The REAL Reason Flight 370 Disappeared? Malaysian Airline Flight 370: Disappearance of Boeing 777 Made Illuminati Member Jacob Rothschild Sole Owner of Major Semiconductor Patent

 This information seems to be coming into mainstream media more and more. At this rate, I expect it to be on CNN next year!  ;-) But I first heard about this in mid-March. Considering there are literally millions of stories and theories floating around on the net, its a wonder anyone can sort it all out. I have heard just about every theory about the missing plane. With all the see-all satellite technology that can read a paper in the second drawer of your nightstand, how is it that they can't find the plane? Makes no sense.

Opinions vary, some say the plane was lost (crashed), some say it was went through a time/space portal to another dimension (this is science, not fantasy), some say it landed on a remote island and is hidden, some say wait and see. I suspect it was lost (yet unlikely with no debris anywhere). If the plane and passengers were diverted, say, to a remote island like Diego Garcia, and are being held captive somewhere, I'd like to see them returned unharmed, so they can resume their lives. But then, somebody will have a whole lot of 'splainin' to do! -PB

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The REAL Reason Flight 370 Disappeared?
Malaysian Airline Flight 370: Disappearance of Boeing 777 Made Illuminati
Member Jacob Rothschild Sole Owner of Major Semiconductor Patent
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Malaysian Airline Flight 370: Disappearance of Boeing 777 Made Illuminati
Member Jacob Rothschild Sole Owner of Major Semiconductor Patent
By Vittorio Hernandez | March 29, 2014 11:46 PM EST
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/545653/20140329/malaysian-airline-flight-370-disappearance-boeing-777.htm#.Uzn2kVeR5MD

Mystery continues to surround the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 despite the declaration by the Malaysian government that the ill-fated Boeing 777 ended its trip into the southern Indian Ocean.

Reuters
A man travelling on a stolen passport on the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was a young Iranian who has no links to terrorists.

Until the discovery and recovery of the black box, the location of the plane will remain a question mark, especially in the eyes of relatives of the grieving Chinese passengers.

The situation has led to various speculations ranging from political vendetta to terrorism to an accident.

One more question mark is added to the muddled equation is a report that four members of a patent semiconductor were in the jet, leaving the fifth co-owner of the patent the sole owner now.

And that person happens to be billionaire Jacob Rothschild, an Illuminati member, sparking more conspiracy theories about the aircraft's disappearance.

Mr Rothschild is portrayed as the alleged plotter, wrote Web site Humanarefree.com, noting that the firm, Freescale Semiconductor, launched a new electronic warfare device for military radar systems - the ARM microcontroller KL-03 - days before the plane disappeared.

The company has been creating and developing embedded processors the past five decades, which Freescale described as "stand-alone semiconductors that perform dedicated computing functions in electronic systems."

With the four co-owners of the patents in the same flight were 20 other Freescale employees who are mostly engineers and experts deployed in their chip plants in Tianjin, China and Kuala Lumpur.

Freescale said the co-owners and staff were going to China to improve the firm's consumer products operation.

Among the other "intriguing factors" of Freescale are that its shareholders include the Carlyle Group of private equity investors with past advisers that include former U.S. President George Bush Sr and ex-British Prime Minister John Major.

Here's another one, Carlyle's clients include the Saudi Binladin Group, a construction company owned by the family of Osama bin Laden.

The Web site noted that four days after the jet disappeared, the U.S. Patent Office approved the semiconductor patent which is divided into five parts. One was held by Freescale and the four to Peidong Wang, Zhijun Chen, Cheng and Lu Ying Zhijong. All four were from Suzhou City.

Mitch Haws, vice president for global communications and investor relations, acknowledged the disappearance of the 24, who had a lot of experience and technical background, is a loss for Freescale.

To contact the editor, e-mail: editor@ibtimes.com
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The REAL Reason Flight 370 Disappeared

IBM Worker in Hijacked Plane
Sent Voice Activated Text and Photograph: GPS Revealed
His Location to Be RAF-US AFB Diego Garcia
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/neocon-nwo-ww3/the-real-reason-flight-370-disappeared.html
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/545653/20140329/malaysian-airline-flight-370-disappearance-boeing-777.htm#.Uzn2kVeR5MD


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The REAL Reason Flight 370 Disappeared
Published on Mar 28, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzgQwDeP7eM
Video produced by:
http://www.westernjournalism.com
Produced, written, and edited by Kris Zane. Narrated by Tom Hinchey



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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: “Patents Patents Patents?”
March 13, 2014
Posted by admin
http://www.4key.net/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-patents-patents-patents/

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Malaysia’s Flight 370: The Censoring of the NAVSUPPFAC (Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia) Website
March 18, 2014
Posted by admin
http://www.4key.net/false-flags/malaysias-flight-370-the-censoring-of-the-navsuppfac-naval-support-facility-diego-garcia-website/

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Malaysia’s Flight 370: All Eyes on Diego Garcia
March 18, 2014
http://www.4key.net/false-flags/malaysias-flight-370-all-eyes-on-diego-garcia/

Dr Mehmet Oz: Your Body is your Temple (I Am Eco Warrior)

Dr Mehmet Oz: Your Body is your Temple (I Am Eco Warrior)
Published on Mar 24, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_YC-r6aHA

www.iamecowarrior.com in partnership with https://www.youtube.com/user/DoctorOz

Dr. Oz is host of the Daytime Emmy Award-winning The Dr. Oz Show. He is also Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University and directs the Cardiovascular Institute & Complementary Medicine Program at NY Presbyterian.

Transcript:

I'm Dr. Mehmet Oz. I'm the professor and Vice Chairman of Surgery at Columbia University.
I also host a show called the Dr. Oz Show.

I'm passionate about the environment because as a healer I realize it's essential to our well-being. Doctors, in fact, all professionals should be speaking more robustly about the importance the environment to the society's well-being. And I speak about professionalism when I speak about doctors because I think it's the best way for us to explain the civic responsibility and burden we should all sense. Most professionals, I feel, have been silent along these issues. And when good people stand by and watch bad things happen - shame on us. That's when society falters. We're supposed to be the ballast that allows a ship of society which is traveling troubled waters to remain afloat. And we don't provide that ballast, when we speak up and say the environment is essential to our society's well-being and to our health, then we lose the ability to influence what society thinks. Too often it's self-interested groups who are speaking most loudly on these topics.

As a physician community, we must be in the forefront, in the vanguard of this movement.

Without any question our well being is intricately linked to the realization that we are sacred. The most valuable thing you are ever given by your parents is your body.

The temple of the soul is something we often ignore and a very basic awareness of how special it is is essential for us. When we realize how special we are, then we have to be appreciative of where the seed of our body has been planted, which is in the soil of the environment.

When we ignore the environment, it hurts all of us -- and sometimes irreparably.

So to be respectful to each other, to love your fellow man, which is perhaps the greatest joy that one can sense, you must also love the environment around you.

