.....does this make me an enemy of the state.......
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March 4, 2010
The Peace here was brief. My local battles pale completely now that ‘Free Speech’ is threatened within this quiet backwater called Australia.
‘Staunch’ is a jail word, a gang word, a faction word. It’s an ‘Honour amongst thieves.’ word. Nothing to do with right or wrong and everything to do with.... ‘Stand by your man.’ regardless of what your man has done.
The very last thing it has to do with is ethical behaviour and yet I hear our Prime Minister use the word when describing ‘our’ relationship with Israel ..... “We are a staunch ally of Israel.”
Our Prime Minister is no fool. He speaks clearly with an evident command of the English language. Perhaps he thinks in terms of ‘through thick and thin.’ which is a glossy way of concealing
‘ through right and wrong.’
‘Staunch’ may be a useful survival technique in a grace and favour global situation but it’s also a sure fire way of alienating those of us who aren’t staunch.
My friend ceases to be my friend if his words and deeds confirm him as a bully, a liar, a creature of no worthwhile character.
www.rense.com has served me well for years as a clearing house of news with views. It is a huge repository of fascinating articles on most subjects under the sun.
Who loses when news is freely available? Those with something they’d rather keep quiet.
It appears that our Prime Minister has decided that rense.com is a hate site and thus it will cease to be available - just like that.
I’m not drawn to rense through hatred of anything or anyone. Have I read articles critical of Israel? Of course I have. I have also educated myself to the point where I know something of the duplicity and downright evil consequences of following or trusting in Zionism.
A peace process with the Palestinians? A nonsense. How can you have peace with a neighbour who continually steals your land. There are plenty of maps which show the land distribution at the founding of Israel and show how that land is now reduced to a couple of puddles which contain the despair of concentration camps by another name.
Israel - the land given by God ..... AND .... taken away by God.... and will remain taken away until that God decides otherwise.
Zionism couldn’t wait for God and thus makes a mockery of any self righteous claim. A truly spiritual Jew - as I’m sure there are many - must be horrified at the arrogance of Israel.
So ... am I filled with hatred? No - but I have to say that I do get a bit more than cross.
I feel the same way about Zimbabwe and have been moved to tears by the wonderful letters of Cathy Buckle which sporadically appear on rense.
I have found out through rense about the Federal Reserve and how it isn’t Federal nor are there Reserves. It doesn’t make sense yet the whole financial system totters along in the hands of private individuals who have no interest in serving the society within which they exist.
Meanwhile our local news is all pictures, footballers and weather.... the weather’s fair enough.... we do get a lot of it.
“Let me know when the demonstration is on!” says my lovely friend when I tell her the news.
I’ll do that.
....passing on the news......
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February 20, 2010
the following article is worth the read and the ride.
Death of the American Empire
America is self-destructing & bringing the rest of the world down with it
by Tanya Cariina Hsu
Global Research, October 23, 2008
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, US President; 1743 - 1826)
America is dying. It is self-destructing and bringing the rest of the world down with it.
Often referred to as a sub-prime mortgage collapse, this obfuscates the real reason. By associating tangible useless failed mortgages, at least something 'real' can be blamed for the carnage. The problem is, this is myth. The magnitude of this fiscal collapse happened because it was all based on hot air.
The banking industry renamed insurance betting guarantees as 'credit default swaps' and risky gambling wagers were called 'derivatives'. Financial managers and banking executives were selling the ultimate con to the entire world, akin to the snake-oil salesmen from the 18th century but this time in suits and ties. And by October 2008 it was a quadrillion-dollar (that's $1,000 trillion) industry that few could understand.
Propped up by false hope, America is now falling like a house of cards.
It all began in the early part of the 20th century. In 1907 J.P. Morgan, a private New York banker, published a rumour that a competing unnamed large bank was about to fail. It was a false charge but customers nonetheless raced to their banks to withdraw their money, in case it was their bank. As they pulled out their funds the banks lost their cash deposits and were forced to call in their loans. People now therefore had to pay back their mortgages to fill the banks with income, going bankrupt in the process. The 1907 panic resulted in a crash that prompted the creation of the Federal Reserve, a private banking cartel with the veneer of an independent government organisation. Effectively, it was a coup by elite bankers in order to control the industry.
When signed into law in 1913, the Federal Reserve would loan and supply the nation's money, but with interest. The more money it was able to print, the more 'income' for itself it generated. By its very nature the Federal Reserve would forever keep producing debt to stay alive. It was able to print America's monetary supply at will, regulating its value. To control valuation however, inflation had to be kept in check.
The Federal Reserve then doubled America's money supply within five years, and in 1920 it called in a mass percentage of loans. Over five thousand banks collapsed overnight. One year later the Federal Reserve again increased the money supply by 62%, but in 1929 it again called the loans back in, en masse. This time, the crash of 1929 caused over sixteen thousand banks to fail and an 89% plunge on the stock market. The private and well-protected banks within the Federal Reserve system were able to snap up the failed banks at pennies on the dollar.
The nation fell into the Great Depression and in April 1933 President Roosevelt issued an executive order that confiscated all gold bullion from the public. Those who refused to turn in their gold would be imprisoned for ten years, and by the end of the year the gold standard was abolished. What had been redeemable for gold became paper 'legal tender', and gold could no longer be exchanged for cash as it had once been.
Later, in 1971, President Nixon removed the dollar from the gold standard altogether, therefore no longer trading at the internationally fixed price of $35. The US dollar was now worth whatever the US decided it was worth because it was 'as good as gold'. It had no standard of measure, and became the universal currency. Treasury bills (short-term notes) and bonds (long-term notes) replaced gold as value, promissory notes of the US government and paid for by the taxpayer. Additionally, because gold was exempt from currency reporting requirements it could not be traced, unlike the fiduciary (i.e. that based upon trust) monetary systems of the West. That was not in America's best interest.
