Levi Roots – a little bit of Reggae Reggae

We are all enjoying Levi Roots’ Caribbean Cooking Made Easy at the moment. If you are lucky, you can watch it on the BBC iPlayer, although it isn’t available in all countries.

Caribbean Food Made Easy

For loads of recipes, tips and the contents of the famous ‘Sunshine kit’, visit my Levi lens:

Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Sauce

Recipes, hints and tips for using Levi Roots’ famous Reggae Reggae sauce. Jerk chicken, pepperpot stew and salsa. Yummy!

Levi Roots took the UK by storm when he appeared on the popular TV program, Dragon’s Den in January 2007. Despite making a slight hash of his pitch, he secured a deal of £50,000 in return for 40% of his business. The rest, you could say, is ’sauce-story’.

Gardasil vaccine causes more deaths & damage than the cancer itself

(CBS) Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug, Dr Diane Harper, is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing. It is highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved. Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year. Dr Harper says patients should be told that protection from the vaccination might not last long enough to provide a cancer protection benefit, and that its risks could occur more often than the cervical cancer itself would. Merck’s aggressive marketing of the vaccine has given women a false sense of security.
Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News

*** I would suppose a similar story for GSK’s Cevarix, which is used in the UK.

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The Ragged Edge is really raggedy at the moment with major house upheavals happening. New kitchen, revamped dining room and a bathroom to redecorate. Busy, busy, busy!

Ed Balls, Graham Badman, the BBC and Home Education

Another case of media misreporting mixed with Ed Balls’ determined misssion to mislead the public over home education in the UK.

Article published on the BBC News website.  My response in italics.

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has felt the need to defend a review of home education in England following messages people have sent him.

He said in his MP’s blog that he believed the review, by Graham Badman, had been fair and balanced.

Ed Balls is referring to what he insists on calling “Graham Badman’s independent review of home education”. The review was certainly not independent.  It has been obvious since the review was announced that the Government, Ed Balls and Graham Badman had agreed what recommendations were to be made in advance. Not least of which was Ed Balls’ reply to the 82 page report *on the same day* that it was published, accepting, in full, the recommendations. Surely it would have take longer than that to establish and verify the information contained therein? Surely it would have taken Ed longer than that to read and re-read and consider the recommendations before accepting them so wholeheartedly? Surely Ed would have had a meeting with Graham in order to clarify a few points? Huh? huh? Don’t be daft… he already knew what was in it. All he needed the Badman to do was create reasons why the proposed reforms to current policy are necessary. Problem; reaction; solution.

Fair and balanced is exactly what it is not, with GB expessing his opinion thoughout; he says, “I believe” 16 times. And, lookee here, Ed Balls is saying the same “I believe” in his defence of the review. Since when did “I believe” constitute evidence for changes to law?

Badman quotes selectively from the Church of England’s response to the review questionaire to support his view but then fails to mention that the CofE concluded their response by saying that the current system is fine as it is and requires no changes.

Home education was “a well-established and important part of the education system”, he said.

In this one statement he reveals his complete lack of understanding of home education. Home education is NOT part of *the system*. That’s the whole point. Generally speaking, *the system fails* to deliver an adequate education, which is why parents remove their kids from *the system* in the first place.

But the government wants to register and monitor home educating parents and bar those it deems unsuitable.

Just like their constant monitoring and interference in schools. How’s that working out, Ed? Many, many parents deem you to be unsuitable to carry out your current role – can we have you barred? Now?

Mr Balls said there had to be action following a “small but worrying” number of cases in which children had suffered harm.

Let’s be clear here. Graham Badman found NO cases where home education was deemed to be a factor in children having been abused. The high profile cases referred to in Ed Balls’ original article were failures of Social Services, where children already being monitored were not removed from dangerous situations when they should have been. The fact that they were below school age or had been deregistered are nothing to do with elective home educaton and everything to do with a failing state system.

The percentage of home educated children statistically at risk of harm or abuse is significantly lower than the national average. Of course, Mr Badman and Ed also refrain from mentioning this.

A “small but worrying” number of nursery workers and teachers have been found abusing children recently – isn’t it time to investigate, interview, visit and monitor every single nursery worker and teacher?

A “small but worrying” number of medical staff have been discovered murdering patients for gain or other reasons – isn’t it time to investigate, interview, visit and monitor every single one of them?

