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Currently on RARadio:

"On to the Next One" by Jacqueline Van Bierk

"I See You Tiger" by Via Tania

"Lost the Plot" by Amoureux"

Bright Eyes, Black Soul" by The Lovers Key

"Cool Thing" by Sassparilla

"These Halls I Dwell" by Michael Butler

"St. Francis"by Tom Russell & Gretchen Peters, performance by Gretchen Peters and Barry Walsh; 

"Who Do You Love?"by Elizabeth Kay; 

"Rebirth"by Caterpillars; 

"Monica's Frock" by Signel-Z; 

"Natural Disasters" by Corey Landis; 

"1,000 Leather Tassels" by The Blank Tapes; 

"We Are All Stone" and "Those Machines" by Outer Minds; 

"Another Dream" by MMOSS; "Susannah" by Woolen Kits; 

Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and other dead celebrities / news by A SECRET PARTY;

"I Miss the Day" by My Secret Island,  

"Carriers of Light" by Brendan James;

"The Last Time" by Model Stranger;

"Last Call" by Jay;

"Darkness" by Leonard Cohen; 

"Sweetbread" by Simian Mobile Disco and "Keep You" fromActress off the Chronicle movie soundtrack; 

"Goodbye to Love" from October Dawn; 

Trouble in Mind 2011 label sampler; 

Black Box Revelation Live on Minnesota Public Radio;

Apteka "Striking Violet"; 

Mikal Cronin's "Apathy" and "Get Along";

Dana deChaby's progressive rock

 

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ATWOOD - "A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliverance" -AVAILABLE NOW FOR KINDLE (INCLUDING KINDLE COMPUTER APPS) FROM AMAZON.COM. Use this link.

CCJ Publisher Rick Alan Rice dissects the building of America in a trilogy of novels collectively calledATWOOD. Book One explores the development of the American West through the lens of public policy, land planning, municipal development, and governance as it played out in one of the new counties of Kansas in the latter half of the 19th Century. The novel focuses on the religious and cultural traditions that imbued the American Midwest with a special character that continues to have a profound effect on American politics to this day. Book One creates an understanding about America's cultural foundations that is further explored in books two and three that further trace the historical-cultural-spiritual development of one isolated county on the Great Plains that stands as an icon in the development of a certain brand of American character. That's the serious stuff viewed from high altitude. The story itself gets down and dirty with the supernatural, which in ATWOOD - A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliveranceis the outfall of misfires in human interactions, from the monumental to the sublime. The book features the epic poem "The Toiler" as well as artwork by New Mexico artist Richard Padilla.

Elmore Leonard Meets Larry McMurtry

Western Crime Novel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am offering another novel through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service. Cooksin is the story of a criminal syndicate that sets its sights on a ranching/farming community in Weld County, Colorado, 1950. The perpetrators of the criminal enterprise steal farm equipment, slaughter cattle, and rob the personal property of individuals whose assets have been inventoried in advance and distributed through a vast system of illegal commerce.

It is a ripping good yarn, filled with suspense and intrigue. This was designed intentionally to pay homage to the type of creative works being produced in 1950, when the story is set. Richard Padilla has done his usually brilliant work in capturing the look and feel of a certain type of crime fiction being produced in that era. The whole thing has the feel of those black & white films you see on Turner Movie Classics, and the writing will remind you a little of Elmore Leonard, whose earliest works were westerns. Use this link.

 

EXPLORE THE KINDLE BOOK LIBRARY

If you have not explored the books available from Amazon.com's Kindle Publishing division you would do yourself a favor to do so. You will find classic literature there, as well as tons of privately published books of every kind. A lot of it is awful, like a lot of traditionally published books are awful, but some are truly classics. You can get the entire collection of Shakespeare's works for two bucks.

You do not need to buy a Kindle to take advantage of this low-cost library. Use this link to go to an Amazon.com page from which you can download for free a Kindle App for your computer, tablet, or phone.

Amazon is the largest, but far from the only digital publisher. You can find similar treasure troves atNOOK Press (the Barnes & Noble site), Lulu, and others.


