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As a student of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, my intent has been to provide recent news from the mainstream media that support what we have been taught by our teacher Ramtha.
"The four cornerstones of Ramtha's teachings are:
- The statement "You are God"
- The directive to make known the unknown
- The concept that consciousness and energy create the nature of reality
- The challenge to conquer yourself,"
quoting Ramtha.com.
Bottom line: We are all Creators of our reality.
Reports from the fields of science, quantum physics, medicine, history, the environment, Earth changes, and humanity are among topics covered each week that provide corroboration to the studies of Ramtha's School . In communicating with students the world-over, these pages are then passed along to our friends and families for them to read for themselves stories we find of interest.
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| KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF JANUARY 5, 2009
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Dear Readers;
Kleiner’s Korner ushers in a new year opening with a precious and touching look at our new President and his family. While some of you have written in your distaste (to put it mildly) for this man, I say change is welcome here and around the world. For those of you that would like to know more about President-elect Obama and his family, this CBS News 60 Minutes report Barack Obama: The Road To The White House aired last week provides an intimate look:
link here
And from Deepak Chopra: “9 Steps to Peace for Obama in the New Year” From AlterNet:
link here
And this interesting letter from former NASA Astronaut Brian O’Leary [scroll down]: "2009 Message: Open appeal to Mr. Obama from a fellow achiever who is gravely concerned about our future."
link here
About Mr. O’Leary from Wikipedia:
link here
1. U. S. ECONOMY CAUSE FOR MAJOR CONCERN AS 2009 DAWNS
A. “U. S. COULD BE FACING DEBT ‘TIME BOMB’ THIS YEAR”
“With President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats considering a massive spending package aimed at pulling the nation out of recession, the national debt is projected to jump by as much as $2 trillion this year, an unprecedented increase that could test the world's appetite for financing U.S. government spending…
With President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats considering a massive spending package aimed at pulling the nation out of recession, the national debt is projected to jump by as much as $2 trillion this year, an unprecedented increase that could test the world's appetite for financing U.S. government spending,”
quoting the Washington Post. [Ed. Note: The story title is from MSNBC.
link here ]
B. “CHAOS ON THE HORIZON? INVEST IN REAL ASSETS”
“We are to the point where we are about 14 feet from going over the edge of Niagara Falls. We haven’t gone over the edge yet; we haven’t gone to a total collapse. We don’t have riots in the streets; we don’t have a revolution. That’s coming; that’s about two to three months off…
What we have done is guaranteed hyperinflation in the United States. We have guaranteed the destruction of the United States. We will have riots starting in the first quarter of next year; we will default by the summer of 2009…
The US government is going to default. Treasuries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the whole lot. It’s the end of empire. The United States government will not exist in its current form a year from now,” quoting The Gold Report. [Ed. Note: This corresponds to Ramtha’s New Year’s Eve message for 2009.]
link here
C. “U. S. ECONOMY SHRINKS AS IMF WARNS OF GREAT DEPRESSION"
“The US economy shrank in the third quarter, official data confirmed Tuesday [Dec. 23], as the IMF's top economist warned of a second Great Depression offering no respite from relentless gloom ahead of Christmas…
‘This report is largely old news,’ said John Ryding at RDQ Economics, who forecast fourth-quarter data out next month would be far bleaker…
The IMF's top economist, Olivier Blanchard, maintained that governments around the world should boost domestic demand in order to avoid another Great Depression similar to the global downturn that shook the world in the 1930s,” quoting France’s AFP.
link here
D. “UNREST CAUSE BY BAD ECONOMY MAY CAUSE MILITARY ACTION, REPORT SAYS”
“A U.S. Army War College report warns an economic crisis in the United States could lead to massive civil unrest and the need to call on the military to restore order.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Nathan Freir wrote the report "Known Unknowns: Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development," which the Army think tank in Carlisle, Pa., recently released.
‘Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities ... to defend basic domestic order and human security,’ the report said, in case of ‘unforeseen economic collapse,’ ‘pervasive public health emergencies,’ and "catastrophic natural and human disasters,’ among other possible crises.
The report also suggests the new (Barack Obama) administration could face a "strategic shock" within the first eight months in office,” says the El Paso [Tx.] Times. [Ed. Note: What does the military know that most Americans don’t know?]
link here .
2. IS THE AMERICA WE KNOW ABOUT TO BE DIVIDED?
A. “...RUSSIAN PROFESSOR PREDICTS END OF U. S.”
“For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously…
Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control,” quoting the Wall Street Journal.
link here
AND A CNN INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE:
link here
ANALYSIS IN THE WASHINGTON POST:
link here .
3. SUPERVOLCANO IN AMERICA’S HEARTLAND IN NEWS - AGAIN
A. “SCIENTISTS EYE SWARM OF YELLOWSTONE QUAKES”
“Yellowstone National Park was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day Monday, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger to come.