A “small but worrying” number of religious extremists have been involved in terrorism? Isn’t it time to enter the homes of all people who attend a mosque, chapel, church or other place of worship to see what they are up to?

“I thought it crucial that the review found the appropriate balance between two important principles, and I believe Graham Badman achieved this,” he said.

These were:

• giving parents the right to decide how and where their children should be educated
• ensuring that every child is safe and gets the education they need to help them fulfil their potential

Mr Balls, Graham Badman and the BBC, listen up. Pay attention at the back now. YOU do not give US the ‘right’ to home educate. NO-ONE bestows ‘rights’.  They are not yours to give. In law, we have a DUTY to ensure our children receive an education appropriate to their age and ability. It’s something we all have. Most parents make the decision to delegate that responsibility to the State, believing that they are doing the right thing by their children. However, home educators choose to discharge that parental duty themselves by giving ourselves the ‘right’ under UK law.

So… why aren’t you ensuring *every* child is safe in school? Why aren’t you ensuring *every* child leaves school with the skills, knowledge and tools to fulfil their potential? Why aren’t you ensuring that a child is able to follow his or her *own* interests to a level where they can broaden and deepen their knowledge and skills? When you can do this better than we can then maybe, just maybe we’ll consider some of your proposals… because obviously at that point you will be able to provide a safer service and more potential-fulfilling opportunities for our children than we will. Somehow, I don’t think that will ever happen.

And there’s that “I believe” again. So what if you believe the moon is made of cheese. That don’t make it so, mate.

Concerns

So the government plans to have a registration scheme and arrangements to monitor the education that families provide.

Why does the government need an additional database to be able to monitor home educating families? Why can’t they use the obnoxious, despicable and paedophile-friendly Contact Point which is currently being adopted in England?

Where there are serious concerns about parents’ ability to provide “a suitable education in a safe environment” they should not be permitted to educate their child at home.

This is absolutely ludicrous. If the current system  is working, these families should already be under the scrutiny of Social Services. Education has nothing to do with this. A child’s home should be a safe (as possible) environment regardless of whether education is taking place. This is why we have midwives, health visitors, social workers, GPs, et al. If a child, whether at home, attending school, nursery, whatever, has not got a safe home environment then this should be picked up by ‘the system’ at an early stage. Simples. To say that such parents will not be permitted to educate their child at home implies that by attending school the child will be safe from harm from its parents. Wha??

A formal consultation on the proposals is open until 19 October.

Mr Balls said he had written because “a number of people have emailed me or sent me messages about Graham Badman’s independent review of home education”.

A number of people, meaning thousands, have expressed their horror and rage at the proposals which include an LA employee having the ‘right’ to interview a home educated child of any age without the parent being present. This proposed unwarranted intrusion raises so many issues, for example:

The person carrying out the interview will be unknown to the child

Recent events show that even those deemed trustworthy may not be

The LA bod may have no understanding of how autonomous (unschooling) education works

The child may say something which could be misconstrued or taken out of context (it is proposed that all h-e kids are asked if they like being educated at home – go on, ask mine that after I’ve told them we’re doing maths in the next half an hour).

A spokesman for his department was not immediately able to say how many messages he had received or what was in them.

Oh, I think you can guess what was in them.

But home educators are not slow to voice their opposition to any kind of official interference.

Of course, we’re not. These are OUR families, OUR babies, OUR children, and we’re trying to protect them from YOUR unwanted interference, unwarranted intrusion, unasked for ’support’ and uncalled for attempts to bring us back into your inadequate and often dangerous system.

Many have had unhappy experiences with officialdom in the past, which may be why some are educating their children at home in the first place.

Well, indeed, but not only because of this. Research has shown that home educated children achieve more, experience more and become more independent than their school educated peers.  They also develop into innovative, free-thinking adults who will eventually become leaders in their chosen spheres. The Government doesn’t approve of that. They don’t like it up ‘em, Mr Mainwaring.

Argh… dirty mud…. unsafe, UNSAFE!! This child needs support and she needs it now!

If it smells like a pig….

Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, July 27, 2009

Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll Profiting from the overhyped pandemic, the pigs feed at the trough while millions will be exposed to an untested vaccine which contains an ingredient linked to debilitating diseases Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll 270709top Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, July 27, 2009 Many people seem genuinely baffled that western governments are hyping the arrival of a swine flu pandemic as if it’s the greatest threat to humanity since the bubonic plague, despite the relatively low number of deaths from the virus, unaware that the pharmaceutical industry has been intimately joined at the hip with the state for decades. Another illustration of that fact is the revelation that one of the UK government’s top advisors on swine flu also happens to be a sitting board member of GlaxoSmithKline, the company selling dangerous and untested swine flu vaccines, as well as anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, to the NHS. “Professor Sir Roy Anderson sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), a 20-strong task force drawing up the action plan for the virus. Yet he also holds a £116,000-a-year post on the board of GlaxoSmithKline,” reports the Daily Mail. We also learn that Anderson was “one of the first UK experts to call the outbreak a pandemic,” and has been busy on radio and TV pushing the effectiveness of anti-virals to fight swine flu, without telling listeners that he was on the GSK payroll. Anderson was also a key government advisor during the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak in Britain which led to the slaughter of over 6 million animals and the complete decimation of the farming industry.

Batches of swine flu vaccine destined for Europe are being fast-tracked through safety procedures and there will be no testing on humans whatsoever before millions of people, starting with children and pregnant women, are inoculated as part of mass vaccination programs.

Despite warnings from World Health Organization flu chief Dr Keiji Fukuda about the dangers of untested vaccines, GlaxoSmithKline and other pharmaceutical companies like Baxter, will begin shipping the vaccine to governments in Europe within two months.

Officials claim that the swine flu vaccine has similar ingredients to the avian flu vaccine and is therefore safe. In that case, we better hope that the vaccine does not have the same ingredients as batches of Baxter’s bird flu vaccine, which were actually contaminated with the live avian flu virus and shipped out to numerous European countries.

In addition, the swine flu vaccine will contain an ingredient known to cause debilitating diseases.

As we reported last week, the shots will include the ingredient squalene, which has been directly linked with cases of Gulf War Syndrome.

According to award-winning investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto, there’s a “close match between the squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus.”

“There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from ten different laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, documenting that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in animals…observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits. Sweden’s Karolinska Institute has demonstrated that squalene alone can induce the animal version of rheumatoid arthritis. The Polish Academy of Sciences has shown that in animals, squalene alone can produce catastrophic injury to the nervous system and the brain. The University of Florida Medical School has shown that in animals, squalene alone can induce production of antibodies specifically associated with systemic lupus erythematosus,” writes Matsumoto.

Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner, who conducted research into the adverse effects of adjuvants in vaccines, wrote the following about squalene.

Squalene “contributed to the cascade of reactions called “Gulf War syndrome. (GIs developed) arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud’s phenomenon, Sjorgren’s syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever.”

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The Ragged Edge

Freecycle in trouble – Entire UK Management team resigns

Having built a successful Freecycle (TM) group myself and volunteered as an IMod (a sort of Freecycle International Rescue bod) for a short time, the only thing about the current furore is that it took so long in coming.

Back in 2006, some of us could see it looming over the horizon. At that time a few intrepid owners took our groups and ran, setting up RealcycleUK. Realcycle was totally modeled on the successful Freecycle set-up, using Yahoo Groups! as a means of gifting items that might otherwise end up in landfill sooner than they ought. The main difference between Freecycle and Realcycle, other than size and media attention, is that we encourage our moderators/group owners to do their own thing. If they have been running a good group for a while then they are welcome to shelter beneath the Realcycle umbrella but will receive no interference from us (‘us’ being myself and the founder of Realcycle). In this way we make a positive input into our various communities and provide a means to help preserve the environment.

Soooo, to all you disenfranchised Freecycle group owners out there – do come and join us at RealcycleUK

The entire FreeCycle UK lead admin team: Neil Morris, Susan Anderson, Jacqui Houlding & Jacky Barrett have all resigned.

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Reposted with permission.

“This is just to inform you all that I have resigned my position as Lead NGA and
as Membership Moderator of the UK MS.

The reasons I have cited relate to the forcing of new groups onto My
Freecycle, the increasingly autocratic behaviour of TFN management and
their disregard for the wishes of local groups operating in local
communities, the use of confidentiality clauses which are not binding as they
need the agreement of people to respect them rather than trying to impose them
as an afterthought, and their increased use of moderation on UK MS prior to
anyone doing anything wrong.

Having been fighting behind the scenes on many of these issues for some time,
I’ve now lost the will to continue. Freecycle now is not the organisation I
joined and there are no signs that it is going to change anytime soon. If
anything, things are getting worse.

