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Very important article by Untwine with guidelines about Cintamani-burrying:ReplyDelete
Also don't forget to check out Cobras new update at the end of his Cintamani grid article about how to get one and more important information!Replies
Awesome. Security breach deflected! Event is coming really soon I believe.ReplyDelete
I am very grateful for Cobra's earth liberation movement.ReplyDelete
In my living Area, many people are still suffering because of human relationship.
And then, in my country murder cases and suicides has been reported by media day after day.
Therefore, even if plasma toplet bombs and the head of Yaldabaoth entity remain in some degree, please start EVENT even a day or a hour sooner.
I hope that all people and animals live in peace and calmness as soon as possible.
It shall be
Exactly what does this mean?ReplyDelete
Civilian death toll rises to 484 from US-led coalition strikes in Iraq & SyriaReplyDelete
A new Operation Inherent Resolve report has upped the official civilian death toll of the US-led aerial bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq by more than a third, confirming 484 civilian deaths – while activists claim the figure is several times higher.
"To date, based on information available, CJTF-OIR [Combined Joint Task Force] assesses that, it is more likely than not, at least 484 civilians have been unintentionally killed by Coalition strikes since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve," a statement released on Friday reads.
The coalition analyzes each individual report and bases its official civilian death toll only on those it finds "credible."
According to the coalition, in the period between August 2014 and April 2017, 21,035 airstrikes were carried out, which could be broken down into 44,330 separate engagements.
US-led coalition calls on pro-Assad forces to leave Syrian-Iraqi border
The US-led coalition fighting daesh in Syria has called on forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad to move away from a crossing on the border with Iraq.
Coalition aircraft dropped leaflets onto areas held by Syrian regime forces near the Zaza crossing, in the first incident of its kind.
The leaflets demanded pro-Assad troops to leave the border crossing with Iraq "as soon as possible".
This comes a few days after warplanes of the US-led coalition hit a convoy of Syrian regime's army forces. The convoy was targeted while trying approach the Zaza crossing.
The height of US arrogance in the above report. So the sable rattling continues and seems to be escalating. I guess "soon" and "enough" has the same meaning? Would like to see some serious exposure, and some kind of relief for those hardest hit by the cabal. Venezuela, Yemen, Gaza, Bahrain, the people in places like that are in desperate need. Please ... I will get on my knees and beg, that the LF/RM do what ever you can to cut these people some kind of slack.
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my sentiments, exactly spirittoo.Delete
this brings me to my point about the petrodollar and it's relevance to the carnage being created in the middle east. controlling the flow of, and the global sale of oil is what keeps the u.s. federal reserve in business. the u.s. banks need petrodollars to maintain their survival. without petrodollars, the u.s. federal reserve banking system and the u.s.a. corporate government would have no money. they would become insolvent.
this is why the u.s.a. corporate government is fighting for it's life in the middle east, because it is literally fighting for it's life.
if global demand for oil should fall, so would the wealth of those who control the u.s. federal reserve system.
"For the first time solar is cheaper than coal in India and the implications this has for transforming global energy markets is profound."
in conclusion, i am saying the conversion of global energy demands is the underlying cause for the u.s. presidential administration turning their backs on alternative and renewable clean energy. this may also be the motive behind all the saber rattling being spurred by the u.s. / i'm going "out-on-a-limb" here, but is the cabals' life being threatened the cause for the isidic security breach that cobra keeps reporting?
all the talk about so-called climate change, whether it is real or not, is a distraction being used to divert the public's attention from the shift that is happening in the global energy marketplace.
Syria, Yemen, Lybia, Palestine, Venezuela...Africa are on my mind everyday. I hope the Event comes soon ,for them and Them first.Those people are fighting against the whole West + Israel, Saudi Arabia. Everyday, innocent people are killed. It has to stop soon and very soon. According to one of my sources which I highly trust, the end of all that crazyness will come in November 2018. Does that date resonate with anybody?Delete
Bilderberg group meeting this weekend ... oh to be a fly on the wall! Wonder if the RM has got someone in to listen in ... perhaps Cobra might have some intel on this.Delete
The Bilderberg 2017 Agenda: "The Trump Administration - A Progress Report"
Secretive Bilderberg Group to talk Russia, Trump & 'war on information'
Would like to know what the fear level in the room is ... if any. Or ... are they just as arrogant as the US behavior toward Syria.
Please let us know when it truly is "enough" or "soon" in our terms ... like meaning TODAY ... or in a few HOURS. That's when a lot of us want to know that the RM/LF have had "enough" ... or something will happen "soon". Thank you for your time.
Victory of the Light.
Alfred Webre:
" Focus on the breakthroughs and not the breakdowns. Because you could walk around as say oh did you hear about his break down or look at that breakdown or that is the greatest breakdown ever. And people are not focusing on the breakthroughs. And so searching out the breakthroughs and reinforcing the breakthroughs and posting them and talking about them and keeping them in your mind, is not only how we build the future but we manifest it and make it real. That's what I would say, focus on the breakthroughs, manifest the breakthroughs, and forget about the breakdowns, the garbage men will be here to take them away tomorrow or today or instantly in this rapid world."
[joint interview with Cobra, the Ambassador, Luisa...]
Look at all the US politicians attending this year ... can you say conflict of interest? No regard for the people at all.Delete
No blood for oil. Exnay on the fookescapayDelete
@Unknown ... I understand where he is coming from, but it is difficult to look away and not focus on it when so many innocent lives are involved, and are suffering for no sane reason.Delete
An octopotus,... previous with its tentacles full of strangelets and toplets reaching the entire solar system and ever beyond, but now, luckly, only about a half of head (or who the heck knows how much, after 'mid june'...) remaining with only toplets, is preventing any visible progress,Delete
... and nothing for good will happen on a grand scale until it is completely removed...
And this is what is preventing the positive military to do the movement...
@ marie no date resonates with me. Cobra has made it clear no one in the physical knows the exact time of The Event ... only the Source has that information. It will be a surprise to all including the RM/LF with The Event takes place.Delete
Spiritoo, what I mentioned earlier was not about the Event. It is more about Ascension, going up towards the Light.As this person says: We are going to see even more madness going on in this world and things will slowly get better until it really becomes obvious to all of us by november 2018.This is not channelling. This healer has had contact from up above since her childhood that asked her to help healing people.Last october she was "called" to go to Mount Shasta where she experienced something totally out of this world and since, she tells us more. She is french and in the spiritual circle, she is the only one I fully trust as well as Cobra.Delete
- AnonymousJune 3, 2017 at 3:11 AM
Cintamani grid post has received an update, I don't know if you guys have seen it...ReplyDelete
Thank you Cobra.
One way in which us as surface population could be greatly helped, and put in a position of making a greater difference in the ascension process and the end of suffering we are enduring in this present stage of reality, is through sustaining the exposure process of the actions of the dark forces.
Light forces can reach far beyond humanity's conventional means of detection and exposure regarding all activities that on a small o large scale are hindering the full expression and the ascension process of free willed beings on earth, whether these activities be undesirable, unethical or far worse.
As mankind as a whole, as well as people in key places of power, are starting to act according to their conscience, great benefit would come from uncovering negative hidden processes of resource-draining, sabotage and deception that may be deeply rooted and hidden, thus placing surface population in a position to take appropriate action for good.
We all are in dire need of seeing these issues being tackled, and we are in dire need of change in our lives and relief.
Victory to the Light!
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Trump Cancels Paris Protocols...Yeaaaaa
William Dismount
an appeal for help to the Light Forces and the Resistance Movement:ReplyDelete
Sending love enlightenment power protection and support to all beings places and situations in need. Amma. Thank you light forces. You are magnificent. We are all magnificently powerful together. Victory Now. Yes to global enlightenment now.ReplyDelete
Cobra update: Cintamani Grid. Since my last Cintamani update, the Cintamani grid on the surface of the planet was strengthened significantly.ReplyDelete
One batch of Cintamani stones is now also ready for those Lightworkers and Lightwarriors who do not have money to buy one. They will receive the stone for free, they will only need to pay actual shipping costs. If you are from Asia or Australia and would like to receive your stone, please contact
People from North and South America can contact
People from Europe and Africa
can contact
For those interested joining the planetary Cintamani burying project, detailed instructions are posted here:
Just a short remark, do NOT bury your personal stone.Replies
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Cobra, what can you tell us about the alien lady Asket, her race,...
[posted in Cobra questions PFC, but never asked in an interview...]
All this earthling 'spiritual development' is a huge mysery...
All!... All!... All!... All!...
Monday, April 15, 2013
Mystery Schools
Before this planet was invaded 26,000 years ago, Ascended Masters walked freely among humanity and kept the connection to the presence of the One intact. Their mystery school was located on the main island of Atlantis:
The Asceded Masters are beings of pure Light and Love who have evolved beyond duality. You can read a very good description about their work and activities on our planet here:
The Ascended Masters retreated from the surface of the planet as it was occupied by the dark forces one Platonic year (26,000 Earth years) ago. Main Atlantean mystery school went into slow decay as the direct contact with the Ascended Masters was lost. At a certain point it was moved into Egypt where initiation temples and pyramids were built in the area between Saqqara and the Giza plateau. At the final deluge of Atlantis in 9564 BCE all Atlantean mystery schools were destroyed and most of their knowledge and wisdom lost.
