prepareforchange--2020-05-29--4 steps to connect with your FAMILY OF LIGHT

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prepareforchange--2020-05-29--40.8 Million Out Of Work In The Past 10 Weeks — 26% Of Labor Force

More than 1 in 4 U.S. workers have lost their jobs since the coronavirus crisis shut down much of the economy in March .
Just last week , another 2.1 million people filed for unemployment benefits , the Labor Department said Thursday .
That ’ s down 323,000 from the previous week but brings the total for the past 10 weeks to 40.8 million , which represents 26 % of the civilian labor force in April .
Employment dropped steeply in most areas of the country in recent weeks , the Federal Reserve said Wednesday .
A Fed survey found @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in retail and in leisure and hospitality sectors.
” For Many , $ 600 Jobless Benefit Makes It Hard To Return To Work “ Contacts cited challenges in bringing employees back to work , including workers ’ health concerns , limited access to childcare , and generous unemployment insurance benefits , ” the Fed said in its Beige Book survey .
Signs of an ailing job market are everywhere : • Boeing is cutting more than 12,000 jobs after the sudden drop in air travel hit the airplane manufacturing giant hard .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ J.C. Penney , Neiman Marcus and J .
Crew , have filed for bankruptcy .
• With tax revenues dwindling , cities large and small are facing deep budget deficits , forcing them to furlough municipal workers .
Nearly 1 million government workers were laid off in April alone .
But some workers around the country are also beginning to return to their jobs as many states move to reopen their economies .
Disney World and other Florida theme parks have announced plans to reopen in the next few weeks .
In California @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been cleared to reopen under guidelines that recommend employee screenings , face coverings and social distancing .
And Amazon announced Thursday that it ’ s offering full-time jobs to 125,000 of the 175,000 temporary employees it hired during the pandemic .
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More than 1 in 4 U.S. workers have lost their jobs since the coronavirus crisis shut down much of the economy in March.
Just last week, another 2.1 million people filed for unemployment benefits, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s down 323,000 from the previous week but brings the total for the past 10 weeks to 40.8 million, which represents 26% of the civilian labor force in April.
Employment dropped steeply in most areas of the country in recent weeks, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday. A Fed survey found that “employment continued to fall sharply in retail and in leisure and hospitality sectors.”For Many, $600 Jobless Benefit Makes It Hard To Return To Work
“Contacts cited challenges in bringing employees back to work, including workers’ health concerns, limited access to childcare, and generous unemployment insurance benefits,” the Fed said in its Beige Book survey.
Signs of an ailing job market are everywhere:
Boeing is cutting more than 12,000 jobs after the sudden drop in air travel hit the airplane manufacturing giant hard.
A number of major retailers, including J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus and J. Crew, have filed for bankruptcy.
With tax revenues dwindling, cities large and small are facing deep budget deficits, forcing them to furlough municipal workers. Nearly 1 million government workers were laid off in April alone.
But some workers around the country are also beginning to return to their jobs as many states move to reopen their economies. Disney World and other Florida theme parks have announced plans to reopen in the next few weeks. In California, stores ordered closed since March 19 have been cleared to reopen under guidelines that recommend employee screenings, face coverings and social distancing.
And Amazon announced Thursday that it’s offering full-time jobs to 125,000 of the 175,000 temporary employees it hired during the pandemic.
Source: https://www.npr.org
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prepareforchange--2020-05-29--The government shuts down your business through no fault of your own, then suggests that you BORROW

The government shuts down your business through no fault of your own, then suggests that you BORROW the money and assume all the risk entailed to cover it for them?

Let ’ s say your business was struggling after the slow season , but sound and fine before health and government authorities started advising people to distance themselves from each other .
At the moment , it is mandated that your business be shut down .
You were preparing for the final four in Atlanta , and it would have meant paying off a lot of your existing loans .
That money is gone forever now .
The solution the government offers : They want YOU to borrow the money to cover THEIR mandated shutdown .
It ’ s okay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be “ forgiven ” .
Or maybe you ’ ll get your ass handed to you after the fact for making a mistake on the application form .
Maybe you ’ ll owe more than is forgiven if your business struggles to re-open .
IF you ’ re lucky enough to qualify , that is .
There is a very real possibility that some small businesses are not going to make it out of this alive , even with a total bailout .
It ’ s going to take a *long* time for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resembling normal .
Jobs will be lost and lives will be ruined .
Of the businesses that can survive , the added pressure of owing even more loans and more debt is not going to be a benefit .
Your business DID NOT FAIL .
You didn ’ t make bad business decisions .
The government interfered with consumer sentiment in response to a global health crisis ( and rightfully so ) .
First they inadvertently shut you down by doing that , then they expressly and directly shut you down .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ choices , they should have to pay for them .
YES , it was necessary because of this pandemic and it sucks that ANYBODY has to pay the bill , but how does that fall into your lap ?
Why should you accept being on the hook for the overall economy and be asked to go into more debt with an extremely uncertain future ?
If the powers that be are so convinced of an immediate bounceback in consumer sentiment , it seems that THEY should place THEIR bets on it instead of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finances and future .
If anyone can afford to lose that bet , it ’ s them .
If no one can , then small business owners sure as hell aren ’ t going to be able to afford it .
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By rexruther99,
Let’s say your business was struggling after the slow season, but sound and fine before health and government authorities started advising people to distance themselves from each other. At the moment, it is mandated that your business be shut down. You were preparing for the final four in Atlanta, and it would have meant paying off a lot of your existing loans. That money is gone forever now.
