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    Amazing timelapse of US aircraft carrier in Suez Canal



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    Published on May 11, 2019


    The massive aircraft carrier and its strike group are heading to the Persian Gulf...
    The White House says the move is in response to an unspecified threat from Iran.
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    But also his chagrin ...



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    DARK JOURNALIST & DR. JOSEPH FARRELL: FAKE ALIEN INVASION THREAT!
    THE VON BRAUN UFO CARD 2020


    BREAKTHROUGH EPISODE

    WERNHER VON BRAUN ALIEN INVASION CARD - POWER STRUGGLE OVER THE UFO FILE - TRUMP SPACE FORCE VS. DELONGE REID PODESTA TTSA - CIA FAKE UFO DISCLOSURE OP - KENNEDY REAGAN WHITE HOUSE BATTLE FOR X TECHNOLOGY - SECRET SPACE PROGRAM

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    Donald Trump planning star role in DC’s Fourth of July festivities

    "President Trump is planning to take a starring role in the capital’s Fourth of July celebrations.

    Plans are in the works to move the giant fireworks display that the National Parks Service has hosted on the National Mall for more than half a century to a park less than a mile away, and Trump plans to make a speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, according to The Hill.

    The Trump Administration claims the move will allow more people to attend. The fireworks display usually draws hundreds of thousands of people and is a big part of the tourism season in Washington DC.

    The president is personally involved in the planning and is getting regular briefings in the Oval Office on the festivities, the Washington Post reported."

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    Jesus Was an Anarchist so Statist Christians are Fake Christians

    Gotta say it...This guy will never get it...nuance, nuance, nuance...How can we leave out edge cases of our philosophy. It we don't test the edges we are bound to fail. Compassion requires compromise and sacrifice.
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    From: Australian Aboriginal Medicine Men and Women


    "According to a number of contemporary OBE (out-of-body) researchers, there is an energetic link between the physical body and the non-physical body known as the “silver cord” by which we use in our out-of-body experiences.

    The following account documented by Elkin from New South Wales:

    During their making in south-east Australia, a magic cord is slung into the doctors. This cord becomes a means of performing marvellous feats, such as sending fire from the medicine man's insides, like an electric wire. But even more interesting is the use made of the cord to travel up to the sky or to the tops of trees through space. At the display during initiation - a time of ceremonial excitement - the doctor lies on his back under a tree, sends his cord up, and climbs up it to a nest on top of the tree, then across to other trees, and at sunset, down to the ground again. Only men saw this performance, and it is preceded and followed by the swinging off the bull-roarers and other expressions of emotional excitement. In the descriptions of these performances recorded by R.M. Berndt and myself, the names of the doctors are given and such details as the following: Joe Dagan, a Wongaibon clever man, lying on his back at the foot of a tree, sent his cord directly up, and "climbed" up with his head well back, body outstretched, legs apart, and arms to his sides. Arriving at the top, 12 meters up, he waved his arms to those below, then came down in the same manner, and while still on his back the cord re-entered his body.
    Apparently, in this case, his body floated up and down in the horizontal position with no movement of his hands or legs, and the explanation must be sought in group suggestion of a powerful nature. (Elkin 1977 p.54-55)

    In Aboriginal Australia, the ability to leave the physical body consciously is usually grouped with other psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance, the ability to communicate with and influence non-physical beings and the ability to manipulate energies. Only some people develop these abilities and such people are often referred to as “clever”. Clever people, men or women, are usually “made” through processes of initiation involving a range of spirit beings. In other words, there are culturally acknowledged steps by which a person comes to develop these psychic abilities (Kim McCaul)....

    Later in his work, Elkin discusses that some of the seeming variation in the making and practices of doctors (or clever people) may actually be the result of incomplete data. Speaking about the “magic cord” he explains that,
    … up to 1944, their use of cords, aerial rope, was reported only from Victoria and inland New South Wales, but since then I have recorded it from the north coast of the latter state, for the Gladstone and Cloncurry districts, respectively in coastal and far inland Queensland, and in this chapter for Dampier Land, southwest Kimberley, Western Australia. Possibly, it was also a psychic phenomenon displayed by members of the craft in tribes in between. (Elkin 1977 p.180)...

