The World According to Bush (Docmentary)

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The World According to Bush (Docmentary):
France’s take on the Bush administration. Starts off about how stupid our ‘favorite dumbass’ is. People like him coz they think if he can be president… so can I!?!? Goes on to Christianity… before dude was an alcoholic, skirt chaser… something happened… Religion happened and he changed his ways. God talked to him. Then it went on to what Christians believe… that Israel is where God shall rescue the Christians. If destroyed they’ll all go to hell. Which is why there’s so much attention on the ’51st State’. Israel. One of the interviewees says Israel is treated by the US govt. as part of US. In fact treated better than the US. There is talk of one of the officials to pin 9/11 on Iraq. The people involved created the conclusion, then looked for supporting facts, when they didn’t find much they lied. Lied to America, UK, Congress… THE WORLD. You know the guy they executed in Dec? Not saying his name but they wanted him bad so desperately connected him to it all. A 2 step plan of getting rid of UN inspectors that didnt find WMDestruction and then find a way to prove there were WMDs. ‘What if we dont find them’ was replied with a ‘you better invent them’. Wow it was confirmed no uranium was acquired from Niger (Africa) but in the State of Union speech (the most important speech a prezzie can give) dude says the British govt. confirms seeing significant quantities of Uranium from Africa. Now Joe’s the one that went to Niger and his wife is in the CIA… to screw things for him for opening his mouth they exposed the story in papers… not to bad if you’re not in the CIA. The wife is in danger and 20 years of accomplishment jeopardised. So all the countries she visited, all the people she met up with… all nullified and in danger too.

The Bible prophesy comes true. Ashcroft and others seemed to be working on a secret law… for the ‘loss of freedom’ they could use any kind of surveylance to keep an eye on everyone especially America. Mobiles, emails, cameras, etc. If only you guys read Post Script or one of those ‘conspiracy, 666, America, ‘Satan” books. The Patriot Act II is claimed to be more of a ‘think piece’. All in the name of trying to get the terrorist. First introduce fear, then introduce safety. These guys can go to your video library to get your details… ANYWHERE! Tollfree numbers have been setup for people to call in reporting funny behaviour or subversive language of neighbours or such. Then you got the concept of mailmen and meterreaders keeping an eye out and giving in ‘simple reports’. It’s being compared to how Russia had spy neighbours all over the place.

Stuff about Haliburton stealing it all then selling what was worth 1 Euro for 3 Euros. President and Vice President both into the Oil biz. Stuff about Cheney’s wife being on the board and still being there after Cheney got the seat… unheard of in US history. When confronted about this, she reacted like she’s gonna do whatever she wants. Stuff about how all members of the board have some involvment with companies that produce/supply weapons or oil. Stats show most of those companies did so much more business, in 2 years the %age shot up… A very serious Los Angeles Times wrote: No Previous preseidency has done a tenth.. ..of what occured under G… (trying to use his name as little as possible).

Wow… 3 generations of the Bush fam. Starts with Prescot (Grandfather) who was a banker for some company right. At the same time he was the secret banker of Adolf Hitler and the Thyssen family, so moved money for the Nazis… this was while the son was fighting in the Pacific. No so long ago the story was released in the national archives and not one single television network reported it. Then comes father. He had ‘relations’ with Hussein and other tyrannical regimes around the world. They created Hussein and Laden. The idea of the war was to drag it as long as possible to ensure mutual destruction. CIA helped Hussein in the war. Disagreement of anthrax strains being shipped to Iraq in 1986 but some may have found its way there. Conformation that biological strains were delivered 60 times though. So many big guys knew most of this… after turning a blind eye to the genocide, 10 years later they call em terrorists who did not hesitate using lethal gases. Some dude has records of 4 generations. Father linked since 70s to Laden bankers. Political careers financed by it.

