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[jnwakeling]

Taylor's Day 2024 - Raising the Langley "pirate's" Flag 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Notes:

#TaylorsDay 2024 (June 26th)

#Lenovo #Thinkpad T430

#Microsoft #Windows 10

#LinuxMint 21.3 "Virginia"

The #Deepweb 1 "one"

#NASA at #BigTreeHarare

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In brief:

#TheLangleyFiles and #ThePirateBay

Today (June 25th) is the 121st anniversary of George Orwell's Birthday, and 2024 is 40 years after 1984.

June 27th will be my second anniversary of going sober and clean.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference."

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In order to correctly "read" and "replicate" the following screenshots and software - a software "homebuild" and technology "beta test" of mine - one must begin with the same hardware i.e. a Lenovo Thinkpad T430 Laptop with a partly functional keyboard - and an optional external keyboard that works (see photo). Read a hand-me-down gift from a friend. For better or for worse.

Anyway #Langley we got some good mileage out of it and a lot of nerves and humour along the way, in equal amounts.

What connection does this have to #Wikileaks if any?? Or Am I simply an eccentric geek in the third world tinkering with my (albeit, very advanced) toy, Mr. President Biden?

Note that in the desktop screenshots "Adobe Photoshop 2024" and "StarCraft II" are selected.

To the ends of the earth and back, sir.

Photoshop for C.

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StarCraft for T. - "the incredible machine"

You win some and you loose some #POTUS

Learnt a few tricks in my old age.

I quote: "In October 2023, Microsoft acquired parent company Activision Blizzard, maintaining that the company will continue to operate as a separate business. While part of the larger Microsoft Gaming division, Activision retains its function as the publisher of games developed by their studios." ~Wikipedia

Activision Blizzard (which I must remember how to spell) being the maker of the StarCraft games.

Onward ho!

Note well TV Time (available for android and iPhone - I think!): I've clocked over 750 episodes of Star Trek to date as well as a number of Star Trek movies. I'm very familiar with the the Star Wars "universe" too Mandalorian et al. Strangely I am yet to drink my first Starbucks coffee - please have one on my behalf America. Ethical coffee and ethical tea.

Starlink anyone?

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Anyway Commander-in-Chief, I leave it in your capable hands to decide the fate of this post - read the small print so to speak. And therefore which side of the archetypal fence it will end up being on, sir.

As for yourselves, discerning members of the Internet and my wider public readership… With a pinch of salt and maybe fire up one of the software programs on your own devices as see where it takes you.

This post would not be complete without mentioning my fellow artist and mentor Taylor Swift. Loving #TSTTPD btw you special wordsmith, you. A once in a generation artist.

Can we safely put this book to bed.

C. is a friend lost and T. is a friend found fyi POTUS, sir. A little privacy.

Diplomacy is a skill and a gift. I'm one of the lucky ones Mr. Biden my dear friend.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalism? Perhaps.

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1. Windows XP Wallpapers

Desktop

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Web Browser - homepage 1

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Web Browser - homepage 2

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Web Browser - homepage 3

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2. Linux Mint Wallpapers

Desktop

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Web Browser - homepage 1

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Web Browser - homepage 2

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Web Browser - homepage 3

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3. The Pirate Bay Wallpapers

Desktop

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Web Browser - homepage 1

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Web Browser - homepage 2

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Web Browser - homepage 3

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Good Night, and Good Luck!

Godspeed.

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[jnwakeling]

P.S. Taylor Swift ✝️

[jnwakeling]

"I have spoken" ~Kuiil

[jnwakeling]

that's a wrap

If Pablo Picasso is my eyes then Taylor Swift is my ears.

With the advent of this playlist (above) which is called "that's a wrap" (and in fact it IS a wrap) my ears are officially online for everybody's benefit (for the benefit of Mr. Kite)

that's a wrap is an exact copy of my playlist from Spotify "Your Top Songs 2023" via my Spotify Wrapped

To fill you in, Taylor and I have both had a long and eventful journey in the online world since I "discovered" her a decade ago on the then alt social network Google Plus with the release of her album Red. Red as a result will always have a special place in my heart.

