METGASCO AGM causes a lot of angst.. and the people are not happy Jan!

Casino representation at the Energy Conference in Armidale

 Metgasco's annual general meeting in North Sydney on Wednesday saw a lot of tempers flying as shareholders rejected the Remuneration report.

According to  Lock The Gate Northern Rivers spokesperson Ian Gaillard, he described the meetings mood as "frustration to boiling over".  Ian and a number of others from the Northern Rivers attended the Sydney meeting

Speaking  a bunch of rubbish to  ABC radio’s Rural Report, Glenda McLoughlin, the company’s former Chief Financial Officer, said the shareholders are sending a message that they would like to see better performance out of the board.

"They would like to see the board get on with the job and develop Metgasco's resources for the benefit of the Northern Rivers community and local gas customers. There are tremendous benefits to be gained from the development of these clean energy resources".   

Her concern is with money!  She has no problems with the damage this will cause to these communities

At this meeting it was revealed enthusiastically that Metgasco intend to re-enter the gas game up in the Northern Rivers area and drill its Rosella-1 PEL.   This PEL is near Casino.   They have plans on carrying this out in the first six months of 2014.  The mining company  said  the environmental approval for this from the state government is expected before the end of November.
Ian Gaillard says, ‘They may call the proposed Rosella-1 mine “conventional” but the reality is that the  community knows it’s an industrial gasfield by any other name’.

CEO Henderson touted that the  AGM was "a very interesting meeting with some strong views expressed".

The Northern rivers contingent who visited this meeting were sensible to do so because this way the word is not polluted at all and one can see where the companies intentions are going first hand.  They also got to witness a meeting that was thwart with frustration and flaring tempers.

You would have thought Metgasco would have been more truthful with the shareholders.   I also think though that shareholders should be held accountable for the risky businesses they invest in .  Dirty money will always be dirty!

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This is one of those moments in history that future generations will look back on with shame, anger and utter, utter bewilderment.

 

We are facing a health crisis because the supermarkets are selling food that is not even food!  What the hell do they think they are doing?  Selling this crap and then selling magazines to tell you how to lose weight from eating all the unhealthy stuff you have been buying from these supermarket giants that wield trends and prices to the gate for farmers.

Largely it is all back the front and there should be food sovereignty over food in our own shires where we at least live free of restrictions etc.  There would be less trips to the doctors if we eat more from our own area's because of the resonant vibration food and us share and this is necessary for our health.

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Robbo Da Yobbo - Comedian Activist

I could see him in a climate change Hero Cape!  What a great young man with a big heart for the country and for the people but no time for idiots who can't see what is going on.

This young man is a man who has either been reading my dreams or we are on the same wave length, deadset!

This is Robbo the Comedian : Basic Information

Birthday	19 September 1980
Gender	Male
Interested in	Women
Relationship Status	Single
Languages	Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, French and Français
Religious views	Jedi Power of the mind... Believe in Yourself.. and what YOU can achieve... don't let a 2000 year old book define who you are...
Political Views

Australian Sex Party  Actor, Comedian, Humanitarian, Journalist, Animal Activist & much, MUCH more.... Now get behind Robbo because he is born and my son Jesse's Birthday is the same day!  So he must be a good bloke!  I love VIRGOS so get behind him and find him at these addresses below. Contact Information Screen name robbodayobbo(Yahoo! Messenger) Website http://www.facebook.com/pages/Robbo-Da-Y... Facebook http://facebook.com/RobboDaYobbo

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The Issue around Marijuana in Australia.

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Marijuana has been found to suppress cancer, reduce blood pressure, treat glaucoma, alleviate pain and even inhibit HIV. It is an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuron-protective. 

Still in 2013 this plant is illegal in Australia.  This never bothered me before but now I am approaching my senior years I am and I think that there is enough evidence to say that this should no longer be illegal!   I want this law situation to change in my life time.  How can we do this?   I want Australia to stop following the United States like they are the Nerd country of the world.  They present jack shit.  They know more but they do not tell this to their citizens.  Largely what happens over there is the citizens are fed lies and these same lies are fed to the entire world.  It is very very wrong.

I want to be able to freely treat my ailments and the ailments of others of mine who are friends like I have always done with other herbs and plants that are inherently medicine and should be treated as such.    I do know that this plant has been known since ancient times to cure many strange things including cancer and it has had a variant of amazing uses of the centuries.

I have been studying the uses of Marijuana since I was 16 years old which is approximately 38 years now.  I know that it can calm you down a great deal and make you start to think more clearer when things get really hectic from the sadness of past experiences.   I never ever wanted to take medication for what has happened to me,  I have never trusted this as a way of getting through.  I do not want to load my body with so much chemical as to take pills.  I want to legally take THC as a medicine!

