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Gio
5th May 2020, 23:41
Purr—
fectly designed ...


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Gio
6th May 2020, 00:13
♪ Free Fall Flow, River Flow ♪ ...


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Yes, The River Knows

by The Doors



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xtUGwXcBRg

Gio
6th May 2020, 01:12
Will share this here ...



May 5, 2020

COVID-19 Is Traumatizing All of
Us. How Will We Cope After It’s
Over?

We feel helpless, misled, and let down by the people who were supposed to protect us — and we’ll need a different kind of vaccine for that.

By Elizabeth Yuko

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It's not just the virus itself — living through a pandemic will have lasting impacts on our society.

When dealing with a viral pandemic, the focus tends to be on preventing and treating the physical illness — and rightfully so. But as we’ve learned over the past two months, the psychological and emotional impact of the COVID-19 outbreak can also be debilitating. Fortunately, we’re in a better place now than we were even six weeks ago, coming to terms with the idea that some of our exhaustion stems from moral fatigue, and identifying feelings of loss and sadness brought on by the pandemic as grief. Though it can be overwhelming to try to conceive of what life might be like once this is all over — and bear in mind that we’re still nowhere near being out of the woods — there is value in considering how this public health crisis will impact us collectively as a society. It may seem counterintuitive, but as we move forward through this pandemic, it can be helpful to look to the past for guidance on how humans have dealt with previous collective traumas.

The concept of collective trauma isn’t new, but most of what we know about it comes from clinical work with first and second-generation Holocaust survivors, says Dr. Molly Castelloe, an expert in group psychology. She also directed the documentary film Vamik’s Room, an in-depth look at the work of Dr. Vamik Volkan, a pioneer in the field of collective grief and trauma. But prior to World War II, there are numerous examples of collective traumas throughout American history — from the eradication of native peoples, through slavery, through the Atomic bomb, Vietnam, 9/11, and, more recently, family separation. “Helplessness is central to this shared emotional experience,” she tells Rolling Stone.

So what exactly is collective trauma? According to Castelloe, when a large group of people — like a national, religious, racial, or ethnic group — suffers a massive trauma, there is a shared emotional bond among the wounded individuals. “Collective trauma means first of all, a shared experience of helplessness, disorientation, and loss among a group of people,” she explains. “The threatening event gives rise to a shared identification — despite the fact that the victimized individuals have different personalities and family backgrounds, different coping mechanisms and capacities for resilience.” In some cases, collective trauma can be trans-generational, meaning that some people pass along their trauma to their children, either through unconscious cues (a father once starved in a concentration camp presses his son to bulk up in competitive sports), affective messages (a suffering parent insists a child show gratitude and deny any pain), or stories about the tragic event.

We’re already experiencing the collective trauma of COVID-19, according to Castelloe. “This is a public health catastrophe, a failure of democracy and its ideals,” she explains. “The deaths of so many — the elderly, the infirm, local healthcare workers and first responders — is already everyday a shared trauma among us.”

According to Dr. Gilad Hirschberger, associate professor of psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel, there are different types of collective traumas. For example, 9/11 was very immediate, with most of the major events occuring on the same day. And though the ripple effects of the attacks remained with us for much longer than that, the immediate threat was extreme but relatively short. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, is “much less extreme, but much more prolonged than 9/11,” Hirschberger explains. “Being able to sustain any moderate level of threat over a long period of time without seeing any end is going to be extremely taxing for populations around the world. It’s both the fear and the anticipation.”

And beyond the loss of life and prolonged anxiety over when and how the pandemic is going to end, we’re also coming to terms with a major blow to our identity as Americans. “Most people are traumatized as individuals, and as family units, and perhaps also the collectivity of, let’s say, New Yorkers,” says Dr. Jeffrey Alexander, a professor of sociology specializing in cultural and collective trauma, and founder and co-director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. “But the collective of the United States is experiencing a sense of tremendous instability and anxiety because we thought we were a great country — the greatest country. And now we see other countries doing a lot better than we are. So then the question is, who are we then?”

Though the 1918 Flu Pandemic occurred more than a century ago, the disbelief that we, as Americans, were unable to handle the outbreak, was similar then to what we’re experiencing today. “We don’t have any kind of medicine at this point, we don’t have any kind of vaccine,” Hirschberger says. “We don’t have anything to ward off this virus, except for our immune system, so it’s really every man and woman facing this virus alone. And there’s something not just unsettling and scary about it, but it also punctures our illusion that we’re modern humans and we’ve overcome nature.” For evidence of this, look no further than our methods to stop the spread of the virus — social distancing and banning public gatherings — which were also the primary strategies in 1918. “The only thing that we have that they didn’t is the hope that we will be able to come up with a medicine, and be able to come up with a vaccine, sometime in the near future,” he adds.

Though there are similarities between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 Flu, the way people handled collective trauma in 1918 was complicated by the fact that it coincided with World War I, explains Dr. Monica Schoch-Spana, a medical anthropologist and public health expert at Johns Hopkins University. “When the flu impact resolved, people actually engaged in a kind of collective amnesia,” she tells Rolling Stone, noting that they were still collectively processing the trauma of the war. Instead, Alexander says that the closest historical parallel to what we’re going through with the COVID-19 pandemic is not the 1918 Flu Pandemic, but the Great Depression. “People had this tremendous pride in the capitalism of the United States and the economy. And this shook everything,” he tells Rolling Stone. “The result of it was a transformation of the role of government: the incorporation of the working class in terms of trade unions, unemployment insurance, the creation of Social Security.”

In theory, there is the potential for similar restructuring to occur once we make it through the COVID-19 pandemic, especially given how the outbreak has shed more light on the existing health and financial disparities and inequities of the country. Hirschberger is optimistic that we’ll emerge on the other side having learned valuable lessons. For example, if an outbreak similar to the one of Ebola that took place in Africa a few years ago were to happen now, we’d likely be far more concerned. “Maybe not out of compassion, but out of the realization that things that happened to people in faraway places are our problem as well,” he explains. Along the same lines, we may take threats like climate change more seriously, given that scientists had also warned of a potential pandemic, and now we’re all dealing with the consequences of largely ignoring that. “In terms of understanding our interconnectedness,” Hirschberger says, “and understanding that problems that seem small now, but develop slowly over time can be dangerous and need to be stopped — I think that kind of realization could be a positive consequence of all of this.”

Part of what happens when dealing with a collective trauma — like the Great Depression or the COVID-19 pandemic — is that people try to identify both the victims and perpetrators of the event, in order to create a succinct narrative surrounding the source of their trauma. Of course, doing so is in no way straightforward. For example, Alexander points out that even though minority communities are disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, conservatives may ignore that data and frame this as a general problem where we’re all victims.

And things get even murkier when trying to pinpoint a perpetrator. Yes, a novel virus is behind the pandemic, but that doesn’t really cut it when constructing a narrative around a collective trauma: There has to be at least one “bad guy” who is responsible for the extensive loss of life and the major blow to the economy. Unsurprisingly, the identity of the perpetrator behind the current pandemic and its economic devastation differs depending on who you ask. For some, it’s the large institutions who received a disproportionate amount of the money that Congress allocated, instead of it going to smaller businesses who need it more. For others, it’s our current for-profit healthcare and insurance systems, which exacerbate already existing health disparities, making it even more difficult for people to get the care they needed during the pandemic. Some blame the current administration for how they’ve handled the outbreak. Meanwhile, others focus on China as the primary perpetrators of everything.

If it seems as though our quest to pinpoint the perpetrators of the pandemic is political now, just wait until we get closer to the November election. Alexander says that we should expect to see both Democrats and Republicans using collective trauma as a way of creating their own narrative, making the case as to why they should be elected. This will likely involve the Democrats placing the blame squarely on the president for how he handled the outbreak — especially during the first few weeks — and making the case that unless we have a change in leadership, we will continue to be traumatized. Republicans, on the other hand, will continue to blame China, and try to associate presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with China.

Whether or not we realize it, we’re constantly encountering physical reminders of past collective trauma and grief. We may walk past a war memorial every day without stopping to think about the event that prompted its construction in the first place. As Volkan puts it in Castelloe’s documentary Vamik’s Room: “We build monuments — and whatever feelings are left, we lock them in marble and metal.” These structures anchor our experience of loss in visual and spatial representation, “giving concrete form to unspoken emotion,” Castelloe says. “Introspection is a key part of this developmental process: to be able to look inside oneself and tolerate the most painful feelings of sorrow, disappointment and guilt.”

While there may have been a collective amnesia about the 1918 Flu Pandemic thanks to the trauma of World War I, when Americans went through post-war rituals — building memorials and monuments — it was still a way to process grief as a group. “These public rituals and public monuments are an important part of grief and mourning,” Schoch-Spana says.

At the same time, Schoch-Spana says that public remembrances are an inherently political activity, and when we look back at the COVID-19 pandemic and remember the suffering, it remains to be seen whether we’ll tell the story of disproportionate impacts on communities of color. “What will our monuments look like and whose faces will be represented? The heroic self-sacrifice of doctors and nurses is a very easy narrative to tell,” she explains. “I don’t mean to diminish the types of sacrifices that are going on in the health sector, but that type of story is more socially palatable than a story of disparate, massively disproportionate impacts on communities of color.”

And though right now, deciding who to commemorate on a plaque or memorial may not seem as pressing as addressing the current public health crisis, it’s something that will have an impact on how we process our collective trauma in the future. “The thing about memory is, it’s never just about what happened. It’s ‘How does what happened matter to us in the present?’” Schoch-Spana says. “We are the survivors, so we get to pick and choose the story we want to tell.”

Source/reference links: rollingstone.com (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/covid-19-coronavirus-collective-trauma-memorial-monument-history-994173/)

Gio
7th May 2020, 11:14
He's Back ... :lol:


Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill | Official Trailer | Netflix



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db_rO4RjqHE

Dreamtimer
7th May 2020, 18:02
The photo with the 5 year old driver threw me off at first because it looked like he had a very strange mask on. He reminded me of a lenser from the movie Chronicles of Riddick. Then I looked more closely and saw that it was how his face was obscured in the photo.

Gio
7th May 2020, 22:24
The latest ...

Lockdowns For Thee, Not For Me! - #NewWorldNextWeek



Welcome to the 406th episode of 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. This week:

Story #1: UK Gov’t Scientist Neil Ferguson Resigns After Breaking Lockdown Rules To Meet His Married Lover
https://archive.is/s49yf

How Neil Ferguson, Architect of UK Lockdown, Was Brought Down By Failing to Obey His Own Rules
https://archive.is/XGfk3

Six Questions That Neil Ferguson Should Be Asked
https://bit.ly/2yoseQp


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Story #2: Clinton Fdn Wants To Use AmeriCorps As “National Contact Tracing Corps”
https://bit.ly/3b8xPYo

Video: ”We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
https://bit.ly/35DYtqM

Obama’s FactCheck.org Fact Checks Obama’s “National Security Force”
https://bit.ly/2zf6iqP

Stop Calling It Contact Tracing! – #PropagandaWatch
https://bit.ly/3ftazaU

Story #3: Oklahoma City Ends Face Mask Rule For Customers After Threats Of Violence
https://bit.ly/3ccc7Uv


May 7, 2020

19:57 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPTaQ2tlPEk&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
8th May 2020, 23:05
A controversial and timely share ...

Mysterious Universe Podcast - The Hidden Pandemic



With a doctorate in molecular biology, Dr. Judy Mikovits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Mikovits) has been involved in cutting edge viral and vaccine research. At the height of her career she helped turn the deadly tide of the HIV pandemic into a manageable disease. Sadly today, Dr. Mikovits career is in ruins and her life has been destroyed, all because she discovered a deadly hidden secret lurking the very vaccines that are designed to save us. We discuss her incredible story and her shocking claims ...

Full Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3baUfrS


May 8, 2020

1:47:49 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ7Oiele7k0&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
9th May 2020, 10:38
From Whitley Strieber

Angel Millar Awakens Us to the Hidden Realities of the Soul



Angel Millar sheds light on the mysterious journey of the soul in this deep dive into the meaning of our lives. He explains the three stages of initiation that we can attain over the course of our lives, what each one means and why we need to understand it in order to understand our own life journey.

Book: The Three Stages of Initiatic Spirituality: Craftsman, Warrior, Magician (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620559323/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=unknowncoun08-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1620559323&linkId=b432ce32be4408f3507f3b41bf606a50)

May 8, 2020

1:01:43 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM-Ju0999Ow&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
9th May 2020, 11:23
Mankind's ongoing transmutation upon earth's environment ...

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The 1957 Stokes test, of a 19-kiloton weapon, in Nevada. U.S. Department of Energy

Deep in the Ocean’s Trenches, The Legacy of Nuclear Testing Lives

The discovery of “bomb carbon” miles below the surface shows how deep human impact goes.

by Jonathan Carey
May 14, 2019

"As it turns out, indiscriminately detonating nuclear bombs across the globe, some 500 times or more stronger than those dropped during World War II, can have a pretty profound effect on the world. Evidence of Cold War nuclear testing has made its way to the deepest reaches of the Pacific Ocean.

Scientists recently discovered evidence of radioactive carbon, also known as “bomb carbon,” in the tissues of crustaceans—up to seven miles below the surface, in iconic trenches such as the Mariana, Mussau, and New Britain, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters.

Bomb carbon, known as carbon-14, can form naturally in the atmosphere and within some organisms, but during the nuclear arms race its atmospheric levels skyrocketed. These particles descended into the ocean, where they were absorbed by marine animals near the surface. Decaying remains of those surface animals sank to the bottom, where crustaceans called amphipods then consumed them, incorporating the bomb carbon into their own bodies."

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Hirondellea gigas, an amphipod living in the Mariana Trench.

"Perhaps even more significant than the discovery of bomb carbon itself is how quickly the isotope reached the bottom. According to researchers, water containing carbon-14 can take centuries to circulate throughout the ocean, but the food web drastically accelerated the process. “There’s a very strong interaction between the surface and the bottom, in terms of biologic systems, and human activities can affect the biosystems even down to 11,000 meters,” said Weidong Sun, a coauthor of the study, via press release, “so we need to be careful about our future behaviors.”

These deep-sea crustaceans are longer-lived than their shallow-water relatives, which contributes to the accumulation of carbon-14 in their tissues. This can become problematic, according to a statement by Ning Wang, a geochemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and lead author of the study. “Besides the fact that material mostly comes from the surface, the age-related bioaccumulation also increases these pollutant concentrations, bringing more threat to these most remote ecosystems.” Researchers hope to gain a better understanding of the extent of human pollution in the most inaccessible locations—even if there’s little we can do about it now."

Source reference/links: atlasobscura.com (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bomb-carbon-found-ocean-trench?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b712e4e38e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-b712e4e38e-63041445&mc_cid=b712e4e38e&mc_eid=57314563a1)

Gio
9th May 2020, 11:32
And speaking of transmuting ...


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Dreamtimer
9th May 2020, 11:57
The details at around 10 minutes into the MU podcast as well as Bret Weinstein's story remind me of why I was leery of going into research. Bret's work was taken by someone else, and Dr. Mikovits' was suppressed.

It's very difficult to upset the apple cart. I had personal challenges with this in my family. When people are very set in their ways or beliefs or positions, they don't want to hear things which challenge them or may upset the order.

I'm glad she has come out after her gag order expired. I wonder if I would have been able to wait.

Still listening...



Amphipods are fascinating to me.

Dreamtimer
9th May 2020, 14:08
I really enjoyed the MU podcast.

Looks like Judy's book is going on the reading list.


lol at 1:07:25

At 1:21:20 Judy's 'unholy trinity'. (spoiler: Trump's current number one, is one)

It seems to me like the Clintons have been a great distraction from the Industry activities. Target them, point the finger at them, and keep the eye off the actual establishment culprits. It takes a great deal of time to undue Pavlovian conditioning.

Judy mentions NC labs, US Army labs, and the Wuhan labs.

Plandemic is going on the movie list. :batman

Gio
9th May 2020, 14:20
And speaking of hairy situations ...


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Dreamtimer
9th May 2020, 14:21
More like let out your hair. :ttr:

Gio
9th May 2020, 15:40
Little Richard, Founding Father of
Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers,
Dead at 87 (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/little-richard-dead-48505/)

It's Little Richard (1964) | Legendary TV Special



Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), better known as Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. An influential figure in popular music, Richard's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship laid the foundation for rock and roll, leading him to be given the nickname "The Innovator, The Originator, and The Architect of Rock and Roll". Characterized by his frenetic piano playing and raspy singing voice, Richard's music also played a key role in the formation of other popular music genres, including soul and funk. He influenced numerous singers and musicians across musical genres from rock to hip hop, and his music helped shape rhythm and blues for generations to come.

38:44 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_lsulgLGU

Gio
9th May 2020, 22:18
A video-vlogger's dilemma ...

Adam the Woo

What's On My Mind - A Twenty Four Minute Unedited
Video Explaining Some Things




Description
This is my 2nd channel . Created with the intention of not only documenting my day to day life but also to find something new and exciting to film on a regular basis . For over 5 years I filmed an uploaded a vlog every single day on this channel without missing a day. Since then I have stepped back just a tad and take a few days off here and there and also added live streaming to the mix.

May 8, 2020

24:12 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GodOWcmOwEc&feature=em-uploademail


Bonus share ...

The early years ...


Who is Adam The Woo : A Youtube Documentary

17:06 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90fxDxv5r9Y


Adam's related/collective video shares ... (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDailyWoo/videos)

Gio
9th May 2020, 23:14
#Trending ...


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“Yeah, I’m just alone with my demons, but it turns out
they’re actually good company.”

Gio
10th May 2020, 00:04
For your inspection ...

https://www.sott.net/image/s28/567789/full/PLANDEMIC_Part_1.jpg

Plandemic is a 26-minute conspiracy theory video released in May 2020

Descriptive

"Humanity is imprisoned by a killer pandemic. People are being arrested for surfing in the ocean and meditating in nature. Nations are collapsing. Hungry citizens are rioting for food. The media has generated so much confusion and fear that people are begging for salvation in a syringe. Billionaire patent owners are pushing for globally mandated vaccines. Anyone who refuses to be injected with experimental poisons will be prohibited from travel, education and work. No, this is not a synopsis for a new horror movie. This is our current reality.

Let’s back up to address how we got here...

In the early 1900s, America’s first Billionaire, John D. Rockefeller bought a German pharmaceutical company that would later assist Hitler to implement his eugenics-based vision by manufacturing chemicals and poisons for war. Rockefeller wanted to eliminate the competitors of Western medicine, so he submitted a report to Congress declaring that there were too many doctors and medical schools in America, and that all natural healing modalities were unscientific quackery. Rockefeller called for the standardization of medical education, whereby only his organization be allowed to grant medical school licenses in the US. And so began the practice of immune suppressive, synthetic and toxic drugs. Once people had become dependent on this new system and the addictive drugs it provided, the system switched to a paid program, creating lifelong customers for the Rockefellers. Currently, medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US. Rockefeller’s secret weapon to success was the strategy known as, “problem-reaction-solution.” Create a problem, escalate fear, then offer a pre-planned solution. Sound familiar?

Flash forward to 2020...

They named it COVID19. Our leaders of world health predicted millions would die. The National Guard was deployed. Makeshift hospitals were erected to care for a massive overflow of patients. Mass graves were dug. Terrifying news reports had people everywhere seeking shelter to avoid contact. The plan was unfolding with diabolical precision, but the masters of the Pandemic underestimated one thing... the people. Medical professionals and every-day citizens are sharing critical information online. The overlords of big tech have ordered all dissenting voices to be silenced and banned, but they are too late. The slumbering masses are awake and aware that something is not right. Quarantine has provided the missing element: time. Suddenly, our overworked citizenry has ample time to research and investigate for themselves. Once you see, you can’t unsee.

The window of opportunity is open like never before. For the first time in human history, we have the world’s attention. Plandemic will expose the scientific and political elite who run the scam that is our global health system, while laying out a new plan; a plan that allows all of humanity to reconnect with healing forces of nature. 2020 is the code for perfect vision. It is also the year that will go down in history as the moment we finally opened our eyes."


Watch here (https://plandemicmovie.com/)

Gio
10th May 2020, 12:52
For those of you who have the time ...

Colin E Davis and Melissa Mari V is for Virus Part One

LegaliseFreedom1

"Colin E. Davis and Melissa Mari discuss the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis. In this two-part show, we examine some of the inconsistencies surrounding the official story about so-called COVID-19 and the heavy-handed government response to it. Was crashing the global economy and bankrupting millions of people really an appropriate response to a disease that has thus far killed the equivalent of the population of a large town? We also consider the acquiescent and apathetic public reaction to lockdowns, bans, and other draconian restrictions, and potential future implications for individual freedom. The real pandemic, as it turns out, is fear.

Whether this coronavirus outbreak occurred naturally, was deliberately engineered, or somewhere in between, the powers that be have a habit of never letting a crisis go to waste. Whatever the truth may be, seismic shifts in society are already underway, and in one or more important respects, the lives we once knew may be gone forever. Contemplate how swiftly your lives have become like 'The Lives of Others' – nervous curtain twitching, nightly pronouncements from The Party on the tele-broadcast unit, and constant chatter about what is and what is not available at the food distribution centre. Will this Orwellian vision really become the 'new normal'? As ever, that's up to us."

May 10, 2020

1:04:54 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8n57J3Ep5Q&feature=em-uploademail


Updated ...


Colin E. Davis and Melissa Mari - V is for Virus: Part Two

"Colin E. Davis and Melissa Mari discuss the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis. In this two-part show, we examine some of the inconsistencies surrounding the official story concerning so-called COVID-19, and also the deeper psycho-spiritual dimensions of the virus.

Beyond government propaganda, mass media manipulation, and the deadliest pandemic of all – fear - the key to the current crisis lies hidden in the deepest recesses of the human psyche. Despite the promise and potential embodied in the secular religions of science and progress, it is clear that we have entered the 21st Century profoundly disconnected from each other, from the natural world and, ultimately, from ourselves. This separation has spawned a deadly psycho-spiritual sickness, largely unacknowledged, which manifests itself as dysfunction, destruction, and decay in the outer world. The Coronavirus Crisis is holding up a mirror so that humanity may see its own shadow, face its fears, and seize the challenge of this moment as an opportunity to evolve or die."

May 21, 2020

1:00:44 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTv1DPSdYU

Gio
10th May 2020, 14:20
Catch-up ...

Without a Home During the Global Crisis

Gabriel Traveler



I got a car but don't have a home, so I decided to head for the wilderness. The last time I went out there my truck broke down in the middle of nowhere...

May 10, 2020

17:56 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NaY6z_kgoM&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
10th May 2020, 15:07
The latest ...

Jolly Interesting Walk Through Central London,
Trafalgar Square and Strand

Joolz Guides - London History Walks - Travel Films

May 10, 2020

21:00 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2u0OW0_4sM

Gio
11th May 2020, 23:05
No buts about it ...
All is fair in comedy, though not with ...