After the Great Depression private banks remained afraid to make home loans, so Roosevelt created Fannie Mae. A state supported mortgage bank, it provided federal funding to finance home mortgages for affordable housing. In 1968 President Johnson privatised Fannie Mae, and in 1970, Freddie Mac was created to compete with Fannie Mae. Both of them bought mortgages from banks and other lenders, and sold them onto new investors.
The post World War II boom had created an America flush with cash and assets. As a military industrial complex, war exponentially profited the US and, unlike any empire in history, it shot to superpower status. But it failed to remember that, historically, whenever empires rose they fell in direct proportion.
Americans could afford all the modern conveniences, exporting its manufactured goods all over the world. After the Vietnam War, the US went into an economic decline. But people were loath to give up their elevated standard of living despite the loss of jobs, and production was increasingly sent overseas. A sense of delusion and entitlement kept Americans on the treadmill of consumer consumption.
In 1987 the US stock market plunged by 22% in one day because of high-risk futures trading, called derivatives, and in 1989 the Savings & Loan crisis resulted in President George H.W. Bush using $142 billion in taxpayer funds to rescue half of the S&L's. To do so, Freddie Mac was given the task of giving sub-prime (below prime-rate) mortgages to low-income families. In 2000, the "irrational exuberance" of the dot-com bubble burst, and 50% of high-tech firms went bankrupt wiping $5 trillion from their over-inflated market values.
After this crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan kept interest rates so low they were less than the rate of inflation. Anyone saving his or her income actually lost money, and the savings rate soon fell into negative territory.
During the 1990s, advertisers went into overdrive, marketing an ever more luxurious lifestyle, all made available with cheap easy credit. Second mortgages became commonplace, and home equity loans were used to pay credit card bills. The more Americans bought, the more they fell into debt. But as long as they had a house their false sense of security remained: their home was their equity, it would always go up in value, and they could always remortgage at lower rates if needed. The financial industry also believed that housing prices would forever climb, but should they ever fall the central bank would cut interest rates so that prices would jump back up. It was, everyone believed, a win-win situation.
Greenspan's rock-bottom interest rates let anyone afford a home. Minimum wage service workers with aspirations to buy a half million-dollar house were able to secure 100% loans, the mortgage lenders fully aware that they would not be able to keep up the payments.
So many people received these sub-prime loans that the investment houses and lenders came up with a new scheme: bundle these virtually worthless home loans and sell them as solid US investments to unsuspecting countries who would not know the difference. American lives of excess and consumer spending never suffered, and were being propped up by foreign nations none the wiser.
It has always been the case that a bank would lend out more than it actually had, because interest payments generated its income. The more the bank loaned, the more interest it collected even with no money in the vault. It was a lucrative industry of giving away money it never had in the first place. Mortgage banks and investment houses even borrowed money on international money markets to fund these 100% plus sub-prime mortgages, and began lending more than ten times their underlying assets.
After 9/11, George Bush told the nation to spend, and during a time of war, that's what the nation did. It borrowed at unprecedented levels so as to not only pay for its war on terror in the Middle East (calculated to cost $4 trillion) but also pay for tax cuts at the very time it should have increased taxes. Bush removed the reserve requirements in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, from 10% to 2.5%. They were free to not only lend even more at bargain basement interest rates, they only needed a fraction of reserves. Soon banks lent thirty times asset value. It was, as one economist put it, an 'orgy of excess'.
It was flagrant overspending during a time of war. At no time in history has a nation gone into conflict without sacrifice, cutbacks, tax increases, and economic conservation.
And there was a growing chance that, just like in 1929, investors would rush to claim their money all at once.
To guarantee, therefore, these high risk mortgages, the same financial houses that sold them then created 'insurance policies' against the sub-prime investments they were selling, marketed as Credit Default Swaps (CDS). But the government must regulate insurance policies, so by calling them CDS they remained totally unregulated. Financial institutions were 'hedging their bets' and selling premiums to protect the junk assets. In other words, the asset that should go up in value could also have a side-bet, just in case, that it might go down. By October 2008, CDS were trading at $62 trillion, more than the stock markets of the whole world combined.
These bets had absolutely no value whatsoever and were not investments. They were just financial instruments called derivatives - high stakes gambling, 'nothing from nothing' - or as Warren Buffet referred to them, 'Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction'. The derivatives trade was 'worth' more than one quadrillion dollars, or larger than the economy of the entire world. (In September 2008 the global Gross Domestic Product was $60 trillion).
Challenged as being illegal in the 1990s, Greenspan legalised the derivatives practise. Soon hedge funds became an entire industry, betting on the derivatives market and gambling as much as they wanted. It was easy because it was money they did not have in the first place. The industry had all the appearances of banks, but the hedge funds, equity funds, and derivatives brokers had no access to government loans in the event of a default. If the owners defaulted, the hedge funds had no money to pay 'from nothing'. Those who had hedged on an asset going up or down would not be able to collect on the winnings or losses.
The market had become the largest industry in the world, and all the financial giants were cashing in: Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, and AIG. But homeowners, long maxed out on their credit, were now beginning to default on their mortgages. Not only were they paying for their house but also all the debt amassed over the years for car, credit card and student loans, medical payments and home equity loans. They had borrowed to pay for groceries and skyrocketing health insurance premiums to keep up with their bigger houses and cars; they refinanced the debt they had for lower rates that soon ballooned. The average American owed 25% of their annual income to credit card debts alone.
In 2008, housing prices began to slide precipitously downwards and mortgages were suddenly losing value. Manufacturing orders were down 4.5% by September, inventories began to pile up, unemployment was soaring and average house foreclosures had increased by 121% and up to 200% in California.
The financial giants had to stop trading these mortgage-backed securities, as now their losses would have to be visibly accounted for. Investors began withdrawing their funds. Bear Stearns, heavily specialised in home loan portfolios, was the first to go in March.