The cream always rises to the top and so that's a wrap is a distillation of my listening preferences (as far as rock, pop and folk are concerned) in the intervening years. And indeed it's as good as the best scotch on the rocks and "music to my ears." Bound to give us all Champagne Problems dear reader (and of course dear listeners too)

Of course I also swear by classical, blues and jazz. But we'll leave that for "rainy days and Mondays" Bach, Beethoven and Brahms - perhaps good names for possible future pet kittens - God forbid.

Top Global Artist on Spotify - a short song of congratulation Taylor!!! You've moved mountains!

Best wishes xoxo The Swifties… Who got the it right By backing not only the winner but also the best original music creator too - Planet Earth owes you one Taylor Swift. (Of this generation, XYZ??? and perhaps of all time too.) Not only a musician but a poet and storyteller to boot.

P.S. "Taylor's just wonderful and so down to earth" ~ comment from an adoring fan and a quiet word in your ear Tay (excuse the pun.)

❤️

[jnwakeling]

St. Beatrix’ Candle – smoking the competition (FYI Adobe, X-Force, Elon Musk et al.)

“All this was a long time ago, I remember…” ~T.S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi

There are just too many people to thank! I just can’t believe we arrived at the starting line eventually!! Bon appétit America – a well-cooked digital meal folks!!! Let there be peace on earth. Full stop.

What follows is a vital insight into my Taylor Swift inspired (and sponsored?) home network. I have one primary “rule” in life – always write it down – for both legal and philosophical reasons. My stubbornness in that regard eventually paid off. Thanks for bearing with me Internet users.

This isn’t just a computer lesson – it also catalogues a missing piece of personal and world history.

It’s important to be concurrently online and offline and to be able to turn the radio on and off at the click of a button. I don’t wear a watch and never will.

Finally, the music speaks for itself. Xoxo Beatrix . . .

Introduction – Android

Android 1 (Photography) St. Beatrix’ Candle – “a candle in the wind” at NASA (aka St. Christopher's) at Big Tree Harare 🕯️

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Android 2 (Apps) Work (Spotify) 📻

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Android 3 (Games) Play (Tsoro aka Awale) 🌍

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Chapter One – Microsoft Windows and The Eras Tour

Windows 1 (Internet – Microsoft Edge Browser)

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Windows 2 (Desktop – Apps)

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Windows 3 (Desktop – Games)

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Windows 4 (Start Menu – Signed Jonathan N. Wakeling)

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Windows 5 (Photoshop Spash Screen – A Deep Web Victory for Taylor Swift)

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Windows 6 (Photoshop Example - The Era’s Tour)

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Chapter Two: Blank Space – Linux Mint (Taylor’s Version)

Linux 1 (Workspace 1)

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Linux 2 (Workspace 2)

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Linux 3 (Workspace 3)

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Linux 4 (Workspace 4)

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Linux 5 (Photoshop’s got competition)

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Linux 6 (Bring out the GIMP)

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Linux 7 (GIMP in action)

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Linux 8 (The GIMP edited version)

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Linux 9 (Linux Mint Wallpaper – in PhotoGIMP)

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Linux 10 (Taylor Swift YouTube Video – personal copy)

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Linux 11 (Jonathan N. Wakeling online – thanks Oracle VirtualBox, Linux Mint and Conky themers)

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Linux 12 (Blank Space 1 – Workspace 1)

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Linux 13 (Blank Space 2 – Workspace 2)

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Linux 14 (Blank Space 3 – Workspace 3)

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Linux 15 (Blank Space 4 – Workspace 4)

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All’s Well That Ends Well Apple

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Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny. Pistol: Why then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. Falstaff: Not a penny. ~Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene II

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Legal advice – Taylor’s Version a sweet fare thee well and a permanent working holiday all the best for the festive season folks cup of mint tea with that? Under the mistletoe... 🍃🌿🌱

[jnwakeling]

An African Prayer (Thanks to the Saints)

By Jonathan N. Wakeling Harare, November 12th 2023

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For my Brother and my Sister - ever together in spirit and the safety of numbers Africa

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Of St. John and St. George and of Jonathan and King David, of St. Peter and St. Paul and of St. Mary and St. Barbara

Of Sarah and of Delilah

Of Aaron's Rod and Jacob's Ladder

God bless and devil be behind me

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"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

~Psalm 23:4, KJV

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Thanks, firstly and foremost, to St. Christopher, for helping me cross the Jordan and the Zambezi and the Thames and all the wide rivers of life