If Freecycle ever returns to what it started out as, that is a grass
roots movement under an umbrella name with the sole aim of saving the
planet’s resources through the delaying of items ending up in landfill, then I
will be more than happy to step forward again and help with the aims.

Until then, I shall concentrate on moderating my own group for my own
local community.

Jacqui Houlding
Ex Lead New Group Approver
Ex Membership Moderator UK MS

. . . feel free to forward wherever if you want to. Nothing secret here.

Jacqui”

Squidoo discovered

Okay, okay… it has taken me a while but I’m thrilled to discover Squidoo. It’s a great platform for sharing thoughts, knowledge, fun and… well all sorts of things. You register and begin to create your first ‘lens’. A lens is a page which generally focuses on one particular subject. Your subjects can be anything that takes your fancy. I have created four:

The Lighter Side of Home Education

Tarot Techniques: Moving Pictures

Organic Education (this one is a rehash of the article “No Additives Required” shown in ‘Pages’).

Tip of my Tongue

My Squidoo Profile

Squidoo Home

Look what I found…

On the House of Lords website….

FACTS AND FICTION ABOUT SEA LEVEL CHANGE – MAY LOW-LYING ISLANDS AND COASTAL AREAS BE FREED FROM THE CONDEMNATION TO BECOME FLOODED IN THE NEAR-FUTURE

There it is in (mostly) black and white. Sea levels are NOT rising. The Maldives are NOT losing land to rising tides despite what Greenpeace spout on their website.  In fact, they are gaining large tracts of beach. The BBC went to great pains to spoil the magnificent “South Pacific” documentary series by firstly devoting a whole episode to volcanic islands and how they eventually ’sink’ to become low-lying atolls, then by a large segment in the very last programme showing poor Tuvalu in imminent danger of flooding. It is, but not due to rising sea levels but because it is an ATOLL and a Japanese company farming pineapples sucked up too much freshwater, thus allowing the fresh water table to be replaced by sea water.  I was tamping, as they say here in sunny Wales, as the ongoing tidal wave of misinformation was pumped out… please excuse my metaphorical mixing, but really, how much more of this crap are we supposed to take? Polar bears are NOT in danger; their numbers are increasing. The ice-caps are not melting; they are in some places and gaining in others. It’s a normal, cyclical event.

Climate change is part of the National Curriculum, just to get back on my usual hobby horse. Children are being brainwashed by that complete load of nonsense evacuated by the delightful Al (don’t worry about the presidency, we’ve got something really good lined up for you) Gore.

Yes, we must clean up our act. Yes, we must teach our children to respect the planet. Yes, we should be researching new and cleaner energy sources. Yes, we must encourage thiftiness, and reuse and recycle all we can… it’s simply common sense. But for heaven’s sake, Government, GreenPeace and all the rest of you – STOP IT with the climate change propaganda. We KNOW it’s changing, or rather, shifting…. it does it all the time. There are vast numbers of coastal dwellers all over the world living in fear of global-bloody-warming and condeming the rest of the world for causing it when all they need to understand is that the rest of the world is lying!

Oh I know… this is meant to be my happy place and now all I can do is rant!

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Memorandum by Professor Nils-Axel Mörner, Head of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Sweden President, (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, Leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project

Climate is becoming increasingly warmer we hear almost every day. This is what has become known as Global Warming. The driving idea is that there is a linear relationship between CO2 increase in the atmosphere and global temperature. The fact, however, is that temperature has constantly gone up and down. From 1850 to 1970, we see an almost linear relationship with Solar variability; not CO2. For the last 30 years, our data sets are so contaminated by personal interpretations and personal choices that it is almost impossible to sort up the mess in reliable and unreliable data.

Most remarkable in the record of climatic changes during the last 600 years are the cold periods around 1450, 1690 and 1815 and their correlation with periods of Solar Minima (the Spörer, Maunder and Dalton Solar Minima). The driving cyclic solar forces can easily be extrapolated into the future. This would call for a new cold period or “Little Ice Age” to occur at around 2040-50. Still, we hear nothing about this. It is as if IPCC and the Kyoto Protocol enthusiasts want to “switch off the Sun itself”. Let us take this, at least, as a piece of information to rise our awareness and curiosity.

