History Repeats Or at least rhymes

Safe America For Everyone This newsletter powered by: Mad Mimi Unsubscribe instantly from these emails by clicking here. Email look weird or can't download pictures? View it on the web here. Click HERE to go to the SAFE home page. Click HERE to go to the SAFE FaceBook page. Click HERE to go to Ark Two. Click HERE to go to list of Ark Two Videos Forward this email to a friend. This newsletter is Copyleft: and may be used by anyone. SAFE Ark Two Newsletter July 30th, 2013 History Repeats Or at least rhymes Watched a series of videos this week. Told Jean to not bother. Not really for old folks like us, but I want my grandchildren to watch it, so I did it. Better suited to teenagers. Guy talks a mile a minute. Scenes flip faster than my one eyeball can keep up with them. Reference to such things as current music idols - that I probably miss. Some kinds of current teen talk that I don't like - but it covers the whole of history and there were lots of things that I learned. Some of which for me were quite thought provoking. It is called Crash Course on the History of Agriculture. Crash Course has 150 videos - on subjects like chemistry, biology and literature - but I haven't watched most of those - and don't plan to, but the history videos are eleven (11) minutes long and there are 42 of them. Here it is - if you want to do them. Crash Course The reason that I am so interested in this overview is not so much as just knowing the past but rather understanding the principles that will affect the future. Some concepts that I garnered were: 1. Agriculture comes first - and that is the reason for the name of the series. Agriculture depends upon: a. Climate b. Water 2. Trade and commerce are an important second. These depend upon: a. Tradeable products b. Trade routes 3. Security. Many factors enter in. a. Commitment of your troops. b. Experience of your troops. c. Number of your troops. d. Supplies for your troops. e. Technology. f. Leadership. 4. A workable monetary system. 5. A committed citizenry that believes it is in a just system. 6. Equitable treatment of Imperial subjects. Societies seemed to collapse when: A. Population exceeded resources (rather rarely). B. Imperial organizations clashed with other imperial organizations. One historian says that 11 out of 15 cases war occurred where imperialistic systems clashed. C. There was a monetary collapse. I found the latter particularly interesting - especially given my interest in the hundred year anniversary on July 28th of 2014 of the beginning of the First World War. It turns out that July 28th, 1914 was exactly one month to the day after the assassination that is attributed to having started WW1. On the other hand - July 28th, 1914 is exactly one day after the collapse of the financial markets on July 27th, 1914. Lots of talk about the financial markets these days, but I am not going to go there. Predictions that I have made down through the years have turned out to be invariably wrong. For the last several years I have heard repeatedly from others - in two months, in the Spring, in the Fall, and then it moves forward into the next year. The same has been true about the conflict with Iran. Or the crisis in the American black ghettos. I receive great numbers of emails about imminent concerns about Martial Law, UN troops in the US, various intrigues and plots, and while none of the latter concern me no more than the supposed coming asteroid collision or encounter with Planet X, still my concerns over the years seem to have had equally little relevance. Never mind. It is just my nature. I too just put it off another year into the future. Now next July, or more properly stated, not until after next July. Growing older if not wiser Jean and my Octogenarian driving exams scheduled for in October. Took a trial written test on the Internet this week - and flunked it. So we have to keep studying. We sure need to be able to keep driving. Crew came to help with the wood - but didn't work out. Individual was from a different culture. They were wanting to do videoing, but I insisted we move the wood first. They insisted on afterwards. Been there and done that, so I knew better. Anyway they left. Still need to get the rest of the load off the driveway so that a new load can come before we get into winter prices. Fellow supposed to come clean the chimney on Saturday. He and another fellow last year, but the the other young fellow died. We do see change. The Birds and the Bees Others in reply to my newsletter last week, report an abundance of insects, birds, and even bees in their areas. May be a local thing. May be a seasonal thing. But I don't think so. When I was a boy we used to have to put bug screens in front of the radiator on the car. Otherwise the bugs filled up the fins and the car overheated. Today, people don't even know about that. Used to be just a few years ago where we filled the car with gas they had a bucket out there with a special squeegee to take the bugs off the windows. Gone. The special squeegee I mean. Not needed. Turns out that 21 of our 22 hives collapsed. All 22 have now been reseeded. Hope that they will catch. Maybe come fall the birds and bees will come back. I hope. Times are good. Relatively speaking. I am thinking that anyway or we could find someone interested in coming to live with us. Ran the following ad on several different lists: Village bungalow with 12 acres adjacent to village 22 beehives (recovering from colony collapse this year) worm-farm in house retired service dog cat lots of land for organic gardening greenhouse vegetarians octogenarians hope to re-pass driving test in October heat with wood only - need someone to tend stove preppers two streams and two waterfalls high-speed Internet free room and board - contribution to groceries welcome need help with cooking / dishes / cleaning (we don't do much of that) very cluttered piano - but needs tuning no cable or satellite available very quiet village - no stores or churches 90 miles NW of Toronto - $10 GoBus from Orangeville to Toronto non-drinkers / non-drugs coffee - tea lots of intellectual activity must be tolerant of other religions any race or religion acceptable / welcomed we are non-political Radio I haven't bugged the engineer about the radio this week. Can't see that is going any place. Everyone tells me that I have done wrong. Wasted a lot of effort and that it should be done differently. But actually I have gone down every path. Several people have suggested Softrock radio but the engineer examined the specs and said we would be in the same situation that we are now, if we went with that. Lots of different suggestions from lots of folks but they don't actually understand our parameters. Lots of misconceptions about what we need. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org US National Coordinator's Corner Christopher Verreos coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Christopher Verreos and his wife Regina Greetings SAFE Team! After receiving another great email from one of our STLs (State Team Leaders), I've decided to briefly address the topic in this article. So, what type of collapse, catastrophe, or service interruption are you prepared/preparing for? I think the consensus is that you should seriously consider your location and its' track record first. Prioritize and proceed from there. A related question is how many of us are spreading our resources too thinly by trying to cover too many scenarios. Fear and or frustration kick in at that point. What's the best approach or solution? It's quite simple - Triads! You can overcome just about anything by building your community network! There's just no way that anyone can have enough time AND money for everything you and your family might need for what lays ahead. That's where SAFE comes in! Coordinating, facilitating, and providing the necessary "tool kit" for any community to develop healthy self-activated networks for vastly improving your outcomes for success. I keep saying this because it's a fact: SAFE is literally on the verge of breaking into new networking territory. We need more states to establish some type of "User Group" (Yahoo for example) to be ready for the fast approaching time when each STL will receive their respective membership lists to unify us in our respective states/communities. Once we can get ya'll in touch with each other - just watch how SAFE will take off! Peace & Action, Christopher Verreos National Coordinator, SAFE USA coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Bruce Beach 161 Main St. Horning's Mills Melancthon Ontario L9V 1X7 Canada This is a link to the book everyone needs now - and which we hope they will buy and support our cause. This is a link to the book everyone will need the day AFTER the Great Catastrophe - but which they need to buy and read NOW!.

Whose Laughing Now? The Birds and the Bees

Safe America For Everyone This newsletter powered by: Mad Mimi Unsubscribe instantly from these emails by clicking here. Email look weird or can't download pictures? View it on the web here. Click HERE to go to the SAFE home page. Click HERE to go to the SAFE FaceBook page. Click HERE to go to Ark Two. Click HERE to go to list of Ark Two Videos Forward this email to a friend. This newsletter is Copyleft: and may be used by anyone. SAFE Ark Two Newsletter July 23rd, 2013 Whose Laughing Now? The Birds and the Bees Weeks go by sometimes with my never getting out of the house - but yesterday on the road with Jean to Redickville I said, "Look at all the birds along the telephone wires." She didn't see any birds. I said to her, "Look at all the birds along the road." She didn't see any birds. I said to her, "Look at all the birds in the field." She didn't see any birds. I said to her, "Look at all the birds in the sky." "I don't see any birds," she said. "Exactly", I said. "When we get to a service station, I shall have to stop and wash all the bugs off the windshield", I said. "I don't see any bugs on the windshield", she replied. "Exactly", I said. "When we get to Collingwood, I should take the car to the car wash and get all the bird poop off it," I said. "I don't see any bird poop on it," she said. "Exactly", I said. Where have all the birds, bees, and bugs gone? Thirty years ago there was a book by Rachel Carson called "Silent Spring", but today we have silent Spring and no book. A hundred years ago Rudolf Steiner said that in a hundred years the bee colonies would collapse. The world laughed. They aren't laughing now. In 1949 George Orwell wrote "1984". Big Brother watching our every move. Science fiction, a big laugh. Who could have imagined. He did. Now even more than he imagined. We can look at a photograph in a crowd and view time backwards. Monitor around the world. And talk about the "Department of Lies!" (errr - Truth). Well anyway, as you breathe today's cool air you know that the 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth", about global warming was just a political fiction, and I assure you there would be GREAT ridicule if I were to describe the way I expect the world to be 10, 50, 100 years from now. So Onto Safer Ground I am not going to comment about the hundred thousand Russians being called to active duty - probably as a result of Israel's latest Syria bombing. Nor that Netanyahu has stated that Israel probably cannot wait for the US to act on Iran. And people certainly don't want me to comment about anything financial like Japan. Well, one more word about the Zimmerman thing. Looks like we dodged that bullet - until the next time - and then it is going to be worse because of it. We got that forest fire put out before it got started. When we do that, by spotting smoke from the fire towers, and rushing to stop the blaze before it gets out of hand, then more and more underbrush builds up, until one day we can't put it out. Nature's way was many smaller burns. We wait to have one giant one we can't handle. George was innocent. Well, if not exactly innocent, at least not guilty. A good citizen donating his time to protect his community. The picture of Trayvon, as the 12 year old child (child is the way he was referred to in all the proceedings) was a 17 year old on drugs who had stolen jewelry and burlgar tools in his school locker. He had been studying and practicing mixed martial arts for the last year and had been in a number of confrontations. His stated preferred method was to get in the first blow for what is called ground and pound. The "child" painted as skipping happily back from store with a bag of Skittles and a can of watermelon tea (actually components for making Lean/Drank a drug) - was the same age that I was when I was in the military. A year later