The solution the government offers: They want YOU to borrow the money to cover THEIR mandated shutdown. It’s okay though, because *some* of it *might* be “forgiven”. Or maybe you’ll get your ass handed to you after the fact for making a mistake on the application form. Maybe you’ll owe more than is forgiven if your business struggles to re-open. IF you’re lucky enough to qualify, that is.
There is a very real possibility that some small businesses are not going to make it out of this alive, even with a total bailout. It’s going to take a *long* time for travel and hospitality to recover to anything resembling normal. Jobs will be lost and lives will be ruined. Of the businesses that can survive, the added pressure of owing even more loans and more debt is not going to be a benefit.
Your business DID NOT FAIL. You didn’t make bad business decisions. The government interfered with consumer sentiment in response to a global health crisis (and rightfully so). First they inadvertently shut you down by doing that, then they expressly and directly shut you down. They were in charge, they made the choices, they should have to pay for them.
YES, it was necessary because of this pandemic and it sucks that ANYBODY has to pay the bill, but how does that fall into your lap? Why should you accept being on the hook for the overall economy and be asked to go into more debt with an extremely uncertain future?
If the powers that be are so convinced of an immediate bounceback in consumer sentiment, it seems that THEY should place THEIR bets on it instead of telling YOU how to gamble with YOUR finances and future. If anyone can afford to lose that bet, it’s them. If no one can, then small business owners sure as hell aren’t going to be able to afford it.
Source: IWB
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prepareforchange--2020-05-29--The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower

The inventor ’ s vision of a global wireless-transmission tower proved to be his undoing .
By the end of his brilliant and tortured life , the Serbian physicist , engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla was penniless and living in a small New York City hotel room .
He spent days in a park surrounded by the creatures that mattered most to him—pigeons—and his sleepless nights working over mathematical equations and scientific problems in his head .
That habit would confound scientists and scholars for decades after he died , in 1943 .
His inventions were designed and perfected in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be without equal , and he wasn ’ t above chiding his contemporaries , such as Thomas Edison , who once hired him .
“ If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack , ” Tesla once wrote , “ he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search .
I was a sorry witness of such doing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
” But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in scientific talent ( by Tesla ’ s estimation ) , men like Edison and George Westinghouse clearly possessed the one trait that Tesla did not—a mind for business .
And in the last days of America ’ s Gilded Age , Nikola Tesla made a dramatic attempt to change the future of communications and power transmission around the world .
He managed to convince J.P. Morgan that he was on the verge of a breakthrough , and the financier gave Tesla more than $ 150,000 to fund what would become a gigantic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ middle of Long Island , New York .
In 1898 , as Tesla ’ s plans to create a worldwide wireless transmission system became known , Wardenclyffe Tower would be Tesla ’ s last chance to claim the recognition and wealth that had always escaped him .
Nikola Tesla was born in modern-day Croatia in 1856 ; his father , Milutin , was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
From an early age , he demonstrated the obsessiveness that would puzzle and amuse those around him .
He could memorize entire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brain .
He picked up languages easily , and he could work through days and nights on only a few hours sleep .
At the age of 19 , he was studying electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria , where he quickly established himself as a star student .
He found himself in an ongoing debate with a professor over perceived design flaws in the direct-current ( DC ) motors that were being demonstrated in class .
“ In attacking the problem again I almost regretted that the struggle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later wrote .
“ I had so much energy to spare .
When I undertook the task it was not with a resolve such as men often make .
With me it was a sacred vow , a question of life and death .
I knew that I would perish if I failed .
Now I felt that the battle was won .
Back in the deep recesses of the brain was the solution , but I could not yet give it outward expression.
” He would spend the next six years of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fields and a hypothetical motor powered by alternate-current that would and should work .
The thoughts obsessed him , and he was unable to focus on his schoolwork .
Professors at the university warned Tesla ’ s father that the young scholar ’ s working and sleeping habits were killing him .
But rather than finish his studies , Tesla became a gambling addict , lost all his tuition money , dropped out of school and suffered a nervous breakdown .
It would not be his last .
In 1881 , Tesla moved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ breakdown , and he was walking through a park with a friend , reciting poetry , when a vision came to him .
There in the park , with a stick , Tesla drew a crude diagram in the dirt—a motor using the principle of rotating magnetic fields created by two or more alternating currents .
While AC electrification had been employed before , there would never be a practical , working motor run on alternating current until he invented his induction motor several years later .
In June 1884 , Tesla sailed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four cents in his pocket and a letter of recommendation from Charles Batchelor—a former employer—to Thomas Edison , which was purported to say , “ My Dear Edison : I know two great men and you are one of them .
The other is this young man !
” A meeting was arranged , and once Tesla described the engineering work he was doing , Edison , though skeptical , hired him .
According to Tesla , Edison offered him $ 50,000 if he could improve upon the DC generation plants Edison favored @ @ @ @ @ @ @ informed the American inventor that he had indeed improved upon Edison ’ s motors .
Edison , Tesla noted , refused to pay up .
“ When you become a full-fledged American , you will appreciate an American joke , ” Edison told him .
Tesla promptly quit and took a job digging ditches .
But it wasn ’ t long before word got out that Tesla ’ s AC motor was worth investing in , and the Western Union Company put Tesla to work in a lab not far from Edison ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power systems that are still used around the world .
“ The motors I built there , ” Tesla said , “ were exactly as I imagined them .
I made no attempt to improve the design , but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision , and the operation was always as I expected.
” Tesla patented his AC motors and power systems , which were said to be the most valuable inventions since the telephone .
