African Hell: Where pregnants are buying a sand-drug to eat

A map, only a map. Because Manica doesn't have enough photos in the internet.

ÁFRICA, MOZAMBIQUE. In Manica province, Mozambique, near the border with Zimbabwe, a strange drug is addicting, especially - pregnant women. The substance is called "dust of sand" - because according to reports, their appearance and consistency are the same of the sand. However, the dependence that it provokes indicates that there is something more and malignant in this sand. 

The drug is sold at fairs, open air markets. It comes wrapped in small packages of plastic and stays exposed amid the blankets, shoes and hats for babies. This practice facilitates both the purchase, for those that are already addicted and for the pregnant women that still not experimented the "sand" but are considered potential consumers. Each package costs about 0.14 euros.

The drug used in Manica, come from a mine, of difficult access, located in Chitunguiza, region of Harare, in the neighboring country, Zimbabwe. It enters in Mozambique hidden, one more time, amid baby clothes or in bags, smuggled across the border Machipanda.

The drug is orally consumed, mixed with food. These women are literally eating sand. There are those who minimize the problem talking about like this consumption as normal thing, as the obstetrician at the Provincial Hospital in Chimoio (city, in the map), Sululu Celeste, that said the Lusa News Agency: The ingestion of sand isn't recommended but this happens in pregnancy period... Other women prefer to eat icecream or chew ice cubes. There are women who like to smell gasoline.

It is evident that this sand is a drug. If not, would not be sold. The common sand could be obtained anywhere! And nobody needs to be an obstetrician to know that pregnant women should not eat sand. Nor pregnants nor any human being.

The Africa already has enough disgraces, which existence is almost unexplainable in the third millennium. If there is a conspiracy to exterminate the excess of the population of the world's poor, this "dust of sand" must be, surely, one of the instruments that are being used. How long will it take to this chemistry weapon spread the death throughout sub-Saharan Africa?

SOURCE: Vício de pó de areia ameaça grávidas em Manica.

DN-Globo, published in 02/06/2012.

[http://www.dn.pt/inicio/globo/interior.aspx?content_id=2577736&seccao=CPLP&page=-1]

Child mutilated in Satanic Ritual to "avoid" the End of the World

The house: the crime scene. 

The end of the world is the fear of the end of the world.

MEXICO. It happened in San Agustin Atlapulco (city of the metropolitan area of Mexico City, the capital of the country), in the colony of Nezahualcóyotl founded 25 years ago by immigrants from Oxaca, Puebla and Guerrero. 

In a house, located on a street in the neighborhood Graciano Sanchez, in Monday (5/21/2012), a group of ten people, including four children, were fasting and "praying" waiting for the end of the world.

They believed in the supposed imminence of a devastating earthquake, that would go happen in 28th day (this month) at 1 o'clock pm. An earthquake able to exterminate all life on Earth. Pretended religious authorities were leading the cult. A satanic cult.

The candles were lit. Among the instructions that were determined everyone should pray with eyes closed. But a child, Ferdinand - stood tired of mantain his eyes closed. And opened them. (And, it seems, he was not alone). 

His mother, identified as Carmen, 23, perceived the disobedience (means that she also was with her eyes opened) and ordered sternly: Close your eyes! The boy refused: I will not close. Then she sentenced that eyes of the boy would be gouged out.

And were. With an aid of one of her sisters, this mother pulled the child's eyes with her own hands. A teenager of 17 years (identified as Maciel), uncle of Ferdinand, and his girlfriend, Ruth, horrified by what was happening, the two ran out of the house screaming: They are killing my nephew! They are plucking his eyes!

The neighbors heard the screams. A man called the police. Some people invaded the residence to rescue the boy. They found him in the arms of mother. She was hysterical with the child in her arms, bloody and unconscious. Inside the house, there was no religious images.

But in front of the house, on top of the gate, there is hanging a pentagram, a symbol that the ignorant, like these fanatics, believe be a an element of evocations of black magic.

The prosecutor, Jesus Acevedo Isaac Romano, who initiated the investigation, confirmed the presence of the ten persons and identified the children - which have between 9 months, 8, 5 and 17 years of age. The mother of Ferdinand, Carmen, and the aunt of the boy, Lizbeth, were indicted along with the others members of the sect.

