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March 18, 2021
Power of the Ancients eBook FREE for today
3/18/2021. Today is another FREE promotion day for my post-apocalypse science fiction novel, POWER OF THE ANCIENTS. That is, for today, the Kindle eBook version of the novel can be downloaded for free on Amazon.com.
January 31, 2021
Power of the Ancients novel now available on Amazon
On the Day of my Novel’s Release…
01/31/2021. Today I am announcing to the world (or as much of it as I can reach) that my post-apocalypse science fiction novel, Power of the Ancients , is released and available on Amazon.com. Of course, I’d like to reach potential readers—people with a desire for stories told in this genre. That’s more a matter of serendipity.
I have been developing this novel for many years, constructing situations, locations, a time-frame, and the characters to inhabit it all. The story is set in our fallen future (2327 CE) where people are living at a medieval level in a new ice age. Factions contend for dominance, looking for leverage with technology resurrected from our time. In the midst of all this, a working piece of high tech is discovered and grappled over. The key to finding, using, and maybe destroying this weaponized device, is a 17 year-old boy with psychic powers.
The future described in the book is my projection of our time. We are rapidly sliding into a New Dark Age and, obviously, I don’t see it ending well. But Power of the Ancients is not a tome on our current evils. It is a fiction about people, their angsts and relationships. And it conveys the old view, I hope, that the world is more than its appearances.
You can find Power of the Ancients on Amazon.com (it has not made it to Goodreads yet). For a link to Amazon, check my website: https://rayviews.blog.
01/31/2021. Today I am announcing to the world (or as much of it as I can reach) that my post-apocalypse science fiction novel, Power of the Ancients , is released and available on Amazon.com. Of course, I’d like to reach potential readers—people with a desire for stories told in this genre. That’s more a matter of serendipity.
I have been developing this novel for many years, constructing situations, locations, a time-frame, and the characters to inhabit it all. The story is set in our fallen future (2327 CE) where people are living at a medieval level in a new ice age. Factions contend for dominance, looking for leverage with technology resurrected from our time. In the midst of all this, a working piece of high tech is discovered and grappled over. The key to finding, using, and maybe destroying this weaponized device, is a 17 year-old boy with psychic powers.
The future described in the book is my projection of our time. We are rapidly sliding into a New Dark Age and, obviously, I don’t see it ending well. But Power of the Ancients is not a tome on our current evils. It is a fiction about people, their angsts and relationships. And it conveys the old view, I hope, that the world is more than its appearances.
You can find Power of the Ancients on Amazon.com (it has not made it to Goodreads yet). For a link to Amazon, check my website: https://rayviews.blog.
October 18, 2020
Lies and Distortions, Then and Now
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… the dread consequences of a regime’s calculated and incessant propaganda.
10/18/2020 . I recently began reading William Shirer’s classic work on Nazi Germany, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich . It is a voluminous work of over twelve hundred pages, tracing the time of the Nazi regime from the early life of Adolph Hitler through the Second World War.
Mr. Shirer was an American journalist who lived in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power, the prewar Nazi years, and (I think) the first year of the war. So in addition to his journalistic approach to describing this time (via tons of captured documents at the war’s end), he provides an eyewitness account of Germany’s transition from a republic to totalitarianism.
This is fascinating material and an easier read than you might think. I was especially struck by the similarities to our time. Such similarities have been noted by a lot of writers today (in the alt-press, not in the mainstream), but I did not start the book with the intention of looking for historical parallels. They just popped out at me.
I’m not referring to similarities between Hitler and any current politicians, though I’m sure I could find plenty. No, what struck me was Mr. Shirer’s accounting of totalitarian goals and how they are the same today. Also, his description of the attitude of the common people when the Nazis were in total control, echoes current attitudes. There’s much more, but let me just touch on these two items.
When the home of the German parliament, the Reichstag, burned on Feb 27, 1933, the Nazis quickly blamed it on the Communists and implemented a decree ‘…“for the Protection of the People and the State” suspending the seven sections of the constitution which guaranteed individual and civil liberties.’ Even back then, the Reichstag Fire was deemed suspicious outside of Nazi circles. Today, it resembles false flag events where the authorities immediately identify perpetrators and enact legislation that curtails civil liberties (i.e., the 9/11/2001 Event and the Patriot Act).
Hitler’s decree implemented “Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications….” (Re: Chpt 7 The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer).
These restrictions were apparently a primary goal for Hitler and reflect those restrictions we are experiencing today under COVID-19 “lock-downs.” Freedom of the mainstream press has long been compromised so that it only spouts government and oligarch narratives rather than news. Free expression is shouted down by paid Antifa and BLM groups. Opinions counter to the mainstream narrative are excised from Internet platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. And certainly our Constitutional rights to free assembly and association are violated by facemask and social-distancing edicts.
Chapter Eight of Mr. Shirer’s book is a long description of life in the Third Reich before the war. It is presented in categories that reflect how Nazi propaganda and policy twisted education, justice, culture, workers, etc. Most startling is how accepted were all the Nazi lies and distortions. It is a theme expressed in Mr. Shirer’s account of the rise of Nazism. The Nazis, though always a minority, came to dominate every aspect of German life and destroyed anything counter to their memes. This is what totalitarian regimes do.
It is the common people’s acceptance, as described in the book, that is so striking to me. Mr. Shirer talks about encountering people who made “outlandish assertions,” obviously “…parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers.” If he pointed out that they were speaking Nazi propaganda, they would return “…such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty….” And so he learned “…how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were.” (Re: Chpt 8 Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer).
This sounds to me like people advocating mask-wearing and social-distancing with religious fervor, and condemning with equal fervor those who disagree (or just being astounded that anyone would disagree). And all in the face of evidence that the CV19 “pandemic” is a hoax.
Mr. Shirer came to the conclusion that it was useless to try to change the mind of people who had so thoroughly bought into ruling power propaganda. I feel the same way. The stakes today, however, are higher than in Mr. Shirer’s time. Then, it was a block of countries suffering under degrees of fascist rule. Today, it is the whole world under the thumb of “elites” imposing a New World Order (via Agenda 21, the Great Reset, etc). And our rulers now have much better tools with which to enforce their rule.
