Honey bees on the Isle of Wight; Slovenia postpones 5G; More satellites are launched | The International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space

THE HONEY BEE’S PLEA The honey bee in the banner at the top of this newsletter has been speaking to us for over one hundred and fourteen years. Its numbers ever diminishing, its message ever more urgent, it waits for a sleeping world to finally listen. “Now!” it says. “Wake up before it’s too late, there is no more time!” On the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England, Giuglielmo Marconi built the world’s first permanent radio station. And the bees’ first warning to humanity was heard. “They are often to be seen crawling up grass stems, or up the supports of the hive, where they remain until they fall back to the earth from sheer weakness, and soon afterwards die,” wrote Augustus Imms of Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1906. Ninety percent of the bees had already vanished from the entire island. Unable to find a cause, he called it, simply, Isle of Wight disease. Swarms of healthy bees were imported from the mainland, but it was of no use: within a week the fresh bees were dying off by the thousands. The description, more than a century later, is exactly the same. On November 19, 2019, a 5G antenna was placed 250 meters from Angela’s house in Melbourne, Australia. “I photographed the new mast going onto the cell tower,” she writes, “and the next day, I was in the driveway talking to our carpenter, and we saw bees dropping on the driveway then dying. I managed to film one trying to collect pollen, but it was hanging upside down and could not seem to make it to the centre of the flower, then it rolled off the petals to the ground.” Today, two months later, their beautiful garden, full of old world trees and plants, is silent and barren. “We have no insects -- none,” wrote Angela last week. “Our cumquat once laden all year has no new fruit coming. No olives on the way on our olive tree so laden last year. We dug soil yesterday -- no worms either -- nothing -- all gone. I walked the dog late tonight, it was dark and a poor magpie was down the street under a street lamp hoping for a cricket I think. It was silent. I took birdseed back but the bird had gone -- it must be hungry to be out at night.” In the midst of plenty the bees are starving to death. In 2009, Neelima Kumar, at Panjab University in India, placed cell phones in some bee hives and turned them on for ten minutes. The concentrations of glucose, cholesterol, total carbohydrates, total lipids and total proteins rose precipitously in the bees’ blood. After just ten minutes’ exposure to a cell phone, the bees were not able to digest their food, or use the oxygen they were breathing. Their metabolism had come to a standstill. “Wake up!” say the bees. “Wake up!” said parents with their children who assembled last Saturday at the Church on the Roundabout in Newport on the Isle of Wight to protest plans to turn their island into a Smart Island -- to bring Isle of Wight disease back to the island of its birth. Radio waves are poison to life. They penetrate skin and bones, cell walls and mitochondria. They prevent electrons from our food from combining with the oxygen we breathe. They give us diabetes, and heart disease, and cancer. They disorient migratory birds, and they kill outright tiny forms of life that pollinate flowers and have high rates of metabolism. In the mid-1990s, the invisible fire that Marconi had lit became a conflagration. For the first time in human history, radio waves began to be broadcast not only from tall towers scattered widely across the landscape, but from the hands of men, women and children everywhere. And in 2020 this has brought us to the brink of extinction -- not just of bees, and not just of humanity, but of all life on Earth. I asked, in a previous newsletter, “which do we want more: our phones or our planet?” There is only one sane answer. I ask all of you who are reading this newsletter to join with me in putting this world back on a path to survival by throwing away your cell phones, now, today. Not next year, and not tomorrow. Today. There is no other option. Tomorrow we can deal, if we dare, with climate change. But if we are to have time to answer that urgent call, we must first deal with this emergency. We must extinguish this fire. I vote for life. Do you? SLOVENIA VOTES FOR LIFE, AT LEAST FOR NOW Last Friday, while people in 250 cities were preparing for the first Global Day of Protest against 5G, Slovenia became the first country in the world to refuse 5G, at least temporarily, because of objections from scientists and the public. The Ministry of Public Administration had called a four-hour Public Consultation on Radiation Aspects in Ensuring the Operation of 5G Technologies. Among the speakers were Gregor Kos, president of the political party, Za zdravo družbo (For a Healthy Society), and Igor Šajn from Stavbna biologija Slovenije (Building Biology of Slovenia). The four-hour meeting lasted six hours. The Minister for Public Administration, Rudy Medved, announced that Slovenia is officially postponing the implementation of 5G in his country “due to possible health effects of EMFs.” On Monday, the Prime Minister of Slovenia resigned, which means that there will be new elections held, probably in April, and that 5G will be the main issue for Gregor Kos’s political party in the elections. On March 10, his party will bring in scientific experts from other countries for an all-day event on the health and environmental effects of 5G, which will take place in the Slovenia National Council (the upper house of Parliament) and will be broadcast live on national television. 60 MORE SATELLITES WERE LAUNCHED TODAY This morning, at 9:06 a.m., SpaceX launched another 60 “Starlink” satellites, bringing the number of these satellites in low orbit around the Earth up to 240. These are already streaking photographic plates at observatories around the world, although they are not even one percent of what SpaceX is ultimately planning. SpaceX already has permission from the Federal Communications Commission to litter our night skies with 12,000 satellites, has applied for an incredible total of 42,000, and is now launching them, 60 at a time, twice a month, indefinitely into the future, unless someone puts a stop to it. If they are all launched, they will far outnumber the approximately 9,000 visible stars, and will be brighter than all but 172 of them. This act of global vandalism threatens to put an end to astronomy, and to ruin the night sky forever for all of humanity, for migratory birds that orient themselves by the stars, and for all other creatures who enjoy life under the eternal unchanging sky. This act of global vandalism also threatens to bring about the sudden extinction of all or most life on the surface of the Earth, as the 12,000+ satellites will be located in the Earth’s ionosphere, and will emit extremely powerful pulsating beams of radiation into it. The ionosphere is a source of high voltage, charged at all times to an average 300,000 volts. It controls the global electrical circuit which connects every living thing -- bird, animal, tree and human -- to the Earth and sky; the electrical circuit that courses through our veins, which the Chinese call qi, and the Indians call prana. An eternal circuit of life that has been gentle and unchanging for three billion years. The Astronomers’ Appeal, called Safeguarding the Astronomical Sky, launched just a few weeks ago, already has 1,300 signatures of professional astronomers from 48 countries. They are asking for the Starlink project to be put on hold, immediately, and for all governments to abide by international treaties -- the same treaties that are invoked in the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space: The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 requires that the use of outer space be conducted “so as to avoid [its] harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth.” The United Nations Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (2018) requires users of outer space to address “risks to people, property, public health and the environment associated with the launch, in-orbit operation and re-entry of space objects.” “THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW: A HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY AND LIFE”WILL BE IN BOOKSTORES ON MARCH 2 The book that I published in hardcover on Earth Day of 2017 has been picked up by Chelsea Green, the environmental publishing house. They are publishing a paperback edition that will go on sale on March 2, 2020. It will be available in the USA and the UK from Chelsea Green, as well as from Amazon and bookstores. I wrote this book in order to tell a history that has never been told before, and to explain to a stubborn world just what it is that makes everyone’s lights turn on, and their appliances run; what it is that we have been sending through wires and broadcasting through the air without a thought; what it is that we are holding in our hands, giving to our children to play with, and pressing against our heads. I wrote it to describe to a world in peril what life was once like, and what it could be like again -- if we wake up in time. About 370 copies of the hardcover edition are left. They can be purchased from me until they are sold out.

