Nobody Listening or Reading About the Ground Moving Below Your Feet

This past year I have been studying the geographical landscape again online, and at large in the community, but especially my sector of the arts and entertainment. The great tragedy is, nobody is listening, learning, or reading, as the world at large changes, and very dramatically, especially for careers and livelihoods.

Alastair Agutter (Author) + Aggie (Music Artist) Web Site: https://www.alastairagutter.com/

Some folk are getting it, and understanding the need for change. To help combat these dramatic changes in addition to writing books as a specialist author in my life, and with a publishing record of over 60 books printed and more than 120 in different formats. I have also gone back to writing music again since the 1970's and 1980's to help absorb the dramatic changes coming, that will affect all our lives in the Arts and Entertainment Industry, and all areas of Business!

How, many are in truth reading the tea leaves and understanding what is going on, very few I think! And these comments are not some emotional rant, but based on rational facts, research, and study. And this seems to be a deficiency in many folks lives when it comes to business, be it in my industry of entertainment, the services and retail sectors as just some other examples. I am convinced I could continue to write articles until I am blue in the face, and in truth feel there is little point. But the reason why I do still try to persevere and hold out hope is for the odd one or two citizens in my industry, or business, that do take the time and trouble to read and research. Thus in turn hopefully helping them to adapt and change before it is too late!

When you now have a President and Officials of a USA Government that tell lies as a norm of around 3,000 times a month, it should soon register to anyone that this new norm, simply is not normal and we are in fact in un-presidented times!

Such an environment has a massive impact on communities, including our online global community, for where I have warned of a massive crash coming, I can tell you now it has already started, as web services start going to the wall. Then there are communities where more retail outlets are closing down, and even the real big players like Debenhams, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, John Lewis and others are starting to ride a very hefty and uncertain storm as they see more businesses close and collapse all around them.

Paul McCartney Web Site: https://www.paulmccartney.com/

Some as I say do get it however, such as Paul McCartney and Ariana Grande in our industry, as they become more creative with their online dedicated official web site presence. These are the smart guys, but others sadly are relying on a few posts over social media venues to keep them in the public eye and popular. But this is no guarantee of survival. Just recently VEVO called it a day and now part of the Google YouTube Platform. Just think how many artists, bet their money on VEVO being around for all times.

Ariana Grande Web Site: https://www.arianagrande.com/

The only sure thing as an artist is to have what I call an anchor point for fans and music lovers, a safe harbour in the way of a dedicated web site, so then through all the changes and takeovers or firms and venues going bust, your fans can always follow you and catch up with your news and activities from your official web site.

Madness is happening, this year from my research I have even seen well known artists, not bothering with their own official web sites at all! Some even shutting them down, due to costs, thus only looking at the short-term and not the long-term impact and changes.

Some top web designers may charge 30k plus for design, but if this is your livelihood and you do not have the skills to design, program and create yourself, you need to retain these talents, otherwise the work and record sales will eventually run out!

Even well known authors are changing and getting to work. The likes of James Patterson advertising more than ever, and Stephen King working Twitter on a daily basis to retain presence with fans and audiences.

What is coming, is nothing short of the "Mother of All Storms" to the economy globally. As a result of more than a decade of ignorance, by Corporations and Governments associated with economics. If people get poorer, to any simple soul it is understood that economies will slowdown as less folk can afford to buy!

For more than a decade these events have been happening, and taking Britain as an example, the past four years of spending has been primarily as a result of credit and debt again. And do you remember how Governments and Banks assured the world this would never happen again!

Well I hope more read this article, for I am one for changing and not sitting back, only to be swallowed up, or drown as a result of a sinking ship, not sea worthy enough to confront and ride out this storm coming!

I have already started to look at real creative design and new concepts, not only with the web site, but moving forward with more great books and music. I am not alone, smart friends in the industry like Ariana Grande and Paul McCartney get it like I say, and also becoming more creative. Even the likes of Bet Midler and Barbara Steisand are having a voice again, and getting active to meet the storm coming in a political sense, but also more importantly than ever, in a philosophical and community sense, as they realize not only are economics at stake, but also the possibility of society full stop! And at such times folk need hope, and the guided direction of our maker!

The natural instinct for change is not because I write books for a good yarn, or write music just to listen too. I create these forms as a passion, and to hopefully help contribute and shape a better world, advancing the human story and journey. These artists are also the same, living and breathing their crafts, and this is what makes them stand out, but also delivers the instinctive gift of wisdom, to know when change and creativity is required, and at the most extreme.

Others often follow, we know as trends, but in this fast changing world, and competing on a global level, before one starts, or tries to catch up, your business could of died, crashed and burned!