What can stop them?
10/18/2020 . I recently began reading William Shirer’s classic work on Nazi Germany, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich . It is a voluminous work of over twelve hundred pages, tracing the time of the Nazi regime from the early life of Adolph Hitler through the Second World War.
Mr. Shirer was an American journalist who lived in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power, the prewar Nazi years, and (I think) the first year of the war. So in addition to his journalistic approach to describing this time (via tons of captured documents at the war’s end), he provides an eyewitness account of Germany’s transition from a republic to totalitarianism.
This is fascinating material and an easier read than you might think. I was especially struck by the similarities to our time. Such similarities have been noted by a lot of writers today (in the alt-press, not in the mainstream), but I did not start the book with the intention of looking for historical parallels. They just popped out at me.
I’m not referring to similarities between Hitler and any current politicians, though I’m sure I could find plenty. No, what struck me was Mr. Shirer’s accounting of totalitarian goals and how they are the same today. Also, his description of the attitude of the common people when the Nazis were in total control, echoes current attitudes. There’s much more, but let me just touch on these two items.
When the home of the German parliament, the Reichstag, burned on Feb 27, 1933, the Nazis quickly blamed it on the Communists and implemented a decree ‘…“for the Protection of the People and the State” suspending the seven sections of the constitution which guaranteed individual and civil liberties.’ Even back then, the Reichstag Fire was deemed suspicious outside of Nazi circles. Today, it resembles false flag events where the authorities immediately identify perpetrators and enact legislation that curtails civil liberties (i.e., the 9/11/2001 Event and the Patriot Act).
Hitler’s decree implemented “Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications….” (Re: Chpt 7 The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer).
These restrictions were apparently a primary goal for Hitler and reflect those restrictions we are experiencing today under COVID-19 “lock-downs.” Freedom of the mainstream press has long been compromised so that it only spouts government and oligarch narratives rather than news. Free expression is shouted down by paid Antifa and BLM groups. Opinions counter to the mainstream narrative are excised from Internet platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. And certainly our Constitutional rights to free assembly and association are violated by facemask and social-distancing edicts.
Chapter Eight of Mr. Shirer’s book is a long description of life in the Third Reich before the war. It is presented in categories that reflect how Nazi propaganda and policy twisted education, justice, culture, workers, etc. Most startling is how accepted were all the Nazi lies and distortions. It is a theme expressed in Mr. Shirer’s account of the rise of Nazism. The Nazis, though always a minority, came to dominate every aspect of German life and destroyed anything counter to their memes. This is what totalitarian regimes do.
It is the common people’s acceptance, as described in the book, that is so striking to me. Mr. Shirer talks about encountering people who made “outlandish assertions,” obviously “…parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers.” If he pointed out that they were speaking Nazi propaganda, they would return “…such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty….” And so he learned “…how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were.” (Re: Chpt 8 Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer).
This sounds to me like people advocating mask-wearing and social-distancing with religious fervor, and condemning with equal fervor those who disagree (or just being astounded that anyone would disagree). And all in the face of evidence that the CV19 “pandemic” is a hoax.
Mr. Shirer came to the conclusion that it was useless to try to change the mind of people who had so thoroughly bought into ruling power propaganda. I feel the same way. The stakes today, however, are higher than in Mr. Shirer’s time. Then, it was a block of countries suffering under degrees of fascist rule. Today, it is the whole world under the thumb of “elites” imposing a New World Order (via Agenda 21, the Great Reset, etc). And our rulers now have much better tools with which to enforce their rule.
What can stop them?
October 4, 2020
The Sick President
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…the latest twist in the Unspeakable’s implementation of…
10/04/2020 . So President Trump and the First Lady have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Hence, they have “quarantined” in Walter Reed Hospital. In my opinion, this bit of news is just as fraudulent as the rest of the CV19 scamdemic. What the purpose of it is, we can only speculate.
It’s reported that the president’s CV19 positive finding came from the PCR test. From the start, this test have been noted by medical professionals as being useless for diagnosing infectious diseases. The reason is that it is not meant for such diagnosis and is easily manipulated. You can find a more detailed discussion of that from doctors here (including the late Dr. Kary Mullis, who invented the test and won a Nobel Prize for doing so).
The uselessness of the PCR test for diagnosis by itself makes the “Sick President” story suspect. If you really dig deep into everything else that marks this “pandemic” as a fraud, then you can only wonder what it’s all about. You can’t take such stories at face value.
Now Trump being whisked away into quarantine (presumably for at least fourteen days) echoes a strange statement the president made a couple of months ago. In a speech made at the Whirlpool Corp Manufacturing Plant in Clyde, Ohio on 8/6/2020, Trump said:
“So I have a lot of enemies out there. This may be the last time you’ll see me for a while.”
He never explained what he meant by this. The speech was basically Trump crowing about all his accomplishments in office. He made this statement in about the last third of it. The speech is on YouTube and you can find the transcript on the White House website here.
The comment is a bizarre and off-the-wall thing for a US president to say. There’s no way to know if it has any bearing on Trump’s present quarantine, but it is suggestive. Maybe Trump was thinking ahead in the midst of a pretty run-of-the-mill speech. He seems to have few filters between ideas appearing in his brain and what comes out of his mouth.
I suspect the “quarantined president” is the latest twist in the Unspeakable’s implementation of Agenda 21. It likely serves a number of purposes in the psyop. With US congressmen also testing CV19 positive with criticisms for not wearing masks, it could be a psy reinforcement for restrictions and ultimately, a prompt to get “the injection.”
It is difficult to write about this stuff. I see a great evil at work here and my impulse is to just get away from it. But there is nowhere to run, and I feel a need to offer some kind of chronicle of the times from my perspective.
10/04/2020 . So President Trump and the First Lady have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Hence, they have “quarantined” in Walter Reed Hospital. In my opinion, this bit of news is just as fraudulent as the rest of the CV19 scamdemic. What the purpose of it is, we can only speculate.
