Friday, September 08, 2017

Conversations with Melchizedek – Where is the Truth in Weather reporting?

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The Most Destructive Storm in History about to Destroy Florida
according to the news media

As Hurricane Irma moves toward Florida perhaps it is time we ask where is the media getting all the doom and gloom predictions that have citizens throughout America glued to the television tube.  Of course, we should never ignore storm warnings, but is there a sinister force at work to keep us on edge, to keep us trapped in fear, and if we are in the storm zone, and to keep us buying up a mountain of storm supplies.


One wonders what is the source and reason for the dramatic, life-threatening, predictions for the latest version of the worst storms in history.  Melchizedek long ago said Florida would weather any and all of the natural disasters we face in the next year without facing utter destruction as the news media warns.


Of course, Florida will be hit, but not by the worst storm in history.  South Florida might get a Category 1 or 2 storm and by the time Irma survives Miami and heads north, it more than likely will be a tropical storm only.


As for the track of the hurricane, I think the media keeps certain information from the public, information that would undermine the headlines and prove much of the pre-hurricane hype of the media is not for the public interest but for the profitability of the media advertisers.


Storm warnings are one of the most effective ways to get the attention of the public, and to make sure you get the most attention, the more dire the “breaking news” headlines the higher the ratings.  Once the hotel are all booked, the evacuations are underway, store shelves are empty, and gas pumps are dry, the last 48-72 hours before the storm, truth starts to surface in the news reports.


Suddenly those deadly 185 to 225 mph winds circling the eye of Dante’s beast stop being mentioned in the media because they were never going to reach Florida.  It will be more like 100 mph winds hit and the Florida building code requires buildings withstand over 135 mph.  If the storm hits in Miami, then Orlando and Jacksonville much farther north will only see a weak tropical storm.  Panic sells and ratings soar the more hysterical the news forecasts.


The one chart from NOOA, about the only source of information that tells the truth, that might help give “honest” forecasts from the news media they refuse to reference in real time because it might stop the hysteria and slow down the panic buying of storm supplies.


Called the “Tropical Surface Analysis / NWS Unified Surface Analysis.”

Here is the purpose of the map as stated by NOAA.

Purpose
The Tropical Surface Analysis is created every six hours to depict the current state of atmosphere, specifically the sea level pressure field and any relevant synoptic surface features. The Tropical Surface Analysis is attached to surface analyses over North America, the North Atlantic Ocean, the North Pacific Ocean, and the Western Pacific Ocean to create the National Weather Service Unified Surface Analysis.


Content
The Tropical Surface Analysis and NWS Unified Surface Analysis depict the sea level pressure field by showing lines of equal pressure, usually in increments of four millibars (mb) but often in increments of two millibars where the pressure gradient is weaker (especially in the tropics). The analysis also depicts important surface features that affect the weather, including areas of high and low pressure, frontal systems (cold, warm, stationary, and occluded), troughs, tropical cyclones, tropical waves, the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), drylines, and squall lines.


Coverage
The Tropical Surface Analysis is created by the National Hurricane Center and covers the area approximately from 30°N to 20°S between 0° and 140°W. This area includes the tropical and subtropical areas of the Atlantic and East Pacific Oceans, Mexico, Florida, the Caribbean, South America, and West Africa. For radiofax purposes, the analysis is split into three different areas:
1.            Atlantic (East Half from 5°S to 50°N between 0° and 70°W)
2.            Atlantic (West Half from 5°S to 50°N between 55°W and 125°W)
3.            Eastern Pacific (from 20°S to 40°N between 70°W and 150°W)


The NWS Unified Surface Analysis is created by merging the separate surface analysis produced by the National Hurricane Center, the Weather Prediction Center, the Ocean Prediction Center, and the Honolulu Weather Forecast Office. The total area spans from the equator northward nearly to the North Pole, from 20°E westward to 130°W. This covers the area from Europe and Central Africa westward across North and South America to East Asia.


Look closely at the section zoomed and you will see a line showing a High and Low line cutting through the middle of the state, it shows red and blue marks.  This is the leading edge of a powerful front that will push Irma to the east.  Out in the ocean you see a huge High that will keep the storm moving up the east coast trapped between the High/Low front and the High.


The same conditions have been forming the entire time Irma has been tracked by the media but if this Tropical Surface Analysis / NWS Unified Surface Analysis real time chart by NOAA was reported, we would have known the damage zone was far, far, less than reported.


Truth seems to be evasive where ever you turn.  However, give the government it’s due when appropriate, NOAA DID report the truth, the news media chose to ignore it.  As Melchizedek says, perhaps we should question the source and seek the truth.  It is time for truth.

