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British PM Wants 1,000 New Nuclear Power Plants
http://www.truthout.org/article/british-pm-wants-1000-new-nuclear-power-plants
Colin Brown, for The Independent UK, reports, "Gordon Brown has
signaled he wants Britain to play a major role in the race to build
an extra 1,000 nuclear power stations across the world as part of
his vision for ending the global 'addiction to oil.'"
A new web site for the work from the books Conversation
With God has just opened for the UK. take a look, It's well
done.
Hosted by the Founding sponsors of
David Calvert-Orange
and Pamela Nolan
Yes Wheel of Hope has entered the tourist trade!!!
First we want you
to see what we are doing at our self help projects in the Kerala
region of
South India to make you aware and hopefully want to become more involved
in fund raising.
… But then we also want you to spend a fascinating and relaxing time
enjoying the utter magic of
South
India.
This is where you will stay
David and Pamela have had a 4 bed roomed house built with en-suite
facilities, a super lounge ….. And roof garden with plunge pool!
It is in the heart of the most beautiful countryside just a short
way from the most fantastic beach!
You will be able to visit fantastic temples, palaces and places of
beauty
Your time there will be designed to suit your
interests to give you the experience of a lifetime that hopefully
will actually change your life forever for you will not only see
these wonderful places but also the projects of Wheel of Hope.
You have chosen to come with us for a very
wonderful reason and that is you care deeply about the poor and
destitute of the third world and developing countries.
Your mode of transport will be our brand new Tata
Sumo the top of the range luxury vehicle air-conditioned and
fitted with the latest DVD and stereo!!!
Almost the entire cost of your tour apart from the
air fare will help the funds of Wheel of Hope
Just consider how many wonderful holidays exist
that directly help the poor!
Behind Pamela washing the elephant is our Tata
Sumo the vehicle in which you would be taken on tours
What more could you want except perfect weather
which is almost guaranteed at the right time of year though many
like to enjoy the Monsoon in the autumn!!
Our outreach
programme for the destitute
 Our
new Tuition Home preventing children from working and giving them
an education
  Our
Tuition and medical help Centres
 
Our Dance Group
and choir that literally perform to help the destitute!
The cost for two
weeks with us in
India is £500 per person or £800 for a couple,
extra days pro-rata. This includes
one week at the Villa including breakfast plus the cost of the Hotels
on our extended trip. When travelling in the Sumo you pay just 20
rupees per 1km. (about 25p.) also the cost of
all meals en route.
You will be expected to
book your own
flights which will probably cost around £400/£500 depending on
season, but it is
sometimes possible to get on a charter. We will of course meet
you at Trivandrum
Airport – about 30
minutes away from the Villa. You will also need to obtain a Visa
and Travel Insurance.
Evening meals at the Villa
(optional) - £5.00 per person
– or you may wish to sample the delights of the various restaurants
on Kovalam
Beach.
We hope that all our
guests will have a wonderful and enjoyable time (only one rule at
the Villa – NO SMOKING) and of course will tell your friends about
us and Wheel of Hope Trust
Contact David or Pamela for further details
Phone/Fax 0044 (0) 1709 869550/860401
U.K.
Mobile: 07799 850556
India
Mobile: 0091 9995466601
Email:
wohctuk@yahoo.co.uk
Wheel of Hope
A
registered Trust in India No: 31/04.
The official charity of
the Minster Church of St. George Doncaster
Under the Patronage of
the Rt. Rev. Cyril Ashton, Bishop of Doncaster
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The other day a young person asked me how I
felt about being old. I was
taken aback, for I do not think of myself as old. Upon seeing my reaction,
she was immediately embarrassed, but I explained that it was an
interesting
question, and I would ponder it, and let her know.
Old Age, I decided, is a gift.
I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always
wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body, the
wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback
by that old person that lives in my mirror (who looks like my mother!),
but
I don't agonize over those things for long.
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving
family
for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become more kind
to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't
chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or
for
buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante
garde
on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.
I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they
understood the great freedom that comes with aging..
Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4
AM
and sleep until noon?
I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60s & 70s, and if
I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ..... I will.
I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging
body,
and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the
pitying glances from the jet set.
They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as
well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.
Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not
break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when
somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car!
But broken hearts are what give
us strength and understanding and compassion.. A heart never broken is
pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray,
and
to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.
So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could
turn silver.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what
other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even
earned the
right to be wrong.
So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like
the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am
still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or
worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day. (If
I feel like it)
MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE
HEART!
MAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE A RAINBOW OF SMILES ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART
FOREVER AND EVER!
FRIENDS FOREVER!
Bananas
I n
the early 20th century, with American industry just beginning to expand
overseas, and with Latin America still just emerging from its colonial
shackles, bananas became one of America's first powerhouse industries:
"Bananas are the world's largest fruit crop and the fourth-largest
product grown overall, after wheat, rice and corn. ... In Central
America, [American banana companies] built and toppled nations: a
struggle to control the banana crop led to the overthrow of Guatemala's
first democratically elected government in the 1950s, which in turn gave
birth to the Mayan genocide of the 1980s. In the 1960s, banana
companies--trying to regain plantations nationalized by Fidel
Castro--allowed the CIA to use their freighters as part of the failed
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. ... Eli Black, the chairman of Chiquita,
threw himself out of the window of a Manhattan skyscraper in 1974 after
his company's political machinations were exposed. ...
"On August 12, 1898, Spain surrendered [Cuba in the Spanish-American
War], and the United States gained control over the island, opening a
naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Over the next thirty-five years; the U.S.
military intervened in Latin America twenty-eight times: in Mexico, in
Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba in the Caribbean; and in Panama,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and El Salvador in Central
America. The biggest consequence of those incursions was to make the
region safe for bananas. One of the first businesses to enter Cuba was
United Fruit. The banana and sugar plantations it established would
eventually encompass 300,000 acres. An 1899 article in the Los
Angeles Times described Latin America as 'Uncle Sam's New Fruit
Garden,' offering readers insight into 'How bananas, pineapples, and
cocoanuts can be turned into fortunes.' ...
