tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640031809895496812024-03-13T00:22:34.990-07:00Three SeaxesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-49045347462946495792013-05-24T15:12:00.000-07:002013-05-24T15:12:50.063-07:00Similarities Between White Plight and Wildcat Endangerment<a href="http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/scottish-wildcat-felis-silvestris-grampia-nigel-atkinson-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/scottish-wildcat-felis-silvestris-grampia-nigel-atkinson-.jpg" width="266" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is undoubtedly "racist" to note and differentiate between race and nationality on a genetic basis when it comes to the <em>Homosapien </em>species, but it seems when the same definitions apply to wildlife it is quite acceptable to speak of the preserving of the purity a particular genotype. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently it has been reported that the Scottish Wildcat has as little as two years before they are effectively wiped out of existence, mainly through interbreeding with breeds of domestic Cats, and there is an effort amongst conservationists to save the Wildcat from extinction. A noble cause indeed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The original article about the Wildcat can be found </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22610869"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2288bb;">here</span></span></em></a><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></em><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I presume there will be those who read this and wonder how does the European people come into a story about Wildcat extinction. Well the strange thing is that there are many aspects of this which echo the plight of the indigenous peoples of Europe, except most liberals will fail to see this or will straight out contradict the truths of science over political correctness.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a well documented fact that the White Europeans will become a minority in much of Europe before the end of this century, and probably cease to exist at all in the next two or three centuries. The same of course probably applies to many other groups of people who are either emigrating out of an area, or who are also receiving large numbers of migrants themselves. This is just one of the many negative effects of globalisation. Needless to say however that it is predominately white nations to which most of the Third World and Middle East currently flock to.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So where does the Wildcat analogy come in?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is simple. There is a fine line between race and species. To say that a white man and a black man are completely equal is an insult to nature and its ability to adapt to its environment. It should not be racist to say that generally speaking, Africans can run faster than Europeans, or that Europeans can swim faster than Africans, or that generally speaking those from the Far East have greater IQ's than those from the rest of the world. Yes, they are stereotypes, but stereotypes can only exist after a realisation of trends. There are intrinsically different physical and biological differences between us documented by simple analysis of the world around us and common sense.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, taking this on board there is no difference biologically speaking with the plight of the Scottish Wildcat being bred out of existence by invading domestic cats and white Europeans being outbred by Muslims who have three times as many children, or by the mainstream media which puts out the message that mixed race families are superior or some sort of fashion statement. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why is it therefore acceptable to say to 'racists' that race is simply a social construct, that it doesn't exist, that the 'melting pot' is a good thing, when there is clearly a desire and noble cause to save sub-species such as the Wildcat from extinction. Despite what this BBC article has said the Wildcat population will live on in the genes passed on to its young when interbreeding with domestic cats, so why this concern for these wild animals, and not the concern for the European man and woman which like the Wildcat is facing utter destruction at the hands of encroachment into its home environment.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But of course, I'm just a racist Wildcat supremacist...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-64481059893346441162013-04-18T16:57:00.000-07:002013-04-18T16:57:16.089-07:00The Sleeper Awakes: Occult References and Accurate Prophecy - Part 2<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So continuing on from Part One on this slow and methodical dissection of H G Wells novel, 'The Sleeper Awakes', I shall continue post haste. I've been putting off continuing on with this because it is so heavy-going, and every time you re-read bits you find yourself finding more connections which you previously hadn't considered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you haven't already read part one, then <a href="http://threeseaxes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-sleeper-awakes-occult-references.html">please go back to that first</a> or this is going to make no sense to you whatsoever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ok, here we go again for round two!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this chapter, our charecter Graham finds himself caught up in a huge battle between the oppressed working-class and the world council and their security teams. Now up until this point I hadn't noted the police forces, but essentially Wells makes a point in his novel of making a distinction between white police/army who wear a red uniform, and 'negro' police/army forces who wear black and yellow stripes as a uniform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The battle comes to blows with the revolutionaries taking huge casualties because the security forces deliberately cut the lights out in the city (all lighting in the city is seemingly artificial.) In the confusion Graham manages to get away to a quiet residential district where in the next chapter he has a long conversation with an elderly gentleman who seems to understand the world more than anyone else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the most interesting points raised by the old man is the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"No,"
said Graham, wondering what Babble Machine might be. "And you
are certain this Ostrog -- you are certain Ostrog organised this
rebellion and arranged for the waking of the Sleeper? Just to assert
himself -- because he was not elected to the Council?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"Everyone
knows that, I should think," said the old man. "Except </span>--
just fools.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basically, in this chapter we understand that Ostrog's rebellion has nothing to do with the rights of the every day person but has more to do with the fact that he was not elected to be apart of the twelve man council. It was Ostrog who awoke Graham with drugs in order to use him politically, in order to stir up the population to act in a way that<i> he</i> wanted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The following passage said by the old man though is perhaps the most true thing ever said in a work of fiction, read this next passage carefully and think who might be this <i>council</i> today:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"Eh! --
but you're not up to things. Money attracts money -- and twelve
brains are better than one. They played it cleverly. They worked
politics with money, and kept on adding to the money by working
currency and tariffs. They grew -- they grew. And for years the
twelve trustees hid the growing of the Sleeper's estate, under double
names and company titles and all that. The Council spread by title
deed, mortgage, share, every political party, every newspaper, they
bought. If you listen to the old stories you will see the Council
growing and growing Billions and billions of lions at last -- the
Sleeper's estate. And all growing out of a whim -- out of this
Warming's will, and an accident to Isbister's sons. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">The council then are what we may today see as globalist bankers, and perhaps to name and shame, Zionism.</span><i><span style="background: transparent;"> Who</span></i><span style="background: transparent;"> in today's world uses vast amounts of money to sway political opinion, works financial institutions around to suit their own, and owns vast media empires? Zionist Jews, that's who, and their helper monkeys around the globe supporting gross globalisation who fuck their own kinsmen over in the process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">This paragraph said by the old man leads me to personally believe that the 'sleeper' in the financial sense in this book is actually you and I. In other words, the general public which works, takes loans, makes investments and generally uses the financial institutions. If we were all aware of how our own money, how our own labour, was being hijacked, used and manipulated by the most powerful people in the world, we would realise our place as being the true masters. But we aren't, or at least we collectively prefer to remain silent and allow our labours to be leeched off of.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Another sign of the times, when the uprising occurs the rebellion is ill-armed when compared with the 'red police', which tends to suggest that the worlds population has been without proper warfare or access to weaponry for some considerable time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"That
is the flag of the Council -- the flag of the Rule of the World. It
will fall. The fight is over. Their attack on the theatre was their
last frantic struggle. They have only a thousand men or so, and some
of these men will be disloyal. They have little ammunition. And we
are reviving the ancient arts. We are casting guns." </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">The above paragraph seems to</span><i><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></i><span style="background: transparent;">show that to have any chance of ousting a unwanted leadership, you need to build and store weapons to do it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">With the defeat of the 'red police' and the twelve man council, Graham is expected to give a speech on a balcony overlooking the vast crowds from the 'council' building. Look however at this rather interesting few paragraphs:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">The western
sky was a pallid bluish green, and Jupiter shone high in the south,
before the capitulation was accomplished.</span> Above was a slow insensible
change, the advance of night serene and beautiful; below was hurry,
excitement, conflicting orders, pauses, spasmodic developments of
organisation, a vast ascending clamour and confusion. Before the
Council came out, toiling perspiring men, directed by a conflict of
shouts, carried forth hundreds of those who had perished in the
hand-to-hand conflict within those long passages and chambers. </span></i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"The
Master, the Master! God and the Master," shouted the people."
To hell with the Council!" Graham looked at their multitudes,
receding beyond counting into a shouting haze, and then at Ostrog
beside him, white and steadfast and still. His eye went again to the
little group of White Councillors. And then he looked up at the
familiar quiet stars overhead. The marvellous element in his fate was
suddenly vivid. Could that be his indeed, that little life in his
memory two hundred years gone by -- and this as well? </span></i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">I've highlighted perhaps one of the most revealing points in all of this. Ostrog, the man who the people believe is leading them to freedom from oppresion is using Graham as a way of controlling the masses to do much worse than the twelve man council ever intended. Graham at this point believes that he is to be supreme leader, and the people do too. The highlighted segment above refers to the bizarre inclusion of </span>the description of the night sky displaying Jupiter 'high in the south'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Consider that they are in the hall of Atlas, with the statue holding 'the globe' (Uranus) and he just happens to look up and pay particular attention to Jupiter in the nights sky...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, Atlas with Uranus equates to ultimate achievement of mankind, high attainment or of man gaining god-like status. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jupiter in the occult and astrology circles equates to deeper thought and knowledge, the third eye, dimensions and unsurprisingly wealth. These things will come obvious in a few chapters time, but try to realise that these two symbols together come together to create what could be an occultists ideal symbolic interpretation of ultimate attainment of human development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 14</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is too much to write on when evalualting this chapter. Far too much rings true today when we look back at history that it is quite worrying. The only thing which Wells got completely wrong was the idea that the technology of flight would be held back, but don't forget this book was probably written before the Wright brothers had displayed their heavier-than-air contraption, flight at the time before the big break through was like our current predicament with finding inter-planetary transport for humans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In any case, if you not have the time to read this whole chapter (<a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes/Chapter_XIV">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes/Chapter_XIV</a>) then read this part:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Wielding an enormous influence and patronage, the Council had early
assumed a political aspect; and in its development it had continually
used its wealth to tip the beam of political decisions and its political
advantages to grasp yet more and more wealth. At last the party
organisations of two hemispheres were in its hands; it became an inner
council of political control. Its last struggle was with the tacit
alliance of the great Jewish families. But these families were linked
only by a feeble sentiment, at any time inheritance might fling a huge
fragment of their resources to a minor, a woman or a fool, marriages and
legacies alienated hundreds of thousands at one blow. The Council had
no such breach in its continuity. Steadily, steadfastly it grew.</i></span><br />
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</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The original Council was not simply twelve men of exceptional
ability; they fused, it was a council of genius. It struck boldly for
riches, for political influence, and the two subserved each other. With
amazing foresight it spent great sums of money on the art of flying,
holding that invention back against an hour foreseen. It used the patent
laws, and a thousand half-legal expedients, to hamper all investigators
who refused to work with it. In the old days it never missed a capable
man. It paid his price. Its policy in those days was vigorous --
unerring, and against it as it grew steadily and incessantly was only
the chaotic selfish rule of the casually rich. In a hundred years Graham
had become almost exclusive owner of Africa, of South America, of
France, of London, of England and all its influence -- for all practical
purposes, that is -- a power in North America -- then the dominant
power in America. The Council bought and organised China, drilled Asia,
crippled the Old World empires, undermined them financially, fought and
defeated them.</i></span><br />
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</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>And this spreading usurpation of the world was so dexterously
performed -- a proteus -- hundreds of banks, companies, syndicates,
masked the Council's operations -- that it was already far advanced
before common men suspected the tyranny that had come. The Council never
hesitated, never faltered. Means of communication, land, buildings,
governments, municipalities, the territorial companies of the tropics,
every human enterprise, it gathered greedily. And it drilled and
marshalled its men, its railway police, its roadway police, its house
guards, and drain and cable guards, its hosts of land-workers. Their
unions it did not fight, but it undermined and betrayed and bought them.
It bought the world at last. And, finally, its culminating stroke was
the introduction of flying.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'll let the reader gauge the prophecy of the above few paragraphs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this chapter Graham is at a private function whereby all the 'important' people like the mayors, priests, government advisers and film directors etc all meet to suck up to each other. Whilst this is interesting from the perspective that today's society is taught to respect the 'celebrity' class, there isn't too much going on in this chapter save for the discussion on education which highlights very well what todays 'education' is like today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"About the public elementary schools," said Graham. "Do you control them?"</i></span><br />
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</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The Surveyor-General did, "entirely." Now, Graham, in his later
democratic days, had taken a keen interest in these and his questioning
quickened. Certain casual phrases that had fallen from the old man with
whom he had talked in the darkness recurred to him. The
Surveyor-General, in effect, endorsed the old man's words. "We have
abolished Cram," he said, a phrase Graham was beginning to interpret as
the abolition of all sustained work. The Surveyor-General became
sentimental. "We try and make the elementary schools very pleasant for
the little children. They will have to work so soon. Just a few simple
principles -- obedience -- industry."</i></span><br />
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</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"You teach them very little?"</i></span><br />
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</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Why should we? It only leads to trouble and discontent. We amuse
them. Even as it is -- there are troubles -- agitations. Where the
labourers get the ideas, one cannot tell. They tell one another. There
are socialistic dreams -- anarchy even! Agitators will get to work among
them. I take it -- I have always taken it -- that my foremost duty is
to fight against popular discontent. Why should people be made unhappy?"</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essentially teach the lower-class kids a load of shit to humour them and to ensure they can at least fulfill basic employment duties and try discredit any child or any one who speaks out about or works out what is really going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was this part of the book which originally made me go back and re-read this novel because of its compelling resemblance of the final proposed intentions of the UN's agenda 21: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">That gradual
passage of town into country through an extensive sponge of suburbs,
which was so characteristic a feature of the great cities of the
nineteenth century, existed no longer. Nothing remained of it but a
waste of ruins here, variegated and dense with thickets of the
heterogeneous growths that had once adorned the gardens of the belt,
interspersed among levelled brown patches of sown ground, and verdant
stretches of winter greens. The latter even spread among the vestiges
of houses. But for the most part the reefs and skerries of ruins, the
wreckage of suburban villas, stood among their streets and roads,
queer islands amidst the levelled expanses of green and brown,
abandoned indeed by the inhabitants years since, but too substantial,
it seemed', to be cleared out of the way of the wholesale
horticultural mechanisms of the time.</span></i></span></span></div>
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</i></span></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>The vegetation of this waste undulated and frothed
amidst the countless cells of crumbling house walls, and broke along
the foot of the city wall in a surf of bramble and holly and ivy and
teazle and tall grasses. Here and there gaudy pleasure palaces
towered amidst the puny remains of Victorian times, and cable ways
slanted to them from the city. That winter day they seemed deserted.
Deserted, too, were the artificial gardens among the ruins. The city
limits were indeed as sharply defined as in the ancient days when the
gates were shut at nightfall and the robber foreman prowled to the
very walls. A huge semi-circular throat poured out a vigorous traffic
upon the Eadhamite Bath Road. So the first prospect of the world
beyond the city flashed on Graham, and dwindled. And when at last he
could look vertically downward again, he saw below him the vegetable
fields of the Thames valley -- innumerable minute oblongs of ruddy
brown, intersected by shining threads, the sewage ditches.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>
</i></span></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span>
</div>
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</i></span><div class="western">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The speak of a world where everyone is forced to live in a huge walled city state with the countryside abandoned save for some automated agriculture is not too dissimilar from various futurist movements (like The Venus Project) and some of the plans laid out for America in the long term, with residents expected to be bullied out of the country and into cities.</span><br />
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<h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 18</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In chapter 18, Graham is approached by a young woman who begins to really tell him how shit life is for the average working class citizen after Graham has buried his head in the sand by taking up flying as a hobby whilst leaving Ostrog to run the world in his stead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">She turned a
flushed face upon him, moving suddenly. "Your days were the days
of freedom. Yes -- I have thought. I have been made to think, for my
life -- has not been happy. Men are no longer free -- no greater, no
better than the men of your time. That is not all. This city -- is a
prison. Every city now is a prison. Mammon grips the key in his hand.
Myriads, countless myriads, toil from the cradle to the grave. Is
that right? Is that to be -- for ever? Yes, far worse than in your
time. All about us, beneath us, sorrow and pain. All the shallow
delight of such life as you find about you, is separated by just a
little from a life of wretchedness beyond any telling Yes, the poor
know it -- they know they suffer. These countless multitudes who
faced death for you two nights since -- ! You owe your life to
them." </span></i></span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Up until this point the reader has been more or less been lead to assume that the every day person lives a fantastic life when compared with Victorian living standards, but this girl turns this view on its head.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">She continues: </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western">
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</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"You
come," she said, "from the days when this new tyranny of
the cities was scarcely beginning. It is a tyranny -- a tyranny. In
your days the feudal war lords had gone, and the new lordship of
wealth had still to come. Half the men in the world still lived out
upon the free countryside. The cities had still to devour them. I
have heard the stories out of the old books -- there was nobility!
Common men led lives of love and faithfulness then -- they did a
thousand things. And you -- you come from that time." </span></i></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Again, in the grand scheme of things, things probably were at its best for people in the 1910's up until the 1950's, if of course you take out of consideration the two world wars. When you consider the stereotypical lifestyle of a late Victorian age farm labourer with a working class man from twenty-teens</span><span style="background: transparent;">, </span><span style="background: transparent;">the difference is astounding. Yes the poor man from Victorian times might have worked bloody hard for his small wage, but there was community, freedom. Back then you had everything you needed and nothing you wanted. Now we have everything we want, and very little of what we need.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></i></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"They
are the slaves -- your slaves. They are the slaves of the Labour
Company you own."</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"The Labour Company! In some way -- that is
familiar. Ah! now I remember. I saw it when I was wandering about the
city, after the lights returned, great fronts of buildings coloured
pale blue. Do you really mean -- ?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Yes. How can I explain it to you? Of course
the blue uniform struck you. Nearly a third of our people wear it --
more assume it now every day. This Labour Company has grown
imperceptibly."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"What is this Labour Company?" asked
Graham.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"In the old times, how did you manage with
starving people?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"There was the workhouse -- which the
parishes maintained."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Workhouse! Yes -- there was something. In
our history lessons. I remember now. The Labour Company ousted the
workhouse. It grew -- partly -- out of something -- you, perhaps, may
remember it -- an emotional religious organisation called the
Salvation Army -- that became a business company. In the first place
it was almost a charity. To save people from workhouse rigours. Now I
come to think of it, it was one of the earliest properties your
Trustees acquired. They bought the Salvation Army and reconstructed
it as this. The idea in the first place was to give work to starving
homeless people."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Yes."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Nowadays there are no workhouses, no refuges
and charities, nothing but that Company. Its offices are everywhere.
