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Blasting Bullhorns and Water Cannons, Chinese Ships Wall Off the Sea
By Hannah BeechPhotographs and Video by Jes Aznar
Sept. 23, 2023
The Chinese military base on Mischief Reef, off the Philippine island of Palawan, loomed in front of our boat, obvious even in the predawn dark.
Radar domes, used for military surveillance, floated like nimbus clouds. Lights pointed to a runway made for fighter jets, backed by warehouses perfect for surface-to-air missiles. More than 900 miles from the Chinese mainland, in an area of the South China Sea that an international tribunal has unequivocally determined does not belong to China, cellphones pinged with a message: “Welcome to China.”
The world’s most brazen maritime militarization is gaining muscle in waters through which one-third of global ocean trade passes. Here, on underwater reefs that are known as the Dangerous Ground, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, or P.L.A., has fortified an archipelago of forward operating bases that have branded these waters as China’s despite having no international legal grounding. China’s coast guard, navy and a fleet of fishing trawlers harnessed into a militia are confronting other vessels, civilian and military alike.
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Source: Satellite image Aug. 4, 2023, by Planet Labs, analysis by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabBy Agnes Chang
The mounting Chinese military presence in waters that were long dominated by the U.S. fleet is sharpening the possibility of a showdown between superpowers at a moment when relations between them have greatly worsened. And as Beijing challenges a Western-driven security order that stood for nearly eight decades, regional countries are increasingly questioning the strength of the American commitment to the Pacific.
While the United States makes no territorial claims to the South China Sea, it maintains defense pacts with Asian partners, including the Philippines, that could compel American soldiers to these waters. Just as anxiety over nearby Taiwan has focused attention on the deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing, the South China Sea provides yet another stage for a contest in which neither side wants to betray weakness. Complicating matters, Chinese diplomats and military officers are engaging less at a time when open communication could help defuse tensions.
China’s arming of the South China Sea has also forced Southeast Asian fishermen — from nations like the Philippines that Chinese diplomats have referred to as “small countries” — to abandon the fishing grounds they have depended on for generations. It is putting tremendous pressure on those governments.
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A Chinese People’s Liberation Army ship intercepting a boat carrying Times journalists in May off Mischief Reef.
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“I told the Chinese, ‘Your leadership talks about shared prosperity, but what you are doing cannot make it more plain that you think we are just stupid people who can be fooled and bullied,’” said Clarita Carlos, who until January served as the national security adviser of the Philippines. “The interconnected oceans should be our common heritage, and we should be working with marine scientists from every nation to fight the real enemy: climate change.”
“Instead,” she added, “the Chinese are building military bases on artificial islands and bringing guns to the sea.”
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One-Man Rule: For decades, China built guardrails to prevent another Mao. Here’s how Xi Jinping has dismantled them and created his own machinery of power.
A Ban on Clothing?: A proposal by the Chinese government that would target people for wearing clothes that hurt people’s feelings is evoking memories of another time when fashion choices could land one in trouble.
Car Exports: At a time when many of China’s exports are faltering and its consumers are spending less at home, the country is flooding the world with inexpensive cars.
During a four-day sail through a collection of rocks, reefs and islets called the Spratlys that are within the Dangerous Ground, New York Times journalists saw the extent to which China’s projection of power has transformed this contested part of the Pacific Ocean. Not since the United States embarked on its own campaign of far-flung militarization more than a century ago, leading its armed forces toward a position of Pacific primacy, has the security landscape shifted so significantly.
It is hard to imagine how China’s armed presence in the South China Sea will be diminished absent a war. With its bases built and its military vessels deployed, Beijing is forcefully defending its assertions of “indisputable sovereignty.”
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That posture was on display in May as The Times’s small, chartered boat passed within two nautical miles of Mischief Reef.
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A P.L.A. Navy tugboat lingering in the vicinity had failed to stop us, perhaps because of the early-morning hour. But as we approached the Chinese military base, the tugboat, about 2.5 times the size of our vessel, churned water to reach us, turning on its floodlights and blasting its horn repeatedly. Over the radio, we were told that we had intruded into Chinese territorial waters.
Our boat was Philippine-flagged, and an international tribunal convened by the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in 2016 that Mischief Reef was part of the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of the Philippines. China has ignored that ruling. In a radio exchange, we said we were allowed to sail through these waters.
