Internet Censorship

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Trish and Rob

On October 26, 2011,  the House version of the Internet Blacklist Bill was introduced and Congress is now debating it. Under this bill, “the Department of Justice would force search engines, browsers, and service providers to block users’ access to websites that have been accused of copyright infringement — without even giving them a day in court.” (Demand Progress)

According to Digital Journal, this bill  “could shut down YouTube, Twitter and many other social websites that bring together the Occupy movements across the nation and world—any user-generated content site where the law can make the sites’ owners legally responsible for the posted content of its users.”

Back when we hosted our blog on blogger, we received a notice from them saying we had violated copyright on a post that was about a synchronicity connected to Hoover Dam. We took down the post, but Rob was so ticked off he wrote to the Department of the Interior and told them about what had happened. A woman in the department said the post didn’t violate any copyright, as the story was public information, and she couldn’t imagine who had reported it as such. She said her email constituted permission to use the post. We never re-posted the story.

The Internet Blacklist Bill could censor on such a vast scale that it would make Google’s Big Brother tactics look pitiful. And it wouldn’t just impact websites, blogs and services in the U.S. This would threaten Internet freedom worldwide.

We signed this petition, which has nearly 600,000 signatures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Finding the impossible

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Trish and Rob

This strange story isn’t exactly a synchronicity, but it’s an unlikely scenario. It shows how great desire for something can overcome all odds. You could call this guy lucky, but it’s something more than that. An ineffable factor came into play and the odds no longer mattered.

Here’s the story. Brian McGuinn, who lives in suburban Fort Lauderdale, accidentally threw away his wife’s $10,000 ring when he tossed out an old razor blade. His wife had just handed him the ring as she stepped into the shower, and asked him to put it in her jewelry box. It never made it.

McGuinn didn’t realize his mistake until the next morning, but by then Waste Management had collected the garbage. The ring, it seemed, was lost forever…or was it?

Distraught, Anna McGuinn called the company that processes the garbage and was told that her husband could come and search. Which he did. The plant manager figured out where the ring most likely would be, based on where that neighborhood’s trash was dumped. Then he got McGuinn a protective suit and goggles.

“It was absolutely disgusting. It stunk beyond belief. The smell was God-awful. Everything unsanitary you could think of crossed my path at least a couple times.” McGuinn recalled in an interview with the Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale.

Incredibly, within 30 minutes, McGuinn spotted something shiny surrounded by black sludge sticking out between brown bags. “It looked like a screw and I reached down and it looped around my index finger. I was ecstatic. It was probably one of the best moments ever.”

McGuinn let out a whoop that was heard across the landfill. He went home and took a very long shower, and even scrubbed his skin with toothbrushes.

What are the chances?

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Instant Karma

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Here’s an interesting karma-synchro sent to us by Gabe Carlson, who spotted it in the Minneapolis Star-Trib.

A Canadian motorist who had a heart attack while driving in western Wisconsin is probably alive today because of a good deed he had done for a stranger along the interstate just a few minutes earlier.

According to the Wisconsin State Patrol:

Victor Giesbrecht, 61, of Winnipeg, was driving east Saturday evening on Interstate 94, about 9 miles east of Menomonie, where he stopped to help a motorist change a tire.

His good deed accomplished and just moments after getting back behind the wheel, Giesbrecht was stricken by a heart attack. His wife, Ann, at his side helped bring their pickup truck to a stop.

Seemingly right on cue, along came the passenger vehicle that had just gotten the roadside help with the tire. Ann Giesbrecht was on the phone and waving her arms.

“It sounds like they said: They helped us, what’s up with them?” Patrol Sgt. Michael Newton said Monday.

That vehicle stopped, 911 was called and one of its occupants, Lisa Meier, of Eau Claire, Wis., began cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency personnel arrived.

A state trooper discovered that Victor Giesbrecht had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. The trooper and a Dunn County deputy took over CPR, and a second deputy used an automated external defibrillator (AED) to deliver three shocks to Giesbrecht. He regained a pulse and resumed breathing.

A medical helicopter landed on the interstate and took Giesbrecht to Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire. He was in serious condition Monday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Newton believes that if the Giesbrechts hadn’t stopped and helped with the tire change, his initial rescuer may have remained stranded along the side of the highway too long to play a life-saving role.

“If he had been a few more miles down the road and had his heart attack, it could have been a different outcome,” Newton said. “It’s an interesting turn of fate.”

Newton added that Dunn County having an AED on hand “was the tipping point” in saving Giesbrecht’s life. “Without that defibrillator, I don’t know that the outcome would’ve been the same,” said the sergeant, who added that Giesbrecht had suffered another heart attack about a year earlier.

