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Friday, 27 June 2014

News of the World: Earth Changes (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; CBS
Summer 2014: All concerts free and open to the public (levittla.org/KPFK.org)
(LIP TV) Documentary of "Code Black" about the first modern emergency room, C Booth, a trauma bay concept invented in Los Angeles' County-USC Medical Center, our "General Hospital"
  
New
Taking meds to feel normal?
LOS ANGELES, California - A notorious trauma bay in an inner-city ER earns its keep as the "hurt locker of medicine" as new, idealistic, and adrenaline-seeking doctors train in an environment akin to a war-zone.

When the hospital moves to a swank, new building the rush fades, and a bad bureaucracy gridlocks the state-of-the-art facility.

The doctors are faced with the unexpected realities of life and death in a safety-net health care system at the brink of overload. Now playing. Don't worry. "Nothing Bad Can Happen"...and if it does, there's always C Booth:

"Christian torture porn" from Germany, now showing in L.A.
There are no such things as UFOs
(JUN 2014): New Rule Leaves Drivers Furious & Shocked!Google Earth Map catches image of UFO with passenger
Don't forget to watch the soccer/football match! But first take a shower, Hattiesburg, to wipe the stench of near-defeat off you as we were ready to rejoice.
 
EARTH FILES (@ earthfiles.com)

Moon (Chandra) seen from atop Earth (Bhumi)
Subscribe to Real X-Files and Archive - Books and DVDsConferences: Earthfiles' Linda Moulton Howe speaking about 12,000-year-old Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, and whistleblowers' leaks about ET self-activating technologies at MUFON Int'l. Conference (July 18-20, 2014), Cherry Hills, New Jersey. Contact in the Desert (August 8-10, 2014), Joshua Tree Retreat Center, California
  • AUDIO: Most of the water on Earth not in oceans but in mantle rocks 400 miles below crust (MP3) See lab-grown crystals of ringwoodite contain 1st% of H2O (Steve Jacobsen, Ph.D., Geophysicist, Northwestern University)
  • AUDIO: Eerie metallic scraping sounds heard from Michigan to Alaska: “If you had a snowplow going down a dry street and you had this loud sound of scraping metal against concrete, almost like a squealing as it's scraping.” - Pattie, Resident, Ann Arbor, MI, sound heard June 18, 2014. “All of a sudden I heard an extremely loud screeching noise. It sounded like a 10,000-gallon steel drum being drug over a bed or rocks.” - Gordon, Construction, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska 2011
  • AUDIO: Another “Dragonfly Drone” Sighting and Isaac Whistleblower, but the Year Was 1981. One of a dozen photos of dragonfly drone taken in Big Basin, Redwoods State Park northwest of Santa Cruz, California, on June 5, 2007. See 061707 Earthfiles.
  • CIA's “Anonymous Kewper” briefed Eisenhower and Nixon in 1959 About UFOs, Human Abductions and Animal Mutilations. Pres. Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, with his VP Richard Nixon in White House. “Anonymous Kewper Stein” briefed them both in Washington, D.C., along with his CIA boss, Anthony, about German discs, extraterrestrial craft, human abductions and animal mutilations in 1959.
  • June 21, 2014 - Summer Solstice: Today at 6:51 AM EDT, the Sun was shining directly above the Tropic of Cancer marking this as the longest day of 2014 for the Northern Hemisphere and beginning of summer. This same day marks the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere where winter begins. These seasons happen because Earth is tilted on its axis at a 23.5-degree angle.
  • June 20, 2014 - Earth's Core Changes Are Changing Magnetic Fields. Swarm satellite (ESA) measurements made the last 6 months show a dramatic decline over North and South America with a strengthening of the Earth's magnetic field over the southern Indian Ocean. June 2014 image by ESA's Swarm Satellite. Magnetic North continues to move towards Siberia where a large magma rise under the crust has been occurring for the past three decades. This new picture reinforces the concept that the Earth's magnetic poles are building up to a switch. Over the last 200 years, the magnetic field has weakened by about 15%. Over the last 20 million years, the poles have reversed on average about every 200,000 to 300,000 years. But the last pole reversal was 780,000 years ago, so Earth is long overdue for a pole change. What exactly happens to Earth life at such pole reversals is unknown. See 020111 Earthfiles.
  • June 20, 2014 - Labyrinth Crop Formation in Celle, France. See: video and ground shots, Cropcircleconnector. First reported on June 12, 2014. Aerial © 2014 by Yannick Pezeu. High altitude aerial of wheat labyrinth near Celle and Savigny-sur-Braye, Loir-et-Cher, France. Wheat pattern reported June 12, 2014. Vendome is 108 miles southwest of Paris, France, and only 19 miles east of Besse-sur-Braye and Celle, Loir-et-Cher, France.
  • June 17, 2014 - Puzzling Swarm of 5.7 Magnitude Quakes in Alaska since April 18th. “At this point, we don't really understand the nature of these earthquakes.” - Natasha Ruppert, Seismologist, Alaska Earthquake Center. Monday, June 16, 2014, at 4:01 AM, the fifth 5.7 magnitude earthquake since April 18th in same Alaska region northeast of Noatak, an Eskimo village of 560. Residents are not used to having the ground shake. There are no active faults in the region. The earth keeps moving miles below the Earth's surface, so human activities such as surface mining are ruled out as the cause. See: Alaska Earthquake Center.
  • June 15, 2014 - 1953 to 1981: Project AQUARIUS — 16 Volumes About UFOs and IACs. Click for Real X-File. “In the 1976 MJ3 report, it was estimated the Alien's technology was many thousands of years ahead of United States technology.” - Alleged historic MJ12 TOP SECRET Executive Briefing
  • June 12, 2014 - AUDIO: The Unexplained - Interview UK broadcaster Howard Hughes with Linda Moulton Howe. Bizarre MH370 disappearance; phenomenal Human-E.T. hybrids
  • June 10, 2014 - Illinois Is First State to Ban Microbeads. Click for report. “I'm optimistic that we've started a nationwide movement to protect not just the Great Lakes, but other bodies of water with high concentrations of microbeads.” - Illinois State Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago), Bill Co-Sponsor.

