ITR - Glastonbury Festival & Glastonbury Town Information for InTouchRadio.net (Glastonbury, UK & GLOBAL)

Glastonbury Festival & Glastonbury Town
Information

Both are Separately Open and Glastonbury Town is Trading Normally

It seems that a lot of people are getting confused about the two entities that are Glastonbury - The Festival and The Town - both separated by about 7 miles, the Festival although with the name Glastonbury is situated in the village of Pilton, nearer to Shepton Mallet than it is to Glastonbury.

For those visitors to Glastonbury Town it is as normal, fully open with all the historical and other blends that make the town of Glastonbury unique since the earliest times.

In fact, there couldn't be a better time to visit the town than now, many people visit the Festival who come to the area, I called in for some shopping yesterday and parked easily. There are no traffic situations in the town - it is as normal, the only area affected would be the road from Shepton that passes through Pilton - the road through Shepton to Wells - no problems that I have been told. The road from the A303 from Podimore Roundabout through Somerton - again no problem.

So don't miss this opportunity to come visit the ancient and somewhat beautifully alternative town of Glastonbury, which is popular all year round with many events going on covering so many different blends of human life.

If you're at Glastonbury Festival I'll be around and about you'll probably get a glimpse somewhere near the Green Pepper - Red Tomato tent on the main drag seeing my friend Massimo who runs his famous Italian Pasta and Italian food business there and will be looking for that famous legend Smokey Joe - check out both interviews online www.InTouchRadio.net - come say hello or leave message.

Hope to see you either there or I'll be in town sometime soon.

Have a great weekend wherever you are and spread the word about InTouchRadio.net your Global Radio Station - there for you.

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Love
Michael x

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ITR - Ups & Downs (MidWest-USA) for InTouchRadio.net (UK/GLOBAL)

A Blog Just In From The Mid West (USA)

The Ups & Downs of Life/Strife

Ups and Downs... (anon)

UP.. with religion that celebrates life...

DOWN...with one that advocates suffering and strife.!

UP..with beliefs on a higher natural level...

DOWN ..with those who wrestle in the mire with the devil.

UP..with the idea that creativity and peace is what life is for...

DOWN..with the idea of destruction and war.

UP..with people who love life and enjoy every breath...

DOWN..with people who make a life out of worshipping death.

UP..with those who harm none and feel no guilt when they die...

DOWN..with those who preach..hate, fear and sin and leave a sad world to cry.

UP...with a New Age optimism...

DOWN..with old guard negativism.

UP..with a sense of personal responsibility....

DOWN..with an indifferent sensibility...

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ITR - Zimbabwe - The Tyranny of One Man Sham for InTouchRadio.net (UK/GLOBAL)

Paul Hilder – www.Avaaz.org
to Michael – InTouchRadio.net (UK/GLOBAL)

Zimbabwe, Africa
The Tyranny of the One Man Sham

Here's Some of the Things You Can Do to Help

from
Paul Hilder of Avaaz.org

Dear friends,

African leaders can still save Zimbabwe by holding an emergency summit to broker a legitimate government.

On Friday, 27th June, Zimbabwe will hold a cruel sham of a vote for President. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has just withdrawn from the run-off -- not in a concession of victory, but rather in recognition that Mugabe's campaign of violence and terror has erased any hope for a democratic election.

But against the odds, hope survives. Amidst growing international pressure, Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and the opposition have entered private talks. A unity government may be possible yet.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously held on Monday that free and fair elections are now impossible in Zimbabwe. The UN Secretary-General spoke out. But it is African leaders, most of all Thabo Mbeki, who hold the key. Even Mugabe cannot cling to power without their cooperation. Today, we're launching an emergency campaign, petitioning these leaders to call an immediate summit, isolate Mugabe, and broker a legitimate government for Zimbabwe. Our call will be published in big newspaper advertisements in South Africa, Tanzania, Angola, and Mozambique this week -- click here to see the ads and endorse their message:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_zimbabwe/7.php?cl=101184467

Zimbabwe's neighbours supply its electricity and goods, and control the borders. Many Southern African leaders are already calling for the postponement of the election -- but there's a real danger that they will end up accepting this charade. This would be a grave miscalculation: if Mugabe succeeds in his de facto coup, Zimbabwe's implosion will accelerate, and chaos could spread throughout the region.

So our campaign will publicly name those African leaders who hold Mugabe's last remaining lifeline. If these leaders step up strongly now, they can convince enough of Mugabe's officials that change is coming one way or another -- and set the stage for Morgan Tsvangirai to lead a unity government to pull Zimbabwe back together.

Robert Mugabe saved Zimbabwe from colonialism. Now it's time for African leaders to save Zimbabwe from him.

Help us raise 250,000 voices this week, including a great roar from every country in Africa, to be delivered in an immediate multi-country ad campaign. Click to see the ads, sign, and then forward this to friends:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_zimbabwe/7.php?cl=101184467

With hope and determination,

Ben, Alice, Paul, Graziela, Mark, Ricken, Iain, Veronique, Pascal, and Milena -- the Avaaz.org team

PS: For more information and sources for the facts above, see:

Thabo Mbeki and the emergency talks for a settlement:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4200177.ece

United Nations Security Council declares free and fair elections "impossible":
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2026827820080624

Elections going ahead despite MDC pull-out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7468849.stm

Mugabe: "Only God will remove me!"
http://www.thetimes.co.za/SpecialReports/Zimbabwe/Article.aspx?id=788598

Regional leaders criticizing Mugabe:
Tanzania's Kikwete - http://allafrica.com/stories/200806200336.html
Rwanda's Kagame - http://allafrica.com/stories/200806190003.html
Kenya's Odinga - http://allafrica.com/stories/200806190949.html
Uganada's Museveni - http://allafrica.com/stories/200806120016.html

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ITR - Working As A Jackaroo on an Australian Cattle Station for InTouchRadio.net

jan


Working On An Australian Cattle Station from Jan

Working as a Jackaroo on an Australian Cattle Station.

