Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Calz]

Posted by ulli (here)

But if there are no trials, and no accountability for the guards that hold those political prisoners hostage, what is there to stop them from getting rid of these people altogether? Why bother to feed them at all?
Just wondering out loud....

Cheap labor (ie only the cost of feeding, housing, medical etc.).

With the NDAA now law I believe "they" can do all those things "legally" now anyway.

[DeDukshyn]

My new cat Kingston is growing at an incredible rate, he just turned four months and weighs in at 7+lbs. He still thinks of himself as kitten size so he gets himself hut=rt alot trying to do impossible things. Just the other day while I was on the phone he came flying into the room, jumped on to, then leaped off of the chair, and did some flying "snakebite" maneuver and managed to impale his front incisors into my upper arm. He wasn't trying to hurt me of course, but still has a kitten mentality and doesn't really know what is a good idea or not. Nonetheless I still love the little giant. He truly means no harm and and is the most loving and cuddly kitty ever, I just have to make sure he gets enough play. I just hope he starts to get used to his ginormousness soon (He is already the exact size of my last cat as an adult), as he really seems to be in the "clumsy teenager" phase right now.

Just got him a big play house he can climb, so hopefully this saves the furniture. Very energetic cat

[1inMany]

Well sh!t. I wasn't down enough? Maybe I live with my head in the sand. Maybe I live behind a rock, under a rock? This kind of stuff is so heavy. I'm just a li'l ole lady, trying to do the best I can with the hand I've been dealt. And hearing more and more things that I can do nothing about...just sucks, that's what it does, it just sucks. There must be something more. There must be Someone higher that sees this injustice that will stop it, or give us the tools, or...or...something. I don't see how I could do it, though I would if I could.

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by ulli (here)
Any moment now this thread will pass the 800,000 views mark.

One suggestion:
Let's refrain from posting for a few hours, to give this picture a chance to be seen by as many people as possible,
before disappearing in the archives of this fast-moving thread.

Few people understand the reason why products made in China are so cheap.
Slave labour is common, and there are many huge work camps housing millions.

I just want the world to know about this.




More here:
http://www.oregonlive.com/happy-vall..._carry_ha.html

If that doesn't hurt your heart, you are either dead or a sociopath.

(May this serve as a bump as well, as it keeps the specific topic on top.)

Dennis

[1inMany]

Today after M's therapy appointment, I got her a bit to eat. As we were driving away, a man crossed our path. He was pulling a rolly cart with a duffel strapped to it, was carrying a rolled up blanket. He had a hat on, I was thankful to see, as it was about 27 degrees F at the time and had snowed and rained last night. He didn't have gloves, I don't think.

So I grabbed my wallet without thinking, and looked inside. I had to call him over, because he was engrossed in his thoughts. I asked if he needed some help, and gave him a ten dollar bill. Another time, on another day, that would have felt like a lot of money to me. Today, it did not feel like enough. He said, "thank you, ma'am, I have my little cat in there" and pointed to his duffel. He asked if there was a store nearby so he could buy something for the cat to eat, and we talked a little. We talked for a few minutes, such a kind man he was. I waited until he was finished talking and listened to everything he had to say. Upon parting, he said "God Bless You."

No sweeter words have been muttered.

M said, "Mom, that was a $10 bill." And I said, "yes."

We drove down the road a piece, and M said, "I wonder where his family is."

I said, "today, sweetie, we are his family."

[1inMany]

And for the more cynical Villagers, lol, I also said to M..."If he buys something to drink with that, it will keep him warmer than the blanket..."

[1inMany]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Any moment now this thread will pass the 800,000 views mark.

One suggestion:
Let's refrain from posting for a few hours, to give this picture a chance to be seen by as many people as possible,
before disappearing in the archives of this fast-moving thread.

Few people understand the reason why products made in China are so cheap.
Slave labour is common, and there are many huge work camps housing millions.

I just want the world to know about this.




More here:
http://www.oregonlive.com/happy-vall..._carry_ha.html

If that doesn't hurt your heart, you are either dead or a sociopath.

(May this serve as a bump as well, as it keeps the specific topic on top.)

Dennis

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[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
..

There - I rearranged things - your bump is now a bump in its own right (I re-purposed your post responding to my post, explaining all this ... )

[ulli]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Well sh!t. I wasn't down enough? Maybe I live with my head in the sand. Maybe I live behind a rock, under a rock? This kind of stuff is so heavy. I'm just a li'l ole lady, trying to do the best I can with the hand I've been dealt. And hearing more and more things that I can do nothing about...just sucks, that's what it does, it just sucks. There must be something more. There must be Someone higher that sees this injustice that will stop it, or give us the tools, or...or...something. I don't see how I could do it, though I would if I could.

