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Geminid Meteor Shower 2018
Time-lapse footage of the Geminids on the peak night of December 13-14, 2018. See more images from the trip in my full blog post: https://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/12/16/geminid-meteor-shower-2018-in-death-valley/

真相: Greece: Practitioners Raise Awareness of Forced Organ Harvesting in China
October 31, 2018 | By Falun Dafa practitioners in Greece

October 18, 2018, marked the 12th annual EU Anti-Trafficking Day to raise awareness of the atrocities of human trafficking. In conjunction with this important date, Falun Dafa practitioners in Greece held an event in Athens on October 20 to draw attention to the trafficking of vital organs taken from living Falun Dafa practitioners being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime.

Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) is a traditional mind-body cultivation practice. It has been brutally suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party since 1999 in a campaign of persecution that amounts to genocide. Falun Dafa practitioners and other prisoners of conscience, including Tibetans, Christians, and Uighurs, have been targeted for their organs in extrajudicial killings sanctioned by the state.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs encourages activities centered around the October 18 commemoration and supported the practitioners' event.

The event was held on Syntagma Square in the center of Athens. Passersby were shocked to learn about the killing of Falun Dafa practitioners in China for their organs, and many had a hard time believing the brutality carried out in Chinese prisons.

Practitioners told them about the investigations that have taken place and the non-governmental organizations working to stop these crimes. They also mentioned laws being enacted in European countries and around the world to ban involvement in organ trafficking in China.

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Life in the United States

On the greying and diminishing influence of American Evangilicanism.

Evangelicals helped elect Trump, but their time as a major political force is coming to an end

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Multidimensional Freedom Spirits Holt: LOOP HOLE! Separation of church and state!

真相: Hong Kong Forum Highlights Organ Harvesting Atrocities in Mainland China
June 14, 2018 | By a Falun Gong practitioner in Hong Kong

Political heavyweights and experts gathered in Hong Kong on June 10, 2018, to discuss how the Chinese communist regime persecutes Falun Gong practitioners and other religious groups.

At the forum “Is there Freedom of Religion in China? -- On the Persecution of Falun Gong,” legislators and experts criticized the Chinese regime for profiting from organs harvested from living prisoners of conscience–mostly Falun Gong practitioners–and called to stop the persecution of the spiritual practice.

Legislators and experts at the forum in Hong Kong

David Matas, a Canadian human rights lawyer, stated at the forum that religious groups in China, including Falun Gong, Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Christians, are slaughtered for their organs. Falun Gong practitioners account for half of the arbitrarily imprisoned population and suffer the worst kind of persecution, said Matas, who concluded that they have become an endless organ supply.

The U.S. Department of State published its 2017 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom on May 29, 2018, which highlighted how groups such as Falun Gong practitioners have suffered severe persecution in China.

China’s Medical System Addicted to Organ Sales
David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, has researched the illegal harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience for more than ten years. He and Matas were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.

Kilgour, Matas, and investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann published an investigative report in 2016 showing that the number of transplants in China exceeded official figures and organ donations by an order of magnitude. Matas said that the tremendous number of organs had to come from prisoners of conscience. He described the organ trade as an addiction of the Chinese medical system.

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For more stunning images from Death Valley (and many other places) please check my website: https://www.bjornkleemann.com/mysterious-death-valley

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Jean Bruno EGBOLU: Séduisante et belle.

Jeffrey Whittaker: I've been waiting for this to happen. It may sound repetitive to say that. But I remember when Drake and you left for your first tour. "He is a beast," I said. I didn't mean that he is unmanageable, but his spirit is animalistic. I would rather an angel like you be in heaven with me than doing therapy for him. But maybe he needed you to show him that he and his rappers don't control all females.

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真相: Real Bodies' Exhibition in Sydney Shut Down
October 24, 2018 | By Minghui correspondents in Australia and New Zealand

The ‘Real Bodies’ exhibition closed early on September 16, 2018, at Sydney's Entertainment Quarter Moore Park. The exhibit caused a public outcry over ongoing ethical concerns that the remains may be those of unwilling Chinese citizens.

DNA Tests Demanded
On the last day of the exhibition, the group Australians Against Bodies Exhibit and other groups held a press conference calling for an investigation and request that DNA tests be conducted on the bodies on display. Plastination is the process of skinning human bodies and injecting liquid silicone into the flesh to preserve it.