Just as they had done in the 20th century, JP Morgan swooped in and picked up Bear Stearns for a pittance. One year prior Bear Stearns shares traded at $159 but JP Morgan was able to buy in and take over at $2 a share. In September, Washington Mutual collapsed, the largest bank failure in history. JP Morgan again came in and paid $1.9 billion for assets valued at $176 billion. It was a fire sale.
Relatively quietly over the summer Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the publicly traded companies responsible for 80% of the home mortgage loans, lost almost 90% of their value for the year. Together they were responsible for half the outstanding loan amounts but were now in debt $80 to every $1 in capital reserves.
To guarantee they would stay alive, the Federal Reserve stepped in and took over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. On September 7th 2008 they were put into "conservatorship": known as nationalisation to the rest of the world, but Americans have difficulty with the idea of any government run industry that required taxpayer increases.
What the government was really doing was handing out an unlimited line of credit. Done by the Federal Reserve and not US Treasury, it was able to bypass Congressional approval. The Treasury Department then auctioned off Treasury bills to raise money for the Federal Reserve's own use, but nonetheless the taxpayer would be funding the rescue. The bankers had bled tens of billions from the system by hedging and derivative gambling, and triggered the portfolio inter-bank lending freeze, which then seized up and crashed.
The takeover was presented as a government funded bailout of an arbitrary $700 billion, which does nothing to solve the problem. No economists were asked to present their views to Congress, and the loan only perpetuates the myth that the banking system is not really dead.
In reality, the damage will not be $700 billion but closer to $5 trillion, the value of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae's mortgages. It was nothing less than a bailout of the quadrillion dollar derivatives industry which otherwise faced payouts of over a trillion dollars on CDS mortgage-backed securities they had sold. It was necessary, said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, to save the country from a "housing correction". But, he added, the $700 billion taxpayer funded takeover would not prevent other banks from collapsing, in turn causing a stock market crash.
In other words Paulson was blackmailing Congress in order to lead a coup by the banking elite under the false guise of necessary legislation to stop the dyke from flooding. It merely shifted wealth from one class to another, as it had done almost a century prior. No sooner were the words were out of Paulson's mouth before other financial institutions began imploding, and with them the disintegration of the global financial system - much modelled after the lauded system of American banking.
In September the Federal Reserve, its line of credit assured, then bought the world largest insurance company, AIG, for $85 billion for an 80% stake. AIG was the largest seller of CDS, but now that it was in the position of having to pay out, from collateral it did not have, it was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
In October the entire country of Iceland went bankrupt, having bought American worthless sub-prime mortgages as investments. European banks began exploding, all wanting to cash in concurrently on their inflated US stocks to pay off the low interest rate debts before rates climbed higher. The year before the signs had been evident, when the largest US mortgage lender Countrywide fell. Soon after, the largest lender in the UK, Northern Rock, went under - London long having copied Wall Street creative financing. Japan and Korea's auto manufacturing nosedived by 37%, global economies contracting. Pakistan is on the edge of collapse too, with real reserves at $3 billion - enough to only buy a month's supply of food and oil and attempting to stall payments to Saudi Arabia for the 100,000 barrels of oil per day it provides to the country. Under President Musharraf, who left office in the nick of time, Pakistan's currency lost 25% of its value, its inflation running at 25%.
Meanwhile energy costs had soared, with oil reaching a peak of almost $150 per barrel in the summer. The costs were immediately passed on to the already spent homeowner, in rising heating and fuel, transport and manufacturing costs. Yet 30% of the cost of a barrel of oil was based upon Wall Street speculators, climbing to 60% as a speculative fear factor during the summer months. As soon as the financial crisis hit, suddenly oil prices slid down, slicing oil costs to $61 from a high of $147 in June and proving that the 60% speculation factor was far more accurate. This sudden decline also revealed OPEC's lack of control over spiralling prices during the past few years, almost squarely laid on the shoulders of Saudi Arabia alone. When OPEC, in September, sought to maintain higher prices by cutting production, it was Saudi Arabia who voted against such a move at the expense of its own revenue.
Europe then decided that no more would it be ruined by the excess of America. 'Olde Europe' may have had enough of being dictated to by the US, who refused to compromise on loans lent to their own broken nations after WWII. On October the 13th, the once divided EU nations unilaterally agreed to an emergency rescue plan totaling $2.3 trillion. It was more than three times greater than the US package for a catastrophe America alone had created.
By mid October, the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 had erased all the gains they made over the previous decade. Greenspan's pyramid scheme of easy money from nothing resulted in a massive overextension of credit, inflated housing prices, and incredible stock valuations, achieved because investors would never withdraw their money all at once. But now it was crashing at break-neck speed and no solution in sight. President Bush said that people ought not to worry at all because "America is the most attractive destination for investors around the globe."
Those who will hurt the most are the very men and women who grew the country after WWII, and saved their pensions for retirement due now. They had built the country during the war production years, making its weapons and arms for global conflict. During the Cold War the USSR was the ever-present enemy and thus the military industrial complex continued to grow. Only when there is a war does America profit.
Russia will not tolerate a new cold war build-up of ballistic missiles. And the Middle East has seen its historical ally turn into its worst nightmare, be it militarily or economically. No longer will these nations continue to support the dollar as the world's currency. The world's economy is no longer America's to control and the US is now indebted to the rest of the world. No more will the US be able to demand its largest Middle Eastern oil supplier open up its banking books so as to be transparent and free from corruption and terrorist connections lest there be consequences - the biggest act of criminal corruption in history has just been perpetrated by the United States.
It was the best con game in town: get paid well for selling vast amounts of risk, fail, and then have governments fix the problem at the expense of the taxpayers who never saw a penny of shared wealth to begin with.
There is no easy solution to this crisis, its effects multiplying like an infectious disease.
Ironically, least affected by the crisis are Islamic banks.
