#earthquake today sydney

[intertainmant]

Earthquake of 3.6-magnitude hits Blue Mountains area west of Sydney

[sparklestheunicorn]

Now I know how to be human is doing its thing, but I can't let Friday the 13th of September 2024 go by without acknowledging the book I wrote that started today. As a gift, here's the blurb:

The world started ending when Caroline Harper was fourteen. Ten years later, the world is still ending, and nothing much about her life has changed - apart from her place of residence and her job.

Now living in the city of Sydney, still waking with the sun to get to the offices of The Daily Chronicle on time, Caroline hasn't truly experienced an apocalyptic event in years. Until one Friday, after putting a few things about this unusual apocalypse together, when she finds herself in a crowd and a young woman named Natalia asks her for help. Then she can't seem to shake the apocalyptic events.

From earthquakes to fallen buildings, the apocalypse seems to be right behind her, and if she would just look closer, she would find out why.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.10 (before 1950)

474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. 937 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang. 1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia). 1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana. 1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed. 1599 – Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles were decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund and the related peasant revolt known as the Cudgel War. 1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. 1674 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England. 1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War. 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. 1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. 1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia. 1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse. 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes. 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". 1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910. 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. 1939 – Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more. 1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. 1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371. 1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). 1946 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.

[saffronsteelframes]

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How to Build a New House Easily | Radison Homes

What is the cost of building a house in Australia? There are numerous hidden fees and expenses that cannot be calculated into a single price. Here is a checklist of the costs you should include in your home construction budget so that you can properly organize your cash flow.

Consider each member's way of life.

A family home is all about housing multiple people under one roof. Consider what a dream home might look like for each family member. Do all members require their own rooms? Or do you prefer to be closer to your children and have more oversized bedrooms? Do you consider the kitchen to be the beating heart of the home? Do you require a garden, and how large do you desire it to be? How many members require dedicated work and study space? These are simple questions that may assist you in determining what you need for your ideal family home.

Create communal areas.

What good is a family home if you can't bond within its walls? While having separate rooms provides some privacy and supports each member's lifestyle, the need for a shared space cannot be overlooked.

Provide additional storage space.

A growing family almost always means more stuff in the house: more toys, tools, books, gifts, and other items. Consider how much extra stuff you have and plan for an organized storage space to make your home clutter-free.

Don't forget about the restroom.

It's nice to have more than one bathroom when you live with your family, especially if you have more than three members. Most houses nowadays have a family bathroom with a separate toilet and a master ensuite.

Invigorate your outdoor space.

Make the most of your outdoor space by creating an alfresco area where the entire family can bond over cups of juice, barbecue parties, and great conversations. You could also try having a safe and unobstructed garden with high-quality landscaping where children can play and adults can rest and exercise.

Allow for expansion.

When planning a family home, keep in mind how each member will grow and how their needs will change.

Have fun with the layout.

If you're building a custom home in Sydney or The Ponds for your family, you have the unique opportunity to communicate your desires and make them a reality. So don't sweat the small stuff and enjoy yourself.

Never, ever hinder the quality of your home.

Your home should be able to protect you from all types of threats, including thieves, severe storms, earthquakes, and fire, among others.

Radison Group is a reputable and affordable home builder in Sydney. We have completed projects such as modern, dependable family homes. We are the best builders in Sydney because our homes are not only beautiful but also long-lasting, so your family can live in them for many years.

To give you peace of mind throughout the process, we also provide a year's structural guarantee and 100% customer satisfaction. You'll never go wrong working with Radison because of our high-quality inclusions and excellent customer service.

Are you ready to build a beautiful, dependable custom home in Sydney for your family? Get in touch today!

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Two UNSW academics recognised as Fellows by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

Professor Nasser Khalili, an international leader in geotechnical engineering and Professor Xiaojing Hao, a global expert in solar cell technologies are among 27 academics elected today as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). ATSE President Hugh Bradlow said the new Fellows are shaping Australia’s technology-powered human-driven future. “Elected by their peers, ATSE Fellows are leaders in applied science, technology and engineering and we celebrate their exceptional professional contributions to Australian STEM innovation,” Professor Bradlow said. “While the 2022 new Fellows span multiple critical industries, we are pleased to welcome so many at the forefront of tackling climate change. They are creating better batteries to support renewable energy supplies, increasing efficiency and flexibility of solar cells and panels, and developing sustainable mining practices. “As we face the repeated effects of increased flooding events, they are shaping the way humanity monitors water quality, models marine environments for food and agriculture, advances water catchment policy, and develops best practices for dam and bridge construction.” Scientia Professor Nasser Khalili FTSE, Head of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW. Professor Nasser Khalili is an international leader in geotechnical engineering, computational geomechanics and unsaturated soil mechanics. His work encompasses roads, tunnels, mines, dams, earthquake engineering and groundwater projects. He has contributed to projects of national and international interest including the stability assessment of the Olympic Stadium site at Homebush Bay and the seismic hazard investigation for Sydney Airport’s third runway. Prof. Khalili currently oversees a project diverting 10,000 tonnes of paper and plastic waste into road construction, creating technical leadership in Australian recycling and reducing infrastructure costs. His assessment of Hume Dam helped determine the cause of increasing movement in the dam’s core-wall and the design of an effective solution. He says his top priorities as a Fellow will be to promote the quality of science, technology and engineering education at all levels, particularly among high school students and the broader community. Also, to engage industry, government and research leaders and infrastructure stakeholders to facilitate implementation of integrated science-based practical solutions to face the challenges facing Australia’s infrastructure. Professor Xiaojing Hao, FTSE, FAIP, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW. Professor Xiaojing Hao is a world expert in solar technology and has helped establish Australia’s global leadership in this field. She has set five world records for solar cell efficiency using thin film kesterite materials. More clean electricity can be generated by incorporating thin film cells into coatings for the sides of buildings or moulding them onto vehicles. Also, layering thin film cells onto silicon cells can generate 20 per cent more electricity from the same area. Prof. Hao led the development of numerous kinds of such thin film cell alternatives maximising the chances of success for next-gen solar cell technologies. Prof. Hao has previously won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science: Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year and the Australian Academy of Science’s Pawsey Medal. She says since entering the solar photovoltaic field 16 years ago, she’s been greatly inspired by how ATSE Fellows Scientia Profssor Martin Green, Dr Zhengrong Shi and Prof Thorsten Trupke have brought their silicon PV technologies from the lab to the factory floor. “I’m incredibly honoured to be elected as Fellow of ATSE. Taking on the global challenge of climate change, I hope to bring PV technology forward to make it more efficient, lower-cost, more flexible and more widely deployable.” Read more about the 2022 ATSE Fellows. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