"[But the U.S.] public knew little about events like the 1912 U.S.
invasion of Honduras, which granted United Fruit broad rights to build
railroads and grow bananas in the country. They weren't aware that in
1918 alone, U.S. military forces put down banana workers' strikes in
Panama, Columbia, and Guatemala. For every direct intervention, there
were two or three softer ones, accomplished by proxy through local
armies and police forces controlled by friendly governments. One of the
few observers to take note of the situation was Count Vay de Vaya of
Hungary, who ... upon returning from a visit to Latin America, described
the banana a 'a weapon of conquest.' "
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Rasputin's knob
- all 13 inches of it.
www.st-petersburg-life.com/.../rasputins-penis
Many legends surround the
pilgrim, mystic and faith-healer Grigori Rasputin, one-time
advisor to the Romanov family and, as Boney M famously put it,
'Russia's greatest love machine'. However of all the famous
fables, few are quite as long-winded or amusing as the stories
directly concerned with the Mad Monk's gigantic genitalia. Since
the Siberian's assassination in 1916 many people have claimed to
own the penis of the dead man, with one prominent Russian doctor
currently displaying what he upholds is the real Rasputin rooter
in his museum in
St. Petersburg.
Hang on a minute! How can anyone claim to have grabbed hold of
such a schlong when surely the Russian mystic and royal advisor
was buried with his tackle intact? Well not so according to
some, who would have us believe that a maid came into possession
of the prize privates after Rasputin's death. Some say that
Rasputin was castrated by his assassins and that a maid found
the dismembered... Errr... member when cleaning up the next day.
Others claim that the canny wench, one of the hairy man's many
bedtime conspirators, severed the sausage as a souvenir after
the autopsy.
Whatever the (un)truth of
the matter, the (alleged) fact is that Rasputin's ramrod was at
large in the world. And much like in its making hay-day, the
beast was wont to wander. In fact it next turned up in 1920s
Paris, where a group of Russian ex-patriates worshipped the
wonder weiner, certain that it would bring them fertility.
However, on finding out about this crazy cult, Marie Rasputin
(the Mad Monk's daughter) expressed her extreme disapproval of
such goings-on and demanded the return of daddy's dong. However,
just when it seemed that the saintly shaft had finally shrunk
from the annals, it popped up again in 1994 for a final hurrah.
It happened that Michael Augustine of California acquired the
jolly John Thomas by accident when he purchased the effects of
one Dr. Ripple in 1977. Dr. Ripple had collaborated with Marie
Rasputin on a hagiography of her father, and so had inherited
the whopper willy on Marie's demise. Or had she? Well after
Michael Augustine sold the item in question to Bonham's auction
house, tests were done and the would-be winkle turned out to be
not a penis at all - but a desiccated sea-cucumber.
And that was the (bell) end of that? No, siree. The latest twist
in the trouser snake saga involves eminent Russian doctor Igor
Knyazkin, head physician of the Prostate Centre of Russia's
Academy of Sciences. The good doctor proudly opened the nation's
first Museum of Erotica in 2004 (in a sexual health clinic!) in
order to display some of the 15,000 items he has amassed during
his time as a sex objects collector. Amongst them - you guessed
it - is none other than the alleged appendage of the Mad Monk
himself.
An impressive 11 inches (nearly 30cm) long, and as thick as most
men's wrists, the pickled pecker certainly measures up to the
reports of Rasputin's raking rapier - which according to his
daughter Marie (we're afraid to ask how she would know this!)
was a whopping 13 inches long when pointing skywards.
So Dr. Knyazkin's exhibit looks the part - so to speak - but is
it really the genuine johnson? Well, no tests have been
conducted on the mummified monster, which raises one's
suspicions, whilst the general consensus amongst zoologists is
that the ostracized organ most likely once belonged to a horse
or bovine animal...
Making the tool tale of Rasputin's penis, quite literally, a
cock and bull story.
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The rainbow flag has become the easily-recognized colors
of pride for the gay community. The multicultural symbolism of the rainbow is
nothing new. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition also embraces the rainbow as a
symbol of that political movement. The rainbow also plays a part in many myths
and stories related to gender and sexuality issues in Greek, Native American,
African, and other cultures.
Use of the rainbow flag by the gay community began in
1978 when it first appeared in the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day
Parade. Borrowing symbolism from the hippie movement and black civil rights
groups, San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag in
response to a need for a symbol that could be used year after year.
Version A) Baker designed a flag with eight stripes . According to Baker, those colors represented, respectively:
sexuality, life, healing, sun, nature, art, harmony, and spirit. Baker dyed
and sewed the material for the first flag himself - in the true spirit of
Betsy Ross.
Version B) Baker and thirty volunteers hand stitched and hand dyed two huge
prototype flags for the parade. The flags had eight stripes, each color
representing a component of the community: hot pink for sex, red for life,
orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for nature, turquoise for art,
indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.
Version A) Baker soon approached San Francisco's
Paramount Flag Company about mass producing and selling his "gay flag".
Unfortunately, Baker had hand dyed all the colors, and since the color "hot
pink" was not commercially available, mass production of his eight striped
version became impossible. The flag was thus reduced to seven stripes.
Version B) San Francisco-based Paramount Flag Co. began selling seven-striped
(top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet) flags
from its Polk Street retail store, which was located in a large gay
neighborhood. These flags were surplus stock which had originally been made
for the the International Order of Rainbow for Girls, a Masonic organization
for young women. When Baker approached Paramount to make flags for the 1979
Gay Freedom Day Parade, Paramount informed Baker that fabric for hot pink was
not available for mass production, and Baker dropped the hot pink stripe.
Steve Kramer, 24 April 1998
In November 1978, San Francisco's gay community was
stunned when the city's first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, was
assassinated. Wishing to demonstrate the gay community's strength and
solidarity in the aftermath of this tragedy, the 1979 Pride Parade Committee
decided to use Baker's flag. The committee eliminated the indigo stripe so
they could divide the colors evenly along the parade route, three colors on
one side of the street, and three on the other. Soon the six colors were incorporated into a six striped
version that became popularized and that, today, is recognized by the
International Congress of Flag Makers.
Color has long played an important role in our
community's _expression of pride. In Victorian England, for example, the color
green was associated with homosexuality. The color purple (or, more
accurately, lavender) became popularized as a symbol for pride in the late
1960s a frequent post Stonewall catchword for the gay community was "Purple
Power." And, of course, there's the pink triangle. Although it was first used
in Nazi Germany to identify gay males in concentration camps, the pink
triangle only received widespread use as a gay pop icon in the early 1980s.
