I discovered the Creators which actually fit the panoply of dieties in the Greek and Norse Pantheon like Zeus and Hera and Hercules, and then Odin and Thor and others in the Norse Pantheon.
I discovered that the Creators actually create Galaxies and that no galaxy would exist without them and that they are not physical in the sense that we are but their "Natural State" is "Dark matter?" which composes 96% of the universe. And the strangest fact of all appears to be that most if not all educated people on earth (anyone who can read or write any language) tend to be "sparks of the Creators" or inhabited by Creators who live billions of years in their natural states. So, because of this the "spark" of most humans is immortal because it is a part of the Creators who live naturally billions of years because their lives having nothing at all to do with whether any one or all galaxies exist or not.
A Galaxy is sort of like a "Farm" for them that they build, create and then maintain, much like we built farms while settling the U.S. and raised dairy cows and cattle and other farm animals and farmed wheat, corn, oats etc.
Likewise for a Creator family, they create a galaxy so they can have more children and create a dynasty. And then planets that are inhabited become repositories for their souls to come to so they don't "die of boredom" in old age. Experiences of mortality for a very old "Creator" reawaken the importance of life within them and reinvigorate them to continue staying alive rather than just fading out into nothingness through the boredom of living billions of years.
However, on another level there is no time really at all in "Dark matter". Time only exists in the Time and space continuum that exists within matter galaxies. I'm not even sure that Time exists at all in anti-matter galaxies which are in another dimension in the same locality as matter galaxies and are their electrical opposite component. Without an anti-matter galaxy a matter galaxy could not exist. And joining these two opposite polarities is "Black hole" resident in the very center of each galaxy.
However, in or near the "Black Holes" at the center of each galaxy is where you will usually find Creators because it is like their "Oasis" or watering hole. Because they exist by "eating" energy as it changes forms between matter, anti-matter, photonic, different forms of energy etc.
Friday, August 2, 2013
The first steps towards criminalising drone strikes
Yemen: The first steps towards criminalising drone strikes, Obama take note |
Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference decision to criminalise drone strikes is an essential step toward a stable Yemen.
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An activist protests US drone strikes in Yemen outside the US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen April 29 [REUTERS]
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"America’s actions are legal" claimed President Obama in a speech on drones
earlier this year. It was the latest in a string of attempts made by
his administration to justify covert strikes carried out by the US
overseas - in countries including the Arab peninsula’s poorest nation,
Yemen. But back in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, it appears the country’s civil society disagrees. Members of Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference (NDC) - a US-supported initiative which will map out Yemen’s post-Arab Spring future - overwhelmingly voted to criminalise drone strikes in Yemen. The Yemeni people have spoken. Now Presidents Hadi and Obama must listen - for their own sake, as much as that of Yemen. While it is clear that no leader may lawfully authorise another sovereign to slaughter his own people, the decision to criminalise drones strikes sends a clear warning message to Hadi - if the current practice is to continue, it may well lead to a criminal prosecution. But it is not only the threat of a jail cell that should focus the Yemeni President’s mind. Through his unconditional consent to the use of drones in his country, President Hadi has already alienated many of his supporters, especially those, like him, from the south, which bear the brunt of the strikes. Moreover, Hadi, like his US counterpart, is concerned about his legacy. As Yemen’s first post-revolutionary president, the coming few months will test Hadi’s commitment to a stable Yemen through the NDC. In a meeting this week with John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, Hadi stated that he hoped that the dialogue will lead "Yemen into security and stability". The members of the NDC are certainly working to achieve this end. Criminalising drone strikes is an essential step towards a stable Yemen. It is also in the interest of the US to respect the NDC’s decision. Hypocrisy rankles. And hypocrisy is what Yemenis see when the US preaches democracy and funds democratic processes and ignores outcomes it doesn’t like. The US can’t just ditch those NDC decisions it doesn’t like. Obama has argued that he is acting to safeguard America’s national security interests. Yet the truth of the matter is that drones are counter-productive. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, since its start, the US drones campaign in Yemen has killed a significant number of civilians including children and women. And with every death, the ranks of al-Qaeda swell. Nothing illustrates the wrong-headedness of the US’ drone programme better than the story of Jaber Salim, a Yemeni scholar known for denouncing al-Qaeda. Jaber’s family always worried he would be targeted by militants, in revenge for his strong denunciations of their actions. But in the end it was a US drone strike in Hadramout last August which ended his life. Jaber was a natural ally for the US in Yemen - yet as a result of the drone programme, he is instead being used as a recruitment tool for extremists. Unfortunately, these incidents do not stand alone - scores of remote villages and tiny towns in Yemen have faced similar fates. And what purpose have they served? Well, they certainly helped promote al-Qaeda’s agenda in the region. How many times have we heard of drone victims being used as a propaganda tool for extremists? Plenty. Obama is now achieving the complete opposite of what he wanted. Some militants may have died through these strikes, but the US is losing the long battle for hearts and minds. The US’s support for the NDC is a renewed means of reassuring the people of Yemen about America’s goodwill. But really, for the process to have any meaningful outcome, its decisions must be respected. Hadi was right this week when he said that despite the NDC, Yemen is still in need of the international community’s support. He should have, however, made clear that Yemen needs growth, not missiles. The NDC’s decision to criminalise drone strikes is a test for the US’s seriousness in supporting the democratic transitional process in Yemen. Is America going to listen this time? Ghada Eldemellawy is an investigator at the London-based NGO, Reprieve, which currently represents 15 prisoners in Guantanamo, including three Yemenis.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.
end quote from: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/08/201381141830129979.html I thought this was a very interesting opinion article. However, I don't think ANY laws are going to stop the use of drones by the U.S. or any other nation, group, or individuals or individual on earth. It is just too easy to use drones to kill people. It is sort of like surveillance of all kinds. There really is no way to stop individuals or companies from doing it. There is no realistic way to stop any country or group on earth from killing almost anyone with drones either as time goes on. This is just another unfortunate fact of the world we live in now and into the future. When the Wright Brothers invented and then flew the first motorized plane at Kitty Hawk I'm sure they would have been completely horrified at the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan or the firebombing of Japan, Dresden or many other European cities during world War II including London. They would have been horrified of jets with missiles shot from wings and fuselages. Now through drones and surveillance another whole sea of horror will be visited upon mankind and all life on earth. Whether any life at all will survive this latest onslaught is anyone's guess over the next 1000 years or so. |
Some Gitmo detainees may return to Yemen
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President Barack Obama and Yemen's
president, Abdo Rabby Mansour Hadi stand and button their jackets after
speaking to the media in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday,
Aug. 1, 2013, in Washington.
