tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90660230317295680552011-08-02T20:28:25.427-06:00What is real? Where is the truth of all the events and actions that happen in our world? Where is the division between illusion and reality. Are we living in a designed and manipulated virtual existence? Where is the answer to that question?Iguana Mountainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11758129072104135879noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066023031729568055.post-73616526382721869362011-01-19T08:07:00.002-06:002011-01-19T08:12:28.058-06:00

Greetings to all…So much time has passed, and I did not write. I take notes, I keep track of my root-home in Wyoming, my second home in Belize, my friends in California (a very old home), New York, Hawaii, and Canada (more homes of different decades!) With all of that time and experience in the background, I come to another point of view (cinematically speaking). I left the United States in

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Why do they(MSM & politicians & experts) call the disasterous event in the Gulf of Mexico a "spill?" The unimaginable amounts of oil and related materials are not "spilling" from an oil tanker or a ruptured storage tank. Would it make sense to call the volcano in Iceland that is upsetting airline flights an ash "spill?"No.  What we have here is an eruption or a gusher, under very high pressure,

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The world is confused. Between ashes and oil, defaults,floods, scams, threats and terror, real and imagined; there is no balance, no harmony or understanding. All is drowned in a sea of words and barely functioning systems. I will try to write often and make some sense of my tiny part of the world.G

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How to win hearts and minds..   According to the legislation, the US government will spend $30 million to expand activities of Radio Free Europe's Persian-language radio broadcasts into Iran. Washington will also take measures to counter Tehran's "efforts to block, censor, or monitor the Internet in Iran" with another $20 million, the ratification said. The Senate also urged President

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So what happened inside the Iranian election? There was only one poll carried out by a western news organization. It was jointly commissioned by the BBC and ABC News, and conducted by an independent entity called the Center for Public Opinion (CPO) of the New America Foundation. The CPO has a reputation of conducting accurate opinion polls, not only in Iran, but across the Muslim world since

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Back in 1978 when things were getting dicey in Tehran, I remember every time President Carter made a  public statement about Iran, tensions increased. The Iranian public gets all the news; much more than the American public, and they are very sensitive to the words of the American president and top government officials.   Now, in 2009, when President Obama makes comments like, "We also say

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I first  worked in Iran back in 1974 on a movie project, later teaching in the National Theatre. I didn't leave until the revolution was well under way in November of 1978. I had a unique point of view being one of the very few Americans who worked inside the Shah's government. And during those years I never knew or communicated with any of my countrymen as they were inside their gated,

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LOS ANGELES -- This week, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.” They called for a moratorium on GM foods, long-term independent studies, and labeling. AAEM’s position

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The world is a series of pictures or states of consciousness. What you are conscious of is real to you because you think and feel it is real. Your world is your very own personal mirror, forever mirroring your images and thoughts. It is your dream or your nightmare. Life is no respecter of the outer, physical you. It does not care if you claim that you are rich or poor, sick or healthy, a failure

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If you haven't read it, how can you critisize? And what if his words are true?"To move in direction of justice and human dignity is like the natural flow in current of a river. Lest we forget the essence of love and affection. The promised bright future of the human being a great asset that may serve our purpose in keeping us together to build a new world full of love, fraternity and blessing. A

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Several years ago, I had a man seeking asparagus for a friend who had cancer. He gave me a photocopied copy of an article,entitled, `Asparagus for cancer' printed in Cancer NewsJournal, December 1979.I will share it here, just as it was shared with me: I am a biochemist,and have specialized in the relation of diet to health for over 50 years.Several years ago, I learned of the discovery of

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“Influential Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks has hung up her journalistic hat and joined the Obama administration, but not before penning a public proposal calling for some radical ideas to help bail out the failing news industry. Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping "direct government support for public media" and creating licenses to govern

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Michael Rivero commented on one of the posts that appeared on his What Really Happened site yesterday…“Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us?” (Matthew 13.54-56).Jesus was part of an extended family. The Bible says

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"Personal liberty, or the Right to enjoyment of life and liberty, is one of the fundamental or natural Rights, which has been protected by its inclusion as a guarantee in the various constitutions, which is not derived from, or dependent on, the U.S. Constitution, which may not be submitted to a vote and may not depend on the outcome of an election. It is one of the most sacred and valuable

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During these troubled days there is so little good news. This project can be a valuable resource.Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:25:59 GMTThe count down has begun for the launch of the World Digital Library which is expected to grant users free access to multilingual material. The website, to be launched on April 21 at UNESCO's Paris headquarters, will offer rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and

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Is there dissonance in your life? How do you deal with it?Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The "ideas" or "cognitions" in question may include attitudes and beliefs, and also the awareness of one's behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing

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 Real World intrudes on virtual fantasies and representations without being noticed; unless it's shaking right under your feet!Tonga Earthquake and VolcanoDaily Sun: 21 Mar 09The sun is blank--no sunspots.Credit: SOHO/MDI   Sacramento, CAParisMarch 20, 2009

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Mr. Gatto offers some serious things to think about..."Information Clearing House" -- The United States continues to show its ignorance to the rest of the world by grouping everyone into friends, enemies, and potential friends or enemies. This translates loosely into categorizing the nations or cultures around the world into friend or foe. The worst part of this whole scenario is that many in

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Between 1645 and 1715, sunspots were very rare and temperatures were low. Then sunspot frequency grew until, between 1930 and 2000, the Sun was more active than at almost any time in the last 10,000 years. The oceans can cause up to several decades of delay before air temperatures respond fully to this solar "Grand Maximum." Now that the Sun is becoming less active again, global temperatures have

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The sun is blank--no sunspots. Credit: SOHO/MDIFrom Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. discussion about global warming... First we must recognize the total atmospheric inventory of all greenhouse gases. Of the greenhouse gases, water vapor represents about 95% of the total. This is usually ignored for unexplained reasons. This also presents a major problem for the AGW people. If water vapor is 95% of the

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Over and over we hear and read “Global Warming, Climate Change.” This week the seas are rising, the ice is melting; carbon footprints are slamming down amongst proposed taxes, lifestyle modification and computer chips for cows, chickens, sheep and goats. Science is twisted, reworded into a kind of monster wisdom that can’t be mistaken or challenged because there is a “consensus.”  Michael

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"Our concept of the past is very much an illusion, as much as our concept of the future. This is not to say that I don’t believe events actually happened, of course, but that our present perception of them is very much removed from the events themselves. So this is why, in the case of history, there is a great deal of leeway for delusions, illusions, lies and frauds to insinuate themselves in

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"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But

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Virtual meets RealEarlier this morning for just a few moments the value of gold registered on the screen as $999.09/oz., during the day it passed $1000. Human energy rushes to safety from a virtual world that shifts and rumbles under its feet.From the world of Global Warming:  The warmly created virtual world chills just a bit.A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the

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In the past (that was one minute ago) I sat looking at a blank, white screen. Thirty seconds ago I typed, "We are living in a Time Machine." Seconds later those moments were all part of the past; my past…and ultimately, your past. As you read this on the blog it will be sometime in my future; possibly tomorrow or even several days from now. My written voice is coming to you from the past, but I

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Centered alone in spirit, Complete in surety of the sun’s rising, Golden edged clouds precede, Sharp beams cut through sheltering branches, Leafless in winter’s mantle of white pure snow, The Earth-world waits, Teeming with expectation. Complexities as diverse as those within the plant-insect domains, Emerge to seize the creative imagination, Of those who would see the truth, Truth

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Making the world "appear" to be more comfortable has become part of this less-than-real existence.... The unemployment rate reported in the US media is a fabrication.Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that "during the Clinton Administration, 'discouraged workers' those who had given up looking for a job because there were no jobs to be had--were redefined so as to be counted

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“If you spent a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you would have spent three-quarters of a trillion dollars. A million secondsis about 11.5 days. A billion seconds is about 32 years, and a trillion seconds is 32,000 years.” - John Allen Paulos, Ph.D., Math Prof., Temple Univ.

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We've talked a lot lately about what compromises a Virtual World. One of the ways is total immersion in a computer created world either as a social type of environment or as a multi-user war or strategy game. Some of the most popular are the online creations, some having hundreds of thousands of members.   If you don't think this virtual world stuff is serious, take a look at this CBS Evening

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Do we live in a hyper-materialistic driven environment?  And how does this conflict with our spiritual self?   These days there is  a mind-numbing volume of supposedly important persons  expressing their opinion or even more impressive, their absolute belief about how to "restore the economy."    Now, is it possible that some of these folks are living in a kind of virtual world that has

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A virtual world has all the elements of the world we live in. The only difference is that the world is created by one person or a small group of people for the purpose of achieving a goal; sometimes not for the good of man and sometimes for improving access to a special world that does not recognize time and distance.  In the myriad of electronic, digital virtual worlds, travel is unlimited,

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What is creativity and where does it come from? (Looking at a very small portion of the human brain's purpose and functions, but one of supreme importance.) How's this for a starter... Everything that is man-made in the physical world begins as a thought-idea in one (or many) human minds. Bursting into THE MIND, perhaps at the speed of light, AS AN IMAGE; maybe indistinct, rolling around

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Welcome to the Virtual Reality Time MachineYour Window to the World is what?Where do you get your information? How did you arrive at your beliefs? If you are an American or British or perhaps Canadian, how do you react to something like: "The country is simply busted. Its financial obligations are unpayable, its asset prices are illusions, and the great undertaking in Washington, New York is to

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