In the global warming concept, it has been constantly claimed that there will be a causal rise in sea level; a rise that already is in the accelerating mode, in the near future to cause extensive and disastrous flooding of low-lying coastal areas and islands. “It will be the death of our nation”, says the President of the Maldives, and the people of Tuvalu in the Pacific claim that the flooding has already commenced.

Is this facts or fiction? It is true that we are flooded by this information. But what lies behind this idea? And, especially, what do the true international specialists think?

The recording and understanding of past changes in sea level, and its relation to other changes (climate, glacial volume, gravity potential variations, rotational changes, ocean current variability, evaporation/precipitation changes, etc) is the key to sound estimates of future changes in sea level.

The international organisations hosting the true specialists on sea level changes are to be found with the INQUA commission on sea level changes and the IGCP special projects on sea level changes. When I was president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, 1999-2003, we paid special attention just to this question; ie proposed rise in sea level and its relation to observational reality. We discussed the issue at five international meetings and by Webb-networking. Our opinion is illustrated in Fig 2. In view of the Fig 1 prediction, I have later revised the estimate for year 2100 to: +5 cm ± 15 cm.

Prior to 5000-6000 BP, all sea level curves are dominated by a general rise in sea level in true glacial eustatic response to the melting of continental ice caps. In the last 5,000 years, global mean sea level has been dominated by the redistribution of water masses over the globe. In the last 300 years, sea level has been oscillating close to the present level, with peak rates in the period 1890-1930 (Fig 3).

It is true that sea level rose in the order of 10-11 cm from 1850 to 1940 as a function of Solar variability and related changes in global temperature and glacial volume. From 1940 to 1970, it stopped rising, maybe even fell a little. In the last 10-15 years, we see no true signs of any rise or, especially, accelerating rise (as claimed by IPCC), only a variability around zero. This is illustrated in Fig 3.

With the TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite mission in 1992, we now have new means of recording actual sea level changes. The record from 1992 to early 2000 (Fig 4) lacks any sign of a sea level rise; it records variability around zero plus a major ENSO even in year 1997.

When we three years later have the same record extended into year 2003 on the Webb, a tilt has been introduced. This tilt does not originate from the satellite altimetry readings, however, but represents an inferred factor from tide-gauge interpretations. In order to get back to true satellite data, we have to tilt the whole record back to its original data of Fig 4. When this is done, there is no sea level rise to be seen—only a variability around zero plus a number of high-amplitude ENSO oscillations (Fig 5). This is why I in Fig 3 conclude that the sea level remained stationary at around zero for the last 10-15 years (as further discussed in Mörner, 2004a and 2005).

The tide-gauge introduced into the satellite data on the Webb seems to violate observational facts at sites spread all over the globe; not least our NW European data covering both uplifted areas (Fennoscandia, Scotland) as subsiding areas (the North Sea).

From 2000 to the present, we have run a special international sea level project in the Maldives including six field sessions and numerous radiocarbon dates. Our record for the last 1,200 years is given in Fig 6. There are no signs of any on-going sea level rise. It seems all to be a myth.

Tuvalu in the Pacific is often said already to be in the flooding mode. The tide-gauge record (Fig 7) for the last 25 years does not show any rise, however. The truth seems to be that a Japanese pineapple industry had subtracted too much freshwater by that forcing saltwater to invade the subsurface.

Fig 7. The Tuvalu tide-gauge record 1978-2003 showing stability around a zero level plus three negative ENSO events (from Mörner, 2004c).

Venice is notorious for its flooding problems. It lies on a delta area subjected to subsidence. Therefore, the sea level variations are superposed on a long-term subsidence trend (Fig 8). Any rise in sea level would immediately worsen the situation. The last 30 years lack signs of any rise or accelerated rise, on the contrary sea level fell (partly as a function of engineering work).

Fig 8. Observes sea level changes (purple) superposed on a long-term subsidence trend (blue). At 1970 (green arrow), there is a marked change in tendency, partly due to engineering work, but certainly seriously contradicting a sea level rise and especially an accelerated sea level rise.

In conclusion; observational data do not support the sea level rise scenario. On the contrary, they seriously contradict it. Therefore, we should free the world from the condemnation of becoming extensively flooded in the near future.

There are more urgent natural problems to consider on Planet Earth like tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.

30 March 2005

Some recent scientific papers by the author

The INQUA Commission—www.pog.su.se/sea

Authors homepage—www.pog.su.se.