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Al Qaeda threat closes some US embassies
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-- Al Qaeda is linked to a terror threat that has prompted the State
Department to close embassies in key Middle East nations, including
Egypt and Israel, as a precaution beginning Sunday, U.S.
Al Qaeda threat closes some U.S. embassies
updated 10:48 AM EDT, Fri August 2, 2013
Terror threat prompts embassy closures
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Rep. Royce tells CNN's "New Day" that al Qaeda is behind an unspecified threat
- Embassies in Egypt and other Middle East countries will close Sunday
- A U.S. official calls the threats "credible and serious"
"It's my understanding
that it is al Qaeda-linked, all right, and the threat emanates in the
Middle East and in Central Asia," said Royce, a California Republican
who's chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
On Thursday, a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly about the matter called the threat "credible and serious."
It was "directed at American targets overseas," but may not be confined to main diplomatic facilities, the official said.
In addition to Egypt, the
State Department action includes diplomatic facilities in Saudi Arabia,
Libya, Iraq and Kuwait, according to the agency and Twitter postings.
Photos: Attack on U.S. Consulate in Libya
Potential terror threat in Mideast
Central Asia cause of embassy threat
CNN Explains: The Benghazi attacks
A senior State Department
official said that the agency has told those embassies to close Sunday,
normally the beginning of the work week, and that additional days could
be added.
The U.S. Embassy in Israel also will be closed as normal on Sunday.
Diplomatic facilities in the region are for the most part closed or operate with minimal staff on Fridays and Saturdays.
Separately, another U.S.
official told CNN that the Obama administration is monitoring threats
against the embassy in Sanaa, Yemen.
The official did not say whether the embassy would close.
President Barack Obama
met with Yemeni President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi at the White House on
Thursday. Yemen has been cracking down on al Qaeda.
A U.S. official earlier
told CNN the embassy closures were because of "more than the usual
chatter" about a potential terrorist threat, which was not specific
about time and location.
Officials said the time frame comes with the approaching end of Ramadan
and the first anniversary of the terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic
compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including
Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the agency was taking the steps at diplomatic sites out of an abundance of caution.
The U.S. Embassy in
Cairo noted on its website media reports of possible marches or
demonstrations Friday and possibly throughout the weekend.
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Al Qaeda threat closes some US embassies
A Man of Power
I was very tired from traveling and not getting enough sleep for several days since I left Portland. I had rejoined my wife in Seattle after renting a car in Portland. So, by now, we had visited in addition to Seattle Orcas Island and had visited a friend of ours and her son there. He had recently graduated college. Yesterday, we had had to get up at 6 am to catch a ferry to Friday Harbor and then to catch another ferry to Sidney so we could drive to Victoria on Vancouver Island (a very large island). When we landed at Sidney I was very tired and let my wife drive. However, when we stopped for Gas in Canada there in Sidney I put the gas in myself. While I was sort of sleep walking putting the gas in I heard a voice behind our 4wd truck. The man said, "You're a long way from Home!" I turned my head towards his voice and was surprised to see a Native American man with an Aura like Charlie Thom a Karuk Medicine man I had studied with. Obviously, this man was something like Charlie Thom too and had been guided there to greet me to the Island because this was literally the first place I stopped the truck on Vancouver Island besides going through customs with our passports into Canada.
As I realized he was there to greet me on the Island I raised my hand in blessing and said, "Have a Good Day!" He smiled a big smile and waved as he drove away. It never ceases to amaze me about things like this. It seems like there are very few men of power (spiritual power) on earth compared to most people. It is not that the rest of the people are bad. That's not it. It is like the rest of the people are children in comparison to "Men of Power". It is a very different thing.
It is like there are people who "take responsibility" for all life around them and then there are people that don't. And the difference is the difference between grown up children and "responsible people" who work to protect all others from harm in every way.
What can be confusing is all the different systems of "responsible people" around the world. They all mean well and do their best. But as you move around there can be many different "Criteria" for what is good and useful.
For example, on the last ferry there was a lady that recognized I was a "Man of Power" but who didn't understand "What form of power I was manifesting". This isn't unusual to meet people who function according to a different criteria, especially if they are not out of doors "Nature people" who have spent a lot of time in nature. So, I would usually break these categories into 3 basic groups. There are the Merlins who have spent a lot of time in nature and so have learned to be powerful in one way. Then there are the Christian Merlins who have a Christian background but who also have spent a lot of time in Nature. And then there are the "Church People" who mostly have just gone to church and sometimes are very close minded about what happens around the world in regard to all this worldwide. This lady obviously was a "Church Lady" who was traveling on the ferry who was uncertain about "What I was". But, since I grew up in church with people like this, people like this aren't a problem for me to deal with.
In the end it is all about, "What kind of experiences (internally and externally" have you had in your lives?" The way everyone functions at every level of attainment is always about what experiences internally and externally they have had. You cannot expect people with one set of experiences to understand people of different kinds of experiences. But, you do have to be careful of people who are different than yourself supernaturally speaking.
I find that what I have been taught by Tibetan Lamas is the single most useful thing in regard to this.
