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That was amateur video from Kansas City, Missouri. Those sounds have reportedly been going on for the last few months. "To me it sounded like it was a fairly substantial Class B firework. Which is a lot bigger than what you sell at a fireworks stand."
Local station KSHB has been digging into the source of the booms -- even checking to see if a local air force base was running test operations -- all to no avail. A popular theory now? 'Frost quakes.'
Also known as a 'cryoseism,' Accuweather describes them as "a natural phenomenon caused from a sudden deep freezing of the ground," which then causes the ground to crack, creating the noise.
Milwaukee's WISN demonstrated the process using a glass bottle full of water: "We're going to wait for it to freeze, and when it does this bottle will crack. And that's exactly what goes on below ground during a frost quake."
For the record, frost quakes are not like the earthquakes you're more familiar with, so don't expect any dangerous seismic activity. They're reportedly most common in the coldest part of the night, between midnight and dawn.
Obama condemns those who seek to 'hijack religion'
NEDRA PICKLERFeb 5th 2015 9:59AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama condemned those who seek to use religion as a rationale for carrying out violence around the world, declaring Thursday that "no god condones terror."
"We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends," Obama said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. He singled out the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, calling the militants a "death cult," as well as those responsible for last month's terror attacks in Paris and deadly assault on a school in Pakistan.
Among those attending the annual gathering of politicians, dignitaries and faith leaders was the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. As with the Dalai Lama's past visits to Washington, his attendance at Thursday's breakfast drew criticism from Beijing, which sees him as an anti-Chinese separatist because of his quest for greater Tibetan autonomy.
Obama and the Dalai Lama did not have a formal meeting planned. Still, the president made note of the Dalai Lama's presence at the breakfast, calling him a "powerful example of what it means to practice compassion."
In a show of White House support for the Dalai Lama, he was seated at a table with Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's closest advisers.
The Dalai Lama fled to exile in India after a failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, and Bejing regards U.S. dealings with him as interference in China's internal affairs.
"Tibet-related issues concern China's core interest and national feelings," said Hong Lei, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a daily briefing on Tuesday. "We oppose to foreign countries' interfering with China's internal affairs and meeting with the Dalai Lama. We hope the U.S. leader can look at the bigger picture of the relations and properly handle this issue."
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It was indeed another profoundly enlightening one. Had great insights about how Soul/Love-based telepathy will eventually become the common language for every soul on Earth... which will only become possible when most everyone is tuned into their eternal God Self instead of the ephemereal ego self... thus sensing moment by moment what is to be thought, said and done, through simply BEing One with All That is, and thus living according to Thy Will Be Done - as all other living beings do/Be in Nature.
Our enlightened future - which already IS in the Eternal Now Continuum - needs an enlightened humanity to fully manifest... as it will/has already. Getting 'there' requires the kind of unshakeable faith that allows to walk on hot embers, or to take a Leap of Faith into our True Divine nature... as we are remembering to do/BE... And living on Earth shall be - almost - like living in Heaven...
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As I was considering the fact that once the ongoing 52-week series of meditation Focuses is recorded, I would not have anymore to issue weekly emails to invite people to join in, I was inspired to now create and offer daily for 2015, in French and English (and perhaps also in other languages if the people who had generously volunteered their time before to translate the Meditation Focuses wish to do so for this, most likely with a 24 hour delay after the publication of the French/English one), a series of 365 concise, well chiseled thoughts as the basis for a short 10 to 15 minutes contemplative daily meditation. Each thought will conclude the same evocative manner : May Divine Will Be Done*.
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Each of us is connected with the Divine. The Higher Self within us far transcends the understanding of our conscious minds. This is the power that all the great geniuses and teachers of history have accessed. It is also the place of magic and miracle in our lives. Here are the seven key steps to contact it:
Each of us is connected with the Divine. The Higher Self within us far transcends the understanding of our conscious minds. This is the power that all the great geniuses and teachers of history have accessed. It is also the place of magic and miracle in our lives. Here are the seven key steps to contact it:
1. Belief & Expectation: Transform Your World View!
The first step is to believe that you have a Higher Self to establish communication with! Then expect every day that this communication will improve as you focus diligently on inner growth. Without these two essential pre-requisites, it is hard to achieve anything at all in life, even on the physical level. For inner growth, these two qualities are essential. So set a goal to achieve contact with the Higher Self, review that goal daily, and maintain your purpose with determination until success is yours.
