(CNN)Shortly after President Donald Trump addressed a Joint Session of Congress for the first time since taking the oath of office, CNN's Van Jones called one particularly moving moment from the speech the real estate mogul's most presidential to date.
Less
than an hour after Trump honored the widow of a slain NAVY Seal, the
Democratic commentator suggested that the commander in chief had
officially begun to look the part.
"He became President of the
United States in that moment, period," said Jones, after the evening's
most emotional point was replayed by CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"That was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics," Jones added.
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The
exchange the group was referring to centered around Trump recognizing
Carryn Owens, whose husband Chief Petty Officer William "Ryan" Owens was
killed in Yemen.
Noting that he still often
disagrees with the President, Jones admitted that Trump's powerful
moment shows he may be settling into the role.
"If he finds a way to do that over and over again, he's going to be there for eight years," Jones said.
Moments after Jones'
remarks, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke to
Cooper, and had this to say: "I find myself in agreement with Van Jones,
for the first time in my political life."
I had been staying with my family and a Tibetan Lama in Dharamshala, India which is about 6000 feet in elevation in the Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh state of India with is in Western India in the Himalayas where I was then. One of the Students of Geshe Lobsang Gyatso who had come to Santa Cruz to help Lama Yeshe of Boulder Creek pass over and reincarnate as a Spanish boy then, was traveling with us from Boghgaya to Varanasi (Benares) to Agra and the Taj Mahal, to New Delhi and finally to Dharamshala in the Himalayas then. We stayed at the Green Hotel then because it had hot showers. Since there was no heat in the rooms and it was winter time we bought a Kerosene stove to heat water up to sterilize it so we could make tea and soup and food but also to sterilize water so it was safe to drink for us by boiling it for 5 minutes on the stove. It also kept us warm in that hotel room then in January 1986 even though kerosene can be sort of stinky to be around but it was still better than freezing to death in the winter time there in Dharamshala, India.
One Day Thubten who was a student of Geshela (Geshe Lobsang Gyatso) who we were traveling with had gotten permission to take us some place by the powers that be there. So,he said "pack a lunch and bring your water containers there is something wonderful I have gotten permission for you to see." He wouldn't tell us more than that but we must have walked uphill into the Himalayas for several miles until we spied alone a little stone hut with a slate roof with the rood quarried from a slate rock area a few miles away. He took us up to this non-descript little hut and knocked on the door.Two Tibetan Monks greeted us with smiles and we entered as a family only to see Ling Rinpoche sitting in Maitreya Mudra (cross legged with his right hand raised in blessing and power) on the table. But it was obvious that he was neither dead nor alive. I asked how long he had been like this and would he ever return out of his deep meditation and they said "No"
This was the first time I had ever heard of or seen something like this where a realized and known master was projecting back a heaven realm from the other side through his body. I was overwhelmed because my own father had passed away the previous August and all I could do was to go outside and cry for about 20 minutes experiencing this. This likely was the most profound of all the things that ever happened to me in the 4 months I was in India, Nepal, Thailand and Japan at that time of my life.
This was my first experience of a realized master doing something like this of projecting his heaven realm back from the other side. Most people just die but this guy was projecting heaven back from a heaven realm and I was privileged through God's Grace as well as my whole family to experience this amazing blessing.
This is how they spend quality time with you after they have passed on. So, the ambiance of them being there is what is important. Though if they talk to you and you remember it that might be important too.
Recently, my wife within 2 weeks lost her 98 year old stepfather and her 90 something year old Uncle. This was a lot for her to deal with and when she drove to southern California to visit with her stepbrother and sisters she came back ill from the journey. So, when her uncle also passed away in North Carolina she realized she couldn't go there because she was already ill from her stepfather's passing.