Dr. Huang Wanqing, a Chinese-American from New York City, was at the press conference to plead with Australian authorities to investigate the origins of the bodies, as he believed some remains may be of his missing brother from China, Huang Xiong.

Dr. Huang Wanqing holds a picture of his missing brother.

Dr. Huang's brother, Huang Xiong, had been thrown into a labor camp by CCP (Chinese Communist Party) authorities for appealing for Falun Gong in July 1999, when the CCP launched its nationwide persecution. Dr. Huang Wanqing last heard from his brother on April 19, 2003, when his brother was either imprisoned in a labor camp or on the run from the authorities.

After reading Dr. Huang Wanqing's story, Ms. Qu Xiaojie from the U.S. was encouraged to voice her plea to look for her missing brother in the exhibition. Her brother, Mr. Qu Shanming, was a Falun Gong practitioner and former engineer at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. He was fired from his position in December 1999 because he practiced Falun Gong, and has been missing from Beijing since November 2003. His wife and daughter haven't been able to find him since. Even though Xiaojie and her parents are living in the U.S., they haven't dared to investigate out in the open for fear of retaliation by the CCP.

Human Rights Attorney: Body Exhibition Proof of Chinese Organ Trafficking

Nobel Peace Prize nominee and international human rights lawyer David Matas at a press conference in Sydney

Mr. David Matas, a renowned Canadian human rights attorney and co-founder of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), came from Canada to give a speech at the press conference in Sydney.

Matas co-authored the book Bloody Harvest/The Slaughter: An Update with former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia Pacific David Kilgour and U.S. investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann. The 600-plus page report was released on June 22, 2016. He said there was compelling evidence that practitioners of Falun Gong are killed for both plastination and organ sourcing, and the exhibition of corpses was yet another form of proof of organ trafficking.

Similar exhibits of plastinated human bodies have been barred in other cities, David Matas said at the press conference. Matas explained that body exhibits sourced from China have been banned by local jurisdictions in France, Israel, and Hawaii and Seattle in the U.S. The Czech Republic also passed legislation to ensure that such exhibits were not legal without donor consent.

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真相: Denmark: Doctor's Fair Attendees Informed of Forced Organ Harvesting in China
November 27, 2018 | By Shu Hui, Minghui Correspondent in Denmark

For the second time in two years, volunteers for the non-governmental organization Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) participated in the Lægedage 2018 Doctor's Fair in Denmark between November 12-16 to inform attendees about forced organ harvesting in China.

The week-long event was hosted at the Bella Center Copenhagen and sponsored by the Organization of General Practitioners in Denmark (PLO).

Fair attendees learn about the state-sanctioned killing of prisoners of conscience for organs in China

“Most Meaningful" Booth
Hans, a young medical doctor who stopped by DAFOH's booth, said that he could hardly believe such an evil crime is happening in this day and age. “Your booth is the most unique one in this convention hall and the most meaningful one. I respect your courage and persistence,” Hans said.

Bringing a Colleague to Learn the Facts
Dr. Terje came back to DAFOH's booth with a young colleague the day after he learned about forced organ harvesting. Both of them signed a petition against the ongoing atrocity.

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A new blog on my website. Photos taken in Blijdorp in Rotterdam.
Here is the link: https://anjawessels.photography/a-little-surprise/

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LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves rocked the world of physics. But now, some scientists are questioning their methods. Here’s what you need to know.

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There's only one way out of here, said someone to the not so little rock.

The really cool thing about the internet is the way that information is at your fingertips, moreso the ability to find an answer based on only part of the puzzle. I think that probably makes us dumber in a way, yet smarter in another, not real sure on whether thats a good thing yet, history will tell.

I was watching the movie "The Thin Redline" the other night, apparently we (my work) had a bit to do with the Wirraway (thats a plane btw) in it, so when it came on TV (yup i'm old school still only watch whats on free to air :) ) i thought i would watch it - not too bad of film i suppose, but what tickled my interest was some audio samples, which i later went back to soundtrack to find, only to note they were not there, segway into the handiness of the internet, yep, the particular audio samples were from a fav artist of mine, Unkle. As such, i'll leave ya'all with quality quote from their work - i suggest a good session listening to Unkle is in order, particularly never never land, great stuff.

