Author: Aaron

  • Once in a Lifetime

    Once in a Lifetime

    Once in a Lifetime – You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile… You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife… You may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?” …. My mind was blown when the Talking Heads dropped that song in 1982 and it still blows my mind 37 years later. Ironically, I started asking myself those questions (see lyrics below) since I first heard the song. How did all those days go by? How much water has gone under the bridge And is it just the same as it ever was?

    Once in a Lifetime – Lyrics

    You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
    And you may find yourself in another part of the world
    And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
    You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
    You may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

    Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
    Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

    Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
    Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

    And you may ask yourself, “How do I work this?”
    And you may ask yourself, “Where is that large automobile?”
    And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful house”
    And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful wife”Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

    Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
    Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
    Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

    Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was
    Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was
    Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

    Water dissolving and water removing
    There is water at the bottom of the ocean
    Under the water, carry the water
    Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean
    Water dissolving and water removing

    Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
    Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
    Into the blue again, into the silent water
    Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground

    Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
    Leting the days go by, water flowing underground
    Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
    Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

    You may ask yourself, “What is that beautiful house?”
    You may ask yourself, “Where does that highway go to?”
    You may ask yourself, “Am I right, am I wrong?”
    You may say to yourself, “My God! What have I done?”

    Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
    Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
    Into the blue again, into the silent water
    Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground

    Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
    Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
    Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
    Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

    Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
    Same as it ever was, look where my hand was

    Time isn’t holding up, time isn’t after us
    Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
    Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
    Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
    Same as it ever was, hey let’s all twist our thumbs
    Here comes the twister

    Letting the days go by
    Letting the days go by
    Once in a lifetime
    Let the water hold me down
    Letting the days go by

    Songwriters: FRANTZ CHRISTOPHER / WEYMOUTH MARTINA / ENO BRIAN PETER GEORGE / BYRNE DAVID / HARRISON JERRY

    Once In A Lifetime (Remastered) lyrics © WB Music Corp., MCA Music Ltd., E.G. Music Ltd., Warner Chappell Music France, WB MUSIC CORP, INDEX MUSIC, INC., UNIVERSAL MUSIC MGB SONGS OBO EG MUSIC LTD, BLEU DISQUE MUSIC CO INC, WB MUSIC CORP. O/B/O INDEX MUSIC, INC.

  • The 5 Mother Sauces of French Cuisine

    The 5 Mother Sauces of French Cuisine

    Duck Fillet - Annie Smithers Bistrot French Cuisine
    Duck Fillet – Annie Smithers Bistrot

    Food, oh wonderful food, the last great escape of indulgence. In this episode of this insane blog, we’ll move away from Rome and Costa Rica and take a moment to appreciate of the great food cultures and the genesis of the most delectable dishes known to mankind, the recipes of which probably evolved from the genius of one of The 5 Mother Sauces of French Cuisine.

    This is one of those pages in this blog that is put here for myself, as I’m learning to prepare tasty dishes and improving by leaps and bounds. A couple times I’ve prepared food so good that I couldn’t even believe I made it myself. Such as Duck L’Orange that was 8 hours in the slow-cooker and turned-out to be as good as any I’ve previously ever eaten.

    As a teenager and early twenties, I worked as a waiter prior to becoming a Bartender and twice I worked in French Restaurants, in both Canada and Australia. Once you understand cooking, you soon realize that the 5 Mother Sauces of French Cuisine, are the foundation of almost every great cuisine, just modified from the original, or improved by adding things but really the basic framework is the mother sauces of France.

    White Sauces

    Mother Sauces of French Cuisine

    Sauce Béchamel
    This base sauce is essential in many other classic sauces such as crème sauce, mustard sauce and many cheese sauces such as Mornay. Produced by combining a white roux of butter and flour with heated milk, it is commonly served with white meats, and used as a foundation in many gravies and soups, as well as popular dishes ranging from lasagne, other pastas and pizzas to comfort foods like scalloped potatoes and casseroles.

    Hollandaise Sauce
    Most notable for its role in the popular breakfast dish of eggs Benedict, hollandaise sauce incorporates lemon juice and clarified butter (butter stripped of its milk solids) into egg yolks through whisking at low temperatures. As with the other French mother sauces, it acts as the model for many other sauce recipes, including sauce Béarnise and several other French sauces. Possibly the most versatile of the sauces on this list, a good dollop of hollandaise sauce can be paired with most common items, ranging from eggs to both red and white meats, and even vegetables or baked potatoes.