Info about the Carlysle… 16 billion profits, connected to the Pentagon, White House, etc. One of its companies makes tanks used in Iraq and missiles for the U.S. Navy. Another historically unprecedented… They never had a former U.S. President helping a weapon supplier in war time when the former President’s son is the current President. Unheard of and utterly peculiar situation. On 9/11 top officials of the Bush admin and Laden fam/brother have a meeting in a nice hotel. Friends talkign about business. Embassador Bandar arranged for a chartered plane when no American citizens were allowed to fly, to pick up all the Laden fam members and take them home. So the only jet that was allowed to fly the day after 9/11 was the one to pick up all of Laden’s fam.

Oh JUICE! Saudi pays the most for things in Washington. They paid Colin Powell $200,000 and 1st class plane ticket to give a 15 min speech in Boston Uni. The next week he was appointed secretary of state thanx to Saudi money. One dude goes on to say they’ve been Saudi’s political whores for the last 40 years. Make me some change b****! Talk of how everything can be bought and how they saved our dumbasses ass so many times. Then goes on to say they’ve allowed Saudi’s to rape and cheat the American public in exchange of cheap oil. Some French dude was invited for some Pentagon presentation, it leaked, major scandal, but until then the Saudi question was taboo. French dude was very politicly incorrect and pointed all sorts of fingers at the Saudis. Lol he’s like the spoke to the Saudi princes who proliferate like rabbits in Aussie. Like 8,000 princes today. Others say it’s false and only his opinion. Dude was chucked coz of the Saudi lobby which Bush inherited and still play a major part.

30 pages of the 9/11 report vanish. One dude says coz its embarrasing to Saudi Arabia. Another says its all out there now. Instead of Iraq, Saudi Arabia should have been targetted for war against terrorism. Saddam was used as a diversion, PR do overtime to point at the wrong person. Colin Powell says it was right to hang Sadam. The dictator is gone. But where is the anthrax? Nuclear bunkers? This war was stupid. The Generals, Pentagon, soldiers… everyone hates it. So many dying but the media are not allowed to cover it. Talks of democracy. Leadership, rulers. Who does Colin hand down soverignty to? Iran is the neighbour, it will become an Islamic nation. America has no clue what’s going on but stuck a flag there.

Over to dumbasses ranch and town. Lol memorabilia shops with Bush stuff. A toy for your pet that looks like Sadam that says ‘you cant get even but your pet can’. Talk of his riches and blindness. $200 million for his campaign, competition only has $15 mill. Finally a clip of Bush saying they have no evidence of Sadam was involved in Sept 11. Paul O’Neill, Bush’s former secretary of Treasure released a book disclosing that the war was prepared way before Sept 11. Dude will be sued for giving press a doc entitled “Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq”. 8 months spent by CIA chriscrossing Iraq with 1,400 strong team to look for WMDs. They return empty handed. CIA are the people looking for it but they cant find it, its their job but others know better. Kay wanted to ask where they could be found. Bush falsly claimed that Kay confirmed weapons. He immediately resigned after hering that. The only weapons stockpiles were destroyed in th 1990s. Another CIA member admits overestimating Baghdad’s nuclear program. The End.

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Small World Festival 26th August – 3rd Sept 09

Small World Festival 26th August – 3rd Sept 09
26/08/09 Wednesday – Finish packing. Genie’s bleeding all over the place so might not go to Small World today but hope we do or we’ll loose the good tent places. We do leave so bike, train, bike, train, bike. Get takeaway chips for Genie she eats them at George and Dragon and we get lectured and falsely accused of smoking a spliff when it clearly was that dreadlock dude. Pitch tent. Meet a guy in a skirt in the Welfare tent with free tea. Catch some sleep and have a meeting with the Green Goddess crew. Really missed the old crew and this time it was all guys so what a bummer. Guys with a shorter attention span than the kids I worked with a couple of weeks back. They were just talking about drugs most of the time. Ah we have a lady… Dinky. Sista that used to be a bouncer but even into singing and guitar etc. She’ll keep the boys in line. Kinda glad I’m not doing cafeteria this time. I’m teamed up with Ray for litter picking. And boy am I glad it’s with him coz we got the job done Juggernaut-styliee. BTW Ray is my ex-housemate’s good buddy. Sleep but the wind is crazy man it was flattening my tent on me.

