Bio Coated Nanites to Attack Malignant Tumours.

A company based in Paris called NANOBIOTIX have designed minute nanite machines that contain transmitting and amplifying qualities of mind-boggling veneration. These tiny probes can target a tumour inside a human body. The nanites are coated with a biological residue, which surrounds them in a bio-bubble. Imagine a cod liver oil tablet with a small mechanism inside it. Then shrink it so small that five thousand of these minute cod liver oil tablets (our nanites) are linked together like a necklace. We would have a five thousand piece necklace in our Nanoworld that could circle the girth of a human hair. This now gives you the perception of how small one of these innovative nanites is. These tiny molecules are a new army in our battle against cancer.

If thousands of these nanites are introduced into the human system and directly target a tumour it allows cancer patients to have extremely focused treatment upon their malignant tumours without damage being done to surrounding healthy tissue.

Cancer is often treated with patients going into chemotherapy, where they are exposed to large doses of radiotherapy. This method can often destroy cancer but surrounding healthy tissue is also exposed to x-rays and becomes damaged. This is because the radiation must pass through healthy tissue to access the target. Sometimes chemotherapy can’t be completed because too much healthy tissue is affected by the toxicology of the radiation. The patient becomes ill and can’t take any more treatment. A cancerous tumour often survives and redevelops after chemotherapy. Thus chemotherapy often fails. For many years biological science has sought ways to overcome this problem. Now hope is upon us with new pioneering nanotechnology which offers the option of directly attacking a malignant tumour without destroying the healthy tissue surrounding the cancerous growth.

Imagine the human body as a commercial building like a bank with cashiers and customers functioning within. These efficient and necessary people are supposed to be like the cells in our body’s healthy tissue. Then an armed robber enters to hold the bank to ransom. He becomes the body’s cancer. Outside, the police are the surgeons, who have to deal with the robber who has caused the bank to stop functioning.

Chemotherapy is often like our imagined policemen throwing a large bomb into the bank where the robber is standing. They get the robber and accept that many cashiers and customers are going to get caught in the explosion. The robber may also survive and be able to function. So sometimes this is not always a success. If we understand this we see the idea of why chemotherapy is a hit and miss method of treatment.

Nanotechnology allows the imagined cops to have sharpshooter snipers to target the source directly. Imagine a bullet coated with poison hitting our bank robber. Imagine many hitting him. The target gets all the attention and the cashiers and customers (our healthy tissue) don’t get harmed by the robber’s prejudicial treatment.

Once our nanites settle upon a cancerous tumour they can act as transmitters and amplify large numbers of electrons directly into the cancer cells causing them to break down and die. The surrounding healthy tissue is left unaffected and the patient is not made ill by overexposure to radiotherapy. The toxicology risk of chemotherapy is removed and stronger doses of radiotherapy can be used directly at source on malignant cancer without too much radiotherapy passing through and causing damage to healthy tissue. A tumour cannot escape high exposure. It will not redevelop due to patient inability to withstand more intensive radiotherapy. The problem is minimalized by the nanites amplification of electrons at the source.

The nanite particles enter the body by different approaches and Nanobiotix has three methods of infiltration and assault so far. They are called, in Nanobiotix company terms; NBTX 3, NBTX IV and NBTX TOPO.

The NBTX 3 way is to inject directly into a tumour allowing the nanite molecules to settle inside the malignant growth. The bio coated nanite’s inorganic particle sits there – a crystallized hafnium oxide mechanism. This inorganic molecule has to transmit and amplifying qualities that are five times higher than silicon oxide. If the hafnium oxide comes into contact with small bursts of radiotherapy; the peppered mechanical particles within a tumour will begin to transmit amplified doses of electrons directly into the surrounding malignant cancer cells. The effect of any nanoparticle immersed inside the malignant growth is aggressive and vicious to the cancer cells. The intense pulse of amplified electrons, coming from our nanoparticle, destroys the immediate cancer cells quickly. This particular method gives Nanobiotix an attack capability that becomes amplified within the targeted danger zone with small doses of radiotherapy.

NBTXIV is a method done by intravenous injection into the vein. The nanites go into the body via the blood circulatory system. The nanoparticles will settle upon a tumour and surrounding tissue that may have been infected too. This is a more advanced stage of cancer. When the hafnium oxide within the nanoparticle begins to transmit and amplify with radiotherapy, the cancer cells are once again destroyed with stronger chances of preventing surviving cancer cells escaping to lymph glands to be dispersed and grow somewhere else into a new malignant tumour.

The other phase is known as NBTX TOPO and is used in a gelled paste. This is when an operation has been done to directly cut out a malignant growth. The gel is coated upon the wound and will enable nanite molecules to transmit and amplify radiotherapy into the cut, where malignant cells might remain. It becomes a clean-up process after the surgery.

