Friday, September 30, 2016
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Amateur Radio and DXing
by Shannon
If there’s one thing about the world that we’re completely sure of, it’s that change is constant. We’ve seen fashion trends differ from the decades before today. We’ve seen our planet evolve from flat land and rising mountains to plain fields and tall buildings. But most of all, we’ve seen change in how we communicate to each other.
We’ve gone through travelling to deliver a message, writing letters and calling through ancient telephones before finally getting to where we are now: the internet age. Everybody owns something that can connect to the internet, be it a smartphone or a laptop. If you need to reach out to someone across the world, no problem. If you need to send documents to someone important but you don’t want to leave the place you’re in right now, there’s e-mail.
Despite the evolution of our form of communication, there’s one disadvantage that most people forget. Because the internet needs a constantly running system of connections and power to function, it’s very vulnerable to power outages or anything that can cause electronic disruption.
Thus, in the event of a major disaster like a country-wide blackout, flooding or earthquake, even the cellphone’s signal will suffer. Towers will be rendered useless without power. In that situation, how will you contact anyone outside the disaster area? How will you know where to go and what’s happening outside? This is where the amateur radio comes in.
WHAT IS AMATEUR RADIO?
When any common form of communication fails, when your phone can’t find signal, when the internet is overloaded, the amateur radio is what will save the day. Also called the “ham radio,” this form of communication functions by using the radio frequency spectrum. It covers a significant distance to the point that some transmissions can even allow you to talk to astronauts on the International Space Station.
The wide range of possibilities that you can do with amateur radio has allowed it to invade several aspects of the society including education and disaster aid. It also functions as something like a social media as it allows people to communicate with each other no matter where they are. The people who use amateur radio (“hams”) come from a large variety of background like doctors, kids, teachers, truck drivers and maybe even the person next door.
Because of its casual nature, most people consider amateur radio as a hobby. But the unsaid part of history reveals that amateur radio is more than that. For example, the Amateur Radio Service aided communications when 9/11 and hurricane Katrina happened because of its ability to provide communication even in the worst conditions.
The “amateur” part of amateur radio is perhaps the best thing about it. Amateur radio operators do what they do without commercial intent, meaning that they volunteer to do it without expecting to be paid. Another important facet of the amateur radio is the DXers or amateur radio operators who specialize in making two-way radio contact with other amateurs in distant places.
Amateur radio is represented and coordinated by the International Amateur Radio Union, which can also be referred to as the headquarters.
HOW CAN YOU BE PART OF THE AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE?
While anyone and everyone can be part of the amateur radio service, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recognizes its potential and thus seeks to expand its pool of experts who can give a helping hand during emergency situations in any condition be it an earthquake, tsunami or a hurricane. This means that to be part of the amateur radio service, you will need a license.
Another reason why you need to have a license is because radio waves go well beyond a country’s borders which instantly makes an international concern. Radio also has potentially clandestine uses which could place national security at risk if used by the wrong people.
In some countries, you will only be allowed to purchase amateur radio equipment is if you have a license. In others, your license may only be valid in that area and you will be required to get another if you want to move to another country.
Requirements for amateur radio licensing and the privileges that come with it vary from country to country though there is one thing that all countries ask for. Every aspiring amateur radio operator must display technical knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts. This is done and verified through an exam. Countries also require operators to know the rules and regulations lest they accidentally do something illegal like leaking classified information. In some countries, they are required to display hands-on experience through a practical exam.
Once you’re licensed, you will be oriented on the different privileges attached to your success. You can be granted longer distance coverage, more power, permitted experimentation and better frequency ability.
HOW DO YOU COMMUNICATE OVER AMATEUR RADIO?
One of the best things about amateur radio is its flexibility. Many amateur radio operators utilize different modes of communication, partly because of the need to be prepared for anything including audio failure. While most use their voices to communicate over amplitude modulation (AM), frequency modulation (FM) or Single Sideband (SSB), others have found ways to communicate.
Aside from voice, amateur radio operators use text, images and data. They can send images through television and text through a digital medium such as a computer. One of the most interesting ways that amateur radio operators communicate is through Morse code. Its usefulness is still very popular and at one point, a basic knowledge of Morse code is required for licensing. Other forms of communication include Packet, Radio Teletype or what’s commonly known as Ritty, and PSK.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the agency that handles the frequency allocations and determines which bands are open for use depending on where you are and what you intend to do over the frequency. Their job is important as it ensures that other radio services within or outside the country do suffer interference. The American Radio Relay League’s (ARRL) “The FCC Rule Book” provides a comprehensive and in-depth information about the frequency allocations.
WHAT IS DX-ING?
DXing is one of the most popular “departments” of amateur radio. While other focus on using their license to help educate people or simply talk to others, DXers make it a hobby to try to listen and connect distant stations. In this case, these locations are may be from one country to another. The activity was named as such because of its nature. “D” refers to distance and “X” means the unknown.
The practice and interest of DXing actually stems from the early days of radio broadcasting. When listeners believe that they just heard a broadcast from a distant location, they write reception reports (now known as the Signal, Interference, Noise, Propagation and Overall merit report or simply, SINPO report) and send it to different broadcasters in hopes of getting a verification that the broadcast they heard was real. The certificate they receive back from the broadcaster is called QSL cards and it confirms the listener’s reception report. Collecting the cards were also used by the broadcasters themselves when they want to study the effectiveness of their transmissions.
The importance of DXing stems from the fact that it allows you to listen to broadcasts from far beyond your own country. DXing allows you to connect with the outside world without the help of a satellite or the internet which can be very challenging and the prime reason why it’s a popular hobby among amateur radio operators.
Amateur radio operators who focus on DXing are called “DXers.” Because of the challenging nature of DXing, some clubs and organizations award certificates to those who are successful in connecting to a remote area in the world. For example, the ARRL offers the DX Century Club (DXCC) award for DXers who worked to confirm at least 100 broadcasters on the ARRL DXCC List. To make it more interesting, amateurs have mounted DXpeditions to areas with no permanent base of amateur radio operators.
HOW DO YOU DX?
If you want to try and be DXer, there are several things that you have to know. First, attentive listening is a skill that you will need. Being a DXer means that you will need to surf through the band and look for frequencies that fade in or out, or something that is disguised by loud static. You need to pay attention to the tiny details and you need to be familiar enough with the radio to pinpoint whether or not the frequency exists locally.
The best location to grab a radio and try to listen for far away frequencies is to go out to a body of water, preferably the beach. This is because the body of water helps pull in radio signals. The location also draws you away from background noises that will hinder your listening. DXing is also directional in such a way that however you hold or the orientation of your radio can make a difference. The weather can also affect DXing and most DXers found that it’s best to do it at night.
To keep up with what’s happening in the DX world and to find out about contests and rewards for a little bit of motivation, you can tune in to the DXNews. It gives you information on breaking news and a calendar that lets you know the activities of other DXers and DXpeditions.
Amateur radio may seem like a hobby wherein you sit down all day and listen to the radio. But in actuality, this hobby has saved many lives as it allows people to communicate with each other in the face of the lack of power or internet. Amateur radio provides the necessary link between disaster areas and responders as it makes it easier for them to know where the victims are and what to expect so rescuers don’t go in unprepared. This hobby is something that you might want to look into especially if you want to properly prepare for critical situations.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Listen to the Sun, Saturn, and the Milky Way with Your Own Radio Telescope
Students from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research combined a commercial satellite dish, a satellite finder and an Arduino, and produced a workable radio telescope. The satellite dish provides the LNB (low noise block) and the associated set-top box is used only for power. Their LNB employs an aluminum foil shield to block extraneous signals.
In addition to the hardware, the team built Python software to analyze the data and show several practical applications. They used known geostationary satellites to calibrate the signal from the finder (digitized by the Arduino) to determine power per unit voltage. They also calculated the beam width (about 3.4 degrees) and used the sun for other calibration steps.
The paper notes that some designs use the ubiquitous RTL-SDR, but this limits the bandwidth to about 3 MHz. The satellite finder detector is inherently broadband and the team claims a bandwidth for their scope of 1.1 GHz. Some designs (like the Itty Bitty) use a dual LNB to have both. If you are too lazy to build any hardware, you can still get into the radio telescope data crunching game.
If you want an introduction to radio astronomy, you might enjoy Dr. John Morgan’s lecture, in the video below.