A day or two after he passed away he showed up in the middle of the night. I had gone to the bathroom at about 2 or 3 in the morning after having gone to sleep a few hours before. So, when I saw him there in spirit it wasn't a really happy moment for me because with people recently passed on you don't know always what state of mind they might be in. However, after I laid down onto my bed with my wife he went head first into me. This wasn't making me happy either. However,when I talked to the thousands of angels that often surround me they said that I had become a doorway into one of the heavens and my stepfather in law saw me as an opportunity to go to heaven. This was news to me because I wasn't aware yet that I had become an entrance into one of the millions of heavens surrounding earth (Jesus said, "in my father's house there are many mansions".) So, obviously I had become an entraince into one of the Father's mansions here on earth. I am apparently not alone in this kind of thing by the way worldwide.
So, I requested the angels that no more people passed over "Step into me like that" because that didn't seem at all useful to me for me." So I requested that they build doorways out from me in spirit out about 100 yards or more in a circle so people could do this without affecting my life here on earth in unusual ways. The angels agreed with me and put a circle of many many doorways for spirits who are passed over to enter into heaven but of course there are guardian angels to guard those doors from unclean spirits who are not prepared. The main reason you keep unclean spirits out is that it would literally kill the soul of someone like that who is not prepared to enter a heaven realm for whatever the reason. So, one guards the doors to heaven (all heavens) because death of a soul is what happens if a soul enters heaven still unclean and unpurified. So, it is a way to protect a soul from the 2nd death of the soul.
If they came here 65 million years ago what has been happening all this time?
If you think of earth as something like the Hawaiian Islands in Space maybe this is the best way to answer this question. No doubt earth is a very beautiful and then relatively unspoiled place. But, imagine Ice ages and nuclear wars and time wars and all sorts of things happening between now and 65 million years ago.
So, a whole lot can happen to humanoid beings in 65 million years. Maybe Ice ages destroyed the civilizations or towns like the 100 to 200 years flooding events in California likely ended civilizations and towns not in the mountains on bedrock or places like San Francisco which is hills draining directly into the ocean so no flooding is really possible there.
Think about all the possibilities of what could have happened to humanoids during 65 million years. Did they all stay here? Did they have nuclear wars? Of course they developed space travel and time travel like we have now. So, where are they?
Some left to explore other worlds. Some stayed. And they all died one by one until you get to us here now.
What is to be gained by thinking like this?
A sense of what really happened not suppresed by all religions on earth because it doesn't conform to their religious books.
So, what really happened beyond all the religious suppression of the last 2000 years or more?
Look at Galileo and others imprisoned for speaking the truth about Science!
This is still going on today if you move outside of narrow confines of thinking still here on earth all over.
This is the reality of civilizations based upon religious thought. Though they make people more docile (because religions after all are the opiate of the people) they also make people very stupid and stop asking useful questions about how the human race got to here from 65 million years ago!
And even places like China where the religion is capitalism and communism this is still a religion too that suppresses free thinking!
My theory is that life on earth (and on other planets throughout this galaxy and others is relatively common both in forms we know of and in other forms we don't know about yet.
So, my theory is that life on earth sprang up and eventually resulted in the dinosaurs. Our ancestors on Mars and Maldek (now the asteroid belt) didn't come to earth much because they didn't want to be eaten by large dinosaurs. However, they might have had hunting expeditions to earth if they could eat dinosaur for the rich of Mars and Maldek (this would be previous to 65 million years ago when they nuked Maldek in a war (proven by the Soviets in the 1970s when they sent a probe to the asteroid belt but suppressed by worldwide religions in the news then). So, when a piece of Maldek destroyed by a nuclear war in the form of an asteroid hit earth and conveniently killed all the largest dinosaurs (that didn't live in the sea) humans could then safely or relatively safely live here on earth then and not be eaten by big dinosaurs. So, since the atmosphere mostly was blown off of Mars and Maldek was gone, the richer survivors of Maldek (likely the aristocracy and ruling class) in space lifeboats and survivors rich and poor from Mars came to earth who were too poor to go back to previous solar systems humanoids originated from in the first place. This is my theory. So, the life on earth and the life from Maldek and Mars intermingled here on earth ever since.
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Image copyrightM DoddImage caption
Ancient life: These clumps of iron and filaments show similarities to modern microbes
Scientists have discovered what they say could be fossils of some of the earliest living organisms on Earth.
They are represented by tiny filaments, knobs and tubes in Canadian rocks dated to be up to 4.28 billion years old.