We are brought up with a primarily materialistic world view that neglects the role of Spirit. To establish close contact with spiritual realms, we need to have our entire being – conscious and subconscious – congruent with our goal. In any major activity/goal, you have to establish the rules of the game and the way it is played. Contacting your Higher Self is the same. Therefore, seek out writings and teachers that expand your understanding of the universe as fundamentally being a realm of Consciousness and Mind.
2. Solitude & Meditation
Make regular time for yourself where you can be totally alone. A quiet place is preferable. Just sit quietly with no expectations. Do nothing. This may feel very uncomfortable and strange in the beginning. Persist. You give time and space for the inner voice to make itself heard. It will do so either during that quiet time, or else during the events of the day. A synchronistic event will occur; someone will tell you exactly what you need to hear; you will get a sudden flash of insight. All the great geniuses of history have found times of regular solitude and silence for themselves. You should too.
In meditation, you work to discipline your mind and silence the internal chatter that constantly fill it. You create a pure vessel for the Higher Self to fill. Following your breath is an excellent meditation discipline, as is concentrating upon a candle flame. Or visualize a golden ball of light in your Solar Plexus that fills your whole body with energy and healing. There are many practices that you can study and use.
3. Journal
Record your feelings, emotions, dreams and insights every day in a journal. This will help you to come into closer contact with your inner intuitive depths. You can ask the Higher Self questions here, and then later on record whatever insights/..answers you receive. If you do this regularly with belief and expectation, you WILL receive the answers you need.
4. Inner Dialogue
Conduct a regular inner dialogue with your Higher Self. For the next 40 days, decide to keep in contact throughout the day. Say to your Higher Self, “I know you are there and I want to get to know you and pay attention to you. Please begin to speak to me and guide my life.” Don’t worry if this dialogue is entirely one-way to begin with. Remember that you have been out of touch for decades. It takes a while to clear the cobwebs! Persist with this inner dialogue as if talking to a friend – chatting, asking questions, sharing your hopes – and begin to listen for answers. They will come.
5. Life Lessons
Look upon life as a Mystery School. Believe that the whole of your life – events, situations and people – has been structured PRECISELY in order to teach you exactly what you need to know right now. Approach life as if the whole of creation is conspiring to do you good! Whenever something happens in your life, for good or ill, ask yourself what the lesson is for you. Even unpleasant people/..situations have been deliberately placed there as a challenge to help you grow. As you begin to view life as a drama in which you are play the starring role, the role of the Higher Self will become increasingly evident in your life. Record your findings in your journal.
6. Dreams
Expect your Higher Self to speak to you in dreams. Before going to sleep, do some stretching and bending to relax your body completely. Ask your Higher Self a question and expect an answer. When you wake up, recall whatever you can of your dream and write it down in your journal. If you are not used to remembering dreams, this will take time and persistence. However, with patience, you will begin to recall your dreams AND receive answers from your Higher Self.
7. Mindfulness
Focus upon living more and more in the present, on the NOW. When you are eating, be aware that you are eating. When you walk, know that you are walking. The only real moment is now – the past is gone forever and the future has yet to be. Therefore, work to clear your mind of concerns, illusions and extrapolations… Clear the mental clutter from the mind and create space for the Higher Self to fill.
Patience Is The Catalyst To Progress!
Remember, you may have spent your entire life out of touch with Source. Therefore, it takes time to learn how to re-establish contact. Anything worth doing takes time and practice. Be vigilant and practice these seven steps every day, and you will receive the answers you need. Remember: The Higher Self WANTS to be in contact. In fact, to even speak of it as someone apart from you is contradictory.
Western civilization is now in a de facto state of civil war as cabal
rule continues to collapse. It is a financial, information and military
war being raged by factions that transcend national borders. And, it is
coming to a climax.
The main battlegrounds in the military sense are the Middle East, the
Ukraine and Libya. What we see in each of the places is the Nazionist
faction fighting desperately for survival. In Libya and the Middle East
they are fighting to seize oil resources needed to stave off bankruptcy.
In the Ukraine, the Nazionists, in addition to seeking gas, are
fighting to create a new homeland for themselves after an expected
expulsion from Israel and the United States.
