Here and Now...What's Happening?

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New generation of American farmers adapting to survive

Thousands of farmers are returning to the land, combining old school farming with 21st century marketing.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m0IUHO0D8m8

Published on Apr 20, 2018; Doug McKelway reports.

[Hym]

Hilarious video of Pilobolus, except I never would have designed the shooting angle from below. All part of the endless process of creativity, especially in modern dance.

[RunningDeer]

Not long before the little ones enter the world. (2 minute vid)

First Egg At Red-tailed Hawk Nest Appears to Be Pipping! April 21, 2018

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2CqJcFGMpN4

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Two Eggs Hatching on April 23, 2018 (1:10 minutes)

Red-tailed Hawks live cam

The long incubation period is beginning to pay off for Big Red and Arthur! Egg #1's first pip (i.e. break in the shell) surfaced on the evening of April 21. Egg #2 followed closely behind, pipping the following morning on April 22. The two chicks are still currently working their way out of their eggs under Big Red!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h89eSUx2DAE

Close up of the First Red-Tailed Hawk Chick Almost Hatched - (1:10 min)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aggqm0vqoJc

Cornell Lab Bird Cams Project
Published on Apr 23, 2018

Don't miss their first moments out of the shell—watch live at allaboutbirds.org/cornellhawks

A Red-tailed Hawk pair has been nesting above Cornell University’s athletic fields since at least the 2012, making use of two different light towers for their nest sites.

In 2012 and 2015, they used a tower near Fernow Hall, and in 2013, 2014, and 2016, they used the tower nearest Weill Hall. We installed cameras at both of these sites to get a better look at the intimate behavior of these well-known birds as they raise their young amid the bustle of a busy campus.

[norman]

Will "gun sovereignty" always be the right way to be free ?

MP3
https://app.box.com/s/wrrpr4ubm7rdphq7tnnws8hcqb9yu0af


Right now, I think a gun is in a sovereign individual's asset column, but I have a haunting feeling that, long term, it's not in the 'human' asset column.

It's like trying to bust our way out of hell, and not really thinking about why we are in it, in the first place. IMO

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Today's Special.

From: “Foods for Protecting the Body & Mind,” Dr. Neal Barnard.
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[TargeT]

Fascinating discussion on sleep with a sleep scientist.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=emuYWMDH1U8

just wanted to share

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And then there were three… Aww. (1:35 min)

Egg #3 Hatches, Three Chicks In Cornell Hawks Nest! – April 26, 2018

After over 24 hours of pipping and 35 days of incubation, H3 hatched from its egg! Get a quick look at Big Red and Arthur's third and final chick when BR steps back to feed her nestlings in this quick highlight. Now that all three chicks have hatched, Big Red and Arthur are challenged with finding enough food to turn these hungry hatchlings into fledglings over the next 45–50 days.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5qnBios7XWw

[onawah]

OK Go Upside Down and Inside Out

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co

I meant to post this here before, but better late than never!

[Flash]

The last part of the video where he talks about learning during sleep, and redoing and reorganising the days learning at 20 times the speed of the waking state, is studied in the University of Montreal.

I went to a presentation of the main researcher, and he was explaining that the stage 3 and 4 of deep sleep are where it takes place and it is essential for good learning. These stages may be disturb in some learning disabilities in children, alzheimer and in people who do not sleep enough.

In humans, they are studying it with list of words learned during the day, and remembered the following day. With electrodes on the skull during the memorizing and during sleep.

Those who had their 8 hours sleep remembered substantially better. Those that were waking up during the crucial stages did not remember as well. I do not remember which hormones were involved for learning during sleep stage 3-4 vs daytime (should have slept on it lollll).

I was then thinking of night workers who do not sleep well, or moms during the first year of childbirth or when kids are sick, or like me who did not have a full night of sleep for 8 years because my daughter would not go to sleep easily and then would wake up during the night (she did not have full sleep either) or for lack of time during the day when I would have to write at night for the following day work - the aging process being then accelerated, - plus 'the nannie storie' where I would not sleep at all, chemically and emotionally induced.