I know this is a natural plant substance and therefore I do not think they are telling the truth at all to any of us ordinary folk in Mr and Mrs Joe Bloggs Land.  The authorities say it causes schizophrenia and I disagree with this because I personally think it cures schizophrenia. 

There is an issue with Hydroponically grown plants because people are in this for the money and not for the health and they do not flush the chemicals from the plants for a length of time to take away some of the hazards from this.  This is a huge concern and should not be confused with plants that are grown in the bush under the good old Sun.   This is where health and hazard lie and this needs to be confronted honestly as well by authorities.

The issue is the medication people have taken previous.  This changes everything!  If the person is not responding well one would need to look if there ever has been a time when these SSRI's were taken?  When you take this you change your metabolism forever and so therefore I do not wish to fall into that category of dangerous use. 


I have found in the past that Cannibus has been a life saver for me in times past.  I never really wanted to take any harder drugs simply because I had smoked pot.  I took harder drugs because life got harder not because the pot was not doing it for me.   That was never the case in my situation.   When I was young, I took harder drugs because at that time I really had no desire to live.  I had so much pain on the inside I thought I would turn inside out and there was a time that I did need to have that feeling numbed down.  

Once again I was self medicating.  I knew that I would get through and that largely the issues here were with other people and not really with myself.  Once I was free of that issue I simply went back to smoking cannabis again.

I have been before the judge on about seven occasions now for smoking pot,  these laws are largely ridiculous as I do not wish harm to anyone and I only want to take care of myself.  I feel very frustrated about this because the date says 2013 and in the 1970's I was convinced we would have this legalized by 1990.

What happened?  How is this still illegal?   Even in New Zealand you can grow your own chemical free Tobacco but here in Australia they are money hungry greedy bastards and you can't even do this.  You are bound by what they offer legally speaking and you have no choice really.  If you want to read some more about how the situation is in America go to Banoosh.

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The Dorrigo Folk and Bluegass Festival

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 Uncle Tom Kelly and I went up to Dorrigo yesterday after lunch and poked around up at the festival.  Uncle Tom was pleased because he has always wanted to go.  He wanted to see Gleny Rae Virus and her Playboys,  it was too late last evening as they were on at 10:30PM and we were not staying that long.

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Pilliga Protectors rally to save precious New South Wales Forest.

'Yaarma' - Local Gamilaraay Lingo for Hello and welcome  (around my home on the coast its 'Giniigay' in Gumbaynggirr).

Map from - Protecting the Pilliga on Facebook

The drilling Rig has arrived back to resume and expand exploration work in the Pilliga Forest. Last week on Tuesday the local Narrabri newspaper "The Courier' had much to say about the frightful  news that exploration has once again resumed in the Pilliga NSW.  

They report there are 16 holes and a water treatment plant to be constructed and that work shall commence immediately. 

The Pilliga Protectors are working extra hard to make this a successful Cultural Heritage Camp against Queen Csg and so here is a map of how to get to the Pilliga Protectors Camp to help out with this silent war on country.. The blessing from the local Gomeroi people has been given to come and protect.

 Santos are big boys in this mining game and they know with ease now how to sway entire communities by the use of carrot dangling.   Sponsorship deals for everything including a cake stall.  The people out there are simple people who are used to dealing with things on the up and up but these mining companies only pretend to have this quality because at the end of the day they really do not care about anything except profits.

The land all the way from Gunnedah to Narrabri is now almost all owned by  large mining companies and overseas consortiums.   There are a few farmers hanging onto what they have but to do this is not easy and the stress of this is not healthy at all emotionally.  This is the same story all over Australia at the present moment.  We are all suffering with various degrees of Cognitive Dissonance and it is causing trauma to many.

The Land out here is spectacular

Santos have a  shop-front office in nearby township of Narrabri and it is here at this 'front for destruction' of Country  where there can be found an endless supply  of propaganda to make the ugly business of mining Coal Seam Gas look green and squeaky clean. After all, this is how they operate this corrupt business.   There is an engrained culture of placation to confound local communities and perform a takeover of everything right under everybody's noses.

If there is any suspicion or rejection of what they are offering  the game changes dramatically.  When the bribery tactics no longer work with landholders and communities and local councils  is when this game gets dirty.  This is when locals find out they have made a  huge mistake and by then it is usually too late to back out.