That
is a time not long after the planet's formation and hundreds of
millions of years before what is currently accepted as evidence for the
most ancient life yet found on Earth.
The researchers report their investigation in the journal Nature.
As with all such claims about ancient life, the study is contentious. But the team believes it can answer any doubts.
The
scientists' putative microbes from Quebec are one-tenth the width of a
human hair and contain significant quantities of haematite - a form of
iron oxide or "rust".
Matthew Dodd, who analysed the structures at
University College London, UK, claimed the discovery would shed new
light on the origins of life.
"This discovery answers the biggest questions mankind has asked itself - which are: where do we come from and why we are here? Image copyrightDominic PapineauImage caption
This bright red "concretion" of iron-and silica-rich rock contains the features interpreted as microfossils
"It is very humbling to have the oldest known
lifeforms in your hands and being able to look at them and analyse
them," he told BBC News.
The fossil structures were encased in quartz layers in the so-called Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB).
The NSB is a chunk of ancient ocean floor. It contains some of the oldest volcanic and sedimentary rocks known to science. The team looked at sections of rock that were likely
laid down in a system of hydrothermal vents - fissures on the seabed
from which heated, mineral-rich waters spew up from below.
Today,
such vents are known to be important habitats for microbes. And Dr
Dominic Papineau, also from UCL, who discovered the fossils in Quebec,
thinks this kind of setting was very probably also the cradle for
lifeforms between 3.77 and 4.28 billion years ago (the upper and lower
age estimates for the NSB rocks).
He described how he felt when
he realised the significance of the material on which he was working: "I
thought to myself 'we've got it, we've got the oldest fossils on the
planet'.
"It relates to our origins. For intelligent life to
evolve to a level of consciousness, to a point where it traces back its
history to understand its own origin - that's inspirational." Image copyrightCredit: Matthew DoddImage caption
Iron-rich tubes from the Quebec rocks provide additional evidence for life
Any claim for the earliest life on Earth attracts
scepticism. That is understandable. It is often hard to prove that
certain structures could not also have been produced by non-biological
processes.
In addition, analysis is complicated because the rocks in question have often undergone alteration.
The NSB, for example, has been squeezed and heated though geological time
At
present, perhaps the oldest acknowledged evidence of life on the planet
is found in 3.48-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia. Image copyrightDominic PapineauImage caption
The fossils were discovered by Dominic Papineau in
an area of Quebec that was deep under the sea billions of years ago
This material is said to show remnants of
stromatolites - mounds of sediment formed of mineral grains glued
together by ancient bacteria.
An even older claim for stromatolite
traces was made in August last year. The team behind that finding said
their fossil evidence was 3.70 billion years old.
Nonetheless, the
UCL researchers and their colleagues say they have worked extremely
hard to demonstrate the greater antiquity for their structures.
Dr
Papineau does concede though that the idea of metabolising
micro-organisms using oxygen so soon after the Earth's formation will
surprise many geologists. Image copyrightWALTER MYERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage caption
Artwork: Life appears to have started hundreds of millions of years after the formation of Earth
"They would not consider that there were organisms
breathing oxygen at this time. It brings back the production of oxygen
on the Earth's surface, albeit by tiny amounts, to the beginning of the
sedimentary record," he said.
Prof Nicola McLoughlin from Rhodes University, South Africa, was not connected with the research.
She commended the scholarship but felt the data presented by the UCL-led team fell short.
"The morphology of these argued iron-oxidising filaments from Northern Canada is not convincing," she told BBC News.
"In
recent deposits we see spectacular twisted stalks, often arranged in
layers, but in the highly metamorphosed rocks of the Nuvvuagittuq belt
the filaments are much simpler in shape.
"The associated textural
and geochemical evidence of graphite in carbonate rosettes and
magnetite-haematite granules is careful work, but provides only
suggestive evidence for microbial activity; it does not strengthen the
case for the biogenicity of the filaments."
She also said the
maximum age of the rocks had proven to be very controversial, and that
the true age was more likely to be closer to the 3.77-billion-year age.