Aurora 2012: A Manual for Preparedness by Ishtar Antares is a deeply moving and profoundly uplifting book about our soul and our planet's future. Not many seem to understand what 2012 is really about. Yes, 2012 is the end of the cosmic cycle. But it is a time that deep in our souls we have all been yearning for...a marker in time deeply encoded into the very essence of our beings...this is not a prophecy of doom and gloom, but rather an invitation for all of us to experience the birth of something very beautiful... How can we prepare? Let this beautiful book give you many answers to these deep questions.
This is not shallow channeled material as you can mostly encounter in New age circles but rather a deep, precise and transformative message with many practical techniques and never before published information about our origins, Atlantis, twin souls, soul mates, Light body... At the beginning there is also an interview of the author as to certain important questions.
First part of this book is a collection of cosmic communications which were given by galactic beings of light between 1993 and 1995. These communications give a deep spiritual guidance for the Ascension process. Ascension is the ultimate goal of human evolution, the crown of spiritual growth.
Second part of this book is a summary of instructions for creation of living mandalas. Living mandalas are focused spiritual groups inside which group Initiation and Ascension process is taking place. This part of the book was written between 1996 and 1997. It can be used as a manual for creation of a real living Mandala.
Third part of this book was written between 2002 and 2009 as a result of telepathic contact with the Pleiadians. Small fragment of data was received from other sources also. This part of the book also gives you a detailed outlook of the civilization of light that is living under the surface of the earth. In this part of the book you can also find many interesting facts about galactic wars between light and darkness that can trigger soul memories from times millions years ago when we came to this planet and heal them. Last but not least, in this book you can also receive an enlightened perspective about 2012 and find your place and purpose in the course of events that are ahead of us…
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About the Author
Solara is one of the true visionaries of our time. She facilitated the twenty-one year cycle of 11:11 Planetary Activations in which hundreds of thousands of people participated. She has traveled widely all over the planet giving talks, workshops and special ceremonies. Her message for us is to fully awaken so that we may LIVE TRUE LIVES AS TRUE ONES. Currently residing in South America, she is the author of six beloved metaphysical books.
I was reading the first edition book one night, with an open mind but no real belief.ReplyDelete
I got the part where Solara explains the steps to go through to get your Angelic Name.
So I start going through the steps in my head, up to the point where she says you then hear and feel your Angelic name.
Wham! My body shook and tingled, I heard a voice saying my Angelic Name! I kid you not!
So....I'm sitting there, still shaking ten minutes later when my wife walks though the door and stops dead, staring at me. She says "Why is there a sparkle all around you."
Ok....suddenly I'm taking this seriously!
Solara comes to Australia a few months later and I take a clairvoyant friend to see her free introductory talk. Doesn't everyone have a clairvoyant friend? I ask my friend what does she think.
When does the inner earth start to take some action to stop the war in syria and stop the US and the daesh etc? They are now at risk as the cabal has tech to reach them. They are no longer safe as they have been for 18M years? That is a long time..are we to assume humans on earth did evolve to 4D or 5D millions of yrs ago and gained the ability to go inside earth and create living space?? How else did this happen so long ago? Are we not related to the inner earth races?ReplyDeleteReplies
I am sure they are doing a lot of work in the non-physical. Unfortunately, things cannot happen as fast as we like. Cobra has detailed why in his interviews.Delete
Saint Germain has revived old Egyptian mysteries and created a mystery school in Paris in 1775. This mystery school was operated by the Brotherhood of the Star for another century and one of its members wrote this beautiful book which contains many coded messages about the Ascension process:
The Ascended Masters retreated from the surface of the planet as it was occupied by the dark forces one Platonic year (26,000 Earth years) ago.
"Everybody is watching her, but she's looking at you." This is going to be me and the Goddess.ReplyDelete
Also buy one of my Keshe devices, it's the real deal. Check out the "Experiments" tab on my website where we prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, using ice and plants. Buy a Health Pen, they're actually priceless.
These devices work. I have had chronic pain in my knees since I was 15....I am not a superstar football millionaire because of this issue....yes really! The best way I can describe this is, my knees are oiled. I put it under back of knee for 15 mins whilst sitting on coach. Comparing the knees after 15 mins is like chalk and cheese. It's not cure, I know it comes back, but it worksDelete
I wish it worked for me. But it doesn't :(Delete
Take a look at something nice. The flora of planet Mars! :)ReplyDelete
The Liberation Forces seem intent on awaiting the solar flash before commencing with the Event. The solar flash would trigger ideal situations like humans suddenly awakening and thus no longer under the control of the matrix. In addition, they seem intent on using the solar flash like a proverbial flash grenade to arrest the cabal. They can do things to speed up the liberation of Earth Prime like by arresting the cabal before the advent of the solar flash. The solar flash is essential for our liberation yet for those activities not depended upon it should be undertaken beforehand. Putting all of your proverbial eggs in one basket may not produce the ideal outcome on the day of the solar flash. Organizing our liberation on astronomical events seems like reading tea leaves.ReplyDeleteReplies
An octopotus,... previous with its tentacles full of strangelets and toplets reaching the entire solar system and ever beyond, but now, luckly, only about a half of head (or who the heck knows how much, after 'mid june'...) remaining with only toplets, is preventing any visible progress,
... and nothing for good will happen on a grand scale until it is completely removed...
And this is what is preventing the positive military to do the movement...
i hope our allies are smarter than what you are suggesting. it can be so frustrating dealing with liberating forces with whom we have such limited communication.Delete
A broader perspective is called for if understanding is sought...we are as microorganisms, part of an infinite macroorganism, as are our allies and our adversaries, all moving in conjunction with grand purposes at galactic and universal scales.Delete
I don't believe that our friends and allies are here to trigger or cause the event, so much as to bear witness to it, and to do what they can (which is a lot) to facilitate the transition and mitigate the side effects.
But we are evolving to fourth density positive polarity, our planet, our people, and our civilizations. Because we are shifting to the fourth density of light and not darkness, our free will is paramount, even for those among us who choose ignorance. Source will wait (at least as we perceive it) as long as it takes for the last of us children who might yet make graduation to get our affairs in order. (Few reading this site will still at the earlier stage to which I'm referring, I expect, but...)
Our allies in this fight are beings of the light who are further along the evolutionary path than ourselves. Those of the light always honor the free will of all third density beings (free will being the entire point of this phase of evolution). Failing to preserve free will quite literally weakens them, and their evolutionary advancement along the light path makes them highly unlikely to wish to anyway.
Besides, how many variables pertinent to this equation are they including in their calculations that we're just not aware of at all?
Never heard of this before until it showed up out of the blue earlier on.
May I present you the Theme Song of Our Time:
KICK ASS - Flying Home
Put on your Superhero costumes and Let The Kicking begin :-)
Happy Flying, everyone.
Something big is going on in Antarctica. But it's a top secret. A bird told me...ReplyDeleteReplies
...but are youu soo impooooortaant... that you are told something else?...
...how impoooortaant wee aare...
You and your reactions. Who said i am so "impoooortant" just because i have a contact and it happened that i received that intel?? This is your interpretation... look at you , wanting to appear always on every comment..just sayingDelete
LOL @ger_sey you crack me up!Delete
I suppose it was a blue bird, eh? ;)
The Bluebirds of Happiness sounds good to me!
you may be the bluebird in this blog!...
so should you be happy...
your balanced comments sound good here...
Please! Let's have Unity in Our Community, please stay with the Light!ReplyDelete
Post below from Sementasdesestrelas
Translation provide here [well as best as google can]
Greetings high loved Masters! Recently we saw some light workers generate any contrary energies, the energies that support the advancement of Forces of Light on the surface. The Forces of Light in no circumstances support or incite the rivalry between workers of Light.
Beloved Master, you, Lightworker who is somehow feeling asked to support some kind of rivalry between Lightworkers who are doing their job, immediately stop and realize that you are not acting with light impulses but of energies contrary to Light! Light unifies the Lightworker!
All are one family! Together we are always Stronger! The forces of darkness are in turmoil at this time, for the Light advances rapidly compressing them on the surface and completely cleaning up the planet from any negative influence! An old maneuver of darkness to dominate the scene is split to master!
They have always used this maneuver to weaken the Workers' groups of Light and thus use them as his soldiers to fight other Lightworkers! My Master, there is so much to do on this planet! Is another to work for the Advancement of Forces of Light!
I know you are tired of the old energy, the old mistakes, the farces! I know you're tired of being hurt and fears any possibility of being cheated again, this is in your Akashic Records.