They have largely been immune to the collapse because Islamic banking prohibits the acquisition of wealth via gambling (or alcohol, tobacco, pornography, or stocks in armaments companies), and forbids the buying and selling of a debt as well as usury. Additionally, Shari'ah banking laws forbid investing in any company with debts that exceed thirty percent.
"Islamic banking institutions have not failed per se as they deal in tangible assets and assume the risk" said Dr. Mohammed Ramady, Professor of Economics at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. "Although the Islamic banking sector is also part of the global economy, the impact of direct exposure to sub-prime asset investments has been low" he continued. "The liquidity slowdown has especially affected Dubai, with its heavy international borrowing. The most negative effect has been a loss of confidence in the regional stock markets." Instead, said Dr. Ramady, oil surplus Arab nations are "reconsidering overseas investments in financial assets" and speeding up their own domestic projects.
Eight years ago, in May 2000, Saudi Islamic banker His Highness Dr. Nayef bin Fawaaz ibn Sha'alan publicly gave a series of economic lectures in Gulf states. At the time his research showed that Arab investments in the US, to the tune of $1.5 trillion, were effectively being held hostage and he recommended they be pulled out and reinvested in the tangibles of the Arab and Islamic markets. "Not in stocks however because the stock market could be manipulated remotely, as we have seen in the last couple of years in the Arab market where trillions of dollars evaporated" he said.
He warned then that it was a certainty that the US economic system was on the verge of collapse because of its cumulative debts, ever-increasing deficit and the interest on that debt. "When the debts and deficits come due, they just issue new Treasury bonds to cover the old bonds due, with their interest and the new deficit too." The cycle cannot be stopped or the debt cancelled because the US would no longer be able to borrow. The consequence of relieving this cycle would be a total collapse of their economic system as opposed to the partial, albeit massive, crash of 2008.
"Islamic banking", said Dr. Al-Sha'alan, "always protects the individuals' wealth while putting a cap on selfishness and greed. It has the best of capitalism - filtering out its negatives - and the best of socialism - filtering out its negatives too." Both systems inevitably had to fail. Additionally, Europe and Japan did not need to be held accountable and indebted to America anymore for protection against the Soviets.
"The essential difference between the Islamic economic system and the capitalist system", he continued "is that in Islam wealth belongs to God - the individual being only its manager. It is a means, not a goal. In capitalism, it is the reverse: money belongs to the individual, and is a goal in and of itself. In America especially, money is worshipped like God."
In sum, the crash of the entire global economic system is a result of America's fiscal arrogance based upon one set of rules for itself and another for the rest of the world. Its increased creative financing deluded its people into a false sense of security, and now looks like the failure of capitalism altogether.
The whole exercise in democracy by force against Arab Muslim nations has almost bankrupted the US. The Cold War is over and the US has nothing to offer: no exports, no production, few natural resources, and no service sector economy.
The very markets that resisted US economic policies the most, having curbed foreign direct investments into America, are those who will fare best and come out ahead.
But not before having paid a very high price.
Tanya Cariina Hsu is a political researcher and analyst focusing on Saudi Arabian and US relations. One of the contributors to recent written testimony on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the US Congressional Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of FOCA (Friends of Charities Association) in its Hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., her analysis has been published and critically acclaimed throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East.
The first to break the barrier against public discussion of the Israeli influence upon US foreign policy decision making, in Capitol Hill's "A Clean Break" Symposium in Washington D.C. in 2004, as the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy (IRmep) Director of Development and Senior Research Analyst, Ms. Hsu remains an International Fellow with the Institute.
Born in London, she re-located to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2005 and is currently completing a book on US policy towards Saudi Arabia.
Global Research Articles by Tanya Cariina Hsu
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... anti what? ......
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February 15, 2010
If you were to start at the beginning of my ‘news’, a year or two back, you’d see a growing unease over various subject matter - Israel and Zionism being the major cause of this unease.
Along the way, in education, you cannot fail to come across ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’.
This bit of literature was held to be a forgery when it had its day in court. ‘Forgery’ is an unfortunate choice of words as it implies an original which is copied. This is the process of publishing - you copy an original.
Perhaps it was a deliberate choice of words although ‘fraud’ would have been more appropriate if, in fact, it is an ‘anti-Semitic’ tirade of lies.
I’ve copied from
www.rense.com an article which expands upon this subject.
Thanks to the author.
The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion
World Conquest Through World Government
Translated from the Russian of
Sergyei A. Nilus by Victor E. Marsden
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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion has become a best seller among political books published this century.
Having been translated into every language since it was first brought to light in 1919 and having reached over a million sales in the English edition alone, this remarkable set of documents is in greater demand than ever today.
The years have shown that every great world event has followed the course laid down by the secret authors of this book. Wars, slumps, revolutions, the rise in the cost of living and chronic unrest are all foretold as leading to the ultimate goal of World Conquest through the "back-door" means of first establishing World Government "by consent."
The thoughtful reader must reject the view, once held by some people, that the Protocols originated as an imaginative work of miraculous accuracy. The only rational view seems to be that the Protocols must be taken on their face value as a detailed plan of action, aiming at nothing other than the goal they themselves set forth. This goal is a World State which the nations are being urged by their leaders to accept as "the only alternative to annihilation." This is the choice which our politicians are offering us today.
The eighty-first impression of the Marsden translation was presented under the new title World Conquest through World Government because the publishers believed that the ultimate conquest foretold in this terrible plan is nearing its final stages.
FAMOUS VIEWS ON THE PROTOCOLS
Uncanny Note Of Prophecy
"Whence come this uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in part fulfilled, in parts far gone in the way of fulfillment? Have we been struggling these tragic years to ... extirpate the secret organization of German world dominion only to find underneath it, another, more dangerous because more secret? Have we ... escaped a Pax Germanica only to fall into a Pax Judaeica?"
-The Times, London, May 8th, 1920
Are They A Forgery?
"A document forged to defame a people."
-The American Hebrew
"A clumsy forgery."