[startledstars]

Always ask yourself

what they’re distracting you from

an actor punched a comedian on a stage. The event was literally staged to bring attention to the Oscars, a frivolous and irrelevant ritual for the ultra-wealthy oppressor class.

every major media outlet along with Tik tok, Twitter, YouTube, and all the rest are debating this staged event as if it were real. As if it has any bearing on reality.

Grown adults today are as gullible and emotionally mature as children. Easily deceived and manipulated to the point where I can’t understand how they function. I’m genuinely confused.

But there’s someone who needs to read this.

Please wake up.

The real stories are:

Bioweapon labs in Ukraine

Government corruption/collusion between the US and Ukriane

The list of side effects from the Pfizer jab, which includes facial paralysis and gene deletion

An alarming spike in deaths of Millennials following the vaccine mandates in 2021. These deaths can’t be attributed to covid or other issues.

An increase in seismic activity and other natural disasters. Sydney is flooded. Taal, a volcano near the major city Manila erupted. There was a 7.3 earthquake in Japan near the same region as the 2011 earthquake. This quake left millions of people without power. This YouTube channel and a few others document natural disasters. I’ve been monitoring them since fall 2021. 2022 is much worse and disasters seem to be escalating in size, quantity, and diversity. They’re everywhere all the time.

Food shortages are here and will get worse. Gas prices and inflation are climbing.

26 million people in China are being locked down under the pretense of Covid. This is another obvious abuse of power by a corrupt government.

This is the apocalypse. Prophecy is converging. Seek truth and save your soul. If you cling to the lies of this world, you will enter into the worst time in human history.

Soon, thousands or even millions of people will disappear off the face of the earth, fulfilling the most significant prophecy since Jesus died on the cross. His death and resurrection divided time into “before” and “after.” The coming event will also mark the end of an era.

If you’re reading this, you have the tools to be saved. Use them, or don’t. The choice is yours. Just know that time is short.

[starfire-s]

hope my mutuals from melbourne, sydney and tasmania are safe from the earthquake today!!!

[newstfionline]

Monday, August 16, 2021

U.S. Air Force veteran comforts children plagued by gun violence (Reuters) Like many cities across the United States, Washington has seen a spike in shooting-related deaths during the pandemic. Homicides were up 19% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. This month’s data shows that the city has already clocked more cases than at the same time last year. “It’s like a war zone. It’s like being in the military,” Jawanna Hardy said. Frustrated by the senseless loss of life, Hardy, an Air Force veteran and now a 34-year-old high school English teacher, launched ‘Guns Down Friday,’ an outreach program to support neighborhoods plagued by gun violence—including the one she has lived in since childhood. She has raised money for shooting victims’ gravestones, advocated for more streetlights, and trained people how to treat bullet wounds themselves. She drives her van—adorned with photos of young gun violence victims—through the streets to greet youngsters. On a recent Friday, she arrived with water balloons. “Put your guns down and pick your water balloons up!” Hardy cried through a megaphone as children outside an apartment complex in southeast Washington laughed and scrambled to drench one another. She knows her Friday night street parties will not stop gun violence but hopes they can at least provide children a brief respite from the constant fear in which many live.

Haitians scramble to rescue survivors from ruins of major quake (Reuters) Haitians labored overnight to pick through shattered buildings in search of friends and relatives trapped in the rubble after a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean country on Saturday, killing 1,297 people and injuring at least 5,700 more. The 7.2 magnitude quake flattened hundreds of homes in the impoverished country, which is still clawing its way back from another major temblor here 11 years ago, and has been without a head of state since the assassination of its president last month. Churches, hotels, hospitals and schools were badly damaged or destroyed, while the walls of a prison were rent open by the violent shudders that convulsed Haiti. Access to the worst-hit areas was complicated by a deterioration in law and order that has left key access roads in parts of Haiti in the hands of gangs, although unconfirmed reports on social media suggested they would let aid pass.

Want to stay long term in France? First come the classes on how to be French. (Washington Post) In France, la vie en rose comes wrapped in red tape. Foreigners hoping to stay here long term must sign an “integration contract” and agree to uphold French values. The contract requires four days of civic education, yet what’s taught is more akin to a government crash course in how to be French. There are discussions about Marianne—the symbolic embodiment of the French Republic—and about classical culinary dishes, such as duck confit and escargot. France 101 covers both the cultural (how to visit museums) as well as the practical (how to navigate the national health-care system). The classes, plus language lessons for anyone whose fluency doesn’t measure up, help determine whether an applicant gets a multiyear visa. Every year, an average of 100,000 people take the courses, in cities across the country. The contemporary agreement explicitly states that receiving an extended residency visa is conditional on abiding by its terms, a key one being deference to French values. After an applicant signs the document, the language test is administered and 24 hours of classes scheduled.

