RECENTLY DISCOVERED MAYAN ARTIFACTS

Here are some stills from a recent You-tube video which shows new Mayan finds which could be described as anomalous:

ADDRESS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=wCBC0D9gS7s&NR=1 

 

This picture appears to show several UFO type craft, one with a reclining “astronaut”

There are many figures like this. They look alien to me. According to mainstream archaeologists these could be Priests or Gods. The figures (more shown below) are often phallic looking, which means that they could be fertility symbols.

   

The stills on the left and right most definitely look like UFOs.

 Many of the figures have a lot of detail on them which is often reminiscent of tubing/breathing apparatus.

 

Notice the eyes on this skull, and what is that carved in to the side profile?  Are they alien or God? Decide for yourself

Three more interesting faces. The first could be taken to be a representation of a king and so could the figure on the right: but what about the fellow in the middle? The centre picture is not human which again leaves the choice between an image of an alien or an image of a god.

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Archaeology is fascinating, and as new methods of detection are being used there are more finds being made. Satellite photography and ground penetrating radar in particular have led to amazing finds. The finds often force mainstream Archaeologists to reassess the accepted dates of the origins of civilisations and lead to a re-evaluation of old stories and myths.

   

CAN WE WEATHER THE STORM?

Recently the news seems to be full of stories about the weather. All across the world there are reports of extreme weather: more powerful tornadoes and hurricanes, flooding on every continent, forest fires burn more violently in the US and on top of all this there is also an increase in the number of earthquakes and volcanic activity. Add to this the global rise in sea levels and the thaw in the Arctic ice sheets which will further affect weather patterns the future  looks shaky.

Amongst the many RSS feeds that I check daily are a number of world weather sites. Looking down the list for the last week I can see posts on a record drought in Korea, flash floods in Bangladesh and the USA is being battered by tropical storms, wildfires, droughts and floods. The US has had about every weather imaginable, Wildfires in Colorado, Violent thunder storms  have claimed lives and tropical storms in Florida and the gulf coast dropped 26 ins of rain in days.

Since the beginning of the year there have been record snow falls in Austria, Germany and France. A record cold wave killed people in Russia in January and now, in July they are facing floods. Regions in Australia have had severe drought while other parts of the country have been flooded. The UK is also experiencing floods, following behind a long period of drought.  The weather is having a serious impact upon human habitation, crop production and animal habitats, even birds migratory patterns. 

Much discussion has ensued  within the scientific community as to what the cause of the extreme weather is. Theories vary from global warming, human intervention, the magnetic poles shifting, an unknown object (planet X) is approaching from space or sunspots and solar flares are at their most powerful for 150 years and are causing the extremes. There do seem to be some strange things going on:  scientific data shows that magnetic north is now over Russia and is moving eastward at an accelerated rate. There have been unexplained groaning noises reported around the world. It is not known if these are seismic in nature or man made. There have also been hundreds of cases of mass species deaths: whole flocks/shoals have been found dead with no cause.

Dead fish are washing up on beaches

HAARP

Global warming has been monitored for a couple of decades now but despite this there is no agreement about the cause. Is it a natural phenomenon, part of the earth's natural cycle? Or is it due to human activities? Could it be because of pollution from our senseless mass production? There is also the possibility of more direct human intervention such as weather manipulation.Cloud seeding is used in some areas to increase rainfall, and then there is the mysterious HAARP program.

The High Altitude Active Auroral Research Program is capable of punching a hole in the ionosphere using high frequency radio waves. Critics of HAARP claim that it can be used to create earthquakes, tsunamis and to alter the weather. Controversy also surrounds the use of Chem-trails. Unmarked planes of unknown ownership are releasing chemicals and aluminum high in the atmosphere: because this is secretive in nature there are a lot of theories about what is going on, some are quite sinister, but it could be just another attempt to deal with climate change, given the reflective properties of some of the materials used. Nuclear accidents such as Three mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukishima, all within the lifetime of the baby boomer generation also change the weather.

