From Reuters To Twitter & 2012-The Race Is On

I have to admit sometimes I feel myself being drawn into that race to be the first to report to my followers on Twitter of some extraordinary news or fascinating new information that will start a lively conversation or heated debate.

I just watched the 1940 biopic A Dispatch From Reuters and found myself relating to Paul Julius Reuters passion and excitement at being the first to report stock news from Paris. As the telegraph system was evolving his courier pigeon service was faster than the train carrying the post. When a telegraph link was established from Ireland to Britain and then to Europe the news from America was still being tossed into the sea in canisters, picked up in Ireland and telegraphed to England. Reuter was the first to report the assassination of Lincoln to Europe and the now Reuters News Agency's reputation was built on being first to report the latest news.

Impressively, Reuter insisted on setting principles to preserve his company's independence, integrity, and freedom from bias in its news reporting. Reuters today still struggles to maintain those principles. As of 9/11 it has elected to only use the word terrorist if in a quote. This is while it's journalists have been kidnapped and killed.

Now we have Twitter and with the speed and focus on the destination of our messages Twitterers have become "reporters". Most of us report from the comfort of our homes, but as the Iran election riots prove, getting the news out in real time from a cell phone can mean a form of freedom to an oppressed people.

What would Paul Julius Reuter think about the Twitter guys Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams? I think he is behind them cheering and helping them break through these international walls to help us get eventually to where we don't need a computer, or a phone but will all be able to communicate telepathically without the hardware. I believe it is here now and more and more human beings are discovering and nurturing this talent as we move ever closer to 2012 and the awakening of our species.

By Her Roots on Rootstelevision.com

Here is an excerpt from today's Rootstelevision.Com Blog where my Family History Webisode Series is one of the Videos featured:

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This week Og is featuring the seventh By Her Roots episode by Alannah Ryane. In this edition, she visits the Fortress of Louisbourg to investigate the Private Peter Martin record she found there. She also uncovers the movements of the 45th regiment during the years 1744-1760 and the French Indian Wars. Be sure to watch the first six webisodes, too, if you haven't see them already!



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Saying goodbye to The Empress

Well after spending the last two snowbird journeys to the states in my beloved Empress it is time to let her go. I am hoping to sell my car as well and get something like a Roadtrek so I only have one vehicle. This is my favorite pic of her when we dry docked in Arizona. So I am posting her info here for anyone who has expressed interest in Ontario, Canada.
1975 Dodge Empress, Sportsman 318 engine, I forgot to get the mileage when i took the pics below yesterday but I will get that soon. Just 20' in length.

She is missing a gray/black water tank...I spent two winters in her without one and everyone I talked to said it was a blessing cause I never had to deal with dumping etc. But you can always put one on apparently, it must have fallen off many years ago. It wasn't really driven anywhere but to BC and back to Ontario before I got it. Then I went across the states to Arizona and back winter of 07 and then just down to Tallahassee Florida for winter 08 other than that she was stored.

Interior was all updated I am guessing in the 80's cause it is in great shape. I resealed the roof etc when I bought it two seasons ago and I have had no leaks at all !!

The Shower: Oh and this winter I got the RV anti freeze into all the pipes but i didn't get it properly into the hot water tank so it has to be replaced, I just had it bypassed while I was in Florida and used the shower there. Although I missed using my own because I had the whole Hot Water lighting system replaced and boy did I have hot showers in Arizona so I did miss that .

There is an inverter so you have ac power when you are dry docked..great for watching dvds on computer or charging phones etc. And a really good deep cycle marine secondary battery.

Speaking of which there is no AC but lots of windows. here's the pics. Oh and last thing..whenever I wished to see someone else's rv they all wanted to see the Empress everyone loved it! The men all said that all rv's have the same problems but theirs were thousands of dollars more to fix. And because this is an old carburetor engine anyone could fix it, although the only thing I ever had to do under the hood was replace the wiper motor and a rad hose. They also liked it because it was so easy to drive and park in cities. I bought it because I didn't like the idea of hauling a trailer or leaving my belongings behind in it if I left in a car. I got the packing up and unhooking down to about 1/2 hour. My nephew crawled under and said he couldn't believe what great shape it was underneath.

So I am asking $2500 for it or Best Offer. It is currently stored up in the Orillia area. Was a fantastic vehicle for my first forays into the Snowbird Life and got me hooked. I loved living in it. But now its time to move on again..