Mörner, N-A, 2005. Sea level changes and crustal movements with special aspects on the eastern Mediterranean. Z Geomorph. NF, Suppl Vol 137, p 91-102.

Mörner, N-A, 2004d. Changing Sea Levels. In: Encyclopedia of Coastal Science (M Schwartz, Ed), p 284-288.

Mörner, N-A, 2004c. Sea level change: Are low-lying islands and coastal areas are under threat? In: “The impacts of climate changes. An appraisal for the future”, p 29-35. International Policy Press.

Mörner, N-A, 2004b. The Maldives Project: a future free from sea level flooding. Contemprary South Asia, 13 (2), p 149-155.

Mörner, N-A, 2004a. Estimating future sea level changes. Global Planet. Change, 40, 49-54.

Mörner, N-A, Tooley, M & Possnert, G, 2004. New perspectives for the future of the Maldives. Global Planet. Change, 40, 177-182.

Mörner, N-A, 2002. Livello dei mari e clima (Sea Level Changes and Climate). Nuova Secondaria, 10/2002, p 43-45.

Mörner, N-A, 2001. Global and local sea level changes: the interaction of multipleparametres (hydrosphre, cryosphere, lithosphere, ocean dynamics and climate). Schr. Deutschen Geol. Gesellschaft, 14, 3-4.

Mörner, N-A, 2000b. Sea level changes in western Europe. Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Autumn 2000 Ed, p 31-36, ICG Publ. Ltd.

Mörner, N-A, 2000a. Sea level changes and coastal dynamics in the Indian Ocean. Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Spring 2000 Ed, p 17-20, ICG Publ. Ltd.

Mörner, N-A, 1999. Sea level and climate. Rapid regressions at local warm phases. Quaternary International, 60, 75-82.

Mörner, N-A, 1996b. Rapid changes in coastal sea level. J. Coastal Res, 12, 797-800.

Mörner, N-A, 1996a. Sea Level Variability. Z Geomorphology NS, 102, p 223-232.

Mörner, N-A, 1995. Earth rotation, ocean circulation and paleoclimate. GeoJournal, 37, 419-430.

Mörner, N-A, 1995b. Recorded sea level variability in the Holocene and expected future changes. In: Climatic Change: Impacts on Coastal Habitation (D Eisma, Ed), pp 17-28.

Mörner, N-A, 1995a. Sea Level and Climate—The decadal-to-century signals. J Coastal Res., Sp I 17, 261-268.

Plus numerous sea level papers in the period 1969-95.

See also:

Lars Mortensen, 2004; Doomsday Called Off, TV-documentary, Danish TV, Copenhagen.

Be careful what you wish for

British politics is in total disarray. It’s a feeding frenzy as journalists and public alike, suck up the dirty details of the petty and not so petty expense claims by our MPs. Some of it is quite entertaining.  I myself have been giggling at the sheer effrontery of these people. Most of us know that, put into the same position, we would probably do the same, if not to the extent that some of them have. However, it might be worth while looking a little deeper. The politicians certainly are a greedy bunch of buggers, that’s for sure, but who exactly are the faceless people who created the claims system? Who are the ones who encouraged MPs to grab it while they could?

Think about it. The public are baying for blood. Many are demanding that Parliament be dissolved and that we start again from scratch. This is not such a far off possibility, especially as Scotland Yard are now involved and also that some of the claims include Council Tax fraud – very likely criminal offences. Soooo…. if Parliament was dissolved and a new system had to be put into place, where d’you think that system will originate?

I am no policital pundit. Most of the time I don’t have a clue, only being interested, like most, in issues that affect me and my family personally. But it has become obvious to me that there are people who would do very well out of this mess.

Britain has already signed away most of its sovereignty to the EU; EU law can override British law in many arenas – not all, I know. So how are we all going to enjoy being governed from Brussels?  How will we like it when the UK is absorbed into one of the five (I think it is five) World Unions… soon to become ONE? Where nationality is unimportant. Where self-rule is not tolerated. Where a very few can dictate the lives of billions. Where individuality is about who is able to rise to the top of the stinking pile first, rather than about pushing the boundaries of thought, art, expression, etcetera.

I heard yesterday that Sweden is going to attempt to outlaw home-education. England is about to have its eclectic home-education community pulled into line with the bland, conforming majority. If we don’t start kicking up a fuss, wherever we come from, then we can all be prepared to be assimimilated. Comply or die.

Common Purpose, anyone? Google it.