Donkeyshott & Xuitlacoche

TRIAL OF NAZI BUTCHER JOCKL - British Pathe

 The Silver Surfer will have been proved right I've heard of Vladimir Vernadsky's 'noosphere' before, but never  quite understood it. In the wake of Yuri Gargarin's first journey into space, shouting 'Poyehali!' let's go! - after Chuck Yeager skimmed its edge in the X-1 , the ideas of Russian Cosmism have come to  my attention. Cosmism is beginning to make sense, as I am increasingly aware that 'mind stuff' (1) is  not 'brain stuff'. We are mind stuff, we observe matter - the paradox of Ouroubouros a clear metaphor for this philosophical conundrum.  The Cosmicists idea of a living sun, evidenced by extremely  complex coronal activity, would make sense intuitively. We would all be living within the sun's noosphere. Think of all the solar religions of human history . Perhaps they were onto something after all.  Science Fiction has already explored this possibility, of course. Stanislaw Lem in Solaris and Frank Herbert

Hi Tony, Your contact details were passed on to me by Dominic Tweedie whom I'm sure you are acquainted with. I am a Kenyan (almost sounds strange to my ears) who fled into SA in 1998 and have been living here ever since. Recently, I got to know Dominic through the weekly study group meetings at Cosatu house and during one of those street encounters in Braamfontein, we got talking about the Kenyan post-colonial regime including some of its leading players such as Kenyatta, Oginga Odinga, Mboya, Kaggia, Oneko and others. It was really refreshing for me to be talking to someone who witnessed some of the monumental events as they unfolded in the Kenya of the '60s and 70s. Dominic mentioned that I could possibly get to learn more from you about the Kenyan left of those years and the different political struggles that were taking place between the then burgeoning ruling class and those determined to chart a path for the poor working class and the peasantry. No doubt su

Dear Bar   We've just had two thirds of our kids here - the twins Andy and Chris, their wives, kids (7 intotal) and Andy's mum-in-law, for almost a month. The wonderful thing about this house is that it accommodates even that many people without bulging too much. And takes the inevitable litter quite gracefully. We spent a few days in Mozambique, at a very pleasant, simple beach place about 30 min boat ride from Maputo - lovely beach, sea, prawns and fish fresh every day..Maputo not looking too bad, considering. Then three days in the Kruger Park, saw enough beasts to keep the kids happy. It's such a lovely time in the bushveld at the moment, both here and in the Kruger. Here we have several lovely corral trees (known in the bad old days as Kaffirboem) flowering profusely - and the sausage tree, which has the most beautiful big velvety plum coloured flowers that shower down almost constantly; and the white wild pear trees dotted over the hillsides...I could go o