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Worm Moon, Crow Moon Supermoon 2020
This is the last full moon of winter – appearing full from 8th March but officially peaking on Monday 9th March.The Old Farmer’s Almanac says this full moon will be the first of three supermoons in 2020. The other two will occur in April and May.
Its name of Worm Moon is derived from native tribes in North and East America – this is when the earthworms start to emerge after the frozen winter earth and their casts begin to be seen again. Among its other names are Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Lantern Moon, Sap Moon, Seed Moon and Sugar Moon.
Supermoons occur when a full moon coincides with the moon being at the closest point to the earth on its elliptical orbital journey around our planet.
“The March full moon is about the potential of a seed. Literally for gardeners and figuratively on personal level. this is a time of balance between light and dark. a time to clear away clutter, old growth and negativity to make room for new growth, inspiration and abundance”
A time for Spring-cleaning – cleansing your spirit, clearing out drawers, cupboards and paperwork and making space for the new. A time to celebrate the re-emergence of life and that one is alive to welcome in another year.
“Behold my friends, the Spring has come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of their love.”
– Chief Sitting Bull –
“Always Chase your dreams – it is better than running from your fears.”
– Cherokee Billie –
Wireless Wakeup Call – Jeromy Johnson talks about the effect of EMF and Smart Meters
How many of us pay attention to the warning in the small print on our cell phone manuals that say we should never have them closer than about an inch from our body?
Jeromy Johnson had a Masters degree in engineering and a very successful career in Silicon Valley, loved technology and had no concerns about the effects of wireless technology on our health. But “this all changed for me over the period of about one week, I started to experience headaches, ringing in the ears, insomnia and a fatigue and brain fog that I’d never experienced before and I shared this with a colleague at work and she said you know, the exact same thing happened to her husband when a wireless smart meter was installed in their home.
So I went home that evening and checked downstairs and sure enough, we had a bank of wireless smart meters installed below our bedroom in San Francisco”
He started to learn as much as possible about how the EMF (Electro Magnetic Fields that are created by so much of our modern technology) that increasingly surrounds us, affects us.
He now has the website www.emfanalysis.com which provides information and advice on the subject.
Common symptoms caused by EMF (Confirmed by 100s of scientific studies)
Insomnia/Sleep Disturbance
Headaches
Ear Ringing/Tinnitus
Fatigue
Cognitive Disturbances
Irritability/Stress
Prolonged Effects:
Infertility
DNA Damage
Cancer
His investigations showed that people of all kinds went from living a normal life to being unable to continue work because of the effect of WiFi on them, people have had to move out of their homes, some have even become homeless because of this. “I know of people who have even taken their lives because there is essentially no place they can go, and this is something that society is not yet recognising.”
“I can’t be in an environment with strong wifi for very long so I can’t go to my work the way I used to be able to, most environments are now essentially toxic to me. Even finding a safe place to live has become very difficult”
Many people ignore it because they can’t feel the effects, but the science shows that we are all affected, whether we can feel it or not. The reason is because essentially our bodies are electric, every cell in our body communicates using tiny electric signals, its how our nervous system operates, so to think that we can put an exponential amount of microwave radiation in your environment and not feel effects, is simply false.
Research this for yourself – Google “EMF Research”
The reason the regulatory bodies in our countries do so little to protect us from the effects of Wifi is because they are so influenced by industry funding. They get money from the companies they are supposed to be regulating, and there is a revolving door between the wireless lobby and regulatory bodies.
A Few Solutions:
Use cell phones wisely – don’t put them closer than about an inch from your ear
Use a wired Headset (not Bluetooth). Put it on airplane mode when on the body in the pocket etc – you won’t get any calls but you won’t be subject to radiation effects.
Kids should not use cell phones, but if they must, teach them how to use them wisely
Switch to wired rather than wifi in the home
Put your router on a simple timer at night
Kids – if they use an ipad, put all the data onto the ipad and turn the wifi off
Schools should not have wifi – filling the classrooms with microwave radiation
Smart meter and smart home – opt out.
Many people who use “smart” devices in their homes get sick within a few months
Create safe places to sleep.
Turn off all wireless devices, unplug things. Turn baby monitors off.
This helps one sleep better, and be clearer during the day, withmuch less fatigue.
This is a problem we can solve
“If enough people realise this is important then industry will start creating safe technology and our society can move toward a healthier future”
There are ways we can protect ourselves and move the industry forward:
Move towards fiber optics, rather than wifi – make our homes, businesses and schools safer.
Fiber optics are safe, secure and one of the fastest things we can use.