When people study the Baha'i Revelation they often complain that there is not enough love in it.
The central keyword is Justice. The main command is the prohibition of interpretation via clergy, and each Bahai must learn to read and write so as to have direct access to the spirit behind the writings of Baha'u'llah.

After a while it starts to dawn on them that it's all about system change. That this is not a religion at all, but a political system, different from any that has ever been known in the past.
It takes a while to find it, then even longer to study it in its details.
The PTB have done everything possible to prevent the public from finding it, even infiltrating it to distort it further...just like they did with astrology. But spirit prepares the seekers, helps them to formulate questions, prompts them to empty the cup of old teachings and ideas....so I believe that everything will be ok.
Never perfect, but that would mean that there could be no further growth.
But the extremes of the current polarization will be lessened...social justice will come when enough people demand it. The answers are here already, what is missing is sufficient outcry.

[Hervé]

Posted by Calz (here)
[...]


Cheap labor (ie only the cost of feeding, housing, medical etc.).

With the NDAA now law I believe "they" can do all those things "legally" now anyway.

Indeed:

Posted by Amzer Zo (here)
And... about "Rap":

Also see this PA thread here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...nged-Rap-Music

“The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation”

[...]

Between the late 80′s and early 90’s, I was what you may call a “decision maker” with one of the more established company in the music industry. I came from Europe in the early 80’s and quickly established myself in the business. The industry was different back then. Since technology and media weren’t accessible to people like they are today, the industry had more control over the public and had the means to influence them anyway it wanted. This may explain why in early 1991, I was invited to attend a closed door meeting with a small group of music business insiders to discuss rap music’s new direction. Little did I know that we would be asked to participate in one of the most unethical and destructive business practice I’ve ever seen.

[...]

The subject quickly changed as the speaker went on to tell us that the respective companies we represented had invested in a very profitable industry which could become even more rewarding with our active involvement. He explained that the companies we work for had invested millions into the building of privately owned prisons and that our positions of influence in the music industry would actually impact the profitability of these investments. I remember many of us in the group immediately looking at each other in confusion. At the time, I didn’t know what a private prison was but I wasn’t the only one

[...]

As the months passed, rap music had definitely changed direction. I was never a fan of it but even I could tell the difference. Rap acts that talked about politics or harmless fun were quickly fading away as gangster rap started dominating the airwaves. Only a few months had passed since the meeting but I suspect that the ideas presented that day had been successfully implemented. It was as if the order has been given to all major label executives. The music was climbing the charts and most companies when more than happy to capitalize on it. Each one was churning out their very own gangster rap acts on an assembly line. Everyone bought into it, consumers included. Violence and drug use became a central theme in most rap music. I spoke to a few of my peers in the industry to get their opinions on the new trend but was told repeatedly that it was all about supply and demand. Sadly many of them even expressed that the music reinforced their prejudice of minorities.

[...]

Well, may be Cheney and his Halliburton/KBR stuff might have a hand in those prisons and their building... you know, the same companies which built Auschwitz as labor camp for the Rockefellers (see this post <---)

[DeDukshyn]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
And for the more cynical Villagers, lol, I also said to M..."If he buys something to drink with that, it will keep him warm better than the blanket..."

I haven't been keeping up so I have no idea what this actually means, but in its entirety, it sure sounds like a famous quote from a classic movie, doesn't it?

I see some artistic value .. somehow ..

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)
But if there are no trials, and no accountability for the guards that hold those political prisoners hostage, what is there to stop them from getting rid of these people altogether? Why bother to feed them at all?
Just wondering out loud....

When the wanton killing begins, that is when they will finally believe that they cannot be stopped.

They do it out of sight in foreign countries. meaning, Western media does not report on it.

When they start killing these people they are holding in the USA, then it will be case of feeling that they cannot be stopped in the USA by the people of the USA.

'Rules' are abandoned in the endgame scenarios, is the deal.

That such a thing usually happens in conjunction with other..considerations. Ie, open fascism, brownshirts, the whole bit. In whatever shape it takes, that would be the overall character of it.

we're not quite there yet, but some people are being rounded up, to some degree. It IS minor, no matter how it may feel, even if personal. So far. It may change. apparently this 'program' has changed some, specifically more detainees, which is the why of the private companies being used as 'holding cells'.

For example, I just read that 100,000 Chinese log on to the internet, for the first time, every day. That's a lot of people. That's a 70 million a year increase, in china alone.