Good Luck, Best Wishes and Warmest Regards

Alastair

Erosion of the Mind Jealousy Hate and Want

In more recent times I have seen a vast increase in jealousy, hate, and want, to which is an erosion of the mind. In the firing line seems to be celebrities and social media platforms especially.

These people and entities however, are all trying to bring light into the world for the greater good, yet being blamed and used by folk to vent their anger and frustrations in life. I experience this myself, hence being prompted to write this article at 5.00 am in the morning to tell a few home truths, and to say "who and what is the most ugliest here" regarding ones existence of failing to learn and discover the light!

It should not be the case or right that Ariana has to live each day with dark thoughts in her heart and mind from the unforgivable Manchester Arena bombing, where her fans were murdered, or maimed for life, mostly "thee most innocent" children. The attacker, like all his other cohorts, empty vessels, and lost souls would claim such an act to be in the name of  some "pure religion and faith" of God. But this is not true, no man-made religion on this Earth is of Divine Creation. Ask the other 1.5 trillion species here on Earth what is their religion!

Or even go further a field and ask other life forms throughout the Cosmos what their religion is, for their are plenty of entities in existence, not just here on Earth. Admittedly Earth is one of the Jewels in the Cosmos, all Astronauts will tell you this, who have seen it from afar and above, moving many to tears to see such wonder and beauty!

These acts of evil, nothing else are committed by killers and ignorant thugs, nothing more. If they had several million pounds each, they would have no time for any man-made religion nonsense. They would mostly be driving around in customised BMW's claiming to be some superior entity here on earth, and a suitable mate for any poor naive and ignorant woman found also to be wanting in life!

I wrote a book just recently titled "The Cherry Tree Garden" and it is all about the light. It tells you in the book, the secret to life here on Earth and throughout the Cosmos, and how all is connected and joined up! In fact every life entity here on Earth shares the same unique genomes totalling 355 known as LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestors). From a blade of grass to a human being will be found these 355 unique genes, that all relate to the seeding of life throughout the Cosmos and here on Earth. The Mayan Civilisation that claims men are from mud is true. For all life on land was seeded from the Earth and before the forming of land mass, evolved from the gases and life forms of the Seas!

Ones purpose in life, as is the case with all entities is to evolve, it is known by many as "Natural Law" helped and assisted by Quantum Mechanics and Natural Branching. Your purpose in life as human beings is to ensure your siblings and off-spring are brighter, and more intelligent than you! This is the case with all species to reach eventual "simplistic perfection" and this cannot be achieved by sitting in an armchair criticising events happening to you in life, as a result of being poor and ignorant.

There is an old saying, "idle hands do the devils work" this is true, but added to that can also be the destructive use of the brain when one judges others by their own miserable standards. If one is ignorant, naive, with a refusal to learn and discover the true light, one then judges by those set of standards. If your mind is in the gutter, then your judgement of others will be like wise, as you cannot comprehend anything else.

But there are some, who from the day they were born and deeply loved by God for their efforts, go in search of the light. And most of these beautiful human beings will be found in, and across the creative world of the arts, education, and medicine. For these are some of the most noblest virtues in life to pursue!

These beautiful beings are not driven by money, but for the love of creation and kindness. It maybe hard to accept if your mind is in the gutter, but none of them when starting out in life considered money, but a desire and with a burning passion inside them to express, or help others. This is the case with the great technology creators of today, be it Steve Jobs creations to bring light through the Apple iPod for Music, to Mark's Facebook to connect the world, to Larry and Sergey's Google to learn and discover all.

These are creations as a result of passion and love, nothing evil or bitter. Such endeavours have come at great cost. From Ariana, Madonna, Jennifer and many others to Mark, Larry and Sergey where they have lived and breathed their respective dreams and passions 24/7. Not 9.00 to 5.00, and often termed as a Job! Their endeavours are as I say, a genuine fuelled love and passion, to seek out the unknown, and to be the best, to reach the highest standards possible, through love, compassion, and dedication, that all eventually leads to simplistic perfection and the light!

These souls do give their time to many, we all do for we represent "Hope" as we try to bring light into this world through creation and evolution. If you are not happy with your life, don't sit their and be destructive to yourself by hurting others. Pick up a book, or start to do research on Google, and see what you can discover and do! Or talk, and be kind to new and existing friends on Facebook, show the beauty of human kindness, not the weakness of ignorance, bitterness, hate, and jealousy, that all eventually comes back to haunt you, for you will be judged and by you! In the book there is also a section that helps humans understand the four cycles of their physical life.

From the day I was born, but yet I maybe different for having a direct line as they say to upstairs (Divine Creation) God! But I have always been pleased for others succeeding in life. Even when they get a possession that they are proud of. I am always very pleased, not by the item, for a house is never owned for example, and a new car eventually turns to rust and dust. But for the fact they have tried, however naive they have been. Remember, you come into this world with nothing, and you leave this world with nothing, only memories, and the legacy you have left contributing to society!

