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13 Dec 09

Refuse Resist » Globalist NGO Has Opposition Website Taken Down

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- Globalist NGO Has Opposition Website Taken Down
- Kurt Nimmo
  
  Infowars
  
  December 10, 2009
- Common Purpose, a globalist NGO dedicated to teaching a new generation of one-world leaders and apparatchiks, has applied pressure to the ISP hosting Brian Gerrish’s website, resulting in the site being removed from the internet.
- Brian Gerrish is a former naval officer and anti-submarine warfare expert who has conducted detailed research into the federalist agenda of the coming totalitarian socialist state in Europe, otherwise known as the European Union.
- Gerrish talked about the globalist agenda with Alex Jones on March 26, 2009.
- Brian Gerrish runs down the globalist agenda on the Alex Jones Show.
- “Common Purpose is recruiting and training leaders to be loyal to the objectives of the organization and the European Union and preparing the governing structure for what it calls the ‘post-democratic society’ after nations are replaced by regions in the European Union,” writes David Icke.
- “Common Purpose or, more properly, Communist Purpose, is a secretive, New Labor and Brussels funded, Marxist-led, EU ‘Trojan Horse’ fifth column operation and part of the mechanism being used by Brussels to undermine and soften up British society to pave the way for the take-over of Britain by the European Union Collective of Communist Purpose (EUCCP),
- also known as the EU Police State,” an anti-Common Purpose broadsheet states.
- On November 19, Herman Van Rompuy, recently appointed as president of the EU, announced that 2009 is the “first year of global governance.”
- The European Union is the admitted model for world government.
- He said the “climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet,” i.e., the establishment of a One World Order.
- On November 19, Common Purpose sent a letter ( see PDF) to HostGator, an ISP in Houston, Texas, claiming Gerrish’s cpexposed website has violated its copyright under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act, implemented under two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization, a United Nations agency).
- “We are puzzled since all the documentation is in the public domain, and has been for some considerable time,” a post on the cpexposed site declares in response to the takedown order.
- “This is because, in line with the Leninist technique of not defining one’s terms, very little hard information about the ‘curriculum’ is actually available,” writes Global Analysis.
- Little is known about Common Purpose or its course materials and literature.
- “The independent media which presents documents, facts and evidence that reveal the extent of the misinformation of the mainstream corporate media and also of the crimes of the banksters controlling that media is clearly a big threat to them,” remarks The Flu Case, a website dedicated to the H1N1 issue.
- “When the internet goes silent, it is time for the revolution to start.”
- The Flu Case claims the blog of Joey Fuller of the TN Sons of Liberty critical of swine flu vaccinations “has just been locked in what appears to be the start of a global crackdown on the internet.”
- Brian Gerrish is characterized as a “Eurosceptic” by the corporate media because of his claim that Common Purpose plans to create a Sovietized Britain and ultimately merge it into the New World Order via the European Union.
- Common Purpose is officially described as a “leadership training organization.”
- In January of 2009, Common Purpose was reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office in Britain for alleged breaches of the data protection law in its effort to combat Freedom of Information requests.
- Numerous FOI requests have come from people concerned that too much public money is being spent on Common Purpose courses for government officials.

07 Dec 09

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Megaflood 'made Island Britain'

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Wednesday, 18 July 2007
Megaflood 'made Island Britain'
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- By Jonathan Amos
  
  Science reporter, BBC News
- Britain became separated from mainland Europe after a catastrophic flood some time before 200,000 years ago, a sonar study of the English Channel confirms.
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- The images reveal deep scars on the Channel bed that must have been cut by a sudden, massive discharge of water.
- The megaflood made Britain what it is today, geographically
- Scientists tell the journal Nature that the torrent probably came from a giant lake in what is now the North Sea.
  - Yep..that's it..That's exactly where the water came from... - on 2009-12-07
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- Some event - perhaps an earthquake - caused the lake's rim to breach at the Dover Strait, they believe.
- Dr Sanjeev Gupta, from Imperial College London, and colleagues say the discharge would have been one of the most significant megafloods in recent Earth history, and provides an explanation for Britain's island status.
- "This event, or series of events, that caused [the breach] changed the course of Britain's history," Dr Gupta told BBC News.
- "If this hadn't happened, Britain would always have been a peninsula of Europe.
- and you could always have walked across from France into Britain, as early humans did prior to this event."
- Tremor trigger?
- The idea of a great flood stems from scientists' understanding of northern Europe's ice age past.
- It is believed that hundreds of thousands of years ago, when ice sheets had pushed down from Scotland and Scandinavia, there existed a narrow isthmus linking Britain to continental Europe.
- This gently upfolding chalk ridge was perhaps some 30m higher than the current sea level in the English Channel.
- Palaeo-researchers think it bounded a large lake to the northeast that was filled by glacial meltwaters fed by ancient versions of the rivers Thames and Rhine.
- Then - and they are not sure of the precise date - something happened to break the isthmus known as the Weald-Artois ridge.
- "Possibly this was just the build-up of water behind. Possibly something triggered it; it's well known today that there are small earthquakes in the Kent area," explained Imperial's Dr Jenny Collier.
- Re-routing rivers
- Either way, once the ridge was broken, the discharge would have been spectacular.
- The Imperial College and UK Hydrographic Office study used high-resolution sonar waves to map the submerged world in the Channel basin.
- The images detail deep grooves and streamlined features, the hallmarks of landforms that have been gouged by large bodies of fast-moving water.
- At its peak, it is believed that the megaflood could have lasted several months, discharging an estimated one million cubic metres of water per second.
- And from the way some features have been cut, it is likely there were at least two distinct phases to the flooding.
- The study is the best evidence yet for a long-held idea
- "I was frankly astonished," said Dr Collier. "I've worked in many exotic places around the world, including mid-ocean ridges where you see very spectacular features; and it was an enormous surprise to me that we should find something with a worldwide-scale implication offshore of the Isle of Wight. It was completely unexpected."
- The researchers tell Nature that the ridge breach and the subsequent flooding would have helped reorganise river drainage in northwest Europe, re-routing both the Thames and the Rhine.
- Fossil filling
- The megaflood theory has been around for some 30 years; but the sonar images represent the clearest narrative yet for the story.
- Previous studies of prehistoric animal remains from the past half-million years have already revealed the crucial role the English Channel has played in shaping the course of Britain's natural history.
- The Channel has acted as a filter through time, letting some animals (including humans) in from mainland Europe but not others.
- And even when water was locked up in giant ice sheets and sea levels plummeted, the Rhine and the Thames rivers would have dumped meltwater into a major river system that flowed along the Channel's floor.
- The story is also told through Britain's fossil record
- Scientists can see all of this influence written in the type and mix of British fossils they find at key periods in history.
- Professor Chris Stringer is director of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (Ahob) project, which has sought to fill out the details of the British Isles' prehistory.
- "The timing and method of formation of the Channel has been a long-running argument - after all, it really makes Britain what it is today, geographically," he commented.
- It certainly explains and reinforces the picture the Ahob project has been putting together of the increasing isolation of Britain from Europe after 400,000 years ago."
- "The evidence presented in this paper is spectacular.
- Research suggests there were eight major incursions
- All but the last incursion - about 12,000 years ago - failed
- A number of major palaeo-sites mark the periods of influx
- Extreme cold made Britain uninhabitable for thousands of years
- Warm climate - high sea level; cold climate - low sea level