Thanks to St. Luke for giving me the freedom to paint like Vincent and Picasso and Frida Kahlo

Thanks to St. Beatrix for keeping my candle lit in the depths of Africa and equally brightly lit back at home in Blighty and for all humanity

Thanks to St. Francis of Assisi for making me a lover of nature in all its glory and its myriad forms

Thanks to the Saints for I know not who I am

Thanks to the Saints for I know not what I do

Thanks St. Vincent for helping me choose a good red and also a sweet white wine - thanks for the food and drink, and for the ladies and gents

Thanks to St. Adrian for manning my army of words and making me a good soldier of the Lord, I pray Africa

Thanks to St. Justin for making me wise beyond my years and thanks to St. David for letting me wax lyrical like Yeats or Eliot, Wordsworth or the Bard of Avon

And thanks to St. Thomas for guiding me through the University of Life even on my doubting days

And thanks to all the Saints in the heavens above - St. Dominic especially - my friend and my companion through our collective living night that is today's modern world (and thanks for my telescope St. Dominic by which device I may touch the heavens)

Thanks to the Saints

Thanks too to the Lady Saints. Thanks to St. Monica who keeps my precious Mother safe

Thanks to the Saints

St. Catherine for schoolgirls. St. Nicholas for schoolboys

And St. Anthony to dig our graves when at last our Great Wheel turns

Thanks to the Saints

Thanks to San Francisco America, the north and thanks to São Paulo, America, south of the Equator

Rome wasn't built in a day and Homer sometimes nods

Thanks, at last, to St. Dorothea for keeping my garden green and my flowers blooming that all may see the light - and thanks, therefore, also for the blazing light of your candle, St. Beatrix, in the twilight of my years

Thanks to the Saints, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

For we no not, for we no not

Thanks to the Saints, Moses the Black and Our Lady of Africa, and bless the bed that I lie on Planet Earth and Lady Gaia. The world before us, hell behind us and the heavens above us, I, St. Africa The Great, do bless you all

Thanks to the Saints

Thanks to St. Homobonus for the tailors and to St. Maurice for the weavers

and to St. Cecilia for the song and thanks for the dance St. Vitus

Thanks my Lord and my Lady

Thanks to the Saints, thank you, thank you, thanks St. Faustina for every little joy and every little moment of sadness

With thanks for the kindness of the stranger on the rocky roads of life, I bid you adieu St. Christopher

💟✝️🙏

[jnwakeling]

Blank Space & The Coming Storm

I read the news today John Lennon, the 7 O'clock News Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

for A.S. One Day Ivan

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First things first. We wouldn't be here without Washington, Langley and The Pentagon - nota bene Zimbabwe

Thanks and a commendation to Lloyd J. Austin the Third (world war averted btw Mr. Secretary)… "narrowly tailored" (via Financial Times) - Pulitzer Prize in journalism received and receipted sir - see article below John "Henry" Reed and Henry "Reed" Foy (Vance? YouTube and Spotify?)

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Lloyd J. for James Austin, Texas - Home James, St. James, Internet Security Pentagon - "self-defence" - Alpha Confirm Washington!!!

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Compare notes Mr. President, Jesus Christ, Mossad? (and all parties? North Korean whispers of war?)

9/11 - hypnosis, wordplay, playfood and date pudding - the coming storm

9/11, Christmas Day and The End of Days Calendar

There are 731,111 days from December 25th 0001BCE to September 11th 2001

Start on December 25th 0001BCE

First Count: mark a date every 10,000 days

Second Count: mark a date at 1,111 days (January 9th 0003CE) and then mark a date every 10,000 days from then

I didn't just know a children's toy and playfood and wordplay on the calendar. Date palms and date pudding Palm Sunday?

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Modern, postmodern and dystopian - Apocalypse, Armageddon and Post-apocalyptic etc.

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Dates to remember, blank space and blotting paper for the King:

End of Days Calender One: Count every 10,000 days from December 25th 0001BC

End of Days Calendar Two: Count 01,111 days, 11,111 days, 21,111 etc. from December 25th 0001BC

There are 710,000 days from December 25th 0001BC to November 24th 1943

There are 711,111 days from December 25th 0001BC to December 9th 1946

There are 721,111 days from December 25th 0001BC to April 26th 1974

There are 731,111 days from December 25th 0001BC to September 11th 2001

There are 741,111 days from December 25th 0001BC to January 27th 2029

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Post script for "My name is "narrowly" Taylor and I was "bornfree" in 1989"

I'm not affected but I do speak to great affect Mr. President - What's the essential "butterfly" effect?