There's no way of teasing apart love for each other from love for the environment.

And when we feel that very deep responsibility to leave this planet better than when we found it, an obligation to make sure our children can prosper because of what we do, and not be hindered by what we did, then I think we all respect the reality that want to going to turn over the world and its environment in as clean a fashion as we found it.

I feel the Eco Warrior is individuals who have gained an insight as to how important the environment is to our well-being, but also have a deep sense of commitment in making sure that their voice is heard. And if we ignore the discomfort that we'll feel, the pain that we'll sense when we speak loudly about an issue that is controversial, then our fellow many won't understand why it's so important for them to pay attention to these issues that I think everybody should be following.

Find your eco health
www.iamecowarrior.com

directed by Roger Moenks


via:   "Universal words we all can live by... the Maya and other indigenous peoples have been saying the same thing for centuries. Enjoy and share it forward!"  - Mayan Calendar Portal
https://www.facebook.com/mayancalendarportal

Laura Bruno's Blog: Jon Rappoport ~ Shocker: Comparing deaths from medical drugs, vitamins, all US wars

Who really has your best interests at heart? We cannot rely on Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Ag, or the Medical-Military-Industrial Complex to dictate to us or to define what constitutes Health and Wellness of our bodies and our environment. We must learn, discern and choose wisely for ourselves, and fight for our right to live and be well on our own terms. -PB

Laura Bruno's Blog: Jon Rappoport ~ Shocker:
Comparing deaths from medical drugs, vitamins, all US wars
Posted March 30, 2014 by laurabruno in Uncategorized. Tagged: Big Ag, Big Pharma, BigPharma Obamacare, Codex Alimentarius, Durbin Supplements, GMO, Jon Rappoport. 4 Comments
http://laurabruno.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/jon-rappoport-shocker-comparing-deaths-from-medical-drugs-vitamins-all-us-wars/

And this, my friends, is why even if Obama”care” worked, I would still run for the hills. Mandatory US “health”"care” is like mandatory Russian roulette. No thank you. Jon’s cited statistics don’t even appear to account for vaccine deaths and injuries. I’m all for real healthcare, beginning with real, non-poisoned, non-GMO (oops, redundant), fresh, local food, along with banning high fructose corn syrup (more redundancy), and no more ability to hide toxins like aspartame under new names.

Per Mike Adams’ ongoing research into the heavy metal content of vitamins, supplements and superfoods from China, I’m all for random testing of toxins in all foods and vitamins, especially from China. … But all these Dick Durbin and Codex Alimentarius inspired attempts to ban or severely restrict “dangerous” vitamins? Start with the poisons we already know exist, like RoundUp and its Agent Orange buddy. Stop chemtrailing us with toxic aluminum and barium. Stop feeding our children FD&C neurotoxic dyes and stop spiking so many things (including milk) with unlabeled aspartame. Stop mandatory vaccines (especially Gardasil) and vaccine statistics fraud. Stop irradiating all our food and giving gravy train exemptions to CAFO’s (confined animal feeding operations). Stop persecuting small and medium sized organic farmers. Stop making Smart Meters mandatory. Stop wi-fi-ing our schools and nearly every square mile of the planet. Stop poisoning our water with radiation, oil, fracking, mercury, fluoride and toxic “clean-up” efforts. Stop banning or slandering known cancer cures and stop harassing, exiling, imprisoning or killing doctors who cure their patients. Just stop.

If these things stopped, the only health “crisis” we’d have is that so many people became healthy that BigPharma, BigAg, and the insurance companies went out of business. Good riddance. As Jon says:

“In the Wikipedia entry, ‘US military casualties of war,’ the grand total of all military deaths in the history of this country, starting with the Revolutionary War, is 1,312,612.

“In any given 10 years of modern medical treatment? 2,250,000 deaths (Starfield).

“Consider how much suppression is necessary to keep the latter number under wraps.” (emphasis mine)

Shocker: Comparing deaths from medical drugs, vitamins, all US wars

by Jon Rappoport
March 29, 2014

http://www.nomorefakenews.com

People want to believe medical science gives us, at any given moment, the best of all possible worlds.

And of course, the best of all possible worlds must have its enemies: the quacks who sell unproven snake oil.

So let’s look at some facts.

As I’ve been documenting for years, the medical cartel has been engaged in massive criminal fraud, presenting their drugs as safe and effective across the board—when, in fact, these drugs have been killing and maiming huge numbers of people, like clockwork.

I’ve cited the review, “Is US Health Really the Best in the World?”, by Dr. Barbara Starfied (Journal of the American Medical Association, July 26, 2000), in which Starfield reveals the American medical system kills 225,000 people per year—106,000 as a direct result of pharmaceutical drugs.

I’ve now found another study, published in the same Journal, two years earlier: April 15, 1998; “Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients.” It, too, is mind-boggling.

The authors, led by Jason Lazarou, culled 39 previous studies on patients in hospitals. These patients, who received drugs in hospitals, or were admitted to hospitals because they were suffering from the drugs doctors had given them, met the following fate:

Every year, in the US, between 76,000 and 137,000 hospitalized patients die as a direct result of the drugs.

Beyond that, every year 2.2 million hospitalized patients experience serious adverse reactions to the drugs.

The authors write: “…Our study on ADRs [Adverse Drug Reactions], which excludes medication errors, had a different objective: to show that there are a large number of ADRs even when the drugs are properly prescribed and and administered.”

So this study had nothing to do with doctor errors, nurse errors, or improper combining of drugs. And it only counted people killed who were admitted to hospitals. It didn’t begin to tally all the people taking pharmaceuticals who died as consequence of the drugs, without being admitted to hospitals.

I found the link to this study at the Dr. Rath Health Foundation, in the middle of a very interesting article by Dr. Aleksandra Niedzwiecki: “Commentary on the Safety of Vitamins.”

Here are two key quotes from her article:

“In 2010, not one single person [in the US] died as a result of taking vitamins (Bronstein, et al, (2011) Clinical Toxical, 49 (10), 910-941).”

“In 2004, the deaths of 3 people [in the US] were attributed to the intake of vitamins. Of these, 2 persons were said to have died as a result of megadoses of vitamins D and E, and one person as a result of an overdose of iron and fluoride. Data from: ‘Toxic Exposure Surveillance System 2004, Annual Report, Am. Assoc. of Poison Control Centers.’”

Summing up:

No deaths from vitamins (2011), and three deaths (2004) from vitamins/iron/fluoride.

106,000 deaths every year from pharmaceutical drugs (Starfield).

Between 76,000 and 137,000 deaths from pharmaceutical drugs every year in hospitalized patients (Lazerou).

The FDA and its “quack-buster” allies go after vitamins, demean “unproven remedies,” and generally take every possible opportunity to warn people about “alternatives,” on the basis that they aren’t scientifically supported.

Meanwhile, the very drugs these mobsters are promoting, and certifying as safe and effective, are killing and maiming people at a staggering rate.

