Foghorn Stringband @ RWMF 2007

The Oregon-based Foghorn Stringband is characterized by "tight instrumental work - fiddle, banjo, mandolin, bass and guitar - reminiscent of early bluegrass, but their powerful approach is whole-heartedly old-time, centered largely by the fiddle." Caught in action at the 2007 Rainforest World Music Festival, Sarawak.

Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq

A marine asleep at his base in Falluja, Iraq. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty images

Exhaustion and combat stress are besieging US troops in Iraq as they battle with a new type of warfare. Some even rely on Red Bull to get through the day. As desertions and absences increase, the military is struggling to cope with the crisis

Peter Beaumont in Baghdad
Sunday August 12, 2007
The Observer

Where once the war in Iraq was defined in conversations with these men by untenable ideas - bringing democracy or defeating al-Qaeda - these days the war in Iraq is defined by different ways of expressing the idea of being weary. It is a theme that is endlessly reiterated as you travel around Iraq. "The army is worn out. We are just keeping people in theatre who are exhausted," says a soldier working for the US army public affairs office who is supposed to be telling me how well things have been going since the "surge" in Baghdad began.

They are not supposed to talk like this. We are driving and another of the public affairs team adds bitterly: "We should just be allowed to tell the media what is happening here. Let them know that people are worn out. So that their families know back home. But it's like we've become no more than numbers now.

The first soldier starts in again. "My husband was injured here. He hit an improvised explosive device. He already had a spinal injury. The blast shook out the plates. He's home now and has serious issues adapting. But I'm not allowed to go back home to see him. If I wanted to see him I'd have to take leave time (two weeks). And the army counts it."

A week later, in the northern city of Mosul, an officer talks privately. "We're plodding through this," he says after another patrol and another ambush in the city centre. "I don't know how much more plodding we've got left in us."

Photo from www.incommunion.org

When the soldiers talk like this there is resignation. There is a corrosive anger, too, that bubbles out, like the words pouring unbidden from a chaplain's assistant who has come to bless a patrol. "Why don't you tell the truth? Why don't you journalists write that this army is exhausted?"

[Read the whole tiresome report here.]

THE WAVE OF LOVE

A movie about awakening humanity and hence the collective consciousness to a blissful state of simply BEing LOVE. Visit http://www.thewaveoflove.com
Thank you! :-)

Produced by Simone M. Matthews
UNIVERSAL LIFE TOOLS


[Video recommended by Judy Mezen]

Think YOU Have Problems???

Could this be the DIMMEST sector of the entire electromagnetic spectrum? Dimmer than even the Umno General Assembly?

NOTE: This video from the Huffington Post loads very slowly. To view without irritation, click on pause after it begins loading and go take a leisurely crap.

Max Blumenthal says: "I have covered the Christian right intensely for over four years. During this time, I attended dozens of Christian right conferences, regularly monitored movement publications and radio shows, and interviewed scores of its key leaders.

I have never witnessed any spectacle as politically extreme, outrageous, or bizarre as the one Christians United for Israel (CUFI) produced last month in Washington. See for yourself."

[And decide whether it's all about Rapture or Rupture!]

A Day In The Life of the Doghouse Skiffle Group

Alan Harman, Garry Pullen, and Keith Cheesman (three quirky dudes from Hull, England) impersonate Bat Masterson, Hopalong Cassidy and Wyatt Earp on tea-chest bass, washboard, and guitar. Check out their audacious interpretation of "an old English folksong" - A Day In The Life - by The Beatles! Captured live at RWMF 2007.

Randy Raine-Reusch with Tabuh Pak Ainal [RWMF 2007]

Randy Raine-Reusch - Vancouver-based collector of exotic instruments and a master musician of worldwide repute - teams up with superb Sarawakian father-and-son percussion unit, Tabuh Pak Ainal, at the Rainforest World Music Festival 2007.

No peace on Peace Hill (an interesting excerpt from Malaysia's boldest blog)

The IGP said that he is being framed by his own men. If he is lying that is bad because he would then be in the same league as Umno’s much-disgraced Information Chief. But if what he says is true then that is equally bad. This demonstrates that the IGP has lost control of the police force. Is the police force a force by itself? Is this why officers from the special unit are moonlighting as assassins for those who wish to dispose of pesky foreign lovers? And it appears, according to the court testimony during the ongoing murder trial of Razak Baginda and his two attack dogs, weapons and ammunition can be taken in and out of the armoury without any security checks. In fact, the court was told, the officers can even take home the unused bullets and other dangerous stuff.

Malaysia Today had already arranged to video-record an interview with the late Altantuya’s father but unfortunately the interview had to be aborted because he was being closely followed and he could not shake off his tail. Malaysia Today wanted to record on video the very interesting testimony from the man who has intimate knowledge of the real story behind the Altantuya murder. Of course, normally Malaysia Today has to base its information on what the many Deep Throats have to reveal. But this was going to be no Deep Throat.

This is the father of the deceased who was going to bare it all for the world to see. He had a story to tell and he wanted the world to hear his story through Malaysia Today. But it was not to be because three intelligence agencies would not let him out of their sights.

What they told me was most frightening indeed. It seems the two police officers currently on trial for murder never revealed the location where Altantuya was disposed. The police knew exactly where the place was in spite of its extremely hidden location and which is off the beaten track. How did they know? Is it because that location is ‘gazetted’ as a disposal site? Furthermore, I was told, when the forensic people took away Altantuya’s remains, they discovered that the remains were not of Altantuya alone but of nine different people. I wanted all this on video because short of this 'evidence’ not many would believe such a thing like this.

Now Razak’s Affidavit that he filed during his bail application in front of Justice Segara makes sense. According to Razak, the inspector told him he had already killed six people before. Were these six amongst the remains of that nine?


[Read the whole spine-tingling story here!]

Rot and More Rot in Malaysia’s Judicial System

by "Mat Salleh" | 06 August 2007
Asia Sentinel

The “retirement” of two top prosecutors is the latest fallout from the Mongolian murder trial, but the problems run deeper.


With the trial of three defendants for the brutal murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu entering another week, the Malaysian judiciary system is facing arguably its biggest crisis since former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sacked the Lord President, Tun Salleh Abbas, and two Supreme Court judges in 1988, ending the court’s independence.

