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Amiga Christine Russell, part time Key Wester, wrote yesterday:

Sloan,

You may or may not know that for many many years I have attended meetings and followed the progress, or non-progress of the Waterfront Park. I do not refer to it as the Truman Waterfront Park - that is a name the Spottswood’s plan gave the park, I believe it is OUR park not Truman’s - I would prefer a name like The People’s Park or something other than TWP - just my preference.

I was talking with a TWAB (Truman Waterfront Advisory Board) member this morning and they mentioned to me we should be asking each and every candidate at the next forum about their feelings about TWAB remaining in place, their thoughts on the $60M price tag, and also if this park master plan is what the community asked for and has the components they liked and provided input at all the charrettes and meetings over the years. Sadly I told this TWAB member the forums are over and we have no opportunity to get this important input from the Commission candidates.

I don’t know who is on your blog email list Sloan, but if the 6 people running for Commission seats get your emails - maybe they would respond and let know where they stand on the park! It’s very important info that should have been asked before this, I am not aware it has been specifically asked point blank of EACH CANDIDATE.

Christine
ps. Give my greetings and best to Kari. I think of her often.

I replied:

Morning, Christine -

Given my view that TWAB’s $60,000,000 park design is madness, I’m probably not the best choice for your idea. Truman Waterfront was specifically addressed by city commission candidate Sam Kaufman at Hometown PAC’s forum in Tropic Cinema about 2 weeks ago. Sam said the city had far more important things to try to take care of and spend money on, starting with affordable housing.

Riding my bicycle in from KOTS this morning, I found myself thinking again after reading your email yesterday afternoon, that the new park’s design and $60,000,000 price tag should be called The Truman Folly, or The Cuckoo’s Nest, and TWAB members all should spend a month sleeping nights at KOTS and eating daily at the soup kitchen in hope that will bring them back down to earth and in touch with reality, and if that didn’t fix their madness, then they do a year in a secure insane asylum, if such is available, and if not, in the county jail. I thought the same prescription should be applied to the mayor and city commissioners for turning Truman Waterfront over to TWAB and then letting TWAB behave like lunatics.

Maybe if all of the aforesaid end up in the jail, Kari will be assigned to tutor them in reality, of which she is getting major doses, and, awful as it is going for in there for her, she is why she is in there, now for the third time, arising out of the same original charges, the 2nd and 3rd times in jail for violating her probation by drinking. Kinda ironic, given Key West is the booze guzzling capitol, and capital, of the universe. Maybe that explains TWAB’s madness: too much booze and/or marijuana, cocaine, crack, spice, oxycodone, meth, ecstasy, whatever? Arnaud and Naja Girard several times told me just about everyone they know in Key West uses illegal drugs.

Ciao,
Sloan

P.S. I don’t know who all reads my blog, I could provide perhaps a dozen names, who probably are regular readers known to me. The only candidate for office in the city elections known to me, who reads my blog, usually, is Tom Milone, who is running for the utility board. I wish he was on the city commission.

[Note: My friends Arnaud and Naja Girard, below, publish Key West the Newspaper (thebluepaper.com) online each Friday; they tend to rock the boat a good bit more than it likes to be rocked. I’ve spent a lot of time talking with them for a number of years. They sometimes drink wine, I think maybe Arnaud sometimes likes a whiskey; I have never seen them use any other drugs.]

Since I obviously ain’t in the greatest of moods today, I need a little pepping up. So, here’s something from vicious van dweller criminal amiga Victor, which he dropped into my Facebook timeline yesterday:

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Incredible Photographs Of The Shaman Gathering In Siberia

These stunning images show shamans from around the world performing a number of dramatic rituals in a remote part of the Siberian mountains. Spiritual leaders from…

THE-OPEN-MIND.COM

These stunning images show shamans from around the world performing a number of dramatic rituals in a remote part of the Siberian mountains.

Spiritual leaders from different corners of the globe gathered for the ‘Call of 13 Shamans’, a four-day festival held near the village of Khorum-Dag in the Tyva Republic.

It is the centre point of the Asian continent and an area that is said to have high spiritual ‘charge’. This festival coincides with natural cosmic cycles and its purpose is to help maintain harmony between humanity and the universe.