Swarms of small earthquakes happen frequently in Yellowstone, but it's very unusual for so many earthquakes to happen over several days, said Robert Smith, a professor of geophysics at the University of Utah,” quoting the AP.
link here
University of Utah Seismograph Stations:
link here
B. “YELLOWSTONE UNDER SUPERVOLCANO CALDERA"
“The headline "Scientists track unusual earthquake swarm beneath Yellowstone" only means one thing to fans of the Discovery channel like myself: supervolcano...
And what if the supervolcano blew? Kind of like if a giant rock hit the Earth. A planet killer. An extinction-level event. Let me quote the words of President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) in the comet-hitting-earth film Deep Impact:
Within a week, the skies will be dark with dust from the impact and they will stay dark for years. All plant life will be dead within weeks. Animal life within a few months. So that's it. Good luck to us all.
Such a scenario would be very bad for equity values and the outlook for the labor market,” quoting this blog on U. S. News & World Report.
link here .
4. “NEW ‘BASIC PREPAREDNESS’ THE 3 DVD HOME STUDY COURSE”
[Ed. Note: Don’t lose hope; there IS something you can do - heed these warnings and prepare for your family’s future!]
“Of all the products we carry, this is the one that gets the most response. Customers from all over the world send us comments and thank us for putting together a really comprehensive yet simple Preparedness Home Training Course that not only educates them but saves them so much time and money. Where is the best place to invest? This 3 DVD Preparedness Home Training Course answers that question.
When you take the time to really study what needs to be done to be prepared, we all need all the help we can get. Make it easier on yourself with this awesome Home Study Course.
New "Basic Preparedness" The 3 DVD Home Study Course, quoting America’s longest operating preparedness center, Yelm, WA. Based The Survival Center:
link here .
5. “REGENERATE YOUR BRAIN – SCIENCE SAYS IT’S POSSIBLE"
“Contrary to popular belief, recent studies have found that there are probably ways to regenerate brain matter.
Animal studies conducted at the National Institute on Aging Gerontology Research Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, for example, have shown that both calorie restriction and intermittent fasting along with vitamin and mineral intake, increase resistance to disease, extend lifespan, and stimulate production of neurons from stem cells,” quoting the Daily Galaxy. [Ed. Note: see references & additional links at bottom of story.]
link here .
6. “LEANER NATIONS BIKE, WALK, USE MASS TRANSIT”
“New research illustrates the health benefits of regular biking, walking or taking public transportation to work, school or shopping. Researchers found a link between "active transportation" and less obesity in 17 industrialized countries across Europe, North America and Australia.
Americans, with the highest rate of obesity, were the least likely to walk, cycle or take mass transit, according to the study in a recent issue of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. The study relied on each country's own travel and health data,” quoting the AP.
link here .
7. “WORLD’S OLDEST WOMAN DIES AT AGE 115”
“A woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world's oldest person has died in Portugal at the age of 115, officials said.
Maria de Jesus died Friday [Jan. 2] morning in an ambulance near the central Portuguese town of Tomar.
She had been listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest person. That title now falls to an American, 114-year-old Gertrude Baines, who lives in a Los Angeles nursing home,” quoting the AP.
link here .
8. “INSIDE THE POPE’S OBSERVATORY”
“The BBC has been allowed into the Pope's observatory at his home outside Rome.
The Catholic priests who run the centre have strong views on everything from life on other planets, to whether the Star of Bethlehem actually existed. Duncan Kennedy reports,” quoting the BBC.
link here .
9. “LOSER: THE ADS HAVE EYES”
“How low, then, do you think most people would place a company that wanted to help advertisers learn more about you than you’d agreed to tell? That’s just what TruMedia Technologies, headquartered in Tampa, Fla., proudly claims to do with a facial recognition–based system it has developed for digital advertising screens in airports and malls. The system counts the looks an ad gets (thus TruMedia’s motto, “Every Face Counts”). It also measures how long each look lasts. Finally, it determines the viewer’s gender and fits him or her into one of three age groups. The point of it all is to display the right ad to any given viewer…
But the key difference is that here the participation is involuntary. TruMedia takes pride in its stealth technology, one that “does not require audience cooperation for measurement or for gathering demographics, thus providing true and unbiased information.” It sounds more like espionage than market research, and indeed, the company’s research division, based in Yehud, Israel, recruits many of its engineers from the Israeli government’s security agencies,” quoting Spectrum IEEE.
link here .
10. QUITE AN UPLIFTING PIECE!
Thanks to this writer's brother David for submitting this piece:
“Playing For Change: Song Around the World ‘Stand By Me’"
From YouTube:
link here
The Playing for Change website:
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “Scientists work to cut mosquitoes' lives short”
“Research could slow spread of diseases typically transmitted by older bugs”
Quoting the AP:
link here
B. “Coral growth in decline at Great Barrier Reef”
“Warming, more acidic oceans cited; 'pretty scary' findings, one expert says”
From the MSNBC:
link here
C. “One year in 40 seconds"
“Images snapped at the same spot through one year…The images are from Oslo, Norway 2008,” quoting YouTube. [Ed. Note: Very impressive!]
link here
D. “Moose are roaming right out of existence”
“In the Upper Midwest, the animals are dying off in startling numbers. Biologists blame global warming”
From the LA Times:
link here
E. “Climate change policies failing, Nasa scientist warns Obama”
“Award-winning researcher James Hansen says new president's rhetoric must be backed by action”
From UK’s Guardian:
link here .
