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Sep 16 Ben’s Oz Walk About Part One.

Sep 08 Melbourne Arms Expo

Sep 1 Cairns Aquarium Tour

Augusts 25 Ways to Improve the Environment.

There is More Than A Hole in This Bucket.

IT Billionaire Mike Lynch, his daughter Hannah, 18, and five other people died when the Bayesian went down in a severe storm, believed initially to be a meteorological phenomenon called a downburst, which is similar to a small tornado. Recaldo Thomas, the ship’s Antiguan-Canadian chef, Jonathan Bloomer, the Morgan Stanley International bank chairman, his wife Judy, and Chris Morvillo, a Clifford Chance lawyer, and his wife Neda, were the other victims of the August 19 tragedy.  Italian divers are now checking whether doors or hatches were left open, a source close to the investigation told the paper. The naval diving specialists from Comsubin, which is the Italian navy equivalent of the British Special Boat Service, have now begun work and have already recovered computers and hard drives that are set to be analysed in specialised labs, according to a report.

Meanwhile a $20 million luxury Ethos superyacht sank off the coast of Kefalonia Island in Greece a month earlier. The 47-meter yacht was spotted lurching to one side when sailing near Paliokaravo Bay, west of the Greek mainland. Reportedly a crew member left open a hatch which led to an open door which led to the engine room and was subsequently swamped in a manner that some believe is the prime reason Bayseian also sunk.

In the last issue we detailed the many links Lynch had to western intelligence services and the that his death occurred only days after his partner Stephen Chamberlain was killed in a hit and run.

The sinking of Bayseian has parrels with an even earlier 2022 accident which occured after a group of “tourists” boarded a boat, Gooduria, on a lake at the foot of the Swiss Iyalian Alps. The boat like Bayseian capsizes in a sudden freak storm. Four reportedly drowned as others swam to safety. In the days that follow, authorities struggled to trace hotel bookings for the passengers. It then emerges all were affiliated with the Italian and Israeli secret services.

Eight of the boat’s 21 passengers either currently or formerly served with Italy’s secret service, and 13 had ties with Israel’s. The accident claimed four lives: Anya Bozhkova (50) of Russian origin and wife of Claudio Carminati. The other victims are Claudio Alonzi (62), Tiziana Barnobi (53) and Shimoni Erez (54) from Israel. Alonzi and Barnobi belonged to the Italian secret service, while Erez was a member of the Mossad.

Just like Baysesian within a few moments, the boat was allegedly caught by a freak windstorm and sank at a depth of 16 metres. There were 21 people on board – four lost their lives, while the others managed to swim to shore. The accident like Baysesian was instantly attributed to a “downburst”, a violent and unpredictable weather event.

As for the boat spook connections official information says the operational mission they were carrying out was with foreign intelligence services.

However, the exact background and objectives of this mission remain unclear, and the question of the actual purpose of the mission remains unanswered. Corriere della Sera speculated that the intelligence operatives were in Lake Maggiore to spy on Russian oligarchs who own villas and yachts on the lake.

Others said Israeli officers were monitoring contacts between Iranian and Italian firms in Lombardy’s industrial zone who deal with civilian components used for drones and AI.

Italian newspaper La Repubblica confirmed that the intelligence operation sought to obstruct the arrival of weapons of mass destruction to Iran as well as preventing the acquisition of “dual-use” second generation technology that could serve both civilian and military purposes but would not elaborate further as to the nature of this technology.

Corriere della Sera quoted Carminati, the skipper, as saying, “It was 30 seconds, then the boat immediately capsized and we fell into the water”.

To add to the list of freaky coincidences, with spooky links, on 3 Sept 2022 the 49-metre Aegean superyacht 007 sunk in Greece off of the Greek island of Kythnos.

The vessel – thought to be owned by a Swiss Israeli businessman but has been sailing under a British flag – was deserted off the coast of Greece after it capsized and was overturned after it believed a hatch was left open that lead to a second door which was also left opened and caused the boat to be sunk after it was hit by a freak wave.