A flooded festival

The cost of the weather to the economy is rising. At present, due to stockpiles of food we have not felt the effect too badly. If the extremes in weather continue, however our food supply could be affected. The wheat yield for 2012 has been affected by unusually warm, dry conditions that accelerated growth rate at a cost to the yield. Argentina's weather has gone from drought to flood, as in the UK and this has delayed the harvest of Corn and Soy. Eastern European crops have been hit by drought. It may be necessary for some areas to consider changing the crops that they grow. The problem is that accurate forecasting of future weather patterns is difficult when the mechanism for the extreme changes is unknown. Due to the increased level of ice melting in the Arctic there is a knock on effect that may lead to colder, longer winters in the northern hemisphere. Longer winters run in to spring delaying planting times.

Tornado Damage

There is cost to the infrastructure. Houses and businesses, not to mention shopping centers throughout the western world have been destroyed by floods, hurricanes and tornadoes. Transport routes both road and rail have been affected for months  isolating some areas which further hampers distribution of emergency aid. Last years US twister season was not only the worst on record there were twisters in new areas that had never had one previously. Lives are being lost more often to weather events and wildlife is also a victim. Species such as the Moose are dying out because of parasites that spread in the warmer conditions now more prevalent in  Minnesota.

The situation is an ongoing one because a solution cannot be found until the cause(s) are identified. Some scientists believe that we can engineer a solution. Let's hope that they don't make the situation worse.  

2012 THE END OR A NEW BEGINNING?

The internet is laden with end of the world stories. The biggest cause of these is the Mayan calendar. According to some the calendar, which has a history of eclipses and star movements finishes on the 21st of December 2102 and this signifies the end of the world. However sense is starting to prevail and more information has come to light following further excavations of ancient sites in South America. Amongst the finds was a calendar that continues on after 12/21 which suggests that the Maya never intended to predict the end of the world.

The doomsdayers often refer to a document in a German museum known as the Dresden codex to back their claims. There are fifty two almanacs at the start of the codex which have been used by some to foretell the future. These tell of floods and earthly devastation. It is important to remember when looking at Mayan history that the Mayans believed that history was cyclical in nature: they believed that what has happened before will happen again. Their obsession with patterns in numbers and in the night sky led to the calendar coming in to being.

A point to consider first of all is how much of the world did the Maya know about? Not a lot is probably the answer as they obviously hadn’t heard of Spain. The Calendar was for the Maya and concerned their society and the world as they knew it.

Some recent documentaries

If you put 2012 in as a search term in You-tube you will find enough snippets and documentaries that would take longer than the rest of the year to read. There have also been offerings from the pseudoscience channels like Discovery and the History Channel. Some of these are done in the style of the paranormal with references to Nostradamus, Mother Shipton, Edgar Cayce and the Football world cup predicting Octopus. Other Programming includes NASA representatives, Professors and Astronomers but these people don’t all sing from the same hymn sheet, so to speak (I know, they’re Scientists so probably go nowhere near Hymn sheets!).

Some examples for your perusal:

  A contribution from a regular on Ancient Aliens  David Wilcock

 End of the world predictions here plus a lot of weird and wonderful stuff to explore amongst the other links on the page

Planet X and Aliens here

OR 2012 IS A NEW BEGINNING:

A spiritual view here

The Christian view Bah! Humbug! (Actually Christians seem to have a lot to say on the subject)

Angry skeptic here

So will it be the end, a new beginning or business as usual? I am hoping for option two but expecting option three. There is another possibility I would like to suggest, somewhat tongue in cheek: the biggest conspiracy ever! I read a book some years ago called The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince (Warner Books, 1999). They were expecting a worldwide false flag event in the form of a bogus alien invasion, thus giving the elites the opportunity to form a one world government. The power behind the powers that be could orchestrate some kind of “catastrophe” using the fear some people have about December 2012 to coincide with the prophecies. As I have wrote elsewhere, though, they couldn’t pull off a certain demolition job in New York without raising so many questions that the suspicions still haven’t died down. I don’t think that they are ready to try and hoodwink the whole world yet. In fact, I think that their powers are weakening now that they have been all but identified.

I think that I will still be blogging in 2013 – probably about what didn’t happen in 2012. That is, if the solar flares don’t wipe out our satellites!

NOSTALGIA IS STILL WHAT IT USED TO BE!

I have been on a bit of a nostalgia trip just recently. I put it down to a number of things: my age, early fifties, time on my hands due to medical redundancy and a lack of good entertainment around.