It’s reported that the president’s CV19 positive finding came from the PCR test. From the start, this test have been noted by medical professionals as being useless for diagnosing infectious diseases. The reason is that it is not meant for such diagnosis and is easily manipulated. You can find a more detailed discussion of that from doctors here (including the late Dr. Kary Mullis, who invented the test and won a Nobel Prize for doing so).
The uselessness of the PCR test for diagnosis by itself makes the “Sick President” story suspect. If you really dig deep into everything else that marks this “pandemic” as a fraud, then you can only wonder what it’s all about. You can’t take such stories at face value.
Now Trump being whisked away into quarantine (presumably for at least fourteen days) echoes a strange statement the president made a couple of months ago. In a speech made at the Whirlpool Corp Manufacturing Plant in Clyde, Ohio on 8/6/2020, Trump said:
“So I have a lot of enemies out there. This may be the last time you’ll see me for a while.”
He never explained what he meant by this. The speech was basically Trump crowing about all his accomplishments in office. He made this statement in about the last third of it. The speech is on YouTube and you can find the transcript on the White House website here.
The comment is a bizarre and off-the-wall thing for a US president to say. There’s no way to know if it has any bearing on Trump’s present quarantine, but it is suggestive. Maybe Trump was thinking ahead in the midst of a pretty run-of-the-mill speech. He seems to have few filters between ideas appearing in his brain and what comes out of his mouth.
I suspect the “quarantined president” is the latest twist in the Unspeakable’s implementation of Agenda 21. It likely serves a number of purposes in the psyop. With US congressmen also testing CV19 positive with criticisms for not wearing masks, it could be a psy reinforcement for restrictions and ultimately, a prompt to get “the injection.”
It is difficult to write about this stuff. I see a great evil at work here and my impulse is to just get away from it. But there is nowhere to run, and I feel a need to offer some kind of chronicle of the times from my perspective.
September 27, 2020
Trafalgar Protest Again and My Ghostly Persona
Swimming against the current of “pandemic” consensus.
09/27/2020 . The Brits held another anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square in London yesterday (9/26/20). It was in response to harsher lockdown edicts, reported by Russia Today as being:
People are now barred from meeting in groups larger than six, and citizens face large fines if they refuse to self-quarantine when ordered to do so by public health officials. Restaurants and pubs were recently instructed to stop serving customers at 10pm.
There are similar edicts where I live in the US, but protests have been fewer and much smaller. Mostly, people here believe the government’s COVID-19 story and believe that it is a pandemic that will eventually “be over.” That belief may be related to “news cycles” and watching thousands of hours of episodic TV.
I won’t recount in this space why I don’t accept the official story and believe it to be a hoax. If you want a good overview of my reasons why, however, I recommend Dr. Vernon Coleman’s list here .
My concern is for living in a society like a ghost. I pass among masked people either unseen or occasionally seen as an unmasked, frightening spectre. If I speak of the hoax, I’m not heard. I pass through walls of lockdown ordinances, unable to make solid connection with anyone’s imagination that all this is for the public good.
For instance. The writer’s association I belong to has planned a major conference in my city, scheduled for April 2021. They have planned it as an in-person event at the city conference center. Their well-intentioned belief is that the “pandemic will surely be over by then.” If it is not, then they’ll go “virtual.”
They had a similar conference planned for 2020 in April, but canceled it in the face of the first lockdown.
So I wonder. If they are able to have an in-person conference next April and city ordinances haven’t changed, will they have speakers wearing masks or speaking from behind plastic barriers? Will participants be masked and social-distanced? Will police be around to ensure ordinance compliance? I will not attend such a conference.
I expect tremendous upheaval in the next months centering around the presidential election. The specifics are unimportant—they’ll all be staged. All that matters is the results, which I believe will include another, harsher, lockdown on the order of what’s being done in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. Likely, by the end of 2021, US society will be operating like China’s.
Maybe I’m wrong, but given what our rulers have inflicted on us in 2020, I don’t see how 2021 can be anything but worse.
How can a writer’s conference survive this? I don’t think it can, even going virtual. What you’re left with is a degraded imitation of a writer’s conference. Society cannot function via videoconferencing, though our technocratic rulers would prefer we did. I will not participate in such a conference.
I hope the lockdown protests continue in Trafalgar Square. Such a show of opposition to tyranny is frightening to our rulers and has the potential for breaking through propaganda and changing minds. I wish it would happen on the same scale in the US.
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September 20, 2020
Gandhi and Tolstoy
Who would lead a new Salt March?
09/20/2020 . I recently read an article about Mahatma Gandhi on the Global Research alt-news website. It was: Truth and Nonviolence, Tolstoy and Gandhi: Light as Darkness Approached By René Wadlow. In it, the author notes the correspondence between Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy in the last couple of years of Tolstoy’s life (1909-1910). It seems they connected over a mutual belief in resisting tyranny through nonviolence on a foundation of personal spiritual values.
Today, thoughts of Gandhi abound among those who realize this current crisis is not about any virus but about the accelerated imposition of a worldwide, technocratic tyranny. Certainly, there is talk of resistance that ranges from civil war to civil disobedience. Gandhi’s methods fell on the side of the latter, of course, but how would they really fare in today’s environment?
As I recall, Gandhi began his formal, nonviolent crusade against British rule with the Salt March. This was a clear violation of the law that prevented people from harvesting salt (from deposits left by ocean surges during the monsoon season), or at least taxed them heavily for it. The law’s result was that people had to buy their salt from the British East India Company, even though India possessed some of the best quality salt deposits in the world.
Gandhi’s salt law disobedience involved a 240 mile long march to the sea to collect his salt. The march was heavily publicized and collected crowds of followers along the way. Of course, Gandhi was arrested at the end of it. Other salt marches were then held, lead by other leaders, in defiance of the law. The British beat and arrested the marchers, but ultimately lost India.