I was married and a year after that a father. The government appointed prosecutor wants to charge Zimmerman with child molestation. No one would have thought of charging the government with child molestation for putting me in harm's way. But- make no mistake about it, the most wronged one in this case was Trayvon. Wronged not by Zimmerman but by society. As I pointed out in the previous newsletter, 93% of murdered blacks are murdered by blacks and that isn't taking into consideration at all the subject of abortion. Still not entirely the blacks' fault. In a society where even good church going whites have trouble finding a job, a black ex-con, or someone on the path to becoming a black ex-con, isn't about to find one. There are also the problems of materiality and morality in our society - but I am not going to go there. The only reason that I am bringing up this whole subject is to tell you that the underbrush of this forest fire is going to cause a conflagration that you can't believe - next time. The anger and pent-up emotions won't be forgotten. They are just going to lie there and fester waiting for the next incidence. No one wants to hear my phrase about the blood running in the streets from the race riots in the American cities as the weapons fall from the air launched by a foreign enemy. Nope, people didn't like Carson's "Silent Spring", Steiner's bee colony collapse, Orwell's "1984" Big Brother, or talk about global warming, and they sure don't want to hear Beach's blast from the bombshelter. To bed at night with a cool breeze off the little waterfall. All calm and peaceful. Just the rumble of the stream. No noisey old frogs or locusts like in the years past. Calm night - to awaken in the morning to the quiet and stillness. Was saying to my wife how noisey the birds used to be. Not that she could hear it anymore, anyway. Nope, our world is fading away. What we are leaving to you, we wouldn't want anyway. Not in the immediate future anyhow. Maybe centuries from now it will be a wonderful world, but humanity will have to work for it. It is not just going to be handed to them as some hope. Most today don't even know the problem - and they certainly don't know the cure. Some THINK they know the problem -- and here is an exceptionally good video about geoengineering. A few things off key - but I am not sending this to you as a flaming arrow because the speaker doesn't know the real causes or the real solutions. Not My Flaming Arrow Making Money at McDonalds Things are tough all over. Now if Trayvon had been really industrious and fortunate he might have gotten a job at McDonalds. This week they put out a sample budget for their employees to show them how to budget their money. You should go through it with your young college graduate to show them how to budget their money so they won't be living at home. 40 hours full time at McDonalds 30 hours part time at Second Job ---------- 70 hour week Yep, Ronald says you must have two jobs to make it. Not sure how that works because around here most people can't get fulltime, because company then has to pay benefits. But even if fulltime it is usually rotating shifts. Tricky getting two companies to rotate together or in sync. Anyway - 70 hour week is six days a week - 12 hours a day (=72 hours) The two hours unpaid divided into the 12 shifts is 10 minutes per shift. You do want your young person to be a good employee and show up 10 minutes ahead of time so as to get their quills sharpened. This means being to work by 8:00 am (7:50) and getting off at 8:00 pm each day. Assuming that there is no travel time between jobs and one doesn't stop for anything like eating. Probably not realistic if one doesn't live in the building between their two jobs and runs from one to the other. Now to examine the line items. 100 Savings (Forget that) However, being a good Christian they will want to tithe so that will be $206 off the top. In our society we certainly need to support the churches. 600 Mortgage/Rent Can't believe mortgage. Wouldn't be able to pay the taxes and interest. Must be shared accomodation. Say four people in a city apartment. 150 Car Payment Forget that. Better ride a bicycle 100 Car/Home Insurance Good - now we are getting somewhere. No car - no home - don't need car or home insurance. Was an interesting combination anyway. Were the people living in their car? 20 Health Insurance Don't need any health insurance here in Canada. Probably young and healthy in the US so don't need it there either. Anyway that is probably more than they need to pay on health insurance. 0 Heating I guess this goes along with not having a house. You sure need heating here in Canada. I guess make sure your job is in the sunny south. 100 Cable/Phone I don't know the price of Cellphones or laptops for Internet. 40 Electric A bargain compared to what we pay up here - but we really get ripped off for nuclear power which was going to be free. ----------- 1,260 Monthly Expenses Total - 470 that we can take back off our monthly expenses by doing the below ---------- 730 Adjusted Monthly expenses by taking the following costs out of the McDonalds budget 100 Other 100 We won't do any savings and forget tithing. Too tired after 70 hrs. to go to church anyway. 150 And we didn't go for the car - so no car payments and will walk or bike to work. (So no bus fare) 100 And that saved us insurance 20 and we didn't need any health insurance ---------- $470 we have to add back on so expenses are only $730 -------- 2,060 - 730 Adjusted Monthly expenses our way. ---------- 1,330 Monthly spending money which is $44 a day for food. Actually you don't have quite $44 a day to start with because the government takes regressive taxes (SALES taxes) on spending. In Canada that would have reduced you to $37 a day. But fortunately you aren't having to pay gasoline taxes. $37 a day for food - who couldn't live on that? Well not quite. You do need clothes also - but you can get those cheap at the church rummage sale - like we do. Better allow something for shoes because you are going to be doing lots of walking since we didn't put in anything for transportation. Let us say you spend $30 a month for clothes. In addition to $10 at the rummage sale that will give you $20 for new shorts and and socks. No wonder the style has been jeans with holes in them. Anyway, divided over the month - that leaves