Momma's Movin'

I've been watching the USGS website for years now... the page where they watch Earthquakes of Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.0 or Greater in the Rest of the World in the last 7 days.

My record of vigilence isn't perfect. But I look often enough that not many days in those years are left to mystery. Unfortunately I can't find an archive on the site. From time to time I journal the activity onto a calandar. At other times I just look and count. Thus I've got a pretty good read on daily averages over these years.

We just set a record! 83 shakers reported on the list 2 days ago. An average day would be in the low 20's. Ranges typically run from low teens on the low end to the low 30's on the high end. Over 70 of the 83 were in the same area of the big island of Hawaii. Most between 2.5 and 3. Its slowed down as of yesterday and so far today. But its still movin.

Thats just the list of the +2.5's. Theses are scattered 'mongst a whole lot more minors. Most are located between Pauahi and Makaopuhi craters at depths of about 1.5-3 km. About 10 to 15 small earthquakes per hour are being recorded in this area compared to more than about 100 per hour Sunday morning. Seismicity in the summit area consists of strong tremor.

More than a hundred per hour? Holy buckets!!!

Swarms like these are not that uncommon. I monitor other sites like Global Disaster Watch or Earth Changes TV to find reports of them because the USGS site only lists activity of 2.5 or greater and generally the differentiated events that collectively make up swarms are of lesser magnitude. Thats why this current swarm on the big island has the attention of the experts... the high number of 2.5+ activity.

And...

Craters?

The experts who study earthquake events are more and more connecting dots between shakers and volcanic activity. So it is on the big island....

GPS receivers in the area of most intense seismic activity continue to show widening across the rift zone in near Makaopuhi crater; preliminary data indicate widening of more than 40 cm (15 inches). A tiltmeter on Pu`u `O`o is also showing steady deflation.

Intermittent faint glow is only occasionally visible from the East Pond vent in the crater of Pu`u ``O`o, much less than is typical of the crater. On Sunday afternoon, HVO observers noted many rockfalls from the south wall of Pu`u `O`o cone and collapse of the crater floor around the vents. The lava level in East Pond vent dropped several meters in late morning.

All data indicate that an intrusion of magma started in the Mauna Ulu area early Sunday morning and moved slowly 5 km (3 miles) east along the rift zone during the day. The intrusion is continuing at this time.

Nauna Ulu has been putting on a show showhtml since 1984

Kilauea is also involved Pu`u `O`o is part of it.

Normally we could get a real time gander at the going's on.

But guess what? Current images are NOT AVAILABLE. Officially the continuously updated images have been "interrupted in order to do maintenance on the USGS web servers".

We'll see.

Or will we?

More Wisdom From The Wiseman

Taa Daa!!

Today we have a guest commentator. He doesn't know it but thats okay. The energies of the universe upon which poetic license sing shall judge the borrowing just since we give him full credit and disclosure.

And... because those same energies know!

Know what?

Know that he asks the questions that must be asked!

Thats what!!

So let me introduce to you my cyber friend, Montana Freeman.

A few weeks back i posted an entry called The Three Wise Men. The three wisemen referred to were Montana Freeman, Pogo, and Carl Jung.

The same Montana Freeman.

Montana Freeman, better known as MF to all of us who hang around the warmth of the council fires over on the Real Deal blog, is an elder of our native American brothers and sisters.

Featered in this entry is a comment he posted today to the current Real Deal topic. In it he poses some powerfully wise questions.

So where's the wisdom in posing questions you ask?

Perhaps you thought wisdom could only be found in answers. But hell... if we don't ask the hard questions in the fuckin' first place, how are we ever to find the answers?

Personally I find his comment to be directly speaking to exactly what this blog, the Unseen Role of Denial, is all about.

Here, word for word, are his comment and questions...

the unraveling of our most profound and beautiful Mother Earth brings one to question the most basic nature of mankind, which to me appears to be this, we are sleep walkers,the awareness of our own existence is lost do to the toxic nature of our unatural environment, which to me includes almost everything.

The deep psychological sickness that pervades the minds of the two leggeds is almost unbelievable, and would be laughable if it were a joke to be told at a council fire,however this is not to be, at least not yet.

The pure and unadulterated destruction of our home is an accident?