But the most colorful of our symbols is the Rainbow Flag, and its rainbow of
colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple represents the diversity
of our community.
In 1994, a huge
30 foot wide by one mile long rainbow flag was carried by 10,000 people in New
York's Stonewall 25 Parade.
The Rainbow Flag celebrated its 25th year as a symbol of
gay and lesbian pride in 2003. To mark this anniversary, creator Gilbert
Baker gave the familiar flag a wee bit of a makeover.
The San Francisco artist wanted the flag to be a symbol of pride in a time of
rampant anti-gay sentiment. The flag as created by Baker, contained eight
colours in its original form: fuchsia, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise,
blue, purple and pink.
Baker's reworked flag was revealed in Key West on June 15th. The flag once
again contained all eight rainbow colours as Baker originally intended. "We
lost two of the original colours, pink and turquoise, because they could not
be commercially produced back in 1978," Baker said in a press release. "It's
time, however, to restore the original design. First of all, it's simply more
beautiful, more authentic. Besides, when we lost the pink, we lost the symbol
for sexual liberation. The missing turquoise honors Native Americans and the
magic of life. Both colours are needed to embrace our history."
The flag was to be so large that it would stretch across the entire main
island from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Unfurling the
recording-breaking banner would be the finale of the PrideFest 2003
celebration, entitled "Sea-to-Sea Diversity."
After being displayed, more than a 100 sections of the 1.25 mile flag would be
given to Pride organizations in cities across the U.S.
"For Rainbow25, I will restore the Rainbow Flag to its original 8 colours and
bring it to cities worldwide -- as my gift to the community that embraced it,"
Baker said. "When I raised the first rainbow in San Francisco in 1978 I
instantly knew that my flag belonged to every lesbian and gay man.
- it seems that common sense is severely lacking in politicians, local
councilors, town planners and just about anyone and everyone planning our
transport system.
You know, when
I was a kid I was always told that they ( the establishment - church, teachers,
parents etc... ) could teach a child all sorts of things but you were either
born with common sense or you were not, and THANK GOD I was born with a
bucket load of common sense, and believe me, it is very VERY hard living
in a world where common sense seems to have been lobotomized from many of the
people on Mother Earth and I sometimes despair.
It is common
sense to get on with your neighbours.
It is common
sense to want a roof over your head, to have an honest income from work
and to have someone special to share it with. This, most of us search for
and it is common sense, surely, that we will only get out of life, what
we are prepared to invest IN life, as there are no free rides.
It is common
sense that if you work hard,- do well - have a nice lifestyle and find
happiness, that you will spread a little of that happiness around... and
others will enjoy your happiness.
It is also
common sense that the new shopping mall in Bournemouth is the wrong design, with
not enough toilets, cafes, and come to that, pillars to hold the damned place
up, which has been falling down dangerously since before it was even open.
Just one quick glance at the layout tells your common sense ' Who the hell
designed this crappy place... what WERE they thinking' - and it is common
sense that someone accepted a bribe, a golden handshake or a pat on the back.
Just as it is common sense that this war in Iraq has nothing to do with Sadam
and WMD's just as it is common sense that Blair leaves office now before he is
interviewed by the police UNDER CAUTION concerning the honours for cash
scandal... just as it is common sense to look after yourself and eat well.
But sadly it
seems there are so many people out there who just do not have - or at east trust
and use, their common sense, and we the people with this enviable ability,
feel we are on a planet inhabited by a load of dumb shits who seem happy
to destroy their planet, their family life and even their loved ones because
' I didn't know...' or ' Whatever ' is the
catchphrase and defining attitude of their lives. And while the
politicians spin out everything - and most of it is common sense lies lies and
more lies, and while more of these common sense dead people eat their
doughnuts and drink their espresso's - the world is going to shit.
We are told we
must get out of our cars and save the planet from exhaust, and then the
government offers a DREADFUL train service, crappy bus service and amateurish
transport system all over the country that is late, the staff are rude, the
prices excessive and the whole system is run by staff who are obviously
disinterested in their job and couldn't really give a fuck. So we get back
in our cars and help bugger up the environment and the claim by the government
that they are doing what they can to 'GO GREEN' is - in my common sense, a load
of old rubbish...
Common sense
seems to be severely lacking in many people, so maybe it is time to
practice and use yours before it is really too late.
1) A train to Scotland costs over £100 from London
while the plane £70. Which do you take ?
2) If a burger restaurant chain uses rain forest paper
products in its wrappings and this causes environmental damage to the
planet,- do you eat in that restaurant ?
3) You live ten minutes walk from the shops and it is a sunny
day, do you take your car ?
4) There is a
lorry speeding down the road, do you step out in front of it to cross the
road ?
Now - to all
those questions you use your common sense. You do not need someone to tell you
that if flying is cheaper, you fly - if you disapprove of McDonalds, then go
elsewhere and obviously it is better for your health to walk than to drive,
especially where convenient. You'd have to be pretty brain dead to
step out in front of a speeding lorry and you would - naturally - use your
common sense and stay on the pavement until it has passed.
So many people
are asleep. They wonder around their daily lives as if they are dead, with
no opinions, no idea and no common sense while the rest of us try so hard to
make things right... and it sometimes seems like an uphill battle.
So try and use
your brains before you do / say / act - it might just save you from that
speeding lorry.
Common sense.
Use it - or loose it.
 
"After
four hundred years of dedicated hunting, researchers have found about a hundred
documents relating to William Shakespeare and his immediately family--baptismal
records, title deeds, tax certificates, marriage bonds, writs of attachment,
court records (many court records--it was a litigious age), and so on. That's
quite a good number as these things go, but deeds and bonds and other records
are inevitably bloodless. ...
"In consequence there remains an enormous amount that we don't about William
Shakespeare, much of it of a fundamental nature. We don't know, for one thing,
exactly how many plays he wrote or in what order he wrote them. ... Although he
left nearly a million words of text, we have just fourteen words in his own
hand--his name signed six times and the words 'by me' on his will. Not a single
note or letter or page of manuscript survives. ...