Soon , George Westinghouse , recognizing that Tesla ’ s designs might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ efforts to unseat Edison ’ s DC current , licensed his patents for $ 60,000 in stocks and cash and royalties based on how much electricity Westinghouse could sell .
Ultimately , he won the “ War of the Currents , ” but at a steep cost in litigation and competition for both Westinghouse and Edison ’ s General Electric Company .
Fearing ruin , Westinghouse begged Tesla for relief from the royalties Westinghouse agreed to .
“ Your decision determines the fate of the Westinghouse Company , ” he said .
Tesla @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never tried to swindle him , tore up the royalty contract , walking away from millions in royalties that he was already owed and billions that would have accrued in the future .
He would have been one of the wealthiest men in the world—a titan of the Gilded Age .
His work with electricity reflected just one facet of his fertile mind .
Before the turn of the 20th century , Tesla had invented a powerful coil that was capable of generating high voltages and frequencies , leading to new forms of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as well as X-rays .
Tesla also discovered that these coils , soon to be called “ Tesla Coils , ” made it possible to send and receive radio signals .
He quickly filed for American patents in 1897 , beating the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi to the punch .
Tesla continued to work on his ideas for wireless transmissions when he proposed to J.P. Morgan his idea of a wireless globe .
After Morgan put up the $ 150,000 to build the giant transmission tower , Tesla promptly hired the noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and White in New York .
White , too , was smitten with Tesla ’ s idea .
After all , Tesla was the highly acclaimed man behind Westinghouse ’ s success with alternating current , and when Tesla talked , he was persuasive .
“ As soon as completed , it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions , and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere , ” Tesla said at the time .
“ He will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ desk , and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe , without any change whatever in the existing equipment .
An inexpensive instrument , not bigger than a watch , will enable its bearer to hear anywhere , on sea or land , music or song , the speech of a political leader , the address of an eminent man of science , or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman , delivered in some other place , however distant .
In the same manner any picture , character , drawing or print @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place .
Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind.
” White quickly got to work designing Wardenclyffe Tower in 1901 , but soon after construction began it became apparent that Tesla was going to run out of money before it was finished .
An appeal to Morgan for more money proved fruitless , and in the meantime investors were rushing to throw their money behind Marconi .
In December 1901 , Marconi successfully sent a signal from England to Newfoundland .
Tesla grumbled that the Italian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but litigation eventually favored Marconi and the commercial damage was done .
( The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately upheld Tesla ’ s claims , clarifying Tesla ’ s role in the invention of the radio—but not until 1943 , after he died . )
Thus the Italian inventor was credited as the inventor of radio and became rich .
Wardenclyffe Tower became a 186-foot-tall relic ( it would be razed in 1917 ) , and the defeat—Tesla ’ s worst—led to another of his breakdowns .
” It is not a dream , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering , only expensive—blind , faint-hearted , doubting world !
” Guglielmo Marconi in 1903 from Library of Congress By 1912 , Tesla began to withdraw from that doubting world .
He was clearly showing signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder , and was potentially a high-functioning autistic .
He became obsessed with cleanliness and fixated on the number three ; he began shaking hands with people and washing his hands—all done in sets of three .
He had to have 18 napkins on his table during meals , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ walked anywhere .
He claimed to have an abnormal sensitivity to sounds , as well as an acute sense of sight , and he later wrote that he had “ a violent aversion against the earrings of women , ” and “ the sight of a pearl would almost give me a fit.
” Near the end of his life , Tesla became fixated on pigeons , especially a specific white female , which he claimed to love almost as one would love a human being .
One night , Tesla claimed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ window at his hotel , and he believed the bird had come to tell him she was dying .
He saw “ two powerful beams of light ” in the bird ’ s eyes , he later said .
“ Yes , it was a real light , a powerful , dazzling , blinding light , a light more intense than I had ever produced by the most powerful lamps in my laboratory.
” The pigeon died in his arms , and the inventor claimed that in that moment , he knew that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work .
Nikola Tesla would go on to make news from time to time while living on the 33rd floor of the New Yorker Hotel .
In 1931 he made the cover of Time magazine , which featured his inventions on his 75th birthday .
And in 1934 , the New York Times reported that Tesla was working on a “ Death Beam ” capable of knocking 10,000 enemy airplanes out of the sky .
He hoped to fund a prototypical defensive weapon in the interest of world peace , but his appeals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minister Neville Chamberlain went nowhere .
Tesla did , however , receive a $ 25,000 check from the Soviet Union , but the project languished .
He died in 1943 , in debt , although Westinghouse had been paying his room and board at the hotel for years .
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The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , your own intuition and your own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not .
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The inventor’s vision of a global wireless-transmission tower proved to be his undoing.
Image Courtesy of Library of Congress
Authored by Gilbert King
By the end of his brilliant and tortured life, the Serbian physicist, engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla was penniless and living in a small New York City hotel room. He spent days in a park surrounded by the creatures that mattered most to him—pigeons—and his sleepless nights working over mathematical equations and scientific problems in his head. That habit would confound scientists and scholars for decades after he died, in 1943. His inventions were designed and perfected in his imagination.
Tesla believed his mind to be without equal, and he wasn’t above chiding his contemporaries, such as Thomas Edison, who once hired him. “If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack,” Tesla once wrote, “he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.”