To be rational (and there is a certain rationale to it)

Life can be puzzling but don't let it puzzle you to much!

1980, 1984, 1989

I'm tickled "flamingo pink" Phoenix and playing the "Aquamarine" blues and greens of a forgotten childhood Rolling W's and Easter eggs

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References…AI and otherwise…

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What are some good books about world war three and the new world order similar to David Icke's books?

Ah, hello there! It's Sofia. I must say, I admire your interest in exploring books related to world events and the new world order. While I haven't read David Icke's books myself, I can suggest a few reads that touch upon similar themes.

One fascinating book you might enjoy is "1984" by George Orwell. Although it focuses more on a dystopian society and government surveillance, it delves into themes of control and manipulation that might resonate with your interests.

Another thought-provoking read is "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. This novel depicts a future world where society is engineered and controlled by an elite group. The book explores the implications of a technologically advanced society on individual freedom and human nature.

And if you're open to exploring a non-fiction perspective, "The New World Order" by H.G. Wells might capture your attention. Wells, a renowned science fiction writer, delves into his own vision of a utopian world government.

These are just a few suggestions, but I hope they pique your interest. If you'd like more recommendations or have any other questions, feel free to ask!

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What are some good current books about world government and the great reset?

Hello again! Some books that are currently popular and related to world government and the Great Reset include:

"The Great Reset" by Klaus Schwab: Written by the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, this book explores the need for a global reset of our economic and social systems in order to address major challenges such as climate change, inequality and technological disruption.

"The Fourth Industrial Revolution" by Klaus Schwab: Another book by Klaus Schwab, this one examines the impact of emerging technologies such as AI, the Internet of Things, blockchain, and 3D printing on society and calls for a new kind of global leadership to manage the transition to a more technologically advanced world.

"The New World Order" by Ralph Epperson: This book, first published in 1990, explores the history of the New World Order and its eventual goal of establishing a one-world government.

"The Deep State" by Mike Lofgren: This book takes a critical look at the role of government bureaucracy in shaping policy and argues that the "deep state" often works against the interests of the public.

I hope these suggestions are helpful. Let me know if you have any other questions or if there's anything else I can help you with.

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Dipping my "readers" cap Mr. President - if I've got a "voice" I should use it, Sir - to all concerned and to whom it may concern.

[jnwakeling]

wwiii??? why and wi knot, october 26th 2023 - day 15,999

Today we have the naming of parts Henry Reed. Tomorrow we have the naming of cats T.S. Eliot

for T.S. with love, thanks and gratitude

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woke, wake and work - the period period period Pulitzer

World War III - Wake up Planet Earth (or press the Woke Sleep Button!) - Quit WORK instead Quommunism?

Knock three times before entering 20th Century???

Rule of thumb: Always keep a spare and always have a third party First Amendment

Dot the i's and cross the t's

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Wakeling: shouldn't this name be on on the C.I.A. Blacklist Walter White?

Wake up humanity?! Global hypnosis warning…question climate change.

I came back with supporting evidence Langley, January 6th, wakefulness and sleep, doctors, death row, rotten row, psychiatry and Mediterranean Medication…

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E.L. Doctorow Dr. Black Knight? "Former President Barack Obama called him "one of America's greatest novelists""

Mind games, mind control techniques and psychological torture Mr./Mrs./Ms. Psychologist-in-Chief, sir or madam…

Let the games begin?

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Wakeling Wakering Walklin Wakeland Wakelin Wakefield Wake up and calm down . . .

Great and Little Wakering

Wakeling St, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Wakeling Rd, Denton, Manchester, UK

Wake Island, Marshall Islands, Pacific Storm cigarettes, Zimbabwe

Wakefield place names globally, Boston Tea Party

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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) aka E. L. Doctorow

References (via Wikipedia):

Wakefield (January 14th 2008, The New Yorker)

Wakefield (2016 movie)

Homer & Langley (2009)

The Book of Daniel (1971)

Daniel (1983 movie)

Bryan Craston (stars in Wakefield, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul et al.)