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Cave record of Britain's pioneers

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Thursday, 16 July 2009
Cave record of Britain's pioneers
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- By Paul Rincon
  
  Science reporter, BBC News
- The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites inhabited by humans when
- they returned to Britain towards the end of the last Ice Age.
- New radiocarbon dates on bones from Gough's Cave show people were living there some 14,700 years ago.
- The results confirm the site's great antiquity and suggest human hunters re-colonised Britain at a time of rapid climate warming.
- From 24,000 years ago, an ice sheet extended over much of Britain.
- Gough's Cave was an attractive site for Ice Age hunters
- Beyond that ice sheet, in southern Britain and much of northern France, the environment resembled a polar desert.
- Evidence suggests these inhospitable conditions kept people out of north-west Europe for more than 9,000 years.
- But human groups were able to retreat to ice-free areas (refugia) in southern France, Iberia and elsewhere.
- After the Ice Age peaked, humans bounced back, expanding from southern refugia to re-colonise northern Europe.
- Gough's Cave is situated in the Cheddar Gorge, a deep canyon on the southern edge of Somerset's Mendip Hills.
- Dates re-visited
- Interest in the site was stimulated by the discovery in 1903 of "Cheddar Man", the complete skeleton of a male individual dating to about 9,000 years ago
- (after calibration this comes to about 10,000 calendar years).
- In the 1980s, excavations uncovered accumulations of human and animal bones and artefacts that appeared to be much older even than Cheddar Man.
- The discoveries caused a sensation when it was realised many human remains bore a pattern of cut marks compatible with cannibalism.
- However, researchers were perplexed by the radiocarbon dating results.
- Although the remains seemed to represent a single occupation level in the sediments,
- the remains appeared to be a thousand years different in age.
- "We had these apparently cannibalised human bones and artefacts and animal remains with signs of butchery.
- They all looked like they should be part of a consistent population pattern," said Chris Stringer, head of human origins at London's Natural History Museum.
- Cheddar Man was part of another wave of people into Britain
- "Even some re-fits of bones which seemed to be from the same individual were giving different ages."
- Since those tests were carried out, there have been significant advances in radiocarbon dating technology, particularly to reduce contamination in the samples. This allows more accurate dating of archaeological materials.
- When the bones were sent to be re-tested at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, the remains fell into a much narrower age range, converging on 14,700 years ago.
- The latest results were a much better fit with the archaeological findings.
- Members of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project now think the bones from Gough's Cave could have accumulated over just two or three human generations.
- The possible evidence of cannibalism at Gough's Cave led to lurid newspaper headlines at the time of the excavations, with some seizing on the fact that a number of the modified bones belonged to children.
- A river system in the bed of the English Channel may have acted as a barrier to humans and fauna
- "There are large numbers of cut marks on them and they are almost entirely smashed. And that smashing looks remarkably like the patterns of breakage you get on the animal bones in the cave - which we have assumed to be for bone marrow extraction," co-author Roger Jacobi told BBC News.
- But Dr Jacobi said this was not the only possible interpretation: "Another might be that the people were dying away from the cave," he posited.
- "Other people are then making the human bones small and compact enough to bring them back to the cave where they are deposited. They cut off the flesh and smashed the long bones to make them more portable."
- The new dates correspond precisely to a period of very rapid climate warming which could have occurred over as little as three years:
- "[The occupation] really is right on the cusp of this warming which we can see in Greenland ice cores," Professor Stringer told BBC News.
- "Europe starts to defrost and the animals move; the humans are right there with them."
- Horse hunting
- "One of the puzzles from the previous radiocarbon dating was that some of the evidence for human occupation seemed to be divorced from the evidence for horse butchery," said Chris Stringer.
- They appear to have been hunting horses:
- "Now they are right there together, so these people were probably following herds of horses across Doggerland (an ancient landmass once linking Britain to the rest of Europe)
- because of a large river system in the bed of the English Channel which was blocking the way from France."
- Professor Stringer believes humans expanding out of southern France may have circumvented this river system by taking a detour into Belgium or the Netherlands, moving into eastern Britain across land that is now submerged under the North Sea.
- However, after the warm period which attracted people back to Britain for the first time in nearly 10,000 years, the climate and environment changed again.
- Birch forests expanded, which created a less attractive habitat for horses.
- In turn, the signal of human presence largely disappears from caves and becomes weaker and more scattered across the landscape.
- Then north-west Europe plunged into the "short, sharp shock" of the Younger Dryas, a cold climate period which seems to extinguish the signal of human occupation altogether.
- Cheddar Man, who lived in the cave 10,000 years ago, appears to belong to an entirely new population which arrived from the continent after conditions once again improved, said Professor Stringer.

31 Oct 09

Gay rights campaigner James Rennie jailed for life over paedophile ring - Times Online