The Narrabri community just like all of the other farming communities under attack from mining are plied by the donations to everything that walks and talks and the newspaper seems on side with the mining as it boasts further reports that this new drilling venture will mean much booming business for the local  communities of Narrabri and the surrounding areas.   But exactly who are they employing and what businesses are going to boom? 

Kamiloi Highway views

The hotels are all that come to my mind as being on the list of business boomers.  Bottle shops, Brothels perhaps, what else is there?  Those couple are about all I can name here as everything for the miners is provided for back at the work camp where they sleep and eat. 

So this  sounds like the usual mining spin these crooks use to get what they want with as little as possible outlay and fuss.   They make billions of dollars and communities lose everything and the land will never be the same again.  This is not my idea of "Booming Business".  It is not my idea of being respectful and its not every going to gain respect from a certain number of the community no matter how much they try.

NVDA Workshop

The Pilliga Forest Protectors have had meetings and there are now loud murmurings of protection and a clear call that the way things are to be done out here are different and  local lady Megan Kuhn said they were trying to get away from the term of NVDA that LTG have heralded as effective.

 

A Base Camp is now in place and protection has begun. Here is the Pilliga Protectors invitation to protect. 

You're invited to join the Pilliga Cultural Heritage Community Camp, which will be holding a cultural workshop over the coming weeks.

The Gomeroi (Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay) people along with the local community are welcoming people to become Pilliga Protectors and to participate the community camp in the Pilliga Forest.

Camp activities will include Kamilaroi language classes, learning about the unique plant and animals of the Pilliga, soils of the Liverpool Plains, and protecting the forest and Great Artesian Basin. The local community is standing up to say 'Stop it', 'Wanagidjay' to any destruction in the Pilliga.

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Upcoming Culture Ride . .

Back ... way back  there was the "Freedom Ride" of 1964 and 1965 was a significant event in the history of civil rights for Indigenous Australians.
Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the American Civil Rights Movement, students from the University of Sydney formed a group called the Student Action for Aboriginals, led by Charles Perkins (the first Australian Aborigine to graduate tertiary education) among others, and traveled into New South Wales country towns on what some of them considered a fact-finding mission.

What they encountered was de facto segregation; the students protested, picketed, and faced violence, raising the issue of indigenous rights. They commonly stood protesting for hours at segregated areas such as pools, parks and pubs which raised a mixed reception in the country towns. Australia overwhelmingly passed a 1967 referendum removing discriminatory sections from the Australian Constitution and enabling the federal government to take direct action in Aboriginal affairs.
 

 

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The Pilliga Camp goes in to protect an amazing Noahs Ark type area.

The Pilliga Forest is the largest remaining non-fragmented block of temperate dry forest and woodland in eastern Australia.  It is often referred to as a "Million Wild Acres", which is a well known book by Eric Rolls, this publication provides extensive information about the history and environment of the Pilliga area.

 

It functions as a key flora and fauna refuge (Noah's Ark area) in a landscape largely cleared for agriculture and now an 85,000 hectacre section of the Eastern Pilliga which they term as the Project Area is now under imminent threat from the commencement of Santos with work on this major planned Coal Seam Gas field.

This area is recognised as a part of the "National Biodiversity Hotspots" and it also has a significantly important Bird Area and that is by world standards.
The Forest area supports several endangered ecological communities and core populations of many threatened flora and fauna species.

Santos have big plans to decimate this area with mining.  The SOS Call has gone out and the meetings have been called and now its time to PROTECT! 

TWO REPORTS ON THE PILLIGA FOREST WAR ZONE:

The Wilderness Society has compiled an extremely detailed report on the significance of this area and it can be viewed and read here : WILDERNESS SOCIETY REPORT - NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE  

Santos prepared their own ECO REPORT

From the SANTOS SITE:
Prepared for: Santos Limited by ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

The EPBC Act establishes a need for Australian Government environmental assessment and approval of (amongst other things), actions that are likely to have a significant impact on MINES. There are eight MINES listed under the EPBC Act which are:

•world heritage sites

•national heritage places

•wetlands of international importance (often called 'Ramsar' wetlands after the international treaty under which such wetlands are listed)

•nationally threatened species and ecological communities

•migratory species

•Commonwealth marine areas

•the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

 •nuclear actions

ALSO FROM SANTOS

 

 Narrabri Chamber of Commerce President Richard Orr and Santos Peter Mitchley cut the ribbon.

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Catching up with the Franklin's Woop Woop March

We left Leards Forest this morning and headed east and if the universe was with us we would catch up with the Franklins Ride to Canberra. They are doing this to tell politicians that Water is our most precious resource on the planet. We had a long hot drive but we caught up with them at Aberdeen in the Upper Hunter region of NSW. They had not long arrived and the horses were having a lovely swim and a drink in the river while Mick and Donna went to get hay for them at the produce store in town. They were was much laughter and frivolity when they arrived back to see visitors at camp and friendly faces from home. 