Germs and Immune System -
George Carlin

6:26 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSbT7JVNEU4

Aianawa
12th May 2020, 00:19
Watched that one a couple of days ago, classic.

Moddy and meself are awaiting your reply regards a Brew Gio, know you have people follow you who would love to hear your voice, have you watched the brews of late Gio ?, can you entertain being part of a natter with us, we keen. Feel it is important.

Gio
12th May 2020, 03:25
He was one of kind and will be greatly missed ...

Ben Stiller, Jason Alexander, and more stars pay
tribute to Jerry Stiller after his death (https://ew.com/tv/jerry-stiller-death-celebrity-tributes/)
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Ben & Jerry Stiller

Gio
13th May 2020, 08:44
From my friend, Mike Dickenson ...

"The more I witness a person's attempt to engage people with a different perspective on social media, the more I see that the majority of people have already made up their minds. Censorship is here, folks. Group-think is well established. Let it be known - I have no concrete evidence of what is ACTUALLY going on. I have my ideas, but I am comfortable enough to say, "I don't know." Many people, it seems, feel quite the opposite. Rather than considering things from another angle, many people would rather dig in their heals. Our current situation is like the vaccine debate on steroids. Have you noticed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to engage in civil conversation without being shamed, labeled, or slandered? Meanwhile, homogenized, top-down information is not only becoming the norm, it is becoming mandated. And it appears that many people are perfectly OK with this. But if you question this information, you are not a critical thinker, but a conspiracy theorist.

We are all becoming more embedded in our own echo-chambers. This is what they want - division. The more we bicker amongst ourselves, the easier we are to distract and control. There's a lot more coming down the pipe...I hope we can handle it together - I really do."


https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pictorem.com%2Fcollection%2F90 0_Pawel-Kuczynski_perfect%2520garden2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude." ~ Aldous Huxley

Image: Perfect garden by Pawel Kuczynski

Gio
13th May 2020, 23:50
Soft disclosure Via the mainline New York Post ...https://7img.net/users/2911/23/55/04/smiles/962334.gif


UFOs seen emerging from water add to US Navy mystery
May 13, 2020

"In 2004, US Navy pilots encountered multiple fast-moving UFOs off the coast of San Diego, California. While this story is now widely known, one detail from the USS Nimitz incident has often been overlooked: Eyewitnesses also spotted a UFO under the surface of the ocean.


A UFO in the water is called a USO, or Unidentified Submerged Object, and there is a long history of UFOs being witnessed under, above or near bodies of water. From a sighting recorded by Christopher Columbus in 1492 to the Utsuro Bune folklore in Japan — or the highly-documented Shag Harbour incident — water seems to play a big role in UFO sightings.

Steven Greenstreet and Nick Pope dive deep into USO cases throughout history in this episode of “The Basement Office (https://nypost.com/video/ufos-seen-emerging-from-water-add-to-us-navy-mystery/).“"

NEW | Underwater UFOs add to US Navy mystery | Ep 8 |
The Basement Office |New York Post

Premiered 10 hours ago ...

30:14 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhgawm-ZKc&list=PLwNrNqsuwF1n43wh5nuV5hTFrdAN00kfk

Gio
14th May 2020, 00:04
Then the Man god said, let us make them in our image, after our likeness.



https://i.pinimg.com/564x/28/8d/9b/288d9bbe770edd9db4e037a33e49ec5e.jpg

"The problem, as I see it, is that you both are extremely adapt
at pushing each others buttons."

Gio
14th May 2020, 00:40
Jazzy ...

Twilight Zone

Manhattan Transfer

4:02 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUU0w0KWA8o

Gio
14th May 2020, 08:26
Will share this here ...

Investigating Hauntings & Paranormal Activity with Dr. Alvin Proffit

Strange Planet



Richard speaks with a retired university professor, educator and long-time researcher of the paranormal. He'll discuss some of his numerous investigations, including a haunted house in West Virginia, the Edinburgh underground, The Battleship U.S. North Carolina, and more.​

GUEST: Dr. Alvin Proffit is a retired professor at Appalachian State University. In his free time he uses his skills as a researcher to study the paranormal. He serves as a Research Affiliate with League of Energy Materialization and Unexplained Research phenomena (LEMUR). He also serves as guest host for Asheville’s number one rated Saturday night talk show, Speaking of Strange with Joshua P. Warren and often does live reports from actual investigations of haunted locations throughout the United States. He is a certified ghost researcher by the International Ghost Hunter’s Society and has researched ghostly phenomena from the Hawaiian Island of Oahu to the Cape Fear River on the east coast of North Carolina to the Ocala National Forest in central Florida. While he enjoys the thrill of an investigation his main focus is to help those being haunted.

May 12, 2020

48:41 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tMpdXj5IcM&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
16th May 2020, 19:03
Showing us the way ...

Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids play "Come Together"



Hello everyone! We're the Clark family. Colt (the Dad) is a professional musician and Aubree (me, the Mom behind the camera) is a photographer. Together we home school our three children (even when we're not in the middle of a pandemic). :) We're keeping busy during our time at home by learning a new song everyday. We thought we'd record them and share as we go. Hopefully it brightens your day! This is Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids playing, "Come Together" by the Beatles ...


More here (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDA5r8KAXgg1lJasipG0fRA/videos)


May 6, 2020

3:27 minute


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad4caS5_5lo


An encore ...


"Sweet Caroline"

3:15 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hjbF4i0sjk

Dreamtimer
17th May 2020, 03:16
Too bad the little girl has such stage fright. So shy in front of the camera. ;)

She reminds me a bit of Drew Barrymore.

Emil El Zapato
17th May 2020, 12:27
lol, she does look like Drew Barrymore...when my daughter was that age, I always would tell her that she looked like Drew Barrymore, the brown version, of course :) and try to get her to watch E.T. the Extraterrestrial...she still resents the heck out of that. I asked awhile back about that movie and she said she still hates it.

Gio
17th May 2020, 23:50
And yes, in case you were wondering this is the area
where James Gilliland's Eceti Ranch is located within ...

From Under Mt Adams to the Columbia Gorge ...

♪ This land Is Our Land ♪...

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5ebafee2e1c76e3f6a417886/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/Bethea-SocialDistancing-Primary.jpg
The upper stretches of the White Salmon River, on the western edge of Klickitat County.

A Coronavirus Turf War in Klickitat County

A handful of sheriffs in Washington State have said they won’t enforce the governor’s shutdown orders. But who are the state’s rural residents actually listening to?


Watch/Read Here (https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/a-coronavirus-turf-war-in-klickitat-county?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_051720&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0b212ddf9c72dc8cc2c3&cndid=52756157&hasha=f720a4c35094c229f8aa98a4a66b9a3e&hashb=474f7aa6fff80a4f92b9c7035f976dbcd326e2d6&hashc=6a0007fadb426ea722a63d44a53d96a6792a0096ce21 ea6bf031baa5eca99554&esrc=bounceX&utm_term=TNY_Daily)

Lord Sidious
18th May 2020, 08:43
I'm more attuned to the desert, but that's not bad at all nugg............

modwiz
18th May 2020, 09:24
Showing us the way ...

Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids play "Come Together"


An encore ...


"Sweet Caroline"


Awesome family and spirit. Loved it.

Gio
19th May 2020, 16:38
If i'm not mistaken, I first recall hearing about this a few years back via
information shared on Linda Moulton Howe's website ...


https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/alternate-universe-18.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1280

NASA scientists detect evidence of parallel
universe where time runs backward (https://nypost.com/2020/05/19/nasa-finds-evidence-of-parallel-universe-where-time-runs-backward-report/)

Emil El Zapato
19th May 2020, 17:05
quantum particles zip in and out of 'reality's edge' constantly, it is required to 'balance the mathematics' of our Universe. It's the 'double' flip that allows the universe to understand itself and 'realize' you and me. It seems that empirical evidence has been detected that bolsters the theory.

Gio
19th May 2020, 17:32
Meanwhile ...


https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5ec3dd0e48ae94390d8ec022/4:3/w_446,c_limit/A24272.jpg

“It’s some sort of gigantic, monstrous, welcome distraction.”

Gio
21st May 2020, 07:38
"Lets just jump into it shall we" ...

Healing the Millennial Wound - Helping Generation Y

Teal Swan



The millennial generation or so-called 'generation why' is a game-changer generation. However, to get to the place where the game is changed, the existing rules of the game had to have proved to be detrimental. And the trauma of experiencing those detrimental aspects of the game have led the millennial generation to a cross roads.

May 16, 2020

28:07


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-YbTKskzxQ&feature=em-uploademail

Lord Sidious
21st May 2020, 09:13
"Lets just jump into it shall we" ...

Healing the Millennial Wound - Helping Generation Y

Teal Swan



May 16, 2020

28:07


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-YbTKskzxQ&feature=em-uploademail

Is this a bad time to mention the term ''harden the f u c k up?''

modwiz
21st May 2020, 09:28
Is this a bad time to mention the term ''harden the f u c k up?''

Never.

Unless one is in recovering from actual physical wounds from engaging life. Ya know, like being in a hospital bed. Also, true warriors like yourself, would be well served to be nuanced and understand not all are called to be warriors and, that is a good thing. However, softies are ripe for Nature to recycle them. Don't want those weak genes replicating.

BTW, Cosmic Emporium is not for opinions. It is a canvas that Gio uses to create his unique online voice.

You and me posting is like an unwanted musician joining a jam. We can be forgiven. This time, methinks.:scrhd:

You will always be welcome in the Tent. Just a buncha wierdos hanging out there. :p

Gio
21st May 2020, 09:43
From one jester to another ...


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/8a/26/e28a26f375163a7b642b8d17fb00f097.jpg

Emil El Zapato
21st May 2020, 11:50
there is so much in Swan's focus to engage with but I'm going to hold off for now...I'll say this though, Thomas Jefferson spoke of the generational problem, and it was no more true then than it is now...there are solutions though...God given something, anything even.

Dreamtimer
21st May 2020, 16:16
A kid getting beaten to the point of broken is too far.

A kid getting coddled to the point of jello is too far.

I'm sure we can find the wide array of 'happy medium'.

I didn't beat my child (at all) but I did discipline him. He's quite tough, has great self-discipline and has never melted under criticism. He's a millennial, nearly 26 now.

He also was out of the house half-way through college and never asks for money.

Gio
21st May 2020, 16:54
"Lets just jump into it shall we" ...

Healing the Millennial Wound - Helping Generation Y

Teal Swan


The millennial generation or so-called 'generation why' is a game-changer generation. However, to get to the place where the game is changed, the existing rules of the game had to have proved to be detrimental. And the trauma of experiencing those detrimental aspects of the game have led the millennial generation to a cross roads.


May 16, 2020

28:07


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-YbTKskzxQ&feature=em-uploademail


there is so much in Swan's focus to engage with but I'm going to hold off for now...I'll say this though, Thomas Jefferson spoke of the generational problem, and it was no more true then than it is now...there are solutions though...God given something, anything even.


A kid getting beaten to the point of broken is too far.

A kid getting coddled to the point of jello is too far.

I'm sure we can find the wide array of 'happy medium'.

I didn't beat my child (at all) but I did discipline him. He's quite tough, has great self-discipline and has never melted under criticism. He's a millennial, nearly 26 now.

He also was out of the house half-way through college and never asks for money.

For reference and thread page continuity.

Gio
22nd May 2020, 08:08
From Videovlogger Matthew Vandeputte ...

One year in London timelapse

"My favourite timelapse footage from a full year of living in London. You can download all this footage to enter my very first timelapse editing competition I'm doing with Lickd here": https://www.matjoez.com/timelapsecomp...


May 20, 2020

4:30 minutes

Best viewed in full screen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdVgKyz9SGs&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
22nd May 2020, 08:17
The latest ...

How Governments Are Hunting the Infected - #NewWorldNextWeek


Welcome back 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. This week:

Story #1: Most States Sharing “Covid” Patients' Addresses With “Law Enforcement”
https://bit.ly/2TmJ4q8


South Korea's Tracking Of COVID-19 Patients Raises Privacy Concerns
https://n.pr/2zRQGdc


Story #2: Co-Executor of Epstein’s Estate Faces Questioning Under Oath
https://bit.ly/36fwle0


Epstein’s Lawyers Deeply Involved In His Business Dealings for Decades (Aug. 13, 2019)
https://yhoo.it/2Zpl8Gi


Epstein Met With Bill Gates After Jail
http://archive.is/xkHaf


Epstein Met With Alan Dershowitz In Jail
http://archive.is/BXCBW


Story #3: Johnson & Johnson Pulls Sale of Talc-Based Baby Powder In North America
https://on.mktw.net/2ZnWyp6


Everything Is Super Swell At Johnson & Johnson, Folks! (Just Don’t Mention The Baby Powder Cancer)
https://bit.ly/2TqqVYh


#PropagandaWatch: Asbestos Found in Baby Powder. You’ll Never Guess How J&J Respond!
https://bit.ly/2ZtEjyV


May 21, 2020

21:31 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfqdSG4dtsg&feature=em-uploademail

Dreamtimer
22nd May 2020, 11:03
I don't personally know anyone who has snitched or been asked to snitch.

But there are plenty of black folks in America who get the cops called on them when they're: grilling in the park, going into their apartment building, driving on the road, etc.

First they came for the...

Lord Sidious
22nd May 2020, 15:44
I don't personally know anyone who has snitched or been asked to snitch.

But there are plenty of black folks in America who get the cops called on them when they're: grilling in the park, going into their apartment building, driving on the road, etc.

First they came for the...

I can tell you how I think those idiots deserve to be treated, but I think we all get the picture................

Dreamtimer
22nd May 2020, 20:08
Snitches get strafed?

Chester
23rd May 2020, 00:22
There's nothing lower on earth than a snitch... there's plenty equally low, but nothing lower.

Gio
23rd May 2020, 00:40
Lunch down by the beach ...

The First Ruby’s Diner / Balboa Pier on Newport Beach -
Southern California Take Out Food Review

TheDailyWoo


May 21, 2020

17:14 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I3-BGM0nSo

Gio
23rd May 2020, 08:38
#Trending ...


https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5ec69ca811d455d8907cda31/4:3/w_446,c_limit/A24274.jpg

“I don’t know much about science, but I know what I like.”

Gio
23rd May 2020, 10:29
Always fun to listen to as one works/surfs the web...
Really interesting at and from the 54:min mark ...

Mysterious Universe - Squid Router



The barriers that prevent us from moving into other realities may be more permeable than we realise. Past lives and parallel dimensions collide on this episode as we discuss the experiences of a man who claims to have encountered a time portal in a German forest before travelling to other realities.

We also chat about fire entities, cursed ancient Egyptian artefacts and the dangers of interfering with sacred godly statues.

Full Show Notes: - https://bit.ly/2Tuxuch


May 22, 2020

1:34:15 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4xPpHpzieE&feature=em-uploademail

Emil El Zapato
23rd May 2020, 12:52
Hope you don't mind, Gio:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GLAKEjU4w

Gio
25th May 2020, 05:09
Trail and error of early human evolution ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3c/98/8d/3c988d4b820d9a46cc65d0ab3690601b.jpg

Gio
25th May 2020, 05:23
And speaking evolution ...

Via the Rad Man ...

https://images.boredomfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mosuo-people-lugu-lake-ninglang-lijiang-768x395.jpg

The Land Where Women Rule: Inside China's Last Matriarchy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo)

"In the Broadly (Vice) documentary China's Last Matriarchy, correspondent Milène Larsson spends a week in Lugu Lake with three generations of Mosuo women to find out more about their unique culture and the realities of matriarchal life."




About the Filmmaker

Journalist and news documentary filmmaker, Milène Larsson, has been working for VICE for almost a decade. Initially editor of the Scandinavian edition of VICE Magazine, she moved to London to become European Managing Editor. Now a senior producer at VICE News, she primarily makes news documentaries such as the award winning Israel’s Radical Left, Istanbul Rising, Young and Gay in Putin’s Russia, and the major migration series, Europe or Die. She has appeared on CNN, Sky News, and helped produce VICE on HBO.

More from the Filmmaker

China’s one-child policy led to millions of female infanticides—except in a lush valley known as the “Land Where Women Rule.” Located in the foothills of the Himalayas, Lugu Lake is home to China’s Mosuo matriarchy. The region’s 40,000 denizens have come up with a unique family structure that puts women in charge. The Mosuo’s “walking marriages”—in which women can have as many boyfriends as they want throughout their lifetime—replace traditional monogamy, and inheritance passes from mother to daughter. But are the women really in control, and how are men fairing under their rule? Broadly correspondent Milène Larsson spends a week in Lugu Lake with three generations of Mosuo women to find out what life is like in one of the world’s last matriarchies.

What evoked our interest in China’s Mosuo matriarchy, aside from the obvious rarity of a place where women are in charge, inherit, and are allowed as many lovers as they please, was how their centuries of isolation in the foothills of the Himalayas has allowed them to come up with their very own and unique family structure and relationship model. We wanted to understand how traditional life outside of the monogamous norm works and how it affects women’s, men’s, elderly people’s, and children’s social status.

About the Collaborator

Broadly (VICE) is a website and digital video channel devoted to representing the multiplicity of women’s experiences. Through original reporting and documentary film, Broadly, provides a sustained focus on the issues that matter most to women. As one YouTube commenter succinctly put it, “So basicly [sic] vice but excluding anything of relevance that includes men.”

Source (https://www.womensvoicesnow.org/films/the-land-where-women-rule-chinas-last-matriarchy/)

Feb 25, 2016

24:29 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc

modwiz
25th May 2020, 05:39
And speaking evolution ...

Via the Rad Man ...

https://images.boredomfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mosuo-people-lugu-lake-ninglang-lijiang-768x395.jpg

The Land Where Women Rule: Inside China's Last Matriarchy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo)

"In the Broadly (Vice) documentary China's Last Matriarchy, correspondent Milène Larsson spends a week in Lugu Lake with three generations of Mosuo women to find out more about their unique culture and the realities of matriarchal life."



Feb 25, 2016

24:29 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc

I watched this video over a year ago now. It has had a profound effect on my view of life and evoked deep phylogentic memories. It was a game changer for me with my Gnostic background. Seeing the Han in that area showed a stark contrast of culture and genetics. I'll let someone tell me which one represents a high culture. Body language is a true language.

Gio
26th May 2020, 06:46
What Happened to DENNIS WILSON? Death Of A BEACH BOY -

Jordan The Lion Travel Vlog (5/25/20)

May 25, 2020

25:18 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBN824Qw_eo&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
27th May 2020, 07:03
"All dressed up with a new way to go" ...

How Elon Musk's SpaceX is changing American space flight

PBS NewsHour



It has been nearly a decade since an American space crew last lifted off from U.S. soil in a spacecraft built here. That's expected to change Wednesday afternoon with the relaunch of manned space flight. But the occasion will be very different from past launches, as this time, a private company is leading the way as a NASA partner. Miles O’Brien reports on the potentially “revolutionary” moment.

May 26, 2020

6:44 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Yb6FEEfJY

Gio
27th May 2020, 07:26
In these days ...
They say you can't go back ...

INXS - Suicide Blonde Live Baby Live (The 4K Restoration)

May 27, 2020

4:02 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvgThJ8HZyY&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
27th May 2020, 07:33
You bet ...


https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5ec7b6c44889dfa6eda9d89a/4:3/w_446,c_limit/A24276-dailycartoon.jpg

We’re almost there.

Emil El Zapato
27th May 2020, 18:26
I have done some marketing in the past...trying to earn my daily Whopper...my specialty was a health product and an oil eater (spills)

I told one of my close associates that I wanted this song as my theme...his response was, "what is that" it really was... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_snSkpULQ

Gio
29th May 2020, 03:31
Paul Levy - Coronavirus Crisis: Transformation Through Trauma

LegaliseFreedom1



Paul Levy discusses the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis and the deeper psychological and spiritual origins of the virus.

For almost twenty years, Levy has been writing about an insidious, invisible virus spreading and replicating itself throughout the human species. This deadly disease is a virus of the mind that cultivates and feeds on fear and separation. It is a true game-changer for us to recognize that the Coronavirus is literally a materialization in our world of the previously invisible virus that exists deep within the collective unconscious of humanity. What is playing out in Covid-19 can help us begin to see the deeper underlying pandemic - a collective psychological infection - that has been wreaking havoc on our species behind the scenes and beneath our awareness from time immemorial.

One of the real dangers of the current pandemic is for us to feel helpless, overwhelmed with despair, impending doom and pessimism, a state which cuts us off from our agency and creative power. Strangely enough, the hardest of the hard sciences - quantum physics - comes to our aid as medicine to protect us from this psychological danger. A little insight into the essence of what quantum physics reveals to us can be the best anti-depressant imaginable. By revealing that we live in a thoroughly quantum universe, quantum physics is literally placing the keys to our future in our own hands. The question is, do we know how to wisely use the gift that is being freely offered to us?

May 28, 2020

1:04:16 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOtvS4PfAng&feature=em-uploademail

Dreamtimer
29th May 2020, 11:37
I just came across a TED talk addressing quantum physics and its ability to help with depression. I haven't listened yet.

Emil El Zapato
29th May 2020, 13:13
Interesting...spectrum of light, perhaps? Or the more indescribable? indescribbles, indescrollables, ....

Gio
29th May 2020, 14:29
Paul Levy - Coronavirus Crisis: Transformation Through Trauma


LegaliseFreedom1

Paul Levy discusses the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis and the deeper psychological and spiritual origins of the virus.

For almost twenty years, Levy has been writing about an insidious, invisible virus spreading and replicating itself throughout the human species. This deadly disease is a virus of the mind that cultivates and feeds on fear and separation. It is a true game-changer for us to recognize that the Coronavirus is literally a materialization in our world of the previously invisible virus that exists deep within the collective unconscious of humanity. What is playing out in Covid-19 can help us begin to see the deeper underlying pandemic - a collective psychological infection - that has been wreaking havoc on our species behind the scenes and beneath our awareness from time immemorial.

One of the real dangers of the current pandemic is for us to feel helpless, overwhelmed with despair, impending doom and pessimism, a state which cuts us off from our agency and creative power. Strangely enough, the hardest of the hard sciences - quantum physics - comes to our aid as medicine to protect us from this psychological danger. A little insight into the essence of what quantum physics reveals to us can be the best anti-depressant imaginable. By revealing that we live in a thoroughly quantum universe, quantum physics is literally placing the keys to our future in our own hands. The question is, do we know how to wisely use the gift that is being freely offered to us?



May 28, 2020

1:04:16 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOtvS4PfAng&feature=em-uploademail

An added incentive listen for those that listened to the above video ...

Via Paul Levy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Mh9jaxmbU)



First published April 11, 2013.

Paul Levy discusses his book Dispelling Wetiko -- Breaking the Curse of Evil.

There is a contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the human soul, a parasite of the mind, that is currently manifesting itself in the form of unprecedented conflicts and crises on a global scale. This collective psychosis or mental virus -- which Native Americans have called wetiko - covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering us oblivious to our own madness and compelling us to act against our own best interests.