Lynch accident looks at first glance to be an accident and the other cases kooky coincidences and thats probably true in at least a few of the incidents. It is however also true lynch death comes on top of the death of more than 7 other billionaires (See issue 33), including partner Stephen Chamberlain, all involved in AI with links to intelligence and the monitoring of threats to supply chain ( that supports critical infrastructure), in the past year. Many of those ties linked to Israeli security tech firms involved in mass surveillance and blackmail operations or whose funding have been marked by controversy and even allegations of having ties to transnational crime.

Moonlight Diaries August 28 The Water Babies.

The Dugon People.Born January first a capricorn, the locals of Taupo dubbed me in the local paper the Taupo Tiger – after a local fishing fly. So again I feel oddly connected to the Thursday Island and Kiwian people whose symbol is the merman though salt water, or more precisely whats in it makes me a tad nervous.

Lenny and Todd where the water babbies ( though water baby or changeling was mums nickname for me) im more a grunty goat type. But none the less the symbol resonates deeply with me.

The Dugon also appears on the star mappers of Mesopotamia the original source to the Greek myth of Atlantist. The myth drawn inturn fron the legends of the Summerian Gilgamesh, which also inspired the legend of Noahs Ark.

Reportedly Gilgamesh sent his people out to map the sun and heavens hopping to avoid a great flood with fragments of that tale washing up in Scotland with St Vidgeon the water spirit taming matyr. In reality probably just a dude with knowledge of Roman plumbing.

Further south in Cornwall that tale is still referred to on the Arms of Trevelyan the south clan of the house of Vivan in the form of Gules, a demi-horse argent hoofed and maned or issuing out of water in base proper (blazon per Debrett’s Peerage, 1968, p.798 Cornish descendents of Vidgens). Trevathan is a surname of English origin, derived from the Old English personal name “Tref-geat,” meaning “village gate.” It is believed to have originated as a locational surname for someone who lived near a village gate.

Their a whole series of Atlatean legends that go with that sheild and local lore. Which with any luck will get a glimpse of if the twin demons of time and money permit a trip to that well of knowledge in couple of months.

Vigeans to recant is derived from Vigeanus, a Latinised form of the Old Irish name Féichín. Saint Feichin flourished in the 7th century.

The village of St Vigeans, near Arbroath in Angus, has a major collection of early medieval sculpture surviving from a monastery dedicated to the saint, perhaps founded in unrecorded circumstances among the Picts in the 8th century. Saint Féchín or Féichín (died 665), also known as Mo-Ecca, was a 7th-century Irish saint, chiefly remembered as the founder of the monastery at Fore (Fobar), County Westmeath.The first monastic houses said to have been founded by Féchín are those on the islands of Omey and Ardoilén, both off the coast of Galway, which fell under the protection of the king of Connacht, Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin. His principal foundation was Fobur, now Fore, County Westmeath. Between 771 and 1169, Fore was burned at least twelve times.There is no record of his having visited what is now Scotland, but followers of his cult may have founded a monastery among the Picts at St Vigeans as early as the 8th century. That is to say the eptymooogy migration of this christian monk lineage is in it self not clear cut. *2

Scotland Féchín is venerated in the Latinised form Vigeanus. (Vidgen).

Regardless docunentation of proof is shown by by the collection of more than thirty elaborately carved stones preserved in the St Vidgeans Sculptured Stones Museum (converted from an old cottage). The church is home to a stunning collection of poc tablets. Supernatural powers and healing abilities were attributed to Féchín, with holy wells being dedicated to him throughout Ireland, with a concentration of sites in the west. A christian twist of the Pagan custom of taming water spirits called Kelpies which appear some time as white horse. And makes me wonder if thats origin of the Ozzie dog name eitherway the NT aboriginals also see the dog as a kindred spirit familar. A holy well stands among the remains of Fechins monastic community on Omey Island and is a pilgrimage site for those seeking a physical cure for all manner of ailments.