Thursday, 12 June 2014

Tonight: See the Honey Moon all night long

Dhr. Seven, Bhante, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
The Moon will be big, bright, yellow, and very close tonight (latimes.com)
Honey full moon lunar observance or Madhu Purnima (thedailystar.net, 9-12-11)
Tonight, Chandra/Luna the Moon is providing a spectacular show in the sky (akasha) above Bhumi (Earth/Gaia). Every month has a full moon, a "month" (which we should call a moonth) being four weeks, a week being seven days, a day being 24 hours. Because with arithmetic like this, a year is 364 days (13x28) or 13 months rather than 12. The last or 365th day is New Year's Day, a fresh start, and resets the calendar. That is how it was, and that is how it would be, if we reverted to the more accurate, useful, and intuitive lunar calendar. The ancient societies had versions of it, not the least of which was the Buddhist calendar and the more ancient Mayan calendar. Buddhism, using Indian time, celebrated the lunar days of the new moon, quarter moon, half moon, and full moon as uposatha or "observance" days of intensive meditation, study, and hearing the Dharma. The tradition lives on around the world, including the USA. Seek out any Mahayana (Japanese roku sainichi) or Theravada temple, be it Thai, Burmese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian (Khmer), Laotian, Bangladeshi (East Bengal), or Indonesian, and feel free to participate in its monthly observance, dressed in white, practicing devotional activities, recalling the Buddha, endeavoring to comprehend the Dharma, and eating great ethnic foods. There are are least 25 temples to choose from in greater Los Angeles. The "Full Moon Honey Offering" is a special poornima or "full moon" observance day relating to remarkable event in the forest between the Buddha and a generous monkey and attentive elephant. Ancient yogic tradition calls for fasting on full moon days. The Buddha modified this to mean not eating after noon, which is the daily practice of Theravada monastics.

Saturday, 3 May 2014

Earth Day Pasadena: Family Fun (video)

Xochitl, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Katrina Hoven; CityofPasadena.net
Most of us now rarely think about where our food comes from. This video documents the story of a small urban lot and what a sustainable farm looks like. PathtoFreedom has an "urban homestead" on a successful half acre in Pasadena.

