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    She Tells Her Grandma That She’s Just Been Cheated On ...



    So Grandma Tells Her To Do This

    "This is a good lesson for all of us, no matter what stage of life you’re in. You’ll see what I mean.

    A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her – her husband had cheated on her and she was devastated. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as soon as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

    Her grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.

    In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

    Turning to her granddaughter, she asked, ‘Tell me what you see.’

    ‘Carrots, eggs, and coffee,’ she replied.

    Her grandmother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The grandmother then asked the granddaughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.

    Finally, the grandmother asked the granddaughter to sip the coffee. The granddaughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The granddaughter then asked, ‘What does it mean, grandmother?’

    Her grandmother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

    “Which are you?” she asked her granddaughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

    Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity? Do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

    Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?

    Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain.. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level?

    How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

    May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

    The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

    When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

    May we all be like the COFFEE" ...

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    Obama Pushes for ISIS War Resolution - #NewWorldNextWeek

    Quote Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy
    that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.
    Published on Aug 27, 2015

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    Jeff Rense & Hesham Tillawi - Trump's Chances in The 2016 Election


    Clip from August 24, 2015 / Published on Aug 27, 2015



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    First it was the invasion of the nouveau rich techies ...
    Then another kind of invasion of stinky bugs ...

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    Is Burning Man Being Taken Over By Police ?

    Quote Burning Man may be taken over by police this year as Nevada Sheriff Jerry Allen promised a crackdown on nonviolent “crime” at the music and arts festival next week. Allen is partnering with festival organizers to patrol the event and said that officers are determined to write as many tickets and make as many arrests as they possibly can. Is the Nevada Sheriff’s Department turning Burning Man into a police state? We discuss it on the Lip News with Jose Marcelino Ortiz and Mark Sovel.
    Published on Aug 27, 2015




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    Note i use to be 6'0 ... But since getting older ... I am presently 5'11 & 3/4's ...

    I Am 5'11" (feat. Joe Bereta)

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    Inside Cults: Scientology, Manson, Kabbalah + More with Rick Alan Ross

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    "Cults, cult leaders, and brainwashing--from David Miscavige and Scientology, to the Kabbalah Center, to the Charles Manson Family and the Children of God are explored with cult specialist Rick Alan Ross. We define what makes a cult, how to deprogram victims, and the most dangerous currently active cults in this exploration of the groups and religions that can tear people out of family and society, on Media Mayhem hosted by Allison Hope Weiner" ...

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    Rick Alan Ross is a private consultant, lecturer, and cult intervention specialist. He began his work as an anti-cult activist and community organizer in 1982. Ross first became concerned about controversial groups and movements in response to a radical religious group that had covertly targeted his grandmother’s nursing home. Since that time he has raised awareness about cults and facilitated more than five hundred interventions to rescue people from cultic situations.

    Ross is one of the leading experts on cults in the world today. He has consulted with the FBI, the BATF, and various other law enforcement agencies, as well as the governments of Israel and China, on the subject of cults. Ross has been qualified, accepted and testified as an expert court witness in eleven different states within the United States including US federal court. He has worked as an expert analyst for CBS News, CBC of Canada, and Nippon and Asahi in Japan.
    Ross has lectured at more than 30 universities and colleges including the University of Chicago, Dickinson College, Carnegie Mellon, Baylor, Wuhan University of China, Assumption University of Thailand and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has also been published within peer-reviewed academic journals on the topic of cults.

    Regarding his cult intervention work Ross states that historically about 75 percent of the people that he conducts an intervention with decide to leave the group by the end of such an effort. He has done interventions across the United States and around the world. Ross did two successful interventions with the notorious Branch Davidians led by self-styled messiah David Koresh.
    Ross has appeared in fourteen documentaries and has been interviewed and quoted in media all over the world.
    Published on Aug 27, 2015


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    Rand Paul’s sneak attack strategy

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    Rand Paul’s sneak attack strategy
    A dark horse candidate, maybe? Time will tell.

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    Deal With the Devil: How the Global Elite Re-colonized China

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    Quote The "Chinese dragon" of the last two decades may be faltering but it is still hailed by many as an economic miracle. Far from a great advance for Chinese workers, however, it is the direct result of a consolidation of power in the hands of a small clique of powerful families, families that have actively collaborated with Western financial oligarchs.

    TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=15832
    Published on Aug 28, 2015


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    Torture, Enhanced Interrogation & Mind Control: Crusade of the US Empire

    Sean Stone with Michael Kearns


    "Torture, enhanced interrogation, and how counter-intelligence training from the US government has been employed to secure intelligence of questionable accuracy and morality is explored with retired Air Force Intelligence Officer and author, Michael Kearns. From SERE training, to the killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki, to how drones have created a new international state of terror and surveillance is explained as we trace the fall of America as a democracy and the rise of it as an Empire of Crusade in this Buzzsaw" ...

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    Michael “Kearnsey” Kearns is a retired Air Force Intelligence Officer, and former Master SERE instructor, who has been a vocal opponent of the Bush/Cheney torture program and the dark complexities of political war profiteering at the expense of the American people. He is the sole survivor of the world’s first four-way skydive over the South Pole and the first person to have parachuted over all seven continents. As a patriot who has risked his life and lost too many of his fellow veterans, this novel is his dedication to the truth. He is the author of BROKEN.
    Published on Aug 28, 2015
    Quote EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
    00:01 Welcoming Michael Kearns to Buzzsaw.
    00:45 SERE training for warfare and counter-intelligence--”Within the circle.”
    03:42 Enhanced interrogation and accuracy of information.
    04:30 The inspiration for BROKEN!
    06:40 The drone-terror age.
    08:15 BROKEN! inspiration from Al-Awlaki.
    09:52 Ongoing enhanced interrogation techniques.
    11:52 Brainwash and mind-control?
    13:50 Is interrogation bankable and admissible?
    15:28 The turning point for America as an empire.
    18:04 The war on terror, modern cold war, and the rally of the oppressed.
    20:35 Eerie silence over torture in the Obama administration: Black site mysteries.
    23:31 The moral of the story.
    24:57 American exceptionalism, Christian armies, and Bernie Sanders.
    29:30 Where to find more.
    31:00 Thanks and goodbye.
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    5 Hidden Secrets & Subliminal Messages Revealed

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    Quote From hidden Disney secrets, to subliminal messages in music and even the story of Gary McKinnon, the man who hacked into NASA and other secret companies and said he uncovered evidence of alien craft and other evidence of extraterrestrial beings.

    Here are five secrets and subliminal messages with a twist because there are some hidden messages in this video for you to find!
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    Via ~ The Boston Globe
    October 19, 2014



    Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
    The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon


    "The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his predecessor.

    But six years into his administration, the Obama version of national security looks almost indistinguishable from the one he inherited. Guantanamo Bay remains open. The NSA has, if anything, become more aggressive in monitoring Americans. Drone strikes have escalated. Most recently it was reported that the same president who won a Nobel Prize in part for promoting nuclear disarmament is spending up to $1 trillion modernizing and revitalizing America’s nuclear weapons.

    Why did the face in the Oval Office change but the policies remain the same? Critics tend to focus on Obama himself, a leader who perhaps has shifted with politics to take a harder line. But Tufts University political scientist Michael J. Glennon has a more pessimistic answer: Obama couldn’t have changed policies much even if he tried.

    Though it’s a bedrock American principle that citizens can steer their own government by electing new officials, Glennon suggests that in practice, much of our government no longer works that way. In a new book, “National Security and Double Government,” he catalogs the ways that the defense and national security apparatus is effectively self-governing, with virtually no accountability, transparency, or checks and balances of any kind. He uses the term “double government”: There’s the one we elect, and then there’s the one behind it, steering huge swaths of policy almost unchecked. Elected officials end up serving as mere cover for the real decisions made by the bureaucracy.

    Glennon cites the example of Obama and his team being shocked and angry to discover upon taking office that the military gave them only two options for the war in Afghanistan: The United States could add more troops, or the United States could add a lot more troops. Hemmed in, Obama added 30,000 more troops.

    Glennon’s critique sounds like an outsider’s take, even a radical one. In fact, he is the quintessential insider: He was legal counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a consultant to various congressional committees, as well as to the State Department. “National Security and Double Government” comes favorably blurbed by former members of the Defense Department, State Department, White House, and even the CIA. And he’s not a conspiracy theorist: Rather, he sees the problem as one of “smart, hard-working, public-spirited people acting in good faith who are responding to systemic incentives”—without any meaningful oversight to rein them in.

    How exactly has double government taken hold? And what can be done about it? Glennon spoke with Ideas from his office at Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. This interview has been condensed and edited.

    IDEAS: Where does the term “double government” come from?