We have to add some John Lennon lyrics:

Instant Karma

Instant Karma’s gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head,
You better get yourself together,
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead,
What in the world you thinking of,
Laughing in the face of love,
What on earth you tryin’ to do,
It’s up to you, yeah you.

Instant Karma’s gonna get you,
Gonna look you right in the face,
Better get yourself together darlin’,
Join the human race,
How in the world you gonna see,
Laughin’ at fools like me,
Who on earth d’you think you are,
A super star,
Well, right you are.

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John Dee Memorial Theater of the Mind

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Trish and Rob

What would it be like to take a vacation to visit your dead relatives?

Funny question, right? But that’s what Raymond Moody, author of Life and Life and Reunions and other books, offered when he opened the John Dee Memorial Theater of the Mind, a chamber designed after the ancient Greek’s psychomanteums, where priests organized encounters between the living and the dead.

The chamber features mirrors, similar after an Aztec mirror owned by John Dee. It was said that by gazing into the mirror while in a receptive state of mind, you would have a vision.

In an interview with Sharon Barbell, Moody said, “The big surprise is that the apparitions actually come out of the mirror…the fact that the apparitions talk and you actually hear them is absolutely mind-bending to me.”

He went on to say: “The most important thing that I see going on is people reconciling and healing. The ones that come to my mind are usually the most recent ones. Just a week or two ago, we had a wonderful couple from Texas come here and this woman saw her father who had died and her grandparents. And really felt that a reconciliation occurred, she saw the three of them just come right up to the mirror and there they were in that in between space, the Middle Realm as it were, and communicated with them and got things really reconciled and found out that everything was fine there.”

Here’s another story he tells. “A very wonderful ophthalmologist came and saw his mother, who had been a very influential figure in his life. All of these are very, very significant events in my own life. I just really feel so privileged now to have been with 35 people right after they have seen apparitions of the departed. And actually to be able to talk with them and to participate almost with them. It’s been just really wonderful.

“I strongly recommend this to all therapists who might want to find a new technique to help people with this. This is just really extraordinary, I would say. Far and away the most interesting work I have ever done in my life.”

If you’re interested in stepping into the Theater of the Mind, you can contact Moody here. We’d love to hear someone’s personal experience in the chamber.

 

 

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Spam Oddities and Funnies

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Trish and Rob

We’ve compiled some of the oddest and most humorous spam we get on our blog. Spammers, it seems, are developing new techniques all the time to fool the filters. Some of the spam comments are just illiterate, Google translations – like this one:

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Or this one, advertising boots:

 Fantastic products from you, man. Ive study your stuff forward of and youre just too amazing.

Another advertising boots:

We comparable the particular browser to become very bored because the content articles as well as evaluations work for a number of phrases come up with.

Another illiterate spam advertising cheap Miami Heat jerseys:

Your favorite reason appeared to be at the web the easiest thing to consider of. I say to you, I definitely get irked even as folks think about issues that they just don’t understand about. You managed to hit the nail upon the top and also defined out the entire thing with no need side effect

Here’s one, under a video on flash dancing in the Dubai airport. It’s, like, well, huh??

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Hmm, What was that about ‘the actual toe nail?’

Some of them are just laugh out loud funny. Here’s a bodybuilding spam:

Congratulations on being freshly pressed

From the cancer institute:

It is little doubt that this is the best singer in the planeta! What makes a singer isn’t their personality, it’s their voice! I don’t like when people judge singers on things that just aren’t that interesting. Remember, they are entertainers, not presidents! Let them do their thing and enjoy the music!

From a porn site. The person calls herself/himself horny hot:

Lol everybody talk about dating

From a free porn site:

que harГ­amos sin su frase admirable – I think this translates as: what we do without your admirable sentence

Here’s one advertising Viagra at a discount:

what do you think about the increase in the dollar?

Recently, spammers have been leaving pithy little sayings such as: no news is good news.  Here are  two of the oddest:

Human blood is all one colour.

Harm set, harm get.

Finally, here’s one from a.m. – one of six.

How you would write, that you’re really a professional blogger?

 

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We Are the Many, Not the Few

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Here’s an interesting twist in the Occupy movement.

Hawaiian recording artist Makana was supposed to play a luau Saturday night – November 12 – at Waikiki Beach for leaders at an annual summit that is putting together plans for a Pacific free-trade pact.  The Obamas and leaders of 21 economies from the Asia Pacific were present. Among the attendees were Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Security was apparently tight.

So there they are, these leaders, doing whatever leaders do at a private shindig on Waikiki Beach, and the young man who is supposed to play for the Hawaiian feast opens his jacket to reveal a t-shirt that reads, Occupy for Aloha. The five-minute song in the video is what he sang repeatedly for forty minutes. Here’s the refrain I love:

“We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts, we’ll occupy the offices of you, till you do the bidding of the many, not the few.”

