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 INSIDE … here are some of the articles featured in the May/Jun 2010 Pathfinder. pg 2, Event Horizon pg 2, More about the Cover, expanded pg 3, Healing Prayers for the Gulf pg 3, Obama Should Put BP into (Temporary) Receivership pg 3, Breakthrough Car Engine Designs Getting Outrageous Mileage pg 5, Further Comments on the Gulf Explosion pg 5, The Aquarian Cross, Pt 2 pg 5, "Life is a Battlefield" pg 11, Lucy's Georgia Adventure pg 11, Guidance from our Animal Friends pg 12, Don't Touch that Channel! pg 11, Embracing the Unknown pg 13, Unheralded Evidence for Atlantis (and other ancient civilizations) pg 15, En"gulf"ed in Sadness pg 18, The Living Code, book review Special Mentions, this page NOTE: all graphics appearing on this page are copyrighted. All rights reserved. Includes (not in any particular order): > Soul-Esteem Center > 5th Spiritualist Church of St. Louis > Living Insights Center > Rebecca Wiederker Transformational Kinesiologist > PathwaysBooks, gifts, etc. > Rhonda Leifheit, The SourceRegressions, Medical Intuitive readings, etc. > Pat Tuholske, Shamaness & Naturalist > Faith Parrish, Medical Intuitive > Astrological Assoc. of St. Louis > Samantha Shields, Feng Shui, Clutter Clearing > Cynthia Becker, Psychic > Joyce Brown, Psychic > Earth Wind & Bead Gifts, etc. > Medical Thermography of Metro St. Louis > Danita Phillips, Naturopath & Psychic |
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More About the Jul/Aug 2010 cover Sun Kiss (See opening screen) Top Rose: As editor and graphics person for Pathfinder, I am blessed with much leaway in creating cover backgrounds as I am inspired to do, sometimes creating from scratch, sometimes modifying an existing image or just supplying an intriguing frame for another's work. For the Jul/Aug 10 cover, I modified an existing, royalty-free photo, adding a deeper orangey flavor to the sky with some higher clouds. The image itself is of two birds "kissing" in front of a summery sun. As I typically do, I added layers of framing to augment and complement the central image. Hope you enjoy! – RAJ Roseart, call 314-863-2241, visit Cosmicexpress.com, email plasma@brick.net. I've done poster and other graphic work for folks like Jeannie Breese / InnerMission, Ed Bilger / GREET, Cecilia Nadal / Gitana Productions, Mystic Valley, and many other lights. |
 Original art, "Gaia Speaks." |
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Urgently needed! Healing Prayers for the Gulf Top Submitted by Lea Walters, AIM Reprinted excerpt as "fair use."  Lea: . . . [A]t our spiritual center (June 14, 2010), we read a letter from Dr. Masaru Emoto, who many of you will recognize as the scientist from Japan who has done [amazing] research . . . about the characteristics of water. Among other things, his research reveals that water physically responds to emotions. ~ Right now, most of us have the predominantly angry emotion when we consider what is happening in the Gulf. And while certainly we are justified in that emotion, we may be of greater assistance to our planet and its life forms, if we sincerely, powerfully and humbly pray the prayer that Dr Emoto, himself, has proposed.Top |
Dr. Emoto's Prayer for the Gulf I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings. To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae, and all living creatures . . . I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Another Prayer (offered by editor) Let All The Divine Guardians And Helpers Available To Us Assist In Healing Our Mother Earth's Wounds, Sustain And Protect The Animals And Plants Who Share This World With Us. Let All Creative Minds And Hearts Join In Sealing The Wound (In The Gulf Of Mexico) Created Through Mindless And Careless Human Greed. . . Let Us Demonstrate Our Co-creativity With Miracles Of Healing. Thank You Thank You Thank You! <•> Top |
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Commentary: Is there any reason a profiteering, private interest should continue to put the entire world at risk? Why Obama Should Put BP Under (Temporary) Receivership © 2010 by Robert Reich Top Material obtained from Truthout.org., June 1, 2010. Truthout.org obtained article from Robert Reich's blog. Excerpt reprinted as "fair use." It's time for the federal government to put BP under temporary receivership, which gives the government authority to take over BP's operations in the Gulf of Mexico until the gusher is stopped. This is the only way the public know what's going on, be confident enough resources are being put to stopping the gusher, ensure BP's