Peder B. Helland, "Dance of Life"
Fantasy music for relaxation and meditation.
Absolutely beautiful!
Be kind to yourself, relax, and savor this at full screen!
So, we rise from the rubble...
Sunday, January 10, 2021
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Spooky shapes seem to haunt this starry expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds faintly visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, they lurk at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away.
Over 2 light-years across the ghostly nebula known as vdB 141 or Sh2-136 is near the center of the field. The core of the dark cloud on the right is collapsing and is likely a binary star system in the early stages of formation."
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101030.html
"The Message of Pain: Valuable Information"
"The Message of Pain: Valuable Information"
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Both emotional and physical pain are messages that we need to stop and pay attention. When we feel pain, our first impulse is often to eradicate it with medication. This is an understandable response, but sometimes in our hurry to get rid of pain, we forget that it is the body's way of letting us know that it needs our attention. A headache can inform us that we're hungry or stressed just as a sore throat might be telling us that we need to rest our voice. If we override these messages instead of respond to them, we risk worsening our condition. In addition, we create a feeling of disconnectedness between our minds and our bodies.
Physical pain is not the only kind of pain that lets us know our attention is needed. Emotional pain provides us with valuable information about the state of our psyche, letting us know that we have been affected by something and that we would do well to focus our awareness inward. Just as we tend to a cut on our arm by cleaning and bandaging it, we treat a broken heart by surrounding ourselves with love and support. In both cases, if we listen to our pain we will know what to do to heal ourselves. It's natural to want to resist pain, but once we understand that it is here to give us valuable information, we can relax a bit more, and take a moment to listen before we reach for medication. Sometimes this is enough to noticeably reduce the pain, because its message has been heard. Perhaps we seek to medicate pain because we fear that if we don't, it will never go away. It can be empowering to realize that, at least some of the time, it is just a matter of listening and responding.
The next time you feel pain, either physical or emotional, you might want to try listening to your own intuition about how to relieve your pain. Maybe taking a few deep breaths will put an end to that headache. Perhaps writing in your journal about hurt feelings will ease your heart. Ultimately, the message of pain is all about healing."
The Poet: May Sarton, "Unison Benediction"
"Unison Benediction"
"Return to the most human,
nothing less will nourish the torn spirit,
the bewildered heart,
the angry mind:
and from the ultimate duress,
pierced with the breath of anguish,
speak of love.
Return, return to the deep sources,
nothing less will teach the stiff hands a new way to serve,
to carve into our lives the forms of tenderness
and still that ancient necessary pain preserve.
Return to the most human,
nothing less will teach the angry spirit,
the bewildered heart;
the torn mind,
to accept the whole of its duress,
and pierced with anguish…
at last, act for love."
~ May Sarton
"I Would Rather Have..."
"When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair."
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
Greg Hunter, "Dark Day for America – Will Trump Strike Back?"
"Dark Day for America – Will Trump Strike Back?"
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Journalist Alex Newman says if you think the certification of Joe Biden as President means it’s over, you are wrong. It is not over, and the Deep State coup plotters are afraid of President Trump invoking something called the “Insurrection Act.” That act allows him to stop a coup or an attack on America by using the military or militia. Trump has said that he has tried to overturn the fraudulent election by all legal means and has failed. Newman says, “Former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) General Michael Flynn says he is 100% sure Trump will be President for the next four years. He said it was a ten out of ten. Flynn knows things we don’t know, and Flynn is dealing with the President on a regular basis. The President has to understand that if he walks away, they are never going to leave him alone.
It’s a dark day for America. There are a lot of people that think the President is considering various options (such as the Insurrection Act). I get the sense that the Deep State swamp monsters are absolutely freaking out. There are a few reasons why I say this. One is the hysteria of removing the President under the 25th Amendment, and if that fails, then going for an impeachment. Why? If you really believe the guy’s gone in two weeks, if he’s been defeated and you’ve got him in checkmate and there is nothing more he can do, why are you so anxious to get him out of there? I think they are worried about massive declassification.
I also think there is something else. Several former Defense Secretaries have written a letter and told the President that he should not invoke the Insurrection Act. Some generals that I was recently on a call with say he must invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t know what he’s going to do, and I am not making any predictions, but I do think there are many powerful people in Washington that are terrified of what he might do in the next two weeks.”
Newman also says, “If Trump manages to pull it off and stay in, it’s still going to be a very, very rough ride. If Biden does get in, it’s not going to be a rough ride just for the short term, but it may be the end of our constitutional republic as we have known it. We don’t have to speculate about that either. If they just do the things they have said they are going to do, it’s the end of America. Say hello to the ‘Great Reset.’ Say hello to what they call the New World Order. Say goodbye to your liberties. Say goodbye to your religious freedom. Say goodbye to your most basic freedoms, your ability to earn a living, your ability to speak freely, your ability to elect your leaders, your ability to worship God, your ability to defend your family. We are talking about the most basic and God given rights we have taken for granted in America for way too long. They are going to be gone.”