Nanobiotix has tested patients with this nanotechnology and results have been very encouraging. Also with the advancement of nanotechnology; biological engineering can move towards better innovations in the future. What has been achieved up to now can only be improved upon, allowing us all a brighter outlook for future confrontations with the various forms of cancer we are confronted with.

Transhumanism - what it is.

I've seen the word, Transhumanism from the various science communities. I wondered what it meant and tried to read written articles by some of the members. Unfortunately the writing was very long winded and hard to follow. I hoped to read a piece in one of the communities, that I would not find so deep with lots of big and very technical words, saying what is was like and what it was not like. I had to have a dictionary to understand some of the writings. I finally found some things on the web.

Transhumanism seems to be about using science and technology for humans to take control of their own evolutionary destiny and rejecting spiritualism for a more logical approach to life. They advocate the exploration of all sorts of technology - cryogenics, stem cell research, nanotechnology anything that might improve us and trying to eliminate all forms of disease, pestilence and war. There that is basic Transhumanism, which champions of the subject could say in easy to understand terms, rather than throwing a thesaurus of the least used words in the English language at us.

http://jp.senescence.info/thoughts/transhumanism.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/02/100218_preserving_the_dead.shtml

LEAP THE WILD WATER by Jenny Lloyd

LEAP THE WILD WATER

Megan Jones tries to carve a life of her own in a community where women are neither equal nor free. 

Her brother, Morgan, is a man in torment; his Mam has died and he is now desperate to make amends for the terrible wrongs he has done. But what if doing the right thing would lead to his sister's ruin? 

As Morgan wrestles with his conscience, Megan's past begins to catch up with her and threatens to destroy her life. 

Set in early 19th century Wales, Leap the Wild Water is a dark tale of treachery, secrets, and what it means to be free. From shifting viewpoints, the stories of Megan and Morgan unfold towards a terrifying conclusion. 

One review quoted:

"This book was recommended to me by a friend who knows I love this kind of thing and I loved this book. The story drew me in from the first sentence and held me enthralled to the last page. Think wild, rugged landscapes like Wuthering Heights (but in Wales) and add some deeply troubled characters struggling to overcome their mistakes and betrayals of each other. These characters were so alive and real, it felt like I was there beside them, going through all their anguish with them.
I’ve read this book twice. The first reading was quick because I was gripped by the story and had to keep turning the pages. The second reading was to better appreciate the prose that is almost poetic in places, and the plot and story structure that were so cleverly done.
I don’t know of any other contemporary writer of historical fiction who writes with such realism you think they must have lived back then, and who leaves the reader feeling they have lived there too. If this book had been written by a 19th century author it would be called as a classic of its time. What do you call a 19th century classic written in the 21st century? Leap the Wild Water." 

Eighth Grade Students Doe CubeSats for Space Exploration

Today, eighth grade students are making their own CubeSats - miniature satellites that can go to space on board any rocket and be released into orbit, allowing students to run their own programmes from computers in their classroom. There are so many of these tiny satellites now and they are growing by the day. 

China tested a missile to see if she had the technology to destroy a satellite. This test was successful and prompted other nations to look at ideas to overcome this. CubeSats was the answer - hundreds and soon thousands of them, scattered in orbit.

It seems young wizz kids all over the world are getting into CubeSats and these sorts of technologies are bringing nations together all over the world. 

Plasma Surface Technology - Advancement in Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology can be used in liquids allowing the fluid to have a protoplasmic form. It has the properties of a giant amoeboid being – almost as though the liquid has become sentient. The above YouTube video is very exciting as you watch and begin to grasp just how enhancing nanotechnology can be. The possibilities are endless. We can eventually clean up our world with the advent of this innovation in microscopic engineering.

This type of advancement in nanotech is being referred to as Plasma Surface Technology. Solids can be coated to make ordinary liquid form substances like mud or goo, fall off of a brick coated in nanites. The sticky liquid will lose its binding property and completely fall away.

Nanites within the liquid will allow fluids to cling together. You could have a liquid-based window pain that you could pass your hand through. Then when you pulled it back again the fluid would correct and wobble back into shape and becomes a windowpane again.

Nanite Technology Attacking Tumours

Nanites coated in a bio residue can be injected into the bloodstream. These nanites are so small that 5,000 can ring the perimeter of a human hair. The tiny nanites carry doses of x-rays to a tumour giving the cancerous cells direct exposure to thousands of these nanotech mites that congregate attention solely upon a tumour leaving the surrounding tissue undamaged. It is a way of concentrating x-rays upon source without damaging surrounding tissue. 

Science and Exploration into Paranormal Experience

I always search for something and can't believe in nothing. Everything seems pointless if we journey through life to see void. I just find it hard, however, to accept ghost mediums and things like that. I do have an interest in past life transgression too. I have to confess that there is a part of me that says the report might be biased in support of the paranormal experience, but some of this is difficult to speak against. I lean to the belief slightly, but remain cautious.

