tag:saucepanbach.com,2005:/blogs/news-f97fddef-3007-4419-8c15-df7c413a1534?p=100News - Blog2024-03-17T14:06:55-12:00saucepanbach.comfalsetag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/73685572024-03-17T14:06:55-12:002024-03-21T09:03:48-12:00Yelling 'Black is White' as Israel does, does not make it so. It's a lie.<p>letter to editor, not often written, not often printed.<span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>“The war in Gaza – not a war but an ongoing slaughter - didn’t start with a Hamas attack on October 7<sup>th</sup> 2023. For decades Israel has held up a mirage of a possible two State solution and, holding all the power over the Palestinians, has done nothing to fulfill that promise. On the contrary, their settlers continue to steal land in the West Bank and are backed up by the State while the Gaza Strip is destroyed, the people starving, dead or maimed and this has been happening since the inception of the Zionist State of Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>The brutality of Hamas is far outweighed by the actions of Israel both now and in the past.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Meanwhile our craven leaders wring their hands, cry sorrow and bow to Israel with their actions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Again and meanwhile, disasters continue everywhere and although things may look o.k. on the surface here in Australia they’re not. We have ‘tofu construction’ in the building industry as does China – and how sorry I am that the Chinese people have been so robbed by their government that their society is collapsing just as their buildings do. It’s tragic. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>This is the culture that gave the world ‘The book of Changes, the I Ching,’ a cauldron of wisdom and common sense which has been open to guide the soul of China from ‘time immemorial.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>It recognises the Divine and is not used by the Communist Party of China.<o:p></o:p></span></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/73155872023-12-06T12:33:22-12:002024-02-02T10:37:06-12:00The real Universe does not include Earth as the center of all creation<p><span>Is there a graveyard for ancient gods? The Gods of ancient times have come and gone – the gods of Rome, Greece, Babylon do not reveal themselves - if they ever did. Something did - entities exist but their existence doesn't make them gods.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>My beliefs affect my life, have some impact on those around me but that’s about the extent of it. Born into a Roman Catholic family it takes a lifetime to sort truth from lies and in the process my beliefs are revealed to be just that – belief and not born of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Christ was as revolutionary in his time as he is now. I don’t need a virgin birth nor a resurrection, no heaven nor hell to focus my mind on the difference between right or wrong and if in fact the kingdom of God lies within and ‘love your neighbour and do unto others…’ is the foundation of character and ‘know oneself’ is a necessary directive then that’s sufficient for me and whether I go to the worms or to some other plane of existence upon my death is almost irrelevant. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Along the way, the twists and turns of life, my sense of what an almighty God may be - never very clear- became crystalised as that consciousness which permeates the Universe and all of existence and whose motivation is love – not very satisfactory but sufficient for me and a far cry from the ancient gods of Earth. Perhaps they were real entities perhaps not but either way their common characteristic was that they needed to be appeased … or else!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>The vile behaviour of Israel can’t be understood without examination of their claim that the territory that they occupy is given to them by God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>The Universe uses synchronicity to get my attention and so I’ve been reading about the introduction of Christianity to Britain, hundreds of years before Augustine arrived with his Papal doctrines and met with opposition by the long established British church.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>I quote from Wilson and Blackett and have checked their references to biblical verses. They’re correct. The land that Israel claims was given to them by ‘God’ was not an empty land devoid of people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>“The destruction of Canaan”</span><br><span>“When Moses told the Hebrews that God had decided to give them the lands of Canaan to be their own, he also ordered them to carry out a complete genocide of total inhumanity. The instructions were that every city and village was to be captured and every human being: the old, the mature, the young, and the infants, of both sexes, had to be murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Not only this, but also all the animals that belonged to these massacred people were also to be destroyed and all their property had to be burned. This was the holocaust in Canaan and no trace whatsoever of the previous rightful owners of these lands was to remain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>( Numbers 33: 50-56, Deuteronomy 20: 10-20, 25: 17-19, Joshua 24: 8-13.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>As recorded in the Christian Bible, some of the Hebrew tribes failed to carry out these evil instructions and they spared the lives of many of these condemned communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>This is plainly recorded and they then used these conquered people whose lives were spared as second or third class persons and as non citizen slaves. These almost merciful actions were subsequently heavily criticised and condemned by the brutal priests of the god Yahweh.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>If Yahweh is real and if this ‘god’ ordered his followers to carry out these disgusting massacres then one has to question why anyone would worship Yahweh-Jehovah. “<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Quite so and no difference between these ancient gods and the equally ancient Yahweh-Jehovah.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>In light of this then the inhumane actions of Israel today are understood for what they are – a continuation from ancient times and nothing to do with THE divine entity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>As for ‘ancient times’ – they’re not. A few thousand years is not ancient and in light of the tens of thousands of years of Aboriginal occupation of the land in which I’ve been a guest they’re minimal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>I’m not a materialist – a spiritual being having a human experience is my understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/73093502023-11-25T12:11:17-12:002023-11-25T12:11:17-12:00there was once a garden where ruins lie<p><span>Can there be such a thing as a quiet uproar? Unrelenting propaganda shouts with desperate double standards apparent – my child’s life is worth more than yours. This is Israel’s stance in a measured slaughter that they try to dignify by calling it a war. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Zionism, a political ideology closer to Nazism than is comfortable for most to recognise, is separate to Judaism as the Torah Jews in the short video below make clear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>As for Chosen people and the burden it places upon believers in this idea – it doesn’t mean you’re special, able to do whatever you want, destined to rule the world – human nature hasn’t been changed by virtue of this idea while birth and death come to all, special or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>These are not issues fresh to my mind, a mind which has been occupied territory for decades. The truth is a fierce creature. Make any tribe a chosen people or a master race and the dehumanisation of others naturally follows and so it has been in recorded history and continues to be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Anyway – both short videos below are very clear statements by those intimately involved in these matters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>I add my small voice and make way for them.</span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3EtNFXL_ykg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3EtNFXL_ykg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="x5T_Qu12ACs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x5T_Qu12ACs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/73053392023-11-17T10:16:17-12:002023-11-17T10:16:17-12:00how craven our leaders are<p>even a voice such as mine, tiny in influence, doesn't escape notice as an email arrives, vaguely threatening no doubt because I will speak out about the glaring deceits we're fed - in this case the horrors of Gaza, not a war, how can it be?</p><p>I don't know how long Chris Hedges' reports will continue to be seen. This is, as usual, a timely piece.</p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d0gECjlpXF8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d0gECjlpXF8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72975152023-11-01T15:58:54-12:002023-11-01T15:58:54-12:00Noam Chomsky on Israel<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zKQOrAyXM5U" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zKQOrAyXM5U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72886862023-10-16T12:06:08-12:002023-10-16T12:06:08-12:00ah - the Great Reset - it's 'real'<p>it's a dangerous failing of Bandzoogle that they allow Youtube but not Bitchute nor Rumble both of which are far superior to Youtube in terms of free speech. </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/SVhATuVMhvYZ/?list=notifications&randomize=false">https://www.bitchute.com/video/SVhATuVMhvYZ/?list=notifications&randomize=false</a></p><p>if this link doesn't work it's James Corbett to whom I'm pointing, via Bitchute and named “The Great Travel Reset.”</p><p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72866012023-10-11T18:57:31-12:002023-10-16T02:54:49-12:00meanwhile there is a wider Universe<p><span>Grief may well be close to universal within the human family but humanity is not. Witness the difference in views on Israel and the Palestinians. As to who has the power – it is Israel which controls and now cuts off water, food and electricity to the Gaza Strip. Starve the Palestinians if they don’t die of thirst first. “Failure of intelligence” doesn’t begin to describe the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Who wrote Shakespeare …. Edward de Vere if the evidence is looked at but a thriving tourist trade exists around the man from Stratford. It’s a Disneyland version of reality just as is the treatment of the Welsh genealogies wherein the two King Arthurs lie. There are other issues where the truth is covered or voices silenced. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>The smoking gun of Building 7 on the day of 9/11, Britain’s hidden history and why it is so, and while climate change is real in the emotional and mental state of all our societies, CO2 is not the issue and never has been. </span></p><p><span>NATO had no reason to exist after the collapse of the Soviet Union but continues because other agendas work in which Ukraine is cannon fodder in a proxy war between the U.S.A. and Russia .… all these issues have lies covering truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Here in Australia the referendum regarding an advisory body designed to give Aboriginal Australians a voice is framed as something sinister. I don’t see the problem and voted yes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span>Difficult times, trials and tribulations. Nothing particularly new nor occurring by accident.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VJYgi7tF6tI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VJYgi7tF6tI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72781832023-09-24T19:25:02-12:002023-09-24T19:26:12-12:00the remarkable Bradshaw paintings<p>I came across mention of this rock art years ago - quite different to other rock art in Australia. The video below is old but new to me. Reminds of the New Zealand documentary ‘Skeletons in the cupboard’ which opened my eyes to a history of that country not much mentioned. </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="b9joltuazSE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b9joltuazSE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rf_inGOubEg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rf_inGOubEg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72711542023-09-09T21:22:46-12:002023-09-09T21:22:46-12:00remembering 9/11<p><span>Architects, Engineers for ‘9/11 Truth.’ </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Who cares and what particular ‘truth.’ If there’s nothing to question about the official story then why do these thousands of professionals continue to present evidence to a generally uncaring world as if it really matters.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>It does matter. It’s the defining event of this century, millions dead, societies destroyed, the world changed in its course and the whole event manipulated to arouse ‘shock and awe’ in the American population who, up until that day, had no interest in the foreign wars so desired by the hawks within the U.S. administration.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>The Project for a New American Century lays out what events were needed in order for American to retain its pre-eminent position in the world.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Evil men in positions of power … not evil in their own minds perhaps but … ‘by their fruits you shall know them.’</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Following the evidence IS the scientific method. It’s unpalatable but there it is ………….‘Lest we forget……..’</span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="h6-2SFJhk94" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h6-2SFJhk94?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><o:p></o:p></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72526242023-08-05T12:56:01-12:002023-08-05T18:05:08-12:00'YES' to the Voice<p>Apart from suspicion that it may not work or that Treaty and Truth Telling have greater importance it's hard to see quite why there's opposition to a YES vote in the upcoming referendum here in Australia.</p><p>For Australians.</p><p><span>I can do better than this – I can be better than this. When I arrived in this land over fifty years ago it was as an immigrant. If this isn’t part of your family story then you’re Aboriginal, the Original people, the ones our ancestors pretended didn’t count for anything. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>“In 1962 the Australian Parliament passed a landmark Act to give all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the option to enrol and vote in federal elections. But it was not until 1984 that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were finally treated like other voters and required to enrol and vote in elections.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>In 1975 I had the rare opportunity to work and live, 24 hours a day for about three months, with two groups of tribal men who were brought together by the Arts Council of N.S.W. with the aim and purpose of bringing some sense of Aboriginal culture to Primary schools across N.S.W. It was a profound and somewhat heart breaking experience.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>“Culture? Where are their cathedrals?” – this echoes my dad’s understanding of Aboriginal culture – if you can’t see it in the material world then it doesn’t exist. He saw a broken people without having any understanding of what actions by our ancestors led to the situation now existing. Strange indeed as the substance in his ceremonies isn’t visible either.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>They’re not a broken people but trauma with all its attending aspects can’t be denied and it’s inter-generational. This is something that many of us know and endure.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>The last twenty years or so of my working life was within the Disability field in which I was a key worker – I advocated for my clients and did so with an intimate understanding of their needs and wants.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Who better to advocate for Aboriginal people than an advisory body made up of Aboriginal people with that same intimate knowledge of needs and wants. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Do they speak with one voice? No more than any other group of human beings but that shouldn’t be reason to deny that voice the chance to exist and speak.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>We can do better than that.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392053/618a6ddbbec197bb66aa12374c01a0070a12d12d/original/img-5978.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72440922023-07-18T23:06:02-12:002023-07-18T23:08:08-12:00the Federal Reserve - from whence it came<p>It was Eustace Mullins who introduced me to the history of the Federal Reserve. G.Edward Griffin wrote 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' which added detail for me but it's been James Corbett who delves deep enough to correct errors in the narrative.</p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/e48WkFtZlGzZ/?list=notifications&randomize=false" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">https://www.bitchute.com/video/e48WkFtZlGzZ/?list=notifications&randomize=false</a></p><p>It's a great shame that Bandzoogle don't support media other than youtube in a simple manner so the link is provided. If you're not familiar with James you could also look for ‘The Corbett Report.’</p><p>I've long wanted to present his meticulous work.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72403942023-07-11T12:12:06-12:002023-07-11T12:12:06-12:00Aboriginal Australia and 'The Voice.'<p><span><strong>These are the key points. The case for YES is clear and I will vote accordingly. The case for NO isn’t clear and the key points can be countered which I’ll attempt to do.</strong></span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span><strong>YES</strong></span><o:p></o:p></p><ul>
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<span>The Voice was recommended after a years-long engagement with Indigenous communities across Australia.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>Indigenous people should have a say in policies that affect them.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>If the government listens to Indigenous people as it creates policies about them, the policies will be better.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>It will be permanent, and future governments won't be able to remove it.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>Ensuring the Voice can speak to "executive government" means its central role is entrenched, regardless of future governments.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>It will be gender equal and include youth members, meaning more voices from Indigenous communities will be heard.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>It has been carefully devised and given the green light by legal experts.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>Fixed terms mean representatives will always be accountable.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>The Voice would be a good mechanism through which to negotiate Truth and Treaty processes with the Commonwealth. </span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>Parliament, and by extension the Australian people, would still hold the ultimate say over what becomes law.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<span>It's symbolic, and fixing systemic issues facing Indigenous communities would require a body with actual power. </span><o:p></o:p>
</li></ul><p><i><span>‘It’s symbolic” is opinion only. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><ul><li type="disc">
<span>Governments can ignore its advice if they don't like it.</span><o:p></o:p>
</li></ul><p><i><span>Governments already do this and it’s not necessarily a bad thing.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><ul><li type="disc">
<span>The Voice adds race to the constitution.</span><o:p></o:p>
</li></ul><p><i><span>What’s wrong with acknowledging reality - Aboriginals are not only another race just as are Asians and Europeans but are our Original race in Australia and deserve to be recognised and heard.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><ul><li type="disc">
<span>Because the Voice will be designed by parliament, future governments could change or sideline it.</span><o:p></o:p>
</li></ul><p><i><span>Design it so that this doesn’t happen.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><ul><li type="disc">
<span>Indigenous people already have a voice via an unprecedented level of Indigenous representation in parliament.</span><o:p></o:p>
</li></ul><p><i><span>Aboriginals no more speak with one voice than do the rest of us. Representatives come and go while ‘The Voice’ would remain.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><ul><li type="disc">
<span>Truth and Treaty should come before the Voice. </span><o:p></o:p>
</li></ul><p><i><span>Why? Says who and based on what - other than opinion? </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hpElgI2RLI8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hpElgI2RLI8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72366562023-07-03T20:10:00-12:002023-07-03T20:22:58-12:00which war - Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine? - end result?<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Q5UovuNlIC4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5UovuNlIC4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p><span>The lines are getting longer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>For the poor and the dispossessed</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>As the men about the kitchen</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>juggle sauce for more is less</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>And it’s nowhere near better</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>As the vultures hold and swoop</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>On the nearest hapless fellow</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>drinking cruelty soup ‑ cruelty soup</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>Hi ho ‑ here we go</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Another cup of soup you beknighted blighter</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Hi ho ‑ here we go</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>No bread roll ‑ draw your belt in tighter</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Hi ho ‑ here we go</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Have you got the strength left to be a fighter</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>Toodle ‑oodle ooo ‑ ‑ Toodle ‑oodle ooo</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>The beat is getting stronger</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>As the war drums coalesce</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>And the call goes out for heroes</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Nothing more and nothing less</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>And they’ll say the fight is sacred</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>And they’ll say that we are right</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>And they’ll want to shock and awe you</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span> Into...... “ Darkness is Light” ‑ “Darkness IS Light.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>Hi ho ‑ here we go</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>It’s not just happening in a far off country</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Hi ho ‑ here we go</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Take a look around we’re the hundreth monkey</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Hi ho ‑ here we go</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>How long .............. how long .... How long ....... how long</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Will this go on......... The lines are getting longer and they’re getting out of line. </span><o:p></o:p></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Rhq5vWlhJE4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rhq5vWlhJE4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72336732023-06-27T16:26:26-12:002023-06-27T16:26:26-12:00thanks for your time<p>‘upsetting the consensus’</p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="iONze4YMTUo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iONze4YMTUo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72302972023-06-21T10:41:26-12:002023-06-21T10:41:26-12:00telling the truth<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="mDLxTVmy_-o" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mDLxTVmy_-o?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72279372023-06-16T12:14:20-12:002023-06-16T12:14:20-12:00letter to editor<p><span>It was a brief mention on the ABC radio, non specific, only heard once but enough for me to look it up. ‘Carbon footprint’ is a phrase that we recognise but from where that phrase came isn’t recognised. Here is what I found and quoting Wiki.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>“The use of household carbon footprint calculators originated when oil producer BP hired Ogilvy to create an "effective propaganda" campaign to shift responsibility of climate change-causing pollution away from the corporations and institutions that created a society where carbon emissions are unavoidable and onto personal lifestyle choices. The term "carbon footprint" was also popularized by BP.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>That was a surprise to learn but not totally unexpected.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>The state of the changing climate is not your fault. The fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hasn’t recognised the immense part that our star, the sun, plays when ‘climate modelling’ is undertaken beggars belief but so it is. The IPCC, from its own website, came into existence specifically to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>There is no such thing as ‘Scientific consensus’ nor does the phrase ‘The science is settled’ hold any meaning. As for being a ‘Climate Denier’ – define it. It’s another phrase used to stifle questioning. </span><o:p></o:p></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72124802023-05-19T19:40:46-12:002023-06-06T21:42:46-12:00Serious absurdity<p><span>Nothing money – printed out of thin air.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>For me, it was Eustace Mullins who first exposed the inner workings of a cabal of bankers regarding the formation of the Federal Reserve. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’ is the lurid title of a work by G. Edward Griffin exposing the same sordid story.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Central Banking or rather having a system of Central Banks who all work together, ostensibly to create some semblance of order within the monetary system that the world uses, has failed dismally and continues to do so. The Federal Reserve is a Central Bank with a title designed to mislead. Ultimately these are privately owned enterprises and a matter that few dare to question.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>It matters that I understand.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>The Emergency Powers that the U.S. put in place after 9/11 remain in place and every President ‘signs off’ on their continuance. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>There are very sound reasons why Architects, Engineers, Pilots and more question the official story – it’s threadbare and the villains remain.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>The proxy war between the U.S. and Russia becomes ever more dangerous as fighter jets are offered to Ukraine.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>And yet it’s transgender issues which continually surface in the media. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>I cannot as a man wish myself into being a woman nor vice versa. No numbers of operations can change the D.N.A. – it doesn’t matter if I identify as a hippo and you agree for fear of offending my feelings – it isn’t going to happen.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>As for the ongoing UFO activity worldwide, the official spin talks in terms of threat. Ho hum. If it were a threat it would have happened … unless 'as above, so below' holds true in the wider universe and also works the other way. Alien sociapaths to mirror our own?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Winter comes early to the mountains, Spring arrives late. We’re in Autumn and the tribe of TreeFerns in my garden are adorned with the red and blue of Rosellas who’ve taken to nibbling their way along the length of the individual fronds. I can only guess that they derive nourishment in the process but this is new behaviour and after thirty years of observation I wonder if our weakening magnetic field and the movement of our magnetic poles have some influence.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Why the cycles of the sun aren’t taken into account when it comes to climate change discussions is yet another matter where the narrative is woefully inadequate and deliberately so.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Anyway, a stage version of Monty Python is held up in production because the actors want Loretta written out of the script.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Morons - bit harsh - misguided or outright deceitful members of the woke madness.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Here’s the video of Stan who wants to be known as Loretta and gets a reality check.</span><o:p></o:p> It's wonderful.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p></o:p></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Dgp9MPLEAqA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dgp9MPLEAqA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72059232023-05-09T11:12:12-12:002023-05-09T11:12:13-12:00electric universe and the disaster cycle<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="j635Cv2aOlA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j635Cv2aOlA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/72033732023-05-04T21:04:21-12:002023-05-04T21:07:39-12:00the rod and the orb <p>more remarkable work from Hugh Evans.</p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="YKIa_4z9ils" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YKIa_4z9ils?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71948292023-04-21T11:41:39-12:002023-04-21T11:41:39-12:00how clean are windfarms? ... it's not just happening in a far off country<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2vNRlTAxhhg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2vNRlTAxhhg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Rhq5vWlhJE4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rhq5vWlhJE4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71900332023-04-13T12:38:53-12:002023-04-13T12:38:53-12:00sometimes, most of the time<p><span>Something’s wrong with this picture. It’s not ‘failure of intelligence’ and not incompetence which presents me with a world crumbling before my eyes.</span><p></p></p><p><span>Cleverer minds than mine are at work continuing with agendas designed to change reality as it’s experienced at every level of society. </span><p></p></p><p><span>Psychopaths rule.</span><p></p></p><p><span>I continue to support those who would bring to light the events surrounding 9/11. It’s a dead issue for most yet the reverberations include the destruction of Middle East countries and waves of refugees … and it’s all planned, there’s no conspiracy when it’s out in the open for those who care to look.</span><p></p></p><p><span>‘The truth will set you free’ – of what I’m not too sure. Illusion, delusion perhaps.</span><p></p></p><p><span>There was an incantation, vaguely recalled from my Catholic childhood, which started with ‘I believe …. ‘ but belief isn’t knowledge and although I have much that I unconsciously believe it’s knowing which matters.</span><p></p></p><p><span>How much CO2 is in the atmosphere? Not much – 0.04% - the Treeferns love the stuff as does all vegetation. Worth investigating why the focus, why the International Panel on Climate Change takes no account of the Sun, our local star, and its well known solar cycles all of which affect our climate.</span><p></p></p><p><span>I don’t believe – not without doing my own investigation and then belief becomes knowledge. It doesn’t make me a better person but it matters.</span><p></p></p><p><span>Virtual reality isn’t reality. </span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AAqdQafECus" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AAqdQafECus?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><p></p></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71825232023-04-01T10:24:26-12:002023-04-01T10:24:26-12:00the fantasy surrounding climate change - no mention of the sun<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Nxl-XOsQIKI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nxl-XOsQIKI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71785002023-03-25T08:51:13-12:002023-03-25T08:51:13-12:00hidden history<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Fc4BPXevig8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fc4BPXevig8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71501982023-02-07T10:16:00-12:002023-02-07T10:16:00-12:00pause for thought<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zE9y1vEbS9E" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/zE9y1vEbS9E/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zE9y1vEbS9E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71363232023-01-10T18:20:03-12:002023-01-10T18:22:01-12:00where is Palestine after a lifetime of peace process? <p>The time is just past seventy – for me - and the clock is stopped at various points where it mattered. The Balfour Declaration comes to mind – the document in which the British government of the day saw no problem with the aspirations of Zionist Jews who wanted Jews to be settled in Palestine as long as the Palestinians weren’t disadvantaged. A gentleman’s agreement which stood no chance of being realised. </p>
<p>As events unfolded so the Palestinians have been continuously treated as sub human and confined to the ghetto of the Gaza Strip and what is now left of the West Bank. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 has since seen no attempt at a two state resolution or any semblance of a peace process and with Israel holding all the power and constantly playing victim to the larger world few dare look at the issue with clarity. </p>
<p>The truth of the matter is that the Palestinians are an obstacle to a wider Jewish State in much the same way as the Germans of a previous generation saw the Jews. How this glaring parallel is not made more of is testament to the power of the Zionist State – I make a distinction, many religious Jews find the Zionist State of Israel contrary to their beliefs … it is God who restores the Jews to the Holy land and not some political version of Judaism who decided not to wait but to contrive events to achieve a similar end. </p>
<p>It’s froth and bubble and yet it’s not. It's obscene.</p>
<p>Israel a Democracy? Another lie - as is a great deal of what passes for the news. Cognitive dissonance plagues the World. </p>
<p>Meanwhile in a garden far far away … a quiet blues in E.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71344472023-01-07T10:05:10-12:002023-01-07T12:28:57-12:00Spitting in the ocean<p>Making Climate data models is what Doctor John Christy does for a living. His testimony before the Natural Resources Committee on May 13, 2015 is remarkable for both its detail and in the clarity of his presentation.</p>
<p>‘Climate Change is Settled Science’ is accepted at the highest level of Government and therefore there IS an agenda. It needs to be stated when the very word ‘agenda’ conjures up images of conspiracy – I’ll leave out the word theory because conspiracy exists and there’s no theory about that. It doesn’t require that the many involved have any idea at all that they’re following a lie.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71313682023-01-01T22:19:03-12:002023-01-01T22:19:04-12:00'scientific consensus?' - no such thing - how could there be?<p>'Do your own research' is the urging of commentators worthy of respect. The '97% myth' is just one of umpteen areas of modern life requiring investigation.</p>
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<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="P_nH1BAfDhs" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/P_nH1BAfDhs/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P_nH1BAfDhs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71236632022-12-15T11:00:35-12:002022-12-15T11:00:35-12:00Mabinogi<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="iMKNdmxQQ1c" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/iMKNdmxQQ1c/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iMKNdmxQQ1c?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71229792022-12-14T10:42:51-12:002022-12-14T10:42:51-12:00not all professors deserve that title<p>When it comes to Climate Change fraud is at its foundation. The fact that whole populations are drip fed nonsense on a daily basis applies in many fields and no blame to those who struggle to survive but not so for our political parties nor for the media none of whom bother to fact check. </p>
<p>‘Climategate’ actually happened and history has not yet been so scrubbed as to make it unavailable. Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ is worth re-watching to see how nothing regarding his predictions have come true. </p>
<p>From Wiki: </p>
<p>The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (also known as "Climategate")[2][3] began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) by an external attacker,[4][5] copying thousands of emails and computer files (the Climatic Research Unit documents) to various internet locations several weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change. </p>
<p>The story was first broken by climate change denialists,[6][7] who argued that the emails showed that global warming was a scientific conspiracy and that scientists manipulated climate data and attempted to suppress critics.[8][9] The CRU rejected this, saying that the emails had been taken out of context.[10][11] FactCheck.org confirmed that climate change deniers misrepresented the contents of the emails.[12] Columnist James Delingpole popularised the term "Climategate" to describe the controversy.[13] </p>
<p>There’s more of course but to suggest that emails were taken out of context and leave it at that … </p>
<p>And here’s some truth which is potentially far worse than the idea of Global Warming – our Sun, our Star isn’t taken into account when it comes to computer modelling. Makes the modelling an expensive nonsense.</p>
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-URuIAwyyt4" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/-URuIAwyyt4/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-URuIAwyyt4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/71218892022-12-12T12:43:07-12:002022-12-12T12:50:01-12:00"two minutes of truth, of bitter truth"<p>It was a brief mention on the ABC radio only heard once but enough for me to look it up. ‘Carbon footprint’ is a phrase that we recognise but from where that wicked phrase came isn’t recognised. Here is what I found and quoting Wiki. </p>
<p>“The use of household carbon footprint calculators originated when oil producer BP hired Ogilvy to create an "effective propaganda" campaign to shift responsibility of climate change-causing pollution away from the corporations and institutions that created a society where carbon emissions are unavoidable and onto personal lifestyle choices. The term "carbon footprint" was also popularized by BP.” </p>
<p>That was a surprise to learn but not totally unexpected. </p>
<p>The state of the changing climate is not your fault. The fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hasn’t recognised the immense part that our star, the sun, plays when ‘climate modelling’ is undertaken beggars belief but so it is. There is no such thing as ‘Scientific consensus’ nor does ‘The science is settled’ hold any meaning. As for being a ‘Climate Denier’ – define it. It’s another phrase used to stifle questioning. </p>
<p>So many threads make up a tapestry. Here is one which relates to the European Union – two minutes, not too long even in an age of thirty second attention spans.</p>
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<p>He leaves an ongoing priceless legacy in the bringing to light the works of Wilson and Blackett, historians of the highest calibre and in the personal ‘out in the field’ research that Ross achieved. </p>
<p>I never met Ross in person but felt as though I’d got to know something of the essence of the man by virtue of his videos. </p>
<p>‘Fare thee well’, Ross. I’d been trying for months to get a phonetic version of that glorious Welsh song ‘Yma o Hyd’ – much loved world wide but difficult to sing for a non Welsh speaker. Ross also enjoyed trying to sing this song. I finally managed to write a reasonably o.k. phonetic version which I’d have sent to Ross had he not died. </p>
<p>An English translation of the chorus reads “We are still here. We are still here. Despite everyone and everything, we are still here.” Poignant, given the circumstance. </p>
<p>This is the video. There is a free, downloadable mp3 on the music page here. </p>
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<p>These are the phonetic lyrics. </p>
<p> DOIT TEAMYN COVIO MACSEN </p>
<p> DOICE NERE BENEE NABO DOR </p>
<p> MY MILL ACH WAY CANT O FLYNETHOI </p>
<p> EN AMSER HE HIR I’R COR </p>
<p> PANNETH MAGNUS MAXIMUS O GUMRI </p>
<p> AN EN FLOYTHEN TRI CHANT WITH TREE </p>
<p> AN GADAEL AN GENED L GUFAN </p>
<p> A HETHUW WELE NI </p>
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<p> RINNEE YAMA O HEED </p>
<p> RINNEE YAMA O HEED </p>
<p> ER GWYTHER PAWB A FOPETH x 3 </p>
<p> RINNEE YAMA O HEED </p>
<p> HOOKTHED AH GWINT OR DEWRYNE </p>
<p> RHEE-ED AH STARM OR MORE </p>
<p> HOCHTED AH MARE ER WIBREN </p>
<p> AH GWEETHED AH DARAN ENCOR </p>
<p> THLEAVE-ED DAGRAUR GWANGALLON </p>
<p> A THLUVED A TIE-OG A THLAWR </p>
<p> ER DEE-ED YUR VAXEE ON COUMPASS </p>
<p> RINI BAROD OM DORIAD A WAWR </p>
<p> RINNEE YAMA O HEED etc </p>
<p> COVEEYO KNEE VACSEN WLEDIG </p>
<p> AARDILE EIN GWLAD INUN DARN </p>
<p> A BLOITHION GEBRON A GWLEDITH </p>
<p> CULL HAMA HEED DEETH A VARN </p>
<p> ER GWYTHER POB DICK-SION DAVITH </p>
<p> ER GWYTHER EN VACHEE ECHREW </p>
<p> BURTH A DAMA HEED DEWETH AMSER </p>
<p> A BITHREE-AITH GYMRAEG IN VIEW </p>
<p> RINNEE YAMA O HEED etc x 2 </p>
<p>As for who IS the Mascen Wledig mentioned in the song – ancestors and descendants – a screenshot here of the charts courtesy of Ross.</p>
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<p>According to Barbara Honegger who was there when Ronald Reagan first met with William Casey it is an accurate quote but there’s always context to shade a meaning. Nonetheless trust in Government of any persuasion is long gone. </p>
<p>From Quora: On Sep 21, 2014, at 8:59 PM, Barbara Honegger wrote: </p>
<p>> Seriously -- I personally was the Source <br>> for that William Casey quote. He said it <br>> at an early Feb. 1981 meeting in the <br>> Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of <br>> the White House which I attended, and <br>> I immediately told my close friend and <br>> political godmother Senior White House <br>> Correspondent Sarah McClendon, who <br>> then went public with it without naming <br>> the source ... </p>
<p>Do I trust the source is my next question so Casey’s comment has served its purpose. </p>
<p>Musing on what I may or may not know to be true and false flag operations come to mind. No doubt they’re carried out by many a country but it’s the U.S.S. Liberty incident which immediately pops into view literally as youtube kindly ‘suggests’ it – probably due to algorithms but who knows. </p>
<p>If you’re not familiar with this shameful incident in which Israel attacked the U.S.S. Liberty – basically a spy ship – and Lyndon Johnson, scurvy rogue President, turned his back on his own countrymen rather than offend Israel with an expose of the affair. To the dismay of both countries the ship and some crew survived to tell the tale. </p>
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<p>this is essentially an apologetic for the incident. A ‘nothing untoward’ piece delivered with sincerity. Suggests that it was all a mistake. </p>
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<p>this is the testimony of someone who was there on the ship when the attack happened. It wasn’t a mistake. </p>
<p>Johnson followed Kennedy as President and the papers regarding the Kennedy assassination which were due to be released by Trump didn’t occur. Trump thought them too dangerous, too revealing, it hardly matters what his excuse was, the result is more secrecy. Why and who is it that needs to be protected after all this time. </p>
<p>Why would anyone trust in politicians. Sincerity counts for nothing if, unwittingly, one has become a mouthpiece for lies. Witness the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ nonsense which preceded the war in Iraq. Failure of intelligence? Whose intelligence? Yours – mine? </p>
<p>The war for the hearts and minds continues apace and, apart from 9/11 research, it’s the history of Central Banks and in particular the birth of the Federal Reserve which occupied my attention. Privately owned although you and I can’t buy shares and it’s neither Federal nor Reserve. </p>
<p>Woodrow Wilson was President at the time and this is what he said regarding the Federal Reserve: </p>
<p>“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” … said by Woodrow Wilson after signing the Federal Reserve into existence. </p>
<p>There is of course dispute over whether or not he said it however the salient fact here is that the Federal Reserve IS privately owned. </p>
<p>Hmm. Something to ponder. </p>
<p>Something more cheerful to finish off – Michael Sheldrake “Science set free.” </p>
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<p>Meanwhile La Nina continues, the garden is sodden but is as prepared for summer as can be managed … and I find time to continue my education with BritainsHiddenHistory – remarkable that this history, hidden though it’s been, parallels that of Aboriginal Australia and Indigenous cultures worldwide. </p>
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<p>and then there's this as food for thought</p>
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<p>I spent four hours or so yesterday witnessing presentation after presentation of technical information about the destruction of the Twin Towers and of Building 7. </p>
<p>I don’t have time nor inclination to bother with conspiracy theories, not when real conspiracies continue. </p>
<p>I had the remarkable and apparently unusual experience of witnessing those events on the day of 9/11. Unusual because the early morning in New York was close to midnight here as I returned home after an evening shift at a Group Home. </p>
<p>I turned on the television news just after the first plane struck and every network had their cameras trained on the first tower. The shock of such an accident occurring transformed into a deeper shock when the second plane struck and ‘accident’ must be replaced with ‘deliberate action.’ Horrifying. </p>
<p>It was very quiet here, most of the country asleep as it was for many parts of the world. Elsewhere people are at work, school, in bars, on trains and all are getting small fractions of the events – they’re otherwise occupied while I am not. </p>
<p>I witnessed everything being reported over the course of the next ten or twelve hours, uninterrupted. I didn’t go into ‘shock and awe.’ </p>
<p>The behaviour of the Twin Towers as they collapsed, the free fall neatly into their own footprints, the subsequent collapse of Building 7 also into its own footprint – nothing like this has ever been seen before and nothing remotely like it has happened since. </p>
<p>Pause for thought? </p>
<p>I know that after twenty one years – a generation - the perpetrators walk free, don’t give a damn and have the power to silence – no – not to silence but to certainly put obstacle after obstacle in the way of the thousands of Architects, Engineers, Pilots, Firemen and First Responders who not only question the shameful official narrative but have proved their case. </p>
<p>I understand that many are unaware or have mortgages to pay or who shrug and go about their business. I don’t have that luxury, that blissful ignorance and while I’ll now go do some gardening, the temperature a balmy 8 degrees, whole societies have been destroyed in the wake of those events and millions displaced, disfigured or dead. </p>
<p>I can’t hope to have any understanding of the world we now inhabit without understanding 9/11. This is the uncomfortable truth and ... while I have a voice ...</p>
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<p>.........with each year that passes the mainstream media regurgitate the official narrative. Why there should be such a phrase – ‘official narrative’ indicates that ‘another narrative’ exists but – repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the accepted truth. The books ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ showed different versions of a dystopian future. I’ve watched discussions about which version has turned out to be closer to the truth and, perhaps, both are equally applicable without necessarily being obvious. </p>
<p>What’s that to do with the events of 9/11? The mainstream media, each year without fail, trot out their programs, never questioning anything and the ‘why’ of that is partly that ‘who dares talk truth to power’ runs real risk coupled with that sly observation … ‘who are we to question received history?’ Twenty one years is a long time to reflect on the many events, coincidences and inconsistencies of that day. Perhaps civil war would erupt if the truth were known. We’re already at war. Thanks to all who contribute towards revealing the truth.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/70538872022-09-05T20:57:43-12:002022-09-05T20:57:44-12:00just checking<p>“Just checking” is what I’ve done about the issues that have led the world to the state we’re in. Where the money comes from, how 9/11 happened, why Israel can treat the Palestinians as sub human and get away with it. This isn’t ‘the news’ but for mentioning and questioning these subjects is to go against the flow and meet obstruction. </p>
<p>I’d left this site alone after a thousand posts. I came back as a ‘visitor’ and scrolled down the ‘news’ section only to find that the ‘next’ icon didn’t work. Got it fixed within a minute or so when I queried it but … how does that happen in the first place? The default position would and should be that ‘next’ takes you to ‘next.’ Ah – paranoia, probably on a list of neerdowells and assorted trouble makers. </p>
<p>So climate change questioning is a touchy subject – lots of clever minds to come up with such delights as ‘carbon footprint.’ </p>
<p>Quoting wiki : </p>
<p>“The use of household carbon footprint calculators originated when oil producer BP hired Ogilvy to create an "effective propaganda" campaign to shift responsibility of climate change-causing pollution away from the corporations and institutions that created a society where carbon emissions are unavoidable and onto personal lifestyle choices. The term "carbon footprint" was also popularized by BP.” </p>
<p>That should give pause for thought. </p>
<p>I have a garden, a creative delight and through the depths of Winter here, the zero and below, a particular flower blooms, close to the soil and with the bright and vibrant colours a child might paint. Polyanthus bloom through the snow and herald the Spring. </p>
<p> </p>
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<p>The resilience of flowers.</p>
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<p>Youtube is indeed censorious and Tony Heller needing to move to other platforms is proof of that. If his latest video, presented here, gets deleted on youtube and a blank screen appears then draw your own conclusions.</p>
<p>James Corbett is now available on bitchute but I can't easily place his videos there onto this site. A remarkable researcher.</p>
<p>This site, which attracts very little traffic, started as a place to put my songs - as this is my 1000 post I'll place a song or three here. It's appropriate.</p>
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<p>and another which is still a vital issue</p>
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<p>and another which is age restricted. The images that the film maker uses don't reflect the mist of the Blue Mountains where, quietly, the song came together but - as he noted - film from aeons ago is hard to come by.</p>
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<p>The songs that are on youtube are now also on bitchute.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68955992022-02-11T13:35:29-12:002022-02-11T13:35:29-12:00there was a time before covid<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/2f82d08bdc5b8505cf94da99be5c9673e968d9f4/original/screenshot-31.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p>There’s such a torrent of information becoming available now that focus on a few things serves more purpose than the alternative. </p>
<p>Whilst Covid related items dominate the ‘news’ everything else that made one wonder a few years ago continues apace. </p>
<p>The three and a half thousand brave souls who make up Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth continue in their noble quest notwithstanding the failure to generate interest by the ‘news services’ into the recent but now ‘yesterdays news’ item regarding the four year study into the collapse of Building 7 which concluded that controlled demolition is the only mechanism which faithfully reproduces what the filmed evidence of that day actually shows. </p>
<p>That’s explosive news by anyone’s standards. The whole world’s been affected, societies destroyed and waves of refugees continue to wash up all over Europe. It didn’t make the news. </p>
<p>What’s so hard to understand – controlled demolition means that bearded terrorists flying planes were the patsies, the bit part players, the useful fools, the outward show, the theatre piece designed to provide the ‘shock and awe’ necessary to propel the world into the desired war. It worked and with every year that passes the ‘Remembrances of 9/11’ reinforce the lie of the official story. </p>
<p>‘Due diligence’ by the news services isn’t evident in this matter. </p>
<p>Israel is finally being called out as an apartheid State and while that’s appropriate it’s the callous and deceitful way in which the Palestinians are treated – dealt with as a problem – which should provoke outrage in Government circles as well as by the ‘people’. </p>
<p>Anti Jewish – no. Anti Zionist – what’s a Zionist but a fascist dressed otherwise. Yes – Anti fascist … anti the abuse of power. </p>
<p>The U.S. Government earnestly produces an almost nothing report acknowledging that ‘stuff is flying around’ and …… ‘we don’t know much about it but we’ll get back to you. Let’s not call them UFO’s but call them UAP’s which is nicely vague and sounds new.’ </p>
<p>Such an astounding admission about a subject which has been deliberately ridiculed for decades and …. it barely made the news. </p>
<p>‘Are we alone in the Universe’ is a pretty basic question and deserves better than scant attention. </p>
<p>There’s a problem with trust or the lack of it. </p>
<p>Climate change models that take no account of the cycles of our sun and of those effects upon the planet aren’t worth the paper that they’re printed on. No due diligence done and blank looks if I mention the fraud of CO2 as an issue, handy though it is as a money making scheme. </p>
<p>It’s been a solace and delight over the last many years to look out into the solar system and beyond and, recently, to look back through various interpretations of history. </p>
<p>This bit of writing is long enough so three short videos to finish here. </p>
<p>Suspicious Observers keeps me posted on space weather news, the sun’s activity and ‘electric universe stuff.’ A five minute daily offering.</p>
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<p>British Hidden History is a treasure trove that I’m in the process of discovering.</p>
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<p>And a remarkable series about the origin of the zodiac and its physical representation across the landscape of North Wales.</p>
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<p>This is no longer the case. The evidence for giants having existed is littered throughout newspaper reports from the 1800’s of skeletons discovered, only to then have the physical evidence disappear. </p>
<p>Begs the question – ‘Why?’ Begs the further question – ‘Who benefits?’ </p>
<p>If I mention corruption all know what it is I mean. If I add the word theory to make the phrase ‘corruption theory’ the phrase is both absurd and laughable yet conspiracy – accepted by all until recent times as equally a reality as corruption – now is rarely seen without the dreaded word ‘theory’ added. It’s absurd and laughable and accepted without question. Not by me. The same questions arise. </p>
<p>‘There are no small parts, only small actors’ is quoted by directors trying to fill the small roles in a play. It’s true and I tried to bring that sensibility into the small roles I had, decades ago, within the play, ‘The Life of Galileo.’ </p>
<p>Galileo is being questioned by the religious authorities of the day for daring to suggest ideas contrary to accepted wisdom. This is a life and death matter for Galileo and, for me, having the small role as the one doing the questioning – how do I find the mentality of such a man? ‘My’ life is ruled by dogma, constrained by belief, utterly devoid of Christ’s injunction to ‘love your neighbour’ and ‘Do unto others as you’d have done to yourself’ – ideas far too revolutionary if the power of the Church is threatened. Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter which makes a lie of the Earth being the center of the Universe.</p>
<p>I’d be shocked, angered, unwilling to look at the evidence because, BECAUSE …. ‘The Bible says …. and you, Galileo, are daring to suggest that the Bible is WRONG.’ </p>
<p>I don’t know that I was a very good actor. The man whose part I played would not have seen himself as a bigot, more a soldier for God, a weapon using righteous anger to destroy both Galileo and his telescopic instrument. The work of the Devil. </p>
<p>All that took place hundreds of years ago and nothing much has changed. ‘Cancel culture’ – whether political or social - shuts down debate, reduces discussion to slogans of derision and does its best to keep creating a continuing climate of confusion and fear. </p>
<p>Mysticism, the Other … that which is not materialism. We wouldn’t have words such as mysticism, spirituality, intuition, if direct experience didn’t call them into being. There’s comfort in that. </p>
<p>While the world continues to lurch and stagger its way into some uncertain future I’ve had the opportunity and time to delve into the past, to British history in particular, world history by association and to the understanding that Velikovsky and others have concluded – that the timeline of history is skewed. I’m not sure of the wider implications of this but it dovetails nicely into the deliberate destruction of a British history, accepted until the 1700’s but not suitable for the political ends of a recent, uncertain royal dynasty on the British throne. </p>
<p>I’d know none of this but for the research of others. And the context they bring. </p>
<p>Somehow this brings me back to giants. Why such a subject should provoke a response where ‘destroy or hide the evidence’ is seen as acceptable is beyond me. What difference does it make whether giants existed or not. Life goes on. We’re not talking about monks of a thousand years ago copying, perhaps changing or outright destroying ancient manuscripts because they don’t conform to church dogma, in effect, changing, rearranging history … this is conscious, modern activity within my great grandfathers lifetime. </p>
<p>It beggars belief and belief is both the prism and the problem when it comes to history. </p>
<p>I’m rambling somewhat. Where such questions as ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’ - which I’ve established to my own satisfaction that we aren’t - mattered to me, to my father it was a matter of some irritation when I raised it …. ‘What difference does it make? I’ll still have to catch the 7.35 bus to work.’ </p>
<p>An inadequate response but … good to keep a sense of humour. </p>
<p>I don’t know what he’d have made of Yowie reports here in Australia. Too many to be ‘tall tales’ and given the vast forests in which to roam, yet another of life’s mysteries worth exploration.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68796252022-01-25T17:58:05-12:002022-01-25T17:58:05-12:00Cosmic Thunderbolts in an Electric Universe<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Yvn4Em8OLTo" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Yvn4Em8OLTo/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yvn4Em8OLTo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68587112022-01-03T23:00:32-12:002022-01-03T23:00:32-12:00no soundbites in truth - in truth no soundbites<p>Real – as in truthful – British history wasn’t taught as I passed through school. Nothing much happening before the Romans and very little worth mentioning afterwards until ….“1066 and all that.” Fairly dreary with no sense of context, no …’Meanwhile, in the rest of the world …’ </p>
<p>But there is a British history, revealed by Wilson and Blackett, taken forward by Ross Broadstock which is quite at odds with what is still taught at school. It’s quite wonderful and the British people, as a whole, have been robbed. </p>
<p>Still, what has been taken can be returned. </p>
<p>Ross doesn’t talk in soundbites and doesn’t produce clickbait. </p>
<p>The video below and the screenshot are indicative of the serious nature of this research.</p>
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<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8JUFqtYbFqU" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/8JUFqtYbFqU/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8JUFqtYbFqU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68562422021-12-31T11:21:26-12:002021-12-31T11:21:26-12:00Monty Python and Loretta<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="4b6-oE55vdM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/4b6-oE55vdM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4b6-oE55vdM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68557912021-12-30T23:09:43-12:002021-12-30T23:09:43-12:00yesterday, today and tomorrow<p>Amid the covid back and forth there’s always the ‘Meanwhile ….’ </p>
<p>Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth persevere in their efforts while N.I.S.T. prevaricate – it’s an issue which will not die, nor should it. There’s an obvious truth, unpalatable but undeniable, controlled demolition of Building 7 as proved by the four year study done by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, has hideous implication. </p>
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<p>There’s nothing new to share regarding ‘world view’ and why it’s held. Velikovsky’s marvellous books, vividly written describing a cataclysmic past, ‘Worlds in Collision’ and ‘Earth in Upheaval’ – quite contrary to the cosy world view in which nothing much happens over aeons although extinction events do occur, helped form a new appreciation of our place in the galaxy. A busy place, full of energy. </p>
<p>From this comes the Electric Universe, an idea – more than that – which hasn’t quite burst onto the public consciousness. </p>
<p>‘Suspicious Observers’ have put together an excellent video which is displayed below. Climate gets a mention. </p>
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<p>‘Dark Journalist’ has a channel which covers many of the topics which interest me. Deep State, U.F.O. material, interesting connections. This video is a good introduction. </p>
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<p>It’s been a delight to find that the work of Wilson and Blackett hasn’t been extinguished and that Ross Broadstock of ‘BritishHiddenHistory’ on youtube has picked up the torch and challenge. </p>
<p>I gain a great deal from these voices and the many more who cross my path, stay awhile, move on. </p>
<p>Best wishes. I leave it at that.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68394972021-12-13T07:33:56-12:002021-12-13T07:36:38-12:00covid and 9/11<p>If I watch the ‘news’ – and it doesn’t matter from which part of the World – it looks like a horror show and often is, it wouldn’t be news without the scenes of conflict, and, thus, the Australia I see portrayed is not what I’m experiencing and I live here albeit it’s a quiet life. In the main, people are continuing to be good, bad or indifferent as they always have been. </p>
<p>Internment camps? The very name conjures up images of concentration camps – we don’t have them. Staying in a hotel is not an internment camp. Yes there are ‘out of the way’ places that can be called internment camps but – hold on – they’re not places you stay in for long. For one thing, practically, no-one wants to work there. As far as I can see our police generally do the best they can under difficult circumstances. This is not a NAZI police state. Whether it’ll continue to move in that direction is another matter.</p>
<p>I’ve noted the odd politician reveling in the exercise of power but, in the main, our politicians are blundering through as they often do – not doing much checking of facts and hoping that ‘all will be well.’ Booster shots fill me with great unease. We move to injecting our children and there is no reason to do so – a year ago and this wasn’t even mentioned because children only get a mild version of covid. That aspect hasn’t changed yet now … it’s on the table with many welcoming this move. To protect who? Apart from the profits of big pharma.</p>
<p>As to the moves towards a new world order – they continue and don’t bode well for anyone. I’m still waiting, along with three and a half thousand Architects and Engineers, for the explanation as to how skyscrapers fall neatly into their own footprints. No theory about conspiracy there … just conspiracy.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The following is a reprint from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth.</p>
<p>'Unspeakable’ </p>
<p>Ted Walter </p>
<p>December 8, 2021</p>
<p>Before it could air on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a small handful of television critics and reporters managed to pressure HBO and Spike Lee into removing a half hour of the final episode of NYC Epicenters 9/11 → 2021½, in which the filmmaker questioned how the Twin Towers and Building 7 came down on 9/11. Then they celebrated the censorship. </p>
<p>Conveniently omitted from almost all of their reporting was the fact that the censored half hour included not only a dozen technical experts affiliated with Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth but 9/11 family members, first responders, and survivors. </p>
<p>Also in the past few months, The Atlantic and The Washington Post published lengthy pieces sympathizing with 9/11 family member Bob McIlvaine and Loose Change producer Korey Rowe, respectively — but dismissing their views with little-to-no basis for doing so. Meanwhile, The New York Times published a hit piece making empty claims about how Loose Change was a precursor to QAnon and other current-day “conspiracy theories.” </p>
<p>Now that The Unspeakable has been out for a month and features four people who were in the censored half hour of NYC Epicenters — 9/11 family members Bob McIlvaine and Drew DePalma, architect Bill Brinnier, and engineer Tony Szamboti — and was directed by Loose Change creator Dylan Avery and edited by Korey Rowe, these journalists should be called upon to write about the stories and the filmmaking of the people they have silenced and denigrated. </p>
<p>Will these journalists have the decency to review an “extraordinary, deeply moving film” about the 9/11 family members they helped censor, made by the filmmakers they and their colleagues have been defaming for 15 years? Or will they ignore this film — which relates directly to their earlier reporting — because it doesn’t fit their narrative? </p>
<p>If they don’t write about it, we will be putting them on record as refusing to cover this film because it reflects positively on the good people they have painted as “conspiracy theorists.” Moreover, if any of them do watch the film and are capable of introspection, it should plant seeds of doubt about whether they are on the right side of history when it comes to 9/11 — seeds that could blossom the next time a major story like Lee’s HBO series forces them to write about 9/11 Truth. </p>
<p>Please take a bit of time this week to email these journalists individually or as a group and urge them to write about The Unspeakable. All the information you need is below. </p>
<p>And please drop us an email at info@AE911Truth.org when you’re done so that we know how many people are contacting them. </p>
<p>Reggie Ugwu and Julia Jacobs, The New York Times </p>
