2015-07-03 Friday Hard News Call

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Opening Meditation: D'Yanna

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HARD NEWS:• Bernie Sanders knows all about NESARA!

• Don't forget the heads that got together earlier: Bernie, Oprah, Laurie Flanders, Goldie Hawn, E. Warren – discussing how to get Michelle Obama into office. • After the meetings, E Warren said she was not running, as they need her to work from the Senate.

• Bernie, for close to a year, has been saying that the people of Vermont were happy with him there and he did not really want to run, but to get the issues out, he changed his mind.• The people are contributing to his campaign: 250,000 people and $15 MILLION!• There is a need to have a grass roots organization and campaign in every nook and

cranny in the the US – need 100s of 1000s of Bernies running around

• To access the Archives on 2013 Rainbow Roundtable• Click on ARCHIVES tab at top of page; drop down menu shows up: pick NOTES.• When the word NOTES shows up, can either read the notes or print them • People have to know how to navigate a computer a bit – REALLY

IMPORTANT FOR THE MASSES TO KNOW HOW TO DO THIS.

Doug of BBS: suggested having a kick start page and raising $ for T & R• When there is more funding that is required to support BBS and T &R, the rest can go to

Bernie Sanders.• With the kick starter idea, will spread the show like wildfire; could also have a fund that

helps people in big trouble – • One example: the people from Bikini Island, part of the Marshall Islands. In 1946, the US military went there and said they needed the island to do some testing and that they would bring the people back when they were done. • Military moved them to 2 other islands: one is a square mile, the other a bit bigger.• Bikini Island is their homeland where they had been for 8-10,000 years. Almost starved to death on the 1st island. • Between 1946 – 1958, Bikini Island was bombed with nukes, the land was radiatedthe coral reefs were destroyed: the people are still there, in dire poverty and with zero help – there was not enough money to clean up the island. • We know that Dr Keshe has the solution for this but, at the moment, there are huge tidal waves coming in 3-4 times a year and getting worse; these tides are destroying the food-producing land and contaminating it. We can start doing NESARA-type things with money received over and above the needs of T&R, BBS

Audio: Bernie Sanders from the ED Show. July 2nd, 2015

Presentation in Wisconsin

http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/bernie-sanders-draws-record-crowd-475320899689

Bernie Sanders draws record crowd

Bernie Sanders has drawn the largest crowd of any 2016 candidateto date and he’s climbing in the polls. Does he have a true shot atthe White House? Ed Shultz discusses with John Nichols and LarryCohen. Duration: 14:16

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251422049

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Tonight 5PM ET, 'The ED Show' Bernie Sanders Special on Speech in Madison, WI on MSNBC.

Photo last night of reporter Ed Schultz with John Nichols, WI native son who introduced Sen. Sanders to the audience of 10,000 in Madison. *Note, news of this ED Show coverage tonight on MSNBC came from a caller to the Thom Hartmann program today.

CONFERENCE CALLC1: had to use the 716 line; the 605 # has so much static cannot understand what is being said.• There is nothing that can be done over the weekend – have to wait till Monday• the bigger telephone companies are trying to squeeze out the free conference calls• Sonja in LA sometimes cannot even get in to this number – the TEXAS number is very clear and

means people can listen to all kinds of Bbs programs

C2: has the same trouble with the 605 # for the last 2 nights. Yes, he switched to the TEXAS number

• some people did have trouble with the 605 # even on the Cheryl calls; thinks it has to do with the quality of the infra structure of the lines. It's a # somewhere in the mid west; the free conference people said they were bumped to the 605#.

• thinks Doug's idea is a good one; people can get onto Vonage and get on through the computer and it's global. Some of the global arrangements are far better than what is happening inside the US – people in other countries can get tv, computer, telephone for around $30 a month!

• To get NESARA out and get it out further is happening – Doug and Don have been workinghard to get their BBS International set up, and to have the best equipment possible

• T & R will be putting out a little 30 second blurb about what they do, also for the kick starter fund-raising process. Will be asking for insights, inspiration for

• The shuttle craft over Yosemite Valley – the picture was sent to Rama by Anonymous 7 ½ – a fully decloaked star ship close to earth

Reading: 2015-02-02 Texas UFO “Cube” – Multiple View Witnesses And Photos [SEE BELOW]• the Texas UFO you tube on June 29 – it is Area 51 playing around.

• the Tree of Life only includes 10 of the 13 points – trying to call it the Satanic Cubeof Metatron – this kind of thing is why we need instruction.• writer tries to make out the Blue Avians are not to be trusted

• It was confirmed today that Henry Kissenger is an archon – however, he has been cloned.http://in5D.com/texas ufo cube multiple view witnesses and photos

• Tara reads the article and corrects all the mis information in it: the writer is presenting Black Op information, either knowingly or unknowingly

• Larry and Tom the Cat: said that there will be a universal translater on the messages so people will understand what is being said no matter where they are.

CONFIRMED: the black cube was a Black Op!!! [from Rama to Tara later in the program]

Reading: James Tyberonn's “The Canadian Rockies: Magic of Banff” [SEE BELOW]

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Note: This is the AA Metatron honouring of Canada Day

BBS Radio

Mother Sekmet / AlcyoneGreetings in the Light of the Most Radiant One! In the Office of the Christ, and only in the Office ofthe Christ, we invoke the loving energies of St Germain and the Violet Flame.

We pray peace; we pray prosperity

Greetings, Children of Ra!Indeed, it is so auspicious to be alive at this time in these temples of the Living God/Goddess/All

That Is. We can say welcome, well met! It only gets hotter in the kitchen from here. • It is what we all asked when we said Let's go! Follow me! Here we are, full circle. Now comes the real work as her wayward children have used up all their time on this dimensional university called The Matrix.

• It is just an insert, put into the universal slots of consciousness of Goddess, God, all that is. Yet she is experiencing everything that goes with this holographic program based in love, peace, freedom, justice, mercy. All that is transpiring, we know the outcome: this planet and us are one and the same, free: already happening; they cannot keep it back – they [the galactics] are already here. It is a fact, Jack, that you'd better set a place at the table for Tom the Cat and Mother and Elijah!

• You want to know when: Full disclosure is an absolute fact - cannot give dates, yet watch Mr 19.5* and the other whistleblowers. Ed Snowden, Julian Assange looking for asylum; why not drop the charges – didn't do anyway so why not drop the charges – all he did was expose the underbelly of the US

T: also the pants of the emperor of France are being pulled down too - the 3 ring circus on the scene about France

M/A: all about the funny dance she has not been invited to, called the destruction of the planet. Already been cancelled, yet the emergency beacons have been lit across the galaxy which is why they are all here and not going anywhere. They are our new neighbours; how we interact with each other is that they come in peace; it is their way

• What we have here is an invasion, an occupied planet and a mind control that is beginning to shake loose; that is why minds are going off everywhere, waking up from the matrix – that is why they made themovie called The Matrix – we are already free, yet the few little bugs in the works are the bio-medical, military, industrial, congressional, medical complex – how it gets dismantled: the fix is already in. • Anonymous knows the cure for this virus and it is called LOVE.

T: saw that a bunch of Anonymous groups are hacking into ISIL websites and they are completelygoing bananas and ISIL is nothing but Black Ops of that complex she just mentioned!

M/A: a very vicious dance in this circleT: the oligarchs and the politicians in Greece are saying they want to stay in the EU, the wealthier

class who are making money – they want to everyone to say yes.

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M/A: They have skin in the game and they are going to lose it!T: rigging it and saying it is neck and neck – the people are in the street everywhere you look – they are saying the no people are saying it to be in the EU but without austerity

• Very very fine distinction – the intelligent mind of the people – not dumb.• The oligarchs said they have not trusted the new gov't since the start, and is is them

making the mess; Tspiris is on the podium day in and day out saying it as it is and calling it political blackmail – just like Bernie Sanders.M/A: the cure for this virus is how equality is the order of the day; there is more than enough

money to go round the planet and then some. Her wayward children have had enough of playing in the sand, the gold dust, for the last 13,000 years; now it's time to go. • How this gets played out – watch how they have taken ivory towers; they are cutting their own heads off with their own swords as they can't stand each other any more. How we best serve this situation is with love and balance.

T: another issue which is awesome: the Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Kennedy bringing it up that the death penalty may be against the Constitution, based on the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

M/A: now they are growing some sense. T: stunned that this is on the news!M/A: Now you are getting somewhere: as a civilization as in the French play about the man who

stole a loaf of bread: No 1: we are all equal in this story now – they come to free the slaves of any kind, any where.

T: they might never have to experiment on animals again: can test things through a slide of DNA – saw it on Journal News / DW News – Deutche Wells news. • There was a man in WA state talking about building an underground lab for testing animals and insisting he needed to do this. • This is why people are turning up for Bernie Sanders- they are seeing the stuff that is available and that is not being used: something got approved through Congress – $600 million to help the people in the Atolls – and Congress refused to provide the funds, even though the motion had passed.

Mo: how it gets played out is you send the love, she deals with the stew! Let's dance!• Yes, Gaia / Vywamus and all of humanity have said in one voice: ENOUGH! • We have already passed the summer solstice and the intensity of the frequencies and of what we are seeing with the astrology now: it is how justice is being served; cannot say how, when or where, yet the wayward children, her wayward children, not ours - yet she could say it's been a mutual arrangement for the highest good for all concerned. • How she best serves all of humanity has already been determined: we have full disclosure, first contact – that is why she says “Set an extra plate at the table for Tom the Cat and the rest of them.” They are coming only in peace.• They have solutions for our many issues: think of the questions; the answers are there. It is about taking these temples to the next level where we never get sick, grow old or die:there is more than enough food on this planet, enough water, enough air

T: Nassim says there is water everywhere in spaceM/A: there is a man who can pull plasma energy out of the vacuum of space, inexhaustable

energy, that can be used to power whatever we want; plasma energy it is like the sun – the sun is not hot; it is called cold fusion. All the suns are star gates,

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• we must understand that there are so many entrances and exits throughout this galaxy –what awaits us in such magnificent joy; the little shadow called Sauron is nothing to worry about: we've got it handled, along with Ashtar; Sananda – let's dance

T: liked the analogy that came from Tom the Cat who talked about people waking up on Monday looking in their bank accounts and finding a big fat zero!

Mo: You'll see Mr Boehner showing up on the house floor with red eyes!T: He did say Monday, and they tried to hold him to it, but he said “No Dates”!

Kadoish, Kadoish, Kadoish! R: He's been to the Fortress of Solitude; the crystals are sharing that there are so many high, uplifting frequencies pouring in now that are balancing so many things; in spite of the

horrendous stories, there is so much to be grateful for – just being here at this time.T: so true that there is so much to be grateful for, including that the world is waking up very

rapidly and doing their part nowR: This story is only about this:Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; where there is such hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is darkness, Light; O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be

understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning, that we are pardoned; and it is in dying [to

all that is now who we are] that we are born to eternal life: immortal, omniscent, omnipresent, omnipotent

R: the ones called 'the ruling class' have had their day in the sun for 13,000 + years; • the tables have turned and we have entered the Sat Yuga when the Golden Age shows upagain. We are not doing it the old way.

T: All curses from past lives – everything is being lifted now• As Mother said, you leave the sharpening of the teeth to her and go to the Love Department!

• Tonight an Amy Goodman show with Dr Rev Barber and the original sin of the US – founded in slavery!

• CONFIRMED: the black cube was a Black Op!!!

Audio: Democracy Now [SEE BELOW]2015-06-23 "Perpetrator Has Been Arrested, But Killer is Still at Large": Calls Rise to

Remove Confederate Flaghttp://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/ipod/dn2015-0623_fix.mp4?&start=658.0&end=2704.0

http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/audio-m4a/dn2015-0623_fix.m4a?&start=658.0&end=2704.0

2015-06-23 Domestic Terrorism: From the Charleston Massacre to 1964 Slaying of Mississippi Civil Rights Workers

http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/ipod/dn2015-0623_fix.mp4?&start=2976.0http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/audio-m4a/dn2015-0623_fix.m4a?&start=2976.0

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2015-06-24 "I Am Not Nonviolent": New Nina Simone Film Captures Singer and Activist’s Uncompromising Voice

http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/ipod/dn2015-0624.mp4?&start=1902.0

http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/audio-m4a/dn2015-0624.m4a?&start=1902.0

Audio: 2015-07-02 [KR779] Keiser Report: On the Verge of Despotism

https://youtu.be/Y-KRUhJJu8o

We discuss how it is that Aristotle predicted this day of financial and economic despotism. In the second half, Max interviews Nozomi Hayase about bitcoin and blockchain technologies enabling evolution of the human species which is presently kept enslaved by financial weapons.

Audio: Jon Stewart – The Daily Show - about Donald Trump – July 2, 2015

http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?vid=647672http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?vid=649189

author of Lafeyette:

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly CloudyPatriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’strusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat theMarquis de Lafayette.

Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in Washington’s army, Vowell reflects onthe ideals of the American Revolution versus the reality of the RevolutionaryWar. Riding shotgun with Lafayette, Vowell swerves from the high-mindeddebates of Independence Hall to the frozen wasteland of Valley Forge, frombloody battlefields to the Palace of Versailles, bumping into John Adams,Thomas Jefferson, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette andvarious kings, Quakers and redcoats along the way.

Drawn to the patriots’ war out of a lust for glory, Enlightenment ideas and thetraditional French hatred for the British, young Lafayette crossed the Atlanticexpecting to join forces with an undivided people, encountering instead faultlines between the Continental Congress and the Continental Army, rebel and loyalist inhabitants, and a conspiracy to fire George Washington, the one man holding together the rickety, seemingly doomed patriot cause. While Vowell’s yarn is full of the bickering and infighting that marks the American past—and present—her telling of the Revolution is just as much a story of friendship: between Washington and Lafayette, between the Americans and their French allies and, most of all between Lafayette and the American people. Coinciding with one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history, Vowell lingers over the elderly Lafayette’s sentimental return tour of America in 1824, when three fourths of the population of New York City turned out to welcome him ashore. As a Frenchman and the last surviving general of the Continental Army, Lafayette belonged to neither North nor South, to no political party or faction. He was a walking, talking reminder of the sacrifices and bravery of the revolutionary generation and what the founders hoped this country could be. His return was not just a reunion with his beloved Americans it was a reunion for Americans with their own astonishing, singular past.