Earth Day L.A.: Pasadena Earth and Arts Festival 
Earth Day with WQ, Pasadena, California
FREE all-ages event in Old Pasadena... Live music from local bands, dancing, and an interactive drum circle you can join... Singles, kids, and parents get creative with art workshops... Eco-friendly exhibitors will display and sell green products and services... Sample tastings...

Celebrate nature, art, music, and community at Pasadena’s 12th annual Earth and Arts Festival (cityofpasadena.net/earthday) from 11-5 pm, Saturday, May 3, 2014 at Memorial Park, 85 E. Holly St., at Raymond Ave., and across the street at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave.  Pasadena’s Earth and Arts Festival is one of the biggest free “green” events in SoCal with family-friendly activities, Aztec dancers, drum circle, solar, electric vehicles, wildlife, building better homes, green jobs, gardening and art exhibits, vegetarian food, and entertainment for all ages.
 
FREE admission, free on-site parking, plus 100 free trees to LA homeowners. Come to the Earth Day festival, where local artists, environmental organizations, and sponsors will exhibit and sell at this FUNdraiser for North East Trees. Learn what local environmental groups are doing and ways to can get involved. Be a part of the mayor's "1 Million Tree Initiative."
Free Tibet or get a quake
Sharon Stone, 56, sizzles on cover of GQ
Sharon Stone may be 56 years old, but she has never looked hotter! The "Fading Gigolo" actress graces the cover of the May issue of GQ Italia posing in black lace lingerie and black heels. The blond beauty is pictured flirtatiously smiling with smoky eyeliner and tousled hair...

UFO people did it.
Solved! How ancient Egyptians moved massive pyramid stones (LiveScience.com) The ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids may have been able to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects, according to a new study. Physicists at the University of Amsterdam investigated the forces needed to pull…

Friday, 25 April 2014

What does the park tell us about the drought?

What was Los Angeles at the time of Native Americans and what can it be again? (WF)
After some rain earlier in the week, Griffith Park is a greener (Maya Sugarman/KPCC)
 
Medical Marijuana
The drought has some people thinking: What would L.A. look like without lawns and sprinklers? Above its watered golf courses and picnic areas, Griffith Park is a snapshot of Southern California without the lattice of plastic and rusted irrigation pipes.
 
At the moment, LA's "central park" is a shining emerald of green, which may seem counterintuitive given that the state as a whole is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record.

Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants (theodorepayne.org)
Where's the Moon? Uposatha Pasadena
Biologists say that late season rains have helped awaken plants that normally grow earlier in the winter. While flowers and flora in general are making a late rally from the searingly dry early winter months, their success does not mean an end to the drought.
 
“The plants are not a good indicator of how bad the situation is," said Dan Cooper, a biologist who conducts wildlife surveys around the  Southland. "We can be fooled by looking at all these wildflowers and greenery and thinking we’re out of the drought, but just because you see a lot of green and wildflowers, we’re definitely not out of the drought.” LISTEN

Sex controversial billboards (laweekly.com)
Leaders gather in LA to address human trafficking (and SEXUAL slavery) in California The gathering will explore the best practices statewide to combat the crime statewide. The event features officials and lawmakers from L.A., San Diego, and Alameda counties.

Blooming in the urban concrete jungle
Fritz Haeg’s Wildflowering L.A. project (commissioned and organized by LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) will culminate this weekend, April 26-27 at THE SHED: 1355 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, 91103. 12:00-6:00 pm daily.

The bees and frogs are returning (WF)
LA’s emerging space for urban permaculture, planning, and land use by La Loma Development Company, the exhibit features flowers and photos fresh from project sites presented on a vast L.A. County map, along with project archives, artist-designed posters, educational activities for all ages, conversations with experts including representatives from the Theodore Payne Foundation and project participants, a live broadcast by KCHUNG, music by Pawing at the Ceiling, seasonal refreshments by Thank You For Coming, and more. See a MAP of all 50 sites and streaming #wildfloweringla updates.