27/08/09 Thursday – Morning rounds with Ray (from now on I’ll just call it ‘the usual’) Feeling kinda bad for Genie though coz she’s litter picking solo and keeps wanting us to do it together. But at the same time I remember how much she slowed things down with being high or fuffing about and shlack. Hitch a ride into town. Get back and well when it comes to my teammate Ray… I could write a whole article on just him. Dudes like this gentle giant that steals everyones hearts wherever he goes. And every now and then he’ll impress someone (especially me) with some skill or another. This time it was devil sticks. Major props. Chill. The usual (easy round this time). Acidity. My god what a trip… first of all Luke and Callum were going nuts coz they had 4 tabs. Ray would keep loosing me so I thought I might as well do my thing. Over to Hippie Stevies Heaven tent to play cards with Pheonix and the other kids. Pheonix’s sister Tiger was like why you chilling with kids. I’m like I’ll come chill with you tomorrow ok! One of Pheonix’s friends was so bored he’s like lets go mug people. Then he’s like lets go beat them and rape em… I was still trippin so it was soooo funny. His bro has really ginger hair so he’s called Ginger Pubes. Some of our crew had names like Rimjob! Take the kids to see Joe Driscoll and show him some love. Couldn’t stay long coz I had to get them back. End up chilling with the aunties/masis getting high and bitching or talking politics just like last time. The stars… they looked like this big spider web connected to each other. Then this lady told me to lean back on her hands and see them… that was a major trip. I was getting really worried about Ray too… asking everyone and going round tents and all. But then it was sleep time. ;o)

28/08/09 Friday – Wake up to immigration issues in the next tent. The guy in that tent was such a pu55y… I mean pure b*tch made. More easy rounds of the usual. Wasp stings me. So many of them this time… like soooooo many. Get some tea at the free tea tent. That was our ritual… so now ‘the usual’ also included free tea after work. This time Ray impresses me with harmonica skills. Made me wish I’d got my harp. Another ritual was Ray and I going into town mostly for yum yums and junk and me treating him to a coke at the George and Dragon so I can go take a dump. BTW Sainsbury’s yum yums are way better than M&S… sorry to betray you. ;oP The usual. Yum yums. Rest. Late shift. Same as last time… kids fire juggling and shlack. Sleep.

29/08/09 Saturday – Hitch to town. The usual. This time there’s a tent selling cheesy chips. Larry’s Lounge was not there and my assigned tent, Triban, were not even set up so it’s all good. Tea. Over to the weaving tent with Ray. He teaches me how to weave. Tug of war between the two fires. The guy that started it was the main man coz whatever side he was on that side would win till he switched sides. Usual. Work on some signs for the pig swill. Nap. Tea. Sleep.

30/08/09 Sunday – The bands don’t seem to have gone to sleep. Folks were still partying in the morning. And boy did we have a big workload. Drag. This time we didn’t get a ride to town and it’s a long walk. At one point I was like you pretend to limp and someone might help but no cars stopped. Bastards! At least get a ride back. Usual. Do a bit of catering in Green Goddess. Oh and I wanted to tell Shona that she’s like my Tsunade-sama but it would get too long to explain Naruto. There was this other guy… John thats a drummer and also a clown. And Zolly… I don’t know what he did but him and Rimjob were just jokes. Hang. Wait at the cinema for Wallace and Gromit Were-Rabbit. So while we wait for the serious meeting to finish some of the kids took our place in line when we were near the door right. First this kid is like why are they talking about levitation. We’re like it’s not levitation its meditation. Then this girl hears them talking about sucking on the teat of an elephant and cow. So the levitation kid is like what kinda meditation is that. We all cracked up so bad they had to stop the meeting. Again we’re chilling and mostly it’s kids and this lil kid with an afro just goes straight to Ray and cuddles up with him. I’m saying man… Ray got some amazing vibes… I’d say he’s like Naruto but thats my thang! Sleep.