The Lamas taught me that "Just because you can scare someone literally to death supernaturally, doesn't mean that you should." So, there are better ways to deal with people compassionately than that. It has to do with how a Tibetan Buddhist sees literally everything both real and dreams as equally real and unreal simultaneously. If someone of power who doesn't understand who or what you are attacks you supernaturally you simply see what they are doing as unreal. This makes it unreal and so you are unaffected in any way by it. This works great if you are powerful enough in your awareness of what is actually going on because if someone isn't motivated properly in what they are doing it is going to kill them soon anyway. In other words if your motivations aren't pure and correct at a deep enough level whatever you are doing is going to kill you in a self destructive way sooner or later. It is absolute and a law of both Nature and of God's.
As I realized he was there to greet me on the Island I raised my hand in blessing and said, "Have a Good Day!" He smiled a big smile and waved as he drove away. It never ceases to amaze me about things like this. It seems like there are very few men of power (spiritual power) on earth compared to most people. It is not that the rest of the people are bad. That's not it. It is like the rest of the people are children in comparison to "Men of Power". It is a very different thing.
It is like there are people who "take responsibility" for all life around them and then there are people that don't. And the difference is the difference between grown up children and "responsible people" who work to protect all others from harm in every way.
What can be confusing is all the different systems of "responsible people" around the world. They all mean well and do their best. But as you move around there can be many different "Criteria" for what is good and useful.
For example, on the last ferry there was a lady that recognized I was a "Man of Power" but who didn't understand "What form of power I was manifesting". This isn't unusual to meet people who function according to a different criteria, especially if they are not out of doors "Nature people" who have spent a lot of time in nature. So, I would usually break these categories into 3 basic groups. There are the Merlins who have spent a lot of time in nature and so have learned to be powerful in one way. Then there are the Christian Merlins who have a Christian background but who also have spent a lot of time in Nature. And then there are the "Church People" who mostly have just gone to church and sometimes are very close minded about what happens around the world in regard to all this worldwide. This lady obviously was a "Church Lady" who was traveling on the ferry who was uncertain about "What I was". But, since I grew up in church with people like this, people like this aren't a problem for me to deal with.
In the end it is all about, "What kind of experiences (internally and externally" have you had in your lives?" The way everyone functions at every level of attainment is always about what experiences internally and externally they have had. You cannot expect people with one set of experiences to understand people of different kinds of experiences. But, you do have to be careful of people who are different than yourself supernaturally speaking.
I find that what I have been taught by Tibetan Lamas is the single most useful thing in regard to this.
The Lamas taught me that "Just because you can scare someone literally to death supernaturally, doesn't mean that you should." So, there are better ways to deal with people compassionately than that. It has to do with how a Tibetan Buddhist sees literally everything both real and dreams as equally real and unreal simultaneously. If someone of power who doesn't understand who or what you are attacks you supernaturally you simply see what they are doing as unreal. This makes it unreal and so you are unaffected in any way by it. This works great if you are powerful enough in your awareness of what is actually going on because if someone isn't motivated properly in what they are doing it is going to kill them soon anyway. In other words if your motivations aren't pure and correct at a deep enough level whatever you are doing is going to kill you in a self destructive way sooner or later. It is absolute and a law of both Nature and of God's.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Red Sphere Cameras from UFOs?
Years ago I went to India and Nepal and had some really amazing experiences with my family there between December 1985 and April 1986. I met some interesting people there. One of them was Thubten who was a Tibetan Monk born in Tibet who had become a monk, and then when his parents had become too old to make money and to care for themselves he gave his robes to Geshe Lobsang Gyatso to hold his robes for him while he financially and physically took care of his parents. He became a Mountain climbing guide in the Himalayas to finance paying to keep his parents alive and cared for until they passed away. When I met him his parents had passed away and he met an American Lady named Tara who was Tibetan Buddhist and they were getting married and he was going to Minnesota where she lived. The last time I saw him I was getting divorced from my wife likely in the early 1990s as he was helping the Gyuto Tantric Monks as they toured the U.S. and gave performances then in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Another Tibetan came back to the U.S. with Geshela (A Tibetan Lama from Kham Province in Tibet) who was a 25 year old Tibetan from a wealthy family who translated for Geshela as he spoke very good English because of his wealthy family living in India. His name was Lobsang. He had been named after Geshela whose full name was Geshe Lobsang Gyatso. Lobsang I believe meant "Strong Kind one" so this was a good Tibetan Name. The Names Lobsang and Thubten were their "First Names" sort of like I'm Fred or someone else would be John or Bill or George.
One of the interesting things that happened while Geshela and Lobsang his translator were visiting the U.S. was the following:
It was around Christmas time and there were two amazing houses on the property owned by my father and Mother in Law at the time. Both houses were mostly made of glass windows in an affluent area with a near and clear view of the ocean from the cliffs. So, the main house we were in was my in-laws but against the ocean it was solid windows for two stories. I was playing the piano and we were all singing Christmas Carols and Lobsang and my son who then was about 10 were looking at something in the Living room nearby. Lobsang came into the music room and was so pale I thought he was going to pass out. My son, who was 10 was very familiar with flying saucers from living in Mt. Shasta burst out and said, "Wow! There was a flying saucer right outside the window!" Lobsang looked really kind of sick and scared and said, "I don't believe in UFOs." But my son kept describing what happened. Lobsang's whole 25 year old world was collapsing around him and he almost fainted then. When my son described the events he nodded his head uncomfortably because he didn't want them to be true.
This is what my son described, "He said that a 3 foot sphere of red light came up to the windows and 'looked at them for a long time' and Lobsang was scared. So, my son (then 10) came in to tell everyone about this.