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Doughnuts and Guitars Richard

Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Dr. David Livingstone

"Dr. Livingstone I presume?" Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Israel and the Star of David

Biblical story of Jonathan and King David (Old Testament?) and the Book of Jonah?

Taylor Swift?

The Star of David and the Flower of Life, Ancient Egypt?

The road goes ever on and on Frodo and Uncle Sam Samwise

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Biblical story of Jonathan and King Doctor David Livingstone I presume…?

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The Gaza Strip and The Las Vegas Strip? Nude modelling?

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The Great Pyramid of Gaza Strip… Any pyramids in Las Vegas?

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Giza and Gaza old water geezer, sir

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The Las Vegas Strip raises the stakes U2! Achtung Baby (1991 album)

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A top secret map of the Middle East

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A #TOPSECRET map of the #MiddleEast @CIA Mr. President Biden sir.

… Secret Agent Basra Reed Warbler…

#SaudiArabia - mother #Jordan - self #Lebanon - sister #Qatar - father #Israel - brother

#CIA #FactCheck #deadhand #perimeter #nucleardisarmament

Via #NorthKorea Trump

Tweet or twit? Family therapy Virginia Satir.

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Any other business Washington, Langley et al.?

Pulitzer Prize winning journalism Mr. President Biden? War makes no dollars or sense folks.

Play soccer instead Ted Lasso!

Bruce David Grobbelaar and Paul John Gascoigne aka Gazza?

Where to from here and et tu, Brute America?

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Duty period Commitment period MISSION PERIOD

Question mark

More questions than answers Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[jnwakeling]

of mice and men 1980

Essential point and crux of the matter is "Tulliver and Gulliver" wordplay on the one hand and "Gulliver and Seagull" wordplay on the other

Ref. George Eliot, Jonathan Swift and Richard Bach

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Hi I forgot to ask you are you still reading Middle March?

Hi, I've put it on the back burner for the moment. I'm about a third of the way through and look forward to finishing for sure

For George Bernard "sure"

Shaw?

Correct. just a play on words

George Eliot, middlemarch

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George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. ~Wikipedia

A polemicist is someone who is skilled at arguing very strongly for or against a belief or opinion.

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H.E. Bates and W.B. Yeats. The never ending story James Joyce and Ulysses S. Grant…

Silas Marner by George Eliot and My Uncle Silas by H.E. Bates fyi Mana Pools… Something I never knew till now.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day Darling Buds of May?

Middlemarch and Tolkien's Middle-earth (Lord of the Rings)… Stuck in the Middle With You (song) by Stealers Wheel from Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack…

The Ides of March Julius Caesar.

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We've come a long way Tom and Maggie Tulliver

Of Mice and Men, of Tulliver and Gulliver, of Seagulls and Gulliver's

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965 movie)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, first published 1970 (without day of publication). I was born ten years later. It was republished in OCTOBER 2014 by the way, 1989 by Taylor Swift (27th October 2014)

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Clue: seagulls on album cover of 1989 (Taylor's Version) - out on Friday!

Tay was born Dec 13th 1989 - she's ten years younger than me less a few weeks (I was born Jan 6th 1980)

Coincidence or synchronicity?

Stanley and Livingstone Africa? Seagulls in Zimbabwe?

Blank Space by Taylor Swift! 🦤

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Some remarkable information came through Taylor and her calendar:

112 days from September 11th 2001 is Tuesday January 1st 2002

Via Taylor Swift's use of 112 days

Remember have to account for leap years on that theory

And 9/11 was a Tuesday as well

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112 days from Saturday October 7th 2023 is Saturday January 27th 2024

January 27th is Holocaust Memorial Day (on same date every year)

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112 days from Sunday January 6th 1980 (my date of birth) is Sunday April 27th 1980

April 27th is Freedom Day in South Africa (on same date every year)

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112 days from Wednesday December 13th 2023 (Taylor's 34th Birthday) is Wednesday April 3rd 2024

There's no major calendar event on 3rd of April but it is National Walking Day (US). And December 13th is National Violin Day (US)

Long Walk to Freedom?