Now it is time, beloved worker of Light and Love, know that the Forces of Light are the majority and this is the time for you to use all his strength to purge once this old energy that has lasted for so long here.
Do not be one that perpetuates the Old Energy of rivalry, competition! The Forces of Light do not act this way! Collaborate beloved teacher and master!
Beloved COBRA is a Being very committed to the Forces of Light! It makes a very serious work not only with The Portal blog , which is just the tip of the iceberg of your great work! This Being has no intention of bringing any misinformation to humanity, instead it acts in favor of the complete lighting all the negativity installed here! Your posts are brought information of the Resistance Movement and other beings of light!
The beloved Gabriel Radio Lunar is a recipient of the divine energies delivered to them through many beings of light and transmits with integrity and loveliness all the information received through the Star System and Seeds blog! He is just one of Universal Love transmitter, so with every Light worker committed to the Forces of Light! The Star Seeds blog supports The Portal blog in joining forces to support the work of the Forces of Light!
There are a minimum of sense of rivalry, competition or any sense of separation! We are here to add light and love energy!
Enloved Lightworker, you have been instructed constantly on the attempts of the forces of Darkness in destabilizing the groups of light workers! Do not fall more in those old traps!
There is no time to give attention to the old tricks of darkness! Use your energies Beloved Lightworkers to come together and create more light Chi on this planet!
Use your energy to support those that move the energies of Light here on the surface! Is another pillar of Light to anchor light on the Grid! We are together, beloved Lightworkers!
Trust your intuition! Always use your loving filter when they receive any information no matter the messenger but the message! If you do not agree with some information not just assimilate, to go!
You are a very important piece at the moment and would like to count on you to support the Forces of Light with your loving heart! Already, thanks for your Positive intentions! Melk Sales (the Team of the Star Seeds)
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To our Cosmic Families,Delete
I am so sick and tired of hearing your accusations about us NOT doing our best!
If there's anybody to be accused of NOT DOING their duty, nor taking care of the situation that we have to endure day-by-day.... IT IS YOU, and NOT any SINGLE ONE of us! You don't even understand a simple thing how difficult can it BE leaving in this hell, under unbearable conditions; controlled, programmed and kept in the darkness, on all possible, and IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICAL AND NON PHYSICAL PLANES. And you're DEMANDING us to stay on high vibes?
If you would have taken the neccessary ACTIONS 26,0000 years ago, and have stopped the darks going after their DEMAND to have the whole Solar System under their quarantine- NON OF THESE WOULD HAVE HAPPEND! PERIOD!!!
Having Galactic wars for hundreds and thousands of years, You should have learned something out of them. You should've KNOWN BETTER, how tricky and deceptive they can be.... Yet, you believed they would keep the promises, and CONTRACTS they made?
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angel, you make a lot of sense... the benevolents wouldn't survive here for a week, they have much to learn from us - outstanding.Delete
there have been many times in recent years where i have lost my patients with the e.t.s that are trying to rescue us. i've had to use all my abilities to see their perspective on this difficult situation and, still, i could not always justify their actions, or lack thereof.
for too long a period of time, conditions in duality have been allowed to get so far out of hand until it finally became unmanageable. the greatest strength of evil has been the Light's naivete.
earth's light-workers = the east
the off-world the ets = the west
Using discernment with channeled messages is the only way to go, double discernment with lunar radio percentage light celebration channeling messages ,Delete
Triple discernment with your beloved master family message.
you are to unrested...
It comes from his starseed's blog, not from us...
It's a 'LUNAR RADIO', not a radio moon, or rays of moon...
you are the best of the best and the shiniest of the shiny ... your messages enlighten universes and cure souls ... you are the liberation itself...
thank you so much
DO NOT MISS WATCHING THIS:ReplyDelete
ON NBC's NEW NEWSMAGAZINE SHOW
Hmmmm...... Putin is not a chicken. HE's a true Warrior of Light, and He WILL talk it out, as he does all the time. Yet, I wonder how much of the whole interview will be missing..... Or... will there be anything left from the REAL interview?
Or..... ARE WE, FINALLY, GETTING CLOSER....?Replies
There's also a 4-night series with Oliver Stone interviewing him coming up. I can't say I'm a fan of Putin and his government, but I will take Cobra at his word about him. One does not have to be perfect in order to work for the Light.Delete
a sign of light at the end of the tunnel.ReplyDelete
Dear Unknown,ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing this very important information and to remind of the most important thing to be successful together.
I have myself worked in another global group for many years. I saw this happening between us and talked to people - do not let the one behind the scenes lure you into split. Unfortunately most did not listen in the community we tried to build and we are now all separated in physicality. It was not popular so I was quite damaged so had to back off and heal myself to continue to be able to be here now, so please be careful in what you speak, think and do. I found Cobras page less than 1 year ago and it has a lot of integrity and honor and that is very important. We all have our behaviors and I have to remind my self constantly to stay in lighter thoughts. This time it will be a Victory for all as the dark as we call them need this as much as those who is more on the light side. Balance honor and integrity. I usually do not write but feel called this time. Light Blessings to each and do not fall into the traps!!!!! Namaste
We are so close, so close to the final push, to the final victory of truly full liberation and utopia on our precious Gaia! Please, light workers and light warriors, stay strong, stay focused. Let us go into our love, into our light, into our breath, into our stillness... Please heal and be blessed. Please overcome and cure all of your fears and sicknesses, whether it be sicknesses of the mind, body, or spirit. Please find and hold that perfect balance, unclogging all negative blockages within your being. We could have all the peace and abundance with no more fear and no more suffering, and that we will have!ReplyDelete
Love and Light.
Although people are waking up at such a rate now, it still is not enough! I get the feeling that something huge still has to occurr to get the attention of the masses, literally shock the masses in to questioning who we are allowing to rule this planet. I am not sure what this event would be but i have a feeling it will be the whole peado scheme thats been going on world wide. And shortly after that exposure i believe the event would be triggered. An interesting documentary of small disclosure about the peado network is on netflix called The Keepers, i feel we are being prepared for something so much bigger. Let me know your thoughtsReplyDeleteReplies
The only huge thing to occur to shock the masses is The Event itself. Nothing else is going to do it.Delete
I believe too that something huge has to happen. Disclosure about the satanic rituals could be like an electro-shock because the victims are mostly children and also because it is about the Elite, politicians, magistrates and so on.And most of all, It goes very far beyond what people could imagine. In fact, they don't even imagine, people don't have a clue.Delete
actually, there will eventually be a global black out will serve a WONDERFULL purpose in reuniting communities.Delete
is it 2025 yet... are we there yet!ReplyDelete
havent this game been played by the same immortals hundredths of times...
the idiotic bad guys deals with "when where and hows" ....
the good guys with "and buts and ifs". .
the result... 26 years of the same storyline repeating.. year after year... improvement!.. progress! some dare to call it so... but is no more than a mere teaser... something to keep the peons at the edge of hope but yet always inches away of an abyss...
and an abyss many fall as the hope cant sustain them no more...
these are not stories to be share generations after generation if so only to relay a lesson.
these are not stories that yields heroes.. but survivors
indeed. these are stories.. about survivers oppressors and enablers..
behold the creation of such....
ah yes... so we must thank the source for his unmeasurable love... demostrated these 26k years... from the moment he gave in to the threats and demands of the bad guys... thank you for such backStrong decision...and love
Liberation dayReplyDelete
Sunday, June 4, 2017Pedo Arrests Continue! @TruthEarthOrgReplyDelete
6.3 - Seth Rich Updates, MSM Goes Full Anti-Hillary, Critiquing Mainstream ScienceReplyDelete
I highly recommend reading this interview with Rion who is the founder of Team Light and so much more.
He and his team will teach you exactly how to activate yourself for your mission.
3 months ago I was a mess with energy blocks and built up rage and hostility - now I can see into the other dimensions. It happens quick because it is about remembering not learning.
- AnonymousJune 4, 2017 at 9:45 AM
Cobra, how about a global tree planting quest for the ground crew? ;)ReplyDelete
Sending a little love to our light forces and RM. thanks you guys and gals!ReplyDelete
PS - Saw "Wonder Woman," the movie last night! Wow!
It has a great message of divine feminine power, beauty and love (though there is a lot of violence in it because she is fighting evil.)
thanks for sharing your views ♥ looking forward to see this movie next week, it has a great " appeal " to me : The Goddess Return :) that being said, I'm rejoicing of this swift & successul counteract move from the Light Forces ( if I understand well ! )Delete
Victory of the Light !
the divine feminine, guardian of humanity, conquering darkness.Delete
"Don't think about all those things you fear....ReplyDelete
...just be glad to be here!"
(p.s.) Thanks, Universe for the Divine Intervention!
Asket and the DALsReplyDelete
They also learned to communicate across the barrier and maintained contact with the Earth man by electro-magnetic means, which they carried on for over 25 years. During that time, over 1,000 hours of verbal dialogue was recorded on audio tape and preserved. These experiences are reported in a 305 page illustrated book titled UFO CONTACT FROM PLANET KOLDAS, A Cosmic Dialogue, authored by Carl van Vlierden.