31/08/09 Monday – Meeting. The usual but really hard work this time and boy did we do a hearty job. For some reason I’s like I really want a cold coke and after that we went hunting for a cold coke. We were trying to avoid going into town for it but ended up there. Rest. Again Ray impresses us with keepup skills on a small ball. Dude should seriously be in a circus or some kinda show. He even does sky jumping/paragliding or whatever it is you call it. Rest. Mad heat so chill in my underwear. Note: My lucky underwear had holes it in and I didn’t even realize. Get some shrooms. And do another hearty job. Then halfway through we ate them so by the time we finish we’d be on like donkey kong. Dip trip, flip fantasia. Went to my tent to layer up and ended up in my sleeping bag till Ray woke me up. Thank god he did coz the moon was especially brilliant today. And I don’t know what it was but the back of my neck wont stop bending so i was constantly looking at the sky even when I was walking. The stars, clouds, moon and Saturn. Yeah we went to the planeterium tent to look at saturn. We could see the rings and I counted about 6 moons. Lol just when I would really get into my trip with the clouds and sky stuff Ray would wanna go somewhere or so something. Note: 3 tranny cheerleaders doing a song and dance at the Full Circle tent. Represent! End up in the tent Ray bought for a 10er coz the original owner guy flipped off his head on acid and his friends sold the tent to Ray. Ahhhh the trip of clouds. They were amazing too and at one point the moon made them look like a dragon, than a shark, then something something. Listen to some Rosie girl (acid jazz) on Rays pod while he falls a sleep so I go back to mines.

01/09/09 Tuesday – Goodbyes and folks start dispersing from Small World. The usual. Tea. Rest. Town. Float. Usual. End up in deep conversations from religion, conspiracy, etc. And the main guy talking was Muriels son Ruben. Dude is like 14 and he’s already into all this. I’d noticed him in the teen tent a lot… dudes def got the Alpha Male traits. Play baseball with this kids monkey toy coz it was annoying and we had to break the machine inside it. The kid totally looked and acted like Macaulay Culkin. Chill by one of the fires to get it going. Some lil girl called Tashi becomes my friend as she wants to melt wax in the fire. She was soooo sweet… I thought I’d recorded a convo with her but cant seem to find it. The Small World tent does dinner for all the crews and folks that worked at the festi. That green curry was amazing whatever it was. And some chicken… YAY! But it tasted more like beef… was so tight and chewy. Look for Ray … I ended up following this cat and it was so friendly. I sat on the bench and it jumped straight on my knee. So while I’m chilling with the pussycat on the bench, theres a caravan next to the bench and suddenly a bright light on us. Some lady comes out with cat biscuits and tells me her story of how she feeds that to the badgers etc. Very nice of you sharing that stuff and it’s really interesting but can you stop distracting the cat so it can chill with me… I’m missing Tasha big time. Wrap party in Green Goddess with crew brew and cream cake things. Rimjob and folks were doing lines of E or something. Oh and this other lady was like some Christianity advocate or something with her chalice and honey wine and what not. Notes: Lots of folks kept telling me namaste but the way they were saying it… Namestay and Numbasstay. Funny note: Someone put muesli in Lukes shoes. Sleep.