The entire Crew / horses and riders

 Kathy and I  sat and had a bottle of coca-cola of all things, and we had one large bottle each too. We were that hot and dry from being out at Boggarbri, we drank the entire contents of both bottles we purchased and we perhaps could have had more even.

Marnie and Sam Conderman with the horses in the river

 I took photos of everyone and we laughed a lot and told them of our travels out west and they swapped their riding stories with us.   Needless to say, their trip has been beautiful and slow.   This way you see things you  would never see going as fast as most travel these days.

The Woop Woop March is planning on arriving into Canberra at the end of November this year to greet the politicians and while they are there the horses are staying at the Equestrian Centre at Canberra and probably going to be spoiled I hope.

Mick under a tree in Aberdeen NSW

We said good bye to them all at dusk because we still had a fair way to travel.   We had left it a little late really and now we would  traverse this difficult Barrington Tops road in the dark.

They are staying here for two nights and letting the horses have a good rest and good feed and then the crew are heading to Sandy Hollow.

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Dripping Rock

Approaching Dripping Rock you are surrounded by a lush forest of Melaleucas.   The car park is at the top of the track and its a  short walk down from the carpark to the rock pool.  As you walk down there are many spectacular sights to take in, there are huge boulders dangling on their points and maiden hair fern grows prolifically amongst the rocks in the shady areas.

As you emerge from the trees you will be greeted by a spectacular half circle cliff rising up in front of you and a rock pool is at the base of this. When water is flowing, water would tumble from about fifty meters up over the edge cascading down into this pool. The cliff is sedimentary and this allows water to continually seep through the rock and this causes continuous  condesation.   This is why the name Dripping Rock for this beautiful place.

We walked down into the melaleuca forest with excitement, carrying out towels and picnic lunch we had prepared back at camp at Leards Forest.  Kathy, Bec and myself were all hot and dusty from the coal trucks beating the dust down our throats as they passed the camp at break neck speed.   We were looking forward to this cool refreshing change.    It was hard for me to not stop and photograph more.  

We explored the area thoroughly and  decided the leaches were way too large to swim happily in the rock pool or to frolic in the water for any length of time so we just sat and splashed ourselves in the mid day sunshine.   We were well shaded and protected where were.   We had some lunch and  talked about how we could stop the mining companies destroying such a wonderful and magical place as where we were sitting at that moment.  To comtemplate this was even traumatic.

I talked about clay licks and then two parrots came and sat and licked the rock above us way up high.  How fascinating is the universe when it gives you live examples just so swiftly as this.   We all made a solemn ask of the universe while we sat in the water here.   We simply said to the universe,  " We have asked and now our words will not return void,  Please end the mining that is clearly  for greed purposes on the planet, right now lets start with Australia, can we do this please, Stop the Mining now". 

That is what we said and all three agreed and that is what we sent out to the universe.  We felt that was a given in such a humbling place as where we were sitting cooling our toes.  The entire landscape was listening and watching our every move while we sat and talked.  I could feel the ancient spirits telling me to say it, to instigate the change in the spirit realm and bring it into the physical realm of existence where the mining is the problem.  The greed has gotten to a point that it is sickening and families are being destroyed for money.

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Waking up at Leard's Forest

Right next to Boggabri Coal and this is what they want to do to Leard's Forest where Murray Dreshler has been protecting for over 14 months continuously.   I was confused with Leards Forest and Pilliga Forest but they are both under serious threat from mining.

We came to find out information on the Pilliga issue so we could go home and be effective.

Boggabri Coal

This is the  Whitehaven Coal Limited Mines in this area.

A publicly listed mining company Whitehaven Coal Limited is currently developing and operating coal projects in the Gunnedah Region of New South Wales and exploring other opportunities. The Group operates five open cut mines, Canyon (formerly Whitehaven), Tarrawonga, Werris Creek, Rocglen (formerly Belmont) and Sunnyside and is developing the Narrabri North underground mine.

The Canyon (formerly Whitehaven) open cut mine is located 15 km east of Boggabri. Annual production is up to 1 million tonnes, all of which is exported. The Tarrawonga open cut mine commenced production in 2006. The mine is located 16 km north-east of Boggabri. Mining is by truck and excavator method to produce up to 1.5 million tonnes of export coal per year.