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Lucid Dreaming | Will this work when attepting wild?
I am never tired enough when trying a WILD, no matter how many hours i sleep for. So i had this idea. If i don´t go to bed at all and attept a WILD around 4:30 or 06:00 i might fall asleep faster and maybe go into REM sleep instantly. I tried something similar a year ago by accident and it worked. Have anyone here tried something like this?
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Lucid Dreaming | Any tips for SSILD? Also a few questions
Usually I do 4 Cycles (focusing on sight, hearing, then touch) quickly (~5 seconds per component), and then do 4 Cycles more slowly (~10 seconds per component). The original page said I should do closer to 30 seconds for the slow cycles, but that was too hard to keep reasonable track of, so I went to 10 instead. Q: Does this alter my chance of success?
Q: What should I do if I constantly lose track of where I am during the slow cycles? Should I start over at the beginning of the cycle every time?
Q: What should I do if I constantly lose track of where I am during the slow cycles? Should I start over at the beginning of the cycle every time?
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LOCAL POLITICS and GRASS ROOTS SURVIVAL
by Carmen Amedori
Ethics: an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior: a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right or wrong.
When Trump is elected, we will have exercised our 10th Amendment and dismantled a tyrannical political system. It is then our responsibility to rebuild the Republic and that starts from the ground up with local offices. We have a lot of work ahead of us.
There is so much going on in our Country today, round and round we go as we try to prioritize where to focus our efforts.
BYP – back yard politics is the place to begin. There are dozens of news stories a week covering national political events, scandals, etc. But it is within our reach to begin at the beginning. Remember, the best government is the one closest to the people. Locally, every day in some small town, city, and county across this nation there are elected officials scheming to take rights away from their citizens Stories like the one below are not mainstream media. Hell, even the small town newspapers don’t cover it. Yet, while these type of elected officials, “public servants” make our skin crawl, we continue to reelect them.
Of the 168,000 residents in Carroll County, Maryland 78 percent are over the age 18 and therefore old enough to vote. This county loves to vote. They appear to be engaged in the process. The party line registration is Democrats 31,797, Republican 59,483, Libertarian 581, Green 271, Other 948, and unaffiliated 21,278.
Carroll County form of Government is five county commissioner. This form of government means there is no separate executive branch. The commissioners are the executive as well as the legislative branch. So every county department reports to them for budget demands. This is unlike a City or Town Mayor and Council. In that form, the Mayor holds executive power.
The census projected the population in bucolic Carroll County to increase only by 0.3% from 2010 to 2015. This is important because it means only attrition changes the voting base. Our favorite 90-something-year-old patriots, those from the Greatest Generation are passing on – no longer available to vote. And their spot is being filled by the millennial who is just turning 18.
Now in many ways the millennial is telling us the status quo is unacceptable. We agree for different reasons.” The millennial favors a socialist government. The millennial views the world as an equal playground and the more restrictions on our God given rights, the better for a “safer and non- offensive world.”
What they need to understand is a government who can restrict any type of liberty will. They will cherry pick the U.S. Constitution, treat it like an a la carte menu, and each new restriction results in an avalanche of more lost liberties.
TRACK THE CASH
Full time schoolteacher and current Westminster City Councilman runs for Carroll County Commissioner. The teacher’s unions who donate money and time to his campaign back him. Be clear, no one is trying to deny him a right to hold an elected office. Simply because he is a teacher, does not mean he cannot run for the office. However, once he wins, because of simply the appearance of impropriety, he should resign from his teaching job. As stated above, the commissioners have absolute executive power. No one commissioner is more responsible than the other is for any decisions. The commissioner president is not a mayor or governor but merely a title that unfortunately gets him a little more in salary from the taxpayers.
So in the rolling hills of Carroll County, the total FY 17 budget is $388,407,000 and of that, 49.92 percent will go to the Public Schools. The Carroll County Board of Education is, of course, the largest employer with 3,650 employees. And so it is fitting that the schools would get the lion’s share of the budget of just about 50 percent. The budget is $193,889,000, which is a 2.69 increase over FY16. That includes a $5.7M, or 3.2%, increase to Carroll County Public Schools to fund salary increases, including that of the full time school teacher/commissioner – and, oh – p.s. his wife is also a school teacher with the Carroll County Public Schools.
When the Superintendent of Carroll County Board of Education, Stephen Guthrie, comes before the Carroll County Board of Commissioners he is there as a superior to the school teacher/commissioner (oh and was it mentioned his wife is also a teacher?) The superintendent of schools can rip apart a teaching contract single handedly. And so where does the loyalty of the school teacher lie? Is it with the taxpayers to ensure the money is being spent wisely or is it with his boss whom he and his spouse are subordinates to and whom their income depends. At this point, you might ask, “what difference does it make?”
The ethical and proper thing to do would be for the teach to resign from his job with CCPS or as commissioner to recuse himself from any and all negotiations and votes on issues pertaining to the CCPS. He did neither. Although still an employee with the CCPS as a commissioner, he took the favorable vote for the salary funding increase for teachers and the adoption of the FY 17 budget.
This has been brought to the attention of the Carroll County Ethics commission – appointed by the county commissioners – and the Board of Education Ethics Council. Both have said there is no “incompatibility” with the commissioner also being an employee of the CCPS. It was then brought to the attention of the Maryland Attorney General
AG Opinion July 25, 2016
“On behalf of the Board of Education of Carroll County (“school board”), you have asked for our opinion on two questions that have arisen out of the election of Dennis E. Frazier, a public school employee, to the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll County. Your first question is whether “a county commissioner, who is also a public school employee, may vote on matters impacting the local board of education,” particularly school funding matters. This question does not raise an issue of State law. Instead, county law—specifically, Carroll County’s ethics ordinance—controls County officials’ duties to avoid conflicts of interest. It is our policy not to construe local laws in our opinions, and therefore we offer no opinion on that issue.”
This opinion response to the Board of Education Ethics Agency continues “As you have pointed out, Mr. Frazier’s teaching position does not conflict with the office of commissioner by virtue of subordination to, or supervision by, that office; county governing bodies lack the power to appoint, remove, or supervise school board employees. And while the county commissioners ultimately approve the local school system’s budget and fund it in part, the county commissioners do not set individual teacher salaries.
Mr. Frazier’s two positions thus do not fall under the Hetrich court’s example of a conflict that would create an incompatibility. Addressing a similar issue, the Attorney General of Kansas concluded that the incompatibility doctrine did not bar a local school board employee from serving on the state board of education because the state board did not supervise the employee and did not set either the employee’s salary or the employee’s duties.”
Wait… WHAT? The court of Appeals has already ruled “The fundamental test of incompatibility at common law is whether there is a present or prospective conflict of interest; as where one office is subordinate to the other or subject to supervision by the other, or where the incumbent of one office has the power to appoint or remove or to set the salary of the other.”
The teacher/commissioner is helping to create a budget and vote upon said matters as a superior to Mr. Guthrie; yet, also as a subordinate based on his employment and therefore creates the conflict of interest and/or the appearance of such conflict because he then goes to the end of the line with his hand out for his salary as an employee of the Carroll County Board of Education.
Yet, the Maryland AG says the ethics commissions are correct and there is no “incompatibility” and zero conflict of interest with the teach being a commissioner. Its reasoning is the teacher/commissioner does not craft the budget, has no input and therefore, simply because he votes for it there is no conflict. Bulldoogle.
The entire county budget is at the hands of the commissioners as they can steal from Paul to pay the teachers. In other words, if the CCPS needs more money they can take it from Open Space projects or whatever area they deem. This process fundamentally suggests a conflict because the commissioner while not creating the Board of Education budget certainly can add to it.
GRASS ROOTS SURVIVAL
These types of situations occur every day. These are the scenarios We the People can work to correct. Currently, we have morally challenged elected officials. We need to elect persons with high moral character. With the amount of responsibility we are entrusting to them, we must demand ethics.
Integrity, ethics, character “it’s what we do when no one else is around.” There was a lady talk show host years ago who talked about dirt on the heels of a women’s shoes. “Can you imagine what their underwear must look like if they don’t care what others are seeing?” she said. I’ve never forgotten it and it pertains to our elected officials as well. If they are going to steal from us right before our eyes, if the unethical behavior is so blatant before our very eyes, we can only imagine how bad it really it is behind the scenes.