02/09/09 Wednesday – Man Ray has been doing fine picking since 7am. Brekkie. Fine picking. Feed the pigs and chickens with pig swill. Shut up tent. Bye bye Ray. Get paid. Genie wanted to stay one more day but I wanted to leave and she wont let go man. Bribing me first, then blackmailing me. I was like this is one time I’m not giving in. But still even on the trains she’s like we shouldn’t go at rush hour what not. I was like in my head I’ve got nothing but positive thoughts and anyway I’d rather suffer 15 minutes in a packed train than cycle home in the rain and wind. Sometimes she’s just too much man so get home and do me… aint nobody gonna mess up the best month I had. Anyway at one point the bus nearly got me… so glad I had the brakes fixed… it just got my elbow and now it’s in pain but at least it’s just the elbow. Notes: Paragliders, hot air balloons and a plane doing stunts in the air at the festival. Home. Unpack, washing etc. Really wanted to type the blog out but Tasha was all it took to forget everything else and just chill with a furry motor of affection and … smells. Lol for some reason she was farting a lot.

03/09/09 Thursday – Wake. Pretend I’m going to drop off bags for Paris so Genie does not get on my case and instead I’m at McD’s typing this lol. And I guess this is where it ends too. ;o) Uh oh… thought thats where it ended but check this out. Finish up at McD’s and get on my bike to go home. Now coz of the road works I thought I’d do a really dangerous thing and get to the footpath on the opposite side of the road right… just as I wheelie on the kerb… I come down and rumble tumble. Now this is a busy cross road so lots of cars stopped to see if things were fine. I couldn’t even think of that coz I was worried about my lappy. After I get up I see the front wheel has come off! WTF?!?!?! Thank god it was today man and not yesterday when I was zooming around in city’s rush hour. Now the bike shop is just down the road so thought I’d go get it fixed… but the shop is closed. I try doing my own fixing there… realize there is some stains on my nice top. I’m hoping is just McD’s red and brown sauce and not blood or anything like that. So not only are both my elbows funked up… my knee is totally fwacked! And walking home is… interesting… because I’d taken julab last night so I don’t know if it’s moisturizer or a mean case of sticky buns.

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Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health Audiobook by L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology)

Whoa baby. Ok first of lets get down to the conspiracy before getting to the book. So many folks are against it, hell there’s even a movie I watched called The Bridge that shows how all these scientologists do the opposite of what is taught in Dianetics and all that. I mean the controversy is so juicy. Others say L. Ron was a great illusionist and how he’s perfect the art of lying and persuasion through practices like magic and Satanism etc. There’s also some story of L. Ron claiming Xenu the alien god is the main man kinda thing. Not bothered with that. So you gotta keep an open mind.

As for the book it makes sense to a point. It’s all about how you rank on the ‘survival’ chart. The more you do to help your survival rating the better and closer you are… even to immortality??!! Lots of charts, grading, etc. Like they’re right about Engrams (Impressions in Art of Living) and how some engrams in the past can affect someone in the future kinda thing. The terms they use are special to Scientology. Stuff like aberration, clears, pre-clears, occlusion?, auditor, etc. Now the basics are that a ‘pre-clear’ goes to an ‘auditor’ to release the ‘engrams’ (meditation in Art of Living ;o)) Its extremely scientific and technical and from what I’m told, you HAVE TO know all the terms and if you don’t the auditor will as you to go and read certain chapters again. These guys are totally against hypnosis, psychotherapy, psychiatry and the like. Mostly because the ‘self’ can still hear stuff even when they’re knocked out, say like under anesthetic. In fact it’s pretty opposite as in you are told to go to your past, you’re not induced as in hypnotherapy and past life regression. So you go to your past and start of just remembering stuff till you come to a problem point where you’re asked mostly to repeat the story/engram till it releases. YAY! They also claim that you can remember prenatal times too.

Speaking of prenatal they say that’s when we get the most engrams coz we’re in mommy’s tummy and hearing all the bull and taking it in. And for some reason through out the book dude kept talking about the same situations where it’s either mom/dad does not want the baby and the other partner will kill the person if they get rid of it kinda thing. The other repeating story is when they have sex while mother is expecting or when mother is cheating and the part-time lover gives baby the engram. And one more for the road, another repeating story is where patient is under anesthetic and say like the nurse does some ‘dodgy’ things or says some things to or around the patient, which in turn puts an engram in him. So those bits I found pretty BS. They also say it’s best to be silent when someone you know is hurt or has an accident so as not to give them the pity kinda engram etc. I’m a fan of silence so.. go silence! After all the analysis, case studies, procedures, do’s and don’ts they get to the history and how far they’ve come etc etc. Lots of repetition.

