Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The S.S.Athenia and Mrs.Axel Wenner Gren













This is an eerie story involving the first passenger ship sunk by mistake

by a u-boat at the beginning of ww2.


In 1939, Axel wenner Gren, a Swedish industrialist who was a great proponent of vacuum cleaners and was famous for the commercialization of the well known ELECTROLUX

brand (his sales manual from 1912 is still used today) decided his wife needed a vacation, she had frayed nerves because of an episode

one evening at their house. He owned the largest private yacht in those times, the SOUTHERN CROSS, that

he purchased from Howard Hughes who used it to entertain many ladies then.
Their destination was the Bahamas, a place he had fallen in love with. He later was instrumental

in its development and was good friends of the governor, the duke of Windsor.
The southern cross had received a distress signal from the torpedoed SS.Athenia and was one of the first on the scene and rescued 370 people. the passenger ship had been attacked by sublieutenant fritz Julius Lemp aboard the u-30 who later was going to be court martialled because Hitler was furious of the attack on an unarmed vessel. He later was shot in the water

abandoning the sinking U-110, this was the event that inspired the movie U-571 where the British hms bulldog captured the sub and its contents of valuable codes that was so secret that president Roosevelt was not informed until almost 2 years later. So much for lemp. Wenner gren

was accused of spotting the athenia and giving its position away to the sub and its proximity to the whole event was not viewed as a coincidence. years before he had studied in Germany and before the war tried to avert it by having an audience with Herman Goering, lecturing him and the Nazis of their nefarious intents. he was a poor self made diplomat and even wrote a book about it. To make matters worse he had a mistress- Inga Arvad, who accompanied Hitler during the Olympics and was one of the few foreign journalists to be granted interviews with him. his association with her and the nazis got him on a f.b.i. blacklist and his bank accounts were frozen world-wide and he lived in exile in Mexico. this inga arvard also got john f. Kennedy in trouble

as they were dating when he was in naval intelligence in Washington d.c. in 1940- his father was able to squirm the family out of this most disastrous affair and he was reassigned to the navy in the pacific theater. She later became a screen writer in Hollywood. After the war president Truman exonerated him of the witchunt he was subjected to during the war.


Weeks before Mr. and Mrs. wenner gren took their yacht trip, Mr's. gren was walking upstairs

one night and screamed in the dark- she confronted a man drenched in water on the staircase

holding in his arms a young child with a bleeding head injury. the sudden screaming brought Mr. gren to the stairs and the man and child disappeared in thin air. Mr. gren hearing his wife's telling of the reason for the outburst rightly thought she needed a vacation, so off they went.

When the southern cross came upon the hapless victims in the north sea, the first survivors

coming up the gangplank was a man drenched in water holding in his arms a young girl with a head injury. This story was told to a reporter in Canada by the couple when they invited many years later some of the survivors to their yacht for lunch.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

The platonic solids

the universal elements: convex polyhedra. Plato and those before him
would be surprised to know the stones below are from a neolythic
site about ten centuries before. they are in the Ashmolean museum of art
ine the U.K.



Saturday, August 14, 2010

Dark forces


Mans search for the meaning of life will find all theanswers in nature. Observing the beasties provides Understanding of the primordial forces of survival and procreation. The study and application of the four elements bring forth the true essence of divine
Powers granted to us by our heavenly creator but in
Order to reach the lofty realms of the higher spirit worlds the fith element must be grasped for it separates
Us from understanding of the good and bad is not right or wrong but in our hearts and souls the answer will be found through diligent prayer to dominate the dark forces………

Sunday, August 1, 2010

too late


GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE..... ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A TRUE STORY. ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON. HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS. BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY." MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS. OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY" STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED. ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION. IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS. HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS.GORSKY. AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY. "SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!" TRUE STORY. hehe