Who needs a thirsty lawn when everyone can have a water-free garden? (wildflowering.org)

Wildflowering L.A. Spring and Earth Day Fest

Xochitl, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Arroyo Seco Foundation (arroyoseco.org); Trails Council
Los Angeles is a flowering desert wonderland as seen at urban Site 37 (wildflower.org)
There are no birds without bees and trees.
LAND invites all to the Spring Exhibition for Wildflowering L.A. on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27, 2014 at THE SHED. The exhibition will feature flower cuttings, photos fresh from the project sites, artist-designed posters, educational activities...
 

Help remove harmful invasive plant species from the natural streamzone below JPL/Hahamongna/Devil's Gates Dam to protect our native riparian ecosystem (sponsored by SoCalGas).

Native American/First Nations people of California (starknowledgeconference.com)
FREE all-ages event in Old Pasadena... Live music from local bands, dancing, and an interactive drum circle you can join... Singles, kids, and parents get creative with art workshops... Eco-friendly exhibitors will display and sell green products and services... Sample tastings...
FREE admission, free on-site parking, plus 100 free trees to LA homeowners. Come to the Earth Day festival, where local artists, environmental organizations, and sponsors will exhibit and sell at this FUNdraiser for North East Trees. Learn what local environmental groups are doing and ways to can get involved. Be a part of the mayor's "1 Million Tree Initiative."

The foothills' watershed in the time of the Tongva Natives of Los Angeles (tongvatribe.net)
La Canada Flintride Trails Council is dedicated to preserving, developing, promoting, and maintaining are local and regional trail systems (sometimes with the help of willing horses).

Urban Oasis: turning a home into a natural wonderland (pasadenaweekly.com)

Transition Pasadena: Arroyo Food Co-op

Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Join the Om Healing Circle of Los Angeles

Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Kaustubhi (omhealingcircle@gmail.com)
"OM" (aum) is the primordial or cosmic "sound of the universe" (Didi/esotericonline.net)
 
Everyone is invited to visit and join the Om Healing Circle in Los Angeles. It meets every first and third Saturday of the month at 1:00 pm. Together, participants seek to heal themselves, humanity, and Mother Earth (Bhumi, Gaia, Pachamama...). Om is a seed (bija) mantra with powerful resonant effects.
Healing Mantras
Enrico Galvini (CEO of Bodhisattva Music) and his faithful dog recommend Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand holding the German version in the jungles of Costa Rica.
Thomas Ashley-Farrand explains the Vedic origins, meanings, and uses of mantra.

    Tuesday, 8 April 2014

    Losing Zen Buddhist activist Matthiessen (NPR)

    Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Weekend Edition Sunday (NPR, April 6, 2014)
    Bhumi/Gaia is a precious thing, nurturing and full of intelligence (NASA/colourbox.com)

     
    Zen (counterpointpress.com)
    Author Peter Muryo Matthiessen has died in New York at the age of 86 from acute myeloid leukemia. He was a novelist and naturalist, who wrote 33 books, among his best-known being The Snow Leopard and the novels Far Tortuga and At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was made into a Hollywood film.

    He is the only writer to ever win the National Book Award in the categories of Fiction (for Shadow Country) and General Nonfiction (for The Snow Leopard, which also won for Contemporary Thought). 
     
    The Snow LeopardHe was also a political activist, a Buddhist teacher, co-founder of The Paris Review and, briefly, a spy.
     
    In his first nonfiction book, Matthiessen staked out the territory he would revisit the rest of his life -- the destruction of nature and natural peoples at the hands of humankind. Wilderness in America, published in 1959, is a history of the extinction of animal and bird species in North America:
    Species appear, and left behind by a changing earth, they disappear forever, and there is a certain solace in the inexorable. But until man, the highest predator, evolved, the process of extinction was a slow one. No species but man, so far as is known, unaided by circumstance or climactic change, has ever extinguished another.
    Wilderness in America led to a series of assignments from The New Yorker that in turn led to a series of books....
     