The DALs discovered the Pleiadians before Earth and learned to get along with and to work compatibly with them, who were already freely traveling in space. The DALs shared their technology with the Pleiadians which then allowed creatures of our universe to visit the DAL Universe in Pleiadian ships. The DALs discovered Earth through the Pleiadians and their interests here. Sfath was a Pleiadian who handed Meier over to Asket for development and preparation for a future Pleiadian plan.
sometimes, but very very rarely, something might seem nice...
Who's interested in some heavy stuff?ReplyDelete
What is a soul? The soul is a geometric, elliptical crystal, based on the principles of hyperdimensional physics. Inside it of course, there are two centers and the trapped divine spark, which, like thousand others, has been caught by the fringes of the Divine Flame (the Blessed Islands) by the use of golden triangle nets and trapped in this virtual dark reality, with the illusion that there is movement.
Question to the resistance and/or Cobra, is the coming solar eclipse tied to the event in some way?ReplyDeleteReplies
you have answer in the interview:Delete
Lynn – Welcome back Cobra, this is our May 29, 2017 interview and we'll start out with questions about the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21st of this year. There's going to be a solar eclipse over the United States. And can you tell us about the significance of this eclipse.Delete
COBRA – This eclipse as you probably all know will have it's main zone of totality across the continental U.S. and as such it is a very important energy marker for that area, so this eclipse is an opportunity for the awakened part of the population of the United States to make some important decisions for the future of that country in a way that's aligned with the planetary liberation program.
Aaron – Hi Cobra, This is Aaron, Lynn's interview parter. I'll be asking half the questions this time. First question is: Some say Chris Cornell's death on May 17th in Michigan was part of the Illuminati's ritual related to the appearance of a black hole during this eclipse. Chris even had a song called Black Hole Sun. Are the Illuminati also trying to take advantage of the eclipse in some way.
COBRA – They will try.
Aaron – OK, and what is the best thing we can do to anchor the light during this total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017
Lynn – Ok. Does this eclipse represent an opportunity to re-open these Goddess portals.
COBRA – To a certain degree, yes.
Lynn – Does an eclipse over the USA provide us with a tremendous opportunity to expose the shadow government of the deep state.
COBRA – Many of those sightings are not genuine UFO sightings. I would not say the number has increased I would simply say that more people are reporting them and more people have, for example have cell phones with which they can take photos. It is that simple. I would simply say that a certain amount of contact does not trigger the toplet bombs and the light forces know exactly how far they can go without triggering those mechanisms. (OK)Delete
Thanks for posting the interview it was very interesting. I will comment on it when Cobra posts it. :)Delete
On Monday he gave me the gift of love,
Tuesday Peace came from above,
Wednesday he told me to have more Faith,
And on Thursday he brought me the Gift of Grace.
And then on Friday he told me "Watch and pray",
And then on Saturday what to say,
On Sunday he gave me the Power Divine
To let my Little Light Shine.
This Little Light Of Mine,
I'm gonna let it shine,
This Little Light Of Mine,
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This Little Light Of Mine,
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Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine
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Three and a hald years ago I had a guy sitting next to me who later turned ou to be a member of the dark side.
I wanted to play this song and he said he'd leave if I played it.
Being the nice guy I am I was so polite as to not to do that back then. But now I know who who you are, so let's see how you and your buddies will like this, numbskull.
Hope you get THE STORY
Has anyone ever heard of the " 360° Full Circle Ritual" ??? I had a dream the other night that had something to do with it and all i remember. It seemed different then a basic casting of the circle around ones self for protection as there were several people around ,not sure but seemed as if they were involved. I wish I remembered more because you wont find a word about it on the net, at least I couldn't. Thanks in advance for any insight on this. 1♥ReplyDelete
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The total solar eclipse of 12 August 2017 runs except across the USAReplyDelete
also through the territory of the former Atlantis.
According to commentators, most cropcircles from May 2017 point to this solar eclipse.
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neither the Light nor the dark knows what it means to stand in the divide between these two polarities. it is only the earthbound Light-worker who knows such a fate.ReplyDelete
who is the strongest of these three?Replies
I've struggled with the divide to a major extreme. I'm not talking about myself here, but certainly anyone else who has stood in the divide between light and dark is, by far, the strongest of the three. No doubt about that. It is a VERY isolating position, which even many of those within the Light don't understand. Rather than offering support, many just leave you hanging to fend for yourself. I am surprised there are people who have never experienced depression before. Very, very strange.Delete
Enlightenment and depression seem to go hand in hand in this deep dark density. Wanting to leave everyone and everything to go sit on a mountain in outer Mongolia reeks of super sadness.Delete
We are the strongest most brave warriors in the universe - I think that is undisputed.
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Cobra, does this work? Do you recommend this?Delete
I don't trust this pleiadian alliance blog. They came out of nowhere with no explanation and copied Cobra's page style almost exactly. They also repetitively say "My Dears" way too much!Delete
Anyone willing to offer a detailed explanation of who they are? I wanna see more than a vague polite careful acknowledgement from Cobra.
I personally thought Cobra was quite clear with endorsing this site, but maybe someone needs to ask him about it again. I've personally not noticed much of anything different using the protection program, but that's kind of true with everything for me at the moment. Or maybe I've missed the signs.Delete
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It took me a long time to get my free cintamani stone when the the first batch was sent out. I sent an email, forgot about it, then finally got a reply over a month later. They have a ridiculous amount of requests to sort through. It takes a long time to process everything.Delete
I don't think this disqualify you, don't give up, maybe your mail lost somewhere, give it another try! My friend got reply from him.Delete
Thanks for the reply guys. Much appreciated. Yeah, I don't know. As I said, I received an immediate reply from him Friday. He said he'd ship me a stone asap and needs my address. Since then, nothing. Sent two emails that day, and an email this morning. You are probably right I'm overthinking this, and I imagine the guy is incredibly busy. My girlfriend said the same. It's just based on my past experiences, it's typical for me to jump to the conclusion that I may have said something wrong.Delete
I'll put it out of my head, as I have a trip across the country to see my friend tomorrow to look forward to. Thanks for the reassurance.
He replied to me, and even offered a distance healing. He's just very busy. All is good. Thank you again so much! :DDelete
the syrian army with the backing of the eastern alliance is preparing to enter the city of raqqa. this, aparently, represents a potential for certain victory in the syrian/galactic war. if we have learned anything from this endless struggle between these two forces, it is that the dark never concedes and will never experience defeat. knowing this, the Light Forces should be prepared for a blow back of epic proportions from the dark side.ReplyDelete
"... the Syrian troops are on the verge of entering Raqqa province."
rather than take a wait-and-see attitude, the Light would be well advised to employ a proactive, premeditated, multi-front, multi-level strategy to contain the dark even further when pressed to their limits. the Light should be using the dark's impulse to overreact as a means of further containing them into a certain defeat.
my concern is that the Light is content fighting the dark in a war of attrition. the Light seems to have all the patients in the world to whittle away at the dark bit by bit until some mythical Event can change everything, once and for all, and we can all go home and live happily-ever-after. is it any wonder that the dark has proven themselves to be so tenacious and successful at enduring a force as powerful as the Light?
as i'm sitting here observing this never ending drama, i'm thinking how much it reminds me of reading the news. all i get is information that is presented to me about how the world i live in is being handled, managed and ultimately created. no one ever asks me for my input. i never have a say in the matter. the same holds true for the LF/RM who are, and have been, fighting the dark forever.
how can the Light, which has not experienced duality, expect to end the presence of darkness? one must know their enemy if they are to be successful in defeating them. the Light is far too benevolent and concerned with preserving the fallen ones, which ultimately takes a tremendous toll on the most innocent.
i am quite certain that, in my little earth-based mind/consciousness, this battle could have been over and done with many times. it is the short-comings of both sides of this battle that keeps it raging. the ones who suffer the most are the ones caught in the middle with no voice.
the Light has decided to withdraw from their effort of global meditations because it was causing too much harm to Light-workers. instead, we have resorted to planting stones. this is a fine strategy, i agree, but it is also another example of how the Light top-toes their way through this maze of darkness. had we been planting cintamani stones and doing our global meditations in sync with the eastern alliance advance on syria, we may have made much better progress by now.Replies
patience. not patients.Delete
Lynn – Are we as surface humans able to communicate with them telepathically.ReplyDelete
COBRA – It is possible. It has happened in a few instances but it's not very common and very few people from the surface have enough awareness of the RM to hear that telepathic contact.
Lynn – Would it be useful to show them certain situations we are experiencing.
COBRA – Yes. It is sometimes not simple for them to understand their reactions of the surface population because they are simply, I would say psychologically quite different and if you explain to them a little bit more, even telepathically or in writing you can even post an article on your blog and address it to them, that would be a great idea. (wow, that's a great idea. Thank you Cobra.)