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The Problem with Cryogenics so Far. (Defrosting)

The reason why we cant revive frozen people

Theories that might solve the problem

When you see the magnified ice crystal in this picture, imagine it in a human cell - a minute sack with a membrane wall. The little sharp stalagmite edges would rupture such membranes. Imagine if it is what happens inside every human cell when frozen. The crystals puncture our cell walls and as we defrost our cell structures can't contain water and we turn to mush. That is why we can't defrost frozen people. The links above offer ideas that could provide answers for Tomorrow. Cryogenics can be very useful to us, in the future, if the defrosting can be mastered to bring a human out of cryogenic freezing - intact. Obviously, it is much easier said and imagined in theory.

CubeSat Launch Initiative projects - Wonderful nano satellite parasites

CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft that are a sort of nano-satellite. The cube-shaped satellites are approximately four inches long, have a volume of about one quart and weigh about 3 pounds. They sometimes clip two or three together to contain more monitoring and comlinks. A U-1 CubeSat is just one 3 pounds four-inch square satellite, while a U-2 or U-3 is the number of CubeSats clipped together. It is housed in a big square container at the outer side of the main launch vehicle once in space. This container acts like a sort of pea pod called a Nanosatellite Launch Adaptor System (NLAS.) When it opens, these small CubeSats are released like peas floating out over the stratosphere or where ever else the project owner’s might wish to take them. CubeSats have been used to patrol around space stations or satellites to search for malfunctions or other damage. They can gently breeze the length of solar panels and check that all is well, even report minor cracks that can be tackled more immediately in case a blemish develops and becomes more substantial.

NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative(CSLI) provides opportunities for small satellite payloads (CubeSats) to fly on rockets planned for upcoming launches. These CubeSats are flown as auxiliary and minor ventures upon previously planned and ulterior missions. They are a collection of small independent auxiliary projects that may leave the host launch and go off in search of knowledge in a number of fields. They might photograph Earth and study weather conditions, search independently for asteroids, look at the moon, Mars, Venus. Watch test samples in a space vacuum. There are all sorts of things. For a school or university to win the chance of controlling a CubeSat, they have to pass stringent tests via NASA monitors - people that judge how each project is viable, and also of use to NASA. For they will have access to all information gathered by each CubeSat before the information goes down to the school or university that wins the project.

There are already many CubeSats in orbit and a growing number of projects already in motion. NASA gets useful free information by allowing these independent CubeSats, which are really just parasite travellers on the main launch project. In return, many good things in small packages come NASA’s way. Everyone wins when this experimental information starts to come in. They can cost between $65,000 and $80,000 a CubeSat. If there is a launch that can carry four or five CubeSats, NASA gets a little of the cost back towards the main mission and a potential amount of updated and free information. It also ensures that they have growing and enthusiastic candidates for future space exploration technology.

These wonderful little parasitical spacecraft will develop over the decades and all launches might be able to lower funding costs by accommodating CubeSat projects. NASA may find ways to lower costs of building launch projects too, especially with developing re-usable craft like the Orion MPCV. Every time an Orion launch goes up it will have the main project, but depending on how many CubeSat projects at odd $65,000 + it can get aboard; I wonder if re-launchable MPCV could claw back substantial finances against original costs of building main launch projects. Imagine the return in the shape of four-inch cubes. Also not to forget long-term return and free information updates. NASA may have stumbled upon large numbers of independent projects lining up to be selected and waiting to hand over the money to get a CubeSat into space.

British Ministry of Defence's UFO Unit Overwhelmed!

In November of 2009 the British Ministry of Defence - UFO unit recieved so many calls it had to shut down. There had never been anything like it. The RAF was alerted and fighter jets were scrambled. Many reports had come from specific area and the air control authorities had no explanation for the unscheduled flight of a multitude of UFOs

The UFO desk was swamped and there was not enough staff to handle the calls. The previous year they had 209 reports from various locations, but this amounted to 600 + and in one vicinity in an hour - hey - bingo big time! Can you imagine it at the RAF base as the siren, or whatever its called, goes off?

Pilots and Navigators scramble for their Tornado's and off they go. This is not a drill - its the real thing - this is what they have been trained for. Radio messages going to and throw - "Delta zero four, to Tango tango, foxtrot, Charlie," and all that sort of paraphernalia I don't understand, but you get the picture. They are heading for UFOs - loads of them. If there are any American airbases close to hand - how about it?

With great aplomb, we of Churchill's 'so many' look to the boys in blue that are; Churchill's 'so few.' They zip through the night sky ominously approaching the location and see the array of floating lights high in the night sky. Loads more; "Delta zero four, to Tango tango, foxtrot, Charlie - there are many lights in the sky, going in over."

"Right ho Delta zero four, happy hunting, over."

