Bounty From The North August 23, 2013 by johnandmarylivingitupinecuador

Bounty From The North

August 23, 2013 by johnandmarylivingitupinecuador

One of the most surprising things that has happened to Mary and me since we started posting articles and pictures on this blog has been the number of new people we have met from all over the world.  Many of these new friends have commented and even sent emails and we have become well acquainted with them.  Some have even come to San Clemente on vacation and we have been able to put faces with names.

Jim (left), Rob and Diane

We love living here in our small fishing village of San Clemente and we have just about everything we need within an easy walk or bike ride from our home.  We are also near enough to Portoviejo, Bahia, and Manta that we can travel to those cities for bigger items that we can not find here or in Charapoto.  But, there are a few items that we crave at times that are difficult to locate or are unavailable even at the bigger stores.....read more: http://johnandmarylivingitupinecuador.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/bounty-from-the-north/comment-page-1/#comment-4515

Discover Cuenca Ecuador : Guanabana Fruit Grown in Ecuador Kills Cancer up t...

Discover Cuenca Ecuador : Guanabana Fruit Grown in Ecuador Kills Cancer up t...: We’ve eaten the (soursop) fruit before, known as guanabana here in Ecuador. Make sure the fruit is ripe before you eat it or you can get a s...

Monday, January 14, 2013

Guanabana Fruit Grown in Ecuador Kills Cancer up to 10,000 Times More Effectively than Chemotherapy!

We’ve eaten the (soursop) fruit before, known as guanabana here in Ecuador. Make sure the fruit is ripe before you eat it or you can get a stomach ache. The Guanabana fruit is widely avaialable in the Mercados and grocery marts all over Cuenca and for a very modest price. Amazing!

Scopolamine and Burundanga become weapons of crime in Ecuador BY: SAMUEL LAY

Scopolamine and Burundanga become weapons of crime in Ecuador

BY: SAMUEL LAY

On a regular day thousands of people go walking in the streets and receive fliers from people advertising their products. Others go to department stores and try on new perfumes and others help tourists in the street finding the addresses they are looking for. Now, would you ever consider all these actions as life risking things? As a matter of fact, they are. This is thanks to two drugs that are becoming famous in the robbery world, Scopolamine and Burundanga.
Scopolamine and Burundanga are tropane alkaloid drugs. They are extracted from plants such as Henbane and Jimson Weed and other plants that are event to be found in backyards of houses. Producing these drugs is fast and its access is easy. Perhaps this is the reason why, according to a local newspaper, the use of Scopolamine for committing crimes in Ecuador increased by a 45 percent in 2011.
Crimes involving the drugs include robbery, rape and kidnapping. You don’t necessarily have to inject the drug into your system. Just by simply touching it, spraying a certain amount on your skin or breathing it you may be exposed to delirium such as disorientation, loss of memory, hallucinations, and stupor....read more: http://thespartanonline.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/drug-becomes-the-weapon-of-crime-in-ecuador/

Giant Skeleton found in Loja in Ecuador 19 October 2012

Reconstruction the Giant Skeleton found in Loja in Ecuador on 19 October 2012. In the province of Loja, in the South of the Ecuador and the Peru border, residents remember hearing long ago in the beautiful valleys in this province were reportedly discovered skeletons very similar to those of humans, 



but of an incredible size giant-bones By far the most famous of these discoverers was the father Carlos Miguel Vaca (*Refer to Father Crespi in album as well) who was kept until his death in 1999, several bones and fragments found on a site named “Changaiminas” which translated into Spanish means “cemetery of the gods.

Thankfully, there are other countries around the globe that aren’t worried about hiding our ancient past history any longer. In the US and Europe, most evidence quietly disappeared from nearly every museum from the 1900′s until today. Most of the discoveries paid for and removed by the Smithsonian....http://alabamatruth.com/nephilim-proof-giant-skeleton-found-in-loja-in-ecuador-19-october-2012/

Olon Again...Naturally: Capt'n Crunch Has Landed

Monday, September 2, 2013

Capt'n Crunch Has Landed

August 31, 3013

A couple of days ago, I took a serene hike up a nearby dirt road on the east side of the Ruta del Sol (Spondylus). *
There are a number of these roads that lead back into the jungle, and one does not need to go very far to get into a more “jungly” environment (less than a quarter mile, becoming more dense and isolated further down the roads).