I cannot take stress any more - and I rage when someone or something disturbs my sleep now, I know how sacred it is.

I was also thinking of kids that are incestuated by their dad or dad figure at night - they never completely sleep, being on the alert at all time (half brain sleep), no wonder children living with violence are having difficulties at school. Not only they remain alert duiring sleep, but they are often deprived of stage 3-4 of sleep.

Thanks for that video, I really like Joe Rogan, he is bright, articulate, fun and aware. He also invites real interesting people.

Posted by TargeT (here)
Fascinating discussion on sleep with a sleep scientist.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=emuYWMDH1U8

just wanted to share

[Valerie Villars]

http://www.wwoz.org

Better late than never, but the "Rebirth Brass Band" is live on WWOZ. They're playing at Jazz Fest and they are some of the most joyous, uplifting music you will ever hear. And your feet won't stop.

That's all for now. I'm going listen.

[Foxie Loxie]

It's snowing here today!!(CNY)

[Valerie Villars]

Are you kidding? It's 80, sunny and breezy here in south louisiana.

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The weather guy reported April ran 15 degrees cooler than normal. Finally a few trees are beginning to bud.

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Posted by Foxie Loxie (here)
It's snowing here today!!(CNY)

cold rain here all day

[Foxie Loxie]

Thanks for the BRIGHT greeting, Paula....you always amaze me with how you can put things together!!

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Sea Eagle in Black Stork Nest

The black stork uses a range of calls, including a loud, ‘whinnying’ call at the nest, hoarse gasping, and beak-clapping.

@ 1:12 - Black Stork warns predator.
@ 1:51 - Sea Eagle investigates the four eggs. Beak-clapping continues from Black Stork.
@ 4:37 - Momma Stork returns to her clutch.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lcg3HVFqXLE

The black stork is a large but fairly secretive bird. The black head, upper parts, wings, tail and long neck have a conspicuous green or purple gloss, contrasting with the white belly, under tail and ‘armpits’. The long legs and long, straight beak are bright scarlet in adults, especially during the breeding season, and a patch of scarlet skin also surrounds the eye. The male and female black stork are similar in appearance, though the male may be slightly larger, while the juvenile has slightly browner, duller, less glossy plumage, and a pale olive-green beak and legs. The black stork uses a range of calls, including a loud, ‘whinnying’ call at the nest, hoarse gasping, and beak-clapping.

Black Stork LiveCam

The black stork prefers to nest in primeval forest, especially in old trees in hard-to-reach places near inland waterways, including swamps. Unlike white stork, black stork keeps people away from them.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rEmK_kADom8

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A Foxie Loxie notice:

• email: lionel@lionelmedia.com
• YouTube: Lionel Nation

Newsletter & Countdown to the May 19 Cutting Room
ASSUME THE LOTUS POSITION CONCERT TOUR

Dear Lionel Nation Citizen:

Take a deep breath and scan the horizon. What do you see? What you’re witnessing now is unparalleled. It’s unfamiliar territory and nonpareil in history and defies categorization. It’s completely unrecognizable. And for good reason. There’s no corollary in our grand republic’s provenance. Don’t be alarmed if you don’t recognize it. It’s the complete and utter disintegration of everything that used to pass as American politics when it seemed to have rules and issues and positions and palpable differences between parties and combatants. Washington is a Potemkin village, a backdrop and back lot of what pretends to be and mimics government and governance. Today our republic has been hijacked and is wholly owned by the Deep State. The shadow government, police state, intel state: call it what you want. And that may have just changed.
 
What are the issues today, exactly? What are Ted Baxter sockpuppet, echo chamber, playbook, bumper sticker corporate news media repeaters yammering about? Better yet, what are they being told to report? What precisely is the gravamen of their collective indictments against Trump and bitching in general? And it’s coming from both and all sides. What is it? I’ll tell you. It’s the last gasp of moribund Mockingbird media that have been in effect coopted and kidnapped for decades. Repeat: They’re repeaters, not reporters. Apparatchiks, the lot of them. Told what to do and say and bleat, prate and spew through rote and Pavlovian obeisance to corporate fascists.
 