The masses are treated to non-stop PR on the glories of the US medical system.

In the Wikipedia entry, “US military casualties of war,” the grand total of all military deaths in the history of this country, starting with the Revolutionary War, is 1,312,612.

In any given 10 years of modern medical treatment? 2,250,000 deaths (Starfield).

Consider how much suppression is necessary to keep the latter number under wraps.

Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at http://www.nomorefakenews.com

Unify & Wave of Action Reinvent the Game - Culture Collective

Unify & Wave of Action Reinvent the Game - Culture Collective

It’s not quite your traditional activism, not a political, social, or spiritual movement, it is actually all of the above and that’s why it’s called Unify. It is beautiful, it is inspired, it is inviting, it is fun, and best of all it is absolutely needed more than ever on our big blue planet. This is something that a growing wave of people are beginning to wake up to everywhere.

Unify has been organizing globally synchronized moments of  prayer/meditation since September 2012, and the diverse people/movements who have been mobilizing for change covers all spectrums around theglobe. Unify organizers have been inspired and fueled by many many different movement (#OWS, #idlenomore #forwardonclimate and others) who have a deep love for justice, The Earth, and all of life. Social justice, environmental preservation, and cultural healing are all intertwined just like the eco-systems in nature.

Comprised of volunteers around the world who share this same passion for healing, Unify provides a service to these diverse movements and individuals by allowing everyone to join forces for the betterment of all. This is a little bit out of step with capitalistic principles that pit everyone against each other because it emphasizes cooperation instead competition. There is no “us vs. them” it is all on us.

There is a symbiotic relationship in the rain forests where each animal, plant, and insect plays an important part of the health of the eco-system. Galvanizing change through mutual success for each of the involved parties is what makes this movement unlike anything before it. Being of service, coming from the heart, letting love lead and using the  most advanced technologies combined with real human networks makes for a beautiful community of conscious change-makers.






















March 22 at 3pm PST all around the world people paused to meditate, pray, and  hold ceremonies to remember what is truly important, and what is at the  center of all life as we know it. WATER. This is not the beginning or the end of the movement. This is a world wide wave of action, and it will continue to ebb and flow and build and grow until humanity can restore some balance and respect for life on earth. We live within natural laws, and we must embody bio-mimicry if we want to learn how to live in a healthy way. The benefits of our current systems are being outweighed by the destruction it is causing to the very things that we hold most sacred.






















No longer can we afford to forget our connection to the future and the past, to nature, and to each other by ignoring the threads of life that connect us. The Forgotten Chapter is winding to a close and something beyond our wildest dreams is being born before us.

I’m not sure if it was Rob Brezsny or John Perry Barlow who first coined the term “Pronoia”, but in case you are having the sneaking suspicion that people are conspiring behind your back to help you out… it’s probably because they are!

How do YOU lend color to someone else’s dream? Soon we may find that we don’t have dreams but dreams have us. We are here to make the dream real for those that we love. Perhaps there is a little more to life than “working for the man” after all...

From Occupy to Unify, Anonymous to Unanimous, from coast to coast change is brewing and every one of us is part of it. Maybe it is just by sharing a link, tweeting a picture, helping a friend in need, taking a silent moment to watch the sun set, or listening to birds fill the trees with songs, we are making the connection, we are making the change. There is power in that, immense power.























We are each part of something bigger than ourselves, yet we take ourselves so seriously at times. Let’s make it beautiful, make it fun, now is our moment! May we never slumber again while the things we cherish most are being destroyed. We can not eat money and we can not drink oil, we know that there are solutions to all the problems we face. Together, as a unified force of nature, we will heal. We will bring justice and we will love life. Water sustains and supports all life, it asks for nothing in return, it wears away mountains, and flows freely becoming one with everything. Be like water my friends, be like water…

Visiting the Unify website will show you all the events planned throughout the world, “liking” sharing and tweeting posts from Unify Facebook also helps. The #lovewater event page is here.

- See more at: http://www.culturecollective.org/unify-reinvents-game-lovewater-march-22/#sthash.Du9roN0D.dpuf

It’s
not quite your traditional activism, not a political, social, or
spiritual movement, it is actually all of the above and that’s why it’s
called Unify. It
is beautiful, it is inspired, it is inviting, it is fun, and best of
all it is absolutely needed more than ever on our big blue planet. This
is something that a growing wave of people are beginning to wake up to
everywhere.


Unify has been organizing globally synchronized moments of
prayer/meditation since September 2012, and the diverse people/movements
who have been mobilizing for change covers all spectrums around the
globe. Unify organizers have been inspired and fueled by many many
different movement (#OWS, #idlenomore #forwardonclimate and others) who
have a deep love for justice, The Earth, and all of life. Social
justice, environmental preservation, and cultural healing are all
intertwined just like the eco-systems in nature.


Comprised of volunteers around the world who share this same passion
for healing, Unify provides a service to these diverse movements and
individuals by allowing everyone to join forces for the betterment of
all. This is a little bit out of step with capitalistic principles that
pit everyone against each other because it emphasizes cooperation
instead competition. There is no “us vs. them” it is all on us.


There is a symbiotic relationship in the rain forests where each
animal, plant, and insect plays an important part of the health of the
eco-system. Galvanizing change through mutual success for each of the
involved parties is what makes this movement unlike anything before it.
Being of service, coming from the heart, letting love lead and using the
most advanced technologies combined with real human networks makes for a
beautiful community of conscious change-makers.


March
22 at 3pm PST all around the world people paused to meditate, pray, and
hold ceremonies to remember what is truly important, and what is at the
center of all life as we know it. WATER. This is not the beginning or
the end of the movement. This is a world wide wave of action,
and it will continue to ebb and flow and build and grow until humanity
can restore some balance and respect for life on earth. We live within
natural laws, and we must embody bio-mimicry if we want to learn how to
live in a healthy way. The benefits of our current systems are being
outweighed by the destruction it is causing to the very things that we
hold most sacred.


No
longer can we afford to forget our connection to the future and the
past, to nature, and to each other by ignoring the threads of life that
connect us. The Forgotten Chapter is winding to a close and something beyond our wildest dreams is being born before us.


I’m not sure if it was Rob Brezsny or John Perry Barlow who first coined the term “Pronoia”,
but in case you are having the sneaking suspicion that people are
conspiring behind your back to help you out… it’s probably because they
are!


How do YOU lend color to someone else’s dream? Soon we may find that
we don’t have dreams but dreams have us. We are here to make the dream
real for those that we love. Perhaps there is a little more to life than
“working for the man” afterall…


From Occupy to Unify, Anonymous to Unanimous,
from coast to coast change is brewing and every one of us is part of
it. Maybe it is just by sharing a link, tweeting a picture, helping a
friend in need, taking a silent moment to watch the sun set, or
listening to birds fill the trees with songs, we are making the
connection, we are making the change. There is power in that, immense
power.


