Quote:From the time these things were first revealed I had often wanted to know what was our Lord's meaning. It was more than fifteen years after that I was answered in my spirit's understanding. "You would know our Lord's meaning in this thing? Know it well. Love was His meaning. Who showed it to you? Love. What did He show you? Love. Why did He show it? For love. Hold on to this and you will know and understand love more and more. But you will not know or learn anything else – ever."

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

Quote:Guardian offers counselling to staff after ‘upsetting’ Trump election result

Newspaper’s editor says publication will redouble effort to hold president-elect to account

'The Guardian is offering counselling to staff as it vowed to support its workforce after Donald
Trump’s “upsetting” US election victory this week.

In an email to staff, The Guardian’s editor Katharine Viner said the election had “exposed alarming
fault lines on many fronts” and urged journalists based in the UK to contact colleagues in the US
“to offer your support”.

Ms Viner said that the result would be “upsetting for many others”, according to the memo seen
by Guido Fawkes, adding: “If you want to talk about it, your manager and members of the leadership
team are all available, as the People team.
There is also free access to free support services, which I’ve outlined at the end of this email.”

It comes after Ms Viner sought to reassure readers over the election outcome, writing in an editorial
on Wednesday that the paper would “stand up to four more years of Donald Trump” and that the
election was an “extraordinary, devastating moment in the history of the United States”.

Ms Viner added: “With Trump months away from taking office again – with dramatic implications for
wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the health of American democracy, reproductive rights, inequality
and, perhaps most of all, our collective environmental future – it’s time for us to redouble our efforts
to hold the president-elect and those who surround him to account.”

Above an invitation to donate to The Guardian, her editorial ended with the message that the paper
“will stand up to these threats, but it will take brave, well-funded independent journalism. It will take
reporting that can’t be leaned upon by a billionaire owner terrified of retribution from a bully in the
White House.”

A Guardian spokesman said on Thursday: “What you refer to as ‘therapy after Trump result’ is actually
our employee assistance programme – a function that any responsible international media organisation
has available for staff at all times.”

In the US, some colleges have given students time off, an extension on deadlines, art therapy classes
and access to a therapy duck in response to Trump’s win. The University of Oregon told students this
week that to “promote well-being and lessen anxiety during election week, University Health Services
is bringing Quacktavious the Therapy Duck to campus”.

Students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy were reportedly told this week
that they could play with Lego, colouring books and drink milk and cookies in “self-care suites”
following the result.

The University of Michigan is also hosting an “art therapy” and “post-election processing” event.
Some stores in the US even closed on Wednesday, with Iowa retailer The Collective writing on its
Instagram page that it was closing to allow for a “day of collective grief”.
Among the overseas reaction was Germany’s popular weekly Die Zeit, which led its website on
Wednesday with the one-word expletive “F---”...'

Quote:EXCLUSIVE: Staggering leaked messages show BBC staff in meltdown at Trump win:
‘The Annoying Orange won’

'...“Somehow I knew this was coming and yet I'm still disappointed”, one BBC employee wrote
on an internal communications channel, seen by this broadcaster.

Another wrote: “For those of you have only just woken up, the Annoying Orange has just won the
election”.

In a series of leaked messages a BBC worker admitted “that Trump winning is generally
considered A Bad Thing” while others expressed their dismay at the Republican’s election
victory using a series of emojis, including crying symbols...'

(11-09-2024, 05:40 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Thanks to the 2024 election, we now know where the climate crisis exists...

Quote:Col. J. Leo Bourassa headed up the "Special Facilities Division" within the Office of Emergency Planning. He is the person mentioned in the Blue Book file dealing with the Kecksburg crash.

Aerial photographs of Mount Weather show the presidential heliport where the president is dropped off. The tower that directs in the president’s flight is known as "bluegrass tower." In the Kecksburg Blue Book file right after J. Leo Bourassa’s name you will find (Code blue grass). Another connection to the code "bluegrass" is a paranormal CIA project started in 1955, which I haven’t confirmed yet.

While at the Johnson library I was looking for files on Bourassa and on the "Special facilities Division" to see how it fit into the Kecksburg crash. What I learned about Bourassa while at the library is that he had also been heavily involved in the 1965 blackout of New York City. In fact, he wrote a report to Ellington detailing his findings. Bourassa’s findings hinted at the possible role of UFOs in the blackout.

The White House Role in Crashed UFO Retrievals by Grant Cameron.

Quote:In November 1975, a group of sailors led by the ship's political officer took over the Soviet "Krivak" class destroyer "Storozhevoy" and attempted to sail to Sweden to seek asylum. They were attacked and turned back by Soviet naval and air units. Information of this dramatic event which has never been acknowledged by the Soviets, made it to the West only piece by piece. It was the intent of this study to assemble all available data for critical analysis to determine potential causes and implications.

This mutiny is not the only instance of dissent in the Soviet Navy r.cr will it be the last. Problems of alcoholism, officer-enlisted relations, food, hazing, habitability, desertion, ethnic friction and unhappiness over constant political indoctrination appear to be widespread.

The key question is: how important, are these instances of dissent and how do we incorporate them into a framework for assessing soviet military capability and performance?

....

The Zampolit (political officer) of the Storozhevoy, a Captain Third Rank (Lieuteuant Commander) by the name of Valery Mikhaylovich Sablin, had stayed aboard ship rather than venture into Riga with a number of his fellow officers. He had a great deal of planning to do.

IV. THE MUTINY

At approximately 0200 hours on the eighth of November, the Storozhevoy slipped quietly from her berth in Riga to begin a dash across Riga Gulf. Course was set for the Irben Channel at the mouth of the Gulf between the Osel and the Courland Peninsula. It will probably never be known how many of the crew were loyal to Sablin and the other conspirators. Although gas turbine powered, the Krivak class is considerably less automated than the later American gas turbine powered "Spruance" class and would thus require a greater number of persons to man the engine room and the bridge. In addition, line handlers and persons in navigation and auxiliary spaces would be required. It would be possible to speculate that Sablin with one other known officer participant named Markov and a loyal following of a dozen petty officers, were able to order the remaining skeleton crew of unwary 18 and 19-year-old conscripted sailors into manning their respective stations with tales of a national or naval emergency.

MUTINY ON STOROZHEVOY
A Case Study of Dissent in the Soviet Navy
by Gregory D. Young