The Upstate RailConnect Committee got thrown quite a curveball at its recent meeting in Weaverville. The committee, a working group of representatives from Humboldt, Tehama and Trinity counties and other interested parties, has been working for a couple of years now on figuring how to cobble together some $300,000 for a massive study to determine the feasibility of building a railroad connecting Humboldt — and specifically its port — to the Red Bluff area and, by extension, the rest of the country.
The group has garnered a litany of supportive votes from local governments throughout the three counties, most recently grabbing the nod of the Humboldt County Association of Governments. The trouble is the governments have to date been pretty unwilling to put up any public funds for the project. The HCOAG board, for example, only approved its recent letter of support for the committee after inserting language that its support was contingent on no local association funds being used to pick up the tab for the feasibility study.
So, you can probably imagine the surprise in the Weaverville conference room of the Trinity County Public Utilities District on the morning of April 2 when a man by the name of Robert Martin addressed the committee and, reportedly, asked them to scrap their push for a feasibility study. According to several people in attendance, Martin said he represents a group — the Humboldt Tehama Railroad Development Corporation — that intends to fund and launch a study to assess the feasibility of laying a roughly 125-mile long rail line over the mountains between Red Bluff and Humboldt Bay. A public feasibility study, Martin said, might complicate or even harm that private effort.
Reached by phone at his Red Bluff office, Martin declined to discuss his railroad efforts. “We don’t want to go into the newspaper with that at this time,” he said. “There’s already too much information out about it.”
According to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office, the Humboldt Tehama Railroad Development Corporation incorporated as a domestic corporation on Oct. 23, 2013. The filing lists Laughlin Associates, Inc. — a business advocacy firm in Nevada — as its registered agent, and lists Martin as the corporation’s president and director. Kenneth Davlin, a well-known Eureka civil engineer whose resume includes stints as the city engineer for Blue Lake, Trinidad, Fortuna, Rio Dell and Fortuna — is listed as the group’s treasurer.
The Journal attempted to catch up with Davlin this week to talk about potential developments in the east-west rail line and received a brief email response noting that he was in Boston and wouldn’t return until the week of April 28. “I recommend you call the group in the Red Bluff area,” Davlin wrote. “I hear they are seeking financing.”
When the Journal attempted to follow up with Martin on April 22, he said Davlin was working on writing up a statement to provide the paper. But, contacted by email, Davlin said Martin was mistaken.
“I am in the middle of all day and evening meetings all week in Boston so will not have time to deal with this nonissue until after I return,” he wrote, adding that neither he nor the engineering firm he is president of, Oscar Larson and Associates, has a written agreement to do any work on any rail project. Davlin said he’s offered, on behalf of his firm, to provide engineering services to Martin and the Humboldt Tehama Railroad Corporation, “but we expect to wait until completion of any financing for further discussions.”
Davlin did not respond by deadline to a follow-up e-mail asking if he serves as the railroad corporation’s treasurer.
Former Eureka City Manager David Tyson, who represents Humboldt County on the RailConnect committee, said Martin’s remarks at the April 2 meeting were unexpected. Martin, Tyson said, asked to give the committee a full presentation that day but hadn’t contacted the committee prior to the meeting and consequently wasn’t on the agenda. While the committee is not technically subject to California’s open meeting laws, Tyson said it is trying to operate in the spirit of the law with complete public transparency, posting its meeting agendas and minutes on the city of Eureka’s website. So Tyson said the committee told Martin he could address the group during its public comment period, but would have to wait until its May 7 meeting to give a full presentation so it could be agendized properly. “What we from the Upstate RailConnect Committee have told Mr. Martin is that we have a public process, and that’s what we believe in and stand behind,” Tyson said.
The public-private discussion seems poised to become a theme at the May 7 meeting, as Martin’s request that the committee back away from its public feasibility study could potentially conflict with the committee’s general direction. The committee is trying to secure grants to pay for the feasibility study, with Trinity County currently in the process of applying for a Caltrans grant on behalf of the committee.
“We feel very comfortable with the process that we’ve developed,” Tyson said. “We feel that the research that’s done on this initially should be done as a public feasibility study so everybody has the same information. With that said, we also support Bob. If Bob and his investment group want to go and do their own thing, we applaud that and support that, but we don’t feel what we’re doing needs to stop or slow down unless he gives us a very good reason for that.”