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Vowell’s narrative look at our somewhat united states is humorous, irreverent and wholly original.

Reading: Buddha in Redface

Closing: Rainbird

Music: Rumi: The Alchemy of Love – poem read by Deepak Chopra

Beyond this, you and I

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INFORMATION RELATED TO THE NOTES

2015-02-02 Texas UFO “Cube” – Multiple View Witnesses And Photos

by Gregg Prescott, M.S.Editor, In5D.com http://in5d.com/texas-ufo-cube-multiple-view-witnesses-and-photos/

On June 29th, 2015, a UFO “cube” was seen emerging out of the clouds by multiple people in Texas.

The video of the photo compilation was released by YouTube user secureteam10.

Walter C. Lance of El Paso, Texas was the first person to submit the photographs to secureteam10. Lance stated he took the photographs on June 29th, 2015 around 1PM central timeduring his lunch break.

According to secureteam10, Lance stated that it began to get very windy outside when a portion of the clouds began to “swirl and circle in on one another forming this portal shape”. The area within this circular vortex turned “jet black” which is when Lance took out his cellphone to take the following pictures:

https://youtu.be/TPquewvNAE4

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This is what the UFO cube looks like when zoomed in on the image:

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The first thing that comes to mind is the cube shape and how the cube is tied to Saturn, which in astrotheology is “Satan” which I go into a lot more detail in the article, “Saturn – Why Are We Worshiping The Cult Of EL?“.

The following is an excerpt from that article:

Semitic civilizations referred to the god Saturn as “El” who is the supreme deity and represented by a black cube.

If you look at the etymology of the word Kabbalah, Kabba = cube and alah (allah) means God, so you get the Cube of God.

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If:

• Saturn is the Cult of EL • the Kabbala is the Cube of God • Saturn is the Lord of the Rings • there is a hexagonal cube on the north pole of Saturn • Pan is the God of Saturn • Saturn is Satan in astrotheology

… then who are we truly giving our energy to?

A third image captured on film shows a rectangular shape to this UFO:

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A second eye witness also saw this cube shaped UFO about a mile away from the first eye witnessas she was returning back to work from her lunch break. She noticed a “square shaped figure moving through the clouds and thought it was a balloon but after watching it, she realized the enormity of its size with designs around it and a “faint, magnetic oscillation-type humming” that seemed to emulate from the craft.

She was also able to get a picture of this UFO:

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Zoomed in and enhance filter photos:

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The following is her UFO testimony: https://youtu.be/o-PaHI10hXE

Cubes and Spheres?

In recent news, contactee Corey Goode speaks of the Blue Avians, who are benevolent extraterrestrials that are watching over our planet in blue spheres, which is in sharp contrast to the cube shape:

https://youtu.be/0-1IdUObFQA

Are benevolent beings here watching over us and helping us to a new level of spiritual evolution? Goode has a Facebook page called Sphere Being Alliance, where you can follow his latest news.

At the highest level of Freemasonry, the motto is “Ordo ab chao” which means “Order out of chaos”. It’s apparent that we are being set up for the “end times” to which we are living in right now and this is all based on chaos because when we live in fear, we can be easily manipulated.

Is it possible that we’re being set up for a false flag alien invasion via a Project Bluebeam type scenario?

Are malevolent, archontic-type beings here siphoning our energy through fear?

It’s quite obvious that an official UFO disclosure is imminent but one thing we can be assured is that it will be skewed towards the viewpoints of the church and military industrial complex. Unlessbenevolent ET’s can broadcast their message on every channel, in every language, and in every country, you can be assured that the mainstream media will twist any official disclosure to benefit those in power who have kept us in subservience, control, and conformity for thousands of years.

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As for the cube shaped UFO, it is unclear whether this is a real UFO or possibly a PSYOPS hologram created by those in power as a test to see how we would react to this anomaly.

What my gut is telling me is

If this is a real, cube-shaped UFO, then it probably is not here in humanity’s best interests based on my research of the cube and its ties to Saturn/Cronus/Satan.

Most likely, it’s some elaborate hoax, a marketing ploy, a hologram, or a PSYOP designed to classically condition our minds in preparation for an “official” UFO disclosure.

What do you think it is? Leave your comments below!

Click here for more articles by Gregg Prescott!

About the Author:Gregg Prescott, M.S. is the founder and editor of In5D and BodyMindSoulSpirit. He hosts a weekly spiritual show on In5D Radio and promotes spiritual, metaphysical and esoteric conferences in the United States through In5dEvents. His love and faith for humanity motivates him to work relentlessly in humanity’s best interests 12-15+ hours a day, 365 days a year. Please like and follow In5D on Facebook as well as BodyMindSoulSpirit on Facebook!

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Issue: July 1, 2015 Happy Canada Day

Issue: July 1, 2015 Happy Canada Day

Metatron en Francais: http://www.earth-keeper.com/translations_french/

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Happy Canada Day !Dear Earth-Keeper Family,

Please find in this special Newsletter, dedicated to our Family in Canada, a listing of Sacred Sites and Power-nodes in Canada, and two channels, one in French, one in English, as well as articles relating to the Canadian Shield, the balancing effect of Latitudes of Canada and the incredible energies of the unique Canadian Rocky Mountains. I have always loved Canada & have been very aware since my first visit over 30 years ago, of the stunning benevolent & high vibratory energy of the sacred lands & the more balanced nature of the people. Canadians have an advantage specifically because of the incredible balancing effect of the land, latitude, elements & geology. I worked for an International Engineering firm for over 33 years in my career as a geologist. The president of the company was from Canada. He was a wonderful person, and we became close friends. I asked him once how he liked living in Texas after so my years in Canada. He smiled and answered in humor, " When someone moves from Canada to Texas, it raises the average IQ of both places ! " Happy Canada Day !!!

In Honor & Respect,James TyberonnEarth-Keeper

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The Canadian Shield is an extraordinary crystalline ( Metamorphic) rock formation that covers almost all of the eastern & central portions of Canada. It is one of the oldest rock strata on the earth, and portions of it are estimated to be over 3 Billion ( Bilion !) years old. It is metamorphic granite, and composed of 40% quartz crystalline, with crystalline mica and feldspar. It is an enormous 'grounding' crystal.

It is 1 of 3 reasons Canadians are extremely balanced and in general are capable of carrying a higher vibration than most areas of the USA. The 2nd factor is the latitude of Canada. Per Metatron, latitudes between 45 degrees and 60 degrees are optimal for the human emotional field and Auric stability. The 3rd factor is the unique attributes of the Candian Rocky Mountains in Alberta and British Columbia.Their energies are extraordinary and extremely benevolent.

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Living Waters Canada

Thermals & Crystalline-WatersThe thermal springs of Canada are extremely healing, full of 'life-force'. Banff Hot Springsis slightly radio active. Although the silicate lakes of Banff & Yoho are too cold for bathing,the healing energy they emit projects for miles.

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The Power Waters of Canada

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The Canadian Rockies : Magic of Banff

The Canadian Rockies : Magic of BanffArticle by James Tyberonn

The vista of Banff National Park's crown jewel , Chateau Lac Louise, is natural perfection itself.

An awestruck first-time visitor to Canada's divinely beautiful Lake Louise once commented that such stunning scenery was proof that God existed. That visitor was me.

First Visit

The year was 1978, the beginning of my spiritual awakening, and my first visit to Banff. In retrospect, perhaps the visit to this amazing natural cathedral triggered my awakening.

I walked up the cobbled trail from the parking area, staring at the enormous white stone Chateau,shining in the sunlight like polished alabaster. The architectural symmetry and sheer grandeur of the castlesque 'Chateau Lac Louis' is stunningly impressive, but I was totally unprepared for the awesome scene that lay behind it. What glowed before me was a living painting: a vibrant turquoise mountain lake framed by purple and gold cliffs, evergreen forests and a massive crystalline shimmering-white glacier at the far end. Alpine flowers were everywhere. Beautiful sprays of orange, purple, yellow, white and red were in vivid fragrant bouquets along the lakeside,set in manicured gardens on the grounds of the Chateau Lake Louise Hotel in the forefront. It waslove at first sight, and that love affair has continued ever since.

That first visit was brief but made a deep impression. Thus began my lifelong love affair with

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Canada, its people, its balance, its profound tranquility and stunning beauty. I have revisited Lake Louise dozens of times in the past 31 years. In 1978 I recognized it was a living cathedral, and a few years thereafter I had a remarkable epiphany along its devic shoreline that made me keenly aware of the Divine Angelic presence anchored to its energy. My deepest experience in Banff's 'Archangel Michael Vortex' however, occurred in 1996, when I had a deep epiphany and miraculous encounter with Archangel Michael.

Chateau Lake Louise

Chateau Lake Louise sits at the open end of a creviced moraine, created by Victoria Glacier when the last Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago. The lake is a startling gem of translucent turquoise blue water, so beautifully iridescent that it appears to be emit a glow, as if lit from underneath. At the far end of the mile long lake soars Mt. Victoria, exquisitely etched in the white blue of the crystalline glacier.

The water of Lake Louise is a liquid crystal. These are not 'Newtonian' fluids, rather an extraordinary colloidal fluid. There is a semi-permanent suspension of 'glacier silt' shaved from granite into a micro particle in the water of Lake Louise. This is the reason for the vivid color. Ninety percent of the particulate is silicate from quartz. This enables the water to take on amazingattributes, truly a fluid crystal that carries immense energy and acts as a transmitter and receiver.

Energy Concentrated Within Geological Walls

Lake Louise is boxed on three sides by high granite walls that enclose the magical area like the cradled hands of God. The rock wall enclosure and resulting energy containment is very, very significant. It is this boxed enclosure of the various inflows of telluric, solar and elemental energies that differentiates Lake Louise. Its cubic and octahedral formations entrap and amplify the energy level. Visibly, it is one of the most beautiful mountain scenes on Earth ... but it has an unseen inner majesty and purpose. Lake Louise is a key triangulated point of one of the most powerful portals on the Planet, a sacred portal that anchors the energy of Archangel Michael.

Energy of Balance and Healing

Its balancing healing powers are immense. It is a sacred place, a healing, balancing energy of

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great intensity. It is a great, yet subtle, intensity that affects every visitor to the special mountaintop of Lake Louise ... and there are many visitors. Contrary to what one may initially conceive, the energy of Lake Louise is absolutely not mal-affected by the hundreds of daily visitorsand hotel guests. In fact, it is enhanced. The visitors are, without exception, moved by the energyand incredible, inspiring beauty. All visitors experience a sense of the profound beauty and awe, and that emotional energy is released onto and contributes to the incredible energy of place at Lake Louise.

The resonance of Lake Louise is as powerful as any mega site on the planet, yet its intensity is notoverwhelming. Its balance is the plate that serves this experience to the pilgrim and tourist alike in a palatable, gentle manner. Comparable energy levels in less gentle formats are capable of depleting the aura; not so with Lake Louise. Negativity seems nullified within its energies, and thefeelings of beauty and love are amplified.

As a result, few of the first time visitors to Lake Louise anticipate the depth of the spiritual experience they are going to have, and few of them leave without being profoundly healed by it. The emotional reaction to the awesome beauty opens and immediately balances the aura. The penetrating, spiritual energy emanating from the lake triggers self-searching and deep cleansing. Ihave seen robust tourists become so moved by the beauty and healing energy of the lake that tears of joy flood their eyes within minutes. It is particularly healing for visiting couples and families. Few conflicts, fears or anxieties can remain buried in this energy, and their surfacing occurs in the energy of immense but gentle love, leading to a cleansing release. So if you want to heal a family or reconcile a relationship, go to Lake Louise. The issues will bubble to the surface inthat cleansing magnetic energy.

Canadian Park System

I have traveled far and wide and without reservations avow that for this pilgrim, Lake Louise, located in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada is the most beautiful place in North America. Bar none. The entire region of the Canadian Rockies is simply majestic. But it is not just the majesty that is felt. It is a fertile cornucopia of life. Banff National Park has 6,641 square kilometers of mountains, forests, rivers and lakes that is the habitat to abundant wildlife. Banff National Park is Canada's first national park, located 80 miles west of Calgary, Alberta. Lake Louise is 35 miles northwest of Banff.

The Canadians have done an incredible job of protecting the pristine nature of this massive jewel and of managing the four national and provincial parks connected to the Rockies in western Alberta and eastern British Columbia. Other nations could learn a thing or two from a review of how the Canadian Park Services operate.

The Park has a superb 4-lane highway that passes through the center glacier scraped valley of theAthabascan Rockies. The incredible ice cut mountains are a blue jagged spine visible on both sidesof the roadway passage. The drive is a dreamscape. Every turn brings exquisite beauty. Each mountain projects a unique presence and dignity. The energy field is serene and exhilarating all atonce. The turquoise Bow River flows along the side, presenting a summerscape of evergreens, wildflowers and river valley against a towering blue drapery of scraped and sculpted rock face.

Whether it is the land, the grid, the culture, the people or a combination thereof, I find the vibratory rate of Canada very high and extremely balanced. It is tangibly higher than that in the Lower 48 and immediately discernable, both coming in and going out!

Feng Shui of the Chalet

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The hotel is a splendid, flowing structure built with natural white limestone in chateau-style symmetrical balance. The lobby and dining areas offer wall-sized picture windows that seem to frame the unbelievable beauty lying beyond them. While the hotel rooms can be quite expensive in peak seasons, the grounds and restaurants are available to all. Having a cup of hot chocolate ortea in one of the overstuffed chairs in the massive lobby with its incredible panoramic views has allowed me great moments of balanced perspective. Of my dozens of visit to Lake Louise, I have only over-nighted there on two or three trips.