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The International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space Arthur Firstenberg P.O. Box 6216 Santa Fe, NM 87502 USA phone: +1 505-471-0129 info@cellphonetaskforce.org https://www.5gSpaceAppeal.org A pdf of this newsletter is available here https://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The-Honey-Bees-Plea.pdf

A New Food Label Is Coming Soon And It Goes ‘Beyond Organic’ by Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association

A New Food Label Is Coming Soon
And It Goes ‘Beyond Organic’

By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
Published: September 19, 2017 | Spirit of Change

Conscious consumers won’t have to wait much longer for clear guidance on how to buy food and other products that are not only certified organic, but also certified regenerative.


On Wednesday, the Rodale Institute unveiled draft standards for a new Regenerative Organic Certification, developed by Rodale and a coalition of farmers, ranchers, nonprofits, scientists and brands.


When finalized, the certification will go “beyond organic” by establishing higher standards for soil health and land management, animal welfare and farmer and worker fairness.


Organic Consumer Association and our Regeneration International project, fully embrace this new venture to make organic more climate friendly, humane, just and environmentally positive. As we’ve said before, when it comes to food and farming—and as we veer toward climate catastrophe—“sustainable” doesn’t cut it anymore. And certified USDA organic, though far better than GMO, chemical and energy-intensive agriculture, doesn’t go quite far enough.


The standard will be administered by NSF International, an Ann Arbor, Michigan based product testing, inspection and certification organization, and will be open to multiple certification partners, according to Rodale.


When companies like Monsanto and Bayer claim to be “sustainable” and “climate-smart,” those terms lose all meaning. When companies like Ben & Jerry’s, which relies on an industrial dairy system fueled by GMO crops, claim to be “sustainable,” we know that word has been co-opted—and corrupted.


We’ve always supported USDA organic certification—even though the standards are sometimes flawed and sometimes exploited by a few bad actors—because we believe them to be the best way for consumers to avoid pesticides and synthetic ingredients. We’ll continue to fight for stronger, better organic standards, and we’ll hold fast against allowing corporations to weaken or exploit them.


But we also believe it’s time to do better. It’s time to acknowledge the role organic regenerative agriculture plays reversing global warming, by restoring the soil’s capacity to draw down and sequester excess CO2 from the atmosphere. It’s time to acknowledge that organic, regenerative agriculture increases crop resiliency by restoring soil health and biodiversity.


It’s time to recognize that regeneration is the next stage of organic food and farming—and civilization.


This new Organic Regenerative Certification will help consumers identify those products that not only nourish their bodies, but also heal the planet.


Ronnie Cummins is the International Director of the Organic Consumer’s Association.
This article was republished from EcoWatch.


See also:
Here’s How To Boycott Organic Imposters
Vani Hari And The Food Revolution
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Bernie Sanders: Now More Than Ever, It's Our Revolution | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Bernie Sanders: Now More Than Ever, It's Our Revolution

Video: Bernie Sanders: Now More Than Ever, It's Our Revolution 11/14/16 (5:38)


"...Our job right now...and this is terribly important at this moment... What you should do now is to get heavily involved in the political process. When millions of people stand up and fight back, we will not be denied."


~Bernie Sanders 11.14.16  on Stephen Colbert Late Show




Bernie's new book is out today, it's called OUR REVOLUTION.



http://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/video/Vv_xz_zRdbMiz_BUfuhmE7b9VYckcoFy/bernie-sanders-now-more-than-ever-it-s-our-revolution/

GAIAPORTAL: Flares of recognition are in place20 Oct

GAIAPORTAL: Flares of recognition are in place
20 Oct by Éireport


Flares of recognition are in place.