you with $36 a day for food Haircuts are too expensive. Beauty parlor - forget that. Dating? Nah - too tired after 70 hours a week. Take in movie on your day off. Nope - I just checked - the movie prices. Don't buy any books or magazines. Borrow at the library. Still have - $36 dollars a day for food. Good thing that you don't have anything like credit card debts. If you wanted a fancier lifestyle you should have gotten a college education. You did? And you have a student loan payment? How much? $120 a month. Well, you still have - $32 a day for food. What? Toothpaste? And a brush! Toilet paper? No, no, no - use the toilet at work. Hey! Hey! Stop listing the things you can spend money on. It could run up to a hundred things. $?? a day for food. Okay - you can see where all this is going. But, you have money for food! Yeah, unless McDonalds is letting you eat there for free - you can't afford to eat all your meals at a high class place like McDonalds. BUT - you are so lucky! You have a job. Two no less! 80% of the black males in the ghetto can't find one. Okay - no savings. No tithing. No car. No insurance. No money for other (we took that out of the budget) but you do have food. No wonder most Americans are overweight. Good thing that seven Americans own as much as the bottom 40% of all Americans - or we would eat ourselves to death. Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Education Trust found that employer health insurance premiums for a single person were $9860 in 2009 but 24.5% of households with $25,000 or less income went without health insurance. Nothing about any of that which I understand. It is all relative. Your situation is much better than being unemployed. It is much better than being employed in the slave labor shops of China or India, which is better than being unemployed there. My whole point about all the above is that - THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS - and someday we will look back and think how fortunate we were to have what McDonalds offers. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org US National Coordinator's Corner Christopher Verreos coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Christopher Verreos and his wife Regina No entry from Christopher this week. He tried - but it was a busy week for him. We had a lot of coordination trying to get the database managers going. -Bruce Bruce Beach 161 Main St. Horning's Mills Melancthon Ontario L9V 1X7 Canada This is a link to the book everyone needs now - and which we hope they will buy and support our cause. This is a link to the book everyone will need the day AFTER the Great Catastrophe - but which they need to buy and read NOW!.

Waiting on a Miracle

Safe America For Everyone This newsletter powered by: Mad Mimi Unsubscribe instantly from these emails by clicking here. Email look weird or can't download pictures? View it on the web here. Click HERE to go to the SAFE home page. Click HERE to go to the SAFE FaceBook page. Click HERE to go to Ark Two. Click HERE to go to list of Ark Two Videos Forward this email to a friend. This newsletter is Copyleft: and may be used by anyone. SAFE Ark Two Newsletter July 14th, 2013 Waiting on a Miracle The Radio Was hoping for a miracle on the radio this week. Thought I saw the possibility of one coming. When Dave said he was scrapping the present design, I examined again my dream of SDR (Software Defined Radio). SDR has been the dream of a lot of people for a long time. The basic concept is this: Radios today are not generally made up of tubes. Instead they often have in them many digital components. The digital components perform functions of specific digital logic. That logic could be performed in a computer program. As the computers have grown more and more in power the whole concept seemed more and more reasonable. There are some functions that a digital computer can't do, or do well, because they are analog functions. These are such things as receiving/tuning the analogue signal received over the antenna or providing the power/wattage that goes out over the antenna. Nevertheless, once the signal is captured, and converted by an analog/digital converter, there is lots that a computer can do with it in software. In the olden days, when I started into computers there was still lots of debate about the relative advantages of digital versus analog computers but as the result of the digital revolution and the micro miniaturization of components there really is not much out there today in the way of general analogue computers. This may all change again as the new field of quantum computing develops, but that is a ways off and too early to predict. So, today, to do anything in SDR one has to develop a hybrid system. Some of the analog functions have to be done in specialized hardware for whatever you are trying to do. Still and all, it would seem that the more functions one could pass off to the computer the less expensive would be the hardware they had to build. In effect, this is what we do with our PSK31 User Interface program. All of its functions could actually be done in hardware or digital chips right in the radio box - and there are such systems. But the dream is to move more in the other direction. There are a number of organizations out there trying to do just that. Some of them make their software and development programs public domain. After days of intensive effort and guidance from some very helpful people I thought I had found the solution. A lead was provided to me to a professor at the United States Naval Academy who has an Electrical Engineering student who, as his major project, is developing a SDR transceiver to process PSK31. The professor was very kind and told me that they were going to make the project public domain and that we were welcome to it. But disappointment. The government spends millions on its projects and the hardware that was going to be used for this one was way beyond our budget. For awhile that looked like the potential miracle that I told you about last time, for which I felt there was an inkling. If it had worked out like I had dreamed then it would have been worth all the delaying paths we have gone down in the last couple of years. We just don't know God's will. I am sure it is for good whether or not our efforts fit into it. If they don't - then we certainly don't want to succeed. Nevertheless, it seems we are supposed to keep trying. I tell Dave it is like we are "Waiting For Godot". That is a very famous stage play about a couple of guys who are in a perpetual wait loop. Sort of a pre-"Groundhog Day". I do hope we will see through this. Anyway, back to the drawing board. Dave had felt that there might be a solution in using DSP (Digital Signal Processing) devices. Once again I made an intensive search and identified various categories and classes of these devices, trimming the tree to what might be appropriate for us. However, doing the programming for them isn't Dave's thing. Unless someone of you on the newsletter has this unique skill, and is willing to help, I am going to have to search for that talent. So, that is where we stand at the moment. There is still another SDR alternative being examined, but mainly at the moment I am trying to find someone with RF DSP talent. Other Activity At Ark Two As usual, many projects on the go. Put the book writing aside for a week although excellent consultation about it with three delightful visitors who came this week, one from Michigan and another from Kansas. I hope there is someone coming today to help with worrying the worms. Some excellent editing this week by Aaron Jean and others on the radio manual but still more to be done before I put up the revisions. Yesterday, completed the voiceovers for the first YouTube about the radio, but since there are three in that series we may be a few more weeks getting it up. Expecting another crew in about a week to help further about getting in the wood. Lots needs to be done on the shelter but all in God's due time. Still greatly needing suggestions for the book cover and I am needing a LOT more critique on the book. Certainly no reason around here to become bored. Another Miracle Needed Well, the Zimmerman trial is over and here are some black statistics on death. (Double entendre intended). Nothing in American claims more lives than abortion, with some 1.2 million children being killed each year. The African-American community bears a disproportionate number of these abortions. Although blacks make up 13% of the US population, black women have some 36% of the abortions. A Black baby is 5 times more likely to be killed in the womb than a White Baby. Some 1,784 African-American children are killed by abortion each day. Abortion in the African-American community has killed more than has AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and violent crime combined. For every two African American women that get pregnant one will choose to abort. Some 3,446 Blacks were lynched in the U.S. between 1882 and 1968, That number is surpassed in less than 3 days by abortion. Every week more African-Americans are killed by abortion than all people killed in the Viet Nam war Since 1973, abortion has wiped out over 25% of the African-American population. Sources for the above are reported as: One Two A 2007 special report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reveals that approximately 8,000 - and, in certain years, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States. This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks. The analysis, supported by FBI records, finds that in 2005 alone, for example, African Americans accounted for 49% of all homicide victims in the US - again, almost exclusively at the hands of other African Americans. A week without riots would be wonderful. The show trial would then have been worth it. At this hour also watching the Russian activity around Syria. More miracles are a must everywhere. So many things going on that it is impossible to tell what is going to have a great impact. It could be the financial markets tied to Japan, the disruptions in Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan or any one of a dozen places. For the last year it has been Iran, North Korea, or someone else in the news but the world still just rocks on. Most everyone agrees something dramatic will happen eventually, but we just can't say when. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org US National Coordinator's Corner Christopher Verreos coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Christopher Verreos and his wife Regina Greetings SAFE Team! Ya ever had one of those weeks? Well, we just had one here! Anyway, I still need to connect with our Database Mgrs. to see where we are in terms of getting State Team Leaders (STLs) a copy of their membership lists from our new Excel file. Next step, I'd like to get as many states as possible to set up a Yahoo User Group (or anything comparable) so that state members can view threads and posts, without getting swamped with emails. It's also a great alternative communication system - easy and cheap! It's a great way for state members to meet each other and build their Triads/community on their own initiative. The unofficial SAFE Data Sheet (for emergency water) is still being worked on. Once that's finished, we'll find a way to post/share it with the STLs for input before linking it to the website. I'm sure you'll agree that once you see this, it will generate lots of other extremely helpful ideas. On another topic, the contractors have been at the house this week. One saw my water storage: "Hey, what's that for?" Another one saw my battery array: "Hey, why do you need all that?" Then, another one saw that I had some spare building supplies: "Hey, can I buy some of that?" In each case, I was quickly able to state that "I don't trust the system to take care of me. I can't afford to run out of water, have my food in the freezer spoil, or not be able to repair my house after an earthquake, especially when the stores are closed and the roads aren't safe!" They were surprised, but also impressed with how easy it was to prep with so little effort! Those discussions planted some very important seeds, and those relationships are reciprocal since it's all about the community. Be SAFE! Peace & Action, Christopher Verreos National Coordinator, SAFE USA coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Bruce Beach 161 Main St. Horning's Mills Melancthon Ontario L9V 1X7 Canada This is a link to the book everyone needs now - and which we hope they will buy and support our cause. This is a link to the book everyone will need the day AFTER the Great Catastrophe - but which they need to buy and read NOW!.

Delightful Days of Summer

Safe America For Everyone This newsletter powered by: Mad Mimi Unsubscribe instantly from these emails by clicking here. Email look weird or can't download pictures? View it on the web here. Click HERE to go to the SAFE home page. Click HERE to go to the SAFE FaceBook page. Click HERE to go to Ark Two. Click HERE to go to list of Ark Two Videos Forward this email to a friend. This newsletter is Copyleft: and may be used by anyone. SAFE Ark Two Newsletter July 7th, 2013 In the Good Old Summertime Delightful Days of Summer: But that is a Northern viewpoint. Elsewhere it is scorching. Light rain in the early morning here. Just enough to make the air exceptionally clean and fresh. But that is a rural viewpoint. Smog so thick in China that anymore many there don't know what fresh air is like. Here, calm enjoyable and quiet. But that is a small village viewpoint. Some like our family in Taiwan live in the continuous din of the city. Peaceful and secure where we are here. But that is a Canadian viewpoint. Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Brazil, Argentina and so many more in turmoil that they don't even make headlines in the MSM. Many died yesterday in Mexico, throughout South America, in Africa and the Middle East and even China of which my correspondents are generally unaware. But that is a North American viewpoint. Delightful breakfast this morning of strawberry waffles, dog and cat now napping nearby. Life is bounteous and pleasurable. But that is a retired viewpoint. Life is such a struggle for so many with unemployment and families to provide for. Others struggle with severe bodily ailments but we with only one fatal one and that is age. But that is an Octogenarian's viewpoint. Others find death threatening but we find life as having been meaningful and the hereafter promising. But that is the viewpoint of one who has traveled the spiritual path. So in these delightful days of summer we watch the world in turmoil elsewhere and are so grateful for the innumerable gifts that God has bestowed upon us in family, friends, education, location and awareness of some His bounties. But that is viewpoint here at Ark Two and unfortunately not that of many others. Here at Ark Two A bounty yesterday as 22 came to help. Lots accomplished. Got in 80 percent of the first load of wood for the coming winter. Trimmed the big tree. Took off the storm windows and put up the screens. Washed the windows and re-hung the washed drapes. Watered the batteries and stacked the firewood by the big stove. Cleaned Jean's kitchen and our front walk and steps. Che who brought the group, provided them with a Chili lunch and split them into two groups. One to work at the house while the other did prepper things with him for a couple of hours - and then they traded off. We could use help like this every week but it is super that he can bring them every three or four months. Tragedy of the bees Last couple of years we were spared when others around us were struck by colony collapse. Struck here this year. Only 36 hives alive this spring out of 231 for our beekeeper. I guess all 22 hives on our property must not have made it - but he didn't say specifically. 37 Million bees died at one Ontario location alone. We have been very concerned about preserving the bees. Our beekeeper is the president of the Ontario Beekeepers Association. He was trained by Robert whose family had been doing it for three generations. Robert was the foremost authority on the subject that I have known. He retired last year. He was helping us build a bee preservation room in the shelter. It has a cooler in it so that we can put the bees into hibernation. He was maintaining, and we were going to preserve, eleven strains of bees. Gone. A number of years ago Robert told me that in 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher & social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse. I finally bought Steiner's book and have been reading it. Cost seven dollars but one can't download it and has to read it in the cloud. I don't really like this way. Doesn't let one go to a particular page. Can't copy a paragraph to paste it elsewhere. I got a free note taking program, but it is either no help or I can't figure out how to use. The book is quite mystical, but I do find some astounding stuff in it. Reading in the book where an expert beekeeper challenges Steiner that he couldn't know that the bees would disappear in a hundred years. Steiner's reply: "You are quite right Mr. Mueller. Check back with me in a hundred years and we will see what your opinion is then." There is a quote famously attributed to Einstein: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live." Unfortunately, it doesn't pass the Snopes test. Nevertheless, the concept is taken as gospel by those in the bee industry. Maybe not four years or even forty. But eventually. Latest buzz is that Putin has warned that Russia will go to war with the US over the bee colony collapse if the US doesn't stop protecting GMO and Monsanto. Again this doesn't pass the Snopes test. Nevertheless, the bees have died and I don't know what to do about it. Our beekeeper seems to be in such complete shock that I can't get a clear answer from him. The Radio As you all know - I reported that the radio had died last week. Received tracking notice that the carcass had passed customs at 12:15 noon on Friday - so it should be arriving back here early next week. Resurrection will require a miracle. I have of course been working on 'Hail Marys' left and right. Do have an inkling that a miracle may be possible. Will give it a few days to develop before mentioning it - if it does come to light - because I wouldn't want to jinx it. SAFE Organization Christopher is working on getting the organization more up to speed. The main thing needed at the moment is for Jonathan and Nick, the database managers, to develop a database system. Wendy has gotten the database creation program working perfectly, so far as I can tell, but there need to be developed procedures now for manipulating and maintaining it. I do hope that they will get that together in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, if you are willing be a very active participant in the SAFE organization - please let me (or Christopher know) and we will see that you get slotted in. If you aren't willing to be very active - it won't be long before you are asked to fill an organizational slot anyway. Although it is not my decision, my position is that we are coming to the point that people who are not willing to help and participate in the SAFE organization should be eliminated from the list. We don't need people who are just hangers on and only concerned about their own self-interest. The principle behind SAFE is that it is a Divine decree that all are supposed to be of service to others. As more accept that principle, over the Ayn Rand philosophy of the present day, the world will become peaceful, plentiful and Just. The idea is to encourage the Divine Principle. I am writing another book. The working title is: The Most Important Date in History and the Newton Connection. The Age of Wisdom View of Reality. There are some people who have heard the thesis before, who I am going to ask to critique the book, but I would be glad to send it to anyone who would be willing to read and critique it. Please just let me know. I would particularly appreciate suggestions for a cover. I have been able to come up with no idea of what the cover should be like. Upcoming week Coming week is an anticipated one. Friends coming Kansas. Just staying briefly. As someone was saying this weekend - what we need is someone who can help Jean, to come and stay permanently. At our age we have to take a driving examination every other year. Jean takes it this year and I take it next. Jean doesn't hear hardly at all, and I am blind in one eye, so we are concerned. It has been a blessing after all these years to have a reliable car. We don't drive any long trips and it sometimes sits a full week without being moved at all, but being out here in the country we will feel really trapped if we can't drive. It is live on TV Doing something that I haven't ever done before, and that is watching a trial live on TV. I think this one is of great social significance. Very interesting in many ways. The jurors are all women. The judge is a woman. The bailiffs who lead in the witnesses are women. The court reporters are women. Only one of the lawyers is a woman but a number of the key witnesses such as the ambulance attendant, and the Neighborhood Watch supervisor have been women. I seem to have just tuned in at almost all the key moments. I felt the move for dismissal by the Defense was very well put, but the decision had been made ahead of time that the case would be go on. It is a great show trial costing multi-millions. The prosecution didn't want to prosecute in the first place, but the political decision was made that it would be cheaper to put on the circus than to rebuild the cities from riots. From the State's point of view the ideal would be a conviction for something which could then go to appeal - which could take forever to permit tempers to die down. The defendant could even be out on bail during appeal - but I don't know what will happen. So much of the world today is just a circus and a show. Perhaps it has always been that way. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org US National Coordinator's Corner Christopher Verreos coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Christopher Verreos and his wife Regina Greetings SAFE Team! Do we have a clear idea of our purpose within SAFE, or are we running scared? Do we have weekly, monthly, and seasonal goals for our families, friends, and our networks, or are we tossed back and forth by every bad news report? I am asking myself these questions for a reason. The number and type of threats we face as a nation are both diverse and quickly increasing. Don't panic. Exercise your faith. Exercise your network. Exercise your SAFEty! I recently received a great email from Jim, Mississippi's State Team Leader. One of his solutions is inspired by one of Bruce's original projects called "The Paper": Be prepared to give people the essential information they need as they need it, when (or right before) a disaster strikes. This is a great action plan for us to follow! It does not need to be a "top down" effort. Any State Team Leader, or District Leader, or SAFE member can either develop or cut and paste their own "data sheets" for a few topics of vital concern: safe water preparation & storage, medical & first aid, food production & storage, communication, personal safety, etc. These would not be some sort of official SAFE publications, however, they can be tailored to your specific area or locale, printed on a single sheet, with optional contact or resource info along the lines of basic civil defense material. AND, our SAFE website has tons of resources to choose from that can help. Simple and effective solutions. Go for it! Peace & Action, Christopher coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Bruce Beach 161 Main St. Horning's Mills Melancthon Ontario L9V 1X7 Canada This is a link to the book everyone needs now - and which we hope they will buy and support our cause. This is a link to the book everyone will need the day AFTER the Great Catastrophe - but which they need to buy and read NOW!.