    Sauce Velouté
    Velouté is the last of the white mother sauces, though it is by no means the least. It is formed by thickening a light stock, usually made from chicken, fish or veal, with a white roux once more. While essentially the least complex to make out of the mother sauces, the sheer number of derivative sauces from this base, with sauce allemande (originally also a mother sauce under the original 19th century categorization), sauce vin blanc (white wine sauce) and sauce suprêmeamong them, make sauce velouté one of the most important in both classical and modern French cuisine.

    Brown Sauces

    Sauce Espagnol
    Sauce Espagnole

    Sauce Espagnole
    The most basic of brown sauces and the heaviest of the mother sauces, sauce espagnole is made by reducing a broth consisting of a brown roux (made by cooking clarified butter with flour for a longer duration instead of regular whole butter), veal or beef stock, browned bones, pieces of red meat and vegetables. During the cooking process, the connective tissues in the bones and meat are slowly dissolved to form a natural gelatinous thickening agent.Once fully reduced, this thick and flavorful concoction can then be used to create other rich, savoury sauces and sauce components – such as demi-glacebordelaise, Robert and chateaubriand – or even spooned gloriously over steaks and other red meats on its own.

    Sauce Tomat
    The French variation of a tomato sauce, sauce tomat is prepared by combining rendered pork fat from salt pork belly with a blend of carrots, onions, and tomatoes, a roux and veal (or alternative meat) stock, simmered in a medium-heat oven for two hours. The plethora of ingredients utilised results in the formation of an incredibly tasty sauce that is usually merged with other ingredients to form a range of other condiments including Creole, Spanish and Portuguese sauces.

    French Cuisine Photo credit: avlxyz on Visual hunt / CC BY-SA and elisson1 on Visual Hunt / CC BY-NC-SA

  • Costa Rica Confession

    Costa Rica Confession

    Cementerio Cabuya, Costa Rica (Cemetary Island)
    Cementerio Cabuya, Costa Rica (Cemetary Island)

    I only hired a prostitute once in my life, in Scottsdale Arizona, an African American woman, she got in my limo with my two cousins and I, to inject heroine into my arm as that’s all we could find that night. I was twenty something, it was 1983 and I was flying to Hong Kong the next day for the first time. I’d just been spoiled for three weeks playing the great desert golf courses of Phoenix, waiting on my Australia visa. She did the deed that night and was surprised to be dropped off so fast, with having only to do that one thing.

    That was also the last time I ever punctured myself and I never talk about it because I am still so disgusted in myself. How did I ever get that twisted? One of the factors was I had lost a long time love because of my own infidelity, I was heart-broken and running away to Australia to avoid responsibility, to live on the beach, swim, surf and read books. So I became a bartender and later invented Lock up your Daughters Charters, which was a Barrier Reef sail boat cruise, for a workmen camp in Port Douglas, during a Northern Queensland construction-boom.

    I bought myself time and read allot of classics, while circumnavigating Ozzy 3 times by land (and 1600 miles by sea), plus hitched across the Nulabor Desert alone, with a surf board (that was stupid because I could hardly stand-up and it reduced my rides) but and also rode the midnight train through the heart from Alice Springs, past Ayers Rock, to Adelaide.

    Before I left Australia, after 3 years time to think about who I wanted to be, I came to terms with my disgusting mistakes. I made an oath to always honour fidelity, never inject drugs (unless it’s an absolute emergency), and never hire prostitutes but always treat them as fairly as everyone else. Just those simple things.

    Costa Rica in the 90’s was the Hemmingway’esque period of my life because so much was going in the heydays of Internet Sportsbetting. I was a consultant to one of the titans in the industry, with a staff of 400+ and a gross handle above $1B. Ft. Lauderdale was so close and the flight a single beverage ride, then you land in a truly great country with awesome people called Tico’s and a very charming and traditional San Juan, the capital city.