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October 30, 2009
Gay rights campaigner James Rennie jailed for life over paedophile ring
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- The mother of a six-year-old boy who was subjected to what a judge described
  as “truly appalling” abuse from a man she had regarded as a close friend
  said yesterday that her child had been “shaped and moulded” for life by the
  experience.
- Welcoming the life sentences passed on James Rennie and Neil Strachan, the
  woman said that she had moved on from feelings of anger.
- “My focus is about
  my son, about how to support him and loving him for who he is. And who he is
  now has been shaped and moulded by what’s gone on.”
- Rennie 38, the former chief executive of a gay youth organisation, was
  responsible for “a colossal breach of trust”, Lord Bannatyne said at the
  High Court in Edinburgh.
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  James Rennie is led into Edinburgh High Court, where he was sentenced to life in jail
- He had abused the boy — identified as Child F —
  almost from birth to the age of four years.
- He distributed images and films
  of his attacks to a gang of seven other men.
- Strachan, 41, the only one of the gang with previous convictions for offences
  against children, was shown in background reports to display evidence of a
  psychopathic personality.
- One image that showed him abusing a baby left in
  his care displayed all his basest instincts, the judge said.
- “By its very
  nature what is shown in that photograph is utterly appalling and would shock
  to the core any right-minded person who has had to see it.”
- Strachan was ordered to spend a minimum of 16 years in prison, while Rennie
  was sentenced to a minimum of 13 years.
- Nearly 125,000 indecent images were seized during an 18-month police
  investigation, codenamed Operation Algebra.
- Six men were jailed in June for
  their involvement in the gang. All were respected members of the community,
  as was Rennie, and they included a civil servant, a bank clerk and a church
  bell-ringer.
- The nine-week trial in the spring invoked conspiracy laws for the first time
  in a sexual offences case in Scotland, a precedent that prosecutors hope
  will have a profound effect on curtailing the making and distribution of
  images of child abuse by paedophiles.
  - Yet, in the USA now and under the umbrella of the Obama administration and a Democratic controlled congress, a law has been passed protecting pedophiles. - on 2009-10-31
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- “These offences involve real children and many of the photographs involve
  children being sexually abused, often in the most appalling ways.
- There are
  real victims of these offences, namely the children who were photographed
  and abused,” Lord Bannatyne said.
- The judge reserved special praise for Detective Inspector Stuart Hood and the
  squad of 13 detectives who uncovered the gang.
- Their investigations required an international operation that stretched from
  Lothian and Borders police headquarters at Fettes in Edinburgh and drew on
  the skills of Scottish and American academics, FBI agents and Microsoft
  personnel in San Jose, California.
- As a direct result of Operation Algebra more than 60 individuals have been
  arrested in Britain, and according to police hundreds of offenders are
  believed to have been identified in Britain and around the world.
- Significant operations are continuing in central Scotland, Sussex, the
  Netherlands and the United States.
- Strachan, convicted of eight charges in total, was also found guilty of
  repeatedly touching a six-year-old boy indecently.
- The jury found Rennie
  guilty of 14 charges, including one of procuring his best friend’s child for
  other men, an offer that Strachan took up.
- The men — along with Ross Webber, 27, from North Berwick, Craig Boath, 24 from
  Dundee and John Milligan, 40, from Glasgow — were also found guilty of
  conspiring to gain access to a child or children to commit abuse.
- After sentencing the mother of an 18-month-old boy abused by Strachan said
  that she would never be able to forgive him. “The anguish I feel towards Mr
  Strachan is indescribable,” she said.
- “I feel that no matter what punishment is given to Mr Strachan, it will never
  be able to compensate for the hurt, devastation and great deal of stress
  brought to me and my family.”
- Webber, Boath, and Milligan, along with Neil Campbell, 46, and John Murphy,
  44, both from Glasgow, were sentenced to a total of 43 years in jail in June
  for their involvement in the paedophile ring.

27 Oct 09

Page 1 The American Self Immolation, Truly a Sight to See - Pravda.Ru

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The American Self Immolation, Truly a Sight to See
As my readers know, I am a fan of economics and of history, as well as politics, a combination that forms some very interesting cycles to research, discuss and argue on. None is so interesting than the death of great nations, for here there is always the self destruction that comes before the final breakups and invasions. As they say: Rome did not fall to the barbarians, all they did was kick in the rotting gates.
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- It can be safely said, that the last time a great nation destroyed itself through its own hubris and economic folly was the early Soviet Union (though in the end the late Soviet Union still died by the economic hand).
- Now we get the opportunity to watch the Americans do the exact same thing to themselves.
- The most amazing thing of course, is that they are just repeating the failed mistakes of the past.
- One would expect their fellow travelers in suicide, the British, to have spoken up by now, but unfortunately for the British, their education system is now even more of a joke than that of the Americans.
- While taking a small breather from mouthing the never ending propaganda of recovery, never mind that every real indicator is pointing to death and destruction, the American Marxists have noticed that the French and Germans are out of recession and that Russia and Italy are heading out at a good clip themselves.
- Of course these facts have been wrapped up into their mind boggling non stop chant of "recovery" and hope-change-zombification.
- What is ignored, of course, is that we and the other three great nations all cut our taxes, cut our spending, made life easy for small business...in other words: the exact opposite of the Anglo-Sphere.
- That brings us to Cap and Trade. Never in the history of humanity has a more idiotic plan been put forward and sold with bigger lies.
- Energy is the key stone to any and every economy, be it man power, animal power, wood or coal or nuclear.
- How else does one power industry that makes human life better (unless of course its making the bombs that end that human life, but that's a different topic).
- Never in history, with the exception of the Japanese self imposed isolation in the 1600s, did a government actively force its people away from economic activity and industry.
- The great famine of the late 1920s was caused by quite the opposite, as the Soviets collectivized farms to force peasants off of their land and into the big new factories.
- Even the Soviets never created such idiocy.
- Of course this had disastrous results.
- So one must ask, are the powers that be in Washington and London degenerates or satanically evil?
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- Where is the opposition? Where are the Republicans in America and Tories in England?

12 Oct 09

YouTube - The HAWK 4-6

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The HAWK 4-6
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09 Oct 09

Free Speech Under Foreign Assault – by Robert Spencer | FrontPage Magazine

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Free Speech Under Foreign Assault – by Robert Spencer
by Robert Spencer
on Oct 9th, 2009
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- Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of eight books, eleven monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran, is available now from Regnery Publishing.
- Does the United States Constitution protect the freedom of speech of American citizens, or does it not?
- In this era of globalization, the answer is becoming increasingly muddled.
- Thursday, an American citizen, Paul Williams, went on trial in Canada. He is charged with violating Canadian libel laws in charges he made in his book The Dunces of Doomsday about a jihad terror cell at McMaster University in Ontario.
- Likewise in Brazil, an American business writer, Joseph Sharkey, is on trial for what he wrote about Brazilian air-traffic controllers after he survived an airplane crash in Brazil.
- Williams and Sharkey both live in the United States, which guarantees that its citizens’ freedom of speech not be infringed.
- Should Canadian and Brazilian libel laws apply to them?
- Williams has already had to pay enormous amounts of money for his defense, and Sharkey is likely to be found guilty and given a $500,000 fine. McMaster University wants a cool two million dollars from Williams.
- Shouldn’t the United States government protect American citizens from such bullying by foreign powers?
- If nothing is done, the problem is certain to get worse — for Williams and Sharkey are not the first American victims of the tactic that has come to be known as “libel tourism.”
- The late Saudi billionaire Khalid Salim bin Mahfouz sued Rachel Ehrenfeld, founder and director of the American Center for Democracy, several years ago. Bin Mahfouz was upset about Ehrenfeld’s book, Funding Evil, in which she wrote that he was involved in funding Hamas and al Qaeda –
- a charge for which there was abundant evidence from Western intelligence agencies.
- Nevertheless, taking advantage of British libel laws that place the burden of proof on the defendant, rather than the plaintiff, bin Mahfouz sued not in the United States, where Ehrenfeld lives and published her book, but in Britain, where neither he nor Ehrenfeld lived and where his entire case depended upon a handful of copies sold in that country mostly through special orders from Amazon.com, and the appearance of one chapter of the book on the Internet, where could have been read by British readers.
- A British court awarded bin Mahfouz $250,000, and Ehrenfeld had to devote the bulk of her time for years to fighting this judgment.
- Now Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) has introduced the Free Speech Protection Act of 2009, which would shelter American writers from libel judgments by courts in countries that do not value the freedom of speech the way America does.
- But this bill faces an uphill battle – it seems unlikely that Barack Obama will give it his support after he just last week had the United States co-sponsor an anti-free speech resolution at the United Nations.
- Approved by the U.N. Human Rights Council, the resolution, cosponsored by the U.S. and Egypt, calls on states to condemn and criminalize “any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.”
- “Hatred” and “incitement” are, of course, in the eye of the beholder — or more precisely, in the eye of those who make such determinations.
- The powerful can decide to silence the powerless by classifying their views as “hate speech.”
- The ability to dissent, publicly and without fear of imprisonment or other reprisal, is a cornerstone of any genuinely free society. Yet no less distinguished a personage than the President of the United States has now given his imprimatur to the quashing of such dissent.
- Legal expert Eugene Volokh explains that it isn’t that easy: “If the U.S. backs a resolution that urges the suppression of some speech, presumably we are taking the view that all countries — including the U.S. — should adhere to this resolution.
- But we still have the First Amendment, right?
- If we are constitutionally barred from adhering to it by our domestic constitution, then we’re implicitly criticizing that constitution, and committing ourselves to do what we can to change it.”
- Is that the change that Americans were hoping for when they voted for Barack Obama in such large numbers in 2008?
- Specter and the other Democrats who have introduced and support the Free Speech Protection Act should recognize how inconsistent it is with their own party leader’s actions as President of the United States, and call upon him to end all support for any legal measure anywhere that restricts free speech.
- Our survival as a free people could depend upon it.