The Dolphin Principle

www.thecovemovie.com

This is from my Spiritual Elder Venerable Pa'Ris'Ha when I asked for clarity on the true purpose of Dolphins here on earth:

"They are above us on food chain due to purity and intelligence. They are Ancients who would not stay on the land as Man became more harmful. They are the pure innocence’s we once had and will return to. The Dolphins are powerful healers and have such love of Mankind and understand the frequencies that bind us in Oneness, their voice is a sound that moves the Universe's song, and with them the Whales.

Oceans are Ama-Mothers Water, where all life came from, and we are of it all and are to learn to hold the sacredness they hold until we come full circle again. The stories of sailors and ships who have survived many dangerous times on the seas show the love that was given them by the Dolphins. And the playfulness of being relations.

When in areas where the Albino Dolphin comes to us while we do our Ceremonies near the Sea she has a haunting song and it takes our minds to a time before time and she assures us of the return we will make. So in these times of change and fear people are given peace by the Dolphins and great Whales. They have lasted much longer than us on land. All are inter-related and love is the principal they give us."

The Cove - Why documentaries are made

I fell madly in love last night while driving along the 400 hwy towards Toronto.

I was listening to an interview on the CBC radio program "Q" last night with Louie Psihoyos the director of the documentary "The Cove". He absolutely reminded me why I have sacrificed so much to go into the documentary film biz and why I have this burning desire to uncover what has been hidden from us.

"The Cove" had just won the Sundance Audience Award but at this years Hot Docs premiere the audience gave this documentary, described as a "devastating thriller" a standing ovation. The film follows Richard O'Barry, world authority on dolphin training and the man who trained "Flipper"in the 60's, on a covert mission to a hidden cove in Japan.

In James Bond meets Jacques Cousteau like fashion the director Louie Psihoyos (former still photographer for National Geographic Magazine) his diving friend Jim Clark (creator of Netscape), O'Barry and a host of courageous others uncover the underwater horrors of the multi-billion dollar dolphin business. Not only the massive slaughter but facts like the ZANTAC the dolphins are on for us to touch and play with them, and the Japanese people unknowingly been fed dolphin meat with sky high mercury and toxic levels need to be exposed!

Louie and Jim Clark started the Oceanic Preservation Society about 4 years ago to make documentary films and still projects about vanishing ocean life. Listening to him last night as I drove in the night time rain I heard confidence "I know how to construct a story", conviction and sensitivity. But the topper was when he stated emphatically that when it comes to raising financing if you are on the right path the money will appear. I so needed to hear that even though I believe it and move through my life with a quantum perspective being the whole crew on my own projects while looking for financing can really test your reserve. He gave me such a boost.

So I thought ok not only do I have to find out more about this doc but I had to find out more about him. This man is not only an enlightened, sensitive, intelligent, dolphin saving, documentary filmmaker with real inner balls, who also works with his wife (my dream man) but he is absolutely gorgeous! You can listen to the CBC podcast here and/or check out this video from Sundance.

Friendship Village - My Favorite Retreat

For the last 20 years my spiritual growth was seeded in this beautiful sacred place at the highest point of the Ohio valley. I was one of the many who built Friendship Village (well actually the professionals told me how and where), and had so many workshops and trainings there that I would not even try to count them. I can remember however a momentous aha moment or shift in my perspective and consciousness from almost everyone of them, they were extremely profound experiences in my life. Friendship Village was a place to go that always felt like home because it was created with love support and a higher purpose by so many loving volunteer hands and hearts.

If your group is looking for a retreat for a conference or training you must look into Friendship Village you will not be disappointed. I created a series of little videos on Friendship Village and on the Ancient Village we built there if you are interested check them out on my youtube channel or contact administration on their website FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE. Here's the first video on the Ancient Village at Friendship Village.

Our Masonic Origins...who knew?

Well I didn't ....while researching St Paul's Anglican Church for my latest By Her Roots webisode on Roots Television, I discovered that just about every British military or political leader during the 1749 founding of Halifax Nova Scotia was a Freemason. Of course this was the same in all the North American British Colonies but these were most of the earliest Masons oversees.

I also stumbled upon some Masonic Illuminati Conspiracy theories pertaining to the founding of Halifax, Nova Scotia and St Paul's Anglican Church in 1749 but also the devastating Halifax Explosion of 1917 (considered by some to have been a generated crises like 911) which actually provided some interesting concepts regarding the supposed purpose behind the One World Government and the decrease in the human population plots. They state that one of the main goals of Freemasonry has always been to infiltrate the Christian church from within by creating a false church. They also put forth that this was to take back the throne from the House of David and place on that throne one of their own from the line of Benjamin. The Merovingian/templars purpose of the Crusades was supposedly to do just that and which is why there is so much importance put on DNA lineage in Genesis.