Taliban sweep into Afghan capital after government collapses (AP) The Taliban swept into Afghanistan’s capital Sunday after the government collapsed and the embattled president joined an exodus of his fellow citizens and foreigners, signaling the end of a costly two-decade U.S. campaign to remake the country. Heavily armed Taliban fighters fanned out across the capital, and several entered Kabul’s abandoned presidential palace. Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman and negotiator, told The Associated Press that the militants would hold talks in the coming days aimed at forming an “open, inclusive Islamic government.” Kabul was gripped by panic. Helicopters raced overhead throughout the day to evacuate personnel from the U.S. Embassy. Smoke rose near the compound as staff destroyed important documents, and the American flag was lowered. Several other Western missions also prepared to pull their people out. Fearful that the Taliban could reimpose the kind of brutal rule that all but eliminated women’s rights, Afghans rushed to leave the country, lining up at cash machines to withdraw their life savings. The desperately poor—who had left homes in the countryside for the presumed safety of the capital—remained in parks and open spaces throughout the city. Many people watched in disbelief as helicopters landed in the U.S. Embassy compound to take diplomats to a new outpost at the airport. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected comparisons to the U.S. pullout from Vietnam.

From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project (Washington Post) Twenty years ago, when the twin towers and the Pentagon were still smoldering, there was a sense among America’s warrior and diplomatic class that history was starting anew for the people of Afghanistan and much of the Muslim world. “For you and us, history starts today,” then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage told his Pakistani counterparts. Earlier this month, as the Taliban raced across Afghanistan, retired Lt. Col. Jason Dempsey, a two-time veteran of the war, stumbled across Armitage’s words. To Dempsey, the sentiment was “the most American thing I’ve ever heard” and emblematic of the hubris and ignorance that he and so many others brought to the losing war. “We assumed the rest of the world saw us as we saw ourselves,” he said. “And we believed that we could shape the world in our image using our guns and our money.” Both assumptions ignored Afghan culture, politics and history. Both, he said, were tragically wrong. Michèle Flournoy, one of the architects of President Barack Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan in 2010, said, “In retrospect, the United States and its allies got it really wrong from the very beginning. The bar was set based on our democratic ideals, not on what was sustainable or workable in an Afghan context.” Flournoy acknowledged in hindsight that the mistake was compounded across Republican and Democratic administrations, which continued with almost equal fervor to pursue goals that ran counter to decades—if not centuries—of the Afghan experience.

Afghanistan’s collapse leaves allies questioning U.S. resolve on other fronts (Washington Post) The Taliban's stunningly swift advances across Afghanistan have sparked global alarm, reviving doubts about the credibility of U.S. foreign policy promises and drawing harsh criticisms even from some of the United States' closest allies. And many around the world are wondering whether they could rely on the United States to fulfill long-standing security commitments stretching from Europe to East Asia. "Whatever happened to 'America is back'?" said Tobias Ellwood, who chairs the Defense Committee in the British Parliament. "People are bewildered that after two decades of this big, high-tech power intervening, they are withdrawing and effectively handing the country back to the people we went in to defeat," Ellwood said. "This is the irony. How can you say America is back when we're being defeated by an insurgency armed with no more than [rocket-propelled grenades], land mines and AK-47s?" As much as its military capabilities, the United States' decades-old role as a defender of democracies and freedoms is again in jeopardy, said Rory Stewart, who was Britain's minister for international development in the Conservative government of Theresa May. "The Western democracy that seemed to be the inspiration for the world, the beacon for the world, is turning its back," Stewart said. Rivals of the United States also have expressed dismay. Among them is China, which fears that the ascent of an extremist Islamist government on its western border will foster unrest in the adjoining province of Xinjiang, where Beijing has waged sweeping crackdowns on the Uyghur population that have been denounced by the West. The United States' Arab allies, which have long counted on the U.S. military to come to their aid in the event of an attack by Iran, also have faced questions over whether they will be able to rely on the United States.

Torrential rains lash wide areas of Japan, three feared dead after landslide (Reuters) Torrential rain lashed much of Japan on Sunday, flooding roads and buildings in the western part of the country, while three people were feared dead after a landslide in central Nagano prefecture. Large parts of Japan, particularly the southernmost main island of Kyushu, have seen record levels of rainfall, causing rivers to overflow and triggering landslides. While the rain had stopped in much of Kyushu as of Sunday morning, Tokyo and other parts of the country were pounded by the downpour. Japan “will continue to face conditions in which a large-scale disaster could occur at anytime, anywhere,” Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said at a ministerial meeting on Sunday. He called on local municipalities and relevant organisations to cooperate and act with speed on rescue missions and aid.

More military personnel deployed to enforce Sydney Covid restrictions as entire state locks down (CNN) Additional Australian military personnel will be deployed to enforce tighter Covid-19 restrictions in the greater Sydney area next week, authorities announced Saturday, as the entire state of New South Wales (NSW) prepares to go under lockdown. Stay at home orders will be applied across the country’s most populous state, with people only permitted to leave home to shop for essentials, receive medical care, outdoor exercise with one other person, and work if residents cannot work from home. Schooling will also be moved back online. Sydney, the capital of NSW, has been under lockdown measures for more than seven weeks now, and they will likely be extended further; they were set to end on August 28 but the state government has indicated restrictions will remain through September.