The idea of the protest march was used to great effect by the Civil Rights Movement in the US in the 1960s (Martin Luther King was a great admirer of Gandhi). Disobedience of unjust laws was also adopted as a tactic (sitting in the front of a bus, ignoring “whites only” ordinances, and such).
I found another Gandhi article on Global Researched entitled, Mahatma Gandhi, We Need Your Voice Today! (By John Scales Avery). The article reviews a number of areas where Gandhi’s insights would be helpful today. It begs the question of how Gandhi would handle a protest/revolt today. What would be today’s equivalent of a salt march?
Striking against the slew of unconstitutional mask and social distancing ordinances across the country would likely involve marching through public places not wearing masks and not social distancing. Done over a wide area for an extended time, it would make the point. But surely the march would be infiltrated by establishment agents who commit violence. Government could use the march as an excuse to employ the National Guard. The march could be undermined with the “pandemic card,” where the marchers are vilified for endangering the public health.
I think the establishment has also learned from Gandhi, in its usual, perverse way. So does this mean resistance is futile? Civil disobedience and nonviolent protest won’t work today?
I feel sure Gandhi would stick with his nonviolent methods, though adapted to the current state of tech. (Actually, the “current state of tech” is another matter for consideration in another journal entry). I’m sure Gandhi would work out how to do his protests effectively. The problem I see, though, is that there is no Mahatma Gandhi on the scene now.
The Occupy Wall Street movement made much of being “leaderless.” The idea was to provide no targets for the authorities and it worked, to an extent. But though it left a legacy, the Occupy Movement did not survive. It was wiped out by a coordinated assault made by the same petty tyrants binding us with insane, unconstitutional edicts. No, our resistance needs leaders. It needs a redundancy of leaders. That seems to have been the case for the Indian Independence Movement.
A respected leader with moral credentials, rising from the masses, might be the spark that awakens people to the dangers they face. He or she would need to be willing to commit to an extended campaign, and risk their life in the process. When struck down, they would need to be quickly replaced.
If such a leader arose, would enough of the common people follow him/her, understanding that they are, through non-cooperation, opposing the US government without respect to Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, etc. The division is Right vs Wrong at a very fundamental level.
Other forces ended the British Raj, though Gandhi’s nonviolent revolt certainly finished it off. And when it ended, there was an Indian governing structure ready to take over. Today, things are less clear-cut. It is unclear if nonviolent resistance could topple the rule of technocratic oligarchs with advanced tech and pervasive engines of propaganda at their disposal (Gandhi would say it could, but would take longer). And if they were toppled, what would replace them? Who would be the leaders to institute a truly representative form of government?
I believe such thoughts darkened the last days of Leo Tolstoy. Whatever hope he found, came in the person of Mahatma Gandhi.
September 13, 2020
Corporations Can't Do Art
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A new movie version of a cult classic SF story that should be great and not just good.
09/13/2020 . A new movie based on Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune, is due to be released in December. An official trailer for the movie was recently released. It struck me as good. It should have been great. Dune, the novel, is a science fiction classic. Published in 1965, it predates Star Wars and garnered a cult following. Like Star Wars, the story is “the hero’s journey” set in a space opera environment. It is also deeper in theme and plot complexity than Star Wars. Herbert published five sequel novels after the first.
A movie of the first Dune novel was made in 1984, directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan. Though this movie had some flaws, it was overall well done and is something of a cult classic itself. It was well-cast with popular, solid actors such as Patrick Stewart, Jose Ferrer, Virginia Madsen, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow, and even Sting.
So based on all these successful presentations of a cult classic SF novel, a new production with state-of-the-art CGI and capable actors (e.g., Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides) should be very great. I fear, however, that like the last Star Wars trilogy, it will not be. A number of things disturb me.
I expect, for example, that the character of Chani will be sexualized. The trailer indicates this, along with the actress, Zendaya, being featured ahead of Timothée Chalamet (the lead). In the novel, Chani is the love interest of the protag, Paul Atreides. Their relationship is well-done in the novel, with Chani being a confidant and aide to Paul, as well as lover. The trailer seems to make more of her as a sex object.
Also, the character of Liet-Kynes has been gender-swapped. A male in the novel (played by Max von Sydow in the 1984 movie), the character is female in the 2020 movie. Why? There are several strong female parts in the novel (Jessica, Shadout Mapes, Gaius Helen Mohiam, Princess Irulan) so that the creation of a significant female part should not have been necessary.
And then, Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho seems a miscast to me. Idaho is a secondary character in the first novel and not in the narrative for very long. Though he was played ably by Richard Jordan in the 1984 movie, I think casting Jason Momoa in the part indicates an elaboration of the part beyond Herbert’s intentions. And such an elaboration indicates that the filmmakers believe can tell Frank Herbert’s story better than Frank Herbert, which I highly doubt.
And on and on. Thus I have major doubts about this movie, which is based on a book that I much loved.
I think that the suckiness of much of current movies and series comes from the greater corporate control of the entertainment industry. Certainly, movies and TV have always been propaganda conduits for the government (re: Loony Tunes during WWII), but that role seem particularly egregious at this time. I think the technocrats that rule us have reduced movies and TV/cable series to formulas that meet their criteria for the command and control of us.
Take Star Wars, for example. The first two trilogies were inspirations of their creator, George Lucas. When Disney took creative control for the last trilogy, we were given warmed-over rehashes of the previous movies that felt like an amalgamation of memes meant to produce profits from presumed thoughtless zombie-fans.
I felt the corporate influence of the Star Wars VIII - The Last Jedi movie. It was a disappointment because I was a long-time fan, having seen the first movie in 1977. Though I felt some nostalgia in the viewing, I also felt cheated, and expressed my feelings in a review .
So maybe this new version of Dune will be great and a tribute to the classic SF story that has enthralled fans for decades. I doubt that. I have had too many disappointments. The current trend of movie/series storytelling has been too much corporate propaganda for the ruling elites. I think the 2020 version of Dune will be no different.