I worked as a Jackaroo on an Australian cattle station for 3 months during the first half of my year in Australia. This particular station was both a cattle and sheep station, located between Tambo and Charleville in Outback Queensland (shown as the red dot on map). Known as Bayrick Station it covers approximately 60,000 acres and has hundreds of cattle and tens of thousands of sheep. Putting the size of this station in perspective it is roughly the size of Luxembourg. Compared to other cattle stations in Australia it is relatively small as one of the largest stations located in the Northern Territory is approximately 12 times larger than Bayrick.

I originally heard about this job through a company specialising in work placements within the Australian farming industry called VisitOz. This company provides training in all areas of station life to prepare you for the adventure ahead.

Working on a cattle station involves very long hours awake, water rationing and meals containing little or no vegetables. If you are a veggie then remote cattle station work would possibly not suit your lifestyle. One of the perks for the meat eaters planning to work on a cattle station is a none stop supply of meat. This is usually beef, mutton, lamp, pork and sometimes kangaroo.

Water as mentioned above is rationed, this is because of the extremely arid environment in the Outback. On the particular station I worked on the water for washing pots and having showers came from the local creek. Creek water was an orangey brown colour and if you got any in your mouth it tasted like sand. All drinking water was either bottled water bought from the nearest town or rain water collected in massive steel drums at the end of each building. This water did tend to play havoc with your digestion for the first week or so, after which you adapted to it and found yourself strangely liking this two year old rain water by the end of your time on the station. Water for the animals was pumped out of bore holes using windmills and then transferred directly to either water troughs or large manmade dams scattered across the station.

The sorts of jobs to be done on a daily basis on cattle stations vary from station to station and depending on the time of year. Work that takes up the main part of station life is working in the yards, mustering, droving, branding, tagging and injecting livestock. Fixing the fences broken by storms, fallen trees and wildlife, using machinery for jobs around the station, including growing some fodder and crops and helping with the routine maintenance and gardening. Mustering is done on horse back and/or motorbike, because of the shear size of some of the stations helicopters are used to assist in the rounding up of livestock. Techniques in mustering the cattle or sheep will depend on the type of terrain you are moving them across and also the type of animal you are moving. Most sheep mustering tends to be done on motorcycles, whereas cattle mustering lends itself more towards the use of horses. The cattle you can expect to work with on the stations vary from European and African breeds through to cross breeds and even buffalo.

Being a Jackaroo is officially the most dangerous job in Australia, with more injuries and deaths per year than any other profession. The reason for this is simple, it is because of the isolation and time it would take to both find an injured colleague or once found transport them to the nearest hospital. To help speed up the transportation of injured workers most stations have their own airstrip allowing the "Flying Doctors" to land, treat and evacuate patients.

Dangers that may be faced in the role of a Jackaroo are mainly due to the hot, arid conditions as well as the livestock and local wildlife. Keep yourself hydrated by always carrying plenty of water and remembering to drink often and don't wait until you feel thirsty. Please bare in mind that someone unaccustomed to the Outback might need as much as one litre of water every hour. On both sealed and unsealed roads, whether they are fenced or unfenced, be aware of wandering stock and wildlife. These can include sheep, cattle, kangaroos and in Central Australia, the odd camel. Dawn, dusk and night times are best avoided if possible, but if you have to drive be very careful and vigilant. Remember, of the world's 25 most deadly snakes, Australia is home to 21 of them. The perceived threat of snake bites is one of the most common fears for people planning to travel in Outback Australia, especially overseas tourists. Contrary to popular belief, however, snake bites are not a major cause of death for people in Australia. In 1997 for example only six people in the whole of Australia, died of snake bites.

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ITR - Smokey Joe - The Legend of Festivals & More Interview with Michael Dixon

InTouchRadio.net
Sunday 15 June 2008

The Legend That is Smokey Joe - Charlie
Veteran of the UK Festival Scene
Festival Chef - Photographer - Musician
Historian of Nottinghill - London

Recently I had the pleasure to meet Smokey Joe or Charlie as he's known. If you've been listening to the Interviews on InTouchRadio.net you will undoubtedly have seen the program 'Green Pepper - Red Tomato' about Massimo and his wife Ann who have their own Festival Food Company working in the UK's major festivals where they sell their Mediterranean Pasta dishes.

Massimo moved very close to me and we became friends over the weeks since he arrived, few could resist his infectious laughter and he and Ann's generosity. It was Massimo and Ann who offered to loan me their Camper for the Sunrise Festival which, through weather conditions outside their control, had to postpone till later in the year.

This evening Massimo said that Charlie had arrived and I should talk to him, he's one of the Veterans of the UK Festival scene going right back to the heady days of the 196o's.

What I didn't expect was a man with a wealth of knowledge and stories about life in Nottinghill in London in the 1950's and 1960's. I learned about what it was like to be an Afro Carribean during the post war years.

Not only was Smokey Joe a man of the people and for the people, and still is but he was also a traveller and made his way round Europe ending in Italy, became a press photographer, became a film extra and met up with the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra but witnessed the Spaghetti Cowboy films with Clint Eastwood and many others.

He is a wealth of knowledge of the alternative music scene and the English blues culture of the early 60's and a knowledgeable man of the London gig scene too.

Add to this a man who became a Chef and worked in the major London hotels... well the rest is up to you - pop over to www.InTouchRadio.net site - look out for Smokey Joe - Charlie The Legend and have a listen - watch out for Part Two in the mix stage right now - unmissable if you want to know all about the London scene of the 50's and 60's - oh, one other thing - listen out for the late Arabella Churchill, Sir Winston's granddaughter - did you know she was one of the initiators of Squatting? Listen to Smokey Joe's recollection of Arabella - a lady high in my esteem.

Don't forget to tell your friends around the world to tune in and listen and with many of the programs watch as we're hosted by our Sponsor www.useyourears.com on a .TV server.

Look forward to your company - and if you have news or people to interview and music to play then please get InTouch and let me know.