All man-made religion through the ages of time, has caused wars, misery, and conflict, as a primitive self appointed form of governance, nothing else. Divine creation throughout the Cosmos and beyond has been achieved through love, the seeding of life. The force and Divine creation can manifest into many forms, as is written by the Holy Sand Scribes of Time, and in all their books of faith to learn with the best pure intent, nothing else. The cruelty to Children, vulnerable, and weak, is the evidence and testament to such hypocrisy and ignorance of man-made religion.

The light is through pursuing learning, and giving, leading to wisdom and enlightenment. The worshipping of money can only gain misery, jealousy, and want, none of these desires are virtuous, or do they lead to greater compassion, love, understanding, and fulfilment!

Please spare a thought for Ariana especially at this time, and send your love and best wishes, she is hurting and haunted by events in her life, and needs all the love and support possible, for I do fear for her well-being after Manchester.

If you want to begin and discover the true path in life for your salvation and worth. The Cherry Tree Garden Book is available in traditional print and on digital in all good stores including Amazon here for the printed and Kindle versions, plus here on Google Play for a digital edition.

Thank You, Sincere Best Wishes, and Love to All,

The Weekend Magazine
By Alastair Agutter
Publishing Editor



 

The Next Big Thing in Technology and the Geographical Landscape Changes

This is an article I have written regarding the geographical landscape and the next "BIG" thing in technology, and this next big thing unknown to many, is now incubating and growing below the surface, and will change the world forever. So as you read this article, please stay with me. Thank you!

 Web Art Illustration Created by Alastair R Agutter

This past fortnight my subconscious dimension to my very being has made me begin to ask some searching questions again, based on current events happening around the world. To the point of research and action.

For more than 18 months now, I have been frequently mulling over in my mind the daily and weekly events seen on our television, and have found myself becoming forevermore skeptical, as the conclusions to the stories covered by the press and media, are starting to sound like a bad recording, and without any constructive conclusions, solutions or viable outcomes, as a result of the circle of friends and associates appointed to provide experienced professional answers and advice to such events.

Through my own experience, and freeing myself from the nonsense stated, read, and heard. The best example or analogy I can give to summarize the current insanity and madness regarding the human races current course and destination. It is like being on a train heading towards a bridge that has collapsed with a huge valley and ravine, with a drop of several thousand feet, and the outcome is, all inhabitants on that train will not survive. Yet the passengers on the train are still discussing the weather, markets, politics of the day, and others phoning their brokers to buy shares in oil (fossil fuels).

This my friends is the cold harsh reality of madness going on. I have just seen parts of Florida wiped out from Hurricane Storm Michael, and the journalist of the broadcaster stating "the Floridians are tough, and they are going to rebuild and get on with life." Excuse me please, will someone start to get real here. Storm Michael won't be back, but other storms will be soon and especially next year, and far stronger and greater than storm Michael. It's called the domino effect of Climate Change!

We have a character in the White House who thinks his on an International reality TV show, seriously rubbing up some very powerful people the wrong way, notably the President of China. Leading to alienation with the West and a global trade war. A US Government Administration living in total denial of Climate Change, and reporting daily on the success of the Stock Markets, the exact and same system and mechanism that brought the world to its financial knees in 2008.

Now please stay with me on all of this, if I went to a bank for a loan on a project that I have developed and tried on countless times before, only for it to fail. The bank would not be suggesting, or offering me a loan, but suggesting I get some serious psychiatric treatment. Yet Western Governments since the 1930's, the great depression, have pursued insane economic policies like mad scientists.

The continued terms of "work and money" to drive people in a Western Society, in truth is not smart. Technology everyday, as it further advances, is demonstrating how many types of work can be reduced, or eliminated. Then because of the mindset and culture, social pressures that bear down on folk to have a job, and a feeling of guilt as human beings for not being productive or active, let alone without a job! But the reality is, and you do not have to be a genius, as technology advances and populations continue to grow, there simply will not be the jobs. So what do we do?

Do we have more wars, that has been the solution in the past to all this insanity, going as far back as Alexander the Great and beyond, who invaded and sacked Villages, Towns, and Cities. Then only to rebuild again, like the mad scientist going to the bank for a loan, or the current and previous Governments pursuing this madness of economic policy, that has incurred two world wars, and countless other conflicts around the world these past 100 plus years!

The new game in town and a very disruptive one is being especially exercised by Russia at this time, we are starting to know as Cyber Warfare. I hope you like the following image, spooky huh, I created this image more than 12 years ago, as I could see where we were heading.