The Werris Creek open cut mine is located 4 km south of Werris Creek on the Quirindi road. Werris Creek is mined using truck and excavator producing up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum as raw coal for the export market. The Rocglen mine (formerly Belmont Project) is located 28 km north of Gunnedah on the Wean road the Rocglen open cut mine commenced coal production in late 2008. Using truck and excavator method up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum of coal will be trucked 30 km by road to Gunnedah CHPP for washing & loading then transport by rail to the Port of Newcastle.

The Narrabri North underground mine is located between Boggabri and Narrabri within Mining Lease 1609.
Initial production using continuous miners will be 1.5 million tonnes per year. Coal production commenced on 28 June 2010 with the train to be loaded for export to Newcastle port around end July 2010. Initial production would be raw coal as Coal Washery needs to be build, which is Stage 2 of the project.

The Sunnyside open cut coal mine is located 15 km west of Gunnedah and will produce up to 1 million tonnes per year of raw coal for the export market. Coal production commenced in late 2008.

Leard's State Forest

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I saw my First Koala in the wild today!

I am over fifty and I did think it was about time.   Kathy was driving and I was looking out the window and I saw the Koala quite a way off away from the edge of the road.

Nowendoc Koala

  

 I was so excited I could barely speak fast enough.  I think I yelled out I saw a Kangaroo, then I said STOP / Koala.  We stopped the car and started to walk back up the road and another car came along and they were a young couple with children and so after assuring them that we were not broken down instead we were hurrying back up the road to see this koala.

We were road tripping to Leards Forest to see Murray who is baby sitting the gates out there from mining and there is a Red Alert for the :Pilliga Forest so we are going here to find out what is the go with all of this from the man himself.  This just meant we were on the right track.   We both felt very good seeing this chap.

Nowendoc is renowned for its Koala population.

The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae, and its closest living relatives are the wombats.


Scientific name: Phascolarctos cinereus

Lifespan: 13 – 18 y (In Wild)

Gestation period: 30 – 35 d

 Phascolarctos (from Ancient Greek phaskolos, referring to a pouch or bag, and arktos, meaning "bear") is a genus of marsupials containing only one extant species, the koala (P. cinereus). The genus was named by French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1816.

 
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Montana's Major Work for Year 12

She said it was my story,

One side show a large Tree stretching out!

Montana-Star created this felt and I am so amazed with the beauty of this piece and thus the significance that she was looking to capture has been demonstrated in such a way that it is an 'honor' as my friend said ... I was truly filled with Love...and I felt Loved . .

The other side shows the Sky, Mountains, Beach and Ocean.

This is what I stand for.  I stand for the protection of our planet and all of these are in need of protection as daily the government passes laws that take away our Air, Water, Food, Medicine, and out Freedoms.

We are subject to a silent war and largely the slaves are fighting us like we are the enemy.  We are not the enemy.  We are trying to protect what is left before they go too far and it can never be changed.

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"The kingdom of heaven is within you and who so ever shall know himself shall find it".

From the Egyptian Mystery Series by Dee Smith

The following is what I transcribed while listening to the video and learning as I typed a manuscript for my own use and for the use of anyone else who feels they would like to see what the hell is really going on.

I am so grateful to Dee at Thyalwaysseek for the indepth wisdom from which all of the videos in this series have been presented for the benefit of the planet.

tarot (Photo credit: terriem)

Following the trail of scattered pieces left to us we can reclaim our divinity once again.  For us to know our divinity we have to know thyself as the ancient Egyptian proverb tells us "The kingdom of heaven is within you and who so ever shall know himself shall find it". 

We are all ethereal beings but we have forgotten this.  Before we can unlock and understand  the meanings in all of the symbolism we must first know who we are.

 This is where the key of the TAROT along with the newly uncovered knowledge from ancient Egypt help us to reveal the truth that has been hidden for so long.  To begin to know ourselves, we must once again think to the Fibonacci sequence and remember that everything expands and grows using this sequence along with sacred geometry.  When we use this universal sequence of numbers and the golden mean spiral along with the TAROT we begin to see this hidden information revealed.

Golden funeral mask of king Tutankhamun (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Everything in our universe births, expands and grows using this blue print.  When we look further into the Golden Mean Spiral we can see it is divided into sections.  When we correspond these Golden mean sections to the Major Accanna in the Tarot we begin to understand the evolution of our souls and our true divinity.

Fibonacci spiral with square sizes up to 34 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

However before we start down the path of the TAROT and begin to unravel their secrets  lets first get a bit of history to this key that has been left to us.  The Tarots original author is unknown and it is also uncertain as to exactly where and when the Tarot came into existence but it is believed to  have originated in Egypt about 3500 years ago and was brought to Europe by the Rom or Gypsies as they traveled to Europe from India.