<p>Ugwu ignited the controversy in an interview with Spike Lee, published on August 23, 2021 (“Spike Lee, Exultant at the ‘Epicenter’”), in which he asked the filmmaker why he included the perspective of “conspiracy group” Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Lee answered that he still had questions and that he hoped the film would lead to a congressional hearing. </p>
<p>Ugwu and Jacobs then wrote two articles covering the controversy as it evolved (“Spike Lee Re-Edits HBO Sept. 11 Series That Features Conspiracists”; “Spike Lee Removes Conspiracists From HBO 9/11 Series After Criticism”). Like Ugwu's interview with Lee, their reporting conveniently omitted the fact that 9/11 family members, first responders, and survivors were included in the censored section. They also presented as fact their opinion that the controlled demolition theory has been “debunked.” And they repeatedly referred to members of AE911Truth as “conspiracy theorists” rather than as “architects” and “engineers,” yet reverently described Dr. Shyam “We’ve-Had-Trouble-Getting-a-Handle-on-Building-7” Sunder and Ronald “It-Appeared-to-Me-that-Charges-Had-Been-Placed-in-the-Building” Hamburger as “scientists” and “experts” who had conducted a “yearslong investigation” and “hundreds of hours of analysis.” </p>
<p>Email addresses: reggie.ugwu@nytimes.com, julia.jacobs@nytimes.com </p>
<p>James Poniewozik, The New York Times </p>
<p>Poniewozik is the chief television critic for The New York Times. In his roundup of TV documentaries that aired around the 20th anniversary (“Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era?”), he claimed that the final episode of NYC Epicenters “flows better” without the “bizarre section” featuring “the conspiracists.” (I argue the opposite: It is glaringly incomplete.) He ended his column by lamenting that “the most artful of this season’s Sept. 11 documentaries became an example of one of the very problems it diagnosed” — i.e., conspiracism — while breathing a sigh of relief that the media was able to “make a difference.” </p>
<p>Email address: james.poniewozik@nytimes.com </p>
<p>Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair </p>
<p>Unlike most critics, who omitted the fact that 9/11 family members were included in the censored half hour, Hoffman (“Spike Lee’s 9/11 Doc Didn’t Just Include Conspiracy Theories—It Promoted Them”) essentially bemoaned that Lee’s case for controlled demolition was too compelling because it included sympathetic figures like Bob McIlvaine. Praising Lee’s “directorial panache” and remarking how “eloquent” members of AE911Truth were, Hoffman offered little reason why anyone should disagree with Lee’s thesis, other than feebly asserting that “journalists have been debunking 9/11 conspiracies since 2005.” But he found it “terrifying to think how close HBO was to broadcasting the original version on such a wide platform.” </p>
<p>Email address: jhoffman555@gmail.com </p>
<p>Doreen St. Felix, The New Yorker </p>
<p>St. Felix is The New Yorker’s television critic. Referring to members of AE911Truth as “hoax junkies” (“The Messy Introspection of Spike Lee’s ‘NYC Epicenters’”), she derided Lee for “practically vibrating with curiosity and conviction as he fraternizes with the truthers” and for nearly committing what would have been a “career-defining offense” had he not removed the half-hour section. </p>
<p>Email address: doreenstfelix@gmail.com </p>
<p>Charles Bramesco, The Guardian </p>
<p>Like many others, Bramesco (“Why is Spike Lee’s 9/11 docuseries so controversial?”) reduced the censored half-hour section to “30 minutes featuring conspiracy group Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.” He asserted, without basis, that it contained “unfounded theorizing.” And he invoked the allegedly debunked catchphrase “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.” Bramesco is evidently unaware, as are most journalists, that there was molten metal both in the rubble and gushing out of the South Tower — and its presence is why informed people talk about the inability of open-air fires to melt steel. He also exaggerated the backlash against Lee — “The public reacted in a small uproar” — apparently forgetting that the public had not actually seen the censored half hour and that the uproar was mainly from members of the media. </p>
<p>Email address: bramescocharles@gmail.com </p>
<p>Chris Vognar, Vulture (New York Magazine) </p>
<p>In a short Q&A-style primer on the series, Vognar (“What Is Going On in Spike Lee’s 9/11 HBO Docuseries?”) twice used the term “conspiracy group” to refer to AE911Truth and twice asserted that the controlled demolition theory has been “thoroughly debunked,” citing pop science magazine Popular Mechanics. As if it were totally inconceivable that Lee would want to advocate the view that the towers were brought down by controlled demolition, Vognar asked, “What was [Lee] thinking, and how did the segment make it into the final cut to begin with?” </p>
<p>To his credit, Vognar at least mentioned the statement issued by Bob McIlvaine and Drew DePalma “decrying the series’s ‘censorship.’” However, he incorrectly referred to DePalma as the parent of a 9/11 victim rather than as a son. He also did not make it clear that McIlvaine and DePalma were in the censored half-hour section — and thus were responding to being silenced — nor did he provide a link to their statement. </p>
<p>Email address: chris.vognar@gmail.com </p>
<p>Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic </p>
<p>Senior is the author of a lengthy article in the September 2021 issue of The Atlantic that intimately profiled the grieving McIlvaine family (“What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind”). </p>
<p>A family friend of the McIlvaines, she treated Bob with dignity. But she ultimately dismissed, on flimsy circumstantial grounds, his interpretation of how his son died. And she dismissed the controlled demolition theory based on superficial and misguided ideas, such as her grossly mistaken claim that fire can melt steel. (She wrote: “Crucial to Bob Sr.’s understanding of September 11 . . . is the work of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, which popularized the idea that jet fuel couldn’t burn at a high enough temperature to melt beams into molten steel. This is, it should go without saying, contrary to all observable fact.”) </p>
<p>Email address: press@theatlantic.com </p>
<p>Kevin Roose, The New York Times </p>
<p>At this point, articles like Roose’s “How a Viral Video Bent Reality” are so commonplace and formulaic that they need no elaboration. Perhaps realizing it would be a stretch (if not totally false) to say that Loose Change “caused” the newer “conspiracy theories” of the present, Roose conveyed the same idea in a more slippery way: “Its DNA is all over the internet.” </p>
<p>Email address: kevin.roose+pitch@nytimes.com </p>
<p>Jose Del Real, The Washington Post </p>
<p>Del Real and the editors at The Washington Post apparently thought a great way to celebrate Veterans Day would be to publish an in-depth story about Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran Korey Rowe (“A veteran helped spread viral 9/11 conspiracy theories. Can he start over?”). Del Real’s constant pivoting between sympathizing with Rowe and admonishing him for the “widely debunked,” “fantastical claims” he “peddled” as the producer of Loose Change is a masterclass in the trendy style of journalism I like to call “compassionate debunking” (though it is neither compassionate nor actual debunking). </p>
<p>Del Real says his “job is about truth and, at the highest level, empathy.” Now is his chance to prove it. </p>
<p>Email address: jose.delreal@washpost.com </p>
<p>Group Email List </p>
<p>reggie.ugwu@nytimes.com, julia.jacobs@nytimes.com, james.poniewozik@nytimes.com, jhoffman555@gmail.com, doreenstfelix@gmail.com, bramescocharles@gmail.com, chris.vognar@gmail.com, press@theatlantic.com, kevin.roose+pitch@nytimes.com, jose.delreal@washpost.com</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68311612021-12-05T16:34:04-12:002021-12-05T16:34:04-12:00It's not all gloom and doom<p>My ignorance is appalling in more fields than I care to count. I have to unlearn much of what I’ve been taught and to question continually. The history of the country of my birth and of the country I now live in, where the money comes from and to whom does it flow, the whys and the wherefores of this world, the one in which political leaders boast that they can change reality and they do. </p>
<p>The history of Central Banking is a cesspit. The hideous divisions in society are manufactured, there is an agenda. It’s not mine. </p>
<p>I don’t use social media and look to other voices to give education, inspiration, humour, sometimes via lecture, documentary … it’s ongoing. </p>
<p>I’m a grandparent and can’t afford to blindly accept what I’m told, not when 5 – 11 year olds are lining up or about to be lined up to be vaccinated for no good reason – remember when this covid ‘thing’ started NO children needed to be vaccinated albeit they may get sick. Nothing essentially has changed yet we’re now hell-bent on injecting our children, who cannot make an informed consent, with vaccines which haven’t been given due process regarding safety and long term effect. </p>
<p>This is a madness. Children are not dying in the streets.</p>
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<p>and a word or two with Jordan Peterson and then, for me, play some music.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VbVwV8_TEkM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VbVwV8_TEkM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VbVwV8_TEkM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68286142021-12-02T17:32:20-12:002021-12-02T17:32:20-12:00Violating Community Guidelines<p>“a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” </p>
<p>John Fitzgerald Kennedy </p>
<p>So leads off the remarkable Tony Heller in a youtube post- perhaps he’ll be closed down - for he, gosh, golly, has ‘violated community guidelines.’ </p>
<p>It stinks to high heaven, odious it is to live through a time when ‘truth and falsehood’ are words rarely used. We get the mealy mouthed ‘alternative facts’ when there’s no such thing. There are facts and additional facts which then may change perception but they’re not alternative. </p>
<p>That we’ve been lied to isn’t hard to accept. There’s never any talk of ‘corruption theory’ – it’s laughable when all know that corruption exists to then call it a theory. </p>
<p>Why isn’t it so with conspiracy. All know that conspiracies have always existed – no theory about it yet it serves the purpose of those who would confuse their population to add the word ‘theory’ whenever a conspiracy is uncovered. </p>
<p>Straight after 9/11 that twit of a president George W. read what his handlers had decreed – words to the effect – ‘Let’s have no talk of conspiracy theories.’ and the tragic consequences unfold with a tame, compliant media mouthing the same platitudinous nonsense. </p>
<p>In the olden days, before the internet, much was hidden or just difficult to find and people wrote letters to the editor of their local newspaper about subjects which moved them. Not that they all get printed. My last one didn’t. Nothing too dreadful but not printed. </p>
<p>And as for youtube – they’ve age restricted two of my videos neither of which shows anything more than one would find on the evening news. </p>
<p>It was covid restrictions and mandates here in Australia which prompted me to write. </p>
<p>It is as follows: </p>
<p>Awhile ago the Gazette printed a letter from a man who’d had his first vaccine but nonetheless had many questions unanswered in respect to Covid. I found myself slightly uplifted because he’d written and because you’d printed. </p>
<p>Later, a letter from a couple who’d decided not to get vaccinated and again, slightly uplifted that they’d cared to write and that you had printed. </p>
<p>I’m double vaccinated – can’t work without it - but there’s been an element of coercion which may have had justification when rates of vaccination were low – the ‘common good’ element – but what we have now is a two tiered society in which the unvaccinated cannot fully participate in society. </p>
<p>This cannot stand without comment. </p>
<p>Bluntly, who stands to suffer most if the disease is caught and, as much to the point, what right does ‘society’ have to demand that we’re injected, perhaps for years, and mandate a ‘no jab – no job.’ approach as if this somehow resolves the situation. </p>
<p>It doesn’t resolve it. </p>
<p>Sincerely David Griffith </p>
<p>As for Tony Heller – he continues his good work on these platforms: </p>
<p>https://newtube.app/TonyHeller https://rumble.com/user/tonyheller</p>
<p>And while it's there on youtube</p>
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<p>Yet when it comes to Climate Change the absurd 90% plus figure regarding consensus is trotted out like a Gospel.</p>
<p>31,000 American scientists disagree about consensus so that's worth the pause for thought.</p>
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<p>The text of the Global Warming Petition Project reads, in its entirety:</p>
<p>"We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. </p>
<p><strong>There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.</strong>"</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68131942021-11-17T10:34:36-12:002021-11-24T10:53:31-12:00'Artorius Rex Discovered' <p>‘Artorius Rex Discovered’ is not a book for the faint hearted. It is so densely packed with minute detail that it’s no wonder that a search for ‘Wilson and Blackett debunked’ turns up no result. A bit of scurrilous nonsense but nothing real. </p>
<p>To debunk such scholarly research would require a physical retracing of their steps, an excellent fluency with the Welsh language, a deep understanding of history and sources, context within that history and a keen intellect not encumbered by bias or self interest. A decade or so of time may also be required. As there is in existence a whole industry in England dedicated to making money from Arthurian legend then courage and perseverance will also be needed. </p>
<p>There are no takers for such an endeavor. Wilson and Blackett are ignored. Understandable in England but a disgrace within Wales where the ‘powers that be’ have a duty to prove them wrong or otherwise. </p>
<p>I had no interest in King Arthur – surely myth and legend or so I once thought - and found Wilson and Blackett while researching my own voyage back to Wales – land of my birth, land of my fathers. I wanted a deeper map of time and place than that generally available. </p>
<p>It was by their lectures and their collaboration with Adrian Gilbert who wrote ‘The Holy Kingdom’ that I found the roadmap I was seeking. It served me well and I’m grateful to the authors. </p>
<p>It was four years ago when I made that journey but only very recently did I find the book ‘Artorius Rex Discovered.’ I’m very glad that I did.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68118492021-11-16T10:50:14-12:002021-11-16T10:50:14-12:00Some clarity on climate<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="21yhXjonvqM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/21yhXjonvqM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/21yhXjonvqM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>and Jordan Peterson</p>
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_ui92cPxueM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/_ui92cPxueM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_ui92cPxueM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/68061132021-11-11T09:33:02-12:002021-11-11T09:33:02-12:00Jordan Peterson<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="9b8kprIQ-yo" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/9b8kprIQ-yo/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9b8kprIQ-yo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67999572021-11-05T11:51:18-12:002021-11-05T11:51:18-12:00Suspicious Observers<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y9c4AlmDHFc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67965952021-11-02T12:37:36-12:002021-11-02T12:37:36-12:00The Unspeakable<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="11RwCm_OaGc" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/11RwCm_OaGc/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/11RwCm_OaGc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67920612021-10-30T14:59:39-12:002021-11-05T11:47:22-12:00Twice as fast<p>‘Twice as fast’ … what could this relate to except ‘Global warming.’ </p>
<p>Tony Heller is indefatigable when it comes to detail about climate. He’ll scour newspaper reports and, unless those reports were false, then the temperature graphs used to promote the CO2 aspect of climate are false. </p>
<p>Who would believe this unless they checked. </p>
<p>I did and started with the Sydney Observatory and their records. It was only in 1714 that Fahrenheit invented the first modern thermometer. It, no doubt, took awhile before it was in standard use so those records don’t go far back in time. </p>
<p>Michael Mann, the fraudster behind the infamous ‘hockey stick’ graph, sued after being called a fraud and lost his case, in British Columbia, with costs awarded to Dr Tim Ball. </p>
<p> </p>
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<p>That the climate is changing isn’t in dispute so silly phrases such as ‘Climate Denier’ are a deflection. The IPCC continue to create reports which – believe it or not – take no account of the sun’s activity. </p>
<p>It’s the sun cycles which change the climate and I’ll continue to breathe CO2 onto my plants which they drink and, in turn, give me back oxygen. </p>
<p>The problem with climate science is actually lack of consensus as any real reading of this subject will reveal. </p>
<p>Meanwhile the sun continues its cycles and we can expect a continuation of Earth’s often catastrophic history. This is yet another uncomfortable aspect of life which doesn’t sit well with the long, quiet evolution which most of us were taught regarding the past. </p>
<p>‘What does it matter that a lie was promoted if we now have greater impetus regarding renewable energy?’ </p>
<p>It absolutely matters. The logical end result of the CO2 lie is that the world would be better off if we all stopped breathing. </p>
<p>Our local pub reopened a few weeks ago with the Wednesday night ‘plug and play’ back in operation. </p>
<p>I took a break and went to the beer garden and joined the table of a bloke with a splendid beard. </p>
<p>We exchange pleasantries – as you do. </p>
<p>‘Ah well’ say I, ‘We can’t even talk about the weather without running into conflict.’ </p>
<p>A nice enough bloke, intelligent and used to be a journalist. He accepts the prevailing narrative of CO2 being the cause of climate change so that subject died. </p>
<p>We move to 9/11 where he finds no problem with buildings falling down into their own footprint and suggests that the twin towers were glass buildings and that a plane flying in would be sufficient to cause the damage. I appreciate that he wasn’t suggesting that glass was the only substance holding the buildings up but he seemed unaware that these towers were steel clad and were designed to withstand an aircraft impact. </p>
<p>The point being that he hadn’t checked anything in relation to 9/11 but did recognise that if aircraft were not the cause of collapse then the implication is of controlled demolition which requires time and therefore ‘bearded terrorists’ would not be the only suspects. </p>
<p>Those weren’t his exact words which were closer to “Inside job?” </p>
<p>So … in quick succession we moved to UFO’s and the bias inherent in many academics who are fixated on the idea that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light and, thus, UFO’s are unlikely. That appeared to be his position. </p>
<p>My contention is that alien activity is and probably always has been here whether we choose to believe or not. </p>
<p>Belief is irrelevant, knowledge trumps belief and the fact that I can’t produce a physical alien artefact or give ‘rhyme and reason’ to alien existence is of no importance. Our military know better as do the millions who have witnessed and know what they saw.</p>
<p>I’m not looking for argument nor to convert so it was time to move back to the music after my bearded mate wondered whether I thought that the moon landing was faked or that the Earth was flat. </p>
<p>‘No’ to both, just for the record. </p>
<p>This is the sad thing about a cheerful and friendly contact in which questions are raised. Perhaps I’m wrong in my impression but because I raised ANY questions about events and situations which affect us all, we move from climate to where I’m asked if I believe that the Earth is flat. </p>
<p>In other words … I must be a ‘Conspiracy theorist.’ </p>
<p>Ah … the good old days when men were men and conspiracies weren’t ‘just theories.’</p>
<p>“Twice as fast?” … no … let’s take it slowly. Do the research.</p>
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dPtKKfzG9ig" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/dPtKKfzG9ig/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dPtKKfzG9ig?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67704062021-10-08T11:23:27-12:002021-10-08T11:23:27-12:00AE911TRUTH<p>It was a brief conversation, years ago, brief because I had no answer. </p>
<p>9/11 related. </p>
<p>“Do you know that over two thousand architects and engineers have a signed a petition calling for a re-investigation into 9/11?” </p>
<p>Quick as a flash … “What about the thousands who haven’t signed.” </p>
<p>Years pass. </p>
<p>There are now over 3500 architects and engineers who have put their reputations on the line and signed the petition. </p>
<p>Many more thousands, like myself, have signed the public petition. </p>
<p>Their latest newsletter: </p>
<p>AE911Truth celebrates the milestone — and verification — of 3,500 architects and engineers </p>
<p>Xander Arena, AE911Truth verification team leader </p>
<p>October 7, 2021</p>
<p>The achievement heralded in the headline of this article was accomplished, coincidentally, on the 20th anniversary of that fateful day the world calls “9/11.” Such an important milestone is worthy of a closer look. </p>
<p>Let’s think about what it means to be a verified signatory to the petition of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth — to stand on the front lines of such a monumental mission. </p>
<p>The more than 3,500 architects and engineers who have signed AE911Truth’s petition exhibit the highest order of honor and courage. They have placed allegiance to their professional disciplines above personal gain. In a society whose leadership still seeks to marginalize and slander them, casting them aside as pariahs, they have made the choice to stand proudly for what they know to be right. They have shown the utmost integrity and commitment to their oath to protect the public welfare. They are not just professionals; they are truly champions. </p>
<p>Each architect and engineer who signs our petition must prove their credentials in order to be validated and displayed on our petition as an “AE.” We require each professional signatory to have a four-year degree or higher in their engineering or architectural discipline — or substantially equivalent professional licensing. </p>
<p>At AE911Truth, it is our duty to rigorously verify our petition signers. Over the years, an additional 2,000 people beyond the actual 3,500 AEs tried to sign our petition, claiming to be architects or engineers. Most of them probably are, but for one reason or another they either did not complete our verification process or did not fully meet the requirements. Or perhaps they didn’t receive our requests for further information. Whatever the case, the 3,500 verified mark we reached last month reflects a figure and process that 9/11 Truth activists the world over can count on. </p>
<p>As an aside, it’s no secret that algorithms can be devised to throttle the spread of information, channel communications to spam folders, or even now relegate phone calls to “suspicious caller” categories. So, if you’re an engineer or architect who signed our petition, whether ten days ago or ten years ago, please visit https://www.ae911truth.org/signatures/#/AE and ensure that you are properly displayed. If you are not, then kindly follow through and contact AE911Truth to complete the process. Your signature and support matter! </p>
<p>Xander Arena verifies AE911Truth petition signers with the help of his conure, Aurora. </p>
<p>Verifying our thousands of supporters is a labor-intensive task, performed by generous and service-oriented volunteers who make great sacrifices to help “Team Truth.” And though our loved ones likely lament the lost time — the hours we put into verifying AEs instead of hanging out with family and friends — the intrinsic reward of helping to amplify the call for a new 9/11 investigation is a satisfaction that is without equal. As a volunteer verifier, I consider it a great honor every time I send the following message to our confirmed AE signatories: </p>
<p>“We thank you so much for your courage and support. You are indeed on the right side of history!” </p>
<p>Once one understands the importance of what AE911Truth does, it is hard to sit on the sidelines. Signing our petition is itself an act of service — one I, too, chose to make some time ago. As a member of our “general public” category, I am proud to find my name amongst physicists and physicians, mathematicians and musicians, pilots and flight attendants, social workers and construction workers, psychologists, attorneys, veterans, firefighters, nurses, law enforcement professionals, homemakers, school teachers, restaurant owners, grocery clerks, and tens of thousands of other admirable thinkers and doers. </p>
<p>Our “general public” category, replete with concerned and capable citizens who have taken the brave stand of speaking out and being heard, now has more than 30,000 signatories. Many of them hold jobs that are termed “professional.” I point this out to emphasize that codes of conduct and ethical standards exist not only in the building profession — compelling engineers and architects to take a stand for truth — but also in all professional disciplines, demanding that their constituents not be silent in the face of criminality. </p>
<p>If you peruse the AE and the general public categories, you will see that some signatories make interesting statements expressing their ethical concerns, explaining their expertise, and offering their support, while many others simply add their name to the ranks. Both actions are equally important. </p>
<p>Undoubtedly, many people fear the implications of publicly expressing a desire for “a truly independent investigation with subpoena power, which seeks inquiry into the possible use of explosives that might have caused the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7.” Yet the very pillars of truth we stand upon protect our signatories. Indeed, those who fairly and thoroughly examine AE911Truth’s evidence and claims come away understanding that we are on the right side of the argument. The light of 9/11 Truth eviscerates even the darkest of shadows. </p>
<p>Acknowledging we have not yet received an honest and impartial investigation into the worst crime in American history, whose consequences have harmed the entire world, is a psychological turning point in many peoples’ lives. Grappling with a betrayal of that magnitude may even be scary, but to not speak out only perpetuates additional abuses. Individuals and societies have been able to overcome harrowing histories of violence and walk forward into the future. Such fortitude creates strength, trust, and respect. </p>
<p>The world deserves the truth. We deserve governance by truthful leaders and institutions. We deserve an open and honest accounting of what transpired before our very eyes and cost us all so dearly. </p>
<p>If you have not yet signed the petition calling for a real investigation, or if you are an architect or engineer who has not completed the verification process, I urge you to please do so expeditiously. Our collective future depends on it.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67637082021-10-01T11:22:40-12:002021-10-01T11:22:40-12:00So happy birthday and building garden beds<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="h3625_nyobI" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/h3625_nyobI/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h3625_nyobI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67624182021-09-30T09:48:06-12:002021-09-30T09:48:06-12:00U.A.P.'s and playing with words.<p>U.F.O.'s become U.A.P.'s and there's no difference.</p>
<p>The report to Congress starts in 2006 as if it's a new subject. We, the public, got so little information that it's insulting.</p>
<p>Not a novel situation but I'm tired of bullshit.</p>
<p>It's a bizarre situation when physicists dismiss the issue because - 'the speed of light cannot be broken.'</p>
<p>Blind spots. They're here so the speed of light isn't an issue.</p>
<p>I offer my experience and will take a break after this for awhile.</p>
<p>It also took place in 2006 and left an indelible memory.</p>
<p>26th June 2006 Monday 6.30 p.m. near Willawarren and about 50km west of Kempsey, N.S.W. Australia I arrived at Margaret and Andy’s farm where we were about to head to central Queensland and onto to the Anakie gem fields. </p>
<p>The previous night Margaret had phoned to say they’d been contacted by their neighbour, further up the hill, who was seeing lights in the sky. I told her to get some photos but the mobile phone was all that was available and wouldn’t pick it up. I told her to try anyway and spent the next two hours wondering what had happened. </p>
<p>I arrived the following evening, as planned, and hadn’t unpacked the car before Dave, the neighbour up the hill, phoned again to say the lights were back. I raced out to the car and threw some items out to make space for one of the family and looked back to find they were still making sandwiches and coffee, being a bit blase, having seen it the previous night. </p>
<p> As for me, brief headscratch and off I raced, up the hill, bouncing around in the rutted track and peering in every direction, wondering exactly where I’d packed the binoculars. I come to the intersection where to the left is Dave’s and to the right is an avenue of trees leading to an open view and a large expanse of sky. I turn towards the open space and stop after a few seconds as I think the binoculars are in the boot of the car. I jump out of the car and crouch down to somewhat frantically search in a packed boot and then look up to see a shape pass overhead. </p>
<p> I’m crouched down, looking up at an assortment of strobing and coloured flashing lights which reveal no obvious shape. As this thing flew almost over my head, it was only visible for a few seconds, between the top foliage of the trees and so I can only estimate a shape as big as the space between your hands held at arms length. </p>
<p>Not something to be confused with atmospheric conditions, aeroplanes, stars or planets. I wasn’t conscious of any sound associated with this and I felt that it was flying not much higher than the trees. I guess 8 to 16 strobing and flashing lights in a completely irregular pattern which is why I can’t add anymore to this observation. </p>
<p>Just after this Margaret and company drive up the hill, I tell them what just happened and find out that they didn’t see it and then we head up to Dave’s. The next hour and a half were a little anticlimactic for me but nonetheless, it’s worth reporting that we observed bright star sized points of light which would move. We also saw two objects, slightly bigger than stars which were static in position but which displayed what appeared to be two or three coloured rotating lights. This was clear to me through binoculars but not to my eye. </p>
<p>The other odd aspect of the night sky was that, for a period of maybe fifteen minutes the sky would brighten slightly, from horizon to horizon, and then dim again. It was quite beautiful to observe and almost like a ripple effect. There were about eight or nine people present on both nights. Most of them were present on both nights. The following night was quiet. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67571262021-09-24T21:55:44-12:002021-09-24T21:55:44-12:00the garden is carbon and water and not much more<p>The climate is changing, the climate is changed. Trust is broken and lies are repeated so often that they become the unquestioned truth. </p>
<p>CO2 as a cause for global warming – just one example – correlation is not causation. </p>
<p>Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient truth’ never gets revisited to see what predictions came true. I’ve revisited it just as I followed the research into ‘Climategate’, the fraud which was accepted and still is accepted and which states that ‘we’ are responsible. </p>
<p>It does matter that fraud is the basis of the attention now paid to issues of climate even though that fraud results in renewable energy replacing fossil fuels. </p>
<p>Our children march in the streets, are fearful of the future. It’s an evil scam. </p>
<p>A co- founder of Greenpeace, Dr Patrick Moore, who left the organisation when it became deranged speaks clearly.</p>
<p> </p>
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<p>Youtube is both ruthless and relentless. Putting it down to algorithms misses the point that the algorithms are written by humans, humans with an agenda. If it were otherwise no-one would disappear. </p>
<p>Much as I found Trump a woeful specimen of humanity, ‘freedom of speech’ should have stopped facebook, twitter and whoever from implementing a ban. </p>
<p>Anger rises and subsides and I watch the process within myself. There’s so much going on and all of it divisive - not just on a human level - but I’m not powerless and have a voice. </p>
<p>Do I rant? Is this platform just a soapbox? Closer to the truth may be the image of standing on a mountain, pissing into the wind. Other than that, I speak quietly – that’s what musing implies. </p>
<p>James Corbett is a meticulous researcher and been an invaluable source of information. I’ve made his reports part of my life for many years. </p>
<p>I have a few songs on youtube and have my playlists of other videos I’ve found of interest. Youtube’s algorithms don’t give me my subscriptions in any clear fashion so I searched for The Corbett Report only to find that his channel is gone. He knew it was coming and moved elsewhere – bitchute being one such platform. </p>
<p>This is now a common experience for anyone who questions. </p>
<p>This is totalitarian control – the smiling face of ‘democracy decayed.’ </p>
<p>There's the possibility of renewal from decay.</p>
<p>I don't use social media, don't have a smartphone but I can embed videos of interest here.</p>
<p>James Corbett is found on Internet Archive, Bitchute and other platforms however, for some unknown reason, I can't embed them here, on the Bandzoogle platform.</p>
<p>Perhaps this will work.</p>
<p>https://www.corbettreport.com/lessonslearned/</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67462852021-09-14T18:26:01-12:002021-09-14T18:26:01-12:00Demolition of a world view<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/be7af43836c3235f3fa812374103f5f43f7f30cc/original/twin.gif/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Demolition of 9/11. </p>
<p>It was audacious. Osama Bin Laden denied any responsibility for the events of 9/11 – ‘as he would’ you might add. </p>
<p>But would he? The temptation to claim responsibility would be immense – strike at the heart of America. </p>
<p>The White House or Wall Street would make more sense as targets. </p>
<p>So the U.S.A. intelligence services called it a ‘failure of intelligence’ while George Bush claimed that no-one could have foreseen such an event yet Bin Laden’s intelligence was so great that the very day in which the whole of the air force is engaged in war games and unable to distinguish between real events and war games is the very day in which his plans came to fruition. </p>
<p>It was audacious – we need some Patsies to blame and the bearded hijackers fit the bill. </p>
<p>Pilots of the type of planes used on the Twin Towers state that even a ‘top gun’ pilot would have great difficulty hitting such a target yet these terrorists who barely managed to get a licence to fly a Cessna did the job perfectly. </p>
<p>None of these real queries gets any attention, quite the contrary, the attention is directed to a relentless regurgitation of the official story in which NO questions are asked. </p>
<p>I ask them – can’t help but look clearly at such a defining event. </p>
<p>Who do I ask them of? </p>
<p>I’d be asking Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. </p>
<p>Enough of that for now. </p>
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<p>A cool Spring morning here and the apparatus needed for Orwell’s 1984 dystopian reality is in place and actively pursued in Australia. Without Covid this would not have been possible. </p>
<p>Contact tracing and QR codes rule everyday transactions. Lock downs continue, almost three months in our area. Those considered essential workers and who therefore need be vaccinated have spread to include – just about everyone. </p>
<p>Truly biblical in nature if participation in society now depends upon one being vaccinated. </p>
<p>I have responsibilities which require proof of vaccination but have every sympathy for those who resist the almost hysterical entreaties to get vaccinated. </p>
<p>I recoil from the government telling me that ‘privileges’ will start to be reinstated when some vaccinated percentage figure is reached. They’re not privilege, they’re the freedoms that the ‘social contract’ in a democracy give – freedom of thought and expression, freedom of movement. </p>
<p>Covid is not the plague, serious though it be. The bodies are not piled up, dead in the street. If they were then it would require lockdowns – this is about control. </p>
<p>Contact tracing and QR codes are probably here to stay and may well end up being the least of our worries. </p>
<p>I’ve been regaining some health by working in the garden in which there are now raised garden beds amidst the Treeferns, daffodils, bluebells and the like. </p>
<p>The beds are occupied by more flowers and vegetable seedlings – nourishment to the eye, spirit and body.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/a1f45d0ee9d2df87840a3d3738813cc85d6d3e9b/original/dscn4355.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67414452021-09-09T09:21:23-12:002021-09-09T09:29:26-12:00who the hell is N.I.S.T. and what the hell happened to Building 7<p>You won't hear much about Building 7 - it doesn't fit the narrative. It did get a brief mention on a puff piece called 'Under Investigation' which aired here the other day.</p>
<p>To be fair, Building 7 was mentioned as were 'Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth'</p>
<p>The exchange went along these lines.</p>
<p>'What about the 'Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth' and their claim that Building 7 was a controlled demolition?'</p>
<p>The 'expert' responded with an incredulous look and the statement, ' It would take weeks to set up a controlled demolition.'</p>
<p>That's where that exchange ended. So much for probing questions.</p>
<p>This is the latest from 'Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth' who don't engage in conspiracy theories' but do confine themselves to physics and to the evidence.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>"A group of eight family members who lost children, parents, siblings, and spouses on 9/11 filed a lawsuit today against the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The lawsuit alleges that NIST violated federal law in its denial of a request for correction calling on the agency to throw out the conclusions of its 2008 report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. </p>
<p>The eight family members were joined by 10 structural engineers and architects and by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. All three groups of plaintiffs were signatories to the original request for correction, which identified eight ways that NIST’s fire-based scenario for the collapse of Building 7 was both physically impossible and inconsistent with the available evidence. </p>
<p>The goal of the lawsuit is to obtain a court order that forces NIST to perform new analyses and to develop a new “probable collapse sequence” that is physically possible and consistent with the available evidence. The plaintiffs argue that the only such scenario is a controlled demolition of the building."</p>
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<p>In August 2020, NIST issued its initial decision denying the request for correction. Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth decried the decision as a “blatant avoidance of the arguments and facts contained in the request.” Following the group’s subsequent appeal in September 2020, NIST took until June 2021 to issue a final decision — seven months longer than the agency usually takes to respond to such appeals. </p>
<p>The lawsuit alleges that NIST’s denial of the request for correction is arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law because the agency’s responses to the arguments in the request are irrational, evasive, and unsubstantive. </p>
<p>“We submitted hundreds of pages of documents showing that their story for how Building 7 collapsed is totally bogus,” said Bob McIlvaine, whose son Bobby died in the World Trade Center — and who was slated to appear in the excised 30 minutes of Spike Lee’s NYC Epicenters 9/11 → 2021½. “NIST failed to give any meaningful response because their report is false and they know it.” </p>
<p>Matt Campbell, a UK citizen whose brother, Geoff Campbell, died in the attacks and whose family last month applied for a new inquest into Geoff’s death, said after the filing, “It is deeply troubling that NIST continues to mislead the public about what really happened. Anyone who watches the collapse of Building 7 with an open mind can see it’s a controlled demolition. It’s difficult to comprehend that this is even a debate and that so many people are complicit in preventing the truth from coming out.” </p>
<p>Chief among the counts in the lawsuit is NIST’s admitted omission of a key structural feature from its computer model — coupled with the agency’s “irrational” explanation for leaving it out. The plaintiffs argue that including the structural feature would prevent the initiating failure in NIST’s collapse scenario from taking place. They have asked NIST to rerun its analysis with the structural feature added, but NIST has refused to do so. </p>
<p>The plaintiffs also take aim at NIST’s refusal to study a piece of melted steel recovered from Building 7 and at the agency’s refusal to interview witnesses who reported explosions. These included Gigi Stone Woods, a reporter for NY1 whose videotaped account of an “incredibly loud explosion” surfaced last year and who in January confirmed her story to Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. </p>
<p>NY1 reporter Gigi Stone Woods on September 11, 2001: “All of a sudden, a loud, incredibly loud explosion.” </p>
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<p>Key Documents </p>
<p>Lawsuit Complaint (September 7, 2021) </p>
<p>Request for Correction (April 15, 2020) </p>
<p>NIST’s Initial Decision (August 28, 2020) </p>
<p>Appeal (September 28, 2020) </p>
<p>Supplement (December 7, 2020) </p>
<p>NIST’s Final Decision (June 30, 2021)</p>
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<p>There will be little mention of Building 7. It's inconvenient.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67298682021-08-28T09:32:09-12:002021-08-28T09:32:09-12:00birds of the garden and ode for joy<p>I'm happy to say that the 'flash mob' and their 'Ode to Joy' moved me to tears. There were many years when nothing moved me to tears. There's something quite wonderful about such events.</p>
<p>The 'birds of the garden' needs no words.</p>
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<p>The sun moves back from its most northerly aspect as the days get slightly longer and my eyes deceive me. It’s the world which moves. </p>
<p>Self evident? Not at all. </p>
<p>“We have differing world views.” Does it matter? It matters if one’s world view then prompts aggressive action. </p>
<p>It’s everywhere on display with ‘Islamic State’ mentalities driving political outcomes, totalitarian States and all with differing world views to me. </p>
<p>Whether the Universe is electric makes no obvious difference to everyday life but in today’s world where ‘climate change’ scenarios steer political and business life and, as yet, the International Panel on Climate Change doesn’t take into account the effect of the medium to long term cycles of the sun then it really does matter. </p>
<p>The world view I grew up with included, as a backdrop of sorts, evolution over aeons with little change apart from the odd asteroid – This is the idea of Uniformitarianism … as defined by Wikipedia : </p>
<p><em>“Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity or the Uniformitarian Principle, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe.” </em></p>
<p>This is an assumption and nothing more but it was enthusiastically adopted in the 1800’s and remains so today. It’s cosy and safe and so much part of the backdrop to life that it's not noticed.</p>
<p>This view sat alongside a biblical world view which may or may not have had a literal Garden of Eden and perhaps encompassed some thousands of years. It also sat well, in an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ manner, with Darwin’s ideas. </p>
<p>That world view which perhaps I vaguely held was sharply changed by Velikovsky who presented evidence of a catastrophic past as detailed in his Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval and other works. </p>
<p>And yet he’s not taught in schools. </p>
<p>I get the local weather by looking out of the window. When it comes to climate and change I look further afield and don’t blindly accept the pap I’m fed. It’s not hard to check. I did so with temperatures in Australia. </p>
<p>‘Suspicious Observers’ do a five minute daily update on the sun, its cycles, space weather and more. A Universe which is electric – which is what the evidence shows – changes all the climate models used by the IPCC which is doing its best to terrify the world with what is essentially a lie. </p>
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<p>Those teaching that the Earth is flat don’t take kindly to being told otherwise. </p>
<p>Anyway, just musing … I wasn’t aware that I had a ‘world view’ until it became obvious due to…. difference. </p>
<p>Fragments of a shattered mirror in which, like Alice being told by the White Queen about believing impossible things…… </p>
<p><em>Alice laughed. `There's no use trying,' she said `one can't believe impossible things.' </em></p>
<p><em>`I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’ </em></p>
<p>I don’t recall much dwelling by the Church of my childhood on the Book of Revelations but the ‘bit about the beast’ came to mind when Bankcard appeared years ago and the triple ‘b’ was seen as ‘666’ – the number of the beast. </p>
<p>Gave me cause to wonder why ANYONE would take such a mark if that scripture were well known. </p>
<p><em>“16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: </em></p>
<p><em>17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. </em></p>
<p><em>18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” </em></p>
<p>Well … I don’t know about the ‘numbers’ but in light of the pandemic and the moves to make vaccinations mandated for many occupations, there is an ‘or else’ implied … ‘or else’ one cannot participate … however I don’t think ‘heaven and hell’ come into it … it’s more a flat statement of fact, via scripture, about the circumstances in which we all now live. </p>
<p>Just one way of looking at things but, no doubt, part of an ‘end times’ Christian view for some. </p>
<p>And then there’s the twenty year anniversary of 9/11 coming up this September and the lie – exposed by the four year study into the collapse of Building 7 but completely ignored by the main stream media – continues to be regurgitated and a whole generation knows no other story. </p>
<p>The magnitude of 9/11 is immense, rippled out into the destruction of whole societies and changed the world. </p>
<p>Is it worth another look ... do my eyes deceive me?</p>
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<p>no - eyes are o.k. and the evidence is sound.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/67109142021-08-08T19:51:09-12:002021-08-08T19:51:09-12:00moving with the seasons<p>“Count your blessings.” is an odd expression, a bit discordant with an almost miserly aspect but it comes to mind and I know what it means. </p>
<p>I’m not living through flood or fire although the fires came close and the floods occurred further down the hill and threw plans into disarray and so it’s been since Christmas last and continues. </p>
<p>Mid winter here which is early August and for me, since March, our national lockdown has been complicated by the need for two operations, and ‘thanks be’ for a National Health system which has continued to work while skirting the plague. </p>
<p>The sun shines, my eye has clarity, my body feels fine, there’s work to do in the garden and while war continues on so many fronts, I don’t need to only focus on that. </p>
<p>The joy of the Olympics, the reminder that political entities don’t stand on the podium, that this is reserved for individual effort and sublime performance. Any ‘basking in the reflected national glory’ is real enough, the competition, the disasters and the triumphs but it’s a human being on the podium regardless of country nomination. </p>
<p>Joy looks the same on any face and any race – the triumph of the human spirit. </p>
<p>How wonderful to see the skate boarding where the competitors take delight in their ‘opponents’ good runs. Remarkable. </p>
<p>It’s been a tonic to my spirit and I’m not alone in finding the Olympics inspiring. </p>
<p>Thank you Tokyo, thank you Japan.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/f07d5c3042358f83ad082722c5a24e6277a36eed/original/dscn2640.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/66936572021-07-20T14:35:41-12:002021-07-20T14:35:41-12:00across time<p>It was a few years ago when I did some research into ‘ancient’ British history – Welsh history in particular. </p>
<p>I was going back to the valleys for a first visit in over fifty years. Why wouldn’t I want a road map? </p>
<p>As a child growing up in Wales I wasn’t aware of the ‘Welsh Not.’ We spoke English. The ‘Welsh not’ disappeared as a punishment used in schools sometime around the late 1800’s – not that long ago. </p>
<p>“The Welsh Not, was traditionally a piece of wood, with the initials W.N carved into it. It was attached to a piece of string. </p>
<p>If a child in school was caught speaking Welsh (usually their first language) they had to wear the Welsh Not around their neck. </p>
<p>They could get rid of the Not, but only if they were to overhear another child speaking Welsh, and were encouraged to tell tales on them. Thus, the Not was transferred. </p>
<p>At the end of the day, the child left wearing the Not, would get caned. This was also the case for the child left wearing it at the end of the week.” </p>
<p>This way of somewhat forced assimilation is a familiar story to many minority cultures and my only point in mentioning it is to draw attention to what is hidden or ignored in the writing of history. </p>
<p>The printing press was forbidden in Wales until 1718, many reasons but nonetheless forbidden. I didn’t learn that in childhood. </p>
<p>King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, dragons, giants and more were part of an enchanted childhood imagination and were discarded as ‘real’ along with Santa Claus. </p>
<p>And yet … Arthur comes up in Welsh history as real person, Grandson of Tewdrig, son of Meurig and father of Morgan, all of them Kings within what is now South Wales. </p>
<p>The Llandaff Charters detail gifts of land from King to Church, of who gave what to who, how much, the witnesses – all detailed in the church records. </p>
<p>‘Don’t shoot the messenger.’ comes to mind. Who pointed me towards the Llandaff Charters was the remarkable Alan Wilson who, along with Baram Blackett, has done remarkable research and been ignored and vilified without anyone actually contradicting his work. </p>
<p>There’s a great deal at stake in keeping Arthur as a ‘legendary’ and commercial useful entity based in England. </p>
<p>Be that as it may, a lovely story follows which, of course, is true regardless of culture.</p>
<p>"Young King Arthur was ambushed and imprisoned by the <br>monarch of a neighbouring kingdom. The monarch could have <br>killed him but was moved by Arthur's youth and ideals. So, <br>the monarch offered him his freedom, as long as he could <br>answer a very difficult question. Arthur would have a year <br>to figure out the answer and, if after a year, he still had <br>no answer, he would be put to death. </p>
<p><br>The question?...What do women really want? Such a <br>question would perplex even the most knowledgeable man, and <br>to young Arthur, it seemed an impossible query. But, since <br>it was better than death, he accepted the monarch's <br>proposition to have an answer by year's end. <br>He returned to his kingdom and began to poll <br>everyone: the princess, the priests, the wise men and even <br>the court jester. He spoke with everyone, but no one could <br>give him a satisfactory answer. </p>
<p><br>Many people advised him to consult the old witch, for <br>only she would have the answer. <br>But the price would be high; as the witch was famous <br>throughout the kingdom for the exorbitant prices she <br>charged. </p>
<p><br>The last day of the year arrived and Arthur had no <br>choice but to talk to the witch. She agreed to answer the <br>question, but he would have to agree to her price first. <br>The old witch wanted to marry Sir Lancelot, the most <br>noble of the Knights of the Round Table and Arthur's closest <br>friend! </p>
<p><br>Young Arthur was horrified. She was hunchbacked and <br>hideous, had only one tooth, smelled like sewage, made <br>obscene noises, etc. He had never encountered such a <br>repugnant creature in all his life. </p>
<p><br>He refused to force his friend to marry her and endure <br>such a terrible burden; but Lancelot, learning of the <br>proposal, spoke with Arthur. </p>
<p><br>He said nothing was too big of a sacrifice compared to <br>Arthur's life and the preservation of the Round Table. <br>Hence, a wedding was proclaimed and the witch answered <br>Arthur's question thus: </p>
<p><br>What a woman really wants, she answered....is to be in <br>charge of her own life. </p>
<p><br>Everyone in the kingdom instantly knew that the witch <br>had uttered a great truth and that Arthur's life would be <br>spared. </p>
<p><br>And so it was, the neighbouring monarch granted Arthur <br>his freedom and Lancelot and the witch had a wonderful <br>wedding. </p>
<p><br>The honeymoon hour approached and Lancelot, steeling <br>himself for a horrific experience, entered the bedroom. But, <br>what a sight awaited him. The most beautiful woman he had <br>ever seen lay before him on the bed. The astounded Lancelot <br>asked what had happened? </p>
<p><br>The beauty replied that since he had been so kind to <br>her when she appeared as a witch, she would henceforth, be <br>her horrible deformed self only half the time and the <br>beautiful maiden the other half. </p>
<p><br>Which would he prefer? Beautiful during the day....or <br>night? <br><br>Lancelot pondered the predicament. During the day, a <br>beautiful woman to show off to his friends, but at night, in <br>the privacy of his castle, an old witch? Or, would he prefer <br>having a hideous witch during the day, but by night, a <br>beautiful woman for him to enjoy wondrous intimate moments? <br><br>Noble Lancelot said that he would allow HER to make <br>the choice herself. </p>
<p><br>Upon hearing this, she announced that she would be <br>beautiful all the time because he had respected her enough <br>to let her be in charge of her own life. </p>
<p>.......... the moral to this story? <br><br>If you don't let a woman have her own way.... <br>Things are going to get ugly .</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/66817272021-07-07T12:52:55-12:002021-07-07T13:01:33-12:00Looking for a problem that doesn’t exist. <p>As if there weren’t real issues to deal with on a daily basis, the morning news tells me that a Professor in France claims that white bread is racist. Thankfully, the French immediately mock this nonsense. </p>
<p>Ah – White privilege. There’s very little white privilege evident in my life. I still managed to get beaten and abused just as happens everywhere to every race, colour and creed. </p>
<p>I don’t think in terms of class but if I did then my working life has mainly been that of a serf, a peasant and, quite often, an ‘untouchable.’ </p>
<p>Essential jobs but who wants to do them. I did them with intelligence, flexibility and effort and did them well. </p>
<p>White privilege? Not if you’re poor. I’ve had choices and I suppose that could be seen as privilege. Living in a democracy, creaky though it be, is still the only viable option compared to the other societal systems all of which lead to the total control model. </p>
<p>The construction industry here reflects our crumbling society just as it does in China, the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere - skyscrapers fall apart, concrete crumbles and flammable covers are placed on the outside of buildings. No privilege but the one of corrupt practice thriving within all societies. </p>
<p>“… almost as though it never happened.” There’s a lot left out in history which governments of all persuasions would prefer to keep that way. </p>
<p>China doesn’t want to be bullied and won’t tolerate it. No sanctimonious criticism welcome. </p>
<p>‘Good on yer, China’ – rhyming slang - ‘China’ goes with ‘plate’ which rhymes with ‘mate’ and is a term of endearment - and no blame to China to remember a history where Britain’s opium wars fueled slavery in China while allowing fragile democracies elsewhere. Some would call that ‘white privilege’ but is it that simple? Just as a ‘whitewash’ indicates a cover up, an elite exists everywhere and it’s they who prosper regardless of skin colour. The great mass of people are cannon fodder. </p>
<p>Tiananmen Square gets forgotten – it’s inconvenient truth. Equally so for the sad tale of the USS Liberty which has a yearly memorial and is largely forgotten … never heard of it? …. Israel attacks an American ship, absolutely determined to sink the ship and kill the survivors. If that weren’t treacherous enough, Lyndon Johnson is happy to indulge Israel. Shameful enough and like Tiananmen, to be ‘better forgotten.’ </p>
<p>9/11 and ‘Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth’ continue their quest for corrections to the N.I.S.T report – only to be denied. More inconvenient truths of far greater consequence to the whole world than Tiananmen Square. </p>
<p>This doesn’t make Tiananmen any the less a terrible event but finger pointing about human rights sounds a bit hollow coming from the Land of the Free with their own dismal record of interference wherever and whenever they’ve seen their business and political interests threatened. </p>
<p>‘Confessions of an economic hitman’ – lurid title but makes clear the machinations of the U.S. throughout South American countries. </p>
<p>‘Still an’ all’ - Hooray for Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet all of whom the Communist Party would engulf. Reality check – these countries don’t welcome invasion any more than you do. The Party isn’t China and depends upon the people and not the other way round. </p>
<p>It’s hard to get through to an Emperor. </p>
<p>The N.I.S.T. Report, much like the recent UFO disclosure report to the American Congress, … is so incomplete as to be rubbish. Talk about holding the public in contempt. </p>
<p>Conspiracies and ‘dirty deeds’ have never ceased and most would remain hidden if not for the internet. </p>
<p>9/11 was an inside job … not a conspiracy theory but an inevitable conclusion, as the evidence leads for those who care to look. </p>
<p>Latest email from ‘Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth’ … these are credentialed people in their fields with far better things to do than look for a problem which doesn’t exist - and to do so for twenty years. </p>
<p> <strong>NIST issues blatantly unresponsive — and unlawful — decision on WTC 7 request </strong></p>
<p>One day before the July 1 deadline that AE911Truth gave NIST to issue its final decision on our “request for correction” to its report on Building 7 or else face legal action, NIST responded with a blatantly unresponsive — and unlawful — denial of our request.</p>
<p>NIST’s cursory five-page decision boils down to one paragraph, in which NIST baldly asserts that AE911Truth’s approach “has many differences” from NIST’s and that “[d]ue to these differences, the resulting outcomes . . . do not have an impact on the findings and recommendations of NIST’s Final Report….” </p>
<p>We invite you to read NIST’s final decision as well as the preliminary analysis of our attorney in this effort, Mick Harrison (who is also litigation director of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry). Other documents related to the request can be found at AE911Truth.org/nist. </p>
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<p>…. Raising questions about problems which DO exist.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/66808812021-07-06T19:27:39-12:002021-07-06T19:27:39-12:00kidney stones are no fun -that's all this is about.<p>Strange times in a six month long, intensely painful chapter of my life. At three score and ten one expects health issues, some self inflicted, others not. </p>
<p> Covid wreaks havoc and economies stagger while drought, flood and a whole gamut of earth and solar changes play out regardless of human intervention. </p>
<p>It’s against this background that kidney stones made their presence felt. A year after Covid arrived and ‘Thank God’ that I live in a country where a small tax on earnings pays for a national health system. Couldn’t afford to live otherwise. </p>
<p>What I didn’t know before my kidney stones were lasered. </p>
<p> I’d thought that the full operation would happen at once. It’s not made clear that the first operation is to insert a stent and that’s it for perhaps months if you’re a public rather than a private patient. </p>
<p>The three months or so in which I had the stent inserted have been the most difficult and physically painful period of my life. </p>
<p>This actually is a common experience. </p>
<p> I’d given up all exercise by the end of the second month because of blood in my urine, the frequency of need to urinate, the ongoing pain in urination upon which pain killers had little effect and a broken sleep pattern – usually an hour or so at a time. </p>
<p>Private insurance does apparently allow for the whole operation to take place at one time – stent inserted, stones lasered and removed, new stent put in and, basically, all finished with ten days later with the second stent removed. </p>
<p>In an odd synchronicity, I was due to meet family at Uluru on the very day my stones were lasered. The text message I got on the day before the operation to let me know time of arrival at the hospital was preceded by a text message from Jetstar letting me know that I should be boarding through Gate 12. </p>
<p>Can’t make this stuff up. Big Rock missed, small stones lasered and two painted pebbles, on the mantelpiece, given on my birthday by the loving grandkids. </p>
<p>I have a roof over my head. This makes me wealthy ‘beyond compare’ relative to the mass of humanity now and over our ancestral time on Earth. Hot water on demand, instant fire, a sewage system … I don’t count on it to continue but do count myself blessed to live in Australia. </p>
<p>I’ve managed to arrive at seventy with little more than a broken bone to deal with – an irritation, an inconvenience but not much more. A few other problems which would have killed me a hundred years ago but – ‘modern medicine’ extends the lifespan. </p>
<p>I now have an awareness of just how much physical pain people around me deal with on an everyday basis. </p>
<p>Now I can garden again – the joy of movement, of flexibility returned.</p>
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<p>As a child of the fifties, not long after the Second World War, the images of the barbarity of concentration camps are still clear in my mind. Huge sympathy for the plight of the Jewish people followed. </p>
<p>The Palestinians and their plight was and has always been eclipsed by the louder voices and far greater power, influence and resources of those who claim to represent the Jewish people – the Zionist State of Israel. </p>
<p>Anything – any thought I may have and express about this situation and its imbalance will be dismissed as anti-semitic. </p>
<p>The same cannot be said regarding the voice of Dr. Gabor Maté, a holocaust survivor. </p>
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<p>China receives criticism or rather the bully boy tactics of the Communist Party receives criticism but North Korea is as dark when seen from space as it is from ground level. A hideous version of Orwell’s 1984 plays out. The conversation between Jordan Peterson and Yeonmi Park is as remarkable as it is moving. </p>
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<p>Disclosure regarding UFO activity is in the news as if it actually WERE ‘news’. It’s not, hasn’t been for decades and if the grainy images thus far released are any indication of what is to come then any disclosure is partial at best. We’ll see soon enough.</p>
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<p>The lines are getting longer </p>
<p>For the poor and the dispossessed </p>
<p>As the men about the kitchen </p>
<p>juggle sauce for more is less </p>
<p>And it’s nowhere near better </p>
<p>As the vultures hold and swoop </p>
<p>On the nearest hapless fellow </p>
<p>drinking cruelty soup ‑ cruelty soup </p>
<p>Hi ho ‑ here we go </p>
<p>Another cup of soup you beknighted blighter </p>
<p>Hi ho ‑ here we go </p>
<p>No bread roll ‑ draw your belt in tighter </p>
<p>Hi ho ‑ here we go </p>
<p>Have you got the strength left to be a fighter </p>
<p>Toodle ‑oodle ooo ‑ ‑ Toodle ‑oodle ooo </p>
<p>The beat is getting stronger </p>
<p>As the war drums coalesce </p>
<p>And the call goes out for heroes </p>
<p>Nothing more and nothing less </p>
<p>And they’ll say the fight is sacred </p>
<p>And they’ll say that we are right </p>
<p>And they’ll want to shock and awe you </p>
<p> Into...... “ Darkness is Light” ‑ “Darkness IS Light.” </p>
<p>Hi ho ‑ here we go </p>
<p>It’s not just happening in a far off country </p>
<p>Hi ho ‑ here we go </p>
<p>Take a look around we’re the hundreth monkey </p>
<p>Hi ho ‑ here we go </p>
<p>How long .............. how long .... How long ....... how long </p>
<p>Will this go on......... The lines are getting longer and they’re getting out of line. </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/66350652021-05-19T15:17:53-12:002021-05-24T17:54:23-12:00I never thought of myself as sub human - just a human being. No Master Race, no Chosen People - just human. <p> </p>
<p>The ‘how and the why’ of the existing world financial system, the miracle of the freefall collapse of Building 7 on the day of 9/11, the ‘isms’ of this world and – are we alone? </p>
<p>“Investigate the Federal Reserve” said Ezra Pound to Eustace Mullins and so he did. The Federal Reserve is privately owned. It’s not in dispute, it’s on the public record although it’s not widely known. What to make of that? </p>
<p>Does it matter, does it make sense that a government give over to a private concern the ability to issue money and to charge interest to that government for the printing of that money out of – what is now – thin air? Not just one government but all governments are now beholden to a system of Central Banks. Quantitative Easing – it sounds like a financial laxative. </p>
<p>9/11 – two planes, three towers – I did the maths. More to the point it was late night here when the first plane struck. I’d turned on the news after a late shift at work and watched everything unfold – for perhaps ten hours. The Pentagon struck by a ‘something’ – we never got a photo. The plane that went down in Shanksville. Much of the world was sleeping, the rest, perhaps, in ‘shock and awe’. </p>
<p>And the third tower, the forty seven story high tower, the one not hit by a plane, the one that the University of Alaska’s four year study illustrates and concludes that controlled demolition rather than office fires brought it down yet this startling news doesn’t make world headlines. </p>
<p>Does it matter, doesn’t it make sense to investigate the event which has destroyed and displaced whole societies, has changed the course of humanity. </p>
<p>And the ‘isms’ which generally appear to lead to totalitarianism. Fascism, Zionism, Nazism and Communism, Imperialism and the notion of national exceptionalism. The bastardisation of Capitalism. </p>
<p>Does it matter that I have some understanding of ‘isms’ of this world. ‘Extremism’ and where it comes from comes to mind. </p>
<p>Somehow, in the world of human affairs as I understand it, man’s inhumanity to man is most starkly expressed in our times by Israel’s actions towards the ever diminishing puddles of land which now make up Palestine. This cruelty is driven by a religious extremism which has nothing to do with any God that I would recognise. </p>
<p>‘Love your neighbour as yourself’ and ‘Do unto others as you’d have done to yourself’ have no place here. </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/66273502021-05-10T20:53:41-12:002021-05-11T10:36:56-12:00a picture's worth a thousand words but only if it's seen<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/935a669a90c841f12e3bb6ed7a457e6f17d694e9/original/palestinian-puddles.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>This isn't a recent depiction of the ongoing theft of Palestinian land but illustrates the nonsense of 70 years and more of peace talks.</p>