Web Art Illustration Created by Alastair R Agutter

This new type of warfare is to breakdown social cohesion and organized structural procedures. It is clearly something Vladimir Putin has studied carefully along with his cohorts. A great deal of this Cyber Warfare is as a result of when "Glasnost" came to be and the falling of the Berlin Wall. As Russia changed from a Communist regime to a capitalist based society, there was a period of chaos and many Russian Folk very sadly suffered. But in truth this is only one reason for Putin's behaviour, the other is power and ambition. However, as a result of these new cyber threats to elections in the West, I am fearful Governments such as the USA and Great Britain will help Putin win this Cyber War through stringent dictatorship regulation affecting Social Media Evolution to unite the people of the world.

Such a strangle hold on Social Media Evolution will in effect kill the "Golden Goose" that is currently incubating in the belly of Social Media, as an artificial organically growing entity. Rewind a little in history, and to understand the early beginnings of World Wide Web's connectivity. After Sir Tim Berner's-Lee set up the beginning of the World Wide Web at CERN in Switzerland, to link up academic papers and information, with the http:// protocol. It was in fact at NCSA, in Champagne Illinois, in the USA, where Mark Andreessen and Eric Bina, developed the beginning of the Commercial World Wide Web as we know it today, with the Mosaic Browser, later to be known as the Netscape Navigator Browser Suite. This generation of mine with great minds, all had one thing in common, they were born in what I describe as a purple period in society, when family backgrounds and home life was pretty normal and secure, this being primarily the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. 

Creativity and imagination was abound, and it was an era of engineering enthusiasts and computer programmers, the latter using some of the very early Acorn, Sinclair and BBC computer devices. This generation today, has founded, or still run, some of the largest technology companies on the planet, and their imaginative creative minds continue to work, and are ahead of the game still!

Sergey Brin, Jeff Besoz, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs (RIP) and Mark Zuckerberg etc. all of these great minds and talents, have emerged when things in the West were good and sensible, to put it into the most basic terms. All of them who are still living today, are mindful of flaws and responsibilities, believe it or not, and more than anyone. When privacy and child abuse was becoming rife on Social Media, and the USA arm of the Government started to bear down on Mark Zuckerberg. I contacted Mark directly, as one parent to another, and within days he started to act and recruit folk to stamp out these heinous crimes! 

The truth is, these guys care more than the politicians, and for a number of reasons. One being they are driven by a vision, and secondly they want to change and make a better world. They know the writing is on the wall for humankind, and they are all working behind these scenes pulling out all the stops. Some of the technology is so advanced, they are very morally and sensibly refusing to work with Government Ministries, as they know such technology will not be used for peaceful means, and will sure as hell create and make the situation worse, with regards to dealing with the current disruptive actors in Cyber Space. 

All the time Vladimir Putin plays this game, where he can tell the Russia people they are not liked, he will stay in power. But once the Russian people realize the enemy is from within, then can there be a future for all and this includes all citizens of the world, especially China, for again, they are not the enemy. But if USA and UK Governments go marching around in their big size eleven's legislating on something they can't even begin to understand, all will be lost for all of humankind and possibly leading to all out War and conflict!

Since the beginning of the human story, we have had to date three significant moments regarding collective governance. These being, first Tribalism, then came man made Religion, and then in more recent times Political Governance. 

The continuing thread to artificial intelligence, and all life, and all that exists, surrounds Sir Isaac Newton's Natural Law. I am fortunate, like others I know of Zero Point (The Force) and have seen it in all it's glory. Natural Law Governs everything, it is even found in technology and AI, with the aid of Quantum Mechanics and Natural Branching. You cannot defy it, I in fact wrote an article (AI and Technology Cannot Defy Natural Law) on the subject.     

So where are we heading and why should we understand how critical it is to protect Social Media? 

Well, the Golden Goose is the framework of Social Media leading to Social Media Justice and Governance, the new form of a global and fair just society. Today we are already seeing how these small seeds of evolution are working with regards to petitions to Governments through Social Media to reports and reviews, giving ratings on peoples experiences, be it travel or accommodation. 

Once Western Governments and Politicians can get their heads around this technology, a framework can be designed so citizens of states can interact and vote on issues, be it elected officials to budgets, the need for more policing, the local and regional issues citizens want addressed, so on and so forth. Then such a framework can be operated in other states around the world, especially in Africa and South America where corruption is rife. You could in fact, using a lottery principle, randomly pick citizens who are registered, and this needs to be made as a rule of law. To sign off online treasury transfers and payments. This would prevent corruption. You could easily program so for example, two Government treasury minsters and four randomly selected citizens are selected to sign off and approve a benefits budget. Or the purchasing of certain types of equipment required by the state. This preventing corruption and embezzlement of money which has been so often the case. 