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112 days before Wednesday December 13th 2023 is Wednesday August 23rd 2023

August 23rd 2023 is marked by Zimbabwe Elections

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Number of days between January 6th 1980 and October 7th 2023

15,980 days

Just have to know where to look folks!

Bit of a wait for that info?

☮️

[jnwakeling]

Thinkpad - 1989 (Taylor's Version)

Lenovo Thinkpad T430 - Taylor's Version 💙

Google Plus ✅ pluspora ✅ Twitter ✅

The birth and death of social media networks 👌

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Microsoft Windows 10 ✅ Microsoft Edge ✅ Infinity New Tab ✅ Adobe Photoshop (special mention) ✅

A voice for Apple, Linux and the FOSS underdogs 👌🏿

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull ✅ A Bridge Across Forever ✅ Illusions ✅

A well read book and the colour red 👌🏻

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Spotify ✅ Deezer ✅ Apple Music ✅

Music and opportunity 👌🏽

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Champagne Problems ✅ Getaway Car ✅ Tim McGraw ✅

The compassionate genius 💯

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Lenovo Thinkpad T430 - laptop ✅ Samsung Galaxy A12 - phone ✅ Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 - tablet ✅

Retro, steampunk, obsolete tech, reverse engineering and a fully functional device/network🔌🖥️���

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💜 jnwakeling

[jnwakeling]

Tab A8 take two - Blank Space by Taylor Swift 🎸

Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 - The Big Tree Harare Edition

For Tay, my "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"

folklore

"I never walk Cornelia Street at Big Tree Harare again."

A tree in the Amazon and a leaf out of my book Tay my dear - my friend and my mentor.

A tree in Sherwood Forest

A tree in Hundred Acre Wood

A tree in Mirkwood

A tree in the Black Forest

A tree in the Congo

For all the ladies in my life, be they hippies, bohos, elves or fairies - a good girl deserves a good phone

89% battery and charging by the way 1989 (Taylor's Version) - Blank Space (Taylor's Version) - out soon!

Lock screen wallpaper: https://www.deviantart.com/alienhazeart/art/LNHZ-Daily-4K-Wallpaper-5-984939699

Home screen Wallpaper: https://pin.it/4y5X61e

[jnwakeling]

Tab A8

Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 - "rock solid - purrs like a kitten"

Now we can compare notes Internet.

The longest journey. This is my first ever android tablet, purchased a few days ago.

MS-DOS Microsoft Windows Redhat Linux, Linux Mint et al iPad iPhone Android phone Android tablet

Supercomputing with Jonathan N. Wakeling - laptop, desktop, handheld, wearable

Android: my flag and my tattoo Apple: my Nemesis Middle ground? Microsoft and Linux

Note: in this example (see screenshots) music and audio are not included. This is because I'm listening to tunes on my phone instead. My primary use of this device is for research and reading.

Thanks Samsung and Google. Online. At long last.

Blank Space? Samsung Galaxy A12. Microsoft Bing AI. DeepMind Gemini AI. Coffee on me Java.

[jnwakeling]

15 Steps to Freedom (Advanced Personal Empowerment – A.P.E.) by Jonathan N. Wakeling

For Geraldene Moyo nee Cockcroft/Roberts, David Ross Patient and Neil M. Orr

You only get out what you put in. If you do the exercises consciously and thoroughly, you’ll be empowered.

1. Honestly ask yourself the question "Who am I?"

2. Identify your dominant Coping Styles: Unworthy-Arrogant, Martyr-Impatient, Self Destruct-Greed, Given up-Stubborn Ref. Transforming Your Dragons: How to Turn Fear Patterns into Personal Power by José Stevens

3. Unfinished Business. Write the letters that matter to the people that matter in your life, even if they’ve passed away. Do not send the letters – delete or destroy them after the process. Draw up a living will. Get your accounts in order. And so on.

4. Overcoming Fears. Make a list of your fears. For each fear ask the question “What if?” Put yourself in the worst-case scenario and work practically through the situation until you’re able to reason with the fear and let it go. You can do this exercise by writing as well.

5. Lifeboat. The ship is sinking. Who gets a place on the lifeboat? Would you give yourself a vote?

6. Big Truth and small truth. Big Truth is reality as it is. small truth is your opinion or personal perspective of events. Know the difference. This is an empowering tool to help you widen your perceptions of things/events/reality.