Wetiko distorts our perceptions by stealth and subterfuge, acting through us while simultaneously remaining hidden. Unconstrained by conventional laws of time and space, this 'bug' in the system deceives us by working with the projective tendencies of our mind to appear external to and other than ourselves. Thus, the conflicts and crises which threaten the collapse of political, social and economic systems, and perhaps even of the biosphere itself, are nothing less than a revelation of our own internal darkness, the side of our nature that we all too often deny. Quantum physics is now revealing to us the dreamlike nature of reality and, as with our dreams at night, events in the so-called waking world are symbolically reflecting a condition deep within the psyche of humanity.

Drawing on insights from Jungian psychology, shamanism, alchemy, spiritual wisdom traditions, and personal experience, Levy shows us that hidden within the venom of wetiko is both a profound truth and an antidote, which once recognized can help us awaken and restore sanity to society. Whether wetiko destroys our species or catalyses a deeper process of global awakening depends upon recognizing what it is revealing to us about ourselves.

Paul Levy is a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence and an innovator in the field of dreaming. A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over thirty years, he has studied with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma. He is the author of The Madness of George W Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, as well as Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity.

awakeninthedream.com (https://www.awakeninthedream.com/)

Dreamtimer
29th May 2020, 15:04
Thanks, Gio. I will check out the website and also listen to the above discussion. :thup:

Wind
29th May 2020, 18:58
I just came across a TED talk addressing quantum physics and its ability to help with depression. I haven't listened yet.

https://i.imgur.com/uu9pmDP.gif?noredirect

Elen
30th May 2020, 07:10
Amazing insight and wisdom, thank you for sharing Gio!!! I really enjoyed it, and it makes a lot of sense. :love:

Gio
30th May 2020, 08:23
Comfort care with ...

Doctor Wu



Comfort care is defined as a patient care plan that is focused on symptom control, pain relief, and quality of life. It is typically administered to patients who have already been hospitalized several times, with further medical treatment unlikely to change matters. Comfort care takes the form of hospice care and palliative care.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w58E2S315a4

Gio
30th May 2020, 08:29
That Ol' Mandela effect ...


https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5ed10adb3de1b8dd0d6ac4d4/4:3/w_446,c_limit/A24307-dailycartoon.jpg

“ ‘Quaran-tain’? Am I crazy, or was it ‘quaran-tine’ when we were growing up?”

Gio
30th May 2020, 08:44
'Where footprints end' ...

Mysterious Universe Podcast – Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner


"Mention Bigfoot to most people and believer or not they will most likely assume that they are flesh and blood creatures. However, for many who have had interactions with such beasts the high strangeness factor suggests something metaphysical about them that crosses over with realms of the paranormal and is deeply rooted in mythology. Josh Cutchin and Timothy Renner's new work 'Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon' dives into the non physical nature of the Bigfoot mythos and its associated unexplained high strangeness."

Full Show Notes: https://bit.ly/2MgBHfD




May 29, 2020

1:13:01 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1D81FBcFI8&feature=em-uploademail

Dreamtimer
30th May 2020, 10:07
Cool. I've heard of paranormal stuff associated with bigfoot.

Emil El Zapato
30th May 2020, 11:56
Truth is, they are ET's on vacation...and just want some alone time...

Elen
30th May 2020, 13:09
Truth is, they are ET's on vacation...and just want some alone time...

:cool:

Emil El Zapato
30th May 2020, 14:24
uh huh... :)

Gio
31st May 2020, 12:07
The latest ...

Most Excellent London Walking Tour : The City - Part 1 East

Joolz Guides - London History Walks - Travel Films


An excellent walk around the east part of the City of London. By that, I mean the financial district around Liverpool Street and Leadenhall Market.

Joolz tells you all about Liverpool Street station, the kinder transport, St Botolph's Without Bishopsgate, Bedlam, St Mary Axe, The Gherkin, where Shakespeare first lived, the birth of the stock exchange and why a man died because a mouse stole his lunch!

May 31, 2020

21:23 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfnpYeYTQyg

Gio
1st June 2020, 12:40
Does it really matter anymore ...

Voting by Mail: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)



With the 2020 presidential election nearing and a pandemic in full swing, John Oliver discusses why voting by mail is necessary, the fearmongering surrounding it, and why we need to start planning for November right now.

May 31, 2020

19:11 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-nEHkgm_Gk&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
2nd June 2020, 12:40
"UFO's are all the rage around here" ...https://7img.net/users/2911/23/55/04/smiles/962334.gif

Midsomer Murders - Electric Vendetta

Season 4, Episode 3



The body of a criminal is found in a crop circle, and the locals blame extra terrestrial activity for the death. But Barnaby is not convinced.

1:36:53 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tYoT-9BaWU&list=PLFtpZ659RpvFMx262iGr0NzoQxDPII1tv&index=16

Gio
2nd June 2020, 12:46
And speaking of hunting ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f3/a2/f1/f3a2f1ece06e88d3dafeb83b2599dbbc.jpg

Gio
2nd June 2020, 23:14
I'm sure some might recall this uniquely talented family share from last month (https://jandeane81.com/showthread.php/9965-The-Cosmic-Emporium?p=842021907&viewfull=1#post842021907) ...

Update ...

Via TheEllenShow

"Ellen chatted with Colt and Aubree Clark and their three children, Cash, Beckett, and Bellamy, whose videos of their family band, Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids, recently went viral. They talked about what it was like to gain popularity in such a short amount of time, and they showed off their talents with a fantastic rendition of the Beatles classic, “Come Together.” Plus, Ellen’s friends at Green Dot Bank gave the family a special gift to help them get through these uncertain times" ...

May 27, 2020

8:43 minutes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt3RJJgwsn8

Gio
4th June 2020, 08:32
"if at first you don't succeed, try, try again" ...

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and
the Secret History of the Sixties (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316477540?tag=duckduckgo-ffsb-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1)


https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mercurynews.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F08%2Fmanson3.jpeg%3Fw%3 D620&f=1&nofb=1

Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Bugliosi)


The Official Narrative of Tate Murders Doesn't Add Up
w/Tom O'Neill | Joe Rogan



Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and Details. His book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36xPWBLcG8



Apr 16, 2020

25:32 minutes

In a nutshell ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWS4edKmz2Q

Emil El Zapato
4th June 2020, 12:09
Sharon Tate's next door neighbors:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f7P7tZXJZI&has_verified=1

Gio
4th June 2020, 16:34
Will share this here ...


Assholes: A Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assholes%3A_A_Theory)

(Trailer)

1:56 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrRtmH95jV0

Emil El Zapato
4th June 2020, 16:44
that's good AND my favorite T-Shirt... :)

Gio
4th June 2020, 16:45
An excellent page turner ...


Will share this here ...


Assholes: A Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assholes%3A_A_Theory)

(Trailer)

1:56 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrRtmH95jV0

Gio
4th June 2020, 16:56
that's good AND my favorite T-Shirt... :)

And i imagine you wear it well.

Emil El Zapato
4th June 2020, 16:58
indeed I do... lol...

b.t.w. I was going to bump your post when I realized it had started a new page...I'm not ALWAYS an a-hole... :)

Gio
4th June 2020, 17:17
The latest ...

This Is #TheGreatReset. You Have Been Warned. #NewWorldNextWeek



Welcome back 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. This week:

Story #1: This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation.
https://bit.ly/3gSJu1y

Police Brutality & Torture Are Normal After 9/11 (Dec. 19, 2007)
https://bit.ly/3dHZmle

George W. Bush Says George Floyd's Death Reveals America's “Tragic Failures”
https://bit.ly/3dwoQlv

Obama Hosts Town Hall Discussion of ‘Re-Imagining Policing' After George Floyd's Death
https://bit.ly/3075nnW

The Purge: Election Year – FLNWO #38 (Sep. 19, 2016)
https://bit.ly/36X3nzX

Thousands March In Wake Of George Floyd’s Death, From Amsterdam To Tokyo
https://bit.ly/3gLcoRb

Cookie-Cutter Unrest in Japan Shows the Global Covid Clampdown Is No Accident
https://bit.ly/3cuNjXo

Story #2: “Now Is The Time For a ‘Great Reset’”
https://bit.ly/2XX8M63

‘The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity’
https://bit.ly/2XupqdX

‘Second Renaissance’: Great Reset
https://bit.ly/2ADWPKg

Story #3: At Least 11 Local News Stations Caught Airing The Exact Same Amazon Propaganda Segment
https://bit.ly/2AC6dyh

Corporate Mega-Bailout Bonanza Begins In Europe
https://bit.ly/3drqx3M


Jun 4, 2020

17:47 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lh-HGcXE1Q&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
4th June 2020, 17:26
"if at first you don't succeed, try, try again" ...


Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and
the Secret History of the Sixties (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316477540?tag=duckduckgo-ffsb-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1)


https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mercurynews.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F08%2Fmanson3.jpeg%3Fw%3 D620&f=1&nofb=1

Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Bugliosi)


The Official Narrative of Tate Murders Doesn't Add Up
w/Tom O'Neill | Joe Rogan



Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and Details. His book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36xPWBLcG8



Apr 16, 2020

25:32 minutes

In a nutshell ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWS4edKmz2Q

Gio
4th June 2020, 17:35
hmm ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cd/17/9e/cd179ec2f659001e8ba9c36425da1152.jpg

Gio
4th June 2020, 23:53
Neil Young Drops 2019 Live
Version of ‘Southern Man,’ Calls
for ‘New Rules for Policing’

https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-04-at-7.49.48-AM.png?resize=1800,1200&w=1200

“It’s not just ‘Southern Man’ now. It’s everywhere across the USA. It’s time for real change, new laws, new rules for policing,” Young said ...

Neil Young’s “Southern Man” came out in 1970 (via After the Gold Rush), but the singer-songwriter thinks it’s just as relevant today — with one caveat. He’s not just singing about the South anymore — but the whole country.

Young posted a 2019 performance of the song on his Archives Wednesday (https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/4/article?id=Movietone-Video-page-4), writing: “Here’s me as an old guy singin’ his 50-year-old song that was written after countless years of racism in the USA. And look at us today! This has been going on for way too long. It’s not just ‘Southern Man’ now. It’s everywhere across the USA. It’s time for real change, new laws, new rules for policing.”

Young, of course, is referring to mass protests against police brutality spreading across the nation and world in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

The lyrics of “Southern Man” draw heavily on the years of slavery in the U.S. — specifically in the South. It’s far from Young’s only politically driven track; Crosby, Stills Nash and Young’s “Ohio” recently turned 50. That song dealt with the Kent State Massacre, during which the Ohio National Guard shot at students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four.

“It’s like Trump today, treating things like a WWF smackdown,” Devo’s Gerald Casale told Rolling Stone of the clash between students and law enforcement. “It was Governor Rhodes, unbeknownst to us, who conspired with the dean at Kent State University to house the National Guard in buildings on Sunday night so they’d be ready to pounce at the protest that everyone knew was coming.”

Young is an ardent critic of President Donald Trump. After becoming an American citizen earlier this year — and registering to vote — he came out in support of Bernie Sanders for president. “Stand for the workers, stand for the teachers, stand for the students, stand up for Climate Justice. Stand for higher taxes on the super-rich to pay for all love the above! Stand for the American Future. Stand with Bernie Sanders,” he said at the time.

Young’s long-awaited Seventies album, Homegrown, is expected to drop on June 19."

Source: rollingstone.com (rollingstone.com)

Gio
5th June 2020, 07:21
In honor and remembrance of freedom day ...

Reuben the Bulldog: Wait For It ...


You know how it totally bugs you when you're trying to remember something and it takes forever, but it finally comes out? Reuben does.

Jun 4, 2020

1:39 moments


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOvmRqkenU&feature=em-uploademail

Dreamtimer
5th June 2020, 12:07
Such a quiet whisper... Silent but Deadly. ;)

Gio
6th June 2020, 10:45
Before you know it - life passes you by ...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbrewminate.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F02%2FFindingPeace05.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

NEW FRONTIER (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Frontier_(song))


A DONALD FAGEN QUARANTINE COVER


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcCydimc6Ro

Emil El Zapato
6th June 2020, 14:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTgLnUgzZYk

Wind
6th June 2020, 15:16
Now that's the dream of a couch potato.

Emil El Zapato
6th June 2020, 15:37
Amen brother... :)

Gio
7th June 2020, 16:45
Some tasty lighter consumption from Adam ...

Trying NEW Dole Whip Flavor at Hula Girls Shave Ice /
Huntington Beach California Tiki Food Review

TheDailyWoo (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDailyWoo/videos)


Jun 5, 2020

18:11 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9qVQSQqLQ


Also from his friend Jordan ...


What's Left Of Old Hollywood On HOLLYWOOD BLVD?

Daze with Jordan the Lion (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMC9R6OigawtoVTG_qHFMoQ/videos)

Jun 6, 2020

22:00 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjtE5nK_C3M

More ...

Jun 8, 2020

18:28 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBDdw1Lq2x8&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
7th June 2020, 16:54
Patience is a virtue ...


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a1/3e/32/a13e32d2faefc40004e4f6cc484cb11d.jpg

Good things come to those who wait ...
And wait.

Gio
7th June 2020, 21:16
At the right and time ...

Watching the end of The Beatles through the lens of a camera ...

PBS NewsHour

"Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles "Let It Be" album, the last the famed British foursome ever made in a studio. Ethan Russell was the photographer who took the album cover's images of the band members. Christopher Booker spoke with Russell about witnessing the end of The Beatles."

Jun 7, 2020

4:18 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTuOiQgL6_w

Gio
8th June 2020, 20:53
Ouch !
... ... http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/jobs/police-smiley-emoticon.gif


Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)



As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.

Jun 7, 2020

33:32 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY&feature=em-uploademail

Emil El Zapato
8th June 2020, 21:46
lol, this is good already...poor Andrew Cuomo...interesting path there it would seem.

Gio
9th June 2020, 03:01
‘King of Staten Island’ review: Pete Davidson triumphs in blissful comedy (https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/king-of-staten-island-review-pete-davidson-triumphs-in-blissful-comedy/)

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/pete-davidson-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1286

Pete Davidson on "The King of Staten Island"

CBS Sunday Morning



"Saturday Night Live" star Pete Davidson was a longshot when he auditioned for the show at just 20 years old. Now, six years later, he is co-writer and star of his first major film, "The King of Staten Island," about a drifting twenty-something. "CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupil pays a visit with Davidson to New York City's least-celebrated borough, to discuss how Davidson’s childhood, parental loss, and depression helped shape his movie. Dokoupil also talks with the film’s director and co-writer Judd Apatow.

Jun 7, 2020

7:20 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oL9jN2LLQ

Gio
9th June 2020, 05:17
Here's a hopeful and excellent quarantine rendition
from the original group's now 33 year old hit ...

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

(live from home, 2020)

4:20 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_TyLte7S4

Dreamtimer
10th June 2020, 12:44
They come to build a wall between us.

You know that they won't win.

:love::cool::love::cool::love:

Emil El Zapato
10th June 2020, 14:01
Nice!

Emil El Zapato
10th June 2020, 14:51
I just finished watching the earlier 'police' video. The ending: WOW! that's all i can say.

Gio
10th June 2020, 23:14
The lovely ...

Bunny

"Bunny "Yes" Mourey-Solomita is a female Greyhound and is Jenna and Julien's fourth dog. She was adopted on April 19th, 2019, at the age of three years old. Although she is the youngest of the three other dogs, she is significantly larger. She is described as kind, yet shy and timid. Unlike the other dogs, she values her own personal space, preferring to eat and sleep by herself. After living with Jenna and Julien for a while, she has become outgoing, and showing the daring and confident parts of her personality. She will not hesitate to take food or toys for herself ...

Early life

Prior to her adoption by Jenna, Bunny had the name Clary, which was only a form of identification and she never responded to it. She was bred for the racetracks, but she was deemed unsuitable, however she does have siblings that are racing dogs. Being a Greyhound and having universal blood, she was a blood donor before her adoption.

Adoption

Jenna adopted her with the help of GreySave, a non-profit organization specializing in Greyhounds. Upon adopting her Jenna and Julien experienced challenges of acclimating her to regular dog life, such as teaching to climb stairs, training her to respond to her name and commands, and helping her overcome her fear of television screens. The other dogs were welcoming of her arrival, though they all initially had trouble respecting her personal space. Jenna noted that her adoption was easier than Peach's, as Bunny was adopted as an adult, though acknowledges the challenge of inserting her into an established pack."


Bunny Eating Things Politely

JennaMarbles (https://www.youtube.com/user/JennaMarbles/videos)
20.2M subscribers

Jun 10, 2020

5:09 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDoUH4pmZkw&feature=em-uploademail


Trivia

* Her birthday was originally thought to be June 8th, but it turns out that her ear tattoo was read wrong, and her birthday is in March; Julien selected March 25th originally, however her registration number revealed her date as being March 4th.
* Through her registration number, Jenna and Julien discovered Bunny was born on March 4th, making her a Pisces. She got a second birthday party as a result in 2020.
* She has a tattoo in her left ear that says "68155" which is the litter registration number. The right ear tattoo would identify her birth date it says 36G as in March 2016 and G meaning 7th in her litter.
* Bunny sometimes feels Kermit's sad energy and begins crying with him.
* Bunny favors being outdoors and has taken to laying in the poolside lounge chair like a true lady of leisure.
* Bunny is Jenna's only rescue dog.
* While she has been described as being perturbed by televisions, she does not mind computer monitors. However in her Update she is fine with TV.
* There is an Instagram account where someone posts the same picture of Bunny every day.
* Bunny has many nicknames, some of which are "Bunye" by fans, "Yes!" by her parents, and “foof” by her parents.
* She is now closer to Peach than she is with the boys
* Her favorite show is Seinfeld and she's currently on Season 6.
* Bunny is the proud owner of a framed photo of Jerry Seinfeld, whom she loves more than anyone else.

Elen
11th June 2020, 07:09
Oh dear...my dog is also Pisces and very very gentle when eating from your hand. She loves tomatoes, carrots and cucumber (when chopped up) and of course chicken, ham, lamb and hot dogs. :thup: :dinner: :dog: especially home cooking!

Emil El Zapato
11th June 2020, 11:22
Small dog? so funny, very gentle indeed, just don't give the pooch any beer because you might have some problems on your hands.

Gio
12th June 2020, 00:04
The latest ...

#NewWorldNextWeek

The Fluoride Fraud Hangs in the Balance
As Landmark Case Goes to Trial -



Welcome back 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. This week:

Story #1: Cops TV Series Cancelled After 33 Seasons Amid Police Brutality Protests
https://bit.ly/30vCHFl


The Weird DARPA/Facebook “Coincidence” You Never Heard About
https://bit.ly/2AhocKC


Story #2: US, Russia Agree To Hold Nuclear Talks This Month
https://bit.ly/3cVH9iV


Developing Security in a White Water World: Preparing for the Arctic
https://bit.ly/3cYxdpf


Envoy: US Will Spend Russia and China Into Oblivion in Nuclear Arms Race
https://bit.ly/3cQ34rV


US Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty
https://bit.ly/3e3HLEw


Dems Vote to Renew ‘USA Freedom ACT’ (fka Patriot Act), Giving Trump Even MORE Police Powers
https://bit.ly/3cS95ob


Story #3: Historical Court Case - The Fluoride Cover Up Will Soon Be Exposed
https://bit.ly/2ArPY79


Question for Corbett on Japanese Non-fluoridation
https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=7357


Interview 1352 – Dr. Paul Connett on the Case Against Fluoride
https://bit.ly/30sTLM4


Interview 1552 – Derrick Broze Announces #ExposeBillGates Global Day of Action
https://bit.ly/3dRbhxv


Courtroom Battle Could Lead to Limits on Fluoridation of Drinking Water
https://bit.ly/37isMnX


Derrick Broze: “Looks Like My Arrest From Last Week Was One of the Cases Dismissed.”
https://bit.ly/2B2jCzB


Jun 11, 2020

20"20 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEJX3xwJWg&feature=em-uploademail

Elen
12th June 2020, 08:21
Small dog? so funny, very gentle indeed, just don't give the pooch any beer because you might have some problems on your hands.

No it's quite big actually, looks like a Briard and has long hair. That dog is the only one we have in the moji section. :smiley-dance013:

Emil El Zapato
12th June 2020, 11:53
ah, lol...

When I had a family ... :) we had a Toy Poodle, it was always so amazing to watch him literally glide over fields when he was running full tilt.

Gio
13th June 2020, 16:38
Having your lunch handed to you ...


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1d/2f/5d/1d2f5d58a8499b072bc5ef82be5f34da.jpg

Gio
13th June 2020, 16:54
#Summer of Love ... (https://www.rt.com/usa/491659-trump-seattle-mayor-summer-of-love/)

https://cdni.rt.com/files/2020.06/article/5ee3ad9a85f5407b625cc2dc.JPG


Joe Rogan Talks Antifa Taking Over 6 Blocks of Seattle w/Bill Burr



Taken from JRE #1491 w/Bill Burr:
https://youtu.be/GO_rW0Bvy1I


Jun 12, 2020

5:40 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcrMey3XVk4

Gio
13th June 2020, 18:56
Ever wonder how something so iconic was etched upon our minds ...

The process ...


Peg - Steely Dan - The Making Of

8:41 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waIBA6_0GQc


Steely Dan - Peg | Jay Graydon Shows Us The Solo


10:01 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghp88V3Qm8w



Abracadabra !

PEG

3:58 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMga5t0B3ZY

Gio
14th June 2020, 12:55
Continuinhg ...

Jolly Marvellous London Walk - The City - Part 2 (West)

Joolz Guides - London History Walks - Travel Films



This is another splendid London walk around The City but this time the Western part.

Joolz visits the Bank of England, Mansion House (where the Lord Mayor of London lives), The Temple of Mithras, The London Stone, Watling Street (Featuring Queen Boudicca), The Mummy of Jimmy Garlick, The Vintners Hall, Dick Whittington and a street with such a rude name that it had to be changed.

Note:view part one here (https://jandeane81.com/showthread.php/9965-The-Cosmic-Emporium?p=842023081&viewfull=1#post842023081)


Jun 14, 2020

21:55 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdE6EDL6ABU&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
15th June 2020, 05:18
The latest stateside ...


ONE DAY IN OREGON | Exploring Paulina Lake

With Gabriel, Sterling & Stella

Jun 14, 2020

12:41 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUeIq8mC8tA

modwiz
15th June 2020, 05:20
The latest stateside ...


ONE DAY IN OREGON | Exploring Paulina Lake

With Gabriel, Sterling & Stella

Jun 14, 2020

12:41 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUeIq8mC8tA

I would be interested in any state that includes the thighs of the lady in the thumbnail.

Gio
15th June 2020, 05:27
Yes ... Met her and Stella once upon a time 'Up at the Ranch'

She's a beautiful soul - And fortunately i can call a friend ... :tiphat:

Octopus Garden
15th June 2020, 05:49
-- As to the Joe Rogan, Bill Burr interview.