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<p>I have an old school map of Palestine - had to shine a light on it to get a decent picture. There's symbolism if I needed it.</p>
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<p>The Warsaw ghetto is replaced with the Gaza Strip and the mindset of the one oppressor is no different, in essence, to the other.</p>
<p>The Master race and the Chosen people. Debased concepts both.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/66256252021-05-08T22:03:39-12:002021-05-08T22:03:39-12:00due diligence <p>'climate warming' is replaced by 'climate change' - both are fairly meaningless slogans so I continued my research.</p>
<p>Suspicious Observers present the following:</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/66147762021-04-26T16:11:53-12:002021-04-26T16:11:53-12:00and something gentle from earlier times <p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="V6IACPPKFjo" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/V6IACPPKFjo/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V6IACPPKFjo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
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<p>'theory' about it, it's there.</p>
<p>We have no initiations to speak of in modern day society as opposed to the real variety within tribal cultures.</p>
<p>There's a story behind 'white men have no Dreaming' too long to place here.</p>
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<p>'fall of an Empire'</p>
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<p>'cruelty soup'</p>
<p> </p>
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<p>and, of course, the mysterious disappearance of Building 7 from public consciousness</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/65473932021-02-11T00:00:00-12:002021-02-15T10:04:16-12:00Taking stock.<p>I got my first acoustic guitar in my twenties, got shown a few chords and realised that I don’t need more than that to write songs. </p>
<p>I don’t consider myself a musician and the gift of a good voice is probably due to being born in Wales where singing is seen as natural. A sense of rhythm is a gift as is the ability to find a melody and, thus, I had the basics to work with and to express some creativity. </p>
<p>And so I started writing songs but only as the spirit moved me which wasn’t often – perhaps four or five songs a year – after all, one has to have something to say. </p>
<p>I never had a desire to be a performer, to become famous or to be in the spotlight but the one thing which, I think, is common to all songwriters is the desire to distill enough meaning in a song to connect. </p>
<p>When it comes to passion, it was in the creative process that that passion was found. That is a true joy. </p>
<p>So – what to do with the songs becomes the question. Years went by and my daughter and her friends were old enough to go to the ‘blues’ nights at local pubs. With the exuberance of youth they’d ask me along, to bring my guitar and ‘have a go.’ </p>
<p>I’ve never been particularly sociable so this was a huge hurdle to overcome and took ‘ages’ before I managed to pluck up the courage but it eventually happened. It helped that they liked what I’d written and so I had a few gorgeous girls to serve as back-up singers and my daughter’s boyfriend to play his guitar. </p>
<p>My thoughts at this time were to send the songs to established singers but this is easier said than done. Fate stepped in and Bob Spencer – well known in Australia – literally lived a street away and was setting up a studio. He put a small advertisement in the local paper which I saw and we met up. That was the start of the recording process and my thoughts were still along the lines of sending the songs to established singers but, at least, they’d be in a presentable form. </p>
<p>Bob was excellent both as a musician and a producer. I’d put down the basic song, guitar and vocal, to a metronome and then he’d get rid of my guitar – it wasn’t good enough to be used and I’m not precious about needing my name on the credits as a musician – and that would be our starting point. </p>
<p>I loved the process of recording and, more often than not, three ‘takes’ of the vocals were sufficient and then it was over to Bob who was able to call upon fine musicians to flesh out the finished song. </p>
<p>Then the process of artwork and the manufacture followed. This has been the same process for the following cds with the last one being produced by Eliot Reynolds and, again, I didn’t use my own guitar for the same reason that I didn’t for the other cds. </p>
<p>Over the years I did start playing more in public, enjoyed it and found other people happy to join me on stage. </p>
<p>What to do with these songs led me to CDBaby and then to Hostbaby and now to Bandzoogle as a hosting platform. </p>
<p>Basically nothing happened with the songs but, then again, I never promoted them and contented myself with not using social media and perhaps naively believing that if the songs were good enough that they’d connect along the way. </p>
<p>Then the virus arrived and I made all the songs free as digital downloads because – I could. </p>
<p>Got a new guitar a few weeks back – a beautiful, mahogany topped smallish Sigma acoustic complete with electrics. I dropped into the music shop in Katoomba a few days ago to give them some feedback on the guitar and to give them a few cds. Explaining that I had a cupboard full of cds and heads turned and a chorus of ‘… so have I’ echoed back to me. </p>
<p>Life’s a funny creature. Has music been a success for me? Depends upon how one measures success. </p>
<p>If that saying …’As above, so below’ is true then the intelligences operating though out the galaxies are just as prone to despotic or wonderful behaviour as is mankind. Perhaps our example on Earth ripples out across space and time and has real effect. </p>
<p>And so – we live short lives and my allotted three score years and ten approaches. Not all my songs are cheerful but neither is life. </p>
<p>I loved the songs when I wrote them, have made them freely available on the website and will leave it at that.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/65428212021-02-07T12:00:00-12:002021-02-08T06:52:22-12:00excellent interview - always pertinent<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="caCkMX6YdYU" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/caCkMX6YdYU/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/caCkMX6YdYU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/65415922021-02-06T10:52:35-12:002021-02-06T10:52:35-12:00Did 'shock and awe' make Building 7 disappear? <p>“Reincarnation of living Buddhas including the Dalai Lama must comply with Chinese laws.” ... so says an article put out by the Chinese embassy in the Republic of Iceland during 2020. </p>
<p>Hmm … from a political party which disavows spirituality and raises its present leader to Emperor status … almost godlike but … the Emperor has no clothes. </p>
<p>Perhaps the story of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ isn’t familiar within China. </p>
<p>That ‘Party line’ approach to that which is divine, that which sustained Chinese culture through times of good and atrocious emperors alike is obscenely cynical. </p>
<p>I don’t know whether there’s any real difference between the 1984 dystopian future offered by a Chinese system of total surveillance, social credit scores along with the obligatory ‘Big Brother’ sinister overtones and what is appearing before all of us as …. a combination of ‘Brave New World’ and ‘1984’ approaches, one that few asked for and which gives us much the same as that which those novels indicated. </p>
<p> ‘Maximise profit’ is the mantra of all corporate entities which is why I instinctively turn away from that lust which knows few bounds. Globalism, to me, has come to mean a corporate capitalism where a world-wide Uber economy prevails. It’s what already exists. It provides no hope. </p>
<p>The following quote has stuck in the back of my mind for .. ages. It’s a niggle made all the more pertinent because of the deeply divisive times in which we live. </p>
<p>Did CIA Director William Casey really say, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false”? </p>
<p>According to Barbara Honegger, </p>
<p>“I am the source for this quote, which was indeed said by CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration. The meeting was in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House, not far from the Cabinet Room. I was present at the meeting as Assistant to the chief domestic policy adviser to the President. Casey first told Reagan that he had been astonished to discover that over 80 percent of the 'intelligence' that the analysis side of the CIA produced was based on open public sources like newspapers and magazines. As he did to all the other secretaries of their departments and agencies, Reagan asked what he saw as his goal as director for the CIA, to which he replied with this quote, which I recorded in my notes of the meeting as he said it. Shortly thereafter I told Senior White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who was a close friend and colleague, who in turn made it public.” </p>
<p>I watched a very informative documentary about the CIA – “Inside the CIA – On Company Business.” which dovetailed with the information given by John Perkins in his book ‘Confessions of an Economic hitman.’ </p>
<p>It’s a lurid title for a book but its contents detail involvement in the ‘shaping’ of South American governments to suit U.S. purposes. </p>
<p>I have these thoughts in my mind, how very little is ‘accidental’ in world affairs, how fragile all our societies have become. </p>
<p>Point being that Empire is Empire where the same tools are used whether it’s dressed in the fine garments of the Republic or the Party. </p>
<p>Meanwhile real effects cascade out from the virus, from societies through the Middle East already destroyed by … manipulated shenanigans. </p>
<p>2021 is already a catastrophe for many. </p>
<p>And yet and thankfully, I’m moved by a street busker who sings so beautifully that the hair stands up on my arms. </p>
<p>Meanwhile diversity is embraced but only if one’s views agree with the prevailing narrative. ‘Political correctness’ is an abysmal mindset in which free speech is shut down rather than debated. That approach doesn’t solve anything and, ultimately, you can’t legislate to make people like or tolerate each other. </p>
<p>What happened to ‘I have a dream … where people are judged by the content of their character …’ </p>
<p>There is no differentiation made between personality and character – not that I’m sure that there ever was.</p>
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<p>no offence intended.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/65398162021-02-04T11:30:12-12:002021-02-04T11:30:12-12:00cooee<p>Now and the La Nina weather system brings blessed relief to some of us who benefit from rain. A year ago and the park across the road held twenty eight fire trucks ready to roll across the Blue Mountains where bush fires raged on either side of us. </p>
<p>The garden of TreeFerns stretch, unfurl their beautiful fronds and settle in for summer. Birds fly in for a feed, either seed or a bit of wholemeal bread and feed their young in a process which has gone on for years. Parrots, Honey Eaters, Magpies and Currawongs grace the garden and delight the eye. Sulphur Crested Cockatoos – the vandals of the bird world – do much the same while keeping a wary eye open for me to appear with my ‘lock and load’ star wars water pistol. It’s a game with some small importance as they tend to chew on the wooden deck if left to their own devices. </p>
<p>I make a move in a long game of chess which is played by correspondence with an old mate who moved to the other side of the continent decades ago and who never took to computers. It’s our second game with the first taking ten years and the present one lasting longer. A month or two can go by before a move gets made and sent by letter with whatever news we feel worth writing about. Perhaps it’s a world record and we’ll, likely, never know. The games aren’t thrilling – that was never the purpose. Without the game to prompt the contact we’d have probably lost contact completely. </p>
<p>A new acoustic guitar finally arrives. Smaller than my Dreadnaught and with electrics it’s a delight – just got to learn how to play it. Being left handed means very few opportunities arise to just ‘have a go’ with someone else’s guitar. </p>
<p>Read Derek Sivers book ‘Your music and people’ – he started CDBaby and Hostbaby without which I and many others would have had no platform for our songs. While the book is chock full of excellent advice my main ‘take away’ was that this man embraces life fully – something I certainly can’t claim although I do know what going the extra mile entails when constructive group activities occur. </p>
<p>I find time to listen to Jordan Peterson, Clif High, Suspicious Observers and continue to be interested in UFO type material, remote viewing and much else ‘on the fringe.’ </p>
<p>Life continues to evolve. Strange thing about illusions – I don’t know I’ve got them until something happens to dissolve them. </p>
<p>Time to go work for a few hours with an intelligent but autistic chap before an afternoon in conversation, drinking a few beers and playing some music with another old mate.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/65265572021-01-20T20:28:33-12:002021-01-20T20:31:05-12:00The Uluru Statement<p> The Uluru Statement from the Heart </p>
<p>We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart: </p>
<p>Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years ago. </p>
<p>This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown. </p>
<p>How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years? </p>
<p>With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood. </p>
<p>Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future. </p>
<p>These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness. </p>
<p>We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country. </p>
<p>We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution. </p>
<p>Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination. </p>
<p>We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history. </p>
<p>In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/65036682020-12-19T10:31:25-12:002020-12-19T10:32:37-12:00unexpected action and reaction from youtube<p>Strange times ... 9/11 deserves close scrutiny however the song/video that youtube queries has had barely 100 views. Begs the question - how did it end up crossing the path of censors.</p>
<p>Hi saucepanbach, </p>
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<p>I checked youtubes guidelines and don’t feel or think that this video is problematic and so appealed their decision on the following basis but was not expecting a reply: </p>
<p>The lyrics to the song point to the impossibility of Building 7 - not hit by a plane - collapsing as it did. The laws of physics are revealed in the song. </p>
<p>What possible harm can the truth do to you or I? That's all the song is. </p>
<p>Unlikely to be viewed by children but it's no worse than the 'daily news' or video games. </p>
<p>Is this the only reason that this song comes to your attention? </p>
<p>It’s been ‘good’ to have youtube as a platform however I’m disappointed to see thoughtful channels I subscribe to just disappear and NOT ONE advocates violence but all ask questions. That's what happens in a democracy ... freedom of speech and so on. </p>
<p>So here’s a question for you – who sits on your community standards board, what qualifications are 'needed' and who checks the checkers? </p>
<p>cheers David Griffith </p>
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<p>These are the lyrics. </p>
<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>Can’t get those images from out my head </p>
<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>A few thousand here then millions dead </p>
<p> I looked at it once and it wouldn’t go away </p>
<p>I looked at it twice and it was gone within days </p>
<p>Is it only the architects who question the rubble </p>
<p>where the towers used to be? </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible </p>
<p>Two wars .... no cause </p>
<p>No bringing of freedom to a soul </p>
<p>Not one .... just blood </p>
<p>and the tears and the oil and the gold </p>
<p>I looked at it hard and it wouldn’t go away </p>
<p>I looked hard again and it was gone within days </p>
<p>Is it only engineers who question the rubble </p>
<p>where the towers used to be? </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible </p>
<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>A conjurer’s trick to deceive </p>
<p>Who gains? .... another tale </p>
<p>It’s only physics here revealed </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64925962020-12-05T11:06:22-12:002020-12-05T11:06:22-12:00enter the reset<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZwGQBR2NOeE" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZwGQBR2NOeE/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZwGQBR2NOeE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64871282020-11-27T12:26:24-12:002020-11-27T12:30:48-12:00the village bully<p>Every village has a bully, learnt behaviour from a dull awareness. Can’t tell the bully that unless he’s somehow scared of you and, even then, it’s unlikely to change behaviour. </p>
<p>As a child the bully looms large and is to be avoided. Easier said than done in a village and just as complicated in the wider world ‘village’ where nations become bullies as their growing power leads to expansion with all the temptations to ‘do as thou will’ taking precedence over ‘do unto others as you’d have done to oneself.’ </p>
<p>China behaves as a petulant child on the world stage and acts as America is used to doing. Employ sanctions, disregard trade treaties and all to show its displeasure because it is criticised or questioned at all. Small wonder that its neighbours are in a state of alarm. </p>
<p>China’s behaviour is more in keeping with Trumps vainglorious bullying approach to complex situations than what I would hope for from a civilisation which, in its antiquity, gave the world the I Ching. </p>
<p>The Peoples Communist Party – which people? </p>
<p>Not the ones who question, internally or externally, that much is clear. </p>
<p>Meanwhile the image of a bully remains. Horrifying. </p>
<p>To be clear – any serious research shows that 9/11 was a coup – as in a sudden, illegal, often violent, taking of power, Not that the U.S. government was involved. A cabal with no interest in taking the reins of the U.S. government were absolutely committed to swaying public opinion in the direction desired – perhaps what they perceived as the ‘National Good’, perhaps not - and they did it and then disappeared into the woodwork like cockroaches while unending wars result. Who benefits and follow the money. </p>
<p>George Bush wasn’t bright enough to be part of this coup, those around him are another matter. </p>
<p>A recently released four year study into the destruction of Building 7 proves that demolition was the ONLY way in which computer modelling can describe exactly what the video evidence of its collapse indicates. </p>
<p>If that were widely known perhaps civil war would erupt and so this crucial evidence is not mentioned – not in public, not by the media. </p>
<p>‘Building 7 – never heard of it.’ </p>
<p>‘My point exactly.’ </p>
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<p>Google and Youtube continue to demonetarise or delete channels and make difficult to find such information. Who checks the fact checkers. </p>
<p>There is no such thing as alternative facts – how can there be? A fact is a fact, the rest is a lie, a way of using language to sow doubt and muddy the waters.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64850292020-11-24T12:15:41-12:002020-11-24T12:24:02-12:00Is it a nod or a wink?<p>A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. </p>
<p>We’re being herded, corralled and given little choice about the matter. Public health, safety and so on. </p>
<p>Just the musings of an ordinary bloke but the changes within my lifetime are as immense as the dystopian possible futures defined by much of the science fiction I devoured so many decades ago. </p>
<p>How disappointing, within those fabulous tales, was the idea that hierarchies, the pyramid type so prevalent here on Earth, prevail throughout the Universe. Intergalactic wars without end. </p>
<p>A ‘dog eat dog’ Universe, ‘Cowboys and Indians in Space’, not much to look forward to if that were the whole of the truth. </p>
<p>Other dimensions. </p>
<p>So – ‘belief and knowledge and the difference between’ and is the world I’m living in, the changes being foisted upon us, just accidental, are our leaders just blundering from crisis to crisis or – if the world is a grand chessboard, an idea familiar to most of us, - is there strategy, plans developed, stealth employed perhaps to achieve aims largely unspoken or disguised. </p>
<p>Who needs conspiracy theories when real conspiracies abound. </p>
<p>I lament the fact that when trust breaks down relationships suffer, wither and decline and this is true personally, nationally and internationally. </p>
<p>I lament the lack of ethics which invariably cause the destruction of that trust. </p>
<p>I know life isn’t fair but that’s no justification for drinking from that trough, from behaving unfairly oneself. That was one of the ideas I gleaned from a Christian childhood upbringing which still makes sense to me and echoes Christ’s injunction to love one another which, necessarily, makes slavery of any description impossible. </p>
<p>Here in Australia an opportunity arose recently to ‘put it to the people,’ by way of a referendum, that Aboriginal Australia have a ‘voice’ – they don’t even have a treaty – the Prime Minister of the day refused to entertain the idea. It’s more nuanced than that but a disgrace nonetheless. What trust is there in a National Apology if words don’t lead to action and real change in a positive direction. </p>
<p>Palestinians suffer under seventy years of illusory ‘peace talks’ where Israel has all the power and jackboots its way to solving the Palestinian problem by total control of resources and ever expanding ‘settlements’ thus condemning Palestinians to ghettos. </p>
<p>It’s such a familiar story, nothing learnt from the horrors of the Second World War. </p>
<p>A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind horse. </p>
<p>Business as usual – just a change in the terms and conditions. </p>
<p>Just musings because … there’s a lot going on apart from the care of a garden. Having said that – a small crop of red currants are almost ready for picking while the garlic crop isn’t far behind. Hooray. </p>
<p>Nature doesn’t miss a beat.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/935a669a90c841f12e3bb6ed7a457e6f17d694e9/original/palestinian-puddles.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64817452020-11-19T14:31:16-12:002020-11-19T14:31:16-12:00pretending to be dead?<p>‘The land of the free’ … gee whiz that sounds great and yet … free to be, free to do, free to move, free to speak – but all with limitations set by culture, custom and law. Not total freedom which is just as well with monsters on the loose. </p>
<p>Free to be what? Free to do what? Certainly free to speak both lies and truth. </p>
<p>Whose freedom and at whose expense?</p>
<p>Freedom to question is beyond precious. </p>
<p>Across the seas and …’Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.’ Really? Britons have been quite comfortable with keeping a semblance of freedom at home which has been partially and ruthlessly gained at the expense of the populations of their previous Empire. </p>
<p> ‘… and so it has always been’ echoes the comment across time by a law maker I met. </p>
<p>Words are slippery, change meaning as they move from hand to mouth, from mind to speech. </p>
<p>What a woeful specimen of humanity Trump, the apprentice president, the tin-pot ‘would be dictator’ is. </p>
<p>Who could argue with that statement when the ‘leader of the free world’ is a compulsive liar – that fact alone diminishes the U.S.A. and about half its voting population. They would argue, no doubt, that Trump’s failings as a human being don’t matter because some greater goal is being served and, perhaps, … ‘mysterious are the ways of God.’ </p>
<p>Of course they are but that’s no excuse for abandoning reason or common sense. </p>
<p>Trump is the triumph of personality over character. A narcissistic personality belonging to a man with no character. </p>
<p>Character matters, it’s character which nourishes. Personality should be the outward expression of character. Ultimately, it’s the icing on the cake and not the cake itself. </p>
<p>Enough of that. America is working out its destiny with a blind indifference by the present leader to the reality of the day – it includes a pandemic which is real. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, here in a garden, the Tiger lilies are leaping from the ground and either crouching or up to chest height, laden with orange and brown flowers, just starting to bloom. Fragrance from a Mandarin and an Orange tree add to the Jasmine which perfume the air. A Dogwood goes from green to cream, startles the eye, magnificent.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/4a425f170d8b5fba39c3ea07381b3ec7f1b4776c/original/dscn3848.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64780652020-11-14T18:37:58-12:002020-11-14T18:37:58-12:00and this is the wider reality of climate change<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="DrPv4xyJ_f4" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/DrPv4xyJ_f4/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DrPv4xyJ_f4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64775592020-11-13T23:23:08-12:002020-11-13T23:25:38-12:00a few moments pass<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/13510bc3b9df4cdbfc798558fca47628f6d0feb8/original/dscn3736.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>My neighbour and I go for a walk. A blustery warm early summer day where weeding, transplanting, planting and rearranging all fit together and then time for a walk and a few days of freedom enough to not be part of the desperation being felt throughout the world - to be able to continue with the garden and some sense of normality. Another week of long days will set the garden up for high summer and – who knows what that brings. </p>
<p>Here, we’ve barely been affected by the virus. Many of us live quietly on the fringes of great suburban sprawls. Apart from masks I’m not affected. Notwithstanding the ‘Lucky country’ irony and reality, we’re in just as precarious a position in the context of a wider world. </p>
<p>Here, and nature flourishes, Tiger Lilies burst forth out of the ground, TreeFerns unfurl their fronds in some ecstatic harmony which reminds me of ships setting sail. </p>
<p>‘Covid’ – say it fast enough and it sounds like Covert, under the cover. Don’t know quite what to make of that but ‘track and trace’ is all in place, all for ‘good and sound’ public health reasons and it won’t disappear when the pandemic gets replaced with yet another urgent problem. </p>
<p>Our local pub has started up their weekly live music nights again. Hooray for a bright spot. Most ‘sign in’ with their phones, a quick and easy QR scan, a matrix bar code which has become commonplace. My phone is old and I’m allowed to sign in with pen and paper but … for how long is anyone’s guess. It’s the ease with which our lives, our behaviour is being changed and manipulated which is of concern, the flow on effect as our children and grandchildren become accustomed to a reality which is basically being manufactured before our eyes in a way never seen before. It’s not benign, it’s a business model where we become the product. </p>
<p>Still … many a slip between cup and lip.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/161ff8162815425d6a0e5a2b167c3c1af48b86fa/original/dscn3754.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64552352020-10-13T21:36:00-12:002020-10-17T06:38:53-12:00enter a summer<p>A glorious day, thankful for small mercies. </p>
<p>A few hours work produces a few buckets of Bindii – a beautiful but horrid, sharp seeded weed which infests Australian gardens and makes walking barefooted next to impossible. Poison or dig out. Poison leaves them in place and just as sharp so dig out is the meditative option. What luxury to have such a problem and the time to deal with it. Hmm .. eventually took many more hours and a score of buckets to really cover the ground.</p>
<p>Much as what I’ve written about over the years comes or is coming to pass. Cold comfort there and not much point repeating myself too much so I stop writing. </p>
<p>But. </p>
<p>Cash is now so suspect, due to virus, that the implementation of a new financial system is not only inevitable but will be seen as necessary – a health issue which will also impact the black economy and be sold that way but will do nothing about multi-national corporations who pay no tax at all. </p>
<p>The negative aspects of a cashless society – the possibility of negative interest rates, of every transaction recorded – what have I to hide is not the question, it’s none of anyone's ‘right’ to know. </p>
<p>I’m not a consumer, I’m a citizen. It’s not quaint that I say it, it’s obscene that I need to make the distinction. </p>
<p>The Federal Reserve – if that fraudulent entity in which the right of a country, in this case the U.S.A., to print its own money is transferred to a privately owned banking group remains a critical issue that most don’t grasp. It infects the world through a worldwide system of Central Banks beholden to the Federal Reserve’s dictates. It’s a fraud. </p>
<p>As both capitalistic and communist nations use the same financial system it’s a given that both will move easily into the ‘One World Order’ so desired by those already in power. Total control. </p>
<p>Printing money out of thin air? What could go wrong with that? </p>
<p>I’m repeating what you already know… or don’t. </p>
<p>I bought a ‘looper’ the other day. A musical pedal which allows for a few chords or more to be played, recorded and played back for yet another loop if required. What fun and what vistas open up for melody. Yippee for music. </p>
<p>I approach seventy which is as far as I’ve ever expected to live. Much of what I’ve known or thought I knew or never knew at all is gradually or abruptly discarded. </p>
<p>And back to the looper and the way in which each day repeats itself or it does for me. Small gains such as ‘taking out’ the Bindii and, more to the point, doing it at the right time matter. The same for so much in life – right action, right time – easy with Bindii but not so with the reefs and shoals, calm water and tempest which surround the deeper issues in life. </p>
<p>I can’t change that which I see in the wider world as worth mentioning. I have no followers and use no social media but this site, until the internet goes down - a solar flare can do this - has allowed me to speak out, albeit quietly, about … well … </p>
<p>9/11 – the other event in which it really matters that I’m well informed. Most were too much in shock and awe to note that huge buildings do not conveniently collapse into their own footprints without controlled demolition being involved. </p>
<p>By understanding both 9/11 and of how we have the present financial system much is revealed. I don’t want belief, facts are independent of belief. </p>
<p>The Cicadas have burrowed out of the earth and herald the beginning of summer. The chirpy, consistent noise ebbs and flows. They live a mysterious life, most of it underground, make their presence known briefly and then are gone. Much the same for most of us, no doubt. </p>
<p>Back to the garden while a kind climate prevails.</p>
<p>From winter</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/b25ed3dd8abb6a7e62a7a049e97a09ca2c8bbcd2/original/snowbirds.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>and two weeks later and how things change.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/7a0c5c8101638235683339b5f83d40d2b361b648/original/dscn3591.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64400192020-09-21T19:28:07-12:002020-10-14T07:58:32-12:00Grevious bodily calm<p>The quietly busy office of the Curator of Removed Monuments is next door but one to the dimly lit office of the Keeper of Lost Causes. In between is the office of Conspiracies and Belief Systems. Outside lies the Graveyard of Unwanted Statues. Filling up fast. </p>
<p>There really is a Curator of Unwanted Monuments, it was briefly mentioned in the news today, the rest is fantasy … perhaps. </p>
<p>It’s Spring here and the winter rains have been sufficient to green the land. Nature doesn’t miss a beat and while the Magnolia has decided not to bloom, to go straight to leaf, and to have a rest this year, the Tree-Fern garden is full of flower already. </p>
<p>Elsewhere and otherwise, It feels as though the world is holding its breath. Hard to do if you’re wearing a mask. I don’t like them. It’s a primitive and sensible reaction – I like to look when I’m seeing people – masks get in the way. I wear a mask when I must.</p>
<p>Weather patterns are extreme. Not here, not at the moment but, like everything, subject to change at a moment’s notice. </p>
<p>Here in Australia withIn the financial world, the world of jobs and real estate and ‘Where are we going on holiday?’ – if only we could afford one - it’s the calm before the storm and only ‘calm’ because of government help which ends soon. </p>
<p>The Keeper of Lost Causes mourns – it goes with the territory. So many causes, righteous but lying dusty, unrecognised, bloodied and battered, too many distractions with too many immediate concerns to bring visitors to this office. </p>
<p>Mental Health is much in the news – how to maintain it. I don’t know. I have a personal goal musically which helps. It’s just to ‘improve’ which, of course, implies practice. Walking and gardening make a difference for me. </p>
<p>“Grievous bodily calm …” in his excitement, the reporter didn’t quite get the words right and it made me smile but it certainly presents an image reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Truth with Newspeak and Doublethink. </p>
<p>The slogans that this virus has thrown up – ‘Staying apart keeps us together’ – this would be a nonsense but for the pandemic. </p>
<p>Big Brother is now a well established reality t.v. show not different in essence to the ‘real’ Big Brother of 1984 fame although the consequences are at present different. And via our devices Big Brother IS watching and certainly recording the data with China showing the world how to capture a population beyond the dreams of any previous Emperor. The difference, from then to now, being the diminishing ability to entertain freedom of thought and, if fortunate, experience freedom of expression. Big Brother is not and never was benign. </p>
<p>‘Peace for our time.’ said Neville Chamberlain, waving a piece of paper, just prior to World War 2 and now Israel trumpets the same lie in respect to Middle East recognition from Arab neighbours whose countries didn’t exist in present form when Israel started its present incarnation. No peace deals with the Palestinians offered so – nothing to applaud which doesn’t sound hollow. </p>
<p>A video below with James Corbett, researcher extraordinaire, and well worth your time.</p>
<p> </p>
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<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>Can’t get those images from out my head </p>
<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>A few thousand here then millions dead </p>
<p> I looked at it once and it wouldn’t go away </p>
<p>I looked at it twice and it was gone within days </p>
<p>Is it only the architects who question the rubble </p>
<p>where the towers used to be? </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible </p>
<p>Two wars .... no cause </p>
<p>No bringing of freedom to a soul </p>
<p>Not one .... just blood </p>
<p>and the tears and the oil and the gold </p>
<p>I looked at it hard and it wouldn’t go away </p>
<p>I looked hard again and it was gone within days </p>
<p>Is it only engineers who question the rubble </p>
<p>where the towers used to be? </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible </p>
<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>A conjurer’s trick to deceive </p>
<p>Who gains? .... another tale </p>
<p>It’s only physics here revealed </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64261492020-09-05T13:10:37-12:002020-09-05T13:10:37-12:00Is it really a matter of .... nothing to see here<p>‘The Death of Stalin’ – the film rather than the event – stays in mind for the wonderful, black humoured way in which it shows a totalitarian system with the leader as unquestioned and which, inevitably, corrupts and diminishes all concerned. </p>
<p>It does for totalitarian politics what ‘The Life of Brian’ does for religion. The connection being the absurdity of much of human interaction when a rigid acceptance of ‘the Leader’ replaces free thought and free speech. </p>
<p>God knows religion has much to answer for but totalitarian systems, of which we’ve had a few, inevitably replaces whatever God may be with a human being … a human being what? … usually ‘being hideous.’ </p>
<p>Can’t achieve much when despots rule. </p>
<p>Meanwhile the anniversary of 9/11 approaches and will probably pass with no scrutiny. </p>
<p>A fine video below as to who the actors were.</p>
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<p>When Trump took the stage, utterly unprepared then as now, the same image came to mind. </p>
<p>There are many voices whom I respect who then astound me by supporting Trump. If they’d voted Trump because they couldn’t stomach the Clintons – that I understand but to turn a blind eye to Trump’s constant lying and to all the character faults which come with such an ingrained disregard for truth beggars belief. </p>
<p>‘There are alternatives’ think I but I’m not sure that there really are. </p>
<p>So much going on while the virus IS the daily headline that it’s easy to miss such newsworthy items what would have been considered remarkable a year or so back. </p>
<p>The tacit admission by the U.S. military that UFO’s are real, as evidenced by the videos released, should be raising immediate questions – Roswell as an example - but it’s not so. </p>
<p>That the Palestinians have been shafted yet again in their justifiable quest for something more than a puddle to sit in. Seventy years of lies from Israel comes down to ‘Get what you get and be thankful.’ </p>
<p>What an odious way to treat your fellow man. </p>
<p>Barely makes the news. </p>
<p>The anniversary of 9/11 and the ongoing quest to reveal the truth of that matter … what truth? …. a forty seven story building, not hit by a plane, which collapsed in such a manner that demolition is the only method which duplicates, in the ‘lab’ of computer modelling and also taking a four year study to reveal, that which occurred. </p>
<p>Hasn’t made the news despite the implications. </p>
<p>That the Federal Reserve, privately owned, continues to steal the wealth of the world. Privately owned? It’s not in dispute regardless of the fact that most think it’s a government institution. </p>
<p>Mob rule – that used to conjure up images of rioters but it also is the case that ‘The Mob’ do rule in one form or another and … Republican or Democrat, right or left, socialist and so on, these labels hold no clear meaning for me. </p>
<p>Totalitarian rule or the threat of it stalks the streets of America while Trump, narcissist that he is, plants the seeds of civil war with his inflammatory nonsense about ‘ .. if I lose the election it’s because it’s rigged.’ </p>
<p>A buffoon in the White House. </p>
<p>Late winter day and almost warm so a walk is in the offing. Flowers sniff the air and the bold put forth their colours. It’s a cheerful sight. </p>
<p>Music in the air. I’ll keep practicing and playing.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64032522020-08-05T14:57:54-12:002020-08-05T14:57:54-12:00that which was hidden<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="np_ylvc8Zj8" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/np_ylvc8Zj8/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/np_ylvc8Zj8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/64022002020-08-04T12:33:31-12:002020-08-04T12:33:31-12:00now - where did I put my face?<p>‘Saving face’ – pretending that appearance is reality – brings its own problems, one of which is echoed in the story of the Emperor’s new clothes which, of course, were non-existent but no-one but a small child had the innocence or courage to mention the obvious, whereupon, in the story, the ‘spell’ was broken, the nakedness revealed. </p>
<p>An unnamed Chinese official mentions the obvious in respect to the South China Sea and the conflicting interests of all the countries which border this body of water – they are small, we are big. </p>
<p>It may not have been the exact words but the large/small aspect was ‘writ large’ in the message – ‘Might is right.’ It isn’t. That’s not to say it doesn’t work but it doesn’t make it right. </p>
<p>The English Channel is not owned by Britain, The name describes location not ownership just as it does with the South China Sea. </p>
<p>The spiritual sources of Chinese culture have much to say about Empire, the move to expansion and the dangers of neglecting the edges of the Empire and the legitimate interests of neighbouring countries. If they’re not dealt with in a fair manner the build up of resentment will manifest. Much better for the Empire to show some moral courage and place their interests below their smaller neighbours – a process which encourages trust and goodwill. </p>
<p>I haven’t absorbed this from a British upbringing but from Chinese sources which have stood the test of time and whose principles apply equally to the running of a household, a garden or an Empire. </p>
<p>The British Empire had a democracy of sorts at home but didn’t do likewise within its empire. The empire is gone, resentment remains. Same for the American Empire, teetering on the brink as its currency is devalued and its society hollowed out. </p>
<p>There is no magic answer to what besets the world. Here it’s cold but the sun shines. All looks normal. I know it’s not. </p>
<p>I’ve finished reading Velikovsky’s ‘Ages in Chaos’ which, unless you’re very familiar with both Hebrew and Egyptian histories which I’m not, is not an easy read. He makes the case for there being a six hundred year disparity with these histories and that, for the accounts to match, one of these accepted histories is wrong. </p>
<p>Where his book ‘Worlds in Collision’ fired my imagination and changed my perception of the past, this work goes into such minute detail – as it must – that my eyes glaze over and I’m none the wiser as to Egyptian and Hebrew chronology except to recognise that history is a fabric much patched and perhaps unrecognisable to those who actually lived it. </p>
<p>Thank God for music and the time and inclination to play, practice and develop.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/63891642020-07-21T12:48:13-12:002020-07-21T12:48:13-12:00It's morning here, a mid winter morning with mourning yet to come<p>It’s difficult to maintain discipline while in retreat and the spread of an invisible virus, the immediate enemy, has seen borders closed, reopened then closed again. It’s exhausting and much the same everywhere across the world. </p>
<p>An ‘Outbreak at the Crossroads Hotel’ sounds like a ‘shoot ‘em up’ film script but this real and symbolic outbreak occurred here recently and so the back and forth of lockdown then cautious reopening continues with the virus paying no heed to first wave, second wave artificial distinctions. </p>
<p>The virus has been compared with 9/11 in terms of impact and implication which is both sad and ironic as the ‘news’ revealed by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks shows that office fires could not have brought down Building 7 and that, in fact, only a controlled demolition could have mirrored what was seen on that day. </p>
<p>This ‘world shattering’ news has been completely ignored by the media. How can that be? Wilful ignorance? </p>
<p>While western media ignore what has or should have been apparent since that fateful day it cannot have escaped the notice of China or Russia – or, for that matter, the intelligence services of most countries and this makes me wonder whether there’s a tacit agreement to not expose this knowledge, regardless of apparent political differences, in view of a greater goal, a ‘new world order’ which, of course, means total control. </p>
<p>The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray. </p>
<p>Meanwhile the garden stirs as mid winter arrives. Early morning frosts, a walk later and time for some guitar. </p>
<p>A video below about the Australian version of the Yeti or Sasquatch, here named the Yowie.</p>
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<p>And as the fragility of societies becomes more evident the plans of nations continue. Israel continues its jackbooted, ruthless behaviour towards its neighbours, China becomes more assertive in its totalitarian march, America has Trump and the people have facebook and twitter with both censorship and advertisements. </p>
<p>Since the virus arrived cash has become suspicious to handle which makes it all the easier to do away with it and ‘go digital’ with all the negative implications. </p>
<p>It does have the potential to give us the new world order desired by the few – perhaps the many. </p>
<p>Perhaps twelve years ago I came across Griff Hamlin’s ‘4 note blues.’ It was a revelation or at least a light-bulb moment for me. </p>
<p>‘I’ve got four fingers’ thought I as if that realisation were on a par with discovering the new world … it was inasmuch as I’d contented myself with strumming guitar for the previous few decades. </p>
<p>I’m a slow learner and not much disciplined but progress is progress albeit slow. I’ve learnt, more or less, to hold the pick without it disappearing on me, applied myself to learning the patterns within the ‘five blues boxes’ and it’s starting to come together - ‘starting’ being the operative word. </p>
<p>It brings me quiet joy and something to bring to the musical table when the local pub reopens its ‘plug and play’ nights – who knows when. </p>
<p>Life continues as best it can with a wary eye on the future and no trust at all in ‘the powers that be.’ </p>
<p>Here’s Griff’s ‘4 note blues’ and you don’t need to be a guitarist to appreciate what he achieves.</p>
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<p> Google Earth is a great tool but that’s where my interest in Google ceases. Hard to avoid google when youtube is owned by them. </p>
<p>I have a youtube channel with very little content, a few songs with a photo and that’s about it. I do create playlists on subjects which interest me and it’s this activity which prompts emails from google, acting like the proverbial ‘big brother’ of 1984 fame. </p>
<p>‘Is this your activity?’ paraphrased not quoted. </p>
<p>‘None of your business’ think I and take no notice. </p>
<p>Another email requesting that I complete setting up ‘my account’ so that they can better serve my interests and tailor advertisements. I haven’t bothered and don’t like their algorithm’s tone of voice. </p>
<p>Not much point in getting cross about algorithms. I don’t use social media and have no smart phone. Ultimately I have no trust in the use to which technology is focused – tracking citizens, social credit scores - and in the hands of a totalitarian State, a bleak reality already present. </p>
<p>I know that my life is easily tracked regardless of a less than cool embrace with technology. My voice here is a whisper in a choir but it does disturb me when yet another voice falls silent because youtube’s ‘terms’ have been violated. </p>
<p>No reason is ever given for these violations and the sites I visit are intelligent, questioning – the very sites that need be given voice. </p>
<p>‘Don’t be evil’ used to be Google’s motto, quietly dropped in favour of ‘Do the right thing.’ </p>
<p>Google is become evil, a poisoned chalice, a non accountable entity in the service of an agenda. It's the same with facebook no doubt.</p>
<p>You can’t argue with a computer, it serves no purpose. </p>
<p>It’s a relief and a joy to have Velikovsky’s ‘Ages in Chaos’ to read as the Winter Solstice passes and the garden settles in for the slow return to Spring.</p>
<p>And a video for fun.</p>
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<p>The droughts, fires and general alarm meant that tourist numbers were already down when the virus shut down activity here in Australia. </p>
<p>Whose lives matter? </p>
<p>The mayhem unleashed around the world – who can compare one person’s suffering with another – would intensify if the following cold facts about 9/11 were equally in the public view and scrutiny. </p>
<p>Such is the level of madness and quiet complicity that this report hasn’t reached the mainstream media at all. </p>
<p>Does it help to know the following? Well - yes - better to know the truth. What use can be made of it is another matter. </p>
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<p>The final report of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) study was released, proving definitively that the collapse of Building 7 on 9/11 was NOT due to fire. </p>
<p>More than 75,000 professional engineers across the country have learned about the findings of this landmark UAF study through informational postcards. </p>
<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been served a formal “Request for Correction” regarding its fraudulent Building 7 report, which falsely cites fire as the cause of the collapse. This will force NIST to either correct its fraudulent report or be taken to court. </p>
<p>Dozens of powerful members of Congress have been notified of both the groundbreaking findings from the UAF study and the challenge to NIST regarding its fraudulent Building 7 report. </p>
<p>Hundreds of PBS affiliates will air the five-minute version of the eye-opening documentary SEVEN on live television for the next three months, reaching millions of people the truth about what really happened to Building 7 on 9/11.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/63506392020-06-11T14:59:57-12:002020-06-11T14:59:57-12:00crisis - real and manufactured<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ewJ6TI8ccAw" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/ewJ6TI8ccAw/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ewJ6TI8ccAw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/63259542020-05-21T17:57:51-12:002020-05-21T17:59:48-12:00Architects and Engineers<p>Time is askew, bent out of joint and the divergent point was September 11th 2001. </p>
<p>The political world cannot be understood without a clear picture of what occurred on that day, what was covered up and why. </p>
<p>The lyrics to ‘Two planes, three towers’ are about the laws of physics and not to be confused with a theory. </p>
<p>Free fall and the implications. </p>
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<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>Can’t get those images from out my head </p>
<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>A few thousand here then millions dead </p>
<p> I looked at it once and it wouldn’t go away </p>
<p>I looked at it twice and it was gone within days </p>
<p>Is it only the architects who question the rubble </p>
<p>where the towers used to be? </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible </p>
<p>Two wars .... no cause </p>
<p>No bringing of freedom to a soul </p>
<p>Not one .... just blood </p>
<p>and the tears and the oil and the gold </p>
<p>I looked at it hard and it wouldn’t go away </p>
<p>I looked hard again and it was gone within days </p>
<p>Is it only engineers who question the rubble </p>
<p>where the towers used to be? </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible </p>
<p>Two planes ... three towers </p>
<p>A conjurer’s trick to deceive </p>
<p>Who gains? .... another tale </p>
<p>It’s only physics here revealed </p>
<p>..... all fall down, free fall down ..... impossible</p>
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<p>It’s clear that the truth regarding THE event which changed the world and has led to unending wars was … engineered … and not by some bearded terrorists who could barely fly a Cessna. </p>
<p>It may be clear to me but questioning the official narrative isn’t popular with most of my extended family, some of whom grew truculent at the very idea that there was anything to question at all. </p>
<p>As the years go by it becomes apparent that, while I was fifty when 9/11 happened, many now living weren’t born or were small children and thus have no context regarding that day nor any obvious reason to look more deeply. </p>
<p>This video is short and a quick scan of the comments bears out my thoughts. It’s sad and I’ve no wish to provoke conflict so I just added the bland comment below. 9/11 still matters and will always matter, horrible in implication though the truth may be. </p>
<p>“How raw, how close to tears that pilot is while reliving that day. Much the same for millions of us. It was late night here in Australia when the defining event of our times unfolded. I watched for hours, Twin Towers fell and then Building 7. The University of Alaska, Fairbanks have recently finished a four year study into the collapse of Building 7 – a building most are unaware of. </p>
<p>Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth – why would such an organisation need to exist – continue their sober assessments of every detail regarding those towers and their collapse. The truth is unpalatable.”</p>
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<p>The deep blue/purple Tibouchinas flower late in the year. They’re more adapted to warmer climes but survive quite happily in a sheltered spot and their brilliant colour against the emerald green fronds of the Treeferns delight the heart. </p>
<p>‘Toughen up’ and ‘Become resilient’ is the message I take from the Tibouchinas while time itself allows for that development to occur … or perhaps not. They can still get burnt by the frost and winter cold – the sheltered spot, in the beginning, is the key. </p>
<p>Meanwhile the bulbs of daffodil, snowdrop, jonquil and grape hyacinth appear and a whole cycle continues. Polyanthus, rescued in high summer and replanted deep in some shade, are now good sized and ready to be replanted into the beds of winter sun and where, to my lifelong amazement, they happily flower in the snow. </p>
<p>Autumn jobs are done which is just as well as winter wind is unpleasant to work in. </p>
<p>It’s a garden report in a time of ‘social isolation’ … and happening just as I was getting used to the idea of ‘socialising.’ </p>
<p>Been revisiting the works of Alan Wilson and place a video below. His version of early British history is not accepted by academia but that doesn’t indicate that he is factually wrong. Academics are notorious for jealously guarding the status quo which allowed them a position in the first place. </p>
<p>I’m only sorry that his meticulous research is so poorly known. He tells a remarkable story and backs it up.</p>
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<p>In the ways in which ‘normal’ was beautiful in patches, behind the scenes it was also a tawdry ‘normal’ already slowly collapsing, as it would, because society has been eaten away until only a shell remains. </p>
<p>Anyway and regardless, everything is changed by some variety of lock down that we must all get used to while in the background and ready to roll out are the Apps designed to track our movements. </p>
<p>‘Just in case’ …. and because this virus shows no signs of abating these Apps are probably here to stay and so become the harbingers of a totalitarian world … internal passports are being mooted and, for now, rejected but it’s another sign of what humanity is supposed to embrace. The liberties gone because of ‘wars on terror’ and ‘wars on drugs’, neither of which can ever be ‘won’ enough for those liberties to be restored. Divide and conquer. </p>
<p>If virus and a broken economic system aren’t enough to cow us all into a submissive state then there’s always the threats from space, meteor bombardment or an alien invasion which will truly demand that we all toe the line. </p>
<p>Perhaps most or many people do accept the idea of alien life – there’s certainly enough evidence of visitation here on Earth for those who care to look yet there’s still an attitude of derision about the subject – why should that be? As for invasion – it hasn’t happened. Why would it. </p>
<p>Situation not normal. </p>
<p>Meanwhile I’ve the comparative luxury of a garden to work within, the Autumn tasks, the preparation for winter here, the rearranging of plants with an eye on the next Spring. </p>
<p>The Death of Stalin – it doesn’t sound too cheerful but it was a thoughtful joy of a film to watch, a black comedy illustrating just how absolute power corrupts almost everyone below that corrupted pinnacle. </p>
<p>It’s the way in which pretty much all constructive work gets confounded by the need to please the whims of an all glorious leader for whom bad news requires shooting the messenger rather than addressing the issue. It plays out in China, North Korea, the old Soviet Union and East Germany. </p>
<p>That system debases all involved but the surveillance methods are now embraced by the ‘free’ world. </p>
<p>‘Powers and Principalities’ – that phrase means something real within the spiritual and material world. No wonder that spiritual teachers give such weight to developing an ethical framework not only for a personal sense of some semblance of peace of mind but to avoid being tossed and turned by the ongoing ocean of lies and deceit which beset humanity regardless of the time in which we live.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/86e65ea02cf7219ed8a60c871394dfaaf80bb478/original/entwined-water-feature.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62869552020-04-18T17:04:52-12:002020-04-18T17:04:52-12:00now and then<p>‘Now’ becomes ‘then’ immediately or otherwise depending on the breadth in time of the ‘now’. In terms of working within the obvious dictates of the changing seasons, the garden gets an Autumn overhaul and what hasn’t worked in one spot gets moved to sunnier climes – this happens with some red currant bushes and leaves space to turn over and refresh that soil in preparation for planting a garden bed of garlic – I had to transplant many Dutch Irises for this whole procedure to work and this too required some thought. </p>
<p>It’s very satisfying, creative work/play. </p>
<p>Mid April and I’m a year off seventy, the three score years and ten allotted biblically. The human world is in shut down with the cascading effects you’d expect. Collectively and in social isolation we hold our breath and hope … for some sense of normal to return. </p>
<p>Can’t see it happening. </p>
<p>China is being stared at with questions asked. Rightly so yet the prevailing conditions make it relatively easy for governments everywhere to look at China’s use of facial recognition and social credit scores, all used to keep their population in line and quiescent, and those governments must be looking at this with something akin to a sense of envy. </p>
<p>It’s sinister. I feel very fortunate to live in Australia yet authoritarian voices are raised and heard to a point where common sense is in danger of taking a backseat – police chasing a solitary woman along a beach deserted of all but the woman taking the exercise. </p>
<p>5G is being rolled out at pace to keep informed and amused those locked to their devices. In 1859 we had the Carrington Event when a solar flare set telegraph wires alight disrupting society. If it happened now it would change everything regarding internet and much more. </p>
<p>Can’t dwell on that. </p>
<p>In the now that I inhabit I still play music, listen to remarkable voices via youtube, keep physical, take walks and drink beer. Probably doesn’t amount to much but it’s honest.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/54068e456c6af97e856f8f38f7fb35aeaef1390e/original/dscn3359.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62858642020-04-17T11:37:53-12:002020-04-17T11:37:53-12:00It won't go away - nor should it<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="FL9CCZFuDFY" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/FL9CCZFuDFY/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FL9CCZFuDFY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62791202020-04-10T12:42:21-12:002020-04-10T12:42:21-12:00John Pilger - national treasure<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jt58it26jCs" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/jt58it26jCs/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jt58it26jCs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62728932020-04-05T13:17:20-12:002020-04-05T13:17:20-12:00Recently...<p>A lovely message from the other side of the world, </p>
<p>“Dear David, a happy birthday to you. If the weather was like this when you were born it was cold, 6 degrees, but very pleasant, the sun was shining, the sky blue with large puffy clouds, daffodils, primroses, new spring green in the trees: all very joyful and optimistic.” </p>
<p>I looked it up on weather.sumofus.org and – blow me down – it WAS 6 degrees, breezy and sunny on the day and at the place where I was born. A few relatives checked their birthdays and found the weather much the same as today – as it’s not actually their birthday the weather report isn’t as specific. </p>
<p>If I hadn’t been aware of ‘climategate’, the focus on both temperature records and the dastardly CO2 issue then I wouldn’t have thought of checking. The Sydney Observatory has temperature records going back to the mid 1800’s which show almost no change in temperature, as the seasons change. </p>
<p>Anyway, the climate HAS changed with the weather aspect of climate being eclipsed by the social, financial, emotional and mental climates now existing by virtue of a virus. </p>
<p>Clif High says it’s a bioweapon. Perhaps he’s right. Not sure that it matters if the end result is a new world order complete with digital currency, social credit scores and a way of being incompatible with any concept of freedom. </p>
<p>China Uncensored and Serpentza have their differing ‘takes’ on China so it’s great to find them together. Here’s a link. </p>
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ </p>
<p>The garden is all shades of green, it’s lush with the late summer and early autumn rains replacing the hideous bushfire season just passed with its wilting effect on the land. Flowers didn’t bloom, fruit didn’t appear but it’s as though nature just held its breath for a moment before taking advantage of changing conditions. And all the green things inhale CO2 and exhale Oxygen which I breathe in. </p>
<p>I go for my walks and see few people. I go early and it’s Autumn chilly so not too surprising but later in the day more people are out. I won’t be giving up my walks. </p>
<p>A delightful musical video below.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62728922020-04-05T13:15:54-12:002020-04-05T13:15:54-12:00a musical delight<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nOoB6Xr5G1M" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/nOoB6Xr5G1M/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nOoB6Xr5G1M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62711112020-04-03T10:47:11-12:002020-04-03T10:47:11-12:00not forgetting 9/11<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UXxvRpcLRKI" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/UXxvRpcLRKI/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UXxvRpcLRKI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62621622020-03-25T15:07:48-12:002020-03-31T10:28:39-12:00now<p>I rely on ‘Israeli News Live’ for ‘what’s happening behind the scenes’ regarding Israel and the extremist elements within the Jewish faith. </p>
<p>It makes sense to listen to a reformed Zionist, now converted to Christianity, because he knows the Talmud, he knows the mind set, the foundation upon which peoples and nations are forced to move. </p>
<p>It doesn’t matter whether or not I believe what they believe, it’s sufficient to know that Zionists and those who follow the Talmud – the body of ‘knowledge’ against which Christ railed as ‘making naught of God’s word’ - act upon their beliefs and are no different in intent to Islamic State and are just as evil. </p>
<p>Why mention this when the world reels from virus and cascading effects. </p>
<p>Agendas continue. </p>
<p>Noahide Laws. I enclose George Bush’s words, written in 1991, in which a lie and an utter nonsense is put forth as if it were true. </p>
<p>Very strange aspect of history it is that ‘ancient’ conjures up the time of Christ or not much earlier when, in truth, it’s a tiny fraction of mankind’s existence and God, whatever God may be, did not leave those prior humans without access to spiritual life. </p>
<p>No venerable Jewish scribe, no matter how long his beard, compares with an Aboriginal spiritual life tens of thousands of years more ancient, more real than the ‘laws’ being foisted upon the world by these scribes. Yet the scribes have the power to now have all 50 states in the U.S.A. add this nonsense into their school curriculum. </p>
<p> Public Law 102-14, H.J. Res 104 </p>
<p>EDUCATION DAY U.S.A </p>
<p>102nd Congress of the United States of America </p>
<p>March 5, 1991 </p>
<p>Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded; </p>
<p>Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws; </p>
<p>Whereas without these ethical values and principles the edifice of civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos; </p>
<p>Whereas society is profoundly concerned with the recent weakening of these principles that has resulted in crises that beleaguer and threaten the fabric of civilized society; </p>
<p>Whereas the justified preoccupation with these crises must not let the citizens of this Nation lose sight of their responsibility to transmit these historical ethical values from our distinguished past to the generations of the future; </p>
<p>Whereas the Lubavitch movement has fostered and promoted these ethical values and principles throughout the world; </p>
<p>Whereas Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitch movement, is universally respected and revered and his eighty-ninth birthday falls on March 26, 1991; </p>
<p>Whereas in tribute to this great spiritual leader, “the Rebbe,” this, his ninetieth year will be seen as one of “education and giving,” the year in which we turn to education and charity to return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven Noahide Laws; and </p>
<p>Whereas this will be reflected in an international scroll of honor signed by the President of the United States and other heads of state: Now, therefore, be it </p>
<p>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That March 26, 1991, the start of the ninetieth year of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement, is designated as Education Day U.S.A The President is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. </p>
<p>Approved March 20, 1991. </p>
<p>Signed by George Bush, </p>
<p>http://noahide.org/public-law-102-14-h-j-res-104/ </p>
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<p>And so it goes, the relentless hunger for power and control by those least able to use it for the benefit of all. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, the weather here has been beautiful, cool, Autumn, misty, days perfect for renewed growth after a blistering Bushfire season. A season which has left many with trauma enough without adding a virus. </p>
<p>How life changes, everyday social activity slows or almost ceases and playing music with my nephews – a rare event - gets postponed. </p>
<p>But life goes on, I still take my walks and enjoyed five days of sun last week during which I took the whipper snipper to our local park and did some guerrilla gardening. Can’t get any more socially isolated than a man with a whipper snipper. </p>
<p>Meanwhile signs go up saying ‘Cash not accepted’ – perfect time to introduce a cashless society worldwide while fear of germs takes hold. </p>
<p>Hard to know how the next few months will unfold. Perhaps 5G roll outs will proceed at pace because demand will increase and voices of caution over the health aspects of 5G will just not be heard. </p>
<p>Populations may be confined but agendas continue. Origin Energy here in Australia are proceeding with fracking regardless of tribal outcry echoed by many in the wider population. </p>
<p>That’s the point, umpteen agendas continue while we’re distracted. </p>
<p>It gives me time to get more familiar with this host server and how to use the site template. </p>
<p>I’ve made the songs here free just because I can. You’re welcome to pay for them but it’s not necessary. </p>
<p>Keep well.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62570582020-03-20T17:24:48-12:002020-03-20T17:24:48-12:00meanwhile - catching up on some fine detail<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="K_8xd0LCeRQ" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/K_8xd0LCeRQ/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K_8xd0LCeRQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62506982020-03-15T16:42:51-12:002020-03-15T16:42:51-12:00excellent news - new power source, clean and brilliant<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZBInhPFFVog" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZBInhPFFVog/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZBInhPFFVog?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62443252020-03-10T10:13:27-12:002020-03-10T10:13:27-12:00meanwhile 5G continues to roll out<p>Inquiry into 5G in Australia: Misinformation by whom? </p>
<p>Posted on March 9, 2020 by Stop Smart Meters Australia </p>
<p>Australia’s parliamentary inquiry into 5G, which was announced in September 2019 with submissions due at the beginning of November 2019, continues to trundle on. </p>
