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ARIEL KY

Ariel Ky

Ariel Ky
Location
Oceanside, California, U.S.
Birthday
October 11
Title
English Teacher
Bio
I consider myself a generalist, a dreamer, a visionary, an idealist. I walk both worlds, the inner world of spirit and this outer world we all share in. I have real power, the power of a strong connection to the earth and the power of truth and resilience. I am committed to being effective in bringing about the changes that must take place in the minds and hearts of people so that we can live in peace and harmony with each other and all life on this planet. I grew up in the fifties in Lansing, Michigan. My father was a bricklayer, my mother a teacher. I have a strong identification with the working class and ordinary people, and was always quick to defend the underdog and play the devil's advocate. My strengths are being able to see the big picture and getting to the heart of the matter. I consider that I am a fairly good writer, having worked at this craft my entire life, but I once had a professor who said my true genius was in speaking. Along with most of the people on this planet, I am seriously concerned with the present state of affairs and lack of balance in the U.S. military dominance. I am presently teaching English in China. My profession is an ESL teacher, which I have been doing off and on for over 20 years. I have a Master's degree in TESOL from Michigan State University, a Journalism degree from San Diego State University with an emphasis in Public Relations, and a Library Media Assistant AA degree from Pasadena City College. Research is my passion and main past time, even before the advent of the Internet. I worked in the library at Michigan State University before my son was born in 1986, where I pursued research topics that I was interested in. When I was in my early twenties, I worked on a book on women's health care as part of a book team at the Feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles, doing research at UCLA's medical library that led to a new view of a woman's clitoris. The book is still available in print, "A New View of a Woman's Body." I am working again with a team of writers on another book with the working title of "Opening Our Hearts and Sharing Our Dreams of What May Be" to share our visions and action plans for the young people coming of age (between the ages of 16-21) and support them in carrying out what needs to be done to manifest the world that they want to have for themselves.

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APRIL 29, 2013 2:37AM

Blood Strawberries in Greece

Blood Strawberries:  A Roundup of Media Reporting on Bangladeshi Workers Being Shot by Foremen in Greece When They Demanded Back Wages

At the village of Nea Manolada, a farming area west of Athens where thousands of migrant workers are employed, there is a history of exploiting migrants, but n
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APRIL 15, 2013 2:25PM

Babying my Body

Usually I only post political messages, but today I decided to write a very personal one about learning to baby my body.  It is part of the process of shifting to a higher level in everything that I do, which is how I believe we can bring about the paradigm shift… Read full post »

APRIL 15, 2013 1:15AM

North Korea

The war propaganda machine is gearing up to prepare us for an attack on North Korea.  Kim Jong Eun, the young leader of North Korea who stepped into his father's shoes more than a year ago upon his death (quite reluctantly, it appeared to me), has been villainized, ridiculed, threatened, and… Read full post »

APRIL 15, 2013 12:39AM

Friends of Fukushima

There is radioactive water leaking from pits at Fukushima.  The storage pits for the radioactive water were inadequately lined with thin plastic. Also, workers at Fukushima are living in terrible conditions, some do not even have cots to sleep on.  There have been electrical outages and a m… Read full post »

What would it take to stop the U.S. drive for hegemony and demilitarize our economy? WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?

I have some ideas. I want other people to join in with their ideas. Here’s my list.
1. Start investigating military spending and demanding accountability.
2. Form people’s councils/… Read full post »

What would it take to stop the U.S. drive for hegemony and demilitarize our economy? WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?

I have some ideas. I want other people to join in with their ideas. Here’s my list.
1. Start investigating military spending and demanding accountability.
2. Form people’s councils/… Read full post »

As I consider how we could make the world a better place (a favorite hobby of mine), I am absolutely positive that what we should do is make education and training free to everyone.  I especially want to see a global women's university that would unleash all that brainpower that is… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 16, 2013 11:44PM

Shifting

I wrote this comment in response to a blog posted on Dandelion Salad: 

 

Civil Disobedience: The Only “Weapon” We Have Remaining? By Camillo “Mac” Bica (#NDAA)

 

This is a clear analysis and compellingly makes the case for education as the answer to right… Read full post »

JANUARY 14, 2013 7:06AM

Emergency Response Fund

What the world needs is an emergency response fund with a budget for disaster relief in the case of fires, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis, etc.  We also need an emergency preparedness fund with a budget to send teams of construction workers to rebuild in places where disasters have hit and rel… Read full post »

I've spoken with highly intelligent, capable young Americans who I've met while living overseas.  I've heard them speak of their dreams of getting work in the intelligence community.  You get paid foreign travel, an exciting career, and good pay.  They've been sold on the glamor of spy… Read full post »

In 2013, with my words and the purity and force of my focused intention, I now activate the love in our hearts to a higher level of conscious awareneness.  We have forgotten how much we matter in our thoughts, feelings and actions. 