The immediate concern is the threatened resignation of two top prosecutors, Yusof Zainal Abiden, the head of the prosecution division, and Sallehuddin Saidin, the deputy prosecutor and head of the classified cases unit. Although the Attorney General’s chambers denied the two were resigning, they later said they were applying for “optional retirement.”

Although no reasons have been given for the retirement, Malaysia’s gossipy legal fraternity seems to believe that the two are leaving because of dissatisfaction over problems in the politically charged murder case. Other top prosecution figures are reportedly considering quitting as well despite the denials.

In fact much of the spreading dissatisfaction with the judiciary relates to how the case is being handled. Sallehuddin had been named head of the prosecution team until he was abruptly dropped from handling it by Malaysia’s attorney general, Abdul Gani Patail (pictured left), the night before the trial was to begin. The attorney general’s office issued a statement that the dismissal was because Sallehuddin had been seen playing badminton with judges, an explanation that few in the legal system believed. The prosecution was replaced by a new team led by Majid Tun Hamzah.

Before the 28-year-old Altantuya was murdered and her body was blown apart with explosives in a suburban jungle clearing last Oct. 19, she was the lover of Abdul Razak Baginda, the head of the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre and a close advisor to Najib Tun Razak, the deputy prime minister. Abdul Razak was charged, along with Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Constable Sirul Azhar Umar, members of Najib’s personal security team, on suspicion that the political analyst had prevailed on the two security men to get rid of her.

The Russian-educated Altantuya, who spoke five languages, and the high-flying political analyst were involved in a whirlwind affair that included expensive gifts and trips to Europe, as well as payments up to US$10,000. After the married Abdul Razak had apparently tired of his paramour, the woman came to Malaysia to demand US$500,000 from him as support for a baby he allegedly sired.

From the time of the arrests, the case has been treated with extraordinary sensitivity in Kuala Lumpur, with every effort being taken to keep Najib’s name out of the trial – attempts that failed when Altantuya’s cousin testified in court that she had seen photos of Altantuya together with Abdul Razak and Najib at a dinner.

Strangely in what is presumed to be a court of law, both the prosecution and the defense asked that her testimony be stricken from the record, and neither side bothered to attempt to subpoena the picture. Nor at any time during the trial has either the prosecution or the defense attempted to ascertain how Abdul Razak, a private citizen, could prevail on Najib’s bodyguards to get rid of the woman without informing Najib about the matter. Najib has never been questioned or asked to testify.

[Read the rest here]

Huun Huur Tu & Malerija @ RWMF 2007

Huun Huur Tu - everybody's fave-rave Tuvan throat-singing phenomenon all funked up with some tasteful, techno-trance from Malerija (who add the Russian rush). In concert on 15 July 2007 @ the Rainforest World Music Festival, Sarawak.

Sex and murder scandal casts a political cloud in Malaysia

Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The political future of the man earmarked to be Malaysia's next prime minister is in doubt because of his links to a sensational court case involving the murder of a beautiful young Mongolian translator.

There is already speculation in Kuala Lumpur that deputy prime minister Najib Razak has been forced by the daily courtroom drama to shelve plans to grab his political inheritance early by ousting the lacklustre prime minister, Abdullah Badawi.

Some Malaysian analysts contend the murder of the young woman in October last year has already seriously disturbed Malaysia's power structure because Prime Minister Abdullah, a saintly Islamic scholar with little taste for the rough-and-tumble of politics, has delegated much of the day-to-day administration of the country to his deputy, Najib.

[Read the rest here.]


Oh, oh, here comes that sinking feeling...

A Starry-Eyed Vacation from Bloggoria

[photo taken 07.07.07 by Anoora Chapek]

It's that time of year again: the Rainforest World Music Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary from July 13-15 at the Sarawak Cultural Village and you bet I'll be there! Having been a performer at the very first festival back in August 1998 (read my euphoric report here!), I haven't missed a single year. I look forward greatly to the reunion with fabulous musicians from all over the world who have all played at this festival at least once over the past decade - the boys from Shooglenifty (a totally hip Edinburgh trancedance band that's been around since the 1970s), Mas Y Mas (great buddies who have visited Magick River twice since 2004), The mesmerizingly charismatic Hanitra (Anch) of Tarika Be and her delightful sister Noro, the friendly Inka Marka guys from Melbourne, three good-humored chaps from Hull who call themselves the Doghouse Skiffle Group... and, of course, Huun Huur Tu, the sensational Tuvan throat-singers with their Russian acoustic/electro-trance collaborators, Malerija! Oops, forgot to mention my Mohican wizard friend Marcin Ruminski who heads Shannon, the powerhouse Polish Celtic group that rocked the crowd in 2005, and the wholesome, sweaty boys from Oregon who call themselves the Foghorn Stringband :-)

Back before anyone notices I've been gone. Good time to browse my blog archives, ha ha.

Poems from Guantanamo

The following poems are part of a new collection of poetry written by Guantanamo Bay detainees to be published in late July. For more information about the book, go to NPR.org.


Is it True?
by Osama Abu Kadir

Is it true that the grass grows again after rain?
Is it true that the flowers will rise up again in the Spring?
Is it true that birds will migrate home again?
Is it true that the salmon swim back up their streams?
It is true. This is true. These are all miracles.
But is it true that one day we'll leave Guantanamo Bay?
Is it true that one day we'll go back to our homes?
I sail in my dreams. I am dreaming of home.
To be with my children, each one part of me;
To be with my wife and the ones that I love;
To be with my parents, my world's tenderest hearts.
I dream to be home, to be free from this cage.
But do you hear me, oh Judge, do you hear me at all?
We are innocent, here, we've committed no crime.
Set me free, set us free, if anywhere still
Justice and compassion remain in this world!

Shortly after 11 September, Osama Abu Kadir travelled to Pakistan to perform charity work in Afghanistan with the Islamic missionary group Tablighi Jamat. The US claims Tablighi was providing fighters for jihad in Afghanistan and arrested Mr Kadir near Jalalabad in November 2001. In his native Jordan, he was known as a dedicated family man who worked as a truck driver. In Guantanamo, he is known as prisoner number 651. To read this poem online go to voicesinwartime.org.


