Monday, July 30, 2018

Kelly M. Beard: Weekly Forecast: July 29 – August 4, 2018

Weekly Forecast: July 29 – August 4, 2018

8/1 ~ Mars Rx (action) ~square~ Uranus (freedom):    (2 of 3:  5/16 ~ 8/1 ~ 9/18)
This is the "Rebel" energy - what's your "cause"? If you are clear about your own authentic Truth & Purpose, then this energy is refreshing and uplifting. You acknowledge that change is necessary (and inevitable) and you co-create with this energy to transform your current life. This is a rebirth energy too and being "reborn" is never easy. Worth it - but not easy. However, if you are NOT clear about who you are and what you're capable of, this energy shines a light on that aspect of your life which you instinctively already know needs an overhaul but for whatever reason you are still holding on to the old habits/patterns. Unwilling or unable to embrace change at this time, you only increase the feeling of being restricted by external energies. Your life is a direct reflection of what's going on inside you. How's it lookin'? Check your ego, recommit to your Truth and remember that change is GOOD! And if you don't go voluntarily (read: consciously), then you'll get dragged to the new level, kicking and screaming and you'll be so exhausted when you get there that you may miss the beauty in evolving to the next level. (This IS what you've been working toward, correct?) Remember, conscious, effective action creates freedom.

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The Karmic Tools Weekly Forecast covers the current planetary transits which affect people in different ways and to various degrees of intensity. Take notice when it is a Personal planet (Sun / Moon / Mercury / Venus / Mars) interacting with a Social (Jupiter/Saturn) or Collective planet (Uranus / Neptune/Pluto). And pay extremely close attention when it is a Social planet interacting with a Collective planet because that means something *big* is brewing that will move large groups of people along their evolutionary paths. Tuning in to the energy and rhythm of the planets can serve as a useful *guide* as you move along your Individual Path. It also helps to understand your place within the context of the larger Social & Collective Story. Below, you will find out how these energies tend to manifest, as well as guidance and direction.


*NOTE*  There are some days when there are NO CONTACTS (besides the Moon), please note that there are no missing entries, we just list the actual Activations of each week + the day they happen.



NorthPoint Journal: Your guide to planetary energies for July 30 to August 5, 2018 By Pam Younghans

Total Lunar Eclipse on July 27, 2018, as seen from Warsaw, Poland (by Barbara Grudzinska, posted on Spaceweather.com)


Aspects of Note this Week
MON: Sun semisquare Venus
TUE: Jupiter sextile Ceres
WED: Mar square Uranus 
FRI: Mars sextile Chiron
SAT: Last Quarter Moon 11:17am PDT (6:17pm GMT), Mercury quincunx Pluto
SUN: Neptune opposite Ceres

THE TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE is behind us now, but only on the calendar. We continue to ride the energy wave created by the event, and even experience what may feel like a second crest this coming week, when the Mars-Uranus square occurs.


The influence of this square aspect has been building over the past week or more. Its energies were also tightly woven into the tapestry of the eclipse itself, since the Moon was closely aligned with Mars and square Uranus at the time. On Wednesday of this week, Mars and Uranus are exactly 90 degrees apart, and the effects of the square aspect are at their strongest. 


MARS AND URANUS are facing off three times this year, due to Mars going retrograde. This week's event is the second of the series; the two planets were in square aspect for the first time in mid May, and the last time will be in mid September. 


This week's square may be the most potent of the three. Mars is very close to the Earth and is out of bounds, adding to its impact on our lives. And, Uranus is also very strong, moving in slow motion as it gets ready to go retrograde (backward) on August 7.


WHAT CAN WE EXPECT when Mars and Uranus confront each other? With Uranus, the standard advice is "expect the unexpected." As the god of chaos, Uranus moves suddenly and often erratically. Mars, the god of war, represents action and aggression. The two together can be impulsive and forceful -- and they can also initiate changes that have longer-term consequences.


With Uranus currently in Taurus (which rules nature and the environment), there is a higher risk of earthquakes, wildfires, volcanoes, and other shake-ups in our physical world. Looking back to May to see what occurred then, one of the events that closely related to the Mars-Uranus effect was the beginning of the current volcanic eruption phase at Mt. Kilauea.