In short, a second Trump Presidency means freedom and liberty preserved, and a Biden presidency means the end of America."
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One
with journalist Alex Newman, author of the new book “Deep State.”
"Covid-19 Pandemic Updates 1/10/21"
"Covid-19 Pandemic Updates 1/10/21"
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JAN 10, AT 11:00 AM: "World Nears 90MM COVID Cases As US Suffers Worst Week Yet: Live Updates"
JAN 10, AT 10:15 AM: "Another "Mutant" COVID Strain Discovered In Japan As Greater Tokyo Outbreak Worsens
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Jan. 10, 2021 2:07 PM ET:
The coronavirus pandemic has sickened more than 89,986,500
people, according to official counts, including 22,321,995 Americans.
Globally at least 1,930,100 have died.
Jan. 10, 2021 2:07 PM ET:
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"The COVID Tracking Project"
Every day, our volunteers compile the latest numbers on tests, cases,
hospitalizations, and patient outcomes from every US state and territory.
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Every day, our volunteers compile the latest numbers on tests, cases,
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"Compassion..."
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. "
- Frederick Buechner
"Housing Crash Is Coming! $10 Trillion Housing Debt Heading To Economic Collapse & Stock Market CRASH"
"Housing Crash Is Coming! $10 Trillion Housing Debt
Heading To Economic Collapse & Stock Market CRASH"
by Epic Economist
"Will the housing market crash happen in 2021? The housing market has been through a wild ride over the past few months. While some cities have seen an unprecedented upsurge in housing demand, others are registering record-high vacancies. For that reason, analysts have been arguing that the roaring days of the housing market were mostly boosted by the extraordinary amount of fiscal stimulus, as well as the extension of the forbearance period and the foreclosure ban, therefore, the frenzy experienced so far won't last much longer.
Considering millions of Americans remain jobless and without any prospects of when or if they will ever regain their jobs, high delinquency rates might prompt a wave of foreclosures, which means the enormous price bubble will become unsustainable and inevitably pop. That's why, according to recent reports, home buyers and sellers are getting increasingly pessimistic about the future of the housing market in face of the decrepit state of our economy. And that's what discuss in this video.
Tens of millions of borrowers who received mortgage forbearance have now gone ten months without meeting their mortgage payments. According to a Blck Knight Inc. report on the state of mortgage delinquencies, the national delinquency rate is a full three percentage points higher than pre-outbreak levels while seriously past-due mortgages total 1.8 million above pre-outbreak levels.
Furthermore, several other sources have been confirming that the real estate market is indeed on the path for a correction. According to Fannie Mae's reports, until the first half of 2020, approximately $203 billion of the loans guaranteed by them were in forbearance. From the $100 billion in bubble-era loans that remained guaranteed by Fannie Mae, 15% were still in forbearance. In its 2020 second-quarter financial report, the agency revealed that there were $194 billion of seriously delinquent loans late in payment for over 90 days.
Although skeptics may argue that delinquency rates for subprime mortgages were much higher during the 2008 crash and home prices have rebounded since 2012, experts say this recovery was completely artificial. The mainstream media keeps trying to sell the idea of a strong housing-market recovery during the past few months. But that isn't what real data shows.
According to online broker Redfin, nationwide, last year, home sales were up by just 5% compared to 2019. In fact, in New York City, sales collapsed by 35% in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. More concerningly, listings surged by 65% in the Big Apple as residents continued to run away from the lockdown calamity.
Another evidence of a downturn in the market can be seen in the percentage of home sellers who had to drop their asking price. The Redfin research found that in San Francisco, 24.5% of owners reduced asking prices, and other big cities, including Chicago, Philadelphia and New York also saw a higher percentage of reduced listing prices compared to a year earlier.
For that reason, buyers and sellers reported feeling significantly less confident about making a deal in December of 2020, according to a monthly survey by Fannie Mae. The number of respondents who affirmed it was a bad time to buy went up to 39% from 35%. When it comes to selling, the number of those who said it was a bad time to sell increased to 42% from 33%.
In short, home sellers know that making a deal right now means that they will have to make some concessions and probably lose money. As for consumers, they have been feeling less confident about the housing market because they are also feeling less optimistic about the U.S. economy. As lockdowns linger, and jobless property owners can't afford to meet their mortgage and rental debt, the housing market will continue to be backed by unrealistic prices in a volatile environment. There's no way it can reach an actual recovery while based on billions of debt and sparse price spikes.