 

 

What the Huh?

California Contrails

By RAR

In 1996, there was a paper published by the Air War College of the Department of Defense titled "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather by 2025" (use this link to read the document). That abstract showed pretty clearly that the Defense Department was conversant at least 20 years ago with the idea of militarizing weather solutions. Would that include weather modification for the purpose of influencing the citizens that the government represents?

KC-135 and C-130 aircraft are being used for purposes that may include population control, according to federal government whistle blower Kristin Meghan. She had an eleven-year career doing bio-environmental engineering: monitoring health and environmental standards through soil testing and remediation at U.S. Air Force facilities. After noticing shipments of carcinogenic materials, documented with Material Safety Data Sheets, arriving at an Air Force Logistics Facility in California, where she was assigned, she started looking into the notion of chemtrails and charting contrail dissipation rates. She did sampling that found berryium (aluminum) in the soil in the areas in which unusual contrails had been charted.

Meghan has an inquiring mind, and an active imagination. Working at a Depot Maintenance Base, where airplanes are torn down and rebuilt, she noticed that these airplanes in maintenance were left white and without insignias or identifying markings, for a time, after sanding and repainting. She reasoned that, in their unmarked states, they would make perfect vehicles for spraying chemical into the sky, producing what have come to be known as "chemtrails".

Why would the U.S. Government want to do such a thing to the environment? There are two conspiracy theories, one that the U.S. government is secretly fighting global warming by putting chemical dust in the atmosphere (geo-engineering) for the purpose of reflecting sunlight. The notion is that the health of our environment is much worse than government environmental policy would lead you to believe, and the government is resorting to emergency means to delay a planetary disaster. The other is that the government is performing population management, on some level; or, otherwise put, spraying the populace with a control substance.

Some people suspect that both are true; that spraying aluminum spheres reflects the light of the sun while also affecting population control through higher mortality rates and lower birth rates.


Marking Christmas Eve

While driving to my mother-in-law's house on Christmas Eve, 2014, I happened to look up at the sky overhead, and there was a thick white cross in the sky, stretching from horizon to horizon, almost perfect in its symmetry. It looked like the reticule in a rifle scope, sighting in on California, or up to the heavens, depending upon your point of view. It was so defined, and seemingly so stuck in place in the sky, that it was really noticeable.

I have not really been very interested in the chemtrail controversies, because there are just so many conspiracy items that one can hardly keep up with them all. (Personally, I enjoy Bigfoot and both ancient and contemporary extraterrestrials, mostly because everything else on TV is boring.) The chemtrails conspiracy does dovetail rather nicely with Freedom of Information Act discoveries of some pretty startling U.S. government documents. In the late 1950s, for instance, there developed a plan titled Operation Northwoods, in which "false flag" attacks on U.S. populations would be staged to mobilize military actions against Fidel Castro's Cuba. And you also have, in the U.S., a history of CIA initiatives (MKUltra) aimed at manipulating the psychology of the nation's citizens. The permanent government (versus our elected representatives) of the U.S. has shown willingness to create programs to manipulate the population through technological means.

The video presented here is well-worth watching, because it presents scientists discussing dramatic changes in the levels of certain particulates that are showing up in U.S. soil samples. There is a contamination of the environment taking place, in which aluminum and berryium are somehow flooding into our ecosystem.

 


Diary Notes on Western Skies

As a California resident, I have noticed some odd things in the sky. Below are recent diary notes from April 4, 2015.

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There was a strange contrail crossing the eastern sky this morning.

I was up early, like 3:30 a.m., and working at my desk next to an eastern facing window, which provides spectacular views of the sunrise each morning.

Around the time the sun first hinted at showing up this morning, when the horizon was pink and blue, I noticed a contrail, such as you see left by jet airplanes, that stretched across my entire field of view, north to south. It was not wide, but it was dense, which was made noticeable by the way it was picking up the hues of the morning sunrise. It was like a thin but bright rainbow across the sky and it was beautiful. I’d never really seen anything quite like it. In fact, I rushed to find my mobile phone, which I never use, to try to take a photograph of it – which I hardly know how to do – but I found that it was not charged. I came back up to my office and watched it, amazed that it hadn’t dissipated in any noticeable way, but remained a ribbon across the sky.