Mid May was also when the U.S. embassy opened in Jerusalem. We can see warrior Mars' fiery influence in the conflicts that resulted from that move.


SUFFICE TO SAY, this is not likely to be a quiet week! But we also want to look at higher purposes, because to consider only the physical manifestations misses much of the point.


Mars represents the masculine principles of action, assertiveness, and courage. Humanity is in a sharp learning curve with regards to how we use these qualities. Historically -- and currently -- we see that assertiveness can too easily deteriorate into aggression, and force can become our default mode instead of being the last implement we choose from our tool box.


AS INDIVIDUALS, we want to watch our own volatility this week. What pushes our buttons, and why? Are we choosing to express anger appropriately, or are we over-reacting?


And what are the fears and insecurities that are at the root of the over-reaction? It is true more often than not that those visceral aggressive emotions stem from deeper levels of our psyches that are in need of healing.


And with Mars retrograde right now, this is the perfect time to go within and do that restorative work. If we do, the surprise that comes with the Mars-Uranus square may very well be our own liberation from the fears that have been pulling our chains.


AS WE PONDER what may unfold in the coming days, we can't discount that Uranus has a reputation as the god of chaos. But we would be remiss if we didn't also acknowledge that Uranus is a transpersonal planet, representing higher consciousness and our capacity for accessing the Divine Mind. The planet’s intention, therefore, is always to expand our understanding of how the universe works, and to move us beyond a purely personally-oriented view of reality.


Astrologer Liz Greene writes that:


"Uranus embodies our need to see beyond disparate events and objects, and glimpse the workings of the greater whole of which we are a part. Uranus also reflects our urge to transcend personal feelings in order to understand the overall pattern of our lives. The need for an objective perspective of life exists in all of us. Discovering such a perspective, especially at critical junctures in life, can be as nourishing as food. Without it, we stumble through life blind and fearful, unable to understand the deeper thread of meaning that links our life experiences."


SOMETIMES, life throws us a monkey wrench when we thought we needed (and had requested) a hammer. But as we stand with that wrench in our hands, do we become angry and curse the heavens? That's one way of reacting to the Mars-Uranus square. And we might need to express those feelings first, to clear the way for what lies beyond them.


But to throw the wrench away in frustration means we miss an opportunity. It may be exactly the right tool, even if we cannot yet see how it will be helpful. From a higher-consciousness perspective, all things that occur have a purpose – it’s just that from a rational-mind level, we may not see it right away.


If you're like me, you can look back on your life and see how events that seemed disruptive at the time actually shifted your life in important, necessary, and ultimately positive ways. It is this kind of hindsight -- and higher perspective -- that we need to remember whenever Uranus comes to call, and especially in these current times.


THIS WEEK? Be flexible when circumstances shift unexpectedly. Stay cool when things heat up. Hold your center of gravity if the world seems to be tilting sideways. Breathe deeply to release the physical, mental, and emotional stress of continuing changes.


Keep your eyes trained on the mountaintop, and your attention grounded in the core of your divine nature. The world needs those who are able to reside in the higher perspective, especially during times of great uncertainty.


LAST CHANCE to purchase the replay of my recent webinar! "Entering the Chasm" aired on July 12, but was recorded for replay. The class offers insights into what we can expect now through the end of 2018, and gives suggestions on how to work with the planetary influences that will be in effect.


If you are interested in learning more, please send an email with "Webinar Replay" in the subject line to pam@northpointastrology.com. I'll reply with details on how to purchase the video and slideshow.


IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS THIS WEEK: Flexibility is key this year, Leo. Circumstances may be changing, but you have within you the creative wisdom and the confidence you need to navigate your world successfully. Your heart will guide you to right decisions, once you clear away the anger and frustration. But this time represents a training of your mind as well as your heart. In all situations, center and clear yourself before you speak, so that your words convey your truth simply and efficiently.