Standards of the past are dropped.


Wrigglings cease.


Heaven Sents are viewed with delight.


Sustenance follows.



https://gaiaportal.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/flares-of-recognition-are-in-place/

Life is a divine gift that is never rescinded. by John Smallman

Life is a divine gift that is never rescinded.

by John Smallman  4/19/2015

Saul Audio Blog for Sunday April 19th
 

Good morning dear Saul.  Thanks for your last message.  If you wish to commune, I am here intending to be ready to receive, although feeling tired – and who isn’t?


Good morning dear John.  Thank you for calling, your tiredness is not just lack of sleep last night, but is also a result of the enormous change in energies that are raining down on Earth to renew your bodies in preparation for the rapidly approaching moment of ascension.  No, you are not making this up, I am passing it to you so that you can make allowances for your tiredness instead of judging yourself.  This is a time of intense activity as the last remaining aspects of humanity’s ascension/awakening process are completed so that your ascension can move forwards rapidly and smoothly and bring you all the benefits that have been promised for so long.


Well, that’s what we are all hoping for so let’s make it happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You are making it happen, so do not let tiredness, perhaps even exhaustion weaken your resolve to bring it to fruition.  You have the strength, the power, and the divine support to achieve your aims.  Remake that intent frequently and maintain it because that is why you incarnated.  Before you arrived on Earth as humans this time around you knew what was involved and you also knew that you would succeed, that failure was not an option, that it was in fact utterly impossible, and deep within yourselves you know this.


When doubts, depression, or anxiety arise ask us for help!  We are here to support you in every moment, your requests to us, your prayers, and your complaints are all heard and acknowledged.  If you did not know that the divine plan would be achieved you would have long ago given up the work of bringing it into being.  Being human you experience up and down moods because they are part of the illusory state of separation that you are experiencing, and one of the reasons you are experiencing those ups and downs is so that you can empathize with those you are on Earth to help awaken.


Nothing has been left to chance because this is a divine plan that is being brought perfectly to its timely conclusion, and chance is not part of the plan.  All is perfectly on schedule, as it always has been, it is just that in the illusion that sense of certainty, that inner knowing is hard for you to access in every moment.  Remind yourselves frequently that the divine Will is always perfectly achieved, as it must be because there are no other options, and relax into that inner knowing as Love fills every space within you from which you have removed thoughts and intentions that are not in perfect harmony with It.


God’s infinite and intense Love for you is completely beyond your human understanding, just accept that and continue to hold your Light on high, where It is needed, because that truly is your will, which is always aligned with God’s.


Every single person on Earth at this moment is engaged in humanity’s spiritual evolution and chose to take part in the awakening as it happens.  But vast numbers have indeed forgotten their purpose, and often wonder if there is even any true purpose to human life apart from the ego-driven intent: “to be number one, better than anyone else;” and if that is not possible, because they see themselves as “not as good as, or not good enough,” then their intent can change and become an intent to drag others down to their own perceived level of misery and inadequacy.


The illusion has been in operation for many eons, swinging between periods when the welfare of all was a priority and periods when one powerful ego attempted to enslave all others to his will.  As a result many have karmic residues that they need to detach from to make room in their hearts for Love.  All have suffered over the eons because the illusion is a place that focuses on separation, abandonment, and the constant struggle to survive.  Every human has experienced that, and large numbers are still undergoing that experience.


It is becoming apparent to the majority that conflict and rule by authoritarian means is inhuman and insane.  Many, especially the younger ones among you, are refusing to support the old ways because they see very clearly the damage that those ways have caused and are continuing to cause as large international corporations still remain largely free to despoil the planet in the interests of profit.  But as you well know, there is no profit to be had in despoiling the planet which supports you because doing that dangerously undermines her ability to do so.  Consequently, all across the planet, people are uniting to change the rules that have allowed these selfish and self-destructive activities.  And the rules are changing.


Life is a divine gift that is never rescinded, it pervades the whole visible universe and far, far beyond.  There is only life – Love.  All that exists has been created in Love, and all form has life, there are no exceptions.  You see life as movement, but your senses, as humans, have only a very limited ability to perceive other forms of life, and so in your state of limited consciousness, the state you experience while immersed in the illusion, you choose to believe that inorganic material is lifeless, dead.


Over the last few hundred years as your science has developed it has discovered that many of its assumptions and “proven facts” are incorrect.  Scientifically established “facts” are constantly being found to be only partially true, or even quite wrong.  This is frequently blamed on the incompetence of previous generations while also admitting that of course they did not have the benefit of modern technology to assist them in their quest for knowledge.  However, many seem to forget that those previous generations had what was at the time “cutting edge” technology available to them.  It is just that the field of knowledge keeps expanding and demanding new ways of looking at things, and even new technology rapidly becomes outdated.


Large numbers in each new generation seem to make the mistake of thinking they now know far better than those who went before them, and cannot conceive that they too are very likely to be proved in error from time to time.  Thus they engage in activities without allowing for the possibility that enormous damage will ensue if they are wrong.  And of course the evidence of that arrogance can be seen all across the world as the continuous thoughtless “harvesting” of the earth’s resources frequently causes new and severe damage, damage that the “experts” first said could not happen, and then said could be contained.