I chose not to include these theories in this latest webisode and instead stuck to the facts. I had always intended to name the movers and shakers in Halifax at the time as my ancestor Peter Martin, a poor fisherman who was granted a lot of land and fishing rights, was in court with these officials for the last half of his life and then mysteriously died with no death record, no burial and no grave. Family History research brings out the curious detective in everyone so it is no surprise to us when we stumble upon a story that takes us to something provocative even controversial. I do choose though to keep my mind open, as more and more questioning minds out there are also doing. There are still though so many who prefer to believe that all our decision makers, our movers and shakers, hidden away behind closed doors, put the interests of the people they govern before their own. I choose, to placate my own curious mind, to look more closely at information that sheds light on areas that are shrouded in darkness like pulling your head out of the sand and looking into the brightness of a new day.

Here is my latest webisode.

Snowbird Volunteering in the Florida Forest.

It has been a long time since my last post because I have been implementing a new winter survival plan while my Canadian cabin is being renovated and winterized. In order to continue editing my little Internet doc series on Roots Television , while living in my old RV the Empress, I am working as a volunteer lab assistant and artifact photographer for the Southeast Archeological Center in Florida in return for an RV spot in the forest. I also put in hours assisting the park in clean up which amounts to about 30 hours a week. There is no Internet here so I got a Blackberry Bold which is so powerful I am streaming video in the forest where most cannot even get a cell phone signal. But I cannot blog from there on the BB as AT&T have not agreed to the google bot apps or something like that. So I have to wait until I can get online somewhere to upload a blog. I have now started a new wordpress blog that I believe I can post from the BB.


Because there are so many US states with warm winter climates they are a huge magnet for Canadian and US snowbirds alike. For those of us who are not currently prosperous but still desirous to escape the seemingly unending snow shovelling, there are many volunteer opportunities in some of the most beautiful places in the US. State Parks and National Forests post volunteer exchange positions, that are also open for international volunteers on their websites. I awake and go to sleep with the owls... see deer silhouetted in the morning mist at the lake and had a bobcat dash across the road not 10 feet in front of my golf cart at dusk. From hosting a park RV site to assisting at a heritage monument or an historic civil war fort spending the winter in a beautiful warm location in the U.S. can be an affordable, rewarding and exciting option. You can apply online to multiple destinations but do it long in advance of your journey as it takes awhile for them to respond, but they do.


In my opinion it doesn't matter what boundaries are placed before us...for me to give back to the forest, no matter what the exchange is for me or what country it is in, is an honor and a privilege for this old Toronto gal. I have also learned from my Elder that every tree is in communication with every other tree in the world so this tree hugger shows appreciation every chance I get...after all without trees we would not even exist.

Did I shift myself into a Parallel World?

Pluto, centre, with its moons, from far right, Hydra and Nix. Pluto's other moon, Charon, is seen closest to Pluto.


I am not an astrologer but I have been working with my own birth chart since the '70's. Every morning I check my current transits online at www.astro.com. I also frequently check my free short forecast, my interactive travel chart to see what aspects I will be encountering in my next location (as I travel a lot for my video & documentary productions) and my progressive charts.

While working "intently" with Dr. Fred Alan Wolf's books Mind into Matter and Matter into Feeling on On Eagles Wings webcasts on quantum physics, which includes showing us how the many-worlds theory works, and really really trying hard to stay in "present time" I am beginning to witness or "observe" some fascinating phenomena taking place in my own matrix/reality.

My Spiritual Elder, Venerable PaRisHa is encouraging us to clear away as much old programming from our minds as possible so we can start using the other 90% of our brains by re-claiming full consciousness and therefore become the powerful beings everyone of us were given the right to be before we "allowed" ourselves to become sheep. The more I clear away the faster I seem to move when it comes to making decisions and changing my circumstances, as if whatever little voices, bent on holding me back from what I truly desired as my destiny, are dissolving and leaving room for new possibilities.