Below, the Chinese wedding party looked up into the night sky, happy with their traditional fire lanterns that have been released to float into the night. Perhaps it would have been better if the blooming RAF had not come along and gate crashed the celebration. 

"Delta zero four, to Tango tango, foxtrot, Charlie," and all the usual paraphernalia. "Returning to base with bums in our hands, over."  :) 

Nephilim

If something like this was true; I can't understand how a discovery of such magnitude never made mainstream news. I strongly believe these are fake pictures and many of us would like them to be true. It would be wonderful to know this was a real event; but sadly I do not believe photos combined with accusations of  government conspiracy theories. I can't see the point why anyone would hide this? Our world news media would be plugging this all over the globe. Everyone would want to know. It is a opportunistic convenient thing to trick people who want to believe, and then pretend that some government body is hiding things. There would be no purpose to any government trying to conceal this. I don't think they would want to if it were true.

I enjoy things about Nephilim or Seraphim and would love to discover such beings are true. There is not any real evidence and fake pictures will never prove this. We delve into biblical scriptures on Judaism and Christianity and read stories of such Celestial beings. We have Dark Age Priest chronicling stories of giants living in Britain, before we mere mortal humans came along. If you find dinosaur bones going back millions of years, surely you would find evidence of giant humans too? Above is not evidence, it is trick photography. If it were real it would be in a glass cabinet on display in a museum as an eight wonder of the world. No one would try to hide it.   

Robotic Engineering

Robotic engineering is increasing at mind boggling rates. How long before we have such things as domestic appliances. How quickly will the new upgrades start coming out as we quickly replace them the way we do mobile phones or computer tablets?

I can imagine them with their own mobile phone systems. You'll ring home and it will answer. You'll tell it what you want for dinner and it would have done all the chores. We will become even more lazy. They might have agricultural ones ploughing fields and picking crops. Where will it stop and what will we do? Devote ourselves to scientific or artistic past times? Yes everything sounds Hunky Dory or will it be?

Even out in Space they could be used. We were talking about mining asteroids and using them as vehicles in space or extracting minerals from them. Rather than use astronauts in such a hazardous enterprise, how about robots? We could reduce the risk and it all seems very probable that this type of solution will be used.

Again, robotics make the possibility of many tasks we perform even more remote. The benefits of such machines could be tremendous. The amount of unemployed looks even worse however. A vast amount of the population will need to be motivated or we could all drift into a state of apathy.

I find the above YouTube clip exciting and also potentially scary. Not the machines, but they way mass populations would become because of them being domestic appliances, which I sincerely believe will happen. I think if we do not adjust ourselves to the potential pit falls, we could ruin our society for some considerable time.

Out on the fringe would be great; like mining or space exploration in hazardous areas. This I see as positive, but that trend of domestic reliability is the one that makes me wobble.

Orion - Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (The Next Adaptation of Manned Space Craft)

The Orion Multi-Purpose CrewVehicle is the new exciting project in manned space exploration. It is the next advancement from the space shuttle. This is so that crew and space vehicle can go beyond low orbit and further into space – much further. The ambitions for Mutli-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) are very exciting. With this new innovation astronauts will go beyond space stations orbiting Earth and travel to the Moon, explore asteroids and of course Mars - mankind’s new goal and next giant step.

There will be several of these special adapted space craft built. For NASA the Orion MPCV will be built by the famous Lockheed Martin group. For the European Space Agency, the MPCV will be constructed by a group called Astrium. Each spacecraft will carry four or more astronauts and various cargoes to deliver to space station construction sites or other more adventurous destinations as mentioned already.

The first flights are scheduled to launch aboard a Delta IV rocket for an exploration test journey in 2014 with the first manned mission in 2020.

ExoMars - Europe's Double Mars Mission

After arguments concerning finance for Europe’s plan to send two expeditions to Mars; plans are finally back on track and looking positive for both missions. One is for a satellite to explore the surface topography by camera and search for trace gases in the planet’s atmosphere. These tests will be for methane mainly, but also other credible gases helpful for carbon life in the Martian sky. This is due to launch in 2016.

There is also another plan for a land rover or mobile robot upon the surface of Mars in 2018. Both the European missions have been named ExoMars and the funding for this has now been agreed and the work schedule for both launches begins in earnest and a new mood of enthusiasm. All believe that ExoMars (joint missions) will happen. The contracts of agreement were signed on 17^th June 2013 at an agreed cost of 216 million Euros. The main contractor for this work is; Thales Alenia Space – TAS.

The biggest chunk of these funds will be spent upon the first satellite mission known as Trace Gas Orbiter – TGO. This totals 146 million Euros and will launch in January of 2016. After this, all the rest of the schedule will be for the descent module of project TAS to be completed for the second 2018 mission. This will prove Europe’s combined ability to land a robotic functional vehicle on Mars

One of the main sources of help for ExoMars was the Russian space agency (Roscosmos.) The Russians came to ExoMars aid because the U.S. had to step down due to budgetary problems and other commitments within their space agency NASA.