That blue is its colour. And any man, woman or child who comes to be
hungry and weary and with neither home nor friend nor resort, must go
to the Company in the end -- or seek some way of death. The Euthanasy
is beyond their means -- for the poor there is no easy death. And at
any hour in the day or night there is food, shelter and a blue
uniform for all comers -- that is the first condition of the Company
s incorporation -- and in return for a day's shelter the Company
extracts a day's work, and then returns the visitor's proper clothing
and sends him or her out again."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Yes?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Perhaps that does not seem so terrible to
you. In your days men starved in your streets. That was bad. But they
died -- men. These people in blue -- . The proverb runs: 'Blue canvas
once and ever.' The Company trades in their labour, and it has taken
care to assure itself of the supply. People come to it starving and
helpless -- they eat and sleep for a night and day, they -work for a
day, and at the end of the day they go out again. If they have worked
well they have a penny or so -- enough for a theatre or a cheap
dancing place, or a kinematograph story, or a dinner or a bet. They
wander about after that is spent. Begging is prevented by the police
of the ways. Besides, no one gives. They come back again the next day
or the day after -- brought back by the same incapacity that brought
them first. At last their proper clothing wears out, or their rags
get so shabby that they are ashamed. Then they must work for months
to get fresh. If they want fresh. A great number of children are born
under the Company's care. The mother owes them a month thereafter --
the children they cherish and educate until they are fourteen, and
they pay two years' service. You may be sure these children are
educated for the blue canvas. And so it is the Company works."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">These last few paragraghs at first glimpse appear to be nothing like the kind of society we now find ourselves but actually in a roundabout way rather <i>are. </i>If we are to accept that the people in power engineered minimum wage and social welfare as a way of keeping society in check, rather than the state taking up the noble role of protector you get the conclusion that instead our own homes and jobs have become a part of <i>the workhouse. </i>Minimum wage is slavery, and society no longer requires the slaves to live in slave accommodation, the slave works better if he is lead to believe he is free.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Chapter 19</span></span></h4>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Chapter 19 gives us the shocker. Graham goes to Ostrog, this figure who is running the world in Grahams name, the man who is supposedly the working mans savior to confront him about why nothing has been done with the terrible working and living conditions.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
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</div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"Must
the world go this way?" said Graham, with his emotions at the
speaking point. "Must it indeed go in this way? Have all our
hopes been vain?"</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"What do you mean?" said Ostrog.
"Hopes?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"I came from a democratic age. And I find an
aristocratic tyranny!"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Well, -- but you are the chief tyrant."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Graham shook his head.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Well," said Ostrog, "take the
general question. It is the way that change has always travelled.
Aristocracy, the prevalence of the best -- the suffering and
extinction of the unfit, and so to better things."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"But aristocracy! those people I met --"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Oh! not those!" said Ostrog. "But
for the most part they go to their death. Vice and pleasure! They
have no children. That sort of stuff will die out. If the world keeps
to one road, that is, if there is no turning back. An easy road to
excess, convenient Euthanasia for the pleasure seekers singed in the
flame, that is the way to improve the race!"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">This above pretty much highlights the opinion and world view of the self proclaimed 'elite' and eugenicists. As Wells was in these same sort of circles and believed in the principles of 'survival of the fittest', it is my belief that this chapter actually reflects a duality of character within Wells. On the one side there was this part of him which felt the need to support what was morally right, and on the other, the pull to do what felt was logically right.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Put into perspective with the earlier talk of 'dreaming' and of different states of consciousness it is not completely radical to believe that this conversation is actually internally within the authors own head, or that Ostrog is Wells in his adulthood speaking internally with his more youthful and idealistic self.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">This conversation continues:</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div class="western">
</div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">"<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">Don't
you trouble about these things," he said. Everything will be
settled in a few days now. The Crowd is a huge foolish beast. What if
it does not die out? Even if it does not die, it can still be tamed
and driven. I have no sympathy with servile men. You heard those
people shouting and singing two nights ago. They were taught that
song. If you had taken any man there in cold blood and asked why he
shouted, he could not have told you. They think they are shouting for
you, that they are loyal and devoted to you. Just then they were
ready to slaughter the Council. To-day -- they are already murmuring
against those who have overthrown the Council."</span></span></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>
</i></span></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">"No,
no," said Graham. "They shouted because their lives were
dreary, without joy or pride, and</span> because in me -- in me --
they hoped."</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"And what was their hope? What is their hope?
What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward
of those who work well. The hope of mankind -- what is it? That some
day the Over-man may come, that some day the inferior, the weak and
the bestial may be subdued or eliminated. Subdued if not eliminated.
The world is no place for the bad, the stupid, the enervated. Their
duty -- it's a fine duty too! -- is to die. The death of the failure!
That is the path by which the beast rose to manhood, by which man
goes on to higher things."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ostrog took a pace, seemed to think, and turned on
Graham. "I can imagine how this great world state of ours seems
to a Victorian Englishman. You regret all the old forms of
representative government -- their spectres still haunt the world,
the voting councils and parliaments and all that eighteenth century
tomfoolery You feel moved against our Pleasure Cities. I might have
thought of that, -- had I not been busy. But you will learn better.
The people are mad with envy -- they would be in sympathy with you.
Even in the streets now, they clamour to destroy the Pleasure Cities.
But the Pleasure Cities are the excretory organs of the State,
attractive places that year after year draw together all that is weak
and vicious, all that is lascivious and lazy, all the easy roguery of
the world, to a graceful destruction. They go there, they have their
time, they die childless, all the pretty silly lascivious women die
childless, and mankind is the better. If the people were sane they
would not envy the rich their way of death. And you would emancipate
the silly brainless workers that we have enslaved, and try to make
their lives easy and pleasant again. Just as they have sunk to what
they are fit for. "He smiled a smile that irritated Graham
oddly. "You will learn better. I know those ideas; in my boyhood
I read your Shelley and dreamt of Liberty. There is no liberty, save
wisdom and self control. Liberty is within -- not without. It is each
man's own affair. Suppose -- which is impossible -- that these
swarming yelping fools in blue get the upper hand of us, what then?
They will only fall to other masters. So long as there are sheep
Nature will insist on beasts of prey. It would mean but a few hundred
years' delay. The coming of the aristocrat is fatal and assured. The
end will be the Over-man -- for all the mad protests of humanity. Let
them revolt, let them win and kill me and my like. Others will arise
-- other masters. The end will be the same."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></i>
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span><span style="background: transparent;">And you think this view of society isn't shared by the people in power?</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">At the same time, Ostrog is preparing for yet more civil unrest, this time directed at himself after he has done nothing to change the status-quo for ordinary people (not that he had ever intended on doing so if you read the last few paragraphs.) What is interesting is that he intends on bringing in the yellow and black clad 'negro police' to quell the next rebellion.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Graham, the more deliberately judicial for the stirring emotions he
felt, asked if there had been any fighting. "A little," said Ostrog. "In
one quarter only. But the Senegalese division of our African
agricultural police -- the Consolidated African Companies have a very
well drilled police -- was ready, and so were the aeroplanes. We
expected a little trouble in the continental cities, and in America. But
things are very quiet in America. They are satisfied with the overthrow
of the Council For the time."
</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br />
"Why should you expect trouble?" asked Graham abruptly.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"There is a lot of discontent -- social discontent."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"The Labour Company?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"You are learning," said Ostrog with a touch of surprise. "Yes. It is
chiefly the discontent with the Labour Company. It was that discontent
supplied the motive force of this overthrow -- that and your awakening."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Yes?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ostrog smiled. He became explicit. "We had to stir up their
discontent, we had to revive the old ideals of universal happiness --
all men equal -- all men happy -- no luxury that everyone may not share
-- ideas that have slumbered for two hundred years. You know that? We
had to revive these ideals, impossible as they are -- in order to
overthrow the Council. And now --"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Well?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Our revolution is accomplished, and the Council is overthrown, and
people whom we have stirred up remain surging. There was scarcely enough
fighting . . . We made promises, of course. It is extraordinary how
violently and rapidly this vague out-of-date humanitarianism has revived
and spread. We who sowed the seed even, have been astonished. In Paris,
as I say -- we have had to call in a little external help."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"And here?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"There is trouble. Multitudes will not go back to work. There is a
general strike. Half the factories are empty and the people are swarming
in the Ways. They are talking of a Commune. Men in silk and satin have
been insulted in the streets. The blue canvas is expecting all sorts of
things from you.... Of course there is no need for you to trouble. We
are setting the Babble Machines to work with counter suggestions in the
cause of law and order. We must keep the grip tight; that is all."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Graham thought. He perceived a way of asserting himself. But he spoke with restraint.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Even to the pitch of bringing a negro police," he said.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
"They are useful," said Ostrog. "They are fine loyal brutes, with no
wash of ideas in their heads -- such as our rabble has. The Council
should have had them as police of the Ways, and things might have been
different.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After this long conversation, Graham tries to assert his power as 'king' of the world by saying he does not want any negroes in London.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"I have been thinking about these negroes. I don't believe the people
intend any hostility to me, and, after all, I am the Master. I do not
want any negroes brought to London. It is an archaic prejudice perhaps,
but I have peculiar feelings about Europeans and the subject races. Even
about Paris --"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ostrog stood watching him from under his drooping brows." I am not bringing negroes to London," he said slowly." But if --"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"You are not to bring armed negroes to London, whatever happens," said Graham. "In that matter I am quite decided."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ostrog, after a pause, decided not to speak, and bowed deferentially.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Chapter 20 - 23</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Towards the end of the novel, Graham who decides that he ought to help with the plight of the everyday man goes out to live with the lower-classes in disguise. It is only towards the end that Graham realises that Ostrog uses Grahams absence as a way to try and overthrow and take ultimate power by the use of the negroid police. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">He rushes back to the hall of Atlas to confront Ostrog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>They had scarcely advanced ten paces from the curtain before a little
panel to the left of the Atlas rolled up, and Ostrog, accompanied by
Lincoln and followed by two black and yellow clad negroes, appeared
crossing the remote corner of the hall, towards a second panel that was
raised and open. "Ostrog," shouted Graham, and at the sound of his voice
the little party turned astonished.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ostrog said something to Lincoln and advanced alone.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Graham was the first to speak. His voice was loud and dictatorial.
"What is this I hear?" he asked. "Are you bringing negroes here -- to
keep the people down?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"It is none too soon," said Ostrog. "They have been getting out of hand more and more, since the revolt. I under-estimated --"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Do you mean that these infernal negroes are on the way?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"On the way. As it is, you have seen the people -- outside?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"No wonder! But -- after what was said. You have taken too much on yourself, Ostrog."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ostrog said nothing, but drew nearer.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"These negroes must not come to London," said Graham. "I am Master and they shall not come."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ostrog glanced at Lincoln, who at once came towards them with his two attendants close behind him. "Why not?" asked Ostrog.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"White men must be mastered by white men. Besides --"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"The negroes are only an instrument."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"But that is not the question. I am the Master. I mean to be the Master. And I tell you these negroes shall not come."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"The people --"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"I believe in the people."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Because you are an anachronism. You are a man out of the Past -- an
accident. You are Owner perhaps of half the property in the world. But
you are not Master. You do not know enough to be Master."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>He glanced at Lincoln again. "I know now what you think -- I can
guess something of what you mean to do. Even now it is not too late to
warn you. You</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>dream of human equality -- of a socialistic order -- you have all
those worn-out dreams of the nineteenth century fresh and vivid in your
mind, and you would rule this age that you do not understand."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Listen!" said Graham. "You can hear it -- a sound like the sea. Not voices -- but a voice. Do you altogether understand?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"We taught them that," said Ostrog.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Perhaps. Can you teach them to forget it? But enough of this! These negroes must not come."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>There was a pause and Ostrog looked him in the eyes.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"They will," he said.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"I forbid it," said Graham.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"They have started."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"I will not have it."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"No," said Ostrog. "Sorry as I am to follow the method of the Council
-- . For your own good -- you must not side with disorder. And now that
you are here -- . It was kind of you to come here."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Lincoln laid his hand on Graham's shoulder. Abruptly Graham realized
the enormity of his blunder in coming to the Council House. He turned
towards the curtains that separated the hall from the antechamber. The
clutching hand of Asano intervened. In another moment Lincoln had
grasped Graham's cloak.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Betrayed, there is a scuffle and eventually Ostrog gets away on an aircraft, the novel ends with Graham in pursuit of Ostrog in his own craft which he crashes and ends up killing himself. Essentially then, if my theory on this story of Graham and Ostrog being different dualities inside Wells psyche, the survivor is the eugenicist elitist Wells, and not the humanist Victorian we came to respect throughout the novel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">But what is most interesting in the last parts of this story is the use of ethnic minorities to quell the crowd. I'm not suggesting that Western nations are going to start hiring black mercenaries to defend the elite, but think what multiculturalism has done in Western society and how it has completely destroyed our individual national sovereignty and cultural expressions. When Ostrog says that the negroes are 'just a tool', I don't think it is complete coincidence that it is also forced mass-migration which has brought about our own societies to a state of collapse and fragmentation. This fragmentation has prevented and continues to prevent working class unity, and it will continue to do so. Whilst they have the slaves all sitting at home blaming each other for various ailments of society, the ones who stand to benefit from the situation get away with it scott free, and those are without question our globalist banking friends in the happy zionist family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Now think back to when we saw Jupiter in the hall of Atlas, an occultist representation of high consciousness combined with ultimate human attainment. It was when Graham had been formally recognized as King, but at that point he was completely unaware that he was being betrayed and lied to by Ostrog who he trusted, and the secret society which he represented. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">So putting this all together, I would say that Wells saw the best way of human development going forward was for the people to trust and believe in a gullible front man who he himself believes he holds power, who in reality really leaves all the decision making to a logical, eugenics inspired secretive bunch who operate behind the scenes. In truth there was not much different in terms of Government between the original council of twelve and Ostrog's final Governmental approach except in as much as that the people allowed themselves to be duped and believed they had a choice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">And that pretty much sums up everything about the modern world. This whole book pretty much represents the modern world today, whether or not I'm right about the occult links or not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed reading this, I' am aware I've probably made a few mistakes but I think you'll agree that this is extremely heavy going and a colossal mind fuck. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Please leave any comments at the bottom, I'd be really interested to know peoples feedback. </span></span>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-66254186012269064222013-04-14T02:35:00.000-07:002013-04-14T02:47:04.418-07:00Google Calls For Drone Regulation<a href="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AG477_GOOGLE_G_20120330181301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AG477_GOOGLE_G_20120330181301.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've just about had it with Google. This corporation which, like Facebook, data mines everything about a person and steals passwords and information from unsecured wireless networks (and gets away with it relatively Scott free) is now making demands that the general public be prevented from owning drones (RC Planes with cameras on, essentially.) Yes, that's right. A corporation which takes aerial photos of your garden without your permission and makes them accessible on the internet, not to mention Google street view, doesn't want you to be able to fly a small aircraft around over your neighbors in case it breaches someones privacy. He also warns the technology could be used by 'terrorists' (read resistance cells against the coming fully autonomous military.) You couldn't make this shit up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Here is the main story:</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22134898">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22134898</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So here is a small bit of light reading to find out just how privacy sensitive Google really is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Concern about Google's data mining:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/google-data-mining-national-security">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/google-data-mining-national-security</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Google fined £7m for collecting information from wireless networks:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2292624/Google-hit-7M-fine-wifi-snooping-Street-View-cars-intercepted-emails.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2292624/Google-hit-7M-fine-wifi-snooping-Street-View-cars-intercepted-emails.html </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For fucks sake, Google doesn't even allow you to use a fake name for your Google+ account for bizarre reasoning which you know is bullshit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5830463/if-you-use-a-fake-name-on-google%252B-your-account-is-about-to-be-suspended">http://gizmodo.com/5830463/if-you-use-a-fake-name-on-google%252B-your-account-is-about-to-be-suspended</a>)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Planes such as this are typical of the home made<br /> FPV RC planes in existence.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />So in this latest Google corporate fuck over, Google chief <span style="width: 304px;">Eric Schmidt is calling for Governments to regulate ownership of devices which could be used as drones. If you are unaware, in the last few years civilian ownership of remote control planes and helicopters that are flown through cameras in real time (so essentially <i>you feel as though you are really flying</i>) are becoming very popular. They are used for multiple different purposes from aerial photographers to sheep farmers looking for lost sheep, and they are relatively cheap and easy to make with materials found online.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="width: 304px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="width: 304px;">I wrote an article on this last year:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="width: 304px;">(<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3264003180989549681#editor/target=post;postID=2870208040734108609">http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3264003180989549681#editor/target=post;postID=2870208040734108609</a>) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="width: 304px;">In the above article I highlighted some of the practical uses they could be put to, and it seems I'm not the only one to have considered this. They could be used to fly over protests to film the police to ensure civil liberties are not breached and fly reconnaissance in a SHTF situation for defence or hunting. Put bluntly, they don't want any 'terrorist' (read freedom fighter) from having any upper hand on the forces set against us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="width: 304px;"> This has nothing to do with privacy, and everything to prevent the tool being used in a uprising.</span></span><br />
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<span style="width: 304px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-2692411577095491432013-04-07T09:01:00.003-07:002013-04-18T17:04:57.625-07:00The Sleeper Awakes: Occult References and Accurate Prophecy - Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Long title for a blog article I know, but bare with me as this is going to be a long one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some years back I read this book titled 'The Sleeper Awakes' by H G Wells and considered at the time when I young and naive that it was merely a science fiction story which had somehow managed to get some minor details correct. Some of the finer details written in this book have stuck in my mind over the years and it wasn't until I began reading up on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo5n4zeEetg">Agenda 21</a> that I really began to think back to it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, as my memory isn't the best I thought I might have found some tedious anecdotal links with this novel and what appears to be going on at a international level at the moment, however when I did re-read this story I was shocked at just how spot on this novel was with on-going trends which are happening right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So before I begin, I suppose it is important to detail who H G Wells was:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In short, he was a novelist who essentially wrote propaganda for eugenics and the promotion of the formation of a world state. He was friends with the kinds of folk who thought of themselves as elite in the wake of the Darwinist philosophy typical for that period, and therefore when you read some of his other works such as <i>'War of the Worlds'</i> where he justifies the culling of millions in order to make a fresh start on a "Brave New World", then its easy to see retrospectively that these books were not simply entertainment, they are meant to be a message to be digested by the public who then accept it as feasible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In any case, if I told you he left the Fabian society because he thought they weren't radical enough, you can kind of judge this guys rabid extremity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, this book<i> "The Sleeper Awakes"</i> is a relatively short one, but due to the amount of prophetic accuracies, I've managed to take down way more notes than I am likely to be able to share in fear of losing peoples interest. For this reason, I will try and keep this article as short as possible and let the reader ponder my observations without too much explanation on my part.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />If you have the time I suggest you read this book yourself for free here:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The general storyline is that someone who is plagued by insomnia and is considering suicide happens across a stranger on a beach. The stranger takes the man to his house and gives him something to help him sleep, except he overdoses and slips into a coma whereby he remains asleep for two-hundred years. He awakes in the future to discover that because of interest, he is the richest man in the world. The people are kept dumbed in giant cities and are kept in forced labour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will try and go through chapter by chapter, this way if you are reading the book on Wikisource you can read the entirety of the chapter yourself and see whether you agree with me, but otherwise please take my word for it that these quotations are present.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 1:</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">The
insomniac man named Graham is helped in Chapter 1 by a man simply
named 'Isbister'. The setting takes place in Cornwall in
Boscastle (near where the pagan museum exists today), on a beach with a cave system called
'Pentargen' (pentagon) and then mull about 'Blackapit' which may have
links to neolithic settlements. Interestingly, Isbister is also the
name of a neolithic (pagan) settlement in Orkney. This of course could be coincidence,
however.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">I was originally interested by the name Isbister because it sounds similar to
Aleister (Crowley) given the evidence that they may have met around the time this book was written, and I wonder whether Wells was approached by Crowley and given some kind of psychedelic drug which enabled him to experience prophetic visions.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">(Evidence that Crowley and H G Wells met around the 1910 time frame:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"><a href="http://hermetic.com/crowley/confessions/chapter50.html">http://hermetic.com/crowley/confessions/chapter50.html<span style="color: black;"> )</span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">It also mentions later on in the chapter that Isbister, this bloke who assists Graham the insomniac, is an artist who paints coastal scenes in the area. Well, again, this could be coincidental but Crowley was also a known painter and seems to have enjoyed painting coastal landscapes:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.aleistercrowley.com.au/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">http://www.aleistercrowley.com.au</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">The area around this time period and up to the present day has long been associated with paganism, especially with the <a href="http://www.museumofwitchcraft.com/">Boscastle Museum of Witchcraft</a> being present in the area, and 'Blackapit' (mentioned in Well's novel) was used later on by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Williamson">Cecil Williamson</a> for Magickal practices who had links with the English cunning craft, Wicca and Magickal communities which flourished throughout the 1950's (who once again was a personal friend of Crowley and Gerald Gardner.)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">As I'm sure anyone who knows Crowley will tell you, he was heavily into drugs, especially for magickal purposes, and this character Isbister takes Graham back to his house and tries to get the insomniac comfortable whereby we have this quote:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Then he bent
still lower to look up at his visitor's face. He started violently
and uttered an exclamation. The eyes were void spaces of white.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>He looked again and saw that they were open and
with the pupils rolled under the lids. He was suddenly afraid.