Later, I watched a TV program on UFOS seen in Europe and they described a triangle shaped ship seen many times in Europe where it had a red sphere about 3 feet in diameter that people believed was a camera that could travel down from the ship like a remote camera to observe whatever they wanted. Even the police following these triangle ships in Europe reported the 3 foot red spheres come down and "observing people" and then going back up to the ships like remote cameras the shape of "lighted red spheres about 3 feet in diameter.
So, when I saw this program I had more evidence of what my son had described and that Lobsang vouched for too unhappily.
Another Tibetan came back to the U.S. with Geshela (A Tibetan Lama from Kham Province in Tibet) who was a 25 year old Tibetan from a wealthy family who translated for Geshela as he spoke very good English because of his wealthy family living in India. His name was Lobsang. He had been named after Geshela whose full name was Geshe Lobsang Gyatso. Lobsang I believe meant "Strong Kind one" so this was a good Tibetan Name. The Names Lobsang and Thubten were their "First Names" sort of like I'm Fred or someone else would be John or Bill or George.
One of the interesting things that happened while Geshela and Lobsang his translator were visiting the U.S. was the following:
It was around Christmas time and there were two amazing houses on the property owned by my father and Mother in Law at the time. Both houses were mostly made of glass windows in an affluent area with a near and clear view of the ocean from the cliffs. So, the main house we were in was my in-laws but against the ocean it was solid windows for two stories. I was playing the piano and we were all singing Christmas Carols and Lobsang and my son who then was about 10 were looking at something in the Living room nearby. Lobsang came into the music room and was so pale I thought he was going to pass out. My son, who was 10 was very familiar with flying saucers from living in Mt. Shasta burst out and said, "Wow! There was a flying saucer right outside the window!" Lobsang looked really kind of sick and scared and said, "I don't believe in UFOs." But my son kept describing what happened. Lobsang's whole 25 year old world was collapsing around him and he almost fainted then. When my son described the events he nodded his head uncomfortably because he didn't want them to be true.
This is what my son described, "He said that a 3 foot sphere of red light came up to the windows and 'looked at them for a long time' and Lobsang was scared. So, my son (then 10) came in to tell everyone about this.
Later, I watched a TV program on UFOS seen in Europe and they described a triangle shaped ship seen many times in Europe where it had a red sphere about 3 feet in diameter that people believed was a camera that could travel down from the ship like a remote camera to observe whatever they wanted. Even the police following these triangle ships in Europe reported the 3 foot red spheres come down and "observing people" and then going back up to the ships like remote cameras the shape of "lighted red spheres about 3 feet in diameter.
So, when I saw this program I had more evidence of what my son had described and that Lobsang vouched for too unhappily.
Nixon: The Paradox
It is important to understand first off that Nixon was the best U.S. statesmen president of the 20th Century. And yet, he almost went to jail for committing crimes and almost directly had people killed in the process.
So, in Nixon and Kissenger, the two men that almost single handedly prevented a war with China in the 20th Century to a criminal who brought our government to it's knees in a way no other president has since the Declaration of Independence was first written.
So, we should be thankful for the economic relationship with China that we have now. However, that doesn't mean other problems with China couldn't arise in the future. And also, we had a president in Nixon so paranoid that he also destroyed his presidency. So, Nixon was an incredibly brilliant paradox as a president.
I was watching on CNN tonight "Our Nixon" a 2013 documentary based upon home movies taken by his aides brought back all these memories once again. I was 20 years old in 1968 and since my Dad was a Republican I voted for Nixon too at that time because I thought he was the best choice at the time.
What most people don't realize now is that JFK actually started the Viet Nam War, Johnson made it larger and Nixon ended it. So, it is hard to understand in hindsight unless you are a historian or lived through it like I did as a young man. By the time Nixon left office I had become an independent and leaning towards being a Democrat. This was a similar experience to what Hillary Clinton had who is near my age who was also raised a Republican by her family. Many of us young Republicans felt betrayed by Nixon to such a degree that we could no longer have our ethics intact and still be Republicans anymore ever again. So, we could be independents, we could maybe even be Democrats but no longer could we ever be Republicans again. This didn't mean that we never voted for a Republican for anything it just meant we no longer felt in good conscience that we ever could ever call ourselves Republicans ever again.
So, in Nixon and Kissenger, the two men that almost single handedly prevented a war with China in the 20th Century to a criminal who brought our government to it's knees in a way no other president has since the Declaration of Independence was first written.
So, we should be thankful for the economic relationship with China that we have now. However, that doesn't mean other problems with China couldn't arise in the future. And also, we had a president in Nixon so paranoid that he also destroyed his presidency. So, Nixon was an incredibly brilliant paradox as a president.
I was watching on CNN tonight "Our Nixon" a 2013 documentary based upon home movies taken by his aides brought back all these memories once again. I was 20 years old in 1968 and since my Dad was a Republican I voted for Nixon too at that time because I thought he was the best choice at the time.
What most people don't realize now is that JFK actually started the Viet Nam War, Johnson made it larger and Nixon ended it. So, it is hard to understand in hindsight unless you are a historian or lived through it like I did as a young man. By the time Nixon left office I had become an independent and leaning towards being a Democrat. This was a similar experience to what Hillary Clinton had who is near my age who was also raised a Republican by her family. Many of us young Republicans felt betrayed by Nixon to such a degree that we could no longer have our ethics intact and still be Republicans anymore ever again. So, we could be independents, we could maybe even be Democrats but no longer could we ever be Republicans again. This didn't mean that we never voted for a Republican for anything it just meant we no longer felt in good conscience that we ever could ever call ourselves Republicans ever again.
Vacation
A Vacation is an adventure that one survives well in order to have a good story to tell anyone who cares to listen.
So, the thing about a vacation is first you have to survive it. The younger you are (the more likely in some ways that you will survive it). However, likely the optimum ages for surviving any vacation is likely in your 30s since 33 is "The happiest age" worldwide. Ones twenties often one doesn't have enough money or experience so these travels seem to be the most "The Agony and the Ecstasy" which usually means there is a lot of sleeping in uncomfortable places with people you don't really know or trust well and there will be a lot of unhappiness and broken hearts because of this.