In light,

Pam


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Welcome to Noos-letter 104 2018 Magnetic Bat Moon Edition | Foundation for the Law of Time

Welcome to Noos-letter 104

2018 Magnetic Bat Moon Edition


Welcome to the Magnetic Moon of Purpose, the first moon of the Planetary Service Wavespell.  We have now entered the powerful year of the Red Cosmic Moon. This is the Year of the Great Purification.

The affirmation of this year is:
I endure in order to purify
Transcending flow

I seal the matrix of universal water
With the cosmic tone of presence
I am guided by the power of space
 
In this first moon we set our intention for the next 13 moons. How can we best serve humanity and our planet during this time of tremendous change?  
 
The Red Cosmic Moon opens the Sixth Light Gate that activates the interdimensional bridge of Timeship Earth and enters us into New Sirius Cycle 31 (1.31).
 
Moon energy corresponds with galactic/karmic Mercury with the qualities of purification and love. Purification is defined by “the removal of contaminants from something”, and the process of making something “spiritually or ceremonially clean.” 
 
The kin number for Red Cosmic Moon is 169 (13 x 13), and this year is guided by Kin 13: Red Cosmic Moon, which also codes the Day out of Time 2019.  Thirteen is of key significance this year and corresponds to the return of the feminine power with its nurturing and receptive powers.
 
The Dog or Compassionate One is our supporting energy of this year infusing the purification process with love. The guiding mechanism of a pure heart operating by synchronicity and telepathy attunes us to the magnetic core of Earth. 
 
Everything that grows, appears, moves and transforms within the Earth’s biosphere does so by attunement to the Earth’s core. Fear and clinging to the third dimension cuts us off from accessing this core. 
 
According to the Law of Time all human difficulty and environmental degradation is rooted in the unnatural 12:60 timing frequency. Everything in nature is based on a timing frequency. Timing frequencies predate and actually govern the rise of human culture and civilization. 
 
This 12:60 frequency is based on a 12 month calendar, 60 minute hour. Following this 12:60 frequency humans have created an artificial civilization with materialism and war at the forefront. Just because technology is advancing doesn’t mean consciousness is. 
 
“The 12:60 timing frequency has hardly been questioned much less thought about. Following 12:60 so religiously has led to a world of total entropic materialism, of endless growth and proliferating problems with no solutions. The 12:60 has covered up as much as it has created. Everything covered up leaks through, whether it is telepathy and synchronicity or galactic beams and inexplicable cosmic or subatomic phenomena.” —Jose Arguelles/Valum Votan
 
Pay special attention to events leading up to and after the following dates: Resonant Moon 12, Yellow Planetary Star (21 January 2019), which is the full lunar eclipse and Supermoon on the eve of the 11th spin since Valum Votan's passing. Cosmic Moon 6, Red Lunar Serpent (2 July 2019), the only full solar eclipse of the Cosmic Moon year.
 
This year offers us the opportunity to purify aeons of ignorance, inertia and toxins in order to allow new streams of pure water (of consciousness) to flow. The archetype this year is the Cosmic Healer with the symbol of Universal Water. 
 
I am the Healer
Coded by the Red Moon
My number is nine
The power of time, destiny and the cycles of life
From within the living waters
I merge with the universal flow
Purifying all within my sacred stream
And lifting the vibration in every nature kingdom
I am the harmony of wholeness
And the regeneration of life
I am fluid and flowing
At one with the phases of the Moon
I am the queen of life-nurturing water
I am the rain and the stream as it flows
Feeding the plants and the flowering herbs
In my sacred stream lies the kinship of all
I am crowned by the restorative splendor of leaves, roots, seeds and flowers
The supremacy of divine mind
To know me and my endless powers of healing
Is to cast aside all doubt and enter the stream of the faithful ones
 


See the rest here:
https://mailchi.mp/lawoftime/noosletter104?e=ad0a1a1cee


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Tania Gabrielle: Weekly Astrology Numerology Forecast July 30 - Aug 5: New Beginnings, Breaking Free

Weekly Astrology Numerology Forecast July 30 - Aug 5: New Beginnings, Breaking Free

Published on Jul 28, 2018
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Tania Gabrielle: Astro-Numerology Insights: Jupiter brings July to a spectacular close!