I watch my blood brother in the last stages of cancer and the daily progress of his existence which includes cigarettes, alcohol and some times a little processed food that i would not feed to a hog. Now this is a person who when tested scores in the top ten percentile of the folks on this planet, what happened to him and continues to this day is exactly a microcosm of what is happening to the world, is it not? or close enough, and as i watch him choose.? to die of this horrible disease amid an enviroment that approximates one of the most cleanest and purest places available on this earth,..i have to wander, is this not suicide? When cure is available and is tossed aside?

What on gods green earth will change this?

He speaks and says he is not afraid of death, so is he afraid of life? Is his life so filled with fear that death by the conscious polluting of his sacred body preferable to healing that which makes us sick?

To me this is the crux of our dilemma,we know we are killing our individual bodies and that knowledge bleeds over into the uncaring way we treat our mother.

i am not saying this from a soap box, and have no room to criticise, having been a smoker of tobacco for 18 years and a drunk for many many years and only recently pulled away from all the poison that surrounds me, which in itself is no mean feat,this also has the bonus of seeing things in a different light, of actually being able to feel the earth beneath my bare feet and being able to appreciate drinking water that has not been methodically poisoned by the hand of man,and learning to live in harmony with our mother,whom wants nothing more from us (my opinion) then to enjoy the bounty of her creation.

So this leads me to wonder, what in the fuck happened to us?

Suicide, (the act of intentionally taking one's own life;act of destroying one's own interests;one who commits suicide)

i would love to hear from someone at this council about how to repair that which has been done, either to us or by us and will make us wholesome human beings, walking this earth with love in our hearts for all living things including our selfs of course.

i feel the spring rain falling lightly on my face and the milk of mother earth softens the sharpness of life.Peace my brothers and sisters,may this day bring you love.

aho

mf

Powerful questions indeed!

Thankyou MF

Three Chords And The Truth

Three chords and the truth. That was how Harlan Howard, the, hands-down, dean of country music songwriters, defined country music. It wasn't his intent to define his own writing that way. But. nevertheless, it did.

That was thirty years ago and ever since hundreds have borrowed or stole that hook line to further their own agendas. Up until today the latest was Sara Evans who used it as the title cut for her highly acclaimed, freshman CD.

Today I'm stealing it to pen this entry.

The truth...

LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States, WAS A LEAD PLAYER IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States on November, 22, 1963!

It was likely sanctioned by powers greater than he lurking behind the scenes. But he was a primary force.

The operative word here is COUP.

And coups are seldom pulled off alone. By that I mean by one boss. Its almost always a cabal at the top. An alignment between a few to several who conspire toward an end. It can probaly be argued that LBJ was just a pawn in the game. Maybe we'll never know for sure. But given what was at stake for LBJ its admittable to consider him as a major player. As a part of the cabal that ordered and carried out the hit. Yes, carried out. "Cuz, a hit like this? You don't contract something like this. Its done in-house. Today we're going to take a look at the recently revealed truth and the 3 chords in the nasty song that implicates LBJ in the JFK killing. The chords were the operatives carrying out the agenda.

The three chords...

CORD MEYER>>>DAVID MORALES>>>FRENCH GUNMAN GRASSY KNOLL!!

There are minor chords that spin off the majors...

Cord Meyer (ironic name eh?)>>>Bill Harvey

Who's the Harlan Howard? The author? The tell-all teller of the truth?

E. HOWARD HUNT.

Harlan Howard. Howard Hunt. Another irony eh?

Who's E Howard Hunt?

E Howard Hunt. was a CIA operative known most widely as leader of the plumbers of Watergate fame. 3 years before Hunt died in Jan at the crusty old age of 88, he sat sat up in his sickbed, put pen to pad, and laid down the truth. At the top of the page he wrote "LBJ". Then drew a down arrow and wrote "Cord Meyer". According to Hunt, Meyer was an easy mark. His wife, the former Mary Pinchot, was one of JFK's favorite mistresses. Not only did they share the bed, they shared the bowl. Pinchot Meyer was murdered less than a year after JFK.

Below Meyer another down arrow. Then, "David Morales".

Then another down arrow and below that, "French Gunman Grassy Knoll".

To the right of Meyer was another arrow connecting to the name Bill Harvey.