Contents:
- 1 Dedication
- 2-3 Synopsis
- 4 How to Read this Book

Book One: The Goal of Man
- Ch.1 The Scope of Dianetics
- Ch.2 The Clear
- Ch.3 The Goal of Man
- Ch.4 The Four Dynamics
- Ch.5 Summary

Book Two: The Single Source of All Inorganic Mental and Organic Psychosomatic Ills
- Ch.1 The Analytical Mind and the Standard Memory Banks
- Ch.2 The Reactive Mind
- Ch.3 The Cell and the Organism
- Ch.4 The “Demons”
- Ch.5 Psychosomatic Illness
- Ch.6 Emotion and the Dynamics
- Ch.7 Prenatal Experience and Birth
- Ch.8 Contagion of Aberration
- Ch.9 Keying-in the Engram
- Ch.10 Preventive Dianetics

Book Three: Therapy
- Ch.1 The Mind’s Protection
- Ch.2 Release or Clear
- Ch.3 The Auditor’s Role
- Ch.4 Diagnosis
- Ch.5 Returning, The File Clerk and the Time Track
- Ch.6 The Laws of Returning
- Ch.7 Emotion and the Life Force
- Ch.8 Some Types of Engrams
- Ch.9 Pt.1 Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy
- Ch.9 Pt.2 Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy
- Ch.10 Dianetics – Past and Future

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Ye Olde Jokees from Taz

Ye Olde Jokees from Taz:
These are smashing and I simply couldn’t resist the urge to share them! Txx

PG Wodehouse
- “I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.”
- “There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It’s called the guillotine.”
- “He looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when’”.
- Book dedication: “To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.”
- “Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”
- “The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”

Billy Connolly
- “Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex and men need to have sex to feel loved, so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you.”
- “What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?”
- “Two guys are talking and one says to the other: ‘What would you do if the end of the world was in 3 minutes time?’ The other one says: ‘I’d shag everything that moved. What would you do?’ And he says: ‘I’d stand perfectly still.’
- “On George W Bush: “That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father’s younger than him and we don’t give him the controls for the television.” Woody Allen
- “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” Spike Milligan
- “All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” Paul Merton
- “I think Iran and Iraq had a war simply because their names are so similar. They keep getting each other’s post.” Jimmy Carr
- “Swimming is good for you, especially if you’re drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don’t die.”
- “Cats have nine lives. Which makes them ideal for experimentation.”
- “Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that’s disappointed? Still no superheroes.”

As much as it pains me to admit it, Russell Brand IS funny:
(Paras question: Hey whats wrong with Russell Brand?)
- On respect for the Queen: “When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.”
- “How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they’ve got a boyfriend?”
- “I don’t like little chip and pin machines. I don’t like that they tell you what to do. ‘Hand me back to the merchant!’ like a bossy toddler.”
- “Why in our lifetimes was there a programme called Dogs with Jobs? They used to put it on at 11.30am! I resented a programme called Dogs with Jobs being put on when they knew unemployed people would be watching.”
- “If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can’t you just have some crisps?”
- “Remember when we dug Saddam up out of that hole? He looked like a Father Christmas who had been sacked from Debenhams for being drunk at work.”