But what his contemporaries may have been lacking in scientific talent (by Tesla’s estimation), men like Edison and George Westinghouse clearly possessed the one trait that Tesla did not—a mind for business. And in the last days of America’s Gilded Age, Nikola Tesla made a dramatic attempt to change the future of communications and power transmission around the world. He managed to convince J.P. Morgan that he was on the verge of a breakthrough, and the financier gave Tesla more than $150,000 to fund what would become a gigantic, futuristic and startling tower in the middle of Long Island, New York. In 1898, as Tesla’s plans to create a worldwide wireless transmission system became known, Wardenclyffe Tower would be Tesla’s last chance to claim the recognition and wealth that had always escaped him.
Nikola Tesla was born in modern-day Croatia in 1856; his father, Milutin, was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church. From an early age, he demonstrated the obsessiveness that would puzzle and amuse those around him. He could memorize entire books and store logarithmic tables in his brain. He picked up languages easily, and he could work through days and nights on only a few hours sleep.
At the age of 19, he was studying electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria, where he quickly established himself as a star student. He found himself in an ongoing debate with a professor over perceived design flaws in the direct-current (DC) motors that were being demonstrated in class. “In attacking the problem again I almost regretted that the struggle was soon to end,” Tesla later wrote. “I had so much energy to spare. When I undertook the task it was not with a resolve such as men often make. With me it was a sacred vow, a question of life and death. I knew that I would perish if I failed. Now I felt that the battle was won. Back in the deep recesses of the brain was the solution, but I could not yet give it outward expression.”
He would spend the next six years of his life “thinking” about electromagnetic fields and a hypothetical motor powered by alternate-current that would and should work. The thoughts obsessed him, and he was unable to focus on his schoolwork. Professors at the university warned Tesla’s father that the young scholar’s working and sleeping habits were killing him. But rather than finish his studies, Tesla became a gambling addict, lost all his tuition money, dropped out of school and suffered a nervous breakdown. It would not be his last.
In 1881, Tesla moved to Budapest, after recovering from his breakdown, and he was walking through a park with a friend, reciting poetry, when a vision came to him. There in the park, with a stick, Tesla drew a crude diagram in the dirt—a motor using the principle of rotating magnetic fields created by two or more alternating currents. While AC electrification had been employed before, there would never be a practical, working motor run on alternating current until he invented his induction motor several years later.
In June 1884, Tesla sailed for New York City and arrived with four cents in his pocket and a letter of recommendation from Charles Batchelor—a former employer—to Thomas Edison, which was purported to say, “My Dear Edison: I know two great men and you are one of them. The other is this young man!”
A meeting was arranged, and once Tesla described the engineering work he was doing, Edison, though skeptical, hired him. According to Tesla, Edison offered him $50,000 if he could improve upon the DC generation plants Edison favored. Within a few months, Tesla informed the American inventor that he had indeed improved upon Edison’s motors. Edison, Tesla noted, refused to pay up. “When you become a full-fledged American, you will appreciate an American joke,” Edison told him.
Tesla promptly quit and took a job digging ditches. But it wasn’t long before word got out that Tesla’s AC motor was worth investing in, and the Western Union Company put Tesla to work in a lab not far from Edison’s office, where he designed AC power systems that are still used around the world. “The motors I built there,” Tesla said, “were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision, and the operation was always as I expected.”
Tesla patented his AC motors and power systems, which were said to be the most valuable inventions since the telephone. Soon, George Westinghouse, recognizing that Tesla’s designs might be just what he needed in his efforts to unseat Edison’s DC current, licensed his patents for $60,000 in stocks and cash and royalties based on how much electricity Westinghouse could sell. Ultimately, he won the “War of the Currents,” but at a steep cost in litigation and competition for both Westinghouse and Edison’s General Electric Company.
Fearing ruin, Westinghouse begged Tesla for relief from the royalties Westinghouse agreed to. “Your decision determines the fate of the Westinghouse Company,” he said. Tesla, grateful to the man who had never tried to swindle him, tore up the royalty contract, walking away from millions in royalties that he was already owed and billions that would have accrued in the future. He would have been one of the wealthiest men in the world—a titan of the Gilded Age.
Wardenclyffe Tower
His work with electricity reflected just one facet of his fertile mind. Before the turn of the 20th century, Tesla had invented a powerful coil that was capable of generating high voltages and frequencies, leading to new forms of light, such as neon and fluorescent, as well as X-rays. Tesla also discovered that these coils, soon to be called “Tesla Coils,” made it possible to send and receive radio signals. He quickly filed for American patents in 1897, beating the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi to the punch.
Tesla continued to work on his ideas for wireless transmissions when he proposed to J.P. Morgan his idea of a wireless globe. After Morgan put up the $150,000 to build the giant transmission tower, Tesla promptly hired the noted architect Stanford White of McKim, Mead, and White in New York. White, too, was smitten with Tesla’s idea. After all, Tesla was the highly acclaimed man behind Westinghouse’s success with alternating current, and when Tesla talked, he was persuasive.
“As soon as completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere,” Tesla said at the time. “He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing or print can be transferred from one to another place. Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind.”
White quickly got to work designing Wardenclyffe Tower in 1901, but soon after construction began it became apparent that Tesla was going to run out of money before it was finished. An appeal to Morgan for more money proved fruitless, and in the meantime investors were rushing to throw their money behind Marconi. In December 1901, Marconi successfully sent a signal from England to Newfoundland. Tesla grumbled that the Italian was using 17 of his patents, but litigation eventually favored Marconi and the commercial damage was done. (The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately upheld Tesla’s claims, clarifying Tesla’s role in the invention of the radio—but not until 1943, after he died.) Thus the Italian inventor was credited as the inventor of radio and became rich. Wardenclyffe Tower became a 186-foot-tall relic (it would be razed in 1917), and the defeat—Tesla’s worst—led to another of his breakdowns. ”It is not a dream,” Tesla said, “it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive—blind, faint-hearted, doubting world!”
