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ay-yi-yi- 😕 🙄 … here’s a better solution (and my new hero 😉 ):

Sheriff refuses to serve evictions: “It stops today.”

Illinois sheriff scolds banks for evictions of ‘innocent’ renters

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — An outraged sheriff in Illinois who refuses to evict “innocent” renters from foreclosed homes criticized mortgage companies Thursday and said the law should protect victims of the mortgage meltdown.

Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said earlier he is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago.

The county had been on track to reach a record number of evictions, many because of mortgage foreclosures.

Many good tenants are suffering because building owners have fallen behind on their mortgage payments, he said Thursday on CNN’s “American Morning.”

“These poor people are seeing everything they own put out on the street. … They’ve paid their bills, paid them on time. Here we are with a battering ram at the front door going to throw them out. It’s gotten insane,” he said.

Mortgage companies are supposed to identify a building’s occupants before asking for an eviction, but sheriff’s deputies routinely find that the mortgage companies have not done so, Dart said.

“This is an example where the banking industry has not done any of the work they should do. It’s a piece of paper to them,” Dart said.

“These mortgage companies … don’t care who’s in the building,” Dart said Wednesday. “They simply want their money and don’t care who gets hurt along the way.

“On top of it all, they want taxpayers to fund their investigative work for them. We’re not going to do their jobs for them anymore. We’re just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today.”

Dart said he wants the courts or the state Legislature to establish protections for those most harmed by the mortgage crisis.

In 1999, Cook County had 12,935 mortgage foreclosure cases; in 2006, 18,916 cases were filed, and last year, 32,269 were filed. This year’s total is expected to exceed 43,000.

“The people we’re interacting with are, many times, oblivious to the financial straits their landlord might be in,” Dart said. “They are the innocent victims here, and they are the ones all of us must step up and find some way to protect.”

The Illinois Bankers Association opposed the plan, saying that Dart “was elected to uphold the law and to fulfill the legal duties of his office, which include serving eviction notices.”

The association said Dart could be found in contempt of court for ignoring court eviction orders.

“The reality is that by ignoring the law and his legal responsibilities, he is carrying out ‘vigilantism’ at the highest level of an elected official,” it said. “The Illinois banking industry is working hard to help troubled homeowners in many ways, but Sheriff Dart’s declaration of ‘martial law’ should not be tolerated.”

Dart was undeterred Thursday.

“I think the outrage on my part with them [is] that they could so cavalierly issue documents and have me throw people out of homes who have done absolutely nothing wrong,” Dart said. “They played by all the rules.

“I told them, ‘You send an agent out, you send somebody out that gives me any type of assurance that the appropriate person is in the house, I will fulfill the order.’

“When you’re blindly sending me out to houses where I’m coming across innocent tenant after innocent tenant, I can’t keep doing this and have a good conscience about it.”

video here

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You virtual stargazers might like this site I ran across some time ago… never tried it though and it isn’t free… but it looks interesting SLOOH Live Online Observatory.

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Here’s something from a book I’m re-reading (Coming into Being by William Irwin Thompson, 1996):

“In chaos dynamical theory in mathematics, is is the accumulation of noise that pulls a system from one attractor to another. So in our transition from industrialization to planetization, it is the accumulation of noise that is pulling civilization apart. In industrialization, the global marketplace was the phase-space of human culture that defined the value of all human transactions. The new phase-space, however, is not the marketplace but the catastrophe, for it is the catastrophe that brings us together in a condition that now defines all our human transactions. This evolutionary catastrophe bifurcation of ‘up or out’ compels us to look on human culture with a new, deeper, and more compassionately spiritual level of understanding. Those who are oriented to the marketplace will resist this transformation of world view, so the accumulation of noise will have to be great indeed before they are pulled into the basin of a new attractor. Nevertheless, noise is the transition to the noetic polity; it destroys the solitude necessary for the philosophical reflection characteristic of the mental epoch. But before we can effect the transition to the integral to stabilize our condition in the angelic musical polities of the future we will have to learn how to make our way through the demonic states of possession of our present.”