Death Poem
by Jumah al Dossari

Take my blood.
Take my death shroud and
The remnants of my body.
Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.
Send them to the world,
To the judges and
To the people of conscience,
Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.
And let them bear the guilty burden, before the world,
Of this innocent soul.
Let them bear the burden, before their children and before history,
Of this wasted, sinless soul,
Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the "protectors of peace."

Arrested in Pakistan and held in solitary confinement since 2003, Jumah al Dossari's mental wellbeing is worrying his lawyers. The 33-year old Bahraini national has tried to kill himself 12 times since his incarceration in Guantanamo. On one visit, his lawyer found him hanging in a bedsheet noose, with a deep gash in one wrist. In a letter Mr Dossari wrote in 2005, he said: "The purpose of Guantanamo is to destroy people and I have been destroyed." To read this poem online go to voicesinwartime.org.

"Malay Dominance" and "Jewish Supremacism"

"I see the value of all people preserving their cultural, national, and even genetic heritage. All peoples have the right to preserve their unique identities, including Jews. This book is about the fact that organized Jewish leadership pursues those goals of self-preservation and self-advancement tenaciously, while consistently disallowing other nationalities and races to act similarly in their own interests." ~ David Duke, in his preface to Jewish Supremacism

YOU BECOME WHAT YOU HATE

Hard to deny the truth of that simple statement. Here in Malaysia the supreme irony is that a great many Malays condemn Jews for exactly the same injustices that they themselves commit on a daily basis. Below I quote an excerpt from David Duke's new book - Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question. By substituting "Malay Dominance" for "Jewish Supremacism" we arrive at pretty much the same ugly conclusion: ETHNOCENTRISM SUCKS!

Although we fantasize about the peace-loving nature of human beings, most of human history is a record of tribal, ethnic, or racial war of one kind or another. For instance, the most read book on earth, the Bible, records the bloody history of the conflict between the Israelites and the other peoples of the Middle Eastern region. It tells glorious stories of war and shocking accounts of genocide. Anyone who reads the Old Testament with unbiased eyes will readily discern its dominant theme of racial and ethnic supremacism. There are many blatant expressions of ethnic supremacism:

* Israelites are a "chosen people," chosen by God above all the other peoples of the world.

* Israelites have a right to rule over all other people and are promised that they will someday own and rule over the whole world.

* Israelites boast of genocide against whole peoples and kingdoms.

* Israelites are commanded to murder all the people of the lands where they intend to live and to kill all the people of foreign nations that do not submit themselves in slavery.

* Israelites are forbidden to make slaves of their own people, but are encouraged to enslave non-Israelites whom they may pass down as slaves to their descendants forever.

* Israelites are forbidden to intermarry or "mix their seed" with other peoples.

Few people dare to even acknowledge the blatant racial supremacism of the Bible. And those who become aware of the extreme Jewish Supremacism in the Old Testament tend to believe that such sentiments are relegated to ancient times and have no influence on the present. Jewish Supremacism, however, shows that the powerful ethnocentrism of ancient Judaism has continued to thrive to the modern day. I will offer compelling evidence that Jewish Supremacism has a dramatic and increasing effect on world events.

[Download David Duke's book as a pdf file here.]


Although the "Star of David" is commonly associated with the Zionist State of Israel, the emblem itself is truly ancient. Some say it predates even the Egyptian civilization. For more information about the 6-pointed star, originally a 2D representation of our 4D merkaba, click here.

Dr Robert Bowman on 9/11: IT'S TREASON!

Robert M. Bowman (born 1934) was a Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

FIRE THE GRID @ 11:11 GMT ON JULY 17th 2007

For months I've been receiving emails about a planetary healing and renewal project called Fire The Grid. I get a lot of "New Age" stuff like this perhaps because I used to do a fair bit of sacred ceremony myself, after hearing about Solara and her 11:11 Doorway Activation and moving to Magick River as an entity named "Antares."

Anyhow, although I've acquired a variety of different interests along the way and sometimes get a bit exasperated with wild-eyed, born-again, gung-ho visionaries (having been one myself for a while), a part of me remains sympathetic and committed to the absolute necessity for radical transformation on this beautiful but hideously beleaguered planet. These are times when cynicism and skepticism ought to be reserved for corporate propaganda, political spin, and fascistic fearmongers - and not used to snuff out any lighted candle that threatens to dispel the darkness around us.

So what's Fire The Grid all about then? Apparently a Canadian woman named Shelley Yates was involved in a freak accident and had a near-death experience in November 2002. Her son Evan was pronounced braindead by the doctors - but both of them miraculously survived and recovered.

Shelley, by her own admission, had been a very angry and negative person (on account of her being sexually abused as a kid). Now she found herself receiving strange messages from mysterious beings of light, charging her with a mission and a vision to galvanize the entire planet (or at least a few million adventurous souls) into consciously coming together for ONE HOUR at 11:11 GMT (7:11PM Malaysian time) on July 17th 2007 to express gratitude, joy and celebrate the promise of a renewed and rejuvenated Earth.

Shelley Yates in 2002 was a penniless single mother with a lousy attitude problem. How in heaven's name was she going to accomplish such an impossibly monumental task? Watch this intriguing 8-part video (I assure you, it gets better and better!); visit Fire The Grid; and then decide for yourself. Enough said! :-)

SHELLEY YATES ON "FIRE THE GRID" & "PROJECT CAUSE"

PART ONE


PART TWO


PART THREE


PART FOUR


PART FIVE


PART SIX


PART SEVEN


PART EIGHT

"I have a story to tell you that I know will be hard to believe in parts, but it has happened to me, and I cannot erase or deny any of it (though at times I wish I could). I am a "normal" woman who grew up in simple yet chaotic times. I am much like you in most every way. I always thought I would be the last one to have a miracle occur in her life, much less two miracles, and all that has happened since. Therefore the tale I tell could be of your life, and not mine. But seeing it is mine I guess I was meant to tell it.

"What I want to establish first, is the fact that miracles do happen and they happen to people like you and me. What we need to make these miracles happen is to open ourselves to the communication that is all around us every day. Communication not from this world but from the world of our creator, the cosmos and the universe. The message comes from a distance, but you find it by going inside and believing. We can all create miracles within our lives, and that is one of the main points in writing this for you. I have no special tricks. Simply open yourself to the possibility that what I tell you is possible and that it is available to every person." - Shelley Yates

9/11 simply refuses to go away! (3-part video)

1. Prof. John McMurtry questions 9/11 Orthodoxy

If video doesn't load properly, click here to view directly on YouTube.