However, that incredible arrogance is now being challenged.  All over the world people are standing up and being counted.  They are making it abundantly clear to those who wish to maintain the status quo that this will no longer be tolerated.  Although many laws have been quietly introduced to protect large industrial conglomerates from being called to account for any damage they have caused by their operations, and to prevent their having to answer any claims against them for restitution or recompense, these utterly irresponsible laws are in truth unenforceable and will be rescinded.


Great and urgently needed changes to the manner in which you live on Earth are coming into effect which will ensure that damage already done is repaired, and that ongoing damaging industrial activities will be rapidly terminated.  Much that is happening to alter your relationship with the planet, for the benefit of all humanity and for the planet herself, is not being reported by the mainstream media.  Consequently many of you have very little idea of the fantastic progress that is actually being made in cleaning up your industrial activities.  The tide has turned, the balance has shifted, and the New Age is coming vibrantly to Life all over the world.


This is a time for optimistic enthusiasm, let go of your doubts and anxieties and remind yourselves very frequently that you do know that your awakening is imminent.  When you go to your quiet inner space each day to spend essential time in prayer, contemplation, meditation, or just relaxation, open your hearts to receive the abundance of Love that is being offered to you in every moment, and ask for help to feel It, to sense It, and to know that It supports you in every moment.  We are with you constantly, but when you focus on your doubts and worries your ability to feel our loving presence is severely compromised.  Trust that we are with you, effectively holding your hands, and embrace the spontaneous sense of well-being that ensues.


With so very much love, Saul.

 

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To Solve California’s Water Crisis, We Must Change the Nation’s Food System By Sonali Kolhatkar | TruthDig

To Solve California’s Water Crisis, We Must Change the Nation’s Food System California’s terrifying drought is putting one-third of the U.S. produce market at risk, but fixing the problem will require a shift from industrial farms to local ones.

By Sonali Kolhatkar | TruthDig
Posted on Mar 19, 2015

  Irrigation water running along a dried-up ditch between rice farms 

in Richvale, Calif. (AP / Jae C. Hong)

The bold headline of a recent Los Angeles Times editorial by the hydrologist Jay Famiglietti starkly warned: “California has about one year of water left. Will you ration now?” The write-up quickly made the social media rounds, prompting both panic and the usual blame game: It’s because of the meat eaters or the vegan almond-milk drinkers or the bottled-water guzzlers or the Southern California lawn soakers.


California’s water loss has been terrifying. But people everywhere should be scared, not just Californians, because this story goes far beyond state lines. It is a story of global climate change and industrial agriculture. It is also a saga that began many decades ago—with the early water wars of the 1930s immortalized in the 1974 Roman Polanski film “Chinatown.”


When my family first moved to the Los Angeles area, we spent years adjusting our lifestyle to be more in line with our values. Ten years ago, we stopped watering our lawn and eventually replaced the lawn with plants that were drought-tolerant or native to California. Three years ago, we installed solar panels on our roofs. Last year, we diverted our laundry runoff to our vegetable garden and fruit trees through a graywater system. We have replaced all our toilets with dual-flush systems to take advantage of local rebates, and we practice responsible flushing. We almost never wash our cars, and we shower less often in the winter. We are investigating rainwater barrels in our latest effort to be responsible stewards of our water. Yet none of our efforts to be an example to others have done anything other than make us feel morally self-righteous enough to wag our fingers at water wasters.

California’s water resources are being mismanaged, according to Janet Redman, director of the Climate Policy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank. “The management of water from California’s historic aquifer and snow and rivers and lakes doesn’t match the use right now,” Redman told me in an interview on my show, “Uprising.” It’s a big understatement.


Even though Gov. Jerry Brown just imposed a series of mandatory water-conservation measures in response to the emergency, most of those measures are aimed at individual users and restaurants. While it is crucial for residents to stop wasting water on the utterly useless tasks of car washing and lawn watering, “residential use in California is about 4 percent,” Redman told me. “Eighty percent is for agriculture.”


The truth is that California’s Central Valley, which is where the vast majority of the state’s farming businesses are located, is a desert. That desert is irrigated with enough precious water to artificially sustain the growing of one-third of the nation’s fruits and vegetables, a $40 billion industry.


Think about it. A third of all produce in the United States is grown in a desert in a state that has almost no water left. That produce is trucked from the West Coast all over the country in fossil-fuel-consuming vehicles, thereby contributing to the very mechanism of climate change that is likely to be driving California’s historic drought.


“It is not a place that agriculture, at the scale and at the scope that exists now, should exist,” Redman explained.


The food journalist Mark Bittman, writing in The New York Times in 2012, summed up the dire situation in California’s Central Valley: “For the last century or so, we’ve been exploiting—almost without limitation—its water, mineral resources, land, air, people and animals.”


When water allocations from the federal government were cut, Central Valley farmers began drilling deep into the ground to pump water out of the state’s precious, ancient aquifer. Now, the pumping has gotten so out of control that water is being tapped faster than it can be replenished by rain or snowfall, leading to some parts of the land literally sinking. What’s worse, California’s farmers are irrigating their lands with water from a 20,000-year-old reserve, depleting and probably permanently damaging a reservoir that formed in the Pleistocene epoch.


Shockingly, until recently, California did not even regulate groundwater use, unlike states like Texas. Anyone could drill a well on their property and simply take as much water as they needed for their own use—a practice that dated back to the Gold Rush.


