RED ALERT

Europe days away from 'apocalyptic' debt crisis

"If the European summit could reach a deal on December 9, its next scheduled meeting, the eurozone will survive. If not, it risks a violent collapse," writes Wolfgang Munchau of the Financial Times (www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d9a299a8-17...). Two years ago, such language would have been spat upon as "doom and gloom fear mongering." Today it is the mathematical reality across the European Union.

The Polish foreign minister said today that what Europe faces is "a crisis of apocalyptic proportions" (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d29da7fc-...) and urged what is essentially more useless debt bailout tactics to try to delay mathematical reality a little while longer.

After the coming debt implosion wreaks economic havoc across the globe, more than a few banksters and money-changers will find themselves objects of oprobium when the full realization of the unprecedented theft and criminality of the global banking elite hits the 99%.

GRASS GREENER

Sheep lawn mowers, and other go-getters

IN this verdant lawn-filled college town, most people keep their lawn mowers tuned up by oiling the motor and sharpening the blades. Eddie Miller keeps his in shape with salt licks and shearing scissors.

Mr. Miller, 23, is the founder of Heritage Lawn Mowing, a company that rents out sheep — yes, sheep — as a landscaping aid. For a small fee, Mr. Miller, whose official job title is “shepherd,” brings his ovine squad to the yards of area homeowners, where the sheep spend anywhere from three hours to several days grazing on grass, weeds and dandelions.
[Customers pay $1 per sheep per day, but Mr. Miller also accepts barter payments, which have so far included karate lessons, jugs of maple syrup and the use of one homeowner’s truck. He has done around 20 homes so far, and has so many requests he can’t keep up with them.

TRUE COLOURS

 
Published in The Australian,
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

REPROGRAMING DNA

Scientist prove DNA can be reprogrammed by words and frequencies


DNA is a biological internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies without cutting out and replacing single genes.

SODA JERKS

Teen violence linked to sugary soft drink consumption

Teenagers, who are heavy soda drinkers, are more violent and carry more weapons, according to a new study from the University of Vermont. In the past, parents have been told too much soda could set their kids up for obesity and diabetes, but now researchers say soft drink beverages are linked to even more disturbing problems like violent behavior and carrying knives and guns.

FOOD FIGHT

Food Bill Backlash Stuns Government

Politicians and government officials appear to have been blindsided by a backlash to new food safety laws, with nearly 4000 people signing a petition demanding change.

The petition argues that the sharing of food is a basic human right.

"The Food Bill ... will seriously impede initiatives like community gardens, food co-ops, heritage seed banks, farmers markets, bake sales, and roadside fruit and vegetable stalls," say the organisers of the petition, nzfoodsecurity.org.

Opponents of the law claim free trade agreement negotiations and the long arm of multinational genetically modified seed giant Monsanto are among the drivers of the new law. They also cite changes to US food laws that have seen armed raids conducted against organic food producers and distributors.

FOOD FIGHT

Food rights eroded

I was shocked to learn from a friend on the weekend that a new Food Bill is being brought in here in New Zealand. The new bill will make it a privilege and not a right to grow food.

I find two aspects of this bill alarming. The first is the scope and impact the new bill has, and secondly that it has all happened so quietly. There has been VERY little media coverage, on a bill which promises to jeopardise the future food security of the country.

I read that the bill is being brought in because of the WTO, which of course has the US FDA behind it, and of course that is influenced by big business (Monsanto and other players). It looks like this NZ food bill will pave the way to reduce the plant diversity and small owner operations in New Zealand, for example by way of controlling the legality of seed saving and trading/barter/giving away; all will be potentially illegal.

The best website to read about the problems with the new bill is http://nzfoodsecurity.org (I have no connection with this website)

CASHLESSNESS

Happy 69 Year Old Lady Has Not Used Money For 15 Years

Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old woman from Germany, gave up using money 15 years ago and says she’s been much happier ever since.

Heidemarie’s incredible story began 22 years ago, when she, a middle-aged secondary school teacher emerging from a difficult marriage, took her two children and moved to the city of Dortmund, in Germany’s Ruhr area.
One of the first things she noticed was the large number of homeless people, and this shocked her so much that she decided to actually do something about it.