In your 30s most of your unrealistic expectations are gone (hopefully) or else your life might be cut short by your 30s or 40s. So, usually you can know what to expect of your life more and have more health during the decade of your 30s. By your 40s relatives, friends and parents are often starting to die a lot, so even though you are enjoying traveling a part of you is suffering the loss of friends and parents. In your 50s (if you still have your health and finances in order) your travels become more expensive because you just cannot sleep on those rocks or in that tent on an air mattress without becoming a bitch or a bastard to everyone around you that you are traveling with. In your 60s this is still true so you really have to love traveling to still be doing it in your 60s and 70s and 80s. Basically as long as you still have the intestinal fortitude to travel and enough health to pull it off it can be done.
Also, traveling tends to prevent your brain breaking down because all the new experiences stimulate you to constantly learn new things in order to survive new situations. So, if you love traveling like I do, the older you get the more a marathon of an experience it becomes. Happy Traveling!
So, the thing about a vacation is first you have to survive it. The younger you are (the more likely in some ways that you will survive it). However, likely the optimum ages for surviving any vacation is likely in your 30s since 33 is "The happiest age" worldwide. Ones twenties often one doesn't have enough money or experience so these travels seem to be the most "The Agony and the Ecstasy" which usually means there is a lot of sleeping in uncomfortable places with people you don't really know or trust well and there will be a lot of unhappiness and broken hearts because of this.
In your 30s most of your unrealistic expectations are gone (hopefully) or else your life might be cut short by your 30s or 40s. So, usually you can know what to expect of your life more and have more health during the decade of your 30s. By your 40s relatives, friends and parents are often starting to die a lot, so even though you are enjoying traveling a part of you is suffering the loss of friends and parents. In your 50s (if you still have your health and finances in order) your travels become more expensive because you just cannot sleep on those rocks or in that tent on an air mattress without becoming a bitch or a bastard to everyone around you that you are traveling with. In your 60s this is still true so you really have to love traveling to still be doing it in your 60s and 70s and 80s. Basically as long as you still have the intestinal fortitude to travel and enough health to pull it off it can be done.
Also, traveling tends to prevent your brain breaking down because all the new experiences stimulate you to constantly learn new things in order to survive new situations. So, if you love traveling like I do, the older you get the more a marathon of an experience it becomes. Happy Traveling!
Sequester literally means to hide away
se·ques·ter
/səˈkwestər/VerbIsolate or hide away (someone or something): "the artist sequestered himself in his studio for two years". NounA general cut in government spending. Synonymsverb. sequestrate - seize - isolate - impound - insulate noun. segregation - sequestration
Budget sequestration in 2013 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_sequestration_in_2013In United States federal legislation, the term budget sequestration (or sequester) refers to automatic spending cuts in particular categories of federal outlays.
I just thought it was funny that the word sequester when it is used as a verb means literally "To Hide away someone or some thing".And then when it is used as a noun "Sequester" it means to Segregate.Somehow this all is very strange on multiple levels just like what the country is experiencing right now. Also, since the Republicans get less flack by reducing government through this ploy they are happy with it while ending food stamps for people who need it to survive who don't have a job or are underemployed.It is my hope that when food stamps end (if that actually happens) nationwide that there won't be riots when people can't eat and start to starve here in the U.S. more than they already are in some places already.There was an observation made while all the aristocracy of France were killed or beheaded in the French Revolution of something like, "It takes a few days of no food to make any mob begin to riot". I think this is a true statement about all cultures worldwide.
Student wins $4M from U.S. after ordeal
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Student abandoned 4 days in cell without water to get $4 million from US
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SAN DIEGO - A 25-year old college student reached a $4.1 million settlement with the U.S. government after he was abandoned in a windowless cell for more than four days without food or water, his attorneys said Tuesday.Daniel Chong said he drank his own urine to stay alive, hallucinated that agents were trying to poison him with gases through the vents, and tried to carve a farewell message to his mother in his arm.
It remained unclear how the situation occurred, and no one has been disciplined, said Eugene Iredale, an attorney for Chong, The Justice Department's inspector general is investigating.
"It sounded like it was an accident — a really, really bad, horrible accident," Chong said.
Chong was taken into custody during a drug raid and placed in the cell in April 2012 by a police officer authorized to perform Drug Enforcement Administration work. The officer told Chong he would not be charged and said, "'Hang tight, we'll come get you in a minute,'" Iredale said.
Justice Department spokeswoman Allison Price confirmed the settlement was reached for $4.1 million but declined to answer other questions. The DEA didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Chong said he planned to save and buy his parents a house.
Chong was a 23-year-old engineering student when he was at a friend's house where the DEA found 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons. Iredale acknowledged Chong was there to consume marijuana.
Chong and eight other people were taken into custody, but authorities decided against pursuing charges against him after questioning.
Chong said he began to hallucinate on the third day in the cell. He urinated on a metal bench so he could have something to drink. He stacked a blanket, his pants and shoes on a bench and tried to reach an overhead fire sprinkler, trying with his cuffed hands to set it off.
Chong said he accepted the possibility of death. He bit into his eyeglasses to break them and used a shard of glass to try to carve "Sorry Mom" onto his arm so he could leave something for her. He only managed to finish an "S."
Chong said he slid a shoelace under the door and screamed to get attention before five or six people found him covered in his feces in the cell.
"All I wanted was my sanity," Chong said. "I wasn't making any sense."
Chong was hospitalized for five days for dehydration, kidney failure, cramps and a perforated esophagus. He lost 15 pounds (6.8 kilograms).
The DEA issued a rare public apology at the time.
The DEA introduced national detention standards as a result of the ordeal involving Daniel Chong, including daily inspections and a requirement for cameras in cells, said Julia Yoo, one of his lawyers.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, on Tuesday renewed his call for the DEA to explain the incident.