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Very early in my career in show business, the agents' association in Chicago brought a guy up on charges for unethical conduct. Nothing came of it; it was finally decided that among agents there was no such thing as unethical conduct.
I remember when MCA signed Johnny Mathis, who had been with General Artists. MCA, being the Cadillac of the agency business, charged fifteen percent for concerts. General Artists charged ten percent for what they called one-nighters. After about six months Mathis's manager, Helen Noga, was hard put to figure out why she was paying fifty percent more to do the same show for the same people.
MCA, in essence, had conned her into believing they were offering her a different service than GAC when all they were offering was a much more structured organization. They had a slogan, "Think Yiddish, dress British," while GAC was still the stripe-suited agents.
My favorite agent was Ernie Lieberman's father-in-law, George Wilner. When I met him in 1958, George had been driven out of his profession, and he was making a living in New York by selling underground movie scripts over the phone. People who had been blacklisted would write scripts under an alias, and George would sell them through somebody else.
By late 1959 — it was that late in the decade because in Hollywood the witch hunts lingered longer — George had moved up a bit. He was working with a little independent agency and selling small scripts on his own. Finally he went back to Hollywood when he landed a job at the Rosenberg Correll Agency, working the secondary studios. He knew Louis B. Mayer and people of that ilk, but he wasn't allowed to call them.
George had taken a shine to me early. He called me "Kid" all the time. "Kid, you should quit whatever it is you're doing and come out to Hollywood and become a producer," he used to tell me. "You know more than all these people." This was the furthest thing from my mind. I was already overwhelmed by whatl was doing. I didn't really believe that this was all happening to me, and I also didn't believe Hollywood was as easy as he said it was. But it was very intriguing. Everybody wants to be a producer.
By 1965, George was on the edge of being back. He had moved up to vice president at the Rosenberg agency. He was talking to all the heads of the studios. I called George up one day when I was in Los Angeles and said, "George, this is the kid." "Yeah, kid." I said, "George, I want to come and talk to you. I'm ready to be a producer." George said, "Well, come on over." I came on over. He ordered sandwiches for lunch, and I sat in his office while he sold a script to Zanuck over the phone. I watched him work that script up from an asking price of eighty thousand dollars to a final two hundred and twenty. After he hung up, he smiled, looked around, leaned over his desk and whispered, "There's no other buyer."
"George, I want to be a producer," I said.
He said, "WeIl, kid, the business has changed. You got to have a property. A producer brings in a property and develops it. That's what makes you a producer." So I asked him what a property was, and he explained it. All right.
Two more years went by, and I found a property. By this time George's agency had been through a couple of mergers and had come out as one of the biggest outfits in Hollywood, and George was vice president of the literary department — the big job. I called him. "George, I got a property," I said. "I'm ready to be a producer." George said, "I can't talk to you now, kid. I'm on my way to Italy with Burt, Harold, and Ray." Burt Lancaster, Harold Hecht, and Ray Starr. Two days later I heard from him again. "Kid, I'm at the airport." He hadn't asked me what my property was.
"I got these two young writers," George shouted. "They're great, just great. For fifty thousand they can develop your property." I told him I'd get back to him sometime. End of story. George was a wonderful man, but he was an agent.

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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the China Development Forum
20 March 2011, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Ladies and gentlemen,
Where is China now? As it continues its global integration efforts, China faces many challenges. Let me mention some of the most important.
First, the environmental challenge. All major economies need to take account of environmental externalities associated with their growth process. Reducing carbon emissions is a high priority shared by the Chinese government and the global community. We need to work together to ensure that this reduction is achieved at the least possible cost. At the OECD, we have been developing a Green Growth Strategy with the goal of reconciling green and growth. And we look forward to cooperating more closely with China to make this happen.
Read also: China's Emergence as a Market Economy: Achievements and Challenges (21 March 2011)
Let me reiterate here that, as the OECD celebrates its 50th Anniversary, it stands ready to continue to help China in tackling these challenges. In all these areas, the OECD has long-standing and widely-recognised standards, is undertaking regular peer reviews and is actively engaged in experience sharing among countries.
We can also help through our substantive contribution to the G20 dialogue. We provide evidence and analysis on a widening range of issues, including the Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth, the jobs crisis, investment and trade protectionism, the exchange of information for tax purposes, fossil fuel subsidies, development and corruption. We do so to help leaders develop evidence-based, mutually-reinforcing and coordinated policies.
Ladies and gentlemen,
We are proud of our growing cooperation with China, now almost 15 years old. We will be even prouder by helping China turn its 12th Five-year Plan into a success by promoting better policies for better lives.
Thank you
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I'd been wanting to read a biography of Goya for some time now. For a few years now, his art has come occupy a strange space in the back of my subconscious mind—all the pain and violence and horror of it. Maybe it's all the Roberto Bolaño I've been reading. I'm convinced that if you want to understand Bolaño it helps to have Goya as a visual referent. Also, I cut up an oversized Italian collection of color prints from Goya to hang in my office, so they're always kinda in my visual field.
Anyway, last week I went by my favorite local used bookstore to pick up a copy of W.G. Sebald's After Nature that they'd kindly ordered for me and went through the biographies as well to find something on Goya. There were at least half a dozen, but the recently deceased Robert Hughes's was the most beautiful and most recent, and its opening captivated me: In the first chapter, Hughes describes how a near-fatal car crash in 1999 unlocked the Goya study that he'd been wanting to write for years. The scene unfolds as a bizarre prolonged fever dream, a horrifying narrative informed by Goya's asylums and bullfights, with the strange layer of modern airport slathered on top.
I've read the first 150 pages since then. Hughes's writing is crisp and the text is rich; Hughes builds a slow case, arguing against Goya's reputation as a radical but also highlighting the artist's powers of pathos (not to mention his skill, both raw and refined). Hughes had me hooked with the following paragraph, which could also stand in as a simple description of a decsonstructionist theory of identity:
Goya was in some ways the greatest of all delineators of madness, because he was unrivaled in his ability to locate it among the common presences of human life, to see it as a natural par t of man's (and woman's) condition, not as an intrusion of the divine or the demonic from above or below. Madness does not come from outside into a stable and virtuous normality. That, Goya knew in his excruciating sanity, was nonsense. There is no perfect stability of the human condition, only approximations of it, sometimes fragile because created by culture. Part of his creed, indeed the very core of his nature as an artist, was Terence's "Nihil humanum a me alienum puto," "I think nothing human alien to me." This was part of Goya's immense humanity, a range of sympathy, almost literally, "co-suffering," rivaling that of Dickens or Tolstoy.


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What If Tim Burton Designed Pokemon?
I love this. I'm too old for Pokemon, but I've always been familiar with the characters and the designs. The idea of merging them with Tim Burton, who has such a distinctive monster style of his own, makes so much sense I wonder if someone did it earlier than this.
If so, too bad! This is the one I saw first. These sketches are by Vaughn Pinpin, but if you told me they were by Burton I would completely and totally believe you. These are my faves, but there are more at Pinpin's blog.
Thanks to Mark for the link.


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QuikIO, the iOS app that lets users access photos, videos, and music directly from their Macs and PCs, arrived at Macworld/iWorld this week with a new feature added to its offering—mobile-to-mobile file transfers.
Even before this week, QuikIO for iPhone and QuikIO HD for iPad let users directly access their computer-based media, regardless of its compatibility with native iOS media apps. (Alternative video formats can play on the app.) Users just had to install QuikIO's Mac or PC client on their computer, sign in using Google, Facebook, or email, then designate which directories are allowed to be accessed remotely.
Michael Chen, QuikIO's CEO, said, QuikIO's approach is easier for users than cloud-based services like Dropbox, which often require the user to upload the media to "the cloud" for it to be accessed from multiple devices: Instead, files are accessed directly. And QuikIO is much simpler—and burns less processing power—than other apps which give users total control of their desktop computers from a mobile device. (See the video below for a demonstration.)
With this week's update, QuikIO for iPhone users who have pulled, say, a dozen photos from their desktop can now relay those files directly to other designated QuikIO phone users—making it easier to share documents, photos, and other items with colleagues, family, and friends. "Now," Chen said, "you can access these files on the fly."


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Minutes after BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins introduced the two new BlackBerry smartphones, U.S. carriers began releasing statements to officially back the new devices.
Verizon was the first to announce it would sell the touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 and Q10with QWERTY keyboard, going so far as to attach a price -- $199 on contract. Big Red also said it would exclusively sell the Z10 in white in addition to its all-black color.
AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile also came forward today, with Sprint committing to a 4G LTE BlackBerry Q10, and AT&T backing both. T-Mobile said in a statement that it will sell the touchscreen Z10.
Conspicuously absent are the phones' release dates. Prior to the launch, a BlackBerry representative told CNET to expect the Z10 to arrive in March, and Heins himself pitched an April time frame for the keyboard-bearing Q10.