Overcome by the strangeness of the man's condition, he took him by
the shoulder and shook him. "Are you asleep?" he said, with
his voice jumping into alto, and again, "Are you asleep?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">If that doesn't sound like a drug overdose I don't know what does.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">Chapter 2: </span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">The second chapter merely sets up the reader so that he or she may understand how someone who lives for a very long time might earn a considerable sum of money out of it. In 1910 the currency in Britain and the world in general was still backed by precious materials, so we are led to the explanation of FIAT currency and major inflation that comes with it throughout the chapter.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"It
has," said Warming. "And now the gold supplies are running
short there is a tendency towards . . . appreciation." </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">This chapter also allows a third person perspective of 'Graham', which turns out to be almost definately a representation of Wells himself. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"He was
a man of considerable gifts, but spasmodic, emotional. He had grave
domestic troubles, divorced his wife, in fact, and it was as a relief
from that, I think, that he took up politics of the rabid sort. He
was a fanatical Radical -- a Socialist -- or typical Liberal, as they
used to call themselves,-of the advanced school. Energetic -- flighty
-- undisciplined. Overwork upon a controversy did this for him. I
remember the pamphlet he wrote -- a curious production. Wild,
whirling stuff. There were one or two prophecies. Some of them are
already exploded, some of them are established facts. But for the
most part to read such a thesis is to realise how full the world is
of unanticipated things. He will have much to learn, much to unlearn,
when he wakes. If ever a waking comes." </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Read into Wells political and personal life and you will find that the above passage is with no uncertainty</span><i><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></i><span style="background: transparent;">himself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></i><span style="background: transparent;">Chapter 3:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;"> In this chapter, we are informed about his awakening two hundred years in the future, except Wells description of simply a sleep is somewhat weird and leads me to believe, again, that this book was actually some kind of vision seen through a combination of Magickal ritual and drug taking.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">But Warming
was wrong in that. An awakening came.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">What a
wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity -- </span>the
self! Who can trace its reintegration as morning after morning we
awaken, the flux and confluence of its countless factors
interweaving, rebuilding, the dim first stirrings of the soul, the
growth and synthesis of the unconscious to the subconscious, the
sub-conscious to dawning consciousness, until at last we recognise
ourselves again. And as it happens to most of us after the night's
sleep, so it was with Graham at the end of his vast slumber. A dim
cloud of sensation taking shape, a cloudy dreariness, and he found
himself vaguely somewhere, recumbent, faint, but alive.</i></span></div>
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</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The pilgrimage towards a personal being seemed to
traverse vast gulfs, to occupy epochs. Gigantic</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br />dreams that were terrible realities at the
time, left vague perplexing memories, strange creatures, strange
scenery, as if from another planet. There was a distinct impression,
too, of a momentous conversation, of a name -- he could not tell what
name -- that was subsequently to recur, of some queer long-forgotten
sensation of vein and muscle, of a feeling of vast hopeless effort,
the effort of a man near drowning in darkness. Then came a panorama
of dazzling unstable confluent scenes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I could be completely off the mark here, but what Wells describes in this passage above, sounds very much like the kind of astral/multi-dimensional experiences which are now more associated with DMT taking/ astral travel. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In any case, the talk of feeling like you are on another world with strange creatures and the feeling of a conversation in your own mind fit incredibly well with experiences written down by not only Crowley but others too such as John Dee and thousands of 'astral travellers' you hear of today. The seeming inane chatter about consciousness and subconsciousness also seem to indicate that this is no simple conventional 'awakening'. This awakening is something all together bigger than that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The other thing to consider in this chapter is that the room in which Graham finds himself in is like that of a clean, ornament-less room, somewhat evoking of the kinds of futurist styling we are shown today as being the future of decor and architecture, (but we'll hear a lot more about architecture in a short while.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 4:</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is some mental technological prophecy in this chapter which given that this book is over a hundred years old now has been one hundred per cent accurate on our innovations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Graham
lifted his arm and was astonished to find what strength the
restoratives had given him. He thrust one leg over the side of the
couch and then the other. His head no longer swam. He could scarcely
credit his rapid recovery. He sat feeling his limbs.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The man with the flaxen beard re-entered from the
archway, and as he did so the cage of a lift came sliding down in
front of the thickset man, and a lean, grey-bearded man, carrying a
roll, and wearing a tightly-fitting costume of dark green, appeared
therein.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"This is the tailor," said the thickset
man with an introductory gesture." It will never do for you to
wear that black. I cannot understand how it got here. But I shall. I
shall. You will be as rapid as possible?" he said to the tailor.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The man in green bowed, and, advancing, seated
himself by Graham on the bed. His manner was calm, but his eyes were
full of curiosity. "You will find the fashions altered, Sire,"
he said. He glanced from under his brows at the thickset man.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>He opened the roller with a quick movement, and a
confusion of brilliant fabrics poured out over his knees. "You
lived, Sire, in a period essentially cylindrical -- the Victorian.
With a tendency to the hemisphere in hats. Circular curves always.
Now --" He flicked out a little appliance the size and
appearance of a keyless watch, whirled the knob, and behold -- a
little figure in white appeared kinetoscope fashion on the dial,
walking and turning. The tailor caught up a pattern of bluish white
satin. "That is my conception of your immediate treatment,"
he said.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The thickset man came and stood by the shoulder of
Graham.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"We have very little time," he said.</i></span></div>
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</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Trust me," said the tailor. "My
machine follows. What do you think of this?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"What is that?" asked the man from the
nineteenth century.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"In your days they showed you a
fashion-plate," said the tailor," but this is our modern
development See here." The little figure repeated its
evolutions, but in a different costume. "Or this," and with
a click another small figure in a more voluminous type of robe
marched on to the dial. The tailor was very quick in his movements,
and glanced twice towards the lift as he did these things.</i></span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>It rumbled again, and a crop-haired anaemic lad
with features of the Chinese type, clad in coarse pale blue canvas,
appeared together with a complicated machine, which he pushed
noiselessly on little castors into the room. Incontinently the little
kinetoscope was dropped, Graham was invited to stand in front of the
machine and the tailor muttered some instructions to the crop-haired
lad, who answered in guttural tones and with words Graham did not
recognise. The boy then went to conduct an incomprehensible monologue
in the corner, and the tailor pulled out a number of slotted arms
terminating in little discs, pulling them out until the discs were
flat against the body of Graham, one at each shoulder blade, one at
the elbows, one at the neck and so forth, so that at last there were,
perhaps, two score of them upon his body and limbs. At the same time,
some other person entered the room by the lift, behind Graham. The
tailor set moving a mechanism that initiated a faint-sounding
rhythmic movement of parts in the machine, and in another moment he
was knocking up the levers and Graham was released. The tailor
replaced his cloak of black, and the man with the flaxen beard
proffered him a little glass of some refreshing fluid. Graham saw
over the rim of the glass a pale-faced young man regarding him with a
singular fixity.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notice the tailor has a hand sized '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope">Kinetoscope'</a> which automatically measures up our main character and shows him how he will look in different clothes. A Kinetoscope by the way is just a moving screen. Now think to yourself, is it really that far off that we might have an Ipad or smartphone with a 'tailor app' which could perhaps </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">use </span> 3D cameras in order to create a complete measurement of a person for garments which could then be made by a machine (like 3D printers which are taking off at the moment) within minutes? No, that technology is up and coming right now, let alone in another hundred years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another important thing to note here is that Graham is clothed in purple, a colour which is heavily associated with magick, ritual and the travel into other realms.</span><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 5:</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Its hard for me to actually quote this as practically the whole chapter describes what the modern city may look like. Instead, please just read this chapter yourself:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes/Chapter_V">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes/Chapter_V</a></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now compare with a<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=957&q=future+city&oq=future+city&gs_l=img.12...0.0.2.21410.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac..8.img.Tp-KMiEZVeE"> futurist design of a self contained city</a>.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I just find it almost impossible that a man living in Victorian England could have possibly have predicted architectural advancement and trends so incredibly accurately.</span><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 6: </span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, futurist city design somehow accurately predicted by the existence of giant wind farms built on top of the city: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Graham
suddenly glanced up to see whence he came, and beheld through the
glassy roof and the network of cables and girders, dim rhythmically
passing forms like the vans of windmills, and between them glimpses
of a remote and pallid sky. Then Howard had thrust him forward across
the bridge, and he was in a little narrow passage decorated with
geometrical patterns. </span></i></span></div>
<div class="western">
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">The most astounding aspect of this chapter however is when Graham meets the twelve members of the world council. Well obviously, anyone who has even the slightest understanding of religion understands how important the number twelve is here, with this character Graham technically being the supreme leader which makes these twelve his trustees (or read disciples.) </span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">So where does he meet these twelve world leaders? Well, that is interesting too, as he meets them in the 'Chamber of Atlas', where lo and behold, in the councils main chamber, there sits a statue of Atlas holding up the sky (Uranus.) Atlas and Uranus together essentially signify the highest attainment or man, or having reached an almost God-like position (which echoes the wishes of the eugenic/Darwinist movement when it was written.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">If that doesn't strike you as even slightly dodgy, then read up on this movement which was made only five years before this novel was written and used Atlas as a symbol:</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">Objectivism - A movement defined not only with its support of free market captitalism but also with the obsession with reaching 'high attainment' and philosophical belief that reality and consciousness are intertwined. Obviously again, this can be linked back to magickal/ritual practice, eugenics and compound financial interest which seems to be the running theme throughout this book.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">(A statue of Atlas also appears outside of the </span></span><span class="st">Rockefeller Center in New York which again links the financial aspects of this novel with philosophical reality of the worlds most powerful people - again, these same sorts of people like Rockefeller in the real world believe themselves above the rest of us which perhaps explains their complete disregard for wars and extreme poverty they allow to happen.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 7</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again in this chapter, the seemingly innocent book about a time traveller turns out to be completely jam packed with more political and philosophical references. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this chapter, Graham is shoved into a room for a number of days (in a room which is incredibly detailed and once again seems entirely probable of future architecture and technology) and he comes across these 'books' which are held on small metal cylinders instead of on paper and ink. These books he comes across are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">The Man Who Would be King</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">(A book which politically seems very similar to 'The Sleeper Awakes' in how power is derived through stealth and deception, but also speaks of pagan masonic rituals, once again similar to <i>Sleeper Awakes</i>. It also speaks ill of imperialism, something which Wells was an opponent of.)</span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">The Heart of Darkness</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">(Once again mentions undeserved leadership, Darwinism and eugenics.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/2751/"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">The Madonna of the Future</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">Written by Henry James who it seems Wells had issues with (Wells once publicly insulted him.) It seems as though from this novel, James' novels are the complete opposite world view, favoring the beauty in flawed existence and liberty. One of the less likeable charecters in this short novel may even be Wells.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffff00;"><span style="background-color: white;">In this chapter, Graham also comes across a flat screen television in his room which shows brain-numbing soap operas, and finds that promiscuous sexual activity is no longer frowned upon.</span></span></span></div>
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter8:</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Graham's rescuers come along, and we see more of the wind turbines. We do however get this strange sentence, which admittedly may be harmless, but given the themes of the book so far its unlikely:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Graham had a surging vision of a great hall crowded with people. He saw
no individuals, he was conscious of a froth of pink faces, of waving arms
and garments, he felt the occult influence of a vast crowd pouring over
him, buoying him up.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you do not believe anything occultist then this sentence will unlikely mean anything to you, however to those with a basic understanding of occult work will know that conscious observation and participation is as much to do with magickal works as is the ritual itself. So when he speaks of deriving occult influence from a vast crowd, this can be quite literal. Its well known for instance that when thousands of individuals are together, individuals cease to act like they usually would, as though a hive-mind overtakes them.</span><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_psychology"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_psychology</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, I don't want to get too involved with major philosophical discussion here, but it could arguably explain the theories behind massive events, like 9/11, being mega-rituals, because to the individual they are unable to see the symbols and occult references but collectively it acts to create real change in the physical reality (essentially using the worlds collective conscious power against itself.) </span><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 9:</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having been rescued, he is able to ask some questions for the first time which up to now have been left unsaid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">"Tell
me!" he cried. "Who am I? Who am I?"</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The others came nearer to hear his words. "Who
am I?" His eyes searched their faces.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"They have told him nothing!" cried the
girl.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Tell me, tell me!" cried Graham.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"You are the Master of the Earth. You are
owner of half the world."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>He did not believe he heard aright. He resisted
the persuasion. He pretended not to understand, not to hear. He
lifted his voice again. "I have been awake three days -- a
prisoner three days. I judge there is some struggle between a number
of people in this city -- it is London?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Yes," said the younger man.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"And those who meet in the great hall with
the white Atlas? How does it concern me? In some way it has to do
with me. Why, I don't know. Drugs? It seems to me that while I have
slept the world has gone mad. I have gone mad."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Who are those Councillors under the Atlas?
