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Good old fashioned packaging

Yes, there is undoubtedly a fiendish plot to deprive us ‘oldies’ of many of the basic necessities of life. The plot takes the form of completely unopenable wrappers, jars, etc.. Many of these are described as ‘childproof’ but of course we know that really they are ‘oldieproof’. Undoubtedly the Illuminati, a race of Alien Reptilians, the Freemasons or possibly the Compulsory Euthanasia at 40 Society are behind it all. 

Such things as those plastic bottles of cooking oil which my mother, at 95, finds absolutely impossible to open and which even I, at nearly 65, have difficulty with. I struggle with the little plastic seal, which often breaks as I try to pull it off. My mother simply punches a hole in the plastic bottle and squeezes the oil out thru that, a quite messy procedure I might add, so I wouldn’t advise it.

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Above and below: The Middlesex Hospital

This past week I’ve sadly had to say ‘goodbye’ to two very old friends. Not people, but buildings, or parts of buildings.

One was the Middlesex Hospital where I was born back in 1945, and where I was under constant treatment and underwent many operations (I was born with a cleft palate, hare lip and club foot, and also ended up with one leg shorter than the other. I also broke one leg in 1951.)

I was a regular visitor and in-patient of the hospital between the years 1945 and 1958, and was last admitted as an in-patient in 1969 for a final operation on my lip. I got surgical shoes and insoles to facilitate my short right leg and fixed right ankle right up to the present day, though in latter years have just used the cork insoles or parts of them in shoes I buy in regular shops.

This is a very delicate and controversial subject, and was brought to my attention again recently at a discussion group I attended where two fairly recent press articles were displayed.

One concerned the adoption of a baby by foster parents, who were not told the real mother was HIV positive. The other concerned a Scottish case where an HIV+ man is being prosecuted for having unprotected sex with 5 women, one of which aborted their baby (or twins I believe) on belatedly learning the news. She was the only one of the 5 women who contracted the virus.

These press articles are written in highly emotive and discriminatory language (e.g. ‘evil HIV beast’) and are also very inaccurate.

Regarding the foster parents of a baby who had an HIV+ mother there are so many inaccuracies and scare-stories in the press article, that one would be forgiven in thinking it was written in 1989 and not 2009.

The term ‘New World Order’ is bandied about to connect various conspiracy theories including various alleged assassinations and supposed terrorist incidents, etc. This would include the death of Diana in Paris and 9/11.

I personally prefer the term ‘New World Order’ to ‘the Illuminati’ or ‘a race of Reptilians’ which some of the more extreme conspiracy theorists use to conjure up a plot to kill millions (via the Swine Flu vaccine for instance) and continue their secret control of all the world’s governments.

I subscribe to some of the conspiracy theories – the assassination of Diana in Paris for instance, the death of JFK – and totally reject others. I don’t believe the Swine Flu vaccine was a deliberate plot to kill millions for example, though there have been contaminated batches in the rush to distribute it, and I considered the risk of taking the vaccine greater than in not taking it, since Swine Flu itself is rarely lethal.

I am a republican, and indeed a European federalist so I would love to see a united federal republic of Europe (or even better a European union of Socialist republics). But this is unlikely to happen within my lifetime at least.

So what is the future of the Monarchy in Britain? That is after the present Head of State dies or abdicates.

The most likely scenario is that William will be crowned King, jumping a generation. There would be so many Constitutional problems having Charles and Camilla as King and Queen. Already unpopular because of his treatment of Diana during their marriage, the fact that both Charles and Camilla are not only divorcees, but that Camilla was Charles’ mistress during his marriage to Diana would not go down well with the British public. Nor would the monarch’s role as Head of the Church of England be easy to fulfil because of the church’s views on infidelity and divorce.

When paying my gas bill this morning I was again told it would be cheaper to get my electricity supply from the same company, and I refused to even consider it as always.

In this crazy mixed-up world today where everyone but me has gone bonkers you can get your electricity supply from the gas company, your gas from the electric company, bus companies are running trains, and for all I know you will soon be offered your water from the phone company and your phone service from the water company. Absolutely barmy and ridiculous!

Let’s explain something for today’s generation, which they might not be aware of: There used to be something called ‘expertise’. It meant experts who were good at what they did, but did not necessarily know much about anything else.

After the Second World War Clem Attlee’s Labour government set up some excellent utility and other public service organizations, all run by the State.

A long-deceased monk from Bury St Edmunds, Brother Boniface, came thru in a number of direct voice seances by the medium the late Leslie Flint in the 1960s and 1970s.

His communications tend to be repetitive and rather long-winded, but in one of them (available on the Internet, read or listen to last communication by Bro Boniface on this page: http://adcguides.com/librarynames.htm) he says ‘there is no God’ in the sense of a personality or Supreme Being who sits on a throne and judges us. Rather ‘god’, if the term means anything at all, is descriptive of the immortal life force in all living things, the eternal mind or consciousness which permeates everything, whether it appears to be alive or not.

I think it best to dispense with the term ‘God’ or ‘god’ altogether, since it is understood to mean a personality or Supreme Being who can be praised and thanked when good things happen, and blamed when bad things happen, which leads many to become atheists or agnostics believing there is also no afterlife.

Recently I’ve acquired some interesting new information via the Internet as usual, which is a goldmine for researchers into anything.

It was pointed out to me by Survivalist Michael Roll in a comment to a previous blog that the concept of reincarnation is a fallacy, yet I find there seems to be evidence for it.

It has been brought to my notice this week via Victor Zammit’s excellent weekly Afterlife Report that sources on the Other Side in fact confirm that there is no such thing as reincarnation as we understand it.

As Spock might have said: ‘It’s reincarnation, Jim, but not as we know it.’

We as individuals only live once on this Earth it seems, but our spiritual existence is much more complex. I have been aware for some time that we all have a Higher Self on the spiritual planes, and also that there are Soul Groups, but never fully understood either concept.

A Channel 4 program in UK tonight spent a whole hour to say that the carbon testing of the Turin Shroud proving it to be a fake created in the Middle Ages, was flawed because the sample taken was contaminated with a cotton repair made in the 16th Century. It came to the conclusion that the worst possible area of the Shroud, part which had been repaired, was taken for carbon dating and other tests.

The rest of the program went into the history of the Shroud and various tests which proved that stains were of real blood, showing signs of the kind of stress caused by a crucifixion.

While all this may be of great significance to a Christian, and particularly to those of a Roman Catholic persuasion who place great importance in religious relics of this kind, I honestly can’t see what relevance it has to the rest of us.

Someone somewhere has obviously decreed that certain things are bad for us, are ‘old-fashioned’ or ‘politically incorrect’, so they have either banned them outright or made them very difficult to obtain. This is NOT my imagination, it is happening everywhere, and other people of my generation agree with me.

No doubt the older generation have always felt like this as things once familiar to them become relics of a distant past, but now I’m experiencing it myself and I don’t like it.

Let’s start with food. Salt has lost its flavor, so has tea (whether in bags or loose). Someone has obviously decided salt and strong tea is bad for us, so both these products have been diluted.

I’ve never been a great tea drinker myself, but whereas one tea bag was always sufficient to give a nice, strong cup of tea which actually tasted of something, now with the popularity of all these fancy herbal teas with no flavor, some bloody yuppy has decided than the traditional English cuppa has also to be diluted so that it has no flavor either.