We
are each part of something bigger than ourselves, yet we take ourselves
so seriously at times. Let’s make it beautiful, make it fun, now is our
moment! May we never slumber again while the things we cherish most are
being destroyed. We can not eat money and we can not drink oil, we know
that there are solutions to all the problems we face. Together, as a
unified force of nature, we will heal. We will bring justice and we will
love life. Water sustains and supports all life, it asks for nothing in
return, it wears away mountains, and flows freely becoming one with
everything. Be like water my friends, be like water…


Visiting the Unify website will show you all the events planned throughout the world, “liking” sharing and tweeting posts from Unify Facebook also helps. The #lovewater event page is here.




- See more at: http://www.culturecollective.org/unify-reinvents-game-lovewater-march-22/#sthash.Du9roN0D.dpuf

Is the U.S. stock market rigged? - CBS News (YES!)

 Is the U.S. stock market rigged? - CBS News

Steve Kroft reports on a new book from Michael Lewis that reveals how some high-speed traders work the stock market to their advantage.

The following script is from "Rigged" which aired on March  30, 2014. Steve Kroft is the correspondent. Draggan Mihailovich, producer.


This month marks the fifth anniversary of the current bull market on Wall Street, making it one of the longest andstrongest in history. Yet U.S. stock ownership is at a record low and less than half of Americans trust banks and financial services. And in the last two weeks, the New York attorney general and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in Washington have both launched
investigations into high-frequency computerized stock trading that now controls more than half the market.

The probes were announced just ahead of a much anticipated book on the subject by best-selling
author Michael Lewis called "Flash Boys." In it, Lewis argues that the stock market is now rigged to benefit a group of insiders that have made tens of billions of dollars exploiting computerized trading. The story is told through an unlikely cast of characters who figured out what was going on and have devised a plan to correct it. It could have a huge impact on Wall Street. Tonight, Michael Lewis talks about it for the first time.

Steve Kroft: What's the headline here

Michael Lewis: Stock market's rigged. The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism is rigged.

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Lewis explains how the stock market is rigged

Steve Kroft: By whom?

Michael Lewis: By a combination of these stock exchanges, the big Wall Street banks and high-frequency traders.

Steve Kroft: Who are the victims?

Michael Lewis: Everybody who has an investment in the stock market.

"Stock market's rigged. The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism is rigged." 

Michael Lewis is not talking about the stock market that you see on television every day. That ceased to be the center of U.S. financial activity years ago, and exists today mostly as a photo op. This is the stock marketthat Lewis is talking about; the one where most of the trades take place now, inside hundreds of thousands of these black boxes located at morethan 60 public and private exchanges, where billions of dollars in stock change hands every day with little or no public documentation. The
trades are being made by thousands of robot computers, programmed to buy and sell every stock on the market at speeds 100 times faster than youcan blink an eye. A system so complex, it's all but invisible.

Michael Lewis: If it wasn't complicated, it wouldn't be allowed to happen. Thecomplexity disguises what is happening. If it's so complicated you can't understand it, then you can't question it.

Steve Kroft: And this is all being done by computers?

Michael Lewis: All being done by computers. It's too fast to be done by humans. Humans have been completely removed from the marketplace.

"Fast" is the operative word. Machines with secret programs are now trading stocks in tiny fractions of a second, way too fast to be seen or recorded on a stock ticker or computer screen. Faster than the market itself. High-frequency traders, big Wall Street firms and stock exchanges have spent billions to gain an advantage of a millisecond for themselves and their customers, just to get a peek at stock market prices and orders a flash before everyone else, along with the opportunity to act on it.

Michael Lewis: The insiders are able to move faster than you. They're able to see your order and play itagainst other orders in ways that you don't understand. They're able to front run your order.

Steve Kroft: What do you mean front run?

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Lewis: Rigged stock market is "bigger than a scam"

Michael Lewis: Means they're able to identify your desire to, to buy shares in Microsoft and buy 'em in front of you and sell 'em back to you at a higher price. It all happens in infinitesimally small periods of time. There's speed advantage that the faster traders have is milliseconds, some of it is fractions of milliseconds. But it''s enough for them to identify what you're gonna do and do it before you do it at your expense.

 Steve Kroft: So it drives the price up.

Michael Lewis: So it drives the price up, and in turn you pay a higher price.

"If it wasn't complicated, it wouldn't be allowed to happen. The  complexity disguises what is happening. If it's so complicated you can't understand it, then you can't question it." 

Michael Lewis is not the first person to allege the stock market is rigged or that high-frequency traders are front running the market but he was the first to find Brad Katsuyama, who is the first to figure out how it was being done.

Michael Lewis: A very unlikely character, a trader at the Royal Bank of Canada, a young Canadian man named Brad Katsuyama realized that the market that he thought he knew had changed. The market seemed to be willing to sell a stock. But the minute he went to buy it, someone else bought it, the stock went up. It was as if someone knew what he was doing before he did it.

RBC trading floor in New York City

WallStreetandTech.com

Back in 2008, Katsuyama was 30 years old and running the Royal Bank of Canada's stock desk in New York with 25 traders working for him. Every time one of them tried to buy a large block of stock for a client their order would only be partially filled and the price of the stock would go up. It kept happening over and over again.           

Brad Katsuyama: The best analogy I think is that your family wants to go to a concert. You go onto StubHub, there's four tickets all next to each other for 20 bucks each. You put in an order to buy four tickets, 20 bucks each and it says, "You've bought two tickets at 20 bucks each." And you go back
and those same two seats that are sitting there have now gone up to $25.

Steve Kroft: What'd you think the problem was?

Brad Katsuyama: I had no idea. I couldn't get answers.

At first, Katsuyama thought the technology at RBC was slow, until he went to Stamford, Conn., and paid a visit to one of the largest hedge funds in the world.

Brad Katsuyama: The same thing that I was experiencing as a trader, one of the most sophisticated hedge funds in the world was also having the same problem. Then the light bulb goes off. You say, "Holy cow, this is, this is a huge problem."

Steve Kroft: You were determined to get to the bottom of it?

Brad Katsuyama: Yeah.

Steve Kroft: Why?

Brad  Katsuyama: 'Cause it just didn't feel right. It didn't feel right that people who are investing on behalf of pension funds and retirement funds  are getting bait and switched every single day in the market.

Katsuyama suspected that the problem had something to do with plumbing, the way the trades were routed through fiber optic cables from his trading desk in lower Manhattan to the 13 public exchanges in northern New Jersey. But no one would tell him exactly what happened to his orders once he hit the buy or sell button. So he put together a team of technical experts, traders and most importantly, an Irish telecom guy named Ronan Ryan, who was an expert on high-speed fiber optic networks.

Ronan Ryan: I knew nothing about trading until my first day at RBC when I satin that three hour meeting on algorithms. I called my wife afterwards. And I'm like, "Holy crap, I have no idea what they just said."