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Thursday, September 07, 2017

Conversations with Melchizedek – Natural Disasters Reclaim the World for Mother Earth

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Previous Conversations with Melchizedek discussed how we are entering a period of unprecedented natural disasters in which a succession of storms would defy previous records and results in their intensity and destruction.


This year has brought a rather consistent series of weather anomalies from record warmth in the winter, record rains, record fires, record hurricanes, monsoons, flooding, and the damage has been throughout the world.



Melchizedek says this is Mother Earth demonstrating that no matter how advanced our technology and how evolved our materials we are still subject to, and dependent on, Divine and Natural Law to keep stability in our lives.



As we drift farther and farther from the path of spiritual evolution and fall deeper and deeper into the age of technology slavery through artificial intelligence, Mother Earth will teach us that our technology and the internet and the never-ending apps for our personal use cannot stop the ravages of nature or the efforts of Mother Earth to protect our planet.



Right now, we face worldwide consequences in the form of record shattering weather anomalies as no sooner than Hurricane Harvey stops dead over Houston and drops up to five feet of water, Hurricane Irma brings the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic with 180 mph sustained winds, and gusts up to 225 mph.



We expect Irma to turn north earlier than projected and save much of Florida from catastrophic damage as the far more dangerous Eastern side of the storm remains out to sea.  Because this massive storm is 400 miles wide the State of Florida will be hit with tropical winds and rains, but spared the devastating damage of the super winds and torrential rains.



One might consider it a miracle if that happens as at present there is no consensus on where the storm track will lead.  Under our scenario the hurricane will reach land between the Georgia-South Carolina border and North Carolina with remnants of a tropical storm pushing into the Mid-Atlantic.




Hurricane Harvey proved nature can change patterns and records at will.  Hurricane Irma will reinforce this with an exclamation point!   However, hurricanes are not the only weather anomalies impacting on the world.
 










At the same time numerous countries face record shattering wildfires from the US to Canada, New Zealand to Russia, to France, while the India area faces record monsoons.
 




We must wake up to the form of purification that is being brought to our Earth.  Melchizedek says such actions are course corrections to help keep the spiritual evolution of civilization on track.



The electromagnetic spider web we have created to establish the Internet and offer a never-ending series of apps to take care of our every need, is a serious distraction, it stops the creative process and blocks the use of the imagination in people, and makes us ever more dependent on artificial intelligence to survive.


If we as inhabitants of this Earth can collectively work to protect Mother Earth and protect our own children from the ravages of technology slavery, then collectively we can change the future and once again get on the Road to Kingdom Come.




Will you be part of the collective conscious of humanity working to facilitate our return to the Kingdom?


By the way, we are not the only people watching these natural disasters and seeking opportunities to exploit humanity in the midst of the tragedy.
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Thursday, August 17, 2017

The Roots of Country Music - Appalachia to Nashville

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Most people probably have little understanding of the roots of country music in America because it has always been taken for granted that country is one of the core genres we have always had around. It is known as the heartbeat and soul of America and been around about as long as the Europeans have been here.

Over the years we may have heard country music we liked, some even crossed over to pop and rock charts, and many stars in other genres either started as country music singers or became famous and then cut a country song or album. But do we really know from whence it came?



When English speaking America was first being colonized in the 1600's the coastal areas were settled first, Virginia, Massachusetts and Maryland, all by 1634 and it did not take long for the European immigrants to make their way to the Appalachian Mountains, the Southern Appalachians that is, which included the Blue Ridge Mountain range and Cumberland Plateau. Western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee territories along with pieces of the Carolinas and Georgia made up the region which served as a barrier to westward expansion.


Immigrants came to the area because the coastal regions were already populated and with them came the Old World musical instruments were brought together in barn dances and celebrations by these hardy people settling the region. This was in the days before electricity, before electric guitars and synthesizers



The Irish fiddle, German dulcimer, Italian mandolin, Spanish guitar and African banjo were brought to these celebrations and played together in hillbilly jam sessions far from the operas and symphonies of the cities on the east coast. This came to be known as "Old Time" music.

In the 19th century some immigrant groups moved to the Texas area to settle and further integrated the hillbilly sound with Spanish, Mexican and Native American music and large dancehalls were built where the locals could gather and dance to the sounds. This was the final step in the evolution of the roots of Country Music.

Then came the 20th century with cars and roads and radio which brought down the barriers of communication and people from throughout the nation could hear this unique American creation. The first country recording was in 1921 and throughout the 1920's as radio expanded so did the country music.