On the financial front, the European Union is struggling to prevent the
new Greek government’s vow to cancel debt from destroying the EU
financial system. In the United States the corporate government is
frantically trying to scrape up survival money before February 17th, the
time they have been given to find funds after missing a January 31st
payment deadline.
There are also many other incidents taking place around the world
connected the ongoing battle to end Babylonian debt slavery and free
humanity.
Let us start with a closer look at what is happening in the Ukraine.
According to Russian intelligence, Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko’s real name is Valshman. Citing New York court records, the
Russians say he is a dual Israeli US citizen of Romanian ancestry who
took on his wife’s name to appear Ukrainian. He was installed in power
by a Nazionist mercenary army as part of a project by a faction of
Ashekenazi Jews seeking to reclaim their Khazarian homeland. According
to the Times of Israel
“A blue-ribbon team of scholars from leading research institutions and
museums has just issued a secret report to the government, acknowledging
that European Jews are in fact Khazars.” http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/leaked-report-israel-acknowledges-jews-in-fact-khazars-secret-plan-for-reverse-migration-to-ukraine/#ixzz3QRcSZDsJ
The realization dawning on many Jews of European ancestry that Israel
was never their ancestral homeland, together with dismal independent
survival prospects for that colony of brainwashed militants, is what has
led to the ongoing project to create “Khazaria 2.0” in the Ukraine. This brings us to the mysterious fire last week at a
Russian depository of ancient Slavic documents and many other rare and
valuable documents. Was this arson aimed at destroying historical
evidence backing Slavic claims for the Ukraine? It is a good guess.
In any case, the plan to create a new Khararia is not going well at all.
For one thing, the would be Kharazians (not to be mistaken for citizens
of the modern nation state of Khazakhstan) are using not very eager
foreign mercenaries to fight for them against people fighting to defend
their ancestral homeland. For another, the Western oil companies, who
were the source of much of the financing for the mercenary army, are
getting cold feet. Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Marathon and Eni have all
recently announced they are leaving the region. If I was a betting man, I
would not bet on Khazaria 2.0.
The situation in the Middle East is also looking grim for the Israelis
and their ISIS mercenary army. What is going on with ISIS in the Middle
East is really an American civil war by proxy. On the one hand, you have
the Pentagon fighting against ISIS. On the other hand, ISIS recruiters
captured in Pakistan and elsewhere are saying they are getting their
funding from the United States. ISIS fighters are being treated in
Israeli hospitals and ISIS propaganda is being sent out the world via
Jerusalem, according to British intelligence.
So here we have Pentagon troops fighting American financed mercenaries
using US weapons and headed by an “El Bhaghdadi” who is really Mossad
agent Simon Elliot. If this is not civil war by proxy, what is it?
A clear sign of this seen in the corporate media is the bitter rift
between Pentagon spokesperson Barack Obama and top Nazionist Benyamin
Netanyahu. Netanyahu is set to make a speech in March to the bribed
acting troupe known as the US Congress and Senate. Obama is telling
Netanyahu he is not welcome. CIA sources, meanwhile, are saying that
Netanyahu is going to be killed by his own people.
It is also now increasingly clear that the whores in Congress and the
Senate are no longer being offered the fascist security presence they
are used to. Take a look at this widely broadcast video to see what I
mean. http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/30/codepink_attempts_to_arrest_henry_kissinger
This sort of event inside a government hearing would have been
unthinkable a couple of years ago. Many of the protesters seen there
calling Henry Kissinger a war criminal are, by the way, Jewish,
according to a Washington based source who works with them.
Meanwhile, the US corporate government faction supporting Obama is also
in trouble. The Asian elders refused to roll over US corporate debt that
came due on January 31st, according to Chinese government sources. That
is why the Obama regime is trying to finance itself with a series of
drastic tax hikes mislabeled “Obamacare.” Obama has also announced plans
to seize money being earned or held overseas by US corporations.
The backing of the US dollar with gold is also adding to US woes because
a strong dollar is very bad for the real US economy. In January, 87% of
US companies lowered their earnings expectations because of the impact
of the strong dollar. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-31/king-dollar-crushing-recoverydreams-87-us-companies-have-guided-lower
They are hurting because they cannot competitively export with the
dollar at current rates. As mentioned many times in the past, the
interests of the international US dollar and the US economy are at odds.
