over 500,000 lbs of hazardous pesticides used within ¼ mile of California schools, putting more than 500,000 children in harm's way.

4-25-17    Top Pesticide Consuming Countries Of The World (in millions of kg. annually)

Consumption (millions of kilograms)

1

China

1,806

2

United States

386

3

Argentina

265

4

Thailand

87

5

Brazil

76

6

Italy

63

7

France

62

8

Canada

54

9

Japan

52

10

India

40

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-pesticide-consuming-countries-of-the-world.html'

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2-20-19    The abundance of insects globally is on the decline and 40% of species are threatened with extinction.  While some wild bee populations are doing well, others have experienced precipitous declines in recent years.  The rusty-patched bumble bee, for example, has declined 91% in two decades. Managed honey-bee populations are also in distress, with yearly colony losses well above twice the rate considered normal.  Insecticide use is among the mix of factors thought to be causing the declines.  https://qz.com/1554733/epa-allows-use-of-sulfoxaflor-pesticide-harmful-to-bees/

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2019     Last month, Ségolène Royal, the French Minister of Ecology, appeared on television to ask that "all mayors remove pesticides in parks and schools", following the appearance of scientific doubts about the safety of these substances….

  State officials found over 500,000 lbs of hazardous pesticides used within ¼ mile of California schools, putting more than 500,000 children in harm's way.  Similar to the France study many of the pesticides used near California schools are known to cause cancer and brain and nervous system damage. https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/should-cities-be-banning-herbicides-pesticides-going-organic/248611/

chess ending Nisipeanu-Nihal, Malmo 2019

Nisipeanu-Nihal, Malmo 2019

50. white to win

best is 50. h5!   This creates lots of trouble.  Nihal could have gone into a safer line at 47...., yet Nisipeanu missed this key move 50. h5!; they drew.

Each perceives in accordance with his consciousness.

75.  People are ready for every kind of spiritual incest.  People are only too willing to unite elements that are incompatible.  They try to unite the father element, fire, with the daughter element, water; and the earth-mother with the air-son.  If their progeny is burned to ashes they will not blame themselves and will lay the responsibility on the Heavenly Father.     -M:  Agni Yoga 1929

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170.  A ruler who is ignorant of the spiritual principle of self-perfectment cannot lead the multitude of consciousnesses entrusted to him.  A ruler is a living example, a ruler is one who lays out the paths through all the worlds.  He lays the foundation for prosperity, but it will not be prosperity on the material plane alone.  Thus he will be no true ruler for whom fire exists only at the end of a match.   His scope will be equal to that of his concepts.

322.  The entire perceptibility of the subtle world is relative, depending upon the development of consciousness.  One can be enraptured by the light or one may find oneself in fog.  One can build beautiful structures by will power or one may remain on piles of rubbish.  One can instantaneously assimilate the language of the Spirit or one may remain deaf and dumb--to each in accordance with his deeds.  Each perceives in accordance with his consciousness.  The subtle world is a state of true justice.  One can observe that a consciousness even though simple, progresses if illumined by love.  The bazaar-colored emotions of Earth-dwellers bear little resemblance to love.  Love often remains unrealized.  But in the subtle world love is the key to all locks.  For many people imagination is an unattainable abstraction, but in the subtle world each grain of the accumulations of imagination is a path to possibilities.  For Earth-dwellers offense, bitterness and vengeance constitute the bases of the bile and liver; but in the subtle world even for an average consciousness these infamies fall away as worthless husks. Therefore We emphatically repeat about the fiery consciousness in order that one be directed immediately into higher spheres.  One should indeed strive by all lofty means toward fiery consciousness....

  Even the most mundane physician knows how much electric force a human heart can withstand, and the intensity of common electricity is not to be compared with that of the fiery forces. The manifestation of fohat itself may not always be visible. How rarely then can the Radiant Guests appear!  Being undisciplined, people either become terrified or try to touch and thus are consumed.  Let us not forget that fear can burn away the heart.