Ryan had done work for the high-frequency traders. He knew what they were building and he knew about the colossal amounts of money they were prepared to spend. He told Brad about a company called Spread Networks that had laid a high-speed fiber optic cable from the futures market in Chicago to the exchanges in New Jersey. They spent $300 million just to shave three milliseconds off the fastest route and were leasing access to high-frequency traders at $10 million a pop.

Michael Lewis: From Brad Katsuyama's point of view, when he heard they were willing to spend that kind of money for milliseconds it told him the sums involved were vast. That was one of the first questions he said he had. He says, "All right, I'm getting ripped off. Everybody's getting ripped off. But what does it add up to?" And I think when he heard the story of Spread Networks, he realized this is tens of billions of dollars we're talking about.

Ronan Ryan also knew where all the cable was buried and had detailed maps of the fastest routes from the financial district in lower Manhattan to the various stock exchanges in New Jersey, all calculated down to the millisecond.

Ronan Ryan: So I would sit there, roll out maps, and roll out this data center as a box and a line going through it. And they had no idea what I was on about. And then I'd  be like, "Hey are you guys aware of where these data centers are located? Of course you're arriving there at different time intervals."

For Brad, the maps turned what had been an abstract idea into something he could actually see. The first place his orders were landing was the BATS Exchange across the river in Weehawken, N.J., and high-frequency traders were lying there in wait.

Michael Lewis: Brad realizes,"Oh my God, that's how I'm being front-runned. I'm being front-runned
because my signal gets to the BATS Exchange first and they can beat meto all the, all the other exchanges."

It only took a tiny fraction of a second for Brad's trade to reach the next exchanges on the network, but the high-speed traders were able to jump in front of him, buy the same stock and drive the price up before his order arrived, producing a small profit of just one or two pennies. But it was happening to everyone's trades millions of times a day.

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How ordinary investors are getting "screwed"

Ronan Ryan: That adds up.

Steve Kroft: You make it sound like a skim.

Ronan Ryan: What else would you call it?

Michael Lewis: One hedge fund manager said, "I was running a hedge fund that was $9 billion and that we figured that the, just our inability to, to make the trades the market said we should be able to make was costing us  $300 million a year." That was $300 million a year in someone else's pocket.

Steve Kroft: Is this illegal?

Michael Lewis: No. That's the thing that's so shocking about all this. It should...

Steve Kroft: Well you used the word front running. Front running's illegal.

Michael Lewis: This form of front running is legal. It's legalized frontrunning. It's crazy that it's legal for some people to get advance news on prices and what investors are doing. It's just nuts. Shouldn't
happen.

Ronan knew the only way to beat the high-frequency traders was to take away their milliseconds advantage that allowed them to sniff out slower trades and beat them to the exchange. He had an idea
how to do it.

Brad Katsuyama: And he said, "You're probably better off trying to go slower," which means send the order to the exchange located the farthest away first and send the order to the one that's located to you last. So stagger when you send them out with the goal of arriving at all places, as close to the same time as possible.

Katsuyama and his team developed software that did just that, allowing the orders of Royal Bank of Canada's customers to reach all of the exchanges at the same time, cutting the high-frequency traders out of the equation.

Brad Katsuyama: And essentially our fill rates went to 100 percent. We couldn't believe it when, when we actually figured it out.

Steve Kroft: So you beat speed by slowing it down.

Brad Katsuyama: Yeah, as crazy as that sounds. 

Katsuyama and his team went out and began selling and explaining what they had discovered to the big mutual funds, pension funds and institutional investors, people who had suspicions that they were being front-run but didn't know how.

Steve Kroft: And nobody had really bothered or tried to figure this out until Brad Katsuyama came along...

Michael Lewis: It was in nobody's interest to, correct. I spoke to dozens of investors, big investors, famous investors who, who said that, "When Brad Katsuyama came into my office and laid out to me how the market was rigged, my jaw hit the floor. I mean, I knew something was wrong. I just didn't know what it was and no one had told us."

Brad Katsuyama: Part of those meetings led us to believe, "Holy cow, this is, this is really something." 'Cause some of the most sophisticated, largest asset managers in the world, this is the first time they were hearing this story.

And some of the most famous names in the American stock market heard the pitch...

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Lewis: Investors, big and small, are "prey"

Michael Lewis: The Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Vanguard, I mean, it, one after another. He was in their offices. They said, "This man walked in. Why is he gonna know how the stock market operates?" And, and at the end of the hour they said, "Oh, my God, he understands."   Hedge fund titan David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital is one of the believers.

Steve Kroft: Was he able to show you how your orders were being front run? 

David Einhorn: Oh yeah. They had, they, they got the marker and the white board and started drawing maps and boxes, and wires and locations. And yeah, we went through it in some detail.

Steve Kroft: Did you find it interesting?

David Einhorn: It was. It was.

Clients like Einhorn encouraged Brad and his team to do something bigger. That's when Katsuyama, a conformist even by Canadian standards, decided to do something radical. In 2012, he quit his high-paying job as head trader at RBC and went off with some of his team to start their own
exchange. 

Steve Kroft: You were making good money at Royal Bank of Canada? 

Brad Katsuyama: Yeah, right. 

Steve Kroft: Millions of dollars? 

Brad Katsuyama:: Right. I guess, I guess everybody know that now? Right, yeah. 

Steve Kroft: Why did you wanna go off and walk away from that job and start a stock exchange? 

Brad  Katsuyama: Yeah, wasn't an easy conversation to have with my wife, that's for sure. It almost felt like a sense of obligation to say, "We found a problem. It's, it's affecting millions and millions of people.

People are blindly losing money they didn't even know they're entitled to. It's a hole in the bottom of the bucket.

They set out to build an exchange funded exclusively by large traditional investors. They called it IEX, the investor's exchange, and  quietly launched it in October with the support of some of the biggest layers on Wall Street. And it comes with built in speed bumps to eliminate the advantage of high-speed predators.

Michael Lewis: And the way they did it was they coiled 60 kilometers of fiber optic cable between themselves and the high-frequency traders computers. They call it the magic shoe box and it looks like it's got fishing line init. But essentially, a high-frequency trader, if he tries to react on the IEX exchange, his trade goes (makes noise) for 60 kilometers until, so he's, he's in east Jesus.

Steve Kroft: So it gets there the same time as everybody else.

Michael Lewis: It gets there same time as everybody else's.

Steve Kroft: Do you think they can game you?

Ronan Ryan: I think that they'll try to game us. I think the fact, though, that we've gone and met with the majority of the biggest high-frequency firms to explain what the magic shoebox is doing and that people haven'tsaid, "Oh that's rubbish. That won't work." We've had many ask us for a backdoor, to be honest. So that says something that it'll work.  The exchange is off to a strong start, although it is still very small with  lots of powerful enemies that like the status quo and are trying to starve IEX by discouraging customers from using them.  Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn is one of the investors.

Steve Kroft: Do you think IEX will survive?

David Einhorn: I think it's gonna succeed. I think it's gonna succeed in a very big way.