There reference to mythical kelpies or water spirits could be seen to be a watered down version of the forenentioned cornish adaption of the Sumerian tale of Atlantist disaster.

Namely a legend that the churches kirk was built with stones used by an enslaved Kelpie (water spirit) , and for several years the local congregation would not enter the kirk during certain services for fear the building would collapse due to the Kelpie’s curse.

Which brings us back to water and the Vidgens down under.

St Vidgeon Homestead Ruins portray a story of hardship in the outback. St Vidgeon station ruins are the most recent of three built since 1888. The first was destroyed by floods. Oh how ironic.The second by white ants and fire and the one, built in 1960 was wiped out by a cyclone. The Kelpie seems a tad pissed.

Today there is free camping there but no facilities. Below the homestead ruins is a beautiful crocodile infested lagoon fed by the flood waters of the Roper River. This large water-lily covered lagoon is also a haven for birdlife. As far as water acess goes its the jack pot.And as noted the lagoon Londinium, appears to be a derrivative of Sea of New Rome.

Perhaps a symbol of the aspiration surveyers had for this water rich savannahs.From here the lagoon feeds Roper River Bar a road follows the South bank of the Roper River and has dotted many camping and fishing spots all along its length.

Its a food rich zone. And no surprise then it has crocs lots and lots of crocs.Hic sunt Aqua Dracones ( here be water dragons). The more predators the richer the feeding grounds.The water source are the aqua springs of Mt Vidgeon and this today forms the St Vidgeon water catchment which has been measured ( and valued) today using geophysical tech down to the last thimble as water becomes the new gold.

Tommy my aboriginal guide maintains the Cape York weather patterns which help feed the NT cattle ranches that inturn feed the banking crocadiles in brisbane. And this is why we should put a stone ( full of quartz and silica) to stop flooding further south says Tommy. I’m not sure if he is serious or pulling our leg.

St Vidgeon is located on the edge of the Limmen National Park which also features its famous ‘lost cities’.These are large sandstone spires and rounded dome formations resulting from erosion of the sandstone escarpment. There are two ‘lost cities’within the park. The Southern Lost City, the more accessible of the two, is 35km south of the Nathan River Ranger Station. It’s a three-kilometre track in from the main road with a two-kilometre easy walking trail among the rock formations.

The track winds its way through clumps of prickly Spinifex and it is prime snake ( not the navy kind) habitat, so wear long pants.You will need a key from the Ranger Station to unlock the gate at the start of the 28km track. It begins just north-west of the Nathan River Ranger Station and ends at a 300-metre walk and short climb to views over the O’Keefe Valley. Call and organise the key prior to visiting, as the Ranger Station is not always attended.

At 1.4 billion years in the making, these rocks formations ( cairns) are some of the oldest in the world. They consist of 95 per cent silica and are held together by an outer crust made mainly of iron, giving them their unique red colour, especially at sunset. It also makes them natural signal transmiters. Capable of ionising the skies and calling down the rain.

So yes York feed Tommy idea that the Cape York rock piles stop flooding suddenly does not seen as silly as this white guy first thought. At least in principal.

But then again aboriginal art is one big ancient map of understanding how water lives and breathes.Vidgeon Station was named in 1914 by Surveyor HM Chrisp a Freemason ( of course).

A derivitive of the St Vidgeon name was then first used for a pastoral property in 1923 when reference was made to a “St Vidgeans Spring” (GL 15) which was deemed to be a spring near to where a station homestead was first erected.

Incidentally a key water source on Horn Island is Vidgen creek and im guessing their will also be a aquatic spring on or near Vivan points located on Prince of Wales Island Thursday Island and Tasmania. Ditto Vidgean Estate in Victoria was famous for its gardens feed by a local spring. As Moonlight gold surveys used varization of his clan name as a code to kin and those in the know to mean ‘gold be here’ im guess Vivian took on a similar meaning for those looking for water needed to feed cattle.