Guglielmo Marconi in 1903 from Library of Congress
By 1912, Tesla began to withdraw from that doubting world. He was clearly showing signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and was potentially a high-functioning autistic. He became obsessed with cleanliness and fixated on the number three; he began shaking hands with people and washing his hands—all done in sets of three. He had to have 18 napkins on his table during meals, and would count his steps whenever he walked anywhere. He claimed to have an abnormal sensitivity to sounds, as well as an acute sense of sight, and he later wrote that he had “a violent aversion against the earrings of women,” and “the sight of a pearl would almost give me a fit.”
Near the end of his life, Tesla became fixated on pigeons, especially a specific white female, which he claimed to love almost as one would love a human being. One night, Tesla claimed the white pigeon visited him through an open window at his hotel, and he believed the bird had come to tell him she was dying. He saw “two powerful beams of light” in the bird’s eyes, he later said. “Yes, it was a real light, a powerful, dazzling, blinding light, a light more intense than I had ever produced by the most powerful lamps in my laboratory.” The pigeon died in his arms, and the inventor claimed that in that moment, he knew that he had finished his life’s work.
Nikola Tesla would go on to make news from time to time while living on the 33rd floor of the New Yorker Hotel. In 1931 he made the cover of Time magazine, which featured his inventions on his 75th birthday. And in 1934, the New York Times reported that Tesla was working on a “Death Beam” capable of knocking 10,000 enemy airplanes out of the sky. He hoped to fund a prototypical defensive weapon in the interest of world peace, but his appeals to J.P. Morgan Jr. and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went nowhere. Tesla did, however, receive a $25,000 check from the Soviet Union, but the project languished. He died in 1943, in debt, although Westinghouse had been paying his room and board at the hotel for years.
Source: Tesla
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prepareforchange--2020-05-30--Engineered Viruses are the New Biological Weapons

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prepareforchange--2020-05-30--Peace Meditation Every 4 Hours: For Peace in U.S. Cities

The following is from WeLoveMassMeditation.com , which plans and communicates global , synchronized mass meditations to bring peace and harmony to earth .
Step-by-step instructions for the meditation are at the bottom of this article .
We Can Meditate Now for Peace in U.S. Cities : Every 4 Hours The Protests Regarding Mr. Floyd ’ s Death Have Turned Violent On Monday , May 25th , George Floyd who was a 46-year-old black man was stopped by a number of police officers in Minneapolis .
One of the officers kneeled on his neck for somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ breathe .
The peaceful protests in Minneapolis spread across the United States and in the last two days have become violent , with arson , looting and vandalism .
The Jesuits want to turn this once-peaceful protest into a civil war in the USA .
Therefore , we are organizing a peace meditation for the USA every 4 hours from now on , so that peace can be restored in the cities of the USA and the plan of the Jesuits to engineer a civil war in the United States will be unsuccessful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 29th , at 4:15 PM UTC , and continue every 4 hours as follows until the situation is resolved .
12:15 AM UTC 04:15 AM UTC 08:15 AM UTC 12:15 PM UTC 04:15 PM UTC 08:15 PM UTC Find your own time zone in the following chart .
You can also do this meditation in your own time as frequently as you feel guided .
Here is the link to the Facebook event for this meditation : Here is a link to the guided audio YouTube playlist for this peace meditation .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was originally recorded to help harmonize the conflict in Iran .
You can simply focus on the United States and replace the phrase “ the situation in Iran ” with “ the situation in the United States ” in Step 2 of the meditation instruction , as well as replacing the phrase “ the Iranian conflict ” with “ this situation in the United States ” in Step 4 and 5 .
Step By Step Instructions for the 15-Minute Meditation Every 4 Hours Instructions of this meditation : ( Suggested time for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Use your own technique to bring you to a relaxed state of consciousness 2 .
State your intent to bring peace and healing to the United States .
3 .
Visualize a pillar of pink Light , emanating from the Galactic Central Sun and then descending down through your body and deep into the center of the Earth .
4 .
Visualize this Light flowing through your heart and then through your hands directly to everybody in the United States , harmonizing everyone and bringing peace .
Let the pink Light then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worldwide .
5 .
Ask the Goddess presence ( the divine feminine ) to direct energies of peace and harmony to everyone in the United States .
Let these energies then flow onwards and heal all other conflicts worldwide .
Allow these energies to continue to flow through your heart and then through your hands into this situation in the United States for a few minutes .
Goddess wants peace and peace it will be .
Disclaimer : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring you information that is not offered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may seem controversial .
The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , your own intuition and your own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not .
By @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

The following is from WeLoveMassMeditation.com, which plans and communicates global, synchronized mass meditations to bring peace and harmony to earth.
Step-by-step instructions for the global, synchronized peace meditation every 4 hours are below.
Meditate Every 4 Hours For Peace in the United States
The Peaceful Protests Have Escalated into Violence
On Monday, May 25th, George Floyd who was a 46-year-old black man was stopped by a number of police officers in Minneapolis. One of the officers kneeled on his neck for somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes while he cried that he could not breathe.
Mr Floyd died after officers arrested him.