-Lucien Wolf in The Spectator, London, June 12th, 1920
"Upon that much-vexed subject the authenticity of ... The Protocols of Zion we shall not enter, except to say that if the document is a forgery, as alleged, then it is one of the most remarkable in the history of literature."
-The Spectator, London, October 16th, 1920
"Those who feel libeled by the Protocols have the most obvious remedy in the world; all they have to do is to ruse and denounce the policy of them, instead of denying the authorship ... But when you come to read them how can any reasonable man deny the truth of what is contained in them??"
-Norman Jaques, M.P., in Canadian House of Commons, July 9th, 1943
"On the one hand, the authenticity of this document cannot be proved; on the other hand, the efforts made by some writers, principally Jewish, to show it to be a forgery do not carry conviction to many serious minds."
-The Rev. Denny Fahey, C.S.Sp., B.A., D.D., 1939
Too Terribly Real For Fiction
"Whosoever was the mind that conceived them possessed a knowledge of human nature, of history, and of statecraft which is dazzling in its brilliant completeness, and terrible in the objects to which it turns its power. It is too terribly real for fiction, too well sustained for speculation, to deep in its knowledge of the secret springs of life for forgery."
-The Dearborn Independent, July 10th, 1920.
Confirmation From A Jew
"The United Nations is Zionism. It is the super government mentioned many times in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, promulgated between 1897 and 1905."
-Henry Klein, New York, Jewish Lawyer, in Zionism Rules the World, 1948.
They Fit It Now
"The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit it now."
-Henry Ford in the New York World, February 17th, 1921
"In the desires of a terrible and formidable sect, you have only reached the first stages of the plans it has formed for that general Revolution which is to overthrow all thrones, all altars, annihilate all property, efface all law, and end by dissolving all society."
-The Abbe Barruel (1797) writing on the Anti-Christian Conspiracy.
"Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately it is bound to spread in one form or another all over Europe and the whole world, as it is organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality and whose object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things."
-British Government White Paper, Russia No. 1 (1919)
"There is now definite evidence that Bolshevism is an international movement controlled by Jews; communications are passing between the leaders in America, France, Russia and England, with a view to concerted action."
-Directorate of Intelligence, Home Office, Scotland Yard, London, in a Monthly Report to Foreign Embassies, 16th July, 1919.
"This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution [reconstruction] of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing."
-Winston Churchill in Illustrated Sunday Herald, 8th February, 1920.
The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion - Full Text
http://www.churchoftrueisrael.com/protocols/
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What I’ve put forward here is neither Semitic nor anti-Semitic. That type of labelling is as puerile, pathetic and ill- informed as the view held that all Jews - by definition - are somehow ‘bad’ people.
...thunderbolts...
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February 10, 2010
If you 'enjoyed' the movie Zeitgeist then perhaps you'll likewise enjoy the Thunderbolts site.
The DVD they sell echoes Velikovsky and his astounding re-interpretation of recorded history. This introduction to a catastophic history of the solar system weaves myth and legend with folklore, religion plus historical record.
Add the ideas of an electrical Universe and an utterly fascinating subject expands.....I can't recommend their products highly enough.
If the Universe is a constant wonder for you .... this is the latest email they sent me and it's worth browsing the links.
THUNDERBOLTS PROJECT
Update
February 5, 2010
THUNDERBLOG
Special Edition
Excerpts From The Electric Universe, Part 3
Presented by Dave Smith
February 01, 2010
How is it that a tiny comet nucleus can hold a coma sometimes larger than the Sun, against the force of the solar wind? If gravity alone were responsible it would require the nucleus to have a density orders of magnitude higher than any known substance, yet most comets are said to be low-density bodies. Only the Electric Universe offers a coherent answer to this paradox.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/thunderblogs/special_edition.htm
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THUNDERBOLTS PICTURE OF THE DAY
A Galaxy with Its Tail in a Knot
Feb 01, 2010
A new x-ray image of a galaxy in the Abell cluster 3627 reveals a second tail parallel to the first, which was already known. The second tail is fainter but also contains knots. Both tails are surrounded by x-ray point sources.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100201knot.htm
Ballistic Cosmic Rays
Feb 02, 2010
The European Space Agency announces that cosmic rays are caused by supernova shock waves.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100202ballistic.htm
The Interconnected Sun Part One
Feb 03, 2010
The Sun/Earth Connection
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100203interconnected.htm
Tales of Brave Ulysses
Feb 04, 2010
The end of an 18 year mission in polar orbit around the Sun.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100204ulysses.htm
The Interconnected Sun Part Two
Feb 05, 2010
Electric Weather.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100205interconnected2.htm
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THUNDERBOLTS FORUM -- HIGHLIGHTS
"Spotless Sun"
An interesting thread addressing the recent scarcity of sunspots and their function in the electric star theory
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=957
"Earth's Magnetic Pole Moving 64 KM Per Year Towards Russia"
The migration , reversals, and the nature of the magnetic poles of the Earth are reviewed within the context of the Electric Universe
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2799
"Electric Tornadoes - a complete theory at last!"
It has been long known that there is an electromagnetic aspect to tornados, the question is how does that work?
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2083&start=0
"RECOVERED: Electric Universe Papers, etc."
This thread is a valuable repository for links to papers concerning research into plasma cosmology and the Electric Universe
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=43
"Giant Ribbon Discovered at Edge of Solar System"
The IBEX spacecraft is mapping the boundary of the solar system and turning in some surprising results
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2519&start=0
"Using a not-quite-a-space-elevator for power generation"
Could the space elevator concept be reworked and transformed into a Nicola Tesla inspired power plant?
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2931
"Solar flares caused by electromagnetism?"
Many of the enigmatic features of the Sun are easily explained by the Electric Sun model
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2903
"Lightning and Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs)"
This fascinating topic concerns extremely short bursts of gamma radiation rising from the Earth's atmosphere and their association with thunderstorms
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=415&start=0
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....war crimes....
