onto the freeway. This way you could still afford to drive your vehicle and make your family and yourself happy. You might have to idle the gas or diesel main engine to power your brakes and steering and Air conditioner, radio, cds and Dvds but idling doesn't burn much gas. When you need to drive in the city,(if you want the extra control) pull over and reconnect your U-joint and drive shaft to the transmission. However, it also might be possible to design another way to shift it between gas and electric power to the drive shaft like one shifts between 2wheel drive to 4 wheel drive on some vehicles.

This way no extra batteries beyond your main engine battery and deep storage batteries for your 12 volt lighting system for the living area that would already be there on board your motor home would be needed because you still can use your gas or diesel engine locally and around town. So this solves the problem Prius and other Hybrid owners are having or will run into soon. I think those hybrid batteries have to be changed about every 3 years just like a regular car battery, except hybrid batteries are several thousand dollars to replace and a car battery is about $50 to 75(big difference).

The one drawback might be the size of your gasoline generator and how much electric power it puts out. So to really make this work one might have to put a bigger gasoline powered electrical generator. Also, I'm envisioning not a DC electric motor but an AC powered electrical motor. I'm not sure which would be better for maximum torque.

I was watching the news today about a guy who took out his VW bugs gasoline engine and put in an electric motor in place of it and probably put batteries in the back seat area of the Bug. So this person had a plug-in Bug that ran only after charging by plugging it into 110 volts. There is also a ready made Zap Car and truck that goes about 40 miles on an electric charge that you can buy. Check online. It is a 3 wheeler which puts it in the category of a 3 wheel motorcycle like several other new vehicles.

Country and Suburban Home Garage research is what made this country great in the first place. Just look at the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford for example.

I have it! This actually is the best idea of all. A V8 or V6 or straight 6 engine even at idle could generate enough power if the torque was connected to a generator and the generators power connected to an AC or DC electric motor of 100 horsepower or more.(whatever you need). Once this was done, even at idle one could easily travel on the level. On hills one might need to up the engine speed to generate more power to the electrical motor. Extra batteries wouldn't be necessary. I envision at least a doubling or tripling of mileage, so you would get at least 20 to 30 miles per gallon even at idle on the level and maybe 15 to 25 on a hill. It won't hurt to try your only other choice might be park it or sell it if you have a motor home. I have a Canadian Leisure Van and it is parked too, even though it gets 2 mpg more than my wife's SUV which now gets about 10 or 11 mpg. We're all in this together worldwide!

I think this is the same principle that Diesel Electric train engines use nationwide. That is what is powering over 90% of the trains in the United States or more. They don't store much electricity except for starting the diesel engines. Without the expense of all the batteries this all gets a whole lot more practical. Good Luck!

Man should study man before Spirit

I think it was Confucious who said my title. I have found it to be true. Studying man, in other words, psychology, building, history, social Science, philosophy, anthropology etc. should be attempted before studying spirit. The Zen masters also have a saying, "Carry water chop wood". Even though this was before electricity and running water it still applies. What this means is, "You must be aware of what your body needs before you look for your spirit. Otherwise there will be no body to approach spirit and you will be just dead."

When I first learned to soul travel consciously in my early 20s, for a short time because I had broken up with the woman I wanted to marry and spend my life with and because I had been excommunicated from my childhood church I didn't really care whether I lived or died for a time, so I soul traveled for a while. Then I realized that unless I took care of my body I wouldn't have one and that God had given me this body for a purpose and I needed to figure out what that purpose was. "Carry water chop wood". You must eat, drink, breathe, defecate, urinate and associate with people. Otherwise, you will soon be gone and no matter how spiritual you are you will just be dead.