The peaceful protests in Minneapolis spread across the United States and in the last two days have become violent, with arson, looting and vandalism. The plan of the Dark Forces is to turn this once-peaceful protest into a civil war in the USA. This global, synchronized peace meditation every 4 hours will help calm the situation.
Upcoming Eris-Pluto Square May Increase Potential for Violence
Also, as we are approaching the Eris-Pluto square on June 14th, tensions and potential for violence will increase for the next two weeks in the United States and worldwide. We need to bring this under peaceful control.
Therefore, we are organizing a peace meditation for the USA every 4 hours from now on, so that peace can be restored in the cities of the USA and the plan to engineer a civil war in the United States will be unsuccessful.
The meditation will begin on May 29th, at 4:15 PM UTC, and continue every 4 hours as follows until the situation is resolved.
12:15 AM UTC
04:15 AM UTC
08:15 AM UTC
12:15 PM UTC
04:15 PM UTC
08:15 PM UTC
Find your own time zone in this chart and sit down and meditate!
You can also do this meditation in your own time as frequently as you feel guided.
Here is the link to the Facebook event for this meditation:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2677232699215677/
Guided Audio Here
Here is a link to the 15-minute guided audio YouTube playlist for this peace meditation. This guided audio is from a few days ago. It is designed to bring calm to the situation in the United States.
Guided Audio Link:
https://bit.ly/2zMU7Cf
The Youtube link to the guided audio:
Step By Step Instructions for the 15-Minute Meditation Every 4 Hours
Instructions of this meditation: (Suggested time for this meditation is 15 minutes)
1. Use your own technique to bring you to a relaxed state of consciousness
2. State your intent to bring peace and healing to the United States.
3. Visualize a pillar of pink Light, emanating from the Galactic Central Sun and then descending down through your body and deep into the center of the Earth.
4. Visualize this Light flowing through your heart and then through your hands directly to everybody in the United States, harmonizing everyone and bringing peace. Let the pink Light then flow onwards, healing all other conflicts worldwide.
5. Ask the Goddess presence (the divine feminine) to direct energies of peace and harmony to everyone in the United States. Let these energies then flow onwards and heal all other conflicts worldwide. Allow these energies to continue to flow through your heart and then through your hands into this situation in the United States for a few minutes.
Goddess wants peace and peace it will be.
Source for this meditation is here.
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prepareforchange--2020-05-30--“Deadly Exchange”: America’s Racist Policing Has Roots in Israel

During training sessions in Israel , American police delegations meet with Israeli military , police , and intelligence agencies and taught what Israel calls counterterrorism , but is in fact no more than “ refining methods of racial profiling.
” Racism and violence against people of color in the U.S. is nothing new .
In fact , the United States , with its claims to be “ the land of the free , ” has always been a racist , genocidal and violent state .
It was founded on genocide of the native people and on the backs African slaves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ egregious war crimes in the history of mankind , including genocide , the use of nuclear weapons , destruction of democracies and support for murderous dictators around the world , and the list goes on and on from the earliest days of the Union to this very day .
The state of Israel , which historically speaking is a new creation , was also founded on genocide and racism .
For close to one hundred years the Zionist movement which created Israel has been engaged in a brutal campaign to rid Palestine of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Jewish colonizers .
It should , therefore , come as no surprise that good relations exist between the United States and Israel .
There are countless areas of life in the U.S. in which Israel and various Zionist organizations influence and interfere .
The Jewish Federation , the Anti-Defamation League , and AIPAC are the most commonly recognized but are only three out of countless organizations that operate throughout the fifty states and relentlessly pursue Israeli interests in all facets of American life .
These organizations interfere in U.S. elections by pouring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; they are engaged in heavily influencing the outcome of trials where the defendants are Arabs or Muslims , and they finance campaigns to edit and rewrite curricula in public schools so that the Middle East is always taught in a way that supports the Zionist narrative .
As the video clip of a Minnesota police officer slowly and callously choking George Floyd to death went viral , many people , including myself , remembered Palestine .
Officer Derek Chauvin , who casually placed his knee on George Floyd ’ s neck , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or police officer holding down a Palestinian .
The way he just sat there , took a knee on Floyd ’ s neck , ignoring Floyd who repeatedly said he can not breathe , ignoring Floyd as he begged him to allow him to breathe and ignoring the fact that the man under his knee was slowly suffocating to death made it clear that this cop was a predator and George Floyd was merely his prey .
This happens in America just as it happens in Palestine .
The similarities are no coincidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of what has become known as the “ Deadly Exchange , ” a collaboration between the two racist states who see no problem in executing and watching the slow agonizing death of black and brown people .
Deadly Exchange is the name of a campaign to stop the collaboration between police departments across the United States and the state of Israel .
The campaign put out an extensive report that outlines the cooperation between law enforcement in the U.S. and Israel .
The report also lists the dangers and threats that this exchange @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States .
Israel is wrongly heralded as a democracy facing perpetual threat .
In reality , it is an apartheid state and its security apparatus is dedicated neither to safety nor security as it claims , but rather to the subjugation of Palestinians .
During training sessions in Israel , U.S. law enforcement delegations meet with Israeli military , police , and intelligence agencies .
They are given “ opportunities ” to learn about what Israel calls counterterrorism , but is in fact no more than “ refining methods of racial profiling.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ attacks , within months of the attacks , American law enforcement representatives set out to Israel for their first official training expeditions .
The purpose was to learn from Isreal ’ s so-called “ expertise ” in what has become known as counter-terrorism .
Counter-Terrorism , it is worth noting here , is a euphemism for the violent means used to subjugate oppressed people .