The US dollar is now linked to gold, the Chinese Yuan, the Pound
Sterling and the Swiss Franc. It is not an American currency. The
Americans need to issue their own independent currency.
The financial situation in Europe is even worse than that of the US. It
turns out the reason the EU is so reluctant to reduce Greek debt is that
a house of cards of over $100 trillion worth of derivatives would
collapse if the Greek bond card was taken out at the bottom. However,
the new Greek government is determined to stop the looting of the Greek
economy to support bankers. Symbolically, one of new Greek President
Alexis Tsirpas’s first moves as President was to lay flowers at a spot
where Nazis murdered members of the Greek resistance during World War 2.
He claims Germany still owes Greece 160 billion Euros in compensation
for Nazi war crimes. Tsirpas has been assigned Russian special forces
troops to prevent his assassination, according to US naval intelligence.
Now, the French, Spanish and Italian governments are all now supporting
the cancellation of Greek debt. This is because they are all also being
crushed by debt burdens.
Another sign the Western Babylonian debt slavery is in trouble is the
fact that 16% of government bonds issued worldwide now offer negative
interest rates. Denmark has even started issuing mortgages with a minus
0.3% interest rate. This sounds like a bargain until you realize that
all the bank is doing is putting numbers in a computer saying they have
rights to 20 or 30 years’ worth of a large percentage of the mortgage
holders’ hard earned income. People are catching on to this now in
increasing numbers and have begun to demand the abolishment of debt
slavery.
There has also been a break in the ongoing secret investigation of cabal
nuclear terror incidents like 311, according to MI5 British
intelligence. UK Prime Minister James Cameron “has been connected to
arms deals ever since his first job at Conservative Central Office on
coming down from Oxford. This involved the brokering of six nuclear
warheads manufactured in a joint South African – Israeli project in the
1970’s -80’s through John Bredenkamp.” Israel’s Netanyahu has also been
extensively fingered by the Pentagon and others as being involved in
nuclear terror incidents including 311. These people will soon have
nowhere to hide and no-one to protect them.
The “purported beheading” (as multiple corporate media reports put it)
of a Japanese journalist last week by ISIS was another turning point.
The Japanese know who is really behind ISIS and will be seeking revenge.
Finally, there was one very promising bit of information sent to this
writer last week by Jewish Kabalists. They claim the recent false flag
incident in France involving the supposed murder of journalists at the
magazine Charlie Hebdo was a secret message. According to them, Hebdo
means seven (hepta in Greek) and symbolizes not only the Sabbath but
also a once in seven years rest for the land jubilee or cancellation of
debt and redistribution of assets. From the book of Deutoronomy: “At the
end of every seven years, you shall celebrate the remission year. The
idea of the remission year is that every creditor shall remit any debt
owed by his neighbor and brother when God’s remission year comes
around.” They also spoke of a once in seven seven (49) years jubilee
when not only was debt cancelled but land was redistributed. It sounds
like they are trying to negotiate a surrender
Benjamin Fulford - February 1, 2015: Why a future planning agency
By Benjamin Fulford
February 1, 2015 When
I first came to Japan in 1980 I was amazed to see fish swimming in the
rivers in downtown Tokyo. Japan of the 1980’s was by many standards the
most advanced nation on earth. By 1985, after decades of sizzling
economic growth, they had the highest per capita income on earth, the
lowest gap between the rich and poor in any developed nation and a very
healthy natural environment. They also were the greatest creditor nation
on earth, having supplied cars, electronics and other goodies to the
rest of the planet often in exchange for IOUs.
One
of the reasons I chose to go to university in Japan was to study the
system that had made this miracle possible. This is how it worked.
Japan’s government was run by a combination of highly talented
bureaucrats, industrialists and politicians with deep roots in their
local constituencies. They presided over a system that was a combination
of central planning, free market capitalism and socialism.
At
the apex of the system was an organization known as the Economic
Planning Agency. It was run by a group of about 30 members of the
bureaucratic, industrial, academic and political ruling elite. They
would come up with a 5 year plan for the country. Politicians would
explain in detail what their voters desired. Bureaucrats would explain
exactly how much money there was available to realistically meet their
desires. Industrialists would explain what could be profitably done to
contribute to the plan. The country as a whole also had a mission: to
overtake and surpass the West.