The change in vegetation and birdlife is vivid in such a short distance between the beach side and hill side of the Ruta del Sol. Of course, the plants are more lush and the birds more colorful and diverse on the hill side...

Olon Again...Naturally: Capt'n Crunch Has Landed: August 31, 3013 A couple of days ago, I took a serene hike up a nearby dirt road on the east side of the Ruta del Sol (Spondylus). * Th...

Olon Again...Naturally

Dreamed of moving to Ecuador? Todd and Leigh are a California couple who now live in the small coastal fishing village of Olón, Ecuador. Olón is on the Ruta del Sol (Ruta del Spondylus), just 2km north of Montanita. Ecuador is an enchanting country blessed with breathtaking beauty, a diversity of culture and wildlife, and a charm of its own.

Constitutional Rights of Americans on the No-Fly List

08/29/2013 By Nusrat Choudhury, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project at 2:31pm

Victory! Federal Court Recognizes Constitutional Rights of Americans on the No-Fly List

A federal court took a critically important step late yesterday towards placing a check on the government's secretive No-Fly List. In a 38-page ruling in Latif v. Holder, the ACLU's challenge to the No-Fly List, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown recognized that the Constitution applies when the government bans Americans from the skies. She also asked for more information about the current process for getting off the list, to inform her decision on whether that procedure violates the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process.
We represent 13 Americans, including four military veterans, who are blacklisted from flying. At oral argument in June on motions for partial summary judgment, we asked the court to find that the government violated our clients' Fifth Amendment right to due process by barring them from flying over U.S. airspace – and smearing them as suspected terrorists – without giving them any after-the-fact explanation or a hearing at which to clear their names.
The court's opinion recognizes – for the first time – that inclusion on the No-Fly List is a draconian sanction that severely impacts peoples' constitutionally-protected liberties. It rejected the government's argument that No-Fly list placement was merely a restriction on the most "convenient" means of international travel.

"Such an argument ignores the numerous reasons an individual may have for wanting or needing to travel overseas quickly such as for the birth of a child, the death of a loved one, a business opportunity, or a religious obligation." ....read more: https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty-racial-justice/victory-federal-court-recognizes

 

How's noise concerns from barking dogs /etc. in Ecuador?

How's noise concerns from barking dogs /etc. in Ecuador?

This question was asked today on one of the many EC forums & groups, and I got carried away with a reply.

And it dawned on me, as long as I did'nt use the posters name that asked the question, maybe I could copy & paste my own content and share it here on my blog, so here goes:

Jour-Ja: I was Quito, in the La Mariscal - GringoLandia district for 6 months, rather loud WED thru SAT, they try to close the clubs at 2am FRI & SAT but it takes an hr or 2 to disband the partyers.

I was 2 yrs at AV America & Moñasca near Cinemark Mall in an average EC working mans neighborhood on a dead end street, was'nt that bad on noise.

..and for the last 2.5 yrs in Northern Suburbs between Pomasqui & San Antonio - Middle of the World w/ intermittent dogs barking - roosters crowing -

- my gas trucks on this route run mid day M-F but I got one wild card that likes to sneak in at about 7am on SAT's sometimes, and the junk man - metal recycling guy w/ mega PA system: "compre metales"!!! None of that really bothers me much now after 5yrs of acclimation / adjustment - 17 SEP 2008 (pic below of little girl & her Mom on top of the scrap truck)

(It never bothered me much anyways, it's just the way it is, for now, if you get out and rip n roar good during the day, you will sleep at night, but change is coming on the horizon, lil by lil)

..but, we all in EC may very well miss the truck honking of a $2.75 per 32.84 Lbs = 14.9 kgs, if the EC Govt. indeed mandates total electric after the 8 or so power dams come online 2015 -16?

I will tell yah one fellar that don't hear nothing at night - thats the gas man, can you imagine the stress of driving around any town in EC in traffic & Ecua driving habits w/ enough explosives to level a city block, and lugging them tanks around from sun up to sun down, thats one wore out dude - sawing logs blissfully at Knight!

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I do a lot of reblogging that is sometimes missed or not thought well of on a lot of the various EC forums & blogs and repost it here. But will make a conscious effort to try to do more of my own original content. 

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