Pandora papers by ICIJ: Journalists exist and we have to support them

We all knew, we have been  referring to them as the "1%" and some claiming that these people should be brought up to light, exposed. since they have been hiding in plain sight.

Now thanks to the work of the ICIJ - International Consortium of Investigative Journalism - 

"Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism partnership in history have uncovered financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 politicians and public officials in 91 countries and territories, and a global lineup of fugitives, con artists and murderers.

The secret documents expose offshore dealings of the King of Jordan, the presidents of Ukraine, Kenya and Ecuador, the prime minister of the Czech Republic and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The files also detail  financial activities of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “unofficial minister of propaganda” and more than 130 billionaires from Russia, the United States, Turkey and other nations.

The secret documents expose offshore dealings of the King of Jordan, the presidents of Ukraine, Kenya and Ecuador, the prime minister of the Czech Republic and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The files also detail  financial activities of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “unofficial minister of propaganda” and more than 130 billionaires from Russia, the United States, Turkey and other nations.

The leaked records reveal that many of the power players who could help  bring an end to the offshore system instead benefit from it – stashing assets in covert companies and trusts while their governments do little to slow a global stream of illicit money that enriches criminals and impoverishes nations.

Among the hidden treasures revealed in the documents:

• A $22 million chateau in the French Riviera – replete with a cinema and two swimming pools – purchased through offshore companies by the Czech Republic’s populist prime minister, a billionaire who has railed against the corruption of economic and political elites.

• More than $13 million tucked in a secrecy-shaded trust in the Great Plains of the United States by a scion of one of Guatemala’s most powerful families, a dynasty that controls a soap and lipsticks conglomerate that’s been accused of harming workers and the earth.

• Three beachfront mansions in Malibu purchased through three offshore companies for $68 million by the King of Jordan in the years after Jordanians filled the streets during Arab Spring to protest joblessness and corruption.

The secret records are known as the Pandora Papers.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists obtained the trove of more than 11.9 million confidential files and led a team of more than 600 journalists from 150 news outlets that spent two years sifting through them, tracking down hard-to-find sources and digging into court records and other public documents from dozens of countries."

The whole article is here.

This is real journalism and I thank each of them for the achievement.

Even though they want to make of Julian Assange's "case" an example to silence those who have principles they will never, ever succeed.#FreeAssange

Ravel's Bolero animated by Simon Brethé 2

I posted it some years ago. 

Senator John Kennedy arguing Dr Fauci - CCP and WHO dangerous liaisons

Hi! How are you coping with the pandemic?

A lot to say but...

Democracy is a scam.

Happy New Year - Inner Peace Year

 

PEACE TRAIN (Lyrics post below)

by Cat Stevens

Now I've been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun
Oh, I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Someday it's going to come

'Cause I'm on the edge of darkness
There ride the Peace Train
Oh, Peace Train take this country
Come take me home again

Now I've been smiling lately,
Thinkin' about the good things to come
And I believe it could be,
Something good has begun

Oh Peace Train sounding louder
Glide on the Peace Train
Come on now Peace Train
Yes, Peace Train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the Peace Train
Come on now, Peace Train

Get your bags together,
Go bring your good friends, too
'Cause it's getting nearer,
It soon will be with you

Now come and join the living,
It's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer,
Soon it will all be true

Oh Peace Train sounding louder
Glide on the Peace Train
Come on now Peace Train
Peace Train

Now I've been crying lately,
Thinkin' about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating,
Why can't we live in bliss

'Cause out on the edge of darkness,
There rides a Peace Train
Oh Peace Train take this country,
Come take me home again

Oh Peace Train sounding louder
Glide on the Peace Train
Come on now, Peace Train
Yes, Peace Train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the Peace Train
Come on, come on, come on
Yes, come on, peace train
Yes, it's the peace train

Come on now, peace train
Oh, peace train

Peace Train by Cat Stevens -Happy 2021

Merry Xmas and Happy 2021 - PEACE

I didn't publish this year but the traditional Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year is vital for it's a time to cultivate the good we all have inside.

If you don't like the holidays I understand but find inner peace

It's been a difficult year 2020. Once I stopped focusing on the news, independent media for mainstream media I never followed, the effect was extremely positive.

Focus on loving, peacekeeping, peacemaking, discovering more about your inner self, relaxing, being at peace, exercising, eating nutritious food, and everything on your list that is good for yourself and those around you.

Fight for peace in all it's ways, shapes and forms.

Be at peace! Love!