Why do I feel that way? At this point, corporations rule the world. In the early days of movies and TV, it may have been that artists provided 40% input into what was presented, and sponsoring corporations provided 60%. Today, artists present maybe 2%, and they are heavily swayed by money. That’s my guess based on what I see.
My recommendation is that If you watch the 2020 Dune movie, also watch the 1984 version afterward. If you feel some dissonance between the two movies, then take a leap and read the original novel. You may find something there, beyond any tech presentation.
09/13/2020 . A new movie based on Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune, is due to be released in December. An official trailer for the movie was recently released. It struck me as good. It should have been great. Dune, the novel, is a science fiction classic. Published in 1965, it predates Star Wars and garnered a cult following. Like Star Wars, the story is “the hero’s journey” set in a space opera environment. It is also deeper in theme and plot complexity than Star Wars. Herbert published five sequel novels after the first.
A movie of the first Dune novel was made in 1984, directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan. Though this movie had some flaws, it was overall well done and is something of a cult classic itself. It was well-cast with popular, solid actors such as Patrick Stewart, Jose Ferrer, Virginia Madsen, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow, and even Sting.
So based on all these successful presentations of a cult classic SF novel, a new production with state-of-the-art CGI and capable actors (e.g., Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides) should be very great. I fear, however, that like the last Star Wars trilogy, it will not be. A number of things disturb me.
I expect, for example, that the character of Chani will be sexualized. The trailer indicates this, along with the actress, Zendaya, being featured ahead of Timothée Chalamet (the lead). In the novel, Chani is the love interest of the protag, Paul Atreides. Their relationship is well-done in the novel, with Chani being a confidant and aide to Paul, as well as lover. The trailer seems to make more of her as a sex object.
Also, the character of Liet-Kynes has been gender-swapped. A male in the novel (played by Max von Sydow in the 1984 movie), the character is female in the 2020 movie. Why? There are several strong female parts in the novel (Jessica, Shadout Mapes, Gaius Helen Mohiam, Princess Irulan) so that the creation of a significant female part should not have been necessary.
And then, Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho seems a miscast to me. Idaho is a secondary character in the first novel and not in the narrative for very long. Though he was played ably by Richard Jordan in the 1984 movie, I think casting Jason Momoa in the part indicates an elaboration of the part beyond Herbert’s intentions. And such an elaboration indicates that the filmmakers believe can tell Frank Herbert’s story better than Frank Herbert, which I highly doubt.
And on and on. Thus I have major doubts about this movie, which is based on a book that I much loved.
I think that the suckiness of much of current movies and series comes from the greater corporate control of the entertainment industry. Certainly, movies and TV have always been propaganda conduits for the government (re: Loony Tunes during WWII), but that role seem particularly egregious at this time. I think the technocrats that rule us have reduced movies and TV/cable series to formulas that meet their criteria for the command and control of us.
Take Star Wars, for example. The first two trilogies were inspirations of their creator, George Lucas. When Disney took creative control for the last trilogy, we were given warmed-over rehashes of the previous movies that felt like an amalgamation of memes meant to produce profits from presumed thoughtless zombie-fans.
I felt the corporate influence of the Star Wars VIII - The Last Jedi movie. It was a disappointment because I was a long-time fan, having seen the first movie in 1977. Though I felt some nostalgia in the viewing, I also felt cheated, and expressed my feelings in a review .
So maybe this new version of Dune will be great and a tribute to the classic SF story that has enthralled fans for decades. I doubt that. I have had too many disappointments. The current trend of movie/series storytelling has been too much corporate propaganda for the ruling elites. I think the 2020 version of Dune will be no different.
Why do I feel that way? At this point, corporations rule the world. In the early days of movies and TV, it may have been that artists provided 40% input into what was presented, and sponsoring corporations provided 60%. Today, artists present maybe 2%, and they are heavily swayed by money. That’s my guess based on what I see.
My recommendation is that If you watch the 2020 Dune movie, also watch the 1984 version afterward. If you feel some dissonance between the two movies, then take a leap and read the original novel. You may find something there, beyond any tech presentation.
September 6, 2020
UFO Secrecy
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The state of the truth about UFOs ten years after a ground-breaking book on the subject is published.
9/6/2020 . Recently, the noted UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) researcher, Richard Dolan, published a YouTube video discussion about UFO Disclosure. The video is entitled, AD After Disclosure: 10 Years Later , and concerns the possibilities for government admission of the existence of UFOs as a real phenomenon (rather than being hoaxes, misidentifications, swamp gas, etc). The video was made on the tenth anniversary of Mr. Dolan’s book on the subject: A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact . Joining Mr. Dolan in the video discussion is the book’s co-author, Bryce Zabel. The video interested me because I have read the book and reviewed it , and I consider it relevant to these horrific times.
I have been interested in UFOs since I was a child in the 1960s. Though ridicule was the official response of the day, the subject was very much in the air through the 1960s and early 1970s. In fact, television series of that time often had at least one “UFO episode,” much as they all had a Christmas episode. In the 1980s and 1990s, the subject went mostly underground with the mainstream media being pretty much mute about it. Then the Navy released some footage in 2017 and 2018 showing UFOs filmed by fighter jets. More startling, the Navy admitted these objects were genuine unknowns and dubbed them UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
[Please note that UAP = UFO.]
There have been other hints of UFO Disclosure as well (what Mr. Dolan calls “the drip of disclosure”). These include serious discussion of UFOs on 60 Minutes, US Navy update of guidelines for its personnel to report UAPs, and a serious New York Times article describing Navy encounters with UAPs in 2014 and 2015. There is more, though less public.
This trickle of UFO admissions coming in the years prior to the current execution of the COVID-19 pandemic scam, leads me to consider a connection. I cannot say just what that connection is. It’s just that you don’t have to spend a lot of time in serious UFO research before you see the obvious cover-up by authorities (re: the Robertson Panel). Our rulers have longed cloaked the UFO reality in secrecy and protected by a policy of ridicule.
This policy of intimidating dissenters is not unlike that surrounding the COVID-19 scamdemic. Those who question the official narrative are “shamed.” Those who resist the lock-downs and the coming vaccine are threatened.