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February 8, 2010
‘Even a small child here understands that life is not like this everywhere.’ ........ words spoken in horror by an American woman in Palestine.
"In his report, Goldstone accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes but singled Israel out for inflicting a "collective punishment" on civilians.
In "Operation Cast Lead," (Dec 24 2008- Jan 21, 2009) Israel killed 1400 Palestinians, 80% of whom were civilians, the majority women and children. Over 5000 more were wounded. 22,000 structures and 280 schools were destroyed. About 200 Factories and 700 Businesses Damaged. 8 hospitals and 26 clinics were destroyed.
This was in retaliation for the death of four Israelis in all of 2008 from Hamas "rockets." (Another four died from rockets during the conflict.)
In January and February 2008 alone, 63 Israelis died in road accidents."
Eustace Mullins, whose name was not familiar to me, died recently. He was a protege of Ezra Pound, whose name is vaguely familiar.
Ezra had T.S. Elliot, Ernest Hemmingway, William Butler Yeats and James Joyce as four proteges all of whom received the Nobel prize for literature.
The fifth protege was Eustace Mullins whom Ezra sent off to investigate the Federal Reserve. This line of research left Eustace effectively ‘in the wilderness’ as far as ‘the powers that be’ were concerned which is why we haven’t heard much about him or his views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEIh4le0dcg&feature=related
There are plenty of other links from the above.
I don't feel very musical but I'm off to practice anyway. I know a lot of my news is neither musical nor uplifting but I'm not feeling very pretty myself.
Oh ... it's stopped raining at long last.
...applauding the puppets .......
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February 6, 2010
What a day at work. All my four clients behaved beautifully and, in their own ways, contributed to the smooth running of the evening. None of them are puppets.
I got eye contact from the autistic man with whom, years ago, you could not use the word ‘No’ without a severe reaction being initiated. He ‘helped’ by realising that another client whose major ‘job’ it is to help around the time of diner with passing the plates and so on, understood that the other had ‘lost the plot’ and passed plates to him. This is major stuff ... this is about empathy.
Played a blues scale during the ‘ads’ throughout ‘Star Wars’ on t.v. much to the delight of the other two men..... both being more enthusiastic about being alive than I am .... and perhaps you.... when ‘down a bit.’
No reason for ‘down’..... apart from life.
And it’s not ‘life’. It’s the hideous abuse of power which ‘the dark side’ insist on displaying.
Most of us wish all mankind ‘well’. A happy life an’ all that.
It’s a bit of a digest to accept that most - if not all - that I have been taught is just ... prevailing wisdom .... subject to change.
This goes for the stars and the ongoing ‘puzzles’ which mainstream science has with ... just about everything. All would be simplified if the understanding that the universe is electric were accepted.
It’s such an obvious ‘fact of life’ intuitively when electricity fires the neurons which power our brains, our minds - wherever that ‘object’ resides. The atom itself has electrons, neutrons and so on. The World manifests electricity both from the sky and upward from Earth. Anyway ... that’s one area in which I’m in glaringly different view than mainstream science allows.
As a child, passionately immersed in science fiction from age ten or so, I walked the aisles and scanned the shelves of our local library scouting out from A to Z for every S.F. book that I could find. I quickly moved from the majesty of Asimov and the Foundation series which spanned five hundred years - but childhood memory extended to millions of years - of galactic empires......... ‘Star wars’ with my ‘more fantastic’ childhood imagination.
I moved to Ray Bradbury and short stories which didn’t involve ‘goodies and baddies’ in space and then further immersed myself in stories where the idea was 'king' and didn’t require a book. For that reason and more, it’s been an unexpected blow that ‘our’ missions to the moon were so short lived. Yes - Mars rovers are very exciting but what happened to elucidate the message from the astronauts returning from the ‘dark’ side of the moon “ Houston - there is a Santa Claus.”
I know, it could have meant anything but Edgar Mitchell, who walked the moon and was in a position to know, had much to say about UFO’s. Doesn’t make the news.
Three days in a row our major, middle brow, daily paper has had a front page which is basically all photo about some poor sod whose life has changed. We don’t get news. People don’t want it and I heard that straight from a very successful T.V. news director thirty years ago.
Radio news, free of commercials, is my major source. The internet gives further variety and deeper commentary.
An Israeli man, sounding young, was giving reason why he had left the army after, glowing with the patriotism of young, had joined up to defend his country and his family.
Military rabbis and an inhuman message is all I can give you of his clarity of thought. It brought home the reality that all of us are human - no more no less. ‘All of us’ includes the guys I work with......who wouldn’t last a week on their own ..... ‘useless eaters’ to those who manifest a hideous agenda which is ‘One World Government’ and the concentration of power in the hands of those who ‘know’ that they are born to rule.......by whatever means.
I get the blues but thank the Universal Divine for our Shakespearian time on stage and the knowledge that THAT Divinity allows for free expression if only to drive home the point that life is uncertain, suffering is inevitable but that’s perhaps the point. Live it as best you can with no thought of reward regardless of the blues.
Keep the faith.
....years end .....
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December 30, 2009
The world gets more like ‘Alice in Wonderland’ than Alice ever anticipated - and she was used to ‘strange.’
It’s the bit of dialogue where Alice is gently chided for not yet understanding that it’s the way of the world for most people to believe a great many contradictory things before breakfast each day. The poor girl had been trying to use her reason, her commonsense and her logic to comprehend the world in which she found herself.
If I were to say to you that I will accept mild criticism if I behave abominably towards my neighbours but that I will not tolerate strong criticism and, further, will consider it a hate crime and prosecute you under a law which I will devise ..... you would rightly consider me mad.
This is Israel’s position as we end a decade where unfortunately - from my perspective - much of the world firmly believe that the world goes back to a literal Adam and Eve and that the world didn’t exist prior to ..... maybe five thousand years ago. Let’s not quibble ... call it ten thousand years. Either way, it’s a very short period in the greater scheme of things. ‘Things’ like Aboriginal cultures which predate the tribes of Israel by aeons.