In part 1 of this 3-part series, John McMurtry notes that 9/11 should be recognized as a major turning point in modern history, perhaps western civilization. It is therefore of great importance that 9/11 be properly understood. McMurtry calls attention to the most prominent left gatekeeper, Noam Chomsky, who is "normally critical of established official stories," but holds on to the official conspiracy theory, the "least plausible conspiracy theory," despite its many "gaping holes."

As such, McMurtry says, left gatekeepers "are blocking out the same things the official mainstream media and governments are blocking out which is... what in fact went on on 9/11?" The absolute falsity of the official story is undeniable, the philosopher asserts. "It's scientifically confirmable; we have evidence for it and we don't have good evidence against it... it's a scientific hypothesis...we can regard as valid."

McMurtry recalls during the Reagan administration he watched those in power telegraphing their intentions by accusing others of doing what they were doing or planning to do to "the enemy-of-the-day." There are real conspiracies, McMurtry notes: there has "in fact been a conspiracy to rule the world, indeed, but whose conspiracy has it been? Who is now ruling the world, and how have they come to do so? So the fact that we get projected onto a conspiracy theory is just another repetition of an ancient operation which is predictable on the part of this regime. A key element in the continuity of anti-communist or anti-terrorist conspiracy is making the public afraid of being called a "conspiracy theorist" - telling the truth or even thinking about such matters.

McMurtry touches on some of the gaping holes in the official story, then turns his attention to qui bono, who benefits? In whose interests was it that this crime occurred?

[John McMurtry, professor of philosophy and university professor emeritus, University of Guelph, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. McMurtry's presentation was prepared for the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference, June 22-24, 2007. Produced by Snowshoe Documentary Films.].

2. Dr Graeme MacQueen delivers statement on 9/11 cover-up



The New York City Fire Department, under the direction of Fire Commissioner Tom Von Essen, collected the testimony of 503 first-responder EMTs, Port Authority police, and firefighters. It came to 12,000 pages. The 9/11 Commission, run by White House appointee and Neocon insider, Philip Zelikow, rejected the testimony, just ignored it as "not germane" to the foregone conclusion. Also, the data was somewhat explosive...

[Dr Graeme MacQueen's statement was drafted for the Vancouver 9/11 Conference, June 22-24, 2007. Produced by Snowshoe Documentary Films.]

3. Explosive Testimony from NYFD 9/11 Eyewitnesses



Within a month of 9/11, NYC fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen, a 30-year NYFD vet, set up interviews with fire, port authority police and EMT first responders to record their initial impressions of what they experienced on Sept 11.

The stories of 503 men and women ran to 12,000 pages. Graeme MacQueen, a recently retired religious studies professor, read them all. In addition to the heartrending nature of many of the stories, the consistent theme was of hearing, feeling and seeing explosions, a controlled demolition. Failure to officially acknowledge this evidence is further proof of an inside job. MacQueen (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada) narrowed down the testimony of 118 first responders as especially court-worthy testimony. But he notes the entire testimony was excluded by the 9/11 Commission, as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST):

Firefighter Angel Rivera: "When we hit the 19th floor, something horrendous happened. It was like a bomb went off. We thought we were dead. The whole building shook."

NYFD Asst. Commissioner Stephen Gregory: "I thought that I saw... low level flashes... I saw flash-flash- flash, and then it looked like the building came down. You know like when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw."

Firefighter Daniel Rivera: "At first I thought it was... You ever see professional demolitions where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear, 'pop-pop-pop-pop-pop'? That's exactly what, because I thought it was that, when I heard that frigging noise, that's when I saw the building coming down."

NYFD Captain Karin Deshore: "Somewhere around the middle of the World Trade Center there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash. Then this flash kept popping, all the way around the building, and that building had started to explode."

[Dr Graeme MacQueen is Founding Director of the Centre for Peace Studies (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario). Produced by Snowshoe Documentary Films.]

A 13-Year-Old Girl Speaks Up

15 years ago Severn Suzuki (daughter of geneticist and eco-activist David Suzuki) addressed the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Her simple, passionate speech touched everybody present and got her a standing ovation.

Severn is 28 now and continues her work as an environmental activist. But I wonder if she still cries at night seeing how little has changed...

David Suzuki (pictured right), one of the most convincing and influential advocates of environmental sanity, has rattled offending corporations with his vigorous campaigning. Just as it tried to do with Ralph Nader, Big Business has fought back with vicious slurs against Dr Suzuki's integrity - instead of simply cleaning up its act.



[Thanks to Kehlana for bringing this clip to my attention.]

Meet the New Energy Artists

[I'm going to do something unusual and blog the edited transcript of an entire channeling session by Geoff Hoppe of the Crimson Circle which describes itself as a "Classroom of the New Spiritual Energy." The Crimson Circle was formed in 1999 by Geoff Hoppe and his wife Linda Benyo, and it has since attracted thousands of participants at monthly channeling sessions called "Shouds." There are Shouds all over the world studying the Tobias Materials and preparing to serve as Teachers in the New Octave of Reality. Those who frequent these Shouds are known by the name "Shaumbra" (which means "family that is on a journey and experiencing together"). Over the years I've been reading regular Shoud reports forwarded by a virtual friend named Judy Mezen - and although I invariably glean a few priceless morsels from these reports, I have never felt prompted to delve deeper into the Tobias Materials which constitute a major portion of the Crimson Circle's work. However, this latest Shoud transcription I received struck a resonant chord. It features World Teacher Kuthumi Lal Singh, one of my favorite Ascended Masters, and a special guest appearance by someone I admire a great deal - the late great actor-singer-comic John Belushi!]

PRESENTING THE TOBIAS MATERIALS
The Teacher Series:
SHOUD 11: "New Energy Artists" - Featuring Kuthumi Lal Singh, channeled by Geoffrey Hoppe

Presented to the Crimson Circle
June 2, 2007

Namaste! Namaste! [Audience responds “Namaste.”] I can’t hear you, Namaste! [Audience responds “Namaste” again.] It is I, Kuthumi, [audience cheering, Kuthumi chuckling] coming back ... [Linda says “Welcome back!”) ... coming back to my family of Shaumbra, to this beautiful energy of this beautiful group of New Energy Artists.