Why should they try to drug me?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"To keep you insensible," said the man
in yellow.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"To prevent your interference."</i></span></div>
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</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"But why?"</i></span></div>
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</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">"Because you are the Atlas, Sire,"</span>
said the man in yellow. "The world is on your shoulders. They
rule it in your name."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The sounds from the hall had died into a silence
threaded by one monotonous voice. Now suddenly, trampling on these
last words, came a deafening tumult, a roaring and thundering, cheer
crowded on cheer, voices hoarse and shrill, beating, overlapping, and
while it lasted the people in the little room could not hear each
other shout.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Graham stood, his intelligence clinging helplessly
to the thing he had just heard. "The Council," he repeated
blankly, and then snatched at a name that had struck him. "But
who is Ostrog?" he said.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"He is the organiser -- the organiser of the
revolt. Our Leader -- in your name."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"In my name? -- And you? Why is he not here?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"He -- has deputed us. I am his brother --
his half-brother, Lincoln. He wants you to show yourself to these
people and then come on to him. That is why he has sent. He is at the
wind-vane offices directing. The people are marching."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"In your name," shouted the younger man.
"They have ruled, crushed, tyrannised. At last even --"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"In my name! My name! Master?"</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The younger man suddenly became audible in a pause
of the outer thunder, indignant and vociferous, a high penetrating
voice under his red aquiline nose and bushy moustache. "No one
expected you to wake. No one expected you to wake. They were cunning.
Damned tyrants! But they were taken by surprise. They did not know
whether to drug you, hypnotise you, kill you."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Again the hall dominated everything.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Ostrog is at the wind-vane offices ready --
. Even now there is a rumour of fighting beginning."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So this is the first time we are introduced to Ostrog, where he is the leader of the resistance against the council, supposedly fighting for the good of all the workers. Ostrog, unsurprisingly means 'prison' in Russian. The revolution which starts in this chapter and goes on until the end is yet another surprising element because it predicts a dictatorship arising from the ongoing hostilities in Russia before the Soviets were even in full control of the country. (This book was written 1910, Soviets never came into power until 1917.)</span><br />
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<h2>
</h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Intermission</span></h2>
<h2>
<a href="http://threeseaxes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-sleeper-awakes-occult-references_18.html"><span style="font-size: small;">P<span style="font-size: small;">art II Here</span></span></a></h2>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-78914200026215797952013-03-25T07:41:00.000-07:002013-03-25T07:41:26.958-07:00Bio-Diesel: Stealing?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As per usual the BBC is running its state propaganda again denouncing anyone who dares avoid paying extortion, I mean fuel duty, to the Government. This time its all about vegetable oil and its growing use as bio-diesel for certain vehicles which are capable of using it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check out the article here:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21858841">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21858841</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cars like this old Astra can run on SVO with no problems.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Allegedly people are going around the backs of restaurants stealing waste veg oil (WVO) to filter, clean and then use in their own vehicles or will sell onto a company which does professional refinement for use as bio-diesel. Whilst I do not deny that this is probably happening due in part to the Governments insane policy of not cutting fuel duty despite its current crippling effect on the national economy, the way this article is written clearly plays into the Governments hands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />As the article does state, it is completely legal for anyone to create or use up to 2500 litres of SVO or WVO (Straight Veg Oil/Waste Veg Oil) every year, but since it is completely impossible to prove when you have exceeded that amount, my spider sense is telling me that this loop hole is about to close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lets take into consideration the articles claims that upto £25 million of tax is being taken away from fuel duty every year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For a start, this figure comes from a private company called <span class="quote-credit-title">'Olleco', which profits from the collection of waste oil into diesel on an industrial scale. Lets just think about that for a second. The BBC has willingly aided the Government by trying to evoke a public reaction against this, but they have also aided a private company by spreading figures which could quite easily be plucked from the ether. It is in this private organisation's best interests to get private use of bio-diesel production banned so that it can have a monopoly. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title">Call me a cynic, but the fact that Olleco are creating reports like this suggests that they have friends somewhere who will listen. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.olleco.co.uk/news"><span class="quote-credit-title">http://www.olleco.co.uk/news</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title"> But regardless, lets just say that for the sake of argument that £25 million is correct, and that the treasury is having some revenue cut from this 'illicit bootlegging' of fuel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title">The current debt is just over 1 trillion pounds. (<a href="http://www.debtbombshell.com/">http://www.debtbombshell.com</a>) Every hour that debt goes up by millions. The UK elite have been so careless that if each British person had to pay their share it would equal around £18,000 each. So why does £25 million matter, in the grand scheme of things? In fact, why bother with taxes at all, its not as if we are ever going to be able to pay this off with taxes anyway because there isn't enough money in circulation to do that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title">So should the public be outraged, which seems to be the intention of the article? Or should we accept that fuel is far too expensive, and should be cheaper to begin with?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title">The Government are robbing us blind, 80p a litre of the £1.40 odd we pay for diesel goes to the treasury. That tax stops businesses from being able to function as they could, it prevents families from doing leisure activities or spending money with local companies, it creates inflation across the whole economy and pushes hundreds of thousands out of work. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title">W</span></span><span class="quote-credit-title"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ho are the real criminals here? Individuals trying to survive, or a corrupt bunch of cunts sitting in Westminster?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title"> For more info on using veg oil, just look on the net, there is thousands of sites and it is becoming more and more popular. Just the other week in fact I had a forum I signed up to last year ask for small financial contribution because the forum was getting too many hits a month.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="quote-credit-title"><a href="http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_svo.html">http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_svo.html</a></span></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-60242258047971610402013-03-19T12:17:00.000-07:002013-03-29T14:32:35.904-07:00The War on The Internet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So today we were greeted by news which was to be expected really, and to be quite honest I don't even know why I'm bothering to write about it seeing as every blog in the UK is probably already covering this story but for the sake of adding to critical mass, I'll state the issues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today the news was reporting on the '1984' style press control:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295658/Press-regulation-Internet-targeted-MPs-time-chilling-threat-free-speech.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295658/Press-regulation-Internet-targeted-MPs-time-chilling-threat-free-speech.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apparently the British Government has seen fit to bring in a bunch of new laws which not only strongly restrict the media's ability to report on stories (not that the mass media was ever that great at bringing things to peoples attention in the first place) but also means that there is a serious threat of ordinary internet users being sued for damages for cases of slander and or defamation. Those at risk includes me, for writing this blog and it includes you if you decided to post up unsubstantiated bullshit on Facebook or Twitter - quite literally you can be held accountable for saying anything, really, if someone can falsify evidence to the contrary to what you have said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That said, this is nothing new. Hundreds of people have already been arrested (and charged) for things said on Facebook, and I'm guessing the toll for people losing their jobs for <i>'I hate my boss, I think he is a cunt'</i> comments, probably extends to the hundreds of thousands mark. Lets face it, the internet isn't safe anymore, in particular Facebook which was always an intelligence finding database from the get-up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You have to ask, is this really an attack on the 'free-press'? Or is it really an attack on the internet's ability to quickly get information across?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lets be honest, if it wasn't for the internet most of us would still be believing there was actually a point to the wars in the Middle East, that the economy really was failing due to genuine mistakes and that politicians actually have our best interests at heart. The internet has been a brilliant tool for unlocking minds and dispelling the bollocks stories we've been told over the centuries, until now. This could be seriously damaging for everyone who actually cares about learning the truth about things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lets take a scenario for arguments sake:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>A woman is kidnapped and gang raped repeatedly by a group of highly wealthy politicians and bankers. She gets out, and no one believes her, the police are too scared to chase up the case and so in desperation she posts her ordeal up on the internet, because currently if you have a huge problem which no one seems to be helping you with, you post it on the internet to try and get publicity. If these people were so rich that they could pay off the police and pay for some witnesses to vouch for them being some place else at the time this rape allegedly happened, they could then take that woman to the cleaners and infinancially rape her too, just to really rub the salt in the wounds.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whilst this may seem a bit of an extreme example, there are tons of cases which have received publicity through the internet, people who have won against corruption and blackmail, this Act would potentially put a stop to that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thing is, its not just freedom of speech which is under attack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The past few years has seen both the European Union and America try and bring in internet laws such as '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act">SOPA</a>' which far extend past their premise that it is just for preventing online piracy. In any case, despite both SOPA in the states and the European equivalent, the legislation was rejected on privacy grounds. Despite that, starting from next year in 2014, in the UK internet service providers will be required to log and monitor your download habits and give you a 'three strikes' warning, where presumably your internet speeds will be slowed until eventually you receive nasty letters through the post asking you to come to court.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406323,00.asp">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406323,00.asp</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The same is happening in America too, albeit they get six strikes instead of our three.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-01-braces-online-piracy.html">http://phys.org/news/2013-01-braces-online-piracy.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Europe and America both have the sinister issue of having to pay £20 (or $30) to appeal against an ISP's decision, because, you know, its not like the UK or America has a Bill of Rights or anything. And it gets worse. You ever posted something like a video of your mate falling over, onto YouTube? You put some music onto that clip? Guess what, if you did, you could be fined under these new proposals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In any case just be glad you don't live in Germany where the lines between civil and criminal cases are blurred. If you are caught downloading porn illegally over there the porn studio send letters to your home demanding a payment settlement and then post your name publicly for everyone to laugh at (unless they pay £650 straight to the firm straight away without question.) Apparently the potential damage to relationships is neither here nor there to these arseholes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Trouble is, its set to get worse. Gone are the days where the internet danced to the tune of dial-up tones and the anarchistic web pages ran wild, slowly but surely the internet is becoming standardised and my prediction is that eventually all the websites we take for granted today will be shut down and we will all be given some form of internet passport. The internet will be like a glorified Ceefax, except it draws more information out about you, than you do about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example, there was huge controversy about Google's terms and conditions changing last year. People generally don't care that much anymore now its old news, but in my opinion people should be very scared of an internet organisation which demands you use a 'real name' when filling out your profile. Its not my belief that Google is necessarily some Government sponsored spy (that's Facebook) but I do think that they are deliberately and undeniably creating a file on you to know how best to sell products to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Facebook on the other hand is without question being used by police forces to gather intelligence on us, and as technology increases that ability will only grow. They are working on software which can predict where in the world flashpoints and crimes are about to take place and software which evaluates all your likes and dislikes in your Facebook timeline and makes a judgement on you about how likely you are to commit a crime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All we need now is some sort of drug which makes us all docile and apathetic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation">Oh hold on! </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to the New World Order!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This article has been a long time coming since its taken me a good week to have the time to upload all the associated videos that I took, but I'm finally in the position to release them to the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before I begin I would like to say that I'm not a supporter of the UAF, an organisation which suffers from atrocious double standards and ironic statements. At the same time (as I'm sure this will be read by a few UAF supporters) I'm also not a supporter of the idiotic EDL who run around making themselves look like your typical Chav cunt. So with that all cleared up, lets continue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you are unaware of who the UAF then take note; They are the ironically named 'Unite Against Fascism', or as many have taken to calling them 'Unite Against Freedom'. They are predominately supported by young adults who have studied at universities and have been brainwashed by Marxist doctrines but also seem to have a regular band of individuals with limited mental capacity at the ready to be used as muscle to prevent democratic demonstrations against multiculturalism, communism and international socialism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The UAF seem to have endless resources, mainly because they have close links with the main Unions such as 'Unite' (as well as the scary support of teachers unions such as the NUT and NASUWT), political parties such as the Socialist Workers Party and more worryingly the Labour party. They have leaders and spokesmen from these parties and organisation, one of their main spokesmen is Ken Livingstone, former Labour Mayor of London but also seem to have a the strange support of practically every big-time Politician including current Prime Minister David Cameron.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their mission appears at first glimpse to be an 'anti-fascist' organisation but look a little deeper and its obvious that this group is actually set up and financed by the state and top organisations which control society. Its not clear where their finances come from, although you can bet that they are likely paid for by Unions and 'special interest' groups such as Mosques and political groups like the Fabian society. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They defend a
stance of 'no platform', that is that fascists (who they are apparently
allowed to define) should not be allowed to voice their opinions,
apparently the idea of free speech completely dead to them, which is a
defining point of authority of fascism.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their
double standards runs right through all their politics though. Every
time an ethnic minority is killed by a white British person, they go
into overdrive and fight tooth and nail to make sure it goes as public
as possible. If the tables are turned however, and is a white Briton who
suffers racism, it is unceremoniously ignored by the UAF '<i>anti-racists</i>'.
The same applies to their rather dodgy philosophy of defending militant
Islamists who preach against homosexuality, womens rights and alcohol
consumption... whilst defending homosexual and </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">women's </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">rights
organisations. In fact nothing has been said by them at all by the
increasing prevalence of Muslim gangs going out and preaching their vile
and twisted philosophies on English streets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Who's streets?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They purport to be against violent demonstrations yet none of their leadership seem to renounce violent behavior committed by their supporters. Take the darts thrown at Nick Griffin back in 2010 outside Parliament, caught on film. Of course the Crown Prosecution Service looked the other way despite calls by the BNP to have it looked into and despite evidence posted all over the internet. Ironically, a day before this attack on the BNP, Waymen Bennett (someone I got an interview with last week) was arrested for <i>'Conspiracy to organise violent disorder' </i>at an EDL event in Bolton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i>Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan said that:</span><br />
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"Today in Bolton we have seen some small evidence of this protest in
the form of flag waving and vitriolic name calling - but we have also
seen groups of people, predominantly associated with the
UAF, engaging in violent confrontation.
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"It is clear to me that a large number have attended today with the
sole intention of committing disorder and their actions have been wholly
unacceptable. Turning their anger onto police officers
they acted with, at times, extreme violence and their actions led to
injuries to police officers, protestors and members of the public.
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"The police are not and should not be the target of such violence and
anger and this protest and the actions of some of the protestors is
roundly condemned by GMP and by <a href="http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/search/?search=Bolton+Council">Bolton Council</a>.
Were it not for the professionalism and bravery of police officers many
others would have been seriously injured. I would also like to praise
the efforts of the EDL stewards who worked with us in the face of some
very ugly confrontations."