    GLENNON:It comes from Walter Bagehot’s famous theory, unveiled in the 1860s. Bagehot was the scholar who presided over the birth of the Economist magazine—they still have a column named after him. Bagehot tried to explain in his book “The English Constitution” how the British government worked. He suggested that there are two sets of institutions. There are the “dignified institutions,” the monarchy and the House of Lords, which people erroneously believed ran the government. But he suggested that there was in reality a second set of institutions, which he referred to as the “efficient institutions,” that actually set governmental policy. And those were the House of Commons, the prime minister, and the British cabinet.

    IDEAS: What evidence exists for saying America has a double government?

    GLENNON:I was curious why a president such as Barack Obama would embrace the very same national security and counterterrorism policies that he campaigned eloquently against. Why would that president continue those same policies in case after case after case? I initially wrote it based on my own experience and personal knowledge and conversations with dozens of individuals in the military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies of our government, as well as, of course, officeholders on Capitol Hill and in the courts. And the documented evidence in the book is substantial—there are 800 footnotes in the book.

    IDEAS: Why would policy makers hand over the national-security keys to unelected officials?

    GLENNON: It hasn’t been a conscious decision....Members of Congress are generalists and need to defer to experts within the national security realm, as elsewhere. They are particularly concerned about being caught out on a limb having made a wrong judgment about national security and tend, therefore, to defer to experts, who tend to exaggerate threats. The courts similarly tend to defer to the expertise of the network that defines national security policy.

    The presidency itself is not a top-down institution, as many people in the public believe, headed by a president who gives orders and causes the bureaucracy to click its heels and salute. National security policy actually bubbles up from within the bureaucracy. Many of the more controversial policies, from the mining of Nicaragua’s harbors to the NSA surveillance program, originated within the bureaucracy. John Kerry was not exaggerating when he said that some of those programs are “on autopilot.”

    IDEAS: Isn’t this just another way of saying that big bureaucracies are difficult to change?

    GLENNON: It’s much more serious than that. These particular bureaucracies don’t set truck widths or determine railroad freight rates. They make nerve-center security decisions that in a democracy can be irreversible, that can close down the marketplace of ideas, and can result in some very dire consequences.

    IDEAS: Couldn’t Obama’s national-security decisions just result from the difference in vantage point between being a campaigner and being the commander-in-chief, responsible for 320 million lives?

    GLENNON: There is an element of what you described. There is not only one explanation or one cause for the amazing continuity of American national security policy. But obviously there is something else going on when policy after policy after policy all continue virtually the same way that they were in the George W. Bush administration.

    IDEAS: This isn’t how we’re taught to think of the American political system.

    GLENNON: I think the American people are deluded, as Bagehot explained about the British population, that the institutions that provide the public face actually set American national security policy. They believe that when they vote for a president or member of Congress or succeed in bringing a case before the courts, that policy is going to change. Now, there are many counter-examples in which these branches do affect policy, as Bagehot predicted there would be. But the larger picture is still true—policy by and large in the national security realm is made by the concealed institutions.

    IDEAS: Do we have any hope of fixing the problem?

    GLENNON: The ultimate problem is the pervasive political ignorance on the part of the American people. And indifference to the threat that is emerging from these concealed institutions. That is where the energy for reform has to come from: the American people. Not from government. Government is very much the problem here. The people have to take the bull by the horns. And that’s a very difficult thing to do, because the ignorance is in many ways rational. There is very little profit to be had in learning about, and being active about, problems that you can’t affect, policies that you can’t change._

    By Jordan Michael Smith
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    The Conspiracy Show ~ Aug 23, 2015
    Invisible Crime & Exorcism in the Catholic Church


    'Host Richard Syrett welcomes first - Michael Fitzhugh Bell tells a true story of an innocent man becoming the unwitting target of a secret criminal organization using high-tech weaponry, microchip implants, and mind control on its victims, leaving no evidence. The organization is covert, highly organized, well-funded and uses the latest technology. This heinous, unconscionable crime has gone global—and rapidly has become a huge national problem

    Next up commencing at the 50:30 mark - Archbishop Ron Feyl - the Presiding Bishop & Chief Exorcist of the Order of Exorcists since 1981 - which is under the Independent "Old" Roman Catholic Jurisdiction of The Sacred Order of Saint Michael the Archangel, Independent from the Vatican in Rome ... Will discuss demonic possessions, poltergeist activity and the symptoms of personal haunting s and how the clergy and exorcist investigators deal with the problem and may be able to help.'

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