Just what might constitute a “very good reason?” Tyson said there’s a federal process an entity can go through to establish itself as having the sole right to a specific route, kind of like an exclusive right to negotiate. If, say, Martin were to show up on May 7 with that federal process underway and funding in hand for a private feasibility study, then Tyson said the committee may decide to step back and hold off on spending public grant money as Martin’s group moves forward.
“At that point, we may become cheerleaders and say, ‘Great, we have someone … interested in carrying the sword,'” Tyson said. “We as public agencies have waited decades for someone to do this type of work. We were frustrated nothing was occurring … The sole purpose of this work is really to generate private interests in the project.”
Martin is also no stranger to the process or the greater effort. When the Land Bridge Alliance — a local group started by the late Eureka City Councilman Lance Madsen to raise education about the push for an east-to-west rail line into Humboldt County — was reaching out to form relationships with potential partners throughout Northern California, Martin played a big role on the Tehama side. He set up meetings with rotary clubs, farm bureaus, farmers and others, Tyson said, adding that Martin allowed him and Madsen to essentially use his Red Bluff office as a central hub for the week’s worth of outreach efforts.
But as far as Martin’s present plans for a privately funded feasibility study, Tyson said he’s in the dark: “I don’t have any specifics of what his business profile looks like.”
Proponents of the east-west rail project — an idea that’s bounced around Humboldt since the late 1800s — believe a rail line connecting the port with the rest of the nation’s freight infrastructure would be a major economic boon, creating loads of living wage jobs and all kinds of industry opportunities in the county. But the obstacles to creating such a rail line seem formidable. Last year, the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District released a report it commissioned for $20,000 taking a cursory look at the prospect of creating such a rail route. The report estimated the project would cost between $1 billion and $1.2 billion to complete and might not generate enough business to sustain it, concluding it “is likely to be both high cost and high risk.”
Is Martin worried a more thorough public feasibility study may just bring the project’s obstacles into sharper focus and spook potential investors? Is he concerned it could generate a wave of interest from competing private investment groups looking to get in on the project? Does Martin’s group really have the $300,000 or so needed to complete a thorough study? The answers to these questions are unclear, but may begin to come into focus May 7.
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“Private group may bankroll east-west rail feasibility study”.
Afterward, who will provide the study that’s in the public-interest?
A more accurate and informative headline would have read: “Trinity County currently in the process of applying for a Caltrans grant on behalf of the committee.”
All the rest is merely a desperate attempt to keep the issue in the news. There’s no story here. When the time comes they will suck every public dollar available for this project.
There you go again, doing your political spin, Alan. Politically correct is it to keep Humboldt County economy stagnate by blocking freight traffic in and out of our County? Let’s block the RR north-south, block the trucking north-south, block the harbor development, and block the east-west RR. That should do it. Keep Humboldt County nice and poor. Who benefits from this Prog strategy? What is your income source, Mr. Moss?
It’s always encouraging when individuals express concerns for our local economy….and quite “political” when those “concerns” fail to include a far less costly economic study that should be completed first.
Union Pacific paid a dollar an acre for their RR land and have been making a fortune subdividing it ever since. Greyhound sold most of its rural stations at the height of the 2005 bubble, dropping travelers off on rainy Saturday nights on Highway 101, Eureka. It’s an unbelievable and dangerous weekly spectacle to witness.
It will take a lot of “spin” to avert skepticism from profiteer’s “studies” .
There you go again, Alan, spinning away with irrelevant slander of old news that has nothing to do with the RR, does it? But you got your digs in, against those old baddies that are ever so evil when you turn a blind eye to all the people’s nasty little eco-destruction happening that is collateral damage to supporting your little income world-which, btw, you didn’t bother to reveal to us how you earn your particular living that is ever so virtuous.
Argue for decades about things that will never happen. Accuse people of killing projects that died on their own.
Mutt and Moss. How do you make your living here? I want to know if you two have incomes not affected by Humboldt’s lack of rail services in and out of our County. Alan is silent when asked. If you don’t have blue collar jobs and are living off HSU tit one way or another or pot profits one way or another, then you’re actively working against Humboldt County workers and the needs of Humboldt County’s working class, i.e. you are engaging in class warfare.
Interesting- Warren Bufffet bought BNSF Railway for a total cost of $44 billion in 2010. They are spending $5 billion alone on maintenance and equipment this year. Look at their rail network. It’s just over the mountains. $1 billion is pocket change to them. What are they waiting for ?