A lot of propaganda coming out of social media and alt right media about the six square blocks shut down to policing in Seattle. It's very close to where I co-own commercial real estate. I think my partners would let me know if it was as wild as they say. The stories are also taken out of proper context and there is no self declared war lord prowling the area.

Everybody has to take a refresher course in propaganda and question everything coming out of the media now. Everything.

Emil El Zapato
15th June 2020, 12:02
Beautiful post, OG and an arrow straight to the heart of the issue.

Dreamtimer
15th June 2020, 12:45
Thank you very much for your personal perspective and knowledge, Octopus Garden. It's so important to hear from folks who actually know instead of running with the hype.

Joe Rogan recently had David Packman on his show for a second time. Early in the conversation David was talking about Trump and his various twitches which might be indicators of a neurological issue. Joe asked for some examples. David helped out. He talked about a number of doctors who have examined the videos and Trump's behaviors and have expressed concern. Those same doctors examined videos of Joe Biden and did not see the same troubling signs.

Joe's knee-jerk response was to say that those doctors must all be Democrats. No joke. David replied that it might be unfair without any evidence to claim that they're all Democrats or all biased. Joe replied, "Well I'm an unfair guy."

Personally, I lost a bit of respect for Joe after those comments. To knee-jerk write off a group of doctors opinions because they might be Democrats is not only unfair, it's also stupid. And frankly, Joe should know better.

Chester
15th June 2020, 18:37
From thighs to souls... this thread covers all bases, eh?

Emil El Zapato
15th June 2020, 19:39
well, there is some stuff in between but yes, essentially that seems to be the gist of it.

Gio
16th June 2020, 15:01
What the people of the world need ...

Listen to the Music

feat. Tom Johnston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Johnston_(musician))(The Doobie Brothers) | Playing For Change

4:35 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4sK8d48Exs

Gio
16th June 2020, 19:03
Alien reality TV ...


https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5ee8c69229f124f39ec6b32c/4:3/w_446,c_limit/A24365-dailycartoon.jpg

“Can the humans cure racism, end poverty, and stop climate change in time?
Tune in next week to find out.”

Gio
17th June 2020, 18:47
Australian teenagers film 'scary' shark encounter - BBC News


Teenage siblings in Australia have filmed the moment they encountered a shark while snorkelling at Bulli Beach, south of Sydney.

The footage shows the shark circling the pair about 150m offshore as they scream and rush to swim away.


Jun 17, 2020

1:56 moments


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YIUunJYn_A

Gio
17th June 2020, 19:09
Turn the page turn a new leaf ... http://www.tiptopglobe.com/skin/smile/kat2/smileys-free-download-2610.gif


https://66.media.tumblr.com/e0959df52e2de737f54b4f886f2ffb60/tumblr_p8iwagDhGM1relg8bo1_500.gif

Hi Alternative Community Kids

What Time is It ?

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.gettyimages.com%2Fphotos%2F pictured-bob-smith-as-buffalo-bob-smith-and-the-peanut-gallery-picture-id138454861&f=1&nofb=1

Why It's ...

Gio's Doggy Doo-Doo Time !!!

Gio
17th June 2020, 20:35
And speaking of amusement parks ...



https://i.pinimg.com/originals/05/0b/b3/050bb383ec41b7d668dabd5b9e1355a4.jpg

Gio
17th June 2020, 23:50
The 'ultimate liberal' paradise ...

Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids play

"Octopus's Garden"

Jun 17, 2020

3:27 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJLAgEdcrvY

Gio
18th June 2020, 00:49
Some SciFi Fare ... https://7img.net/users/2911/23/55/04/smiles/962334.gif


What is the truth behind stories of alien abduction?




Alien abduction is something most people have heard of before. Throughout our pop culture, there are countless films, TV shows, comics, books and stories of aliens kidnapping humans, conducting invasive experiments on them and leaving the “abductees” permanently haunted from the experience.

Beyond these examples of sci-fi entertainment, however, there are real people who claim alien abduction is more than science fiction. While it’s impossible to validate these otherworldly claims, their stories have become urban legends. In this episode of “The Basement Office,” Nick Pope and Steven Greenstreet analyze close encounters of the fourth kind: Alien abduction.

Cases discussed:

Betty and Barney Hill
Travis Walton
Terry Lovelace
and more

June 17, 2020

33:00 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO5OhbIdXWU&feature=emb_title

Gio
18th June 2020, 16:00
The latest ...


#NewWorldNextWeek

Second Wave Panic Explodes Across the Globe -


Welcome back 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. This week:

Story #1: US Coronavirus Outbreaks Spur Debate Over Personal Freedoms
https://bit.ly/3ftFtiq


Millions In Beijing Living Under An Expanded Coronavirus Lockdown As Fresh Outbreak Worsens
https://bit.ly/3fyFe5J


Story #2: A Skirmish in Galwan Valley - India and China’s Deadliest Clash in More Than 50 Years
https://bit.ly/2Cc4Yq8


Wikipedia: Galwan River
https://bit.ly/3hFIWfV


North Korea Blows Up South Korea Joint Office In Rebuke of Seoul
https://bit.ly/3d8J9od


Video: North Korea Blows Up Liaison Office With South In Kaesong
https://bit.ly/2ABferL


Short Version of New Documentary SEVEN Begins Airing Today on PBS
https://bit.ly/2AJEeNi


How Will WWIII Be Fought? – Questions For Corbett #062
https://bit.ly/2Bg88bZ


What in the World is Going On?
https://bit.ly/3hDRd3T


Corbett Report Search: “Kashmir”
https://bit.ly/2Y8nUyG


Story #3: Interview Most Foul - Bob Dylan and the New York Times’ Effect On Man
https://bit.ly/30YHRdf


Bob Dylan - “Murder Most Foul” (Official Audio)
https://bit.ly/2YdKlme


Bob Dylan - “Murder Most Foul” (Lyrics)
https://bit.ly/2Y9IHlm


Jun 18, 2020

20:21 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrrfbjvcNI&feature=em-uploademail

Dreamtimer
19th June 2020, 02:33
We're still in the first wave, folks are being premature if they're panicking about a second wave. The upticks in numbers are a reflection of folks coming more into contact with each other.

Gio
19th June 2020, 09:09
To those that follow my posting here on the forum ...

And for those here that are already aware of ...

My sister (who is living with my daughter) has been
for a while now in hospice, and it's time for me to
step back from this platform and take a hiatus.

Gio

Aianawa
19th June 2020, 09:23
Much love to you n yours Gio.

Elen
19th June 2020, 11:00
To those that follow my posting here on the forum ...

And for those here that are already aware of ...

My sister (who is living with my daughter) has been
for a while now in hospice, and it's time for me to
step back from this platform and take a hiatus.

Gio

I'm sorry you have to go through that, Gio...I wish you well...always!

Emil El Zapato
19th June 2020, 11:04
I 2nd that...

Wind
19th June 2020, 11:19
Sorry to hear that. I wish you and your sister well.

Dreamtimer
19th June 2020, 11:47
I was with my Dad until the end. He was at home and with his family that he loved. May your sister be surrounded by that same kind of love, and may you be well yourself, Gio.

Aianawa
26th June 2020, 08:06
A week goes bye, thinking of you Gio

Gio
10th July 2020, 14:10
All Things Must Pass

710am - 7/10/2020


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTHem2iu0A

Gio
10th July 2020, 14:23
Some new stuff ...



https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GaryLarson.jpg?resize=1800,1200&w=1200

Seven months after Gary Larson teased the return of The Far Side, the cartoonist has delivered his first new comics in 25 years.

Earlier this week, a section called “New Stuff” appeared on Larson’s recently relaunched website, the New York Times reported. Contained within were three new single-panel comics from Larson, his first Far Side comics since retiring from the long-running syndicated series on December 31st, 1994.

Larson also wrote a letter to fans detailing how a “clogged pen” resulted in his first comics in 25 years; when his website relaunched in December, Larson similarly credited drawing apps on a digital tablet with inspiring him to draw again.

“So a few years ago — finally fed up with my once-loyal but now reliably traitorous pen — I decided to try a digital tablet,” Larson wrote this week. “I got one, fired it up, and lo and behold, something totally unexpected happened: Within moments, I was having fun drawing again. I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained. I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved. Perhaps fittingly, the first thing I drew was a caveman.”

Compared to his beloved hand-drawn work, Larson’s “New Stuff” are like high-definition Far Side comics, with each of the three single-panel comics given a more paintbrush feel than his previous work; thankfully, even with the richer palette, The Far Side’s offbeat humor is preserved.

Larson continued: “I hail from a world of pen and ink, and suddenly I was feeling like I was sitting at the controls of a 747. (True, I don’t get out much.) But as overwhelmed as I was, there was still something familiar there — a sense of adventure. That had always been at the core of what I enjoyed most when I was drawing The Far Side, that sense of exploring, reaching for something, taking some risks, sometimes hitting a home run and sometimes coming up with ‘Cow tools.'”

The cartoonist also said that his “New Stuff” isn’t “a resurrection of The Far Side daily cartoons,” but he plans to populate the space with “my journey into the world of digital art.”

Go here (https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff)

Emil El Zapato
10th July 2020, 15:04
Glad to have you back, Gio ...

Gio
10th July 2020, 21:34
A spot on position for those without insight ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8c/59/4c/8c594c424559ccb8395f321bee3917f3.jpg

And for some new stuff ... (https://jandeane81.com/showthread.php/9965-The-Cosmic-Emporium?p=842025569&viewfull=1#post842025569)

Gio
11th July 2020, 10:29
On the road again via the United States and Mexico ...

ONE DAY IN BELGRADE | The Capital Of Serbia

Gabriel Traveler



A day of exploring in Belgrade, the fascinating and historic capital of Serbia. My article about traveling during the global crisis: Should I Be Traveling Right Now? (https://medium.com/@gabrieltraveler/should-i-be-traveling-right-now-809cbc3c8f33)


Jul 9, 2020

40:38 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E99GZx4JoLk&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
11th July 2020, 12:52
Why Being a "Mouth-Breather" Is Bad For You w/James Nestor | Joe Rogan



Taken from JRE #1506 w/James Nestor:
https://youtu.be/U5o9b2RVC2E

James Nestor is a journalist who has written for Outside magazine, Men's Journal, Scientific American, Dwell magazine, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle magazine, and others. His new book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - https://www.amazon.com/Breath-New-Science-Lost-Art/dp/0735213615



Jul 10, 2020

14:58 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQxNoqKE6E

Gio
11th July 2020, 14:02
Will share this here ...




July 8, 2020 - UFOs and Skinwalker Ranch / Psychic X Remote Views Mage, UFO Mystery -VIDEO UPDATED

Earthfiles



UFOs in Utah
- Skinwalker Ranch in Uintah Basin has a long history of paranormal activity
- Phenomena reported as far back as 1776
- UFOs reported at molybdenum mine in Utah

Interview with Psychic X and his remote viewing of Skinwalker Ranch
- Factory a mile under Skinwalker Ranch
- Strange energy occurrences
- “Advanced intelligences”

Mage Brazil update with Psychic X - “Buddy” - D Baron Bolton
- Craft hit with high energy plasma
- “The craft shut itself off”
- “Inside, there were three tall whites…”
- 7 feet tall humanoids
- “A necklace that had an energy source in it”
- “Genetically perfect”
- “One got shot right there..two were shot later”

Jul 10, 2020

1:02:52 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gl5yWCoXt4

Dreamtimer
12th July 2020, 15:00
August is miserable in the Southwest, imo. When it's an hour after sunset and it's still over 100 degrees, there's just no relief. And the monsoon season which begins in July brings humidity. It's nasty.

Dreamtimer
12th July 2020, 17:07
This has been very interesting, Gio. Thanks. I listened all the way through while stitching and then listened to parts again. (Sometimes I just have to concentrate on what I'm doing rather than listening to).

Gio
12th July 2020, 23:29
With love ...

Melissa Gilbert looks back on "Little House on the Prairie"

CBS Sunday Morning



The TV series “Little House on the Prairie,” which debuted in 1974, starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls, whose pioneering family met hardships with love and fortitude. Gilbert talks with correspondent Mo Rocca at her "Little House in the Catskills" about how the Michael Landon-produced show, which examined themes of home, family and community, resonates today.

Jul 12, 2020

7:41 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwvS2Nzbfc

Dreamtimer
13th July 2020, 13:20
Compassion, community, faith, love. Wise and smart is she.

"You're only as sick as your secrets"

I don't think I've heard that saying.

I love the finish with the sunflower.

Wind
13th July 2020, 13:23
Little House on the Prairie is playing on tv right now here, that always was a great series. :)

Gio
15th July 2020, 06:54
For consideration ...


Words Are Weapons: Don't Hex Yourself!



The language of propaganda, mind control, and mass media manipulation in the Age of COVID.

Apologies for the fading light. The sun suddenly disappeared behind clouds.

Legalise Freedom is hosted by UK writer and journalist Greg Moffitt and features interviews with some of the World’s foremost alternative thinkers and researchers. An archive of 300+ shows is available to stream or download here: http://www.legalise-freedom.com


Jul 14, 2020

17:49 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kutbLmFRh7Q&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
16th July 2020, 00:40
Once upon a time ...


https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F25.media.tumblr.com%2Fe2cfb35f5e30 dc7e5ed3177a874f2953%2Ftumblr_mmzsmqLDgR1rl5s4eo1_ 500.gif&f=1&nofb=1


Sightseeing


Yellowjackets



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anUALnhlOd4

Gio
16th July 2020, 15:44
The People Win As Serbians Force Government
to Scrap Curfew - #NewWorldNextWeek

Jul 16, 2020

21:41 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHuKW1vF8S0&feature=em-uploademail



Welcome back 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. This week:

Story #1: Africa To Be Testing Ground for “Trust Stamp” Vaccine Record, Payment System
https://www.mintpressnews.com/africa-...


Gavi and Mastercard Join Forces to Reach More Children With Lifesaving Vaccines
https://www.gavi.org/news/media-room/gavi-and-mastercard-join-forces-reach-more-children-lifesaving-vaccines

Story #2: Serbia Scraps Curfew Plan For Belgrade After Protests
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53353854


Keith Knight and James Corbett Dissect Voluntary Servitude
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1563-keith-knight-and-james-corbett-dissect-voluntary-servitude/


Story #3: DAN DICKS CENSORED - The Press For Truth YouTube Channel Has Been PERMANENTLY DELETED!!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oQiBNoHkFCHQ/


Dan Dicks’ Press For Truth
https://pressfortruth.ca/


A 'Fairness Doctrine' for the Internet Could Backfire on Conservatives
https://fee.org/articles/a-fairness-doctrine-for-the-internet-could-backfire-on-conservatives/

Gio
17th July 2020, 13:57
Those were the daze ...

1334 How A Trip to GRACELAND Got SAM KINISON on
the TONIGHT SHOW w/ JOHNNY CARSON

Daze with Jordan the Lion

Jul 17, 2020

14:53 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdd8q-6JM68&feature=em-uploademail


Are You Lonesome Tonight - Sam Kinison

3:01 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf75SDhfwdg

Gio
18th July 2020, 00:49
The Mystery of Skinwalker Ranch

Taken from JRE #1510 w/Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp



Full interview here
https://youtu.be/Hc6pbG4wICA

Jul 17, 2020

26:05 minutes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khKYVzLn_9Q

Emil El Zapato
18th July 2020, 13:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRpPXi-yXk

Emil El Zapato
18th July 2020, 13:50
The Mystery of Skinwalker Ranch

Taken from JRE #1510 w/Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp



Jul 17, 2020

26:05 minutes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khKYVzLn_9Q

El Bumpo

Dreamtimer
18th July 2020, 15:00
Ole!

Gio
18th July 2020, 20:11
It is so amazingly strange sometimes, how i can wander upon an internet item that can encapsulate my sentiments in a full moment ... In the latest instance (of this no coincidence phenomena) i found this 2017 mini concert with three melody/lyrics that sum up what i been feeling towards the present alternative forum community's state of being ...

Heart to Heart, This Is It, What a Fool Believes -
Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins

14:11 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CudiO72aAo

Gio
18th July 2020, 21:07
Brings to mind the phrase...

"If I'm lying, I'm dying" ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/fe/4e/ce/fe4ece402c761fcbf469c9a92e193044.jpg

Pinocchio

Gio
20th July 2020, 08:08
And speaking truth and lies ...

Coronavirus: Conspiracy Theories: Last Week Tonight
with John Oliver


With conspiracy theories about coronavirus proliferating, John Oliver discusses why we’re prone to believe, how to distinguish fact from fiction, and what you can do to help others.

Jul 19, 2020

20:21 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
22nd July 2020, 22:03
"Every underpass shall have a porta-potty" ... (https://www.monstersandcritics.com/celebrity/joe-rogan-is-leaving-la-for-texas-next-month-says-joey-diaz-and-hes-looking-to-leave-california-as-well/)

Joe Rogan on the Decline of LA w/Ben Shapiro




#1512. Ben Shapiro is editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire, syndicated columnist, and host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” is available on SoundCloud and iTunes. His new book How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps is available now everywhere. @Ben Shapiro

Taken from JRE #1512 w/Ben Shapiro:
https://youtu.be/hl0iNRXcUbE

Jul 22, 2020

5:51 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJNFkwPQ_fU

Gio
22nd July 2020, 22:24
Meanwhile ...


https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f1844fbf67f1a5e4b3ac826/4:3/w_446,c_limit/A24482.jpg

“The apocalypse movies never mentioned all the sitting around.”

Gio
23rd July 2020, 06:37
Breathtaking 4K video shows
Mars in ultra-high definition (https://nypost.com/2020/07/22/breathtaking-new-video-gives-4k-high-def-views-of-mars/)

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/mars-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1286

Elen
23rd July 2020, 06:56
Stunning pictures Gio, thanks! :love: For more interest:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weCG_yODtvM

Dreamtimer
23rd July 2020, 13:27
Thanks to both of you! :love::h5:

Gio
25th July 2020, 18:34
Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac co-founder dies aged 73 (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53539989)



Albatross

3:22 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarL58fQAFc

Gio
25th July 2020, 18:46
"Sit with this for a minute" ...

The Truth and The Myth of Unconditional Love

Teal Swan


Jul 25, 2020

17:15 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzfP-PQTpk&feature=em-uploademail

Emil El Zapato
25th July 2020, 23:20
Stunning pictures Gio, thanks! :love: For more interest:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weCG_yODtvM

totally cool, I wish they would had been able to show the ambient temperatues ... it looks like one could just hop into a dune buggy and go for a ride ...

Aragorn
26th July 2020, 00:44
totally cool, I wish they would had been able to show the ambient temperatues ... it looks like one could just hop into a dune buggy and go for a ride ...

Well...


The ambient temperatures on Mars are quite cold in comparison to Earth;
You'd need a spacesuit to provide you with breathable air and to protect you from radiation (because the magnetosphere is as good as gone); and
Gravity is only one third of Earth's gravity, so your buggy would be airborne quite often when racing over those rocks.



:)

Gio
26th July 2020, 02:59
From the top ...

https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/240/samsung/220/skier_26f7.png

Experience the world's first ski descent of K2 with Andrzej Bargiel


What it looks like to ski down the world's deadliest mountain: Incredible footage from new film shows Polish daredevil becoming the first person to SKI 28,000ft down K2 ...

Andrzej Bargiel attempted to descend from K2 mountain in 2018 by skiing
K2 on the Pakistan-China border is the second highest mountain in the world
It is the most dangerous with one in four dying attempting to reach the summit
Red Bull released documentary to coincide with second anniversary of the feat

A super-athlete's mission become the only person to ever descend the world's most dangerous mountain on skis has been turned into a feature length documentary.

In 2018, Andrzej Bargiel made history when he clicked into his bindings 28,000 feet up the side of K2 in Pakistan and didn't once take them off until he was safely off the mountain.

Following a treacherous 60-hour ascent without supplemental oxygen, the Polish mountaineer had to make his way back down 'as quickly as possible' to escape the notorious 'death zone' above 8000m (26,200ft).

He then dodged ice falling 'at the speed of bullets' to reach the Messner Traverse, a barely-climbed narrow route with deep caverns on either side, and on to the crevasse-filled Kukuczka-Piotrowski route back to base camp ...

More here (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8559551/Andrzej-Bargiels-mission-ski-K2-mountain-relived-new-documentary.html)


Jul 22, 2020

12:10 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiGkU_eXJa8

Gio
26th July 2020, 03:10
And speaking descent ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f9/37/78/f9377818e1611c49233dcdc12c98b296.jpg

When shit happens.

Gio
26th July 2020, 03:16
Worth another nudge ...



Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac co-founder dies aged 73 (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53539989)



Albatross

3:22 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarL58fQAFc

Gio
26th July 2020, 07:33
Perhaps it's time once again ...


https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fd1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net%2Fw p-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F11%2F21103922%2Fpsyched elicsmain.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Were psychedelics used in the ancient world?




Were psychedelics used in the ancient world? Here's the 4-minute answer I gave to that question when I was interviewed at the Glastonbury Festival (hence background music) in June 2016.

The topics covered in this video are explored at length in my 2005 book Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind.
https://grahamhancock.com/supernatural/


Jul 25, 2020

4:42 minutes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giFbFYWtdoA&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
26th July 2020, 15:25
Some fun stuff ...

London Treasure Hunt Street Paraphernalia Challenge


Joolz Guides - London History Walks - Travel Films



If you're visiting London or anywhere else in Britain , why not play the Joolz Guides Street Furniture and Paraphernalia Challenge!

As you wander around award yourself points if you spot any of Joolzy's favourite obsessions. Then share a photo of yourself on instagram next to one of the items with your score for the day.
No prizes, it's just for fun!

(Details under video show notes)

Jul 26, 2020

20:18 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03_BWHJlEc&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
26th July 2020, 16:03
Keeping his sojourn going ...


A Tour of Korcula Island, Croatia in the Adriatic Sea

Gabriel Traveler

Jul 26, 2020

27:10 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wltzQptscFA&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
26th July 2020, 21:07
Something new ...

Following trends in the current Covid economy is one of my favorite pastimes ... Here is a new YouTuber channel i have been enjoy/monitoring ...


INSIDE a $4000 Luxury Condo | Battery Park NYC Apartment Tour!

Cash Jordan (https://www.youtube.com/c/CashJordan/videos)




Description:

Want to see what NYC living is really like? Since 2008 I've been helping people find apartments in Manhattan (New York City) and on my channel you get to see inside New York City apartments and experience what day to day life is like here.

If you are moving to NYC and need an apartment DM me on Instagram @iamcashjordan and Ill have one of my agents at my company show you apartments in person.

https://www.instagram.com/iamcashjordan/

If you like what you see, subscribe & turn on notifications so you don't miss my weekly videos ...