    In the beginning I liked to rent a room in El President Hotel on the side facing the central bank and famous gold artifact museum. From that Hotel balcony I could look on the roof of a building responsible for $5B/year in Internet gaming revenues, the CR Banco Central. I knew there must be a legal way to connect into that flow, as I think of money as energy not actual stacks of cash paper. To me, Energy begets more energy, and you need to tap into energy to make energy but it all starts with an idea and knowing where the energy is and how to use words to get some.

    My idea was to help other people succeed and recruit to my weakness, determine my strengths and find associates who are sharp at he things I can’t do so well. i.e. spreadsheets, just for an example however in business you need skills multi-task, multi-capable, independent strategic partners. People you can trust and have proven to good to their word, truly accountable and you won’t know for sure until there’s cash on the table, then the truth comes to the light. So you have to try again and again to align with the right people, at the right time, with the right idea.

    Costa Rica was incredible because the best of the best work there. These big operations have incredible leadership and the ranks are filled with exceptional managers from all over the world, who get pulled into the vortex which is online gambling operations. The second oldest profession on the human record and just a mirror copy of wall street, for anyone who wants to cast a stone. What I was amazed by was the legal prostitutes that worked in the big central hotel, which was  the main watering hole for Gringos working in San Jose, and sometimes private jets would bring entire teams for party with the enormous collection of girls that worked there. 

    There’s so many Range Rovers in such a small country that you often wonder what’s really going on here, is this all from coffee?

    When I moved to the magnificent Casa Alta Vista in Escazu, I experienced the very finest of art and culture, as well as world class cuisine, in a replica of a famous building from Europe, with views of an active volcano across the valley. I’ve never lived in such fabulous splendour, Costa Rica rocks!

    My amazing suite at the Alta Vista was not too far from the U.S. Embassy and CR Country Club, with all it’s gated compounds and hidden villas, always a nice drive down the mountain on sunset and into town to enjoy the camaraderie of my fellow Internet web warriors, at the happy hour in the big hotel during the procession of the licensed prostitutes.

    At the Big Hotel these women were not Tico’s, by and large they were from other Central American countries, also Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. I was there because it was part of my job, in that I was boots on the ground and often the client would fly in from Dallas, or legal folks from Miami, which is a nice quick comfy flight, you never know who will arrive on a Friday night happy hour, ahead of a big weekend. The girls would arrive almost like a parade and this was there party place and they controlled it.

    My wife was amazed when I took her there one day, and to meet some of the girls I had met. She always knew it was part of my work, since I’m like an envoy from Miami to San Jose. We had nice table and many of the pros came over and talked to us, they were every type of soul, some were even mothers putting kids through school, or working for their families, many of them are putting themselves through school and I can’t say that I ever met many that were downtrodden, actually the ones who owned cars were the idols that the others girls looked up to, and although this was decades ago they loved to show-off the cell-phones and all the bling.

    My other observation was that when one working girl knows your not a customer and after you’ve been around for awhile, one tells another and they begin to treat you different, more like an ally. Other people treated me differently too, because they knew. The taxi-van driver knew too, she was a good friend and always either drove me everywhere, or organized vans and drivers for my guests and their entourages. The prostitution laws of Costa Rica were designed to protect the girls for health related issues but the laws of the jungle have to protect them from violence, still though they have to deal with allot of drunk and often belligerent men and vile attitudes.

    So who’s at fault, the John or the Jane? How did this whole thing get started and how do we end it? My point is that all people deserve to be treated fairly, no matter what those people do for a living, they are still interesting and often warm individuals with cool stories. Everyone deserves a second chance to make amends. Redemption belongs to us all.

    It’s wrong to take advantage of someone because of a wrong decision they made in the past. That was the path they chose and they’re often happy to take advantage of the stupid drunks, so it works both ways. I meet many people doing questionable things, I never felt sorry for them, how could I, being that I was involved in accepting online bets, that were probably destroying a family back at home, maybe it’s a mortgage payment.

    I’m still close friends with my Ex-wife and she tells the story more times than me, about how cool it was to see the procession of licensed prostitutes who work the big legal hotels of Costa Rica. To give you a clue, it’s where they have sold millions of tee-shirts that are world famous (for keeping the secret) slogan says; “Gone Fishing in Costa Rica”

    I’m no better or worse that you and my greatest weakness is my own weaknesses. The enemy is within, if I delude myself to thinking anything outside of myself can make me feel better inside myself and forget about the giant truckload of mistakes I already made. Most of which were caused by my wanting something, whatever that might have been at the time, once I got it there was nothing about it worth doing again. Now I’m lessening the wanting and seeking peace and atoning for my Costa Rica Confession.