"How did this incident happen? Has there been any disciplinary action against the responsible employees? And has the agency taken major steps to prevent an incident like this from happening again?" he said.
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Caldwell reported from Washington.
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I was listening to I believe CNN and what likely happened is that the DEA doesn't have proper funding for taking care of prisoners (or at least didn't at this time). So, it is possible you might hear of other people locked up from various government offices dying in situations like this (or it happening and no one finding out because the person is now dead and so no living witnesses) because of the automatic defunding of the Sequester.
Also, when I went without water or food for 4 days in 1983 it was a conscious choice that I knew I could end any moment if I wanted to. When I listened to his description of his being covered in feces and hallucinating from drinking his own urine while trying to carve "I'm sorry Mom" into his arm in case he died made me know he almost died there alone.
Whereas I didn't almost die I chose consciously to pray for 4 days while not eating or drinking anything. This one thing to know. If you don't eat or drink anything you are going to hallucinate and see possibly visions of God and/or bad things. It is a given in our dna physiology that this is going to happen. For example, the thing that terrified me the most when I was doing this was at night I would hear bears coming into the bear wallow where I was and knew I was probably too out of it to defend myself or think straight because of not eating or drinking anything. So, whether the bears were real or not I likely wouldn't have known for sure unless I was dead. But, this was the scariest thing I experienced then. and 2nd scariest was me becoming a 50 to 100 foot tall Golden Dragon and breathing golden fire out on everyone that made them smile and enlightened them. Very prophetic in some ways. So, when praying and doing this when you are ready for this you might find out what you need to be doing in your life if your health is good enough and you are mentally balanced and an out of doors person enough to pull this off and stay alive.
700,000 document leaks like Mannings unprecedented
Iraq war logs in Manning case 'hit us in the face' - U.S. officer
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FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army was
overwhelmed when WikiLeaks published more than 700,000 secret diplomatic
and war documents handed over by soldier Bradley Manning, a retired
officer testified in the sentencing phase of the convicted private's
court-martial.
"The ones that hit us in the face were the Iraq logs," retired
Brigadier General Robert Carr said in a Fort Meade, Maryland court on
Wednesday, a day after a military judge found Manning guilty of 19
charges over the leaks in 2010, the biggest breach of classified data in
U.S. history."No one had ever had to deal with this number of documents," Carr said.
A prosecutor told the sentencing hearing that the leaks caused military intelligence officials to rethink how much access to allow low level intelligence analysts like Manning.
Judge Colonel Denise Lind began hearing arguments on Wednesday on how long a sentence he should face, with the soldier's lawyers expected to argue for leniency.
While Manning, 25, was acquitted on the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, sparing him life without parole, he could still face decades in a military prison.
The slightly built Army private first class was in Baghdad in 2010 when he was arrested and charged with leaking files including videos of a 2007 attack by an American Apache helicopter gunship in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff, diplomatic cables, and secret details on prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
TALIBAN TIE
Carr testified that Taliban militants in Afghanistan had claimed that the leaks allowed them to track down a citizen of that country who had worked with U.S. intelligence. "The Taliban killed him and tied him to the disclosures," Carr said.
However, he said, the Afghan's name was not in the material that Manning revealed.
Manning's lawyers were expected to argue that the Army private was not trying to jeopardize U.S. national security. He did not testify during his trial or during the first day of his sentencing hearing.
A prosecutor, Major Ashden Fein, said Manning's leaks "have impacted the entire system" for granting defense analysts access to classified information.
Some observers pointed out that the case of Manning, as well as that of former CIA security contractor Edward Snowden, illustrated the risk inherent in granting security clearance so broadly. Snowden last month released to media documents detailing U.S. programs to monitor phone and internet usage.
U.S. intelligence agencies grant analysts broad access to classified files in hopes that they will connect disparate pieces of evidence to interpret events and avoid the sort of lapses that led to clues being overlooked before the September 11, 2001 hijacked plane attacks and the bombing of the Boston Marathon in April.
"As with any type of computer database and security, the weakest link is the person who's operating it," said Scott White, a professor of homeland security management at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
There is a risk in restricting access, he said: "Do you slow the intelligence process down by putting more and more limits on your own people?"
In a court martial that stretched over two months, military prosecutors had argued that Manning became a "traitor" to his country when he handed over files to WikiLeaks, thrusting the anti-secrecy website and its founder Julian Assange into the international spotlight.
Observers said the verdict could have "a chilling effect" on WikiLeaks by making potential sources of documents in the United States more wary about handing over secret information.
It could also encourage the United States to seek to prosecute Assange for his role in publishing the information.
Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for over a year to avoid extradition to Sweden, where two women have accused him of sexual assault. The activist says he fears Sweden might hand him over to U.S. authorities.
(Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Grant McCool)
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/corrected-iraq-war-logs-manning-case-hit-us-073813342.html
The Computer files on literally each person on earth might be 700,000 pages or more each too, especially if it starts with thermal videos of the conception through to someone's passing in old age. Understanding that this is now possible might change the way people think about this in many directions at once.
Canada, Mexico become part of U.S. homeland during NSA briefing
Canada, Mexico become part of U.S. ‘homeland’ during NSA briefing
- American reporters appropriately had a 'wait, what? moment' on Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary committee meeting. Senator Diane Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was defending the National Security Agency's top secret spying when she brought out a prop identifying North America — the United States, Canada and Mexico — as the "Homeland".
Picture of the homeland map via the Associated Press
"You may also be surprised to learn that our homeland now includes both Mexico and Canada, two areas that we understood to be autonomous nations that are not part of the United States," noted the Atlantic Wire, the publication which first reported the unorthodox map.
[ Related: U.S. expects immunity for its cops working in new cross-border policing program ]
"Normally, this would be written off as a design goof, as one of the NSA's (newly adept) graphics guys using a little more light blue than he ought.
