Devizes Melting Pot

“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus

: Name: Moonbootica; Location: Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

University graduate, currently working as an Information Assistant for the NHS. Interested in politics, history, sci fi etc.

View my complete profile

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.

Feminism

Human Rights and Noble Causes

British Bloggers

More Blogs and Websites

UnCaptalists

Media

Major Progressive American Bloggers

Palestine

Previous | Home | Join | Random | Next


Previous \| Home \| Join \| Random \| Next

Subscribe to
Posts [Atom]

Friday, February 25, 2005

The Downside of Democracy ~ What if the U.S. doesn't like what the voters like in the Mideast and beyond?By Juan Cole

A Pattern of Deception From Kiev to Damascus by Justin Raimondo

House arrest bill 'unjustified and rushed'

I am amazed at how authoritarian and frankly rascist Britain has become, the government think 9/11 is a good enough reason to constraint our freedoms, to detain people of colour and to lock up people without trial, what gives the government the right to lock up someone without proof. Either charge them or let them go, holding them in limbo is wrong, you only need to see the disgusting, perversion going on in Guantanamo Bay and even in our own Belmarsh to see how very wrong the government is, when did we forget our values? Why do we lower ourseleves to such levels? I tell you what, the government has become a bullying bossy cow basically, it even ignores the Law Lords and does not listen to sane voices.

Thursday, February 24, 2005

The two biggest contributers to the west's Renaissance were the Byzantine and the United Arab-Muslim empires ('Abbasid, Umayyad and Fatimids).

The Ottomans did the west a big favour by sacking Constantinople because all those Greek scholars fled to Italy with lost knowledge which helped to kickstart the Reanssiance.

The Crusadeswere also beneficial in one small way because it brought the west in contact with the Muslims.

The Catholic Kings (King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile) reconquest of Spain also brought preserved Graeco-romano and Muslim knowlege via the libraries at Cordoba, Seville and Granada.

Queen Isabella I of Castile

King Ferdinand II of Aragon

The West does not properly acknowlege the part played by the east in its modernity. Today the west in the shape of America illegally invaded Iraq, the place where civlization began, you could say the American conquest of Iraq is like the Mongol sacking of the city of Bagdad in 1258.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Today I brought the movie Hero on DVD, I had not had a chance to see it at the cinema but it looked like an amazing film and it was!

It puts most hollywood films today to shame, its beauty, poise, action and photography are sublime.

The swordfights are beautiful and the outfits gorgeous. Zhang Yimou has crafted a masterpiece, Hollywood which at the moment is suffering creative bankrupty with their endless remakes and sequels leaves its breathless.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

To many of us we find it hard to comprehend ancient religions, with our Judaeo-Christian Monotheism view. I recently had a lecture on Ancient Egyptian religion and it was really interesting, so i thought I would share what I learnt.

The Osirian Cycle, Solar cycle and the idea of Syncretism.

The Osirian cycle is the most well know due to a ancient Greek writer called Plutarch

The Osirian cycle is about death and rebirth.

Osiris

To the Ancient Egyptians Orisis was the first King of Egypt, he was meant to of been murdered by his brother Seth, who was jealous of his success, all was not lost however since Osiris had a powerful magican for a wife and sister in
Isis who with her sister Nephtys collected all his pieces together and mumified him, Isis even managed to concieve a child.

This child was Horus

Horus avenged his father's death by fighting Seth. The fight got pretty nasty because Seth ripped out Horus's eye and in revenge Horus tore off Seth's testicals. To cut a long story short, Horus was awarded Egypt, the land of Kemet while Seth was given the desert. The battle between Horus and Seth is about the battle between order and disorder, the Egyptians lives were pratically governed by the Nile and they led a pretty conservative life.

Another part of Ancient Egyptian religion was the Solar Cycle and Syncretism, the Ancient Egyptians believed the sun traveled on a barge across the sky. There were three different suns though they were:

Kheper-Ra - This was the sunrise, the egyptians believed the sun was pushed out by a dung beetle

Midday was Ra-Horakhty

As you can see Ra-Horakhty is on a barge with the sun disk on his head traveling across the sky

Sunset was seen as an old ram, he was then called Atum-Ra

Atum-Ra then went to the far off world where he was merged with Orisris. The Solar cycle merged with the Osirian cycle.

Nephtys and Isis

Monday, February 21, 2005

We had 2 bags a of grass, 75 pellets of mesculin, 5 sheets of high power blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galexy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers laughers, also a quart of tequila, quart of rum, case of beer, and a pint of raw ether, the only thing that worried me was the ether, there's nothing more helpless and depraved then a man in the depths of an ether binge... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S Thompson dies at 67

May Hunter S Thompson Rest In Peace, I only read one of his books (and yes I did watch the movie, which was rather good), but he was darn funny! Even to a Yoof like me!

other news: -

My mother went to see George today, he is an hansdom animal, so here is some catblogging

George

George and Friends

George

George and Friend

The other important news is i signed a contract my a house for the 2nd yr, here are some pics of my house (who i will be sharing with 3 friends) rent is only £48 had to put down a £200 deposit though but at least i can now concretrate on finishing my 1st year

Sunday, February 20, 2005

The mole, the US media and a White House coup ~ The reporter who wasn't is part of a wider press scandal, writes Paul Harris in New York

Bushcalls for Europe and America to unite

Why 'Mr Lebanon' had many enemies Diplomats doubt that Syria would kill its former ally s evidence points to the billionaire being victim of an 'ordinary bomb'

Hopeslips away for refugees ~ Victims of the insurgency are losing again as the king attacks democracy

A small but welcome step Press Release, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Israeli cabinet endorses Gaza plan

Israelis shoot Palestinians in Gaza

Scores Killed in Fresh Iraqi Attacks

Saturday, February 19, 2005

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

new style blog

Things which have been bothering me: -

John 'Death Squad' Negroponte being made intel chief by Bush!

The whole Gannon/Guckket scandal

Hard to believe Negroponte was made intel chief, i think Americans should be very afraid, after all he gave shelted to the Death Squads in Honduras , and was also invovled in the Iran Contra Affair Just proves how fascist this Bush adminstration is!

Now the most delicous scandal this month has to be the Gannon/Guckket affair, i mean how did a gay hooker get access to such high level documents? this proves how the media really are a bunch of whores now in the US, Bush time and time again is allowed to get away with all sorts of crap, there is so much scandal surrounding Bush it just seemes to slide off him, the mind boggles!

I found out a new ideology last night, known as Mutalism - free market anti captalism

stories i found interesting today

A Shi'ite Iraq Emerges by Juan Cole

Carcinogenic dye in hundreds of food products

His father went to Germany to topple a wall - now George Bush arrives to mend fences

Suicide bombers target Iraq's Shia mosques on eve of holiest day

Putin defends Iran and eyes up nuclear fuel deal

Lebanese wary of UN investigation

The Arab property tycoon, the Israeli settlements and a clever plan to boost Gaza

Blair to defy opponents over terror 'house arrest' plans