 

 

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Flash Dancing

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Trish and Rob

We just love it when these You Tube videos appear. This one takes place in Dubai’s airport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_yXy4YGOyvU

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Post 11-11-11

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Looking back at 11-11-11, here are some of the interesting stories that were either in the news or that we received.

First, Egypt briefly closed the Great Pyramid because of rumors that it was going to be used for ceremonies celebrating 11-11-11. From The Guardian: “…on Friday Egypt‘s Great Pyramid of Giza was confronted with what some feared would be its biggest threat yet: two crystals, a “ceremony of love” and several hundred “human angels” seeking to form a protective shield around the earth.”From USA Today:  “A lineup of digits at 11 minutes past the 11th hour on 11/11/2011 marks a moment that won’t repeat for 100 years.” In Last Vegas, 3,200 marriage licenses were issued for 11-11-11, three times the usual amount. According to the county clerk, there hasn’t been anything like that since 7-7-07, when  4,333 licenses were issued.

This website has some interesting stuff to say about binary number dates in 2010 – and in 2011.

Then there’s this interesting synchro: a boy born at 11:11, on 11-11-11, on Veteran’s Day, to a mother who is an Air Force veteran and to a father who is currently serving in the Air Force.

We got a nice bit of 11-11-11 news/luck: 7 Secrets sold to Russia. We love the idea of Russians reading about synchronicities!

One of the best stories we received came from Sharlie W: “This morning of 11/11/11, at 11:00, my husband and I joined to pray for health, prosperity and safety. No small wish. After that we went for a ride and he was smiling about our (what he considers) superstitious behavior. And then a car pulled in front of us with the license place 1 1 1.  I laughed as another car pulled along side, and then in front, saying Ultra 1. Well that said it all.

This evening, we attended a free yoga fest put on at the local polo club. There was a yoga class first, then Jai Uttal played. We tried to get photos, but it was too dark and the video we took didn’t come out. But the music and the audience participation was incredible.

Here’s a sampling of Uttal’s music from his my space page.

Overall, a wonderful day!

 

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13 Crystal Skulls on 11-11-11

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Trish and Rob

In 1991, my first novel was published. It was about two ancient Mayan crystal skulls that were re-united fulfilling a prophecy. So it was interesting when I recently found out that 13 crystal skulls would come together at a ceremony in Los Angeles on 11-11-11 that will be performed by 13 Mayan elders.

According to Cal Garrison, writing in Before It’s News, “…these ancient relics are said to contain information about the history of our planet and the future of mankind. Carved out of pure quartz crystal, and other crystals such as jade, the Skulls generate an energy field that activates human consciousness in a way that expands our perceptions of reality.”

He adds: “When the Spirits of the Skulls are ceremonially awakened, ancient wisdom, wisdom that has been preserved in a crystalline matrix for eons, enters the unified field and fills the collective consciousness with all the knowledge of everything that has happened on the planet in the last 26,000 years, and perhaps beyond.”

Sounds very impressive, but I don’t feel that’s quite right. I think all that knowledge is already in the collective unconscious. However, maybe such ceremonies with the skulls could awaken our awareness to that wisdom, making it more accessible. The question, though, is what would we do it? Would we find better ways to make war and defeat enemies, or would we use it to do away with wars?

What I would like those skulls to do is to raise human consciousness to a higher level. Maybe turn us into light beings! Or at least move us in that direction. Is that asking too much? Well, we can try. At this point, we are creatures with high tech tools and toys, but low to moderate awareness of whom we are beyond physical reality, outside of time and space, beyond cause and effect.   Our mainstream science doesn’t recognize extra sensory perception, doesn’t accept the existence of life after death, and ignores documented sightings and contact with UFOs. Our science lacks awareness of spirit.

C’mon, crystal skulls we need help.

For the fun of it, I  took a copy of Crystal Skull off my shelf, opened it up at random. Here’s what I read on page 159. Rather than science, it’s about religion, and what happens to people who lose their religion.

“To me, religion carries the baggage of dogma, restrictions. And worst of all, arrogance and divisiveness. My religion’s better than yours. Right? Unfortunately, a lot of people who are fed up with religion decide there’s nothing worth believing in that they can’t immediately perceive. They become completely materialistic and cynical. I don’t like religion, but I do believe in a universal force and life beyond this existence.”

I guess that sort of fits in with what I was saying – a synchro of sorts. After all, I could’ve opened it at random to a sex scene.

*****

I took out my three little crystal skulls and got them to pose for me. The one on the left was moving, I think. Or maybe it was me. 😉

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Count down…

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Trish and Rob

…to 11-11-11. Enjoy this amazing pyramid of numbers.

 

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