Then, last year, the state finally passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, aimed at regulating water use from the aquifer and other ground resources. But the law is weak: It allows local water agencies to regulate and manage groundwater pumping but gives the state the power to step in only if local control is deemed deficient.


In the meantime, our prized water heritage is being used to water lettuce, alfalfa and cantaloupes. But we have to eat, don’t we?


That reality is what farmers are banking on, and it is often enough to shut down debate on agricultural water use—but the drought-ridden devil is in the details. In an article on California’s Central Valley, one investment publication gloats that agricultural production is an economic stabilizer “because people always need to eat” and lauds the multibillion-dollar profit potential of the region. In fact, the state’s rapidly disappearing water is flooding the investment portfolios of some of the nation’s wealthiest corporations by selling dairy products for export to China and growing commodity crops like almonds.


There is also the familiar appeal to jobs. Central Valley corporate interests have dotted Interstate 5, which runs up and down the length of the state, with signs that read: “No water equals no jobs.” That refrain is just another version of the coal industry’s mantra, “Stand up for American jobs,” in West Virginia.


In fact, many thousands of people have already lost their jobs as a result of the loss of water, and most of those have been poor farm workers. But the workers were exploited by big agribusiness to begin with, so the slogans referring to “lost jobs” really mean “lost profits.”


Many growers also grumble that rules enacted to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered species of fish, have diverted water away from farms.


But this crisis should not devolve into arguments pitting water against food, water against jobs, or even water against an endangered species. There’s only a little bit of water left to fight over, and the real question that gets lost in all the back-and-forth is: How do we live sustainably? After all, we need both food and water to survive.


What California and the nation needs is a long-term transition away from industrial agriculture toward sustainable local agriculture in which farmers grow and manage food only for those living within a small radius around them. The trend has already begun. Demand for locally grown foods is greater than ever as Americans realize the insanity of growing all our food in one small corner of the world and expending energy destructively to move it around. The idea of food as a profit-generating commodity is becoming obsolete, mostly because the planet cannot afford such a disconnected system.


Hand in hand with a renewable energy industry whose pillars are solar and wind power, a localized food system can help California transition away from unsustainably feeding much of the nation while generating green energy jobs to replace the lost farming jobs. The problem of the drought is inextricably linked to food production and climate change, so the solution must tackle these issues head on. There is no other way.


So let us stop blaming one another for the water crisis. As individuals, we absolutely should tear up our lawns, stop hosing down driveways, wash our cars less and so on, but we should do so knowing that that is only a tiny part of the answer. While it is crucial for us to conserve water in our personal lives, we need to fundamentally change the way the majority of California’s water is used.


As Famiglietti’s article warns us, we have only a year. Unless we take drastic steps toward transformation soon, we Californians may very well have to find a new home.

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Sonali Kolhatkar Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of KPFK Pacifica’s popular morning drive time program Uprising, based in Los Angeles, California. She is also the Co-Director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a US-based non-profit solidarity organization that funds the social, political, and humanitarian projects of RAWA.

THE ORACLE REPORT: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 (+ Tuesday, January 6, 2015)

THE ORACLE REPORT: Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Full Moon Phase: fulfillment, realization, illumination

Moon in Leo

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Kali

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an Indian chief claims power from the assembled tribe" (self-empowerment, personal sovereignty)

Skill: focus on what truly sustains and what truly lasts

Negative Imprint: neurotic, performances to trick, insensitivity, slowing progress, fussy, control dynamics, greed, ineffective supervision

Positive Imprint: protection, nurturance, beauty, flowers and flower essences for healing, inner knowledge, direct connections with the past, pure motives

"The Union Jack flies from a new British warship."


This is the Sabian symbol for the degree of the Sun today - 18 Capricorn.  Have the UK-variety new world order Illuminati minions left their calling card in Paris with the attack at the magazine office?
State-run media here in the US seems to have a ready-made narrative to explain it all to us.
The parliament of wise owls looks deeper.  We know that the Sabian symbols are a code to explain the mechanics of the evolution of consciousness.  We also know that forces that stand opposed to free humanity enact certain events (rituals) at specific times when energetics are most favorable - like a false flag attack when the Sun reaches the degree of the symbol for empire.  The energy to dominate comes when the Sun reaches 18 Capricorn.


There is more.  Venus is located at the degree of the symbol for ritual: "a masked figure performs ritualistic acts in a mystery play."  Our eyes are wide open, not wide shut.


And, truly, our eyes are on other things - like forming the infrastructure of the future as the worlds of spirit and matter are enchanted to merge.  Our focus is on the precedents of the past that are returning to consciousness.  This is the return of wisdom and comes from the formation of all kinds of things based on wisdom - things like mystery schools (which are spreading like a wildfire that has been meditated upon by fire worshippers to create an ultimate reality of existence).


But back to the energetics of the day.  Mercury, which is still in range of conjunction with Venus, is located at the symbol for precedent: "a council of ancestors."  This energy connects with the past, so it gives the Illuminati minions a well of past imprints to tap back into.  The power of anything depends on how often and how strongly attention is given to it.  Therefore, today's attack in Paris has not only built upon past events when the Sun was at this degree, but also imprints it for the future.  It happens through ritual.

Click here for a link to Wikipedia's entries of events for January 7 - the day when the Sun is at 18 degrees of Capricorn, the energy of the empire, and be amazed.  Look at the themes of banking and empire.  Look at how the UK and French go at it on this day throughout history.  The British and French branches of the Illuminati think they are the only ones wise to this, but no more.