As a society this is where we can be heading, but if we allow politicians to legislate, this will only provide greater power to dictators around the World, as we are now seeing in Turkey, with the persecution of journalists, and the free press. Or Putin, Assad, and others, something in the past America and Britain have stood up against, based upon the Covenants set down in both Nations dating back to Magna Carta, and written in the American Constitution.

With the grave emergence of Climate Change, and now we are witnessing the devastation around the world. Social Media through communication is already playing a big part in civic duty and co-operation. As these events heighten and get worse, until the great minds of the world can address them collectively. All our futures are dependent upon change of lifestyles, accountability, and transparency, and this is only going to be achieved through the aid of technology and a new form of politics, that is not solely driven by failed economic policies of the mad scientists. 

Enterprise can begin now working with Governments to create these new frameworks, such collaboration and collective effort is effective and works. We have seen this with the development of Mozilla Fire Fox and Android. Two bundles and projects that are open source and built on threw collaboration of programmers and developers.

Work as a concept needs to be understood in many different ways, a Mother bringing up a child so they become a well rounded, responsible, and highly intelligent individual, is one of the most important jobs in the world. So this child, he or she, could be the one tomorrow, to help us develop Electromagnetic Fusion, so we can reach for the stars!

The future is now in Western Society, and ready for change to take another quantum leap, to then lead the world through peace, by demonstrating how Social Justice Politics begins with the well-being of its people first and not failed economically driven policies. Productivity, economy, and creativity, will all bring far higher and better results for societies in the 21st century. 

Thank You!

A New Book That Will Change Your Life Forever!

I am delighted to share with you details of my new book, and for anyone reading "The Cherry Tree Garden" I know it will change their life forever!

I like to also think the book is timely, as we see  so much chaos, confusion, and misery in the world.

I am confident the book will be spiritually uplifting and enlightening, for I share in the book many spiritual visitation experiences over my humble 60 years of physical life.

The Book Features: The Four Cycles of the Human Condition, Celestial Visitation Experiences, Spiritual Sensory Awareness and the Different Vibration Levels, Visitation Predictions and Warnings, The Real True Story of the Garden of Eden and Location, Divine Structure including Celestial Ascendancy Deities often deemed as Mythical Gods, Divine Celestial Elders and Divine Family Elders and Guides. Divine Creation and the Covenants of Natural Law for Greater Knowledge, Wisdom, and Enlightenment. Alien Life and other Worlds and Dimensions, Learning to see far more Reality around you, The Rising of the Chinese Dragon with a Heart, Evolution and Human Primate Responsibility as Good Shepherds, Equality and Reverence to Sacred Vessels of Motherhood and All Life!

All of our journeys start with a beginning and end, yet sometimes we can pause, or stop, to see, admire, or digest an event, or moment in our lives. So often these subtle signs and events have far greater meaning and relevance. So the reading of “The Cherry Tree Garden” is such a moment, and event in your life, and meant to be, as you continue on your journey in search of finding the answers.

“Just as a wind and breeze can change direction and be invisible to your naked eye, one knows of such a presence and existence from such an entity.” ~ Alastair R Agutter

The Cherry Tree Garden Book is available in traditional print and on digital, including kindle and nook from all these good book stores:- https://www.alastairagutter.com/the-cherry-tree-garden-book/

Tropical Fish Keeping Journal Book Edition One

A very big welcome to the "Tropical Fish Keeping Journal Book Edition One" for every tropical Fish Hobbyist and Dedicated Aquarist from around the World. Each edition covers a series of special features on the hobby, for a successful tropical fish keeping experience.

In this issue of the “Tropical Fish Keeping Journal” book edition one, we cover; the history of tropical fish keeping and the unmistakable contribution made by our Victorian Ancestors. Helping new aquarists get started. Choosing the correct themes and styles for the aquarist’s planned aquarium(s). Choosing the right sized fish tank, including the supporting stand required for the job and the importance of positioning the aquarium in the right place.