    An even clearer account of the silver cord in Aboriginal culture comes from Helmut Petri, a German anthropologist who first conducted fieldwork in the Kimberley region of Australia in 1938. Like Elkin he was interested in the social role and asserted abilities of the clever people, who he called medicine men. One of their abilities that he documented was to go on “dream journeys”:
    During the dream journey the ya-yari roaming in the distance remains connected to the body by the thin, fine thread, and when it returns it is accompanied by the agula to just outside the doctor's camp. (Petri 2015 p.13)...

    There is a reference to the Mara tribe from the Gulf of Carpentaria, whose doctors “go on journeys to the sky. At night time and invisible to everybody, they will climb up into the sky on a rope in order to hold converse there with the people of the star world. (Petri 2015 p.104). And writing of the Kurnai people from New South Wales he said that Kurnai belief that doctors ascend to sky by aid of a rope and that their neighbours shared their beliefs that their doctors "climbed into the sky on threads, as thin as blades of grass " (Petri 2015:113).


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    sorry about all my blabbering but these latest posts are hitting me at home. My daughter and I were having a discussion about OBE's because I use to do that until I took efforts to stop. My daughter was diagnosed with narcolepsy and we were discussing the similarities between that and an OBE. We joked that she should tell her neurologist that her daddy says it isn't an illness it is a strange gift. But anyway...I didn't know about the 'silver cord' until my daughter told me about it.
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    Delivering us not from temptation ...


    Amazon, Jeff Bezos and collecting data | DW Documentary

    No company stores more data than Amazon, the former online bookseller. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world. Every second Euro in online trading is spent at Amazon. Is the IT giant, with its unabated growth, about to turn our economic system upside down?

    Amazon is a machine that can simultaneously observe, compare and analyze more than 300 million people worldwide. The company is not just a marketplace, market supervisor and provider of more and more services and consumer items - it also controls all the data streams in this market and uses them to its own benefit. Who suspects that a single click on an Amazon page will forward information to the company that fills a printed DIN-A-4 page? A conversation with Alexa, watching a streaming offer on Amazon-Prime, ordering vegetables via Amazon-Fresh - all this put together creates a whole library of information about every customer. The group collects everything - it just won’t reveal what conclusions it draws from it. What would be possible if data from other, new business areas were added? In the USA, Amazon is also active in the health and insurance sectors, and police officers are using its facial recognition software to search for wanted persons.


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    Exorcist: Temptation — Not Possession — Is the Most Significant Demonic Activity

    An exorcist since 1994, Dominican Father Francois Dermine serves in the Italian Archdiocese of Ancona-Osimo.

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    VATICAN CITY — Though dramatic representations of demonic possessions, as seen in Hollywood, can make them appear to be the primary method of the devil, one Dominican priest and exorcist has warned that the greater and more common threat to a person’s salvation is the temptation to sin.

    “The most common manifestation of the demonic is temptation, which is much more significant than possession,” Dominican Father Francois Dermine told CNA May 10.

    An exorcist for more than 25 years, he explained that possession is not a spiritual threat in the same way temptation is, and that a person who has been possessed by the devil may still make “extraordinary spiritual progress” and could even one day be a saint.

    This is because demonic possession of a person’s body occurs without that person’s knowledge or consent. The possession in and of itself does not make the victim morally blameworthy.

    “We must not undervalue the significance of temptation. It’s not as spectacular as possession, but it’s far more dangerous [to the soul],” Father Dermine said.

    “To resist temptation is simple,” he encouraged, although it might not always be easy. “You must avoid the occasions of temptation, of course, and you must have a Christian and spiritual life. You must pray, you must try to behave correctly, and to love the people you meet every day and the people with whom you live.”

    Father Dermine said the next most common form of demonic activity is oppression. Sometimes, people can have many problems, often of a health, business or family nature, which cannot be explained by natural causes.

    If the cause is deemed to be demonic oppression, these problems are called “preternatural” and may require the assistance of an exorcist.

    “This is the most common extraordinary action of the devil,” Father Dermine said, while temptation is considered an “ordinary” demonic action.

    Father Dermine warned that people should not immediately conclude that physical problems or suffering are a result of demonic oppression because they are most often explainable by natural causes.