I have never left there without a brief pang of melancholy at leaving such beauty and intense clarity. (It was the emotion I used to feel as a young child when we left my Grandma's home at Christmas for the 3-hour drive home - that sad feeling of leaving a precious loved one, knowing it will be a while before I return.)

Angelic Presence

My first awareness of the angelic presence occurred in 1995. I had spent a full day just drifting in the splendor of a sunny July day on the grassy lawn of the chateau. I lay back on the sweet tuftedgrass and closed my eyes in a moment of total content. I was fully in the moment, reluctant to leave. I closed my eyes in utter bliss and, in that instant, saw a flash of brilliant golden light. Suddenly I was immersed in an overwhelming emotional flow. Tears welled in my eyes, and I felt a wondrous sense of joy and well-being. I saw a clear white-blue light amidst the gold and knew I was seeing an angel. I felt humbled by the enormity and love of the presence. The vision was overin a flash, but the powerful emotions lingered.

I returned the next day and found a beautiful little brook, off the main path to the back of the lake, and sat for an hour of prayer. The magical faerie den by the side of the brook would be the scene of a profound experience I would have with Archangel Michael two years later.

Tyb's Journal: Touched By an Angel

In late June of 1997, I was dealing with the unexpected death of my sister and had come to Lake Louise in part to deal with that loss. I was hiking down the lakeside trail about 150 meters from the Château, looking for a place that would afford me privacy. About half way down the lakeside trail leading to the back of Lake Louise, a small, gentle mountain brook bubbled and bounced down the steep slope into the lake. I followed it up and found the enchanted faerie den, resplendent in bright, lime-green moss and iridescent yellow lichen, plus two striking striated lavender boulders of sandstone and amazing purple quartz – Amethyst

The brook formed a couple of little crystal pools there, and wildflowers popped up everywhere amid the spongy moss. Rich green grass carpeted a circular open area near a perky little waterfall. I could actually feel the faeries dancing! This magical and picturesque faerie den opening was something out of an artist's dream - an enchanted and beautiful power-spot. My special place on earth! It was far enough off the main lakeside path of Lake Louise to be totally private, yet afford incredible views of the vibrant, turquoise lake. The day was partly cloudy, but the sun would occasionally break through, and enormous shafts of yellow light would angle in bright, glowing beams through the canopy of the spruce forest. Pure magic!

My meditation soon deepened, and a visible beam of light filled the opening and connected on my chest. At first I thought it was one of the angled sunbeams, but then the energy jolted me, and I saw kaleidoscopic colors everywhere. Then I felt the presence of an Angelic Being. I actually saw aformless, yet intense massive golden light over half the length of the lake. From this light, the energy connected to my heart center in an elongated beam. A blue sphere, glowing golden yellow in its inner core, formed a few feet from where I sat, visible with eyes open or closed. I felt a

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tremendous divinity and was moved deeply to emotional release. I cried uncontrollably for a quarter hour , and in the aftermath of that release, felt a deep and pure serenity.

The blue sphere encompassed me, and geometric forms entered my mind's eye as I fell into a profound meditative vision. I lay down on the soft cushion of iridescent lime green moss that carpeted the faerie den. My inner narration stopped and I lofted into a state of visual imagery. I felt an Angelic presence and my mindscape became bathed a in glowing white light, and that spiritual source led me into the most powerful internal review of my life to that point. I was able to contemplate and pray deeply on each aspect of my life, goals and spiritual purpose. I connected deeply to the angelic energy and understood the anchoring to the lake.I did not immediately know it was Archangel Michael - that understanding came later - but an angelic 'Light Being' touched me and communed with me in a catharsis of joyful release and inner cleansing that lasted a timeless two hours or so.

I did not physically 'see' an angel, nor did I audibly 'hear' any voices. But I felt light, I saw light, and my heart soared. I saw a massive cloud of golden energy, and in a visible ray, it physically connected a beam to my heart. I knew unmistakably that I was in the arms of an angel, and a sense of deep well being encompassed me.

That day was incredible. When I finally departed, I was emotionally exhausted and spiritually cleansed. I go back to that magic spot at least once a year, as the energy of my experience is still there. So is an anchor imprint of my heart and spirit.

Chakric Area

The entire massif of the Banff Rockies is a chakric expression of Gaia's Divinity. In particular, the water in this area carries a very special vibration. I received a conscious channel specific to the nature of this water, which Archangel Metatron termed 'Crystal Waters.' The glacier powder in the rivers and lakes is finely ground, crystallized quartz that has morphed under tremendous pressureand converted the fluids into a magical, colloidal suspension - a liquid battery, a fluid crystal, if you will. It is quite unique in its resonance to this area and adds a tremendous vibratory frequency to the rivers and lakes. The waters become a sacred living crystal of unmatched light and color.

A sequence of sacred lakes and falls occurs within this area, and each is connected in a living chakric system:

(7) Lake O'Hara - Crown Center(6) Emerald Lake - Brow Center(5) Lake Moraine - Throat Center(4) Lake Louise - Heart Center (3) Peyto Lake - Emotional Center(2) Banff Bow River Falls - Creative Center(1) Athabasca Falls - Root Center

In actuality, all five of the sacred lakes listed above resonate individually with the four upper chakras. Each balance and heal all chakras and emanate exceptionally high crown vibratory rates. In the divine spectrum of the Michael Vortex, the listings above designate the chakras of the body of the integral living earth of the Canadian Rockies. All seven of the chakric points are connected by major ley lines. The two falls mentioned are outside the inner Michael Vortex, yet serve to pull in the energies of Lower Banff and Upper Jasper to the Michael energetic flow.

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The Michael Portal

The energy of Archangel Michael began manifesting in the chakric lake region of Banff and Yoho National Parks after the 11:11 gate. The energy is manifested in portals inflowing into Lake Louise, Lake O'Hara and Emerald Lake. All three lakes have sacred mountains associated with their hydro energies that anchor in the portal light. These are Michael Peak at Emerald Lake, Cathedral Mountain at Lake O'Hara and Victoria Mountain at Lake Louise.

Each of the individual portal points has a smaller energetic vortex circulating around the focal lightof the portal, but this is encapsulating in nature and not designed as a mechanism of distribution. In a real sense, it is the circular energy that defines the integrity and matrix entry of the light portal. This encapsulation cell is a function of the light grid. The larger electrical vortex I call the Michael Vortex is a function of the electromagnetic grid and serves to distribute the light energy toa much larger area.

The Inner Michael Vortex

The Michael Vortex is the engine that distributes the inflow of divine light that occurs in the three portals. The portals are triangulated to create the stability for the circulating vortex. The apex points for the vortex are Michael Peak, Cathedral Mountain and Victoria Mountain. A massive vortex of counterclockwise energy connects all three points.

Emerald Lake is very similar in color to Lake Louise. It is less developed and therefore much more serene in its countenance. The Yoho Valley contains a smaller vortex encircling Emerald Lake and includes Takakkaw Falls, Twin Falls and Angel Falls. Takakkaw Falls is the second highest waterfall in Canada, with a total cascade length of over 1,200 feet. The energy of the falls adds greatly to the template of energy captured that is imprinted by the light portal. The sacred apex of Michael Peak aligns the side of Emerald Lake and is the namesake of the angelic energy. The peak was actually named after Andrew Michael, a well-known mountaineer involved in the discoveries of thearea, but that choice of names is part of the synchronicity of the Michael energies.

Lake O'Hara is the crown center of the Canadian Rockies, the energy being among the most powerful, natural energies I have experienced. Be advised, however, it can be overwhelming in its raw power of amplification. Guard your emotional state and thoughts in this pocket of intense energy. The veil is so thin that it hardly exists here, which requires that you guard your thoughts.

Lake O'Hara is on the opposite side of Victoria Mountain and Glacier from Lake Louise. It is less commercialized than Lake Louise, as it is indeed circled on three sides, so the energy is trapped and concentrated within its high granite and limestone walls. The elevation is higher, the rock walls more reflective and Nature here is raw. Grizzlies abound as do tangible elementals of all types.

Lake O'Hara is the largest of the seven sacred lakes within the O'Hara area and the site of the Lodge. The lake has seven magnificent waterfalls, called the Seven Sisters, cascading into its depth at its southern perimeter. The soft flows of the glacier falls appear as silver ribbons from thelakefront. Lake O'Hara has a fragile flora, so visitation is restricted, with only 120 visitor permits issued daily from late May through mid-October. Fragile and incredibly beautiful tundra lichen and moss paint the alpine valley with bright iridescent colors from burnt orange and scarlet red to canary yellow.

Sufi mystics, Buddhist organizations and Reiki masters have met at Lake O'Hara annually over thepast decade, in quiet recognition of the incredible energy here. A different sort of visitor comes here, as compared to Lake Louise and Emerald Lake. The solitude here is defining. The intensity of

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the energy here can be almost excessive and incredibly revealing. The veil is so thin here that it isvery possible to see manifestations of the elemental and the divine.

The Greater Banff Vortex extends beyond the inner perimeter, triangulated between Jasper, Kananastas and Revelstoke. A double triad occurs to create a six-pointed concentric triangle. These areas are full of healing, as balanced and divine energetic points. Sacred mountains aboundwithin, including Three Sisters, Mount Rundle, Castle Mountain, Temple Mountain, Mount Robson, Edith Cavell, Spirit Peak and Mystic Point. (Another separate, yet divine, Earth expression occurs further west in British Colombia, centered in Vancouver Island.)

Summary

The Canadian Rockies are magnificent beyond words. The energy that exists within them is aligned with magnificent energies from mineralogical, water, light and electromagnetic aspects. Incredible energy emanates from the mountains with their granite, quartz, metamorphic and sedimentary strata, combined with the stunning array of hydro energy from rivers, streams, waterfalls and glaciers. The lakes are a class unsurpassed in the world, and their accessibility is a tribute to the Canadian government. Thousands of visitors have daily access to this massive region, but it is extremely well managed.

It must be added that the sulfur thermal springs in the village of Banff are incredibly healing, bothon a physical and emotional level. These are sacred waters that by their very energy and minerology carry the sacred geometric codes that renew life force and assist in the rediscover of life purpose.

The supreme and benevolent angelic presence of Archangel Michael further enriches the energy ofthis area as a tool of the Ascension, and the seeker and tourist alike can experience this. The portal of Michael is presented in an amazing Metatronic geometry in three succinct amazing lakes.The Divine Presence has always been discernable here, as known by the indigenous First Nations of Stony and Cree. This magnificent area is truly a living cathedral.

In March of 2009 Banff began another transformation, and is now a key node point of the Cosmic Trigger, the final stage of the heralded Ascension. End of Article By -James Tyberonn -2009

The Canadian Shield

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The Canadian Shield is a physiographic division, consisting of five smaller physiographic provinces, the Laurentian Upland, Kazan Region, Davis, Hudson, and James. The shield extends into the United States as the Adirondack Mountains and the Superior Upland.

The Canadian Shield is U-shaped, but almost semi-circular, which yields an appearance of a warrior's shield, and is a subsection of the Laurentia craton signifying the area of greatest glacial impact (scraping down to bare rock) creating the thin soils.

Parts of the Canadian Shield is more than 3.96 billion years old. The Canadian Shield once had jagged peaks, higher than any of today's mountains, but millions of years of erosion have changedthese mountains to rolling hills. It is chock full on minerals, metals and gems. Some of its volcanicpoints even have diamonds.

It is an incredible stabilizing energy force and its massive energetic field meets with & harmonically merges with the kindred energies of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

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It's Geology; It's Ecology

The Canadian Shield, also known as the Precambrian Shield or Laurentian Plateau, covers about half of Canada as well as most of Greenland and part of the northern United States; an area of 4.4million square kilometers (1.7 million square miles). It is the oldest part of the North American crustal plate and contains fossils of bacteria and algae over 2 billion years old. The shield is composed of granite and the earth's greatest area of exposed Precambrian rock (igneous and metamorphic rock formed in the Precambrian geological era 500 million to 3 billion years ago). The shield was the first part of the continent to be permanently raised above sea level. Subsequent rising and falling, folding, erosion and continental ice sheets have created its present topography. The reoccurring invasion and withdrawal of the ice sheets (1.6 million to 10,000 yearsago) depressed the surface creating Hudson Bay, scraped out tens of thousands of lake basins, carried away much of the soil cover and re-deposited glacial debris. The shield plateau ranges from 305 to 610 meters (1000 to 2000 feet) above sea level. In northern Labrador and Baffin Island the crustal plate has tilted so much that it rises over 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) above sea level. There are a number of mountain ranges within the shield: the Adirondack (northeastern New York state), Superior Highlands (northern Minnesota, Wisconsin& Michigan states), Torngat and Laurentian. The shield is a rich source of metallic minerals such as iron, nickel, copper, zinc, uranium, gold, silver, platinum and molybdenum.

Life Support Ecology The current surface expression of the Shield is one of very thin soil lying on top of the bedrock,

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with many bare outcrops. This arrangement was caused by severe glaciation during the ice age, which covered the Shield and scraped the rock clean.

The lowlands of the Canadian Shield have very dense soil that is not suitable for forestation, but italso contains many marshes and bogs. The rest of the region has coarse soil that does not retain moisture well and is frozen as permafrost year round. Forests are not as dense in the north. The Shield is covered in parts by vast boreal forests in the south that support important natural ecosystems as well as a major logging industry. Hydrographical drainage is generally poor, the effects of glaciation being one of the many reasons. Tundra typically prevails in the northern regions. Many mammals such as caribou, wolverines, weasels, mink, otters, grizzlies, polar bears and black bears are present. In the case of polar bears (Ursus maritimus), the Shield area contains many of the denning locations such as the Wapusk National Park.

