9-26-18 Problems started upon Russia's completion this spring of a bridge over the Kerch Strait connecting its southern mainland to Crimea....ships heading under the bridge now face lengthy checks by Russian maritime border guards, causing additional financial losses for both ports and shipping companies.
"The check takes three to four hours but waiting for the inspectors takes up to five days," said Mariupol port director Oleksandr Oliynyk. Previously "the ships would be stopped for maybe 10 hours." The result for Ukraine is a significant drop in shipping traffic and subsequent economic losses. Shipping companies lose between $5,000 and $15,000 with each day of delay for a cargo in the Kerch Strait, Oliynyk said. "At some point, the ship's owner will say 'That's it, I'm not interested'."
Ukrainian media reported that the ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk saw earnings fall by almost a quarter during the first seven months of this year, compared with the same period last year. https://www.france24.com/en/20180926-russias-blockade-sea-azov-ports-angers-ukraine
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8-31-18 Since April Russia has detained ships and interrogated crews more frequently, the State Department said....“We continue to monitor the situation with merchant traffic in the Sea of Azov,” said Lt. Cmdr. Joe Hontz, a EUCOM spokesman. “We echo U.S. State Department’s comments on calling on Russia to cease its harassment of international shipping in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait.” https://www.stripes.com/us-monitoring-russian-harassment-of-shipping-near-ukraine-1.545233
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7-25-18 Ukraine complained that Russia is using its new bridge to Crimea, the peninsula it annexed in 2014, to delay its neighbor’s ships, exert political pressure and hurt its economy.
Ukraine’s State Border Service said Wednesday that inspections of vessels have risen sharply since the 19-kilometer (12-mile) bridge across the Kerch Strait to Russia’s mainland was officially opened in May. Waiting times can be as long as three days, according to spokesman Oleh Slobodyan.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/ukraine-complains-russia-uses-crimea-bridge-to-disrupt-shipping
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11-27-18 By taking Crimea Russia was able to build a bridge across the strait separating that peninsula from the Russian mainland. This lets it harass ships and block the Ukrainian ports that export agricultural goods and metal ores, without which Kiev’s economy would crumble. Europe and the U.S. should insist that the Ukrainian ships and sailors be turned over immediately and that Russia give up its illegal maritime claims. The message can be driven home in person at the G-20 meeting in Argentina this weekend. If Moscow refuses, there are options....If the West chooses to let this go, Putin will be emboldened to push his aggressions not just in Ukraine but along his entire European border and beyond. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-28/russia-s-latest-aggression-against-ukraine-demands-a-response
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Thus, beloved, in the unknowing state--not knowing OneSelf but thinking one knows oneself--it is best, it is advisable, it is the better part of wisdom to choose the mantle of Padma Sambhava placed upon our Messenger for good cause, for ancient service and discipleship unto this holy one of the East. Take recourse in the mantle knowing that it does take thee to the heart of Maitreya and the Western Shamballa, my abode, and to Sanat Kumara and the Avalokitesvara and to the Great One of Mercy, Kuan Yin.
Therefore, beloved, we do place in the crystal of the Earth a mantle of Guru that is necessary physically to save that which is lost. It is the Avalokitesvara consciousness that does descend upon you in this hour taking you into the great spheres and spheres upon spheres of his causal body that you might feel the heartbeat irregular of a planet off-course, that you might know the heartbeat of God, listen to its sound only, accepting no other rhythm or sound that could jolt or take your inner system of light from the true sound of the music of the spheres.
Peace, beloved, peace, beloved. As these are trying times for chelas these are also trying times for the one who wears our mantle, who must feel perpetually the agitation, the sorrow and the abject evil in form on planet Earth and even imported from other systems….
As time narrows to become infinity so options also narrow, and one realizes that at the point of destiny in the nexus where time and space meet eternity and are neutralized by it only the single choice is acceptable. There are no longer five hundred options or two hundred or three or four. One right word is acceptable, one right act, one right choice: to be all light, to pour in the cups--many waiting to be filled--all light.
In the time of greatest darkness of war and turbulence those who gather in our mountain must also know that the pause to ascend by the seventh ray (of transmutation, forgiveness, alchemy, balance) is the key to being in an octave and a vibration of safety….Let the mind become an arrow! Let the arrow be in the hand of the Archer, thy Christ. Let the bow be pulled….
Visualize then the vast Violet Flame Chamber (of the Grand Teton), sufficient to contain all Keepers of the Flame of the Earth and many more, a vast chamber of amethyst and quartz crystal, stalactites, stalagmites. Thus one senses descending from above, rising from beneath pillars of violet flame crystallized in the rock as so many ancient teeth of ancient dragon of Eastern wisdom.
-Gautama Buddha: 12-31-1987 at Royal Teton Ranch, Montana via Messenger E C Prophet
-Padma Sambhava