    If someone has visited a doctor, or a psychologist if applicable, and no natural explanation could be found, then they may visit an exorcist. “When a person comes and asks for a blessing for a specific problem, the first thing an exorcist must ask is: Did you see the doctor?” the priest said.

    Father Dermine, who is French Canadian, has lived in Italy since shortly before his priestly ordination in 1979. An exorcist since 1994, he serves in the Italian Archdiocese of Ancona-Osimo.

    He spoke about the life of an exorcist during the 14th course on exorcism and prayers of liberation, which is organized by the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum university and GRIS (The Socio-Religious Information and Research Group).

    The weeklong course, which ended May 10, does not train new exorcists, but is intended to provide a general formation to priests and laypeople on what exorcism is and related topics. Father Dermine said that many of the laypeople attending the course are there at the request of their bishop, so they can learn how to better support and assist priests at exorcisms.

    Father Dermine told CNA that his lecture would address some of the common mistakes exorcists make, one of which is to confuse preternatural (demonic) manifestations for supernatural charisms, which come from God.

    “It’s a very important difference,” he said. “We have a human nature and cannot know things without learning through our senses.”

    “God created us to operate in a certain way. If you have extra-sensorial perceptions, and things like this, and they are not meant to help or to provoke a spiritual result, then they cannot come from God,” he warned. People with these perceptions are often described as “mediums” in secular culture.

    These types of preternatural sensations or manifestations can be “a cause of many problems” for people, so they will need some help from an exorcist, Father Dermine said.

    The priest noted that there is a cultural value to holding a course on exorcisms for priests and select laypeople, and this is because the topic is often mysterious, so the desire to understand it is important.

    “Most of the people who come here, they come here because they have an intention not to become exorcists, necessarily, but to understand.”


    Source/comments: ncregister.com

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    Steely Dan...one of my favorites...
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    Deepfake Salvador Dalí takes selfies with museum visitors

    It’s surreal, all right



    Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí once said in an interview, “I believe in general in death, but in the death of Dali, absolutely not.” Now, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, has worked to fulfill the painter’s prophecy by bringing him back to life — with a deepfake.

    The exhibition, called Dalí Lives, was made in collaboration with the ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (GS&P), which made a life-size re-creation of Dalí using the machine learning-powered video editing technique. Using archival footage from interviews, GS&P pulled over 6,000 frames and used 1,000 hours of machine learning to train the AI algorithm on Dalí’s face. His facial expressions were then imposed over an actor with Dalí’s body proportions, and quotes from his interviews and letters were synced with a voice actor who could mimic his unique accent, a mix of French, Spanish, and English.

    All images: The Dalí Museum

    The experience is, well, surreal. Dalí appears before visitors when they press the doorbell on the kiosk where he lives, and he tells them stories about his life. With 45 minutes of newly created footage and thousands of combinations, each visitor gets a different experience. There are scenes that open with him reading the newspaper, with an overlay of the current front page of The New York Times; if it’s raining, he’ll comment on the weather. He’s almost like an Alexa device.

    Dali Lives aims to have visitors empathize with Dalí as a human being. Figures in art history often feel like they lived lifetimes ago. But Dalí died in 1989, and standing before visitors in a life-sized kiosk does help bring him into the context of modern life — especially at the end of the experience when he asks visitors if they want to take a selfie. He turns around and snaps the photo, and visitors can have the photo texted to them, almost like a photo booth I’d like to rent for my next company function.


    Deepfake videos are usually associated with fake celebrity porn, the dangers that come from fake news, or the possibility of making political figures say volatile things. The technology is easily available for anyone to use. GS&P technical director Nathan Shipley, says he pulled the code from GitHub. Shipley believes that Dalí Lives may be the first time a cultural institution has used deepfakes for artistic purposes. It’s hard to think of another artist who would be better suited for this than Dalí.

    There are lots of moral arguments for and against bringing the dead back to life through technology. In the case of something like hologram Tupac, the Coachella performance was done with permission from the artist’s estate. In Dalí’s case, he has no living family, and instead named the Spanish Kingdom as the sole heir in his will, so the exhibition was run with permission from the Dalí Foundation in Spain.

