[Arktwo] coming events

[Bruce Beach]

Cleaned out over 5,000 messages
from my in-box
and have started over.
None of them were spam or scam.
I delete tens of thousands of spam and scam
as they come in.
Neither were they postings on lists
to which I belong -
because I process those immediately also.
And I hope none of them were requests
for shelter consultation -
because I also try to handle those right away.

Just that much of a backlog of correspondence.
I gathered them together by name (thread)
down through the 1500 most recent ones
(to make sure that I have answered them) -
and then just bit the bullet
and cleaned out the box.

I think that I answered everyone -
but if by chance
you have ever written to me
and didn't get an answer -
please write again.

It has been a busy week.
Recovery from the little health siege -
and then work on a couple of
World Language Process Projects.
On one project,
others did most of the work.
We have applied to have a symposium
at a conference in Germany
in August 2008.
Don't know if our four speakers
from three countries
will be accepted
but if they are -
then I will have to try to figure out
how to get there -
which will be tough in my paradigm -
or any other.

Jean has had me working
for several days
in the garden.
We didn't plan to put in one this year -
but it is a part of her farm heritage -
and when spring comes -
she can't resist planting seeds.

Yesterday (Saturday) we were off to Paris, Ontario
with Chyna
for 'Paris in the Springtime' park party.
Lasts a couple of days with lots of booths
but we personally had to cover only five hours
of the new puppy trainer recruiting booth
before Congo and Crocket took over.
NSD loves to name their dogs with 'Cs'.

www.webpal.org/chyna.jpg

Several trips with Chyna
this last couple of weeks to
the groomer and for evaluation for breeding.
She didn't pass the latter -
(I am sure because she had
too poor a trainer -
and they accept only
the highest performance dogs)
so now she will go into the
regular advanced program
for training as a service dog
for autistic children.
This means that in a couple of weeks
we have to take her for spaying -
then more training trips
before she goes into the advanced program.

Only about 40 percent of the dogs
make it through the advanced program
and end up on assignment.
Even with all the volunteer puppy trainers
it still costs $18,000 to train a dog
and that amount is raised by the parents -
usually through social service clubs and such.
I figure that even with Purina
providing the free dog food -
that it costs us personally,
with travel and all,
about $100 a month to train a puppy.

It is like having a baby in the home -
as regards time -
but we very greatly enjoy it.
Wouldn't have missed it for anything.
People say that is hard
to give up the puppy at the end -
but we all raise our children
to go out into the world
and to be of service.

So anyway -
the next time that you see a service dog
recognize how much time, love and effort
has gone into training that dog.
This is true of all the service dogs
whether for the blind, autistic, hearing,
or whatever.

Summer is overwhelming
down at the Ark Two facility.
The grounds are so large -
that it takes a thousand dollars a month
to keep it trimmed.
Just can't afford that now,
so it has gotten away from us,
and we are in deep grass.
Had some good help this week
from a neighbour helping
take a couple of loads of trash to the dump
and then he took another load by himself
to the hazardous waste facility.

A couple more serious projects need doing -
but summer is busy for everyone
and I am having trouble getting enough volunteers.
The new situation on the border
has pretty much stopped the U.S. resource.
The US / Canadian border
used to be the longest / most open / friendliest
border in the world.

Almost completely closed now -
unless you have a passport -
and many of our native friends
can't get passports.
(For a couple of more weeks -
a few are still able to drive through
with just a driver's license -
but then I think after August 1st -
that is it.)

There used to be roads
where you could just drive across -
but not now with the surveillance equipment.
I don't know how it is
on the southern US border -
but no one is sneaking across either way
on the northern one.

I am not sure what the concern is.
None of the WTC terrorists came in through Canada.
They were mostly just from Saudi Arabia.
It may be that the US doesn't want a repeat
of what happened during the Vietnam War
with people running up to Canada -
and they don't want anyone escaping
in case they reinstitute the draft.

I sort of live
best of both worlds.
US citizen so I can go back to the US -
but landed here in Canada so we get
free medical care.
Other than that - both worlds are about the same.
US used to be less regulated -
but not anymore -
and it appears that we will be seeing
more and more bureaucracy
on both sides of the border.