Fuel explosion in Lebanon kills 28, wounding dozens (AP) A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored exploded in northern Lebanon early Sunday, killing at least 28 people and injuring 79 more in the latest tragedy to hit the Mediterranean country in the throes of a devastating economic and political crisis. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion near the border with Syria. Fuel smuggling operations have been ongoing for months. The Lebanese Red Cross said a fuel tanker exploded and its teams recovered 28 bodies from the site in the border village of Tleil. In a statement, it said it evacuated 79 people who were injured or suffered burns in the blast. Hours after the blast, Lebanese Red Cross members were still searching the area for more victims as Lebanese soldiers cordoned the area.

'Once the best in the Middle East,' Beirut hospital pleads for fuel as it faces shutdown (The Week) A once-famed Beirut hospital is now pleading for international aid to avoid running out of essential resources. The American University of Beirut Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon, is making an urgent appeal to the United Nations and its specialized agencies, the World Health Organization and the U.N. Children's Fund, to supply the hospital with fuel before it's forced to shut down by Monday. Lebanon is mired in an economic and political crisis, and the nationwide fuel shortage is currently the most dire consequence. That's perhaps most clearly reflected in the plight of AUBMC, which said 40 adults and 15 children living on respirators would die immediately and many other patients will be at great risk if the shutdown is not avoided. The medical center said it's been rationing fuel and electricity for weeks, but is running out of both. Liz Sly, The Washington Post's Beirut bureau chief, notes that the American University hospital "was once the best" in the entire Middle East region; the announcement shows that the country is "truly heading to disaster," she writes.

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Urgent info before it gets removed sent via Sean Ferris today

This is very important, so please take a moment to read so you know what has been happening behind the scenes!!!!! Evidently monies to fund the child trafficking tunnels came from US Taxpayers through the Cabal-owned IRS/Federal Reserve System. An inside source said, “They spent trillions of dollars on these tunnels… that’s where the trillions of dollars that have been missing from the 9-11 building that they took down.” READ BELOW!!!!

Since April 2019 in secret military operations, thousands of tortured, mutilated babies, children and teens have been rescued or found deceased by the US Military. US Special Operations teams directed by President Trump and his Pentagon Pedophile Task Force have been clearing out the children, corpses, gold, cash and documents from a massive labyrinthine of DUMBS tunnels (Deep Underground Military Bases) that ran beneath the US, Canada and Mexico.

Evidently over centuries the tunnels had been built and used by members of the Illuminati, better known as the Cabal, or Deep State. Global, political and Hollywood elites into Satan worship were known to pay big bucks to drink the blood of a traumatized child (known as Adrenachrome) – reported to create a “high,” along with a supposed reverse of aging. Although, if their “supply” was cut off, the partaker suffered greatly and could even die.

The Pentagon was making sure that supply was never harvested as evidently it had been for centuries. Back in April 2019 the US Military, Interpol and different countries’ local military forces began a concentrated and coordinated effort to rescue children from a huge tunnel network that ran throughout the US from California to New York, to Canada, Mexico, Europe, Italy (the Vatican and Venice), the Hague, New Zealand, South America and the Middle East (Lebanon). Some of the tunnels lay beneath the Vatican, with many reported to be several stories deep – like the one beneath the Denver Airport.

By April 2020 a total of over 50,000 malnourished, caged and tortured children had been reported as rescued or found deceased in the tunnels beneath large US cities including one under New York Central Park. Another tunnel was said to run from the Clinton Foundation building to the New York Harbor.

The latest horror was uncovered around August 20, 2020 beneath Reno Nevada where thousands of mangled recently deceased corpses of children were discovered. The child captives were believed to have been kidnapped or bred for purposes of sexual abuse, human experimentation and human sacrifice in Satanic rites.

On Wed. Oct. 16 2019 an unbelievable 2,100 children being held in cages in underground tunnels at the California China Lake Military facility were rescued by Navy Seals and US Marines. The children and teens were said to have been sexually abused, tortured and killed to collect their blood. Marines carried out traumatized children, some of whom have never seen the light of day, pregnant preteens, deformed babies, piles of little corpses whose bodies were apparently used for organ harvesting, children locked in cages, electro-shocked and traumatized in order to harvest their blood – Adrenachrome for the elites to drink.

“In Nevada the child rescue operations moved in earnest… what was amazing is that everyone was thinking Las Vegas would be the horror show of horror shows… there was a horror show but it was Reno… underneath Reno they could not believe the tunnels underneath the ground... the DUMBs… the bulk of the children found in the tunnels under Reno were dead… not only dead folks, they were mangled… they’re trying to do DNA testing to get the pieces back in order… which piece belongs to which other torso… it’s horrific” commented Dr. Charles Ward, who has been in a couple of the tunnels.

A trooper involved in rescue operations said, “On 4 July 2019 at 2 am PDT we surprised personnel at the China Lake Naval Research Base in California. We took over the base and rescued approximately 3,000 children being tortured in ways beyond comprehension. . .The count now of traumatized children (found dead or alive) was more like in the hundreds of thousands – generations who had never seen sunlight.”

Another trooper in rescue efforts reported, “Underground bases trafficking children were destroyed back in 2019. That included a base that was under the Getty Museum. The more recent Utah March 18 2020 earthquake was actually destruction of child trafficking tunnels (under the old Dugway Utah Germ Warfare base also referred to as another Area 51 UFO Base). There was a major battle under the Denver airport. The Illuminati had planned to make Denver the capital of the US after they took over and killed most of us.”

