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Passing this on!!

We in Foxley and the surrounding area have just had a bombshell dropped on us – 2000 acres of land is to be turned into a solar park. It will be two-thirds the size of the whole of Heathrow Airport comprising of one million solar panels. It covers much of Foxley, Norton, Grittleton, Sherston, Luckington and Hullavington covering green field after green field in beautiful countryside. Building will take two years but before that it will take over 7 months for HGVs to fill a field full of infrastructure and equipment which is right opposite some friends of ours. There will be CCTV and high steel fences together with security lights.



The Daily Mail came to photograph us all protesting last Thursday morning and there was a double-page spread in the Saturday edition of the newspaper in print and online. There was also a before and after photograph of a neighbour’s house which would be surrounded on three sides by solar panels as far as the eye could see while the fourth side was the lane in front of the house. Yesterday we heard that the developers intend to tarmac part of the Fosse Way, the Roman road stretching from Exeter to Lincoln which crosses the fields nearby. They intend to do that in order to reach the fields in Foxley. Sheer vandalism. They intend to make it possible for HGVs to travel down our single track lanes destroying the verges and habitats either side of the lanes. And of course our houses will all be blighted – our neighbour has already had interest in her lovely home withdrawn because of this threat.



It is a gravy train for several wealthy landowners in the area. And after 30 years the land will never return to farmland as it will become so depleted it will turn to brownfield development.



Please help us to stop this solar park. It is so vast the developers have to go to the Secretary of State, not Wiltshire Council, to obtain planning permission.



Please the sign the petition to introduce new restrictions on mega solar facilities to protect land and farmland in particular, food security and to conserve biodiversity.



https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/651262



We need to get 10,000 signatures at least before we get any traction with government. We also have team working on our opposition to this dreadful scheme.



Thank you so much in advance and please send details to family and friends – as many as possible.



Georgie

Foxley Barn

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I made this collage last night, and all four are recent headline news articles from Fortune magazine, they were the one about intermittent fasting, good morning America, and most of them are all over headline news as a matter of fact. What are your thoughts? Lol.

I believe the line about marijuana. As soon as it was legalized, the tobacco industry took over and people were finding morgellons fibers mixed in the buds!

Weapons Systems and Political Stability: A History
by Carroll Quigley

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At the time of his death, Quigley was at work on a study which had occupied him for years and which might be called the sociology of weaponry; that is, the way in which the structure and development of civilizations are to a considerable extent a reflection of the weapons systems and military organization prevalent within a society. Drafts of this study, some two thousand pages in length, are in the papers left at Georgetown. His own feelings about this work are perhaps best conveyed by a comment made in delivering the initial Oscar Iden Lecture at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University only a few weeks before his death:

Another thing which may serve to point out the instability of the power system of the state: the individual cannot be made the basic unit of society, as we have tried to do, or of the state, since the internalization of controls must be the preponderant influence in any stable society. . . .
Also related to the problem of internalized controls is the shift of weapons in our society. This is a profound problem. I have spent ten years working on it throughout all of history, and I hope eventually to produce a book if I can find a publisher. There will be endless analyses of Chinese history and Byzantine history and Russian history and everything else, and the book is about nine-tenths written, I'd say, in the last ten years. The shift of weapons in any civilization and, above all, in our civilization, from shock weapons to missile weapons, has a dominant influence on the ability to control individuals. . . .
In our society, individual behavior can no longer be controlled by any system of weaponry we have. In fact, we do not have enough people, even if we equip them with shock weapons, to control the behavior of that part of the population which does not have internalized controls. One reason for that, of course, is that the twenty percent who do not have internalized controls are concentrated in certain areas. I won't go into the subject of controls. It opens up the whole field of guerrilla resistance, terrorism, and everything else; these cannot be controlled by any system or organized structure of force that exists, at least on the basis of missile weaponry. And, as I said, it would take too many people on the basis of shock weaponry. We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide: we have shifted from an army of citizen soldiers to an army of mercenaries, and those mercenaries are being recruited in our society, as they were in Roman society, from the twenty percent of the population which does not have the internalized controls of the civilization.¹

The Evolution of Civilizations, p.424-5
Selective Bibliography by William Marina

Dr. Marina [was] Professor in Business, Communications, and History at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. He [was] coauthor of American Statesmen on Slavery and the Negro (1971), author of Egalitarianism and Empire (1975), and associate editor of News of the Nation: A Newspaper History of the United States (1976).



¹ "Public Authority and the State in the Western Tradition," pp. 34-3