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News Briefs 03-01-2005

One of my New Year’s Resolutions: I shaved off my goatee, and I feel younger for it. Drink from the Daily Grail, and you’ll feel younger too. In 2005, I aim to focus on paranormal news, but due to the natural disaster in Asia and the holiday season, today’s news will be short.

Quote of the Day:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman

  1. elephants
    Hi Rico,
    The story of the elephants helping humans made me cry.What a beautiful story.I will tell my great grandchildren about it.
    I was also pleased to hear that you are going to concentrate on the paranormal this year.
    Me too.
    Let’s forgo the political stuff and try to connect to people through the spiritual.
    Great quote too.
    Who is Neil Gaiman?

    Happy New Year,

    shadows

    1. Who is Neil?
      I’m sure Neil gets asked the same question. 😉

      Neil Gaiman is a brilliant storyteller who revolutionised the comic industry with his Sandman and Death series of graphic novels. He has also written a few novels, one called Good Omens which was co-authored with Terry Pratchett, and the brilliant American Gods, a tale of global gods and mythological figures making or breaking in modern USA. You can read more about Neil at his website (he keeps an excellent blog journal), or check him out at Amazon US or UK. He’ll be in Melbourne Australia this July for the Continuum 3 convention. Neil’s New Year wishes, which I quoted, sent a tingle up my spine. He expressed exactly what I wanted to say so poignantly.

      As for the politics … I get sick of my protelyzing too. I don’t know why, I’m not like that away from the internet in the real world, I shy away from politics like a cat from a dog. But give me a keyboard and internet connection, and I turn into a boorish beast. But no more in 2005! It’ll be the paranormal, alternative, and just plain weird …

      All the best for 2005 and beyond mate,

      Rick

      1. wow!!!!!!
        Great link Rick, yes now I remember him, though I have not read his stuff.
        I will remedy that immediately.
        I love Terry Pratchett, although haven’t read any lately, been too busy with historical stuff.
        I must admit I am a political animal, but I am getting old, and I don’t wish to fight with people I like when they are not the ones doing the stuff I don’t like.
        That about sums it up.
        Somehow in the last year I think we lost a heap of paranormal stuff with politics, and I missed it badly.
        I really believe too that you cannot connect with people when you are screaming your politics at them.And that’s what the internet is about after all.

        cheers,

        shadows.

  2. Busting the myth that all Chinese pyramids …
    Busting the myth that all Chinese pyramids are earthen mounds is the stone pyramid of Zangkunchong. has an extra double quote on the end of the url.

  3. Moving Plates, Spinning Earth
    The giant earthquake and resulting tsunami were terrible tragedies of unprecedented proportion. Now that we have such large populations, living in such close proximity to the coasts, this unfortunately is a portend to future disasters.

    Many news outlets are running the story of how the earthquake was so strong as to make the Earth spin faster and created a new wobble . . . but I say it was the other way around. The Earth’s core spun faster, which caused the plate imbalance that triggered the earthquake.

    http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/realtime_query

    Check out the soho images from 20041224 to 20041226, and be sure to check the LASCO and MDI image sets . . . what you will see will shock you. . . . huge solar flares that no one is talking about. Look quick because the images are being pulled off as we speak!

    Many old-timers will know me for my Solar Typhoon theory of geomagnetic disruption . . . I’ve made a new site dedicated to the hypothesis: http://www.solartyphoon.com

    It’s not as up-to-date as I would like, but in lieu of recent events, I’m going to update it as soon as I can.

    Times are a-changing and this is but an initial wake-up call.

    Peace,

    AncientSkyman

  4. Sixth Sense?
    I’m not sure about a sixth sense in animals; what I do know for sure is that they use the normal five a whole lot better than humans do. Animals are totally mindful most of the time, a prerequisite for survival in the animal kingdom. Perhaps they pick up on natural signals that we humans are too occupied to detect. I’ve read many theories about magnetic fields being used by birds, etc., as aids to navigation – that makes a lot of sense, and could contribute to some weird happenings like stranding, migratory anomalies and such.

    The Morgan sea gypsies (great name for a rock band), got everybody to high ground when they saw the sea pulling back – a sure sign of impending tsunami. Their ancient oral tradition had passed that knowledge down through the ages, and it saved them from disaster.

    It seems to me that the less “civilized” you are, the better you’re equipped to survive when nature throws you a knuckle ball.

    Regards,
    khefre

    “Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.”
    –Malayan proverb

    1. right on
      I’ll drink to that Khefre about being too civilised to survive.
      I suppose what animals have is intuition and although we also have it we have learned to use logic instead.
      My dogs are so darn cluey that I am often amazed at how they know so much, but then they watch me all the time for little signals I give that I am unaware of.
      There is also something more I think, an extra knowingness that we don’t have, or have lost over the aeons.
      Dogs have detected cancer and tumours in humans long before the people themselves knew they had a problem.
      Another of life’s little mysteries.

      cheers,

      shadows

  5. blame
    Hi Rick,
    Interesting that you should post that bit about wanting someone to blame for the tsunami.
    Today I read in the paper about Dean Jensen of the Anglican Church in Sydney.Yes, the same Dean Jensen who urged people last year to stone Muslims because he says it is in the bible, and who won’t allow gay people into his church.
    He has now announced that the people who are suffering from the devastation of the tsunami have brought it on themselves, and this is God’s punishment.
    It makes you want to punch his stupid head through a brick wall and then I realise I promote non-violence.
    He and his brother who is bishop of Sydney, between them, prove all that is bad about religion, over and over again.
    If I had to believe in God I would not be able to believe in a vengeful God.
    God is the creation of humanity and religion is its bureaucracy.
    No wonder the church is losing members.

    shadows

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