There was a tunnel system that circled Australia and centered in Melbourne. The military made a massive raid in tunnels beneath the Black Forest in Germany. In Barcelona Spain they rescued over 2,000 women and children, while arresting 13 of their pedophile leaders. There were 30,000 pedophiles arrested out of Germany, and “lots” were arrested in Spain and England.

Charlie Freak - about Australia said that the troops went into Melbourne and found a second layer of tunnels beneath an enormous tunnel system in Australia. “It started in Sydney… they described it to us… think arachnid… it’s a web… and it was below… so this second tunnel system goes in a ring around Australia, with a big central line running towards Ayers Rock…One night - 9 p.m. to 6 or 7 a.m. - there were explosions every 2 or 3 seconds that entire time. That’s why there were police out there.”

US Military, Marines, Navy Seals and Special Ops trained for over a year for the special missions under direction of President Trump and the Pentagon Pedophile Task Force. These US Special Forces were working with Interpol and various countries’ militaries to clear out the underground tunnels filled with trafficked children and women. They then blew the tunnels up so they can never be used again for any purpose. The small nuclear explosives used caused small earthquakes in the region.

Evidently monies to fund the tunnels came from US Taxpayers through the Cabal-owned IRS/Federal Reserve System. An inside source said, “They spent trillions of dollars on these tunnels… that’s where the trillions of dollars that have been missing from the 9-11 building that they took down.”

The operation was ongoing as they discovered even more tunnels deeply buried beneath the earth. Dr. Charles Ward said: “The rescue operations were taking longer than The Alliance thought because the massive labyrinthine illuminati tunnel systems were more vast than anyone had any idea of.

“They collapsed tunnels in Lebanon,” Ward said. “There was a considerable amount of tunnels under a building there that exploded. I’ve learned an awful lot about these tunnels and I have actually been inside some of these tunnels in my work because they store a huge amount of gold and cash in these tunnels. The ones I’ve been in were 200 Meters below ground level. .. the width of the tunnels would be 30/40 feet, the height would be 15/20 feet, there was electric golf buggies riding around down there like it was a main road; 40 km, 30 km of roads down there, shops down there, living quarters down there, storage facilities, safes, everything down there, and this was in just the two that I’ve visited. . . I think the process has been, from what I understand, once they’ve removed the women and children that were stored down there, they were removing the tunnels so nothing can be ever done there again.”

Ward has personally has been inside two DUMBs that were crammed with cash, gold and valuables. He was part of a team that was moving gold, cash and valuables around the world for the United States Government to back a revaluation of currencies in a Global Currency reset about to take place.

Dr. Ward related that in March 2020 during the child rescue mission at the Vatican they arrested the Pope. Some of Ward’s Security Team watched the arrest. He said that 650 plane loads of gold, cash and documents were flown out of the Vatican to Fort Knox. He regularly used specially trained teams to move money and his teams had been hired to clear out the Vatican of its stolen treasure.

“I don’t think normal people have any idea or any concept as to how many children disappear every single year…And I'm going to sicken you right now. People that we trusted, organizations that we trusted during times of tragedy were involved, such as Hurricane Katrina where lots of people went missing. They were basically stolen by organizations that we trust to look after us in a time of trouble. Those kids were trafficked.

“That’s pretty damn disgusting… In times of war… the wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, the amount of children that were stolen from those countries is unbelievable. So that the families think that they’ve died and they haven’t. They’ve been stolen… and this is a world that, don’t take my word for it, go and do some homework, because it’s absolutely disgusting

“And you’ll start to wake-up to what Donald Trump is actually doing when he’s draining the swamp…I don’t think… a lot of people have any idea how dirty that swamp is…how contaminated it is…and when you wake up to what he’s actually doing…It doesn’t matter if he has funny hair, it doesn’t matter if he does funny tweets. If he gets rid of one pedophile gang, saves one woman and a child from being trafficked, he’s doing a good job. He���s saved thousands and thousands of children and families, yet there’s NOTHING, NOTHING in the mainstream media. They should be ashamed of themselves, totally ashamed. It’s disgusting.”

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Maritime Lebanese community reacts to tragic Beirut explosion

Members of the Lebanese community in the Maritimes spent Tuesday and Wednesday desperately reaching out to family and friends in Beirut, praying to find them safe.

On Tuesday, an explosion ripped through the city – killing over 100 people, injuring more than 5,000 and leaving countless others homeless. The blast was so powerful that it obliterated windows at the city's international airport – nine kilometres away. Additionally, seismologists have measured the explosion as the equivalent of a 3.3 magnitude earthquake.

In Nova Scotia, the Lebanese community has deep roots, dating back to the arrivals of the first immigrants from the country in the mid-1880s. The majority of people in the community today still have family and friends in Lebanon.

Elsy Makhlouf moved to Halifax in 2015 to attend university as an international student. In 2019, her parents and brother moved from Beirut to join her. However, she has grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and friends who still live and work in Beirut.

Upon hearing news of the explosion on Tuesday, Makhlouf frantically began making calls and sending messages to her relatives. She was relieved once she contacted all of her family members and discovered no one in her immediate circle was hurt. However, a man who was once her neighbour died in the blast.

“I spent the whole day crying,” says Makhlouf. “I called my clients today and said ‘I can’t work today; it’s a day off, a day to mourn.’”

“[It’s] a day to light up candles, to pray for Lebanon – that’s what we should do today,” adds Makhlouf.

More Maritimers React

Stephanie Mirad is a Lebanese Canadian living in Halifax. She says the events in Beirut have left her feeling fear, sadness, anger, disappointment all at once – to the point of becoming numb.