In fact, a good twenty minutes after I had first noticed it, the contrail was still there, and still intact, but had moved further to the east, as if blown in a uniform fashion, as a line in the sky moving as a front in an easterly direction. Or was it staying still and the rotation of the earth simply changing my vantage point? Whatever, the line was still there, quite visible and thick in the sky, blown a little wider than it had been when I first saw it, but still quite intact. It was a little fluffier looking than it had been before.

It is now 7.24 a.m. The contrail is still there, crossing my entire view of the horizon, maybe an hour after I first noticed it. It is still largely intact, a little fluffy, and very white against a robin’s egg blue sky that is scuffed with wispy white clouds, creating a powdery effect.

I just noticed that there is a second and third contrail paralleling the one that has had my attention, which I can see in the eastern horizon, equal distant apart, like how I used to apply fertilizer to field crops.

I just finished writing that and looked a little higher in my horizon to see a jet passing overhead, moving right to left across my field of vision, and leaving a thick powdery contrail, but this one is only half as long as the others, at best, and it is breaking up quickly. Very white.

And right on its heels is another plane, a little further to the east but traveling parallel to the one I just mentioned, and it is leaving a thick, white contrail that is also breaking up rather quickly. So why can I still see the much older contrails in the distance still intact, moving like a front across the sky? - RAR

 

 

 

 

 

Spraying St. Louis '53-54

 

 

In 2012, a reporter named Emily Anne Epstein, writing for The Daily Mail in the U.K., revealed U.S. government documents that showed that the U.S. Army had secretly sprayed radioactive particles over low-income housing districts in St. Louis, Missouri. There purpose was to test chemical warfare technology.

 

Below are excerpts from the piece she published on September 29, 2012. Use this link to read the entire piece and see some of Ms. Epstein's photographic evidence.


 

The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has claimed.
 

While it was known that the government sprayed 'harmless' zinc cadmium silfide particles over the general population in St Louis, Professor Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist at St. Louis Community College, claims that a radioactive additive was also mixed with the compound.
 

She has accrued detailed descriptions as well as photographs of the spraying which exposed the unwitting public, predominantly in low-income and minority communities, to radioactive particles.

 

'The study was secretive for reason. They didn't have volunteers stepping up and saying yeah, I'll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles,' said Professor Martino-Taylor to KSDK.

 

In Corpus Christi, the chemical was dropped from airplanes over large swathes of city.  In St Louis, the Army put chemical sprayers on buildings, like schools and public housing projects, and mounted them in station wagons for mobile use.

 

Despite the extent of the experiment, local politicians were not notified about the content of the testing. The people of St Louis were told that the Army was testing smoke screens to protect cities from a Russian attack.
 

'It was pretty shocking. The level of duplicity and secrecy. Clearly they went to great lengths to deceive people,' Professor Martino-Taylor said. 
 

 

Previous investigations of the compound were rebuffed by the military, which insisted it was safe.  

 

However, Professor Martino-Taylor believes the documents she's uncovered, prove the zinc cadmium silfide was also mixed with radioactive particles.

 

She has linked the St Louis testing to a now-defunct company called US Radium. The controversial company came under fire, and numerous lawsuits, after several of its workers were exposed to dangerous levels of radioactive materials in its fluorescent paint.

 
 

Senator Roy Blunt called the findings 'absolutely shocking.'
 

'The idea that thousands of Missourians were unwillingly exposed to harmful materials in order to determine their health effects is absolutely shocking. It should come as no surprise that these individuals and their families are demanding answers of government officials,' Senator Blunt said.
 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210415/Revealed-Army-scientists-secretly-sprayed-St-Louis-radioactive-particles-YEARS-test-chemical-warfare-technology.html#ixzz3YQwuiWZn 
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