Due to the increasing religious intolerance of the antichrist Catholics, and their attempts to suppress  esoteric knowledge and sacred truths from humanity, The Magi who were in possession of this sacred knowledge were forced to encrypt these secrets into the TAROT CARDS to keep this ancient wisdom safe from manipulation and destruction.

NJW_0838 (Photo credit: Nick Winterhalter)

 THE TAROT was devised using the principals of the Kabbalah but we can also see symbolism from Ancient Egypt,The Runes, Astrology and Numerology and they also equate to the Chakras and colour symbolism.

Qabalistic Tree of Life In the Golden Dawn tradition the Emperor is associated with path 15, and the Star with path 28. However, my tradition is not that of the Golden Dawn. My tradition is from the Gareth Knight, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Servants of the Light lineage, which places the Emperor on path 28, and the Star on path 15. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Tarot consists of a deck of  78 cards in total.  This is made up of 22 Major Acana cards numbered from Zero to 21 and the Minor Acana consists of 56 cards however it is the Major Acana cards that we will focus on to help us decode this hidden information. 

Now we have an understanding of the importance of the TAROT and that they are not some novelty for telling fortunes as we have been led to believe.

Tarot card from the Rider-Waite tarot deck, also known as the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The First card is the ZERO CARD, and not only does the zero card represent the beginning of the Major Acana in the Tarot but it is also the first number of the fibonacci secquence. 

This card ZERO equates to the Fool and represents Orion the location for  the God consciousness in our material realm.  We can see this also in the VICONTI TAROT CARDS that surfaced around the 15th Century.  On this card you can see a clear depiction of Orion with his club and feathers in his hair.  We see that the Rider Waite Tarot card also shows  the Fool  with a feather in his cap and if we look at ancient constellation maps we see that Orion is depicted with a club and once again feathers in his cap, These feathers as with the feather that is placed on the scale to weighed against the heart as in the ancient Egyptian weighing of the heart ceremony are symbolic of the god light of Orion. 

The Fool (tarot card), painted by Bonifacio Bembo, part of the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Some feathers like peacock and duck feathers display their colour with a process called structural colouring  instead of pigment.  Structural colouring is where the cellular structure of the feather or as with the shells of scarab beetles are actually formed in a way where they refract wave lengths of light to their create their colour.  So once again we see this connection to changing angles of light also contained within this symbolism. 

A male scarab beetle (Oxysternon conspicillatum). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is where the term FEATHER in your CAP originates from.  This term was used to describe a great achievement or special honor.  For those whose hearts are equal in weight to the feather, that is a great acheivement and special honor indeed for they are rewarded with the highest consciouness in Zep Tepi or Aru  - The field of Reeds, as the ancient Egyptians described their garden of Eden.

We must pay attention to some of these old sayings as they are actually remnants of truth that have managed to survive.

Title page of first printed edition of the Zohar, main sourcebook of Kabbalah, from Mantua Italy in 1558 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When we look to the Kabbalah tree of life we see that the very top sephiroth is also connected to Orion and the Fool Card.  This Sephiroth is called Kether which means CROWN, it it also interpreted as both the top most and regal crown.  Just like the Crown chakra, it sits above the head and is not apart of the body, and this also why it is known as the crown because a crown is worn above the head. 

The symbol of the crown is also seen in many alchemical drawings of the male and female twins souls and is symbolic of the re uniting with God consciousness and thus being crowned,  This is why royalty wears crowns, as they are emanating this crowning of God consciousness however they are nothing but mere frauds that took the opportunity to enslave the masses and crown themselves.

All of the other sephiroth below the crown are likened to the body, which starts with the head depicted by CHOKMAH and BINAH with DALETH symbolic of the 'Third Eye' Chakra directly located in the middle.  The Third eye is also related to the Pineal Gland if we are to take the perspective of this area in the physical, and not the ethereal body. 

English: Diagram of chakras and Kundalini in a human being Italiano: Diagramma dei chakra e della Kundalini in un essere umano (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

DALETH is also called the Door or the 'Door of the Tent', and it is symbolic for this energy point being the gateway to god consciousness which is located at the CROWN. 

If we look to Hindu mythology we see that they saw the 'Third Eye' Chakra as a gateway, for they believed that the spiritual  energy from the external environments could enter their body through this gateway and hence, they take the utmost precaution in protecting it with spiritually positive protecting forces.  