You could even take this further and, in a contemporary sense, make a case for France being the place where independence first bloomed and where the union of the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine has remained spirited, and England being the place where domination first hissed and where the schism between feminine and masculine has remained demonic.


England is also where the Magna Carta was birthed, so there is always an energetic that runs counter (positive) and available to build upon.


Anyone who understands this has a natural response to want to counter it.  Today, we counter this first by the mere recognition of it.  It takes a strong person - a wise owl - to be able to see this senseless violence perpetrated and know that it is reinforcing a long line of dark rituals.  But some of us humans have to be able to see it and hold the line so that other humans can do it, too.  Perception is a species-wide thing, so when we see the reality of what is happening, others follow.  It's how cognitive dissonance is overcome.


Second, we will shift our focus to one of sustenance - what sustains, what lasts.  We will continue painting the Second Renaissance into being.  We infuse the energetics of the day with a different imprint.  We "over write" the "program" with an energetic that overcomes domination.  This imprint throws off the power and control of empire.  Empires have fallen before.  We are watching it happen now.  Today's attack in Paris won't have the intended effect because the force behind it is weakened.  Imprints of love, beauty, and freedom are much, much stronger nowadays.  More on that another day...


As we go about life today, wise owls will continue to firmly anchor and imprint the positive elements of the energies.  We are an assembled tribe and this is our daily ritual.  We claim our power.


(Note:  It is interesting to me how photographs with pairs of animals are being snapped lately.  The wise owls who sent today's photo report that they have at times four pairs of swans at once. 


Yesterday, I was gifted with the rare sighing of four pairs of cardinals in one tree.  Cardinals are my favorite, so imagine my delight!  Yesterday's photo was of a pair of owls who let Kim get very, very close to them on her deck.  Pay special attention to sightings of pairs.)


Thank you for supporting the Oracle Report.  Blessings to all!

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THE ORACLE REPORT:  Tuesday, January 6, 2015


Full Moon Phase: illumination, realization, fulfillment


Moon in Leo


Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Kali


Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an Indian chief claims power from the assembled tribe" (self-empowerment, personal sovereignty)


Skill: release yourself from trying to control time


Negative Imprint: over-analysis, ignoring rules or laws, things that are unbearable, restraints, rushing, missing key things, forcing, suppression of rebellion, false claims of power and change, clandestine


Positive Imprint: objectivity, inventiveness, identifying issues, focus, practice, disinhibited, slow and steady, observation, potent healing, confidence
Full light continues to be thrown off and also throw things off this Full Moon phase.  We are coming to new understandings about ourselves and this is rippling out into the field, changing it.  This is how the world changes.


What is trying to be revealed to you?  It may be having a harder time getting through because, even though it is a Full Moon phase right now, the Black Moon and Neptune are in opposition.  The Black Moon and Neptune together tend to shroud and mystify.  So if you are trying to understand, fix, improve, and integrate something and it isn't coming quite happening, don't try to rush or force it.  Relax the tension. Take a breath.  Wait for the fog to clear.


With this, it is important to understand that we may attempt to blame the hold-up or lack of clarity on ourselves.  We are clearly seeing our "major malfunctions."  The solutions are what aren't easily visible right now.  We personalize this, but the nature of this energy is one of "veiling."


The reason solutions aren't clear is because there is re-arrangement of "the field" happening this lunar cycle - Kali the Destroyer's cycle.  Using the energetics of Uranus/Pluto and Mercury/Venus, she is putting everything in spin.  Consciousness is taking a mass turn.  She is refreshing the dream, re-commanding it by calling forth our inner chief to claim our power and our place.


Our inner sacred masculine continues to rise.  The inner rise and outer manifestation of the sacred masculine within all of us is what is healing us and restoring us to sanity.  This energy is very, very strong now because we are in the Full Moon phase (the fullest expression) of the energy that was imprinted back at the New Moon.  The energy that was infused then to be time-released throughout the month is the energy that would cause an Indian chief to assume his role, his mantle of power, within his tribe.  It causes him to come forward to lead.


This is why things are welling up in relationships.  Power and control dynamics are responding to this shift, this mass turn, and changing things dramatically.  All things are in relationship, so this weaves through everything.  Kali is the master at this and her reach is great.  The changes are creating strong, permanent foundations for the future.


Kali doesn't just destroy.  She re-creates.

Today, be aware of the tendency to be extra hard on ourselves and become mired in our perceived failures.  This energy can create harsh confrontations with ourselves which can all too easily become projected onto others.  This commonly occurs with Full Moon phases, but is intensified today.


Kali is in control of the hands of time right now, not us.  There is no reason to rush or force anything.  It is much more fun to release the controls and watch what happens.

Thank you for supporting the Oracle Report.  Blessings to all!

Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation October 21, 2014

Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation
October 21, 2014


7 Muluc, 7 Tzec, 11 Ik


Selamat Balik! We come with very good news! The legal aspects of our Earth allies’ programs to defeat the dark cabal are gaining successful inroads. Both the common law courts and the statute courts agree that the present de facto US government is deeply in debt and cannot proclaim a bankruptcy to save its remaining assets. Instead, the US “corporation” and its prime ally, the Federal Reserve Bank, need to deny any assets to their largest creditors and go into a special receivership. This action is shortly to put an end to both entities, which have long masqueraded as legitimate federal institutions. The end to this set of shenanigans is finally to allow our allies to take over the general control of both institutions. As a result of these developments, we expect a number of prosperity programs to fund, and the RV and global currency reset to occur. At the right time, NESARA can be declared, along with a total moratorium on government in the US. We have agreed with our allies as to who is to lead the interim US government and the policies they need to enforce.