TABLE OF CONTENTS INSIDE THIS ISSUE

INTRODUCTION - Authors introduction to the Tropical Fish Keeping Journal Book Editions 

SHORT HISTORY OF THE PASTIME - A brief History of the hobby and the unmistakable contributions made by our Victorian Ancestors 

GETTING STARTED IN THE HOBBY - Helping new aquarists to get started in the hobby and becoming familiar with the products

AQUARIUM STYLES - Choosing the correct themes and styles for the Aquarists planned aquarium(s) 

AQUARIUM SIZES AND STANDS - Choosing the right sized fish tank, including the supporting stand requirements

 AQUARIUM LOCATIONS - A guide to ensuring your aquarium is positioned in a safe and appropriate location

TROPICAL FISH SPECIES - Editors choice featuring a selection of tropical fish species accompanied with fact files

AQUATIC PLANT SPECIES - Editors choice featuring a selection of aquatic plant species accompanied with fact files

BREEDING LIVEBEARER GUPPIES - The Aquarists quick guide to successfully breeding and rearing livebearer Guppies

AQUARISTS PRODUCTS GUIDE - Featuring essential star aquatic products of note for today's tropical fish hobbyist

AQUARISTS REFERENCE TABLES - Sets of essential reference tables for aquarists including Gallons, Litres, Aquarium Sizes, Filtration and more in every journal edition, plus mathematical formulas

AQUARISTS BOOK GUIDE - Essential books and magazines worth reading and acquiring covering the hobby

AQUARISTS DIRECTORY - Useful web sites and web addresses for aquarists in relation to the pastime


AUTHOR'S MARINE BIOGRAPHY

Alastair Agutter is one of a select few world-wide to successfully breed Wild Discus (symphysodon) species King of the Aquarium in captivity and an authority on these tropical fish species and others, as an accomplished Best Selling Author of Specialist Books Internationally. 

Alastair began keeping and breeding tropical fish as a hobbyist from the age of just 9 years back in 1967 (nearly 50 years ago) and has successfully bred many species. He was one of the very first Aquarists in the United Kingdom breeding cichlids from the Great Lakes (Malawi and Tanganyika) in the early and mid-nineteen-seventies. 

His enthusiasm as a dedicated Aquarist continues today with a number of projects underway; including the development of new biological filtration systems (Polyatomic-ion Biological Reactors), to help improve the success survival rate for keeping thriving plants with tropical fish species. Other projects include breeding a number of endangered species including original strains of the symphysodon family and other smaller indigenous species native to South America mainly inhabiting the Great River Amazon. 

Alastair also continues today designing and making his very own aquariums and equipment for his projects, and also endeavours to write more tropical fish hobbyist reference books as a freelance full-time author, in the interests of further serving the local and wider Community Internationally.

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Review: The Compleat Angler

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

In 1981 representatives of the British Library presented an early leather bound edition of "The Compleat Angler" Book. At that time, back in 1981, it was claimed that The Compleat Angler was the third biggest selling book in history, after Pilgrims Progress, and the Holy Bible.

I was commissioned by the Izaak Walton Foundation to make and design a collection of limited edition split bamboo cane rods to commemorate the "Tercentenary" 1683. To do my very best, I wanted to get the real feel for the time and moment. I therefore read from cover to cover this work, that I found inspiring. I cannot say Charles Cotton, or Izaak Walton, were great anglers. But their journeys as friends and companions to various Rivers, and Venues in Blighty, made the book fascinating to read.

The Compleat Angler for me is a book worth investing in for those long winter months, as you warm up by a log fire, hearing the crackle of the chestnut logs, with a warm glow to your face from the fire and dream about the fish you plan to catch, the following season.

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Review: Lessons in Tennis A Text Book of the Game

Lessons in Tennis A Text Book of the Game by George Agutter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

With the recent new book by Johnnie Mac (John McEnroe), about Tennis and his life and love for the game, we have come a long way in the Sport since my Great Uncle's day. When he greatly contributed to Tennis in the United States leading, to becoming President (Dean) of the American Lawn Tennis Players Association.

Today, many folk say "not to dwell on the past, or look back" but very often by looking onto history can we find treasures to enlighten, and remind us of our roots, and the standards we need to maintain or aspire too set down by our kin and ancestors.

Any young sports person taking up the sport of tennis today, can do well to study the history of the game, for such a book as this, will help a player to begin a journey of dedication, finite precision and skill development.

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Review: Everyday Super Food

Everyday Super Food by Jamie Oliver
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As a more seasoned member of society these days, getting old, and experienced life's journey to the end degree. I have to admire and take my hat off to this remarkable young man. If at anytime our Millennials seek to be inspired by a persons drive, passion, dedication and hard work, it is Jamie!

This book as like many others he has written and produced, selling over 20 million of his books, is beautifully designed and crafted, laid out to only inspire us all to cook far more healthy foods, rather than processed products (ready meals) that consist of many chemicals and toxins, that do poison the body over time, hence more cancers and allergies today!

The book is full colour throughout, and brilliant value for money. I know I am not alone in saying it is a cookery book with recipes that will always be treasured in the cooks library.

This book was the inspiration for me to write "Super Foods Tropical Fish and Discus", thanks Jamie!

