I noticed the other day that the old energies were back, at least for me, and that thing's felt a little rough. Fortunately, it wasn't the case with my dreams.
In the past, the days were rough and nighttime offered no relief because my dreams would almost be nightmares. However, I am happy to report that my dreams last night and in recent times, have been borderline euphoric, which is really great news.
I remember three distinct dreams from last night which I couldn't possibly do justice explaining in this limited medium (language) but they were really awesome. I wonder if this is because the astral plane is cleared from negativity?
Also, I'm curious to know your opinions, do you think dreams are just a part of your subconscious or do you think they are real and are happening in the astral plane? I used to think the latter but lately I feel like they are so real and a bit lucid that it's hard to imagine them as not really happening in some sort of reality.
Sunday 3 April 2016
Friday 1 April 2016
Turkish Intelligence Used Chemical Weapons in Syria to Provoke War
My comments: I have long suspected that Bashar al-Assad did not use chemical weapons against his own people.
Turkish Intelligence Used Chemical Weapons in Syria to Provoke War
As the US prepares to quadruple its military spending in Eastern Europe, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern joins Radio Sputnik’s Brian Becker to discuss the legacy of NATO and the increasing isolation of Turkey.
"Once the US launched, successfully, the coup in Ukraine…then you had a kind of 'threat' from Russia that you could [justify] building, for example, the main European battle tank," McGovern tells Loud & Clear. "What’s happening now is there’s a 'real' – it’s really an imagined threat from Russia – [and] lots of reasons to spend more money.
"Seventy-one years after the end of World War II, NATO members…are still acting like…adolescents. They can’t seem to act like adults."
While the organization may be outdated, NATO still serves a vital role for the US, in keeping European allies from gravitating toward Russia. In this effort, Washington will use almost any means to justify the expansion of NATO.
"When [the Europeans] saw that the Russians didn’t really 'invade' the eastern part of Ukraine as General [Phil] Breedlove charged and made believe, then they needed something else," McGovern says.
"And the something else came on the 20th of July, 2014, in the form of the shootdown of Malaysian airline MH17, immediately blamed on the Russians…" he says. "It was just a week or two later that finally the Europeans were browbeat into saying 'Putin bad, Putin bad, Putin very very bad…'"
After the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO officials pledged not to expand beyond the east of Germany. This promise has been repeatedly broken, and the alliance has been used to conduct military campaigns in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
As US officials invent a growing Russian threat to funnel billions of dollars into an eastern European military buildup, McGovern points out that the numbers don’t add up.
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"With all this talk about increasing expenses in NATO by four times, Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, said, ‘Well, be that as it may, we in Russia are reducing our defense expenses by 5% this year."
While there are signs of progress, including the Obama Administration’s decision to cooperate with the Russian air campaign in Syria, there are still problematic players among the United States’ allies.
"…Why do American politicians and statesmen get so nervous and have to go to the bathroom when Saudi Arabia is mentioned? Well the reason is that our arms manufacturers have offered $100 billion…worth of arms to Saudi Arabia," McGovern says.
"With respect to Turkey, it’s a little bit different. The Turks have hated [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad for many, many years. They’d like to get rid of him."
President Obama will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday, but has refused to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despite Turkey’s importance as the eastern flank of the alliance.
"Turkey, under Erdogan," says McGovern, "shows every evidence of being very blasé about getting a war started between NATO and Russia."
As evidence of Turkey’s duplicity, McGovern cites sarin gas attacks in Syria. While these were publicly blamed on Assad, McGovern claims they were actually carried out by Turkish intelligence to incite a war, making it appear that the Syrian government had crossed Obama’s "red line."
"Five to eight people were caught smuggling these chemicals into Syria from Turkey. They were wrapped up, they were indicted, and were just about to go to trial when a higher authority from Ankara said, ‘No, no, judge, dismiss those guys, let them go back to Syria," McGovern says.
"That sarin was homemade; it was not the same that Bashar al-Assad’s army has in their stock."
None of this was covered by the Western press.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/us/20160402/1037355836/loud-clear-mcgovern-nato-turkey.html#ixzz44c2Ta7T3
Preparations for free energy?
My comments: Is this really about getting economies and governments ready to transition from oil to free energy?
The company running China’s power grid is proposing a $50 trillion global electricity network to tackle pollution and climate change. If it goes ahead the network would use advanced renewable solar and wind technology and be operating by 2050.