    Costa Rica Confession Photo credit: @CarShowShooter on Visualhunt / CC BY-NC-SA

  • Darkness into the Light

    Darkness into the Light

    Darkness into the Light - Lion Dance
    Darkness into the Light

    Loose cannons sink ships and if the destroyer has big-guns and you’re in a row-boat you ought best to rethink your head-on approach. In order to defeat a bigger enemy we need stealth and cunning and take care of what we say. The words are the weapon and in the war of words the platform with the bigger truth will win, only by precision tactics, word by word.

    It’s horrible to use war metaphors but the fact of the matter is that the beast system is Roman and you must render unto it, if you want to live in Rome. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t render unto God that which is God’s but the thing about surviving in Rome is that you won’t unless you know how to become Roman when the daggers come out.

    In each one of us, we have the dark nature of survival, a primordial instinct to conquer things, no matter what and often at all costs. Therein lays the double edge sword, as we couldn’t exist as a species if we didn’t compete but it can’t be destructive to everyone and everything around you, there must be a symbiosis of teamwork, inclusive of more people, in all steps of success.

    Transparency and open source are the great keywords to express my point on this topic. Today everyone can be an independent contractor and live in almost any country and travel far and wide, enjoying the best of everything the world has to offer. And when you get out there, on the beach or to watch that perfect sunset, you want to remember fondly all the people who you met along the way and try to see them smile in your mind.

    We are the light, each one of us. We have a responsibility to face whatever storm might come next but to remain strong and fast to the rule of law and to treat other people as you wish to be treated yourself. Just those two simple things and we’ll force the darkness into the light.

  • Greed Kills in the Year of the Pig

    Greed Kills in the Year of the Pig
    Greed Kills in the Year of the Pig

    Global Currency Reset (GCR) is happening as 195 countries all belly-up to the trough, the little ones trying to squeeze their snouts into the food, which is gold-back crypto (money). While the big pigs grovel up the lions share and snap and snarl in rage as they trample the smaller pigs into the shit-stained, blood-soaked mud of debt.

    Once the reset is announced then the same scene will play-out over again, this time it will be the public acting as pigs that know there’s not enough for everyone, a myopia sets-in and brother and sister piglets that were once laying in the sun and playing in the pond are now enraged with lethal hatred and not a single sign of care for each other, the love is gone.

    economist global currency reset
    Get ready for a GCR

    People would ask, why didn’t they tell us sooner that they were going to create a new currency, well they did and some people knew but not others. Keep in mind too, that all the media of the world is owned by just 5 conglomerates, controlled by a handful of folks who want to do the right thing and protect the public from harming thmselves, and God forbid, stop working to keep the racket operating.

    In many ways it’s not such a bad thing, this GCR, as it does bring people closer to oneness, in an odd sort of way. Eventually the people will take back control of society and break the chains of bondage to central banking type systems but there needs to be a purge and forging process, in order to pound out something new on the other side.

    Let’s face it, some countries were corrupt beyond any possible reason, or hope for repair and probably Iceland was the only country without widespread corruption. All of them had it embedded since the beginning which has now metastasized in the central banks of all other 194 countries. So this teaches us that a purge must take place and a reset needs to happen in the process that manage the affairs of each and every Government.

    Our systems have failed us, therefore we must each become the change we wish to see and begin acting in the most upstanding way possible, by also helping other people and treating everyone in our path fairly. If we act fairly, then it’s set’s an example and begins to put a line back in the sand, where the rule of law can be defended. I am not law enforcement, just an individual that stands for treating each and every person fairly.

    The key to great new systems, that we could use for collaboration in the development of new societies, and begin to replace these failed systems which are currently in place, is that we each become an integral part of the new justice system. We bring that credo and find others, that prefer to inhabit and respect the rule of law.

    Going forward we must agree to not expect a Nanny state agency to get involved in any more of our grievances. Forget the old system, it’s broken, don’t feed any more problems into the already broken system. We are now the new system, therefore we must learn to solve our difference by ourselves because the commitment we each carry is to the rule of law but none of us is the judge, the new system is the arbitrator, via proxy and consensus, just fair and simple justice of a liquid democracy.