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Trouble is, half the time the news reporting on these protests gets it completely wrong and attempts to tar the 'right-wing' as being the violent ones. Take the other week as an example where the BBC and the Guardian seem to report conflicting accounts, not unlikely because the Guardian is well known for its left leaning and therefore seems to be trying to play down the support of the 'right-wingers'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The BBC account:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-21644784#story_continues_1">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-21644784#story_continues_1</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>A bit different to:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/03/edl-march-manchester-handful-arrests">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/03/edl-march-manchester-handful-arrests</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway, continuing on, I recently went to a UAF event to film their 2013 'Conference' but my main reason for going was to try and get an opportunity to ask a question about their methods and in particular their handling of the 2012 St Georges day parade where it transpired that parents with their young children were being pelted with missiles from the UAF who lined the streets. Apparently just because there were a few EDL turned up to the event, the innocent people celebrating a national saints day were fair game for their violent disturbance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a snippet of the way the UAF treats the English celebrating St Georges day in their own poxy country, albeit without footage of the missiles thrown:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, without further ado, I give you the full videos for you to watch for your displeasure:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(I apologise in advance for the poor sound and picture quality. The sound quality couldn't be helped and the camera was continuously trying to auto-focus and the indoor strip lighting was giving it grief.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Note that there are some gaps between some of the videos. I didn't bother getting the clothes line seller of 'Love Music' because I didn't think he'd be that interesting - except he would have scored an own goal had I bothered to record him because he blurted out that they should not allow 'racist fascists' to speak because where the far right are able to speak in the media, they gain credibility. <i>Which surely means that people agree with them in the wider society, then? </i>Undemocratic shits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I also managed to get an interview with the turd Weyman Bennett before people began becoming aware that I wasn't a UAF supporter and began demanding my name, address and phone number. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The reason for the security according to the Conference coordinator was that 'We have to be careful who films for our security'. The fact that they have people in the conference selling copies of 'Searchlight' which lists far-right personal details is neither here nor there apparently...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-40226410737718423452013-03-04T14:44:00.001-08:002013-03-19T01:31:46.867-07:00Alcoholic Cars 2.0<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Porsche935-19770529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Porsche935-19770529.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The other day this story was reported on the BBC about how scientists may have found a way of storing hydrogen for use as a fuel in vehicles through extracting it from Methanol. This hydrogen would then be used to create an charge for an electric vehicle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sounds great right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, surely not. The idea of fueling vehicles on alcohol has been about since Henry Ford, so it certainly is not a new idea. What the new idea with this story is is that they are using a flammable liquid to power an electric car. I think you can see where I'm going with this...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Petroleum is around 95 Octane, methanol is around the 115 mark. Hydrogen fuel celled cars on the other hand will have also have to had encorporated complicated computers and the complete redesigning of the infrastructure we have come accustomed to in the modern world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, I'm going to go out on a whim here and say that its probably much more cost effective and easier for the world to sell conventional combustion engines which can run on methanol and kits to convert ordinary petrol vehicles into being able to use it too. There would be very little modifications needed, if any if someone could invent a good enough additive to put in with methanol to stop it corroding seals and aluminium parts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Methanol has been used to fuel racing cars for years already afterall...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And it can be made from rotting organic matter. I have no objections against using all that unused food that ends up in landfill, (and the by-product of the food we do eat) to make fuel to power our cars. Fuck, anything to bring down the cost of motoring has to be a bonus.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-22550597894778564832013-03-04T14:23:00.002-08:002013-03-05T00:46:22.581-08:00Diesel Fumes Cause Cancer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This may well be old news to some but as it was new to me I thought I'd just quickly up this information for anyone else out there to read and take note of. I only caught wind of this through an AA engineer who was aware of this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you are good with cars you may remember a few years back when manufacturers began putting 'pollen filters' on their cars. The reason I assume given was to stop you from having a dangerous sneezing fit whilst driving at 140 on the autobahn, but apparently given other recent information the real reason may be a little more worrying. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to research, diesel fumes from modern engines are able to burn the diesel so well that the resulting particles are small enough to be absorbed by human skin and has been attributed to skin and lung cancer. Kind of worrying if you are someone who spends a great deal of time in the car or if you live on a main road. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This information tends to tie in with why the international guidelines given to car manufacturers have become so stringent. Not only do car manufacturers tend to install these 'pollen filters' on their vehicles air vents, but most modern diesel cars now have to have a 'Diesel Particulate Filter'. This is essentially a catalyst which is meant to store the deposits so it can be fully burnt off before it gets into the environment to cause harm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Trouble is, whilst they lie to our faces about carbon dioxide being the cause of every affliction known to mankind, things such as this are relatively toned down, despite the possible major health complaints it can cause. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The 'diesel particulate filters' are therefore likely nothing to do with carbon dioxide at all, and are more likely a way to try and prevent every commuter from dieing within fifteen years. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763409864473102190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-22237530981790583942013-02-21T07:46:00.002-08:002013-02-21T07:46:36.783-08:00Police Airsoft Guns<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is well known that the UK has probably the most draconian and over the top gun laws in the 'free' world bar none, but few will know of just how far this extends. For those of you who aren't aware, in the UK airsoft guns which usually fall under 'realistic imitation firearms' are all but off limits except to people who are members of airsoft clubs or sites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Back a few years ago the UK Government wanted an outright ban on airsoft guns in general because of the issues involving armed police not being able to use common sense in situations when kids were found plinking in the local park. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let kids be kids for fucks sake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a link to a pretty awful leaflet which is available in Thames Valley which addresses parents with this issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is shocking that children these days are not allowed to be kids, back a few decades ago kids would take an air rifle out and about to parks and so on and noone thought anything of it. Hell, even when I was fifteen dog walkers would see us prating about with the rubbishy single shot pistols and they would never phone the police. These days though everyone is a tell-tale cunt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Regardless, the UK government brought in something called the UKARA 'license' which is essentially a bit of a joke pretending to be some sort of official 'firearm' regulation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So now in the UK, you can buy a 'two-tone' airsoft gun (that is to say that at least 50% of the gun has to be brightly coloured) but you are not able to buy a black or realistically coloured one until you have satisfied to a game site that you intend to use your gun for what it is intended for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You might think this is all good but the crux of the problem is that if you buy a 'two-tone', there is nothing to stop you from spraying it black. According to some shops (protecting their repeat business) it is illegal to spray them because you are manufacturing a replica firearm. Hmm, kay. On the flip side, if you have obtained a <i>real </i>firearm, you only need to spray half the thing bright orange and if it is spotted in public it will be presumed a fake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Besides all the UKARA license required for what is essentially a toy gun (airsoft guns) there is still nothing stopping anyone over the age of 18 from going into a shop and buying an all metal realistic, semi-auto air pistol which could kill if you hit something vital. The complete retarded nature of this countries gun laws astounds. I' am in favour of civilian ownership of firearms, but when you have kids being arrested for owning toys we have to say enough is enough!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What may seem comical to most though is one of the new ideas brought out by a company who wants to sell BB guns to the police to use as markers. Read this shit:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/24/dna-gun-can-tag-offenders_n_2539966.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/24/dna-gun-can-tag-offenders_n_2539966.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essentially, all it is is an ordinary airsoft gun which fires 'synthetic DNA BB's'. Basically in crowd control situations, an officer is meant to aim and fire at a troublemaker so that they can be identified later. Seriously, I'm not making this up.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A member of the public could be blinded. The bruising left by a shot done at close range could quite easily be contrued as assault with a firearm.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In crowds an officer could hit the wrong person. The 'accurate to 40m' as stated by this article is very debatable as someone who uses these airsoft guns regularly.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You could change your clothes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can wash your skin, DNA will come off with Iodine or other solutions.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6mm pellets are incredibly small and the police officer would have to remember where exactly he hit you to find it again.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In short, there is a 99% chance the police will not use these for these reasons, but if they do I bet you any money the Government would then want to see all BB guns banned because they'd essentially be the same tool used by the Police. We'll see. </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-46608227079211932912013-02-18T06:26:00.000-08:002013-02-18T06:34:11.663-08:00Taxing 'Junk' Food<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once again 'officials' are making calls to regulate our food consumption under the remit of preventing obesity. Today the BBC was reporting things which allegedly came from a panel of doctors after politicians recently called for the exact same thing a few months ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, they kind of hope that you will have the memory of a sieve and not see these doctors calls as been blatantly coordinated with the Government previous calls. For those of you who have forgotten and or have not heard about this previously then check out a previous blog post I wrote a month or so ago:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once again, the Government (well Parliament actually seeing as Labour is one of the biggest supporters of these moves) is completely ignoring public opinion on this matter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> When you check through the top rated comments in the messages left on the BBC articles the vast majority see that the cost of decent ingredients is the main contributing factor in an unhealthy public. It might sound presumptuous, but the vast majority of obese people that we see around aren't working, are on the dole and generally cannot afford to buy good food. This is what struck me as kind of bizzare seeing as last month the Government were talking about cutting benefits to obese folk on the dole, which would have only exacerbated the issue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course it is understandable why the Government wants to cut obesity down because it puts a burden on our health system, however there are much more intelligent ways to go about this. Rather than infringe on peoples freedom to eat how they want, why not give a certain amount in vouchers to be spent in supermarkets with your benefits cheque which can only be spent on fruit and vegetables? Why not simply <i>make</i> children go for a run once a day? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No, of course not. These <span style="font-size: small;">ideas will help people, <span style="font-size: small;">its about tax. <span style="font-size: small;">If the first <span style="font-size: small;">round of t<span style="font-size: small;">axes on <span style="font-size: small;">un<span style="font-size: small;">healthy food doesn't work, they'<span style="font-size: small;">ll ju<span style="font-size: small;">st increase the <span style="font-size: small;">tax u<span style="font-size: small;">ntil people simply can<span style="font-size: small;">'t <span style="font-size: small;">afford t<span style="font-size: small;">hem. Bit like <span style="font-size: small;">cigarettes, drin<span style="font-size: small;">king and using <span style="font-size: small;">you<span style="font-size: small;">r car<span style="font-size: small;">. <span style="font-size: small;">Win<span style="font-size: small;">, win for<span style="font-size: small;"> the Go<span style="font-size: small;">vernment. More taxes <i><span style="font-size: small;">and </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">a reduction in N<span style="font-size: small;">HS costs. <span style="font-size: small;">Never-mind</span> about the complete erosion of <span style="font-size: small;">liberty.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">(<a href="http://theroseofengland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/idiot-killed-by-cocacola.html">http://theroseofengland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/idiot-killed-by-cocacola.html</a>)<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I fear that (as always) <span style="font-size: small;">c<span style="font-size: small;">al<span style="font-size: small;">ori<span style="font-size: small;">es w<span style="font-size: small;">ill be attacked an<span style="font-size: small;">d taxed wh<span style="font-size: small;">ilst damaging <span style="font-size: small;">diet drinks<span style="font-size: small;"> are promot<span style="font-size: small;">ed as being the healthy alternative<span style="font-size: small;">, <span style="font-size: small;">something which many deny very m<span style="font-size: small;">uch<span style="font-size: small;">. Calories <span style="font-size: small;">of co<span style="font-size: small;">urse ar<span style="font-size: small;">e just a measure of ene<span style="font-size: small;">rgy<span style="font-size: small;">.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span></span>he suggesti<span style="font-size: small;">on that what is essentially a measur<span style="font-size: small;">ement of Joule<span style="font-size: small;">'s in your food is <span style="font-size: small;">bad for <span style="font-size: small;">you is idio<span style="font-size: small;">tic. It could be qu<span style="font-size: small;">it<span style="font-size: small;">e safe to <span style="font-size: small;">eat <span style="font-size: small;">ten times <span style="font-size: small;">the recom<span style="font-size: small;">mended <span style="font-size: small;">daily calorie intake if you w<span style="font-size: small;">as doing something<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">strenuous</span> enough to burn them up.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">S<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">trangely</span>, the UK isn't the only country that has s<span style="font-size: small;">uddenl<span style="font-size: small;">y</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> began promot<span style="font-size: small;">ing diet d<span style="font-size: small;">rinks as <span style="font-size: small;">being this<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">health<span style="font-size: small;">y alte<span style="font-size: small;">rnative<span style="font-size: small;">.<span style="font-size: small;"> Because giving <span style="font-size: small;">a toxic s<span style="font-size: small;">ubstanc<span style="font-size: small;">e which causes tumors to children is a <span style="font-size: small;">brilliant idea<span style="font-size: small;">, right? <span style="font-size: small;">Especially wh<span style="font-size: small;">en you<span style="font-size: small;">'ve signed up <span style="font-size: small;">to global causes like <span style="font-size: small;">UN Agenda 21<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kids in <span style="font-size: small;">America had <span style="font-size: small;">all <span style="font-size: small;">fizzy drinks replaced wit<span style="font-size: small;">h 'health<span style="font-size: small;">y' options.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">(<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12604166/#.USI3V2cYE2U">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12604166/#.USI3V2cYE2U</a>)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/nutrition/280613-soda-candy-out-under-proposed-school-snack-rules">http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/nutrition/280613-soda-candy-out-under-proposed-school-snack-rules</a>)</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don't bel<span style="font-size: small;">ieve me<span style="font-size: small;"> a<span style="font-size: small;">b<span style="font-size: small;">out the bad effects of Aspartame?</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;">Well here is evidence<span style="font-size: small;"> to suggest <span style="font-size: small;">that aspar<span style="font-size: small;">tame given to rats caused tum<span style="font-size: small;">ors:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">(<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/34040.php">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/34040.php</a>)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">List sup<span style="font-size: small;">posed </span><span style="font-size: small;">Aspartame effects<span style="font-size: small;">:</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">(<a href="http://naturalsociety.com/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you-4-major-negative-impacts">http://naturalsociety.com/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you-4-major-negative-impacts</a>/) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Diet Dr<span style="font-size: small;">inks <span style="font-size: small;">cause depression<span style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course this is all very ironic that at a time where they don't even know what livestock is in our burgers (or what drugs those animals were on at the time) they are discussing regulations on things which do not need it. Draw your own conclusions from the information, but all in all its just yet another example of us all being denied our own basic right to live our lives as we wish.</span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-48843740868515815172013-02-12T12:55:00.000-08:002013-02-18T05:43:55.744-08:00Idiot Killed By Coca~Cola<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzDHjO9obIdcR0AIzLQypyLGZ2O9PfWPBwc8hR9ADbn_MINOlx0HHTzFDApxt9anw8RvxWO3DlyTK26uNWyga8YtmhgPPFrI7Zp0j9ccHpDqDrmUXFMW1AEzr8crUUV6sTcLYv8DDaP4/s1600/Coca-Cola-girl.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzDHjO9obIdcR0AIzLQypyLGZ2O9PfWPBwc8hR9ADbn_MINOlx0HHTzFDApxt9anw8RvxWO3DlyTK26uNWyga8YtmhgPPFrI7Zp0j9ccHpDqDrmUXFMW1AEzr8crUUV6sTcLYv8DDaP4/s640/Coca-Cola-girl.jpeg" width="376" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today on the BBC there is a report of how one woman who reportedly drank up to ten litres of coca-cola a day has died of a cardiac arrest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What a pity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21423499">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21423499</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The woman in New Zealand drank so much of this shit that she had had most of her teeth extracted over the years and it had even prevented her unborn children from forming enamel on their teeth too. According to the article ten litres a day is twice the recommended daily caffeine intake and eleven times the recommended daily sugar intake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I guess in a way we ought to feel sorry for her as this was clearly some form of addiction or obsessive behaviour and friends and family should have taken it upon themselves to get her treated for this. As per usual there are some who are trying to blame Coca~Cola for the death, but I think it goes beyond reasonable risk assessments to assume someone out there would consume that kind of amount.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The media however should currently be doing their utmost to highlight the possible dangers of aspartame which is present in a wide range of products. It is an artificial sweetener used in diet-drinks and in most products labelled as 'no added sugar'. This would include products such as 'Diet Coke', Coke Zero, Pepsi Max, and many other products you possibly wouldn't consider such as Robinson's cordial juice which of course is generally the drink of choice by millions of children in the UK. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20939173/diet-soda-dangers-new-study-may-link-aspartame-to-cancer">http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20939173/diet-soda-dangers-new-study-may-link-aspartame-to-cancer</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/011804_aspartame_NutraSweet.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/011804_aspartame_NutraSweet.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8939194">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8939194</a> (An old scientific report calling for review in '96.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Despite these concerns, the European Food Safety Authority and the Food and Drugs Administration in the USA have both approved this substance fit for human consumption once again. The EU came to an agreement on this just last year in fact:<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><i>"On 8 January 2013, EFSA launched a public consultation on its draft
scientific opinion on the safety of the artificial sweetener aspartame.