From this original rich in water zone a grazing licence was issued to covered an area of 1400 square miles issued to the homestead named you guessed it “St Vidgeon” as is recorded on Pastoral Plans compiled in 1936.

The St Vidgeon name is also said to derived from the medieval name of Saint Vivian, later Saint Vigeon.The name “Vivianus” – a derivative of “vivus” – alive. Water is of course the source of all life.Just watch out for the kelpie which in Australia case is represented by crocodiles and in my case those later day rat bastard Rattle Snake photo deleting navy squab bastards.

On the way to the Cape Tommy stops in the rain forest to show the US the spot where his people held their most sacred ceremonies. It was to have been the original spot for Radar 52, to be located originally in between Mappoon and Lockerbie but Tommy says the harmonic where to strong and it interferred with the signal. Tommy says cryptically Cook came loo,ing for what we had already found 80,000 years ago before the ice bridge melted and we walked here from Africa.

He then shows us the ‘dream time’ symbol which he notes also replicat the earlier siberian symbol the Chukchi calendar. Notably a lot of the Northern tribe names have similar names to those used by American Siberian Inuit.

Sept 3 Moon Light Diaries – Fear & Loathing in Tombstone.

Landed in Welington which on a Sunny Day cant be bear. This is not one of them. In fact its a horridly windy winter night. Im wearing my Cairns tropical specials

The day does not improve and Im stuck watching net flicks and dealing with 101 burrrecraric dalmations that have popped up since im away.

Death by 1001 paper cuts dealt or deferred i binge watching Wyatt Earp Cowboy wars which in fact does illuminate the role of cowboys as an organised crime syndicate. Bikes with horses if you will.

Gangsters whose excess power stagnates social stability and instead facilitates the rise of centralised Federalism on the back of segregated ethnically class driven polarisation.

A parasite born from the schism of debt and economic instability which ultimatemly serves national banking and international global financiers and centralises power.

Gee why does that sound familar. Kind of explains I guess why all the biker gangs these days have cowboy names. As basically they spawned societally from the same breed of rattle snake.

The Cowboy Wars fills in a few of my own blanks and illuminates the role of JP Morgan in backing Cleveland, which at its heart revolved around railways and sucking silver out of the USA to pay the European banks who financed the Union army. A fact which helps add to the bigger pictute forming in my mind in regards to Thomas Moonlight.

Not just his cameo in the Earp story but also regarding the macroscale back story in the real life drama of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid *1and their mates in the Wild Bunch gang.

*1= The Sundance kids would be pardon by Governor Thomas Moonlight who later went onto be the ambassador to Boliva when Sundance and Butch Cassidy were allegedly shot in Boliva.

Just like Australia and New Zealand water gold and Cattle is the chief currency upon which fortunes rise and fall. And it is the also the pool from which institutionzlised crime is rared, breed and branded.

Morgans backing of Cleverland is when we see the North Eastern City dollars dumping the Republican backed Union states and pumping it into the traditional Southern Democrate electorates. Those who supported first the confederates then such cowboy hands as Ike Clayton and Jessie James. While in contrast the Union and yankee Republicans commerce produced such hired guns as Vergil Earp and Thomas Moonlight.

Though Moonlight like Cleveland switched allegiance when Morgan dumped the Republicans and Arthur Chester. Chester crime he refusal to put the Cowboys down with Federal Troops knowing it spark a second civil war.

Morgan not happy with Chester Rangers ( Neutral federal agents who would give birth to such later forces as the FBI, BATF and Secret Service) created a private solution. NY money would simply turn the southern Cowboys into their own private militia. And thus the U$A would be minted.

In Gold we Trust the rest we bust.

Sept4 Moonlight Diaries,Even Cowboys get the Blues.

