THE GOOD NEWS ~ uplifting quotes collected by Michael Dean (repost)

“A great miracle is coming for planet Earth, 

and the time is now.

A new consciousness will be created 

by the children of the Sun

as they ascend with the Earth 

to a new place among the stars.”

The Mayan Oracle: Return Path to the Stars

Ariel Spillsbury & Michael Bryner

“This event will be of greater power than any the Earth has ever seen. 

More energy will be released in a very few moments than is typically released 

upon the surface of the Earth in many years.

This energy will take the form of heightened perception

and deepened emotional connection,

rejoining the individual and God.”

Ken Carey

Starseed: The Third Millennium

“We have already entered the first outer set of gates

and are now in the passageway that leads to the inner gates.

The passage through this vestibule is sacred: 

it leads into a new way of being altogether.

And we can already feel that, once we go

through the inner gates, our lives will be

irrevocably changed.”

Solara

01.01.2002

“Each one of you is now an ambassador

between Earth and Heaven. Each of you can now say,

‘The new world that is being born today begins here,

with me. I am a co-architect of the new civilization.

The example I set today will be followed

by countless people tomorrow.’”

Dr Martin Luther King

“A vast work of purification is upon us to cleanse and beautify Earth 

as one would beautify and enrobe a bride before her marriage.

And so we greet Earth in her time of joy and accomplishment.

We ask you to uplift her in the joy, in the laughter and in the love

of this great celebration. We recognize that you are still in the

outworking of this great event - while to us

it is already accomplished. “

David Spangler

Links With Space

“Right now, the Doorway stands open. The pathway is clearly

before us. The old road draws to an end. Why wait any longer? 

Here we are, tossed to and fro on the sea of uncertainty,

with no plans, no identity, formless, waiting,

dancing on the spaces in between.

“And as we do, the empty spaces become more full; 

the seen fades away, the unseen is revealed 

as we dance from one spiral to

the next, into the unknown, 

into the New which beckons.

“The Great Work has just begun. 

This is what we came here to do, 

so long, long ago.”

Solara

"This moment signals the beginning of yet another chapter in the drama. 

You are about to rediscover your real identity, your inner powers, 

and the purpose of your tenancy of this lovely world. 

You are about to discover what the Universe really is - and who you really are.

You will soon communicate with beings from other worlds, other dimensions. 

You will release the Creator in yourselves. 

‘Ordinary’ people, so-called, will daily perform what you now call miracles.

All this will unleash a tidal wave of joy, relief and goodwill 

that will sweep away much of your pain, your suffering and your guilt. 

And when that happens, listen hard, my friends - 

and you will hear the whole Creation singing: 

‘Halleluiah! They are coming home!’"

Merlin

London, 1977

“We honor you, we recognize you, 

and we are here to assist you.

We are all here as one family, 

to help Earth to become a new star,

a radiant wing of the Living Library, 

a new Light on the horizon of many sentient worlds. 

We wait for your past to intersect our present 

and catapult all existence into a new octave,

a higher octave of being.”

Barbara Marciniak

Bringers Of The Dawn

“You remember deep within you that we would come.

It was an agreement that was made: You would go and play

your part, we would assist, and then at an appointed time we

would come. Your cells came alive as you remembered.

You laughed, you rejoiced, you lived from that time.

Keep tuning in to this reality. The co-workers on Earth

have prepared the way, have lit the path, have raised the vibrations,

so that soon we can come, we can join you, you can join us -

in Earth, in Heaven, in light, in music, in living.”

Received by Heather Hopkins in a Wiltshire

crop circle during the summer of 1994.

“You are all being born into a higher consciousness:

this is the first glimmer of all the light to come.

You are only a few inches into this new portal of expansion.

In the next five years, you will be accessing encoded places

inside yourself that hold the secrets of the Universe.

Never, ever in your human guise have you

entertained such possibilities.

“These encodings are your prime property.

They are the treasures that you seek - the treasures

that you innately know are yours.

As humans you look for these treasures

externally as money, inheritances, lottery winnings -

yet these innate treasures are what you so urgently seek:

these treasures are your heart’s desire.

They are your God Codes.”