The P.L.A. tugboat responded with more barrages of its horn, a sonic assault so piercing that we felt it in our bodies. Then, with its floodlights nearly blinding us, the P.L.A. tugboat rushed at our vessel, swiping within 20 meters of our much smaller boat. This was a clear breach of international maritime protocol, maritime experts said.
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Chinese vessels have been challenging other vessels over a contested part of the West Philippine Sea.Credit...Jes Aznar for The New York Times
As dawn broke, we could see both the fortifications on Mischief Reef and an array of Chinese vessels closing in from different directions: half a dozen maritime militia boats and a recently commissioned navy corvette designed to carry anti-ship missiles. The navy tugboat stayed near, too.
On other occasions, Chinese coast guard and militia vessels have rammed, doused with water cannons and sunk civilian boats in the South China Sea. In 2019, for instance, 22 Filipino fishermen were left to float amid the wreckage of their boat for six hours after a Chinese militia vessel struck them.
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A look from the sea at structures on land in the distance.
Chinese-built structures in May on Mischief Reef, off the Philippine island of Palawan.
Danger extends overhead. In May, a Chinese fighter jet sliced past the nose of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane flying through international air space over the South China Sea, echoing an incident last December when a Chinese fighter came within 20 feet of an American plane.
Zhou Bo, a retired P.L.A. colonel who is now a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said that claimant nations and the United States — which conducts regular air and sea patrols in the South China Sea — should accept Beijing’s contention that this is Chinese turf.
“The U.S. should stop or decrease its operations there,” he said. “But since it is impossible, so the danger will grow. A stronger P.L.A. can only be more resolute in defending China’s sovereignty and national interests.”
Mr. Zhou added that he thought the risk of a conflict between the United States and China was higher in the South China Sea than in the Taiwan Strait, another theater of geopolitical friction.
Frictions in the South China Sea are greatest in places where Southeast Asian countries have defied the Chinese mandate that the waterway, scooped out on Chinese maps with a dashed line, belongs to Beijing. In waters close to Vietnam and Malaysia, Chinese vessels have disrupted attempts to explore and develop oil and natural gas fields. The Chinese coast guard has forcibly prevented its Indonesian counterpart from arresting Chinese fishermen operating well within Indonesian waters.
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Two people looking from their boat across the water to a Chinese ship.
A Chinese warship patrolled the waters near the military outpost on Mischief Reef, within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, in May.
Chinese forces frequently harass Philippine coast guard boats trying to access a tiny contingent of Philippine marines stationed on Second Thomas Shoal, which, like nearby Mischief Reef, also lies within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. (Control over such a zone gives a country the rights to all resources within it, although foreign flagged boats are allowed free passage through most of the waters.)
In February, a Chinese coast guard ship directed a military-grade laser at a Philippine coast guard boat trying to resupply the marines at Second Thomas, temporarily blinding some sailors, according to the Philippine side. The Chinese coast guard has also unleashed high-intensity water cannons at the resupply boats, as recently as last month. In both cases, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the Philippine vessels were violating Chinese territorial sovereignty, forcing the Chinese to intervene.
As we left Mischief Reef, with Chinese vessels still shadowing us, we saw just how lopsided the contest is at Second Thomas. In 1997, the Philippines, outmanned and underfunded, beached a World War II era navy ship on the shoal, creating a makeshift base from which its soldiers could defend Philippine waters.
Clockwise from top left: Blasting a water cannon at a Philippines coast guard vessel near Second Thomas Shoal last month; a Chinese vessel employing a laser against a Filipino ship; the wreckage of a Filipino fishing boat after it was rammed by a Chinese ship in 2019; and a Chinese fighter jet flying perilously close to a U.S. Air Force refueling plane last December. Credit...Philippine Coast Guard, via Associated Press; Philippine Coast Guard, via AFP — Getty Images; U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, via Reuters; Arlinda Dela Torre/Department of Agriculture, via Associated Press
With the marooned navy ship in the distance, we watched as the same Philippine coast guard vessel that had been targeted by the military laser was flanked by a pair of Chinese coast guard ships more than double its length. The radio crackled with verbal jousting.
“Since you have disregarded our warning,” a Chinese coast guardsman said, “we will take further necessary measures in accordance with the law, and any consequences entailed will be borne by you.”
“We will deliver food and other essentials to our people,” the Philippine side answered.
The Philippine boat barely made it through to resupply the marine base. Every week brings such a David and Goliath showdown, and the chance for a dangerous miscalculation.