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We are all love crystals… 😀

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So yesterday was 10-9-8.

Today (if you add 2+0+0+8) is 10-10-10.

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10/14 is not an end date… more of a transformation trigger, I think.

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@Will wrote:

…I concur with you that at the black hole at the center of our galaxy is the portal to the Central Universe…and that these (and everything that holds form )are consciousness…

Just look at the images from the Hubble and you can see galaxies swirling like giant vortexes into… some”where” else… I agree, the “black” hole is a portal, and I see the sun as a portal and thus every star… and since everything is holographic, within every atom is another vortex with a node of light that is itself a portal. We are made of such, so within every particle of our own beings is the light, and the dark, and portals to interdimensionality. As without, so within. In embracing the darkness/blackness/void/that-which-is-not within ourselves, we embrace our totality. To just be love-and-light all the time without loving (i.e. paying attention to) that which is chaotic and dark within is to deny ourselves access to the totality of Being.

I’m glad you’re here too, Neiru. There aren’t so many here who are afraid of the dark here, but it is something that needs to be… illuminated 😆

Here is a bit which I offer, to that end:

“Nexus: A point of view is a singularity; it is only one point no one but the person viewing can hold. Thus, it cannot be shared, but it can be understood. By communicating one’s point of view to others, greater clarity can be achieved to an infinite degree. Articulation of one’s favorite way of seeing things can often have the unexpected effect of altering it, refining it, carrying one closer to truth. As men keep abdicating their own sense of power in favor of following a group mentality, they can watch their own points of view become more and more indistinct and less and less pure. There is no such thing as a group point of view. There is, however, a group node of approximate understanding which converges as a point of agreement in veracity for all. A node of light understands under which lock it belongs according to its frequency signature. Certain very powerful realizations known as epiphanies or initiations have the effect of rearranging the consciousness settings learned through experience and maintained through habit, movers of single bits of light which represent individual embodiments of conscious awareness. Light acts as an attractor and, as it gathers strength and clarity, other bits of light gravitate toward it. As more and more lights gather around the idea of the central nexus, an organization of thought occurs and belief is born.”

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@tiaka9 wrote:

I found these comments posted anonymously on Brad`s 10/14/08 Blog. Will it be New Zealand?

October 14th starts first in New Zealand.

New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere.

Australia has states.

Snow Cone = Mount Teranaki, New Zealand (looks like a giant snow cone.)

Table = Table Hill, New Zealand

Diamond = Diamond Lake and Diamond Valley, New Zealand

Shine your shoes = A brand of shoe polish from New Zealand had a song with the lyrics “shine your shoes”

Alabama = The Kiwi is a bird from New Zealand, Alabama grows Kiwifruits.

I think the point of contact is more than when and where. I think the point of contact is beyond geography, and that focusing too much on it is turning into a distraction from the point of internal contact, which is a catalyst for transformation of humanity from a bunch of individual sparks to a single body of light.

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Well, today, October 9, 2008, should be Countdown Day: 10… 9… 8…

😆

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@James… bing bing bing! Bells going off all over the place here!

@jamwolfsky wrote:

The magnetic pull is so strong, I am starting to wonder if the material distances won’t bend soon into a gateway passage out of 3D time and space. It is so strong!! I don’t know if you get the picture 😯 . Two parallel planes with magnetic attraction merging somewhere leaving a black hole in the center with the two planes turned into one, communicating in a curved space. Let me celebrate this like a five year old child Pleadians 😆 with this remarkable creation of mine. I actually visualized this geometrical form, it brings me back to a mysterious extraterrestrial life memory . This gives me the goosebumps.

Hm, counter-rotating circles, pretty powerful! The spot you have that on, on the map, why there? I have a lot of memories from long-ago lifetimes (simultaneous parallel timelines) of that place, though I’ve never been there physically in this lifetime.

