Thursday, 31 January 2013
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
to be going on with
been busy today being busy, so here is a mix to play or download for later play loud & pass round
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Bee good
Dear friends,
Four EU countries have begun banning these poisons, and some bee populations are already recovering. Days ago the official European food safety watchdog stated for the first time that certain pesticides are fatally harming bees. Now legal experts and European politicians are calling for an immediate ban. But Bayer and other giant pesticide producers are lobbying hard to keep them on the market. If we build a huge swarm of public outrage now, we can push the European Commission to put our health and our environment before the profit of a few.
We know our voices count! Last year, our 1.2 million strong petition forced US authorities to open a formal consultation on pesticides -- now if we reach 2 million, we can persuade the EU to get rid of these crazy poisons and pave the way for a ban worldwide. Sign the urgent petition and send this to everyone -- Avaaz and leading MEPs will deliver our message ahead of this week's key meeting in Brussels:48 hours to ban bee killers...sign here
Four EU countries have begun banning these poisons, and some bee populations are already recovering. Days ago the official European food safety watchdog stated for the first time that certain pesticides are fatally harming bees. Now legal experts and European politicians are calling for an immediate ban. But Bayer and other giant pesticide producers are lobbying hard to keep them on the market. If we build a huge swarm of public outrage now, we can push the European Commission to put our health and our environment before the profit of a few.
We know our voices count! Last year, our 1.2 million strong petition forced US authorities to open a formal consultation on pesticides -- now if we reach 2 million, we can persuade the EU to get rid of these crazy poisons and pave the way for a ban worldwide. Sign the urgent petition and send this to everyone -- Avaaz and leading MEPs will deliver our message ahead of this week's key meeting in Brussels:48 hours to ban bee killers...sign here
Monday, 28 January 2013
incoming
Black Country crop circles prove phenomenon is no hoax, claims Australian expert
Crop circles are not the work of hoaxers and aerial photos of the Black Country can prove it, says Australian boffin.AN Aussie historian believes he has buried forever the ‘cereal’ lie that crop circles are the work of hoaxers – by unearthing Black Country images of them dating back to 1945 and beyond.
It’s ‘barley’ believable, but Greg Jefferys has also uncovered evidence of the phenomenon in scientific documents dating back to 1880.
The boffin, from Hobart, Tasmania, says his findings prove there’s more to the mysterious circles than hoaxers playing silly tricks.
“This discovery proves that claims by various artists to be the sole creators of crop circles are themselves a hoax,” he says.
“It just goes to show that the circles remain unexplained.
“I hope this discovery will stimulate renewed interest in crop circles by serious scientific researchers who have been fooled by the hoax claims.”
to newspaper original with pictures
all part of the service
Nuff Blood A Run.......listen here ......downloadable for your ayepadpod, or cassette.....just play as loud and often as you can.....ta very mucha
suli
a very interesting blog....it just sets me to thinking how blessed we are to have the wise-dom of reggae....ears to hear
if you have a spare few mins check it out you can find ear
easy now
if you have a spare few mins check it out you can find ear
easy now
Friday, 25 January 2013
so
so.......this Aes Dana thing. back in the 90`s this caught our eye ont net.....
A seventh
characteristic of the Celts, reflected in their ecclesiology and spirituality,
was their profound appreciation of the spoken and written word; that is, of
storytelling. They knew first hand that stories feed the soul the way food
feeds the body. As a result, they had many types of storytellersfrom the
seanchai, the humblest teller of tales around the hearth in the home, to the
fili, the learned bard at the courts of the Irish kings, to the monastic scribe
seated with his quill pen in a cold scriptorium transcribing on vellum the
stories of the saints. The responsibility of all of these storytellers was to
remember and narrate the great sagas of their tribal and spiritual ancestors
whom they considered, even if long dead, intimate members of their families.
The stories and legends they told were about both secular heroes and honoured
saints, mortal and immortal beings who had strange visions, made voyages to
other worlds, endured great hardships for tribe and gospel, and travelled in
companies of friends. Whenever and wherever they were told, these stories about
their heroes were perhaps the clearest expression of the Celts' religious
beliefs, values, and spirituality.
Celtic spirituality,
a spirituality which has a future, precisely because it has much to teach our
contemporary world. In Ireland, where the purest forms of Celtic life survived,
since the armies of Rome never conquered it, the social system consisted of three
main classes: the landowning aristocracy who were the tribal kings and their
retinues of warriors, families and relatives; the serfs, some of whom were
free, while others were slaves taken in battle or, like the youthful St.
Patrick, kidnapped from foreign shores; and, finally, but not least, the
scholars and artists called the aes dana, Gaelic for "people of
learning" or "of poetry." This latter group included poets,
historians, experts in genealogy, lawyers, physicians, skilled craftsmen, and
the story-tellers themselves, the bards. Many of these aes dana were druids and
druidesses, advisers to the kings and teachers of the tribes. In fact, the
highest position [ollam] of the druids was equal to that of the king, a
position of spiritual authority that was eventually replaced by the monastic
leader or Christian bishop when the pagan Celts had been baptized. All of these
aes dana in Ireland were held in high esteem and had the privilege, as did the
aristocracy, of travelling anywhere without permission. This respect and the
freedom which went with it reveals how much Celtic society valued people of
learning, of poetry, and of artistic skills, considering them as essential as
any king or warrior to the well being of their society, culture, and spirituality.
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