Design products which are safer, currently we have engineers and product designers working together to create products, we could bring in biophysicists and biologists and start creating products that emit the least amount of any type of EMF as possible
“If Smart Meters had been designed to use fiber optics and emit just once or twice a day rather than the 10,000 times they do emit..” thousands of people around the world would not have been injured by them.
Ireland Pledges to Become the World’s First Country to Divest from Fossil Fuels
A landmark vote in the Dáil (National Assembly of Ireland) on Thursday July 12, 2018 means that Ireland is set to become the first country in the world to divest public money from fossil fuel assets
The Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill, introduced by independent TD Thomas Pringle, will force the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to sell off its investments in the global fossil fuel industry. In June 2017 these stood at €318 million, across 150 companies.
“This means the Bill is both substantive and symbolic,” Mr Meehan said. “It will stop public moneyu being invested against the public interest, and it sends a clear signal, nationally and globally that action on the climate crisis needs to be accelerated urgently, starting with the phase out of fossil fuels.”
The Global Legal Action Network helped to draft the bill and Gerry Liston, one of its legal officers stressed the need for urgency, saying:
“Governments will not meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement if they continue to financially sustain the fossil fuel industry. Countries the world over must now urgently follow Ireland’s lead and divest from fossil fuels.”
Read more about this on the Irish Times article: Ireland set to sell off €318 million investments in fossil fuels
My Soul is in a Hurry
Beautiful poem by Mario de Andrade (San Paolo 1893-1945) Poet, novelist, essayist and musicologist.
One of the founders of Brazilian modernism.
__________________________
MY SOUL HAS A HAT
I counted my years
& realized that I have
Less time to live by,
Than I have lived so far.
I feel like a child who won a pack of candies:
at first he ate them with pleasure
But when he realized that there was little left,
he began to taste them intensely.
I have no time for endless meetings
where the statutes, rules, procedures & internal regulations are discussed,
knowing that nothing will be done.
I no longer have the patience
To stand absurd people who,
despite their chronological age,
have not grown up.
My time is too short:
I want the essence,
my spirit is in a hurry.
I do not have much candy
In the package anymore.
I want to live next to humans,
very realistic people who know
How to laugh at their mistakes,
Who are not inflated by their own triumphs
& who take responsibility for their actions.
In this way, human dignity is defended
and we live in truth and honesty.
It is the essentials that make life useful.
I want to surround myself with people
who know how to touch the hearts of those whom hard strokes of life
have learned to grow with sweet touches of the soul.
Yes, I’m in a hurry.
I’m in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.
I do not intend to waste any of the remaining desserts.
I am sure they will be exquisite,
much more than those eaten so far.
My goal is to reach the end satisfied
and at peace with my loved ones and my conscience.
We have two lives
& the second begins when you realize you only have one.
NODAPL Daniel Sheehan and Larry Sinkin give Update on Chase Iron Eyes Case April 2018
NODAPL Daniel Sheehan and Larry Sinkin give Update on Chase Iron Eyes Case
Daniel Sheehan and Lanny Sinkin give an update on some very positive developments in the latest hearing of the Chase Iron Eyes NoDAPL case.
There were 800 cases against DAPL protestors but most were dealt with and very quickly dismissed. The Iron Eyes case is being used as a flagship case and done in detail to expose what really happened at Standing Rock.
(Chase Iron Eyes was jailed for “inciting a riot” and “trespassing” – on land that has belonged to the Native American peoples for hundreds of years)
Larry Sinkin explains what was actually taking place when the protesters were attacked by police:
‘What was going on on February 1st was the Lakota People were establishing a new Sacred Site, so they were up at the Last Child Camp on a hill, they built the Sacred Fire, they put up the Seven Sacred Teepees and they were beginning to do a religious ceremony calling upon their ancestors to come and help them stop the Black Snake – the pipeline and the police came and arrested them for engaging in a riot.
The only confrontation that went on at all was the Police trying to break people apart who had locked arms and the police engaging in violence in doing that, and they put this totally phony charge against the prayerful people of the Lakota Nation. In order to “prove their point” that these were terrorists, they had to attack them and try and provoke them. And they were not provoked, they went peacefully, they were arrested and now are being defended by us and the Water Protectors Legal Corps.”
Daniel Sheehan explains why the Iron Eyes case is such a historical and important case:
The attempt on the part of the Petroleum Industry to establish a working partnership with one of the private military corporations made up of retired special forces who have now become employees of the private military corporation. These forces have been very active overseas in the Middle East but this is the first time they have come home to the US and deployed against American Citizens.
Their targeting the Native American people charectarises them as anti Christian, religiously driven jihadist terrorists – trying to invoke the Terrorism statute against the Native People to keep them from organising against these pipelines.