Beast Of Bodmin Moor

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Beast Of Bodmin Moor
Location of Sightings:

Bodmin Moor - Cornwall (SW England - UK)
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- Earliest - Latest Reported Sighting:
  
  1971 To Present
- Description:
  
  This creature has been reported as looking like a
  black panther or dark colored mountain lion.
- The
  creature has large white-yellow eyes. It's size has
  been reported as ranging from 3-5 feet long for the
  body, with a tail of roughly 18-24 inches.
- Odors described during or right after
  encounters with this creature:
  
  None Reported
- Sounds - Speech:
  
  The creature makes the usual hissing and growling
  sounds of a large cat such as a panther or mountain
  lion,
- but also has made what sounds like a woman
  screaming, only the sound is very loud and down-right
  scary.
- Interesting Sighting Details:
  
  The creature haunts one of the top sites of the world
  for ancient magical practices and services.
- The area is
  home to ancient stone circles and burial mounds.
- There
  are even giant tracts of land, shaped like figures of the
  zodiac that make up the area.
- The area was also a
  frequent place visited by knights templars.
- Miners who used to mine cobalt in the area for years
  reported the mines were full of demons, this is where
  the names 'kobolds' or minegoblins came from.
- Soldiers from the British army tracked and had the
  creature surrounded in a barn. The soldiers moved
  in towards the barn forming a circle as they neared it,
  when they entered the barn the creature had vanished.
- Webmasters Comments About This Case:
- The area this creature haunts is incredible for it's
  occult and msytical past.
- It litteraly has numerous small
  stonehenges and other sacred sites.
- The story about the creature vanishing after it was
  trapped inside a barn, is certanily a sign that the
  creature is a spirtual being, but it could be possible
  that the creature found another way to escape, such
  as a mine shaft, since the area is a source of many
  old cobalt mines.
- It seems very strange though, that
  this creature has been documented many times on
  video, has left tracks and multiple dead animals,
  has been tracked by soldiers, and sharp shooters, and
  still not one has been captured or killed.

27 Sep 09

MAN-BEAST U.K.: An Encounter at the Reservoir

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Thursday, April 10, 2008
An Encounter at the Reservoir
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- An intriguing encounter with a huge, lumbering Bigfoot-style entity reportedly occurred at the Ladybower Reservoir in England's Peak District in the summer of 1991.
- The creature was said to be "eight feet tall...covered in long brown hair and with eyes just like a man's."
- For more details, see Martin Jeffrey's article on the incident - The Big Hairy Man Encounter - at http://www.mysterymag.com/
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Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...": A British Man-Beast

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Monday, July 13, 2009
A British Man-Beast
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- Over at the main Centre for Fortean Zoology blog, Neil Arnold has a new post titled Black Dogs and Hairy Men - the latter part of which focuses on a British Bigfoot-style report from Neil's home-county of Kent.
- Here's what Neil has to say:"Wouldham is a small village in Kent which sits right next to Blue Bell Hill, which for me remains the countries weirdest village.
- "In my book I noted several bizarre tales concerning witnesses who’d seen red-eyed man-beasts
- and very recently a lady, who now resides in Norfolk, contacted me to say that when she was a child growing up in the ‘60s at Wouldham, her grandmother used to tell her intriguing tales.
- "One of these was said to date back to the 1920s and her grandmother, who passed away, made notes of this.
- The lady said that her grandmother used to tell her about the ‘hairy man’ of Wouldham. A humanoid often seen in local woods by children, and certainly adults were made aware of this being.
- "It was completely covered in hair and the story had become embedded in her psyche and was triggered again when she purchased my MYSTERY ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLES: KENT and saw, at the front, an image of a hairy humanoid standing at Blue Bell Hill’s Kit’s Coty House, an ancient structure on the landscape.
- "It’s clear to me that we aren’t dealing with tales of escaped monkey’s, but indeed something very much embedded in the fabric of the place, as some kind of folkloric creature which has existed for possibly centuries.
- It seems as well that the more I write about the creature, the more it stirs up.
- Around 1997/’98 there was a report in the local newspaper of a gorilla-type creature seen at Blue Bell Hill, and I recall scoffing at the report and believed it was simply down to media drama.
- "Now, it seems that there is, and always has been, a strange humanoid prowling the dark lanes and thickets of a place that I’ve been obsessed with since I was a kid and my dad used to take me there and terrify me with tales of the phantom hitchhiker..."
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  i have had a night time encounter with this creature in wouldham,many years back,and with witnesses,whatever it is,its totally out of the ordinary,and probably supernatural.