I was sharing a melancholy moment with my wife. We were having one of those conversations that marks your progression to a new way of looking at life: looking back. It certainly seems that the older one gets the more one will look back to times gone by. It is part of accepting that the bulk of your life has been led and you are approaching the last stretch on the journey of life. My wife and I were watching punk Britannia at the time. We discussed what we were like in those days, the places that we went to, the gigs, the post punk indie scene and the simplicity of things then in comparison to now. Just like the hippies in the generation before us we thought that our generation would change the world: then again when you are in your late teens you still have a lot to learn about how things are done. Living brings experience and knowledge and your young dreams are dashed.

Like a lot of married couples we only get time together at the weekends. As we don’t go out much we usually sit together and watch any programmes that we have recorded during the week, or go on Netflix or an online streaming media site or You-tube. The summer never seems to be a good time for TV scheduling so we have been watching You-tube a lot. We started to look for things that we enjoyed in the past, such as Thriller from the 1970s, The Prisoner, Red Dwarf and such. It is when you watch these again years after the first time that you realise how quickly things have changed in the world around us.

    

We both recalled when watching thriller that we were both in our early teens and it was a treat to get to stay up to watch it. Perhaps that is why we have both held fond memories of it all our lives. The first thing that you notice now when you watch it is how low- tech the 1970s were. We were amused by the casting of thriller, which always had an American star (to boost US sales no doubt) and was awash with middle class accents. Actually it is more accurate to say RADA accents.

 The houses were always enormous and the plots generally featured a character, often but not always a young woman that was being driven insane by someone else who wanted revenge or an inheritance or to control a business. I must stress I am not putting the programme down because it has so much charm and innocence that is not in many programmes today. There was no profanity or abusive language, although the 1970s attitude towards women was still fairly Neanderthal. We then thought that it would be fun to look at some of the childrens programmes that we grew up with, and fun it most definitely was! We watched episodes of the Banana Splits, Timeslip, Worzel Gummidge, Catweazle and have saved many others in to our favourites for future weekends.

It is strange looking back, not just at the entertainment but the news, technology, fashions and attitudes and also glimpsing a life that had enough “mod cons” to make life comfortable but was not overwhelmed with technology and machinery as life is today, sometimes to the point of claustrophobia. We need to leave space in our lives to fill with being human, interpersonal, and driven by something more than personal gratification. Looking back can reminds me of happy, carefree days when I had no responsibilities and was safe pretty much wherever I went. I have to admit, I wouldn’t want to be a kid growing up nowadays.

How the world has changed, particularly for children. Even their entertainment is more adult than it should be and sex and image and dreaming of stardom are pushed at them. Gone are the days of programmes that would provide a set of moral values. Crime and criminals are made to look cool instead of being vilified and made to pay for their actions. Parents are no longer portrayed as being caring and protecting, more and more often parents are shown to be either a waste of space (ie a drunk or a junkie) or not caring or out of touch and even abusive. Is this how it really is?

Having said that I have to follow that by saying “God bless the Internet” and services like You-tube that can take us on a trip down memory lane and relieve us of the stress of modern living. When I look back I don’t do so with a sense of loss or regret, it doesn’t make me sad: it fills me with a warm glow of contentment because my past is a place that I can visit and relive the feelings associated with the programme, the era and my experiences then and bring them in to the present to savour. I also see my role as a parent to provide love and protection and education. It is up to those of us that grew up with a set of values and a moral compass to lead the way forward for the next generation by ensuring that what we had will not be completely lost.

It is said that the past is a foreign country, but really it is a databank of memories, feelings, associations and lessons learned. The past should not be forgotten: it has a role to play in the present and the future.

THE SUPERMARKET SWEEP: CONTROLLING EVERYTHING.

Have you ever wondered whilst you are wandering round the local town/city centre why it is all so similar? Is the local character diminishing? I’ll tell you what I think is to blame: the rise of supermarkets.

Once upon a time there were family businesses: butchers, bakers, family owned travel agents, wool/knitting shops, toy shops, sweet shops and so on. However more and more of these small family concerns are disappearing. Adam Smith, the “godfather” of free market economic thought believed that Britain was a nation of shopkeepers (no, it wasn’t Napoleon that first said it). He wrote his pro capitalist pap supporting individual greed as being good for the nation in 1776. I wonder if he would recognise the United Kingdom now, as the result of individual greed has been the impoverishment of 90% of the population and the disappearance of individual traders.