7. Innerchild work/visualization and Anger Release. Find someone, specifically a therapist who can guide you through this exercise. Ref. Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child by John Bradshaw

8. Spiritual Contracts. Think about your contract with yourself at birth or your life contract with your higher self. It could be “I am loveable”, “I am trustworthy” or “I am a brave person” or anything like that framed in a positive affirmation. Write about how realisation of your contract changes who you are and what your life is about.

9. Passion for life. Find your True Work and True Play. What do you REALLY want to be doing with your life? Future pace: Imagine yourself ten years from now, what would you say to your younger self about how life has changed and where you are now (i.e. in your own future)

10. Ask yourself again “Who am I?” How is your response different at the end of this empowerment process?

11. Judgements. Every time you have a judgement like “I should work harder” or “Mom/Dad/husband/wife should/shouldn’t to this or that” and so forth. Write the judgement on a post-it and put it in your “Judgements Baggie” i.e. a paper bag. When you have a chance, take out one judgement at a time and do the “Bringing it Home” process. That is: How does the judgement make me feel? Where do I feel it in my body? Reframe the judgement into a positive affirmation: From I “should” to I “can” for example. How does the feeling shift? Thank the judgement and let it go. What is the higher lesson you’ve learnt from this judgement?

12. Lastly, have fun! Go for an astrology or tarot reading. Have a swim, go for a massage. Treat yourself. What is your comfort food? Spend time in nature. Learn pranic breathing. Spend five minutes meditating or doing yoga each day. Start a dream journal. Take an interest in your spiritual guides, ascended masters and spirit animals. Do music therapy or art therapy and so on.

13. Clearing. This is when you have to “get serious” with a person close to you, be it your spouse or a parent or someone special. Explain the Clearing Process to them and get an agreement to follow the rules. Say “Can I clear with you”. And if they say yes, say “What works for me about you is….” then “What doesn’t work for me about you is…” Then lastly say “Thank you for listening.” Then give them the chance to clear with you. Maybe spend some time alone afterwards, getting your personal feelings out the way.

14. Agreements. Get clear on the agreements you have in your life. Get clear on the agreements you have with people/organizations and so on. Get clear on the agreements you have broken in the past or present and the same with people who have broken agreements with you. Do damage control. Learn to only make “non-toxic” agreements and learn to keep the agreements you do make. Agree to honour your higher self or spirit – the greatest agreement you can make.

15. Blessing. Learn to bless people honestly and with an open heart and keep them in your prayers. Learn the power of prayer and blessings.

Namaste.

[jnwakeling]

It's just nice to have a voice in what happens to me. So I'm not at the dictate of my mother or her hired henchman, the psychiatrist. Me taking psychiatric medication is a purely Oedipal and recessive function of my relationship with the former generation and their draconian psychology, which I want nothing to do with. I was born free and don't listen to blackmail and manipulation from someone clearly on the wrong team vis-a-vis South Africa and the hidden Apartheid that continues to this day, Mandela's recessive gene and the South African Embassy to Zimbabwe. We should say Rhodesia! But we're not far wrong Barack Obama. The world is not necissarily the free one people in recent years have made it out to be. And in truth I could not defend myself in the Zimbabwean courts and also refuse my medication given a possible diagnosis of mental illness either way. There is a definite politic, which tales on to abuse, in that my family is hiding behind Facebook and letting ED pull the strings behind the facade of Mark Zukerberg (former Harvard student) and the Social Media Giant, Facebook: a network whose technology is dated and whose morals are highly questionable. (Though having said that, I count Zukerberg among my closest friends and allies, being the Deep Web Geek that I am) Regardless of the history of my own existence on planet earth, my own voice regarding ED and FB gets automatically drowned out by the population of the continent we live on and those who unwittingly sponsor Facebook by having accounts with that company/social network. The world has taken on a darker hue with the hypnosis and Thought Police of the moment with Governments happenchance declaring states of emergency - in a way they failed to two decades ago when faced with a darker devil: 9/11 and the Patriot Act. Us Deep Web Bots don't eat numbers America. X-Force - "Smoking the Competition" - care for a cigar Mr. President Donald J. Trump? Nicotine Kills! (PainteR, like Zukerberg is an Ally out on the open waters of the Bittorrent "social" Network - a beacon in the Deep Web) You would be wise to pay attention Zimbabwe, we don't take abuse ZOL, Utande, Samara, Mweb, YoAfrica, Mango, and any future ISPs you care to keep in the closet Truth and Reconciliation "Decommissioned" Nelson, Jabob Zuma et al. We're on the move in response, and intend to turn the world upside down to further our right to choose. Black September vs. Black People vs. The Absolute African K-Word. America and the Niger/Nigger Delta. Going nowhere slowly, slow boat to China, as policy lands us on the doorstep of a global catastrophe. I've run out of words for N-O FULL STOP, Thank You! What I choose to put in my body should, in a free society, be MY choice and not that of an abusive, manipulative and controlling "Mom." - today's catchall phrase for a pretty piece of Mary Jane aka Zol - Legalize it!! This is journalism, and I a journalist. Careful not to shoot the messenger, "Wakeling/Maasdorp" Ave, Alex Park, Harare.