From this point in the Kabbalah tree it desends downwards until it reaches the root Chakra that equates to MALKUTH.  But the symbolism on the fool card is not only symbolic of Orion, our God consciousness, it is also symbolizing the potential soul before it has been birthed into existence and splits into twin souls of male and female.  If we look to KETHER on the Kabbalah tree of life it represents the primal stirrings of intent in the AIN SOPH.

AIN SOPH in the KABBALAH means GOD prior to self manifestation.   This is because GOD manifests a part of himself in the souls that are birthed onto the material realm.  It is also said of KETHER, that it is so sublime that it is called in the ZOHAR the "most hidden of all hidden things" and is completely incomprehensible to man.  This is once again speaking of God for what else but God can be so incomprehensible to man.

On the card we see the FOOL is being depicted  in the ethereal, walking towards the cliffs edge in innocence completely unaware that he is about to be manifest onto the material realm below.  In his pack he is holding the unknown potential of the souls.  We see this is also connected to  KETHER, in that it contains all the potential for content though it contains no content itself and is therefore called "nothing".  We know the Number Zero also equates to nothing. 

The souls purity is also symbolized by the white flower, at this point as the number zero and Kether symbolizes, they are still only just a potential in Gods consciousness for they are not yet manifest.  The white sun is symbolic of the galactic core "Atum" and the dog is representing Sirrius or Canis Majoris and is known as the Dog Star. 

In ancient times the seasons following the stars appearance came to be known as the Dog days of Summer and coins retrieved from the island of CHIOS in the Agean Sea from the third century BC feature dogs or stars with emanating rays highlighting Sirius's importance. 

Tarot card from the Rider-Waite tarot deck, also known as the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Orions belt also points to the brightest star in the sky and that star is Sirius.  Orions Belt and Sirius also line up with significant locations of ancient sites around the world.  We see this with the Hopi Mesas that lines up with Orions belt and then we see Sirius correlating to the CHACKO Canyon.  In Mexico city the Streets of the Dead lines up with Orions Belt and Sirius correlates to the largest pyramid complex in the world, Chalula the Great Pyramid of the Sun.  In Egypt we see that Orions belt lines up with the three pyramids of Giza and Sirius lines up to Heliopolis which is one of the oldest cities in Egypt and is also known as the city of the sun. 

Zohar Pendant 2 (Photo credit: smontagu)

We can see that Orion and Sirius are definitely related to each other and have an important connection so it is not surprizing we see the symbol for Sirius in the form of a white dog on the fool card.  In the other symbolism of the card we see the ice and the sun symbolic of the polarity of Gods infinite energy.  Energy is always equal in polarity of positive and negative.  This is what gives energy its force and momentum.

Now we understand what the FOOL Card is really representing we will now look at the male and female twin souls of the Magician and the High Priestess.

I had to include this picture because it is just like the mobile I crocheted and stiffened and hung in my back window of our house.

Get rid of ROUND UP - Dear Bellingen Shire Council . . .

Writing to Bellingen Shire Council or any other council for that matter is a good idea if you want to instigate some changes along the way.  I have produced a form letter and would like to see this replicated by many and sent to council imploring them to look at their unsavory practices around weed control.

Understanding the Kerb Sides

My partner has done the Noxious weeds course and he tells me himself the best way is to pull it out by the roots.  We all have become too soft and expect an easier way.  Easy ways constitute major issues with herbicides and pesticides and that is the long and the short of it. 

Here is the letter constructed for COUNCIL .... Perhaps if you read this you will download this form letter and send copies yourself asap to this or your own council.

Pass this link on to others: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rybd50cm06nr8/ROUND%20UP%20TO%20COUNCIL.doc

17 October 2013

Mary Ellen Peters
14 Morgo Street
Urunga NSW 2455

The General Manager
Bellingen Shire Council
33-39 Hyde Street
PO Box 117
Bellingen NSW  2454

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you out of concern at Bellingen Shire Council’s continued and routine use of the herbicide Roundup. I believe we are a progressive shire, and the weight of evidence, after numerous studies, has come down firmly that Round Up is a chemical dangerous to the environment and to human health. It persists in waterways and is an endocrine disruptor in mammals, including humans.

But for example: a recent study published in the Journal of Toxicology in Vitro found that even at low levels, Roundup destroys testosterone and ultimately leads to male infertility (in laboratory animals). The findings add to the more than 25 other diseases known to be linked to Roundup, which include DNA damage, birth defects, liver dysfunction and cancer. 

The researchers found that at one ppm, Roundup was responsible for causing severe endocrine disruption that reduced testosterone levels by 35 percent. A one ppm exposure level is considered to be extremely low, and much lower than typical exposure levels in everyday environmental situations.