Now look at this, from the Garden of Unknowable Things… the word “bend” leapt out at me from your post and this gives me goosebumps!

bend: The Earth, you now understand, is not flat. Neither is the universe. It is not round like a ball, either. The basic shape of all things alive is more like an O-ring. Garish errors in mass and density can have a normality of sense in an O-ring shaped universe. Mass is nothing more than gravity, and gravity is nothing more than magnetism of particulate mind daring to say “I am here”. It is manifested as an O-ring, or torus, because particles sample density in a helical pulsation. By slowing down to experience an agreed temporal or spatial reality, density collects nodes of energetic god-ness — energies of elemental consciousness on a flatter plane, like a lateral slice of a helix. Halls of annular focus generate a mass-based periodic orbit of particles of consciousness, forging a ring of light and resonance. Movement creates charge and charge creates movement, leading to magnetic pathways around density, along which particulate consciousness travels. Nanometers in distance make known paths bend, and a new knowledge becomes known to the experiencer — which is the field of particulated consciousness — from which a sample of experience is noticed via temporal focus in the density-based form of the individuated self. As the individuated self chooses what its reality will be in the next temporal focus, you could say reality bends to suit that You’s address of intention. As more Yous find a common intention point, more resonance dominates the movement and alters the charge, which further alters the movement and intensifies the resonance. Finally, as consensus is reached, a bend is created that moves particulated consciousness to a new dominant resonance. Samples of reality simply become rearranged in the new resonance according to the new density and charge, and movement begins in a new bend in a new slice of the helical continuum. Consciousness laboratory.

😮 😆

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[youtube:17pnmouv]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVpgbUHcMg[/youtube:17pnmouv]

That first image looks a little suspect, with a “blue beam” surrounding it… but this is a breathtaking collection of images, anyway.

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Here’s the message that arrived in my inbox today from the Universe (Mike Dooley’s website http://www.tut.com Notes from the Universe daily email). They’re usually spot-on but this one was really unusually ticklish:

Maryann, your “ship” was spotted off the coast this morning, slipping silently through the fog. Coming around the cape, she appeared in a shaft of sunlight and what a sight to see! Glimmering as much as the ocean herself. Massive and beautiful beyond belief. Laden with treasures, happy times, friends, love, and laughter.

This week, though, you must prepare for her arrival. You must make space in your life for her gifts, before she heads back out to sea.

Your first mate always,
The Universe

😮 😆 😆 😆

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The game has so many facets! I wouldn’t know what started me on the path of understanding it, but I’ll offer this recent example of distinguishing between useless eaters and consumers. It’s what allows people to eat 8-course meals after talking about food shortages in Africa, while women in Haiti fed their children dirt cakes.

G8 leaders feast on 8 courses after discussing world food shortages

Food shortages and the need to double African production may dominate the G8 summit but even as they discussed the problems of the developing world yesterday, the leaders of the world’s richest nations, joined by several African leaders, ate course after course of fine food.

In a questionable public relations move, the summit’s Japanese organisers proudly displayed to the press the menus for a sumptuous eight-course banquet laid on last night and a five-course lunch a few hours earlier.

The leaders tucked into truffle soup and crab as they discussed Zimbabwe and aid to Africa’s poorest people. The evening feast of 19 separate dishes included diced fatty flesh of tuna fish and milk-fed lamb with aromatic herbs. Tomorrow, after working up an appetite discussing soaring food prices, the leaders will enjoy a £200 dinner of giant crab, £50-a-kilogram langoustine and sweet clover ice cream, prepared by Michel Bras, a Michelin three-star French chef.

It is all in keeping with a summit that has cost a total of 60 billion yen (£283 million) – enough to have bought 100 million mosquito nets to save Africans from catching malaria – and that frequently seems at odds with the Japanese hosts’ professed theme of ecology and environmentalism.

The International Media Centre, which will be dismantled after the summit, was purpose-built at a cost of £24 million: a total of £8 million a day.

Fibreoptic cables for the press centre have cost a further £43 million. The Japanese Government has completely refurbished the rooms, lawns and carpets of the Windsor Hotel, where the leaders are meeting, and resurfaced much of the perfectly serviceable 100km (60mile) road to the airport.