Just last week, IEX received a strong endorsement from Goldman Sachs, whose
top executives cited it as a model for a more stable and less
complicated stock market.

Brad Katsuyama: We're selling trust. We're selling transparency. And, and, and to think that trust is
actually a differentiator in a service business, it's kind of a crazy thought, right?

Michael Lewis: Why is this kid, why is he able to all of a sudden sit at the center of the American stock market? And the answer is, when someone walks in the door who is actually trustworthy,
he has enormous power. And this is the story, story of trying to restore trust to the financial markets.               

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Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire - CBS News

Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire - CBS News

So many children dream of fast cars and rocket ships, but few actually grow up to build them -- and change the world in the process.

The following script is from "Fast Cars and Rocket Ships"  which aired on March 30, 2014. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Harry Radliffe, producer..

Comparing the Tesla Model S to other cars is like comparing an iPhone to a desk phone. It is a technological marvel that scorches the pavement -- zero to 60 in four seconds. Tesla is another revolutionary idea from the mind of Elon Musk -- a 42-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur who built an industrial empire from the stuff of little boy dreams: fast cars and rocket ships. Musk is an idealist who told us he had to start his companies so that man could colonize Mars and save the Earth. His sister says it's like her brother traveled into the future and came back to tell us all about it. So what is the future like?

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Longer range for the Tesla Model S?

Apparently it's fast and smoke-free. The Tesla Model S is powered by 7,000 battery cells linked to an electric motor. No engine, no transmission, no tailpipe. As this company video shows, the dash is dominated by a computer that's constantly connected to the Internet. It has a fanatical following. There's a waiting list that Elon Musk is trying to shorten building 600 Model S's a week in this high-tech plant in Northern California.

Scott Pelley: I have heard a lot of people describe you.

Elon Musk: Okay, good, I mean, hopefully-- on-- on balance, hopefully, mostly good.

Scott Pelley: How do you describe yourself?

Elon Musk: I usually describe myself as an engineer that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid. I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it and you're like, "Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?"

How is it possible that Elon Musk could launch two impossible businesses -- SpaceX, a builder of rocket ships and Tesla which could be the first successful car company startup in America in 90 years.

Scott Pelley: How did you figure you were going to start a car company and be successful at it?

Elon Musk: Well, I didn't really think Tesla would be successful. I thought we would most likely fail. But I thought that we at least could address the false perception that people have that an electric car had to be ugly and slow and boring like a golf cart.

Scott Pelley: But you say you didn't expect the company to be successful? Then why try?

Elon Musk: If something's important enough you should try. Even if you -- the probable outcome is failure.

What's important to Musk is reducing greenhouse gases which he believes threaten the world. The Tesla will go about 250 miles on a charge. And Musk is building a network of charging stations where the driver pays nothing for a fill up. He hopes to make the stations largely solar powered one day.

Elon Musk: You can drive for free, forever, on pure sunlight. That's the, you know, message we're trying to convey. So even if, like, there's a zombie apocalypse and the grid breaks down, you'll still be able to charge your car.

Scott Pelley: So there's a zombie apocalypse warranty?

Elon Musk: Yes, exactly.

"Well, I didn't really think Tesla would be successful. I thought we would  most likely fail. But I thought that we at least could address the false perception that people have that an electric car had to be ugly and slow and boring like a golf cart." 

 

And, if you're running from zombies, it's good to know the Model S won the highest quality rating in
the history of consumer reports and has the government's highest safety rating.

Musk may be changing the car the way Steve Jobs changed the phone. Like Jobs he's a perfectionist in the art of engineering. His goal wasn't to show a profit but to reveal the possibilities. It is a desire to discover that's also behind Musk's other line of vehicles.

Only four entities have launched a space capsule into orbit and successfully brought it back: the United States, Russia, China and Elon Musk. This Buck Rogers dream started years ago when he had a nutty idea to fly an experimental greenhouse to Mars. But he couldn't. He discovered that the price of rockets was astronomical.

So now he builds his own.

Elon Musk: I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

Scott Pelley: What did they tell you?

Elon Musk: One good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made me watch those. He just didn't want me to lose all my money.

He never did launch that greenhouse but nowMusk is lofting commercial satellites and flying cargo to the space station for NASA at a fraction of the former cost.

SpaceX rocket launch

Musk's fascination with technology dates to his childhood in South Africa.

Maye Musk: He just found everything interesting. He wanted to explore everything. He knocked histeeth out 'cause he was just falling off stuff. Kimbal too, actually. Yeah.

We spoke with his mother Maye, sister Tosca and brother Kimbal.

Kimbal Musk: He's a guy with unlimited ambition.

Scott Pelley: Ambition to do what?

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Elon Musk on his family history

Kimbal Musk: Not a typical type of ambition. It's more he just needs to be constantly-- his mind just needs to be constantly fulfilled. And the problems that he takes on therefore need to become more and more complex over time in order to keep him interested.

He was interested in computers early. At the age of 12 he wrote the software for a video game and sold it. Against his parent's wishes he set his sights on the software capitol of the world.

Elon Musk: It seemed like the vast majority of such things came from the United States. I also, like, read a lot of comic books-- and they all seemed to be set in the United States. So it's like, "Well, this is a good place-- this is where-- I gotta go to this place."

He earned degrees in business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania and asked his brother to join him in California.

Kimbal Musk: When we moved to Silicon Valley we had nothing. So we actually lived in the office. And we would sleep on the floor in the evening and go shower at the YMCA the next morning. And then we would be ready to go before some of our employees would arrive, so they wouldn't think we were actually sleeping in the office.

In that office, Musk invented a program that gave step by step directions between addresses. That's common today in cars and phones but in 1995 it was magic. In four years he made $22 million.

Scott Pelley: Only in America.

Elon Musk: Right, only in America. Absolutely.

Next, he started an online banking firm that he grew into PayPal, a system for making purchases on the Internet.

Scott Pelley: And you sold PayPal to eBay for what?

Elon Musk: It was about $1.5 billion. So that-- that was-- it was a good outcome.

Scott Pelley: A good outcome?

Elon Musk: Yes.

His share was $180 million and he bet it all on Tesla and SpaceX. But at the age of 37, he hit rock bottom. His first rockets failed to reach orbit, and an early model Tesla roadster had quality problems.

Scott Pelley: In 2008, the rocket company is not going well, you've had three failures.

Elon Musk: Right.

Scott Pelley: The car company is hemorrhaging money--

Elon Musk: Yeah.

Scott Pelley: and the American economy has tanked in the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Elon Musk: Right.

Scott Pelley: What was that year like for you?

Elon Musk: And I'm getting divorced, by the way, add to that. That was definitely the worst year of my life.

That terrible year was captured in a documentary called "Revenge of the Electric Car." His plant was filled with flawed cars that couldn't be delivered.