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The big full moon eclipse is over…

(There's one more eclipse - the third of three in this cycle - on August 11.)
Meanwhile, we continue to be blessed by several wonderful events in the cosmic code, to help us assimilate internal shifts.
Our next celebration takes place in just hours - on the final day of July.
July's 18/9 Universal Month number (in 2018) - has been encouraging major release to help us move on from what’s not working.

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Fresh new pathways and solutions are being uncovered and discovered every day.
July 31 has the Moon joining with Neptune (in its own sign of Pisces) which activates the highly fortunate TRINE between Jupiter and Neptune!
This beautiful Jupiter/Neptune trine will culminate in mid August for the third and final timeso the positive momentum is very strong in the next weeks.
[Notice how the third of three Eclipses and the third of three Trines between Jupiter and Neptune happen within a week of each other! 3 is the number of creation and the TRINE itself represents the number 3!]
Neptune trine Jupiter is a tremendous Positivity enhancer:
  • Neptune increases – takes spiritual energy into infinity!
  • Jupiter expands joy and embraces every opportunity!

Jupiter trine Neptune evolves you energetically, as you synchronize with only ONE possibility – Positive Outcomes!
  • JUPITER helps you place total TRUST in your intuition – synchronizing your Soul’s pulse with Spirit.
  • NEPTUNE enhances everlasting love – helping you to access infinite wisdom from ONE Source.

So, as the Moon comes around one final time on Tuesday to join with Neptune - ruling planet of the Piscean age - we are blessing our past, acknowledging our spiritual growth, and getting ready to merge with sublime love.
If Jupiter and Neptune joining forces at this magical moment teaches us anything, it is…
To LOVE and to SMILE more.
  • Love expresses the intelligence of the heart ,and your smile happily shares the limitless bounty found within your Soul.


Welcome this intensification of Neptune trine Jupiter over the next weeks as a Blessing from the Cosmos.

Notice new decisions you’re making that bring you Peace (Neptune) and Bliss (Jupiter).
Notice how all of the following experiences are accessible to you in an INSTANT:
  • Love, forgiveness, laughter, listening, upliftment, inspiration

You’re accessing the greatest resource library you have… it's your "instant access" to Source!
Jupiter trine Neptune expands your intuition.
Jupiter trine Neptune ignites your Psychic Awakening!
You're only a moment away from liberation.
Pay close attention to your intuition – always. Never neglect your greatest resource.
Then act on what you intuit.
Start by tapping into what makes you feel good!
Just like Jupiter!
Jupiter plays a special role in our life. In every person's astrology birth chart Jupiter signifies how you are designed to magnify abundance.
At the moment you were born Jupiter was in one of 12 signs and in one of 12 houses in your natal chart. The precise Jupiter code in your birth chart reveals how you naturally attract happiness, wealth and fulfillment.
In fact, you have 3 Jupiter Wealth zones in your birth code.
These 3 Jupiter zones describe your personal wealth code (including how you may be repelling abundance - super important!).

Love and Infinite Blessings,
Tania Gabrielle

Q Anon July 28 - Something Big is About to Drop | Praying Medic

Praying Medic @prayingmedic is another great and well-respected Q Analysis person I like, whose clear perspective easily connects dots that are not always obvious until pointed out. I think his theories are quite plausible as well.  You can follow along with most of the Q posts here: https://qanon.pub/  ~PB


Q Anon July 28 - Something Big is About to Drop


Published on Jul 28, 2018
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Q anon covers a wide range of topics including the drama in Congress over Rod Rosenstein, the financial woes of Facebook and Twitter and a hint that the Whidbey Island missile launch may be reappearing in the news.


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Do We Care About the Truth? #Unity4J



Do We Care About the Truth? #Unity4J


Published on Jul 28, 2018
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Narrated by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, this video by #Unity4J ‘Non-Violent Digital Army’ in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks is a call to action to join in the fight to protect Julian Assange.


By creating an intermediary system for whistleblowers, Wikileaks has been able to expose war crimes, governments abuse of power, mass surveillance, and the vast erosion and undermining of our freedoms.


