EARTHQUAKE SURVIVAL: Do Not Duck and Cover

Find a Triangle of Life Instead.

Remember that stuff about hiding under a table or standing in a doorway? Well, Doug Copp has an expert opinion that is a complete reversal of what we were all taught.

Please read this and pass this valuable information along to your family members; it could save their lives someday!

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE: 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE'

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries. I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their desks in the aisles. I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. At the time, I didn't know that the children were told to hide under something.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the 'triangle of life.' The larger the object, the stronger the triangle is and the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured.

The next time you watch collapsed buildings on television, count the 'triangles' you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape you will see in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY

1) Most everyone who simply 'ducks and covers' when buildings collapse are crushed to death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You should too in an earthquake. It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to to a large bulky object (like a sofa or desk) that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but will cause fewer squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes simply by posting a sign on the back of the door of every room. They can tell occupants to lie down on the floor next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.

5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa or large chair.

6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different 'moment of frequency' (they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads - horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. They may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety even when the rest of the building is not damaged.

8) Get near the outer walls of buildings or outside of them if possible. It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.


9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles. This

is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul,University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did 'duck and cover,' and ten mannequins used my 'triangle of life' survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the results. The results showed showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover. There likely would have been 100 percent survivability for people using my method of the 'triangle of life.' This film has been seen by millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, in the USA , Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.

Spread the word and save someone's life... The entire world is experiencing natural calamities so be prepared!

I hope you never have to use this information. But if you do need it, may it save your life.

Dr. Jane

Jane Myers Drew, Ph.D.

Mr. President, You're under arrest

right on, VETS, my brothers and sisters
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surrender yourself. Mr. President
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let them hear your voices, America!

a Philosophical weekend

Stefan Molyneux

from website intro: "Who am I? I have been a software entrepreneur and executive, co-founded a successful company and worked for many years as a Chief Technical Officer. I also studied English Literature at York University, hold an undergraduate degree in History from McGill University, and earned a graduate degree from the University of Toronto, focusing on the history of philosophy. I received an 'A' for my Master's Thesis analyzing the political implications of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke."
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I believe his comment board to be of extremely high quality.....
you must listen to his intro video on homepage.

Happiness is contagious: study

"getting connected to happy people improves a person's own happiness"

The Seismic Monitor

For shake-ups of various sorts...
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Stock market in "bounceback" mode according to CNN headline...
almost sounds happy, doesn't it? Good luck with that...

Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Johnson Speaking Freely
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to be cont'd

Stonehenge / 2300 B.C.

Built as a place of healing?
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And here is an appropriate video for Thanksgiving...
it's worth a ten minute watch.

Why am I Blogging?