    Matthiessen traveled to New Guinea in 1961 with Michael Rockefeller, who disappeared and may have been the victim of headhunters (or so the legend goes). He wrote about trips to Africa, the Himalayas, South America, and Antarctica. 
    But he said he never intended to write nonfiction. "Fiction is my first love, and that's the way I began," he said. "And frankly, when I began nonfiction, I did it for money."
     
    Shadow CountryMcKay Jenkins, the author of The Peter Matthiessen Reader and several nature books, says that's astonishing. "That's kind of like Babe Ruth wanting to be remembered as a pitcher," Jenkins says. "Matthiessen is held in such high regard as a nonfiction writer by nonfiction writers that they sometimes say, 'How is it possible that this guy can be such a virtuoso fiction writer, and give his equally substantial body of nonfiction work such short shrift?' Because all the rest of us are trying to do what we can to mimic his nonfiction work."
     
    Matthiessen was remarkable in a lot of ways. He was born in Manhattan in 1927 to a wealthy family. After a stint in the Navy, he attended Yale, where he began writing short stories -- and where one of his professors recruited him into the CIA [like someone somewhere did Barry Obama, Johnny Kerry, Bush Sr., Karl(yle) Rove, Dick Cheney...and the even the fleeing Dalai Lama. The Company gets around.]

    In 1953, Matthiessen co-founded what would become one of the most important literary magazines of the 20th Century, The Paris Review. But he did it as a cover for his CIA activities -- the only adventure in his long life that he said he ever regretted.
     
    "I was a spy," he said. "When I went in there, it was the end of the Cold War -- Russia was a great menace out there in the distance. It was considered very patriotic to join the CIA. I didn't know my politics were going to veer leftward, and that I would really come to despise the CIA."
     
    Matthiessen's politics led to a lifelong career as an activist. He wrote books about union [American farmworker] organizer Cesar Chavez, the American Indian Movement...
     
    After Matthiessen's second wife, Deborah, died of cancer in 1972, he embraced Zen Buddhism and eventually became a priest and teacher. In his 1978 book, The Snow Leopard, Matthiessen wrote about a spiritual journey in the remote mountains of Nepal, and the impossibility of capturing experience in words:
    The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind, but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day. LISTEN
    Peter Muryo Matthiessen [was] a two-time winner of the National Book Award, a longtime Zen practitioner, and Bernie Glassman’s first Dharma successor. He [was] an active Zen teacher in Sagaponack, New York.

    Tuesday, 25 March 2014

    Permaculture Design Course (Living Mandala)

    Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Living Mandala, Permaculture, Social Enterprise and Leadership Program: 7 Stages to Sustainability Permaculture Design Course
    Kat Steele (Esalen, Urban Permaculture Guild)

    Living Mandala -- in conjunction with Empowerment WORKS and a host of community leaders, social entrepreneurs, visionary organizations, and amazing educators -- presents a groundbreaking 7 Stages to Sustainability Permaculture Design Course starting in less than a week!
     
    Of all the more than 100 courses, workshops, and events Living Mandala has co-produced over the last six years, this one is going to be exciting.

    Looking for an exceptional, manageable, affordable, and accessible PDC? This is an amazing program to support getting projects, social enterprises, and long term goals off the ground from Vision to Impact. It is an amazing opportunity! See more at livingmandala.com/7SS
    Living Mandala

    UPCOMING
    7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS)
    Permaculture Design Course:
    4 Modules, 13 Days
    March  27-May 18, 2014
    MA Center /GreenFriends Farm, Castro Valley, California

    Regenerative Leadership: From Igniting Our Purpose to Cross-Sector Co-Creation

    March 27-30, 2014
    MA Center /GreenFriends Farm, Castro Valley, California

    Ecological Design in Action: Appropriate Technology, Measurable Impact and What it Takes
    April 10-13, 2014
    MA Center /GreenFriends Farm, Castro Valley, California

    Social Enterprise for Synergistic Partnerships and Resilient Communities: From Harvest to Market to Reinvesting the Surplus
    May 1-4, 2014
    MA Center /GreenFriends Farm, Castro Valley, California


    The Soil Food Web Intensive, March 2014 (livingmandala.com)