It is essential to all concerned that the various travesties, which now engulf Africa, be brought to a safe conclusion. It is equally necessary that those in charge of these calamities be arrested. Once these scalawags are properly isolated, then a new political and economic system can be successfully executed. We have had long talks with our various allies on not only the problems happening in Africa, but also those occurring throughout the newly developing nations. The humanitarian projects are designed to alleviate the present difficulties and allow the best-qualified leaders to pursue projects that can begin to solve and creatively permit success in all fields. Water, sanitation, employment issues, and a whole host of interrelated problems, need to be alleviated. Technologies exist to aid these nations in building a complex and modern infrastructure. Prosperity is more than money. Rather, it represents the ability to finish what colonialism barely began.


Your global societies need to be restructured. Each nation requires enough infrastructure for its population to enjoy a sustainable existence. Not only is humanity suffering, the flora and fauna of Gaia is quickly collapsing and its diversity failing. This cannot be tolerated. Long ago, we went beyond this and saw how vital it is to construct environments that encourage both diversity and the sustenance to continue on effortlessly. Your task is to be a solar system’s guardians. We live as unobtrusively as possible in a sustainable and technological utopia. Here, we monitor and assist the ecology to remain viable and sustainable. We perform spiritual ceremony and rituals, make the necessary alterations and ensure that no species perishes. We consult with the elementals assigned to each species. We are dedicated to see our home worlds remain lush, beautiful and sustainable for all Beings involved in every eco-system, which a home world provides.


Our mission here is thus divided into three parts; the first is nearly complete. That is to provide a realm that has expelled its darkness and is ready to prepare for full consciousness. The second part is to watch over new governance and growing prosperity. At the right moment, we are to land and introduce you to your many mentors. Then, you are to look deep within yourselves and prepare for what the Crystal Light Chamber is to give you, full consciousness. The last stage is the actual transporting of you to your assigned spot in a great number of Crystal Cities. Once there, you are to go with your mentor, and when appropriate, to enter your chamber and initiate a transformational three-day journey. When you emerge, you are to undergo a seven to ten day training, to jumpstart your return to full consciousness. Then you are, in essence, a fully conscious Being. You need to collectively apply your talents and forge both a new galactic society and a new star nation.


Namaste! We are your Ascended Masters! We arrive today with some very blessed news! The dark cabal, which has long been in charge, is finally on the way out. Those associates, who represent the many sacred societies and the ancient families, have reached a point where the dark can no longer sustain its opposition to the Light. These blessed individuals are presently using a number of key legal decisions and proper financial pressures to force the dark to open those financial conduits that they had long blocked. These blessed developments mean that a number of our humanitarian trust monies can now be distributed globally. We intend to instruct our various associates to move forward with those fundings needed to start a number of key prosperity projects. These projects are only the start of what is to follow. We fully intend to use these funds to jumpstart a new financial system for this planet.


This new financial system is now forming. Our associates have assisted a number of nations in creating the financial means to forge new economies, and a system that discourages the fraud and other immoralities all too common across this most sacred orb. This new system aligns with the prosperity which blessed Count Saint Germain is now ready to spread worldwide. This abundance is to end the poverty, starvation, pestilence and wars that characterize the millennia run so wantonly by the dark. You are now to enter a time of rising consciousness and growing awareness of the need to care for this living planet that you so graciously live upon. You need to fully return to your guardianship of Gaia and a daily blessing to Heaven for your life in physicality. You are, my children, to return in grace to full consciousness! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!


Let us look at your future and bless the magnificence of the holy Creator. You are ready now to begin the final steps of a journey that we first began millennia ago. You are awakening and realizing the great abilities that each of you possess. Every day, divine blessings bombards you, enabling you to grow your new and less dense body. Your Spirit is enlivened by what Heaven and her grand servants accomplish. You are building the fundamentals needed for new chakras, and for new, higher energies to flow through you. Take a moment each day and simply thank the universe for your blessings. Heaven loves to be blessed back. It is an energy which the angels can constantly increase. Know this and call upon us to take your blessings and return them with divine thanks. Remember all is Love and all Love is saturated in divine Light!


Today, we carried on with our message! The time comes for many changes to appear. You are to experience events which were thought impossible by most. Governance is to change. Prosperity is to be common. Disclosure is to occur. You are to be transformed into fully conscious beings of Light!

Know, dear Ones, that the countless Supply and never-ending Prosperity of Heaven are indeed Yours! So Be It! Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be One! and Be in Joy!)


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Mitigating Drought Department: Mr. Rain Man shows how | Exopermaculture

Phoenixfirebird:

One man’s innovative solutions for living in a drought-ravaged area have
made Tuscon a lot greener, and he eventually managed to get local laws
changed to allow curb-cutting for rainwater collection. Now the city
even offers a rainwater collection rebate to homeowners. Here’s how he
did it:

 Mitigating Drought Department: Mr. Rain Man shows how | Exopermaculture

Originally posted on Exopermaculture:

I especially appreciate the way this one man took it upon himself
to not just transform his own use of water, but to “bump up against
existing laws” in a risky effort to show both his neighborhood and his
city that another way is possible. Both the neighborhood and the Tucson
city government, to their credit, jumped on the bandwagon. Hopefully,
this and similar efforts will pave the way towards a greater
permacultural understanding of how to store and utilize precious water
in any environment during climate change. And notice, BTW, how much more
interesting the landscape when we cut into straight curb lines to open
tiny new spaces for creating abundance.