20 Sep 09

Ancient man used stone 'sat nav' to navigate across country | Mail Online

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Stone Age satnav: Did ancient man use 5,000-year-old travel chart to navigate across Britain
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- It's considered to be one of the more recent innovations to help the hapless traveller.
  But the satnav system may not be as modern as we think.
- According to a new theory, prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a similar system based on stone circles and other markers.
- Connected by triangles: Some of the sites created by Stone Age man (below)
- The complex network of stones, hill
  forts and earthworks allowed travellers to trek hundreds of miles with
  'pinpoint accuracy' more than 5,000 years ago, amateur historian Tom
  Brooks says. The grid covered much of southern England
  
  and Wales and included landmarks
  such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill, claims Mr Brooks, a retired
  marketing executive of Honiton, Devon.
- He analysed 1,500 prehistoric sites
  in England and Wales and was able to connect all of them to at least
  two other sites using isosceles triangles - these are triangles with
  two sides the same length.
- This, he says, is proof that the
  landmarks were deliberately created as navigational aides. Many were
  built within sight of each other and provided a simple way to get from
  A to B.
- For more complex journeys, they would have broken up the route into a series of easy to navigate steps.
- Anyone starting at Silbury Hill in
  Wiltshire, for instance, could have used the grid to get to Lanyon
  Quoit in Cornwall without a map.
- Mr Brooks added: 'The sides of some
  of the triangles are over 100 miles across, yet the distances are
  accurate to within 100 metres. You cannot do that by chance.
  
  One of the monuments was on Silbury Hill, Wiltshire. It was part of a giant geometric grid used for navigating
- 'So advanced, sophisticated and
  accurate is the geometrical surveying now discovered, that we must
  review fundamentally the perception of our Stone Age forebears as
  primitive, or conclude that they received some form of external
  guidance.'
- On the question of 'external guidance', he does not rule out extraterrestrial help.
- However, Mike Pitts, editor of
  British Archaeology, said: 'The landscape of southern Britain was
  intensively settled and there are many earth works and archaeological
  finds. It is very easy to find patterns in the landscape, but it
  doesn't mean that they are real.'

02 Apr 09

CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: RETURN OF THE SHUG MONKEY

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Monday, March 30, 2009

RETURN OF THE SHUG MONKEY
There is a bear in Rendlesham Forest, or so says The East Anglian Daily Times.
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- "At least three people claim to have seen the grizzly beasts in the forest within the last week, although bears are not native to Britain. [...]
  One of those who saw the creature is Jenny Pearce who said: "I was on the green at Rendlesham Forest having a picnic with my three-year-old son and his friend's family. After the picnic we stayed to play and explore the woods. While we were in the forest I saw a large animal moving through the trees ahead. i thought it was a big dog, so I picked up my son because he has never really got into dogs and gets easily scared. But as it continued away from us it was clearly not a dog. It was much bigger and there wasn't anyone there to be walking it if it was a large dog."
- It will not surprise anyone to hear that I have been to Rendlesham Forest on a number of occasions. Anyone who went to the 2002, 2006 or 2007 Weird Weekends will know that Larry Warren, probably the most famous UFO contactee in modern Britain is a personal friend of mine and so is his erstwhile partner in crime Peter Robbins.
- And nearly anyone who has more than a passing interest in the subject will know that Larry was once a USAF Sergeant at the long defunt Air Base at Bentwaters, where in 1980 the most famous British UFO case of all time took place.
- But that's not what interests me most about Rendlesham.
- As well as being one of the most eastern points in the British Isles it has also been the focus for a wide range of bizarre paranormal activity.
- The area between Orford Ness and Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk is a very strange place.
- Writing in the 13th Century, Ralph of Coggeshall, described a "wild man" caught in fishing nets off Orford Castle.
- This creature who like so many contemporary sightings of humanoids seen in conjunction with UFOs was seemingly equally at home on land and at sea, lived at the castle for several months.
- The wild man is not the only item of cryptozoological interest from the Rendlesham area. The lanes of the area are reputedly haunted by giant spectral black dogs (like the one seen by Lady Rendlesham in Leiston Churchyard at the end of the nineteenth century), that pad malevolently but silently along.
- An even more disturbing spectre called the shug monkey, which is described by witnesses as an unholy combination of mastiff and great ape is also seen on occasion, and in recent years the forest has also been the haunt of mysterious black ‘panthers’.
- An ex-girlfriend of mine - an East Anglian paranormal researcher - was in possession of some video tape which showed the paw print of some huge animal - like that of a cat or a dog, but far bigger and with strange flattened finger nails rather than claws.
- She thought that it was a print from an alien big cat of some description, but my immediate thought was of the semi-mystical ‘shug monkey’.
- When I later found that my friend and colleague Jan Scarff who was brought up in the vicinity of the air bases also knew about the so-called ‘shug-monkey’ I became even more interested, and I have been collecting reports for some years.
- Nick Redfern also writes about the shug monkey in Three Men seeking Monsters and between us we have built up a convincing image of a large, dark coloured shambling beast which is presumably zooform in nature.
- I suppose it is a possibility. Bears have been reported in the UK over the years; in the most recent edition of Animals & Men writes about London `Bear Scares`. Bears have escaped from captivity and lived wild in the UK before now.
- So, did Jenny Pearce see a bear?
- One was reported for some years from the Wychwood in Oxfordshire.
- But as the legislation surrounding private animal keepers is tightened up, the chances of bears being released from captivity into the wilds of Suffolk recedes.
- There is always the ever present spectre of `canned hunting` - a barbaric and completely vile practrise whereby animals are realeased into the wild purely so some moron with a gun can shoot them for a trophy, but despite claims over the years, no concrete evidence has ever been presented to us for bears being used for this horrid purpose in the UK.
- One researcher who shall remain nameless claimed to me about ten years ago that so many bears had been released into parts of mid Wales that there were "organised bear hunts" held every weekend. But he was an idiot, and I will not dignify his ridiculous claims by discussing them further.
- No, I have a gut feeling that the creature that has been reported on three occasions in the last week is something far less tangible, and far less easy to catch.
- It is, I strongly suspect, the return of the shug monkey, some ten years after its last spate of appearances. I wonder what else may be about to make a comeback.
- The game is afoot.
- The picture, by the way, is of part of Bentwaters Air Force Base (now demolished) which was taken by me in 1997, and exposed all wrong. However, I have always liked the spookiness of it and waited for a chance to use it..