Virtual Worlds at OneTrueMedia.com

Cryogenic and virtual life forms may enjoy more freedom then carbon bodies we are trapped within.

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Reasons Why We May Not Colonize Other Worlds.

We could have worlds without taking them

As Carbon life forms we can’t live in the vast majority of places in the real universe. Most planets will be hostile to our carbon body vehicles. We need to create artificial environments to aid us. All necessary alterations can be done for an advanced virtual world. We could overcome many problems concerning light speed, habitable planets, and be set along a new course.  You will also be learning of the real universe from the Cryogenic chamber in which you are frozen, yet mentally plugged in and functioning. Maybe such cryogenic chambers are aboard space stations wandering into the universe. Time is slowed down, in the cryogenic chamber, enabling your life span to fit into a bigger real time period (one virtual lifetime into one thousand years real Earth universe time.) If a star with a carbon habitable planet did exist but was say, a hundred light years away; how could we, in carbon form get there? How could we in carbon form wait 200 years for a probe at light speed to return with such information? Cryogenic chambers in storage, away from the real hazards of our carbon world, could be an answer.

If we lived in Virtual worlds, could we slow time down? Imagine a Carbon body – your own, cryogenically frozen and then stored somewhere safe. Then imagine space probes – hundreds perhaps thousands – going out into our universe. They could bring back topography of planets, moons, asteroids and then they could be terra formed for the virtual world you live in from a cryogenic chamber – a little like the Matrix movie, though not with the ominous angle.  From an eco-point of view in the real universe these places are not polluted or contaminated by us – they have just been scanned.

Imagine that you can tweak this scene to your own desires. Perhaps palm trees, a mansion for you to enjoy. Even fill the sea with virtual aquatic life form programmes, also cryogenically stored.

You could be in this virtual realm, that you know to be, and the information brought to you from exploring probes would be used and assimilated into realms where you might want to live. (A progressive library of worlds constantly updated) You could own a castle or a mansion on an asteroid floating around an uninhabitable gas giant. There might be a huge water fall flowing from such a celestial platform down into the gas giant just because you wanted one from your duplication. This realm is yours, but the probe in the real universe has gathered the information – or topography for you to work on, such to your own requirements. You could have blue sky, fine weather – it’s your realm. You could have social realms or academies were you would need to interact with people. You would just walk through a link or port hole from your asteroid, castle, realm into a design for social gathering.

Our virtual world would have a slow time setting and we would function harmoniously within this new time frame.

For instance: One virtual daylived in the virtual world, would be 50 years in the real universe. Our probe in the real universe is halfway towards its destination in one day of our virtual life. The star, our probe is to explore, is 100 light years distance. Upon the second day our probe is at the destination of intended planet exploration. Wow, we may even have virtual life forms on the probe and supervise the exploration. Within two virtual days we are there. The exploration could take many years in the real universe, say ten years. That is not even a virtual day. Then two virtual days coming back and 210 years in real time is less than a week in our virtual world.

Of all the various worlds and star systems explored, we finally have found a place that has an atmosphere like our own. Carbon people can live there, but it is in the real universe, and time will be accelerated outside the virtual realm and we will spoil and contaminate it to carbon Earth needs. Would we want to leave our virtual worlds when we can just watch, scan, recreate from our sanctuary of cryogenic chambers? A carbon habitable world might not hold the lure anymore because we would have adapted beyond such needs.

Two different views on cryogenics below:

For cryogenics  idea
and Against cryogenics: theory.

What is in Store for Human Kind? at OneTrueMedia.com

Some of these images make a person long to live forever or be reincarnated in the future where such worlds might be visited.

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Solaris - Remake with George Clooney

As a rule I never usually like remade movies, especially if the first movie is very good. The old Soviet Union Science Fiction movie called Solaris was an absolute gem back in the early 1970s. It was a deep film that caused the mind to wander and speculate about the strange phenomenons that could exist beyond Earth. 

In this story (Solaris) the strange occurrences are splendid and the movie keeps you gripped.

When George Clooney was announced as being in a new presentation of the story, I was a little wary, but still wanted to see it. I did not expect it to stand so well alongside the original. The re-make had a unique feel of its own and I thoroughly enjoyed this remake. It was simply captivating. Well worth a watch and, in my view, one of the best Science fiction movies of recent times. The surrounding props and the background music was first class. George Clooney acted splendidly. His character is that of a rational man. A doctor of mathematics and psychology that is trying to come to grips with the uncanny happenings that defy all logic upon a space station orbiting a gas giant (Solaris). 

One of my favourite movies...?  Yes! Without any doubt.
As good as the first one is?  I must confess, I like the remake a little better. 

