* I'm no great fan of 'W', but I'm even less a fan of Ray Nagin, former mayor of New Orleans back in the Katrina days, who has just been sentenced to 10 years for corruption during his two terms as mayor, including during Katrina.
* Silicon Valley (aka GOOGLE) is building a social credit system for the US patterned after China's, which really shouldn't be too surprising since Google helped China build theirs. (Traitors! Fiends! Hell-spawn!)
* Ilhan Omar's troubles just worsen by the day. Now she's accused of stealing another woman's husband. Wonder how well that's going to sit with her Muslim constituents.
* Fenbendazole. Look it up! No! Not Wikipedia! Here! Recall me telling you that cures for cancer have been withheld from us? And that we'd soon start hearing more about them? Well, this cat's now out of the bag, and rumor has it that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being reanimated with this particular, off-the-books treatment. And that because they're so desperate to keep President Trump from making any more Supreme Court appointments before the 2020 election, which they delusionally believe they'll win.
* And, as Plan B, just in case RBG doesn't make it till then, and/or POTUS wins the election (because RBG certainly won't survive anothe five years), they're preparing another Christine Blasey Ford scenario, but with power behind it in the form of greater credibility. (They wish.) (The American public is getting pretty weary of this notion that men can't even so much as smile at women any more.)
* A union president in trouble. Again. Imagine that.
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Q
This time, from X22 Report.
And this one is pretty important. Don't miss it.
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BLITZ!
This is for those skeptical of Electric Universe proponents' claims that geographical features like the Grand Canyon were carved, not by any river, but by super-massive, long-duration lightning bolts.
But how?
According to them, the planets were once much closer to one another, permitting the relative equalization of their very different charges through the exchange of massive lightning bolts between them, explaining a lot of ancient mythology/religion, not to mention features on other planets, such as Mars' Valles Marineris, which they claim was also carved in like fashion to our own Grand Canyon.
But we have no such situation today. Except that we do. Where Mars once traded blows with the earth, the sun has since assumed that role. Astronomers even track earth's electrical connection to the sun at what's called the 'earth spot' on the sun. That electrical connection is what's believed to be the ultimate source of lightning (and volcanos) on the earth. But, as with everything else, there are changing circumstances.
The declining solar output, and corresponding changes in our magnetic field, are resulting in a greater volcanism, and greater atmospheric expansion, creating a larger air-gap, requiring lightning to achieve higher voltages in order to bridge the gap. As a result, there have been increasing reports of entire flocks of sheep being instantly killed by single bolts of lightning. Just do a little searching, and you'll find dozens of reports of dozens of sheep being killed by lightning all over the world, and most of them fairly recently.
But that's sheep. Sheep tend to huddle closely together, rather than scattering (which raises a good question about just what kinds of flocks Lamoni had Ammon guarding), sort of like Zebra do. So, being so close together, it's not too hard for lightning to jump between them in what's called sidesplash, even as many as 654 at a time.
And then there's the ground current to be considered, where the energy dissipates in a semi-spherical pattern through the earth surrounding the strike. But that's subject to the inverse-square law, so it drops off pretty quickly. I was once witness to a bolt landing mere meters (50?) away, but all I got was the hair on the back of my neck standing up (and ringing ears). And that was decades ago.
But it gets a bit more difficult to explain large numbers of cows dying all at once (68 Jersy cows can't all fit near a tree, let alone under it), and nearly impossible to explain away 323 reindeer being killed by a single blast in Norway. And, while the article suggests that the animals 'may' have died because they huddled closely together for fear of the storm, the images clearly show a very wide distribution of carcasses, practically eliminating both ground-current and even sidesplash as an explanation. Either the lightning, almost intelligently, branched in the air above them, striking each animal individually, or ... the bolt was simply so large, and so powerful, that the electric field around it (and/or the ground-current) killed over a huge area.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but ...
... I'm going to take this a step further and add the how. The clues are all there. And they're there because he's completely correct. But, as is so often the case, they always leave out the how. How do you repent? Fast? Pray? No. That's putting the cart in front of the horse. But he does mention the crucial steps. I'm just going to bring emphasis to them.
Just as with so many other things in us, it all begins with desire, you have to want to change. But, how do you want to change? How do you receive that mighty change of heart, or rather, change your mind, your opinions? THAT ... is the crucial first step.
And that step is achieved through something else that president Nelson mentioned in passing: KNOWLEDGE! Or, as I've taught (but still haven't written that epistle), faith.
And, as Paul taught, and Joseph Smith echoed, faith comes from HEARING THE WORD.
So, if you want to want to repent (and who doesn't?) HEAR THE WORD!
In other words, load the audio scriptures onto your phone, laptop, mp3-player, whatever, and listen to them. Listen to them in the car. Listen to them on your walks. Listen to them at work (when/where appropriate). Even listen to them at night while you sleep.
Trust me on this: IT WORKS!
