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Saturday, August 4, 2018

Without The Russians, Trump Wouldn’t Have Won

An examination of the Kremlin’s campaign to help Trump reveals that “without the Russians, Trump would not have won.” Here’s why: Trump won Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by a total of 77,000 votes (less than 1% of votes cast in those states). The Russians made a concerted effort to persuade Bernie Sanders supporters and African-Americans not to vote at all or to vote for independent Jill Stein; that interference included stealing and sharing Democratic Party emails that enraged many Sanders supporters and spreading anti-Clinton and pro-Trump propaganda online. The Russians may have even altered voter registration records in some states to keep Democrats from voting. Meanwhile, Russian-generated fake news stories about Clinton and Trump reached 126 million people via Facebook alone, and were widely shared. Was all that enough to change or suppress a few thousand votes? Of course.
Perhaps the title of this post should be “Putin Hacked Trump’s Way Into The White House”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/without-the-russians-trump-wouldnt-have-won/2018/07/24/f4c87894-8f6b-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?sw_bypass=true&utm_term=.7b7129445cbf

Note: Each time I post using either  Putin’s or Trump’s name, a flurry of bot hits from Russia attacks my blog site. It, also, occurred when I posted the previous blog about Alex Jones of Infowar fame. Those Russians don’t give up. 
http://samslair.blogspot.com/2018/08/alex-joness-attorneys-argue-that-no.html?m=1

Re: Spiritual Alchemy

“... infinitely higher transmutation, that of the soul itself; the cornerstone of this transmutation is, purely and simply, spiritual alchemy. This mystic process consists in one transmuting one’s faults by means of the crucible of life, urged on by the divine fire that burns within us. We are all imperfect, however the ultimate goal of our evolution is to attain that state of perfection which Rosicrucians call the “Rose-Croix state.” This state can only come about, though, when we have purified our personality of its negative shortcomings; this entails awakening the virtues of the divine soul which is within us and which is seeking only to express its capacity
for wisdom. But such a goal cannot be attained in one single lifetime, therefore we have to reincarnate for as long as we are imperfect.
To the extent that one has not awakened the virtues of one’s divine soul, one manifests certain faults such as pride, selfishness, jealousy, intolerance, and so on. In return these same faults are detrimental to the person, for they generate negative karma that is expressed as trials of varying degrees in one’s life. We therefore have at least two good reasons for perfecting ourselves: first, it is part of the process of evolution from which we cannot withdraw, whose ultimate goal is to attain perfection, such as we can demonstrate it as human beings; second, it allows us to “think” our behavior into being positive, and create positive karma for ourselves, which is expressed in our lives as joy in various forms, and is conducive to the happiness we are seeking. Surely what we ultimately want, after all, is to have as happy an existence as possible and to gain mastery of life.
There are several stages required to reach the sought-after goal in spiritual alchemy, just as with material alchemy. The first consists in accepting the idea that we are imperfect and have faults to correct. When I say “accept,” this means our own view as much as that of others. This involves both looking at ourselves as we are, in the mirror of our soul, and also paying attention to the image of ourselves that others send back to us. If we do not do this, we end up becoming blind to our real personality and give even more power to our faults, to the point where they generate negative conduct on our part and give rise to corresponding karmic tests...”

https://31627ead4b8ef9965311-27c3e342e6b4b32f94c1796f94eaeaa1.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/Spiritual%20Alchemy%20-%20Christian%20Bernard.pdf