Meyer, Morales, and Harvey are former CIA operatives and pop up midst various conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy killing. Presumably the French gunman is the Corsican Mafia assassin Lucien Sarti, who has figured prominently in assassination theories as well.

It is also widely held that Hunt was indeed one of the famed three "tramps" intercepted, detained, photographed and released without arrest or charges near the grassy knoll at the Dealy Plaza scene of the assassination of Kennedy.

How do we know all this? Hunt's eldest son, Saint John, has the goodies. Obtained from his father and reported by Eric Hedgegaard in the March 07 edition of Rolling Stone Rolling Stone.

Read the Rolling Stone article. It tells Saint John's story who is telling his dad's story. Listen to what his dad said in a tape he sent to his son. View a copy of the paper upon which his dad connected the dots of the major players.

Read in St John's story in the RS article of how he came to suspect many years ago that his father was involved. The epiphany was the photo of the 3 tramps. "Nobody has features like my father. I'm his son. That's him!" Read how he tells of helping his dad wipe fingerprints from microphones and walkie talkies and various other articles of espionage in the middle of the night and then, following his father's instruction, "got rid of it". And the 100 grand he ran for him. And the typewriter thrown in the lake for him. All this in the wake of Watergate investigations. The article reports there is another hand written document by E Howard with more details and names.

In the wake of the RS publication St John was contacted by 60 Minutes. A meeting was had in San Francisco between he and an executive producer. He told the producer the whole story, showed him the documents and played the tape for him. Producer flew back to New York where the network's investigative team had both the handwriting and the voice print analyzed by independent experts which concluded beyond a doubt that the author was indeed E Howard Hunt. The excited producer contacted St John. He said everything had checked out, said this was a major story, and promised a piece would be done. That has never happened and St John's queries to CBS are being ignored.

Nowhere in mainstream media will you find anything about this bombshell. But there is a renewed effort going on to reinforce the Oswald-lone-assassin conclusion. Most notable is recent documentary by the Discovery Channel and a new book by Vincent Bugliosi of Helter Skelter fame. Bugliosi was on one of those radio talk shows recently and the interviewer told him about the tape. Bugliosi said he doubted such a tape existed. The interviewer just happened to have a copy all cued up and played it for Bugliosi.

Bugliosi's response? "Saint John Hunt is not a credible source."

Those words are being reiterated by anyone who is presented with the tape who has some unseen interest in furthering the lone assassination theory. If you read the Stone interview you know Saint John Hunt was a meth addict and dealer for 20 years. Arrested for it too. At least twice. So certainly his past is shady and can lead one to question his credibility.

BUT.....

Is it his voice on the tape? Is it his handwriting on the papers?

HELL NO!

So his credibility is a moot issue.

Just what is going on here? Think about it. Can the psyche deal with the reality? That a president could be so evil and power hungry that he would have his predecessor killed on live TV in front of the whole nation? Is this why so many people can't see the current president for what he really is?

St John was interviewed on Coast2Coast AM and I listened to the archived edition last night. I told my Dear Wife (DW) about the tape, the papers, and the RS article. I played her part of the interview. It literally threw her into a tizzy. She got heavily triggered by it and couldn't even listen to the tape (which they played during the interview) until she'd moved some through the initial triggers.

It'd triggered me too but not to the extent that it triggered DW. I was listening to the radio when the shots rang out. The moment is burned into my psyche. I still vividly remember exactly what I was doing and where I was at the time. It was a traumatic event. I've witnessed years of analysis both official and unofficial. I've done a ton of reading through the years. I highly suspected from the beginning that there were sinister forces involved and it was highly likely LBJ was involved.

I also highly suspected that LBJ, like many of our so-called leaders, was an operative in service to hidden, yet extremely powerful, forces that controlled him and us then, and control us still today. Why else would a good-ole-boy, street fighter, who had attained the highest political position in the nation, step down unless he was clandestinely forced to?

Viet Nam you say? You say he showed deep concern for what was happening in Viet Nam as witnessed by this photo ? He's in the oval office listening to a taped Intel report on the war. The implication is he is agonizing about the dire situation there. Good argument on the surface. He'd thought he would go in, kick ass, and come home. Sound hauntingly familiar? Things weren't going so well for the big guy from Texas by this time and then, it got even worse.