The power that rules us and that is ultimately responsible for UFO secrecy and for the implementation of Agenda 21 (which is what the scamdemic is in reality), is what Thomas Merton called, “the Unspeakable.” Its work is facilitated by technology more advanced than what we live with and that may be rooted in alien interactions and UFO crash retrievals. Mr. Dolan broaches this idea in his book, UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-up Exposed 1973-1991 . The following is a quote from my review of that book:
UFO secrecy and unbridled power of the state feed each other and result in a concept expressed by Mr. Dolan as the “Breakaway Civilization.” This concept is the idea that secrecy (especially UFO secrecy), black budgets (unaccountable money from many dark sources), and sheer greed (for money and power) have created a ruling segment of the human population that possesses knowledge and technology far in advance of what is commonly known and experienced. It may have originated, at least in part, from a necessity for protecting humanity from a potentially destructive unknown. It developed a life of its own, however, and morphed into what can only be seen as a tremendous evil.
In the After Disclosure video, Mr. Zabel makes the point that the government and the aliens both agree that the subject should remain secret, because either could reveal the truth independently of the other. That sounds logical (if accepting the reality of aliens), but Whitley Strieber takes a bit different slant on the secrecy issue in his book, A New World . He says:
From the beginning, the visitors themselves have been in control of the secrecy, and it is they who will be responsible for revealing themselves—or, to be more accurate, integrating themselves into our lives more openly than they already have. (Strieber, Whitley. A New World. Walker & Collier, Inc.. Kindle Edition.)
I don’t expect any government to make any admissions as to the UFO phenomenon being anything more than an unknown. But it is not a difficult leap to see the great ruling oligarchy—the Unspeakable—as being as capable of maintaining the UFO cover-up as of running a pandemic scam for the sake of implementing a worldwide tyranny.
Indeed, in the video, Mr. Dolan says: "There is this dark element to this whole reality that's lurking in the background." He goes on to note his belief that the world will be completely different in fifty years. He says it will be a world running on Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G, and total surveillance with no privacy for anyone, anywhere.
Mr. Dolan also notes that many people averring they’ve been abducted by aliens say the aliens speak of a coming “great change” in our world. He says it is his belief that we are living that great change. I have also read about abductees reporting this message, and I agree with Mr. Dolan’s assessment of it. Interestingly, Mr. Strieber notes in his book:
I have already been warned that time is short, and the book must be gotten out so quickly that I can’t seek a publisher. There is no time. I must self-publish instead and as soon as I can. The warnings have been truly fierce, but not threatening. Urgent. (Strieber, Whitley. A New World. Walker & Collier, Inc.. Kindle Edition).
It is the aliens who Mr. Strieber says gave him the warning (though he refers to them as “the visitors”). A New World was published in November of 2019, about one month after the Johns Hopkins Center and Bill Gates ran their COVID pandemic exercise known as “ Event 201 .”
There is a thread of confluence running through all this that hit me as I watched Mr. Dolan’s After Disclosure video. It is all interesting and frightening. It is also opaque. Though modified a bit, the wall of UFO secrecy remains standing. If anything, it is buttressed by the draconian pandemic scam.
I think we’ll not know the truth of it in this life.
9/6/2020 . Recently, the noted UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) researcher, Richard Dolan, published a YouTube video discussion about UFO Disclosure. The video is entitled, AD After Disclosure: 10 Years Later , and concerns the possibilities for government admission of the existence of UFOs as a real phenomenon (rather than being hoaxes, misidentifications, swamp gas, etc). The video was made on the tenth anniversary of Mr. Dolan’s book on the subject: A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact . Joining Mr. Dolan in the video discussion is the book’s co-author, Bryce Zabel. The video interested me because I have read the book and reviewed it , and I consider it relevant to these horrific times.
I have been interested in UFOs since I was a child in the 1960s. Though ridicule was the official response of the day, the subject was very much in the air through the 1960s and early 1970s. In fact, television series of that time often had at least one “UFO episode,” much as they all had a Christmas episode. In the 1980s and 1990s, the subject went mostly underground with the mainstream media being pretty much mute about it. Then the Navy released some footage in 2017 and 2018 showing UFOs filmed by fighter jets. More startling, the Navy admitted these objects were genuine unknowns and dubbed them UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
[Please note that UAP = UFO.]
There have been other hints of UFO Disclosure as well (what Mr. Dolan calls “the drip of disclosure”). These include serious discussion of UFOs on 60 Minutes, US Navy update of guidelines for its personnel to report UAPs, and a serious New York Times article describing Navy encounters with UAPs in 2014 and 2015. There is more, though less public.
This trickle of UFO admissions coming in the years prior to the current execution of the COVID-19 pandemic scam, leads me to consider a connection. I cannot say just what that connection is. It’s just that you don’t have to spend a lot of time in serious UFO research before you see the obvious cover-up by authorities (re: the Robertson Panel). Our rulers have longed cloaked the UFO reality in secrecy and protected by a policy of ridicule.
This policy of intimidating dissenters is not unlike that surrounding the COVID-19 scamdemic. Those who question the official narrative are “shamed.” Those who resist the lock-downs and the coming vaccine are threatened.
The power that rules us and that is ultimately responsible for UFO secrecy and for the implementation of Agenda 21 (which is what the scamdemic is in reality), is what Thomas Merton called, “the Unspeakable.” Its work is facilitated by technology more advanced than what we live with and that may be rooted in alien interactions and UFO crash retrievals. Mr. Dolan broaches this idea in his book, UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-up Exposed 1973-1991 . The following is a quote from my review of that book:
UFO secrecy and unbridled power of the state feed each other and result in a concept expressed by Mr. Dolan as the “Breakaway Civilization.” This concept is the idea that secrecy (especially UFO secrecy), black budgets (unaccountable money from many dark sources), and sheer greed (for money and power) have created a ruling segment of the human population that possesses knowledge and technology far in advance of what is commonly known and experienced. It may have originated, at least in part, from a necessity for protecting humanity from a potentially destructive unknown. It developed a life of its own, however, and morphed into what can only be seen as a tremendous evil.