<p>Over 500 of the responses have now been published on the parliamentary website. An overwhelming majority of these have raised concerns about the deployment of 5G technology. </p>
<p>The parliamentary committee charged with undertaking this inquiry held public hearings in Queensland and the ACT last year, followed by hearings in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney in February. According to Parliament’s webpage on public hearings, witnesses are called to a hearing so that the committee “can hear from people who have experience or expertise that is relevant to the committee’s inquiry”. </p>
<p>Given that the lion’s share of submissions highlighted evidence of potential harm as a result of the rollout of 5G, and the authors of the submissions included a number of highly credentialled members of the public, why has the committee chosen to instead hear, in the main, from 5G proponents? </p>
<p>Analysis of time allocated at hearings shows that telecommunications companies and other supporters of 5G have been granted a staggering 91% of timeslots. To add insult to injury, witnesses who have refused to jump on the 5G bandwagon were shunted into giving evidence at public hearings located in cities other than their own, even when there was a nearby hearing scheduled. This is grossly unfair – obviously being able to present in person beats having to participate by teleconference. </p>
<p>Although the volume of submissions meant that some submitters waited a number of months for their submissions to be published on the parliamentary website, to the committee’s credit, it is also evident that late responses were accepted. Steve Weller, author of submission 530, and current executive team member of the Oceania Radiofrequency Scientific Advisory Association, used this opportunity to rebut pro-industry spin contained in earlier responses. </p>
<p>Preposterous claims, such as that made in Vodafone Hutchison’s submission, which states that “Australia has some of the most comprehensive and stringent radio frequency safety and electromagnetic energy (EME) compliance requirements in the developed world” are called out in an appendix to the submission. </p>
<p>Surely the millions being spent by the government to build public confidence in the safety of telecommunications and 5G, and to address ‘misinformation’ about electromagnetic emissions, would be better spent confronting the reality that wireless technologies are harmful to health? </p>
<p>The engineers responsible for a paper entitled “Electromagnetic Radiation due to Cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies: How safe are we?”, which has been accepted for publication in a future issue of IEEE Access, a scientific journal published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, contend that “Both individuals and governments must be aware of the fact that the current population has already been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation and the resulting adverse health effects may surface in people at any time”. The point is made that “Without thorough research and well-designed safety measures in place, wide-spread deployment of 5G networks could prove to be dangerous” (SSMA emphasis). </p>
<p>Scientists have been sounding urgent warnings regarding ubiquitous and increasing exposure to electromagnetic fields for decades. Medical practitioners are coming face to face with the consequences. Engineers are now recognising that wireless technologies must be avoided as much as possible and urging us to instead favour “new and innovative wired solutions which provide the same level of user-friendliness”. </p>
<p>In light of this groundswell of awareness, how much longer can the Australian Government continue to aid and abet wireless industry interests? </p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62443242020-03-10T09:56:28-12:002020-03-10T10:04:31-12:00outright hostility ensues regarding the truth surrounding 9/11<p>9/11 Truth and the Silence of the IR Discipline </p>
<p>Hughes, David (2020) 9/11 Truth and the Silence of the IR Discipline. Alternatives . pp. 1-28. ISSN 0304-3754 </p>
<p>Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375419898334 </p>
<p>This is the latest version of this item. </p>
<p>Documents </p>
<p>9/11 Truth and the Silence of the IR Discipline <br>Author's Accepted Manuscript </p>
<p>Abstract </p>
<p>IR scholars uncritically accept the official narrative regarding the events of 9/11 and refuse to examine the massive body of evidence generated by the 9/11 truth movement. Nevertheless, as calls for a new inquiry into the events of 9/11 continue to mount, with the International 9/11 Consensus Panel and WTC7 Evaluation inquiries having recently published their findings, and with a US Federal Grand Jury on 9/11 having been announced, now would be an opportune moment for IR scholars to start taking the claims of 9/11 truth seriously. A survey of the 9/11 truth literature reveals that the official 9/11 narrative cannot be supported at multiple levels. Two planes did not bring down three towers in New York. There is no hard evidence that Muslims were responsible for 9/11 other than in a patsy capacity. Various US government agencies appear to have had foreknowledge of the events and to have covered up evidence. Important questions regarding the hijacked planes need answering, as do questions about the complicity of the mainstream media in 9/11. IR scholars avoid looking at evidence regarding the events of 9/11 for several reasons. They may be taken in by the weaponized term, “conspiracy theory.” A taboo on questioning the ruling structures of society means that individuals do not wish to fall outside the spectrum of acceptable opinion. Entertaining the possibility that 9/11 was a false flag requires Westerners to reject fundamental assumptions that they have been socialized to accept since birth. The “War on Terror” has created a neo-McCarthyite environment in which freedom to speak out has been stifled. Yet, if IR scholars are serious about truth, the first place they need to start is 9/11 truth. </p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62392332020-03-05T18:54:59-12:002020-03-05T18:54:59-12:00suspicious observers AND tony heller<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EC-B2hJ_J7M" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/EC-B2hJ_J7M/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EC-B2hJ_J7M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62387342020-03-05T10:45:41-12:002020-03-05T10:45:41-12:00I'd be happy to be wrong<p>Issues that I’d prefer to be wrong about: </p>
<p>No culture of secrecy about paedophiles in our religious institutions. <br>No cause for concern about illegal activities within the banking system. <br>No issues of abuse and neglect within our Aged Care and Disabilities sector. </p>
<p>These are all areas for which we’ve had Royal Commissions in Australia. They’ve found these institutions either corrupt or ‘ethically challenged.’ </p>
<p>Recommendations get made and life goes on as if it’s all better now or soon will be. </p>
<p>Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. This isn’t ‘news’ to anyone so why would I expect that this isn’t the case in the corridors of power. </p>
<p>There are more ‘think tanks’ than you can ‘poke a stick at’ yet the world is an utter mess and shows no sign of improvement so either the think tanks are useless or there’s an agenda at work which relies on this ongoing and worsening mess in order to bring in the ‘new world order’ that so many political figures mention as if it’s both a good thing and needed. </p>
<p>Events don’t tend to happen on the world stage by accident. The waves of refugees fleeing destroyed societies throughout the Middle East are a direct result of policies put in place by the same people that brought us the Project for a New American Century. </p>
<p>Never heard of it? It stated that to maintain America’s pre-eminent position, after the fall of the Soviet Union, that regime change was needed in a list of countries in the Middle East which have since been destroyed by America and its ‘coalition of the willing.’ </p>
<p>War dogs. Men and women of evil intent. </p>
<p>People aren’t willing to go to war. A cause is needed and 9/11 provided it. </p>
<p>The University of Alaska, Fairbanks have completed a four year study into Building 7 and concluded that office fires could not have caused the collapse of this 47 story skyscraper situated next to the Twin Towers. </p>
<p>It will not make the news. The implications are horrendous but will it make the news?</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62387332020-03-05T10:43:32-12:002020-03-05T18:58:02-12:00Building 7<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Xd7tqpwdlpQ" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Xd7tqpwdlpQ/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xd7tqpwdlpQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62342652020-03-01T22:48:34-12:002020-03-01T22:48:34-12:00blog<p>First day of Autumn here in Australia - cool and beautiful with rain expected.</p>
<p>A good day to open a channel of communication via a blog. It also makes my previous posts open for comment which is unintentional on my part and just an outcome of changing the settings here.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62342562020-03-01T22:34:05-12:002020-03-02T14:51:58-12:00rejecting ideological positions<p>It’s clear that there isn’t any real debate when it comes to climate change so rather than trade looks of incomprehesion or question sincerity why not look to something which should be beyond dispute or ideology. </p>
<p>Coal, solar, wind, hydrogen, fracking, hydro/electric – what percentage of our daily needs come via these utilities. I don’t know and very few people would have these figures at their fingertips. </p>
<p>Put it up on a chalk board for all to see and get agreement from political parties that these figures are fairly accurate. Put it up on billboards, advertise the figures without comment, let it sink in, provoke thought and then bring the political parties to a National Conference where the plans to replace one fuel with another can be scrutinised and, if found wanting, discarded. </p>
<p>Forget ideological stances. If your plan reduces us to shivering in the dark while we fight over a turnip, you won’t convince me of its merits. </p>
<p>When ‘natural gas’ came through our suburbs I was happy to sign up and pay a premium for ‘clean green energy.’ I was much dismayed later to find that there’s nothing clean or green about using chemically laden ‘waste water’ to extract gas by smashing the very ground we stand on and by provoking the real risk of contaminating our aquifers with no way back and no apology sufficient. </p>
<p>A quick flight over the West Coast of America via google Earth will show masses of white dots which resolve into fracking pads. There aren’t a few, there aren’t tens of thousands, there are hundreds of thousands stretching from county to county and State to State - from the mountains to the sea. You could start looking around the L.A. area and – there they are, even in the middle of orchards, and once fracking gets a foothold it will not stop. A junkie with a needle in the arm is an exact parallel. </p>
<p>Greed knows no bounds. I’m not in favour of fracking. I did think, perhaps wistfully, that there exist big bubbles of ‘natural gas’ beneath the ocean just waiting to be tapped. I have no idea if this is the case and it’s not helpful to knee jerk react with – they’re all fossil fuels and must be ‘got rid of.’ </p>
<p>To be replaced by what? </p>
<p> Thoughts in motion with a constructive idea thrown in.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62332172020-02-29T20:16:03-12:002020-02-29T20:16:03-12:00a letter to our local paper<p>I don’t know the extent of my ignorance because I don’t know what it is that I don’t know. </p>
<p>Space is limited here, in this newspaper, but that’s not the case in the wider solar system and beyond. At school, decades back, I was taught that space is a vacuum, by nature empty, but it actually seethes with electrically charged particles both outgoing from the sun and incoming from the galaxy through which we move. </p>
<p>In terms of understanding, we move from a gravitational model to an electric universe and unless this is factored into climate studies we haven’t a hope of determining what is natural variability and what is human activity induced. </p>
<p>Why would questioning aspects of climate studies make me a ‘denier’? Science is based on continual questioning. </p>
<p>The climate IS changing, materially, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and what coal miner wouldn’t be happy to see solar panels on every roof. </p>
<p>Climate change is a bit more nuanced than ‘Alarmist or Denier’ whereas pollution is right in front of us and floating in islands of plastic in the Pacific. It all demands action and attention. Not much money to be made there but surely worth the effort to clean it up and to change the way we treat the planet.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62243162020-02-22T11:47:38-12:002020-02-22T11:47:38-12:00how green is my garden<p>Reducing carbon emissions and climate change still occupy the news here. Virus transmission, world trade impacts and the teetering state of the economy take up much of the rest of the news with family violence also rearing its ugly head. </p>
<p>I’m reduced to tears – odd phrase that – my eyes well up, I’m not alone, there being plenty of cause for sorrow. </p>
<p>And the prevailing mood is ‘Do something, take action, demand change.’ That’s not the only mood. For those struggling to survive each day, perhaps don’t have the luxury of time to investigate what it is the experts say. </p>
<p>I’ve had that time to investigate ‘where the money comes from and to whom it flows’ and why the Federal Reserve, notwithstanding its Government sounding name, is privately owned. </p>
<p>Why isn’t this general knowledge when ‘privately owned’ absolutely matters, printing money out of thin air, quaintly called Quantitative Easing, is the equivalent of the banker, in the game of monopoly, having a secret stash under the table. </p>
<p>Make what you will of that – Empires aren’t too big to fail yet our banks have some Satanic Blessing? </p>
<p>And that leads on to a cashless society where every transaction is recorded, negative interest rates come into being and you can’t withdraw your cash in protest because there is no cash. </p>
<p>In his sometimes succinct manner, my musical friend Cliff remarks </p>
<p>“We learnt at school that plants breathe in the carbon dioxide and breathe out the oxygen which we then breathe. More carbon dioxide would green the planet.” </p>
<p>I can’t argue with that just as I couldn’t argue with a couple of coal miners who took exception when I walked into their pub with a ‘No coal seam fracking’ slogan on my guitar case. </p>
<p>They weren’t belligerent, I think they were fed up with feeling as though they have to continually justify their existence while the power we consume comes, largely from their efforts. </p>
<p>I come from the valleys of South Wales. I’m familiar with coal. There are different varieties and some give off more noxious fumes than others. If we hadn’t used it for heating we’d have died of cold. </p>
<p>Times change, human needs don’t. </p>
<p>I explain to the miners that I’m not ‘against coal’ but that fracking is an obscenity. Yes, a coal mine, by its nature, is a messy business with some pollution inevitable but I’m not aware of the dangers to aquifers which fracking entails. </p>
<p>Fracking doesn’t use ‘waste water,’ it uses chemically laden liquid, delivered under high pressure which, in turns, smashes the ground and must, in that process, compromise the aquifers upon which we depend. </p>
<p>An apology cannot put this right. By comparison, coal is a Godsend. </p>
<p>Our Prime Minister, slow to get ‘on board’ with climate change, grins at the camera as he heartily endorses smashing up the very ground on which we stand to get the ‘clean, green energy’ locked up below. </p>
<p>‘Climate change’ is a slogan used like a school yard taunt, </p>
<p>“D’yer believe in climate change or not!” </p>
<p>Phew. Strange thing is, that there is a changing climate.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62186342020-02-17T17:21:55-12:002020-02-17T17:21:55-12:00playing with the data is a serious matter<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="SSg3h_eIvBw" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/SSg3h_eIvBw/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SSg3h_eIvBw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62173572020-02-16T10:32:16-12:002020-02-16T10:32:16-12:00how long's a piece of string<p>How long is awhile? About as long as a piece of string – enough to suit the purpose perhaps. </p>
<p>Much can change in a week. The parched and scorched earth around here is now green and lush, dams are filling or full to overflowing and the long task of rebuilding communities gets underway. </p>
<p>It’s a huge task with massive resources deployed. The physical rebuilding of infrastructure is one aspect, the trauma for those deeply involved is another matter and words such as ‘moving on’ and ‘closure’ aren’t being used. Thankfully. </p>
<p>All against a backdrop of ‘fear of virus’ alarm, let alone the virus itself, which could threaten global trade and travel to a point where ‘climate change’ and ‘identity politics’ become somewhat irrelevant – as they are, no doubt, in Syria, Palestine and all war zones. </p>
<p>Meanwhile – there’s always a meanwhile. </p>
<p>It’s that aspect of reality, the personal journey, how we’re ‘bearing up’ – as my ‘dear ole mum’ used to say – the fragility or strength, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually which allows us to deal with the shocks which the world provides. </p>
<p>I’ve gone back to work after becoming an old aged pensioner a few years back. Lack of money is the prime reason and although I skate along on thin ice materially, I don’t feel poor or impoverished. Owning the roof over your head makes a huge difference … and comes at a huge price and always did unless you have the equivalent of a fairy godmother and a magic wand. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, I pick up the guitar – put it down again. Got to keep a sense of humour and music is a lifetime lover so there’s no rush. </p>
<p>And the things which cause sorrow continue. </p>
<p>The glaring inconsistencies in the causes the LGBT and now + community espouse. What does + indicate and why define oneself by sexuality – do ‘straight’ people do this? Not that I’ve noticed and it would be absurd if they did. </p>
<p>‘Born this way.’ does not tell the whole story and, if it did, then why can’t a paedophile use the same justification. Nurture plays a part in sexuality as does the common realisation of many that they’re not that attractive to the opposite sex and end up taking their love where they find it. </p>
<p>What have I got against gays and lesbians? Nothing – it doesn’t matter because character matters more. </p>
<p>But if I am repulsed by the spiteful and vicious attacks on Margaret Court, Israel Folau and others who voice something other than abject acceptance of any tripe the LBGT+ community choose to serve up then I incur the wrath of those who absolutely will not allow dissenting opinions to be voiced. </p>
<p>There’s nothing special about the LBGT+ community, they suffer no more or less than the rest of humanity and how I wish they’d devote their considerable creative energy towards helping the most disadvantaged community we have – no treaty for our aboriginal nations as yet and not a murmur from the same sex brigade about this injustice. </p>
<p>A referendum would serve the purpose. </p>
<p>Someone I know described himself as a Republican and I wonder what that means when Republicans and Democrats both serve an American system which doesn’t serve the people in a way in which it should – a public National Health system available to all doesn’t exist in the U.S. whereas here, in Australia as in Britain, they exist albeit they’re under attack by private interests. </p>
<p>A health system and an education system are basic elements in any halfway decent society. </p>
<p>In thinking so I’m apparently a socialist. </p>
<p>As to belief in statistics – hostbaby, my previous web hosting service, are according to bandzoogle, “To be clear, Host Baby provided antiquated reporting that did not reflect your website traffic accurately.” </p>
<p>If this is true then hostbaby statistics, which were very detailed, were a complete fraud. </p>
<p>No matter, I’ll keep writing as the spirit moves me and if you’re reading this then you’re one of three which, for unknown reason, strikes me as funny. Perhaps because ‘climate change’ statistics are littered with such fraud. </p>
<p>How would you know unless you have some way of checking.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62097682020-02-09T14:53:42-12:002020-02-09T14:53:42-12:00After the move - more change to come<p>Shock, horror – I discriminate and I’ve been doing so all my life. I did it as a child when fairness and the lack of it presented itself within the family, the schoolyard and society itself yet discrimination is now seen as a negative, something to be avoided. Why? </p>
<p>Changing the meaning of words is a sure way to spread confusion throughout a society. </p>
<p>Diversity … hmm … ‘we welcome and embrace diversity’. What does that mean – anything and everything is o.k.? Everything isn’t o.k. and I don’t embrace diversity if that implies that critical thinking is dismissed. In fact, ‘we’ don’t embrace extreme and diverse political views for the very good reason that they threaten our very existence. </p>
<p>In religious affairs the same discrimination applies. What the religion teaches matters and if that religion does not treat equally all of mankind as being ‘God’s children,’ all of whom have souls, then it’s a false doctrine. Plenty of them around. </p>
<p>Not the deal of the century, not a two state solution but a final solution of sorts and if the phrase echoes, it should. </p>
<p>So – who have I offended by plain speaking – not a rhetorical question because, in the process of moving ‘seamlessly’ from one hosting service to another, the statistics for this site have gone from ‘respectable’ to zero. </p>
<p>Quite possible that there is, no longer, any interest but also possible that something akin to shadow banning is taking place. </p>
<p>Also possible that things are in constant flux within your society as it is here. Who has time to care about the inconsistencies of 9/11 or the private ownership of the Federal Reserve when flood, fire and personal tragedy stalk the land. </p>
<p>The fires along the East Coast are out or diminished by the torrential rain we’ve received in the last week or so – over 60cms here or 2 foot, knee high and above – more rain than has been seen for a long while. </p>
<p>I’ll go quiet awhile, thankful to researchers such as James Corbett, Tony Heller, the Thunderbolts Project, Praveen Mohan who continue to educate, sometimes grim sometimes delightful, always detailed and truthful. </p>
<p>Ah – freedom of speech, what a lovely idea.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62083922020-02-07T15:48:20-12:002020-02-07T15:48:20-12:00can I have some nuance with my 'alarmist and denier.'<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yVSGyvAl2AI" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/yVSGyvAl2AI/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yVSGyvAl2AI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62024382020-02-03T14:18:03-12:002020-02-03T14:18:03-12:00enter the sun into climate change<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bl4cQKKudjM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/bl4cQKKudjM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bl4cQKKudjM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/62020992020-02-03T09:09:13-12:002020-02-03T09:09:13-12:00climate change reality<p>What a horrible state of affairs when any debate about climate is reduced to ‘Alarmist’ or ‘Denier’ and ‘belief’ is the guiding force. It’s not a religion so why is belief needed unless the facts are a bit thin on the ground. </p>
<p>The Sydney Observatory has temperature records going back to the mid 1800s – easily found online - and they don’t show anything other than normal yearly fluctuation. Good luck if you’re looking for continent wide records – most weather stations were on the East Coast with a few in W.A. and fewer still in the hot heart of the country. There are implications to this lack of detail. </p>
<p>Newspaper records do show a constant stream of record breaking heat ‘outback’ and can be found at the National Library’s on line service via something called ‘Trove.’ </p>
<p>The mercury thermometer was invented in the early 1700s so there are less than three hundred years of records to work with. </p>
<p>Here’s the thing that’s most puzzling – ‘97% of all climate scientists agree …. ‘ Really? Asked every single one and they all responded? Obviously not true. Why are those studies not available to the general public when so much is at stake? </p>
<p>I want to know what questions were asked, how the questions were framed and the reason for this and why it matters is that ‘Climategate’ occurred, a very dubious – actually, fraudulent is more correct – massaging of temperature figures to fit a desired outcome. </p>
<p>Bushfire calamities have much more to do with fuel load, drought and a moving of people from cities further into the bush than a 1% temperature rise. It takes very little to break a record. </p>
<p>My purpose in writing this isn’t to start an argument nor to be derided but to caution against a blind belief in what we’re being told. </p>
<p>I do recall scientists saying that tobacco wasn’t harmful. There were other scientists who stated the opposite but somehow their voices were drowned out.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/61864882020-01-27T13:18:41-12:002020-01-27T13:26:14-12:00division in the ranks<p>“The world has gone batshit crazy.” say I and get an immediate affirmation. </p>
<p>“Do your friends feel the same way?” </p>
<p>“Yes.” came the reply. </p>
<p>He is in his late thirties, struggling to buy into an overheated housing market, an architect and he does have trouble reconciling planes destroying, with the near free-fall collapse, the Twin Towers, each around a hundred stories high and enclosed by a steel cage and built to withstand a direct impact by a plane. </p>
<p>“What about Building 7?” say I and am met with a blank stare. </p>
<p>It’s one of the glaringly obvious unanswered questions seldom asked because so few have ever heard of Building 7, part of the Twin Towers complex, forty seven stories high and not hit by a plane nor by much in the way of rubble. Yet it collapsed into its own footprint at free fall speed and did so a few hours after the Twin Towers collapsed. </p>
<p>‘Office fires’ was the official story for this miracle of demolition and it’s taken until 2019 for the University of Alaska, Fairbanks to spend the time and resources and release a study conclusively proving that office fires could not produce such a collapse. </p>
<p>In light of the unending wars which have followed it begs the question … why isn’t this more widely known? It SHOULD change everything related to the ‘who, why, where and what’ of 9/11. </p>
<p>‘Should, would and could’ – the first implies duty, the second the will and the third the capacity to carry it through. All are sadly in short supply. </p>
<p>My neighbour and I started on a morning walk recently and met up with another neighbour. The bushfires ravaging parts of the country is, naturally enough, a topic of conversation. No doubt there were arsonists – ‘broken people’ was a charitable way in which they were described – involved but the extent of that involvement isn’t generally seen as a major factor in these ongoing blazes. </p>
<p>More thoughtful voices recognise that we’ve ceased to allow regular burn offs, the drought is long lasting and many have moved closer to ‘the bush’ which is fine but comes with danger as it does for all of us, for example, who live in the Blue Mountains – one road across the mountains doesn’t make for easy escape. </p>
<p>I was a bit taken aback to hear this neighbour blame the unions for the fires. Many would say that I’m a conspiracy theorist whereas the truth is that much in life is murky, conspiracies have always existed and I’m not interested in theory, not when it’s fact I’m looking at. </p>
<p>The story of the U.S.S. Liberty is a case in point. </p>
<p>Anyway, it was illuminating, in a way, to hear the rationale for this point of view. I think it came down to the fact that the fire fighters are often volunteers and therefore not in a union. Perhaps I missed something. </p>
<p>He’s a researcher and gets paid for it. I only mention it because he’s not daft and my experience is that most people I’ve met aren’t daft yet can hold the strangest of beliefs. </p>
<p>A pig in lipstick is still a pig. </p>
<p>That image, I imagine, cuts across all cultures and all times and means the same to all but the most … unthinking, uncritical. </p>
<p>It doesn’t take intellectual capacity to understand that image and while much can be dressed up to look reasonable, acceptable at first sight, appearance isn’t reality. </p>
<p>The deep generational division apparent now is an echo of that old, perhaps biblical idea, the gist of which is that there’ll come a time when it’s brother against brother, man against wife, son against father, daughter … you get the idea. </p>
<p>Only a decade or so back and I couldn’t quite see how that future could materialise assuming that goodwill and an open mind weren’t in short supply but for all the talk of welcoming diversity, respecting difference, upholding freedom of speech but not if it MIGHT offend, … it’s a pig with lipstick … much like 9/11, much like the concentration of Palestinians into ghettos by Israel all the while pretending to talk peace while stealing land … a pig in lipstick and a disgraceful way to behave in light of their own experience which none are allowed to forget. </p>
<p>No tears or remembrances for Rwandan genocide, Armenian genocide, Cambodian genocide or the millions slaughtered by Stalin. </p>
<p>There’s a multifaceted narrative being spun and small wonder that the world is batshit crazy and pigs are seen flying while wearing make-up. </p>
<p>Off to the garden before it gets too hot – I’ll keep a wary eye out. </p>
<p>I don’t think I’m clever or particularly bright but it was my ‘good fortune’ to witness the day of the many events of 9/11 for hour after hour. I saw Building 7 come down. An enterprise that large, that far reaching, is bound to have inconsistencies and it does. </p>
<p>I realised then that very little we’re fed is nourishing and this applies to history as it does to everything. Not everyone has their illusions of a free and fearless media so ruthlessly destroyed.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/61602822020-01-23T15:12:19-12:002020-01-23T15:20:13-12:00rain - and the garden turns green within days<p>“Where do you get your information from?” </p>
<p>It wasn’t asked in a combative manner, more of a gentle enquiry. </p>
<p>The subject at hand was consensus in science and my point is that there is no such thing as consensus in science – science is no more settled now than it was when Galileo stunned the orthodoxy of his times. </p>
<p>Consensus – does it mean ‘a vague general agreement’ or is it specific, detailed, raw data available, able to be replicated? I don’t know – what’s the consensus on that? </p>
<p>A dentist is a dentist, a plumber a plumber – they’re specialists and ideally they’re ethical and good at their job but it doesn’t take more than a few decades of life experience to know that ‘ideally’ isn’t reality. Same holds true in every profession yet scientists largely escape this sceptical scrutiny. </p>
<p>Science isn’t dentistry or plumbing – it’s a bigger field with room for research and multiple areas of speciality. It’s physics, geology, chemistry, archaeology – not necessarily fields that overlap anymore than dentistry and plumbing connect. </p>
<p>To become a Professor – or so it seems to me – requires that you’ve worked within the accepted parameters of whatever discipline you’ve chosen. If true then it’s the status quo in which you stand rather than the uncomfortable cutting edge. It doesn’t indicate a closed mind but if new information makes your professorship outdated, defunct, worthless then there’s a vested interest in denying the evidence and/or attacking the messenger. </p>
<p>I’m old enough to have seen this happen in the academic world in relation to Velikovsky’s work. It’s a shameful story but, thankfully, his works are still readily available while the handful of academics who tried to effectively destroy him – who knows what became of them. </p>
<p>Funnily enough it was Velikovsky and his detailed evidence of a cataclysmic past which show climate change at a solar system level. This understanding is in stark contrast to the cosy idea, fostered by western education, that ‘not much has happened – after all, evolution takes millions of years.’ Perhaps it does but it doesn’t follow that those millions of years were uneventful. </p>
<p>So it’s dogmatic statements such as ‘97% of climate scientists agree …’ which has me questioning EVERY aspect of that study. Was it a rigorous study or a vague questionnaire sent out via the internet. </p>
<p>These things matter to me and, more to the point, I have the time to research – sounds great but really it just means I go looking – I don’t much care for the names of the bit part players, it’s the truth of the matter which is of concern. </p>
<p>The next generation down from me are in their forties. There are things in my memory which mean nothing to them. Never heard of Climategate and perhaps don’t know of Watergate. </p>
<p>Climategate involved the disclosure of emails which detailed the massaging of figures to fit a climate warming trend. It’s in the public domain but I really do appreciate that most of humanity, regardless of outward appearance, are facing tough times and don’t have the time nor inclination to do anything other than accept that the experts being touted about are probably right. </p>
<p>Local and world political leaders sound the alarm but it’s not about the pollution caused by multi-national mining companies created in countries which somehow don’t matter and hurt people without a voice, not about the island of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, the obscenity of fracking or the safety or otherwise of 5G technology, smart meters and the like – no – it’s CO2 and a money making opportunity with carbon trading. </p>
<p>Well – even if CO2 turns out to be not such a big deal and even if there was a massaging of temperature figures, does that really matter if it makes the world wake up to the extent of the problem? </p>
<p>It does if it’s based on a lie. </p>
<p>Surely if I’m correct then this would be, by now, revealed? It is but the accepted narrative via mainstream media won’t present the evidence. Why would they? Doesn’t mean they’re part of a conspiracy but – they go with the flow, don’t rock the boat and know where their pay check comes from. </p>
<p>“Where do you get your information from?” </p>
<p>I’ve found Tony Heller a very good source regarding climate fraud and found Suspicious Observers who talk space weather, electric universe and ‘things I have no understanding of.’ </p>
<p>Yes - ‘things I have no understanding of.’ </p>
<p>That’s a bloody big field. </p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/61494972020-01-22T15:28:36-12:002020-01-22T15:28:36-12:00rain across the fire grounds<p>The move of websites has been fraught with difficulty but it’s a trivial matter relative to bushfires, devastation and all that’s going on worldwide. </p>
<p>It feels appropriate when traditional Aboriginal methods of fire control start to make more news here in Australia that it brings to my mind Gurrumul, a most wonderful singer. </p>
<p>A song of his below. Uplifting ....</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/61491842020-01-22T14:25:31-12:002020-01-22T14:25:31-12:00Gurrumul singing<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="x8-YMpYbRqY" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/x8-YMpYbRqY/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x8-YMpYbRqY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60929382020-01-12T09:25:14-12:002020-01-13T13:19:53-12:00whether or not it's the weather<p>When the power goes off, ceases to work, it takes perhaps a day and a half before almost everything grinds to a halt. No power for ATM’s, no power to pump the gas, little or no mobile phone coverage, no power to charge the phones. </p>
<p>Lack of power and the problems cascade and escalate. No drinking water… </p>
<p>The blame starts and it’s grim. People are talking in code. Weather isn’t part of the conversation, it’s always ‘climate change’ and any questioning of what climate change encompasses is shouted down in no different a manner than a school yard exchange of anger and insult. </p>
<p>The Sydney Observatory has over a hundred years of temperature records – not hard to find. Can’t help but wonder why no-one appears to use those records. Worth noting that weather stations were not in use uniformly across the continent, they were primarily on the east coast with almost nothing recording the temperatures in the hot centre of the country. This must skew the overall temperature graph because the hot centre is now included. </p>
<p>My point is not that I’m a climate expert but that I’m happy to look, to check and that’s a damn sight more than most are prepared to do. </p>
<p>We’ve got bushfires razing the land. We’re in a long drought in a continent renowned for drought, there’s no point in demanding that the Prime Minister ‘do something’ – are the activities of the sun within man’s control? Climate isn’t just CO2. </p>
<p>Another day of heat coming up and the self righteous, almost religious dogma and fervour sweeping through the media just adds to it. </p>
<p>Alas, alack, temperatures are not readily available for ‘records broken’ and the like. There are, of course, newspaper records available through a National Library of Australia site called TROVE. </p>
<p>Anyway enough of the climate … literal and otherwise.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/cd210e34b2939c1c32373f567a920809f1dec653/original/1-screenshot-2020-01-10-sydney-observatory-hill-climate-statistics.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/271b208cdc480295b15e18582264a30a471bf8ae/original/screenshot-2020-01-10-sydney-observatory-hill-climate-statistics.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60929372020-01-12T09:20:12-12:002020-01-12T09:20:12-12:00another day in paradise<p>“Here’s looking at you – cheers.” </p>
<p>The pyramid on the back of a dollar bill with the eye in the centre. What a strange symbol to use, nothing to do with everyday life unless you’ve a pyramid somewhere near by – I don’t know of any in the U.S.A. – ‘In God we trust’ on one side with an open ‘all seeing’ eye within a pyramid next to it. Which God, what God, do we ‘trust.’ </p>
<p>It isn’t the only eye which comes to mind as I watch something on a T.V. screen - a single eye into which I look. Lucky me, it’s not looking back but the next generations do, courtesy of a camera. Why a camera watching me, in my home, would or could be of benefit to me isn’t explained but not much is. </p>
<p>“Here’s looking at you – cheers.” </p>
<p>Facial recognition eyes, eyes in the satellites whizzing by, eyes in the dashboard cameras and the eyes in the phone. Are we so interesting? … I’m not. </p>
<p>A continuous clean up of gardens takes place as a lull in the bushfire threat gives breathing space. I look after a bit more than a quarter of an acre here and it’s as clear of combustible material as makes sense. A neighbour on one side looks after an acre of mostly cleared land while the neighbour on the other side, now dead but nothing changes, was a hoarder living on three adjacent blocks, all of which present a massive threat to me. I haven’t grumbled much about it but helped to clean up, over decades, as best I could. His family, now that he’s gone, make no attempt to rectify the situation and leave me with no option but to report a bushfire hazard and trust that this will result in positive change. </p>
<p>It’s like appealing to the United Nations if I take that universal notion of ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ and expand that out to tribal boundaries and then to national boundaries. </p>
<p>As a gardener, the edge of this Empire are the fences between me and my neighbours, corrugated iron in this case and buried into the ground which is a great help in keeping out invasive plant species. As a human I aim for good relations with my neighbours just as nations do the same. Or so you’d hope. </p>
<p>I can’t help but see the parallels between the local and the national, the way in which neighbours interact, what one considers important another sees as trivial and that this carries over into cultural matters, national concerns and power struggles. </p>
<p>I didn’t assassinate my hoarding neighbour or his family for his complete neglect of any responsibility for prevailing conditions in his garden. </p>
<p>Scaling things up and why on earth would Trump behave in such an asinine manner as to behave like the Emperor who knows no limits, assassinate and speak as though this is acceptable … and expect to get away with it. </p>
<p>Shades of Monty Python and “He’s not the messiah – he’s a very naughty boy.” A bit more serious and it’s not a movie. </p>
<p>Fire threat here and everywhere else in a military sense and very heartening to witness so much that is wonderful and resilient in the human spirit.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/3b50bc68699ea954624186656b254ab19e700f39/original/yesterday-today-and-tomorrow.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60929332020-01-12T09:15:53-12:002020-01-12T09:15:53-12:00keeping off the roads<p>It’s quiet enough for me to hear the ticking of the clock. A cockerel crows, away in the distance, in such a mournful manner that I’d thought it was a beaten dog or a broken person howling. It’s a rooster and doesn’t know the time of day. Quite funny, in a way, as I’m up at dawn and never hear him then – probably tired from crowing all day long. Note to self – avoid that trap. </p>
<p>Roosters crowing, clocks ticking and assassinations carried out by the thought police surrounding and manipulating Donald Trump. Sleek, well fed faces who’ve given up any pretence to any rule of law. What next? Assasinate U.S. generals who, undoubably, pose a real threat to everyone? Proof? Not needed – they were ‘definitely thinking about it’ – whatever ‘it’ happens to be. </p>
<p>Enough ranting. There’s an apprentice in the White House only marginally better than the Clintons. What an odious background they all carry. </p>
<p>And, of course, it suits some agenda to continue with chaotic policies, destroying whole societies in their wake. </p>
<p>Sigh and no .. not an overarching conspiracy to create a new world order, a one world government but a system designed to do just that – rely on greed and self interest to achieve that aim. </p>
<p>It’s only in recent times that banks have been able to print money out of thin air. Are you better off because of that act of trickery – I’m not. Negative interest rates? Sounds like fun but unheard of in a real world. Wall Street and Main Street – what symbolic names for two separate realities. One is a parasite upon the other. </p>
<p>A magpie sings a throaty melodic tune as it wanders the garden beds. Still and quiet is the rest of the neighbourhood. It’s so dry that the mosquitoes have disappeared although a neighbour living next to a hanging swamp reports differently. We observe less bird life and scratch our heads about how to be prepared for bushfire but still leave some covering on what would otherwise be bare earth and a refuge for tiny creatures, small lizards. It’s a quandary for a gardener - between a rock and a hard place. Meanwhile, for this season, there is no fruit on the trees in this garden, few berries on the canes. </p>
<p>Within a micro climate of this garden sits a small water feature, a picture below, in which birds bathe and drink. A small pump boosts a trickle of water up through the center and into a cannibalised hose fitting which throws out two tiny sprays. It’s enough to attract the birds who perch in the Treefern fronds overhanging the small pool at the base of the statue. <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/86e65ea02cf7219ed8a60c871394dfaaf80bb478/original/entwined-water-feature.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>They love it, I love it, it was a gift. </p>
<p>Fires burn but right at this moment all is calm.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60929042020-01-12T09:11:29-12:002020-01-12T09:11:29-12:00fires here - floods elsewhere<p>‘Goodwill to all.’ … that’s Christmas and New Year wrapped up in one. </p>
<p>On another matter, a surprise when a legal phrase stirs the imagination, gives hope. </p>
<p>I was watching a detailed examination of the South China Sea, the Spratly Islands, in which the concept of freedom of navigation was mentioned. International law allows for maritime zones, adjacent to countries, in which vessels may pass but needs do so by basically travelling in a straight line. To do otherwise, such as travel in a meandering manner, indicates that the vessel doesn’t recognise the dominion of a country over that part of the ocean. </p>
<p>The U.S. navy has travelled in such a meandering manner – just to let the Chinese know that China’s claim isn’t recognised. None of this concerns me much but the phrase ‘Innocent Passage’ stays with me. It relates to Freedom of Navigation and is the legal phrase which covers the ability and freedom of vessels to stop, start, go in zig zags, turn in circles, do as one wishes, after all it’s a big ocean but, as much to the point, what a wonderful image ‘Innocent Passage’ is for an approach to life. </p>
<p>Innocent passage and freedom of navigation not just held dear on the high seas but through country and across culture, religion and so on. </p>
<p>Meanwhile the sun beats down and people are tired and in some shock. Lives lost and fires burning across huge areas, mass evacuations, loss of power … it’s been going for awhile and, without rain, it will continue. It’s not within the power of man to control such conditions. It’s horrible. The aftermath will be immense in terms of challenge. Radio news of a dairy farmer staying in danger with no power, no refrigeration yet because the herd had to be milked he stayed and did it and then had to pour the milk down the hill. Somehow that image sums up so much. </p>
<p>Here, there are fire fronts within a few miles to the north and south. Our saving grace has been four or five days of fairly still conditions but a change is expected tomorrow. </p>
<p>It’s very quiet.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/43c7fbdb1a2807085253887d486cd016a2714c42/original/christmas-day-at-the-park-at-the-end-of-the-street.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60929032020-01-12T09:05:16-12:002020-01-12T09:05:16-12:00under the noon day sun<p>Political events swirl across nations but here in Australia, in the early summer heat, it’s ‘climate change, no doubt about it’ as the massive bushfires now engulfing great swathes of country continue to burn. </p>
<p>Heat records continue to be broken but – do they? For how long has mankind had thermometers I wonder. I look it up and 1714 is the year when the modern mercury filled thermometer comes into being so unless there existed accurate ways of recording daily temperature prior to this invention then we’ve the best part of 300 years in which to get our detail. Not much in the larger scheme of things. </p>
<p>Aboriginal Australia had controlled burn offs as do our remarkable Bush Fire Brigades although complaints of smoke drifting over cities and the continued drought has made back burning more problematic hence less of it. There’s a build up of a huge amount of flammable material sitting there scorching in the sun. </p>
<p>Over the last few decades there have been more people moving further into the woodland areas - ‘the mighty bush’ – a ‘tree change’ flow to counter the existing move from the country to the city. In these conditions they’re exposed and fairly isolated. </p>
<p>Not much better here and here the day is still with the fires burning, too close for comfort, to both the north and south. It is incredibly quiet. </p>
<p>I turn on the radio for bushfire updates and the ‘news.’ Not quiet there and every second phrase is ‘climate change.’ </p>
<p>Conditions ARE catastrophic. At best, it’s the calm before the storm. </p>
<p>I’m not an expert in anything and rely on the research of others and my own haphazard checking of facts to determine the truth of a matter … such as … why the dissention between experts when it comes to the causes of a changing climate. Not that you’d know about the dissention if the mainstream news was to be believed. </p>
<p>Tony Heller does excellent work and his video below testifies to that. It’s an eye-opener and begs the question – what agenda is being served and why are so few checking the basic assumptions. </p>
<p>A cool photo of a red hot sun.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/a8f6abd9fbceaa5449f3a2507448a36ee3178f09/original/dscn2789.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60928972020-01-12T08:57:58-12:002020-01-12T08:57:58-12:00God - it's hot<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rxJTZvRl13Q" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/rxJTZvRl13Q/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rxJTZvRl13Q?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60928962020-01-12T08:54:13-12:002020-01-12T08:54:13-12:00a threat to what?<p>Fortuitous to receive an email from Jake Morphonios regarding Olive trees for Palestinian farmers. Hopefully I can ‘copy and paste’ and present it here. </p>
<p>Not only is his cause ‘just’ but you’ll find no trace of hatred in his words which is exactly as it is when he talks about Israel and its policies. </p>
<p>…. and yet this is also a man whose views – factually based – offends youtube . A video of his, embedded here previously, is no longer available. </p>
<p>I don’t think Jake made it unavailable. </p>
<p>Greetings! </p>
<p>I love Palestine and its people. </p>
<p>Last year, I had the opportunity to harvest olives with Palestinian farmers in the West Bank. It was a moving experience and I want to do my part to continue to support those good, hard-working people. </p>
<p>PLANTING HOPE IN PALESTINE: Trees for Life is a Palestine Fair Trade Association (PFTA) program that gives thousands of olive trees to farmers starting out, as well as smaller farmers and those whose trees or lands have been destroyed by Israeli forces. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, many farmers are targeted by Israeli settlers who sneak onto their properties and cut down the olive trees that have been in the Palestinian farmers' families for generations. </p>
<p>This not only causes deep heartache for the farmers who have cared for the trees for many years, but by eliminating their source of income, the occupiers hope to cause the farmers to have to relocate so that the settlers can take control of their lands. </p>
<p>Trees for Life helps to combat these challenges by supporting the farmers. </p>
<p>Since 2006, the project has planted over 173,000 trees! Trees for Life is funded solely by grassroots movements abroad and solely invested in the Palestinian fair trade movement in Palestine. This project helps offset the enormous destruction of olive trees by the Israeli occupation army and violent settlers in Palestine. </p>
<p>YOU CAN HELP: You can support Trees for Life and plant olive and almond trees in Palestine. $20 plants 3 olive trees. Our fundraising goal is $670, which will purchase ONE HUNDRED olive trees! </p>
<p>HOW IT WORKS: A committee of PFTA farmers administers the program. Growers must qualify for lots of 25-50 trees. They must have suitable land, the capacity to nurture the trees, fields prepared for planting immediately upon delivery, and a commitment to fair trade practices. Priority for olive trees goes to small farmers, young farmers with inherited or acquired land, women interested in farming, and farmers who have lost trees to the occupation. </p>
<p>Trees are planted between Tree Day, January 15, and Land Day, March 30. Besides the actual trees planted, this program helps connect the Palestinian farmers and producers in the fair trade movement in Palestine to the grassroots fair trade movement in Europe and North America. </p>
<p>For a full report on the program, brimming with information, visit: </p>
<p>landofcanaanfoundation.org/sustainable-farming/trees-for-life </p>
<p>Your donation truly makes a difference! </p>
<p>CLICK HERE TO DONATE! </p>
<p>After the campaign is over, I will publicly post receipts to confirm that every penny raised was given to the PFTA Trees for Life program. 100% of your donation will be used in the purchase of 100 olive trees for Palestinian farmers as they toil to provide for their families under the harsh conditions of a brutal military occupation. </p>
<p>They need our help. Let's give it to them! </p>
<p>With gratitude, </p>
<p>Jake Morphonios</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60928942020-01-12T08:47:54-12:002020-01-12T08:47:54-12:00so - election out of the way - moving on<p>It was a strange moment when just prior to Boris Johnson claiming victory, in what was a ‘Brexit or not’ election, a party functionary took the stage. After murmuring a few pleasantries he stated words to the effect that this victory had been a resounding condemnation of anti-Semitic views. </p>
<p>It wasn’t anything of the sort but Zionism has a way of pretending to represent all of Judaism and, yet again, the old adage of "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize " comes into effect. Who had the power to crudely and rudely insert the ‘resounding condemnation’ phrase into a moment of victory where Israel’s paranoid concerns were nowhere in the public mind. </p>
<p>If anti-Semitic attitudes are to be changed then treat the Palestinians as human beings. That they’re not being treated as anything but an inconvenient problem is clear to most whether they express it or not. </p>
<p>It’s a tired old phrase – anti-Semitic – anti- Zionist is closer to the truth. Replace Semitic with Zionist and the focus changes with real fault lines in Judaism becoming apparent. </p>
<p>Not to dwell on that … the hosting platform for this site is in the process of moving and I checked the progress yesterday, looked at the various pages and all looks o.k. but scrolling down the ‘news’ and I notice that glum looking youtube icon which tells me that the video has been removed. It doesn’t surprise me but it needs be mentioned because they’re removed because they detail some aspect of Zionism, its hold on American politics, the various false flag operations in the Middle-East arena and, of course, where the money comes from and where it goes – who pays. Not a word of hatred expressed but just the fine detail. It’s sordid and no wonder that ‘strings were pulled’ to delete the videos. </p>
<p>So Israel can’t be criticised but every other country can … something to ponder as Christmas approaches.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/5d6e75cb4ed26cb21d3a5ca8d15767f6597724f6/original/hugepoorpalestine.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152812019-12-08T12:00:00-12:002019-12-09T10:47:15-12:00there's a hole in the bucket<p>Whose purpose is being served, who benefits? The immediate questions raised by the daily news … more accurately named the news feed because it’s limited to what the editors and gatekeepers deem worth the reporting. What gets left out isn’t missed – how could it be when I don’t know what I don’t know.</p>
<p>Among the flurry of protests, riots and atrocities revealed, nothing lasts more than a day or two in that daily news. Froth and bubble, a small lifting of the lid on some further degradation of the human condition which then subsides without much action.</p>
<p>Another Royal Commission here with Disability Services being scrutinised while the upheavals caused by previous Commissions still reverberate. Banking – ‘Heads will Roll’ and ‘Things will Change’ is greeted with scepticism because the various scams exposed show such an ‘ethically challenged’ culture that any remaining trust evaporates. Much the same with the Church and with Aged Care.</p>
<p>Our population’s trust in government is as low as it was when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was removed from office – basically by using the Queen’s representative in a dubious manner. Didn’t go down well but just another can of worms.</p>
<p>Yet I wouldn’t wish to live elsewhere.</p>
<p>The last twenty years of my working life – not that it’s over – were spent working in a Group Home. The Group Homes were set up by our State Government to replace the large Institutions which had failed in so many ways that public outcry prompted the government to act.</p>
<p>Very few societies attempt to marry ‘equal human rights for all’ with the financial and human resources needed. Group Homes cost more to run than Institutions but it was seen as worth it. Now we’re moving to a National Disability Insurance Scheme where individual need is taken into account along with a recognition that a Group Home isn’t the answer for most with disability – support within the family home being seen as preferable. This approach gives rise to a network of support workers and, in theory, everyone lives a better life. It’s a new scheme with many teething problems and there’s still the need for Group Homes.</p>
<p>The investigation into the Group Home system reveals abuse and neglect as one would expect. The Group Home in which I worked was well run but the financial resources needed in order for our clients to mingle in the community, ‘just like everybody else’ were eventually too costly to maintain with the result being that staffing was gradually cut to the minimum and as you can’t have less than one staff member on a shift, that becomes the norm.</p>
<p>Enter those who aren’t ‘good staff members’. Our clients were intellectually disabled and not very verbal and, in those situations, it’s easy for the lazy and the downright wicked to indulge themselves and … who’s to know?</p>
<p>Of course we do know regarding laziness, it’s always obvious but neglect and abuse takes many forms. So I might not know the specifics when I arrive for shift changeover but I can read body language and ‘not very verbal’ just means that I need to learn a limited language which I did …. It takes a long time to prove anything.</p>
<p>The system of Group Homes is being privatised which can’t be good for anyone but the profiteer but it does allow government to outsource a problem and to rid itself of responsibility.</p>
<p>Reminds me of the ‘pass the parcel’ and ‘musical chairs’ games of childhood but with a far grimmer potential outcome.</p>
<p>I’m considered employed if I work one hour a week – absurd but true. Massaging the figures to give a desired result is what this is. It doesn’t reflect reality.</p>
<p>‘Climategate’ - many have never heard of it. It exposes the massaging of figures in the battle to bring CO2 ‘front and center’ in the public mind.</p>
<p>James Corbett, remarkable researcher, explores this whole issue far better than I can … if you’re unfamiliar with James Corbett’s work then the video below is a Christmas present. Tony Heller is also excellent in showing how the ‘Scientists warn …’ narrative has changed over the last thirty years or so.</p>
<p>Smoke hangs in the air, the fire only an hour’s walk away. It’s very still, a welcome change from the gusty conditions of the last week. Our local fire is tiny compared to the massive blazes occurring up and down the coast.</p>
<p>The immediate threat to many on the fringes is to survival itself but the devastation left on the land impacts on wildlife, food, water, services. ‘Shock and Awe’ with a long, drawn out and dry season of heat ahead.</p>
<p>Much the same on many fronts.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152802019-12-08T12:00:00-12:002019-12-09T10:44:07-12:00James Corbett dissects<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a82G96xvtpI" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152792019-12-08T12:00:00-12:002019-12-09T10:40:32-12:00u.k. weather forcasts<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VfJRDnISpEs" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152782019-12-02T12:00:00-12:002019-12-03T03:50:20-12:00snowbirds in the drought<p>A gentle shower of cosmic rays blankets the planet. Energetic particles, unseen but real pass through the atmosphere, pass through all living things and, perhaps, leave an imprint upon the collective DNA and if that were true then a blizzard of such particles may have more profound effect, may give rise to new species.</p>
<p>Collectively, moving at speed, not felt but real, through an outer arm of our local galaxy and continuously bombarded by a spectrum of waves, from radio to x ray, and with particles of exotic material originating from stars going nova, reaching the planet and adding to its material.</p>
<p>There’s a great deal going on of which I’m unaware, oblivious … I suppose that goes without saying and is common to all who question.</p>
<p>‘Pick your expert’ – I can find experts who take diametrically opposed views so questioning the foundations of these expert views matters.</p>
<p> So much depends on trust and when it comes to plumbers, mechanics, teachers, priests, politicians, lawyers, dentists and doctors, my life experience tells me that many who practice these professions have no ethical standards and aren’t particularly good at what they do … why should it be any different for academics and scientists. Bank robbery used to conjure up images of masked men brandishing guns but now it’s the banks themselves who are revealed when bank robbery gets mentioned.</p>
<p>The news is full of dire predictions regarding climate change. All of us will have to drastically change our way of life is the underlying message. It’s a softening up process taking place on many fronts – ‘get used to it’ is part of the message as is ‘submit’ and ‘accept.’</p>
<p>What horrible words they’ve become.</p>
<p>There’s a minute or so of quiet before the water carrying helicopter roars and rumbles overhead as it goes from the local weir to the fire front. There’s only the one helicopter but both weir and fire are close enough for silence to be brief. With an appendage hanging down from its body, it looks like a dark orange alien dragon fly pinned against a deep blue sky in which I see no smoke – it’s being blown towards Sydney where a brown haze covers the city. It’s an ongoing situation which shows no sign of letting up. Millions of hectares across the East Coast are burnt or burning. No rain in sight.</p>
<p>Water restrictions are already in place and shortly we move to the next level in which water to the garden can only be done by bucket. I’m doing my best to keep alive a line of Treeferns at the far end of the garden. I’ve not watered that far end over the Spring period – in which we had but a few centimetres of rain – and the stress is showing in the quite abrupt manner in which they’ve shed all but the newest growth. As a survival method it’s brilliant. The whole trunk of the slow growing Treefern acts as an extension of the fibrous root-ball and the fronds discarded don’t fall off but droop completely to lay down the length of the trunk thus giving some slight protection from the drying effects of the unrelenting sun. Even in the manner of the dying the dried up and browning, shrivelled fronds are useful and provide for the living.</p>
<p>In what should have been world-wide news due to its huge implications, computer modelling by the University of Alaska Fairbanks shows that … “only the near-simultaneous failure of every column could have caused WTC 7’s symmetrical free-fall collapse at 5.20 pm on 9/11.’</p>
<p>Fire did not cause the collapse of the forty seven story building next to the Twin Towers and which was not hit by a plane … it boggles the mind that this has found no mention in the mainstream media, that this would not, if revealed, create a climate change in people’s perception and end a drought in exposing truth.</p>
<p>I’ve found out how to add a photo. Notwithstanding the drought we’re high enough to get the occasional snowfall …</p>
<p> <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/6daeef4f31857bdec04a9dc2cee5c55bd4a7d746/original/snowbirds.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6MTYwMHgxMjAwIl0%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1200" width="1600" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152772019-11-29T12:00:00-12:002019-11-30T04:56:21-12:00'back in the day'<p>Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ isn’t an easy read. Thankfully I could turn to the chapter named ‘Difficulties on Theory’ in which Darwin attempts to deal with the issue of intermediate species – evidence of which there is a lack. I don’t accept his idea that there would be less numbers of intermediate species therefore the evidence of their existence would be correspondingly meagre. It’s possible but that’s all. Not a fact but only a possibility.</p>
<p>I don’t dispute that evolution takes place over aeons of time but, regarding humanity, we don’t have the missing link – from Ape to Man.</p>
<p>The other chapter of interest to me is named ‘On the Imperfection of the Geological Record.’ I’ve yet to read it.</p>
<p>It doesn’t follow that those ‘aeons of time’ were uneventful but the idea of Uniformitarianism had recently been proposed prior to Darwin’s work. This was the theory that all geologic phenomena may be explained as the result of existing forces having operated uniformly from the origin of the earth to the present time.</p>
<p>The evidence doesn’t support this idea. Just in terms of catastrophes occurring within the 150,000 year general acceptance of mankind’s existence, I’ve found this – courtesy of Randall Carlson.</p>
<p>This is ‘climate change’ on a grand scale.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/82dc39504e876c71ea49701b836e54ced0a7878b/original/dscn2710.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6MTYwMHgxMjAwIl0%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1200" width="1600" /></p>
<p>Randall’s work appears to coincide with Velikovsky’s evidence of a cataclysmic past.</p>
<p>This strikes a discordant note with a solid thread within religious thought – that God shows His displeasure with mankind’s behaviour by hurling fire and flood in an indiscriminate manner. Why can’t it just as easily be explained by natural causes. Whatever God may be, surely such a creative force could find another way of wiping the slate clean.</p>
<p>The image of snap frozen mammoth elephants comes to mind. Found in Siberia, these beasts froze so quickly that there is no time for decomposition and foliage of temperate vegetation is found in their mouths and stomachs.</p>
<p>That’s instant climate change.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152762019-11-23T12:00:00-12:002019-11-23T14:48:08-12:00a big bang?<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rZspAmawIpc" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152752019-11-20T12:00:00-12:002019-11-21T11:27:01-12:00it's good to get the fine detail ....<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/inkAFBc7SlI" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152742019-11-19T12:00:00-12:002019-11-19T14:46:15-12:00what a woeful State<p>With all that’s happening in the world today it’s easy to see the ongoing barbarity in the Zionist State of Israel, the taking of more and more Palestinian land, with a peripheral vision – an ‘out of the corner of one’s eye’ type of thing. There’s something utterly odious about using religion – simplified as ‘God gave it to us’ - as an excuse for Israel to justify its ‘jack booted’ cause.</p>
<p>Chosen people? What a burden when that translates to ‘special and entitled.’ In an individual this would be seen as a mental aberration.</p>
<p>Blackstone Intelligence video below. Very clear context.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152732019-11-19T12:00:00-12:002019-11-19T14:27:06-12:00I have a map of places from the old and new testaments - it's Palestine<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s7uVm7XX5Zs" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152722019-11-17T12:00:00-12:002019-11-18T04:42:41-12:00a day in November<p>There are two things that I hesitate to write about. The first is the extended family who don’t agree with many of my views so why expose them to danger, the second is contained within the word spiritual.</p>
<p>Everything that I deal with in the material world – political machinations, finger pointing over some ‘how dare you!’ diatribe, even the perennial climate change scenarios which warned us of a coming ice age in the mid seventies … is woeful. There’s a communal sense of needing to be ‘on guard.’ … I don’t know what happened to “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” … resilience, resilience.</p>
<p>At the supermarket today and the cashier finds that the receipt roll has run out and starts replacing it as a queue forms. I can see that she doesn’t need me hovering and waiting for a receipt and so I tell her so.</p>
<p>‘Thanks, Darl.’ she responds and as I walk away so I’m moved to turn around and say.</p>
<p>‘Thanks for that, it was a pleasantry and I couldn’t help but think that if <strong><em>I</em></strong> had said ‘Thanks Darl,’ would that have been seen as inappropriate?’</p>
<p>‘Oh no,’ she responds, ‘I get called sweetheart and call other people love all the time.’</p>
<p>‘Just a sign of the times that I should even think of it.’ say I and walk away – probably leaving a somewhat bemused queue behind me. I like that affectionate expression of mateship and don’t like political correctness nor ideological standpoints.</p>