Unfortunately, people blindly vote and more often than not for the name, they know. It doesn’t matter what a voting record looks like – heck, most people don’t even know what their local legislators do or how to obtain their voting record. We need to engage. We need to arrive at the local council meetings and see how these crooks spend our tax dollars, take to the microphone, and voice valid objection.
Get in the game. Be proactive because these type of local corrupt and unethical politicians grow up to be bigger corrupt and unethical politicians. Work to nip it in the bud. Our survival starts at the grass roots.
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Monday, September 26, 2016
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Lucid Dreaming | Trouble Finding The Right Balance of Consciousness For WILD
Hey guys, I've been practicing WILD for the past couple of weeks with varying degrees of success, but my number one problem is right when I wake up with my alarm. Essentially, I'm having difficulty determining how much to wake up. Sometimes I won't wake up enough and thus won't care about WILDing and just go back to sleep. Usually the night after this happens, I'll make sure to wake up enough to get my intentions straight, but then I'll be too awake and will have difficulty WILDing. Do any of you have problems with this, and if so what would you recommend to help?
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Lucid Dreaming | Has "Sleep as Android"'s LD cues worked for anyone?
It is supposed to play "You are dreaming..." through headphones/whatever whenever it detects REM. has it worked for any1? (i have set it to repeat this 10 times AND vibrate the phone)
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Saturday, September 24, 2016
Covering More Ground when Bugging Out
by Ryan
So it is time to bug out. Something horrible has happened and you need to get away from civilization as quickly as possible. You have plenty of wilderness ahead of you, but you need to move quickly and put miles behind you. The terrain is rough, the rocks are slick, and you may even have people tracking you. How do you move as quickly as possible? Knowledge and preparation are the key to a swift bug out. If you know what to do you can double or even triple your rate of travel.
Bug Out Bags
The most important strategy for any bug out scenario is planning. One aspect of that is packing. Of course you read about bug out bags on every survival site you visit, but the weight of the items you pack is not emphasized nearly enough. When you are travelling long distances, a few pounds make a huge difference in your ability to keep pace. First, you need to buy the right pack. Try to pick something that has an interior frame and waist strap to take weight off of your shoulders. I know from personal experience that sore shoulders and a strained back make it very hard to keep hiking.
Next, focus on the weight of your items. Before you buy each item, shop around online and try to find a version that is lighter but just as functional. In addition, constantly reevaluate your pack contents. As you become more experienced, you should be able to bring fewer items in your pack reducing its weight. Also, as time passes technology produces lighter versions of the products in your pack. If enough progress is made, you may want to consider an updated version of a few of your items.
Planning for Your Whole Family
It is also very important that you plan for the group with which you will be travelling. If it will be you, your wife, and your two kids then make sure you do what you can to keep the hiking speed of each person as close as possible. Younger kids should not have anything to carry, while teenagers should have a decent load. Anybody that is injured or has a disability should have nothing to carry and you should do what you can to supply tools to speed their movement. Test out your plan in advance and fine tune it to keep everybody walking at the same swift pace.
A quick departure is important to any bug out situation. You should have a bug out plan with your family and practice it regularly. Keep your bug out bags in the same place and near the door. Modular bug out bags will allow you to make last minute adjustments to the contents of your bag. This can save you a few pounds while still keeping all items you expect to need on your voyage.
Fitness
It may go without saying, but your physical condition will greatly affect the pace at which you can hike. I am not saying that anybody needs to run marathons to spend all day in the gym. However, some level of fitness is a good idea. If you get in some hiking in periodically, it will also help your feet adjust to the abuse. Tough feet, strong legs, and decent endurance will be vital if you need to cover dozens of miles in a bug out scenario.
Routing
Planning a route is also an overlooked aspect of a proper bug out. For some reason people think that they can just walk out their front door and head in any given direction. This typically does not work out. You need to know your area well and have a specific route in mind. If you plan to leave civilization, figure out a direction that gives you mile after mile of wilderness. Then pick a travel route. It should be in an area of cover such as a wooded area or a dry creek bed that dips below the horizon.
You also need to plan a method of navigation. Landmarks are by far the easiest plan to get you where you are going. With proper landmarks, you really need nothing else to navigate. One example would be to find a creek and follow it to your destination. Another would be to follow specific rock formations or distinctive trees. You can also use the sun or a compass to maintain a specific cardinal direction.
General Rules
There are a few general rules for foot travel in the wilderness that will help you move quickly. First, always take the path of least resistance. Many times this will be a dry creek bed or a game trail. Make sure you maintain your desired direction, but these clear areas will allow you to walk without wading through brush or tall grass. Also, on a hillside the best path is about half way up the ridge. Often brush will be thick at the bottom and there will be loose rocks at the top. It also takes more energy to climb to the top of a ridge to travel versus staying on the side.
Pace
When you start walking, pace is very important. The military standard for long distance hiking is three mph for flat terrain, two mph for hilly terrain, and one mph for jagged terrain. Pick a pace based on your terrain and stick to it. If you over exert yourself, your pace will drastically slow after the first few hours. You are also much more likely to injure yourself if you tire out quickly. The most efficient way to travel is a brisk walk. Never run unless somebody is chasing you and is right on your tail.
Staying Safe
Avoiding injury is paramount to a solid bug out pace. If anybody in your group twists an ankle early in your journey, it will destroy the rate at which you travel. Walk slowly enough that you can pay attention to each and every step that you take. Be cautious of your footing and try to avoid loose or wet rocks. Wet leaves are also a hazard to avoid. A walking stick gives you a third point of contact and is a helpful tool if you can find one. Also be cautious not to step near any snakes as you scurry through the forest. If you have to climb anything steep, slow down and use ropes if possible.
Periodic rest is just as important as a swift pace if you want to travel all day. Always rest based on the weakest link in your group. This will typically be young children, injured people, or those weighed down with heavy packs. If one person gets too winded, it can shut down the whole group for the day. Stop to sit in the shade, drink some water, and get a snack if needed. These little breaks will make a great difference in the distance you travel per day.
Protect your Feet
Another sometimes overlooked variable for travel speed is foot care. Make sure each person that is with you has a pair of boots that fit properly, provide traction, seal out moisture, and offer ankle support. These can be expensive, but they are worth the investment. Everybody should have wool socks if possible. Wool will keep your feet warm even when wet and will hold back moisture better than cotton. Another trick is to put on a pair of panty hose under your socks to reduce friction that could cause blisters. When you make camp, have everybody dry out their boots and socks near the fire.
Even with proper footwear, it is likely that you will end up with blisters at some point. To treat them sterilize your knife in the fire and cut a slit in each blister. This will keep it open so the fluid will dry. If you have medical tape, tape over the blister until it is callused over. Few things will slow you down more than painful blisters. Also, make sure to keep your toenails trimmed so they do not cause any sores on your toes.
Making Camp
When you stop to make camp, keep it quick and basic. If you need to cover dozens of miles, you do not want to spend four hours on a fancy shelter. Do just what is needed to avoid hypothermia, protect from rain, insulate from the ground, and avoid predators. This will allow you to travel until just before dark and leave at first light. Sleep is important, so make sure you are protected enough to properly rest.
Food and Water
Often searching for food and water can slow people down when bugging out. You really should not take the time to set traps or do any conventional hunting or fishing. Instead be opportunistic and think like a gatherer. Look for nuts, berries, or edible plants as you travel so you can grab a handful and keep going. If you get to a body of water, look for a quick snack instead of going after a big fish. Try to find some crayfish or mussels or even seaweed or kelp. For purifying water, try to avoid taking the time to boil it. Bring a filter with you or bring some iodine tablets that will allow you to purify water while you hike.
Night Travel
As a general rule I never suggest traveling at night in a survival situation. However, if you need to make up some ground and you have lots of artificial lighting it can be an option. You definitely want to stick to a path without obstacles to trip you such as a game path. It is way too easy to step wrong on a rock or slip on loose leaves in the dark. It is also much easier to get lost, so make sure you have a map and compass. I suggest that you know how to navigate by the stars as a backup plan. Do not forget that predators are more active at night. Again, this would only be in a worst case scenario.
Snow Travel
Hiking in the snow and ice is a completely different challenge. Safety and efficiency become much more important. If you are walking on lots of ice, be very careful of your footing. If you have access to crampons to strap to your shoes, that is the safest bet. Never walk on frozen rivers or lakes unless you are sure of the thickness of the ice.