Love
Michael Dixon x
InTouchRadio.net
Glastonbury, UK & GLOBAL

ITR - The Gaping Act of Cynicism - Michael Dixon

The Gaping Act of Cynicism

I don’t wish to be drawn into the politics of life nor do I wish to be called to question our biosphere or the various energy platforms, which we have progressed (if there is such a relative word to describe this point in time at which we have arrived).

I don’t sleep too well and often listen to World News on the BBC (oh, I hear the mutterings, listening to the enemy! Yes it actually has been said. Sometimes I can’t stand to hear the negativity that all news seems to feed on at which point I listen to the many CD’s that are being sent in to me at InTouchRadio.net here in the UK.

Last night – well 2 – 3 hours ago (it’s now 6am here as I write) I heard that Oil has gone up to $139 per barrel due to happenings in the Middle East and now there’s talk of other issues going on in those current flashpoints which I don’t wish to mention here.

Now whether Oil is good or bad – I’m not getting involved with the rights and wrongs only in the creditable.

Here in the UK it has been said that they have found other reserves that is over double the oil that we have ever put out of the North Sea Oil wells.

There are massive Oil fields in the Artic.
Russia has massive Oil reserves.
Tibet and China have – perhaps causing the current issues there!

And there are, apparently many more fields in South America.

I am not saying this is good or bad what I don’t understand is why the World is being put into the strangle-hold of those powers-that-be – have we become too uncontrollable and this along with the current monetary issues are set there to bring us all back into our corals where we are controlled?

This takes me back to the 98% sheep syndrome – ok – it’s just a thought but how stupid are we! How stupid are we going to be?

If its true what my late ex father-in-law WH Richardson one of the world’s leading metallurgists told me back in 1967 that the Water Engine Car had been mothballed by ******* as was the ~ ever-lasting light bulb (remember that one?) and many other things because certain ******* would lose control and how could you charge for water and industry needs to continue to sell… it goes on.

Why are we losing all this energy when we have Wind (ok no-one said they were pretty – the wind masts), we have Wave – every Continent and Island is surrounded by water, we have Sun or Solar and yes we have Oil.

I must be stupid or simple – call me both I really don’t care but why did they start to grow plants for fuel? Only to suggest stopping it or was there another motive? Originally it Soya for Beef (do people really still eat Beef on volume?)

Ok so we strip the rainforests to grow crops to feed Beef to feed Man (and Woman) – funny thing I always thought cows ate grass but maybe we’re a little out of date here in the UK where I live cos’ that’s all they seem to do here but I’m no farmer.

Then, due to the current Oil control and apparent shortage they start to grow crops to make bio-fuels.

At which point we’re told that the World is running out of food for the people.

Do you realize this has all happened in 6 months – do things happen that quickly or has everything been buried under the mat!

Then we’re told these crops are Genetically Engineered (apparently to allow them to grow in whatever situation – against insect life, against drought - sounds like some alien life-form … and whatever else they wanted to B***S*** us with.

Therefore whether you wanted GM affected food or not you got it – baby you got it, if you were a Beef eater or any other animal eater you too are being fed on it.

Countries around the World said No to GM Foods – so the various governments went out and did it covertly – they were going to do it anyway, you knew it – I did – there was no choice.

Same as when you voted in any shade of politics you like whether Left – Centre – Right (sounds like a surround sound system doesn’t it?) Once in there’s nothing you can say, or do that will make them do or change anything they don’t want to – even if the whole country said No – they’ll still go ahead and do it – no leader of any country in the World ever had the power to run that country – how we love those puppets don’t we… just look at the fun the States have just had and all those people buying into the games that were being played and all the time other things were going on in the background – covertly.

So we’re back to Oil – the News - GM-based bio-fuels and a World without food.

Now they’re saying they’ll stop producing Bio fuel and go back to growing crops for food – but this time it’ll be GM crops you’ll be eating … goody – they got you and you allowed yourself to be got and if the truth’s known you’ve been eating it for years.

News time again – BBC – not the Brighton Bedding Company but British Broadcasting Corp (oops! That word again) oration – 2 days ago on early am Farming program – 98% of South America - GM Crops! 93% USA - GM Crops! UK 32% GM - Crops and it went on (*the figures may be slightly out – I was half awake sleeping like most of us are through life…)

In the same program it came up about Nuclear Power – I’ve said enough, but in the future days when all of us have gone by one method or another – if we can have a peep back at this Illusion we call Life I wonder what the Cosmic Joke will be…
Is this at all real and does it really matter cos’ we’ve all bought into the Illusion – every one of us at some point or another?

One day – when we’ve been squeezed enough just before they allow us to breath again and fall back into the breath of greed we do every 10 – 18 years before they do it all over again – we may wake up and globally say No and this time mean it but by the old adage Information – Dis – Information – Mis – Information as with all conspiratorial theories we’ll be had yet again – will we en-mass ever wake up ~ But it doesn’t matter cos’ I’m only dreaming the waking thought will answer.

Well that’s my non-Political – non-Bio-spherical cynical acidic response to what I hear at night.

What do you think? Do you care? One thing I do know – we all have to start to love ourselves and each other of that there is no doubt because at the end of days that’s all we’ve got and all we are.

Lots of Love
Michael
InTouchRadio.net (Glastonbury & London)

ITR - GreenPepper-RedTomato Festival Favourites - Interview with Michael Dixon

Michael Dixon Interviews Festival Food Specialists

Green Pepper Red Tomato

Massimo & Ann recently moved into Michael's home village of Godney just outside of Glastonbury in Somerset (UK).

Husband and wife team they started their Festival food business and now tour the Festivals throughout the South and SouthWest including Ireland.

Listen to how this couple came together from different parts of the world uniting here in the UK in London and what it's really like as a Festival trader.

Green Pepper Red Tomato is owned and operated
by Massimo Nucaro, originaly from Calabria, Italy.

We provide fresh healthy Mediterranean food at some
of the best music fesivals around the U.K.

Our menu has 2 main sections, Pasta and Salad,
all of which is prepared and cooked fresh onsite.
We try to use locally sourced vegetables and meat
and use DeCecco pasta.

for more information about Green Pepper Red Tomato check out their web site

www.gprt.co.uk

Don't forget to tell them you heard their story on www.InTouchRadio.net

ITR - Ashera Hart Interview with Michael Dixon for InTouchRadio.net (Glastonbury, UK)

Ashera Hart visits Michael Dixon
at his home near Glastonbury, Somerset in the U.K. for an informal interview about Music, Life and Ashera's Sustainable Living project in Australia.

Ashera's Biography

Ashera is a professional singer with over 22 years' experience in the music world and has been studying the healing power of sound with Jonathan Goldman, Chloe Goodchild, Chris James, Randy Masters etc. More recently she has trained at the Institute of Cyberkinetics, Croydon, UK (Tuning fork therapy with kinesiology) and the Globe Institute, San Francisco, USA (Certificate in Psychoacoustics - the scientific aspect of sound healing).

Her work seeks to move beyond old paradigms to either empower you to find your own sound which is the most healing sound for you!!! and/or to harness the profound beauty of the Zobet (solfeggio) to access your full Divine Blueprint. Drawing on her experience as a singer, rebirther, empath, ritual dancer and bodyworker, she emphasises the power of sound with intention to free your mind, body and spirit! 'It's all very simple really and we've made life far too complicated!'

Ashera is the visionary creator of Shamanic Sonics which are vocal exercises or sonic tools that can be used shamanically/in a healing way.

Her debut album, In our Mother's Tongue, harnesses the 20 years of sound-healing research by Fabien Maman which seeks to harmonise you, the listener, with the five elements of the body and to reconnect you to the Earth. It also has the Pi harmonic ratio added by a new invention called the Pyramid Processor (see Sound Healing CD).

Ashera is currently creating her second sound healing CD featuring the bliss-full frequencies of the Zobet together with the wonderful sounds in nature. Ashera has also created a meditation CD featuring the 9 main frequencies with gently crashing ocean waves in a 1-hour journey entitled "The Zobet Codes for Ascension" available upon request.

Ashera has been channeling or 'singing in tongues' for many years now and through her own self-discovery has developed shamanic sound tools which can transmute suppressed energy in the body and harmonise it back into the true natural resonance of a body completely at home, at One and connected with God/Goddess/All that Is.

'We live in a very dissonant world which has become very disconnected with Nature. We've been in our heads instead of in our bodies and our hearts. We need to heal this separation and feel our connection again with the Earth, ourselves and each other in order to ensure our survival and harmonising your body with sound is a beautiful way to feel it'.

Past projects include:-

• Recording artist/vocalist for 'Sirene', 'Contact' and 'Time Strings' on Anahata's 'Doors to Avalon' (Changing Worlds/Ambient music)
• Recording artist/vocalist on 'Libera' on Chris Michell's 'The Dolphin Song' (Oreade/New Age music)
• Recording artist/vocalist on Star Children's 'Sacred Reunion' on Return to the Source's 'Sacred Sites' (Positiva/Ambient)
• Recording artist/vocalist on Avatara's 'Shaddah el Chai' on Return to the Source's 'Chakra Journey' (Volume/Trance & Ambient)
• Vocal performer/recording artist with 'Emerging Journey'- Celtic acoustic band with guitar, didgeridoo, flute and percussion
• Songwriter/vocalist with band 'Vibes'- multi-percussion with keyboard - Gigs included London's Jazz Café
• Recording artist/vocalist for Neutron 9000's 'Cybersculpture'
• Recording artist/performer for Profile's (Polygram) video of 'The Beautiful Time'

And if you'd like to get in touch, email me

ITR - World In Confusion - Blame it on Pluto for InTouchRadio.net (UK/GLOBAL)

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

ITR - World In Confusion - Blame it on Pluto for InTouchRadio.net (UK/GLOBAL)

World in Confusion - Blame it on Pluto.

Hi Michael Dixon here - as many of you know we are in a World Crisis State I would say. A lot of this is propaganda and held up by our own mis-trust and belief in ourselves and supported by the consequence of falling connections between people - that is us.

I come from a family of what would be loosely termed, Psychics going back three or four generations and I am termed Clairsentient - this simply means being able to psychically tune into the Emotional Body of the person/s I am with - I Feel rather than hear or see. I am also known as a Clair-Cogniscent - this means that I Know, but have no understanding how I know.

Being born under this form of sensitivity is difficult and can make my life sometimes awkward Feeling and Knowing as I sometimes do.

Those that have had readings from me or those I have worked with whether using my skills or working with Crystals which I also do will often contact me many years later and tell me things that I told them or world situations I foresaw that have happened, even very recently at a family meeting where we had not met for eleven years I was being made aware of things I said then but of course, I cannot possibly remember all the things I have said; in fact, I don't remember things I say almost as I say them, they are not of me but through me.

Back to a World in Confusion and Pluto - I know little of Astrology but I am told that the reason that we are in such crisis is that Pluto apparently has been going through Capricorn - a very heavy and responsible sign and you've seen what's been going on around the world - especially this past 6 months or more - few would have seen such rapid change - I feel this probably started way back at the time of that major eclipse of 1999 - certainly I felt that eclipse more than any before and I continue to feel that this was the start of this new time we're moving into.

Pluto moved, again I am told, this past week or two into Sagittarius where it lightened up for a bit but it is still pushing the boundaries of the Human consciousness. But hold on, later this year it makes a move back into Capricorn again and stays there for some considerable time - in fact years!

Throughout history these are the times when things are revealed, when things are found out about heads of governments, governments fail and large corporates become shown for what they are.

Maybe the time for some of those Corporates to get onto the right track and come over to the better side using their powers for good not the journey of seemingly Human self destruction. There are a lot of good people out there who are involved but are beginning to see the light if you like and are understanding we can only survive in this world if we move as One, not in separation and dis-harmony.