“The Chinese are flouting the maritime rules of engagement and intentionally violating the good rules of conduct,” said Gregory B. Poling, the director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “They’re making foreign vessels veer, sometimes at the last moment. One day, a foreign vessel is not going to veer off. And then what?”
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Chinese coast guard ships flanking a Philippine coast guard resupply ship in May near Second Thomas Shoal.
Despite its lack of territorial claims in the South China Sea, the American Seventh Fleet regularly cruises these waters to ensure freedom of navigation for all nations, according to the U.S. Navy. (Beijing contends that the presence of American military ships, particularly patrols near Chinese-controlled bases, inflames tensions.) And security pacts bind the American military to several Asian countries. The Philippines, which was once an American colony, is tied to the United States in a mutual defense treaty that Vice President Kamala Harris said last year would extend to “an armed attack on the Philippine armed forces, public vessels or aircraft in the South China Sea.”
This month, U.S. and Philippine warships sailed together in the South China Sea, and the two navies plan a joint patrol later this year.
American support has not always been so full-throated. In 2012, Chinese vessels occupied Scarborough Shoal, off the coast of the Philippines’ most populous island, even after the United States thought it had brokered a deal for both the Philippines and China to withdraw from the reef to cool tensions. Despite the Chinese incursion, American forces did not defend the shoal. Chinese boats have essentially controlled Scarborough ever since.
Around the same time, China began constructing what it said were “typhoon shelters” for fishermen on several South China Sea reefs it controlled. Then Chinese dredgers began piling sand on the atolls. Airstrips and barracks appeared. In 2015, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, stood in the White House Rose Garden and said that “China does not intend to pursue militarization” of the Spratlys, despite satellite evidence that China was doing just that.
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A close-up of a Chinese ship, a flag flying near the top.
A Chinese P.L.A. tugboat near Mischief Reef.
“The U.S. response was pretty much limited to statements that they opposed it, but not much more,” said M. Taylor Fravel, the director of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an author of books on China’s defense strategy and territorial disputes, noting that the development of the P.L.A.’s South China Sea military bases was done in three phases from 2014-2016. “It’s reasonable to speculate that a much harder response to the first wave would have prevented the next two waves.”
The 2016 tribunal ruling that dismissed China’s “historical claims” over most of the South China Sea came just as the Philippines was ushering in a new president, Rodrigo Duterte, who made close ties with China a signature of his six years in power. Mr. Duterte ignored the tribunal ruling, even though it favored his country. Since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office last year, his administration has spoken out against the Chinese presence in the South China Sea. Mr. Marcos has also granted the United States access to a handful of military bases on Philippine soil and is allowing for the building of others.
After we left Second Thomas Shoal, we sailed toward the Philippine island of Palawan, home to nearly a million people. Green hills rose on the horizon as we neared Sabina Shoal, a rich fishing ground for centuries. In recent years, the Chinese have placed buoys here. The Philippine coast guard has removed them.
Right on Sabina Shoal, where delicate coral once thrived, we saw boats arranged in a defensive formation. Ropes tied some of the vessels together. Chinese flags flew. Men bantered over the radio in a southern Chinese dialect. No fishing nets were in evidence.
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An aerial view looking down at a dark blue sea and some Chinese boats.
Chinese-flagged boats anchored in May at Sabina Shoal, near the Philippine island of Palawan.
China has said that such trawlers are commercial fishing vessels, and a Chinese appetite for seafood has created the world’s largest fishing fleet. But these South China Sea boats, experts say, rarely fish. Instead, they act as a maritime militia, swarming contested waters and unoccupied reefs for days or even months. They have steel hulls and advanced satellites, and some have rammed smaller Southeast Asian fishing boats. If a storm descends, they shelter at Chinese naval bases, like those built on Mischief, Fiery Cross and Subi reefs, satellite imagery shows.
We could see empty Chinese instant noodle packets floating in the water. We heard the Philippine coast guard over the radio, urging the Chinese boats to leave Sabina. There was no response. The Philippine entreaties faded.
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ISLAM - Lam is the sound of the "root chakra", grounding us into Mother Earth, originating from Father Sun.
As an infant, Mohammed was discovered by the leader of the Ban Hashim Clan, Abu Talib.
Abu might have poisoned Mohammed's father at birth, the mother at six years of age, and the grandfather when he turned ten,
so he could eventually raise the boy.