If you are walking in snow more than a few inches deep, you may be doing some ‘post holing’. This is when you have to pull your leg out of a hole to take a step and then sink down into the snow as you put your foot down. This is an efficiency killer and can slow your hike to as little as 10% of your normal pace. Build some snow shoes to ensure you stay on top of the snow.
Once again I will have a chance to test out all these suggestions in a few weeks. I am going to complete a long distance challenge in which I have to travel about 30 miles in dense woods with rugged ridges and cliffs. I will be doing all this with a light pack containing only a few items, so I should be travelling at a fast pace. As you can see, having a strategy and being prepared is the key to this pace. Hopefully I will be able to cover the distance quickly and get back to civilization.
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Friday, September 23, 2016
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Lucid Dreaming | I can't ever stay on lucid dreaming long enough to get anywhere
I've been on and off trying to lucid dream for about four years. I've tried practicing a bunch of different ways, but I can't ever make any real progress.
The big problem is that I either have too much enthusiasm or too little enthusiasm. When I first started I was really excited for a few weeks, but eventually I kept giving up, then trying to start again later. During that time I tried to do a bunch of techniques at once to increase my odds of getting a lucid dream.
After a while I caught on to the fact that I was just going to give up, so now I just do two things, write in my dream journal and try to think about lucid dreaming before I go to sleep. Some people told me that I should just keep it simple so I don't get burnt out, but now it seems like I've been having less than ever. I only get about 1 every 6 months, and it's not anything special either, usually everything feels so blurry and unstable that I can't do anything in the dream.
It seems like if I have any excitement about it, the excitement dies off after a few weeks of not getting anywhere, and if I don't, lucid dreaming isn't on my mind enough for it to happen
I always see that the really good lucid dreamers on here enjoy to practice and write in a dream journal, but to be honest, for me it feels like a chore. That is probably part of the reason I never get anywhere
Basically what I'm asking is how to find some way to progress steadily when I can't get an in-between level of enthusiasm
The big problem is that I either have too much enthusiasm or too little enthusiasm. When I first started I was really excited for a few weeks, but eventually I kept giving up, then trying to start again later. During that time I tried to do a bunch of techniques at once to increase my odds of getting a lucid dream.
After a while I caught on to the fact that I was just going to give up, so now I just do two things, write in my dream journal and try to think about lucid dreaming before I go to sleep. Some people told me that I should just keep it simple so I don't get burnt out, but now it seems like I've been having less than ever. I only get about 1 every 6 months, and it's not anything special either, usually everything feels so blurry and unstable that I can't do anything in the dream.
It seems like if I have any excitement about it, the excitement dies off after a few weeks of not getting anywhere, and if I don't, lucid dreaming isn't on my mind enough for it to happen
I always see that the really good lucid dreamers on here enjoy to practice and write in a dream journal, but to be honest, for me it feels like a chore. That is probably part of the reason I never get anywhere
Basically what I'm asking is how to find some way to progress steadily when I can't get an in-between level of enthusiasm
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Lucid Dreaming | Opinions needed!
Last night i went to bed....instead of going to sleep i tried a meditation/OBE/WILD attempt.I looked alot into astral projection *OBE* and know of all the signs before the transition stage.
During my attempt after about 40mins my body went very hot even tho the room wasnt hot.I think i remember reading that when your body shuts down before sleep it heats up maybe as a defense mechanizm or something that the body does....eneways i couldnt stand the heat anymore so i just turned over and wheh i did i felt so much cooler and comfy....due to this i must of fell to sleep rather quick.
That night i had 2 lucid dreams.....my question is
Because of how quickly i fell asleep as to my usual tossy turner night do you think thats why i became lucid due to hiw quick i fell to sleep?
Thankyou =)
During my attempt after about 40mins my body went very hot even tho the room wasnt hot.I think i remember reading that when your body shuts down before sleep it heats up maybe as a defense mechanizm or something that the body does....eneways i couldnt stand the heat anymore so i just turned over and wheh i did i felt so much cooler and comfy....due to this i must of fell to sleep rather quick.
That night i had 2 lucid dreams.....my question is
Because of how quickly i fell asleep as to my usual tossy turner night do you think thats why i became lucid due to hiw quick i fell to sleep?
Thankyou =)
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Lucid Dreaming | How long should it take to establish a habit like this?
So I've been trying to develop a habit of reality checking to going in and out of buildings. So far I've kept it up for 4 months and don't often forget to do it, however, it is still not noticeable in dreams. Should it take longer than this?
Also, this is just a general "cue" I've chosen, but I wonder if people have the same habit-building difficulty when it comes to more personal dream signs as well.
Also, this is just a general "cue" I've chosen, but I wonder if people have the same habit-building difficulty when it comes to more personal dream signs as well.
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What is Sharia Law and how it affects Americans
by Carmen Amedori
Most important to know and understand is that Islam is first a “political organization” of totalitarianism – NO individual rights. With it comes Sharia law. Under Sharia, it is the duty of every Muslim to act as Mohamed commands – it is not about Allah – it is all about Mohamed’s militarized slave society surviving on the “host.
INFILTRATION
Ninety-one percent of all the refugees in the U.S. are on welfare. Dictator Obama has reached his goal of importing “at least 10,000” Syrians ahead of schedule which means he could easily increase the number to 11,000 or more by the end of this fiscal year on Sept. 30. Then there is next year. At the United Nations refugee summit on September 20, Obama will announce his goal for the number of refugees brought into the U.S. for fiscal 2017.
THE ARRIVAL of these refugees is a huge threat to our already dwindling free society. There are three stages of Sharia and how implemented in our communities.
1 – The Muslim is weak– this is with a one percent population. It means there is a “hidden” Sharia. Most practices are within the homes, and local mosques. It is not for public consumption and/or shared with any outsiders. They are peaceful.
2 – The Muslim is in good standing – with an increase of population to two percent, they begin their lobbying efforts. These lobbying efforts take place in our prisons, poorer neighborhoods and our schools and universities eventually, to our legislators.
3 – The Muslim in Power – When the population goes beyond three percent, power accelerates and intimidation tactics begin. This is the “penetration stage” and the current status in many communities in states including Texas, Michigan, Mississippi, Kentucky, Kansas, Virginia and West Virginia. There are many examples of how radical Islam and Sharia are slithering onto our land in an effort to transform America as it has Europe.
For example, an increasing number of public American schools with Muslim students are holding Islamic prayers towards Mecca while public American universities continue to build Muslim-only washing facilities such as the one at the Eastern Michigan University. In addition, more than a dozen universities like George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. have footbaths, many installed in new buildings.
Additionally, in 2013, Skokie School District 68 in Illinois became the first US school district to celebrate “Eid al-Adha,” a Muslim high day, as a school holiday, in lieu of Veterans Day. In 2014, Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, Colorado became the first high school to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic, replacing “One nation under God,” with “One nation under Allah.”
With GROWING ISLAMIC populations, comes accelerated power and with an effort to subjugate the nations to Islamic laws even indirectly. The goal is to control freedom of speech, liberty and expression, the media and the U.S. Constitution to the point of enslavement. As we speak, there are many front groups under the guise of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sharia Law v. The United States Constitution
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution says the document crafted by our Forefathers shall be the supreme law of the land. Therefore, when we compare Sharia covenants to the U.S. Constitution it is solid as to why the two cannot Co-Exist. In a side-by-side comparison, aside from the obvious, the following comparison chart shows why the U.S. Constitution and Sharia Law can never co-exist.
| The U.S. Constitution
Article 6: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby.” 1st Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
2nd Amendment: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” 8th Amendment: “…nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
14th Amendment: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. “ |
Under Sharia and the Quran
“The source of legal rulings for all acts of those who are morally responsible is Allah. There is only one law, which ought to be followed, and that is the Sharia.”
Quran 4:89.: “Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn back (from Islam), take hold of them and kill them wherever you find them. Under Section 295C of the Pakistan Penal Code Blasphemy merits the death penalty: Speech defaming Islam or Muhammad is considered “blasphemy” and is punishable by death or imprisonment. Non-Muslims are not to harbor any hostility toward the Islamic state or give comfort to those who disagree with Islamic government.