She had always believed the homeless didn’t need actual money to be accepted back into society, only a chance to empower themselves by making themselves useful, so she opened a Tauschring (swap shop), called “Gib und Nimm” (Give and Take).

SILENCING THE TRUTH

Ron Paul Gets 89 Seconds To Speak In CBS Debate

Leaked email to Bachmann campaign indicates decision to limit air time for certain candidates was deliberate CBS News policy

[Congressman Ron Paul was a victim of what later transpired to be a deliberate policy on behalf of CBS News to restrict the air time of certain candidates during last night’s Republican debate, after he was afforded just 90 seconds of speaking time during the course of the event in South Carolina last night.

Paul’s campaign reacted furiously to the Texan being limited to 90 seconds in what was a 90 minute-long debate, with Campaign Manager John Tate blasting out an email entitled “What a Joke,” in which he stated, “It literally made me sick watching the mainstream media once again silence the one sane voice in this election. The one dissenter to a decade of unchecked war. The one candidate who stands for true defense and actual constitutional government. Ron Paul was silenced, in perhaps the most important debate of the cycle.”

UNORTHODOX VIEWS

Ultra-Orthodox Jews In Jerusalem: When Women & Girls Are The Enemy

Imagine a world where all photographs of women and girls - on posters, advertising material, buses, billboards and shop windows - gradually disappear from public view; where supermarket lines are segregated and men and women sit in different sections of public transport: men at the front, women at the back.

This is Jerusalem in November 2011.

FUTURE TENSE

Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment

The finding that neutrinos might break one of the most fundamental laws of physics sent scientists into a frenzy when it was first reported in September.

Not only because it appeared to go against Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity but, if correct, the finding opened up the troubling possibility of being able to send information back in time, blurring the line between past and present and wreaking havoc with the fundamental principle of cause and effect.

WATER FROM AIR

Get water from thin air

 

First, a turbine draws air underneath the ground into a network of pipes. When the air reaches condensation point the water pours down into a underwater tank. A submersible pump pumps the water back up through the central column of the piping and this is pumped through to the roots of plants through a process called sub-surface drip irrigation – which is the most efficient method of irrigating crops because you don't get evaporation.

What was the biggest design challenge you faced?

Creating enough condensation. We made a huge breakthrough by putting copper wool inside the pipes. The wool was cooled by the pipes and this increased the surface area within the pipes that was cool enough to cause condensation to take place.

PREMONITION AND PORTENTS

A stranger dressed in a hideous mask steps from the crowd and puts his hand on little Damian Godson.
It is the last picture ever taken of the boy before he is lost in a fire aboard the ghost train at Sydney's Luna Park.

Australian Tragic - our top ten darkest tales

While waiting at Circular Quay for a ferry to take them to Sydney's Luna Park on June 9, 1979, the Godson family are approached by a Satanic-looking figure dressed in a loincloth and wearing a mask with horns.

The creature voicelessly places his hand on young Damian Godson's shoulder. Somebody snaps a photograph. It is the last photograph of the boy ever taken - hours later, Damian, his brother, Craig, and his father, John, will burn in the fire that sweeps through The Ghost Train. Nobody will ever see the horned man again.

[ Australian Tragic by Jack Marx ]

NAKED TRUTH

Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy has become a household name in the Middle East and sparked a global uproar after a friend posted a photo of her naked on Twitter.

The photo, which the 20-year-old former student first posted on her blog, shows her naked apart from a pair of thigh-high stockings and some red patent leather shoes.

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (مذكرات ثائرة: فن عاري)

Put on trial the artists' models who posed nude for art schools until the early 70s, hide the art books and destroy the nude statues of antiquity, then undress and stand before a mirror and burn your bodies that you despise to forever rid yourselves of your sexual hangups before you direct your humiliation and chauvinism and dare to try to deny me my freedom of expression.

Elmahdy describes herself as an atheist. She has been living for the past five months with her boyfriend, blogger Kareem Amer, who, in 2006 was sentenced to four years in a maximum security prison for criticizing Islam and defaming former president Hosni Mubarak.

After my photo was removed from Facebook, a male friend of mine asked me if he may post it on Twitter. I accepted because I am not shy of being a woman in a society where women are nothing but sex objects harassed on a daily basis by men who know nothing about sex or the importance of a woman.