Below:

Tour a Condo in NYC’s best Neighborhood for Luxury Apartments, Battery Park City right by the water with AMAZING Views of the Statue of Liberty and a gorgeous waterfront to walk along. Battery Park City is full of Parks and its super quiet and peaceful compared to the rest of Manhattan which is SUPER RARE. Definitely look here if apartments in this area are within your price range and you wont be disappointed.

Jul 26, 2020

10:18 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cruA7C1T0E

Lord Sidious
27th July 2020, 00:49
Something new ...

Following trends in the current Covid economy is one of my favorite pastimes ... Here is a new YouTuber channel i have been enjoy/monitoring ...


INSIDE a $4000 Luxury Condo | Battery Park NYC Apartment Tour!

Cash Jordan (https://www.youtube.com/c/CashJordan/videos)



Jul 26, 2020

10:18 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cruA7C1T0E

He needs King Percy's roo to come kick his ring in.............

Gio
27th July 2020, 05:08
For those here not familiar with your reference point ...


He needs King Percy's roo to come kick his ring in.............


Why am i sharing this content ...
The point ...

Noting there's really no real/sense to the high NYC rental offerings ...
This share is to demonstrate the absurdity of such ridiculous rates ...
But sadly people willing to chase their Urban dreams will pay it ...

Even a Macropodidae can be perplexed by human behavioral ways ...



KING PERCY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxW5bbKTG_o

Dreamtimer
27th July 2020, 11:07
If I had a roo knocking at my window that way I'd be a bit freaked out. The man who punched the roo in the face was lucky, I'd say. Lucky he didn't get kicked.

And that video is hilarious.


Rental prices in New York are ridiculous. I know a couple young folks who live/lived there. One young lady put a big mirror on her wall to give some more 'space' to the tiny room. Both my niece and our friend's daughters really like it there.

They have, thankfully, stayed healthy.

Gio
27th July 2020, 14:20
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f1b2fe046aba3f470f8a101/4:3/w_446,c_limit/A24485.jpg

“That cloud kind of looks like a face—and it’s not wearing a mask, the selfish bastard!”

Emil El Zapato
27th July 2020, 23:57
That Chupacabra looks pretty muscular ... Ever been up close to a gorilla (at the zoo) ... not the roo zoo. Things are built like Ahnald back in the day ... :)

Dreamtimer
28th July 2020, 12:46
Joe Rogan has observed more than once how weak humans are compared to animals in nature. He thinks it's unnatural.

The muscles of the kangaroos are quite impressive. They do look like a muscular man but with terrifying claws. And a kick that'll kill ya.

Gio
28th July 2020, 17:29
Dedicated to Cory Goode's defunct cosmic travels ...

https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/lg/76742/image.jpg
Pictured: Comet NEOWISE passing over Artist Mark Rippie’s International Car Forest of the Last Church, Goldfield, Nevada with lit Las Vegas in the background July 18, 2020


Space Truckin'


Deep Purple


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JRL1TdK1Bg

Gio
28th July 2020, 18:12
And speaking defunct ...

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/clown-motel-37.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1

Clown motel next to a cemetery is a
traveler’s worst nightmare (https://nypost.com/2020/07/28/clown-motel-next-to-a-cemetery-is-a-travelers-nightmare/)

Gio
29th July 2020, 07:39
Before the Covid ... https://7img.net/users/2911/23/55/04/smiles/14134.gif

Comedians in Cars getting Coffee | Lewis Black


12:51 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSnQq7A9_B8

Gio
29th July 2020, 07:54
King Percy strikes again ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c9/4f/56/c94f5615fd5fe738732544aa5c0a3a64.jpg

Gio
29th July 2020, 21:34
♪ Ain't that America ♪


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Pink Houses


John Mellencamp



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv7nO5HpQBg

Gio
29th July 2020, 21:52
"Its getting pretty weird here" ...


Joe Rogan & Post Malone Talk Aliens and UFOs

JRE Clips


Jul 29, 2020

19:32 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwpYQ-XEV2Q

Gio
30th July 2020, 09:34
Like most here it takes me a while to catch up with all i bookmark to view...
Though i finally caught myself up to preview this book/interview ...

This item is exclusive for those who might be interested in such topics ...


Gary Lachman - Esoteric History, Occult Politics and Holy Russia:

Part One

LegaliseFreedom1



Gary Lachman discusses his book 'The Return of Holy Russia - Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World'. Lachman's latest work explores how mystical and spiritual influences have shaped Russia’s identity and politics, and what it means for our future. At the turn of the 20th century, Russia was undergoing a powerful spiritual and cultural rebirth. It was a time of magic and mysticism that saw a resurgence of interest in the occult and a creative intensity not seen in the West since the Renaissance. This was the time of the God-Seekers, pilgrims of the soul and explorers of the spirit who sought the salvation of the world through art and ideas. These sages and their visions of Holy Russia are returning to prominence now through Russian president Vladimir Putin, who, inspired by their ideas, envisions a new 'Eurasian' civilization with Russia as its leader.


Jul 16, 2020

36:30 minutes

(Please note as always i will update here with part two when video available)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I2UkIxXkfU

Dreamtimer
30th July 2020, 11:26
My Grammy had a little pink house in Phoenix, Arizona. It was a Pepto Bismal shade of pink.

Gio
30th July 2020, 15:19
The latest ...

Weird Seeds Being Planted in the Cold War Zeitgeist - #NewWorldNextWeek



Welcome back 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. This week:

Story #1: Boris Johnson Set to Overhaul Britain's Treason Laws
https://bit.ly/2Pb15ow


Pompeo Lays Out New US Cold War Against China
https://bit.ly/3hUuQGR


UK ‘Russia Report’ Fear-Mongers About Meddling Yet Finds No Evidence
https://bit.ly/39L9Yif


Story #2: Gold’s Record Price Is All About Currency Debasement
https://bit.ly/30ZMMsv


Never Before Has So Much Stimulus Been Injected In The Economy In A Single Quarter
https://bit.ly/2BM3T8Q


Gold Futures Hit $2000 After US Mint Reduces Bullion Coin Supplies
https://bit.ly/336v5u1


Bank of England Governor Signals Central Bank Digital Currency is Coming
https://bit.ly/3jSdKuK


Story #3: Coin Shortage - COVID-19 Shutdowns Have Created Shortage of Coins
https://bit.ly/3hMT3yE


One Chick-Fil-A Franchise Is Offering Free Food For Your Coins
https://bit.ly/3fiIW36


Seeds from China: USDA Says Don't Plant Unsolicited Package of Seeds
https://bit.ly/3jZTFmD


Ag Warfare? People Receiving Mysterious, Unsolicited Packages Of Seeds In Mail From China
https://bit.ly/3hSrbcz


Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein: Can Prosecutors Compel Him to Talk?
https://bit.ly/3112ZO5


'Anti-Feminist Lawyer' Identified As Primary Suspect In Shooting At Federal Judge Esther Salas' Home
https://bit.ly/2DjQiWs


Alleged Salas Family Assailant Previously Worked for US/Israeli Intelligence-Linked Firm
https://bit.ly/308XNss


Jul 30, 2020

18:58 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ5pz6U3UlI&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
31st July 2020, 06:34
For those conspiracy minded ...

MIKE KING : THE PURGE: 2020

Veritas TV



B i o

M. S. King is a private investigative journalist and researcher based in the New York City area. A 1987 graduate of Rutgers University, King's subsequent 30 year career in Marketing & Advertising has equipped him with a unique perspective when it comes to understanding how "public opinion" is indeed scientifically manufactured.

Madison Ave marketing acumen combines with 'City Boy' instincts to make M.S. King one of the most tenacious detectors of "things that don't add up" in the world today. Says King of his admitted quirks, irreverent disdain for "conventional wisdom", and uncanny ability to ferret out and weave together important data points that others miss: "Had Sherlock Holmes been an actual historical personage, I would have been his reincarnation."

King is also the author of The War Against Putin: What the Government- Media Complex Isn't Telling You About Russia. King's other interests include: the animal kingdom, philosophy, chess, cooking, literature and history (with emphasis on events of the late 19th through the 20th centuries).

https://www.realhistorychannel.org/



Premiered July 30, 2020

1:06:15 minutes

For those who wish to skip intro:
Note interview commences at 6:45 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7tI7svQSjQ

Gio
2nd August 2020, 05:23
Up next a current view ...

Exploring the Mysterious Vatican City,
Smallest Country in the World

JASON BILLAM TRAVEL (https://www.youtube.com/c/JasonBillamTravel/videos)

Jul 31, 2020

16:35 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7GfRzIHtMA

Dreamtimer
2nd August 2020, 12:54
I haven't gotten any weird seeds. If I do I'll either burn them or put them in the freezer so I can have them identified later.

Gio
3rd August 2020, 06:07
Updates from the author and forum community member ...

The Walter Bosley (https://www.amazon.com/Walter-Bosley/e/B00J32YN36%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share) Channel
2 Aug 20: No Title

Sharing his latest musing on current news/entertainment and alt/community related topics ... Also sharing on his ongoing cancer recovery treatment ...


Description
The channel for the author's commentary on topics relative to his research and books, as well as entertainment from his entertainment ventures, Lost Continent Library and No Budget Cinema.

Streamed 4 hours ago

1:40:51minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZ0VZ9rzsA

Gio
5th August 2020, 11:14
The Dogfather ... :dog:


Harlem dog groomer takes biz on
the road to beat COVID-19 slump (https://nypost.com/2020/08/05/harlem-dog-groomer-takes-biz-on-the-road-to-beat-covid-19-slump/)

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/brian-taylor-harlem-doggie-day-spa-van-mobile-grooming-12.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1

Gio
6th August 2020, 15:13
The latest ...

THIS $4300 Luxury Apartment Towers over NYC | 40th Floor Views!

Cash Jordan

Aug 6, 2020

10:03 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efmc7pFUUkk

Gio
6th August 2020, 15:37
Via Atlas Obscura

11 Close Encounters With Aliens and Explosions in New Mexico (https://www.atlasobscura.com/itineraries/aliens-and-explosions-in-new-mexico?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9c16b3a42a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-9c16b3a42a-63041445&mc_cid=9c16b3a42a&mc_eid=57314563a1)

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Gio
7th August 2020, 04:18
Sadako Sasaki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki)

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpm1.narvii.com%2F5785%2F8abbccea3 3460cb8dde238839907e1210b4d2a33_hq.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Thousand Cranes

By the American/Japanese group Hiroshima



Show her now that we do care
With a love that we all share
Send her a thousand cranes
Send her your thousand cranes


6:03 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8DG887G-A

Gio
7th August 2020, 12:40
The latest ...

Trust in News Media Continues to Plummet -
#NewWorldNextWeek


Welcome back 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. This week:

Story #1: State Attorneys General Urge U.S. to Let Other Firms Make Gilead COVID-19 Drug
https://bit.ly/3a0IJR5


Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt From COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims
https://bit.ly/30xicrq


AstraZeneca To Be Exempt From Coronavirus Vaccine Liability Claims In Most Countries
https://bit.ly/3iiEbsd


Fort Detrick, Gilead & the 9/11 Anthrax Attacks: All Roads Lead to Dark Winter
https://bit.ly/2C7B9HO


Story #2: Patreon’s Ban of Comic Owen Benjamin Could Cost Them $20 Million
https://bit.ly/3khhdDp


PDF: Patreon’s Injunction Against Owen Benjamin Backers Denied
https://bit.ly/2PpOUEE


Story’ #3: “Sobering” Report Shows Hardening Attitudes Against Media
https://bit.ly/3gAGaaH


PDF: “PERCEIVED ACCURACY AND BIAS IN THE NEWS MEDIA - A GALLUP/KNIGHT FOUNDATION SURVEY”
https://kng.ht/2Xs8F2T


Ariana Pekary: Why I’m Leaving MSNBC - “This Cancer Stokes National Division”
https://bit.ly/3kk3Pyj


WHO Issues Sobering Warning, Saying There May Never Be a Coronavirus Vaccine That Works Properly
https://bit.ly/31lnyFq


Nicholas Sandmann Settles $250M Lawsuit with Washington Post
https://bit.ly/31mlTiN


Neo-Nazis, Others Hold Massive Berlin Protest Against Virus Restrictions
https://bit.ly/3kcUlFj



Aug 6, 2020

21:15 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9RojiecOp8&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
7th August 2020, 13:03
Sublime ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/5c/9f/2d/5c9f2de919a43e84e22f050bdf5f7397.jpg

Gio
7th August 2020, 13:36
For those who like to listen ...



Radio is not a job; it's a way of life.
You can't really ever leave it.
Art Bell

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiosurvivor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F04%2FArt-Bell-feature-image.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Gio
7th August 2020, 23:38
#Trending ...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbrobible.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F08%2Fpjimage-1.jpg%3Fquality%3D90%26w%3D650&f=1&nofb=1

Robin Williams’ ‘rambling’ Joe Biden bit resurfaces 11 years later

"Who needs comedy when you have politics?

In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, a 2009 HBO clip of late comedian and actor Robin Williams talking about then-Vice President Joe Biden has resurfaced online, quickly going viral on Twitter.

In the 30-second video, Williams, who would have turned 69 last month, doesn’t mince words.

“There’s always ramblin’ Joe Biden,” said Williams in a stand-up routine. “Joe says s - - t that even people with [Tourette syndrome] go, ‘No.’ ”

The resurfaced bit began circulating this week, and it came just days before Biden — the presumptive Democratic nominee — gave a disastrous interview with black and Hispanic journalists. During it, Biden said, “Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes.”

Biden has long been known for his verbal blunders, and he addressed this most recent gaffe on Thursday night.

In a tweet, Biden said, “In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith—not by identity, not on issues, not at all.”

“Throughout my career I’ve witnessed the diversity of thought, background, and sentiment within the African American community,” he went on. “It’s this diversity that makes our workplaces, communities, and country a better place.”

In the 2009 routine, Williams pushed the matter further.

“Joe is like your uncle who’s on a new drug and hasn’t got the dosage right,” he joked. “I’m proud to work with Barack America — ‘He’s not a superhero, you idiot — come here!’ ”

Williams, who died in 2014, was known for his support of the Democratic Party."

Source (https://nypost.com/2020/08/07/robin-williams-rambling-joe-biden-bit-resurfaces-11-years-later/)

Robin Williams – Rambling Joe Biden

Mar 11, 2020

31 seconds


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0V8EY_gGY

Gio
8th August 2020, 11:32
Going App ...

Who wields the power online?

DW Documentary


China is far ahead of the field when it comes to digitization. In 2013, Germany’s Chancellor called the Internet "uncharted territory." What does it mean for the economy when platforms become increasingly powerful and data more valuable?

Thomas Derksen was once a savings bank employee in Cologne. Now, he is an Internet star in China, where he advertises German products and millions follow him online. His life there is very different to his life in Germany. Payments, pensions and bills - he only needs his mobile phone to organize his daily life. He says, "Digitization is a real revolution. And I don't think you can choose whether you want it or not, you have to go along with it."

German online fashion retailer Zalando wants to catch up and become a platform as well. This documentary looks behind the scenes at the rapidly growing digital company. It explains how Zalando is using customer data to improve its fashion range. But how can you monitor the power of online platforms? The Chinese government has long been experimenting with facial recognition and social scoring systems. A visiting German business delegation discovers that new developments back home have long been old hat in cities like Shanghai and Hangzhou. The Chinese government is pushing ahead with digitization at high speed. As the camera follows the delegation into the interior of the powerful Alibaba platform, one German marvels at the unbelievable openness to new technology. In China, digitization means a lucrative future and a piece of global domination all rolled into one.

Meanwhile, Dorothee Bär, Germany’s Minister for Digitization, talks to the filmmakers in an exclusive interview and talks about her work and her plans for taking Germany into the "Digital Age."

Aug 7, 2020

42:26 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogBjqQbuiHw&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
8th August 2020, 22:06
On her way to audition for SNL ...


Hillary Clinton tells New York Times
columnist to lay off ‘pot brownies’ ... (https://nypost.com/2020/08/08/hillary-clinton-tells-nyt-columnist-to-lay-off-pot-brownies/)

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/clinton-dowd.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=644&h=426&crop=1

Gio
9th August 2020, 00:46
♪ Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar ♪


https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffc07.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2 010%2F124%2F2%2F7%2FOcean__Animated__by_reecesk8.g if&f=1&nofb=1

OCEAN

Jason Bonham w/ Jimmy Sakurai
The Led Zeppelin Experience
Live at Westbury, NY (11-30-18) HD



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAMBLcqyp4A

Dreamtimer
9th August 2020, 04:02
I love that song. :rock:

Gio
10th August 2020, 12:45
Gabriel Traveler


Exploring the Spectacular Riviera of CROATIA



Aug 10, 2020

13:43 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfbte8cYaQw&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
11th August 2020, 18:25
By analyzing and managing quantitative data ...


Astrologers Were the Quants
of the Ancient World

Coincidence and correlation in the stars, from the founding of Baghdad to the New York Yankees to COVID-19 ... Read more (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-astrology-data-science?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=65f247d7ae-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-65f247d7ae-63041445&mc_cid=65f247d7ae&mc_eid=57314563a1)

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Gio
12th August 2020, 01:33
Marc Defant - Where Are All the Aliens?

LegaliseFreedom1



Marc Defant discusses the apparent lack of evidence for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the wider galaxy, and the entire observable universe.

The Fermi Paradox states the situation as follows: There are billions of stars in the Milky Way similar to the Sun. With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets. Many of these stars, and hence their planets, are much older than the sun. If the Earth is typical, some may have developed intelligent life long ago. Some of these civilizations may have developed interstellar travel, a step humans are investigating now. Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years. And since many of the stars similar to the Sun are billions of years older, the Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrial civilizations, or at least their probes. However, there is no convincing evidence that this has happened. So the question is: Where are all the aliens?

Aug 11, 2020

33:58 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68GwA-8K_dM

Gio
12th August 2020, 09:16
Trini Lopez, singer and actor in
‘The Dirty Dozen,’ dead of
COVID-19 at 83


By Associated Press

August 11, 2020


https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Trini-Lopez.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1


"Trini Lopez, a singer and guitarist who gained fame for his versions of “Lemon Tree” and “If I Had a Hammer” in the 1960s and took his talents to Hollywood, died Tuesday. He was 83.

Filmmaker P. David Ebersole, who just finished shooting a documentary on Lopez with Todd Hughes, confirmed that Lopez died from complications of COVID-19 at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California.

Mentored by Buddy Holly and Frank Sinatra, Lopez became an international star while performing in English and Spanish. Unlike Mexican American singers such as Ritchie Valens, Lopez rejected advice to change his name and openly embraced his Mexican American heritage despite warnings it would hurt his career.

“I insisted on keeping my name Lopez,” he told The Dallas Morning News in 2017. “I’m proud to be a Lopez. I’m proud to be a Mexicano.”

Sinatra signed Lopez to his Reprise Records label after seeing him perform at a West Hollywood nightclub. They became friends and were spotted together regularly in social circles in Las Vegas and Palm Springs, California.

Lopez also appeared in the film classic “The Dirty Dozen” and the comedy “The Phynx.”

Born Trinidad Lopez III to immigrants from Guanajuato, Mexico, Lopez grew up in Dallas’ poor Little Mexico neighborhood. The family’s dire economic situation forced Lopez to drop out of high school and work.

His life changed after his father bought him a $12 black Gibson acoustic guitar from a pawn shop. His father taught him how to play the instrument, which led the young Lopez to perform at Dallas nightclubs that didn’t allow Mexican American patrons.

Buddy Holly saw Lopez at a small nightclub in Wichita Falls, Texas, and introduced him to Norman Petty, his record producer in Clovis, New Mexico. Holly died in a plane crash six months later, and Lopez briefly replaced him as lead singer of The Crickets.

Lopez moved to Southern California and got a regular gig at P.J.’s Night Club in West Hollywood. Sinatra saw him perform and offered him a contract with his new record label, Reprise, where Lopez got his first major hit with “If I Had A Hammer.” It went to No. 1 in nearly 40 countries.

He later helped develop a string of original Gibson Trini Lopez signature guitars from 1964 to 1971.

Ebersole and Hughes recently finished shooting a documentary on Lopez called “My Name is Lopez.”

Source (https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/trini-lopez-singer-and-actor-in-the-dirty-dozen-dead-of-covid-19-at-83/)



If I Had A Hammer (1963)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1z8EzZ5Hs

Emil El Zapato
12th August 2020, 15:28
My dad and his friends would always laugh about his Spanish ... I never knew why.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsj4WxcY0fk

Gio
13th August 2020, 14:14
For those wrestling fans ...

1349 What Happened To WWE MISS ELIZABETH & DANIEL BOONE?
Grave - Frankfort KY - Travel Vlog (8/12/20

Daze with Jordan the Lion

Aug 12, 2020

22:22 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIYW0VQaOzM&feature=em-uploademail

Gio
13th August 2020, 19:18
The quandary ...


https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f31632cafc71fe17cc0d0f5/4:3/w_446,c_limit/A24544.jpg

“So tell us, where do you see yourself in September?”

Gio
16th August 2020, 01:03
Bare hunger ...


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/69/80/7d/69807d0523170271ea3ab5b12cffa390.jpg

Gio
16th August 2020, 01:45
hmm ...

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f28304936a71d20f7dd4763/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/Flashfiction-Murakami.jpg

The Kingdom That
Failed

By Haruki Murakami

August 13, 2020

"Just behind the kingdom that failed ran a nice little river. It was a clear, lovely stream, and many fish lived in it. Weeds grew there, too, and the fish ate the weeds. The fish didn’t care whether or not the kingdom had failed, of course. Whether it was a kingdom or a republic made no difference to them. They didn’t vote or pay taxes. Makes no difference to us, they figured.

I washed my feet in the stream. A short soak in the icy-cold water turned them red. From the stream, you could see the walls and the tower of the castle in the kingdom that failed. The two-colored flag still flew from the tower, fluttering in the breeze. Everyone passing along the riverbanks would see the flag and say, “Hey, look at that. It’s the flag of the kingdom that failed.”

Q and I are friends—or should I say, were friends in college. It’s been more than ten years since the two of us did anything that friends do. Which is why I use the past tense. Anyhow, we were friends.

Whenever I try to tell anyone about Q—to describe him as a person—I feel totally helpless. I’ve never been very good at explaining anything, but, even taking that into account, it’s a special challenge to try to explain Q to someone. And when I do try I’m overcome by a deep, deep sense of despair.

Let me make this as simple as I can.

Q and I are the same age, but he’s about five hundred and seventy times more handsome. He has a nice personality, too. He’s never pushy or boastful, and he never gets angry if someone accidentally causes a problem for him. “Oh, well,” he’ll say. “I’ve done the same thing myself.” But, in fact, I’ve never heard of him doing anything bad to anyone.

He was well brought up, too. His father was a doctor who had his own clinic on the island of Shikoku, which meant that Q never wanted for pocket money. Not that he was extravagant with it. He was a smart dresser and also an impressive athlete, who’d played interscholastic tennis in high school. He enjoyed swimming and went to the pool at least twice a week. Politically, he was a moderate liberal. His grades, if not outstanding, were at least good. He almost never studied for exams, but he never failed a course. He really listened to the lectures.