"We are not sure how best to spell his name--then neither, it appears, was he,
for the name is never spelled the same way twice in the signatures that survive.
(They read as 'Willm Shaksp,' 'William Shakespe,' 'Wm Shakspe,' 'William
Shakspere,' 'Willm Shakspere,' and 'William Shakspeare.' Curiously one spelling
he didn't use was the one now universally attached to his name.) Nor can we be
entirely confident of how he pronounced his name. Helge Kokeritz, author of the
definitive Shakespeare's Pronunciation, thought it possible that
Shakespeare said it with a short a, as in 'shack.' It may have been
spoken one way in Stratford and another in London, or he may have been as
variable with the pronunciation as he was with the spelling. ...
"We don't know if he ever left England. ... On only a handful of days in his
life can we say with absolute certainty where he was. ... For the rest, he is
kind of a literary equivalent of an electron--forever there and not there."
There has
been speculation for a long time that he was illiterate and that Samuel Bacon
wrote all the plays as he was a worldly man of culture whereas Shakespeare was
not. bacon was the man responsible for getting the King James Bible translated
into English in the 1600's and wanted the hidden truths - denied in the Bible
but still known - to be available for the masses and put these truths into the
writings of Shakespeare - and used the man as a front to hide his true
intentions and to hide the truths from being too obvious to the church.
 In
55 B.C., ever anxious to dazzle his fellow Romans, Julius Caesar invades
Britain:
"Set within the icy waters of the Channel coast waited the fabulous island of
Britain. It was as drenched in mystery as in rain and fog. Back in Rome people
doubted whether it existed at all. Even traders and merchants, Caesar's usual
sources of information, could provide only the sketchiest of details. Their
reluctance to travel widely through the island was hardly surprising. It was
well known that the barbarians became more savage the farther north one
traveled, indulging in any number of unspeakable habits, such as cannibalism,
and even--repellently--the drinking of milk. To teach them respect for the name
of the Republic would be an achievement of Homeric proportions. For Caesar, who
never let anyone forget that he could trace his ancestry back to the time of the
Trojan War, the temptation was irresistible. ...
"Waiting for invaders on the Kentish cliffs was a scene straight out of legend:
warriors careering up and down in chariots, just as Hector and Achilles had done
on the plain of Troy. To add to the exotic nature of it all, the Britons wore
peculiar facial hair and were painted blue. So taken back were the legionaries
that they stood cowering in their transport boats until finally a
standard-bearer, clutching his eagle to him, plunged into the waves alone and
started wading toward the shore. His comrades, shamed into action, piled into
the water after him. After some messy fighting a beachhead was established. Some
more battles were fought, some villages burned, and some hostages taken. Then,
with bad weather closing in, Caesar had his men pack up and sail back to Gaul.
...
"Nothing remotely concrete had been achieved, but in Rome the news that an army
of the Republic had crossed both the Rhine and the Ocean (Channel) caused a
sensation. ... Rome was agog for news. In their impact on a waiting public
Caesar's expeditions to Britain have been aptly compared to the moon landings:
'they were an imagination-defying epic, an achievement at once technological and
straight out of an adventure story.' Few doubted that the entire island would
soon be forced to bow to the Republic's supremacy. Only Cato was immune to the
war fever. He shook his head and warned somberly of the anger of the gods.
"And sure enough, Caesar had indeed pushed too far, too fast. As he crossed the
Thames in search of the frustratingly elusive Britons, his agents brought him
ominous news: the harvest in Gaul had failed; rebellion was threatening; Caesar
was needed back in person immediately. ... Caesar decided to cut his losses. A
face-saving treaty was patched up with local chieftain. The dream of reaching
the end of the world had to be put on hold. Although he disguised the painful
truth as well as he could from his fellow citizens, Caesar had over-reached
himself
 The
discovery of a synthetic process for manufacturing nitrates lead directly and
immediately to both the global population explosion and to the unprecedented
casualty level--23 million people--of World War I:
"For all the ... guns that their factories could produce, Europeans could not
manufacture nitrates, the stuff that made gunpowder explode--they had to find it
in the natural world. ... Nitrogen is also crucial to the growth of plants. ...
[T]he largest sources of naturally occurring nitrates are produced as animal
waste. ... Paradoxically then, both the size of the global human population and
its ability to conduct modern warfare depended on, and were limited by, nature.
That fact led to a global search for naturally occurring deposits of nitrates,
mostly in the form of bat and bird guano. ...
"The first clump of Peruvian guano was brought to Europe in 1804 by the German
naturalist and world explorer Alexander von Humbolt, and then extracted in ever
greater amounts and exported by British merchants. By 1890, the supplies of
Peruvian guano were mostly exhausted, but another natural source (sodium
nitrate, or 'saltpeter') that could be mined was found in southern Peru; in 1879
Chile had gone to war with Peru to gain control of the sodium nitrate, and
exported it to the industrializing world, which used it to make both fertilizer
and gunpowder. ...
"In 1909 a chemist named Fritz Haber synthesized ammonia (which contains
nitrogen that could be processed into nitrates) in his laboratory, and a year
later the issues of industrial production were resolved by Carl Bosch of the
German firm BASF. The process of synthesizing ammonia, known as the Haber-Bosch
process, shaped the subsequent course of world history.
"The synthesis of ammonia made possible the growth of the world's population.
... [B]y 1900, most of the good arable land in the world was already being
farmed, so that increased food production could come most readily from the
application of additional fertilizer. ... The Haber-Bosch process for
synthesizing ammonia made it possible to increase the food supply and support
the world's current population of about 6.2 billion people. In other words, in
the twentieth century, the population of the world increased from about 1.6 to
6.2 billion largely because of the Haber-Bosch process. That increase in the
human population alone makes the twentieth century unique in all of human
history. ... More than that, it also made possible the industrial production of
explosives, and, because Germany was the first to use this new technology,
increased the confidence of its military leaders. And that was to be a crucially
important factor contributing to the outbreak of world war in 1914."
North Korea
-some interesting stuff
China and South Korea work to prop up the failed economy of North Korea.