To carry out this full risk assessment, EFSA has undertaken an in-depth
review of peer-reviewed scientific and other literature on aspartame and
its breakdown products, including new human studies. All stakeholders
and interested parties are invited to comment on the draft opinion
through the online public consultation by 15 February 2013. As part of
this important process and the Authority’s commitment to actively
engaging with stakeholders, EFSA will also hold a meeting with
interested parties to discuss its draft opinion and the feedback
received from the online public consultation. EFSA prepared a set of
Frequently Asked Questions to help explain some of the key scientific
concepts and initial conclusions of the draft opinion."</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>EFSA Website</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Well as great as this sounds there is still some cause for concern with regards to this little compound. The biggest concern being the links to Monsanto. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">As Monsanto deserves an article in its own right, check the wiki page for a general idea:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto</a> (Pay particular attention to t<span style="font-size: small;">he <span style="font-size: small;">'political contributions and lobbying' section.)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monsanto sold the <span style="font-size: small;">Aspartame rights to <span style="font-size: small;">M<span style="font-size: small;">erisant in 2000<span style="font-size: small;">, <span style="font-size: small;">wh<span style="font-size: small;">o have now sold to a group wh<span style="font-size: small;">ich now includes Pe<span style="font-size: small;">psi<span style="font-size: small;">C</span>o.<span style="font-size: small;"> B<span style="font-size: small;">ut <span style="font-size: small;">Merisant was brought by shareholders who already had stakes in M<span style="font-size: small;">onsanto before, <span style="font-size: small;">so it <span style="font-size: small;">can ha<span style="font-size: small;">rdly be said that the<span style="font-size: small;"> financial interests behind <span style="font-size: small;">M</span>onsanto are no<span style="font-size: small;">t still with the new <span style="font-size: small;">owners. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Long story short, <span style="font-size: small;">Monsanto and <span style="font-size: small;">other GM and arti<span style="font-size: small;">ficial food produ<span style="font-size: small;">cers a<span style="font-size: small;">re <span style="font-size: small;">getting into b<span style="font-size: small;">ed </span>with politicians and getting camp<span style="font-size: small;">a<span style="font-size: small;">in<span style="font-size: small;">ers to support untested food to the pub<span style="font-size: small;">lic through Governments. <span style="font-size: small;">Bribery<span style="font-size: small;"> and officials <span style="font-size: small;">'loo<span style="font-size: small;">king the other way' ar<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">e ri<span style="font-size: small;">fe.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is jus<span style="font-size: small;">t one such example which was reported. </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4153635.stm" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4153635.stm </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The ot<span style="font-size: small;">her concern to do with soft-<span style="font-size: small;">drinks<span style="font-size: small;"> are<span style="font-size: small;"> energy <span style="font-size: small;">drinks of which <span style="font-size: small;">Monster Ene<span style="font-size: small;">rg<span style="font-size: small;">y has recen<span style="font-size: small;">tly come under scrutin<span style="font-size: small;">y with after <span style="font-size: small;">some deaths had some <span style="font-size: small;">links with the c<span style="font-size: small;">onsum<span style="font-size: small;">ption<span style="font-size: small;"> with their drinks. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9627491/Monster-energy-drink-investigated.html"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9627491/Monster-energy-drink-investigated.html</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The owner of the company </span> Rodney Sacks claimed the people who were trying to claim for damages were 'scientifically ignorant' for suggesting these deaths had anything to do with his beverages. Well no mate, this is why departments are currently reviewing your product to see if <i>scientifically</i> these claims have any basis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In any case would you trust ingredients like these: <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-carnitine" title="L-carnitine">l-carnitine</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbic_acid" title="Sorbic acid">sorbic acid</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzoic_acid" title="Benzoic acid">benzoic acid</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niacinamide" title="Niacinamide">niacinamide</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucuronolactone" title="Glucuronolactone">glucuronolactone</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol" title="Inositol">inositol</a>, , <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyridoxine" title="Pyridoxine">pyridoxine</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrochloride" title="Hydrochloride">hydrochloride</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose" title="Sucralose">sucralose</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riboflavin" title="Riboflavin">riboflavin</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltodextrin" title="Maltodextrin">maltodextrin</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanocobalamin" title="Cyanocobalamin">cyanocobalamin</a></span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-42362933915985829122013-02-06T13:19:00.004-08:002013-02-06T15:11:34.476-08:00Free Access to Stonehenge<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've been interested in asking about the grounds for free access to Stonehenge for religious purposes for a while and so thought I'd drop English Heritage a line, here is what I wrote to them in January 2013:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As you are probably aware, sites such as St Paul's Cathedral who usually charge tourists for visits allow free access for worshipers.</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As someone who harbours pagan beliefs, I would like to ask English Heritage if free access to Stonehenge was granted under Article 9 of the charter of Human Rights which allows the right to religious freedom.</span></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A week or so later I have received this reply from the Stonehenge office explaining how they do not allow free access for religious purposes but that they offer the site to the pagan community at key dates throughout the year.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Dear Mr Rose,</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Thank you for you email to Customer Services dated 20<sup>th</sup> January 2013, which has been
forwarded onto me.</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">You refer in your email to the Human Rights Act 1998, article 9; The
right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">English Heritage general policy is to offer access to
Stonehenge and to other sites on an equal basis to all
groups, and no group has special status in regard to access because of their
faith or belief</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">However, English Heritage has considered this matter in some depth, and
in the spirit of Human Rights and European Law, the
Stonehenge management team and external agencies such as
Wiltshire Police consult regularly with various druid and pagan groups about
open access to Stonehenge for spiritual or ceremonial
purposes.</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">As a consequence, arrangements are made for open access to be available
several times a year. Groups and individuals of any faith are welcome into
Stonehenge, free of charge, to celebrate their beliefs
and to perform their sacred ceremonies. At these times, we expect the people
attending to adhere to the published entry conditions, to ensure public safety
and protection of the monument.</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">The next available opportunity to take part in open access to
Stonehenge is on the 20<sup>th</sup> March to celebrate
the spring Equinox. Gathered attendees will be able to enter the monument at
dawn (from approximately 05.30 am) and
remain until 08.00 am.</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You and your group would be very welcome to attend free of
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Yours sincerely</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Sally</span></i></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">You aren't allowed to touch Stonehenge unless you are a dirty, unkept<br />hippy cunt.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">I'm not quite sure how to take the reply as it is partially a knock back, but at the same time I did only think the site was available to religious processions at the solstice events. What annoys me about Stonehenge in particular is the English Heritage's inability to manage the publics handling of the monuments. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">They build a car park over a part of the site of which is of historical interest (wooden post holes were found under the car park which pre-date the monument) and then charge us £8 a pop to visit a monument which has stood for up to 5000 year independently. Once you get to <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>tonehenge you are unfortunately reminded that you cannot approach or touch the stones, and you are forced to walk in a wide circle around the monument where you get no closer than the road anyway (thus making the whole paying for entry a pointless endeavour. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> The over zealous security goes out of the window however come Solstice time. Then its perfectly acceptable to allow a load of acid-taking, wanna-be-hippies climb all over the fucking thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> These people are not pagans, pagans would respect an ancient monument built by their ancestors. These people are just a load of cunts</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have to ask, who in their right mind would want to spend time with these cunts anyway? </span></span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RDMVqPnL0cI" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-58366839700330827182013-02-02T06:34:00.003-08:002013-02-06T12:50:10.954-08:00England: The Great Scapegoat<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Growing up in England,
most children are brought up with the idea of Britishness, and, as I
will continue to explain, an idea is all it is. I too used to be
fiercely ‘British’, I would display the union flag at any
opportunity, proclaiming my love for our countries heritage. Then,
slowly, I came to the realisation that all was not well in ol’
Blighty. ‘British’ history has been deliberately mis-taught for
generations for the sole purpose of keeping English identity to a
minimum whilst promoting the Imperialistic non-entity known as
Britain. As added insult, the English are also usually blamed for all
the atrocities committed by the ‘British Empire’, including the
Scottish who of course were the ones who forged the British Empire to
begin with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you think I'm
talking crap, let us take a (relatively) quick tour of the United
Kingdom’s history:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first lie comes
from the idea of there ever being a race called ‘The Celts’.
Indeed Celt seems in recent times to denote someone who resides in
the UK or Ireland and is an indigenous person to these lands. Truth
is, there was never a single cultural or racial group known simply as
‘the Celts’. There had been waves upon waves of small settler
groups from the continent all throughout the neolithic period and
bronze age – all of whom displaced the earlier group. That been
said, it has been noted that during the Neolithic period, all
Northern European cultures (Germanic and ‘Celtic’) were very
similar which seems to suggest a common lineage. Essentially there is
no difference between someone of whom is of Germanic origin, and
someone who is of Celtic origin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why is this important?
Well it is very important on account of the fact that in recent times
they’ve used immigration to break social cohesion and national
identity in the UK, and in England in particular. In many instances
our race replacement programme is justified by the likes of the BBC
etc because of the fact that ‘all English are foreign anyway.’
Well, no actually. Our people have always lived in Northern Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skipping the Roman
conquest entirely, we then get onto the creation of England. After
the fall of the Roman Empire the King of the Britons Vortigern,
essentially paid protection money to the Anglo-Saxons to stop them
marauding their coasts with the absence of Roman naval units - but
eventually, after a few attempts to butter the Saxons up, they went
on to take England by force from all the independent tribes. England
then, is a completely separate nation from Wales (which ironically
means Foreigners in Old English) and the Scots to the North.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For some time, England
suffered with a terrible war of attrition with the Danes which
effectively at one point left England with only the far South West,
but was eventually able to regain control of the most of England. Of
course, in 1066, the English suffered a great defeat, a defeat which
has seen the English people enslaved ever since. Some may scoff at
this notion, but here are the facts. With the Norman conquest came a
genocide and a complete upheaval of a class system. Before the Norman
conquest, England's societal system was mostly based on merit. It was
quite possible to start life as a servant and become someone of
influence and power later in life. With the Norman system came the
consensus, harsh taxes and the super-elite. Whilst the serfs worked
night and day to survive, the Norman nobility stuffed their faces.
(In fact, the Normans never used plates, they ate their meat off of
blocks of bread which was given as a meal to the servants
afterwards.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So why is this
important?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Because it proves that
no English nobility stood at all after 1066, and the class system in
this country has always been horrific. Even today, class in Britain
transcends profession and monetary accumulation. Someone can tell
another person's ‘class’ merely by their accent. All political
decisions for nearly a thousand years have been made by a super-class
of usurper bastards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even after the Civil
War which Oliver Cromwell the Parliamentarian won against the
Royalists, we were still dicked because all the anti-Jewry laws which
were repealed in order for us to take on a debt based ‘modern’
banking system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now onto the
interesting part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">England is always seen
as being the main nation behind the British Empire, but is this
really true? After Queen Elizabeth I’s death, the crown passed to
James I, her Nephew who was from the Scottish throne. Then since
then, up until the arrival of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha crew, all
monarchs were either Scottish, or German.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So when did the United
Kingdom become united? Well, despite the same throne been held in
both the Scottish and English state for a long time before, the union
never came about until 1707, but it was done to stop Scotland going
bankrupt after they tried their own bit of territorial expansionism
in Panama, and to stop them from ever becoming allies with the French
again like they had so many times before (which was actually the main
reason for the film Braveheart because Scotland kept aiding France.)
No one was ever asked, and the only people who have ever done badly
from the British state are the main contributors: the English. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course the English civil war in </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">(1642–1651)</span> was fought against King Charles I, the main reason for that war was to prevent the monarch from uniting England and Scotland because the opponents were concerned that such a move would but English customs and traditions in danger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ironically after a long and bloody civil war only fifty years later the Parliament had reinstated a monarch as a constitutional monarchy and signed an agreement which united Scotland and England. The true purpose of the Civil war must therefore be looked at in scrutiny and it is a well known fact that Cromwell's round-heads repealed the usury laws and allowed Jewish banks to start dominating England (and later on allowed the sell out of Scotland too.)</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There remains facts however that some people who remain hateful of the English seem to ignore. Despite the
pressure from various monarchs and the imposed imperialism over the years from foreign powers and banking interests,
England still managed to contribute so much liberty to the world
which remains as a beacon of hope and justice throughout the
world. It is generally forgotten that Britain banned slavery around
the same time the United States did. It is conveniently not mentioned
that the English legal system was based on evidence, and presumption
of innocence rather than the usual presumption of guilt like in other
nations, it is conveniently not mentioned that the Magna Carta and
the Bill of Rights is the corner stone of modern freedoms, both of which came from peaceful English reforms.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another thing which seems ironic is that a
term used by liberals these days against English nationalists is
‘Little Englanders’. This term can correctly be tracked back to the days of the British Empire where the
term ‘Little Englander’ was coined for English who disagreed with
Britain's Imperialistic approach, and the creation of the British
state. This would seem to imply that the 'nasty, filthy nationalists' are actually against the kind of international pillage that faux-liberalism seems to support.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lastly, let us not
forget from where most of the prominent secret societies now based in
the states originated – Scotland, not England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So why do I feel this
article is important?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That is simple. I grow
tired of hearing from groups whether they are African, American or
Scottish about how bad we English are, when in actual fact, our
history was not ours to control. We have been at the mercy of Norman
and German hierarchs, Scottish bloodlines and foreign banks for a
very long time. I'm not saying we are perfect, but I would just like
to say that we deserve to exist as a nation and as a people. We do
not deserve to be deliberately forced out of our homeland by
migrants, nor do we deserve the sole blame for all of the atrocities
played out by the British Empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Britain is a term
meaning slavery. Slavery for all of us involved. I only hope that the
Scottish vote for their independence in the next coming years as it
will grant us a loop hole to take back control of our destiny also –
from both the British state, and the EU (since we joined as the UK,
not separate nation states.)
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-62938921052207834792013-01-22T12:46:00.000-08:002013-01-22T12:46:46.693-08:00Welcome To The Machine: Neo-Feudalism Is Here<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It seems the UK has been utterly and undeniably flanked on all sides by globalist interests, wealthy banking families and corrupt politicians. We are well and truly hemmed in, and if I'm allowed to be completely pessimistic, it seems like there is going to be no escape from the increasing rot that has gripped an entire global civilisation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, you may be thinking I'm a paranoid, thinking negatively and spouting a load of old shit, but look at the continuing trends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Increasing food prices, reduction of state pensions (whilst increasing how long we work for.) Reduction in wages, (when you take into account value loss in the currency) attack on liberties, attack on judicial process, attack on the right to protest, constant attacks against firearm and weapon ownership. The list goes on and on.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The average citizen doesn't seem much brighter than these</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Put simply, I would say that the UK and all of the other western nations are at the end of their lifespan as a free society and Governments, top banking families and international groups are going in for the kill right now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Put simply, we are approaching Neo-feudalism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That is essentially a bit like fascism, only when you are poor, you are really, <i>really </i>poor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examples? There are plenty. Sit back, read and take notice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The general problem is that the Government is attempting to reduce the costs of health care with such aggressive and bizzare ideas, that they are likely to cause more problems than they solve. With all the talk of benefit reductions for obese claimants and tax rises and even legislation to get rid of unhealthy food completely, it kind of makes a mockery of us to say that we are still a free society when you cannot even decide what food you eat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I have written before: (<a href="http://eibsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/health-facism-nanny-knows-best.html">http://eibsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/health-facism-nanny-knows-best.html</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, food prices are set to go up even further than they already have soon as the Government also wants to do something about food wastage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Read here: <a href="http://eibsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/half-worlds-food-wasted.html">http://eibsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/half-worlds-food-wasted.html</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course doing anything to legislate either consumers, transporters or food retail outlets to reduce food wastage will invariably lead to higher costs adding even further burden to families in a recession. Whilst I do think something ought to be done with regards to food wastage, perhaps during the middle of a recession isn't the best time to be mucking around with something as important as food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ironically, with all the food price increases lately one of the hereditary piers, one Countess Lady Mar made a complete cock up last week when she called for food prices to be <i>increased</i> in order to solve food wastage. What planet do these cretins come from?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/01/18/house-of-lords-food-is-too-cheap/">http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/01/18/house-of-lords-food-is-too-cheap/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course there is the usual calls for us to eat locusts or meat grown in vats. Yummy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think you can retire in the near future like our elders did once upon a time? Unless you accumulate a considerable amount of wealth, I wouldn't count on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many people who are just about approaching retirement age now will know full well the level of fuckery the system is able to unleash upon you at a moments notice. Of course I'm referring to that little fact of thievery the previous Government did by raiding the pension pot to bail out bankers and cats so fat they posess their own gravitational influence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a previous article, (<a href="http://eibsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/work-pensioners-how-bout-no.html">http://eibsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/work-pensioners-how-bout-no.html</a>) I mentioned how some were even calling for pensioners to work on a voluntary basis for their state pension. Fuck off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In any case, the whole pension scandal is getting worse and worse, with some now calling for retirement ages to be raised to 70. Of course by the time I'm old enough to retire, being in my mid-twenties, I doubt there will even be a recognisable retirement system. They'll more than likely turn my aging bones in 'Soylent Green' to combat the food crisis. I jest of course, but months back this article came up:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop/">http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even the MOD which has been suffering cut-backs whilst being asked to undertake all manor of illegal resource stealing and corporate murdering have also had their pensions cut back with an increase of servicemen's national insurance contributions. Funtastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Possibly the most concerning problem we face is that all folks now have to own a private pension. Now I'm not necessarily against private pensions if you can afford them, but contributing a minimal amount when you are on minimum wage is just taking the piss. By the time you have saved up anything worth having you may as well have not bothered because you can bet your bottom dollar that that money you saved will go against you having any help from the state when you do finally retire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essentially you are being fucked over twice by putting that nominal amount aside, and even then, it still gets taxed and the usual cunt suspects get to make interest off of your labour.