This template that they are attempting to establish in North Dakota has to be confronted by our people, it has to be revealed to the court and we need to be able to develop the legal precident that will allow the discovery against these corporations to show the type of tactics that they engaged in.
That they are engaged in these anti-terrorism tactics of infiltrating the organisations, surveilling them, monitoring their cellphone conversations, their internet communications. They are inserting agents provocateur into the organisatons trying to instigate them to engage in unlawful activities.
They are engaged in a huge public diplomacy campaign, they’ve hired private PR firms that were involved in being hired by the George Bush junior administration to try to sell the war in Iraq, to try to convince people here in our country, falsely that Iraq was in possession of Nuclear weapons. They instigated a completely false invasion of the Middle Eastern Oil Fields.
These are the soldiers of that effort and they are invoking the same procedures that they used against the indigenous people and tribal people of the Middle East, now against the indigenous people here in North America.
This is extremely important that it be stopped, that there be an effective counter strategy developed to stop that type of activity and to stop that alliance between the major Oil Corporations and these private Military Corporations.”
A Different Berlin Wall
This promotional video created by phone company LG and projected on a building in Berlin incorporates some very imaginative high-tech imagery and intelligent scripting which heightens the impression of “audience participation” in an alternative dimension.
It also gives new meaning to the term: “Berlin Wall” – a wonder-filled example of how applied creative imagination can provide the “magic” that helps to re-structure reality in new and exciting ways.
The World’s Saddest Dolphins
…Are the ones enslaved by human beings….
This report was put together by ACRES – Animal Concerns Research and Education Society.
Dolphins don’t express emotions with their facial muscles.
Their mouth is just shaped in a way that we humans misinterpret as a smile. So even when a dolphin is suffering from high stress, visitors to marine parks often come away thinking that the dolphin is having a good time. This is usually far from the truth.
Captive dolphins are abducted dolphins.
Dolphins are highly intelligent social creatures that live in pods, forming close bonds with family members. Humans visitors to marine aquariums often fail to see that the dolphins there had to have been ripped from their natural ocean environments, snatched away from their family and pod mates, held in nets, carried in trucks, hoisted into planes and flown for hours.
Most dolphins die during capture.
30% to 80% of dolphins die during the capture itself, mostly from drowning in the nets and from wounds sustained during the process. Others may die pretty soon after, from the stress, panic and trauma. Think about it this way. To bring a single dolphin into an aquarium, the captors may have caused the death of four of her pod mates.
Transport is traumatic.
A dolphin’s body is not adapted to air temperatures or the effects of gravity on land. So when a dolphin is hoisted out of the water, she can overheat very quickly. And the sudden pressure of her own body weight over her inner organs can cause severe pain and sometimes permanent cramps all over its body. Imagine going through such agony for ten to twelve hours while being transported to a new water tank. These cramps can even make the dolphin incapable of moving when lowered back into the water, resulting in death by drowning.
Captivity is sensory deprivation.
Dolphins in the wild are very curious animals and live in a world full of sounds, sights, movement, colour, varying landscapes and changing currents. Contrast this with the captive environment – often four walls in a land-based lagoon devoid of visual or auditory stimuli. There’s nowhere to go except back and forth. And nothing to do except turn round and round.
The food is now dead fish, and it arrives in a bucket. The dolphins in concrete-walled pools face the worst hell of all, with their sonar bouncing back and forth deafeningly.
There’s nothing natural about their new lives.
The late ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau said: “No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.” Free-living dolphins from the ocean are accustomed to three-dimensional surroundings, to diving deep and travelling great distances. These conditions cannot be duplicated in captivity, where natural feeding and foraging patterns are lost and even behaviours associated with mating, dominance, and maternal care are severely altered.
Captivity leads to insanity.
Prisoners in solitary confinement, caged zoo animals and captive dolphins develop similar behaviour patterns. They pace back and forth, rock and sway, bang their heads and in the case of dolphins, swim endlessly in tight circles. This is called stereotypical behaviour and it’s a sign of neurosis. It stems from the destruction of the dolphin’s sophisticated social structure, the feelings of intense claustrophobia and the profound frustration from being unable to hunt or behave naturally. The symptoms may even include suicidal behaviour and unnatural aggression.
Keeping dolphins in captivity shows a lack of intelligence in humans.
Dolphins are incredibly clever creatures, even brighter than chimpanzees according to some scientists. They are capable of great emotion and sensitivity. Some researchers have suggested that they should be treated as “non-human persons”. We have to ask ourselves if it is morally acceptable, or even clever of us humans, to confine such amazing animals in amusement parks.