    In other words, in your own sphere of influence, do not allow anyone to be unfairly treated. And if an injustice has occurred, as will happen more and more often, due to a rapidly shrinking money supply, where competition for less and less jobs makes people aggressive and confrontational, then report the infraction, alert your team and carry-on with your own objectives. Do not make enforcement of infractions your new objective, move-on and let the team decide what next steps need to be taken to atone for a mistake. Everything must remain peaceful, avoid conflict at all cost.

    Team building towards liquid democracy, where each cell of the organization, is the same as every other cell and in connects every living soul into a quilt of caring and respectful individuals, all trying to help make things better for those who are nearest us and everyone in between.

    The future societies will be grass-roots, organically grown, community focused collectives, that embrace consensus via referendum and solve problems for people in need, while sharing resources equitably. Hence; the Share the Growth, Liquid Democracy.

    We don’t need to be governed, we need to refocus our thinking and become the change.

  • Q-Anon Rocks Japan

    Q-Anon Rocks Japan

    Q-Anon Rocks Japan

    Thinking Q-Anon doesn’t exists, or is a hoax or bogus theory is like saying 5G has no health risks, as Time Magazine did, dishing up fake news with the propaganda piece called: Everything You Need to Know About 5G where they make the following statement:

    But health concerns circulating online about 5G networks have no basis in science.

    Alex Fitzpatrick is a Senior Editor at TIME.

    Parents For Safe Technology

    The 5G Spectrum Frontiers is a Boon for Industry and a Devastation to Our Health and Privacy – Get more info: Parents For Safe Technology

    Health Canada states: “The department also encourages parents to reduce their children’s RF exposure from cell phones since children are typically more sensitive to a variety of environmental agents. As well, there is currently a lack of scientific information regarding the potential health impacts of cell phones on children.”

    I enjoy wifi and live saturated in waves I can’t see, taking full advantage of sending and receiving data constantly, everywhere I go and every single day of my life. I get anxious if I’m disconnected and freak if my website or email goes offline, almost can’t concentrate on other things if my webs servers fail to delivery my content to the web. I can’t recognize any ill effects of all my life spent soaked in wifi but I choose to take the risk.

    Please don’t freak out about 5G, obviously there’s some good advancement or they wouldn’t have forced it upon us so soon after 3G, then 4G but the concern is that while giant corporation battle for market share and now that China and USA have made it a competition, there may be a tendency to down-play potential risks, in order to win the race for dominance. Just don’t let it be at the cost of another persons health.

    Just to be safe, get the facts from Parents For Safe Technology but I also encourage you to do your own science by using several cellphones and some kernels of popcorn, put the kernels beside a 4G or 3G phone and call it, then put the kernels beside a 5G phone and call that one, as you time the difference. Just by envisioning this experiment you already realize there might be some danger to a baby. Try hard-boiling eggs and ask yourself how sensitive a young person might be, to things we can’t see.

    Q-Anon-Rocks-Japan
    Trump Rally in Japan, May 27, 2019

    Q-Anon is real and necessary because this way, where we go one, we go all. It’s not meant to harm anyone or threaten, except for the evil people who read the codes being dropped, they know exactly what’s being said. Then droves of researchers from all over the world, especially in Japan where they love Q-Anon, search through the posts to determine if “past proves present”.

    Darkness into Light

    It’s fun trying to decode this heaven sent avenger, whoever it is. Who cares who it is? It doesn’t matter because the messages raise consciousness. It can’t hurt to read along and marvel for yourself, don’t make a judgment based on what someone else says. Just keep an open mind, and read the posts to learn from the sophistication of this spy craft and word smith.

    The Deep State treachery must end. I for one believe Q-Anon is a top gun team of expert strategists, with Q level clearance, who know what it takes to win. This elite squad are marching forward, day after day, arrest after arrest. It’s relentless, constant and always anonymous. Boom! Boom! it’s Legion!

  • Cannabis Industry Plastic Catastrophe

    Cannabis Industry Plastic Catastrophe

    Bob Marley's Eyes
    “One good thing about music: when it hits you, you feel no pain” – Bob Marley

    Ask yourself what Bob Marley would think about the plastic packaging of weed?

    Taxing weed is like putting electricity in wires, against Nature, as Tesla demonstrated, forcing buds into plastic containers, little ones, bigger ones, and many with lids like little cosmetic or cream jars, converted to the cannabis industry. The days of the sandwich baggie are long gone, some of these zip locks are specially designed and heavy plastic, so not to let the stink of the weed be known by others. Who would have guessed that a massive industrial plastic packaging industry has now mobilized to grow on scale to destroy us forever with the outcome of the Cannabis Industry Plastic Catastrophe

    Cannabis Industry

    Vancouver could have become the best case study for cottage industry, there were already over a hundred groovy places you could go, to choose a hand grown plant, in a legal environment, and pay low prices if you want. Or sample a selection to the top shelf, even a vending machine with hand rolled joints, plus many had places had dab bars and vapour lounges, this was great for the city because it creates local economy and gets people off the streets, in a very organic manner. The the Gov got involved and killed what had been blossoming. Cannabis culture was still-born.

    Canada Government has now launched an industrial cannabis-plastic-packaging-complex that will bury this planet in more plastic all for more taxes and so they can create less jobs, cut out all the merchants, steal the dreams of countless millions of Canadians, add 46 new laws and include seizure powers, like for smoking and driving you lose your car and that’s just one of the 46 new laws designed to benefit the fraud that it is.

    Funny and sad at the same time is how a drama teacher pretending to be a leader of a country tricked the masses to think the new plan would be unicorns and rainbows so the population signed-up on mass and provided new data points for future profiling and intrusive marketing practices. Like lambs to the slaughter, even smart folks thought; “hooray for Canada” let’s get a legal weed license so we can now get stopped at the border of every other advanced country and immediately tagged if they do let us in.

    Cannabis Industry

    The shops were crushed by the boots of money, greed and power.

    Amsterdam once had the perfect model too, and at one time Los Angeles had over 600 legal dispensaries in the LA basin. I still hold a California license, which I bought on Venice Beach, after a short Doctor examination. The scene was incredible, safe legal and legit. In the early days of California legalizing it looked like it would be a great thing but then like so many things, it was destroyed for the many little shops, so the control could be amassed by just a few powerful brands and that’s the plastic catastrophe.

    Plastic is the wires of electricity, it’s a trick. Grow your own and also support your local dealer and use glass containers, never use plastic when you can help it and stop buying weed online from your Government, take responsibility for every plastic container you have to purchase.

    The greatest slogan of the pot counter culture was to overgrow your government and to outgrow them too. In other words only buy from your friends and if you don’t have any that grow, then maybe you shouldn’t smoke at all, as a matter of fact, that is the best idea and one of the reasons I quit smoking weed, another was it’s now legal so the fun was gone. Oh well, I don’t miss it much and know I’ll smoke again, since it hasn’t harmed me.

    Bob Marley – redemption song

    Old pirates, yes, they rob I
    Sold I to the merchant ships
    Minutes after they took I
    From the bottomless pit
    But my hand was made strong
    By the hand of the Almighty
    We forward in this generation
    Triumphantly
    Won’t you help to sing
    These songs of freedom?
    ‘Cause all I ever have
    Redemption songs
    Redemption songsEmancipate yourselves from mental slavery
    None but ourselves can free our minds
    Have no fear for atomic energy
    ‘Cause none of them can stop the time
    How long shall they kill our prophets
    While we stand aside and look? Ooh
    Some say it’s just a part of it
    We’ve got to fulfill the BookWon’t you help to sing
    These songs of freedom?
    ‘Cause all I ever have
    Redemption songs
    Redemption songs
    Redemption songsEmancipate yourselves from mental slavery
    None but ourselves can free our minds
    Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy
    ‘Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time
    How long shall they kill our prophets
    While we stand aside and look?
    Yes, some say it’s just a part of it
    We’ve got to fulfill the book
    Won’t you have to sing
    These songs of freedom?
    ‘Cause all I ever had
    Redemption songs
    All I ever had
    Redemption songs
    These songs of freedom
    Songs of freedomSongwriters: Bob MarleyRedemption Song lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

    Photo credit: HereIsTom on Visualhunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND

    Bob Marley’s Eyes Photo credit: garryknight on Visual hunt / CC BY

  • Book of Virtues

    Book of Virtues

    Franklin in London, 1767, wearing a blue suit with elaborate gold braid and buttons, a far cry from the simple dress he affected at the French court in later years. Painting by David Martin, displayed in the White House.
    Franklin in London, 1767, wearing a blue suit with elaborate gold braid and buttons, a far cry from the simple dress he affected at the French court in later years. Painting by David Martin, displayed in the White House.
    Franklin on the Series 2009 hundred dollar bill - Book of Virtues
    Franklin on the Series 2009 hundred dollar bill

    Who doesn’t love Benjamin Franklin? What a rock star this man was, first world tour smash hit in Europe, where they were so engrossed by his hilly-billy charm and sharp whit, that he was invited backstage everywhere he went. Ben became a sensation and the entire world wanted to hear what he said next, where he went and who he was hanging with. Brilliant people always find each other more amusing, he was friends with the Avant-garde because he was the original Born in USA, Avant-garde Rock Star.

    Foundational to Ben’s character was his morals, this dude was straight-forward no-bullshit, you can especially see it where he edits Jefferson’s hand in the declaration but that’s another story. The simple reason for Benjamin Franklin’s outstanding qualities as a statesman and ambassador of peace and love, as well as his belief “in God we Trust”, can by grasped by reading one of his first books. Short and simple; Book of Virtues and like a catchy Beatles song, it caught on and never stopped.

    Even if Ben didn’t always live by his own list, at least he knew what the code is. In today’s world there needs to be more common sense ideology about virtue and it’s importance in the survival of mankind. Art, beauty and virtue are in short supply in our culture today. We each need to become the change we want and begin to make the changes in ourselves.

    Benjamin Franklin (center) at work on a printing press. Reproduction of a Charles Mills painting by the Detroit Publishing Company.

    Benjamin Franklin made the world a better place by publishing books to expand knowledge, plus he showed others how to print, franchised the press out to anyone capable enough. Ben knew that knowledge is power but without action it’s useless, so his entire life he kept publishing and helping other people to express themselves. Ben was also a Jedi Master Word Smith.

    In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin created a system to develop his character, check it out here: The Virtuous Life: Wrap Up

    Jordan Peterson explains Virtue, please listen

    Jordan Peterson has been touring the world to get this point to the masses, that we need to hold ourselves to a higher level of personal responsibility. Please watch this speech and share it.

    Virtue (Latin: virtus, Ancient Greek: ἀρετή “arete“) is moral excellence. A virtue is a trait or quality that is deemed to be morally good and thus is valued as a foundation of principle and good moral being. Personal virtues are characteristics valued as promoting collective and individual greatness. In other words, it is a behavior that shows high moral standards. Doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. The opposite of virtue is vice.

    The four classic cardinal virtues in Christianity are temperance, prudence, courage, and justice. Christianity derives the three theological virtues of faith, hope and love (charity) from 1 Corinthians. Together these make up the seven virtues. Buddhism’s four brahmavihara (“Divine States”) can be regarded as virtues in the European sense. The Japanese Bushidō code is characterized by up to ten virtues, including rectitude, courage, and benevolence.

  • Greed Kills, Imagine Carthage

    Greed Kills, Imagine Carthage

    Ruins of Carthage
    Ruins of Carthage

    History is written by the victors and we know so very little about Carthage because their history was destroyed, along with everything else. This part of the Matrix loop that is our world, just manifests again and again in different forms but with the same destructive characteristics, greed and lust for power. Render unto Caesar also means, to many people, behave like a Roman soldier and Carthage must be destroyed.

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    Carthaginian-held territory in the early 3rd century BC
    By Aldan-2[1][2], CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

    Imagine Carthage? the most ideal location in the world, incredible trading partners in every direction, with easy access and transportation on the Mediterranean, connected to supply chains from Africa and Asia but was her Navy that ruled the waves. Carthage must have been awesome, filled with the best traders, scholars, merchants, markets and lifestyle.

    Idealized depiction of Carthage from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle.
    Idealized depiction of Carthage from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle.

    Through sharing a common belief in a rule of law, and through collective ideology, the very best civilization that we never heard of, once thrived. Rome grew, prospered and most importantly, learned from Carthage. Rome loved everything of and from Carthage, as that’s where the best of the best of anything, from anywhere, had to come from Carthage, as it was the cradle of civilization to those who wanted to rob it of it’s very existence.

    The malevolence that drove to the destruction of something so magical, could only be described as pure evil. This same level of anger and lust for acquisition of wealth, prestige and power has now eclipsed those days of demise of Carthage, and the birth of the Roman Empire. The modern day warrior wants his bounty like never before and will do anything to get it and anyone who get’s in the way is going down. Somehow that’s how it translates to modern world business/sales/warfare.

    economist global currency reset

    The Global Currency Reset (GCR) is happening and shrunk the money supply, as massive funds are blocked all over the world, as people desperately try to gain access to their fortunes which are in the account but can’t move anywhere until the GCR is over but they don’t know there’s a GCR happening because it was never in the media, so many people are acting very badly, under duress, due to formerly easy to access money. It brings out the worst in mankind, shrinking resources always did.

    Roman Greed Killed Carthage and is the reason that the Roman Empire was built on the ingenuity and cooperation of the Carthage boat builders, engineers, masons, architects and military strategists extraordinaire until they were deleted from history. However, up until then, and for hundreds of years, Carthage handed Rome it’s worst losses, especially at sea, then one fateful day the Romans captured a Carthage ship in perfect condition.

    Carthage boat yards were beyond brilliant, I urge the reader to learn about the magnificence of Carthage, or what it must have been, especially how they built up their Navy and mass produced ships of war, like a modern day master of an online gaming platform but with even more imagination. Carthage intellectual power was beyond formidable, they were masters.

    The Phoenicians and Carthage. The Phoenicians came from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea; land that is present-day Lebanon. Their homeland was arid and inhospitable for farming, so the Phoenicians turned to the sea to become the greatest travelers and traders of their time.

  • Antarctica Zen

    Antarctica Zen

    Arctic, Sea, Ocean, Water, Antarctica, Winter, Snow

    Zen was born from a civilization that was satiated in materialism. One day when there became so much stuff to own/want, very ornate and covered in bling from the four corners of earth, it all became overload and some genius started Zen, then it became a mindset and almost a movement, which all these years later, makes it legion.

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    Click to see MASSIVE image.

    By NASA on The CommonsGlobal View of the Arctic and Antarctic on September 21, 2005, Public Domain, Link

    Antarctica rocks! Proof that advanced life forms inhabit earth. Clif High and the web–bot told us years ago, then info-spere was slathered with dis-info and heavy recruiting for flat earth, until Linda Moulton Howe and her Earthfiles dropped the Navy Seals whistleblowers Spartan 1 and Spartan 2, nice loud and clear testimony, with valiant Navy Seals to corroborate.

    Must See Video – Mindblowing

    So much more going on that I hold hopes we get a major disclosure from the exposing what they found under the ice in about 2001. The world needs to know what we can, since we’re long overdue for some good news.

    Evidently the building under the ice in Antarctica is very Zen, black basalt and smooth to the touch, as if it were moulded in place. Giant entrance way and doors allow humans to enter, then inside it’s room temperature, even if forty below. The structure is massive, measured in acres, going down miles and perfectly constructed with lighting that seems to come from the walls but there are no wires anywhere and they can find any form of power supply, or understand how, who, what, or why this thing is.

    Ice Wall, Sea Floor, Antarctica, Cold, Ocean, Water

    We are on the dawn of breakthrough if this is released because it may hold the keys to healing technology, free energy and anti-gravity just this three truth bombs and humanity can make great strides very quickly towards solving crisis problems.

    Antarctica Zen

    Zen Earthship on Antarctica is what I’m thinking about, why can’t we live there if we can? Don’t we have the technology to create habitation in sub-zero climates with lousy light source for solar but lot’s of wind and now with battery tech we could live fine there. Here’s the part that becomes Zen, is that a policy be put in place, to anyone who goes there, to not bring things that will be sold there, only bring what you need and leave nothing.


    By NASA on The CommonsGlobal View of the Arctic and Antarctic on September 21, 2005, Public Domain, Link

    Antarctica Photo on Visualhunt.com Sunset photo by Visual Hunt