But that all ends now with the Internet, alternative and civilian/citizen journalism and guerrilla grand juries along with QAnon and its iterations, progeny, acolytes, board owners, anons and autists. It’s a new army in a new war. And the target is the truth.
 
Why? What’s the focus of these referendumless scrums? Trump. Trump as POTUS. Trump as leader of the new wave of patriots. Truth warriors. Partisan-free citizens bound by the Constitution and the rules. Trump represents a cosmic dislocation of contemporary commentary and analysis. Why? Because his very presidency and mere appearance and presence are the signals to the manufactured and synthetic sides of the same policy coin that business-as-usual politics won’t work any longer. It’s a reiteration of Carroll Quigley’s thesis in Tragedy and Hope. Dems and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, progressives and neocons and paleocons and RINOs  — nothing but two sides of the same coin. The recognition finally of the illusion of the left-right paradigm. Dual expressions of virtually identical ideologies and players orchestrated and brought to you courtesy of the Deep State.
 
Trump potentiates a complete disintegration of sentience from what is loosely referred to as the Left. And a word is in order for that. What historically was considered Left, Liberal or Progressive actually comprised a tenable platform and vision and focus. FDR New Dealers, Socialists, even Bernie Sanders’ Democratic Socialists: They all stood and stand for something other than WE’RE AGAINST TRUMP. And it annoys us who believe in many of the guiding precepts of quintessential liberalism. And Republicans fare no better. Reagan or Goldwater or Teddy Roosevelt or Lincoln Republicans are completely unrecognizable today. It’s the Uniparty that’s taken over. Uniparty aka Deep State.
 
Lest you think this a paean to POTUS 45, let me disabuse you of such. His foreign policy (if you call it that) is schizophrenic and at times cites chapter and verse from the yellowed dog-eared pages of the neocon hymnal. John Bolton? Nikki Haley? Tell me this is a practical joke and I’m the last to know. Trump wants to execute drug dealers. He tosses 60 Russian diplomats in the wake of the Skripal false flag fiasco. Not to mention he actually believes (I believe he believes) the Assad Douma gas attack fantasy. And let me remind you, Russia is a nuclear superpower. A superpower that happens to be able to add significantly to our alleged war on terror. That being said and notwithstanding the foregoing averments cited as indicia of DJT’s cosmic disconnect, he still may be the greatest POTUS in my lifetime. You heard me.
 
This is a man who decided years ago that he’d like to enter the world of TV and blew the doors off with The Apprentice. Then he thought he’d enter politics. Did he think about starting off with mayor, governor, senator? Nope. President. And not only did he win but he truncheoned 16 of the “best and brightest” and moneyed the GOP had including nature’s answer to Ambien, Jeb Bush. Then he clobbered Bernie — no, wait. Bernie was Pearl Harbored by the Oven Mitt Fashionista, HRC. And Trump KO’d her. And he used Twitter. He gave a big fat F-U! to the news media and spoke to the people directly. And the rest is . . . you know.
 
Question everything. I mean everything. Trust no one and nothing. No entity, news source, party, name it. Ask always who’s filtering the news. Who benefits? Cui bono? Cui prodest? Absent yourself from the internecine imbroglios even among ourselves. The intramural quibbling and kerfuffles. Enough with the latest intel parlor game of who’s #QAnon? Is it a he or a she or a they? Military intel or a White House insider? Is it Trump? Stop. Stop now. Wake up and look up. During what was the Watergate investigation when we were told after the fact of Deep Throat aka Mark Felt, did the WaPo editors (other than Woodward, Bernstein and Bradley) question interminably who he was or did they focus on the information that he provided? Look, Q’s not perfect. I dig who and what Q is and “his” ostensible connection with Trump. So what? Look at the morsels of tantalizing directions we’re provided. Look how we focus accordingly. We review and monitor and reacquaint ourselves with the issues before us.
 
My focus now (among the seemingly limitless range of topics of concern) is on the following (in no wise exhaustive) list.