Country musicians were great innovators ever since mixing the instruments from five counties up in the Appalachians and electricity, recording and touring gave them more and more opportunities to do this. Hillbilly music grew in popularity driven by the Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers and in 1925 WSM-AM radio in Nashville started the first country music broadcast, on November 28, 1925, when the WSM Barn Dance was first broadcast. In time it would become the Grand Ole Opry under the guidance of people like Roy Acuff.

By the 1930's and Great Depression people were poor and the radio became the primary source of news and entertainment. Soon a fledgling movie industry introduced the Singing cowboys while radio was expanding the barn dances with legendary country shows being broadcast from Chicago to Texas to California. In the 1940's these shows introduced singers like Roy Acuff, Bill Haley, Eddie Arnold and singing cowboys like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.



Bob Wills and his legendary Texas Playboys was among the innovators of country music when in 1935 he introduced drums to the band, a first, then became the first group with the electric guitar in 1938. Yet it was not until the early 1960's that the steel guitar and drums were fixtures in country bands.

Hillbilly music spawned Hillbilly Boogie by 1939 and a new country genre called Bluegrass emerged with the sound of Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs at the end World War II. By this time country music included Hillbilly, Boogie, Blues, Honky Tonk, Gospel and Rockabilly.



To the rest of the world country music was called Hillbilly until 1944 when the name was changed to Folk and Blues music. By 1949 it was labeled Country or Country Western, the latter referring to the singing cowboys of movies and then television. Honky Tonk saw the rise of Ernest Tubb, Floyd Tillman, the Maddox Brothers and Rose, Lefty Frizell and Hank Williams.



Along came the 1950's and country music changed again as Rockabilly dominated with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins leading the way. From 1955-1960 ABC-TV became the first network with a nationwide country show called the Ozark Jubilee that showcased country stars to the nation. Elvis helped drive the cross-over between Rockabilly and Rock 'n Roll.

Late in the '50's came the Lubbock Sound of Buddy Holly and then there was a country backlash as the industry felt rock 'n roll was to dominate. Ray Price, Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton began to shift the music back to traditional country.


In the early 1960's the Nashville sound became dominant with producers like Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley and Billy Sherrill reviving the genre with legendary singers Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold. Ray Charles introduced Country Soul in 1962 with his release of I Can't Stop Loving You. A new sound in Nashville called Countrypolitan was created featuring the sounds of Tammy Wynette and Charlie Rich. But soon the Nashville sound became stale.

Out west Honky Tonk and Western Swing were merged by Bob Wills and Lefty Frizell to form the Bakersfield Sound. It would encompass the diversity of different styles from Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Tommy Collins and Wynn Stewart.



In other places like Lubbock, Tulsa and Austin the disappointment with the Nashville Sound and control of the record labels was causing an Outlaw movement. Inspired by the success of The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones in demanding creative control of their music and control of their songs, the Outlaws gravitated to Austin where Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson became the leaders.

Not only did their music change but their image as well. Gone were the clean cut, clean shaven cowboys of old and in were the long haired radical Outlaws of the future. Jessie Colter, wife of Waylon, was one of the female pioneers while Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard soon joined forces.

With The Beatles astounding success blending rock and pop music Nashville was hungry to tap into the crossover sound needed to reach the mainstream markets. Others, seeking a return to the "old values" of rock 'n roll, created a new genre called Country Rock.



The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, Poco, Buffalo Springfield and Eagles exploded onto the music scene as Southern Rock and Heartland became new subgenre spin offs. Ever since there has been a tug of war between traditional country and country rock or country pop as stars like Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Juice Newton, Alabama, Hank Williams, Jr., Brooks and Dunn, Garth Brooks, Dwight Yoakum, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, and Keith Urban helped move country towards rock over the years.



By the mid 1970's Olivia Newton John and John Denver captured the Country Pop crossover market and powered their way to CMA and Grammy Awards with multi million selling hits. Soon a whole new group of country performers would take up the mantle.



George Straight, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, Toby Keith, Reba McEntire, Kenny Chesney, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill and Tim McGraw among others perform the Classic Country style today while the pop crossover comes from new artists like Carrie Underwood from American Idol fame and newest sensation Taylor Swift who have breathed new life into the country music industry.



What is next? Who knows. Still, those who understand that country music is an ever-changing genre that morphs into a variety of styles depending on the needs of the people and the innovation of the artists, must feel good as a broad range of artists currently dominate the radio airwaves and rule the concert circuit.

As the major record labels collapse, the radio stations strangle on their own automated programming and the formula music once again becomes stale we know it is the time when country music always rediscovers itself. Nashville will be a lot better as a result, all country artists will benefit, the public will reap the rewards of new and innovative country music and history will once again record that the American country sound once again became relevant in a time of need and a time of truth.
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