United in truth, they cannot silence us nor stop us. Please join the #Unity4J movement has launched a non-violent digital army of thousands of Julian Assange supporters, actively collaborating to achieve his freedom.


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How WikiLeaks became a political Rorschach test | Crikey


How WikiLeaks became a political Rorschach test | Crikey

The WikiLeaks of 2010 seems very different to the WikiLeaks of today. But is it the organisation that's changed, or just our way of looking at it?
WikiLeaks Assange


Way back in the 1920s, Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach formalised a scheme for diagnosing schizophrenia that involved showing abstract patterns of ink-blots to patients, and drawing conclusions about their mental state from how they interpreted the images. Where one subject sees a butterfly in the enigmatic splatters, maybe you see a pair of wolves pole-dancing, or whatever, it’s on you.


The WikiLeaks organisation has operated as a kind of political Rorschach test since at least 2010, when it exploded into mass consciousness with a video, “Collateral Murder”, of journalists and bystanders being executed by a US helicopter gunship over Baghdad. Prior to that, the organisation’s publication history reads like a quasi-random global tour of scandals and hidden violence: operating manuals from Guantanamo Bay (2007), Chinese repression in Tibet (2008), Australia’s notorious and short-lived internet filter blacklist (2009), and dozens of others.


No one but those most closely involved understood that the appalling Collateral Murder disclosure was just the first of a series of four major transparency dumps — including the 2010 release of the Afghan and Iraq war logs and then the quarter-million haul of State Department cables — on the true nature of US military and diplomatic conduct.


This malignant scatter of ink-blots was easy enough for most people to read: the disclosures were clearly in the public interest, given the distance between the officially curated version of the United States’ saintly presence in the world and the ugly raw material that WikiLeaks had laid out online. Editor Julian Assange made the cover of Time magazine, and front page after front page unfurled with sensational headlines as the inner workings of empire were briefly laid bare. Partnering with reputable outlets like The New York Times, Le Monde and The Guardian provided a measure of legitimacy — and safety — to the tiny guerrilla publisher.

President Obama’s composed demeanor masked a deep fury within the US national security establishment, however. More than 5 million people across public and private sectors in the US hold security clearances, forming a kind of government within the government, and this institution holds grudges. A Justice Department investigation “unprecedented both in its scale and nature” was launched, and remains live to this day.

Despite the extraordinary pressure brought to bear on the organisation, its staff and volunteers, the publications didn’t let up: the “Spy Files” exposing the global surveillance industry, leaked chapters from the secret Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations, NSA spying operations against the United Nations Secretary General, and the latest publication revealing the CIA’s offensive cyberweapon stockpile, with thousands of careful redactions to ensure that no dangerous code was released. By any measure, it’s an extraordinary publication record, all of it timed for maximum public impact.


Before we hold up the next card so you can consider the ink blots, there is a further dimension to the campaign against WikiLeaks that needs bearing in mind. In the wake of the huge 2010 disclosures, a seedy coalition of infosec hustlers and former military intelligence people drew up a pitch document outlining proposals for how to destroy the publisher. We know what was in the slides because they were leaked — by WikiLeaks — and their attack strategy is highly instructive:


Feed the fuel between the feuding groups. Disinformation … Submit fake documents then call out the error … Media campaign to push the radical and reckless nature of WikiLeaks activities. Sustained pressure. Does nothing for the fanatics, but creates concern and doubt amongst moderates …


This coalition of companies — Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies — disintegrated as soon as the sunlight of disclosure hit their excruciatingly “cyber” Powerpoint slides, but the episode remains valuable for its central proposition: to burn off WikiLeaks’ protective armour of moderate journalists, funders and supporters, while destroying the reputations and trust networks of those closest to the heart of the organisation.


Some vastly more professionalised version of this strategy must have been in play since then, with the results, to their credit, very much in line with the predictions of the HBGary cabal. So much so, that when we hold up the next card, it’s quite likely that instead of seeing ink-blots that look like a publisher, many will see a front for Russian intelligence agencies led by a sex offender who single-handedly delivered the White House to the repulsive Donald Trump.