Weather has improved ftom horrid to simply crappy. Still cant get home to the South Island and I remain stuck in the North.

I spend the morning on the phone talking to laywers and doctors trying to organise my MRI. I get off the phone feeling sorrier for the two professional classes than myself. In the word of one professional ( it doesnt matter what her precise occupation is) post covid they are bailing water and not taking new clients. As senior partners retire die no one is stepping forward to stick their finger in the rapidly leaking dyke.

As the prosperity of Tombstones middle class faded when wealth became to centralised so to does the bottom line faulter for the 5% when the wealth of the dwindling 1% grows. For as the last man standing hold all cards the time for folding has come and gone. Should have walked away befor it’s to late to run.

This is what James Kunstler calls the long emergency. And the reality begining to finally become apparent to even the prosperous professional middle classes.

My Visa has been approved the CIA/NSA dont give a shit if I enter Fortress America. My ego is mildly bruised at this news. Yet befor my super sized ego can raise an objection its hit in the head with a tire iron, bound with duct tape and bunddled swiftly into the back of a jungian car boot by the duel hit team of Mr Self Presevation and Misses Grattitude.

I spend the day finalising my itenary which largely involves drinking large doses of reality, concerning my budget and time.

Followed by liberal use of a red marker pen as i cross off all the places i would have loved to have gone, had time and money being a fatter chubbier and easier broad.

This basically mean wiping out Panama and most of the Carlifornia Gold trails.

On the later I am able to placitate the voice of mum with the simple logic that her work already being done. And thus minus the influence of the Italians there not much to be added.

On the other hand my path allows us to cover new gound.

Satisfied my itenary licked in Mexico to Tombstone onto Las Vegas, Sutters Mill ( where they found gold in Carlifornia) then San Francisco. From there I head to Washington DC to cover the elections before heading to Wyomi ( where Moonlight was Governor) and Dodge then onto Chicago the city that gave us Al Capone & Obama — Enron, Carbon trading & Spare Ribs, befor ending at DC befor exiting to Scotland via JFK NY.

To wind down I finish watching a western Old Henry: a fictional Billy The Kid movie which again raised the spectre of Wild Bunch and for me the threeway eqation, behind the Lincoln County wars of beef water and competiting industry.

You got to know when to hold em. Got to know when to fold. Got to know when to walk away. Got to know when to run. I’m about to hit the sack when Jack messages me to let me know he can meet me in Charlotteviile, just befor I head to DC, for a spot of local guiding befor he heads off to the Carrinean.

I look up his home town its right near Shenaddoha where Moonlight fought for the Union with George naming a river in Murchison Shenaddoha in honor of his cousin Thomas.

The moons are begining to align I finish my whiskey with John Denver lyrics in my head.

‘Take me home West Virgina Mountain mamma i got the feeling i should have bern home yesterday’.

Not long now Plucky Ducky and Wolf Pack not long at all.

Sept 5 Moon Light Diaries. Jannies Got A Gun.

On my way home to the wolf pack and my chickens nothing to do but check my new feeds. The top story about how the police in New Zealand, a nation surrounded by water, admit they cant control gangs getting guns.

The post Christchurch shooting gun buy back being a disaster and simply flooded the black market with weapons. Wow thats a surprise to no one but the dipshits who created that policy.

I recall pre 2020 having a chat, with one of the very informed but socially ignorant Army spooks from CSIS, on the likely hood of criminally driven insurgency happening here in NZ.

A scenario repeatedly used in the US mining written exercise mannuels over the past 30 years.And the dude, a 20 something, while up with the play on the corporate geopolitics regarding the excessive lobbying power of non-state corporate players in domestic government affairs just could not bend his head around just how destabilizing street crime was on frontline politics and society.

That was well befor it dawned on the media that Australia deportation of 3000 501s ( a response to their own balooning domestic transnational gang issue) was driving both the black market arms trade and massive spike in gun based homicide.