I am a child of the 50's
the eldest of 5, that's why I act like I know everything...
"keep up with the Jones's"
"what will the neighbors think?"
"don't talk to ME in that tone of voice"
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I entered catholic school in 1st grade, after I was
tested as having high enough IQ
(I mean, high enough to spend the tuition money on)
I loved the relics and holy cards we got as prizes
for good grades...
I liked the ceremony and tradition of high mass
I used to have to make up sins for the confessional
I did my penance anyway...
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When I was 10, my Daddy abused me.
Changed my path forever, it was about then I
developed my extreme dislike for hypocrisy.
My parents appeared one way to the world but
I knew different. Then we moved across country.
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At first, it was a tragedy, then it was an adventure.
Years later, we moved back "home". My parents
did not want me influenced by Haight-Ashbury
or Bezerkeley, so they sent be back across country
to catholic boarding school. But the joke was
on them, because I had more freedom under the
nuns' watch than my father's... I went with a
dorm-mate to her home in Atlanta for a spring
vacation, smoked my first doobie at an Allman Bros/Santana
concert and my path was changed again. I knew
that these were "my people" and that I would spend
my life perfecting my self and my spirit, and not in
the pursuit of a wealthy husband (for which I was being groomed).
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My sister got cancer about this time... someone gave her a Seth book.
I read it. And then another, then all of them. And I was off!
Amazing to learn how we create and are responsible for our own realities.
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I went on spirit quests to sacred places, I learned the art of
divination, I learned how to manifest. I read every day and
collected quite a library, which I gave away some years ago -
to people who were so happy to find so many "out of print"
spiritual books!
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Over the next 30 years, I see now that I rejected most
institutions - I can see how the public education system
has been dumbed down.
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I long ago determined that the political
system is a high-powered game, about the time of Viet Nam
and the Kennedys', MLK's assassinations and the McGovern
defeat.
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I rejected capitalism because I saw the pursuit of, and
attainment of money just did not make anyone happy for
very long. I was hip to the media way back when I read
Marshall McCluhan (sp?). I began back then to watch
out for the brainwashing.
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I rejected traditional western medicine (pharma) in favor of
wholistic approaches. (I saw my sister cure herself...)
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I rejected religion after realizing that they all purported to
follow a golden rule, but that nasty old hypocrisy was there...
I finally settled on Native American spiritual beliefs, perhaps
with Buddhism running a close second...
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I practice a philosophy of "do no harm" and knew somehow
that the only thing we are left with at the end of our life in this
body is our soul, so that is what I invested my time in...
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In my personal life now, I feel like a wise crone. I am in
observe mode, and the only thing I can think to "do" is to
be ready, meditate, listen for inner guidance, listen to
wise words right HERE, be in the moment as often as I can
and be some kind of light for others... as well as a source
of humor and optimism.
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That is, as long as I can keep my critical, judgmental
personality from taking over! I know my words have power.
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I am not afraid of death, I have been fortunate enough to have
had experiences that have taught me it is nothing to be scared
about. I do fear pain, but I have a fairly high tolerance. And to
me the most severe pain is emotionally generated anyway...
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I think in my case, my ego needs to be dissolved or something...
I'm workin' on it - that is why I am blogging.

String 'em Up, Cheney Can Be First

"A Texas grand jury has charged US Vice-President Dick Cheney for "organised criminal activity" related to alleged abuse of private prison inmates.

The indictment says Mr Cheney - who has invested $85m (£56m) in a company that holds shares in for-profit prisons - conspired to block an investigation."
from the BBC this morning...
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Do you suppose that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al, suffered from stress in childhood?
This is what it can do to you... read the article...
(they have been doing it to us for more than a decade)
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So, the stock market dove and closed under 8000 today...
apparently, there are all kinds of reasons why it is because
of faltering auto makers, so

(all together now)

"they must be bailed out ... or else!"

Or else what? Don't you get it?
TPTB are sucking all of us dry of every last dollar before
enough of us realize how they have manipulated it all.

"The agony of seven days without spending"

It's a new week... Germany is slipping into recession, Japan is sliding
into recession and the Eurozone is there, too. Let's take a look at
our stock market's opening bell: down 172
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Here is an interesting experiment, try not to spend any money for seven days.
It might go something like this: "To stage a tour de force, a morality play in seven daily acts!"
Steve Almond, the article is here
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Somebody STOP "them"!

While we weren't paying attention:
"Late on election day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a Dec. 19 auction of more than 50,000 acres of oil and gas parcels alongside or within view of Arches National Park and two other redrock national parks in Utah: Dinosaur and Canyonlands."

"This is the fire sale, the Bush administration's last great gift to the oil and gas industry," said Stephen Bloch, a staff attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

read the article
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Something buried in the news:
"I think the breakdown of the talks between Beijing and the Dalai Lama is a major disaster, and it has now created a no-win situation for the Tibetans and China," said Tsering Shakya, a Tibetan historian at the University of British Columbia.

Trend Spotting on the Weekend...

This gentleman is amazing for his non-confrontational,
bi-partisan style of interpreting data:
Gerald Celente / Trends Research Institute
He has an incredible prediction record as to events unfolding TODAY
so may I suggest you check out his forecasts...
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This is interview on election day...
with George Noory

a "Tidal Wave of Gratitude and Relief" & a "Hole" in Existence...