The Pleiadian Council

October 25, 2011

"We know that this mission is not easy.

We also know that many tears have been shed in

the awesome process of its unfoldment.

Be consoled in the knowing that all tears are soon to be

wiped from your eyes and all your pain dismissed and forgotten.

The glory and joy of what is about to transpire will render all

you have endured a minor expense, a price you would

be more than willing to pay again.

We bless you for all your courage and your commitment

and we honor you for your achievements on this plane.

Take heart in the knowledge that your task is almost over.

This carbon-based planet will shortly burst into a diamond,

a gem in the crown of this solar system’s skies.

The celebration will then begin.

This is Mission Control.

Over and out."

Mission Control and Diana Luppi

The Cosmic Instruction Manual

July, 1990

[First posted 11 January 2013]

Lilou Mace speaks with Mayan Elder Ac Tah on his planetary mission...

I only discovered Ac Tah a few hours ago - and already I've found numerous interviews with him on YouTube. He comes across as a true being and extremely articulate, and he carries himself with a simplicity and sincerity that are entirely endearing.

A young Malaysian's answer to Dr M's dirty politics of divide-and-rule...

Dr M, you are wrong!

by Azrul Mohd Khalid | The Malaysian Insider

JULY 5 — I was quite disappointed to read of Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s prediction that the upcoming general election would be more focussed on race and ethnic issues than ever before.

I think you are wrong, Dr M. Speaking as a product of your policies and far-sightedness in the creation of a Vision 2020 generation, I am happy to inform you, Dr M, that you have actually wildly succeeded in pushing us towards the formation of a more united, integrated and mature democratic Malaysian society (remember the Vision 2020 concept document?).

Through the programmes put in place under your leadership, the opportunities for education and learning provided by your administration, and through the shared experiences, heartache and pain that we have had over the past three decades, you bear much responsibility for the current state of affairs which resulted in the evolution of our people.

Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters

And the evolution is a good one. When you look at the young people today below the age of 35, there is much to be proud of. We used to gripe about how apathetic Malaysians in general were about the state of the country, how they often took for granted that which they are able to benefit from, and did not really want to participate in the political process. Well, things, as you well know, certainly have changed.

Though we are not quite there yet, we are getting ready to leave racial identity politics behind. We see the possibility of a new Malaysia. One that concentrates on addressing the real issues affecting Malaysians such as alleviating poverty and economic hardship, reducing unemployment, addressing corruption, improving livelihoods and preventing crime. Whether you are Melayu, Cina, India or lain-lain, it just doesn’t mean much to people any more. Everyone is in the same boat and we need to work together.

We should be wary and turn away from these guys who scream, shout abuse, and threaten violence in order to get their way. These are the people who claim to be the champions of speaking out and defending the rights and privileges of their race yet are the same ones who are still robbing these same communities and the rakyat blind for themselves and their families.

They do this while securing sweetheart deals and line their pockets with public funds. They distract us from the bread-and-butter issues by abusing and misusing religion to promote bigoted and racist agendas against those of other ethnicities and religions.

These are the ones who are obsessed in continuously speaking about race and are racist themselves, who jump at shadows, yell “traitor” and point to others at every single turn, offer luxury cars to encourage the intimidation of others, threaten physical harm and insist on maintaining the status quo for the benefit of the privileged few.

Look around you, Dr M. Does it sound familiar to you? If all you hear is race, it is because you surround yourself or are surrounded by people who are terrified of positive change and are only looking out for their own selfish interests. Maybe it’s time to find a new group of friends.

Meanwhile, we are moving on.

There has never been a prouder moment for Malaysians to be Malaysian. We have progressed far from my parents’ generation of “siapalah kita” to the current one who answer back “kita adalah rakyat Malaysia.” We are experiencing an empowered sense of shared destiny and a common vision.

If you had been at the rally on July 9 last year and the many rallies organised around the nation this year, particularly the one on April 28 at Dataran Merdeka, you would realise that this generation is neither an apathetic one nor are they troublemakers.

If you had been there standing and sitting with us and seen the peoples of Malaysia from all walks of life reflected in the faces of those gathered there that day in solidarity, you would realise that this is a group of people who care and love their country and who want to see a better Malaysia. You would have been proud of us.