At the time, the Islamic people were in desperate need of a "savior".
Words can be changed to make things sound better. In Hawaii, everyone is an "uncle".
Abu was missing a leg, which can be a life changing experience which will allow you to have great compassion and kind-heartedness towards others.
He raised Mohammed well and gave him these unique characteristics and repeatedly told him he was the son of God.
Eventually Abu Talib passed away and in sadness and happy exceptional knowledge, Mohammmed began writing the Koran to help
awaken the people in his uncle's honor.
As he grew. older, Mohammed would sometimes abuse his power by having sex
with young women.
He was just like every other man , except he had a very compassionate
and strong-willed heart because of his uncle Abu Talib's influence.
A similar trait found in each of the old prophets was their ability to stay away from wine and meat.
The weakness of the people way-back-when in a desolate oblique time period. 05/01/12
The King's Cup race in Phuket, Thailand, this week was beset by storms that played havoc on the racing fleet. Photos by Keith MacKay, and courtesy of Nancy Birnbaum. To see more about the tragedy, including video, go to yourcruisingeditor.wordpress.com
A mass grounding of BY's 321 fleet saw 313's borrowed to form an emergency service. 313111 and 113 are rare sight in the bay at MK on a MK-Euston service on September 12th 2003
I think the little patterns on the bottom are from lightning arcing out from those points on its way through the metal!
written by karen bishop
January 8 ,2008
READY, SET, GO!...BUT NOT QUITE YET
The dust is beginning to clear and the creations we have been longing for are on their way to us now, but only with a slow stutter, as things will not really take off until the end of January. Our new creations and passions are trying to peek through the din, just waiting to arrive in full force, but not quite yet. With so much energetic debris flying around the past few months, due to the deep excavations and cleansings, there was seemingly no room for anything to take hold or find a clear passage…but now there is more room, there is more space, and things will begin to take hold and manifest.
January is the month that we will finally land somewhere, be able to take a breath, and gain a bit of catching up from all the months prior. It is a settling in point and a grounding point. We are also experiencing a disconnect from the old, from the cleansing experience, and readying to connect to the new. For me, this has manifested as having anything electronic in my home not work or connect to anything! We are also detoxing and letting go from the experience of the past few months, and this can create body aches and pains, intestinal distress, headaches, and fatigue. The experience of the past few months is now being removed from our systems.
But not for long, as this year our creations will begin to be noticed…WE will be noticed, desired, asked for, and needed. 2008 will most assuredly be the year of abundance for us. And even if the old world or much of the mainstream will be shifting, changing, seemingly suffering and grasping for a foothold, we will remain untouched and unscathed.
It will be our time. We will be safe and removed from the old, from the suffering, from the lack, and from the fear. We will be residing in another world, a new and different reality, and living the life of our dreams.
These past few months may have left many of us feeling traumatized, exhausted, irritable, frazzled, and needing a long rest, or perhaps even just a period of time for self nurturing and an escape from any moving energy. And this is what January will give us. There is an emptiness now, an almost bottoming out, but this is just the in-between point right before all the magnificence arrives. We may feel as if we have “dropped” somewhere, but this is only because all the excavating is finally over.
Yes, the bulldozer of deep cleansing has gone to another place for the time being, even though we are still detoxing, adjusting, and re-aligning. Are we now soon to arrive in the Promised Land forever more? Will we arrive in Heaven for a permanent residency? Well……
The longer the cleansing and experience of darkness is, the bigger, longer, and more magnificent the experience of a higher realms reality is when it eventually arrives. So then, this will be a monumental one indeed. This new space we can now find ourselves in is a new rung on the ascension ladder, a very new plateau, and is indeed a bit different from all the rest.
But we will not be able to stay here forever, and we would not want to. As we progress with our spiritual evolutionary process, we find ourselves in realities that are more and more pleasant than any before. But eventually we outgrow them (as we evolve into beings embodying a higher consciousness, and therefore our desires change), and then….poof! We must graduate to a new level where we are now vibrating. So then, the process seems never ending, but the realities get better and better.
Each new reality exists with creations we have desired. As more and more of our ego selves or mis-perceptions begin to dissipate, we then begin to desire and create something different. The ultimate end for this particular level of reality we have chosen to exist in on the earth plane, involves a reality of service and of purified creation for the entire whole.