I’m going to take a moment to walk around the room, walk around your internet, all over the world, and would like to just hold your hand for a while. It has been a while since we have been together, so please extend either right or left hand – but just one, I only have so many hands! Hold out your hand so I can come and feel your energy and you can feel mine.

[Pause]

And through me let us connect all of Shaumbra all over the world in this precious moment.

[Pause]

We do it so often together in the other realms, while you’re sleeping at night, while you’re daydreaming, while you’re sitting having a beer at the bar. But let’s do it right now together and breathe in this beautiful energy of Shaumbra – the New Energy Artists.

Now I use the term “artist” here ... not like you have to paint on canvas, not like you have to even create a piece of music. An artist is a being, a soul, an entity, who goes into something new to explore, to discover, to learn and to experience. That is what an artist is ... keep your hand out, I'd like to keep holding it ... that is what an artist is. They play with energy. And today we’re going to talk about New Energy Artists, because that, above all, is what you are. You can put that on your business card. You can hang a sign above your bed. [chuckling] You are New Energy Artists.

So let’s breathe that in together, and as you do, remember your center. Your center is you, in this Now precious moment. In the center is the essence of you. You have some ideas on what you think you should be, how you think it should be, but there is nothing more divine than your center right here, right now. So breathe that in.

[Pause]

It is very easy to get thrown out of balance, to lose your vision and your dreams, to get caught up in the energy of this world today, as it is. Every now and then call me in. I will sit with you, we will do a little bit of breathing, we will tell a few jokes, we will sing a few songs perhaps, and we will let that center come back into being. The center is very simple, by the way. It is not complex. It is not in the mind. It is the simplest part of you, but in that simplicity is the grandness. In that simplicity is all the complexity of who you are. Right now the center is so simple. You don’t even have to try to find it – it finds you, if you let it. Let us take a deep breath together as we begin our Shoud.

Today's Guest

I’ve invited a special guest in today to be with us, one that many of you here are familiar with, perhaps a few are not. One that has been on Earth quite recently and is now back in our realms entertaining, creating a few jokes, helping other humans understand the artistry of working with energy. And it is the dear one ... well, take a moment to feel – it was a “he” in the past life – take a moment to feel the energy, not trying to define the name, but to feel the energy of this one that we know, you know as John Belushi. [audience reacts with surprise and pleasure]

Yes indeed! Not what you would consider a highly spiritual being by modern terms, but indeed he was. He explored energy. He explored going out beyond the barriers. He explored what it was like to work with the energy of humor. He was a comedian; he was musician; he was an artist in every way. Now because he went into such depth with his artwork, exploring the edges of energy and consciousness, and because he didn’t have this incredible support family that you now have called Shaumbra, he took it a bit far. But he had a wonderful trip coming back over to our side. [some laughter]

He was from a generation of New Energy Artists, the first true generation that stepped beyond the old structure and the limitations so that they could help to begin opening up consciousness in anticipation of this thing that we call the Quantum Leap. He was part of a generation of incredible artists – Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney – oh he’s not dead, just his music is dead! [much laughter, Kuthumi chuckling]. That was Belushi, not I! [more laughter] An incredible generation of New Energy Artists, amongst the first. Yes indeed, some of you are considering the energy element around. Indeed, most of them partook in drugs because in a sense the drugs helped them to expand, helped them to go through some of those very difficult barriers, barriers that you have encountered also. But you are finding that you don’t need the drugs to expand – well, not anymore. [Kuthumi chuckling to himself]. We see a few personal stories here! [much laughter] Hmm!

They were an incredible generation of New Energy Artists. They used the tools of music and they used the tools of actual artwork or comedy to evolve consciousness. Look at the impact that they had on the world and still have on the world today. They were phenomenal. So I’ve asked John Belushi to come in to be the guest for today, to help you understand how you can be a New Energy Artist as well.

Kuthumi's Recent Activities

One of the great questions in the universe has been “Where’s Kuthumi? [laughter] Where is Kuthumi?” I’ve been busy with you, Shaumbra. I have been busy helping you to write your books and many of you are doing that. Some – Louise,* Marisa,** and a few others – have already done it. Isn’t it a rewarding and satisfying creative venture to just do it? Perhaps it’s not what you would consider the perfect document and that is where some of you get stuck. You want the perfect one the first time. You judge it, you don’t think it’s perfect, so you struggle with it and it never gets off the creative workbench. It never gets into reality. But if you would know, as John Belushi knows, that it doesn’t have to be what you call perfect, because it can never be perfect. As energy changes, what was done yesterday isn’t necessarily perfect today. The important thing is just getting it out, letting that energy flow, discovering what it is like to be a New Energy Artist.

I’ve been working with some of you with your songs and your music. Some of you have beautiful, beautiful compositions, but you’re afraid to let the world see or to hear. Some of you with incredible dreams – dreams of creating perhaps an invention, a school, a therapy – but, because you are not allowing the energy to move, because you are doubting yourself, it never gets going. Now that's not a New Energy Artist. The artists I just mentioned were willing to take the risk, willing to go beyond. So it’s time for you, Shaumbra, to do the same.

Indeed, in my creative ventures, I have also been working on writing with Shaumbra, been working on the songs. I’ve even written a few rap songs myself. I call myself K-Lite, my rap name. [laughter] I’ll give you a sample! [more laughter]

Boom-boom-boom-boom. [Kuthumi chuckles]

Humans in commotion
Filled with bad emotion
Try my true love potion
It’s just energy in motion.

Yo ho ho ho
It’s energy on the go
Say hey, hey, hey
It’s a brand new day!

[Lots of audience laughter, cheering and applause and Kuthumi laughing. Linda says “That is the best evidence ever that Geoff is channeling!!”]

Now indeed, Cauldre was a bit concerned about having to sing, but it was rap, it wasn’t singing! [laughter] Shaumbra, just my way of saying “Step out!” Do these things. Do these New Energy artistic things. Let that energy flow. You see how good it feels to just get it out? I’ll create some more lyrics for one of our upcoming events. So let us take a deep breath together ...