When you see people standing in solidarity and unified together for no other reason than that they care about an issue of mutual and common concern which affects all Malaysians, are you not proud that we have looked beyond race?

Isn’t this what we sought to be and do? Are we forever going to be chained by the divisions created and cast by our former colonial masters? We cannot afford to be forever mired in racial identity politics

Today, to talk about race is to be selfish, narrow minded and to lack vision. A leader of today’s Malaysia must rise above race and communal politics. To remain relevant, the ruling coalition must learn to adapt and to accept the dawning reality that the old rules are increasingly fading into obscurity. It must reinvent itself or risk being obsolete, as some political parties are already finding out the hard way.

We need to move beyond the dinosaurs of the past who are fossilised and only know of the importance of race and their own selfish concerns.

We are moving on.

This will be Malaysia’s proudest moment when we take the first tentative and courageous steps towards a future where the divisive race-based politics will be increasingly less of a factor.

Perhaps the coming elections will be about race. It will be the beginning of how race ceases to become the unifying factor for people of this country. It will be the starting point when Malaysians began to see something greater than themselves and reached deep down and found courage in striking out into the undiscovered country, leaving the baggage of race in the dustbin of history.

Azrul Mohd Khalib works on HIV/AIDS, sex and human rights issues. He is becoming cynical and is in danger of losing his sense of humour and mind. 

Compassion is our New Currency ~ by Rebecca Solnit

“Nothing has been more moving to me than this desire, realized imperfectly but repeatedly, to connect across differences, to be a community, to make a better world, to embrace each other.”

By Rebecca Solnit | Nation of Change

Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed - and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it has hardly registered. People in thousands of communities across the United States and elsewhere are living in public, experimenting with direct democracy, calling things by their true names, and obliging the media and politicians to do the same.

The breadth of this movement is one thing, its depth another. It has rejected not just the particulars of our economic system, but the whole set of moral and emotional assumptions on which it’s based. Take the pair shown in a photograph from Occupy Austin in Texas. The amiable-looking elderly woman is holding a sign whose computer-printed words say, “Money has stolen our vote.” The older man next to her with the baseball cap is holding a sign handwritten on cardboard that states, “We are our brothers’ keeper.”

The photo of the two of them offers just a peek into a single moment in the remarkable period we’re living through and the astonishing movement that’s drawn in… well, if not 99% of us, then a striking enough percentage: everyone from teen pop superstar Miley Cyrus with her Occupy-homage video to Alaska Yup’ik elder Esther Green ice-fishing and holding a sign that says “Yirqa Kuik” in big letters, with the translation - “occupy the river” - in little ones below.

The woman with the stolen-votes sign is referring to them. Her companion is talking about us, all of us, and our fundamental principles. His sign comes straight out of Genesis, a denial of what that competitive entrepreneur Cain said to God after foreclosing on his brother Abel’s life. He was not, he claimed, his brother’s keeper; we are not, he insisted, beholden to each other, but separate, isolated, each of us for ourselves.

Think of Cain as the first Social Darwinist and this Occupier in Austin as his opposite, claiming, no, our operating system should be love; we are all connected; we must take care of each other. And this movement, he’s saying, is about what the Argentinian uprising that began a decade ago, on December 19, 2001, called politica afectiva, the politics of affection.

If it’s a movement about love, it’s also about the money they so unjustly took, and continue to take, from us - and about the fact that, right now, money and love are at war with each other. After all, in the American heartland, people are beginning to be imprisoned for debt, while the Occupy movement is arguing for debt forgiveness, renegotiation, and debt jubilees.

Sometimes love, or at least decency, wins. One morning late last month, 75-year-old Josephine Tolbert, who ran a daycare center from her modest San Francisco home, returned after dropping a child off at school only to find that she and the other children were locked out because she was behind in her mortgage payments. True Compass LLC, who bought her place in a short sale while she thought she was still negotiating with Bank of America, would not allow her back into her home of almost four decades, even to get her medicines or diapers for the children.

We demonstrated at her home and at True Compass’s shabby offices while they hid within, and students from Occupy San Francisco State University demonstrated outside a True Compass-owned restaurant on behalf of this African-American grandmother. Thanks to this solidarity and the media attention it garnered, Tolbert has collected her keys, moved back in, and is renegotiating the terms of her mortgage.