“It's very difficult to see your home on fire when you're so far, and you can't really do anything about it,” says Mirad.

Mirads sentiments reflect how many Lebanese Canadians in the Maritimes feel concerning the tragic event.

For Ray and Hassan Kasseen in Sydney, N.S., hearing information coming out of Lebanon has been heartbreaking.

“We've head of people we know that have passed away; we've heard of people that are missing,” says Ray. “Nobody from my family was hurt, but everybody back home is family – people are family.”

“It's so hard to think with what is happening,” says Hassan. “You want to be there to help out – it's quite hard.”

In Saint John, Alex Harram is fearful of what will happen next.

“The last thing the Lebanese people, or Lebanon, needs is this,” says Harram. “They've already been living [through] terrible times the last couple of years, and this is unexpected.”

Nova Scotia Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab says Lebanon is a small country geographically, and it's likely everybody there has a loved one affected by the tragedy.

Nova Scotians understand what its like to be hurt; they understand what it's like to feel sorrow and pain,” says Diab. “But, they’re resilient, as Lebanese people are, and they understand that you’ve got to pull together.”

A Time For Action and Prayer

Diab notes Maritimers are looking to help in any way they can.

“We will figure that out,” says Diab. “I think, right now, we're in the stages of what’s happening and where we're at and what we can do.”

At Saint Antonios Antiochian Orthodox Church, Father Maximos Saikali has been praying for Beirut, its citizens, and the country.

“For 15 kilometres, there was destruction,” says Saikali. “I have my in-laws about two kilometres from the explosion, and their homes were shattered.”

Saikali says he has been hearing from many people inside and outside the Lebanese community who want to help. The church had already been raising money to help provide medical supplies and aid in the country, which has been facing economic collapse and struggling under the strain of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he says those efforts will focus on doing the same for the people of Beirut.

“Children, adults, all – they want to help,” says Saikali. “This is the beauty of the community.”

For parishioner Affaf El-Jakl, the explosion has compounded the struggle for a city that was already in a state of duress.

“Not only were we dealing with political, economic, and social hardships,” says El-Jakl. “This is just too much.”

El-Jakl says Lebanon needed help from the international community even before the explosion.

“I think it’s time for the global community to stand up for Lebanon, and see what can be done to help this amazing country, that’s not even the size of Nova Scotia,” says El-Jakl.

And others agree.

“We know that they are strong people,” says Makhlouf. “But it’s time to act, we can’t stay quiet.”

Meanwhile, Father Saikali has written a letter to the federal government, urging Ottawa to provide aid to Lebanon in the aftermath of the explosion – with the world focused on a city that will need to be rebuilt.

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Events 11.10

474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. 937 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang. 1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia). 1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana. 1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed. 1599 – Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen gentries who opposed Duke Charles were decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the power struggle between King Sigismund and Duke Charles and the related peasant revolt known as the Cudgel War. 1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. 1674 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England. 1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War. 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. 1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. 1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia. 1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse. 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes. 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".[3] 1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910. 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. 1939 – Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more. 1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. 1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371. 1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). 1946 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people. 1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia. 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston. 1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street. 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia. 1970 – Luna 17: unmanned space mission launched by the Soviet Union. 1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft. 1971 – A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board. 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro. 1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. 1975 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism. 1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history. 1983 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0. 1989 – Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov. 1989 – Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces. 1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). 2002 – Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November. The strongest tornado, an F4, hits Van Wert, Ohio, during the early to mid afternoon and destroys a movie theater, which had been evacuated. 2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo. 2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor. 2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost. 2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. 2019 – President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military. 2020 – Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and prompting protests in Armenia.