 337.  Why do Fiery Beings seldom appear to Earth-dwellers?  For this also there is a scientific explanation….Even the most mundane physician knows how much electric force a human heart can withstand, and the intensity of common electricity is not to be compared with that of the fiery forces. The manifestation of fohat itself may not always be visible.  How rarely then can the Radiant Guests appear!  Being undisciplined, people either become terrified or try to touch and thus are consumed.  Let us not forget that fear can burn away the heart.

443.  The most difficult yet indispensable discipline is comprised in actions for the good of the world.  It is not easy to watch oneself in order to reject egoistic thoughts and actions.  But when the entire personality is consecrated to the world, discipline is not only easy but is even not felt.  To find a starting point for renunciation means to construct a straight path to the fiery world…. Egoism is of Earth.  It does not exist in the fiery world.  Its remains in the subtle world are like heavy chains.  It is not difficult to perceive how the meaning of egoism ends with the earthly state, it is not applicable to the subtle ascent…. 

  Nothing so greatly helps to put an end to earthly accounts as the liberation from egoism.  Being conscious of the fiery world reveals in the simplest way how worthless are the tortures engendered by egoism. The light of the fiery world acts as a great disinfectant.

591.  Resurrection and immortality--do they not direct our thoughts toward the foundation of Being?  But even these undeniable truths impel men toward disunity rather than cooperation.  Many are the streams of Benefaction poured upon Earth.  The manifestation of Benefaction occurs far more often than is generally supposed, yet the sacred gifts are accepted by men far more rarely than might be hoped.  Thus is the law of freewill peculiarly interpreted by Earth-dwellers. The dark forces try their utmost to prevent the manifestations of Benefaction. The self-will of people encourages various perversions.  One should observe how at times benevolent thoughts flash out, to be extinguished as if by the pressure of a black hand….the black eagle struggles with such fierceness, but out of the Dawn comes the White One and with him the streams of Benefaction!    

-Morya:  Fiery World 1933   

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156.  Earth-dwellers who possess not only a developed subtle body but also a lofty fiery consciousness can have intimations about the far-off worlds.          -M:  Brotherhood 1937

cries for justice “have fallen on deaf ears.”

                     -Porgera Gold Mine

5-3-19   This is only one of Papua New Guinea’s mines.  There are hundreds more that run from one end of the country to another. The population of PNG is only 8 million, which – given such wealth – would suggest that its people lived enriched lives.  But this is not the case.

  Behind the name PJV sits the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold and the Chinese mining company Zijin Mining.  Both are making enormous profits from this mine – and others.  Barrick Gold, as a new briefing by the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, “Ten Canadian Mining Companies: Financial Details and Violations,” shows, is worth billions of dollars and has mining operations across the world.  It has been the primary owner of the mine from 2006 to 2015.   Zijin Mining is one of China’s largest gold producers, which has gradually left Chinese shores to enter joint partnerships abroad.  https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/05/opinion/theft-of-resources-in-papua-new-guinea/

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5-1-19   Communities living around Papua New Guinea’s Porgera gold mine lack enough access to clean water to meet their basic needs.  They are also exposed to concerning levels of chemicals linked to mine operations, according to a new report ‘Red Water: Mining and the Right to Water in Porgera’….

  Cressida Kuala from the Porgera Red Wara Women’s Association says she has long suspected that water in the rivers which flow through her village and others in the mine area is unsafe to drink.  “Some times we walk about three or four hours up to the mountains to fetch water when there’s no water during the dry season.  When it rains we are a little bit scared that it contains chemicals that are being let out from the smoke,” said Cressida Kuala.  https://ramumine.wordpress.com/tag/barrick-gold/

"the heart of the mass surveillance system in Xinjiang"

Image: Human Rights Watch

5-3-19  Going by a technical name of "three-dimensional portrait and integrated data doors," these "data doors," as they are sometimes referred, are primarily used as another method of collecting data about the Muslim population, and track their movements

According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published today, data from these data doors is sent to the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP), a database that centralizes information from different sources, and one of the main systems Chinese authorities use for mass surveillance in Xinjiang.