<p>Most of the Treeferns in the garden have, by now, unfurled their emerald green, glorious Spring crown of new fronds. They look magnificent and hopefully rains will arrive to further their growth. The earth is bone dry as I found today while digging up a small crop of garlic – and I’d watered those beds.</p>
<p>We have an excellent footballer here who has been prone to using social media to promote his fairly fundamentalist religious view. It hasn’t gone down well and was seen and reported as homophobic. It wasn’t – it included pretty much all of us, whom he sees as needing to repent. He’s not advocating beheading – he is Christian - but now he equates our bushfires and the ongoing drought with God’s displeasure. He’s lost my sympathy. I have no idea of which God of love he feels that he’s speaking for.</p>
<p>It’s part and parcel of why spiritual concerns as opposed to religious doctrine are, in my mind, such difficult areas to approach.</p>
<p>One man’s vision or brief entry into another reality is another man’s hallucination and – nothing can be proved so why talk about it.</p>
<p>Thalia and I were walking passed a local fruit shop, adjacent to the railway line, on a clear morning many years ago. Both of us glance up at the same time and mutely witness a green fireball, Traffic Light green, flame-like iridescent yet somehow contained, soundless and fast, it travelled at what seemed just maybe fifty feet/metres? above the railway tracks. It was basketball size and gone in a matter of moments - on its way high over Sydney and probably out to sea.</p>
<p>Wonderful though it was to witness and wonder, the event took place in the material world. So it was with a close up but not a contact UFO experience which came complete with multiple lights – yes, profound and mysterious but still taking place in the material world, to my normal senses plus a bit of heightened awareness.</p>
<p>Working in the rainforest, decades back, taking out and rescuing endangered or valuable plants, going in behind the loggers. We were living in a shack on a ridge at the foot of a small valley. At night it was pitch black in terms of human light. The bedroom faced up the valley and one night, two grown men witness a light which slowly makes its way through the valley landscape gradually coming closer. We witness this light with amazement and … growing fear. At first one thinks in terms of a person with a torch but this was between ‘unlikely to impossible’ in view of our location. Then there was its movement which was – as best to describe it – like a very large glow-worm on a pogo stick. It was not bright and its movement was erratic, jerky and ‘up and down.’</p>
<p>It passed the edge of our vision and, sad to say, both of us were so unnerved that we didn’t rush to the other side of the house to watch its journey. We have something called ‘Min min’ lights in Australia. No explanation, it wasn’t swamp gas.</p>
<p>Who knows what it was but we experienced it in the material world.</p>
<p>They’re events, utterly real, not hallucination and indicative of a universe perhaps swarming with life and sometimes operating in dimensions other than the material.</p>
<p>I don’t mind talking about such things. They’re not uncommon and they don’t radically change my life … that wide subject remains an ongoing interest. I find it odd that the news channels continue to treat UFO ‘stuff’ as if it’s still a subject of ridicule.</p>
<p>As John Cleese might say – with a stare – ‘Silly person.’</p>
<p>For me, there was and is Christ with his challenge, inspiration and moral framework, then the value of some yoga and a tradition which includes vast cycles of time, add to that the reality of Aboriginal Dreaming and include the venerable Chinese spiritual sources.</p>
<p>China has given us the I Ching, an unending source of spiritual nourishment, used by Emperors for millennia, in order to guide their actions in the ruling of an Empire.</p>
<p>That Empire, complete with Emperor, exists today and millions have been pulled out of poverty. Abuse, excess and corruption occur but it’s always been this way as it is elsewhere in the world - including democracies. China today, the one party state has lost something real by replacing a spiritual tradition in favour of … what? Party Personalities and ideological positions? It’s not going to be a simple matter, governing so many people and to deny spiritual life and call such matters superstition diminishes the people.</p>
<p>My interest in the I Ching came initially through the Richard Wilhelm translation. A concept is described, unfamiliar and contrasting with my early Christian upbringing, the one proposing ‘One life – That’s it – Get it right - Heaven or Hell await for eternity.’</p>
<p>The startling concept that I found within the I Ching was that there are a limited number of situations in life through which each of us move. Sixty four situations. That’s a pretty remarkable concept and a very precise number.</p>
<p>These situations reoccur, transform one into another and within each situation there are various places or positions such as entering or leaving that situation.</p>
<p>A situation such as ‘Difficulty in the beginning’ is common to a child at school as equally as it applies to someone starting a job, learning a skill, finding love or starting a rule as a new Emperor. It’s a matter of scale.</p>
<p>That ‘difficulty in the beginning’ is felt by me in the writing of this and so I’ll stop here with a grateful acknowledgement to the I Ching.</p>
<p>And that’s the problem with writing about spiritual and why, like family, I seldom feel comfortable about mentioning … what to call it? … the deeper aspects of life. Yet there’s more substance there than in much of what passes for reality.</p>
<p>A songbird calls in the garden. Red and blue, the Rosella sings a three note melody and brings me out to give it some seed. It’s a delight to observe. If I’m slow to answer its call, which I do with my own version of its whistle, then it tries another variety. It’s not tame, it’s flighty and recognisable by a few missing breast feathers. It’s ingenious, persistent and doesn’t mind a brief, cheerful conversation.</p>
<p>The King Parrots, on the other hand, resplendent in their green and red feathers, don’t call to me, yet will eat, unafraid, from my hand. They’re not tame in any sense. They’re well named, regal and at ease.</p>
<p>Total fire bans in place, bushfires continue to spread, no rain in sight and we’re yet to experience summer.</p>
<p>Resilience, resilience.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152712019-11-11T12:00:00-12:002019-11-12T05:11:30-12:00... then there was the calm before the storm ...<p>‘Catastrophic’ is the word of the day. The Great Dividing Range runs for much of the length of the Eastern coastline of Australia. Here in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, the mountains are more like the front door steps of that Range. On the coastal side is where most people live and this area receives more rain, generally speaking, than the inner land mass.</p>
<p>Drought has much of the country in its grip and, for many on both sides of that Divide, the drought has lasted seven years – that number reminds me of the ancient granaries of Egypt which could hold seven years of grain with which to feed the people in just such difficult times.</p>
<p>Went searching and found the following by a Marc Green. It’s succinct and answers the issue of how one would store seven years worth of grain.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">“Granaries definitely played a role as others have said. However, the grain did not need to last 7 years, it only had to tide over Egypt for that time. Famine means insufficient food was growing, not that there was no food grown.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">Simplisticly:</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">Bumper years 1-3 were saved.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">People ate stored grain from years 1-3 during years 4-7, eating the oldest grain first. Years 4-7 were stored during this time.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">Years 8-11, people ate the stored grain from 4-7, storing the reduced crop from years 8-11.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">Years 12-14, people ate a mix of the stored crop from 8-11 and the current crop.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">Year 15, famine over.”</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">This doesn’t happen in a world of ‘just in time’ deliveries.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">Yesterday was the day to be very aware of bush fire dangers. Catastrophic conditions prevail and still do. A combination of drought and strong winds along with utterly dry undergrowth is why the catastrophic condition is declared. The news carries little else …. a bit like Brexit for the British. It’s all encompassing and feelings are running more than high with hysteria – a strong word to use but appropriate – colouring the language being used in Parliament.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">‘Climate change.’ That phrase is used with a finality that allows for no questioning – you either ‘get it’ or you don’t and if you do then a cascade of immediate changes are required and anyone who stands in the way of such righteous indignation is a ‘Denier’ and an idiot.</p>
<p class="uiqtextpara">I looked again for the ‘97% of all climate scientists agree ….’ study by John Cook, University of Queensland, so I could see what questions were asked and did so to no avail. I did find researchers who’d done better and who’d gone to the trouble of emailing a sample of those who took part in this ‘report’ and found that they weren’t pleased to see their work misrepresented.</p>
<p>Anyway … the following is an extract from an article by Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer and which indicates the poverty of thought which has gone into such reports.</p>
<p>“ …… Another widely cited source for the consensus view is a <a href="https://archive.is/o/ap3J6/onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eost.v90.3/issuetoc">2009 article </a>in "Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union" by Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, a student at the University of Illinois, and her master's thesis adviser Peter Doran. It reported the results of a <strong>two-question online survey of selected scientists.</strong> Mr. Doran and Ms. Zimmerman claimed "97 percent of climate scientists agree" that global temperatures have risen and that humans are a significant contributing factor.</p>
<p>The survey's questions don't reveal much of interest. Most scientists who are skeptical of catastrophic global warming nevertheless would answer "yes" to both questions. The survey was silent on whether the human impact is large enough to constitute a problem. Nor did it include solar scientists, space scientists, cosmologists, physicists, meteorologists or astronomers, who are the scientists most likely to be aware of natural causes of climate change.</p>
<p>The "97 percent" figure in the Zimmerman/Doran survey represents the views of only 79 respondents who listed climate science as an area of expertise and said they published more than half of their recent peer-reviewed papers on climate change. Seventy-nine scientists—of the 3,146 who responded to the survey—does not a consensus make.</p>
<p>In 2010, William R. Love Anderegg, then a student at Stanford University, used Google Scholar to identify the views of the most prolific writers on climate change. His <a href="https://archive.is/o/ap3J6/www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.abstract">findings</a> were published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Mr. Love Anderegg found that 97% to 98% of the 200 most prolific writers on climate change believe "anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for 'most' of the 'unequivocal' warming." There was no mention of how dangerous this climate change might be; and, of course, 200 researchers out of the thousands who have contributed to the climate science debate is not evidence of consensus.</p>
<p>In 2013, John Cook, an Australia-based blogger, and some of his friends reviewed abstracts of peer-reviewed papers published from 1991 to 2011. Mr. Cook<a href="https://archive.is/o/ap3J6/iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article"> reported </a>that 97% of those who stated a position explicitly or implicitly suggest that human activity is responsible for some warming. His findings were published in Environmental Research Letters.</p>
<p>Mr. Cook's work was quickly debunked. In <a href="https://archive.is/o/ap3J6/link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11191-013-9647-9%23page-1">Science and Education </a>in August 2013, for example, David R. Legates (a professor of geography at the University of Delaware and former director of its Center for Climatic Research) and three coauthors reviewed the same papers as did Mr. Cook and found "only 41 papers—0.3 percent of all 11,944 abstracts or 1.0 percent of the 4,014 expressing an opinion, and not 97.1 percent—had been found to endorse" the claim that human activity is causing most of the current warming. Elsewhere, climate scientists including Craig Idso, Nicola Scafetta, Nir J. Shaviv and Nils- Axel Morner, whose research questions the alleged consensus, protested that Mr. Cook ignored or misrepresented their work.</p>
<p>Rigorous international surveys conducted by German scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch—most recently published in <a href="https://archive.is/o/ap3J6/www.academia.edu/2365610/A_Survey_of_Climate_Scientists_Concerning_Climate_Science_and_Climate_Change">Environmental Science & Policy</a> in 2010—have found that most climate scientists disagree with the consensus on key issues such as the reliability of climate data and computer models. They do not believe that climate processes such as cloud formation and precipitation are sufficiently understood to predict future climate change.</p>
<p>Surveys of meteorologists repeatedly find a majority oppose the alleged consensus. Only 39.5% of 1,854 American Meteorological Society members who responded to a <a href="https://archive.is/o/ap3J6/www.climatechangecommunication.org/report/american-meteorological-society-member-survey-global-warming-preliminary-findings-february">survey in 2012</a> said man-made global warming is dangerous.</p>
<p>Finally, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—which claims to speak for more than 2,500 scientists—is probably the most frequently cited source for the consensus. Its<a href="https://archive.is/o/ap3J6/ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/images/uploads/IPCC_WG2AR5_SPM_Approved.pdf"> latest report </a>claims that "human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems." Yet relatively few have either written on or reviewed research having to do with the key question: How much of the temperature increase and other climate changes observed in the 20th century was caused by man-made greenhouse-gas emissions? The IPCC lists only 41 authors and editors of the relevant chapter of the Fifth Assessment Report addressing "anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing."</p>
<p>Of the various petitions on global warming circulated for signatures by scientists, the one by the <a href="https://archive.is/o/ap3J6/www.petitionproject.org/">Petition Project</a>, a group of physicists and physical chemists based in La Jolla, Calif., has by far the most signatures—more than 31,000 (more than 9,000 with a Ph.D.). It was most recently published in 2009, and most signers were added or reaffirmed since 2007. The petition states that "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of . . . carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."</p>
<p>We could go on, but the larger point is plain. There is no basis for the claim that 97% of scientists believe that man-made climate change is a dangerous problem.”</p>
<p><em>Mr. Bast is president of the Heartland Institute. Dr. Spencer is a principal research scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite.</em></p>
<p>Yesterday there was an ominous quiet here as ‘Catastrophic Fire Conditions’ prevail. The T.V. news shows ‘Walls of flame’ towering over trees as they’re consumed, embers blown thirty kilometres to start spot fires elsewhere and, of course, there’s very little water – many towns are now so depleted that drinking water needs to be trucked in. Houses burn, people die. Who would not find this sobering.</p>
<p>It’s not a time for fury to be expressed for dissenting views on climate change.</p>
<p>There’s a real issue to do with ‘world views’, the largely unspoken understanding that we all have as to why things are the way they are. My education and yours probably included an idea, a concept called Uniformitarianism – what a mouthful! – and this is expressed as:</p>
<p>‘The theory that all geologic phenomena may be explained as the result of existing forces having operated uniformly from the origin of the earth to the present time.’ … or ‘it’s always been like this.’</p>
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<p>There’s no evidence for this idea which gained popularity in the years prior to Darwin’s work and which appeared to back up Darwin’s needed evolutionary aeons of time but it’s just a cozy concept whereas Catastrophism is not.</p>
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<p>The evidence is there in both folklore and geology to show that the ‘heavens moved’, Mars and Venus battled in the skies and that our ancestors witnessed these events which now come down to us as myth and legend and within the puzzling, enigmatic stick figures hand painted on cave walls. Not so enigmatic if planetary bodies carry electrical charge.</p>
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<p>There’s a world described by Velikovsky in both ‘Worlds in Collision’ and ‘Earth in Upheaval’ which is unfamiliar, which isn’t taught in schools. It’s not cozy and Climate Change in terms of shock and awe permeate the pages.</p>
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<p>None of this makes me a climate change denier – it’s a label which contains no nuance.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152702019-11-05T12:00:00-12:002019-11-05T12:37:36-12:001984 - 2019 ... not a memorial<p>Winston sat at his desk rewriting history. He was very good at his job and questioned nothing as a steady stream of requests, corrections, changes and deletions came his way and were promptly and seamlessly inserted into the current version of history - as approved by the Party.</p>
<p>He wasn’t alone and if he looked up from his work, which he seldom did, it was to see rows of men and women diligently performing similar tasks. History is, after all, written by the victors and the Ministry of Truth is both vigilant and thorough.</p>
<p>2+2=5 was the proposition Winston struggled to accept and if I were that Winston then 9/11 is my equivalent ‘stumbling block.’</p>
<p>Towers just don’t fall down into their own footprint at close to free fall speed without <strong>either</strong> the laws of Physics being broken <strong>or</strong> it being a controlled demolition. It’s an easy ‘either or’ situation or should be. The implications are unpalatable but that’s where the facts lead. I don’t accept impossibilities with a shrug and a “So what!’</p>
<p>I would love to be proved wrong about 9/11 … it was hideous enough without further layers of intrigue.</p>
<p>In ‘Alice through the looking glass’ Alice meets the White Queen who proposes various absurd ideas until this exchange regarding their respective ages occurs. Alice can’t believe that the Queen is over one hundred years old.</p>
<p>“Can’t you?” said the Queen in a pitying tone, ”Try again. Draw a long breath and close your eyes.”</p>
<p> Alice laughed. “There's no use trying,” she said. “One can't believe impossible things.”<br> <br> “I daresay you haven't had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast …”</p>
<p>I would love to believe that money can be printed out of thin air, still retain value AND be sustainable but it’s impossible isn’t it?</p>
<p>That scientists were somehow immune to the pressures of everyday life in which mortgages must be paid. The tobacco industry had scientists proving no negative health effects … the 5G beneficiaries have done no such studies and avoid the issue.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that I’ve much to say that’s not already said. I’m quite prepared to be proved wrong about the issues which continue to concern me but which are as seen by most as … ‘conspiracy writ large.’</p>
<p>If it weren’t for conspiracy, whistle blowers wouldn’t exist or perhaps they would but only in reference to musicians and cheerful people.</p>
<p>The birds do most of the whistling here.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152692019-11-05T12:00:00-12:002019-11-05T12:30:25-12:00An infernal convergence<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mtKO13o_HZQ" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152682019-11-02T12:00:00-12:002019-11-03T01:01:13-12:00all falling down - including the official story<div> </div>
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<p>Much to my surprise and dismay, two astute adults in their forties had either not heard of Al Gore and his ‘An inconvenient truth’ or assume and then state when I mention Roger Revelle – the ‘father of global warming’ and Al Gore’s mentor – and Roger’s subsequent change of opinion regarding the place of CO2, that ‘Surely the science has moved on.’</p>
<p>It hasn’t moved on while Presidents use that 97% figure and it still features prominently in the media. It isn’t questioned or rather it is questioned but that’s not where the money is. What has happened in terms of ‘moving on’ is a new financial area of carbon offsets and trading which does very little but move the problem elsewhere.</p>
<p>I don’t and can’t dispute that extremes of climate are occurring but other factors are at work which aren’t considered by climate modellers. The sun plays its part and if the universe is indeed electric in nature then this requires a paradigm shift in thinking regarding cause and effect. At present, this understanding isn’t taken into account.</p>
<p>In the meantime protests occur, fear increases and ‘it’s all our fault’ becomes the dominant theme.</p>
<p>The 97% figure comes from a study by Dr John Cook in which the work he sampled to arrive at that figure misrepresented the authors’ intent. This is in the public record.</p>
<p>Does it matter that the 97% figure is used if the end result brings societal focus onto environmental concerns?</p>
<p>It matters a great deal when it’s a lie.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152662019-10-09T12:00:00-12:002019-10-10T05:44:56-12:00I don't listen to much music nowadays .... still enjoy playing<p>“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.”</p>
<p>It doesn’t much matter where that quote originates, the substance of it is mirrored by any tribal elder with a voice.</p>
<p>It was one of those misty days here in the Blue Mountains when time itself wavers and I feel a sense of continuity, of generation upon generation standing in line over aeons of time, looking in, looking out and observing the behaviour of whatever empire holds and abuses power which became the seed, the genesis of the following song.</p>
<p>That sense of being on the fringes of an empire and of sensing the implications of decisions made in a far off land but that will ripple across countries, like it or not, permeated my thought. A sadness, it could be the Roman Empire or any other but the rise and the inevitable fall doesn’t come easy.</p>
<p>Trees fill the view, horizon to horizon, this is a vast National Park in which I live. I only have to leave the road to feel antiquity.</p>
<p>Anyway, song got written and recorded and Matt Heinonen who lives up the road and is a cantankerous and creative film maker generously donated time and resources to put the film clip together. It’s well done and, in response to my tribal and ancient sense of the song replied that ‘Ancient is hard to find on film or video.’ Fair point but it does go to show how visions get changed in translation.</p>
<p>I like the song regardless of imagery.</p>
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<p> FALL OF AN EMPIRE - RECOGNITION OF THE CHILD</p>
<p>I recognise this mist ........... I’ve walked this path before</p>
<p>I recognise this mist ........... before I went to war</p>
<p>My senses are alert, there is no need for haste</p>
<p>I recognise this war on peace, I recognise my state of grace</p>
<p>Do not allow for the fall of an empire</p>
<p>To be our personal downfall - too much at stake</p>
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<p>We’ve walked this path before</p>
<p>It was in ancient times - you remember</p>
<p>We’ve had our Armageddon - we’ve had our holocaust</p>
<p>We’ve walked this path before .... we know the cost</p>
<p>Do not allow for the fall of an empire</p>
<p>To be our personal downfall - too much at stake</p>
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<p>I recognise this child, I recognise the need to be gentle</p>
<p>I recognise this much ...... we’ve walked this path before</p>
<p>I cannot say which need is more but needs our dedication</p>
<p>I will not allow for the fall of an empire</p>
<p>To be our personal downfall - too much at stake</p>
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<p>I recognise this mist ............ I’ve walked this path before</p>
<p>This mist is just before my eyes ................ extends no more</p>
<p>My vision clears up, there is no need for haste</p>
<p>I recognise this new born child</p>
<p>I recognise our state of grace</p>
<p>I will not allow for the fall of the empire</p>
<p>To be our personal downfall - too much at stake</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152652019-10-09T12:00:00-12:002019-10-10T05:14:16-12:00fall of an empire<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8LflwyarIaI" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152642019-10-07T12:00:00-12:002019-10-08T06:27:15-12:00are we there yet?<p>It would be the strangest thing if the move towards Brexit, a move back to some sense of sovereignty, ‘a free independent nation’, and the counter move to remain in the European Union then results in the break-up of the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>The law of unintended consequences isn’t so much a law as an inevitability. With the number of think tanks in existence one could imagine that all eventualities would be thought through and perhaps that’s happened. So much hinges upon ones world view, whether events just happen or whether there’s an agenda at work.</p>
<p>No doubt a case can be made for remain or leave regarding Brexit but the referendum resulted in leave, it hasn’t happened and the anger grows. Whatever happens the anger will remain for one side or the other and where that leads is anyone’s guess.</p>
<p>Hong Kong protests change from peaceful to violent and how sad it was to hear ‘God save the Queen’ being sung as if Britain were likely to rush in to … do what?</p>
<p>And this worldwide protest grows … climate, gender issues, ‘democracy’ … I voted labour all my life based on the simple truth that the positive changes in the lives of most in society were better served by Labour than by Conservative governments. It’s no longer so simple.</p>
<p>Donald Trump, growing more deranged by the day, mentions Globalists as if it were a dirty word - which it usually is - and, in the same breath mentions Patriots and my internal radar tells me that Trump’s version of Globalists isn’t mine and his reference to Patriots conjures up that quote … ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’</p>
<p>Yet in my world view there is an agenda, plenty of them, and the end desired result is a new world order. It’s not hidden, Presidents ‘look forward’ to that day but how to achieve such a goal when most nations would be reluctant to give up sovereignty to a World entity.</p>
<p>War, civil unrest, natural or unnatural disasters, a financial system working its way to a cashless society, a 5G technology unsafe for humans and, if so, unsafe for all living things but it doesn’t matter because there are ‘too many people’ anyway … create conditions so miserable that a new world order ‘naturally’ occurs.</p>
<p>The sun still shines … even within that phrase the meaning changes from positive to ominous if drought is the daily reality.</p>
<p>I don’t know if anything is ‘set in stone’ regarding the future. </p>
<p>Change is the only constant.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152632019-10-04T12:00:00-12:002019-10-04T15:20:37-12:00to where Velikovsky's ideas lead<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B_zfMyzXqfI" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152622019-09-29T12:00:00-12:002019-09-30T07:11:17-12:00when in Eden<p>There are the things I absorb when a child. I still find feet and inches more immediate in understanding than the metres and centimetres with which I’ve worked with for most of my adult life.</p>
<p>That same unconscious absorbing and acceptance, without much questioning, covered every waking moment. The routines I followed, the religious instruction, social norms and educational curriculum were already in place so – we fit in as best we can and try to make sense of ‘it’ as our brains develop – mine has been slow.</p>
<p>I suppose I could call it a natural, fairly benign, cultural brain washing whereas my dad would have reduced it to learning how to march to the same beat of the drum as everyone else. Still not sure what to make of that and didn’t follow that path. I know that I simmered through much of childhood with a strong sense of ‘what’s fair.’ A large family, struggling, tends to bring that out if sharing is seen as a positive value but there’s also not much to go around.</p>
<p>As children, a case can be made, as it was amongst us, that food should be distributed equally – that’s fair isn’t it? Hmm … could also make the case that the eldest child needs more food because they’re twice as big as the youngest child. Even as children nuance comes into focus.</p>
<p>Ah – ‘we wuz poor.’</p>
<p>There’s a real disconnect in the world view in which I was immersed as a child, complete with a version of Christianity in which Noah’s Ark and Adam and Eve were both real and perhaps not so, and the ‘world’ was maybe not much older than 5 to 10,000 years old yet we also have the stark difference of the Aboriginal reality of 60,000 years of life upon this continent. They can’t both be right.</p>
<p>A few hundred thousand years since man appears in the evolutionary record ... or so I was taught yet no ‘missing link’ between ape and man has been found. Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’, in that respect, is theory based on shaky ground.</p>
<p>And then there are the ‘Out of place artifacts’ and what’s not to like about such mysteries. Upsetting accepted time lines by vast periods of time.</p>
<p>Early Spring here and bush fires rage in the north of the State and could continue to do so for months. Drought continues with no rain in sight so poor prospects on many fronts and yet, here, all appears well, nature makes the most of a few showers and the garden bursts into life.</p>
<p>A few hours each Spring gazing closely at the ground, on my hands and knees, in exactly the same way in which I once ‘specked’ for Sapphires in Central Queensland but now it’s scores of tiny Lady Birds which catch my eye as I undertake a bindii hunt through the grasses and moss which make up most of the lawn. It’s very satisfying and allows for bare foot in the garden. Bindii are beautiful before they set seed at which time barbs replace softness and barefoot becomes painful. It’s worth the ongoing effort but I’d never have thought of just digging them out if I’d not had the vision of a couple of women at an ashram who, while talking and sitting on the grass, were quietly busy with dinner forks digging out the bindii which surrounded them. As the ‘lawn’ was the size of a small football field this struck me at the time as both marvellous and pointless but they did assure me that they weren’t trying to clear the field – just making a start where they are. Something profound about that … think I while remembering and plucking out a small handful of bindii beneath the flowering fruit trees while Lady birds go about their mysterious activity below and bees browse busy above. Glorious.</p>
<p>I suppose any activity could be seen as a distraction but … a distraction from what? A continuous soul sapping focus upon the ills of the world isn’t constructive and glad I am that the Rugby World Cup is happening, that Wales is doing well and that minnow teams cause upset wins.</p>
<p>It’s also a ‘win’ that, in Britain, smart meter installation has temporarily stalled, due to ‘glitches’, thus slowing the roll out of 5G technology.</p>
<p>“The rollout of smart meters has been delayed by four years, [British] ministers admitted last night. In an embarrassing climbdown, they announced that families will now have until 2024 to install one of the devices.”</p>
<p>Hmm … sounds like ‘no choice’ is offered. Hmm … if no-one is offering no choice then …er … nothing can be happening, can it?</p>
<p>What’s absorbed without much question.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152612019-09-24T12:00:00-12:002019-09-25T06:09:40-12:00architects and engineers<h1>NBC Anchor Ron Insana: Building 7 a ‘Controlled Implosion’</h1>
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<p>On the 18th anniversary of 9/11, CNBC senior analyst and former anchor Ron Insana went on <a href="https://www.wabcradio.com/show/bernie-and-sid/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Bernie and Sid In the Morning</em></a> on New York’s 77 WABC Radio to share his haunting experience of that horrible day.</p>
<p>Approximately eight minutes into the interview, Insana made a statement regarding the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 — which collapsed late in the afternoon of 9/11 — that is truly stunning, especially considering his access to the scene and his job as a prominent news anchor:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>“Well, remember <strong>7 World Trade</strong> had not yet come down. And so when I went down to the [New York Stock] Exchange that Wednesday morning [September 12], I was standing with some military and police officers, and we were looking over in that direction. And if it had come down in the way in which it was tilting, it would have wiped out everything from where it stood to Trinity Church to the Exchange to, effectively, you know, the mouth of the Hudson. And so there were still fears that if that building had fallen sideways, you were going to wipe out a good part of Lower Manhattan. <strong>So they did manage for one to take that down in a controlled implosion later on.</strong> And the Exchange was up and running the following Monday.”</em> [Emphasis added.]</p>
<p>Before addressing questions about Insana’s timeline, let us establish the aspects of his story that are clear and unambiguous. First, he clearly identifies Building 7 as the building he is talking about. Second, he clearly states that Building 7 was taken down in a “controlled implosion,” which flatly contradicts the official explanation that it collapsed due to office fires.</p>
<p><span style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: inherit; max-width: 650px;"><img src="https://www.ae911truth.org/images/articles/2019/september_2019/ron-insana-quote-768-v3.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="ron insana quote 768 v3" height="408" width="768" /><span class="image-caption" style="max-width: 768px;">On the 18th anniversary of 9/11, CNBC senior analyst and former anchor Ron Insana went on Bernie and Sid In the Morning on New York’s 77 WABC Radio to share his haunting experience of that horrible day.</span></span></p>
<p>Insana’s matter-of-fact remark is particularly significant because the manner in which he delivers it and the context in which he came to believe that Building 7 was brought down in a "controlled implosion" suggest that he was told this information and that it may have been fairly common knowledge at the scene. (The only other possibility is that he deduced it was a “controlled implosion” based on his own observation of it.) Indeed, Insana is not the only person to report that a demolition of Building 7 was being considered or was imminent.</p>
<p>For instance, <a href="https://youtu.be/aPuHtNPnJ_M" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FDNY Lieutenant David Restuccio</a> told MSNBC’s Brian Williams just minutes after the collapse: “We had heard reports that the building was unstable and that eventually it would either come down on its own or it would be taken down.”</p>
<p>Another is <a href="https://youtu.be/sNo9q0L53Pg" target="_self">volunteer EMT Indira Singh</a>, who, in 2005, told radio host Bonnie Faulkner: “All I can attest to is that by noon or one o’clock they told us we had to move from that triage site up to Pace University a little further away because Building 7 was going to come down or being brought down.” Faulker replied, “Did they actually use the word ‘brought down,’ and who was it that was telling you this?” “The fire department, the fire department,” Singh answered. “And they did use the word ‘we’re going to have to bring it down.’”</p>
<p>Then there are the <a href="https://youtu.be/C_yQ7k4OUBU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">unidentified construction workers and law enforcement officers</a> captured on video just moments before the collapse, saying: “You hear that?” “Keep your eye on that building. It’ll be coming down.” “The building is about to blow up, move it back.” “We are walking back. There’s a building about to blow up. Flame, debris coming down.”</p>
<p><span style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: inherit; max-width: 650px;"><img src="https://www.ae911truth.org/images/articles/2019/september_2019/ron-insana-768.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt=" " height="“432”" width="“768”" /><span class="image-caption" style="max-width: 768px;">Ron Insana, covered in pulverized concrete from the explosive demolition of the Twin Towers earlier that morning, reports from NBC’s studios on September 11, 2001.</span></span></p>
<p>Insana’s statement is all the more remarkable because it appears that he is unaware of the debunked official story of Building 7’s collapse — according to which office fires leveled a skyscraper for the first time in history — and of the controversy that this story has caused over the past 18 years. Insana might be surprised to learn that there is controversy at all, given what he appears to have been told during his reporting and given the manner in which Building 7 came down — namely, that of a perfectly executed controlled demolition.</p>
<p>Now for the confusing aspects of Insana’s timeline. Building 7 collapsed at 5:20 PM on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. He says he went down to the Financial District on the morning of Wednesday, September 12, where he looked in the direction of Building 7.</p>
<p>There appear to be three ways to make sense of what he said (assuming he is speaking honestly, which there seems little reason to doubt).</p>
<p>One, when he talks about looking in the direction of Building 7, he could mean that he was looking at the debris pile of Building 7, which had already been brought down neatly into its own footprint. In this scenario, he and others were inferring that if the building had tipped over instead of having been brought down, which had already occurred, it would have done significant damage to the surrounding area.</p>
<p>Two, he may have gone down to the Financial District and had the conversation he describes before 5:20 PM on September 11, rather than on September 12. This scenario seems the least likely, though, because he is very specific about not going back down to the stock exchange until September 12, having already made his way up from the scene to NBC’s midtown headquarters by midday on September 11. (Insana’s first appearance in the studio on September 11 was around 12:41 PM, when he vividly described how the <a href="https://youtu.be/dmYT4rSsGIo?t=12928" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first tower had “started to explode</a>.”)</p>
<p>Three, he may have observed the damage to Building 7 or somehow learned about it on September 11, but he is incorrectly placing that observation or the receipt of that information within his experiences on September 12. One possibility is that the conversation he remembers having with military and police officers and/or his observation of the damage to Building 7 actually took place before he left the scene on September 11.</p>
<p>One can only hope that Insana clarifies his story, but the real question for Insana and CNBC is this: Who told him that Building 7 was brought down in a “controlled implosion”? And, for the countless reporters and government officials who were at Ground Zero in the hours and days after the attacks, how many of them were told that Building 7 would be demolished or had been demolished, and why have they not come forward with that information?</p>
<p>Sadly, it is all too likely that the same media malfeasance that has managed to suppress the truth about the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 for 18 years will manage once again to ignore or explain away this newest revelation. But for those of us who exist in reality and care about truth, this revelation — which is merely one of countless corroborating pieces of evidence — will not be ignored or misconstrued.</p>
<p>The only correct way to understand this revelation is that Ron Insana — a reporter who <a href="https://youtu.be/h2c4DRR_150" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">intimately covered the events</a> in New York City on 9/11, such that those events are seared into his mind and he received an Emmy nomination for his reporting — believes that Building 7 was brought down in a “controlled implosion,” most likely based on what he was told by authorities at the scene<em>.</em></p>
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</div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152602019-09-24T12:00:00-12:002019-09-24T15:35:45-12:002 minute update on 'electric universe' and climate change ... changes coming<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q6hFPhMCFmQ" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152592019-09-18T12:00:00-12:002019-09-19T06:28:51-12:00snowballs in space.<p>Snowballs of ice and dust. A description of comets which, with evidence before us, is not true, not accurate, yet ‘scientific consensus’ – a phrase which should make one’s senses come alert – still holds to the snowball view, finds it puzzling but won’t look at the possibility of all celestial bodies having an electrical charge.</p>
<p>The celestial climate affects the Earthly climate or so it appears to me and if this isn’t taken into account then any climate modelling becomes suspect.</p>
<p>School children today are taking time to protest our collective lack of action on climate … ‘good luck to them’ is offered with sincerity rather than cynicism.</p>
<p>With that same sincerity I signed up years ago to receive ‘green energy’ only to find that my gas is from fracking which is a crime against nature let alone man.</p>
<p>Sadly the phrase ‘climate denier’ is used with the same sense of horror as is used with questioning ‘The Holocaust’ – you’ll know exactly which holocaust I’m talking about - as if it’s been the only one worth noting.</p>
<p>What I don’t like about either side of this debate is that there isn’t any … or if there is, no-one is listening.</p>
<p>While I’m musing thoughtful on a damp and pleasant day the magnetic pole continues with its own meandering across the landscape. It’s on its way from the Canadian Arctic towards Russia and doing the same down South. It’s not in rush but it does have effect upon the magnetic shield protecting Earth from sun flung electrically charged particles.</p>
<p>‘Nothing to worry about’ think I … just something which has its place within a bigger picture … not THE bigger picture. That, to my mind, would be multi dimensional.</p>
<p>For more on ‘snowballs in space’ I place the video below.</p>
<p>For an awe inspiring introduction to both Velikovsky’s ideas and the Electric Universe, ‘Symbols of an Alien Sky’ is easily found.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152582019-09-18T12:00:00-12:002019-09-19T06:54:03-12:00snowballs in heaven<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LL8ccdst1fs" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152572019-09-16T12:00:00-12:002019-09-17T05:50:15-12:00changing perspectives<p>I found out recently that the word ‘idiot’ originally goes back to Greece and days of early democracy. It referred to those citizens too apathetic or too ignorant to be bothered to vote.</p>
<p>The word ‘fool’, almost always used as an insult, isn’t seen that way in early Chinese thought – a fool referred to an inexperienced youth and was a statement of fact, no emotional tone involved. I like that perspective, somehow it’s given me both hope and humour. Perhaps it’s also true that one can be a ‘fool’, in the sense of being inexperienced within a particular field of study, at any time within a life – again, with no sense of negativity involved.</p>
<p>So it is for me in respect to … so very much.</p>
<p>Yesterday was shorts and tee shirt weather, bushfires raging further afield but glorious here albeit a severe lack of rain. At dawn today and a silent white transformation of the garden is revealed with Treeferns and flowers bowing down to the snow.</p>
<p>I found Al Gore’s ‘An inconvenient Truth’ in an ‘Op shop’ recently and as it’s where the CO2 issue gained great traction I thought it worth revisiting. I wonder how many who are rightly alarmed at ‘Climate Change’ have done likewise. If I hadn’t known that Roger Revelle, the mentor of Al Gore, had become increasingly uneasy about the place of CO2 within the ‘Climate Change’ debate … hmm … it was once known as ‘Global Warming’ … anyway, Roger recanted, Al Gore called him senile and I watched a slickly presented DVD in which … we should all by now be dead, fried or frozen.</p>
<p>That huge patch of rubbish floating like an obscene island in the Pacific Ocean sums up the need for real action on mankind’s stewardship of the planet.</p>
<p>There are two ‘understandings’ of cosmology which actually impact on our understanding of climate here on Earth. The current view doesn’t allow for the universe being electric. The evidence is there to support the electric view, the planet Mars is covered with features the formation of which can be replicated in a laboratory using plasma. Comets routinely turn out to be composed of rock rather than being the ‘dirty snowball’ present day cosmology continues to name them.</p>
<p>The point being that scientific knowledge gets superceded as discovery is made. Equally obvious is it that those who’ve made a living from the older understanding may well find their life’s work turn to dust. Small wonder that many resist, lose any scientific objectivity and actively engage in deceit in order to maintain their position.</p>
<p>This happened to Velikovsky in the 1950’s and so it continues and didn’t end with Galileo’s persecution five hundred years ago. Conspiracies existed then just as they exist now and the word ‘theory’ wasn’t added to ‘conspiracy’ – the facts lead where they will.</p>
<p>The CO2 aspect of Climate Change is a money making scam.</p>
<p>Globalisation, a New World Order, a cashless society, the 5G infrastructure being put in place to facilitate the ‘internet of things’ for which we’ll all need a smart meter – these are real issues of the day for those not in abject slavery.</p>
<p>Civil disobedience is the result of policies which haven’t worked.</p>
<p>James Corbett – a delight to listen to – talks with Catherine Austin Fitts in the video below.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152562019-09-16T12:00:00-12:002019-09-17T05:48:06-12:00covering ground<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9ZkYVc9N-8E" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152552019-09-11T12:00:00-12:002019-09-12T09:44:27-12:00Israel is no-one's ally<p>There will be no Palestine if Israel’s Prime Minister has his way. Annex more territory and ‘be damned’ with the Balfour Declaration, be damned with any pretence of a two state solution to … what? …. ‘the Palestinian Problem.’ Is there an echo of the recent past?</p>
<p>History replays and the Chosen People and the Master Race are interchangeable. Zionism is fascism with different clothing. There are many Rabbis who’d agree.</p>
<p>This isn’t about ‘The Jews’ – how could it be when Judaism is as riven with schism as all religions. It’s not about religion or race but it is about political ideology which is what Zionism is.</p>
<p>Zealots and fanatics aren’t confined to the fringes of society. Often they occupy central and powerful positions and the common thread in behaviour is summed up with ‘By any and all means necessary.’</p>
<p>This is Israel’s position and it has nothing to do with God and everything to do with Earthly kingdoms. It’s a potent brew and leads, as always, to eventual destruction.</p>
<p>There is a map showing the land area of Palestine divided into Jewish and Palestinian territory. It’s well known because it changes and keeps changing and in every instance the Palestinian area shrinks.</p>
<p>What a mockery Israel makes of peace processes and the notion of fair play and they continue with the pretence that they and not the Palestinians are victims.</p>
<p>It stinks to high heaven but that’s of no concern to those who seek worldly kingdoms.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152542019-09-11T12:00:00-12:002019-09-12T09:43:27-12:00Israel spying and yawn reaction<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/otn4nQbfZ1U" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152532019-09-10T12:00:00-12:002019-09-11T05:23:02-12:00the news conference which may lead somewhere useful<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HLW0_wCYyqY" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152522019-09-07T12:00:00-12:002019-09-08T11:04:42-12:00102 minutes<p>“9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America is an unprecedented documentary that joins hundreds of pieces of footage and audiotape in a seamless historical record.”</p>
<p>Well – that’s that – 9/11 sorted.</p>
<p>Except it isn’t a seamless historical record. Perhaps using ‘102 minutes’ precludes mention of Building 7 – the forty seven story building within the same complex as the Twin Towers which collapsed though not hit by anything - but the only reason I watched this film was to see if ANY question at all got raised within its two hour length. It didn’t. Plenty of shock and awe, dust and pain and even a mention of the Pentagon but no Building 7.</p>
<p>Eighteen years of 9/11 anniversaries and I’ve never seen any of the dozens of videos/films available which do question every detail surrounding that day’s events appear on commercial television.</p>
<p>There was a moment within that ‘documentary’ which struck me as deeply human. A cleric is walking through a street below the towers but before the towers came down. A camera gets thrust into his face and an interviewer asks him, in breathless tones, what he’s seen. He glances upwards at the smoke and fire and says nothing.</p>
<p>The interviewer, in that crass way that interviewers have, says to the cleric.</p>
<p>‘Can you say something to comfort the affected?’</p>
<p>He paused briefly and before walking on, responds ‘Let me find it first’</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152512019-09-05T12:00:00-12:002019-09-19T07:40:07-12:00I could almost hear the silence<p>What are the chances, what is the probability that three skyscrapers should fall into their individual footprints thus saving an incalculable cost in clearing up the debris and rebuilding?</p>
<p>I can’t answer that and neither did the N.I.S.T. report's authors. They didn’t ask the question.</p>
<p>This is the level of absurdity surrounding the events of that day. The following is close to verbatim when the writers of the report were questioned upon its release.</p>
<p>‘Did anyone find evidence of explosives?’</p>
<p>‘No’</p>
<p>‘Did anyone test for explosives?’</p>
<p>‘No.’</p>
<p>Arguably the greatest crime scene known and the question wasn’t asked.</p>
<p>The amount of rubble left in those footprints was surprisingly small, much of it having been pulverised. That rubble was trucked away, the metal beams shipped to China, yet six weeks later and the excavators are still finding molten metal as they dig deep into the foundations. Molten metal? A furnace is needed to melt steel.</p>
<p>Jet fuel sounds like it’s high octane yet it’s closer to kerosene which most are familiar with – it won’t melt metal or our heaters would have demonstrated this weakness.</p>
<p>The near free fall speed of the collapse of all three towers inescapably lead to a conclusion that ANYTHING acting as an impediment, such as the supporting pillars, would need to be removed simultaneously. Controlled demolition is required.</p>
<p>The report below says as the title indicates – fire did not bring down Building 7 so what did bring it down, bearing in mind that no skyscraper has ever come down in such fashion anywhere or at any time, before or since.</p>
<p>Mainstream media will not ask the question and that in itself doesn’t indicate conspiracy but does indicate complicity. Accept one lie and the next stands waiting.</p>
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<p>On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 PM, the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint, falling more than 100 feet at the rate of gravity for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second destruction.<br> <br> Today, we at Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth are pleased to partner with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in releasing the <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W1GyFu3aJE%2BNpOT1TurxvkWF3GjtRoET" target="_blank">draft report of a four-year computer modeling study</a> of WTC 7’s collapse conducted by researchers in the university's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.<br> <br> The release of the draft report begins a two-month period during which the public is invited to submit comments. The final report will be published later this year.</p>
<p><br> We invite you to read the report and to tune in at 10:00 PM Eastern tonight for <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9uhRXCurg18dJT%2FOG%2FoV10WF3GjtRoET" target="_blank">Dr. Leroy Hulsey’s presentation at the UAF campus</a>, where he will outline his team’s findings.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152502019-09-03T12:00:00-12:002019-09-03T15:54:40-12:00Ah - Building 7 - it's not as if it's a secret but might as well be<p>I got an email today from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Tuth.</p>
<p>The ‘news’ is that Building 7’s collapse was not due to fire.</p>
<p>Most have never heard of Building 7 and as the anniversary of 9/11 rolls around again so the mainstream media is bringing versions of the official story – it was never much of a narrative – to our televisions screens where they’ll likely be believed as truthful.</p>
<p>It’s not.</p>
<p>James Corbett’s ‘propaganda watch’ is linked below.</p>
<p>It's what doesn't make the news that gives pause. I know it's a continuous torrent but the 'news' about Building 7 is greeted by silence.</p>
<p>It's huge news - if not by fire then why did a 47 story skyscraper collapse at near free fall speed?</p>
<p>Our present day reality is fundamentally changed by the events of that day and it's not worth investigating?</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152492019-09-03T12:00:00-12:002019-09-03T15:45:48-12:00the news ... which news?<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZADmzHGfVGQ" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152482019-09-01T12:00:00-12:002019-09-02T03:38:50-12:005G - i didn't ask for it and neither did you - no consultation at all.<table class="templateContainer" style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
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<div>For the Earth, I thank all of you who have already signed, and I ask each of you to please forward this email to at least 10 others who have not yet signed the <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/qLdX-eAUsYWwoRX2lLmjQyWib5bAvtaWjhB5k9yLE85oPpjBYvmuHs_QbNzBxlHJ_BzSp2qjCAej1z_1fb5ZxxfHLQiejPBChVUx1zw2gq58Drx4bZ_7y4atI_lNLvR2eIwZvnqOPyvbazfu8uLpzpu1JzM4h4eBTs3HVku0dM9d">International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space</a>. We are gathering volunteers from around the world who will hand-deliver this Appeal to the governments of all nations during the month of October. Please contact me at <a href="mailto:info@cellphonetaskforce.org">info@cellphonetaskforce.org</a> if you wish to volunteer.</div>
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<br>The assault on life by radio waves that began in 1896 — that is now increasing so rapidly, and is injuring so many people and so many forms of life — must finally be acknowledged, and it must finally be halted. We do not have much time. Scientists, doctors, government officials, and injured people must all meet together in one place to put a stop to it. It is the most immediate threat to life on Earth, and its solution is therefore the key to our survival. If we can stop 5G, then maybe we can also stop the threats to our forests, oceans, atmosphere, and climate. They are all products of unbridled technologies that we think are necessary for modern life, but are really antithetical to life itself.</div>
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<strong>125,000 Signatures So Far</strong><br><br>The International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space has now been translated into 30 languages. It has been signed, thus far, by more than 124,000 individuals and more than 1,100 organizations from 203 countries and territories. They include:<br><br>3,381 scientists<br>1,913 medical doctors<br>5,848 engineers<br>3,525 psychologists, psychotherapists and social workers<br>3,052 nurses<br><br>All signatures are now on our website, and the number of signatures is now updated in real time automatically.<br><br>I have just added a new category of signers: <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/jp_wGP_SCJO0So2keIS2mItJH3PgbwTWYjJUy8ZIyg1gUZv8qxeucFQj0g1LhyVI_ul8DkcN8ZEG5KsGQOtaoNlKk6ApcmYBG5KDGDQkJRc2jNuRTaxoh8yjbFqiz3AQRoBdMxw4BAIonnBso9qkdVM9yT4jItEiUygdzjE9WN1UMKCLzyNilIF_-Z2PosQ">beekeepers</a>. This is because beekeepers from around the world are signing in increasing numbers, and because 5G poses such a threat to honey bees worldwide.<br><br>*** Organizations that signed between June 3 and July 28 should sign again. For reasons that are not clear, all organization signatures submitted between June 3 and July 28 were blocked by my email provider and those signatures are lost. The problem has been fixed. Please alert all organizations that you are associated with that if they signed the Appeal during that time and their name does not appear on the <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/6p2ZOq-Bekc-Px03oClYb13b5SlckYgdJ5Zn-E1DXzPPKcyDmrMCq1b1-ENZvEzmBuZlaYXkES4MMzh05SW_Rv-PlXb5OMVaaxjLDbT0B_LMuTKTeI54jr0tmc5U1TqyQ6ZXDicLTKl-_hV26YaHtymFnwISqTz58JgAhxF7FanJ3rDx5fEhgpuga3YqZop3gYRCO7NRw0EqWS3W96w">Organizations</a> page of our website, they should sign again. </div>
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<br>Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, plans to launch 12,000 satellites to supply 5G globally from space. The first 60 satellites were launched on May 23, 2019 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The second set of 60 satellites are scheduled to be launched on November 17; the third set of 60 satellites on December 4. As soon as 420 satellites are launched, SpaceX plans to begin providing global 5G service to a limited number of customers. <strong>This must not happen.</strong> The activation of 5G satellites in space threatens catastrophic effects, as early as this coming spring — not from the direct radiation, but from the alteration of the Earth’s electromagnetic environment, upon which everyone depends for their life and health. Details are in this article: <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/73CbVb1xPbXzALxq2M8s5aw6wfhPYgRMzYP7jMsAhdeeE4LrdRwub576kYpQfaX4t4AwZHkskoA51wTjYFifKj_dShiinSJN1mVKRSxODJCb--JsYe7JJRPopeJL4NXlgJVm6Z2bsSb5FW2mOOdhO8XU1h58b3avL2N4bEQ23YqnxX09cXL75RtpLfALU-7uPTHHVZA3WUO09edxUAnHSZutvl00bIy5cftUgOF19o4MaDamHBKJzix2a_pXooQVQyh4">Planetary Emergency</a>.</div>
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<br>Elon’s younger brother, Kimbal Musk, who is on SpaceX’s board of directors, lives in Boulder, Colorado, and is an environmentalist who cares about the Earth and our future. One of the organizations he founded, Big Green, has dozens of officers and team members and has installed raised bed “Learning Gardens” in public schools throughout the area. I am reaching out to all my contacts in Boulder, to see if any of them knows someone connected with Kimbal Musk and can get us an appointment with him. </div>
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<div>Canadian scientists with the National Research Council proved already in the 1960s that <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/3XjWwagKGoAzoGiRd7IzWf68h7twlr2Kp19MQ_97pU139VEKDhcYzNZ2Oa7M8ixs0l7fTRN6oBd8EmDHTHsiMaXsYbzpycVA_HTeLxsJHXnIHjKNQLj6TsmgvQagNEPr249mcgAOIZ61Pe77DZmeBymhvBesIxy0SbWnZBcH7ZBHizApohkZJkZZnsiJb48KsUPxmvqrFA_EnpMoiIMXd_qd9F5siG7tt8gyxcSZn-quT-SikzfwNrUlNv3pij0lZyEnYG9KdQ7JkKkZxlUJQnM">bird feathers make good receiving aerials</a> for microwave radiation and that low-level microwaves cause birds <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/TcCu0af4sGj3mXgeRpyfFUf_3tiDkB1rEuxyILYtAf9VRJncisTQBjoDKbZpNSRiGkElQHhg0mNPOBjfd8fHKyCD23c9FA1cqPvs5MzYdY06ZaRLko0oi2lbvL3xBkucesqAS6G7OJgP5vg-Lpj1jRyzeRmNlV60dXbvaMx2o01Jd1wwYKhlOamzE7KtTOVPzrER3xJm-D_-u9uWZa0DF3GvL5bGZ-9BJz0IC5PLgVR-ia_P1ZgeCjq5RlQaN36GBfQ">distress</a>, <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/PgT4JMT8QaWqZSbsengXWm5BmE1qXrsTMbm9tW0nO2_qVWA4wczCtjJuwMfThBD0tJDTo5jQknTjPZZtFlV4vDtKuj27X4aSgFkoIKuCYv6JB65N2auTcxdTm95sJQFFtnENfCDm96A19mohwA87toKPPA4VKuEEF1ProSOaE-9lLkZyIbR2p60HIQ7Xevv8DhzRDUmuAcSuWiI0Rrcjm73Hx0FlC6T8_g">deteriorated health and mortality</a>. Spanish biologist Alfonso Balmori has proved that radio waves <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/zJURWF5hJnpToKO-3L5mLdne976S1H8AUoXMC63ATltYPY7wtAkkS4_0LcZQZ416DYIEPwfXtEhm5F6n5yTzQa0ZHXjnfn-VEthtg794wdj_uaL5jy6j-Ezb7AxSycVIq8QQXFC_M8Efoech4gCPw315oxN_xJFQUxSY1ZHBgD_m9WYdD2mRRu8mKVdJjzlkkMeskw">interfere with nesting and reproduction</a>. Scientists at the University of Oldenburg in Germany have proved that radio waves <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/rQ7IvPDp2ocSBE-7FdA1zWp0VYlPxyepCfCCLzzYmpwfkXSX9_sn2YK4_CUz0wi-eFl-ILuHa4ICyUU6G-mD3dR_URfBfcMyeU1L7KcT-oUwicybkgz_E7l1C4wrsq_y2AuNzjBgQm5RdHAi016vBhCfF_TtXNQXmlsAh7dySCp0CaHoYa52Mq0QOu7Yzry7ndic">interfere with bird migration</a>.<br><br>Two week ago, I received a phone call from geneticist Julian Northey in Ontario, Canada. He told me that last year, many Canadian geese were so disoriented that they never flew south for the winter. He observed flocks of geese near the shore of Lake Ontario, flying due east one day, due west the following day, and due east the day after that. In the dead of winter, in January and into February, when they should have been south in a warmer climate, they were still in Canada flying back and forth, unable to find their bearings, honking and honking in distress.<br><br>Unlike irradiated humans, irradiated birds are not on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications. Instead, they are attacking people. “<a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/y-O5LJzwU_F1ghGgfRdHKoEhgdXE3LffHEu9UVpRJldvHENwFOKcLsiRtkeyHMAq2E_K1NSf1zLrUeDmMXvGXKbODCT9WpIDbb2FLx6aYVYzJKB0SLulIVSC8_nXMSPFLb1mkBgUfZCH97Jom-RaaqMFl8dZWDMtXpAWbLqvBK2DrQfOmOGVwQ8PGsjlpWFvoixbGLvzRb2S-lvMpIPUd3QwixFbVYfFulYJUiYrCLWs7uC4CjB8EiN3kBxj2bHqr5VIJVqsgfuSUdy9BKFmFXcI1Sj8t8ZMk5HF3Xp-_FM5y720">Proving Hitchcock Right, Bird Attacks Are Turning Violent This Summer</a>”, read a July 15, 2019 headline in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>. In Massachusetts, Minnesota, British Columbia, Montana, Colorado and Illinois, red-winged blackbirds, crows, hawks and wild turkeys are divebombing people and whacking them in the head.</div>
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<br>In Bulgaria in June, 5G was tested for the first time in Sofia. According to an email I received on July 17 from a 20-year-old girl who lives there, this resulted in the deaths of more than 700 pigeons — reminiscent of an earlier, similar report from The Hague.<br><br>“<a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/buCfqs8B9SK2T53Rf9EqJkOZYpRksDBT4fnZhe3XiFSvqE0RFw-_v6Z5YouuwaJFgpbWWikbBKsA_5p3_ijFTFSlg_BhDFN2Ib7iLfbku-d5HRhJ4T4NrFEPLpMSjUdrGhoKhugfVNJX2686Dzf5mfPnwpnMYIlmfluvLNgbKvCXXeJcx-OZBNdTLgS82c4kQZmDw0dT9aLi3xP6LTjAtrqH86Fq4mTTqbkECF01vOLPSBa8y_U4">Where have all the Birds Gone?</a>” asked Max Silverman on July 1, 2019 in his Birding Diary from England. “I have been out with the camera several times since my last blog which was over a month ago now but have really struggled to find any birds to point the camera at,” he writes.<br><br>Here in Santa Fe, New Mexico, <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/aPDjL-A9UuJM4ujNr6CGBCg0WVNT65mHgHg1WH-4qLyID-ftQFo2cozhYyqTu6pn8L6wydodblD1OfemM588wJpMWKvaGmrawB7scFYofFp4GVOD3bDUtxVVApSZWouuwOA1v5uWPz9fhZ3Pbtpgy2xlSpJoYH9D7BFsDA4dnYBRwEfN1PyTM3zdHd_k5F2L7u0">Richard Balthazar wrote</a> on July 1, 2019: “This past week I’ve been horrified to see the cherries ripening on the tree next door — and simply hanging there till over-ripe and falling to litter the ground. Always before, as the cherries started to turn red, the tree would be a-flutter with flocks of birds pecking the heck out of them. Now I’ve seen no more than three of our little birds struggling to reach a fruit or two. Where have all the birds gone?”<br><br><strong>Insect Armageddon</strong><br><br>This <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/90iwbqhkOUu6QZ9PRj-eazj3XUCGpWs4nQuP0-Rxz6SOV6eenO9dyE1SIShuup-oC7t9MbmNRyCqXmjwzEMvPyJYZG-u89Gl-l8ddflohxPq7HQWPl-HY1qQizAjT5uURi-rEzo4I7IlAxmq6v_omiX1EwKXIOj7BTEdmsWnpafGdk_hSctK0SCT6Eejd4XlPmiml9U4">youtube video</a> from California showing dead and dying bees falling out of the air near mobile phone antennas has been circulating recently.<br><br>Alongside birds, the world’s insect populations are plummeting just as drastically, if not more so. This is not surprising, considering that all insects have antennae, with which they detect their environment and communicate with one another. This is explained in the important booklet, <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/_hatLuzSHJDXPO7H4yWKTwXn43PaAIHxq4ugT_EKu7nPn10ZmBQzNRTDY2z_MCM2iyR4jMD9qrsU0I1qewbyXjPDSGoUO1QybInCYiZk8wyOrbONNKAds1SyTFgAa560_CxzCXPF7wH4u1fqIhGjbxcjPPBhNI3jUOMbCY0SPSS3SYT7yWGM6340Wjy4vjTBtf_yVGVbBsOG323uHiccFN5frOEQJGxXhUqBTmOIDkg9yhKVMUw5PTKgcd4wCvZkblAhlGU_5q0puyUhbLPBrcZEP3Vq4GLMVP2n7qxkq0aP7zVPE4aALI00N3rW6A">Bees, Birds and Mankind: Destroying Nature by ‘Electrosmog’</a>, published in 2007 by German biologist Ulrich Warnke.<br><br>In the last two years, scientists worldwide are waking up to this emergency. In 2017, scientists reported that the number of flying insects in 63 protect nature areas in Germany had <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/q0IZbi4p2wo5RuZvFdWwA5tsoXbUznjVxlsBNR-7mtX1fWPsUYknK8q74K4ZbZoWTIwPnUSjXeRWDEgppEYVVfktQC2LNxjCkgz49lbVOEgtHTC3LVpA8YimfKFSXtHOnrNl6iqc6HQEOinN8Fl7jHfCzj6nhII-pY_v6MAVbpWbZY3yBhJZyGgFmCRFT_wOjheY7bNlwyEcaO0Rwg4zc7zG33hO17gsDLWKtRDEghI8UxeiI9bBxvqNooOL3EiGYkdZPGMkqK_BjGmIWhghLeAf">declined by 75 to 80 percent since 1989</a>. In September 2018, scientists reported that the number of insects caught in sticky traps in a Puerto Rican rainforest had declined, incredibly, <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/SQRU86_j9AYNVmZ1g6puY1k-MfFHbY2oRNMnGqKW6hwIsZ8_atpt9rh2lpvcRab0kc2lbIOrLXnAjQMnEs1K7cz3HVVUtmpFKVGUNyhHjW5OgIu4BMA-banSfOKVVkDItkaFtPBbIFvcTWSW9AoQJoX5Ir-pFuYJNq9zJGsQ5LxCfPPlCYUxPD-Y5owtf5flY2L6oep3wfu0q3Rmc1zgC7-Y16zqWEQ">by 97 to 98 percent since the 1970s</a>. And in January 2019, scientists from Australia and Belgium concluded that <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/NGMy3S_cb2g8JAh6KH_wS-5T5gVs583n-CDHZ90xhKXiguqN6bcP2s_MEUOCNezAw_Eujdyc_pj_d8bvQlIJ6X3L5NA08AmRJAWOsUT8cuCbm5xXuis-R5LyrOn35odJGhzRCbuk7d62tYZXzmjgxbGC7hJsP_1o5SeUVC04V3BleQs1OKLfXVpaM4D_Wc6TzsUh94KKoSfldTHdyW2CKIYEXVr_8Ebu0DNb__widB0">these types of declines are occurring worldwide</a> and among all types of insects. On February 10, 2019, a headline in <em>The Guardian</em> announced: “<a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/-czJC5VYUufvGcb5JUdZvJ17GFHeCZwRRSgQhY02FMJx3zKE9xd9mzmd8G7i-bjLdfKy6F3UC9PJBocN-qpq05QWY6DPvRs8C-xY4vrQz-NiftsGfgF8q6vl1t_JEi3m23416xjvnJiJkxux3Cfq3SZdmeVaLMcrpt6l2sH_3e0xTXtVNWWS5PLmFMW0eQ0TDzruf1t2x_7lGzGCrC4N-KnLGTM9B0q3DtK9_EZzAevEPDFafMTwH1ugAxnJ95K59PJQpC-T4C0Q6MIS68TIisx4onmVC0bT">Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’</a>”. Some scientists are blaming this on pesticides, habitat loss, or climate change. Others are throwing up their hands and saying “We don’t know why this is happening.”<br><br>But it has been happening for a long time. By 1906, ninety percent of the honey bees had disappeared from the Isle of Wight, where Marconi had established his first permanent radio station. The progression from “Isle of Wight disease” to “disappearing disease” to “colony collapse disorder” to “insect armageddon” has brought us to the brink of catastrophe. We <em>do</em> know why, and it <em>must</em>, finally, be halted.</div>