Hundreds of other foreclosure victims are now being defended by local branches of the Occupy movement, from West Oakland to North Minneapolis. As New York writer, filmmaker, and Occupier Astra Taylor puts it,

"Not only does the occupation of abandoned foreclosed homes connect the dots between Wall Street and Main Street, it can also lead to swift and tangible victories, something movements desperately need for momentum to be maintained. The banks, it seems, are softer targets than one might expect because so many cases are rife with legal irregularities and outright criminality. With one in five homes facing foreclosure and filings showing no sign of slowing down in the next few years, the number of people touched by the mortgage crisis - whether because they have lost their homes or because their homes are now underwater -- truly boggles the mind.”

If what’s been happening locally and globally has some of the characteristics of an uprising, then there has never been one quite so pervasive - from the scientists holding an Occupy sign in Antarctica to Occupy presences in places as far-flung as New Zealand and Australia, São Paulo, Frankfurt, London, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Reykjavik. And don’t forget the tiniest places, either. The other morning at the Oakland docks for the West Coast port shutdown demonstrations, I met three members of Occupy Amador County, a small rural area in California’s Sierra Nevada. Its largest town, Jackson, has a little over 4,000 inhabitants, which hasn’t stopped it from having regular outdoor Friday evening Occupy meetings.

A little girl in a red parka at the Oakland docks was carrying a sign with a quote from blind-deaf-and-articulate early twentieth-century role model Helen Keller that said, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.” Why quote Keller at a demonstration focused on labor and economics? The answer is clear enough: because Occupy has some of the emotional resonance of a spiritual, as well as a political, movement. Like those other upheavals it’s aligned with in Spain, Greece, Iceland (where they’re actually jailing bankers), Britain, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Chile, and most recently Russia, it wants to ask basic questions: What matters? Who matters? Who decides? On what principles?

Tunisians honor Mohamed Bouazizi whose self-immolation sparked a revolution

Stop for a moment and consider just how unforeseen and unforeseeable all of this was when, on December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian vegetable vendor in Sidi Bouzid, an out-of-the-way, impoverished city, immolated himself. He was protesting the dead-end life that the 1% economy run by Tunisia’s autocratic ruler Zine Ben Ali and his corrupt family allotted him, and the police brutality that went with it, two things that have remained front and center ever since. Above all, as his mother has since testified, he was for human dignity, for a world, that is, where the primary system of value is not money.

“Compassion is our new currency,” was the message scrawled on a pizza-box lid at Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan - held by a pensive-looking young man in Jeremy Ayers’s great photo portrait. But what can you buy with compassion?

Quite a lot, it turns out, including a global movement, and even pizza, which can arrive at that movement’s campground as a gift of solidarity. A few days into Occupy Wall Street’s surprise success, a call for pizza went out and $2,600 in pizzas came in within an hour, just as earlier this year the occupiers of Wisconsin’s state house had been copiously supplied with pizza - including pies paid for and dispatched by Egyptian revolutionaries.

[Read the full article here.]

"The ad hoc invention of the people’s mic by the occupiers of Zuccotti Park, which requires everyone to listen, repeat, and amplify what’s being said, has only strengthened this sense of presence."

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

• They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
• They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
• They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
• They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
• They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
• They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
• They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
• They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
• They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
• They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
• They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
• They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
• They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
• They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
• They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
• They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
• They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
• They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
• They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
• They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
• They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
• They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
• They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*

*These grievances are not all-inclusive.


To the people of the world,

We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

We also have a visual representation of this document from the Arts and Culture Group and the Call to Action Working Group. To download your own copy of this image as a jpeg (12.7 MB), click here, or for image inquiries e-mail flowchartart@gmail.com.

Help Publish the Declaration of Occupy Wall Street

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Media outlets have attempted to dismiss Occupy Wall Street as a movement without a message. This baseless indictment falls apart once you have read their declaration, and this is why we think it is so important to publish it and distribute it widely!

We are going to need your help to reach our goal of printing and distributing 100,000 copies!