["Revenge of the Electric Car:" Holy mackerel. Jesus! We have like an army of cars here. Like, Jesus! This is frightening. It's really pedal to the metal here. I mean, each month that passes is literally costs us tens of million of dollars we need to appreciate that.]

To save Tesla, Musk needed millions more from investors. His fortune was gone.

Elon Musk: When we'd call people and say, "Hey, would you like to invest?," they'd be angry that we just called. That it's like-- it's not like no-- no and-- no and-- you know, various expletives.

Scott Pelley: He was essentially broke.

Kimbal Musk: Oh yeah. In debt. More than broke.

Scott Pelley: More than broke.

Kimbal Musk: Yeah.

Elon Musk: I remember waking up the Sunday before Christmas in 2008, and thinking to myself, "Man, I never thought I was someone who could ever be capable of a nervous breakdown," but I felt, "This is the closest I've ever come." 'Cause it-- it seemed pretty-- pretty dark.

Toward the end of 2008, SpaceX prepared its fourth attempt.

Elon Musk: We were running on fumes at that point we had virtually no money.

Scott Pelley: So a fourth failure?

Elon Musk: A fourth failure would have been absolutely game over.

Scott Pelley: Done.

Elon Musk: Done.

Scott Pelley: SpaceX bankrupt...

Elon Musk: Yeah. It's bad enough to have three strikes, having four strikes is really kaput.

"I remember waking up the Sunday before Christmas in 2008, and thinking to myself, 'Man, Inever thought I was someone who could ever be capable  of a nervous breakdown,' but I felt, 'This is the closest I've ever  come.'"  

 

But flight four was flawless and in Musk's world, it lit the darkness.

Then, as often, the week of Christmas became a time when little boy dreams are answered.

Elon Musk: NASA called and told us that we'd won a $1.5 billion contract. And I couldn't even hold the phone, I just blurted out, "I love you guys."

Scott Pelley: They saved you.

Elon Musk: Yeah, they did.

Scott Pelley: Financially and maybe even emotionally.

Elon Musk: Well, I'll tell you that was, that was definitely helpful, yeah.

Two days later, on Christmas Eve, Tesla's investors decided to pour in more money.

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Musk on the loans critical to Tesla's survival

Scott Pelley: So you were saved in the period of three days by two completely unexpected events.

Elon Musk: Yeah.

Scott Pelley: Merry Christmas.

Elon Musk: Yeah, absolutely. That's for sure.

The rockets haven't failed since. His cargo capsule has docked three times with the space station. And in the California plant they're fitting seats for what they hope will be eventual manned missions. SpaceX is also testing a rocket that can be reused, softly landing on a column of flame. Another step on a longer journey.

Elon Musk: I'd love to have SpaceX be the company that brings humanity to Mars and I hope I see it while I'm still alive.

He's at SpaceX three days a week, two days at Tesla and weekends are at home with his five sons from his first marriage and his second wife Talulah whom he met in london.

Talulah Riley: It all happened very fast. We were-- we were engaged after, I think, sorta two-- two weeks of knowing each other. And I was 22 and it was-- there were all these boys. And it was-- which was the best part. And-- it was-- it was fast. And then we were in it.

Scott Pelley: You knew each other two weeks before you got engaged?

Talulah Riley: Something like that--

Scott Pelley: What was so attractive?

Talulah Riley: Well, he was very charming and definitely the most interesting and eccentric person I have ever met.

Tesla stock has rocketed up nearly 500 percent but that's not based on thecars he's selling -- that price is counting on the hope that Tesla will create an electric car at one-third the cost of the Model S which runs about $100,000. This is what stands in the way. This slab covered in plastic is the battery.

Scott Pelley: So this is essentiallythe bottom of the car. The front wheels would be there, the rear wheels would be right here. It fills up the entire bottom of the car.

Elon Musk: That's right.

This is how it fits into the bottom of the chassis. Trouble is the battery'sso expensive musk can't build a $35,000 car with acceptable range. To make Tesla successful, he must reinvent battery manufacturing. Musk has just announced a $5 billion factory to be built in the U.S. which, he says,  will make more lithium ion batteries than all the other plants on earth combined.

Gambles like that have led a lot of people on Wall Street to bet against him--taking investment positions that count on Tesla stock to fail. But so far, those pessimistic investors have lost a lot of money.

Scott Pelley: What is it about you that seems to invite skepticism?

Elon Musk: Well, I think it's because we're doing these things that seem unlikely to succeed. And we've been fortunate, and at least thus far, have succeeded.

Additional footage courtesy: "Revenge of the Electric Car," 2011

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So you say you’re not one of us, you don’t belong here?

[Original Post on March 27, 2014]

First of all, we all came from somewhere else, many different places, so to say “I am not of your kind.” actually means you are very much like the rest of us! We all feel like a stranger in a strange land sometimes.  I have never fit in. You simply sound exhausted, and possibly depressed. You ARE one of us or you would not have found your way here.

When we are exhausted, everything looks bleaker than it normally does, especially if you take the mundane world at face value. It is easier to become overwhelmed or apathetic. Remember the metaphor “The darkest hour is just before the dawn”?  Quite true. I struggled with depression for decades.  Seldom any more, although I do get caught up in the fear/survival thing. So hang in there!  The Universe knows Right Timing for events, and we are being flooded with love and light energies to assist us in coping and healing. Better days are ahead. Believe.

I go through this no-sleep thing several times a week, too. I can tell you one thing I do when I can is go outside to get moving in nature when energy level and weather permits, because I do sit too much at the computer when on call for work. I also will stop during my trek to just -be- in nature some place quiet, maybe by water. It is quite healing.  If you go for a walk/hike/bike ride -anything physical that will connect you to nature, you will de-stress and sleep better.  You know why they say “sleep on it”? Because in the light of day, we gain fresh perspective. Although I do like the wee hours when the city is quiet.  Herbal capsules that contain Valerian can help with muscle tension, Chamomile, Wild Oats, St. John’s Wort are calming and Melissa (Lemon Balm) quiets “mind chatter” if thinking keeps you awake. I also sometimes listen to guided meditation podcasts for healing (including healing things like psychic attack) as I end up falling asleep, but we get the benefits of the meditation on a subconscious level.

Yes, I also feel RAGE and ANGER at the Cabal, among others, and want to throttle certain individuals at times…but that would serve no one. The paradigm that is dying wants to perpetuate war in the name of peace, and they love to stir these feelings up in people.  Doing something physical and harmless is the best way to transmute those energies. Women know this, this is sometimes what fuels a cleaning spree!  Women and men run or play sports for the same reason..it’s a healthy outlet. Or punch a pillow. Shut yourself in a room and rip up an old telephone book (if you can find one), all the while yelling at everyone and everything that is angering you. I’ve done this, both alone and in a meditation class where we all ended up in such a rage we were in tears! THE PURPOSE IS TO MOVE THAT ENERGY OUT! I’ve also taken 6 flats of eggs out in nature and thrown them at a tree, each one a person or situation that enraged me. You need to get that out in a healthy manner. (thank the tree, the wild animals can enjoy the eggs). I guarantee you will feel shifted.