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Review: Competitive Fly Fishing

Competitive Fly Fishing by Tony Pawson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

An excellent book to read for any ardent followers of sport and fishing. Tony Pawson in his life, represented England for cricket, and also Oxford for football. His sporting success was carried into his latter years, and with a little help from someone not mentioning any names for fishing tackle, became the World Individual Fly Fishing Champion in 1982.

Throughout Tony Pawson's life time he was a highly respected and a very much loved person, his quality of journalism was second to none, and this is reflected in this book. He is very sadly missed by the very many who had the privilege to known him.

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My First Aquarium Book New Release

Dear Google Readers and Followers,

I am absolutely delighted to announce the release of my latest Tropical Fish Book titled My First Aquarium for all Tropical Fish Hobbyists and dedicated aquarists.

 As you can see the new book has over 380 pages, crammed with valuable information and proven methods that work based on my first-hand experience, now spanning nearly 50 years since taking up the traditional and time honoured noble pastime in 1967.

I was determined to write a new tropical fish book covering the hobby, in the hope it encourages more Folk to take up the hobby, for so much can be gained and enjoyed from the pastime.

The book takes the aquarist through every stage of getting started in the hobby. The correct size of aquarium, the location, the ideal height, the style and theme of the aquarium, filtration methods, heating devices, lighting systems, super foods and even recipes showing the aquarist how to make their own tropical fish food. Methods on how to set up a naturally planted aquarium, with the right advice on the substrate to have lush aquatic plants in the aquarium. Even a 28 day cycle method where no chemicals are required or used, and how to achieve crystal clear water for healthy plants and happy thriving tropical fish.

I know this book will become a valuable companion and friend for every aquarist from the advice given. The book also covers the most diseases and ways to prevent many of the most common ailments tropical fish contract as a result of stress.

I was determined to get the book finished before Christmas for Fellow Aquarists around the world, as I know the book will be the perfect gift for any family member or loved one, who has a passion for tropical fish keeping.

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The book is a traditional printed edition and will be a valuable asset for any Aquarist's library. The printed book is available online from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Create Space and all other Good Book Stores, including your local Village, Town or City book store, when ordering through the expanded distributor network.

Have a Great Holiday and All the Very Best for the New Year!

Sincere Best Wishes,

Alastair :)

UK Budget 2016 and Sea of Change in Society

Yesterday 16th of March 2016 United Kingdom Chancellor George Osborne gave his latest Budget and found within it were some interesting hidden facts.

For the many Readers and Followers I am humbled to have and know, who take an interest in my articles and books, from reading the Author Journal Magazine. They are able to quickly conclude that I tell it how it is and this is based on my continued journey of seeking greater enlightenment, my values and faith.

It is true when George Osborne says there are dark clouds looming regarding the stability of domestic and International economies, but this in many respects has been self inflicted by the countless Governments and Politicians involved around the World.

So lets take you back to the financial crash of 2008 and refresh our minds here, as it does seem such a long time ago now. The Crash of 2008 surrounded property and mortgages, this was the focus of the discussion. But behind these events leads only to Banks and Finance. The Banks being the money men and architects involved with the lending of mortgages and bundling up of extravagant financial commodities. This afore mentioned is a fact, property was going through the roof in price and banks were able to lend to mortgage owners based on equitable value in their properties. De Je Vue, starting to get nervous yet!

So when the big crash came and happened that was a "Financial" one, as it involved money and finance. Governments and Politicians from around the World yes you guessed it, took advice from the folks in Banking and Finance. Fact, these were the folk who created the crisis in the first place as a result of greed and exploitation and with no moral compass or regard for the Citizens and neighbours.

Pre 2008 saw these fancy commodities being bundled up and finance offered on an epidemic scale, as a result of the game being up, for the World of Finance and Banking as we know it. This was also pertinent regarding the Stock Markets and Companies involved mainly Corporations, Hedge Funds, Insurance's, Banks and Finance Institutions.

Now at this point of the article I want you to stay with me, for one of the biggest problems caused from Social Media and one of the reasons I wrote this timely book titled "Social Media The Sum of Everything Equals Zero" is that facts are being skirted over, or ignored and only snippets of information is being read in the News and Media, without drilling down onto the actual facts regarding the turmoil in the World and the events that continue to unravel.

In 2008 with the Financial crash Politicians and Governments looked towards Banks for answers, but the reality is, these institutions did not have the answers and examples are above from the fancy bundles and ideas being created in the Financial World. In addition to the above, we had banks rigging the currencies via LIBOR, money laundering, account holding of organized crime gangs for drugs and people trafficking.

So in reality Bankers were the last people to get advice from and such stupidity in the World of Politics, has led to a systematic series of cover ups surrounding these facts and why we have seen very few if any bankers serving custodial sentences for fraud and theft!