Minerological Cornucopia

The Shield is one of the world's richest areas in terms of mineral ores. It is filled with substantial deposits of nickel, gold, silver, and copper. Throughout the Shield there are many mining towns extracting these minerals. The largest, and one of the best known, is Sudbury, Ontario. Sudbury isan exception to the normal process of forming minerals in the Shield since there is significant evidence that the Sudbury Basin is an ancient meteorite impact crater. The nearby, but less knownTemagami Magnetic Anomaly has striking similarities to the Sudbury Basin. This suggests it could be a second metal-rich impact crater.

In northeastern Quebec, the giant Manicouagan Reservoir is the site of an extensive hydroelectric project (Manic-cinq, or Manic-5). This is one of the largest-known meteorite impact craters on Earth. The Flin Flon greenstone belt in central Manitoba and east-central Saskatchewan is one of the largest Paleoproterozoic volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VMS) districts in the world, containing 27 copper-zinc- (gold) deposits from which more than 183 million tons of sulfide have been mined. The Shield, particularly the portion in the Northwest Territories, has recently been the site of several major diamond discoveries. The kimberlite pipes in which the diamonds are found are closely associated with cratons, which provide the deep lithospheric mantle required to stabilize diamond as a mineral. The kimberlite eruptions then bring the diamonds from over 150 kilometers(93 mi) depth to the surface. Currently the Ekati and Diavik mines are actively mining kimberlite diamonds.

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LA TRANSITION BIO CRISTALLINE DE 2015

Troisième partie

L'Archange Métatron via James Tyberonn

Salutations, Maîtres, Je suis Métatron, Archange de Lumière. Nous vous saluons en un vecteur d'amour inconditionnel, et nous, en compagnie de Tyberonn du Service Cristallin, accueillons chaleureusement chacunde ceux qui lisent ces mots, en ce moment « Présent ». Car nous sommes prêts à offrir la totalité de ce que nous sommes, de ce que nous projetons et de ce que vous êtes. Nous vous demandons d'être totalement présents dans vos cœurs et dans vos corps, c'est ce qui est requis en 2015. Par cette présence, nous vous prions d'être complètement vous-mêmes, consciemment et dans le bien-être.Salutations, Maîtres, Je suis Métatron, Archange de Lumière. Nous vous saluons en un vecteur d'amour inconditionnel, et nous, en compagnie de Tyberonn du Service Cristallin, accueillons chaleureusement chacunde ceux qui lisent ces mots, en ce moment « Présent ». Car nous sommes prêts à offrir la totalité de ce que nous sommes, de ce que nous projetons et de ce que vous êtes. Nous vous demandons d'être totalement présents dans vos cœurs et dans vos corps, c'est ce qui est requis en 2015. Par cette présence, nous vous prions d'être complètement vous-mêmes, consciemment et dans le bien-être. Maîtres, nous partageons ici des informations importantes concernant le temps présent. Nous parlons des extraordinaires vagues Saturniennes, des étonnantes énergies météoriques, des éclipses, du solstice et de l'équinoxe qui se produiront dans les quatre derniers mois de 2015, An Trois de la Nouvelle Terre. Et comme toujours, c'est à vous de discerner ce qui résonne ou pas pour vous...car vous êtes certes des Maîtres en formation. Nous vous demandons de nouveau de ne pas laisser de côté ce que ce message a de scientifique, car c'est un aspect intégral du sacré. Et nous vous assurons que cet aspect scientifique sera compris par

votre mental supérieur, ce qui ajoutera une essence importante à votre savoir, même si ce n'est pas

immédiat. Nous vous avons souvent dit que les radiations solaires et d'autres évènements astronomiques, notamment les croix cardinales, les solstices, les équinoxes et les éclipses portent la marque du changement. Et que

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Authentique citoyen du monde, il The Balance of CanadaPlanetary Latitudes between 45 degrees & 60 degrees north & south are the optimal electro-magnetic harmonics for balance of the emotional field & stabilization of Auric energy.

"The latitude of 51 degrees is a planetary geometrical vector that receives the jet stream helix ofhighly charged antimatter plasma into the physical realm at certain nodes. Stonehenge, Avebury,Banff, Lake Louise, Lake Baikal and Torres del Paine, Patagonia - all occur at this latitude. For that

reason these areas are extraordinarily charged electro-magnetically, quite multidimensional innature, yet retain an incredible balance." Archangel Metatron

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Parallel Earth – Anti-matter Fields&

The Michael Vortex of Banff

Archangel Metatron via James TyberonnGreetings Dear Ones ! I am Metatron Lord of Light, and I embrace each of you in Unconditional Love !

And so we return to speak of the grandeur of the Michael Portal in Banff. In the linear years that the channel first visited this magical area, much has quickened. This area is playing an enormous role in the planetary Ascension, in that termed the Ascension.

Now, there are many unique and unrecognized aspects to the areas of Banff and Yoho National Parks in Canada. Because of its gravitational placement, tectonics, electromagnetic balance, mineralogy and latitudinal placement, there are dense plasmic fields that allow for a more tangibleinterface with the Angelic Realm.

The unique waters in this area of the Candia Rockies play an unrecognized, yet very significant role in the truly extraordinary frequencial attributes of this very special location. These vivid living waters are fluidic crystals with massive energy-fields.

As such, the Crystalline Waters of the area, the sacred Lakes you know as Lake Louise, Lake Moraine, Emerald Lake, and Lake O'Hara, are conscious living entities. But this goes far beyond the 'Spirit of Place' that occurs in nature. Because these waters are colloidal with silicate particulate, suspended crystal, these glacier melt waters have a very unique ionic current, which allows for an anti matter charge to occur therein. Bioplasmic life, an Angelic Field, exists within them. Masters, the field of energy that makes Banff quite unique is, to a great extent, defined by the anti matter plasma that exist in the area, and this has been exponentially increased by the Cosmic Trigger.

We share with you a great Truth that may confuse some of you, and that is that the interface of the Angelic Realm to the human material realm is the anti matter field, and the anti matter plasmic composition of that field is what you term the 'Parallel Earth'.

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Indeed the interfaces from your etheric body via the chakric system are, in a sense, focal particle accelerators that form open cones into the field of anti-matter. This is something that will become known to humans within the next two generations. You often refer to anti-matter as dark matter. In truth and irony, that you term dark matter actually carries greater light and holds higher frequency than physical matter. Only specific electro-magnetic fields are capable of holding anti-matter plasma, and indeed anti-matter has varying layers or dimensions of intensity. Your developed MerKaNa field is indeed capable of holding this energy, and transporting you within it.

Magnetic Plasma in Matter and Antimatter

We tell you that on your Earth, magnetic field lines emerge out of the North Pole, curve downwards, and enter the South Pole through your ovoid Magnetosphere. Inside your Earth, however, these field lines move upwards from the South Pole to join the North Pole. These fields offorce are charged ionics or plasma. These flows are both in the form of matter as well as anti-matter. As such these occur within the parallel anti-matter Earth and, in fact, define its composition. Anti-matter plasma contains many charged particles including what may be termed anti-electrons and anti-protons. Within anti-matter, Bio Plasma occurs and life forms of Bio Plasmateem within these fields.

So within and without your physical Earth are electromagnetic currents that operate somewhat in jet streams that flow in one direction on and above the earth and in the opposite direction in its subsurface interior. Therefore there are current flows that are parallel to one another, flowing in opposite directions, within the ovoid of the Magnetosphere. These are somewhat analogous to your longitudinal lines and crudely recognized as Curry Lines. What is not understood or as yet recognized is that these also flow in anti-matter plasma, anti-magnetics, anti-electrics, and are the very network of energy that connects your physical Earth to the anti-matter Earth, the twin 'Parallel Earth', through the flashing aspect of receiving micro black-holes (protons) and the projecting micro white-holes (electrons).

With the laminar flow of the vertical lines of longitude, the anti-matter plasma will create a network of currents. The primary vertical current induces other currents at right angles to it to form golden angle offshoots at 90 degree jets that extend directly and horizontally from the vertical currents. These are pulsed at even sequences according to the 'flash' of consciousness light units, which somewhat corresponds to the conceptual Planck scale in space-time theory.

There are certain points both within the matter-anti-matter flash and planetary electromagnetic circuitry that form pressurized nodes. These nodes act as subatomic-particle amplifiers which project coherent helical streams of anti-matter ions at specific vectors on the planet.

These are in essence anti-matter vortexes that permeate into the physical earth and the Magnetosphere. These enter the earthplane at the latitudinal points between 49 and 52 degrees north and 49 and 52 degrees south.

The latitude of 51 degrees is a planetary geometrical vector that receives the jet stream helix of highly charged anti-matter plasma into the physical realm at certain nodes. Stonehenge, Avebury,Banff, Lake Louise, Lake Baikal and Torres del Paine, Patagonia - all occur at this latitude. For that reason, these areas are extraordinarily charged electro-magnetically, quite multidimensional in nature, yet retain an incredible balance. These areas are only capable of retaining the anti-matter field because of the unique magno electrical resonance produced by the mineralogy of the area.

These vortexes spiral and intertwine with pulses of gravitons, positrons and anti-plasma and to form coherent plasmic helixes that occur in the zones of the Canadian Rockies, Lake Baikal in

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Siberia, Avebury-Stonehenge, and southern Patagonia areas of Argentina and Chile. All of these points are near 51 degrees latitude. These energies collate and pool, due in large to the specific crystalline-magnetic mineralogy that exist in these magno crystalline areas.

As a result, the parallel Earth co-exists more tangibly and overlaps more fully within these areas, and life forms of bioplasmic nature indeed exist there in great abundance. But let us be clear; these areas are, in essence, macro white holes. Tremendous energy from anti-matter is transformed to charged matter and exuded. The anti-matter overlay that dually occurs in Banff does not intermingle with matter per se; rather, the two fields co-exist in separate dimensions. They somewhat coincide, but are indeed quite separate. Better to say that the anti-matter field is far more easily experienced thru the subtle body within this area. And as such thru the MerKaba which is greatly expanded therein. Do you understand?

The Angelic Field of the area is a direct result of this, and occurs in Bioplasmic matrix.

Bioplasmic life is quite real and, in fact, as we have stated, your subtle body and your chakric centers tie into the plasmic sphere of anti-matter, the Parallel Earth. It is a less dense form of life, and not usually visible to the naked eye. It operates at a much higher frequency, and extremely high life forms abound in this energy, and evolve faster within it.

The Parallel Antimatter Interface

Your Universe, your Cosmos is approximately 80% dark matter/ anti-matter. That you term the Angelic Kingdom, the Ascended Masters, Faeries, Elementals and the Sacred Dragon all interface with your physical earth thru the lens of anti-matter. Because your etheric body interfaces into anti-matter, it can be said that human kind are in fact hybrids of matter / anti-matter, evolved from anti-matter.

A key part of the Ascension is the reformation of the Firmament. The effect of this is a lessening of the density of your physical world, a thinning of the veils, a speeding up of frequency. The energies of Banff and Yoho are currently pulsing with an extraordinary benevolent energy that is actually 12 dimensional in resonance.

Any human who enters the sacred areas of Banff and Yoho National Parks in the Canadian Rockieswill experience a tremendous clearing and chakric balancing. A sense of renewal will occur and that will result in a re-energization of higher purpose, a renewed clarity. Even those who are coming simply for relaxation in the splendor of these sacred energies will be immensely refreshed,but those who enter with advanced knowledge and spiritual intent will be exponentially rewarded.

Several pyramidal points in Canada bring extraordinary complexities of coherent light, including the Edmonton Walter[dale] Pyramids, Mount Edith Cavell, Castle Mountain, the Three Sisters, Mount Assiniboine, Mount Rundle, Kananaskas, and Revelstoke. The primary point of the EM release in North America is Yellowstone, and its primary receiving points for distribution were Banff and Asheville. The Canadian Rockies within Banff National Park serve as circuit balance and distribution points for the electromagnetic codes of the Cosmic Trigger. There are, of course, manymany global sites of the coded electromagnetics. Global fountains released them and dispersed them through major mountain ranges and Phi Grid vortexial-portal sites.

TPhi Activation and the Artificial Moon of Saturn

Accordingly, the Canadian Rockies are in a major state of activation. The enormous glaciers that are now in a rapid state of melting are, in fact, releasing celestial-codes from the crystalline ice

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that are being ingrained into the Golden Spiral Harmonics of the 12-Dimensional Metatronic Phi (Earthen-Harmonic Grid) of this area, within the Michael Vortex. Indeed the glacier crystallization in this area contains within it undiscovered complex geometric crystal patterns that have not yet been recognized. Their release into the atmosphere in the ongoing melting-cycle is quite beneficial, quite necessary.

These patterns are, in fact, frequency codes that affect the earth's rotation and gravity ratio. We tell you all of these are influenced to a great degree by the artificial moon of Saturn. We will speakmore of this in a future channel download. But we tell you even now, your more enlightened astrophysicists are becoming aware that one of Saturn's moons is artificial, though they dare not express such nonconventional belief. We tell you that the moon called Iapetus that satellites the extreme outer orbit of the 'Ringed-Planet' was put in place for specific purpose by the highly evolved Andromedans.

Ascension In Parallel

The Ascension is not only occurring on the material Earth, but also its parallel. The alignment into the Galactic center is also causing a tremendous increase of the flow of charged ionic energy, that termed anti-matter-plasma into the planetary poles. The Parallel of Earth exists in anti-matter, and within anti-matter is enormous energy.

The Archangel Michael Vortex

The unique matrix of the Canadian Rockies has been formatting since November of 1992. Lord Michael began anchoring his presence in a triangulated portal within the core of the Canadian Rockies after the gateway event you call the 11: 11. The process required three years to complete. The three pinnacles of the vortex vertice are Lake Louise, Lake O'Hara and Emerald Lake. Lake Moraine is within this triangulation. These four crystalline lakes hold an incredibly potent energy and are thus capable of sustaining manifestations of Archangel Michael's energetic presence. This is absolutely due to the unique energetic cocktail of ionic forces that began slowly penetrating in 1992 with the plasma of the parallels in conjunction with the matter/anti-matter flux.