Supermarkets want to own everything. They may have started out as organizations that bought food in bulk to offer cheap prices but they weren’t content to stop there. Now they have opticians, travel agents, hairdressers, they even sell cars and insurance, mobile phones, you name it, they have it. Is this good for the economy? No it is not. Pretty soon our choices will be between one supermarket or another. They always choose a site out of town so that they can get you to buy petrol from them and the duplicitous tossers agree amongst themselves not to compete by setting up in different areas, therefore restricting choice.

When I go to my town centre in Corby, at least a third of the shop units are empty. The others are all national chains: Jane Norman, W.H. Smith, McDonalds, Burger King, Wilko and so on plus a lot of discount and pound shops. The nearest thing to a supermarket is the COOP extra, not the cheapest place to shop. If I go to Kettering, Wellingborough or Northampton they largely have the same choice of shops, although as Towns that have been established longer than our new town they still have some vestige of a traditional town, but they are rapidly losing that as the big boys buy everything up. Everywhere is becoming homogenous, there is little of the local character of places left.

We have a Tory government at the moment and they are pushing the same policies that they always do: restricting spending on the public sector, promoting big business interests and giving no help to anyone. Likewise the banks are following suit and are not lending money to prospective small business owners and they are squeezing everything out of existing small businesses. In my opinion both the banks and the government work to protect the big supermarkets because they have a lot of money and economic power.

Supermarkets are evil. They force down our farmers prices, they tell them what to grow, they exploit the third world and they limit choice. On top of all that they have caused the death of small businesses and destroyed the character of our town and city centers. 

I wish that there was something we could do about it. The only thing we can do is boycott them, but most of the sheeple will never go for that.  

THE LEGACY OF FUKISHIMA

The nuclear disaster at Fukishima over a year ago was a warning to humankind as to what can happen when you use a reactor to provide electricity. There was no terrorist attack, no accident caused by workers or work practices, there was an earthquake. Common sense should have told a nation prone to earthquakes that nuclear power was not their best choice for creating energy: then again, producing energy is only a secondary result from nuclear reactors, primarily they make poison for the world’s most powerful weapons. A year on from that disaster there is very little being said about it. The subject is treated as if it is over and done with. Of course, it isn’t because every living thing on earth will be affected by the radiation created by the collapse of the Fukishima nuclear plant.

Tests carried out in Harwell Radiation Laboratories in England show that airborne radiation in Japan is 100 times higher than the peak radiation at the time of the 1960’s nuclear testing. This was based on the amount of Cesium 137 in the atmosphere. The air quality is three times worse than after the Chernobyl incident, which has been estimated to have killed one million people to date. Details here The information was obtained from studying donated car air filters, but as the article states:

The estimates must be considered as conservative or low since the smallest particles go through the car air filters and emerge from the car’s exhaust. The smallest radioactive particles simply go through a human’s skin or go to the bottom of a human’s lungs and stay there. The poison radiates cells within a range extending 20 cells deep in all directions. The dead and dying or mutated cells become cancers and hundreds of other radiation related diseases.

In fact, a person only has to inhale a piece of cesium that is 1000^th of the size of a pinhead to risk getting Cancer. To make things worse the Japanese authorities are BURNING radioactive waste. As if there isn’t enough poison in the air, they are adding more! Now reactor four at Fukishima is collapsing. If this happens it has been estimated by some that Cesium 137 levels will be 85 times higher that the Chernobyl disaster. More here It is already being claimed that there is an increase in deaths in the USA because of Fukishima. It should also be remembered that as the nuclear plant is on the coast the disaster also led to thousands of gallons of radioactive water escaping in to the sea. 

 WHY ISN’T THIS FRONT PAGE NEWS? : Because big brother doesn’t want anti-nuclear sentiment to rise. If reactor number four does collapse it will devastate the world. The UK government has a public health campaign running currently that advises anyone who has had a cough for three weeks should go to a Doctor because they might have cancer. I wonder if we are already being affected by increasing radiation? Are more of us about to die of cancer?

One thing is for sure, if we are then we will die in ignorance.