[ulli]

Posted by Amzer Zo (here)

Posted by Calz (here)
[...]


Cheap labor (ie only the cost of feeding, housing, medical etc.).

With the NDAA now law I believe "they" can do all those things "legally" now anyway.

Indeed:

Posted by Amzer Zo (here)
And... about "Rap":

Also see this PA thread here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...nged-Rap-Music

“The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation”

[...]

Between the late 80′s and early 90’s, I was what you may call a “decision maker” with one of the more established company in the music industry. I came from Europe in the early 80’s and quickly established myself in the business. The industry was different back then. Since technology and media weren’t accessible to people like they are today, the industry had more control over the public and had the means to influence them anyway it wanted. This may explain why in early 1991, I was invited to attend a closed door meeting with a small group of music business insiders to discuss rap music’s new direction. Little did I know that we would be asked to participate in one of the most unethical and destructive business practice I’ve ever seen.

[...]

The subject quickly changed as the speaker went on to tell us that the respective companies we represented had invested in a very profitable industry which could become even more rewarding with our active involvement. He explained that the companies we work for had invested millions into the building of privately owned prisons and that our positions of influence in the music industry would actually impact the profitability of these investments. I remember many of us in the group immediately looking at each other in confusion. At the time, I didn’t know what a private prison was but I wasn’t the only one

[...]

As the months passed, rap music had definitely changed direction. I was never a fan of it but even I could tell the difference. Rap acts that talked about politics or harmless fun were quickly fading away as gangster rap started dominating the airwaves. Only a few months had passed since the meeting but I suspect that the ideas presented that day had been successfully implemented. It was as if the order has been given to all major label executives. The music was climbing the charts and most companies when more than happy to capitalize on it. Each one was churning out their very own gangster rap acts on an assembly line. Everyone bought into it, consumers included. Violence and drug use became a central theme in most rap music. I spoke to a few of my peers in the industry to get their opinions on the new trend but was told repeatedly that it was all about supply and demand. Sadly many of them even expressed that the music reinforced their prejudice of minorities.

[...]

Well, may be Cheney and his Halliburton/KBR stuff might have a hand in those prisons and their building... you know, the same companies which built Auschwitz as labor camp for the Rockefellers (see this post <---)

Thanks for this eye opener, Amzer Zo. I don't doubt it for one minute.

[Carmody]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Well sh!t. I wasn't down enough? Maybe I live with my head in the sand. Maybe I live behind a rock, under a rock? This kind of stuff is so heavy. I'm just a li'l ole lady, trying to do the best I can with the hand I've been dealt. And hearing more and more things that I can do nothing about...just sucks, that's what it does, it just sucks. There must be something more. There must be Someone higher that sees this injustice that will stop it, or give us the tools, or...or...something. I don't see how I could do it, though I would if I could.

Only after broken, does repair come.

And we stubbornly hang on to what we know, our 'dying breath', you might say. We FIGHT change. the harder the world hits, the more we externalize, the more the ego rises up, the more the body colors our perceptions.

Change starts and ends, within. and if you will not break yourself, then the reflection of the world will increase in it's nightmare shape, until you finally DO break inside.

And the break must be complete, total. Complete decent into madness. To pass through it and come out the other side.

Clarity is a fire sale.

EVERYTHING must go, including your very core ideas on life and being alive. All of it.

The world, both individually and in unison, will descend into madness, is the likely situation....before it goes clear.

All opportunity to do and be otherwise has been given.

But the ego is strong and so many identify breath, body, beating heats, life, family, sky, grass, air, wind, sunlight, shimmering flowing water, the laughter of children.....all of that..as life itself, when it is not.

The medium is not the message..... but it is the carrier of the motion toward.

[gripreaper]

Little Girl shows Santa her "ouwie"

[1inMany]

Posted by Carmody (here)
and if you will not break yourself, then the reflection of the world will increase in it's nightmare shape, until you finally DO break inside. And the break must be complete, total. Complete decent into madness. To pass through it and come out the other side.

Well, I'm sitting here trying to decipher the wisdom. I know it's here. I'm reading and re-reading, and pondering...thinking the more I read it the closer I will be to understanding what you are saying.

Are you saying I'm going to have to go absolutely crazy before something becomes clear? Or...hell, can you say this another way? I feel like an idiot asking for clarification, but there is something in what you are saying and I can't find it...