Beyond the agony of the moment was a guy who murdered to get to the chair in which he agonized. And on the way he muscled his way to the top. Then Kennedy pulled the rug out from under him when he won the nomination in 1960. JFK selects him as running mate and they win. Did JFK have reservations? Probably! But Kennedy needed Johnson's help in the south and his ties to Jewish Americans' (brokering Israel's want for the bomb at the time) influence on the Jewish vote.

2nd in command is not what Johnson had lied, cheated, snaked, muscled, raped, clawed, bought, stole, kissed ass, sucked dick, MURDERED his way to the top to settle for. Kennedy was highly likely to be re-elected in 64. That meant LBJ had to wait 'til 68 to run. He'd be 60 then. And, though he couldn't know it at the time, he'd be dead 5 years later.

Could he wait? Could he discredit his nemesis without discrediting his party in the process? Get rid of the beastie baby without sacrificing the holy bath water? Could he stand in the darkness of the wings that long? Subordinate to the man he hated with all his passion? He was far from alone in that hatred. There were many in positions of power who hated Kennedy for myriad reasons but mostly because he was in power and hugely popular with the people. Camelot was here to stay and Camelot was anything but their idea of utopia.

What was he really agonizing about beyond that picture? No way was he about to step down. Despite public opposition to the war he was still polling well. He'd railroaded and muscled in a ton of legislation, like the Civil Rights Act,.that had majority of public support. And suddenly, he quits. Just like that. I seriously doubt, not even for one fleeting second, that Viet Nam was the reason.

Kennedy's killing was a traumatic event for this nation too and has remained such throughout nearly 44 years now. Not to mention that of his brother and MLK. Many hold the official story to be false. Many hold open the possibility the hit was made by sinister forces other than Oswald and some even hold to the idea that these forces were our own leaders and/or those who control them behind the scenes. We hold open to it for various reasons not the least of which is an incredible mountain of circumstantial evidence.

But nobody knew for sure. Nobody had the smoking gun. If they did, they weren't talking. E Howard Hunt handed it to us. And his son has gotten a number of emails and contact from others "in the know" who, "off the record," confirm what Hunt said and wrote in his own hand.

We can deal with maybe's. We can deal with circumstantial evidence. We can deal with half-truths. We can deal with lies. We can even find ways to deal with life in the wake of traumatic events like the JFK assassination or 9/11.

But, confronted with the un-deniable truth that agents on our own side conspired to carry out a coup including the killing of a sitting president, we go wacko! We just can't fathom it and we can dream up all sorts of ways to dispel or twist or question the reality and explain the evidence away.

This is one way how denial works. We find ways to deny the un-deniable. And this is one way why its so easy to get away with the horrid truth.

Psychologists call it a defense mechanism. There is truth to that.

But which truth is more important? Which truth has us by the short hairs in the long run... in the grand scheme of things? The truth of a defense mechanism developed and honed to perfection to protect us from the reality of what we interpret to be unsurvivable truth? Or the truth of the reality of what has actually happened?

Which one sustains life in the long haul and which one leads to inevitable death? And which one leads us to being controlled by others?

Think about it.

Pigs In Space

To anyone who went with me on my vicarious Memorial Day paddlin trip, thanks for coming along. Hope you had as much fun as I did.

Paddlers can come up with the strangest names for rapids eh? Wooton's Folly, Diamond Spliter, Table Saw, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Paddle some of 'em and you can see how the name came to be. For others you have to be familar with the particulars which usually involved not so pleasant experience by some unfortunate paddler. There's Broken Nose on the Ocoee. Jerrod's Knee and Reeders Rock on the Tellico.

A few are enegmatic. Nobody knows where it came from or who named it. Such is the case of a rapid called Pigs in Space on the Little River IN The Park near Gattlinberg. I've seen it but never had occasion to paddle it. It was in flood the day I saw it and there ain't nothin there to associate the name with the rapid. Speculation is that it came because you had to be crazy to paddle it or maybe on whatever the Beatles were on when they wrote Lucy In the Shy With Diamonds.

Its a popsicle licker and an ass kicker all at the same time. Here's a look.

And thats just the first drop.

Then again it coulda just been the experience itself and the namer was as straight as a razor-drawn line of cocaine. I've been on trips that do that to you and you need no help from Doctor Feelgood.