What are you waiting for, mutt? I asked you and Moss to tell us how you make a living to see if your engaging in class warfare, yuppies against Humboldt working class, and you and Moss are silent about it as you too continue to spin your anti-job creation yarns, this one of yours with its strawman Boogeyman, Warren Buffett. If you guys were seriously opposed to 2% filthy rich running the world you’d be backing local economic development instead of trying to always kill it with the Prog and enviro unsung in public mantra, “We’ve got ours, and screw you blue collar workers, you can’t have yours.”
Stephen 1, I don’t know who you are but I do know that you live in a very simple swirl of reactionary reality. Nobody is blocking the N-S rail, the land it’s on is blocking it from ever happening. You seem to think that giving access to STAA trucks on a N-S route would be a good thing for the economy but the truth is it would cost many local trucking jobs and would primarily benefit interstate, huge trucking firms that just want to be able to roll through Humboldt and in the process damage local roads when they leave the freeway, dump their fumes all over the place, cause major congestion in Eureka therefor harming businesses there and make the roads more dangerous for all drivers. Nobody wants to block harbor development, a lot of people are working on many plans for that right now. Short Sea Shipping may not be economically feasible right now but it will happen at some point. Do your homework before you spout, everybody has an opinion but informed opinions are few and far between.
Test. Last big long response to Silvia disappeared and boy, did I tell her off! Her and her Proggie and enviro kind. Sheesh! These bizarro Progs and enviros continually brand me a, what’d she say? oh yeah, I “live in a swirl of reactionary reality”. I remember it was Ed Denson who wrote about 23 ago I lived in my own warped reality or words to that effect. He, along with then buddy E.F! Darryl Cherney and EPIC and all the enviros, were mad at me for my pestering the enviro community to pay attention to homestead eco-damage which I was then claiming was actually worse than the people they were always aiming theirs and the community’s attention towards as the “Corporate Enemy”. You do it pretty much continually in your letters.
Well, we all know now who was right 23 years ago and where EPIC now stands viz a vie new homestead developments and the reasons why we shouldn’t allow them. So bear that in mind, Sylvia, when I tell you you and Proggies get it continually wrong about my politics as you don’t seem to realize I’ve been a communitarian socialist organizer starting since 1971 when I co-founded Lime Saddle Commune which we then put out Communities Magazine in 1972 which is still going strong today serving as a clearinghouse for global intentional eco-community development. Our Heartlands Lifeline Inter-Tribal project is going to be producing eco-community disaster relief and low-income housing kits which continues a 44 year pro-cooperative eco-community organizing career.
And you guys brand me a “reactionary” which when I look at you Progs and what you do for our community, is such a mis-call as to be hilarious. Even my former friend and one-time PL boss and employer in 1991, John Campbell, would laugh at that one if he could. Rose laughs today at how Progs mis-read me because I have a communitarian organizer’s ability to establish lasting friendships within the community as a whole community, none left out. That’s communitarian social change vs “Progressive” which is an oxymoronic term if ever there was one in our community.
For your information, Ms. De Rooy, “Stephen1” is Stephen Lewis, a longtime right-wing presence on local blogs. An abusive and vitriolic crank, he gets himself banned from blogs and then complains about being censored. His logic is amusing at best: one of his arguments about the “benefits” of cutting down old growth is that younger redwoods receive more light and grow more quickly when the big trees are toppled, and thus the forests are more healthy. One wonders how the redwood forests survived before they enjoyed the attention of lumber barons.
Thanks Joel M., You’ve confirmed my decision to waste no further energy on him. His response to my post was not a response, it was just a rabid roll of words.
would the result have been different if the proposed e envirnonmental survey had takn place fo the BalloonTrack–Turned down–Turned over and languishes–still a BrownField.
.A thorough Feasibility Study on access-for -Humboldt
Harbor and access. Wha t works?
Hahahahah, two losers can only resort to childish name-calling as both don’t have an environmental or political leg to stand on to post a reasoned argument against the environmental truth of what I posted. This is the same type of stupidity that went on for almost 20 years by enviros attacking my accurate assessment of unregulated homestead subdivision development.
You two are dinosaurs from the old school and keep trying to put me into the rightwing camp when it’s you Progs who are the reactionaries in Humboldt County, reacting against local job creation in order to keep Humboldt County working class without means to compete with other counties. Selfish Progs protecting their class position by constant class warfare directed at job creators.