The ultimate goal we had decided upon derived from a blueprint from eons ago…a blueprint that always worked, and was used in a universal way. This blueprint was the base for most of the creations of new planets, for new civilizations, and for new birth of form. It consisted of a purified self that was connected very fully to Source, as well as a distinct and unique gift, talent, and focus for each individual.
In this way, each individual soul would comprise a piece of the pie, or a hub of the wheel, and each wheel would have a similar purpose at its core. And throughout it all, would weave a commonality of Source energy, which is the glue that holds everything together and serves as the ultimate connector.
What will represent a core, or a hub of commonality? Geographical locations each contain their own specific energy or theme and purpose. Thus, those residing there will naturally resonate with that purpose. This is why some areas do not resonate for us at all, and others feel like a taste of home. Many communities are now fully embodying a theme and purpose, whether they are sustainability, a strong sense of community, high levels of creativity, a deep connection to nature, connections to the stars, or perhaps even connections to deep within the earth.
The current themes above are also universal to each and every hub, so it may seem a bit confusing. But these hubs (or areas on the planet) which already exist, contain a stronger and more substantial theme in one of these areas. This is because these themes and predominant energies were needed to comprise a piece of the whole, and thus contained one stronger or more exaggerated theme or purpose.
Ultimately, things will balance and even out, each theme mentioned above will be embodied by each and every hub in equal amounts, and a new and more distinct purpose will then unfold for each area. This has been the same for individuals. We were carrying or embodying an exaggerated theme, so that each theme or purpose within us would contribute to making up a complete whole.
If you have ever found yourself being resistant to or angry with another individual who seems to be raining on your parade or purpose, or simply following a different road or passion and cannot seem to agree with yours, this is only because they are embodying their own specific theme or purpose, and thus, see much around them through this particular filter or lens. We needed to embody our own special themes and purposes in grandiose amounts so that they would not be deterred or watered down by the lower vibrating energies. When we see through a specific filter, it is as if nothing else exists, but our own purpose or desire! And all others may feel like enemies or individuals trying to sabotage us.
But this time is over. We have reached a new and different plateau now, and things will be different than they have ever been before for eons of time on this planet.
Much is being condensed. What does this mean and how will we be affected? As so much of the lower vibrating energies have been usurped and are now residing elsewhere, we are then left with fewer and fewer energies and creations within and without. This manifests then, as a condensation of a more pure state, within and without. The lower vibrating creations, whether they are in thought forms, emotions, perceptions, physical manifestations, and the like, can no longer exist in this higher vibrating space.
So then, as certain geographical areas needed to comprise one specific theme over all others, and individuals the same, which were disbursed over a larger area of mass on the planet (or lower vibrating mass of the old world), in order to comprise a whole which resonated to where we were residing at that time on our ascension ladder, this will no longer be the case.
I hope I am explaining this in a sensical way…it can be difficult to describe in human language! What this means is that there will be less…less flying around with no place to reside (as there will be no anchors to hold these energies), less of the lower vibrating manifestations in form, as so forth.
Because of this, the law of attraction will bring together new higher vibrating manifestations and creations. Each individual vibration which was embodying a higher purpose or theme for the whole in times past (whether it be in individual form or in geographical locations, for instance), will now come together and join with other higher vibrating creations or individuals.
So then, much of everything will now become more refined. This means that the way and reason that we interact with other energies, including individuals, will be for a more specific purpose. And in this way, we will then begin attracting better things and more amazing, loving, and supportive people into our lives, who match us in our higher states.
Geographical locations or communities, and individuals will now no longer have to embody high amounts of specific purpose, as we will now be interacting as a smaller and refined whole. There will be much more equal representation.
As far as the original blueprint? Even though the original blueprint has existed and functioned well for eons of time, as it fully supports and represents the blueprint of creation, we are always free to create a new world exactly as we please. This is the beauty of the new world.
We have come as representatives of every star and far away place, in order to bring together as much of a higher vibrating contribution and higher knowledge as possible, in order to create this very new world on the planet earth. There is then, a perfect representation from each varied place. And some far away places in the universe were so very hesitant to send a representative, as they were so advanced that they knew there would be great and grand challenges for their sensitive children in this harsh world they had never inhabited before! Thus, much protection was put into place, even though at times we may doubt that this is so. It has been an awesome orchestration indeed. So in this regard, then, the earth is our palette.