31 Mar 09

100,000 secular Britons seek 'de-baptism'

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100,000 secular Britons seek 'de-baptism'
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- LONDON (AFP) –
  More than 100,000 Britons have recently downloaded "certificates of de-baptism" from the Internet to renounce their Christian faith.
- The initiative launched by a group called the National Secular Society (NSS) follows atheist campaigns here and elsewhere, including a London bus poster which triggered protests by proclaiming "There's probably no God."
- "We now produce a certificate on parchment and we have sold 1,500 units at three pounds (4.35 dollars, 3.20 euros) a pop," said NSS president Terry Sanderson, 58.
- John Hunt, a 58-year-old from London and one of the first to try to be "de-baptised," held that he was too young to make any decision when he was christened at five months old.
- he male nurse said he approached the Church of England to ask it to remove his name. "They said they had sought legal advice and that I should place an announcement in the London Gazette," said Hunt, referring to one of the official journals of record of the British government.
- So that's what he did -- his notice of renouncement was published in the Gazette in May 2008 and other Britons have followed suit.
- Michael Evans, 66, branded baptising children as "a form of child abuse" -- and said that when he complained to the church where he was christened he was told to contact the European Court of Human Rights.
- The Church of England said its official position was not to amend its records. "Renouncing baptism is a matter between the individual and God," a Church spokesman told AFP.
- "We are not a 'membership' church, and do not keep a running total of the number of baptised people in the Church of England, and such totals do not feature in the statistics that we regularly publish," he added.
- De-baptism organisers say the initiative is a response to what they see as increasing stridency from churches -- the latest last week when Pope Benedict XVI stirred global controversy on a trip to AIDS-ravaged Africa by saying condom use could further spread of the disease.
- "The Catholic Church is so politically active at the moment that I think that is where the hostility is coming from," said Sanderson. "In Catholic countries there is a very strong feeling of wanting to punish the church by leaving it."
- In Britain, where government figures say nearly 72 percent of the population list themselves as Christian, Sanderson feels this "hostility" is fuelling the de-baptism movement.
- Theologian Paul Murray at Durham University disagrees. "That is not my experience," he said, but concedes that change is in the air.
  
  "We are in an interesting climate where Catholicism and other belief systems have moved into the public, pluralist arena, alongside secularists," he said.
- De-baptism movements have already sprung up in other countries.
- In Spain, the high court ruled in favour of a man from Valencia, Manuel Blat, saying that under data protection laws he could have the record of his baptism erased, according to a report in the International Herald Tribune.
- Similarly, the Italian Union of Rationalists and Agnostics (UAAR) won a legal battle over the right to file for de-baptism in 2002, according to media reports. The group's website carries a "de-baptism" form to facilitate matters.
- According to UAAR secretary Raffaele Carcano, more than 60,000 of these forms have been downloaded in the past four years and continue to be downloaded at a rate of about 2,000 per month. Another 1,000 were downloaded in one day when the group held its first national de-baptism day last October 25.
- Elsewhere, an Argentinian secularist movement is running a "Collective Apostasy" campaign, using the slogan "Not in my name" (No en mi nombre).
- Sanderson hopes rulings in other European countries will pave the way for legal action in Britain, since European Union directives require a level of parity among member states' legislation.
- The bus-side posters that hit London in January sported the message: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."
- The scheme was in response to pro-Christian adverts on buses directing passers-by to a website warning those who did not accept Jesus would suffer for eternity in hell.
- Comedy writer Ariane Sherine, mastermind of the British bus campaign that saw a copycat version in Barcelona and other cities, said she backs the "de-baptism" movement but insisted the two initiatives were separate.
- Sanderson meanwhile remains resolute. "The fact that people are willing to pay for the parchments shows how seriously they are taking them," he said.

Cannock Chase and the spooky demonic ghost dog - Sunday Mercury

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Cannock Chase and the spooky demonic ghost dog
Mar 31 2009
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- The Chase’s latest paranormal resident - the fabled Hellhound - has proved a hit all across the world with websites as far afield as the United States chronicling its history.
- Last week it was revealed the forest land had a rich history of spooky encounters with the demonic dog, which is believed to be a portent of doom.
- The hound, also known as the ‘ghost dog of Brereton’, has been seen on numerous occasions stalking the roads leading into Cannock and Huntington.
- And such is the interest in the story, websites such as Paranormal Nights - which runs spooky, adventure theme activities over the Chase and, American-based Creatures of Time, have all flagged our stories on the Hellhound.
- Paranormal website Level Beyond has even asked visitors to the Chase to submit any spooky encounters to it them.
- They write: “Over the years, Level Beyond has reported on various mysteries surrounding the English town known as Cannock Chase. Besides the alien and bigfoot references, another mysterious creature is said to roam the area: a big, black dog.”
- The apparition has been described as a large dog with sharp pointed ears and strangely glowing eyes.
- The most prominent sightings happened in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- While driving through the Chase in 1972, resident Nigel Lea described seeing a ball of light crash into the ground.
- He slowed down to take a closer look and was confronted by ‘the biggest bloody dog I have ever seen’.
- Within a month one of Mr Leas’ close friends died in an industrial accident, which Mr Lea believed may be connected to the dog apparition.
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- In January, 1985, Sylvia Everett described a strange misty figure moving across the road as she and her husband drove on a warm and clear summer night. Although they could not explain the incident, Mrs Everett believed that it may have been connected to the dog-lore of Brereton.

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Bear spotted in Rendlesham Forest
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- Is Rendlesham Forest hiding a bear?
- IF you go down to the woods today you're in for a big surprise…
  
  According to a number of visitors to Rendlesham Forest, bears are roaming the Suffolk countryside.
- At least three people claim to have seen the grizzly beasts in the forest within the last week, although bears are not native to Britain.
- Bizarre sightings are nothing new to the site which is a favourite among conspiracy theorists after UFOs were supposedly spotted there in the 1980s.
- One of those who saw the creature is Jenny Pearce who said: “I was on the green at Rendlesham Forest having a picnic with my three-year-old son and his friend's family.
- “After the picnic we stayed to play and explore the woods. While we were in the forest I saw a large animal moving through the trees ahead.
- “I thought it was a big dog, so I picked up my son because he has never really got into dogs and gets easily scared. But as it continued away from us it was clearly not a dog.
- “It was much bigger and there wasn't anyone there to be walking it if it was a large dog.
- “I left for the car straight away, and looked for a forest person to tell but there were none about. I mentioned it to another parent in the car park and they said it could be fox or husky, as huskies are kept nearby, but it really was a lot bigger.”
- Meanwhile Nick Deptford, who also contacted the East Anglian Daily Times, added: “I've seen some sort of animal in Rendlesham forest this weekend and the people in the forest say that it could only be a deer or a dog, but it was much bigger, more like a bear although I don't think we've got bears here.
- “Definitely not aliens this time though like all that stuff that was meant to have happened in 1980!”
- But Suffolk animal expert Alec Suttenwood of the Ipswich Wildlife Care and Rescue said it was highly unlikely that bears were actually roaming Rendlesham Forest.
- “There are no bears I know of, though I've heard big cats reported,” he said.
- “Some big dogs like a big chow, which is very hairy, can look like bears.
- “I think a bear could survive in Rendlesham Forest but it would be a big danger to people.
- “But it is unlikely to be a bear because there is nowhere it could even escape from.”
- A spokesman for the Forestry Commission said he had not heard of any bear sightings in the forest and added: “We don't have bears in this country, so it would have to be a release or escape, but we have had no reports of it.
- Suffolk police said the force had not received any bear sightings.