The information collected by the data doors includes ID cards (which users have to swipe at the checkpoint), facial scans (recorded by a camera installed on the data door), height and other body measurables (recorded by sensors), and phone MAC and IMEI number (also recorded by the data door when the user passes through its gate).

"Unbeknownst to the person going through the checkpoints, these 'data doors' are detecting and collecting MAC addresses and IMEI numbers of the person's phones, and logging such data for identification and tracking purposes," HRW said today. 

Some of the "lawful behavior" that HRW investigators found logged in the IJOP database included details on the use of electricity and gas stations, if citizens are socializing with neighbors, if they avoid using the front door, donating to mosques, preaching the Quran without authorization, or using one of 51 applications (such s VPNs or encrypted IM apps).

"Human Rights Watch found that the system and some of the region's checkpoints work together to form a series of invisible or virtual fences. People's freedom of movement is restricted to varying degrees depending on the level of threat authorities perceive they pose, determined by factors programmed into the system," the organization said today in a visual reportdetailing the IJOP app's features. 

The data doors, the Jingwang (Citizen Safety) app, and the IJOP database and app are just some of the latest mass-surveillance tools that human rights organizations have found deployed inside China's Xinjiang region.

Previously, a security researcher found an open database that exposed a Chinese company's Muslim-tracking facial recognition database that aggregated data from CCTV and surveillance cameras to keep track of the location of Muslims across the Xinjiang region.  https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-uses-biometrics-and-digital-scanning-data-doors-to-track-muslim-minority/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5ccbd900df423900011170a1&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

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5-1-2019   The IJOP is unique," said Maya Wang, the senior researcher on China at Human Rights Watch. "It’s the heart of the mass surveillance system in Xinjiang."It’s the system of systems," she added.
  Upward of a million people, including ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic Muslims, have passed through mass internment camps in Xinjiang, where detainees are held without charge, taught Chinese, compelled to sing patriotic songs and learn Chinese Communist Party doctrine, and subjected to a wide range of abuses from food deprivation to being held in stress positions, according to many witness accounts.  
   The IJOP platform tracks people’s travel patterns, their electricity and petrol use, as well as religious activity like preaching or donating to mosques, Human Rights Watch found.  The IJOP also prompts police to check for apps deemed suspicious including messaging apps popular outside China, such as WhatsApp, Viber, and Telegram.   
  Based on these and many other criteria, the app spits out lists of people who are candidates for detention — suggesting there is a direct link between Xinjiang’s complex surveillance apparatus and the mass internment of Muslim minorities  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/ijop-china-uighur-muslim-app

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   Last month reports surfaced that academics at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing had co-written papers with researchers affiliated with China’s National University of Defense Technology on AI methods that can be used for surveillance.  https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2019/0503/In-race-to-dominate-AI-US-researchers-debate-collaboration-with-China

attempt to pull coup on US presidency

4-17-18  

   Priestap is (Jan-Oct 2016) the head of FBI counterintelligence operations.  As FBI Assistant Director in charge of counterintelligence, Bill Priestap was immediate supervisor of Peter Strzok….The investigation into then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was, in fact, a counterintelligence operation.  That operation began in July 2016.  As such, Bill Priestap would be directly in charge of that operation along with all other FBI counterintelligence operations.  Meaning, Peter Strzok reported directly to Bill Preistap….

  You see, congressional oversight protocol requires the FBI Director (James Comey) to inform the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (The Gang of 8) of any counterintelligence operations.  At the time the operation began, the oversight committee consisted of the following members of Congress:  Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Devin Nunes, Adam Schiff, Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein.