"This being the NSA, we're not inclined to offer that benefit of the doubt. Is this a way of blending in Canadian and Mexican
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The Exhausted Fox
Since Traveling since July 16th now this is the second hard time of getting exhausted from staying too many different places in too short a time while traveling. I think it was last Saturday or Sunday now we put the four girls mostly 17 with one 16 on a plane back to the SF Bay Area from Seattle. Then we visited a friend of my wife's from college and her husband. She is running for office in the local elections of her suburb. She wanted us to see her new property on Orcas Island so we went there with her. But, my wife realized she was bringing a brown lab and a black lab and decided to rent a nice view room there instead of staying in a cabin with two large dogs. (Her dogs are wilder and less trained than ours) because she used to Dog Sled with her dogs in Alaska when her husband was a district attorney up there years ago now.
We talked of going to Alaska and having her show us around and she said wintertime might be better if we wanted to dog sled. I said, "We need to do this while I'm still alive!" (On one level this is silly because I know with modern technology I might be alive for hundreds or thousands of years). On the other hand I might die tomorrow with life being the way it is. So, I learned years ago to be prepared for death every moment. I've noticed this attitude literally scares the shit out of most people because you are completely fearless all or most of the time and this shows in the way you carry yourself. Some call this the "Stance of the Warrior".
But today, I just got tired from getting up at 6 am after not getting to sleep until 12 or 1 and waking up several times during the night and then getting on a ferry to Friday Harbor and then getting a ticket to Sidney on the Ferry so we could drive to Victoria. So, when we got here I was to 'falling down sleepy'. Then because it was noon we couldn't check into our room yet so we sleepwalked over to the Museum and Imax to watch about an hour Imax on how they built the railroad across the Canadian Rockies which was pretty interesting. It just made me want to take the train across this route like I have the Berkeley, California to Denver route on the Zephyr a year ago last October I believe in 2011 with my wife and a friend.
I got into the room and was too exhausted after that even to go to sleep because I wasn't interested in hallucinating from being too exhausted so long like one does when it is too hot and you take a nap and you have really weird dreams and wake up with a headache and confused. So, I didn't want that.
Anyway, my wife was getting concerned because I was starting to act strange from exhaustion. So, I began to tease her by joking with her. I said, "I've become an exhausted fox" which was better than a drowned rat like she intimated. But either way we both started to laugh and she realized everything was okay. We were just more tired than it was good for us to be. One of the best ways to keep going when things get strange is to make a joke about everything. However, in order to do this you have to be with someone who is comfortable being with themselves and you. Since my wife and I are best friends and have each other's back we can joke about things almost anytime. Sometimes even in the middle of an argument which can be really tricky but quite fun if it works.
We talked of going to Alaska and having her show us around and she said wintertime might be better if we wanted to dog sled. I said, "We need to do this while I'm still alive!" (On one level this is silly because I know with modern technology I might be alive for hundreds or thousands of years). On the other hand I might die tomorrow with life being the way it is. So, I learned years ago to be prepared for death every moment. I've noticed this attitude literally scares the shit out of most people because you are completely fearless all or most of the time and this shows in the way you carry yourself. Some call this the "Stance of the Warrior".
But today, I just got tired from getting up at 6 am after not getting to sleep until 12 or 1 and waking up several times during the night and then getting on a ferry to Friday Harbor and then getting a ticket to Sidney on the Ferry so we could drive to Victoria. So, when we got here I was to 'falling down sleepy'. Then because it was noon we couldn't check into our room yet so we sleepwalked over to the Museum and Imax to watch about an hour Imax on how they built the railroad across the Canadian Rockies which was pretty interesting. It just made me want to take the train across this route like I have the Berkeley, California to Denver route on the Zephyr a year ago last October I believe in 2011 with my wife and a friend.
I got into the room and was too exhausted after that even to go to sleep because I wasn't interested in hallucinating from being too exhausted so long like one does when it is too hot and you take a nap and you have really weird dreams and wake up with a headache and confused. So, I didn't want that.
Anyway, my wife was getting concerned because I was starting to act strange from exhaustion. So, I began to tease her by joking with her. I said, "I've become an exhausted fox" which was better than a drowned rat like she intimated. But either way we both started to laugh and she realized everything was okay. We were just more tired than it was good for us to be. One of the best ways to keep going when things get strange is to make a joke about everything. However, in order to do this you have to be with someone who is comfortable being with themselves and you. Since my wife and I are best friends and have each other's back we can joke about things almost anytime. Sometimes even in the middle of an argument which can be really tricky but quite fun if it works.
Alberta woman survive's 12 day bush ordeal
Alberta woman’s 12-day bush ordeal just latest in amazing survival stories
Those
of us who live in cities sometimes forget how big and empty much of
Canada is, or big chucks of the United States, for that matter.
Large swaths of our country remain uninhabited wilderness where it's
possible for a person to disappear without a trace even in an age of
mobile phones and GPS.A young Alberta woman almost became one of those people. The 25-year-old member of the O'Chiese First Nation near Rocky Mountain House became lost after fleeing a sexual assault. She wandered the bush for 12 days before being discovered on a dirt road by a passing oilfield worker last Friday, The Canadian Press reported.
RCMP say the incident began July 14, when a truck carrying five people got stuck on the north end of the O'Chiese reserve. Three left to get help but when they didn't return, the woman and another man began walking.
[ Related: Missing woman survives 12 days in Alberta wilderness ]
At some point, the man struck the woman in the face and tried to sexually assault her, Cpl. Nick Munro told CP.
“She fled into the bush and, when she was in there, she got lost and disoriented and couldn’t find her way out again," he said.
Police weren't contacted until a couple of days later, when her family reported her missing. They spoke to those she was with, including her alleged attacker, who told investigators he didn't know where she was.
A search of the reserve by officers, volunteers and a helicopter turned up no trace and was called off July 19.