And for anyone’s information, they can contact Estelle Fennell or KMUD’s President Siena Klein to verify every item I post about what this communitarian activist is doing for citizens of Humboldt County and for Native America. This week I’m pitching the Heartlands Lifeline Inter-Tribal lottery project to the San Francisco office of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China as other people are not idiots like some local Prog activists are who don’t know their Prog fact sheets handed to them from shinola.
I have to agree with Joel and Sylvia.
What kind of loon launches into accusations of “blocking ECONOMIC growth” in response to calls for a far less expensive and independent ECONOMIC study?
Thank you, Alan, for giving still more opportunity to counter your spinning, now doing it with another diversion from my posted criticisms of Prog and enviro inability to understand my politics as clear indication of not being able to understand politics at all. Continuing failure to address economic needs of working class Humboldt citizens would be expected from people who can’t judge another Humboldt activist’s politics worth beans.
And Alan, neither you, or Sylvia or other fans of mine have answered my question about how you guys make your living seeing as you’re politically attacking Humboldt job creators and the means for such in Humboldt County. We need to know if you are indeed conducting a class war against Humboldt working class families and individuals.
Stephen is nothing if not repetitive.
I’m just making up for years of denied letters-to-the-editor let alone NCJ ever reporting on our Heartlands Project, Mr. Mielke. Plus I do stand up for Humboldt County workers like a Democratic community activist usually does–everywhere else but Humboldt County where your elite yuppie class conducts a constant political war against Humboldt working class. Tell us, how you’re not part of the yuppie class when your income comes from serving them? None of my critics are telling us how they make their livings when they write public letters against people like me advocating job development in Humboldt County.
I can use this space for raising yuppie consciences that should be tweaked because liberals usually stand for economic justice and yet here in Humboldt County, we get Progressives installing GAP Fisher family into Humboldt County as the county’s largest private landowner. Yes, I do remind the community of such antics as this moral fiasco of Progs, your beloved Mark Lovelace prime mover for helping Fishers buy out their private redwood forest bank where their garment worker deaths don’t bother their consciences as money piles up in terms of our trees, our land made their property.
Joel Mielke, I’m curious. What’s your religion? What is Alan Moss’? What is Sylvia’s, what is Mutts? Would you all have Jewish backgrounds while I’m a Jewish Christian? You won’t tell me how you make your incomes making me suspect your conducting class warfare and I’m suspecting you’re also conducting a religious war as well. You can easily prove me wrong by stating your religious backgrounds if you won’t tell us your income sources or is that too too politically sensitive material for public disclosure?
You’d think he’d be wondering if he had any responsibility whatsoever for his letters not being published, but he’s quite convinced that they expressed sound logic, and weren’t at all nutty.
Jeez, hold on there, Joel who doesn’t answer questions about his religious background when joining in what appears to be a Jewish chorus line attacking a Jewish Christian. And as for raising pubic awareness of unregulated homestead eco-damage to watersheds with my letters you find “nutty”, well, if your religiously led political beliefs allowed you to think straight, you’d be applauding my watershed protection information community service work.
“religiously led political beliefs”?
Nobody cares about my “religious background” except poor Stephen. He’s one of the strangest anti-Semites I’ve ever encountered — and they’ve all been a little weird.
I do care about your religious background, Joel, because I am an anti-Zionist Jew who belongs to the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. We urge fellow Jews to utterly stop supporting Zionist Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine, especially when Jews are hiding their identities to do so, while attacking anti-Zionist activists like me–who has run this County’s anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian blog for over a decade now.
I don’t want to see you using “anti-Semite” Orwellian Double-Speak again. You’re a liar if you ever call me or any anti-Zionist activist working to support real Semitic peoples, an “anti-Semite”. You’re a bad cartoon Jew if you keep using the ADL/AIPAC “anti-Semite” smear job of those of us working to defeat the last wave of European religious fanatic colonial imperialists, Khazarians taking over Palestine. And if you don’t know what a “Khazarian” is, Joel, it’s time you checked your dna if you’re Ashkenazi.
Stephen asserts that I should have my DNA tested, but somehow, I’m not sure that it would diminish my skepticism about another east/west rail feasibility study.
Joel, you consistently run away from revealing your biases, Zionist Judaism religion and Yuppie class advocate over working class, both attributes of yours that can be applied to Alan Moss and Sylvia, our 2% Jewish chorus line just on this one topic, me part of it too. This is why I raise the 2% Jewish issue in local politics, linking Jewish Leftist activism with consistent Prog organizing around stopping Gentile Republican sponsored economic development in Humboldt County. Jewish religious activism goes unseen because of fear of being branded “anti-Semitic” if you criticize Jews in any way.
So it takes a Jew to raise the issue as most everyone in Humboldt County political circles knows I am anything but “anti-Semitic”, running as I do Humboldt County’s most active pro-Semitic blog for over a decade now as well supporting Palestinians peace activist friends and their organizations for even longer. Zionism has disappeared from most Leftist agendas everywhere else but in Humboldt County where no one but me it seems dares look at the Jewish religion fielding so many enviro and Progressive activists in Humboldt County, all of them attacking Republican Gentiles in a modern silent religious war going on in Humboldt County. 2% minority in America and just do a count of the religious backgrounds of Progressive and enviro organizations memberships and leaders plus the same for major media outlets in Humboldt County and see if that 2% holds true. Judaism has been very clever in inserting itself into Leftist politics but with the establishment of Judaism’s pet project, Israel as the last of the European religious fanatic imperialistic colonization of non-European lands, Judaism has become a pariah religion even in Leftist circles everywhere else it seems but Humboldt County.
” …no one but me it seems dares look at the Jewish religion fielding so many enviro and Progressive activists in Humboldt County, all of them attacking Republican Gentiles in a modern silent religious war going on in Humboldt County.”
No one but Stephen? I’ll go along with that one.
Poor Joel, you don’t see that each post you make there’s no denial of my pointing out to the community that you, Alan, Sylvia, maybe, mutt too as he too hasn’t denied being Jewish, so we have perhaps 100% Jewish criticism of my posts. This percentage dips slightly when Eric, the Jewish wannabe, posts his views of me, when he, like fellow Prog, Judy Hodgson, aren’t censoring me on the venues they control.
Like this one where I can only get these comments posted in NCJ, no articles about our Heartlands Inter-Tribal Lottery Project for the community as Judy plays petty god with Humboldt community economic development news. So we have not only the Jewish activist anti-Gentile economic development squad here on this little NCJ side show, but Judy’s anti-Native American prejudice running in the background denying public awareness of an inter-tribal project involving Oglala Lakota Nation, Bear River tribe, Table Bluff Wiyots, and possibly the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and Judy doesn’t want you readers to know about it.
What? No article about Heartlands Inter-Tribal Lottery Project? Judy must be Jewish.
You know I had to comfort my Heartlands Project Bear River partner Don Brenard the other day who finally just broke down and cried about how in almost 20 years of effort nobody cared enough to help two elders with most excellent intentions organize an immensely good thing to do for not only Native Americans, but everyone too, the Heartlands Lifeline Inter-Tribal Lottery Project whose Good Cause is Disaster Relief. Through the years we’ve gotten a little support here and there but never with Bear River after the Tribal Council I and Don worked under at the beginning in 1995-98 when the Bowman Tribal Council era took over and still rules from the grave.
It’s always made going forward hard without official Tribal Council backing, but still we’ve done it, managed as two poor elders with no spendable income at all, managed to keep the Heartlands Project going through all these years, because it was just too good a project to let die because of one tribe. Now we are dealing with four tribes, including the on-again-off-again Bear River, Pineridge-Oglala being actually the most firmly on board at this point, Arlene Catches the Enemy, wonderful Lakota names! and I in contact working out the complex banking-lottery system I invented 19 years ago. We could use banking expertise for our business plan, btw, putting it out there, most excellent Good Cause work helping all Native American tribes plus disaster relief, who could ask for anything more?
Apparently most people. Lot’s of verbal approval for the Project whenever we pitch but then there’s been this weird Jewish warfare being waged against me and the Heartlands Project. That war is why I bring it out in the open here. It began with Darryl Cherney’s over-the-top efforts to defame my name, get Bear River to fire me, and underscored EPIC’s sending Geinger to Bear River to derail Heartlands, then Ken Miller jumping in with his Humboldt Watershed Council attempt to capture Heartlands Project via 7th Generation Fund in Arcata, are you starting see where I’m coming? I mean take a look at this thread’s solid Jewish line up out to defame my wonderful humble Humboldt character as if that were even remotely possible.
Next time, I’ll tell you all about how you can ask any rabbi one single question and destroy rabbinical Judaism thereby..
Have you seen a physician for any of these complaints, Stephen?
Ah, Joel, come on, man, own up. You’re just jealous ’cause in one of my several incarnations I was a better cartoonist than you’ll ever be. High school newspaper staff cartoonist, then staff cartoonist for the U.C. Berkeley humor magazine, The Pelican. My cartoon art expanded in the 1960’s and ’70’s as part of genesis of the Psychedelic Art Movement where my cartoon masterpiece was personally selected by the Curator of the De Young Museum to go into the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery as part of the multi-gallery 1975 San Francisco Rainbow Show. Perhaps it is you who needs the physician for intra-envious injections?
Oh, and thanks for giving me all this print space to lay it on the line. I forgot another prominent Jewish activist from my list of those attempting to torpedo the Bear River Heartlands Project and thus attack Native American economic development and ancestral land recovery efforts. This would Tracy Katelman who was running The Trees Foundation to who we turned to for help with our Heartlands Project. Sizing Bear River’s tribal effort to Save Headwaters Forest through the Heartlands Lottery Project, up as unwanted competition for fame from Native Americans as did Darryl Cherney’s E.F! and EPIC and Humboldt Watershed Council, Katelman’s org first offered help, then pulled away and ignored Bear River to go ahead as if the tribe’s effort didn’t exist. This was the way silent genocide works in modern Native America where one way or another European-Americans find ways to stop Native Americans from recovering their lost ancestral lands. In our county, enviros were the agents of silent genocide by removing land recovery from a tribe composed of descendants of the surviving tribes from the Indian Island California Indian War period. This Celestial Torah Christian Jew works for almost 20 years to help Native Americans recover lost ancestral land while Zionist Judaism Jews worked to stop this effort to change the balance of history in favor of Native Americans for once.
Oh, and as for how anyone now can destroy rabbinical Judaism by just asking one question? Here it is, the Question that Kills Judaism: Ask any rabbi what is the historical origin of the word “Torah”? Now remember, the Torah is thee central religious concept of Judaism. Here in essence is what you will receive as rabbinical Judaism’s authoritative answer to this question: The word “Torah” comes from the Hebrew word for pointing to, “omer” which morphs into “morah” which became “Torah”, meaning “to teach”. Another meaning is “Torah” is an anacronym for the first five books of Moses taking the first letter of each book or something like that. In short, rabbis answer is to refer to Judaism’s texts themselves as origin for the word “Torah”.
Well, this is cock-a-mammy b.s. and no more “true” than the circular logic of Pauline Christians pointing to the New Testament Gospels as “proof” of the Gospel accounts of Jesus Christ being true history. The Hebrew word “Torah” was derived from the Egyptian name of one of their most influential goddesses, Taurowet, whose constellation in the Egyptian Zodiac system was the biggest and most stable of all. Thus Taurowet symbolized Harmonious Order of Creation, this concept at least 2000 years before the Hebrew ripoff without attribution. The word “Tarot” also is derived from Taurowet as is the word “Torus” as Taurowet was the ancient world’s only pregnant goddess with the protruding belly, but one in the Egyptian style of mixing animals with human bodies. She was a fierce Mother river horse protecting her Child which became part of the Taurowet theology carried into Judaism as “a fence around the Torah”, this idea reinforced by the Celestial relationship of the constellation Draco to Taurowet, where the idea of Dragons protecting their Treasure comes from as well.
God led me by synchronicity to find the Taurowet connection via using Arabic language instead of Hebrew to trace the historic trail from ancient Egypt to rabbinical Judaism. My grandmother’s maiden name was traced by a rabbi specializing in Jewish ancestry to immigrants coming from the town of Museros in Spain to Germany some time after the Spanish kicked out all the Jews who didn’t convert. If you Google translation of Museros you won’t get any particular Spanish origin for the name but when you put the fact that Spain was Arabic Moorish for over a 1000 years then “Museros ” can mean a town filled with “men of Moses”, “Musa” being Arabic for Moshe, Moses. “Moshe” doesn’t show how “drawn out of water” is derived in Hebrew but Arabic “Musa” does because Arabic is closer to ancient Aramaic and ancient Egyptian where “water” in Egypt was “mu” and the hieroglyph for water was the same one we use for the Sign of Aquarius showing the Celestial connection to all Egyptian religion.