Beijing’s network will be the world’s biggest infrastructure project, if given the green light. The State Grid has already signed a memorandum of understanding with the Russian energy grid Rosseti, Korea’s Electric Power and SoftBank Group of Japan.
According to State Grid’s Chairman Liu Zhenya, the planet is facing"three major challenges", which are energy scarcity, environmental pollution and climate change.
Liu added that smart grids, ultra-high voltage (UHV) grids and clean energy are the only way to a green, low carbon, economical, efficient and open energy system with sustainable supply.
Liu also said the global network could boost the share of clean energy to 80 percent of global consumption, displacing fossil fuels as the main energy source.
"China is already the biggest country in the world for wind, solar power generation and also UHV grids. And has scale, so we can learn many things from China's success. Also, by interconnecting, we can help each other on supply and demand,"SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told the Global Times.
"It's a brilliant plan. It might encounter difficulties during construction but it's possible," Xue Jiancong, spokesperson for China Merchants New Energy Group, a leading renewable energy company, told NBC News.
The major barriers for the project “are institutional, not technical,” former US energy official David Sandalow told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s an open question whether national governments will be open to such a revolutionary idea,” he added.
https://www.rt.com/business/338040-china-global-electricity-network
Saudi Arabia to set up $2tn mega-fund for post oil era
The world’s largest crude exporter Saudi Arabia plans to create a huge sovereign wealth fund for the country’s most prized assets to prepare for a post oil era, said Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as cited by Bloomberg.
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) will eventually control more than $2 trillion and help the kingdom to shift from oil which has seen falling prices strain Saudi Arabia's finances.
According to the Prince, the wealth fund already holds stakes in companies like Saudi Basic Industries (the world’s second-biggest chemicals manufacturer), and National Commercial Bank (the kingdom’s largest lender).
“Undoubtedly, it will be the largest fund on Earth,” said the prince.“This will happen as soon as Aramco goes public.”
As part of the new strategy, Riyadh plans to sell shares of state-owned energy company Saudi Aramco and transform it into an industrial conglomerate. The sale of the company is planned by 2018 or even a year earlier.
“IPOing Aramco and transferring its shares to PIF will technically make investment the source of Saudi government revenue, not oil,” the prince said in an interview at the royal compound in Riyadh on Thursday. “What is left now is to diversify investments. So within 20 years, we will be an economy or state that doesn’t depend mainly on oil.”
According to the fund’s secretary general Yasir Alrumayyan, PIF is expected to increase the proportion of foreign investments to 50 percent by 2020 from the current five percent.
The kingdom is highly dependent on oil revenues, and is suffering a record high budget deficit which is expected to reach $87 billion this year. The crude price crisis has had an impact on the economy as oil sales account for almost 80 percent of the country’s revenue. Saudi Arabia’s foreign reserves fell to $640 billion last year from $737 billion in 2014.
In January Riyadh outlined an ambitious economic development plan aimed at dramatically reducing its dependence on crude prices. The authorities intend to restructure the economy by investing more in other sectors, particularly in healthcare, tourism and IT. The government also announced plans to liberalize the market in order to attract foreign investors.
“It is clear Saudi Arabia needs to reform, diversify, and re-energize its economy, but this will involve more than just increasing investment in non-oil industries,” a professor of security studies at Georgetown University in Washington, Paul Sullivan told Bloomberg. “One cannot order economic reforms like a multiple course dinner.”
https://www.rt.com/business/338032-saudi-arabia-megafund-assets/
Thursday 31 March 2016
What's Happening This Evening
Today I left Charlottetown and drove across the confederation bridge and have now arrived in Riviere-du-loup for the night. If my old van doesn't break down I should be back in Ottawa tomorrow afternoon. Looking forward to being home and getting back into a routine.
Yin vs Yang
Yang:
Hot
Logic
Service to Self
Masculine
Yin:
Cold
Intuition
Service to Others
Feminine
Ever notice that some people seem to be more yin or more yang than others. I am a very yin person and usually find that those around me are more yang regardless of their gender.
Hot
Logic
Service to Self
Masculine
Yin:
Cold
Intuition
Service to Others
Feminine
Ever notice that some people seem to be more yin or more yang than others. I am a very yin person and usually find that those around me are more yang regardless of their gender.
Wednesday 30 March 2016
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