This period that we find ourselves in right now, I feel, is there for a very important wake up reason - a time of reflectivity of who and what we are and what we are becoming, senselessly insular and separated cocooned from one another - this is not a time to be separate but working as One towards a common goal a safe, secure and protected world for our children and our children's childrens' future.

This is not a time for taking but a time for giving - there are many takers, causing so many problems in the name of greed. There are givers who have no concern to the pay-back - just to help - this is the type of person we all have to become - without greed and then there will be no need.

I for one like to see fairness and things out into the open and if those things are revealed great - the only thing that sits uncomfortably with me is that these are the times when others of a different persuasion and thought could slip in under cover; the old adage ~ the Devil you Know ~ comes to mind - one thing is certain we are in change and in crisis.

I was told by some Buddhist friends - this is the time of perfection when all things are right and no - things are wrong. Personally I like a sense of order and balance - I am Pisces and as many of you Piscean folk out there will concur we like everyone to be happy - not an easy thing to fulfill in our current self-separated state the world has changed into over these past few years.

The saying ~ Wherever you find yourself - that's where your at ~ sums it all up right now but the future is the responsibility of you - each and every one of you and of course, me. What we do will be the course our human river will eventually take - are you going to take the responsibility that soon as you find yourself under, that influence of Capricorn the most responsible of all planetary rulers?

I always say ~ Capricorn the Curious ~ always wanting to know and never being satisfied with the answer - Capricorn has a hunger to know and that hunger is, for some reason, seldom satiated. In pictorial terms imagine Atlas holding the World on his back, that's Capricorn, taking on the world's problems - that's why so many Capricorns suffer with their knees, ankles and feet, supported all that weight and can be quite heavy or serious in their outer aspects and yet can have such loving hearts even though suspicious in nature.

Well we've got the chance to lighten up now - well for a short period anyway.

If you've got some information - if you've got some things you wish to say or music to play for others around the world to share. If you have family who can go online and send me Blogs that I can post for you so that you can then answer in reply to let them know you are safe and ok or visa-versa then contact me here on InTouchRadio.net - our job - to break the boundaries which divide us.

As always and through these difficult times InTouchRadio.net is here for you.

If you would like to Sponsor any shows or would like to Advertise with InTouchRadio.net please contact me to discuss this. If you are able to please Donate - it doesn't matter how much or how little we only can survive this way. Each show takes up to 2 days from start to the end movie you see up online - some shows take up to a week.

InTouchRadio.net is a Co-operative Collective - Not - A Corporate Selective - simply means We Are All Family - We Are All One - now let's behave like we are.

Love
Michael x

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ITR - Fuel Drivers Strike Averted - Just In for InTouchRadio.net (UK/GLOBAL)

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Agreement ends tanker driver strike

A deal to resolve the bitter fuel drivers' pay dispute has been agreed, averting the threat of further strikes.

The breakthrough came at the end of all-day talks between leaders of the Unite union and managers from haulage firms Hoyer and Suckling Transport.

Hundreds of drivers went on strike for four days, leading to fuel shortages mainly at Shell garages across the country.

The union had warned of further strikes this weekend, but that has now been averted.

A brief statement said: "Hoyer, Suckling and Unite are pleased to confirm that they have successfully concluded pay talks."

Following Tuesday's meeting at the union's headquarters in London, Unite will recommend a new pay deal to its drivers, details of which were being kept secret.

Drivers will now be balloted over the coming week, with a recommendation to accept. In the meantime, all industrial action has been called off, including a ban on overtime.

The drivers walked out on strike last Friday at 6am, returning at 6am on Tuesday morning. They picketed fuel depots and refineries across the country and warned of a further four-day strike from this Friday.

The Government, industry and motorists will breathe a huge sigh of relief that the dispute has been resolved. The union had been seeking a pay rise to give drivers a basic of around £36,000 and accused Shell of refusing to intervene in the row.

Hundreds of garages were still out of one or more types of fuel, causing continuing problems for motorists.

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ITR - Australia / Perth Today for InTouchRadio.net News (UK/GLOBAL)

jan

16 Jun 2008, 02:07

Perth - Monday

High Australian $ Petrol Price Bedevilling Western Australia Tourism

16th June 2008, 8:30 WST

The strong Australian dollar and rising fuel prices spells tough times ahead for WA tourism, organisers of a major international travel expo have predicted.

Tourism Australia managing director Geoff Buckley — an organiser of the seven-day Australian Tourism Exchange expo being held at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre — said these pressures would make it a tough year for the industry.

“We think we’re probably going to look at something like a one per cent growth on last year or flat,” he said. “It very much depends on where these fuel prices end up, it very much depends on what the reaction is from the airlines.”

Mr Buckley said Australia was a niche rather than mass market destination but denied it was among the most expensive tourist destinations in the world.

His comments come after statistics last week showed that international tourists were visiting WA in record numbers and spending record amounts but domestic travel in the State had declined. The figures for the year ending in March showed that overseas visitors’ expenditure in WA had risen 17.1 per cent, outperforming the national average of 5.8 per cent.

The owner of Mandurah accommodation group Crest, Craig Green, said his biggest concern was the strong Australian dollar.

“If our dollar continues to get stronger, it’s going to cripple us with our tourism market,” he said. “It’s great for Australians wanting to travel overseas, not good for trying to get the international market to come to us.”

Tourism WA chief executive Richard Muirhead predicted international visits to the State would continue to increase during the next 12 months and he was more concerned about further drops in the domestic market.

“I don’t think we should apologise for not being a cheap destination,” he said. “I don’t think we (offer) a cheap experience.”

Mr Buckley admitted accommodation shortages and the effects of the gas crisis had been challenges, given the influx of visitors, but said compromises had been made.

About 600 overseas buyers from more than 40 countries are attending the Australian Tourism Exchange expo, which is heralded as the biggest international travel trade show in the southern hemisphere with about 2000 people attending and an estimated 45,000 meetings scheduled between Australian tourism businesses and overseas buyers.