Although they both seek to nudge North Korea toward economic liberalization and
away from nuclear arms, they fear more the collapse of North Korea and a
disastrous spillover to their own countries--a collapse like the one which came
after Moscow ended its subsidies in 1990, causing millions of North Korean
deaths from starvation:
"Beijing gives a few hundred thousand tons of grain to North Korea every year
and sells it a large amount of oil at heavily discounted prices. ... In recent
years, [South Korea] has also essentially assumed responsibility for feeding the
North Koreans. From 2002 to 2005, it provided 400,000 to 500,000 tons of grain
annually, an amount equal to some ten percent of North Korea's annual harvest.
The North's agriculture is heavily dependent on mineral fertilizers that the
country can no longer produce; about two- thirds of the fertilizer it uses comes
from the South. Seoul may thus be essentially contributing as much as 40-50
percent of the calories consumed by the average North Korean. ...
"The Bank of Korea recently estimated ... that per capita gross national income
in the South is 17 times that in the North. By comparison, per capita gross
national income in West Germany before unification was roughly double that in
East Germany. ...
"[Seoul] worries that if the North were to be reunited with the South, the costs
of the North's reconstruction would wipe out the South's hard-won prosperity. In
late 2007, a report prepared for the budget committee of the South Korean
National Assembly estimated that the expense of unification would be $0.8-$1.3
trillion--a staggering amount and yet just enough to bring the North Korean's
average income to only half that enjoyed by South Koreans. ...
"Were North Korea to reform, the disparities with South Korea would only become
starker to its population. For decades, Pyongyang has based its legitimacy on
its alleged ability to provide its people with a better material life. Even
though for most North Koreans living well means eating rice every day,
government propaganda has insisted that they enjoy one of the world's highest
living standards and has presented South Korea as a land of destitution--a
'living hell.' It has managed to sustain the legitimacy of these claims with a
self-imposed information blockade apparently unparalleled anywhere in the
communist world, past or present. ... There are at least 150,000 political
prisoners in North Korean labor camps today, that is, one political prisoner for
every 150 citizens--a ratio comparable to that in the Soviet Union under the
worst of Stalin's rule. ...
Andrei Lankov, "Staying Alive: Why North Korea Will Not Change," Foreign
Affairs, March/April 2008, pp.9-14.
A brief overview by John Tanner
Its psychological effects can be subtle and hard to
classify, but common effects can be relaxation, euphoria, feelings of
hilarity and introspection. Music sounds better, food tastes
great and for violent and aggressive people, it usually alms them down
and makes them more peaceful.
In some users it can also
produce anxiety or panic, short-term memory loss, confusion and poor
coordination.
Heavy users may become
lethargic and apathetic and find it hard to concentrate, but then,
the same can be said for heavy drinkers also except all too often
boozers can become aggressive as well.
It may bring on a craving for
food (often referred to as 'having the munchies') which many years ago
when a friend was not eating because his HIV medication made him
nauseas and he was not eating, smoking a joint in the evening
meant he wanted to eat and his whole health regime picked up and his
health was vastly improved.
Cooking the drug then eating
it makes the effects more intense and harder to control, which is
again, just like booze. If you do anything to excess, it
will be hard to control.
Some people with Multiple Sclerosis, Arthritis,
Glaucoma and many other ailments say that Cannabis helps relieve their
symptoms and pain and claim that the law is an ass. Medical reasons
for using Cannabis are known to be huge but they - whoever THEY are -
would rather you use a chemical drug rather than a natural drug,
and we all know how many side effects chemical drugs have and the
problems many have with these chemicals.
Risks:
Cannabis is high in
carcinogens and regular use may cause cancer and damage the lungs,
or so we are told, but in truth, the tobacco it is
usually mixed with for smoking, is FAR more dangerous than the
weed itself, yet this is rarely mentioned in commentaries
concerning Cannabis.
Although not physically
addictive (in the same way as heroin is), it is often claimed that
regular users can become psychologically dependent, and feel they
can't get by without it, but this is also, generally
speaking, only a half truth. Some people may have
difficulties with becoming addicted to anything in life and will
endeavor to become addicted to cigarettes, booze, wacky backie and
THIS is more the problem and not the drug. Take away one
addiction and another will often fill the void, so it is wrong to
blame the weed.
BUT: That is not to say that with some - a few - a very few -
it MAY cause addiction problems.
Mixing cannabis and other
drugs, including alcohol, can have unpredictable effects. Just like
mixing your drinks.
Law:
Cannabis was downgraded from a category B to a category C drug
on January 29th 2004. From then on, people were not usually
arrested for possession - but it still remained an illegal substance.
It seems that as of May 2006, the government was thinking - once
again - of upgrading it to a class B drug again, mostly it seems from
my viewpoint that many have told t oo
many lies and deceptions concerning this drug and out of the frat and
panic that these kind of people seem to wallow around in, it may
once again be upgraded.
Some circumstances could
still lead to you being arrested - like smoking it in public, having
the drug around children, or for being a 'habitual user'. Under 17s
will still be arrested for using the drug.
There is not yet a fixed
amount for what users can say is for their own consumption, which some
critics of the new legislation say could be confusing.
If you are caught with the drug, you'll be given a warning and ordered
to hand it over to the police. If this is repeated, you could be
landed with a fine, go to court and have a criminal record.
The maximum jail sentence for being caught in possession of Cannabis
will be reduced from five to two years, but the maximum sentence for
supplying the drug will be unchanged at 14 years.
Although it's not an offence to possess cannabis seeds it is illegal
to grow them.
Many people enjoy using or
experimenting with Cannabis; Consider the amount of books and music
written extolling its effects. But remember it is still illegal to
possess the drug.
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Medical
Marijuana: Bipartisan House Coalition Challenges FDA Medical Marijuana
Finding
4/28/06
A week after
the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a one-page opinion
claiming marijuana has no proven medical uses -- a position that
ignores the much more comprehensive analysis done by the National
Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine in 1999 -- a bipartisan
group of 24 House members led by Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) has
called on the agency to explain its reasoning and offer scientific
proof for its position.
"Despite the
fact that you are responding to a scientific question, your press
release failed to provide any scientific expertise," the
representatives wrote in
a Thursday letter to FDA Acting Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach.
"We call on you to show us the purported scientific evidence for the
basis of this response. There is no evidence that you have new
scientific proof or that you oversaw clinical trials. It perplexes us
that even though the FDA is responsible for protecting public health,
the agency has failed to respond adequately to the IOM's findings
seven years after the study's publication date."
Last
week, the FDA issued a one-page press release declaring that "no sound
scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in
the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or
efficacy of marijuana for general medical use." The press release did
not point to any studies that supported its contention, and it has
become an object of controversy among medical marijuana proponents and
scientists who have actually done research on marijuana.
Hinchey
accused the agency of playing politics with people's lives. "We saw it
with the agency's decision on the emergency contraceptive, Plan B, and
we're seeing it again with medical marijuana: the FDA is making
decisions based on politics instead of science," Hinchey said. "The
FDA should not be a political entity. Rather, the agency should be in
the business of ensuring all Americans have access to safe and
effective drugs, including medical marijuana."
Rep.
Hinchey is one of the most ardent defenders of medical marijuana in
the House. He has sponsored an amendment that would bar the federal
government from prosecuting medical marijuana patients in three
consecutive sessions, and he has vowed to offer it again later this
year.
A response from JB
So as you can see, bullshit seems the order of
the day and when the FDA even lies and covers up the truth and states
untrue facts as facts, how on God's earth can anyone hope to find the
truth. On one of the official web sites concerning Cannabis it states
that people who use Cannabis are more likely to have unprotected sex,
which I would strongly argue was clap trap. I know many
who have smoked dope for years and NOT ONE would EVER - EVER - EVER
EVER EVER - think - STONED OR NOT - to have unprotected sex - and this
fact alone would make me question the validity of what else is stated
on many official web sites.
Bemoaning the dangers of Cannabis is fine if it
is going to be done equally and fairly with truth and honesty,
yet where do we find health warnings on booze, for alcohol kills more
people a year than cigarettes; it destroys family life,
businesses, tens of thousands of work days are lost each year
because of hangovers, people are killed in drink drive
accidents, families are torn apart, town centers after
dark can become 'no go areas' because of the violence associated with
drinkers;- and yet where is the education concerning these facts
?
The claim that all 'street walkers ' -
prostitutes - are heroin addicts and/or paying off a pimp is about as
unrealistic as you can be. It can be true, but most street
walkers are just trying to make ends meet and DO NOT take heroin and
do not have an addiction. Some do - of course, but most work
hard just trying to put food on the table for their children. Most
would rather be at home in bed than walking the streets and when fined
in the courts for loitering - or curb crawling - GUESS WHERE THEY GET
THE MONEY TO PAY THE FINES... YUP - BACK ON THE STREETS. So the
court is making these girls work the streets and then take their 'cut'
by fining them and sending them back to the streets to earn the money
to pay the fine. These girls are all too often victims of the system -
uneducated and ignorant - with little opportunity of a job that will
earn them enough to make ends meet - and the system lies about them,
turns the public against them with bad media coverage and treats them
worse than dirt. These SOCIAL WORKERS.
In the UK in 2004: ref: Independent
newspaper.
Deaths due to alcohol - 22,000
Deaths due to tobacco - 114,000
Deaths to Cannabis - 16
I had an old lady friend some years ago whose
family wanted to put her into an old peoples home as her arthritis was
so bad, she couldn't look after herself. Her nephew gave her some dope
and she learned how to make it into tea each evening, and her joints (
pun intended ) eased and she was able to stay at home and look after
herself. The transformation was remarkable, and then the FDA (
above ) comes out with such clap trap it is almost funny, if it wasn't
so damned sad.
We
at Hamilton Hall do not promote the taking of drugs any more than we
do booze and fags,- and we state that whatever you do, do it in
moderation, keep it away from minors and keep it private and above all
LEGAL. More and more people are using recreational drugs and the
Nanny State has a vested interest in keeping things - more or less -
exactly as they are.
Learn some facts and do not blindly believe what the media or
government health officials claim. ( Just look at the Cancer Industry
and the financial incentives offered to keep things just the way they
are, which is often NOT for the betterment of the patients..)
Research for yourself.
They say that cigarettes lead to throat and lung cancers and yet when
a friend died last July (2004) of throat cancer, the doctors told us
that cigarettes were the 3rd main cause and refused to help us get him
to stop smoking and refused - THEY REFUSED - to give him patches to
even cut down his smoking... - Binge drinking was the
second highest cause of throat cancer - and URBAN LIVING - the
pollutants in the air from cars and industry, are the biggest cause of
throat and lung cancers, and yet they bemoan drugs like cannabis
and run around in circles banning smoking in public places while doing
nothing - absolutely bog all - to curb the real dangers to public
health.
I am
not saying smoking is healthy - I am not suggesting getting stoned or
shooting up is a healthy option, and I believe in keeping it legal.
And shall we talk about all the harmful
chemicals and drugs
that the government allows in the food chain, like human
excrement and dead rotten sheep fed to cows etc..... Drinks like
Sunny Delight with tons of chemicals. Aspartame which has been proven
to be harmful to health and yet is in almost every diet and low sugar
drink and food.
But then, it's not about people, it's about money and control. It's
about filling our heads with half truths and keeping the status quo as
it is, nice and quiet, controllable and accountable.
It's about big business making a fortune from petroleum / chemical
products that have been proven to be dangerous to our health but which
earns them millions, whereas alternatives can be grown cheaply
and easily with Cannabis. Fabrics. Building materials.
Foods. Ethanol. Pain control and other healing elements.
Paper products and plastics. Good for the soil.
DO NOT sniff, inject, smoke, drink, eat, rub on,
ANYTHING unless you know what you are doing and you have made an
educated and informed decision to do so. And this goes for the
millions of pharmaceutical products that can kill and ruin thousands
of peoples lives every year, and these are legal. Be aware that the
chemical industry kills while claiming to create a brighter future for
us... Much of what they offer is brilliant and in unseen in our
daily lives and they are to be congratulated, but sadly there is
always the down side and much harm is also done and people suffer.
It seems, we can't have one without the other. Or can we ?
If we were all just a little more educated and 'aware' - it would
help.
When paper is made from wood pulp in needs HUGE amounts of bleach.
When paper is made from cannabis pulp - no bleach is needed. All
historical books like the King James Bible and even the Doomsday Book
were all written on Cannabis Hemp paper.