17 Jan 09

YouTube - The Gunpowder Plot: The 5 Conspirators

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  August 02, 2007
- An introduction to the 5 main figures behind the 1605 Gunpowder Plot that almost destroyed England's political elite.

13 Jan 09

Walking with Boudicca: We follow an historic journey - via an Essex underpass and a McDonald's | Mail Online

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Walking with Boudicca: We follow an historic journey - via an Essex underpass and a McDonald's
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- Early on a Norwich autumn morning, and I was standing naked in a hotel room.
  
  On the bed lay my new walking clothes: walking trousers, expensive pants at the cutting edge of underwear technology, assorted base layers, fleeces and waterproofs.
- All items of clothing I'd never owned before yet would spend the next goodness knows how many weeks wearing nothing but.
- I was about to embark on the first in a sequence of journeys tracing routes taken by some of the most famous and not-so-famous figures in the history of these islands.
- I was going to recreate some of these great journeys that have shaped our island story. On foot.
- On this particular walk I would be following in the footsteps of Boudicca who, in AD60, led a rebellion against the Roman overlords, marching on Colchester, London and what is now St Albans, laying waste to each in turn.
- Which is how I found myself in a Travelodge in Norwich, contemplating my pants.
- I set off with a determined stride and within an hour-and-a-half was strolling into the village of Caistor St Edmund, where I would take up the trail of my first historic fellow-traveller.
- We know very little about Boudicca. We don't even know whether her name really was Boudicca, or where she lived.
- But we do know that she came as close as anyone to driving the Romans out of Britain, fired by vengeance, injustice and the cruellest sense of grievance induced in any mother from any period in history.
- 'She was very tall in build,' wrote the Roman historian Cassius Dio, 'most terrifying in her demeanour, the glint in her eye most fierce. A great mound of red hair fell to her waist, around her neck was a large golden torc and she wore a tunic of many colours upon which a cloak was fastened with a brooch.'
- She was, he added, 'possessed of a greater intelligence than is usually found in women'.
- Boudicca was the wife of Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, a wealthy tribe whose lands covered most of what is now Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire at the time of the Roman conquest.
- Archaeological finds of fine clothing and jewellery suggest they were big on ostentatious displays of opulence, just as in centuries from now East Anglian archaeologists might turn up hoop earrings, sovereign rings and thick gold chains.
- Prasutagus was a client king, permitted to retain his status as long as he didn't resist Roman rule.
- In his will he left half his estate to his two daughters and the other half to the Emperor Nero. When this news reached Catus Decianus, the Roman procurator of Britain, he was furious.
- Around AD60 he died suddenly and the trouble began.
- As far as Catus was concerned, the Iceni lands were not Prasutagus's to bequeath to anyone other than the Roman Empire.
- He overreacted to a quite unbelievable degree, sending soldiers into the Iceni lands to pillage the property of their nobles.
- For the late king's family, things were to get much, much worse. Catus had Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, flogged while her daughters were raped in front of her by Roman soldiers.
- It was an inexplicable act: Boudicca, by virtue of her marriage to a client king, would have been officially a Roman citizen, and any corporal punishment of a woman was almost unthinkable in the Roman Empire.
- Rape was an offence punishable by execution.
- The burning sense of injustice felt by Boudicca and her people was so intense you can almost sense it today - this was one of the most despicable episodes in the history of these islands.
- The resentment that had festered against Roman rule for the best part of two decades exploded into angry rebellion.
- Historic: Colchester in Essex as it looks today - it was once the Roman capital and called Camulodunum
- The Iceni gathered into a huge, seething mass of people to rise up against the oppressor that had taken away their freedom and violated their queen.
- Under Boudicca's leadership, the Iceni and their neighbours would set off for the Roman capital at Camulodunum, modern Colchester, for an orgy of destruction and murder.
- We don't know from where Boudicca's army set out, so I had chosen the village of Caistor St Edmund, close to the main route to Camulodunum.
- Most of the road along which Boudicca would have passed is now the A12, but on the map there was a stretch marked 'Roman road' running parallel to the main thoroughfare for a good distance just south of Ipswich.
- Once I was through the suburbs I passed beneath the A12 through a foot tunnel and emerged on the old road.
- This had once been the main road south from Ipswich, but nothing came up here any more. Some plastic bags whipped around in circles in the wind. It was quiet; I was all alone.
- For the first time, I felt like I was peeking through the curtains of time. This was the very same route as Boudicca and her army would have taken.
- The trundling carts passed along here. The Iceni, grimly determined and driven by vengeance, would have walked with Boudicca at their head, a vast procession of men, women, children and horses spread wide across the road and beyond into the fields, knowing that with every step, they were closer to justice, or at least their version of it.
- Walking in their footsteps, I could feel the butterflies in my stomach, the feeling that every step was into the unknown.
- That evening, as I soaked in a hot bath at a Colchester hostelry, I reflected on what Boudicca and her cohorts did to the Roman capital when they reached it.
- Camulodunum had all the trappings of a major Roman town - a senate building, shops, a theatre and a temple dedicated to the late Emperor Claudius, conqueror of Britain.
- For a capital, Camulodunum was curiously lax in its defences.
- It was home to hundreds of army veterans who, having completed their 25 years of military service, were given plots of land.
- Most of the Roman military forces in Britain were engaged in a concerted attempt to wipe out the druids on Anglesey. Hence Camulodunum had at best a skeleton defence force.
- When news of Boudicca's travelling hordes reached the town, the locals pressed Catus Decianus, the man responsible for triggering the uprising, to provide military assistance.
- He mustered barely 200 troops then hitched up his toga and hotfooted it to Gaul before Boudicca could get hold of him.
- Nevertheless, they fell upon the place in a storm of aggression and destruction. Property was looted and burned to the ground.
- Boudicca's forces approached Colchester meeting no opposition.
- The soldiers would have provided only token resistance to the thousands of screaming, blue-painted warriors descending on the town. Nothing and no one would have been spared.
- Those who remained barricaded themselves inside the Temple of Claudius, until the Britons scaled the walls and began to dismantle the roof, dropping on to the survivors and killing them where they stood.
- It's likely that Boudicca's forces would have hung around Camulodunum for a couple of days, celebrating, praying and dividing up the loot, before heading south to the port of Londinium.
- Londinium was a lesser focus of Roman power, but economically important to the occupying people.
- The Roman road from Colchester to Chelmsford and thence to the outskirts of London is again the A12, so I struck out on a parallel path and was delighted to find, at one stage, that I was crossing Boadicea Way.
- I passed through Chelmsford, eventually arriving on the outskirts of Brentwood. After days in the countryside, I'd hit suburbia.
- Suddenly I had my breath taken away. I crested a hill while looking at the map, and when I looked up there, before me, was the London skyline with its familiar NatWest Tower, Gherkin and St Paul's Cathedral. Boudicca would have come over this hill - albeit to witness a very different skyline.
- Goods and slaves were exported here, while imports were unloaded in what would have been a lively, noisy place.
- Londinium was a fairly new settlement of 30,000 inhabitants.
- It would have been distinctly muted that day, though, as Suetonius Paulinus, the commander of the Roman forces, had arrived with his cavalry.
- He had two options. The first: to assemble as many soldiers as he could to defend the town. However, he'd heard about the devastation of Camulodunum and knew that the Britons would be arriving in even greater numbers.
- The alternative was to evacuate Londinium, leave it to the mercy of the Iceni and their allies, and muster a large Roman force to meet them at full strength somewhere down the road. He chose the latter option.
- Londinium was doomed. I followed the route of the old Roman road through Romford and Ilford and on beyond Stratford. When Boudicca's forces arrived, Londinium would have been almost deserted.
- The city's most distinguished women were hung up naked, their breasts cut off and sewn into their mouths, before being impaled on stakes.
- Cassius Dio describes what the rebels did to the locals who were left.
- When the Thames was running red with blood, the rebels torched London.
- Many people were burnt alive. Boudicca's rebellion had no political cause at its heart: this was sheer, visceral vengeance.
- Once Londinium had been ransacked, the rebels made for the road to Verulamium, a major seat of the wealthy Catuvellauni tribe, now St Albans.
- The Romans had routed Watling Street, a major thoroughfare, through Verulamium. It was an obvious target.
- The road is the A5, starting at the bottom of London's Edgware Road, and it's fairly certain that Boudicca would have joined it where it met the road from Camulodunum.
  It's a spot now occupied by Marble Arch, where I found myself early one blustery morning.
- It was about 20 miles to St Albans, a journey that would have taken Boudicca and her cumbersome caravan two days, if not more. I was aiming to do it in one.
- The coffee shops and sandwich bars soon gave way to a procession of Turkish and Arabic emporia. I passed within a hefty six of Lord's cricket ground and then, at Maida Vale, the spot where the headmaster Philip Lawrence was killed in 1995.
- On through Cricklewood and its synagogues, Wembley Stadium to my left, then Edgware and the general hospital where I was born.
- By six o'clock that evening, I was in St Albans.
- The next morning I headed to Verulamium Park, the site of the old town sacked by Boudicca. It was a peaceful morning, the sun glinting off the damp grass.
- By the time Boudicca arrived, Verulamium was deserted.
- The locals had legged it, taking everything of value with them. The wind direction made it harder to burn down the town.
  The destruction was still extensive, but there was a sense that the fun was going out of all this looting and burning.
- The lack of a 'real' battle was leaving some sections of the mob bored and unfulfilled.
- The sacking of Verulamium would prove to be the Boudiccan revolt's last success.
- I made my way to the edge of town. My step was slowing tangibly, too, as my first historical journey was coming to an end. This is where I would leave Boudicca; where the historical trail goes cold.
- The inevitable big battle between Boudicca's mob and the Roman army did take place, but nobody can say for sure where it was.
- Mancetter, near Atherstone in Warwickshire, seems the most likely location.
- Either way, the Britons were defeated and Boudicca was never heard of again.
- Many surmise that she chose to take her own life by drinking poison rather than suffer the ignominy of being taken to Rome and paraded through the streets. Nothing is known of what became of her daughters.
- There was a groundless rumour in Victorian times that Boudicca is buried beneath Platform 8 at King's Cross Station in London, while in 2006 Birmingham archaeologists claimed they'd found her grave in King's Norton, next to McDonald's.
- I stood for a while, looking along Watling Street, picturing a noble, charismatic queen standing proud on her chariot at the head of her warriors, their carts rumbling along the track, heading towards her destiny.
- Then I turned around, retraced my steps and began to walk forward almost a thousand years. I had an appointment with a man whose epic journey changed Britain's history for ever.
- I was about to follow in the footsteps of Harold, the man who could have been, and so nearly was, one of Britain's greatest ever kings.