So this entry is about pigs in space. But its got nothing to do with paddlin. We're going on a different trip here.

Its more about pigs in hell actually.

I grew up on a farm in Iowa. Today farming is a bid'ness. Back then it was survival. We rotated crops, grew huge gardens, and kept livestock for food and market. Our primary stock was a beef cow herd, hogs, and chickens. When you're raised around animals you get exposed to things and you end up with a ton of stories to tell. Sometimes those things can be very disturbing.

One of the most disturbing things to me were certain brood sows that would snap and eat their young or most of them. It was not uncommon. Sometimes it happened over night when none of the other sows were farrowing so we weren't keeping tabs. We'd go to bed with 9 in the litter and wake up with 3 left. Sometimes we'd catch em in the act.

There were 8 of us in the family and everyone was in 4-H except mom. They teach you all about keeping records in 4-H. We lost track of the ID on one once. Next farrow nothing happened in the brood.

There was another reason to give them amnesty. The smart money said they knew what they were doing and this was their way of reducing the size of the litter to what they knew to be a managable number for them under the current circumstances and for the betterment of the rest of the litter. A kinda morbid twist in the survival of the fittest game.

So early on we gave them 2 chances. More often than not the same thing would happen next litter. Two strikes and your out. We'd cull em out and send em to market.

The smart money wasn't looking into those crazed eyes while they were in this so-called twist of a so-called benevolent and alturistic act. The madness wasn't limited to the eyes. You can get to know your animals pretty well. Know who's stubborn about what, who needs a special kind of attention or approach, who's a good mother to her young, and so on. 30 brood sows and their offspring from farrow to market is what we were set up for so it wasn't that hard to keep track of em. A sow might check off as a good mother through 3 litters and then go bat-shit crazy with the 4th. It is not a pretty picture to watch 'em tearing their stalls apart to get to the babies to tear them apart. And it can be very dangerous to intervene.

If the smart guys were right I'da thought it would be more like communion. At least a somber occasion and mom ought to at least look sad about it.

But hell no. I could describe it but I think you get my drift.

Just a state they put themselves in so they could do the deed?

Maybe. But how 'bout this....

Years later I might be watchin a TV report about somebody going nuts and offing a buncha people. Friends and relatives of the perp would say... "he was a nice guy, a loner but he seemed harmless enough... he musta just snapped."

I knew exactly what they meant by "snapped" cuz I'd watched those sows do it.

I know what you're gonna say... "Wait a minute here. Pigs are pigs and people are people. One has got nothin to do with the other!"

Oh really? Why do they both go mad then?

I disagree. I know a little of what lurks in the shadows from my own healing work and after 20 years of study I've got a little deeper understanding of what I think happens. Something threatening triggers some dark, deeply held issue in the survival chakra in a very twisted way. A demon comes out and the reptillian brain takes over. The details are illusive and sketchy and the best one can do really is speculate unless you're dealing with your own demons, your own shadow, your own experiences, your own sinister inclinations.

The shadow. The sub-conscious.

That deep, dark, irrational place where consciousness dare not venture and everything unacceptable lurks. There can be good stuff down there too as we found out last weekend. As long as we can keep the evil shit held down, it stays down. But somethimes an event will happen and trigger it and it surfaces before consciousness knows it. What was conscious and in control seems to go unconscious and what was unconscious becomes conscious, takes over, and runs rampent acting out what's held there.

Where'd those demons come from? They just blow in on the wind like some like some bad seed? Or where they there all the time lurkin in the shadows?

Whatever this is its not limited to the shadows either. There is some pretty twisted consciousness too. A henious crime is committed and the perp is found to be a psychopathic killer. Planning everything in bizarre ways with conscious intent. It might be maniacal but its still conscious.

Study it and its looks like the perp is operating on some very twisted wiring or imprint in a sick, obsessive way.

How is this killer different than the obsession to drink alcohol I delt with for 27 years other than the way it manifested and I didn't kill anybody? But I was certainly killing myself veeery slooooolly. How is he different than the one that just snapped and went on a rampage? How is he different from pigs in hell? The mama sow who goes berzerk and eats her young in a crazed state?

Or.....

How are we the same?

And.....

How do we find out?