Let us remember how the way that we… Read full post »

JANUARY 3, 2013 4:37AM

Michigan Winter

I was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan.  I've been traveling the world and lived in many different places, and I still think Michigan is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Here are some snow scenes I found online after the recent storms in December 2012  I really… Read full post »

While surfing the Internet, I just came across a treasure, a Youtube video about Gobekli Tepe, a temple built 12,000 years ago that has been buried under sand.  This is fascinating information.

 Apparently it disproves all the theories that people first developed agriculture and then came t… Read full post »

DECEMBER 30, 2012 8:32AM

Spirit of 2013

Although 2012 was a difficult and challenging year for many of us, it lived up to its promise of ushering in a paradigm shift, more so for some than others.  We saw mass demonstrations in cities across the world, as people took to the streets in large numbers over a spectrum… Read full post »

Sibel Edmonds just posted a video on Dandelion Salad on the pacification of the public that I think everyone should listen to. I was on the same wavelength this week.

Here’s a message that I sent the other day to David Krieger at Nuclear Age Peace Foundation… Read full post »

DECEMBER 15, 2012 11:31PM

A Palestinian Solution

A Most Familiar Drama … Murder Most Foul … by Soraya Boyd

Posted on December 15, 2012 by dandelionsalad
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Image by txengmeng via Flickr

by Soraya Boyd
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DECEMBER 3, 2012 7:42PM

Unintended Consequences

At Michigan State University, I took a cultural anthropology of Japan class with a professor of Japanese descent.  During WWII he was placed in an interment camp in California with his family, but as he was of age to serve in the military, he was recruited to engage in intelligence work… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 17, 2012 11:22PM

What's Happening with 2012

I just wrote the following message on a LinkedIn forum that I've been active on, Earth Changes.  

 2012 is getting really exciting.  The way that people are starting to articulate their opposition to those in power is growing ever greater all the time.  I've been listening t… Read full post »

OCTOBER 24, 2012 8:34PM

How Can We Support Julian Assange?

In a recentphoto of Julian Assange with Lady Gaga, he looks as though he's being beaten down.  And there are reports that he is getting thinner and isn't well. 

This impasse at the Ecuadorian Embassy has gone on too long.  What can we do to support Julian Assange getting freed?… Read full post »

OCTOBER 5, 2012 9:30PM

The House of Humanity

The House of Humanity can withstand a good many assaults.  We are stronger than we know.  However, we are a house divided and as a house divided, we may fall. 

 

It is time for us to become aware of how we stand or fall together, how we create heaven… Read full post »

OCTOBER 5, 2012 9:20PM

Walking with Quan Yin

As an American living in Malaysia, I often have a sense of otherness, of being a stranger, of being other than the people around me... until I invite Quan Yin in to walk with me, to see through my eyes, to take on a body in this world through me.

When I… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 7:57PM

Great News from Jeju Island

Bruce Gagnon with space4peace, the Global Network, sent out this message from Paco that I read this morning.  I'm passing it along before I go teach.
 
Paco writes from Jeju Island, South Korea:

Basically things are going super well! Our
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 12:00AM

War Trials

I would like to start a movement of people who want to end wars and are willing to prosecute those responsible for promoting them.  In my lifetime (I'm 58 years old, born in 1953), the United States of America has been responsible for most of the wars fought in the world.… Read full post »

I am posting this message that I just received today from Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network in support of the villagers of Jeju Island who are resisting construction of a… Read full post »

AUGUST 11, 2012 12:56PM

Sacred Anger

Sacred anger wells from the deepest places in our souls that cry out against what's really wrong in our world. Discrimination, separation, division, judgment, oppression, exploitation. I think that pretty much covers it. There's so much suffering from all of this, but even worse,… Read full post »