strategy is correct, know the government has enough clout to force BP to use a different one if necessary, and be sure the President is ultimately in charge. If the government can take over giant global insurer AIG and the auto giant General Motors and replace their CEOs, in order to keep them financially solvent, it should be able to put BP's north American operations into temporary receivership in order to stop one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. The Obama administration keeps saying BP is in charge because BP has the equipment and expertise necessary to do what's necessary. But under temporary receivership, BP would continue to have the equipment and expertise. The only difference: the firm would unambiguously be working in the public's interest. As it is now, BP continues to be responsible primarily to its shareholders, not to the American public. As a result, the public continues to worry that a private for-profit corporation is responsible for stopping a public tragedy. Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written twelve books, including "The Work of Nations," "Locked in the Cabinet," and his most recent book, "Supercapitalism." His "Marketplace" commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes. Top |
Five reasons for taking such action: 1. We are not getting the truth from BP. BP has continuously and dramatically understated size of gusher. In the last few days, BP chief Tony Hayward has tried to refute reports from scientists that vast amounts of oil from the spill are spreading underwater. Hayward says BP's sampling show[ed] "no evidence" oil is massing and spreading underwater across the Gulf. Yet scientists from the Univ. of South Florida, Univ. of Georgia, Univ. of Southern Mississippi and other institutions say they've detected vast amounts of underwater oil, including an area roughly 50 miles from the spill site and as deep as 400 feet. Government must be clearly in charge of getting all the facts, not waiting for what BP decides to disclose and when. 2. We have no way to be sure BP is devoting enough resources to stopping the gusher. BP is now saying it has no immediate way to stop up the well until August, when a new "relief" well will reach the gushing well bore, enabling its engineers to install cement plugs. August? If government were in direct control of BP's north American assets, it would be able to devote whatever of those assets are necessary to stopping up the well right away. 3. BP's [strategies] for stopping the gusher [are] highly risky. (Ed's: Refers to earlier attempts.) It wants to sever the leaking pipe cleanly from atop the failed blowout preventer, and then install a new cap so the escaping oil can be pumped up to a ship on the surface. But scientists say that could result in an even bigger volume of oil –as much as 20 percent more –gushing from the well. At least under government receivership, public officials would be directly accountable for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy. As of now, company officials are doing the weighing. Which brings us to the fourth argument for temporary receivership. 4. Right now, the US government has no authority to force BP to adopt a different strategy. . . .Energy Secretary Steven Chu and his team of scientists essentially halted BP's attempt to cap the spewing well with a process known as "top kill," which injected drilling mud and other materials to try to counter the upward pressure of the oil. Apparently the administration team was worried that the technique would worsen the leak. But under what authority did the Administration act? . . . Asked[recently] whether US officials told BP to stop the top-kill attempt, Carol Browner, the White House environmental advisor, said, "We told them of our very, very grave concerns" about the danger. Expressing grave concerns is not enough. The President needs legal authority to order BP to protect the United States. 