Does it help the grass to grow? The sun to shine?, Is this darkness in you too? Have you passed through this night?, This great evil. Where's it come from?

Onto the image, i love these kind of pictures, ones which look out of this world and even completely fabricated, yet not - this particular image is 3 images stitched together to make the pano format, each one taken with the waves in similar spots to make sure it does not look disjointed, with a shutter speed of 3 seconds its pretty forgiving to get things to align, the lone rock at low tide provided the anchor for all 3 images.
The morning sea fog which was crazy thick just topped it off. No elements added, removed or significantly altered, makes for a real easy image to process.

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Americans Turn More Pessimistic on Economy

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You might have seen a bright, white-purple ribbon weaving up into the sky, unlike anything you had ever seen before. Could it be lighting? Fireworks? Maybe a spaceship finally bringing the first wave of envoys from the nearest habitable planet?

https://rxscience.org/mystery-of-purple-lights-in-sky-solved-by-astronomers/

Mystery of purple lights in sky solved by Astronomers

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Cynthia Preston: Think they could get someone to re translate the written portion into understandable english? Also is this phenomenon showing up because of changes in the particulate or gases in the atmosphere that either where NOT there in 1970, or we just didn't have the high pixel quality available in todays digital photography technology?

真相: Swedish Lawmakers Hold Forum on China's Organ Harvesting Crimes
May 06, 2017

Four Swedish Parliament Members held a forum on Wednesday to promote a bill banning “organ tourism” to China.

American reporter and China affairs expert Ethan Gutmann and a representative from the organization Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), Dr. Harold King, were invited to speak at the forum.

Ethan Gutmann (middle) spoke at the forum. On his right and left are Swedish lawyer Nicolas and Dr. Harold King.

Four Swedish parliament members that held the forum. From left to right: Lotta Johnsson Fornarve, Niclas Malmberg, Marta Obminska, and Hans Rothenberg

According to MP Marta Obminska, four lawmakers have come together to stop illegal organ trade.

MP Obminska believes that very few Swedes are aware of forced organ harvesting and organ tourism to China. She that it is necessary to discuss it and to initiate a dialogue with China, so that the Chinese regime will know that Sweden says “No” to this crime.

Dr. Harold King introduced the mission of DAFOH and how other countries have passed laws to prevent organ tourism to China, including Israel, Spain, Taiwan, and Italy.

Ethan Gutmann reviewed the evidence that he, along with David Kilgour and David Matas, two Canadian human rights activists, collected that proves the existence of state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China.

Gutmann encouraged Swedish lawmakers to help stop this crime.

MP Niclas Malmberg emphasized the necessity of such laws.

MP Lotta Johnsson Fornarve said that forced organ harvesting is shameful. She said if Sweden takes the initiative to pass such a law, other European countries will follow suit.

MP Hans Rothenberg said the most important step to stopping it is to let the public know about it, while the second step is to pass a law to prevent organ tourism. He said we must let the Chinese Communist Party know that forced organ harvesting is inhuman.

In conjunction with the forum, Falun Gong practitioners held a rally outside the parliament building.

After the forum, some of the attendees joined the rally and voiced support for the practitioners' efforts.

COMMANDER of the NORTH: AURORA'S KNOWN AS NORTHERN LIGHTS

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Chomping at the Bit for an Implosion, Trump Recruits Hardcore Austerity Operative Mulvaney for Chief of Staff

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A new analysis of data gathered by the Apollo missions confirms that tidal stress – the gravitational pull of the moon on the Earth and of the Earth on the moon – is responsible for causing deep moonquakes, the lunar equivalent of earthquakes.

https://thetechinside.com/deep-moonquakes-are-likely-to-be-caused-due-to-tidal-stress-of-the-moon/

Deep Moonquakes are likely to be caused due to Tidal Stress of the Moon

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真相: Sweden: Falun Gong Displays Draw Support to End Persecution in China
March 06, 2017

) Since January this year, Falun Gong practitioners from Stockholm, Sweden have been holding activities every week at three main subway stations downtown. Their purpose is to raise awareness about this ancient Chinese cultivation practice and expose the persecution in China, which has been going on for the past 17 years.

Signing the petition to support Falun Gong

People stop to read display boards and exercise demonstrations.