Happy Book Reviews

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Pleased to know that reviews from USA are very good and thanks to all who have read this book. Much appreciated.

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Chinese space capsule Shenzou-10 docks with space station Tiangong-1

China's space exploration mission aboard the Shenzou-10 capsule has docked with their orbiting space station, Tiangong-1. The three astronauts of Shenzou-10 went aboard their home for the next week floating in zero gravity. In such conditions the crew changed from their space suits to jumpsuits.

While in space the Chinese crew will practise docking procedures and undertake some experiments. They will also do live broadcasting to help attract interest from young Chinese. China is trying to keep her space programme going in order to catch up with U.S. and Russian advancements in space exploration.

Syria and Chemical Weapons - Tough Call on all Politicians Around the World

This is when I do not envy an politician - no matter what side of the political spectrum they might be on. The situation in Syria with its government using chemical weapons upon its own people is terrible. These people who are openly rebelling against the government. This chemical attack puts the civil war into a new and more terrifying perspective. 

Our politicians try to remain neutral while this state tries to sort out its internal strife. Many do not like the Assad government regime, but they do not know if the rebels have extremist Islamic fractions among their number. There is a cautious view here, because one bad regime could be replaced with another, as far as many outside nations are concerned.

However, too many innocent Syrians - women and children are getting killed in the vicious campaign and now there is evidence that the government as upped the stakes to a new terrifying level. Chemical weapons are being used against the rebels. Some nations are trying to play this down, but I think most are in agreement.

The free world needs to help the civilians but is also worried they might be arming potential Jihadists who will continue an Islamic war against Western powers after the civil war in Syria is ended. They could be opening a new Pandora's box. Hence the need to tread carefully while innocence pays the horrific price. The US and other nations are now finally and, I think reluctantly, beginning to realise that they need to arm the rebels so that they may be able to defend themselves. 

The choice is slipping away from all nations that watch. They could be damned if the help and damned if they don't.

There and Back Again - A Chav that Blew it's Tale.

Dear, oh dear! When I read this man's story, I felt sick with disgust at first. "What an absolute waste," I kept saying to myself. All those people - family and kids... This lotto winning Chav as blown the lot, ended up on benifits, and now works in a biscuit factory in Elgin, Scotland. How could he have blown so much money in such a short space of time? As I read the news piece below, I told myself there was a moral lesson there somewhere. But to waste such an expensive lesson on one, self indulgent person, is beyond me when there are so many in this world who don't get a decent bite of the cherry. There is an irony there, but I can't bare to look at it. 

News item:

Lotto lout Michael Carroll, famous for blowing a £10 million lottery jackpot is now working in a shortbread factory in Elgin, Scotland.

The self-proclaimed "king of chavs" gained notoriety after his win, allegedly squandering the cash on booze, drugs, gambling and prostitutes. He even invested £1 million into Rangers FC, but managed to reclaim the investment before they went into administration. In February 2010 it emerged that the convicted criminal was back on jobseekers allowance, after declaring himself bankrupt.

Father of two Carroll, is now believed to be living in a two bedroom bungalow in Urquhart, near Elgin where he works at the Walkers shortbread factory.

According to the Daily Record, a local said “He’s got the same English accent, though he has lost a lot of weight – that’s why no one recognised him right away – but within short order of him starting, there was no doubt it was him.

“He’s not been anti-social since he’s been here; he’s just got his head down and got on with the job."
“You don’t expect to see a lottery millionaire with the overalls on getting stuck in. Fair play to him."
“He told people he has been on benefits so he’s chuffed to be working and earning.”

Carroll has been jailed twice since his lottery win, and weighed up to 22 stone after piling on the pounds. It’s claimed that he still buys lottery tickets, hoping for another big win.

London's Buildings Have Changed So Much

When I was just eight years of age, I lived in Poplar. My home was on the sixth floor of some flats called Hilary House in Teviot Street East London. From my living room window I could look out and see the inner city buildings in the distance. I remember the clear dome of St Paul's Cathedral and the Post Office Tower. It looked so London and old - even though the grand Post Office Tower was relatively new at this time. It would have been in 1969 to 1972. On a clear day I would look out towards the city, knowing my Mother and Father went to work there during the week.

In 1977, I was sixteen and left school. We had moved further east of London to Hornchurch in Essex. When I came to London to work as a clerk in Re-insurance at St Mary's Axe, I was amazed by the hustle and bustle of the city. Part of me liked it and another part of me was wary. There was a big NatWest tower being built at the time and I was amazed by some of the newly built areas, especially the Barbican complex.

I managed after many years to get away from working in London and hope never to go back there. Although I am from London, I don't have a great fondness for the place even though it is a hive of activity with many interesting people. I like to go there for a day out every couple of years or so.