  Yet on March 20, 2017, during congressional testimony, FBI Director James Comey was specifically asked why he did not inform Congress about the counterintelligence operation that began in July 2016.

  FBI Director Comey was completely unprepared for this line of questioning—he can clearly be seen “passing the buck” and setting up a fall guy.  FBI Director Comey said he did not tell congressional oversight he was investigating presidential candidate Donald Trump because the Director of Counterintelligence …

  Consider this:  directly above Priestap was James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and James Baker. James Comey was fired (May 2017), Andrew McCabe was fired or quit (depending on who you talk to, Jan 2018), and James Baker was fired.  Yet, Bill quietly goes back to work.

  Below him was Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Jim Rybicki, Trisha Beth Anderson and Mike Kortan. Peter Strzok was fired, Lisa Page was reassigned, Jim Rybicki was replaced, Trish Beth Anderson suddenly resigned, and Mike Kortan suddenly retired.

  Parallel to Priestap, his peer John P. Carlin resigned (Sept 2016), Sally Yates was fired (May 2017), Mary McCord quit, Bruce Ohr was busted (twice), and Dave Laufman resigned.   All of them caught in the investigative net.  Only Bill Priestap remains, quietly invisible—still in position.  https://www.opslens.com/2018/04/bill-priestap-and-the-james-comey-entanglement/

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Comey nominated

5-1-18    “In 1996, Jim Comey acted as the deputy special counsel for the Senate committee investigating the Whitewater scandal.  While some people connected to the Whitewater company were arrested and charged with crimes. Comey eventually acknowledged that Hillary Clinton obstructed the investigation and destroyed evidence, but he decided not to prosecute due to Clinton’s ‘lack of intent’ 

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  Comey, Brennan and Clapper fabricated a fake intelligence report to bolster the smear against Trump.  And we now know that five billionaires from California and New York entered into a conspiracy to overthrow the Trump administration with a $50 million investment.  

  We now know there never was a Trump-Russia collusion.  We now know the collusion with Russia was through Fusion GPS, the DNC and high-level members of the FBI, CIA and DNI.    https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2018/05/01/coup-detat/

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John P. Carlin was the Assistant Attorney General for National Security from April 2014 through October 2016.  As AAG, Mr. Carlin oversaw nearly 400 employees responsible for protecting the country against international and domestic terrorism, espionage, cyber, and other national security threats.  https://www.justice.gov/archives/nsd/staff-profile/former-assistant-attorney-general-john-p-carlin

find Best chess move; ifnancial support is always as the shifting sands until

GM Patrick Wolff vs. Eric Li; rapid play https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2019-pro-chess-league-rapid/05-Li_Eric-Wolff_Patrick

28.  white to platy, win.
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Andy Lee vs. GM Patrick Wolff, rapid;  https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2019-pro-chess-league-rapid/02-Wolff_Patrick-Lee_Andy

65.  white to play, draw.

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answers:  Qd5; Rh5.

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chart of the I AM Presence 

   I understand fully how important the financial support of the individual seems to him, but I say to you, beloved students, that financial support is always as the shifting sands until you begin to consciously apply the principles of the I AM Presence as your omnipresent limitless supply of either money, love, understanding, light or illumination.  So try to receive the full conviction of the radiation of this which I give to you that you may use it with a certain unwavering consciousness which will give you forever your freedom from all financial strain.

  Knowing that the I AM Presence which you have set or are setting in motion is the same in every other individual on Earth as it is in you and as it is in the universe, giving you the power and intelligence to make this declaration, then you know that whatever your conscious application implies it is acting everywhere, just the same as within the present application that you make….The student should always remember that it is only by conscious effort that he can keep his mind at peace so that this inner power may flow through unhampered to the accomplishment of his desire.   

(by Sindelar)

-Saint Germain:  12-12-1932 via Messenger Guy Ballard, in I AM Discourses