What best to easy our minds than comedy?

HAVE FUN!

Julian Assange: The World is with YOU

I don't care which branch of US political arena is responsible: deep state, CIA, the Pentagon, former presidents, the president...
IT IS OBSCENE!
Everything about American politics is criminal whether to foreigners or the American citizens.

Luke, the independent journalist demonetized and persecuted by Google, has been updating JULIAN ASSANGE's case.
Freedom of speech... it is a joke.

FREE ASSANGE UK! UK IS AS CRIMINAL AS US.
TIME WILL TELL AND JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL. 
Not today, not tomorrow but it will always win!
SATYAGRAHA 

Trump, Bible Prophecy, Politics and Blogging

Keep blogging on a platform that is against freedom of speech and is silencing by demonetizing, black-listening, algorithms and all the weapons they have against those who don't share "official" narratives?
The conundrum we are all facing especially bloggers which medium is no longer popular.
Keep blogging about happy and beautiful topics and these topics only?
Nope. Especially for someone whose country is facing a nazi-fascist regime thanks to US.
This blog is immaterial. Once it had even reached a "voice". 
Those days are over. 
This blog has already "disappeared in 2011. Here.

CENSORED, BLOG CENSORED

Interview with Rabbi Abraham Finkelstein: "We are going to wipe the white race"

An interview with Rabbi Abraham Finkelstein where he claims they put human meat from sacrifices into McDonalds beef. Among a host of other claims he makes.

Visit the "Cannibal Club" site. Whether it is true or false normalizing the consumption of human's flesh is slowly being programed.

Cannibal Club

King Harishchandra: the story that impressed Mahatma Gandhi

It's been a long time I don't listen to a story with the heart of my childhood. I was lucky to find Murali who is a storyteller. A real one
The way Murali tells the story is so captivating, his attitude and sense of humor made me feel like a child again.
I confess I've been listening to this story lately repeatedly - isn't it what we do when we are children? We want the same story over and over again.
There are two others on Youtube and I keep going from one to another.
I wish I knew Murali.

Mahatma Gandhi heard this story when he was a child:
"King Harishchandra had to face a lot of difficulties and tolerate grief. He lost his kingdom, lost his wealth, had to live in the forest and had to sell his wife and son too. Ultimately he had to sell himself to the keeper of the cremation ground. He had to go through these hair-raising experiences but still he remained truthful.

Gandhiji had seen King Harishchandra's drama in his childhood and since then he always had dreams about Harishchandra. He would weep whenever he remembered this story. Later he wrote, "Even today, reading that drama makes me weep." He said that bearing grief like Harishchandra and yet remain truthful is the real truth!" (entire story here)

This is the origin of Gandhi's Satyagraha philosophy.
What better way to start a new year?
And we need truth so much!

Happy New Year!

I wish you all a happy new year and the way I found to welcome 2020
is inviting people to understand what the 34º president of EUA, Dwight D. Eisenhower, warned in his farewell address in January, 17 1961.

His great-granddaughter Laura Eisenhower has been working relentlessly to make us aware about what is happening in this world.
On her website Cosmic Gaia and her YouTube channel there is a lot of invaluable information she has been sharing.
We have to choose in which world we want to live.

Image source: Laura Eisenhower's website. 

Breaking News: Brazilian people waiting for Lula getting out of jail

After 580 days in jail due to the most unlawful trial by Car Wash operation the Supreme Court decided yesterday to follow Brazilian's constitution.

Brazil is under a fascist regime and the indignation of those who were not brainwashed by mainstream media and social network fake news is huge.
Lula can fight for justice out of jail now.
As a Brazilian I'm moved and will post details later.
                                          LULA LIVRE 

UPDATE> LULA IS OUT OF PRISON

UPDATE 2 > Lula speaks to the people who were in Curitiba since his imprisonment everyday shouting "Good Morning, President Lula": "Good Afternoon President Lula" and "Good Night President Lula. 
He always said that he could hear and it made him stand it.
Last picture: Lula kisses his fiancé. He will get married.
Lula is a very special human being. History will show it. 
Brazil is bleak, those who are in power are violent, cruel with no sense of humanity and it is harming Brazil in so many levels that it is hard to bare.
It is destroying Brazil's soul.
We have a long road ahead... love will win.

Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu (Peace Mantra) - Tina Turner

I set the video to start on this Indian girl because there is something about her that touches deep in my heart.
It is a kind of wisdom that I believe we all search for but it seems she already has it.
Have a peaceful week.