Part of the interest in ancient life is in the implication it has for organisms elsewhere in the Solar System. "These (NTB) organisms come from a time when we
believe Mars had liquid water on its surface and a similar atmosphere to
Earth at that time," said Mr Dodd.
"So, if we have lifeforms originating and evolving on Earth at this time then we may very well have had life beginning on Mars."
If
that is the case then, according to Dr Papineau, recent Nasa rover
missions to the Martian surface may have been looking for signs of life
in the wrong places.
He said that the Mars Exploration Rovers
(MER), Spirit and Opportunity, and the more recent Curiosity robot
mission had overlooked areas that might have had rocks produced by
hydrothermal vents.
"On the surface of Mars there have been missed
opportunities. The MER Opportunity in 2003 found promising formations
but there was no analysis. And the Spirit rover went straight past
another near the Comanche outcrop in Gusev crater."
The suggestion
that life had already arisen "just" a few hundred million years after
the Earth had formed is intriguing in light of debates about whether
life on Earth was a rare accident or whether biology is a common outcome
given the right conditions.
Because there is just so much risk attached to investing in the stock market right now that you cannot invest unless you can actually survive without the money you have invested.
Most stock investors already have a diverse portfolio that has land, jewelry, stocks, bonds and other investments nationwide or worldwide. Because if you are not in a diverse investment situation then you are very vulnerable to the incredible swings in the market right now whether they are up or down.
Trump talks about the new Trillions of dollars in the stock market in value since he was elected. Well, that could all be completely wiped out in one day if North Korea nuked Japan,Hawaii or California!
It could theoretically go back to what it was in 2009 at 6900 or even lower than that if panic sets in worldwide.
So, one way to look at all this is that it is a bubble of hope by people who don't care about the ecology or whether people are going to die worldwide from these investments. But, it is equally likely that North Korea or some other country or terrorist group is going to explode the stock market any day now.
However, remember if you are a long term investor it might return to 21,000 within a month also. So, selling when it drops is what fools generally do if you study the long term dynamics of the stock market since 1929 or 1930.
However, once again you have to be able to live without your investments in the stock market while the market recovers each time. But, if you think about when it dropped to 6900 in the Great Recession in 2009 and stayed with your investments until now you have now tripled your investments. So, for example, if you had invested 10,000 dollars the day the stock market dropped that money would now be worth 30,000 dollars or more. Something to think about! And the same would be true of 1 million dollars which would now be worth 3 million dollars.Something to think about! However, tomorrow if a nuke goes off it could drop to 6900 or lower. Also, something to think about!
This is a good question. First, why IS the stock market going up? Because the EPA no longer exists for all intents and purposes. So, the stock market is going up because there is now no one to stop companies in the U.S. from doing any stupid thing they want to. So, this means they can make more money even though people are dying because of it.
Also, the only ones benefiting from the stock market hitting now 21,126.02 are upper middle Class to rich so when Trump talks about how many more trillion dollars the Stock Market is worth since he was elected in November just remember it is only helping the rich worldwide while it is simultaneously killing the poor.
Something doesn't come from nothing and this raise in the stock market is no exception. Am I happy for all the upper middle Class to rich people around the world who own stocks? Of course.
But, there is always a price to be paid by the poor who can't hire people to take care of them when they get poisoned and get bad food from companies who no longer give a shit about them nationwide or worldwide. Because other countries follow the example often of the U.S. even in bad ways like now.
So, who benefits? The rich and upper middle Class worldwide. Who dies? The lower middle Class and poor worldwide. This is the reality of Trump worldwide.
But, just like in all things there are many many ways to look at this. For example, a rich man might say: "This is birth control for the poor worldwide. So,we can get a supreme court justice in there to stop all abortions while we are killing the poor in this nation and worldwide.
And this may be what is actually happening now in the U.S.
Also, this will kill people because it will also cause bad air, bad water, bad food in the U.S. and around the world and increase Global Warming and climate change by up to 10 times. So, this will kill people too.
So, get ready to tie up your boat on the continent of Antarctica and in Siberia if you are rich enough!
Because soon there won't be any ice or permafrost there to bother you!
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