Olympic London a ghost town

by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

To all intents and purposes most of (central) London resembles a ghost town during the Olympic Games.

Instead of bringing lots of tourists and others into London and into shops of all kinds the fact is that retailer outlets are empty as are the streets.

Most people, tourists as much as commuters, seem to be staying away from London and stores and market traders are saying that they are, in fact, losing out rather than making the large profit, as they were promised.

Public transport, unlike during normal times, are almost empty as, so it would appear, people are staying away from London in droves. Hotel rooms also are going begging and, so the story goes, many small hotels have reduced their rates simply in order to attract people to come and stay in London this summer.

Instead of bringing benefits the 2012 Olympics in London is going to cost, so it would appear, everyone dearly, from the tax payers to the retailers and everyone in between.

The streets are empty, even in places that are nowhere near the Olympic venues and the controlled traffic lanes and such, and this included Oxford Street and the West End per se.

Theaters in the West End of London are empty and so are shops. So much for all the benefits that the economy was going to get from the 2012 London Olympics.

If I would be a betting man I would bet my bottom dollar that the legacy will turn out as much as flop – for the people at least – as the economic boots that the games were going to bring to London and the country as a whole.

I would suggest that alone the fact that London was, basically, turned into an armed camp with all its over the top security measures has turned many a tourist, from Britain and abroad, to come into the capital.

Even the commuters seem to be either gone on vacation or are working from home, and they are turned off, predominately, by the fact that many of the roads have been turned into the Games super highways and are out of bounds to the ordinary folks and also that there was a traffic chaos expected on public transport.

There will be no economic boot; the opposite rather, and I also hazard a suggestion that there will be no Olympic legacy that will benefit the people of this country whose tax dollars (even though the UK does not use dollars) funded the games.

A total waste and to top it all the greenest games have decided that they rather used natural gas (more than likely supplied by the main sponsor EDF) of bio-gas to fuel the cauldron with the Olympic flame.

© 2012

2012 – A YEAR OF TURMOIL?

IT’S ALL IN THE STARS SAYS JONATHAN CAINER…

by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

If you believe in horoscopes or not depends on you, but, if the Mayans and gloom- and doomsayers are to be believed then 2012 is billed as the year that the world will end or at the very least fall apart.

Fueled by Internet conspiracy theories and the real threat of economic meltdown doomsayers are having a field day and the merchants of books, videos and survival kits and other equipment are rolling a mint.

In a new book, out on January the 5th, leading British astrologer Jonathan Cainer takes a detailed look at the every single one of these supposed threats to our future – and predicts what is actually in store for all of us in 2012.

He reveals how a rare solar maximum – the Sun firing off flares – threatens our electrical supplies and communication systems, and that, I am afraid to say, is no joke.

A solar maximum could really wreak havoc with our so-called smart grid and it is not just the electricity supplies that could be affected. Seeing that water companies also use computer-controlled systems we could be in for a really rough ride.

Meanwhile, as a result of a rare planetary alignment we could be, or even it might be an are, are at risk of dramatic weather changes and increased “seismic activity” with earthquakes, tornadoes, drought.

An even more dramatic time economically – with our financial system having to “adapt and evolve at a rate much faster than many people feel comfortable with.”

He furthermore predicts increased natural disasters over the NEXT two years as well as unexpected outcomes to the elections in France, Russia and the USA.

But the most worrying fact, perhaps, is that in 2012 we are overdue a solar maximum. This occurrence – which happens every 11 years – and which therefore is mot as rare as some would like us to believe and a well-known phenomenon to every radio operator, is when the Sun ejects flares (gigantic blasts of light, gas and radiation). It is those flares, which are serious blast of electromagnetic radiation that (could) threatens to destroy our communications system and shut off Earth’s electricity.

Even Jonathan admits:”We may have surprising power outages and communication problems with disruption to international travel.”

In his book, he also examines the theory that we are under threat from – Planet X, Nibiru or a Brown Dwarf star – an invisible giant cosmic force about to exert humongous gravitational pull on our planet.

But even though, the ancient South American Mayan calendar, predicts the end of the world on December the 21st, Jonathan says: “In my own astrological judgment, 2012 is going to be a surprisingly good year.”

Jonathan, 54, has studied astrology for over thirty years and has been famous in the UK since 1985. He has successfully predicted the outcome of countless sporting events, elections and trials... and is now respected by an international readership of millions for his accuracy and insight. His summary of 2012 is that, though it remains a worrying time.

There are ways we can make it all OK and as long as we know how to handle our challenges it can yet be a surprisingly good year.

“Ultimately, it is all going to be okay,” he says.

In addition I would like to say that, according to some sane minds, the reason the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 is that they, literally, ran out of space to “write” more.

On the other hand, without given credence to the doom and gloom predictions, solar flares and such like could also cause some things to go seriously wrong which could threaten the existence of the majority of us.

All it needs is a disruption to the control systems of nuclear power stations to cause a real serious event that would make all the nuclear disasters so far, combined, look like a gentle stroll in the park.

© 2011