The beauty in this is that within every new twist and turn, there is an opportunity for change. We can change the plan at any given moment. And because of this and because we never really know how things will react, we never really know what will happen next and when it will happen. This is why prophecies and timelines of past are moot and inconsequential. If we were to believe, for instance, in the prophesy of 2012, we would probably then create just that. But we are more powerful and far beyond these old prophesies of past. These prophesies were from another world and another time. Anything can be changed at any given moment now. This is the beauty of creation. Anything can be changed. We are free to create whatever we choose.
Even if you may not be consciously aware of it, we meet at regular intervals and evaluate what is occurring, how we are being affected, and what we choose to happen next for all of the whole. We are all in this together at our soul levels, communicating regularly, while we continue to embody human form and experience it all at the same time. Everything is continually monitored then, with loving care. And know as well that the ascension guides we all have with us, are really only aspects of ourselves. We are always the ones who navigate the course, for ourselves and for the progression of this ascension process.
What will be some of the new realities of 2008?
Food and what we choose to put into our bodies will now change dramatically. We have reached a vibrational level where we need not be so strict about what we eat if we want to stay healthy and purified. Simply blessing our food before we eat it or having an intent that only the higher vibrating aspects of the food will enter our systems and sustain us, will be quite enough. And now that we are vibrating so much higher, we need not even have an intent or provide a blessing, as the law of attraction will simply connect us automatically with the higher aspects of what we are consuming. We are at many different levels of vibration individually, so either of the scenarios above may be effective and appropriate.
Here again is the same theme. The higher vibrating aspects of things will be all that we are affected by and connect with. So in this regard, we will also be attracting wonderful partners and individuals into our lives. We will in essence be attracting wonderful everything, with amazing and perfect connections that will fit us to a tee…all that we have ever wanted.
Even though there may seem to exist lower vibrating aspects to things, if we consciously choose to only accept the higher vibrating ones, and focus solely on those, then anything and everything else will simply cease to exist. Or again, some of us may not need to consciously do anything at all, and simply let things unfold as they may.
I must say, that consciously focusing on higher avenues and manifestations is the way to navigate in the higher realms, only now we will be much more supported in these ways as the energies we are now residing in are much higher with much less interference. Navigating entails focusing on what we want and choose to see. Focusing on anything else simply gives it fuel and keeps its creation alive and in our space. Expecting something new and different to occur will most assuredly ensure its arrival. This involves a willingness to let go of old expectations and experiences. 2008 will be something very new indeed.
So then, there will be many opportunities in the year to come, all depending upon where we choose to focus, or reside. We can choose to exist in a revolving door of repeated patterns and darkness or mis-perceptions, or we can choose to see a higher way, let much of the old interpretations drop away, expect only the best and highest, and know that this will be our new reality.
When we are in a state of purification and cleansing, as we have been the past few months, we usually attract situation which match what we are cleansing, and thus, it can feel as if we are in hell or some horrible and unpleasant reality of our worst case scenarios. Like energies always attract like energies, so when the darker and denser ones are up, or sometimes our deepest fears, we will attract just those.
Now that this awesome year of 2008 is upon us, with much cleansing and re-evaluation having taken place in 2007, we will now begin to attract through the Law of Attraction, all the manifestations of our dreams, as a new purified energy will be much more prevalent than ever before!
So then, we need only sit tight for a few more weeks, allow this unusual down time we are currently experiencing to be utilized for some much needed rest, or perhaps a bit of preparation, and know that things will be significantly different in times to come.
A new and magnificent reality is beginning to peak through the clouds. It will be different than anything we have experienced thus far. Are you ready? Do you believe we will have a time of heaven on earth? Are you willing to allow it to arrive at your door, seemingly all by itself? Are you ready for incredible abundance and a day to day experience of living in the world of your dreams? Are you ready to feel the absence of darkness, and to live a life of joy and bliss? Get ready, because it is on its way!
A Chinook helicopter over the Shell floating drill rig Kulluk in Kodiak Island's Kiliuda Bay Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, as salvage teams towed it to Kiliuda Bay for repairs and a survey. The Kulluk ran aground a week ago on Sitkalidak Island near Kodiak. Photo by United States Coast Guard Operations Specialist 3 Dale Arnould
Coast Guard and State of Alaska personnel continue to monitor response efforts to remove pollution threats and fish cargo from the 65-foot fishing tender Fate Hunter, grounded near Shoup Bay, four miles west of Valdez, Alaska, Aug. 16, 2013. As of Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, approximately 320 gallons of diesel, 40 gallons of hydraulic oil, and 342 gallons of fuel and water mixture have been recovered from the vessel by Alaska Chadux and Global Diving & Salvage. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by MSU Valdez)
“A Little Knowledge… goes a long way”…
An elemental is a creature, usually a spirit that is attuned with or composed of one of the four classical elements: air, water, earth, and fire. The elements balance each other out through opposites: water quenches fire, fire boils water, earth contains air, and air erodes earth. Elementals care for, guard, and protect the environment.