"No doubt, Obama is a historic figure. But I think it's what surrounds him that feels even more historic, the astounding rush of exhilaration and gratification that flooded the nation -- and the world -- after he swept the election, a tidal wave of gratitude and relief borne in large part from the recognition that America is not, in fact, the nation Bush so violently tried to make us into, that dumbed-down, divided, rancorous brat, the irresponsible and dangerous thug of the world. Who knew?" Mark Morford, 11-12-08
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food for thought
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"The universe is built on sound patterns, which is why so many different worlds/dimensions can exist in the same space. Each is on a different frequency. Disrupt a world/dimension to the point that you destroy the carrier wave it exists on and you have created a 'hole' in existence that cannot support the dimension above or below t. Each frequency, besides maintaining its own world/dimension, also supports – or holds in place – the one above it and below it. Everything is interdependent!"
from Earthfiles

Does Today Feel Any Different From Yesterday?

Does to me...
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What a beautiful video... it will only take three and a half minutes to watch.
Carl Sagan, reading from "The Pale Blue Dot"
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I went to search for another video I saw months ago...
an interview with the man upon whose life the movie
"Pursuit of Happiness" was based - the one in which Will Smith
acts with his own son... I never saw the movie. Sis saw it
and cried. She never cries at movies, so it musta been
a good one. I put it on my list.
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Chris Gardner is his name. The decisions he made as a young
child remind me of the decisions I made at about 10yrs old.
He is a powerful man. Here is the interview.

I Hope You Are Meditating Today...

11/11: Good Morning!

Until midnight tonight, whatever your timezone is, take
some moments out to visualize a kinder, gentler world.
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Here is my focus for the day: "Do No Harm".

DO NO HARM is a non-profit non-organization.

If you think you’re a member,
You’re a member.

If you think you’re not a member,
You’re an honorary member.

There are no dues or fees.
There are no donations.

There is no official language or terminology.
There are no approved or disapproved concepts.

There is nothing special that you must believe.
There is nothing special that you must do or not do.

But . . . do no harm.

p.s: Although not required, a sense of humor is helpful.
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Just paid the rent so I guess we'll be here another month...
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Sis and I have just Fired the Grid!
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to be continued

Monday Morning and All Is Well

So far, so good...
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A glance at my desktop calendar remonds me about the
24 hour meditation beginning at midnight tonight...

(I'm just gettin' warmed up!)

Planting Seeds
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quote from Michael St. Clair:

"~ What you appreciate, appreciates ~
~ What you see depends upon where you look ~
~ Intention leads to Attention/Focus which leads to Creation ~
~ SO FRIENDS, SHALL WE BE IN DOOM/GLOOM, OR BLOOM? ~"
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end the day with a chemtrail photo, taken this afternoon.



g'nite, all

An Invitation

The Gathering of the Ancestors

Where to Begin...

The beginning is so long ago.
So perhaps the present - and what has brought me here.
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It's all Michelle's fault. And I thank her for it...
she is the one who told me and Sis to watch Zeitgeist.
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From there, we watched David Icke. Then we questioned 9/11.
We found whistle-blowers. And ETs and UFOs. Along with
disclosure projects. We soaked up all the info that Project
Camelot/Project Avalon had to offer. We waited with Blossom
Goodchild (poor Blossom). We watched as the GPC dot changed
to red as the stock market slid and as Obama was elected.
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I have created this space so that I can put all the good stuff I find
in one spot. I put a lot of time and effort into a message
board which began with excitement & optimism but soon
evolved with an emphasis on ego, gloom and doom
predictions, fear and bible thumping.
There was little hope evident, and even less humor.
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Well, I gotta have hope and I gotta have humor. I have
brought the best of what I have recently (and not so recently, as
it turns out) learned, to this space. One of the "conversations"
I did have in that message board community was with a
gentleman from Ireland, who asked the members in general
why Americans were not taking to the streets... I guess this is
MY way of doing just that. I am not scared anymore.
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Bring it on.