He was surprisingly talented on the piano, and he owned a lot of Bill Evans and Mozart records. His favorite writers tended to be French—Balzac and Maupassant. Sometimes he’d read a novel by Kenzaburo Oe or another writer. His critiques were always right on the mark.

He was popular with women, naturally enough. But he was not one of those “anyone he can get his hands on” type of guys. He had a steady girlfriend, a pretty sophomore from one of the fancy women’s colleges. They went out every Sunday.

Anyhow, that was the Q I knew in college. In short, he was a character without flaws.

Back then, Q lived in the apartment next door to mine. What with lending salt or borrowing salad dressing, we got to be friends, and soon we were at each other’s places all the time, listening to records, drinking beer. Once, my girlfriend and I drove out to the Kamakura shore with Q and his girlfriend. We were very comfortable together. Then, during the summer break of my senior year, I moved out, and that was that.

The next time I saw Q, almost a decade had gone by. I was reading a book by a swanky hotel pool near the Akasaka district. Q was sitting in the deck chair next to mine, and beside him was a beautiful long-legged woman in a bikini.

I knew right away that it was Q. He was as handsome as ever, and now, just over thirty, he evinced a certain dignity that he hadn’t had before. Young women walking by gave him a quick once-over.

He didn’t notice me sitting next to him. I’m a fairly ordinary-looking guy, and I was wearing sunglasses. I wasn’t sure whether I should talk to him, but in the end I decided not to. He and the woman were deep in conversation, and I hesitated to interrupt them. Besides, there wasn’t a lot that he and I could have talked about. “I lent you salt, remember?” “Hey, that’s right, and I borrowed a bottle of salad dressing.” We would have run out of topics quickly. So I kept my mouth shut and stuck to my book.

Still, I couldn’t help overhearing what Q and his pretty companion were saying to each other. It was a fairly complicated matter. I gave up trying to read and listened to them.

“No way,” the woman said. “You’ve got to be kidding.”

“I know, I know,” Q said. “I know exactly what you’re saying. But you’ve got to see it my way, too. I’m not doing this because I want to. It was the guys upstairs. I’m just telling you what they decided. So don’t look at me that way.”

“Yeah, right,” she said.

Q let out a sigh.

Let me summarize their long conversation—filling in a good deal by way of imagination, of course. Q seemed to be now a director at a TV station or some such place, and the woman was a moderately well-known singer or actress. She was being let go from a project because of some sort of trouble or scandal she had become involved in, or maybe just because her popularity had declined. The job of informing her had been left to Q, who was the person most directly responsible for day-to-day operations. I don’t know much about the entertainment industry, so I can’t be sure of the finer points, but I don’t think I’m too far off over all.

Judging from what I heard, Q was discharging his duty with genuine sincerity.

“We can’t survive without sponsors,” he said. “I don’t have to tell you that—you know the business.”

“So you’re telling me that you don’t have any responsibility or say in the matter?”

“No, I’m not telling you that. But what I can do is really limited.”

Their conversation took another turn into a dead-end street. She wanted to know just how much he had exerted himself on her behalf. He insisted that he had done everything he could, but he had no way to prove it, and she didn’t believe him. I didn’t really believe him, either. The more sincerely he tried to explain things, the more a fog of insincerity came to hang over everything. But it wasn’t Q’s fault. It wasn’t anybody’s fault. Which was why there was no way out of this conversation.

It appeared that the woman had always liked Q. I sensed that they had got along well until this business came up. Which probably only added to the woman’s anger. In the end, though, she was the one who gave in.

“O.K.,” she said. “I’ve had it. Buy me a Coke, will you?”

When he heard that, Q breathed a sigh of relief and went off to the drink stand. The woman put on her sunglasses and stared straight ahead. By this time, I had read the same line in my book a couple hundred times.

Soon, Q came back with two big paper cups. Handing one to the woman, he lowered himself into his deck chair. “Don’t get too depressed about this,” he said. “Any day now you’ll—”

But, before he could finish, the woman threw her full cup at him. It caught him square in the face, and about a third of the Coca-Cola splashed onto me. Without a word, the woman stood up and, giving a little yank at the seat of her bikini, strode off without a backward glance. Q and I just sat there stunned for a good fifteen seconds. The people nearby were staring at us in shock.

Q was the first to regain his composure. “Sorry,” he said and held a towel out to me.

“That’s O.K.,” I answered. “I’ll just take a shower.”

Looking slightly annoyed, he drew the towel back and used it to dry himself.

“At least let me pay for the book,” he said. It was true that my book was soaked. But it was just a cheap paperback, and not a very interesting one at that. Anyone who threw a Coke on it and prevented me from reading it was doing me a favor. He brightened up when I said that. He had the same great smile as always.

Q left at that point, apologizing to me once more as he stood to go. He had never realized who I was.

I decided to give this story the title “The Kingdom That Failed” because I happened to read an article in the evening paper that day about an African kingdom that had failed. “To see a splendid kingdom fade away,” it said, “is far sadder than seeing a second-rate republic collapse.”


Source:newyorker.com (https://www.newyorker.com/books/flash-fiction/the-kingdom-that-failed?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_081520&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0b212ddf9c72dc8cc2c3&cndid=52756157&hasha=f720a4c35094c229f8aa98a4a66b9a3e&hashb=474f7aa6fff80a4f92b9c7035f976dbcd326e2d6&hashc=6a0007fadb426ea722a63d44a53d96a6792a0096ce21 ea6bf031baa5eca99554&esrc=bounceX&utm_term=TNY_Daily)



(Translated, from the Japanese, by Jay Rubin.)

Haruki Murakami is author of fourteen novels in English, including “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” “Kafka on the Shore,” “1Q84,” and “Killing Commendatore.”

Gio
16th August 2020, 11:32
From the ex Disney Girl/Vamp ...


Miley Cyrus’ new ‘Midnight Sky’ music video is a fashion feast (https://pagesix.com/2020/08/14/miley-cyrus-new-midnight-sky-music-video-is-a-fashion-feast/)



“It’s been a long time since I felt this good on my own,” Cyrus sings, later adding in the chorus, “I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone, oh no, I don’t need to be loved by you.”


3:42 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS1no1myeTM&feature=emb_logo

Gio
16th August 2020, 13:03
Daze with Jordan the Lion ...

Did MOTHMAN Cause The Pandemic?
World's Only MOTHMAN MUSEUM Point Pleasant, W.V.

Aug 15, 2020

16:22 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zApSfXFESSM

Emil El Zapato
16th August 2020, 13:24
From the ex Disney Girl/Vamp ...


Miley Cyrus’ new ‘Midnight Sky’ music video is a fashion feast (https://pagesix.com/2020/08/14/miley-cyrus-new-midnight-sky-music-video-is-a-fashion-feast/)




3:42 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS1no1myeTM&feature=emb_logo

Everytime I see children grown up ... rich and famous, exploiting the masses by exploiting themselves, I wonder what does daddy think? I like the video, sexy as hell

Gio
16th August 2020, 14:20
The latest ...


Marvellously Spiffing London Tour of Pimlico

Joolz Guides - London History Walks - Travel Films



If you're wondering what to do in London why not take a tour of Pimlico. Joolz Guides are for people who like wandering around London and learning a few interesting fun facts whilst hearing some banter in the form of a walking tour.

It's very near Westminster and very popular with members of Parliament as a home.The architecture around the whole of Pimlico is beautiful and it's amazing to think it used to be marsh land. Then Thomas Cubitt built all these wonderful stucco houses attracting people like Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, Vivienne Leigh, Aubrey Beardsley and many many more. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in Pimlico and there is the usual helping of vice, debauchery, scandal and fun facts about London.

Pimlico is also where the Chelsea Bun was invented and we also visit Chelsea Bridge, the Chelsea Hospital, Ranelagh Pleasure Gardens and see where Mozart composed his first symphony. There's also a visit to the secret tunnel under the Tate Britain which used to be Millbank Penitentiary. Anyone with ancestors transported to Australia should find it interesting! There's the Grosvenor Canal and the Bazagette Western Pumping Station.

Aug 16, 2020

23:30 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slCP2Vpqd7g

Gio
16th August 2020, 15:07
Home sweet home ...

STUNNING $9500 2-FLOOR Manhattan DUPLEX NYC Apartment Tour

Cash Jordan


Stunning Duplex on the Tribeca / West Village border, right by the Hudson River Park. I LOVE this area of town and always wanted to live here, and this 2 floor 2 bath apartment is an absolute winner because its surrounded by cafes and shops, right in the heart of Manhattan’s best neighborhood!

Aug 16, 2020

10:43 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIUy4S80QXw

Gio
17th August 2020, 13:18
The latest speaking his mind ...
Love it as he get's going ...

The Walter Bosley Channel

16 August 20

1:46:36 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHrRnTCiysk

Dreamtimer
18th August 2020, 01:25
Pt. Pleasant. Reminds me of Hellier. :ninja:

Gio
18th August 2020, 22:12
Filling in some details ...

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Click here and click map image to enlarge. (https://ashtronort.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/20.png)


From Brien Foerster

A Complete Tour Of Ancient Easter Island

Streamed live 8/18/2020

49:11 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMJH5BRh3xU

Gio
20th August 2020, 15:35
A long and winding tale ...



LOVING THE ALIEN

How UFO culture took over America

By Stephen Rodrick
August 20, 2020

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"Aliens are calling me, but first I have to buy Lunchables. Soon, I’ll be heading into the Nevada desert. I will not be alone. It is pre-pandemic September, and tens of thousands of seekers are reported to be descending on Hiko and Rachel, two no-stoplight towns 150 miles north of Las Vegas. The two map specks are the closest civilian outposts to Area 51, a highly guarded military installation where, legend says, a hangar holds a gravity-propelled craft that travels between galaxies and through wormholes based on technology acquired from aliens and, according to one rock star, Nazi scientists who escaped to Argentina.

Why is everyone descending on a land hospitable only to the giant hairy scorpion? Like all good things in America, it is because of a Facebook meme. The locals were not amused. There are rumors of homesteaders planning to light up their property and shoo off interlopers with birdshot. Signs heading out of Vegas on Highway 15 warn pilgrims to check their tire pressure and sanity. The Nevada Highway Patrol says it is advisable to bring your own water, toilet paper, and maybe an extra 10-gallon jerry can of gas.

I have made the proper preparations. I rent an SUV behemoth since I’ll be sleeping in my car. I pay $51 a night — get it? Area 51? — for a coveted desert parking lot. No spooky pasture with circling vultures for me. The North Las Vegas Walmart has everything I will need. I pile pounds of salted meat, Progresso soup, and an $11 sleeping bag that feels like it was filled with asbestos into my cart. Loaded up, I point my beast north toward Hiko.

I drive for two hours, watching my cell signal fade and then vanish. Alas, the UFO community’s “We are not alone” motto turns out to be empty rhetoric. I am completely alone. This is strange since I was told State Highway 93 would be packed with fellow travelers seeking other life-forms, perhaps kinder ones who watched less professional sports.

On April 27th, the United States Navy released three videos shot by naval aviators off the California coast in 2004. The footage showed unidentified aerial phenomenon — the new hip terms for UFOs — streaking across the radar screens of F/A-18 Super Hornets while Navy pilots hooped and hollered at the mysterious images.

Mind you, the Navy wasn’t taking an opinion on whether the craft were from Mars, Ibiza, or Uranus. They were just officially releasing footage that had been circulating for nearly 18 months to, in the words of a Navy spokesperson, “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.”

I think that is English.

Then, in June, it was revealed that senators had officially requested from the Pentagon a thorough unclassified report on UFOs. I had anticipated the release — got lucky — and, shortly before pandemic times, crisscrossed the nation in pursuit of the resurgent UFO movement. The truth was out there.

Maybe? About 33 percent of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth, 60 percent think the government is hiding something, and 17 percent say they have seen their very own UFO. That’s 56 million Americans. Meanwhile, church attendance in America is down to 50 percent, the lowest in history. The rise and fall of these corresponding numbers is not a coincidence. Everyone needs something to believe in. If it’s not going to be J.C., it might as well be E.T.

Seth Shostak is an astronomer with the SETI Institute, a well-respected consortium of scientists looking for alien life. Shostak is what I call a skeptic-believer. He believes there is life out there somewhere, but thinks much of UFO culture is, well, horseshit.

“Remember when you were little and you believed in Santa Claus?” asks Shostak. “It was great to feel like something bigger than you was out there controlling things.” He laughs over our Zoom call. “You grow older and you realize, ‘Well, my parents might not always be here.’ You need something bigger than you. So for years that would be your local house of worship. Today, people are looking for something else, and aliens fill the bill. You think, ‘They may pick me up for experiment.’” He laughs again. “‘At least somebody’s interested in me.’”

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Attendees dance to music during the Alienstock festival on the “Extraterrestrial Highway” in Rachel, Nevada, last September.

When I pull into Hiko, there is little activity, just some squad cars bathing in the sun. The promised Arby’s food truck is nowhere to be seen. I enter base camp and begin looking for former MMA guru and current documentary filmmaker Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, a ufologist celebrity to his fans and “fucking four names” to his detractors.

Corbell is kind of the cause of this entire ruckus. He has recently released a documentary called Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers, a breathless account of the bête noir of the UFO movement, a man who claimed he had worked as a physicist at the Nevada site in the early 1980s and encountered nine alien craft stowed in a hangar. Lazar’s initial interviews in 1989 had mainlined Area 51 into America’s consciousness. Alas, his credibility has always been in question because of inconsistencies in his story, including but not limited to the fact that Lazar said he went to MIT and Cal Tech and the two schools have no record of him. Oh, and there was that pandering conviction.

Lazar went underground and was largely forgotten until Corbell’s documentary premiered in 2019 on Netflix, creating a sensation both positive and negative, with one viewer writing, “This movie was pure cringe.” Experts like Shostak put Lazar’s story at the center of the UFO credibility problems, namely there have been hundreds of thousands of sightings and yet there never is any hard evidence. “All of this is either anecdotal or relies on witness testimony,” says Shostak. “You never would have believed quantum mechanics if it was based on witness testimony.”

No matter. After the documentary’s release, Corbell scored an appearance by the hesitant Lazar on Joe Rogan’s hugely popular podcast. Millions listened, including a mischievous Bakersfield kid named Matty Roberts, who created the Facebook meme “Storm Area 51: They Can’t Stop All of Us.” It accrued a million followers in a week. Roberts suggested that alien enthusiasts meet in Nevada on September 20th and storm the gates of the base and see what they could see.

What followed is known in polite company as a clusterfuck. Roberts tried to organize Alienstock with Connie West, the owner of the Little A’Le’Inn, a burger joint and motel near the base. That spawned a competing event at Hiko’s Nevada Alien Research Center, a place to buy Star Wars lunch pails and alien poop.

The reality of hosting a horde of campers in a place without toilets or a nearby hospital scared off Roberts. He pulled out a week before the festivities, saying he didn’t want a Fyre Festival 2.0 on his résumé. What is left are two competing events with no idea of how many people would attend.

Corbell sided with the Hiko people so that’s where I end up. Within five minutes of exiting my car, I count three little green men or women and an elderly gent in an E.T. mask who, over the next 36 hours, will ask me to sign his “Aliens have rights” petition eight times.

Corbell isn’t hard to find; he is sequestered in an RV the size of a Manhattan condo just behind the stage. A sign warns me not to knock, but I knock anyway. Corbell shakes my hand hard and smiles with amped-up brown eyes and supersize pupils. A shortish man with 22nd-century facial hair, Corbell sports a Swingers-era green felt hat.

“I’m glad you are here, man, so much is happening,” he says.

His phone is blowing up. There are calls to check on the progress of EDM star Paul Oakenfold’s tour bus — Oakenfold’s heading out to the desert to play a midnight set. Then there is a quiet call with his wife.

“I call her Yeti because most people have never met her and doubt she exists,” says Corbell. Niles, his cameraman, chimes in, “I just call her ‘hot.’”

Corbell wants to tell me all about how he had arrived here — it would involve a near-death experience in India, black-magic martial artists in Brazil, 137 Corbell-owned websites, and the rudeness of Bill Nye the Science Guy. First, Corbell has to FaceTime with his mom, who’s back home in California. After inquiring about her boy’s safety, Mom keeps asking the same question over and over: “Did anyone show up?”

“It’s still early, Mom. Things are running a little behind.”

“Will you call me back if people show up?”

“Yes, Mom. Gotta go.”

Corbell cracks open a specially decorated green can of alien Budweiser. I ask him what his mom thought of her middle son devoting his life to the pursuit of alien life.

“She’s OK now,” he tells me. “At first, she’d just say, ‘You’ve got your dick in the peanut butter. You’re fucking nuts.’”

What?

Corbell smiles patiently.

“You’re. Fucking. Nuts.”

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Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell in Hiko, Nevada, last September

It’s true. Everyone in the UFO world is fucking nuts. Actually, that is not quite right. Everyone in the UFO world believes everyone else in the UFO world is fucking nuts. Think of ufology like the various sects of Christianity. They all believe in the same deity, but the Catholics are always blasting the Baptists who are always blasting the Episcopalians. Solidarity is not a word spoken here. You can be confident that, no matter what I write, many UFO people will declare it bullshit and me, possibly, a CIA plant.

We begin at the beginning. Some people think UFOs have been with us since the Old Testament. In Ezekiel, the prophet describes “a flying chariot” that is supposedly powered by wheels turned by four angels. Then the prophet sees God and describes Him/It/Her not unlike, well, an alien: “I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him.”

Not a God guy? Agnostics argue that the birth of civilization in ancient Sumeria could never have made the jump to an alphabet without the helping tentacle of higher life. If that’s your bag, there’s a History Channel show for you.

Walking hand-in-hand through history with the possibility of UFOs has been the UFO fraud. In the 19th century, The Book of Dyzan was discovered in Tibet and included the story of an alien race that settled in India, tried to make friends, and when it went bad, disappeared into space — but not before blinding everyone and poisoning the air.

The book created quite the buzz in Europe. Unfortunately, researchers eventually determined the delightfully named Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a European mystic, had actually written the ancient text in 1890.

The duping of believers has been the movement’s central theme, best exemplified by Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, a radio play purporting a Martian invasion that had listeners skedaddling for the hills.

The UFO turned into a true phenomenon in the 1940s and postwar era. During the war, all sides reported what came to be called “foo fighters,” flashes of red following air squadrons and moving at superspeed. Everyone assumed it was the other side’s new terrible weapon, but it wasn’t and the sightings were never explained.

After the war, the game was afoot. In 1947, an aircraft crashed 30 miles away from Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico. The military said it was an experimental weather balloon, but many didn’t buy it, starting 75 years of speculation that it was an alien craft.

The desert became a center for UFO activity. This seemed weird since the Southwest was usually just a place to get through on your way to California. Perhaps not coincidentally, in the 1950s filmmaker Jack Arnold was setting cheap popular horror films like It Came From Outer Space in the wastelands, turning the desert from dull to a WTF wonderland.

The movement has waxed and waned over the past 50 years. Stories of men and women being abducted by aliens became an essential subgenre. Back in the 1950s, Congress held hearings and the Air Force formed a special task force to study and then dismiss sightings. It was called Project Blue Book, and, yes, it has its very own History Channel show.

Then came Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. A book called Chariot of the Gods, arguing that aliens had been visiting Earth since the beginning of civilization, sold 67 million copies despite being debunked by historians. UFOs were now mainstreaming. The Nineties brought us The X-Files, and on it went.

I didn’t pay much attention. Not my thing. Then, toward the end of 2017, something changed. I read in The New York Times about Cmdr. David “Sex” Fravor’s experiences. Fravor was the commanding officer of VFA-41, a F/A 18-F Super Hornet squadron based on the USS Nimitz. In November 2004, the Nimitz was conducting training exercises off the Southern California coast. The guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton accompanied the Nimitz. One afternoon, the Princeton’s radar began picking up unknown blips. One pilot took off and had a look. He saw nothing except a giant waterspout not unlike what you might see if a ship had capsized in the ocean. Later, Fravor launched off the Nimitz and almost immediately began seeing white blips on his radar and then had a visual sighting of something moving toward his plane.

Fravor’s plane recorded radar footage of the speeding blip that was shaped like a Tic Tac mint. The Tic Tac moved up and down, side to side at supersonic speeds. No plane flew like that. The Princeton nervously asked Fravor if he had live missiles on his jet. (He did not.)

Later, Fravor remarked, “I don’t think the technology was developed here, and by ‘here,’ I mean this planet.”

Navy pilots were folks I knew and trusted. My dad was a Navy pilot. He had flown off the Nimitz. I’d written a book about Navy pilots. They are trained aerial observers unlike most UFO witnesses and have zero to gain by concocting tall tales. I began asking around. A Navy buddy with 20 years of carrier flying, including tours over Afghanistan, told me about a time that he and his co-pilot saw an unexplained speeding light on a flight. They looked at each other and never reported it.

“It’s a small community — you don’t want to be seen as the nut who saw aliens,” my friend tells me.

Fravor’s experience confirmed this. According to a government memo, aviators “detailed the high level of ridicule that the aircrew experienced” after reporting their in-air experiences. (Other pilots played The X-Files theme when they entered the ready room.)

Maybe that’s why video of Fravor’s flight and two other missions that encountered UAPs were ignored until they were declassified in 2017. They were released to the public amid great fanfare and the revelation that the Pentagon had spent $22 million investigating UAPs. Multiple podcasts followed.

How did I know this was a serious development? The History Channel commissioned another show. The April 2020 official “official” release of the videos brought another round of press.

So I headed to the desert. And then to San Diego, Las Vegas, and other places I am not permitted to mention. I talked to a rock star about clandestine Pentagon meetings. I took some hallucinogens under California stars. I nearly had all my clothes snatched at a Barstow laundromat. (That last incident was so weird that I’m not prepared to go into details.)

Now? I know more, but understand less.

Like the UFO experience, much of what Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell says has to be taken on faith. Did he get his third name from his great-great uncle Edward Lockyer, who went down on the Titanic? Yes. Did Edward fall in love with a first-class girl, toss her into a lifeboat, breaking her legs, then drop down his watch and tell her to find his mother and tell her he loved her? Unverified. Did he go to UC-Santa Cruz on the nine-year plan and become an MMA guru? Yes. Did he create an installation art show about Sharon Tate? Documented. Did he travel to India, fall ill with a mysterious fever, and eventually escape from a homicidal hospital that kept people hostage to milk their insurance? Unverified. Did he train in Brazil with a large gentleman who wanted to kill him only to be spared by the kind intervention of a voodoo granny? God, I want that to be true.

Corbell has great hopes for the weekend, bouncing around the RV like a Super Ball thrown by a three-year-old. There is going to be a screening of his film on a giant screen tonight, and tomorrow Bob Lazar is FaceTiming in from an undisclosed location. Corbell is an excited host, making me a ham and cheese sandwich, but forgetting to take the paper off of the cheddar. His manic energy is infectious, drawing you into whatever caper he has planned. Shortly after meeting, he proclaimed me trustworthy: “You be straight with me, and I’ll be straight with you. Cool?”