5. The President is not legally in charge. As long as BP is not under the direct control of the government he has no direct line of authority, and responsibility is totally confused. For example, listen for the "we" and "they" pronouns that were used by Carol Browner in response to a question on NBC's "Meet the Press": "We're now going to move into a situation where they're going to attempt to control the oil that's coming out, move it to a vessel, take it onshore. . . We always knew that the relief well was the permanent way to close this. . . [Then there is a] third option, which is to contain it. If the new cap on the relief well is a snug fit, then there could be very, very little oil [escaping]. If they're not able to get as snug a fit, then there [would] be more. . . " When you get pronoun confusion like this, you can bet on confusion –both inside the Administration and among the public. There is no good reason why "they" are in charge of an operation of which "we" are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. [Therefore,] the President should temporarily take over BP's Gulf operations. We have a national emergency on our hands. No president would allow a nuclear reactor owned by a private for-profit company to melt down in the United States while remaining under the direct control of that company. The meltdown in the Gulf is the environmental equivalent.< > Top |
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PEERS: WantToKnow.info Breakthrough Car Engine Designs Getting Outrageous Mileage Top Compiled by Fred Burks, WantToKnow Team. Material obtained from WantToKnow.info. Originally titled: CBS News: Students Build Breakthrough Car Engine Design. Where's the Publicity?" Excerpt reprinted as "fair use." Segments rearranged in descending chronological order. | ||
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100+ mpg, 1,000+ mpg, 2,000+ mpg, 5,000 mpg? What would mileages like this do to the fortunes of the oil companies? Shouldn't this natural resource be "owned" by all of us? | ||
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April 19, 2009, CNBC News (classic.cnbc.com /id/30287740) 2,757.1 mpg Achieved at 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas More than 500 students from North and South America were on hand to stretch the boundaries of fuel efficiency. So who came out on top? The student team from Laval University, with an astonishing 2,757.1 miles per gallon, equivalent to 1,172.2 kilometres per liter, won the grand prize. Note: CNBC removed this article for some reason, but it is still available on the Shell website at www.shell.us/home/content/ usa/ aboutshell/media_center/ news_and_ press_ releases/ 2009/ 2009shellecomarathonamericas_ finalresults.html. If students built a car engine that gets over 2,000 mpg, why can't Detroit make one that gets over 100 mpg? CNN, July 2, 2008, money.cnn.com/2008/07/01/ smallbusiness/blacklight.fsb/index.htm BlackLight's physics-defying promise: Cheap power from water Dr. Randell Mills, a Harvard-trained physician and founder of BlackLight . . . claims this electricity will cost less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, which compares to a national average of 8.9 cents. BlackLight is negotiating with several utilities and architecture and engineering firms. The business, Mills says, has attracted $60 million in funding from wealthy individuals, investment firms . . . and it is no longer seeking money. BlackLight's board of directors reads like a Who's Who of finance and energy leaders. And this from www.guardian.co.uk/ science/ story/0,3605,1627424,00.html Randell Mills, a Harvard University medic who also studied electrical engineering at Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, claims to have built a prototype power source that generates up to 1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel. "We've got 50 independent validation reports, we've got 65 peer-reviewed journal articles," he said. "We ran into this theoretical resistance and there are some vested interests here [as well]." MSN, Feb. 20, 2008, editorial. autos.msn.com/article.aspx? cp-documentid=457882 The Loremo's German designers revisited the basics –engine efficiency, low weight, and minimal drag –to create a car that offers fuel-efficiency in the neighborhood of 130 to 150 miles per gallon. The Loremo is likely to dazzle drivers not with its acceleration, but with its ability to drive from New York to L.A. with only three stops at the pump. Not only will it enter mass production next year, it will sport a base price attainable by mortal motorists: 15,000 euros (about U.S. $22,000). After its 2009 release in Europe, the Loremo will be redesigned to reach the North American market the following year. [Ed's: Where is it???] cbs news (www.cbsnews.com/stories/ 2006/02/17/eveningnews/ main1329941.shtml) Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car The star at [recent] Philadelphia Auto Show wasn't a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car –one that combines performance and practicality under one hood. But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades [for] comes from an unexpected source and runs on soybean bio-diesel fuel to boot. A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver's interest. So who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No –just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop program at West Philadelphia High School. The five kids, along with a handful of schoolmates, built the soybean-fueled car as an after-school project. It took them more than a year –rummaging for parts, configuring wires and learning as they went. As teacher Simon Hauger notes, these kids weren't exactly the cream of the academic crop. "We have a number of high school dropouts," he says. "We have a number that have been removed for disciplinary reasons and they end up with us." One of the Fab Five, Kosi Harmon, was in a gang at his old school –and he was a terrible student. The car project has changed all that. "I was just getting by with the skin of my teeth, C's and D's," he says. "I came here, and now I'm a straight-A student." To Hauger, the soybean-powered car shows what kids –any kids –can do when they get the chance. "If you give kids that have been stereotyped as not being able to do anything an opportunity to do something great, they'll step up," he says. Stepping up is something the big automakers have yet to do. They're still in the early stages of marketing hybrid cars while playing catch-up to the Bad News Bears of auto shop. "We made this work," says Hauger. "We're not geniuses. So why aren't they doing it?" Kosi thinks he knows why. The answer, he says, is the big oil companies. "They're making billions upon billions of dollars," he says. "And when this car sells, that'll go down –to low billions upon billions." San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 7, 2005, www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ article.cgi? f=/c/a/2005/09/07 /BUG9NEJD3L1.DTL Magnetic energy? Perhaps. . . "All we know is that we're seeing more energy output than input. Does Goldes realize what's he's saying –that he's perhaps discovered a clean, inexhaustible energy source? "That's exactly what it appears to be," he answered. A handful of other companies worldwide are believed also to be pursuing zero-point energy via magnetic systems. One of them . . . is run by a former scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. According to Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, the Pentagon and at least two large aerospace companies are actively researching zero-point energy as a means of propulsion. Top |
Washington Post, Mar. 10, 2005, www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A21991-2005Mar9 Fans of GM Electric Car Fight the Crusher GM agrees that the car in question, called the EV1, was a rousing feat of engineering that could go from zero to 60 miles per hour in under eight seconds with no harmful emissions. The market just wasn't big enough, the company says, for a car that traveled 140 miles or less on a charge before you had to plug it in like a toaster. Ted Flittner [a Costa Mesa industrial engineer] said, "they have such a brilliant solution they've developed. They've put it on the market and proved it works. People still want it and they're taking it away and destroying it." London Times, Dec. 2 , 2004, times online.co.uk/article/ 0,,588-451038,00.html 100 MPG Car Heralded by London Times in 2002 - Where is it now? Tucked away on the Toyota stand you will find a cheeky little coupée that looks sporty but whose raison d'être is fuel economy, the lowest exhaust emissions and ease of recycling. The ES3 –the initials stand for Eco Spirit –achieves 104mpg in the official European fuel consumption tests, a record for a four-seat car. Not only is it even more economical than the special "3 litre" (three litres of fuel for every 100km travelled, or 94mpg) versions of the Audi A2 and VW Lupo that sell in Germany, but the Toyota is more lively and responsive and would be very acceptable as an everyday car. [More at www.WantToKnow.info/carmileage to learn how this amazing car, which was the talk of the fuel economy car industry in 2002, eventually disappeared.] CNN, July 5, 2005, www.cnn.com/ 2005/ TECH/07/04/eco.car/ Eco-car more efficient than light bulb The hydrogen-powered Ech2o needs just 25 Watts –the equivalent of less than two gallons of petrol –to complete the 25,000-mile global trip, while emitting nothing more hazardous than water. But with a top speed of 30 mph, the journey would take more than a month to complete. Ech2o, built by British gas firm BOC, will bid to smash the world fuel efficiency record of over 10,000 miles per gallon at the Shell Eco Marathon. The record is currently 5,385 km/per liter [over 12,000 mpg!]