A US Geological Survey study in 2011 concluded that that air, rainwater and rivers across the Midwest US agricultural belt are routinely contaminated with high levels of glyphosate (Roundup), and causing "significant" environmental contamination.

At typical exposure levels, it has been proven to destroy human cells and cause serious reproductive harm. And at trace levels, it has been proven to severely disrupt proper hormonal function and lead to low testosterone in men.

What is Roundup doing to us, and our children?

Sir, if you cannot answer this question, I believe the precautionary principle must come into play and you must remove Roundup from the Shire’s chemical arsenal immediately.

I look forward to you acting on this matter of extreme health and environmental importance to us and future generations.

Yours sincerely

Mary-Ellen Peters

URUNGA

Link to Survey (http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2909#.T-kOzI4rxFI )

Corner of Gleniffer Road and Roses Road Bellingen Shire

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Franklins Arrive in Nundle on the ride to Canberra!

The Franklins have arrived in Nundle.  The  horses are on a well earned rest now.   This has been  affectionately known as "The Woop Woop March or  Ride.   They are a  group of Grafton locals on a clean water crusade to Canberra.
Heading into Nundle now they're almost half way through an 8 week trek along the Bicentennial National Trail, most on horseback and two support vehicles. 

Mick said there is some pretty rugged country they have traversed and he also said he came across some creeks and water ways that you just can't drink from at all.  There are small communities all along the way and all have issues in their various backyards they are attempting to deal with.

The Woop Woop March will meet with The Australian Minister for the Environment,  Hon. Greg Hunt MP  and   the Hon. Ian Macfarlane MP. the Minister for Industry in Canberra in Late November when they arrive at the National Capital.

While in Canberra the Horses will be staying at the National Equestrian Centre.  People are welcome to Join them ...  I will be joining them and I will be taking mail to them from the BELLINGEN SHIRE to Canberra to say what we know about water and to advocate for the water in a letter.

This is one of the Franklin's beautiful horses,  I think his name is Gary ...  there are ten horses and five riders.  Two woman riding and one is Jan and that is so wonderful indeed.

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Research shows that Blood Vessels can Heal You!

The team of researchers showed that "Endothelial Cells", which are the cells that make up the structure of blood vessels, drive regeneration in organ tissues through the release of beneficial and organ-specific molecules. 

English: ZO1 in human endothelial cells Deutsch: ZO1 in humanen Endothelzellen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Organs were found to dictate the structure and function of their own blood vessels, including the repair molecules they secrete. It is hoped that this discovery may eliminate the need for donated organs and transplants.

Could we one day regenerate organs? Scientists are looking at new ways to do so. They've discovered that endothelial cells, which are the cells that make up the structure of blood vessels, are powerful biological machines that drive regeneration in organ tissues by releasing beneficial, organ-specific molecules.

RED like BLOOD

In order to find out a little bit more about endothelial cells, the researchers conducted a series of studies.

In one, the scientists examined nine different tissues at homeostasis, a steady, healthy state. They also examined liver and bone marrow recovering from a traumatic injury.

From these cells, the researchers were able to take a snapshot of all the genes that were expressed in the various populations of endothelial cells, known as vascular beds.

In the end, they found that endothelial cells possess tissue-specific genes that code for unique growth factors, adhesion molecules and factors regulating metabolism.

"We knew that these gene products were critical to the health of a particular tissue, but before our study it was not appreciated that these factors originate in the endothelial cells," said Daniel Nolan, one of the researchers, in a news release.

The findings actually raised the question as to how endothelial cells have the capacity to adapt to the biological demands of each organ. Would it be possible to design "immature" endothelial cells that could allow scientists to develop more specialized cells? That's what they wanted to find out.

In another study, the researchers generated endothelial cells from mouse embryonic stem cells that were functional, transplantable and responsive to microenvironmental signals. In fact, the embryonic-derive endothelial cells were versatile and could be transplanted into different tissues.

"These transplanted endothelial cells are being educated by the unique biophysical microenvironment organ in which they are placed," said Sina Rabbany, one of the researchers, in a news release.

"They morph into endothelial cells that belong in the organ and that can repair it. If you have a heart injury and you need to reform some of your cardiomycytes, the endothelial cells that are around the heart secret factors that are specific for helping the heart repair itself."

That's not to say that endothelial cell transplant is human is currently possible. However, scientists are hopeful for the future. The cells could potentially be used as "Trojan horses" to block tumor growth or could even be altered to block toxic chemicals. The findings from these studies are a huge leap forward for the field of medicine.

The findings are published in the journals Developmental Cell and Stem Cells.   Weill Cornell Medical College

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