Initially, fairies (fairies, fey) were not considered elementals, but are now grouped with and considered elementals because they guard and protect the environment.
Fairies, like crows, cats, squirrels, and I, love to collect brightly colored and shiny things; things of nature; nature’s castoffs; found objects; and little treasures of all kinds such as glass, buttons, twigs, etc. There is nothing that compares to spending an afternoon searching, hunting, and looking for found objects.
Wondrous, enchanted, and magical places to find these treasures exist everywhere. Once found, finding a secret place to squirrel them away is very important. It can be a bottle, an old tin, the hollow of a tree, a bird’s nest or a hole in the ground.
My elemental bottles, filled with found objects, are made to encourage you to “gently” shake them. Gentle shaking will, obviously, reposition the inside found objects and give you a new perspective on them. Much like life… sometimes it is a good idea to shake things up, do something new or take a different path in order to gain new insights, ideas, spark your imagination, stimulate creativity, and see things differently.
This is an air elemental bottle kissed by the earth. The silver glitter star top with the dangling heart, suggestive of the Heavens, the multiple different colored feathers inside, obviously, from birds, which fly, and once their feathers fall off, they float, as well as the postage stamp, let us know this was initiated by an air elemental. However, air enlisted the help of an earth elemental in collecting the found objects inside, which speak to and for the earth: the fallen twigs, the tree bark, the acorn cap, and the pieces of metal for grounding.
This is my original idea and creation. It is not to be copied in any way or in any medium.
A Canada Steamship Lines laker passes outside of the 500 yard security zone surrounding the vessel Roger Blough which ran aground late last week in lower Lake Superior.
After grounding the offside engine door had popped loose. We had radio comms with Marty and the safest place to stop was the on-slip to the M1. Stopped and closed the engine door and to prevent it coming loose again Marty installed a ratchet strap around the rear of the engine bay. With that we were off and motoring
A favourite ring...
"Smokey Quartz is a grounding stone that transmutes negative energies and facilitates your ability to get things done in the practical world. It enhances organizational skills and is good to have around in the workplace or home office. Smokey Quartz is also connected with the sounds of the universe. It makes you more aware of sounds including telepathic sounds. Smokey Quartz helps relieve depression."
Hematite,grounding,Bone,aids with relationships, shell,can protect against un-cooperative attitudes and actions,turquoise,protection,aids in healing...email for price
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WAPA crews place grounds on the conductor of the St. Thomas transmission line between East End and Donald Francois substations, Oct. 29. (Photo by Will Schnyer)
At the time of the grounding of the 737 Max on 11 March 2019, Southwest's fleet was scattered all over the United States; they've been gradually gathered up at Victorville, creating a strange spectacle.
On the second day after the grounding a crew works to try to recover the Jamie K. but by nightfall they had had no success.
On the evening of Monday, July 20th, 2015, this 65 foot shrimp boat out of Charleston in Coos County, Oregon, hit some rocks while maneuvering through a hazardous area called the "Little Hole" to reach a good fishing area. A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer was able to get all four crew members safely to shore during the night one at a time. Recovering the boat is proving to be a challenging task.
Binishell: A dome of either 18 or 36m (59 or 118 feet) diameter erected by inflating a plastic 'balloon'. The Pittwater High School Binishell dome in northern Sydney collapsed on 4 August 1986, probably because of lightning. According to Dr Bini, 1500 such shells had been erected by 1986 without trouble. The collapse may have been caused by lack of grounding and electrical continuity in the reinforcement. Each dome is reinforced and concreted before inflation lifts the plastic balloon carrying 300 tons of wet concrete and steel to create a roof varying in thickness from 40 mm (1.5 in.) to 110 mm (4.5 in.). Any doors or windows are cut through the hardened concrete."