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

amblyphygi

click on photo- i forgot to mention our little friend is over a foot with legs

cancellations



cancellations are normal in any enterprise 3%-10% is normal for client initiated and could be as high as 40% when seller initiated. emotions play a part here and it doesn't matter who is right or wrong-it is immaterial when emotions are involved. a refund at the dept. store is harmless, nobody suffers- but if you have 5 hours invested and $100 of your own money invested and the marketing and company have $800 invested-it hurts a little if you are a pro and it hurts more if not a pro, I've seen people quit their career when they lost $1200 least when they expected it.

a medical study showed that some doctors had more lawsuits than others and the study showed

the ones that had less lawsuits is because the patients "felt" the doctor cared for them even if they messed up. the same applies to sales where no matter what happened they did not cancel

because they "felt" the salesperson really cared (empathy). anyway besides the boring details

of sales gone south-- i will share some cancellations caused by ANIMALS. most of these occurred

in time share sales.


a customer is on a penthouse deck in puerto vallarta ($63,000 sale) he's having a grand time
envisioning travelling in style from now on-his icy drink in his hand plus the warm sun on his face/ not to mention the bikini parade down below is the perfect scenario for the sale being consummated and whammo!!! a fish smacks him on the face! I'll explain-the frigate bird who you have seen on t.v. the one that inflates his neck like a big red balloon when mating-their m.o.
is to dive down on seagulls and the like when they have plucked a fish out the water, this bird has a 7 foot wingspan and is quite intimidating to the smaller birds- in this way ,to escape the possible attack they drop their payload to escape the frigate bird-this where the fish came from.
the idea is to get free food that has been dropped, in this case on your clients head. it fell from
100 to 200 feet. it was a Spanish mackerel (looks like a small barracuda with yellow spots) the client was shocked (so would you-try it) and the sting must have been lasting. the loss of pride
as there were 5-6 witnesses was not as bad as the "omen" it presented--this is a bad dealmmmm. i personally can see why the deal went south, but in all honesty i believe the fish shit splattered in a downward spill all across his aloha shirt while going down the elevator and thru the lobby was the clincher here.


this middle aged lady who never really went anywhere was on an idyllic beach (yelapa)and probably wondering why she had been neglecting her valued vacation time in the past.
she had just bought her time share the day before and we gave her family a complimentary
boat-lunch-beach tour. shes sitting in a chair sunburning her tonsils staring at the majestic
sierra madre mountains that descend to the ocean when aaaaahhhhh a monster! to her at that moment and time a monster was attacking her-the beach vendors would walk around with a 4 foot iguana and thrust it into your face to get your attention to get a photo sale -you and the iguana-like mickey mouse in Disneyland-but the lady went berserk-she had never seen one
and the first time should not be by surprise and that big and colorful and horrendous. she really lost it-some people react differently to things- i felt sorry for her she was still shaking when she came to cancel and the manager was furious and was insulting to them-you cant cancel because
of a iguana (see above re emotions)we lost the sale #%@& iguana.


in the warmer Latin climes they call it the cankle, the most horrible looking spider ever, honest.

you can guess where this story is going....our new members from that day were celebrating a night on the town possibly recounting how they got a better deal. somewhat drunk they flick the light switch on in their hotel room and (remember the movie "the thing" where the virus has made a decapitated human head grow legs and it is scurrying away and the actor says gimme a f*****g break!) this would be your reaction too-someone is pulling a fast one here-this thing cannot exist, disbelief grows to concern to say the least as it rose to its hind legs and hissed!

it also has claws, its not a spider per-se its called amblyphygi something or other, since I'm not
well versed to place photos I'll put the photo of one on the next page, anyway it looks like a cross between a cockroach-scorpion-spider-worst nightmare. he tried to attack it and it hid in plain
sight, so he claimed, do you think you would sleep well knowing this thing was creeping around?
they stayed in another room and we killed it in the morning- i was impressed--if you are not i will send one to your house. look for the photo-ambly and i have many more animal induced
cancellation stories-later.



Monday, July 26, 2010

Open source


Open source refers to the ability of collecting information without resorting to the usual means;
spying, stealing,eavesdropping,paying,observing,collecting and a myriad of other methods to accomplish collecting information. the abwehr in Germany during ww2 did a good job gathering
information.American Prisoners in Germany were amazed how much was known about them.