Delegates attending the expo have been told of the gas crisis and asked to limit their use of fresh linen and towels while staying in Perth hotels.

Perth Ambassador Hotel sales and marketing director Hannah Clark said it was embarrassing when WA was portrayed as a firstclass destination but could not guarantee basic services.

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ITR - Smokey Joe - Charlie the Legend Coming Online Very Soon for InTouchRadio.net (UK/GLOBAL)

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The Legend That is Smokey Joe - Charlie
Veteran of the UK Festival Scene
Festival Chef - Photographer - Musician
Historian of Nottinghill - London

Recently I had the pleasure to meet Smokey Joe or Charlie as he's known. If you've been listening to the Interviews on InTouchRadio.net you will undoubtedly have seen the program 'Green Pepper - Red Tomato' about Massimo and his wife Ann who have their own Festival Food Company working in the UK's major festivals where they sell their Mediterranean Pasta dishes.

Massimo moved very close to me and we became friends over the weeks since he arrived, few could resist his infectious laughter and he and Ann's generosity. It was Massimo and Ann who offered to loan me their Camper for the Sunrise Festival which, through weather conditions outside their control, had to postpone till later in the year.

This evening Massimo said that Charlie had arrived and I should talk to him, he's one of the Veterans of the UK Festival scene going right back to the heady days of the 196o's.

What I didn't expect was a man with a wealth of knowledge and stories about life in Nottinghill in London in the 1950's and 1960's. I learned about what it was like to be an Afro Carribean during the post war years.

Not only was Smokey Joe a man of the people and for the people, and still is but he was also a traveller and made his way round Europe ending in Italy, became a press photographer, became a film extra and met up with the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra but witnessed the Spaghetti Cowboy films with Clint Eastwood and many others.

He is a wealth of knowledge of the alternative music scene and the English blues culture of the early 60's and a knowledgeable man of the London gig scene too.

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ITR - One Of The World Bands You Have To Meet - Lossong & Bales for InTouchRadio.net (UK-GLOBAL)

Hailing from California Lisa Lossong & Randy Bales do their own unique blend of music from what I've heard you'll love their style and unique method of experience over sense combining that Classic USA Rock inter-blending through the other genres sliding through time and technique into Folk and back to the complexity of Jazz.

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ITR - Massive Gas Blast in Australia for InTouchRadio.net (UK & GLOBAL)

jan

12 Jun 2008, 05:12

Gas Explosion

Michael there was a massive gas pipe fire in the north of Western Australia four days ago which has left the state in a mess. Laundries are unable to wash sheets etc and some industries have had to close down - the gas pipes supply 85% of gas to the state and hence the article below from the Acting Prime minister - of course, this coming weekend there is a huge internation tourism conference here in Perth and the hotels are finding it hard to launder the sheets required etc.

Jan

Gillard Offers Help After WA Gas Blast

11th June 2008, 16:27 WST

The federal government has offered help to Western Australia after an explosion left gas supplies in the state severely disrupted.

Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said supplies had been cut by 30 per cent after last week's blast at Apache Energy's Varanus Island gas processing plant.

She said the blast would have an impact on households needing gas in winter, as well as businesses.

"This is obviously a major matter affecting Western Australia and the Western Australian economy," she told reporters in Sydney.

"It is not a matter that is going to be remedied overnight in terms of the return of full supplies."

Ms Gillard said she had discussed the issue with WA Premier Alan Carpenter, offering help.

"It is a significant problem that is going to have ongoing economic and social consequences," she said.

"We are going to be working with the West Australian government on addressing those consequences.

Meanwhile, an investigation into the blast is taking longer than expected.

A spokeswoman for the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA), which was investigating the incident, told AAP, it was not possible to estimate how long the investigation would take.

"The investigation will be thorough," she said, adding that on its completion, recommendations would be made to WA's Department of Industry and Resources.

Apache managing director Tim Wall told journalists last Friday that NOPSA's investigation into the incident should be completed the following day, June 7.

Two other investigations are also underway into the explosion and fire at the plant on June 3, which cut off one-third of the state's domestic gas supply and is likely to cost WA industry hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mr Wall said on Friday that the partial restoration of gas supplies was several months away.

He said Apache's internal investigation, which was launched immediately after the incident, would continue this week.

A team of Singaporean fire experts and forensic scientists are also looking into the cause of the blast.

The gas shortage has delivered a blow to many businesses, with a Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCI) survey on Tuesday showing more than half its members will be affected.

The CCI said 14 per cent of the 83 companies it surveyed had reported they had shut down or will be shutting down soon.

Power generator and transmitter Energy Developments Ltd said it had secured short-term alternative gas supply and pipeline transport to enable the resumption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production at its plant in Karratha, which produces electricity for the west Kimberley region.

Meanwhile, Aluminum producer Alcoa of Australia has become the latest miner to declare a "force majeure" to its customers.

The contractual clause removes a company's liability to customers when an extraordinary event prevents it from fulfilling its obligations.

Alcoa of Australia, which is 60 per cent owned by US-based Alcoa and 40 per cent owned by Alumina Ltd, notified customers on Tuesday that the clause would be applied to its supply contracts for alumina.

Apache declared a force majeure on its contracts almost immediately after the incident.

APA Group, which delivers up to 60 terajoules of gas from Varanus Island each day to customers through its Goldfields gas pipeline, said it had secured alternate gas supplies from the Woodside Energy Ltd-operated North West Shelf Venture operations.

WA Premier Alan Carpenter said that he did not believe the state would need to invoke its emergency powers, which would mean the government taking control of energy supplies and distribution.

This could involve accessing emergency diesel supplies on Garden Island.

Mr Carpenter said the gas shortage is the biggest challenge his government has faced in eight years.

He urged business and residential users to limit their energy use.

AAP

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ITR - Fuel Prices & The Concern - Australia Calling for InTouchRadio.net UK & GLOBAL

jan

12 Jun 2008, 05:04

Fuel Prices and The Concern

Australia Calling

Jan - Correspondent - South Australia

Fuel prices stoke inflation fearsArticle from: AAPFont size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print Submit comment: Submit comment June 12, 2008 11:30am
THE inflation expectation of consumers has risen to a record high this month, as petrol prices climbed above $1.60 a litre, a survey shows.

The median inflation expectation rose by 0.7 percentage points to 5.9 per cent in June, the highest reading since the Melbourne Institute (MI) survey began in June 1993.

MI research fellow Sam Tsiaplias said record crude oil prices - which hit $US139 a barrel during the long weekend survey period - were driving consumers to expect higher inflation.

"It's saying they're expecting petrol prices and inflation to rally," he said.

"If petrol prices continue to increase at very high levels, you may see inflation expectations reach 6 per cent."

The proportion of the 1200 consumers, polled in early June, expecting inflation to stay within the Reserve Bank of Australia's 2 to 3 per cent target band fell to 8 per cent, from 9.5 per cent in May.

This is the survey's lowest level since June 2000, the month before the Federal Government goods and services tax (GST) was introduced.

The MI/Westpac consumer sentiment index, released yesterday, posted its worst result since December 1992.

"There's an inverse effect between prices and consumer sentiment," Dr Tsiaplias said.

Petrol prices in some Sydney suburbs jumped by 13 cents on Wednesday to 166.9 cents a litre, the Seven Network reported yesterday.

Operators and labourers had the highest inflationary expectations of 7.5 per cent while retirees and the unemployed forecast 4.9 per cent inflation, the MI survey found.

NSW had the highest median inflationary expectation of 6.9 per cent, with South Australia the least hawkish state on 3.6 per cent.

The survey was taken in the same week that gross domestic product growth for the March quarter was revealed to have grown by 0.6 per cent, which was double market forecasts of 0.3 per cent.

Core inflation in the year to March grew by 4.25 per cent, Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.

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ITR - South Australia News Re Stock Exchange for InTouchRadio.net (UK & GLOBAL)

jan

12 Jun 2008, 05:00

Article from South Australia News Re Stock Exchange
Forecast

Jan - Correspondent - South Australia

Local stocks plunge on oil priceArticle from: AAPFont size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print Submit comment: Submit comment June 12, 2008 12:30pm
AUSTRALIAN shares were down nearly two per cent at noon after Wall Street tumbled overnight as a renewed spike in crude oil price to $US136.38 worried investors.

At 1218 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 125.2 points, or 2.29 per cent, at 5342.1, while the broader All Ordinaries fell 117.4 points, or 2.11 per cent to 5444.5.

Austock Brokers senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said last night's Wall Street slide and Rio Tinto's commission problems in Guinea have roughed up the market.

"It's certainly another bleak day on the market,'' he said.

"It's driven by the fact we had no lead from the US in a positive direction last night and the problem with Rio and some doubt over what's going on over there in Guinea.''

"So when you combine those two negative forces you're going to get a market that's going to be down.''

BHP Billiton was down $1.48, or 3.41 per cent, to $41.96 while its takeover target Rio Tinto was off $3.46, or 2.62 per cent, to $128.64.

Meanwhile, the banking sector declined with Commonwealth Bank down $1.27, or 2.96 per cent, to $41.57, Westpac losing 63 cents, or 2.83 per cent, to $21.62, ANZ fell 50 cents, or 2.45 per cent to $19.90 and National Australia Bank declining $1.21, or 4.2 per cent to $27.59.

Takeover target St George lost 93 cents, or 3.09 per cent to $29.12.

Mr Heffernan said yesterday's gains were reversed.

The price of oil surged overnight more than five US dollars per barrel, to $US136.38.

Local energy stocks were mixed with Woodside petroleum adding eight cents to $61.66, Oil Search gaining six cents to $5.91 and Santos dropping 22 cents to $21.68.

US crude oil futures prices rose $US5.07 to settle at $US136.38 a barrel, within reach of last week's record near $US140.


The June share price index futures contract lost 108 points to 5,352, on a volume of 16,627 contracts.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 205.99 points, or 1.68 per cent, at 12,083.77.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 22.95 points, or 1.69 per cent, at 1,335.49. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 54.93 points, or 2.24 per cent, at 2,394.01.

The retail sector was mixed with David Jones down one cent to $3.22, while supermarket giant Woolworths fell 41 cents to $26.74 and Coles owner Wesfarmers climbed five cents to $38.57.

"Fresh food (retailers), they're the ones who are going to hold up. Other retailers have got to be be under pressure,'' Mr Heffernan said.

"Westfarmers are one of those retailers that can withstand the heat, I think. They have the Coles business there.''

The media sector also took a blow with News Corp down 37 cents to $18.77 while its non-voting scrip lost 34 cents to $18.11. Fairfax slipped eight cents, or 2.5 per cent, to $3.12.

Telstra lost 3 cents to $4.65 while rival Singapore Telecommunications lost one cent to $2.80.
Qantas was off six cents to $3.32.



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ITR - Opal Mining Down Under/Australia from Jan for InTouchRadio.net (UK & GLOBAL)

jan

11 Jun 2008, 11:21

Dear Michael - Just a Small Segment about Opal Mining.

Love
Jan


The Boomerang Mining Lease is a .18 hectare boomerang shaped lease in Yowah, Queensland, Australia. Part of the original Great Extended Lease of the 1890s ( the first recorded lease), it has been extensively worked underground by the old timers. Fifteen or so shafts were visible at the surface when I first pegged it.

All of them were the old timers' hand dug rectangular shaped holes. These have been backfilled by both hand and weather with trees growing out of them. This is an indication that the old dirt in the shaft has not been processed for many years.

This is a promising sign as there was no market in the late 1800s and early 1900s for matrix Yowah nut opal. The miners back then were looking solely for gem, crystal opal-centered Yowah nuts. The Great Extended was renown for producing small, gem quality red crystal nuts that had skin to skin color and since a man named Evans owned the lease, these gem nuts are called Evan's nuts and are highly sought after by those walking over the area fossicking (picking up surface nuts).

Some of these nuts have a tiny opal center with a great thickness of ironstone around it much like a peach pit in a peach. The skin to skin color nut can be compared to a chestnut -all opal in a thin ironstone skin.

Working below ground, often 10 feet to 40 feet deep, the miners would haul the dirt out of the depth using a windlass (a hand cranked winch) while following the nutband (the horizontal band of earth bearing Yowah nuts). Candles lit the way and the nuts were often cracked open underground and checked for color by candlelight or taken over to the bottom of the shaft to use the available sunlight shining from above.

Consequently, much color was missed and opal matrix, due to the market, was left in what is know a "The Crackin' Heap". Hundreds of nuts were cracked with no trace of color. When color, good color, was found, the nuts were bucketed to the surface to be cracked under the shade of a tree or around the campfire while tea was on the boil.

Ironstone weighs heavy so the rejects were left in their heap below ground. As the mining progressed, new dirt was moved to release more nuts. This throwaway dirt was stowed in the drives (tunnels) behind the miners that they were no longer interested in. These drives would be packed firmly with the "backstow" which covered the :crackin; heap". Many rejected nuts were also sprinkled liberally in with the backstow.

This process saved the old timers the unproductive work and unnecessary sweat of windlassing all dirt up the shaft to the surface. I am gloriously thankful of this, as it has left present day miners a source of beautiful, valuable matrix Yowah nut opal!

Today we are in the process of open cutting this impossible to work, dangerous ground. The tunnels have caved in over the last hundred years or are about to. By removing the sandstone overburden, we expose the backstow in both the shaft and the tunnels.

Also exposed is the added bonus of the virgin, solid pillars, that were originally left to hold up the mine roof. The old diggers had to leave some gem nut-bearing ground alone as props to keep them safe underground.

All these nuts have TONS of Queensland sandstone and clay mixed with them. The dirt needs to be trummeled in a mesh cage to separate the ironstone from the host dirt easily. The nuts are thrown in buckets and hauled off to be washed, cracked, and sawed before the cutter shapes and polishes the best.

Our partner's excavator has pulled out huge heaps of dirt liberally sprinkled throughout with potato like nuts and cut a large ramp with which to walk the excavator in to dig deeper to virgin levels.

We are at the point now where there is so much opal bearing dirt stockpiled that this has to be processed before the virgin levels can be prospected. We also have a nice, shallow opencut mine called the "Jackaroo" that produces good color and spectacular silica patterned nuts.

Opalized wood was also found in a 20 foot deep prospecting trench in the Jackaroo earlier this year.That is why those who join our opal expedition to Australia are free to work these stockpiles, and can keep the opal they find, up to the price of their tour.

These are the same stockpiles I work when over there mining. We encourage fellow lovers of opal on our tour, to actively participate in the mining of their own opal.

The physical exertion level you use is up to you as the dirt can be raked through with a lightweight hatchet, the nuts can be pulled out of the heaps just like picking potatoes, shoveled into a small trummel, loaded into a large trummel with a loader, or sieved with a handheld shaker much like a 16 inch flour sieve.

We also provide a larger sized hand sieve that is tripod mounted on swinging cables for ease of shaking. All mining gear is provided by us. Remember, what you sieve, needs to be washed and sorted then cracked to determine which is opal bearing.

Cutting facilities are also made available for your use. You are topside so the claustrophobic need not fear. The amount of opal you get is usually relative to the amount of dirt you sieve. Everything is done at your choice of speed and what and how you do it is no different to how the opal miners have been doing it for over a century.

This IS opal mining.

Jan is InTouchRadio.net Correspondent in Australia - she lives near Adelaide but is currently looking after a friend in the Perth - Fremantle West Coast area of Australia - if you have information around the World that would be informative or helpful please contact info@intouchradio.net . Look forward to hearing from you. Michael Dixon - InTouchRadio.net

ITR - USA - Oil - Where Do We Go From Here by Randy James for InTouchRadio.net (UK & GLOBAL)

Where Do We Go From Here
by
Randy James for ITR (UK)

The Administration and Big Oil (one in the same) are trying like hell to put more n' more hardships on everyone in order to pressure congress to allow drilling for oil in Amwar (which is the last completely ecologically protected coastal land in North America .

The stories that the media keeps shoving down our throats is that our fuel problem is caused by congress not letting oil companies drill in the United states....thats a big lie!

Congress has approved over 60 drill sites in North America over the past 7 years which the oil companies and Bush have requested and they have still yet to drill one hole in the ground.

Our high gas prices are nothing more than a scare tactic..its all intentional in order for Bush to have control of Amwar before he leaves office.

If we need to drill for oil to increase supply and reduce prices...theres over 60 places *where theres oil that the oil companies have the green light to drill....but they won't!

We need to focus on wind and solar energy to protect our planet and stop all of the sensless killing..greed is our biggest enemy!

We have the technology to run everything in the world on solar,wind ,and hydro (harnessing the power of water).

Nuclear is just another oil...*highly profitable for big business...and of course the big machine in government claims nuclear is the cleanest and safest....(tell that to people who live near Yucca Mountain in Nevada!)...ok..now one last gripe I have....

We need to get the hell off Mars and put our tax dollars to use right here...don't we have plenty of things that need attention right fkn here!!!!!

Thanks for listening and I'd appreciate it if you would repost this

Sincerely,

Randy James

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ITR - Does the Mountie still Always get his Man - Leila about the Royal Canadian Mounties for InTouchRadio.net (UK)

Leila

08 Jun 2008, 04:48

Leila and some Royal Canadian Mounted Police news

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Serving Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples

QUICK FACTS

• The RCMP serves over 600 aboriginal communities.

• In line with its priority to build stronger and safer aboriginal communities, the RCMP works collaboratively with communities, partners, stakeholders and aboriginal organizations.

• As of March 2007, 1,317 regular members of the RCMP, identified themselves as Abori