This document is the first and only official declaration to come from the New York City General Assembly at Liberty Plaza, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. It is a summation of the grievances expressed by the occupiers, it is a call to action, and moreover it is a historic mile marker in the global fight for social, environmental, and economic justice.

The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City, as transcribed and edited by Ryan Hoffman, Lex Rendon, and the Call to Action Working Group of Occupy Wall Street is a powerful reference for blossoming social struggles everywhere. In this second printing of 100,000 copies we will be including two other texts from the New York General Assembly,The Principles of Solidarity, and OWS' Statement of Autonomy, we also will be including a letter from the activists at Tahrir Square to the Occupiers at Zuccotti Park. The Declaration of the Occupation, The Statement of Autonomy, and The Principles of Solidarity, are reflections of every voice amplified by the people’s mic at the NYC General Assembly at Liberty Square. You own this document. Everyone owns it.

This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011

PROJECT BY Andy Stepanian
Andy Stepanian is the cofounder of the Sparrow Project, a grassroots PR and creative consultation agency that champions activist endeavors and creative projects for social change. Andy also writes about activism and social justice for The Huffington Post. Andy has made appearances on Democracy Now!, has been featured in New York Magazine, The Nation, Arte TV, and WNYC. His creative work has been featured in Print Magazine.

Laughing Stock

Mr Nosejib

Oneness ~ The Movie!

[Brought to my attention by the delectable Christy Tice]

UBAH! UBAH! UBAH! UBAH! UBAH!

Let this be our battlecry!


PEOPLE OF SARAWAK, GO OUT EARLY TO VOTE.

IT'S YOUR SACRED DUTY
TO GIVE TAIB MAHMUD &
HIS CORRUPT BN CRONIES...

THE BOOT!

Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban!

A pictorial tribute to the heroic Egyptians who put an end to pharaonic power on earth...

PEOPLE POWER IN EGYPT!
A streetfighter's guide to protective gear

Would be more effective if the bottles were filled with water -
but that would make this helmet too heavy!

Is the guy with the plastic pail on his head hurling the remains of a tuna sandwich?

If this carton can protect tomatoes from damage, why not my head?

When fighting to bring down a despot, paving tiles are more useful on the head than underfoot.

Multi-purpose helmet can be used to make a stew afterwards or as a percussion instrument.

Egyptian Vietcong?

Charging into the fray with two baguettes taped to his ears and a stale bun on his forehead.
This guy deserves a special award!

[Forwarded by Hari Ho]

Saloma sings Selamat Hari Raya

Those seem much jollier times in retrospect when P. Ramlee and Saloma were the toast of the town. Let this Hari Raya greeting to all who celebrate this occasion be a sweet reminder of how simple life can be - and what a cheerful, friendly, abundant land this will be when love proves stronger than fear or hate.

Safe traveling, please!

Obama addresses the Muslim world in Cairo

4 June 2009
Length: 54:57

Now this is what I call a speech! Obama is a natural-born orator, no doubt about that. The lucidity of his mind and maturity of his soul lend a luminosity to his words and a deeply therapeutic dimension to his presidency.

Only in two instances did I feel prompted to interrupt the man and interject my dissenting view - and that's when he refers to 9/11 as an atrocity committed by Al-Qaeda (in accordance with the Official Conspiracy Theory), thereby glossing over the glaring discrepancies (too many to list here, but those interested may read this powerful essay by Steve Bhaerman); and also when he attempts to justify the military occupation of Afghanistan without admitting that the entire adventure was originally prompted by the Americam oil lobby's determination to control the oil reserves in the region via the Unocal oil pipeline now being built across Afghanistan.

This suggests to me that Barack Obama is acutely aware of the destructive power of the Zionist-Illuminati Cabal and is carefully choosing his words so as not to arouse its animosity and antagonism. Presidents before Obama - like Lincoln and Kennedy - were unceremoniously removed from office for taking a firm stance against the secret government and its evil plan to hijack human evolution. I feel that Obama's mission is to build a bridge that will take humanity beyond the deathgrip of the Illuminati Cabal which has secretly ruled for thousands of generations.



At least Anwar Ibrahim doesn't make me cringe whenever he opens his mouth.