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- Eustace Mullins (born 1923) is an American political writer, author, biographer, and the last surviving protege of the 20th century intellectual and writer, Ezra Pound. As of 2005, Eustace Mullins is a member of the Southeast Bureau editorial staff of far-right Willis Carto's American Free Press. He is also a contributing editor to the Barnes Review.
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  Eustace Clarence Mullins, Jr. was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the third child of Eustace Clarence Mullins (1899-1961) and his wife Jane Katherine Muse (1897-1971). His father was a salesman in a retail clothing store.
- Education
  
  Eustace Mullins was educated at Washington and Lee University, New York University, the University of North Dakota and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (Washington, D.C.)
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  In December 1942, at Charlottesville, Virginia he enlisted in the military as a Warrant Officer. He is also a veteran of the United States Air Force, with thirty-eight months active service during World War II.
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  Mullins was a student of the poet and political activist Ezra Pound. He states that he frequently visited Pound during his period of incarceration in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Mentally Ill in Washington, D.C. between 1946 and 1959. Mullins claimed that Pound was, in fact, being held as a political prisoner on the behest of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Mullins' most notable work, Secrets of the Federal Reserve, was commissioned by Pound during this period, and written in consultation with George Stimpson, founder of the National Press Club[1] Mullins claims that at the time he was writing his first book, he was on the staff of the Library of Congress, but that shortly after it came out in 1952, he was fired. This is repeated by Boller and George (They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions, by Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George, published by Oxford University Press (1989), p. 15. The word "discharged" is used, rather than fired.)
- By 1995, Eustace was writing for Criminal Politics: "A good example of these other paths is Criminal Politics, where Lawrence Patterson and his cohorts, including Eustace Mullins and Fletcher Prouty, scour the world for evidence of conspiracies within the world's power structure." (Danky, Jim, and John Cherney. "An outpouring of right-wing publications cover all social issues". St. Louis Journalism Review 25.n179 (Sept 1995): 27(1). InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale.) "Eustace Mullins, who was a researcher at the Library of Congress in 1950 when McCarthy asked him to look into who was financing the Communist Party, was the keynote speaker at a dinner Sunday evening sponsored by the Sen. Joseph McCarthy Educational Foundation. "I've come to believe in recent years that he started to turn the tide against world communism," said Mullins." (The Capital Times, Madison, WI, May 21, 2001, p. 3A. Full Text Newspapers. Thomson Gale)[2]
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  In Secrets of the Federal Reserve (1952), Mullins highlighted a purported conspiracy among Paul Warburg, Edward Mandell House, Woodrow Wilson, J.P. Morgan, Charles Norris, Benjamin Strong, Otto Kahn, the Rockefeller family, the Rothschild family, and other European and American bankers which resulted in the founding of a privately owned, US central bank.

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