The group of shamans, who travelled from countries including Mexico, Mongolia, Greenland, Russia and Korea, began by trekking to isolated locations for three days of meditation before performing a number of ceremonies – many of which originated in prehistory.

- See more at: http://www.the-open-mind.com/incredible-photographs-of-the-shaman-gathering-in-siberia/#sthash.8OaJiuo3.4DTmhNzE.dpuf

Needing even more lifting up today, I returned to recent email correspondence started by Sancho Panza, a native of the Dominican Republic, living in New York City, who came in his youth with his parents to the US and now is a retired Lucent Technologies scientist who does south of the border consulting work for Lucent and is fluent in a number of languages, including Spanish, French, Latin and English:

Subject, “Planet of the Apes”:

The Dukha people of Mongolia have a connection to nature which allows them to interact with reindeer, wolves, eagles, and even bears.

THESE PHOTOS OF A LOST MONGOLIAN TRIBE ARE INCREDIBLE

BY MATT HERSHBERGER

MARCH 25, 2015

THERE AREN’T MANY “LOST” tribes any more — the realities of the modern world means that most formerly nomadic people have settled down into cities, and that virtually everyone, for good or for bad, has been brought into the global fold. The Dukha tribe is one of the rare exceptions. The Dukha are a Tuvan-Turkic tribe that lives on the border of Mongolia and Russia, and they are best known as reindeer herders. But their connection with animals extends far beyond reindeer.

Photographer Hamid Sardar Afkhami traveled to the Khovsgol province of Mongolia to take pictures of the few Dukha families that remain: there are only a few hundred people within 44 families left.

The children of the tribe are raised surrounded by reindeer, and they build a close connection.

The Dukha do not typically eat the reindeer unless the animals are no longer capable of helping them hunt or travel.

Unfortunately, the number of reindeer is dwindling, and there is no program to help replenish the reindeer from nearby Siberia.

Many of the Dukha make their living off of tourists who either want to ride domesticated reindeer or buy their crafts.

Otherwise, the Dukha hunt for their income or sustenance.

The Mongolia Taiga is a particularly challenging land — it is difficult to navigate and endures harsh winters.

The Dukha, though, have been doing what they are doing for hundreds of years under the Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian states.

The Dukha have a strong connection to their animals, and they believe the connection is spiritual.

The reindeer are totally domesticated — the other word for the Dukha is Tsaatan, which directly translates to “reindeer herder.”

The Dukha think of themselves as “sharing” the landscape rather than owning it.

It is perhaps for this reason their connection with the animals are so strong.

The Dukha also train wolves.

Another major element of live is hunting with Eagles.

Eagle hunting is an ages-old tradition, and is considered to be a particular honor.

Eagle hunters are well-respected within their tribe.

The Dukha have surprisingly been able to resist much of the influence from the outside world even into the 21st century.

It is perhaps because of their connection to nature and to the animals around them.

You can do more to help these indigenous communities survive here.

All photos by Hamid Sardar Afkhami. Source: Sharably

I replied:

Maybe if all of the tribe looked like the fellow looks in your 2 lead photos; from what I read, they didn’t devolve, everyone else did

Sancho wrote:

They had shamans but no Christs or angels!

A true lover of wisdom has hands too busy to hold on to anything! He learns by doing and every pebble in the path becomes her teacher! Oink

Sancho also sent:

The Pope Appeareth

Sep20 by Jon Rappoport

The Pope Appeareth

by Jon Rappoport

September 20, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)

“Religions and, yes, even certain ‘economic systems’ have preached poverty as the way to salvation, or at least a ‘more honest’ life. Poverty is promoted as a kind of test of faith. But the promoters always had cash in the bank. The catch is this: in order to reap the spiritual rewards, a poor person has to remain poor. Otherwise, how can he continue to know true glory? The modern version of this is: a victim is a victim forever. Otherwise, he might eliminate the need for ‘social justice’ and the con artists who peddle it. Don’t spend a few dollars cleaning up the contaminated water systems in Third World countries. Don’t give back good growing land that was stolen. Poverty and starvation are glamorous. They give rise to humanitarian ideologies that front for theft and destruction on a grand scale.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

He’s here. The Pope. And his covert Jesuit message is: let’s get rid of separate nations, eliminate private profit for the middle class, and return to those glorious days of the Middle Ages; my Church flourishes under those conditions; we know how to deal with wall-to-wall misery; oh, and here’s the collection plate.

