2006: Launchpad Israel launches, is hijacked, then lands!

(updated: 23 April 2022)

In October 2006 while staying at the Petra Hostel in Jerusalem, I built and launched the website Launchpad Israel. I did this while working as a night-watchman.

LPI was a tech blog (and CMS) running on Xoops (like GrooveTip.) A well known tech blogger at the time covered it (below middle) and I was actually caught off-guard as I hadn’t really promoted it to anyone as yet.

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LPI screenshot [7 January 2007]:

As with all my projects, I put a lot of heart into the site and improved the logo.

The site was even defaced in December 2006 but it wasn’t a significant attack in terms of data loss.

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launchpadisrael.com didn’t run for a long time and I closed it with mixed emotion – it was too time-consuming. I kept the domain and started a twitter in December 2008 which took on a more geopolitical activist slant – and I was actually interacting with people. I stopped that eventually (it felt futile) but kept the twitter handle while resetting it in about 2012.

Old retweets of @launchpadisrael can be found here and there are many, e.g:

Note: my Nom de Plume on twitter was Commander LPI – this was a character I took on for dramatic effect.

I relaunched the site in 2009 from Australia using WordPress but it just didn’t feel the same – it was an adaptation of my site CleanZap.

 

2020: the LPI guy lives!

Today, I am both more realistic and more idealistic about Israel. Jews of today really need to take into account the existence of the lost tribes of the old Kingdom of Israel. It seems likely that today’s Jews and Israel are at war with their long-lost brethren, with that war just being love in disguise. Also, Jews are at war with each other. But how does one find oneness… in any country?
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Jonas Blue – Naked (Armand Van Helden Remix) (2020)

The serpent, the most cunning of all the beasts created by G‑d, approached Eve and slowly but surely convinced and pressured her to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. She, in turn, shared the fruit with her husband Adam. Immediately, Adam and Eve became aware of their nakedness, and they covered themselves with girdles sewn from fig leaves. ~ Chabad.org

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Only shakes will save you.

HXRY – MRFREEZE (feat. Jeff Doubleday) (2020)


 

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Huey Lewis and the News – Stuck with You (1986)

Huey Lewis & The News - Stuck With You


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St Germain

“Some people do kundalini in a clear way, some people don’t, then it comes right up, causing the mind to shift – burns out the mind, in some people’s cases – but when it is balanced, it just is an addendum to your life, it just adds in. It doesn’t really awaken, it opens your capacity to function with your spirit through your body rather than through your mind and through your imagination. If you’ll notice, people who really stand in their knowing and have a truth mechanism in there, it’s because they experience it in some fashion in their body, not in their mind. So energy when it moves in the body is identified as Shakti, as kundalini –  everyplace has a different name.

“You have to understand that that energy moves through everybody. When it’s focused – or when you bring your awareness to it – you can start experiencing it. It’s to give you relationship with the other part of your humanness, which is spirit. Spirit as it is through your form rather than as God, which is a focus of the mind. That’s why oftentimes people single out religion vs. spirituality, because religion is the focus of the consciousness – it is truly spirit – but it is a focus, it focuses through the mind, it uses the mind – when we talk about spirituality, it uses or functions with the body. And considering that the body is the only thing you have as a human being that stays present, do you see how it opens a whole different world to you? And where your mind does not come to the present, it was not designed that way, it never was, your mind is designed to be in the past and the future, it’s to help you function in cycles. It is a past and future-oriented mechanism, to help support cycles.

“The body is present to open you up to all that you are, in a given moment. The body is able to be present, so therefore you can have a relationship with all that is, which is identified as spirit, okay? And it’s always there, it’s part of your humanness.”

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— Volume 2, #1, Spring 1999 issue of the Olympia Institute Quarterly.

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