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<br><strong>“It Feels Like I’m Living in a Microwave Oven”</strong><br><br>One day in April of this year, 5G antennas were installed near an apartment building in Geneva, Switzerland. Johan Perruchoud, age 29, a video and film maker who lives on the fifth floor, suddenly couldn’t sleep, and his ears started whistling. “In particular at home,” <a href="http://r.mail.cellphonetaskforce.org/mk/cl/f/ttD4S6E71bgZ7wevrt2kE3lMUKzpk3MC4JcJqAKNk_m7rMkfMvCotj-NSX9LqvDD50pRix0MOrq5_ObAx8eW1bcWpupQh7F0Ut_4jdqwb40sejcM-HcGn8Cr66wU5ZPhn1gcNQ914kd-jdlK_c7JfQQ1pLtlabqvrG4i7i_EklGzYQNz85PVa8hAPjETD_dpar1Et5Eql1aczKdE">he says</a>, “I felt —how can I put it — like I was in a microwave oven. I was not well in the house, as if I was surrounded by ghosts.”<br><br>His neighbor, actor and director Elidan Arzoni, age 50, fared worse. On the same day in April, his ears suddenly started making very loud sounds, so loud that it is “unlivable”, and he felt pains on the left side and back of his skull, and in his chest. His chest pains were so violent that he thought he was having a heart attack and went to the hospital emergency room two days later. His wife and three children, ages 9, 16 and 21, all suffer from insomnia, which began at the same time in April.<br><br>I received an email at the end of May from a social worker in Vancouver, Canada. She works for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. “Vancouver is seriously radioactive. Someone please help me,” she wrote. I spoke with her and she echoed Mr. Arzoni’s words: her city is unlivable. Vancouver is leading the way in Canada in the installation of 5G.</div>
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</table>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152472019-08-31T12:00:00-12:002019-09-01T04:45:54-12:00Adani and the trampling of rights<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Friends, the moment that threatened us has come, and we need you with us. </span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In a shameful act, </span><a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/qld-govt-wipes-out-wj-native-title-for-adani/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1155cc; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the Queensland Government has extinguished our land rights</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> over Wangan and Jagalingou Country, ignoring our refusal to give our consent to Adani. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our homelands and waters, the fate of our sacred Springs, and our ceremonial grounds, are now officially controlled by </span></strong><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">billionaire miner Adani.</span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Government didn’t have to betray our culture, and deny our rights in this way - they chose to do this. And, in this moment, we choose to resist.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now is the time for all our supporters to stand with us in solidarity, to prevent the permanent destruction of our culture. Will you </span><a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/pledge-to-stand-with-us/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1155cc; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sign the pledge</span></a> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> to stand with us to defend our people, our rights and our country?</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We will maintain our defence of country and stay</span></strong><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> on our homelands, despite </span></strong><a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-31/adani-native-title-anger-prompts-police-inquiries-protest-clash/11466778" target="_blank"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adani demanding that police remove our people </span></strong></a><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">from a ceremonial camp established last weekend at the site.</span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We will be there to care for our lands and waters, hold ceremonies, and uphold the ancient, abiding law of the land. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Queensland Government and Adani, working hand in hand, are criminalising our cultural laws and practice. We have been made 'trespassers' on our own Country.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">URGENT: We need your support to sustain our fight. We must continue to resist Governments who would deny our rights, and Adani and the other coal miners lining up to plunder our homelands. </span></strong></p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We have held up this mine for eight long years and we will keep fighting to ensure our ancestral lands are not destroyed.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The mining State of Queensland and its corporate vanguard, Adani, have never had our free prior consent to occupy our lands and take our water, or allow a coal mine to destroy them.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adani are the trespassers. And the State aids and abets them. </span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While we’ve spent fifteen years trying to get our land back through the native title process, we now face forcible removal as the Queensland Government hands our land to Adani. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We face being criminalised for trying to conduct ceremony and maintain connection - the very essence of our continued claim to the lands and waters of our ancestors.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Last weekend we established a Cultural Sovereignty Camp on Country, on the land Adani is seizing for the mine’s critical infrastructure. </span></strong><a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://www.facebook.com/WanganandJagalingou/videos/360045901580122/" target="_blank"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">View our video</span></strong></a><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our land has always been First Nations sovereign land, because of our culture and how we maintain our culture. And we're not going anywhere. </span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is always going to be First Nations land. They will not move us from our sacred places.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Government are in dishonour for the suffering they have caused our people, and the harm they do to our ancestors.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> They should hang their heads in shame for how they have enabled this abuse of power by Adani. We will hold them both to account.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All along, the State and Adani have acted in bad faith to engineer an outcome. Yet when we have said no, loudly and clearly - when we stand in our truth and our law and resist - we are punished. They are perpetrating ‘lawfare’ against us.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The threats to us are grave. They are legal, physical and spiritual. They cut to the deepest meaning of being First Nations people in this country. Our lives, our families, our laws and culture are placed at risk by the rich and powerful.</span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adani has </span><a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/bankrupting-of-first-nations-leader-adani-sets-brutal-new-standard-of-corporate-behaviour/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1155cc; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bankrupted our cultural leader</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and threatens our elders who have fought through the courts with further punitive costs. <strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We face criminal charges for being on the land the State just handed to Adani </span></strong><a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/31/queensland-extinguishes-native-title-over-indigenous-land-to-make-way-for-adani-coalmine" target="_blank"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">without even telling us</span></strong></a><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. </span></strong></span><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The threat of trespassing charges and potential arrest by the police is meant to scare us into submission.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Government and Adani are looking to make an example and a mockery of our people, to bankrupt and criminalise us, and force our people further into poverty. These are the conditions that are meant to make us grateful for some handouts and jobs in a dirty coal mine. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1c1e21; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By denying us ceremony and the right to claim and maintain physical contact with the land and our ancestors, they are denying our fundamental human rights.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We will not be relegated. We are the people from the land. The keepers of the ancestors. The water protectors.</span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">No still means no. We will resist as our forebears have always done. And with your support, we can fight to right these injustices and heal the land.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Please </span><a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/pledge-to-stand-with-us/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1155cc; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pledge to stand with us</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, and </span><a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/donate/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1155cc; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">donate to support our figh</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">t when you can.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0;">Adrian Burragubba started this petition on CommunityRun. If there's an issue close to your heart that you'd like to campaign on, you can <a style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #348eda; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0; padding: 0;" href="https://www.communityrun.org/petition/new?source=petition_email_footer" target="_blank"> start your campaign here</a>.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152462019-08-28T12:00:00-12:002019-08-29T09:01:13-12:00I'm not in agreement - don't care what the subject is<p>‘Diverse and inclusive’ – debatably, fairly meaningless words which many embrace notwithstanding that they’re, often, mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>Embrace diversity but only if your views are accepted as, basically, the only view worth holding.</p>
<p>‘Birds of a feather flock together’ is readily understood regardless of the language spoken or the time in history. It’s reality. When the ‘left’ and ‘right’ hold their street protests, after the venom stops dripping, do they all hold hands and stop for a refreshing cup of tea and a chat …no … they don’t like each other. They don’t embrace each other’s diversity. Why would they.</p>
<p>Yet both parties probably like animals, have good qualities and go home to the usual activities we engage with.</p>
<p>Brexit and ‘crashing out.’ Why use such a phrase when ‘walking away’ is just as appropriate. Life – as the British know it – will not dissolve into chaos just because Brexit occurs. ANY deal will be scrutinised and if found wanting provoke a negative reaction. If a no deal occurs then new arrangements get put in place.</p>
<p>I don’t see any debate which clarifies the reasons why and why not Brexit should happen. Just as with the same sex marriage debate where there is no debate, only positions taken and insults hurled.</p>
<p>The inescapable fact is that the British voted to leave and to suggest that they didn’t know what they were voting for misses the point – they voted, democratically, to leave. You can’t get away with calling people stupid and asking for yet another referendum and expect to be taken seriously as a democrat.</p>
<p>Why can’t we all just get along’ says a sister of mine and I’m sure her thought is echoed. I don’t like conflict, don’t seek it out, find no pleasure in winning an argument yet ‘outrage’ is the word of the day and everything is open to someone’s objection or offended feelings.</p>
<p>‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’, the childhood rhyme remembered when the village bully was prowling. Cold comfort but reflecting reality. But now – awkward disconnects appear. That rhyme, known for centuries, no longer holds true?</p>
<p>Revisiting Velikovsky’s ‘Worlds in Collision’ becomes a calm reflection notwithstanding its catastrophic nature.</p>
<p>Spring approaches here just as Autumn appears elsewhere. We’ve had enough rain to soak the surface soil and benefit the local area but not to extend to the parched land further west.</p>
<p>I’m a bit perplexed … sounds like tummy ailment requiring burping … </p>
<p>So many issues to digest and … he cheerfully added … ‘some of them are difficult to swallow.’</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152452019-08-24T12:00:00-12:002019-08-25T07:16:24-12:00from here to there without going anywhere<p>We were all equal except for those who weren’t.</p>
<p>Climate emergency? Not the least of outstanding concerns but only one of many. As to it being an emergency perhaps it is but if you’re a Palestinian, a Syrian or you suffer malnutrition because an American Clown masquerading as a President throws out economic sanctions as if there were no consequences to real people, climate isn’t just the weather it’s the extreme emotional, mental, spiritual and material climate under which most of us have to labour – I had used the word ‘deal’ and then ‘work’ but ‘labour’ is closer to the truth.</p>
<p>What’s in a word? The crowds of protesters described by our news outlets here in regards to Hong Kong became gangs of protesters this morning. Hmm … gangs eh! Are sensitivities being accommodated?</p>
<p>It’s a ‘look over here’ – no – ‘look over there’ situation and meanwhile ….</p>
<p>Meanwhile economies are crashing and what’s left when the dust settles are billions who will never have a job other than that offered by an Uber economy, a gig economy indistinguishable from the serfdom and slavery still existing overtly or otherwise.</p>
<p>It’s easy to see how many see these as ‘End Times’ – they’re certainly times of trial and tribulation. Problem with that outlook for me is that prophecy can appear to be fulfilled because events are and can be manipulated to serve that purpose. While God knows what’s in the heart, God doesn’t appear to intervene in a way in which human beings can all understand. That being the case why do people murder in the name of God. ‘Don’t kill each other’ is a basic commandment regardless of religion yet it’s on a ‘wish list’ in ‘the real world.’</p>
<p>Meanwhile countries like Australia – bastions of democracy or so it’s claimed – continue with the headlong rush via 5G technology and a ‘soon to arrive’ cashless society into a totalitarian system such as that already in place in China with facial recognition and social credit scores which rise and fall depending on whether or not you’ve become a docile consumer and where being a citizen, a relatively free human being, disappears into those hazy mists of time.</p>
<p>We’re sending a warship towards Iran to protect our … er … um … oh yes … our ‘national interest’. Standing guard over oil supplies which Iran hasn’t threatened. Of course we’ve just had the nudge from our American allies and ominously familiar phrases like ‘the coalition of the willing’ come to mind.</p>
<p>There is no ‘coalition of the willing’ - not among the populations but world power play and a military/industrial complex which we were warned about decades ago and which depends upon conflict demands that the conflict be ongoing in order to fuel the profits. It’s stark, brutal and if the majority of the people die in the process … corporations have no ethics, maximising profit for the shareholders IS ‘the law’ apart from the petty legal irritations put in place by governments of the day.</p>
<p>The fact that corporations are given the same legal protections as those given to people raises the question of why this should be so if there were no benefit to corporations which, unlike people, don’t die.</p>
<p>I’m not anti-technology until health concerns arise. I know about addiction - still smoking ‘roll yer owns’ at great cost - but I shudder at the degree of addiction as evidenced by so many who can’t seem to walk without a mobile phone in hand.</p>
<p>‘Hooray’ and the background news tells me that a small earthquake has been recorded at a fracking site in the U.K. … fracking is an obscene way in which to treat the Earth and the aquifers below. The damage done - debatably unlike a mine - cannot be undone. A ‘hooray’ because the tremor may help raise awareness and put a stop to this practice.</p>
<p>How trustworthy are fracking companies? On a par, perhaps, with some of the builders of large apartment complexes which, here in Australia, are now riddled with faults so severe that residents have to move out.</p>
<p>We had a small earthquake here a week or so back. Only a 1.9 magnitude about 10 kms below the surface which I heard as a low rumble but didn’t feel. Two days later and the red and blue Rosellas which fly in for some birdseed each day were standing deep in snow on the handrail of the deck. A stunningly beautiful sight to see the Treeferns with fronds bowed down by snow, the birds sitting pretty, and all of it within that wonderful silence that snows tends to bring.</p>
<p>‘Be grateful for small mercies’ comes to mind and, with it, the acceptance of that which I can’t change but ‘needs be’ aware of.</p>
<p>A gloom and doom merchant is not my natural position and whatever realism might be depends, to some extent, upon an understanding of what exists now. I can’t know what unexpected events may change the definition of realism.</p>
<p>We’re in ongoing drought here. It’s serious enough for our inland towns to be needing water trucks. It’s not just the lack of water but the effect on the land, the crops and farming communities which carry those towns. Every aspect of life impoverished.</p>
<p>Here, closer to the coast, we’ve been on water restrictions for much of this winter. As yet the tribe of slow growing Treeferns in the garden show no signs of stress but the little darlings have been around since before the dinosaurs and are used to change and to hard times. They’re a graceful tree and when I say slow growing – oh – takes twenty years or so for the trunk to reach the height of a man but they withstand both frost and heat much better than the thinner-trunked fast growing Treeferns. They can put on a few feet and more each year once they’ve settled in.</p>
<p>Whichever way I look there are groups of Treeferns, three are close to twice the height of a man, a dozen or so at the height of a man and dozens more waist high and less. The fronds on the smaller trees are often the same length as the taller trees. When the wind blows they wave.</p>
<p>In a quieter time, aeons ago, on the shores of a languid inland sea, I imagine I stood, deeply rooted in the soil, and waved back.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152442019-08-04T12:00:00-12:002019-08-05T09:42:37-12:00behind a curtain, not far away ...<p>I’d rather read Velikovsky’s ‘Worlds in Collision’ than read John Perkins’s ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman.’ Both deal with earth shattering events, both became worldwide best sellers yet are still peripheral to mainstream consciousness.</p>
<p>Sanctions are placed on countries which refuse to submit to the ‘national interest’ of America, China or whoever has the power and sanctions are then used to starve a nation and thus be able to say … ‘See how they’ve ruined their country – time for regime change.’</p>
<p>It’s brazen and corrupt and only one thread of the material world.</p>
<p>I’d prefer to watch Praveen Mohan’s incredibly detailed work on Indian temples and relatively ancient history than watch James Corbett’s ‘Century of Enslavement’ – actually I watch both because I can and they’re both important.</p>
<p>I hope the fabric of the corrupt version of the material world unravels by the simple expedient of pulling on just one of the threads. What can I say but that it works for me.</p>
<p>It’s not a matter for depression but one of education – my ongoing education. One never knows quite where that will lead but certainties long held dissolve and unlearning takes place.</p>
<p>I remember the weapons of mass destruction – the ones that didn’t exist but we went to war anyway.</p>
<p>Well … I didn’t but my country did. Importantly, those who beat that drum will not place themselves in the front line under any circumstance and if that doesn’t give a soldier pause for thought, it ought.</p>
<p>The weapons of mass destruction also include mass distraction with gee whiz but weaponised technology.</p>
<p>But you know all this or you don’t, see the tapestry complete with threadbare patches or …</p>
<p>The reasons that many people are taking to the streets are varied but the fact that people take this action at all indicates a huge dissatisfaction with the status quo.</p>
<p>The story of The Emperor’s New Clothes is ultimately a positive story.</p>
<p>Whether it ends well is another story but truth first.</p>
<p>It’s almost Spring like here, cold at night but pleasant during the day. The garden is happy, bulbs shooting greenery, flowers to follow, snow drops beneath the TreeFerns and with Mandarins unexpectedly ripening on the tree. It’s unseasonal, we normally are in the grip of freezing winds for the month of August. I don’t put it down to CO2 levels - perhaps the solar cycle has more impact.</p>
<p>A video about cosmology from the electric universe perspective below.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152432019-08-04T12:00:00-12:002019-08-05T09:40:49-12:00plasma cosmology - does it matter? It makes a difference.<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E4pWZGBpWP0" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152422019-08-04T12:00:00-12:002019-08-05T04:13:07-12:00the words we use<p>The voice of silence.</p>
<p>Nuance, nuanced response, no place for it – ‘with us or against us’ is the somewhat grim, cartoonish reality funnelling into the day.</p>
<p>Communist, capitalist, neither system bears much resemblance to their origin – all roads lead to empire and regardless of what name I call the system the statues are always huge and fascism lurks in the uniformed background.</p>
<p>Google and Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. …. sounds like a dark nursery rhyme …. as it is.</p>
<p>I’ve steered clear of social media and while I use Google Earth I don’t see that they’ve lived up to their ‘Don’t be evil’ motto and thus I avoid their products where I can but I can’t quite do that entirely because youtube is owned by Google/Alphabet and youtube has been the platform which delivers the content so useful to me.</p>
<p>Nowadays the Alphabet corporate motto is ‘Do the right thing’ which has an ominous sound about it and it reminds me of my five years as cleaner/gardener in a high school. This was at a time when tree planting was frequently vandalised and littering was common. ‘Do the right thing’ had just been adopted as a state and community response to littering. A slogan to stencil onto the rubbish bins.</p>
<p>We had a few students who were living on the streets and to whom the ‘Do the right thing’ slogans plastered onto garbage bins wasn’t going to work. For a start it’s a command which is downright offensive to a kid for whom no-one’s done the right thing.</p>
<p>From my perspective, as the one consistently picking up a great deal of rubbish over five years it comes down to caring – or not.</p>
<p>I painted ‘Please care’ on the school garbage bins and got rid of the ‘Do the right thing’ slogans.</p>
<p>I don’t know that it made a great difference to littering but … ‘it’s good to be creative’ is the best I could come up with.</p>
<p>I don’t know how long youtube will still be useful. Its algorithms appear to narrow my options to the less controversial material and no longer keep me up to date with subscriptions.</p>
<p> Many of those same voices that I value are now being silenced.</p>
<p>They’re not controversial although speaking truth to power makes them so.</p>
<p>I do find it offensive that Google have a ‘protected by recapta’ logo on the administrative section of my site. It sometimes asks me to tick some boxes to prove I’m not a robot and then ‘submit.’ My site has nothing to do with google and I haven’t requested security.</p>
<p>Submit to what, who and why? Unwelcome, ruthless bastards. Intrusive as ever. A social tool bent to serve only control.</p>
<p>Just as well that I am a robot.</p>
<p>Alexa and other devices which quietly sit there listening even when not ‘awake’ don’t serve any worthwhile purpose but – gee whiz – they get the population interested. So convenient but is it really?</p>
<p>I don’t often hear the word ‘citizen’ which is now all but replaced by ‘consumer’ – the first has a human almost fierce quality, the second is dull, pliant, easily manipulated.</p>
<p>The words we use aren’t accidental.</p>
<p>‘Do the right thing’ or ‘Please care.’</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152412019-08-04T12:00:00-12:002019-08-05T04:11:37-12:00blacklisted - for no good reason<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RD-N7LX35uo" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152402019-07-31T12:00:00-12:002019-08-01T05:40:20-12:00more on 5G and diminished health<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode">
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<strong><em>News</em><br><br>Alarming Decline in Millennials’ Health<br><br>Millennials -- the first generation to grow up using cell phones</strong> -- are experiencing an unprecedented decline in their health when they reach their late 20s.<br><br>On April 24, 2019, the American health insurance association Blue Cross Blue Shield released a report titled “The Health of Millennials.” It showed not only that the health of this generation takes a sharp decline beginning at age 27, but also that the prevalence of many medical conditions rose precipitously among millennials in just three years.<br><br>The prevalence of eight of the top ten conditions among all millennials showed a double-digit increase in 2017 as compared with 2014. Major depression increased 31%. Hyperactivity increase 29%. Type II diabetes increased 22%. Hypertension increased 16%. Psychoses increased 15%. High cholesterol increased 12%. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis increased 10%. Substance use disorder increased 10%.<br><br>The decline in millennials’ health from 2014 to 2017 was not due to their being three years older. The report also compared the health of millennials who were 34-36 years old in 2017 to the health of Gen Xers who were 34-36 years old in 2014. At the same age, 34- to 36-year-olds in 2017 had 37% more hyperactivity, 19% more diabetes, 18% more major depression, 15% more Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, 12% more substance use disorder, 10% more hypertension, and 7% more high cholesterol than 34- to 36-year-olds had in 2014.<br><br>When the researchers looked at all health conditions, they found that 34- to 36-year-olds in 2017 had a 21% increase in cardiovascular conditions, a 15% increase in endocrine conditions, and an 8% increase in other physical conditions compared to 34- to 36-year-olds in 2014.<br><br>The Blue Cross Blue Shield report is here: <a href="https://www.bcbs.com/the-health-of-america/reports/the-health-of-millenials">https://www.bcbs.com/the-health-of-america/reports/the-health-of-millennials</a>.<br><br>The only reasonable explanation for the alarming decline in health of the millennial generation is the life-long irradiation of their brains and bodies from their cell phones.</div>
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<strong>First Launches of 5G Satellites<br><br>On the evening of May 23, 2019</strong>, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX launched its first 60 “Starlink” satellites into low orbit around the Earth. The satellites were launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket. Musk announced his intention to carry out six more launches this year, each carrying 60 satellites, and that when the first 420 satellites are in orbit, they will be turned on and will begin providing global 5G service to SpaceX’s first customers. This could happen by the end of 2019.<br><br>SpaceX intends for its rockets to carry 120 satellites at a time into orbit beginning in 2020, and to complete its planned fleet of 12,000 satellites within a decade. SpaceX’s license from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission permits each satellite to emit an effective radiated power of up to 5 million watts.<br><br>SpaceX’s competitor, OneWeb, is not far behind. OneWeb launched the first 6 of its planned fleet of 4,540 satellites on February 27, 2019. It announced its intention to launch 36 satellites per month and to turn them on as soon as 648 satellites are in orbit. This could happen by the end of 2020.<br><br>On April 4, 2019, Amazon announced that it is planning to launch its own fleet of more than 3,000 5G satellites.<br><br>5G in Space is a planetary emergency, as outlined in the article of that title that I wrote a year ago: <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/planetary-emergency">http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/planetary-emergency</a>. It is an emergency not just because of the direct radiation from the satellites, but because of the location of the satellites in the ionosphere. The ionosphere is an integral part of the global electrical circuit that animates all living things. Even a few hundred satellites using the enormous amount of bandwidth that is available in the millimeter wave spectrum is expected to pollute the global electrical circuit -- and therefore our bodies -- with what building biologists call dirty electricity. This is likely to be catastrophic to all life on Earth.<br><br>I am presently involved in an effort to open up lines of communication with the principals of the satellite projects, including Elon Musk. They care about the future of this planet too, and they mistakenly think they are doing good.</div>
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<strong><em>Federal Lawsuit to Stop 5G</em><br><br>The Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety</strong> filed a lawsuit to stop 5G in U.S. District Court in New Mexico on December 21, 2018. We are asking the court to declare that city, state, and federal laws which deprive citizens of the right to protect themselves from harm, and deprive injured persons of any remedy for their injuries, are unconstitutional and void.<br><br>These laws violate the First Amendment rights to free speech and to petition the government for redress of grievances. These laws violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments because they deprive people of life, liberty and property without due process of law, and because they are a taking of property without just compensation. Our First Amended Complaint can be seen here: <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Doc-19-First-Amended-Complaint.pdf">http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Doc-19-First-Amended-Complaint.pdf</a>.</div>
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<div><strong><em>Appeal Statistics, Appeal Needs</em><br><br>Signatures as of June 6, 2019</strong></div>
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<div>These are the approximate numbers of people to date who have signed the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space:<br><br>2,000 scientists<br>1,400 medical doctors<br>4,000 engineers<br>2,200 nurses<br>2,500 psychologists<br>1,200 organizations<br>100,000 total individuals and organizations from 187 countries.</div>
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<strong>Please Circulate the Appeal<br><br>It is time to push this Appeal hard.</strong> Please send the Appeal (<a href="http://www.5gspaceappeal.org/">www.5gSpaceAppeal.org</a>), and also forward this email, to everyone you know. Every person on Earth has a stake in our future. We need as many signatures from as many different kinds of people as possible.<br><br>While we were working on the website, some people had problems accessing the signature form. That is now fixed, and everybody should be able to sign. <strong>Please do not sign more than once.</strong> If you sign for the first time now, your name will appear on the website within a few days. If you signed between December and April, your name will be appear on the list within a few weeks. Signatures are now processed automatically, but I still have to review all the submissions before making them live. I am working as fast as I can to keep up.</div>
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<div>Donations are needed to support every aspect of this work -- the federal lawsuit, the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space, a media campaign, lobbyists to present the Appeal to governments, etc. I need a secretary and a bookkeeper. Donations can be made on the Appeal website and are tax-deductible for U.S. citizens: <a href="https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/donate">https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/donate</a>. For large donations or stock transfers, please contact me. A big thank you to those who have already contributed.<br><br>This work is also supported by sales of my book, <em>The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life</em> (AGB Press 2017). It gives the background history and science that is necessary in order to understand what is happening today. It is the first book ever published that tells the history of electricity from an environmental point of view. It is available for sale here: <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/buy-the-invisible-rainbow">http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/buy-the-invisible-rainbow</a>. All proceeds go into the effort to stop 5G.<br><br>Also a big thank you to Antoinette Janssen and Multerland, who turned my talk in Taos, New Mexico of August 12, 2018 into a superb YouTube video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MpdJ_t5XMvw?feature=oembed">https://www.youtube.com/embed/MpdJ_t5XMvw?feature=oembed</a>
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<p align="center">Arthur Firstenberg, Administrator<br>International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space<br>P.O. Box 6216<br>Santa Fe, NM 87502<br>USA<br>Tel: +1 505-471-0129<br>Email: <a href="mailto:spaceappeal@fastmail.fm">info@cellphonetaskforce.org</a><br><a href="https://www.5gspaceappeal.org">https://www.5gspaceappeal.org</a></p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152392019-07-30T12:00:00-12:002019-07-31T10:16:25-12:00in the jungle of competing beliefs<p>Diversity – there’s word oft used particularly by those who would also shut down voices of dissent. It doesn’t make sense yet the inconsistency is there and receives little attention.</p>
<p>You can’t have diversity if only one opinion is tolerated.</p>
<p>I’ve done like many and signed petitions regarding worthy causes and the causes keep coming. Getup and Sumofus don’t automatically get endorsed just because they’re sure that they’re right, certain of their ground.</p>
<p>A step too far, crossing the line and – thin edge of the wedge. I’d think that each language has such sayings all of which indicate a threshold held dear which is under threat.</p>
<p>‘Take down the statue’ was a prominent voice in America recently regarding Civil War heroes who actually weren’t – depending upon your point of view.</p>
<p>Start erasing history and it’s the thin edge of the wedge. Why not erect another statue alongside the first with explanatory notes as to why the other statue doesn’t portray a hero. History is written and rewritten to suit the purpose of the day – it’s not known for accuracy – but why help the process of rewriting.</p>
<p>Here in Australia, as elsewhere in democratic nations, visas are not granted to those whose point of view is seen as too radical to tolerate. Who decides? Often it’s public opinion or rather the group who shouts loudest whose opinion determines the Minister’s approval or otherwise.</p>
<p>What a sorry state of affairs. Refuse those who espouse violence, of course, but why ban the rest?</p>
<p>Is diversity such a tender flower as to need such protection – perhaps so if diversity is something of a mirage, something to hold dear as an idea but not carried through into everyday life.</p>
<p>Hooray for dissent, hooray for both wings of the fat, flapping bird of political debate when both are heard, find fertile ground or are ignored.</p>
<p>Banning anything doesn’t make it disappear it just moves underground only to resurface at a later time. Resentment burns and if it doesn’t have air it gives off acrid smoke. Is the resentment justified? No idea unless it gets aired.</p>
<p>It’s a perfect late winter day. Deep blue sky and no wind. No smoke - no rain either and that’s an ongoing concern. Towns run dry, the dams near empty, aquifers diminish yet fracking is seen by some as a boon, a green energy. It’s utterly destructive. Coal mines are not known for destruction of the water table, perhaps locally but not to the extent that fracking generates.</p>
<p>Ah .. but there’s money to be made …. The three wise monkeys of ‘see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil’ fame sit there, one of each with eyes, ears and mouth covered and is that because they refuse to see, hear or speak of evil, extraneous or internal … what other meaning apart from the usually accepted meaning, essentially, ‘Be Nice - don’t entertain evil within yourself in any form’ is there to draw from that image. Perhaps they’re wise for monkeys but is that sufficient for today.</p>
<p>Covering the eyes, ears and mouth doesn’t make the evil disappear.</p>
<p>I watch the Brexit events unfold and wonder about the actors involved. What’s their motivation, are their characters believable, do we end up caring … all the elements which make up a good theatrical experience. But it’s not a play, it’s real life.</p>
<p>Enter stage left:</p>
<p>Trump: ‘We could wipe ‘em off the face of the earth in no time but I don’t want to do that ….’</p>
<p>Not a statesman nor a diplomat, a consistent liar and a braggart with no sense of history … and …. knowing something of the Clinton’s history, Trump was seen as either ‘better’ or ‘the better of two evils.’</p>
<p>The Noahide Laws make their appearance in the political domain. Quietly. It’s a Talmudic device – seven laws which superficially pass muster but the hundreds of by-laws added by Rabbis who will decipher cases don’t.</p>
<p>Why do these rabbinical bodies do away with the Ten Commandments which have served well as a template for individual and societal needs? I feel the same unease about Sharia Law being imposed.</p>
<p>Both groups wish to impose their will and aren’t bound or satisfied by national boundaries. Overt, covert and going on by stealth. If only it were conspiracy theory when evidence points to fact.</p>
<p>It’s still a beautiful day, afternoon fading, winter flowers in bloom notwithstanding the night time frost.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152382019-07-27T12:00:00-12:002019-07-28T08:13:02-12:00so ... who are the more public actors?<p>A major event needing meticulous planning also needs a coherent script for the actors involved. Compartmentalised knowledge is essential if secrecy is to be maintained.</p>
<p>This is quite possible to achieve as witnessed by the development of nuclear weapons and the continued secrecy around that subject.</p>
<p>It’s the tidying up of 9/11 which show the inconsistencies with the official story. A huge operation needing meticulous planning can’t cover every detail perfectly and so the official story unravels as every detail is scrutinised.</p>
<p>James Corbett has a remarkable mind and is a brilliant researcher. His video below dissects the actions of some of the actors involved.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152372019-07-27T12:00:00-12:002019-07-28T08:11:08-12:009/11 suspects<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cl85JSvDmsA" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152362019-07-25T12:00:00-12:002019-07-26T06:50:22-12:00it's not as long ago as 'once upon a time.'<p>How many videos are there of the planes hitting the Twin Towers?</p>
<p>Not as many as one might think.</p>
<p>There is the helicopter shot, a bit distant, which shows the second plane … and there are the few, close up, from ground level and looking up. And a few long distant videos. Not many.</p>
<p>When I wrote ‘Two Planes, three towers’, years after the event, it was the almost free fall collapse of the Twin Towers AND Building 7 – not hit by a plane and 47 stories high – and all three buildings fortuitously falling into their own footprint which immediately and plainly showed a controlled demolition – to me it was obvious at the time that I witnessed it. Further research shows evidence that this was the case.</p>
<p>It’s the implications of controlled demolition which understandably make most avoid looking at the issue.</p>
<p>Time goes by and it still matters because the perpetrators are still at large, moved around a bit but still in power and it’s this fact that serves as a backdrop to unfolding world events.</p>
<p>The shadow aspect to the collapse of the Twin Towers is the fact that these towers were designed to withstand an aircraft impact, their structure of steel cage perimeter served that purpose.</p>
<p>If I hurl an aluminium can at a brick wall, even if the speed is 500 miles an hour, will it cause the whole wall to collapse at freefall speed into a neat and oddly small pile of rubble in which many of the bricks are utterly pulverised?</p>
<p>The video below addresses this and many other aspects covering fine detail … or rather, uncovering fine detail which is, to my mind, revealing the truth of the matter.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152352019-07-25T12:00:00-12:002019-07-26T06:46:51-12:00september clues<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cF0-nslm3j0" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152342019-07-24T12:00:00-12:002019-07-25T03:40:07-12:00things are heating up and temperature is but one way of measurement<p>Manufactured events, false flags … even prophecy can be contrived. Perhaps it can’t on some deeper level but there any many zealots, religious and political, who’ve read their prophecies and are attempting to nudge events towards the fulfilment of this or that outcome.</p>
<p>So many aspects to 9/11 which bear close attention. What it received was minimal and cursory to the extent that the crime scene was being trucked away before the rubble had cooled – shipped to China where detailed examination disappeared.</p>
<p>It hasn’t received the appropriate attention other than from such groups as ‘Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth’ who find cause to question the mechanics of building collapse and whose answers are evidential and contradict the official narrative.</p>
<p>The pilots who testify to the extreme level of skill needed to hit a skyscraper, a skill not possessed by the bearded terrorists who served as patsies and many of whom are alive and well.</p>
<p>An enterprise of that magnitude needs meticulous planning whether done by terrorists from within or without.</p>
<p>The Pentagon, surrounded by high tech cameras yet not one frame showing a plane streaking towards the Pentagon. Not one.</p>
<p>Cell phone conversations coming from hijacked planes when that technology didn’t yet exist within the public sphere.</p>
<p>The War Games which were in effect on that particular day – of all days - and prevented a coherent response from a confused air force uncertain as to whether or not the hijackings were real.</p>
<p>The lack of bodies or wreckage at Shanksville.</p>
<p>The point being that every detail of those events have been studied in minute detail and, importantly, by people who’ve got better ways to use their time than look for conspiracy where none exists.</p>
<p>The Project for a New American Century lists the countries in the Middle East in which ‘regime change’ was needed in order to maintain American pre-eminence.</p>
<p>Regime change invariably requires war, the inevitable result being destroyed societies and millions of refugees which is exactly what we have now.</p>
<p>I awoke yesterday to the news that this period of time is the hottest for two thousand years … ice cores and the study of tree rings apparently give us temperature. Neither show temperature and tree ring growth, while useful to indicate conditions conducive to growth or otherwise, are not available across the world or across such a period of time.</p>
<p>Al Gore called his mentor, Roger Revelle, the Father of Global Warming, senile when Roger finally accepted that the research was flawed. It hasn’t stopped CO2 being used as a indicator of disaster and this, in turn, allows for a carbon trading scheme to operate in which much money can be made on a worldwide basis and which, again in turn, demands another level of bureaucratic control.</p>
<p>Climate change is real and much of it is tied to the behaviour of our star, the sun, which has cyclic activity not tied in the slightest to human activity.</p>
<p>But scientists say …. yes … scientists say many things – see how well the tobacco industry used scientists to prove smoking was not a health issue.</p>
<p>A short video below about temperature.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152332019-07-24T12:00:00-12:002019-07-25T03:36:58-12:00an onion of concerned scientists - just peel away the layers<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iDZFFObVoPk" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152322019-07-19T12:00:00-12:002019-07-20T09:06:01-12:00division, subtraction - it's not mathematics<p>Left wing, right wing, seemingly different but attached to the same bird and of little use unless they flap in unison.</p>
<p>‘This is completely unacceptable’ say various leaders regarding the situation around Iran – a situation manufactured by the U.S.A.</p>
<p>Iran is being portrayed as sinister yet Saudi Arabia is our ‘friend’? – in what sense is Saudi Arabia our friend? Shared values? Democratic ideals?</p>
<p>We share arms not alms, there are no shared values. Money, oil and weapons aren’t values and ‘national interests’ are quoted in official narratives in the increasing drum beats of those bent on war.</p>
<p>I don’t want war but then I’m not a psychopath.</p>
<p>Ebola resurfaces, economies are faltering, drought and flood ravage the land and yet war is somehow ‘front and centre’ as an issue.</p>
<p>Left wing, right wing – same bird.</p>
<p>The levels of division or potential division within society is mind boggling. Almost nothing can be voiced without cries of dissent and someone offended. It is biblical, end times stark warning when man and wife, father and son, whole families disagree about so much, when one generation is set against another, when – soon to arrive - no-one can buy or sell without being plugged into a system quite different to that which previous generations endured. This cashless society is all but here and that’s but one of many areas about to change.</p>
<p>My views are only that and I don’t know why I’m writing this.</p>
<p>Good video below – mainly about Australian financial conditions but with wider ramifications. Any suggestion in the video that I buy silver and gold is a bit of a joke as it is for most of us.</p>
<p>No matter. Black humour is better than no humour at all.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152312019-07-19T12:00:00-12:002019-07-20T09:04:10-12:00the 'great reset' ... well ... one of them perhaps.<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vcpznpm1_s0" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152302019-07-12T12:00:00-12:002019-07-12T17:59:51-12:00a brilliant speech<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fwi21MMRiI0" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152292019-07-07T12:00:00-12:002019-07-08T06:05:33-12:00and now for something completely different....<p>At the doctor’s room and conversation moves back and forth. We like each other and nothing much wrong with me that a few blood tests won’t reveal so there’s time for a minute or two of wider ranging talk covering history, the way in which it’s written, the motivations for changing history to suit the power of the day … the sad truth that this is actually the case.</p>
<p>I mention the Llandaff Charters in which the kings of South Wales are noted and therefore it’s an easy matter to see that King Tewdrig has a son, Meurig, who succeeds him as king and who has a son, Arthur (Arthrwys), who succeeds him and who had a son Morgan who did likewise. The bishop of Llandaff at that time is likewise known, Oudoceus by name. I looked him up on Wikipedia – not always the best source – and it was with a mixture of feelings that I read the scholarly entry, follow the links, and find that Teudrig, Meurig and Morgan are mentioned as kings but Arthur is not.</p>
<p>“While Athrwys's father Meurig and son Morgan are named as kings in the Book of Llandaff, Athrwys never is.” … the thought within the article was that perhaps Arthur never actually ruled as king.</p>
<p>It’s a long story. The evidence says otherwise.</p>
<p>I asked the doctor if he’d heard of GcMAF which is something I hadn’t heard of until a month or so back and I’d only taken notice then because I have a relative with disease. He shrugged and all I could tell him was that, as I understand it, it’s a naturally occurring enzyme – or ‘whatever’ – which, in people with cancer, is present in low levels and that introducing greater quantities of this substance improves the health of the patient and often does so in dramatic fashion. It appears that there are now a few people in Britain whose motivation for getting this information and product out to the public is pure, not tainted by commercial greed, but who face time in jail for their efforts.</p>
<p>Much to my pleased surprise the doctor ‘waxed lyrical’ about the dreadful – my word, not his - influence of the pharmaceutical industry whose profits are threatened by something which actually does more than set up a pill popping regime. Perhaps a cure and no need for pills.</p>
<p>Hallelujah … and talking hallelujah, I was saddened to find out that ‘Brother Nathanael’s’ youtube channel has been silenced.</p>
<p>“This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy prohibiting hate speech.”</p>
<p>Brother Nathanael is Jewish but converted to Greek or Russian Orthodox Christianity - I forget which - and who, therefore, feels that his Jewish brethren should wake up. He reminds me of Groucho Marx which is a delight if you’re familiar with the Marx Brothers.</p>
<p>Never seen him utter anything remotely like hate speech – what an odious expression that is – what he does do is to use his deep knowledge of the various, apparently often conflicting, branches of Jewish Faith, their beliefs about their place in the world and the place of those who are not Jewish. He’ll talk about Zionism and Israel’s inhumane treatment of the Palestinian people … no hate involved but that’s the trick – any criticism is, by definition, anti-Semitic and must be hate speech.</p>
<p>What a nonsense.</p>
<p>Israeli News Live still has their youtube channel. Another site run by a convert to Christianity and a thoughtful ‘take’ on middle-east affairs.</p>
<p>Ah – leave Iran alone. Stop the economic sanctions which cripple the population and are an act of war. Same with Venezuela. If I suggest that regime change is needed where the countries concerned are motivated by commercial interest and try to topple existing elected governments elsewhere by the use of economic terrorism – for that is what it is – then the good ole U.S.A. continues on its merry way to fly the flag for just that approach. How can this be justified. It’s not alone as uneasy allies must needs take sides.</p>
<p>And Mad Magazine is to cease publication of new material from this August. I came across a stack of old Mad magazines in a second hand shop a few months back and have now introduced the teenagers next door to that experience … much to their delight.</p>
<p>‘Alas, alack a day.’ …. satire is no longer acceptable. Yes it is.</p>
<p>Perhaps everything is connected and my mind turns to the wonders explored by Velikovsky and now expanded upon by the Thunderbolts Project. If you’re unfamiliar with our catastrophic past and the concept of an electric universe – both ideas at odds with prevailing views – then the video below, I hope, is going to be enlightening.</p>
<p>The ideas presented don’t make me a better person, don’t change my everyday life but they do present an awe inspiring framework, far removed from the concerns of the day, something of real substance and nourishment in a time of packaged food.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152282019-07-07T12:00:00-12:002019-07-08T06:04:22-12:00symbols of an alien sky<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t7EAlTcZFwY" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152272019-07-04T12:00:00-12:002019-07-05T11:14:29-12:00shocks and aftershocks<p>Eugenics … a word with strong negative emotional connotations and rightly so if only for the immediate question raised of who decides who lives and who dies.</p>
<p>‘Too many people in the world.’ says my neighbour whom, I’m fairly sure, means no harm to anyone but what if you’re an eugenicist and in power and the fate of the majority of mankind is irrelevant – there being too many people anyway - common sense would suggest that you don’t betray that view in public.</p>
<p>So I’m not suggesting that there’s a grand conspiracy afoot but rather that various forces are at work in which the end, irrespective of the means, all serve a purpose in which a system is awaiting and being rolled out now in which ‘Brave New World’ and ‘1984’ are intermingled, in which total control of the population is achieved through absolute surveillance of everything we do via a cashless society and a 5G technology designed for warfare rather than some gee whiz society in which our fridge can let us know that we need milk.</p>
<p>And if this 5G technology actually does irreversible harm – there are no studies done to suggest that the whole biosphere is going to happily be subjected to this constant irradiation without ill effects.</p>
<p>Surely this is scare mongering?</p>
<p>When it comes to smart meters of which I’ve written previously, I didn’t know that a trial smart meter had been installed yet got really sick before tracking down the source and demanding that the technician from the electricity provider debug the meter … ‘only the equivalent of having a mobile phone installed within the meter and can’t possibly do you harm.’ says he.</p>
<p>‘Oh really?’ say I, ‘Show me the studies done.’</p>
<p>Since then I’ve discovered that smart meters do have the equivalent of a mobile phone however it pulses – frequently - and it’s too big a topic to follow here.</p>
<p>I suppose the point is that if there are ‘too many people’ then what does it matter if a generation or two is irradiated.</p>
<p>It’s dark and doesn’t rely on any one conspiracy but more on an ignorance or a ‘don’t care’ approach because, surely, the experts would have told us if there were to be a problem.</p>
<p>And if things don’t turn out so well there’s always unintended consequences to blame.</p>
<p>I don’t dwell on these subjects too much but it matters that I educate myself and find the experts, usually derided by other experts, who can, like Barrie Trower, inform me about the history and weaponisation of microwave technology.</p>
<p>It’s winter here, quiet grey skies and rain – very welcome – the parched earth soaks it up. A few winter flowers bloom and bulbs appear. The Magnolia is in bud and will herald the Spring with purple and cream flowers, startlingly beautiful against a smooth grey tree, naked of leaf.</p>
<p>A magnitude 7 earthquake strikes in California and Dutchsince covers the ongoing event. Derided by the powers that be yet I can find no ethical or scientific reason why this should be so.</p>
<p>I place one of his videos below.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152262019-07-04T12:00:00-12:002019-07-05T11:12:15-12:00earthquakes<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fQQWHX7jW80" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152252019-07-02T12:00:00-12:002019-07-03T08:47:27-12:00It’s a travesty of language - an obscenity - to call it green energy<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V3K0kV7UcME" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152242019-06-24T12:00:00-12:002019-06-24T14:48:27-12:00freedom of expression<p>The Ministry of Truth is working overtime. Propaganda works brilliantly and within a generation, common traditions, common understandings are replaced. If you weren’t alive at the turn of the century then history is become a mixture of ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Mad Max’ with 9/11 a distant issue, lost in time, and constant war today’s reality.</p>
<p>And we’re told that everything is fine apart from …. make your own list of acceptable major issues demanding attention.</p>
<p>In Australia it’s the plight of Israel Folau which encapsulates the inherent contradictions where the issue of discrimination is at stake.</p>
<p>A brilliant sportsman who holds to a Christianity practised in the Pacific Islands. Within this Christianity, it’s clear that part of the message requires repentance from a variety of behaviours which give an option of heaven or hell. He stated this message on social media and has suffered an immediate reaction in which his job is lost, contracts broken and so on.</p>
<p>The problem I have with all this outrage and vitriol is that the very idea of free speech is smothered by cries of ‘discrimination.’</p>
<p>Israel comes across as a humble man and I wish him well. He is not some ISIS beheading brute nor is he advocating violence – he is, in fact, stating the truth as he sees it. Nothing more.</p>
<p>And what is wrong with that? There’s no hatred in the man. Debate him rather than debase him.</p>
<p>It’s an unattractive aspect of life in this gee-whiz world that character and personality are seen as interchangeable. Huge distinction when – if character is the cake then personality is the icing.</p>
<p>And if free speech ‘has its limits’ then who decides and if it comes down to commonly accepted conventions look how quickly and easily they change.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152232019-06-23T12:00:00-12:002019-06-24T07:09:01-12:00central banking<p>‘The Federal Reserve in America is privately owned.’</p>
<p>‘No it’s not.’ came the response, accompanied by an incredulous laugh.</p>
<p>‘It is – all Central Banks are privately owned including our Reserve Bank here in Australia.’ say I, sure of my ground because I do know the history of the Federal Reserve.</p>
<p>It’s not difficult to establish the history of The Federal Reserve however it’s far more difficult to establish who owns the Central Banks operating in almost every country in the world and who, in turn, have the right to control the interest rates and to print money out of thin air and immediately lend it to the government at an interest rate …. it makes no sense that these rights over money are given to privately owned banking entities but, be that as it may, that’s the way it is.</p>
<p>There are a few Reserve Banks – Central Banks – which aren’t privately owned and, my mistake regarding the Australian Reserve Bank, it is associated with but not part of the Australian Government and, thus, is ‘owned’ by the Australian people. As it operates in conjunction with other Central Banks then ownership becomes a moot point.</p>
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<p>The following is an article from Zero Hedge written by Tyler Durden.</p>
<p>“C<strong>entral banking has truly taken over the entire planet.</strong> At this point, the only major nation on the globe that does not have a central bank is North Korea. Yes, there are some small island countries such as <a title="the Federated States of Micronesia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" target="_blank">the Federated States of Micronesia</a> that do not have a central bank, but even if you count them, <strong>more than 99.9% of the population of the world still lives in a country that has a central bank. </strong></p>
<p>So how has this happened? How have we gotten the entire planet to agree that central banking is the best system? Did the people of the world willingly choose this? Of course not. To my knowledge, there has never been a single vote where the people of a nation have willingly chosen to establish a central bank. Instead, what has happened is that central banks have been <strong>imposed</strong> on all of us. </p>
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<p><strong>All over the world, people have been told that monetary issues are “too important” to be subject to politics, and that the only solution is to have a group of unelected, unaccountable bankers control those things for us.</strong></p>
<p>So precisely what does a central bank do?</p>
<p>You would be surprised at how few people can actually answer that question accurately. The following is how <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> describes what a central bank does…</p>
<p>A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority <strong>is an institution that manages a state’s currency, money supply, and interest rates</strong>. Central banks also usually oversee the commercial banking system of their respective countries. In contrast to a commercial bank, <strong>a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the monetary base in the state, and usually also prints the national currency, which usually serves as the state’s legal tender</strong>. Examples include the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve of the United States and the People’s Bank of China.</p>
<p>In the United States, we are told that we have a free market system. But in a true free market system, market forces would determine what interest rates are. We wouldn’t need anyone to “set interest rates” for us.</p>
<p>And why have we given a private banking cartel (the Federal Reserve) the authority to create and manage our money supply? The U.S. Constitution specifically delegates that authority to Congress.</p>
<p>It is not as if we actually need the Federal Reserve. In fact, the greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history happened <a title="during the decades before the Federal Reserve was created" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/during-the-best-period-of-economic-growth-in-u-s-history-there-was-no-income-tax-and-no-federal-reserve">during the decades before the Federal Reserve was created</a>.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, a little over 100 years ago our leaders decided that it would be best to turn over our financial future to a newly created private banking cartel that was designed by very powerful Wall Street interests. Since that time, the value of our currency has diminished <a title="by more than 96 percent" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-federal-reserve-here-are-100-reasons-to-shut-it-down-forever">by more than 96 percent</a> and our national debt has gotten <a title="more than 5000 times larger" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-federal-reserve-here-are-100-reasons-to-shut-it-down-forever">more than 5000 times larger</a>.</p>
<p>But despite all of the problems, the vast majority of Democrats and the vast majority of Republicans are not even willing to consider slightly curtailing the immense power of the Federal Reserve. And the idea of getting rid of the Fed altogether is tantamount to blasphemy to most of our politicians.</p>
<p>Of course the same thing is true all over the planet. Central banks are truly “the untouchables” of the modern world. Even though everybody can see what they are doing, there has not been a single successful political movement anywhere on the globe (that I know about) to shut a central bank down.</p>
<p>Instead, in recent years we have just seen the reach of central banking just continue to expand.</p>
<p>For example, just look at what has happened to some of the countries that were not considered to be “integrated” into the “global community”…</p>
<p>-In 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan. </p>
<p>In 2003, Da Afghanistan Bank (who picked that name?) was established <a title="by presidential decree" href="http://dab.gov.af/en/page/about-the-bank/achievements" target="_blank">by presidential decree</a>. You can find the official website of the bank <a title="right here" href="http://dab.gov.af/en" target="_blank">right here</a>. Now Afghanistan has a modern central bank just like the rest of us.</p>
<p>-In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. In early 2004, the Central Bank of Iraq was established to manage the Iraqi currency and integrate Iraq into the global financial system. The following comes <a title="from the official website of the Central Bank of Iraq" href="http://www.cbi.iq/index.php?pid=History" target="_blank">from the official website of the Central Bank of Iraq</a>…</p>
<p>Following the deposition of Saddam Hussein in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi Governing Council and the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance began printing more Saddam dinar notes as a stopgap measure to maintain the money supply until new currency could be introduced.</p>
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<p>The Banking Law was issued September 19, 2003. The law brings Iraq’s legal framework for banking in line with international standards, and seeks to promote confidence in the banking system by establishing a safe, sound, competitive and accessible banking system.</p>
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<p>Between October 15, 2003 and January 15, 2004, the Coalition Provisional Authority issued new Iraqi dinar coins and notes, with the notes printed using modern anti-forgery techniques, to “create a single unified currency that is used throughout all of Iraq and will also make money more convenient to use in people’s everyday lives. Old banknotes were exchanged for new at a one-to-one rate, except for the Swiss dinars, which were exchanged at a rate of 150 new dinars for one Swiss dinar.</p>
<p>The Central Bank of Iraq (Arabic: ????? ??????? ???????) was established as Iraq’s independent central bank by the Central Bank of Iraq Law of March 6, 2004</p>
<p>-In 2011, the United States bombed the living daylights out of Libya. Before Muammar Gaddafi was even overthrown, the U.S. helped the rebels establish <a title="a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/wow-that-was-fast-libyan-rebels-have-already-established-a-new-central-bank-of-libya">a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Central banks are specifically designed to trap nations in debt spirals <a title="from which they can never possibly escape" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/it-is-mathematically-impossible-to-pay-off-all-of-our-debt">from which they can never possibly escape</a>.</strong> Today, the debt to GDP ratio for the entire planet is up to an all-time high record of <a title="286 percent" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-debt-to-gdp-ratio-for-the-entire-world-286-percent">286 percent</a>. Humanity is being enslaved by a perpetual debt machine, but most people are not even aware that it is happening.</p>
<p><strong>It is time for an awakening.</strong> We need to educate as many people as possible about why we need to get rid of the central banks. For those living in the United States, my previous article entitled “<a title="On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserve Here Are 100 Reasons To Shut It Down Forever" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-federal-reserve-here-are-100-reasons-to-shut-it-down-forever">On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserve Here Are 100 Reasons To Shut It Down Forever</a>” is a good place to start. In other countries, we need people to write similar articles about their own central banks in their own languages.</p>
<p><strong>The global elite dominate us because we allow them to dominate us. </strong> Their debt-based system greatly enriches them while it enslaves the remainder of the planet. We need to expose their evil system and the dark agenda behind it while we still have time.”</p>
<p>A nice bit of doublespeak humour supplied in the video below.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152222019-06-23T12:00:00-12:002019-06-24T07:07:41-12:00reserve banks - are they reserved and if so, who for?<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NIfH0vY2ANA" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152212019-06-17T12:00:00-12:002019-06-18T05:41:46-12:00Iran<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lhqLaYBtvXA" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152202019-06-08T12:00:00-12:002019-06-09T08:07:13-12:005G and health<div class="align-center"></div>