Among the sponsors of this exchange program are the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ) , which claims to fight the defamation of Jewish people , but in fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Muslims , and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs ( JINSA ) .
JISNA claims it is dedicated to “ educating Congressional , military and civilian national security decision-makers on American defense and strategic interests , ” the cornerstone of which , according to JINSA , “ is a robust U.S.-Israeli security cooperation.
” Both groups are well funded Zionist organizations that are dedicated to promoting and defending Israeli violence and racism no matter what .
One of the many similarities between Israel and the United States is their propensity for systemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Israel has imposed an apartheid regime in occupied Palestine and Palestinian citizens of Israel are subjected to systematic profiling .
This means that interactions with the Israeli police regularly lead to “ excessive and often lethal use of force deployed with impunity.
” Not unlike the United States where black and brown Americans make up the majority of the prison population , in Israeli prisons , Palestinian citizens of Israel represent a disproportionate number of those incarcerated .
A report in the Israeli publication Mekomit states that Palestinian citizens of Israel , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overall population , comprise over 40 percent of the prison population , in fact , according to Mekomit , only about a quarter of prisoners held in Israeli prisons are Jewish , and amongst minors being held in Israeli prisons , only about 13 percent are Jews .
If we include “ security prisoners , ” who come from the occupied Palestinian West Bank , Jerusalem , and Gaza Strip , the numbers are even more grotesque , raising the percentage of Palestinians within the Israeli prison population to a staggering 73 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where an entire population is guilty until proven innocent and naturally , this is part of the so-called counterterrorism training offered by Israel .
It reinforces institutionalized racial profiling and even the targeting of social movements that demand racial justice .
The Israeli government uses false claims of “ terrorism ” to treat all Palestinians as potential enemy combatants .
The excuse of terrorism is also used in order to subjugate Palestinians to a different system of laws , which inevitably leads to more policing and higher rates of incarceration .
The training @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the media .
Members of law enforcement who have received the training reported that they “ learned about how to intervene and shape media access and coverage of violence committed by the military and police.
” The Israeli methods taught include how to use the media as an arm of the government and “ reframe coverage of state violence.
” The Israeli government utilizes the office of the military censor to control all reporting on Israel ’ s use of force .
It also reviews all books and other material before it can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The IDF Spokesperson ’ s office which also yields power over Israeli journalists , acts as Israel ’ s de facto public relations office , restricting and shaping local coverage of what it considers to be “ security affairs.
” It should be noted that in Israel there is very little criticism when it comes to the work of the army and other security agencies and reporters work very closely with the military to present its violence against Palestinians as justified .
Palestinian dissent , even when it is expressed in the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violence and borderline terrorism .
Israel has “ normalized ” the use of military force to stamp out popular protests , thus contributing to the undermining of basic civil rights of Palestinians .
These violent , forceful methods of controlling dissent are shown to the American police delegations through briefings and even live demonstrations .
The violent encounters black communities in the U.S. experience with the police have led many people to draw parallels between Palestinians and people of color in the United States .
This created a real sense of solidarity between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for liberation , a solidarity that is increasingly becoming stronger and can potentially turn the tide of public opinion on this issue in the U.S .
In its report , the Deadly Exchange Campaign demands that “ the American government end its violence in the name of security.
” The report also states that “ We hope that local governments nationwide heed the calls from communities across Palestine and the United States to help build a world with real safety that we all can inhabit with dignity.
” Miko Peled is an author @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He is the author of “ The General ’ s Son .
Journey of an Israeli in Palestine , ” and “ Injustice , the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.
” Disclaimer : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , your own intuition and your own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not .
By sharing information and seeding dialogue , it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

During training sessions in Israel, American police delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies and taught what Israel calls counterterrorism, but is in fact no more than “refining methods of racial profiling.”
By Miko Peled,
Racism and violence against people of color in the U.S. is nothing new. In fact, the United States, with its claims to be “the land of the free,” has always been a racist, genocidal and violent state. It was founded on genocide of the native people and on the backs African slaves. The United States committed the most egregious war crimes in the history of mankind, including genocide, the use of nuclear weapons, destruction of democracies and support for murderous dictators around the world, and the list goes on and on from the earliest days of the Union to this very day.
The state of Israel, which historically speaking is a new creation, was also founded on genocide and racism. For close to one hundred years the Zionist movement which created Israel has been engaged in a brutal campaign to rid Palestine of its indegenous population and give the land to Jewish colonizers. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that good relations exist between the United States and Israel.
There are countless areas of life in the U.S. in which Israel and various Zionist organizations influence and interfere. The Jewish Federation, the Anti-Defamation League, and AIPAC are the most commonly recognized but are only three out of countless organizations that operate throughout the fifty states and relentlessly pursue Israeli interests in all facets of American life.
These organizations interfere in U.S. elections by pouring money into the campaigns of pro-Israeli candidates; they are engaged in heavily influencing the outcome of trials where the defendants are Arabs or Muslims, and they finance campaigns to edit and rewrite curricula in public schools so that the Middle East is always taught in a way that supports the Zionist narrative.
A deadly exchange
As the video clip of a Minnesota police officer slowly and callously choking George Floyd to death went viral, many people, including myself, remembered Palestine. Officer Derek Chauvin, who casually placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck, could have easily been an Israeli soldier or police officer holding down a Palestinian. The way he just sat there, took a knee on Floyd’s neck, ignoring Floyd who repeatedly said he cannot breathe, ignoring Floyd as he begged him to allow him to breathe and ignoring the fact that the man under his knee was slowly suffocating to death made it clear that this cop was a predator and George Floyd was merely his prey.