Lightning is that what they are saying the inside word is that..vistation a socual chapter BCIS "recreational"
I know I KNow....taking of vusiness everyday..you're a disgrace muriel
Giacomo Matteotti verbal attacks on Mussolini lead to his murder. Matteotti was one of the brave people in Italy who dared to speak out against Mussolini. Matteotti was a socialist (he was head of the Italian Socialist Party) and therefore shared none of the views of the post-March on Rome Mussolini. Matteotti was not afraid to speak his mind – but this bravery was to cost him his life.
Breaking my back just to know your name
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm breaking my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink you might miss
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
Ready? Let's roll onto something new
Taking its toll and I'm leaving without you
I'm ready, let's roll onto something new
'Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around
Pace yourself for me
I said maybe baby please
But I just don't know now
When all I wanna do is try
[x3]
Somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around
a crazed bit butter buzz.....the pan worked last time
Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary. (Jan 1925)
This was sufficient to win back the support of the MVSN and it was the start of Mussolini's drive to dictatorship
Matteo Matteotti I wantta buy somewhere in tuscany
6 were chrge three were convucted and left off with light sentence to the bictor foes the spoiked..his-TORY!
social chap' The Treaty of Maastricht (formally, the Treaty on European Union, (TEU)) was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht, Netherlands
and radio netherlands has a big special on ICE..a fuy who holds the world record on bathing in ice...he's life's quest...and some guy from mar-rishus..that tropical island whi scuptures ice the onle black man who does it a world best practise lebel..and a giy who plays ice musically..100 year old ice from antartica NO Good bit that ICE
Drop and run.....
Trevelin, Chubut: Audrey Bergner stands beside a whimsically painted, vintage Citroën 2CV, its geometric patterns echoing the vibrant spirit of this historic Welsh settlement. The composition captures the soft, diffused light of a Patagonian afternoon, highlighting the contrast between the vehicle's artisanal exterior and the rugged, sun-bleached grasses of the valley floor. In the background, the dramatic silhouette of snow-dusted Andean peaks pierces the cloud-laden sky, grounding the scene in the region's formidable geography. The depth of field remains crisp throughout, ensuring that both the intricate details of the car’s hand-painted art and the distant mountain range command equal attention. This fusion of automotive history and artistic expression reflects the unique cultural tapestry of Trevelin, where old-world Welsh heritage meets the creative impulses of modern residents. Every element, from the textured perimeter fencing to the muted natural tones of the landscape, invites the viewer to appreciate the intersection of human ingenuity and wild, open terrain. This visual encounter serves as a testament to the importance of documenting the living history and evolving aesthetic identity found in remote corners of the Southern Hemisphere. This image is a collaborative production by Samuel Jeffery and Audrey Bergner for Project 23.
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Trevelin, Chubut: Audrey Bergner se encuentra junto a un Citroën 2CV clásico pintado de forma caprichosa, cuyos patrones geométricos se hacen eco del espíritu vibrante de este histórico asentamiento galés. La composición captura la luz suave y difusa de una tarde patagónica, destacando el contraste entre el exterior artesanal del vehículo y las hierbas rugosas y blanqueadas por el sol del suelo del valle. Al fondo, la silueta dramática de los picos andinos cubiertos de nieve atraviesa el cielo nublado, situando la escena en la formidable geografía de la región. La profundidad de campo se mantiene nítida en todo momento, asegurando que tanto los detalles intrincados del arte pintado a mano en el coche como la lejana cordillera capten la misma atención. Esta fusión de historia automotriz y expresión artística refleja el tapiz cultural único de Trevelin, donde la herencia galesa del viejo mundo se encuentra con los impulsos creativos de los residentes modernos. Cada elemento, desde el vallado perimetral texturizado hasta los tonos naturales apagados del paisaje, invita al espectador a apreciar la intersección entre el ingenio humano y el terreno salvaje y abierto. Este encuentro visual sirve como testimonio de la importancia de documentar la historia viva y la identidad estética en evolución que se encuentra en los rincones remotos del hemisferio sur. Esta imagen es una producción colaborativa de Samuel Jeffery y Audrey Bergner para el Proyecto 23.
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Photo by Samuel Jeffery & Audrey Bergner | Project 23
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The switch/aluminum cup unit, and the knob came from Boulder Bicycles. It's a prototype unit that uses a rotary switch epoxied into the aluminum cup that is machined to fit correctly into a 1" steerer tube.
Panels feature integrated grounding via
resilient Quick-Ground™ tabs automatically
engaged during Z-MAX outlet
insertion.
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