In the After Disclosure video, Mr. Zabel makes the point that the government and the aliens both agree that the subject should remain secret, because either could reveal the truth independently of the other. That sounds logical (if accepting the reality of aliens), but Whitley Strieber takes a bit different slant on the secrecy issue in his book, A New World . He says:
From the beginning, the visitors themselves have been in control of the secrecy, and it is they who will be responsible for revealing themselves—or, to be more accurate, integrating themselves into our lives more openly than they already have. (Strieber, Whitley. A New World. Walker & Collier, Inc.. Kindle Edition.)
I don’t expect any government to make any admissions as to the UFO phenomenon being anything more than an unknown. But it is not a difficult leap to see the great ruling oligarchy—the Unspeakable—as being as capable of maintaining the UFO cover-up as of running a pandemic scam for the sake of implementing a worldwide tyranny.
Indeed, in the video, Mr. Dolan says: "There is this dark element to this whole reality that's lurking in the background." He goes on to note his belief that the world will be completely different in fifty years. He says it will be a world running on Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G, and total surveillance with no privacy for anyone, anywhere.
Mr. Dolan also notes that many people averring they’ve been abducted by aliens say the aliens speak of a coming “great change” in our world. He says it is his belief that we are living that great change. I have also read about abductees reporting this message, and I agree with Mr. Dolan’s assessment of it. Interestingly, Mr. Strieber notes in his book:
I have already been warned that time is short, and the book must be gotten out so quickly that I can’t seek a publisher. There is no time. I must self-publish instead and as soon as I can. The warnings have been truly fierce, but not threatening. Urgent. (Strieber, Whitley. A New World. Walker & Collier, Inc.. Kindle Edition).
It is the aliens who Mr. Strieber says gave him the warning (though he refers to them as “the visitors”). A New World was published in November of 2019, about one month after the Johns Hopkins Center and Bill Gates ran their COVID pandemic exercise known as “ Event 201 .”
There is a thread of confluence running through all this that hit me as I watched Mr. Dolan’s After Disclosure video. It is all interesting and frightening. It is also opaque. Though modified a bit, the wall of UFO secrecy remains standing. If anything, it is buttressed by the draconian pandemic scam.
I think we’ll not know the truth of it in this life.
August 30, 2020
Two Major Scamdemic Protests
Trafalgar Square Protest 8/29/2020
People voiced opposition to COVID-19 restrictions in protests held in London and Berlin.
08/30/2020 . Two major protests of government-imposed COVID-19 restrictions were held yesterday (8/29/2020). One was in Trafalgar Square in London, England, and the other was in Berlin, Germany. Tens of thousands of people attended both events. Today, I see little mention of either in the mainstream media. What there is, tends to paint the protesters as criminal. They weren’t criminal, but in Berlin they were civilly disobedient since the German government outlawed the protest just before it happened. Consequently, there were some clashes with police, but the protest as a whole did not turn violent. I believe the story was similar for Trafalgar Square.
I noted that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended the Berlin protest. While there, he spoke on a panel about his history that led him to be a prominent critic of Big Pharma pushing vaccines and to protesting the dystopia being imposed via the impetus of the COVID-19 hoax. His talk is on YouTube and is only 18 minutes long and is worth a listen. He declares that governments love pandemics as excuses to impose authoritarian rule, and this pandemic is no exception.
I agree with Mr. Kennedy. He is someone who has experienced the workings of the Unspeakable (ruling powers) and suffered from them. My only disagreement is with his uncertainty about how much of this COVID-19 thing was planned. A little research easily dispels such uncertainty. What’s happening is the implementation of the United Nation’s Agenda 21 plan. You can find a pretty good overview of what this plan is in this YouTube video.
Dr. Vernon Coleman had a few comments about the Trafalgar Square protest. He also recorded a video that was intended to be played for the protesters in the square. I don’t know if it was. Dr. Coleman has produced quite a few videos on the COVID-19 scam from a medical viewpoint. I recommend his YouTube channel and his website.
Speaking of medical viewpoints, a YouTube video by Dr. Carrie Madej about the COVID-19 scam and its relation to transhumanism has gone viral. I thought it was a very succinct overview of the transhumanist agenda. She notes the reason, I believe, that forcing a vaccine on the world’s population is the major goal of the powers pushing the pandemic hoax.
That these protests have taken place is encouraging, though much more needs to be done. I believe, however, that the Unspeakable’s implementing Agenda 21 is an unstoppable force. We, the disenfranchised and abused common people, need to be the opposing immovable object. Nothing else will stop this evil juggernaut. But seeing all the masks around me, I have little hope.
August 23, 2020
Unexpected Inspirations
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Recent Reads that have helped me. Is it enough?
08/23/2020 . I have slowed down a lot on my reading and book reviewing this year. I am sure depression is the reason. Events since January, building steadily from the pandemic hoax into the implementation of Agenda 21 and the unbridled exercise of worldwide tyranny, have kept me down a lot. So reading and writing anything has been tough. Recently, though, I’ve found some inspiration from struggling through my reading / reviewing list.
Upon a pal’s suggestion, I bought a paperback copy of A Canticle for Leibowitz . The suggestion was that the classic post-apocalyptic science fiction novel contained similarities to my own such novel-in-progress. I found that to be true. I was not aware of this novel that was first published in 1959, but I see why it is a classic. I enjoyed it very much. Though written from a 1950’s cold war viewpoint, it nonetheless has a take on civilization’s fall similar to my own. Its author, Walter M. Miller Jr., sees that fall coming from nuclear war. Like many such authors of that era, he portrays nuclear war as the most likely and ongoing cause of humanity’s apocalypse. In this, the book reminds me much of Nevil Shute’s On the Beach .