And the last word has to go to Ambrose Bierce of www.thedevilsdictionary.com
- “In international affairs, peace is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
- Brain: An apparatus with which we think we think.
- Cat: A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
- Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
- Custard: A vile concoction produced by the malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
- Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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The Tenth Insight (Holding The Vision) by James Redfield

Tenth Insight, The (Holding The Vision) by James Redfield:
Whoa baby… now see the Tenth one has a LOT of realizations. Thing is to even understand the first 9 leave alone experience, so I’m not gonna reveal the 10th. It’s too hard anyway. All I’ll say is dude uses fiction to keep you interested… and mixes it with some very amazing knowledge… thing is you gotta experience it to believe it. Now that’s where the trick is coz even in AOL I’d hear something and be like yeah it sounds very nice but aint happening. Then when the magic did happen I’d get excited and forget about it. Then I’d go through the knowledge again and be like damn I don’t remember him saying this… its so true. It’s simple… think you’re too clever for the knowledge and miss the magic. He also mentions a lot of conspiracy theories and other supernatural material I’d read in other books. Don’t know if I should call it conspiracy theory coz the Bible also mentions it but anyway… good book if you believe it or like quick paced fiction.

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Natural Phenomena from Kumar

Watch the rare wonders of nature…….
The classical natural wonders are huge and hard to miss – vast canyons, giant mountains and the like. Many of the most fantastic natural phenomena, however, are also least easy to spot. Some are incredibly rare while others are located in hard-to-reach parts of the planet. From moving rocks to mammatus clouds and red tides to fire rainbows, here are seven of the most spectacular phenomenal wonders of the natural world.

1) Sailing Stones

The mysterious moving stones of the packed-mud desert of Death Valley have been a center of scientific controversy for decades. Rocks weighing up to hundreds of pounds have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at a time. Some scientists have proposed that a combination of strong winds and surface ice account for these movements. However, this theory does not explain evidence of different rocks starting side by side and moving at different rates and in disparate directions. Moreover, the physics calculations do not fully support this theory as wind speeds of hundreds of miles per hour would be needed to move some of the stones.

2) Columnar Basalt

When a thick lava flow cools it contracts vertically but cracks perpendicular to its directional flow with remarkable geometric regularity – in most cases forming a regular grid of remarkable hexagonal extrusions that almost appear to be made by man. One of the most famous such examples is the Giant’s Causeway on the coast of Ireland (shown above) though the largest and most widely recognized would be Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Basalt also forms different but equally fascinating ways when eruptions are exposed to air or water.

3) Blue Holes

Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater elevation that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone they exhibit when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding waters. They can be hundreds of feet deep and while divers are able to explore some of them they are largely devoid of oxygen that would support sea life due to poor water circulation – leaving them eerily empty. Some blue holes, however, contain ancient fossil remains that have been discovered, preserved in their depths.

4) Red Tides

Red tides are also known as algal blooms – sudden influxes of massive amounts of colored single-cell algae that can convert entire areas of an ocean or beach into a blood red color. While some of these can be relatively harmless, others can be harbingers of deadly toxins that cause the deaths of fish, birds and marine mammals. In some cases, even humans have been harmed by red tides though no human exposure are known to have been fatal. While they can be fatal, the constituent phytoplankton in ride tides are not harmful in small numbers.

5) Ice Circles

While many see these apparently perfect ice circles as worthy of conspiracy theorizing, scientists generally accept that they are formed by eddies in the water that spin a sizable piece of ice in a circular motion. As a result of this rotation, other pieces of ice and flotsam wear relatively evenly at the edges of the ice until it slowly forms into an essentially ideal circle. Ice circles have been seen with diameters of over 500 feet and can also at times be found in clusters and groups at different sizes as shown above.

6) Mammatus Clouds

True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. Typically composed primarily of ice, they can extend for hundreds of miles in each direction and individual formations can remain visibly static for ten to fifteen minutes at a time. While they may appear foreboding they are merely the messengers – appearing around, before or even after severe weather.

7) Fire Rainbows

A circumhorizontal fire rainbow arc occurs at a rare confluence of right time and right place for the sun and certain clouds. Crystals within the clouds refract light into the various visible waves of the spectrum but only if they are arrayed correctly relative to the ground below. Due to the rarity with which all of these events happen in conjunction with one another, there are relatively few remarkable photos of this phenomena.

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