12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “Chaos on the Horizon? Invest in Real Assets”
“We are to the point where we are about 14 feet from going over the edge of Niagara Falls. We haven’t gone over the edge yet; we haven’t gone to a total collapse. We don’t have riots in the streets; we don’t have a revolution. That’s coming; that’s about two to three months off…
What we have done is guaranteed hyperinflation in the United States. We have guaranteed the destruction of the United States. We will have riots starting in the first quarter of next year; we will default by the summer of 2009,” quoting The Gold Report.
link here
B. “More economic pain seen in 2009, but some hope too"
From Reuters:
link here
C. “More top brands seen disappearing in 2009”
“Many now on life support as the year-long recession persist”
From the AP:
link here
D. “Slump means identity crisis for Las Vegas”
“Long the embodiment of American confidence, Sin City is now in limbo”
From the AP:
link here
E. “Washington [State] liquor sales up 5 percent in 2008”
From NBC’s KING-5 TV in Seattle:
link here
F. “Baltic Dry Index Falls 93%”
[Ed. Note: this is very interesting.]
From YouTube:
link here
G. “Store bankruptcies can burn shoppers”
“How to protect yourself if your retailer goes out of business”
From the AP:
link here
H. “U.S. manufacturing weakest in 28 years"
"Bakeries to cigarette-makers to aluminum smelters all hit by recession"
link here
I. “China milk scare in U.S.: Adopted kids tested”
“Parents worry kidney stones, other problems are due to tainted formula”
From the AP:
link here .
THE NATION
A. America lost great talent in 2008:
- Those who passed in the Performing Arts:
link here
- Newsmakers who passed:
link here
B. “Obama Faces Legacy of Lawlessness at Justice”
“Career Lawyers Hired for Ideology Entrenched in Agency”
From the Washington Independent:
link here
C. “CBS newsman's $70m lawsuit likely to deal Bush legacy a new blow”
“...reopening the debate over alleged favourable treatment that Bush received when he served in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war.”
From UK’s Guardian:
link here
D. “Democrats debate methods to end stem cell ban”
“Legislation could put some lawmakers from conservative areas at risk”
From the New York Times:
link here .
UPDATE
About last week’s story on the time-traveler who reportedly took his cellphone to the future and recorded himself there, a very resourceful KK reader shared this:
"The blog of Hakan Nordkvist was the heart of this viral campaign. This is where he first came out as a timetraveller, posted his evidence, talked about being approached by moviemakers and journalists. And this is where you were able to reach every part of the campaign including the AMF site, containing everything you need to know about pension funds. And of course the blogs and forums that debated his story," from AOL Video.
link here
This is an excellent opportunity to again highlight the legitimate time-traveler work of Dr. Ron Mallett:
Former RSE speaker and scientist Dr. Ron Mallett was interviewed in National Geographic’s Naked Science program called Time Machine, which aired Oct. 30, 2008:
link here
And covered in SuperConsciousness Magazine (free subscription required):
link here
More on Mallett’s work:
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. Correction from last week
“While I appreciate the recognition in your newsletter I do not have my own RE/Max office. I hold my license at RE/Max Realty South in Bonney Lake, but do my business locally. Thank you for thinking for me. Patty Miller”
B. In his New Year’s Eve message, Ramtha said this country would one day return to a republic liken unto Solon’s through the rule of law, and that Cicero was the greatest lawyer of all-time because he knew the law would provide equal rights for all; the law is a group effort of agreement. Here is “A REVIEW of the HISTORY OF CICERO’S TREATISE ON THE LAWS” from the Liberty Fund:
link here
And about the “Federalist Government in Principal and Practice,” mentioned by Ramtha:
From from the Public Interest Institute:
link here
“In his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, [Harold] Pinter [British playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor and political activist died last week at the age of seventy-eight ] 'excoriated US foreign policy... for not following international law,'” quoting Democracy Now.
link here
C. Prasheka Basi is pictured on the front page of the NVN’s Valley Life section about Yelm High students campaigning this past election day for Obama:
link here
D. Don’t miss an exciting new Yelm Create Your Year Progressive Discipline Workshop Jan. 22-25. See the event highlights here:
link here
E. Announced at the end of the Australia Workshop Stream on January 3rd was information that this workshop will be replayed in its entirety on Ramtha.tv Jan. 17 & 18 for $150 for any current student. Stay tuned for more details, as the screen noted. .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Senator-elect Randi Becker set to take reins in Olympia
B. Rep. Tom Campbell leads state for hospital MRSA legislation
C. Rep. Tom Campbell seeks money for Yelm from Obama stimulus package
D. December was a month for weather records
E. Happy New Year
F. Miss America pageant –with Miss Washington – mayor Harding’s daughter
G. Guest Entry – Bill Hashim on Yelm’s Thurston Highlands EIS
H. South Sound Seed Stewards Classes announced
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century
From Wikipedia:
link here .
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