The public have been kept at least 30 miles from the hotel, which is perched on the top of a mountain overlooking a beautiful volcanic lake. It is protected by 20,000 police officers, air force planes fly regular patrols and coastguard and naval ships are on standby in the nearby bay.

Chefs have been given carte blanche to spend as much as they like on their menus, which yesterday had the theme of Hokkaido, Blessings of the Earth and the Sea, after the northernmost Japanese island where the summit is being held.

A menu issued yesterday proudly boasted that the chefs “know everything that there is to know about food in Hokkaido”. It added: “The three specialists will make the best of Hokkaido’s natural blessings, supported by higher quality ingredients, more natural ingredients and the soil with which to enjoy them.”

Yesterday’s dishes were prepared by Katsuhiro Nakamura, the first Japanese to win a Michelin star, who was brought out of retirement for the summit. He was hired as the “grand chef” by the Windsor Hotel, where the Presidential Suite costs £7,000 a night.

On Sunday Gordon Brown advised householders at home not to waste food as the world copes with a shortage. He said that ending food waste could save families £8 a week. The Prime Minister’s aides insisted that the aim of his message was not to hector people.

Andrew Mitchell, the Shadow International Development Secretary, said last night: “The G8 have made a bad start to their summit, with excessive cost and lavish consumption. Surely it is not unreasonable for each leader to give a guarantee that they will stand by their solemn pledges of three years ago at Gleneagles to help the world’s poor. All of us are watching, waiting and listening.”

Dominic Nutt, of Save the Children, said: “It is deeply hypocritical [that] they should be lavishing course after course on world leaders when there is a food crisis and millions cannot afford to eat.”

The menus in full: Dinner

Corn-stuffed caviar
Smoked salmon and sea urchin “pain surprise” style
Hot onion tart
Winter lily bulb and summer savoury

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Folding fan modelled tray decorated with bamboo grasses including
Kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef “shabu-shabu”, asparagus dressed with sesame cream
Diced fatty flesh of tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce and Japanese herb “shiso”
Boiled clam, tomato, “shiso” in jellied clear soup of clam
Water shield and pickled conger dressed with vinegar soy sauce
Boiled prawn with jellied tosazu vinegar
Grilled eel rolled around burdock strip
Sweet potato
Fried and seasoned Goby with soy sauce and sugar

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Hairy Crab “Kegani” bisque soup

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Salt-grilled bighand thornyhead with vinegary water pepper sauce

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Milk fed “shiranuka” lamb flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard
Roasted lamb and cepes and black truffle with emulsion sauce of lamb’s stock and pine seed oil

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Special cheese selection, lavender honey and caramelised nuts

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G8 fantasy dessert

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Coffee served with candied fruits and vegetables
Wine list
Le Reve grand cru champagne
Japanese saki
Corton Charlemagne 2005
Chateau Latour burgundy
Ridge California Monte Bello 1997
Tokaji Essencia 1999 from Hungary

from TimesOnline

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@veritas… What I have been experiencing, personally, is like a working-out of old splinters of belief. Once the walls come down and illusions shatter, there is inevitably some shrapnel caught in the tight corners of thought. There are many people hearing about imminent contact (again) who have staunchly held onto certain, for lack of a better term at this moment, “fear-based” belief patterns for dear life, and are now on the brink of seeing how much of a death-grip that really is. So now those who have believed in something, or used to believe in something, or have gotten hurt by believing in something (ring any bells yet?), etc must face what’s coming into the periphery of their reality with or without their belief structures intact. So they have to test them out. One last run of the old program before all bets are off. I would imagine that many are finding the experience empty, once they get past the hero-worship stuff. Then there’s fear attached to a lot of that, and that can rear its head in many many ways. It seems a pattern of illumination, and will play itself out, rather quickly I think.

My man always says, after enlightenment comes pissed-off. Then illumination.

Food for thought there, hope it is digestible and nourishing 😉
Excellent point you bring up, tho.

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Hugs! 😀 😀 😀 …

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