The woman, Carmen, when was questioned, in the police station, was calm. Not asked by his son and not showed none remorse. The neighbors, that stood horrified. They said that the persons of the neighbor family, during more of twenty years, they appeared to be normals.

Isaac Romano also said that preliminary investigation found that the family really belongs to a cult and, about the reason for the mutilation of the child, the fanatics claimed that it was necessary ...to avoid end of the world. Only four of the eight prisoners were brought to testify. The others were in psychotic state, being submited to psychiatric and psychological avaliations. 

SOURCES

FERNANDEZ, Emilio and MONTAÑO, Teresa. Orando esperaban el “fin de los tiempos”.

EL UNIVERSAL/Mexico, published in 25/05/2012.

[http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/edomex/5979.html]

HUERTA, Jose. Sacrifican ojos de niño en rito para “salvar al mundo”.

EL UNIVERSAL, published in 25/05/2012.

[http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/edomex/5978.html]

Magos de Tollán - A Mayan village at Spain

According to the Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012 ends a cycle of 5125 years. In the north of Cordoba, Spain - a group of people founded a village where they live according to the sacred accounts of the Mayans.

SPAIN. Charbonier is a small town north of Cordoba, where the the hot sun makes of any shadow, a blessing. There are three miles from Charbonier, traversing the road San Marcos Sierras on a barren landscape, there, is located the village "Magos de Tollán" - where live a population of few persons: Thirteen women, men and children, nine dogs and a female gray cat. Wizards Tollán is a Mayan village. Its inhabitants consider the place as a Promised Land.

Faced with a wooden gate, a house with hammocks on the door, a mill and a round pool where some children play. Around the house, plants with thorns. A woman, about fifty years old, welcomes visitors with a smile fixed on his face, as if it had been frozen for some kind of magic. She wears long pants, a purple shirt and a crystal applied between the eyebrows. She explains: It is to mark the third eye. I don't use it all time. She presents herself as Seed but his real name is Gladys Mabel.

Beside the gate, near a bell tower, there is a poster. It is written: Aldea Magos de Tollan (Village Magi of Tollán). Another poster warns, in this place is not permited to smoke, consume alcohol or eat meat.

Another woman comes out of a house made of adobe. Her name is Betty. His white hair indicate that she has a certain age. She says she is a grandmother. It is 77 years and is in the village there is three months. It shows the path that leads to a kitchen.

The kitchen, also built of adobe, clay, is a building haxagonal. It is a community space and is decorated with flags, Buddha statues, Mayan calendars. The stove is wood burning. On a counter, jars of peanuts, carrots, beets and other vegetables. And flies, many flies.

In the village, the names are not changed at random by a criterion of personal preference. A supervisor uses a compass to set the name Mayan Mayan inhabitants. The compass consists of three rotating discs. 

The reporter who made this matter has been subjected to evaluation and was determined that his name is Mayan Galactic Caminante del Cielo Rojo (Walker Galactic Purple Heaven). In this village, supposedly Mayan, know the name of a person is as vital as know your blood type. Thus, some are called: Eagle, Monkey, Warrior of the Night, Mirrors etc...

The community, which was founded by a couple who lived in Cordoba trabalhando with accounting, formally identified only as Claudia and Rodolfo, lives in their own time and has a motto: time belongs to whoever owns her own mind. They decided to adopt the Mayan calendar and leave the city life, their confort, their behavior patterns.

The Mayan year has thirteen months of 28 days each (is a lunar calendar). Each day has its energy, its color of regency and a specific goal. The names of the weekdays are also different. A Monday can be the day of the Galactic Blue Monkey.

The days are subject to patterns of tendencies, called Wavespell and cycles of thirteen days are subjected to a seal or a galactic signature, a sign astronomical. These post-moderns mayans believe they are living in harmony with the natural cycles of Earth. For them, time is art.

The Magos de Tollán believe that the official Western calendar, with its irregular number of days, produces neuroses and compulsions consumerist. The founders of the village were inspired by the ideas of an American son of mexicans, Jose Arguelles, who began spreading his doctrine in 1987. 

Called the Law of Time, this doctrine is based in following the prophecies of Quetzacioalt. He declared himself the reincarnation of Pakal Votan and called himself Valum Votan. Arguelles died on March 23, 2011.

Claudia (one of the founders of the village) explains: We live in a civilization that disconnected us from the cycles of nature. For us, 2012 is the recovery of our galactic consciousness. It is the beginning of a new civilization, a telepathic civilization. We are - the precursors of human beings of the next cycle.

The couple (Claudia and Rodolfo) decided to change its life three years ago (in 2009) when she met the theory of Arguelles. Then live in the city became unbearable. She bought the land of 22 hectares in the middle of nowhere and moved into place with little luggage. They had no water or electricity. Today they have a community bathhouse. Feces and urine are used as fertilizer. All the resources are measured and controlled. Everything is recycled.

However, isolation is not absolute. The Mayas of Spain go to the town of Charbonier often. The children attend public schools. The leaders want that education be - also, an activity of the community but it is not still possible.

THE WHITE HOUR

The "Magos de Tollán" meditate in the White Hour. There are no clocks in the community. The "White Hour" is determined by the color of the sun at dawn. They wake to the sound of the murmur of a pink color shell. The shell sends the call to the four cardinal points. The same signal indicates the hour of meals, the hours of work, the hours of walk in the trails, that is also a type of meditation.

A special place was prepared for a special meditation. It's called Ceremonial of the "White Hour". The land was cleared and leveled. On the floor is a large star made ​​of stones. The "new mayans" arrive in silence and bring blankets. They sit facing the mountain in the lotus position.

VISITORS

The community welcomes visitors. However, the "Magos de Tollán" claim that these visitors are attracted by a telepathic energy that is only perceived by the people who are prepared to receive teachings.

The visitors learn to use the Mayan calendar, natural building techniques and participate of sessions of sauna. The experience lasts 13 days. The courses and workshops have their price, which can vary from 100 pesos (Argentina, 25 euros or 32 dolares in may, 2012) to 700 pesos (176 euros or 222 dólares in may, 2012). This is one of the livelihoods of the village.

Those who can not pay are asked to leave something in exchange. Those who decide to stay are installed in tents. Gradually, they can build their own houses of clay. But, appears that these are few, many few - considering that, in three years, only 13 persons are living there.

A NEW TIME

The "Magos de Tollán" believe that dramatic events are bound to happen. They are the inevitable changes that will finalize a time for that a new time begin to the human race. A Time better. They believe they are fulfilling a planetary destiny, marked on the Mayan calendar, disregarding all predictions of the present civilization and without none commitment with the clocks of postmodern humanity.

SOURCE: ALIVERTI, Sol. Los magos de la nueva era.

LA VOZ-CIUDADX/Spain, published in 22/05/2012.

[http://www.lavoz.com.ar/ciudad-equis/magos-nueva-era]

The Eternal Lamp & The Windmills

USA/WORLD. The most famous lamp of the world is installed in a firefighters station in Livermore, California. Is alight to 111 years. Uninterruptedly. Its power is 60 watts but currently uses just over 6% of that potence. It is an object that arouses the curiosity of scientists for an obvious reason: their longevity in operation.

With over a century old, this lamp appears in Guinness Book of Records, and - now - has been studied by a Spanish businessman of Cordova, Benito Muros. This man intends to design a lamp with the capacity to work forever.

The eternal lamp will be underpinned by the concept of obsolescence "un-planned" It means that the product is projected to not break, to do not suffer a colapse after a calculated time. Mr. Muros explained that the eternal lamp is of organic nature, not generate waste and can to save more than 92% in the electricity bills.

However, when speaks of the eternity of the lamp, Mr. Muros is using hyperbole. But, he ensures that, if successful, your lamp will can work during a life; 100 years without problems - counting on a wiring adequate and well maintained. The secret of this durability is to use iron with low carbon content.

Mr. Muros said that the conductors of current lamps are made of iron that have high carbon the carbon, with time, suffers microruptures causing the fatal failure of the device. He comments: Many manufacturers claim that their bulbs can last 1.000, 1.5000 or 2.000 hours, but no one is controlling the time to confirm these claims. In fact, many times, a conventional lamp burning in the same hour in which it is installed.

Mr. Muros already has a line of lamps "eternal" for domestic use and public. One of these lamps for domestic use has a potence of 60 watts but consumes only 6 watts. The cost, that can still considered high, is 26 euros. But the durability worth the price. For while, the lamps are handcrafted and the manufacturer guarantees that your product has no competitor similar throughout the world.

The inventor is essentially against so-called programmed obsolescence. He says: Today, many industries [by obvious interest] create their products with planned obsolescence. Objects are programmed to become useless after a certain time. We want to encourage other manufacturers to abolish this policy. Much of the current economy is based on this policy that compels people to buy electric and electronic products because they break, inevitably, after some time. [I will permit to me a comment: evidently, Mr. Muros discovered gunpowder!]

THE EXHAUSTING CULTURE OF THE CONTINUOUS UPGRADE

The idea is not new. The propaganda that spreads the idea that a product has become obsolete even before it be broken, that the consumer needs a more modern model of a new object, this ideology - feeds, for over two centuries, the economy of the mass consumption of all kinds of goods. Mr. Muros has good intentions but, as Don Quixote of Cervantes, his battle has everything to be inglorious. He fights a world of windmills and windmills are insensitive.

Humans, individuals, by contrast, are sensitive. They are sensitive - even too much - to the appeals of the adverts: the a launch of car the year, new "generations" of computers, mobile phones, the fashions invented of all genres. Many advertising messages - reach the extreme of cruelty, seeking to make the citizen feel ridiculous or minor, if he or she can not buy this or that newly released product.

The desire for novelty, even if only a new look on something old, comes to the extreme distress of compulsion. There are people so impressionable, so impressionable that they are able to transgress the bounds of legality, committing crimes to get the things that are advertised in the media as news, many of them simply unnecessary, dispensable.

The planned obsolescence reaches up human creatures: it is necessary to buy a new body, a new face because men or a women could be considered obsolete beings - too; objects destinated to the garbage, to the attics of societies. It is the delusion of postmodernity. A mental illness called consumerism.

SOURCE: DE JORGE, J. Un español inventa una bombilla que dura toda la vida
ABC/Es, published em 16.03/2012
[http://www.abc.es/20120316/ciencia/abci-espanol-inventa-bombilla-dura-201203161432.html]
Supplementary text: Lygia Cabus

Others News About Warriors women of South America – Lesbians & Samurais

The indigenous samurai women of South America

Others notes of travelers, chroniclers of the time, also registered unusual situations that may have given rise to the myth of the "Amazonas" of South America.

Friar Gaspar de Carvajal (1504-1584), the author of, possibly, first relate of a trip to the New World which mentions the "Amazons", despite this reference to a particular meet with a horde of warrior women, in another part of the same text, observes another type of warriors women. Acordding studies of the researcher Hiram Reis e Silva:

The most formidable ethnicity that has existed in the Middle and Upper Amazon river was, without doubt, of the braves Mundurucus, the Lords of War. 

These true "samurai" south-Americans trained their offspring from childhood in a rigid military discipline. For the mundurucus, the combat was life's most noble and rewarding activity. In combat, the Mundurucus were accompanied by women who carried their arrows but according ancient reports, these women were able to catch enemy arrows when were still on the air.

The indigenous lesbians of South America

To conclude this short series on the history and anthropology of the myth of the Amazons, it remains to examine the sociological/sexual phenomenon registered by another chronicler of the time and place. The portuguese historian Pero de Magalhães Gandavo(1540-1580), who lived in Brazil in 1570, writes:

Among indigenous women (South american natives) there are those that determine, themselves, maintain chastity (in relation to men). 

These women don't have contact with men (in biblical sense).They do not allow harassment, heterosexuality and refuse relations with men even that they be needed resist, killing or dying. 

These ... imitate men and follow their offices as if they were, realy, men, bring the hair cut the same way that males do, and go to war with their bows and arrows and hunting ... each has a woman with who says is married, and so communicate the couple and they talk about themselves as husband and wife.

SOURCES:
ICAMIABAS.
IN [http://lendasemisteriosdomundo.blogspot.com/2010/06/as-amazonas-icamiabas.html]
REIS E SILVA, Hiram. As Amazonas.
IN Pantanal News, 02/11/2011.
[http://www.pantanalnews.com.br/contents.php?CID=66202]