The decision to create QE (Quantitative Easing), the printing of money and giving it to the banks, is like giving a habitual alcoholic a crate of Whiskey everyday. The people running these institutions were the old school establishment figure heads that knew absolutely nothing about the World around them that is critical to create and develop financial services fit for a modern world. Now some may say my comments are over critical or not founded, but sadly they are the facts and I can sight you examples today why the Banking System and World of Finance is clue less.

Every bank at this time is piggy backing off of technology, regarding their services in the form of Apple Payment Systems and various Apps. None of these services, or features (gimmicks), have any worth or synergy in them to serve the community and address the bigger picture.

Politicians like George Osborne taken in by these thieves and scoundrels 8 years on has delivered nothing! The banks took the money, modernized their operations at State expense, paid themselves again huge bonuses and lent a few quid to their Corporate mates, who were already into the Banks for eye watering amounts such as Tesco, with over 7 lenders and loans running into the billions!

In 2009/10 I wrote to Dr Vince Cable the Secretary of State for Business in the UK on several occasions and warned him about the banks and why money needed to be placed into the hands of folk who can create Jobs and Wealth for the Country, these being Small and Medium Enterprises, who have the ideas and can develop innovative products to release onto the World as exports. I suggested this could be achieved by setting up a Cgi form on the HM Inland and Revenue Gateway, where legitimate businesses that paid their tax could apply for loans to fund and finance their businesses.

But the "Big Thinking" was not there by the politicians, only corner shop economics and this is where we are today as a result of not tackling "Economic War" back in 2009. Where the Government talked a good show, saying we are at economic war. But done nothing about it to tackle the crisis by grabbing the problem by the throat!

Some may believe from the Press and Politicians funding was available and did happen. Well the reality is, it did not. Before 2008 only 2% of bank funding ever reached businesses in the form of lending. Post 2008 and after a staggering £500 billion plus to banks, the figure for lending to business by banks is -2%.

This current Budget 2016 is 8 years too late and even the time periods to start building infrastructure and funding Businesses to develop and export is too late, for the horse has bolted and the stable door is still open and there will not be anyone to shut it, as Britain being one example faces Social and Economic collapse.

The European Union is in the same mess across many Countries with unemployment rising as a result of being taken in by the banks and so this leads to the history of why the Stock Market has continued to exist past the Victorian era. This is for no other reason than after every War and conflict, there comes a period of reconstruction and therefore a demand for materials and commodities.

A real world needs real action and tangible items, where as a virtual world can be built on myths, inaction and lies. As mentioned earlier, I have written this timely book on "Social Media" as many are still living in denial in the real world and failing to understand what Social Media can do in a virtual world for them as a user, or as a business. Also Social Media's limitations of what it can and can't do, including the ramifications, both financially for business and the user, including the many emerging human health issues and stories today especially surrounding teenagers and self harming as a result of an environment being created that is both socially and econmically flawed.

The 2016 Budget is a masterful marketing presentation, and the reality is, it offers nothing with the exception and starting signs that from the Sugar Tax on soft drinks initially campaigned and pushed by Jamie Oliver, surrounding this massive problem caused by large soft drinks Corporations and such action will hopefully start to bring these tax avoidance entities to book. Where the word profit (greed) is becoming a dirty word, and politicians may just possibly be starting to wise up and understand also that the word profit, can also mean killer, as we see the health of a Nation being destroyed and the burden to the NHS far out weighing any further favours to the Corporate Elite establishments responsible.

Britain has the most creative innovators in the World and as a Nation, it needs to make real tangible items to export to the World, that is how any State and economy grows. This requires investment and like the old Irish saying "if you give me a shovel, I can dig you a hole." Not built on sand as Jeremy Corbyn referred, or on empty words by career Politicians, or a failed banking services sector, built again on debt and from inflated housing prices, as this was the prelude to 2008.

The World at this time is in chaos and it all leads back to Corporate greed and Banking. Citizens of the World are already starting to wise up. It is now time for Politicians to regain and take back the ground from Hedge Funds and Corporate Empires and start to urgently act decisively with common sense and in the interests of their Citizens that they are paid to serve!

Sincere Best Wishes,

Alastair R Agutter

Microcephalus, Zika Virus Connected to Climate Change

There have been many warnings concerning the Human Race as a specie and the need to change and put aside child like things in society of material wealth, greed, vanity and man-made religion. All of which leading to conflict through history and in recent decades from Corporate Industrial pollution, the planet is now on the brink and this must stop! Such negligence by the Human Race has now led to specie extinction, a polluted atmosphere, rising sea levels and deforestation to mention a few. To address and check such negligence by Human Beings,  first came AIDS, Secondly came Ebola as a warning and now Microcephalus that will reach every continent on the Planet's surface to halt this destruction to Earth by Man!

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