Corbell is an industrious man blessed with charisma and a fourplex in Santa Monica that he rents out. (He lives with the Yeti in a million-dollar house in the California desert.) “I don’t take money from anyone,” says Corbell. “That way, no one can control you.”

His Lazar documentary features Mickey Rourke providing indecipherable narration that includes lines like “Memory is a mirage and a mistress to desire” and “Hidden things are the most seductive, they titillate and torment us.” Those lines, along with migraine-inducing jump cuts and a scene of Corbell walking among stars while aiming to “weaponize your curiosity,” led one viewer to call the documentary “full of cringe.”

But people watched. The film was made for around $100,000, with 75 grand going to Rourke for an afternoon of work. “That was the friend discount,” explains Corbell, who gets his tats at the same parlor that Rourke frequents in Los Angeles.

Corbell is 43 and got his start in ufology as a boy in the Valley, listening on a clock radio to Bob Lazar being interviewed by legendary conspiracy-radio icon Art Bell. Making it his life’s work was delayed by his MMA misadventures, but once that was over he made up for lost time.

Living in Santa Monica, he read about summoners, men and women who could conjure UFOs into their midst just with their minds. He started filming summoners and posting his footage on YouTube. His first subject was a homeless man. When he got home, he looked at his footage and — Holy shit! — noticed red, flitting images descending on the video. He posted it, and it became a minor big thing in L.A., making the local news.

Then things got real. Bill Nye the Science Guy called him a fraud, saying the footage showed brine shrimp: sea monkeys. That pissed off Corbell. He spent the next week researching the footage. Eventually, he realized the red he was seeing was from crimson flares set off by the Red Bull parachute team descending nearby.

“I debunked my own video!” Corbell tells me triumphantly.

After that, he was hooked. Eventually, he met Vegas reporter George Knapp, who had done the original Lazar interviews. Both men already knew John Lear, the son of Edward Lear, the jet designer.

John Lear believed that the Americans had made a deal with the aliens, exchanging abductees for alien technology, and that the deal had ended badly. Corbell spent every other weekend filming Lear for six years, until a defiant Lear signed his life rights over to another producer on a cocktail napkin. It was around this time that Corbell began to think, maybe, just maybe, Lear was a wee bit unreliable. That’s when he started wooing Lazar.

Our conversation is interrupted by the arrival of two guests. First, it’s a jovial and charming Dave Foley, of Kids in the Hall fame. Corbell and Foley had met through mutual acquaintance Joe Rogan, who had starred with the Canadian on the sitcom NewsRadio. Foley was here to participate in a panel tomorrow, where he would apologize for making cheap UFO jokes as a comedian. The door then pops open again, and a middle-aged mom and a glamorous young woman step in. Corbell lets out a yelp: “Suwana! All the way from Chiang Mai, Thailand.”

Actual, Suwana, a shiny brunette rapper, is from Colorado but had once studied in Thailand. Close enough for Corbell. She has a Lazar rap to perform before tonight’s screening, and it went like this.…

Bob Lazar had that clearance majestic,
Working on cosmic cases far beyond just domestic.
The government’s got flying saucers,
But they’d rather us be skeptics,
And truth seekers like Lazar and I will not accept it.

It is catchy. All that is missing are people to hear her perform. It is near dusk, and there are maybe a hundred people on site.

Then, the John the Baptist of the UFO movement arrives. George Knapp settles his bones onto a couch and looks weary. You would be too if you had become the human clearinghouse for all things alien for more than 30 years. Knapp arrived in Las Vegas from Berkeley in the late Seventies as a freelance reporter, paying the bills as a taxi driver who had no idea how to get to the airport. He eventually scored a gig on TV news, reporting on gaming, politics, and the mob. Knapp began hosting one of those Sunday 7 a.m. public-affairs shows that no one watched. Bored one Sunday, he hosted the aforementioned Lear, who spouted his alien theories to a credulous Knapp. The switchboard lit up. Eventually, Lear delivered to Knapp a file on a man named “Dennis.” It was Bob Lazar, who disguised his appearance as he described his work as a scientist on an alien craft that was being studied at Area 51.

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Bob Lazar at a screening of <em>Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers</em> in Los Angeles in 2018

Lazar said that the propulsion system relied on an isotope called Element 115, which created a gravity wave that permitted the craft to fly at unthinkable speeds by bending light around it. Oh, yeah, he also said he was briefed that aliens had been coming to Earth for 10,000 years from the galaxy of Zeta Reticuli.

Lazar later allowed his face to be shown, and the subsequent four-part series captivated Las Vegas audiences. The next year, Knapp and Lazar had a falling out when Lazar told him he was helping a lady start up a prostitution business in an apartment building two blocks from Knapp’s house. Knapp called the cops. Lazar received a suspended sentence and later forgave Knapp.

Now 67, Knapp’s once bushy brown hair is a mixture of gray and straw today. He is the Zelig of the alien movement. Decades ago, he struck up an alliance with future Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the back of a limo, and they agreed to horse-trade information about what the government did or did not know about possible alien craft. “He is the top reporter in Nevada,” Reid tells me. “We’ve had a partnership on this issue for 30 years, way back to when you could get made fun of for caring about it.”

From his Washington sources, Knapp became aware of the CDR Fravor/UFO encounter years before it went public. He had kept it quiet until Fravor was ready to go come forward, and claims he handed his scoop over to The New York Times so it could reach a larger audience.

After the Fravor revelations in 2017, Knapp was contacted by his old friend Reid. The senator asked him to give a multihour briefing to one senator who — at the time — was a presidential candidate. (I can’t tell you which one, but seven senators ran for president in 2020.)

Whatever was said clearly made an impression. This summer, Sen. Marco Rubio, now chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, added a section to the Intelligence Authorization bill for 2021, in which he asked for the creation of an agency that would gather up all nonclassified UFO info in the Pentagon and hand it over to Congress, and eventually to the public.

Knapp now receives more than 800 emails a day from seekers and those who want to tell their stories. People accost him at urinals and show up at his work. There was the man who flew in from Australia and begged Knapp to tell the aliens to let him be, and the buxom woman who informed Knapp that she had been abducted while giving a blowjob and was told by aliens to get her breasts enlarged.

“From what I could see, she took their advice,” Knapp tells me.

The conversation drops to a reverent level with Knapp in our midst. A mild man, Knapp begins talking about his experiences with some prompting. He describes how he has been ridiculed for taking this stuff so seriously. “The public can’t get enough of it, and reporters can’t stop ripping me for it,” he says, sipping some water.

It’s not just skeptics that have attacked Knapp and his protégé Corbell. There is a significant component of the UFO crowd who think Lazar is a fraud and that Knapp and Corbell are dupes. “There’s no other movement better at devouring their own than the UFO community,” says Knapp. “The government doesn’t even need to do it, we do it to ourselves.”

The conversation turns to a discussion of why the government has kept quiet on the UFO issue. “I think there was a real fear for years in government that they felt the public couldn’t handle the news and it would lead to the break down of society,” theorizes Knapp. “And now they’ve been doing it for so long and dug such a hole with lies and deception, they don’t know how to dig themselves out.”

The RV door flies open again, and a Brit in green cords and a red velour jacket piles in. Knapp looks at the new visitor as if he is an actual alien. It is Paul Oakenfold, the legendary electronic music DJ. A mysterious friend of Corbell’s hooked the two up, and now Oakenfold is standing in Corbell’s trailer, looking a little confused. I try to explain to Knapp that Oakenfold produced the Happy Mondays’ seminal Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches. This does not help.

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A man in an alien mask stands at an entrance to the Air Force’s Nevada Test and Training Range near Area 51 on September 20th, 2019.

Oakenfold mentions that he has done shows in odd places, from the Great Wall of China to Stonehenge. He cops to being UFO curious. “Yeah, I believe there is something else out there besides us — how could there not be?” he says.

He grins a bit and jerks his finger toward the stage: “Of course, I thought there would be more people here, but we’ll do a good show.”

Corbell looks embarrassed. Then someone in the trailer chimes in that the first Burning Man had only eight attendees. Corbell’s eyes brighten. It is now past eight, and it’s time to hit the stage.

The desert sun is gone and a cool wind sweeps through the dust. Corbell takes the stage and surveys the skeleton crew, which includes one man/alien in a way too tight green suit. I wander into the crowd and start counting. There are about 150 people here if you include vendors.

“We have craft of unknown origin flying in our airspace with impunity at all times,” shouts Corbell above the wind. He looks like an Old Testament prophet trying to get the attention of wasted pagans. “They’re technologically more advanced than anything that we have in this country.”

He senses he is losing the audience. A smile crosses his face.

“We’re going to do this every year. Tonight, you’re, like, at the first Burning Man.”

Suwanna does her rap, and then Oakenfold comes out. He does a cosmic set that has the dozens in the audience entranced. After the show, a slightly sloshed Oakenfold throws a good-natured arm around my shoulder. Sweating booze, he hectors me about Rolling Stone’s coverage of his genre, but then smiles and gestures toward the few stragglers left in the dirt. He slurs in a London accent, “Man, that was weird. I gotta get back to L.A.”

Corbell cuts me a break and lets me bunk in his RV. Ever the gracious host, he leaves a Xanax on my pillow. By morning, his disappointment about last night is gone. Today, we are heading to the gates of Area 51. Corbell takes the passenger seat in my SUV and installs a GoPro camera on the dash to record his trip, while Foley and Niles sit in the back. On our way, we see a bloated carcass of a black steer. Cattle mutilation has been a staple of alien study for decades, with multiple reports of cows stripped of meat and muscle by unexplained marauders.

“They’re perfectly cut like someone has butchering equipment,” says Corbell. “Some people think it’s another example of aliens wanting us to know they’re here.” He pauses for a second. “Come out to my house in the California desert, and I’ll show a perfectly serrated cowhide that someone sent me. It’s in my freezer. You just can’t mention where I live, I’ve had some issues.

We take a right onto an organ-jangling dirt road. “As soon as you turn on the road, the military has visual and facial recognition of you,” warns Corbell. This makes me nervous. About 15 miles of dust later, we see a nondescript gate guarded not by military cops but Nevada Highway Patrol. It is no more secure than your mom’s 55-and-over community in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The police are very friendly.

“It’s a 12-hour shift — it gets a little monotonous,” says a beefy cop. “Nothing really happens.”

Corbell, perhaps sensing my disappointment, chimes in: “Yeah, but if you stepped past the gate, soldiers would come out of nowhere.”

We don’t do that. Instead, we pile back into the Blazer and pass around Wheat Thins. At that moment, my existential angst slides into the danger zone. A talented comedian, a well-known TV reporter, Paul Oakenfold, Corbell and myself have spent a weekend in the dust so we can stare at a military-base gate where maybe 50 miles away something or nothing might have happened years ago. Didn’t we have anything better to do with our dwindling years? At one point, I had much higher hopes for myself.

My mood darkens further as we head back to base camp. Then, Corbell grabs my arm. “Come to California,” he says. “There’s so much more to show you.”

I have my doubts.

I received an email shortly before arriving at the offices of To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a for-profit UFO-centric organization that launched in 2015. Somehow, TTSA got wind of my desert trip and inquired whether this was a serious story. I was told, in no uncertain terms, that TTSA had no interest in having their photographs running next to tinfoil-hat-wearing goofs selling UFO trinkets in the desert.

This was weird because TTSA is the brainchild of Tom DeLonge, one of the founders of the band Blink-182, whose classic album is entitled Enema of the State. DeLonge quit the band to become a UFO evangelist.

DeLonge has publicly stated that the aircraft that crashed outside of Roswell in 1947 was a co-production of aliens and Nazi scientists who escaped to Argentina. He also suggested that the reason the Cold War never went “hot” was because the Soviets and Americans had a secret alliance to protect the Earth from interlopers from other galaxies.

Then, DeLonge pivoted. Over the past two years, he has toned down the crazy talk and is now a shining example of the mainstreaming of UFO thought. I sit down with him in the TTSA’s hip, open-air offices in Encinitas, outside of San Diego. DeLonge is charming but makes it clear that he wants to steer clear of his earlier statements — many of which were expressed on an October 2017 episode of Joe Rogan’s ubiquitous podcast.

“I don’t want to talk about that,” DeLonge says. “I don’t think it’s relevant.”

Talking to other sources, DeLonge’s Rogan interview killed his credibility with more serious UFO scholars and he was forced to do some image rehabilitation. DeLonge admits that he has to be more circumspect with his words now that the TTSA has shareholders and SEC monitors. “Oh, my God, very much so,” DeLonge tells me. Wearing a track jacket, jeans, and a Ford cap, he smiles and points a finger toward his sister Kari, TTSA’s press rep, sitting about 20 feet away on the patio outside his office. “I’m extremely constrained. Why do you think she’s here?”

How DeLonge and TTSA found themselves as a safe space for pilots confessing that they saw UAPs is a surreal story of Pentagon spooks, clandestine meetings, and a series of trips down the eight-lane highway of rabbit holes that make up DeLonge’s brain.

DeLonge has long been a believer in everything that has ever been covered in a Twilight Zone episode. He remembers glomming on to the Loch Ness Monster and UFOs on a forced library visit while growing up in nearby Poway. He read voraciously about UFOs on the long van rides during Blink-182’s early days. In 1999, the band recorded the track “Aliens Exist.” Sometimes he’d ask his bandmates to get high and go with him to look for UFOs. Sometimes they indulged him, but not when DeLonge suggested they get high and search for Bigfoot.

He tells me that he had his own personal alien encounter while camping out in the California desert. He was in his sleeping bag when he heard a chorus of voices.

“I heard hundreds of voices, and that was about it,” says DeLonge. “The wild thing was I remember a big gap in my memory. One of my friends heard all the voices, but the other guy slept through the whole thing.”

DeLonge has always been a salesman, whether he was selling audio juvenilia or starting Strange Times, a now-defunct website that served as a one-stop conspiracy-theory resource. The plans got more sophisticated as he grew older, with a skate-gear enterprise and a business to help bands like Pearl Jam sell more merchandise. He started TTSA as a for-profit entertainment company with an emphasis on UFOs and unexplained phenomena. There is a script about skateboarders-turned-paranormal-private-detectives; it is, as they say in Hollywood, in development.

T-shirts were sold, and DeLonge co-wrote a 700-page thriller called Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows that mixes fiction and fact, including a section on DeLonge’s theory that Nazis in Argentina caused the Roswell crash.

While DeLonge dodges questions about some of his more outlandish theories, he doesn’t back away from this one.

“The Germans going down to South America — there’s movies about that,” DeLonge tells me. “There are historical documents about that. Everyone knows about a lot of that stuff … Juan Peron and sheltering Nazis.” (Ex-Nazis fleeing to South America is true. What isn’t true is that there is any evidence that a cabal of them escaped to Argentina and, with alien technology, launched a spacecraft.)

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Tom Delonge transitioned from rock star to UFO evangelist with his organization To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science.

Rock stars that defy the long odds to become millionaires often think they can overcome long odds in other endeavors. DeLonge has actually accomplished his goal. He wanted to build an influential and profitable UFO empire and asked George Knapp for counsel on how to approach government bigwigs about his beliefs.

Knapp offered up some advice on how to proceed. He suggested telling the government that DeLonge could help them dig out of the hole that came with denying UFOs for decades.

From there, it gets a little oblique. DeLonge attended an open house for Lockheed, the designer of classified superplanes, including the Stealth Bomber and the 3,000-mph SR-71 Bluebird. That led to another meeting with a Lockheed official in a building described by DeLonge as being guarded by serious-looking men. Whirring white-noise machines shrouded conversations.

DeLonge gave Knapp’s pitch and was met with silence. He told me that he thought he’d blown it until he received an email suggesting he fly to Washington and meet a CIA official near the Pentagon. That led to further meetings with NASA and, according to DeLonge, two days of voluntary questioning by government officials at a San Diego hotel not far from DeLonge’s home.

“It was friendly, but they wanted to know what I knew,” says DeLonge with a wry smile.

This all sounded like nonsense to most non-conspiracy folk. But then Wikileaks bailed DeLonge out. (Stay with me!) Wikileaks published hacked emails from the Democratic Party’s server prior to the 2016 election and among the victims were Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who had also been an adviser to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Most importantly, Podesta was on the record as UFO curious. The hacks included two emails from DeLonge to Podesta. The first, from 2015, suggested that DeLonge had interviewed Podesta and included a boast and a request:

Things are moving with the project. The Novels, Films and NonFiction works are blooming and finishing. Just had a preliminary meeting with Spielberg’s Chief Operating Officer at DreamWorks. More meetings are now on the books — I would like to bring two very “important” people out to meet you in DC.

The next one was sent to Podesta in January 2016 and suggested that DeLonge had been in contact with Air Force Gen. William McCasland, the recent commanding officer of Wright Patterson Air Force Base, long rumored by UFO completists as the home of the alien spacecraft that crashed in Roswell. He implied McCasland was close to going public with new information:

He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware — as he was in charge of all of the stuff. When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago.

The emails turned DeLonge into a made man in the UFO world. Sure, he had already befriended former CIA and defense officials, including Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of intelligence, but the emails proffered credibility, a suggestion that at least part of his kooky cloak-and-dagger tale was true. (Not that it has made TTSA profitable; a 2019 SEC report suggested the company is in debt.) Mellon now works for TTSA.

“It basically validated me to the whole world because everyone thought I was crazy up to that point,” DeLonge tells me. “Then you have The Wall Street Journal writing about it, and people were saying, ‘Oh, my God.’”

He smiles and shrugs his shoulders: “I think it all happened the way it was supposed to happen. The universe set up what it set up.”

The next day, I sit in on a meeting of TTSA’s board of directors. Everyone is there except DeLonge. Amid the ex-CIA and Lockheed higher-ups there is Mellon, a buttoned-up man in a sports jacket, and Luis Elizondo, a beefy former Department of Defense spy in jeans, a black T-shirt, and a Yankees cap.

When we meet, it has been two years since The New York Times broke the news about the Fravor-Tic Tac video, and the TTSA’s attempt to get Washington to take it seriously isn’t going so well. There’s been one significant victory: The Pentagon instituted a new reporting system that would not stigmatize military personnel for simply reporting what they saw.

Capitol Hill has been a tougher nut to crack. Attempts to schedule either a public or private hearing with actually elected officials have gone nowhere. (The attempts have grinded to a halt during the pandemic.)

“It’s still the same resistance,” says Mellon, with a sigh. “There are people in Congress who’ve had experiences with a UAP, but they’re still reluctant to come forward. At the very least, they should care that something is invading our airspace. But they’re afraid of what the committee chairman is going to think of them.”

Elizondo pulls out a deck of cards that pilots use to memorize the markings of every plane and helicopter they might run into on a sortie. “Pilots are taught to recognize everything,” he says. They know the planes. They knows MiGs, they know Chinese fighters. Then they see something they don’t recognize, and people don’t take it seriously. It’s unbelievable.”

(Mellon says that some of the skepticism has vanished in the past month. “Things have changed markedly at DoD and on the Hill since we talked,” he says. “DoD and the Intelligence Community now actually seem to be engaged at the highest levels, and Congress has taken action by requesting an all-source report in the [new] Intelligence Authorization Act.)

While Mellon works in the shadows, Elizondo is the breakout star of UFO 2020. The son of a Cuban exile, Elizondo grew up in Miami and enlisted in the army after college graduation. He soon transferred to the Department of Defense, performing counterintelligence. He found himself in Kandahar after 9/11, serving under Col. Jim Mattis, who eventually served as Trump’s first defense secretary. According to DeLonge, Mattis saved Elizondo’s life, a story that Elizondo would neither confirm nor deny.

After some combat tours, Elizondo found himself at the Pentagon, “flying a desk,” a.k.a. managing various Pentagon programs. In 2008, he was interviewed multiple times by senior defense officials about a new program. Eventually, they asked him what he thought about UFOs.

“I told them I don’t think about UFOs,” Elizondo tells me. “I don’t have the time or luxury to think about it. I’m too worried about catching bad guys.”

They prodded further, and Elizondo said he had no opinion because he had no data. He was still given the job (the job’s description remained vague but it largely centered around investigating unidentified aircraft to make sure the Russians and Chinese were not jumping ahead of American aviation technology). In 2010, according to Elizondo, he took over the Pentagon program that was called AATIP, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

AATIP had been funded at the urging of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, whose interest in the subject had been jolted by his conversations with the ubiquitous Knapp and mutual friend Robert Bigelow, who had devoted a commercial-real-estate fortune into rocket technology and extraterrestrial research.

Reid convinced two mainstays of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sens. Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens, to appropriate $22 million to Bigelow’s research lab for the study of unidentified craft. (Stevens was an easy mark since he had been obsessed with UFOs since seeing one while an Air Force pilot during World War II.)

Elizondo found himself running the AATIP desk at the Pentagon. For five years, Elizondo accrued data that included three videos of navy pilots encountering UAPs. The two most crucial ones were the Nimitz-Tic Tac video and 2015 radar footage of the Gimbal, a rounder UAP moving toward jets off the USS Roosevelt in the Atlantic.

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A screenshot from the 2015 United States Navy Gimbal UAP video

Based on the data, Elizondo thought it was time to brief his old friend Jim Mattis, who was now U.S. secretary of defense. Elizondo and Mellon worked all their contacts, but couldn’t even get a meeting about scheduling a meeting. Mattis’ aides thought the issue was radioactive and didn’t want their boss to be linked with the subject.

Elizondo became so frustrated that he resigned from the Department of Defense in October 2017, writing in his farewell memo that “the department must take serious the many accounts by the Navy and other services of unusual aerial interfering with military weapon platforms. Underestimating or ignoring these potential threats is not in the interest of the department no matter the political contention.”

Before leaving the Pentagon, he navigated Pentagon bureaucracy and had the pilots videos declassified. The footage was scrubbed of sensitive detail so that it could be released to the public.

This is where it gets sketchy. Elizondo joined the TTSA just a few days after he resigned from the Pentagon. He appeared onstage with DeLonge and other TTSA colleagues for a press conference where it was announced that he was joining the team and that TTSA was morphing from just an entertainment thing to a research and development business looking to get to the bottom of UAP sightings and develop advanced aircraft based on any and all alien technology. The timing seemed as hinky as one of the photos presented by the TTSA at its roll-out, which UFO activists quickly pointed out was not footage shot from a Navy plane but rather a giant #1 birthday balloon that titillated sky watchers in England.

No matter. The History Channel commissioned a TTSA show called Unidentified that largely centered on Elizondo convincing reluctant military personnel to go on the record and tell their stories of UFO encounters. Much of it has an uncomfortable reality-TV feel. One episode features an account of a 2014 sighting of a UFO over Chile that has been long debunked as a civilian airliner.