The enhanced thinned veil clarity that resulted within these pristine sites has facilitated many to have direct experiences with Archangel Michael's Divine Presence. A counterclockwise energy vortex was set into motion prior to the 12:12, connecting the locations. The triangulation has formed what may be referred to as the Michael Vortex, and a great and greater spiritual light is thus disseminated throughout the entire area for hundreds of miles.

Special caretakers have been drawn to these areas to align, anchor and imprint within this divine energy. This is still ongoing. The channel is among these. The channel was subconsciously aware of Lord Michael's presence here, long before he consciously realized it, years before he realized the significance it had planetarily. That is why, even now, he is among those who have imprinted an energetic portion of their spiritual pattern within this magnificent area. Such areas, you see, have the frequential capacity to record the soul imprint of those who experience them.

Colloidal Crystal Waters

The unique power of these lakes is in their crystallized colloidal quartz content. The glacier crystal silicate is quite unique in its frequency, and although this occurs in other areas of the Earth, the frequency of this vortex is quite special, quite complex in this area of Canada. While your geologists readily recognize that the incredible coloring of the waters is due to this silicate

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particle, they do not recognize the energy it adds. They do not recognize the unique pattern of thecrystallized structure of this particle, or of the synergistic reaction that occurs when light penetrates the surface of the waters. They do not understand the healing potency of the very striking colors of these lakes. Nor do they understand the multidimensional bio-plasmic electromagnetics that define all of the above.

Now, your science knows of Newtonian fluids and colloidal plastic fluids, but there is another aspect to fluids that has not been considered. Energized fluids, magnetized fluids, crystallized fluids, all occur in the special waters of the Michael Vortex in Banff and Yoho National Parks. The silicate particulate in the fluids is in such a colloidal state that it does not settle, yet the fluid moves fully in Newtonian, water states. The fluid carries an electrical field so robust that an energetic resonance is pulsed that encapsulates everything within its field.

For these reasons, certain areas such as Lake Louise and Emerald Lake are permitted to have large streams of touring visitors, many of who are directed to come on a subtle level. The energy of the crystal fluids with the imprint of Lord Michael penetrates their being in such a way that it is physically, emotionally and spiritually impossible for them not to be affected, not to be touched or given the opportunity to heal.

Lake O'Hara is, by design, more remote and serves as the energy holder for the flux of light energy. Lake O'Hara is already in the fifth dimension and beyond. It is by far the most powerful Bio Plasmic Angelic entity in the region. Yet all 4 of these entities, Louise, Moraine, Emerald and O'Hara, are Angelic Beings of Bio Plasmic nature. Angels indeed.

Equally potent but differently expressed are the Glaciers in the area. Hydro Crystals of Bio PlasmicEnergy coded in light. Their very evaporation ongoing adds extremely to the special qualities of this area, as the transformation from solid crytsal to liquid crystal imprints the energy of the Banffvortex.

Liquid-Crystal Geometry

A precise dimensional vector of all three planetary grids exists within the Michael Portal Triangulation. As such, the geometric projection of this vortex area contains all the platonic solids:tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. These are now expanding into more complex sacred geometries. Such an impeccable clarity of consecrated sentient energy exists here, that the sacred geometric template complies with the parallelogram 'Law of Addition'. Because of this, the energy is self-directed, and capable of adjusting itself to negate that which you would term negativity, as well as adjust its geometry to fully maintain its complex symmetrical template.

You see, Dear Ones, the living geometry here forms the Metatronic cube in a multidimensional matrix, such that any force of telluric transformation, that would affect or alter the anchor points of the crystalline template is immediately and automatically met with a counter- balancing adjustment that will maintain the coordinate system in perfect symmetry. This is the nature of theinserted hologram of the Metatronic crystal. It adheres to the Law of Balance within Universal Truth.

The Metatronic Cube is a living, sentient template. It moves and shifts and adjusts itself to maintain its crystalline integrity. It is the living Phi Grid within and beyond the geometrics of that termed the Reshel. For all grids are more fluid and complex as they shift in dimensional capacity into the 144-Crystal Grid of the Ascension. That is why their geometries cannot truly be defined; they flux in a dynamic living kaleidoscopic flowering in constant multidimensional movement.

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Transformation Into Clear Mind

Humans experience this energy matrix in many ways. It is as an area of quickened 'higher' thought manifestation, and an area in which inner conflict and obstacle are somewhat 'squeezed' to the surface, and forced to be confronted, and given the opportunity to be healed. Higher thought, pure thought, loving feelings, are transformed into a geometric vector within the operating system of these energies, and real immediate healing and transformation can occur here. The human seeker can evolve more readily into 'clear mind' within this energy.

That which you refer to as negative thought is largely dormant within this field. This nullification isbecause negativity lacks the appropriate hyper dimensional geometric frequency impulse to achieve expansion, reaction or recognition within the positive homogeneous matrix. One might say they are released and transformed.

Not all portal-vortex systems are so balanced. Some are quite intense and, as such, less palpable to the human energy field. The matrix of Archangel Michael in Banff and Yoho projects the energy of love. This energy is effectively disseminated throughout the area for hundreds of miles. That is the reason that the people living in this land are perceived as being so agreeable in disposition.

Axialtonal Sacred Alignments

The Michael Vortex of Banff Vortex is energetically in tune with other crystalline waters, especially those of Patagonia, Chile, Lake Ouachita in Arkansas, Lake Titicaca in Bolivia-Peru, Lake Zurich, Switzerland and Lake Baikal in Siberia - all living cathedrals of love and healing. All potent vessels of the dual-plasmic spiral. These are aligned in harmonic oscillations through what is termed axialtonal lines, which are quite different from leylines.

Closing

Masters, know that all is well. Trust that the Ascension in all its multi-dimensional aspects, in all ofits transitions, is well in hand. We know each of you by name; we know the changes you are experiencing. We are with you. The greater part of each of you is here, watching your human expressions in biochemical clothes, as you walk through the linear flowering of this magnificent time.

Humanity wears duality filters, and you are as yet a species with amnesia. The veil is thinning, and you on the path are beginning to see the great and greater Truth. It is beautiful beyond your wildest dreams. Remember to love one another and nurture one another. But Dear Ones, please do not forget to love and nurture yourself and experience the gentle Love that is your matrix. Love is the frequencial key that melds ALL.

I am Metatron and I share with you these Truths. You are beloved.

And so it is.========================== This channel is copyrighted to www.Earth-Keeper.com . Posting on websites is allowed with expressed written permissions as long as the information is not altered and credit of authorship and website is included. It may not be published in journals, magazines or public printwithout expressed permission from Earth-Keeper. Permissions may be requested at Tyberonn@hotmail.com

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2015-06-23 "Perpetrator Has Been Arrested, But Killer is Still at Large": Calls Rise to Remove Confederate Flag

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Guests

Doug Brannon, Republican South Carolina state representative who has announced his plans to sponsor legislation to take down the Confederate flag from the front of the state Capitol. Brannon was a friend of the late state senator, Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was killed in last week’s church massacre.

Rev. Dr. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP and Moral Monday leader. He is author of the book Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation.

Gary Clary, Republican South Carolina state representative who has voiced support for taking down the Confederate flag from the front of the state Capitol.

Don Doyle, McCausland professor of American history at the University of South Carolina. His most recent book is The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War.

AMY GOODMAN: Calls are growing in South Carolina to remove the Confederate battle flag at thestate Capitol after last week’s mass shooting of nine African-American worshipers at the historic Emanuel AME Church. The flag has been the source of controversy for decades in South Carolina, but a growing number of politicians are calling for its removal after photos were published online showing the accused gunman, Dylann Roof, posing with the flag. On Monday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called on lawmakers to take down the flag at the state Capitol grounds.

GOV. NIKKI HALEY: For many people in our state, the flag stands for traditions that are noble, traditions of history, of heritage and of ancestry. The hate-filled murderer who massacred our brothers and sisters in Charleston has a sick and twisted view of the flag. In no way does he reflect the people in our state who respect and, in many ways, revere it. Those South Carolinians view the flag as a symbol of respect, integrity and duty. They also see it as a memorial. ...

That flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state. The murderer now locked up in Charleston said hoped his actions would start a race war. We have an opportunity to show that not only was he wrong, but that just the opposite is happening. My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move forward as a state in harmony, and we can honor the nine blessed souls whoare now in heaven.

AMY GOODMAN: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called on state lawmakers to address the issue over the summer, and said she would order a special session if they did not.

Debate over the flag goes back decades. South Carolina raised the flag over the state House in the early ’60s at the height of the civil rights movement, a hundred years after the Civil War. The flag was moved to its current location on a lower flagpole on the Capitol grounds in 2000, when

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the NAACP launched a tourism boycott of the state. Last week, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks described the flag as an emblem of hate.

CORNELL WILLIAM BROOKS: Some will assert that the Confederate flag is merely a symbol of years gone by, a symbol of heritage and not hate. But where we see that symbol lifted up as an emblem of hate, as a tool of hate, as an inspiration for hate, as an inspiration for violence, that symbol has to come down. That symbol must be removed from our state Capitol.

AMY GOODMAN: While South Carolina has been the focus of attention this week for flying the Confederate battle flag on the grounds of the state Capitol, seven official state flags in the South still contain imagery from the Confederate flag—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee.

To talk more about the controversy, we’re joined by a number of guests: from Columbia, South Carolina, South Carolina State Representative Gary Clary and Don Doyle, professor of American history at the University of South Carolina; in Raleigh, North Carolina, Reverend Dr. William Barber joins us, president of the North Carolina NAACP. But we begin with Republican South Carolina State Representative Doug Brannon, who has announced plans to sponsor legislation to take down the Confederate flag from the front of the state Capitol. Brannon was a friend of the late state senator, Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was killed in last week’s church massacre. State Representative Brannon joins us via Democracy Now! video stream from Spartanburg, South Carolina, from the district he represents.

Welcome to Democracy Now! We’re going to begin with you, Republican South Carolina State Representative Doug Brannon. Tell us about your decision to introduce legislation to bring down that flag.

REP. DOUG BRANNON: I woke up Thursday morning, last Thursday morning, to the news of the death of these nine wonderful people. I knew something—I felt something had to be done then. It took a few hours to figure out exactly what, but what really prompted my desire to file the bill waswhen I saw the photos of the front of that automobile and the photos of the T-shirt and then, laterin the day, of that shooter carrying a flag. Clementa Pinckney deserves this. Those nine people deserve this. Our state Capitol needs to be free of the flag.

AMY GOODMAN: How long have you been in office?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: Five years.

AMY GOODMAN: Had you ever had a desire to do this before? Had you ever spoken with Clem Pinckney about his desire to have this removed?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: No, Senator Pinckney and I had not talked about the flag specifically. Wedid talk about other issues, and we talked about judicial candidates and those types of conversations, aside from just friendly conversations. But he and I never talked specifically about the flag, no.

I think your other question was, had I ever thought about it before? And as I’ve said to others, no,and I apologize for that. I should have done it five years ago. That’s what public officials are supposed to do, is the right thing. I didn’t do it. And for that, I apologize.

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AMY GOODMAN: What was your reaction to seeing Governor Nikki Haley say, for the first time, that it should come down?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: Pure joy. But it wasn’t—I’m thankful for the governor’s remarks and demands, but to see those standing near her—you know, Senator Graham, Senator Scott, members of both bodies, the House and the Senate—the movement, the current has picked up. It’s moving quickly. And I believe the votes are there.

AMY GOODMAN: Do you believe you could lose your next election for introducing this legislation?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: Well, I’ve been up since 4:30 this morning. I was watching the local news in Spartanburg, and they were conducting a poll. And if it’s accurate, I will lose, because it was about 70/30 in favor of leaving the flag on the state Capitol grounds. So if that poll is correct,I’m in my last term.

AMY GOODMAN: So, is it making you reconsider?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: Absolutely not. I’ve said over and over again I’m going to do my job until I lose my job. In my heart, I know this is the right thing.

AMY GOODMAN: We’re also joined by your fellow state representative, Gary Clary. Can you talk about your thoughts on the day that the massacre took place at Mother Emanuel, at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston?

REP. GARY CLARY: Well, I had similar feelings as my colleague, Doug Brannon, did—just utter disbelief of what has transpired in Charleston. And, you know, we lost a friend and a colleague in Senator Pinckney, and then those eight other souls that perished that night. And certainly, when I look at my career, a very short one here in the General Assembly, I knew that something had to be done.

And I talked to my friend, Doug Brannon, and he talked about the political realities of what we’re about. But, you know, when I ran for election last year, I asked the people in my district to vote for me if they wanted to send a reasonable and sensible person to Columbia. And I believe that the vote that they gave me was resounding. And as a result, I know that I’m doing the right thing,because we need to end—end this part of our history. And when I say "end" it, we need to removethis flag from the state House grounds and put it in a proper place. We need to put it in the state museum, in the Confederate relic room, where it justifiably belongs, but not on the front door of the state House grounds.

You know, there’s a fence around that flag that was moved in 2000, and I think it’s very significant that the fence is there. I believe that fences are put up to keep people out. And what we need to be doing here in South Carolina is building bridges and tearing down those fences.

AMY GOODMAN: We’re also joined by the Reverend Dr. William Barber from Raleigh, North Carolina. Reverend Barber, where were you when you heard that Clem Pinckney, Reverend Pinckney, State Senator Pinckney, and eight others were killed in this massacre at the church in Charleston?

REV. WILLIAM BARBER: Well, we were actually in jail. About 10 of us had been arrested in the state House in North Carolina for challenging extremist politicians who have passed the worst

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voter suppression law in the country. In fact, parts of it were worse than South Carolina. We were arrested for merely speaking up; they told us that we could not exercise our First Amendment right. And we found out about it actually in jail.

AMY GOODMAN: Your reaction?