    Dalí Lives opens on May 11th as a permanent exhibition on what would have been his 115th birthday.


    By Dami Lee
    Source: theverge.com

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    Antarctica Unveiled (Act 4: Postscript ) - Cliff High


    Forum Borealis
    Published on 12 May 2019

    Ready for updates? Clif brings us up to speed on recent developments not covered in the main show. Some topics touched: What can we learn from the Strava Heat Map fiasco? Why's Antarctic traffick exploding? Why hiring thousands for civil service occupations? What's up with the incredible security clearance? What of the cruise and flight tourism? How's the Voyager relevant? Is the Classified Space Program relocated south? What to deduct from the recent Giza Pyramid energy phenomenon disclosure? Why is there still unclaimed areas while fighting over claimed land? + learn a hack to get from pole to pole by Google Earth zooming...
    1:45:41 minutes


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEI0cHH-Ss4



    Please note these previous video/series releases:

    1) Antarctica Unveiled (Pt. 1 of 3) - A conversation with Cliff High

    Forum Borealis
    Published on Jan 26, 2018
    We welcome the webbot guru to explore the obscurity that is Antarctica. In this 3-part show we deal with everything - some issues touched in Part 1: Why did Clif take interest in this mystery? What say web-bot about it? What happened there in the late 90ies? Why was it promoted for tourism after that? What's the large magnetic anomaly under the ice? Why's all satellite images censored & manipulated? What did Russians find in Lake Vostok? Are there really hot zones? Was there a nuclear meltdown in the 70ies? Where was Atlantis? Was Admiral Byrd right? What say the Ancients? What happens if the ice melts? And learn how Earth grows...


    2) Antarctica Unveiled (Pt. 2 of 3) - A conversation with Cliff High

    Forum Borealis
    Published on Feb 3, 2018
    In part 2 we move through history with topics like: What's the Expanding Earth theory implications for Antarctica? Why is most ancient habitation zones submerged? Is Mars a dead planet? What say Salish & Jain about former civilizations? What's the Royal belief? Were humans incarcerated by ancient invaders at Antarctica? Was it frozen due to war? Is humanity a hybrid species? Were we once 600 billion people? Is the Sun cause to climate change & ice ages? Is Smithsonian destroying history? What did Nazis discover in New Swabia? What happens to polar expeditions? Who stole Cliff's Antarctica data? And hear about his Giant pyramid images.


    3) Film: Antarctica Unveiled (Pt. 3 of 3) - Cliff High

    Forum Borealis
    Published on Jul 30, 2018
    In this crescendo closer Clif deals the final cards of the SP enigmas, incl. the 4 basic scenarios: Ancient Civ, Nazis, Aliens, & Hollow Earth. Some issues raised: What's his original info before blue chicken pollution? Why did polar scientists suddenly get ill? What's the weird energy radiation from SP to Hawaii? Is an ancient village uncovered? What power players visits & why? What say the Salish about sky people? Why was SP nuked in late 50ies? What's the origin to polar lights? Why are globalist corporations there? Why did U.K. battle over Falklands? Is UFO's from Inner Earth via polar holes? And hear what horrors the night vision goggles revealed...
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    I was very fortunate to be in attendance with friends during the recording of this back in the day ...

    And lately it greatly resonates ...


    Running on Empty

    It is the title track to his 1977 live album of the same name, recorded at a concert
    at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, on August 27, 1977.



    The Section featuring Craig Doerge, Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar
    and Russ Kunkel reunite with Jackson Browne in 2018.


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    Worth the watch now on Netflix ...


    After Life


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIGGKSHMQOM





    Whether you like him or not ...


    Ricky Gervais' funniest ever interview | 60 Minutes Australia

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    Published on Mar 3, 2019
    In all his years interviewing so-called “funny” people, Charles Wooley has often been faced with the sad truth that many of them aren’t that humorous in real life. But not so Ricky Gervais. As Wooley discovered, along with the laughs this dangerously sharp comedian has the knack of being able to make people wince in agony or cringe with embarrassment at some of his observations. Ricky’s rule is there is no topic that can’t be joked about. It has landed him in plenty of trouble, but as he says, he couldn’t give a fuck.
    16:59 minutes


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