Under historic and modern dhimmi laws, non-Muslims cannot possess swords, firearms, or weapons of any kind.
Muhammad said, “No Muslim should be killed for killing a Kafir (infidel).” Non-Muslims are prohibited from testifying against Muslims. A woman’s testimony is equal to half of a man’s.
Under Quran, 5:38 punishments are barbaric. “Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are male or female, as punishment for what they have done – a deterrent from Allah.” AND with Sura 24:2. A raped woman is punished. Additionally, “The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication – flog each of them with a hundred stripes.”
Under dhimmi laws enforced in modern Sharia states, Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims are not equal to Muslims before the law. Under Sharia law, women, girls, apostates, homosexuals, and “blasphemers” are all denied equality under the law. |
It is clear that under our Republic there is no room for Sharia.
With the help of the Muslim Brotherhood and the many funding front groups it umbrellas, the 7th century barbarity of Sharia is advocated in many states. A 2011 study by The Center for Security Policy, revealed 50 legal cases across 23 states, all published appellate cases, where Sharia was either relevant or highly relevant to the arguments or outcome of the case. Thus, there is a real need to have legislation, which focuses on American Laws for American Courts
Such legislation outlawing Sharia based on its unconstitutionality passed in states such as Kansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Challenged by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, Oklahoma’s 2013 legislation prohibits the application of foreign law, including but not limited to Sharia, when it would violate fundamental constitutional rights such as due process and equal protection. The law modeled after Oklahoma’s is pending in dozens of other states. Therefore, it is imperative that We the People do not allow our courts to be bullied, intimidated, or terrorized into implementing Sharia law.
Ironically, all the women groups advocating for this co-existence, will be the first to lose their rights under Sharia. Apparently, they have never read or even perused the Quran – As under 2.223 it states, “Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like . . . .”
ADDITIONALLY, men can divorce the wife simply by saying three times, “I divorce you.” Yet, there are no rights bestowed to women for divorce – or otherwise for that matter. Under Sharia, women are brutally mistreated and held as slaves to the man. A man can marry a monotheist as long as she converts and vows to raise the children under Islam. Women have no such rights; and to save “honor” blood must be spilled.
This influx of refugees with hidden Islamic agendas is another brick in the wall to the destruction of America – our home of the free. We are a tolerant society. We allow our Constitution to extend to those who are not citizens, we strive to live and let live. Yet, we are the ones under siege by terrorists who continue to bully and belly ache that we are phobic, racists, and irrational because we want to keep the Republic of fairness and justice for all. Without a watchful eye, the intolerance of radical Islam will ultimately change the Republic given to us by our Forefathers.
KNOW THIS Sharia has consequences. It cannot co-exist with our Constitution. We need to fight against it, stand up to it. We the People need to continue to stay on top of our elected officials and push to have the American Laws for American Courts enacted in every state. It is absolute truth that the Muslim Brotherhood is alive and well in 100 countries all with ties to radical Islam. And they are alive and well in the U.S.A.
Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth, which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the nation that rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a State based on its own ideology and program. There is no room for the U.S. Constitution in Islam and there is no room for Sharia in our United States.
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Lucid Dreaming | Lucid dreaming when you have to get up early for work
How do you guys lucid dream when you have to wake up early (6 ish)?
Most of my lucid dreams are later in the morning between 7 and 8 (and later). If I have to wake up early, it's much harder to have a lucid dream. Any tips?
Most of my lucid dreams are later in the morning between 7 and 8 (and later). If I have to wake up early, it's much harder to have a lucid dream. Any tips?
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Monday, September 19, 2016
Amateur Radio Parity Act Passes US House
Most new houses are part of homeowners associations, covenants, or have other restrictions on the deed that dictate what color you can paint your house, the front door, or what type of mailbox is acceptable. For amateur radio operators, that means neighbors have the legal means to remove radio antennas, whether they’re unobtrusive 2 meter whips or gigantic moon bounce arrays. Antennas are ugly, HOAs claim, and drive down property values. Thousands of amateur radio operators have been silenced on the airwaves, simply because neighbors don’t like ugly antennas.
Now, this is about to change. The US House recently passed the Amateur Radio Parity Act (H.R. 1301) to amend the FCC’s Part 97 rules of amateur stations and private land-use restrictions.
The proposed amendment provides, ““Community associations should fairly administer private land-use regulations in the interest of their communities, while nevertheless permitting the installation and maintenance of effective outdoor Amateur Radio antennas.” This does not guarantee all antennas are allowed in communities governed by an HOA; the bill simply provides that antennas, ‘consistent with the aesthetic and physical characteristics of land and structures in community associations’ may be accommodated. While very few communities would allow a gigantic towers, C-band dishes, or 160 meters of coax strung up between trees, this bill will provide for small dipoles and inconspicuous antennae.
The full text of H.R. 1301 can be viewed on the ARRL site. The next step towards making this bill law is passage through the senate, and as always, visiting, calling, mailing, faxing, and emailing your senators (in that order) is the most effective way to make views heard.
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Sunday, September 18, 2016
Spectrum Analyzer With 555 Fits In A Tin
[VK2ZAY] has a thing for 555 chips. Before the ready availability of microcontrollers, the 555 was the hardware hacker’s swiss army knife. After all, even though the chip is supposed to be a timer, it is really a bunch of simple pieces you can use to make a timer: a pair of comparators, a few transistors, and a flip-flop. You can use those parts in many different ways, and a timer is just one of them.
[VK2ZAY] used one as a key component in a simple spectrum analyzer. The 555 generates a ramp voltage which alters the frequency of an oscillator. The oscillator mixes with the input signal and a fixed-frequency superregenerative detector creates an output voltage proportional to the input signal strength. You can see a video of the whole setup, below.
Simple and elegant. Not the best performing spectrum analyzer you can find, but it does the job and it fits in an Altoid tin. Generating a ramp isn’t too far of a stretch for a 555, but we’ve seen [VK2ZAY] abuse 555s far worse.
If you want to know more about the 555, you can get all forensic with [Ken Shirriff]. Or you can look at its guts on a more macro level, if you prefer.
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High Impedance Headphones? They’re In The Can!
[George Trimble] likes to build crystal radios. The original crystal radio builders used high impedance headphones. In modern builds, you are as likely to include a powered amplifier to drive a speaker or normal headphones (which are usually around 4 to 16 ohms).
[George] builds his own speakers using chile cans, some wire, a few magnets, part of a Pepsi can (we are pretty sure someone will leave a comment that Coke cans sound better), and the iron core out of an audio transformer. You can see a very detailed video of the process, below.
There is a little woodworking and hot gluing involved. The result is decidedly homemade looking, but if you want to say you built it yourself (or, if you are a prepper trying to get ready to rebuild after the apocalypse and you can’t find a cache of headphones) this might be just the ticket.
Most of the headphone hacks we see start with a pair of headphones. That’s a bit tautological, but the goal is usually to add features, not make the whole thing. It does give you some hacker cred, though, to be able to look at the other guy’s radio and say, “Oh. I see you used commercial headphones.”
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Saturday, September 17, 2016
Wilderness Radio Build
[AA7EE] is no stranger to building radios. His latest is a from-scratch build of a 20 meter QRP transceiver based on the popular SST design. Although the SST has been available as a kit, [AA7EE] incorporated some design changes from others and some of his own, too. He even added an onboard keyer to simplify operation. You can see videos of the radio below.
The build uses Manhattan-style PCB pads. Although the construction is very attractive, the real value of the post is the detailed explanation of not only how, but why everything is the way it is. This isn’t a simple project, and being able to see it completed step-by-step is very educational. About the only decision not adequately explained was the change of red and yellow knobs to black! You can see both versions in the videos below.
The Manhattan construction is tidy, but the radio also has an attractive case. The size is just big enough to stack a pair of paddles on top.
There may be some more enhancements for the little radio coming. We’ve covered [AA7EE’s] RF exploits before, including a physically attractive radios and details about the same construction method used in this radio.
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The 10th Amendment and Nullification
“The government closest to the people serves the people best.” Thomas Jefferson
Government closest to the people is the best form of government as it allows the people to be more involved and enforce their right to reign in an overbearing government. In debate during the 1788 Virginia Convention, Thomas Jefferson argued for the 10th Amendment stressing that Article 1, Section 1 of the United States Constitution delineating the purpose of the federal government was too ambiguous and granted too much wiggle room for the federal government in which to gain relentless power and control via legislative mandates.