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<strong><em>News</em><br><br>Alarming Decline in Millennials’ Health<br><br>Millennials -- the first generation to grow up using cell phones</strong> -- are experiencing an unprecedented decline in their health when they reach their late 20s.<br><br>On April 24, 2019, the American health insurance association Blue Cross Blue Shield released a report titled “The Health of Millennials.” It showed not only that the health of this generation takes a sharp decline beginning at age 27, but also that the prevalence of many medical conditions rose precipitously among millennials in just three years.<br><br>The prevalence of eight of the top ten conditions among all millennials showed a double-digit increase in 2017 as compared with 2014. Major depression increased 31%. Hyperactivity increase 29%. Type II diabetes increased 22%. Hypertension increased 16%. Psychoses increased 15%. High cholesterol increased 12%. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis increased 10%. Substance use disorder increased 10%.<br><br>The decline in millennials’ health from 2014 to 2017 was not due to their being three years older. The report also compared the health of millennials who were 34-36 years old in 2017 to the health of Gen Xers who were 34-36 years old in 2014. At the same age, 34- to 36-year-olds in 2017 had 37% more hyperactivity, 19% more diabetes, 18% more major depression, 15% more Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, 12% more substance use disorder, 10% more hypertension, and 7% more high cholesterol than 34- to 36-year-olds had in 2014.<br><br>When the researchers looked at all health conditions, they found that 34- to 36-year-olds in 2017 had a 21% increase in cardiovascular conditions, a 15% increase in endocrine conditions, and an 8% increase in other physical conditions compared to 34- to 36-year-olds in 2014.<br><br>The Blue Cross Blue Shield report is here: <a href="https://www.bcbs.com/the-health-of-america/reports/the-health-of-millenials">https://www.bcbs.com/the-health-of-america/reports/the-health-of-millennials</a>.<br><br>The only reasonable explanation for the alarming decline in health of the millennial generation is the life-long irradiation of their brains and bodies from their cell phones.</div>
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<strong>First Launches of 5G Satellites<br><br>On the evening of May 23, 2019</strong>, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX launched its first 60 “Starlink” satellites into low orbit around the Earth. The satellites were launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket. Musk announced his intention to carry out six more launches this year, each carrying 60 satellites, and that when the first 420 satellites are in orbit, they will be turned on and will begin providing global 5G service to SpaceX’s first customers. This could happen by the end of 2019.<br><br>SpaceX intends for its rockets to carry 120 satellites at a time into orbit beginning in 2020, and to complete its planned fleet of 12,000 satellites within a decade. SpaceX’s license from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission permits each satellite to emit an effective radiated power of up to 5 million watts.<br><br>SpaceX’s competitor, OneWeb, is not far behind. OneWeb launched the first 6 of its planned fleet of 4,540 satellites on February 27, 2019. It announced its intention to launch 36 satellites per month and to turn them on as soon as 648 satellites are in orbit. This could happen by the end of 2020.<br><br>On April 4, 2019, Amazon announced that it is planning to launch its own fleet of more than 3,000 5G satellites.<br><br>5G in Space is a planetary emergency, as outlined in the article of that title that I wrote a year ago: <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/planetary-emergency">http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/planetary-emergency</a>. It is an emergency not just because of the direct radiation from the satellites, but because of the location of the satellites in the ionosphere. The ionosphere is an integral part of the global electrical circuit that animates all living things. Even a few hundred satellites using the enormous amount of bandwidth that is available in the millimeter wave spectrum is expected to pollute the global electrical circuit -- and therefore our bodies -- with what building biologists call dirty electricity. This is likely to be catastrophic to all life on Earth.<br><br>I am presently involved in an effort to open up lines of communication with the principals of the satellite projects, including Elon Musk. They care about the future of this planet too, and they mistakenly think they are doing good.</div>
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<strong><em>Federal Lawsuit to Stop 5G</em><br><br>The Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety</strong> filed a lawsuit to stop 5G in U.S. District Court in New Mexico on December 21, 2018. We are asking the court to declare that city, state, and federal laws which deprive citizens of the right to protect themselves from harm, and deprive injured persons of any remedy for their injuries, are unconstitutional and void.<br><br>These laws violate the First Amendment rights to free speech and to petition the government for redress of grievances. These laws violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments because they deprive people of life, liberty and property without due process of law, and because they are a taking of property without just compensation. Our First Amended Complaint can be seen here: <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Doc-19-First-Amended-Complaint.pdf">http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Doc-19-First-Amended-Complaint.pdf</a>.</div>
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<div>These are the approximate numbers of people to date who have signed the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space:<br><br>2,000 scientists<br>1,400 medical doctors<br>4,000 engineers<br>2,200 nurses<br>2,500 psychologists<br>1,200 organizations<br>100,000 total individuals and organizations from 187 countries.</div>
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<strong>Please Circulate the Appeal<br><br>It is time to push this Appeal hard.</strong> Please send the Appeal (<a href="http://www.5gspaceappeal.org/">www.5gSpaceAppeal.org</a>), and also forward this email, to everyone you know. Every person on Earth has a stake in our future. We need as many signatures from as many different kinds of people as possible.<br><br>While we were working on the website, some people had problems accessing the signature form. That is now fixed, and everybody should be able to sign. <strong>Please do not sign more than once.</strong> If you sign for the first time now, your name will appear on the website within a few days. If you signed between December and April, your name will be appear on the list within a few weeks. Signatures are now processed automatically, but I still have to review all the submissions before making them live. I am working as fast as I can to keep up.</div>
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<div>Donations are needed to support every aspect of this work -- the federal lawsuit, the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space, a media campaign, lobbyists to present the Appeal to governments, etc. I need a secretary and a bookkeeper. Donations can be made on the Appeal website and are tax-deductible for U.S. citizens: <a href="https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/donate">https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/donate</a>. For large donations or stock transfers, please contact me. A big thank you to those who have already contributed.<br><br>This work is also supported by sales of my book, <em>The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life</em> (AGB Press 2017). It gives the background history and science that is necessary in order to understand what is happening today. It is the first book ever published that tells the history of electricity from an environmental point of view. It is available for sale here: <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/buy-the-invisible-rainbow">http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/buy-the-invisible-rainbow</a>. All proceeds go into the effort to stop 5G.<br><br>Also a big thank you to Antoinette Janssen and Multerland, who turned my talk in Taos, New Mexico of August 12, 2018 into a superb YouTube video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MpdJ_t5XMvw?feature=oembed">https://www.youtube.com/embed/MpdJ_t5XMvw?feature=oembed</a>
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<p align="center">Arthur Firstenberg, Administrator<br>International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space<br>P.O. Box 6216<br>Santa Fe, NM 87502<br>USA<br>Tel: +1 505-471-0129<br>Email: <a href="mailto:spaceappeal@fastmail.fm">info@cellphonetaskforce.org</a><br><a href="https://www.5gspaceappeal.org">https://www.5gspaceappeal.org</a></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152192019-06-06T12:00:00-12:002019-06-06T17:44:16-12:00llyn peninsula too<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/ffb964421ebf214720d4c6e394525814a7449007/original/looking-down-to-the-cairn-near-bryn-goleu-coastal-walk.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6MzY0OHgyNzM2Il0%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="2736" width="3648" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152182019-06-06T12:00:00-12:002019-06-06T17:43:30-12:00into the mystic<p>On an early morning coastal walk upon the Llyn Peninsular, North Wales, looking towards Bardsey Island, otherwise known as the Isle of 20,000 saints. The morning sun is behind me as I reach a high point on the headland looking down towards a bay which is partly covered by a fog, fast rolling in across the sea.</p>
<p>There is a small cairn/stone marker below me as I take a photograph. A few minutes later and I’ve walked to the cairn and, by this time, the scene changes completely and the photograph I now take shows what appears to be mountains with someone or something standing, illuminated by a rainbow halo.</p>
<p>It isn’t mountains but is the shadow of the land where I’m standing, the cairn being illuminated by the sun behind me which is reflecting onto the fog which by now covers the waters of the bay completely.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152172019-06-06T12:00:00-12:002019-06-06T17:42:38-12:00llyn peninsula<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392053/4788eb9eebcf1eb75388d5f6cf9a5a736fde67d0/original/the-faint-rainbow-on-the-shadowed-sea-4.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6MzY0OHgyNzM2Il0%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="2736" width="3648" /></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152162019-05-27T12:00:00-12:002019-05-28T05:33:18-12:00drawing attention to origin energy - fracking in australia<p>I don’t know to what extent fracking is appearing in your country but here, in Australia, it occurs. Origin Energy are close to starting exploration if they get the permission of our Northern Territory Government.</p>
<p>I don’t write submissions but every voice counts at this moment for this particular matter so I’ve added my voice to a ‘getup.org’ campaign with the following objection. It’s nothing spectacular but just common sense to my mind.</p>
<p>“Using Google Earth and zooming in to the mid west of the United States ones sees the breath taking extent of the fracking industry.</p>
<p>There are hundreds of thousands of these wells. Not only are they in areas of minimal human habitation but are placed in orchards and close to suburban fringes.</p>
<p>The ground itself is perforated like cheesecloth and this goes on through county after county and State after State.</p>
<p>The extent of fracking has made the United States energy rich. It comes at a cost, much of which cannot be calculated.</p>
<p>The process, we are told, uses ‘waste water’ to extract the gas. It’s not waste water, it’s chemically laden water which logically permeates the ground and eventually must contaminate the aquifers upon which the country relies for fresh water.</p>
<p>Once this occurs there is no remedy to fix the problem.</p>
<p>‘Experts say ….’ Experts will say whatever the paymaster demands. Couple this with ‘Money talks and bullshit walks’ and it’s no wonder that fracking has been so embraced not only in the United States but in many other countries.</p>
<p>Here, in the north of Australia nicely ‘out of sight - out of mind’, Origin Energy – no doubt the ‘clean energy people’ – are about to invade the lands of tribal people. Only one exploration well, if the Northern Territory Government allows it, but if the first is promising then Origin will not stop there.</p>
<p>‘Invade’ is a strong word to use but that’s the truth of the matter when the tribal elders themselves, the guardians of that land, vehemently oppose this application.</p>
<p>I add my opposition to theirs.”</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152152019-05-18T12:00:00-12:002019-05-19T07:33:58-12:00WE HAD AN ELECTION - IT ONLY TOOK A MOMENT<p>Ah well – we lost the election. It was democratic and that’s the way it works – get your message across and accept the result. The sky won’t fall in either way. I don’t ask for a second round of voting nor do I assume that those who won were ill-informed, didn’t know what they were voting for or were stupid.</p>
<p>Of course, they could be all three or just feeling uncertain about a future in which nothing is certain except perhaps that things are, in many ways, getting worse.</p>
<p>Many are over mortgaged in a teetering and grossly overpriced housing market and jobs are scarce. It’s a sign of the times that an UBER economy appears and starts replacing the existing system, where full time and part time jobs disappear and one gets paid by the task performed. If I had to gauge the mood of many it’s quiet desperation.</p>
<p>Here we’re living through a series of Royal Commissions and reports into ‘Sexual Abuse,’ ‘Banking Criminality,’ ‘Nursing Home neglect’ and in each case the level of deceit compounds the criminal avoidance of ethical duty. And in the background news which hasn’t had a Royal Commission to expose criminality are the car manufacturers who manipulated their emission control systems to appear to meet strict standards when they don’t. The European Banks fined for colluding over yet another dubious practice.</p>
<p>The list goes on endlessly in a world of 24/7 exposure. Fraud and malpractice are normal behaviour and shame doesn’t enter into consideration. Small wonder then that in our local Federal election any change in Government, in our fragile stability, would be rejected.</p>
<p>Life goes on. It’s the tip of the iceberg and who knows what’s going on beneath the water line.</p>
<p> And then there are the stories of medical breakthroughs which gain little media attention, which have enormous use for mankind but which incur the opposition of the pharmaceutical industry because such treatments threaten profits.</p>
<p>I’d never heard of GcMAF which is, as I understand it, a cancer treatment but I do have respect for Ian R Crane who presented the content in the video below. The subject matter and the passion with which it was presented moved me to tears – not weeping but that welling up.</p>
<p>My own health is o.k. but if it weren’t I’d be interested in researching GcMAF and its uses. Perhaps it’s of interest to you so the video is below.</p>
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<p>‘Would’ – do I have the will power … ‘will’ I do it. ‘Could’ – am I actually able to carry it out … ‘can’ I do it. ‘Should’ – implies that it’s my duty … ‘shall’ I do it.</p>
<p>I hear the word ‘shan’t’ being used on the radio and my ears prick up mostly because it’s a word not often now used in English speech. Perhaps it’s because duty isn’t always clear – the ‘should I?’ and ‘’Shall I?’ of ‘Duty Calls,’ whereas the ‘could’ and ‘can’ of life are often impulse driven while the ‘would’ and ‘will’ aspects imply premeditation – some thought.</p>
<p>We’re a few days away from a federal election. Choices are stark according to both major parties and how ‘normal’ it is to have two choices. There’s nothing normal about the times in which we live.</p>
<p>The daily struggle for most continues. Reminds me of the terse response received from my father decades ago when I was waxing lyrical about the wilds of the universe, the visitations to Earth by … for want of a better word, ‘Aliens.’</p>
<p>‘So what! … if they landed tomorrow I’d still have to catch the 173 bus to work.’ …. that ended that conversation. Ah – a pragmatist with little time, bills to pay and no inclination for that subject. It’s hard – and probably dangerous - to look up with your nose to the grindstone.</p>
<p>The behaviour of our local star, the Sun, its patterns of activity, affects our planet. It’s not much mentioned when it comes to assessing the ‘whys and wherefores’ of climate change. There’s a lamentable lag when it comes to the scientific world changing long held views and so it is with the painfully slow and reluctant acceptance that the universe is electric, Birkeland Currents – great swathes of plasma arc through galaxies and it’s at this point that I think I should refresh my hazy understanding of this matter.</p>
<p>“ ….those filaments are called Birkeland currents, and they are the visible portion of enormous electric circuits that form a large-scale structure in the Universe. The circuits generate magnetic fields that can be mapped, so the helical shape characteristic of Birkeland currents is known, since it can be seen.”</p>
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<p>If the universe really is electric but science doesn’t hold that view then the modelling used by science to expose and explain climate change isn’t adequate to the task.</p>
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<p>I revisited Al Gore’s ‘An inconvenient Truth’ recently. I also found his mentor from university days – Roger Revelle – a man who is recognised as the grandfather of ‘Global Warming’ and also the man who later found reason to question his own research, recanted and was declared senile by Al Gore. The point here is not to deny that climate change is occurring but to expose the false model which is used to frighten the world into accepting a carbon tax when that model neither provides a complete picture regarding cause and effect – how can it when the variables aren’t known or aren’t accepted as real – nor provide an answer. Electric cars sound good but what source provides the enormous amount of electricity needed – not coal, surely? Then ‘what’, I wonder. I do have faith that answers will be found .. hmm … ‘could be found, should be found and would be found.’ Hooray for melody of the English language.</p>
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<p>Anyway, elections loom and lack of action on climate change is a real issue as it should be. Shelter and jobs are a huge concern. The housing market falters, stumbles and loses value and negative equity in the home produces its own stress which I’ve known all too well.</p>
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<p>Mental health or rather the lack of mental health is, I’m certain, a worldwide phenomenon. Mankind groans under the weight of injustice observed and experienced.</p>
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<p>The Emperor has no clothes. The rest of reality shimmers in the light and the dust as the truth and the shock is absorbed. What to make of it. No wonder mental health is an issue.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152112019-05-09T12:00:00-12:002019-05-10T07:03:11-12:00... as if it didn't matter. For many - it doesn't.<p>‘Keep to the left except in times of war.’</p>
<p>Something remembered from childhood teaching and an awareness I still use when moving in crowds. I wonder if it holds true in all cultures and across time. It had meaning when men wore swords, usually worn on the left hip – most people being right handed.</p>
<p>It’s as though there’s nothing to be explained, nothing unusual, nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing luminous, profound, beyond the ken of the five senses. Yet there is and sad the human who never experiences more than the material world. It doesn’t have to be earth shattering to be a cause for wonder.</p>
<p>Rich indeed the tapestry of human experience when woven over a lifetime. Seem it so or not. Threads of hope and despair, the vivid colours of tragedy, of comedy, the slender threads of sanity, the thicker threads of endurance. And woven through plays instinct, intuition, perception, whatever name we give to that knowing which transcends the five senses. </p>
<p>Death and taxes aren’t the only certainties in life. Many don’t pay taxes in the ‘real’ world and Death, while the final out of body experience, isn’t, for many, the first. Such experience must change perception regarding the nature of reality. The way in which mankind sets boundaries around what is considered acceptable as an experience of reality and what is seen as ‘beyond the pale’ is somewhat limited without the acknowledging of the mystical. Is reality truly defined as three dimensional - with time thrown in to add a fourth dimension. And that’s it? This is the shape of reality allowed? No out of body experiences which, if real, do more than imply that consciousness is not tied to the body and that the body is the changing vehicle inhabited from birth to death – at which time I’ve no idea nor do I much care where it resides. I can trust that a loving God, creator of the Universe can take care of that and forgive the mistakes made along the way.</p>
<p>Life is full of abrupt transitions.</p>
<p>Just finishing up with all the gardening tasks which appear at this time of year. Autumn overnight temperature is at zero and three waves of dying Magnolia leaves have fallen over the last few weeks. I rake and mulch and place the compost around a TreeFern. We’ve yet to feel full winter cold with gusty winds straight from the Southern Ocean and beyond to Antarctica. If I don’t make use of the leaf litter now then the swirling winds will bring crumpled heaps to my door all winter long and there’s no purpose served there. I’ve brought in and spread two cubic metres of soil to lay a blanket over one of the garden beds. This bed contains TreeFerns - as they all do - and a Mandarin tree. It holds a constantly changing variety of bulbs – daffodils to Tiger lilies which spread out their flowering from early winter to late summer. It’s a delight and as there’s little soil here I bring in each year what I can afford and each bed gets its turn for renewal. I finish this bed with a ‘not too thick’ layer of sugar cane mulch and a mass planting of Polyanthus. They’re the most cheerful flower, bright splashes of colour all nestled in to that light blanket and ready to bloom when most I need that ‘sight for sore eyes.’ As much to the point - although they appear to die off completely they often don’t and will reappear the following year.</p>
<p>It’s a quiet luxury to have a garden in which to grow, to watch and nurture the changes over decades.</p>
<p>Back in the ‘real’ world and events continue the messy lurching towards - who knows what. China, Brexit, Orange Vests.</p>
<p>There were certainties in the world not so long ago. Even though Israel is no true friend to the rest of mankind - and it doesn’t take much to ascertain that - there was a two state solution agreed upon ‘in principle’ which has served to keep the ongoing injustice to the Palestinian cause simmering but also in some sort of focus. This is gone under yet another U.S. president who serves Israel’s interests rather than that of the American people and has no sense that agreements already made actually matter. Trust is fragile.</p>
<p>It’s the unthinking acceptance of propaganda which disturbs me. What part of the situation in Gaza remains hidden from the world yet the barbarity is whitewashed by selective vision and politicians refuse to condemn such behaviour and with one voice cry ‘Enough.’</p>
<p>Is that likely to happen? It hasn’t happened yet.</p>
<p>If it’s ‘By their fruits you shall know them’ then Israel is the bitter tree.</p>
<p>Sigh … no … it’s not ‘The Jews’ … it’s the policies carried out by the Zionist entity dubbed Israel – the one which many religious Jews say has no right to exist and who do give the valid reason. Did Hitler represent all Germans – then or now?</p>
<p>So – when, if ever, is any solution to the plight of the Palestinians other than ‘die and go away’ going to be offered by Israel?</p>
<p>Simple question after a lifetime of waiting. Why would any of us want to see this continue for yet another lifetime … as if it didn’t matter.</p>
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<p>In my experience - and may be different for you - words such as treachery haven’t been part of mass media language or part of mine for some longish time. For me, those words most recently came to mind with the events of 9/11 and my conclusions about the near free fall collapse of the Twin Towers and of Building 7 and that circumstance indicates demolition which leads inevitably to planning and thus an ‘inside job.’ Villainy in high places.</p>
<p>Judas is cast as the villain, the betrayer and why would that be questioned within Christianity, within that familiar story which led to Christ’s crucifixion - betrayal on such a scale and for the paltry sum of thirty pieces of silver. Betrayal to where the Judas’ name echoes through the Ages as a symbol of betrayal. I suppose the price is irrelevant if ones integrity can be bought … the price just needs to be established.</p>
<p>But the Biblical narrative tells me – unless I’m missing the point - that this was all ordained, predestined, the will of God. All the signs – and the wonders – were prophesised and fulfilled yet Judas, in an also destined moment, fulfilled a critical part within the drama.</p>
<p>Does predestined imply reincarnation? It does to me and, if so, did Judas really have a choice? Perhaps he did inasmuch as his ‘free will’ comes into play – a somewhat/sometimes illusory free will though it may be - and as we, generally speaking, don’t have remembrance of previous lives maybe because it may cripple our choice and actions in the present life it appears that Judas uses the free will available in this present life to guide his actions. Without that betrayal the story would be different. It wouldn’t have fulfilled the same purpose, the ending would be different … and there is something transcendental about that ‘Crucifixion of the Son of God’ which, to my limited understanding, mirrors the fate of mankind – we crucify each other on a regular basis whether it be literal or not. And it’s all an exercise in individual free will.</p>
<p>An exercise in the application of ‘free will’ and of the constant making of choices. The ethical, open to all message contained in ‘love your neighbour as yourself’ and ‘Do unto others as you’d have done to yourself.’ It may not bring one to paradise but ‘the kingdom of God lies within’ is a statement of fact if it’s to mean anything.</p>
<p>Perhaps it’s a quiet kingdom, not startling.</p>
<p>It was the infamous Brutus of Julius Caesar’s murder which led me across to Judas. ‘ Brutus is treacherous’ is the message which reverberates from that time and my sympathy lies with Caesar yet the circumstances which led to Caesar’s murder make clear that, to many at that time, the Republic was in peril with Caesar as Dictator for life – and an understanding of motivation changes perception of events. Was Brutus treacherous or high minded? I don’t know – my ignorance is cheerfully immense.</p>
<p>The odd background note in this reverie about events and people from a few thousand years ago is the stark antiquity of Aboriginal culture as evidenced by the sixty thousand years or so of continued society here in Australia and which places these events of a few thousand years ago as the comparatively recent past. How this occupation of Australia with its menagerie of plant, insect and animal not found elsewhere fits in Biblically or with Hindu 26,000 year cycles – Golden Age to our present situation – leaves me wondering yet again about how different Australia is – from everywhere. Civilisations rise and fall elsewhere yet Australia somehow retains an ‘otherworldly’ aspect. Their enduring culture has its spiritual reality and whatever this Universal God ‘is’ includes and embraces them as equally as any other human in any other time.</p>
<p>Judas is reviled and the biblical narrative as we now have it doesn’t much support reincarnation. One life and that’s it. Doesn’t make sense to me particularly with some version of a heaven and hell for eternity. That’s a very long time in anyone’s language. Personally I’m quite slow to get the point. I miss the moment frequently and half a life can go by without me having much of a clue about ’what’s going on.’ One life is not enough time in which to separate truth from lies let alone develop a consistent ethical framework.</p>
<p>Did Judas play an unwitting and needed part in the Drama or was he aware of the necessity of Jesus needing a betrayer and was actually in Christ’s confidence. It’s not an original thought.</p>
<p>Within that Drama of betrayal and crucifixion played out continuously throughout time and independent of religious belief we, as humanity and over the course of our lifetimes, play the Judas, the Doubting Thomas, the whole population of peoples and their quirks, we wash our hands of situations as did Pilate and sometimes we echo the Good Samaritan and sometimes the Christ. Sometimes we are the crown of thorns.</p>
<p>While reasonably intelligent, I’m not quick to understand and therefore need to investigate ‘the why and the wherefore’ of the world today and of our ‘human condition.’ I can’t just shrug my shoulders and be content with ‘That’s the way it is.’</p>
<p>What perversion of Christianity led to the Crusades or to the Inquisition, led factions of Judaism into the Talmud against which Christ railed because it ‘makes naught’ of God’s Word, led the brutal edge of a cold and grim sect of Islam into the perversion of suicide bombers when Islam states that to take the life of an innocent is to kill mankind. By definition a suicide bomber kills innocents.</p>
<p>All three of these religions claim ‘The Truth’ and bow to a Supreme God. They have a common heritage in the Ten Commandments and don’t worry too much about ‘Thou shall not kill’ – which is obviously more on a wish list than a Commandment.</p>
<p>There’s a disconnect, an ‘I don’t get it’ aspect to talk of a God of Love and a Merciful God unless that God is Universal in the sense that a connection exists within – every human being or none at all.</p>
<p>When religion becomes a club any universal connection is lost.</p>
<p>Anyway, just scratching a niggle in my mind because all this conviction in the ‘rightness of our cause’, all this belief in ‘imposing our will’ is being acted upon. Continuously and from every direction.</p>
<p>Easter has come and gone and comes around again. It’s a beautiful day here in the mountains, the first layer of autumn leaves has fallen and shoots of early daffodil start appearing among the Polyanthus – a bright coloured flower which thrives in mid winter adding splashes of cheer to the eye.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152092019-04-07T12:00:00-12:002019-04-08T04:54:02-12:00'every breath you take - I'll be watching you.'<p>So much outrage expressed in these unbalanced times. No need to pick a cause, there are too many and if that isn’t cause for concern then it’s worth remembering the social contract by which I mean the unspoken but real understanding between those who govern and … the rest of society. Unrest, unease and perhaps revolution is the end result of ignoring the responsibilities inherent within that social contract.</p>
<p>Anywhere between slavery and opulence is where most of us stand and it’s always been so if fractured history is to be believed. Nothing much changes.</p>
<p>Still, that’s according to a view of the rise of civilisation which accepts that there was nothing remarkable, created by man, prior to the end of the last Ice Age – roughly 11,000 years ago.</p>
<p>Gobekli Tepi predates that time and wasn’t put together by Stone Age Man.</p>
<p>Then there’s the Great Cycle of approximately 26,000 years … not the only cycle and begs the question – isn’t that a long time to hold together such knowledge.</p>
<p>“Knowledge of the Cycles of Time, the primordial ancient metaphysical wisdom found in the Sanskrit texts, reveals a more precise and deeper insight into our ancient origins. Beginning in 3012 B.C. we have been living in the Kali Yuga. For the past 6000 years - all of written history - our ability to 'see' and to know has been limited to five-sense perception. Our consciousness is literally been cooked by time into delusion and confusion. Everything we know is veiled in a miasma of amnesia. We have not only forgotten our past and our real origins - we have forgotten who we are.</p>
<p>The 4 Ages are:</p>
<p>1. The Satya or Krita Yuga, a Golden Age</p>
<p>2. The Treta Yuga, the Age of Ritual</p>
<p>3. Dvapara Yuga, the Age of Doubt: Man loses the sense of the Divine Reality of the world and grows away from natural law</p>
<p>4. The Kali Yuga, the Age of Conflict and confusion began in 3012 BC and will end with the nearly total devastation of the present humanity</p>
<p>When you study the Hindu theory of the Cycles of Time and the yugas, you will find a confusing divergence of opinion concerning the dates of their duration. Considering that we are now living in the Age of Confusion, the Kali Yuga, it is not surprising to find so much disagreement on these matters.”</p>
<p>Thanks to ‘Ancient Origins’ for that quote.</p>
<p>Many sources coinciding with evidence of previous civilisations which I don’t need to list.</p>
<p>There’s always an Emperor, a King, some such strong man maintaining power and perhaps it’s the quality of the advisors surrounding that leader which tends to dictate the strength or otherwise of the Empire and of the social contract which holds it together.</p>
<p>The Chinese civilisation holds real interest for me. It gives us the I Ching and other spiritual sources of nourishment. Chinese Emperors have had that source by which to guide their actions for a few thousand years and more – whether they’ve used that source or done so to good effect is another matter. British Emperors, Roman Emperors and the more recent American Emperors have had no such equivalent source of wisdom although that idea is probably open for debate.</p>
<p>Apart from ‘the news’ which has little to say about China, I look to China Uncensored and Serpentza to give me their unique and differing perspectives on today’s China – the one which now has a ‘social contract’ with a personal score which rises and falls depending upon ones public and personal behaviour and therefore has the nightmarish overtones of dystopian futures as made clear by novels such as 1984. Complete control and in ways no Emperor ever had at their disposal.</p>
<p>It’s a shame that Serpentza, a man who lives in China, speaks the language, is married to a Chinese woman and presents honest, thought provoking, sincere and respectful videos is coming under attack by a mentality common in every country – any criticism is taken as a personal attack upon the nation … this pretend patriotism is a scoundrel’s excuse for rage.</p>
<p>Funny that … back to the outrage I started with. The social contract in China is not the social contract one would hope to live with, although I don’t doubt that it’s coming worldwide. I’ve been fortunate enough to live in societies where the level of corruption is relatively low and where such notions as freedom of expression go hand in hand with a government which taxes but uses those resources to provide education, health care and the infrastructure which is needed for society to function. This requires a law which is fair and is applied.</p>
<p>The other side of the coin is that this present day social contract comes drenched in the blood of previous generations and on the wealth of plundered nations. Everything is connected and thus karma is real eventually affecting nations as equally as individuals.</p>
<p>Serpentza’s experience in China is mirrored elsewhere when Israel is criticised for its actions. It’s not an attack on ‘The Jews’ - it’s a criticism of government policy. It’s mirrored when the U.S.A. meddles in the affairs of other nations and is criticised for it – ‘regime change’ brought about regardless of the will of the people concerned. Government policy is criticised not the character of the population.</p>
<p>While the Sultan of Brunei provokes outrage with the introduction of Sharia Law … and it’s officially back to the stonings and cruel punishments so prevalent when Christ walked the earth so the confusion about ‘right and wrong’ continues and, of all things, it’s Sting’s song so beloved by so many as to use it in a wedding march – ‘Every breath you take’ which comes to mind. It’s perceived as a love song but in actuality it’s a song about a stalker …. ‘you belong to me’ and not ‘you belong with me’ … a vast difference to my mind, the first a possession, the second a relationship.</p>
<p>‘Every breath you take – I’ll be watching you.’</p>
<p>Sign of the times.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152082019-04-02T12:00:00-12:002019-04-02T12:17:22-12:00autumn<p>Crashing out or walking away? …. Brexit related responses couched in catastrophic or almost nonchalant terms, depending upon one’s point of view.</p>
<p>Regardless of how difficult ‘leaving’ Europe turns out to be, it was the democratic will, through the referendum, which made the majority view clear. To not leave does betray democracy in Britain. There’s no escaping that glaringly inconsistent view being held by those who wish to remain in the European Union. The will of the people ultimately doesn’t matter to them. If the result of the referendum held here recently in respect to ‘same sex marriage’ were to be questioned in terms of having a second referendum – just to ‘make sure’ – it would invoke outrage.</p>
<p>Skip across the water to Palestine. While attention focuses upon Britain’s woes continuing thuggery is shown to the Palestinians by an Israel which owes its ever changing borders to ‘Occupied Territory’ – recognised as such world-wide and condemned if only in diplomatically muted terms. How Israel is seen by some as ‘an exceptional case, a democracy in a sea of hostile, Islamic dictatorships….’ is beyond comprehension when Israel is perpetually hostile as evidenced by my lifetime lived waiting for a Two State solution which makes sense to both parties to be manifested. Do the Palestinians have the power – obviously not as the shrinking West Bank disappears into a few puddles of land and the Gaza continues as perhaps the largest Prison camp in existence. Perhaps not but the power is not and never has been with the Palestinians. Why is it impolite to mention these realities.</p>
<p> A cool day here and great for transplanting red currant canes/small bushes from the nursery of the vegetable beds, where last year’s cuttings have taken on roots, to any spot in the open TreeFern beds where they’ll fit with comfort. A score of plantings later and garlic now replaces the red currants in the vegetable beds and all looks good. Yippee for some sense of normality.</p>
<p>As opposed to normality is the juggernaut of smart meters, 5G and the internet of things hurtling upon us, like it or not. I know from experience the ill effects of smart meters and, as I didn’t know that a smart meter had been installed, the ‘experiment’ was ‘blind’ – the negative health effects were almost immediate and only later traced back to the smart meter. It’s mind boggling, the self satisfied, negligent approach taken by governments everywhere in this technological exercise which directly affects all of us without safety tests ….. without safety tests …. how can this be? Ah … it’s progress and it’s a slowly deadly process. Birth rates drop, D.N.A. is affected but the roll out continues.</p>
<p>Can’t crash out nor walk away from 5G.</p>
<p>A sobering video below.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152072019-04-02T12:00:00-12:002019-04-02T12:12:29-12:005G<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ol3tAxnNccY" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152062019-03-24T12:00:00-12:002019-03-24T15:24:53-12:00the time of year changing of the season<p>They’re quite beautiful, self assured, pristine in white with fine yellow crest, a group of eight or nine Sulphur Crested Cockatoos arrive for a late lunch on the deck.</p>
<p>They look a little surprised as I take to them with my Starwars ‘Lock and load’ pump action water pistol. Flying off, indignant, raucous screeching and so they should be after munching through a few more sections of deck. Water spray is a small price to pay.</p>
<p>They are the vandals of the bird world, a Clockwork Orange bunch of droogs bent on mischief with casual violence thrown in gratis. These are the birds who walked along the handrail and ate a forearm’s worth of newly erected door jamb and followed that up with a few fingers worth of freshly painted window frame …. I’m not fond of these birds and I find that the word insolence readily comes to mind when I reflect on their behaviour towards me. Silly to give them human characteristics, perhaps, but King Parrots truly are regal, being unafraid as kings should be. So – Cockatoos, nonchalant, clever to the point of cunning and one will perch on the topmost branch of an old Gum tree next door surveying the gardens all around.</p>
<p>I feed the birds but not so regular now, – a bit of seed for the parrots and some porridge, softened oats really, for the Magpies, the Currawongs, the Satin Bower birds and the Wattle birds. Sometimes Galahs grace me with their presence, with their pink and grey feathering and it’s a colour bath to the eyes with the appearance of the King Parrots and Rosellas.</p>
<p>There’s a certain amount of ‘give and take’ when the birds feed. Yes, there’s the pecking order but the smaller birds dart in and out to claim some share without too much opposition. Some eat seed but not porridge and vice versa … with the exception of both pigeons and Cockatoos. Pigeons eat everything very fast. Then they move on. They’re on a mission. I try not to feed them.</p>
<p>The Cockatoos arrive, take over the place, push the other birds around and away, eat both seed and oats and follow it up with some decking.</p>
<p>“They’ve been known to shred trees!” he added darkly. It’s true.</p>
<p>I like Autumn, the cooler temperatures and the different tasks. All the garden tools with wooden handles get a light sanding and some linseed oil applied to rescue them from summer’s use and to weather them through the winter. Autumn is the time of cutting so it’s good to have cleaned up the fire hazard next door with my reciprocating saw – what a useful tool - and to get rid of the evidence. It’s like nothing has happened and it’s always looked this way and there’s something very satisfying about this type of garden creativity. Making things disappear.</p>
<p>My musical skills are adequate but minimal and I’ve written my songs using simple chord structures and without anything but basic strumming. I don’t know what to make of my own work, some lyrics now make me wince but I loved them all when writing them and what’s done is done.</p>
<p>The phrase ‘winners and losers’ was in common use, or so I remember it, before political correctness thought it controversial. I did wince then at its common use because all of us can be seen as losers … there’s truth in it, for me, certainly – ‘Songs of a loser’ … someone who didn’t quite ‘get it’ or missed the moment but got the point … hmm … so eventually I stopped playing my songs at the local pub, at their open mike night, and put the guitar away.</p>
<p>Anyway, time passes … practice, practice and improvement follows. In that wider field of musical expression I’m making progress, albeit slow and it’s not a race, it’s an interest lifelong.</p>
<p>It’s that perfect time of the year when the length of the day equals the length of the night. Dawn at 7.05 a.m. and dusk at 7.04 p.m. while the moon is ‘waning gibbous.’ What an evocative phrase my computerised weather forecast uses. Storms roll through here with lashings of rain but the flood, fire and drought which much of the country endures, as yet, leaves us untouched, the garden is green.</p>
<p>Tomorrow, weather permitting, I’ll dig up and move a Tree Fern. It’s only to move it by a few feet but it’s a better spot for a few reasons. The sixty or so, slow growing Tree Ferns in this garden all have room to unfurl their fronds easily while this one is a bit restrained and on a pathway. As this Tree Fern is now only knee high, I’ll be able to move it, without too much effort, to where its large fronds can also move freely. It’s a good time of year to make this move without giving too much shock to the plant. They’re graceful creatures are TreeFerns. They like a bit of space, allows them to dance in the moonlight.</p>
<p>Last evening I transplanted a potted Frangipani, very tropical and a bit root bound, into a much larger container. I’d love to have them here but they don’t survive the winters – it’ll go back, before the dead of winter, to a warmer land, able to stretch in its bigger home.</p>
<p>It’s been a weather report, a grateful for small mercies note.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152052019-03-18T12:00:00-12:002019-03-19T11:14:39-12:00changes<p>Strange times in which to live and I’m in danger of turning into a grumpy old sod. Perhaps it’s as Clif High suggests – the cosmic energies we’re now experiencing as our star hurtles through space has real effect on each of us.</p>
<p>A good radio interview with Clif below.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152042019-03-18T12:00:00-12:002019-03-19T11:15:18-12:00clif high<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zNdjY5oLBqo" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152032019-03-16T12:00:00-12:002019-03-17T07:05:43-12:00and the beat goes on<p>Censorship rears its ugly head yet again and while the horror of terrorist attacks are fresh in people’s minds so youtube and google – and probably facebook and twitter, but I don’t use those platforms so I’m not sure – decide what you and I can access.</p>
<p>Youtube decides that 9/11 questioning is no longer a valid enquiry which would suit the perpetrators and even UFO reporting of the type that secureteam provide – a harmless enough interest one would think – are being made, at least, more difficult to find.</p>
<p>I was surprised to find out that about 56% of youtube access is devoted to games. A breakdown of the figures relating to music, politics, education and so on reveal figures of no more than about 5% for each area. A bit sad from my perspective but there you have it.</p>
<p>There is nothing in anything that I’ve written which is motivated by hatred but now when I access this site as a ‘log in’ google have placed a recaptcha symbol which asks me – only once so far - to prove that I’m not a robot which, no doubt, the ‘powers that be’ would prefer me to be. Being able to pick three statues out of six pictures does not prove a damn thing and the use, with poor spelling, of ‘recapture’ tells its own brief story. Why ‘capture’ if this isn’t some sort of war.</p>
<p>There’s something quite ominous about almost any form that now needs to be filled in and that refers to the use of the word ‘submit.’ Yes I can submit an enquiry or a form but why use the word ‘submit’ when these words give the synonyms …. yield, surrender, resign, give up, succumb …. it gives pause for thought or should. I put forward an enquiry and place a form – I don’t submit just as I don’t submit to hatred or injustice or much of what passes for life in today’s world. It’s not trivial – social engineering never is.</p>
<p>Another big change on the horizon, apart from the 5G technology being rolled out worldwide with no studies done regarding health issues and rolled out without consultation and apparently for our convenience but I don’t want it, is the move to a cashless society.</p>
<p>This is problematic for these reasons. Although it’s being touted as a way in which the black economy, the cash economy, the undeclared and not taxable economy is brought under control, it goes deeper than that. In an economy where cash exists I’m able to withdraw my funds if I so choose. Perhaps the interest rate on savings drops to zero but, as things stand, the interest rate cannot fall below zero and into negative interest rates. Do away with cash and negative interest rates are an option and will be used. You pay the bank for the privilege of using their system in which to keep your savings – if you have any – and there is no longer the option of withdrawing your cash because cash has ceased to exist.</p>
<p>Apart from that sobering reality, there is the control aspect. In a cashless society every transaction is recorded and while this is already the case with debit and credit card use it does away with the last vestige of privacy that we still perhaps enjoy.</p>
<p>So it’s a method of control and this isn’t a conspiracy theory but plain and simple fact.</p>
<p>Control of the media, control of transactions and, ultimately total control much as novels such as 1984 portray.</p>
<p>When it comes to terrorism it’s worth remembering that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. This thought in no way justifies the mass murder carried out with such frequency by extremists of all persuasions – it’s just an observation drawn out by political realities in which those who are temporarily seen as useful are labelled freedom fighters until their aims and goals diverge from those of their political masters at which time the label changes to terrorist.</p>
<p>Ranging further away from Earth and the video posted below gives pause for thought. There are, of course, realities that we try to shield our children or grandchildren from knowing – not so much keeping things secret or – dare I say – conspiring to withhold but … life is difficult enough without crippling the capacity for joy.</p>
<p>Part of the responsibility of adult life, by which time we’re more able to bear the unpleasant, is to be aware without losing the capacity for joy.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152022019-03-16T12:00:00-12:002019-03-17T07:04:35-12:00space news<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EB1nR8yOP8s" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152012019-03-14T12:00:00-12:002019-03-15T05:21:08-12:00the sky is crying<p>The sky is crying but that’s perception, reality says it’s raining.</p>
<p>Another hideous mass murder, this time in New Zealand, perpetrated by a white supremacist, an idiot motivated by hatred and an ‘idiot’ because we’re all just human beings …. but humans ‘being’ what?</p>
<p>Belief is strong, colours perception, creates a world view, moves us to action - but if the belief is false? Any fool can be destructive, it takes much more to be constructive.</p>
<p>Terrorist attacks are so often referred to, in the media, as ‘a lone wolf operation’ and it’s a dreadful mistake in reporting – it glamorises the perpetrator and is offensive to wolves let alone to those attacked. Wolves have courage, terrorists don’t.</p>
<p>Much of my life - and it’s the same for most of us - has been taken up with the struggle for existence, paying bills, working or looking for work, responsibilities and dealing with my own inadequacies. The wider aspects of life, the political machinations of world and local powers weren’t much in focus. The events of 9/11 changed the world and utterly changed both my focus and my understanding of world events. That and an understanding of ‘where the money comes from and who controls it’ now becomes the rather horrible fabric which is the backdrop to all our lives whether we understand that impact or not.</p>
<p>James Corbett’s ‘Century of Enslavement’ gives an excellent history of the Federal Reserve and the system of Central Banking which now controls all economies.</p>
<p>As for 9/11 … I witnessed the events of that day, through the dead of night on this side of the world, observed the inconsistencies and when the Twin Towers collapsed into their own footprint closely followed by Building 7 which wasn’t hit by any airplane and all three buildings fell at ‘near as damn it’ free fall speed, I knew with dreadful certainty that some form of controlled demolition was involved.</p>
<p>I wasn’t alone in my perception. It didn’t take long before architects and engineers started questioning the official story. They were followed by pilots and various specialists all of whom had issues with the official story. I’ve spent years researching or more truthfully following the detailed research of those same specialists. It’s almost a ‘never ending’ story and it will not die or disappear.</p>
<p>Recently, the Farsight Institute, a remote viewing entity, have investigated the events of 9/11 and made those results public. It’s interesting and validates the questioning of the official story. Unlike the work of ‘Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth’ which is precise and factual, the remote viewing exercise is of a different order but need not be dismissed because it’s ‘unusual.’</p>
<p>The sky is still crying and will do so for days to come.</p>
<p>The remote viewing video is placed below this post.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60152002019-03-14T12:00:00-12:002019-03-15T05:18:24-12:00remote viewing<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZbdxXWN4DGk" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151992019-03-06T12:00:00-12:002019-03-07T08:48:48-12:00the difference between Zionism and Judaism<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F0t2tMVpiK0" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151982019-03-06T12:00:00-12:002019-03-07T03:19:20-12:00the first week of autumn brings some relief from the unrelenting heat<p>Critical thinking is still seen as necessary – without it the ability to discriminate withers - yet criticism itself has become a dirty word as has the word ‘discrimination’. I don’t accept that an overwhelming ‘tolerance’ should somehow have replaced critical thinking or criticism but that idea of ‘tolerance’ gains ascendency and mutes dissenting voices.</p>
<p>I’ve been quiet lately and it’s not because ‘all is well’ but because it isn’t. The quote below was a comment via a youtube brief discussion regarding the so called humanitarian aid that the U.S. was offering to Venezuela, aid with strings attached as the U.S. maneuvers for yet another regime change that it sees as important to U.S. interests.</p>
<p>“Hello again. It may surprise you but I am a huge critic of the U.S.. However, it's important to me to always keep things in perspective. Israel is an extremely unique situation. They are also a Western democratic nation with shared values in a threatening sea of despotic, often Islamic, dictators. The U.S. almost gives Egypt as much as Israel. The Palestinians have been recipients of aid from the U.S. and numerous other bodies. I think it is only recently that Trump ended U.S. aid. The U.S. certainly is motivated by its interests, but freedom is in its strategic and economic interests. They don't want another Russian favored Cuba on their doorstep. We seemed to have widened the discussion as my initial post was simply about refuting that the U.S. was motivated by Venezuelan oil. I will admit that they are probably happy about the fact that this might impede China's access to this oil. China has large financial positions in the nationalized Venezuelan oil company.”</p>
<p>My response was brief …. along the lines of … ‘You may be well meaning as am I. Those in power are not.’</p>
<p>What gave me pause for thought and an end to the discussion was the world view being expressed … that Israel is in an extremely unique situation, that they are a Western democratic nation with shared values in a threatening sea of despotic, often Islamic, dictators.</p>
<p>Hmm … try telling that to the Palestinians. Israel is no more unique than any other nation or people.</p>
<p>The idea expressed by the Nazi ideology of there being such a thing as a ‘Master Race’ is no different to the idea that there is such a thing as a ‘Chosen People.’ Both ideas, as they find expression in the real world, have led to utter misery for those on the receiving end. I don’t see how this can be disputed yet if I express this thought I’m somehow labelled as anti-Semitic when the truth is nothing of the sort.</p>
<p>I don’t describe myself as anything other than a human being, my gender, nationality, politics, religion or lack of it and the other various groupings and interests are very much a secondary issue far removed from the common humanity that all humans enjoy, suffer and endure.</p>
<p>They’re far removed unless I define myself primarily as belonging to a group identity rather than accept the responsibility of individual existence.</p>
<p>As for ‘shared values’ … what shared values? My values are based upon Christ’s injunction to love your neighbour as yourself and to do unto others as you’d have done to yourself. These values are not found in the Talmud which bears no resemblance to Christ’s injunctions nor to the Ten Commandments.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as Judeo/Christian heritage. Christ was a fraud and is treated as such by the Talmud which, of course, isn’t the only source of religious thought accepted by those who practice Judaism.</p>
<p>Just took a break and fed the varieties of birds which grace the garden, brilliant in their colour and song, made myself a coffee and kept a wary eye on the Sulphur Crested Cockatoos which threaten the relatively peaceful co-existence of the other birds by their bullying behaviour and are kept somewhat in check by a water pistol.</p>
<p>I’ve barely touched the guitar for months but reconnected last night to sing Leonard Cohen’s beautiful ‘Halleluiah’ … Velikovsky’s thoughts and lucid writings on humanity’s catastrophic past imbue my world view and I’ll probably take a walk later with my neighbour. All three are Jewish and none of them define themselves by that label.</p>
<p>Critical thinking allows me to question without resorting to hatred. It makes me wonder about the headlong rush towards an ‘internet of things’ and to see such an eventuality as yet another poisoned chalice being offered to an unsuspecting world for purposes which have little to do with the convenience being touted – do we really need a fridge to tell us that we need more milk? – but has everything to do with control.</p>
<p>Enough of one fingered typing and off to clear a bit of my ancient neighbour’s garden which has become a fire hazard. It’s self interest which motivates my actions there. Scorching and melting damage done by fire are no longer covered by my house insurance which is a recent and woeful but understandable action by insurance companies who recognise the extremes of climate here in Australia and the threat to their profit margins … not that they’d be so blunt in acknowledging that fact – they just hope none of us will notice the change.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151972019-02-25T12:00:00-12:002019-02-26T06:29:00-12:00florida maquis stating the truth about venezuela<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWwVlan0dPQ" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151962019-02-20T12:00:00-12:002019-02-21T04:21:34-12:00fracking on tribal lands<p>I haven’t attempted to take this sort of action prior to today but Origin Energy, here in Australia, who brand themselves as ‘clean and green’ are about to start fracking operations in the Northern Territory.</p>
<p>I only know about this due to the actions of getup.org.au who have sent out a petition from the tribal owners of the land concerned.</p>
<p>In the strange way in which synchronicity works my previous post mentions fracking in uncomplimentary terms. The tribal owners come from an area from which a group of tribal men came and worked with myself in the mid seventies. I was left with the highest respect for their culture, spirituality and approach to country.</p>
<p>I don’t have a large readership and I don’t use social media but I can place the petition here and would urge you to sign the petition regardless of where you come from and, if so moved, to pass it on.</p>
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<p> My name is Nicole. I am a Garawa woman and my family are from Borroloola, in the gulf of the Northern Territory. For years, Traditional Owners in the Northern Territory have stood up against the fracking that will destroy sacred country, poison our drinking water and harm our health. <br> <br>But powerful gas company Origin Energy has just launched a push to start drilling test wells in the Northern Territory as soon as June.<sup>1</sup> They're hoping to find not only gas, <em>but oil too</em>. <strong>If they find oil, they'll push harder and faster and it will be even harder to stop them. </strong> <br> <br>Origin has spent months rebranding themselves as a clean, green and responsible company – but this move reveals the truth. <br> <br>Together, we need to show Origin Energy that the community, and their customers, won't stand by and allow them to destroy the Northern Territory with dirty fracking and oil drilling. <strong>Our best chance of stopping this project is if we can show that thousands of Australians won't let Origin's 'good energy' image survive their dirty fracking plans. </strong> <br> <br><strong><a href="http://www.getup.org.au/stop-originenergy?t=x3zKkcZGB&utm_content=27307&utm_campaign=The_oil_rigs_are_rolling_in&utm_source=blast&utm_medium=email">Can you sign my petition calling out Origin's dirty plan to frack for oil and gas in the Northern Territory?</a></strong> <br> <br><strong>If Origin have their way, this could be Australia's first land-based shale oil and gas field.</strong> It's a disaster for land, water and the Aboriginal communities who have made their stance clear — the NT will not be the sacrifice zone for an industry we do not want or need. On top of that, Origin has <em>never</em> consulted with Traditional Owners to frack for oil. <br> <br>Last year I saw the horrific impacts of shale oil fields when I travelled to Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota, USA. The night was lit up with gas flares. Oil pipelines, that spill millions of litres of oil across the United States every year, criss-crossed the landscape.<sup>2</sup> Lakes and rivers were polluted with waste water.<sup>3</sup> Everywhere First Nations people have witnessed the destructive impact fracking has on culture, health and communities.<sup>4</sup> <br> <br><strong><a href="http://www.getup.org.au/stop-originenergy?t=x3zKkcZGB&utm_content=27307&utm_campaign=The_oil_rigs_are_rolling_in&utm_source=blast&utm_medium=email">Can you urgently stand with First Nations communities across the Northern Territory and call on Origin to stop oil and gas fracking?</a></strong> <br> <br>I can't stand the thought of this happening in the Northern Territory. We can't let Origin get away with calling themselves clean and sustainable while destroying sacred country, polluting water and harming our health. <br> <br>Origin claims it's leading the way for clean and sustainable energy, even undergoing an expensive rebrand to come up with an outrageous new slogan: 'good energy.' All the while planning massive oil and gas fields that would destroy water and country, and add millions of tonnes of carbon pollution to the atmosphere. <br> <br><strong><a href="http://www.getup.org.au/stop-originenergy?t=x3zKkcZGB&utm_content=27307&utm_campaign=The_oil_rigs_are_rolling_in&utm_source=blast&utm_medium=email">We don't have time to waste - can you ask Origin to dump its dirty and dangerous fracking plans?</a></strong> <br> <br>We've seen the weight of people power force Origin to come clean before. The Origin Annual General Meeting in October was dominated by the concerns of Traditional Owners from Elliot and Minyerri.<sup>5</sup> Traditional Owners extracted an astounding admission on the floor of the AGM: that the company <em>cannot guarantee</em> that fracking won't destroy water aquifers in the NT.<sup>6</sup> <br> <br>Last year, we took this fight to the Northern Territory Government, calling on them to maintain the moratorium on fracking. After an inquiry that ignored oil fracking risks, the government reneged on their promise, giving the green light to devastating new fracking fields. Now, it's time to take it directly to Origin. <br> <br><strong>We've won the fight against big polluters before and we can do it again.</strong> Together, let's make sure the NT's land and water stays safe, and we protect scared country for generations to come. <br> <br>In determination, <br>Nicole, for the GetUp team.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151952019-02-19T12:00:00-12:002019-02-20T03:47:53-12:00a sweet spot<p>If the ‘father’ of CO2 emissions being the primary cause of climate change – Roger Revelle - had second thoughts about the subject then what is causing the extremes of weather we observe? Vehicle emissions aren’t helping the situation yet the German and Japanese car manufacturers who made such a fanfare of fitting emission controls to their vehicles are now revealed as indulging in fraud.</p>
<p>Weather modification has been going on for many years. Dane Wigington at geoengineeringwatch.org has a wealth of information on the subject and while I haven’t seen chemtrails here in Australia, they’re so commonplace elsewhere that they’re either not noticed or are seen as just part of the landscape. They’re not.</p>
<p>Fracking, to my mind, is an obscenity. A junkie sticks a needle in his arm and makes believe that the high he experiences doesn’t affect every cell in his body. The extent of fracking in the U.S.A. is mind boggling. Dutchsinse, with his regular earthquake updates, uses google-earth with great expertise and zooms in on areas in which tens of thousands of fracking wells are revealed – there are hundreds of thousands across the U.S.A. and Dutchsinse isn’t actually looking for fracking wells but for the small earthquakes which now occur on a regular basis in these specific areas and an enquiring mind might wonder if cause and effect is taking place.</p>
<p>In the U.K., where fracking isn’t as common as in the U.S., activity must stop if an earthquake occurs above a certain magnitude so, to get around this irritation for the fracking companies, they’re lobying to have the size of the magnitude increased. No thought at all about what it is they’re doing.</p>
<p>Interesting fact about earthquake reporting. The magnitude of an earthquake depends upon the taking of an average from the many stations which report it. Sounds logical but what is not logical is that organisations such as the U.S.G.S. not only regularly shave off half a magnitude but will also downplay a magnitude 5 to become a 4.9. Perhaps there are reasons for this fudging of the figures such as ‘let’s not alarm the population’ but … ‘it aint science and it aint truthful.’ As for being able to check magnitudes via different agencies across the world – it’s easier said than done and begs the question ‘Why is this so?’</p>
<p>My ‘old mate’ in Western Australia with whom I play, by correspondence, long winded chess games – two games over twenty years – has spent his working life in mines and wonders whether I’m anti coal. I’m not – the devil’s in the detail and I am against coal mines being plonked into farming areas with no thought given to anything but jobs. Adani, who have a dreadful reputation, are trying to mine in Queensland with a new port just off the Great Barrier Reef. If I’m weighing up the ‘pros and cons’ the mine loses.</p>
<p>I suppose my point, if there be one, is the untrustworthiness of corporations to do the right thing, the shady behaviour of those experts and lobbyists whose pay check depends upon reaching the ‘right’ conclusion, the bewilderment of politicians and the deliberate dumbing down of the population by the mass media.</p>
<p>Is it all a conspiracy? Who knows but every corporation has an agenda, every bank maximises profit, every religion hides what would put them to shame and although Nelson Mandela called for a ‘New World Order’ I don’t accept that his version would be the same as that touted by so many other world leaders who have nothing resembling his gravitas, reputation or great heartedness.</p>
<p>Cry ‘Freedom’ … and to a multi-national corporation freedom means freedom from regulation.</p>
<p>Looking to the sky and beyond to space and, contrary to what I was taught at school, we are not static but dancing around our star as it hurtles through a space – not a vacuum but something, a medium, filled with energetic particles. Perhaps this movement also plays a part in a climate changing. Doesn’t absolve us from being better stewards of our planet but it is a variable to take into consideration.</p>
<p>Meanwhile a gentle rain falls locally, the temperature is in a sweet spot and I’m grateful for small mercies.</p>
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<p>Last week, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal grilled wireless industry representatives, who admitted the industry has done ZERO health & safety studies on 5G technology. Meanwhile, <a href="https://ehtrust.org/scientific-research-on-5g-and-health/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dozens of independent studies</a> indicates that 5G is a risk to all biological life.</p>
<p>Blumenthal blasted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—government agencies jointly-responsible for ensuring that cellphone technologies are safe to use—for failing to conduct any research into the safety of 5G technology, and instead, engaging in bureaucratic finger-pointing and deferring to industry.</p>
<p>In December 2018, Blumenthal and U.S. Representative Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) sent a letter to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr seeking answers regarding potential health risks posed by new 5G wireless technology. At today’s hearing, Blumenthal criticized Carr for failing to provide answers, and instead, just echoing, <strong>“the general statements of the FDA, which shares regulatory responsibility for cell phones with the FCC.” </strong> Blumenthal also decried the FDA’s statements as <strong>“pretty unsatisfactory.” </strong></p>
<p>During an exchange with wireless industry representatives, Blumenthal asked them whether they have supported research on the safety of 5G technology and potential links between radiofrequency and cancer, and the industry representatives conceded they have not.</p>
<p>Blumenthal stated:</p>