Studying with a Cherokee Elder for 20 years has left me accustomed to witnessing medicine in action..or miracles. Any quantum shift or phenomena that has to do with Grandmother I automatically accept..but now it is becoming more prominent in my own immediate reality. For over 35 years now whenever something manifested or changed (especially before I discovered the quantum world, the law of attraction and the power of the now) I just believed the universe was responding to what I was putting out, positive or negative. The Law of Karma or cause and effect now makes even more sense with a quantum understanding of how different it is to live in "cause" and not in effect (or being a victim of other "players" in the game).

As I am approaching my 56th birthday and embarking on another winter snowbird journey, I checked my chart as usual but was transfixed in a state of shock when I "observed" that Pluto was no longer in my 7th house of relationships but in the 8th house! I am talking about my natal chart here not a progressed or any other configuration, just the natal chart with the same birth info I have had for 56 years. Most people's first reaction would be that Astro.com made a mistake..but my absolute first reaction (after I got over the shock of what I saw) was that I had shifted something in me enough to no longer be "at war" in my relationships. Could this be how you shift yourself to a parallel world or a parallel "you" that is living in a reality that is better than the one you are in now? Do you change your astrological or birth personality as well? This would make sense (at least to me) if there were like 12 parallel worlds (or many-worlds theory in quantum physics) 12 different personalities therefore 12 different birth charts?

For this article I checked my birth data on other sites to confirm the pluto shift into the 8th house in my "natal" chart and I am going to dig out my old hard copy of my chart to see if there were any other changes although everything else looks the same. The part of this that makes me so happy, personally, is the difference this makes in my life. Here is what I was dealing with (and my friends and family can attest to this), for 56 years, and what it has shifted to today:

Pluto in the 7th house from www.myastologybook.com

If Pluto has difficult aspects, your intimate relationships can be a battleground with many power struggles, sudden changes, and endings; trines and sextiles to Pluto indicate experiences in which you can learn about the use and abuse of power from your partner(s). It would be helpful to examine your motives when you enter into a relationship. There's a lot of unconscious energy here, and you may need to learn to compromise and to not dominate your partner so much. On the other hand, you may need to become more aware of your partner trying to dominate or to control you, since it can work both ways.

Pluto in the 8th house from www.astro.com:

Your life goes through periods of very intense and deep change. You are always aware of something inside you pushing you to grow and become different from what you were. You are not afraid of these changes, because they seem quite logical, a natural process within you.

You may express your interests as a great love of investigating, immediately looking for the answers to any question that intrigues you. However, you don't mind spending a great deal of time and energy to find the answers. But this is more than casual curiosity, it is a deep psychological drive within you.

You want to use all the resources, objects, money or other possessions that come your way for whatever purpose is dominating your life at the moment. Subconsciously, a wish exists for psychic renewal and regeneration. In a general sense, it may be that unknown influences of Pluto could grant you the facility for rapid elimination of undesired influences, both psychological and material. This indicates that you possess the ability to free yourself, of those things that bind you against your wishes.

P.S. I wonder if this had any effect on the fact that I suddenly had the urge to cut my hair off !

P.P.S. My friend and beautiful mirror Gail Reilly just reminded me that this could be how, as Dr. Wolf and Grandmother PaRisHa put it, "we can change our past"!!

More Green Party Warrior Women

I grabbed my cam, some tape and tore my girlfriend Gail away from her sewing (Historical Garment Retailors) and drove over to the Washago train station to catch Elizabeth May's Whistle Stop. My friend Valerie Powell is our Green Party Simcoe North candidate and has been part of Elizabeth May's shadow government for many years now. The train was very late, so Gail and I went for cappuccinos and when we got back ..the train started coming in so i was shooting and running at the same time..won't make that mistake again.

Anyway whether the Green Party should rule our country or not is not for me to say...all I have ever tried to do in my promotion of the GP is to get Elizabeth May in on the debates, and increase the votes so the Green Party will get more funding. When you vote strategically (or for the lesser of two evils which most people relate to me) you are actually financing them. If you want to vote Green then do it.. not only will you not be wasting your vote but you will be a) assisting them to get government financing and b) putting your intention out to the universe. In the U.S. the fight to get the Green Party in on their debates was ongoing as well. Ralph Nader and Ron Paul have been trying to get third parties in on the debates for years.

Right now I am just happy that there is now some strong feminine energy in the form of these Warriors Women Leaders in the Green Party: Elizabeth May and Valerie Powell in Canada and Cynthia McKinney and Rose Clemente in the U.S.

Here is the little quick and dirty editing job I did on the whistle stop..it does show how Elizabeth is not only smart and powerful but loving and caring at the same time..how many of the guys hug their constituents??