REV. WILLIAM BARBER: Well, I have a lot of mixed emotions. You know, I’ve said that the perpetrator has been arrested, but the killer is still at large. And historically, what causes this kindof terroristic violence is when you have racialized political rhetoric and racialized policies. They become the spawning ground, the birthing ground, if you will, for terroristic violence and violent resistance. The flag, for instance, in South Carolina was put up and began to be waved more afterthe 1954 Brown decision and then in 1962 at the height of the civil rights movement. So the flag was put up as a resistance to policy. Dr. King called it interposition and nullification. It was a sign of that. I’m glad to hear those two representatives say what they’ve said about this, but I also heard the governor say that it will always be a part of the soil of South Carolina. Now, soil is something you grow from.

Reverend Pinckney, as a colleague in ministry, was not just opposed to the flag, he was opposed to the denial of Medicaid expansion, where now the majority of the state is opposing Medicaid expansion where six out of 10 black people live. He was opposed to voter suppression, voter ID inSouth Carolina. He was opposed to those who have celebrated the ending of the Voting Rights Act,or the gutting of Section 4, which means South Carolina is no longer a preclearance state, and thevery district that he served in is vulnerable right now. He was opposed to the lack of funding for public education. He wanted to see living wages raised.

So I would say to my colleagues, let’s take down the flag—to the governor—but also, let’s put together an omnibus bill in the name of the nine martyrs. And all of the things Reverend Pinckney was standing for, if we say we love him and his colleagues, let’s put all of those things in a one bigomnibus bill and pass that and bring it to the funeral on Friday or Saturday, saying we will expandMedicaid to help not only black people, but poor white Southerners in South Carolina, because it’s not just the flag. Lee Atwater talked about the Southern strategy, where policy was used as a wayto divide us. And if we want harmony, we have to talk about racism, not just in terms of symbol, but in the substance of policies. The flag went up to fight policies. If we’re going to bring it down, we’re also going to have to change policies, and particularly policies that create disparate impact on black, brown and poor white people.

AMY GOODMAN: Doug Brannon, a state representative from South Carolina, a Republican state representative, your thoughts as you listen to the Reverend William Barber?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: We’ve never met. I would like the opportunity. I am a Republican member. Five years ago, I fought a bill that would have torn apart public education in South Carolina. I understand that there is much change that needs to take place in the state of South Carolina, but this flag is where we’re starting. I’m not willing to spread—we’ve got focus on the flag, and that’s where it needs to stay right now. I respect everything the gentleman said. I can’t say I agree with everything he said, but I can tell you that we’ve got movement here, and I’m going to keep my focus on this issue right now. And when we address this issue properly, we’ll move to the next.

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AMY GOODMAN: Representative Gary Clary, you’re dealing with these issues in the Legislature—for example, one of the issues that State Senator Clem Pinckney focused on, Medicaid expansion. Your thoughts about this?

REP. GARY CLARY: Well, you know, Medicaid expansion was something that was debated during the last session of the General Assembly. And our governor, Governor Haley, made the decision that she would not accept federal funds for Medicaid expansion. And, you know, certainly, I hear what Reverend Barber has had to say, and that is something that is going to have to be examined in the future. I agree with Doug Brannon from the standpoint we’re up against the clock right nowbecause our session actually ended on June 4th, and we’re operating under a sine die resolution. And I think that that sine die resolution will probably be—there will be an attempt to amend that today to deal with this flag issue. And that is something—I agree with Doug—that we need to focus on right now, because if we can pay tribute to Senator Pinckney and those other eight that lost their lives last week, then that would be a major achievement for us in being able to remove the flag from the state House grounds and then start taking the next step insofar as dealing with some of the problems that Reverend Barber expressed.

AMY GOODMAN: You know, there is a Confederate monument that was built to be with the flag in front of the state Capitol. Is there any discussion, Doug Brannon, of moving that to a museum, as well? And is there any discussion of possibly having a monument to the nine martyrs or to yourfellow state representative—actually, a state senator, Clementa Pinckney?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: I have not heard any comment or mention of removal of the actual Confederate memorial. I would remind everyone that there are several different memorials aroundthe state Capitol. It’s actually—except for the one, the flag that we’re talking about today, the state Capitol is a beautiful area with monuments and memorials to many individuals and groups ofpeople. As far as a monument to the nine who were murdered last Wednesday, I have not heard any mention of a specific memorial for them, either. But that, I would suggest, is a wonderful idea.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, we’re going to break and then come back to this discussion. We are joinedby two South Carolina state representatives, both Republican, Doug Brannon and Gary Clary. Bothsay they will support, Doug Brannon says he’ll introduce, the bill to bring down that flag. ReverendDr. William Barber is with us from Raleigh, North Carolina. We’re going to be speaking with the South Carolina Don Doyle—a historian, Don Doyle, about the significance of the Confederate flag. And we’ll soon be joined by David Goodman, who is the brother of Andrew Goodman. Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner were [three] civil rights activists who in the early1960s went to Mississippi to deal with an attack on a church, a black church, a church that was burned down. As they left that church, they ultimately were murdered. And we’re going to talk about the significance of this 51st anniversary of their deaths. It was, oh, June 21st, 1964. Stay with us.

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we turn to comments made last year by South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley. She suggested South Carolina had resolved its image problem and that having the Confederate flag at the state House was fine because not a single CEO had complained. She was

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speaking at a gubernatorial debate.

GOV. NIKKI HALEY: The Confederate flag is a very sensitive issue. And what I can tell you is, over the last three-and-a-half years, I spend a lot of my days on the phoneswith CEOs and recruiting jobs to this state. I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag. What is important here is that we look at the fact that, yes, perception of South Carolina matters. That’s why we have everybody answering the phones, "It’s a great day in South Carolina." That’s whywe’re being named the friendliest state and the most patriotic state and getting all these great accolades. But we really kind of fixed all that when you elected the first Indian-American female governor, when we appointed the first African-American U.S. senator.

AMY GOODMAN: I’m wondering what is the response of corporations right now—for example, Doug Brannon, Boeing that’s there. Wal-Mart has just announced they’re removing all Confederateparaphernalia from their shelves. And are they going to bring pressure on the legislators to vote this way against the flag?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: Well, I can tell you that several local Chambers of Commerce have demanded the flag come down. I believe the state chamber made the same request late yesterday. Obviously, I can’t speak for Boeing or BMW. They’re both wonderful contributions and corporations that contribute mightily to our economy. But, I mean, the movement is now. The business community understands what the flag means to a vast or a large percentage of our population. And I just—I’m amazed at how things have changed from Thursday afternoon to yesterday afternoon. It’s just incredible. And I believe the business community has much to be praised for the change in the temperature on this issue.

AMY GOODMAN: Reverend Dr. William Barber, the issue of guns that President Obama raised right after the massacre went right to this issue. This was the 14th time he came before the American people talking about massacres that had taken place that, he said, are unique to the United states. And he says it’s about guns and gun control.

REV. WILLIAM BARBER: Well, you know, and I want to step back and answer one other question, but let me answer in light of that. Again, policy. When I was in jail that night for opposing voter suppression, our Legislature actually passed a law in North Carolina easing gun restrictions and gun control, making it easier for people to get guns even if they were not cleared in terms of their mental records. That was passed at night, about an hour or so. Now, I know, andI’ve studied—I know my good friend, Dr. Lonnie Randolph, that Reverend Pinckney was also working for gun control and putting more gun control and working against things like police brutality.

This is what I mean. This flag is vulgar. And it took 52 years, after '62, to get it down. It was raised because of policy. In civil rights, when Shwerner, Chaney and—excuse me, when the girls were burned up and blown up in the Birmingham [church], and President Kennedy was killed, we got the Civil Rights Act, an omnibus bill to deal with civil rights. When Jimmie Lee Jackson and others were killed in Bloody Sunday, we got the Voting Rights Act—Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. When Dr. King was killed, we got the Fair Housing Act, that made it so you could sue people if they didn't allow you in their community. To suggest that nine lives and taking a symbol down is sufficient to honor nine deaths, nine—nine, nine deaths—is to diminish those lives.

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What I’m saying to our brothers and sisters, brothers who are on the phone this morning, is look at what Reverend Pinckney stood for and those members at Emanuel fought for. They fought for more gun control. They fought for Medicaid expansion. They fought for public education. They fought to raise the living wage to—the minimum wage to a living wage. By the way, you deny Medicaid expansion, people die. People die. You deny living wages and create poverty and resegregate the public, people die. That’s been proven in a study by the Columbia University. And so, what I’m suggesting, Amy, is we ought to look at all of these issues. We ought to—and we can’t say the flag is just a start and this honors them. It does not fully honor these deaths.

And if we’re going to start and then wait and then politicize and be political—Lee Atwater said, in an infamous radio interview, he said that we stopped talking about race in a very open way, using the N-word, and we started talking about policies like tax cuts, states’ rights, forced busing. He said they sound benign, but they actually have a negative impact on the lives of African Americans, and they promote this idea that Southern whites—the problem of Southern whites is rooted in the advances of black people. That’s what this young man was, in essence, saying. He was, in essence, saying, you know, somebody’s taking over his country.

And so, I’m calling on persons, Democrats and Republicans—we’re calling the NAACP—if you reallywant to honor the death, these vicious deaths, then, like we’ve had to do with other deaths in thiscountry, let’s have some substantive policy change. Why not name the Voting Rights Restoration Act, since the Supreme Court has gutted it and we haven’t fixed that in two years, why not name it the Emanuel Nine Voting Rights Act Restoration? And why not every Republican and Democrat come out and say, "We are for fixing the Voting Rights Act, because without preclearance, the veryseat that Reverend Pinckney held is in jeopardy"?

Those are the kinds of substantive conversations we need to have. And gun control ought to be among those, as well. And we can do this in an omnibus way. We don’t have to wait another year or two years. We just have to have the moral courage to do it, and we have to follow what the Constitution of South Carolina already says. It’s already in the South Carolina Constitution that weshould be concerned about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and doing what is best for all of the people.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to comments made by President Obama during his interview withMarc Maron for the WTF podcast. He talked about the power of the NRA lobby and the role the American public can play in altering gun laws.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Unfortunately, the grip of the NRA on Congress is extremely strong. I don’t foresee any legislative action being taken in this Congress, and I don’t foresee any real action being taken—until the American public feels a sufficient sense of urgency and they say to themselves, "This is not normal. This is something that we can change, and we’re going to change it." And if you don’t have that kind of public and voter pressure, then it’s not going to change from the inside.

AMY GOODMAN: President Obama also spoke about his reaction to the Sandy Hook tragedy, when a gunman killed—which killed 26 people on December 24th, 2012.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Right after Newtown happen, for example—

MARC MARON: Yeah.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: —gun sales shot up.

MARC MARON: Yeah, because they panicked.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: And ammunition shot up. And each time that these events occur, ironically, gun manufacturers make out like bandits, and partly because of this fear that’s churned up that, you know, the federal government and black helicopters are all coming to get your guns. And part of my argument is that, you know, it is important for folks to understand how hunting and sportsmanship around firearms is really important to a lot of people, and it’s part of how they grew up, part ofthe bonding they had with their dad.

MARC MARON: Yeah.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: It evokes all kinds of memories and traditions. And I think you have to be respectful of that. The question is just, is there a way of accommodating that legitimate set of traditions with some commonsense stuff that prevents a 21-year-old, who is angry about something or confused about something oris racist or is deranged, from going into a gun store and suddenly is packing and can do enormous harm?

AMY GOODMAN: That’s President Obama speaking to Marc Maron on the WTF podcast. Doug Brannon, South Carolina state representative, what about that? What about the issue of gun control?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: Well, I would ask the people around the country to look at South Carolina gun control. Just in the past two years, I believe, we have passed full background checks before one can purchase a weapon, and we have included in the law that if one has ever been deemed incompetent, that they can no longer legally possess a firearm. So, President Obama has called for background checks and mental health checks on a nationwide level, on a national level. We’ve done that here in South Carolina. So, from a gun control standpoint, I believe South Carolina is ahead of the curve there.

AMY GOODMAN: We are going to turn right now to Don Doyle, a South Carolina historian, talkingabout the significance of the flag, McCausland professor of American history at University of SouthCarolina, his most recent book, The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the AmericanCivil War. If you can briefly talk about the significance of why this flag went up on top of the state Capitol, not in—not a hundred years ago, but actually at the height of the civil rights movement, and its significance now, what you’re seeing unfold in these days?

DON DOYLE: Yes, thank you, Amy, for having me this morning.

The history of this flag—keep in mind, first of all, that this is not the Confederate flag. It’s the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee’s major army, not just for Virginia, but for the Eastern Theater. And it was a symbol of rebellion, rebellion in 1860, ’61, against the electoral victory of the Republican administration under Lincoln. And it was a rebellion to secede and to overthrow the power of the federal government within the what became 11 Confederate states.

So, a century later, that flag then became, or had been, a symbol of a second rebellion, and that

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was a rebellion against desegregation and federal efforts to interfere in the states’ rights to perpetuate segregation. It goes back not to 1962, but earlier to at least in 1948, when Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, U.S. senator, led the Dixiecrats out of the Democratic Party, protesting the civil rights plank that was included that year in the Democratic Party platform. And it continued to become a symbol. Now it was politicized and became a symbol of resistance to desegregation in 1961, 1962. This was a time when the—when Clemson was about to be desegregated, with Harvey Gantt applying for admission, James Meredith in Mississippi. And not just South Carolina, but nearly all of the Deep South states began to use the Confederate flag as akind of symbol of resistance.

Now, it was also entangled with the commemoration of the Civil War centennial of a century earlier. So it was confused and shrouded in this issue of heritage and history and this kind of benign concept of celebrating or honoring the past. And I think people very sincerely believe in that, but at the same time, the political implications of the flag in 1962, when it was raised on the state House dome along with the United States flag, the state flag and then this battle flag, I thinkit was clear to everyone that this was a symbol of resistance, of defiance, and that if it provoked and offended, I think that was OK with the people who defended the place of that flag up on the state House dome.

AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to break, come back to this discussion. That is historian Don Doyle of the University of South Carolina. We’re talking to Reverend Dr. William Barber up in Raleigh, North Carolina. And we’re talking to Gary Clary and Doug Brannon, both Republican South Carolina state representatives. Both say they will support an amendment that Doug Brannon will introduce to bring down the flag, the Confederate battle flag that now—used to be on top of the Capitol but was moved to the front yard of the South Carolina Capitol in Columbia, South Carolina.When we come back, we’ll also be joined by David Goodman to talk about the anniversary of the death of his brother, Andrew Goodman. Sunday was the 51st anniversary of the killing of these three young civil rights workers who had just left a burned black church in Mississippi. Stay with us.

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2015-06-23 Domestic Terrorism: From the Charleston Massacre to 1964 Slaying of Mississippi Civil Rights Workers

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David Goodman, brother of Andrew Goodman. On Sunday, he wrote an editorial for Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger newspaper headlined "U.S. Has Turned Pages, Not Closed Book on Racism." He is president of the Andrew Goodman Foundation.

Sunday marked the 51st anniversary of another hateful act tied to another historic black church. It was June 21, 1964, when three young civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner went missing after they visited an African-American church which the Ku Klux Klan had bombed because it was going to be used as a Freedom School. We speak to David Goodman, brother of Andrew Goodman. On Sunday, the 51st anniversary of Andrew’s death, he wrote an editorial for Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger newspaper headlined "U.S. Has Turned Pages, Not Closed Book on Racism."

AMY GOODMAN: Reverend Barber, you mentioned Philadelphia, Mississippi. This past Sunday marked the 51st anniversary of another hateful act tied to another historic black church. It was June 21st, 1964, when three young civil rights workers were murdered after they left a burned black church in Longdale, Mississippi. Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner went missing after they visited the church in Neshoba County, Mississippi, which the Ku Klux Klan had bombed because it was going to be used as a Freedom School. This clip is from the documentary Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, picking up the story. We hear from retired FBI agent Jim Ingram, reporter Jerry Mitchell. It begins with former U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Doar.

JOHN DOAR: Three civil rights workers were missing, and they had last been seen going up to investigate a church burning in Neshoba County.

NEWS ANCHOR: It’s 35 miles from Meridian to Philadelphia, then 12 miles to Longdale, where the church had been burned. That afternoon, the three were seen at the church site and at the home of its lay leader. About 2:30 they headed west toward Philadelphia.

JIM INGRAM: Chaney was outside changing the tire. They had a flat. And there was Price. And when they pulled up, he said, "I’m arresting Chaney for speeding; Schwerner and Goodman, for investigation."

JOHN DOAR: Cecil Price, deputy sheriff, saw them and stopped them, and he takes them into the jail. So, somehow, some way, the message gets out to the Klan, and then they have to organize.

JERRY MITCHELL: Edgar Ray Killen began to kind of coordinate things that night, kind of gathered a group of guys, had one of them go get gloves so they wouldn’t havefingerprints, told them the guys they wanted were there in the jail.

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NEWS ANCHOR: By 10:00, Price says he had located a justice of the peace who fined the trio $20. Price tells what happened then.

DEPUTY CECIL PRICE: They paid the fine, and I released them. That’s the last time we saw any of them.

JOHN DOAR: The boys were driving back from the county jail, and they started down the road toward Meridian, and they were stopped by a police car. And there would be this group of Klan people.

JERRY MITCHELL: They arrested them and put them in Price’s car.

JOHN DOAR: Then turned right into a gravel, rural road.

JERRY MITCHELL: And Alton Wayne Roberts grabbed Schwerner, and he said to him, "Are you that 'N-word' lover?" And Schwerner said, "Sir, I understand how you feel." And, bam, shot him, grabbed Goodman. Goodman didn’t even get a word out. Shot Goodman. Chaney, by this point, obviously realizing what’s going down, took off. We know he was shot by several people. They also apparently beat him.

AMY GOODMAN: And that was Jerry Mitchell, who is with the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, describing what happened to Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, an excerpt from the film Neshoba: The Price of Freedom.

We’re joined in our New York studio by David Goodman, Andrew Goodman’s brother. On Sunday, the anniversary of Andrew’s death, he wrote an editorial for Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger newspaper headlined "U.S. Has Turned Pages, Not Closed Book on Racism."

Welcome to Democracy Now!, David. Again, this anniversary took place on Father’s Day. And you commented, the first Father’s Day your dad was alive to learn of his—would soon learn of his son’sdeath.

DAVID GOODMAN: Yes, it’s ironic, in a way. You know, these stories, you couldn’t write them in fiction. But June 21st, 1964, was Father’s Day. And my brother and James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan that evening. And 44 days later, we found out definitively, because the bodies were found, by informants, buried 15 feet under the ground in a dam that was under construction.

AMY GOODMAN: And your thoughts today, in the midst of the horror then? It’s 51 years later, as you listen to this discussion, and yet another massacre has taken place, this time in South Carolina. You were just in Selma for the anniversary of the Selma marches.

DAVID GOODMAN: Yes, well, you know, I sort of came of age. I was 17 years old when this happened. And it’s not like all of a sudden I’m finding out about these issues. You know, my grandfather used to say, "Ask a 17-year-old a question; they know everything." I thought I knew everything, like all other 17-year-olds, but I was shocked to learn that the self-evident truth that all people are created equal wasn’t necessarily true, and there’s a big gap between the ideals and the practices. And it’s been 51 years to march through, for me, personally, this realization about the complexity of our great nation. And it is a great nation, to me, but we have profound flaws.

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The conversation about the flag is a symptom or a symbol of what has and remains wrong, but it’snot underlying the fundamental issues. Reverend Barber has identified those fundamental issues. When you have an educational system that, for example, leaves out a big part of the population, frequently minorities, there’s no hope that they can move up the economic ladder. When they don’t get healthcare, they’re not going to be healthy and can’t participate in the democratic process. So all of these things are related.

The flag that we’re talking about so much is a symptom. I believe it needs to be removed. I mean,from the time we’re children, we see the American flag on one side or the other of the chalkboard,and we put our hand on our hearts, and we repeat these unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but some people who do that aren’t recipients of those great benefits. And we have to, however—however, when our flag and those principles are challenged, like ISIS chopping off heads of our citizens, it’s a tremendous outrage to our people, understandably, but on the other hand, we have—and those are foreign terrorists—we have a white-born person who not over a period of a year kills four Americans, but in two minutes kills nine—so, in domestic terrorism. So, these are the challenges we’re facing.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to Doug Brannon, where we began this conversation, the South Carolina state representative in Spartanburg who’s introducing the bill to bring down the flag. Right now, police have confirmed that the Charleston church shooter, Dylann Roof, and Michael Slager, the former police officer who shot Walter Scott in the back, are neighbors in jail cells in theCharleston jail. But I want to end by asking you about what you would like to see the legacy of Clem Pinckney be, the state senator. We know about—we’ve heard about the legacy and heritage of the Confederate flag and the violence around that. How do you want your friend, your fellow legislator, the Reverend and State Senator Clementa Pinckney, to be remembered? With what kindof legislation will you be participating?

REP. DOUG BRANNON: Well, I will be participating in the legislation to remove the flag. But yourquestion is: What is Senator Pinckney’s legacy, or what would I like it to be? And the answer to that question is not what I would like it to be, it’s what it absolutely is. On Friday afternoon, I saw the most incredible thing that I’ve ever seen in my life. I saw the family members of nine deceased heroes face a shooter and talk to him with love, forgiveness and salvation. Those peoplelearned that from the great teacher, Clementa Pinckney. His legacy is the lessons that he taught and the life that he lived.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you very much for being with us, taking this time, from Spartanburg. You’re headed to Columbia, where this discussion, this debate, is going to take place. Republican South Carolina State Representatives Doug Brannon and Gary Clary, speaking tous from Columbia, Reverend Dr. William Barber, speaking to us from Raleigh, North Carolina, historian Don Doyle from Columbia, and David Goodman, joining us here in New York, brother of Andrew Goodman.

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2015-06-24 "I Am Not Nonviolent": New Nina Simone Film Captures Singer and Activist’s Uncompromising Voice

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Liz Garbus, director of What Happened, Miss Simone? which opens today in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, and releases on Netflix on Friday. Her 1998 documentary, The Farm: Angola, USA was nominated for an Academy Award.

Al Schackman, Nina Simone’s guitarist and music director for over 40 years.

Links "What Happened, Miss Simone?"

As the Black Lives Matter movement grows across the country and the the nation mourns the death of the nine worshipers killed at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church, we look back at the life of one of the most important voices of the civil rights movement: the singer Nina Simone, known as the High Priestess of Soul. While Simone died in 2003, a new documentary, "What Happened, Miss Simone?," sheds light on her music and politics. Her song "Mississippi Goddam" became an anthem of the civil rights movement. She wrote it in the wake of the assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black children. We speak to the film’s director, Liz Garbus, and Al Schackman, Nina Simone’s guitarist and music director for over 40 years.

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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: "Alabama’s gotten me so upset, Tennessee has made me lose my rest, and everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam." Those were the words the legendary singer Nina Simone wrote five decades ago in the wake of the assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi andthe 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four black children. "Mississippi Goddam" would become an anthem of the civil rights movement.

NINA SIMONE: [singing] Hound dogs on my trailSchoolchildren sitting in jailBlack cat cross my pathI think every day’s gonna be my last

Lord have mercy on this land of mineWe all gonna get it in due timeI don’t belong hereI don’t belong thereI’ve even stopped believing in prayer

Don’t tell me

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I’ll tell youMe and my people just about dueI’ve been there so I knowThey keep on saying "Go slow!"

AMY GOODMAN: Nina Simone’s "Mississippi Goddam." Well, 50 years later, Nina Simone’s message remains as relevant as ever, as the Black Lives Matter movement grows across the country and the nation mourns the deaths of the nine worshipers killed last week at Emanuel AMEChurch in Charleston.

While Nina Simone died in 2003, a new documentary sheds light on the music and politics of the singer known as the "High Priestess of Soul." The documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?, opens today in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, and releases on Netflix on Friday. This is thefilm’s trailer.

NINA SIMONE: I think the only way to tell who I am these days is to sing a song. We’ll start from the beginning.

LISA SIMONE KELLY: My mother was one of the greatest entertainers of all time. When she was performing, she was an anomaly, she was brilliant, she was loved.

COMPÈRE: The one and only Nina Simone!

GEORGE WEIN: Her voice was totally different from anybody else. Let me listen to it again. How is she doing this?

STANLEY CROUCH: She was one of those musicians, you hear them once; the next time you hear them, you say, "Oh, that’s that same one I heard last week."

LISA SIMONE KELLY: People think that when she went out on stage, she became Nina Simone. My mother was Nina Simone 24/7. And that’s where it became a problem. Everything fell apart. She was a revolutionary. She found a purpose for the stage.

NINA SIMONE: I choose to reflect the times and the situations in which I find myself. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

AL SCHACKMAN: There was something eating at her.

LISA SIMONE KELLY: When the show ended, she was alone, full of anger and rage.

NINA SIMONE: I have to live with Nina, and that is so difficult.

AL SCHACKMAN: Nina was fighting demons. She could get violent.

NINA SIMONE: Hey, girl. Sit down.

AL SCHACKMAN: The change in her would be dramatic—mm, like a switch.

NINA SIMONE: Sit down!

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LISA SIMONE KELLY: As fragile as she was strong, as vulnerable as she was dynamic. Most people are afraid to be as honest as she lived.

NINA SIMONE: I had a couple of times on stage when I really felt free.

COMPÈRE: The High Priestess of Soul.

UNIDENTIFIED: Miss Nina Simone.

COMPÈRE: Nina Simone!

ANNOUNCER: Nina Simone.

LISA SIMONE KELLY: She was a genius. She was brilliant. But she paid a huge price.

AMY GOODMAN: The trailer for the new documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?

To talk more about Nina Simone’s life and work, we’re joined now by two guests. From Martha’s Vineyard Community Television in Massachusetts, Al Schackman joins us. He was Nina Simone’s guitarist and music director for over 40 years. And here in our New York studio, we’re joined by filmmaker Liz Garbus. Her 1998 film, The Farm: Angola, USA, was nominated for an Academy Award. Her new film, What Happened, Miss Simone?, opens today in theaters in New York and LosAngeles, releases on Netflix on Friday.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! This is an epic film that comes at such a critical time. First, start with the title, Liz, What Happened, Miss Simone?

LIZ GARBUS: What Happened, Miss Simone? derives from an article that Maya Angelou wrote in 1970 for Redbook. Nina had been—you know, was the patron saint of the rebellion, and she was aleader in the movement. And then, after the murders of so many of her colleagues and compatriots and fellow travelers, she had had enough. She had had enough with America, and sheleft. And the article, and the question in the article, "What happened, Miss Simone?" was asking, you know, where is she? Where are these voices? What happened to Nina? And so the film kind ofuses that as a frame to unravel, you know, how we understand Nina Simone’s career, her art, her commitments.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And why did you decide to make this film? And can you talk especially about some of the archival footage that you were able to put together in it?

LIZ GARBUS: You know, in my view, Nina Simone is one—you know, was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, right up there with Miles Davis, James Brown, Bob Dylan, and, possiblybecause of race and gender, was not—and the combination of the two, in her case, you know, had not been regarded that way, and especially here in the U.S., where I think she had been overlooked and forgotten and certainly misunderstood, as her song intimates. And so, we were able to, with the permission of the estate, get—do a really, really deep dive into Nina Simone, not just the concerts and the performances, which of course make up the heart of the film, but also private tapes of Nina talking about her life, you know, 30, 40 hours of that, diaries, letters, notes, and interviews with some of her most intimate friends and family members.

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AMY GOODMAN: Give us a thumbnail biography of Nina Simone, if you can. I mean, her life spans years, both in the public eye and outside of the public eye.

LIZ GARBUS: Yeah.

AMY GOODMAN: But she wasn’t born Nina Simone.