Never mind, it’s just two contradictory ‘things’ and I haven’t had breakfast.
Global Warming makes intuitive sense to me as it does to millions. Great smokestacks belching poison, Huge forests desecrated, degraded and gone. How can this be ‘good’ and yet have no effect on the air we breath, the water we drink?
I am very grateful to minds behind
www.thunderbolts.info
If you are curious..... I am ... and perhaps you wouldn’t be here if you weren’t.
They, building on the work of people such as Velikovsky, present a literally awesome alternative to the safe steady uneventful history of the entire solar system and of how cataclysmic and relatively recent events have profoundly affected mankind’s ‘Dreamtime.’
And yet these are the proponents of an electrical Universe - an idea and an ‘explanation’ which much of science hasn’t quite caught onto as yet - they suggest that solar weather is playing a greater role in the heating up of all the planets within our system than we had previously thought. We used to think space was a vaccuum.
Belief and knowledge and how different they are.
Fair dinkum. Who needs enemies when we have each other!
Puddling around in three dimensions and it’s easy to conceive how limited two dimensions would be in which to exist. Hooray for the ten or so dimensions which mathematics prove...... I can’t quite wrap my mind around how that might ....shape......but it’s ‘nice’ to know they exist......’Beam me up Scotty.’
I’ve been uncluttering the house, totting up costs and getting rid of things. It’s a relief. In the course of tidying up I investigated the statistics of this site and realised that a goodly percentage of hits were registering as ‘errors - not found.’ Hmm ... the broken links in question were mainly in where you could buy my music .... silly me ... and I only tell it to illustrate how easy it is to be daft. Anyway ... it now all works as it should and it’s a salutary lesson to all musicians. Look after the detail.
It’s been difficult to play music but I went to the Family Hotel tonight and played my allotted three songs, first performer up and - goody goody - Adrian joined me. He plays like Dire Straights and I took the time to give him space which I’m often too ‘nervous’ to do. I think it really is a matter of taking your time. Anyway, that’s the reality of one step at a time and it’s a positive way to end the year. I wish you the same good fortune.
Notwithstanding the doom and gloom which assails from all sides, we, like Alice, understand - when we can remember - that there is another world more real than Wonderland and it is to that finer world that we belong.
..... I’ve got no idea whether that makes sense......but hooray for the Divine purpose whatever it may be.
... I put it on ... I took it off ...
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December 22, 2009
..... and put it back on again...
Yoo hoo ...it’s a Blackbird! My neighbour’s very bright autistic child recognised the description and my sister recognised the call. Perhaps the red beak fades with age to an orange shade of colour. Either way, it’s a fearless little thing and I don’t mind that I’ve lost a few seedlings due to its enthusiasm for disturbing the mulch in search of food.
The ‘Common European Blackbird.’ A bit rude. It could be called The ‘Splendid European Blackbird.’ It’s a ‘Vagrant’ bird according to the ‘Book of Birds.’ Why not a ‘Visitor’ Bird?
What’s in a name? I know a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Leura - the next ‘village’ down the mountains remains a favoured haunt for those who can afford a holiday house and a place in the city.
Katoomba is a working man’s town. Generally speaking, within Leura, the houses are larger, the gardens more established and the infrastructure more organised than here in Katoomba.
So much is about perception and fresh eyes do see differently. My working mans cottage on a quarter acre block is ...perfect. Twenty minutes walk to the shops. It’s a lucky man who has a roof over his head and a garden in which to be. I don’t want or need a palace with all the attendant responsibilities that that would entail. Still have a mortgage and will probably work ‘til I die. Yippee!
I’ve had an early Christmas with the family and will work Christmas day at the Group Home. It will be an easy and pleasant day and one of few where I haven’t travelled hundreds of kilometres around ‘the Day.’
Talking about distance. I have a mental image of a gigantic, slowly rotating mass of flotsam and jetsam, the size of Texas ( whatever that is ) which sits at the meeting point of four ocean currents in the Pacific. It’s composed of plastic and sounds nightmarish in dimension. I only know about this in larger detail due to the publicity surrounding one man’s decision to swim through this six metre deep sludge. Good luck to him.
Gordon Cooper was one of the earlier astronauts in the U.S. Space program and is now on youtube calmly stating the reality of seeing a fleet of hundreds of UFO’s. He’s one of many astronauts who have witnessed at close quarters various UFO’s which aren’t swamp gas, which aren’t hallucination. If the great mass of humanity needed a re-education about the possibility of alien life then the task is done.
It’s strange that the idea of alien life or rather alien intelligence is so ... alien at all.
“They’re only songs.” says a family member in a slightly dismissive way. I know what he means or rather I know where he’s coming from. “ They’re not that good and haven’t received either critical acclaim or monetary success.” is what he means and perhaps he’s ‘right’ but his comment is almost meaningless when stripped back.
I write songs when I have something to say and some internal prompt keeps pushing until the idea is manifested in melody and lyric. This process doesn’t happen often but is an integral part of my existence. I would be diminished if I didn’t treat it with respect.
I’ve taken a cheerfully melancholy courage from people like Charles Fort - a man who, at the turn of the twentieth century, become somewhat obsessed by odd facts like showers of coal from the sky. He started compiling lists of these occurrences which just didn’t fit the established order and thus were reported and then ignored. He published a book named ‘The Book of the Damned’ in 1919. He met with little success and died broke, lonely and disillusioned. He couldn’t know that fifty years later his work would be seen as inspirational by .... me.
What is the difference between an artist whose work is brilliant but who is ignored within his lifetime and the artist whose work is not brilliant but is also ignored within his lifetime? Forget the quality of the work. It’s the life process itself that matters. Both artists have similar experiences. Both worked without encouragement or reward.