Small landlords have been devastated by the lockdowns. The percentage of landlords who received a full rent payment from their tenants fell to 55%. Taking into account that there are at least 15 million properties owned by small landlords all over the nation, and many of them were already having financial setbacks even before the lockdowns began, unless a miraculous economic recovery takes place overnight and reinserts all of their tenants into the job market, the housing market is about to witness the same scene seen during the 2008 crash: a fire sale of properties of jobless and low-income owners and landlords that will trigger the burst of the sacred housing price bubble and lead the market to a dramatic correction of unprecedented proportions. This is America, and as always, someone has got to pay. Be ready for the housing crash!"
"We Are All Of Us..."
"We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow
of a giant question mark that refers to three questions:
Where do we come from?
Why?
And where, oh where, are we going?"
- Tennessee Williams
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"You're dying right now. Right this minute." He looked at his watch, said, "Right this second," then tapped it with his finger. "See there? That second passed. It's gone. Not gonna come again. And while I'm talking to you, every second I'm talking, a second is passing. Gone. Count them up. Count them down. They're gone. Each one bringing you closer to your dying time. "
- Billie Letts
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"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make,
who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
- Stephen Levine
"The Real Damage..."
"The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves - or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn."
- Sophie Scholl
"Dazed Lemmings Can't Bridge The Reality Gap"
"Dazed Lemmings Can't Bridge The Reality Gap"
by Zen Gardner
"Ever wonder why people can't make the leap to real awareness of what's going on? Why do so few people seem to care about the dangers of the unreported Fukushima radiation levels and toxic debris washing across the pacific? As the Orwellian American police state sweeps into place, the economy crumbles, Americans celebrated their entry into a brave new year with minimal awareness of the true dangers already dissolving their health, wealth and chances for survival in an engineered conflagration of mythic proportions that is already descending on their heads.
As the gap between reality and manipulated public perception grows, it may just be too big a leap for many at this point. Having been dumbed-down and unresponsive for so long, it's too much for them to take in. Sad, but again, that's reality. Hey, why wake up when everything's such a bummer? That's the underlying mentality. The thing is, this is a conditioned response. Overload and recoil. And it's been going on a long, long time.
Why? Like the dumbing down effect of fluoride and chemtrails and adulterated food, it eventually suppresses natural responses. When the real alert presents itself, the subject will not be able to react and protect himself. Why all the dramatic end of the world sci-fi movies? Why the emphasis on violence and horror movies and graphic, destructive wars? Why does the news major on the bad events of the day? Why the combative gladiator sports, emphasis on technology instead of humanity, and mind-numbing crass consumerism and sexualization of society? This is deliberate social engineering, and that's the biggie. It's all engineered..and that's the last thing most people want to realize. And it usually is.
The Power of Cognitive Dissonance: The world has become essentially schizophrenic in outlook. Being told one thing while the exact opposite is happening before their eyes for so long, the "dissonance" created by this conflict causes humanity to shut down. America is the perfect example. Ostensibly fighting for "freedom and liberty" we commit genocide and destroy nation after nation. To protect our liberties the government has overturned the Bill of Rights and made the Constitution a mockery. Yet the populace sits and takes it. Why? Too big of a leap. If it turned out they've been completely conned by a massive manipulated agenda they may just completely break down. And subconsciously the horror of that reality is therefore a "no". Even if it were true they're at the point they'd rather not know.
I'll Take Conscious Reality. "Why all the negativity?" is what you'll hear a lot of the time when you bring these things up. The answer, as David Icke often says, is that ignorance is negative. Truth is empowering, no matter how awful it may be sometimes. And at this point in history the more you learn the more negative it may seem, with the Controllers' agenda in full final-phase swing. But so what. Things haven't changed all that much. The purpose of life is to rediscover who you truly are, and that wonderful awakening makes everything else pale in comparison. Our mission then becomes to inform and empower, share and encourage. The same one it always has been. That it's taking this kind of extreme compression to awaken the slumbering masses is really no surprise, and ultimately a gift from the Universe to help people back into the real world... that of conscious loving awareness."
"Awaken from slumber, one and all..."
"Eventually You Understand..."
"That's where it all begins. That's where we all get screwed big time as we grow up. They tell us to think, but they don't really mean it. They only want us to think within the boundaries they define. The moment you start thinking for yourself- really thinking- so many things stop making any sense. And if you keep thinking, the whole world just falls apart. Nothing makes sense anymore. All rules, traditions, expectations- they all start looking so fake, so made up. You want to just get rid of all this stuff and make things right. But the moment you say it, they tell you to shut up and be respectful. And eventually you understand that nobody wants you to really think for yourself."
- Ray N. Kuili, Awakening"
"If You Look..."
"We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy. It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong."
- Robert James Brown
“This Is What An Economic Collapse Looks Like; Depression 2.0; Real Estate Apocalypse Coming”
Jeremiah Babe,
“This Is What An Economic Collapse Looks Like;
Depression 2.0; Real Estate Apocalypse Coming”
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