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A British Royal Navy officer named parliamentarian Wauchope is attributable to making the time ball, a creative|an imaginative|an artless|an explicit} Victorian-era contrivance that inspired New York’s New Year’s Eve ball drop. When the ultimate hours of 2019 arrive, 1,000,000 celebrants can crowd Times Square in the big apple.  Elsewhere, Associate in Nursing calculable billion additional can tune-up to observe the annual spectacle celebrated across the world. As the decade reaches its last sixty seconds, all attention can specialize in a falling metropolis crystal-encrusted, five-tonne ball flashing with over thirty,000 LEDs.  once it reaches the lowest of a specially designed flagpole, Champagne corks can pop. there'll be cheers, toasts, and kisses as celebrants embrace the promise of a brand new year. A Victorian invention impressed Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball drop But few can acknowledge the person United Nations agency very deserves their praise, a deeply non-secular British Royal Navy officer named parliamentarian Wauchope. Wauchope is attributable to making the time ball, a resourceful|an imaginative|an artless|an explicit} Victorian-era device that inspired the days sq.  blowout. It’s uncertain that the person United Nations agency titled his life story “A Short Narrative of God's Merciful Dealings” would appreciate the affiliation. The invention was impressed by navigation, not intoxication. You Need To Know This Also - American governor Says Monsey stabbing: Attack was an act of terrorism The Story Behind Of This Word Dude Hillary Clinton Responds To President Donald Trump Pewdiepie Has Announced That He Left Youtubing Till Next Year Wauchope’s goal was to create shipping safer. within the early nineteenth century, having the precise time was crucial information for mariners.  it had been solely by keeping a ship’s clock exactly graduated that sailors may calculate their great circle and accurately travel across oceans. His ball, 1st incontestible in Portsmouth, England, in 1829, was a crude broadcast system, the simplest way to relay time to anyone United Nations agency may see the signal. Typically, at 12:55, a creaky piece of machinery would raise an outsized painted orb halfway to the highest of a pole or flagstaff; at 12:58, it might proceed to the top; and exactly at 13:00, an employee would unleash it to sink the pole. “It may be a clear signal,” same Andrew Jacob, a keeper WHO operates the time ball at the state capital Observatory in Australia. “It’s straightforward to visualize the explosive movement because it begins to drop.” Before the time ball’s invention, a ship’s master would generally return toward land ANd physically visit an observatory to examine his watch against a politician clock. Then he would quite virtually bring time back to the ship. Wauchope’s invention let sailors calibrate their sea measuring system, known as a clock, while not deed their boat. “We’re thus accustomed present here and accessible, which wasn’t invariably the case,” same Emily Akkermans, WHO has the desirable title, keeper of your time, at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. The repository and historic website home the world’s oldest operative time ball, that since 1833 has born daily, ejection blustery weather, war or mechanical breakdown. The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, homes the world’s oldest in operation time ball Although midday may appear a lot of fitting time for a symbol, that was once an hour for observatory astronomers World Health Organization were chasing the sun’s position at noontide to line their own clocks.  Waiting associate hour, till 13:00, tested to be abundant less agitated. Greenwich’s ball impressed tons of a lot of rounds the world, from Jamaica to Japan.  The devices were usually set at a part close to a port, atop associate observatory, pharos or tower. And for slightly below a century, these time-signaling devices flourished. The idea even took off upcountry. “It wasn’t all for navigation,” Akkermans aforementioned.  “Some time balls were operated by shopkeepers World Health Organization were marketing watches to the general public.” In Barbados, a 09:00 ball drop signaled the beginning of sophistication to students across the island, she said, citing an 1888 article in Illustrated London News. But today, there square measure solely a number of places to ascertain a time ball operationally. Eighty miles from borough, over again ball drops often within the coastal city of Deal, close to the spot wherever English people Channel meets the North Sea.  it had been the primary tower coupled to the borough by electrical line permitting it to relay the official Observatory time to mariners, though today it depends on a symbol from British people timekeeper.  From April through Sep, the ball drops hourly from 09:00 to 17:00. And it too marks New Year’s with a special time of day performance on thirty-one Dec. Jeremy Davies-Webb, chairman of the Deal depository Trust, says he is aware of 4 alternative operating time balls apart from the borough, Deal, and Sydney, though on any given day it’s doable they won’t be operational because of atmospheric condition or breakdown. The time ball at Lord Nelson Monument allowed sailors to line their chronometers from a distance The other area unit in Edinburgh, Melbourne, urban center and urban center. He’s visited nigh Melbourne’s and is especially keen on the one in Poland, that punctuates its drop with a fanfare of trumpets. “We wished to try and do that, however, our neighbors would complain bitterly,” he said. Anna Rolls, the custodian of the Clockmakers' depository in London, worked with Greenwich’s time ball for many years. “It’s such AN odd-looking issue,” she admitted, AN elaborate mechanism that gives “something thus simply getable today”.  nonetheless, it’s specifically that, she suspects, that accounts for its attractiveness. Indeed, every operating time ball has its own mental object. Greenwich’s ball, that measures someone.5m in diameter and is created of Al, is roofed indents, the results of a misunderstanding.  In 1958, workers, apparently unaware that the ball had been taken down for a brief renovation, were seen kicking it around the observatory curtilage in an off-the-cuff game of soccer. In the European country, the ball drop from Admiral Nelson Monument is overshadowed by the One o’Clock Gun, which fires from capital Castle.  The gun was additionally meant to convey the time to ships however is a smaller amount correct than a time ball as a result of sound travels at a comparatively slow at one,235km/hour, which means that many seconds may pass before a Jack-tar detected the volley. In the Melbourne residential district of town, the time ball tower has bounced through varied roles.  The sq. sandstone beacon at purpose Gellibrand opened in 1849, simply in time for the city’s gold rush, however, a decade later was born-again to a time ball tower.  In 1926, the keeper, United Nations agency had dutifully born the ball for thirty-seven years, died, and with no complaints regarding the interruption of service, the time ball was retired, consistent with the preservation cluster Lighthouses of Australia.  additional recently, native charities have restored the machinery and also the ball currently once more drops daily. In Lyttelton, New Seeland, the time ball tower folded when the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. however, a drive helped reconstruct the handsome stone heritage structure, that resumed drops in Gregorian calendar month 2018. And it’s same that German troopers in 1939 claimed the higher floors of the port tower, wherever they put in a machine gun battery and discharged the primary shots of war 2. Other non-functioning balls still high buildings across the world, from the city district of the metropolis to the United States of America military service Observatory in Washington, DC. Collect From - BBC News

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How Astrologers Think

Times have changed! How do astrologers think today? Not much differently than they've always thought. But they could be better understood. Learn more ....

Russians think of their country as Aquarius ruled, according to Johnson's "Russia List". Johnson's List is a daily e-mail newsletter with information and analysis about contemporary Russia from a wide range of sources. Maybe this is why they are so open to astrology. Aquarius is also the ruling sign for astrologers.

I was reading about some predictions Russian astrologers were making for the year 2002 in an article written at that time by Kevin O'Flynn for Johnson's "Russia List" entitled "Stars Aren't Smiling Down on 2002".

O'Flynn, who quotes Russian astrologers like Yury Longo, Sergei Bezborodny and Alexander Zarayev, doesn't seem to put much store in astrological predictions himself but he notes that "even several current and former Russian and U.S. leaders and their wives have shown an interest in astrological predictions". I don't know what Russian leaders he's referring to but it is thought that President and Mrs. Reagan consulted astrologers like Sydney Omar, Jeanne Dixon and Joan Quigley.