In addition to launching an overhauled BlackBerry 10 operating system, CEO Heins put the old company name, RIM, to bed, declaring the from now on, BlackBerry the device and BlackBerry the company would be one and the same.


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Questions & Answers
NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue & Istanbul Cooperation Initiative
What is the difference between NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative?
- NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue is a ten-year old forum for political consultations and practical cooperation, which includes a bilateral and a multilateral component and involves countries of the Mediterranean area.
- The Istanbul Cooperation Initiative is a new initiative which is meant to promote essentially practical cooperation on a bilateral basis, with interested countries in the broader region of the Middle East.
- ICI is opened to interested countries in the region which subscribe to the aim and content of this initiative, including the fight against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Each interested party, would be considered by the North Atlantic Council on a case-by-case basis and on its own merit.
Can a country of the broader region join the Mediterranean Dialogue or vice versa?
- The two processes are individualised, but complementary. They serve the same purpose of building strong cooperatives ties with interested countries.
- In principle, the Mediterranean Dialogue is open to countries in the Mediterranean area or directly involved in Mediterranean-related processes.
- Mediterranean Dialogue countries could, in principle, join the ICI if they so wish. In terms of practical cooperation, however, this would not be very different from what is already offered within the MD framework.
How does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fit into NATO proposals?
- We believe that progress towards a just, lasting, and comprehensive settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should remain a priority for the countries of the region and the international community as a whole.
- Our proposals are not intended to substitute for ongoing efforts dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What about NATO's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
- NATO is not a party in the Middle East Peace Process. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not an item currently on NATO's agenda. There has been a lot of talk about it outside NATO: in political and academic circles.
- The Secretary General of NATO has mentioned three Big Ifs. If the parties involved came to an agreement and if they requested NATO to help them implement and if there were a UN Security Council Resolution, then NATO member countries would need to discuss it.
What about the Palestinian Authority?
- In March 2005 the Allies decided to open exploratory information contacts, between NATO and the Palestinian Authority, noting that NATO's Heads of Government at their 2004 Istanbul Summit did not exclude future participation, subject to the North Atlantic Council's approval, of the PA in cooperation under the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative.


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Screening: May 14, 2017, 7pm
Directed by Brett Haley
Starring Sam Elliott, Nick Offerman, Laura Prepon, and Krysten Ritter
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Director Brett Haley will do the Q&A!
Synopsis: THE HERO stars the legendary Sam Elliott as an aging actor confronting mortality in the moving new film from writer/director Brett Haley (I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS). Lee Hayden (Elliott) is a Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former-co-star-turned-dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy (Krysten Ritter), all while searching for one final role to cement his legacy. THE HERO is a beautiful and poignant celebration of life and the legacies we all leave behind.


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Ten TED Things to Think About
February 12, 2010 at 11:10 am Tyler Rousseau 3 comments
Posted by Tyler Rousseau
Sorry, I love a good alliteration.
I came across this article on my traditional morning tech-news search and thought it was a pretty decent article. Originally posted at CNN, Richard Galant presents 10 ideas from TED2010 that he feels are worth special note.
Overall, I think he is right on the money with most of these choices, which have a somewhat humanistic tone to them.
-Money can't buy happiness but it can relieve stress.
-You are what you eat.
-Many children die needless because we choose not to fund programs and distribute the monies poorly.
-People will spend what it takes to believe in a placebo.
-A ukulele is good for any occasion… especially when stopping a war.
I think what I liked about the choices are that they can easily promote discussion and even a little outcry. Anyway, take a look and let me know what you think.
Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: TED2010.
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Nice article:
1. $60,000 a year would definitely make me happy…
2. Ukuleles ARE appropriate for all sorts of occasions. By the way, Jake Shimabukuro, the musician they interviewed, is amazing:


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|born on
|8 January 1965 at 23:25 (= 11:25 PM )
|Bergerac, France, 44n51, 0e29
|MET h1e (is standard time)
|Data source
|Astrology data
|18°27' 25°24 Asc. 26°11'
French singer-songwriter, one of the most honored and popular in France. Although his songs have been recorded by such French recording sensations as Marc Lavoine and Florent Pagny, his own intimate and edgy interpretations are considered definitive and have captured the popular imagination. He made his earliest musical attempts after settling in Brittany. He played in a group for a time, but hit his stride as a solo artist when his gold-certified debut recording, "Plus Que Tout au Monde" (More Than Anything In The World), garnered him a strong fan base and excellent notices. His next two studio albums, "Un Jour Comme Aujourdhui" (A Day Like Today) and "Superflu" (Superfluous) achieved platinum status and were followed by a sensational double-CD concert recording and video, "Obispo Live."
Aside from his songwriting, recording and touring, Obispo has produced hugely successful records for other artists, including Patricia Kass and Johnny Halliday. He is also active in the fight against AIDS in France and around the world. He and a legendary French chanteuse, Line Renaud, recently organized a compilation album, "Ensemble Contre Le SIDA" (Together Against AIDS), which featured tracks contributed by 40 famous French singers and sold more than 70,000 units in France alone.
- associate relationship with Niclo, Vincent (born 6 January 1975)
- associate relationship with Sila, Anne (born 5 March 1990)
- associate relationship with St-Pier, Natasha (born 10 February 1981)
- friend relationship with Pagny, Florent (born 6 November 1961)
- lover relationship with Jenifer (born 15 November 1982)
Source Notes
Didier Geslain archive, 'chanteurs' pdf file, p. 158.
Paddy de Jabrun quoted b.c. in Horoscope, Petitallot quotes B.C., Cadran No. 41, May 1997
- Traits : Personality : Loved by all (Most honored and popular)
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Song writer (Songwriter)
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc. (Singer)
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Entertain Producer (Produced for other artists)
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social (AIDS awareness)
- 1965 births
- Birthday 8 January
- Birthplace Bergerac, FR
- Sun 18 Capricorn
- Moon 25 Pisces
- Asc 26 Virgo
- Traits : Personality : Loved by all
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Song writer
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Entertain Producer
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social


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Lights, Camera, Los Angeles: L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge Calls For Future Movie Cars
We all know that concept cars don't usually go into production, which allows them to be designed with crazy ideas in mind. But the Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge is going one step further: it's pitting major design studios against each other to come up with outlandish movie cars and the plots to go with them.
The L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge has run for the past eight years, and brings together entries from major design houses and global brands, who compete against each other to dazzle twelve design studio executives and walk away with a year's worth of bragging rights.
This year's theme calls for designers to craft Hollywood's hottest movie car of the future. Each entry includes a fully designed concept, along with a movie plot and/or character to accompany it. The entire package of vehicle and contextual story will be evaluated by a panel of judges for the level of imagination and innovation.
Honda proposes a movie centered on a future hinged on rebuilding our worlds after a massive drought - or, as we see it, an inverted Waterworld. The Honda IH -- for Intelligent Horse -- and features futuristic technology like artificial intelligence. It's also easy to make locally, which is key in a world where global automotive manufacturing isn't up to its present speed.
But what if the world were to suddenly stop revolving? Call Subaru: it created the Horizon concept car, which is designed to withstand strong electromagnetic fields and scorching heat, and seats four. Subaru's Horizon is designed for a movie world in which the world has stopped turning, and half of the world--nicknamed the Daysphere--is being baked by non-stop sunlight, while the other half of the world is living in darkness and must produce its own energy. The Horizon has space for a driver, a navigator, a mechanic, and "Pleiades the magical cat," all of whom must venture to the Daysphere to get a precious energy-generating material.
Mercedes-Benz's design team entered three designs in the Challenge. The Maybach name was affixed to the lavish Berline concept, an autonomous carriage that blends the opulence of an old-fashioned horse-drawn coach with modern electric and fuel-cell propulsion. It's was allegedly created for Cindy, the protagonist of Maybach's movie, whose father lends her the Berline one evening for her to go on a magnificent adventure -- all of which is presided over by a virtual chauffeur.
Mercedes' Smart brand was thinking a bit more mischievous when it designed the Smart 341 Parkour. The Parkour is more than a car, because its wheels can retract and it features vacuum cups to climb the sides of buildings--hence the name Parkour. It has a 360-degree swiveling seat with complete 360-degree visibility, and might even be able to hover or fly. Designers say it was designed for movie reporter Annie Angle, who uses the Parkour to investigate her first big story working for a big city newspaper.
But the most classic concept is the Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow, which was described as "a low-slung sculpture on wheels" and is supposedly designed to look like a late 1930's W125 racecar. It sits on four hoop-like wheels, each apparently independently powered. The car is the hero car for a movie in which two crash test dummies, Hans05 and Franz02, break out of the clutches of crash testing and fight Dr. Crash-Barrier, an evil villain who reigns over his domain with "terror and mayhem." We think that with wraparound-taillamps and a super-sleek design, the Silver Arrow might be the best way to outrun evil.