[Pause]

You, New Energy Artists.

No Lessons

As I talked about the last time I was here with Shaumbra, in my last lifetime as Kuthumi my sole objective, much like yours, was to find enlightenment; was to discover the truth and the answer; was to come back to make it my final lifetime on Earth.

I came back in as Kuthumi Lal Singh, born into the lands of what are now India, Pakistan; educated in Europe where I studied and studied to try to find the answers. And you can't. You cannot. Let go of that concept, because there is not just one truth. There is not just one answer. There is not a secret that God or the angels are keeping from you. There is not. I drove myself to the brink of a mental breakdown because I had too much energy in the mind trying to figure everything out, and I see some of you doing that. Actually, I see all of you doing that – trying to figure it out. And you can’t. That is one of the fallacies of life.

After my breakdown, I decided to let it all go. The stress and the pain and the anxiety were far too great. I let it go. I let go of philosophy. I let go of searching. I let go of the whole concept of spirituality, because even back in my time spirituality was so burdened with Old Energy concepts. So I let it all go, and then I wandered. Not wandered as in lost, but wandered as in discovering and learning and experiencing. I wandered throughout Europe. I wandered into the parts of North Africa. I wandered back into my homeland, experiencing every moment, every drop of life that there was to offer. And I finally came to a beautiful conclusion ... a beautiful conclusion that I live by – even though I’m not in body – that I live by even now: Life, particularly life on Earth, is an interactive art gallery. That’s all it is! It’s an interactive art gallery and you are in the midst of it.

You see, there are no lessons in life. That is a fallacy. That is an incorrect observation as far as I’m concerned. Humans think that – they have been taught, led to believe – that you’re here on Earth to learn some lessons. You don’t know what the lessons are and you never know if you’ve learned them. You don’t know if you got the answer right even if you did approach the lesson. But you think it’s some sort of obstacle course or maze. You’ve been taught that that’s the way it is. It’s lessons. I found in my experience it’s not at all. There are no lessons.

Metaphysicians that you are have been taught that life has a certain goal to it, a metaphysical goal of understanding the Oneness, of understanding Spirit or God. And there’s not. There’s not. You never understand what the oneness is like, you can only experience it. You’ll never understand the mind of God, because God has no mind at all! You’ll never have or find the answer, because it’s not there.

Now I know that's a bit depressing and when I realized this myself, it took me aback. I was a bit depressed, because all of my energies had been focused on finding these things, finding the One, learning my lessons, scraping and crawling my way back to the heavens, to the gods. I realized one day, “No more.” I realized that life in the heavens where the angels, life here on Earth, is your interactive living art gallery, you see. You go through each day enjoying and feeling and absorbing the experience. It has nothing to do with a lesson, it is an experience.

Now, what are you going to take from the experience? Are you going to take the feeling of joy? Are you going to take the fact that you experience what it is like to fall off of a two-story building? It’s just an experience! It wasn’t a lesson from God, it didn’t mean that you were doing the wrong thing, it wasn’t fate or destiny. You just wanted to experience falling.

I know many humans, including Mr. Belushi, who went and drank far too much alcohol. Some of you here have done that also. You have put a little sign around your head that says: “Hi, I’m Bob, an alcoholic.” And you carry that with you. You feel that you are weak. You feel that there is something wrong with you. You label yourself. Why not change that label and say, “I had a great drunk experience.” That’s all it’s about, Shaumbra. Life is an interactive art gallery and you’re the New Energy Artist. You’re the one that can take the energies, play with them, discover in them, create in them, and find the joy – your joy – in them.

Take this opportunity in this Shoud to let go of this whole concept of a goal, even of ascension. Even of ascension. Saint-Germain and I, sitting around together, we have to chuckle sometimes. Your concept of ascension – what you think it is – you think you’re going to become some perfect human. You think you’re going to impress the masses by rising up out of the dead. But have you ever thought of where you really go when you ascend? You think that you are suddenly struck with wisdom and knowledge beyond all. Actually, in ascension – true ascension – you just go back to your simplicity, you see.

Let go of all of these concepts and allow your life here on Earth, the rest of your remaining years, to become your own interactive art gallery. Interactive because you are working with other elements, other humans, nature, even the invisible ones such as us. Every day is your palette. Every day becomes your creation. You’re no longer subject to the creation of others, the victim of mass consciousness.

Life is an interactive art gallery. Breathe that in a moment. Feel … feel beyond the words ...

[Pause]

... feel into the energies of being this New Energy Artist.

Current Energies

Right now on Earth the energy is very wobbly. Very wobbly. You have probably felt that in these past few months. You felt that things are no longer steady, everything is shaking, wobbling. Imagine a large sheet of glass – a plate of glass – as tall as you are and as wide as you can stretch your arms, a glass like you would put in a window. Now, that glass is hard. It is very rigid. The energies of the glass are such that it stays rigid and structured. That is the principle of glass. But imagine now that sheet of glass wobbling ... wobbling, fluctuating, shimmering, even dancing a little bit. And you go “But glass can’t dance. Glass sticks together. It is tight. It is hard. It shatters, actually, if it were to have this wobbling energetic motion to it. It would shatter.”

The energy of human consciousness is much like this. Human consciousness is very tight, very rigid. It tends to shatter. You know this because your own personal energy has shattered at times. But right now, as we approach the Quantum Leap, it wobbles. That is exactly what is happening on Earth. The wobbling motion will continue between now and shortly after the Quantum Leap, probably into late October time-frame, because as energy shifts and changes ... and right now it is literally changing its own dynamics or its characteristics, it is no longer just a vibrational energy, it is no longer following the old path ... so it is now wobbling.

Take a feel how all of human consciousness is doing this wobble. You have been feeling it, I know, so many of you, particularly in the last month. You wonder why you feel a little strange. You wonder why everything seems to be shifting kind of in and out of its old structure. Why things like your car doesn’t run like it has been running before. Your electronics at home are wobbling as well. Everything around you is wobbling.

Other humans, they are all wobbling also but they don’t really understand why. So what do they do? They try to re-plant themselves in their old structure. They try to grab back into yesterday, the way things used to be. They try to hold on tight. Well, the way the wobbling energy works, if you can imagine holding on tight to something that’s wobbling, it will shake you right off. It will shake you loose.