Derek Sivers points to Hugh Macleod’s book “Ignore Everybody.”
The very thought strikes a chord - no pun intended. I haven’t read the book but it’s Hugh that suggests “Don’t give up your day job.” This isn’t about lack of belief in oneself but is more about the keeping of ones personal power which automatically diminishes once making a living from ones craft becomes paramount.
I’m flat and need to rouse my spirit. Easier said than done when the Black Dog bites.
The following is courtesy of Glenn Bullock........ thanks Glenn .....
The traditional aspects of the Christmas tree of today come mainly from Germanic and Scandinavian origins. Christmas as we've come to know it is like other Christian festivals, a mixture of traditions brought together from a variety of backgrounds to satisfy all under Rome !
Those various traditions each had their own enlightenment rituals which became symbolized; over time we've forgotten the meaning of the symbols, but like most other hidden knowledge it is right under our noses.
In Finland, the Shamans, and one in particular called Hold Nickar, are known to have worn red suits with white spots to pick the sacred Amanita Muscaria or Fly Agaric mushrooms, which are themselves red with white spots. On returning home from picking, on reindeer sleighs, they had their mushrooms in a sack, and re entered their lodges through the smoke hole in the roof ! Hold Nickar and friends ate those mushrooms to enter the Christ Consciousness, that's how he became Saint Nickar, or Saint Nicholas as we now know him !
The reindeer also ate the mushrooms, which is why they are characterized as flying, although this ties in with other older legends of gods flying the skies at night once a year giving gifts to the worthy.
In German and Norse traditions it was normal to hang the dried Amanitas on the Christmas tree for decoration; but there is another relationship between the Amanita and the Christmas tree in that the Amanita's mycelium (roots) can only grow in the root zone of certain trees; just about anything you could call a Christmas tree is suitable although Birch are also good. That is why we have a decorated Pine or some such tree at Christmas. One of the earliest natural decorations used were dried Amanitas !
One other thing about Pines is the pine cone which represents the Pineal gland which is situated centrally in the brain, and looks just like a little pine cone. It is the activation by the Amanita of the pineal gland, that opens the internal inter-dimensional stargate that allows us to travel as consciousness to other very real dimensions, resulting in what could be considered the enlightenment of the Shaman !
You can often see the Pope dressed in white with a red cape to represent the Amanita Muscaria, or sometimes in all white with a little white cap, to represent the Psilocybin or Liberty Cap magic mushroom. A lot of traditions use entheogens ( teacher drugs) to enter an enlightened state, Christianity is based on entheogen use amongst other enlightenment practices. There is an enormous pine cone on a plinth at the Vatican to represent the pineal gland; Roman Catholicism is in part a mushroom cult that hasn't bothered to tell its members !
When in times gone by a man with flying reindeer, and dressed in red suit with white spots (buttons) entered your lodge, through the smoke hole in the roof, to bring a present from his sack, he was bringing the gift of enlightenment by activation of the pineal gland, which is represented by adding pine cones to the tree's decorations to symbolize that gland, which then hang on the tree alongside the dried mushroom that activates it. The Star on top of the tree represents enlightenment itself !
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Hmm ..... perhaps this is why the local Roman Catholic priest from my childhood removed ‘The Golden Bough’ from our bookshelf.
Still need to rouse myself and will go to the Family Hotel tonight and attempt a few songs.
Cheers - one an’ all.
....and when it rained ....
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December 13, 2009
“Friends may come and friends may go but enemies accumulate.”
Not a cynical take on life. Cynicism is the child of disappointment. No - it’s a realistic appraisal of the way in which relationships change over time. Friends can just drift away with no ill-will involved whereas conflict doesn’t necessarily diminish with distance in time and space.
The doors to the deck are in place. It was a huge effort. The family have come and gone. The celebration didn’t need the doors in order to ensure a beautiful day although ‘leaping through the window’ would certainly have dampened my spirits. I’m very glad that the building work is basically finished and very happy to have family - difficult though those relationships may have been for all of us to maintain over time. It takes continuous effort - which may appear as self evident but has taken many moons for me to understand.
The youngest member of the family turns one year old very soon and alternated between the ‘trembling lip’ and gurgling delight. The weather was kind and biting insects must have emigrated for the day.
The Bluebells and daffodils are memory. The tiger lilies leap from the garden beds in a profusion of orange and black while the Canna lilies - confined to a large bed because they wander - are risen from the tattered remnants of last years growth to stand like a circle of green and bronze spears, the flowering heads like Standards and Pennants, red and yellow and not quite fluttering in the breeze.
Australia is big enough to swallow the British Isles, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, what was Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and all the smaller countries contained by Europe. It still has room to accommodate the same area again and have almost a million square kilometres left over. Cor!
95% of New South Wales is in drought. This is an area perhaps forty times the size of Wales. Today it’s drizzling and cool in the Blue Mountains - a blessing for my winter flowering Polyanthus which were parched and wilting just yesterday. I’ve mentioned previously that Katoomba is a mile high and that, when you’re here you wonder where the mountains are....... “ Further up.” is the short response.
The Blue Mountains are the front doorstep to much more.
The Great Diving Range is a typically laconic Australian description of thousands of kilometres of length and hundreds of kilometres of width of wild bush, cliff and peak and winding deserted roads. Anything could live in these wild places and who would know? This is the land of Min Min lights and other peculiarities. I respond to these brooding distances.
Running like a rumpled blanket along the East coast, sometimes allowing the magnificence of both mountain and sea and, at other places, leaving a hundred kilometres or so of plains and basin between it and the sea.
I’ve been working in millimetres. Woodwork requires straight lines and accuracy, good eyesight and patience. Just as well that my friend Robert has been able to provide all of the above. Perhaps it’s why I now feel the need to lift my eyes and expand my horizon.
Picked up the guitar and played A minor for awhile. Doesn’t sound like much - one chord - but it’s the rhythm which makes it something upon which to build. It's a different rhythm.