It was the belief of Jefferson, George Mason and other anti-federalists that the 10th Amendment was a necessary wall to ensure the people always have power over their government. The 10th Amendment is more than a right but also a duty to step in and stop any usurping government. Although the last Amendment, it is a lynchpin tying together our entire God given rights of freedom as set forth in our Bill Of Rights.
Today, however, our local elected officials are just as guilty of a power and money grab as those of the gangsters at the federal level are. Like good little thieving thugs, local officials fall into line with the extortion and hostage-like mandates of the federal government as it dangles a few tax dollars as a reward and threats of no taxpayer dollars for local projects if they do not. Unfortunately, as a distracted nation, voters continue to fall for the song and dance of promises of less government and no new taxes bulldoogle only later to see they are all frauds and that once they are elected, they forget who they represent and from where they hail.
Recently in the state of Maryland, Governor Martin O’Malley and his progressive army of gangsters decided to tax the rain. Yes, it’s true. Under the mandate by O’Malley, Maryland counties devised storm water management plans wherein each homeowner and business owner would be assessed a tax based on how much rainwater fell and later trickled off their rooflines, driveways, and other impervious areas.
Giving a whole new meaning to pennies falling from the sky, the penalty for not complying within the timeframe would result in county fines of up to $10,000 each day they failed to implement a plan and ensuing assessments. Instead of the county elected officials fighting back, they began immediate compliance. It was not until a few of residents of certain counties created a protest on the tax, brought to light the absurdity of taxing the rain, and elected a new governor who eventually nullified the tax. This is the epitome of the 10th Amendment and the power to the people and our ability to win at the ballot box.
Unfortunately, those type of ballot box stories are far and few between across the nation. Nonetheless, victory does lie within the 10th Amendment.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” – Amendment 10
The purpose of government under Article 1, Section 1 is to protect individual liberties from all foreign and domestic enemies. Period.
The purpose of the 10th Amendment is so when the politicians turn gangster We the People have every right to disband and rebuild. All government should be designed to be accountable and available to the taxpayer. Americans are a “forgive and forget” group of people. Therefore, easily swayed with an apology from the lying crooks who do nothing more than hand out new laws, new executive mandates and all the while continue to tax without representation.
Our Forefathers had great, first-hand knowledge of these type of tyrants, dictators, and autocrats, which is why they brought forth the wonderful “Republic for which we stand.” This was in no way an easy task; as matter of fact, our Forefathers were afraid of what King George III would do once they brought forth the new nation, the U.S. Constitution and Bill Of Rights.
They have never met such a challenge as succession; but it was with the love of freedom, independence and the certain unalienable rights that no one person should ever be able to infringe they surged forth and prepared for the worst. They discussed when would be the “best” time – the “proper time” to deliver the documents of the birth of the free United States to the king. They realized there was never going to be the perfect opportune time so they mustered up all their courage and as one stood against the tyranny.
The American Revolution experiences is what they drew from and obtained the foresight to cover all bases to ensure freedom for generations to come; such as wrapping up the BOR with the 10th Amendment. Remember we are a Constitutional Republic. The type of government our Forefathers gave to us grants states’ rights and self-government purposes. Our Forefathers created a process wherein government was supposed to begin with We the People; yet, we have evolved into a tyrannical government of the reverse and it trickles down with unconstitutional orders and laws imposed and infringing on our Constitutional rights.
NULLIFICATION
As President Ronald Reagan stated in his first inaugural address, “federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.” However, tell that to President Abraham Lincoln. It was his reasoning that state has had no such power. As a tyrant, he totally ignored the 10th Amendment and made it clear it was his way or no way – such nonsense would not disrupt the Union or the strong centralized government he advocated. It was with the 10th Amendment the South rose and demanded succession; thus, the aggression from the North on orders of stinkin’ Lincoln.
OF course, we know the rest of the story. Nevertheless, the way history is taught in our schools brings Lincoln to a favorable spot in the hearts of Americans –after all, it was he who freed the slaves. In reality, eleven states seceded and formed their own confederacy; Lincoln declared it was a violation of the Constitution and deliberately overlooked the right of the People to restructure as granted in the 10th Amendment.
He suspended habeas corpus, locked up the Baltimore mayor and city council and newspaper editors throughout the country who disagreed with his plans. As Lincoln continue to build a stronger northern economy with disproportionate taxes onto the booming south, the words of Alexander Hamilton who stressed the importance of the writ of habeas corpus and our protection against “the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny,” as stated in Federalist No. 84 were condemned by Lincoln and thus the war began.
The sole purpose of 10th is for the individual power to decide how much state government is necessary and to then flow from the state to the feds. Sadly, Americans are too caught up in their busy lives of working simply to pay taxes and stay afloat; just simply unaware of the duty within the Right bestowed by the 10th Amendment, to dismantle and rebuild a greedy and over-powering government.
Thus, we have succumbed to federal mandates such as the government takeover of medical care “Obamacare” and emissions testing just to name a few. Of course, we can go back to the bailouts and the takeover of General Motors, etc. Currently, we are facing an influx of refugees who will further infringe on our sovereignty as an individual and a nation.
No American wants to be deemed uncaring; nor, do we want to be tagged as conspiracy theorists. However, is it a conspiracy when it is right before our eyes? The political correct federal gangster government has a playbook wherein if questioned, they sucker punch us collectively in the stomach and place a guilt trip on the American people in effort to force empathy at our expense.
It is no wonder so many decide to be an ostrich with their head in the sand. We the People have allowed this evolving, overbearing government to control with fear of government reprisal. The federal government wants us to believe we have “progressed” beyond the 10th Amendment. Though not advocating bloodshed, Patriots need to muster the guts to halt the tyranny. We have an inherent duty to protect for future generations.
Things change, but the Constitution and our God given rights do not. These are not breathing and living documents. Self-governance is definite under the 10th Amendment. We can begin by calling out all fake and unconstitutional laws imposed by the feds. It begins on a local level and the nullification of any and all legislation; local ordinances that seek to interfere with ones right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Get involved at the local level. Take your jury duty like a patriot and if the laws involved are unconstitutional, then acquit. Send the message that We the People will not continue to be indentured servants.
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Government are numerous and indefinite. The Former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the state.”
James Madison Federalist No. 45
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Friday, September 16, 2016
High Performance Crystal Radio
When you think of a crystal radio, you probably think of something simple maybe built out of household scraps. Not if you are [Chris Wendling]. He recently posted a video (see below) of his high-performance crystal set. He doesn’t take any shortcuts: he has several hundred feet of antenna wire, and uses a cold-water pipe ground system. With no amplifier, a strong signal input is crucial.
The radio has four subsystems: an antenna tuner, a bandpass filter, a detector, and a powered audio output system. He also has a truly enormous system of speakers on the ceiling–this isn’t the crystal radio you made in the boy scouts.
One novel feature of the bandpass filter is that to use it, you slide the coil between the antenna tuner coil and the detector coil. You can also rotate the antenna coil to affect the coupling. The filter is just a Litz coil and a capacitor, but it adds selectivity to the system. If you watch almost fourteen minutes of the video, you’ll be rewarded with the schematic of the unit, by the way.
This is certainly not the smallest crystal radio we’ve seen. But a lot more people than you might suspect take crystal radio development pretty seriously.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
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Lucid Dreaming | Reality is a nightmare
I cant tell if reality is scarier or my dreams. I hate life, should I just kill myself? Anything we think say or do is futile and we"re all going to die in the end and our lives may as well have never even happened. How do I go on in life? I wish God would visit me and tell me existence is good but I cant lie to myself.
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Monday, September 12, 2016
Are the Globalists Winning?
By Silence Dogood
Whatever you call them, (for there are many names). Some call it the New World order, the Globalist Agenda, the Military Industrial Complex, The Free Masons the Illuminati, ties with the Vatican, or the many families of Bankers, like the Rothschild, Rockefeller, J P Morgan, Warburg Brothers or any of the corporate gangs such as Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Koch Brothers or just plain corporatism. The question on most critical thinkers minds are whether this Globalist regime is winning their war on humanity.
It seems that they are not.