The photo is an expression of my being and I see the human body as the best artistic representation of that. I took the photo myself using a timer on my personal camera. The powerful colors black and red inspire me.

I am not positive at all unless a social revolution erupts. Women under Islam will always be objects to use at home. The (sexism) against women in Egypt is unreal, but I am not going anywhere and will battle it 'til the end. Many women wear the veil just to escape the harassment and be able to walk the streets. I hate how society labels gays and lesbians as abnormal people. Different is not abnormal!

EUROZONE DEBT CRISIS

A quick lesson in economics in the Eurozone

Some years ago a small rural town in Spain twinned with a similar town in Greece. The Mayor of the Greek town visited the Spanish town. When he saw the palatial mansion belonging to the Spanish mayor he wondered how he could afford such a house.

The Spaniard said; "You see that bridge over there? The EU gave us a grant to build a two-lane bridge, but by building a single lane bridge with traffic lights at either end this house could be built".

The following year the Spaniard visited the Greek town. He was simply amazed at the Greek Mayor's house, gold taps, marble floors, it was marvellous.

When he asked how this could be afforded the Greek said; "You see that bridge over there?".

The Spaniard replied "No".

CASHLESSNESS

Richard Branson invests in Square

Square launched in 2010 provides an innovative way for individuals and businesses to accept credit card payments on their mobile devices. The company distributes an elegant and easy-to-use card reader and mobile application, which has seen widespread adoption.

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE

Liquid lakes close to moon's skin

Scientists have found the best evidence yet for water just beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.

Analysis of the moon's surface suggests plumes of warmer water well up beneath its icy shell, melting and fracturing the outer layers.

The results, published in the journal Nature, predict that small lakes exist only 3km below the crust. Any liquid water could represent a potential habitat for life.

From models of magnetic forces, and images of its surface, scientists have long suspected that a giant ocean, roughly 160km (100 miles) deep, lies somewhere between 10-30km beneath the ice crust.

 

BIGFOOT FIND

Ninth human foot in a shoe found in Canada

 

British Columbia has been plagued by human feet, eight of which have recently washed ashore in the province, with another appendage found on the shore of Sasamat Lake near Port Moody on Friday, The Vancouver Sun reports.

 

This is at least the ninth foot discovered in British Columbia since 2007, according to The National Post. By other counts, there have been a dozen feet found.

 

The case of the mysterious feet has vexed authorities and the public, with details of the latest find differing from its predecessors in two ways, the CBC says.

 

The ninth foot, found last Friday by a child at a camp, was in a body of fresh water. All the previous feet, believed to have come from six different people, were in saltwater. And unlike the first eight, which were inside running shoes, the latest foot was in a hiking boot, media outlets said.

MARS ATTACK

Russians/Chinese launch Mars moon probe

Russia has launched an audacious bid to scoop up rock and dust samples from the 27km-wide Martian moon Phobos and bring them back to Earth for study.

The mission 'Phobos-Grunt' is significant because it is carrying China's first Mars satellite Yinghuo-1 - a 115kg probe that will be released into orbit around Mars.
Russia is hoping the 11 tonne Phobos-Grunt will finally see it conquer its Martian curse so that about 200g of regolith can be returned to Earth in August 2014.
Potato-shaped Phobos has an extremely low density.
Panspermia
US participation comes in the form of its Living Interplanetar Flight Experiment (LIFE) on Phobos-Grunt.
This package of hardy micro-organisms will make the journeys out and back inside a separate compartment in the return capsule. It includes the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, known for its ability to withstand high doses of radiation and the eight-legged tardigrade, a microscopic invertebrate that can survive the space environment.
It will test theories on how living organisms could spread through the Solar System.
Missions to Mars
Of 39 missions listed by JPL 24 are marked as having failed.

UPDATE
False start for Russian Mars probe

Russia's bid for its first interplanetary mission in more than two decades went awry when an unmanned spacecraft failed to take the proper course toward Mars after its launch, officials said.

NINETY-NINE PERCENT

We are paid too much, bankers confess in St Paul's survey

A survey of 500 workers in City financial institutions, carried out for the Christian think-tank St Paul's Institute, found that "a substantial number" believed they were overpaid compared with other professions – particularly frontline workers including teachers and, most of all, nurses.