At the Karlaplan subway station, a 72-year-old retired journalist stopped to talk with practitioners. He said he was not surprised that the communist party is committing such horrifying crimes against the peaceful Falun Gong group.

“Many years ago, my wife and I took a trip to China. While visiting a senior center, we accidentally entered a building that was not a part of the tour and we were yelled at by the government officials. We realized that we were only being shown what they wanted us to see, which was completely different from what was behind the scenes.”

He praised the practitioners for their efforts to expose the persecution and encouraged them to keep up the good work.

Another woman who stopped to sign the practitioners' petition said, “Many people still don't know about this [forced organ harvesting in China]. We should let more people know. It is horrifying.”

Adrian, a high school student, passed by practitioners' booth with his mother. He said he read a report about forced organ harvesting in the Swedish edition of The Epoch Times newspaper.

After signing the petition, Adrian and his mother made an appointment with the practitioners to learn the exercises at a nearby park.

Anders, who works at a nearby cultural center, asked the practitioners for a stack of materials in Swedish and English for the center visitors. He also invited them to hold a workshop at the center.

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Semantic-Cognitive-Perceptual Computing Discussion

Good to see more of these studies: Recalling from our Semantic-Cognitive-Perceptual Computing seminar: the structural complexity of brain cells/neuron and affiliated, compared to digital computers is the most likely explanation of why it would take a very long time to mimic/simulate the power of a human brain (massively parallel systems would still not come close as there would be a lot of distances one would need to travel through network links that connect computing nodes).

More at: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31106-1

Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together

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Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dies at 34 from suspected OD - Remember Vine? Twitter launched the Vine app in January 2013, and it allowed subscribers to share 6-second videos on Vine's platform. Users could also post their Vine videos on Twitter and Facebook. Even though the app had 200 million members by December 2015, by January of 2017 the app was shut down and archived by Twitter. Previously recorded Vine videos can still be viewed on the internet. One of the co-founder...

Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dies at 34 from suspected OD

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真相: Human Rights Lawyer David Matas Warns of Forced Organ Harvesting in China at Medical Law and Bioethics Congress in Israel
September 21, 2018 | By Falun Dafa practitioners in Israel

David Matas, a distinguished international human rights lawyer instrumental in bringing Nazi criminals to justice, attended the 24th World Congress on Medical Law and Bioethics at Tel Aviv University in Israel in September.

The congress was held at the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv September 2-6, 2018. Mr. Matas presented a poster on the subject of state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting in China, which mainly affects Falun Gong practitioners, as well as other prisoners of conscience.

For more than a decade, Matas and former Canadian Secretary of State David Kilgour have been involved in investigating the subject, and the two have published their findings asserting that organ harvesting crimes have been and are taking place in China. Together with investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann they later produced an update to the original investigative report.

During his visit to Israel, Mr. Matas also met with a director in the Ministry of Health and a number of representatives from the healthcare system, as well as with representatives from human rights and law organizations. He also met with lecturers at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and lectured to medical students.

Mr. Matas conveyed the following basic messages:

1. Transplant tourism to China should be prevented – in Israel this issue was already regulated in 2008 when the Israel Transplant Law (Organ Transplant Act) was enacted due to the alarming evidence [of people receiving questionably-sourced organs in China] already made public.

2. Hospitals and universities should not participate in these crimes by cooperating in transplantation with their counterparts in China, in order to not grant legitimacy to the crime and to ostracize from the medical community those doctors who participate in forced organ harvesting. That means not attending transplant conferences in China, not allowing transplant surgeons from China to present their research at conferences abroad, and not allowing them to train in countries outside of China.

Tel Aviv University Bioethics Congress
Mr. Matas' poster on the subject of organ harvesting by the Chinese regime – whose victims are mostly prisoners of conscience, most of whom are Falun Gong practitioners – was of considerable interest to the conference attendees. Many studied the poster for a long time, while others took a picture of the poster to read later.

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A real estate investment firm co-founded by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, is betting big on the administration’s Opportunity Zone tax breaks but isn’t that interested in steering its investors to the poorest, most-downtrodden areas that the program seeks to revitalize.

Kushner-linked firm targets richer areas in program for poor

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Russia’s federal space agency intends to establish a lunar colony by the year 2040. NASA, meanwhile, announced today that it’d have a continuous human presence there within a decade.

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Both Russia and NASA have decided to adopt a human colony at the moon by 2040

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