It took me a while to adjust to Mr. Miller’s Catholic orientation, what with some lengthy Latin phrases being spread about. When I did, I had to reread some sections to better appreciate them. And so I grew to love the book. Hence it became the first inspiration I’m talking about. It is not a Pollyanna book by any means, but it does offer hope for human survival within cycles of apocalypse. And it contains a strong science/intellect vs religion/faith theme with the author coming down on the side of faith, though with some reservations. Somehow, I took comfort or reassurance in this. Maybe because I saw in the story, an elevation of the human spirit above the crass, lying machinations of empires, governments, and ruling oligarchs.
I’ve drafted a review of A Canticle for Leibowitz, but have not posted it yet. When I do, you can find it here.
I also found an unexpected inspiration from the next book on my list: Adventures in the Afterlife by William Buhlman. I have read Mr. Buhlman’s work before and enjoyed it. Indeed, I found inspiration and insight from his book, Adventures Beyond the Body . His work concerns out-of-body experiences, building on the work of Robert Monroe. In Afterlife, he expounds on his findings (much of it from first-hand experience) in a fiction (PART 1) that describes the experiences of a person as he dies and afterward. PART 2 is an examination of the facts from the fiction, and how to achieve your spiritual potential. I especially liked the guided meditations in this section.
Mr. Buhlman’s book also provides a sense of spiritual strength and heightened perspective over the dark events of the day. I much appreciate his take on spiritual insight coming from evaluating personal experience rather than just accepting “beliefs” offered by some authority.
I have begun drafting a Ray-View of Adventures in the Afterlife. It will be posted soon.
And then I’ve begun reading The Conscious Resistance: Reflections On Anarchy and Spirituality by Derrick Broze and John Vibes. I am 30% through the book and am already impressed with its political astuteness buttressed by a spiritual sense that Mr. Buhlman would be comfortable with.
My own political sensibilities have evolved in recent months. I have gone from liberal-Democrat and Bernie supporter to confirmation that world politics are an illusion with an unspeakable evil behind it all. I take inspiration that Mr. Broze and Mr. Vibes appreciate this viewpoint. Also, their book provides an expounding on anarchy as a political movement that I’ve not gotten into before. This is a fascinating discussion, but it would only be more political talk if not for the open-minded spirituality part.
So now I’m one book away from meeting my Goodreads Reading Goal for the year. That was only eleven books. At the year’s beginning, I was feeling so down I thought I would be doing well if I could manage to read eleven books. Looks like I’ll read that much and then some.
If you are so minded, I would recommend all of the above books to you. I will Ray-View all of them. In this awful time, they have helped me. They might help you.
08/23/2020 . I have slowed down a lot on my reading and book reviewing this year. I am sure depression is the reason. Events since January, building steadily from the pandemic hoax into the implementation of Agenda 21 and the unbridled exercise of worldwide tyranny, have kept me down a lot. So reading and writing anything has been tough. Recently, though, I’ve found some inspiration from struggling through my reading / reviewing list.
Upon a pal’s suggestion, I bought a paperback copy of A Canticle for Leibowitz . The suggestion was that the classic post-apocalyptic science fiction novel contained similarities to my own such novel-in-progress. I found that to be true. I was not aware of this novel that was first published in 1959, but I see why it is a classic. I enjoyed it very much. Though written from a 1950’s cold war viewpoint, it nonetheless has a take on civilization’s fall similar to my own. Its author, Walter M. Miller Jr., sees that fall coming from nuclear war. Like many such authors of that era, he portrays nuclear war as the most likely and ongoing cause of humanity’s apocalypse. In this, the book reminds me much of Nevil Shute’s On the Beach .
It took me a while to adjust to Mr. Miller’s Catholic orientation, what with some lengthy Latin phrases being spread about. When I did, I had to reread some sections to better appreciate them. And so I grew to love the book. Hence it became the first inspiration I’m talking about. It is not a Pollyanna book by any means, but it does offer hope for human survival within cycles of apocalypse. And it contains a strong science/intellect vs religion/faith theme with the author coming down on the side of faith, though with some reservations. Somehow, I took comfort or reassurance in this. Maybe because I saw in the story, an elevation of the human spirit above the crass, lying machinations of empires, governments, and ruling oligarchs.
I’ve drafted a review of A Canticle for Leibowitz, but have not posted it yet. When I do, you can find it here.
I also found an unexpected inspiration from the next book on my list: Adventures in the Afterlife by William Buhlman. I have read Mr. Buhlman’s work before and enjoyed it. Indeed, I found inspiration and insight from his book, Adventures Beyond the Body . His work concerns out-of-body experiences, building on the work of Robert Monroe. In Afterlife, he expounds on his findings (much of it from first-hand experience) in a fiction (PART 1) that describes the experiences of a person as he dies and afterward. PART 2 is an examination of the facts from the fiction, and how to achieve your spiritual potential. I especially liked the guided meditations in this section.
Mr. Buhlman’s book also provides a sense of spiritual strength and heightened perspective over the dark events of the day. I much appreciate his take on spiritual insight coming from evaluating personal experience rather than just accepting “beliefs” offered by some authority.
I have begun drafting a Ray-View of Adventures in the Afterlife. It will be posted soon.
And then I’ve begun reading The Conscious Resistance: Reflections On Anarchy and Spirituality by Derrick Broze and John Vibes. I am 30% through the book and am already impressed with its political astuteness buttressed by a spiritual sense that Mr. Buhlman would be comfortable with.
My own political sensibilities have evolved in recent months. I have gone from liberal-Democrat and Bernie supporter to confirmation that world politics are an illusion with an unspeakable evil behind it all. I take inspiration that Mr. Broze and Mr. Vibes appreciate this viewpoint. Also, their book provides an expounding on anarchy as a political movement that I’ve not gotten into before. This is a fascinating discussion, but it would only be more political talk if not for the open-minded spirituality part.
So now I’m one book away from meeting my Goodreads Reading Goal for the year. That was only eleven books. At the year’s beginning, I was feeling so down I thought I would be doing well if I could manage to read eleven books. Looks like I’ll read that much and then some.
If you are so minded, I would recommend all of the above books to you. I will Ray-View all of them. In this awful time, they have helped me. They might help you.