The system was not
like the central planning of Stalinist economies, where even such thing
as the amount of toothpaste was centrally planned, because it was based
on market forces.
The plan might, for example, call
for doubling the amount of roads, sewers and port facilities over a 5
year period, and would allocate the money for this. However, it was
private companies who bid for the actual work. Furthermore, companies
were free to carry out their own independent activities regardless of
the bigger plan.
The only countries that had systems
arguably as good as the old Japanese system were the Scandinavian
countries, Germany and Canada.
In 1985 the US
government set out to destroy this system out of what I can only
describe jealousy and fear of being over-taken. George Bush Sr., then
vice-president, ordered Japan to dismantle this system and hand economic
control over to American oligarchs (gangsters). When the Japanese
refused, they shot down Japan airlines flight 123 on August 12, 1985. On
September 22nd, 1985, Japan signed the Plaza Accord that signaled the
beginning of the systematic destruction of the Japanese economic system.
Since then, Japan’s economy has been looted to the tune of about $5
trillion by American and European gangster oligarchs.
The
system that created the Japanese miracle was by no means perfect. One
flaw was the system of forced early retirement of low paid bureaucrats.
This meant that bureaucrats, instead of thinking of the greater good of
their country, had an interest in currying favour with the companies
they regulated in exchange for cushy, post-early retirement jobs. The
other problem was the system of lifetime employment. While this did
create employee loyalty to firms, it was also a feudal system that made
it almost impossible for people to change jobs. The political system was
also radically biased in favour of rural citizens and against urban
residents.
Singapore, to this day, has a better
system, where bureaucrats are not forced to retire early and get paid as
much as their private sector counter-parts. That is why Singapore keeps
sizzling along to this day.
In any case, China’s
Deng Xiaoping carefully studied the Japanese and Singaporean systems and
adopted them to China. That is one of the main reasons for China’s long
economic boom.
The West would do well to create its
own, improved version of this system. That is why I have been proposing
creating a future planning agency. This is different from the White
Dragon Society, which strongly insists on ending poverty, stopping
environmental destruction and expanding earth life exponentially into
the universe. This is simply a personal proposal, based on 30 years’
experience as a geopolitical journalist.
The future
planning agency I propose would have an initial funding of $7 trillion.
That is the amount of money the Japanese have legitimately earned since
World War 2. It is based on cars, electronics and other real things sent
to the rest of the world. This is different from gold carefully hoarded
in caves over the millennia by Asian dynastic families or fantastical
numbers put in computers by Western Bankers. It is based on actual
production.
The future planning agency would exist
in harmony with existing institutions and not replace them. It would
recruit some of the best brains from all over the world in the fields of
government, business, academia etc. Their job would be to study and
make real the wishes of the people of the planet, as expressed through
the internet and opinion surveys.
Here are some
possible examples of what such an agency could accomplish. First, it
would accept bids and plans for a massive campaign to turn the deserts
green. Many competing plans would be allowed to go ahead and those that
succeeded would be copied and improved upon. Such an effort could double
the amount of land now available for agriculture and nature preserves.
In
the case of the oceans, the agency could hire the navies of the world
to stop the unsustainable over-fishing that is destroying the ocean
eco-systems. Within 5 years it should be possible to increase the amount
of fish 10 fold. Feeding the ocean with nutrients may make it possible
to further increase this 100 fold.
Another project
it could oversee would be to make sure every child on earth is well fed
and well educated. Human brains are the most under-utilized resource on
the planet. Allowing all those young minds to reach their full potential
would unleash wonders we cannot even imagine at present. These
are just ideas meant to form a starting point for a debate about what
sort of system we could create to allow us to successfully navigate into
the future. It is not a final plan. Nor is it a plan for a single
central world government. Many competing corporations, governments,
charities, foundations, etc. could all work in harmony with the future
planning agency.
In any case, let us look at what we
now have in the West. The system of unfettered capitalism is based on
the “profit motive” which is a nice way of saying human greed. It has
created a black hole sucking up all the world’s resources and wealth
into the hands of a tiny, rapacious elite. They spend the world’s
savings on a military industrial complex meant to preserve their power.