The comment that caught my attention in the article, however, was this:

"Perhaps the most pessimistic of the astrologers doing the rounds in the Russian media was Alexander Zarayev. He predicted in "Argumenty i Fakty" that Russia would see a bumpy ride between February 28 and March 12 and an even worse time after July 27, with problems in the Middle East and other hot spots. It will be similar to the [ruble] default in 1998," said Zarayev, who, like many astrologers, was short on details [emphasis mine].

Many writers who cover astrology interviews and predictions don't understand or like astrology and cover it with thinly veiled ridicule.

There is a reason astrologers are "short on details" and that is what I would like to explain in this article. It has to do with the way our predictions are made and the way we think.

Astrologers don't associate events by cause and effect. They associate them by analogy, much as poets do.

There are two reasons they use analogy. First, we are trying to explain things that are difficult to put into words, like poets. The poet says,"my love is like a red, red rose" because it is hard to put into words what an intangible thing, feeling or experience like love is without comparing it to something tangible, of rare beauty and ecstatic fragrance, like, for example, a rose.

Secondly, we are arriving at our conclusions by connecting dots that are invisible to the untrained eye but which exist in our formulas and calculations and lead us to our conclusions without physical evidence. This is why backing up some of our statements is difficult. We know two things are associated through time and space but we ourselves are not exactly certain what they will look like on the manifest earth plane. That is why the Russian astrologer said, "It will be similar to the [ruble] default in 1998."

If I might qualify Zarayev's statement, which he himself was not allowed to do in this once-removed report of his prediction, I would suggest that the events he describes are "similar" in gravity and scope, but also perhaps in "tone" and "texture" to the ruble default.

Here's an example from something you may be more familiar with. I could say that 911 was similar to the Great Fire of London in 1666 and to the Galveston Flood in 1900 (the deadliest natural disaster that the United States has ever experienced) or the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 in scope because these are all catastrophic events of almost unimaginable proportions. But 911 is more similar in tone to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the Viking raid on the Lindisfarne Monastery in Great Britain in 793 because although these events were catastrophic disasters they were also surprise attacks by foreign enemies on home soil. My site cancer horoscope

Here's an example of how this kind of reasoning is carried out in event forecasting. Suppose I see that Saturn is going to pass over your Moon in your fourth house. Astrology is a language. It is a way of describing energy. Now we try to come up with some events that are probable, given what we know about this energy. In some cases, we take the nature of the person we're reading for into account -- he could be an 80 year old man or she could be a 26 year old girl -- and also what we know of their character and life events from information we request ahead of time.

Here are some of the images that are suggested by this combination of energy, Saturn + Moon + 4th house:

-- someone goes on an archaeology dig

-- someone's parent becomes very ill

-- someone breaks their leg and is laid up in the house for awhile, on the ground floor for convenience

-- someone gets some long lost information about their ancestors for their genealogy project

-- someone gets locked down in the basement by mistake or on purpose

-- someone becomes a grandparent for the first time

-- someone contacts the cemetery to find out about burial plots

-- someone is digging in their backyard (in Chicago!) and finds a dinosaur bone

-- a very old tree falls on someone's house

As a matter of fact, if you can "connect the dots" and have a feel for what it is these items could have in common, you are in line to be a good astrologer.

I'll help you.

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Heres how Microsoft is bringing more options to Australia and New Zealand Microsoft Australia News Centre

“The Cloud” plays an increasingly significant role in our lives – enabling remote work and learning, global collaboration, business continuity, supporting discovery and innovation, and importantly, powering critical life and safety services. Today we’re outlining additional cloud infrastructure investments Microsoft is making to ensure organisations of all sizes in Australia and New Zealand can continue to transform their business operations and accelerate the pace of innovation. This includes upcoming availability of Azure Availability Zones (AZs) in our Australia Southeast (Melbourne) and New Zealand North (Auckland) datacenter regions, to support additional services and higher reliability. Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure spans 60+ datacenter regions across the globe, connected by over 280,000 kilometres of optical fibre, and built to deliver on our customers’ stringent expectations of security, data residency, reliability, and sustainability. In Australia and NZ, Microsoft operates datacenter regions in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra today, with a new datacenter region coming soon to Auckland, NZ. This geographic separation of infrastructure is a key requirement for many organisations to meet disaster recovery objectives for critical infrastructure. However, multi-regional architectures can be challenging and are often reserved for only the most critical workloads. Azure Availability Zones make multi-regional architecture much easier by providing infrastructure redundancy within a datacenter region. In 2020 we launched this capability in our Australia East (Sydney) datacenter region, giving customers the ability to distribute cloud resources across three physically separate locations around the Sydney metropolitan area. This helps organisations better protect their applications and data from infrastructure risks, ranging from technical software issues, hardware failures and natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, and fires. By expanding our AZ capabilities to our Australia Southeast (Melbourne) and upcoming NZ Central (Auckland) regions, customers will have multiple low latency and high resiliency cloud locations, and more choices for managing their workloads in the Microsoft Cloud. The Australia Southeast region has grown significantly since launching in 2014, and now encompasses multiple data centres across metropolitan Melbourne. Customers’ workloads are already protected from unexpected downtime or data loss through comprehensive Azure Backup services, Premium storage (99.9% uptime SLA), Availability Sets (99.95% uptime SLA) and region failover options. Azure Availability Zones will further enhance this resilience by offering an industry leading 99.99% financially backed uptime guarantee. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine