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!.