Meanwhile the woman, who suffered a broken jaw in the attack, stumbled through the forest, surviving on water from streams and berries. She was discovered about 10 kilometres from where she went missing.
“She was suffering from exposure, may have been mildly concussed from the altercation — not in great shape,” Munro told CP.
Despite her injuries, she was able to recount her ordeal for police and name her attacker, who was arrested and faces several charges.
RCMP said they believe the group had been drinking and that alcohol was a factor in the woman getting lost.
Rhonda Cardinal made it back home in Calling Lake, much to the relief of her family and friends. That
wasn't the case for trapper Rhonda Cardinal, who went missing for 16
days in northern Alberta last July after stomping off from her husband,
Andrew. They were in the bush about seven kilometres from their camp,
about 200 km north of Edmonton, when he lost the keys to their ATV, the National Post reported at the time.“Next thing you know, I’m talking to myself,” Andrew Cardinal told the Post. “I thought she took off back to the cabin.”
He eventually gave up looking for the keys and headed back to the couple's camp. When his wife wasn't there, he doubled back but found no sign of her. The following day, he walked to the highway and called for help.
A massive search over the August long weekend involving 58 RCMP officers, volunteers, family members and a helicopter revealed no sign of Rhonda Cardinal. The search was called off after 10 days.
Andrew Cardinal said some of his wife's family accused him of murdering her and burying her body in the woods.
"They said I shot her or something,” he told the Post. “They said my family helped hide the evidence."
Cardinal was called into the local RCMP detachment to give a statement but was never suspected of killing his wife, police said.
Meanwhile, Rhonda Cardinal was trying to stay alive. She didn't know how she came to be lost, saying she blacked out and began wandering through the bush, the Post said.
She heard the search helicopter at one point but assumed it couldn't see her. She slogged through soggy muskeg and at some point had a confrontation with a bear.
“We were just looking at each other. I thought he was going to attack me,” she told the Post. “I didn’t panic or anything. He went down. I walked away slowly the other way and he just walked the other way.”
Her shoes were destroyed and she was forced to tear up her T-shirt to cover her feet. More than a week into her ordeal, Rhonda Cardinal came across a one-room cabin, where she found water, canned food and socks for her blistered and infected feet, the Post said.
After spending a couple of nights in the refuge to regain her strength, she set out again to find help, eventually reaching a road where she was able to flag down a gas plant worker Christopher Raddi. That same morning, Raddi had seen a news story about the woman missing in the area, but was surprised to see her standing on the road. She was soon reunited with her husband.
“I told her I loved her, and I told her I was happy she was alive,” said Andrew Cardinal.
[ Related: Family doubles reward for finding man missing in Australia ]
Rita Chretien has one of the most astonishing tales of survival, but it's bittersweet.
The Penticton, B.C., woman survived 48 days lost in the remote Nevada mountain wilderness after she and husband Albert got lost while driving to Las Vegas.
The couple's van got stuck on a snow-covered logging road in March 2011, apparently misled by their GPS navigation unit that made it appear it was a viable route. Attempts to dig out and to call for help on their cellphone failed.
The couple tried to walk out, Rita Chretien later told the Globe and Mail, but went in the wrong direction. There were well-stocked hunting cabins just a couple of kilometres away.
Albert Chretien left a couple of days later to find help but never returned. Rita Chretien later described the final parting with her husband of 39 years.
“We prayed, and we cried, it was very emotional, we had not cried so deeply for years," she told the Globe.
She stayed put, subsisting on the van's meagre supply of trail mix, some candy and water from melted snow while search parties vainly scoured the couple's travel route for any sign of them.
Rita Chretien told the Globe she survived by reading her Bible and talking to God. But steadily weakening, she had concluded she was going to die after barely making it back to the van from her daily trek for water.
“I was quite content with that and I went to sleep with the child’s prayer, ‘I pray the Lord my soul to keep.’ " she told the Globe.
"About two hours later, I awoke to a noise and it was the ATVs coming round the corner, and for some reason I jumped to my feet, yanked that door open and flagged them down."
Albert Chretien's body was found by hunters in the fall of last year, resting peacefully and undisturbed by animals in the shelter of a tree, CBC News reported. He'd walked several kilometres up a mountainside before apparently stopping to rest.
"He had placed his backpack where it could be seen," Henry Chretien, Albert's brother, told CBC News. "He lay down under the protection of the tree for a much needed rest and died peacefully in his sleep."
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Anywhere almost north of about Redding, California all the way to the North Pole there are many many places to get lost in especially if you have only been raised in a city and haven't been in the wilds much. I have heard of people getting lost 100 feet from where there car was parked by getting disoriented because they were taking pictures or making out or having an argument with a spouse or child or something. So, if you are near the wilderness just on one side of your transportation vehicle please be aware (if you are not a regular out of doors person) that you are completely unprepared for the situation you are in if you get disoriented.
Hours and days were spent training me by my father to be a backwoods person (when I was a child in the 1950s) as things were even wilder then with only 1 or 2 billion people on earth instead of 7. And hours and days were spent by his father teaching him (because he was a hunter) who always had between 20 and 40 hunting dogs until he was in his 40s or 50s. So, many more people (especially from cities) died every year by getting drunk and wandering off or running cars off of roads into valleys where no one lived. Even in Carmel Valley, California in the 1980s my son and his friend came across an older man's body in a car where he had gone off a road and no one knew where he was for two years or more down in a canyon. All that was left of him that they found in the car was a skeleton and some rags on it left from the slowly rotting clothes that animals hadn't taken yet to build nests with and that's all. So, please be careful especially if you haven't been trained for years already to survive anything in the wilderness that might happen to you with just a knife and a blanket like I have.
By the way I know that prayer "My soul to Keep" it goes like this
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my Soul to Take
This was my mother's prayer as a child every night during the 1920s when she was a child.
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