WikiLeaks Julian Assange


It is hard to recall the conduct of a legal case more damaging to the interests both of the accusers and the accused than the Swedish government’s botched investigation into sexual assault allegations against Assange dating back to 2010. Italian journalist Di Stefania Maurizi has conducted a careful analysis of the British government’s alleged manipulation of due process, exposing an unseen side of the case.


“Please do not think that the case is being dealt with as just another extradition request,” wrote a lawyer for the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 2011, without explaining why, or why the CPS would spent the next few years arguing against their Swedish colleagues questioning Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in order to resolve the matter. In 2013, when Swedish prosecutors proposed to drop extradition proceedings against Assange, it was the CPS who persuaded them to continue.
In 2017, having finally questioned Assange after refusing to do so for more than six years, the Swedish authorities dropped the investigation altogether. Both the accusers and the accused were denied any chance of justice through the incomprehensible delaying tactics of the prosecutors in both countries.


One of the more recent document drops listed on the WikiLeaks publication archive is the one titled “19,252 emails, 8,034 US Democratic National Committee (DNC) database”. It’s dated July 22, 2016. In it, you will discover how the Democratic Party machine cooked their own primary process in order to ensure that the powerful Bernie Sanders insurgency was derailed, clearing the way for Hillary Clinton to win the nomination. In the aftermath of having run the only candidate that Trump could conceivably have beaten, and with apparent determination to avoid taking any responsibility for their stunning loss, the Democratic establishment found an easy target for their rage. Not the people who ran the corrupted nomination process, obviously, but the people who disclosed it.


In April 2018, the DNC filed a lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government, the hacker alleged to have infiltrated the Party’s mail server, and WikiLeaks. The true scope of attempted Russian manipulation of the 2016 US presidential election may become clearer with the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation, or it may never be known. But it is clear at the outset that suing WikiLeaks — for simply publishing the emails — is a high-risk strategy with potentially disastrous consequences. If WikiLeaks is liable, then so is every other publisher that recognised the public interest in reporting on the contents of the emails at the time.


And so here we are. With a handful of important exceptions, the penumbra of moderate WikiLeaks supporters, journalists, publishers and advocates are long gone. In their place, a small cohort of disaffected former colleagues and peripheral associates have eked out a dismal career writing online hit-pieces on a guy now ending his sixth year trapped in what the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention described in 2016 as being in violation of multiple Articles of both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.


I’ve spent enough hours in that embassy over the years to be really unsure I’d have lasted this long. You may genuinely believe that WikiLeaks is now just a cipher for the Russian FSB, or find the allegations of collusion with high-level creepy-crawlies within Team Trump impossible to forgive, or wish that Assange would pause and reconsider sometimes before opening up his Twitter client. But when I look at these stupid inkblots all I can see is an Australian citizen, a long way from home, deserted by his government and targeted by some of the most powerful people in the world for having taken up the Duke of Wellington’s 1824 exhortation to “publish and be damned”.


If you see something completely different I can hardly blame you, but it’s dangerous to start assessing whether or not we think human rights should apply based on our assessment of someone’s character.
In testimony to the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee in May 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey confirmed in unambiguous language that Assange had made an entirely rational decision to seek the protection of political asylum back in 2012: “He hasn’t been apprehended [by US authorities] because he is inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London”. Senior Trump administration officials, from the former CIA director Mike Pompeo on down, have made it abundantly clear that WikiLeaks is still in the crosshairs.


The consequences of the isolation and attempted destruction of WikiLeaks are broad. In a chilling and prescient article in 2013, the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s executive director laid out the methods by which “virtually every move made by the Justice Department against WikiLeaks has now also been deployed on mainstream US journalists”.


WikiLeaks’ famous byline — that “courage is contagious” — now invokes the unpleasant possibility that cowardice is too. The courageous alternative is to agree to set aside our differing interpretations of the inkblots for the moment and demand, in unity, that attacks on publishers are ultimately attacks on us all, and that the persecution of WikiLeaks must end.


Source:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2018/07/25/wikileaks-political-rorschach-test/

Sunday, July 29, 2018

‘The Event’ – What’s Really Happening & What You Need To Know About It | Stillness In The Storm