This type of energetic effect is very natural. It’s the way things should be. It may seem to disorganize you at times, but that is part of the wobbling effect. Your sleep patterns may be different. The way you speak, I have noticed, to so many of you, the way you talk – you can’t get it together any more between your mind and your mouth and your heart! [laughter] You think one thing, you feel another and something else comes out of your mouth! It is not I, Kuthumi, or Tobias making you do that, but you are wobbling.

The interconnection of your consciousness parts are changing right now, and as New Energy Artists this is a good thing. This is a time to actually allow, to facilitate this wobbling change going about within you. Have you noticed that even while you are watching a movie or watching television, you seem to be going in and out? And sometimes it makes sense, what you see on the screen, sometimes none at all. You’re going in and out of different consciousness modalities right now. And again, I want to share with you that it is all perfectly natural. It’s the way energy is working.

The wobbling motion that all of you are feeling – and will continue to feel – is simply in response to consciousness going to a whole new level. It shakes before it moves. It wobbles before it evolves. Everything shifts the way it interrelates and interacts to itself before it moves on. So instead of having your high anxiety about your – what do you say – your lack of balance, your wobbliness right now, take a deep breath and understand it is happening for a reason.

Effects of the Wobbling

I find that perhaps the most interesting side effect for Shaumbra in this wobbling is how your mind works. And I have to laugh here because this is where the biggest wobble is taking place – in your mind! Some of you curse it. Some of you say it is ... you’re getting old. Some of you think that you are losing your mind. Some of you, in the Belushi style, think perhaps you did a few too many, hmm, enhancement entertainment type of activities when you were younger.

So you wonder what is happening in that mind of yours right now. Why doesn’t it respond like it used to? Why doesn’t it come up with the answers in the way it used to? Why does everything up there seem so disorganized and in disarray? Why do you seem so disconnected from your mind when before it was supreme? It was the grandest thing. It was the highest form that you had. It’s wobbling right now. It’s changing.

As a human, you will find that it will cause perhaps a few distractions in your life. It will cause even a few collisions. But allow this process to take place, and you’re going to find that it truly opens you to this thing that we’ve talked about recently: going beyond the mind, sans definition, opening into new realms. Allow the wobbling. Matter of fact, right now, just wobble in your seat! [Kuthumi wiggles in his chair to audience laughter] Please don’t be embarrassed – I just did it! Wobble in your seat. You shake ... [Kuthumi chuckles] See how good that feels? [laughter] I’m going to recommend to all of you to get up in the morning – and wobble! Oh we know you almost fall over sometimes, but literally shake the energy in your body and in your brain. Let it – let it – open up and expand, for that is all it is trying to do right now.

The Purpose of New Energy Artists

Right now, right now the energy is moving, and right now on Earth is the time for New Energy Artists. As I said, an artist is one who explores. An artist is the pioneer. Don’t think in terms of just painting or drawing. Think in terms of an artist as one who experiences something that has not been experienced or done before. An artist immerses themself into the newness, into the openness, tries it, feels it and then shares it with others. That is my definition of an artist.

Right now the world needs New Energy Artists just like you. The world needs the ones who will go off into the new areas of consciousness, and that is exactly what Shaumbra is doing. When we say that you are truly the first going into this New Energy, we truly mean it. No exaggeration. You’re the ones allowing yourself to open up, to go beyond, to go beyond the beyond into these new areas. And when you do, you open a type of barrier or what would have been a doorway – but a closed door – that leads into a grander, bigger and more dynamic energy for all of consciousness. Whether you are asleep at night, whether you are conscious during the day, this is what all of you, bar none, are doing right now. You’re going into these new realms. What used to be your thoughts have turned into feelings, and even going beyond that into the pure realms of the sans definition.

In order for humanity in general, and the other levels, what you would call the angelic levels, to move smoothly, gracefully into the New Energy, it needs pioneers. It needs New Energy Artists. In order for these technological developments that Saint-Germain talked about last month to take place on Earth, the New Energy Artists are needed to go out into these realms. That is exactly what you have been doing.

In order for spirituality to evolve on Earth right now; to go beyond some of the old and restrictive concepts of God and heaven and the angels; in order to move beyond that into a new understanding of a living God, of a compassionate God, and a God that is in this reality right now embodied in you, the world needs the New Energy Artists. So that’s what you do. You go through consciousness barriers. We’re doing it right now together. You may say, “Kuthumi, but I don’t realize that I’m doing anything.” But you are. You’re letting yourself expand. You’re letting yourself go beyond what were the old concepts, what was the old you, what were the old limitations. You are truly the New Energy Artists.

I will keep my discussion here today short, because we are allowing the energy to come in, in so many different ways. But I will say that it's time – perhaps my call to action for all of you – is for the New Energy Artists to ignite, for you to ignite. For you to ignite that New Energy fire that is here available to you to do something, as Saint-Germain said last month. Start anything to ignite that creative flow of energy in your life right now. Tobias has said it, Saint-Germain has said it, I will say it also: It’s time for you to do something creative. Now, have no expectation of the results or the outcome. Just do it for the experience, for the pleasure of doing it. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to make you rich or successful or popular overnight. But the whole idea is just to experience it.

Once you ignite the New Energy fire within you – you get it going, you get it flowing – you’ll move beyond an intellectual concept of New Energy and being a New Energy Artist; move beyond the concept of what we have called creativity. You will truly begin to experience and to understand on the most powerful level. It’s time to do something. It’s time to ignite that New Energy within.

Honoring Shaumbra

Let us join hands again ...

[Pause]

And in this moment I would like to thank and honor all of you. You’ve all come from diverse backgrounds in this lifetime, coming from many different parts of the world, many different professions, many different backgrounds as children. But there was one thing that all of you – all of us – had in common: a desire ... a desire to make this the lifetime; a desire to discover in this lifetime what we’d worked so many lifetimes for; a desire to be the New Energy Artists at the forefront of this whole Quantum Leap. You’re doing it.

Oh you perhaps you look at your job that you have in the everyday world and you don’t think you’re making an impact on society or on the world. But now look at your job, your work that you are doing as a metaphysician, a New Energy Artist: you are doing it. You are doing it. You are opening new realms.

