Abundance Report: Video Conference from the Jungle
Last weekend I experienced an amazing example of abundance. My friend in Thailand called me. She and her friends took a drive two hours out of Bangkok to a nature preserve. When she was there she used her GSM cell phone to connect her laptop to the Internet and show me live video of the waterfall she was visiting.
The examples and levels of abundance are staggering.
First consider who she is. She is a young missionary from the Philippines teaching English in Bangkok. Her monthly salary is 750 USD. She is the youngest of 6 children of a disabled fisherman. She sends money home to support her parents, helps her other siblings with loans plus tithes 10% to her church. That doesn’t leave a lot of disposable income. So keep that in mind.
This call was not for business, it was just for fun. This is one of the characteristics of Abundance. When things are so cheap you don’t pay attention to the price. Except for the GSM connection to the Internet, the call was free.
She has a laptop with a webcam. So do a billion other people. Just 15 years ago the idea of a laptop was an outrageous luxury item. Now a computer with more processing power than everything that ran WWII is casually taken to a park. And this laptop wasn’t provided by her work. It was a present.
Nearly everyone on the planet has access to the Internet. Most of it high speed and capable of video. Cafes, restaurants, and cheap hotels give access away for free. Some of the poorest people in the world have such cheap and easily available Internet service they can spend hours sending Nigerian SPAM email.
She had a GSM phone to access the Internet in the middle of the countryside. She wasn’t in a big city. She was out in the jungle looking at a waterfall. The GSM phone is three examples of abundance. She could afford to have the equipment. The service was there. It was cheap enough that she didn’t care about the cost. Just 20 years ago making any phone call between Thailand and the USA would require scheduling overseas operators to make connections and it would be so expensive only governments or large corporations would do it. Today a young lady on a day trip calls a friend half way around the world and thinks nothing of doing it.
She used Skype to do the video conference. The software and the service were totally free. Once she was online everything was free.
The fact we even met to become friends is another example of abundance. Global communication is free and easy. Two people out of 6.5 billion on the opposite sides of the world with no people in common were able to meet based on shared interests and values. It wasn’t long ago that was nearly impossible. Now today its common place.
Abundance is the design of the universe and we are seeing the accelerating effects every day.
'Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11'
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:30:44 GMT
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the “global arrogance” on this year’s anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
“The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race, which was trapped in the dead ends of materialism,” Ahmadinejad said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
If the Islamic Revolution had not occurred, liberalism and Marxism would have crushed all human dignity in their power-seeking and money-grubbing claws. Nothing would have remained of human and spiritual principles,” he added.
Ahmadinejad said that in the three decades of its history, the Islamic Revolution had inspired some great developments in the world.
The Iranian president made the remarks as the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approaches.
Iranians are expected to pour into the streets on February 11 to celebrate the occasion in public rallies across the country, as they have done annually over the past three decades.
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Iran has been talking about a new gold backed currency for many years. If China, the biggest holder of US debt backs Iran it might be able to alter the way oil is traded. This would also disrupt the entire banking world and geopolitics. Without the ability to print worthless money to pay bills the USA would only have military force left to bully the world. Ideally the USA would switch to money based on something of value instead of worthless fiat currency so it could live up to the propaganda of freedom. It’s unlikely to do that, at least at first. Either way, the transition will hurt the average US citizen. So we could be in for interesting times.
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‘Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11’
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:30:44 GMT
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the “global arrogance” on this year’s anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
“The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race, which was trapped in the dead ends of materialism,” Ahmadinejad said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
If the Islamic Revolution had not occurred, liberalism and Marxism would have crushed all human dignity in their power-seeking and money-grubbing claws. Nothing would have remained of human and spiritual principles,” he added.
Ahmadinejad said that in the three decades of its history, the Islamic Revolution had inspired some great developments in the world.
The Iranian president made the remarks as the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approaches.
Iranians are expected to pour into the streets on February 11 to celebrate the occasion in public rallies across the country, as they have done annually over the past three decades.
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Gold Resuming its Historical Monetary Role – as the Anti-Currency
U.S. Missile Defenses in Gulf Ups Ante With Iran
If this announcement isn’t just predicting the celebration will go well then the most likely event will be announcing the Iranian Oil Bourse. Iran has been talking about breaking the US control of the oil market. USA forced all oil be traded in US dollars giving value even though the Federal Reserve prints dollars out thin air. Iraq refused to take US Dollars for their oil and the USA invaded. Already the USA is preparing for war to enforce the monopoly of the US dollar on oil. The US media has been preparing its citizens to believe a US initiated attack was in response to weapons of mass destruction. This was the exact same ploy used for invading Iraq.
Iran has been talking about a new gold backed currency for many years. If China, the biggest holder of US debt backs Iran it might be able to alter the way oil is traded. This would also disrupt the entire banking world and geopolitics. Without the ability to print worthless money to pay bills the USA would only have military force left to bully the world. Ideally the USA would switch to money based on something of value instead of worthless fiat currency so it could live up to the propaganda of freedom. It’s unlikely to do that, at least at first. Either way, the transition will hurt the average US citizen. So we could be in for interesting times.
Copyright Disclaimer
This was published on http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117545§ionid=351020101 The site was overwhelmed with traffic so I am posted the complete story as a service to share the traffic and make it available to more people.
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