Try it; you'll come to love it more than anything else. And, I've found, it's much like praying. Just as the song of the righteous heart is a prayer unto God, so, too, is simply listening to the scriptures.
If you need any help with this, just let me know.
You can download them all here.
Apple aficionados ... sorry, but you're on your own with that locked-down, closed-off platform. (Why would you even do that?)
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I wish them well.
I sincerely do, because I'm afraid they may run into similar problems with the growing numbers of Chinese in Africa, not to mention the various Arabs and other middle-easterners there. And all that, too, will somehow get blamed on us.
Moreover, echoing Mormon 5:10, there's the very real concern with the Zimbabwe (and, soon, South Africa) effect: Eliminate the whites, and learn the hard way that they actually gave more than they took, as the country descends into lawlessness, starvation, and self-massacre.
It's a tale literally as old as time. (Cain and Abel)
I just wish that they wouldn't be so dishonest about it all. No one invaded Africa to steal slaves; they did that to each other. In fact, slavery in Europe got its start when the Nubian Moors decided to show the Arabian Moors how they should have been handling the conquest of Spain (pretty much triggering the Reconquista AND the Spanish Inquisition) all along. (And, by the way, they did so with plenty of their own slaves pressed into service.)
Worse, still, this man, birthplace notwithstanding (as his language proficiency shows), was no African-American; he was just an African in America, a combination that has failed everywhere it has ever been tried.
When in Rome...
In the end, though, at least as far as this article is concerned, there really is only one word to both describe it, and end it: Chicago.
You remember another famous 'African-American' from Chicago, don't you? You'd think he'd have had some impact on the place. Apparently, all he did was make things so bad that, now, people of African descent are supposedly fleeing back to Africa. But, then, maybe that was the plan all along.
"Wakanda forever!"?
We'll see.
In the mean-time, I hope those Americans who trace much of their ancestry back to Africa, but who are nonetheless true Americans, will think twice about making such a leap. What almost no one knows about the life of Eldridge Cleaver is that he fled the country to evade prosecution for intent to commit murder. He fled to Cuba, but couldn't bear that for long, so he then fled to Algeria (a place worth researching), and then to France. In France, he finally accepted the reality of the situation, and returned to the US, knowing full well that he'd be arrested the moment his feet touched the ground. And he was. But, as they handcuffed him, he knelt down and kissed the ground, later explaining his return with the words, "I'd rather die a slave in America than live a free man in Africa." (He even joined the church in 1983.)
Ghana ranks slightly higher than Algeria in political stability and rule of law, but only slightly, and far lower in average IQ. It is, in fact, at 69, borderline retarded, and that's going to take its toll on every facet of society, especially for someone coming from a country whose average IQ is 98, 29 points higher. Americans who grew up in our environment are going to find themselves very out of place in Ghana.
On the other hand, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
By the way, did you happen to notice the language that article was originally written in? Go ahead. Browse that site. Now, I don't know about you, but I find that just a bit condescending, racist even. So, who are they to preach?
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From my playlist
How many times have you left a movie theatre thinking to yourself, "Gee. That wasn't quite the ending I expected from the previews." (which we now call trailers for some unknown reason)
Well, in case you hadn't noticed, it's the trailer-maker's job to create a mini-movie that's even better than the actual movie, but without giving away its ending (called a spoiler), or even much of its plot. And this task often includes using scenes that won't actually be used in the finished product, as well as music that's never actually heard in the film being advertised. In fact, the music they use most likely comes from some other, usually much older, and generally obscure film.
And that's the music we're covering today.
First up is Clint Mansell.
Lux Aeterna
Trust me when I tell you that you do NOT want to see that movie, but the music is great. And you've probably heard it used in many movie trailers, like this one:
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Jump to 1:33
Next is John Murphy.
Adagio in D Minor
This is another one I've heard used in trailers for a few other movies, but I can't find them right now.
You probably don't want to see this depressing film either, but, once again, the soundtrack is fantastic, not that you'd ever learn that from its trailer (below), which uses next to none of its own soundtrack music. In fact, at 2:42, what is that we hear? That's right! Once again, it's Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream!
Sunshine
And, if you think that's weird, pay attention the next time you watch a trailer for legal or financial drama movie. Look what dramatic angles and splicing the trailer-maker is forced to resort to in order to make a flat-out boring movie look like an action flick. Watch for all the meaningless moments (mood shots, turning heads, shifting eyes, shuffling papers, even just characters 'power' walking somewhere) to be exploited to their fullest.
It was hilarious when, in one of the recent Star Trek movies, the only way the director could think of to make the crew on the bridge look like they were engaged in some sort of heroic actions, while actually just placidly manning their stations, was to vibrate the camera.
Feel cheated yet?
But, sometimes a movie's music is just so unique, and so memorable, that it can never be used anywhere else ever again.
Ennio Morricone's Gabriel's Oboe, from The Mission
All the more reason that music should never be forgotten.
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