U.S. newspapers were collected by the thousands, some microfilmed like v-mail and shipped by various ways even on convoys taking supplies to England. besides all the Germans who went to call of the fatherland and returned there for the fight taking knowledge back, those who remained sent continuous streams. Turner halls were German athletic based social clubs with bowling and the like, mostly in Texas-they provided daily info. in this fashion a typical u.s. prisoner was faced with hearing from his captors things like-your ex-girlfriend is going out with
Joe and your aunt just died,who will take care of her dog -the one you played with last year.
that and information collected by other means, like in the camps themselves by listening bugs
allowed them to get a comprehensive picture of their prisoners enabling them to demoralize and/or let their guards down. At the beginning of the war German subs would send shore parties
in long island and n.y. city to buy newspapers to see the convoy manifests and shipping dates and lanes!many ships and men were lost. residents of one south Texas town could hear wireless telegraphs on their bed springs,communicating with offshore u-boats providing info on mil. camps in south Texas-padre island was dotted with outposts to watch for German agents.


that's how many there were. the Irish in England were sympathetic to the axis and would contribute as well. there is the famous case that important codes concerning d-day showed up in a crossword puzzle in a newspaper, the Irish were listening around the camps and they placed them in the puzzle. one abwehr agent would sit around pretending he had an appointment in the s.o.e office (special operations executive-London) this was the spy and covert behind the lines clan. he was taking photos of everyone-his posting there compromised many agents. in our times
the Internet is supreme as you well know how important information is leaked and collected.
the above mentioned newspaper abwehr operation is still alive today it is called COLLATING
you can pay any collating company to give you anything you want- like ufos and you will receive
from every country in the world anything printed as far back as you want. why? take for example this open source method implemented by the D.O.D, they outsourced to bell labs to collate all European newspapers especially the rags to read between the lines for smears regarding certain remarks made about potential lawbreakers, it was remarkably correct and lead to their endeavours. I searched on the net how to spy and found very valuable info. it was very easy-how to get unsuspecting victims to give sensitive codes. the intelligence community says 93% of everything on the web is white noise like an out of tune radio-worthless garbage,google can only offer about 25% of whats out there. open source goes even further, its about information you can capitalize on. your open source frequency from your key less entry on your car can be recorded by a scanner and programed to another fob, that easy. people can see your luggage tags and go rob your house. right before pearl harbor a German family would visit
open house on the battleships, their son who was very much liked by the navy personnel was able to collect an amazing amount of detailed information on much of the ships moored there. they were abwehr agents and contributed much to the Japanese Intel leading to the attack.
during the 20's and 30's it was common in Europe to bribe private aviators to photograph
airfields and the like for espionage purposes, it is believed Amelia Earhart was on such a mission
(on the side) as the Japanese and u.s. were busy fortifying islands and preparing for war. in fact the marines were doing soundings around the pacific islands 10 years before. in one operation

they complained about the poor quality of photos taken from subs for beaches and one officer stated that he had seen superior photos from the Dardanelles in ww1 23 years before from a sub ,how can that be? they discovered the photos were taken with the leica camera, so in a reverse open source they placed ads in popular mechanics magazine that a camera collector
was paying top dollar for them, after that great beach shore photos came in.
the 2 most expensive single projects during ww2 were the a-bomb and the b-29 to carry it.
the a-bomb (project Manhattan) was to be shrouded in secrecy but in reality the nkvd (the pre-KGB) noticed the flurry of scientific papers that are commonly sent for review to their peers concerning atomic research
dried up instantly and alerted them that something was up. maybe it didn't help either that
Oppenheimer's second wife , kitty, was a high ranking communist party member in the u.s.
nowadays Intel uses the gopher technique-having monitored as many suspects as they can
a false message of concern is sent and dormant suspects raise their heads like gophers do,
since they usually don't raise at all, the new heads reveal themselves, its human nature also.
new cars have tire valve stems that send a signal to alert of low tire pressure-so even if you take off or disable on-star -gps- and so forth this signal can be picked up by a satellite and relay your position.