Mastermind Group

Safe America For Everyone This newsletter powered by: Mad Mimi Unsubscribe instantly from these emails by clicking here. Email look weird or can't download pictures? View it on the web here. Click HERE to go to the SAFE home page. Click HERE to go to the SAFE FaceBook page. Click HERE to go to Ark Two. Click HERE to go to list of Ark Two Videos Forward this email to a friend. This newsletter is Copyleft: and may be used by anyone. SAFE Ark Two Newsletter July 2nd, 2013 Serious Problem Mastermind Group: But first before I get to the problem - let me explain about something that I mention in the discussion and that is about our Mastermind Group, something that most of you have not heard about before. A Mastermind Group is an idea developed by Andrew Carnegie in the early 1900s which became very popular in the 1930s when promoted by Napoleon Hill. The Group is not necessarily composed of people with superior mental skills. The Mastermind itself is the Overall Divine Mind to which we are all subject - and to which the group tries to attune itself for guidance. Not all our group is religiously inclined. Some are members of various religions and others are not - but that makes no difference, as that still remains the principle. Mastermind groups are kept relatively small so there is opportunity for everyone to give their input. There are less than twenty individuals in ours. They were chosen because of previous insights into our activities and the roles they presently play there. While I have sent the following information to the Mastermind Group I am also sending it to the readership as a whole so that everyone will know what is going on and in the hopes that someone will have a suggestion. The problem: Dave, the radio engineer, spent an intense weekend on working on the prototype this weekend and says that he is giving up. He has been struggling with it for many weeks. The description of the problem is in my letter to Dave - reprinted below. Dave's business is rebuilding radio transmitters and now having had the experience with this one he says that he thinks he could start over and design one in a week's time that would outperform the original design specs that we have. Whether or not he can actually find the time to do that - is another matter. Good morning, Dave Trying to think through this further. Hold up a moment on shipping it back - until I can consult with some others. It may be that there is someone else in the states who would be willing to give it a try. We know the layout needs to be changed - but we have to do that anyway - to get two boards so that it will fit in the case. Bob has felt that the amplifier circuit needed to be more separated from the exciter - because it was causing RF interference, but he didn't know as that would be a full solution. The instability of the exciter circuit - was somewhat surprising - since we are expecting output from it at a fraction of its original design level. Admittedly, it never lived up to its original 10w design level - but the 3.5 watts that the original circuit performed at was still way more than the 1.5 that we think would be adequate. Dave Benson, the board manufacturer of the original kit recognized many people had tuning problems - but we thought this would be resolved in the manufacturing process. Benson declined to sell us his existing inventory or the board layout masters. In retrospect I have begun to suspect that this was because there were even greater problems than being reported. Still, hundreds of kits were in use by satisfied users and received rave reviews, over a very long time. Over two years ago Benson decided to do a redesign. In correspondence from him three weeks ago - I could detect no progress - although in that respect he has been quite uncommunicative. Nevertheless, that is one path we might consider - in asking if he would be willing to partner in what we are doing. From past experience there - I give that an almost zero chance. Skip Teller, the original designer of the exciter circuit, seems to me to be more than semi-retired - and while I don't think he would be willing to take on the project - he might have some other suggestions. But, I digress in trying to think of solutions - when I am actually at this point trying to define the problem. Dave, you earlier sent a list of recommendations/modifications/improvements to the circuit. I am wondering if you developed further suggested changes? Could you please send a list, if you have, and also an analysis of the problems as they stand. I recognize/acknowledge that you think that the overall initial exciter circuit was inadequate because: a. There would be frequency differences between units due to the differences in the manufacture of the NTSC crystal. b. That the frequency spectrum of the unit was not sufficiently broad. These were factors that existed in the original design and were such that I felt they were within the parameters of our purpose. There are always limitations and compromises involved - in any design. The circuit instability was an unexpected factor - and any input that you can give as to what is causing this - and other problems that you have identified would be greatly appreciated. One thought that I have is to announce the problem on the newsletter - and see if anyone else has a suggestion. I would have preferred to have requested consultation first - from our Mastermind group - but the Newsletter is already past due putting out. Anyway, your further analysis of the problems with the circuit and board - will be most appreciated. Please hold up a day or two in sending it back - in case we determine it should be sent on elsewhere in the states. Other news: There has been a decision that there should be a change in the content of this newsletter. I will no longer discuss national or International news because you have other sources for that. We will simply focus on content specific to SAFE, although I will also continue with personal content because I don't want the newsletter to become impersonal. Wendy has gotten the US National raw data base working perfectly and now the need is to coordinate the activity of the Eastern and Western Division database managers. More on that and other developing subjects in a future newsletter but this one is overly lengthy already. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org US National Coordinator's Corner Christopher Verreos coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Christopher Verreos and his wife Regina Greetings SAFE Team, This week, we've seen some solid steps to making administrative progress. Meanwhile, there's a lot of folks out there wondering when they'll get some sort of orders or something from their State Leaders or regional Leaders. Well, we're putting the finishing touches on our own Networking system of sorts. And I've been getting some emails with great ideas from members! Next weekend, across America, there'll be lots of Independence Day parades, and many communities will be showing off their Emergency Response Teams. That visibility actually has the opposite effect. The community will rest assured that SOMEONE ELSE will be there and be ready to help! We, on the other hand, have another task. PPP: prepare, practice, and proliferate! As part of that strategy, I will continue to stress the importance of creating your own personal networks. Please take my word for it, I am also working on building my network too. But mine is more "fun based" than fear based. I'm using different interests to build friendships, and then go from there. One tip: technology is great - if it works when you need it! Take a moment to review the various reference materials you'll need in a crisis, and get a hard copy of it in a binder. County maps with highlighted routes etc.; medical; communications; practical data sheets on various "how to" projects; and of course your personal financial/legal stuff. All that will come in handy when you need it and if you need to share any of it with family, neighbors, or folks in your Triad/network. It'll save you a heap of time and effort over trying to coach somebody when you have more important fish to fry. More on that next time. Peace & Action, Christopher coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Bruce Beach 161 Main St. Horning's Mills Melancthon Ontario L9V 1X7 Canada This is a link to the book everyone needs now - and which we hope they will buy and support our cause. This is a link to the book everyone will need the day AFTER the Great Catastrophe - but which they need to buy and read NOW!.