Medicines - Cannabis is useful in many ailments like Arthritis. Blood
sugar problems, MS, ME. Glaucoma etc. and yet the government /
chemical giants want you to take their toxic chemical drugs instead of
a natural substance which helps. ALL
indigenous tribes on this planet used a drug of choice in their
spiritual ceremonies - their dream time - vision quests -
channeling sessions etc. and the church are against this natural
choice to open consciousness and would rather ban the use of drugs to
stop people having a direct line to God, as they want us to use
them, the switchboard, as it earns them power, wealth and choir
boys... not in that order though... When you
grow cotton you need masses of chemicals. When you grow Cannabis
for the fabric that can be made from it - and you can make soft silk
like fabrics right up to tough hard wearing fabrics like Canvas ( the
word Canvas comes from the word Cannabis - it's a 6,000 year old
Sumerian word ) you need no chemical products at all, and you can grow
up to 6 times the amount of fabric per square acre than you get from
cotton and NO CHEMICALS. Chances are, Jesus wore clothes made
from Cannabis as it is mentioned in ancient biblical texts.
Cannabis can be grown without the bit that gets
you high. For countries like Australia with
one inch of top soil ( The UK has over 6 feet of top soil ) it
is fast becoming a vast desert unless plants like Cannabis are
planted. It sends a tap root right down deep for water and a mesh of
roots on the surface which hold the soil in place and this DOES NOT
infect the soil with resins likely to make anything else toxic or
'high' - as is wrongly claimed sometimes. It holds the soil in
place and is good for the environment.
Tomato
plants are HUGELY TOXIC and MUST be grown in grow-bags which are
thrown out at the end of the year. In commercial greenhouses, the soil
is steamed by high temperature and high pressure systems to kill the
bacteria - yet they claim Cannabis is toxic.... ? ? ?
911 and some alternative viewpoints as to why the twin
towers came down
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=324971467591024715
To watch the video on how the World Trade centres
were deliberately brought down but NOT with the planes but with
explosives placed there by the USA - click on the link above.
And if you still think the WTC was brought down by
Arab terrorists, you haven't paid attention. In the video
above you will see the extra explosives going off, listen to numerous
experts and wonder why there are scores of reasons why the US government
withheld information, gagged people, dragged its feet, and
did all in its power NOT TO HAVE THE TRUTH COME OUT IN THE OFFICIAL 911
INVESTIGATION. The people of the world have been massively lied to
- we have gone to war and tens of thousands of people have died and
multi billions of £ and $ have been spent because of what happened that
day on Sept. 11th and it was all ONE HUGE BIG FAT LIE and you do not
have to buy it any longer.
http://www.911truth.org/ Is also
a good web site for more information concerning this most enigmatic and
frightening day that many of us will never - ever - forget.
I
was out shopping a while ago with a friend and we were hungry and decided to
have some lunch out, and as there was a Mc Donalds right there, he said we
should pop in and have a burger.... I replied that as I did not approve of Mc
Donalds I would find somewhere else. He got a bit irritated and said - '
Oh you and your principles' - to which I replied that what was the point in
having principles if at every turn, you ignored them... If you think that
McDonalds rapes the planet and is a dreadful example of Corporate America in
how it plunders the planet, ill treats its staff and suppliers and you have
taken a stand never to support them... then you should follow what you
believe and go elsewhere.
It made me very aware that many people - quite simply - don't
seem to have any principles and they don't care about Iraq, the environment,
businesses like British Gas and McDonalds ill treating their customers and they
continue giving their custom, and they ignore the peace marches and they
complain about those of us who stand up and demand to be heard and to be
counted. Another friend told me I was wrong to stand up for
myself against Gay Times who had taken funds without telling me why, and
although the money was immediately returned, I was never notified of such,
even though my bank would charge me for their fuck up - and although it was only 60p,
that's not the point. He said I should let it go... but I refuse to allow anyone
to take money from my account - especially a business I have advertised
with for over 20 years and always found them to be unhelpful and unfriendly to
their customers... the advertisers - and especially when I get
arrogance when I call concerning this, and even though it might add stress to
my life, I simply will not allow others to screw me, the country and the
planet in any way I can help to put a stop - or at least to allow my voice to
join those of others, and to be heard. I have my principles
and believe them to be right and correct. I am against torture. The Iraq,
Afghanistan wars and Israel's behaviour in the middle east. I am against big
business and how it hurts the smaller business and government corruption and
spin. I am against the crap in our food and the lies the food
industry preaches and the corruption in the utility companies. British gas
telling me they were going to 'break my knees' and banks that screw small
business and the poor. I am against the church, that for generations has
lied, manipulated and mass murdered to keep its strangle hold on the population
and to garner money, power and choir boys ( but not in that order ) and I am
against local government that fines people for dropping a single piece of litter
while allowing town centres to die and the homeless to freeze because of budget
cuts. I am strongly against the Bush administration and how Blair has
crawled right up his ass and created more terrorism by their 'war on terror'
than ever before they started, and I am against the lies they tell as to
the reasons why. I stand up against the lies told about drugs,
prostitution, pedophilia and abuses of any kind and the various smoke screens
that are thrown into our faces by the media rather than admit the truth... that
society is going down the toilet bowl and the government have no idea how to
stop it. I am against cruelty to animals as I am against children
and old folk and anyone who cannot - or are afraid to - speak up for themselves
and I am against bullies ( while accepting there have been times when we are all
in an abusive relationship and sometimes we were the ones being abused. I
have bullied my own Mother and accept the responsibility of that and I do not
like that she brings that out in her children. I dislike physical violence and
have only ever hit someone in self defense. I stand against the
killing of whales and dolphins and the plundering of the planet by multi
nationals who don't give a damn for the people and environment as long as they
make a profit. I have many other principles and many other
things I will stand on my soap box and speak about. And I will
always be open to new ideas and new truths to help me see things from a
different angle but only from a position of wisdom and not ignorance. If you
have an uninformed mind, I don't want to hear unless you are willing to listen
and admit ignorance. I do not like people with closed minds - it's a
shame that these people never seem to have closed mouths as well....
So stand up and be counted and be brave enough to stand for what you believe in.
So - I won't be eating at a Mc Donald's in the future .... or any time come to
that....