I say this because we the people are increasingly becoming more knowledgeable of the maniacal and grossly detailed ways of their plans. Methods created to usurp every aspect of our lives. More and more people realize their deceptions and the weaker they become. That is not to say we have defeated them, because like any disease left untreated it has metastasized and spread in other ways. The only true diagnosis is that it is not going away that easily. They appear to be ramping up their efforts to solidify a worldwide plan of dominance over everything.
Lately, they have deployed the classic, slash, and burn method of “all out war” against their opponents that is “us” incase you were wondering, forcing us into a panic mode, and tipping the scales in their favor yet again.
It’s election time in America and the heat is on. It appears they are going ahead with their plans of world dominance despite any of our strong objections. Every detail we see in the news, social media, reveal this new fervor, and as their lies are slowly uncovered it all points to an increasing trend of desperation. Let us hope this is the ringing of their death knell, but I doubt it and I doubt it will come that easily, nothing ever does.
To properly analyze our fight for life, at least on any comparable scale we need to look at it as worldwide issue. The frontline for this war takes the form in many ways. The least of which is the FIAT currency scheme. The global elite’s have controlled world currencies for over a century now, and in some cases longer. They have also managed to fracture our alliances between peaceful countries that could have been easily mended by diplomacy alone. They have destroyed every democratic nation on the planet, converting most to some mutated form of socialist-corporate-fascism, and in doing so prevented the people from these nations in interfering with their diabolical plans of world government, which in hind sight appears to be just a euphemism for Worldwide Domination.
Let me correct myself here, for those of you that find it so hard to believe this is some form “Conspiracy,” by using the true form of the word, meaning to conspire together against a common foe. Perhaps you might be right. So allow me to pull back that last statement, and simply say this. It appears that a small percentage of people using a fairly opportunistic approach to business; who are mainly composed of individuals among the top 1% of the richest and most powerful people on the planet, who do seem to take advantage of our worldwide crisis for their own personal grab for power. Simply put the elite of the elite are using our social systems against us. Lets get clinical here and call it mega power, never before dreamed.
There, I hope that satisfies the extra cautious among you, the non-conspiracy type people. For everyone else, I am sure we can agree that certain people are taking advantage of what is going on in the world today, and in a BIG way.
Where we stand now, and how will they implement this control on our world
1) Creating Crisis:
The number one agenda is War: This is probably the oldest trick on the books. What ever your positions on how these conflicts have started, you have to admit they are happening all around us today. This is undoubtedly the best way to make money off the hardships of others, especially if you are one of the big players in the worldwide game.
The profits made by corporations in this game is staggering, the arms deals, and weapons manufacturing, the privatization of the world’s armies is a very lucrative business nowadays.
Not surprisingly, six of the nine (6 of 9) most profitable weapons manufacturers are located in the United States.
The Number Two Agenda is Money
How they fund these wars…
First you need to have the ability to create the money used to coerce the sensible populous into fighting their wars for them. One way is to pay the people money for their services. However, that would not be very good business sense, would it? Another way is to starve the people first, then offering them excuses to hate the enemy country. Pointing fingers at anything to explain why it is someone else’s fault, you are starving.
Straining diplomatic relations and a hidden Military agenda:
China vs. USA: This is not necessarily truthful.
How about Russia vs. USA: again, are we or have we ever actually been at war with Russia?
The Banking illusions are also used against us, pretending as if we are on the same team or just another form of reverse psychology.
Do the Chinese not own many of our Bonds, and are the Chinese not among our US allies against ISIS: and how about this newest development with China and Russia teaming up with the USA to fight ISIS. Are these other nations being run by the same crowd of sociopaths? Putin believes the Rothschilds are corrupting the Russian banking system and he threatens to nationalize their privately owned banks.
Starvation is a tool: Starving the people; before a war, or a take over is the easiest way to weaken a nation, and effectively motivates people into submitting to an agenda. Take these ongoing crisis in Africa, Venezuela, or Syria for instance, and many other nations now in conflict, and wracked with starvation.
Foreign Influences and manipulation: All of these conflicts are found to be created by outside western forces, initially. The internal national governments certainly were not solely at fault for these nations’ collapses. Even the situation in Libya was obviously created by outside influences. Absolutely, Kaddafi’s regime, and his subsequent death were the tipping points for sure, but the behind the scenes tug of war was what ultimately set off the down fall, but why?
Now you have a new starving populous ready to fight for anything you can point at, and further exasperated by the vacuum left behind once his tyrannical regime was toppled. Allowing any other third party faction, to move in and become the new “axis of evil” to enter the theatre of war.
Implementing their Plan
Financial Control: So certainly, a centrally controlled money system is ideal, where you can magically print money right out of thin air. This would be best to control these nations and force them into war and into giving up their rights and freedoms. However, you cannot just invade countries like the US of A. Therefore, another tactic must be employed. Perhaps cause an economical depression.
How they bring down the biggest nations: A sudden retraction of liquidity in the US markets works best, and is much cheaper then War, a covert strike using their favorite tool the “fiat money system”; you simply over load any nation with debt, and in this case, the debt is beyond any hope of repayment. Then when all common sense tells you otherwise, you increase the interest rate on that nation’s debt. I promise this will bring any nation’s economy to its knees without firing a shot. This, you do in stages, when you need them to submit to your will. A monetary muscle is being flexed almost every fiscal quarter these days. Media is used to heighten the fear of collapse, and panic ensues and if that is not enough, they manipulate the stock markets, with margin calls and rumors, in a sense “ratting on themselves.”
Play with interest rates: This is my favorite, for months ahead of this fiasco, they beat the drums of finance claiming Financial Armageddon is coming, and then they release the hounds. I predict they will use this coming rate change in the USA as one of the next tactics to get us all on board with their latest New World Order scheme, most likely shifting the public opinion toward one of their electoral candidates. Like the one favorite saying “never let a crisis go to waste.”
Hiding their plans in Plain Sight: This next fact is straight from the horses mouth here, an article from 2007 on the IMF website regarding how global governance is designed to help us all.
On the other hand, how about this “blatant” website information. I agree this information is not written in stone, but where there is smoke, there is fire. They are so use to the passive zombie masses that they tell us upfront of their plans.
Using the people to do their dirty work
The Coups: Another very old tool of the regime is the Coup; used very successfully for over a millennium. These may appear to be organic attempts at an over throw of Government, but very little research is usually require to see beneath these uprisings, and find the true puppet masters behind them that pull their strings.
The majority of Military Coups are designed to tear down a functioning country and install a Military dictatorship controlled by one of the major nations of the western world. Sure, I know what you are thinking, if we are the major nation tearing them down, who cares. Well you have probably heard of the term “Blow Back,” by now this is why you should care.
Most appeared to be political or military coups, and who usually backs these military groups? You will not be surprise by this fact here, the US is the largest contributor of military aid in the world, but by how much, and how do they do it legally. Our spending on Military ventures throughout the world, is facilitated by the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program This is not to say other nations are not equally guilty of enabling these wars.
Who is involved, and where do we begin?
By now, even the faint hearted among you, should be getting a sense of the connections between these Globalists and their Methods of Operations. Therefore, whether these are some form of massive conspiracy or simply opportunist taking advantage of a global crisis this is really a moot point is it not. Are you not tired of the news headlines, the starving people the hardship, and injustice happening in the world? Do you not see the connection between the haves and the never going to have people of this world? It is happening right now, and it shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.
However, the question still remains are they winning, or can they be stopped in time? Add to that query if we can stop them at all, will this mean they have lost, and/or can we relax now we are aware?
You do not really believe we can wait, do you?
War profiteering: For instance, who actually has profited the most from the past wars? Was it the Politicians, the contractors, the Kings and Queens, the military?
Financial profiteering: How about “The Great Depression” did anybody profit during that calamity?
A walk down memory lane: The following names are familiar to us all, they where held up in class when we where children as the success stories of the century. The names like Rothschild, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Warburg, Carnegie and others. Masters of industry, the dealmakers, the men that forged this nation from Wrought Iron, Petroleum and Steel.
Sounds a bit like schoolboy propaganda, does it not?
The truth is nearly the opposite, and most of these men either out right stole their fortunes from the weak and vulnerable, or they created it from braking the backs of the little people they controlled.