I walk about and get amazed by the new buildings springing up in the inner city and the Isle of Dogs.  For a   few hours I sometimes begin to become seduced by the place. This is only on first encounter, thankfully. After a while it becomes oppressive again and I want to get away from the place. I spent twenty years working in the city, commuting from Leigh-on-Sea to Fenchurch Street. And for all those years I dreamt of breaking away from the pull of London. 

I can't fail to be impressed by the new strange office blocks springing up and now I can see the skyline from Leigh-on-Sea along the Thames Estuary. It seems the further I get, London finds ways of letting me know that it still there - as intrusive and oppressive as ever. I don't mean this unkindly, for there is a slight love/hate relationship with the city. It is an ominous marvel to me. Perhaps all big cities are like this. I'm rather proud of London, but do prefer to be so from a substantial distance.

I now toy with the idea of Cambridgeshire or Suffolk, perhaps deeper into Essex, but then again, I'm older and maybe it is good to venture into the city every now and then. I can drive or catch a train so easily and the new buildings seem to make the huge city metamorphosis into something less hostile. Or perhaps I'm growing old and changing my view slightly.


   

More and More, People Become Uneasy with Government Spying

Many leading publications are becoming uneasy with all of this, but there is an enormous grey area. Government and Police are often seen as using security protection of all citizens as an excuse to compile data on everyone. Even people who do not offend. Some publication are voicing concerns against government spying along such lines below:

A government's first job is to protect its citizens. But that should be based on informed consent, not blind trust. Our cover leader in most of our editions looks at this point. 

Even allowing for the need to keep some things clandestine, Americans, we argue, need a clearer idea of what their spies are doing in their name. In Europe, however, we feature our special report on Germany: the continent's "reluctant hegemon" should now take a firmer lead in the euro zone". 

John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief

Giving You Seraphim - Supernatural and Celestial Beings from Heaven

Seraphim

Judaism and Christianity have scriptures that believe in the existence of such celestial beings in ancient and medieval times. There are also devout followers in both religions today that may still harbour such belief.

The Seraphim are mythical beings that mean fiery creatures from old Hebrew Manuscripts. They were and are also believed in by Christians too. No doubt adopted from Old Testament. They are divine supernatural beings of Judaism and later Christianity that surround Almighty God as he sits upon his throne.

These celestial beings sing wondrous songs and have six wings. In old Hebrew, the word seraph means to burn. Therefore Seraphim comes from the power of these celestial beings, because they have an aurora that is so intense, before mere mortals, that humans can be burnt to a crisp within the presence of such divine angels.  

They are supposed to be abnormally tall to the degree of abnormal human giants, which are deformed from mortals because they have four faces that can turn to display various animals beside a human one, or sometimes four heads depending on how one interprets scriptures.

Of the Seraphim’s six wings, only one pair is used for flying, while another pair is for covering their own eyes in the presence of God and another pair to cover the lower part of their body – probably their modesty. They spend most of their time in the direct presence of God as a heavenly entourage; though sometimes they can return to Earth upon Godly missions.

There are stories of rogue Seraphim. One in particular, has fallen out of favour with God. He is Lucifer – an arch angel or Seraphim that fell from heaven and grace in the shape of a bright star. He is also referred to as the Devil that was cast into Hell by other Seraphim doing God’s work. They are named as Gabriel and Michael. There is also a Seraphim scribe of importance called Metatron.

Royal Mistress Lillie Langtree (Lilly Langtry) v Prince of Wales (AKA King Edward VII)

Lillie Langtree

Emilie Charlotte Le Breton was born on the channel island of Jersey in 1853. Her father was the Dean of Jersey and one of her distant relatives was a knight implicated in the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170 in Canterbury Cathedral.  

She always hoped of leaving the island of Jersey and wanted to live in London. She married a gentleman Irish Landowner called Edward Langtry and became known as Lillie Langtry. He was a yachtsman and with Edward Langtry she moved to mainland Britain and eventually managed to persuade her husband to move to London.

In the city she met Lady Sebright and became famous among the high society people and artists - many of whom wanted to paint her. She had a charming manner and a quick wit. Lillie made friends with many young Bohemians, including Oscar Wilde. 

She adapted herself into this high and sometimes indulgent society. She became fashionable at rich people's gatherings and became noticed by politicians and royalty. Among them King Leopold of Belgium. Soon other high ranking noblemen sort her company and in 1881 she became an actress.

Edward VII

In time she also became mistress to the Prince of Wales later to be Edward VII. It is said that on one occasion, the Prince of Wales and Lillie were arguing over money. The Prince had reason to retort that he had spent enough money on her to build an entire Battleship - an expensive undertaking as one might well imagine. Lillie was quick witted and tartly retorted that His Royal Highness had put enough seamen inside her to fill one. Ooooops!