What is “Torah” in Arabic? “Tauret” which shows the Taurowet connection plainly. The historical trail of where Hebrews learned Egyptian religious items such as the Torah, the Ten Commandments, circumcision, and a host of other Egyptian beliefs runs through the ancient Israelites who were part of the failed Hyksos invasion of Egypt. I don’t have time or space here to detail the movement from Israelites to Hebrews to rabbinical Judaism Jews here but now you know, Judaism was based on religious fraud and now no rabbis know the above information making their religious authority zip. I teach Celestial Torah Christianity because rabbis don’t know it any longer if they ever did as one of the things you learn from the Celestial Torah is that the Messiah can’t be a Davidic Warrior King one, but must be a Christ, a Sage King as Humanitarian Archetype.
Stephen likes to write — a lot.
Joel likes soundbite comments. They’re safer. I am a writer, Joel, a fairly prolific one cranking out probably at least a thousand words a day on average as I post on several internet forums daily besides local blogs. When my ship unloads The Cargo me and my native buds have all been waiting for all these years and I have the means, I’ve got two books in the works. Judy will no doubt want to do a whole NCJ spread book reviews on them..
Stephen is a prolific writer. I think that we can all agree on that.
Before you were in this world, Joel, I and other psychedelic artists took cartooning to a new level, e.g. “Too Big for Words” done in 1965.
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Gosharooney, I wonder how long I can get away with using Judy’s ra…er, this Northcoast Journal to post Steve Lewis News & Views? I mean am I bringing fresh air the NCJ newsroom now or what? There’s all sorts of Heartlands and new tech stuff happening that should interest the community, e.g. the Heartlands Lifeline Inter-Tribal Lottery Project, now working with two tribes with two more waiting for our up-dated business plan. As is the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China whom we are currently courting for deep pockets financing for the NA lottery project and Biomystic Systems, a key ingredient in the NA lottery’s Disaster Relief funding.
Don “Sparky” Brenard and I developed a strong China banking connection in 2005 with Sam Wong, V.P. of Evergreen Pulp and former banker, and this year I pursued it to ICBC to see how far our Project can get with them. We deliberately sought China involvement because China is our environmental responsibility seeing how’s we buy almost everything they make in bad environmental conditions to provide jobs for poor Chinese, and if we don’t help China fix its problems with eco-community technology, who will? So, a trade-off; eco-technology expertise here for China funding eco-community technology company helping disaster relief and pioneering eco-village technological revolution in the process. For example, China needs reforestation and tree seedlings, badly. We have them. We need money, badly. ICBC has it. Let’s make a deal and fund eco-village technological revolution in the process, shall we? Or so goes our fantasy funding scenario.
If funded we will be making LOCALLY, not outsourced to China, disaster relief kits that are inline with state-of-the-art Permaculture and Eco-Village technology systems using the local materials and energy source right at the sites of disaster hit communities after bringing in instant shelters, food, and medical services in partnership with existing disaster relief organizations like Red Cross, Red Crescent, and Oxfam. In addition, for ongoing work we will be making low-income housing projects again, using state-of-the-art eco-village technology. We would like to buy out the GAP Fisher Humboldt Redwood Company as per the Heartlands Projects partnership with a new HRC/ESOP or return to the Pacific Lumber Co. name. Biomystic Systems would be a partner with same and thus bring back local ownership and control of Humboldt County’s largest privately held land ownership, the 220,000 or so acres the Fisher Family uses as their private bank for investing garment worker profits in redwood tree growth.
Neither of us who organize the Heartlands Project are business people. Sparky’s a dreamer and so am I. I can organize and write proposals but the mechanics of business plans and this one being uncharted waters to boot, is out of our league. But when you have a Great Idea and community helping dream we have been pursuing now for 19 years we have to pursue it. But we’re not getting any younger and we aren’t business people and right now that’s what the Project needs most. So, word again out to Elan Firpo that we could use heavy tech company start up expertize like she has in her resume when she’s ready to look for a really great job after the June election. And thank you, Judy, for providing floor space for the Steve Lewis NCJ Blog.
We’ve established that Stephen is, indeed, a prolific writer.
I’m sure that the quality of his writing will be his next big project.