• International large-scale sex trafficking including pedophilia and child exploitation à la the Pizzagate, PedoGate, Pedovores, Hollyweird and Pedowood rubrics.
• Surveillance and privacy violations via invasion protocols of NSA, GCHQ and Five Eyes ops as well as titularly private concerns such as Facebook, Twitter and Google/Alphabet. And with such comes the reconfiguration of First Amendment protections to deal with these DARPA-backed and seed money funded groups who act as government agents.
• The indictment of Hillary Clinton et vir for involvement in large scale criminal enterprises including inter alia CF, CGI and CHAI operations. The level of her criminality knows no bounds or limits. She’s aided and abetted, counseled, procured and hired myriad criminal organizations and racketeering enterprises that make the Gambino crime family look like the Junior League.
• The creation of a permanent committee deconstructing and exposing the official narrative fiction of 9/11. The mythology must be corrected. Instanter.
• The exposure and disclosure of Geoengineering and the spraying of stratospheric aerosolized nanoparticulates and chemicals affecting literally the entire planet Earth. It’s the easiest of issues to expose. All you have to do is look up. And open your eyes and mind.
• The potential abuses of AI and robotics especially as they apply to warfare, police-citizen interactions and the subtle insinuation of transhumanist paradigms.
• Citizen actions to expose corporate-backed mainstream media news fronts whose sole purpose is to act as the communications wing of the Deep State including unplugging, uncoupling, deleting and disengaging. Nothing shows discontent better than disgorging these propaganda behemoths from profits.
• The disclosure of collected government and private data and evidence anent EBEs, ETs, flying saucers and interstellar and alien contact. You know exactly what I’m talking about. As Stanton Friedman said, it’s the Watergate of the millennia.
• And while we’re on the subject, Hollywood must once and for all be revealed and exposed as (to paraphrase Frank Zappa) the entertainment wing of the Pentagon (or MIC or Deep State, as you wish).

These are not exhaustive as stated. But exhausting. As is the permanent and unrelenting movement of truth.
 

LIONEL STORMS THE STAGE OF THE CUTTING ROOM
 

History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true, spake Tolstoy. And today's news transmissions and platforms would also be a wonderful thing if only they were true. Through an absurdist lens, let me present to you the world as it is. Unvarnished, unedited and unplugged. The unexpurgated truth. Naked verity.

Lionel storms the stage.

But where? When? How might I attend this hallowed event?

On May 19, 2018 CE, Lionel of the United States (LOTUS) will grace the portals and steward the helm of New York’s fabled Cutting Room in his ASSUME THE LOTUS POSITION TOUR, an evening of (out)spoken word and the immaculate twang of Mother Bluegrass with his Lock ‘n Load trio. Lionel will astound his truth warrior audience with tales from the Conspiratorium, his dissection of fake news media charlatans and a look at the world through a prism that defies description and redefines comedy, satire and critical thinking. Lionel joins guitar flatpicking genius Bob Harris and banjo master Bob Sutor for a musical journey through the quintessential American musical art form that will bring our beloved republic together. You never knew the naked truth could be this exhilarating and entertaining.

Showtime is 7 PM. Doors open at 6 PM. Please click here for TICKETS.

Let me thank you for your vigilance and interest and indefatigable quest for the truth notwithstanding who benefits or suffers politically, economically or otherwise. And let me, as always, thank you for your support.

Yours in the pursuit of truth,

Lionel
Conspiratorium Clerisy
Logodaedalus & Expert

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[Foxie Loxie]

Thanks, Paula!!

Because he has a way with words Lionel is able to put succinctly what the rest of us might find hard to express! He does not claim to be a "Trumper", so even those who don't like Trump can learn a great deal from his newsletter! Enjoy!

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
Dear Lionel Nation Citizen

I can imagine various ways of improving my vocabulary, such as (1) reading the dictionary, (2) reading Roget's Thesaurus, or (3) reading Lionel Nation.

The last of these three ways might lead to the most expansive vocabulary; and I might learn a bit about the world around me in the process.