[TargeT]

Posted by DeDukshyn (here)
My new cat Kingston... Very energetic cat

I've got 10 little monsters that act very much the same way (though mostly stay on the ground, except for little leaps and jumps)

They got to maul Santa a few days ago


and in general seem to like practicing being cute, before or after destroying what ever you forget to supervise them with.....








etc... there's 10 of em.. so I have a lot of pictures.. haha

[Carmody]

Posted by 1inMany (here)

and if you will not break yourself, then the reflection of the world will increase in it's nightmare shape, until you finally DO break inside. And the break must be complete, total. Complete decent into madness. To pass through it and come out the other side.

Well, I'm sitting here trying to decipher the wisdom. I know it's here. I'm reading and re-reading, and pondering...thinking the more I read it the closer I will be to understanding what you are saying.

Are you saying I'm going to have to go absolutely crazy before something becomes clear? Or...hell, can you say this another way? I feel like an idiot asking for clarification, but there is something in what you are saying and I can't find it...

Yes, but that is the thing, you see, it is you, in you, connected to you, part of you, yet not any of those things. The doorway of life, is not life itself, life is only it's reflection. And only a partial reflection, at that. it is everything you are, everything you think, everything that beats with the heart of life within you..... but it is more, it is beyond, it is inside of, it is beneath, it is above, It is everywhere, it is nothing.

In the same way that a person will marry the same partner 4 times, before realizing that they should not, and finally get the lesson that the problem that remains is inside of their perceptions and reflective and reflexive mind..a person will go to an ashram and work with a guru, until they finally understand that they never needed to.

[1inMany]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)

and if you will not break yourself, then the reflection of the world will increase in it's nightmare shape, until you finally DO break inside. And the break must be complete, total. Complete decent into madness. To pass through it and come out the other side.

Well, I'm sitting here trying to decipher the wisdom. I know it's here. I'm reading and re-reading, and pondering...thinking the more I read it the closer I will be to understanding what you are saying.

Are you saying I'm going to have to go absolutely crazy before something becomes clear? Or...hell, can you say this another way? I feel like an idiot asking for clarification, but there is something in what you are saying and I can't find it...

Yes, but that is the thing, you see, it is you, in you, connected to you, part of you, yet not any of those things. The doorway of life, is not life itself, life is only it's reflection. And only a partial reflection, at that. it is everything you are, everything you think, everything that beats with the heart of life within you..... but it is more, it is beyond, it is inside of, it is beneath, it is above, It is everywhere, it is nothing.

Oh. So break from reality by detaching from this particular matrix of reality. The world becomes more nightmarish until one can break from it by seeing that it exists only as literally as nothingness...

Am I on the right track now?

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Oh, TargeT...

etc... there's 10 of em.. so I have a lot of pictures.. haha

They are the cutest little things! I understand all the pictures, I had a million also when all eight of our puppies were still little bitty. I'm down to 2 1/2...well, 3 but Milk Dud is on her way out. Mike's finding her a new lovely home, lol, and we will be down to two. Have fun

[modwiz]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Someone mentioned Steve Winwood last night, and I started humming, 'bring me a higher love', with the misheard lyrics "bring me a Rye and Coke" ('think about it...there must be..Rye and Coke')

Helsinki, 1967, age 18, on guitar and vocals.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qs1iDk-Fst0

I've posted this thing before, but, I still wonder, where have all the younger 'monster' musicians gone? Do they not happen anymore, or is there just so little respect for the core of what music is, that it is, as a human focus - being lost? How can that be? ...As music is patterned energy levels and frequency... and such 'intelligent' oscillations are the one thing that is core to all dimensions and translates across dimensional barriers.

The industry changed. Success brought excess. Like all corporations, it squeezes the life out of what ever might contain more wealth. Modern capitalism will kill a goose for its golden eggs. They try and be clever, and don't outright kill, instead they keep hoping they can get put less in to get out whatever there is. They parasitize it until it is just a husk. Lady Gaga is actually a huge musical talent, (writer and singer). It is buried under all the layers of crap that is modern culture. Kind of like adding monotomic gold to taco bell.

My latest musical endeavors have been about exploring the relationships of notes and timings. Using the snowflake metaphor of working within might seem a limited structure, but instead finding the infinite variety found by the juxtaposition of basic elements. Familiar melodies, placed in endless timings, tempos and the value of emptiness between one not and another. The elapsed times create energetic patterns, within other energies of harmony and basic rhythm. I am having a very good time with it.

I have also begun playing my electric guitars through some very basic two or three tube amplifiers. There is great magic in those glowing little bottles and what they do to sound. There are many different kinds of tubes as well. Each one with its own idea of what to do with the signals you send them. It is really magical.