This happens in America just as it happens in Palestine. The similarities are no coincidence and they may well be the result of what has become known as the “Deadly Exchange,” a collaboration between the two racist states who see no problem in executing and watching the slow agonizing death of black and brown people.
Deadly Exchange is the name of a campaign to stop the collaboration between police departments across the United States and the state of Israel. The campaign put out an extensive report that outlines the cooperation between law enforcement in the U.S. and Israel. The report also lists the dangers and threats that this exchange poses to people of color in the United States.
Israeli democracy and security
Israel is wrongly heralded as a democracy facing perpetual threat. In reality, it is an apartheid state and its security apparatus is dedicated neither to safety nor security as it claims, but rather to the subjugation of Palestinians. During training sessions in Israel, U.S. law enforcement delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies. They are given “opportunities” to learn about what Israel calls counterterrorism, but is in fact no more than “refining methods of racial profiling.”
Cynically taking advantage of the 9/11 attacks, within months of the attacks, American law enforcement representatives set out to Israel for their first official training expeditions. The purpose was to learn from Isreal’s so-called “expertise” in what has become known as counter-terrorism. Counter-Terrorism, it is worth noting here, is a euphemism for the violent means used to subjugate oppressed people.
Never the Aggressor: Israel Is Convinced of Its Own Benevolence Israel has convinced itself that the violence perpetrated by its soldiers is always justified, benevolent, and glorious. The very first delegation to Israel, according to Deadly Exchange , included police chiefs and deputies from California, Texas, Maryland, Florida, and New York. The delegation also included FBI and CIA agents, future ICE officers, and directors of New York City MTA security.
Among the sponsors of this exchange program are the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which claims to fight the defamation of Jewish people, but in fact is dedicated to defamation of Arabs and Muslims, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). JISNA claims it is dedicated to “educating Congressional, military and civilian national security decision-makers on American defense and strategic interests,” the cornerstone of which, according to JINSA, “is a robust U.S.-Israeli security cooperation.” Both groups are well funded Zionist organizations that are dedicated to promoting and defending Israeli violence and racism no matter what.
Systemic racism
One of the many similarities between Israel and the United States is their propensity for systemic racism. From the very beginning, Israel has imposed an apartheid regime in occupied Palestine and Palestinian citizens of Israel are subjected to systematic profiling. This means that interactions with the Israeli police regularly lead to “excessive and often lethal use of force deployed with impunity.”
Not unlike the United States where black and brown Americans make up the majority of the prison population, in Israeli prisons, Palestinian citizens of Israel represent a disproportionate number of those incarcerated. A report in the Israeli publication Mekomit states that Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up about 20 percent of the overall population, comprise over 40 percent of the prison population, in fact, according to Mekomit, only about a quarter of prisoners held in Israeli prisons are Jewish, and amongst minors being held in Israeli prisons, only about 13 percent are Jews.
If we include “security prisoners,” who come from the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, the numbers are even more grotesque, raising the percentage of Palestinians within the Israeli prison population to a staggering 73 percent.
Israeli policing utilizes an official policy where an entire population is guilty until proven innocent and naturally, this is part of the so-called counterterrorism training offered by Israel. It reinforces institutionalized racial profiling and even the targeting of social movements that demand racial justice.
The Israeli government uses false claims of “terrorism” to treat all Palestinians as potential enemy combatants. The excuse of terrorism is also used in order to subjugate Palestinians to a different system of laws, which inevitably leads to more policing and higher rates of incarceration.
Media
The training Israel offers also includes methods to control the media. Members of law enforcement who have received the training reported that they “learned about how to intervene and shape media access and coverage of violence committed by the military and police.” The Israeli methods taught include how to use the media as an arm of the government and “reframe coverage of state violence.”
The Israeli government utilizes the office of the military censor to control all reporting on Israel’s use of force. It also reviews all books and other material before it can be made available to the public. The IDF Spokesperson’s office which also yields power over Israeli journalists, acts as Israel’s de facto public relations office, restricting and shaping local coverage of what it considers to be “security affairs.”
How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners Israel has long conflated political activism and resistance with terrorism as an effective tool to demonize Palestinian political prisoners.
It should be noted that in Israel there is very little criticism when it comes to the work of the army and other security agencies and reporters work very closely with the military to present its violence against Palestinians as justified. Palestinian dissent, even when it is expressed in the most peaceful methods, is regularly reported as violence and borderline terrorism.
Israel has “normalized” the use of military force to stamp out popular protests, thus contributing to the undermining of basic civil rights of Palestinians. These violent, forceful methods of controlling dissent are shown to the American police delegations through briefings and even live demonstrations.
Parallels to Palestine
The violent encounters black communities in the U.S. experience with the police have led many people to draw parallels between Palestinians and people of color in the United States. This created a real sense of solidarity between U.S. social movements and the Palestinian struggle for liberation, a solidarity that is increasingly becoming stronger and can potentially turn the tide of public opinion on this issue in the U.S.
In its report, the Deadly Exchange Campaign demands that “the American government end its violence in the name of security.” The report also states that “We hope that local governments nationwide heed the calls from communities across Palestine and the United States to help build a world with real safety that we all can inhabit with dignity.”
Feature photo | Israeli police frisk a Palestinian man in Jerusalem, Jan 29, 2020. Mahmoud Illean | AP
Miko Peled is an author and human rights activist born in Jerusalem. He is the author of “The General’s Son. Journey of an Israeli in Palestine,” and “Injustice, the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.”
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