Botham Jean's brother forgives, embraces Amber Guyger

It is... As many I'm confused.  
Botham Jean's mother is speaking now.

Yellow vests Hold Protests for 46nd Consecutive Weekend in Paris

"On est là, on est là
Même si Macron ne veut pas, nous on est là
Pour l'honneur des travailleurs et pour un monde meilleur
Nous, on est là."

"Here we are, here we are
Even if Macron doesn't want here we are
For the worker's honor and for a better world
Here we are."

Trench coat: from the military to fashion industry

Three lethal industries involved in the trench coat: military, Hollywood and fashion.










The history of the trench coat was told by Contrado's blog author Claire from it's creation in 19 century till today.

"There are 2 clothiers who claim to have created the trench, and the arguments continue even to this day;

1. Mayfair gentlemen’s clothier, John Emary
2. Menswear business designer Thomas Burberry

John Emary

In 1853, John Emary developed and patented a fabric that was just as water-repellent as the original rubberised cotton, but was (thankfully) less smelly and more breathable. Emary renamed his company to what we now know as Aquascutum. This name comes from the Latin words “aqua” and “scutum” which translates to “water” and “shield.” This name directly refers to Emary’s focus on designing weather-proof clothing for the gentry. Emary claims to have created his version of the trench for officers serving in the Crimean War.

Thomas Burberry

Burberry founded his business in 1856. Yes this is the Burberry that is still rocking the fashion world today. in 1879, the young draper invented “gabardine.” This was a waterproof twill fabric that was also breathable. It was created by actually coating the individual yarns of cotton or wool. This was a big leap from the original fabric that was used to create the macs, where the entire piece of fabric was coated in one go. Burberry delivered plans for his new raincoat to the United Kingdom War Office in 1901, where it was accepted.


Both Emary and Burberry’s fabrics were very popular with all types of gentry; from sporty types and explorers to the upper class and aviators. It is clear to see why these fabrics became an essential for military uniform. It is still unclear who truly invented the trench. Both companies had connections to the British military establishment, and both Emary and Burberry had previously developed weatherproof clothing similar to the trench."

"During World War I however, the trench coats were issued only to British Officers and Warrant Officers 1st Class. It wasn’t available for soldiers of lower rank. This also helped to establish the trench as a coat of high standards and class."

Read the whole article of the history of the coat here.

Yellow vests 45nd protest meets climate march: police everywhere

Watch live now.
As predicted this Saturday would be a risky day.
This is the 45nd Yellow Vest protests and the climate march brought a lot of people to the streets of Paris. 
Now it's like a battlefield for the police is everywhere with their weapons. (click on the images to enlarge.)

Laerte's, Brazilian cartoonist, "predicts" Bolsonaro's speech using one of his favorite words (cocô = shit).

Bolsonaro is set to open the 74th General Assembly of the U.N. following the tradition for Brazil’s president to address the Assembly with the opening speech every September.

As numerous people are planning to protest outside the building, and even some participants of the Assembly, Bolsonaro said he'll not attend. However it is impossible to know what will he do. Maybe even himself has no idea and it will depend on his mood whether he'll make the speech that Steve Bannon is preparing for the event.

More and more Brazilians can't hard wait to get rid of "the thing", "Bozonaro", Bolsonazi" and other variants of avoidance to speak his name. It is not very far the fall of his presidency won through fraudulent election.

Northern Sky by Nick Drake

I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.

I've been a long time that I'm waiting
Been a long that I'm blown
I've been a long time that I've wandered
Through the people I have known
Oh, if you would and you could
Straighten my new mind's eye.

Would you love me for my money
Would you love me for my head
Would you love me through the winter
Would you love me 'til I'm dead
Oh, if you would and you could
Come blow your horn on high.

I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.

Just listen. It makes me feel at peace. Have a great week!

How One Rich American Is Helping to Burn the Amazon rainforest for Profit

NowThis News

Published on 30 Aug 2019
One rich American, CEO Stephen Schwarzman, is responsible for much of the ongoing destruction of the Amazon — and he happens to be a top donor to President Trump and Mitch McConnell.

The indigenous Kayapo Indians of Brazil have protected their vast amazon homeland from illegal loggers, ranchers and gold miners with the help of NGOs, ecologists and a Canadian solar energy company.
The Kayapo Indians: Fighting For The Amazon Rainforest
Salt
by Barbara Zimmerman, Ecologist
article here.

Indigenous people only survive if they have land and the forest. Once the forest is gone they are extinguished. Ergo...