Rain Man: How one Tucson resident harvests the rain

October 8, 2014
by Dan Kraker

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By Dan Kraker


When it comes to rainfall, Tucson is not the beneficiary of Mother Nature’s bounty. The desert city receives only about 12…

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16 Of The Most Magnificent Trees In The World

I cannot even begin to express the joy, inspiration, healing and peace I feel when I am amidst trees. I love trees, not only for their beauty, but for the protective canopy and cleansing air they provide. On rare and treasured occasions, I have also experienced and interacted with their sentience, on a deep, intuitive level, which I call "talking to trees". It is a 2-way conversation, where they inform me of something through my heart chakra or hypothalamus, which is where their energy hits the body. These impressions are instantly translated into words that come to me from the impression .  I have also had a conifer wrap it's tendril around my finger, as I stared in disbelief...and in response to my thought that "this did NOT just happen!" the tree did it again to prove me wrong. Then I knew that our silent communication was real.

We need trees much more than they need us. Trees are higher-dimensional beings who need our understanding and protection, not only for their survival, but for the preservation of all of life on the planet. Bless the trees, plant some trees, it is wonderful to go back years later and visit them!

~Phoenix Boulay

16 Of The Most Magnificent Trees In The World

How do I love thee, tree? Let me count the ways; you change carbon dioxide into the oxygen we breathe, you sequester carbon, and you provide shelter for countless critters. There are many reasons for which we should all be tree-hugging hippies, but within the scope of this article, all we’ll focus on is how amazing some of them look.

Granted, not all of these amazing beautiful trees are trees (the Wisteria is a vine, Rhododendrons are shrubs, and bamboo technically belongs to the grass family), but we’ll give them a pass because they are amazing, huge and beautiful. So once you step outside and take a breath of fresh air, hug the nearest tree and say thank you!

If you know of an amazing tree not on this list, you can submit it at the bottom of this post.

125+ Year Old Rhododendron “Tree” In Canada

This huge 125-year-oldold rhododendron is technically not a tree – most are considered to be shrubs. You can find out more about it here. (Image credits: reddit)

144-Year-Old Wisteria In Japan

Image credits: tungnam.com.hk

At 1,990 square meters (about half an acre), this huge wisteria is the largest of its kind in Japan. Read more about it here. (Image credits: y-fu)

Wind-Swept Trees In New Zealand

These trees on Slope Point, the southern tip of New Zealand, grow at an angle because they’re constantly buffeted by extreme antarctic winds. Find out morehere. (Image credits: Seabird Nz)

Beautiful Japanese Maple In Portland, Oregon

Image credits: falcor88

Image credits: Tom Schwabel

Antarctic Beech Draped In Hanging Moss In Oregon

The antarctic beech is native to Chile and Argentina, though this specimen is from the U.S.’ North Pacific region. (Image credits: Drew Hopper)

 

 

Blooming Cherry Trees in Bonn, Germany

This beautiful tunnel of cherry blossoms blooms in Bonn, Germany in April. To see more tunnels like this one, click here. (Image credits: Adas Meliauskas)

Angel Oak In John’s Island In South Carolina

The Angel Oak in South Carolina stands 66.5 ft (20 m) tall and is estimated to be more than 1400 or 1500 years old. (Image credits: Daniela Duncan)

Flamboyant Tree, Brazil

The flamboyant tree is endemic to Madagascar, but it grows in tropical areas around the world. (Image credits: Salete T Silva)

Dragonblood Trees, Yemen

The dragonblood tree earned its fearsome name due to its crimson red sap, which is used as a dye and was used as a violin varnish, an alchemical ignredient, and a folk remedy for various ailments. (Image credits: Csilla Zelko)

The President, Third-Largest Giant Sequoia Tree In The World, California

President, located in Sequoia National Park in California, stands 241 ft (73m) tall and has a ground circumference of 93 ft (28m). It is the third largest giant sequoia in the world (second if you count its branches in addition to its trunk). (Image credits: Michael Nichols)

Maple Tree Tunnel in Oregon

Image credits: Ian Sane

Rainbow Eucalyptus In Kauai, Hawaii

Image credits: jwilsonnorton

The rainbow eucalyptus, which grows throughout the South Pacific, is both useful and beautiful. It is prized for both the colorful patches left by its shedding bark and for its pulpwood, which is used to make paper. (Image credits: Christopher Martin)

Jacarandas in Cullinan, South Africa

These beautiful Jacarandas, with their violet flowers, grow in South Africa. (Image credits: Elizabeth Kendall)

Avenue Of Oaks At Dixie Plantation In South Carolina

This avenue of oak trees was planted some time in the 1790s on Dixie Plantation in South Carolina. (Image credits: Lee Sosby)

Baobab Trees In Madagascar

These baobabs in Madagascar are excellent at storing water in their thick trunks to use during droughts. (Image credits: confitalsurf)

The Dark Hedges In Northern Ireland

Image credits: Stephen Emerson

Ireland’s Dark Hedges were planted in the 18th century. This stunning beech tree tunnel was featured on Game of Thrones as well. Read more about it here. (Image credits: Christopher Tait)