She went on to have affairs with other notable high society and privileged gentleman and was known for her lifestyle during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. She died in Monaco in 1929 aged 75 from pneumonia and finally returned to be buried in Jersey - the place of her birth. She made the most of her life and lived it on the edge, to a degree. She travelled the world and went through many emotional trials and tribulations - breaking a few hearts and eggs along the way.    

Nigel Farage of UKIP

I think this man might hold a trump card for a future government. His UKIP party will not win the General Election, but I think they will win seats and be able to form a hung parliament with a winning party that does not have enough votes to win majority power. There is the danger that Labour might win by a small margin and form an alliance with the LibDems. However, any party that needs to do a deal with UKIP to form a government (and this is a strong possibility) will need to give the UK electorate a vote on the EU. I hope this will bring about a British withdrawal from EU. I never used to believe in this, but I do now. 

Greek National TV Network Shut Down due to Austerity

The Greek government has shut down the public broadcaster ERT, calling it a "haven of waste". Viewers watching the news on the main TV will get nothing but a blank screen and all news employees have been laid off. Much of this is blamed on EU austerity measures, but it is also down to the Greek nation's past government getting the country into the situation in the first place. Of course this does not help the rank and file electorate of Greece. This is the price they must pay to become stable within the Eurozone. There seems to be much more austerity ahead for Greece.

Prince Charles in Dundee with Dennis the Menace

Prince Charles fell for a prank by Dennis the Menace as he offered to shake hands with the life-size cartoon character during a visit to publishing company DC Thomson & Co. in Dundee - the home of Britain's most loved comics including the Beano.

China Goes for the Stars.

Shenzhou 10 launches in Gobi Desert.

China is reaching for the stars as the nation sends Shenzhou 10 to space with three astronauts. Their destination is an experimental space laboratory. The mission will last 15 days and is in pursuit of developing a space station. 

The Chinese astronauts are: Mission Commander Nie Haisheng, female astronaut Wang Yaping, and Zhang Xiaoguang. The rocket was launched in the Gobi Desert and when it gets into orbit, it will dock with the China's trial space laboratory module Tiangong 1 (Heavenly Palace 1) The astronauts will test the module's systems and prepare for future trials.

Once upon a time, China's founder of the Communist Party of The Peoples Republic of China, Mao Zedong retorted disappointingly; that China could not launch a potato into space. They have come a long way since then and the world's emerging super power may one day lead the space age, who knows?

China's three Astronauts

What if Benifit Tourists Could be seen to be Stopped?

They Talk the Talk but actions speak better than words. We've heard it all before but nothing is seen.

I'm always dithering between the UK and its membership with the EU. Some things get me so crossed, that I want to throw in the towel with the EU and see the UK leave it. I would sooner face the so called economic strife rather then walk down streets were so many people are speaking foreign languages. I'm not racist and I don't dislike or wish people harm because they come from somewhere else. I also do not blame them for wanting to come here. But there are too many immigrants in the UK and my culture, racist or not, is being consumed. I don't embrace this apologetic idea of multiculturalism and I'm sick to death of being told I should celebrate such a thing. I don't want to. I want to be British and be among my own people. I don't hate others, I just resent my own left wing nationals constantly calling me a racist for loving my country and being upset by the real problem of irresponsible and uncontrolled mass immigration of unskilled labour. 

If economists of huge companies want the EU then let them go. Let's support the anti-EU economists that think we can survive on our own. Our old political classes have sold us down the river and things are going to get worse unless we boldly tackle immigration. Some politicians are talking the talk. Even the Germans and Dutch are saying such things. Maybe it could be sorted within the confines of the EU? If this could be done and seen to be, concerning immigration - the UK may wish to stay in the EU. The immigration issue will be the main thing on the minds of the majority of the UK electorate. Not the economics, even if this trading and global economy is the most important issue, you cant cram people of so many diverse cultures together and instruct them to like it.

below is a newspaper clipping of Theresa May Talking the Talk. Its good talk, but is it just talk?

Migrants that move across the European Union to claim benefits with no intention of working are to be targeted by ministers, the Home Secretary has said.

Speaking following discussions at the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg, Theresa May said free movement abuse was a problem for a number of EU member states.

She said a commitment to tackle the problem had been secured following discussions with EU partners.

Mrs May said: "We must clamp down on free movement abuse, which takes its toll on our public services and local communities.

"The UK ensured this issue was high on today's agenda, and I am grateful to our EU partners for their increased support following our constructive discussion.

"Ministers have today acknowledged that free movement abuse is a problem for a number of Member States and we have secured a commitment to find EU-wide solutions to this problem.

"Stopping the abuse of free movement will help us to maintain an immigration system that works in the UK's national interest.

"But this is not a problem for the UK alone. That is why we are continuing to develop a consistent and collaborative approach across the EU."

The Cabinet minister reportedly has the backing of Germany to tackle so-called "benefit tourists".