Rothschild’s legacy: http://ift.tt/1S8JUgS
J. P. Morgan, history: http://ift.tt/2cQVeF3
John D. Rockefeller empire: http://ift.tt/1ZijQUn
The Warburg Brothers financed both sides of WW1: http://ift.tt/2cQUy2s
The real question during those trying times is whether any of these factors or methods that were purposely, invoked back during the depression, can still be done today. Furthermore, would someone use these same tactics against the people now? Lets say, to profit during a perpetual recession or “new age great depression,” and all the while, why not even being revealed by the media as exploitative practices by these elite scoundrels?
Some familiar characters have re-emerge recently:
Rothschild has been indicted for laundering funds.
P. Morgan: Morgan Stanley are accused of fraud and cover up, and public officials are involved, all indict for operating under the color of law: http://ift.tt/2cQVZho The Morgan Stanley relationship is the same manure just in a different pile: http://ift.tt/2ciEAJg
This is rapidly referred as the Morgan Stanley Gate. http://twsyf.com/
John D. Rockefeller; Originally Standard Oil but is now BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobile, and Conoco Phillips. Why did it get broke up, because even back in the old days we considered this a monopoly? I wonder whom he had to have piss off to get kicked out of that sand box. http://ift.tt/2cQVdkA
The New Warburg Brothers bank of Hamburg: http://ift.tt/2ciEhyc
Goldman Sachs one of the latest corporate equivalent of a creepy old dude has now entered the scene with there worldwide form of corruption: http://ift.tt/2cQVOTn
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive… Where’s the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land?”
Two lines from the prophetic Marmion Poem by Sir Walter Scott “A tale of Flodden Field.”
There seems to be many inconstancies around the building of this nation since its beginning. The undeniable ties that America still has with England and the Vatican are oddly apparent. http://ift.tt/1Bk5yFL Clearly, conspiracy on someone’s part is taking place more often then not. Therefore, can we ever hope to take control of our lives from such megalomaniacs? The world now looks like some old English garden choked with bureaucracy, where the weeds and clinging ivy are twisted around all that was good and buries every past hope with corruption.
So how do we end a century old nightmare?
It is a Worldwide problem: It will require a worldwide solution. First by establishing an international task force to hunt down and confiscate this (our) wealth before anymore is taken from us. This may sound like a NATO or UN type matter, however even these institutions have been infiltrated and corrupted from within by these same entities.
No, I believe that the United States of America is in the best position to begin this new wave of freedom across this planet, leading by example not by force. Perhaps, we can start by cleaning up our own back yard…
Any war tactician knows that to win a war in the long haul, any war, you most often need to weaken your enemy first. Take advantage of their vulnerable fronts, and cut off their supply lines. First step is ending the Federal Reserve and the Central Banks and a great second step is to cut off those supplies and seize their assets. Perhaps the new unconstitutional acts designed by the presidents (NDAA and the Patriot Act).
Maybe these can actually help us until we rescind them for the in justice that they are on the citizens. Anyway, without income, the elite cannot easily fund a war against us.
A task force must be formed and be impartial too, a consistently independent group of people able to do their jobs unmolested by corruption, which undeniably means NO politicians, NO clergy, NO military can be on the boards of this task force. This is not an easy assignment, by any means. However, I believe it is possible without real violence. Every move they make will be made public for the people.
Having said that, I doubt the task force would have much authority or do any good without a legitimate Militia behind it. I would hope we as a nation could use our own Military Veterans and armed only with our own “Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and our Bill of Rights”; to enact these new policy changes. I believe a campaign must first begin by distributing a legal petition signed by a majority that gives the task force the right to proceed and is needed to rid the nation of these criminals once and for all. This is what the US Constitution was designed for, and I realize people scoff at this document sometimes, because they are ignorant of law and do not understand how legal documents work. The Constitution is a foundation document, and all other amendments that have been written afterwards are just that, simply add-ons that can be repealed by law as easily as they were added.
This is a consensus by the American people regarding supporting a military coup in the United States. I believe the numbers are changing even more in favor of some action.
I am sure there is still some room in Guantanamo Bay to house the guilty, using our military to guard them until their tribunals. After all, we are talking treason and other various crimes against the people here. Every US soldier that took an oath to defend the US Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic should respond, so they should be the ones to also back this movement.
The only problem with military coups is that they end up being dictatorships for the elite sometimes.
Everywhere around the world they are using mob mentality to over through governments. This does not appeal to me very much, in some places like the Philippines, Venezuela, and Turkey their latest coup by the people against the rebels is violent and happening right now. However, this is seems to be just another time in history where the people are forced by a corrupt government into revolting.
Having said that it also implies that these same elite scoundrels have not only lived through these coups in the past, but also are managing to get right back in place soon after, and even profiting by them at times. No… I think we need to publicly identify these perpetrators, before hand. I also sort of like the use of playing cards, a trick the US military used to identify Al-Qaeda members during the Afghan and Iraq wars.
In conclusion: Yes the elitist are losing, and yet for once in history lets change the laws, and put them out of our misery, forever ending their slavery over us.
Peace on Earth goodwill to all…
The New World order & the Illuminati are real.
Written by Silence Dogood
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Lucid Dreaming | I always forget to do RCs during the day
I try to do a breathe-through-nose RC every time I talk to someone or enter a new room... but I can't remember to do them most of the time
How can I turn this into a habit? :)
How can I turn this into a habit? :)
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Lucid Dreaming | Migraine reverie, anybody?
Background:
I had a bit of a headache most of the evening/last night, but nothing too bad. Slept ok.
I had breakfast normally the next morning. Still had the lingering, but manageable headache. Couldn't stomach my cup of tea (the taste of it) after so I knew I was in for a rough ride. Felt worse so I went for a lie down on my back.
For about 3-5 hours of feeling nauseous I found it REALLY easy to enter a state of reverie/hypnagogic imagery (yes eyes closed) to the point I started to wonder if I could maybe do this with my eyes open which would be very interesting? (I did not try as there was a bit of ambient light in the room, even with the curtains shut). I did have very short typical dream imagery at times.
I never fell asleep and I did have to sit up occasionally in the hope that the nausea tendency would settle before standing up which helped. Lying back down on my side would have probably triggered nausea as it felt unconfortable when I attempted it.
I don't suffer from the 'classic' migraine as such. The last similar one like this I had was about 5 or 6 years ago where I had a weak 'dream' or scene of being in my neighbour's kitchen across from me IWL. This whilst I was stitting up on the end of my bed (hoping not to puke) with all the hypnopompia/hypnagogia/reverie/delirium or whatever the correct terminology is when you are resting, rather than in a 'sleep' state.
I should point out it is not a usual or common experiment for me, or one I would like to induce. (I.e. hangover).
No drugs, apart from two painkillers before going to bed. Did not take any the next day for obvious reasons. Good sleep. (Not deprived).
Has anybody here who suffers from regular migraine or nausea-inducing headaches had anything similar, or if they have attempted a daytime WILD when ill?
I had a bit of a headache most of the evening/last night, but nothing too bad. Slept ok.
I had breakfast normally the next morning. Still had the lingering, but manageable headache. Couldn't stomach my cup of tea (the taste of it) after so I knew I was in for a rough ride. Felt worse so I went for a lie down on my back.
For about 3-5 hours of feeling nauseous I found it REALLY easy to enter a state of reverie/hypnagogic imagery (yes eyes closed) to the point I started to wonder if I could maybe do this with my eyes open which would be very interesting? (I did not try as there was a bit of ambient light in the room, even with the curtains shut). I did have very short typical dream imagery at times.
I never fell asleep and I did have to sit up occasionally in the hope that the nausea tendency would settle before standing up which helped. Lying back down on my side would have probably triggered nausea as it felt unconfortable when I attempted it.
I don't suffer from the 'classic' migraine as such. The last similar one like this I had was about 5 or 6 years ago where I had a weak 'dream' or scene of being in my neighbour's kitchen across from me IWL. This whilst I was stitting up on the end of my bed (hoping not to puke) with all the hypnopompia/hypnagogia/reverie/delirium or whatever the correct terminology is when you are resting, rather than in a 'sleep' state.
I should point out it is not a usual or common experiment for me, or one I would like to induce. (I.e. hangover).
No drugs, apart from two painkillers before going to bed. Did not take any the next day for obvious reasons. Good sleep. (Not deprived).
Has anybody here who suffers from regular migraine or nausea-inducing headaches had anything similar, or if they have attempted a daytime WILD when ill?
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