In the meantime, Hyundai imagines a future where cars can fight communism--yes, communism--with its Stratus Sprinter multi-purpose vehicle. The car is driven by Countess Elena, who uses the car's off-road prowess and go-anywhere capability to put herself in dangerous situations and "protect freedom and justice." The car can disappear in daylight and reappears after dark, which is good, because Countess Elena only travels by night.
The winner of Design LA's challenge should be known by the end of the L.A. Auto Show.
Source: LA Auto Show
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After launching Stories Like Crazy with their inaugural podcast at the beginning of Mental Health Week, Adrianna Prosser and Lori Lane Murphy finished off the week with two real-life solo shows that "stomp on stigma and set fire to adult colouring books": Lane Murphy's Upside Down Dad and Prosser's Everything but the Cat. The double bill ran for two nights this past weekend at Red Sandcastle Theatre, with a portion of the ticket sales going to CMHA's #GetLoud campaign.
Singer songwriter, and member of the Cheap Wine Collective (and Adrianna's brother), Luke Prosser opened the two evenings with an acoustic set of fiercely passionate, introspective indie originals and a few covers, including an awesome version of "Folsom Prison Blues." Wrap your ears around his evocative, raspy blues-infused sound on Soundcloud.
Upside Down Dad (directed by Christopher Lane). Part memoir, part homage, Lane Murphy reminisces about growing up in the 70s with Warner Brothers cartoons, navigating teenage milestones and living with a clinically depressed dad who was by all appearances a happy, fun guy. Childhood memories of being goofy and putting on cartoon voices in an attempt to bring her father out of bouts of profound sadness turn into more urgent and impactful moments in adulthood, where she continued to act as caregiver, driving him to treatment appointments and then being by his bedside when he was dying from leukemia.
Running parallel to her experience of her father's mental illness is the growing realization of her own—from following her dad's early example of self-medicating with alcohol to her own personal turning point, supported by him to find a healthier way to deal. And her support of his journey adds new insight to her own.
A genuine and engaging storyteller, Lane Murphy takes us from moments of laughter to tears—and some wacky, bizarre moments—as she chronicles her kindred spirit relationship with her dad. And her story highlights how important conversation is to insight, acceptance and healing—denying or ignoring the problem won't make it go away.
Everything but the Cat (directed by Stephanie Ouaknine). A personal exploration of loss and grief, Prosser tells the story of losing her younger brother Andrew to suicide and her already shaky relationship with her boyfriend on the same day. Profound grief is peppered with second guesses and guilt, and coupled with gut-wrenching abandonment as her Peter Pan boyfriend, who already has one foot out the door, decides he can't deal with this, or any, level of commitment.
A multi-media solo show that incorporates projected images (original projections by Ouaknine, with additional projections by Jason Martorino), Everything but the Cat includes shadow acting and voice-over work by Maksym Barnett-Kemper Shkvorets, Brad Emes, Hannah Barnett-Kemper Shkvorets, Erik Buchanan, Andrew Hodwitz, Scott Emerson Moyle, Devin Upham, Eden Bachelder, Stephanie Ouaknine, Daniel Legault, Niles Anthony, Gaj Mariathasan, Tammy Everett, AJ LaFlamme, Jason Martorino, Val Adriaanse, Jordi Hepburn and Phil Rickaby. Bringing moments of the story to life in creative and innovative ways—from learning the news of her brother from her dad, to grief-stricken/-propelled experiences of throwing herself into the club and dating scene—the projected images and lit areas evoke time, place and, most importantly, emotional state.
Infusing her story with edgy comedy and sharply pointed observation, Prosser gives a brave, bold, deeply vulnerable and ultimately entertaining performance that not only takes us along, but inside, her journey.
Memory, loss and insight—true stories of living with mental illness in the funny, poignant Stories Like Crazy double bill.
Stories Like Crazy's evening of solo shows closed last night, but you can hear more true stories about mental health and living with mental illness—opening conversation and busting stigma—on the Stories Like Crazy podcast, hosted by Prosser and Lane Murphy. You can also keep up with Stories Like Crazy on Twitter.


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Ni Hao You Doin'? – A new Hepnova shirt on Zazzle in collaboration with Joey G.
We were hanging out in Little Italy/Chinatown tonight and Joe came up with this brilliant bilingual pun that celebrates the confluence of cultures in a pizza/scallion pancake slice of Lower Manhattan with classic New York wit and attitude. Here's to pasta and to potstickers and to Sino-Italian-American friendship! Ni hao you doin'?
Buy the Ni Hao You Doin' shirt on Zazzle
Ni Hao You Doin'? by Hepnova in collaboration with Joey G


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Roenicke smart choice by Brewers
The Brewers chose wisely. Ron Roenicke has the intelligence, background and inner strength to be a successful Major League manager. Given the right personnel resources, he'll give Milwaukee fans a lot to cheer about, no doubt modeling his club in the image of the Angels at their best.
Roenicke's philosophies mirror most of Mike Scioscia's, but Roenicke is his own man. He will not be a Scioscia clone. When Scioscia, needing to replace Joe Maddon as his right-hand man with Maddon's departure for Tampa Bay, asked Roenicke if he was interested, Roenicke's response was telling.
"Sure," he said. "But I'm not going to be a `yes' man. I'll tell you what I think."
To which Scioscia replied, "Fine. That's what I want."
Their 2010 pratfall notwithstanding, it has been an era of excellence for the Angels. They have done things right. The past two years have been marred by a terrible tragedy (the death of Nick Adenhart) and the season-turning loss of Kendry Morales. But the Angels retain a lot of quality talent, and it was interesting how Rangers GM Jon Daniels responded on Monday a few hours before Texas was beaten in Game 5 of the World Series, touching off a wild San Francisco celebration.
Asked something to the effect about the Rangers now being in position to take over American League West control from the Angels, Daniels was deferential. He referred to the Angels' 197 combined victories in 2008 and 2009 and pointed out that Texas "needs to get better." His point was obvious: Daniels expects the Angels to come back with a vengeance in 2011.
Roenicke was a big part in those five division titles in six seasons. He has been Scioscia's sounding board, and he has worked diligently with the outfielders, helping them refine skills and position themselves correctly.
Scioscia is as happy for Roenicke as he was when Maddon left to manage the Rays and pitching coach Buddy Black departed to handle the Padres' reins. Their successes could not have hurt Roenicke's chances, along with the endorsement of Scioscia, one of the game's most respected voices.
So, now Ron Roenicke climbs into the hot seat. A challenging new life opens up for him. My sense is he's about as prepared as a guy can be. On several occasions in recent seasons Roenicke has filled in during brief breaks by Scioscia to attend to family matters, and his command of the club in those circumstances has been impressive.
He's also an insightful and articulate pregame and postgame interview, which will hearten my media friends in Milwaukee. Roenicke knows how to handle himself. The Brewers, it says here, are in good hands. – Lyle Spencer


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BUDGET activists are throwing their support behind the proposed National Expenditure Program (NEP) submitted by Malacanang through the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for the DA's 2012 budget for organic agriculture which they said will help boost organic farming in the Philippines.
Roland Cabigas, managing director of the La Liga Policy Institute (La Liga) and a convenor of Go Organic! Philippines said as far as the push for organic farming is concerned, the DA's proposed budget for 2012 is laudable.
Under the NEP for 2012, the DA's budget this year of P37.4 billion will increase to almost P50 billion, P927.2 million of which is for the promotion of organic agriculture in the Philippines.
The amount, Cabigas said, will greatly boost organic farming in the Philippines which promotes environment-friendly food production practices which the country needs to invest in to help cut its carbon footprint and help address the challenge of climate change.
Such budget, he said, should be used to provide various support services, training, research and development, marketing and packaging assistance, including subsidy to farmers who will shift to sustainable organic and ecological agriculture to boost the country's organic industry.
Cabigas added that the increase in budget also means additional resources for a comprehensive effort to educate and push a for shift to organic lifestyle among urban consumers which buys the bulk of agricultural commodities that come from the rural areas.
Resource mobilization and the efficient utilization of government resources for agricultural development is part of the overall campaign to achieve food and staple sufficiency within the term of Pres. Aquino.
"We appeal to our honorable members of Congress not to touch the proposed budget for the DA's organic agriculture program and support organic farming by approving the new budget line item as proposed in the NEP for 2012," Cabigas said.
Cabigas lauded the DA led by Sec. Proceso Alcala, an organic farming practitioner himself, for being faithful to his commitment to support the push to have a separate budget line item exclusively for organic agriculture as reflected in the NEP 2012.
La Liga, which acts as the convening organization of the Alternative Budget Initiative – Environment Cluster (ABI-Envi Cluster), believes that organic farming promotes sustainable, organic and ecological agriculture consistent with the AgriPinoy program of Pres. Aquino.
As part of its budget advocacy, La Liga which took part in the crafting of the implementing rules and regulation of Republic Act 10068 otherwise known as the Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 pushed for the provision mandating the DA to allocate at least 2 percent of its annual budget exclusively for the implementation of organic agriculture programs.