Thats before the CFEMFU union flag popped up at Wellington protest and Hells Angel down under began funding alternative news platforns as pro gun ( product placement advertising) meth fulled ‘influencers’ began popping up all over social media. Aotearoa and Australia have a growing cowboy infestation problem. As gangs become increasingly active in politics as will as street crime.

And if it plays out like the story of Tombstone in 19 century USA and the not okay coral then my guess is the government, via its long term denial, now only got two options.

Option one: hands the keys over to the ‘feds’ who in this incarnation is the Lockheed Martin controlled military industrial complex.

Or option two: hand it over to the parties who are ultimately funding and enabling the down under Cowboys. Which would appear to be the banks and mining interest who are also the same parties funding the military indudtrial complex. Would sir like a kick in the left bollock or the right bollick?

See the thing about guns is they always need bullets.

And its never hard to work out whose supplying the bullets. And if you know whose supplying the ammo then again it is not hard to workout whose really calling the shots. Not when your a nation surrounded by water and he who owns the ports your major person of interest.

Sept6 Moon Light Diaries – How The West Was Won, Lost & Stolen.

Its good to be home.

In saying that i forgot about the deliquent Roosters who have grown considerably in the pass 3 weeks. They are fully fledged nonstop crowing machines. Come first light about 4am they began crowing and have not stoped since.

Here by dubbed Davey cCrow-ket and and Kit Craw-son. Because they dont know it yet but if there isnt a a rapid decline in the noise pollution leveld these two are destine for the same fate as the defenders of the Alamo.

Speaking of which. I feel a trip to the libabry to brush up on my western history is in order today.While im begining to get how the Cowboy legends such as Jessie James and the Wild Bunch fit into the USA North South divide (and the switch of JP Morgan and the NY money from Republican to Democrates). And while I likewise know of the issues of cattle verse Railway there is also the component of greaser vs cowboy and Texas verse Mexico/ New Mexico. These issues also overlap such legends as again, the Wild Bunch and Billy the Kid. I need to get a better grip of the precise timelines in play to assess how precisely they factor in.

We are often presentesd with these stories thru the lens of popular culture and fiction as if they are stand alone events. Yet the reality is as exotic as these stories are they are in them selves each simply microscopic outcomes evolved from macroscale events. Often the root catalyst is far removed in time and or geography. And its not helped that even in their time accounts were routinely embelished or coloured so as to sell copy ( if it bleeds make it lead as true in 1800 journalism as it is now) or so as to push an agenda or political campaign.

As we see in Earp and Clayton feud which press wise is as much the story of Well Fargo vs the Southern cattle barrons as editorial of the feud regularly depended on which fraction owned the paper in question. One party was in the bussiness of wanting silver extracted to pay the debt incurred as a result of the civil war. The other party wanted man power and resources poured into building fences and waterways so as to feed a hungry growing nation. Two different agendas resulting in two different accounts of how the West was won lost and then stolen. Both version light on details concerning the role played by cheap slave labor or the theft of land and gold from both native Indian, Mexican and other South American emmigrants, who arrived ahead of the Anglo saxon immigrant wave.

This points sly hinted at in the dramatised western Deadwood series were early on the miners hunt down indians whose existence is never mentioned again with the exception of when the anti heo Al Stitchin is having mode of Hamlet syle self reflection and he takes to talking to the skull of indian, slain for bounty, he has dubbed Geronimo .

Ethics aside it remains quite staggering to consider the scope of events which would unfold within the New World all within the life time of Thomas Moonlight and even that of George Moonlight who I often forget never reached sixty. Such was the quantity of their achievements, spread out over six continent in just a bit over forty to sixty years. Globalisation is resource intent, never kind to the indigenous populations it encounters and assimilates ( or alternatively exterminzte), there however no disputing the industrial technological or logistical evolution which that raw consumption of resources and manpower produces.