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McDonalds is now in the top ten <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you are lucky enough to have a half decent job the chances are quite high that lately you have received a pay-cut. Of course if you are on minimum wage, chances are you would have realised the occasional national minimum wage increase, which of course is well below rising inflation rates. General theme: wage cuts making us poorer, inflation rates making us poorer, wage cuts makes employee's poorer whilst that influences other firms to pay a less fair wage leading ultimately to a worker class which is happy just to have found work, no matter how degrading the place is to their staff or how chronically awful their wage packets are at the end of the month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, in the UK and indeed for most of the Western Civilisation, the soft approach towards immigration control has been supported by both the hardline socialists, and centre-right conservatives and has had a knock on effect with regards to the jobs and labour markets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ultra-left are of course useful idiots used through proxy organisations to fuel a wider push towards globalisation which the capitalist center-right folk then use to make huge amounts of money. Easy peasy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The whole idea that immigration was 'good for our economy' was of course complete bullshit. Its implementation had a few reasons, but one of the main reasons was to control the job markets and reduce overall labour costs. Flooding a country with thousands of workers who will do a days wage the rest of us wouldn't entertain forced us into the situation where today people will fight for a McMoron job flipping burgers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course the other reason was to inundate the population with foreign cultures as to water down our cultural traditions leading us more naturally towards both the EU and world Government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Don't believe me? Read for yourself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18519395">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18519395</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Obviously, if you know anything about the EU, you will know what its European system of law is currently doing to our British Common Law based legal system. Well, it fucked it, essentially.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our legal system in the UK was the jewel of our society, our Bill of Rights influenced the American Constitution and was the major base for all other anglo free societies. It was the basic promise that a subject would not be subjected to threats of intimidation or charged without fair trial. England even banned the use of torture in 1640 because it was common sense that a man with immense pain placed upon him would ultimately end up confessing to anything just to get the torturer to stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then again, with America the so called 'home of the free' using Guantanamo Bay, and the former Libyan regime so willing to offer their services as interrogators, Britain doesn't really have a need to have its own in-house torturers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course with the European system marching in over the years we now have fixed penalty notes, on-the-spot trials, trials without jury, and daily threats coming from all forms of authority both in person and in state propaganda. In fact, just today it was suggested that criminals should not be provided QC (or as it boils down to it, experienced) solicitors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9815013/Criminals-should-not-be-allowed-to-hire-expensive-lawyers-with-legal-aid-Chris-Grayling-says.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9815013/Criminals-should-not-be-allowed-to-hire-expensive-lawyers-with-legal-aid-Chris-Grayling-says.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course the outrage here is that there is apparently no presumption of innocence anymore with any criminal case. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Still this story seems to remind me of a certain line out of the film 'Lethal Weapon':</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then there is the problem with the internet being the first place the police trawl through to claim victims...I mean convictions. The latest one was a bloke who posted up videos of beheadings on Facebook:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/briton-jailed-over-beheading-videos-posted-on-facebook-319755">http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/briton-jailed-over-beheading-videos-posted-on-facebook-319755</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/372/afb/0b2/resized/police-state-meme-generator-to-serve-and-protect-you-re-doing-it-wrong-79d5dd.jpg?1354658907.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/372/afb/0b2/resized/police-state-meme-generator-to-serve-and-protect-you-re-doing-it-wrong-79d5dd.jpg?1354658907.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do I agree with posting up sick videos? No. Do I think someone should have to do five years because it may offend someone? Erm, no definitely not. It takes all sorts in life, and just because someone seems to have unhealthy obsession with gore I should hope a judge would not have gone postal like this and ruined someones life for it. Oh, the charge was 'Encouraging Terrorism', apparently. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course with other things such as protests all but banned it seems that our fundamental right to fair trial and freedom of expression is pretty much dead. Think this moot point as everyone acknowledges this fact at least.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the things said to give a<span style="font-size: small;">n accurate<span style="font-size: small;"> highlight of a societies morality is to look at how well a <span style="font-size: small;">soc<span style="font-size: small;">iet<span style="font-size: small;">ies most vulnerable <span style="font-size: small;">are looked after. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shockingly, the Conservative cut backs against incapacity benefits is leaving many people in extreme poverty and in many cases terribly humiliated. I'm not usually one to mention human rights because I feel they very often get used to justify our own enslavement, but in the case of these sickening stories I believe something ought to be done right now to sort out these injustices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fear-of-fitness-to-work-tests-driving-disabled-patients-to-suicide-say-6-of-gps-8197432.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fear-of-fitness-to-work-tests-driving-disabled-patients-to-suicide-say-6-of-gps-8197432.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the many stories tells of how a woman was told she could return to work despite having incontinence. Now I'm not a legal expert but I'm pretty sure that this one does breach human rights laws on the grounds of public humiliation. You could hardly expect someone to work in an office whilst fouling themselves in front of colleagues. It would destroy even the strongest of souls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/atos-told-incontinent-woman-to-wear-nappy-firm-condemned-by-mps-for-pressuring-sick-and-disabled-into-returning-to-work-8456447.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/atos-told-incontinent-woman-to-wear-nappy-firm-condemned-by-mps-for-pressuring-sick-and-disabled-into-returning-to-work-8456447.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With the Government paying private companies on the basis that the company is given an objective to cut back on disability claimants, people are unfairly being told that they are to return to work when quite clearly they are not. The people who do the assessments are not even medically trained and the stress and hardship this is putting individuals under has led to inexcusable deaths of late. Some through people returning to work when they shouldn't, and some even through suicide as they feel their situation is so hopeless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course disabled people aren't the only ones resorting to taking their own lives, a surge in depression and a spike in suicide rates has been plaguing not only the UK but the US and other Western countries too, with it mostly being young adults doing this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/14/rise-suicides-blamed-impact-recession">http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/14/rise-suicides-blamed-impact-recession</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961910-2/fulltext">http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961910-2/fulltext</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/suicide-rates-rocket-in-wake-of-economic-downturn-recession-8049446.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/suicide-rates-rocket-in-wake-of-economic-downturn-recession-8049446.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a society where young people are not able to afford their own homes, and are unable to find meaningful employment which will support them in independence - and where there is no support to turn to with a complete break up of cultural values and societal cohesion, it is no wonder suicide rates are rising. Times are tough, but when there is nowhere to turn to to find a comforting shoulder to cry on, and with debts rising with no long term prospects, its no surprise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course the fact that education for a long time has simply been a basic requirement to get a populace to be just intelligent and informed enough to work and pay taxes is no secret. However recent suggestions are somewhat taking the piss. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are considerations to let schools make a profit for shareholders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2012/oct/17/schools-run-for-profit">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2012/oct/17/schools-run-for-profit</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which is no surprise considering that school now has to run mandatory up to the age of 18 and that some of these schools are not places of learning at all and are operating as sweat shops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apprenticeships could be great for a kid to get into, but of course, they could also be uninspiring, underpaid and deadend nightmares. Lady luck therefore will dictate which kids get the most out of this set up, and which ones grow up to be resentful and left under equipped for later life. They already tried this back in the 70's, and it mostly failed the first time, though there were isolated success stories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course in the UK it is already practically illegal to defend yourself, loved ones and your property, and even more 'wrong' to use a firearm to do for those ends. It is of course interesting to note that in anglo-saxon times, any of the free folk were allowed to carry with them a scramaseax (short-sword to you and I) at all times. It was only the people considered slaves who could not own a weapon and the punishment for a non-freeman owning or possessing a weapon was usually a public beating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course these days we are slightly more 'cultured' then them days, so we no longer have to endure the public beating, but we do still suffer the abuse of a society who places the rights of criminals above the right of citizens to defend themselves and their homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even our ex-MOD personnel are arrested for owning a handgun, and in the case of the article below ex-SAS members no less:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I tend to hold the view that the Government does actually see us all as slaves these days, and therefore being common peasants we are not given the rights to defend ourselves and property because, well because quite frankly in a broad scheme of things we don't own anything, meerly borrow it from the Government for a while. (Look up who actually owns your car and who gets an estate if noone leaves a will after death, etc.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm not going to argue gun crime statistics and whether they should or should not be in the hands of civilians, that is far from the remit of this article - but ask yourself, in a free society would you have to justify why you needed a pen knife in your pocket if you were stopped and searched by your local bobby?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now with the ongoing push to disarm America too, things look pretty bleak. Of course America is a different ball game altogether, but you have to ask whether this sudden change in their political view is less down to protecting children and more down to the UN's international disarmament policy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this article scientists reported that there may be a link between apparent sudden global temperature rises caused by volcanic activity and the dinosaurs rise to become the most successful group of land animals the Earth has ever seen. Apparently this was caused by 'global warming', which killed off the large primitive reptiles which dominated before hand allowing the dinosaurs a window of opportunity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Temperature variations happen, continue to happen, and until this planet is either vaporized or turned into a ball of ice and thrown off into outer-space, will <em>always</em> happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is this strange idea that has somehow got into the minds of everyone in society, including scientists on the payroll of Government agencies, that the planet must stay the same. Historical evidence flies in the face of such ridiculous assertions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look back at periods of British weather. The Neolithic period was warm and wet, one of the main reasons that farming techniques were able to be brought into Northern Europe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there was the 'Warm Medieval Period'. This period was warm enough in England to grow vineyards for the Roman occupation. In fact it was this warm period which enabled large viking settlements on Greenland and the finding of Vinland (or Canada as we now call it) by so called uncivilized Danish brutes. Of course this doesn't mean that the weather stayed nice enough for them to stay there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ironically today we have the worlds media doing the rounds about 'extreme cold weather fronts' whatever that means. Of course the idea is to try and trick those of us with short memories into believing we are all going to die relatively soon of some kind of climatic disaster. In some roundabout way, 'climate change' can either be attributed to any kind of weather, be it hot or cold. This latest cold snap in the UK however is nothing compared to the arctic winter felt almost two hundred years ago in 1814 when the Thames froze over and there were entire carnivals pretty much held on the ice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course there may be a negative side to all this. I mean, if global warming really did create dinosaurs (like global warming to reptiles is like that radioactive spider to Peter Parker) we could theoretically be creating Godzilla right now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-88544027051689886342013-01-11T05:03:00.001-08:002013-01-11T06:07:01.923-08:00Half The Worlds Food Wasted<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the news today is reporting on how half the worlds food produced ends up in the landfill.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What took the news so long to pick up this story? This has been an obvious situation for decades and it as per usual it surprises me how newsreaders can roll this out randomly one day and call it 'news' but there you go.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Ok. Well lets just consider these points for a moment. Poor storage? Yes, blatantly. Strict sell-by-dates? Yes. Once upon a time it was good enough just to use common sense to determine whether food was past its best or not. Generally speaking if meat or vegetables is gone you won't want to eat it, the strict sell-by-dates is merely a ruse to get us to chuck more away and therefore carry on buying more the next week. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Trouble is lately through a combination of bulk buy offers and the short use by dates, half the food we do buy ends up going out of date within days of buying it which of course exacerbates the problem.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Customer fussiness? I would argue against this point, but generally if people in the modern world, or at least the west, had time to cook meals from scratch this would not be an issue. As it stands it is much cheaper to buy a prepacked meal then it is to buy all the ingredients and do something from scratch, something which is a real shame and which is partly to blame for the amount of obese kids you see these days.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The report called </span></span><a href="http://www.imeche.org/Libraries/Reports/IMechE_Global_Food_Report.sflb.ashx" target="_blank">Global Food; Waste Not, Want Not</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">from the UK-based institution, as much as half of the world's food, amounting to two billion tonnes worth, is wasted. Up to 30% of the vegetables in the EU are either thrown away or the farmers themselves do not even bother to harvest them because they know they will not meet the EU's 'criteria'. (</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/fruit-and-vegetables/marketing-standards/index_en.htm">http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/fruit-and-vegetables/marketing-standards/index_en.htm</a>)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The EU has already it seems sought to reduce the number of fruit and vegetables they are putting size and shape (as ridiculous as this sounds to begin with) restrictions on. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">At the end of the day pressures from groups such as this who created this report usually financed by the UN are going to end up forcing legislation in most countries to reduce food wastage. This is not a bad thing and as much as I usually hate the UN, I have to agree with this particular scheme, especially if we are not going to do anything pro-active about population growth. That said I do have some concerns.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">And labour has suggested putting restrictions on fat, sugar and salt in certain foods:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">And as I stated in my </span><a href="http://eibsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/health-facism-nanny-knows-best.html" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">last blog post</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> the reduction of benefits for overweight claimants is pretty much unenforceable so my concern is that they will simply use a different method of imposing tax on unhealthy foods to subsidise losses to supermarkets who will have to improve food wastage on fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. In any case, no matter what happens, as soon as the Government gets involved you know it will just cost the people more money regardless. A negligible reduction in NHS costs whilst spending more in taxes to give back to corrupt banking families of which the Government is to blame for taking loans with in the first place.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-66690400410884254442013-01-07T05:43:00.001-08:002013-01-07T05:43:14.044-08:00Jessops TA800-80 Telescope Review<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Oh alright, so looking up at the nights sky is not really a outdoors 'adventure', but it certainly is easy to get lost in your own imagination taking on astronomy for the first time. I've been interested in space since I was a kid and always enjoy reading about astronomy on the internet and in books but alas I never took the plunge and actually brought myself a telescope. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-left: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3bJmnTHbDDj293eCXXllQK84PRcOJmPzlRXTggl-3mPCcnzQ8pR7ZuqRC6pyt06N8PWtebumfNvVsB3Vv1ebot6CcsU0BPk099Qk-R_XfB0hbYei-OwrS9rgT7TJ0b4W4T17Rcz1ki4/s1600/Untitled.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #888888; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: initial;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3bJmnTHbDDj293eCXXllQK84PRcOJmPzlRXTggl-3mPCcnzQ8pR7ZuqRC6pyt06N8PWtebumfNvVsB3Vv1ebot6CcsU0BPk099Qk-R_XfB0hbYei-OwrS9rgT7TJ0b4W4T17Rcz1ki4/s400/Untitled.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="256" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The TA800-80 Reflector</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I had been looking at some higher priced telescopes all last year with go-to functions like the cheaper Cassegrain models but I really didn't want to end up spending serious dough on a hobby which might only last me a few weeks at best. Fortunately my significant other was at a loss of what to buy me for Christmas so seeing that Jessops had some simple reflector telescopes on half price I asked for one of these cheaper models to see if its something I might want to spent a small fortune on at a later date.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Before I start I should probably say that I live in the middle of nowhere and except Stansted airport two miles away there are no street lights so I'm not guaranteeing that my experiences will match your own. That been said, it is light enough to pack into the car and travel somewhere out the way.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">First impressions out of the box are that it is quite well made and robust. The metal construction on the telescope itself seems solid and the tripod is also well made. Included with the scope are three viewing lenses along with a Barlow which times whatever lens you are using my three. The three lenses are 20mm, 12.5mm and a 6mm. Working out the lenses is easy but essentially all you have to really realise is that the larger the number the wider the picture is going to be, and the brighter the picture (because there is more light being collected.) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Putting the scope together is very quick and easy, the only thing that may take a little trial and error is setting up the spotting scope but with up/down and left/right adjustment wheels built into the spot-scope itself its pretty self explanatory. Easiest way I found to set up the spotting scope is to simply use the moon as a reference. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Late on Christmas day I was lucky enough to have a completely clear sky and an almost full moon to gaze at with Jupiter a thumbs width in the sky away from the moon. In fact I found Jupiter completely by accident and was so thrilled when I saw Jupiter's moons sprawled around the distant planet. Finding objects with this telescope is not too difficult but you have to have some patience. Best bet is to use the 20mm lens to find your object and then go down to the 12.5mm. The 6mm doesn't zoom in much farther and is difficult to view through owing to the small viewing hole and subsequently you are forever re-adjusting (in the farthest zoom you are lucky to have maybe fifteen seconds of viewing before the movement of the planet means having to re-adjust.) The Barlow multiplier lens is OK, but remember you are multiplying an image being reflected off of a mirror and therefore it is not going to be any clearer than the smaller image.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Views of Jupiter through the 12.5mm lens multiplied through the Barlow show the planets stripes (just) and the moons appear as tiny stars surrounding the gas giant. Owing to the heaven's current orbits I've only been able to view Jupiter and the moon thus far but I'm looking forward to my future discoveries. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The moon however looks beautiful especially when some of it is in darkness and you can see the ridges of the craters still bathed in sunlight. I know most people use moon filters and I'm surprised this doesn't come with one. I'm sure you could get one to fit this telescope as the 1.5" fitting seems to be pretty universal but in all honesty just using a pair of sunglasses would probably get around this. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> As a representation of what you might expect to see through this telescope here are some images (not my own) which tally up pretty well with what I've experienced so far.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Dj3zNr4mIhoOTPHeHI_8Bco8ZOnT305tN6XYhwQpDu3V5zFfdfcUB-pgiKoC9QdCLiYgY9QMzsNJHWnrgH-d-SP4jHVt__dV4-tnMltzcky9IsWtDA1UeUEC-kCYV79vpOKDO7r2BSQ/s1600/DSC_0186.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #888888; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: initial;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Dj3zNr4mIhoOTPHeHI_8Bco8ZOnT305tN6XYhwQpDu3V5zFfdfcUB-pgiKoC9QdCLiYgY9QMzsNJHWnrgH-d-SP4jHVt__dV4-tnMltzcky9IsWtDA1UeUEC-kCYV79vpOKDO7r2BSQ/s400/DSC_0186.JPG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you might expect to see through the 20mm lens.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you might expect to see through the 12.5mm. (Just.)</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV6_AScNtY92ah-qOtW8KXeYYVmKdURdOokUjk0m0Qm3PXtPJOal1zEe9fzzfU5BBVm-au-719xHmNfHwLoBdhxhyLDgPhDgXeOQfkwoXi7ZjGTZIgUkx88TzjvqKV1JpNJ6vgiUfM4SU/s1600/IMG_2131.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #888888; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: initial;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV6_AScNtY92ah-qOtW8KXeYYVmKdURdOokUjk0m0Qm3PXtPJOal1zEe9fzzfU5BBVm-au-719xHmNfHwLoBdhxhyLDgPhDgXeOQfkwoXi7ZjGTZIgUkx88TzjvqKV1JpNJ6vgiUfM4SU/s400/IMG_2131.JPG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">Taken from my Canon 400D through the viewing lens.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I now can't wait to find the other planets in the sky with this thing. For fifty quid it really is a great little device for getting to grips with astronomy and making sure it is something which you will enjoy for a longer period of time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So in conclusion:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cons: </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Stability can be a bit of a nuisance and a lot of the time by the time you've got it in view, focused and its stopped wobbling its time to re-adjust again. </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its only enough to get you interested! Its brilliant for me as I feel like a kid again using this but once I've exhausted the local planets I do feel that maybe this will have passed its usefulness. I would be tempted to say this would make a good 'toy' but I know as a child I'd have been disappointed with the detail you can pick up on anything other than the moon. As an adult you obviously have more realistic expectations about the devices abilities.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pros: </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cheap (at least when on offer) introduction to astronomy.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easy to set up, simple point and focus, no hassle.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Light and small enough to transport if need be.</span></li>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As a side note, if you are wondering whether to get one I think you'd be best looking on Ebay for a second hand one as these no doubt will only serve folk for a short time before they progress onto something a little more manly or get bored. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">If you want a program to use on your computer there are a few around but I find that Celestia is a brilliant one as it not only shows the solar system in its current state but also allows you to travel to distant stars and investigate what they are like. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">You can get a free download here:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1549601356" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: initial;"><br /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><a href="http://download.cnet.com/Celestia/3000-2054_4-10064567.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: initial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://download.cnet.com/Celestia/3000-2054_4-10064567.html</span></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Or for a really helpful program to give you some bearings try Stellarium which you can download here: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/ </a></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Failing that, if you have a smartphone look up Google Sky. Its a free app which shows you what you are seeing in the night sky. Problem can be that it doesn't really understand exactly where you are pointing it but if you work off of landmarks in the sky that you know you shouldn't have any issue.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-72211469595132714992013-01-07T05:36:00.002-08:002013-01-07T05:45:29.072-08:00Sevylor Canyon Review<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So for many months I had considered buying myself a cheap Sevylor inflatable to prat around on and I finally went balls-deep and got a Canyon from 'Go Outdoors' as it was going for the same price as the Tahiti (which at least looks like a less quality product.) The Canyon however has had many bad reviews in the past owing to poor manufacturing with many customers reporting that the seams leaked and let in quite a substantial amount of water into the craft. This is however in contrast with a lot of comments made saying that many people have had no problems whatsoever. Regardless, I can't help but feel that this was the reason for this particular model going for practically half price, but I decided I'd take a gamble and if not I'd take it back if it really wasn't any good and get the cheaper (and long-lasting) Tahiti.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; clear: right; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdfrNDLvj5_ZvABbYSHyjX1nZvhGmogOKjWKkH3aWlA-z3ATIAiV8I3EK8KfO-hf5psfwcZU7BHhpKtcXR2eB66boEqv-m0Hv4GiyQQli3NpJbDIrlLmx4MRuEXly28Ohyphenhyphen4shwYjAQa4/s1600/CanyonSC320_D2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: initial;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdfrNDLvj5_ZvABbYSHyjX1nZvhGmogOKjWKkH3aWlA-z3ATIAiV8I3EK8KfO-hf5psfwcZU7BHhpKtcXR2eB66boEqv-m0Hv4GiyQQli3NpJbDIrlLmx4MRuEXly28Ohyphenhyphen4shwYjAQa4/s400/CanyonSC320_D2.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As someone who hasn't been on a kayak since a primary school trip, I would hasten to add that I'm probably not the best person to be conducting a review, but if like me you are a complete noob then you may benefit from hearing from my experiences (and better still learn from them.)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />After buying the boat and getting the accessories I was rather keen to try it out on the water so off I went to test it at the lake in Hatfield Forest. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The first thing I would say about the canyon as you take it out of the boot and carry it a fair distance for the first time is that it is actually rather heavy considering it is more or less a pool toy with a nylon cover. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Next thing to consider is the pressure valve which you get free with the boat. I've seen other Sevylor models that feature a really clever inbuilt gauge with a simple Min-Max window, but the one supplied with the Canyon is like an old school clock gauge. Simply put, I couldn't work out how to get it to read the pressure properly so I did the best I could at guesstimating the right kind of pressure. Not the best start, oh but it gets worse and hilarity ensued! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">With it pumped up I lowered myself into the craft smiling like a loon and got those paddles into the water. The first thing you notice with the standard Sevylor paddles is that they are very short and this ends up problematic (particularily in December when the waters cold and you are wearing a pair of desert-combat trousers) because your legs and lap get soaking wet. I had read this in other reviews from different inflatables from Sevylor but I thought those people who were complaining were just a load of whinging tarts. Guess I'm now one of them. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I did notice that it does sway with each stroke of the paddle quite a lot, whether this was because I was sitting far back against the back of the boat I'm unsure, but my journey unfortunately never afforded me much time to play about with different seating positions. I would assume that with a bit of weight in the front (perhaps a few backpacks or something) it would track and hold its heading a little better.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So, ignoring my legs getting a little wet I pressed on with the maiden voyage, pushing out into the middle of the lake where it all suddenly became a little...choppy.With a momentary lapse in concentration to fiddle with my digital camera to try and get some video footage for this review I suddenly realised that the wind was substantial enough to push me way back into some reeds from whence I could never hope to escape. I became aware that my paddles were now being used as barge poles against very shallow water and I was trying to prevent a puncture from the remnants of dead trees around me. To make matters worse I also had a National Trust person shouting at me from the other side of the lake to stop. (To be fair I didn't actually think it would have been a big deal as they allow rowing boats on the lake during the summer.)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Realising that there was no hope of returning to the spot where I started I had to face the fact that I was going to have to get wet feet and pull the boat in to land from across the reeds. This meant getting wet and freezing cold feet but I could deal with that. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Next issue was deflating in a rush trying desperately to get all the air out so that I could pack up and leg it before these park ranger could show their faces. I obviously did something very wrong because for the life of me I could not get the last bits of air out of the chambers and certainly could not fit it back inside the now minute looking bag which it comes in. Someone really needs to invent a compression sack for these things.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Next thing I know, the park ranger turns up to tell me that having your own boats on the lake was prohibited and that it is a danger to wildlife. Well, as much as I love wildlife the simple fact is that that reason is bullshit.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Throughout the summer they have rowing boats (which you pay an external company to use) on the lake and they allow fishing throughout the year which is a big risk to many animals if any fishermen leave their fishing line or lead shots laying around. When I asked about the rowing boats I was told they were 'licenced', which means that they only allow it if the National Trust can make a buck out of it. Not like I have been a paying member of the National Trust for years or anything. Not that I'm bitter or anything. In any case after refusing to give my name to the guy I was left alone to carry on my grueling half-mile walk back to the car.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Its really difficult to walk in sodden skateboarding trainers on slippery mud whilst dragging a heavy inflatable boat. Yes as bad as it sounds, I dragged that boat back a long way across grass, mud and even woodland floor and miraculously there is no puncture. If nothing else I'm really impressed with the durability of these boats, I was really expecting to have to do a repair after dragging it across twigs and thorns (cringing the whole way) but having got home with it and pumped it back up it has seemed to have survived well.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So, final conclusion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shit paddles, stay away from the crappy official Sevylor ones and try and source some longer ones from somewhere.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shit in any wind. There is a reason all those Sevylor product's photos are taken in pristine lagoons. Unless you are two up and have the stamina to fight the wind all day then wait for a lazy summers day. I just consider myself lucky that I didn't try this out in the sea first of all like I was going to originally! In all fairness I should have foreseen the limitations and realised the wind was too much for an inflatable.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite being an inflatable it's actually quite heavy. Not extremely heavy but I did have the intention of packing this into a Bergan to take this on the train with the rest of my gear on top but sadly this doesn't look very realistic.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sadly the pressure gauge on this model lets it down from the other products which feature the simple and easy to read internal windows which are held on the bladders. If you are thinking of buying one of these then I would look at getting a pump which has a pressure gauge inbuilt into it, it will save you a lot of hassle in the long run. I would say that the deflation on these is a bastard but this is more than likely my fault for trying to rush around.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the wind it did seem very stable, at one point I was leaning right over to pull myself into land and I was quite surprised it didn't tip.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-48760414187533745932013-01-06T09:53:00.000-08:002013-01-06T09:56:48.698-08:00Terrifying 22LR Assault Weapons<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think by now if you had any sense whatsoever you'd realise that the vast majority of tabloid journalism was full of shit, but sometimes the odd story comes through which is impossible to simply pass off as being entertainment for spastics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings where twenty-six people were killed, most of them children, 'The Sun' newspaper in the UK has written an 'investigative' piece on so called 'assault' weapons which are available to purchase in this country. So bad is their article that I just felt I needed to post this to prove how ridiculous it really was. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"A Welsh-based firm is advertising a Ruger SR-22 semi-automatic as a “clone” of an AR-15, the gun loner Adam Lanza used to kill 26 people."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do they look at all similar? No.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The top one is quite clearly a .22 rifle with a tactical aesthetic for a gimmick. The bottom one is clearly the real deal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12px;">Wow, must have been a very slow news day because you can go on any firearms website and</span><br /><span style="line-height: 12px;">find these within a few seconds. </span><br /><span style="line-height: 12px;">So what is the reason for this article? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12px;">Just more hysterical shit given to us by Murdoch's corporation to make us go running to the </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12px;"> elsewhere in the world the UK looks for even more of an excuse to restrict gun ownership. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12px;">Restricting weapons seldom helps, the criminal will simply find another way of killing and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12px;">someone who is intent on killing indiscriminately will gain access to a firearm somehow.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12px;">The BASC (</span><a href="http://www.basc.org.uk/" id="ctl00_main_organicResults_results_ctl00_title" style="border: none; color: #53008c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #53008c;">The </span><span style="border: none; color: #53008c; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">British Association for Shooting and Conservation</span></a>) have already logged a complaint with the press complaints commission over The Suns misleading article as have many other shooters but its unlikely to have any real luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile the UK's ever increasing anti-gun restrictions seems to be going mental. The Scottish Government is now considering licencing for airguns with the banning of backyard plinking apparently justified by the death of a toddler in 2005. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm getting so fed up with this countries decent into a dystopian nightmare that I've given up worrying. When this Government finally decides its time to take complete control the people here aren't even intelligent enough to want to resist let alone have the balls to do it. They are all already used to what Nanny says being best. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-51779091991897677102013-01-06T05:41:00.002-08:002013-01-21T14:29:43.879-08:00Health Fascism: Nanny Knows Best<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These days it seems that you can't even enjoy a cheeseburger if the Government doesn't agree. The latest news reports coming from the UK Government regarding obesity and health in general are nothing short than facism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the third of January the BBC ran this report:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essentially the Government wants to reduce benefits of anyone who is both on the dole and obese. However this rather over-simplified idea doesn't go into details of the cause of obesity and also doesn't explain how fat you have to be before you are believed to be obese. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is somewhat concerning as it is already known that the drinking 'units' in the UK are actually plucked out of the ether at random. There was an article in the Sunday Times after Christmas which went into this at great length and was written by one of the members who drafted the advice which was later passed onto Government to be enacted as a rule. Fact of the matter is that if the Government decides how fat fat is, then they could presumerably stop benefits for half of the population if they wanted. This is just another way of cutting benefits with some psudo-intellectual backing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course alcohol is different and I would assume it has more to do with taxation and preventing anti-social behavior than it has with any form of health concern in most cases. For instance, I fail to see how I'm labelled a binge drinker for drinking six pints when normally I can go months without touching any tipple whatsoever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a short article which gives some details about the alcohol units and how it was a load of crap:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course I'm sure many of these nobs in office who actually think up these schemes realise that half the reason why many people on benefits <i>are </i>obese in the first place is because half the time it is much cheaper to buy unhealthy pre-packed meals than it is to buy fresh ingredients and make something healthy from scratch. Perhaps therefore, Mr.Cameron, you ought to offer some form of fruit and veg food stamp which invariably would be better and cheaper in the long run than any of the other bizzare ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there was this wonderful news:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a nut shell, the Labour party (maybe they should be renamed the Mary Poppins Party) want to legislate how much fat, sugar and salt is in our food. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In two words: Fuck off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the failings of common sense and general intelligence in todays society, Im pretty sure that we can still look after ourselves when it comes to choosing what we eat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, even when you <i>can</i> afford to buy all fresh ingredients, it seems that the health nazi's will still come after you.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9750464/Jamie-and-Nigellas-meals-unhealthy.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9750464/Jamie-and-Nigellas-meals-unhealthy.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celebrity chefs have being slated for having recipes which are more 'unhealthy' than microwaveable meals. Oh, but it goes further.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some idiots actually want 'unhealthy' recipes only shown after the 9pm watershed, as though it were as offensive as thai ladyboy porn. As hilarious as it may seem for the rest of us, unfortuantely its these kind of idiots without a ounce of common sense or sense of humour who run the world these days. </span><br />
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<a href="http://virilemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Lucy-Pinder-Lynx-Banned-Ad-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://virilemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Lucy-Pinder-Lynx-Banned-Ad-02.jpg" width="258" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main point is missed time and time again: You can eat whatever you want so long as you have a well balanced diet in general and actually have a use for the calories. Calories are made out to be bad thing thats out to make us fat. Its wrong. Calories are what fuel us. The average consumption of calories should be around 2500 for an adult male but that goes up and down according to how much manual work that they do in a day. Saturated fats and salt are the ones to be concerned about, but even then, so long as you lead a generally healthy life style and eat enough vegetables too, there is no problem!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It vexates me to see so much crap given to us as half-truths being taken as gospel by the idiots!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">End of the day: Eat what you want. Exercise. Vary what you eat. End of.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-130706451534032342012-12-10T15:12:00.003-08:002012-12-10T15:13:12.261-08:00Computer Games Sales Dip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The BBC is reporting that sales in console games has not met its November targets as reported here: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Its hardly surprising when you consider just how bad the game releases have been.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Call of Duty Modern Black Warfare IV. Same old shit. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assassins Creed III. Storyline getting pretty tedious by now.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Halo 4. Reprocessed Halo Reach with excessively ridiculous storyline.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Until game developers actually start producing some originality again they aren't going to secure record profits. The gravy-train of simply copying whatever made the most amount of money last time doesn't work in the long-term. Save your money kids!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-39175441977652734292012-12-10T14:25:00.002-08:002012-12-10T14:26:10.063-08:00Falling Guy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sometimes you get those news stories which seem so random that they just can't possibly be true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> An Angolan guy who it seems was trying to enter the UK as an illegal immigrant fell to his death from a passenger plane near London's main airport at Heathrow. No sympathy here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Strangely, its not the first time this has happened, and it seems its a bit of a well-known gutsy trick which involves holding onto the undercarriage at take-off and remaining there in the freezing, unpressurized conditions until touch down.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/mans-body-found-in-undercarriage-of-nigerian-plane/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/mans-body-found-in-undercarriage-of-nigerian-plane/ </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/09/romanian-stowaway-vienna-heathrow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/09/romanian-stowaway-vienna-heathrow</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Rather them than me...
The only people I feel sorry for are the poor bastards who woke up like every other day, went out their doors and found a body splattered on the ground. I just hope no kids saw it.
Sheer randomness.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So in the past few weeks there has been a number of announcements (and an apparent hoax) coming from the investigation of Mars from the new rover that arrived there earlier this year. In any case, it would seem that NASA is excited to tell us some important findings which will 'be something for this history books' but understandably is also reservedly waiting to confirm their findings before releasing these findings to the public. Its an exciting time!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At this point we have absolutely no idea what exactly that finding may be, but being human its difficult not to speculate. My suspicion (and hope) is that they have found a fossilized remnant of extinct life on mars. Why do I suspect this?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well, two reasons. The first is that NASA has recently given the first evidence for liquid water having existed on the planets surface in Mars' ancient history. These pebbles would have been worn down by the same sort of weathering that we have here on Earth and could well have harbored life long ago. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The second reason for suspecting this lies with one of the older rovers which has been on Mars since 2004. They suspect that the area that Opportunity has been driving over the past few weeks is actually made of old clay. Clay of course requires vast amounts of water to change the chemical composition of various rocks and minerals, but what is more important is that this water has to be of a neutral Ph level. This of course is also the same 'Goldilocks' requirement for life as we know it to live comfortably.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaking of ethical and philosophical conundrums. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mars-one.com/en/">http://mars-one.com/en/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Mars One project is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to put a base on Mars within the next few decades, but there is a tiny issue to do with a one-way-flight that makes the proposition a bit of an issue. Personally, I don't see a problem with having a crew of people go to their deaths having had the experience of a life-time, especially if you could source a crew with medical issues which would prove fatal within a decade anyway. There would in my opinion have to be extremely vigorous psychological testing of individuals to make sure that they could deal with the knowledge that they would die never stepping foot on their home planet again. I personally couldn't do that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I also have reservations that once the honeymoon period of landing on another planet is over it could get incredibly boring. There is only so much one can stare at barren rock and take soil samples!</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264003180989549681.post-88666110341915011252012-12-04T12:43:00.000-08:002012-12-04T13:37:02.346-08:00UN Internet Treaty<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWst7sgsOBb3tCLEbpYfyZB_PIfCXmnuvlA5vpzms_D9oitvL3nbAxnwihTr0mGGylI8H_imXHaPbHtkJhaMGGUBVZUd49q6mEyOOY4xADJiyvOkNIYZcswCAzpifvaeg8qtzPj_eU5-N/s1600/Computer_Whiz.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWst7sgsOBb3tCLEbpYfyZB_PIfCXmnuvlA5vpzms_D9oitvL3nbAxnwihTr0mGGylI8H_imXHaPbHtkJhaMGGUBVZUd49q6mEyOOY4xADJiyvOkNIYZcswCAzpifvaeg8qtzPj_eU5-N/s200/Computer_Whiz.png" width="200" /></a>It seems the UN is getting busier and busier these days, if they aren't trying to scaremonger the public into paying worldwide taxes directly to themselves or supporting the formation of world financial institution they are trying to tinker with democracy, liberty and national sovereignty.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20575844">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20575844</a><br />
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It seems the internet is getting a tough-ride lately what with SOPA and other similar proposals which would make it illegal to post links to anything, anywhere on the internet and the rather unnerving sway towards the dystopian nightmare where all of our opinions and messages are stored to be viewed by any political agency and misconstrued or taken out of context in order to secure tedious convictions. <br />
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Then of course despite the Copyright Acts not going through, ISP's are to begin storing peoples access to copyrighted material and making threats against anyone who does. <br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165004/Illegal-downloading-Families-illegally-download-music-movies-online-face-court-action-copyright-theft.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165004/Illegal-downloading-Families-illegally-download-music-movies-online-face-court-action-copyright-theft.html</a><br />
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Apparently under the new guidelines the entertainment companies will be able to accuse anyone of copyright infringement without any evidence at all - and individuals will be required to pay to prove that they are innocent. This shit goes against everything anyone has ever stood for in a free and democratic society. Just another example of our age-old common law that is being trod on more and more each year all in the interests of mass-corporation and corrupt Government.<br />
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Returning to the original point with the UN for a moment however, it is clear that the UN has some vested interest in using the internet as a platform to springboard their own schemes. The ITU (the telecommunications agency which works on behalf of the UN) said the following...<br />
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<em>"The brutal truth is that the internet remains largely [the] rich world's
privilege, " said Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the UN's International
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<em>"ITU wants to change that."</em><br />
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Ok. So why is the UN worrying about supplying the internet to people who still despite billions of spending still do not have access to clean drinking water and food? What good is a PC if you have no electricity outlet? Something doesn't make sense. Thus, read behind the lines, this has apsolutely nothing to do with helping the worlds poorest (yet again , UN) but about controlling the information that they have access to. <br />
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Be aware. Read up on all you can now while you still can. Support the free internet, without it we are dangerously close to a irreversible world dictatorship (and this is not some conspiracy theory - the facts are there for you all to see if you choose to read up and take notice of the signs.) <br />
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