LIZ GARBUS: No, she was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, the daughter of two very religious parents. Her mother was a minister in a church. And from a very young age, people noticed in church that Nina was incredibly talented at the piano. When she was about six years old, some white folks in that community thought, "Oh, maybe we have a prodigy on our hands here," and they took up a collection to get Nina—Eunice Waymon, get her a classical music education. So, from that age, she started crossing the railroad tracks to the home of Ms. Massinovitch, who, again—who gave her—you know, schooled her in Bach and the classics. Nina was extraordinarily talented. They raised money, enough to get her to Juilliard here in New York. And her dream was to become the first black classical pianist in Carnegie Hall. After one year at Juilliard, she applied to the Curtis Institute, and then the money—and she did not get in. And the money ran out.

This was when Eunice Waymon became Nina Simone. She started—her parents, her family, had moved up north to be around her. She started playing in bars and clubs, and singing what her family considered to be the devil’s music. So she changed her name to Nina Simone so it would gounderneath her mother’s radar. One night in a bar, they said to her, "You know, if you want to make some money, you better sing." And that’s when Nina Simone began singing. So this was never the intended path for her career. Throughout her life—you know, she lived to age 70—she lamented that she didn’t get to explore that classical path to its fullest. But, of course, she also found great joy and triumph in her involvement with the civil rights movement, which of course then also led to her deepest disappointments.

AMY GOODMAN: And before that, why she didn’t pursue the classical music, she went to Juilliard, but then tried to get into Curtis music—school of music in Philadelphia.

LIZ GARBUS: That’s right. And she did not gain acceptance. And that was one of the finest schools, and it would be paid for. And once that was taken away from her, she couldn’t continue that education.

AMY GOODMAN: And why was it taken away?

LIZ GARBUS: Her view was that she—it was because of race. And Curtis Institute denied that. But, of course, there were very, very few black students who had ever been accepted to Curtis. You know, it was—it was the ’50s, you know, so, certainly, we imagine that it played a role.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, we want to get to the civil rights years, and also, in addition to speaking to Liz Garbus, the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, we want to speak with Al Schackman, who was Nina Simone’s guitarist and music director for over 40 years. Stay with us.

[break]

AMY GOODMAN: Nina Simone singing "Sinner Man." This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Our

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guests are the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus, director of a number of films, but most recently, What Happened, Miss Simone?, opening today in theaters in New York and Los Angeles and on Netflix on Friday; and we’re joined by Al Schackman, Nina Simone’s guitarist and music director for over 40 years. He’s joining us from Martha’s Vineyard. Juan?

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, Al Schackman, I’d like to bring you into the conversation. Talk to us about how you first met Nina Simone and how you developed your collaboration that lasted over so many decades.

AL SCHACKMAN: Good morning. I met Nina in 1957 in the art community, village of New Hope, Pennsylvania. I was playing there with my trio in a restaurant, and Nina was playing at the Bucks County Playhouse Inn. And some friends of hers had visited with her from Philadelphia and were having dinner and heard me play and thought it might be a good idea for the two of us to get together. And they asked her, and she agreed. And on a night off, I went down with my guitar andamp, and set up. And she was on a break. And I just was ready to play with her, and she came onstage and never looked at me or told me what she was going to play. And we both had perfect pitch. And she started the introduction to her song "Little Girl Blue," which was a Bach piece, and it was a fugue. And I came in with a third part. And she started singing "Little Girl Blue," and thenshe looked up at me, and we were off and running from there.

AMY GOODMAN: Forty years.

AL SCHACKMAN: Yeah.

AMY GOODMAN: I want you to tell us the story of her meeting Dr. King, but, Liz Garbus, give us the civil rights years, because it started before that meeting—

LIZ GARBUS: Absolutely.

AMY GOODMAN: —Nina Simone’s relationship with what was going on in this country.

LIZ GARBUS: Yeah, Nina was pursuing a career that was—you know, after "I Loves You, Porgy" was a smash hit, she was pursuing a career and, you know, sort of filling a role that people handed to her, which was of the jazz singer. Now, this was not what Nina Simone wanted to be. This was not how she saw herself. In 1963, after the church bombing, Nina—

AMY GOODMAN: In Birmingham.

LIZ GARBUS: In Birmingham—Nina changed course. She wrote "Mississippi Goddam." And, you know, her career would never be the same from then on. She talked about, you know, when she was growing up, nobody talked about race. But, of course, her entire being was infused, growing up in the Jim Crow South and existing in America, a segregated, racist America. And she changed course in her career, and she said, you know, right now her mission and her passion was to make music that would help her people. And so she continued to make some of the great anthems of the civil rights movement—"Young, Gifted and Black," "Backlash Blues," "Old Jim Crow." You know, she continued, of course, "Mississippi Goddam." And she collaborated with the great intellectuals of the day. Lorraine Hansberry wrote "Young, Gifted and Black" for her. Langston Hughes wrote "Backlash Blues." She hung out with James Baldwin, Miriam Makeba, Stokely Carmichael, ultimately lived next door to the Shabazz, Malcolm X family. So she was part of the circle of activist black intellectuals, and she had quite a political awakening. She and Al went to

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the Selma march together. And he, of course, can talk about that, yeah.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Al, you aren’t exactly a stranger to, one, the civil rights movement or, two, the great artists of the time. You also played with Harry Belafonte, as well. Can you talk about how you juggled that and how—and your involvement in the civil rights movement?

AL SCHACKMAN: Yes. Nina was not performing regularly, and I had the opportunity to go on withHarry Belafonte on fundraising tours with Martin Luther King. And we would fly to different cities, and we actually were in Europe with him, as well. And it was a great opportunity to be able to get next to Martin and really feel the spirit of where he was coming from. And that is what America came to see, as well.

AMY GOODMAN: And tell us about Nina and Martin Luther King meeting for the first time. Wherewere you all, and what happened?

AL SCHACKMAN: Well, we were at a fundraiser, and we approached Martin, and he put his hand out. And before anything else could happen, she just, in a very strong voice, looked at him and said, "I’m not nonviolent." And he said, "Oh, that’s OK, Sister. You don’t have to be." And he put his hand out, and they shook hands. And it was a very warm meeting after that.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And the events of Selma?

AL SCHACKMAN: We were playing at The Village Gate in New York, and we flew down with Nina’shusband, Andy Stroud, and were going to land in Montgomery. And we couldn’t land, and we flew over the runway, and it was filled with trash trucks, garbage trucks, all kinds of equipment. And the governor of Alabama had had that put out so that we couldn’t land. We eventually landed in Jackson, Mississippi, and chartered a single-engine, little single-engine plane. And we were kind ofheavy, and the nose gear went up in the air like that, and the pilot said, "Well, we can’t take off like that." And we switched seats. Andy was moved up forward with my amplifier, and the plane settled down.

And we took off and landed on a small runway in Montgomery and had to go through Alabama National Guard to get to the stage at the soccer field of the seminary. And there was a—it was a big platform. The stage had a little scrim around it, a little curtain. And I lifted up the curtain to see if I could plug my amp in somewhere, and saw that the stage was built on coffins, that were supplied by the black mortuaries in Montgomery. And it was pretty chilling to see that.

AMY GOODMAN: Nina Simone was deeply affected by Dr. King’s death.

LIZ GARBUS: Nina, yeah, she was. She was. And again, you know, she espoused probably a slightly different political doctrine than he, yet—and then, when you listen to her song, "The King of Love is Dead," you can see how much—how much it broke her. You know, her colleague StokelyCarmichael said, when black—when white America killed Dr. King, they killed the best chance for peace and for healing. And, you know, certainly, after the massacre in Charleston and what’s been—you know, we see that perhaps that was true.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And then, in the ’70s, she goes into self-imposed exile, goes to Africa and Europe. Could you talk about that period of time in her life?

LIZ GARBUS: Yeah, they’re her nomadic years. I mean, she definitely—after leaving the States,

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she led more of a nomadic life. She goes to the Caribbean for a while, then to Liberia, where she said, you know, "This was a country formed by freed slaves, and this is where I should be." But nomoney came in. She couldn’t—she didn’t want to sing. She wanted to be out of the business for a while. But she also then realized she had to eat, and she went back to Switzerland.

And in Switzerland, she goes to the Montreux Jazz Festival and gives quite an infamous performance, where she’s clearly in a great deal of turmoil, doesn’t want to be in a jazz festival, but must be there. The piano draws her. She loves the piano, but also it became quite a burden for her, as well. She ultimately settles in France and in Holland, you know, amongst friends, and seeks—ultimately, with the help of her friend Al and other friends, gets mental health treatment, because she was, as we see in her diaries and as her friends reported, suffering from, you know, pretty severe depression.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to play a few clips from this astounding film. Let’s go to What Happened, Miss Simone?

NINA SIMONE: I really need to provoke this feeling of like, who am I, where did I come from? You know, do I really like me? And why do I like me? And like, you know, if I am black and beautiful—I really am, and I know it, and I don’t care who cares or says what.

[singing "Ain’t Got No (I Got Life)"]

AMY GOODMAN: Nina Simone singing. And let’s go to another clip of What Happened, Miss Simone?

NINA SIMONE: This song was popular all over France. It’s from my first album, the very first album we made in this world, which is at least 25 years old. I only wish I wasas wise—could have been as wise then as I have become now. I have suffered. But there’s a Bösendorfer here, so we’ll see what happens. "My Baby Just Cares for Me."

AMY GOODMAN: And in this clip from the film, What Happened, Miss Simone?, we hear from Nina Simone’s daughter, who lives in Paris, France, now and is a performer. Her name is Lisa Simone.

LISA SIMONE KELLY: My mother was one of the greatest entertainers of all time, hands down. But she paid a huge price. People seem to think that when she went out on stage, that was when she became Nina Simone. My mother was Nina Simone 24/7. And that’s where it became a problem.

NINA SIMONE: [singing] One day I thought I could flyone day I woke up and I could flyI’d look down at the seaand I wouldn’t know myselfI’d have new handsI’d have new feetI’d have new vision.

AMY GOODMAN: That was Nina Simone singing, as well as her daughter, Lisa Simone Kelly, who’s performing in Paris, France, now. But, Liz Garbus, where does she live?

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LIZ GARBUS: She is now living in her mother’s home, the home that her mother passed away in,in the south of France, Bouc-Bel-Air. So—and after a career in the military. Lisa Simone Kelly was in the Air Force for 11 years, kind of doing—getting as far away, I think, from her parents as possible, given Nina’s feelings about the U.S. government. But now she’s kind of gone full circle and is pursuing a career of music herself.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And you also look in the film not only at—obviously, at her work, in her civil rights work and her music, but also her personal life and the trials she went through, the very abusive relationship she had with her longtime husband. Could you talk about that, as well?

LIZ GARBUS: Yeah, sure. And, of course, Al was witness to a lot of the violence in the home. Shemarried a former police officer—she married a man who was a police officer, who then retired fromthe police force to manage Nina Simone. The husband-manager thing has never really worked outtoo well for artists over time; I think it’s something that we can settle. But yeah, indeed, for them,it was quite fraught with both violence, pressure, you know, different goals. When Nina became involved in the civil rights movement, the commercial side of her career suffered. That became anissue between them, another antagonist between them in their marriage. But their marriage was—you know, it was complicated. As Lisa, Nina’s daughter, said, it was a little bit like inviting the bull with a red cape into your kitchen—you know, let’s see what you can do. Nina wrote in her diaries, "I love physical violence." There was part of her that clearly engaged in this with her husband. So it was quite a complex relationship that we didn’t want to oversimplify, because we do see Nina’s perspective on it.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, Al Schackman, you lived it up close. You were with Nina Simone for over 40 years. If you could describe—well, you have the deterioration of Nina’s mental health, but also her wanting to sing these songs in the civil rights movement and what it meant commercially. I mean, you were with her. You were her guitarist. You were her music director.

AL SCHACKMAN: Well, her songs were threatening at the time, and the popular powers that be in the music industry were afraid to bring her on to any projects or record deals after a while. But the political undertones were always there. In "Mississippi Goddam," I mean, even today, the black community in this country doesn’t necessarily want you to be their next-door neighbor. But as the song says in "Mississippi Goddam," you don’t have to live next to me, just give us our equality. And Nina was very strong about that. She—that and women’s rights, as well. She was really a pioneer, and her political views really forced her out of the United States at the time.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Al Schackman, your fondest memories of your time with Nina Simone, when you were out of the public limelight, when you were just the two of you together, what do you recall?

AL SCHACKMAN: Very gentle, very quiet. We kind of had a telepathic communication, as we did in the music. And she was fun-loving and very gentle. Our best times were alone. And actually, our best times musically were when it was just she and I, and we had nothing in the way of this pure musical interaction. But one time when we were alone in Holland, she said, "Let’s go for a drive." And I said, "Where?" She said, "I’ll show you." We drove miles out into the countryside, and now we’re on a dirt road. And she says, "Turn right." And we see some Quonset huts, and we come up to the Quonset huts, and it was an airfield. And I said, "What are we doing, Nina?" And itwas a glider field. And she said, "We’re going up." And she knew everybody there, and she loved

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to go up in gliders and do sail planing. And up we went. And we’re circling around, and she’s below me in another glider, and she waves up with a big smile, and I wave back at her, and she was at peace. It was really amazing.

AMY GOODMAN: And in the last 15 seconds, what you hope to do with this film, Liz?

LIZ GARBUS: Well, I think Nina is a model of how an entertainer inspires and engages politically. And I think today she’s a voice we need sorely. And I think that, you know, for other artists and celebrities today kind of looking to get involved in the movement, Nina Simone did it, and she inspired people, and she never compromised.

AMY GOODMAN: Liz Garbus and Al Schackman, we thank you both for being with us. Liz Garbus,the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. This new film, What Happened, Miss Simone?, opening today in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, releases on Netflix on Friday. And Al Schackman, up in Martha’s Vineyard, guitarist and music director for over 40 years. Thanks so much to Martha’s Vineyard Community Television.

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