In another scene, Elizondo is on his way to interview a Navy pilot who is supposedly reluctant to talk and is stashed in a seedy motel outside Boston. However, he must have not been too nervous because after Elizondo knocks on the door, the next shot is from inside the room as the pilot is opening the door. The pilot had already let a camera crew into his room.

The “scared” aviator was Lt. Ryan Graves, who had recently separated from the Navy and made himself available to The New York Times and various podcasts. The omnipresent History Channel put me in contact with him. In 2015, Graves’ squadron, the VFA-11 Red Rippers, was flying their Hornets off the coast of Virginia Beach, where they were stationed. Their planes had just upgraded from APG-73 radar to APF-79 radar, a significant technological jump. Now, in American airspace, the Red Rippers began picking up cubelike images that hovered and held their position despite high winds, something no aircraft can do.

“The first thought was ‘Why are all these objects in our working area either hovering at standstill or going against the wind,’” Graves tells me. The squadron had their new radar checked out, and there were no glitches. “We went from thinking it’s a radar malfunction to there are physical objects out there, and it’s a problem.”

A few months later, two of Graves’ fellow pilots were flying in formation when the cube came at them, splitting between them, close enough that both pilots thought a crash was imminent.

“My friend came back with a look of shock on his face,” remembers Graves. “He almost hit one of those goddamn things.”

The pilot filed a mishap report, required after any near crash, and the squadron’s skipper passed it up the chain of command. There was no response. The Red Rippers boarded the USS Roosevelt headed to the Middle East for missions over Syria. They didn’t see the cubes while transiting, but once they hit the Persian Gulf, the cubes reappeared.

Graves and his buddies would quietly talk about the incidents in the squadron ready room, but not in public. It wasn’t until the Elizondo-assisted release of the videos that Graves thought of going public. He didn’t talk to his fellow pilots because he knew they would tell him not to stick his neck out. The fact that he was leaving the military made it easier. After going public, the TTSA set up meetings between Graves and low-level congressional staff, but nothing came of it.

“The best-case scenario, in my mind, if something went wrong was that someone was going to have a midair collision with one of these objects and we’re going to potentially lose two lives and an $80 million aircraft,” says Graves. “The more practical scenario is that it could potentially be a foreign power that is sitting off our coast where we fly some of our most advanced jets on a daily basis, soaking up our waveforms, our frequencies, our comms, our tactics.”

He trails off and doesn’t describe his worst-case situation. While Graves is happy that the Pentagon has instituted a new guilt-free reporting system, he’s not certain things will change. He says the sightings are ongoing.

“I have a friend who had an issue with one of these objects at very close range, probably about seven months ago,” says Graves. The friend said he reported it and sat down with a Department of Defense official.

“The process seems to be working,” says Graves. “But what they do with the data, I don’t know.”

Not all UFO experts are as enamored with Graves’ and Fravor’s testimonies.

“It is true pilots are trained to recognize other aircraft,” says Seth Shostak with the Seti Institute. “They have to be good at recognizing aircraft, and they will judge something that they don’t recognize first as being an aircraft.” He chuckles for a second. “This is called an argument from authority. These guys are trained pilots, but they’re not trained to recognize alien craft. It’s like saying a cruise-line captain is really great at recognizing giant squid on the bottom of the ocean.”

Shostak also thinks it is weird that civilian pilots haven’t seen the Tic Tac or the Gimbal. “We have a lot of radars around airports,” he says. “There are 100,000 flights every day in the world. They’d all be grounded if there were something flying up there that didn’t file a flight plan. I find that curious.”

Back in Encinitas, skeptics and Department of Defense officials have pilloried Elizondo since his hooking up with the TTSA. Defense officials first said he didn’t run AATIP, and then said he did, and last announced that AATIP existed but didn’t actually have a UFO component.

“I was terribly disappointed,” Sen. Reid tells me. “They started to attack him personally. I thought it was very unfortunate. They wanted to discredit him and make it seem like he didn’t know what he was talking about. And that’s far from the truth. He’s not in this to make a buck. He is a public servant.”

Elizondo hasn’t changed his story, and says his hand in releasing the Tic Tac and Gimbal videos and his joining TTSA was just a coincidence. He theorizes the Pentagon is pissed that he went public. I can’t say definitively whether he ran AATIP or not, but I was shown dozen of emails from Elizondo to senior Pentagon officials about the program. The emails strongly suggest he was intricately involved, whether he was the head or not.

TTSA has been hit hard on other credibility fronts as well. DeLonge announced earlier this year that TTSA had purchased six pieces of metal, whose atomic composition seemed not of this Earth. (In The New York Times, they had been melodramatically described as unknown aluminum alloys being stored in a Vegas warehouse.) The cost was a mere $35,000, which is the first sign not to take TTSA’s breathless announcement too seriously. It was purchased from Linda Moulton Howe, a longtime UFO journalist/gadfly. The providence of the metal is straight out of an X-Files spec script: It was sent to conspiracy radio host Art Bell decades ago by the grandson of a man who claimed to have recovered it from a crashed alien craft outside White Sands, New Mexico.

DeLonge promised to have it tested by TTSA scientist Dr. Harold Puthoff, who once was a proponent of the psychic powers of noted spoon bender Uri Geller. DeLonge said he would get back to his followers very soon. So far, no data had been released.

Alas, our old friend Jeremy Corbell has already tested some of the metal.

“Maybe their testing will be more complex, but I tested and didn’t find any evidence,” says Corbell. He chuckles at DeLonge’s promise that metals like the one being tested would eventually allow TTSA to harness alien technology and build their own craft: “I support Tom and TTSA, but they ain’t gonna build a spaceship.”

For his part, Elizondo isn’t convinced yet that the UAPs are actually alien craft. He says he needs more data. Still, as we part, he tells me it is kind of a big deal.

“The last time mankind was told a story like this, they wrote the gospels,” said Elizondo with great solemnity. “This is a paradigm moment for all of mankind.”

Meanwhile, the AATIP program went away. Funding ended as no legislator wanted to be the one to ask for federal money to look for UFOs. The stigma around extraterrestrial life still exists in official Washington. Reid is not amused. “You know the Chinese are looking into it,” he says. “Putin and Russia are studying it. We’re doing nothing. It’s a mistake.”

There is one more stop I have to make.

Jeremy Corbell had put in a good word for me and said George Knapp would see me at his Las Vegas home. “You’ve got to go,” urged Corbell. “He doesn’t let many people see what he has there.”

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George Knapp in Hiko, Nevada, in September 2019

So I fly to Vegas and meet Corbell at a diner with video poker and one-armed slots. Knapp is running late and arrives offering apologies.

“I was interviewing John Fogerty,” says Knapp. “He knew who I was, and he’s had experiences. He had a recurring dream as a kid that he was flying over his house. Now, he thinks he might have been abducted by something.”

Makes sense if you know the CCR song “It Came Out of the Sky”:

Oh, it came out of the sky
Landed just a little south of Moline.
Jody fell out of his tractor,
couldn’t believe what he seen.

We drive a mile to Knapp’s house in the desert hills. We go to the lower level where thousands of books about UFOs fill shelves next to statues of Emmys and Peabodys that Knapp has won for his television work. Knapp’s cat Freya Trixie, rescued by Knapp from the trunk of a car broiling in a casino parking lot, stretches lazily over documents marked “declassified.” We sit down at a table stacked high with boxes of files. Many of the papers are in Russian, from a trip Knapp took to Russia during Glasnost. Turns out there were Russian UFO research teams willing to talk. After the rise of Putin, the doors slammed shut. “Everyone I talked to before either denied talking to me or wouldn’t meet with me again,” he tells me.

Knapp has endless stories like this. There was the woman who was going to confirm Bob Lazar’s story until she was followed by men in a sedan who told her it would be a shame if her daughter had “an accident.” Lazar began hearing strange clicks on his phone. Meanwhile, Knapp’s sources were visited by spooks minutes after their conversation ended.

Knapp believes it is all real. He hopes for what ufologists call Disclosure, the day when Washington confirms his reporting.

“I think much of this is true,” he says. “The government has been denying it for so long, they don’t know how to come clean.” And even if it isn’t 100 percent factual, Knapp says, it doesn’t really matter: “It really doesn’t make a difference whether someone like Bob Lazar is telling the truth. Area 51 is now installed in our culture.”

Later, Knapp makes an admission. Despite numerous trips to the desert around Area 51 and to places known for paranormal activity, Knapp admits he’s seen nothing.

“My joke is that every time the aliens see me coming, they head the other way,” Knapp tells me. He looks terribly sad.

The next day, armed with copies of Knapp’s documents, Corbell and I drive from Vegas to his home in California. On the drive, he tells me of growing up the middle son of an importer-exporter whose business was so secretive it gave him a head start in conspiratorial thinking. “Was it legal or illegal? Who knows?” he says.

We arrive at his midcentury home after dark and are greeted by his three-legged husky, Lucky. Corbell disappears into the house and then emerges with an apology.

“I swear to you my wife exists, but she’s not feeling well,” he says.

By now, I was wondering if anything Corbell had told me was true. We adjourn to his man cave, a lush and comfortable separate apartment from the main house, where his wife would leave food outside the door while he was editing his film. “This is my headquarters,” says Corbell proudly. On the wall are various lists of UFO projects and various documents including one that said there was no evidence that Lazar had ever worked on secret projects in the desert.

“We disproved that,” says Corbell. “He was found in a different directory because he worked as a contractor.”

Corbell later opens his freezer and theatrically pulls out a FedEx package. This is one of the things he wanted to show me. Inside is a small bone from a mutilated hide that a fan has sent him.

“See how the bone is cut so smoothly?” says Corbell. “That’s not from an animal. Maybe that’s from a machine or something we don’t have on Earth.”

He switches on his desktop computer. “I have all my files saved on servers in six different states and carry another copy with me at all times,” he tells me. (Corbell carries another copy of his file in an omnipresent cumbersome backpack.) He shows me a photo of a bright light floating in the desert.

“Somebody’s son sent me that — he just wants to answer what this is before his dad dies,” Corbell says while vigorously scratching his whiskers. “That’s all people are looking for: answers.”

He turns on Alexa and asks me to play some songs. I didn’t choose anything obscure — Oasis, the Strokes, the Killers — but Corbell nods his head with excitement: “These are amazing.”

He professes to not have heard any of the modern-rock standards. This is particularly odd since Corbell had been a drummer in a Southern California Encino band for years. I realize that Corbell’s bandwidth has no room for anything that isn’t UFO-related.

There is nothing left to do but take some ‘shrooms.

Corbell brings out a bag and measures me out a small dose.

“I just want you to be giggling and maybe see some things you might not otherwise see,” he says.

We are halfway to the backyard when the drugs kick in. Corbell chatters about the times he has been visited by government officials, ostensibly so he could provide recommendations for friends applying for sensitive jobs, but he thinks they are keeping tabs on him.

“I told them they could have shown up and my wife could have been all alone — not cool.”

Last month, Corbell and Knapp spoke to Joe Rogan for three hours about the states of art of UFOs. For a while, it was the top-ranked podcast in the country. It was all happening. The same week, The New York Times came out with a new story announcing that the Pentagon had started the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, a program similar to Elizondo’s Pentagon mission. It would, eventually, release its findings to the public.

“It no longer has to hide in the shadows,” Mr. Elizondo told the paper. “It will have a new transparency.”

Still, the bombshell in the story was a quote from Harry Reid saying he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin had occurred and wreckage had been studied for decades.

Wowza!

Alas, the next day the paper published a whopper of a correction: Reid had actually said crashes of objects of unknown origin might have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied, uh, if they exist. I could almost hear the UFO-movement theme song playing sad trombones.

Oh well. Corbell has no doubts. He keeps me updated over the next nine months, texting me with plots and adventures, including a new investigation — details could not be disclosed — that will either “make me, or show me to be a big fucking fraud.”

But that was in the future. Back in Corbell’s back yard, we stare at the stars. I enter a hallucinogenic dreamscape peering into the galaxies for my own answers. Suddenly, Corbell grabs my arm: “Look at the light!”

I scanned the skies until Corbell yanks my collar and points toward the house. There is a light. A shadowy figure can be barely made out. Then the light gets brighter. A woman in a robe is guzzling juice from a bottle. It is Corbell’s wife, a.k.a. the Yeti.

“I told you she existed!”

In that moment I believe."


Source: rollingstone.com (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/aliens-real-ufo-area-51-nevada-pentagon-history-1046067/)

Gio
22nd August 2020, 21:16
'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'

How Normalization is Hurting You and Hurting Society

Teal Swan



What is normalization and why does it hurt you and society? Normal is whatever conforms to a standard, is usual, typical or expected. The thing is, normal is not a measure of health. This is why the famous quote by Krishnamurti “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” is so important. Normal can become a blinder through which we see the world. It can be a way of staying in denial, remaining unconscious and never being able to heal or progress.


Aug 22, 2020

12:16 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQUfx-L1Avc

Gio
26th August 2020, 21:07
Touchingly/Lovely ...

Billie Eilish and Finneas perform ‘My Future’
in ‘Tiny Desk Concert’


By Jem Aswad, Variety

August 26, 2020

"Billie Eilish and her brother/musical collaborator Finneas were supposed to be six months into their “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” world tour — but just two dates into the tour, it was postponed due to coronavirus.

The pair have been keeping busy over the past few months, playing livestream benefits, Billie did an Apple Music radio show with her dad, and of course they performed during the Democratic National Convention last week, with Billie delivering a powerful anti-Trump speech.

The latest move in their virtual tour from home was playing two songs for NPR’s long-running Tiny Desk Concert series — from their home, but in front of a giant cardboard photograph of the NPR offices where the concerts took place in non-quarantined times.

“I’m honored to be here, we have both been watching [‘Tiny Desk’] for years,” Eilish said, in a tone that conveyed her deep frustration that lockdown has imposed upon all of us. “Quarantine’s been weird — I know you all feel the same, it’s been weird, we don’t know how long it’s gonna go. There’s barely anything that feels like there’s any hope in. But I think the future is something to be super hopeful in, and the unknown, and what is to come. We’ll be okay one day — maybe not right now, but that’s what’s making me hold on.”

The pair perform their two latest singles, “My Future” and “Everything I Wanted,” the only new material they’ve released since their “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” album, which saw them sweeping the main categories at the Grammys. At the end of the performance, the camera pulls out to reveal the Hollywood-like setting, with the backdrop held up by 2x4s."

Source page (https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/billie-eilish-and-finneas-perform-my-future-in-tiny-desk-concert/)


‘Tiny Desk Concert’

10:01 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=4sZ2_aGsLKU&feature=emb_logo

Emil El Zapato
26th August 2020, 21:36
sublime ... unvarnished talent. i heard it today while driving to San Antonio ... it's on my daughter's spotify play list.

Wind
26th August 2020, 22:45
She sure has talent and nice voice, but I'd like someone explain her demonic music videos to me. Is it just due to shock value?

Gio
27th August 2020, 00:31
Touchingly/Lovely ..

Billie Eilish and Finneas perform ‘My Future’
in ‘Tiny Desk Concert’


By Jem Aswad, Variety

August 26, 2020

"Billie Eilish and her brother/musical collaborator Finneas were supposed to be six months into their “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” world tour — but just two dates into the tour, it was postponed due to coronavirus.

The pair have been keeping busy over the past few months, playing livestream benefits, Billie did an Apple Music radio show with her dad, and of course they performed during the Democratic National Convention last week, with Billie delivering a powerful anti-Trump speech.

The latest move in their virtual tour from home was playing two songs for NPR’s long-running Tiny Desk Concert series — from their home, but in front of a giant cardboard photograph of the NPR offices where the concerts took place in non-quarantined times.

“I’m honored to be here, we have both been watching [‘Tiny Desk’] for years,” Eilish said, in a tone that conveyed her deep frustration that lockdown has imposed upon all of us. “Quarantine’s been weird — I know you all feel the same, it’s been weird, we don’t know how long it’s gonna go. There’s barely anything that feels like there’s any hope in. But I think the future is something to be super hopeful in, and the unknown, and what is to come. We’ll be okay one day — maybe not right now, but that’s what’s making me hold on.”

The pair perform their two latest singles, “My Future” and “Everything I Wanted,” the only new material they’ve released since their “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” album, which saw them sweeping the main categories at the Grammys. At the end of the performance, the camera pulls out to reveal the Hollywood-like setting, with the backdrop held up by 2x4s."

Source page (https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/billie-eilish-and-finneas-perform-my-future-in-tiny-desk-concert/)


‘Tiny Desk Concert’

10:01 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=4sZ2_aGsLKU&feature=emb_logo


sublime ... unvarnished talent. i heard it today while driving to San Antonio ... it's on my daughter's spotify play list.


She sure has talent and nice voice, but I'd like someone explain her demonic music videos to me. Is it just due to shock value?

I sense some of it comes with the hype/shock value of the video hype/shock music promo/production industry ... Though we must also consider her (still youthful 18 year old) free spirited (parental influenced) and Hollywood raised values and upbringing... But this item might also shed some light on her dark side ...


Is Billie Eilish a devil worshipper? Hell, no (https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2019/sep/09/is-billie-eilish-a-devil-worshipper-hell-no)

Gio
27th August 2020, 00:43
Please note ...

After reaching 400 pages this will be my last one ...
Time for me and my cosmic crew to finally depart.


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/9d/f8/be/9df8beb290a74f43c0ea0fced31b3b1e.jpg

Gio
28th August 2020, 15:22
And speaking of departing ...

Cathy Smith, who injected John
Belushi with fatal overdose, dies
at 73


By Greg Evans, Deadline

August 28, 2020

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/cathy-smith-obit.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1
Cathy Smith, seen here in 1982, served 18 months for supplying John Belushi with drugs.

"Cathy Smith, the onetime girlfriend of singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot who might have been best remembered for inspiring the hit song “Sundown” had she not met up with John Belushi at the Chateau Marmont on March 5, 1982, died Aug. 18 at the age of 73.

Her death was reported by Canada’s The Globe and Mail. The longtime resident of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, had been on oxygen and in failing health the past few years, the newspaper said.

Smith, who had been a back-up singer (and occasional drug supplier) to the Canadian rockers who would later become The Band (she claimed “The Weight” was inspired by her), admitted to injecting Belushi with the heroin and cocaine that led to his death at age 33. In a 1986 plea bargain, she pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter and several drug charges and served a 15-month prison sentence at California Institution for Women. Upon release, she was deported to her native Canada, where she reportedly took a job in Toronto as a legal secretary.

Until Belushi’s death, Smith was known in rock music circles for singing back-up for Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel, later founding members of The Band, and in the early 1970s becoming Lightfoot’s girlfriend and muse. Lightfoot wrote the #1 1974 hit “Sundown” about his tumultuous, extramarital and occasionally violent relationship with Smith, the dark lyrics masked by a lilting, bluesy melody: “Sundown you better take care/If I find you been creepin’ ’round my back stairs.”

In the late 1970s, Smith was a back-up singer for country star Hoyt Axton, and, according to “Wired,” Bob Woodward’s 1984 biography of Belushi, sold drugs to the Rolling Stones’ Ron Wood and Keith Richards. Though she had briefly met Belushi when Lightfoot appeared on “Saturday Night Live” in 1976, she became reacquainted with the comedian through her dealings with Wood and Richards.

Smith was portrayed by Patti D’Arbanville in director Larry Peerce’s 1989 film adaptation of Woodward’s “Wired” starring Michael Chiklis as Belushi.

Smith was quickly reviled for her role in Belushi’s death (a sentiment that was largely avoided by Belushi’s male drug buddies, including friends Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, both of whom reportedly snorted cocaine with the comedian on the night of his death, according to Shawn Levy’s 2019 book “The Castle on Sunset”).

But at least one old friend remained loyal. In an interview this week with The Globe and Mail, Lightfoot said, “Cathy was a great lady. Men were drawn to her, and she used to make me jealous. But I don’t have a bad thing to say about her.”

Sundown

3:33 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=kv8zyBi4ZXk&feature=emb_logo

Source page (https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/cathy-smith-who-injected-john-belushi-with-fatal-overdose-dies-at-73/)

Emil El Zapato
28th August 2020, 16:10
As my daughter described ... Eilish taps into the notion of 'dissonance' in music. She said that classical music such as by Mozart/Beethoven was even used to dispel demons through the art of 'dissonance'. Anyway, it seems Eilish has two sides, one light, one dark. She started 'light' and is now exploring the 'dark'. Props are props ... music theory I reckon'

Aragorn
28th August 2020, 18:17
As my daughter described ... Eilish taps into the notion of 'dissonance' in music. She said that classical music such as by Mozart/Beethoven was even used to dispel demons through the art of 'dissonance'. Anyway, it seems Eilish has two sides, one light, one dark. She started 'light' and is now exploring the 'dark'. Props are props ... music theory I reckon'

Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish)



Personal life

As of early 2020, Eilish continues to live with her parents and brother in Los Angeles's Highland Park neighborhood. She has revealed that she has Tourette syndrome, synesthesia, and depression. She was raised vegetarian and regularly advocates veganism on social media. In a radio interview Eilish's parents revealed that they once considered taking Eilish into a therapy session for her childhood obsession with Justin Bieber.



Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish)

Emil El Zapato
28th August 2020, 18:18
Justin Bieber ... oh noooooooooooo

Aragorn
28th August 2020, 18:57
Justin Bieber ... oh noooooooooooo

My niece was crazy about him too when she was little. :p

Emil El Zapato
28th August 2020, 19:19
Truth be told, i think he is pretty good ...

Wind
28th August 2020, 19:38
Like baby, baby, baby ooh

He looks real douchy these days though.

Dreamtimer
29th August 2020, 14:26
I preferred Justin's boyish looks to the scruffy appearance he now seems to cultivate.

I didn't know about Billie's synesthesia. That's fascinating. I wonder if she does art to music.

Hope you have a cosmic ride, Gio.:abduct:

Gio
29th August 2020, 17:17
Nice ride ...

Sunset Blvd Helicopter Tour | Downtown LA to the Ocean

Micah Muzio

"Some of the most expensive real estate in the U.S."


Aug 23, 2020

24:50 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuv0OcXtGyw

Gio
29th August 2020, 19:45
Hope you have a cosmic ride, Gio.:abduct:

Time for a "Cosmic Emporium and Beyond" ...

Hint/wink

Gio
29th August 2020, 20:56
Two fav's ...



Two A-list comedians, Pete Correale and Sebastian Maniscalco, get together once a week to create a comedy radio show with stories and comedy bits.



The Pete & Sebastian Show Episode (http://peteandsebastianshow.com/)



Surprise parties, more fire trucks, and your daughter brings home an athlete of quirky sport!

Episode 424

Aug 29, 2020

1:04:14 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hry01vTXwQ

Gio
31st August 2020, 06:00
His latest ...

Secret Missions & Misc ...

The Walter Bosley Channel


Streamed live Aug. 30, 2020

2:20:09 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbDl2HgNC1A

Emil El Zapato
31st August 2020, 11:49
Hell's Bells, haven't seen or heard that one since childhood ... :)