So, Mr. Belushi, I, Kuthumi, and all of the others will just take this moment to send you our love, to send you our support, to encourage you into these next realms. The energy will wobble these months, particularly during the hottest part of the summer. It will wobble. Keep your sense of humor, understand it is appropriate, and understand, as Tobias would say, you are never alone.

Namaste.

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* Louise Sarezky, author of How to be Kind of Good Looking in an Otherwise Ugly World and Silly, Silly Humans – a Guidebook for Dummies Who Want to Remain Dummies, channeled with Kuthumi.

** Marisa Calvi, author of You Don't Have Problems, You're Just Bored, also channeled with Kuthumi.

Tobias of the Crimson Council is presented by Geoffrey Hoppe, aka "Cauldre," in Golden, Colorado. The story of Tobias, from the biblical Book of Tobit, can be found on the Crimson Circle website. The Tobias Materials have been offered free of charge since August 1999, the time when Tobias said humanity moved past the potential of destruction and into the New Energy.

The Crimson Circle is a global network of human angels who are among the first to transition into the New Energy. As they experience the joys and challenges of the ascension status, they help other humans on their journeys through sharing, caring and guiding. Over 100,000 visitors come to the Crimson Circle web site each month to read the latest materials and discuss their own experiences.

The Crimson Circle meets monthly in the Denver, Colorado area where Tobias presents the latest information through Geoffrey Hoppe. Tobias states that he and the others of the celestial Crimson Council are actually channeling the humans. According to Tobias, they are reading our energies and translating our own information back to us so we can see it from the outside, while experiencing it on the inside. The "Shoud" is the portion of the channeling where Tobias steps aside and the energy of the humans is channeled directly by Geoffrey Hoppe.

Crimson Circle gatherings are open to the public. The ultimate purpose of the Crimson Circle is to serve as human guides and teachers to those walking the path of inner spiritual awakening. This is not an evangelical mission. Rather, the inner light will guide people to your doorstep for your compassion and care. You will know what to do and teach in that moment, when the unique and precious human who is about to embark on the journey of the Bridge of Swords comes to you.

If you are reading this and feel a sense of truth and connection, you are indeed Shaumbra. You are a teacher and a human guide. Allow the seed of divinity to blossom within you in this moment and for all times to come. You are never alone, for there is family around the world and angels in the realms around you.

Please freely distribute this text on a non-commercial, no-charge basis. Please include the information in its entirety, including these footnotes. All other uses must be approved in writing by Geoffrey Hoppe, Golden, Colorado.

© Copyright 2007 Geoffrey Hoppe

Below is one question from the Shaumbra Q&A this month.

QUESTION FROM SHAUMBRA 14 (read from the internet by Linda): Could you please tell us about God? What is the nature of God? Does God relate to us in 3D experience? If so, how? I’m interesting in understanding my relationship to and with God more clearly. Can you help me?

LINDA: And that’s the last question, by the way.

KUTHUMI LAL SINGH: Indeed, a wonderful way to end the day. God is a fabrication of man. God is mental. God, as Saint-Germain has said – I would never dare to say! – but God is nothing other than the sexual energy virus at work.

God ... this whole concept of God is actually relatively new. It wasn’t known in the times of Lemuria or even Atlantis. God was manufactured by man to help explain the unexplainable. But in doing so, the concept of God took on all of the attributes and qualities of men and women themselves. So now you have a God who is distant and removed and angry and judgmental; a God who doesn’t listen to your prayers; a God who truly is more of a control mechanism than it is of a partner.

When I say that you are New Energy Artists, one of the most important things you’re doing and one of the, perhaps you could say, most challenging and dangerous things is you’re going to present to the world the new God. A God that isn’t in the Bible. A God that isn’t angry. A God that isn’t some grand powerful all-knowing being. God is simple. God is pure. God doesn’t have agendas. God doesn’t care whether you go to heaven or hell, because those are your creations, not the creation of God.

I can tell you what God isn’t but only you can experience this concept of what God is. If I tried to explain it in words, you would go mental and it would get stuck there. Your own mind would then twist and distort the purity and the simplicity of this thing called God. So I’m going to ask you to allow yourself to experience the energy of God – of you – in your life; to experience it in your living art gallery; to let the energy of God come in, but without expectation.

There are so many expectations about what God is. Can you, Shaumbra, let go of God? Of every thought and notion and concept of what you thought God was? Can you absolutely let that go? That’s a bold step. Then, can you teach others the beauty of letting God go?

Now these words could come off as blasphemous, threatening to the ones who hold on to an Old Energy concept of God so dearly that they would fight for it and they would kill for it. But perhaps that’s part of the problem in the world right now, and perhaps, just perhaps, this is the next frontier of consciousness: the new God on Earth. The old God – it’s time for that to go away. It used to be that you would have thousands, tens of thousands of gods. Then it was all boiled down to one God. Then it became a God that was rather human-like in their characteristics. Now it is time to move into that new God, but it is up to you to experience that for yourself.

It has been a delight for I, Kuthumi, to be with you here today. I will return on or before the Quantum Leap.

Namaste.

[The entire Q&A session can be found here.]

A Canadian View on 9/11

This is an entirely sober - and sobering - 9/11 documentary accessible on Google Video Canada. It's 83 minutes long and packed with the most revealing footage and expert perspectives I've come across thus far (and I've viewed just about EVERY 9/11 documentary you can name!).

In April I blogged extensively about 9/11 and figured that was it - there is now enough evidence right here on this blog to bring down the current U.S. administration.

However, the whole 9/11 plot is so ghoulish, so utterly EVIL, a large number of my intelligent and well-informed friends continue to RESIST the idea of a monumental false flag operation masterminded by a transnational cabal of secret societies with the help of covert agencies on their payroll. It's so much easier to buy the official theory codenamed "the clash of civilizations" and blame it all on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Islamic fanatics are so uncool and irritating it's easy for anyone who subscribes to secular consumerism to scapegoat them.

If you happen to be among those who still cling to the official version - viz., four commercial airliners were hijacked by 19 Islamic militants fresh out of flying school who, against all odds, succeeded in slamming three planes into the WTC Twin Towers and one wing of the Pentagon all before brunch - I strongly IMPLORE you to make yourself a nice cup of coffee and set aside 83 minutes to view this video. It just might change your mind - if not your destiny!