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/02/tnsmedboards070217/
I read the article with the link above - and was horrified at how society /
governments can so mistreat the armed forces coming home seriously injured after
playing their part in the 'War on Terror' and how badly - how
DISGRACEFULLY the USA treats its war heroes after the fact, and it literally
saddened me to tears.
It is the same for many with HIV, where they are having their benefits reduced
and stopped and are being forced back to work, which is fine considering how
many are fit enough with the medication to do so, but some are not,
and one friend who is genuinely unwell much of the time and still - after 10
years on medication - living with a CD4 count of lower than 200, has been
told by his doctor to find a lawyer and sue the government for more benefits,-
this at a time when he is living with depression and ill health and now -
besides having no money and being told he must go back to work, he has to
put himself in the hands of a solicitor, which is always stressful and expensive
- which he cannot afford.
Look at how long the waiting queues are in the National Health. How many
homeless and special needs people do not get help, How overworked and
underpaid nurses, social workers etc. are and how screwed up SO MANY PEOPLE ARE
in society these days, and just wake up to how hard - FOR MANY - the very system
set up to give those a decent life who live within a DEMOCRACY - and what a joke
- for many - that is. PLEASE - click on the above and
while I appreciate this is the USA, don't think it is much different here
because it is not. Is this the kind of democratic
society you want ? We live in a society where abuse
seems to start at the top, in government,
By 1898, the Boers, farmers descended from the early Dutch settlers of the
Cape of Good Hope [in present day South Africa], were striving to retain their
independence in a land now governed by the British. Yet the strategic
importance of South Africa and the recently discovered gold in their lands
meant that their independence was difficult for the British to abide:
"[British Colonial Secretary] Chamberlain and [Alfred] Milner provoked the
Boer War, believing that the Boers could be bullied quickly into giving up
their independence, ... It was 'the British Empire against 30,000 farmers.'
... [But] what Vietnam was to the United States, the Boer War very nearly was
to the British Empire, in two respects: its huge cost in both lives and
money--45,000 men dead and a quarter of a billion pounds spent--and the
divisions it opened up back home. ...
"By the summer of 1900, ... the British Army had advanced into Boer territory,
capturing both Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State, and
Praetoria, capital of the Transvaal. ... Despite the loss of their principal
towns the Boers stubbornly refused to surrender. Instead, they switched to
guerrilla tactics. ... In frustration, [British Commander] Roberts adopted a
ruthless strategy designed to hit the Boers where they were most vulnerable.
... British troops were authorized to burn down the Boers' homes
systematically. In all, around 30,000 were razed. ... The only question this
begged was what to do with their wives and children, whom the Boer guerrillas
had left behind when they joined their commandos ... After some dithering, the
generals came up with an answer. They herded the Boers into camps--to be
precise, concentration camps. ... Altogether, 27,927 Boers (the majority of
them children) died in the British camps. That was 14.5 percent of the entire
Boer population, and they died mainly as a result of malnourishment and poor
sanitation. More adult Boers died this way than from direct military action. A
further 14,000 of 115,700 black internees--81 percent of them children--died
in separate camps."
I don't know about you, but doesn't it make you ashamed to be British when you
hear about our past history and the way we bullied our way around the world,
and as in this case, for gold.
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FINGERS CROSSED
Crossing your fingers
to bring yourself good luck - or when you tell a lie so that it 'doesn't matter'
- is one of the most recognised gestures in the UK - and according to some
experts, is almost unheard of in other countries. It supposedly dates back
to the early Christians, when they were persecuted for their belief
structure before Constantine turned Rome, Christian. Followers
adopted a secret sign - a bit like the Masonic secret hand shake - and obviously
symbolising the cross. It also stands for a protective gesture against
witches whose power was thought to be diminished by the sign. ( bloody religion,
it has a lot to answer for...)
CANDLES ON A CAKE
Blowing candles out on
a Birthday cake is thought to have originated in Germany ( haven't SO MANY of
our customs... Christmas for one...that's what comes from having a German royal
family ) and is believed to have been imported to the UK in the 19th
century. It was tradition to have a single candle ( obviously they were
poor and couldn't afford to waste the candles - or maybe the local lesbians were
using them for something else... oh how tacky... ) It was considered
unlucky is someone else blew out your birthday candle as it was the 'light of
life' and was yours, and yours alone. It became popular in the UK
before the first world war and a candle for each year of your life and making a
secret wish when you blew it out were added, but have no history or
tradition. Like a lot of things, word of mouth can make something appear
traditional when the reverse is the truth, and something just 'catches on
' and becomes popular... look at the rubic cube.
LUCKY HORSE SHOE
Nailing a metal horse
shoe to the door was originally to ward off witches and to be a barrier against
them. This was the case for over 600 years. You always pointed the
ends of the shoe skywards - otherwise if placed upside down, this was a symbol
that the good luck and energy would run out and be lost. it was generally
agreed ( by whom ??? ) that witches and fairies ( ? ) disliked iron. ( not
me deary...) It was said that you had to find a horseshoe for it to be lucky for
you. In other cultures it is considered lucky because its shape
represents the crescent moon which was worshipped ( Muslims )
UNLUCKY 13
Many people believe
this is unlucky because it was the number at the last supper, or that this
number was attached to witches who always organised their covens in 13,
and it is commonly believed that Judas was the one at the last supper who
betrayed Jesus and therefore must have been the unlucky 13th person. But:
it is more likely that the fearful church, realizing that Mary Magdalene was
also at the last supper as Jesus' foremost disciple - and the church in their
fear - their paranoid fear, of women and editing anything from the biblical
writings it did not like, damned the woman and her writings and claimed that the
13th was Mary and that this was the bad luck that caused Judas and the rest of
the story to unfold. (So those tricky women gat the blame again huh ??? )
FRIDAY 13th ( not the
movie )
On Friday 13th October
1307 the Pope and the King of France set about arresting, torturing and mass
murdering the Knights Templar's ( the 3 musketeers in the movies would
have been Knights Templar's - one for all and all for one.... sounds sexy
to me...) searching for the Grail Treasure and the many Grail secrets. However,
they found nothing although hundreds - maybe thousands - of Knights were
horribly tortured to death and the church got nothing. The treasure
though, was not gold - it was the Grail family, the descendents of Jesus -
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