Also, don’t underestimate the healing power of play. Even if it is playing with a pet (they love unconditionally and are easier to deal with than most people!). Or go on a Carousel ride, or take a commuter ferry to get some fresh air. Go out dancing. There are plenty of ways to have fun, alone or with others. Having fun will relax us, help us to see the big picture, and gain perspective.

Embrace the new paradigm. You have free will, and now you think you won’t want to stick around, but things are always in flux, so you may feel differently when the time comes.  When I feel ready to give up, I remind myself what an honor it is to be alive, to be here to participate and help usher in vast planetary change. Like the firefighters who died yesterday in my city, the good souls of the RM work tirelessly behind the scenes, risking all for the good of humanity.   Having endured pain, hardship, loneliness, I certainly want to be here to celebrate! I earned it!  Do not worry if all you can do is wish the RV well. I haven’t even made it to the weekly meditations because I am usually working on Sundays and/or I forget. Your presence is what matters.  Never try to give more than you can. You are enough as you are. You matter. All of us matter.  We are all part of the web of life.
The best way to get outside of yourself and your woes is to count your blessings. Literally, make a list. All the dark things we mention in these threads, in these kinds of websites, it is not about dwelling in the dark, it is about exposing the dark to the Light so that it can be transmuted. The dark deeds are hard to fathom, but people need to know what’s at stake. Light is Information; Information is Knowledge; Knowledge is Power. By popular demand, Power is shifting back to We the People of the United Planet of Gaia. And so, It IS. People have the Power, and have had it all along. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, we just didn’t know it. But the time is NOW.

In Lakech (I am another Yourself)
Phoenix, Red Lunar Serpent
Forever Unlimited

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My response to the article “Data Mining Reveals How Conspiracy Theories Emerge on Facebook”

[Original Post on March 20, 2014]

[During his run for President, his man lied every chance he got, 

and social media spread his lies like wildfire.]

The article: 

Data Mining Reveals How Conspiracy Theories Emerge on Facebook

My response:

Great article.  I do know for a fact that some of the things I once believed turned out not to be true, but were certainly plausible, considering the extenuating circumstances. Similarly, as mentioned in the article, I believe some conspiracy theories “may well be truths that have been deliberately suppressed by higher powers such as governments, corporations and so on.” Yet we seem to have a media blackout in the US, where certain types of news stories are seldom if ever headline mainstream news, and can only be found on line. Meanwhile those same stories are being broadcast in mainstream news in other countries. Or maybe my whole perspective is a conspiracy theory.

More likely we are bombarded with a constant and confusing array of “news” or at least information that is “disinformation”, which is not flat-out lies but truths artfully blended with a generous smattering of lies, leaving one perplexed, unable to detect truth or b.s. because our inner compass detects both. Plus we tend to want to believe what supports our own version of the “truth”.

Fortunately I don’t get my conspiracy theory items from FB, as I have trusted sources I am more comfortable with, or I  try to flush out the original source, if I can, and see if it resonates with me. I’m also not out to debate theories, I simply offer information to be considered with an open mind. And an open mind generally will adapt its perspective when new reliable information comes to light. (Ah, but who determines what is reliable? It is all subjective, this “reality” that brings no consensus). I think the only thing we know for sure is that none of us know it all.

I’m hoping that when we cross over, we will finally have all our unanswered questions resolved. I, for one, am dying to know where all those dryer socks end up! ;-)

SOME THOUGHTS ON DISCERNMENT and shifting perceptions this week.

[Original Post March 14, 2014]

When I am feeling out of balance, I think too much, and it affects my ability to discern. Over-stimulation, stress, worry, distraction, trying to “figure it all out” -the 3-D constraints I feel that drain my life force energy. On some days I needed a long nap. Listening to the body is key, not the head saying what we “should” be doing.

On other days I needed to push myself just a bit to get out. Time in nature is helpful, but also moving the physical body…it can energize me. We’ve had a cold winter, but I make myself get out anyway, and I never regret it. I saw the most incredible brilliant rainbow clouds this week, and others the next day. Is the sky changing, or is my perception expanding?  So much information, some of it overwhelms the senses. I love my distractions, too. But reading about the strangelet bomb was too distressing. Pleiadians are no strangers to me, though I’ve had no recent connection. 

Nature. Moving. Even if I have to push myself. Needing work and when it is offered, resisting. Going anyway. Feeling shifted, energized, healed by the unexpected connections with clients. I connect easily with people when in balance, but dealing with public transit can bring out my surly side. I am sensitive to environments and being around people, yet at home on a crowded dance floor. Go figure! (Aren’t we supposed to have little mini “Jetsons”-type hovercraft by now?)

Everything I have been reading this week, and everyone I’ve met has been reflecting to me the importance of being in our hearts, in order to discern and to manifest. I found both the articles and the people I met served as catalysts for my introspection. Suddenly things shifted for me, my desires came easily, and I was gifted with a small succession of opportunities, advice, and abundance in many forms, which both amused me and brought me joy!

I’ve been having meaningful, heart-centered conversations with people I just met. People I didn’t know are also thinking about many of the things I think about. Realizing we have so much in common with people who are seemingly very different than we are, on the surface. In general, it is clear to me that people are waking up. What we have in common with one another is our humanity. How can we expect to join Galactic community if we can’t transcend our own borders? Our judgments?

The plane that is missing…my gut feeling was that it had not crashed…that it went somewhere…. else. I was elated at the thought! They are alive and well!  Is this wishful thinking, or intuition? Time will tell. “Evidence” can be contrived and distorted to fit the agenda. 9/11 taught us that, if nothing else. Either there is a cover-up, or they really don’t know where it is or what happened to the plane. Now that my initial enthusiasm has waned, something feels a bit off. But things will come to light in due time.

In general, I am learning to let go more of my need to control, and my need to know. Many of you seem to think you are on a need-to-know basis with COBRA.  I trust his discernment is more developed than my own about his affairs and objectives.  I don’t think he owes us any explanation, but I do think we owe him more respect and gratitude for what he is able to share.  It is the head that will make us crazy with such thoughts. But it is the heart that will lead us to the answers we are ready for, or to right timing, so that the answers present themselves to us as synchronous clues, until we have our “Aha!” moment.

I have been feeling waves of gentle, loving emotion today…appreciating people for who they are, including myself.The time is short, but malleable. There is no death. All things simply change form, and we are in process with that, together. I cycle from night owl to daytime coffee achiever every few days, partly due to work being mostly at either end of the day, or both. But partly because once rested, I prefer the quiet and the starry night. It helps me tune in to what matters. Think less, feel more, move and care for your body. All is well, my friends.

Love and Light –not for sale, but free for the asking. 

So remember to ask, invoke, co-create! Blessings Abound! And So, It Is.

Phoenix

A response to:

Quarantine Earth Endgame