The campaign for the shift to sustainable organic and ecological agriculture and its funding is consistent with La Liga's call for a more climate sensitive 2012 budget which calls for increased public investment for environment-friendly way of doing agriculture.
A development policy research and advocacy nongovernment organization, La Liga is aggressively promoting organic farming in the Philippines. In 2009, La Liga and the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) led a network of citizens' groups, academic institutions, local government units and the private sector under the banner Go Organic! Philippines in implementing the Organic FIELDS Support Program (OFSP).
The program popularized organic farming in six provinces in Luzon, wherein 600 farmers who completed a season's long training, a major component of the program, are now practicing and teaching other farmers how to go organic.
Through its partner-LGUs under the One Pangasinan Alliance of LGUs (LGUs), La Liga was able to institutionalize local funding in support of organic farming, particularly in Western Pangasinan.
In Pangasinan, La Liga is implementing the Organikong Palayan – Pangasinan in partnership with the DA Regional Field Unit 1 and the local government units of Alaminos City, Bani, Burgos and Dasol.as part of the DA's overall strategy of attaining food and staple sufficiency within the term of Pres. Aquino.
The program takes off from the various "organic" initiatives of the participating LGUs with the hope of encouraging more farmers to shift to sustainable organic and ecological agricultural model and veer away from the conventional agricultural model that is highly dependent on often harmful petroleum-based chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Under Organikong Palayan – Pangasinan, a total of 280 farmers will also undergo season-long training on organic farming of rice in eight learning farms, two learning farms for each of the project areas, to be put up for the purpose.
Cabigas stressed that Organic Agriculture Act of 2010, Republic Act 10068 recognizes the urgency of shifting to a sustainable organic and ecological agriculture model to increase rice production and productivity in the long run, boost farmers' income, promote better health for farmers and consumers and increase soil fertility by arresting the degradation of the environment.


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The sun is quite low
No wind swirls a leaf
Clouds have flown away and taken
Storms somewhere else
Thoughtfulness in each stem of the grass
Everything is at rest
Including my usually racing thoughts
Rabbit in the evening sun
Lazy and satisfied with the green grass meal
Chipmunk runs along the fence
And disappears in the soft shadows
Squirrel sneaks up on my plants
Bird on the fence, staring onto the sky
Sparrows chatting about a piece of bread
And otherwise it is silence
Too deep to realize
This is also a life
Life at rest
Such absolute undisturbed calm
Soft purple
Dreamy pink andThe happy rabbit
To illustrate the absolute calm, I took a few pictures. Rabbit was the most patient model, and obviously plants were not moving. I later deleted rabbit because of space pressure on WordPress. Chipmunk disappeared before I got my camera, squirrels usually run somewhere and the bird took off.


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Dana Becker, a professor of social work at Bryn Mawr College, is the author of "One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble With Stress as an Idea."
Stress is seemingly everywhere, a reaction to woes as disparate as war-induced trauma and the battle against rush-hour traffic. Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil say too much of it can be hazardous to our health, and we're inundated with stress-management advice. Life coaches talk about working toward emotional fitness, as if we can perform Pilates on our psyches. But some ideas about stress and its risks are simply wrong.
1. Getting enough sleep, exercising and eating right can reduce stress.
To borrow from Bill Clinton, the answer depends on what the meaning of the word "stress" is. We use the term to refer to unsettling conditions or situations, such as unemployment, as well as the experience of being unsettled — feeling anxious or overwhelmed.
While it's true that taking care of ourselves can help us feel good, steamed broccoli and 30 minutes on the elliptical won't come close to mitigating stress. If that's our goal, we'd be better off defining stress in terms of those unsettling conditions rather than our internal states.
Instead, Americans seem to be preoccupied with managing the effects of stress. The message from everyone — doctors, personal trainers, psychotherapists, even our mothers — is that if we can fix our stressed-out selves, we can handle pretty much anything. It's a solution that neglects the causes of stress and one that's often available only to the middle class on up. Eating her fruits and veggies, even if she can get them at a decent price in her neighborhood, won't do much for the single mother who has three children, an hour-long, multi-bus commute and an angry boss who can easily find another employee if this one shows up late.
2. Stress makes people more vulnerable to illness.
The media reports that chronic stress can "shrink our brains" and even kill us. Physicians sometimes inflate the connection between stress and cardiovascular disease, and psychologists can overemphasize the link between stress and depression — so we end up thinking that any amount of stress may harm our health.
But when psychology professors Suzanne Segerstrom and Gregory Milleranalyzed more than 300 studies on stress and immune system functioning, they didn't find any evidence that stress makes otherwise healthy people susceptible to illness. In fact, they concluded that the immune system is extremely flexible and can handle even fairly large amounts of stress without going out of whack. This is less true for people who are under chronic stress, for the elderly or for people who are already ill. But stress can produce fairly dramatic changes in the immune system without necessarily causing people to get sick.
3. Most people exposed to traumatic events develop post-traumatic stress disorder.
In 2004, as the Iraq war was heating up, a Navy psychiatrist said: "We do not want to pathologize combat stress. . . . Individuals are not patients. . . . [Combat stress is] a relatively normal reaction by a normal person to an abnormal, horrific situation." If soldiers with PTSD aren't patients, why do military personnel continue to describe PTSD as a stress injury or a stress illness? Comparing the psychological effects of war to broken bones or the flu certainly makes them seem easier to cure.
The idea that PTSD is a normal reaction to abnormal events has been gaining popularity since the mid-1980s. But most people who have been through traumatic events don't develop PTSD. Although about 60 percent of U.S. adults say they have had at least one traumatic experience, the average prevalence of PTSD is between 6.8 percent and 7.8 percent.
We can't call PTSD a normal reaction and a psychiatric disorder at the same time. Of course, if we accepted more forms of suffering as normal, as many cultures do, rather than calling more and more human problems mental disorders, we wouldn't be faced with this conundrum.
4. Men and women respond to stress differently because of genetic and hormonal differences.
For more than a decade, differences in women's and men's responses to stress have been linked to oxytocin, a hormone that is released during and after a mother gives birth. Research on rodents suggesting that oxytocin may encourage mothers to behave protectively toward their young when under stress has been used to buttress the claim that men and women naturally respond to stress differently.
John Gray, the author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," has run amok with this research, calling oxytocin the "cuddle hormone" and insisting that taking care of children, doing the laundry, cooking and cleaning are "oxytocin-producing" and therefore stress-reducing for women, but not for men. I don't think many women find it relaxing to cuddle up to the refrigerator at the end of the day, but maybe I'm living on Saturn.
We can reliably conclude one thing about gender differences in stress response: Women and men act differently when they are under stress. But, as West Virginia University epidemiologist Sarah Knox has found, this isn't the same as saying that men and women have different hormonal responses. Even some neuroscientists have warned against interpreting biological differences as evidence of distinct genetic hard-wiring.
Biology has as much to do with our experiences as it does with our genes. If Gray spent enough time in the kitchen, maybe his oxytocin would eventually follow him there.
5. If women learn to cope better with stress, they'll be able to resolve work-family conflict.
Since the 1970s, when middle-class women began entering the workforce in large numbers (low-income women, of course, have always worked outside the home), they've been deluged with advice about how to manage the stress of combining paid work with family responsibilities. Too much of the work-life balance debate is focused on women's illusory choices: If we can work part-time, have flexible schedules or work from home, we'll be okay. And if Mommy's okay, everybody else will be okay, too.
But there's something wrong here. Work and family aren't having a conflict; it's work and workplace policies, work and limited child-care options that are at odds. The conflict is between family and work as king and fit only for kings — that is, work designed for men with wives at home. And it's related to the fact that parental caregiving is an unpaid and undervalued activity.
If we stop treating stress — and women's stress in particular — as the problem to be solved and instead work for the kinds of social and political changes that will benefit women, men and children, maybe then we can find a real solution for women's "stress."
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Bloomsbury group
Bloomsbury group, name given to the literary group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center of its activities from 1904 to World War II. It included Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Vita Sackville-West, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, and John Maynard Keynes. The group began as a social clique: a few recent Cambridge graduates and their closest friends would assemble on Thursday nights for drinks and conversation. Its members were committed to a rejection of what they felt were the strictures and taboos of Victorianism on religious, artistic, social, and sexual matters. They remained a fairly tight-knit group for many years; recent biographers have detailed their tangled personal relations. By the 1920s Bloomsbury's reputation as a cultural circle was fully established to the extent that its mannerisms were parodied and Bloomsbury became a widely used term connoting an insular, snobbish aestheticism. Unique in the brilliance, variety, and output of its members, the group has remained the focus of widespread scholarly and popular interest.
See J. K. Johnstone, The Bloomsbury Group (1954); L. Woolf, Beginning Again (1964); Q. Bell, Bloomsbury (1969) and Bloomsbury Recalled (1996); S. P. Rosenbaum, The Bloomsbury Group (1975); A. Garnett, Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood (1985); L. J. Markert, The Bloomsbury Group: A Reference Guide (1990).
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