I am not real upset about Real ID -
or even embedded chips.
The 'Mark of the Beast' doesn't concern me -
(because I think the Biblical reference
is to something else.)

I don't mind the government
monitoring my phone calls or email -
or even with their new
'through the walls x-ray'
monitoring our bedrooms.

What concerns me
is that we don't have the proper
social customs / mores / institutions
to guarantee freedom of thought and religion.
Other freedoms
such as employment, travel, residence
are also being impacted.

People get very upset with me
that I say there must be a NWO
and a world government
in a world that has the capability of
nuclear weapons -
but they never offer an alternative -
except something like rapture.

I hear / understand all their arguments
about anti-Christ,
mark of the beast,
Armageddon,
rapture,
and you name it -
but I see the world in a different way.

There are few among my readers
more imposed upon than I am
by the present system.
I have been down there
in the fields of the black revolution -
with the actual gunfire -
and our Ark Two facility
has been raided so many times
that I call it Waco North.

I still remain very appreciative of the freedom
that we enjoy in this part of the world -
because in many other places
they wouldn't even allow me
to remain among the living.

Still, my phones have been tapped -
our place kept under surveillance -
and I am sure I am on the 'no fly' list,
so tell me about it here.
The point is -
the world of Justice that we must seek / build
cannot be a return to that
of the framers of the US constitution.

The ideas of those slave owners -
who denied that women were persons -
(or so said the US and Canadian Supreme Courts -
my wife not being a person
when she was born) -
while very advanced for their time -
did not envision a world
with satellites, space travel, nuclear weapons,
the Internet, computers and so forth.

Their system of balance of power
obviously is not working -
and times and technology have changed.
We must not go backwards -
but rather forward
to what most people are presently incapable
of envisioning.

The founders had vision
for their time -
but people today -
do not have vision for this time.

29:18 Where there is no vision,
the people perish:
but he that keepeth the law,
happy is he.

	(King James Bible, Proverbs)

With all the talk of government intrusiveness -
I do wish that it were a bit more intrusive.
Eighty percent or higher of the emails today
are spam or scam.
Thousands are filtered out
by your server
before they ever get to you.

Look at www.spamhaus.com
and you will see that most of the problem
is caused by about 200 people.
These people steal more lifetimes -
(taking other people's time -
which in my mind is murder) -
than any other mass murder.
They take it a few seconds at a time
from each of us
filling up our in-boxes with useless clutter.

The government with all its vaunted capabilities
could surely track these villains down
and dispose of them.
I do support the death penalty
for some types of murder.

Which is it?
The government has that kind of capability -
or it doesn't.
If it does -
and does nothing about this -
then that is just another reflection
of how our social institutions
are misdirected and misused.

Freedom of speech
has nothing to do with us
putting up with pornography
over the public airwaves -
or having the Internet jammed
with scam and spam.

Well,
I hope I can get more back onto a roll
about Ark Two -
starting next week.
On the 19th,
Bush is to meet with Olmert
in Washington
to decide what to do about Iran.
That is if things haven't come to a head
before then -
with the new moon around the 15th.
More likely -
we will be into July -
before they get things coordinated.

I think things are coming push to shove.
Putin thinks things are coming push to shove.
Bush and Olmert are coming to push and shove,
not each other -
but together on Iran.

"North Korea has refused to start implementing the first stage of a February
denuclearization pact until it receives about $25 million once frozen under
U.S. pressure by the Macau-based Banco Delta Asia.  U.S. officials have
sought to free the money, but so far no other bank has been willing to
accept the funds, reportedly fearing U.S. repercussions."

None of these problems have gone away.
It is just that they aren't making headlines -
anymore.
In Washington,
there may be factions
with differences of opinion
of how the problems should be resolved -
but you know what answers
I think will be implemented.

At the moment -
I am studying those recommended by the
Bilderbergers,
Trilateral Commission and
Council on Foreign Relations.
Others
in Russia and China
and among the Fundamentalist Muslims
have their own ideas.

However, Bush and Olmert -
(DEPENDING ON INPUT THEY RECEIVE -
from sources like those above)
will decide what they decide,
although other events can intervene -
in the interim.

There are a number of coming events -
in Jerusalem
	http://tinyurl.com/3dffmu
and Iran -
	http://tinyurl.com/29ysrv
but maybe more about those -
another time.

Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org