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<p><strong>“If you go to the FDA <a href="https://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandProcedures/HomeBusinessandEntertainment/CellPhones/ucm116335.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">website</a>, there basically is a cursory and superficial citation to existing scientific data saying ‘The FDA has urged the cell phone industry to take a number of steps, including support additional research on possible biological effects of radio frequency fields for the type of signals emitted by cell phones.’ I believe that Americans deserve to know what the health effects are, not to pre-judge what scientific studies may show, and they also deserve a commitment to do the research on outstanding questions.”</strong></p>
<p><strong>“So my question for you: How much money has the industry committed to supporting additional independent research—I stress independent—research? Is that independent research ongoing? Has any been completed? Where can consumers look for it? And we’re talking about research on the biological effects of this new technology.”</strong></p>
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<p>At the end of the exchange, Blumenthal concluded,</p>
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<p><strong>“So there really is no research ongoing. We’re kind of flying blind here, as far as health and safety is concerned.”</strong></p>
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<p>In November 2018, the National Toxicology Program released the final results of the longest and most expensive study to date on cellphones and cancer. Those studies found “some evidence” of a link to cancer, at least in male rats. However, the study only focused on the risks associated with 2G and 3G cell phones.</p>
<p>The latest 5G wireless technology relies on the <strong>deployment of many more new antennas and transmitters that are clustered lower to the ground and closer to homes and schools.</strong> There has been even more limited research with respect to the health ramifications of 5G technology, and <strong>the FCC has thus far failed to adequately explain how they have determined 5G is safe.</strong></p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://takebackyourpower.net/senate-hearing-wireless-industry-confesses-no-studies-showing-5g-safety/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Take Back Your Power</a></p>
<p>Note: 5G (“5th Generation”) will be integrated with thousands of satellites to blanket the earth.</p>
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</div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151932019-02-16T12:00:00-12:002019-02-17T10:31:37-12:00an inconvenient truth can bite in unexpected directions.<p>You’ll probably remember Al Gore’s ‘An inconvenient truth.’ It made an impact back in the day – 2006 according to the DVD I picked up recently in a Second Hand shop. What was presented then appears to be still largely accepted. I hadn’t seen the movie but did accept then, as did most people, that what it said was true and that ‘Global Warming’ was a huge threat, that CO2 emissions along with vehicle emissions were largely to blame. Since that time there’s been revealed the fudging of the figures and dispute about the modelling which puts a question mark over the evidence.</p>
<p>A few minutes into his presentation, Al Gore refers to a quote from Mark Twain … “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know – it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” This is true but could equally be used by those who are making a case for – not either side of this debate but for the many differing positions taken when it comes to ‘Climate change.’</p>
<p>I don’t dispute that extremes of climate are being felt worldwide and also accept that the pollution of the planet and the complete disregard for mankind’s responsibility to be stewards of the Earth is having undeniable effect.</p>
<p>It’s not a game in which we stand outside and unaffected. It’s of paramount importance that we understand the causes of ‘Climate change’ – which was ‘Global warming’ when this film was made.</p>
<p>It begs the question – why the change of focus from ‘Global warming’ to ‘Climate change.’ Perhaps because CO2, Carbon Dioxide as the primary villain in the piece, isn’t the whole of the story?</p>
<p>We live in an electric Universe in which our climate is directly affected by the changing behaviour of our star, the Sun. This isn’t a fact that is, as yet, well accepted in scientific circles where new discoveries continually baffle academics because the facts don’t agree with accepted theories. This being the case, a rational mind would suggest that perhaps the accepted theories are wrong but, sadly, rational behaviour and the pursuit of truth are no more evident in science than they are elsewhere.</p>
<p>Roger Revelle was Al Gore’s mentor in regard to climate warming and started the CO2 measuring in the 1950’s. Al Gore shows a chart which demonstrates a relationship between CO2 levels in the atmosphere and the changes in temperature over many thousands of years. It’s clear, at least on the chart, that as the one rises and falls so does the other but is it necessarily so that the one causes the other? It can be shown that icecream consumption rises and falls with the temperature but the one doesn’t cause the other.</p>
<p>I don’t doubt Al Gore’s sincerity – perhaps I should but I don’t -however sincerity while useful and important isn’t the same as ‘the truth.’ The film presents a clear case regarding ‘Climate change’ being a great deal more than just natural variability. He presents another lucid quote which can, of course, be applied in every scientific direction … “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”</p>
<p>So the issue for me is not to deny the reality of ‘Climate change’ as such but to question that the cause is primarily because of CO2 emissions. The reasons for this are twofold. CO2 makes up less than 1% of atmospheric gasses – water vapour has greater impact on global warming of the atmosphere. Secondly, CO2 is a conveniently taxable villain by which I mean that Carbon trading can then come into effect, that a worldwide effort needs to be employed to counteract the CO2 emissions and very much to the point, who or which international body would have jurisdiction over this effort?</p>
<p>Al Gore states that there is scientific consensus about the issue of CO2 being the primary culprit in global warming but this isn’t true. The consensus aspect wasn’t true in 2006 and it certainly isn’t now. Among those who question his alleged consensus are Nobel Laureates. Ivar Giaever, the 1973 Nobel Prize winner for Physics is one. There are others.</p>
<p>It’s worth noting that Roger Revelle, by 1988, was having second thoughts about CO2 being a significant greenhouse gas and recommending further research. In 1991 he co-authored a paper for Cosmos in which he again expressed his doubts. Al Gore then called him senile and refused to debate Global warming.</p>
<p>As to why Al Gore maintains an untenable position is speculation but both his quotes used in the film come to mind as possibilities.</p>
<p>“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know – it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”</p>
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<p>“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151922019-02-16T12:00:00-12:002019-02-17T00:56:18-12:00more electric universe information<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mdI-6uLSIOI" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151912019-02-14T12:00:00-12:002019-02-15T09:15:45-12:00a brief conversation<p>‘Of course there’s no conspiracy – we just haven’t made the facts public.’</p>
<p>‘Doesn’t that come down to the same thing?’</p>
<p>‘Probably … but conspiracy is now such a dirty word that people dismiss anyone who uses it.’</p>
<p>‘Hmm … a useful state of affairs for those who conspire.’</p>
<p>‘Quite so, it’s never a conspiracy but always a conspiracy theory. Who, nowadays, uses words like treason or traitor even though such behaviour is still, as it’s always been, commonplace? Perhaps that’s why we’ve invented the phrase - Crimes against Humanity.’</p>
<p>‘What do you mean?’</p>
<p>‘Wish I knew. It’s all so complicated.’</p>
<p>‘Is it? Perhaps the idea that it’s complicated is yet another useful idea for those who conspire.’</p>
<p>‘Yes – back where we started.’</p>
<p>‘No we’re not – curiosity, investigation, research – they’re all open.’</p>
<p>‘Curiosity killed the cat.’</p>
<p>‘Says who? Where’s the evidence? That’s only a saying just as ‘Cats have nine lives’ is just a saying.’</p>
<p>‘Not just a ‘saying’ but something borne out by observation of cat behaviour.’</p>
<p>‘O.K. – back to conspiracy and the evidence is there that the tobacco industry did conspire, complete with their hand-picked scientists who ‘proved’ no danger involved to health, in order to maintain, until the real evidence was overwhelmingly against their suppositions, that smoking was fine, sophisticated and … no problem at all.’</p>
<p>‘Yes – that’s true.’</p>
<p>‘… and then there’s 9/11, free fall of buildings and the suspension of belief in the laws of physics.’</p>
<p>‘Too dreadful to believe that those events were not as the official story maintains.’</p>
<p>‘That’s a woeful and blindly ignorant position to take.’</p>
<p>‘I don’t care.’</p>
<p>‘Are you familiar with ‘Remote Viewing’? Perhaps the video below will be of interest – probably not if you really don’t care.’</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151902019-02-14T12:00:00-12:002019-02-15T09:14:02-12:00remote viewing for the deadly serious<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/671ziiLlBBs" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151892019-02-12T12:00:00-12:002019-02-13T02:38:36-12:00what a subject to try and approach<p>That phrase ‘Religion is the opium of the people’ – well, of course, Marx would say that but that doesn’t make it any more than a clever phrase and, at best, a partial truth and what replaced religion in that ‘new social order’ but the Party, the State and the worship or at least the veneration of the leaders. Communism becomes the religion complete with dogma.</p>
<p>Marx didn’t say ‘Spirituality is the opium of the people.’ Perhaps he didn’t recognise that there’s a difference.</p>
<p>Groucho Marx had more to offer the world than Karl Marx.</p>
<p>More truthful, or so I believe, is that biblical idea:</p>
<p>‘For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’</p>
<p>Strange that, regardless of religious belief or the lack of it, that all recognise the existence of evil. Whether there is an outside force or entity which manifests as Satan or Lucifer or any number of other names – religions don’t start with Judaism or Christianity – is the ‘Step too far’ that atheists won’t take but it is a bit odd that atheists ‘don’t believe in God’ which is itself a belief system. Agnostics, with their idea regarding God as ‘I don’t know,’ appear more honest in their approach.</p>
<p>Where’s the evidence for the existence of God? It’s not a question that I can answer but the fact that the grandchildren are being introduced to a version of Christianity via the Roman Catholic church, the same church in which my childhood was spent, does focus my mind if only because of the dogma involved. Thankfully, my memories of Sunday School are mainly of Jesus being kind, a quality which was in short supply as I recall my childhood. The resurrection wasn’t important to me, the finality of death hadn’t undermined my innocence.</p>
<p>Somehow, even in those desperate dark times through which most of us travel, I didn’t lose my belief that a Universal God exists. Somehow I also understood that free will would prevent continuous intervention by the Divine and that the evil men do is exactly that – ‘the evil that men do.’</p>
<p>So what’s the point? My own life experience shows me that there is indeed more to life than meets the eye, that someone a bit slow like myself needs more than one lifetime to sort the lies from the truth, that intervention does occur although in a subtle way and, at the moment, all I’ve come up with for the grandchildren is a retelling of some half remembered story … but it’s a start.</p>
<p>“Once upon a time in a far away country lived a tribe of people who had heard about a creature called an Elephant but had never seen an Elephant because they were all blind.</p>
<p>Well – you probably already understand that if they were all blind then life must have been very difficult but put that thought aside for the moment because this story is about what happened when they met an Elephant which is, as you know, a very big animal.</p>
<p>One man felt the Elephant’s trunk and said ‘Elephants are giant snakes – feel here, you can tell, it must be so.’</p>
<p>Another felt the Elephant’s foot and said ‘No – you’re wrong. Elephants are like trees – feel how this is wide and round and doesn’t move. It’s just like a tree.’</p>
<p>Another felt the Elephant’s ears and said ‘You’re both wrong – feel here. These are large and floppy just like the leaves on a banana tree. An Elephant must be a gigantic leaf.’</p>
<p>Another felt the Elephant’s tail and said ‘How can you be so silly. Feel here and you can tell that it’s like a piece of rope. Elephants must be made of rope.’</p>
<p>And so they started arguing amongst themselves and got quite angry because each was convinced that he was right.</p>
<p>Of course, we know that all of them were wrong because we’ve seen an Elephant and understand that each blind person just had a little bit of a much bigger picture but they were blind and could not see.</p>
<p>When people talk about God they’re very much like the blind people discussing the nature of the Elephant.</p>
<p>When it comes to religions, of which there are many, there is the same confusion and the same conflict and everyone is convinced that they are right and everybody else is wrong.</p>
<p>If God created the Universe and all that it contains then it doesn’t help matters to call God ‘He or She’ but people do it anyway perhaps because ‘He or She – the Father, the Mother’ make God appear more personal. That may be helpful but it doesn’t make it true.</p>
<p>Can you imagine how big that Person would have to be to create the whole Universe? A beard bigger than a galaxy?</p>
<p>I think that any idea that we have about God is limited and incomplete. ‘God is Love’ is an idea that I can and do embrace and why ‘bad things happen to good people’ is more about man’s use and abuse of ‘free will’ than God’s doing.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151882019-02-11T12:00:00-12:002019-02-12T02:57:48-12:00what a delight to hear this man speak and to do so with such clarity of thought.<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yZYQpge1W5s" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151872019-02-08T12:00:00-12:002019-02-09T03:39:37-12:00whether it's just the weather<p>It’s cooler here today but that’s just the weather. The heatwaves are passing, the thunderous storms abating, floods receding, bushfires waning but the effects are long lasting, the trauma is real.</p>
<p>Same situation politically – heatwaves, frigid conditions, extremes in every direction and, like the weather, the trauma is real and the effects long lasting.</p>
<p>I don’t have the resources to travel the world but I do have the time and the internet by which I can metaphorically travel the world and, to some extent, travel further than just this planet, I can listen and absorb.</p>
<p>Voices, endless voices some of whom speak with clarity and some who just string words together, speak them with perhaps sincerity but there’s no lasting meaning to be found.</p>
<p>And then there are the political voices, the Trumps of this world who are so used to lying that they feel no shame in being exposed and, thus, the phrase ‘double down’ enters the vocabulary – when questioned, attack. I’m not singling out Trump – the choice between Trump and Clinton was the same as choosing the plague rather than … the plague.</p>
<p>It’s a light relief to watch episodes of ‘Yes Prime Minister’ just to remind myself that politicians come and go but the bureaucracy, the unelected, those who wield the ‘power behind the throne’ remain in place – where, in fact, they have been placed - and continue to carry out an agenda and to pursue goals many of which most of the population, including myself, are blithely unaware.</p>
<p>Much as I like the BBC it remains the voice of the ‘powers that be’ and stands in contrast to our Australian ABC - also taxpayer funded and commercial free - which tackles most issues of substance and offends both sides of politics. The ABC failed dismally when it came to 9/11 and have, to my knowledge, never shone a spotlight on the underlying aspects of our financial system – the privately owned Central Banks. They are reluctant to take Zionism to task over its dreadful treatment of Palestinians and yet all these things are the ‘elephants in the room’ when it comes to a wider appreciation of why the world is in such a mess.</p>
<p>‘Froth and bubble’ is what we’re offered when it comes to ‘The News.’</p>
<p>I do enjoy Jordan Peterson who speaks with remarkable clarity and nourishes my spirit as he dissects so many aspects of our changing intellectual dynamic … or what passes for it.</p>
<p>It is very still here on this Sunday morning. Blue sky and cool and I do wonder what’s happening in the wider solar system and beyond just as I wonder about the civilisations which have preceded us here on Earth and prior to recorded history.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151862019-02-05T12:00:00-12:002019-02-06T02:16:43-12:00well worth your time<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VVgUZv9ccyQ" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151852019-01-31T12:00:00-12:002019-02-01T03:47:52-12:00weapons of mass distraction<p>“What about China and Russia?” responded a sibling of mine after I’d mentioned the move by the European Union to set up its own armed forces and got a response, “ No there isn’t - we already have NATO.” Quite so and therefore a EU army would appear unnecessary.</p>
<p>But is there a move towards creating a European Union Army? Only for a few years or so. Whether the idea is taken seriously depends upon perception rather than fact.</p>
<p><em>March 14<sup>th</sup> 2015</em></p>
<p><em>A proposal by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to establish a European Union army to counter growing security threats, such as Russia, has been met with both approval and disapproval by European Union members. Those who approve cite collective deterrent security and consolidation of military resources; those who are more skeptical raise the issue of national sovereignty.</em></p>
<p><em>In an interview with German newspaper ‘Welt am Sonntag’ Juncker said an EU army would improve Europe's collective security and reduce costs while improving interoperability. While he didn't get into specifics such as how big the army would be, he did say it would be a great deterrent and would have helped with the Ukraine crisis. Juncker has been openly critical of Russia and the threat it poses to the Union.</em></p>
<p><em>Not surprisingly, Russian politicians have condemned the idea and call the creation of such a force "provocative," adding that it would "not provide any additional security."</em></p>
<p>How trusting so many are of what it is that our leaders quietly create ‘in our collective name.’</p>
<p>The truth … I’m not sure that the truth is ever apparent. What stands in the way of truth being revealed are ‘weapons of mass deception,’ ‘weapons of mass distraction’ and I’m sure many remember the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ – the lie which led the world into the war in Iraq.</p>
<p>Were all our leaders incompetent, our intelligences services so inept or was there an agenda being served which paid no heed to ‘truth’ because truth was and is irrelevant.</p>
<p>Central Banking is used by every nation, totalitarian or democratic and finances both sides of every revolution or worldwide criminal enterprise – they all depend upon these privately owned entities.</p>
<p>‘Give me control over the issue and supply of money and I care not who makes the laws’ is the rough quote of an early Rothschild who went on to do exactly that and from it we end up with ‘banks too big to fail’, the printing of money out of thin air and a debt so huge that it can never be repaid.</p>
<p>The number of Presidents and Prime Ministers who’ve called out for a ‘New World Order’ or a ‘One World Government’ or who have warned against it is not small.</p>
<p>This is quoted from Wes Penre:</p>
<p>World Leaders and Famous People Promoting a New World Order and a One World Government</p>
<p align="center"><em>The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."-- <span style="text-decoration: underline;">U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em>* * *</em></p>
<p align="center"><em>"Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure." <br> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em>***</em></p>
<p align="center"><em>"From the days of Sparticus, Weishaupt, Karl Marx, Trotski, belacoon, Rosa Luxenberg and <br> Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last, this band of extraordinary personalities from the under- world of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."--<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Winston Churchill to</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the London press in 1922</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em>* * *</em></p>
<p align="center"><em>"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise their power from behind the <br> scenes."-- <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em>* * *</em></p>
<p align="center"><em>"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Woodrow Wilson</span> </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>* * *</em></p>
<p align="center"><em>"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election....It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!" --<span style="text-decoration: underline;">George W. Malone, U.S. Senator (Nevada)</span>, speaking before Congress in1957. </em></p>
<p align="center">* * *</p>
<p align="center"><em>"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..." <br> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A) </span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em>* * *</em></p>
<p align="center"><br> Chronological Quotes:</p>
<p align="center">*</p>
<p align="center">The Jacobin Club:</p>
<p>"After their recent exposures in Bavaria, The Illuminati had been driven even further underground, taking on a variety of names, such as The French Revolutionary Club. As radicals flocked into these new varieties of Illuminism, a larger meeting hall was needed. The Hall of the Jacobins Convent was leased, and it was from this hall that they eventually derived their new name, the Jacobin Club.<br> "The Jacobin Club met in secret and eventually boasted of having some of the best-educated and most influential men in France among its 1,300 members. The Jacobins vowed to destroy the monarchy, as well as other existing institutions, and sought to establish what they called a '<em>New World Order</em>', or 'Universal Republic'."</p>
<p>"The famous magician and occultist, Cagliostro, was initiated into the Illuminati in 1783. Many years later, he told Catholic priests about his initiation. The initiation took place in an underground room near Frankfort, Germany."<br> - William T. Still, <em>New World Order<br> <a href="http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/masons/weishaupt.html">1700's </a></em> <br> <br> </p>
<p align="center">* * *</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">Nicholas Murray Butler:</p>
<p>"The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow." -- <em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Nicholas Murray Butler, in an address delivered before the Union League of Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1915 </a></em></p>
<p align="center">M.C. Alexander:</p>
<p>"The peace conference has assembled. It will make the most momentous decisions in history, and upon these decisions will rest the stability of the new world order and the future peace of the world." <em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">-- M. C. Alexander, Executive Secretary of the American Association for International Conciliation, in a subscription letter for the periodical International Conciliation (1919) </a></em></p>
<p> Dr. Augustus O. Thomas:</p>
<p>"If there are those who think we are to jump immediately into a new world order, actuated by complete understanding and brotherly love, they are doomed to disappointment. If we are ever to approach that time, it will be after patient and persistent effort of long duration. The present international situation of mistrust and fear can only be corrected by a formula of equal status, continuously applied, to every phase of international contacts, until the cobwebs of the old order are brushed out of the minds of the people of all lands." <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> </span><em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, president of the World Federation of Education Associations (August 1927), quoted in the book "International Understanding: Agencies Educating for a New World" (1931) </a></em></p>
<p align="center">H. G. Wells:</p>
<p>"... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. <br> Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people." <br> <em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"> H. G. Wells, in his book entitled "The New World Order" (1939) </a></em></p>
<p align="center"><br> Adolf Hitler:</p>
<p>"National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing a new world order." <br> <em><a href="http://www.davidcogswell.com/Political/BravingNewWorldOrder.html">Adolf Hitler during World War II </a></em></p>
<p align="center"><br> New York Times:</p>
<p>"In the first public declaration on the Jewish question since the outbreak of the war, Arthur Greenwood, member without portfolio in the British War Cabinet, assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a new world order based on the ideals of 'justice and peace.'" <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> <a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"><em>-- excerpt from article entitled "New World Order Pledged to Jews," in the New York Times</em></a></span><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"><em> <br> (October 1940) </em></a></p>
<p align="center"><br> <a href="http://www.serendipity.li/zionism.htm"><em>Zionist</em></a>, Albert Einstein:</p>
<p>... "IN ORDER to achieve the final aim - which is one world, and not two hostile worlds - such a partial world Government must never act as an alliance against the rest of the world. The only real step toward world government is world Government itself."<br> <em><a href="http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/Einstein.html">Open Letter to the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1947</a></em></p>
<p align="center"><br> James Paul Warburg:</p>
<p>"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." <br> <a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"><em>Statement made before the United States Senate on Feb. 7, 1950 by James Paul Warburg ("Angel" to and active in the United World Federalists), son of Paul Moritz Warburg, nephew of Felix Warburg and of Jacob Schiff, both of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. which poured millions into the Russian Revolution through James' brother Max, banker to the German government - See the Siss?on Report </em></a></p>
<p align="center">Bertrand Russell:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/NewWorldOrder/NWO_quotes.htm">1953</a></em> - The Impact of Science on Society by Fabian Socialist Bertrand Russell is published in which he declares: " I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology....Various results will soon be arrived at: that the influence of home is obstructive .... although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen....Educational propaganda, with government help, could achieve this result in a generation. There are, however, two powerful forces opposed to such a policy: one is religion; the other is nationalism....A scientific world society cannot be stable unless there is a world government.</p>
<p align="center"><br> Chester Ward:</p>
<p>"The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of US. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government". <br> <em><a href="http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/chapter13.htm">Chester Ward, Rear Admiral and former Navy Judge Advocate 1956 - 1960 and CFR member for 15 years </a><br> <br> </em></p>
<p><em> </em>Gov. Nelson Rockefeller:</p>
<p>"The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able--nor can it be able--to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'" <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> <em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, in</a></em></span><em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"> an article entitled "Rockefeller Bids Free Lands Unite: Calls at Harvard for Drive to Build New World Order" -- New York Times (February 1962) </a></em></p>
<p align="center"><br> Pope Paul VI:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/NewWorldOrder/NWO_quotes.htm">1967</a></em> - March 26: Pope Paul VI writes <em>Populorum Progressio </em>and states: "Who can fail to see the need and importance of thus gradually coming to the establishment of a world authority capable of taking effective action on the juridical and political planes? Delegates to international organizations, public officials, gentlemen of the press, teachers and educators--all of you must realize that you have your part to play in the construction of a new world order.</p>
<p> </p>
<p align="center">Robert F. Kennedy:</p>
<p>"All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a NEW WORLD ORDER."<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> </span><em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Robert Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney-General, 1967. </a></em></p>
<p align="center"><br> Richard Nixon:</p>
<p>"The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a new world order." <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> </span><em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Richard Nixon, in Foreign Affairs (October 1967)</a></em></p>
<p align="center"><br> Zbigniew Brzezinski:</p>
<p>"...This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of "one world government'....National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept..." <br> <em><a href="http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html">Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter.</a></em></p>
<p> David Rockefeller:</p>
<p>"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." <br> <em><a href="http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html">David Rockefeller </a></em></p>
<p align="center">Richard N. Gardner</p>
<p>"If instant world government, Charter review, and a greatly strengthened International Court do not provide the answers, what hope for progress is there? The answer will not satisfy those who seek simple solutions to complex problems, but it comes down essentially to this: The hope for the foreseeable lies, not in building up a few ambitious central institutions of universal membership and general jurisdiction as was envisaged at the end of the last war, but rather in the much more decentralized, disorderly and pragmatic process of inventing or adapting institutions of limited jurisdiction and selected membership to deal with specific problems on a case-by-case basis ... In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." <br> <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Richard N. Gardner, in Foreign Affairs (April 1974)</a></span></em></p>
<p> Henry Kissinger:</p>
<p>"My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order." <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> <em>(<a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Henry Kissinger, in address before the General Assembly of the</a></em></span><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"><em> United Nations, October 1975) </em></a></p>
<p align="center">Fidel Castro:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/NewWorldOrder/NWO_quotes.htm">1979</a></em> - Fidel Castro, Associated Press Oct 12 1979 at the United Nations. "Fidel Castro finger waving in the air and angry fist thumping the lectern, demanded a "new world order" and dressed down the United States today for "aggressive" and "exploitative" policies around the world."</p>
<p align="center">Mikhail Gorbachev:</p>
<p>"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order." <br> <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address at the United Nations (December 1988)</a></span></em></p>
<p align="center">Richard Gephardt:</p>
<p>"We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the <br> strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period." <br> <em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"> Richard Gephardt, in the Wall Street Journal (September 1990) </a></em></p>
<p align="center">George Bush:</p>
<p>"If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his <br> lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we've all worked toward for so long." <br> <em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">President George Bush (January 1991) </a></em></p>
<p>"Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a "world order" in which "the principles of justice and fair play ... protect the weak against the strong ..." A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations."<br> <em><a href="http://www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/pal/pal10.htm">March 6, 1991</a></em></p>
<p align="center">Henry Kissinger:</p>
<p>"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or *promulgated* that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." <br> <em><a href="http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html">Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991 </a></em></p>
<p align="center">Bill Clinton:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/NewWorldOrder/NWO_quotes.htm">1993</a></em> - June 22. In case there is any doubt about whether President Clinton(CFR) supports world government, on this date he signs a letter to the World Federalist Association congratulating Strobe Talbott(CFR) on receiving (june 24) the WFA's first "Norman Cousins Global Governance Award." The WFA is a leading force for world federal government. Clinton's letter states: "Norman Cousins worked for world peace and world government...Strobe Talbott's lifetime achievements as a voice for global harmony have earned him this recognition....He will be a worthy recipient of the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award. Best wishes....for future success."</p>
<p align="center">Gen. Colin Powell:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/NewWorldOrder/NWO_quotes.htm">1993</a></em> - September 9: Concerning whether U.S. troops should remain in Somalia as part of a U.N. operation, General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that a pullout would be "devastating to our hopes for the new world order and our ability to participate in multinational organizations to deal with problems like this."</p>
<p align="center">David Rockefeller:</p>
<p>"But this present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for long. Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts to erect an enduring structure of global interdependence." <br> <em><a href="http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html">David Rockefeller, speaking at the Business Council for the United Nations, September 14, 1994.</a></em></p>
<p align="center"><br> Nelson Mandela:</p>
<p>The "new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all." <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> <em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Nelson Mandela, in the Philadelphia Inquirer (October 1994)</a></em></span></p>
<p align="center">Henry Kissinger:</p>
<p>"NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order." <br> <em><a href="http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html">Henry Kissinger when campaigning for the passage of NAFTA. </a></em></p>
<p>"[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change its perceptions." <br> <a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"><em>World</em></a><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm"><em> Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994 </em></a></p>
<p align="center">Arthur Schlesinger Jr.</p>
<p>"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> </span><em><a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm">Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995)</a></em></p>
<p align="center">George Soros:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/NewWorldOrder/NWO_quotes.htm">1995</a></em> - Jan 27: Billionaire financier George Soros at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, says the world needs a "new world order," and he further warns: "I am here to alert you that we are entering a period of world disorder."</p>
<p align="center"><br> Walter Cronkite:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/NewWorldOrder/NWO_quotes.htm">1996</a></em> - A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite is published, in which he proclaims: " if we are to avoid catastrophe, a system of world order--preferably a system of world government --is mandatory. The proud nations someday will ....yield up their precious sovereignty."</p>
<p align="center">Gary Hart:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/NewWorldOrder/NWO_quotes.htm">2001</a></em> - "There is a chance for the President of the United States to use this (9-11) disaster to carry out ... a new world order." (Gary Hart, at a televised meting organized by the CFR in Washington, D.C. Sept 14.)</p>
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<p>In order for these goals to be met the concept of a Nation/State stands in the way, is an obstacle and, somehow, must be removed …. perhaps by creating the chaos we already observe.</p>
<p>A One World Government, a New World Order – to my mind would be a disaster for humanity. If our leaders cannot be trusted now then why should that alter under a new regime?</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151842019-01-29T12:00:00-12:002019-01-30T08:34:06-12:00look here, look there - it's continuous<p>Apart from using Google Earth in a very interesting manner and, by using the timeline slider tool and perspective, showing that there’s more to Antarctica than meets the eye or makes the news, ‘Florida Maquis’ has, for months, been showing a build up of forces around Venezuela.</p>
<p>Ah … yet another ‘regime change’ being promoted by the U.S.A. who have managed, by the use of sanctions, to help beggar that country which happens to have huge oil reserves. Has it been mismanaged – almost certainly so but the leader there was elected and the U.S.A. and its allies have no right to interfere and promote ‘their man’ into office. They do it anyway with a complete disregard for ‘democracy or freedom.’</p>
<p>James Corbett has a good video on the subject which I place below.</p>
<p>As an aside and regarding Google Earth and Antarctica, the detail there and available now is less than many years ago. I recently heard one of Linda Moulton Howe’s interviews in which the Beardmore Glacier was referenced and, being curious, I looked it up and used the time slider tool to try and get some detail. Go under 200 kms height and it’s pixilated. I went lower, used the time slider tool and a message popped up which told me that Google thought that this was either unusual or unauthorised use – I forget which – and to please prove that I’m not a robot. Well – of course I am a robot – have been for years - and even though I played their game I got no further.</p>
<p>Useful though it can be, I don’t like google and use it as little as possible. You could try to access 75 0 46.98 S 0 4 52.71 E and see what you find. It’s unrelated to Beardmore Glacier and if you get nowhere I’ve three grainy photos uploaded on this site which are curious to say the least.</p>
<p>Ian Crane speaks uncommon sense regarding the European Union and the dog’s breakfast of Brexit and I place a video of his below.</p>
<p>What these seemingly disparate subjects have in common is a lack of transparency and an agenda most would not approve of. Poor grammar I know but it’s ‘English as it’s spoken.’</p>
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<p>In stark contrast to a recent Italian court ruling where three Italian government ministries have acknowledged that there is a need to raise public awareness on how to use mobile phones safely (see [<a href="https://www.emfacts.com/2019/01/italian-court-orders-public-safety-campaign/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Italian court orders public safety campaign]</a> and <a href="https://lennarthardellenglish.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/court-rules-on-information-on-health-risks-from-wireless-phones/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Lennart Hardell’s blog</a>) it is highly unlikely such concern for public safety will be issued from the Australian government, considering the pro-technology bias of the agencies and individuals who currently advise government ministers on telecommunications issues.</p>
<p><strong>Captured Agencies</strong></p>
<p>Whenever public concerns are raised with Australian government and opposition members over telecommunications issues (mobile phones, smart meters, 5G), the standard response is to unquestionably follow the advice of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (<a href="https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/radiation-sources" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ARPANSA</a>) and the Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research (<a href="https://acebr.uow.edu.au/what-is-acebr/index.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ACEBR</a>). Both agencies steadfastly follow the Procrustean dictates of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (<a href="https://www.icnirp.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ICNIRP</a>) which do not allow for any deviation from ICNIRP’s dogma.</p>
<p><strong>A Procrustean Approach</strong></p>
<p>The following is the standard response from the current federal government to any members of parliament who dare raise questions on the safety of telecommunications technology.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0368ab;"><em>The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) provides expert advice on radiation protection and nuclear safety matters to the Coalition Government. In order to provide the best advice on the protection of the Australian public from the effects of radiation, ARPANSA undertakes its own research and reviews the relevant scientific research. . . The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s regulatory arrangements require wireless devices to comply with the exposure limits in ARPANSA’s Radiation Protection Standard for Maximum Exposure Levels to Radiofrequency Fields – 3 kHz to 300 GHz (the ARPANSA RF standard). The ARPANSA RF Standard is designed to protect people of all ages and health status against all known adverse health effects from exposure to RF EME. The ARPANSA RF Standard is based on scientific research that shows the levels at which harmful effects occur and it sets limits, based on international guidelines </em>[ICNIRP], <em>well below these harmful levels.</em></span></p>
<p>So, whenever a politician from any party is contacted by members of their electorate with concerns over “RF EME” [radiofrequency electromagnetic energy] that politician will understandably ask for expert opinion from the government’s own expert agencies: ARPANSA and/or ACEBR. These agencies will in response send a variation of the above, and perhaps even the heavily criticized analysis led by Ken Karipidis from ARPANSA and Rodney Croft from ACEBR. The ARPANSA/ACEBR paper claims that there is no link between the use of mobile phones and brain cancer. Karipidis even claimed that <em>“People say mobile phones can cause cancer but our study showed this was not the case”</em>. It has been pointed out, however, that this claim was apparently made only by excluding inconvenient data from their analysis. For example, Joel Moskowitz of the University of California, Berkeley called it a “biased study” and Australian neurosurgeon Vini Khurana called the use of selected data “<strong>quite bizarre and unnecessary</strong>” [SSMA emphasis]. <a href="https://microwavenews.com/news-center/arpansa-bt-rates" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Read the Microwave News analysis here.</a></p>
<p>With the coming rollout of 5G soon to hit Australia, it is inevitable that there will be <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5g-network-cell-towers-raise-health-concerns-for-some-residents/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ever increasing public concerns</a> expressed to local and state and federal politicians as a consequence of the many thousands of small antennas which will be placed in close proximity to homes and in workplaces. <a href="http://www.5gappeal.eu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The 5G Appeal</a> certainly gives credence to these concerns. Also see the report by the European investigative team, “Investigate Europe”: “<a href="https://www.investigate-europe.eu/publications/the-5g-mass-experiment/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The 5G Mass Experiment: Big Promises, Unknown Risks</a>“, and the recent (Jan 7, 2019) ABC News item: “<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-07/huawei-small-cell-network-comes-to-sydney/10688124" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Huawei-made ‘small cell’ boxes hit suburban Sydney, as residents raise health concerns</a>” and the commentary from Dariusz Leszczynski <a href="https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/misleading-opinion-on-5g-small-cells-presented-by-the-abc-news-in-australia/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
<p>So, how will Australian politicians respond to the public’s concerns? <span id="more-14971"></span></p>
<p><strong>ACEBR to the 5G rescue</strong></p>
<p>Apparently writing in response to the above Jan 7 ABC article on Sydney residents’ concerns over small cells which will be part of the coming 5G networks, ACEBR’s Adam Verrender, essentially comes to the aid of the industry. <a href="https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-09/huawei-small-cell-boxes-fuelling-phone-radiation-anxiety/10701856?fbclid=IwAR0MDiPYWJO3VDrIR-phndPCeujQI8LUOFeQ-8OQE1FzOBtWwwTLDbHEbo8&pfm=sm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">In an ABC interview on January 9, 2019</a>, Verrender claims that for mobile phone use (and other wireless devices) <em>“Decades of scientific research has found no evidence of any adverse health effects”</em> and that <em>“even studies looking at long-term damage, such as brain cancer, have not found evidence of increased harm.”</em> He then claims that the health hazard debate rages on <em>“fuelled by misinformation, scepticism and a complex psychological phenomenon known as the nocebo effect, it’s little wonder this contentious issue persists, particularly given wireless technologies are so pervasive.”</em></p>
<p>In relation to electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), Verrender claims:</p>
<p><em>“Despite the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">countless stories</span> suggesting a link between symptoms and exposure to electromagnetic fields in the media in recent years, the evidence from extensive scientific investigation paints a very different picture. While it has been estimated that up to 10 per cent of the population may suffer from the condition, no relationship between symptoms and exposure to electromagnetic fields has been uncovered.”</em></p>
<p>He goes on to explain that ACEBR research supports the view <em>“that a complex psychological phenomenon, the nocebo effect, could explain the condition”</em> and that media <em>“misinformation and alarmist coverage understandably fuel community concerns, leading some people to believe that they are sensitive”</em>.</p>
<p>Verrender mentions in the article that this conclusion is backed up by the findings of a provocation study designed by ACEBR. To quote:</p>
<p><em>At the <a href="https://acebr.uow.edu.au/index.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research</a>, we designed a study to address these criticisms. Interestingly, our results not only aligned with previous studies, but also supported the view that a complex psychological phenomenon, the nocebo effect, could explain the condition. </em></p>
<p>What Verrender fails to mention, however, is that this study, which the authors call “A novel approach”, while having seven investigators, <strong>only had three participants</strong>!</p>
<p>To say the least, it is a bit novel in science to attempt to use the findings of a provocation study, based on so few participants, and then make such sensational claims. Researcher Dariusz Leszczynski has criticised the limitations of such studies, perhaps Verrender and colleagues have not yet read Leszczynski’s critique, which is <a href="https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/ehs-research-is-scientifically-worthless-for-two-reasons/">here.</a> And my comments on Leszczynski’s blog <a href="https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/guest-blog-the-sad-state-of-affairs-with-ehs-research-in-australia-by-don-maisch/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Perhaps Mr. Verrender’s research focus is somewhat understandable considering this is the firm viewpoint of his PhD supervisor Dr. Rodney Croft at ACEBR and his study focus is on <em>“neurobiological and psychological determinants of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity”</em>. In other words, his research has a preordained bias in trying to establish as a scientific fact that any supposed health effects from wireless devices, from mobile phones, smart meters to 5G and beyond are solely a consequence of needless worry from a worried public led astray by alarmist media hype.</p>
<p>From the various fact sheets being produced by ARPANSA and ACEBR which increasingly reflect this bias, it is a brave politician who dares question the government’s own expert’s opinions, even if those opinions are somewhat disingenuous.</p>
<p><em>Abridged from EMFacts blog commentary by Don Maisch PhD</em><br> <em>20 January 2019</em></p>
<p><strong><em>To access Dr Maisch’s full commentary, including references, go <a href="https://www.emfacts.com/2019/01/why-the-australian-government-will-not-advise-the-public-on-wireless-technologies-risks-to-health-at-least-for-now/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</em></strong></p>
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</div>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151802019-01-25T12:00:00-12:002019-01-26T02:35:05-12:00Invasion Day and cause to celebrate<p>Up here, a mile above the Sydney basin, dawn arrives and another day of heat already embraces the air. I take my morning walk, only about forty minutes or so and which I do because it’s become essential to my health. Decades of smoking ‘roll your owns’ take their toll regardless of my ‘Salutes to the sun’ which help a great deal in terms of flexibility but can do little regarding a smoking addiction.</p>
<p>Unlike the coastal areas where many are out and about at dawn, here I see very few people. Some return a ‘Good morning’, others look wary. I’ve fed the birds – the magpies with their beautiful throaty song, beaks upraised to the sky, enjoy a bowl of oats mixed with water while the King Parrots and Eastern Rosellas love a handful of seed. Currawongs fix me with their yellow eyes and aren’t in a rush for food whereas the pigeons will demolish what’s given in a feeding frenzy. As for the Sulphur Crested Cockatoos – they are the vandals, the ‘bovver boys’ of the bird world. They push and shove and will happily eat a door jamb just to sharpen their beaks. I use a water pistol to discourage them but it’s of limited value. In and around these visitors come the Satin Bower birds, very shy and flighty and they go for the oats. An Asian and a Pacific Koel, recent visitors from Papua New Guinea, make their presence known, an exotic addition to an already exotic and colourful group. The behaviour of birds – the behaviour of people.</p>
<p>Yesterday was Australia Day, a public holiday, yet not everyone sees it as a day of celebration. “It’s Invasion Day” says my grandson and he’s quite right. It’s a matter of perspective.</p>
<p>There is a general agreement amongst most Australians that there should be a day in which we can all celebrate being Australian but our history is steeped in blood and the day in which Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay is actually just the day he arrived – it doesn’t follow that it’s Australia Day, not when even my seven year old grandson can see that for the Aboriginal population it was the start of a bloody invasion. “You can’t change history” states our latest Prime Minister as if that statement somehow settles the issue. He’s the latest in a stream of well meaning but blinkered leaders with one eye on the public sentiment and the other on the next election.</p>
<p>Perspective … Google Earth has been a useful tool for me. A group of us spent time over the last few years planting various native shrubs along an area of our local park which has been overgrown with honeysuckle and other noxious weeds. Yes – Honeysuckle is quite lovely but, like Privet, Ivy, Blackberry, Holly and other introduced species, it takes off and strangles local plants. It’s the vegetation version of ‘Invasion Day’ – only kidding but there are parallels.</p>
<p>Google Earth has a time slider tool which allowed me to go back and forth in time and save some images which then illustrate the changes we’ve made. Very useful.</p>
<p>There are others who’ve made great use of Google Earth to explore places like Antarctica. ‘Florida Maquis’ makes great use of the time slider tool when exposing much of Antarctica which would otherwise remain hidden. He also discovered that just looking from above doesn’t reveal what can be seen from an oblique angle. If it were just snow and mountains that Google Earth shows then it would be of little interest to me but Antarctica has been much in the news – at least via the internet – in the last few years with a steady stream of politicians, church leaders, astronauts and even royalty visiting and penguins seem a poor reason for such travel.</p>
<p>UFO’s and alien life have always been of interest to me and witnessing one at close quarters was just ‘the icing on the cake’ – it’s not something you forget. The idea and the evidence which show that civilisations existed here on Earth previous to that which our generally accepted education teaches goes ‘hand in hand’ with that interest in the UFO world. I don’t see either subject as cause for mirth or automatic rejection regardless of the tittering of our news outlets when the subject arises.</p>
<p>Of course alien technology would be a subject which any government would go to great lengths to conceal and when it comes to why aliens don’t just land on the White House lawn – many reasons not least among them that we’re just not that interesting.</p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151792019-01-23T12:00:00-12:002019-01-24T01:38:48-12:00too hot here, too cold elsewhere<p>Too hot, heat wave after heatwave and record snowfalls elsewhere in the world. It’s disconcerting that so many politicians dismiss climate change with the narrow and blinkered observation, airily expressed, that we’ve always had climate change as if that observation somehow settled the matter.</p>
<p>There’s very little in the scientific world which is settled and there are many who’ve declared that there’s nothing left to discover, or words to that effect, only to find that they were wrong.</p>
<p>The Thunderbolts Project has been making the case, with a great deal of academic inertia standing in the way, that the Universe is electric, that there is connection between the activity of our sun and with weather on this planet. I don’t pretend to understand everything said but it’s not difficult to see parallels between plasma activity as witnessed in a laboratory and the landscape scarring evident on Mars and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Short video below.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151782019-01-23T12:00:00-12:002019-01-24T01:37:25-12:00thunderbolt project<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sWLg4QEo574" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151772019-01-19T12:00:00-12:002019-01-20T05:12:50-12:00Strange the way.<p>Strange the way the mind works. Also strange the way in which life unfolds. Some have a clear idea of what they want to do by virtue of early talents being evident while some, like me, have no obvious direction or talent and, to some extent, find themselves led by circumstance or perhaps fate into areas and occupations not normally followed.</p>
<p>Musing on the fact that Christ’s very existence is disputed by some and I find myself wondering why the same couldn’t be said about Genghis Khan but who questions his existence. Strange – it’s not as if I ever think about Genghis Khan and I wasn’t looking for information about him but one of the sources that I occasionally enjoy via youtube is the newearth channel and, a bit fed up with the expected Brexit complications and the coming attempt to reverse that decision to leave, I had a look at newearth’s recent work and found ‘Genghis Khan from the Fairyland’ - posted yesterday which, in itself, strikes me as a ‘bit amazing’ or coincidental. A different view of Genghis Khan than is usually presented.</p>
<p>It’s not about historical fact – there are many historical facts which remain unmentioned by those who write the history. James Corbett has done an excellent series on World War 1 which lays bare the machinations leading up to the war and which served many purposes including providing a framework for a potential new world order that so many politicians now mention as though this would be ‘a jolly good thing’ for humanity.</p>
<p>I don’t subscribe to the idea that ‘history is bunk’ but neither did Henry Ford – his quote refers to the history of politicians and military heroes – however the further back in time that one looks the more vague the territory.</p>
<p>The Bradshaw Paintings are a case in point. Aboriginal rock art dating back at least 15,000 years and which are quite different to other Aboriginal rock art. That difference and the fact that the local Aboriginal people of the Kimberly area have no idea who produced these works has led to a minimising of that aspect of history and that is due to a possibility that the Aboriginal people were, perhaps, not the only people who inhabited this land in the distant past. As the dating of Aboriginal occupation gets pushed back to perhaps 40 to 60,000 years it hardly matters – to my mind anyway but it does illustrate how ‘certain sensibilities’ play their part in exactly what gets written in or omitted where history is concerned.</p>
<p>Before the excellent British series ‘The House of Cards,’ which was followed by an American version, revealed the devious nature of politics there was the delightful BBC series of ‘Yes Minister’ and ‘Yes Prime Minister’ which detailed much the same but in a humorous manner. Within one of their episodes was presented a case for and against the European Union and it was quite sobering to hear again, the other day, versions of ‘calamity approaches’ and ‘the sky will fall in’ when leaving the European Union was presented as an option.</p>
<p>Why ‘the sky should fall in’ is not established. Difficulties and complications are mentioned but so what – deal with it as the British people voted for in their referendum. It’s not impossible but there will be forces marshalled to create uncertainty. Those in favour of remaining will suggest – and more – that those who voted to leave didn’t really know what the implications were. I’d suggest that those happy to remain have little idea of the scope of a future European Union in which a European Union army is already a goal. Who voted for such an army?</p>
<p>I’m not a globalist, I don’t see a new world order as a ‘good thing.’ I don’t accept that countries should be ruled by ‘banks too big to fail’ but I’ll keep educating myself – it’s not so long ago that I accepted Darwin’s theories without question.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151762019-01-16T12:00:00-12:002019-01-17T02:04:17-12:00I don't know what it is that I don't know.<p>I don’t know of a country where there isn’t strife, a breakdown of law and order, unending conflict. Whether ‘it was always so’ – I don’t know but peace does appear to be a fragile aspect of the human condition.</p>
<p>‘Appearances are deceptive.’ This I know, whether it be in the political arena or the personal. Why it is so in the political arena is invariably because of agendas which aren’t made clear, because politicians are so often compromised and because the goals being sought are not in the public interest. Who’s to decide that public interest - lobbyists?</p>
<p>‘Too many people in the world’ say many and immediately start thinking in terms of eugenics, of ways in which to reduce those populations without ever having the courage of their convictions and killing themselves. Much the same with those despicable bastards so keen to send others to war. Ah – if only warmongers had to place themselves in the front line.</p>
<p>"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."</p>
<p>That was Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘clever’ deflection of the need for a straight answer in respect to a question at a news briefing about Iraq and those fabled ‘weapons of mass destruction.’</p>
<p>I’d thought that he’d used that quote in respect to the $2.3 trillion ‘lost’ by the Pentagon and which he’d mentioned at a news briefing on the day before 9/11 – of course, the missing trillions were never again mentioned.</p>
<p>A known known – at the time – was that there were no ‘weapons of mass destruction’ and that a pretext for war was needed and found. The consequences are still being felt.</p>
<p>The war in Iraq was based on a lie and the continuing meddling in the affairs of other nations knows no bounds so whose purpose is being served if not the ultimate goal of a new world order.</p>
<p>There is so much to which I could say ‘I don’t know’ but there are the events such as 9/11 in which the research can be done to show that it wasn’t some bearded terrorists but was, to some great extent, an inside job. George Bush was too unreliable and inconsequential to be privy to the machinations leading up to that event but Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were ‘players.’</p>
<p>I could list the remarkable coincidences which occurred on that day but one is sufficient to give pause for thought – apart from the fact that three buildings, not two, fell at close to free fall speed and, conveniently for rebuilding purposes, fell into their own footprint. Some bearded terrorists just happened to pick that day – of all days – in which to hijack planes when the whole of the American air forces were engaged in training exercises and were unable to respond. You can’t make this stuff up and expect people to believe it but they did believe and they still do and most Americans are still unaware that Building 7 - a forty seven story building not hit by a plane – collapsed. Why are they unaware and why have the media not seen fit to investigate? I could say ‘I don’t know’ but, truth be told, there’s very little media not controlled by those who control the narrative.</p>
<p>Socialism, Liberalism, Communism, Capitalism – there’s a schism in the ‘isms.’ I’m fortunate enough to have lived my early life in the U.K. and my later life in Australia. I say fortunate because both societies have a National Health system and an education system which is ‘free’ - to some extent. The point is not to quibble about how good either of the institutions actually are but to recognise that both societies see the importance of both health and education as paramount to a functioning and decent society and thus some of our taxes are used for those purposes. Some would say that it’s ‘socialism’ – I don’t give a stuff what people’s knee jerk reactions are and what they call it, it’s important to have those institutions available to all.</p>
<p>Communism doesn’t work and Capitalism has ceased to have much meaning since multi-national corporations received the same rights under the law as people - greater rights inasmuch as our rights cease when we die but corporations aren’t subject to mortality.</p>
<p>I don’t know what I don’t know but I do know that I won’t give my energy or intelligence to a new world order or to a globalist agenda.</p>
<p>All those ‘isms’ end up becoming Totalitarianism.</p>
<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151752019-01-12T12:00:00-12:002019-01-12T15:06:45-12:00what a remarkable tale - enough threads to weave a cloak<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4M40c0Ghu94" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151742019-01-07T12:00:00-12:002019-01-08T06:01:20-12:00no doubt the same within any religious institution<p>“The American Dream – you have to be asleep to believe it.”</p>
<p>I think that George Carlin’s quote is applicable worldwide … and the Dream so easily becomes a Nightmare whether it be by falling into the clutches of the money lenders, by suffering abuse within family or religious centres, experiencing slavery … and the list goes on.</p>
<p>I can’t perpetually focus on the evil that simmers below the surface and sometimes erupts into public view – we’ve recently had Royal Commissions into sexual abuse within both State and religious entities and a Commission investigating criminality within the financial institutions. Aged Care is also soon to be investigated. I recently watched a DVD called ‘Spotlight’ which is about the way in which the Roman Catholic Church has dealt, or rather not dealt, with child abuse. The dark underbelly of life is not a pleasant area in which to dwell.</p>
<p>As some sort of antidote for my spirit I really enjoy the ‘far out and cosmic’ aspects of life and history. ‘Phenomenal Travel Videos’ is remarkably researched, ‘Greg Jay’s’ channel on youtube, ‘Mystery History’, ‘secureteam10’, ‘The Thunderbolts Project’ – there are many channels which entertain, educate and are enlightening.</p>
<p>But this is a preamble to a Jake Morphonius video which I place below. Although the subject matter is abuse and church related, it is presented by a man who comes across in such a ‘good’ way that it’s really worth the time.</p>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151732019-01-07T12:00:00-12:002019-01-08T05:57:56-12:00dark underbelly<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JIMSS2fPgDM" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151722019-01-06T12:00:00-12:002019-01-07T10:23:31-12:00Central Banking - a crime story<p>Ezra Pound had four or more protégés - Ernest Hemingway, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot - all of whom went on to great acclaim while the fourth, Eustace Mullins, was given the task of investigating the origins of the Federal Reserve – the Central Bank of the U.S.A.</p>
<p>From Wikipedia – not the most trustworthy of sources - I find this:</p>
<p>“Eustace Clarence Mullins Jr. was an antisemitic American writer, propagandist, Holocaust denier, and disciple of the poet Ezra Pound. His best-known book is The Secrets of The Federal Reserve, in which he alleged that several high-profile bankers had conspired to write the Federal Reserve Act for their own nefarious purposes, and then induced Congress to enact it into law.”</p>
<p>It not a question of alleging – it’s fact.</p>
<p>As to the other slurs on his character, perhaps he’s guilty as charged, perhaps not. It’s undeniable that to criticise Israel is to be smeared as anti-semitic which, of course, deflects the criticism and attacks the person. It’s a woeful trick and constantly used.</p>
<p>There is a problem with Judaism just as there is with most religions. Factionalism runs rampant and, with it, comes extremism and a falling away from the central core. The Talmud replaces the Old Testament within much of Judaism. The Ten Commandments are replaced, hedged about with exceptions. There is no Judeo/Christian commonality. How can there be when Christ is seen as a fraud.</p>
<p>Anyway, the holocaust happened and it’s the detail within it and the part played by Zionists which requires examination. Cambodia, Rwanda, Armenia – all have suffered holocaust. It’s not new.</p>
<h1>The Federal Reserve and the system of privately owned Central Banks which hold the entire world in thrall deserves the investigation which Eustace Mullins and others have given to it. It’s no accident that the following quote "Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws," is so widely known.</h1>
<h1>Conspiracy? Equally appropriate to call it planning albeit of a quiet nature.</h1>
<h1>‘Love your enemy’ says Christ and what I make of that is simply to avoid hatred. All of us have limited vision and ‘feet of clay,’ neither of which limitations should prevent the speaking of truth to power.</h1>
<h1>If your religion accepts slavery as an acceptable, perhaps desirable, fact of life then it’s a perversion and has nothing to do with whatever God may be.</h1>
<h1>I place an enlightening video below. Eustace Mullins covers a lot of ground. Some of his information is now 'out of date' - the video was posted when Clinton was still in office. Quite why some of this text is highlighted is a mystery.</h1>
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<p> </p>saucepanbach.comtag:saucepanbach.com,2005:Post/60151712019-01-06T12:00:00-12:002019-01-07T08:47:57-12:00the Federal Reserve<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DxuT8XvC2WI" width="560" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>saucepanbach.com