He’s part of the international gang that throws around the word “capitalism” as if it’s a mortal sin.

Making distinctions isn’t the Pope’s forte.

He ignores the differences between mega-corporations who align with governments (and his Church) to create a Globalist Order…and the untold numbers of small businesses owned by people who want to work for a living and earn a profit.

For the Pope, it’s all “capitalism.” Everything should be free—which, translated, means: almost everyone should be poor.

Migration of populations? No problem. It’s a good thing. After all, it helps, in the long run, to erase borders and nations and turn back the clock to more troubled times.

That’s the op, and the Pope is on board with it. He and Obama will get along well. Obama is in charge of making sure the inner-city communities he champions will stay poor and have ample targets to blame.

Obama never intended to create jobs in those inner cities and transform them. That was never on his agenda. He never intended to speak about how the jobs and the companies were lost there, as one Globalist trade deal after another sent work and factories overseas. Obama is touting new trade deals.

He and the Pope will give each other a nudge and a wink.

If these two have their way, the “settled science” on manmade warming will trigger global cuts in energy production (except for favored companies), thus creating even more horrific poverty among the Third World countries which are supposed to “benefit from the rational distribution of energy”).

These two men know how to use “humanitarian” utterances to front for their real goals. They know how to play that tune up and down the scale, instilling the proper amount of guilt along the way.

The Pope and the President will be popping champagne corks. It’ll be a party.

Obama: Your Holiness, I’m a rank amateur when it comes to psyops. You folks have been running cons for a couple of thousand years give or take. So any tips you can offer me…

Pope: Don’t kid a kidder, Barack. You’re doing a bang-up job. You started off with that messianic salvation utopia thing, and then you put it on the shelf and went for social justice, which is a biggie, because it diverts attention from the fact that most people just want jobs and enough money to survive—and of course that is never going to happen…

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In his first comments to the press after election as Pope, Francis said: “This is what I want, a poor church for the poor.”

1.2 billion members, a separate nation (the Vatican), an estimated $170 billion in annual spending…sure, a poor church.

The “for the poor” part of the Pope’s quote is accurate. As in: a return to greater poverty. In such a world, the feudal lords will fill the collection plate.

There’s just one problem with the Vatican’s Globalist agenda. It doesn’t quite mesh with the mega-corporate view of Globalism. As fewer and fewer people around the world can afford to buy what the corporations are selling, a crack-up will occur. But for the Pope, those are petty details. He’s with the mega-corporations on the surface; but at a deeper level, the Vatican wants what it’s always wanted: chaos, poverty, and top-down control.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, andPOWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

I replied to Sancho:

The Mongolian tribe may still have a shaman or two. Shamans live in their tribe, are an integral part of it, symbiotic with it; the tribe takes care of its shaman, the shaman takes care of his/her tribe in the way shamans do. Compare that to the article you sent later about the Pope and President Obama and capitalism. I bet people who love the Pope ain’t thrilled with that article; but the author is right, of course, the Vatican is a mega-profit center, on par with, hmmm, mega international corporations. If the Pope wants to get real about being poor, he should don blue jeans and a t-shirt and plastic water shoes, called “Toyotas” in parts of the Caribbean , and work a few years on a rural Cuban dirt farm, where plowing is done by horse, mule or ox; or, he could wear same attire and sleep nights at KOTS in Key West for a few years. Same would do wonders for Obama, too late for him to do America any good. This Mongolian tribe have a rugged existence, but they seem to have retained their souls, they seem to be in tune with something very real all around them; I can’t imagine them being viable in the next 50 years, unless they are a role model for coming human evolutionary attractions, a real revolution.

Sancho wrote:

Now that I gave you the title, go and write me a book about a Bizarro Pope that lives in the streets, among the wretched… a dragon pope, spewing holy fire from his mouth, every word, a volley of lightening, woe to the wicked, the smart… and specially the rich and powerful!

I replied: