Category: Places

Bella Coola Valley in the Great Bear Rainforest

The Bella Coola Valley is the Perfect Place to spend your Great Bear Rainforest Expedition. Bella Coola is located in the Heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, on the Central Coast of BC Canada.

This summer, relax with a fishing line in hand, explore a hiking trail, drift a river, hire a guide to watch wildlife, tour petroglyphs & totems, an ocean cruise, air-touring, heli-hiking & swim among salmon.

This valley has a temperate climate that encompasses the Coast Mountains, glacial rivers & inland regions. Tweedsmuir Park Lodge is just one of the incredible places to stay, check out the Great Bear Rainforest photos here.

Yet because Bella Coola lies 100km inland from the outer Pacific, it has much less rainfall than the coast. July through September tend to be dry & sunny.

Journeying to the Bella Coola Valley is a scenic adventure. The Valley stretches 80 km (50 mi) and can be reached by road from Williams Lake, by scheduled flights from Pacific Coastal Airlines & chartered air service, or by BC Ferries or private boat.

Road

There is a 454 km mostly paved road connection by Highway 20 to Williams Lake. The road was built in 1953 by local residents, and features a 15 km ascent from the Valley floor to the Chilcotin plateau, gaining 1600m in elevation to the summit at Heckman Pass, via a number of steep grades & switchbacks. The construction of this road was described in the books “Bella Coola” and “A Road Runs West”.

Air

Bella Coola is served by the Bella Coola Airport (on Highway 20, in Hagensborg), 14 km distant from the townsite which has a 1,280 metre asphalt runway. Pacific Coastal Airlines offers scheduled traffic to Vancouver and Anahim Lake. Charter services by both plane and helicopter are also available.

Marine ferry

BC Ferries provides a vehicle/passenger service in the summer (mid-June – mid-September) to Port Hardy on the northern tip of Vancouver Island. The voyage includes two connecting ferries: the Nimpkish from Bella Coola to Bella Bella then the Northern Expedition to Port Hardy. Reservations are essential as the Nimpkish carries only 16 cars and operates about twice a week. Travellers should be aware that Nimpkish has no amenities and the trip takes 9.5 hours, plus 7 hours on the Northern Expedition. In 2014, the large ferry Queen of Chilliwack which had provided direct service between Bella Coola and Port Hardy since 1995 was cancelled due to provincial government cutbacks.

In 2017, BC Ferries announced the purchase of a 150 passenger, 35-vehicle vessel to again provide direct service between Port Hardy & Bella Coola starting 19 June 2018.

During the rest of the year (mid-September to mid-June), ferry service is provided twice a month and connects Bella Coola to the outlying coastal communities of Bella Bella, Shearwater and Ocean Falls, with passengers able to transfer at McLoughlin Bay (Bella Bella) to a ferry serving either Prince Rupert and Klemtu, or Port Hardy. The sailing schedule varies throughout the season.

Bella Coola History

The Nuxalk people were present in the Bella Coola valley prior to any formal written history of the area. This is confirmed both by oral history that continues unbroken to present day, and by written history of some of the first European explorers of the area.

In 1793, Alexander MacKenzie arrived from the east, completing the first recorded crossing of the continent north of Mexico.

Immigration (non-Nuxalk) to the region was sporadic and often temporary for the next century. A Hudson’s Bay fur trading post was set up at the mouth of the river (the land granted to the post forms the off-Reserve portion of the present-day “townsite”), and a handful of farmers were granted land farther up the valley. The trading trails of the Nuxalk and neighbouring nations became a popular route from the Pacific Ocean to central British Columbia, particularly during the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1860s. In the 1870s, the valley was surveyed as a potential Pacific terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway; (Burrard Inlet was the eventual choice, its selection giving birth to the city of Vancouver).

In 1894, after their previously-existing community in Minnesota suffered an internal conflict, a group of Norwegian Lutheran settlers were given land grants in the valley, conditional upon land clearing and the construction of residences. The land they were granted, as well as other land previously granted to individuals was, in many cases, land that had been occupied by Nuxalk communities only a few decades (or less) earlier. However, a smallpox epidemic had decimated the Nuxalk population, and the survivors had, for the most part, gathered on land close to the mouth of the river (and close to the Hudson’s Bay post). The Norwegian settlement was named Hagensborg and remains one of the main communities of the Bella Coola Valley. Although much of the Norwegian colony’s population did migrate away, others stayed to work in forestry and in the development of the fishing industry. The cannery at Tallheo, across the arm from Bella Coola, was founded by a Norwegian settler who had given up on farming in the area.

These two populations (Norwegian settlers and Nuxalk), in varying proportions, continued to make up the vast majority of the community’s population for most of the next century. However, in recent years, the Norwegian population (or connection to a Norwegian identity) has declined. In 2001, 43% of the population reported “Aboriginal identity”, of which the vast majority is Nuxalk, while only 10% reported Norwegian (or Norwegian-Canadian) to be their “Ethnic Origin”.

When the community of Ocean Falls suffered a massive population decline in 1980/81, due to the closure of the town’s primary industry (a paper mill), Bella Coola became the administrative centre for British Columbia’s central coast. This led to the relocation of the Central Coast Regional District (which, up until that time had been called the “Ocean Falls Regional District”) offices to Bella Coola, and a general centralization of government services such as provincial government regional centres (e.g. Ministry of Forests) in Bella Coola.

Economy

Bella Coola has a more diversified economy than might be expected among a population of its size. Fishing, forestry, public service (government/education), retail and tourism all contribute significantly to the economy. There is some limited agriculture, including an active farmers’ market, processing of locally-caught seafood, a number of craftmakers and artists (including several celebrated Nuxalk artisans) and a fish hatchery. The only financial institution in Bella Coola is a branch of the Williams Lake & District Credit Union, heir to a sixty-plus-year tradition of the Bella Coola Valley Credit Union.

In popular culture

In the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk, the main character, Bruce Banner / Hulk concludes the plot by escaping to Bella Coola, where he attempts to control his transformations. Significant footage for the film was shot in and near Bella Coola, though only very limited amounts were retained in the finished product.

Bella Coola Photo credit: Antiller on VisualHunt.com / CC BY and Valley Photo credit: mikowichs on Visualhunt / CC BY-ND

July 10, 2019
Palm House at Adelaide Botanic Garden

The day I graduated bartender school in South Australia I walked into the Botanic Bar in Adelaide in the middle of the afternoon and asked for the manager, the burly dude behind the bar said, you’re talking to him, to which I responded; “I now have my State license and mixology degree to tend Bar, when do I start?” (….he started laughing) and said “you just did”.

The Botanic Hotel was built when the most amazing Botanic Garden on earth was created in the 1880’s. The hotel is across the road from the main entrance to the Garden and home to the famous Botanic Bar, where I had my first bartender job. The Adelaide Botanic Garden was amazing to me, I went every day to discover everything about the place.

Previous to Adelaide I had been living in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia working for a company from Adelaide, and living on the edge of a botanical garden. From the second floor I could look across the tree tops and down to the Timor Sea, on the seashore is a massive white pyramid of the Diamond Beach Casino, Resort Hotel.

Walking across the gardens of Darwin, then Adelaide I was in awe of the collections and how well marked and organized everything is, there were rarely anyone in these magnificent places, that’s what started my lifelong passion for botanical gardens. At any rate, when the Darwin job was done, I was invited to work in Adelaide.

Uluru (aka Ayers Rock) – Northern Territories – Australia

The Ghan was another great adventures of my life, it’s an Australian passenger train service between Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin railway. Operated by Great Southern Rail, it takes 54 hours to travel the 2,979 kilometres (1,851 mi) with a four-hour stopover in Alice Springs. There are no words (now) to describe the experience.

Youth Hostels in Adelaide were excellent and full of young travellers from all over the world, the tip for the best rock bars could be found in the hostels, and so could willing party-goers, life was grand. Then a great opportunity arose to work part-time, on the restoration of an old house that belonged to the brother of a friend I met in Darwin. My work was paying my rent, I really enjoyed the project because it was like my own house.

The owner, was a middle aged bachelor of Italian descent, said his family were mob from Calabria and he introduced me to his Mom, whom he lived with, she couldn’t speak English but made perfect tomato sauce and the best Italian food around. Lou drove an Alfa Romeo convertible, bet on the horses compulsively and liked to smoke heroin off of tin-foil, sucking the smoke through a BIC pen. I tried it a couple of times and both couldn’t afford it, and also got turned-off by how fiendish my friend became.

That grand house in Adelaide was over 100 years old, still had the same tiles most everywhere and really good bones as they say in the house restoration business, with high ceilings, big heavy old windows and like many Ozzy homes had great wide covered veranda all the way around the house. I really learned from working with the Italian, he dropped by almost every day and gradually we brought that house back to it’s original grandeur.

Palm House, Adelaide Botanic Garden

Speaking of Grandeur, in the Adelaide Botanic Garden is the Palm House it’s an exquisite, painstakingly restored Victorian glasshouse imported from Bremen, Germany in 1875. It is thought to be the only one of its kind still in existence and also there’s a huge conservatory and fabulous grounds and perhaps one of the best plant collections anywhere, due to climate.

From my 100 year old house in Adelaide, I could walk to the Botanic Bar in about 20 minutes, across the gardens and my house became a wonderful haven, especially from the heat, as there was something about those old masonry houses that were built to deal with the almost insane temperatures. Did I say that South Australia is hot?

Beaches in South Australia may be some of the best in the world, a little ways to go in order to reach the better ones but it’s a slice of nature and raw beauty that I wasn’t prepared for back then. As I met some homesteaders who lived in hills above the city on cottages farms, and many musicians started to enter my life, also a few great girls, one of whom stole my heart.

The girl from Broken Hill worked in a bank in the day time and worked with me at the Botanic Bar in the night time. That Bar was busy every night of the week and it was hard to find waitresses that could handle the job, it was among the more intense places I ever worked. We really had to use teamwork and keep good math, remember drink orders and move fast, avoid spilling and deal with inebriated revellers. The after-parties for staff were legendary, like a victorious band that could party like rock stars.

One night there was a knock at my window, early in the morning, on a night I wasn’t working. It was my girlfriend with another cocktail waitress from the bar, they were drunk, so I let them climb through the window and into my bed. The reason I remember was because this was at a time when I was sober and intimidated by these two bad girls, so instead of doing what would have been obvious, I got us all into the kitchen and made more drinks and totally destroyed the vibe and the fun we were having.

That night never left my mind, as I think the girls were curious about each other and wanted to make-out but back in the 80’s it was so unheard-of, or much more rare, and I was prudish and lacked knowledge. The other thing is, we have a tendency to remember only the ones that got away, and like a good classic movie, those imaginary love scenes never left my mind.

Something else happened to me in that house but I’ll never know if it was the bourbon or delusion. Only all this time later do I think that I had a higher consciousness experience, after being alone so much in that old house and after a long extremely hot evening, burning candles and playing soft trance music, pacing around the huge empty house and coming back to stare at my face in an ancient mirror, I saw myself. I knew something unusual had happened, it’s etched in my mind to this day. In an instant I became without time, completely separate from my body, while in it.

What I saw was myself, looking back at myself down the ages. I knew that I would remember that moment for the rest of my life, as I recall it to you now. I saw that I had no age and there was no concept of time, in a place where infinity exists and everything and everyone is known.

Now I’m almost 60 years old and on at least 3 different occasions I’ve experienced the same profound sensation, where all of a sudden I was aware of the universe, inside my own mind. In that place of ultimate peace there’s a deep sense of relief and an understanding that I knew all along but had neglected to remember. I seek that place daily, the task gives me purpose and every now and then, I find this inner place of comfort that I discovered when I was 22.

A Course in Miracles, of which I am at Lesson #296, teaches not to think about the past, let it go and not to worry about the future. For the most part I remain in the Power of Now but occasionally I smile to reflect on how naive I was as a young man, stupid almost but with great curiosity for the world and always on a quest for adventure.

Palm House Photo credit: MargaretDonald on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND Ayers Rock Photo credit: pallotron on Visualhunt.com / CC BY-NC-SA

July 5, 2019
Ocean wave blurred by motion, Hawaii, USA

A wave building on Oahu’s North Shore, Hawaii

The North Shore on Oahu is a great place for photographers to capture vivid images of the Pacific in motion, as the beach’s legendary monster waves rise up before breaking on the beach. This long-exposure photograph, shot early in the morning, shows off the power and motion of the water as it rises to form a curled wave. These waves make the North Shore one of Hawaii’s prime surfing destinations. When his ship, the HMS Discovery, was navigating the South Pacific in 1778, British explorer Captain James Cook noted the locals out in the waves riding on boards. Surfboards date back to at least 500 CE and possibly much further back in history.

My Hawaii expedition was so mind expanding that two weeks changed my life irreversibly and the memory of standing on Mākaha Beach and feeling the waves breaking without even being in the water is amazing. The North Shore was magical in the late seventies, the crazy thing was that the previous day I had been skiing in BC, on Boxing day I flew from Vancouver to Honolulu like an a complete newb. Up until then I’d never been anywhere except ski resorts. This was my first taste of the tropics.

The crazy brother combo, my friends Crispy and Crusty had gotten me into this weird predicament, in which I had smoked the deadly Krypto Pakalolo earlier in Honolulu and not being used to it, plus feeling like the only person not sun-tanned brown, I was the inverse and felt like a marshmallow at a bonfire, anyway, so there I was in a rented car on the far-side of the island from the city where I had arrived, buying a big sack of Pakalolo, from surf bums at the beach.

Mākaha Beach Park with the slopes of the Waianae Mountains on the right

The idea my amigos had learned from Waikiki Beach experience, and having been to Hawaii several times, was that we could buy enough weed from the surfers on the North Shore, to last us through New Years eve. Thank goodness for the skiing sunglasses, to hide how ridiculously high I was. Finally the score was made and we made our getaway, then stopped ten minutes later to indulge and to adsorb what was happening.

All of a sudden cars started skidding to a stop in the parking lot, one after another, with young kids with surfboards, like a race was on and we were at the finish line to witness, what we later learned was high school had just finished for the day and this was the locals favourite spot. Without intending to be, we were standing in front of Pipeline.

The day I watched a huge break after a Christmas storm and the sight and feel of what we watched left an indelible print in my brain. I lived the next thirty years near a beach in the tropics of Australia, Florida, Costa Rica and Brazil and hundreds of beaches in between, even went to Mavericks near Santa Cruz once, to pay respects, but never seen anything quite like the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii.

June 30, 2019
Pumalín Park and Patagonia Park in Chile

If I were to have a bucket list, and I suppose I do, now that I mention Chile, it’s been on the top of the list for twenty years. Uruguay, Peru, Brazil and Venezuela but not Chile, Colombia, Bolivia and Argentina (yet). The love of Patagonia clothing company founders were the people who opened my mind to the idea of Chile and now learning about Pumalín Park in a new documentary, I’m enchanted with the wide-open and rugged spaces.

Huinay, Pumalín National Park, Chile

History

Pumalín Park is situated on the upper right corner of the map

In 1991, Douglas Tompkins bought a large, semi-abandoned plot of land in the Reñihue River Valley of the Chilean province of Palena. A mountaineer and conservationist who had been visiting Patagonia since the early 1960s, Tompkins sought to protect the 16,996.6 ha (42,000 acres) tract, most of which was primeval Valdivian temperate rainforest, from future exploitation. After moving to Reñihué to live full-time, Tompkins began developing plans for a larger park, gradually acquiring additional adjacent properties from willing sellers. Ultimately, roughly 98 percent of the park acreage was bought from absentee landowners.

The Conservation Land Trust subsequently added approximately 283,280 ha (700,000 acres) in nearly contiguous parcels to form Pumalín Park, which was declared a Nature Sanctuary on August 19, 2005, by then-president Ricardo Lagos. This special designation by the Chilean government grants the land additional protections to secure its ecological values and prevent development. The Conservation Land Trust later donated the protected lands to Fundación Pumalín, a Chilean foundation, for their administration and ongoing preservation as a national park under private initiative.

While nature-related philanthropy has a long tradition in the United States, large-scale private land acquisition for parks was unfamiliar in Chile, and initially generated skepticism and political opposition. Over the years of the project’s development, confidence has been built, both locally and nationally, as Pumalín Park’s public access infrastructure began serving thousands of visitors annually.

Tourist Services of Pumalín and Patagonia parks in the process of concession

Tompkins Conservation recently donated more than 407,000 hectares to the state of Chile to help create 5 new national parks, including Pumalín Douglas Tompkins and Patagonia parks. The restaurants, lodge, cabins and information centers in these parks will be closed until the selection of a new concessionaire, a process that is being carried out by the National Forest Service (Conaf) through concessions. Meanwhile, visitors can still enjoy the trails.

For any questions about reservations in the cabins of Pumalín or the lodge at Valle Chacabuco of Parque Patagonia please write to the following emails: reservas@parquepumalin.cl or reservas@vallechacabuco.cl

Pumalín Park Photo credit: draculina_ak on VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND Photo credit: fotospagoda. on Visualhunt / CC BY-NC-SA

June 21, 2019
Welcome to the Kali Yuga Harvest

Hindu god Vishnu surrounded by his Avatars 1910

There’s a war on for your mind, as you read these words you are winning. If you agree there’s water damage on the Sphinx and that drill core samples from Antarctica found sea shells from a tropical climate, then you’re ready to learn that nothing new has ever happened, under the sun. There are clues everywhere, that things are just not the way we’ve been led to believe.

A demon of Kali yuga with sword in a painting by Raja Ravi Varma A lithograph press founded by Indian artist Ravi Varma in 1894.

We are in a Grand Solar Minimum exactly on schedule with the procession of the equinox and the ancient Hindu’s knew it this was all part of a timeless cycle that they call a Yuga, which in Hinduism is an epoch or era within a four-age cycle. A complete Yuga starts with the Satya Yuga, via Treta Yuga and Dvapara Yuga into a Kali Yuga. Brace yourself and buckle for the fun.

Kali Yuga (Sanskrit: कलियुग, romanized: kaliyuga, lit. ‘age of Kali‘) in Hinduism is the last of the four stages (or ages or yugas) the world goes through as part of a ‘cycle of yugas’ (i.e. Mahayuga) described in the Sanskrit scriptures. Kali Yuga is associated with the demon Kali (not to be confused with the goddess Kālī). The “Kali” of Kali Yuga means “strife”, “discord”, “quarrel” or “contention”. According to Puranic sources, Krishna’s departure marks the end of Dvapara Yuga and the start of Kali Yuga, which is dated to 17/18 February 3102 BCE.

Attributes of Kali Yuga

Chaurasi Devataon-wali Gai, or “The Cow with 84 deities” by Raja Ravi Varma The demon with sword states, “O human beings, watch the meat eaters in Kali yuga”. The man in the front of the cow with raised hands states, “please don’t kill, the cow is the life source for everyone”. Below the cow, a community of diverse background is sharing milk and milk products. Above the cow, are two Sanskrit verses (shlokas) about the selfless giving by the cow, a virtue like those of one’s parents and the gods. Inside the cow are drawn images of the major Hindu gods and goddesses. This was part of pamphlets circulated by various Agorakshanasabh (“cow protection leagues”) and “wandering ascetics” as a protest against cattle slaughter. For the painting’s history and significance: Pinney, Christopher. Photos of the Gods: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India. Reaktion Books, 2004

Hindus believe that human civilization degenerates spiritually during the Kali Yuga, which is referred to as the Dark Age because in it people are as far away as possible from God. Hinduism often symbolically represents morality (dharma) as an Indian bull. Common attributes and consequences are spiritual bankruptcy, mindless hedonism, breakdown of all social structure, greed and materialism, unrestricted egotism, afflictions and maladies of mind and body. In Satya Yuga, the first stage of development, the bull has four legs, but in each age morality is reduced by one quarter. By the age of Kali, morality is reduced to only a quarter of that of the golden age, so that the bull of Dharma has only one leg.

It came as no surprise to me that ancient mystics were correct all along and handed down their knowledge, generation after generation, until someone like Naughty Beaver came along and put the information into context with other knowledge and the next thing you know we have further corroboration, as if we needed it. Then the good folks from Oppenheimer Ranch Project put the topic to bed, with a lifetime of academic research to decipher any nuance that needed to be correlated. Cataclysm is the means by which the culling of humanity will take place, as it has before….

Kali By Ravi Varma Press (1897, Life: 1848-1906) – http://www.indianartcollectors.com/artist/RajaRaviVarma, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4019385

June 10, 2019
The Great Awakening of Oppenheimer Ranch Project

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The Great Awakening was a process that lasted me a decade as I was awake and aware five years ago but wasn’t clear about the role I was meant to play, in aid of the vital mission, of preparing other people for the change. We’re now in the forest but all these trees are in the way…

Recently I discovered one of the more brutally honest Youtube creators I’d ever come across. Not sure it’s suitable for all audiences because it’s so hard-hitting and factual but then maybe the truth is the best remedy.

Here’s the BIO from the Youtube page and a link at the bottom to his most very awesome website.

Leah and I are two humans who no longer support the inhuman, oligarchic empire model destroying our planet and our true nature as human beings. As activists we decided to do something about it, so we opted out of our former lives to begin anew. We are currently transforming pristine alpine wilderness into a self-sustaining homestead and organic farm in preparation for the upcoming collapse. We plan on developing and executing every single step of the process in open source format for the benefit of all humanity. With our backgrounds in academia and the sciences (climatology, geology, physics, biology, chemistry, and more) we hope to uncover the lies perpetrated by the mass media. Keep up with our progress by liking the Oppenheimer Ranch facebook page (facebook.com/oppenheimerranch). If you’re curious about the name, interested in homesteading, or just want to know what the hell an earthship is or the Grand Solar Minimum, check out the website (www.oppenheimerranch.org)

The Great Awakening Photo credit: begemot_dn on Visual Hunt / CC BY-NC

June 8, 2019
Truth About Crop Circles
Do we categorize crop circles under Art, Design, Projects or Mind? Maybe it involves all? How do you begin to explain these magnificent land tattoos? Naughty Beaver and other people can read these things like breakfast cartoons, so perhaps we should listen to what they are saying about them, besides who does not want to Learn the Truth About Crop Circles?

Let’s start with the newest beauty – Notre Dame of France, Nr Moisselles, France. Reported 1st June, 2019. Images Aéroclub Les Ailerons d’Enghien Moisselles Copyright 2019
- Nearby the crop circle
- Notre Dame of France
- Notre Dame of France
Map Reference: HERE

From the onset there can only be two main considerations; man-made, or ET, on that we can agree, it either has to be one or the other. Humans put them there, or another species put them there. It’s great learning about something that has only the two variables. Let’s take a listen to what Naughty Beaver says about Crop Circles….

When gods Speak To Men. The PI Crop Circle Explained. Naughty Beaver

Personally, I can’t imagine organizing the number of people it would take to covertly make these things, while no-one was watching, doing this over such an extended period of time. Also, people have tried to fake some and are not able to bend the plant stems in such perfect unison, plus human activities are so obvious to researchers, and they can’t find proof.

This is a bad time in human history to discount any ideas provided by someone who legally calls himself Naughty Beaver, or anyone else who has some idea what the meanings of these geometric designs. Can we at least agree that these are coded messages? Also, consider that they’re created by “Extra Dimensional” or perhaps, as the eye witnesses suggest, super high-energy hovering orbs, that appear to be acting collectively as a devices to tattoo the earth, in places that humans will find, record, and decipher.

Scientific community no longer functions as it should, to investigate natural phenomena and to measure, record and hypothesize. Go-ahead; give it your best shot to explain and see if you’re institute of higher learning will grant you a scholarship to study this magnificent bread-crumb trail. Good luck!

Some of us know intuitively that it’s a meaningful and beneficent message. On a much deeper level it’s possible that when star seeds see these markings it triggers in some of us, embedded code to begin preparing for something that all crop circles seem to be telling us, a planet is coming. It’s like the High Electrical Voltage danger warning sign, it doesn’t require allot of imagination.

NOTE: The Research community is well established and contains some of the world’s smartest deductive thinkers. The best and brightest have tried to debunk or solve crop circles.

The Crop Circle Connector is just one of the best but there are many Crop Circle Hunters, let’s start learning the truth about crop circles, don’t you think we deserve to know what they say?

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2019/notre/notre2019a.html

Photo credit: superdove on Visualhunt / CC BY-NC-ND
June 5, 2019
Cannabis Industry Plastic Catastrophe

“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

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.

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

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May 26, 2019
Greed Kills, Imagine 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.

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.

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.

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.

May 23, 2019
Antarctica Zen

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.

Click to see MASSIVE image.

By NASA on The Commons – Global 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.

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.

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 Commons – Global View of the Arctic and Antarctic on September 21, 2005, Public Domain, Link

Antarctica Photo on Visualhunt.com Sunset photo by Visual Hunt

May 22, 2019