. Detroit News/WantToKnow.info, June 4, 2004 1908 Ford Model T: 25 MPG, 2008 EPA Average All Cars: 21 MPG Ford's Model T, which went 25 miles on a gallon of gasoline, was more fuel efficient than the current Ford Explorer sport-utility vehicle –which manages just 16 miles per gallon. How can it be that we've had such dramatic, almost miraculous advances in so many fields, while the energy and transportation sectors have made so little progress? Could it be that greed and the desire for economic and political control by the power elite of the world have kept the profit-rich energy and transportation sectors from developing as rapidly as they might have in a more open climate? . . . How is it that car engine design has had only relatively small improvements over the last 100 years? Could vested oil interests prevent key discoveries, like some of those above, from moving car engine design forward? What you can do: > Inform your media and political representatives of this important information. Urge them to pay attention to and promote this and other energy sources and inventions which are being suppressed. > See a revealing, 2-page article on the cover-up of other amazing new energy inventions which could transform our world at www.wanttoknow.info /newenergysources. > Read about a rich variety of new energy inventions reported in major media articles which should be making top headlines at www.wanttoknow.info/ newenergyinventions newsarticles. > Spread this news to your friends and colleagues, . . . so that we can fill the role at which the major media is sadly failing. Together, we can make a difference. <;> See our archive of revealing news articles at www.WantToKnow.info/ indexnewsarticles; emaillist@peerservice.org. Your tax-deductible donations, however large or small, help greatly to support this important work. To make a donation by credit card, check, or money order: www.WantToKnow.info/ donationswtk. Explore the mind and heart expanding websites managed by the nonprofit PEERS network, www.peerservice.org. Top | |
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Read'em and weep. . . Further Comments on the Deep Water Horizon Explosion Chart April 20, 2010 Venice, La. , 9:56 pm cdt, 29n 89w © 2010 by Rose A. Jenkins, editor, Pathfinder Top All rights reserved. Hindsight is "20/20" they say; and looking through the lens of the past several years, many things stand out about the tragic date of April 20, 2010 and Deep Water Horizon. I won't exhaust the reader or myself in listing some of the portents here, but there are several salient points that may bring tears or an "ah ha" to the mind's eye: 1. Ceres is conj. Pluto and the N. Node in Capricorn. Ceres is the dwarf planet associated closely with Earth/ agriculture, etc. Karma in the making, balanced by Karma accrued: Moon (widely) conj. S. Node in Cancer in the 8th house (death, shared resources). Moon/Pluto is COLLECTIVE KARMA. 2. Chiron passed over Neptune before entering Pisces: at 28° Aquarius (collective humanity compounded by collective fog and oil addiction), Chiron at 0°2" Pisces sq. Sagittarius Asc. (sign of "exploration, expansion"). [Ed's ps: In the print article, I indicated that Neptune had passed over the Part of Fortune in Aquarius; that was an error. The Part of Fortune was in Virgo, conj. the MC. A stunning indication that what was to transpire was to be " broadcast" to the world.] 3. Mars in Leo is sq. the Sun at 0°Taurus: Conflagration through heedless and headlong, willful and malign action, or greed-sponsored recklessness. Some puzzling indicators that "should" have been mitigating, ie, Venus sextile Jupiter conj. Uranus may refer to the multiple warnings that were ignored as conditions worsened. This Jupiter/Uranus was, however, opposited by Saturn in Virgo: again, heedless expansion despite dire reasons for not proceeding, etc. Fantasy vs Facts: who needs to pay attention to readings of impending doom when we can keep the well going? Considering keywords for planet/sign placements, it's numbingly apparent that, absent a humble, painstaking Mind, coupled with Right Action, Right Thought, and so on, that extreme foolishness leading to tragic consequences were possible. As an astrologer, I do not believe that Fate is immutable: it took a LOT of selfishness, stupidity, greed, and recklessness to bring this tragegy about. It WAS NOT INEVITABLE, except if only the worst aspects of humanity were allowed to prevail –but it certainly brought extremely painful lessons home to America! Or, more positively, America's Karma impinged on World Karma concerning resources and brought the lesson "home." < > Top |
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