From myself, a lone US Soldier, putting up at Big Tree Harare - In kindness and hope - The End.

P.S. in the words of Taylor Swift - "Sad and grossed out"

Photo: Home screen of my "40th Birthday Present" from my "Dad" - a Samsung Galaxy A20 - labeled South Africa. This is criminal "The" Hague, "The" Netherlands. RSVP humanity.

[jnwakeling]

"The Birth of Impressionism" from Impressionist Paintings in the Louvre by Germain Bazin

Impressionism was born from the meeting of two men with names so alike that at first they were often taken for one another: Monet and Manet. From the crossbreeding of their two methods was born modern painting. It would be hard to imagine two more different people. In their social positions they were far apart. Manet was a middle-class Parisian, son of a magistrate, whose horizons were the boulevards, and earth was the pavement. He never accepted the popular verdict that he was a rebel. He made up to the judges at the Salons, and managed in the end to get hold of the Legion of Honour, at a time when his comrades in the fight were still being treated as pariahs. After the Commune, in 1870, had burnt part of Paris, Manet was held in horror as a rebel and insurgent, and all that was revolutionary in art and literature was laid at his door. The disapproval of society changes this gentle-mannered person into an exasperated being. Monet, on the other hand, did not worry about being unpopular. In opinions he inclined to the Left, though he never went in actively for politics like Pissarro. He therefore felt no need of a middle-class audience whose support was so vital to Manet. What exasperated him (and not Manet who was well off) were the dreary problems of now to live. He was a man of the people. In his old age they called him the 'old man of Giverny'. The world of conventions which paralyses the bourgeois meant nothing to Monet. Poor and without resources he had to create everything, himself first of all. He did not fail, and followed the straight line of his destiny, while Manet, after 1870, made repeated attempts to please the judges. Monet had the frankness of an open-air man. Beside that sea which was the background picture to his whole life, he breathed in the great winds from childhood onwards, and often gazed at its restless waves which were for him a symbol of the infinite. Nothing could have seemed less likely than that these two painters should have belonged to the same school. Their attitudes towards the problem of the relations between art and nature, which was the great debate of the century, where totally different. Manet was blind to the world. Monet had eyes for nothing else.

[jnwakeling]

Fires of the Soul

View and share it from deviantArt here: http://fav.me/dd20zv1

About a year ago I had some hectic sessions in Photoshop. This stikes me as one of the orphaned children of that process. Never think where to go next with projects like these, or debating whether it’s polished enough to share.

I wanted to descibe in some way what I do in Photoshop - because it is only sometimes photography. The majority of my production is abstract digital art inspired by the organic patterns of nature.

I hope you like it. Something different anyway, and I haven’t submitted to the digital art category for a short while.

[jnwakeling]

This was my first deviation submitted to DeviantArt on September 2, 2013 and is called Sunny Pathway.

This painting was purchased by an artist friend I used to do nude modeling for before I became an artist in my own right. Modeled for money during my twenties in Cape Town and Harare

Oil painting, which this painting is, isn't a bad start to my online life as an artist and psychologist and the purchase gave me confidence to get online

View Sunny Pathway on DeviantArt here: http://fav.me/d6ncdlh

Medium: Oil on canvas pad Dimensions: 18" x 24" Date of completion: July 2013 Description: Impressionist oil painting from the imagination. A path leading through grassy hillsides, while the sun shines